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THE WASHINGTON HERALD FEIDAT OCTOBER 18 1907w
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FRIDAY OCTOBER IS It
Force or StatecraftIn hter address at Cairo III on October
3 President Roosevelt saidTMi Uttfea fe BOW B tem Of UM BWSt Mr-
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Yet we are engaged In extraordinarypreparations for national defense baaedapparently on official belle that we rein sjome danger of attack That te themilitary method of averting war But isthere BO other way commensurate withour national dignity and safety
We think the statesman who composesthe differences between the United Statesand Japan WIn contribute more to thesafety of the republic than he who etaloose the does of war for the securityof our Institutions lies in the maintenanceof peace rather than in the promotion ofmilitarism
A little more war talk and the Mikadomy forced to resort MrYfuldeons guaranteed nerve restorer
Good Advice to CorporationsAlthough most of the papers read at
the meeting of the American Gas Insti-tute relate to technical some efthem bate dealt rankly with the rela-tions of the people tt public corTOratkms President Clarke and one ortwo others admonished the public thatthe corporations should be fairly treatedthat they are entitled to It fair return onthe money invested and that If they arenot prosperous the communities wherethey are located will suffer With thosepropositions we are in hearty agreementAnother aspect of the case equally de-serving consideration was neatly pre-sented by Charles H Dickey of Baltimore In his address on the obligationsimposed by the possession of a franchiseAmong these obligations Mr Dickeymentioned the duty of using the fran-chise properly and treating the peoplejustly Another is that of pursuing afair and frank policy toward the pressThe corporation said Mr Dickey shouldkeep itself clean and above suspicion Itshould be free from graIL It should notgrant special favors of any sort to
of the government And flashyMr Dickey offered this pertinent advice
The ewparattMS ohauM not fatomae i kgUatoe ad if they do sot there m U be M kgiaU
mosey Therefore under any iilrnnmiUnui whatever let us refuse to liar or bribe wnbiie ottdatoor te take part in eteetioaa or to taterreae eorraptly ia legWaUoa awl ia setting our tam Jiba apia tbeae practices the pnMie Mrrice eecxoration weald not only M W in ttt owe tm-ramtty Iron erierout rfl would Mi only be 46
pod upon itself but wovld be dfeebargtag-an oeHgttion of the higbett character to tin people
ta Uw state
If this sound advice had always beenfollowed by public service and other cor-porations perhaps there would have beenvastly less of the political demagogy andanticorporation hysteria of which Presi-dent Clarke saw fit to complain It Jsbecause the corporations many of themhave forgotten or ignored their
to the people that the widespreaddemand for more stringent public regula-tion has sprung demand that sometimes we regret to say ignores the ob-ligation of the public to the
public service corporations recognize the just obligations imposed by theirfranchises and they will have no quarrel with the people Let their conductbe fair and aboveboard their reportshonest complete and comprehensibleThe time has gone by as one of thespeakers at the gas institute meetingsaid when secrecy can be depended oneven to serve the purposes of the cor-poration Its best defense against mis-representation is publicity of the factsSuspicion is aroused by concealment andinjustice may be done through ignorance-of th truth about corporate affairs thatmight be averted if the truth wereknown
At least the President may depend uponthe stanch support oC Senator Porakerin effort to prevent a Roosevelt slantpede in the next Republican convention
An Economic Dcfcnse of the MillionaireChancellor Andrews of the University
of Nebraska offered a defense of the mil-lionaire in his address at the fall con-vocation of George Washington Univer-sity that contrasts strongly with thepopular view of the legitimacy of swollenfortunes Mr Bryan has recently ex-pressed doubt whether anybody couldgain a million dollars honestly and thepopular idea is that all great wealth teobtained by despoiling somebody Chan-cellor Andrews declared this view fal-lacious from an economic standpointWealth he argued is gained by servingthe community not by robbing it anti amans wealth is a measure of his superiorgenius and industry He made no apol-ogy of course for the corrupt practicesof rich men his plea being for betterunderstanding of the true function of theman of wealth in our modern industrialsociety
Dr Andrews made much of the pointthat ownership of the countrys wealth isof lees importance than what use is madeof It Wealth Invested in productive en-
terprises Is beneficial to the people atlarge and as Dr Andrews said it is ofoo advantage to the owner unless it Isso invested Thus the immense accumu-lations of wealth which are regarded bysome as a menace to society are unme
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te not necessarily detrimental to thesocial good Dr Andrews thought wasillustrated in the socialistic idea that thestate as supreme owner of alt Industrialenterprises could supply alt the materialwants of the community The socialistshe said are right In thinking the title towealth could be centered in the statewithout hurt to the Individual althoughhe bad no faith in the productive ca-
pacity of the socialistic systemThe productive millionaires are there
fore functionaries of the social systemTheir genius for organization their enter-prise their sagacity and foresight eventheir greed are at the service of the
man for they are engaged In sup-plying his multifarious wants Theirgreat fortunes are the reward of theirgreat services but a fast a accumulated the wealth created by their enter-prises ig reinvested and made to yield yetmore wealth thus sustaining our abound-ing material prosperity Dr Andrewsviews present a conception of the socialorder reminding us strongly of what onesocialistic writer has cleverly termed be-
nevolent feudalism There is no ques-
tion however that It the millionaire isto be tolerated it must be on conditionthat he realize social obligations and
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munity That many oC them do this wereadily admit
Mr requested that no wines orliquors bo served at banquets tenderedklan In Manila We shall decline to be-
lieve the worst however until Informedthat ha requested buttermilk substitutedinstead
As to Newspaper EnglishThe writer who in the October number
of the University Magazine criticises theAmerican newspaper prom because of itsalleged overuse of stock words andphrases is not sustained by the factsNot only do wo seldom see nowadayssuch expressions as yellow metal Aeryelement palatial hostelries speckledbeauties nnny tribe Ac to whichthe writer in question refers but thoseother old standbys of a few y ars ago
the lire huddles responded promptlygreat excitement prevails and if
caught he will be lynched are almostnever observed in the columns of anycity newspaper and seldom in the
published in the smaller towns Ifthey do appear in a newspaper known-to be carefully edited ordinarily one maybe certain that they are used ironicallyor that the fifth assistant city or tele-graph editor has been on the deskand tiu t aU the copy readers are ia loveor in debt or In some otter trouble thatjnakes it impossible for them to keeptheir minds on their work Even thtrawest of cub reporters soon learns toavoid such bromides as those mentionedIndeed instructions on that point areusually among the first given him Con-
sidering the remarkable pace that mustbe maintained in daily newspaper omceswe think we are justified In saying thatAmerica has a right to be proud gf thequality of the English employed by herrepresentative publication of that classWe believe that in this respectas in allothers the United States press will com-pare most favorably with the foremostdally Journals of England or for thatmatter with many of the popular mag-azines and books of the present day inthe making of which there is no necessityfor hurry We have just finished rendinga novel by a wellknown author in prac-tically every chapter of which arv te befound such crimes as to always
to say nothing of other lapses Ascontrasted with this we may say thatnot one of the highbrowed reporters ofour acquaintance would stoop to theperpetration of split Infinitive morethan once or twice a month and thenonly for the purpose of attempting toget something on thecopy readersThere is as little justice in most of the
criticism of newspaper headlines as litthe University Magazine writers animad-versions Some time ago a valued sub-scriber communicated to The
Herald his dissatisfaction with theuse in captions of the word probefor investigation and with other simi-lar perversions He overlooked the
that newspaper type is madeof metal not rubber and that only alimited number of letters and Spaces canbe placed in the width of a single columnThis obviously makes the selection ofshort words absolutely necessary hence
keymen for telegraph operators andother contractions equally as bad
We shall not comment on the Uni-versity Magazine mans remarks concern-ing the horrors of the lingo used bysome newspapers to describe baseballgames We agree with him thoroughlybut even though the season is closedenthusiasm still runs high among dev-otees of the game and we are not hunt-ing trouble
An embezzler comes forward with theunique plea that he never would havestolen the money had not Mr Boonevelts pernicious activities depressed thestocks in which he had been speculatingNow if the President can find some wayto unload this on Loeb it will be thefinest example of shifting the blame everrecorded
Beauty and BrainsWe are somewhat surprised that so
levelheaded a newspaper as the Rich-mond TimesDispatch should subscribewithout question to the theory set upby a London physician that the prettiestwomen are invariably the stupidest-
Is there anything at all in this con-ception that looks in ladles do notgo hand in hand with intellect inquires our contemporary and then SLH
swore Itself by adding Most people willagree that there is
It Is all but Impossible to discuss in-telligently such a proposition Beautyand intellect especially when used inconnection with each other are purelyrelative terms The woman who is sur-passingly fair to one may be very com-
monplace to another the brilliant in-
tellect attaching to and appertaining toany woman is attractive purely according-to the light in which she is viewed V hoshall set a standard of beauty universalin its scope Who shall prescribe a quality of intelligence satisfying to everybodyWho Is pretty and who is smart andwho guarantees the answer
Aye theres the rub Is there anybodyany sweeter any more beautiful anybrighter wittier or more attractive thanevery fellows best girl that te to eachand respective fellow We thinknot
If lilt b s to MCWhat mrs I bew Mr she be
sings the poet and you cant get swayfrotH It He might havo gone furthersjtd 9W If she se not so to me whatcare I how she be Beauty isht the eye of the beholder and by thesam token so is intelligence so tospeak
So far aa the real or fancied beautyof the notable of history is concerned the records are extremely doubt-ful Elizabeth of England was accountedbeautiful but it was rather dangerous-in her time for any one to assert other
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wise Likewise she was rated a brilliantruler but Just how much of tho gloryof reign belongs of reality to herable ministers Is a matter of speculationShe may have been very lovely physicallyand very wonderful mentally and thenagain she may have been vory ugly andvery stupid You cannot tell in this dayand time nor could you toll with
In her own day and time Verylikely she was rated all of the things we
to the mental attitudeof the party doing the rating
In our opinion physical appearance andcondition save only mens sana incorpore sano have nothing whatever todo with intellect either In man or womanIf statistics were available it Is notprobable that they would show anythingof evidence to the contrary reckoningbeauty and intelligence by what womight term an average estimate
A srndleAte has boon formed in NowYork to build air ships Tho stockholderswill be lucky If they find they have beenbuilding anything substantial than
They are putting monkeys In Jail InNew Jersey says the Baltimore Ameri-can If this thing should spread toNewport doubtless the jails would haveto be enlarged
A Nashville minister recently proachoda sermon In vorse The backsliders inhis church probably are reckoned bybataltlon now
The blind tlgor must exclaimsthe Atlanta Constitution Doubtless theywill be all the go hi Goorgfa after Jan-uary 1st
The only menacing feature we see inconnection with the decline In the priceof cement is that it may ultimately gotinto the breakfast foods
We do not believe the suggestion of analligator hunt in the Now Jersey swampswould make much of a hit with the Pres-ident just now
A Kansas woman has just married thesame man for the firth time After a-
while this habit doubtless will becomefirmly fixed on the lady
The Inventor of hokeypokey lea creamis dead and It Is to be hoped he buRtgone where practically everybody will
lipect be has
A number of wildcats are reported tohave recently attached a party of
in the suburbs of Philadelphia Whyshould Mr Roosevelt waste his timepoking about In the canebrakes of Lou-isiana and such prospects for good sportright here almost at his front door
The cost of peroxide of hydrogenbeen advanced sharply This distressingnews will turn many a womans headback to its original color
The proposition to mako the public payfor Washington new union depot bycharging each passenger 36 cuts admis-sion fee te lovely exactly otis of thosephilanthropic schemes upon the part ofthe railroads that cause numbers ofgrouchy persons throughout the land toabuse them
Numerous oMhomers ara Bftltlmoromarylanding this week
In the Philippines you may buy a cigara foot long for S cents My but Ute atBiosphere of that country must wellworse than a Pennsylvania governmentcontract
It is said that seasickness te almostunknown aboard the Lusltanla but theyhave spoiled It all by announcingintention to introduce vaudeville performances during voyages
Full Back Butt of Harvard have youmet the paragraphors of the ccfcmtir-TParagraphers Butt says the New YerkMail Not for ours its flusyl
The President undoubtedly wouldkilled the bear had it not jumped intothe lake says a current news item Itsa wise antagonist of the President thatknows just when to take water
TIM flags are up mighty wellunder the circumstances says the Bentztown Bard in the Baltimore Sun anentthat citys homecoming week Possiblya typographical error got instead ofa j m the second word
The newly prescribed uniform for thecolonels on Ute staff of the governor ofGeorgia cost SiR Naturally it takes alot of goldlace fixings and things te make-a colonel shine even a little bit beside theHon Hoke
Many people who criticise the Presidentfor shooting bears for sport never thought-of criticising Mr Cleveland for shootingducks for the same reason and yet inall probability ducks are as unanimouslyunited against that sort of thing as bears
Curiously enough the greater part ofthose newspapers now overly anxious forfear Uncle Sam will not get his moneyback from the Jamestown expositionmanagement are the same papers whosecontinuous nagging and adverse criti-cism of the show contributed in mostgenerous measure to bring about thevery situation concerning which they ROWshed crocodile tears while thatsentence may be somewhat Henry
it expresses the truth
A prophet says that an earthquakewill break the Isthmus of Panama intwain next January leaving a canal twomiles wide If we secure acanal in that way doubtless the Re-publican party would at once set up andprove a claim of responsibility for thequake
Of course the boor that jumped inthe lake and got away thesame class as to size as the fish thatalways gets back in tho water
Doubtless the price of thread was ad-vanced to six cents a spool In this coun-try because the poor downtroddenthread trust charitably SOng It for threecents In England
The Buckeye PhilosopherFrom the OWo Magazine
The most Influential womans club Isthe rolling pin
Cupid shoots his arrow but his victimonly feels the quiver
Courtship makes life brighter withoutincreasing the gas bills
What this country needs most Is gov-
ernment ownership of brainsAll te worlds a stage and mst of
the people on it are bad actorsDeal her one diamond and it will fill a
royal flush on a maidens cheekIn conversation it is a wise plan to say
as little as possible about nothingAll men are equal before the law but
not quite equal in getting around itWhen a man gets the Itch for office he
sometimes gets scratched at theThe only thing that arouses 9 cows
wonder is to see a summer girl chewgum
At a markeddown sale of millinery iswhere a woman fights at the drop of thohatWomen dont have the franchise in thiscountry but they wield an awful vetopower
Empty Party TreasuriesFrost UM Brtoklya Btgle
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A LITTLE NONSENSE
BARNSTORMINGFrom town to town on foot theyd hike
he didnt take to thatA walking part ho didnt like it made
his pedals HatThey had a snow scene in the play but
when to rest theyd goHe had to sleep on straw or hay the
star got 11 the snow
He had to carry handbills round whichwas a pretty pass
And when hed covered all that ground-s he doubled up In brass
played the dogs the shouts outsidebut got ids wage
And so ore long his ardor died and hegave up the stage
Sensible TalkLets have a few drinksNo I need my money to buy shoes
withBatthe drinks wont hurt you
Neither will the shoes If I use ordi-nary care In picking them out
Household HintsHow to cut your gas bill in two In-
sert it between the blades of a pair ofscissors and prose together the handles
InnuendoTho muses nine The muses nine
chortled ufe poetI dont think much of tho muses
nine sneered a baseball enthusiastWell lee no worse than some other
nines I could mention
Reams of TestimonyThe leaves in fall are aU aflame
Likewise aglowSo many poets make this claim
It must be so
The Feminine VersionBut Mrs VandwgiH the public
doesnt seem te think much ef the ap-proaching marriage
Oh the public be fudged
An Awful JoltHow do you like this little feather In
meVery much AJgy answered the
young lady aMrsssed But dont youthink a tasty toque would be more suit-able to your particular
Often HappensSometimes the man who ht rwpeiessty
outclassed wins
JUST BY THE WAY
Peas flw OmteMl Leader
Of CourseMiss said Mr Stayer ia
trembling tones wOl wTO you starry meDare I
Mr Stayer answered Ute lady doyou suppose Id have let you keep com-ing around here three times a week andboring me half to death M you have forthe last three month if I hadnt intendedte marry you
TUB GAY WHITH WAY
Oh would I wereTo label thisThis home of the raMriThat babble sad gabbleMy pen I mustAnd scribble and dribbleInk vainly redoubleMy trouble the bubble
Wont blow and the I would rift teall stubble
Nay wilt should I tackleand shackle this cackleOf loud tean that tickle
flek e a btckiefThis hero fluokfl-
lJoia witfethem MId chunkA nmckle The enocklf
many a shekelyet It salts my complexion far arc lights
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A JewelWade Parker My nsw cook Is
perfect treasureMrs Glen ViliersIn wbat wayMrs Wade Partter She lets me have
Thursday afternoons off
AXIXVARXABIB SIGNrYe shivered m my threeroom Rat the
best part of a weekBut teaming from experlsnve was pa-
tient still and meekI barred the windows tight against the
equinoctial stormAnd wore my overcoat indoors to keep me
almost warmBut when I woke this morning I knew at
once the dayWas flue and mild and I could lay my
winter clothes awayA hissing pounding sound it was aroused
me from my dreamOf course twas tine the Janitor was turn-
ing on the steam
PRESIDENT AND BISHOP
True Story About Famous WhiteHOUHC Tennis Match
mop lagan ai Pttgrfafts DinqBitNow a word or two about that President-
of yours He may stay wolves and huntbears but he struck me a the titan whokept everybody else alive In America Ifit be not impertinent for me to say sohe impressed me as one of the moststimulating and fascinating personalitieswith whom I have ever come into co-ntact x
Oh yes that tennis match I supposeyoull want to know about that the truthabout I shall have to refer you to aWashington newspaper which really didhave the straight story We never playeda singles at all but when the bishopsside won the President looked as pleased-as if he had seen a man with twentychildren
Two VeteransFees tile SertogaU RtpaWtan
It is only at rare Intervals the country-is reminded that exSenator Edmunds ofVermont and Philadelphia and John AKftseon of Iowa still live They both ap-
pear on the petition for an Injunctionagainst the voting of Harriman stock Inthe Illinois Central fracas They areboth natives of Vermont and both havehad distinguished careers In the publicservice Mr Edmunds In the UnitedStates Senate and Mr Kasson in theHouse and diplomatic service Mr Edmunds is now seventynine years old andMr Kasson Is eightyfive
Good Government Begins at ionicFnm the iMttaaapoih Newt
Wa are all impatient when confrontedwith the humble task of governing ourselves at home and want to branch outinto national and even worldpoliticsThis te a great mistake Js the New Yorkgovernor says we canno have good na-
tional government If the are indif-ference to the proWemrj of administration whlcjt confront them in their severalcommunities
Reclaiming SwamplandPram IMtfcwM Sue
If the Federal government puts wateron dry land in the fr West why shouldit not take water off the wet land of theEast and South
Multiplying TroublesKKWS PUkMMpbte Pies
The demands of CoL Wattersoh for anew party is a little surprising oonsldcuing the trouble he has had with the old
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MEN AND THINGSWorkman and Author
William R Lighten the novelist ofOmaha who has made a good deal ofmoney out of his books was not alwaysable to make a living by his Forsome time about fifteen years ago hewould havo been glad to get manual laborof any kind as a temporary vocation Itwas on the Pacific Coast at Los Angelesat a time when the Los Angeles boomcollapsed Lighten was working on adaily paper He received good wages andhe spent It all Al of a sudden withoutwarning he with many others foundhimself out of employment When LJghtons money gave out ho sought workof any kind but hundreds were doingthe same thing Food brought highprices and for three days the youngnewspaper man had nothing to eat Onthe evening of the third day lie wandereddown to the bay and there a crabbedHttle Englishman found him The Eng-lishman had a hut and plenty of tea Herevived Lighten and then found himwork at excavating for a large buildingand there the newspaper man workedwith pick and shovel with refined andeducated men working at his side Theman on my right he says graduatedfrom one of the universities of Edinburghwhile frequently workmen with whom Iwas thrown in contact turned out to bemen of all kindS of collegiate degreesand professional training It was atime all around but we finally pulledout of It But those three days without
seem to haunt me now and thenI see traces of poverty and rough
usage on the faces of men I meet inthe street For the rest his career habeen that of a but and successful author
Indian Weather ProphetsA number of Toba Inlet Indians recent
ly arrived in Vancouver on the steamerCannier They are said to be distinguishedabove all other radians for their wisdomin weather lore One of the red men inconversing with a white passenger saidthat the Indians along the coast expecteda very severe winter and had alreadybegun to make preparations to securethemselves against the cold Forest ani
particularly the common wolf theysay are growing longer hair than usualand they declare that nature never failsto provide long in advance for whatevershe has in store for the animate Thefact of the wolves growing heavier coatsthan usual the Indians say te a suresign that the winter te to be very coldbat besides the testimony of the animatethe Indians declare that they liars readIn signs and warnings from the moon tes-
timony concerning the winter
Brigadier General GodfreyBrig Gen Godfrey who retired the
other day has the distinction of beingone of the last of the highcommissionedomcers who saw service in the civil warHe served as a private in the Twentyfirst Ohio Infantry before he was
a cadet at West Point whencebe graduated in 1817 Gen Godfrey wonthe medal of honor for distinguishedgallantry of action against the Nes-Perces Indians at Bear Paw MountainMontana September 30 1877 leading hiscommand in action when he wa severelywounded He served at the battle ofWounded Knee and it chargedagainst him that be permitted the killingof women and children unnecessarily Hewas vigorously defended against thischarge by his friends notable amongwhom to Gsa Bell who also participatedin the engagement In a railroad accident just after the battle of WoundedKnee Gen Godfrey was so badly injuredthat he had to go to the hospital buthe was out again In time to participateto the campaign in which Gen Custerwas killed and i the expedition whichcaptured Chief Joseph He wa at theMilitary Academy from 1879 to 1M as in-
structor of cavalry and he was ojtnmended for special eAdency b the In-spector General of the army m 3IW
Wild PiKcon Coming BackThe announcement that a flock of wild
pigeons veotimated at 10W birds are nestlag In Sullivan County New York provesthat this bird once so numerous te notextinct a ha bees popularly supposedThirty years ago wild pigeons were to beseen by the million in Potter Elk War-ren McKean and Cameron counties NewYork In Potter and McKean countieswas one of the largest nesting groundsIn North America Their roosts werefrom four to 3ve miles long and from oneto three miles wide and their numbers noman could count No other birds wereever known to migrate in such num-bers These pigeons swept across thesky in such masses that it is notexaggeration to say that they oftenobscured sun Hunters were permit-ted to shoot and net them on their nestinggrounds so that the slaughter was ter-rific In one day in 1851 the American Ex-press Company carried from the northerntier of Pennsylvania and the southern tierof New York over the Erie Railwayseven tons of pigeons to the city marketand in one season the total aggregatedfiftysix tons Hunters shot them by thebarrel on their nesting grounds until theygot tiredof picking up the game Pigeonpotpie a great native delicacy palled onthe taste After the pigeons were prac-tically exterminated the law stepped Into protect them and now that the birdsare coming back again it te thought Itthe laws are properly enforced there maysoon be great hocks again
The Largest TruckThe lArgest and most pewsrfql truck
rolled into New York City the otherday It has the strength to oarry mtons 208000 pounds sad prior to the cre-
ation of this monster the largest truckcould only carry 129609 pounds Thebuilding of the Pennsylvania terminalfathered the thought of this truck whichte called The Whale The immensegirders and columns that are to be usedIn the construction of the station couldnot be handled without this truck forsome of tho girders weigh ninety tonsand will have te be hauled from WestThirtyeighth street and North Riverto the terminal The owners of theWhale say that for every ton of steelloaded on to the truck one horse willbe attached therefore to haul a nicetyton girder will require fortyfive teamsThe truck itself weighs eighteen tonsand It took six months to build it overIn Brooklyn It is made mostly of steelwood being used only for the upper restsand for the pole The rim of each wheelIs fourteen inches wide and the totalweight of each wheel te 3090 poundsThe boring for the axle hole of thewheels cost W The front axle te fourteenandahalf inches thick at the cen-ter and snren Inches at the Thetwo axles weigh 430 pounds
Lillian Xordlca SingerLillian Ncrdlca one ef the most fa-
mous popular singers of her timehas made a considerable fortune out ofher voice and she intends to spend agood deal of it In aid of musical art Shehas developed plans for a sort of Amer-ican Bayreuth and proposes to build onthe banks of the Hudson an opera houselike those at Bayrouth and Munich onlylarger and better She will not only puther own funds into it but she has suc-ceeded in interesting a number of richmusic lovers in the project The stage Isto be a revolving one so that Wagnerand Shakespeare may be performed without unnecessary watts between thescenes The foyer of the place is to bean exhibition room for painters and sculptors In connection with her plans sheproposes to establish a great opera schoolwhere girls may learn to sing If it isfound that they have abilities that willwarrant they will be aided to goabroad to study under some of the Eu-ropean masters Mme Nordica id to singat a benefit in Paris soon The fundsraised are to be used solely for tho pur-pose of sending back home Americangirls who have failed abroad
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GAS AND ELECTRICITY
Combination Driving Out Competi-tion Between the Two
From tha Illuminating EngineerUnquestionably gas lighting is being
driven to the wall Jn this country bythe electric light The reason for thismust be sought In the conditionsat present govern the financial worldrather than In the relative merits of gasand electric illumination As a lumlnantgas more than holds its own In GreatBritain and France and is fully holding
own in other parts of Europe andthis cannot be attributed to any lack ofappreciation of good illumination on thepart of Europeans The simple fact Isthat In this country we have fulfilled al-most to the limit the truth so admirablyexpressed by the great English engineerStevenson that where combination ispossible competition is Impossible Cer-tainly nothing is more possible than thecombination of gas and electric Inter-ests and whore this combination hastaken place economic conditions favorthe largest possible use of electric cur-rent for lighting with a correspondingdiminution in the use of gas lighting
The average American Is too busy toargue and Investigate minor mattersand In such cases takes what is offeredhim especially if it has the advantage ofrequiring less personal care and atten-tion and with the advantage ofvenienee which the electric light unde-niably possesses skillfully presented andthe advantage of cheapness possessed bygas passed over In silence the ac-ceptance of the newer luminant Is aforegone conclusion The advantage ofcheapness however is one that cannotbe wholly dammed even by the falntstpraise and notwithstanding the recentremarkable improvements In efficiency inelectric lamps this advantage with gasseems likely to continue even if In asomewhat marked degree
REMODELING THE HOUSE
Mr Bontells Plan for RemovingDesks Commended
Pant the New York TribuneThe disappearance of the desks would
under conditions work little hardship They served a good purpose yearsago when there were only a few com-mittee rooms accessible to members anawhen writing had actually to be done inthe chamber But now that every mem-ber has an office room and a clerk andcorrespondence is done by dictation thedesks are a belated survival The hall ofthe House has come to be used for speak-ing and voting and members engaged Inpersonal worts or simply fitting in thetime can use their own or thelobbies to better advar ge It would addto the smoothness courtly and practicalusefulness of debate if the members par-ticipating in it were able to sit near to-gether on the front benches Instead oftrumpeting across space and there wouldbe less temptation than soot to Indulge-in long stump speeches having little orno relation to the subject in hand TheHouse has suffered a good deal In re-cent years from the superficiality andcrudeness of its tons of pendinglegislation Any experiment which prom-ises to make debate more pertinent in-
forming and interesting ought to beheartily welcomed
POLICE DOGS AT ANTWERP
Experiments Do Xot Prove So Suc-
cessful as at GhentPam UM Oasprtar Smart
A report from Consul General H WDfedrlch states that for some time theAntwerp police have bees experimentingwith dogs as assistants to the sightwatch service lit the isolated sections ofthe Antwerp docks with the followingresults
The experiments Raw proved negativeand at one tune it was even proposedto give up the kennels altogether Thecity police have seven dogs known as theBelgian shepherd dog which are trainedto took upon men in uniform as thenonly friends syspecting all others andmore particularly a man lying down Atnight the seven dogs alt muzzled aregiven to seven policemen who conductthem by a strap only letting theta loosewhen wishing to pursue an evildoer dis-
covered redhanded It is owing to thedocks and basins being in thickly popu-
lated sections of the city and to thefurther fact that work on the vesselsgoes on throughout the night that thedogs have thus to be restrained in thetrmovements and their usefulness thus
to minimum Furthermore onepoliceman hiss to be detached from thenight service for every dog whereas wereIt possible to allow the animals to runfree one officer wpuld be sufficient topatrol with two or even three dogs
The result of the experiment has beenthat police dogs no matter how welltrained ara of no practical use hi thick-ly populated quarters but their realvalue in such service has been shown inrural districts where a night watchman-all alone and unaided frequently has topatrol a territory covering miles ofsparsely settled country Such is thecase at Ghent where the same breed ofdogs te used by the rural night watchmen to great advantage There the ani-
mate are unmuzaled and unrestrainedThe experience in training shows thatwhile the dogs may be taught to be sus-picious of every person not in uniform orof a man lying down or in a crouchingposition it is impossible to make himdistinguish between an honest man and-a vagabond
The dogs used may be purchased atprices ranging from 56 to 10 andkeep amounts to 1K per month TheBelgian shepherd dog is chosen for thisservice for his keen scent for the facilitywith which he is trained and for thefaithfulness to his master which makeshim practically a onefriend andan uncompromising foe to every otherhuman being
Outside View of n Local ControversyFran UM IkooWjm Eagle
The scheme to remodel the parks orWashington should be accepted with cau-
tion if at all Any proposition that be-
gins with the destruction of the treestoo few n any city Is to be viewed withscant favor To be sure Washingtonshould have its monument to Gen Grantbut there Is no city so abounding in avail-
able sites as is Washington Why thenis it necessary to plant this masonry ina public ground in order to makeroom it will be necessary to cut downhistoric trees to reduce the present grace-ful curves and crescents to straight linesto lower grades and play havoc gonerally
Our Handsome PresidentsPreen the New Yadc Mail
This country lias had just four hand-
some Presidents Washington BuchananHayes and Garfield AH of them hadstature dignity and manly beauty ofcountenance In the main we have resolutely defeated the better looking aspi-rant Crawford Clay Webster FremontBell Scott Brecklnridge Hancock Conkling and Blame were men whom strang-ers turned to gaze at when they metthem on the
More Tariff ReformersFrom the ResetS 7
The ATnerican Protective Tariff Leaguewill take notice that the earthenwaremanufacturers of William McKinleyformer Congressional district have de-clared for reform of the tariff At therate at which things are going on thewhole tariff crockery threatens to beknocked into potsherds
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AT THE HOTELSWhile there may be some feeling
against the Orientate apparent in somesections of the nation there Isnt anydiscernible in Seattle according to E ECaine of that ctty At the New Willardlast night Mr Caine declared that thePacific Coast needs all the Japanese ifis able to lay hands on and that talkabout Oriental exclusion is largely com-posed of air
The Coast needs every Japanese it aable to get said Mr Caine The grezitprosperity of the section the unprece-dented wheat crop and the timber opera-tions make the demand for laborers
Common laborers are poM from3 a day up and even then there is a
continual cry for more men-The tales of the JapaneseKorean Ex
elusion League and its work of keepingout the Orientals you can put down uswithout foundation The head of thatleague and really the whole league as Iunderstand was a man by the name ofFowler who it has staee been ascer-tained Is crazy
When informed that in Seattle papersthere has been printed a story tellingof a great antiOriental demonstraiuaon December 15 Mr Caine laughed andremarked that he didnt believe any suchdemonstration is possible
Mr Caine come to Washington tosecure water rights on Rocky Creekbranch of the Skagit River in Washington His company the SuperiorCompany is now constructing one oflargest plants of kind in the North-west The water rights which he dtsires to secure are controlled by tIegovernment Rocky Creekthrough the Washington Forest ReservMr Caine said that the coast diepostsof large and constantly Increasing quan-tities of cement The two factories withwhich he is connected will manufacturwhen in complete running orderthan 2JH9 barrels of cement each daThe present railroad and building develop-
ment on the Coast requires large amountsof this material-
I A Miller secretary of the ColoradoSprings Ga Company who te attendingthe prost convention of gas men at tUNew Wlllard sold yesterday that tcombination of the interests which controlthe output of coal in the vicinity of
has materially advanced the cost tmaking gas Mr Miller said that soir jtime since his company was compelled tuse lignite for gasmaking This kind ffuel however proved better than was an-
ticipated and made remarkably goodThe price of coal in the West he said 3
somewhat higher than In the East blotthe rates charged for gas per LC90 feet o
practically the same in Colorado Sprintsand in Washington
The recent shutting down of some ofthe great copper mines ia Montana isdriving thousands of the foreigners whoworked in them back to the East
forcing many of them across the At-
lantic to their old homes J C Edenformerly Western traffic manager of theGreat Northern Railway who was iaWashington yesterday said test nig tthat In the last few months he has IKHinformed the Great Northern alone hssold MOO tickets to foreigners from poinIn the copper region of Montana to citi d-
ia the East Many of these passengerwere Italians who have quit the Wtand the United States to return to Italy
While the Jamestown Exposition isntofficially finished the representatives ofthe next national show are already work-ing hard to make it a success J K-
Chttberg vice president of the ScandnavianAmerican Bank of Seattle andpresident of the AJaskaYukoitPactfcExposition which te scheduled to keepthe Seattle spirit working overtime dur-ing the spring and summer of IMS passedthrough Washington Wednesday MrChilberg is visiting many cities in theEast also several in Canada In the in-
terest of the Pacific Coast exposition Hewent from Washington to Jamestownand from the latter place he will go toNew York Montreal and other citirsin the North
L S Bigetow of New York presidentand treasurer of the company which pub-lishes Light one of the Journals havingto do with the iHlumlnating end of the gasbusiness Is m attendance at the presentconvention of the gas institute in thiscity
Gen A J Nibs adjutant general of theNational Guard of Oklahoma and past de-
partment commander of the United Span-ish War Veterans Is at the Raleigh GenNiles test night attended the meeting ofLawton Camp Spanish War Veterans inG A R Hall
PHILIPPINE SEDITION
Drastic f Measures Taken by theCommission to Suppress It
From Ute New York KTeateg PoetNot two months ago on August 3S the
Philippine commission deemed it necessary to pass rigid flag law forbiddingthe Filipinos to display the flags ban-ners emblems or devices used in thePhilippine Islands for the purpose of re-
bellion or insurrection on account ofthe reappearance everywhere after theassembly elections of the Filipino flagsThe Stars and Stripes it seems canknow no brother But this was not allthe commission also amended the alreadyextremely obnoxious unwise and dis-reputable sedition act as follows
Every parsaa wile shall seditious words orspeeches poMieh or droriaU Knrrflmialibels against Ute sprnnment oi tile United Statesor the insular SBrcrwBent of tbs lMHpvtne Islandsor who Mali print write pvbttsh utter or nuuaany statement or speeds or do say act whichteed to dfetarb r betn ct any kwntf ottosr in ei-ecaUn Ms ettes or which any toad to hnti v
ibtra te cabal or Meet together for unlawful pirposes cr wbkk sagsnt or mene rebeUi us tonspiraefes or note or which tend to stir up the pepie asaiast the htwfol awthorittea or to dntuii thepeace of the ooeamnitir the safety and order of-
UM gorcmiacut or who sball knowingly oonceiitech edt pnetioe shall be paantad by a fine D
exceeding S000 or Iff inpnaoiuBcnt not exoeediuetwo zeus or beth at tile dfeeretioa of the courts
All this is aimed we learn againstpostelection celebrations in which dem-
onstrations against American sovereigntyare made What the assembly will sayto such imitations of tbe Czars ukasesto such heavyhanded measures for lim-iting free speech and encouraging
the next few months may show
lloiv the Bishop Reformed HimFrom TitBite
The Bishop of London knows the valueof making an address bright and enter-taining and he has been treating Toronto one of his first stopping places duringhis present Americas and Canadian tourto some good stories Here is one ofthem Talking about settlement workamong the poor of London the bishopsaid that the wife of a certain man camoto him one day cad referring to herhusband said Yes bishop hes a verynice man when he isnt drunk So Igot him said the bishop into the tem-perance club and he climes infirst aid to the Injured Some weeks laterhis wife gratefully told me I cantthank you enough bishop for what youhave done for my husband He nev rgoes to the public house now but spendsevery evening in bandaging tbe cat
Rising on the SmashFrets the SDrtoseJd RetMbUettB
The further the stock market falls thelouder and more confident grows the talkof a third term for Mr Roosevelt Thismay not reflect popular hatred of Waltstreet so much as confidence in the likecureslike principle
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