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Newspaper Page Text.THE MORNING OREGONIAN,' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1908. Sl'BSCKlPTION KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mail.) D.illv, Sunday Included, one year $8 00 Daily. Sunday Included, six monthi. ... 4.25 Dally, bunday Included, three months.. Daily, Sunday Included, one month.. -To Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 lally, without Sunday, six months 3.2r. Dully, vith-jut Sunday, three months.. 1-75 Dally, without Sunday, one month 60 Hunday, one year 2.50 Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... 10 Bunday and weekly, cne year BV CARRIER. Diliy. Sunday Included, one year 800 Dally. Sunday Included, one month i HOW TO Kfc.MlT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postoffice ad dress In full. Including county and state. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postoffice as Second-Class Matter. 10 to 14 Pages 1 cent 1. to 2S Pases 2 30 to 44 Page cent 46 to flo Puses centa Foreign pontage, double rates. lMFOUTANT The postal laws are strlot. Newspapers on which postage Is not fully prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8, C. aecknith Special Agency New York, rooms 48-00 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 010-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex; Postoffice News Co.. 178 Dearborn street. St. Paul. Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Elatlon. Colorado Springs. Colo. Bell. H. K. Denver Hamilton ana Kendrlck.. 806-B12 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store. 1214 . Fifteenth street; H. P. Wansen. S. Rice, Oeorge Carson. Kansas City, Mo Rlcksecker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut; Yoma News Co. Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugb, SO South Third. Cleveland. O. James Pushaw. 807 Su perior street. Washington. I. C. Ebbltt House. Penn sylvania avenue. Philadelphia. Pa. Ryan's Theater Ticket Office; Penn News Co New York city. L. Jones Co.. Astor House; Broadway Theater- News Stand; Ar thur liotallng Wagons; Empire News Stand. Ogden D. L. Boyle; Lowe Uros.. 114 Twenty-fifth street. Omaha IJarkalow Bros.. Union Station: MaKeath Stationery Co. Des Moines, la. Moae Jacobs. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co., 4o0 K street: Amos News Co. Salt Lake Moon liook Stationery Co : Rnsenfeld & Hansen; Q. W. JewetU P. O. corner. , ' Los Angeles B. K. Amos, manager ten street wagons. Pasadena. Cal Amos News Co. han Diego B E. Amos. San Jose. Cal. St. James Hotel News tand. Dallas. Tex. Southwestern News Agent. B4 Main street: also two street wagons. Amarilla, Tex. Timmons & Pope. San Francisco Former & Orear; Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; L. Parent; N. Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand: Amos News Co.; United News Agency. 14 V Kddy street; B. E. Amos, man ager three wagons. Oakland, t'ul. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth sud Franklin streets N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. K. Amos, manager flva wagons. Ooldlleld. Ner. Louis Follln; C. E. Hunter. Eureka, Cal. Call-Ctaronlcle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND, SATURDAY,. FEB. K. 1008. VALUATION AND DEBT. In Illinois they have a singular law for levy of taxes. The law requires all property to be assessed at Its "fair cash value," but provides that one fifth of that value shall be the as sessed value for all purposes of taxa tion. The Intent, undoubtedly, is to keep down excessive expenditure and prevent prodigality.. Last year, as the Chicago Tribune informs us, the "fair cash value" of all the property of Chicago was $2,389,000,000, but the valuation on which taxes were levied was one-fifth of that, or $477,000,000. Besides the object of keeping down the expenditure . that great riches would provoke or Induce, the law is so adjusted as to keep down putllc Indebtedness. The law forbids, any municipal corporation to become In debted to an amount exceeding 5 per cent of the taxable property therein. So the actual limit of indebtedness is not 5 per cent, but 1 per cent. The limit of the Indebtedness of Chicago therefore a city of two millions of people, with property valued at $24, 000,000,000, Is $24,000,000. Though Chicago has grown to be Kreat and mighty under this system, it would hardly be advisable in a small city, situated as Portland is. AVe must do things in Portland that couldn't be done under the system that prevails in Chicago; yet the' world ' contains no city more progressive than the one that thus limits indebtedness and taxation. Have they the secret of getting for their money at Chicago we can't get at Portland? The Tribune says, however, that Chicago ought not to go on longer with this limitation of indebtedness to 1 per cent of the actual value of property. At Portland, with very full valuation of property, the indebted ness is nearly 5 . per cent; and while we must make other great improve ments soon, we shall have to look out lest it grow faster in proportion than the growth of values. THE 1UTV ON PETROLEUM. Representative Gustav Kuesterman, of Wisconsin, gave to Congress and the country some Interesting facts nbout Standard Oil and its doings in a speech he made the other day. The occasion was an amendment which he offered in the House repealing the ingley duty on petroleum. The false belief has been seMulously spread by Mr. Rockefeller's agents that there is no duty whatever oh pe troleum, but Mr. Kuesterman shows that there is one and that It amounts in some cases to 200 per cent. There is a provision in the Dingley act which Mr. Kuesterman sometimes calls a "joker and sometimes a "cun ning little proviso," whose effect is to give the Standard Oil Company higher . protection, he alleges, than almost any other trust enjoys under the benefi cent distribution of tariff largess. The evasion is accomplished by first say ing in the law that petroleum shall come in free of duty and then slipping 'into another section the proviso that It shall pay the same duty that other countries impose upon oil from Amer ica. The only other nation that produces oil to any extent 'is Russia, and' her tariff tax upon outside petroleum is exorbitant. Hence Russian oil is ex cluded from America. ( Three results follow. "First, Mr. Rockefeller's trust is freed from all competition and permitted to rob us without restraint. Second, the trust sells oil In Germany, Great Britain and Denmark for about two-thirds what it charges the meek American public. Third, our petroleum deposits are being rapidly exhausted to fin the greedy maw of the monopoly and we shall soon be bereft entirely of one of our most important natural resources. Our extravagant tariff policy smacks of Insanity everywhere, but nowhere else co flagrantly as In the duties it Imposes upon crude raw materials. The inevitable effect of these duties Is to skin the country of Its resources for the benefit of foreign nations and ultimately leave us stripped and bare to become the laughing stock of the world for our lack of foresight. A SORRY FABRICATION. Mr. Lincoln Steffens, the magazine writer, has written an article for the American Magazine for March, on politics in Oregon," of which advance sheets have been received. In his ef fort to describe conditions in Oregon during past years the writer. says: Perhaps the conditions I mean can best be brought home by citing an agree ment written by Harvey W. Scott, the really great editor of that really great newspaper,. The Oregonlan (and of its afternoon edition, the Telegram), one night In 1903. There was a contest on for United States Senator. . Scott had hopes. Bourne had had them, but he had nothing left but a small' minority of legislators. These he owned, however; they had cost him $25,000. Scott wanted Bourno's legislators, so on the last night of the session he wrote the agreement printed below, and William .M. Ladd, the leading banker of Portland, -wired it (hence the verbal errors) to Salem. Here it is: In cae I receive Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,'s support for United States Senator at the Joint session of the Legislature tonight, I hreby agree to use the full power of the Morning Oregonlan and the Bvenlng Telegram to de feat John H. Mitchell at the next Senatorial election, and elect Jonathan Bourne, Jr., In his place. I further agree that If I receive the sup port of Jonathan Bourne, Jr., for United States Senator in the Joint session of the Leg islature tonight that if elected I will turn all the Federal patronage .over to Jonathan Bourne, Jr. ' I hereby further agree In lieu (view?) of receiving the support of Jonathan Bourne, td nlght at the Joint session of the Legislature that whether elected or not I will pay to Jonathan Bourne SL'5,000 In United State gold coin. It is simply fiction. This so-called agreement, alleged to have been wrllt ten by Mr. Scott, was not written by him nor dictated by him, nor ever seen by him, till now. It never existed. It is a fabrication by somebody, and sheer forgery. It follows, of course, that it was not "wired" to Salem, on the last night of the session, or at any time, by Mr. Ladd, or by any one else; and Mr. Ladd, moreover, never saw it till it was shown him in this maga zine article. CHILDREN AND ROSES. It is "a fine thing to Interest the school children in the work of plant ing roses. The child boy or girl who is untaught in the simple lessons of beautifying the home and the city through the cultivation of and inter est in growing- things has at best but a lopsided development. It is a pood thing, therefore, to have the children out in force today not to plant roses In the parks, perhaps, since it is very desirable that the slips should grow after planting, and to insure this they must be well and properly set but to see how it is done and lend such as sistance in the work as they can. A sense of responsibility and propri etorship that goes -with this call upon school children to help in planting these roses will be of benefit to the plants later on, when it will be neces sary to take care of them and cut off the faded and falling blooms. It Is a good thing to call the children out, in vest them with responsibility, arouse their interest and incidentally" In struct them in the care of the plants. They will thus "become an animated feature indeed, a valuable factor In the Rose Festival from its beginning in February to the grand climax of its beauty on parade day in June. BANK CLEARING AND BUILDING PER MITS. . The fine manner in which Portland weathered the recent financial storm is in evidence on every hand, but, for purposes of comparison with otfier cities, there are few, if afTy, more ac curate business barometers than bank clearings. The New York Financial and Commercial Chronicle, which makes a specialty pf compiling clearing-house returns by groups of cities, is at hand with the complete figures for the first week in February. In the Pacific group, California makes the poorest showing, the decrease in San Francisco as compared with last year being 33.4 per cent, Los Angeles 36.5 per cent and Oakland 59.1 per cent. Seattle 'was somewhat better with a loss of 18 per cent, while Port land showed a decrease of but 6.9 per cent. The importance of this satisfactory showing can be better understood when it is stated that the average de crease for all clearing-house cities in the . Pacific group, .was 27.5 per cent, and the average decrease for all cities in the United States was 2 5 per cent. Details by groups are not at hand for' the second week in February, but Bradstreet's figures for that week show a decrease for Portland of but 8.2 per cent, while Seattle was credited with a decrease of 26.4 per cent. It is not alone in bank clearings that Portland is "making a much more favorable -showing than Seattle, our closest competitor in the Pacific Northwest, but the building permits for January and for the month of February also reflect tne satisfactory financial conditions in this city. Dur ing the month of January there were issued in Portland 298 building per mits of a total valuation of $625,545, the average value being $2099. For the same period there were issued in Seattle 878 building permits, but so many of them were for insignificant repair jobs that the total was but $427,800, about $200,000 less than the amount of the Portland permits, the average being $4 80 each, less than one-fourth of the average value of the Portland permits. For the first eighteen days of February for which statistics are available, there have been issued in Seattle 493 permits, with a total valuation of $281,665, an average of $571 each. From Portland for' the same period the 212 permits issued had a valuation of $294,195, an average of $1340 each. In real estate transfers Portland is also making a most creditable show ing, but, owing to the peculiar meth ods adopted In Seattle, we are unable to make accurate comparisons on ac tual business. An illustration of the Seattle spirit as reflected in real es tate transfers, is shown In statistics appearing in the Seattle Daily Bulle tin, the, official city paper. In a de tailed table of the transfers for" the month of February there appears op posite the date February 4 an item of $35,052,181.85, which, of course, will materially. swell the month's business. With a full knowledge of the accuracy of Seattle statistics, it would be pre sumptuous to question the legitimacy of such an' entry on , the transfer books, but it seems passing strange thatsa real estate transaction Involv ing $35,000,000 should escape the at tention of the newspapers. The ladk of publicity given this im mense transaction is probably due to the innate modesty of the Seattle peo ple. Despite the occasional presence ot these deals, that would make first-page stories in Chicago or on the Ananias Club .Bulletin, in strictly le gitimate unpadded business, Portland continues to lead' all other cities on the Pacific Coast, and is rapidly near ing the point where all traces of the recent setback will have been eliminated. THE LAND-GRANT PROBE. " Senator Fulton has done note worthy work in securing adoption of the land-grant resolution by the Sen ate, directing the Attorney-General to institute suit to protect the rights of the Government and the public as to the land grants of the Oregon & Cali fornia Railroad , and the Coos Bay Wagon Road Company. These grants were parts of the big scheme of public land despoilers to rob the public do main in this state. The terms of the grants, which were intended to pro tect the public- interest, have been re pudiated by the railroad and the wagon road company (now the South ern Oregon Company), from the time the lands fell into their clutches. The record of these grants and of those of other wagon road companies in Ore gon is a tale of infamy. There should be retribution now for the railroad and recompense to the public interest. Senator Fulton, In taking up the Senate resolution and obtaining its adoption by that body, has accom plished a work that is in some re spects a surprise, in view of the re puted hostility of the Senate .toward "radical" measures. Representative Hawley has been a zealous worker in this cause since it started, more than a year ago; In fact he was one of its initiators. He will be depended on to obtain favorable action on the resolu tion by the House of Representatives. TIIE FAREWELL ADDRESS. Washington's Farewell Address is" not a discourse which swells with buoyant optimism, though neither is it despairful. When he wrote "It the father of his country was not yet a very old man, only three-score and four years had he then numbered, but he had lived an Intense and varied life and his latter experience had been bitter. He had seen treason, envy, in subordination, wreak their dire effects upon the human heart and human conduct in an Arnold, a Gates and a Lee. He had seen the adulation of his countrymen turn to malignant calumny. But all this had ripened his nature without souring it. When he finally retired from public office to his home at Mount Vernon, Washing ton had lost m.uch of his earlier en thusiasm and some of his confidence in mankind to gain the calm wisdom tinged with melancholy of the phil osopher who looks backward without regret and forward without too much hope. He offers the Address to his .coun trymen as "the counsels of an old and affectionate friend," but he dares not hope "that they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish," nor does he expect anything he can say to "prevent our Nation from run ning the course .which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations," that direful course from vigorous, free and happy youth through partisan blood shed, plutocratic tyranny and barbar ous decadence down to death. We must not forget that in the prime of his life Washington was an uncompromising revolutionary radi cal. He rose in arm's against his law ful government and had he been taken before peace was declared he would have been executed as a traitor. Less poignantly cynical than Franklin, devoid of wit and perhaps also of hu mor, never aflame with zeal, he, had more of. Erasmus in him than of Lu ther, and yet he lacked nothing of that iron steadfastness which made Luther the bedrock of modern civili zation. Serene and solitary, he was above all our other revolutionaries the thinker. We mean that he was an unpartisan, impersonal, disinterested thinker. His intellect, of course, was not to be compared with Franklin's, nor as a fabricator of institutions could he rank with Hamilton, but his mind was Inflexibly honest with Itself and with facts. Loyalty to facts, both pleasant and unpleasant, is the pre dominant trait of the Farewell Ad dress. It shrinks from nothing. He says of "party .spirit that while it is insep arable, from our nature, "having ift root In the strongest passions of the human mind," nevertheless it is "truly the worst enemy" of popular govern ments, and it demands ."a uniform vigilance to prevent it bursting Into a flame lest, instead of warming, it should consume." Washington de rived his Ideas of party spirit partly from Plutarch,, partly from his own unhappy experience and the lessons from the two sources completely agreed. According to Plutarch, party had wrecked the Roman "Republic, and Washington knew that it had ma ligned and khwarted so far as it could all his- sincere efforts for the welfare of his country. He looked upon party as an evil, but one of those necessary evils which human nature prevents us from eradicating. Reading what he says of the love of power and the encroachments and tyranny to which it leads, one would almost imagine that he had looked forward with prophetic vision and seen opr Federal courts gradually ab sorbing the entire legislative, execu tive and judicial functions of govern ment. "The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate all the powers of all the departments In one, and thus to create, whatever the form of gov ernment, a real despotism." These are his words upon this momentous theme. He could scarcely have made them stronger had he seen the courts vetoing and setting aside laws on the one hand while on the other they boldly amend the Constitution by con struction, enact new laws and abolish the right of rial by jury. What would Washington have thought could he have seen a judge first enact a law, then trv and convict a man for breach of It, and finally impose upon the victim a penalty limited only by his own sense of injury?' Yet all this has become a daily spectacle in the United. States. A recent English writer says that if Washington and Franklin could have foreseen what was to become of the Government they founded they would have fled in terror from the specter. This Is ex treme, of course, but we have permit ted many things to happen which the fathers sedulously sought to avoid, and - one of them is the progressive absorption of all governmental powers by the courts. Nothing quite like this phenomenon has ever, before been seen in the world. There have been nations governed by priests. Kings and mobs, but never before. in all history one like ours despotically ruled by lawyers out of their musty tomes and steel-wired brains. Washington himself was an intense ly practical man who knew enough of human affairs to realize that the Constitution as he left it would have to be changed with the times. He wrote to Jefferson that he thought the Constitution was "a tolerable com promise"; to Patrick Henry that he wished it had been made more per fect, but in the circumstances it was the best they could do; while to Henry Knox he said he hoped the! successors would be as ready to amend it as they themselves had been. "To think otherwise will, in my Judgment, be ascribing more wisdom and more virtue to ourselves than I think we deserve." This genuine language of Washington conveys but little comfort to those who speak of the Constitution as an inspired document which is too nearly perfect ever to be Improved. It is time that experiment with "Chick" Houghton in the name of sympathy, looking to his reformation, should cease. Predatory by nature, he has become a thief by profession, and his liberty, whether under parole or from the failure' of a. Jury to con vict him on evidence, is a menace to the public. The sentence of five years in the penitentiary was all too mild a penalty for the crime of which he was convicted, and he should have been allowed to remain .In prison without official interference until It was fully completed. From burglary or robbery to murder is but a short step, and one that is likely to be taken any time that either crime is commit ted or attempted. The incarceration of a professional thief in the peniten tiary is therefore his best assurance against the gallows as well as the community's best protection against a graver crime than robbery at his hands. Even his devoted and heart broken old .father should see this and be thankful that his predatory young son is for a stated time compelled to. "be good" through restraint and prison discipline, and cease his pitiful importunities for the young criminal's release. Mrs. Elizabeth Barnum, one of the few surviving widows of the War of 1812, died in New Jersey yesterday. As It has been but ninety-six years since the war w"as fougljt, and there are not many of the widows still sur viving, it is 'easy to understand that a reduction in the widows' pension rolls for the Civil War may be expected in about fifty years, and it -will not be more than eighty or ninety years be fore there will be a decreasing num ber of widows of Spanish War veter ans. It makes It easier to understand why the United States pension roll has reached the mammoth sum of $140, 000,000 per year when we occasion ally read of the taking off of a -widow of a man who fought for the Govern ment ninety-six years ago. The stag gering immensity o)f our pension rolls is entitled to deep consideration be fore the Government engages in any more sorties on the field of battle. Shipments of cheese from Tilla mook last year are said to have reached a total of 40,000 boxes on which the freight to Portland was 2 8 cents per box. This would show a revenue of nearly $1000 per month on the single item of cheese. As the Tillamook country annually sends out hundreds of tons of butter, cranber ries and other products and imports large quantities of flour, feed, provis ions, etc.. It would seem that there is ample business for a direct steamer from Portland. The new project, however, cannot be made a success unless the parties most Interested agree to stand by the new line, which will promise a regular service at rea sonable rates. One dollar per ton for freight for a few weeks, while com petition rages. Is a poor offset for six or seven times as much for a poor service after the opposition ends. The Philadelphia police had a pitched battle with 1000 unemployed foreigners Thursday. The riot fol lowed a mass meeting, at which a fe male speaker told her listeners that it was better to be in jail, where tlyre was plenty to eat, than to be out of work and hungry. There was. per haps, logic In the statement, but as the speaker bore the un-American name of Voltairine de Clere, and, as. stated in her address, half of the audi-, ence could not understand English, it is a matter of .regret that they had not .given the jails in the land from which they emigrated a preference be fore coming here. In some parts of China the death penalty is given thieves. It would save the taxpayers of Multnomah County lots of money if "Chick" Houghton could be induced to locate In the Flowery Kingdom. All fear of war with Japan has been forever silenced by the exchange of International taffy at the White House, between Ambassador Takahlra and President Roosevelt. At. Stanford University it is now offi cially considered improper for stu dents to appear on the campus while they are drunk. There is hope even for California. - "' t When Salem gives her horse show Portland will not have to depend, as formerly, on the Inefficient service of one railroad to get there and back the same flay. "And God saw it was not good for man to be alone." There are excep tions to all rules. Harry Lane would have been better alone in the Mayor's office- In the purchase of a Count by Dor othy Whitney one pleasing, novelty is offered the American 'public. We can pronounce his name. Fugitive McKinley rode from the Union station to jail in a carriage. No one can blame him for objecting to a Fifth-street car. Roosevelt's purpose in sending the fleet to the Pacific is now clear. The capture of Callao is accomplished. Good morning! Are you going to help plant roses? UNCLE JOE'S PSALM OF LIFE!. "Doln' Nothln' All the Time" About Tariff Revision. John Sharp "Williams In the Congres sional Record. Mr. Chairman, the risibilities of the members on the other side of the chamber seem to have been aroused a few moments ago about a clash of opinion upon this side. They seem especially to rejoice in the fact that there Is no rod of authority In the Democratic party whereby absolute unanimity of expression about meas ures or candidates can be obtained. While I of course regret that all Demo crats do not always express exactly the same ideas' under the same circum stances, I thought, perhaps, it would be well to emphasize before the country just at this moment the reason why the Republicans here are generally united outwardly, at any rate not withstanding the fact that, now and then one of them arises in his place and serves notice that if somebody does not "get out of the way he is going to be run over." I cannot ex press that idea any better than by reading a little piece of poetry that was produced In the Chicago Record-Herald, and of which, emphatically, I am not the author. I do not wish to be charged with all the doggerel I put in the Congressional Record. It is en titled "Uncle Joe's Psalm of Life," and it reads as follows: Tell me not, oh, fellow-members. That we ought to put on steam; Let the flame die down to embers While we alt arourrd and dream. Say revision to your sorrow! Let -us fritter time away. Acting so that each tomorrow Finds us where we are today. Talk is cheap and time is fleetin' Let the foolish public rave; It's enough that we keep meetln' ' And most gener'ly behave. Though our critics would remind us How to make our lives sublime. Let us act so they may find us Xoln' nothln' all the time. (Laughter.) While the highest aim is to produce unanimity In "doln' nothin' all the time," the method of procuring that unanimity is asserted in the last verso of the "psalm," which has, I am sure, received the approval of the speaker, and, for all I know, was written by hirn. (Laughter.) Listen to this last verse. I have no rod of authority, but "Uncle Joe" may have one. At any rate the author of these lines, which, if not poetry, might be "werse," thinks so, for he says: If by chance a foolish brother Should rebel or make a kick. Trust your "Uncle Joe" to smother His ambition mighty quick. (Laughter and applause.) BUSINESS IS GROWING BETTER Resumption of Activity In Industrial Center" Being" Marked. Washington (D. C.) Post. The Iron and steel interests have de cided that the manufacturers, the con sumers, employees, and business interests generally will benefit by a maintenance of prlce3. The question was considered in New York when 75 manufacturers and purchasers of steel met to discuss the proposed reduction in prices. The opin ion was unanimous, among purchasers as well as makers, that steel prices are about right and should not be lowered, on account of the disturbance that would result, including the possibla reduction of wages. The steel men agreed that there was an improvement in buslnSss conditions, and that the future outlook was favorable.. They believe it will not be long before the increased demand for material will -start the mills going to their full capacity. This optimistic report from the steel industry is in line with the reports from all other kinds of business, as epitomized by Bradstreet's. Trade and financial de velopments have been toward Improve ment In the large cities. Whil- conser vatism is being exercised, and the fac tories are not yet going at full blast, the resumption of activity is very marked. This is the result of the Improvement in underlying financial conditions. The holders of money have recovered from their panic. New York is now flooded with money seeking investment. As this money gets back into business, th-3 wheels that baused will begin to revolve again. In some sections of the country there are small "armies" of unemployed men. It is not surprising, that this should be the case, following such an acute, dis turbance as that of last Fall. But the number of unemployed is so small, in comparison with the enormous number of those at work, that the country does not feel the burden in the slightest de gree. As industry . revives these unem ployed men those who really want work will be drawn into the factories, and the last vestige of the panic of 1907 will have been removed. Lincoln's Professional Card. New York Evening Post Some time ago Mr. Oldroyd added to his collection one of Mr. Lincoln's profes sional cards. This card is printed on a medium-sized piece of stiff paper and reads as follows: A. LINCOLN. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, To Whom It May Concern: My old customers and others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know I will be back on the same side from which I started on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dis pense Law, Make Jokes, Split Rails, and per form other matters in a small way. Brother Dickey's Philosophy. Atlanta. Constitution. We should be thankful ter what we re ceive, an' likewise dar same er us is too po' ter git In de han's er a receiver. Wen Gabrul blows his trumpet dat'Il be one time we'll Bho" rise ter de occasion. - Ef I grows older, an' sees new people, I mus' say dat dey ain't no - dlffunt fum de people I been knowln' all my days. Dls yer thing called human natur is mighty frequent I Wen I gits ter glory I'll be thankful ef dey dea lets me res' up a spell 'fo' dey puts leadln' questions ter me. The Spendthrift Version. Philadelphia Press. "You know that old saying," began Kwoter, " 'Take care of the pennies, and ' " "And," interrupted Galley, "the dol lars will take care of your heirs." A Nebraska Noble-Man. New York World. "Mr Br;an will not ask for or seek a nomination and he will not assume to decide the question of his availability." The Com moner. Ah. modest. Matchless Leader, . Ah. silver-mouthed star. How little do they know, who do Not know that's what you are: A daisy growing by the brook. Obscure, retired, shy. Compared with you is brass and noisa And odor rank and high. Ah. modest. Matchless Leader, Submissive, lowly, meek. In any phase of leadership You neither ask nor seek. But far awaj1. kissed by the sun And watered by the dew. Tou grow and wait and wait until Your party cries for you. Ah. modest. Matchless Leader, What candidate presents To party view for public usa Your dainty diffidence? How few like you, if they had led The party to defeat In two campaigns, would start again i Along the same old beat! Ah. modest. Matchless Leader. You've proved whatyou can do. And still ynu ,do- not thrust yourself Upon the party view. But modestly stand back and wait Until it calls, and then You sacrifice yourself and get Tha party licked again. ANCESTRY OF" GEO. WASHINGTON. Royal Blood In Veins of Father of Our Country. Caroline Tickner, in Harper's Weekly. "Let no man fancy he knows sport," said the late Moncure D. Conway, "unless he has family-treed an ancestor of George j v asnington. let, aesptte tn many clever scholars and antiquarians of Amer ica who have tried their hands at this "sport," It has remained for a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of England, Rev. Frederick W. Ragg, to convey to us the latest Interesting revelation regarding the ancestry of our first President. Barring those that champion the truly democratic standpoint, . less prevalent to day than It was in 1620, which scorns to connoct itself with Old World titles and abhors royalty, there remain many liberal souls among us who do not grudge to one who was acknowledged first in war and first in peace a share in the homage ac corded the first family of England. Edward I was himself a mighty warrior, and first in many wars his prowess was early exercised on the Turks, during that last crusade ever embarlted on by Eng land's kings, and when the throne became his own he successfully carried out his project of uniting England, Scotland and Wales. He brought the famous Stone of Scone to Westminster Abbey, and un der him England became a mighty nation. He was a monarch wise and great, even though he had little leaning toward demo cratic government and did not display special fondness for Magna Charta. Ed ward Longshanks was not an ancestor to be despised by his descendant George, of kingly bearing and equally long legs. That this direct line of descent has not until now been established may seem a bit surprising in view of the exhaustive research that has been devoted to the "Washington ancestry. . The reason is, however, not difficult to understand when one reflects that such research has been concerned exclusively with the male line, while this royal blood is introduced into the family by .Margaret Butler, who mar ried Laurence Washington in 15SS. GREAT MORAL UPLIFT IX BUSINESS Judtce Gary on President Roosevelt's Service to His Country. Wall Street Journal. The reiteration of the oft-stated principles of the President of the United States has Increased my feel ing of responsibility toward the stock holders I represent, toward our com petitors, toward business men and to ward the public, and our relations have been improved. I don't hesitate to make this confession. According to my belief, business is done on a bet ter basis and on a higher plane because of what I have referred to. In making this statement Judge Gary has directed the attention of the country to the greatest service which President Roosevelt has performed for it. It Is likely that the Roosevelt ad ministration will be less remembered for anything that it has actually ac complished in the way of legislation than for the moral uplift which it has given to the business of the country. This Is a most striking tribute to the President of the United States from the head of the largest corporation in the nation. The Wall Street Journal has, during the past year, not infrequently criti cized President Roosevelt for what it believed to be the unnecessary Intem perance and untimellness of some of his utterances. It has believed that this has intensified the financial strain to which the whole world has been subjected. But it repeats now what It has said more than once in the past, that in the coming years when the history of these times is written the mistakes of Roosevelt will be forgot ten, while the record of his really mag nificent crusade for equal opportunity, fair competition, and higher standards for the trusteeship of wealth will be a glorious memory. THE FAVORITE SON PROPOSITION. Where Illinois Votes Will Go When Cannon Is Out of he Way. Chicago Record-Herald. At last a genuine popular interest is being taken in the Cannon boom. The Republicans of Illinois, who have been silent co long, are speaking. They are speaking rapidly, tumultuously, as if their feelings had been corked up and were now bursting all barriers. It is a sort of contagion running up and down the state, ' and it makes the Cannon boom as resonant as a wet sponge. The limit of Cannon enthusiasm is expressed in the comment of Fred W. Upham: "So far as concerns the Con gressional district in which I live, I expect to see two delegates for Cannon on the favorite son proposition and for Taft for the nomination." Thus Cannon is reduced to a prop osition. Nobody expects him to be nominated. The Republican voters are bitterly opposed to. his controlling the delegates in. the interest of some other reactionary. But as a favorite son proposition he will be tolerated for one ballot. In such troubled waters it hardly seems worth while to fish for the com pliment, and such a compliment. Time to Rely on Themselves. Atchison (Kan.) Globe. Atchison has never been able to do any thing . with "Eastern capital." therefore we suggest that we all join hands this Spring, and see what we can do without assistance. . It is the only way we can make a town here; Eastern capital is a great coward, and never comes to a town until Its own citizens have demonstrated that the town Is a good one. If there is any one thing in the world that we are tired of, It is "Eastern capital." We have plenty of capital here; all we need is a little more hard work. Hundreds of shrewd and industrious Atchison men have grown rich, while other fellows were talking "Eastern capital." Misjudging; the Crow. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. Since the crow bounty law went into effect in Illinois, Champaign County has paid 10 cents a head for 992 crows. The slaughter has not been as brisk as was expected because of the existence of a counter sentiment among farmers, many of whom believe that the crow has been misjudged. These defenders of the crow declare that the birds are hedpful in sub jugating Insect pests. If the crow even tually secures Justice through debate as to the enforcement of the Illinois law, the slaughter of a few thousand of his breth ren will have been worth while, from the standpoint of crow posterity. Prohibition. Detroit Free Press. Rum omelets are off the bill of fare. And brandy sauce Is something that we shun: Bay rum we may not sprinkle on our hair; When I am hungry I can t get a "bun." When people come to call on us. 'tis true. Our former cordial welcomings are missed. The secret' 1 will now Impart to you. Dad's bound to be a Prohibitionist. The chafing dish Is In the attic now. For chafing dishes alcohol require: But we are in good spirits, anyhow. Since cheering spirits we no more desire. The babya bottle has been thrown away. We hate to sea It in his chubby fist; The bottle Is the curse of life today. Dad's bound to ba a Prohibitionist. Strong drink is something that wa all detest. We neverspeak of brandy, beer or rum; For .anything that liquor may suggest Inside our homo must never, never come. And Dad says when he's called away from here, To go above to Join the heavenly list, He doesn't want to lie upon a bier. He's bound to ba a Prohibitionist. BOOf6 SHORTLY after she wrote "Isubel Carnaby," Ellen Thorneyeroft Fow ler, the English novelist, who in private life is known as Irs. I-'elkin, dined at a friend's house where the con versation took a literary turn. Sitting next to the authoress was a young man who began to discourse on the way young authors spoil themselves witli tricks. To emphasize this point, he said: "What can bo more horrible than Miss Fowler's trick of saying. 'Everybody laughed'?" There was a painful pause. He evidently expected Mrs. Felkin to make a remark, for when she did not speak, lie turned and said, "Oh, don't you know Miss Fowler's books? Haven't you read any of them?" "I wrote them." Mrs. Fel kin replied, and then, Indeed, "every body laughed." . While Winston Churchill's lucky letter, as shown by "The Celebrity," "Richard Carvel," "The Crisis," "The Crossing." "Coniston" and "Mr. Crew's Career" (to be published soon), is "c," other authors have different favorites. Louis Joseph Vance believes that for him there Is good luck In the letter "h." Last year he pub lished the very successful "Brass Bowl," and this year he names his new novel "The Black Bag." Van'ce says he has gone the spelling reformers one better in that he spells success with a "b." Le temps, of Pails, has a story to the effect that 90 per cent of tho English contingent, whose business it is to recommend suitable recipients for the Nobel prize, were In favor of giving it to Swinburne, white only a few voted for Kipling. The committee which made the award therefore overrode the opinion of the mapjority of the English advisory board. "Seraphiea" is tho title of Justin Mc Carthy's new romance. A majority Interest in tho Suburban Press, publishers of Suburban Life, has been purchased by the S. S. McClure Company. ' Who's Who, the original English edi tion, is now out for 1S0R, the sixteenth year of its issue. It contains over 2000 pages and 10 times, as many biographies of living persons in England and other countries. The first volume of the new edition of Tennyson has Just been Issued. The ap pearance of this edition will constitute one of. the most important literary events of recent years by reason of the new ma terial that is to be brought forward. The poet's son. the present Lord Ten nyson, has at List allowed a number of poems to be published which have never before appeared in any of the collected editions, and in addition he has fur nished the volumes with a series of notes left by his fathor, which are full of per sonal Interest. . Sarah Grand, the well-known novelist, who recently expressed the opinion thnt. given equal opportunities and cultivation, women would be equal in intelligence to man, was born in Ireland of English parents, and some of her ancestors were Quakers. When quite a little child she used to write stories, and all through her girlhood was ambitious to become an author. For a long time she wasVnot very successful; even her famous "Heav enly Twins" was sent to nearly every pub lisher of note before it was accepted, but when at last it did appear, her fame was instantaneous, Madame Grand is one of the best-read women of the day and has confessed her favorite authors to be Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes. . Mrs. Stannard ("John Strange Winter") sought change of occupation as a relief from novel-writing and accepted a posi tion as adjudicator in the "Limerick contest" of a popular English paper, but found the labor of choosing prize efforts from among thousands of mediocre pro ductions "simply appalling." Kipling's "Jungle Book," it is reported, is the most popular of all his works. Twenty-four editions have been pub lished and the sales steadily continue. A young woman interested in the spread of prohibition, recently called on Mark Twain to ask his opinion of "the cause," "1 am a friend of temperance, and I want it to succeed," Mr. Twain said, "but I don't think prohibition is practical. The Germans, you see, pre vent It. . Look at them. I am sorry to learn that they have just . invented a method of making brandy , out of saw dust. Now, what chance will prohibition have when a man can take a rip saw and go out and get drunk with a fence rail? What Is the good of prombition if a man Is able to make brandy smashes out of the shingles on his roof, or if he can get delirium tremens by drinking the legs off his kitchen chairs?" Just prior to Mrs. Elinor Glynn's de parture for Europe,' James K. Hackett finished arrangements for the dramatic rights of her novel, "Three Weeks." Mr. Haekett announces that he will play the part of Paul himself. President Roosevelt's book, "Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter," is one of the most popular of - outdoor books, and now a new edition has just, been brought out containing two new chapters and a number of new illustra tions. The new chapters are the account of the President's recent expedition "In the Louisiana Canebrakes" and "Email Country Neighbors." The new photo graphs and the new chapters make this book even more varied in interest and more valuable to the lover of out-of-doors, than before. In a personal letter to J. Plerpont Mor gan, thanking him for his gift of the first three volumes of the Illustrated catalogue of his collection of pictures, niiniatures, books and manuscripts, Queen Alexandra has expressed a wish to visit Mr. Morgan's residence in Prince's Gate, London, in order to view the originals. It Is expected that the visit will be made In March, when the Dowager Empress of Russia will be In London. It is likely that Mr. Morgan will be present to show the collection. Josephine Daskam Bacon has written "An Idyll of All Fools' Day." In it are related the humorous adventures of a man and a woman In April with circuses, automobiles, snakes, etc. Upton Sinclair's new novel, which Mof fat. Yard & Co. will bring out early in March, 1h entitled, "The Metropolis." and may be read as the complement of "The Jungle." The earlier story dealt with the manner in which wealthy men got their money; the new one will tell how it is spent. Robert W. Chambers' new novel, to bn published in the Spring, will be entitled, "Some Ladies in Haste." The author treats of mesmerism as a fad among society people much as he satirized art fakers in the story of "Iole." David Graham Phillips' "Old Wives for New," on the March list of the Apple tons, deals with the relations of men and women, with special reference to the leading couple In the story, who. after a short married life together, separate and marry more congenial spirits.