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Depew.

Let it be recorded for Senator De-
pew, at a time when perhaps the
kindly word may mean more to him
than once it would have meant, that
he was altogether himself and at his
best when he talked about forest
reserve policies on Friday. He made
quite the best, the broadcast, the
most sensible speech that has been
contributed to this weary discus
sion. And it was effective.
Mr.. Depew protested against let
ting any petty quarrel, any dissat-
isfaction over details, drag the coun-
try away from the splendid scheme
of forest protection and propagation
on which il has entered. He told
how scientific forestation has saved
Switzerland; of what IL has
done for Germany and France.
He found in his own State the
proof OF how reckless, indis-
criminate slaughter of the forests
brings its heavy penalty He point
ed from these examples TO the sure
conclusions that, if the country
turns back now from the scheme
of forest development on which it
has entered, the time viii sure
~ come when the whole nation. and
especially the communities now
more loudly deriving the policy, will
bitterly repent the error.
And Senator Depew was right
There may be injustices and worse
in the operation Of present forest
administration. But they should not
overweight the great benefits al
ready assured. The policy ought not
10 be changed; certainly IL ought
not to be discontinued
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CLOSING Over Child Labor.

Middle States readers of the
Charleston News and Courier took
up that paper the other day with
special interest, if they noted an
editorial discussion of the subject
Of child labor as it exists in South
Carolina. So much has been said by
outsiders that an adjustment of the
perspective was promised by q state
ment from headquarters.
The occasion of the editorial was
Senator GaIlinger's recent observa-
ton that Northern millionaires sup
piled the funds which kept industry
alive in the South. Part of the
News and Courier's answer YVES as
follows:
While the lot OF the cotton mill opera
tive IS not rs happy as IL might be- it Is
constantly improving, and 10 should not
be forgotten that the lot If the family
now in the mill village 'sas not ideal
before the mills were bullL The textile
industry is new i'm the South. IL is not
out of its SWaddling clothes and It's
operatives come from the ranks OF
those who had sunk TO the depth Of
poverty on the farms. The mills gave
them new start. but The mills them
selves have had q hard struggle
Nowhere besides in he world has the
establishment of a textile industry been
accompanied with progress toward a
higher standard OF living on the part OF
the workers in TaDiditV comparable with
! that which has been seen in the South
If any set OF men ever displayed an en-
! lightened regard for employees and Out
which should warn the half-iufOTmed
I legislator against NEEDING the South
crn builders OF tie Southern mills are
entitled TO the credit
The worst calamity that could befal
the operatives wGul0 be for the legisla-
tors. by assuming guardianship owe.
fthem. TO destroy the good feeling that
exists between them and their employ
ers.
All of which is distinctly disap
pointing. No testimony is offered
even from mill owners to contradict
n single specification cited by Sena
tor Beverage. 4 sounding general
zation IF any set of men over dis
/ played an enlightened regard fol
employees" is sac whole answer. Tn,
News and Co,0oer hardly presents
even a plea in confession and avoid
ance.
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thinking, to squarely meet condi-
lions, thai there is so much rejoic-
ing at their troubles. Plenty OF peo-
pie would like TO see them fail. But
they viii not fail. The stories of
their difficulties are now known to
have been greatly exaggerated, and
the possibility either that the con-
vention will adjourn without finish
ing its work, or that the State will
reject II by vote, is too remote 10
be worth serious consideration.
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Fairness to Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma constitutional con-
vention is not getting q square deal
in most of the current comment.
There is evidence that too many
people are writing recklessly about
it without worrying themselves first
10 get information.
Congress made provision for a
sixty-day session of the constitu-
tional convention. The period hav-
ing elapsed long before the work
was complete, there has been more
or less ragged attendance since
then, simply because many mem
bers were compelled to absent them
selves at times to look after private
business. Their salaries as mem
bers of the convention had stopped
at the end of the sixty days, and
after that time their work was Z
pure labor of patriotism.
1t is unreasonable and unfair tC
criticise the Oklahoma people fol
failure to perfect their constitution
in sixty days. They have been do
Ing some splendid work. They have
not chosen to borrow a constitution
from some older State, assume thai
it met present conditions and needs
and enact it without real considera
ton Rather, they have been work
ing diligently to make a modern in
strument; one that viii be in con
sonance with present-day tendencie:
in government and economics.
, They are proposing TO guarantee,
10 the new Commonwealth, for ex
ample. the powers which under tn,
Federal Constitution, or under man,
IF the older State constitutions
must be secured by construction
rather than by the guarantee of TIT
constitution. They are recognizin!
that new times have brought new
tendencies anG new ideas. No MAJ
who has watched the struggles o
Congress ana the Legislatures, il
recent years, TO place an efreetiv
grip on great industrial situation
can doubt thai there is justification
for trying at the beginning to star
the State right in these matters.
II is chiefly because the Oklahom
ans have tried oIdo some origina
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DUNE SWEEPS
THE CONVENTION
FOR MAYORALTY
Nominated by Acclama-
ton by Chicago Democ-
raCy on Municipal
Ownership Plat
form.

CHICAGO, Feb. Edward T. Dune
apostle Of municipal ownership, was
unanimously nominated this afternoon
by an enthusiastic convention for re-
election az mayor OF Chicago He car
ried with him a platform unalterabIy
committing the Democratic party, 50
far as he is concerned, 10 the principle
of municipal ownership of public utili-
ties. The platform. declares.
The Democratic party is UnalterabIy
pledged 10 municipal ownership OF all
public utilities"
The platform further presents DUNES
ideas Of settlement Of present traction
dinicuities OF the city. denOunces the
ordinances adopted by the city council
that. if sanctioned by the people, at the
spring election, the platform claims,
viii preclude the possibility Of municipal
ownership OF q street railway system
here for a quarter of 2 century. ana
pledges the full support Of the Demo-
cratic party to the defeat Of these or
dinances.
Carter r. Harrison, for four terms
mayor, withdrew his name from the
convention before the real work OF the
body commenced. Roger Sullivan, ma
tional committeeman. with nincty-twO
delegates, was forced into DUNES
wagon. The convention adopted a reso-
luton or sympathy for Postmaster
Busse, injured I'm the Pennsylvania
wreck. VINO viii be DUNES opponent
at the polls.
Other candidates nominated are
For city treasurer, John +. Traeger;
/ FOR city clerk, TO succeed Cap" Arson.
former baseball magnate. Thomas Lit
Tie; for superior court judge, W. ".
! Witty
Other nominations for Judicial and
/ sanitary district officers We're left 10
/ the discretion Of the county central
/ committee
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the minority than does the more
radical De Almond.
The Democracy is widely thought
OF as the party of radicalism, and
the Republican as the party of con-
.servatism. That may have been
true in 1896, but it is hard to accept
now. Take Mr.. Bryan away from it,
and the Democracy's place as the
party of conservatism would be con-
ceded
And Mr.. Bryan came from the
Populistsl
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Chairmen of Various
Branches of Fraternity
in Charge of Sections.

The assignment and arrangement of
booths for the big Masonic Fair Of 1897,
which have been awaited with great
interest. have been announced. BY ref
erence to the diagram above. the posi-
finn of the booths may be noted. while
the list below indicates with correspond
inc numbers the Masonic body which
will have charge of each booth, the
chairman. and the purpose to which II
Is 20 be devoted
Osiris Lodge. No. 26 w T. F'itz-
gerald. SJ2 r street northwest; general
boota: photograPhing and vitascope SLOT
machines.
director general
3-Commbia Lodge, No. :. j. Claude
KEEPER, 1925 II street northwest Jap
ancse pool tables.
LAlnas Temple. 4. \. o. y. NJ. s,
DR. Frank Gibson, go l street north
west: paddle stand
Columbia +. ~ Chapter, No. !, II.
L. Strang. 9l6 Louisiana avenue north
west; photographic souvenir postals.
f-H0De Lodge. No. %, J Harry Cum
bingham. the Herald: automobiles. etc.
Lebanon Lodge. No. q \. q. Herr
man. $50 Tenth street southeast; sort
&Combined Chapter, o. E S,
9-ScOttish Rue. Thomas c. Noyes,
Evening Star; general merchandise
lest Johns Lodge. No. II. Allen
Bussius. United States pension agency
general merchandise booth.
Truth Chapter, No. !, d. r. 5. Mrs
TIlcv NJ Feldman. Takoma D. c.; gen
erai merchandise booth.
12-Federal Lodge. No. !. a. Ralph
Server. 1i17 F street northwest; general
merchandise booth
13-CoIumbia Commandery, No ,, DIR
Frank Gibson, 921 l street northwest
general merchandise booth.
1.-THE New Jerusalem Lodge. No. 9
w. j. Coffin. House restaurant general
merchandise booth.
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The Divided Democracy.

The irrepTessible conflict between
the two elements in the Democratic
party is well illustrated just now in
the determined effort of certain
members Of that party in the lower
house to find a new floor leader in
place of John Sharp Williams. 1t is
not that Mr.. Williams is personally
unsatisfactory, for he is recognized
as n slilIful leader and a brilliant
orator: but that he does not repre-
sent the views of an important ele-
ment in the organization
The Northern Democracy and the
Southern Democracy are as far
apart as the poles. The Party's
radicalism is at the North, its con
servatism at the South. It's strength
nj the North is in the cities: at the
South it represents agricultural con-
servatism. True. the North nova
DAYS does not send many Demo-
Gratis TO Congress. and in recent
elections it has made sorry contri-
button TO the total of Democratic
electoral votes. But nevertheless it
furnishes n large share of the
party's ideas. 1t furnishes likewise
Mr.. Bryan. who is about as big as
all the rest Of the party put to-
gether.
It is the Northern Democracy that
stands Tor municipal ownership:
that does not shrink from increas-
ing the powers of the Federal Gov
eminent when that seems neces-
sa1y: that cannot be scared by the
boyle of violating State rights;
that includes a considerable sup
port for the proposition to national
ize the railroads; that has, in short,
distinct tendency TO take up with
soeiaIistic notions.
All these things are drawing the
/ Northern and the Southern Demo
cracies apart. Mr.. Williams repre-
sents Southern conservatism; Mr.
De Almond, coming from the border
State of Missouri and educated in
Iowa, represents the more radical
ideas of Northern Democracy. 1t is
just as impossible that these two
opposing views, these naturally ar
tagonistic tendencies. should har,
monte as that oil and water should
enter into a chemical union.
Most of the radicalism is at The
North. The Republicans have a bic
share of it. anC Roosevelt is its ex
ponent. South of Mason and Dix
on's line they take things more
comfortably. They don't get ex
cited. They have not the great cit
les which. at the North, give direc
ton to the political tendencies OF
great States They believe in Bryan
but not in Organism.
Mr.. Williams could not maintain
leadership if Northern Democrat:
constituted anything like half tn,
minority's strength. But they dc
not Mr.. Williams probably mucE
more nearly represents the avcrag,
political and social continents o.
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l5-MoUnt HOreb r. A. Chapter, y. II.
LandvOight- l04 Corcoran building; fish
pond.
I6-Esther Chapter. No. >. o. T. s.
Mrs. Pearl 3. Parsons I52 Sixth street
northwest; general booth. souvenir
pOstals.
Washington Centennial Lodge. No.
a. Victor IT. Wallace. 4I2 Louisiana
avenue northwest general booth
1S-Dawson Lodge, No l6. 9. G, Wood
ward, 635 . street northwest; general
merchandise booth.
I9-Naomi Chapter, No. 3. O. T. s.,
Mrs. Louise Taylor. 2622 Thirteenth
street northwest: general merchandise
2o-Larayette. No. 70. II. :. selden, 1890
+ street northwest; lunch room.
I-Orient Commanders. No. ., Fred
;. Hodgson, 1854 Mount Pleasant street.
automobiles. etc.
22-ATminius Lodge No p, Harry
EOthsCnild, s0T Seventh street north
west; shooting gallery
1j-COlumbia CommandeTy. No. .. Dr.
Frank Gibson, S27 I street northwest
paddle stand.
2i-De Molay Commandery. No. &.
Court T. Wood, 81 East Capitol street
general merchandise booth.
space.
26-Acacia Lodge. No. Is. II. c. Brown.
lJ0I Park street; general merchandise
booth and Temple of Fame.
2I-E. s. French Lodge, No. Is. Arthur
/ Bryant McGm building; moving
pictures
2S-Mount Vernon r n Chapter. No. 3.
Louis A. Dent. Fendall building, show.
29-tgallery center)-Pentalpha Lodge
No. p, W. A. KimmeI 1916 Columbia
road; ice cream parlor and general mer.
chandise booth.
Dance hall anneX-Harmony Lodge,
No. l.. /. d. Carman. 1851 . street
northwest: dancing and show.
Smoker anneX-Esther Chapter. No .
.. +. S, Mrs. Pearl B. Parsons, 49,
Sixth street northwest: smoker. lunch
etc.
Space-Martha Chapter. No. 4. o. f. S.
Miss Eta b Austin. ZIG Park place,
! Chinese laundry.
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INVITE JAMES BRYCE
TO SPEAK ON JOHN SMITH

The new British ambassador to the
United States. the Rt Hon. James
Bryce, will tomorrow receive an invita-
tion from the Association for the Pres
ervatiOn of Virginia Antiquities to visit
jamestown Island May Is to deliver the
principal address on the 300th anniver-
sary of the landing of capt. John Smith
and party. Il is not known whether the
British ambassador will accept
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OUR TERRIBLE TONGUE.

You take a swim
You say you've SWum:
Your nails you trim
But they're not trum.
And milk YOU skim
Is never Skum.
When words you speak
Those words are spoken;
But q nose you tWeak
Is never tWOken,
Nor can YOU seek
And say you've sOken.
\ top you spin,
The top is spun:
4 hare YOU skin.
Yet tits not skun;
Nor can a grin
Be ever grun.
If we forget
Then we've forgotten:
But if we bet
We haven't bOtten:
No house we let
Is ever lcttcn;
What we upset
Is not upSOtten;
Now don't these prove
Our language rotten
Boston TRANSCRIPT
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ALL GENTLEMEN QUALIFIED.

Germs in the milk and germs in the
money-and set we handle the latter as
recklessly as cvcr,-Atlanta CoDstitu-
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SUCH LUCK

Still by managing 20 sec his shadow,
the grounding has lodged All The re-
ports Of the ThaW trial.-IndianaPOlis
News.
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Washington used to spell lie I-y-e. -
said Governor Higgins. of Rhode Island
Not only couldn't tell lie. but couldn'
spell one. eh2
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Ambassador Leishman is said to be
losing his patience with the porte. He
should keep in mind that there's no
chance of getting anything else there to
take its place.
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A man who had been a baggage
smasher thirty-five years fell out Of his
car door and killed himself Yet there
are folks who refuse 20 accept the doc
trine Of retributive justice
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-24

After thinking it over for couple %
years. Mr.. Cleveland decided to extend
an olive branch toward the ladies.
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Mr.. Justice Harlan doesn't want any
nation out OF doors to get the notion
that it could build any bigger battle
ships than the United States can. or
any more of en-, or fight EN- any bet
ger. By gum
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PSychical Research Secre-
tary Sends Messages From
Other World.
Dying Cool, But Suffocating,
Hard to Grasp
Identity.
Funk and HyslOp Informed
Souls Have Approximate
Bodies.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-It's delightful
90 die.
AT least. that's the word that has
come from the outer world. according
TO an announcement made today by the
Rev. Isaac X. Funk, of Funk s. Wag-
nails, publishers, of this city.
This reassuring news is contained in a
spirit communication from the recently
deceased secretary Of the Society for
Psychical Research, DR.. Richard Hodg-
son, sent by means OF Mrs. Piper. the
famous Boston medium. 20 Prof James
r. HyslOp. formerly of Columbia
DR. Funk gives the details in a book,
The Psychic Riddle" published today.
He tells many startling stories OF mes
sages from the dead, which he alleges
that he and Prof. HyslOp have received,
but the most interesting one is that
which purports TO describe how IL feels
TO die.
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a man in Ohio threw a stick Of dyna-
mite into the stove 10 see what would
happen. and then didn't see IL ut all.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-24

Mr.. Leishman got an hour with the
Sultan on Friday That's all.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-24

The Hon. William Jennings Bryan s
telegram OF coincidence 10 the Hon.
Roger Sullivan. ancnt the latter's pain
ful misfortune at the Chicago primar-
les. has evidently been delayed in trans
mission.
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Before Mr.. Oliver closes up that canal
contract, he should insist on a stipUla-
ton as to whether he shall be expected
to entertain all the Congressional junk
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Mr.. J. Barry MahooI is running for
mayor of Baltimore. IF he doesn't get
elected he may be able to live down
that name. but If he wins there is no
show.
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How Dying Feels.

It was written out by Mrs. Piper
hand while the medium was in the
trance state which accompanies all the
messages from the spirit world through
her. Here is how the alleged Hodgson
spirit describes the death process:
1t is delightful 20 go through the cool
(cool not read at hrsD ethereal atmos-
phere, cooI-cOOl. COOL.-intO this life
and shake (read as take of the Shake
on the SIake-Shake off mortal body.
Hyslop, speak"
Dr. Funk explains that the spirits
often appeal 20 hearers TO reply. Il
seems 10 help the communicating proc
ess.
Continuing, the IIodsson spirit, accord
ing 10 DR.. Funk. said:
In leaving the body the shock TO Tho
spirit knocks everything out OF ones
thoughts for a while. but if DE has any
desire at all TO prove his identity he car
/ in time collect enough tO-ColIeCt-
enough evidence 10 prove convincing
ly his ideuury-convincing Convinc-
insly
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it's reported that an attempt to blow
up a Russian chief of nolice has failed
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If Mayor Dunno keeps on running as
he did in the primaries, Postmaster
Busse will feel after election as If lie
had been through two railroad wrecks.
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indicating a Medium.


The sequel. however. Dr. Funk thinks
interesting. Some time after the death
OF DR.. HOdgson, Judge Abraham II.
Bailey and DR.. Funk had seauce at
the home Of Mrs. Pepper.
What followed DR.. Funk described as
follows:
Then Mrs. Pepper seemed to enter
into a complete trance state. much more
complete than her usual sittings with
me, and spoke in a strange voice as
follows: This spirit IS DR.. Hodgson.
lie is not strong enough % use the
medium himself. lie wishes me TO say
that he conducted experiments alto
gether 100 much on the physical plane
and hence developed insuniciently the
higher spiritual powers. which enable
one to control forces in the spiritual
world, and TO understand quickly the
forces that govern here. When the
doctor came over 10 our side many OF
US gathered together 20 help him. but
we found that he was attuned 10 eartl
vibrations, and il was difficult I,
awaken him. "
Dr.. Funk insists he is not a spiritual
list. He pleads, however. for the fuIIes
investigation of such phenomena as h
describes in his book.
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"Sufocating."

1T Is So sunocatinG to enter here ]
can appreciate their difficulties better
than ever before
Commenting on this last clause DR..
Funk says the testimony from many
seaucc rooms is that spirits have bodies
OF which their physical, earthly forms
were the outer. coarscr forms. and that
in this new lie they do need something
akin 10 breathing, and that when they
enter earthly conditions they experience
a difficulty of breath Ike that we exc
pcriencc in going into a place OF foul
smells"
Eut DR.. Funk has also had some com
municdtions from Dr. Hodgson on his
own account. His message came through
Mrs. Mary Pepper. Of Brooklyn. not ia
be COMPOUNDED with Mrs. Piper OF
Boston DIT. EOlgson had great faith IN
0Irs. Piper. he was inclined 10 doubt
Mrs Pepper In April, 1898, ne wrote
DR. Funk warning him against Mrs
Pepper.
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Before Mr.. Oliver closes up that canal
contract, he should insist on a stipula-
ton as to whether he shall be expected
to entertain all the Congressional junk
citing parties that go 20 inspect the job.
II Mayor Dunno keeps on running as
he did i'm the primaries, Postmaster
Busse Will feel after election as if he
had been through two railroad wrecks.
The Hon. William Jennings Bryan s
telegram OF coincidence 10 the Hon.
Roger Sullivan. ancut the latter's pain
ful misfortune at the Chicago primar-
les. has evidently been delayed in trans
mission
A man who had been a baggage
smasher thirty-tive years fell out of his
car door and killed himself. Yet there
are folks who refuse 20 accept the doc
! trine Of retributve justice
a man in Ohio threw a stick Of dyna-
mite into the stove 10 see what would
happen, and then didn't see it ut all.
Nothing is certain in this world Now
it's reported that an attempt to blow
up a Russian chief of nolice has failed.
Mr. J. Barry Mahool is running for
mayor of Baltimore If he doesn't get
/ elected he may be able to live down
that name. but if he wins there is no
/ show.
MIR. Justice Harlan doesn't want any
nation out OF doors to get the notion
/ chat it could build any bigger battle
ships than the United States can. or
J any more of EN-, or fight EN- any bet
i Ger. by sum.
Washington used to spell lie 1-y-e. %
said Governor Higgins. of Rhode Island
/ Not only couldn't tell a lie. but couldn't
/ spell one. eh2
After thinking it over for a couple %
| years. Mr.. Cleveland decided to extend
an olive branch toward the ladies'
Ambassador L.eishman is said to be
| losing his patience with the porte. He
should keep in mind that there's no
chance Of getting anything else there to
/ take its place.
Mr. Leishman got an hour with the
Sultan on Friday That's all.
A BLESSED CESSATION.
/ Count that day good whose
Low descending sun
Sees I'm the Senate hall no
] Oratcrv Gone.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.