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JULY 4, 1907.
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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1907.
THE LANTERN AND JIMMY.'
A capitalist wham Portland knows,
and who has made in. past times con
siderable investments here, was recent
ly beard denouncing President Roose
velt in the most vehement terms not
classical English, tout slangy, not to
say profane. The President was ac
cused of being" "the wrecker of National
prosperity." His course towards the
great corporations and the money in
terests, it was said, "had made it Im
possible to get money from a bank, ex
cept with a lantern and Jimmy." And
then more "cusses," of most emphatic
kind.
But we think this Individual, like so
many others, owes his difficulties to his
own instincts and practices as a
plunger; and the kind of plunging he
has engaged in is part of the very busi
ness that the American people mean to
bring under regulation. The purpose Is
to put a check upon those kinds of
speculation and extortion through
which vast fortunes are accumulated,
at the expense of the American peo
ple, by playing on the one hand upon
their necessities, and on the other upon
the propensity for gambling. The
American people merely want a square
deal. They Intend to put a stop to the
accumulation of colossal fortunes
through bunco methods.
It is admitted that President Roose
velt has taken the lead in the move
ment in this direction. He Is bringing
great capitalistic corporations to ac
count for their methods; he Is stopping
public robbery, and probably is mak
ing it difficult for public robbers -and
mere plungers or speculators to get
money. His -efforts afford warning to
the people at large not tp put their
money at the disposal of the Jayhawk
crs of finance and exploitation, with
chance of getting left In the outcome.
If this is what has mads It Impossible
to get money out of ar bank except
with lantern and Jimmy, the result
certainly is all right.
But what need or causa is there of
alarm for any legitimate interest?
None whatever. Some say the rail
roads are hard hit by the policy of the
r-resldent, and will build no more lines.
But their regular reports show that the
business of the railroads of the country
never was. so great as now. Moreover,
we all know that they are immensely
behind the demands of the country for
service, and every day they plead con
gestion of traffic as the excuse for ex
traordinary delays and non-delivery of
goods. There is not a Une of business
that can get deliveries on time. The
roads are choked with traffic. Yet the
policy of bringing the railroads to ac
countability is said to be destroying
the railroad business of the country.
Let us see what foreigners say about
the railroad situation in America
Here is the London Statist of June 15.
In an elaborate article it points out the
opportunities for European capital in
the United States, and explains why it
should be ready to come here. It says
that Inasmuch as our country still pos
sesses immense undeveloped natural re
sources, the forces responsible for the
vast development and expansion of
trade and industry are still responsive
and operative. It remarks that the pro
ductive resources of the .United States
are not yet half appropriated and de
veloped; and it believes that this view
will be held by European investors.
While It Is certain that greater gov
ernmental control will toe exercised. It
is equally sure that the authorities will
not permit injury to the railway Indus
try; and on the whole the effect of gov
ernmental supervision will be to give
the railways of the .country- better
standing than ever.
So it will be in all the great lines of
legitimate business and Industry.
Plungers may not find so credujous a
people to skin, or to reap harvests
from, and money may not be so "easy"
for them as heretofore. But there will
be less robbery of the public, and less
frequent accumulation of illegitimate
and colossal fortunes. As for the rail
roads, since they have more business
than they can do, more traffic than
they can handle, are making more
money than ever before, and more than
they can rightly employ except In the
extensions which so many refuse to
make there need toe no sympathy with
their appeal to the people to "let up"
on the determination to bring the oper
ations of the railroads of the country
under reasonable supervision and con
trol. Talk of the lantern and jimmy
only discloses the quality and intent of
the transactions which the Government
is censured for interfering, with.
v THE REFERENDUM.
The referendum was never Intended
to be made the instrument of revenge
or private spleen, or of retaliation. Yet
so it is being used, or attempted to be
used, by persons directely interested
or concerned in acts of the State Leg
islature. Two years ago the railroads threat
ened to employ the referendum club on
certain measures which they did not
like. But they backed- out at the last
moment. In this year of grace the
County Court of Multnomah County
pursues its feud with Sheriff Stevens
by having its 'political machine, made
up of a long list of county employes,
operate to defeat a statute enacted by
the late Legislature placing the cus
tody of prisoners in the Sheriff's hands
and fixing the maximum price for Jail
meals. The County Court took the
custody of prisoners away from the
Sheriff without warrant and the Sheriff
got them back through the Legislature.
Then the County Court tried to "get
even." It has failed, through a , de
cision rendered at Salem yesterday by
Circuit Judge Galloway, who holds to
be defective all petitions prepaed for
the referendum on four important
measures.
Granting that It may have been, or
may be, proper and desirable for the
people at large to vote upon the pro
posals contained in these four acts. The
Oregonlan thinks that the referendum
was not the proper remedy lor all of
them. The Immediate effect of Its in
vocation on the State University ap
propriation would be to embarrass and
greatly to injur that institution. The
Oregonain some time since suggested
that the proper method for adoption by
the State Grange, or by any body which
desires to regulate the State Univer
sity, is the Initiative. It is not too late
now for initiative bills. Let the Grange
prepare a measure containing a reason
able university appropriation and
submit it to the people. If the County
Court of Multnomah County, too, feels
that it has yet a Just grievance against
the Legislature for supporting the
Sheriff, let the" gentlemen composing
that body prepare an initiative bill fix
ing the status of county prisoners and
the maximum charge for meals of pris
oners. But let them pay the expense
of circulating the petitions out of their
own pockets, and not the county's.
"Wo shall get around, after a while,
to a situation in Oregon, through legal
decisions and the operation of a correct
public sentiment, where we shall learn
the difference between the initiative
and referendum and employ each In its
proper functions.
AGAIN TILE SALMON FLIGHT.
Canneries on the Columbia River are
working short shifts. Once they were
busy this time of year. But now they
cannot get enough salmon to keep
them going.
There might be some consolation If
the supply this year would hold up to
that of last year and the season before.
But it has diminished. And there is
scarce hope that it will not fall off still
more. While railroad blasting . on the
north bank and heavy rainfall in Port
land Tuesday night (almost a "water
spout") may be piloting many salmon
safely past their enemies, Ed Rosen
berg, Henry MoGowan, Sam Elmore,
Frank Seufert and Celllo Taffe, up to
Warden "Van Dusen's empty hatcheries,
that is past believing. for a person who
continues to have respect for the clev
erness of the salmon hunters. Nor will
those gentlemen believe that such a
miracle ha.s been wrought to save the
fish from their clutches. If there
ever has been a miracle, on behalf of
the salmon, they will not remember it,
unless Rogue River Hume shall bring
back to memory the last two seasons,
when they quit fishing at the end of
the August closed season (after the
open season was extended by two State
Legislatures, through their political in
fluence, just as long as any salmon re
mained In the river wortn catching).
The old fight between salmon gear on
the Columbia River continues, the old
wholesale grab for fish keeps up, the
old failure of the supply to recuperate
from the exhausting drain is repeated
every year1 In short, the supply of
early fish is fast nearing destruction,
and the late August salmon, evidently
maintained by hatcheries, is almost all
that remains. Upon this August sup
ply the fisheries are turning the same
relentless war, by abolishing practical
ly all of the close-season period that
would shut them off from fish worth
catching, and, when htey chose, by ig
noring closed season completely.
This paper has pointed out the dan
ger many years. It has but echoed the
opinion of numerous authorities, includ
ing many of the salmon men them
selves. But, unable to agree on reme
dies or have any applied, the salmon
men have toeen striving for the biggest
grab of fish, resolved to get all they
could while any should be found in the
Columbia River. They knew that the
day was coming when there would
probably be few salmon. But they set
themselves to get all in sight and to
let the future care for itself.
The ealmon'pllght comes from three
main causes. First, there is too much
gear. Second, seven days a week fish
ing is too long and Sunday should be
closed. Third, the continuous closed
season is too short and does not come
at the proper time to protect. Hatch
eries alone will not make good the
ruin wrought by too , much fishing.
When one considers that there are
more than 2000 gillnets, whose com
bined length is some 650 miles, and, in
addition, 400 traps, 75 seines and 75
wheels, all striving night and day to
gather in as many fish as they possibly
cant that the gillnets take about 65 per
cent of the total catch, the traps 20 per
cent, the seines 15 per cent and the
wheels 5 per cent, he wonders that even
a few salmon escape to the hatcheries
or the spawning beds. He also per
ceives where most of the checks must
be applied. It will not appeal to the
sober Judgment of two states that the
cure lies in abolition of wheels. The
cure lies- in reducing the destruction of
salmon by the gears.
The outlook is discouraging. The
fisheries are so selfish that they can
neither agree among themselves nor let
up their greed. Ere long we may ex
pect to sea many fishermen unable to
find work at their accustomed occupa
tion and much packing capital lying
idle. It seems necessary that condi-
tlons should become worse before they
can become better. Then at last the
salmon supply will be restored, after
long years of effort on the part of the
fish authorities and of idleness on the
part of the fishermen.
EFFECT OF A JOINT KATE.
Demand for a Joint rate on wheat
from non-competitive points on the O.
R. & N. Co. to Puget Sound emanated
from the Puget Sound millers. These
gentlemen have .never posed as philan
thropists, and it is tout fair to presume
that they sought a joint rate, not for
the purpose of increasing wheat prices,
but, on the contrary, to enable them
to purchase supplies at lower figures
than they are now paying. A few
small middlemen and farmers in the
interior, by a peculiar line of reason
ing, seem to have decided that it is to
their interest to aid these millers in
their campaign for cheap wheat. We
accordingly witness the Puget Sound
milling Hon and the farmer lamb lying
down together and roaring and bleat
ing their woes to the Washington Rail
road Commission. . The Puget Sound
milling trust, with the aid of its farmer
friends, has introduced much evidence
alleging that wheat sells - at higher
prices at Tacoma and Seattle than at
Portland.
The millers in O. R. & N. territory
and buyers for both the Portland and
Puget Sound markets have testified
that there is no difference in the prices
paid at the two ports, if an average is
taken throughout the season. Aside
from the- regular market quotations
throughout the year, which bear out
the testimony of those opposing the
joint rate, there are certain natural
conditions which corroborate their tes
timony. Wheat' is a commodity of
world-wide production and world-wide
consumption. In no other commodity
on earth is so much general interest
shown or Is there such a general
knowledge of prices and the conditions
which make prices. The Puget Sound
millers and exporters and the Portland
millers and exporters sell in exactly
the same markets. They pay the same
freight rates to those markets, and,
taking one month with another, they
receive the same prices for - their
products. As remuneration for their
work in financing the movement of this
wheat, and handling it, they are enti
tled to a profit. But that profit can
never be excessive or unreasonable, for
the reason that there are large num
bers' of buyers ready and willing to do
the business at a fair margin of profit.
If, as alleged, the philanthropic Pu
get Sound millers wish to get over into
territory directly tributary to Portland
in order to increase the price of wheat,
we must assume that Portland buyers
are not willing to handle the wheat at
as small a margin of profit as the Pu
get Sound buyers. This is absurd on
the face of It, for there are more buy
ers operating in this territory, in keen
competition, than In the Puget Sound
territory. These buyers have certain
"fixed charges," such as salaries, office
and warehouse rent, that must be met
whether they are handling wheat or
not. Naturally It is to their interest
f-to handle as much wheat as possible,
and at the smallest margin consistent
with safe, legitimate business princi
ples. THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
The glorious Fourth is the day when
we express our patriotism. The way
we express it tells more or less of Its
nature and value. A patriotism which
can toe adequately depicted by shooting
off firecrackers, yelling and imbibing
whisky is doubtless an excellent thing
in Its way and place, but there is a bet
ter kind which cannot be represented
by mere uproar. The one kind is boast
ful, defiant, self-satisfied and not too
well informed of what is doing in other
countries. The other Is eager for the
truth, whether the taste be sweet or
bitter, and Its Inspiration comes from
knowledge and candid thought.
We do not believe that patriotism of
the hilarious,; noisy kind is on the wane
in America. We hope it is not. There
are, and always will be,, a great many
useful citizens who do not know very
much and Who cannot think very deep
ly. Still they love their country, they
are proud of Its achievements, and It
would be' a sorry curmudgeon who
should deny them the privilege of prov
ing their devotion to the flag by mak
ing a noise. Uproarious patriotism
may not be fading outi but the patriot
ism which investigates, thinks and
looks into, the future is certainly in
creasing. There is room for both.
The way we celebrate the Fourth of
July corresponds to the character of
our patriotism. If It is of the hilarious
sort, we are satisfied with noise. A
boastful oration, the jubilant strains of
a steam organ, plenty of firecrackers,
compose the sacrifice which we offer to
the Goddess of Liberty. If our patri
otism is of the reflective sort, we gladly
dispense with part of the uproar and
think well of an oration which deals in
telligently with National problems.
Since most Americans , are thinking
harder today than for many years be
fore, gunpowder and whisky play a
more modest part than they once did
In our celebrations ami rational oratory
seems likely to dethrone the steam or
gan. We welcome the speaker who has
something to say and the courage to
say it.
In the harmony of our National re
joicing sundry new notes are audible
to the attentive ear. Wo are still proud
of our history and love to hear it re
counted; but we can acknowledge with
out resentment that other nations have
also achieved greatly during the last
hundred years. Liberty, democracy,
the rights of man, have advanced In
the Eastern Hemisphere as well as in
the Western. The noble watchwords
which inspire our hearts resound from
England to Japan. The ancient popu
lations of the Orient have learned to
shout the battle-cry of freedom. We
do not lead the world In progressive
legislation. Some problems which still
perplex us have been sovled elsewhere,
and we are learning that political wis
dom is no unique possession of Amer
ica. It is distributed pretty impartial
ly throughout the world.
In our history we find much to be
proud of, but some cause also for hu
mility. Through the shoals and break
ers we have steered the ship of state
without wreck. The noble hopes of the
Revolutionary heroes for humanity we
have realized in the main, tout not all.
We have made our failures. Some high
resolves we have not kept, some vows
before the altar of liberty we have
broken. Truly we have subdued the
wilderness and made it a habitation for
man, but we have also wasted our
forests. The desert has blossomed with
harvests of fruit and grain, but the
tares of greed have blossomed, too, and
triumphant crime has extorted tribute
from the Nation's heritage. Wonderful
has been our triumph over hostile Na
ture, but on their sandbanks by the
North Sea the Dutch wrought greater
wonders.
We Americans believed for a genera
tion or two thaS we had devised a sys
tem of government which was self-acting.
It required nothing, we thought,
except fuel and oil. Now we have
learned better, and our Fourth of July
orators tell us that there can be no
such thing as a self-acting government.
The best that human ingenuity can de
vise requires constant sacrifice of time
and thought, and the studious devo
tion of its citizens.
A perfect government would fail
without this, and ours, though better
upon the whole than any otfier nation
enjoys. Is not perfect. We once be
lieved that it was a divinely inspired
machine which w-ould infallibly grind
out a grist of human happiness for
ever. But the grist as it comes from
the mill Is sadly mingled. With the
changing years government must
change and grow. It should be a, liv
ing organism, evolving with the Na
tion, expanding as population multi
plies, developing new power as new
needs arise, multiplying Its beneficent
activities as civilization advances. How
to make of the Constitution a guide to
a 'broader National life instead of a
Jailer who shall imprison heroes and
quench ambition may be our greatest
problem. We listen gladly to the patri
otic orators who help solve it.
Our celebrations look forward rather
than backward. The Nation marches
toward a future greater than its past.
The land of the free shall conquer a
higher freedom than it has ever known.
The home of the brave shall nurture a
race braver than all recorded heroes.
Great hearts shall dare to break for
their country. Great brains shall have
courage to spend themselves In the
mighty victories of peace. We shall do
deeds worthy of Immortal song and
poets will be born to sing them.
America has yet to bear her Newton s
and her Mlltons, tout one day we shall
see them. The art, the science, the re
ligion of the future, must be invented
here. JJere the old problems that have
vexed the ages must be solved. Here
there can be no rest, no surcease from
perpetual toil of mind and body, till
man has broken his last chain and
the everlasting hunger for Justice has
been appeased. - -
It has been so long since this country
enjoyed a protracted era of dollar
wheat that the trade is still skeptical
aborft the maintenance of present
prices. There are, of course, uncertain
ties in the future course of the market,
but the ease with which it rallies from
every slight setback Is pretty conclu
sive evidence that the dollar mark Is
not very far out of line with actual
values. It is a remarkable situation
when both America and Europe are
troubled with short crops of wheat,
and, even making due allowance for
the speculative insanity which of course
has some effect on Chicago prices, It is
this condition at home and abroad
that makes the shorts hustle to cover
on the slightest rumor of further crop
damage on either side of the Atlantic.
If the managers of yesterday's auto
mobile racing had treated the few thou
sand patrons to some good racing be
tween the star drivers before the in
evitable storm broke, there would be
less dissatisfaction over the affair.
There was plenty of time after the
clouds began to gather for pulling off
the event which the big crowd paid $1
per head to see. Mr. Oldfleld and Mr.
Seibei are not Oregonlans, and might
be excused for not knowing when a
rain squall is coming, but someone in
command should have informed them.
The two women in a hack who were
dragged through the streets at break
neck speed by a runaway team Tues
day night escaped without a scratch.
They are entitled to great credit for
their rare presence of mind in refusing
to Jump and risk life and limb. There
are rude persons who might think that
the women remained in the hack be
cause they were too frtghtened to jump,
but there Is no evidence to warrant
such an ungallant inference, and ac
cordingly they are entitled to com
mendation for their bravery and Judg
ment. The Harriman system has $700,000 for
a tunnel to get into Portland from ter
ritory already abundantly .supplied
with railroads Puget Sound and
nothing for a railroad from a territory
Central Oregon which has no rail
roads and will have none, perhaps, till
Harriman gets ready. Has Mr. Harri
man no duty to the public dependent
on his railroads for transportation that
he can be obliged to fulfill? Apparent
ly not. Certainly he has none which
he acknowledges and freely discharges.
Can't these Japanese understand that
California, though as extensive in area
as the Island of Nippon, is only a frac
tional part of the United States? San
Francisco a fraction of California? And
the lawless hoodlums only a small frac
tion of the Bay City population? A
few A-OB-C lessons in geography will
put a stop to a lot of unnecessary per
turbation. Were It granted that all which has
toeen said about the ill treatment of
miners In Colorado toy mlneowners
were true, we still are at loss" to see
how the murder of Governor Steunen
berg, of Idaho, is to be Justified.
- It has been about thirteen months
since R. L. Stevens was elected Sheriff
of Multnomah County, and it now be
gins to look as though he was to have
an opportunity to conduct the office to
which he was elected.
Many an impressive spectacle has
been witnessed in this country of ours.
The latest Is that of the richest man
in the world hiding from process of
law.
Schmltz has announced his candidacy
for Mayor of San Francisco. iHe also
announced once upon a time that he
was an honest man.
How will Homer Davenport feel when
he learns that his native state has ex
tended the open season of torture for
man's pleasure?
These sharp, heavy showers will
make light work the next two months
for the army of Oregon volunteer fire
wardens.
Chehalis set an example for other Pa
cific Northwest cities when It voted
$80,000 for street Improvements.
No one now can charge that ex
Mayor Schmltz lacks self-esteem or
what the boys call "nerve."
Perhaps Mr. Harriman will put on
one of his 'new gasoline motors between
Pendelton and Portland.
CONTROLS ALL PUBLIC UTILITIES
Wide Pott cm Given the KeW York
Commission.
New York World.
The New York State Utilities Com
mission, which began work Monday,
has these powers:
To regulate and control all railroads,
street railways, gas and electric light
ing companies.
It can compel all transportation oor
portatlohs to give safe and adequate
service at Just and reasonable rates.
It can prevent rebates and discrim
ination In rates between different
claasen of shippers, or passengers, or
kinds of traffic.
It can compel all common carriers
to furnish sufficient cars and motive
power to meet all the requirements of
the public, both as to passengers and
freight.
The Utilities Commission law pro
vides against the giving of free passes
except in a few limited instances.
No franchise shall be capitalized in
excess of the amount actually paid to
state for the franchise.
The capital stock of a corporation
formed by merger shall not exceed the
sum of the capital stock of the consol
idated companies.
No corporation shall purchase or hold
stock in another common carrier cor
poration unless authorized by the Commission.
DRINK AND THE t'VWRITTEX LAW
They Often Travel Together, Recent
Examples Demonstrate.
Chicago Journal.
The unwritten law seems always to
be hand-ln-hand with drink. In the
Thaw case, all the participants were
habitually full of liquor. In the Lov
ing case, lately on trial in Virginia,
father, daughter and the murdered man
all ' were users of whisky. Whisky
caused the crime against the girl, if
crime there was, and whisky brought
on the murder.
Miss Loving testified that she had
had two drinks with Estes, the young
man who was killed by her father.
Then, she alleges, she took a third, and
"thinks it must have been drugged,"
for everything seemed to go around
and after a while. she lost conscious
ness. The next morning, however, she
chatted unconcernedly with friends, had
breakfast with them and never said a
word about the horrible fate she claims
had befallen her until she was ques
tioned by her father.
It was brought out in the trial that
Judge Loving Is a habitual drunkard,
accustomed to going on long and vio
lent sprees. He does not appear to
have been drunk at the time of the
killing, though the probability is that
he was under the influence of liquor;
but, at any rate, physicians testified
that indulgence such as he is used to
affects the mind and it is certain that
drink had a remote if not an immedi
ate effect upon him In producing the
mood that led to the crime.
Drink is the cause of most of the
things that compel an appeal to the
unwritten law. If Miss Loving had
not taken three drinks of whisky she
would not have been assaulted, and
probably if her father had been a man
always In possession of his senses he
would not now be on trial for his life.
If Estes had not been a drinking man
and had not offered drink to Miss Lov
ing, he would be alive today.
All three were victims of whisky,
and therefore there does not seem to
be any reason why decent people should
concern themselves greatly about the
woe that has resulted. If a woman
drinks she must expect to get into
trouble. If a man drinks he must pay
the penalty.
Taft Kinsman of Kmrrsoa.
Moncure D. Conway, In "Emerson ' at
Home and Abroad."
It is perhaps not generally known that
Secretary William H. Taft is a kinsman
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phil
lips and Phillips Brooks.
Thomas Emerson emigrated from Eng
land to America in 1835. It may have
been from York, where a Ralph Emer
son was knighted by Henry VIII (1535),
or from Durham, where the .mathemati
cian of that name lived, whose heraldio
arms were the same as those of the
knight. The lions from this coat-of-arms
are still traceable upon the tomb
of Nathaniel (son of Thomas) Emerson
at Ipswich, Mass. Thomas became a
farmer and baker at Ipswich. He was
thrifty and made money. His will, dated
May 81, 1653. distributes a large property
among his family. He gives to his "lov
ing wife," Elizabeth, the annual rent of
his farm and six head of cattle, and If
she shall marry again she is to have
6 annually (a considerable sum in that
time and place), also "the little feather
bed and one bolster and two pairs of
sheets and two cows," and half the fruit
of the orchard. The loving wife Is also
appointed sole executrix, while Lieutenant-Governor
Symonds and General Den
ison are to be overseers of the estate. His
son John, who married the Lieutenant
Governor's daughter, went to Harvard
College after his marriage, and there
graduated In 1656. having earned the
money to pay for his own education. He
became a minister at Gloucester, Mass.,
and from him descended the anti-slavery
orator, Wendell Phillips, the most elo
quent American clergyman, Phillips
Brooks, and Hon. Alphonso Taft (father
of the Secretary), sometime Attorney
General of the United States and Amer
ican Minister at Vienna.
Takes Rockefeller for Dr. Akeo,
New York Herald.
That John D. Rockefeller loves a Joke
was again demonstrated on a recent Sun
day at the close of service in the Fifth
avenue Baptist Church. Many members
of the church talked about the Incident
and laughed heartily in recollection of it.
An elderly woman, a stranger, attended
the services and wished to congratulate
Dr. Aked on his sermon. After the ser
vices she walked toward the pulpit, where
Mr. Rockefeller was standing chatting
with a few friends.
Tho woman, who is very near-sighted,
approached Mr. Rockefeller, grasped his
hand, and cried: "My dear Mr. Aked. I
am awfully glad to meet you. Let me
congratulate you on your splendid ser
mon. It was worth coming miles to
hear."
Mr. Rockefeller, not the least bit em
barrassed, smiled most graciously, said
he was glad she liked the sermon, and
hoped she would come often to hear him
preach.
Mr. Rockefeller told Dr. Aked about the
Incident, laughing heartily over It, and
saying he considered he was very much
flattered in being taken for the pastor.
Stolen Watch Hidden br ObllstnaT Ben.
New London (Conn.) Dispatch to the New
York Tribuna.
, setting hen innocently served as an
accomplice after the fact of Claude Pal
mer, 20 years old, In the theft of a $50
gold watch. John W. Mizen talked with
Palmer on the ereet, and directly after
ward missed his watch. He told the po
lice. They suspected Palmer, and Patrol
men Leary and Jeffers were detailed to
find him. They nabbed their man as he
was coming out of his henhouse. They
were about to leave when a hen stood up,
and among the eggs under her they saw
the watch. Palmer then confessed.
Cow Swallows Dynamite and Liven.
Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier.
A cow belonging to Henry Wilson, Wil
low Wood, Ky., swallowed two Bticks of
dynamite, and residents of that section
are giving her a wide berth pending de
velopments. , .
THE PET NICKN AMES .OF ROYALTY.
Peep Into Private Life of King-a and
Prince of History.
Youth's Companion.
Nicknames, complimentary and other
wise, have been freely bestowed upon En
glish soverigns and princes from the
earliest times. Any schoolboy can recall
such Instances as "Richard Coeur-de-Lion."
"John Lackland," "Bluff King
Hal," "Bloody Mary," "Good Queen
Bess," "The Black Prince," and "The
Merry Monarch." Even when there Is
no distinctive epithet to catch the fancy,
a nickname has sometimes, in the popular
mind, almost supplanted the fuller and
statelier form.
It was "Prince Charlie." not Prince
Charles, who was Scotland's darling,
whom she celebrated in ballads that keep
his memory green to our own time. It is
"Prince Hal," not Prince Henry, whom
we delight still to remember, and It Is
he even after he had ceased to be the
wild prince and become the conquering
King, concerning whom Drayton in his
"Agincourt" queries proudly, where shall
England see again
Such a King Harry?
Shakespeare, too, depicting the victor of
Agincourt at his manliest and klngliest,
makes him bid the hesitating French prin
cfes, in the famous scene of wooing, to
"avouch the thoughts of your heart with
the looks of an empress; take me by the
hand and say, "Harry of England, I am
thine.' "
With such good excuse in history and
literature, we may surely claim a right to
be Interested in the royal nicknames of
our own time.
Forty years ago we learned, on the au
thority of Queen Victoria herself in her
Highland journal, that in the home circle
the Prince of Wales, now the King, was
always "Bertie"; the Princess Royal.
"Vicky"; Prince Alfred, "Afflc," and the
Princess Helena, "Lenchen." Later, after
she became the Empress Frederick,
"Vicky" was more often called "Pus
sette"; and the youngest daughter. Prin
cess Beatrice, was, almost to the time of
her marriage, simply "Baby."
King Edward, his "Bertie" days over,
became to his children, as many other
British fathers do, "The Gov'nor." Later,
on ascending the throne, he acquired a
new and more distinguished nickname,
but recently divulged. It is "Edrex" a
convenient condensation of Edward, Rex
The Queen has never been nicknamed.
The present Prince of -W ales and his
brother, the late Duke of Clarence, an
swered readily, when they were midship
men, to the names of "Sprat" and "Her
ring." Their sister, now Queen Maud of
Norway, is still "Harry" in the family:
and it was she who bestowed upon an
other sister, the modest and retiring
Duchess of Fife, the clever mock title 6f
"Her Royal Shyness."
FIRST GIVE THE LAW A CHANCE.
Practical Testa of Earning Value of
Reduced Passenger Rates.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A report is heard that the western rail
roads have agreed to accept the 2-cent-a-mlle
legislation in states where it has
been enacted and to forestall it in states
where it has not been adopted by adopt
ing that figure as the general basis of
rates. Official corroboration of the ru
mor Is not yet furnished. It may be de
veloped from the basis of that experi
mental arrangement In Missouri, where
the railroads have agreed to try iOfor
three months, which Is an entirely Inad
equate length of time to determine the
effect on business of that rate.
It would be a Judicious course for the
railroads to agree to the experiment for
the rest of the year, or till the next meet
ing of the Legislature. By so doing they
will avoid such self-Impeachments as that
which the Pennsylvania Railroad is con
templating, of practically asserting that
it has made the ordinary traveling public
pay the cost of carrying the commutation
and excursion traffic at low rates, thus
inflicting an unjust discrimination. This,
if true, would be a Justification for the
law.
But a more Important phase is that by
giving the rates a fair experiment the
railroads will avoid the obnoxious atti
tude of trying to nullify and defeat legis
lation. If after a fair test the traffic
returns show the effect to be unsatisfac
tory they will have evidence in their sta
tistics to support an application for
amendment. The probability Is that the
effect of the 2-cent rate on main lines
In this section of the country at least
will be to enhance traffic so as to make
up for the reduction. On branch and
local lines It Is quite possible that ex
perience may show the propriety of
changing the law to allow a higher
charge. The policy of a fair trial and
basing the application for a change on
the actual traffic statistics where it re
sults unprofitably will put the railroads
in a far stronger position with the people
than the resort to retaliatory schedules
or court injunctions.
Lockjaw and the Glorious Fourth.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Health Department has Issued its
annual bulletin on the subject of lockjaw.
Premature accidents are bound to hap
pen and every parent should commit the
advice to memory and not forget it tlU
after the Fourth.
The advice is in substance to secure
medfeal attention for every wound, even
though seemingly slight. Before the
doctor comes indeed, without waiting a
minute wash the wound thoroughly and
keep it open to the air until tetanus anti
toxin has been Injected.
The germ of the disease that causes
lockjaw is Inactive in the open air, but
as soon as it gets excluded from the
air, as is the case in a closed wound, it
develops an exceedingly virulent poison.
Antitoxin administered in time gives cer
tain safety. Neglect of simple precau
tions may result in hideous, death. It
Is foolish to take any chance of such a
fate.
A Genuine American Pomb thrower.
Baltimore Newi
The only American bomb-thrower is
the small boy, and the period of his
greatest activity is July. 4.
THAT RUDE
THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS
ABOLITION OF THE HOUSE
BUCKET SHOPS ON THE RUN.
Outlawed by Several States Gamblers
Mostly Flee to New York.
Rochester (N. Y.) Herald.
Several of the rich states have out
lawed the bucket-shop, the last to do ro
being Massachusetts. Preceding it were
Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri and
Maine. The Bay State joined in the
movement only the other day, and there
has been an exodus of the gamblers from"
Boston. Many of them went to Rhode
Island, and a prominent citize'h of Provi
dence has started a movement to proceed
against them In the next Legislature of
that state. Connecticut, also, is wrest
ling with a prohibitive bill, and soon that
Iniquitous industry will have nowhere to
rest outside of New York and Pennsyl
vania and Ohio. There are no other
stales where the game will pay. and the
bucket-shop gambler will have to confine
himself to the "legitimate" operations In
Wall street.
And Wall street is bad enough, in alt
conscience. When the New York stock
exchange truckled to the practices which
brought Gates into prominence five or
six years ago, it shirked an opportunity
to declare the legitimacy of Its opera
tions, and there are many able writers
who have no more respect for its pre-i
tensions as a financial institution than
the commoner gambling operations which
so many of the states have legislated
out of existence. To confirm this poor
opinion, it may be observed that some
of the larger bucket-shop firms have
sought to give their business the appear
ance of regularity by affiliating with one
or more of the New York exchanges.
Whether this pretense will meet the ob
jections of the statue of course remains
to be seen.
It is surprising that this iniquity has so
long been tolerated In a country making
such high claims to morality as the Uni
ted States, which has outlawed the lot
tery, and many of the other forms of
gambling which cannot be carried on ex
cept in secret. The bucket-shop has been
brazen for years. Its victims are num
bered by the hundreds in every communi
ty of any considerable size. They never
have had a chance for winning against
the game, any more than the country
bumpkin has in the hands of a sharper
who can stack the cards against him.
New York State is full of such immoral
Joints, and why our lawmakers do not
proceed to put an end to their activities
is something Incomprehensible. We may
hope, however, that the example of Mas
sachusetts will In the end influence New
York to do Its dujy, as it is usually one
of the last states in the Union to be in
fluenced in favor of any reform.
CARE TAKEN OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Rev. T. B. Ford Falls Foul of Colonel
Wood's Seattle Address.
PORTLAND, July 3. (To the Editor.)
The following extract from the remark
able address recently delivered before the
students of the University of Washing
ton by our distinguished citizen, C. E. 8.
Wood. politician, corporation attorney
and lecturer. Is as startling as his as
sumption In taking advantage of a pub
lic occasion to fulminate his individual
opinions, religious and scientific:
In the realization that the Individual Is
nottrfns and the race is everything, we place
ourselves In harmony with nature, who cares
nothing for the individual, however great be
may be, but ceaseless la the perpetuation and
betterment of the race.
The above savors of that "much learn
ing" which doth make men mad, and re
minds me of a story told of Julia Ward
Howe. She had become interested In a
man who had suffered misfortune, and
was In distress, and wrote to an eminent
United States Senator in his behalf. The
reply of the Senator was in harmony with
Mr. Wood's position: "I am so much
taken up nowadays with plans for the
race that I have no time left for Indi
viduals." The authoress thought so
much of the answer that she pasted it in
her album with this significant comment:
"When last heard from, our Master had
not reached that altitude."
Christ, "our dear, sweet brother," as
Mr. Wood designates our Redeemer in
terms of repudiation, made his greatest
investments in individuals. He came
"close" to them, and touched them, and
healed their bodies, relieved their dis
tresses, forgave their sins, and none but
God could forgive sins. It takes logic
to kill, and not sophism. Not a spar
row falls to the ground without our
Father's notice. Our own "dear sweet
brother," Christ, said: "The very hairs
of your head are numbered." It would
seem that there Is care for individuals.
T. B. FORD.
ELLEN TERRY TELLS OLD STORY
McClure's Finds It Has JJcen Bnncoed
and Stops Autobiography.
New York Times.
The much-advertised Ellen Terry
autobiography, of which Installments
appeared in the June and July numbers
of McClure's Magazine, has been dis
continued on the ground that a great
deal of the matter appearing in the
autobiography was contributed by
Miss Terry, in exactly the same words,
to the New Review, an English
monthly, in 1891. There were to hae
been seven installments, aggregating
75,900 words, in McClure's. The same
matter was to have been published in
"M. A. P.," an English Weekly con
trolled by the McClure management.
Ellery Sedgwick, managing editor
of McClure's Magazine, said that he
had found the clue that led to the dis
covery and it was "a discovery that
a great deal of the autobiography had
been published in exactly the same
words in the New Review 16 years
ago.
"We had received three installments
of the work," said Mr. Sedgwick, "be
fore we made that discovery. We had
put two installments in type and had
had cuts made. These couldn't be
stopped. We were getting ready the
third Installment, which was to be ac
companied by many illustrations.
After some debate we decided .that we
couldn't afford to give a lot of dead
matter to our readers. In the auto
biography we found patches, some of
them several paragraphs in length,
which were word for word as in 'Stray
Memories' by Miss Terry In 1891."
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