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The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

The Populists in Georgia resolved re-
Gently that a '-change" in State admins
tration is advisable. but didn't specifically
indorse Mr.. Joseph NJ Brown for the
governorship. As Mr.. Brown is the only
opponent Of the present incumbent. how
ever, he should be fairly well pleased
with what he drew.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
Revelations.

Your girls father is something Of a
grouchy person. isn't he2" asked the
casual friend.
Yes. replied the young man. unthink-
ingly. he is a confirmed kicker
And then he wondered why everybody
smiled.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

The vermiform appendix Is the only
thing in nature that is absolutely use
less" says London Lancet We have no
idea any considerable number OF the Ian
Gets subscribers would indorse that state
ment-from a financial standpoint any,
how
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

The Richmond Times-Dispatch doesn't
like it because Mr.. Loeb was left off that
list OF 100 men who control this country.
Everybody In Washington. however. un-
derstands perfectly that Mr.. Loeb is the
central figure in that 100
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
His Little Joke.

What is a lac OF rupees?" inquired the
man who was entertaining visitor from
Hindustan
"A great Inconvenience. replied the
fastener, who had evidently become suf-
hciently acquainted with our idioms 10
venture a mild jest
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
Even Retfer-

MY daddy laid down a tun Of wine
when 1 was born
Fine old custom. Going to do the same
for your SOM"
'No; think I'll lay in a ton OF coal"
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

When man says 70 you. Here's the
political situation in a nutshell. you are
pretty safe in settling back for an hours
nap. SAYS the New York Mail. Yes
indeed; and prepare to receive your men
tai ratiOns in a chestnut she'll.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

In "A speech delivered last Monday night.
Secretary Taft said The strength of
this country lies in the fact that We do
not have ali the power at Washington;"
which is the first intimation we have had
that the President wasn't in town last
Monday night
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
His Views.

"One Of the queer things Of life" re-
marked the Chronic Crouch. is TO see
poor mans daughter trying hard 70 ac-
quire taste for imported caviar
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
! ask 50 little OF you. dear.
subconscIous Memorie..

First Club Member-Does your wife
ever take a poker hand az home2
Second Ditto (absentlyl-Very rarely.
she generally prefers a broom handle or
The rolling pin.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

A Chicago coal dealer was fined 500
Tor persistently selling 1900 pounds OF
coal and calling il a ton. As the coal
season is practically over. ne must feel
almost as bad as railroad official fined
N.645.ls for clearing up Ss5.246.23 by Civ
ing S2l. 20 In rebates
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
SubstantInI Proof

She-Am I really the dearest thing on
earth 70 you. Harold2
He-If YOU doubt my word, darling. I
have the bills 70 prove it.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Prince Helie de Sagan is reported to
have had several chrls since arriving
IN this country Perhaps this was the
result Of Mr.. George Goald's persistent
throwing Of cold water on the noble
princes matrimonial aspirations.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
Not Noisy Enough

Prom the Chicago News
If Co.. Johnson has any serious Presi-
Dental hopes, he should get busy soon
and beard the octopus in its den.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
Wouid Want II Back.

Il wish had Rockefeller's money"
1T would only cause you endless trou-
BILE"
Il guess you're right He'd never give
me any rest"
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

From the Philadelphia North American.
Representative De Almond wants the
country to raise it's own nobiemen II
does. and every once in a while some Of
them get into Congress and blacken each
others eyes
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Ought the United States 10 let TIL
man go 20 Europe?" asks the Buffalo Ex-
press. Really. ought not the para
graphers 20 let really sick man alone.
no matter how easy mark he may be
as a rule?
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

The senior Senator from Rhode Island
has decided to retire from the Senate on
account of the great number of busted
trusts scattered throughout the land
April fool,
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
such La Life.

It's very hard
For sage or bard
To keep serene and cool
When Fortune chaffS
And az US laughs.
And Luck yelis April fool."
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Mr. Murphy. OF Tammany Hall. makes
haste to assure the public that 1t is Gray.
and not Johnson. who will be favored by
his organizations support. We rather
suspected Gov. johnson wasn't that sort
of political magnet.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

hand" in Atlanta and everywhere else.
Give the shirt-waist girl square deal
though the heavens fall
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
A GLOOMY scREED.

A GLOOMY SCREED.
We waste our tears,
We waste our years.
We must confess.
We climb and yearn
At last to learn
That what We earn
Is nothingness.
On worthless goals
We set our souls,
And In the school
That Life doth teach
The ends we reach
May stamp US each
An April fool.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
CAPITOL GOSSIP.

Frank Wheeler MondelI. Representative
from Wyoming. was born in ST Louis
nearly forty-eight years ago. His parents
died while he was yet young. and at the
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

A scientist declares the north pole is
shifting its position Perhaps Il is get
ting nervous as the open season for
arctic dashes draws near.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

There are 100000 in the United
States Treasury suffering for an owner.
says the Philadelphia Telegraph And
Just think Of the people willing and anx-
ious 20 put them out of their misery,
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

An Oklahoma man claims 70 have found
snake in can of molasses. We fear
that can OF molasses was unconstitutional
in the sight OF that State
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

From the ST louis Globe Democrat
The Democratic opposition 10 Mr
Bryan is extensive. but too fearful Of
stepping on eggs 10 be effective.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Abe Hummel says the newspapers did
not make him. according 10 the Baltl-
more American II was kind In Abe"
thus 70 relieve the newspapers OF that
responsibility
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

The Kansas City Journal writes OF
Bryan's thick skin" Perhaps the trouble
is with the weak and puny anti Bryan
prOjectiles.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Manager-We've got to get somebody
on a pinch TO play that light role.
Leading Lady-Then why not get the
electrician?
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

A Massachusetts street car line has ad-
vanced It's fare from 10 cents. and
nobody has raised kick Whittier are
we drifting?
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

If our fleet is 10 accept every invitation
scheduled by the newspapers IL will ex-
cite interest at some ports by and by as
quite collection Of prehistoric relics.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

1t cost PENNSYLVANIA nearly 5000 20 con-
vict four capitol grafters. Still even at
that. they were something in the nature
Of bargains-an things considered.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

From the Cleveland Leader.
The President urges tariff reform, but.
then. Mr.. Roosevelt isn't the Speaker OF
the House,
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Mr. Hartman has just scooped another
little old N0oOo,0O0 railroad. Perhaps Mr.
Hartman thinks IL is well TO make hay
while the Presidential-year sun shines,
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

From the Indianapolis News.
1t isn't always that the hat itself is so
big. but that the woman under II Is so
small.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Perhaps that man who invented the
odorless onion might settle for good the
submarine mess.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

After the Duke of the Abruzzi comes
the Prince Hefie de Sagan," says the De-
troit Free Press. Our opinion is the
prince is after an entirely different party.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
A BLOW TO CALHOUNISM.
FederaIistic Tendency OF the Last
Supreme Court Decision.


Supreme Court Decision.
From the New YORK Tribune
The Supreme Court has now made
shreds of the whole Calhounite argument.
Il says that the Constitution empowers
the Federal courts 10 assume Jurisdiction
in any case in which complaint Is made
that State seeks &c infringe on personal
or property rights without due process
of law" The Federal courts can suspend
State laws, enJoin State officials. and nuI-
lify any State proceedings whatever which
defy any complainant Of a fun and
fair hearing in an equity court or tend
70 abridge his recognized personal and
property rights. The Federal tribunals.
in short, are open TO the fullest extent
to any one who feels that the State is
dealing with him harshly or unfairly, and
Federal justice stands ever ready 10 re-
pair the defects and shortcomings Of State
justice. This view completely traverses
the old theory Of the States more or
less complete sovereignty IN legal admin
istration. Yet there is no getting away
from the logic Of the situation. The
fourteenth amendment as now universal
" construed by the Federal courts, con
tains the most radically Federanstic grant
In the whole Constitution. II the Federal
courts can upset any State legislation
when it deprives a citizen Of personal
and property rights without due process
OF law" and can themselves define what
due process OF law means, their YER
diets are the only ones which will hold
in cruical cases affecting great property
interests Celhounism. with its dream Of
forty-six sovereign States and fOrty-six
different legal jurisdictions, has passed
into 'innocuous desuetude." AS the Fed
erai legislative power has been enlarged
70 control agencies which had outgrown
State restraint. SO the Federal judicial
power Is being enlarged 10 insure uni
yersal protection and Justice
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Perhaps Emperor William Is not sure
but that the Big Stick may be able TO
reach even a HohenZollernl
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
From the Springfield Republican.

FROM the Springfield Republican.
Verify. We are making progress in CEN
traliZatiOn- These decisions will no doubt
especially please President Roosevelt. not
because Of their secondary effect in favor
ing the railroads. but because Of their
primary effect In further exaiting the na-
uonal power and making II more easily
prssible 20 apply government regulation
or business and seni-sOcialistic expert
ments on a national instead Of a tenta-
tive and limited State scale. And the
radical extremists generally viii be
pleased along with the President
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
From the Baltimore American.
TITLED FOREIGNERS LOVE SONG.

Oh. come with me and be my bride,
love you for your shining charms,
long 20 fold your glittering self
Within my eager, waiting arms.
I fain would press a husbands kiss
Upon your rings OF yellow curl.
For It's the color OF your dot
Ny golden girl,
Almost as bright are your blue eyes
AS are your dollars. lovely maid:
In your sweet smile feel the bliss
OF all my pressing debts fun paid
Your hand IN mine I feel I can
Al cash demands my fingers twirI
Your kiss means luxury TO me-
My golden girl,
ask so little OF you. dear
Just have my cOronet regiit.
The castles almost tumblcd down.
OF course. you'll have Il well rebuilt.
Your income put IN my control.
To show well in the social whirl-
No more than this will demand,
Ny golden girl.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Unfortunately for a number Of people
to-day nobody has yet invented a fOolless
April l.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01

Emmanuel KOeile. engineer in the service
Of the government Of Bremen. Germany.
IS registered at the New Willard. Mr.
KoeHe. who has been sent 20 this country
by his government for the purpose Of in
vestigating canal locks and other water
way engineering measures, has visited
Buffalo. Cincinnati. Cleveland. and other
places, and says he has seen much that
will be Of practical value TO his govern
nent in the Improvement OF the Bremen
waterways.
What imDresses me most about YOU
Americans is the fact that you are daring
in business; you go ahead. no matter what
the difficulties or the cost We in Ger
many are slower and more conservative
in that respect We investigate and look
until we find what we think IS the most
available. and then we go ahead
Your engineering plants are remark
sole. and offer innumerable lessons 10 US
foreigners We can always learn from
America, particularly in the engineering
line
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-27
Big Game Shipment Held.

Romney, w. Va, Nov. pa game
warden visited Romney unexpectedly
to find that 500 cartridges, 200 pleas
ants, and 10 deer were about to be ship
ped to commission merchants in Wash
ington and Baltimore. The game was
all packed ready to be consigned. 1t
is violation of the law to ship game
out eff the State.
The official procured the names of
the persons who brought the game into
Romney, also the names of the city
merchants to whom it was consigned.
He also picked up lot of game
ready for shipment at Green Springs,
w. Va, twelve miles east of Cumber-
land, where the branch road into ROM
ney leaves the main line of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad. He proposes
to prosecute the guilty persons.
At the trial this week fine of from
$50 to $500 was imposed on the guilty
parties.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-27
A PLEASANT VISIT.

VIM. R. Hearst has visited Mr.. Roose-
welt and had pleasant talk with him.
Reports say that he offered him fine
fat salary to edit his newspaper, the
American. This is groveling some.
This is licking the very ground. When
during the gubsrnatorial race two
years ago Mr.. Roosevelt sent Mr.. Eli
hue Root of his cabinet, into New
York, to speak against Hearst, most
people thought that such an insult as
Root offered Hearst would have been
resented. He branded him with most
every epithet from murder down.
He called him the assassin of
William Mckinley. But Mr..
Hearst has not felt the shafts.
They seem to have glanced off his rhi-
noceros like hide. He has been licking
the hand that smote him. One is al
most compelled to ask. "Is thy servant
a dog that he should do such a thing?"
and to reply, she surely seems to be. J"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-27
SENT TO PORTO RICO.

We note with some pleasure that
Col. Robert Lee Howe is to be trans
ferred from West Point to Porto Rico.
This name, Robert Lee, does not fit
tie, amiable, deferential to women,
firm but kind, and under all circum-
stances and conditions the lofty person
the world regards him. His name sake
Howe does not seem to have been born
with all of these qualities, not to have
developed them since, nor to have paid
much attention to their cultivation.
He seems to have been rough, domi-
neering, dictatorial and coarse. The
''Overcoat incident" so well remember
ed occurring at West Point year or
so ago, when Howe ordered, ON cold
bleak day, some girls-sisters and
sweethearts of the cadets-to remove
cadet OvercOats some of them were
wearing, caused trouble through army
circles. the forced retirement of one Col
onel, and his wife to be ordered off the
West Point grounds and never to be
permitted to visit her son who was q
cadet there. The girls had no other
wraps. The order whilst possibly
within the rules, was brutal and coarse,
and entirely uncalled for at the time.
The boys might have been diciplined
for lending Overcoats, but the girls
should not have been for wearing
them. Howe seems not to have taken
this view, his was Of the hog driving
discipline, which is brute force only, re-
CARELESS of circumstances or surround
ings. The lady who was ordered off
the grounds because she dared to call
Howe by those names best fitted to
him as she saw it, and who told the
girls to see Howe in - or some other
place, before they surrendered the
overcoats was Virginian, Miss
Elizabeth Fairfax, and the wife of
Col. Chas. 6. Ayres of the army. Her
Virginia blood was stirred when her
daughter was ordered by Howe TO
disrobe. The incident which of course
was decided by the authorities all in
favor of Howe, because he was COM
mandant, and because discipline at
the Academy might otherwise suffer,
was never decided in his favor by the
decent public. 1t saw the order was
brutal and unnecessary of immediate
enforcement. The end could have been
accomplished a thousand other ways
than to strip the girls of their wraps
out on cold field when watching
drill. Any way Col. Howe has bee
relieved as soon as circumstances
would permit, and we hope better
takes his place. We further hope the
Porto Ricans may take to him. Some
how many Americans never could.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-27
JOSEPH BRYAN DEAD.

Mr.. Joseph Bryan Of Richmond, is
dead. He was the owner of the Times
Dispatch, the News-Leader and the
Richmond Evening Journal. He es-
tablished the Richmond Locomotive
Works, he conducted 1t successful
ly, and he continued as managing di-
rector after its absorption by the Amer
lean Locomotive Works. He was also
director in the Southern Railway,
and at the time of the reorganization
OF the Equitable Life Assurance Socie-
ty was selected as one of the directors.
He was also director in the Sloss-
Sheffield Company and in the North
Birmingham Land Company. He was
great, and in many respects a good
man. He was an ardent Southerner,
and loyal friend of the lost cause. He
did many things which went to help
perpetuate the glories of Virginia and
the South, and in his death Virginia
and indeed the whole country has suff-
SACb q 3 lCab lOoos AZ Vic tllllC liz w ao
q leader of Democracy though he never
sought office, but recently he has not
been in touch with the Democratic
party in the South and has done much
personally and through his newspapers
to disorganize and break it up. His
support of Mckinley and intimate
mixing with Mark Hanna in his effort
to turn Virginia over to the Republi-
can party in 1896 were stain on what
would otherwise be a beautiful life.
His large interests in corporations,
however, carried with them that virus
which poisons all men who make their
principal object in life the accumula-
ton of vast fortunes. Nicodemus went
away sorrowful, we are told. The love
of money has proven baleful in many
instances. Mr.. Bryan would have
been more of the people had his fortune
been less. But withal he was a man of
great force and character.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-27
Madrid Personals.

Mrs. Sarah Layman of Hill View,
spent last week with her daughter,
Mrs. Henry Davis, near Middlebrook.
Misses Sallie and Maude Kerby OF
Alta Vista, spent Thursday night at
the hospitable home of Mr. J. D. Nor
ris, near Dooms.
J. w. Alfred and Miss Laura CARRIER
OF North Point, visited friends at Alta
Vista Sunday.
Superintendent E. o. Peale, of Way
nosboro, spent Monday night with 6.
E. Layman.
The school at Madrid is progressing
nicely under the efficient management
of Miss Lula Coiner, of Dooms. Miss
Coiner is substituting for Miss Alexan-
der, and is much liked by patrons and
pupils.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-27
On Kissing.

"The number of diseases which kiss
ing causes is unbelievable" says a fe-
male physician of Philadelphia. 81
firmly believe the day will come with
in generation when formidable anti
kissing movement will be established,
and when kissing practically will be
confined to the lower classes, the edu-
Gated people having been brought to
see the evils of the habit. Next to the
evil of kissing babies comes the sweet
hearts kiss. This is one of the most
dangerous of all. A husbands kiss
generally soon loses its fervency, but
the kiss of the two sweethearts is the
paradise of the tuberculosis germ and
the diphtheria germ and other germs
too numerous to mention"
What stuff!
Each kiss heart-quake-for a kiss
strength,
l think it must be reckoned by its
length.
This was the opinion of Byron, and
it is that of an expert-a man whose
word on this subject is worth that of a
thousand petticoated physicians. Yet
he did not die of kiss poison. Nor did
Tennyson fear long kisses:
o love, o fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul
through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-27
Entered at the Postoffice at Staunton,
Va, rs second class mail matter.
Friday, November q. 1908.
THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE.

The Republican party has learned
the power of the press as we have here
tofore stated, they have taken over
syndicated and put under trust control
nearly every newspaper OF value in the
country. Those which have not chang
ed owners, such as the Baltimore Sun,
have become so unreliable politically
for the Democrats that they are better
where they are, than oatspoken at all
times in behalf of their real, the Re
publican principles. In Virginia the
newspapers at the capital are of su-
preme Importance to the party in pow
er. In 1896, Mark Hanna who thought
and saw ahead of his party, began to
subsidize the press of that city. The
report is that the Richmond Times got
$40,0 Of his corruption fund in that
campaign, at any rate it and its subsi-
dairy publications have been bowling
for trusts and combines ever since
There are no large dailies save few
that are not subsidized or owned out,
right by predatory wealth, or Republi-
can managers, and now the smaller
fry are being taken over. 1t has been
going on and will be continued until
soon not journal of any kind, Of gen.
eral circulation, which will not be I'M
der Republican influence or control
This is the school for the propagation
OF their ideas They will teach the
people through this medium and at the
same time make them pay for their
education. The Standard Oil Co. in SO
far as Mr.. Rockefeller fails to tell its
virtues, will have them told by the
press. The magazines will tenn with
the philanthropy of the System"
statues will be erected to all the lead
ers, Rockefeller, Rodgers, and John
D. Archbold. The nefarious methods
of combined capital will be painted in
charming colors, and the people will
believe it because they see 1t in print.
We have warned the people and the
Democratic party of what is going on.
We have told them that they have no
newspapers and will have fewer in a
little while. Mr.. Rockefeller has a
university Of his own, he can own, and
possibly does own, thousand news
papers, and hundreds of magazines,
including in part, as we have just seen
the Manufacturer Record and the
Southern Farm Journal. He has
scholarly men writing books for him
all the time. We have had several
sent us. He is not idle rs an educator.
He knows what an advantage it is to
have his friends and not his enemies
first tell the things that leak out. Dur
ing the week just passed a newspaper
in this town has changed hands. 1t
could not be much more Republican
than it has been all along, but if We
are not mistaken its purchase is part
of the SCHEME we know is going on, to
get complete control of the press Of the
coun try for Interior political uses, rath-
er than for the hope of profit. Weshall
see what we shall see, and we believe
We have diagnosed the case correctly
Time will tell.