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CAPERS MAY BE OUSTED. it is Stated that Taft May Call on Him for His Resignation, Owing to His Alleged Influence in the Crum Affair. News and Courier. Washington, March 9.-Rumors have been flying thick and fast here for the past few days that John G. Capers, commissioner of internal re venue, might be called upon by Presi dent Taft shortly to hand in his resig nation, because it had come to the notice of the chief executive that Mr. Capers had recently been instrumental in having Dr. Cram prolong his fight to be retained as collector of the port of Charleston, and had oth;erwise made himself obnoxious to many per sons in South Carolina and elsewhere. Mr. Capers denies that &.e ever put Crum up to holding on or that he was instrumental in any way in further ing his interest beyond perhaps the interest that he naturaHy took in his ease, because of the fact that they both belong to the same party and have so far gotten along together ex ceptionally well in the same political arness. There are a number of candidates, i is understood, who are eager to sueceed Mr. Capers in the commis ioner's office, and there is no way of predicting what may develop in the immediate future. Frank H. Hitcheoek, one of Capers' firim friend and a staunch supporter since the latter was ousted from the district attorney's office in South Carolina about two and a half years go, was an early caller at th6 White House today, and while he would not disuss the matter in any way, it z.enerlly rumored that he had gone there to intercede in Capers' be half. President Taft, it is said, recently learned that strong influence was back of Cram to make him hold on as ollector until finally the pressure be came so great that in spite of this force he had to give -in. Among those influences it is understood that Mr. Capers was a strong backer. In this connection it is said also that whoever was Cram's real manager showed poor judgment during the latter's last days in the .collector's office, and that his stubbornness and obduracy in bolding on has caused what in a 1-it tle time will be shown to be an entire r earrangement of the future political status in South Carolina from what it was seheduled to be by President Tft. Whether or not Capers had any AMingto do with Crum holding on it is nevertheless a fact that there are a nber of persons who would be glad .to:see him oqit. If reports that are current 'are true, despite the fact that his record as commissioner has been satisfactory to the seeretary of the treasury and other officials, de finite steps may be taken in the near future just as soon as the new secre tary of the treasury gives his new broom a good swing. DR. CEUMS SUCCESSOR. Appointment Will be Sent to Senatej for Confirmation at Beginning of Extra Session. Washington, March 8.-Postmaster Harris, of Charleston, :had an' aud ience with the president today on the appointment of a collector to succeed W. D. Crum, who has resigned. Mr. Harris was armed with letters, peti tions, doements and other papers framn leading eitizens of Charleston who do not seem to ca.re very much who is appointed 'collector, so he be a whJite man.. In the conference today E. W. Dui rant' was agreed upon for the place. His nomination will.be sent in at the beginning of the special session. This is the first time Mr. Taft has considered the matter of Southern ap pointments, although numerous Southern referees and Republican bosses have been ,here trying to see him. The case was thoroughly gone over with MT. Harris. The Southern Isituation looms large in the new prsident 's interests and when he is relieved of the tremendous crush of visitors and :has got the general ma e hinery of his office moving smoothly be expects to give it a good deal of attention. He sarw a number of -Southerners today besides Postmaster Harris, mn eluding Senator Culbe'rson, mirnority leader in the senate, but he is not ready to make a final decison as to Sany other important offiees yet. The belief here is settled that a white man will be appointed collector at Savan nab. An Ex-Porter. "Who is_your Chicago friend?"' "He is a prominent ex-porter. ' "What does he export?" "I didn't say he exported anything, he used 'to be port.er at the hotel, where I stopped.''-Cleveland Plain 'nasiar. * WILL SEABROOK'S TRAVELS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (By W. B. Seabrook.) (Copyright 1909, by W. B. Seabrook.) The Augusta Chronicle. (Used by permission of Author.) Betihrne, France, Feb., 1909.-In the frace of an alarming increase of crime and in compliance with a popu lar demand, the French Chamber of Deputies has revived the death penal trv, and President Fallierres, bowing before the will of the majority, but against the dictates of his private conscience, at last consented to sign ,the warrants. Four heads have al ready fallen beneath the blade of the guillotine and other executions are imminent. The necessity of capital punish ment is recognized not only in France but in practically every other civiliz ed country, and no one conversant, with -the facts of the situation in this republic dares to blame the govern ment for imposing the death penalty, but the manner in whieh these first four executions were accomplished was shocking and disgraceful to the last degree; so disgraceful that photo graphs of the pyroceeding, published in the daily newspapers, have shamed France in her -own eyes and in the eyes of all Europe. Aidiculous Probation. And now five porminent members of the Chamber of Deputies, reason ing backward, -have conceived the ri dieulous remedy for forbidding the publication of sach photographs in the future; th;ey ihave proposed the fol lowing law: "Immediately upon the pronuncia tion of a eondemnation to death, the printing, publication or circulation of portraits of the condemned prisoner, of photographs, designs, -engravings or figures, representing or pretending to represent the scene 'of execution, is formaly forbidden under penalty of fine or imprisonment." If that ingenious formula meets with the sucess desired by its au thors, something will at last be held sacred in France, something will be protected from those Parisian jour nals, which respect nothing in heaven or earth, these newspapers, whieh make sport of God Almighty and caricature Jesus Christ whenever it suits their brilliant and blasphemous fancy. Tihat something will be the criminal, who has roasted alive two or three old women or annihilated the sleeping family of some honest far mer.' But the fact that the proposed remn edy is ridieulolsu 'does not obsecure the other fact that the photographs of these executions were "unfit for publiatio.' A society, which no1 longer dares publish the details of te spectacles enacted by its govern ment and citizens, and which seeks for a remedy in the suppression of 'the pubilication diather than in the! suppression of the spectacle, is in full decadence. Under the Guillotine. The execution of the Pollet band, here in Bethune, was a joyous pnb li fete, a fightful earnival of blood. Ordinarily the .practi'cal and austere administration of the Third Republic s opposed to fetes and shuns the joy ous,. the spectacular, the beautiful. It bas forgotten the innocent May-day the "Feast of Florwers,'' upon which the citizens of France made merry ander the monarchy; it discourages t.he observance of national festivals; it despises 'the processions and pom pous ceremonies of the church. Noth ing r-eliev'es the monotony of ' the years; even the 4th of July, the great revolutionary fete-day, 'has become lugubrious. But, behold ! a murderer is about to be executed; a marvellous a.nima tion invades the streets and boule vards; the air rings iwth shouts of revry and triumph; the merry citi zens laugh and joke and deck their button holes with flowers; a fever of impatienee seizes the entire nation; in the furthermost province a breath less suspege and interest reigns; *here in the city which awaits the ar riva of the guillotine, all ordinary ocupation 4hes been suspended; the shops are closed and the population things 'the streets as noon a Sunday morning in the good old days when France 'was still a Christian nation; f'r the hotels and restaurants it is a day of days: from north, south, 'east and west, t.housands of happy bands of si-ht.seers arrive in :holiday attire. At length the guilloti-ne arrives; it is welcomed with tumulu.ous acclam ation. "And the executioner! Where is 'he?'' crv the people. Where is the exee-utioner, that sinister pariah, whom all grenerationis have regarded as a sombre outeast, and whom all literatures have entou-red with mys 'terv and horro? "'Where is 'he0'' cry the people, "that we may acclaim him -as a savior and welcome him as a king?" "Vive D.eibler! vive le bourreau!'' S The Victim Comes. T .e upr m e u arrivae Gitter-. ing lines of soldiers, with sniing bel mets and waving plumes, march to the public square and are deployed as if to render ;honor to some victorious general; the notables arrive and take their places, high functionaries from Paris, judges, senators, ministers, the square, the streets, trees, windows and housetops are crowded with spec tators. A door opens; a man appears. It is -the murderer, the murderer in whose honor the army has been mob ilized, .tihe administration called out, and the affairs of an entire province interrupted for a day, the murderer, whose name is upon all lips, whose pale face is the cynosure -of all eyes, the murderer, for whom the govern ment 1has prepared this apotheosis. As he mounts the seaffold. a mighty mumur .arises from fifty thousand throats, a murrnur, in which hatred, admiration, lusts for blood, pity and voluptuous satisfaction are mingled; the head falls, the blood spouts from the neck in a crimson torrent, and, the nervous tension once broken, the immense crofwd, intoxicated with ex eitement, shouts and sings and laughs. It is in truth a monstrous carnival. The Present Program. It is generally conceded that the revival of the guillotine was neces sarv. France has learned the fatility of applying to marderers, speeches and -professional assassins the mild penalties of an imprisonment less rig orous than that of a juvenile refor matory is America; "the quality of berev' has been "strained" and strained to the breaking point during the past few years in this country; no wthie nation has awakened to the frightful revelations of the criminal statistics, and the reaction has set in. No more pity! No more clemency! .No more false pity! This is the pres en program. If executions are neces sary for the defence of the hearth and the salvation of the provinces from a reign of terror, then by all means proceed to the exection. Such is the principle in froce in America, in Engl'and, in Germany, in ;every peaceful and well-governed common weath. . In our imperfect human so ciety, severe examples are necessary, and severe measures of protection are justified by the sociological law of "the greatest good to the greatest nuber.'" "The Poor Cattle.'' Examples are neeessary indeed, but what kind of an example was this qadruple execntion a.t Bethune, for which invi'tations were issued as for a marriage &easit, and which took lae in the presence of a crowd, which applaauded and clapped its ands as at a cireus, and which, in ruth, had :every reason to believe it self as a cirous, for the government hd spared no pains to carry out the l.lsion. Those who executed the sentence were searcely more proud than the four erimnals who were erecuted, and verything semned arranged to lend the sembliance of truht to t.he words prononced by the conviet Abel Pol let, as he mounted the scaffold with a steady step and thead :hel proudly ret. As he stood thera glorified by his peniitence, by his remorse, and by his courage in -the face of death, he g'azed around him, and without anger, without irony, exclaimed: "T:he poor cattle!" In the presence of an execution in such a manner, all social and moral prestige disappears; the prestige of the 'cri.minal alone remains. When the State assembles its eitiz ns for a .public spectacle, it should be to inspire the mwith the sentiments f admiration, of resect, of confidence. t is well for the State, from time toI tiem to "exhibit'' its heroes, its ar muy, its splendor of its commerce; but when the State deems it necessary to! SOME OF OU] To be conservative. To pay four per cent. To ca!culate interest sema To bond every employee. To be progressive and ac< To lend our money to ou To treat our patrons comi To be liberal and prompt To secu'e busmness from TO BE THE VERY BE TO DO BUSINESS Our institution is under the examined by the State Bank Em The Bank ol Pi osperi DR. GEO. V. HUNTER, President. J. F~. BROWNE, Cashier. deploy its froeas -and its dignty against an individual, the State should at least dominate the man whom it punishes. And was it thus the other morning apon this public square? Nothing which represented the State or the social fabric was dignified or beauti fal; neither tihe horrible guillotine, n.,or .the execationer, nor the crowd which stared and trem). - with beast iv passion. There w I one chanee for dignity an&Afeauty-the chance of the murderer! He, by a moment of courage, could become almost a hero in the eyes of th-a crowd, and could efface in t1he popular mind a holf century of bloody crimes by a nIoment of glory-that supreme mom ent whieh fute refuses so many real heroes. A society which permits such a scene wrongs itself and w rongs the spirt of its laws. The state is serv ed by the death penalty, but it is not honored by it. It is not an act of virtue, but a simple act of defense. A sick man, who faces the necessity of the ampatation of a gangrened finger does not organize a fete to celebrate th operation, does not welcome his kinfolk and friends. does not exclaii, "Oh, just Jok at my gangrene! Isn't it exciting 'and amusing?'' It is hoped 'by the better classes of the sane and conservative French people that the government will awaken to a sense of shame and per form such necessary but revolting operations in the privacy of its pris on walls. Inflated Currency. Johnny-Pa, what is' an inflated currency I Father-The money you blow in. Bohemian. A-styp-to-dyn. The best known remedy for burns, cuts, bruises or sores of any kind on man or beast. For sale at Mayeb' Drug Store. FREE TRIP to e PACIFIC COAST ARE YOU ONE AS"""*" of the many thious + ands who want to - OREGON explore this Won derIlnd ? ? ? ? SUNSET MAGAZINE O - has instituzted a nw Jc dpartmenit, whose special work it is to put wihn the reach of every one an opportunity to see the FAR WEST. 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