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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. THURSDAY. EVENING, JUNE : 8, 1911V ' if' rTTir TrT TT XT A T 1111 IVJUIXiNrXJLitrol all this time, three fourths of acy to cruelly JiiJur him? The Si.1T fHDKPRNpKNT XrWIPiriK. I council and mayor had boen In eon-f fleer and struck' down the consplr- the water front of Portland would , Russian la thenly army where antl c. a. jackoi. .'.Pabltakwr not. ai now, he owned by one or two rvbltabM rierf evening (rwe sanaar) twi Bandar Binrnln at T jnuraai Inf. flflfc anS lamhlll alrerts, and I Th Jnuraal Bull. Port Und. or. corporations. If the people had been Ealafad at (1m naatnffir at PorllaDd. Or., far traaamlMlna tltvefb nallt aa saeood. iKi.rrMdKra Main Tin, Homa, a-o.m. All oVpartmonfa n-achHl b fbeaa umh.ra. T!l Ihr utieratnr what d-prtnot fQQ want. mil r 1 oVTl i Vl cTflSIN TTtKI'MrSKNTATITK. PrnJ.mln A hrtilnor (o, llromwlrk BnlMltif JJ. fifth a.niw. Nrw Vara-; I2t I'aoplr't G Bnlldlni (hlraaw. Irrnx br nill nr to an addra Mlalra nr Mrtlco. i DAM.T, fSnn J On amnth I .BO SUWPAT. I2.A0 One month I .SS , fiAILY AND FL'NDAT. ... $7 fto I Our Bmntk I In control, one corporation would not, aa now, hao hopged the east aide, shutting out competing railroad line. At a distance of 2000 feet from the harbor line, the council and mayor are still In control, and that In about an much us they be safely trusted with. emetic prejudice reljrns today. la free America to follow that exam ple? It Is passing strange how the profession of arms seems to estab lish false, standard of life and con duct. They are built op on wrong Me of discipline. It In thought can necessary to Intensify and burn In the line of demarcation between the (lafXKTlptloll ra lb tVltrd Om yaar On rwtr. One Hir K Min has found Hint h must Ihr liberty I" others In order to hnr It Inmnclf II'' lin found that n master l nlen h flit (;--1 hit tyrant Is himself serf Ingrraoll. -a A BIINHKR T HAT THE referendum on the Malarkey public servlre hill was a blunder la now apparent. Without Intending to do so. those who signed the petitions to Portland people are Just as wide officer and the private, by adding open for public proRresa aa Is any 'social, class, requirements to the mayor or any council. Thy will he i conditions Imposed by the regula as quick to offer right of way for ! tlons of the service for passing up the entrance of new railroads or new I wards from the ranks. And this In .Industrie as will any council or any! spite of the honors won by those I mayor, and will do It without raking l who have bo risen, not only on the off private usufruct for themselves. field of battle, but In the round o It will tie a wide open deal without! drill and discipline In times o praft, bonuses or Knaps to either 1 peace. It would he n good thing for (side, which Is rarely true when of- the American and all other armies I flclaldom deals with corporations. If every young officer could chal ! The people pnssed this amendment lenge a critical colonel to write for I because they have been so often J him the endorsement, "undoubtedly i gold bricked. The Oregon-Adams t honest and upright, ambitious and street vacation was made over their deserving." protest, and they wore not even al- lowed to referend the ordinance. The gift of three quarters of a mile of east side streets to the Ore- soula by striking down such cbam-1 plons of the common people as th late Mr. Piatt or the late Honorable i wuy., -'.,. v : More calamitous still.' It. might forever shut the doors of the senate on such soldiers of reform aa tbe Honorable Aldrlch and that atun- nlng exemplar of purity, the Hon orable William Lo rimer, of Illinois. And for these anointed exponents of reform, the senate night be filled with such Impossible and undesir ables as La Follette, Cummins", i Chamberlain, Oore, Beverldge, Brls-J tow and the late Mr. Dolllyer. In' contemplation of .Sonator Root's fears, what painful thoughts obtrude themselves upon us. COMMENT AND NEWS IN :BRIEF SMALL CHANGE - THK XlttV INVESTIGATION gon Hall road & Navigation company l was only prevented by the thunder- referend It. played directly Into the hands of the public service corpora tions. The measure for a local public service commission failed to pass. The state-wide bill Is held up by the referendum, and for two years the public servtc utilities will go un regulated. Not only do such cor porations In Portland escape regula tion, but the same Is true in the -other cities of the state. , There ought to be regulation. Regulation has proven efficacious in . the case of railroads. It Is even more necessary with reference to municipal utilities. The nation and the state are In the business of reg ulating, and it Is equally Important that the cities should be. , Sane regulation Is better for the utilities themselves. It Is so ad mitted to be by some of the largest figures In tbe railroad world. In railroads. It substitutes honest man agement for management by fren- tied financiers. It places transpor , tatlon on a legitimate basis and Is to , eventually cut out over capitaliza tion. ' It Is possible that the referendum on the Malarkey bill may hare de fects that will prevent Its- appllca-i., tIon. The question ought to be tried out In the courts. The blunder of Invoking it ought to be repaired If possible, and a state-wide commis sion be put to work on the problems , of securing fair and equitable rates from public service monopolies-) throughout the state. ' Meantime, forewarned by the present. situation, It will he wisdom In tb future to always be sure we are right before we go ahead In In voking the referendum or resorting to the initiative. The friends of reg ulation referended the Malarkey bill, expecting that the local public ser vice bill would pass. But the local measure didn't pass, and there e are. ous opposition of Xjje people. The new street-vacation amendment. If severe, is the fruit of 30 years of Jugglery by councils and mayors with public streets. THE TRADE OF HULL, EXGLAXI) F OR THE FIRST time In the his tory of the English port of Hull the tonnage entering the docks during 1910 exceeded 6,000,000. More than half the valu'e of the Imports represents food stuffs. About 19,500,000 centals of wheat are annually received. Only a small portion comes from the United States, the rest from Canada, India, Australia, Russia and Argentina. The imports of wool were last year about 32,500,000 pounds. Of Saya beans and cotton seed 604.226 tons, were Imported, and 7,006,904 bush els of linseed, rape seed and castor seed. i Lining the banks of the river Hull, flowing through the heart of the city, are large flour mills, cat tle food mills, oil mills, chemical works, and many others. The fishing Industry located at Hull employs nearly BOO steam traw lers and 5000 men. Adjoining ohe of the docks are curing and drying factories. The port of Hull Is the eastern gateway to great manufacturing cen ters, and it ranks as the third port B Y THE APPOINTMENT of new senate committee, another investigation of Lorlmer has been launched. Even Senator Bailey, who saved Lorlmer before, admits that newly discovered evi dence makes a further probe neces sary. What he has heard from, the country rather than new evidence has probably helped Mr. Bailey to see the llpht. Public concern In the matter has dwindled down to a curious interest to see whether or not the United States senate lays any claim to honor. At the bar of public opin ion. Lorlmer Is condemned and the matter dropped. It Is the senate that Is now on trial. The public sentenced lxirlmer on evidence tha' 4 6 senators had used for exonerating him. That evidence Is familiar. Senator Holtslaw con fessed that he was paid $2500. He deposited in a Chicago bank 125 00 to the credit of his own country bank. Link confessed to bribe tak ing and later died of shame. White and Beckemeyer confessed. They and other wltnessea told how Brown, Lorimer's Democratic lieutenant. carried at the legislative session, a blue belt about his waist stuffed with currency of large denomlna- tlons. They described the lack pot orgies at St." Louis at which each was paid $1000 on the senatorial account and $900 for legislative Voting. To all this Is now added the $100,000 slush fund- used by the lumber trust agents to "put Lorlmer over." Added also is the appeal of the 1111- The Honorable Dlai has Joined the ancient and benevolent order of lame ducks, and there are growing signs that the Honorable Lorlmer will also be Initiated Into Its solemn mysteries. "If you want to live 100 years," says a Massachusetts woman, "don't flirt, dance or gossip." Alas! s!is! If the century mark Is attainable only at such a cost, what's the use? Thi eommtaalon charter framsrs have a important job on hand. . -: . - The rrtco.ef atal has han ent it ton. Hut It la atlll una li or It hfa-hnr v Anitrican man io roraign consumers. .mm Judgr. Gary profeaaes to ballav, with itoonevrii ttoran antl others, that the government should and must control all corporation! doing an lnteratate bust' nra. ua aeea aneaa oieariy. Havlnar no war. nraaent ar nmin,Ala to etigase their attention, some of the Dig generals manage to be aJwaya In a warfare among thcmaclvea, each being viiriuua ana jeaioua or outers. When the people of this ountry make ii projiiaDio ror a meatncai manager id pay j a ok jonnaon aeveral thousand dollars a week, it aeema questionable If incy are rtauy aa civilised at the r.tiunpiuna. A college professor has died worth $8,000,000. Who more than the profession will bo stunnod by the newsT Letters From the People Poor old Dl habhlee as he Bella away or returning and .entabllahlng and maintaining pence In Mexico by mean of an army. Tdli la hla only Idea of ovornment. one or armed force, and little or no liberty. It la time he paaaed vuc. May not the trust be ask In the qur-ry or the late K. It. Harrtman on a certain occasion. Where are we at? ere not freeMent Taft'a brother, and Attorney General Wlckersham. attorneys for the sugar trust, the steel trust, and other lawbreaklng trusts? And did not urn nun i cvniriouia noeraJiyr a e A 2(0 pound Seattle lawyer wished to reduce his weight by a large per- roniaa-r. ana was anv sea bv a wamnn doctor to fast until the dee! red minimum was rcacnea. xno cura was erricacleus; he was down to about th right figure when he died of starvation. . I This week sees the triumph of the The Oregon! an in ToUtics. i oruann. June .. in me buunr , noo. thnnirh fnr hrBlr nn kArn .h. The Journal The man who la BmbltloiiH I bi0lp. flhe'a alrnhlv rirrn-i. In hr for political honorn In Portland, nhotild nveryday clone. From her. fragrance fall upon his knots -vcry morning ana rinrouKti uie aimoepnere nose; aweet devoutly supplicate hljfh heaven to de liver hlin from the support of the Morn. Ins; Orrgonlan. Jtetter to he kicked than kUsed hy Mr. Plttock. Behold the great ni'wmiinir thunderlne- like Jove.' but In actunl Influence as impotent as a deaf! mut.i In a debating society. "Oh, It Is I enccllent," says William Shakespeare. to have a glint's strength, but It Is : tyranny to use It like K giant.' The : Oregonlan has so nfton used Its power! wantonly that the people have lost con fidence In It and distrust sny candidate I whom It ardently ewpouses. All of which goes to show that If a newspaper Is to breaths from gardens where she arose. How pretty aha la she never nose, nor how people are charmed from head to lose. She cares for neither their Joys nor wose. But she helps to sweeten life the Rose. . -n OREGON SIDELIGHT V v ; The commencement exercises of St. Joseph's academy, ar Pendleton, will be hald June 13. , . A, 4- e . e . The First National bank of Pendleton has been made a United States deposit ory for postal funds. - e e " Frank Cherry, a Eugene boy,' son of r In the Bells-Floto olroua. . . . e e A representative of tha Oregon Power company haa arranged for wiring 40 Brownsville residences for lights. ; v ine Kugena itenater nronosea a "home-oomrna' day" aa a. feature nf tha iane eounty lair to be held neat fall. Carl Mason, horticultural Inspector, is warmly commended by tha Pine Valley neraia aa an orncer or nigh efficiency. Tha authorities at Med ford are vigor ously enforcing the ordinance nrovldlna that automobiles must ahow lights a night a Rev. Oeorare W. Tavlor. nastnr nf ma i reeD.vienan cnurcn at Atyrtie Point, nsa aoeptea a can rrom the cnurcn at wauervme. . e a ' The Medford Mali Tribune haa a new eleetrlo sign made In Medford, of 15 Tungaten lights, arranged in lettera two feet tn length. v m The Farmer's mill at North. Powder la making arranaementa to Install a 71 horsepower motor and will electrify tha mill to enable It to run thrauarh thai low water aeaaon. e a Redmond BDOkeeman: Tha Quarterly conference of the Methodlaftshurch for ma district win be held In Redmond. una is. rresining uiaer waiter snip per, ii, v.. will conduct the roeet- nga. a Eugene Rerlster: There ara not less that five railroad nrolecta on tan In and around Eugene, including the Asset company, Southern Pacific. Mounce line. I'ortiand, Kugene & eastern, and one other of greater pretensions than anv of those above mentioned. Out of this ulntette we ought to ret at least one road from here to somewhere. Tie Senate'f Bad Faitfi From Confirming what the World said in its u Washington dispatches KVIday morning about the presidents grave feara that reciprocity may he defeated, the Tribune printed a Weaning ton dis patch ' yesterday declaring that " 'Any thing to beat Tart' is the audible slo gan of the Republican Insurgents'; that "many of the regular Renuhtlcana ara disgruntled and .ore- and are ready iw accept nwp rrom tne reactionary Democrats to beat . the , reciprocity agreement. . It took the house only IT days to ar. ganlss Itself and to pass the reciprocity bill. Thirty-seven dsvs hava sine. elapsed and the senate haa dene noth ing. The bill Is still la committee.'' It la not necessary to go behind tha returns to find evidence of the senate's bad faith. The record itself proves that Taft's feara are Justified and that the senate is a unfriendly to honeat reciprocity as it was to honest tariff revision. . . Tanglefoot By Miles . Orerbolt SEVEN FAMOUS PRISONS The Prison of Chilian. (-t swrs "mrm va " Mwg errat yf ATrtv AHj tug etrir O1 TXg wawavr 7 LANOUAOK OF THE FLOWERS. know our kid is smarter than tha averace person's child, . I know her face is fairer than moat loy otner kids, I'm wllllne- to concede that she Is good onq iiii'fk ana mna, . But when her mother slips me this, i want a pair or saias: 'Chlllon! thy prison Ii And thy sad floor an altar- trod, for 'twas In public affairs it must he an unselfish rlbune of the people, addressing Itself with white-hot convictions end unselfish real to the furtherance of the best Inter ests of the community. A. R. M. In the United Kingdom In extent and Importance of commerce. It is themols senate for this senator by pur key to a net work of Inland canals chase to be ousted. What more Is OIR WILLIE and waterways, radiating from Its great river, the Humber, in all di rections. Nearly three fourths, of the Imports Into Hull are forwarded by river and canal craft. This tale of development bears on Portland, Its experience and pros pects. Until 1903 the commerce of Hull was handled over wharves and I docks owned by the Northeastern I Railway company, which belted the port with its lines, exercising a prac- needed ? PHILIPPINE TIUDE" GROWS P tical monopoly. The municipality ITY THE sorrows of poor Wll-iof Hull, under the resolute Impulse Holding, of Its citizens, undertook, at Im- 11am Waldorf Astor. that America is not a fit place j mense expense, to construct real "for a gentleman to Hvo In."! docks nd invitpi a cnmnottnr ran. he quitted the land of his birth and road to Independent entrance lo the! oecame a ioyai subject of Great j new municipal dockB, and subscribed Brlta,n- j enough capital to the new railroad There, he hoped for the title that i to prevent its control being passed would be a distinguishing mark to j in future years to the original road, set him abovo the average man.) The first municipal dock outgrew There, too, he hoped to escape the Its facilities for handling shipping, taxgatherers. in the city and state of J although It covered over 30 acres. New York, who insisted on levying ! Another joint dock of large size is vu jus kuous ior me support or gov-1 approaching completion. A third.! T HE PRESIDENT of the Mer chants' association in Manila stated very recently that more improvement had taken place in the Philippine trade during the past 11 years than In any other country In the far east. This Is opinion, but the noteworthy fact he gives is that there had been no fail ure In the European business com munity during the past year, and this is an unexamplod record. The financial report of the government for the first eight months of the fiscal year 1910-11 shows net In crease of revenue of. $850, 000 gold over the same period In the pre vious year. The government ice plant In Manila Bhows a net profit of $179,- 829 for the fiscal year 1911. Sever al of the larcn hntela nr Manila have Just been rebuilt and enlarged eminent. . rirfoon miinn t,ainn, ir,.ii . " But. as vet. no title of nnhtlltv hn , t-in-hr hi.t r o,. -i.,,. ..iv. ! poaen. - - - - J ....... . 1 n uottft Kjt i ii v inn, n uu ait men descended to ornament the name of !of 49 acres, and six acres for a tim Afitor. What is worse, the new in- j her pond, and a graving dock, will heritance and other taxes of .Lloyd . shortly be completed. The depth of George are eating into the Astor . water will be an tn .1 feot Th or remodeled, and others are pro- Agricultural implements of Amer- j lean make, including traction en- (glnes. are being Introduced. I Education of the ..atlves Is pro- depth of water on the lock sills ; varies between low and high tides) between 30 and 48 feet. j Here is a practical lest.on on the substance to an alarming extent, and the expatriated American Is having troubles in his adopted England. It is now related that he prepared Kve half his property to hla son : development of a port following by uy urea lnsteaa or oy win at death. Heaps and bounds on liberal expendi and thereby escape the inheritance j ture on public docks. The return to tax- I the ancient and obsolete system But. even in this, he encountered which the public docks supersede, disappointment. In preparing his ' would be impossible, even if it could new system of taxation, Lloyd . be Imaginable by the people of that George provided against exactly ! thriving port ' Mich subterfuges, antl if Mr. Astor: greasing rapidly, common schools spreading throughout the islands. The various Protestant bodies are putting forth strong and costly ef fortsnot only by more numerous churches and schools, but 1 y an in creasing number of native teachers. TEXAS BOYS' HOO CLUBS W conveys property to his son as planned, it must be on a basis of yielding up a heavy tax to the gov ernment. In this tryinp hour of bitter dis appointments, thf heartfelt sympa thy of the American people goes out to their former countryman. RACE PREJUDICE IS THE ARMY T WHY IT PASSED T is HERE A RE gentlemen w ho ex press the fear that Portland'3 progress will be obstructed bv tne street-vacation amendment adopted Monday. The measure was Indorsed by the Taxpayers' league, it was indorsed by the docks commission. T ji was passeti ny the people to and deserving mop me rree girts of public streets by councils and mayors to private corporations. It takes the power to glye away streets from mayors and Councils and restores It to the pco- .p9 themselves. The only difference BOW and before adoption of the mendment is that if any gift-giving Is to be done, the people will do It ; and do it better. The public streets re safe now from grabbing by grab bers they were not before. , ' If the Milwaukee or any tither big railroad wants to enter Portland and .... ".ins, h lair return Tor terminals, high rank and the people will promptly open the j forgotten how g4MB. u ma px)ji instead of a HE DISAPPROVAL, sternly ex pressed by President Taft, of the attempt to prevent a Jew ish soldier In the ranks from (securing promotion by examination i for an officer's commission, will bo shared by all Just minded Ameri cans. i Young Bloom was suggested to ex-President Roosevelt for HERE IN OREGON we turn our boys to winning prizes for vegetables and fruit, In Texas they organize Bovs' Hog clubs. Invitations mailed to all the boys in the counj where-Fort Worth is the chief city, will call them together at a big luncheon at Fort Worth, provided by Armour & Co. and Swift & Co. Then the ) mayor of the city, the special agent ;of the department of agriculture, the- secretary of the Texas Grain Deal ers' association and the secretary of the Fort Worth Storkvnrd R eomnnnv a COm-,)M u.-j . iircrA nn ra nVt r f t f s rod-, n u. no vacancy at the time he accepted - tQ enter the corapptltlon. the presidents advice to enter the! M, T ,,,. mlJi,f , ranks, and fight his way up. Ac-' Mr- Llvell ht take note of this ., , 1 : extens on and popu arizing of hoe cording to his colonel's indorsement Tf "t . m . . i culture. It mav not have occurred on -Blooms papers the young mani,. . ..... v' .. '.Ul, 111"' O 1UUIU M, hnn nnlnn . be asked from a young soldier? "" Germany Longs, for Morocco. It Is naturnl that the Pan-Germiin enthusiasts should froth at the mouth at secinjr France encroach on Morocco on account of the existing dlsturb nnccs, and it Is possible th.it German diplomacy may be tempted to try again the bluff that brought around the Alge clrns conference. Morocco is the most tempting prize that Africa has to offer for European enterprise, with Its tem perate climate, its great unexplolted natural resources and its command of the entrance to the Mediterranean. Tho fact that Its Berber and Moorish Inhabitants are white men, who have riven Invaders all the flRhtlns; they wanted throughout the course of his tory and have generally kept them out of the country, counts for little with people who live on memories of the victory over the French and believe that das grosse Volk is Invincible. It Is maddening to them to think that Germany has no shadow of claim to any part or Morocco, and that even surreptitious methods of settling up commercial grievances are held in check by the Algeclras agreement. Even in these peace-loving days It is inconceivable that either Great Britain or France would permit the intrusion of Germany into Northwestern Africa without a fight, and that fight would have to take place In Kurope. Any one naval power would be able to stop an expedition large enough to make an Impression, on the Moors, and It may be doubted whether, even If she were left unhindered, Ger many, with all her skill in organiza tion, could transport and maintain an army sufficient for the purpose at so great a distance from the source of supplies. The right and power to prey on Morocco can only come from the defeat of Germany's rivals In Europe, and It Is hardly likely that the kaiser's colonial ambitions will make him risk a general European war. Any attempt to overawe France by diplomacy must fall through, It would seem, with any ministry ,of which M. Delcasse forms part. fio far France has kept ulthln the hounds prescribed at Algeclras. The expedition to Fez Is In accordance with the duty Imposed on her and on Spain to preserve order In Morocco. The Spaniards , undis mayed by the cost of their Mnlllla ex pedition, are desirous of sharing In the possible rewards by assisting the French In some degree. Until order is restored In one shape or another at Fez there is no excuse for interference. The trouble will arise when the time comes for paying France and Spain for their services. If Germany Is then aggressive, there will .be a oall for an other international conference and the opportunity for a diplomatic row. Mo rocco has taken the place of Constant!- i nople as a standing menace to Ihe I i. , i a n a .,..rm.nAnr ,nfinn(. i Until his very steps have left a trace a soa. By Bonnlvard." Byron Pyron haa made immortal the prison of Chlllon by his splendid poem on Ttonnlvard, entitled "The Prisoner of Chlllon." Nor la this personage and this poem the only thing to be remem bered in connection with the famous dungeons of the magnificent Chauteau de Chlllon, which la situated between Clarens and Vllleneuve, which last la at one extremity of the I.ake of Geneva. On its left are the entrances of the Rhone, (and opposite it are the heights of Mell- lerie una a range or Alps above Boverot and fct. Glngo. Near the chateau, on the hill behind. Is the torrent; below It, washing ita walls, the lake haa been fathomed to the depth of 800 feet, and within It are the range of dungeons In which the early reformers, and subsequently, prisoners of state, were confined. Across one of the vaults la a beam black with age, on which tha visitor is informed that the condemned were formerly executed. In the cells are seven pillars, or rather eight, one being half merged In the wall. In some of these are rings for the fetters and the fettered. In the pavement the steps of Honnlvan have left their traces, for he was confined here for six years. It is by this castle that Rousseau has fixed the catastrophe of his Helolse, in the rescue of one of her children by Julie from the water; the shock of which, and the Illness produced by the Immersion, was the eause of her death. The chateau Is large, the walls are white and can be seen alone; tha lake for a great distance. The castle of Chlllon la an awrln splrlng emblem of medieval barbarism and crime. Ita memorable cells held aeveral of the first martyrs of the Swiss reformation beside Bonnivard. In fact, more than a thousand years ago Louis le Debonnalre was imprisoned here, a traitor to hl's king. Hera also five centuries ago hundreds of Jews were tortured and then burled alive on the Infamous suspicion of polaonlng the; weus or uurope. Bonnivard waa one of tha young Ge nevan patriots. When Charlea III. Puke of Savoy, entered Geneva in 1519 Bon nivard fled, but fell Into the duke's hands and was imprisoned for 12 months. On May 26, 1630. he was ar rested near Lausanne, taken to the cas tle of Chlllon and kept there for six years. During these gloomy years of captivity his Jailers heard from him no cry and no complaint, save when some tempest swept the lake. Then, when the wind moaned, as If in sympathy, around the towers, and waves dashed .' hlah agalnat the walls, they could distin guish sobs and cries, proving that, when pparentiy alone with God. tha captive sought to give his burdened soul relief. When finally his liberators burst Into his cell. In the spring of 1S36. they found him pate and shadow like, still chained to the column around which he had walked so many years. A hundred voices cried to him at once: "Bonnivard, you are free!" The prisoner slowly rose and his first question was: "And GenevaT" "Free also!" waa the answer, "Why don't you know Just what she said. When she lifted her dear little bead? nns assert voti to ten Of Puss In the Wsll " What she said was: "M-m-m-eat." from me oeo: I say I know the kid Is smart When iirst sue round her tongue She' said one day in shrieking tones and language plain: "Day-day." Now that waa clear beyond me, for you know, the kid la young. But her mother knew the answer for she whispered right away: "Why. that one Is easy, mv dear: I think that you don't try to hear. It'a ao simple for me: Juat as plain aa can be; She asked: "Where la grandma today?" I must confess that freauentlr I can t auite understand When once the kid's excited and Is aching for a talk; For Instance. Just the other day she yelletl to heat the hand: Dub-dub-a-dub!" My wife and I were out to take a walk. "What aha said," said her mother, with ease, In tones that were moulded to please, " 'O see the girls rurf. That must be Such fun " And my wife swears she's honest O cheese! Tomorrow Cherry Hill. terlocking. It is a curbing that Is very sightly to look at and that nothing less than an earthquake could displace. Now around the great subsurface area tq the west of the station in which the switching tracka lie, extending from the station's Eighth avenue front and on beyond Ninth avenUe to the portals of tha under river tunnels, the Pennsyl vania la building at the street level at tne inner eage or tne sidewalks sur rounding the sunken track area a brick and granite fence that is in its "way remarkable. This fence or wall, which is six anj a half feet high, Is built of light gray mottled brick set on a foot high gran ite pase and having a solid heavy gran ite coping. To break what would other wise have been the monotony of such a fence extending continuously for hun dreds of feet, there are built in at reg ular Intervals of about 30 feet square posts of about a two foot face pro jecting slightly beyond the face of the. wall and carried up above the coping and crowned each with a granite .cap, and further to relieve the wall's monot ony certain courses in it have been laid with alternate bricks slightly pro jecting, to give In the face of the wall between the posts the effect of panel ing. peace of Europe. So Further Questions. When a noted Irish orator was in America a few years ago he appeared at a meeting in St. Louis and delrvercl an address on the subject of "Home Kule for Ireland." There were 6000 of his countrymen In the audience. At thi cloee of his remarks the chairman asked: "Would anyone like to ask the speaker a question?" A man in the rear of the hall, who, was evidently under the Influence of The Wo of Wall. Street. From the New York World. Poor Wall street! It Is "up against a brace game" these days. It sits for lornly In Its offices waiting for peO' pie to bring in their money. But there seems to be race suicide among the lambs and few turn up. And now. Just as Wall street has made up Us mind to have a good three day vacation from Saturday over Decoration day, there are rumors that the supreme court may hand down ita Tobacco trust decision on Monday, ripping the brokers' holiday up the back.. But after all, why should Wall street give up Its vacation? We firmly be lieve that even If It remained closed on the day of the tobacco declson the union would survive. The worst that warding her cipher dispatches a chain of relay points whose farther end was the headquarters of General George Sharpe (the authority for these state ments), chief of the bureau of military Information, but the Richmond end of the chain was the old Van Law man' slon. There she received and harbored the secret agent who stole in from the Federal army; when no Federal agents could reach her she sent her own ser vants as messengers through the Con federate armies. There, in the Van Lew house In the heart of Richmond, she ' concealed many of the escaped Union prisoners from Castle Thunder, the Llbby. and Belle Isle; there she planned aid for those who remained in the prisons, to whom she sent or car ried food and books and clothing; for their relief she poured out her money thousands of dollars until all her con vertible property was gone. Clerks in the Confederate war and navy depart ments were In her confidence: counsel for Union sympathizers on trial by the Confederacy were employed by her money. These statements of General Sharpo'a were marie in a letter which was writ ten to recommend that Miss Van Lew be reimbursed by the government to the amount of 315,000. The money Was never cuueciea. s It is neither his father nor any other of his relatives who are seek ing advancement. If there is in the government service an office more distinctly iwrsonal to the man him self than a commission in the army ir is hard to imagine where-it can! senate." ,,e fm,nd- j It might, for instance, lose t:s the As to exclusion on account of Jew- i services of the patriotic Ouggen ish parentage the very idea is re-heim. It might remove from the volting. In every conscript army in! senate, our ill itstrioiiR Rmnnt - nr tho IT MIGHT ENATOR ROOT says, "The elec tion of United States senator by direct vote will, I fear, re sult in the deterioration of tho liauor. arose and said: "Will the Ef.ntlem.in telf n if than 'could happen would he that soma run. is any reason why the Irish should not I 'lemen would have to postpone collect he wiped off the face of the earth?" their bets for 48 hours. Wall street Immediately pandemonium relcntd. could repair ny blunders of the su- Tho disturber was attacked from every ,' Premo court just as well on Wednesday as on nionaay; couia overcertlfy checks Just as efficiently on Wednesday as on Monday and oould do ns little to change the value of the actual year's tobacco crop on W ednesday as ou Monday. By 111 means lt-t Wall street take Its vacation and prick the bubble of its indlspensabllity. ((uarter. Calls of "Down with hlni! "Let me get at him!" came from all directions. Finally he was rescued by tho police man and. frn and bleeding and in an unconscious condition, was placed in an ambulance which had been called. While the audience could still hear the clatter of tho ambulance and the sound of its going as tt conveyed lib burden to the hospital, the chairman said: "Would anybody else like to ask a question?" His Souvenirs. Nellie took a tropic trip, v Going south by train and ship. Chose a lovely southern spot Full of climate verv hot. Wrote "Dear Jack. l"'m bringing you Souvenirs of all I do." This is what she toted hack To her little city shack: Three young baby alligators. Several crates of sweet potatoes. One astonished armadillo, Seven squares of leather pillow. Two green turtles in a dish. Four delightful flying fish, Trinkets of coqulna made, , Urchins, sea beans, starfish staid. Flamingoes from swampv lake, Twenty feet of rattlesnake, . Cocpauuts galore, of course. And" a bale of hanging moss. "My!" said Jack. "I'm nlefuted to see That my darling thought of me!" Marie, Hemstreet in Life. Rurled Treasure. Writing on the attempts to recover the buried treasure on tho Island of Trinidad, Ralph D. Paine, In the Juna Metropolitan Magazine, says: "Many readers will doubtless remem ber the career of the late Baron James Harden-Hiekey, who attempted to estab lish a kingdom nf his own on the Islet Of Trinidad. Ers Ions: he blossomed' forth most gorgeously In Paris and New Terk as King James I of the Prin cipality of Trinidad. There were a royal cabinet, a minister of foreign af fairs, a chancellor! and uniforms, court costumes and regalia designed by the king himself.. Most dajsxllng of all the equipment wu the Order of the In signia of the Cross of Trinidad, a pat ent and decoration of nobllitv to h h- stowed on those deemed worthy of tha I signal honor. "The newspapers bombarded King James I with gibes and Jeers, but he took himself with immense, even tragic. serlouaness, and issued a prospectus of the settlement of his kingdom. Inviting an aristocracy of intellect and good breeding to comprise the ruling class, while the hard work was to ba done by hired menials. He mustered on paper some kind of a list of resources of Trin idad, although he was hard put to name anything very tangible, and laid special stress on the burlec" treasure. It was to be dug for by the subjects, and if found to bo divided among the patriots who had bought the securities Issued bv tha royal treasury. Surely a pirates' treas ure was rtever before gravely offered among the assets of a kingdom, but King James had no sense of humor and the lost treasure was as real to him as any other of his marvelous dreams." i- Kurope thousands of Jewish sol diers are found many of them In esteem. Who has the French nation vindicated the righto of a Jewish of- versatile Mr. Ballev. It might deprive us of the exalted work of such patriots as the Hon orable Depew and he illuminating Mr. Burrows, it might try our yery -t A .Notable Brick Wall. From the New YorkSun. When .the Pennsylvania railroad's great granite passenger utation in Man hattan" had been completed and thev four long years. : without resnftA u x ii- ... ----r,-. A Woman Spy In the Civil AVar. , (Harper's Magazine). Miss Van Lew, a Richmond woman, was a spy for the Federal government the most important spy of the rebel lion, inasmuch as her work merited Gen eral Granfs tribute, "You have sent me the most valuable Information received rrom Kicnmona during the war." For she The Recall. I would that there mlgth be Two lives on earth For those of ua who see Too late its worth. The first, a studv hour To learn its ways. To comprehend the power Of passing days: To find -life's deepest reach The things that give The soul its strength, and teach Us how to live! The second, that the soul May nobly rise, Prepared to win the goal Where honor lies. What Joy to know 'mid all Life's stress and pain We but await the call To try again! -John Kendrlck Bangs, in Llpplncotts. Thq Dipper came to finish off its surroundings, the faced. doath to batata that information curbing of the broad sidewalk laid ! day after day j .suspected, spied upon' around it excited admiration. j threatened, persecuted, she worked with This curbing is composed of deep ' a courage for higher than the exclte blocks of granite, each about 10 feet ment-mad valor of the battlefields, long by a foot and a half In width and 1 The, greater part of the military In each having at one end a section hoi-1 formation received from Richmond bv lowed in and at the other end a round-' the Army of the Potomac was collected ed section projecting, eo that as lald-land transmitted kyMls Van Lew. fiha thesa cuVbstonea ara continuously la-1 established fiva aicrat .UUonifM 'Am! Glass Eye Exploded. From the Allentown (Pa.) Dispatch, .with a report like a gun. Building Inspector Frank R. Mlnner'a glass eyo ! t nyiuuea una . morning as ne sat chat ting with a friend. . Minncr fell to tha floor and sank into unconsciousness. A physician was tailed and Minner was rushed to the hospital, where to night he was' still unconscious and in a serious condition, it is feared that particles of the- eye have penetrated his brain. He had worn the eye 13 years. Local physicians say this Is the first aecldent of its kind in hiatorv. - Th advance the theory that celluloid was substituted for glass In' the eye and that the heat. of the sun's rays, focussed on It by a mirror unfelt by M Inner, caused it to explode. . . (Contributed to The Journal dt Walt t. tna famoua Kanaas poet Hla prose-poems are a .mm iuu coiumn to ma Danr Jouraal). ' Sore on Them. . From the Boston Transcript He T fpl , riarllnBr That.T am halt good enough to be your husband. ' Per J? 10 tne dump; nut She But what, George? He I'm a darn s!hl too good to be tha son-in-law of your grouchy parents. How dearito my heart was the trusty old dipper that hung by the pumu In ve days of old! It made a mul rrisay, contented and chipper, to drink iroin. uiat aipper a uraught awect am coiu. we came rrom the harvest fieh n' H hn,,n . . i .1 1 . , i'i")"! "u ivrpi on ine ramn. an. stood there and drank till our InnardJ expioaea, ana oiessed the old .dipper tha hung by the pump; that rusty tin din . I. . 1 . . . 1 , " lv, iimi ncauicr Blttmeu Clipper, tha Ufe giving dipper that hting by th pump. But now, in the bllsterlna- hu or me June time, we go to the wel wiui our xongues flanging out, and wres tie around that old pump afl' the noor time, in trying , to drink a few, dropJ limn mo npuui. i ne .nugnouse rem doctors have banished the 'flagon fron which we all drank when w m. the pump; no more can the boys gt J mm ur jug on; tne trusty i old dip handled dipper, the mail order dlpn the , soul soothing dipper has gone t mo uu nip. , . V1.Trl(bf. 1910,' toy. George Mat Ihr w Adams. mm ..1 . 'if