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f 7 t,n-Hj(S' rm. V S The Commoner. VOLUME 13, NUMBER 5 6 fCURReiMT opics ; mi T "f" Tg V- J . 'iCi- --- . . - .-l----. w.w.j: -:?. .vt. fl II , a ' 11 imr.r. .11 1 ' f-l Z1111L- s PRESIDENT TAFT had an amusing experience at a dinner lie attended recently In New York. An Associated Press dispatch tells .the story In this way: President Taft who entered nt a lato hour was escorted into tho banquet room by a commltloo of members of the Ohio society and tho flfo and drum corps of tho Sovonth regiment, national guard of New York. Ho was given an ovation, tho cheering lasting eovoral minutes. When President Taft entered tho banquot hall whoro tho dinner to Former President Andrew D. White of Cornell was to bo hold the first person ho saw was Henry Phlpps, tho Pittsburgh steel man. The presi dent stretched out his hand and said: "How do you do, Mr. Phlpps?" Mr. Phlpps looked blankly at tho president a moment. "Pardon mo, I don't seem to rocall your face," he said. A wavo of laughtor from tho diners brought a smllo to tho president's face, which had clouded for a second. "Mr. Phlpps," ho said, "I think If you tako a good look at mo you will recall " Bofore tho president could complete his sentence Mr. Phlpps, who had continued gazing Intently at him, broke In with: "Why, President Taft, I bog your pardon. I really did not recognize you." Tho president laughed as ho warmly shook Mr. Phlpps by tho hand and walked to the placo rosorvod for him. Mr. Phlpps took tho matter good naturcdly and laughed with tho rest of tho diners. & & & MRS. LONGSTRHBT, widow of the Con fedorato Gcnoral Longstreet, wired to Attorney General Carmody of Now York, that sho would raise $23,47G from "tho ragged and malmod followers of Leo" rather than see Gonoral Daniel 13. Sickles imprisoned. Attor ney General Carmody replied as follows: "Your sympathetic and patriotic expressions do justice to your hoart, but thoy do violcnco to the facts in this caso. Gcnoral Sickles is being prose cuted by tho state of Now York for converting to his own uso tho sum of $23,476. This money came into his hands as chairman of tho state monumont commission, to bo used, among other purposes, for tho erection of monuments to mark tho rosting places on the field of Gettysburg of tho bravo soldiers who foil in defenso of their country and to provide for a celebration upon tho field of Gettysburg in which those living might participate at tho state's expense in a fitting manner. General Sickles appropriated this amount to his own use. This ho has not attempted to justify or to defend, admitting that no took tho state's money for private uso with out authority of law, an act which under our laws and under tho laws of all civilized gov ernments means stealing. II0 was given his own time- to repay this amount, and that timo was extended, at his suggestion without an? desire to embarrass him and with the full appre ciation of tho claim which he has upon this nation for tho great services ho rendered in the rebellion. These services can not be esti mated, but oven the fame of tho soldier muS not be used as a cloak or protection for tho 5m m salon of crime, and it is nothing less Sm misdirected sympathy to undertake so to con fuse tho question involved as to make an on nary prosecution for a crime seem likS nora cutlon and to elevate as a martyr a neraon i. confesses his dereliction. Now Yor state an prociatos her heroes, and feels Z,in, p: tho spectacle which this case nrSiatet at York state also respects ho Maws an 7 enforce them in a spirit of IcZlml S G 8 to trust this brief statement of ffi" farts wllfLw you how erroneous have been vour vw 0W '3S syn,"nt"- - zajgj J J A for tho production of what Z T a nieans light," made public some do a is of mIT "cold which, it is thought, may rovolnHnil dIscvery, lighting. Starting on tho n?S inil l',eIectric as essential to matter as to nSSJ0 that rest Is has constructed a" ott lamS iPBa?!8m he light is concentrated on a Sin? e iihlch tho ments working successivelyffifef g- is projected through a lens magnifying a thous andfold. Thus he has succeeded in concentrat ing a 2,000 candle power light on one point, and in passing thirty-two volts into an eight volt lamp, which with the ordinary light would burst Experiments with this lamp have established that tho new light is absolutely without danger, as no heat Ib given off and it requires a hundred times loss current than the ordinary lamp. It can bo worked by a tiny battery, or sufficient motive power can be obtained from a jet of water from an ordinary faucet, or even a squir rel turning a cage. The light, it is said, offers great advantages in photography, as its photo gonic powor is four times that of the magnesium flashlight. Tt has been tried with great success at the Biarritz lighthouse, and M. Dussaud is working on its application to searchlights for tho ministry of war. J Cf & IT is clear that some things decidedly un American are going on along tho edges of America. Tho San Francisco Bulletin prints this editorial: John Hays Hammond has an nounced that ho proposes to settle the long pending Yaqui war, single handed and alone. This is appropriate, inasmuch as the gentleman representing tho big interests of the United States and Mexico was the cause of starting it. The Yaquis had occupied the beautiful valley named after them for countless centuries. They were there when Cortez came.. These people are the highest typo of aborigines, physically magni ficent, industrious-, capable tillers of the soil, with the primitive characteristics of truth tell ing, virtue and uncivilized honor. Though peace loving, they have always been able to defend their rights. When Diaz was in the height of his power they successfully resisted an attempt to disturb their territorial possessions and ex torted from the government a definite treaty, assigning the lands of the Yaqui river to the tribe in perpetuity. This seemed a final settle ment; but tho prize was too rich. A redistri bution was slipped past the Mexican government by which all the valley was turned over to cer tain nterests, Mexican and foreign, while the Yaquis were assigned the mountain tops and coyote ranges That's how Mr. Hammond came by his paper title to 600,000 acres there That wns ten years ago. A war followed which is still in progress. Tt has cost thousands of lives almost ruined the mining industry of Sonom destroyed its business, and the end is not yet' Now comes along Mr. Hammond and savs that if the Yaquis will lay down their arms he win for hta 'Th t0 t,leiF ld Wes Sork ioi mm. That means, under usual conditions of labor in Mexico, to becomes the slaves of him self and his associates. When high-cta LI IS" men, rich beyond the dreams of avarice ded to such a game of heartless, cold-blooded nXee is it strange that the every-day world is cynical? & & S NTt'ov N KaS Wh? ;'attacks the courts." impends unless the courts 7mthliConrH decisions promises no cure iluSuL SH Judicial but anarchy instead A?i' mlt,Ce Howar" said, be equal b'efoTe our laws 'he BaldW, ? seems not to be so. The road tn w butL that be straight, short and simple Thlr5 no tailgates on the way n0 br'S Ul? .be guideboaTds. The sultcra wS ?' no false biles should hav noiS1"5 n automo foot. It is not we?l to teSff te vep those on of the people; there is mL ? mutterings "Revolutionary measures re t?Tn for U The movement should "begin" from ? ? VoIded' well for the groat jurist S ,1 1? 7lin'' lt of last resort ?o take heed of' ? judges the times, unbend from tuS 1Q temPer of work out' the reform Vem elves6 LofISm and deceive ourselves 8om2?,i Gt us nt Unless tho ,, ThoW"..! $ they do not resort to the recall, they will to vise the constitution and create new courts'' Many decisions today, Justice Howard addeil record the views, "not of the judges who akin them, but of the judges who lived before tho renaissance." The rule of precedent, he dc clared, dominated the rule of right. Expert testimony ho characterized as "that hideous farce." 5 S tM WITH the election of Willard Saulshury as United States senator from Delaware to succeed a republican, it was assured that the senate will be safely democratic. With Mr Salisbury's election the democrats have forty nine senators, a majority of two. An Associated Press dispatch says: Mr. Salisbury's election added to the victory recently secured in Ten nessee, assures the democratic party absolute control of the senate after March 4. The vote of Vice President Marshall would have been the deciding factor in any event, but tho addition of another democratic vote to the column gives the party leaders what they believe to be a safe margin for tariff and legislative action. Con tests still exist in the legislatures of New Hampshire, West Virginia and Illinois, with a total of four senators to be elected about whose political affiliations doubt now exists. A vic tory in any one of these states so materially would strengthen the democratic party that the senate would be removed completely from the element of uncertainty. The attitude of the progressives and the progressive republicans upon tariff matters is yet unknown, but the margin of strength promised to the democrats make it . unnecessary, it is believed, to count upon any combinations with the progressives. Of the entire membership of ninety-six senators, sixty-three will hold over beyond March 4. Of these thirty-two are republicans and thirty-one democrats. The terms of thirty-two senators expire in March and there is in addition one vacancy in Illinois. Thus far seventeen demo cratic senators have been elected, and the elec tion of Senator Bacon in Georgia is certain, making eighteen democrats to take the oath of office March 4. The opposition forces, in cluding both the republicans and the progres sives, have elected eleven new senators. The senate after March 4 will stand as follows, if the deadlocks are not broken in Illinois, New Hampshire and West Virginia: Democrats, 49; republicans and progressives, 43; vacancies, 4. 6 & $ T'iB typewriting machine is of such service to men that the Nashville (Tenn.) Demo crat recently devoted an editorial to it. The Democrat said: It required many years of ex periment and invention to make it a dependable machine. Inventors were at work over fifty years ago endeavoring to make a typewriter mat could answer the purposes for which the machines are now used, but it was not until aoout 187 J that the device was so improved as to be made practicable. There were many ma chines constructed for mechanical writing which were in the main similar in principle to those in 3nt, U?e; that is' in the use of keys for manipulating movable type, but the difficulty was in getting the machines to work satisfac torily, in this connection the following descrip tion of a typewriter invented and constructed Dy bamuej W. Francis, reproduced from Frank 9! 1 filo " u.rftod Newspaper of the date April io 1 1 wU1 be interesting: "This machine is Placed in a neat, portable case About two feet square and ten inches deep, which may bo car ried about and usd on any ordinary table. It ifnnPi5?d y means of keyQ Placed on a key To 1 5 thse of a Piano each key represent w,,?, A of the alPliabot and each letter pro ducing its impression at a common center. An endless narrow tape stretches the full length of rnii.v Vf!he macMne, passing over a small Si!! ?her end aua uniting underneath, lie type is saturated with the ink. ine lids being raised from the keys they are !a AUpPn as in a Piano each being lettered trom A to Z, with the various punctuation marks, etc. As the printing goes on the paper moves steadily to the left, and when the line is within four letters of its end a little Don rings spontaneously to notify the writer