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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07

The present agitation for municipal
ownership naturally involves the larger
question of government control OF pub
lie service corporations. On this last
point the Wall Street Journal recently
declared:
The principle of municipal ownership Is
prominent only because of the outrageous
debauchng of municipal bodies by public
service corporations The agitation for
government ownership of railroads Is
merely a phase of the real trouble, which
IS that the present statute book is totally
untitled to deal with present conditions.
The demand for destruction of large cor
porations is merely froth; the real de-
mand is that the corporations shall only
obey the law and shall keep their lobby
lists from the legislatures.
Practical men look ahead and point
out the dangers in the way Of govern
ment control. One phase of danger
was presented by Judge d. Cady Her
rick of New York in recent speech
before the Reform club. Said Judge
Herrick:
I am a believer in trades unions. and
find In average unionists a far more In
telligent apprehension of governmental
functions than that had by the average
business man. He knows how to use his
franchise Now. by municipal ownership
either the trades unions will be crushed
out of existence-for 1t Is hard to con-
template a self respecting, stable, strong
government allowing its employees to die
tate to 1t or even to discuss questions
with tor the trades unions will domi-
nate the government. Which would be
worse? l do not know.
Judge Herrick also declared that
public ownership would give the ma
chine" magnificent opportunity In
manipulating tremendous expenditures.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07
WASHINGTON HAND PRESS
s ALE

Intending to put in a power
press at an early date, we offer
for sale, at a reasonable price, a
seven column Hoe hand press In
first class condition. Address
inquiries to the Echo.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07
The Immigrant Rush to Cities.

The preference Of European peasant
farmers for factory work and tene-
ment squalor when they land In Amer
lea is not so unreasonable as 1t seems
at first thought. In the old world the
country toilers are accustomed to vii
lage life and companionship. The iso-
lated farmhouse is unknown in the ag-
ricutural districts there, as the farm
ers gather in hamlets and do not make
their homes on the lands they cultivate.
Naturally the immigrant farmers,
who have been accustomed to the So
cial life of villages, revolt against the
lonesomeness of the American farm
and drift to the cities, where they
have companions of their own nation
atty. Americans are themselves find
ing country life irksome and crowding
into villages and cities. A yearning
for greater culture is at the base of
the movement among Americans. The
foreigners have a lower ambition per-
haps and seek the crowd for mere
amusement. The south proposes to
transplant to agricultural lands whole
European peasant communities and al
low the immigrants to reproduce there
the social conditions of their old homes.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07

A well Travelled. quick witted and
keen sighted Australian. Helen Jerome,
has been giving her .offhand observa'
lions of American men and women,
The words are fattering to both sexes,
but the fair foreigner leaves delight
full doubt as TO where the pre-eminence
in excellence is found. She says:
In the first place. Americans arc the
pnly women In tho world who have ideal
husbands. Every woman gets the hus-
band she deserves. they say, and has her
counterpart In some man. I attribute the
perfection of the American husband to
tho fact that the young of both sexes are
educated together. American men treat
their women folks like queens It's
revelation to me. especially when 1 look
at the men. for I don't see how such COM
mercial, hard headed. matter of fact per-
sons ever get to the point OF proposing.
Mrs. Jerome finds the American men
ugly and not so well dressed as Eng
lishmen. Unconsciously perhaps she
pays the American man tribute when
she says:
It's strange about the American man.
On the street he Is quick, impatient 1ull
of business; in his home he is another per-
son altogether. The place to study ham is
the street. He seems to lose his individ-
uality in the house.
The American home is the woman's
sphere, and there the tired man of af-
fairs seeks rest, gladly surrendering
his individuality, or, rather. expressing
it through his other half. II the Amer
lean man is a poor dresser not SO bis
wife and daughter, in the opinion Of
this observer, who notes That's
The American puts on her clothes like
nobody else in the world Englishwomen
are dowdy: Frenchwomen dress horribly
But IL an American Is wearing only
shirt waist and walking skirt she looks
we'll dressed and smart. the cut Is so ele-
giant and the taste so good.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07
A New Role For Kings,


King Edward VII. is the creator of
O new function for kings. His visit to
Paris followed the Kaiser Wilhelm cpl
sode ut T0ngier and was itself follow
ed by the visit of the young king of
Spain to France and England. The
German emperor has often INDUCED In
high talk which was never backed up.
file may outline the real policy of Ger
many but the king of England can do
the same.
A sovereign can say things which
really need saying and say them In
tentative and uncommitting way
which is almost beyond the reach of
the premier, foreign minister or sec
rotary of state. A sovereign In for
elgn capital may also hear things
which would not be said 30 plainly be-
fore an ambassador from his court. He
enjoys the double advantage of being
informed of everything that Is going
on and can make suggestions and offer
hints which do not In the least commit
his ministers.
A constitutional monarch cannot In
deed give any assurance that the ideas
he puts forward will ever take formal
shape, but for that very reason he Is
uble to state them with greater free
dom. He is acquainted with the views
of both parties at home, and he knows
the minds of foreign sovereigns more
intimately than most foreign ministers
or secretaries can hope to do. The
outcome of all this is that when a SOY
ereign like the present king of Eng
land is content to play the part of am
bassador he will often play 1t better
than the most experienced diplomat.
In some respects King Edward has
better opportunities than other SOW
eregns of plying his new vocation. In
other European countries the king Is,
to Il certain extent his own foreign
minister and cannot talk with the same
freedom as the English king. His
opinions and suggestions will be taken
too seriously rs those of his govern
ment. King Edward cannot be his own
foreign visitor minister, as some con-
tinental sovereigns still are, but he can
make the work of his foreign minister
easier. He can go from capital to capi-
tai, smoothing away irritation, remoy-
ing difficulties in the way of interna-
tiona good will and making views
popular which but for his visits might
have been looked upon with traditional
suspicion. All this he can do without
committing his ministers one way or
| the other
Causes Of war are often found not so
much In the conflict of rival interests
as IN the presence of suspicious which
make reconciliation hopeless. How
much few royal visits may do TO re-
move suspicious threatening to nation
al good will Is shown by King Ed
wards personal popularity In Paris.
| The idea that king must necessarily
get himself disliked by taking part In
public affairs has received a setback at
the hands of the English sovereign,
and along with that goes the kindred
idea that the occupation of kings Is
gone.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07

Another historic 'ind" Is reported,
this time in the harbor Of Tripoli. More
than a century ago the United States
frigate Philadelphia entered the harbor
of Tripoli In pursuit of corsair. She
was captured and held at anchor. A
few weeks later the brave Decatur en-
tered the harbor and set the frigate on
fire. Instead of sinking at anchor, as
has long been supposed, the burning
Philadelphia broke loose and drifted to
a mole at the side of the harbor, where
the wreck has lain undisturbed. 1t
was recently discovered by an Ameri-
can, Mr.. Charles w. Furlong.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07

A French Investigator has recently
published string of evidence proving
that the domestic turkey Is descend
ant of the wild turkey of Mexico and
Texas. This gentleman is puzzled as
to the origin of the name turkey, ap-
parently overlooking the probability
that the famous bird named himself.
All thoroughbred turkeys are constant
ly saying, Turk, turk, turk" and 1t
was natural that people, especially
children, should add vowel termina-
ton and produce the more euphonious
turkey
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07

Thirty years ago the Japanese print
ed from wooden blocks. Today the
printing houses of Japan are equipped
with the finest machinery made in Eu-
rope and publish hundreds of news
papers daily and thousands Of books
every year. Recently a japanese firm
rendered bids for printing and binding
English Bibles and delivering them in
New York for 20 per cent less than
they can be produced in America,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07

NGREGATIoNAL-Servic every Sunday.
Sunday school at 10 Goa. m.
Public worship at II 90 u. m.
Evening service at 80 Up m.
Meeting for conference, prayer and bible
study at the church every Saturday at : 30.
The Ladies Guild meets every Thursday at
OOp. m, at the home OF members, as announced
Busy Bees meet every Saturday at 9 90 p. M,
ut the home Of the members.
The old building will be used for religious SER
vices while the new one is being constructed
Everybody invited to attend all or any OF the
services
w. S. BIxBY, Pastor.
CArHoLIc-sarvices at the Catholic church
every fourth Sunday in the month; mass at
80 a. m /; Sunday school at p m. E; vespers
80 D. M: low mass following monday.
Father H. Colin. Pastor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07

The majority of failures began TO de-
teriorate by doubling or depreciatlng
themselves or by losing confidence In
their own ability. Lack of faith 10
oneself is equalization to the enemy.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-07-07

Lively King Menelik Of Abysslnia
wants railway and wants 1t quick,
so he threatens to build road himself
If the powers do not get busy at once.
His dusky highness little realizes the
woes In store when the road reaches
the stage of strikes, rebates, dineren-
tials, free passes and all that.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
STRIKES HIS HEAD
ON CIRCULAR SAW
Nell C. lowers Meets Horrible
Death at Maple Grove
WAS WORKING IN DUST PIT
ThouehtlessIy Raises His Head Against
Revolving Saw and the Skull Is
Split Entirely open-onIy
Recently Married.
WAS WORKING IN DUST PIT

Gadsden, August 5--(specia1 News OF
horrible accidental death at Maple
Grove, in Cherokee county. reached Gads-
den early Saturday morning.
From the best information at hand 1t
seems that Nell G. Towers. son of G. G..
Towers, was working in the saw mill of
Mrs. C. c. Towers near Maple Grove, and
late Friday afternoon he was busy In the
saw mill dust pit, and when he got ready
to leave he very thoughtlessly raised up
his full length. his head striking the
rapidly revolving saw. When his head
came in contact with the saw 1t was split
open and his eyes cut out He fell to the
ground with an agonizing cry, and his
horror-striclSen fellow employees ran to his
assistance He was tenderly picked up and
taken to his home, where medical atten-
tion was given him. but he was beyond
all earthly aid.
Mr.. Towers lived thirty minutes after
The accident, but never spoke word af-
ter his head was split open. He was about
% years old and leaves young wife, hav-
ing married in April
Mr.. Towers was one of the brightest and
most popular young men IN his section of
the country, and had the confidence and
respect of every one. He was a young
man of great promise, and his horrible
and untimely death has cast gloom over
the happy settlement where he lived
The remains were inferred Saturday at
Shady Grove cemetery
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
dasiiC Action is Taken 70 Keep
Out Any One from In
iecIsd District
SHREVEPORT IS TOTALLY
ISOLATED BY QUARANTINE
Not Train Enters or Leaves the City.
Coal Supply Is Short and Water
works May Have to
Shut Down.

Memphis, Tenn, August 5.-This city has
ordered its doors closed to the outside
world beginning Monday at noon and no
person can enter unless holding a per-
init signed by DR.. Hebes Jones, president
Of the board of health, or Secretary Mar
Gus Haas.
These certificates, it is announced, will
only be issued In urgent cases and when
1t is positively known that the applicant
has not been In fever infected district.
Favor Shotgun Quarantine.
This drastic action was taken by the
city council tonighter after receiving a..
nuinerously signed petition The health
authorities say that the city was never
In better sanitary condition. A large
majority of the citizens, however. favor
what is known as shotgun quarantine
and in Difference to their wishes a cor
don of guards will be placed around the
city at noon Monday. The Shreveport
baseball team which left Nashville to-
night will be admitted and tomorrow S
game viii be played as scheduled The
Memphis Baseball association wired Pres
ident Kavanaugh tonight urging him to
send the New Orleans team to Memphis
before Monday. This team car then go
10 Little Rock for series OF games
Can Return Only With Permit.
DR.. Marcus. Hass said tonight that the
citizens who are abroad from Memphis
after Monday can return to Memphis only
with permit. Sucn a permit will be for
warded In CERTAIN cases after the board
of health makes full investigation. Any
person leaving the city is required to
secure permit to re-enter and this per-
NIT will only be issued when it is positive
ly known that the applicant will visit no
infected district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
Dread Plague Seems to be
Spreading in Many DIrtc-
tIons In New Orleans
EIGHT DEATHS YESTERDAY
BRINGS TOTAL UP TO 81
All Classes Of Citizens Arc Satisfied
With the Decision TO Place situa-
tlon In Hands Of Federal
Government.


The small number of new cases Is coun-
terbalanced by the number of new foci,
which equals half of the total cases re-
ported for the day. showing that the
original point of infection is no longer
the main center. OF the deaths, five were
in the Emergency hospital and three in
the original district. One of todays VIC
tins is Archbishop P. L. Chapelle
whose case was reported by DR.. Larue
himself.
At 1920 tonight Dr. LaRue, who attend
ing Archbishop Chapelle. gave out the
following statement
II saw the archbishop Friday night AZ
o'clock and found that he had a well
defined case of yellow fever. / saw hiin
tonight at $50 o'clock, and while he Is
very sick, his condition is not at all
alarming"
The archbishop has just concluded
tour of all the parishes. where he has
confirmed classes.
Dr. Larue is unable TO trace the In
lection as the archbishop has not been
out of his residence but once in week
or more, when he took a short walk.
He has not been in the infected district
though there are cases of fever not far
from his residence. DR.. Larue believes
that a stray mosquito from an infected
house Is the cause of the archbishop's ILL
uess
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
DIR, WYMAN REPORTS
ON HIS PROGR[y !: !
S.
Battle With Fever w, e$ ost
$4,000 a Da,
WILL SOON BEGIN FIGHT
Mayor Behrman of New Orleans Sup
pIements Request to President
Roosevelt That Government
Take Charge at Once.
WILL SOON BEGIN FIGHT

OYSTER Bav, August s-In resnonse to
President Rooseevlt,s d,raot,on that ba
be furnished with a renort on the vol
low fever situation in Louisiana, mar
ticularly in New Orleans, Surgeon GEN
eral Wynan of the marine hospital SER
vice in Washington this evening t.Ia-
grapbed the President that he was maxi
ing arrangements to undertake. govern-
ment control of the fever situation as
requested hv Governor blanchard DIR
Wvman,s telegram vTl,iob tho President
directed TO he made m5hite. Is as follows: /:
Wyman Reports progress.
washington August s. The President
Renlvins furtba,. 10 fvf,,, telavrau of Ar
submit tha foI,o,,,,, :. ,..,,,,,,-t.
s.o.A'' 'ne ioi.o"'Hs iep'f.'
service has had skilled officers In New
Orleans since first knowledge Of the fever.
Under the law they are there to sec that
the Interstate ouarant,na raouIat,ons orc
- :
o'i-'' ~ ei0 " oAoi a9sis'' ''ii0o IA eheii'
enforcement. detention camps nave been
established and are in operation to per-
init exit OF people without endansering
o,ners anu Trains inspectors are placed
by the service on adj trains leaving New
Orleans. Our skilled officers in New Or
leans have been and are materia1lv aiding
,ha ,ooa, o,,horst,as IN ths s,,,rrass,<,,
= =
VI .ne eiSeaso' peio'e ioihiaiis assuming
charge In accordance with the request L
have deemed 1t necessary to curtal un-
necessary expenses. Surgeon White in
his tales,-.,,,, tsdax, est,,nates the Same at
80, s,o,,o -
sio'v ''' " s-s"~ pc 'as;
Inc eploeHic 1ouhd Will not stand
this expenditure l have wired Surgeon
white arransemesnt t,,at the government
sbord, nainto,n ond nav for medical and
sho,di ,ai,,tai, a, a,,d ra for n,edicai and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
BODY IN OIL TANK.
Officer of Kansas Oil Company Found
Dead In Oil.

Chanute, Kan, August 5.-The body
of Dudley F. Chambers, treasurer and
assistant general manager of the
Southwestern Oil and Gas company
has been found floating in tank OF
oil on the Burkhart lease, six and a
half miles east of town.
he went to the lease to look after
the delivery of some oil, and hours
after his arrival he was missed. Cham
bers had gone down on ladder inside
the tank when the oil was at the bot
tom. It is supposed he became asphyx-
lated
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
British Subjects Celebrate.

Providence, r. l., August 5.-Past
and present subjects of Great Britain
both from Canada and the mother
country who live in this vicinity, were
out In force, the occasion being the
celebration of Britiash day at Crescent
Park. The feature of the day was the
presence of the Duke of Cromwelps
own Forty-third Canadian regiment,
which came here from Ottawa to at
tend the celebration. The visiting reg
ment received an ovation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
KILLED BY CAR.
Vehicle In Memphis Is Struck BY a
Street Car.

Memphis, August bone person was
killed and two badly injured in a coll
lision between street car and buggy on
Thomas avenue near the Belt line cross
ing tonight. The deaf:
Maggie Duling, aged g.
Injured:
Miss Lille Duling, aged Is; leg frac-
tured and seriously mashed.
J. o. Dulin, arm crushed off.
Duling with his two daughters attempt
ed to cross the street car track with his
vehicle but was run down by an approach
ing car, The buggy was smashed to
spliuters
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06

New York, August By a total
score of 22l to 19i for two innings the
visiting cricketers from the Marley
bone club of England defeated the
picked eleven from the clubs compris-
ing the Metropolitan district of Greater
New York. today. The match, which
began yesterday, was very even on the
first innings. with the local men just
one run in the lead, but today the Wis
itors outbatted and outfielded the home
players.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06

St Petersburg. August 6.-0;15 a. MI
After months of preparation and anxious
waiting the plan for new popular as
sembly, an innovation to the Russian po-
litical system of greater Importance than
the emancipation of the peasantry or the
establishment of zemstvos is now under
going final revision and its completion
and PRONUNCIATION are thought to be a
matter of days only The Emperor, it is
well known, hopes to signalize the first
birthday of the infant heir apparent by
a manifesto summoning the representa-
tives of the people, and during the long
meetings of the commission at Peterhoff
last week has driven the work of revision
as fast as possible.
Prevented Any Step Backward.
The commission made a strong effort to
secure the rejection or alteration of two
important provisions Of the project, but
the sentiment of the commission and the
wishes of the Emperor and the grand
dukes prevented any step backward. As
at the previous sessions the Emperor's
advisers continued to discuss the needs
of the country with remarkable frank
ness. The article over which the main
conflict arose comprised paragraph AZ,
proposing that the assembly's rejection
of any proposition submitted to 1t by a
two-thrds majority is absolutely final,
with no recourse whatever. M. Stichinsky,
n noted reactionist. assailed this para
pranb and pointed out its wide limitations
of the empire. and Gem
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06

ferred that the merchants who started the
boycott have found themselves heavy
losers In trade as a result and are desirous
Of removing 1t. The department also has
been Informed that Minister Rockhill has
secured the aid of the Chinese government
In stopping the anti-American movement
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
President Dousherty Resigns.

Washington, August 5.-Rev. John
Dcugherty, owing to illness, has re-
signed the presidency of Georgetown
university. He has been succeeded by
the Rev. David H. Buel. s. j.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-08-06
SOUTHERN PACIFIC HAS
TROUBLE WITH MAILS,

The Southern Pacific is still having
trouble In handling the United States
mail 1t has used an engine and a freight
car to go through Calcasieu, but finds the
method of handling troublesome and ex-
pensive Tne decision of Iberia parish
to put up her bars against everything
added to the difficulties of the road. The
disposition of the postal authorities, as
indicated In the press by the dispatches
from Washington. is evidently not to ask
the railroads to attempt to do the inn
possible and the notice of the Southern
Pacific sent today to Washington that il
cannot carry mail through some of the
parishes will probably result in routing
through mail to Texas, to sections where
there are no quarantine restrictions. The
road today announced that it was able
to receive freight at all points In Louisi-
ana with the exception of two parishes.