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The Washington times., 1907-05-19
Trial by Court.

The city of New York recently
gave the country a sample of trial of
a criminal case by the newspapers,
the sensational preachers, and the
emotions of a sensation-seeking
public. 1t did not end creditably to
the community.
A great criminal trial is now be-
ginning in a little Western capital.
1T is of vastly greater import than
was the New York trial. There is
every reason why the trial should be
conducted by the court, and not by
the sensation mongers, why the YER
dict should be the verdict of an IN
prejudiced jury, based on the evil
dence. and not that of an over
wrought and prejudiced community.
The Moyer-Haywood trial is an
affair of tremendous significance,
and it is for the sober-minded people
of the communities where these
crimes were committed to show
whether without hysteria and with
out bias they can see that even
handed justice shall be done. They
are conducting themselves thus far
in manner that is above reproach.
Everything indicates a quiet, deter
mined purpose to see a square deal
given to all concerned.
1t i'll becomes the people of other
sections, which have not before
them the responsibility Of thus as
surfing justice, to attempt to preju-
idce the great case.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19
Concert of Mr.. GorreITs Pupils
Given at Washington Club

b Glenn c. Gorrell gave his spring pu-
pills concert last week in the Washing
ton Club. A large audience of music
lovers heard the following program:
Concerto, ID minor (Mendelssohn)
Mrs. w. r. Fuchs; "An den Fruhling'
(Greig). The Two Skylarks'' Oescheltz-
ky), Hunting Song (Mendelssohn),
Miss Louise Crittenden; Concerto, d
minor. first and second movements
(MozarD, Miss Gertrude Kibler; I'M
promptu, Eb (Schubert), Mrs. W. r.
Fuchs; The Avalanche" and THE
Curious Story (St Heller), "Etude Ara
besQue" Uacl), Miss Helen Schiff;
Song without Words (Sinding), ''Etude
Mignonne (Schuett), Miss Gertrude Kib-
Ter; Concerto. C minor, second and
third movements (Ndendelssohn).
The Washington times., 1907-05-19
Graduating Piano Recital
At the University of Music

The graduating recital OF Miss Alice
Terrell. from Maryland, pupil OF the
piano teachers training course, Frau
Iein Marie Won Unschuld, instructor.
will be held in the parlors Of the Uni
versity of Music and Dramatic Art, at
o'clock Monday afternoon
On Thursday at S o'clock. the second
graduating recital will be given by Miss
Martha Urness. from Minnesota also a
pupil CT the plano teachers training
course
On Friday, at o'clock p. m, Miss
Edith Pickering, with her pupils. will
give a recital I'm the parlors of the uni
versity.
On Tuesday, May 2s. at 4 o'clock, the
commencement exercises Of the Univers-
ity Of Music and Dramatic Art will be
given in the Willard ballroom
The recitals are by invitation.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19
Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Club
To Give Concert FridAy Evening

The Nordica Mandolin, Guitar, and
Banjo clubs, Walter T. Holt, director,
and H. Ernest Galleher. concert master.
will be heard in concert next Friday
evening in Hamlin NJ. z. Church, Ninth
and P streets northwest The program
is as follows: Tannahauser Overture,
Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra:
soprano solo, Sumner Mrs II. d.
DeYo; mandolin and guitar duet, Valse
de Concert. Walter T. Holt and II. E.
Ganehers Les Patineurs" and "Cherry,1
The Washington times., 1907-05-19
Going Backward BY Rail.

Freight is now moved by rail at
the rate of about twenty-seven miles
a day. 1t used TO be moved by canal
at the rate of about 12O miles day.
Coarse freight in particular is moved
much more slowly than a few years
ago. Coal, which used to go from
West Virginia to Chicago in four
days, now requires an average Of
twelve days.
These figures are cited by a corrc-
spondent of the Chicago Tribune 10
show the need for changed policy
on the part of the railroads. They
would seem to prove more than that
the advantage of dividing ship
ments between rail and water wher-
ever practicable. For, if the rail-
roads have lost their great advan-
tage of speed in transporting
freight, the shipper would better
save his money by using boats.
a general system Of freight opera
ton ascribed to James j. Hill is
given as the cause for this strange
step backward. Economy for the
railroad lies, it seems, in working
every locomotive to the limit of it's
capacity, in getting the maximum of
work out of every unit of rolling
stock. This policy is borrowed from
Europe, where-especially in the
British Jsles-'goods" trains can be
held until every car is full and every
engine loaded down with all the cars
IL can haul.
Disregarding the difference in
conditions, which is wholly to the
advantage of the foreign shipper,
it would seem that delay and conges-
ton of traffic both threaten the
adoption of any such general policy
in America. Our roads lack for cars.
One reason is that thew are being
held at stations until they can be
loaded to the utmost. Another IS
that these maximum loads frequent
ly get stuck on heavy grades An
other is that, because of their
weight and generally slow progress,
they are customarily sidetracked
for the benefit of private lines carry
ing dressed beef, fruit, or costly
merchandise.
As the Tribune points out: "Speed
is too important a matter from the
point Of view of the consignee to
be unduly sacrificed to alleged econ
omy of operation. He wants his
goods in a reasonable time. a delay
in their receipt may turn an unex-
pected profit into a loss" But that
is not all the story. Speed is like
wise too important a matter from
| the point of view of the transport
/ ing agent to be sacrificed for any
thing. If the railroads are slow, the
shippers will turn to the water
routes. In that event the holders OF
! railroad stocks and bonds viii find
before long, that the penny-wise of
| operation a Ia James Hill has be-
come the pOund-foolish of policy.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19
MEN OF TOMORROW
Thoughts on BuSineSS-No. "a
WALDO PoNDRAY WARREN

ACK Of is largely the fruit of wasted opportunity
The men who will be most actively engaged in business af
fairs few years hence today going to school, The
average young man school does not any practical degree ap-
pe what the business world will require of him. For lack of
that knowledge many young school wasting OPP
portunties reckeSy the of sudden who lights
cigar with twenydoar bill Opportunities that in few years
money cannot buy daily and hourly thrown away by young
with prodgay that sadden every business man who has
come to realize what such opportunities would have
himself and Others.
million unsuccessful in business life call out in admo
milton to the young who is not making the of his op
porunes today million homes of want vain regret cry
out to the teachers in schools and colleges beSeing them to
labor aSduosy to Undue their pupils with right ideas of work.
education and purpose But louder s Is the that goes out to
parents whose children to enter the of the worlds ac
hvty mporng them to labor systematically and patiently to
teach their boys and girls to .ove work for works SAKE and to
love knowledge for the good bng-and every oppo
tunity to the utmost.
Letters containing questions business unpublished
business hfs
dress OF
Number 80 Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

not only everyone in Washington
will want 10 visit it this summer,
but the great majority of Americans
north, west, and south of Washing
ton
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

A Poughkeepsie man is the latest en-
try in the Vice Presidential class. He
himself with his home COM
munity and earned the good will of
all his countrymen by shooting a chart
vari mob full Of fine shot
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

The Newfoundland fishing question
having been settled by the recent treaty
beyond all possibility Of future friction,
the Massachusetts, folks are proceeding
to pry the lid of just in order to show
that they car
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

The veterans of the Spanish war,
realizing that before many years the
IRENE ndous task will devolve on them
of keeping the pension rolls filed. are
showing fine form in their preliminary
sprints for places in the honor list.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19
Personal and Notes Of Interest
About Washington Musicians

Miss Irene Dieterich. the gifted young
soprano soioist. will go to Baltimore this
week. to appear as Soloist at the BOP
concert of Wednesday evening, in the
Lyceum Music Hall. Miss Dieterich
win be the guest of her uncle, L. P.
Dieterich, the portrait painter, during
the week
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

Having Illinois duly in line. Uncle Joe
is doing a few pleasant stunts around
York State. and presently will go down
to North Carolina and visit his birth
place. Uncle Joe will bear watching by
ether folks in the Presidential game.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

Atlantic City is all worked up because
Of something a soubrette did at a bust
ness mems smoker. Atlantic City is
getting so prudish that pretty soon the
Atlantic ocean will back off rather than
be mixed up with such a dry town.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

There is no use wondering whether
they will ever get harmony in Ohio II
will come when they have all killed each
other off.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

The man who rocks the boat is put
ting out a line of paper this spring that
indicates he expects to do a record
breaking business the coming season.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

The Rebew Orchestra will give a com
plimentary rehearsal on Friday evening
in the Northeast Temple. This will be
the last public rehearsal OF the orchestra
season.
The Washington times., 1907-05-19

Miss Elizabeth ]. LeclSie. soprano
Will give a song recital next FRIDAY
evening in Madison Hall Seminary. when
she will be assisted by Miss Letha Wit
ten and Miss Elizabeth Winston, The
ProgrRm Is attractive
The Washington times., 1907-05-19
Too Magazines Issued as One
Is Latest Idea in Publishing;
Named "The Scrap Boo"
Frank A. Munsey Will Print Periodical in Sections.
One Timely and Filled With Pictures.
Other Wholly of Fiction.

" WO magazines Two ectons-one profusey illus
traed be properly called auStated magazine, the
other given wholly to fctonbo big in number OF pages
and issued single magazine.
This the kernel of the idea announced by Frank Munsey to be
presented in an actual publication The idea may foeadow
epoch in this branch the publishing business and such
peav fitting that Nh Munsey should be the blaze the way
since he was the pioneer in field of the modern magazine
What led up to this publication and the for stated
The Washington times., 1907-05-19
A New Idea in Magazine Making.
and issued as single Magazine.

by Mr.. MunSey in these words:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
Warmer Possibly local showers
ANOTHER SIDEWALK MIDDLE.

1t takes a good deal of ingenuity tC
get two legal opinions from the same
law department on the same subject
that are totally at variance, but that
marvel has been achieved by the city's
attorney in the matter of the sidewalk
improvement contemplated in the
southeastern portion Of the city.
The process which led up to this re-
suit does not need analysis; it is
enough to know that the attorney now
holds that the contract cannot be made
either under the old or the new law
Meanwhile, P. ]. Moran is paving
streets on contracts made under pre-
cisely the same conditions which gov
erned the sidewalk improvement con-
tract and doesn't seem to be the least
bit uneasy as to the validity of his ar
sangement
The question naturally arises as 10
whether the city attorneys office or
Moran is the better authority on the
law of improvement contracts. On
general principles one is inclined to be-
lieve that the contractor is much to
be preferred as an exponent of the law
since his system gets the improve
ments-and the money-while the city
attorneys system has so far procured
mighty little but delay. Moran may
be too strong on extras" with the
approval and authority of the "Ameri-
can" council, but he surely gets results,
and gets them with unusual celebrity
whether in execution of work or col
lection of the taxpayers money for his
own emolument.
If Moran had had the sidewalk ex-
tension contracts which have been
hanging fire for about two years there
would have been no occasion for the
wrath of the property owners who have
paid their sidewalk assessment and
still have no walks. Expensive as
MOran's ideas are he has not yet asked
10 be released from a contract once
undertaken, while the sidewalk con-
tractors not only We're released, but
they got contracts for the same work
at a heavy advance on their old figures.
Altogether the sidewalk situation is
as hopeless a muddle as could well be
devised by an administration which is
unusually adept at creating muddles.
on the northeast bench the walks long
since paid for are not laid; southeast
the contract cannot be made, although
the assessment has been levied; on
the north bench the property owners
don't know whether they will ever get
walks or not
And the winter is coming on pretty
fast.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05
TARIFF REVISION THE ISSUE.

The Washington correspondent. of the
Chicago Tribune says that although
there will be no tariff legislation at the
approaching session of congress it will
be one of the chief issues in the presi-
Dental campaign. He might have
gone further and said that it will be the
main issue above all others.
In the ten years since the Dingley
tariff went into effect the people of the
United States have paid about two bill
lions and a half of duties on imported
articles. Last year they paid almost
an even million dollars a day in duties.
OF this amount about SS5, 100000 was
over and above the revenue needed for
the most extravagant national expend-
itures the country has ever known.
1t goes without saying that there can
be no such thing as free trade so long
as the principal revenue of the nation
depends upon customs and internal
revenue taxes. The defeat of the in
come tax law by the supreme court in
sured that necessity; and no party
would attempt to pledge itself to unre-
stricted free trade or anything like it.
But the evil of the Dingley tariff is
not alone nor chiefly in its burden of
taxation. The crime of the tariff is in
the monopoly it has given every trust
that depends upon a protective tariff to
prevent competition. The steel trust,
for instance. has been able to charge
what it pleased for such quality of
steel as it chose to make because the
prohibitive tariff places it beyond any
fear of competition from abroad. The
watch trust has shown the beautiful
workings of a tariff which gives a mo-
nopoly of the home market TO a trust
1t has sold watches abroad for so much
lower prices than it charged domestic
consumers that American dealers found
a profit in buying American watches
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05
THE SONG OF THE REEL.
(Puckl

tPuCkt
There's music in the whisper of the gentle
summer breeze,
That woOs the slumbering melody from
all the forest trees;
There's music in the ripple of the crvs-
tai mountain stream.
That haunts the soul of memory like
some forgotten dream.
Gods very sunshine seems to trill a glo-
rious symphony,
AS when with note discordant, shrill the
reel goes, Zee!-ee !-ee!-ee
And then all nature seems TO stop, es
though a master hand
Had waved aloft a magic wand to still
some monster band.
Mute are the bees, the nodding trees bend
low to catch the sound.
And all the voices of the wood in that
one note are drowned.
The warbling bird, no longer heard in 1oy-
Gus jubilee,
Pays tribute to his rival when the reel
goes, Zee!-ee!-ee!
Zee!-eel Zeel-eei. Ali note so free
that fills the anglers soul
With joy such as no mortal felt who
never handled pole;
Who never knew the ecstacy, the culver
ing delight
OF equal conflict with such game as cen
the gods would fight
Zee!-ee! Zeel-eel Ali tingling song.
ne'er was such melody
AS when with note discordant shriII, the
reel goes Zeei--eel Eel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05
VEG EFT ABL worry


inches in diameter and weighing when
ripe about twenty-five pounds. 1t is
covered by hard, woody coat, every
where embossed with cOnical angular
tubercles, and is composed of six or
seven portions, each containing from
six to nine seeds. These seeds, when
ripe, are pure white, free from veins,
dots and vessels of any kind, present
ing a perfect uniformity Of texture and
surprising the finest animal ivory, and
its substance is throughout so hard
that the slightest streaks from the
turning lathe are undesirable. 1t
looks very much more like an animal
than vegetable product, but a close
comparison viii enable one to distin-
guish it from the ivory OF the elephant
by its brightness, but chiefly by it's
minute cellular structure.
This curious hard material is the
store of food laid up by the plant for
the nourishment of the embryo or
young plant contained in the seed.
1t corresponds to the white of the
egg of hen and is called the aIbumen
of the seed. In its early condition this
ivory exists as a clear, insipid fluid,
which is often drunk by travellers to
allay thirst. Afterward the liquid be-
comes sweet and milky ana in this
state it is greedily devoured by bears,
hogs and turkeys. 1t then gradually
becomes hard, and what is most curl
Gus of all is that this hard mess again
returns to it's former soft state in the
process of termination
The young plant is dependent upon
it for some time for food, and if the
seed be taken out of the ground after
the plant has appeared it will be found
to be filled with a substance half pulp
and half milk, on which the plant lives
until it is old enough to obtain it's food
on its own account.
From the small size of the seed-the
largest not being more than Two inches
across its greatest diameter-the vege-
table ivory can be employed in the
manufacture of small articles only,
such as beads, buttons and toys. What
is wanting in size is often made up in
the skill and ingenuity OF the work.
men. who join together several pieces
so as to make a long object, when it
is easy to hide the joints from view, or
make lid from one seed and box
from another.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05
Denver Post.)

To settle an argument, will you
please state what is vegetable ivory,
and is it made from the potato?
Answer-The products of the animal
and those of the vegetable kingdom
are so different that even the mCst
careless observer is expected to dis
tinguish them at once. Yet there are
thousands of articles in daily use
which are made from the vegetable
ivory and pass for the product Of the
elephants tusk.
The ivory plant is a native Of the
northern region Of South America, ex-
tending northward just across the 18TH
mus of Panama, and the peculiar thing
about the ivory plant is that it ban
ishes all other vegetation from the soil
in which 1t grows.
1t has the appearance of q StemleSs
palm, and consists of a graceful crown
of leaves twenty feet long, of a deli
cate pale green color. and divided like
the plume of a feather into from twen-
ty to fifty pairs of long, narrow leaf
lets.
The ivory plant is not, however,
really stemIess, but the weight of the
foliage and the fruit is too great for
the slender trunk, and pulls it down,
where it is seen like a great exposed
root stretching for a length Of nearly
twenty feet among the old Giants.
The new leaves of the ivory plant are
employed by the Indians to cover the
roofs of their cottages.
Each flower of the ivory plant does
not contain stamens and )istils, as in
most British plants, but, like our will
lows, one tree produces only stamen
flowers, while another produces only
pistils. Such plants are said by bot
anists TO be dioecious. Both kinds of
the plants of the vegetable ivory have
the same appearance. and differ only
in the form and the arrangement of
the flowers. In one kind an innumer-
able quantity of stamen flowers is
borne on a cylindrical axis, four feet
long, while in the other a few pistilate
flowers spring from the end of the
flower stalk. Each plant bears sew
eral heads of flowers.
The fragrance of the flowers is said
to excel that of any other plant, and
to be very delicious and so diffuse that
the air for many miles around is alive
with myriads of annoying insects.
After a traveller has been in the vicin-
ity of the ivory bloom these insects
will follow and hover about him for
several days.
The group of flowers produce a large,
roundish fruit from eight to twelve
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05

abroad from English merchants and
importing them for sale at home.
In nearly every instance where the
markets are controlled by trust it can
be shown that the tariff has made the
trust possible by insuring it complete
monopoly, enabling it to charge exor-
bitant profits. Scarcely an article of
food, of clothing, of common human
need is sold without paying tribute to
trust of some kind; and the criminal
exactions of these trusts trace back in
evitably to the tariff as the bulwark of
commercial crime.
Having erected this bulwark for
themselves. with the aid of the Repub-
lican party, the trusts now find refuge
behind the cry that any revision of the
tariff will infict an injury to the bust
ness of the country. That is probably
why revision of the tariff has been
postponed so long. Neither the Dem
Ocrats nor the tariff revisionists of the
Republican party would like to start a
campaign for the violent and radical
reduction of the tariff on all manufae-
tured articles or on all raw material.
The shock to every industry would be
unbearabie, and no party could carry
an election on such a platform. But
that furnishes no argument against a
reasonable reduction of an exorbitant
tariff on trust-made goods that are
now sold abroad for much less than the
American consumer is made to pay.
If the stard-patters have any political
or economic sense at all they will read
the handwriting on the wall and recog-
nize the fact that revision is inevita-
bic. and that further pOstponement is
only an invitation to a reaction which
might sweep out of power every con-
servative friend of a decent, honest
tariff. Either the tariff must be cor
rected scientifically and in the interest
of the people as against the trusts, or
there will be a political revolution that
will wock infinite harm to the CONNER
cial and manufacturing interests of the
whole country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05
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GETTING OVER 1T.

IUHkBIs StdLEsIndH-D
Redd-Out in my car with party, yes
terday."
Greene-YeS.
Game to a wide. deep stream which we
could not ford"
mo bridge you could run the machine
over?''
mo"
What in the world did you do?'
Just sat there and thought it over"