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New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

noisy escape TO pent-up force there might then
be an explosion. But our revolutions consist Oh
much bluster and few ballots. When we nave
elected Hearst to Office then will be time 10
discuss the pcrls Of an epidemic OF nationai
hystera
A democracy is a government OF common
sense or of passion, for they are me only guld-
ing impulses found in humanity as an aggre-
gate. II The number OF democracies In the
past which have abandoned themselves TO pas
sion is alarming. il must he remembered that
this is a broad land and that passion by wire is
cold and unmoving The nation has clung con-
Sistently 70 common sense. that tia media which
is the highest intellectual path of multitudes.
Common sense is cminenty hard headed and
contemDtrous of hysteria. 1t is utlitarian.
practical and Indifferent to theory. There
doubtless is what the doctor calls perverted
nerve action" 10 which confiscation appeals.
and there is timid hysteria. 10 which state
socialism seems soothing. But the average
American faces the cOuntry's economic problems
with common sense. courage and healthy con-
fdence that the country can solve them without
resort TO some sGcialistic scheme of industrial
conscription. as odious to the average inaivd-
ualStic American would he the European
system Of military conscrption. layman
might pardonabiy speak in a large. loose, meta
phorical way OF the epidemic of national hys-
teTia." but a physician should use the language
of his profession more exactly.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05
PERSONAL.

How Gear Nicholas grand duke wooed Prin-
cess Alx of Hesse is described in communication
from St. Petersburg TO the 'Yossiche Zeitung
At Walton on Thames Nicholas had ercoun-
desire to marry her was approved BY Alexander
one beautiful summer evening he met the lady OF
his choice in pavilion alone and absorbed in rev.
duke could desire. but ne found IT hard 10 pop the
question In the stiff form prescribed by Russian
HIS throat when he finally took courage sat down
sey f8 Sas Declared Ia pero INV e aSs has
commanded me to offer you both my hand and my
princess answered. smiling. and with Toguish
twinkle in her eyes, has commanded me to accept
and added: AS to your heart. accept II of my
own free will.
Count Beck who celebrated the twenty-hfth an
niversary of his elevation to the post OF chief OF
staff of the Austrian army last June. received
gratulatons again October rs. the slxtfeth an
niversary OF his entry into the Austrian army
great numbers. and a delegation consisting OF
three general officers, brought to the venerable
soldier an autograph letter from the German I'm
peGor.
N D. Hawkins OF Edinboro Penn. who bought
stradivarius violin years for $500. has sold
the violin for $4,000 to Miss Leona Jackson The
valius
Simon Wolf lawyer. lecturer. author and leading
Jewish citizen celebrated the SEVENTEEN anntyer-
sary of his birth with reception at his home IN
WASHINGTON
been prominently connected with the Hebrew
order of mai Birth, having been It's president He
is chairman Of the executive COMMITTEES. ana
Districts Nos / . 5. and presented him with
a handsome testimonial The Jews OF Boston sent
him massive silver loving cup, while the Russian
Hebrew of the same city sent another
From the German Orphan Asvlum of Washington
Mr. Wolf received 2 large punch bowl
Professor E c. Moore. Parkman professor OF
theology In the Harvard Divinity School who has
been appointed member of the committee Of the
American Board OF Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sons 20 inspect the work of the China missions,
will start on the trip TO China about February
/, Immediately after the close Of the nrSt EAR
year The other members OF the committee are Dr.
James /. Barton, one of the secretaries of the
board. and DR.. Lucien c. Warner, OF New YORK
DR.. Barton will sail about Christmas time, ana
will meet Professor Moore in Shanghai
Admiral Sir Edward Fremantle. who entered the
British navy in 1S4s. when thirteen years Old has
been publishing some of his experiences and ohser-
vstions He agrees with President Roosevelt that
''the naval officer OF the future must be a nEhtln
engineer and he thinks that this view IS shared
by the British Admiralty. The admiral also says
''In the present age are so entirely Dependent
on mechanical science that it is essential that our
officers and men should learn to grease and gauge
with the engineers If they are to be able sean7n
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05
BJ RI HIM

Tuesday night. the votes having been counted
ought to see the last Of Hearst as a state or
national figure. He should he so overwhem-
ingly defeated that he will drop back where he
belongs in the class with Debs as an agltator
noisy hut unimportant. He should he defeated
because the sound and solid work which is be-
ing done by President Roosevelt TO rectify COM
mercal abuses will he helped by Hearsts de-
feat. Reckless and constituencies sensational
ism never aided good cause.
He should be overwhelmingly defeated so
that this country will not have to go through
two years from now q repetition Of this years
disgraceful and den1oralizing campaign. If the
stufing is taken out of his club and the sand
out of his sandbag the Democratic leaders will
have the courage TO refuse his demands for the
nomination for the Presidency. Then with his
fake leagues and his newspapers he will not
be able 10 bully them, as he did the New York
state leaders this year. If he wins in New
York or if he comes near winning, we may
have to listen to his Slanderbund abuse through
a national campaign. An overwhelming adverse
majority will reduce him 10 insignifcance and
relieve the country for some time from his sack
and sandbag' politics.
He cannot be too badly beaten. Let him see
thar his own party will have none of him that
independents turn from him with loathing that
true radicals have not been deceived by his shall
low sham, and that even regularity" has en-
countered something which it cannot stomach.
Let the state cover with scorn the man who
has defled public life who has tried 10 corrupt
public opinion and who has financed a class war.
Make his fate a warning and an example to all
future demagogues. Voters who love New York.
make his rejection as nearly unanimous as you
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05
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New-York tribune., 1906-11-05
4OrP NATIONAL HYSTERI4."

There is nothing that the human mind en-
joys better than 10 generalize. II is an exhil-
arating mental gymnastic. If we read some as
sertiOn that Is meant 10 be startling we are
undisturhed. even if 1t is backed by scien-
tifc diploma The speaker has merely been
generalizing. and frequently he IS unwittingy
Illustrating his own generalization. Thus when
we are told by the members Of the American
Association OF Railway Surgeons at Chicago that
this country is being swept by an epidemic Of
hyEterla as catching smallpox" we feel in-
clined 10 proffer the old advice. physician. heal
thyself!"
DR. Corwin, the president OF the association.
processes 10 SEE the symptoms of the malady
referred 70 everywhere I'm life The public de-
nand for Eensationasm, even in the schools.
S. be thinks. certain indication. Dr. Mitchell.
Of Nebraska, declared before the association
that the national hystera was Illustrated by the
passage Of unwise laws. hy lynchngS. by per
sonal violence and in general by attacks upon
the established order Of things. II a world
wide phenomenon. be said. but il was more
marked in this country than elsewhere. Prob
ably he had the New York election in mind. for
he said:
A large class of our people is money mad;
large class is hystericai, under the leadership Of
men who promise by methods 10 right the sup
posed wrongs for which the people alone arc
responsible. To my mind the eagerness
70 take from those who possess that which tho
masses have given them the right to possess and
give 10 those less gifted with forct hought and
courage has reached stage whore II needs
medical attention.
40 thoughtful person would deny for an in
stant that the application here Of the depraved
sensational methods of yellow journalism TO
politics shows the existence of some public hys
teria and IS an effort 10 increase It and TO
pander 10 IT, But does If show that an epidemic
Of hysteria is sweeping over the whole country
We think not. For community Of Mysteries 10
whom 2 Wild and turbulent appeal is being made
New York during this campaign has been re-
marlsaby stoIid. There are. 10 be sura Hearst
enthusiasts VINO behave aS if they needed med
ical attention" In great city like New York
you will always find n considerable numbers
examples 0f every hySicria and monomania
known. but the great mass of the community
does not show the slightest indication Of flight
iness." n listens 10 the scream, You are being
robbed you are being robbed :" with appar-
ent unooncern OF the Hearsteria Of last year
there are few symptoms this year.
We have no sympathy with the tendency Of
some persons to wag their heads soleInnly and
dolefully over the human race. II is a pretty
good old race. II las stood the wear and tear
OF Time well and have high hopes for f.
80, too. we protest against the learned and lugu-
bTious head Wagging over the American demo.-
racy. Hearst is not The first of his kind-he is
merely the worsi-and We have survived his
predecessors Such a campaign aa this is merely
blowing of steam the safety waive of the en-
gine is operating, and If it failed 10 afford
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05
MONEY dND RUGINESS

During the early part Of last week trading In
securities showed the dulness customary tust
before election, and there was the additional
calming influence of high money market The
leading interests appeared willing to have prices
sag off a little. to judge by the absence of sup
port. and there was some disappointment when
the notable statement of the United States
Steel Corporation was not accompanied by an
Increase In the dividend the common stock
The enormous earnings for the third quarter Of
1908 and tonnage of business practically as
suring similar records for the coming year
seemed 10 warrant some distribution % stoos,-
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05
THE NExT AMERICAN BArrLESHIp

When the subject of new battIeships was un.
der discussion at the last session of Congress
the House evinced disposition to authorize the
construction of n vessel that was described only
in general terms The ship was to have as
powerful an armament as any other of its class,
was 10 show the highest practicable speed. +"
and TO possess the Largest practicable
radius of action Much would have been left
10 the discretion of the Navy Department but
such departure from usage was favored by
the House, because ii promised TO save time and
prevented a premature revelation of Americas
plans 10 other naval powers. The Senate was
not ready TO so quite so far, however, and II
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05
Nets:l1prk DAILY Gribrr,,s
MONDAY. NOVEMBER S, 1906.
THE NEWS THIS MORVTNG.

FoREIGN.-Reports received at Shanghai
from missionaries said that some 100000 per
sons IN Central China were facing starvation
from famine = II was believed in Paris that
the programme Of the CIemenceau Ministrv
would be the most advanced ever presented in
France. -= The estimate for the French
Budget for 1907 showed deficit Of 10 600 600
francs TO he met by increased taxation and short
term Treasury bonds. == The celebration Of
i'anama continued == Two delegates from
each country represented at the conference on
wireless telegraphy al Berlin took luncheon with
the Emperor. -M. Dsvdoff who was arrest
ed on SATURDAY in st. Petersburg was released.
DOMESTIC.-President aud Mrs Roosevelt
returned 10 Washington from Pine Knot, Va.
-- a bulletin Of the Department OF Com
merce and Labor showed an increase Of % per
cent in the steel trade for the first nine months
OF 1906 over the same months Of last year. -
A locomotive on the New York Central road at
Rome, y. Y plunged into saloon and the en-
glneer and a brakeman were killed. - Sir
Mortimer Durand, British Arnbas ssador left
LenoX Mass, for Washington =- The cap
tain and crew of six men Of a British schooner
were rescued by the breeches buoy on Cape Cod
Mass. = Colonel Henry s. Olcott the Well
known Iheosophist was injured in railway
wreck in Italy while on his return 10 India ac-
cording 10 adVices received by friends in Kan
saS. --- A man VINO murdered a woman at
Abingdon, Va, by blowing her head off with a
shotgun followed that crime by killing himself
CITY.-Confdence was expressed by Repub-
hcan leaders all over the city in the outcome OF
the eleCtiO- - The Central Federated Union
PAID no attention TO resolutions indorsing ". r.
Hearst. and received his name coolly. -
Congressman John :. Ketcham. candidate for
reelection in the Dist District, died. == Two
Staten Island branches Of the Independence
League have come out for the local ReDublica n
nominees for Sheriff and Assembly. Ex-
tensiye preparations for preventing repeating at
The election have been made by Superintendent
Morgan and the police. and 10000 orders for
arrest have been prepared. ---- DR. Felix Ad-
Ter. in address. said he doubted the advisa-
bllitE OF electins the radical candidate for
Governor == Henry Rice, president OF the
United Hebrew Charities and Louis Stern. pres
ident of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orpha n
Asylum, in interviews. supported Charles +.
Hughes. - One fireman killed and six
others were injured I'm fire which destroyed the
Pilgrim steam laundry. I'm Brooklyn.
TIIE WEATHER.-Indicatio tons for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest. "a
degrees; lowest, -.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

What a lovely addition Hearst would make TO
an anthology of the memorable sayings Of great
men, Washington. Let us raise a standard to
which the wise and honest repair" Lin
coin. With malice toward none. with charity
for all" Grant, Let us have peace" McKin-
ley. TT is Gods will" And Hearst, My op-
ponent is an animated feather duster"'
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

Hearst is not only the corporation candidate,
but he is employing corporation hacks as his
agents. and he Is running his campaign, as also
his various businesses. in the most Objectionable
corporation style
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

The eagerness Of Murphy TO save his character
by assuring the public that he. too. regards
Hearst offensive is pathetic. Murphy lacks
imagination. There some things that even
the dullest take for granted II was Murphy's
painful duty as a statesman to offer to the
public a candidate who is a general offence We
sympathiIe with him.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

fair specimen OF the Hearst campaign meth
ods appeared in one of Hearst's papers on Sat-
urday Murphy had predicted a Hearst plu-
rality of from $4,000 to 100000 The newspaper
in big type on the first page talked about Muir
phys estimate "of from 100000 to 125OOO"
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

Chicago women are wrestling with the oues-
ton Of who owns wife's clothes. the wife OF
tho husband. That seems purely academic The
husband wouldn't assert his ownership Of them
even If he had IL. as wives sometimes proven
biaily do OF a certain important article Of male
wearing apparel
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

on the map of the world only as an historic
memory connected with the great Napoleon
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

Mr.. Murphy claims TO have learned "regu-
larity" from Richard Croker. and now Croker
shows him he learned 1t wrong. VIII Tammany
Halls chieftain again have to go to school to
his masterf It looks that way
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

Cochran does without revulslOn things which
shock the finer sensibilities of Grady.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

And the Hon. Bourke Cochran says he Is op-
posed to predatory wealth!
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

Tammany Hail has been hearing its MASTER 8
voice" across the sea, and IT has the ring of
battle in Il.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

The garrison OF st. Helena has been with
drawn. and the island wiz DOW have Importance
New-York tribune., 1906-11-05

The duck shooting season on Chesapeake Bay
which is now open. bids fair to be good one ac-
cording to advices from Baltimore DUCKS are
plentiful on the flats and good many canvasoacKs
have been seen The other kinds OF ducks are not
as plentiful as they might be. but are numerous
enough to provide good sport.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-07-09
The Bishop and the Bath.

A certain bachelor bishop, very
fastidious about his toilet, was espec-
tally fond of his bath and exacted ex-
IRENE care of his tub.
Once when about to leave town he
gave strict orders to the house maid
about the care of his "bawth" and
said that mo one was to be allowed
the use of it."
The temptation grew on her and the
girl took a plunge. The bisnop re-
turned Unexpectedly and finding
traces of the recent stolen bath, he
questioned the maid so closely that
she had to confess that she was the
culprit. Eying her sternly, he saiu:
Mary. your using my tub is bad
enough, but what worries me most il
that you would be willing to do any
thing behind by back that you would
not do before my face" Judge
Magazine of Fun.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-07-09
Gliding for All Bitter Pills.

May the physician who prophesied
that the day is coming when there
will DE no medicines unpleasant to
the taste live long and prosper in his
profession. In all probability be bases
his prophecy on experiments made by
himself in compromising medicines
that are really good to take. If ne
can produce them his colleagues can
do the same, he probably reasons.
Anyway, he is the sort of physician
we would like to have at hand when
illnesses come, for he could rob them
of half their terrors. The medicine
hour is dreaded by fretful patients
and by nurses too. Even for the
healthiest among us the notion has
an attractive sould. We are for the
gliding and sugaring of all the bitter
pills of life and like to see the move
ment active inside and outside of the
laboratory. Transcript.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-07-09

full, then moves into the canal and
discharges the sand through pipes at
the point desired 1t is discharged as
a spray, the water flowing back
through laterals to the canal and the
sand remaining. The work of filing
222 blocks to an average depth of
four feet, the depth near the canal
being II feet, has been going on since
1904 and will be completed next year.
It will cost slightly over two million
dollars Meanwhile the buildings
and sidewalks within this area are be-
ing elevated at a cost of $1,250, 900.
Each property owner bears the ex-
pense of raising his own building 1t
is a huge task, but has been under
taken with hearty good will because
It's completion will render Galveston
as safe from wind and tide as any
other port subject to the same elm
attic conditions. The same confidence
can not be felt at San Francisco,
where the laborious and expensive
work of restoration may be rendered
useless at any time by another ire
NOR of the earth.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-07-09
Earthquake Magnitudes


of little use outside of Japan, for they
depend upon Japanese architecture
and geology. But the striking fea-
ture of his scale is the attempt to give
the motion, or rather the maximum
acceleration of motion, which accom-
panies each grade. Per second it is !:
% 800 nm; CD 900; CD 1900; "a
1000; CD $500; co 1000; % very
much above 1000. Earthquakes of this
extreme intensity cannot be measured
with precision because the instruments
are destroyed or disabled That the
California quake is of the 10th grade
by either the Rossi-Forel or the Mer
CALI scale goes without saying. How
it stands on the Omori scale can per-
haps not be determined till its effects
have been scientifically studied. The
three highest of the Omori grades are
substantially as follows:--
60 All ordinary brick houses very
severely damaged; about per cent of
the wooden houses destroyed; en-
bankments damaged railway lines
contorted; masonry walls damaged !;
cracks one or two feet wide produced
along river banks, water in river
thrown over the banks; wells affected !;
landslips produced.
60 Temples thrown down; 80 per
cent of wooden houses destroyed; en-
banlIments shattered; roads cracked Or
depressed; railway lines contorted;
large iron bridges destroyed; cracks a
few feet in width formed in the sand !;
low grounds convulsed; numerous
landslips
CD All buildings except a very few
wooden houses totally destroyed; some
houses, gates, ETC., projected one to
three feet; remarkable landslips, ac-
companied by faults and shears of the
ground.
Japan has had few examples of this
highest grade, notably the Mino Dwarf
quake of 1891 which killed 1919 peo-
pie and totally destroyed 1877
houses. But more notable example
was the quake of June II, 1897, in
powerful over an area of 5000 square
miles than the Charleston quake was
at any point. Hills were moved bod
lily "a feet vertically, II feet horizon
tally. Not masonry structure was
left in all this territory; trees half a
foot thick were snapped. In these
huge commissions destruction to prop
erty gives no measure; geological eff
fects must be studied before magni-
tude can be appraised. 1t is possible
that at certain points the California
quake attained such violence but the
early reports indicate rather a shock
of the Immediately lower grade, re-
sulting in disproportionate destruction
because of the populous cities affected
and the fires that followed
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-07-09
The Creator of the Hippodrome.

And there you have Fred Thompson
living in a world of startling highly
colored creative ideas, impatient of
all physical and financial obstacles,
and simply oblivious to failure. AS /
walked back toward his little Office in
the lobby | think that l envied him.
For he is boy who has never grown
up. He is a sort of everyday Peter
Pan who has lived to carry out abso-
lutely his boyish dreams. No grown
man could conceivably have done
what he has done, for your grown
man would have known at the start
that it was impossible. His executive
ability and physical and mental STAN,
ina are those of maturity; his dreams
and his courage are wholly the dreams
and the courage of youth. The COM
bined result is one of the rarest ana
one of the finest things in the world.
Apparently the only danger in his
path is the danger that some day he
may suddenly grow up. If this should
happen, he will be lost. 1t is sheer,
sublime holiness that has carried him
thus far; it is sheer boldness that
must carry him through.-Samuel
Merwin in Success.