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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
MISS NELLIE HARRINGTON

CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-"As she
skips from A to lizard, like wild
Dakota blizzard on a spree" wrote
Capt. Jack Crawford, of fair
stenographer. Could the poetical
Capt. Jack have witnessed the per-
Torrance of Nellie Harrington or
Rosie Fritz, even his facile pen
would hesitate in description.
Miss Fritz does little stunts like
S5 words a minute on her type
writer. and Miss Harrington be-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
ANOTHER UNION
PARK FLOOD

Another flood in Union park was
reported last night to the city COM
missioners. 1t is almost as seri-
Gus as the flood of few nights
ago. About o'clock water came
from Moran prairie with rush,
seemingly as thought lake had
broken loose. Commissioner ONO
stated this afternoon that there
is no help for it at this time, but
that it will not occur another sea-
son, as the Third ward sewer,
which will soon be built, will be
tapped with "a inch pipes in five
different places, thus affording a
drain for the water
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
OFFICER SHOT BY HOLDUP

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. lin
attempting to stop a fleeing holdup
late last night officer Edward Mills
was shot by the robber. The Of
fcer fire twice, but the holdup es-
capped. Mills was badly hurt.
Later the police captured man
named James Johnson, who ad-
mitted shooting Mills, but denied
the holdup. The man Mills was
after had Just sandbagged and
robbed F. G. Thomson.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
PANTAGES

The new vaudeville bill with a
musical trio and acrobatic features,
opens this evening. The bill Is
lighter than last weeks, but is as
well recommended by the manage
ment and will be considerably less
trying on the nerves with Adgie
and her lions out Of it,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
BY MARGARET MADISON
Do you know how to laugh?

10 you KNOW now 10 laugn!
OF course you think you do, but
that isn't the question. Do you?
Most people cackle or CYCLE,
squak like a crow or whoop like a
Sioux. The man or woman who
laughs all over, from the soul as it
were, is as rare as the pearl
oyster.
Life needs more comedy. Nothing
is so beneficial, mentally or physi-
cally. as laughter. If more people
knew how to laugh there would be
less dyspepsia.
If girl realizes that she cackles
instead Of giving vent to ripple
of merry music, she can overcome
the fault by practice. Most girls
are too bashful to laugh heartily.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
CLUB HAS $2,742
IN CASH BALANCE

This noon the 10000 club ap-
pointed a committee to investigate
the feasibility Of organizing a large
mixed chorus for the fair season.
The idea is to make the chorus a
permanent body. The committee
was composed of Frank H. Walker
George A. Lovejoy. Fred P
Greene, w. H. Daymude and ]. Ri
ley Chase
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
new PHONES IN SIGHT

The Pacific States Telephone
Co. will soon be in a position to
serve all those who wish with
telephone service. The cry for
more telephones has been especial
ly loud from portions of the North
side. The company has now over
90 men engaged in stringing new
wires and improving the service
generally.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
CLUB WILL BOOST
FAIR CHORUS PLAN

The recent membership cam
paign of the 10000 club, with what
cash was on hand. starts the club
off with a balance of $2,742.12, ac.
cording to the report rendered at
the noon meeting today. Total re-
amounted to about $4,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
SPOkANE

THE Tattooed Man." with
Frank Daniels leading the comedy
and Julia Brewster, prima donna,
is the next bill, opening Thursday
evening for four nights and Satur-
day matinee.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
ARE THESE YOUR IRONS?

Who lost their flatirons? The
police want to know. Patrolman
Warner found three flatirons last
night on a vacant lot at Third and
Post and left them at headquarters
for the owner to claim.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-17
COLUMN iA

Virginia Brissac has another
strong part as the girl in The
Banker, the Thief and the Girl
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The Spokane Press delivered to
any part Of the city for rs cents
per month.
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The Spokane Press delivered to
any part of the city for 25 cents
per month.
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The Press. 25 cents a month.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
AMERICA ~ CHINA.

The reported negotiations and the Chinese i'm
peral decree looking toward the considerable
investment of American capital in Manchurid
are of significant interest from several points
Of view. II is no light thing that China, hitherto
50 reluctant 10 admit foreign capital and the
influence which invariably accompanies it, and
rs recently as the last few months endeavoring
by heroic means TO cancel concessions already
granted and thus to expel alien enterprises,
should now solicit investments of foreign cap
ital in any form. especially on conditions inev
taby calculated 70 implant strong foreign intiu-
ences 1t is Of practical Importance that an on
portunity is hus offered or may be offered FOR
the investment Of American capital in a land
whose resources give promise Of exceptional
profits But greatest of al is the suggestion Of
diplomatic interest which the episode conveys
There are grounds for suspectiug that China
desires an influx of American capital and the
consequent establishment and growth of Ameri-
can influence as a protective measure. She has
already had experience with Russia and Japan
and other nations, and has learned that the en-
try Of their capital and the granting Of conces-
siOns TO them mean something like a surrender
Of territory or even Of sovereignty. But Amer
lea, China is satisfied. has no such designs. but
may be trusted 10 pursue commercial aims only
and TO refrain from political aggressions. where
fore American capital is TO be welcomed above
that of other lands. Moreover if she is not able
10 exclude the capital and influence of other
powers, the establishment of American interests
among them. China thinks. will act as a re-
straint upon them and VIII afford her protection
against their aggreSSons
All that is very complimentary to America.
though would not intimate that it is unde-
served. II is gratifying to know that this coun-
try is thus trusted. But a question inevitably
arises concerning the possible consequences to
America of such establishment of financial iu-
terests in China. There can be no objection 20
investments In China per sc. But investments
which might be regarded by China as hostages
to International fortune. and which might be
used as means of bringing American influence
10 bear against some other nation, might be pro-
ductive Of more complications than profit II =
scarcely 10 be assumed that America would care
TO make heavy investments in China in eXpecta-
ton Of being compelled to protect China for the
sake Of keeping those investments secure
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19

Great Britain Is from the United States. and
wholesale invasion from enemy three thou
sand miles away really does not seem to he
an imminent danger Incidentally, Japan Is
the ally Of Australians mother country. and
therefore substantially Of Australia herself,
Another reason is the general defence of the
British Empire. 1t certainly is grandose
suggestion that in case of need in India, for
example Australia could send army of half
a million men 10 the aid Of the imperial forces
Yet il loes no: appear that the Australian army
is under compusion 10 serve abroad II TO serve
for the defence of any part of the British EN-
pire would I've reck0ned foreign service. y
third reason which has been suggested is that
the commonwealth is preparing to set up IN
independence. or at least to make itself COM
petent TO maintain its Independence If such
course should become desirable or necessary
This last explanation may probably be dis.
missed rs too academic and remote for prac-
teal consideration.
It is most likely we should say. that Aus
tralia is pursuing this new and superfcially
surprising course because Of Il combination OF
reasons. conspicuous among them being the
puGlit iouS or at least the self-defensive in
Stinct which is common to most of the human
race. and which is particularly strong in the
Anglo o-SaXon peoples. The sentiment Of ma
tiOnality is strong in Australia as it is in Can
ada, in New Zealand and in South Africa
and it is entirely compatible with the most
profound and enduring attachment to the EN-
pire as n whole. And an essential element of
nationality is militant sufficiency for selfde-
fence even in excess of any imminent or prOxi-
mate perils 1t is the ambition of Australia to
be a colony competent for self-defence as well
endowed with self-gOvernment and that IS
an ambition credtable alike to patriotism ana
10 civic wisdom.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19

dsgraceful and utter lapse of gallantry nils us
with the gravest forebodings III men shame
lessly descend TO toying with the sartorlal 1f'
fections of women by the aid of hypnotic sug-
gestiOn. may not some practical joker In the
Fashion Trust ere long Ortlain nose rings tattoo
ing and filed teeth? In the presence of this Su-
preme fear only small mind can find time IN
worry over the extravaGnnce and hideousness ~
Easter hats. and only q gullibe youth VIII be-
lieve that these creations" of miscreants have
been brought out simply an argument against
wOman's suffrage for the sake Of frightening
thugs and panhandlers away from the fashion
able districts Would that thick fog might set
tie down upon every city in the land to-day and
thus prevent deeper gloom from Overspreading
the souls Of thoughtful citizens. Would that the
women who have money TO burn would burn At.
instead of giving Il to those who render them
only insults and mockery in return. If these
prayers are not answered, our only consolation
is that the dear creatures wearing the April Foo'
signs are not to blame. They are more to be
pitied than censUred
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
TROTE4ND-EOOT SHIPS

Announcement is made that the present wear
viii see the beginning Of the building of two
1,ooofoot steamships for the Atlantic passenger
and freight service. once there was an ocean
steamship which was so large and so powerful
that il called the Wonder Of the Dav
II measured 100 feet in length over all and
was equipped with engines of no less than
3tO-horsepOwer. Il as much a wonder Of
the day and Of the world then as the Maure-
tania is now: and more, since il was far
greater novelty and a lar greater advance be.
yond the pre-existing types of vessels. Doubt
less people imagined-or. if we may perpetrate
the bull, al least those without Imagination i'm
agined-that that ship WAS practically the last
word in naval architecture and engineering and
that nothing materially 10 surpass it was rea-
sonably 10 be expected.
There may be men still living who remember
seeing, perhaps VINO travelled on that Wonder
Of the Day There are many. not yet old who
well remember the great floating palaces as they
were regarded IN those days, Of the Collins Line
which decked the American ensign with the blue
ribbon Of the seas. There are plenty who re-
member when the stanch old Servia was rh9
pride Of the Atlantic ferry. Then came the Civ
Of Rome, with the distinction Of being the Iarg-
est ship sfoat and with the supposed disad-
vantage, n the minds Of some Of being too large
for practical use. Afterward the Campania and
d. u
narders,' and even tie thoughtful and judicious
were confident that the limit had been reached
and that, indeed, the limit Of profit had been
considerably passed But the Baltic and others
presently surpassed even them in size and some
also in speed, and last year saw the advent of
The thus far unequalled Lusitania and Maure-
tania
moulo II De wise or prudent now TO assume
mat the LOoofoot monsters which are prom
lsed, and which will exceed the Lusitania and
Aeurersnia far more than these exceed their
immediate predecessors, will be the last word IN
the Increase Of ships size? We doubt It. II is
quite conceivable that their number will he rnuI
uplied, by various companies and under varjons
nags. and that within the next few wears some
rival company or some more daring constructor
VIII put into the water ships sJrpassng them m
Size As much as they viii surpass their rreJe
cessors. However that may be- wha1 is unite
certain is this, that these OOO-foot shius p.,v
An assured and soon 10 be an accomplished fact
Indicate The minimum standard Of capacity and
conmodiOusness which practical business con
siderations must prescribe for the locks of our
isthmian canal and for our harbor piers and
ss&anels. A thousand feet and a little margin
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
4 GLOOMY EASTER.

1t is with deep reluctance that we approach
the topic of Easter in peSSlmistic mood and
tarnsh the natural blithesOmeness Of the season
with the smudge of worry. The attitude is IN
opportune, but this is not the chief reason for
our reluctance. We dislike to think unpleasant
thoughts, principally because of the character Of
the things suggesting them. For we know that
as as confess Easter hats TO be the root
of our perturbation, the reader will exclaim
"Bosh. \ callous cynic else a hard pressed
humorist,' This reproach is firmly based on
history and, generally speaking, is justifable
Far be il from us TO poke fun at spring head
gear under the guise Of melancholy; he jests at
hats who never felt millners bill. And may
the cynics sneer never flicker across the faces
Of anybody hereabOuts when top pieces are men
toned, However justifable fippancy may have
been in seasons past, it is intoerabe in this
year Of disgrace; for the spring hat Is now, If
never before, an object of serious concern for
all who have human welfare at heart And the
proofs of this are many.
The spring hat of 1908 is. first of all sure
sign of the rapidly declining American cout-
tesy and manners. All the great milliners who
set the style are men. But they are not gentle
men, for no soul in which even trace Of chiy-
airy fingers would deceive a woman into think
ing herself perfectly stunning when sur
mounted by any Of the so-Called hats which
are now driving respectable citizens to luna
tic asylums in search Of peace and quiet
The man millner, having discovered how cas-
lily the gentler sex can be hypnotized is
apparently seized with a hendsh impulse %
put all its members IN the thraldom OF
some monstrous or grotesque fancy, Just to
prove and glOat over feminine nferiority In
stead Of protecting woman against the hard
ships and wiles of this world, as n true gentle
man is supposed TO do he jams down upon her
innocent, trustful head a deformed sombrero.
common basket or n grab bag filled and out
wardly besmeared with bric a-brac and poultry
and then sends her forth into the street there 70
be snickered at by the mannerless male popula-
tiOn.
lf fashion would only permit somebody 70
draw veil over the sad scenes But no wells
are prohibited, In order that each individual
insult may be Witnessed In bald detail THIS
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
From The Tribune Bureau. ]

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, April 1S.-Cirand opera this after
noon and tonight the only evidence OF for
rnality 10 be found in society and the dinner and
supper parties which usually precede and follow
the opera were IL most cases dispensed with
Mrs Never and her daughters. Mrs Elkins. Miss
Elkins and Mrs. George Law, Of New York; Mrs
L. z. Letter with party; Mrs John NJ Harlan
Miss Harlan. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth
Miss Patten. Miss Helen Patten, Miss Ethel Roose-
velt Miss Helen Taft; Nine. Van Swinderen, Mrs
Newberry, Miss Newberry. Mrs. Longworth. Miss
Cannon, Mr.. and Mrs Cherraont Miss Morgan.
Miss Evelyn Walsh Mrs. William F. Draper. Miss
Margaret Draper. Mrs. Kean and the Misses Kean
were present at both performances The Chinese
Minister and the entire staff of the legation at
tended the matinee
Lieutenant Colonel William W Wotherspoon and
Mrs. WOtherspOon entertained at dinner tonight
Brigadier General and Mrs. Clarence Edwards the
German military attache and Nine Won Livonius.
Miss DunweH. Commander Culver and others
Mrs William II. Emory. wife OF Rear Admiral
Emory. has opened her Washington residence.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
IN rHE RERksHIREs.

TEy Telegraph 90 The --t---s-I -
LenoN Mass. April N--A lu'1-e2' y - :
the White Tree Inn in Pitts1el- t-is 80 -
Mrs Walter r. Hawkins for Mrs. to''-as >. :.
of Charleston. : -. who is 20 De- married - =
ton on Tuesday 10 Colonel Washington - =,
Of Trenton y J. The table decora'''"s -.
arbutus and orange blossoms Fer o e, eei---' !,
there was a miniature Brooklyn bs'~s7,
original OF which Colonel RoeS.iDg vas s' - !,
Gable ears were operated over Jhe bridge = -,
terminals were shown. There were sixteen -,
Monday a complimentary luncheon i0 honor - -
Farrow will be given by Nivs- Charles l. - - .
and ON Monday evening "a dinner VII oe -.
her honor 10y Mr. and Mrs. Frcdcrics o. e'@-
Dalton. - d.
Easter. -
The days arrivals include NI-- and Ms
X Sturgis. Mr.. and Mrs. Arson Beard ,. =,
Mrs r D. Adams. M and Mrs. Francs
gibbons and Mr.. and Mrs Harley T Proc'e'
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
ruE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
-. ->-,n1n- pureau.

TFrom The Trfoune bureau .,1--
Washington April 1s-Baroness Hehs -. I,..,.
- -. A,-s+rian Ambassador. and their Itue
ss,,ghts- baroness Mia Hengelmuller, viii go %
the virginia Hot Springs on IuesuaS - ~ -
cred from her long Illness of the early Spiihe nu
desires a change of temperature ana scene rS
ambassador will remain in washington IL ''-
sence of his family.
Baron Takahira assisted by the members OF 'ls
embassy staff, received the large oeiesa'1OH " u
Japanese business and newspaper men no" ''9-'
ing Washington at the embassy this evening
The Norwegian Minister. Mr.. GUIDE VINO was aP-
pointed 10 hI the vacancy here caused Oy 'He
death Of Christian Hauge IN Decenoer' Nas "
rived in Washington. accompanied by Nine Iude.
They have taken rooms temporarily at the Iral-
ton. Mr. Skybak, who has acted as charse
d'affares since last November. will make arrange
ments for the presentation Of the Minister the hrs
Of next week The minister was last at
Copenhagen.
The Chinese Minister will go 70 New York on
Tuesday 70 attend dinner given that evening by
the American Asiatic Society.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19

Those who now advocating the substltu-
tion of state police for city police in New York
may find in the situation at Chester, Penn, an
excellent argument for their case. According to
various competent witnesses the Chester police
made only perfunctory efforts to suppress the
rioters who warning against the local street
car company. but the state police quickly gained
control of the situation. The usual explanation
is doubtless correct; the local department had
too many friends among the rioters and could
not conquer the latter because it could not con-
quer its own human nature. Probably the
Chester situation is reproduced on a small scale
a hundred times every weekday in New York
City and several thousand times every Sunday,
when the honest buecoat soliloquizes: What's
the excise law between friends?"
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
AUSTRALIAN HILIT4RISH.

The system Of military training recently
established in Australia is, because Of its place
and circumstances, one of the most note
worthy and significant things Of our day The
great Southern commonwealth is one Of the
last countries in which the world would, Oh the
face Of the case, have expected TO see such a
system adopted. 1t is remote from other i'm
portant and potentially troublesome powers.
The strong socialist sentiment which has arisen
there has been supposed to be distinctly op-
posed 70 anything like militsrism Moreover
the whole genius of the British race has ever
been averse TO conscrlption. Yet here is Aus
tralia imposing upon herself a system COM
pared with which in some respects even that
or Germany seems lax and ineffective In
brief, henceforth every able bodied male Aus
tralian Is TO be soldier. and for fourteen
years, from his twelfth 10 his twenty-fifth wear.
Inclusive. he is 10 be under actual and active
military training. The result viii be that the
commonwealth, with a population of some
],uooUb' viii presently have a potential army
OF 10000. The same ratio would give the
United States a militant force Of 1J,0000O0!
Various reasons are given or are surmised
Tor this amazing development of militarism at
the anupodes. One is the fear of Japan Yet
Japan is more distant from Australia than
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19

Most Americans who read about the great
mountain Of anthracite coal revealed by land
slide near Alberta Canon, in the Canadian
Northwest. were doubtless surprised at this re
port. and many may question its accuracy.
There is good reason. however, TO accept it at
face value Geological surveys conducted by the
Canadian government and various private
parties have disclosed the fact that, on the east
ern slope of the Canadian Rockies in the prov
ince Of Alberta there exists undeveloped
coal field probably much larger than the entire
state of Pennsylvania. Should only a fraction
Of the deposits prove to be high grade and as
cessible. the vast northwestern districts of both
Canada and the United States would be greatly
benefited. In combination with the enormous
water power of mountain streams out there, the
coal supply may, at some not distant day, fill
those grain, cattle and timber lands with -four
mills, packing houses. canning factories and
lumber mills.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
rFrom The Tribune Bur-au-l

tFrom The Tribune Bureaul
washington. April 1s.-The President 'nls So. -
noon received hfty-three tourists rom a -
we're introduced by Mr.. Hanihara' SSO"1
tary of the Japanese Embassy r-,.,.
After talk with the President halpn pm - lo5.os 80
chairman of the executive board OF the CIV,e 80.
eration declared that the Executive "ouiu -
any measure providing for coInpl ~ oiiil9o O
,t,toc. 20 ar,spdf,g the sherman antitrust law
Secretary TAFT took up a department matter Win
the President before going to New YORK 10 Spe~N
at the dinner Of the Sphinx Club
Callers at the White House included oena,O
Piles, Beveridge and Daniel Represehtatio -,
a-5sor Arsberrv Cocks Lloyd. Madden. Beale,
Haves Naedham Young Parker and Granger eK-
Representative Often and Civil Service Cornni's-
sioner MCIlhenny.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
NOTES From TUXEDO PAsk
lBy Tslesrapa TO me Triouas.

BY Telegraph % The Trtouns.l "a
Tuxedo Park. " Y. April lS-The sPr.ns
at Tuxedo viii open next week Tbs Tsa-a~
day was cloudy. with occasional periods : -
shine. large number came CUT tor EAs's a
court tennis games to-day attracted Nass =.
lery- House parties were held oy SeveFai
Cottagers -
Many OF the CottaSers are getting their -
readiness for occupancy MAY 1. and ne n.
season AT Tuxedo viii he as lively as nsN', srs,
lawn tennis courts are being opened. the s0I =
are in readiness, and already prepsf 49, srs =
being made for the horse show, which is -.,.p
for June IS and - = Loyillard. lr-. IS So
and the box Office is now open -.
number OF automobile parties arFi'eU
for luncheon AT the clubhouse. 90 .osS
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Alexander W.. W. %
Easter at the club They viii open 'H'''
soon.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
SOCIAL NOTES From NEwPosr.
Isy Telegraph 90 TIE Tribune.

Isy Telegraph 90 TIE r-.o-2s.-
Newport p T. April 1S-NIrs. j. De 7or7'' -
ieIson IS IN Newport FOR short Eis-t
Henry Redmond and Mss Ge7-S-ara o. '--'
turned from New YorS to-day
II was reported here to-day ,lzt The ami /
the late Senator calvin : Br-' has -74S4
Blair Fairchud estate for The season d.
Seth Barton French has taken Ho7easaS !.
summer estate OF Mrs. l. II. f Sa-er. i1 =
season -
Mrs. Bouteue Moves arrived in Newport '---' -
ing from New York