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PAGE TWELVE CASUAL COMMENT. ; ( By J. D. Watson. : 1 (Continued from Page Nine.) In concluding his opinion, Judge Pritchard says: “It is not necessary at this time to pass upon the validity of the provision of the constitution of Virginia which created the State corporation commission; that is a question which the court SUMMARY NEWS. Continued from Page Five.) Board of the Western Federation. He was selected president of the Western Federation in June, 1902. Haywood had been elected secretary treasurer the year before. He had first met Haywood in 1900, and Pet tibone about a year previous. Moyer said that he was an Odd Fellow and a member of the Order of United Workmen. He defined his duties as president, and outlined the duties of the secretary-treasurer, who was under a $30,000 bond. When he was first elected president the union had about 22.000 members; when he was arrested it had 30,000. and now it has 40,000 members. A strike cannot be called without a two-thirds vote of the local unions involved. He described the duties of the Executive Board, which now con sist of seven members, exclusive of general officers. The rule was to de fend every member arrested. Very few had ever been convicted of any offense. Though a member of the Executive Board at the time of the Coeur d’Alenes trouble, he had no active part in the conduct of the strike. He was in the Black Hills, and» the management of the strike was in the hands of President Boyce and Secretary Maher. Not Hostile to Steunenberg. “I was in sympathy with the men and voted on some questions in con nection with the strike,” said he. “I never saw Gov. Steunenberg, and never had any personal hostility to him. When martial law was declar ed, T felt like the majority of the organization felt, but I bad no per sonal feeling in the matter.” Moyer said that the frst time he met ‘‘Steve” Adams was at Cripple Creek. He denied ever having paid him S3OO for his good office in blowing up the Vindicator mine. While Moyer was a prisoner in Telluride, Capt. Bulkley Wells, of the military administration, expected him to work under guard, cleaning gutters. He refused. The other prisoners were compelled to work. While in prison he heard of the In dependence station explosion and telegraphed the Federation, in an nual session in Denver, to offer a re ward of $5,000 for the perpetrators. This was done, but the reward was never claimed. He read that Or chard and Neville were suspected of the ciime. Subsequently Neville was arrested and discharged. Neville came to him and asked that he be reimbursed for expenses while under arrest, declaring that neither he nor Orchard knew anything about the ex plosion; that they were in camp ten miles from Cripple Creek at the time. Moyer said that he made an investi gation, found that Neville was not a member of the organization and the Executive Board dropped the matter, . reserves until the final hearing of this cause. For the reasons herein stated, the restraining order heretofore granted will be continued until the final hearing. “In conclusion, I will say that it is a source, of gratification to me to know that my decis ion in respect to this question is not final, but that it is to be ultimately submitted to ths ’ Supreme Court of the United States for deter mination, and if I have committed error that Moyer denied that he had ever asked Oi chard to kill Neville. He last saw Orchard, he said, on June 23, 1905. Orchard came to his office in' Denver, shook hands with him, and asked him to take a drink. They went out together, drank, dined and parted. He knew Orchard had taken the name of Hogan, and supposed it was to escape the blacklist. He next heard of Orchard under arrest for the Steunenberg murder. Moyer consulted John Murphy, counsel for the Federation in Denver, who told him to take no steps to defend Or chard unless the Federation was at tacked. Moyer then left for Chica go, and did not return for several weeks. William D. Haywood followed Moyer and told his story of his mil itant activities as the dominant spir it of the Western Federation of Miners. Haywood gave the jury nothing new beyond denying emphat ically that he ever pa'd money to Orchard for any purpose. Later on when cross-examined by Senator Borah, Haywood proved that he was Borah’s mental equal. He did not make a misstep and was not shaken by the State’s grilling. After the state finished its cross-examining of Haywood, counsel for the defense rested their case, a”d the state be gan its rebuttal. Nine witnesses were examined in the first two hours, the most inter esting being August Paulson, former ly a partner of Harry Orchard in the Hercules mine and now a rich banker of Wallace, Ida. Tn contradiction of the old sol dier, John D. Elliott, who said he heard Orchard make threats against Gov. Steunenberg while on a train, the State introduced several railway officials ,who produced records show ing tffat the trains on which Elliott said he and Orchard traveled did not make the connections which Elliott had described as a part of the jour ney. Elliott testified for the de fense that he traveled from Webster, Ida., to Boise about November 23 or 29, 1905. The State called J. P. Stephenson, a hotel clerk of Salt Lake City, to testify that Or chard arrived at the Hotel Cullen on November 25, 1905, and remained there three weeks. When asked to produce records the witness said he could only find Orchard’s name en tered in the books on November 25. Tt was the man’s custom to pay for his room nightly in advance. J. H. Moser, proprietor of the Kettle Block rooming-house in Den ver, testified that Harrv Orchard, under the name of Dempsev, stopped with him for two weeks late in July or August of 1904. Dr. McGee, a witness for the defense, testified sev eral weeks ago that he saw Orchard in the Coeur A’Alenes at this time. The trial will consume all of this week. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN “GREATEST OF WOMEN.” Elbert Hubbard’s Remarkable Trib ute to His Wife. East Aurora, N. Y., July 9. —• Within the plain gray covers of a thin little book, whose significant ti tle is “White Hyacinths,” Elbert Hubbard will in a few days publish to the world a remarkable tribute to the woman he loves—the woman he says he has loved for seventeen »years, although she has been his wife only during the last fourth of that period. At this tribute the world cannot but marvel, for of Alice Hubbard it has heard little and knows less. Yet this man, whose sense and ability cannot be doubted, even though many cavil at his manner of display ing them, does not hesitate to say that he believes his wife, “in way of mental reach, sanity, sympathy, and all-round ability, outclasses any woman of history, ancient or mod ern, mentally, morally, and spirit ually.” “To make a better woman than Alice Hubbard,” he adds, “one would have to take the talents and graces of many great women and omit their faults. If she is a depart ure in some minor respects from a perfect standard it is probably be cause she lives in a faulty world, and deals with faulty folks, a few of whom, doubtless, will peruse this ar ticle. Not “Blind Love” Tribute. “Right here, of course, I hear you say, but love is blind, or at least myopic, and every man who has loved, says what you are saying, now. The nature of love is exaggeration, and to take a woman and clothe her with ideality, this is love. And you sp ak wisely. But let me here ex plain that while the salfness of time in my ego has not entirely dissolved, 1 have reached a time of life when feminine society is not an actual necessity. “I am at an age when libertines turn saints, and rogues become reli gious. “However, I have never gone the pace, and so I am neither saint nor ascetic, and the eternally feminine is not now, and never was to me, a consuming lure. “And while the flush of impetuous youth, with its unreasoning genius of the genus, is not mine, I am not a victim <rf amour senilis, and never can be, since world problems, not sen sations. fill my dreams and flood my. hours.” Never before in the history of high tributes to women has a living wife been the subject of such adulation as is set forth in these half a hun dred pages of black print. “So here cometh ‘White Hya cinths.’ being a book of the heart, by Elb-rt Hubbard.” Such is the brief preface. Then distinguished tribunal will correct the same. I will prepare an opinion at an early date, in which I will discuss more my views in regard to the matters in controversy.” Even if the State of Virginia loses out in this case they will have a two cent passenger rate, for the people demand it, and if the courts hold that the Corporation Commission of Vir ginia had no right to enforce such a rate, the next legislature will pass a two cent rate bill. two pictures —one of himself, one of his wife —and after these the pages that teem with praise and affection, and cannot but impress one with the devotion and sincerity of the writer. They begin thus: “When Charles Kingsley was ask ed to name the secret of his success, he replied, ‘I had a friend.’ ‘‘ If asked the same question, I would give the same answer. “I might also explain that my friend is a woman. “This woman is my wife, legally and otherwise. Wife, Comrade, Chum. “She is also my comrade, my com panion, my chum, my business part ner. “There has long been a suspicion that when God sjiid, ‘1 will make a helpmeet for man,’ the remark was •a subtle bit of sarcasm. “However, the woman of whom I am speaking proves what God can do when He concentrates on His work. “My -wife is my helpmeet, and I am hers. I do not support her, rather, she supports me. All I have is hers—not only do I trust her with my heart, but with my pocketbook. And what I heie write is not a tomb stone testimonial, weighted with a granitic sense of loss, but a simple tribute of truth to a woman who is yet on earth in full possession of her powers, her star still in the as cendant. “Having such a wife as this, I do not chase the ghosts of dead hopes through the graveyard of my dreams. ” How this one sentence will snarl and snap in the minds of some men! Hubbard proceeds: ‘ ‘ I have succeeded beyond the wild" est ambitions of my youth, but I am glad to find that my desires outstrip my performances, and as fast as I climb one hill* I see a summit beyond. So I am not satisfied, nor do I ever declare, ‘Here will I build three tab ernacles,’ but forever do I hear a voice, which says, ‘Arise, and get thee hence, for this is not thy rest.’ Her Radical Philosophy. “She is the onjy woman I ever knew who realizes as a vital truth that the basic elements for all hu man betterments are economic, not mental or spiritual. “She knows that the benefits of preaching are problematic, and that the good the churches do is conjec tural; but that good roads are the first and ’chiefest factor in civiliza tion. “She knows and advocates what no college president in America dare 'advocate —that the money we expend for churches, if invested in scien tific forestry and good roads, would make this world a paradise now. “She does not trouble herself much about Adam’s fall, but ah*