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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, WEDNESDAY, llAYM, 1904. PAGE THBEKL: BIG SWINDLER MAKES ESCAPE Impostor Passes Himself off as Colonel John D. Hewitt, of West Virginia. VALUABLE PAPERS STOLEN With The Itimko Man Mannfrcii to CunIi Check and Lend Hltfh Life Until Detected and Then DlNappcHm. New York, May I. By representing himself m Colonel John D. Hewitt, president of tht Buckeye Coal and Cokt Company of Bramwell, W. Vs., director of tha bank of Bramwell, a windier haa been operating In New Tork for two month, having drafts on Colonel Hawltt'a bank cashed and passed by that Institution through New Tork bankers. Colonel Hewitt died mora than el months ago. Tha papers whereby th Impostor waa able to open an account for $10, 000 with a large stock exchange house, negotiating for th purchase of a $50, 000 residence in Brooklyn, live In a first claim hotel and enjoy himself generally, were stolen by the man from Colonel Hewitt at Atlantic City, where the Weal Virginian wu endeavoring to recover hla health. When the swindler began to ue hla document? here he first visited the broker and showed them a letter of credit on a Philadelphia bank made out to Colonel Hewitt. The bank re ported It all right and cashed a draft for f 10,000 which waa placed to the ImpoNtor'a credit. He did not operate In stocks, however, and only drew oc casionally on the account for a few dollar. Several week panned and the man continued about town, negotlat- CLOTHES FOR MEN tyl Vm 30LC WTRIWTOR5 Tm, ,. ' . I (1 W:'$M l l p& WWf I0Q4L The Clothes That Make WISE Famous. .Sole Distributor For Astoria. MERMAN WISE Ing for yacht, housm, etc., but amend ing little money. Suddenly the Philadelphia bank dis covered It error through Colonel Hew itt' on, and notified the broker. Thy Informed their client and demanded an explanation. IU quickly disap peared and the bank recovered It money. The Impostor 1 mild to have used the same mean elsewhere to aecure flniwilal standing, but whether he failed to take full advantage of the opportunity a ho did here I not known. f DO I m t mm DECORATE YOUR ROOMS! Sco our Burlups, Lcntlicrc, Lincrusta, Wood Imitations, Crowu Mouldings, Plato and Picture Kails, Etc. B. F. ALLEN 8 SON, 3G5-3G7 Commercial Street. m 0m HERBERT SPENCER LETTERS APPEAR FOR FIRST TIME Publication by Friends of Late Scientist Intended to Set Right Unthinking and Carping Critics. FIRE NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY Of NEW ZEALAND. W. P. Thomas, Manager, San Francisco. UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS. Haa been Underwriting on the Pacific ' CoHnt twenty-five years. S. ELMORE O CO., Resident Agents. Astoria, Or. HAPPY MOTHER Wunnnit, Tins. 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After that event tbe Wine nrevenu aancreroua nooainir ana neipe mouien iw uiclc recovery. Wine of Cardui ia the one medicine a motner bould use before and after childbirth. All druggiata sell $1.00 bottlea Wine of Cardui. KM New Tork, May S. In the Inde pendent of May G will appear the first of three Inatallmenta of unpublished lettcra of the late Herbert Spencer, with an Introduction by George L. Keen. The lettera were written to the late Jamea A. Sklllton end Dr. Lewie (1. Jonea, formerly president of the 'Orooklyn Iithlcal Aeeoclatlon, who were among Spencer'a closest Amerl can friends. Amongr the letters are the following: "September 7. 1891. Dear Dr. Janes: I see they have been carrying on a dis cussion in the open court concerning my agnostic views considered aa either materialistic or antl-materlallstlc. do not propose to take any notice of the mutter myself nor do I suggest that you should do so to any consider able extent; but It might not be amiss to quote at length a passage from the close of 'Pyschology. I think the di vision entitled Tysltal Synthesis. which puts more fully and clearly than any other passage the view I take, and disposes more completely of the mls- Internretatlons. I have not the book with me here but you may, I think, easily Identify the passage. It be gins with a kind of apostrophe to the spiritualist, showing how crude and coarse Is his conception and how much more refined is the 'conception which iiRlllutea spirit not upon any form of matter, but upon a form ot motion. And then the passage goes on to point nut thnt not even this refinement Is the one concepted. by me. The pas sage continues by showing (using algebraic symbols) thut It is Impos sible either to Interpret matter In terms of spirit or spirit on terms oi matter, but that the problem le to the human Intelligence Insoluble ao long aa there exists the antithesis of sub ject and object and that the ultimate power underlying both cannot be pre sented under either form. "The paaaage ia a long one, but it might not be amlsa to quote It In full mA nnint what la the cause of tbe confusion In the mlnda of my op ponenta. At the same time that I as sert that matter and motion as they exist In themselves cannot be matter and motion aa we know, they persist in importing Into their own and Into my thought the ordinary conceptions of matter, and thua showing how ab surd ia the Incongruity when con scienceneea ia supposed to emerge from them. If they would keep ever before them the fact which I perpe tually assert that matter and motion aa existing In themselves cannot be matter1 and motion as we think them.' we then could see that no auch In congruity existed aa we suppose. But they will constantly Import their own gross ideal of matter and motion Into the midst of my view and then debit me with the Incongruity. I think a letter quoting the passage I have quoted and making this final explana tlon may be useful. "New York. March 12, 1902. Dear Dr. James I have Just received from airs, uisoee of Dorchester, Mass., a letter with enclosures concerning her work and I have replied aa follows: "'In efforts toward ethical culture there is constantly overlooked the one effort more important than all others the effort to suppress militancy. Abundant proof exists that with war came all the vices and with peace come all the virtues. Moke this the primary thesis of all your teaching and you will do more than in any other way.' "I send you this copied letter with the view of suggesting that you should make this truth the primary thesis of your teachings. The suppression of International antagonism is the one re form which will bring all other moral reforms. "February 2, 1895: Dear Mrs. K11-' ton In one respect you have misread my books or misunderstood an essential thing contained In them. Tou believe1 that the course of things In society Is to be changed by teaching. I do not believe any such thing. Everywhere I have contended, and I contend still, that feelings not ideas, determine so cial results that everything depends not upon intellect, but upon character and character is not to be changed in a day or In a generation. "When I was . leaving America, in 1882, I waa unawares interviewed on board the vessel Just before we start ed. The interviewer asked me what I thought of the trtmuph over "bosses" which had Just been achieved. I ex pressed my belief that it was only a flash in the pan and that the old state of things would after a time return. It has, as you know, returned. The recent disclosures have shown that the condition of things in New Tork had again become as bad as it waa before. "Tou think that I have got some message and assurance of it might stave off Impending evils. I have but one message, be honest! regard the equitable claims of othera while main taining your own. The disregard of all save personal interest la the un derlying cause of your present atate and of impending disasters. As I said years ago apropos of American af fairs a fatal trait In your society is the admiration of smart men and I believe I said or implied that a peo ple among whom there la an admira tion for smart men will come to grief. If you think that a healthier ideal can be estibllshed In American society by teaching, I entirely disagree with you. 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