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and theorizing with the view to ascertain
the precise condition of the road beds Of
the transportation network and to work
out remedy for the defects which clearly
exist The question has arisen whether
In the great rush of orders on the steel
mills those shops are turning out as sound
product as formerly or whether the
rails, being all they should be in the main.
are subjected to q greater strain than
ought to be put upon them.
Mr.. Hartman himself is one Of the most
earnest advocates of a six-foot gauge for
all American lines. He believes that by
widening the wheel base heavier trains can
be carried. He would increase the size
and power of locomotives and the carrying
capacity of cars. He would, in short,
multiply the load that rests upon the rails.
This is an interesting item in connection
with the present problem of rail reliability.
If the mills do not produce Trustworthy
steel now, can they be expected to pro-
duce a rail that viii Withstand the impact
Of considerably heavier trains?
Inasmuch as the rail is the foundation
Of the traffic, if it is In any degree under
suspicion faith in the reliability OF the
whole system Is weakened. 1t would be
interesting to have exact statistics-not
furnished by the railroads themselves, but
by an entirely unprejudiced authority-as to-
the number of accidents attributable d.
rectly or indirectly to broken rails That
many of the so-called unpreventable dis
asters may be traced to this cause is well
understood by the public, on good grounds.
The wreck on the Southern Pacific near
Santa Barbara, Cal, which caused many
deaths. is attributed to broken switch.
The people have lost faith to large ex-
tent in the efficiency of the present system
of dispatching and signaling, owing to
frequent demonstrations of it's weakness In
critical junctures. 1t will be calamitous if
to this source of uneasness is to be added
q feeling that the average American road
bed is subject to grave suspicion
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A Bow With a Dozen Names.

Royal infants are always amply supplied
with godfathers and godmothers and also
with names. Sometimes 1t seems as
though the ermined parents of these poor
children conspired to load their offspring
with applications beyond the point of
human endurance. But fortunately a man
or a woman need not succumb under the
mere weight of the alphabet. There have
been cases, 1t is true, when name has
handicapped its owner. but one name will
do that as well as a dozen.
Just an even dozen names, by the way,
have been picked out by those who are re-
sponsible for the upbringing of the new
crown prince of Spain-who is appropriate
ly styled the Infante, under the Spanish
custom-to be bestowed upon that import
ant mite of humanity when the formal
ceremonies of christening occur. This
little chap is to lack nothing in the way>of
variety. He is to be called Alfonso Pho
Christine Eduardo Francisco Gullermo
Carlos Enrique Eugino Fernando Antonio
Eenancier. The last is perhaps a fam
lily name. 1t doesn't sound like the others
and is possibly the Smith or Robin
son" tag of the present Spanish house of
Bourbon, just as Victim is the family
name of the royalties of England. If any
body of Importance has been overlooked
in the distribution of compliments no re-
port of dissatisfaction has yet been cabled.
There would seem to be Spanish equiva-
Tents for pretty much everything in the
way of first names. But there can be no
doubt as to the way the boy or man will
be called when he becomes King of Spain.
lie will be Alfonso XIV.
Just the same it would be interesting to
know which one of these many names his
fond parents will choose for abbreviation.
II is a safe guess, while the dispatches on
this subject are being prepared. that in
the course of time little Alfonso Pho Chris
tino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos
Enrique Eugino Fernando Antonio Venan-
cier will be called something Spanish that
might be translated freely into Buster
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Reforestratiou,

For several generations the people Of this
country have been wantonly wasting the
forests and now they are beginning to real
ize the consequences Of. their prodigality.
At first there was little else than trees
country had been cleared and the cities
and farms spread out to a considerable
size that demonstration was in fact in any
degree advisable. The extraordinary growth
of the country, however, soon developed
industries that devastated the timber
lands. LAUNDERING was carried on at a rate
that swept entire states clear of market
able timber. What with supplying the set
tiers with materials for their homes and
the railroads with ties for their increasing
lines, the sawmills were barely able to
meet the demands T. i them The denu-
dalton process went on so -apidly that the
question of future provision became acute
two or three decades ago. and Is today one
Of the most pressing problems confronting
the people Of this country.
During recent years start has been
made In the direction Of fostering forestry
as a science and encouraging the replenish-
ment of our fast disappearing supply Of
timber. The government has done much
to stimulate public interest in this vitality
important matter. and the states have UNI
dertaken the work with gratifying IL tar
dy enterprise. still. so late has been the
awakening to this need that lit - ) is
entertained that the country will be spared
severe experience when the available
supply is exhausted and while the newly
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Foraker and the Taft Boom.

About this time twenty six years ago the
ablest Of the republican senators of that
day was driven from office and his public
career brought to close. Mr.. Conkling
had some serious defects His temper was
high and uncertain and on occasions he
was impatient Of discipline. But he was
a thorough partisan, and had rendered his
party many valuable services. No man the
year previous had done more in General
Garfelds behalf after the lines of battle
were drawn. He had taken the stump at
q period of party depression, and with his
extraordinary power of oratory heartened
the whole republican campaign. His can
vass of the doubtful states was unusually
effective. Still Mr. Conkling was offered
up on the altar of faction as lightly as you
please.
The party was strong, and it seemed no
great matter. A commonplace man was
put in MIR. Conklng's place, and the world
moved on. But the folly and unwisdom of
the performance soon appeared. New York,
upon little reflection, resented it, and the
republican party in the state became the
prey of bad blood and disorder. directly or
Indirectly traceable to the Conkling episode.
A year later the republican state ticket was
slaughtered at the polls. and two years later
still. in some things the most brilliant and
personally the most popular, republican in
the country was defeated for the presi-
dency by man fresh from a parochial
Office. Fate or what you will, had avenged
the cruel and useless humiliation Of Roscoe
Conkling.
There is a lesson in this bit of history for
those republicans in Ohio and elsewhere
who seem bent just now on the destruction
of MI Foraker. The republican party ID
strong. but no party is ever strong enough
to perpetrate an outrage without paying
penalty. In Judge Taft the party has
capital and captivating representative. On
his merits he would make a most attractive
candidate for the presidency, and in office
q safe and successful executive. Identified
thoroughly with the policies of the ao.in-
istration, he could be depended upon to
carry them out, and initiate policies of his
own which would appeal to the best senti-
ment of the party and the country.
But why complicate the movement to
nominate Judge Taft for President. which
IL widely popular, with movement to
aestroy Senator Foraker. which is local.
and in part represents only the ambitions
of several men anxious to inherit his shoes,
but all too small to I'LL them? Mr.. For
aker Is a very able man, and his party's
best debater in the Senate. He could not
be displaced without injury to his party In
that body, or without awakening a deep
resentment throughout the country. 1t is
not a good time to create or encourage
factionalism in the party. Prospects are
bright but the republicans may need all
their votes next year to elect even so strong
q man as Judge Taft. Why chill. or drive
away voters anywhere? Why offer UP Mr.
Foraker on the altar of bossism, or that Of
petty home jealousies?
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Defective Rails.

In talking in New York the other day
about the proposer new issue of Union Pa
cific stock, to the amount OF $i11 900 O00 Mr..
Z. II. Hartman discussed the present en-
barrassments of American railroads with
some freedom, and in the course of the
interview touched upon a matter which,
while in money terms of comparatively
slight consequence to the treasury of a
great corporation. nevertheless has a sharp
significance to the travelling public. Ac-
cording to a letter from the leading oper-
ating official OF his road. Mr.. Hartman
said, in the month of February 40 ninety
pound rails were broken. OF these rails
I79 had been laid within five months. The
money value of the broken rails was only
about 5000, of which the railroad may
recover something from the manufacturer
But any one of these broken rails might
have cost the corporation several hundred
thousand dollars In accident damages.
serious question confronts the rail-
road men of the United States outside OF
the realm of politics and legislation. The
fact Is now plain to them that the steel
rails. upon which depend millions OF lives
annually. are not trustworthy. Chemists
and metallurgists and engineers all over
the country are examining and testing
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planted forests are attai ing a sufdcient
growth to yield marketable timber.

planted forests are attai ing a sufiicient
growth to yield marketable timber,
Meanwhile the railroad companies are al
ready feeling the pinch Of a short supply OF
ties. These essentials to line building are
getting more scarce and expensive yearly.
and it is inevitable that in q few seasons
the railroad builders will be in serious
straits for materials. unless a new source
Of supply is discovered or provided. With
this project confronting it the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has just started work
on forest reserve of its own on land Sc
cured by that corporation in the state OF
Pennsylvania. The present plan Is to set
out 2,25O,0oO red oak, Scotch pine, chestnut.
locust and catalpa trees this spring, cover
ing an area OF about 1.000L acres. 1t is be-
lieved that in twenty years some Of tsese
trees will be large enough to cut. The
catalpas will grow rapidly and mako good
tie materials. The best wood Tor this pur-
pose Is produced by the Scotch pine and
red oak, which cannot grow to proper Size
for thirty or forty years.
Had this need been foreseen in 1870. when
the railroad developments became marked
feature Of the American growth, there
would today be plenty Of materials for the
purposes OF this corporation, and similar
policy pursued by each company would
have solved its problems for all time.
Scientific forestry, as it Is practiced in
Germany and other parts Of the old world,
calls for the replacement by q sapling OF
each tree that is felled Thus well man
aged timber forest is perpetual.
We are learning the lesson slowly, and
possibly before we have applied 1t property
we may have been exposed to the costly
experience of q timber famine. seriously
checking our development. The forestry
work appeals strongly to those who have
taken even a short look ahead and realized
the endorsements and losses certain to
be entailed by an exhaustion of the supply
Of trees.
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The Car and the Reds.

This latest story about the cars peril
makes disagreeable reading. For the sake
of Russia We should all hope that his life
may be spared.
In extreme circles. both in and out Of
Russia, 1t Is contended that not until terror
becomes universal in that country and real
chaos appears will progress be possible.
Everything in the form of government that
exists must be leveled with the ground.
The car must be killed-not that he is q
bad man, but because the root of evil and
despotism is nourished in his authority. He
must go with the system he represents. All
must go having any relation whatever with
the existing order Of things Then, when
fire and the sword have blotted out the
present government and it's representatives
and beneficiaries and the ground has thus
been cleared, 1t will be possible to rear a
structure capable of sheltering the people.
This program comes from a study Of the
French revolution. 1t Is proposed to repeat
in Russia today what took place In France
a hundred and odd years ago. Let the ruler
be destroyed. Let the nobility be killed or
banished. Let property be conhscated. Let
outrage and disorder be carried to that
point where they can go no further. Then,
when bottom has been touched, vengeance
pressive, way viii be found, will sug-
sest itself, for a rule of justice and worth.
Russia is not France and there are many
differences between 1850 and 1907. Nor can
we forget that the French revolution pro-
duced Napoleon, and Napoleon years Of ap-
palling bloodshed, and that that was fol-
lowed. by feeble and corrupt governments
for more than half century, eliminating
In the Little Napoleon. 1t was not until
France had been conquered from without
that she found herself, and her people
undertook with stability their own affairs.
Is Russia willing to take that risk? Are
the Russian people. groaning now under
corrupt oppression, willing to wait that
long?
1t is far from likely that should the car
fall his system would fall Immediately, or
at any time soon. A stronger, and easily
far worse, man might succeed tempo
rarily to CONTROL and from his course might
proceed indefinite misrule. Anarchy in Rus
STA, for the length Of time 1t prevailed
in France hundred years ago. would not
be tolerated by the outside world today.
Order, even at the lannon's mouth, would
have to be restored. and those who had
produced anarchy would not be consulted
in the new arrangement
1t would be better to continue to build
with the cars aid, though it is slowly and
even grudgingly given, than 1t would be on
his grave, with all the great powers lament
ing his taking OFF.
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Fellow Sufferers,

Days keep slippin' fast away;
April fades an den it's May.
May is leavin' all too soon:
LIZ yoh eyes an den it's Juno.
Dom git weary bout de cold:
Watch dem blossoms dat unfold,
Sayin, wifi a nod an smile,
"Summer-in a little while!"
Every leaf up in de tree
Wants de sun, like you an mo,
Sayfn', while dey shivers some,
Better days is boun' to comet
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TIE STAR has . regular snd permanent
Family Circulation much moro than the
combined circulation of the other wash.
ington daINes. As . News and Adver.
Using Medium IL has NO competitor.

DIn order to avoid delays on account Of
personal absence letters to THE star
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with the once. but simply to
THE STAR, or TO the Editorial or Bust
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

The decision by customs officials that
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's paintings were
undervalued is perhaps less important as
a financial transaction than as a reflection
on the prestige of the Vanderbilt family
as connoisseurs
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Credit for Good Intention,

From the Omaha Bee.
An Iowa man who emptied a shotgun
into charivari party wounded only three
persons. While his craftsmanship was a
little faulty. his intentionto declare a
closed season for the wedding hoodlufn win
be applauded.
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Transmutatiou,

"Dey say dat time 10 money" said Miss
Miami Brown.
Yes" answered Mr.. Erastus Pfnkiey
II 1es' met a man dat didn't have no trou-
BILE at all in turnin' five minutes converse
ton into loan Of two dollars"
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May Change Them.

From the Toronto Globe.
The Doukhobors are growing in wealth
from wheat farming and railway work. II
this does not modify their views on the
fundamental principles Of righteousness and
duty they will be indeed different from
common humanity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

Severe chastisement should not be nec-
essary for Central Americans who insult
flags In most cases humane forbearance
would suggest that they merely be treated
for hysteria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

Mr.. Hughes may discover that a man
with lot of public reforms on his hands
has enough to look after without under
taking a presidential boom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

With tainted money and undesirable citi-
zens barred, the raising of a future cam
paign fund will be very select enterprise.
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Invariably the Case.

Strive on, oh toiler. as you may
To make mankind your debtor;
Some other man will always say
He could have done It better.
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Evidences,

''You think that the inhabitants Of Mars
are similar to the people Of our earth?"%
Eyes" answered the professor Certain
geometrical markings and color effects In
dictate hat their cares are much the same
as ours. They have their canal problems
and their red-light districts"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

The New York papers will soon be ex-
pected to allow Mr.. Corey and his wife to
enjoy the customary lack of interest in
people who are married and settled down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

The next King Of Spain has only few
years before him in which to cherish the
delusion that he can have q good time In
life like other children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

If there were anything vitality objection
able to the Japanese in the eperetta 1.-THE
Mikado." Russia would long since have
taken 1t up with enthusiasm.
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SHOOTING STARS.
Not an unselash Patriot.

why don't you secure a public Officer"
Il don't care for It." answered Mr.. Dus-
tin Stax. "In my state 1t would be too
much like giving up my position ~ an en-
ployer in order to become an employee"
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A Chance.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
He may not be a king, but the boy born
of American parentage may become Presi-
dent no matter what his lineage
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Mr.. Carnegie could have warned Mr.
Foraker that the Presidents ideas about
the best way to secure peace are somewhat
radical
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DEVELOPMENT.

"That politician seems willing to extend
the olive branch to his enemies"
WELL" was the answer. 'it looks like
an olive branch to start with, but by the
time he gets through trimming the leaves
and twigs OF it it turns out to be the or
binary big stick"
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Very Cold.

From the Columbia State.
1t win be a cold day when Mark Twain
fails to get his name into the public prints
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

Terrorists every now and then take occa-
sion to set the car thinking on the SUBJ
ject Of abdication.
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Suhragists.

From the Cleveland Leader.
Female suffragists are Just plain women
and the palmer they are the more they
suffer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

A remarkably long time has elapsed
without anybody's trying to start a con-
troversy about Panama canal conditions.
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Taken to the Woods.

From the st. Paul Dispatch
Perhaps 1t is incorrect to say that John
w. Gates has taken to the woods, but he
has rented a forest near Paris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

San Franchises big fire did not suffice
to kill of the graft germ.
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Came to Life.

From the Columbia Press-Post.
When George B. Cox '-perished" in q Do
ntical contest the democrats and other good
citizens Of Ohio neglected to use embalm-
ing fluid on the remains.
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Tom Lawson seems to get on much more
peacefully with the publishers than he did
with the brokers.
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Sticks.
From the Los Angeles Timcs

From the Los Angeles Times.
King Edward has adopted a new walking
stick. But It will never become as popular
in this country as the big stick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13

Umpire George B. Cox is evidently to be
called on for a few more close decisions in
Ohio.
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Bryans weight Is reported to be $50
pounds. Evidently he is not worrying.
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GIG Of aDooty.n

From the Saturday Evening Post.
San Francisco Is realizing what Is meant
by "the fatal gift Of booty"
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Happy Charlestons

From the Charleston News and Courier.
Charleston has had three times as much
spring as any other American city and no
more poetry.
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sYk FySy ~ 80 ~ srx
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-10-23
Contest Notice.
Department of the Interior, United States Lcrd Office.
Phoerix. Arizona. eopto,nher IS. 1ao

HDOeElX- ErlZon3, September Is, 1907.
 X sufficient contest affidavit having been flied in this Office by Sarah IT, CockreI, con testant, against Homestead entry No 1900, made January 30, 1868, for SE1l Section 2l, Township 8, $. Range 24, w., G. and s. R. E. and M by Thomas w. Knox, contestee, in which it is alleged that said entryman never settled npun the land or improved the same, either by himself or agent, during his life time; that said cntrynau died in Yuma, Ariz., and that nore orthe heirs have tried to improve the place and that said heirs are unknown. and absence prior 10 death was not caused by service in army. navy or ma- rinc corps of the United States, said parties are hereby notified 10 appear, respond and offer evidence touching said allegation at 10 o'clock a. m, on November 21. 1907, before C. II. Utting, Clerk of the District Court, at Yuma, -ArZona, land that final hearing wilt be held al 10 o'clock a. m. on December 3, 19G7 before the Register and Receiver at the Unit cd States land office in Phoenix, Arizona.
 The said contestant having, in a proper af;i- davlt, filed September F, l9C7 set forth facts which show that after due diligence personal service of this notice cannot be made, it is hereby ordered and directed that such notice be given by due and proper publication.
 FEN S. HILDRETH,
 Receiver. First publication Sept 9, 1907. 4w