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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. MAY 14. 1910.

4 BUSINESS NOTICES. deliberation. There is an equally sharp double fares. Of late the grip of those as he put out his hand to the reporter land hndp him r-nnrlhv hn caiH Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter Trad Mark "Eal Registered.) fronted in the German capital does not materially affect the truth of the proposition that the general advance of civilization reduces the possibilities of war even while the preparations for war go on apace. This sounds like a paradox, but civilization is full of paradoxes.

The very recurrence of war itself reveals the BATURrXY EVE-VINO, 14, 1913. This Pzpct has a (Circulation Larger I than that of anf ether Evening Paper of tU clan fa United States. Its value as Advutiting Medium it Apparent. Exclusive Associated Press Service. Jbitered at th Post Office at Brooklyn, N.

I November 12, 1879, a. Second Claee or Mall Matter under the Act of March 3, 187. I ICorporart Name, The Brooklyn Dally Eagle.) WILLIAM HESTER, President nd General Manager. WILLIAM V. HESTER, Secretary-Treasurer.

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For eost of advertising, apply or send for rate card or make Inquiry by telephone. No. Malm. A Trouble Producer. There are varying estimates of lie time it will take to settle the celebrated cases of the government against the Stnudard Oil and Tobacco trusts.

In the interval, long or short, large i enterprises will be so conducted as right along as though nothing had hap-to be in a position to adjust or re- ned. and. If possible, faster than lie-adjust themselves to the conditions stimulated by the exciie-a victory, so called, for the govern- meat created, whic did not last long, inent will create. Tills means that jit was a trirte more intense than the What the managers of these enter-, fuets warranted. It was supposed that prizes might undertake to do.

but Strang, famous as a driver, had been for the fears they entertain, will not soon as it was learned that now be attempted. To that extent at ,10 victim was not a celebrity, the least progress along the great industrial lines will lie deferred. Those who see what they regard as danger ahead proceed with corresponding cir- suocessf il. Most of those who wit-Hffiispeotion. jnPsls them are on hand at the start and line to be drawn between the tempted decent citizen who fails and the man who belongs to the class that makes a living by crime.

Koerner was not nu habitual criminal. Brooklyn's Growth. The census enumerating has been done, and, as soon as the reports from tiie closed apartments come in and the figures can be added up, Brooklyn may prepare to crow. Supervisor l.ieber-niann Is a cautious soul, and be won't give out any guesses at our growth in figures, but lie predicts that, when the tabulations are made Miss Brooklyn will be found such a great big girl her own family will hardly know her There is room over here for all the growth which Mr. Liebermann can d.o- cover for us.

In the ten years from to 1900, before the Williamsburg Bridge was built and when tunnels under the hast Hiver were a muddy dream, our growth was 328.000. In the rive years from 1IKH) to during which the Williamsburg Bridge was opened, the tunnel put under way and the Manhattan Bridge was assured, our growth was That Is. the growth for five years was about (10 per cent, of that for the preceding ten years. The present figures will record the growth of the period in which thej subway was opened, but one In which f' agemeui in regaru io getting its ronriii nvcnuo mir ay-Lafayette ave- ibe five JPars' lls some la i.ui of a million and a liaif. It is hard to see how our population can fall below 1 IO.0O0, and it may go to I.TtNi.ooo.

But if the growth of Brooklyn dur. Ing a period of discouragement as to transit development has been great enough to create surprise, think what it will be during the next five years of active subway construction and during the next five of extended subways in full operation. We may be surprised this year, but ten years hence Brooklyn's census will be a work of magnitude. Mob Violence That Should Be Punished. An incident occurred in on Thursday evening which revcalc 1 the niol) spirit in one of its most vicious aspects.

It appears that a four-year-old child, playing in the street wnboiit any watchfulness on the part of those properly chargeable with his safe'y, humped into the rear wheel of an impress wagon. The driver was not responsible; the collision was due. far as can be learned, entirely to tne childish recklessness of the victim As a matter of fact, the boy's injir.es were of the most trivial sort, but his cries gave a cor.lrary Impression, and it fin ions crowd proceeded, as crowds will under such circumstances, to mob the unfortunate driver. After they had beaten and kicked blm and knocked out several of bis teeth, he made his escape to the nearest police station, where he fainted from the effect of his injuries aud excitement combined. No arrests were made.

Seldom or never are arrests made tinder such con. ditions. The police apparently talnlt that the driver or the motorman, as the case may be. is lucky to escape with bis life, and should be too grafe-fn1 for that precious concession to d.v the arrest of the potential lynch el-s' I' should be otherwise. The "lar insists upon the blood of a wno- lll0 as nnt- hlH not ie of responsibility for the for wlk'u hp is technically blamed, ills- plays a spirit of anarchy and vindic tiveness which cannot be too promptly checked.

The law provides means for the fitting punishment of men who recklessly drive vehicles along tin public streets and wantonly endanger the lives and limbs of pedestrians. But there is no reason why mobs sbonld be allowed to usurp the functions of the law, especially since they are notoriously incapable of discriminating as to lie varying measures of responsibility attaching to the driver and liU victim. Competition in Subways. The latest subway route proposed by the Public Service Commission, from the Battery up town in Manhattan through Seventh avenue to Fifty-ninth street, and thene east across the Qu ensboro Bridge into Queens County, means a great deal more than the construction of the much-needed Seventh avenue subway to connect the new Pennsylvania Hailroad station with down town and wilh Brooklyn. The preparations for the new line serve notice upon the sometimes haughty Interborougli Company that it must fish or cut bait.

The Public Service Commission proposes to have an adequate system of subways to connect the widely scattered sec. Hons of this great town, and it proposes to have routes which will give long hauls for a single fare. Undoubtedly it would like to do business with the Interborougli Company, if that organization can be brought to pay a decent regard to the service of the public as well as to its own pocket. But its disposition has too often been shown to be to skim the cream from the traf- flc lnisiiicsn without ivgtinl to public ccinveniPiHe. The Steinway tunnel is a case in point.

After rnshiiiB that tube to completion at breakneck speed, to avoid pa vine tbe oily for its franchise. the conipielt'd tunnel has been allowed to lie idle because the company will not eo'iie to a fair agreement with ihi Hoard of Estimate as to compensation. A subway through Fifty-ninth street ami io downtown Manhattan would serve the people of Queens llorough quite as well en the Steinway tunnel. If the Interborougli wishes to avoid competition in Queens it would best come to terms for its Steinway tunnel aud submit e.deipiate plans for routes to carry the people lu Manhattan where liiey wish to o. Aside from its application to that particular instance, the principle of establishing competition in subway service is valuable for the city.

New Yorkers have been subjected too ong to the fide of "gentlemen's agreements" in street-car traffic agreements, designed to maintain monopolies and agreements has seemed to be weakening, but the establishment of a great independent subway line, looking for extensions in various directions, would give to It its deathblow. Therefore th preparations for laying out the Seveull avenue-Flfty-nlnth street line will be watched with interest. Moving Picture Shows. As a consequence of revelations ma to in the magistrates courts here and in Manhattan, the Eagle hns received a number of inquiries regarding the growth, of the moving picture show industry, mainly from people who look upon that growth as a menace to the. morals of the community.

With the apprehension of these people It is possible to sympathize to a certain degree, yet io justice to the moving picture establishments it should be said that tiie films they exhibit are tint, generally speaking, immoral or suggestive. The moral danger in uch places lies in the fact that their extremely cheap prices make them re. sorts for half-grown girls who are there thrown Into association with evil-minded men. The same charge can truthfully made against a large percentage of the th-aters in this city. The corrective Is not to be found in the abolition of th? moving picture establishment, which has a rational and legitimate purpose to serve, but in the awakening of parents and guardians to their responsibility for the young people under their care.

It is almost impossible for the law to restrict attendance at the moving picture house or the cheap theater. That responsibility should devolve upon the individual and not upon the community. A recognition of that responsibility keep children away from undesirable places and perilous associations. The Law and Commutation Rates. The protesting commuters against the Increase of commutation rates by the New York.

New Haven and Hartford Railroad scored au easy Initial victory at Albany. The delegations went up to get Governor Hughes to send in a special message recommending that the power to regulate commutation and mileage rates be vested In the Public Service Commissions. But the Legislature imitated the tactics of Davy Crockett's coon. The Senate amended Assemblyman Parker's public service bill so as to give precisely the powers the commuters asked for to those boards, and now Governor Hughes will not shoot. Tie bill as amended is expected to pass the Assembly, although nothing at Albany is sure save death and taxes.

However, the commuters in this state have rallied following enough to prove that their demands have votes behind them, and that argument Is powerful with legislators. The commuters over the Connecticut line In Greenwich have taken courage from the activity in this state and have appointed a committee to appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington for redress. that committee contains several rich New Yorkers not used to being bossed, the appeal is likely to be vigorously-pressed. The action of the Brooklyn League in undertaking to canvass the entire borough for signatures to the petition for nn express station on the Fourth avenue subway at De Kalb avenue will help convince Ihe Public Service Commission, to which the petition is addressed, that there is a large and im-poitnnt public sentiment in favor of this change In the subway plans. The league should have no difficulty In securing many thousand signatures.

Personal and Impersonal Colonel Roosevelt visited a German poorhouse, but did not preach anti-race suicide there. The atmosphere la clearing the Fire Department wires are to go underground and pole-hole battles in Flatbush will soon be historical only. The driver of a coal cart has been fined $250 for delivering a woman 500 pounds of coal less than she paid for. It Is timo for the ice man to shiver. Bonds have been issued for the municipal bath at Coney Island.

If each prospective bather wilt take one under each arm they will all float from the counter of the finance department. Brownsville ought by this time to bo so well advertised in Central Russia that' most of the 25.000 persons driven from there will know where to come to prosper. Astronomers who have been scratching the comet's head with the spectroscope, a prismatic flne-toothed comb, find a trifle of cyanogen there, but no more than a healthy comet needs to keep it active. If the Mineola Fair Grounds are not large enough to contain the welcome to Mr. Roosevelt, there Is ample room for the enthusiasm to spread Itself over Hempstead Plains.

No county in the world is more on the level than Nassau, Mr. Roosevelt's home county. lAttorney General O'Malley han rendered an opinion that the rinRina; of canes at beach re ttorts is not gambling, but a game of sklU. News.) Renew, oh Earth, thy orbit course; Suspended while that point was pending; Suspicion, now has lost its force. And doubt no more our souls is rending.

SorD(, minor questions still may be Unsettled by the great O'Malley; A strike he's made, but quickly, he Will set 'em up on t'other alley. At Pompey's face you throw the balls; Should this be banned by any law sage? Is't cruelty to animals To eat a Coney Island sausage? Is readiness to loop the loop A proof of suicide-intention? And should a wild head-hunters troupe Have any garments worth the mention? These issues possibly can wait Till genius worn-out powers shall rally; ut they'll be tackb-d. soon or Iale And settled by our own Malley! J. A. Not Gambling "Louisiana la for sale; (250,000 la the price.

I am not an agent for Tilden or for that Interest, but I carry the terms of the bargain. In your owrt interest you will keep this to yourself." The reporter did not keep it to himself, but he never heard more of the matter during that exciting period. In November, 181. in a public speech, at Chlrkering Hall, in Manhattan, A brum S. Hewitt, who had been chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and.

in the 1876 campaign. Tilden's carupnign manager, and, as well, member of Congress, used these wordB: "The State of Louisiana has determined a presidential election. The vote of this state was offered to me for money, and I declined to buy it. But the vote of that state was sold for mone." And since the reporter read that part of Mr. Hewitt's speech, he has often won dered if Mr.

Hewitt relaied the end of the Incident of the deginnlng of which, in New the reporter" had per sonal knowledge. O. P. R. WASHINGTON SIDELIGHTS Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street.

Washington. May 14 President Taft is suffering from a slight cold. It practically is the first ailment he has had since he entered the White House, and it Is not at nil serious. The continued good heallh of the President has been a source of much gratification and some surprise to those who feared he would break down under the strain and worry of being President. It is recalled that Mr.

Tatt never thrived in the Philippines. Once he had very serious illness there. As Secretary of War he never gave the impression of robust health. It frequently was remarked during the campaign of 1903 that Mj Tatt looked like a mail who might suddenly succumb to the exactions of the duiiy grind of the White House. The dead whiteness of his color was far from reassuring.

But the President has enjoyed remark- ably good health since March of last year. His friends say It is because he pays so much attention to his physical condition. Every morniug he boxes wilh a professional rubber, Mr. Taft says he will never become a rival Jeffries as a sparrer, but he says the vigorous work he goes through every morning is au 1 excellent thing to put him on edge for a hard day in his office. Then he will have a game of golf, a horseback ride, a long walk or perhaps I an automobile ride In the nfternoon.

I There is a fine tennis court back of the executive offices, but Mr. Taft has yet to tackle the racquet. He gets enough exercise at other sports to keep him in good condition. The President is abstemious In eating and drinking. In the old days he would drink a glass of wine or so at dinner.

Now he takes no alcoholic drinks. He always turns his glass down at banquets. The President is a teetotaler so far as tobacco Is concerned. His brother. Henry neither drinks nor smokes.

The President's temperate habits doubtless aid him In preserving his health. Cabinet officers say that Mr. Taft preserves an even, sweet temper under most, trying circumstances. Rarely, indeed, does he gave way to peevishness. A Cabinet officer said the other day that the only time he had seen the President let hts feelingB get the better of him was when he heard recently that a certain prominent Republican Senator had made a remark casting serious reflections on the President's honesty of purpose in connection with a pending bill.

Mr. Taft (tin express himself as forcibly as anyone when he wants to. and this time he did not restrain himself. It leAked out to-day that during the height of the fight over the election of a leader of the Albany Senate to succeed Allds. William Barnes.

wrote a letter to the President saying that he could have Barnes' federal job if he wanted it. Barnes is collector of customs at Albany. There had open some talk of the "federal crowd" punishing federal office holders who were blocking the plan of the President to secure the election of Hinman. President Taft says he expects to keep only one of his out-of-town engagements. This is the one for May 30.

in New York City. He intends to slay In Washington and keep track of his legislative programme. Secretary Ballinger says he intends to do some "snake killing" as soon as he gets through with the congressional investigating committee. By this he means that he intends to cut off the official heads of a lot of employes In his department whom he believes have been disloyal to him. There is much shivering among the petty chiefs and subordinates in Bal-lingcr's department, for nobody knows where the ax will fall.

Apparently, the President has told Ballinger to go ahead and do some housecleauing. Many Congressmen are having trouble with the folks back home in efforts to prove that they are real progressives. Representative Alfred B. Garner of Pennsylvania Is one of these. He is in difficulty because the people charge him with not keeping ante-election pledges.

It seems that Garner promised to vote against Cannon for speaker. Garner has put a speech in the Congressional Record Intended to convince the voters of his district that he is a much maligned man. In It he says that when he came to Washington he found tbe President was urging the election of Cannon and that as he wanted to stand well with the party and acquire some influence he supported Cannon on the floor. He protests that he opposed Cannon In the caucus. Garner was not present when the memorable struggle to depose Cannon took ptace and this also has made trouble him.

He 1,0 dodged and glves ex 'Planfttiont "A man wants to spend some time at home with his wltr and family and espe cially at Easter. Garner has introduced a long string of radical bills, some of them being plain bids for the support of the labor interests. He says It will be foolish to send a new man In his place next year, because the newcomer will have no influence. Ho says the prospects are good for the passage of some of his bills. If not all.

Among the bills ls one more radical than the Foelker bill, proposing an export duty of 10 cents a pound on cattle shipped out of the country. Garner thus describes another bill: 'I have introduced a bill to have the government appropriate $2,500,000 annually for the support of the parents, widows and orphans of those killed in accidents. Look around your own home end see the suffering, poverty and destitution from this cause, and ask yourself if this government cannot afford to alleviate some of that misery." CRIST. DIDN'T CATCH HIS NAME. Governor Gilchrist Asks a Little Question of Vice President Sherman.

Vice President James S. Sherman was the principal guest of the Navy Yard workmen at their banquet, held in Kismet Mosque, last Thursday night, to celebrate the successful launching of the battleship Florida. The workmen had expected President Taft. but the President at Ihe last minute had to decline be-ause the insurgents In Congress had begun to "Insurge" again. As the principal guest of the evening the Vice President sat on the right of the toastmaster and next to hint sat Governor Gilchrist of Florida.

The Governor was, of course, disappointed at the enforced absence of the President, for he had expected to have the honor of engaging the chief executive In conversation. And the President, without doubt, would have enjoyed listening to the Governor. But the latter found tho President's substitute a very affable gentleman, and was seen to laugh hearllly at somo of the stories that were being told to him. The free and easy manner in which each seemed to 'op enjbying the other's company naturally enough led ti)o master Table Silver Grace, beauty and quality are all combined la silver articles marked 'I847R0GERS BROS. made in the heaviest grade of triple plate.

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UAM COXCERTl SPORTING. RACING BELMONT PARK MAY 1STH TO AY HOTII. TralnB leave E. 3tth St. 12:30, 1:00, 1:30 Saturday only).

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of Lhe ceremonies to believe that they had been properly introduced. The joke, of course, is on the Vice President. Just as Mr. Sherman had told a particularly side-splitting story to the Interested Governor. Admiral "Jab" Smith, who was sealed at the other end of the table, happened to pass behind tho chairs of the two.

He paused a moment to hear the climax, joined in lhe general laughter, and was ahout to go on his way, when he heard the Gov- ernor of Florida exclaim in his Southern drawl: "That's a good one! By tho way, sir, Ah didn't ketch yo' name!" Admiral Smith hastily retreated without awaiting the Vice President's reply. News Oddities Chicago, May 14 Worn out in tho struggle for an existence in her poorly furnished house, Mrs. Mary Christ lust evening committed suicide, after repenting of an aitempt to kill her four llttlo children, who were being slowing asphyxiated in dlfferenl rooms of the place. The woman died at the Gorman Hospital from carbolic acid poisoning. The children are being cared for by a physician.

Mrs. Christ dressed her babies, ranging in ago from 1 to 5 years and then carried them to separate rooms wilh gas pouring out of nn jet. Then she sat down to await death, she was half conscious when a neighbor, attracted by the fumes, forced an entrance. Raising herself Io a sitting posture on the floor, Mrs. Christ pointed to the losed door.

"They're nil going wilh mo," she said. "Maybe Ihcy are still alive and you had better run for a doctor. Go quick, for 1 won't lake litem with me after all." While lhe Tieighbor was away Mrs. Christ drank tho poison. Elgin.

Ill, May 1 1 There is a mystery In the death of ('. S. P.ao. a reputed East Indian prince of wealth, who was found unconscious in hiw room yesterday. Ho died two hours laler in a hosnital.

Rao. who had been in this eouniry only since last was the "angel" and nominal manager of a "society which lias been playing in email towns in Indiana, Wi onsln and Illinois. Mount Vernon, Mav 14 The, Immense concrete cap with which tho Leiler coal mine c.t Zeigier has been sealed for more than a yenr. was removed yesterday. Gas is still In evidence, bul it is not thought fo be la dangerous quantities.

Tho mine was sealed to extinguish a lire which was caused by an exuplosion a year ago, wheJl eight lives were loath AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN. ITODAY DREAMLAND EDEN ,7 XIII. During the month of November, 1876, It became apparent that an effort was being made In Louisiana to Induce the Returning Board, as the state canvassing board was called there, to reverse the result of the voting on Election Day. By his superiors this reporter was rushed to Louisiana to watch the attempt for his paper. It did not lake him long to discover, after his arrival in New Orleans, that the field of his activity must be that city.

This was so, because, though the figures of three parishes in the northern part of the state were to be changed the work was being done in New Orleans. In Louisiana the civil divisions, which in our state are called counties, are termed parishes. The figures of the count on Election Day had given Tilden over 5,000 majority. Questions as to the accuracy of that count had been raised and allegations ol fraud made in the three parishes. The parish canvassing officers were not to be found at their homes, and It was said that they were in New Orleans under cover.

In the meantime, in some mysterious way, the official returns were being held up somewhere between the parishes and the capital of the state. At that tim the State of Louisiana was under the control of as rascally a gang of carpet baggers from the North as ever encumbered the earth, aided by a conscienceless group of colored men, who controlled the negro vote. This control was supported by the presence of United States troops. The city was in a state of wild excitement. The Democrats were nearly frantic over what they believed was a barefaced, fraudulent attempt to deprive them of a well earned victory won over great odds won over L'nited States troops stationed at the polls to influence the voting.

To them the seating of Tilden In the presidential chair meant relief from burdens and oppressions of the United States troops and the dissipation of the crew ot carpetbaggers, who were robbing right and left. They were angered to the lighting point and all the more angered because they could not learn what was being done. Crowds of militant Democrats thronged the streets, the barrooms, the hotel spaces, talking wildly In threatening and denunciatory words. A very dangerous outbreak was possible at any place at any moment. The reporter felt that in order to move about in these excited crowds, wilh a degree of safely ft was necessary that his own mission should be thoroughly understood.

So he was at pains to make himself known and that ho represented a Northern paper which was supporting Tilden in short, that he was there to do his part in preventing the theft of a state, Perhaps that Is the reason why he achieved a conspicuity at which he had not aimed and why he was, to a slight extent, involved In an incident that promised at the time to be of great importance. First, it is to be told, as having a degre of relationship to the incident of which mention has been made that there were in town strangers from the North who, the reporter was firmly convinced, were agents of the Republican National Committee. In the rase of two of them there was no concealment to the reporter for they were aware that he knew what had been their relattions to that committee in the campaign. The fact that these men were plainly dissatisfied with the course of events and that they did not hold the men who were supposed to be manipulating the returns In the most implicit trust, gave the reporter much food for thought this and the other fact that day by day there were no developments of moment while the public excitement was rising higher and higher. Late one afternoon, after a fruitless day's labor, the wearied reporter slipped Into his hotel and finding an empty chair in a remote corner of the office sat himself down for a rest.

He had been resting but a short time when a man whose acquaintance he had made at the Republican convention in Cincinnati that summer, dropped Into a chair beside him. After a few unimportant remarks the man suddenly asked: "Are you representing the Tilden people here?" The reporter hastened to assure the ciuestlonerth.it. he represented nothing but his paper that he was merely a news gatherer. The man said no more on that Bcore and shortly after went away. He Joined a man leaning against the office counter.

After a trief exchange he left the second person and, after sauntering about a little, finally resumed the vacant chair beside the reporter. By and by came the question whether the reporter knew if there was a Tilden representative in town. To this the reporter replied that he knew of none who was openly such, although there was one man in town who, he had reason to suspect, bore some such relation. Again the stranger went away. An hour elapsed and he reappeared, asking the reporter if be would accompany him to a room on the next, floor.

The affair was becoming mysterious. The reporter followed with some eagerness, for he thought that In a situation barren of real incidents of moment something of value might be the outcome. He was llthprprl Inrn a rnnm a person, at once recognised by the re- nnrter na man I i- net bag" control of tf Pinchbeck, then l'nited Slates Ketintoi-- eiect. bo soon as the reporter had been presented to Pinchbeck the guide disappeared. Without preliminary remark the magnate of the carpetbag asked: "Will you give me the name of the man you suspect to be a Tilden agent?" To this the reporter replied: "I do not know that he Is one.

I certainly would not give bis name without his permission." The upshot was that the reporter agreed to 'find this man and. If he was willing, to bring about a meeting with a person whom Pinchbeck Delther named nor indicated. It was a singular mission, concerning which he had many doubts. He had but little more than a speaking acquaintance with the person in question. He did not know just what ho was.

He was by no means certain that he was an agent of the Tilden interests, or that he was a man to be trusted in such a capacity. He was one of those men not infrequently met. Invariably present at conspicuous political events, moving aU.ut wilh much reserve, having no visible duly, engaged In no apparent work, knowing everybody. In confidence with no one, yet well informed, apparently an isolated quantity Placid, smiling, secretive and cynical he was an Interesting figure, though no 'one knew his means of support or his purposes in life. Such was Rhodes.

The reporter had heard that in the Tweed affair he had been in confidential relations with Tilden, and knew that In the Canal Ring tight he had sat around the Albany hotels, referring contemptuously to Tilden as an old fox, was not true to his word and who could not be trusted. It was to this man the reporter went, telling him, without reserve, of the meeting with Pinchbaek. "I do not admit that I am a Tilden agent," said the mysterious man. "Indeed, want you distinctly to understand that I am not that I have no authority to act as such. Now.

with this understanding. I am willing that my name should be known and to meet whoever wants to meet me." A meeting took place the next day with a man whose identity I never learned. In the late nfternoon of day the reporter met Rhodes carrying his grip. away?" asked ihc reporter. "To Washington, as quick as 1 can.

Come with me to the staiion." He was silent on tbe way thither, but constantly growing influence of the propaganda that make for peace. It Is little more than a decade since the world was shocked by the slaughter of a helpless Chinese garrison within the wails of Tort Arthur. Such an exhibition of barbarism is impossible to-day, even hy the nation guilty of it then. War no longer involves the wanton destruction of private property, the violation of neutral territory, the ill- treatment of the enemy's wounded. Geneva Conventions and Hague Congresses not only do much to make war less inhuman, but they do a great deal to make it less frequent.

In spite of its armaments, in spile of International jealousies, the world Is moving toward tlie time when war will be recognized as an economic blunder as well as a moral atrocity. Then the real League of Peace will come in as the Hough Rider disappears along with the Cossack and the Uhlan. About Time to Stop It. Three hours after a dozen high-pow- ered motorcars started on the custom- ary contest at Brighton Beach last night, one of them became iinconirolla- ble and crashed Into fence. As it was going at the rate of a mile a minute.

the driver had an experience, including two or three somersaults. To the his own surprise, he escaped without a scratch. His companion, a mechanic, also had mi experience, of which he will never give particulars. He Is dead. Of co'ils'.

this was a mere episode. The other high-power motorcars went spectators calmed down. These exhibitions are well attended. From the box office point of view they i iM llnli thp miisu As tuey u.lv(. the best of reasons for supposing that at some stage of the performance there will be a smashnp.

they display endurance r.n their own account, thus making sure to be "In at the death," should there be a fatality. It is useless to discuss this craving or proclivity. Presumably, it came in and will go out with the race. There are no doubts that the Roman chariot races were liberally patronized, nor is it unfair to suppose that the spectators of those days responded to the impulses still in evidence. Possibly a contest without a catastrophe was tli 'n icgarded as something of a bore.

I'erhaps it is now. Xo such propensities, however, affect those who are interested In the box office. All their calculations are bas3d upon expenditures and receipts, and It is equally true that money makes the machines go. For victory Is a fine advertisement, productive of much business, and the wreck of a car or the loss of a life can be set down to profit and loss. Apart from the spectators' point of view, the contests are commercial.

From that point, the occasion is a sort of holiday, not less, possibly more. at tractive because somebodv" is butch- ered. And. though the auihorities do not appear to see it in this light, anything should be permissible, if this persist, it would be difficult to show just what should he stopped. If life is part of the price to lie paid for advertising or a species of tribute to the box office.

Clemency to Koerner. The Kagle has been and is strongly opposed to the indiscriminate, paroling of Iirisoilpra in Mill utjltn nrlsnna i' I parole board which ignores just sentences imposed by judges familiar with all the facts as to the crime committed, and sets at large members of the criminal classes who often begin fo prey upon the community at once. It bus saiil, and now believes, that too llb- oniHtrtllllitipS fnr jinnpnl 1)u. i.gntli ami tllR uIti. mate power of the Governor to com.

m.ite a sentence or to grant a pardon, furnish a sufficient remedy in case of real injustice. Outside of such very rare cases ir is in tne interest of the community to have sentences served in 'is punishments, the reformation of the criminal being strictly subsidi-jary to the protection of society. Yet In Hie commutation of the sen-jtence of William .1. Koerner after the prisoner bad served twelve years of a life sentence for murder in the second degree. Governor Hughes lias perhaps exercised executive discretion wisely.

When Kcerner was courting Hose Alice Iiedgnte of Prospect street, this that ended in the kill- young woman was the vie. itim. In prison, ns conlidentiiil flrrk to warden, and as editor of the Star "Pp. prison paper. Koerner lias impressed all the keepers as a man not intrinsically bad.

lie has been nu ideal prisoner. In his memorandum with regard to the commutation. Governor I hiiihcs says: "It sufficiently appears was Thomas He Quilt cey. we be- worst thing about murder is that if a man begins by killing his feilow-man, he may soon descend to stealing, and eventually get bad enough to lie, in which ease there is no hope for him." The quotation is unverified, but pretty nearly correct. In its inverted hyperbole it conveys a great truth.

There may be less of moral obliquity in killing than in stealing, and less in striding than in lying. There is a sharp liue to be drawn between crimes of passion an it primes of i I Such a game as this on the part or the government ought to be worth the powder. It would probably be an exaggeration to say that it paralyzes, but that It retards is uuquestionably true. And with what object? Two i iriuniis lune niiniijiieu this question. Mr.

Tuft has credited Congress with knowing that "the evil" existed, but he protests that it had "a most indefinite idea of how it was to be described." He adds that, construed literally, the statute could le used to punish the most useful combinations. On the other hand. Mr. Itoosevelt has spoken In the plainest terms. He has declared it to lie unfortunate that the law should forbid all combinations instead of discriminating between the good and the bad.

Strong as are his convictions concerning the trusts, he has been frank enough to admit that, some of them have purposes which, so far from being pernicious, are pursued in the interests of the public. For instance, he does not see how railways can lie operated without such concert of action as traffic associations facilitate. From the bencli have come admissions kindred in character if differing in terms. Judges have declared it to lie a reductlo ad ahsurdum so to legis late as to place those who do right at the mercy of the prosecuting officer, including them in the same category as those who do wrong. They have asserted that as the Federal statutes forbid all restraint, that which is reasonable comes within lie inhibition of the law.

And even Attorney Oeneral Wickersham has expressed the hope that Congress will so amend the act as to except from its provisions agreements necessary to healthy business conditions. Whatever, therefore, the object of Congress may have been, it has caused trouble enough for all concerned, including two bronchos of ie governmentexecutive and judicial and all lines of business. It lias succeeded in provoking an unqualified indorsement from but one source. Mr. Bryan ap proves of Hie Sherman law because be believes that while some trusts are worse than others, all are bail.

He has said that if he had bis way. lie I "would follow theni iniD every nook i and corner of the country and declare then) extinct, regardless of the consequences. It is hardly necessary to add that twenty earthquakes of the San Francisco variety would not do more damage. So, we have a spectacle for joils and men. more particularly men.

We have a government seeking to bring about the enforcement of provisions which have been bombarded by the governmental authorities themselves. We have the Attorney (General clamoring I i I I for a decision according to the terms 110 naa 110 "'er bP'ng-of an act be himself lias discussed to classes. He was a the language of coiidemii'ion. And 'inlustrftms young fellow, we have the world of imsiness reallz- opposition of the girl's parents led Ing that the sword of Damocles is sus- i pended bv a hair, all of which would I 1m; easy to untlei'staiKl with prminry oehool in one of the t'npitcil mid kindergarten in the other. Neither being there, it is inexplicable.

World Progress Toward Peace. It must he 'admitted that Colonel lWHUIts, wr very jth. ls 0IM! o( tllc escetloiml cases lonK. and there is. perliaps.

some justi-1 which the interests of justice will flcat.on for the report that some N.VPd clemency." His hose present on the occasion of its de. Vif.w of indiscriminate clemency evi-llvery improved the opportunity to have joutly is much like the Isle's. unit ne tine we can ou.y uiac me sleepyheads missed the most thouelitful. scbolariv i niricd oration that the Colonel has delivered on his Kuropean tour. The burden of Colonel Roosevelt's nine thousand words is that the world is gradually moving tliroiih civilization toward larger brotherhood and imivetsal pea-e.

That is undeniable. The cynic may sneer aud the casuist dispute, but even Hie Imld fact of the i iMui'i-imiMjs iiiiiuai ism in r.nrope wliicU C'oluntl Itoosevelt himself toil.