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NEWSPAPER LAW.

l. Subscribers who do not give ex-
press notice to the contrary are con-
sidered as wishing to continue sub
scriptions.
2. If subscribers order the discon-
tinuance of their periodicals, the pub
Usher may continue to send them I'M
til all arrearages are paid.
8. If subscribers neglect or refuse
20 take their periodicals from post
office to which they are directed they
are responsible until they have settled
their bills and ordered them discon-
tnued.
4. If the subscriber moves to an
other place without informing the pub
Usher, and the papers are sent to the
former directions, they are held re-
sponsibe.
5. The courts have decided that
the refusing to take periodicals. from
postoffice, or removing and leaving
them uncaled for, is prima facie evil
denee of International fraud.
6. If subscribers pay in advance
they are bound to give notice to the
publishers, at the end of their time,
if they do not wish to continue 1t
otherwise the publisher is authorized
to send it, the subscriber will be re-
sponsible until an express notice with
payment of arrearageS is sent to the
publisher.
{ 7. The latest postal laws are such
that newspaper publishers can arrest
any one for fraud who takes a paper
and refuses to pay for it. Under this
law the man who allows his subscrip
ton to run along for some time, I'M
paid, and then orders the postmaster
to mark it refused" and has a card
sent notifying the publishers, lays
himself liable to arrest and fine, the
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-02-09
Look and Live.

Mr.. Editor
We are taught from the pulpit
thai we should hold up Christ
aud if we do that he would draw
al men unto him. [ think you
hold up the Blessed Christ when
you admOnish the young people
Of one of our churches of the city
to use common sense When in
the house of God it is true that
common sense teaches. morality
and decency. 1t is to be hoped
that they will only look aud live.
| think it is exceedingly good for
the officers Of the church as we
are taught to speak kind and
gentle one t0 the other and if
they are officers Of the church
they should show light in dark
places and intelligence to the ig-
norant'e This reminds me of
mother uphoding of the Blessed
Redeemer. When you speak of
the long and Improbable time
spent in taking up the collection
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-02-09
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by the officers of the churches
and to the uninteIligent remarks
made by the officers to get
the Is cents to make it even
which causes laughter by all
present except those whose
hearts are made sad on the ac-
count of the silly remarks made,
This is a matter too that | have
long wanted to speak of but re-
farined from doing so unit, now
since you have held up the light
[ feel it is my high privilege to
say to everyone, look and live.
A Reader of the Forum.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-02-09
Ought to See the Nashville Brand.

Some one has said that Spring
field has more pretty girls than
any other city IN the Union. The
other fellow declares that this
SEINE one is blind. What saysst
thou?-Sb,1nefeIH, (Ill) Forum.
Now, if the Globe wants to
show up the "Nashville Brand"
and the Springfield Forum would
like to show up Springfield S
prettiest. why, just run their cuts
in your paper, and after we have
looked them over, we will show
you something from "OId Vlr-
ginny' that is fit TO keep com
pany with angels.
Now, don't back down; come
right up and let the world see
what you Call pretty.-St luxe S
HeraM
We are surprised that our bril-.
liant, usually well informed con-
temporary should want us to en-
ter the NASHVILLE Brand of
pretty girls in beauty contest
against Springfield and Odd Vir-
ginny.' Fit company for angels!
Why, the Nashville Brand is the
nearest approach to angels that
inhabit this mundane sphere-in
our opinion The Globe is not
backing down. We are willing
10 enter beauty contest, but Old
Virginny and Springfield must
first prove that they are in our
class. AS the prize-fghters say,
go get rep. then come for a
fight '-NaSh0iHe Globe.
Of course The FORUM had for.
gotten this little ''episode' which
appeared over a month ago, but
our girls are not afraid to enter
the contest, though they are a
little modest in putting their cuts
in the paper But, if our girls of
beauty will send in their cuts,
the prize is sure to fall to Hin
ois-We know Tennes see and
"OId Virginny" have "beauts'
but Illinois is the Bird State in
wealth, End in manufactures, 3rd
in population and 1st in beautiful
women.
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MoTTO:

ut is no benefit to have given
me something, but it is benefit
to have enabled me to obtain
something for myself. Elmer
son.
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Ambidexter Institute,
LECTURE CALENDAR

February Speakers +.
Thursday 18th, E. T. Cottmann. Z. e.
Thursday, l4th, e. L. Rogers.
February 2lst. and 28th to be sup
piled
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-02-09

President Roosevelt is to APP
point another Negro to a high
office in Cincinnati, Ohio. What
manner of man is he?
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-02-09

Mrs. Lora Orion of N. l4th street,
has been i'll.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-25

for once. Party organization must find its
bond Of union In devotion to certain common
principles, There are relatively few COM
muDitles In which II oan longer hope TO win
public support II It's political power In devoted
TO the advancement OF the selfish interests
OF lie members.
We shall always need political leadership.
hut leadership and organization to recon-
mend themselves to public confidence must
be purged OF The vice Of self -service.
Lot there be no vague fears about the out
come. | place full confidence In the sobriety
and integrity OF motive OF the American peo-
pie. have profound belief In their ability
to cure existing evils without disturbing their
prosperity. I am convinced that we shall
have more and more intelligent and unselfish
representation OF the peoples interest; that
political leadership will be tested more and
more by the s%oundness Of its counsel and the
disinte restedness OF its ambition. | believe
that with an increasing proportion OF true
representation with increasing and dlscrimi-
mating public discussion. with the patien
application of sound judgment to the con-
"ideration Of public measures, and with the
infiexible determination to end abuses and
to purify the administration OF government
OF self -interest We shall realize a greater
prosperity and q wider diffusion OF the bless
ings or free government than we have ever
hithe rto been able 10 enjoy.
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MONTGOMERY. Ala, Aug. ~24.-Judge
Thomas G.. Jones Of the United States Court
to-day assured a delegation Of railroad men
who called on him at his office that they
would be protected from indi entities on the
part Of the State officers, and IL arrested BY
any Of them for failure to observe State rail-
road laws, under restraint by the Federal
Court, those making the arrests would be
arrested at onOe and punished severely. He
made this formal statement:
1T is natural that you should be worried
and indignant under the circumstances.
1t is an insult to any upright American
citizen to threaten to look him up and to put
him behind The bars like a common criminal
when he has done no wrong whatever in
order to get a roundabout test by a crimina
proceeding Of a question in which ne has
no direct interest, the settlement of which
hsn Gann0 e contrib s0a : in na ANY w wy when When. i lis is
the right to decide IL, and when that court
has told him he has done no wrong what
ever in working for his daily bread on a
railroad.
However divided the good people Of
transportation they nave no sympathy
in the effort to prosecute you in order to
get a decision Of that matter in the criminal
court where it does not belong and take
IL away from the court where 10 does belong.
"A good many Of these threats are mere
newspaper talk. Ii is popular. or at least
men think 1t Ii proper. to talk about arrest
ing you in violation Of the orders Of the
Court, but when they find out, as they will,
that all good citizens are indignant at the
insult they proposed to be put on you
and all other laboring men. you will hear
very little Of it in future"
I'm view Of the threats that nave been
publicly made, | 10 eminently right, and
may a trouble for me to say to you now,
as I do say that II you are arrested you will
be Immediately released on habeas corpus
and the officer making the arrest in contempt
Of the orders OF this court will be severely
punished 90 that he will remember It for a
long time
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TAFT ON OKLAHOMA ISSUES
ADVISES REJECTION or THE con-
STITCTION.

Addresses q a;rest Meeting and Tells RE-
ect-Me says Thnt He Doesn't speak
for the President I'm the Matter.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. ~. - Secretary
Taft addressed u great crowd here to-
night in Convention Hall. The address
gave intense satisfaction to the Repub-
leans. practically all OF whom are for
immediate statehood but opposed to the
Constitution as framed by the Democratic
party. there having been 100 Democrats
and only twelve Republicans in the con-
stitutional convention.
Secretary Taft struck straight from the
shoulder. He asserted that IL he we're an
Oklahoman he would vote against the Con-
stitution in the election in September.
This meant that he advocated the rejection
OF Statehood.
Secretary Taft disclaimed entirely any
authority to speak for the President on the
subject OF the validity or ~invaidity Of the
Constitution for the reason that the function
which the. President performed was a jul
dicial one. He commented first on the
initiative and referendum clause. which
he said went further in this regard han
any referendum provision tried or adopted
in any State in the Union. He approved
OF the referendum principle in local option
laws and for the determination Of the con-
ferring Of franchises. He thought that to
introduce such an entirely novel system
and radical change generally was a doubt
full experiment:
The Secretary commented on the pro-
vision which forbade consolidation OF
non-competing public service corporations,
which would prevent the union OF railroads
in one line, a union and consolidation. he
said, that had Tor much to facilitate
railroad transportation the country over.
Secretary Taft also pointed out that
the restriction upon the union Of private
corporations and Of plants for the pur-
pose OF producing economy in production
would be an obstacle to the growth Of the
state because combination OF capital was
Just as necessary as combination Of labor.
He said that the. best way to reach the
evils Of combination of capital was by anti
trust laws and prosecutions.
Secretary Taft commented at length
on the hypocrisy of the trainers Of the
Constitution in purporting to make IN in
strument by which the will Of the people
should be ascertained pure and undefled,
and then by the merest political trickery
and ~chicanery had adopted a plan by
which there might be a majority Of 1000
Tor the Republican ticket in the State and
yet be a Democratic Legislature.
For these reasons the Secretary said
that il be we're a citizen OF Oklahoma he
would certainly vote for the rejection of
the Constitution.
This brought him to the second issue.
which was whether the Republican or
Democratic State legislative ticket should
be elected. He saba Republican State
and legislative ticket should be elected
because IL amendments were to be pro-
posed to the Constitution, and II the defects
were to be eliminated, Republican legisla-
tion alone could be trusted to bring this
about.
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MRS. TRIGGS GETS DIVORCE.
Court Frees Her From the Former Pro-
fessOr In chicago University.

COurp Frees Her From. the Former Pro-
lessor In chicago University.
CHICAGO. Aug. 2i.-Judge Chetlain late
this afternoon signed a decree gra nting
q divorce to Mrs. Laura Triggs. wife OF
Oscar l.. Triggs, former professor In Chicago
University. Mrs. Triggs il allowed 10 re-
sum her maiden name and gets the custody
Of the son, Edmund Triggs.
The decree was signed after the Court
had decided that the fact that Mrs. Triggs is
now in Paris. France. did not deprive him
of jurisdiction in the case. 90
Escspades OF the professor with various
women were mentioned in the papers
submitted. Minnette Pagan was named
as one OF the women with whom
Prof. Triggs was intimate. A witness told
Of entering Prof. Triggs's room and seeing
q woman lying ION a sofa covered with a
quilt. while Prof. Triggs was sitting on the
sofa undressed.
The Triggses were married in Chicago
january Q, 1899. Since 1894. she said in
her deposition, she has not lived with the
professor as his wife. The Court intimsted
that a decree would he granted.
Mrs. Triggsis story Of her troubles was
related by her in a deposition taken in the
United States Consulate IN Paris, where she
~ now pursuing the study OF French. Cor
roborative evidence was also furnished by
Herman Kuehn, a young collegian, and a
woman rs years old, who said she had acted
as the -matron' Of a rooming house on
indiana avenue, and who was made the con-
fdaDt Of one Of Triggs's lady friends" The
testimony told OF the comings and goings
Of the ~pedagosue with this lady" and that
sloau
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FIGHT FOR ARAB CORPSES.
French Needed Exhibits To stop Dangerous
superstittOus Belief.
Special caose Despatch 10 The SUN.

~ SNeNt 0NsphN'' w
PARIS, Aug. 24.-A despatch from Casa
blanca 70 the Mdtin dated Friday says:
Although the full moons brightness
renders the searchlights Of the cruiser
Gloire almost superfuous the night attacks
continue. These are repulsed with loss to
the sssailants. but never yet has a corpse
been found the next morning.
This has been sufficient here to give
birth TO a report that the assailants are pro-
tected by Allah and are invulnerable TO our
bullets. Even the Spahis, keen fighters
hat they are, but Mussulmans before my
thing else. have begun to ask themselves il
the Koranic traditions are not true and hat
only silver bullets are effective.
these reports have spread to such an
extent that special efforts were made last
night to secure some bodies. After the
first firing had brought down some ten
Moroccans about II o'clock. sharpshooters
climbed the walls by ropes which had been
placed in readiness. but on reaching the
bodies had a bayonet fight with Moroccans
who had returned to get the bodies.
After q struggle each side secured five
bodies. The ones we captured were exposed
end then buried, not as usually by jews
but by Moroccans, In order that the report
of the recovery Of the bodies might spread
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-25
HOLDtrP AT SOUTH FERRY.
Tive Wen Tackle Frederick q. Frank ON the
Elevated stairway. .

Tw0 Men Tackle Frederick O.. Frsnk on n
Elevated stairway.
Charles Figarris, a licensed porter Of 81
Greenwich street. was looked up in tho
Church street police station last night,
charged with robbery. He was arrested on
the South Ferry elevated stairway by Police
man John j. Gargan after he had ohoked
Frederick G.. Frank OF 2l1 East Seventy
sixth street unconscious Fgarra had .
confederate. but he escaped up the elevated
stairs when the policeman appeared.
Frank was held up on the elevated stair
way. He had intended to take the Third
avenue elevated to his home but was 40
costed 10y the two mon at the top Of the
stairway. Tgarria seized him by the
throat and the other man went through
his pockets. The holdup occurred at Q
O'Clock and several N saw II. They
ran screaming to the station platform
above. go
Policeman Gsrgan was at the Zoo OF the
stairs when he heard the scream Look
ing up he saw Figarria With his hands on
Franks throat. He ran up the stairs and
caught Egarria. - ,.. =
Frank was revived and Gargan took both
to the Church street station, There Frank
said he had been robbed Of "a LOO. but tho man
who escaped evidently had II, as IL was not
found on the prisoner. Frank also had $40
in his pocket which had been overlooked.
Frank was locked up for in~toxication.
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ANSWERS ROOSEVELT
SAYS HE rs A VICTIM TO THE EN-
, TREATIES OF RAILROADS.


WI @1As ~ NUht
LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 24.-In the next
issue of the Commoner w. j. Bryan viii
reply to President Roosevelt's Province
town speech. saying.
The President has at last disclosed his
scheme for oentrslization at which he ha.
limited in former speeches. In his Province
town. Mass, address he proposes the ma
tional incorporation Of railroads and other
corporations engaged in interstate COM
meroe, Here 10 the secret; it il out at last.
THE States are annoying the corporations
and the. corporations deman Fedora,
protection from State legislation. III,
President thinks that action 10 most press
ing as regards those corporations which,
becauee they arc common carriers, exercise
a quasi-public function. Tho States have
boon ~enacting two cent fare laws and laws
reducing freight rates and the railroad
managers demand that they shall be re-
lieved from further fear OF such legislation.
The Presidents Hamiitonian ideas make
him IN easy Victim and he yields to the
~entreaties of the railroads. II it was the
public he sought u protect he would recon-
mend Federal remedies which would not
interfere with State remedies but IL Is the
railroads, not the public, that demand the
removal OF authority to Washington.
The Democrats can be depended upon
to oppose with all their might this move
ment toward Capitalization. II any Demo
crat wavers his constituents should look
into his business relations and SEQ whether
he is under obligations to the railroads.
A Hamiltonian Republican. like the Presi-
dent. may honestly think that the farther
the CfOVernmQnt II rAmnvad from fha
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TILLMAN BECOMES DOLEFUL.
Pears Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland
WIN Become Republican Permanently.

Pears Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland
VIII Become Republican ~Permancnuy.
WASHINGTON oouRr Housr. Ohio. Aug. "a.
Senator Tillman. who spoke here this
week, regrets the fact that there are 90
few real leaders in the Democratic party in
the North. Before leaving here he said:
There is only one great man in the Demo-
cratic party in the North. and that man Is
William j. Bryan
In discussing the Republican outlook in
the South he said:
IF things keep on at the present rate the
States Of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland
will be reliably Republican in q few years.
The iniux Of colored Republicans into the
States named from States further south to
work in the coal mines and other industries
10 the cause OF this transformation of those
once reliably Democratic States into the
Republican columns. II APPEAR thai the
Democrats have nothing with which Il oYset
this increase in the Republican voting p
lation."
senator Tillman in referring 10 San Fran
cisco expressed the opinion that Il would
never he rebuilt on account Of the corruption
in that city. He said hat he had been over
the entire country during the year. and the
present prosperity was the greatest In tho
history Of the cqsIntry.
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SMALL LEAVES CHICAGO.
Coming Here for . Brief stay-rsinted
Money Cry BY Mother Jones.

CHICAGO. Aug. 24.-S. j. Small. president
OF the National Telegraphers Union, left for
New York on the Twentieth Century Limited
this afternoon and will reach there to-
morrow morning. He said he had no
plans Of arbitration. He will make his New
York headquarters in the Aston House..
Il 10 generally understood here that Small
will meet Samuel Gompevs and John Nit
chell at the Aston House on Monday morn
ing.
President Small said that in spite Of the
police on guard he succeeded In making
q personal inspection OF the Western Union.
Postal and Associated Press operating
ro0ms last night. Mrs. Small accompanied
him and did the counting while he engaged
the d~oorkeepers in conversation. Mr..
Small N Q signed statement says that at the
Associated Press office there were six per-
sons in the room, four of them being opera
tors; that the Postal had fourteen. the
normal force being se~venty-flve. and that
the Western Union had t~wenty-four opera
tors on duty, b pormal force being about
one hundred.
When the contribution to the strikers
made in New York by Charles y. Murphy
was announced at the mass meeting yes
terday afternoon Mother Jones shouted
that Tammany money was tainted. Presi-
dent Small may inquire about the contri-
button when he reaches New York. but
under the circumstances IL seems improba-
bic that II will be returned.
President Small has made repeated state
ments that he would make no overtures
to the telegraph companies n said that
he would return to Chicago early next week.
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TERRORIST TRIAL ODDITIES.
Police chiefs sore Feet tent ssiOn Hys-
ierically WIthdrawn-Tsrture Tales.

ieftcntIy -T9rttire TaleN.
special Cable Despatch 10 THk SUN.
ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 24.-The Erosecu-
tfon evidently feels Its weakness In the court
martial Of the eighteen persons accused Of
conspirlng against the life Of the Czsr n
Ia attempting to involve the whole revo-
~lutiopary rsrty. including the members
Of b 10 Duma. In order to do this they be-
lieved that he evidence OF Col. Gueras-
simov, chief Of the secret police Of st. Peters,
burg. was necessary. He refused 10 come
to the court o. account OF sore feet n
therefore Tomorrow the eighteen accused
persons. fifteen barristers and the entire
court and jury. will go to his house which Is
situated a mile from the prison. The ao-
oused persons will be transferred In the
dead Of night from the prison to the house.
To-day Nsrmoff. one of the accused,
with cries and hysterical shrieks asserted
that he had lied against Nikitenko and
Purkin at the preliminary inquiry when he
said that their purpose was to Kill the
Car. He was persuaded to do this. he said,
under a threat Of execution and by a false
promise of his father and brother that he
would not be dismissed from the service
of the Gear. Now he did not fear death
and only desired that the truth he known.
Purkin In a long statement explained
that, being a stepson Of a police commits
saire. he had from childhood witnessed
scenes Of horror in the torture OF prisoners.
He related how he himself had been brutality
beaten by Cossacks and banished within
the Arctic Circle for joining too heartily
in the popular rejoicings which followed
the famous October manifesto OF two years
ago. His life and experience have made
him a terrorist.
His only idea in this instance was to
propagate this idea among the troops.
For this reason he desired to know Rati-
moi. but after meeting him he understood
that this was useless among the Cossack
bodyguard. who were pampered soldiers
of the Gar.
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ENTERTAINs on THE MAYFLOWER

Mrs. Roosevelt Gives . Luncheon fer Other
MEMBER Of the %. Hilda Society.
OYSTER Bar. Aug. 24-Mrs. Roosevelt.
the wife Of tho President. gave a luncheon
this afternoon on the Government yacht
Mayaower to the members Of the st Hilda
Society.
The yacht 10 lying on Plum Point. About
thirty members OF the society were taken
Club dock In one Of the Mayiower's tenders.
while another tender took Mrs. Roosevelt
from the W. Emlen Roosevelt dock TO the
yacht.
For several years Mrs. Roosevelt, who is
a member Of the society, has given an
annual entertainment Of some kind TO her
fellow members.