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4 NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1907. v ierv Pay aiiernoi. THE CARRIXGTON PUBLISHING CO. OFFICE, 400 STATE STREET. NEW HAVEN, CONN. THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB LISHED IN CONNECTICUT. Founded 1708. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, J3 FOR SIX MONTHS, 6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES. 2 CENTS. TELEPHONES I EDITORIAL ROOM, 6C4. BUSINESS OFFICE. 3981. THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, THE ORANGE PROTEST. Borne of our neighbors of the town of Orange can always be depended on to keep things moving lively in the otherwise peaceful community. They are a good deal of the time persist ing in occupying the front of the stage. Sometimes it is comedy and again ordinary vaudeville. A good many of them have a penchant for polities. Just now the coming vote accepting or rejecting the proposed charter to establish a new city to be called Orange is absorbing attention. It had been supposed by the engineers or this scheme that everything was moving along so swimmingly that they could shut off steam for awhile and ) take a vacation for a week or so, when ' behold, they are threatened with a head-on collision. A "committee of protest" has .appeared. The circular which this committee issues declares that they "object to the forcing" upon them of a city charter. After recit ing that "five-sixths of the territory is farm land"; that "the farmers of Orange have little 1 common with the people of West Haven"; that "im provement can and should be made to the present charter by necessary amendment," this committee gets right down to business by saying that the charter Is crude and in many par ticulars ill-drawn, and that "this is in the main a politicians' movement, de signed, promoted and carried out for the general purpose of increasing and perpetuating the powers of the pres ent officeholders and their associates." These are strong words and right here is the challenge of battle. . As to the charter it is certainly an extraor dinary document. Many who have been very vociferous for a city char ter have their doubts in moments of sober reflection about the charter be ing exactly what they have wanted. But the charge that this Is a "poli ticians' movement" is the most serious restriction of all. If there is any truth in this it would be well for citi zens to consider this matter carefully before voting for a charter for which little real study and reflection has been given. Quite a number of officehold ers are indeed on this charter com mittee. Is it the fact that the char ter is "designed" to increase and per petuate the powers of the present of ficeholders? This is charging a great deal. If the proposition for the char ter had come from a tody of citizens holding no office it would appear in the light of a disinterested movement. This charge of the committee of pro test places the officeholders on the charter committee in a very embar rassing position. From now until the vote is cast next week there will be something doing. If the decision by the people is for the new city charter a big task, ex perimental in character, will be under taken. The next interesting venture wil be the selection of Orange states men to shape the life of the new city. Will they be chosen from those who are figuring on the places for which they have already assigned salaries, or will entirely different, but capable jnen, be given the task of "making , good" this experiment? It is costing Massachusetts $1,000,000. a year to fight the gipsy moth, and the gipsy moth has no sleeve to laugh In. 80XE KANSAS MATERIALISM. Kansas is a State where sentiment seems to have played a prominent part, and yet the other day the big' gest tree in Kansas, located on the Ben Wilson ranch, near Williams town, was cut down. It was a cotton- wood and was purchased from Mr. Wilson by the Topeka barrel and box factory, and four and one-half days were consumed by two men in cutting it down. Sixteen strong horses were required to draw each of the three sections, which were twelve feet long. to the railroad. It measured twenty three feet, six inches, in diameter. The body was sound and when sawed up made 3,500 feet of first-class lumber and about the same amount of sec ond-class. The machinery of the factory was inadequate to handle such A monster and dynamite was finally used as a last resort and it was torn ices i tn tnree pieces. Xsn't it about time for William Allen White to again ask, What's the mat ter with Kansas? Kansas hasn't many trees anyway, and the destruc tion of this splendid specimen should have been prevented. Are they shooting eagles in Kansas too? THE NEAR-PROPHETS Brother Horace Johnson has had a narrow squeak. The heavy rains which he predicted haven't come, but rain enough has come to admit him into, or keep him in, the list of "near-prophets." He can chortle some over the dampness and is doubtless doing so. As for the Staddle Hill man, perhaps he feels like "drying up and busting." Meanwhile the Weatherman at Wash ington keeps plugging along, hitting it right times enough to entitle him to quite as much admiration and respect as are bestowed on the near-prophets. There hasn't been anywhere near rain enough yet to make this part of the country damp enough. The thirsty earth is still really and most unpoetlcally thirsty. It needs a good long drink. We hope it will get one, for many rea sons. One of them is that we shall then be encouraged to feel that New Haven's generous water supply will continue to hold out so that the .cross walks can be as well watered as they have been during all the dry time.' 1 IDE COI.UEN MEAN DESIRABLE. In as far as President Roosevelt insisted In his Provlncetown speech on his duty to enforce impartially tho laws of the land, whether the of fender shall be a great corporation or a humble citizen, he was standing on solid ground. No lover of law and order would wish him to do other wise. No one who believes In Justice can defend the practices of corpora tions that violate law. That which gave offense in some circles was the manner in which the President spoke. He is impulsive nat urally and may not always speak with the reserve and judicial bearing that conditions call for. Was it at all necessary that he should speak in a belligerent manner? Could he not have been conciliatory in speech, but nevertheless as strong as ever in his purpose to enforce the law? Society today la highly organized and the business world is very sensitive psy chologically. Anything said by one in high political or industrial leadership that tends to Impair confidence is communicated along the whole line like an electric impulse. There are innumerable buslnes enterprises that are engaged lawfully but nevertheless feel the effects of any general feeling of insecurity. It Is due to these legiti mate enterprises that the utterance of statesman should be moderate In tone and judicial in character. No thoughtful citizen will for a mo ment apologize for any corporation that violates the laws of the land, but It Is possible that the tendency to legislate against corporations may become a sort of mania. Some States already have passed drastic meas ures, other states are hastening to fall into line and the thing may be overdone. If there has been laxity In the past In (Providing proper legisla tion and in enforcing law, care must be taken that the reaction does not carry affairs as much the other way. The golden mean is the more desir able, safer and more quiet. Kissing at weddings Is no longer in good form. Perhaps kissing at divorces will yet be thought proper. SETTLED AT I AST. For seventy-two years the now famous deceased wife's sister bill has been passed by the British commons and rejected by the lords at nearly ev ery session. It merely provided that a widower might marry a sister of his deceased wife just as they may do In all the rest of Europe, in the United States, in Canada and In the other British possessions. The recent action of the lords In passing the bill at its second reading indicates that the struggle is ended and that the law of England is to be made to conform to the practice of practically all the oth er nations of the earth in spite of the continued opposition of the Church of (England, as represented- by the blsh. ops. The rule against the marriage of a man to a sister of his deceased wife was a survival of a much broader rule fixed in the early days of the Christian church in which relationship by mar riage was considered of equal import ance with relationship by blood as a factor in determining who might mar ry. How much regard the framers of those rules had for substantial con siderations may be judged from the fact that the relationship of godfath er to godchild was also deemed to have a bearing on the matter, because they and their descendants were spiritually related. If an Englishman, living In England, is really about to be allowed to marry his deceased wife's sister if he wants to and she will have him, we congrat ulate all concerned. The struggle over i this matter has looked ridiculous enough to those who were free to mar ry their deceased wives' sisters. THE WAR-TOY QUES1IOX. The president of the Pittsburg peace conference has returned to this coun try after an unsuccessful mission which was undertaken to persuade German manufacturers of military toys to shut down what he considered their war-in citing business. "The manufacturers," he said, advised him "that their work was clearly a commercial proposition. The Germans make toys for bur mar ket because it is tlie best in which to sell." Of course. And it is quite possible that these seekers after good United States money are not . doing as much harm by their war-toys as some think they are. We are told that the instinct of motherhood is being destroyed In the little girls by the foolish Teddy bears, and that the spirit of war is be ing encouraged in the little boys by the tin soldiers and other war-toys they play with.-Perhaps neither "evil" is so evil as it looks to those who have got it on their brains or on their nerves. Few of the lltfle boys who play with soldiers or who "play sol dier" ever start wars, and it is too soon to tell whether the Teddy bear is a greater provocative of race suicide than the real Teddy Is a restraint of it. Still, it can fairly be admitted that if little boys had something besides war-toys and little girls something be sides Teddy bears to play with they and the world would probably get alon just as well. , Again it is said that Walker Is alive. Don't remember Walker? Why, he is the man that stole somewhere from half a million to a million from a New Britain bank. THE WAT OF T RUT II. To read on each Saturday the an nouncement of the subjects to be con sidered in the pulpits on the following Sunday is not without profit. It fre quently happens that the subjects are of such a variety and suggest so widely different lines of treatment as to prove exceedingly interesting. The changing conditions of life require a new point of view for the most worn themes because a new application of a truth that has ever been the same in its essential character Is called for frequently. "Christian knowledge," a subject considered In one of our city church es yesterday, does not seem particu larly striking, for it has been present ed again and again. But how many have sounded the depths of all that Is included in the knowledge of Chris tian truth and life? Were such a subject presented In the Medieval times "Christian knowledge" would be understood as referring to Chris tian truth in some metaphysical as pect. The knowledge of the head concerning the finer distinctions of some abstruse theological proposi tion would be in evidence. There would be deduced much material for the intellectual processes and much grey matter would be used up In dem onstrating with all possible force of logic the right of this doctrine or develop a spirit far from lovely and Christian. N But for this age the content of "Christian knowledge" must be quite different to meet and solve the prob lems of the age. The demand Is for a knowledge of the heart in preference to that of the head. It may be inter esting to codify Christian truth in some sort of logical form but the real testing ground of the validity an i power of such truth Is In the consciousness and objective life of a man. The demand to-day is for a con scious experience of Christian truth. This may be called . the laboratory method of attaining knowledge. The boy In the high school who Is sent into the chemical laboratory and handles the elements, brings them to gether, and records their action and reaction, knows more about the sub' Ject than the boy who recites memor iter what he has read in a text-book. The first boy becomes a master in his subject, the second boy is a par rot. In gaining knbwledge of Christian truth the laboratory method is pre ferable. For one to be satisfied to give Intellectual assent to what others have thought out Is not enough, for It Is without proper vital or dynamlo force. The apostle emphasized ex perlmental knowledge who declared that he made known to others only that which he himself had learned, which his eyes t had seen and his hands had handled, of the "Word of life." That truth that penetrates far ther than the head and reaches the conscience and Influences the will to act courageously and righteously is the most effective, but such truth must be wrought out in the labora tory of one's personal being. How can one know that a statement declared to be a truth is true? By using it. A statement familiar to everyone is "Blessed are the merciful," or "Bless ed are the peacemakers." The surest way to learn whether these are true is to be merciful or be a peacemaker when the response will quickly come to one's consciousness. To change the comparison from the workshop to the farm it may be said that gain in Christian knowledge is in proportion to the direct effort that one makes to learn. In some of the European countries small farms are the ' order, but the farmers get from them gratifying crops because they enrich the soil and put much in of thought and planning, care and solicitude. The intensive method of cultivation in the growth of a good character or in gaining "Christian knowledge" will bring results in pro portion to the direct interest taken In testing and using truth consciously. It is therefore truth that lives and has the power to move things that this age demands. It becomes living truth, effective knowledge, because it has been felt and used In human personality. When a truth finds In anyone a receptive spirit and succeeds in changing the currents of his life, imparting new and better incentives, he knows that he has gained in something more vital than all the speculative theologies in the world, interesting though they may be. Some of those who were generously allowed ro participate in the Interbor-ough-Metropolitan "merger" are now thinking that there was a slight mis take in the spelling. They think it was murder. CORTEIYOV'S PATEJtNAZ PLAN. The plan of Secretary Cortelyou to relieve and prevent "money stringen cy" seem3 to be generally admired. Be ginning with this week, the Secretary will place each week, at such points as he shall designate, government funds, in such amounts as he deems necessary to relieve existing conditions. This he will do for a period of not less than five weeks. The deposits will be made in various national banks of New York, Boston and other financial points, the security required to be ap proved State, municipal and railroad securities, with the understanding that, it called, the deposits shall be return ed after January 1 of the new year. No interest will be demanded. Looks smooth and promising, doesn't it? But will it really work any better than other attempts to relieve "money stringency" have? Is there any limit to the amount of money that can be and will be soaked up when Wall street is again roaring? We notice that the plan Is warmly approved in Wall street, as any paternal plan to increase the amount of money to be played with and played for would be. A THEORY JLKD A CONDITION. There are advocates of the whipping post In Connecticut, and they have pointed with pride and emulation to the whipping-post in Delware. So perhaps they Will not . be Impressed with the testimony of Mr. Asmond 3. Meserve, who has resigned the warden- ship of the Newcastle county work house, at Greenbank, Delaware, In pro test against the continuance of the whipping-post. ii,,They may think that he doesn't know as much about the whipping-post as they do, and that he isn't the right man for a whlpper. But others who are not certain that the sal. vation of the world is in the whipping post may feel that Mr. Meserve's tes timony is worth attention. In the last six years he has whipped 235 men. Of these, he says, sixty had been whipped before, some of them as many as six times. His contention is that whipping, so far from preventing a petty crim inal from becoming a desperado, has Just the opposite effect. It inflicts upon a man who has been a petty criminal a stigma that keeps him apart from all associations that might elevate him, and leaves him no recourse but to take refuge with the criminal element. From being one who could be turned into bet ter ways he is converted into a des perate man to whom all roads to re spectability are closed. Mr. Meserve says that these observations are not based upon impressions, but on a care ful record of the men who have under gone a public flogging. This looks plausible, and it looks as If a condition had collided with a the. ory to the damage of the theory. The Czar smoke? thirty cigarettes a day. Trying to get used to going up in smoke? SAYINGS AND DOINGS. Colonel Mosby says that Robert E Lee never owned any slaves, and that those he freed in IS 6 3 had been own ed by Lee's father-in-law, whose will provided for their manumission. George H. Ware, seventy-three years old, an expert accountant of Providence, Rhode Island, figures that in the last forty years he has smoked nearly three tons ot tobacco in his meerschaum pipe. Lifting magnets are coming into use In British iron works. Castings weighing two to three tons are lifted by eloctro magnets. Much time is saved in comparison with the use of hooks, slings and other devices, as the mere throwing of a switch energizes the magnet It Is reported that the smoke nuis ance is In a fair way to become dis pelled In the English pottery towns by the Introduction of Mond gas In the firing of ovens. A recent successful trial of the gas was made at Hanley Detore a number of pottery manutact urers. It is claimed that a tempera ture of 2,475 degrees F. can be pro- duced by the gas, which is said to be safer and more economical than the present methods of tiring ovens, and in addition is smokeless. Soldiers engaged in target practice at Fort Des Moines recently killed a pedigreed Duroc Jersey cow belonging to a man whose property adjoins the rifle range. The owner sought to col lect damages in the sum of $40 for the loss of the animal, but has been advised that the War department can not reimburse him. It is a hard and fast principle that the government Is not responsible for the torts of its agents, and the claimant will , be compelled to look to congress for any relief obtained. Tibet's army is to be modernized, and with it, prqbably, will be the grand lama's military medical staff corps. The sick Tibetan soldier, It was reported a year or two ago, was put through a sort of faith-healing pro cess. An army physician of the old school chalked a prescription on a board; the martial patient washed off the lettering and drank the rinsings. The plan of the younger doctor was simpler; he scrawled his prescription on a piece of paper and gave it to the invalid to chew and swallow. The Deep River (Connecticut) New Era says something which all ac quainted with the business depart ments of country weeklies will see is pretty classic: Occasionally we are asked by a delinquent subscriber why we keep on sending the paper after the subscription date has expired. Ev ery weekly! newspaper in towns of this size are forced to do this. Should we stop subscriptions when time expires, nine times Out of tea the subscriber would give us a "calling down" for In sinuating that his credit was not good. Rather than to cast a reflection against the honesty of a subscriber to pay a small debt, it is next to a neces sity for a home paper to continue sending the paper after the time has expired. Our subscribers should deem it an honor to know that we do not doubt their integrity and' continue to send thorn the paper after their time has expired. Should any desire their paper discontinued they should notify us and remit to date If they have not already done so. rts1i nnd Scotch. Are ye gangln' to the meetin to the meetln' o' the clans. With your tartans and your pibrochs and your bonnets and brogansr There are Neeleys from New Hamp shire and Mulligans from Maine, McCarthys from Missouri and a Ten nessee McShane. Kelleys, Cnseys, Dunns, and Daoeys, by tne dozens ana tne score. And O'Farral of Virginia, whom the xniDyues aaore. There are Cochranes (born Cocoran) as poiiBiiea as you oiaaae. And Kenyons who were Keenani and Murfrces once Murpnys. And we'll sit upon the pint-stoup and we'll talk of ould lang syne As we qiisiff the flowing haggis to our lasses oonnie eyne. , And we'll join in jubilation for the tlilnn that we are not: For we say we aren't Irish, and God Knows tnat we aren t scot! Calvin K. Brannigan, in Boston Pilot. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Prince and Duke. (The Boston Transcript.) In order that all the official and so cial p's and q's may be attended to on the occasion of the reception of the coming royal Swede, it should be said that he is Prince William of Sweden, Duke of Sodermanland. Those who are styling him Prlnoe of Soderman land doubtless have no intention to be otherwise than courteous, out ne is Duke of Sodermanland, a title borne by members of the Swedish royal family; Prince Is really a convenient designa tion, rather than a title in many coun tries of. Europe. For example, Prince Arthur ot ureat Britain is uuks ot ConnauRht. and as such sits in the House of Lords. Prince of Wales, on the other hand. Is a rank given oy formal investiture, Wales in theory be. ing a principality. A jwf 8erion Question. (Prof. Goldwln Smith In the Toronto Sun.) A very serious question and one which threatens to Involve Canada and the United States in common difficulty If not danger Is beginning to loom. It is that of the settlement of Chinese and Jaoaneso on the Pacific coast of this continent. Both races are in somewhat different ways unasslmllable by us. The gulf which divides tnem from us, morally, mentally and in the case o the Chinese politically, appears almost imDassable; at least to bridge It would be the work of generations. Yet come apparently they will. England has. In fact, bound us to admit the Jap anese by her alliance with them, the fruit nf n tirelndlce aealnst Russia and fnnr of her rieslens which might al most be called hallucination. We see in this that the foreign policy of Great Britain is not always Identical witn ours. Admitting the Japanese, we could hardly exclude the Chinese, osniviniiv if. as seemB hlsrhly probable, relation should be formed be tween China and Japan. Already they are settling here in considerable num bers wnv helnir made for the IntrodUO- tinn nf their labor by the strikes. The influx of Japanese coming here under the shield of the Anglo-japanese alli ance. Into the United States can hardly be prevented, ind may cause trouble with the American government. The Influx of Japanese into Canada Is now stated to be at the rate of 800 a month. Since January last over 4,000 had arrived in British Columbia, 233 of them in one week, while 2,000 more were en route. Diirlng July 133 Chinese paid ths noil-tax of J505 on entering. Of 858 Japanese arriving at Victoria, 781 were males and only seventy-seven were females. It is needless to say what moral dangers such a disparity of sexes, which is still greater in the case of the Chinese, involves. Will govern ment ever pay attention to this matter? DAMP. "Winkins What did Binns say when you asked if he had read your book? Miller He said yes, and added that he "didn't read much." The Critic. "If some men was as patient wid deir home folks," saia Uncle Eben, "as dey ia wif delr automobiles dar would be a heap mo' peace an' comfort in de world." Washington Star. "It must be some consolation to know that you made your late husband hap- "Oh! yes. Poor George was in heaven till he died." Illustrated Bits. "I didn't smoke cigarettes when I was a boy. "Why not, gran'pop?" "Well ah the fact is, Johnny, they didn't have cigarettes then." Louisville Courier-Journal. "I once gave a waiter a $2 tip." "What did he say?" "To me he expressed his thanks, but I heard him say to .another waiter that I couldn't have real good sense." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Jones is a slave of fashion." "I hadn't noticed that he was a very swell dresser." "He isn't. But he has to work over time to keep his wife suppplied wim frocks." -Cleveland Leader. " "Did you have any trouble In making the people understand your French when you weie in France?" "Not at all. They don't regard It as bad manners when you point at things over there." Chicago Record-Rerald. "Here's a fine testimonial the Bluffy' Medical Booze Company Is printing." "What is it?" "Man says he was totally Wind, but after taking ten botles of their remedy he could see pink elephants."-JCleve-lanJ Leader. Louis XIV had Just exclaimed, "I am the state." ."Fine!" cried the courtiers. "Now you can bust the railroads as well as the Federal government does." This explains why the steam engine was not invented until considerably later. New York Sun. "You stole ten marbles from me," de clared little Jimmy, "and I want 'era bad'." i i "I don't propose to give 'em back," responded little Tommy. "Furthermore, I want to warn you -that f you keep harping on the subject you will bring about a panic." And their father, the old trust mag nate, shed tears of Joy and pride. Washington Herald. A Cutlery Shop DID you ever hear us spoken of as anything' but a hardware concern? Probably not: and yet we keep the largest and most up-to-date cutlery store in Connecticut, Cutlery is not a side, line with us, stuck away in one' Icorner of a showcase, but occupies lover one-half of our showcase Bpace and takes the greatest share of our Kn. im.. ... w wjr w D HIIGUIIUU. 1UO OppOrtUIl": ities that such a stock eives gift ihunteri in their search for desirable (presents can best be appreciated" on' jinspection. High Grade Cutlery. NiiiMmlBiamraMaM Thi Todd corsets coin- mne dainty materials with the most careful construction. Th hi, N,bust, small waist, and flat abdomen effects are the latest figure require ments. Elastic stockings, etc., to measure. Henry H. Todd 993-384 YORK ST. CLOSED DURING AUGUST, FINCH Formerly DEWSBURY'S. 15 DIXWKLL AVENUE. Dealer in Claara and Tobacco, Confectionery, Stationery; Agent for demon b weieoratea ice cream Id Bricks and Bulk. Ice Cream Parlors In Connection With Store. 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Everything That Makes Mu PIANOS TUNED, PIANOS MOVEE in unseat Mualc House la Connecticut. CHARLES H. LOOIHIS, L00MISN TEMPLE OF RHUS 837 Cbanel Street, I MATHUSHEK and EMEUSON PIAR? MM Trousers A limited number of chairs or 'rockers like cut 'at 75c. Natural finish or' grain. We have the larger size chairs or rockers at from $1,10 to $2.50 which ordi narily sell at from $2.50 to $3.35. In small quantities but excellent values. . CrEMSaCI&TSraWf; MR AUTWABSSi WSSwl