MONDAY, JUNE u, 1908.
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MUTUAL INSURANCE.
The fire insurance people are meeting
with the widest possible abuse for their
imposition of the 25 per cent advance
they have ordered up against their Pa
cific Coast patronage, and it is proper
they should. They have done a magnifi
cent business on this coast and have
reaped extraordinary profits, profits out
of all proportion to the increments of
the businesses and properties that have
borne their exactions, and it i quite
time some method was devised whereby
insurance benefits might he held, at a
modified cost; and the commercial acu
men of the brightest men in the terri
tory, is now engaged on the problem in
the sheer interest of self-defence. There
is a day in the history of all corporate
existance when it needs a vital lesson
on the score of popular endurance, and
the day of the insurance companies is at
hand. We copy, in this issue, an edi
torial disquisition from the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, an authority right in the
heart of the district attacked, and the
home of the attacking companies, that is
well worth considering. And we, along
with every community on the coast, are
hopeful that the issue may take a trend i
that will serve the best interests of
everyone, insurance companies included,
for while they must be dragooned into a
realization of what constitutes a "square
deal," the system and their contribution
to it, in a logical and reasonable way,
cannot be dispensed with.
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EDITORIALETTES.
Will somebody tell what has become
of the sea-gulls? There is not a sea
wingfi flapping about this city!
If this agitation against the succulent
sausage is kept up much longer, the
stuff will pass into the realm of drugs
and become a standard emetic.
There is a distinct murmur going about
indicative of the need of a train car,
or cars, in this city. It fill a long-felt
want, and the cars would not want a fill
very long, either!
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Does anyone know what has become
of the "citizens' party" of Astoria! WTe
have not heard of the name since the
election. The democracy has digested it,
hair, hide and bone!
Is it quite within the equities to ask
a busy man to take on the duties of
another office than the one he already
fills acceptably, upon the plane of a
single salary? It is economy, all right!
But !
There are people in this city who are
really frightened at the result of the
prohi election in "6" and "7" and look
for another campaign to run the town
"dry" altogether. There is a saving
grace in the recent determination of the
water commission to build that 20,000,
000 gallon reservoir!
Thi've iny be room for deliberation
and rtolmte ovep teeifle details of tin'
plan, but there can be no question tliat
11 parcels post system, in lxth dometie
ami forei)u mails, is so tlesirobb as to
1h little short of an urgent necessity.
"ov that the election is pat, and the
"simmerinjr down" is about complete.
is it not time for the appointment of
the municipal committee on t'lurtor?
We have bij; and busy committers at
work on Fouith-of-.lnly matters, Ucjiattn
entertainment, and seawall bttildinjr, yet
there are lots of citizens still "unem
ployed." and yearning for a conspicuous
post of some sort.
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Mr. Shouts declares that he will not
resign from the Panama canal board.
His tenacity is of the lock type.
On the eve of another effort to elect
a senator Delaware exclaim :k ''Is Ad
dicks present! Then let the battle be
gin." The eiar has reached the point where
he is willing to treat the douma with n
the authority of a littb father a la
Russe.
San Francisco's destitutes have Wen
reduced to 59.000, which is getting near
the ratio of the last Democratic national
administration.
A Paris dispatch intimates that the
Castellane divorce ease may hinge upon
the question of alimony. How much
does the count want?
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The island of Guam is to be a eentril
point for four cable lines, which shows
estate conveniently located,
the value of a small piece of real
Tennessee is not in the earthquake
belt, but a meeting of the democrats in
state convention gives the people all the
sensations of seismic disturbance,
o
The inalienable right of a woman
passenger to change her mind is recog
nized among other things in the latest
street car decision.
The state railroad commission of
Texas has reduced passenger fares from
3 cents to 2J cents a mile. It seems
that in some states the address of the
railroad commissioners has been changed
from Sleepy Hollow.
A Missouri Bryan paper snys there
will be no doubt about this state if its
favorite runs again in 1908. Applying
this rule, how about the country as a
whole? The only northern states carried
by Bryan in lflfX) were Colorado. Idaho,
Montana and Nevada, with a totnl elec
toral vote of thirteen.
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In the opening of the Shoshone reser
vation this summer one railroad in
Wyoming will organize a subsidiary au
tomobile service over a gravel road 100
miles long. A railroad can not be built
in a day, but little time is needed to
get up steam in a skidoodle annex.
Twenty-three veterans of the civil
war are in the United States Senate, of
whom thirteen were confederates. In
the lower house ar thirty-two who
served in the Union army and twelve
were confederates. The total of sixty
seven civil war soldiers in Congress forty-years
after a striking fact.
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The unhappy plight of the English
man in Madrid who is held as a sus
pect in the case of the bomb outrage,
although he may be only a peaceful bank
clerk on his summer holiday, serves as a
reminder to Americans who purpose
traveling on the continent that a pass
port, while usually unnecessary, is like
the frontiersman's six shooter "when
you do want it, you want it bad."
The original of "Deadwood Dick" died
the other day, and now the Colorado
stock commissioners report that the day
of the "rustler" has passed. The sale of
strayed cattle and horses which are not
claimed by their owners has built up a
fund more than sufficient for the hunt
ing down and prosecution of thieves, who
are giving up their picturesque calling
in disgust. It seems as if Easterners,
would soon be obliged to make up their
minds to a West without road agents,
horse thieves and "bad men"; but the
dime novel traditions die hard.
Even the most crabbed male dVrider
of women's clubs will admit that the
Federation's action at it St. Paul con
vention, in easting the influence of the
organization in favor of the Pure Food
bill, was creditable and fell within the
scope of woman's proper activities.
The sinking of a Russian steamer by a
derelict mine, a year after the ending of
the war, is another argument in favor
of some international -agreement that
shall prevent the reckless strewing of
neutral waters with floating engines of
destruction.
MAKTYKS TO MKLODK
60ME GREAT MEN WHO HAD A
STRONG AVERSION TO MUSIC.
"Solus and Hoaataa Utr Me (be
Ileen." Sal J Sir Walter Mcatt,
tinutlrr lulled Maale "the Moat Ei
peualve Kolae on Earth."
Poverty, says houic wIho man, la no
crime, but it U great Inconvenience.
And Insensibility to the concord ot
sweet sounds, it may alio be said,
though not criminal, despite Shake
speare's dictum that 110 tutiu deaf to
the appeal of music should lie trusted,
Is eettululy a wry great deprivation.
Yet, great ami lamentable lows though
it may bo, It Is a loss which baa been
the lot of a really extraordlunry num
ber of men ami women, not merely
among the rauk and tile- of the world'!
workers and drones, but among those
who have In various directions wou
distinction.
Even the poets have been divided on
the subject, although one might nat
urally have Imagined that felicity In
verbal harmony would Imply apprecia
tion of music. Teuuysou la reported to
have remarked once to Sir Hubert Par
ry: "Browulng Is devoted to music and
knows a great deal about It, but there
to uo music In his verse. I know
nothing about music and don't care for
It In the least, but my verse la full of
music." In a general way the state
ment Wits very true and embodied
curbus fact. .
Coleridge, though he protested that he
had no ear whatever and could not Ring
an air to save his life, yet delighted
greatly In good music and, Indeed, dis
played excellent taste In bis apprecia
tion. He liked Beethoven and Mozart
and some of the earlier Italian com
pokers, such as Talestrlna and Carts
sinil, and. much to his credit, loved our
English Purcell. "Good music," he
said, "never tires me uor Bends we to
sleep. I feel physically refreshed and
strengthened by it, as Milton says he
did."
On the other hand. Southey was In
sensible to the charms of music, a dep
rivation which was shared by Scott
In November, 1S15, Sir Walter wrote
to his friend Morrltt of Rokeby that he
was vrltlag from a lonely fireside, his
wife and daughter having gone In to
Edinburgh to attend a great musical
festival. "I have an Indifferent good
ear for a Jig," he continued, "but your
sobs and sonatas give mc the spleen,
so I e'en remained behind to prune my
oaks."
Scott, apparently, would have sym
pathized with Theophile Gantler, who
once called music the most expensive
noise on earth. Of (Jautler It Is also
relate that on one occasion when tak
en to tasi by a scandalized host for
talking while some one was singing he
replied, "Je ne supprlme pas la muslque,
Je ne a!s que 'lattonuer!"
A still more famous Frenchman. Vic
tor Hugo, objected strongly to his
drama being used as librettos. lie
said toe music spoiled his verses. Mil
ton took a very different view. Tie
sang of soft Lydlan airs
Mairled to Immortal verse,
Such a the melting soul may pierce
In cotes with many a winding bout
Of linked aweetness long drawn out.
The composer of the deep organ har
monieu of "Paradise Lost" was prob
ably one Qf the greatest music lovers
In the ranks of the poets. He wus a
musician himself of no mean ability,
and bis love for the art stands revealed
In many pausajes In bis works.
Inst-esibllUy to music has been by
no means confined to poets. A latter
day dutal governor of Madras Is said to
have declared that there were only two
tunesone was "God Save the Queen"
and the other "was not!" He would
have appreciated the remark of the
Frenchman That music Is "the only
noise for which one Is obliged to pay,"
a dlctnm with which Dr. Johnson
would have cordially sympathized.
The doctor's remark at a violin per
formance Is familiar. When a friend,
noticing the great man's inattention
to the dexterity displayed, remarked
upon the difficulty of the performance
to which they were listening, the doc
tor cried: "Difficult, do you call It,
sir? I wish It were Impossible!"
And when Boswell In a gushing fit
described how music affected him so
strongly and painfully, producing In
his mind alternate sensations of pa
tbetlc dejection so that he was ready
to shed tears and of daring resolution
0 that be was Inclined to rush Into the
thickest part of the battle, the doctor
Imply and effectively arave him a cold
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douch-"8lr, I should never hear It If
tt made me such a fool!"
Yet Johnsoit once confessed to hat
ing been Impressed by solemn ihuhIo
at a funeral, and on another occasion,
when asked by 11 lady whether he was
fond ot inutile, he replied gallantly that
of all noises he considered It the least
disagreeable. Johnson even went so
far as to nsk Ills frleud, Dr, llumoy,
the historian of music, to teach him the.
musical scale. "Dr, Hurney." be said,
"teach me at least the nlphnbet of your
language." Imagination rather boggles
at the Idea of the lexicographer lu the
character of a music pupil.
Lamb, again, although he numbered
accomplished musicians among bli
friends, eared little for their melodic.
He confessed to having practiced "God
8are the King" all his life "whistling
and humming It over to myself In
solitary corners tuul am not yet arriv
ed, they tell me, within many quavers
of It." On one occasion at tht Novel
lot he managed to "weather the Mo
artlan storm" with the aid of soothing
porter, but his power of mnslcal rt
ceptlvlty was very soon exhausted, as
he bus explained In his own Inimitable
way In the "Chapter on Ears." Kiss
wber he wrote:
Roma cry up Haydn, aom Moaajrt.
Juat as tha whim blta; for my
I do not car farthing candla
WHEHE HUXLEY FAILED.
a "Art" la Uhlrh II W
:.ed by Porter.
Itather a good story Is told about
Professor Huxley when he was dollv
erlng a lecture to the Literary and
Philosophical society, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The subject was "The Geo
graphical Distribution of Fossil Re
mains of Animals;" consequently nu
merous diagrams were required. Old
Alexander, the porter of the Institution
and quite a distinguished character
among the memlter of the society,
was assisting the professor to huiig
the diagrams. The screen tm which
the diiigrams were hung was not very
large, and Huxley, do as be would,
could not prevent the blank comer of
one diagram overlapping the Illustra
tion of another one on which the pro
fessor placed great linpo-tauce.
What was to be done? The profess
or asked Alexander to bring a pair of
scissors. Lord Armstrong (then Sir
William), lr. Wntsoii und several oth
ers wen' present at the time. The
scissors were brought, but as the Joint
was somewhat loose the professor was
not able to cut the paper and threw the
scissors down lu disgust, adding that
they were useless.
"Vera guld shears, professor," said
Alexander.
"I tell you they won't cut," said Hux
ley. "Try again," said Alexander. "They
will cut."
The professor tried again and, uot
succeeding, said somewhat angrily,
"Krlng me another pair of scissors."
Sir William Armstrong then stepped
forward and ordered Alexander to go
and buy a new pair.
"Vera guld shears, Sir William," per
sisted Alexander, and, picking up the
scissors from the table and placing his
thumb and forefinger Into the bundles,
he stopped forward and asked Huxley
how he wanted the paper cut.
"I tell you they won't cut," said the
professor.
'Bring men new pair instantly," said
Sir William.
"A tell'o thcr'r vera guld shears,
only the professor canna cut wl' them,"
replied Alexander.
Well, then, cut it there." said Hux
ley somewhat tartly, nt the same time
Indicating the place with bis forefinger.
Alexander took hold of the paper and,
Inserting 'ho scissors, pressed the
blades together anil cut off the required
portion as neatly as If he had used n
straight edpfc; then, turning to the pro
fessor, with a rather significant leer
and twinkle of the eye, said, "Seeance
an' nlrt dlnna gang theglther, pro
fessor." The proffwsor and all present col
lapsed. Huxley put his hand Into his
pocket and, finking out a sovereign, gave
It to Alexander, adding at the Mime
time, "You liave done me." The name
evening Alexander related the story
with great gusto to a friend. When
asked how he dared to make so free
with such a distinguished man, be re
plied with great emphasis, "Lord, mon,
they bits o' professor bodies ken netuh
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