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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

A st. Louis man stood up for three
hours IN one Of the busiest streets
after being dead. Evidently the st.
Louis policemen are not In the habit
C compelling people to move on"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Autumn sunshine is an excellent
thing to store up before the semi-hiber'
nation which winter forces upon many
persons who shrink from cold wealth
W.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

THIS country's crop Of corn. oats,
wheat, barley and potatoes amounta
- E,s7s. 100000 bushels for the year,
nut pessimistic people win complain
ascauss there has been q small yield
% eho'lecherries.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

A man in New York was buried un
der tons of graduated sugar. He was
dug out in time, but few men have
had his experience Of facing q death
20 sweet
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Another millionaire has married
ehorus girl. II looks as II the million.
aires had formed q combination to put
ahs musical comedy shows out Of bust
nehs.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

81 deciding that q husband is not
nDsllsd to support bis mOthsr-in-
4 New York court hands down
~ aictnm that . man eoos not marry
90 WEES whole family. Nsverthe
81. fIs nr1rrrs vie win inclst that.
1r side 81 fta HONS lhsl
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

The remarkable persistency Of wom'
en- Of wealth in trying to bring jewels
into this country illegally suggests
that "smugglemania" is but a fash.
aonable variation of kleptomania.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Evidently the Japanese minister who
wants to build sixteen dreadnoughts is
not afraid OF what the airship is going
to drop on them.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

"only once" writes a correspondent
Of the New York Sun, have met
woman who suffered" Women have
no time to stutter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Up-to-date aviators like the rain be.
cause 1t kills the wind and not because
& makes the blowing easier when they
Rlight Unexpectedly.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Decision that the exaggerated ego"
does not imply actual insanity doubt
less will cause many people to breathe
signs Of relief.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Never pin your faith to a woman
who says she will be ready in FIVE min
utss-and Isl" says Life. Are there
any women like that?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

DogHsh is all right as food, says the
United States fish commission. We
shall all have a chance to try it-as
halibut, probably.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Any remote corner Of the world
may wake up some morning soon to
md a badly damaged balloon in its
back yard.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Persons Of slender means will be
glad to learn that they can purchase
radium now for only $2.100,000 an
ounce.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Mrs. Ferndale-We haven't any
eggs, but I can get some II you want
them very badl
summerbOrd-Never mind. don't
care for that kind.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

In the present stage Of aviation It
10 much easier to effect insurance on
q flying machine than on the man who
1ies It.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

How much easier "aeroplane" would
be to pronounce II we could only call
It "areoplane."
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24
Jupiter Pluvius 10 a bit Of a tease.

Even a perfect climate has its On
daya.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Eight women's clubs at Panama. Be-
tween clubs and spades the big job
will 60 through.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

There are times when the 'T-told.
you-so" man is more of a nuisance
than ever before.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

RED CROSS BALL BLUE
Should be in every homo. Ask your grocer
for Il. Large o.. package only cents.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Cuba hopes some day to get It's
storms trained to pick bananas, but
not to damage shipping.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

There are q good many heroes in
novels who couldn't earn q living IN
real life.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24
In fha Grand atand.

stella-Do you understand base
ball?"
Perfectly; but why does that
man run so hard with nobody after
him?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Amy garb that Is waterproof IL the
fAll style in raincoats.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

King Manuel thinks of coming to the
United States. which Is a very nice
country.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Sunshine is all right, but the hunt
or's moon has its excellencies also.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

It is proposed that all the concealed
weapons and their bearers be sent to
the Panama canal to fortify It
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

A professor calls for a Supreme
Court Of Science. Would anyatwo ex-
perts agree on any proposition?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Where is the use in carrying hob
bled woman to a dance?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-11-24

Cholera, like its undesirable citizens.
Europe may keep at home.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22

rip in three days; half the
buttons had to be sewed over,
and the color runs III
shower.
1t fitted when | got 1t; now
am ashamed to wear IT TO
work.
7 understand that the in
dividualistic car service of San
Francisco is something of
Joke, and that the ruins of
your city hall, built by private
enterprise, were generously
lined with old barrels, loose
plaster and plain dirt
But a nation that demands
solid pages of news about the
death Of a royal British pup
pet. just because he happened
to be the eldest son of Mrs.
Victim, and was of no partic-
ular consequence otherwise, is
in little imminent danger of
plunging into the uncharted
sea of socialism.
1t has evidently about de-
cidcd that a republic is hard
ly the stylish thing anyway,
though it has never really es-
tahliShed one
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
A MEDIEVAL PAGEANT

This reads like the epistle OF an
ambitious boy in a fret. The ref
erence to King Edward is in bad
taste. have as little admiration
as anybody for the British mon
archy, which is a ridiculous sur
vival OF medievalism. yet | would
not speak meanly of a man or
woman who, being placed in a po-
sItlon OF quasi authority, did their
duty as they saw it. Let us agree
to respect King Edward as a
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
INTERESTING DETAILS OMITTED

The article is rather disappointing because of
It's lack of details concerning these plans, and
fuller exposition of the forces at W3 and methods
employed would have the highest interest How
near Hartman to the completion of his colos-
sal banking project, since fulfilled by J. P Morgan,
told; but the article stops short of telling us
how he did it.
The old story of the clash with Thomas Fortune
Ryan over the control of the Equitable life assur-
ancc society," with its S4O0OOO0OO OF assets, is retold
and hear again of the angry meeting between
Hartman and Ryan, at which Hartman, when
refused half interest in the control threatened to
use his influence, political and in every other way
against Ryan When Hartman was asked by Gov
crnor Hughes before the Armstrong committee if he
had in fact used his influence against Ryan he replied
with the famous mot yet to which the gossips
with prophetic sense than they knew added
but soon."
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
HIS vocIFERoUS BOOTS

The agonized squeak of Governor Cages diplo-
matte boots-18 pairs, Is; count ems heard
around the world, and their purpose, meaning and
message to the Gentiles have become the subject Of
editorial speculation two continents Marse
Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier-Tournal
devotes column of choice words to Mr.. Cages
footwear and among other things he says:
The only fault TO find with the rage of Mr.
Gage is that it seethes in the wrong century. Even
as late the beginning of the last quarter of the
nineteenth century the world knew little enough
of the west to associate the sombrero. the SIX
shooter and the top boot inseparaby with the resi-
dent of that section of the world. And the "con-
stituent' in the knew little enough of the
world to have hearty hatred. of it. and to be
caught by the claptrap of the politician who pro-
claimed his manhood by making picturesque as
sauts upon the spike tailed the silk hat
The pose of the rough and ready western poli-
clan paid dividends.
No, Governor Cages boots are not political. but
temperamental. They will never be passed through
the mails under frank campaign document like
parts OF the congressional record the publications
of the American protective tariff league. 1t may be
that Mr.. Cages politics belong to the period of his
boots, but he is genuine who does not pose,
and. as for these same lustrious boots, he was
born in them.
Marse Henrys conception of Governor Cages
boots is baseless his terrifying vision of
Roosevelt in the awful shape of great Caesars ghost
ghost.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
HARRIMAN's THREAT FULFILLED

How fully Harrin1an's promise or threat wa
fulfilled the writer tells us for the first time and tn
news is surprising. I quote:
Less than year ago J. P. Morgan, anxious TO
extend his banking influence, Mr.. Ryan
eager bidder for Mr.. Ryan's Equitable stock
Mr. Ryan embarrassed He was obliged TO
say: Il sorry; have sold half my interest in
the Equitable Life to E. Fl. Hartmann Mr.
Morgan angry and chagrned, not to say
astonished Hartman had bought control for it
amounted TO control, of the Equitable and
nobody knew anything about it.
Mr. Morgan learned at about the same time
that Hartman had secured control of the great
Guaranty company. The new ACQUISITION
gave him also control of the Equitable trust COM
pany, the Mercantile trust dompany and the
powerful National Bank of Commerce Mr.
Morgan alarmed. So other bankers in
Wall street later when they learned the news
They visions of Hartman exerting his mighty
energies toward the establishment of gigantic
banking combination.
Accordingly, Morgan went to Hartman to see
if he could buy control of the Equitable at all
hazards Had he not step by step Welded his
great influence the railroad field? Was not
Hartman already king of the railroad situation?
Could not he, Morgan, extend the sphere of his
banking influence Must Hartman compete there
also: If Hartman would sell he could have any
thing else he wanted. In any event, Morgan
wanted no competition in Wall street
But Hartman demurred. What could Morgan
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22

REMARKABLE article in the
current Metropolitan magazine
has been attributed to Judge
Lovett. If not the work of the
Southern Pacific president, it
comes from somebody close up
and is written by authority. In
brief. the article is a defense of
Mr.. Hartman and further gives
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
A DEFENSE OF HARTMAN

The writer enters elaborate defense of Harri-
In relation TO the Alton reorganization which
drew down on him such storm of condemnation.
Without entering into the details of complicated
transaction, may say that | have always believed
that injustice done to Hartman in this relation
The essence OF the transaction was that Hartman
substituted kind OF security for another less
easily marketable and after spending large sum
of money to rehabilitate the road sold out at COM
Portable profit. But the risk very considerable
1t Harriman's good fortune that all his
important work done on a rising market He
heard of as factor in the railroad world
until after o3 and virtually all his astonishing oper
atoms were completed in the ten years of remarkable
prosperity following 1896 The results followed
from wonderful conjunction of financial genius
with good luck. At any other less fortunate period
he might have proved failure.
WHO'S AFRAID?
My Berkeley socialist friend, Arthur George.
writes and dares me to publish what he writes in
this wise:
Mr. Cahill finds my letter. published on his
page, May the 9Th, being reply to his comments
socialism and socialists the previous Sunday,
phrase in that item that is not distinctly peril
nent to the matter under discussion. I'll bet
Sutter street transfer to the ferry that he
say "impercnce"
Long familiarity with the of filing space
with verbiage has made him careless 1t comforts
me to know that he has been amused | don't
find it any fun do this of thing. It would
please me better to leave the social problem in the
hands of famous and pubcists.
did they but show disposition face the issue
with a radical courage and full and frank recog-
milton of all its phases.
AS the socialists, with
tive vision and larger and truer perspective over
the situation, compelled to do the driving
job for which the majority of them have but
little taste: they would rather drive nails lay
brick, drive teams, teach school pick fruit. But
they tired of the endless social tragedy. Our
social conservation, even clearly aware
that industrial and commercial activities,
based the individualistic anarc1istic prin-
ciple, constitute state of deadly social warfare
This is the first lesson. And it will have be
learned
l greatly admire Mr. Cahrs gift of prophecy
He knows In advance that the socialist republic
The seventh son of guni How does he do it?
1t is the very thing want it takes in about all
of us.
Oh, by the way, it is conservatvely announced
that the socialist mayor of Milwaukee, after
generous pruning of dead wood from the munici-
pal plum tree, has directed that the remaining
branches shall exhibit results for eight hours
daily instead of sixl
He also has shattered respectable tradition by
devoing full time to the city that pays his wages
This IS surely playing hob with the paradise
hereinbefore mentioned
"Individualism supplies powerful incentive
in1peling to make themselves perfect in
their work., says Mr. Cahill
A few weeks ago | bought suit. a twenty
dollar leader, from large, respectable house,
with branches east and west, that claims to do its
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22

some outline Of the sensational plans he had IN mlnc
and had partly executed at the time of his death
plans that had he lived ten years longer, his indom
table efficiency would have fulfilled This is the
outline:
When he died the vastness of his power, the
extent OF his possessions, the strength of his
position, which yet the public does not know.
startled his closest friends Harriman's ambition
was popularity supposed to be the acquisition OF
an American transoontinenta railroad. How
little the Hartman mind was known! Harrimans
ambition only to be arbiter of the Amer
lean railroad field, much a private citizen
could be arbiter but to have railroad around
the world Two or three lines from the Atlantic
10 the Pacific already his. Among his plans
was comprehensive scheme of railroad develop
ment in Manchuria, and the building of another
across Siberia and European Russia. These plans
in embryonic stage. They had been well
thought out. The Manchuran project fairly
we'll in hand and the Russian government had
been approached trans-Siberian project.
Furthermore, Mr.. Hartman planned to be the
foremost banking power in the world. SO far had
his plans in this direction progressed just prior
his DEATH and quietly had he been working,
that banking powers of Wall street were dunn
founded TO learn that colossus in their
midst who promised successfully 10 challenge
+be5rs,
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22

akers (the Black Eagle) famous eulogy of Bro
ick conveys false idea as to the relative skill
e principals in the use OF weapons-and
rites:
Broderick was considered the best pistol shot
IN San Francisco, and | have heard it stated in
1888 by men whom consider to be truthful and
IN position to know that he rang the bell forty
consecutive times IN pistol or shooting gallery
III San Francisco. He a believer in the
duello and fought with Judge Smith and his
life was saved by his watch, which he carried
contrary to the code, and | never heard of any
body mentioning the fact of its being a mere
1nadvertenCy.
l remember reading in the daily papers of the
tact that the shattered remains of his watch were
found upon opening his safe after his death while
hunting for his will that was never found 1t was
also generally understood that his friends were
greatly disappointed at the interruption by the
authorities OF the hrst meeting of Terry and Brod-
erlck, believing in the superiority of the latters
skill over Terry, who had fought duel
with pistols, or even carried one, placing greater
faith IN his knife This statement may seem
strange. lnasmuch as in the public mind he was
rated as southern fire eater, General Baker
represented, but | had it from the late Senator
Benjamin Langford of Lodi, San Joaquin county,
whose word think will be taken and considered
unimpeachable, that the day after the determine
ton of the duel was reached Terry came to his
residence, they being friends of long standing
\ seeking his advice, and upon Langfords sugges-
ton they proceeded to Stockton to consult Doctor
Aylette, who was friendly to both, and of acknowl-
edged authority upon such matters. The doctor
suggested that Terry had better do some prac-
ticing which. Aylette produced the pistols, was
complied with, and the fact was revealed that. as
Langford expressed it, Terry could not hit the
side of a barn. firing at the word His manner
at the meeting of his adversary proved, however
that under Aylette's teaching he became an apt
scholar.
AS for Terry, I never admired him, and if had
should have been chagrined when he appeared
before the senate while was its presiding officer
and sought, in company with Haggin and Tevis
to 1mpeach Justices Morrison and Sharpstein of
the state supreme court because they voted for
the riparian and the Sarah Althea" decisions
or course, the mere impeachment of the two Off
cials might not have done them any good but the
belief was general that Governor Stoneman would
have hled their places with judges to their liking
without knowing how far reaching his action
would be- Governor Stoneman was honest, but
superannuated
have always thought that effort was of the
most infamous character conceivable it being de-
signed to enable Haggin, Tevis and Bill Carr to
gobble Lux & Miller's Kern river water and Terry
to obtain his wifes judgment against Sharon
Sarah Althea was daily for a time to be seen bob
bing around the floor of the senate interviewing
the senators.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
HOW DID HE DO IT?

Mrs. Hartman had no use for
this great banking combination
and she sold to Morgan, who pro-
ceeded at once to organize the
greatest trust and banking mer-
ger the world has ever known. It
IS said to involve a combination
OF FIVE billions of capital,
1t is at this stage that the ar
ticle becomes disappointing. The
public does not very often get a
glimpse of the inside of high fl
nance and it would be quite in
teresting to learn the nature and
methods of the influence" applied
by Hartman on Ryan. OF this
we are told nothing.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22

dead game sport
When San Francisco made pretense that Don
Iaspar de Portola owned the town and let him fill
the newspapers with his amiable nonsense and his
dDsurd prdnc1ngs there was SO curmudeeon as
to object When we hear the call of the calliope
we all turn out and watch the elephants 90 marching
by and the painted ladies and the terrible beasts
All the worlds stage and kings have their parts to
play.
Mr.. DIoGENES OF BERKELEY
Mr. George finds it remarkable that socialist
should be an honest and he points with pride
to Mayor Sedel OF Milwaukee Honest men and
great men have lived before Seidel Indeed, the
Roman poet made some such discovery long before
socialism invented.
But the conclusion does not follow that socialists
have monopoly of the honesty. 1t does not follow
that the socialists more honest than their neigh
bors quite concede that they are we'll meaning
and humane folk albeit much afflicted with bad
temper and copious flow OF words.
QUEEN SABE?
Others of my socialist critics are content to abuse
me and declare that know nothing about socialism.
Ofcourse don't Nobody does I never met
socialist yet who had not private plan for the
regeneration OF humanity and anybody who did not
appreciate understand his special system was held
to know nothing about socialism. There are lust
about many definitions of socialism as there are
socialists
May offer more? Any interference with
property rights is form of socialism, The protec-
tive tariff is one such form. The British poor law
relief system, of which Mr.. Bundle was the great
exer1plar, is another We have in operation
hundred different forms of socialism all about us
although, the operators would blush to be called
socialists and would even prefer to be known as
politicians.
WITCH DOCTORS NOT INFALLIBLE
quite understand the evils that attend an indi-
vidualism, 'the social tragedy, Mr.. George calls
it. and give the socialists full credit for the gener
Gus indignation with which they regard these ills
and seek to correct them. But because things go
wrong they jump to the conclusion that they be
cured by change of the machinery without remov-
ing the cause. The human tragedy everywhere is
due to the single cause of human selhshness, and
socialism could not affect the play of that motive in
the smallest degree. AS to one special field in which
this motive would be especially active under social
ism quote the words of wise
The CRATER wherever he is found probably
responds to certain uniform laws of his being
But fall into the habit of thinking
that public duty ends when hire the most
expensive witch doctor in the market. No amount
of professional skill will give community health,
# It IS not itself possessed with the will to be
healthful and clean.
The socialist witch doctor who has made Milwau-
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22

kee famous will succeed in cleaning out the grafters
the people of that town will back him up and not
otherwise But the same thing could be done in the
same circumstances without witch doctor. If all
men were honest and unselhsh there would be no
more trouble under one social system than under
another. The socialists-good people. l repeat, if
not amiable-imagine that they make men
honest by machinery.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
ONE OF THE OLD TIMERS

Former Lieutenant Governor Daggett writes me
some personal recollectons of people who were con-
cerned in the duel between Senator Broderick and
Judge Terry, of which | wrote some weeks ago in
connection with Jerome Harts historical romance
OF early San Francisco. He says that Geneal E. D.
Bakers (the Black Eagle famous eulogy of Brod-
erick conveys false idea as to the relative skill of
the principals in the of weapons-and he
writes:
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
By Edward f. Cahill

give him? True, he was boss
of the railroad situation. But
no thanks for that to Morgan
or anybody else. He had had
to fight for that and fight
hard Moreover, he was in
the banking situation with
both feet. No, he could not
sell to Mr.. Morgan.
Then existed one of the
tensest situations Wall street
has ever contained, but the
rank and file knew nothing
about it. What the outcome
would have been is hard TO
say, for in the midst of it all
Mr.. Hartman died. Fate
was working for Mr.. Morgan