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OLD ENGLISH LANDMARK MAY HAVE TO BE DEMOLISHED The old tower of Temple church, Iondon. which, because of its in creasing tendency to lean to one side, may bare to be torn down, la one of the oldest landmarks in England. It was built 718 years ago. and it has not only survived the great Are which THE RESULT OF DIET. Effect of Brain Food on People of Massachusetts Village. Charles P. Thompson who for years represented the Gloucester. Mass. dis trict in Congress and who once de feated "Ben" nutler for that position-, had a party of fellow representatives at the old seacoast town. "What is the diet of these people?" asked a New Yorker. "Fish, mostly," re sponded the Massachusetts man. "Why." spoke up a Virginian. "I thought fish was brain food. These are really the most unintelligent look ing persons I ever saw." "Well." said Thompson, "just think what they would look like if they didn't eat fish." BOSTON MAN'S HIGH HONOR. Charles H. Taylor Again Head of Newspaper Publishers' Association. Charles H. Taylor, Jr.. re-elected president of the American Newspaper CZA2LEJ ublishers' association, is business manager and treasurer of the Boston Globe. He is the son of the editor-Ir.-chief and has had a thorough train ing in tho newspaper business from his youth up. After graduating he studied newspaper methods in New Ycrk. He then began on the Globe as a reporter and worked his way up tc assistant managing editor. Subse quently, as business manager, he also jtoved an eminent success. Curing Writers' Cramp. At a social gathering in London not long ago a Miss Gushingtcn. on being introduced to Rudyanl Kipling, said she thought of going in for being an author, but was afraid of writers' cramp. Mr. Kipling said he had once suffered in that way. but had been cured by a piece of beefsteak. "And how did you apply it?" said the young woman. "Grilled and internally." was the reply, "and it cured the cramp 1 had. But then perhaps you and I are hinking of different parts of the human anatomy." Indian Statesman Respected. Ex-Governor Johnson of the Chick as'iw nation is likely to.be re-elected to the governorship again. Mr. John son is a man of good address, pol ished and courtly and so well up in the civilization of the white man that go one would think him of aborigine stock except for his coal-black hair and the suggestion of copper hue. Governor Johnson has done mucn to alvance the cause of education among his people. He is held in the greatest respect by all classes In the territory. Record for Shoe Making. A pair of women's shoes made in Lynn. Mass.. to establish a record for rapid shoemaklng. required fifty seven different operations and the use of forty-two machines and 100 pieces. All thesa parts were assembled and made into a graceful pair of shoes, ready to wear in thirteen minutes. Production of a Rainbow. In order , that a rainbow may be produced t!ie sun must not be more than forty-two degrees above the hori-toa. f A m 1 burned dangerous near to it, but thua far it has withstood the ravages of time. The Temple church was built by the Knights Templar on the model of the Holy Sepulcner at Jerusalem. It is one of the five remaining round churches of Europe. BLAME PLACED ON KINLOCH. British Army Scandal Centers Grenadier Commander. in Col. Kin loch is the central figure in the army scandal which has been agi- UEUT-COL. D. A. KINLOCH tating England for several weeks. Al though he declares he knew nothing of the "ragging" that prevailed in his regiment, the Grenadier guards, and which included the flogging of the sons and nephews of several dukes, Col. Kinlcch has been held responsi ble for the escapades of his subal terns and retired cn half pay. AMERICAN ENVOY IN ILL ODOR J. R. Crossland, Minister to Liberia, Shoots and Wounds a Man. J. R. Crossland, a Brooklyn negro who is United States minister to Li beria, is accused in a letter received at New York of shooting and wound ing T. J. B. Faulkner. The trouble wa3 . started by Crossland, who wa? J. K. Crossland. unduly attentive to Sirs. Faulkner. Since the shooting it is said Cross land has avoided arrest by keeping inside the American legation. Advantages of Married Men. In the course of quite a lengthy conversation with Senator Mason the other day the president said: "I tell you. Mason, these bachelors do not stand the strain. Now there's Moody of the navy. He has got to go South for rest. He's all broken up with his social duties. He gave one dinner. The hotel people got it up for him. Mrs. Dewey invited the people. A file of marines was turned out to keep things in order and all he had to do was to eat. And yet the strain used him up for two days, while we mar ried men go about joyously and never get tired." Great Shoe and Hat Producers. The great shoe manufacturing towns are Lynn, Haverhill and Brock ton, Mass., and the great hat-produc- l ing towns are Bethel and Danbury, Conn., and Orange, N. J. Illinois' Chief Manufactures. Illinois ranks first among the states in the manufacture of agricultural implements, bicycles, cars, glucose and distilled liquors, and In slaughter ing and meat parking. rr tot s r sr.''-,;, S V A ITtOGItAM OF "IFS" FARCICAL LEGISLATION PROPOS ED AGAINST TRUSTS. Industrial Commission Had More Power Than New Department of Commerce, but Accomplished Noth ing in Four Years. The Republicans in Congress have Just passed, with a great display of strenuosity and a great show of op position on the part of the trusts all the while keeping their faces straight before the public and look ing serious and determined as pos sible a law, giving the new depart ment of Commerce and Labor the power to investigate and gather in formation about certain great cor porations or trusts, and to report such data to the President. That this law is meaningless and harmless, so far as the trusts are concerned, no one with a thimble full of brains and an ounce of political exnerience. can doubt. There is a preponderance of evidence against it, both internal and external. In the first place, observe the "ifs" in the law Itself: If the Secretary of this new depart ment is so inclined he may fish for facts in regard to trusts: If the chief of the bureau of cor porations in this new department is not owned by the trusts, and if he is capable and if he has competent and honest assistants, and if they fish in the right place, they may obtain valuable data; If. when valuable data is obtained. the President wishes, he may secure it; If, then, the President has time to read it and sees fit to do so, he may make public some or all of this data; or If he thinks best, he may simply make "recommendations to Congress for legislation" to regulate trusts; If, then. Congress is not controlled by the allied trusts and railroads, it may, in the course of time, pass new legislation to curb trusts; If, then, the attorney-general is so inclined, and if he has time, he may apply the new legislation to the of fending trusts; If, then, the evidence is sufficient. the courts may, in the years to come, decide that the new legislation is constitutional and that some particu lar trust has been guilty of illegal practices; If, then, the trust has not already changed its form or ceased to exist, it may pay a nominal fine and, in the course of eight or ten years as did the Standard Oil trust sliehtly change its name and location and con tinue its business of plundering the people, as will also the hundreds of other trusts against which suits will not be brought. With such a program of "ifs" in front of him it is surprising that Mr. John D. Rockefeller got frightened, became hysterical and telegraphed all the senators whose names he could remember, not to pass such drastic legislation? Besides this internal there is ample external evidence to condemn this new legislation. It apparently has not occurred to our Republican trust-busting legisla tors that we have had four years' ex perience with a Republican institu- CARNEGIE LIBRARY. 1 , . L I. 4 ,0hMh B,w mm mm "The rich are willing to do anything for the poor, except to get their backs." Count Leo Tolstoi. tion having all and greater powers than the new department will have. The Industrial Commission was creat ed in June, 1S9S. and sat uutil Febru ary, 1902. It investigated, or pre tended to investigate, numerous trusts and made nineteen volumes of re ports, averaging nearly l.OOv) pages each. It made some milk-and-water recommendations, all of which have been ignored by the Republican body which created it. If this great com mission, composed of Senators, Rep resentatives and industrial experts and having full power to inquire into sll corporations including railroads, which are debarred in the new department accomplished nothing, after four years of arduous effort and with high salaries, what may be ex pect of this new department, with limited powers to investigate and publish facts? Nothing, surely, ex cept that it will satisfy our President and may prevent effective and anti trust legislation and thus gain for the trusts every such year's time being worth hundreds of millions to the trusts. If so, it will have accom plished Its sinister object. More external evidence is tho fact It! !h.al "an.1 -f:"r l0 iMauuii mui ii ua passeu inis year has passed K.r I .n4.l...A.l 1.111 . I . li t, I. Ill .1.1. W,t " . ii win vuaj nuiuu lliiver pi tf v til ICU 11113 bill. If the trusts had asked it. Sena tor Quay would have said that word. for he is, par excellence, the repre sentative of the trusts. Byron W. Holt. Under the Auspices of the Cat. Export Prices Again. It takes a great amount of gall these days to assert that our numerous pro tected trusts are not continually and habitually selling their products cheap er to foreigners than to Americans, but the Republicans are undaunted by any amount of evidence, even when it comes from protected Republican man ufacturers. Numerous protected manufacturers were before the ways and means com mittee on Jan. 15, arguing in favor of the Lovering bill to enable the manu facturers to obtain drawback duties without identifying the imported raw material. The bill is all right, for it would enable the manufacturers to sell still cheaper to foreigners without in any way injuring Americans. If Mr. Lovering would introduce another bill to give the manufacturers free raw materials to make goods cheap to us, we would applaud still louder; but his party does not believe in giving us cheap goods, During this hearing Mr. W. H. Seav- er of the National Wire company said that steel billets and raw material cost about $10 a ton less abroad than at home. "Is there any one company or corpor ation that controls the price of raw materials in this country?" was asked by a member of the committee. "I should say yes," replied Mr. Seaver, "that being the United States both giver and receiver the only par Steel corporation." ties necessarily in the secret could "What has been their act toward refuse to testify on the ground that raising or lowering prices?" Mr. Gros- venor asked. "Their policy has been to retain the prices at such a high level that the in- dependent concerns have found it very difficult to live," replied Mr. Seaver. In reply to a question he said: "I know it to be, a fact that in spite of the enormous demand of this county, cer- tain companies are still holding on to the export business at prices which I know are very much less than those obtained in this country. ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY off "I know that they have offered wire rods in Canada at a price which is several dollars less than they offered the same rods for domestic use," said Mr. Seaver in reply to a question with reference to foreign selling by the United States Steel corporation. Mr. Swanson of Virginia asked: "When you sell your finished product d you sell it abroad at less than you sell it at home?" Mr. Seaver said: "Yes, sir, because we get the benefit of the drawback." Mr. C. H. Cramp, the great ship builder, said that steel billets cost $27 a ton abroad and $45 here. Thus, we see, the very nature of Re publican tariff laws is to encourage manufacturers to sell cheaper for ex port than for domestic use. But not one-half the goods exported at lower prices than are charged here are goods on which drawback duties are obtained. The trusts have no excuse for most of tills high-handed robbery, and in fact none is necessary as long as the peo ple vote to protect the trusts by thi highest tariff wall that mankind ever saw. BYRON W. HOLT.. Ikyoy-k r.iTTr.w mi 'wivv iii a x vivjj 1. I I ATTORNEY - GENERAL REVISES the elkins bill. Amendment Added Makes New Moas ure a Duplicate of the Existing Law An Excellent Sample of Repub lican Legislation. It appears that the President takes a lively interest in the Elkins bill to eliminate the bad element from the trusts by prohibiting the payment of rebates by railroad companies. His interest is so lively, in fact, that he gave a dinner to leading members of the house In order to impress upon them his earnest desire for the con currenee of the house in the passage of that bill. It appears also that Attorney Gen eral Knox revised the Elkins bill and incorporated in it his plan to punish the shipper who gets a rebate as well as the carrier who gives it a plan which he pretends to think will catch the rogues and put an end to the practice which he assumes gives the trusts the most of their unfair advan tage. With these facts in mind we are prepared to see the point of an amend ment to the Elkins bill which the bouse committee on commerce has agreed to report. The amendment strikes out the words "or corporation" after the word "person" in the follow ing clause: But no person or corporation shall be prosecuted or subjected to any pen alty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing con cerning which he may testify or pro duce evidence, documentary or other wise, in such proceeding." This calls attention to the fact that the clause as Mr. Knox left it after revision was one of these "little jok ers which are so characteristic or Republican legislation where the in terests of legislative favorites are con cerned. The clause is part of the provision for getting at shippers who receive re bates. If they were corporations, as they easily might become, the could escape penalty by simply proceeding In their corporate capacity to produce evidence against themselves. The proposed amendment exposes the joker. The publication of this Knox clause of the Elkins bill once more directs attention to the fact that this very legislation to catch the shipper is n0w in the interstate commerce law as it has been amended from time to time. In the original law provision was made for the punishment of both giver and receiver of a rebate. Presently it was discovered that nobody could be convicted under this law because they could not do so without incrimi- I nating themselves. In other words. by virtually confessing their guilt both parties could escape punishment. To overcome this difficulty this very Knox clause was enacted as an amendment, all but one thing. In order to get shippers to testify against carriers it was enacted that the test! mony of shippers should not be used against themselves. The only thing added to this by Mr. Knox was the joker by which any shipper could slip out if he was big enough and numer ous enough to get himself incorpor ated. Without the amendment the Knox 1 clause is worse than the existing law. With that amendment it is nothing but the existing law. Yet Mr. Knox puts it forward as a great trust-busting device and the President gives dinners to members of the house to promote its enactment! Naval Brahminism. Mr. Foss' naval appropriation bin grudgingly concedes that twelve war rant officers may annually be ad vanced to commissioned rank. This in the face of the tact that the navy is now short 577 commissioned offi cers and will within three years have a deficiency of 1,500 officers. If it be advisable to allow twelve promotoions from the ranks it is ad visable to permit 1,200 promotions if the candidates be competent. The re striction is snobbish, irrational and narrow. It is the outgrowtn or ine caddish talk about "social qualifica- ;ions which emanates from the bureau cratic clique which runs the navy. If enlisted men or men from civil life are good enough for the army they are good enough for the navy. The institution at Annapolis is not the in cubator for a caste of Brahmins su perior to other American citizens. Merely a Makeshift Measure. Senator Aldrich, who has been a persistent opponent of currency re- iform, comes forward with a bill which is a piece of the makeshift legislation so dear to the Republican party. It is a proposition to enlarge the powers of the secretary of the treasury in dealing with the customary monetary stringencies by permitting him to deposit public money in the treasury with national banks on approved securities, such as municipal and choice railroad lonils. (ine stroke of business sagacity appears in the stipulation that at least one and a half per cent interest is to be paid for these deposits, the secretary being given power to fix the rate. Can't See the Tariff Hole. After a vast deal of tugging and pulling and straining the Republican brethren in Congress have practically settled down on three Jack-the-Trust-Klller measures. First, a measure to advance trust prosecutions on the calendars of Unit ed States courts; a bill by itself. Second, a measure to secure public ity of some of the affairs of some of the trusts; a provision inserted In the bill creating a new executive depart ment. Third, a measure to punish both the givers and the receivers of freight re bates; another separate bill, and es sentially a re-enactment of what is al ready in the interstate commerce law. But there is not the first hint in all this about what the experienced Mr. Havemeyer calls the mother of trusts and what certain Iowa Republicans call the shelter for monopoly; that Is to say, the tariff for monopoly only. It Is the case of the hog in the gar den over again. That sagacious nnliual when pur sued makes any number of attempts at holes he cannot possibly Hfiueez through, but cannot set I lie hoi through which he got In no, nver- untll he happens to want to get in again, when lie finds it without the least difficulty In the world. So the trust magnates and the! Republican friends In Congress aro ready to stop all the little holes through which no trust ever could have entered, but they are quite blind to the tariff hole, which is the great thoroughfare through which the trus hogs enter the public garden. Let us not forget this when the futll ity of the new legislation becomes ap parent. Where Shall the Line Be Drawn? The point made in favor of Ihe prop osition to double the salary of the President of the United States, thus increasing it to $10,0(Mt, is that tho expenses of living have become so much higher as to make this rie a- propriate. We are moved to inquire in this connection if those who udvocntc tho advance on this ground realize how much the position they take im plies. If this increase in tho price of living bears hard upon the president, why not also on the people? If tho state of the case calls for so much additional salary there, most certainly it must mean the propriety of sub stantial addition to laborers' wages, Before the legisators at Washington engage in such projects as this one it may be well for them to reflect i -ion what they may logically lead to if reasonably carried out. Hanna's Ridiculous Bill.. Senator Hanna has cast all meas ures in the shade by his ridiculous "slave pension bill." No one for a moment supposes that it will pass Congress. Not even Senator Hanna could keep his face straight were he asked if he believed the measure would become a law. In tact, he ex cuses its introduction by apologeti cally Indorsing It as presented "by request." It was a most mischievous thing, however, to have done. It will arouse a vain hope among the negroes of the south that they are to bo pen sioned by the government,, and it will stir into activity those who on various occasions have deluded these poor people with such hoie8 and in duced them to part with their little savings to "help it along." If Sena tor Hanna isn't ashamed of himself he ought to be. Inadequacy of Fines. Great stress is laid in Congress on the fact of the inadequacy of some of the fines stipulated in the anti-trust provisions. It was contended in the house that the Hoar bill was too weak kneed against violators of its provi sions and the Elkins anti-rebate bill was regarded by the advocates as far too moderate in the matter of fines. The whole history of English attempts to suppress monopoly by terrible fines shows how futile It is where the spoils are sufficient to risk violating the law. Wrong systems never were abolished by fines. The true remedy is to abol ish the laws which make the system possible. Until we repeal some of tho laws under which the trust's wore in corporated the fines will not save us. Power of the Trusts. A striking illustration of one pow er acquired by the formation of a trust and one brazenly announced in academic essays on the virtues of such organizations is the shutting down of the refineries of the sugar trust at Williamsburg, N. Y.. throw ing out 5,000 employes, and thus de priving dependent families of sup- support. The closing of the cooper shops, an incidental sequence, will almost double the number of the un employed. The reason for the closing is the regulation of production. That is, to follow out the processs, to main tain prices and secure more profits to enable payment of larger dividends. Echoing Hanna's Allegation. It is instructive as to the operations of the human mind to observe that in the house debate on tho anti-trust bill Jenkins of Wisconsin returned to the cry which evokes the recollection of 1900 "There are no trusts." In thi3 plea Mr. Jenkins infringes on tho copyright of M. A. Hanna. The latter statesman worked tlii.s assertion to the limit in that year. Yet since then President and legislators have found out that there are trusts enough to necessitate doing something even if it be no more than going through the motions of the Elkins bill or the Nel son amendment. Roosevelt and the Trusts. President Roosevelt's opposition to removal of tariff protection from tho trusts, as stated by him during the recent campaign, was on the ground that small industries competing with the trusts might suffer. But the present Democratic projxjsition en tirely meets and obviates that objec tion because it places the power to determine public necessity and the discretion to act entirely in the Presi dent's hands, whereby danger to small industries or to any other inno cent interests could be avoided. A Record of Trickery. The record of the majority in the present Congress, now soon to be com pleted, will be one of trickery and dis obedience in this matter of anti-trust legislation. The teaching of such a record should lead to effective reme dial action at the polls. The trust evil will never be restricted by the action of a Republican majority In the na tional Congress. This is the truta now most plainly evident. Just the Same Old Story. Mr. Bogle, head of the Indiana coal operators, says that any Increase in the pay of coal miners must come out of the consumers. Oh, of course. No body expected anything else. The consumers always "pay the freight." no matter what the controversy is about. Making It Thoroughly Harmless. The trusts are going to dehorn the new department of commerce at the start by securing control of its secre tary. Inside of two years from its establishment, if their plan works, the department will be as Inocuous as in Iowa railroad commission. BYMPATHY OUT OF PLACE The Only Way to Offer Help In Some Instances Is to Duy a Pie. "Out West, u lew years ago. wbllo Journeying around with u friwnd of mine. I overheard a con vernation which goes to nhow that yruathy Is Dfteu misplaced." fiald the roving man, "and the moral Is not by any means a bad one. Tho quick way In which tho man turned on bis friend, who had offered him an abundance of sympathy, so far as sympathy can b extended by mere words, was very amusing aud Hhowed that the- flluw wait quick-witted and unusually bright. despite the fact that he had fallen Into a rather rough road. "The young man had beea out West for some time. He had gone out there with tho Idea that he could win a for tune, but Instead of finding tho way to success a smooth one, It was rather rough anl roeky, inurred by thorns to prick the feet, pitfalls and all that kind of thing. Put in plain, unpoclb' language he was run down at the heel and bagging at the knee. In order to make a living he had been forced to become a pie men bant on a small scale. He was in this business when we found him, and had a hiiiuII mov able utand on tin corner of two streets in a well known mining town. My friend recognized him at a glance, and rushed up lo greet him. The fel low seemed to he Just a little; embar rassed and my friend thought it would be tho proper thing lo do to offer a. little sympathy. "'Sorry to sen you situated as you are, old fellow, and in this business.' said my friend feelingly. " 'L your sympathy. Buy a pie,' wa the quick rejoinder of tho vender,', and In a few Moments we had left him shrieking out Ills wares to Men who passed that way. "At least he convinced my friend. that there are moments in a man s life when the mere sympalJiy of tho mouth, no matter how earnest r how fervent the words, can not m-et the requirements of the case, and that the real and only way to offer hlp in. such. Instances Is to buy a pie." MKINLEY'S FAVORITE FLOWER. How the Carnation- Came to Be Se lected by the Late President. "Carnation day" has but recently been observed all over the country as a sort of tribute to the late President McKlnley, who during the later yean of his life was seldom seen without one of these blossoms in his button- nole. It is related that Mr. McKln- ey never showed any particular fond- nes for the carnation until some girls attending the Lake Erie college at Painsvllle, O., elected him an honorary member of their class and pinned their lass flower in his buttonhole. The ncident occurred on Nov. 19, 1S93, while the president, then governor, was In Painsvllle, a guest of the Gar field club. He devoted no little- time to the college girls who had honored Im, and his attitude thereafter show ed that he appreciated their admira tion. He often remembered and was ! remembered by them thereafter, Mrs. McKinley also took great interest in the class and its Insignia and was ac customed to provide a bunch of carna tions for her husband's room each morning. Tho first reunion of th class took place when Mr. McKinley was nominated for the presidency and the class sent him a congratulatory telegram. Ho visited the college sev eral times and was a mem Lor of it board of trustees. Two Birds. Tlio birds then; are tliat I do Iuva The turkey nhd tli; -aKle; One walks t Im i-arth, oik; Hoars abovtt Thp r!ou.'. !-iJirrn; and rffral. Tho turk'.-y, too. ran fly, hut ho Alms not at el-vu lion ; Som; safe limb of nn aMlf tree li'.-.st suita his humble e. tut Ion. liy night. th-r from his wily foe. The fox. he's nnf;. and b! uinlx.ru AH undisturbed by any woi; That mortal dr'-ainin cumbers; J5y day, in orchard wand-rlriK, lie humbly H'--ks his HvIhk; I'-iicfmnclouM of the Joy hu'll bring To cuurmai.riH on ThanksxivliiK. And while tho ealr-, jilnlon borne, Uoth cl-u.v; th vaulted azure. Ho Robbies ui the golden corn And Robbies forth his p)eanure. And, daily addiriR to Ms Rlrth, I'or man his chief attraction. So tills, this bird of noild worth. f His role with satisfaction. ICaeh In his Fphere has rightful fame; Tho cairte MikI In favor As emblem of the nation's alrn. The turkey for his llavor. iJut whil the eaRli-'s chief renown I-ies In his life, a winner. The turkey's still, when dead and brown. Served for Thanksgiving dinner. Senator Perkins Idea. Senator George C. Perkins of Cali fornia has some unusual ideas regard ing tho election of United States Senators, and on account of these he refused to listen to the appeals of hit friends to go to California during the recent senatorial fight there. "I regard the members of the leg. islature," said he, "as the Jury of the people, so far as the election of sena tors is concerned. Before tho eleo tion of the legislature I made a cam paign which extended the length and breadth of my state. I told the people that I was a candidate for re-election and I made my promises to them. - They elected a Republican legislature, W and by so doing made that lvglslatur their jury. When opposition appeared o my re-election my friends urged me to leave Washington and personally conduct my case before the legisla ture, but I do not think it is right foi benators to try to infruenco tho action of legislatures, so I remained in Washington. In other words, I fused to tamper with the Jury." Many Miles of New Railroad. According to the Railroad Gazette 6,026 miles of new steam railroad were built In the United States dur lng 1902. The figures are exclusive of second track, sidings and all electric lines. Rebuilt mileage Is also ex eluded, except where the work ln volved such extensive changes lr ' alignment that a new route was estan lished. 1 The Tyrant Man Analyzed. What is man? Man that is born ol woman Is small cabbages and few in a patch. In infancy he Js full of colic, paregoric and catnip tea, and la old t;ge he is full of cuss words ani rheumatism.