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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1908. BIG ELEPHANT ON WILD RAMPAGE Frightened by Tame Pig and Chases Through New York Streets. SMASH TENEMENT-HOUSE Men and A omen Seek Safety In I)oonva)S as Plunging Ileat lodges Aulos and htreet-t'ar lit Top or His Speed. NEW TCHK', Nov. 2?. Th antics of a tiny turn plc o frilitrnd a four-ton ' iphant Saturday that liie bis boa si broke wh from Its kocp-.TS at t lie Hippodrome, cmsnrd t hroucti several stout doors whlrri barrod h r progress and started on a wild run toward the Kast River. Down Korty-trilrd etr-eet to fifth ave nue and then throuph crowded Thirty fourth iret tlio Ime beast swung along at & speed that amazed th great crod fdlnwini? and s(.r ad consternation alidad of lier. No hand was rai.ed to May her rropreps si.e swept elomr. dodging streetrars and automobiles. Men, wvmien and chil dren darted into doorways to Rive the animal fret way and horses reared and plunp d and screamed in terror w hen tiiey ta-' the lumlering pachyderm bear ing down upon them. Tear Through Tenement. Madison. Park, Lexington. Third and V-inl avenut-a wore pasi-fd at top speed. Hfiwt-n St-cond and Kirst avenues, how- -r. the frfglit-md b ast stopp- d short nn-J pIunKd into the entrance of a tene-nient-hot;.-.-. T!ie passageway was too narrow to admit the immme bulk but 1!im elephant thrr-w hr wt iht forward and t h snh'S of t he doorway crumbled. Trotting tiirotign the Imif? liallway, he f-.nd an U in the ame manner and th. n tartd on a wild rampage through I'j'ek-yard f'-ncs. Hv ih thn- lit r kc p r arrived on the se-ne had ? pt through a half dozin fru? ohsii-iutlons an'd the windows of t very t- ru'in nl - house m t he block were T i: -.t with i tutors. The k.cjHT finally uee.fl- d in Ketting a np around one of . I. iiiant b-s and by making the ro fast to a eloi hspole held her there ui.til the b-asr was Furely tied. Th n rame th1 prohl,-iii of Kitting her ha. k to tne play-house. The eWrphant r-fned to have the yard even after she had b'--n calmed and the ropes removed. s a last resort thre other elephants vrp. 1-d to ti e M-eno. It was necessary to break flown two more tenees before t..- y culd be not to the runaway. When :,. had been joined by l.er companions t!ie biij b.'ast. became :ls tractable as a kitten. Th" four animals were driven I. irk I-1 "he Hippodrome through streets lined w ith spectators. MDGNSH1NERS ARE CAUGHT two m.pitiks akiikst xise ii-:mri-:i:s dksi'Kkatl: ;anu. Leader Takrn to Jail With Five liuIU-t Wounds in ISoily Knd of Illicit Operations. AN'MSTo.V, A i n . , N'v. u"? The famous vf moonshine whisky In the Turkey H'-avn mountains, of A!;ilum:t, was con al le:i.t for the present, by I'nif'd Stains K.vemi OfrhTrs. when they to rjght bronchi to jail here, Jim Floyd. f..r a decade the trailer of the Floyd uam:. and eht ulle)ieil members of his I'.TII.I. I'ue bullet wounds in Floyd's body at te.sieil a desperate all-niyht tight with l.i.. alleged moonshiners. Floyd had boasted that he would never !w taken alive. Hnd he was captured enly after b-s of bloo.1 had dimmed his ii an.i made his grip on his revolver i nstr.i.ly. Two ib I'Uti. s made all the i-aptur.-. Ttiey were Internal Revenue .W-nt. Knox Scott and Chief IVputy Mar- al Asl.-y. They o'teentfaled their i.e. ?i en ;)! leader of the band. Jim Floyd, aid niieii his companions saw him iyir-t prone at the officers' mercy i.vy tl.-ii, w .:a tin ir tichtin? spirit pone. T::e two of:i ers hclii'Vi d tiiat Floyd and iiene of ins con.pantors were in thfl 'uiaie of I""'' Allen, and shortly after dark they at:a.k-d the hotuse. DurinK trie affray. Floyil ati;Hr'd at the window :.nd w.is sho: as ho attempted to Jump ttiroiittli It. Three of Floyd's friends In lae hour.' th-'ll vave ti; the tipht and tite .TlV. rs start' n on a niulit roundup of t ie others. I'.y i;oo.i in k. eseapins even tne S'li;iltest sera te'i. tile pair eartunnl en." at'er another ot th. Uand. only one n'an. k-.'tier of an a'i..-d st'll. Kettinjf BWay. Tae ;tiil was ii--stroyed. GALLS SlIUATICa GLOOMY UK. II fHFICIAIi TALKS OF F.F- i okts or i'tiwi:i;. - Vttitiiile of i:iifilaiiil and ISus Fncoiirar Small states to Ak fitr I mp4iil)Ie t'oiicesions. Kb.KLJX. .N'- v. 2.-A hiv: a ofrt.iaJ of k-.e i-oreiktn Cit't'e e said ti'day with ret renec to the lialkan situation: "I fear that the i iea of an Irlorna .onal i-oiicress is t ii ri-a: cm-d. M'e are ..o;y to enter lr.to u eonte'eme of the iw.ts on condition t'l.'il the annexa on of HcMiia ;u:r Hcrxeirovina be :t:ft.d without debate. Our intention r.-acli an understanding witii Turkey tore the con ferer.of assembles does t s.'. m to tind npproval In Knsland - Jitissia and because of this the 'arte id eiu ourajred to resist our pro- ia!s. Tlit- snia!! lhilkan states also k Impossible c mu'esslons. Ve are de l iedly for peace, but the present sit ation Is ploomy and complicated." AXNFXATIOV IS 1MPOSSIBI.F-. (nna J'rlnco I1k- Not Want War at Anj Frice. liONOON". Nov. 29. A dispatch to tlw 4j'jter, Xruxu iielffrade, gives an iiitux- view with Crown Prince George, in whie"a he denies seeking war at any price. The idea of the annexation of Herzegovina and Bosnia, he declares Is Impossible and unthinkable, "It is as easy to imagine Russia with out Moscow." the Crown Prince declared, "as Servia without Bosnia. The least we can demand Is that Bosnia and Herze povina shall be completely autonomous under Turkish suzerainty. It is better to die for national Ideals than to live as a playthln? of ' any great state. Servia may easily be the David to the Austrian government." S1GX SECRET AGREEMENT Russia and Italy Unite on Balkan Dispute France In Sympathy. PAP.IS. Nov. 29. A London dispatch to the Jiatin says Russia and Italy have alfrned a secret agreement rela tive to the Balkans and adds that this only strengthens the ties binding France to Italy. NO CHINESE IN TEN YEARS WILL. LEAVE FXITED STATES AXD CANADA FOR HOME. Imperial lnveMijiator Declares That Industrial Conditions in Flow cry Kingdom Will Necessitate Return ol Orientals. WINNIPEG. Man., Nov. 29. "In 10 years there will not be a Chinese left In the I'nited States or Canada." was the statement made tonight by Lau Sz Klv. imperial investigator, appointed by the Chinese government to inquire Into mining, manufacturing and commercial GRAND OPERA SINGER DENIES RUMOR OF ENGAGEMENT . GF.HAI.DINB FARRAR. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. (Special.) Geraldlne Farrar came back to tnrrica this week poutinjr hecatisn the newspapers had her encaged l.ain this time to Seoul, the baritone of the Metropolitan Opera House put her face broke into Its customary smile when she had de nied th report with the one word: "Silly!" Miss Farrar has been reported engav-ed to the Crown Prince of Germany (now happily mar ried) and the gossips will not bo happy unless they are attaching some' Interesting romance to the singer's name. Miss FarraFs reported ..T, demerit to the Crown Prince was due to l.er popularity with the . i ,.. crmsnv. Phe Is a ,,.,.,11 , ii, his son ami with the Is entertained at Potsilat an engagement in Berlin. politan opera 'louse, w h-re she is a great favorite, not only for her very beaut if ul' voice and her histrionic skill, but for her charming personality. matters on this continent, with a view organization of an era of develop- mont in China. With him are Law A. Tan. ) P ? and OU Wan Yow. merchants of China who are seeking Chinese well versed in their lines of trade and commerce that he - mav be sent back to China to work f,,r a syndicate which has been formed wTth a capital of S3.ouO.niiO to build ra roads and steamships, develop mines and farms and enfe-ago in bank.ng and hfcompaTrhas already been started and will soon begin operations in the province of Kweng SI. Yip Yen. presi dent of the concern, said that hundred, of other comivm.es would be put in operation as soon as the one now being organized had started work and to op erate these many companies China would induce her countrymen on this continent to return to China, induce ments being offered by the government for development of the country being so great that every Chinaman, will re spond to the call. ANNUAL BANQUET IS HELD Scotch society or St. Andrew Is in Prosperous Condition. The KM anniversary"" of the founding of the St. Andrew s Society of Portland was celebrated Saturday night by that organi zation at a smoker in Koresters Hall. Mar iuam buildinc. A programme, consist ing of addresses and musical numbers, was rendered. A leture of the enter tainment was the bagpipe playing of J. 11 lacIonald and J. .McKinley. Jr. Wil liam Hood's dancing of the Highland Fling was also much appreciated. Vocal nnnilei's were rendered by J. A. Dick, Fred Crowther. J. W. Larson, J.. F. Gib son The speakers of the evening were K. Clark. Alex. H. Pirrell and Robert livingstone. President Alex. Gavin pre sided ami In his opening address re viewed the work or tiie society during the past year. It was shown that the organization is in very satisfactory finan cial condition and is steadily adding to i:s memlershlp roll. It now has more than -0 names on Its register, making (t the largest society on the Coast. About ;e0 Scotchmen and their friends attended lass night's meeting. lirives Wife Out of Home. Having driven his wife from their home In a. drunien rage and then sought her through the streets with a loaded re volver, threatening to kill her. B. H. Push, a motorman. employed onthe O. j carline. who lives at 1 . .4 Kast Nineteenth street. RMlwood, was appre hnd. d and placed under arrest Saturday night bv Patrolman Hoesly, at the cor ner of Fast Ninth street and t'matilla avenue. Sillwood. Mrs. Hush savs that tier husband came home drunk and picking a quarrel over trivial causes, swore he would kill her. He secured his revolver, but the fright ened woman made her escape out the 1 ack wav and fled. She appealed to the policeman for protection. Bush is being held under a double charge. The police charge him with carrying concealed weapons and his wife has tiled a com plaint for threatening to shoot her. Webfoot Oil Blacking Keeps reet ary. Makes shoes last. All dealers. STAMP OUT DISEASE Visiting Nurses to Combat the White Plague. STATE CAMPAIGN STARTED Public Is Asked to Boy Pasters and Put Them on Christmas Mail to Aid Fight Against Tuberculosis. GOOD WILL TO MEN. The Christmas Stamp. Put it Letters, CHRISTMAS, on your - ' Packages. It will not carry any kind of mall. But any kind of mall will carry it. One Penny Apiece. Issued by the Red Cross to stamp out the White Plague. Every penny 4 goes to aid the antl-tuberculoils light In this state. f Each stamp Is a bullet In the fight f against tuberculosis. I BUT THE CHRISTMAS STAMP. Ask Anybody. s. . The Portland Visiting Nurse Association has co-operated with the American Na tional Red Cross in the anti-tuberculosis great favorite with the Kaiser, wives of both of them. and she a i. the royal palaces whenever she Is filling; .lisj Farrar returns to sing; at the Metro campaign. It Is proposed by the Nurse Association to raise funds with which to build an open air pavilion where the ad vanced cases of consumption can be treated In comfort and the Infections danger of the disease removed from the family. In order to raise the necessary funds, the association will sell sevfral thousand Christmas-stamps next month, adopting the same plan as was followed bu the Bed Cross workers In the state of Delaware last year. In Portland 10 per cent of all deaths Is said to result frpm tuberculosis. One day recently two nurses from the as sociation In a day's work of visiting 15 cases, cared for nine tubercular patients, most of the cases being In the advanced stages. The average working person does not realize, from his ignorance of the disease, his danger until too late and it Is for this class of patients that the as sociation proposes to provide a refuge. The association has been fortunate enough in several cases to find consump tives in the first or curable stage and by private subscription has been able to piace such patients in the Open Air Sana torium, already established for patients In that stage of tuberculosis. Another and by no means the least Im portant part for which the funds derived from the sale of the Christmas stamps will be used will be that of demonstrating and Instructing methods of prevention of the disease. At a meeting of the directors of the association held last week a num ber of committees were appointed to at tend to the matter of presenting the im portance of the proposed campaign for the extermination of the White Plague. public meeting will be held some time this week which the women of the Nurse' Association hope will be attended by every woman who Is interested in the laudable work of the association. The undertaking is a colossal one as the sale of tre stamps will not be confined to Portland alcne. They will be placed on sale ta every city Iff the state. The work ers have the hearty co-operation of all of the prominent business firms of the city and next Wednesday.. December -. the stamps can be bought at stationery store- the stationery departments of the department stores and the drugstore Tobacco and cigar stores also will have The following explanation of the origin of the Christmas stamp and the niethod of placing it on sale has been issued by the KM -r Tv" . T ipo4 In Denmark, the govcrnmfnt ! ,T Christmas itamp. with the Kin Ink th" oM "Jr the same as our berculosis , 4.000. 7beini aoVd at an oere. or half a cent ww mh. .rk ha continued it since f'maintam tXrculosis work, and the sale In tSS nativo Uuid of Han. ChrUtian Ander sen has doubled each year. America needs such a stamp, but her PostTfTlre officials cannot issue or handle ft Lnder the present postal laws; and a act of Confess would be necessary. 3J7ob Rl'i. himself a Dane, wrote an elo iSen? arncte, published in the Outlook of Julv 6 17. urKinjc Government action In Th matter, but there were too many dlff! cuttlS in the way. U seemed hopelesa to ?rV but at this juncture the Red Cross, which exists for just such emergencies, took U The Bed Cross is a great National orjra ni dation, with branches in each state, formed to act In times of crisis and to render aid In war. pestilence and famine. Tubercu lsi the great white plague. Is the most trrih)e pestilence in the known world, claiming one death out of every seven. The Bed Cross has taken up tubercuioais work. Uittrctoj-e, as part ot iu -pec activiqr. In lied v on it. It wai not booo ior poi.M,. Y, . "sticker" lor Christmas letter-, only an a stir Th. proceeds rn ?tarie'nt tovfard building ra tu The present time is one of crisis in the war against consumption. Each state needs edu cation and awakening in the subject, ana money for tne work. The Red Cross there fore, with the approval of the postal authorities, took up the Christmas stamp last Christmas, and tried it in one state. This waa the little State of Delaware ve-y small, very conservative, not given to enthusiasm and having only a few shacks in u woodland meadow near Wilmington as a tuberculosis hospital. The state as & whole was ignorant and uninterested on the subject, yet the stamp, printed and put on the market only 18 days before Christmas, amazed everyone by its sensa tional record. Fifty thousand had baen printed to sell at 1 cent apiece. They went in a week, and then the stamp gtt into Philadelphia, where the Pennsylvania Red Cross welcomed it and backed it, and the North American gave it splendid aid. The Delaware schools sold it. the Wo men's Clubs In Delaware took it up. the newspapers gave columns to it. the depart ment stores, banks, drugstores and hotels sold it. It was sold in the corridors of the Wilmington Federal building, by permis sion of the Government, though not in the Poatoftice itself. The presses In the last few days before Christmas ran night and day to supply the demand. People used the stamps on packages and letters, and the business Arms on their correspondence. Nearly 400.000 were sold, and nearly $3000 cleared from this small unobtrusive penny stamp. With this money the Delaware Red Crow first brought an educational anti-tuberculosis exhibit to Delaware, which waa visited by 20.000 people in ten days. The clubs, granges, city boards, teachers, clergymen, labor unions, etate officials, were all spe cially Invited on special days, and the whole state waa waked up. A nurse was sent to the sanitarium and a free dispensary sup plied with milk and eggs, drugs and a visit ing nurse for the consumptive poor, and thl haa gone on all year. One thousand dollars has been aet aside as a nucleus toward build ing a hospital. Delaware is now decidedly interested in tuberculosis work and all this done in IS days by a penny etarap. The American National Red Cross this year has decided to Isrme the Christmas stamp In evry mate. A beautiful stamp fcas been espe cially designed by Howard Kyle, the famous artist. It bears a wreath of holly and "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. It will be on sale at all stationery departments in the large Morea in the city. It will be sold In sheeta, like an ordinary Ramp and also in small books, nine for 10 centa. 24 for 25 ceat, 48 for 50 cents, like the Government tamp. The Christmas stamp Is not good for post age. It will not carrry any kind of mall, but any kind of mail will carry it. Each one who uses this holiday stamp will help to stamp out the white plague. For an or der of one stamp or KK)0 the price Is the fame, except in the little books, which add the coM of the binding, just as the Govern ment doef. The proceeds in each state go toward tuberculosis work in that Btate. During the run of the stamp la.it year Jacob Rlls wrotfl a congratulatory letter to the Delaware Red Crow. and Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania. Secretary Root and Secretary Taft all telegraphed their approval and good wlhes. This' year the stamp goes forward to a wider usefulness. Its value will be two-fold. It educates and arouses. It gives each one a chance to contribute. If only a penny, to the war against the white plague, and provides a fund for needed work. If little Delaware made it succeed, any other state North or South, can do so. The Na tional Red Cross brings this Chrietmat? stamp to the whole Nat ion th Is year. If each American man. woman end child buys but one. 6.V0O0.WO will be sold, and tuberculosis work from Maine to California will he rein forced and urged forward! When Denmark has succeeded, can America rtll ? GERMAN RADICALS PROPOSE CREATION' OP COURT. o Provision for Punishing Derelict Official Other Parties Oppose Renewed Attack on Kaiser. BERLIN, Nov. 25. The Radical party at a caucus Saturday decided to introduce a resolution in the Reichstag for the creation of a high impeach ment court, before which the Chancel lor could b brought to answer for dereliction in his constitutional duties as between the Kmperor and the peo ple or in a case When, although n.ot un constitutional, the imperial acts through the Chancellor may have en dangered th realm. The imperial constitution, unlike some of the general federal state con stitutions, does not provide for any method of impeachment. Bismarck, when threatened by his opponents in the Reichstag with having his salary stopped, exclaimed: "I will sue for it and collect." . There is no probability, however, of the resolution's being accepted. Other party influences are at work to prevent as far as possible a renewal on Decem ber 2 of the criticism of the Emperor's personal acts. It is likely that all parties will join In this endeavor except the Socialists and some of the Radi cals. TRIAL FLPT SUCCESS GERMAN GOVERXMEST TO BUY PARSEVAL AIRSHIP. Machine to Be Transferred to MeU, Where Men Will Be Trained In Maneuvers. BERLtIX, Nov. 29. The trial flight of the Parseval airship Saturday was so sat isfactory that the government commission decided to purchase the machine. It is the purpose of the government to train an entire battalion in the manipula tion of Zeppelin airships. A detachment of officers and men today left Berlin for Friederichshafen. where they will be in structed in the filling and deflating of the fcas chambers. They will then be formed In crews of ten men each and each crew will make frequent ascensions. When the entire detachment is sufficiently adept la maneuvering the airship It will be transferred together with the balloon to Metz. where a permanent airship sta tion Is to be erected. BOY HUNTER IS KILLED Arises to Receive Charge From Companion's Gun in Head. . EUGENE. Or., Nov. 29. Special.) Lawrence Melvln Bond. -aged 14, son of a well known merchant of Coburg, was accidentally shot and killed by I.ee Smith, a companion of his own age. at o'clock this evening. Together with young Smith. Professor Maxwell, prin cipal of the Coburg schools; George Drury and George Smith, father of Lee, young Bond had gone on a goose hunt near the Coburg bridge over McKenzie River. The two lads were ahead when they saw a flock of geese. Both crouched down, the Bond boy in front, and each tired a shot. Young Bond fired a second time, then arose suddenly to his feet. Just in time to receive the contents of Smith's shotgun in the hack of the head. The boy lingered till 7 o'clock, then passed away. Coroner Gordon, of Bugene. Inquired into the facts and deemed an inquest unnecessary, as it was plainly acci dental. Night Riders Open lire. MEMPHIS, Tenn., 'S.'ov. 2?. A dispatch from Union City. Tenn., confirms the re ports of an attack on & detail of militia by a band of men, presumably night riders, at the Gleason Sawmill, near Samburg, last night. According to the dispatch, one of the soldiers was wounded is the hand. CHRISTMAS NUMBER UNSET THE MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA C. S. Aiken. A study of "The King's Highway" today. Superbly illustrated. THE TALE OF THE MISSING PASSENGERS Another Vaiti story. THE RAILROADS AND THE WEST BtTSHIDO STORIES Dealing with THE CLOUD George Sterling Another notable poem by the author -of "Wine of Wizardry." LIN M'LEAN OwenWister OTHER GOOD ARTICLES AND STORIES Beautifully illustrated from drawings by Gertrude Partington, Maynard Dixon, Gordon Coutts, M. J. Spero, and other artists. "THE BLUE MOON," Mary Austin's latest and most notable novel of the West, will begin in the January number of Sunset. TAFT- Signs of Coming Conflict Be tween Them. NOT TARIFF BATTLE ALONE It Involves General Policy to Be Pursued During the Taft Administration Sherman for Cannon. Washington Special to New York Times. Authentic information received in Wash ington from Hot Springs, Va., makes It practically certain that President-elect Taft has made up hlB mind to have it out with Speaker Cannon right at the outset of the new Administration, which means that the biggest fight the Republican par ty has seen for years is impending. By force of circumstances the light will be over the election of the Speaker ot the next House, which will meet in special session under the call of Mr. Taft soon after the inauguration of the new Presi dent. On the surface It will be a fight be tween Taft and Cannon, but in fact it will be a fight between the progressive or radical Republicans and the conserva tives or reactionaries. It is not against Cannon merely that VIr. Taft will array the power of lis Administration, but against the entire eystem which the Speaker represents, and- of whii!h he is the head in the House of Representatives. Nor is It merely a fight for an honest revision of the tariff. Its purpose em braces all the whole line of progressive policies for which Mr. Taft stands. The fact is that he stands for one tendency in Government and legislation and Mr. Cannon stands for another. The two are radically opposed to each other, and Mr. Taft means to have it settled right at the start, if it is possible for him to do so, which line shall be followed during his Administration. To do that he is willing to join issues with the Speaker now and put it to the crucial test of the Speakership election. Actually Stirring Vp the Row. . This is a brand-new Taft. His friends here have known for years that Mr. Taft is a great fighter when once he hecomes involved in a contest. They know of some hard struggles which he has conducted. But they have never before seen him en gaged in anv great contest on his own be half. Now he is not only willing to be come engaged, he is actually stirring up the row and preparing to lead it in per son. And it is solely In the Interest of his own Administration that he is inviting the bat tle. Moreover, it is primarily in behalf of the one policy he has advocated which more than any other can be said to be entirely his own, as distinguished from the "Roosevelt policies'" which he so often during the campaign pledged him self to carry out. Tariff revision of the sort advocated by Mr. Taft was not in the Roosevelt quiver. Mr. Taft has gone well bevond the point where Roosevelt would havo stopped on that line, as even the President would admit. This question alone, however, might not have induced Mr. Taft to undertake so serious a proposition as a fight with Mr. Cannon. If that had been the only point at issue between them some compromise might have been arranged. Speaker Cannon has shown himself able, at other times, to bow to the in evitable more or less gracefully, and if he found submission on the tariff the only thing necessary to avoid an open ruptuHe with the official head of his party he would no doubt find the way to yield with every appearance of grace now. But sub mission on the tariff will not begin to satisfy Mr. Taft. There is a long list of matters on which the two men differ widely. "How will the Speaker be able to sat isfy Mr. Taft?" asked one of the strong adherents of the President-elect this eve ning. "What list of promises can be make that would cover all the contingencies of the next Administration? It is not merely on the matters which are at issue now that Mr. Taft and the Speaker are on posed to each other. From everything that is known of each it is easy to see that the same opposition would arise on everything that comes up. No list of specific pledges could be made that would offer a satisfactory guaranty to Mr. Taft. Moreover. It Is not merely Mr. Cannon alone who represents this oppo sition. It is the entire system that he stands for." Fortunate Time for Conflict. . Thus it seems that a new irrepressible conflict has begun In earnest, a conflict which has been threatening every session of Congress for the last four years, but which Mr. Roosevelt has never been able to make up his mind to undertake. Mr. Taft has a fortunate time in which to begin it. right at the outset of his ad ministration. It is predicted by politi cians In Washington that victory will CANNON IH MAGAZINE Japanese rural life. render him even more popular throughout the United States than Mr. Roosevelt has been. B'or it is recognized that everywhere in the country Cannon is most unpopular, and the American tendency to idolize the fighter for what the country wants, es pecially when he is successful, will have ample opportunity to manifest itself in this case. The Cannon men realize already what the fight may mean to them. They are talking confidently, but it is observable from the action of some of them that a good part, at least, of the talk is in the nature of loud whistling in the dark woods. Kver since the election, the friends of the Speaker, including Vice President - elect Sherman, have been hustling among the Republicans of the next House for pledges to support Can non for the Speakership. An illustration of their activity is found in the way they worked with the New Jersey delegation. Within two hours after the announcement by Representative Fowler that he would be a candidate for the Speakership, every other Republican in the New Jersey dele gation had been pledged to Cannon. Over two weeks ago it was reported to the Cannon managers that enough votes had been pledged to him to insure his re election. But it is evident not only that the Cannon men do not trust to their pledges, but that they have reason not to. That they do -not trust them is apparent from the fact that right now Congress man James R. Mann, of Chicago, one of the stanch adherents of the Speaker, is sending out letters to Republican mem bers of the next House urging them to support Cannon for re-election. Pick Burton as Taft Candidate. And that there is ample reason for dis trusting the pledges already given is found in the great number of letters from Republican members of the next House daily received by Mr. Taft asking his opinion in the matter. Letters also have been received in numbers by Mr. Burton, who is popularly picked as the Taft can dii ate in opposition to the Speaker. The writers want to know from Mr. Burton where he stands, and whether he is likely to make the race against Cannon or not. Mr. Burton, however, is not talking Speakership now. He got in from Hot Springs to attend the meeting of the Monetary Commission here. He conies directly from a series of conferences with Mr. Taft, at which a number of the problems of the next Administration were discussed, but he declined to say any thing about his talks with the next Pres ident. "I am not a candidate for the Speaker ship," he said. "You may make that as emphatic as you like. I am a candidate for the Senate to succeed Foraker, and I am going home to make a fight for that place." It was pointed out, however, that Mr. Burton is not essential to Mr. Taft's plans regarding the Speakership contest. The President-elect feels that there are plenty of good men in the next House who would make admirable Speakers. And besides, he is not advocating the election of any particular man. nor will he. He is not going to undertake to dictate what the organization of the House shall be. His opposition is to the present system, which he means to defeat if he can, that is all. He feels that he is perfectly jus tified in taking this attitude now. He is not President yet, but he has been chosen by' his party as its leader for the next four years, and he feels that under that warrant he is justified in taking any steps' which seem to him best for the welfare of the party. He has been told by close friends and shrewd observers that unless he makes the fight and overthrows the Cannon sys tem right at the opening of his Adminis tration it will be doomed to failure. And he is convinced that this view is correct. He knows that no matter what sort of a tariff 'bill is passed at the special session of Congress it will not satisfy the coun try if Cannon Is Speaker. That fact alone would make the tariff bill an object of suspicion throughout the country. The succeeding long session would be dominated by the same influences, and a situation would be framed up where the election of a Democratic House would be almost inevitable. Then, with the Demo crats in control of the House during the last two" years of his Administration, President Taft's legislative programme would be defeated and the whole Admin istration would be a failure. Taft would be a one-term President and nothing could help it. ' Cannon as Speaker of the next House 11 Cill fl lUin the expectant mother must JL jjA li te 2L&Ms& pass usually is so full of sufFering, danger and tear that she looks forward to the critical hour with apprehension and dread. Mother's Friend, by its penetrating and soothing properties, allays nausea, nervousness, and all unpleasant feelings, and so prepares the system for the ordeal that she passes through the event safely and with but little suffering, as numbers have testified and said, " it is worth its weight in gold. " $1.00 per bottle ot druggists. Book contain ing valuable information mailed free. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO Atlanta, Ga. Beatrice Grimshaw J. C. Stubbs Shiuishiro Saito would unquestionably continue the tac tics which have made him so unpopular throughout the country now, and Cannon ism would he the vital issue of the Con gressional election two years hence. On that issue the mid-term election would certainly be lost to the Republicans. The Cannon men are already making vigorous protests that "Uncle Joe" will be gcjod during the next Congress. Can non himself is making what is practi cally a similar declaration in his publia speeches, although he limits himself to the tariff pledge of the Republican plat form. But there is a feeling here that Mr. Canrfon is being damaged every day by the action of his closest friends on the ways and means committee, and that the country will not be persuaded that Payne and Dalzell are not carrying on their proceedings as the result of a direct understanding with Cannon, if not, in fact, under his orders. The result is a situation which is daily reflected In Mr. Taft's mail, and which is set forth to night by Mr. Burton. Do Xot Show Sincere Effort, "There is undoubtedly an impression prevalent in the country," said Mr. Bur ton, "that the present tariff hearings of the ways and means committee do not show a sincere effort to Investigate con ditions with a view to remedy possible abuses by a judicious revision of the schedules. Letters received in great num bers by the President-elect show this im pression. "The Chicago platform committed the party to an earnest and sincere effort to revise the tariff. To illustrate what tlio country understood by that pledge, ob jections are now being made that the ways, and means committee apparently is not digging Into the question of difference between the cost of production here and abroad. This is regarded as important, judging from the letters and protests mentioned. "The President-elect is anxious that his party satisfy the country that its inten tion is to keep the letur and spirit of the pledge contained in the Chicago plat- form." Of the outcome of the light, there can ' be but one conclusion. The only question all along has been as to whether Mr. Taft would make up his mind really to undertake such a contest. Now that he apparently has done so, the power of his Administration is practically certain to carry him through. It will be a desperate fight in all probability, for Speaker Can non and the close friends around him are not quitters. It will leave deep scars and insure a warfare that probably will endure throughout the Taft Administration. It will mean the practical effacement of some of the men who have been most prominent in the House and may lead to their retirement from Congress. And it stands to make Mr. Taft as popular an idol throughout the country as Mr. Roosevelt has been. FOOTPAD BEATS UP WOMAN Strikes Her Over Head After De mand for Food at Point of Gun. CHEHALIS, Wash., Nov. 29. (Spe cial.) Early last evening a masked man attempted to hold up Miss Mo.N'uil. daughter of Loughlin McNeil, across the Chehalis River, norwest of this city, on the McNeil farm. T .. J ouiiK woman was working out'ie nouso when the man approa :n -tmed with a rifle. He commandv.u. her to throw up her hands, but she parleyed with him. He said he wanted food, and Miss McNeil told him if he would wait till she could go to the house she would get him something. She started to back away, when the man struck her over the head with the gun and a scuffle followed. He finally broke and ran. An old hat was found nearby and It is believed to have been worn by the highwayman. Miss McNeil's father was working at the barn, but it was impossible for nlm to hear the alarm until the ruffian had gone. The Sheriff's office was no tified, but no arrest has been made as yet. Hobos have been unusually thick of late.' One night recently the Che halis City Marshal rounded up a bunch of over 50. locking up all for whom he had room, and herding the rest of the gang out of town. Is to love children, and no home can be completely happy without them, yet TTISMTOft RMEMI