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The Washington times., 1907-08-06

possible task of supplying genuine
distinction for all his customers,
and he fails through no fault of
his. We have neither good home
made ideas for him to execute, nor
the time to wait while he develops
some for us. So we must take what
is in the furnishing season-golden
oak, imitation mission, early Rath-
skeller or late Pullman.
All this viii change in a little. 1t
is changing now. Even our monot-
ony reaches from Cape Cod to the
Orient. Seeing the need to choose
between many styles and fashions
and aspects of dwellings, we shall
choose in true American manner
according to the use of furniture, its
comfort, it's beauty to our eyes. Our
children viii choose better, their
appreciation being better trained
We shall come as a people into ideas
of our own. When we do it will be
a glad day for the cabinet maker
for it viii mean a mighty slim de.
mand for the factory piece and an
overwhelming market for that
which is made by hand to express
an individual taste.
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STANDARD OIL SHIP
DAMAGED IN WRECK
Carrying Coal to Mare IS
land itCollideS With Nor
wegian Vessel.

Aside from its troubles IN the Federal
courts in Chicago, the Standard on
Company Is having difficulty IN deliver
ing an important cargo Of coal from
Baltimore to the Government for use of
the navy n Mare island, California
The ship IN which the coal was dispatch
ed more than four months ago has re-
turned TO Rio Janeiro for repairs. after
having been in collision with another
ship OF Cape Horn. in which two lives
were lost. and after being buffeted about
by the seas and unfavorable winds, IN
her disabled condition.
News OF the accident has reached the
Navy Department IN a mail report from
Com. Nathaniel r. Usher. IN command
OF the cruiser ST. Louis, under date OF
July 3. at Rio, as follows:
1T IS respectfully reported that the
American fOur-masted bark. Alias, load
cd with coal for Mare island. Cal. from
Baltimore. arrived in this port July 2
for repairs. having been ia collision on
Cape Horn with the Norwegian bark
Viking, from which the Atlas took the
crew, after the collision. with the ex-
cepriCn OF the master and his wife. who
were lost Such repairs as are neces-
ssry, II is expected. viii be made In this
port. after which Il is anticipated she
Will proceed on her voyage 10 Mare
island"
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Lvceum Opens Season.

Kernan's New Lyceum opened us
1919 season successfully last night be-
fore an audience which taxed the capac-
fly Of the theater-
Williams Imperials Is the atracuoh
for the initial week.
In the opening burlesque. "A Night IN
Paris Larry McCabe. Joe OPP and
Harry Bentley did some clever work.
especially IN a laughable burlesQue on a
French duel.
A number OF novel songs. with the
usual accompaniment OF girls and daz-
zling dresses formed an important fea-
true OF the evenings entertainment.
Bert Virgins celebrated Juggling act
proved 70 be a distinct disappointment
During the summer the management
of the New Lyceum has been busy add
ing various Improvements for the fur
ther beautificatiOn Of the theater- All
OF the seats have been recovered and
repainted a carpet has been run in the
aisles. and the decorative artists nandi-
work is noticed throughout the audi
rOrlurn.
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STATUE OF HOAR,,
UNWILLING OCT. |

WORCESTER, Aug. 6.-The George
Frisbie Hoar memorial statue, which is
TO be placed near Worcester city hall,
will be dedicated in all probability Tues
day, October l.
A committee consisting of Justice Ar
thur Z. Rugg Of the Massa chusetts su-
preme court; Charles NJ. Thayer, and
DR.. G. Stanley Hall. president Of Clark
University, has been selected to secure
an orator for the dedicatOry exercises
and to arrange for the Inscription which
Is TO be placed on the statue
Five sites proposed for the statue
were considered and it was decided 10
place the memorial in front of city hall,
near the star which marks the spot
where the Declaration Of Independence
was first read in Massachusetts by
Isaiah Thomas.
Sculptor French has forwarded to the
trustees photographs of the plaster cast
from which the statue Will be made.
showing several viewpoints.
AS the statue Is that Of a seated figure
complications of choice naturally arise.
The sculptOr's commission calls for the
delivery Of the statue by October l, and
the progress Of the work at the sculp-
tors summer studio in Glendale, below
Ienox and StOCkbride, N the Berkshire
hills. gives assurance that the memorial
will be ready for dedication before that
date.
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Our MOnOtOnouS Originality.

All our houses are unconventional In
precisely the same way. We have the
drawing room done in green; the library
in red and mahogany, with an imitation
Rookwood lamp on the table, and the
dIning-room in Flemish oak. We set
apart our stuffiest room for a den, with
a coy corner made up of something
Oriental" and two or three dozen small
pictures plastering the walls; tle Queen
Iouisas, Countess Potockas, and Gibson
Girls have been replaced by Sargent's g
Hosea" Rembrandt. and The Golden
Stairs" In specific cases certain of
these details may vary, but 1 think
have drawn truthfully a type of those
houses which we call well furnished and
original
In so incisive and keen-eyed a
fashion does a certain Benjamin
Esten display our modern home
making foibles in "The House Beau
tiful." We are all strivers after a
monotonous originality. AS heads
of households we are doing in this
more lasting manner exactly as our
daughters do when they borrow the
English stride" or the "Ethel
Barrymore droop."
The reasons are many. We would
make a lifetime habitation in a
day. We put our dealer to the Inn
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Farmers, TOO2

According to Governor Floyd, Of
New Hampshire, there is a species
of race suicide among the families
of the Granite State, and it is that
cause that bears the responsibility
for the marked decrease in agricul-
ture. In q speech to the grangers
the other day, the governor assert
ed that farming had so declined
that it was now but 21 per cent of
the States industries. What is the
matter?' he asked, and then an
swered his own question thus:
First, the shortage in the cradles
Large families were once the rule on
New England farms, and when the
children grew to manhood and wom-
anhood there were enough TO supply
the demands of the cities and villages
and occupy the land. How is IT now?
Suppose you had a provision that
whereas a man with less than four
children IS an undesirable citizen, no
I'd one of this class shall be eligible 70
the governorship, Senatorship. member
ship Of Congress, or the State Legisla-
ture, how many could qualify? Why
just think Of II. not a governor, Sena-
tor. or a member of Congress who has
been elected in the last twenty-five
years could have been candidate, and
your country towns could hardly have
found men enough To send to the gem
eral court No wonder there is a lack
of Yankees on the farms.
The absolute impOssibility Of Secur-
ing competent and faithful farm help
is another drawback.
The summer business has become a
fad IN New Hampshire, and naturally,
for il has done a great deal for this
State. / doubt whether II has added
20 the number of our farmers or the
profits of a majority of them, because
it has helped create the unrest and dis
content which are fatal to good farm
Ing by spreading the idea that the sum-
mer boarder business is an easier and
more genteeI way TO get a living than by
having crops or cattle.
While there is some virtue in
Governor F1oyd's reasoning, it is
not wholly conclusive. Farms need
not decline if there is but a single
son to inherit the place and is will
ing to stay on it for life. There's
the rub. Any observer in the coun-
try realizes that farms are aban-
doned not so much because of lack
of large families as because the
children are discOntented and leave.
Eliminate the aIlurements of the
city and there would be little trou-
BILE as to the maintenance of agri-
culture.
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He VIII Speak in Wash
ingtOn on OctO-
Der %.

NEW YORK. Aug. 6.-There Is gen.
eral speculation in the ranks OF the
Salvation Army as to what will de-
velop from the coming visit OF Gen.
william Booth. the founder and com
maDder OF the army, 10 this country
next month.
General Booth will arrive in Boston
on September p, and Will make a quick
tour and inspection OF the most I'm
pcrtant posts His itinerary covers six
teen cities. In which are located the
most important posts Of the army.
That matters Of unusual importance
VIII be decided by General Booth Is
admitted at the New York headQuRr-
ters, but the officers there do not feel
nt liberty 20 discuss them at this time.
II Is announced however. that there
viii be a general change In the provin-
cial officers, the leaders OF the army
in this country. which Of itself VIII
cause quite a stir The army viii prac-
tically be reorganized,
Regarded as Farewell.
It was said today at headquarters that
the visit Of General Booth 70 America
Is regarded as his farewell to tie Ameri-
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TRAIN HE ONCE DROVE
KILLS OLD ENGINEER

CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-James H. Banta,
the oldest engineer on the Illinois Cen
tral, railroad. was struck by an engine
and instantly killed while crossing the
tracks of that railroad. For forty-four
years Banta had driven OF stocked en-
gines across the tracks on which he met
his death. and had survived four wrecks
without injury.
Banta, who WIS sixty-two years old.
was struck by the engine of the II
o'clock limited, a train which he had
himself driven for ten years. The force
of the blow threw him twenty feet
death being instantaneous.
The tragic fate Of Banta is further in
tensified by the fact that he was about
to retire on a well-earned pension
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CHINESE SCARED
BY THREATENED
TONG INVASION

BOSTON. Aug. avid rurnors that
twenty emissaTies OF the dread Hep
Sing Long are on their way here 20
wipe out the Boston branch have set
all Chinatown IN a fUror. As soon SIS
the police learned OF the threatened in
vasion forty bluecosts were hurried 70
Chinatown and plainclothes men patrol
the streets
Chinatown Friday night was made AT
Portsmouth. y H.. last night when
Boston officers captured Yee Chung. Of
New York. said 10 be a leader OF the
Hep Sing Long. He will hght extra
ditiOn
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TUESDAY, AUGUST G. 1907.
Enforcing the Whole Law.

All who go to the bench are not
retired. The weeks news from Chi
cago proves it. In one day Kenesaw
Mountain LandisZa judge alive to
the opportunities of his Post-adds
to his lasting fame with these three
sensational decisions:
Assessing against the greatest
American corporation, the Standard
Oil, the greatest fine in the history
of courts.
Dissolving the Church Pew trust.
Eliminating Overseer Wilbur
Glenn Voliva as a factor in the man
agement of Zion City.
Some there are who pretend to
scorn these judgments as theatrical.
Stuff and nonsensei So were the
Dartmouth College, Dred Scott and
Income Tax decisions theatrical.
Judge Landis did not institute
these actions. He only presided
over them, and-here is the un-
unusual thing-had the courage
In all three instances to enforce
the whole law. It may be none of
us viii profit directly through the
payment of that S29, 900, 900 fine, or
the dissolution of the Church Pew
trust, or the adjustment of Dowie's
involved finances. But we will all be
the gamers through the more cir
cumspect conduct of large opera
tors in consequence of these de-
oiciOua
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FORMER GOV. BROWN
OUT FOR SENATORSHIP

BALTIMORE, Aug. e.-Former Gov.
Frank Brown declared himself out OF
the gubernatOrial race. He publicly
stated he would not accept the Demo
cratic nomination II II was rendered. He
had previously said he did not want the
honor, but this Is the first time he hes
declared he will not accept
There is no doubt Mr.. Brown was
prompted to take this course because of
the avowed opposition of the State
leaders. Mr.. Brown would have ac-
cepted had he been unanimously sup
ported but at least three Of the OBJ
jectors are candidates for United States
Senator. and these feared Brown
would use his Office to elect himself.
Now that he is free, he will make his
fight for Senator Germans seat in the
open. and If the Legislature is Demo
cratic he may make things interesting
for those who fought him.
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TRACES MORTALITY
TO LOSS OF PUMPS

To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
That some Of our pumps have fur
nished pure water for fifty and 100 years
without disease Of any kind being trace
able 70 their cool depths is the expert
ence OF many OF our people, while the
result OF drinking water from the
trOughs provided for animals. for com
parauvely a few days. is evident in the
illness and suffering among hundreds
II our population, and a marked increase
IN the mortality IN the vicinity OF the
closed pumps, indicating the fallacy OF
the health theory in that direction
Is this decision regarding the wells a
move, as has been declared, in the In
terest OF the ice man and saloonkeeper? ?
Every professional and bushes man
in the city should raise his voice against
this most unjust and arbitrary ruling
ELIZABETH JACOBS.
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WINS WILL NOT CALL
A. BELMONT Or 7. F. RYAN

NEW YORK. Aug. s.-WulIam NJ.
WINS. who is conducting the public
service commissions investigation into
the city's railroads, does not contem-
plate calling either August Belmont
or Thomas T. Ryan.
The reason for this, IL was learned
Is lldt lne cOLlllIllsSl0 LIS h,eEs , DeneEe Ihal
ments which might warrant the inflic-
tiOn Of penalties or exactiors on indi-
viduals. they would not be able to
reach Mr.. Belmont or Mr.. Ryan. The
determination not to put Belmont and
Ryan on the stand is due to the immu-
nifty given by the publiC-seTVice act 70
persons giving evidence at investiga-
lions held BY the commission.
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STATE WILL APPEAL
IN RAILROAD FIGHT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Aug. 6-Ar-
kansas Will appeal at once from United
States Circuit Judge VandeventeT's de-
cision at St. Paul temporarily restrain
ing the State from annulling the Chi
cago. Rock Island. and Pacific railroad S
charter within its border for violation OF
the law prohibiting the transfers OF
suits against the road by Arkansas citi-
zens from the State 10 the Federal
courts. the case is similar 10 the issue
in Alabama.
Arkansas. however. was unfortunate
in meeting with delay through the Fed
eral courts action before a move could
be made by the attorney general to In
validate the railroads charter. The
State officials viii do their utmost 70
carry the case to the higher courts and
secure a reversal Of Judge Vandevent-
eT's decision on the temporary order
without awaiting the final hearing.
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can branch. When he returns TO Eng
land he will undoubtedly stay there for
the rest Of his life. He is now seventy
eight years old
There are many who place great sig
niicanCe on the coming visit OF the
commander. They see in II the desire
everything in the order planned BY his
ambition carried out before his ad-
vanced age brings incapacity and death.
General Booth Will be accompanied by
Mr.. NlchOl. the editor-in-chief Of the
army publications; Colonel Lawley, who
leads the singing. and Brigadier Cox
his secretary.
Selecting Meeting Places
Because Of the recent clash between
the syndi- ate and independent theatrical
forces, some difficulty has been encoun-
tered in securing halls fOr the meetings
10 be addressed by General Booth
Theaters are always preferred because
they meet demands OF neutrality. over
coming as they do all religious preJu-
dice Where theaters are not obtain
able, other halls win be selected.
General Booth and hts party will cover
the following itinerary:
Boston, September E-S0; Schen ectady,
October /, Syracuse, october 2, ROChes-
ter, October 5: Cleveland. october 5-9i Co
lumbus, Ohio. october 10; St Louis, OCto-
Der I2-13; Des AIoines, October 10: Min
neapolis, October lGi Milwaukee, Octo-
her 7: Chicago, october 1924; PittsDurg.
October 26-37; washington. .; Balti-
more, 30. philadelphia, October 81; New
York. November 2 TO s.
he will sail for England on Novem-
Der O.
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OLD PLANTATION BELL
TO RING IN CHURCH

AVER. Mass, Aug. 6.-The bell once
used TO call the slaves on the planta-
ton OF B. d. Devlin. at Plains. Miss,
has been installed here to call worship
pers to the Congregational Church. The
ben has an interesting history. 1t was
removed from Devlin plantation to New
Orleans when the Confederate govern
rnent called for material for cannon.
When Gen. 3. +. Butler entered the
CITY ne sent the bell to Boston.
Uisposed of by the Government, Il
first went to Trinitarian Church in
Fitchburg. and after tolling there for a
number of years, II was secured by the
Congregationalists Of this city
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HUGHES FOR PRESIDENT,
KINGS COUNTY. DEMAND

NEW YORK, Aug 6-Claiming the
honor of being the first district organ
ization in Kings county to declare for
the nomination Of Charles Z. Hughes,
the Kings County Republican Club has
adopted, with a rising vote, resolutions
practically making the governor their
choice for President.
The preamble indorsed the work done
and being done by Theodore Roosevelt,
our true and tried President. for the
protection of the masses against all
aspirants for special privileges, regard
less of their wealth or social station &"
Approval was given, without reserva-
ton. to the work of Governor Hughes
for the establishment of the public utili-
ties commission, the Insurance reforms,
and his Introduction of the system OF
direct nomination Of candidates for pub
lie Office.
The Washington times., 1907-08-06

Gently popular English dramatists, Pi-
nero and Jones. The suspended interest
which increases IN intensity Up 10 the
final moment Of the third act IS strik-
ingly like the powerful manner in which
Jones handles his The HypOcrites-"
Miss Walker gives to her imperson-
alton Of Lady Windermere a wealth Of
color and tone. In the first act she is
the charming, innocent young wife, hap
py IN the thought that she possesses
her husbands love. and looking forward
70 q life on which no shadows are eX-
pected 70 fall. Her real Gtrength Of
character and depth OF love have never
been tested. When the crucial moment
comes she finds herself unable TO be-
The Washington times., 1907-08-06

Charlotte Walkers Lady windermere
is a delightful impersonation- AS pre-
sented at the Belasco last night the Os-
car Wilde comedy, a satire on modern
society and at the same time a dra-
matte story OF wifely devotion. but i'm
pulsiveness and lack OF confidence. af-
forded the audience an evenings en-
tertainment Of rare merit
Lady Windermere's Fan" has been
known to the American stage for a num-
Der Of years. but a Tlay constructed
upon genuinely artistic lines never grows
old. Its climaxes are worked out with
a precision and ingenuOusness that have
been closely followed by the more re-
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LITH0GRAPHERS YIELD
AFTER FIGHT OF YEAR

NEW YORK. Aug 6.-The struggle OF
the Lfthographic Artists. Engravers
and Designers League with the Ma
tional Association of Employing Lithog-
raphers, which began in August, 1905,
has been ended, as a result Of the aban-
donment of the fight by the union.
The trouble had its origin in the post
ing of open shop notices by the en-
ploying ilthographers In most Of the
larger cities OF the country last August
and their requirement that all their en-
ployes resign from their union. This
the men refused to do, and they were
locked out in various cities.
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KEEPING IT GOING.

A little hammock now and then Is rel
ished by the sleepy men.
Baltimore Sun.
But IL she's there a place TO take, you
bet they're pretty wide awake.
Indianapolis News.
Especially, we rise to shout If her old
dad should wander out.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
But father won't put in his oar; you bet
that dads been there beforei
Buffalo News.
And ma, of course, will never care while
all they do Is swing out there
Chicago Record-H Herald.
A duplex thud! A thrilling screami Oh
treacherous ropel Flee loves young
dream. New York Tribune.
A helping hand, a courtly bow, and
Cupid victor anyhow,
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WONAN'S READY WIT
SAVES HER JUST $1,000

BUTLER, Pa, Aug. 6.-Mrs. Thomas
Cooper. wife OF a wealthy Jefferson
township farmer, saved 1900 from q
burglar by a clever ruse-
on a stranger knocking, Mrs. Cooper,
who was alone, refused 10 allow him 20
enter. Thereupon he pushed the door
open and commanded the woman 70
throw I'D her hands. Instead she
grabbed a baseball bat. struck the in
truder, and knocked his gun through the
door into the parlOr-
As he ran after his weapon she
slammed the parlOT door and locked it
The man burst the door and again at
tackled Mrs. Cooper. who, exhausted. told
the robber where TO look for the money.
While hunting for II the woman secured
double barreled shot gun and forced
the burglar 10 fee.
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Not a Matter of State Rights.

Alabama and Arkansas have not
squareIy drawn the line between
State and Federal rights in their
fight with the railroads, as it gen.
orally supposed. What they have
undertaken to do is a very different
thing, indeed. It is an attempt to
punish ltigants in State courts for
using advantages conferred upon
them by the Constitution of the
United States.
Briefly, these two commonwealths
have decided to prevent the transfer
of railroad cases from their own to
national courts. For that purpose
they have provided penalties-in the
State first named, a revocation of
charter, and in the second prac-
ticalIy the same forfeiture, with
fine of $1,000 a day for continuing
to do business-against any rail-
way corporation which shall SO in
volve the Federal jurisdiction.
Both these States have produced
and now enjoy the counsel of great
lawyers. That these laws should
have been seriously considered,
much less written on the statute
books, without weighing deliberate
Iy the right of the States to en-
force such regulations, is inconceiv-
able. Yet a study of the Constitu-
ton fails TO reveal any sufficient
basis for such legislation.
''The Judicial Power" says Clause
1, of Section 2, Article III, shall
extend to all cases, in Law and
Equity between a State
and Citizens of another State; be-
tween Citizens of different States"
This power, according TO the pre-
ceding section, shall be vested in
lone supreme court and such in
ferior courts as the Congress may
from time to time ordain and
establish" And the only mOdifica-
ton of these two provisions is that
offered by the Eleventh Amend
ment, which says:
\ The judicial power Of the United States
shall not be construed TO extend 10
anv suit In law or equity commenced or
| prosecuted against one OF the United
States by citizens Of another State, or
| by citizens or subjects OF any foreign
state.
Finally, in Clause ?, of Article VI,
are these words familiar to every
schoolboy:
This Constitution and the laws OF the
United States which shall be made in
pursuance thereof shall be the
| supreme law of the land; and the Judges
/ in every State shall be bound thereby,
anything in the constitution or laws of
any State TO the contrary nOtwithstand-
/ ing.
In Alabama, the Southern rail-
ways suppositional offense is the
transfer to the Federal courts of a
civil suit instituted by it against a
citizen; in Arkansas the charge
against the Rock Island is that it
has similarly transferred a civil
suit entered against it by q citizen
| In neither case was the State orig
inally O party TO the action. Both
would, therefore, appear to be ex-
plicitly covered by definite grants
of power to the Federal courts, and
to citizens, by the Constitution
Wherefore, the controversy has not
the character Of q trial of State
rights at all, but rather that of an
attempt by two of the States to
prevent citizens of other States
from enjoying rights explicitly con-
ferred by "the supreme law of the
land"