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Unnatural deed
Do breed unnatural troubles;
Infected minds
To their deaf pillows will dis
charge their secrets.
Shakespeare.
OUR LOUIS
IT remained for pur own and only
Louis W. Hill to discover and
expose the pernicious work of
Governor West In the east.
Ex-Governor Brady of Idaho, who
is In charge of the governors' special,
lias also made a discovery. He, and
the secretary of the touring gover
nors, join in a telegram of congrat
ulation to the people of Oregon on
what they call the excellent work of
OovernorWest In behalf of the state
which he went east to represent.
But if our Louis says a thing Is
so, it must be so, for isn't he the son
of his father? As one of his ad
mirers says, "Isn't Mr. Hill entitled
to an opinion about the proper meth
ods to be employed by the governors
JO advertising the western states?
Why, bless his heart, of course he
Is. He is entitled to a million opin
ions, and as James J. Hill's son, he
is going to express them, too, or
bust a hame string. Indeed, hasn't
he declared a sort of suzerainty over
Oregon, and annexed us as his per
sonal bailiwick. Governor West and
all?
Or course, this Missourlanized
public reserves the right to reject
any and all of our Louis' higher crit
icism. It has notions of its own,
and with reference to the Hill charge
that Governor West is "playing pol
itics," will want to know how many
votes he could drum up in Ohio or
New-Tork?
Perish the thought, he may bo
campaigning for the re-election of
Bourne.
AIR ERRANDS
IT was while flying a considerable
distance to dine with his sisters
that a French aviator fell 1500
feet and was killed yesterday.
The news dispatches, a few days
ago, related how an aeroplanlst in
his machine, chased a white heron
through the air for more than an
hour, unt"l. overcome with fright
and fatigue, it fell exhausted and
was captured. It measured four feet
from tip to tip of Its wings.
In New York state recently, a
sportsman in a machine, shot several
sparrows and other birds from an
aeroplane as he moved swiftly
through space.
! In New Jersey, an aeroplane car
rying a photographer, followed a
fox hunting party over the course,
tpklng pictures on the way.
In France, two. aviators hunted
partridges and hares from aero
planes, killing game with fair suc
cess. Swooping low over a race
track enclosure, they Jropped bets
on the pending races, and watched
the progress of the horses from aloft.
Such are some of the games they
play in the air. Flight has passed
from marvel to monotony. It has
cost a little more than 100 lives, 16
of which were Americans, but It will
be eight years December 7 since the
Wrights first flew at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina.
The total dead for eight years is
but little more than the number we
kill by shooting in the United States
fn four days. It is not a heavy toll,
considering that we have flown on
every errand from going to dine and
hunting hares to an actual flight
across the United States In less than
four days of flying time.
FIGHTING THE TREATIES
THE riotous meeting In the Car
negie hall. New York, on Tues
day evening must give the ma
jority members of the senate
foreign relations committee food for
thought.
A cause that has to be supported
only by rowdyism, riot, and noise,
and the refusal to listen to or to allow
an audience to hear, the arguments
of well known speakers is con
demned already. The chairman,
Joseph Choate, well said, in adjourn
ing the meeting, that "the action here
tonight has done more to cause the
ratification of the peace treaty than
all the peace speeches that could be
ipade during the evening."
t The opposition to the resolution
endorsing the treaty was led by a
spokesman from the German-Ameri-ryin
Citizens' league of New York,
ni hlB resolution to substitute the
majority report of the foreign rela
tions committee for the proposed en
dorsement of the , treaty was the
fignal for the instant outbreak of
fllaorder that ended the meeting.
J Why an arbitration treaty between
the United States and England
should be distasteful to the mem
bers of the German-American league
is hard to divine. ;. , , .y : Ueet Is discussed by Rear Admiral
r The German-Americans should not Walnwrlght, and from It we 'gather
tmly baJl the Anglo-American treaty that the present strength Is 21'bat
ti the first great step towards a tleships In active service, 10 in re-
world peace, but Bhould. use such in
fluence as they may have towards ' mored cruisers in active service, and
binding Germany and England in aitwo in reserve. Also we have. 30
similar ongagement. If they desire
war between those nations they are
setting themselves against the
strongest desires, the most ardent ef
forts of the best in both nations to
avpld it.
"Well might the majority' members
of the senate committee pray, "Save
us from our friends."
MB. DAVIS' CONVERSION
N
ATIVE of Missouri and always
a Missourian when not an Ore
gonfan, "Pike" Davis has been
shown. Yesterday, he opposed
votes for women, but today he is
the woman's champion.
How, or when, or where conver
sion overtook hlni, is not consequen
tial. As a bachelor, always Imper
vious to the charms of the fair, it
can hardly be charged to the work of
cupid. No prepossessing Delilah is
likely to have lulled him to sleep
and cut off his hair, as a means of
working out his regeneration. j
Possibly, his conversion came
from hearing of the California wo-
man, 103 years old, who rode five
miles the other day, Just to register
Possibly he is impressed with the
behavior of the women in the Los
Angeles election. Possibly, the de
cision of a North Dakota court that
a divorced husband has a right to
claim alimony has given him a new
slant on equal rights. Possibly his
views were changed by the act of a
New York millionaire who willed all
his property to his lawyer, thereby
taking the short cut to the Inevit
able.
The large fact in Mr. Davis' con
version, however, is that he Is con
verted. It is an acquisition from
which the suffragists will profit
heavily. It means a campaign that
will have behind It tireless energy,
Incessant hammering away, and a
vast allowance of good old Missouri
enthusiasm.
SOME DAY
A
BAKER county steer, three
years old, weighs 2170 pounds,
and has been purchased as
Christmas beef by a Portland
buyer at $217.
At the fat stock show at the Union
Stockyards last March a carload of
yearling steers from Baker weighed
16,560, or an average of 1035, and
brought $74.62 per head.
A carload of 3-year-olds from An
telope averaged 1409, and sold at
$119.76 per head.
A car of 3-year-olds from Baker
weighed an average of 1506, and
brought $94.45 per head.
A car of 3-year-old steers from
Prlneville averaged 14 77 pounds
and were sold at $103.3!) each.
A champion fat steer from Baker
weighed 1550, sold at 26 cents a
pound and brought $4 03.
The figures are valuable in dem
onstrating the possibilities of early
maturing and fine finishing of beef
in Oregon. The cases are, of course,
unusual, but they prove the possible.
In all cases, the prize animals
were from eastern Oregon, and they
throw a flood of light on what can
be done in that section. They are
affirmation of the oft-repeated con
tention that Oregon has all the requi
sites of food and climate for produc
ing the largest and finest carcass in
the shortest time.
Some day, the production of fancy
livestock will be one of Oregon's
most important industries. It was
not accident, but progress, that en
abled Oregon sheep to win the best
prizes at the National Woolgrowers'
association which met In Portland
last winter.
NEW ZEALAND MAORIES
rJI
UK natives of New Zealand, the
Maorles, have outgrown their
title of "the lazy Maorles."
Writing in "The East and the
West Magazine," a Maori clergyman
says, "We have young Maori men oc
cupying positions in almost all the
professional walks of life doctors,
lawyers, clergymen, engineers, etc.,
all working tide by side with their
white brothers. The humbler avo
cations are not neglected. From
various parts of the dominion we
hear of farmers, artisans, clerks,
dairy farmers, and tradesmen, all
pursuing their business with energy
and skill."
This is an almost unique example
of a native race having outlived the
stages of conquest, of subjection, of
diminution In numbers from disease,
of adoption of white people's ways
and manners. On the side of
achievement the Maorles of this gen
eration have become educated and
respected members of the general
community to a large extent, and so
justify the claims of this Maori
clergyman. Yet they retain their
racial character and aro not being
blended with their white neighbors.
They have remarkable gifts of ora
tory and are now filling several offi
cial and representative positions.
Their dogged courage was shown
In their long and bitter resistance to
Invasion In the New Zealand war.
THE AMERICAN NAVY
I
N an elaborate special number, the
Scientific American gives an In
teresting and exhaustive review
of the American navy. It car
ries numerous articles by experts of
national repute, among them a dis
cussion of the importance of the
command of the sea by Rear Ad
miral Mahan.
The war 'strength of the American
- 1 serve, ready for service, eight ar
cruisers, 30 destroyers, 28 torpedo
boats, 18 submarines, and five coast
defense vessels.
Comparing the strength of the
various navies of the world Great
Britain is accorded the first place
without question, while the United
States outranks both France and
Japan, the comparative strength of
the German fleet makes the super
iorlty of one or the other hard to
determine. Probably at this time
the new and powerful battleships of
the United States indicate higher
fleet strength--but, noting the vary
ing rates of building, two or three
years will, it is said, put the United
States into the third place.
The Improvement in gunnery since
the Spanish-American war is noted
in that the fighting range has been
raised from 2000 and 4000 yards to
10,000 and 12,000 yards. Then the
12 or 13 inch gun was fired once
In about three minutes, now twice
In one minute. A still more remark
able improvement In accuracy has
been attained.
The personnel of the navy in both
officers and men receives the high
est praise.
N The organization of the American
fleet dates from the cruise of the 16
battleships round the world, welding
the Individual vessels into one whole
of tremendous power.
The formation of a naval reserve
is strongly urged.
THE SCARLET MAN
r
T is not ..he scarlet women that
perpetuate the North End. It is
the patrons and the blackmailers
.the police blackmailers, the
so-called "detective" blackmailers,
the rental blackmailers, the moral
wave blackmailers and all the pro
miscuous gentry that wring money
from the women because the women
are under the ban of the law and
thereby made the easy victims of
blackmail and extortion.
Judge Catena was right in his
declaration from the bench that of
ficlal "hounding of the women" is
not the whole way to control the so
cial evil. He insisted that if Instead
of "spasmodic crusades against the
women, the police would direct equal
energy In saving young girls from
men who pursue them, the commun
ity would be betfer off."
Judge Gatens' insistence Is that if
the young girls are protected there
will be fewer scarlet women for the
North End, fewer of the fallen for
the blackmailers to prey upon, and
it Is true. It Is more practical to
stop the recruiting than to reclaim
the lost.
A grown-up man pleaded guilty in
the circuit court the other day to
causing the delinquency of a child
of 14. It Is an atrocity so frequent
in the juvenile court that It has lost
its power to horrify. It has become
but an episode In the horrible pur
suit of our children by human vul
tures. The records of the juvenile court
reveal an appalling list df equally
revolting cases of child destruction.
Surrounded by such evidences of ' the
degradation of Portland childhood,
Judge Gatens' Insistence on meas
ures that would be moral and not
the blackmailer's delight, was as
timely, as it is sane.
The strong arm behind the North
End is the money men make out of
it. The human derelicts garbed as
women are not the power behind
that wretched Jungle. If Portland
will cut off the dividends that men
are dally pocketing from the wretch
ed lives of the scarlet women, the
fumigation bf the North End will
have been successfully begun.
There are scarlet men as well as
scarlet women, and the scarlet man
is the last word in human depravity.
KAFFIR CORN
w
HEN all eyes oL the city
dwellers are drawn to the
splendid Christmas beef It
is a good time to notice
that in Kansas, In Butler county, the
farmers have raised this year 97,457
acres of Kaffir corn, and that the
total yield of Kansas Is estimated at
20,000,000 bushels.
it is said by competent authority
that, both for forage and for grain
Kaffir corn Is proving there a great
boon. It is expected that this cereal
will be to stock feeders as a grain
what alfalfa has proved as a forage
crop.
As a grain feed Kaffir Is estimated
to compare wlthcorn as 90 to 100
per cent. But as to poultry feed It
has no equal for chickens love it
and do excellently well on it.
Kaffir corn ground makes in Kan
sas good meal for stock' food. It Is
said to be excellent for griddle cakes,
superior to buckwheat. It there
produces from 35 to 50 bushels to
the acre.
It stands drought well, far better
than corn, as It stops growing when
a dry spell comes, and starts growing
again when It rains.
It ought to prove a crop of Ines
timable value to the Inland- empire.
GEORGE V EMPEROR
I
T Is, perhaps, not generally known'
In this country that King George
recently entered the world of let
ters, by having published in book
form, what English critics call a se
lection from his really remarkable
addresses during the past few years,
whether . in art or learning, In sci
ence, or In Commerce.
The king has, jby all accounts,
great gifts in thoughtful and elo
quent speech. The title of his book
Is "The King to His People."
The spirit in which he tries to
meet his many and diverse duties
is shown in two terse' sentences,
"The British empire requires at the
present time hard service from all
its subjects. It requires the hard
est service from those to whom most
has been given."
As a constitutional monarch King
George is in the hands of his mln
lsters in National affairs. But in
the performance of his duties in
dividual character appears. The
gift of $1,500,000 towards extension
of public education in India, the
opening of prison daors to political
offenders and to all classes, of poor
debtors, the moving of the capital
from the mouth of the Ganges, with
its torrid insalubrity, to the ancient
city of Delhi, on the plateau of cen
tral India all these, and the
largesse to the British soldiers in all
India, are in harmony with what Is
known of the kindly and wise char
acter of the man.
rCnmmiinlcKtlona sent to The Journal for pohv
Iltt..n in thu rinartmint ahould not exceed
300 worda In length nd muat be accompanied
by the name and addreea of the aender.)
Street Improvements.
Portland. Or.. Deo. 9. To the Editor
Of Tine Journali In reading an account
recently of a case brought berore tne
authorities to prevent them from assess-
ngr $1100 street Improvements against
i 1600 lot and selling the lot, I wm
Jarred Into the conviction that a Lycur-
gus must certainly have visited our nan
of legislation. In reading tne items
recently published In your paper regard
ing: the SkJdmore paving ordinance, I
have had my "Lycurgus" theory fully
confirmed.
I have held and believed that the law
did not contemplate and would not up
hold the taxing of citizens In excess of
the benefits conferred upon him by the
utility for which ha was taxed. But
I perceive I'm all wrong. The amount
of taxation doesn't so much depend on
the measure of benefit received as on
the measure of the governing powers.
It was said after Attorney Schnabel
had stated on behalf of the protestants,
that the passing of the ordinance would
probably mean the confiscation of some
of the property, and called attention to
one case where t'i3 would be assessed
against a $600 lot, Councllmen Bur
gard and Baker gave it as their opinion
that some of the lots were assessed too
low. Councilman BUrgard, however,
generously offered to loan a trust fund
he controlled to some of he poorest
owners on the assessed valuation of
their lots.
Mayor Rushlight was credited with
thinking where a paving company pro
motes an improvement and It is found
that in some cases the assessments will
be greater than the value of the lots,
the paving; company Itself should ar
range to relieve the property owners
of the burden, though he didn't explain
just how they should do It.
It was stated that no Owners were
present to protect personally. Perhaps
they toad read of the Holgate sewer pro
test. I live In the Holgate district. It is
evident from the remarks reported that
there is no Intention of oppressing these
poor people. Of course, lfjjhe assess
ment exceed the value of tne property
the city can't permit It to, be bonded
and ten years allowed 1ft which . to
liquidate, as in the case of more for
tunate owners. But, if the unlucky
ones can raise the cash and make pay
ments within a certain specified num
ber of days tliey will not be molested,
otherwise, the city will sell the lots.
"Whether the man who purchases, for
the assessed value, more or less, will
own the lots and Improvements, clear.
or whether the city will later sell him
out, I have not yet learned. But I
gather that the former owner will be
permitted to go free.
How Jubilant they must feel, parti
cularly those with families, that instead
of being sent to the rock pile to work
out the balance, they are permitted
like the Jewish scapegoat to hide
themselves In the wilderness and re
joice that it's as well with them as It is.
Sonne contend, and I believe The Journal
supports that contention, that it would
be unjust to use city funds raised by
general taxation to imgrove the streets
as people would be taxed for improve
ments that In no way benefited them.
It appears to me the legitimate aim
In promoting all improvements would
be (a) to serve the needs, (b) to gratify
the civic pride and (c) the beautifying
of the city in which all are concerned,
and should be interested, if outlying,
spacely settled districts demand Im
provements in advance, let those who
unite In the demand shoulder the cost
until Buch time as the above reasons
for the Improvements demand their
execution, then let the city take over
and puy the present value of such Im
provements. After an Individual has paid for im
proving the., street bordering his prop
erty does he acquire any title thereto
superior to the rights of any other
citizen of the municipality? Does lie
acquire any authority over the traffic
thereon? Can he prevent the great
motor cars grinding and pulverizing the
pavement he has paid for? or can he
prevent the flying auto distributing that
pulverized pavement over his house and
grounds?
Does he. In fact, use that Improve
ment one hundredth part as much as
the general public or business Interests
of the city? And lastly, if he can't
pay and his property is sold, isn't It
confiscation pure and simple, with pre
tense of a return (or ostensible) bene
fit as, being dispossessed, he has noth
ing to derive benefit from?
To whom does the benefit accrue?
And. if it's unjust to tax people for
improvements that do not benefit them.
why shouldn t the beneficiary or bene
ficiaries pay for these improvements?
V. B. MATHEWS, i
Unwarranted Attacks on West.
Portland. Dec. 12. To the Editor of
The Journal Some days prior to the
last state election, a straw vote was
taken of the employes In the department
where I am employed expressive of the
sentiment for gubernatorial candidates.
As I remember, the vote cast was' Si,
but three of which number were for
Bowerman,' my vote being one of the.
latter. I have for 29 years voted .with
the Republicans on state and national
tickets, but In county and city eleotlons
where I have been more closely ac
quainted with candidates, have frequent
ly supported men of other political
faith, because I considered them su
perior to. candidates for like offices on.
my party ticket.
This Is a long way around in reachtna-
the Incentive for this communication a
desire to express my disgust for the
practice employed by the Oregonlan In
its attacks on and criticism of Governor
West It is the Oregonian's ' narrow,
hide bound partisanship, Its miserable
fault finding-, Its Inability i to see any
good In the efforts 4t our governor to
modernize methods in our penal Insti
tutions, or any other act of his that is
winning more admirers for the gover
nor each - day, and equally lessening
friendship for the Oregonlan. It is
methods of this character; so long em-
Letters From tKe People
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE.
The maahee'ls as much at fault as
the masher.
A little that Is certain is better than
much that is doubtful.
The cackle of a hen Is much more me
lodious now than lit the' spring.
If there's no Rose Festival, the coun
try will think Portland has become too
poor or too stingy to have one.
Since males preponderate In this coun
try, some of (hem may be excused for
Doing old Darneiors. but it is a pity to
see on old maid. .
Heretofore La Follette's speeches
have been three or four hours long.
Couldn't his nearest friend Induce htm
to boll them down?
The Salvation Army can always be
depended upon to help the poor to have
a happy Christmas. As much cannot
be said of many rich people.
Since Carrie ChaDman Catt heads the
announced list of 20 of the world's
greatest women, past and present. It
would be a .waste of time to read the
Other names.
The. census of 1810 shows that there
are 106 males to 100 females In the
United States, and it may be argued
that a great war la necessarv to kill off
surplus males.
New England Is the onlv section of
the country where there are more wo
men than men, and the greatest prepon
derance of men Is on the Pacific coast.
This would seem to be a. hint for New
England girls to come far west.
There Is many a man who Is sleek
flud urbane, and way up in society's
books, well fed and well dressed, very
safe and sane." who seems to view all
bad things with disdain, but he Isn't
as good as he looks. There's many a
man who is homely and plain, who emits
no magnetic gleams, whose shadowed
life seems largely In vain, who gives
fastidious folks a pain, but he lsn t so
bad as he seems. ,
SEVEN MOTHERS
The Mother
I
This man, whose homely face you
look upon.
Was one of Nature's masterful, great
men:
Born with strong arms that, unfought
battles won;
Direct of speech and cunning with the
pen.
Chosen for large designs, he hal the
Hrt
Of winning with his humor, and he
went
Straight to his mark, which was the
human heart:
Wise. too. for what he could not
break he bent."
R. H.- Stoddard.
The obscure, and comparatively un
known mothers of men and women of
genius form a great multitude of fitting
shadows whose outlines and properties
are not easy to ascertain. Undoubtedly
those unknown mothers must have hah
strong" characteristics, or they could not
have transmitted great qualities to their
children. It has even been maintained
that no great man has ever existed who
had not a great mother, whether she
was known to fame as great or not.
Mrs. Thomas Lincoln, the mother of
Abraham ulnroln, whose maiden name
was Nancy Hanks, would have been,
under other circumstances and happier
ones than fell to her lot In the early
rart of her married life, a noticeable
woman. She was well endowed, and by
nature possessed of many excellent qual
ities. She had a limited outlook In
llt, but considering her surroundings
she was far more intelligent than the
majority of Jjhose about her, and to her
her son wair indebted for his rare In
tuitive faculty and his wonderfully de
veloped sympathetic nature. -
Dr. Holland says of her: "8he had
much In her nature that was truly
heroic, and much that shrank from the
crude life around her. A great man
never drew his Infant life from a purer
or more womanly bosom than her own."
Thomas Lincoln obtained his marriage
license in the Washington county, Ken
tucky, courthouse. The wedding took
place on September 23, 1806, and the
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Mr. Head, an Itinerate Methodist preach
er. This same preacher, who was a cab
inet maker In Springfield. Ky., prenched
Mrs. Lincoln's funeral sermon years aft
erward. The young couple were very
poor, but very popular, and among the
neighbors at the marriage was Judge
Felix Grundy, who subsequently re
Pointed Paragraphs
Doing nothing is apt to be overdone.
Women always look on the bright side
of mirrors.
The hungry tramp doesn't want chops
served with an ax.
Some brands of goodness are more un
popular than others.
Are you there when it comes to mak
ing the best of the worst of it?
About two-thirds of the letters writ
ten represent a waste of time.
The easiest way to acquire a fortune
is to inherit it front your father.
The average woman's Idea of a friend
Is some one she can Impose upon.
By saying something Interesting,
Alonzo, you may possibly IntcresVpeople
In what you say.
ployed by both old parties, which are
helping to increase the great and rap
idly growing independent vote an ele
ment not to be influenced by political
lies and mud slinging.
t have no apologies for Governor
West's mistakes (If he has made any)
but I am convinced he 1 desirous of so
administering the affairs of his office
to do the most good for his constituents,
and unless greater faults are developed
than those disclosed by the petty fault
finding of the Oregonian's political old
woman, the present governor gets my
vote for reelection If he wants It.
i . u. w.
Believes Her Father the Author,
"ajaker, Or.. Dec. 2. To the Editor of
The Journal A letter published recent
ly In your paper aBked about the poem
of "The Skeleton." My father, John
Addison Mather, now cieau, is wi0
originator of that poem, wnue cross
ing the plains by ox team train In thu
year 1851, he, in one of his strolls one
evening (after they had halted for the
night), ran across tl) bleached re
mains of a skeleton. Being of a poetic
nature, in after years he wrote that
poem. We have never been able to
discover how the poem got to the mu
seum of royal surgeons in London,
near a perfect skeleton. The poem was
sent, by the curator to the Morning
Chronicle for publication, which stated
that the author preserved his incognito
and has never been discovered.
V I 'MRS. AGNES HOL8T.
(The text (if this poem was published
In The Journal of December 2.) i
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON BIDUL1QHTS.
Pendleton camp. W. O. W., initiated
47 members Monday night.
The Wallowa school district census
enumerator found 469 pupils.
The $3000 pipe organ for the Catho
lic church at Baker Is being Installed.
The city council of Grants Pass has
arranged for an auditing of the city s
books.
Fred Braeh, an Astoria boy, has in
vented an alarm clock device for feed
ing animals. 1
,
The town of Lakevlew had $12.87 In
the treasury on November 7, 1911. The
outstanding debt Is $5287.
Jacob Bosshart, a ranch owner of
Warrenton, reports an average yield of
carrots of 35 tons per acre.
a rimmntln oomDanv made ui from
pupils of the John Day high Bchool is
giving a series of entertainments in the
towns of the John Day valley. They
play to packed houses.
Salem Statesman: The cluster lights
recently installed about the courthouse
rrniinrin vn burning last night and
add greatly to the beauty and Illumina
tion or tne neignDornooa.
Charles .McGovern of the.Sumpter dis
trict and Amos Barnhard or the Mal
heur country, both veteran prospectors
and miners, have died at a Baker hos
pital within the past week.
Ruarena Guard: And we might re
member to be thankful for a Thanks
giving day with sunshine and flowers
and green grass. Only Oregon has
weather like that prevailing over the
Willamette valley today.
vrifnrri m ii-Tribune : Turned on
Saturday evening the new cluster lights
on Main street are burning night and
day, all because the electricians did not
install a swncn wun win i mm
them off. This will be corrected in
the near future.
OF GREAT MEN
of Lincoln.
moved to Nashville. Tenn., and becama
attorney general of the I'nlted States.
The mother of Abraham Lincoln Is
entitled to veneration from every
American citizen who loves his country,
and to whom the fame and glory of Its
greatness is dear. She deserves as well
imfl- is entitled to as much honor at our
hands as the mother of Washington, for
she gave us as great and as good a
man.
Three years after the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln their only son
Abraham was born on the 12th day of
February, 1809. In a district of Hardin
county, Ky. She died of that most ter
rible enemy of the poor, consumption,
and left her desolate little boy alone In
his misery when only 10 years old. He
was her only living child and about him
centered every ambition of her dreary
life.
Mrs. Lincoln taught young Abraham
to read and write. Her attention, denied
him too much because of the hard work
she had to perform, was the sweetest
boon he coveted. She encouraged and
praised him, and piotured the future
that he would make for himself when
he grew to be a man. Mts. Lincoln had
a morbid fear of her son growing up to
Idleness and Ignorance and she success
fully Impressed upon him the necessity
of doing some particular task in life,
and doing It well.
Had Mrs. Lincoln lived her child's
life would have been different, but as
it was, she laid so sure a foundation
In his nature that he owed to her more
than to any other human being his fin
est traits of character. She is described
as being, at the time of ber marriage, a
"slender, symmetrical woman of med
ium stature, and a brunette with regu
lar features and soft, sparkling hazel
eyes."
It seems a cruel wrong to deny to
Abraham Lincoln's fame the Influence
to his mother's character upon his own,
or to withhold from hers that which is
her due the acknowledgment that his
best qualities were inherited from her.
Had she no other title to homage as
the mother of Abraham Lincoln, the one
fact that she Instilled into him whilst
yet a child the traits that distinguished
him as a man, and endeared htm to his
kind, should give her rank with the
noblest mothers of America.
Tomorrow Th e
Grant.
Mother of General
Tanglefoot
By Mile
Overrir.lt
hov are vow
FISH
LITTLE LESSONS IN VAUDEVILLE.
The Muld and the Butcher.
Maid Have you anything that is
good for a stew?
Rutcher Sure; I gott bromo seltzer
Muld (hurriedly) Sir! What kind of
heart have you?
Butcher O chust a regular single
action, round-cornered heart. Id lss a
goot vun I raised Id myself.
Maid I see you don't understand me.
I want some meat Just M-E-A-T and
I'm trying to learn what you have that
is best.
Butcher Veil, diss lss a goot place to
ged Id. Id peats a piano store.
Maid How are your fish?
Butcher Dey're veil, t'ank you. How
lss your folks?
Maid Let me look at your tongue.
Butcher (aside) Py g-olly, she t'lnks
I gott 'pendicltis. (Aloud.) Sorry laty,
but I can'd do id. Id hass a coat on id.
Maid You are always misunderstand
ing me. I want some ox tongue.' Do I
make myself plain?
Butcher I should say as nod. Vy,
laty, you couldn't make yourself plain
mlt an ax. No, -id 1b s too hot der ox
tongue lss oudt.
' Maid Have you fresh eggs?
Butcher Sure; ye gott our own egg
plant.
Maid And how are your pork chops?
Butcher Veil, pork chopa, all rlghdt
but hash lss der greatest cut upl .
(It is time to draw the curtain, be-'
fore the audience begins to anticipate
the jokes. The secret in writing this
stuff is to know when to quit)
Down Pine.
From the Woman's Home Companion.
"Now, Willie," said the superintend
ent's little boy, addressing the black
smith's little boy, who had come over
for s frolic, "we'll play 'Sabbath school.'
You "give tne a nickel every Sunday for
six months, and then at Christmas I'll
give you a 10 cent bag of candy."
Protecting the Homicide
'By Alfred H, Lewis in Collier
Our coming together was not casual,
although I was the only one who knew
it. About the table aside from myself
were the lawyer alienist, "Dr. W. J.
O'S'uUlvan; Dr, Charles Kennedy, physi
cian surgeon, and Inspector W, W. Mc
Laughlin, pupil of the late Superintend
ent Byrnes and regarded as one of the
best among our modern police. I
brought up Mr. Snyder's article, "The
Encouragement to Kill," printed In a re
cent Issue or Collier's, ,1 called attention
to the fact that here in America, we
were murdering each other at the red
rate of 9000 a year; that population
for population while Italy counted 15
murders, England nine and Germany
five, we of America counted 90; that
under our present maladministration of
Justice, of every 90 murderers, 10 went
to prison, one to the gallows or the
"chair," and 79 walked free. Insanity as
a defense was condemned.
No man, however murderously moved,
can kill another with nothing but his 10
fingers. He needs a weapon a pistol, a
knife, a blackjack in order to murder
successfully. Were a law devised and
enforced emphasize "enforced" which
would strip every man of weapons, those
9000 yearly American murders would ebb
to fewer than 900. . -
There are laws against carrying pis
tols, knives and blackjacks. Every state,
every city, has these laws. Some of
them, like the Sullivan laV passed at the
last session of the New. York legislature,
are extreme in their provisions.
As to the latter statute, it is the ex
pressed opinion of certain magistrates
and other law officers that sundry of its
provisions conflict with the constitu
tion. Apparently, those magistrates,
who have given opinions' against the va
lidity of the Sullivan law would RnnnAf
see men muraerea man see murderers
shorn of the least splinter of their con
stitutional rights.
It dovetails with the present purpose
to call attention to a defect, which is
found In every Anierican ordinance or
statute forbidding pistol carrying. It Is
not a latent defect wnjch the dim eyes
of our lawmakers overlooked In favor
of the lawbreakers; but a leak coldly
contrived, by the law architects who
drew the ordinance or' statute, and
through which the good therein con
tained Is allowed to escape. The clause
In question Is that which arranges for
the issuance of "permits." The law de
clares that no one shall carry a pistol,
and provides punishment for those who
offend. But it adds that certain offi
cials, therein named, shall have author
ity to issue "permits" to whomsoever
they will, to so to phrase it violate
the law. Upon a principle of partiality,
understood doubtless In an older day
when the church dealt In dispensations,
the mayor, the police commissioner, po
lice magistrates in most cities may give
any man the right to carry a pistol, and
so keep himself ready upon the instant
to murder whomsoever he sees fit.
To be sure, the prudent theory of
those who drew the law and voted for
Its passage was.jjmt the officials, thus,
endowed with ypowVs Jo issue gun carry
ing permits would Jrg-o conservatively
about the business. The lawmakers,
when they contemplated those permits,
had In mind night watchmen, express
messengers and others whoso duties are
to protect property and life from crimi
nal attack. Assuredly they did not In
tend that It should be employed to arm
thiifffl and Btronir nrni rogues for the
commission of murder.
The abuse into which that power to
Issue permits has fallen may be guessed
at from the word of Inspector MeLaugh.
lln. He said that of every 10 to whom
permits to carry pistols have been Issued
nine are professional criminals, and the
odd one does not need a gun. When the
"barrel murder" was being Investigated,
11 men were arrested. All were armed
with pistols, and 7 of the 11 had per
mits to carry them. One could not
speak English, looked like and was a
savage, and had not been six months off
Ellis Island.
In New York' city, through the Inter
ference of politicians or the pig headed
ness of the police, fully half of what
murders are committed remain "myste-
rles never solved." No one is arrested,'
no one punished. Sometimes to screen
the real murdorei' the wrong man la ap
prehended. Such arrests serve to stay
public clamor and shield the police from
blame. When the public again goes to
sleep, the "wrong man" so arrested is
set free, there being no evidence.
Dr.' Kennedy believed that a society
should be formed to see that murderers J
are dealt with, and not permitted to go
rree througn me aominanng interrer
ence of politicians and the submissive
connivance of the police. Such a so
ciety, incidentally, should busy Itself
about the punishment of those who
violate the laws against carry
ing deadly .weapons. Such ac
tion might result in an anti-weapon,
anti-murder association, a movement
which would be copied in every city of
the country. Senator Sullivan himself
held that such an association should be
formed, and had suggested that he put
through the legislature a resolution In
corporating It.
"It is my own opinion," concluded Dr.
Kennedy, "that fully 60 per cent of the
shootings and stabbtngs which have
come under my observation would never
have occurred had it not been that the
shooter or stabber chanced to be armed
at the time. Had he not been carrying
a knife or pistol when the sudden Im
pulse to murder Belzod him there would
have been no murder at all,"
Judging Character.
j From the Washington Star.
'"That man Mehltabcl married has
lot of foresight," said Farmer Corn-'
tassel.
"He looked kind of worried and scared
at the weddin ," replied his wife.
'That's what makes me think he has
foresight."
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(Contributed to Th Journal by Walt Mason,
the famous Kansas poet. His pro-poina are a
r.'iular feature of tula column In Tbt Dally
Journal.)
I stood before the county Jail, and said
that suffrage ought to win. "The
Woman's better than the male," I cried;
"to flout her Is a-sin. She has more
virtue and more sense than ,any man
who Walks the earth; and all the world;
a few years hence, will have to own her
sterling worth. A woman always loves
the good, and hates the false, the bad,
the vile; for Innocence she's always
stood, and looked on merit with
mile." Then came a long parade of
dames, who halted at the prison door;
the bore upon their graceful frames 'a
ton of lovely flowers or mora I asked
the Jailer why they brought these floral
tributes to his den. Ha answered:
"Well, you know we've caught, that
fiend who slew a dozen men. . We have
him fettered safe, by Jlng, to hold him
till the hangman comes, and every day
the Women bring him orchids and chrys-
eHthamiiMna .
mpnignt. i(iii, by
Oeorga Mat thaw Adams