The Oregon daily journal., September 21, 1903, Page 6, Image 6

PORTLAND
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- SEPTEMBER 21
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OFFICAL CITY PAPER
GOOD EVENING.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE
MAYOR.
Hon. George H. Williams, Mayor of Port-viand:
HE JOURNAL has from time to time
drawn public attention to that policy
of your administration which con
sists In suspending for revenue certain law
of the city and state. You have, at Inter
vals, made it sufficiently clear that you mean
to pursue that policy, but your defense has
been fragmentary and Inconclusive. It
lacks the merit of that clear exposition for
which your style is remarkable. If It be
" Hot presuming too much, The Journal re
i ' quests, on behalf of your constituents, a
i brief statement of the grounds on which
you assume the right and power, as mayor
, of this city, to collect money from gamins;
bouses upon your undertaking that you will
'see that the gaming laws shall not be faith -
. fully, or In any particular executed against
',' those and those only who pay the money,
2 That Is a question that you have not touched
' ! In any public utterance. So far you have
limited yourself to maintaining that it will
be of public benefit to suspend rather than
' : to enforce the laws; that your policy pre
sents the private corruption of your officers;
' that the encouragement of publicity in the
y conduct"' of the" "Illegal business by the se
, curlty and Immunity your policy affords It,
ameliorates its evils; and finally that it is a
profitable financial' Measure. The Journal
takes leave to say to you, that In Its opinion,
, none of the propositions you maintain are
pertinent until you shall have first estab
lished your legal and moral right, upon any
consideration whatever, or for any reason
whatever, to annul any law, and especially to
annul it for a pecuniary consideration. That
Is the question that lies at your threshold.
- You must solve. It. In the affirmative before
- you can properly urge the wisdom of your
policy.
It Is a doctrine that has never been pro
' mulgated In any free. country. Laws have
Indeed, ere this, been ' violated with im
J punjty; bribes have been taken; corruption
i has flourished; the legal machinery has been
prostituted. But no statesman of probity
and learning, not even the guilty perpetrat
ors have ever pretended that such things
were legally or morally right. Whenever
and wherever such conduct has come to
light, there have been at most, pleas for
mercy, palliation, extenuation. No one in
this country has ever ventured to. claim a
legal right to violate the law. History re
cords but one defense like that. Warren
Hastings .made a plea hardly distinguish
able from it, for he Justified the legal neces
- lty of the corruption of his Indian govern
ment. Neither his example nor his fate Is
. alluring. s
Your legal learning and ability will for
., fend you from pretending that your policy is
legal. You will admit that It is illegal; that
every simulated arrest without any purpose
of prosecution Is void; that every forfeiture
of bail, deposited not for the purpose of pro
curing attendance, but to collect it as rev
enue is a fraud on the law; that every dol
lar so collected is tainted with what the law,
not over nice In expression, calls a corrupt
compact. You will admit these things be
cause they involve indisputable legal prop
ositions with which your learning makes you
acquainted. Admitting them, then, on what
legal ground does your policy rest?
Or are you ready to announce in explicit
. terms that you Intend to recognize the
binding force of only such laws as please
you 7 Have the people in electing you,
adopted without knowing it, a new revenue
law, a new criminal code and a new code of
morals? "
When you have given your attention to
these- fundamental questions, It will be tlmd
enough to discuss with you whether you are
ivjustlfled in forestalling the corruption of
your officers by having corruption enure to
. the public treasury; whether public gaming
under official sanction is better than secret
gaming under official ban; whether the
money so derived really compensates for
those evils which you admit and deplore;
whether, in short, your policy were it legal
ized, is good or bad.
I The Journal addresses you with that re
spect your years and character command.
It uses no-indelicate illustrations to divert
your attention from public to private con
siderations It has rescued, it ventures to
believe, from some confusion the real ques
tion for you to determine. For itself it be
lieves,' that the law, and nc-t the mayor,
ought to govern, but It Is open to conviction
on proper proof that its position is false or
ill-founded. "
district attorney now has a mass of informa
tion which should be of the utmost value in
bringing to Justice all who were concerned
in these frauds. The articles published in
this .paper furnish him with the evidence
gathered through weeks of examination of
the public records and the Interrogation of
numberless witnesses.
The discoveries made by the expert em
ployed by the county will be of great value
to the district attorney, as they have been
to The Journal, but the field oit the expert's
inquiries has necessarily been circum
scribed. It was not his business to go out
side of the courthouse in his investigation,
as The Journal has done, and It was there
fore impossible for him to follow up all
the clues which he found. He is now en
gaged in examining the books of ex-Sheriff
Frailer, and in all probability his report,
when presented, will open up new lines of
Inquiry for the district attorney.
In all this Investigation, not the slightest
assistance has been given by the Oregonlan
or its evening understudy. They have be
littled the efforts of those engaged In un
earthing the frauds and have Ignored the re
sults obtained. Their attitude has plainly
betrayed the hope that the Investigation
would prove futile, and their only anxiety
has seemed to be to shield the boodlers,
rather than to expose them. To all Intents
and purposes they have become accessories
after the fact In the crimes committed
against the county and the taxpayers.
But the policy pursued by these papers
will have no Influence upon the final out
come. The exposure of official wrongdoing
will continue. And the district attorney's
investigation will soon give official confir
mation to all of the disclosures made by The
KAISER WILHELM. '
As Others See Him and as He Sees Him
self.
From Harper's Weekly.
Count Lyef Tolstoi's new pastoral epistle
is chiefly interesting for a vivid character
ization of the German emperor, which has
led to a prosecution of the publisher, and
the burning of the document by. the commbn
hungman. What, asks Count Tolstoi, must
be going on in the head of some William of
Germany, a man Of limited understanding,
little education, and with a great deal of
ambition, whose ideals are those of a Ger
man Junker, when any silly or horrid thing
he may say is always met with an enthu
siastic "Hoch!" and commented on as if
it were something very Important, by the
press of the whole world?
He says that the soldiers should be pre
pared to kill their own fathers in obedience
to his command. ' The answer is: "Hur
rah!" He says the gospels must .be in
troduced with a mailed fist: "Hurrah!" He
says that the army must take no prisoners
In China, but kill all, and he is not placed in
a lunatic asylum, but they cry, "Hurrah!"
and Set sail for China to execute his orders.
All who surround him, men and
women, clerics or laymen, vie with each
in flattering him continually, making it im
possible for him to show life as it Is.
A YANKEE IN RUSSIA.
EASY TO PICK THE WINNERS.
Journal.
T
; THE OFFICIAL PROBE READY
FOR WORK.
"TAhE OFFICIAL investigation by the
I district attorney Into the boodllng
r that formerly prevailed at the
. county courthouse is the culmination of the
disclosures made in the columns of The
Journal. For many weeks The Journal has
been engaged in a searching inquiry into the
acts of the corrupt ring that was systemat
ically robbing the county and the taxpayers,
for a series of years. The results of this ln
, qulry are well known to the public. Con
clusive evidence was discovered that frauds
of the most glaring character had been per
petrated. Public records had beeri falsified.
taxes bad been cancelled upon forged peti
tions, thousands of dollars had. been stolen
outright-by the thieves employed as deputies
Vln the county clerk's office. The proofs of
these crimes have been publlshedfrom time
t time in the columns of The Journal
i As result of The Journal's 'efforts, the"
SOME REFLECTIONS ON A THREE
BARRELED VIEW.
HE esteemed Oregonlan has a griev
ance;- indeed it has an assortment
of them, but only one for the mo
ment concerns The Journal. In a three
barreled editorial article telling the world
In flowing language that President Roose
velt is all right (while on another page of
the same issue it accuses him of accepting
thousands of dollars in the way of gratuities
from the railroads of the country) it argues
with much cogency that President Roosevelt
being all right, it naturally follows that
Mayor Williams must be all right for pre
cisely the same reason (that is, the Ore
gonlan says it's so) from which It follows
logically and naturally that it must be a
mistake for anybody to urge speed In Jetty
construction, for the engineers having begun
the work with that calm deliberation and
haughty disregard of time (which was made
or slaves) cannot now be expected to alter
their way even though the commerce of the
great round world depended upon it. All of
which, whether segregated into heads or
viewed consecutively in logical procession, is
so dazzllngly clear, so manifest and self evi
dent, the only occasion for possible surprise
is that it has been left for the thought fac
tory of the Oregonlan to discover and pro
mulgate it.
"Somebody has just found out," it goes on
to say in its familiar, self-sufficient way,
"that rock is being quarried and machinery
shipped from the East for the Grant, and
the deuce Is to pay. Somebody Is getting
busy about something which should have
enlisted attention, If at all, long ago."
The "somebody" thus alluded to by Indi
rection is The Journal. We beg leave to
say that the real point at Issue was not that
rock was being quarried but that It was not
being quarried either In quantities or In
qualities called for by the specifications of
the contract. If, under the provisions of the
contract, an average of 2,000 tons of rock
of the three specified classes was to. be de
livered dally at the Jetty and if instead an
average of 800 tons was being received this
manifestly meant that It was going to take
three times as long as was contemplated to
flnlBh the first and smaller contract. If the
time were lengthened out In the same pro
portion for the second contract which was
three times as large (if indeed it could then
be completed, which The Journal has good
reason .to doubt) all of this might be per
fectly satisfactory to the calm philosophers
of the Oregonlan but the redblooded people
of Portland, w;ho are looking for results and
who are vitally Interested in Improving the
Columbia bar at the earliest possible mo
ment, might be expected to rise In their
wrath and emit a few prolonged and hearty
howls, which is preolsely what they have
done.
A few days since the erratic Oregonlan
denounced Portland's lack of foresight in
falling to push the preliminaries a year ago.
It charged that all the blame . of delay in
this year's Jetty construction might be
traced back to our inactivity then. This
was a most admirable display of hindsight
and as such it was not unworthy of appre
elation. But taking heed of the lesson in
the hindsight The Journal is disposed to
exercise a little foresight so that the hind
sight put in operation by the Oregonlan a
year hence may not show so many distress
ing examples of what might have been. If
anything can now be done in expediting the
work by a year or two the progressive peo
ple of this city are disposed to do It now
rather than to growl about It afterward or
draw lessons from its failure, which, like
the Oregonian, they are unwilling to apply.
Where the public interests are Involved
The Journal Is no respecter of persons
neither has It any profound reverence for
the red tape that would strangle enterprise
or the dignified governmental methods
which would do In five years what, might
Just as well be done In two.
As for the dredge Grant If the Oregonlan
possessed . any information about the pro
gress of its conversion it acted very indis
creetly indeed in withholding it from its
famished readers. It did worse, for. ft misled
them by clamorously demanding Informa
tion through its own columns instead of go
ing after it as The Journal did and getting
it piping hot from Capt Sanford, the en
gineer in charge at Mare Island, who was
precjsely the man to tell what was the
cause of the delay , and when the Grant
would be ready for action. ; "''
So far Tolstoi. Compare with what he
says the following passage from a private
letter," received a few days ago, the writer of
which belongs to the most aristocratic and
Imperialist section of German society, in
which the doctrine of divine right is heartily
believed. Contrasting American conditions
with those of Europe, the writer says: .
"How hard it would be for you to accept
the conditions we have here in Germany;
everywhere you would meet the irksome
limitations of outworn prejudices; social
conditions out of all harmony with things
as they are; a political school that seeks to
change everything, but has no conscious
goal. So It is on all hands; Just now the
elections for the relchstag, at which the so
cial democrats have won such brilliant vic
tories, are opening the eyes of even the nar
rowest optimists to the great dangers to
ward which th. German empire Is hastening.
But our brilliantly gifted emperor surrounds
himself with mere flatterers and eye-servers,
who hide from him the truth and reality of
today. But I forget that you probably care
little for our German problems, and take
small Interest in their solution."
Not so caustic in expression as Tolstoi,
and, it goes without saying, totally out of
sympathy with his millennial ideals, - this
highly placed German writer nevertheless
gives us a view of the position and char
acter of the kaiser, which is substantially
Identical with Tolstoi's. It is only fair, as a
set off, to give the kaiser's opinion of him
self, as delivered at the Cassel banquet.
Pittsburg Men Reforming Street Railways In
Czar's Reelm.
W. E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald.
Murray Verner of Pittsburg Is building an
extensive system of street railways In St.
Petersburg for the Russian government, and
when he has completed it he will go to,Mos
cow and modernise the transportation fa
cilities of that ancient city. One great ad
vantage of doing business in Russia is that,
you have to deal with an autocrat who can
do exactly i he pleases and whose word Is
final. It Is sometimes difficult to reach him.
because he is surrounded by an army of
bureaucrats, all of whom have more or less
authority and Influence, but -Mr. Verner
seems to have got to the middle of things,
and, by his indomitable determination, -now
controls the street-car system of the Russian
capital.
Verner Is a typical American. He was
horn on a farm in Western Pennsylvania, and
went to Pittsburg when he was about 17
years old and a big, strapping country boy,
looking for a Job. He secured employment
as a street-car driver, and soon attracted at
tention, because his car was always on
schedule time and his horses were always
In good condition. The superintendent no
ticed his superior knowledge of horse flesh
and made him boss of the stables. He then
became purchasing agent of the Company
arid bought all the horses for several years,
andi finally, when his friend, the old super,
lntendent, died, he stepped Into his shoes,
so that when 25 years old he was drawing
a good salary and occupying a responsible
position. His natural energy and ability
made him felt In business circles, and when
the consolidation of the Pittsburg street rail
ways took place he came out at the top.
Finally, at the age of 60, he found himself
with a fortune, and for the first time in his
life was able to take a little rest and pleas
ure. When he went to Europe he naturally
investigated the streetcar systems, and in St.
Petersburg and Moscow found the most
primitive, old-fashioned service in the world.
He determined to reform it if he could, and,
after studying1 the situation for a while and
finding the right men to approach, succeeded
in getting a concession to replace all the old
mule cars with modern underground electric
trolleys. The plan was extended from time
to time, until now the concession covers the
entire capital, which will be grldlroned with
Verner's tracks.
Yet
HOW IT WAS DONE.
The kaiser tells us that he owes very much
to his tutors, who made, him capable of
putting on his shoulders that burden of toil
which grows heavier day by day. Although
these good tutors were aware of the lm
mense' responsibility they had undertaken,
utilizing every moment to prepare the future
kaiser for his high calling, none of them
had a clear prevision of the Immense burden
of labor, the terribly depressing weight
which must be borne by him who Is respon
sible for 68,000,000 of Germans. Not for a
moment does the kaiser regret the studies
he once thought severe, and he now declares
that work and the life of work have become
to him a second nature.
ROMANCE OF THE PAPACY.
Secrets of Vatican That Have Reached Pub
lio Knowledge.
From the London Tattler.
As a rule the secrets of the Vatican are
well keptand most of the stories that are
told apropos of the new pope must be taken
with a grain of Bait. Now and again, how
ever, something of the romance of the
papacy really leaks out, though not through
the cardinals. There was, for example, the
strange case of Pope Plus IX, pretty well
known a generation ago, but now almost
forgotten. In his younger days, when he
was Count Mastal Ferrati and a layman he
met and fell In love with Miss Foster,
daughter of the Irish Protestant bishop of
Kilmore, who was living in Italy with her
sister, Mme. De Sails. Miss Foster fa
vored the young count, but Mme. De Salis
drove the lover away. Afterward she re
lented, the count returned and the wedding
day was fixed. On the appointed day the
bride and her friends were at the church,
but no bridegroom appeared and Count
Mastal Ferrati was never seen again.
Years afterward Miss Foster went to see
Pope Plus IX and was astonished to recog
nize in the pontiff her old flame the count.
The most sensational novelist could not
have Invented a plot more fascinating than
the real story of Pope Leo's predecessor.
Mme. De Salis had made an unhappy mar
riage with an Italian, and. her parents, fear
ing a similar fate for the younger daughter,
made her promise to guard Miss Foster
against a union with a foreigner, hence her
interference to separate 'the lovers.; it was
only when her sister pined away that Mme.
De Salis relented. - The disappearance of the
count has quite a flavor of Dumas about it.
Unknown to his fiance he was bound to the
Jesuits, and his superiors Jn the order per
emptorily sent him away on a mission to
prevent his marriage with an Englishman
and a Protestant. Letters were intercepted
and he was led to believe that she had mar
ried another, so he took orders and rapidly
rose to be bishop, then cardinal and event
ually pope. Then in the height of his
grandeur he was brought face to face with
the woman he had loved and lost. Nothing
more dramatic has ever been staged.
George Ads Tells the Simple Story of His
Rise to Fame.
George Ade gives the following account of
his rise Into fame.
"In 1890. having risen to a weekly Income
of $15, I lit out for Chicago, where I got a
Job on the Morning News, later the Record
as a reporter. The following year I had
pretty good assignments, and In 1893 I did
special World's Fair stories. When the fair
closed up I became the father of a depart
ment In the paper called 'Stories of the
Street.' I had to fill two columns very
da, which, with a cut or two, meant from
1,W0 to 2,000 words. My stuff was hext to
Eugene Field's 'Sharps and Flats.' When
Field died I got his desk. I used to get des
perate for ideas sometimes.
"One lucky day I wrote a story on a
church entertainment in which Artie was
the spokesman. That was in 1896. I heard
from that story so much that Artie was
given a show once a week. In 1898 I ran up
against the fable of the old serio-comic
form. I had learned from writing my de
partment that all people, and especially
women, are more or less fond of parlor
slang. In cold blood I began writing the
fables to make my department go, but I.had
no Idea that those fantastic things would
catch on as they have. My first one was en
titled: 'The Blonde Girl Who Married a
Bucket-Shop Man.' Soon other papers
asked permission to copy the fables, and
then to share them with the Record,' and
by and by a publisher collected them and
made up a copyrighted book. There you
have the whole thing in a nutshell."
Loser Msy Occasionally and Quits
Unexpectedly Be a Winner.
. . From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.1
"It is no trouble for a : man who , has
played much poker to step Into a room
where six or seven men are sitting around
a table rattling chips and pick the losers,"
said the Angel of Commerce, es he lit a
fresh cigar and cocked-his feet at an angle
of 45 degrees Indicating- that a new.poket
story was to be sprung. ,
"Not long ago when I was down In Texss
I got Into a game with six other fellows.
Two of them, a 'retired capitalist' and a
lawyer, I fixed on as winners, and of the
five losers luck seemed to run particularly
against a Ittle 'cowman,' and at last he was
about broke. He seemed to take it badly. "'
"It was the little loser's deal, and the 'cap
italist,' whom I had found to be a sharper,
opened for $250. . I stayed, although I had
only one ace In my hand, and when I drew
four cards I could have dropped off my
chair, for I' found I had three other aces.
The little loser dropped out and after deal
ing left the room.
"The betting on that hand was furious and
there was 13,000 In the pot when it came to
a showdown. There were three flushes out
and the 'capitalist' was about to rake In the
pot with four kings when. I laid down my
four aces.
"That took all the spirit out of the game
and a few minutes later I left to go- to my
room. The elevator had stopped running
and most of the lights were out I went
down a flight of stairs and turned the cor
ner in the dark corridor, when I stumbled
Into some one.
" 'Hello,' came a soft voice out of th
semi-darkness of the corridor. 'Game broke
Upr -
" Tea,' and as I answered I recognised the
little loser.
" 'Queer that there should be so many big
hands out and yours the best, wasn't itr
"That's. what It was Just one of those
freaks of a poker game.'
"Tt wasn't any freak,' said the little man.
'"What was It, if It wasn't a freak r
"'A cold deck.'
"He told me how he had done It and said
he threw the big hand my way, knowing
that I would divide up with him, as he was
broke. .
" 'But I'm not going to divide the money
with you,' I cried, exasperated.
"With that the little man pulled a six
shooter from his hip that looked as big as
a cannon. He threw it down in ray face, and
in the calmest, coolest tones I ever heard he
remarked: 'You were plucky in that game,
and, although you were lucky, you were
robbed, and would have been fleeced right if
I hadn't saved your bacon as I did. That
'retired capitalist' is nothing more than a
professional gambler who makes his money
cheating poor devils like you and me. He
knows more about cards in a minute than
you will know In a lifetime. I figured out
that -you would clean up a good 33,000 on
that play. Now count out 3 1,600 to me, and
you may go on.
"'But I won't do it.'
" 'You have fooled long enough about this.
Half that money is mine. Give it to me.
There are six bullets In this gun. I will put
three, through your heart and take the rest
if you refuse.'
,"I counted out the money."
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Prpved Definition. : '
Frou 4hr Chicago Journal. ' ,
The word "furlough" occurred In a" read,
ing lesson of an elementary class in ons of
our large; schools. The teacher asked:
i..':PP.es.any.Jittle..boy.'j)r. girl -know., Aha.,
meaning of the word furlough' V Where
upon one small hand was" raised and shaken
vigorously in the eagerness of the little
urchin to display his knowledge, and, wbe;i
permitted by the teacher to do so, he arose
ana with the greatest assurance said:
, "Furlough means,. mule." Not a whit
disturbed at the , teacher's "Oh, -no, ' it
doesn't,", the small ." boy confidently an
swered: "I have the book at home that
says so." Then the teacher told him lie
might bring the book to school and show It
to her. . .
The next day he came armed with the
book and triumphantly showed her the pic
ture of a .soldier bestride a mule, under
wnicn was printed: .
"Going home qn his furlough."
Good Enough to B True.
. From the Springfield Republican. - f
The late Wendell Phillips was once) in a
hotel at Charleston, had breakfast In his
room and wai served by a slave.' Mf.lFhTJ-'
lips spoke to him as an abolitionist, but the
other seemed to be more concerned about
the breakfast than about himself. Finally
Mr. Phillips told him to go away, saying he
could not bear to be waited upon by a slave.
TJbe other remonstrated:
" 'Scuse me, massa, but I'se 'bilged to stay
yere, 'cause I'se 'sponsible fo' de silverware."
. '. l W Looking for a Man. .
Andrew Carnegie tells a story of an Amer
ican in Scotland that illustrates well the
Imperturbability-of the Scottish tempera
ment. The American, a bicycler, came to the
shore of a lone lake, and saw In a boat a
man examining the depths of the water with
a water telescope. The man conducted this
examination languidly. He would pause
every little while to light his pipe and to
converse on the weather or some such Indif
ferent subject with a friend wo sat upon
the bank, now reading a newspaper and now
tossing pebbles Into the stream.
The American got off his bicycle to rest,
and In an interval of silence he said to
the man seated n the bank: - r
"What Is your friend looking for?
Oysters?"
"No; my brother-in-law," was the reply.
Come High in Russia.
Cable In the New York World.'
Kisses are actionable In southern Russia,
but the many cases before the local magis
trates prove that the little god of love de
fies law as well as Jocks.
A kiss in the stret car costs the indiscreet
osculator a fine of $3.
To embrace one's fiancee in public Is a
privilege valued at $2.40.
A declaration of a "great passion" by
postalcard is subject to a fine of $2.40.
The public must be protected and the dis
turbing influence of such sights Is assessed
at a figure calculated to discourage impetuosity.
Heavy Snow in ths Northwest
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
With snow three feet deep in Manitoba.
the stockmen well-nigh craiy over the ex-H
posure of their herds, the Canadian North
west does not seem as enticing to settlers
as it did in the good old summer time. V
West Point Permits Tobacco.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The relaxation In the rules at West Point
against the use of tobacco marks a very
considerable alteration in the community as
regards the attitude toward the use of to
bacco by boys over 17 years of age, as are all
the boys at the United States military acad
emy at entrance.
With every aid which military discipline
could give, It has proved practically impos
sible to prevent the use of tobacco at West
Point. Concealment, bred by prohibition,
turned the boyB toward cigarettes. Pipes
and tobacco are to be permitted as a compromise.
A century ago the colleges penalized the
use of tobacco in public and discouraged its
use in private. Even half a century ago
some rules lingered on this subject. They
have all disappeared. In college tobacco Is
freely used, and even the fitting schools are
less severe In their rules against its use
than they once were.
The per capita consumption of tobacco In
this country does not Increase and the ag
gregate amount Imported, and used Is very
far from keeping pace with the growth of
population. Vastly more is used in cigar
ettes and vastly less in chewing tobacco,
but the pounds consumed do not much in
crease. Our crop has changed Jlttle In 20
years and exports have increased. Imports
grow because more costly cigars are used.
hut the total Imported is in a small propor
tion to the aggregate consumption.
But people are easier over the use of to
bacco than they once were. More clergy
men smoke. The open trolley cars permit
It. The railroads provide more comfortable
quarters for smokers. It is even whispered
that the college girl sometimes smokes and
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men. nic unvcicu yuuiig wuinun uses an oc
casional cigarette. More smoking ia seen on
the street than was once. Yet- the number
ojf smokers is probably less, and the number
of young men whom athletics and training
keep from smoking is larger than ever.
Carnegie Drives a Bargain.
From the Kansas City Journal.
Carnegie Is as precise in his benefactions
as an old lady buying calico. He gave $15,
000 for a library at Hutchinson, Kan., on con
dition that the town collect a revenue of
$1,600 anuually for its support As the
building neared completion it was found -that
$1,000 or more would be needed to finish it
off in good shape. The trustees asked Car-
engie for ( this additional sum. He writes
f roni Sklbo Castle that he will put up'- the
additional $1,000 if the town will agree to
contribute $100 more each year in the way
of support ' ..
It Is Enough.
The trouble is that, the .good old summer From the New' York Press.
time does not last long In the Canadian A man doesn't haveyto, be bad to be in
Northwest and winter is apt to poke la be- teresting to womeai-Jt to sufficient for tbera
tore the middle, of September, -- " i to think, be U r- - v r-j:-Km
To ths Woman That's Good.
Harold R. Vynne, novelist poet former
editor of Town Topics, and a prominent
figure in the Bohemian life of Chicago, was
committed to the lunatic asylum Thursday.
The most pretentious literary effort of
Mr. Vynne was a novel called "The Woman
That's Good." It was chiefly a narrative of
his first two matrimonial experiences. The
first wife was "the woman that's good." . Al
though she secured a divorce from him,
Vynne always entertained the highest respect
for her, and made her his heroine. The
novel, however, was a fierce attack on his
second wife and her father, Col. Mann. It
was a sort of apology for himself. Although
he did not make himself out blameness, he
posed as being much misunderstood.
The following extract from the poetical
dedication of the novel, "The Woman That's
Good," reflects the character of the author:
O, Youth is a madcap, and Time Is a churl!
Pleasure palls, and Remorse follows after;
The world hustles on In its pitiless whirl.
With its kisses, Its tears, and Its laughter;
But there's one gentle heart, in its bosom of
white
Dear love with the tender eyes gleaming,
Who has all the wealth of my homage tonight,
Where she lies in her innocent dreaming
And a watch o'er her ever my spirit shall
keep,
While the angels lean down to caress her;
And I'll pledge her again, in her beautiful
sleep
The Woman that's Good God bless her!
Ah, Bohemia's honey was sweet to the sip.
And the song and the dance were alluring
(The mischevlous maid with the mutinous I
lip
Had a charm that was very enduring)
But out from the music and smoke-wreaths
and lace
Of that world of the tawdrily clever.
There floats the rare spell of the pure little
face
That has chased away folly foreverl
And I pledge my last toast ere I go to my
rest
O fortunate earth to possess her!
To the dear tender heart In the little white ',
breast
The Woman that's Good God bless herl
He Hsd the Proof.
An English paper tells this story: An un
cultivated Boer, -who had heard of banks,
determined to take some of his savings to
one of these places. With this object in
view he traveled to . Cape Town, found a
bank and handed In his cash to the clerk,
who in return gave him a bank book. "How
much do you charge for taking care of my
money?" asked he Boer. The clerk smiled
and said: "We' don't charge, but will give
you money for taking care of It." "Let jne
have it back at once," said the Boer. "I a!-,
ways thought you British rascals were dis
honest; now! am sure of it"
The Song of the ' Pavement.
From the Philadelphia Press.
They took a little gravel.
And took a little tar,
With various ingredients
Imported from afar.
They hammered It and rolled It,
And when they went away
They said they had a pavement
That would last for many a day.
But they came with picks and smote It
To lay a water main;
And then they called the workmen
To put it, back again.
To run a railway cable
They took It some more;
And then they put it back again
Just where it was before.
They took it up for conduits
To run a telephone.
And then they put it back again
As hard as any stone.
They took it up for wires
To feed the "lectrlc light
And then they put it back again,
Which was no more than right.
Oh, the pavement's full of furrow
There are patches everywhere;
You'd like to ride upon it,
But it's seldom that you dare.
It's a very handsome 'pavement,
A credit to the townij
They're always dlggin', of It up
Or puttln' of it down.
Reflections of s Baohelor.
From the New York Press,
Chorus girls' money goes a very short way
when it comes to clothes. r
It takes a maid to make a widower thinjt
of his loss and a widow to make him forget
it.
A woman always has an Idea that if she
had $100 more of income she could save $200
more.
It? Is the man who pushes the baby car
riage at home that bullies his woman type
writer in his office.
A woman can ge,as much fun out of
writing a letter or condolence as a man can
out of an old pipe with a cracked stem.
Retiring Bank Notes. '
From the New York World.
The banks are taking advantage of Sec
retary Shaw's kind off er of war-tax money
on deposit by retiring circulation in order to
sell bonds. So far as increasing money sup
ply goes, thfs is saving at the spigot to
waste' at the bung.
-!.. Their Ready Conclusion. .
From the Atchison Globe.
When a married woman is very happy.
other "women,after pee lng her husband, de
cide that ftlf because she wahts to make the
; fjown of blue cloth trimmed, with ribbons;''
forming a lattice. , Skirt made with box'
pleats fastened by. crossed pipings,' Re vers 'j
and cuffs of blue, silk and white embfold-i,
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