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by 1910. In Wuchang the shutting up oi
the dens has considerably diminished the
arrests for crime and one of the police
men says this is largely because he does
mails.
In Foochow there were SD dens at the
time the edict was issued. They were all
closed on the first OF the fourth month of
the year following and are still shut.
The same is true OF Ichang, although the
shops for the sale of opium are still open.
Kashing. which for years was one OF the
worst opium smoking places i'm the prov
ince of Chekiang, has abolished its opium
shops. and the day of the closing the
opium pipes were burnt in public and the
people rejOiced. The same is true OF many
other cities in not few of which the
opium dealers have since secretly resumed
business.
Outside the officials a mighty crusade
has been going on over China to stop the
use of opium among the people. Indeed.
there are so many different movements
that hardly know where to begin. Every
province has it's anti-opium societies.
These meet regularly: they print and dis
tribute anti-Opium literature and send out
men to lecture upon the opium evil. There
is one society in Canton which has dis
tributed millions of pamphlets showing
the terrible fate of the opium user. Pic
lures of the man before and after he has
become the slave of the drug are publish
ed, and the horrors of the practice are
wildly painted. Many of the societies re-
quire their members to wear a badge and
sign the pledge, and many OF them offer
rewards for the detection of opium smok-
ers and of the Illegal selling OF opium.
In some of the provinces the most rigid
laws have been enacted against the users
of the drug. In kiangsu no habitual
SnnkPr under in
plaintiff He can not institute a suit
and can have no protection from the laws
as long as he continues TO disobey them
In Canton there is temple which has
been given over to the anti-opium cru
SADIE. arti-opium pictures being pasted
upon its walls. In Yunnan opium lectures
are everywhere given. and large number
of refugees have been created 10 take i'm
confirmed smokers and cure them Hum
dreds of opium pipes and lamps are nail
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ed to the walls of the government build
inngs and the viceroy is rapidly reducing
the area of the opium farms.
At the capital of Fukien province there
have been eight burnings of opium and
opium fixtures during which 1876 ounces
were destroyed and the following items
burned: Pipes, ABB; pipe bowls, 4.4s2;
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along the Yangtsekiang the hypodermic
injecting of morphine is common. They
have professional peddlers who go about
with hypodermic syringes up their sleeves
and give injections at the rate of about
cents apiece. Such men are to be found
in the teahouses, and are ready to give
one jab in the arm upon asking.
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is still going on, but the public smoking
has become unpopular and dangerous, and
the chief opium used is now behind
closed doors. In Shanghai all the dens in
the native town have been shut, and fully
half of those in the foreign concessions
wiped out The foreigners propose to
clean out the evil in their part of the city
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OPPOSE that Pres
ident Taft and our
national Congress
should send out an
edict tomorrow that
every man and
woman in the en-
ploy OF the govern
ment must give up
the drinking of
liquor or be dis
missed from Office.
and that no new
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morgan. prince of pirates, was dead. Roc.
the Brazilian, had paid the penalty of his
crimes; Bartholemy, LOlonnOis. De LUIS
san and the other commanders of the
golden days of the buccaneers were men,
cries only: but throughout the West In
dies there were enough bands of sea rob-
bers to make life lively for the Spaniard
or any other captain who sailed those
waters. Rackam had been quartermas-
ter on the pirate ship commanded by
Capt Charles Vane, and when Vane, No
vember p. Ills, was deposed for coward
ice I'm refusing to attack a French man
of-war. Rackam was chosen captain in
his place.
In the two years in which Rackam
cruised around Cuba. Bermuda. the Ba-
hamas. and made occasional raids along
the Caribbean coast. Mary Reed was sec
ond in command and Anne Bonney was
one of the crew. The pirates captured
several vessels. attacked some small
towns and got a fair amount Of plumber,
and made themselves so much Of a men
ace that pardon was offered to them
and to all other pirates operating in the
gulf IL they would return to honest ways.
But although most of the other pirates
were glad of the opportunity to wash the
slate clean. not so with Rackam and the
women. They refused, and so became the
mark for all the English French and
Spanish vessels of war that were i'm the
West Indies.
1t was early in November, 172O. that a
small English warship sighted Rackam's
brigantine off Jamaica. The two vessels
were pretty well matched and in the early
stages of the fight all the chances favored
the pirates, but sea robbers never did
have much stomach for fighting against
the English, and when one of the guns on
the brigantine burst and it was necessary
to close with the enemy if victory was to
be achieved, Rackam rushed to his cabin
and sought solace in the brandy bottle. In
vain did Mary Reed and Anne Bonney
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T Is all In the point
OF ew. PoeIs
have sung of The
glories OF Cleopa-
ira, yet Cleopatra
was a criminal.
Historians point tn
Catherine as one OF
Russia's greatest
rulers. yet Gather
Inc was a sava sc.
Eliza beth an X 9
high among the
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mcnarchs of England. yet Elizabeth was
q ruthless creature who sent many men
and women to the block. and who signed
the death warrant OF her cousin. Mary
Queen of Scots. without a oualm or
culver. In her humble way, Mary Reed
was a Cleopatra, a Catherine and an
Elizabeth. She had the romantic, ad-
venturous disposition of tho daughter of
the Nile. the sturdy, masculine soldierly
qualities Of the terrible Russian and the
careless ways and volatile temper of the
free-living Queen Bess. She was the
greatest woman pirate the world ever has
known, and. like the three great queens.
she was creature Of circumstance to
large degree. III she had any regret be-
cause, instead of piracy. a quiet. home
life and loving husband had not been
her destiny. she did not give expression to
IL. In fact, she seemed to like her calling.
and In a naive. philosophic sort of way
she would argue on the justice and fnjus-
tice of piracy and the beneficial effect
hanging had upon keeping the ranks OF
the pirates from being overcrowded.
Were II not for the fact that the rope
bangles before their eyes as a menace,
she remarked in conversation with the
Judge who sentenced her to death. all
the towards would turn pirate and so
infest the seas that men of courage
would starve. IL had my way would
not make the penalty for piracy anything
less than death. II is the fear of the
moose that has kept many miserable.
dastardly rogues honest, and it is the
fear of the moose. too, that Keeps on
land many Of those who now rob the
widows and the orphans and who Cypress
the poor who have no money to seek
justice. If II were not for the moose
the seas would be as crowded with rogues
as the land, and there would be SO much
plundering OF ships that merchants after
while would not send vessels out ex-
cept under the safest of armed escort.
Under such conditions. my dear sir"
she said gravely to the judge. my
trade In little time would not be worth
1t was at Port Royal. Jamaica. Novem-
her 90. i'm. that Mary Reed was tried.
Another woman pirate. Anne Bonney. was
on trial with her. as were Capt John
Rackam and eight men of Rackam's
crew The nine men and the two women
were sentenced TO death, and that same
day Rackam and two Of the men were
taken TO Gallows point and hanged. So
far as is known this is the only instance
not only Of woman pirates being SEN
fenced to death. but of woman pirates
being brought to trial. 1t is recorded that
the women showed a higher degree of
courage in the presence of the judge than
did their man companions, but that is not
TO be marveled at. for the women had dis
played far more bravery In the sea tight
in which they were captured than did
Rackam or any of the others. In fact.
throughout the years In which the two
women sailed with Rackam they were the
sturdiest fighters on board. Had Rackam
and his men the same spirit as the
women that sea fight probably would
have had a different ending.
Piracy was in it's decadence in the day
Of Rackam, and Rackam probably would
have received little or no notice in history
but for Mary Reed and Anne Bonney.
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The morphine habit has long been prev
alent in many parts of the Chinese en-
pire. and a vast amount of morphine pills
are still consumed. In certain cities
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But the secret was not to remain long
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'Copyright, 100. 10y FRANK q. tarpen'er.l
PEKING
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-17
RENL MEMS ENTERPRISE.

sunday The Herald printed ex-
clusiVely the announcement that the
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road was going to build an extension
to Portland that would tap the
Yakima valley, and which would pass
close to the southern border of this
city. This was railroad news of con-
siderable import to North Yakima.
The story was also sent from The
Herald Office to the Oregonian, and
Monday the Oregonian considered the
news of sufficient import to devote
considerable editorial space to con-
sideraton of the matter.
Mondays Oregonian reached this
city Tuesday morning, and a local at
ternoon paper reprinted the Oregoni-
ans editorial Tuesday afternoon, in
Producing the matter with warped
and mangled argument to the effect
that what really was going to happen
was the construction of IL branch of
the Northern Pacific to connect with
Il jerk water lumber road running out
of Vancouver, Wash. This may be re-
garded as stroke of newspaper en-
terprise perhaps unparalleled outside
of the office of the afternoon paper.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-17
II Badge OF Honesty
Is printed on the wrapper of every bottle of
is Pr1nteu on the Quiet wrapper OF every boUIe OF
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription

DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription =
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maker o
taking the afflicted into their full confidence VIM
known bout he comp ton of
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the afflicted simply good. honest
injurious. habifOrmin9 drugs
no harm in
Devised
all
schools of
The Fore Prescription known everywhere the standard remedy
for has regarded for
Accept of Faorte Prescription
record of 40 behind
afflicted
FNorte The
poHered of,
should taking
pecung To him difference profit Therefore,
having DR. Pierces Favorne Prescrp
o MI of DR. Perc's
Common Sense Medical Adviser, bound -
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President, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-17
THE LABOR LEADERS CASE.

If Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison
are sent to Jail for contempt Of court
the consequences must rest upon the
heads of those who started the prose-
cution of the three labor leaders.
While the violation of the injunc-
ton which the accused men committed
was, technically, contempt of the
court, the real issue in the case at
least so far as public opinion is con-
cerned, is the character of the injunc-
ton which they disobeyed.
The injunction prohibited the defen-
dants and their allies from mention
ing the name of the Buck Stove and
Range company in connection with the
suggestion that the company was on
the unfair list or that its product
was under a boycott. The theory on
which the Injunction was granted is
that the right to do business is a
property right any interference with
which will be restrained by an injunc-
ton. No charge was made that the
union men used violence. The ques-
ton was solely whether union men on
strike had a right to appeal in print
to their friends and allies not to pat
ronize a certain firm.
So far as the presidents go, there is
hardly any doubt that the decision in
the injunction case Is in line with the
legal authorities. although the union
men contend that the facts OF this par
ticular case are more extreme than
those of any previous case in which an
injunction was granted. But the
question of the workingman's right to
call on his friends for help in labor
dispute is as much political as legal.
II a union cannot maintain peaceable
boycott its power of defense against
an aggressive employer is reduced al
most to nothing. Another stretch of
the precedents-and the reasoning of
the decisions would justify such stretch
and workingmen will be prevented
by injunctons from going on strike
at all.
Naturally. organized labor is
alarmed by a line Of decisions which,
II extended in their present direction
of development will convert the
trades union into a mere social or
benefit society, with practically no in
dustrial power. 1t was by way of
protest that the leaders of labor de-
fed the injunction and brought the
question to a point where ii is at
tracing the attention of organized
labor throughout the country. IT
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison go
to Jail the workingmen will see to it
that the next congress curbs the au-
thority of the courts to issue injunc-
tons in labor disputes Indeed, this
case may cause the rise of national
labor party.
Those who defend the injunction,
and resent the attitude of the unions
in this matter, do not place them
selves in the workingman's shoes and
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-17
ROAD VERSUS WAIIOW.

Experts in The department of agri-
culture estimate that there is 2,l5l.-
600 miles of highway in the United
States. OF this entire amount 1872
GOO miles has never been improved
10y surfacing with macadam or gravel
ana remains merely earth road.
over this eXpanse of highway great
enough in extent to make eighty-six
parallel roads around the earth at the
equator. 250,00O,O0O tons of freight
is hauled every year to market or 10
the railroads at a cost of twenty three
cents Il ton per mile and the average
haul is nine miles. In France hauling
is done at cost of as low as seven
cents a mile and the average is less
than half what it costs in the UniteI
States.
In other words the farmers Of the
country are wasting $4,000, 900
every year in getting their produce to
market, all merely because of ruts.
and mud. and mire which nobody Will
take the responsibility of repairing
This does not include what is ex-
porary repairs much of which must
bt 'lpilt pNtI again tue SECOND season,
because not properly done in the first
place or not properly cared for.
This is another example of Ameri-
can wastefulness; one of those matters
in which everyone is vitality concern
ed and vet which everyone shirks
Some day perhaps the economic side
of this problem will appeal to far
mers and they will see wherein they
have been making an awful mistake
by tolerating hog wallOws for high
ways.
ONE WOULD NOT THINK OF
LIVING IN SQUALOR If A PALACE
COULD BE HAD FOR THE SAME
PRICE: THEN WHY DO WE PRE-
FER WALLOWS TO AN IMPROVED
HIGHWAY WHEN 1T WOULD BE \
TO IMPROVE THE ROAD
WE GIVE IT Up.
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big as a sombrero, and it had a tail
that was about two miles long. You
could see it in the sEv every night for
about month, and it was the most
noticeable thing in the heavens. The
tail wiggled all the time, just like
the tail of boys kite
The stranger then launched into
other experiences. and told of a wild
elephant he had seen some months
ago in San Diego. Cal. The elepehant
killed two women. demolished q drug
store. and beat horse to death
with a third of a wagon tongue, he
said He was surprised to learn that
the Associated Press had not report
ed the occurrence. Incidental to the
rampage of the elephant the Stand
ard oil Company's yards had caught
ire. he said, and two firemen had
Zen burned to death with a gasoline
bath. AS a source of news the man
was wonder.
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The
terribl
hood,
that q
never
secllls
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get his point of view. The working
man Is lighting, not for the privilege
of selling a few stoves. but for the
privilege of living and working under
decent conditions. Detached from his
fellows and from his friends, he cam
not contract on equal terms with the
wealthier employer. A fiction of the
law supposes him to be an equal high
contracting party with the employer.
but economic conditions make vast
difference between them when the
workingman deals individually with
the employer. When employers act
in concert to reduce wages or
lengthen the workday there is no in
junction to stop them. The law may
entitle the workingman to an in
junction in such a case put they will
not get it. for there is always some
Kind of a distinction in the way.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-17
CHEERFUL LIAR
VISITS OUR CITY
Visitor From Other Regions Tell.
About Il Comet With a Weighing
Tail i'm Mexico.

one of the most cheerful liars who
has been in our midst Tor s1iuCt.'le
visited the city sunday. He came
down the railroad track from the
general direction of the canyon. Gu |
he tarried not so very long. During
his stay he talked of Haley's come.
which is soon to visit the earth. with
a couple of young men of the city.
His opinion was that Haley's com It
would not do much damage. And
then he unfolded tale that should
be of interest to astronomers at large
down on the Mexican Central and
saw a comet. II was sure a whopper
The head of the thing as about as
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-17
LANDLORDS AS .AIRIORDS.

Lyttleton Fox, a New York LAWYER
startled the Aero club of America the
other evening, when IN an instructive
lecture to the club of would-be air.
lords, he informed them that before
they could become even air buffers OF
air charwomen, to say nothing of
lords, they must settle with the land
lords.
lie tod the gaSpinS naNigatorS of
the ether that every time they pass
over a mans land they commit tres
pass; and as they have to pass over
somebody's land all the time-unlcss
they skim the sea-that they are tres
passing every exhaust of the motor.
going and coming.
Certainly. The fellows who own
the earth. own the sky. The law SAYS
80. IL was so in ancient Rome and
IL il so now.
Herbert QuiCk's new novel, "Nir-
sinia of the Air Lanes" tells just how
a crazy ne'er-do-well, a certain Mr.
Craighead, worked out the whole
scheme of monopoly of the air by
means of monopoly of certain strips
of land. As working model for the
aiiship trust. Mr.. Quick has Mr.. Fox
bcaten-for he tells just how to turn
the trick.
Fox suggests that one of the
Wrghts get some friendly landowner
to sue him-so as to get the courts to
modify this unfavorable law-but
how is this to be done without upset
ting the whole theory of landed
rights?
l, L., 4
Air Lanes" sums the whole thing up
in rather extraordinary way, in a
unique court room scene.
How am | damnitied." says he. by
the air-ship, which may drop n
monkey spanner. a COB of
ballast or casual remark into my
privacy? Like other highways, the
air will be infested by accidents and
collisions. Aeronefs will fall into the
rural silo, drag-ropes will rip up barb
wire, and Pyramus and Thisbe, in
their ArCadian WooingS. may be
smothered under falling gas bags or
torn asunder by dragging anchors in
serted in their pancreases, | shudder
your honors, AZ what may happen
when the air is pOpulous with flying
jiggers. pop-popping about. raining
ballast, and wine bottles. and bacon
rinds. and stale bananas, and hot
coffee. and soft-boiled eggs. and lobA
ster a la Newburg on a lost and UNI
done republic"
Lawyers who make a speciality of
damage cases should buy up the ed-
ton of Virginia of the Air Lines" 1t
gives the case of the air-snIp against
the landowner dead away. And as for
the air-ship case, lit amt got none"
1t is beaten before the jury in drawn.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-17
POOR OLD JOE.

Is Uncle Joe Cannon to be burned
on the administration altar as sac
rifice to the people-a sort of sop
as it were which may appease their
wrath and indignation over the tariff
bill?
Newspapcrmen in Washington say
that such is the program cabinet
members will place before President
Taft and urge him to follow out. They
will say that the reactionary old
bulwark of stand patism' from Dan
vile is a back number and that he
ought to be cast into the scrap heap:
that he long since passed the point
of usefulness and that he is hinder
ing instead of working in harmony
with the administration.
SOmcOn must be waking up.
If this plan is Carried out it will
make national heroes out of the
original insurgents" and it will be
funny to watch the stand patters"
making "a run for the insurgents"
band wagon. SUNNI onng all their po-
litical astuteness they will assume an
innocent micn and declare how they
have always stood for the ''insurgent'
an unusual rredicatment don't you
know that they had no choice but
to work with Uncle Joe instead of
against him. "Oh Slush."
But really there is serious side to
this pending downfall of Uncle Joe.
lie has served the Interests" faith
fully and we'll He has blocked
good legislation, hindered progress for
the many and promoted the inter
ests of those few who sought special
privileges For all of this he is to
be cast off by those whom he served
and made. They have no more use
for him, because the people" are
no longer with him. He is a broken
reed, worn out tool. And just as the
snake casts off his hide in the spring.
so the beasts in the jungle will cast
off Uncle Joe and they will pounce
upon him and vent their rage even as
terrier pounces on the snakes cast
off hide and shakes it until his animal
instinct against the reptile is satiate /.
But WATCH FOR THE BEAST
IN HIS NEW COAT. HE Is NOT
DEAD But HIDING.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-17
NOBLE BRAVE HIT
BY HEAVY EXPRESS

WENATCHEE, Nov. 15.-Passen-
ger train No. 4. on Sunday night ran
into an aged Indian, Doc Jim, just
above Cashmere, killing the Indians
horse and also fracturing the In
dams skull and breaking two ribs. 1t
is thought that he will not recover.
Doc Jim is one of the best known
of the Wenatchee Indians. He is
said to be fully 100 years old and is
very deaf. He did not hear the train
coming and it was on him before he
was aware of its presence. The
horse was killed outright and Doc
Jim had his skull fractured and two
ribs broken.
After the accident the train was
stopped and the engineer and con-
ductor ran out to render aid to the
wounded man. The Indians dog how
ever. did not allow the trainmen to
touch the Indian. The train was
started up and after they reached
Cashmere help was sent out from
there.