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State's Rights.
THEREhneved
was a congress which did things
whic di not incur the anathema of the
democratic party or that portion of it which clings
to the doctrine of states' rights. And ouriously enough
the democratic party always cites Thomas Jefferson
as the exponent of those rights, altho he admitted
that he stretched the constitution when he bought
Louisiana. It does not matter that the democratic
party's record is inconsistent, that when it elected
a president it happily elected a man who overrode
states' rights by sending troops into a sovereign
statesomething no republican president ever did in
time of peace when out of power it returns to the
harp of states' rights and the tune of miserable fore
bodings.
The fifty-ninth congress passed three bills which
the extremists in the democratic party regard with
doleful countenances, the rate bill, the meat inspec
tion bill and the pure food bill. The Philadelphia
"Record, which may be taken as a type of the demo
cratic newspaper, quarrels with all three of these bills
on the ground that it haB "never been shown that
the states themselves could not effect these reforms."
True it had not been "shown," but it was gravely
suspected everywhere except in the Record office that
the states oould not legislate on interstate commerce.
Their jurisdiction being limited they could effect none
of the reforms aimed at in the curtailment of the
power of the railroads.
Yet when all is said congress by its legislation
did not destroy the power of the states. Their rail
road commissions are as lively as ever and their dairy
and food departments are still actively engaged in
their civilizing labors. There has been no invasion
of the powers of the states. They are as usable as
they ever were. What the states could do in Jeffer
son's time they can do today. What they could not
do then nor now congress has undertaken to do. This
is Just what the federal constitution contemplated.
The last democratic candidate for president showed
his comprehension of the problems of his day when
he declared that the common law could do all that
was necessary to ourb the trusts. He was as unsuc
cessful in convincing the people that he knew what
he was talking about as the democratic party will be
in convincing the public that every time congress
passes a law to protect the people in their rights it
traverses the rights of the states. Movements on
parallel lines do not traverse one another.
In five consecutive days no Pittsburg millionaire
has killed a man or deserted a wife. Are the first
families of Cokeville degenerating?
How to JBuild a Party.
Secretary Taft told the republicans of
North Carolina that their organization would
be stronger before the people if every federal office
were filled by a democrat ne undoubtedly uttered a
profound political truth, but one which will not ap
peal to the place hunters. There is no class of parti
zans_whom the people hold in more lively suspicion
than federal officeholders. Even in republican na
tional conventions they are recognized as an element
of weakness rather of
strength.n
Simon Swig is a dark horse candidate for mayor
of Taunton, Mass. A mayor with such a name would
b a constant taunt on the town.
The Dreyfus Drama.
THE summer of 1894 a young officer of the
French army was suddenly caned before his
superiors and accused of the crime of treason against
the country in the selling of military secrets to a
rival power. Protesting his innocence he was con
fronted with written evidences of guilt apparently
convincing, and after a trial by court-martial was
adjudged guilty, degraded publicly by having the
buttons cut from his uniform* his sword seized and
broken in his presence and himself driven thrice like
a dog around the parade followed by the maddening
roll of the disgracing drum. He was immediately
deported to the Devil's island on the coast of French
Guinea and there confined in a cage. What Captain
Dreyfus suffered mentally he has made record of in
his letters to his wife, which have become classic re
vealments of the tension of a mind torn by the con
templation of unjust fate. But Dreyfus did not
yield. He 'resisted. He rejected suicide, conquered
tears, arrested his perilous drift toward insanity. He
at length, with the aid of his wife, interested justice
to the extent that he was accorded a new trial. Again
he was convicted, but on the second judgment no
punishment was prescribed. He was left free in
France. He could work at will on the problem of
rehabilitating his reputation. The campaign for jus
tice was not ended. It did not end untU Thursday of
this week when the high court of France annulled
the conviction of Dreyfus and declared that the docu
mentary evidence upon which he was convicted was
all forged. Dreyfus is to be restored to the army
with the rank he held when convicted. He will be
eligible to promotion as tho he had never been out
of the army. The man who stood by him, Colonel
Picquart, will also be restored.
Thus France at last wakes from a,long delirium
of insensate frenzy. Thus the family of Dreyfus
emerges at length from the shadow of an almost in
supportable affliction. Thus it is once more demon
strated that the law is not fallible in its operations.
ft sometimes convicts innoeent men.
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A A miJway has Just caught a fine of $60,000 for
rebating. This criminal practice will yet become as
expensive to the roads as picking out the farmer's
fc*ft oow and running over it*
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A^ Movement to Disarm.
APROPOSAL
Monday in November, 1908.
THE
When the re
meeting ithan Minneapolis "*i 1892, renomi- dne the work which he expected. As it happened,
to reduoe the English army is
likely to be viewed with forebodings, but a
proposition to reduoe the navy is nothing short of
blasphemy against the constitution. The liberal gov
ernment has attempted both. So far as the proposed
reduction of the army is concerned, the cabinet s,p-
to have the co-operation of Prance and Italy.
hopes to have the support of Germany as well.
The proposals are to cut off 20,000 men from the
English army, from the Italian 60,000 and from the
army of Prance an equal number.
The attempt to reduce the building program of
the navy stands on another footing. Great Britain
has always clung to the theory that the empire's
naval units shall equal those of the next two powers.
The German program is such an extensive one that
in the past few years England has with all her
energy been able to do no more than maintain her
traditional position. The reduced naval estimates
can be explained on the theory that it is Great
Britain's guarantee of good faith in the matter of
army reduction. The latter is not a vital question
with the continental powers. England might reduce
her army considerably without affecting the question
of continental disarmament. But when she agrees
at the same time to reduoe her navy she shows that
she means business.
European disarmament has heretofore been an
iridescent dream. While such statesmen as Bismarck,
Beaconsfield and Gavour ruled the old world it had
no place in the plans of cabinets. The continent was
an armed camp. But times have changed. The nations
today are looking at war not as a special field of
national 'activity, but as a dread last resort. They
are feeling the taxes of armaments more bitterly
because their attitude toward the institution of war
has greatly changed for the better. The peace senti
ment is more profound in the world since the rack
ing Russian war with its consequents of ruin, revo
lution and threatened national dissolution are viewed
in perspective. The British cabinet has taken ad
vanced ground, but it need not be assumed that the
cabinet is ahead of the people on this question. It is
more likely that the politicians heard the groanings
of the burden-bearers before they proposed the re
duction of the army and navy.
wuiiam J, 5ryan is right in yearning to do Ms
"Murder Will Out."
proverb is that "murder will out." This
ancient saw was the product of experience. Ex
perience is still the same way. At least this much
must be said, that the chances of escape are against
the murderer. The probabilities are that he will be
caught. Few murderers probably expect to be caught.
This applies, of course, to deliberately planned, cold
blooded crimeB and not to those committed in the heat
of passion. The recent tragedy in this city is no exception to
the rule, for while Riggs was speedily overtaken and
eeems to have done a great many foolish things likely
to lead to his identification with the crime, he had
planned, as he supposed, so as to avert suspicion. He
had preserved correspondence to show that his relations
with his victim were purely of a business nature. By
means of a cipher letter he had induced her to come
to Minneapolis alone and register under a false name.
He entered the same house under an assumed name,
and after his victim had, at his instigation, drawn
from the bank the money which he wanted he went
to her room and, while she was asleep or lulled to a
sense of security, struck a blow which he supposed
was fatal. Believing her dead, he undertook to efface
all means of identification, taking away from her not
only any papers which might lead to that result, but
everything in the form of metal or other noncombusti
ble material, including her ring, her watch and even
a medicine bottle and spray. Then, supposing her
dead, he covered the body with alcohol, set fire to it
and left hurriedly. He expected the body and the
clothing to be burned beyond identification. He may
have expected the building to be destroyed. He did
not hesitate to endanger the lives of many others in
the hotel.
If his plan had worked out as he expected he would
have succeeded in creating a mystery as to the origin
of the fire and might have succeeded in diverting sus
picion from himself entirely. Of course, there was left
the chance of tracing from the disappearance of the
woman her arrival in Minneapolis and her association
with him, but even then the commission of a crime
would have been difficult to establish if the fire had
__i. -o :J TTi~ i*. ^i,, -v +v.A however, the reaction caiiRftfl hv t.lio nni-n frn Jones examines the sensational Dublication marie
natej President. Harrison it was remarked that there
were too many United States marshals, collectors of
revenue and customs receipts among the supporters of
the president in the convention. These men were
largely from the southern states, but there was a
sprinkling from the north. Their presence on the
floor was taken as a symptom of weakness. Had the
masses of the party been with the administration
those same masses would have sent up Harrison dele
gates from the ranks. The election of so many fed
eral officeholders was taken as evidence that the
administration could not afford to leave a single state
to its own free will.
The same thing applies in state politics. Office
holders do not make good delegates. Their motives
are under suspicion. In the south the republican party
Conventions are largely made up of federal job
holders. They do not appeal to the business interests
of the states. They do not attract the young voters
who may have an ambition to figure in local affairs.
There are no local affairs. There are only federal jobs
and the old office-seekers having a trust ring drawn
about these can depend on no class of voters' except
those who, like themselves would live from the gov
ernment. Hence the profound weakness of the republi
can party in the south. Doubtless the office-holders
would argue that if the places were filled with demo
crats the party would be weaker still. It happens,
however, that the reverse of this is the truth.
however the reaction caused by the pain from the
burning aroused the wounded woman and She made
an outcry which led to discovery of the fire before
the traces of its probable origin and purpose had been
entirely destroyed.
And so the murder came out, and Riggs, feeling the
hand of the law placed upon nim, realizing that his
plans had failed and that the other circumstancesthe
disposal of her effects at his own house and in his
own safety deposit vaultwould convict Jiim. of the
crime, took his own life.
No more terrible orime nor one which has been
attended with such rapid and dramatic unfolding has
occurred in this community for many a day, but the
tracing of the facts shows that while apparently the
plans were wisely and skillfully laid they were aborted
entirely by a circumstance which was altogether within
the control of the murderer and left him chiefly re
sponsible for his swift undoing.
The subject is a grewsome one and horrible to
contemplate, and yet it teaches a lesson which ought
not to be lost and which, made clear, may have a
deterring effect upon others who are contemplating
similar crimes. They are almost certain to make a
mistake somewhere which will be fatal in its results.
They can hardly plan more skillfully than N. M. Riggs.
And Riggs is dead.
Mr. Bryan acts as if he were picking up a few
pieces of fine old Chippendale for the White House.
New Naturalization Law.
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without preparation.
Editorial Section^ THg^INNBAPOLli^idURN'AL.
THAT
wimm The Clock of Civilization.
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rapid running about the first Tuesday after the first T^J making clocks in east now which.
MONG other important acts of the fifty-ninth particularly anxious to go there,
congress was the passage of a naturalization
law which will tend to eliminate many of the
farcical features of the making of citizens which have
prevailed in the past.
The bureau of immigration at the national capital
has been made the bureau of immigration and natural
ization, and it is made its duty to keep a registry of
the arriving aliens with name, age, occupation, per
sonal description, last place of residence and intended
place of future residence in the United States. Each"
alien is given a certified copy of the registry and he
is required to present this when he petitions for citi
zenship. The latter declaration must bear date at
least two years after the register of arrival and tho
citizenship may not be granted until five years havo
elapsed since the registry. The petition must bo
signed in the handwriting of the applicant and it must
declare among other things that the petitioner is not
amember of any society opposed to organized govern
ment, a polygamist or a believer in polygamy. This
is in addition to the usual renunciation of allegiance
to other powerB.
The petition must be posted in a conspicuous place
in the office of the clerk of court for ninety days
before action is taken upon it and then it can only
be passed upon in open court on stated days. Pro
vision is made for examination and cross-examination
of witnesses and for thev annulment of citizenship
obtained by false statements. Hereafter no person
can be admitted to citizenship who cannot speak the
English language. The naturalization of aliens is not
confined to the United States courts, but it cannot
be granted except by state courts of general jurisdic
tion and then only to persons within the judicial
district.
These are only the leading provisions of the law
which for the first time does something toward mak
ing American citizenship a privilege to be earned
instead of. as heretofore a right to be entered into ^yjf**r"' Hr^
*NavaI Officers at the Philippines are taking their
wives out to TOW in the drydock Dewey.
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The first dollar straw hat is just beginning to
look for a half-dollar substitute.
The president's invitation to Poultriey Bigei6w4o"' jail* is charged with misconduct in office/ Oddly
accompany htm to Panama^ next November is not yet, enough^ tho charge is made by the icemen.
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Police Service in America.
the police service of the great cities of
America is inadequate receives startling 'con
firmation from New York, where a large surety com
pany has recently declared it will issue no more bur
glary policies nor renew outstanding contracts. The
reasons given for this are that the conditions in New
York are abnormally bad that burglary is becoming
an organized industry that this crime is increasing
and convictions decreasing and insurance is being
carried at a steady loss.
The police commission, while scoffing at the action
of the company, has confessed that a large part of
New York is only perfunctorily patrolled.
The New York complaint is .similar to that of
other cities. Ependitures for police protection do not
keep pace with the rapid increases in population.
Minneapolis has recently had a warning that here the
expenditures for police protection do not keep pace
with the growth of the city. The greater part of
Minneapolis is but "perfunctorily patrolled." The
wages of policemen have not changed materially in
twenty years and for about the same length of time
there has been no fixed tenure of service in the force.
Its members have often been subject to variations of
city politics. The growth of Minneapolis warrants the
assumption that the police force is totally inadequate
in numbers, that the provisions for removing worn and
agedt men from the force are insufficient, that the
salaries are too low and the tenure of place is too
uncertain.
To obtain scientific results we shall have to aban
don speedily the idea that we are still in the village
state and assume a more metropolitan attitude to
ward our duty to protect life and property. The police
force of the city under every conscientious admin
istration in the past has given much greater protec
tion than could reasonably have been expected. But
this is no reason for assuming that it will always
continue to do so without complete reinforcement and
proper organization on the merit system.
Still there are some politicians in Iowa with more
wheels than the individual who has put his guber
natorial boom on a wheelbarrow.
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ingenious adaptatiothe
tnr a statement published elsewhere toda Mayor
Jone examines the sensational publication made
by a contemporary about the prevalence of capital
crimes in Minneapolis and shows how very untruthful
and unfair it is and how ill-advised it is to publish
such false and defamatory representations with re
gard to conditions here in Minneapolis. The wrong
done to the city is the serious aspect of the matter.
Regard for such considerations as the' good name of
the city seems, however, to be overborne by other
considerations, which perhaps is not surprising where
the proposition's gravelv discussed that crime should
be tolerated and criminals given license in order that
out of good will they may betray other criminals
and prove valuable aids to the police in a discrimin
ating effort to prevent crime.
That is a proposition which suggests a return to
the days of graft and wide openness, which some of
us have hoped were past forever for Minneapolis.
We have made a very distinct advance here since
that time, altho it may not be appreciated in all quar
ters or afford real satisfaction to everybody. Indeed,
some have a way which is not misunderstood or un
noted of showing how much they are out of sympathy
with the elevated tone of municipal life in Minneapolis.
The square deal has a good many friends now-a
days.
What Bishop Potter meant in saying that there
was no love lost between us and the English was that
the total output was immediately absorbed.
By consenting to run for congress on the socialist
j, ticket Upton/Sinclair makes it evident that he is not
LEARNING BY PROXY
M. M. Maxwell, Author.
In England it is the man who keeps abreast of
the times and who does things that are really worth
while," but in America the average man leaves the
things which are outside of his business to his wife.
If he has a wife or a fiancee he expects her to do the
reading for him. The other day I asked a man if he
had read any history of the world. "No," he an
swered, "but my wife is reading it." Then I asked
him if he had read "David Harum." "No, but my
wife read it," he answered. I kept on inquiring about
various things and found that most things which were
worth doing he had not done, but his wire had.
THE FINANCIAL LID
Springfield Republican.
So as stocks melted away on Saturday and Stand
ard Oil stock dropped ten points or more on announce
ment of federal prosecutions, Wall street cried out,
"Too much Roosevelt 1" Yet not a broker in the
street fails to recognize that Roosevelt can strike
only at demonstrated cases of law-breaking. Hence
the cry of the street is, "Too much law enforcement!"
And is this the real temper of the financial center)
LOOKING FAR FORWARD
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
When the atmosphere, the streets and the water
are what they really ought to be Pittsburg will take
front rank among the nation's health resorts.
WHO PUT THEM NEXT?
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$ -i*A xr Kansas City Journal.
1% The- Ohio ljudge who sent the Toledo icemen to
A N EXPENSIVE SLICE OF GIANT.
Buffalo Ifcxpress.^ I
New York surgeons operated on the Russian giant iu
on Monday and soaked him $500. Bet'he wishes now
"that he had stayed in Russia.
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ingenious adaptatioj.i_ of the phonograp,
idea, speak the hour instead of striking it. The value
of this sort of a clock cannot be overestimated. Take
the case of the young man making a late call. He
has thru heredity and personal practice been schooled
to disregard the familiar dingdong of the old-fash
ioned clock. But when he hears Midnight'' sounded
forth in a grave and heavy voice he is apt to sit
up and take notice. Or suppose he musters the nerve
to withstand this shock, the voice of mama at 1 a.m.,
inquiring whether Manda has put out the crock for the
milk, will surely finish him.
As an addition to the alarm clock this mechanism
will become invaluable. It is well known that trav
eling men sometimes miss their trains thru the alleged
failure of the bellboy to call them. At least, this is
the report they make to the house. But the superin
tendent of orators now has the edge on any such plea.
All he has to do is to supply each traveling man with
a new clock which will announce in stentorian tones
at the proper hour: '"Train time. Get up and break
for the breakfast room."
What a boon, too, it,will be to the farmer who
now finds it necessary to get up and shake the hired
man out of hijs remorseless slumbers. Hereafter he
will set the clock opposite a few remarks in his own
well-known voice on the value of early rising. The
hired man will throw himself against the door in his
hurry to get out, while the farmer will snore on until
the late hour of 5:30.
There are many uses in the world for such a clock.
It is more to be desired than the grandfather kind,
which will not accommodate themselves to the shelves
provided for them, or the hickory dickory kind which
have from time immemorial served merely as running
tracks for mice. What we should like to know is, how
much such clocks have done for civilization in com
parison with one which in a treble, shriek will inform
Johnny that if he doajr not tumble down those stairs
in 2-4 time father will riach him?
The bar association of New York has had the good
luck to name a judicial ticket which is distrusted by
Tammany.
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Sunday, July^JB, 190&
Protection fdr Food Consumer*.^
RMED with a copy of bulletin No. 69, issued
by E. F. Laad, state chemist of the experiment
station of North Dakota, a housekeeper of the flicker-'
tail state may go to market fully prepared to proteot
herself from adulterated canned, goods, dairy prod
ucts, chocolates, olive oil, syrups, honey, evaported
and dried fruits, meats, extracts, etc. This is an in
teresting document showing first the result of food
tests by the department during the past four years.
It appears from this report -that articles which ranged
in adulteration from 40 to 100 per cent in 1902 have
been brought down to conditions of purity ranging
from absolutely pure in the case of American canned
peas and canned tomatoes to from 6 per cent for
canned corn to 61 per cent for French canned peas.
The chemist explains that the showing is even bet
ter than appears from the table because in the first
column for 1902 the figures indicate the results for
the examination of every product as found upon the
market, while in 1905 only those brands were ex
amined which were still suspected of being adulterated
while those known to be free from any adulteration
were not examined. He thinks on this account the
percentage of adulteration should be reduced in most
cases more than 50 per cent in order to make a fair
comparison.
This is certainly a very gratifying evidence of the
benefit derived by the people of North Dakota from
the work of their experiment station. Not only does
it appear that the quality of canned goods and other
prepared foods has Deen greatly improved but a de
cided change for the better has been brought about
in the matter of weights. It was not uncommon when
these examinations began to find food products falling
from 5 to 20 per cent short in weight. A pail of lard,
for instance, supposed to weigh three pounds was found
to contain actually less than two and a half pounds
indeed, seldom more than this. Recent observations
show that full net weights are in the market retail
ing at the same price as the previous short weighUs
and showing a gain to the purchaser of 16 per cent.
Shortage in weight is now -in direct violation of
state law and short weight goods are to be declared
illegal.
It is said that manufacturers guilty of short
weights have maintained that there was no neoessity
of complying with weight regulations because all
goodB were of uniform weight Th chemist however were 01 unuonn weigm me cnemisi, nowever,
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varyinU th way fromKTO3 57 grams*.oaZn 622 corn vary
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ing from 529 tto 629 ane other articles showing similar
variations. As a result of the requirement^that goods
be full weight the mean weight of peas has been
raised since 1902 from 594 grams to 707 and no sam
ples fall below 697. The mean weight of corn pack
ages has been raised from 588 to 693 grams. The
weight of the package has remained the same, show
ing a gain in the net weight of contents of corn pack
ages of 104 gramsj or more than 20 per cent. The
bulletin also gives lists of goods with the names of
the manufacturers and advice as to whether they are
legal or not and if not with what they have been
adulterated.
Such results as to improvement in quality as well
as in quantity seems to afford conclusive evidence
as to the value to the consuming public of North
Dakota of the work done by their experiment sta
tion. Intelligent ana" honest inspection by state de
partments supplementing the work of the government
under the new pure food law ought to raise the stand
ard of American food products to such a point that
they will command the markets of the world by rea
son of their quality and honest measurements.
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AMERICA'S APPIAN WAY
"Honk! Honk!" is the slogan of a vast army of
automobile associations and good road folk all over
the country who are pledged to support a movement
for an American Appian Way to begin at Washington,
D. C, and follow the trail of the historic national pike
thru the passes of the Appalachians, across the Ohio,
thru the great middle west to St. Louis, and then, in
two great highways, on to the Pacific coast. One Of
these highways will cross Montana to Puget Sound and
the other will run thru Denver and Salt Lake, over the
Rockies and Sierras, to San Francisco.
Representative Pearre of Maryland has set the
ball rolling by introducing a bill in congress providing
for the reconstruction of the old Cumberland pike.
ThisSroad is prehistoric It was originally a "trace"
worn deep across the Appalachians by the pounding
hoofs of millions of Buffaloes, who were, in reality,
America's first road-makers. The Indians found tho
"trace" and made it a trail after them came the
Anglo-Saxon hunters and trappers, and, finally, in their
wake swept th emighty tide of immigration.
In 1802 Jefferson signed a bill for the survey of
the national pike. The first road contract was let in
1811 and the road was completed in 1818. In 1825 it
was extended from Wheeling to St. Louis. Clay, tho
great champion of the road and of the policy of in
ternal improvements, was all his life a popular favorite
at every village and tavern along the route. Mail
coaches and caravans of huge freighters rolled in
never-ending procession over its dusty reaches. Stately
presidential pageants, in which figured Jackson, Van
Buren, Monroe. Harrison, Polk and Tyler, attracted the
natives from far and near to the crossroads and ham
lets, and spacious log cabins with great fireplaces
served as taverns and afforded shelter to many dis
tinguished travelers from foreign lands, among whom
were Dickens, Mrs. Trollope, Prince Maxmilian of
Wien, Lafayette, Jenny Lind and Santa Ana.
At its last session the Maryland legislature made
an appropriation for the reconstruction as a boulevard
of the road between Baltimore and Washington. When
the time comes, why should not the evergreen state
boulevard the government pike from Spokane to
Seattle^Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
WHY PRESCRIPTIONS ARE WRITTEN IN LATIN
The use of Latin by physicians in prescription
writing is commonly regarded as a harmless survival
of medievalism. Occasionally a lay writer suggests
its abandonment. In commenting on this matter, The
Druggist's Circular and Chemical Gazette (June)
takes occasion to make a strong defense of the time
honored practise. Says this paper:
"Suppose the sapient writer quoted, whose utter
ances may sound all right to those who know no more
of his subjects than he does, should fall sick and his
physician should decide that the one thing needful to
save his life was Geranium Robertianum. If there
were a law preventing the doctor from prescribing in
Latin, he would have to choose one of the upward of a
dozen English names for this drug, fluppose he chose
'redshanks' and so wrote the word in his prescription.
When the druggist went to prepare the medicine ,he'
would find that 'redshanks' was the English name of
at least four entirely different plants, namely, the one
already mentioned. Polygonium amphibium, Polygon
ium persicaria and Kumex acetosa,
"As with redshanks, so with hundreds of other
drugs: Aaron's beard may be Cotinus cotinus, Cym
balaria cymbalaria, or Saxifraga sarmentosa. Of
snakeroots there are numberless kinds.' Suppose the
English-writing doctor wanted to be sure of getting
the right kind, so specified black snakeroot, then is
the druggist to dispense Cimicifuga racemosa, Asarum
canadense, or Sanicula MarylandicaT"
MILLIONAIRES SEIZE MOUNTAINS
Malby, N. Y., State Senator.
Multi-millionaires are boldly and bodily seizing the
Adirondack wilderness. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
has enclosed his 2,000 acres with a barbed wire fence,
and men with shotguns are guarding the property so
that no one dares to go near it. John D. Rockefeller,
J. P. Morgan, William G. Rockefeller, Alfred G. Van
derbilt and a score of other New York millionaires
have formed an Association for the Preservation of
the Adirondacks, the motto of which seems to be the
exclusion of everybody to the satisfaction of the mil
lionaires. This, I think, is an outrage.
THE ENGINEER WAS A WISE MAN.
Baltimore American.
The Emperor William recently raced in his auto
mobile with an express train, beating the latter by
nine minutes.
MUST MEAN J. HAM. LEWIS
l\f- Atlanta Constitution/*^ $
A Hindoo mahatma declares that there is but one
"perfect soul" in America, and that it is in Chicago.
The -amazing number of members the original
Floradora sextet must have contained reminds one of p
the liberal supply of bodyguards of George Washing
ton and final survivors of the battle of Waterloo whs
were dying off in honor and probity in the '70s.
George Washington's nurses have practically becoms
extinct, while the man who accompanied Ney in tht
final charge and who handed him a fresh horse at
every bunker is a rara avisthat is to say, is a bird
of paradise. But Floradora girls are thick: as black
birds and nearly as sable. You do not hear of then
until they have done something awfulshot a way
ward gentleman in a cab or accompanied an eeeentrit
husband to a roof garden where he distributes ana
themas and piBtol shots among all stage door chappies
within range. Eighty years from now it will, wt
trust, be different. Original, but reformed Floradora,
girls, will just be coming to the front with remi
niscences of their youth. It will be: "The venerable
Mrs. Equalrights passed away last night at the age
of 98. In her youth she was attracted to the stags
and made her debut in the original Floradora sextet.'*
Or, "Mrs. Pious, the pastor of the liberal ehurejsf is
Langdon square, was given a donation party last
evening by her parishioners. After the pies had been
counted and the company had listened to a beautiful
rendition of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight" by a
graduate from the Boston School of Oratory, Mrs,
Pious consented to give some reminiscences of het
youth. She told in a thrilling manner some of her
hairbreadth escapes from automobiles, before airships
came into fashion, and ended by revealing a secret.
She was one of the original members of the Floradora
sextet. Mrs. Pious has not danced for sixty-eight,
years, but believes she oould do the sextet again on a
bet."
If we must have Floradora recalled, let it be in
some such way, rather than by reminiscences which
make a man distrust his grandmother.
The early-riser generally selects the hottest weathei
of the year in which to do his boasting about the
superior virtue of being out of bed about the time
highlv civilized beings are turning in. His unsup
pressible vaingloriousness appears to call for action
by grand jury, but heretofore he has escaped without
even the slightest reprimand. What possible virtu*
there can be going to bed at daylight in order t
rise in the dark the man who enjoys late suppers, a
big chair, a book and a midnight cigar cannot
imagine. The sun may be a beautiful sight in th*
morning, but more poets have written about its dis
appearance in the evening. Besides, early risers never
pay any attention to the sun. They are interested
wholly in the present and prospective condition of
lettuce, radishes and carrots. There are a few men
who run lawnmowers at unearthly hours in the morn
ing merely to get up an appetite for breakfast,
knowing that they will be first at the table. These
men deserve to be indicted instead of praised. Yet
your wife is sure to observe that Mr. So and So keeps
his grass in excellent condition by merely giving it
a few moments of attention in the morning. It is,
too, true that we excite ourselves about the tariff,
the currency, the Monroe doctrine while far more
momentous issues lie neglected at our very doors.
One of these is the early rising habit which is suffi
cient to bring grievous comparisons to the ears of
men who did not imbibe such false views of life im
their youth.
The New York Citizens' union is credited with
the invention of a happy phrase for the describing of
a certain brand of statesmen who thrust themselves
into public office. Reporting on a certain candidate
for the legislature it says: "Utterly lacking in all
legislative ability and a mere rubber stamp for Mo-
Carren.''
Somehow the phrase does not sound provincial.
It has a national significance. Every state, every
county, every village has its rubber stamp official*
who do nothing but record the votes that are deliv
ered by the bosses. The national house of representa
tives is perhaps the largest rubber stamp factory i
the country. Its votes are delivered as the speaker
and his committee on rules dictate. Every legisla
ture is conveniently supplied with this class of mem
bers. Every town council has them. They flourish
in executive offices. In political conventions they
overrun the whole place. The rubber stamp states
man is the complement of the boss system. The as*
saults that the now being made on the bosses are
really attacks upon the rubber stamp candidates. If
the stencil characters are pnt into office they will
soon re-create the boss system. If real men are chosea
to public positions the bosses will be permanently
dethroned.
The London Daily Mail raises the question whethes
the family should be broken up at the holiday time
just as the schools are. The family circle, while it
is beautiful, gets too small to hold the entire bunch
at times. Father is bored, mother is worried and the
children quarrel like sin. At these times "break up
the family." Let the parents go away by themselves
for a while and even separate the children, sending
them to different parishes where they may learn that
their brothers and sisters are "pretty good people to
live with after all." Some people achieve the de
sired result b*y exchanging children for a time. It
takes the average male child several days to familiar
ize himself with his surroundings. During these dayi
he is tractable and can be induced to go to bed when
he ought. He is then little care and the sweetness
of his disposition impresses all who behold him. His
clothing, too, is phenomenal for neatness. By th*
end of the week he will have learned the most dan
gerous trees to climb, the place where he is pro
hibited to go into the water and what kinds of tor
ment the oat, the dog and the chickens most detest.
When the dog begins to bark at the minister and th*
hens fall off about 30 per cent in their laying it is
time to move the boy to the next county. By keeping
him judiciously on the move nearly "everybody can
get thru the summer without apoplexy. It is a plan
worth trying. Why not have a children's exchangef
James Gray.
MIGHT MAKES SIGHT
Kansas City Times.
And the extraordinary part of it is that the ics
trust magnates who exact 300 to 400 per cent profit
from poor people do not realize that they are bad citi
zens. Some of them go to church and think they're
just as good as anybody.
"NO'TH OA'UNA" IS SAFE
Chicago News.
Tho Secretary Taft has an alluring personality, Mr,
Bryan is not afraid to leave North Carolina ont in th*
open air without a chaperon.
*L'ENVOI
(For any ten-cent magazine.)
When earth's last scandal is printed and the forms ar
battered and pied,
When the newest muckheap has crumbled and til*
oldest raker has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need itlie down
for an aeon or two,
Till Saint Teddy, the master critic, shall find la
something to do.
And those that were good shall be happy they shaM
sit on a cloud and rail
At the swing of the stars in their courses and th*
curve of a comet's tail
Thomas and David and Upton, flMnnrfff and Ida
and Ray,
They shall censure and kick and cavil, and never b*
tired a day.
And only Saint Teddy shall praise us and only Saint
Teddy shall blame
And no one shall kick for money, and no one shall
kick for fame,
But just for the joy of the kicking and each shall
be perfectly free
To change and arrange creation as ho thinks that
it ought to be.
With th* usual regrets.
A
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