THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNTNO, MAKCIT IT, 1507.
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to the wonder of every on present.
may tall you, batwaaa ourselves," said
tha blind tnvantor lit a stage whisper,
a-AA:
that the shot was purely accidental.
On being aaked to attempt to repeat tha
awultMS
performance,. I thought It beat to de-
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PR. 6 ALE QI VW0 CLCCTKICL TRCATEKT TO
(SpedaV CorrespeBaeeee ta Tke ioonuL)
icopTnirut br csrtia Brown.)
D
R. JAMES GALE, who has just
died In bis seventy-fourth year,
was probably the most won
derful blind man who over lived.
The victim of a terrible and
- crushing physical affliction in h la early
youth, ha triumphed over tt by sheer
V farce of mind and character and won
for himself tha proud but pathetic title
of the "Blind Inventor, by which be
was known all over England. " .
- - That, however, : conveys ut a faint
' Idea of his various claims to distinc
tion. His many degrees Included those
of doctor of philosophy and master of
arte. He was a fellow of tha Royal
' OeologioaJ society and tha Chemical so
ciety. He made many vaiuaoie ecien
tific discoveries. He Inventions cov
, erd a wide, range, from rapid, firs
breech loading rifles to electrical alarm
clocks. As a doctor ha once saved a
" millionaire's life and was paid tha big
gest fee aver recorded in tha annals of
medicine 1260.00. He did score of
things, - any on of which would have
sufficed to win- distinct lea - fox a .dsn
possessed of all his faculties. - Hla
greatest achlevments were those which
seem to demand good eyesight above
everything, The man . himself waa a
greater marvel far than any of tha woav-
derful thing he did. , . .
His death was entirely unexpected.
He was a sturdy, vigorous man on whom
tha burden of old age rested so lightly
that he carried himself as straight as a
"-pin tree. . ; !
Always Worked Alone. '' i i
1 Dr. Gala lived In a modest four-story
manalon In Adelaide road, Hampatead.
Tha place Is called aalesmeadM and on
tha door was a Urge brass plat, with
: the legend, "Dr. Gale, Consulting Elso
- trlciaa.? On calling upon the doctor, I
was shown Into a large back room, the
. table of which was covered by electri
cal and scientific apparatus In a few
minutes there was a quick step outside
the- door and Dr. Oals cam Into tha
room. He walked over, shook hands
without hesitation, or "feeling about."
and then looked at me )n sa Inquiring
' Way. 'i "',, . -r- . ' ;
"T have made it a principle all my
f Ufa," he said, after I bed explained my
errand. . "never to allow anyone to aa
. alst ma. 7 From the very earliest dsys
'. I lost my sight at fifteen and am now
v over TO I have don everything that
wee-possible stone."
' a " 'My boyhood was spent In the town
of Tavistock. Dovonahlre, Dr. Gala
continued, ."and I . attended the local
; i Bv Rllia Rllasn .'.,.- '.
HIS GRACE, the Duke of Norfolk,
earl of Arundel. Surrey and Nor
folk. Baron Fits-Alan. Clun. Oa
waldestre and Naltravers, earl
marshal, hereditary grand mar
shal end hereditary chief butler of
England. K. G P. O. C. V. O.. has
come out In a new role, that of the
champion of the oppressed ratepayera
Wlth a rent roll of 1760,000 a year de
rived from his 60.000 acres, and no
body knows how much more from hi
enormously valuable London property,
the premier duke of England Isn't-worried
by the tax collector. But he feels
sorry for those who ara - -
As president of the municipal, society,
' he Issued a flamboyant manifesto to
the London ratepayers denouncing the
"progressive" . members of the recent
London county council p for ' wasting
tbelr .money.',
The duke' intrusion in the campaign
eauaed th limelight te be turned on
him as a shining example of a great
London ground landlord who profits
enormously, by "unearned increment,"
and peys practically ao rates. Whereby
the argument Is forced home that-th
beat way to lighten the burden of taxa
tion under which the London ratepayers
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Gommoh Phrases
rla remarkable what a number ef
common expressions , In use every
day come te us from the sea. You
grumble at a third party for "shov
ing In his ogr" In a conversation,
A friend Inquires after your health.
"Oh. first rate, thanks," you reply,
using a term derived from the daya of
old wooden llne-of-batt)e ahipa Prob
ably each of ua knowa of some one who
Is-"sailing under 'false colors.' ". , ,
- Politicians are not , infrequently
"thrown overboard"- by their part)
when they disappoint expectations. We
all tall bulldlnre "skyscrapers," a
terra erltian.lly purely nautlcL "Close
quarters'' la a very common expression,'
whlon, like "first rate," dates from the
time of wooden fitfhtlns snipe. . The
' quarters" were protections erected
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achool there before 1 1 became blind.
For soma years I . had noticed that
something waa. wrong with my sight,
but I was so sensitive about this de
fect that for a vary- Ions; time. I man'
aged to conceal from my parents and
teachers the nature of my trouble. I
remember scheming to be placed in a
certain position In ths lln In ths class
so that I could root off from memory
portions of my lessons. I could not see
the print, everything was a blur to me,
and I memorised word for word, pages
of various matter, reciting It perfectly
when called upon to do so. as though
reading, from the book.- Bven.ln eur
games, such as leapfrog, I used to bava
to place white handkerchiefs on the
backs of my playmates so as to see
where to Jump,
Hid His Blindneat. ''; ,;:7J.: ' y, '
"t concealed" "my tronble for a consid
erable time from my parents, and theq
the family doctor was or 'led in. I doubt
If my sight could have been preserved
even with the most skillful attention,
but whatever chanoa there waa of It he
destroyed by Ignorant treatment- Whan
I waa takea to competent oculists In
Plymouth my case was hopeless.
"What meital and pbyaleal agony I
suffered during the gradual eclipse of
my sight no human tongue could con
vey. Ones may God forgive ma I si.
most made , up my mind to terminate
my wretched exlaterica.
'' "The doctor had been) experimenting
with my eyes, and aa the .result of one
particular experiment I v-alked back to
Tavistock from Plymouth enduring yie
most horrible torments.' Indeed, the
pain was such that I more or lees lost
my senses, and, finding; myself on a
lonely moor, for I had wandered from
the roadway, and coming to a quiet
flowing stream, I lay down close to
the bank, and tha thought came to m
that if I rolled owr I ahould soon be
relieved o- all my torture, but was res
cued by a friend.. I -
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Stons Blind at Sixteen. .
"When Mr. Butters, the Plymouth
oculist, pronounced my final doom. I
being then 1 year of age. it came a
a moat terrible blow, and for some min
utes I eould not -sleep;- there waa-a
great lump In, my throat and a tear In
my eye. Mr. Butters sought to com
fort mo by telling me -that his, own
sight was falling, and that In a few
months' time be. like me, would be
blind..- V- '. ,'v
"My father did all ha eould for rat"
Dr. Gale went ori. , "When I became
are staggering la to put a fair share of
it on the backs of the duke of Norfolk
and other of hi a Ilk. . ; . . t ,
Made Rich by Others' Work.
- Th bulk of th duke's London prop
arty In Norfolk. Howard, Surrey and
Arundel atreet. Strand, Is situated on
the site of his encestor's town bouse,
which was leased to speculative build
ers after the great London fire of 1844.
The original 80 years leases expired In
the eighteenth century and the houses
which other men had built became th
property of the dukes of Norfolk. ' The
dukes went on letting them on 10 and
10 years' leases, gsttlng a premium for
renewal every time, and Increasing the
rent whenever they . re-leased them.
The building of the Thame embank
ment resulted In a tremendous Increase
In the value of the ducalproperty. This
enormously costly work was paid for
by the ratepayers. The duks contribut
ed nothing-to tt, ' He merely profited
by.lt by doubling and trebling hla ren
tals. The rent of a private hotel In
Norfolk street 'was raised from 1440
a year to $1,116. Ths Conservative
Land society, which occupied premises
in Norfolk street and had expended
from the Sea
along the bulwarks behind which sail
ers used te help te repel boarders. ;
There arc ethers, too: "Half seas
over," for Instance, and "high and dry."
Honest men are aald to be "above
board." We call a good-for-nothing
man a "derelict," and we urge people
to go "full speed ahead" on all occa
sions when we mean- there IS need for
haste. . , '.'.'.. ,
W. W. Rose of Ransaa Cltyi Kansas,
who was tlce elected mayor and twice
removed from the office by the Kansas
supreme court and fined 61,000 for con
tempt of court. Is trying for the office
for the third time, having Just received
the Democratic nomination for the
place. He evidently believe that th
third time I La charm.
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ONE OE- V13 PATIEN TS.
blind he gav ma the jholc of either
having a couple of persons to read to
me and write for ma,, or els of gc'ng
to some Institution for the blind. I de
elded to employ secretaries to read to
me, and by thla method and by closely
training; my memory I soon found that
I was able to make considerable prog
ress in my studies. In those early days
I waa deeply Interested la chemistry,
and before many years I managed to
master the subject fairly well so far
aa tt than went. : . ;
Invents Non-Explosive Powder.
"On one occasion I was experiment
ing with some gunpowder. In order
to deaden the exploalve effects I mixed
with It aome fine sand. , To my sur
prise I found that the explosive power
of the powder waa destroyed. In after
years, when I wished to' Invent a non
explosive form of gunpowder, I made
this childish experience . the basis of
my experiments, and was successful,
not only in inventing a non-explosive
powder, but managed to enlist the sub
stantial Intereat of the British, French
and - other governments, -
"While speaking of my Inventions. I
might msntlon that . I also designed
an ammunition elide gun by means of
which 141 ahots per minute could b
fired from a rifle; a fog shell; a bal
loon shell, and the rudder bell ci
trldge. -1 also Invented various electiio
alarm clocks, with Are and burglar
alarms.' It might be Interesting for you
to know that - I carried out the first
electrto light installation at Plymouth
for the Horticultural society's exhlbl-
;--.VveV'i:'V-.y;;..i'.:;
Recognized by Royalty.' '
In consequence of hie valuable Inven
tions, Dr. Gala received flattering recog
nition not only from. Queen Victoria
and the prince consort, but else from
Napoleon III of France,-the thea caar
bf Russia and tha rulers of many other
countries, besides, aa already men
tioned, having degrees conferred oa him
by many learned bodies. It waa not of
these things, however, that he cared to
talk when '. Interviewed by your cor
respondent. ,
. ."As an example of what a blind man
can do," he said, "I may tell you that,
with a one-legged man as my partner,
I once played a game of bowls, or skit
tles, against two men possessed of their
sight and what la more, we won It
On another occasion I attended a shoot
ing match, and aome one asked ms to
try ehoL I brought down my bird.
116,000 In Improving It, had Its rent
raised on the expiration of the leaae
from $760 to $1,760 a year an increase
of considerably over '100 per cent. That
was because its owa Improvements had
added conaiderably to the value of the
property over and above what it derived
from public Improvements, . Thus did
the duke Increase the poor- ratepayers
burdens when he got the chance.
f-
Gives Nothing in Return. '
Very few people In London ' know
even the names of the owners of the
land on ' which they live, .yet nearly
the whole of Condon Is the monopoly
of a few families who draw enormous
revenues ' nnder the. London leasehold
system.- - They -hardly ever' sell any
of their property outright. ' They sel
dom build themselves. The vast ma
jority of the buildings which stand on
their estates, as In the oae of the
duke ef Norfolk, have -been erected by
others. They grant leases. . varying
from to to 10 years upwards, at the
expiration of which I time tha property
with. .all the Improvements that have
been wrought on It becomes theirs again
outright A great ground landlord will,
for Instance, lease slum property-for
building purposes, At the end of 20,
$0 or 40 years he or his family gets It
all back, transformed Into fins resi
dences, business of floes or shops. ' In
the meautlme he has been extracting
a handsome 'ground rental from the
property snd the occupants of the
building have paid the rates.
Csuss for Complaint. v V, , ," y
The extent of the princely Incomes
obtained by the ground landlords from
their London estates It Is impossible
to ascertain accurately, as there are no
returns, and the Inveatlgatlons of pub
Ho bodies are not welcomed. But It
haa been estimated by an expert that
the duke of Westminster gots $760,000
a year from hla London property; the
duke of Bedford $600,000. the duke of
Portland $400,000, ' and Lord Fortman
$100,040. V.
The rates la Lon1on has Increased
In the lsst 10 years from $10,000,000 a
year to $60,000,000 a year, or 160 per
per cent, but' no part of thla Increase
haa been borne by the owners of the
land, the value of which has Increased
FindtWay In Dark.-- - V
"Cn another oooaalon ' I ramamber
rldlnr ona night with m party along a
dark 'country moor. Tha driver loat Me
way, and I maintained that 'he' ahould
have taken a certain turning;; which wa
had paaied aome dlatanca behind. Ev
try one eeoffed at the idea of me a
totally blind man being; able to know
tha way. Hut, though tha eight wua
gone, my hearing had become ao acute
ly trained that- I could tell from the
aound of tha horses hoofs on' the roafl
that they were not on the right track.
Judging solely by the Bound,, i got out
nnd led the horae back, putting them on
the right road. By close observation
I was able, after becoming-" blind, to
cultivate my remaining faculties, and
by Joins' moat things Sor, myself and
allowing no one 10 neip me when tt
could be avoided, I managed to acquire
an Independence which not all blind
people attain. . "
"By studying all ' known electrical
app.jinces." ha aald, ."It waa not-long
before I waa aie to begin a general
practice and to give treatment ' elec
trically. I adopted tha method of let
ting all current . of electricity pass
through my own body.' By thla means
I waa able to tell juat what sort of cur.
rent my patients wer receiving.
Doctors Many People.
1
"By placing my ear over certain por
tions of tha bodies of patient through
whom I am sending chargea of elec
tricity. I can hear peculiar sounds pass
ing back, and forth and it ta: partially
by these 'sounds that I am able to tell
whether a 'patient Is healthy or not.
"People have come to me with very
remarkable complaints, he went on.
"One man came who waa suffering from
paralysis, the result of lead poisoning,
and every doctor had given him up. I
placed htm in a bath, treated him elec
trically and In the water, and In the
course of time I managed to get white
lead, ooxlng from the roots of the finger
nalla. On aVlother occasion I treated a
woman for mercurial poisoning. When
she would leave the electrto bath you
cou see a thin, dark Una, which, when
rubbed, showed a sliver mercurial de
posit on the side of the both, she also
had been pronounced Incurable.
V To Prove Ho Was Sport.
; . From the Denver Poet. .
A Denver hotel man tall the follow
ing story, and he aaye It's true: . A few
day ago a bride and bridegroom from
the country registered at the hotel. -
"What are your rates for-room -and
board for two 7" asked the bridegroom.
"Six dollars."' was the reply.
That was. satisfactory, and -the two
got a room. . When they decided te
leave the bridegroom aaked for his bUL
It waa 114. He was atag-gered.
"What!" he ejaculated. - "Twenty-four
dollars) . That's aa outrage, v Too said
$.' '...-' . , . .. .. '
"Six dollar a day!" came from the
clerk. "Six dollars a day." -
"Six dollara a dayl" ths bridegroom
almost shouted. "I thought- you .meant
t a week." .-''
The clerk simply smiled. Finally the
onoegroom paid ever the money.
"Now," he said, calming down some
what, "waif a' minute. I want to gb
upstairs.; . Keep that, money - In 1 your
hand." 1 -
The clerk didn't understand, but he
decided to humor the man. The latter
soon returned with a camera. Aiming
it at the-oierk. he took a picture. . -"This
la .the highest-priced place 1
ever -stopped at," he explained. "I Just
wanted a picture to ahow . my friends
that I was a real sport here in Denver."
. Than he and his bride gathered np
their teleacopee and want out
. Sweetheart Cake 77 Tears Old. '
Clarksburg , correspondence ; Baltimore
i- :' . . Bun.
Colonel Luther Haymond. the oldest
resident of Clarksburg, yesterday cele
brated the ninety-eighth anntvereary of
his titrth, A. feature of the birthday
celebration was ths exhibition of , a
heart-shaped swee teaks, presented ' to
him Christmas eve, 1S29 more than IT
years ego by Phoebe Robinson at a
ball at the Bartlett hotel, Clarksburg,
with a written request that he kaep it
forever. It Is in - quits good state of
preservation, aa Is also the paper ac
companying It, and Mlse , Robinson'
written words are legible. .-.
In equal proportion during; the same
time. The owners of the $1,040,000,000
representing the value of the buildings
ef London, pay rates amounting te
$46,000,000, whereaa the Owners of the
$3,090,000,000, representing the separate
value of the land contribute to the
state only some $2,600,000. -In other
words, on property worth In build
ing $6,000.00. $200,000 Is paid, while
on land worth $6,000,008 the payment
la only About 16.000.
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On the right Is Lord Fs.ro.uhar,
master of ths royal hoasehold, titled
Decoy Oack." : On ths left. Lord
Knallys,- the king's private secre
tary, chief decoy duck la Siberian
gold gambls.-.r-yy;-; --''t .'';'"!
OT since the . Whltaker Wright
trial, with ita tragic aequeL ha
there been such a scandalous dis
closure of ths use made of titled
decoy duck to lure gullible In
vestors te their ruin in England aa
that brought about by the eollapse of
tha Siberian gold ramble. Such august
personages as Lord Knollya, the king's
private secretary Lord Farquhar, mas
ter of 'tha king's household; Earl Howe,
lord chamberlain to - the queen;, the
Duke of Fife, his majesty's son-in-law,
Lord Stanley, sx-post master-general; ths
Earl of. Klmberley and other aristo
cratic people are mixed up .In iv y ' '
They-were the decoy duck. ... Their
namee and' connections lnduoed society
folk to pay bis; prices for shares in
properties that had mads no profits and
enabled their promoters to extract far
mora gold from England 4han they are
ever likely to get out of Siberia. For
tney and tha around floor investor in
siders who bad . tha straight . tip un
loaded ths bulk of their a hares before
the alump eama, ' - "
The English newspapers - have pub
lished Tery little about the matter, for
English. loyalty te the crown and King
Edward is stretched to the" extent of
protecting as far aa possible those who
belong te the court elrole. .
Chief Msalpulators. .L . . ,. ..
' Heymaa Orkln and Francis J. Dormer
are the two chief manipulators of the
scheme of frenzied finance by which
1(00,000 was gas-In na ted until It had
swelled to, ever f 10,000,000 oa paper.
Orkln la a Slav with all the Slav's won
derful oommand . of foreign languages.
Including English, which he speaks Ilk
a- native.7 The fact that he 1 a born
financier la probably te be accounted for
by his Hebraic descent. A few yeara
ago he waa described in a London share'
register aa "of no- occupation." . Today
he end ha la still young he Is the.
colleague and associate of -the . king's
and quean households, and of peers,
baronets, knights, members of . parlia
ment and share-pushers galore. ..
- - Dormer began life" by . teaching ' the
young Idea how te shoot somewhere up
In Scotland. He drifted Into Journallam
and finally . found hi . way to South
Africa, where he became the editor of
the leading Transvaal paper, tha Star.
There is no better school in which to
learn the art of mining manipulation
than Johannesburg. ' Dormer was not
long discovering, under the tntelaga of
Barney Barnato, that It is a business
which pays better than Journalism, , He
' The duke of Norfolk's country seat,
Arundel castle. Is one ef the finest in
England. ' It datea from' the time of
Alfred the Great, the earliest mention
of it being made In that king's will
when he bequeathed' It to his nephew
Athelm. Its great baron's hall 1s said
to be the largest room In any Engllah
private house. Here, In ISIS, was held
the centenary of ths signing of magna
chart- when . $00 noblemen were pres
ent. : 1 , . '
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V aBBBBBTSWsTSSBSJBBBJ
Is a little man with bright brown eyas,
a ragged, beard new flecked with white,
and a marvel oualy persuasive tongue
aad petv - ' v ,".;''
Origin of Entsrjprlss, ( ,.
, Orkln had secured options ta aeveral
thousand acres of alleged gold mining
property la Siberia and he formed aa
aUlaaee with Dormer to work the mar
ket with It They etarted their enter
priee la August. 1S08, by forming . ths
Rlhartan and Proprietary Mines, limited.
to take over Orkln' eptiona Ths pur
chase eonsldsratlons for the options wee
S33S.1X& (,! In cash and $330,000 in
shares. . The capital ef the eompany
wa fixed at ttoo.000 and aa the puslle
subscribed for only H,I0 share ths ven
dor : with their IS, QUO abaree had the
market4 absolutely under oontrol. ' The
unissued shares were given to the ven
dors under options ranging' from SW te
S2&. and aa, by the time these options
expired, the shares had been rigged te
about double these figures, the option
were all exercise. , ,
First Board Modest. - ".
The oiiglnal board of directors waa a
modest ona, consisting of Francis J. Dor
mer as chahrman, Jonah Jonas, a Hebrew
diamond merchant: Edward Perewpe, a
lawyer, and Heymaa Orkln a managing
director. This suffleed to keep the oon
oern going until the aharee could be un
loaded. As the vendor share ware not
good delivery until six months after
taw formation ef the company, a stock
sxehaage quotation waa not applied for
until April last. - This granted, the work
Of booming the shares be ran In earnest.
That necessitated reoourse to decoys. -Ne
ordinary peers ' would answer, aa,
because of the several exposures- made
ef them - in connection with disastrous
speculatlono In recant years the public
had grown rather Suapldou ef them In
the role ef company directors. It was
bore that thejpersuaaiva Dormer showed
his superlative worth aa a partner. He
surpassed ail the achievements of Whlt
aker Wright, or the meteorlo Hooley. the
pioneer promoter of Siberian - specula
tions.' He lnduoed the Right Hon. Lord
.Knpllys. O..C. V. 'O K. C. M. O,! pri
vate secretary of his majesty , ths king,
to Join the board of directors. Lawyer
Perowne dropping- est to snake way for
him. . , .- . 1 - t
That Lord Knollya might toot feel lone
some on the Board he wa siren an
aristocratic eo-dlreotor In the person ef
- .VHhe duke
at J M
the Right Res. Lord Edward Oeorr
VUllers Stanley, K. C. V. 0 eldest oa
of the Earl of Derby and ex-pootmaatetw
general. But It was Lord Knollya nam
that captured the gilded elasss of. ths.
west and, not. because he was. a peer,
but because. he was the king's private
secretary, ,,-r ;. ,,. -- ,
But for a time the sharea soared She "
rockets. . The market waa rirged np aa4
dowa until 16 abaree stood at gBO, a
which figure the vendor and the "In :
alders' unloaded the bulk of their hole
Inge. Two baby companies - were float
ed by the parent eompany the OraH
Ooldflalda and the Troltalk Ooldflelde ,
with millstone In the shape of 100, 00
shares each hanging around their aeoka.
For - them more decoy were obtained '
and with such aid their- shares,' too.
went Uke hot eakao,. .. ';, . . ;
Among the dlrc4ters.ee the -TYettalh '
were Earl Howe, lord ehaaberlaia ta .
the queen stnoe UQt; Lorfl Armatrecur -and
the Hon, Arthur Stanley, a younger
brother of Lord Stanley. . Other- court
fuactlonaries eame la aa shareholders .
and the glamor of their names was .
made the most of to raise the sharea
to, ridiculous .fanoy prtooo. , , ; - - ':
Then Slump Cams. ;
Before the alump earn tTse
the three concerns, wbaoc
slated practically only of pepert had a
market valuation ef tij.no.ooo, ' Orkln
wa managing dlreoter of all three eem
panlee. How ha profited by hla maalpun
latioa- ef tham may be Inferred from
the fact that he got rid of 14,000 of thfl
U4.00 shares he held ta the three eon- '
earns at top-notch prices. A' man who
can work the market that way will
never be under the necessity ef wetking? .
a gold mine. : )-. 1-,
Of the many eoart fanotloaartea wheeS
names ware used to get ths share up
to a nigh prloe Lord Farquhar
to have been the only one to make m
substantial profit. He sold rnost of hla
hare before the crash came. Perhaps
he was among those who' got the straight
tip. The rest who were used as "bait
for suckers" . apparently were badly -
dupd themselves. . - . - , , . :.
Th Fsnnsylvarfla house ef reerescu
tatlvss recently passed a bill repealing;
the Orady-Salu 1 libel. law: of 1 ltot.
Which waa advocated by GNrrernor Pea-,
nypaoker and opposed by praotloaHy the
entire presa.ef the state. The vote of
the house oa the repeal of the measure
III to -a. -,..-.' .