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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
Spring and the Photographers.

An ulstered spring makes grum-
blers of us all. The thermometer of
newspaper paragraphs proves it.
Go to the exchange table and
thrust your hand into the pile
blindly. If you do, maybe you viii
come on the Herald, published in far
Mexico City. Then you viii read:
Recent spring weather in Georgia has
induced 'lemoncholia" among the shiv-
ering GeOrgians. They have soured on
the merry sTringtims with frosty accom-
paniments.
Georgia got n SILVER out Of that
note as well as Mexico. Coming
north to the Great Lakes, we find
this is in the Chicago Examiner:
There are other things in spring be-
sides love and poetry
Coal bills, house cleaning, and
new onions must have made an i'm.
preston on the Examiners staff.
Turn to the old reliable Sunpaper
of Baltimore. 1t puts a mercantile
tinge on the matter by warning us:
Please examine all samples OF June
weather thoroughly before accepting.
May palmed off a lot of miserable mate
rial on us.
New York takes to rhyme, in the
following from the World:
When will it come?
mean that glad but distant day
When ] can put
Ny winter overcoat away.
The one brave sentiment, superior
10 the chill of a winter that outstays
its welcome, comes from Maryland
from the Easton Star-Democrat
10 be explicit. We did not know the
Star-DemOcrat intimately. But we
shall, now that we have seen it,
spirit rise to such glorious height
as this:
Love like the bee, flies back HON,
from the fields Of the world laden will
honey.
We're going over TO Easton sOoI
TO take a look at that bee.
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favor of revision of tariff on "the
other fellows products" and that
nobody would have voted for re-
vision affecting his own. This is
rather bold assumption, it would
seem, in view of the fact that out of
.seventy-seven different industries
represented in the vote, fifty-six
cast 1910 votes for revision, five
were tied in the votes, and sixteen
cast 1O2 votes against revision.
Assuming that this immense ma
jority was all voting for the reduc-
ton of the schedules on the output
of the industries of the small minor
ity, the Economist says 'the impor-
tance of the conventions tariff re-
vision vote becomes greatly mimi
mized."
Now, as to revision upward. The
Economist finds that we are steadily
increasing our imports of competi-
tive goods, which now amount to
$sOO,OOO,OOO annually. 1t comedies
that there is still a favorable bal
ance of trade of about half billion
annually; but it is worried lest this
viii soon be entirely absorbed by in
terest charges paid abroad, the i'm
mense distribution of American
money by tourists in Europe, ocean
freight charges, etc. Consequently,
it comes up smiling with a demand
for increase of the schedules.
It doesn't seem worth while TO
make any reply to the reasoning of
the Economist. It's pleasant as
sumption that the hslf-billion trade
balance is about to disappear, and
likewise its cheerful assertion that
the admission of raw materials OF
partly manufactured products a
low rates is an element of danger
in the situation, Justify admiration
for it's ingenuity, even though tina
admiration is a bit tempered by rec
Ognition of the fact that its reply
to the manufacturers announce
mont is rather weak, and not wha
the lawyers would call responsive
But it must be conceded by all tina
the Inauguration of a movement 70
increase of the rates, just at thi
time, represents the acme of nerv
endowment.
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Fowells as an Up-to-Date Prophet.

The news cabled from England. few
days ago, that a probably epOch-mahl1g
invention had been perfected. as proven
by an exhibition given under the aus
piCes OF the Royal Society. Is curious as
coming 1T almost the same time as The
suggestion OF precisely the same inyen-
zion in the delightful new novel or
William Dean Howellss published a lev
weeks ago
For the widely heralded English IL
ventiOn from which so much Is hopeo,
sis the running of electric cars upon a
single rail And in Through the Eye
Of the Needle''-Chapter V OF Part sec
Ond-is the following, descriptive OF the
railroads Of Altruria-
There are swift little one-rail electric
expresses running daily from one cdpl-
TAI 10 another The old steam-roads OF
the capitaIistic epoch have been disused
for generations. and their beds are now
the country roads. which are every
where KEPT in beautiful repair
Which shows that Mr. HoweLs. IN ad-
11tiOn 10 his other titles 10 fame, must
now be given that OF prophet Tor MS
anticipation Of such a striking ana origl-
nal invention.
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Tariff Revision Upward.

The variously esteemed American
Economist, organ of the standpat-
ters. and. indeed. almost the only
organ that diminishing group of
Chinese-walL economists are now
able TO claim, shows new signs of
that admirable self-control and re-
sourcefulness for which it is Justly
famed. In its current number,
which might be expected to come
up bit groggy after the terrific
punch that was administered by the
American Manufacturers Associa-
tion in its demand for early re-
vision, this interesting publication
counters with a vigorous presenta-
ton of the reasons why the time
is here for revisiOn-but for re-
vision upward instead of downward
The Economist insists that the
Manufacturers Association resolu-
tions represent the sentiment in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
How Genius Borrows.

1T is wonderful says Charles Reade, |
how genius can borrow ''All Htera-
ture." remarks Oliver Wendell Holmes, |
lives by borrowing and lending" and /
he adds, "A good image is like dia- !
mond. which may be set a hundred
times in as many generations. and gain
new beauties with every change" This
Is not a question OF originality. The
lighting a candle at a neighbours fire.
observes Dean Swift. does not affect
our property in the wick and fame"
Genius borrows nobly." The transfer
ence Is often a transmutatiOn- For
brass, the borrower brings gold. and for
iron. silver; and for wood. brass; and
for stones iron The crude ore IS re-
fined. and the raw material fashioned
into a thing OF beauty
1t has been pointed out by MI nun,
in hts Life OF Buckle that tnerc IS a
kind Of pedigree In literature Dante
avows his Indebtedness TO NerSi5 as
the latter himself was under ooIgations
I TO Homer.
! Ariosto owes much 10 Vergil, and
J Spenser borrows frequently from An
| ostO. Sponsors "Faerie Queene' gave
\ birth TO Fietcher's Purple Island. and
this 20 Demands Isle OF Man, and
this in turn to DefOe's Robinson cru
/ soc" and Bunysn's Pilgrims Progress
all Ike 50 many blossoms rising from
the one stem.
Shakespeare has been called ''the great
| Warwickshire thief 50 inVeterate IS NJ;
borrowing habit. He invaded literature
like a Napoleon and brought back TN
Tarest art treasures 70 enrich aaS
beautify his verse. One Is surprised 4
learn that our dramatist has no orlglna
plots, that he has given 70 poetry ~
new rhythm nor stanza, and that n
ran not only IN the old road, but IN IN
| old ruts" His las You Like It
taken from an old romance. The char
/ acters Of his Julius Caesar are oil
| Romans taken from Plutareh But VIVA
1 borrowing Dry bones are turned int
living men. The commOnest material
are taken into the lambert flame OF III
genius and Transmitted into airy beauty
Milton, too. IS free borrower. II !
this fact. indeed, that makes his vers
so rich in learned "reminiscences, and 3
gorgeous with '-barbaric pearl and gold
He owes much % Shakespeare. som
critics think Milton Eve" IS DOT
rowed from Shakespeare Miranda
From How Genius BOrrows Ideas an
Inspiration by S. B. Dunn, in III
Circle for June.
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cal valuation and control of capltaI-
cation, was well understood in adj
vance. But everything depended on
the tone of friendliness and concilia-
ton; he invited cooperation; he set
forth the advantages to both the
public and the railroads; and so
well did he urge his case that bust
ness conditions Immediately re-
sponded with better tone and re-
newed confidence.
1t is the genius for leading, rather
than driving. that has earned Theo-
dore Roosevelt the place he occupies
in the confidence of the country;
and he has never given so fine a
proof of that genius as in this adj
dress.
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A Tactful Utterance.

For the tone of reassurance-on
the one side to investors, and on
the other to the great body of pub
lie opinion which demands further
progress in the regulation of rail
roads-the Presidents Indianapolis
speech is model of tact and diplo-
macy. Nobody understands better
than Mr.. Roosevelt the Importance
of effecting constructive reforms
without incidental destructiveness.
He is determined that in getting the
results at which he aims there shall
be no shock to business confidence,
no wrenching of commercial condi-
tions, such as might neutralize for
the time the benefit involved in as
surance of better conditions.
The President, therefore, declares
his conviction that railroad proper
ties are not today seriously over
capitalized This is based on the
testimony of the best equipped stu
dents of the subject. There has,
indeed, been Overcapitalization in
the past; but the tremendous in
crease in traffic and in property val
ues has brought value up TO the
capitalization. The exceptions TO
this rule only prove it. There are
exceptions on both sides, some rail-
roads undoubtedly beingworth more,
as some others are worth less, than
their nominal capitalization. But in
the aggregate the physical worth of
railroad properties may safely be
accepted as about the same as its
market valuation. Therefore, in
making a physical valuation, there
Will be no occasion for concern
about a shrinkage Of values. Rather,
that valuation viii confirm the Opin-
/ ion that railroads are worth the
prices at which they are bought and
sold on change, and viii strengthen
confidence in them as investments.
For the future, however, the Pres
ident proposes that there shall be
no overcapitalization. Money raised
by railroads must be actually in
vested in them. Securities issued
by them must represent money ac-
tually paid in and legitimateIy
spent. All this is plain honesty;
honesty to the investor, who is en-
titled to know that the securities
he buys are worth the price, and
honesty to the shipping public
which is the whole community
which viii know that it is not pay.
ing rates based on a fictitious anC
inflated capital.
But the President proposes more
He takes ground in favor Of the
| largest measure of Federal and tho
smallest measure of State control
In this he is sustained by the expe
rience of the country and the grow
ing confidence that one kind o.
regulation, from Washington, i!
better than forty-odd kinds of regu
lation by as many Legislatures. H,
proposes to recognize frankly thai
competition as a regulator is impos
sible; that the railroad is essentially
monopoly, and must be governed
as such. He would, therefore, per
nit traffic associations and agree
ments, but would put them unde,
strict Government supervision. Thi
is a concession to the railroad mana
gers, and it is also a concession t.
common sense and experience.
The best testimonial to the skill
with which the President has pre-
scented these propositions is found
in the fact that the delivery of tn,
speech treasured a panfcky market
That the address would ask physi
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
Upton Sinclair's Pet Character.

Authors all have their favorite char
acters. with whom they sympathize with
almost a personal feeling, and Upton
Sinclair is no exception to the rule.
Strange TO say, however, the character
that ne loves best in 1.-The Jungle" is
not the pretty blonde heroine. Ona, nor
yet the giant Lithuanian hero, JUrgis,
although he has drawn them both so
sympathetically and strongly.
But his favOrite character is limo
Zious, the comic and yet pathetic little
viOlinist who drudges for a bare exist
ence by day. but lives in his music at
night Mr. Sinclair explains his sym
pathy with this character because he
had always hoped to be a viOlinist him
self. Il practised eight or ten hours a
day for two years" says Mr.. Sinclair,
and then 1 had to give il up: but there
is a lead musician still inside me-
The character OF the viOlinist is taken
from lice-as. indeed. is the whole first
scene of the play I can see the little
man as plainly as two years ago I saw
him in T'aCkingtOwn. and I should like
TO put nim in action on the stage"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
What Garland Owes to Hawthorne.

It is to the influence Of Hawthorne
that Hamlin Garland owes 1t that he
himself became a novelist
He was but a boy. living with his
parents on a farm on the plains Of
Iowa, when his father, man or New
England birth, put several volumes OF
Hawthorne into his hands
Garland was fascinated From that
moment he thought OF nothing but be
coming a writer. At first he dared not
aspire 10 b. a writer of fiction. however.
not realizing that he possessed the
imaginative gift and his early EFFORTS
at writing were essays descriptive Of
life in the West
Gradually, however. he felt his power
expanding: then there came short
stories. then the novels that have made
him famous
His latest book is The Long Trail.
a story Of the Klondike, which IS espe-
ciaIly interesting from the fact that IN
Il he pictures the fulfllment OF his Own
early dream 10 be a treasure hunter
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
AVERT STRIKE
OF COAL MINERS

PITTSBURG, Pa. June 1.-The threat
ened coal strike Of the miners of the
Pittsburg division has been averted, for
thirty days, at least. After a confer
ence lasting over FIVE hours IN the offices
of President Francis T Robbins, Of the
MonOngahela River Consolidated Coal
and Coke Company. both sides agreed
to leave the question Of the use Of the
Pate dumping machine to a committee
of three and give them thirty days in
which to settle the differences.
About 5000 miners, who were called
out yesterday at seventeen mines by
District President Francis. will return
70 work pending the decision. While the
arbitration board is in session the use
of the ratchet sword attachment, the
feature in the Pate dump objected to.
will be discontinued, beginning next
Monday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
Books of Perennial Popularity q,

Il is interesting 10 know that, IN ad-
dition 10 Dickens and Scott and Shake
speare and Eliot there are numerous
books which retain popularity for dec
AIDES The Harpers, for example, ma
that there is not only constant de-
rnand for their admirable sets OF these
four great authors, but mat Ctner
books, popular, say some hai1-ceii1uiS
ago. are still steadily sold
Such. for instance. are the works OF
Miss AuIock, especially her John Aali-
fax. Gentleman" such as Du Cha1IIu
Adventures in Equatorial AFRICA, ana
other hooks: and such are the novels
of Charlotte BrOnte, which ave been IN
continuous demand ever since puDllca-
ton. particularly her Jane Eyre
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
NOTICE.

Lost-strayed-or stolen
A planet called the sun.
Fifty million plunks reward
To you, or anyone
Returning IL TO Boston
BY any hook or crook,
In time 10 do a stunt or two
Ere winters on the book.
Description quite a large-sized sun,
with whiskers round the edge
Inclined when he is wanted most
On gala days. 70 hedge
Behind a cloud-and yet, withal,
OF genial disposition
A fat. round run, a pleasant sun,
When in the right condition.
Two days ago he strayed away.
Reward to the first-cOmer
Who brings him back
In time 20 give
A little bit Of summer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
WHOLE ZION CITY
GOING At AUCTION

CHICAGO, June 1.-Zicn City and all
the interests of the Christian Catholic
Church In Zion are 10 be sold under the
hammer to satisfy the demands of the
creditors.
Federal Judge Lands ordered the sale,
in spite Of the objections of Mrs. Jane
Dowie and her son, Gladstone DOwie.
The order was granted on a petition
of Receiver Hadley- The sale will be
made as soon as the contests Of the
Dowies over personal property are set
tied
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
BISHOP URGES WAR
ON JIM CROW LAWS

NEW YORK. May 3I.-Addressing in
Brooklyn the New York annual con-
ference of the African Episcopal Church,
Bishop Alexander Walters. in Analysing
various phases of the race question,
said:
Our leaders should urge our brethren
10 prepare TO meet the. qualification for
suffrage. make application to be regis
tered, and, wherever IL is possible 10
vote. Let US wage a relentless warfare
on Jim Crow car laws wherever found. -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
Agreeing With Roosevelt.

Dr. Emil Reich, who shocked the re
cent peace congress by a eulogy OF con
fiict." saying. Conflict made Us. con
fict keeps US going. and without con-
fiict the great questions Of nations can
never be solved" shows a fOndness for
paradox in his new book called Success
in Life" (Duffield & Coz. In this, too.
DR.. Reich agrees with President RoOse-
welt in emphasizing the Importance of
conflict as a means Of attainment AS
in war. that is, IN the most Intense
form Of life." he says. so in less
vitalized movements OF men. strategy Is
Of q decisive character In cOntem-
plating man we speak only of such per
sons as want TO or are obliged 10 fighl
for the objects Of success. to create
them. Such as inherit those objects arr
successors. and not successes, il we
may use the ungainly term. Here we
only treat of persons men CT women
who struggle for success"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
CLEVER PEDESTRIANS
TO GO TO JAMESTOWN

ST. LOUIS. June William 4. Smith
and Richard g Belle, who have accom-
plished several feats of pedestrianism,
have started 20 walk from St Louis 70
the Jamestown Exposition which they
expect 20 reach August 70. The distance
is about 1850 miles.
The walk IS in the nature Of 4 race.
The general route extends 70 Helena,
Ark. where the Mississippi river will
be crossed, thence 20 Birmingham. At
lanta, the capitals Of the two Caro-
linas, to jamestown. Railroad tracks
viii be followed 30 avoid hills. The race
win end at jamestown in a six-day race
at the exposition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
ACCUSED OF MURDER
COMMITTED IN 1893

SALISBURY. n. c.. June 1.-G. NJ
Patterson. a prominent young man OF
MooresvIlIe. IredeH county, was arrested
there on the charge of murder The
crime is alleged to have been committed
near Chester, s. c., in 1895. The arrest
was made on the advice OF officers in
South Carolina, and young Patterson is
being held by the lredell authorities
pending an investigation
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
DIPLOMAS PRESENTED
TO TWO YOUNG WOMEN

Commencement exercises Of Miss
Madeira's school were held yesterday
in the New willard. Miss Elizabeth
Haskell Bright, Of Minneapolis. and
Miss Margaret stanton Noyes. Of Nil
waukee, were given diplomas. The adj
dress TO the graduates was made by DR.
Robert Woodward. president Of Car
negie Institution.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
A New Kind of Poetry?

If am right" says George Sylves-
ter Viereck. in the preface Of Nine
veh and Other Poems" Il nave extend
ed the borderland Of poetry into the
domain Of music on the one side, into
that Of the intellect on the other The
new form, new in that il has never be-
fore been consciously applied, brings
into play hidden possibilities OF speech.
and enables TIE authentic poet 10 null
Jiply rhymes and rhythmic effects with
out straining the sense.
The Tyre. hencefOrth Obeying only
a master hand. Will slip from the grasp
Of the tyTO. and poetry become once
more the vehicle Of great thought The
Wrist who fully adopts the new form
and its practically iimitless resources
viii accomplish for poetry what Wagner
has accomplished for music Along the
lines here indicated lies the poetry OF
tomorrow"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
Entering Cell, He FeaStS
With Bride When Jailed
WALDO PoNDRAY WARREN

CLEVELAND. Ohio. June 1-"Plcase,
Iieuten9ut, may I take a little lunch in
to my Tffe? 1t is some wedding cake
This request was made 10 Lieutenant
Walker at central police station.
1t was the ending of the wedding
celebration a. John and Anna Kasela-
They had started the day in good old
fashion with wedding cake and Hun
garian wine. There was more wine
than cake
The celebration was carried out into
the street There the police were in
vited TO join. The celebration was too
noisy The participants were arrested
and taken 10 central station.
Whether John Kasela gallantlg filed
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his wife's glass oftener than his own
or whether he had the harder head. he
would not say. but he was COMPARE
lively sober and was discharged after
reaching the station. His wife was
locked up.
But Kasela was loyal 20 his wife.
When he thought Of her 81 = the
brown bread and black molasse- OF the
station, while he was al liberty and
surrounded by the remains OF the we'd
ding feast, il was too much for him
He wrapped up a generous block Of
the cake. A little bread md Swiss
cheese and fruit and started for the
station.
You haven't a bottle Of wine in that
package?' he was asked.
He was willing to be searched, but
was allowed 10 finish the wedding cele-
bration with his wife In Jail
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
SENT INTERNAL MACHINE,
PROSECUTION CHARGED

ATLANTA, Ga, June Fired Bush
charged with assault with intent TO COM
NIT murder, was acquitted late this
afternoon.
Bush VAS charged with sending an
Internal machine TO the home of Mrs
Julia Mccarthy. on May s the opening
of which seriously injured Mrs. Nc
Carthy and wrecked her home and the
store over which she lived
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
With OF Without Wings.

An odd coincidence is the publication
al the same time Of two novels. one
called - Winged Victory" Oufdeld &
Coz, and the other The Wingless Vic
tory John Lane Company. "A Winged
Victory" is by Prof Robert Morss Low
EFT, OF the University OF Chicago, and
gets its name from poem addressed to
the heroine, Dora Glenn, by her lover.
! the prayer of a Greek 70 the goddess
| on the Prov Of his trireme, a rhapsody
/ on girlhOOd and nature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-01
OLDEST ENLISTED MAN.

The Oldest enlisted man on the rolls Of
the United States army is Sergeant Da-
vid Robertson. of the Hospital Corps
stationed on Governor Island. He is a
native Scotchman, first enlisted May
q. 1884, and he has been in continuous
service, having the extraordinary record
of never having lost a day He is sew
enty-fOur years Of age
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Better Late Than Never.

Il IS not an unheard-of thing among
authors and publishers 10 have book
more or less Of frost at first. but after
ward pull itself out Of a hole and make
4 success Of life. One OF these is said
70 have been The Birds Christmas
Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin, and
another more recent is The Happy
!, Heart Family" BY Virginia GersOn,
which has wriggled its way from al
/ most no sale al all into continuous pop
/ ularity. Now that the book is a success
/ its publishers probably have no oolec-
! ton 10 releasing the story that then
Il first cneQue for royalties was so snlall
/ they were ashamed TO send H. and Bliss
1 Gerson upon receiving II. wrote back:
If this be royalty, give me repuouc-