8 THE MORNING OREGOXIAJT. THUTISDAT, AUGUST 1, 1907 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ' (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, on year..... Dally. Sunday include''. lx months... IS 00 4.ZS Dally, Sunday Include, three month. . Daiiy, Sunday Included, one month. Daily, without Sunday, one year...... Dally, without Sunday. sin months... . 2.23 . -T5 . e.oo . 8 25 . X1S Dally, without Sunday, three month. uauy, without Sunday, one month... fcunday. one year .60 S.50 Weekly, on year (Issued Thursday)... Sunday and Weekly, one year....... . 1.60 .&0 Bi CARRIER. Dally, Sunday included, one year 00 Dally. Sunday included, one month 73 MOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal oheck on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full. Including county and state. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Fostoffla as becond-Cass Matter. 10 to 14 Pag.'s 1 eBt 19 to 2S Pages 2 cent 80 to Pages , S cents etl to 60 Pages .... cents Foreign postage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal law ar etrlot. Newspapers tn which postal Is not fully , prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. BecKwith, Special Agency New York, room 48-5U Tribune balldlng. Chi cago, room .110-812 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Postofflce News Co., 178 Dearborn St. St. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marl. Commercial Station. Denver Hamilton & Kendrlck. 806-K12 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 121 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen, S- Rice. Kansas City, Mo. Rlckaecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut; Sosland New Co. Minnenpoli M. J. Cavanaugh, 60 South Third; Eagle New Co., corner Tenth and Eleventh; Yoma News Co. Cleveland, O. James Fushaw, 807 Su perior street. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House, Penn sylvania avenue. Philadelphia, Pa. 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Oak land News Stand; Hale News Co. (.oldflfld, Nev. Louie Pollln. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency. Norfolk, Vs. Potts Boeder; American News Co. . Pin Beach, Ya W. A. Co? grove. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, AUG. 1. 1001. THE TWO KINDS. Socialism, so-called, professes benev olence wd philanthropy, rivaling in this particular the claims of our pred atory plutocracy. But in each de scription or kind there is an anarchistic tendency; as in San Francisco, where Ruef, Schmitz and Glass are under prosecution directed by Heney; and throughout the Northwest, where men, who call themselves Socialists, de nounce with bitter malignity all who desire discovery of the persons who aided, abetted or stood behind Orchard, in the conspiracy that resulted in the murder of Steunenberg. That such conspiracy existed no one doubts. Of course The Oregonian, with ail others who desire these disclosures, comes in for attack by the anarchistic element, masquerading under the name of Socialism. But why don't these groups of persons who denounce so fiercely the inquiry into the murder of Steunenberg and use of the confes sion of Orchard in the effort to make the discovery, speak their minds plainly? If they should, they would say that Orchard's offense was not the murdeE of Steunenberg, but his- confession of the murder, together with his account of the relations of Haywood and oth ers with himself. All of them say, as plainly as language and acts can carry the Inference, that they have no regrets for the murder of Steunenberg, who got his deserts In a "class war," in which he "took the side of the oppres sors" against those who had blown up mines and killed "scabs" In Idaho. On this subject the difference between these so-called Socialists and The Ore gonian is this: The Oregonian knows and everybody knows that Orchard was not "operating" alone. He, was a tool, instrument or agent of a con spiracy of murder, some indications of which appeared in the trial of Hay wood. The Oregonian would like to see that conspiracy explored and revealed throughout though that probably is Impossible. On the other hand, these Socialists, as they call themselves, satisfied with the "removal" of Steunenberg and wishing the principals, whoever they may be, to escape, desire no further Investigation. It is mere folly to assert- that Or chard was acting alone. Resources for travel and support were provided him, during a long period, from some quar ter. Enough came out at the trial to afford some indication; but from what- . ever quarter the support came, the main evidence of it the written evi dence would certainly be destroyed by Orchard immediately, as a precaution for (hls own protection. In case of his arrest, at all times probable, it would not do for him to have papers or evi dence of any kind that would betray him or his associates. With criminal plutocracy and crim inal anarchy The Oregonian Is equally - at war. It approves, therefore, the effort of Heney at San Francisco to punish public robbers, and the effort of the constituted authorities of Idaho to . discover the conspiracy that caused the murder of Governor Steunenberg. CONSCIENCE. An English religious writer, quoted In the Literary Digest, declares, among other things, that "the glory of the Puritan was that he brought every thing -to the touchstone of his con science." This is alBO the glory of a good many other people. It is one of the singularly radiant glories of United States Senators. When a Puritan desired to fine his neighbor for smiling on Sunday, or to hang an old woman for witchcraft, he always consulted his conscience and It Invariably told him to go ahead. When a United States Senator is disposed to make a little deal with Standard Oil or he tobacco trust, he never forgets to consult his conscience. The most ! tricky members of the Senate while the rate bill was under debate reiterated every day that their consciences were guiding and comforting them, and doubtless they told the truth. No asset Is so valuable te a male-, factor as a conspicuous and well-disciplined conscience. It not only fortifies his courage, but It also saves him from the critic. Who can condemn a man for doing what his conscience ap proves? Once get conscience to set Its seal of approbation on a -deed and you are as safe as the beef trust with the government stamp on a tuberculous carcass. ' PERVERTS BOTH. The Oregonian still has some old fashioned notions; out of date and not good now for anything, of course. Now there's that old gag, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap." The modern Idea is to reap where you have not sown. It is the principle on which the franchise-grabber does his work. He gets rich, enormously rich; and then he essays compromise with conscience and the role of a public benefactor by contributions to educa tional and religious institutions, by es tablishment of libraries and men's re sorts. And it is a question whether all these so-called benevolences are not productive of more harm than good. Again, that old gag, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap." The socialist and anarchist, taking ex ample from the great plutocratic mo nopolist, rebels. Why should he be lieve it true? He sees the franchise grabbers, the engrossers 'of trade, the multi-millionaires, everywhere, reap ing where they have not sown. Why shouldn't he? Why should he toil -in the harvest field. In the lumber camp, in the mine, when others are making immense money by preying on the pub lic? It goes against the grain; It Is contrary to human nature. (He prefer) to live how he can, by sharping, by avoiding labor, by spending his Sum mer days In the parks and his Winter days In quarters provided for him by a pretended philanthropy, ld by great plunderers, whose pricks of conscience seek ease through such benefactions. A great many of the men of our cities, who lead lives of idleness about the public parks and free reading rooms, are men of active minds. But they will not work. They have seen others make enormous money by appro priation of public utilities, and by mo nopoly of general necessaries, without it. They get into the libraries and men's resorts established by overgrown wealth In the effort to compromise with conscience, and there they feed fat their discontent, on one side of their natures, and, on the other Bide, find through books and reading the Intel lectual gratification they require. . But these places are In large degree merely nurseries of Indolence and lounglng places of discontent. Every socialist agitator is an omniv orous reader, and he gets his reading matter free. It Is furnished chiefly by those who have plundered the public and are trying to make a truce with conscience and to appear as philan thropists and benefactors. But excess of reading is an evil; It Is a form of dissipation; It Is easily perverted to abuse, or to meanest use. The books that one feels he must have and the books he works for are the books that do him good. The others, In' too many cases, minister to his Idleness and de pendence. The public judgment Is the arbiter of all things, and in the finality1 the pub lic Judgment will declare whether the one class of these people or the other is the greater pest of society. RECEIVERS FOR TRUSTS. The proposal of the Government to appoint receivers for the trusts should astonish nobody. It is neither novel nor radical. The regular common law method of dealing with a corporation which exceeded Its granted powers was to dissolve it and dispose of Its belong ings under a receivership. It is hardly disputable that a company, which breaks the law, exceeds its granted powers. Its action is "ultra vires," to borrow the elegant Ciceronlanlsm of the lawyers. Were we living under normal condi tions, we should expect such lawless combinations as the tobacco and pow der trusts to bj punished by dissolution and receiverships. It Is the natural, conclusive way to humble them. As things are, we are so awe-stricken by their wealth and power that any ef fective measures against them appear to us like a species of sacrilege. It is argued against the receivership method that stockholders In ,the trusts would suffer by losing their dividends. The reply Is obvious that dividends earned by lawbreaking ought to be lost. There can be no .vested right in the proceeds of crime. ' Suppose a gang of counterfeiters should give their busi ness some alluring name, and, issuing shares of stock, should persuade inno cent people to buy them toy false rep resentations. Would the Government hesitate to break up the gang lest the Innocent stockholders lose their divi dends? But, before the law, the trusts stand precisely in the case of our Imag inary gang of counterfeiters. Their shares of stock have been Issued by Illegal combinations for unlawful pur poses. The very existence of such tniBts Is a breach of the law. Its every action Is a crime. The holders of their stock, however innocent they may be, derive theft- dividends from a traffic no whit more defensible than that of .counterfeiters. But the holders of trust stock cer tificates are by no means as Innocent as the angels. They know the risks of their Investment when they make it, and one of these risks. Is that the law may annihilate the forbidden combi nation. Implicitly, at least, the stock holders are consenting to the guilty acts of the trust, and participative In the crimes whose profits they share. The Government might, properly, fine a trust the full value of the belongings it employs In lawbreaking. This is done to other criminals, gamblers and counterfeiters, and nobody protests. But the . proposal of receiverships con templates no such harsh procedure. The original firms united In the trust are to be made Independent again, and for the trust stock shares in these firms are to be substituted. In this there is no wrong, scarcely even a hardship. The shares In the Independ ent firms may not be worth quite so much as trust shares. But, since the added value of the latter was gained by lawbreaking, who can complain if he loses it? Since when has It been admitted that the proceeds of crime and fraud were sacred? We revere the institution of property i we respect vested rights; but do this reverence and 'this respect re quire us to permit theft to flourish lest the receiver of stolen goods lose" his Income? There are certain kinds "of property rights which society cannot protect without' destruction to Itself. The title to property gained by law breaking is one of them. The receivership scheme must not be confused with Government ownership of the trusts. When the trust has been dissolved and its holdings restored to the original, and equitable, owners, the receivership is to cease. The Govern ment will acquire no property rights whatever. Neither will It retain the permanent management of the concern. Its interference will cease as soon as obedience to the law has been assured. The only danger in this plan is created by the excited Imaginations of those lawbreakers who fear that at last the hand of Justice Is about to reach them. If the plan fails, imprisonment Is cer tain to be tried next; for the country is determined 'not to be controlled and exploited by the trusts. Which punish ment would the magnates prefer? EACH THINKS THERE 18 ONE SON TOO MANY. When a state has two favorite sons, each son is pretty sure to think there is one son too many. Such is the situ ation in Ohio, as to Taft and Foraker. Taft Is "indorsed" for the Presidency by the Republican State Committee of Ohio, and Foraker isn't. Moreover, Taft get3 the approval over the protest of Foraker, and in spite of It. Yet Foraker had a good bit of support, which means that Taft encountered a good bit of opposition. It means that Taft will not have the full support of Ohio In the National 'convention; for the delegates are elected by districts, and a good bunch of them, under the Influence of Foraker, will be against Taft. This portends a "scrap" In the Ohio delegation, which will be the leading sideshow of the National convention. Taft will have a majority of the dele gates, but the Foraker men will be there, with their predictions that Ohio will be lost should Taft be nominated. This not unfamiliar argument may turn the convention away from these contestants and cause concentration on some, other man possibly Hughes, of New York, who, by the way, would be a mighty proper candidate and mighty strong. This Is said under the supposition that Theodore Roosevelt will not be "drafted" for another term though the able Junior Senator from Oregon is sure he will be. HOT WEATHER CHEER. The man who grumbles because it is hot does not appreciate his blessings. He should remember that' this world Is but a preparation for the next one. Hence, the hotter the weather Is, the better he will be seasoned for his fu ture residence. Such days as we are now enjoying tend to acclimatize us. Thanks to their scorching influence, we shall not enter the future world with out a fairly adequate idea of Its cli mate. Let us not forget, either, that, how ever hot the weather Is, it might be hotter. The temperature inside a blast furnace Is several degrees above that of Portland. Let the grumbler ask himself how he would feel with Shad rach, Mesheck and Abednego, passing through a furnace seven times ehotter than It ever was before. Or how would he like to be boiled in a kettle of lard, as grumblers were boiled in the good old days of yore? It Is vastly comforting. In weather like this, to compare our state with that of the man who fell Into the cra ter of Vesuvius. It Is balmily refresh ing to think of the sentinel at the gate of Pompeii, who stood at his post and let the lava envelop him. Reflections like these show us how much we have to be thankful for and how ungrateful we are to complain. The hottest day that ever sizzled on Portland's green. umbrageous streets Is cool as ice to be ing sizzled where most of us are bound to meet. STEEI, TRUST EARNINGS. The steel trust again has broken all existing, records for net earnings. For the three months ending June 30, that Colossus of all corporations returned net earnings of $45,603,705.- Out of this vast sum, after paying all charges, in cluding dividends, there was set aside for new plants, additional property and cbnstruction the sum of $18,500,000. This corporation, the greatest the world ever saw, is said to have made a thou sand millionaires, and it has turned loose a flood of money In which .honor, tlecency and personal integrity have been hopelessly engulfed. ' It stands today as an example of the awfully pernicious effect of our existing tariff laws, and in the coming Presidential campaign will not fail to supply most effective ammunition for those who are seeking tariff revision. These figures. In spite of their Im mensity, do not represent all of the fruits of this extortion, practiced on the American people under the guise of protection. There are princely salaries for the men at the head of the various departments of the big trust, and all of the fixed charges, which are deduced from the gross earnings, are based on a scale of inflation In keeping with those enormous salaries. It Is easy to un derstand, in the face of these figures, how Carnegie can sow his libraries broadcast, when his pet trust every twenty-four hours Is returning profits sufficient to buy from ten to fifty of the libraries with which be has been so generous. n Then there is the Corey element in the steel trust. Small wonder, indeed, that these men are enabled to shower on their footlight favorites "barbaric pearls and gold." And -the worst phase of the whole monstrously unjust con dition of affairs Is that the money wrung from the people is not coming back to them in the shape where it can do them any good. Instead of having a fraction of this money coming back in the shape of libraries, which are' too badly tainted with wealth to be desirable, we should have It where it could do some good. The steel trust profits for 1907 would be sufficient to dig the Panama Canal. For the last three months the amount that has been wrung from the people In ex orbitant profits would be ample to con struct a fifteen-foot channel In the Mis sissippi River all the way from St. Paul to New Orleans, thus releasing millions of producers from the bond age in which they are now held by the railroad companies. The net earnings of this trust for & fortnight are enough to pay "or the opening of the Columbia River to navigation from Lewlston to the sea, a work which would benefit millions of producers. If the protective tariff policy which is responsible for such financial Showings as Is made by tills Infant inniitvw im otKa 1 announce their desire to accomplish re vision, would do well to hasten the work or they will find. In a very short time, others relieving them of the task. Egyptologists have discovered that Rameses II has no right to be termed "great." Recent "advices - from the tombs and the catacombs are said to show that this long-celebrated Egyp tian monarch was what modern science of the street would term a "four flusher." In other" words, he lived a life of bluff, and Instead of building ail of the costly temples, monuments, etc., which bear his name, he simply came along a few thousand or a few hun dred years after the builders and placed his brand on the structures. Having made this discovery, that Rameses was a bluffer, it will now be up to the exposing committee to de termine which of the temples belong to preceding Pharaohs. A Great many Americans are pursuing the same course as Rameses II, by placing their brand on monuments of others. We in America can understand old Rameses. The MHwaukle gambling hall, Just over the county line, of course receives all of its patronage from Portland and Multnomah County. It has been de bauching the morals of hundreds of young wage-earners In this city ever since gambling was stamped out In Portland. For that reason any plan for abolishing the nuisance will re ceive pretty general support In this city. The parasites who conduct the games have already made fortunes out of the illegal calling, and their satel lites should have a chance to try their hands at some legitimate calling. They are needed in a hundred different branches of honest Industry, and should be forced to abandon the role of drones and robbers. The Plaza blocks are overcrowded these warm days and farmers are cry ing for help which can earn from $3 to $5 per day. It Is quite clear that no serious effort is being made here to prevent 1 per cent of the population owning 90 per cent of the wealth of the country. "The man who lives off the" profits of your labor Is a robber," stat ed one of the speakers at the Haywood mass meeting Monday night. All day long yesterday there were hundreds of able-bodied men using their best en deavors to prevent any man's having their assistance in becoming a rob ber. The London Chronicle, in comment ing on the Haywood verdict, says: "The state of society revealed by the trial Is more terrible than any civil war, because it is more treacherous and is likely to be more lasting." This is erroneous, for success in the murder ing line emboldens the murderers, and eventually some of them will be caught red-handed and the "lasting" nature of this particular kind of freedom will undergo a radical change. The Amer ican people are long-suffering, but the most of them are still Americans and they will yet-vindicate their national ity. Inland Empire farmers are - up In arms over the increase in warehouse rates on wheat. The new schedule of the warehousemen Is 50 cents per ton until January 1, and 10 cents per month thereafter. This is the same rate as was in effect ten years ago, and met with no particular objection at the time. Then warehouse managers received $60 per month and grain handlers $1.50 and $2. per day. Now the managers receive $100 per month and the grain and $2 per day. Now the managers to bring with It penalties as well as pleasures and profits. If It is true, as reported, that Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt' will visit, Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt this month, the dis pute over social leadership in Greater New York Is settled. Mrs. Astor will not easily be able to recover from this shock, coming after the entertainment of Prince Henry a few years ago. In her , belt the grand-daughter of the Long Island ferryman wears the scalp of the furrier's descendant. The wheat market is still following the downward path, which it wandered into almost simultaneously with the announcement of the American Society of Equity that the minimum price was to be $1.25 per bushel. Reasoning from past experience, It might help some if the Society qf Equity would place the minimum figure at 50 cents per bushel. The slight decline in the temperature caused no corresponding decrease -In the plaza block census yesterday. Neither has there been any decline In wages or cessation in the demand for all kinds- of labor, except professional Jawsmiths, of which there is an over- supply. , They who feel Inclined to pooh-pooh the wide movement to hold wheat for $1 a bushel should remember that the farmers of the Nation, man for man, are strong enough financially to under take it, whether they succeed or not. Which wasn't the case ten years ago. nor five. American women. Irrespective of class distinction, will approve the Government movement against the powder combine. It is an outrage to be compelled to pay -two bits for a package of cosmetic that costs less than a nickel to manufacture. Japanese are coming Into British Columbia at the rate of about 1000 per week. At this rate there will soon be t cessation of complaints about insuffi cierit labor for handling the fruit crop of the Northwest. . Just to put variety into discussion of a timely topic, suppose we talk about a season's weather that enabled the Inland Empire to produce & $42,000,000 wheat crop. According to the official report for the last quarter, the steel trust's net prof its are half a million dollars a day. Thus does this rich Nation foster an Infant Industry. In the present lull It may prove profitable for some one to launch a Vice-Presidential boom. On one side Governor Chamberlain Is not barred. Maude Fealy, actress of genuine merit, has reversed the adage by re penting a matrimonial alliance with the same haste that she entered into it. The voice of the waves laving the western shore of Oregon are louder than they were a week ago. Some way or other this week seems an inappropriate time, to talk, about , a fuel famine. ' VIEWS OF HAYWOOD VERDICT. Orchard Was Not Alone. Pendleton Tribune. There is an almost universal feeling that the execution of Orchard will not have reached the backbone of a con certed agreement to assassinate Steu nenberg for his manly part in suppress ing riot in his state when he was us chief executive officer. Haywood In Touch With Orchard) Orchard With Haywood. Corvallls- Times. The Jury pronounces Haywood not srullty. The jurors refused to believe Orchard, who asserts that Haywood is guilty. He declares that Haywood Knew that Steunenbera- was to be Killed, ana conspired for that purpose. What aim, what motive, what reward, would impel Orchard to connect Haywood, Innocent, with the crime? If Orchard is not to be believed as to Haywood's complicity, is he to be believed when he says he him self placed the bomb at Steunenberg's gate? What the Jury has declared is one thins-: what most peonle will believe may be another. The fact remains that Or chard is a vile, self-confessed murderer. and that he was in touch with Haywood, with Pettlbone; that he killed 18 or 20 persons during the time that he was communicating- with both men, as shown by documentary evidence, and by the admis sion of witnesses for the defense; ana that when he went into Idaho to kill Steunenberg. Haywood was helping to keep his whereabouts secret from Or chard's own wife. By men unaccustomed to have rela tions with the likes of Orchard, Haywood, though declared not guilty, will always be believed to have kept very bad com pany. "Doe Not Acquit Federation." , Spokane Spokesman-Review. But Haywood's acquittal does not ac quit the Western Federation of Miners. That organisation has been on trial if not technically, at all events in the eyes of the people. Its record of crimes, known to all familiar with the story of outrages in the mining regions in the Coeur d'Alenes and elsewhere In the West, has received fresh exposure in the evidence introduced at the trial of Hay wood. The story told by Harry Orchard did not convince the Jury that Haywood was directly implicated in the Steunenberg tragedy, but it and the other evidence produced by the state has strengthened in the public mind the conviction that the Western Federation of Miners is an or ganization which hesitates at no crime, however atrocious, to attain its ends or to take vengeance upon those who stand in its way. . It can not be believed that the whole sale commission of crime by the Federa tion has been without the knowledge and approval, if riot by the direct instigation. of some of its leaders. The blowing up of mines, the murderous assaults upon nonunion men, the assassination and attempted assassination of prominent citizens who lawfully participated in ef forts to check crime and bring the crlmi- nals to justice have not been the deeds of a few Irresponsible Individuals. They have bees done by the concerted action of the Western Federation of Miners, and though Haywood, the secretary and one of the most active heads of that organiza tion, goes free, the whole body stands condemned. The trial of . the last 80 days has wrought a great, change on the public mind throughout the country where there had previously been an absence of infor mation , as to the real conditions during the troublous times in the Coeur d'Alene regions. It has served to open the eyes of thousands to the lawless character of the Western Federation of Miners. "Anarchy Not Indorsed." Spokane Chronicle. The jury in the jaaywood trial has brought in a verdict of "not guilty" and that verdict must be accepted; 'but in bringing in such a. verdict the jury did not set its seal of approval upon lawless ness and crime of which Haywood was accused. The most deplorable result of the ver dict is the interpretation which is being placed upon it by the anarchists and ex treme so-called Socialists Of the country who interpret it as a victory over estab lished law and order. An evidence of this may be found in the Insulting tele gram .sent to President Roosevelt signed by Emma Goldman (who should have been Jailed or driven from the country long ago), Alexander Berkman and Hip- poly te Haven, air of whom are known as anarchists and haters of government. Alexander Jones, Socialist leader, also goes on record as calling the President an "undesirable citizen," and comparing him unfavorably with Haywood. Throughout the entire Haywood trial, anarchists, socialists and many agitators openly declared that the fight was one against the Government, and some are said to have expressed the belief that if Haywood was guilty of all that was charged against him, he should be ac quitted. The fact that the Jury has found 'not enough evidence to connect Haywood with the crimes of Orchard does not mean that the Jury approves of lawlessness and crime, and sane people will not put this Interpretation upon the verdict. "Not ProTea," Rather Than Guilty." Polk County Observer. "Not Haywood goes forth a free man, a Jury or Idaho citizens having cleared him of all complicity in the cowardly murder of Governor Steunenberg. While the hon esty and Integrity of the jurors will not be questioned, the verdict of the people who have followed most closely the pub- usnea proceedings of the trial will be Tiot proven" rather than "not guilty." Row the Indians Did It. Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Leader. Parkman records that the Iroquois In dians had a law of inheritance by which the power and property of the chief de scended through the children of his brothers and sisters, never in the line of his own progeny. By this means the Indians believed they were protected against greed and monopoly. Someone with a speculative turn of mind might find it Interesting during the heated season to figure out just what such a law of inheritance would do in this country. - What such law of Inheritance would do In this country is clear enough. It would put a stop to industry and to accumula tion of property,- and in a few years lead the country back to the conditions that existed among the Iroquois Indians. Whenever we so order it that parents cannot work for their posterity there will be nothing for posterity to scramble over or scrap about except scalps. Mane Henry's Spavined Horse. Omaha Bee. There is a suspicion that Colonel Wat terson's dark horse Is a victim of spavin. A Serious Jj&tg Spell. Answers. A young- lady sits In our choir. Whose hair is the color of foir, - But her charm is unique. She has such a fair chlque, ' It la really a Joy to be nholr. Whenever she looks aown the aisle She gives me a beautiful smalsle; And of all of her beaux - I am certain she sheaux That she likes me the best of the whalsle. Iast Sunday she wore a new aacque. Low cut at the front and the bacque; And a lovely bouquet. Worn in such a cute wuet - As only few slrls have the knacque. Some day, ere she grows too antique. In marriage her hand I shall slque. If she'a not a coquette Which I'd greatly regruette She shall share all my ten per wlque. NO BOLD. BILLBOARDS IN BERLIN. Eyesore Prohibited and City Requires ArtUtlc Effects, Printers' Ink. Billboards as known in the -United States are absolutely prohibited in Berlin. Outdoor advertising is confined to a sys tem of neat pillars or columns on the edges of the sidewalk at the principal street corners or intersections. These round, hollow columns, called Litfass Saulen, after their originator, are sub stantially built of iron and wood, about 12 feet high and three feet in diameter, the exterior having an advertising sur face of from 11 to 12 square meters. The pillars, -like those In Paris, are used chiefly for theaters and other places of amusement, for the announcements ' of newspapers and periodicals, and for offi cial municipal and state "notices. They are a conspicuous feature of Berlin street life, and are consulted regularly by thea tergoers and others. Considerable artis tic cleverness is displayed in the arrange ment of the different colored posters, which are mostly In the form of reading matter and not pictures, unlike Paris. where the poster girl takes such a promi nent part. In April. 1901. the city advertised for bids for the privilege of erecting and us ing these advertising columns within the municipal limits for the term of 10 years. and the successful bidders are paying to the city an annual rental of 400,000 marks. or $92,500, payable quarterly. According to the terms of the lease, the city coven anted not to grant a similar license to anyone else, making the privilege a mon opoly. The contractors built the columns at their own expense, but both aa to their design and location the approval of the police authorities had to be obtained, and they immediately become the property of the city, all repairs and proper mainte nance, however, being the duty of the contractors. The city has the right to use the inte rior of the pillars for municipal purposes. such as storing utensils for street clean ing and sand for use in the streets, for switch apparatus, for public electric lights, for meters for electric street rail ways and for other purposes. These col umns, therefore, are provided with doors and locks, and the contractors have to keep the Interiors properly ventilated and free from moisture. Each column must also have distinctly marked on its upper portion the number of the city district and of the police station, the nearest post and telegraph office, the nearest fire alarm station, the nearest sanitary station, the nearest accident station and the nearest relief station. Delay in pay ment or violation or neglect of anv con dition by the contractors renders them liable to a fine of up to 1000 marks, or $238, and my even cancel the lease. A bond for 50,000 marks, or $11,900. was ex acted for the fulfillment of the terms of the contract. The contractors have the exclusive rights to use these pillars for advertising purposes, subject, however, to certain conditions. The charges for advertising, which are regulated by the Berlin authorities, are according to the space occupied, the maximum varying from nine to 59 cents a day, the latter being for a space of 19 by 29 Inches. For placards larger tn an this the charges are in proportion. All placards must be approved by the city autnorities betore being posted. The con- tractors must keep a record of applicants lor advertising space, and. with the ex ception of cases of great urgency, the ap plicants must De served in their proper order. The city authorities have the right at any time to post such official notices as may be required, and for this purpose a special shade of red paper is used, and no private advertisers may, therefore, use this shade. Onions Are Peeled by Lightning;. Kennebec Journal. The greatest freak of the lightning in the storm of a recent Sunday, in Han cock County, Is reported from West Brooksville. where onions which were in a bag were neatly peeled. Such accom modating lightning as this would be more welcome than the usual variety. "The Incident suggests," says the Ellsworth American, "the possibilities of that future day when man has succeeded in taming lightning to his own uses. Then we may expect to find each well-appointed home equipped with its own lightning apparatus which would not only furnish light and heat, but would peel the onions and pota toes, sweep the floors, make the beds, wash the dishes, hunt buffalo bugs, kill the flies; in fact, do all the drudgery of housework. Including the semi-annual housecleaning. And the servant-girl problem would at last be solved." Ineffffeetlveness of the Director. Chicago Tribune. A lone director Is about as ineffectual a creature as the minority stockholder. Where, as is customary in large corpora tions, the management of affairB is In trusted to an executive committee, a di rector who is not a member of it counts for little. He counts for even less when, as In one notable Instance, plenary power Is granted to the president. If Bourke Cockran's programme were carried out. the President, the Governors and the Mayors woulld have an opportunity to appoint men to pocket the fees paid di rectors who attend board - meetings. Whether they would do much more than that is problematical. A LONG " From the Denver Republican. IF THE PARACHUTE WORKS ALL RIGHT HE MAY GET BACK TO EARTH AGAIN. THE JURY'S RESPONSIBILITY. Its Powerful Influence When Human Life Is at Stake. Olympla Recorder. To say that the verdict of the jury declaring William D. Haywood not guilty was a general surprise to the public hot biased by ultra-unionism , sympathies, is practically equivalent to saying that the public opinion, founded upon the published proceedings of tne trial, believed in the guilt of the ac cused. To what, then, is to be at3 tributed the findings of the Jury a Jury selected with the greatest delib eration and utmost care, and declared to be entirely acceptable to both sides? We believe it lies in no personal In tention to thwart justice or of undue influence of bias, but rather from that certain sense of - conservatism that comes with grave responsibility. The public, free from immediate re sponsibility in such a matter. Is rather quick to reach a decision and to stand by it. The public believed Orchard s terrible story and his implication of Haywood and other Federation offi cials in the conspiracy of murder. In all probability these same jurymen, were they not the impanelled arbiters of the defendant's fate, and were they in possession of the same evidence, would hold the popular belief of guilt. The difference, as shown by the ver dict, is Just that of conservatism that comes with responsibility, never so strongly felt as when holding luman life in the balance. - The insurmountable obstacle to the verdict of "guilty. In this case, was the requirement of corroborative evi dence, and that strict injunction of the court, "beyond a reasonable doubt." Added to the nightmare of. this "rea sonable doubt" was the sense of the hue and cry that went up from the very first from sympathizers of the Indicted Federation officials, that they would not be able to secure a fair trial. The proceedings had been fair, exceedingly so. So should be the Jury's attitude and deliberation; and, as not unusual in such Instances, so straight were they that they "leaned backward." That Orchard's story must have made as strong an Impression upon the Jury men as upon the public mind, cannot be doubted. But the state's laws re quire strong corroborative evidence for conviction on the testimony of impli cated witnesses, and the Judge's charge bore strongly upon this point and the "reasonable doubt." It was a human life that lay In their hands. And alone with their own conscience and this greatest of responsibilities, and with the Judge's injunction ringing in their ears, this "reasonable doubt" grew to forbidding proportions, until even the two obdurate Jurors were brought to, see it and to "lean backwards" In straightness, and the aeoused was freed. Probably most of us would have done just the same, and yet, not having had this human life balanced across the "reasonable doubt" in our hands, most of us will maintain the same opinion held before the verdict. NEWSPAPER WAIFS. Mrs. Dashaway Tes, while we were In Egypt we visited the Pyramids. They were literally covered with hieroglyphics. Mrs. Newrlch Ugh! Wasn't you afraid some of -em would git on you? Three Corners Ga zette. Blobbs Gluizer's wife has presented hira with twins. Slobbs How do you know? Blobbs Guzzler told me ao himself. Slobbe Well, I wouldn't place too much de pendence on it. Tou know Guxzler generally sees double. The Rake. He So you persist in breaking off the en gagement? She Most decidedly. 'What do you take me for? He Oh, about 40. Better think It over; It may be your last chance. Harper's Weekly. "It's true," said the moralist, "that one must go forward or backward in the world. There la no standing still." "Yes." replied the temperance shouter, "and If there were no still standing in this world delphia Press. Press. - Salesman Do you want a speedy car, madam ? Mrs. Gowltt As fast as yflu've got. Salesman Here's one that hita up such a a pace you can't talk. Mrs. Gowltt Well, show me something Just a trifle slower. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Knlcker Tour wife said she wanted to be close to nature. Bocker Well, she spent over a hundred a week on it. New York Sun. "Of course you understand." said the af fable chap, "that the worst thing about the weather is not the heat, but the humidity." "You are wrong," answered the man who expresses himself bluntly; "the worst thing about the weather is the person who insists on talking about It." Washington Star. "Pop," said the Inquisjtlve boy, "what did it mean when they decimated people In the old times?" "Killed one In every ten, my son." replied the father. "Then." mused the boy, with a slightly puzzled expression, "I suppose that waa the original ten-strike" Baltimore American. "Upon what grounds do you seek a di vorce?" asked the lawyer whom she had Just retained. "Nonsupport, cruelty or " "Both." ehe cried, tearfully, "he would not support my passionate longing for a diamond necklace and if that isn't cruelty, I'd like to know," Philadelphia Press. Doesn't this weather take you back to the good old days when mother used to bake? fct. Louis Globe-Democrat. TRIP BACK