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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-27
ASHBRiDGE NO MORE.


NWTET WU0IcI9aI ToEIVo0s-
Philadelphia March sf Former
q "or Samuel Asbhrdee died sswr
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complication 1t d.ssasrs 20, va-
dityseveu years 1f ar. Nr Asa
bridge had been .n iH health several
months M Ashhulge was in the
cts 81 service twenfyihree wears lie
Yves appointed deputy coroner in fsSe
aud served continuously as deputy ss
rltcuef aHd as mayar uutu 1903
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The One Spot In America.

70 TIE EDITOR or THE SuN-Str: Attracted
by the presumption exhibited In an article signed
Farmer" In THI Sun OF June "a. ] take the liberty
Of ortcsing the sssSc.
Farmer. indeed Prssunnptuous In q high degree
Is the correspondent who would venture 10 mslign
the literaoy and methods of our metropolis. !
would like 70 have your correspondent ANNOUNCE
ina himself a. a stranger In New York explain to
your readers the apparently marvellous sense OF
perception whereby he "a able 70 form % decided
an opinion and proclaim New Yorkers, making
positively no discrimination. a. egotsts and hypo-
critics. ana what q hypocrite no rnakeshtmself, stat
Ing that he admires . good four nushsr, and then
expressing within gness to wager that one'third the
population Of NV York city cannot snswer cor
reosiy three queries, which. I dare say. cannot Be
answered By one-thifd the population Of any city
In the union.
way should not New Workers feel 4 certain
superiority over the rest of the inhabitants of the
western Hemisphefef Are they not citizens Of
cha rrsndest and most metropolitan city in the
world, and should they not be allowed 70 display
their pnds and GOOD Judgment In upholdins the
reputation Of their home cityf Regarding the
newspaper, Of course. "yellowsm" Is prevalent.
but Your correspondent Is anything but compe-
tent 70 chucise the sheets OF New York. How
about q New Yorker coming 10 another cityf OF
course he would hnd the local news less interesting
than the news from home. lhAve 10 coneede that
New York shelters the major part Of the foreign ele-
ment, ou. that amply goes TO show the attractive
ness and advantages OF New York. Even the
humble and unloemed alien has intuition enough
70 appreciate the one spot In America.
In asserting that 90 per cent! OF UP State inhabi-
tants hold the same perverted opinion. your CORE.
spondent Is assuming considerable responsibility
and placer himself In the ranks Of would be
statisticians, exposing himself to we'll deserved and
severe criticism. THoMAs n. BUTLER.
RocHHsrnR. N. r, June %.
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Girl Walters,

To THE EDITOR OF n SrN-Sfr For a long
time I have wondered why restaurants In this
town which employ girl walters seem 10 be unable
TO md girls OF pleasant manners. or even Of plain.
ordinary politcness. know Of several which have
lost customers by the Ill hammered Mattresses who
servo at the tables.
Within the last two days I have learned what
the trouble Is. ] am aware, as everybody Is. that
al walter gins are not the most cultured women
In town, aud I am willing 70 say that some are
who know how to be polite and arc not are not 10
almost every restaurant where girls are employed
the rule u strictly enforced against anything but
ssriot attention 70 customers. II a girl smiles or
ssops to say d pleasant word. even In response TO
q customers greeting, she Is liable TO DO discharged
on the spot. The forewomen do not walt. In many
instances. for the Slrl 10 get away from the table.
bu then ana there she Is Asked for her belt and
tickets and Is told 70 90.
It II understandable that too great familiarity
could not prevail In reputable places between
waitrcsses and customers. hut surely they might
be allowed to be polite. ] know OF one place where
7 Get my frugal breakfast one girl has never said
rood morning TO me In the two years that ! have
been going there. Now, when I know 1t Is her
morning on I 20 somewhere else for breakfast.
But I'm not going &c biane the eiris any more.
The blame goes higher up. and l will cat where my
breakfast won't be spoiled by g suriy femsle.
I am . bachelor. but I can undeHtand vaguely
why some married men don't enjoy their break
issts. And they can't change their eating places,
either. ]. X. r.
NEW YoRx, June 20.
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THg r. Law.
etail II no lrpshed Aside % Save o MIL
i0naife Murdefore Lifef

To THE EpIToR OF THE sUN-Sfr' We are
soon 20 SEQ q cortcst between the forces OF
the written and the %"unwritten law" That
'unwFltten law" exists and Is powerful. let
no ono doubt. In the case soon to DO tried.
lawyers, who, I believe. on admission to
the bar take oath TO use thor best endeavore
70 Bae that the written law 10 ful6llod, viii
for hire do their utmost to defeat written law
and cause tho "unwritten" TO prevail. II was
an edifying spectacle, that Of lawyers rushing
like a horde Of Oklahoma land grabbers to
fes the chance. For q price. to everturn the
law they had sworn 10 uphold.
The machinery OF "unwritten law rusty
and UNIV ieldy In the case Of poor persons.
10 now being repaired and abused. oiled
and fired by the money OF tho criminals
family, and Will be operated by shrewd and
interruptions ensineefs-a palpable con-
splraoy against the public and the law.
WHISTLER OF not Stanford White deserved
his fate In not the question. Not the muir
dered mar nor the murderer will be the prln-
olpal defendant In the coming trial. The
law Of the land, the peaoo and safety OF the
public will DO put on the defensive against
tho Rrta, tho wlies, the chicanery OF THOSE
who have sworn not 70 attack. but to protect
them.
The public will be interested 10 learn
and 10 will soon find out-the comparative
power Of money and the law. as well az the
force OF siokly ssntlmentallty and maudlin
sympathy acting on twelve supposedly ra-
tional, law abiding, cath regarding men.
New YonK, june 80. p. BoSoFUDLico.
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Dangers of Civilization,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUR-,Sfy: Now we are
told that q German medical man. an n. D.-whlch
believe stands for Mlcrobe DiEger-hss discov-
cred o horrible monster OF a microbe In our Ink
bottles, enc that outrivals anything that ever was
found In pork. and one that but for the introduc.
lion OF the fountain pen would have depopulsted
that portion OF the civilized globe that uses Ink 10
carry on It's correspondence.
have often wondered why 10 many fitted writ.
ers died 50 early, but the mystery Is now solved.
They wore slain by that terrible ink microbe. that
demon that has stricken them nfst with pen parai.
ysis and then with . death that puzzles the ordI.
nary medical man.
II these microbe sharps keep on discovering
these things Il will be better that mankind had
never been born, or What some rood things had
never been discovered. and among them ink. I
must lay down the pen. ! suppose. and take
up the pencil. II I tan ind q brand that docs
not have microbes hidden in the wood or the plum
bAEo, Can any one tell US when this microbe 70
search and discovery viii endf NAuTIcus.
rEy ynnE, June 20.
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Light In Massa chusetts.

The Bay State Drys have lighted a great
light. They have nominated for Gov
ernor the Hon. JOHN BUTIN MORAN Of
Boston. Mr.. MORAN is a universal pro-
hibitionist. He would prohibit all men
from doing what they want to do. He
would mind everybody's business. He is
that strange thing In nature, an Irish
Puritan. His platform may be sum-
married thus:
ii. Mind sverybody's business for him.
- Advertising pays"
The Democratic machine views Modest
MORAN with alarm, but the heart Of the
Democracy beats for him. There Is no
other Man Of the Peepul like him. Gov
ernor GUILD may grin in the hope that
tariff revision viii not be insisted upon
IL MI. MORAN is the Democratic candi-
date. Universal revision and precision
are more potent issues. The Hon.
BuT1N MORAN, his lips full Of fire and
his hands full Of subp9nas, will revolve
rapidly through the State. His Is 1the
arduous greatness Of things DONE" Who
shut up temporarily the bar Of the Tour
aine? Whose gerfalcon eyes saw through
the screen in the barroom Of the Essex2
Who taught the epicures from Tatnick
and Toad Hill, eating their beans at
Parker's and at Young's, that Mt man In
Massachusetts can drink in safety and
seclusion-aye, though he put the flask
to his mouth In the darkness Of his own
CELLAR BUTIN will see him. BuTIN will
Summons" him. And BUTIN will punish
him. The most desperate criminal In tho
purlieus of Shall-I-Go-Naked has goose
flesh at the mention Of BUT1N's name.
The plutocratic oppressors Of the Peepul.
sitting in their red chairs in State street.
as WENDELL PHILLIPS used to say,
tremble as BuT1N passes by. Not since
the days Of EMAoNs has Boston seen 90
determined, angular, rapid and dis
turbing O statesman.
Will the Democratic ticket be MORAN
and sw1a or MORAN and LAWSON, "Tem-
perance ToMMY'9 -.
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Tho New Automobile Law In Now
Jersey.

Tho New Automobile Law in New
Jersey.
The automobilists who use the New
Jersey roads have had two months to
learn what il required of them by the
new law which goes into operation to.
day. The old law was a dead letter in
many respects, particularly with re-
gard to the speed limit and arrest SEQ
tons. There were comparatively few
arrests under it, and q motor could be
run at a high velocity with impunity.
y~agueness in the wording Of the law
accounted In part for this, and 1t has
been charged that the vagueness was
deliberate. However that may be, the
new law seems to be as plain as words
can make it, and they do not favor the
automobilist.
The rights Of horsemen and Of drivers
OF other vehicles than automobiles and
motor cycles are jealously guarded by
the new law. 1t will be q misdemeanor
for the operator Of q motor not to stop
when a horseman or horse driver coming
toward the motor holds up a hand as q
sign that he Is in trouble or fearsit. The
rates Of speed allowed motors are twenty
miles an hour in the open country; ono
mile In seven minutes upon a sharp curve,
and one mile In four minutes at a Cross
road outside O town; one mile In i've min
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Competent Evidence In Cases OF
Murder.

The statute law Of this State defines
murder in the first degree as the killing
Of a human being when committed from
d deliberate and ~premeditated design
to eject the death Of the person killed
on Of another. In the Penal Code the
definition Of a principal Ia "a person
concerned in the commission Of a crime,
whether he directly commits the act
constituting the offence, or aids and
abets in its commission, and whether
present or absent, and a person who
directly or indirectly counsels, COM
mands or induces another to commit a
crime ID q principal
OF this section Judge PEcKHAM, In
rendering the opinion Of the Court Of
Appeals in People ps. BLIvEN, said:
sThe purpose and effect Of the section
are to abolish the distinction which here
tofore existed in cases Of felony between
principal and accessory before the
I fact." In the Maoaaaey case, which was
before the Court Of Appeals in 1881. Chief
Judge FoLGER, In rendering the unani-
NOUS opinion Of the court, said: 4To
Tconstitute one a principal in the felony
Ia must be present at the commission
~ n. But ne need not DO so near Is TO
Is an eye and ear witness Of the GRIM
inal act. His presence may be con-
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or WARsRIRs.
A Complaint 'That the Navy Department
NegioctS % Give Out yneoTmstton.

NebtCCt1 70 OfVO Out hM1vkt18uOus
To THE Enron or THE BuN--Sir. While tho
recruiting department Of the navy 10 using
every means In is power to urge young men
70 become sailors. the Navy Department. At
Warrington seems to bo asleep or controlled
by o cot OF lazy or tndlHerent clerks. 1Move-
msnts Of naval vesscls' are eagerly scanned
every day by thousands OF anxious eyes.
those OF wives, parents, brothers OF sis.ers
o. eaIlors In the United States Navy. This
list. which ought to occupy at least half q
column every Cay 10 q paper like I'm euN. 10
never moro than two inches In lsnsth. and
sometimes consists Of half q dozen linss,
To Judge Of the standing or che navy By
these notices one would think the humber
OF vessels consisted OF about O doscn. Tho
Biysjaokcf has q very long list Of vessols In
commission. and their location 10 being con.
stsntly changed. seIstimss daily: ~ al
u r q sS vessel = NC 1Ss' o. s q &c" days sfssr III sasSys
Such announooments are Q dlseraoo 20 the
Navy Department, and diaRist any one who
10 trying to keep trace OF d certAtn voese,
Surely. when there 10 no earthly rtason. TO
conceal The dsstInation q tne vSsssls q ths
tho various ships but would also be. a.. in.
the sea-"
Wake up, gentlemen. and don't b. stlnsS
be very, much interested to hear that The
T Teifsfls f n s omen out ses q Fss way "a % po4e, taS a Il:
JAMES r. poSNxLlT.
BRooKLYN, June 90.
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count Of the vindiotiye feeling aroused
among Hebrew inAnoiefs oil ovsr Eu-
rope, end partly because the last loan
was secured on the understanding that
the Gear would introduce representative
institutions. I It seems, In o word, i'm
probable that NICHOLAS II. will face the
consequences OF q resort TO ruthless
measures OF repression.
La government by o Ministry respon-
sible to the Duma still p~ractlcablep
There seems to be no doubt that the
Constitutional Democrats, who consti-
tute a majority Of that body, are willing
TO try the experiment, and according
to a st. Petersburg correspondent they
have held a and suggested Mr..
PETRUNKEvITCH for the Premiership and
Prince DoLaoRoUKRFF, Count HEYDBN
and Messrs. MBLINKoFH, SHIporR with
others for Cabinet positions. It Is
alleged that the members Of the Labor
party, which occupies tho left Of the
chamber and ID made up partly Of peas
ants and partly Of workmen, have agreed
to support q Constitutional Democratic
Ministry without asking representation
in it. Similar disinterested cooperation
might be expected from the Council Of
the Empire II 1t be true that tho Gen.
trists, who dominate that chamber, have
arranged to urge the Emperor to sum-
mon a Ministry from the Duma, on the
ground that such an expedient alone
can save tho situation.
What would be the programme Of
Russia's first responsible Ministry, the
appointment Of which may be announced
at any hourf That programme must
necessarily include some measure OF
immediate and effective relief for the
peasants, who are actually starving in
a number Of provinces, and the Duma
may provoke discomfort and distrust
among the whole body Of the peasantry,
if a definite solution of the agrarian
problem Is postponed. The orux Of that
problem has to do with the method OF
expropriating private estates: a distri-
button of the Grown lands could be
brought about with relative facility, but
would not suffice. In view Of the ire
mendous urgency Of the agrarian ques-
ton, we are scarcely inclined to credit
the telegram from st. Petersburg, which
excludes any trenohant treatment Of it
from the scheme said to have been OUT
lined by the Constitutional Democrats.
They are described az intending to leave
social INCLUDING, of course, agrarian)
reforms to the next Duma, meanwhile
regulating the mode Of choosing that
assembly and insisting upon universal
suffrage, equal rights and constitutional
guarantees, together with the conces-
sion Of amnesty for political prisoners.
As the peasants outnumber all the other
inhabitants OF Russia nearly ten to one,
and as they care but little for political
privileges, compared with rescue from
starvation, any postponement Of agra
rian reform might prove q fatal blunder
for the Duma, which, with a Ministry of
it's own choosing, could no longer place
the sole responsibility for disappoint-
ments on the Gear.
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TuW tFWb u"H W
II the recommendation Of the House Committee
on Naval Affairs Is carried out there will b added
10 our navy zone Ant class batueship carrying a.
heavy amor and As powerful ornament - any
known vessel Of Its class. TO have the highest prao-
ticable speed and the greatest practicable radius
OF action, TO cost. exclusive Of armament and srmor.
not exceeding 5000 900"
Numerous articles have appeared sugsest,ng
that his formidable vessel should be ohristened
New York, Notwithstanding the fact that we already
have an armored cruiser New YORK, the nrst aIrnored
cruiser Of our new navy.
with the single exception Of the constituton'
-old Ironsides," for whose preservation Congress
has voted a large sum Of money. the fame Of the
fieate United States stood supreme In the sfsc-
lions Of tho American people, While mman
ing her, Decatur, "the idol Of the American navy
forced the british frigate Macedonian. one OF the
nnest vessels OF her class. TO strike her colon, and
on many other occasions the United States DID
well her Part.
No better name could b suggested for . new
battlesh,p than United States. and though the huff
OF that glorious old vnsssi now lee oenesth ths
waters her name should b psrpstuatsd. The
name Is suggestive OF the strength Of our new
battlesh,p; not for any single state should this
vessel be named. hut for all.
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Tho Car Hating Between Two
Opinions.

There is n point as to which all the
advisers of NICHOLAS II. seem agreed.
This is that the deadlock between the
Car and the Duma has lasted long
enough. The virtual severance Of rela-
tions between the Executive and the
Legislature, through the latter's refusal
OF confidence to the Goremykin Minis
try, instead Of checking the momentum
of the revolution, has increased it. But
while all recognize that the deadlock
ought to be broken forthwith, there is a
sharp difference Of opinion as to the
right method Of breaking it. The reac-
tionary party at the court insists that
the Parliament be dissolved without
delay, and that disaffection everywhere
be stamped out by the army before the
instrument of repression becomes itself
untrustworthy. The party Of ooncilia-
ton, on the other hand, to which it Is
said even General TREpoFF has aooeded,
and which is backed by a majority of
the Council of the Empire, is urging the
Gear to throw himself into the arms OF
the Constitutional Democrats by FORM
ing Of their leai.rs a Ministry respon-
sible to the national assembly. We
shall probably know in the course Of q
few days which Of these plans will be
adopted.
Whether the reactionists are right in
believing that the bulk Of the army is
still loyal is q question that could only
be answered by experience. The fact
that regiment after regiment has mu-
tinted is undisputed. But whether the
soldiers have always been aotuated by
political or sometimes by professional
motives is not yet definitely known.
OF course, II the army were to DO used
as an engine of pitiless repression, all
demands for the improvement Of service
conditions would be granted and every
effort would be made to propitiate the
troops. Perhaps the attempt might be
temporarily successful, 80 far as the
urban proletariat Is concerned. The
reactionists themselves admit, however,,
that the soldiers could not be trusted to
fire upon the peasants, and there seem
to be no doubt that an almost universal
uprising Of the peasants would follow a
violent dispersal Of the Duma. Nor
Is 1t only the hostile attitude Of the
peasantry which may well dissuade the
Gar from resorting to coercion. Russia
is again 80 straitened financially that
the Minister Of Finance has felt COM
PEELED to cut down materially the budget
Of the War Minister and has intimated
that the Government could not Withstand
the strain OF another general railroad
strike. We may take for granted also
that II the national assembly were dis
persed by force a new foreign loan
would be unattainable. partlv an az
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1.-THE Pope Of Holland Hcuse...

Fi0W P6 Sp61dtbT.
Tint has not dealt kindly with John Wb'shAw.
The National Dictionary OF Biography Ignores
him. when Carlyle asked the elder Sterling who
he was. Hes Q damned old humbug." was the
rep,y. -dines At Holland House. rne raet Of his
laneness energies from every account. Sydney Smih
once pointed him out As Hannibal. who lost hnlr
In the Carthaginian war" This 70 not tunelent
for Immortality. whlshaw WA an accomplished
soholAr and a sedulous ofho,sl. Hs wrote and he
talked excellent sense for many years. A friend
OF Lord and Lady Holland, he lived on terms OF
intimacy with all the wh,Fa. and It Is evident thai
he knew a. much concerning the conduct OF the
Fdfnburoh as the editor himself,
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Are Prison Doors Closed to tho Richa

TO TEE EpIToR OF THE SUN-Sr: Your
editorial The Written Law is most oppor-
tune and appeals strongly TO all just and
patriotic minds.
The tremendous and apparently concerted
efforts Of q portion Of tho press to use every
means 10 work ID o sympathy for the MUIR
derer give credence to the very common
belief that the Thsws' millions are being
judioIously expended. 1t 10 a common say
ing that prison doors are closed to the rich.
The persistent attempt to dig into the
malodorous life Of the murdered man to
create sympathy for the murderer should be
rebuked. Your able appeal for tho written
law Is q voice that will be heard throughout
the land, and not less so because apparently
the only one raised. LEwIs CAss JOHNSON.
NEW YORK, June 20.
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A suggestion to the Discerning.

The suspicious landing Of an alrship
within the sacred precincts OF the White
House garden gives eroundfor thought.
How many years will it be before an
up to date warship, standing on Panama
or Colon on q hostile errand, will be able
to despatch its auxiliary airship, laden
with explosives, to destroy one Of the
perpetual locks Of the canal at high
level?
True, it might be a question whether
the torpedo airship would destroy the
perpetual look or be destroyed by the
gallant defenders Of the canal. There
are chances In warfare. II fate were
unkind to the enemy the hostile fleet
would be less by one airshipi otherwise,
the American canal would be put out
Of commission.
The perpetual locks are Q challenge to
common sense
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Socialism won't get far on its way until
the college and author socialists make an
equitable redistribution Of the easy money
and give an the exposers a fair show. Here
10 one downtrodden upllfter, with q book
on the coal fields to his credit. arrested and
leaving ten dollars with the minions Of the
law az q fine for preaching in Wall street
against the wealth kings And this in
the year when the beef book writer clears
four million dollars after paying the hire
of all the banda,
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Descent Of Thorlum.

From ne StI6nFpIc AMtTtodn.
Seldom In tho history Of chemical industry has
any casmical product undergone such marked vari-
alton OF prioe within . few years a. thorium. the
principal constituent Of incandescent NANTES.
Early in 1874 thor,um nitrate was sold by the German
combustion at 5000 marks per kilogramme. and
~ Jsnuayy OF the next year 1t had fallen TO 900
MARIA; In July Of the Same year It stood al 800
marts, and Ia November At 800 marks. In 1906
II fell In Nay 10 $50 marks, and In October TO 90
marks, touching the low prioe Of 80 marks In 1899
After that the prios was pushed up TO IS marks. less
= Der oent. discount. In May. 1904, a figure which the
.Conyonlon- succeeded In maintaining till January
Of this year. when II dropped 70 q marks. less 8 per
cent. discount.