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The times., 1901-05-27
THE PULP BUSINESS IN MAINE.
Forcing the Lumbermen and Their
SayvmiIIs Out of Business.

BANGOR, Me, May 26.-From small be-
ginnings the pulp business on the PenOb-
scot River, and in all Maine for that mat
ter, has now attained such proportions
that this year at least one-half of the
logs cut in the State will be consumed by
grinders instead of by saws. The pulp
men are able to pay more than the lum-
bermen for the logs, because a thousand
feet of logs will yield more value in pulp
than in timber. and thus the pulp men
are masters of the log market.
When prices of timber are high the saw
mill men can afford to pay good prices.
but the timber market is subject to vio-
lent fluctuations, and this spring timber
is selling at low figures, while the great
demand for logs to feed the pulp mills
has sent the price of logs to the highest
pitch on record. Few of the sawmin men
own any timber land on the Penobscot,
a N so they are obliged to buy all their
losA and the prices this spring have
ranged from S145O to SIS. while the small
lots now remaining unsold are held at the
heretofore unheard of price of SIG to $3.50
a thousand feet. At the same time the
price of spruce timber in New York ranges
from SIG to $3.50 a thousand feet for the
various widths at random. while the price
here in Bangor is $3.50 to SIS, or less than
the price of the logs.
The only thing that makes saving pos
sible under these conditions is the fact
that logs and timber are measured by
different scales, a thousand feet of logs
yielding from l, $50 to $50 feet of timber.
This overrun and the money received for
the waste, which now goes to the pup
mills. enable the timber manufacturers
to come out about even, or possibly to
make a small profit when all conditions
are favorable and there are no losses.
The lumbermen say that either the price
of logs must come down or the price of
timber go up If they are to make a liv-
ing, and as there is no possibility of a de-
cline in logs it appears that the saliva
tion of the sawmills depends upon rise
in timber. On the other hand, it is said
that the pulp men can pay $50 a thousand
feet for spruce logs and still make a good
The times., 1901-05-27
Literary Democracy.

There is a somewhat interesting con-
fiict OF ideals going on in the literature
and drama of the age, and as such con-
flicts usually do, it mirrors a similar
condition of things in real life. There
are two kinds Of heroes before the pub
lie, in novels, in plays, and in the news
papers, nowadays where there used to
be practically but one. The new kind
of hero is the son Of the democratic
idea, and though the democratic idea is
about as old as the human race, it has
taken some cons of time for it to be-
come prominent and unmistakable.
Time was when, if the novelist or the
playwright wanted to elicit sympathy
for a man predestined to heroic deeds,
it was necessary to make him of noble
if not royal birth He had to have the
prestige Of one born to the command of
men. How much this notion was fos-
tered by the fact that the arts were
under the patronage and largely de-
pendent upon the support Of royalty
and aristocracy cannot be known, but
that probably had something TO do with
it. Homer's heroes were all princes and
noblemen; so were Virgirs; so mostly
were Shakespeare's, though Shakes
peare was in sense the first great
democrat IN literature. His ability Of
rising above the prejudices of his time
is shown most clearly In his ''Shylock;"
but in every drama his genuine interest
in human nature as such irrespective of
rank is to be seen, and the soliloquy in
Henry W in which the King reflects
on the differences and lkenesses be-
tween the king and the common man,
is about the only thing of its kind In the
drama of the time. But the true ro-
nance writer instinctively feels the
pulse of the people; and approaches
more and more to the old folk lore in
which the less conquers the greater. 1t
has sometimes been said that one
should not try to put the bottom rail on
top; but If the bottom rail is better fit
for the top, it would be a poor fence
builder who did not put it there, and the
fact is that in the human fence such
changes are frequently necessary.
Fielding. in his Tom Jones" broke
away from precedent in making his
nero a HDDDlgs SCDlNB al CiDbSlIB LOT
the heroine of his greatest novel the
Jewess Rebecca, was equally defiant Of
convention; Tennyson, though choosing
court life for his great epic, THE Idyls
of the King" brings out in almost
every line the idea that the true aris-
tocracy is founded not on birth, but on
fitness; Browning was the great apos-
tie Of literary democracy; and Ameri-
can literature is full of it,
This evolution of the democratic ideal
in literature has been unconscious and
mainly unobserved. but is none the less
definite. Gradually there has come to
be a perception IN the mind of author
and reader that a hero is a hero none
the more and none the less whether he
has rank or not; and that a great deed
is not any finer If the author Of it hap
pens to be a nobleman. 1t is healthy
sort of development, and conducive to
The times., 1901-05-27
PLANS oF GEORGE j. GOULD.
May Bring the Traffic of His System
TO the ATLANTIC Coast.

NEW YORK, May 26.-Just how George
J. Gould purposes to bring the traffic OF
his railway system to the Atlantic Coast
has not yet developed. but that he is plan
ming such an extension of the system.
whether by getting control of one of the
trunk lines or by effecting a close traffic
agreement with it, seems no longer in
doubt.
According to Russell Sage, the Gould
system viii in time extend from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic. but Mr.. Sage believes
that this plan can be worked out without
occasioning a railway war. The general
opinion is that Mr. Gould will make a
working agreement with either the Erie or
the Lackawanna, by which the traffic
from the Missouri Pacific system and
from the Wheeling and Lake Ere, which
is soon to be extended to PittsbuIg, where
1t will receive an important part of the
Carnegie tonnage, viii be forwarded from
Buffalo, the end of the Wabash and the
present Eastern terminus of the Gould
lines, to tidewater at New York
Mr.. Gould is closely associated with the
Hartman and Rockefeller interests in the
Chicago and Alton and the Union Pacific
and Mr.. Rockefeller is understood to be
largely interested in the Missouri Pacific
These systems combined extend from the
Pacific Coast TO Buffalo.
The times., 1901-05-27
Affairs in Porto Rico.

According to a merchant familiar
with industrial and trade conditions in
Porto Rico, whose views were given in
the New York Journal yesterday. Off
cial reports from the island do not ac-
curately represent the actual state Of
affairs. OF course the statement is
that of a single individual. and if it
differed from the general run of private
representations on the subject which
have come to our notice from time TO
time. might not justify special atten-
ton. II happens, however, that what
the informant at present in question
has TO say after a tour Of Porto Rico.
SO substantially agrees with statements
made in letters received here and in
New York that his remarks are worthy
of consideration. He goes over the
whole situation in an intelligent and
analytical way. taking up the hurri-
cane Of 1899 and its results, the ruin
which confronts the coffee planters. the
deplorable state Of commercial relations
with the mainland, the Hollander tax
law. and the reign Of the carpetbag-
GER in general. The author of the
statements which follow is a Mr.. Pooey.
He says:
''Offcial reports from Porto Rico dilate on
the prosperity Of the island yet in six months
two per cent Of the population lzborers have
omigrated, many merchants have closed their
business, and of this moment the island *
threatened by a commercial crisis results Of
which may seriously affect merchants here II
seems 70 me that the authorities there knowing
ly misFepTesent facts Governor Aliens reuorfs
are rose colored- The Attorney General made a
trip from san Juan 70 Arecibo and thence over
LAND 10 Ponce. lie found only little paradise
The hurricane OF August 1890 greatly in
lured the growing canes. The crop last year gas
reduced TO about forty thousand tons of sugar
but IL y a Unknown fact in all the West
Indies that the year after a hurricane the canes
produce largely. For this reason, and also by
reason OF greatly increased planting on account
oi The Foraker Tariff bill, the production this
year VII reach eighty 90 one hundred million
tons OF sugar Planters now get for their sugar
ABOUT one ana one-quaFter cents a pound more
than the same grades coming FROM Cuba and
other ISLANDS, but labor and other expenses have
more than doubled. and the planter gets little
more setusi profit"
1t would be superfiuous 20 discuss the
golden carpetbag reports The regime
of Otis in the Philippines taught the
American people not to place the small
The times., 1901-05-27
SENATOR DEBoES SUCCESSOR.
The Campaign Opens in Kentucky
and Promises to he Lively.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 26.-Though
the General Assembly does not meet
until January, the campaign for the
United States Senate to succeed Senator
Deboe has opened. While Deboe is
Republican and hopeful of reelection,
the chances are that the Democrats viii
continue-to control the General Assembly
and the State will again be represented
by two Democrats after an interval OF
six years dating from the defeat of Sena-
tor Blackburn. Blackburn mas returned
to the Senate, and Senator Lindsay,
gold Democrat, has retired TO practice
law In New York. following John G.
Carlisle.
Senator Deboe has already begun his
campaign for reelection. He got his
greatest help when John w. Yerkes was
appointed Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue.. Mr.. Yerkes, who is unquestionably
the ablest Republican in Kentucky, has
announced positively that he will not be
a candidate for the Senate. Simultane-
ously with this announcement Senator
Deboe declared that he had the support
of Ex-Governor Bradley and Representa-
tive Boreing. Ex-Governor Bradley says
he has given no such assurances, and
Boreing denies that he will support De
Doe. Mr.. Boreing, in fact, while deferrlng
announcement, has let 1t be known that
he will probably be candidate.
Among the Democrats there are fve
candidates Three live in western Ken
lucky and two in the eastern portion of
the State. though more properly they
might be credited to central Kentucky
l. H. Goodnight is one of the western
Kentucky candidates. He is now circuit
judge and has built strong political
fences He won the Third Congressional
district from Republican rule and has
never gone down in political battle. Three
times he has served in Congress Judge
Goodnight is wealthy.
Western Kentucky also offers Charles
X. Wheeler, who, as the Representative
of the First district, was a conspicuous
figure of the minority on the floor of the
House, and David h Smith, now serving
his second term as Representative from
the Fourth district Mr.. Smith figures It
out that, being the odd man, he has a
stronger chance than any of the others on
the final shakedown.
Ex-Gov James &. McCreary is well
known in politics in Kentucky. one of
the richest men in the State, residing in
Richmond, he has always been conspicu-
Gus in the party councils. He has served
in Congress and he has been Governor,
and last year he directed as Chairman the
Kentucky campaign. Ex-Governor Nc
Creary is a superb organizer, and is run
ming on this record.
The fifth Democrat is James E. Cantril,
Of Scott County. He is a circuit judge,
and chance threw the trials OF the Goebel
assassination cases before his court.
Judge Cantriil is one of the few old-sehool
kentuckians still in political activity. He
is one of the typical men OF wealth Of
the South, who may be found pictured in
the roma nces of the civil war period
The times., 1901-05-27
FOOTPRINT IN A PIECE OF COAL.
A Miner Said to Have Made an Inn
portant Scientific Discovery

PITTSTON. Pa, May 26.-A strange
discovery may make this city the Mecca
of historic research. Students are scour-
ing the city in the hope of finding John
Silinski. a miner. who has in his possess
sion a piece of coal bearing the imprint
of a human foot. The lines are distinct,
and there is absolutely no doubt that it
is genuine.
Three prominent business men of the
city have seen the specimen and pro-
nounce it wonder which will deny the
verdict Of science that the earth was un-
inhabited during the coal age" Many
specimens have been found in the Pitts
ton mines during the past few years of
fish and strange vegetation, but never
anything showing the presence of human
beings.
John Silinsh some time ago, while
working in his chamber" came across
a strange strata of coal. On examination
he was surprised to see the imprint of
what seemed to be a human foot For
days ne spent his idle moments reading
books on the subject. When offered a
good price for his discovery he refused and
became frightened. He has not been
seen for days.
The times., 1901-05-27
B. & o.'s NEW PRESIDENT.
L. f. LOree, of the Pennsylvania, Sc
Iected to Succeed Cowen.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. May 26-L F.
Loree, Fourth Vice President of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, has been selected as
the new president OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. This information comes
from reliable sources. The official an
nouncement will be made on next We'd
nesday and the change becomes effective
on June /.
The appointment indicates the complete
domination of the Baltimore and Ohio by
the Pennsylvania and that the abIest ex-
ponents of the latters methods will take
charge of the former road. 1t is pre-
sumed that these methods viii be put in
operation in the Baltimore and Ohio man
agement, together with policy of broad
expansion and development.
The change also indicates that John F.
Cowen, the Baltimore and OhiO's present
president, is to retire to some other office,
probably that OF chairman of the board,
which office Mr.. Solomon Will retire from
it is rumored. Just what other changes
Mr.. Loree's promotion will cause are not
known at present, but it is presumed they
will be many and important.
The times., 1901-05-27
The Knfser's speechmnI1ing.
(From the indianapolis News.)

The German Emperor has issued orders to eN-
clude reporters from all public or semi-public
functions at which he is to speak. lie insists
that these utterances, especially when made
within the circle of his officers" not in
tended for the public, but are really confden-
tial communications. So an effort is to be made
to keep them. at least in their true form, from
the public It would be better STILL however
not to make speeches that cannot be printed.
King Edward does not find il necessary to take
any such precautions to secure secrecy, and the
President Of the French Republic apparently has
no condolences that he feels il necessary TO i'm
part on public semi-public occasions. What
the Emperor really needs, therefore, is more dis
crction rather than greater privacy. However,
if the former is impossible-as it seems TO be-
the latter is plainly necessary.
The times., 1901-05-27
FIGHTING A TROLLEY LINE.
MiIIionaires Opposed to Road in
Greenwich, Conn.

GREEN NWICH. Conn, May 26.-The first
blow in the fight between E. c. Benedict
William Rockefeller. II. o. Havemeyer
and dozen other New York millionaires
and the Greenwich Trolley Company was
struck yesterday. DR.. L. P. Jones. town
health officer, ex-State Senator and fam
lily physician to most of the wealthy fam
lilies of the town, was the first to oppose
the trolley company.
The trolley line which is to be con-
structed between Port Chester and Stam-
ford is looked upon with favor by the
working people here and in the districts
through which 1t is to pass. but the rich
men oppose it. The road is planned to
run in front Of their beautiful summer
villas, and ugly poles will be used to sup
port the wires the company has secured
the right OF way and is determined to
build the line.
Workmen began digging post holes in
front of DR.. Jones home yesterday after
noon. He ordered them to stop They
refused Without another word DR.. Jones
sprang at one of them. seized him by
the collar and trousers, and threw him
across the road. The workman secured
his pick and ran home.
do you know that you have committed
ASSAULT" asked the foreman. II certain
ly do" said the doctor and now that
your man has disappeared you take those
poles from the gutter II you let them
stay there 1 Will use them for kindIing
wood "Out West, where ! come from.
they fix such fellows as you with a little
lead said the foreman.
Two of US can play at that game" re-
piled the doctor. If those poles aren't
away from my place at O'Clock tonight
they will be chopped up to feed nv
kitchen stove" Then he returned to his
house and the work was stopped DR.
Jones expects to be summoned to court
and will be defended by the ablest attor-
neys that the millionaire residents of the
city cah secure.
The workmen expect similar trouble
along the route through Greenwich. and
grumble about continuing work which
may bring bodily injury to them
The times., 1901-05-27
4 Queer Assertion.
From the Chicago Chronicle ]


Cen Fred Grant, in describing his campaigns
in the Philippines, said among other things: Il
stopped active operations after the nomination
OF BRYAN and tried only 10 protect my own
men." This is an unfortunate. not 10 say 4
foolish confession II Gen. Ulysses 5 Grant the
father Of the present general. had stopped
operations" in Virginia after the Democratic
nomination for President in 1864 and had waited
for Republican victory 10 have 4 normal effect
on the war what would have become Of the cam
paign for the onion? It would have been lost
beyond recovery. General Pred might learn
wisdom from the history of his father.
The times., 1901-05-27
discrimination
From the PhiIadeIphia Record }

(From the PhiIadeIphia Record)
More trading and commissary scandals from
Manila have been iicked over the ocean cable
and the American public are beginning to feel
disguised over the purely selfish and selfseeking
aspects of these sordid episodes in our progress
toward imperialism But, at all events the
canker of Neelyism has not struck in its roots
at Manila The commissary thieves are already
in prison. serving ont their sentences; whereas
Neeiy and Rath5ene experience only such con-
structive detention as Is imposed by a heavy
bail bond How is II that the army rascas are
promptly punished. while equally guilty civilian
offenders dout the law?
The times., 1901-05-27
PARTISAN to the backbone.
(From the Boston Herald.)

Mr. Hoar dwels upon the necessity OF acting
with party, however much doing will carry
a man away from his convictions As regards
important public questions. He even went 50
far in one Of his speeches on the Philippine
question as TO say that the support OF certain
action placed those vino initiated or defended
il by the side OF Aaron Burr in our history; yet
he felt that when the question of partisanship
arose, his place was with them. But this was
not Mr. Hoar he originally by nature; it
was Mr.. Hoar as hide-bound partissnship created
by age and prejudice had made him.
The times., 1901-05-27
Americas Defenders.

(From the Kansas City Starr
Nothing finer is to be seen nowadays than the
magnificent physical condition of the officers
and soldiers returning from the Philippines. To
watch them passing through the Union station
in Kansas City their way home is a genuine
pleasure. They look proud and healthy and
strong There is in this an evidence of the
perfected methods Of the army and also of the
splendid Drawn and sinew of American manhood
The times., 1901-05-27
ANOTHER EDISON PLANT.
A MiiIiOn-DOIIar Company Being
Formed to Manufacture Batteries.

NEWARK, n. j., May 2G.-Papers are
being prepared here by Howard Hayes,
counsel for Thomas a. Edison, for the in
corporation in Essex County of a 81. .O0l, 600
company which is to manufacture the new
Edison lightweight storage battery The
corporation is TO be known as the Edison
Storage Ba terry Company, and is to build
In Glen Ridge a big plant to employ at
least L. 600 operators.
The incorporation of this company is the
first step. 1t is stated, toward the forma-
tion of a parent corporation to control
score of similar companies in various
States and in foreign lands for the manu-
facture of the new batteries. All eventual
Nv are to come under the Jurisdiction of a
general corporation to be organized with
a capital of from $2o,000.00O to $50. 900, O00
The times., 1901-05-27
cubnns and the pIatt Amendment.

(trom the st. Louis Globe Democrat)
In the end they will accept the amendment
and they will accept it in the precise form in
which it stands at this moment. No power
has the right to change its stipulations except
Congress, and Congress will not meet until next
December. If the amendment should not be ac-
cepted by the Cubans by that time Congress
would be strongly tempted 10 alter the measure
and alteration would mean that il would be
made harsher in its terms.
The times., 1901-05-27
Brevity in the PuIpit.
CFrom the Chieago Tribune.l

FrOm Inc IIllCa-0 ITIUune-J
The model sermon should not exceed a quar-
ter Of an hour in delivery. II take pains
one can say in that length OF time many things
which are worth listening TO and some OF which
viii stick in the minds OF hearers They are
likely to remember what has been said when the
sermon is brief, crisp, and pointed. with almost
as many ideas as there are sentences. When
the sermon is long they begin thinking early
in the ganse Of when it viii end and of dinner.
There is such a sigh of relief when ''and lastly
is reachei.
The times., 1901-05-27
walking Delegate Tyranny.

(From the New York Commercial Advertiser)
Although the evidence is somewhat conflicting
yet the weight OF it clearly shows that the strike
which has stopped work on the rapid transit
tunnel excavations ordered by walking dele
gates for the sole purpose OF intimidatiug other
employers to yield to the demands of their men
culable Inconvenience means OF coercing
private contractors
The times., 1901-05-27

Probably to test public sentiment, the
story appeared the other day that the
Naval Board Of Awards had tentatively
decided to put the head of the absent
Sampson on the medal to commemorate
Admiral Schley's victory off Santiago
Harbor. Saturday it was said that Off
cials of the Navy Department denied the
report, and stated that Sampson would
not be the piece de resistance. If they
were right it is well Anything rather
than the man behind the horiZon!"
The times., 1901-05-27
Law Dealings with Dowie.
(From the Chicago News.J

-ftWs-T
The fact that this is a free country does not
prevent the police from interfering with men who
practice confidence games-no matter what the
form of the game how large the number Of
those who gulled- II the chief result Of
Dowie's comprehensive premises to heal las
been the enrichment of Dowie it is well that tl.a
facts should be made known.
The times., 1901-05-27
Divine Rights of Rulers.
q'rom the st. Paul Dispatch.)

(From the St Paul Dispatch.)
The divine right of kings is a more popular
doctrine totay than the divine right of the peo-
pie. At least the emperors and kings say so.
and the people fall amably in No rulers in any
age have manifested their belief in this doctrine
mer" positively than Edward OF England and
William Of Germany.
The times., 1901-05-27
The Doctrine of RenrIsnIs.

(From the Atlanta Journal)
Massachusetts, Republicans propose 10 so gerry
mandeT the State TO give the Democrats but
Congressman, instead Of four, which they
would have under fair apportionment Tie
only consolation about this il the fact that there
are Democratic States TO be gerrymandered also
The times., 1901-05-27

a despatch from PittstOn, Pennsyl-
vania, asserts that a Polish miner
at that place has discovered a chunk Of
coal bearing unmistakablv the imprint OF
a mans foot The idea that the human
race existed upon earth IN the Carbonif-
erous age will be rather hard
proposition for geologists TO swallow. If
the report be true and the evidence all
right, the occurrence Of the phenomenon
might be reconciled with current concep-
dons, but only in the way Of prophecy.
This would be especially true if the foot
print found by the Polish Investigator
should happen to be found branded with
the letters j. =. NJ"