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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-04

"pnwrittcH law Is no law, said the
court.
a beg TO remind Your Honor ssifi
the snnre attorney, Thai when New.
ton discovered the law Of grnyltaslon
1t was wholly unwrttten,S
Nevertheless, The court was not
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
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The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
IN WHICH WE ARE REBUKED.
Contemporary Declares Gov. War
field Is Not SomntoloRical Dandy.

From the Baltimore News
Yesterday We reproduced from The
Washington Herald a phosphorescent and
gorical ebulIltion on the state
Of politics In Maryland suggestive Of an
Imagination tossed upon the beady billows
of a champagne riot or Of the muley NUT
terings OF a mind wandering in the vast
soltudes Of immeasurable space. We are
told that Maryland Democrats are rem
iniscont, romantic. and optimistic" that
the scenic PatapscO symb0lizes a people
who are c0nsiderate Of both ideals and
common sense" md that 'Warfeld has
touched the romaruc and imaginative
side Of the Maryland Democracy"
But that which punctures cur bump Of
wonder az its most sensitive point Is the
assurance that "Warfield is somatolog-
ically fine and dandy. stalwart graceful
and benign OF visage. he is an American
beauty, though not eminently great. his
cephalic index is satisfactory" &c, &c.
We deny the accuracy Of this punk and
persifiage. this glittering bubble that rises
in emptiness and exhausts itself in va
Guilty. Gov. Warfeld is not a "somato-
logical dandy any more than he is a
somatopagus or a somatoparallelus. each
portrayed by Prof. Goodsir, the famed
naturalist, as a double monster OF horrid
mien- Gov. Warfeld has a plenitude Of
qualities. but there is nothing Of the
dandy In his makeup. Call him a pala-
din. hero who might have been one OF
the twelve peers Of Charlemagne, a God
frey de Bouillon. modern Galahad or
Lancelot but never a dandy"
Gov. Warheld is the Grey Eagle OF
Maryland Democracy. he is an Ajax de-
fying the lightning, a mighty panfan.
drum Of the people. and his cephauC in
deN justides a seven and a quarter hat
Marylands chief magistrate Is fine" he
Is stalwaTt." he is benign Of visage. "
and he has the torso Belvedere. but he is
no fop or coXc9mb. like George ". 10 set
the dandy fashion The main fact is that
Gov. Warfeld is a good governor. a fact
which the circumlocutory and periphrastic
contributor 70 our Washington contem.
pOrary strangely overlooked.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
PERSEvERING FAKERS.
Panama Canards Persisted In He
gardIess of Actual Facts.

From the New York Tribune.
The prompt emphatic and entirely un-
equivocal message from Col. Goethals re-
plying to and repudiating recent tales
about dissatisfaction and decentralization
at Panama ought to dispose conclusively
Of such tales and discourage their authors
from putting forth any more Of them
even in the silly season Nothing could
be more explicit or more gratifying than
the message sent by the man who is now
the active head Of the canal construction
work. The reports Of his dissatisfaction
and desire to withdraw are declared to be
entirely false, and we are assured that
everything is going well and harmo-
niously. This assurance from an Amer
ican army officer OF the best standing
must be unhesltatingly accepted as the
truth. We may add that II accords with
the best information hitherto obtainable-
the best. but not always the most
blatantly exploited.
Yet we fear that even this will not put
an end to idle or malicious tales about
the canal enterprise The old doctrine OF
the perseverance Of the saints is far sur
passed by the perseverance Of the takers,
not at, but about Panama. II is 10 be
doubted II there is any other subject of
anything like comparable interest con-
cerning which so many fabricatiOns have
been put forth in the last five years.
Again and again these reckless scribblers
and lampOoners have been exposed, de-
nounced, and put into the pillOry, even by
the Secretary Of War and the President
himself; but again and again they bob
up serenelv'' with new inventions. Per
haps we must be resigned 10 them as an
inevitable evil. yellow fever we have got
rid Of, malaria has been greatly dimin-
ished, and other plaques Of the isthmus
are being subdued. But these pestiferous
insects, by keeping we'll out Of reach Of
Col. Gorgas and his sanitary squad, man
age to escape suppression and maintain
their malignant buzzing Well, perhaps
Il is best 10 have IL so, instead Of having
their taking spread indiscriminately over
other topics. If a plague cannot be sup
pressed. Il helps the situation a little TO
segregate It.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03

The lawyer-aUthOr who recently gave
20 a palpitating world q magazine story
In which he told about the city editor OF
a newspaper "dashing of his leading edl-
torial at 2 o'clock in the morning" left
altogether too much to the imagination
A certain degree of mystery envelops the
making CT n newspaper, so far as the av-
eTage outsider is concerned and such a
well-informed authority as the writer Of
the story referred to should have seen
that It was his duty to tell more about the
work Of the men in the various depart
ments Of the great metropolitan journal
in the Office Of which the aforesaid
city editor burned the midnight carbon
His action IN whetting the appetite of his
readers for inside information and then
stopping short was highly reprehensible.
What the public needs in stories about
newspapers and newspaper workers IS
local color. and the more or less brilliant
assistant 70 District Attorney Jerome
who is the author in question carries that
commodity around with him by the buck
etful
BY way Of making amends for our
hero's omissions in this line, We purpose
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
As 10 Italian Immigrants.

In view Of the frequency Of the so-Cailed
BLACK Hand outrages in various parts
Of this country, especial interest will at
tach TO the statement Of Congressman
Bennett. Of New York. who IS now in
Italy as a member Of the Federal commits
sion appointed to investigate the immi-
grafton problem. He is reported to have
made the discovery that the return TO
Italy of so many Italians from the United
States is due to the fact that they are
safer in italy from the secret societies.
This is especially interesting in connec-
ton with Emily Fogg Meade's report on
"The Italian on the Land" published by
the Department Of Commerce and Labor.
on which We commented recently. If
such is indeed the case, it is a sorry
reflection on the police methods of this
country. 1t also goes far toward proving
that we need a stricter enforcement Of
the present laws against the admission
into this country of members Of the
criminal classes Il has not been so
many years ago that the Italian Mafa
won unpleasant notoriety in this country,
and because the people of New Orleans
took the question Of punishment into their
own hands it cost this government a
large sum Of money in the form Of an
indemnity Now It seems that the Black
Hand Society IS becoming as powerful
and as terrifying as the Malta was At
tention has been focused on this society
recently by the murder Of a six-year-old
the band. who had stolen the child for
ransom.
In this connection the work Of the Ma
tional Liberal immigration League de-
serves attention. It has taken up agita-
tion in favor of deporting criminal aliens
and urges the raising Of the standard of
citizenship by prolonging the probationary
term and by requiring candidates for
naturalization to give guaranty of good
conduct and 10 show a working knowl-
edge of our institutions.
Our laws at present provide for the ex-
cusion of paupers and diseased and other
undesirable classes. but il is evident that
the clause about the criminal classes is
evaded extensively. Normal Italian i'm
migration is desirable. The honest in
dustrious Italians make good laborers and
are efficient. hard working. and thrifty.
but the secret societies that fatten on the
earnings OF this class should be subdued
in some way. One plan proposed by the
National Liberal immigration League
seems 10 have much to commend It. It
is that immigrants should be put on
probationary term of ten years. and If.
during that period, they are convicted
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03

furnishing some expert information about
newspaper work ourselves. In all we'll
regulated newspaper offices the editorial
writer's are in full control, although in
some cases they deign TO confer with the
editor-in-chief. whose main duty, as
everybody knows, is adding up the weekly
pay roll. The paragraphers control the
business policy of the paper. and advertis-
ing rates are never cut or money eX-
pended In any big scheme without their
consent. The superintendent of the me
chanical department is usually more orna-
mental than useful, his principal function
being 10 assist the city editor with an
occasional editorial The proofreader is
the handsome person behind the grill
work window to whom you pay your
money when you insert a want ad The
literary editor is kept busy writing adver-
tisements from material brought in by the
reporters. who devote themselves to can
vassing the business houses of the city
each day. The men who write about base
ball and horse races are called dramatic
critics, and in most big offices there is
an obituary editor who gets up the funny
cracks you see on the editorial page each
day The head pressman, assisted by
corps of stereotypers, writes the local
news and builds the headlines which ap-
pear over the matter which comes IN over
the telegraph wires.
We could tell a great many more in
teresting facts about newspaper work, but
the thermometer is high in the tube and
the electric fan is on a strike. Further
more. what already has been written is
sufficient 10 occupy fully the space in the
editorial columns which we started out
to fiji.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
nndrinr a Federal anhnoena

Judge lands object in summoning
Standard OIL officials to appear in court
is 10 place on record the relations, If any,
Of the Standard Oil Company Of New Jer-
sey with the Standard Oil Company Of
Indiana, the latter supposed to be sub
sidiary arm Of the octopus. Should it be
shown that these concerns have no rela-
ton with each other the punishment to be
inflicted for violation of Federal law
would fall solely on the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana, a corporation with
but S1OO0O0O capital, which was found
guilty under the indictments. Obviously,
Judge Lands would not be justified in
imposing as large n fine upon a corpora
tion having sl,0OO.O00 capital as upon one
with a capital many times exceeding that
sum; so tnat it is Of vital Importance 20
him 10 know out of just what treasury
the fine is 10 be paid and what its re-
sources are.
It is natural that Standard OIL attor-
neys should endeavor, as they did. TO
induce the court 10 modify his order, but
that they should attempt to protect their
clients from process servers, or that
they should advise them to go into hiding
to escape service, seems an exceedingly
short-sghted policy. II may be that
John D. Rockefeller knows nothing that
would be Of use TO Judge Landis but. If
so. the proper way TO demonstrate that
fact would be 10 take the witness stand
The spectacle Of an eminent churchman
and philanthropist barricaded behind
guards and protected by armed men and
electric searchlights from the possible
visit Of a deputy marshal is not one to
raise the Rockefeller name in the estima-
ton Of the American people.
There is no good reason why the presi-
dent Of the Standard Oil Company should
be exempt from the process Of the court.
even II he is a very wealthy man. as hts
attorney explained 10 Judge Landis All
the more should he live up to his obliga-
ton as a citizen 20 the laws OF the coun-
try in which he lives
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
MOL0CH OF INDUSTRY.
Terrible Toll of Human Life De-
mnnded by Modern Civilization.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The awful price Of industrial progress
Is shown more forcibly than ever in
set Of figures lately compiled in Pitts
burg That city has long been the capi-
tai Of the worlds workshops. and it is
fitting that it should furnish such authen-
tic information as to the cost in blood Of
the coal ana iron and steel that modern
society demands of its workers. The rec
ord is appalling, and all the more so in
that there is little hope Of betterment.
For every $1,000 tons of coal shipped in
the Pittsburg district a life is snuffed
out somewhere in the process Of produc-
tion. For every $500 cars that carry
freight life is sacrificed 20 help pay
the freightage. A human life enters into
every 1900 tons Of tho annual 1000 600 tons
production of iron and steel For every
$50 tons Of steel rails put upon the mar
ket one of the men whose sweat and
strain made it marketable has laid down
his life.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
Helping All He Could.

ship traffic is furnished by the stow
aways who hide themselves on board.
Whenever they are found they are put 10
work to pay for their passage. On one of
the steamers that ply between the Medi-
terranean ports a stowaway was recently
discovered in the hold. He was sent TO
the cooks galley and put TO work peeling
potatoes, a job he was clumsy at, and
which he hated While he was seated In
the door of the galley one afternoon there
came 10 him a lady passenger. MY good
man." she said ''can you tell me when
this steamer gets to Naples" Il can't.
madame" said the potato-peeler but
assure YOU that | am doing all l can to
get her there as quickly as possible"
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
Washing Tobacco.

The much talked-of "nicotineless'' to-
bacco in France is. according to Consul
General Frank II. Mason. of Paris. simply
''caPoraI' tobacco, treated by washing
with water until the ordinary proportion
OF ~ per cent of nicotine has been
reduced tO I per cent In this form it
is used for smoking in pipes and for
the manufacture Of cigarettes, and it
finds favor among smokers who like the
peculiar flavor or for cardiac reasons
are wary of nicotine. Ordinary "caporal'
tobacco is a mixture Of French. Ameri-
can, and oriental tobaccOs prepared by
the government establishments. which
have a monopoly of the manufacture of
tObacCOs in France. 1t has a somewhat
rank but not unpleasant flavor and is
the cheapest and most popular form OF
tobacco smoked in France The nicotine
less tobacco was first manufactured in
Belgium and the French government,
finding there was a demand for it. began
the production on a large scale. The
process Of washing is simple and is
facilitated by the use Of machinery. but
it requires careful supervision in order
that the product may be uniform, con-
tanning throughout only the same pro
portion of nicotine. Consul Gen. Mason
says that the nlcotlneless tobacco sells
NJ the government shops at about Sl46
per pound avOirdupois.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
AND GET RID OF BRYAN, TOO?
A Programme of PurRatiOn for the
Distracted Democracy.

From the New York World
Who knows what the next sixteen
months may bring forth? What if the
Democratic party should purify its or
ganization? What If the party should re-
turn to its true principles? What if Mr..
Bryan. content with his undisputed laurels
as chief orator Of the party and its great
est agitator of the masses, were to make
the personal sacrifice Of declining the
Presidential nomination in favor Of such
a man as Judge Gray for example?
Nothing can crush the Democratic party
but itself. Nothing can destroy the Dem
ooratic party but its own refusal to be
Democratic Let It return to its true prin-
ciples. Let II clean its own house Let il
get rid Of its Taggarts. It's Murphys its
Connerses, its Gradys, and it's McCarrens:
of its Ryans, its BelmOnts, its Tony
Bradys. Let it be Democratic not merely
in name, but in faith.
Who would then dare TO say that the
Democratic party had finished its course?
Who would then dare in any and all cir
cumstances to predict a Republican walk
over?
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
MEN AND THINGS.
Judge Lnnais, Cnreer.

Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Ian
dis, Of Chicago, whose inslstence that
John y. Rockefeller appear in his court
has brought him prominently before the
reading public recently, is well known In
Washington. He Is a member Of the we'll
known Indiana family of his name, being
a brother of Representative Charles B.
lands, ex-Representative Frederick X.
Lands, and Postmaster Lands, OF San
Juan, Porto Rico. For two years he was
private SECRETARY TO Secretary Of State
Walter O. Gresham, and while serving in
that capacity he was offered by President
Cleveland and declined, a position In the
diplomatic corps. He was born in Millyille
Ohio, IN 1866 and was educated in the
public schools Of Logansport For time
he worked as a reporter on a paper pub
lished IN that town He graduated from
the Union College Of Law, Chicago. in
1890, and was admitted TO the bar the fol-
lowing year At one time he acted as
instructor IN the Northwestern Univer-
sity Law School. He was appointed 20
the Federal bench two years ago.
Like his brothers Charles and Freder-
ick. Judge Lands has a pretty wit. and
many stories Of the manner in which he
used 20 enliven the routine Of the De-
partment Of State are told by persons
who knew him when he was Secretary
Greshams right-hand man. Naturally,
the uninitiated wonder how he came by
his remarkable "glven" names. The eX-
PLANTATION contains much Of that element
commonly known as human interest The
father Of the present generation OF Ian
discs served in the civil war as surgeon
in an Ohio regiment. He was wounded
at the battle Of Kenesaw Mountain, and
year or so later. when a son was born
to him, he decided to bestow that name
on the boy In appearance Judge Lands
somewhat resembles his brother Fred
eriCk
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
Hnmc Nic,N of stntehnnh
rom The oklnhnma Post REM.

From the Oklahoma Post iRePl.
The Posts position is unchanged. 1t
wants Statehood because it believes the
people want it. and because it fears that
II Statehood is not secured this time il
will be years before another enabling act
can be passed. Ii believes that In the
event Of the turning down Of the pres
ent Constitution by the President It will
tend to make the State more soIidlv
Democratic. and even endanger Repub-
lcan chances in the next national cleo
tiOn.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03

'Hobson's ambition for Bankhead's
seat in Congress boosted the latter into
the United States Senate" notes the
Macon Telegraph. That's all right; ii also
boosted Hobson into Bankhead's former
berth. and removed the Merrimac mans
only possible rival for a good many years
70 come
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
Indeed II Would!

From the San Antonio Express
Statistician Holmes not only enters a
general denial of all the charges pre-
fered against him, but intimates that
he was a victim Of a foul conspiracy.
II would be surprising and somewhat
discomhting to some people if it should
be shown that no advanced information
about the crop report actually leaked
through any Of the channels Of the
statistical bureau.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
NInrIS TEvnIn,. NIInrinn

FIcm Inc Indlanap0Tls Star
The idea of Mark Twain being an
ambassador Of humor from the United
States to England is most excellent. In
fact the English are much more humorous
than We generally give them credit for.
but they are not up to the modern Amer
lean joke. II Mark can get them started
right, he will do a great deal toward
promoting harmony between the two
nations
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
THE BINGvuLE BUGLE.

Pelog Bolts shot an owl,
A most curious fowl,
Tuesday week.
1t had ears like a bat,
and abnOrmally fiat
Was its beak.
We are writ by Jim Huck
That a fOur-legged duck
Was hatched out
On his place Thursday last
And is getting quite fast,
Spry and stout
We are anxious to hear
About anything queer
That news makes.
We want solid news though,
SO please don't send us no
Nature fakes.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03

The South McAlester 0nd. t. Capital
appears 20 doubt our entirely truthful
tale about a jayblrd whipping a TOM
cat Simply because our contemporary
once saw a battle between these ferocious
animals and afterward saw the cat alive
proves nothing. Remember, a cat has
nine lives.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
ARE YOU GOING AWAY?

Subscribers who leave the city
temporarily should have The
Washington Herald mailed TO
them. Addresses will be changed
as often as requested. You can
not keep fully informed about
affairs In Washington unless
your paper follows you.
Before leaving, mail or tele-
phone your address to this Of
fee.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03

The Taft boom is said to be weakening.
We have considered it a fatal mistake
from the very first that the Secretary did
not provide himself with nice log cabin
in which TO have been born.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
WHAT MAKES PRICE OF GAS?
II Appears To Depend on Political
Rather than Economic Conditions.

Rather than Economic Conditions.
From the Pittshurg Sun.
There is nothing so much in the world
as gas that seems to be all things to all
people. Distance from market or from
raw material or other sources Of supply
make little difference in the price Of this
commodity. Hamilton, Ohio. a long dis
tance from coal territory. gets manufaC-
tured illuminant at 60 cents. Pittsburg.
with coal right at her doors. and with
natural gas within easy reach. but re-
moved by monopoly from competition.
pays 81. Boston pays 81 cents. New York,
Philadelphia. and the big lake cities all
have rates high or low, just as the peo-
pie happen to control councils and legis-
latures or not. Where the politicians and
the public concerns rule the rates are
always high and service Is poor. The
gas rate is an indeXt Of a community s
civic standing and conscience
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
Ont of Harriman's Reach

From the Chicago Recurd-Herald.
Owing to the fact that Lieutenant Bill
lard cannot be reached by any board Of
directors, there is no likelihood that Mr.
Hartman will be able to cause him TO
lose his jo5.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03

OF crime they shall not be put into prison
and then turned loose on the American
community. but shall at once be deported,
never again 20 land on these shores.
The Washington herald., 1907-07-03
The Flag and Firecrackcrs.

Frcm the Baltimore Sun.
The flag waves just as much on the
Fourth Of July without the accompani-
ment Of giant cannon crackers and other
mischieyous noise producers.