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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. DEC. 11, 1907.
THE BURDEN OF A STATE.
The grievance of Oregon against the
o-called Harriman railroad system is
that It has done nothing these twenty
years, or next to nothing, to extend
the railroads of Oregon.- Yet the
combine has fenced Oregon In, and
warns all other railroads out. Hence
Oregon languishes. Hence its growth
Is slower than that of any other West
ern Stat. . . , .
Yet enormous sums of money drawn
es profits from the West, one hundred
and -forty millions, a full share of
which has been contributed by Ore
gon, as the reports of traffic and of
profits sho'.v, have been "Invested" in
the stock of such roads as the Balti
more & Ohio, New York Central, the
Illinois Central and Chicago & Alton,
for the purpose of controlling them
and of working stock-jobbing opera
tions In Wall street. The losses on
these gambling schemes would have
built all the railroads that have been
denied, or that Oregon will want these
next twenty years.
But of course It is useless to expect
anything from that quarter. Nobody
Is so credulous as to believe that work
on "extensions of. the Harriman sys
tem" will be "resumed" in Oregon.
Not till everybody now living is dead,
and the Southern Pacific and the
Union Pacific cease to be called the
Harriman system, may we expect any
railroad extensions in Oregon from
this quarter, even the completion of
the spur to Coos Bay.
This is the "system" that fences a
country In, then does nothing itself
nor permits anybody else to do any
thing, within the territory it claims as
Its own. It build a road from Port
land to Seattle, which nobody wants,
on ground already fully occupied, sim
ply to tease a rival, and leaves 50,000
square miles in Oregon without any
railroad whatever.
One advantage we are spon to have.
Portland and Oregon will soon be. in
close connection, through the North
Bank road, with the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern. This will be a
help of which we shall, of course, avail
ourselves to the utmost; but mean
while we shall not cease to lament
that all interior Oregon remains un
provided. PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITT.
All the duties of society, all the du
ties of the, state as the authoritative
expression of the means and measures
necessary for the regulation of society,
are of little importance in proportion
to the duties of parenthood; for every
thing depends on the watchfulness of
parents and on their right care and
direction of the children for whom
they are responsible. The state, with
all Its authority, can at best be but a
helper.
In our pioneer days the young were
exposed to few allurements or tempta
tions. Yet parental authority and ex
ample were very rigid. . In these later
days the allurements and temptations
are very numerous; but parental au
thority has diminished, till It is in In
verse proportion to the need of it.
Through irresponsible parentage so
cial bankruptcy that is, bankruptcy
In social and moral virtues corrup
tion and loss of the young1 Is an even
greater danger than bankruptcy of our
financial and Industrial system,
through foolish overestimate of possi
bilities in schemes of speculation.
There Is a large class of parents who
feel no responsibility. They are not
accustomed, perhaps, to the conditions
that require a watchfulness greater
than that of primitive times. By so
much more as new social conditions
present increasing allurements and
temptations and complexities of life
and action, by so much more is it
necessary for parents to exercise in
creasing care ad watchfulness over
their children. The parents are the
natural guides. The state never can
take their place. The sympathy of
the social body never can supply the
want of responsibility in parents. This
Is the lesson to be learned here, as It
has been learned In the older societies
of the Old World In France and
Germany and Holland, where the old
family virtues prevail to an extent not
known or equaled among the peoples
scattered through various newer lands.
The future of this country does not
depend so much on our boys and girls
as on parents who realize their respon
sibility and do their duty. The boys
and girls then will be what they ought
to be.
THE HUMOR OF IT.
The Oregonian finds a critic who
censures its because it published a few
days ago a list of persons who are
"dreaming of themselves as possible
candidates for the office of Governor."
This critic says "most of the persons
are two-bit politicians, not fit to be
pig-stickers; yet an independent paper
would palm them off as proper candi
dates for the highest office in the
state." Then The Oregonian Is accused
of "failure to give the people discrim
inative editorial guidance." Why, it
Is Inquired, doesn't The Oregonian
name some man really and properly
fit for the office of Governor, and put
its Iron heel on all these .cheap pre
tenders? The Oregonian suspects it
would be accused of trying to estab
lish a "dictatorship," and that there
would be violent revolt from it.
In & news article It was proper, we
suppose, to print a list of men of the
two parties who may offer themselves
as candidates. It is not the province
of The Oregonian to pick out the nin
compoops,, pig-stickers and two-bit
politicians among them. Possibly
their critic would like to distinguish
these by printing their names. For
the critic Is the erratic man, the -wild
man, of the Salem Journal. And it is
a fair guess that every "pig-sticker"
and "two-bit politician" and "absolute
ly unfit man" among them would deem
himself as well qualified for the office
of Governor, or for any other office,
as their kind friend, Mr. Hofer, is for
the editorship of a newspaper. Nor
would The Oregonian say it would dis
agree with them.
JAMES HENRY STODDART.
Measured by the generally accepted
standards, James H. Stoddart, who
died Monday, was not a great actor,
but during the closing years of his
long and eventful life no other player
on the world's stage was more, cordial
ly received or awakened greater Inter
est than this grand old man. The
public admired and applauded his
magnificent portrayal of Lachlan
Campbell, the stern and unforgiving
old Scotchman In "The Bonnie Brier
Bush," for 'he not only "acted," but
seemed to "live" the part; but it felt
an even greater interest in Stoddart
the man by reason of his connection
and close relationship with the great
artists of the long-departed past. It
is a far cry to twentieth-century the
atrical life from the days of Charlotte
Cushman and Macready, on through
the years which brought before the
public the Booths, father and eon;
Sothern, Joe Jefferson, Edwin Forrest,
Laura Keene and others contempo
raneous with these famous people of
the stage. But Stoddart as a gypsy
boy was playing with Charlotte Cush
man seventy years ago.
Half a century has passed since
Joseph Jefferson made his first ap
pearance In New York, but Stoddart,
then an actor of twenty years' experi
ence, was his leading support, and
with nearly aJl of the great people of
the stage for the past seventy years
he was intimately associated. Through
all of his long career on the stage, a
period far greater than .the average
life of man, he lived an honest, up
right life and won the reBpect and af
fection not only of the children of the
stage, but of the public,' who will
mourn his loss. A few more people
of the Stoddart type and. a decrease
In the number who trail the traditions
of stage purity in the dust would have
a decidedly elevating effect on the
American stage.
TERMINAL RATE LIMITS. " .
The League of Southern Idaho Com
mercial Clubs .is making an active
campaign for the Heyburn amendment
to the interstate commerce -act. In a
memorial, copies of which have been
sent to nearly every commercial or
ganization west of the Missouri River,
it is set forth that the amendment
provides "that no railroad shall col
lect more charges for a shorter haul
than for a longer haul over the same
line In the same direction. It means
a square deal all around, and that the
inland cities can build up the Jobbing
and wholesale business to which they
are entitled. This does, not deny the
Justice of terminal rates, and does not
seek to' do away with terminal rates,
but places you on a terminal point
basis." According to advices from
Boise, Senator Heyburn has written
from Washington that his amendment
is meeting with a favorable reception
at Washington, and "even the Coast
cities are not showing the opposition
that was expected."
The reported lack of opposition
from the Coast cities Is perhaps due to
their faith In the present Interstate
Commerce Commission's ruling on
rates affected by water competition.
The Commission has never assumed,
nor could it legitimately or legally as
sume, any Jurisdiction over rates
which are at all times subject to the
Influence of water transportation. At
a meeting held in Spokane about a
year ago Commissioners Prouty and
Lane listened to elaborate testimony
from all parties Involved In the mat
ter, and in the course of the Inquiry It
developed that a steamship line with
regular . sailings was taking freight
from as far west as Detroit, Cleveland
and Chicago by rail to New "York,
thence by steamer to Portland, and
from here to Spokane by rail, at a
lower rate than the Spokane rail rate.
It also developed that this same steam
ship line was handling In Its regular
business In greater or less quantities
95 per cent of the commodities named
in the railroad's Western freight clas
sification. If the . Heyburn amendment should
pass and the law be held constitu
tional. It would effectually bar the rail
roads from participating In any of the
through rail business to the Pacific
Coast. It would thus increase the cost
of every commodity shipped east from
the Pacific Coast, as It would be neces
sary to haul empty cars west from
these new "terminal rate" points, and
the expense of this haul would have to
be borne by the Coast shippers. Water
competition forced the railroads to Ig
nore the seeming incongruities of the
long and short-haul rates, when
freight was brought round the Horn.
It tightened its control of the situa
tion when the recent completion of the
Tehuantepec -Railroad brought lower
rates .and faster service, and when the
Panama -Canal is completed it will
make its Influence felt still farther in
land with much lower rates than are
now Iri effect.
The Boise memorial asserts that it
does not deny the Justice of terminal
rates, and that the Heyburn amend
ment merely places the interior Job
ber on a "terminal point" basis. And
yet this Is an impossibility, for the
terminal point on which all of these
rates are based is an ocean, port on the
Pacific, which, of course, is not avail
able from an inland point without the
additional freight charge' from tide
water. The Coast cities,- as shown by
the testimony at Spokane, could secure
about 95 per cent of their freight by
water if they were obliged to do so,
but it would be monstrously unfair to
the railroads to compel them to aban
don this trade, as of course they would
be obliged to do if they attempted to
enforce a. long-haul charge, based on
the short-haul rate to the interior
points. The Heyburn amendment is
an attempted nullification of the ad
vantages conferred by the Almighty
on the natural terminal points at tide
water, and It will not succeed because
it is wrong In theory and inoperative
In practice.
TAJT ANT HTGKES.
Mr. Aldrich's reputed opinion of
Mr. Hughes Is illuminating. Accord
ing to the Senator from Rhode Island,
"Governor Hughes Is not only un
known, but apparently unknowable."
This language looks portentous, but
of course all It means Is that Mr.
Hughes puzzles the distinguished rep
resentative In the United States Senate
of Standard Oil and other interests
that live by what they can grab. Mr.
Aldrich cannot understand the Gov
ernor of New York." A man who can
neither be bullied nor bought by the
voracious tribes which own Mr. Aid
rich Is to him an Insoluble problem.
The eminent Rhode Islander regards
Mr. Hughes much as Satan did Job.
The devil could not to save himself
understand why a man like Job, who
had everything 'he wanted, should go
on worshiping God, and he told , the
Almighty plainly to his face that if
Job were tempted a little he would
fall. Thereupon the Lord permitted
Satan to tempt Job a great deal in
stead! of a little, but through it all the
good man stood firm. Satan was puz
zled; he could not understand Job. In
the same way Mr. Hughes puzzles Mr.
Aldrich.
All the fat things which the preda
ceous interests have to offer have been
spread invitingly before the Governor
of New York for many months, and
he treats the goodly feast as If It were
so much sawdust. Every Inducement
has been tendered him in the way of
trust presidencies, political advance
ment. Inside opportunities, to sell him
self to the corporations which repre
sent the devil in the modern world,
and yet he stands to this day unsold
and seems likely to remain so always.
He is not in the market at all. To a
mind of Mr. Aldrich's type, used as he
Is to bargaining himself away and
buying men like sheep, as he bought
Mr. Bailey, of Texas, such a phenom
enon as Hughes Is the wonder of won
ders. Vice never can understand vir
tue. Mr. Hughes takes his own course.
He thinks out what should be done
and then he does it, regardless.: of
whose feelings may be hurt. He can
not be "worked." He cannot be
bought. He cannot be frightened.
Any one of these traits, taken' by it
Belf, would make him undesirable to
the Interests. Taken all together, they
form a combination so dangerous to
systematic robbery that one is sur
prised at the favor which Hughes has
found in Wall street- and similar
haunts of the corporate ravens.
The explanation lies in their un
conquerable hatred of Roosevelt. To
every man in the country who desires
to rob under the forms and protection
of the law Roosevelt is anathema. The
thieves hate to become honest under
anybody's rule; but they hate it ten
fold under Roosevelt's. "If we must
stop stealing," they have said among
themselves, "let's- try at all odds to
give somebody else than Roosevelt the
credit of reforming us.V So they have
been booming Hughes, not because
they wanted him in the White House,
but because they thought he was a
thorn in the President's flesh. Some
of them boomed Hughes because they
hoped he could not be nominated;
some because they believed he could
not be elected; and all of them be
cause they thought he was repugnant
to Mr. Roosevelt. Now the wise Mr.
Aldrich, experienced in artful wiles,
points out to the syndicated robbers
of high finance what a mistake they
are making. They are taking Just the
course, he tells them, to rouse Mr.
Roosevelt's "dander." This defiant
flaunting of the Hughes banner may at
any moment excite the President's
fighting spirit, and then what will be
come of their petty politics, their
hopes of fishing in a disturbed polit
ical pool, and- theif revenge? With
Roosevelt as a candidate the thieves
and their schemes would be swept
away in common ruin.
'Tls thus that 'Mr. Aldrich. sagely
counsels his fellow-members of the
band when they are assembled in their
cave. And he goes on to tell them
how much wiser it would be to discard
the perplexing Hughes and unite-on
Taft. The reasons are obvious. As
long as there Is hope for Taft there is
no danger of Roosevelt running again.
This is in Itself a boon almost heaven
ly, but there are others. Mr. Taft
has, in fact, for the last few months
shown a certain pliability of disposi
tion which greatly augments his avail
ability from the point of view of men
like Aldrich. Two yearsgo Mr. Taft
roundly denounced Boss Cox. of Cin
cinnati, and all his works, saying that
a good patriot ought to vote against
his party rather than uphold such a
scoundrel as Cox. This year we And
Mr. Taft In close alliance with the Cin
cinnati demagogue, who, by the way,
controls both parties in that city,
thereby economizing time and brain
power. By his example and that of
the exalted Mr. Herrin in California,
who is a Democrat although boss of
the Republican party, we can estimate
how much certain eminent personages
think of party loyalty.
Moreover, while last year Mr. Taft
was fervent in advocating the separa
tion of National and city politics, this
year he did his best in conjunction
with Mr. Roosevelt to make the Cleve
land ejection turn on National Issues.
The people of Cleveland showed al
most as little respect for Taft'a advice
as did those of Oklahoma, while their
rejection of him and his candidate for
Mayor measurably diminished the
magnitude of the Secretary as a Pres
idential candidate, and encouraged Mr.
Foraker to put forth new hopes. It
may be doubted whether the warmth
of Aldrich's love will help Taft a great
deal with the country at large. It
takes more than Wall street and
Standard OH to make a President.
Most people will think their favor
rather tends to unmake Instead of
making one. Decided support by "the
Interests" would be the precise thing
which would put" the finishing touch
to Mr. Taft's hopes. So far as Mr.
Aldrich is concerned, what he and his
crowd really want is to play Taft and
Hughes off against each other. When
one of them shows strength they will
boom the other and thus weaken both
until some man like Foraker or Fair
banks can be pushed forward and
nominated. Taft shows increasing
pliability,' but he still has too much
backbone to suit Wall street, while
with the idea of supporting Hughes
the syndicates are, of course, only
playing. What they want in the White
House is a man whom they can mould
and direct.
A Tacoma dispatch announcing the
departure of the steamship Aparlma
with a record cargo says: "Since the
opening of the present grain season
five big steamers have left port with
wheat cargoes valued at $1,107,913."
This is a very good showing for Ta
coma. Portland is not yet noted as a
steamship port, but "since the opening
ot the present grain season" there
have cleared from this port with
wheat eleven steamers with cargoes
aggregating 2,225,000 bushels valued
at about $1,950,000. There are now
In port loading and to clear this month
five other steamers with a capacity of
1,100,000 bushels of wheat, and twenty-three
sailing ships with a capacity
of 2,500,000 bushels of wheat. This
fleet, with four steamship cargoes of
flour for the Orient, will enable Port
land to make a fairly respectable
showing, even when compared with
the combined shipments of Seattle,
Tacoma and Everett.
The man who "lives throughout the
years of a long life without family tles-
or associations, "alone in his cabin,"
presents a sad phase of human life,
the conditions of which are not made
more sorrowful, when in the fullness
of time he dies as he has lived alone.
There is, it is true, something shock
ing in the close of such a life by acci
dent, as was the case with a pioneer
of Coos County who recently met his
death in the smoke and flames of his
cabin home; or by violence, as is not
infrequently .the case where the rer
cluse was a miser. But generally
speaking, a human being who lives
from youth to hoary age entirely for
himself leaves no ripple on the sea of
life when he sinks, alone, beneath the
surface. The pity is not for his Jonely
death, but for his lonely, fruitless life.
Gold imports or gold engaged for
Import since the Wall-street panic be
gan have reached a total of $102,750,
000; and there is more to follow. This
is a vast sum of money, but it would
probably appear small in comparison
with the milions now In hiding In New
York alone, waiting for the restoration
of confidence. Gold imports are
nearing a dangerous point, as their
proportions are liable at any time seri
ously to disturb conditions abroad.
Confidence would be worth more than
foreign gold to this country Just now,
and as we cannot Import It, any means
that will encourage it should be adopt
ed with a rush.
Says the San Jose. Times: .'The
words of The Oregonian that cut deep
est are these: "Like Romeo at the
. play, The Oregonian will be a candle-
holder ana look on. a Tom just what
source The Oregonian got its Informa
tion that Romeo was a mere candle
holder would prove an Interesting bit
of news to students of the Immortal
bard." What's the matter with the
critics? Romeo, at the dance, or play,
urged to "betake him to his legs," an
swered: A torch for me; let wantons light of heart
Tickle .the senseless rushes with their heels;
For I am proverbed with a grandalre phrase,
I'll be a candle-holder and look on.
Judge Hanford, of the Federal
Court at Tacoma, has decided that 'a
vessel is not liable for debts incurred
by the master, even though they are
alleged to be on account of the vessel.
This is something new In maritime
law, and if the decision is sustained by
the higher court, will destroy that an
cient legal tradition that a ship is re
sponsible for the acts of her master.
Incidentally It will permit a dishonest
master to "beat" a good many Inno
cent creditors.
The First National Bank of The
Dalles, with deposits of 'nearly $500,
000 and a 62 per cent reserve on hand,
is another of the Interior financial in
stitutions which is in a position to re
ceive a run with perfect equanimity.
The remarkable showing made by all
of the country banks easily accounts
lor the failure of the people in the in
terior of the state to get excited over
the strained situation elsewhere.
There is a Bourbon County in Kan
sas. We see a paper, called the Pilot,
published there. Bourbon County in
so violent an anti-liquor state as Kan
sas! Why doesn't the Governor sum
mon a special session of the Legisla
ture, to change the name?
Governor Hughes Is thought well of
by the country; but Rockefeller will
not help him as a candidate for the
Presidency by declaring a preference
for him. Harriman, also, is urged to
declare for Taft. And that wouldn't
help Taft any.
North Dakota's law prohibiting the
adulteration of paint has been upheld
by the Federal Supreme Court. If the
complexions of the women folk do not
improve from now on, they will have
only themselves to blame.
There is room for wide range of
opinion as to the actual value of se
curities set forth in Receiver Hill's re
port. The exact ' truth will develop
when it comes to realizing on them.
Kentucky now. has a Republican
Governor. We scarcely think Powers
will be hanged. If he should be con
victed, doubtless he will be pardoned;
but he hasn't been convicted this time.
As with other valued products of the
soli, this year's crop of Oregon Christ
mas trees will be quite asbountiful as
usual.
Where is the man who predicted
the "slump after the Fair?"
WHAT IS OUR NATIONAL ANTHEMt
Origin of "America" Dates Back to the
Time of Henry VII.
WOODSTOCK, Or.. Dec. 10. (To the
Editor.) In last Sunday's Oregonian this
question Is asked and your reply is: "We
have no National Anthem. In the public
schools 'America,.' whose melody was
borrowed from 'God Save the King,' is
preferred to The Star-Spangled Banner.'
In a popular sense 'America' may be
considered our National Anthem."
Please permit me to furnish a little
more historical and interesting light on
the origin of this Anglo-American Na
tional melody. In Agnes Strickland's
"History of the Queens of England,"
(volume 11, page 74), the origin Is given.
The music and the following words to it
were composed for the first time in honor
of the marriage of King Henry VII, and
Princess Elizabeth of York, eldest daugh
ter of Edward IV.; which took place at
Westminster, January 18, 1485-6, nearly
423 years ago.
God-feeve King Henrie whereso'er he bee,
And for Queene Elizabeth now pray wee.
And lor all her noble progenye
God mve the Church ot .Christ from any
follle.
And for Queene Elizabeth now pray wee.
Thus, it will be observed that the
words, and still more the melody, re
semble very clSsely England's National
Anthem; from which "America" is bor
rowed. Let me say that "America" could
not have been derived from any better
or more appropriate source; when we re
member that it was under the auspices
of King Henry VII., in 1497-8, 11 years
after his marriage, that the Cabots made
the first discovery of America, and that,
too,, more than a year before Columbus
saw it. Furthermore, let us remember
that the Cabots discovered that portion
of it in which our race made its ' first
settlements; and over which the United
States fllag, the star-spangled banner,
and the flag of England, in which the
crosses of St. George, St. Andrew's and
St. Patrick the patron saints of Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland are blended,
float with Immortal glory and romantic
reminiscences. If, as you say, "Amer
ican assemblages, if seated, rise when
'The Star-Spangled Benner' is played:
but they do not get to their feet at
'America,' " this only shows that they
are unconscious of the far older and
nobler prestige attaching to the melody
and words of "America." Our public
school histories may be to blame for this
Inadvertence; as much as these are for
giving Columbus precedent in glory and
honor over the Cabots.
R. M. BRERETON.
Quentln Roosevelt Hsi a Romance.
Washington., D. C, Dispatch in Phila
delphia Press.
Quentln Roosevelt, the President's
10-year-old son, was "lost" for a cou
ple of hours one afternoon, recently.
When he did not return from school
at the usual hour his parents became
alarmed, and the White House detec
tives were sent after him. After a
short eearch Quentln was found on
Massachusetts avenue at play with
some schoolmates. He was totally ob
livious to the flight of time, and was
unaware that his absence had been
noted at the White Houee.
Behind Quentin's truancy there is a
little romance. Quentln is the admir
er of a girl wtio lives on Rhode Island
avenue. When his school closed at 3
o'clock P. M., Quentln went to pay
her a visit. It was 4 o'clock before
he started for home, but on Massachu
setts avenue he fell in with some boy
playmates,-and he Joined in their sport.
.It was about this time that his par
ents grew anxious, and the detectives
were sent on' his trail. They soon
found the home of the girl, who told
them of -Quentin's visit and the route
he had taken when he left her. The
finding of Quentln was then a simple
matter.
Fortune Tellers Like Hard Times,
New York Sun.
- Just as a matter of curiosity a woman
who lives across the street from a fortune-teller
counted the persons who called
to consult the seer In one forenoon. The
number astonished her. In the afternoon
she, too, visited the woman.
"I shouldn't. think," she remarked, "that
you would have such a brisk trade these
hard times. I should think that peeping
into the future at your price per peep
would be a luxury that most people would
cut out."
"On the contrary," said the woman,
"trade Increases In hard timea. When
everybody Is prosperous people are satis
fied and don't care especially to spend
money in finding out if there is any ill
luck .coming, but when times are hard
they will spend their very last quarter to
find out If there is anything better in
sight."
Alabama Women Clean Streets.
Montgomery, Ala., Dispatch in New
York World.
The women of Girard, a, town of 2000
Inhabitants, impatient with the men,
who allowed the streets to remain
dirty, pitched in with pick and shovel
and put them in good shape them
selves. The women cleaned up the
highway, filled in the holes and ruts
and removed the debris. They sang
ae they worked, while men -thronged
the sidewalks to look on. Many a girl
in the "squad" saw her beau in the on
lookers, and others saw rivals that
were ready to make capital out of -it.
But nothing deterred them. They
worked until the streets were spick
and epan. Grass was put out In some
places and gutters were dug to carry
off the water. Rock was carried tar
the low places and bridges were built.
Marries the Cook, a College Girl.
Brockton, Mass., Dispatch In New York
World.
P. J. Hollls, Jr., Harvard graduate and
clubman, the son of P. J. Hollls, a
wealthy shoe manufacturer, eloped with
and married Ellen O'Donnell, cook In the
Hollls family. Now, they are back in
the parental home and received in so
ciety. But Ellen, the cook, is the daughter of
Thomas J. O'Donnell, an attorney of
Southbridge, and is a Wellesley graduate.
She had a sociological bent, and to get
closer to the working class she decided
to do housework. She got her first Job
with the Hollls family.
The marriage took place in Providence,
R. I., on the bride's day off.
About the Rockefeller Ancestry.
Leslie's Weekly.
, The Rockefeller family association, of
which, by the way, John D. is not a mem
ber, though many of its members claim
kinship with him, has traced the history
of the name back to the south of France,
where there is still a Baron Roquefeuille.
The French Rockefellers, being mostly
Huguenots, - went to Southern Germany
after the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes: hence the Teutonic form of the
name. The first Rockefeller came to
America in 1720.
Life Is prolonged by Good Teeth.
New York Tribune.
The Berlin branch of the Imperial In
surance Company has set aside $25,000 a
year to provide a dental institute for
worklngmen holding Its policies. The in
stitute will provide artificial teeth for all
worklngmen needing them. It has been
found by the company that men provided
with good dental apparatus make a bet
ter risk than others, and the new insti
tute is expected to save much money to
the company in the course of a few
years.
Stovepipe as a Fishing; Line,
Philadelphia Record.
Abraham Johnson catches catfish in
the Passaic . River. New Jersey, by
means of a stovepipe which he pi ante
in the stream. He says catfish like
a dark place at night.
MR- ROOSEVELT AND HIS POLICIF.S.
Polls Taken Anions: Republican and
Democratic Congressmen. x
Washington,. J. C, Dispatches in New
York World.
Following are the questions ' asked by
the World of Republican Senators and
Representatives now In Washington, with
the net result of the poll:
Question 1 Do you think that party
and public demands will result in the re
nomination of Roosevelt? Yes, 22: cir
cumstances may make his nomination j
necessary, o; no, as; non-committal. So;
total, 141.
Question 2 Should he not receive the
nomination will he. In your opinion, dic
tate the nomination and the party
policies? Yes, 16; no. 34; no, but his
policies will be Indorsed, 4; non-committal,
73; total, 127.
Question S To what extent has the
financial situation changed the political
outlook? No effect. 60: may have had
effect on Republicans. 20; helped Rooae
velt, 7: non-committal. 51; total. 138.
Question 4 Should the platform be
constructed on radical or conservative
lines? Conservative. 47; radical. 3; pro
gressive. 8; stand-pat, 5; should affirm
Roosevelt's policies, 13; should affirm
Cannon's policies, 1; non-committal, 61;
total. 138.
Questions asked of the Democratic Sen
ators and Representatives now in the
city, with the net result of the poll:
Question 1 Does Bryan's recent an
nouncement of his candidacy, followed
by his Washington speech, eliminate all
other Democrats from consideration by
the Democratic National Convention?
Affirmative, 44; negative. 18; declined to
answer, 11; non-committal, 7; too early
to say, 1; total. 76.
Question 2 Who. besides Bryan, in
your opinion, will receive serious con
sideration, and why? No other than
Bryan, 10; non-committal, 6; declined to
answer, 9: any one of several, 6; John
son. 1: total, 32..
Question 3 To what extent has the
financial situation changed the political
outlook? Helped Democrats. f)9; no ef
fect, 5; non-committal, 1; no answer, 7;
too early to say, 1; total, 73.
Question 4 Should the party platform
be constructed on conservative or radi
cal lines? Conservative. 3S; radical, 4;
non-committal. 1: progressive. 4: Demo
cratic, 5; on the fence, 10; declined to an
swer, 7; tariff the issue, 4; total, 73.
FARMER'S LOT IS A HAPPY OXB
Ho Can Readily Dominate the Finan
cial Situation.
Charleston News and Courier.
We know a South Carolina farmer who
has 20 bales of cotton in the bonded
warehouse. He has sold 20 bales, and
all his debts are paid. Five bales re
main to be harvested, ginned and
packed, He has no house rent to pay
at the end of the month. He has no
water rates to pay; his water comes
from a spring under the hill. He has
no electric light bills. He has corn
and wheat, and the mill is two miles
away. Five hogs are in the pen, and
they weigh 200 pounds each. The pea
crop has been good; he has plenty of
cotton-seed meal and hulls; the hogs
were fattened on peanuts, though he
has ten bushels of the latter stored
away for the family. Half a dozen pe
can trees on the farm are bearing, and
he has plenty of delicious nuts. There
is popcorn in the garret for Christ
mas, enough for Winter and to give
some to the neighbors, too. The sor
ghum crop was fair and real sorghum
sirup is quite as good as "maple sirup"
in quotation points. The two cows
yield more milk and butter than are
needed, so some is sold every week.
Of course, the supply of honey is abun
dant, as usual, and the surplus yields
a little cash. One or two beeves might
be sold to the butcher and would fetch
a good price, though the provender
being plentiful, they will be fattened
for' a month or two and sold later.
The woodlands on the farm have been
carefully looked after, and fuel is to
be had for the cutting and hauling.
The supply will never be exhausted,
so long as it is husbanded by the far
mer we are speaking of. The troop
of a dozen Thanksgiving turkeys in
cludes at least two gobblers that weigh
20 pounds each, and there are guinea
fowls, ducks and chickens besides. The
farmer has' $2000 Invested In local
banns and cotton mills, the dividends
from which are $150 annually. He may
have a mortgage for $500 on ft neigh
bor's farm besides. He has $200 de
posited in bank, and his credit up to
$500 is as good as Rockefeller's in
any store 'in the County town.
Can this farmer hold cotton? Why
not? The clothes for his family for
the Winter cost about as much as one
tailor-made outfit for a city man. We
fancy that he can hold the 25 bales
in the warehouse until they wear out.
Hear What the Unjust Judge Snltb.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The routine of the Criminal Court pro
ceedings had been marked by only one
unusual Incident, and that was the alac
rity with which a certain hard character
was sentenced for 60 days to the- work
house. .
"Judge," observed the District Attorney
at the close of the dreary session, "you
seemed to relish the privilege of sending
that man to the workhouse. Did his case
Impress you? '
"Now, look here," whispered the Judge,
as he beckoned the attorney aside, "that
man is a worthless fellow. Always drunk
and never contributes a cent to the sup
port of his wife, who Is a most deserving
woman. I feel sorry for her, and when
ever he Is in prison she comes to our
home and. assists my wife in the kitchen.
"And," chuckled the Judge, as he tapped
the attorney's shoulder cheerfully, "she
does know how to bake apple pie."
Senator Tillman's Son a Miner.
Carthage (Mo.) Dispatch in N. Y. Times.
Benjamin Tillman, Jr.. son of the South
Carolina Senator, Is now a miner In the
Southwestern Missouri district. He came
here last week, and after visiting a few
days with his cousin. J. B. Tillman, of
this city, caught the "mining fever." Sen
ator Tillman has mining interests here,
and the son will assist in taking care of
them after learning the business.
Mnle Knocks Out Fighting; Rear.
New York t)ispatch.
Peter Brown, driving to market with
a mule near Cochecten Centre, N. Y.,
was attacked in the road by a bear,
and in the fight that followed between
the mule and the bear the latter was
knocked out.
Has Its Uses.
Nashville American.
The hammer is a useful tool.
And If you ever doubt it
Just try to build a chicken coop
Or picket fence without It.
But If you use the iron sledge
For other kinds of knocking.
Go tapping- at your neighbor's faults.
Results are sometimes shocking.
Do not be a knocker.
Kind, impatient pir
Hammer out for every one
Sharpened, as It were.
Though you're armed for business
With a tinner's kit.
You can hardly ever
Make a three-bass hit.
There's nothing wrong about It If "
- You're listed with the tollers
And hooping barrels Is your trade
Or building iron boilers.
But if you only wield a pen
And toy with words and grammar
It Isn't very bright In you
To use it as a hammer.
Do not be a knocker
As through life ynu pass.
If you're looking out for faults.
Get a looking glass.
Throw away your hammer
And your friends surprise.
Do some boosting If you're
Needing exercise.
itVBOOrfcS &
LIKE all great men, Robert Barr, the
novelist, ' recently honored the
Place of his nativity by visiting
it Wallacetown, Ontario and aftr he
departed the village story-tellers be
gan their reminiscences of him. When
Barr was a boy. It seems that the fav
orite resort for young and old to goa-
m ine village harness shop, and
young Barr liked to perch, himself on
the harness-maker's "horse" to listen
to the news of the day. One afternoon.
Barr swung himself on the "horse,"
but found to his distress that his cloth
ing was affixed to a piece of wax
placed there by sme mischief-maker.
His efforts to free himself were greeted
with subdued rhur!tio iti.i
Barr exerted all -his muscular power!
mere was a wrench, and he was freed
'Did you have tn n-nrt i,..
away. Bobby? What sort of an exhl-
a you call it?" was asked
"Waxwork," wittily replied the fu
ture author.
Curious to relate, returned travelers
say that James M. Rarri tv.
of the inimitable "Thrums" stories, is
not so highly revered as one would
suppose at Kirriemuir. ScnUnnri
original of Thrums. The latter place
is mentioned so often and lovingly in
Barrio's stories that one would think
the natives should hall him as their
patron saint. A party of American
tourists lately visited Kirriemuir, and
fell in love with "the Auld LIcht Kirk."
A blue-bonneted Scot solemnly regard
ed them.
"I suppose you Thrnms peorrto are
great admirers of Barrie?" he was
asked.
"What Barrie?" he cautiously quer
ied. "Why, the author of 'The Little
Minister' and other Thrums stories, of
course."
"Oh, ye mean that wrltin' fellow,"
crossly replied the native. "Aye, he's
been here noo an' then. I'm thinkin'.
The lest time Malster Barrie wis here,
he drapplt a bulk, an' I handit it back
tae aim. Wull ye believe me whin I
tell ye. that the miserly-minded man
said: 'Thank you.' Humph. I thocht
the great Barrie wis at least guld for
a gill o' whuskey, at least."
Alfred Austin, the poet laureate of
Great Britain, is reported as having an
exalted idea of the Importance of his
position. Not very long ago, he was
asked to attend an "at home" by a
sculptor he knew, and the sculptor Im
pressed upon his wife the fact that
she must talk literature to the great
man. But the hostess is troubled with
a poor memory. When Austin ar
rived, she saw a staid looking man,
and she talked about theology and the
latest researches of archaeologists in
Asia Minor. Austin looked his Anguish.
Too late, it dawned on the hostess that
this was the author her husband had
mentioned.
"I think I have heard of you before,
Mr. Austin," commented the hostess,
sweetly. "Ah, you are a son of Miss
Austen, the authoress, I believe?"
At the NewYork City Public Library
fiction department Jusf now, the work of
two Americans is In popular demand. Mrs.
Burnett in "The Shuttle" and Mrs.
Wharton s "The Fruit of the Tree" oc
cupying respectively first and third
places. Sir Gilbert Parker's "The
Weavers" is second.
That dainty girl creation in fiction,
"Emmy Lou," is said to have met with
a rival in George Madden Martin's "Le
titia: Nursery Corps, U. S. A."
Among new books of travel and foreign
observation are: "Below the Cateracts,"
written and painted by Walter Tyndale
a fascinating account of the artist
author's own experiences as an exca
vator in the Lower Nile Valley and a
splendid two-volume octavo on "The
Egyptian Sudan," by E. A. Wallis
Budge, together with "Tyrol: The Land
of the Mountains," by W. A. Balllle
Grohman, which, besides an Inviting;
text full of atmosphere and anecdoto,
has an excellent collection of repro
ductions of Tyrolese photographs.
There is, too, an Important biograph
ical book, which has already been fav
orably criticised by European public
ists, "The Life or Cavour," by Edward
Cadogan, which, besides being an au
thoritative and intimate biography. Is
also a critical analysis of the politics
of Europe, amid which the great Pre
mier of Victor Emmanuel II played his
role.
Among books that have their Initial
publication this week is the extra Win
ter number of the International Studio,
entitled "Gardens 'in the Southern and
Western Countries," which contains 150
full-page illustrations in color nnd
monotint. There lsalso a short, in
timate biography of PaderewskI, by
Edward A. Baughan, among the Illus
trations of which are reproductions of
two original sketches and a bust by
Emll Fuchs, a characteristic memory
sketch by Orlando Rouland and a
drawing by Venlno of New York, to
gether with recent- portrait photo
graphs by Schnell and Bauler.
A number of old favorites are re
appearing as reprints, and among thesa
are the third and twenty-second print
ing respectively of Charles Pierce Bur
ton's "The Boys of Bob's Hill" and
Mrs. Voynich's novel of the early days
of Italy's struggle for unification, "The
Gadfly." There are also new editions of
the following Revell books: Arthur J.
Brown's "The Foreign Missionary," Dr.
Charles F. Aked's "The Courage of the
Coward," Maltbie Davenport Babcock's
"Fragments That Remain," Charles
Stelzle's "Christianity's Storm Centre''
and Dr. Richard A. Holmes' recently
Issued novel, "The Maid of Honor."
The seventh printing is announced of
Mary E. Waller's "A Daughter of the
Rich," a nineteenth printing of Miss
Waller's "The Wood-Carver of 'Lym
pus" and an eighth printing, of 10.000
copies, of Eliza Calvert Hall's "Aunt
Jane of Kentuckyl"
A biography of Edward Montagu, the
first Earl of Sandwich, is in prepara
tion In London. He distinguished him
self at the battle of Naseby on the
side of the Parliament and gave a good
account of himself In the reign of
Charles II. As ambassador to Madrid,
he also conducted the delicate negotia
tions which" resulted in the marriage of
Charles II with Catherine Braganza.
The redoubtable Samuel Pepys was
Lord Sandwich's secretary, so, perhaps,
some new sidelights may be thrown on
that lively old gossip.
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