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FURNITURE CARPETS MATTINGS RUGS LINOLEUMS LARE CURTAINS DRAPERIES WINDOW SHADES TABLE LINENS TABLE PRIS SHEETS PILLOWS PILLOW CASES TOWELS BED SPREADS COMFORTS BLANKETS QUEENSWARE CUT GLASS CHINA BRIC A. BRAG PICTURES FRAMES MOWLINGS WALL PAPER SCREENS BASKETS VOL. 10. CITY TREASURER. Murray C. Sells is running like a wild horse. The voters everywhere give him the glad hand and promise their support at the primary. This is Mr. Sells' first attempt in politics and his popularity has continued to grow with rapid strides ever since his entry into the arena. There is no possible show for him to fail. He is just as sure of the nomination for city treasurer as anything can be certain in human affairs. He has made a clean campaign and made many new acquaintances. None of his friends have indulged in mud slinging and, in fact, his fight has been made upon such a high plane that his opponent must consider it an honor to be defeated by Mr. Sells. LYING EDITORIALS. Some of the negroes who were over at the Hickory stamping grounds were lately of Muskogee and probably are registered voters here now. They are indiesrables and are a positive menace to law, order, morals and municipal reputation, the Phoenix to the contrary notwithstanding. And all the time all this fuss and feathers over Crazy Snake was going on old Motey Tiger, the real chief of the Creek nation, was quietly plowing on his farm near Okmulgea. When sifted down to bedrock it will be found that it was the irresponsible and outlawed negroes who caused the trouble and killed the officers—April 2, Times-Democrat. The above lying articles appeared in the Race Riot Review and as usual they spit their poisonous venom at the Negro. The Negro voters of Muskogee had nothing to do with the Snake uprising and no one knows it better than the prejudiced devils at the T-D. sanctum. In a few days these same Negrophobia malcontents will be begging the Negro democrats to go out among the people and ask their votes for democratic candidates. The democrat has certainly tried to get up a riot among Muskogee whites and Negroes and having failed in this devilish scheme they are now trying to get the Muskogee Negro in as prime mover in the Snake rebellion which is a malicious d—— ile as black as hell. Every sensible person knows the Muskogee Negro condemned the fantastic Negro who was the dupe and tool of the Snake band and every one except a fool knows that the killing of the deputy sheriffs was done by the Indians and the Times is now trying to hide the murderers of innocent negroes by irresponsible white outlaws by laying the blame for the entire trouble on Muskogee negroes who were fifty miles away from the scene of trouble. It looks to us like a political trick of the Race Riot Review to help the Dem. party in the city election, but the plan wont work. JONES CAN'T BETRAY US. C. J. Jones, the negro lawyer, who was reprimanded for drankness in Judge Bailey's court some time ago, is a candidate for police judge. In our opinion Jones is the willing tool again of Democratic politicians who see a small ray of light to defeat the party by using a Judas Iscarrrot. And we are informed that Judas was closeted with the past master Democratic politicians until 2 A. M. fixing up the dope to defeat the entire Republican ticket. Of course, the negroes do not take Jones seriously. They have found him out and he will get no support from the race. We are also aware of the trick fixed up by the King Bee Democrat and at the proper time we will meet steel and steel. The Judas may get his thirty pieces of silver, but cannot deliver the goods. Jones fooled the negroes once, but can't do it again. The same trick wont work twice. The old saying still holds goods: "You can fool all negroes some time, some negroes all the time, but you can't fool all the negroes all the time." Judas' day is passed. Vote for Murray C. Sells for City Treasurer. USE HEROIC REMEDY. If it is necessary to use Heroic Remedy in the police judge matter it should be done. At this writing it looks like there must be some elimination to meet the Dem. tricks and save the Rep. party. The party should be saved at any cost. No man's political ambition should be satisfied if the Rep. party must suffer thereby. It may be necessary to use the knife to save the patient The Muskogee Cimeter. and we believe in using it in time. The Dem. must not be allowed to name the Republican candidates. If we have to trim down to a single candidate to run against the Democratic stalking horse, then that should be done at once. The organization should get busy as the very life of the party is at stake. The Republican who expects to be nominated or elected by Democratic votes will be defeated and deserves to be. Republicans should campaign for Republican votes in the primary and get all of any kind he can in the general election. A Democrat may vote for a weak Republican in the primary in order to nominate him, but he would never vote for that Republican at the general election. Vote for H. S. Sullivan for City Assessor. JONES SAYS HE WILL BE POLICE JUDGE—AUDIENCE GIVES HIM THE LAUGH. At a meeting held in Walker's hall last night C. J. Jones, candidate for police judge, declared that he will be the next police judge of Muskogee. At this point the audience contemptuously laughed and hissed him to scorn. "Never mind," he warned them, "this is not the first time you will have a different laugh after next Tuesday, because I am going to be nominated." Some of the Republicans became uneasy at this declaration from Jones, and it was suggested that more attention be given the man, that something may be found out about the power which he openly boasts is behind him. The meeting as a whole was a sad affair. At the commencement Mr. Ed Jefferson mounted the rostrum and called Mr. Thomson of Reeves addition to act as chairman, as he presumed, by common consent. Before the newly appointed chairman took his seat one or two fanatics were on their feet clamoring for recognition. The house was in a tumult when Mr. Nickens, the lawful chairman, arrived. But good order was never fully restored and many times the chairman appealed to them to respect the people and the speakers. The candidates had understood that the people would talk and they listen, but they were called on for short talks, and they all spoke very briefly except Captain C. A. Ayers, who spoke for at least twenty minutes. He delivered his usual oration on Republicanism, and was frequently interrupted by some, crying, "Time, Time," etc. He spoke with much feeling on the oppression and persecution of the Negro in this country, decrying the constitution of eleven different states which have legislated against him. Among other things he said: "I believe the cry of these innocent people has gone up to God, and that the state of Oklahoma and the citizens of Oklahoma will be an instrument by which the infamy shall be whipped from the face of the earth." Captain Ayers is a powerful speaker, but even his eloquence have failed to weaken the wonderful influence of his opponent, Captain Ira L. Reeves, who spoke after him. He did not worry the people with a long talk, but spoke very briefly saying he had been a little indisposed for the last day or two, but would be alive on Tuesday, April the 6th. After the last candidate had been heard from the citizens were allowed to talk. Vote for John F. Chandler for Treasurer of the School Board. REV. R. H. BOYD SPEAKS TO A PACKED HOUSE — TALKS OF RACIAL PROGRESS. The Sims-Cullough auditorium was well attended last night by citizens of Muskogee to hear one of the leading men of the country in the person of Dr. R. H. Boyd of Nashville, Teen., who spoke for more than an hour on the progress of the race. His talk was timely, well delivered and well received. He advised the colored people of Oklahoma to keep what prosperity they have and try to get more. He especially commended the colored people of Muskogee for the great strides they are making to improve the conditions of the race. It cost just 50 cents per head to hear Mr. Boyd talk, and the Baptist State University, which received the benefits of the door receipts, must have realized at least $200. MUSKOGEE, OKLA., APRIL 2 1909. [Name not visible] ATTORNEY ARCHIE V. JONES. Oklahoma's Choice for Federal Appointment to the Secretaryship for the Librarian Commission The above is the likeness of the Honorable A. V. Jones, of Muskogee, now a republican state committeeman of Oklahoma, who has filed his application for the position of secretary to the librarian commission which is soon to leave Washington for Liberia. Mr. Jones is a young man with high ideals, and one of the most successful lawyers before the bar of Oklahoma. He is a native son of the nation's capital where he was educated for the practice of law. He came to Oklahoma only a few years ago and engaged in legal practice in the courts of this state, and since that time he has been closely associated with some of the leading men of the commonwealth. Mr. Jones is the first and only Negro ever elected for state committeeman for the state of Oklahoma and he has proven a credit to the race and an honor to the state. SHE WILL BE CHARMING JUST THE SAME. These new spring hats are frightful things. They look like washtubs when inverted; To each a hanging garden clings, With here and there a twig inserted; If ever, since this world began, More homely headgear was invented, The poor inventor, whether man Or woman, must have been demented. You wonder when you see them in Show windows scattered through the city How women wearing them may win Men's love ro be considered pretty; Ask yourself as you behold Them on the dunies, forced to bear them, How lovely women, young or old, May ever be induced to wear them. But be of good cheer yet and cling Unceasingly to hope, oh, brother; The maiden will be sweet this spring And charming still, somehow or other; She never yet has failed to stir The old, disturbing, heavenly passion. No matter what the milliner Decreed to be the latest fashion. —Chicago Record Herald. Every man has natural indulgence for the fair sex. We want to see them beautify themselves all they wish. But we think these sea float and six feet in diameter hats is an outrage to patient mankind. The inverted washtub style is welcomed by us, as a sane relief. The entire list of candidates for the nomination in the April 6th primary election as filed with the county election board follows: For Mayor. Republican—Ira L. Reeves, Thomas A. Sanson, C. C. Ayers, S. H. Hilligoss. Democratic—A. F. McGarr. Frank- LOWS W CHASES VELLS SPREADS RTS TICKETS NSWARE There is no doubt that Mr. Jones will succeed in getting the appointment and the people of this state feel that he will acquit himself credibly of all his professional obligations to his country while on the dark continent of Liberia. The appointment of this worthy young man means much to the future hope of the Negro in America. Many of our young men would strive harder to qualify themselves for exalted positions in the state and national government if more of those who have such qualifications were recognized. Mr. Jones is known throughout the state, and is respected as a man of admirable character. The people of this state know nothing but good of him, and they all wish to see him succeed in getting the appointment. lin Miller. Socialist—S. C. Northcutt. For City Clerk. Republican—Morgan Caraway, B. L. Steen, Harry Montague. Democratic—Charles Wheeler, Jr. socialist—No candidate. For Chief of Police. Republican—Charles Kimsey, G. I. Ball, E. E. Skelton. Democratic—J. F. Ledbetter, John M. Brucker. Socialist—D. M. Adkins. City Treasurer. Republican—G. B. Shoenfelt, Murray G. Sells. Democratic—W. H. Pritchett. Socialist—Otto Reihn. City Assessor. Republican—Bert Pitts, H. C. Sullivan. Democratic—Joe Mcusker, O. F. Beebe. Socialist—Sam T. Taylor. Police Judge. Republican—Z. T. Walrond, J. B. Campbell, Cornelius J. Jones, W. F. Seavers, Anselan Buchanan, W. R. Hoyt, Bert G. Wood. Democratic—Matt A. Thompson, Wm. A. Green, Sam T. McMurray. Socialist—S. P. Pate. Street Commissioner. Republican—W. H. Harper, M. W. Fowler, H. E. McAdams. Democratic—J. F. Gaither. Socialist—C. A. Grady. City Attorney. Republican—W. F. Ramphendahl, J. P. Gaskill. Democratic—Ben B. Wheeler. Socialist—No candidate. FOR ALDERMEN. First Ward. Republican—Jas. H. King, I. N. Ury, L. E. Prall, Felix L. Winkler. Democratic—J. W. Whitfield, J. T. Perkins. Socialist—D. L. Hoffman, W. S. Pleasants. Second Ward. Republican—B. F. Stewart, H. E. Ketchum, W. T. Granger. Democratic—Frank Peters, P. D. Nelson, Jack Land, F. M. Davis. Judge Waldron is making a clean campaign and is not abusing his opponents. There is no doubt about the judge's competency and he says he will be guided largely by the advice of the city attorney, whoever he may be (and, of course, he will be a Republican). No man doubts the judge's honesty. His long residence here has convinced the people that he is honest and well meaning. Judge Hoyt is developing some good sprinting qualities. In the beginning it was thought he would be the last man in the race, but the old soldier has kept up the firing until he is now among the leaders on the firing line. His friends are making the battle hot and as he ends draws near they predict that the old war horse will gallop under the wire just ahead of his competitors. The judge is keeping the fight clean and is not throwing mud. Republican meeting tonight at Masonic Hall, 211 South Second St., rear. All Republicans invited. Mr. Editor: The candidate for city attorney who deserves the support of the entire party at this time is Mr. Ramphendahl. He is amending the few whom we elected at the county election who did not sell out. I believe there is now no chance for our candidate for county attorney or county judge ever getting in and it may be for the best to let those old sores heal, but we can repay Ramphendahl by electing him city attorney. He deserves well at our hands because he has proven himself a stalwart Republican and the common herd will support him to a man at the primary. A COMMON REPUBLICAN. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR THE ELECTION BOARD'S APPEAL. Guthrie, Okla., April 2.—Counsel for the Muskogee county election board late this evening were given assurance by the supreme court that that court would take cognizance of their appeal from the peremptory writ of mandanus issued by Judge King of the Muskogee district court to compel the board to recognize the candidacy of L. N. Ury for republican nomination from the First Ward of Muskogee, and to further compel the board to permit the Muskogee ward limits to stand as arranged by the city council in a recent ordinance. For Mayor—Captain Ira L. Reeves. For Chief of Police—E. E. Sheilton. For City Clerk—Harry Montague. For Tax Assessor—Bert Pitts. For City Treasurer—Murray C. Sells. For Police Judge—Bert Woods. For City Attorney—J. F. Gaskill. For Councilmen from the First Ward—King and Prall. From the Second Ward—Ketchell and Stewart. From the Third Ward—Grant Foreman. From the Fourth Ward—Siebold and Butler. for the Mu board late the assurance by that court w their appeal writ of man King of the to compel the candidacy lican nomin Ward of M compel the kogee ward ranged by the cent ordinarn The appeal that the sup The appellants were also assured that the supreme court would issue a writ of supercedas to prohibit the district court from citing the election board for contempt in ignoring the terms of the mandamus, pending decision by the supreme court upon the merits of the election board's appeal. The court will probably consider the issue tomorrow.—Phoenix, March 3, 1909. Vote for W. F. Ramphendahl for City Attorney. WILL REFER THE ELECTION LAW TO POPULAR VOTE—PRIOR LAW SUFFICIENT. Guthrie, Okla., April 2.—The Republican state committee decided tonight to refer to a vote of the people the election law passed by the Democrats in the last legislature, but not to initiate an election law of their own at this time. They maintain that the election law passed by the first legislature after statehood is sufficient for present needs if the new law can be defeated. The following committee was named to make all preparation and direct the referendum: State Senators Harry Beeler and Emory Brownlee, Former State Chairman Charles E. Hunter, Committeeman F. A. Parkinson of Lawton and Walter Ferguson of Seminole; Editor O. K. Benedict of the Oklahoma City Times, Attorneys Frank Gillette of El Reno, John H. Burford and Will H. Chappel of Guthrie.—Phoenix, March 3, 1909. For watches, clocks, brackets, watch repairing and all kinds of jewelry see W. V. Gentry, 226 North Main street near vlaudet. He is the best jeweler in town. He is an expert at the business and is entitled to your trade. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CIMETER. $1 per year. See A. J. Smithman, traveling agent and advertising manager. Box G. PANY MOULDINGS WALL PAPER SCREENS BASKETS With the crease in roo our store we to serve the than ever in t Carget, Wal Queensware Prices and t With the enormous increase in room added to our store we are prepared to serve the Public better than ever in the Furniture Carget, Wall Paper and Queensware lines. Our Prices and terms are the fairest. Socialist—T. D. Williams, W. W. Talley. Third Ward. Republican—G. T. Fryer, Grant Foreman, A. B. Wilson, J. H. Klick, J. L. Huff, Charles Seekings, J. F. Brett. Democratic—J. J. Brotherton, V. R. Coss. Socialist—J. W. Parks. Fourth Ward. Republican—W. F. Moffat, O. E. Cramer, G. F. Bucher, G. W. Siebold, O. P. M. Butler. Democratic—G. W. Swanson, A. W. Patterson. Socialist—No candidate. MEMBERS BOARD OF EDUCATION First Ward. Republican—Myron White, S. W. Alkins. Democratic—H. M. Chesnutt. Socialist—Blanche Reihm, James C. Jones. Second Ward. Republican—A. E. Bonnell, J. N. Wilson. Democratic—J. W. Stewart, W. H. Davis. Socialist—John Ward, Mrs. M. L. Pete. Third Ward. Republican—D. N. Fink, J. D. Benedict, E. E. McKibban. Democratic—No candidate. Socialist—No candidate. Fourth Ward. Republican—G. C. Buttee, J. N. Wilkinson. Democratic—J. O. Oldham. Socialist—No candidate. For Treasurer School Board. Republican—R. H. Beard, John F. Chandler. Democratic—W. O. Carr, E. H. Fleming. Socialist—S. C. Stewart. COLORED MINISTERS' ALLIANCE ENDORSES CANDIDATES. We, the Ministers' Alliance of Muskogee, in executive session, have endorsed the following candidates for the various offices; Rev. Bradford stated that they did not act on the candidates for Board of Education. Sanson has withdrawn and report says will go to California for his health. Judge Sanson was among the leading candidates for mayor on the Republican ticket. His withdrawal leaves the field to Reeves, Ayers and Hilligoss. The battle still rages as each man is making a hard fight to the nomination which means election. AMONG THE CANDIDATES FOR POLICE JUDGE. Anslen Buchanan, one of the candidates for police judge, has been out of the city all the week. He is a member of the state militia and when duty called, like the patriotic citizen he is, he responded. No good citizen will consure Mr. Buchanan for being loyal to his country and the flag and right royally did Mr. R. T. Thompson protect the young soldier's interest when he was assailed by an opponent last Monday night. It is laudable for any of the candidates to use their best efforts to land the job, but at all times they should remember that it is not to any man's discredit to respond to the call of his country. It shows the man capable and worthy of any position to which he may aspire. Vote for D. N. Fink for Member of School Board, Third Ward. FOR TREASURER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. Thereby announce myself a candidate for treasurer of the school board of Muskogee subject to the action of the republican primary, April 6, 1909. JOHN CHANDLER. Any candidate, no matter who he may be, who is not a help to the ticket should nominate. This is no time to carry vexta loads. NO.22 RAMPHENDAHL SYSTEM IS PERFECT ERRORS IMPOSSIBLE IN UNCLE SAM'S MONEY FACTORY. institution Is Proud of the Fact That in its Entire History Not One Plate Has Ever Gone Astray. The system of checks employed to prevent irregularities in Uncle Sam's money factory, otherwise known as the bureau of engraving and printing, is as complete as human ingenuity can device. Each die, roll and plate has a number in sequence stamped upon it and by said number it is recorded. Each employee receiving a piece of steel to work on is charged with the same by its number and a description of the engraving to be made thereon. He is not allowed to leave the building, says the National Magazine, until the same has been returned and checked into the vaults presided over by the custodian of dies, rolls and plates. This officer is the representative of the secretary of the treasury. In the custodian's office complete records and the history of 18,000 dies, 19,000 rolls and 18,000 plates are on file. Once a year this office is audited and checked up by a committee appointed by the secretary of the treasury, each piece of engraved work being identified and compared with the records of the office. This is an arduous duty and it usually takes three months. After finding the records correct the committee receipt to the custodian for all obsolete dies, rolls and plates which have become worn by use or no longer serviceable on account of legislation; these are carefully checked and packed in sealed boxes and taken to the navy yard, where they are totally destroyed by melting in a blast furnace. Last year the committee destroyed 3,482 pieces of engraved work, packed in 247 boxes and weighing 35,757 pounds. Each morning the custodian issues all plates to the printing division and all dies, rolls and plates necessary to the engravers on requisitions and receipts for them upon their return at the close of the day's work, when they are stored in two large steel fireproof vaults of modern construction protected by time locks. The 18,000 plates represent all classes of work, including commissions, checks, drafts, portraits of deceased members of congress, certificates, diplomas, inaugural souvenirs, national bank currency, United States and treasury notes, gold and silver certificates, bonds and clgar, cigarette, tobacco, anuff, beer, oleomargarine, rectified spirits, postage, documentary, customs and proprietary stamps. The system of checks and rules governing the custody of the work is so perfect that in the history of the bureau not a single plate has gone astray. To Honor Ladies of White House. It is unfair and uncouteous in us as a nation that all of the wives of our presidents are not represented among the portraits in the White House, and it is hoped that this stigma may soon be removed, writes a correspondent. An effort is to be made to enlist the women of the states who have had the honor of having a daughter who has been the mistress of the White House to club together and place her portrait upon its walls, as the women of Tennessee did for Mrs. Polk. In this effort care will be taken that only the best artists are commissioned with the work and that a uniformity of design is followed in all the pictures. The most biotic part of the White House—that is, the collection of presidential ware—is contained in six cabinets standing in the lower east corridor of the mansion. Soon after Mrs. Roosevelt became the mistress of the mansion she saw that there was nothing in it representative of the great majority of the presidents who have occupied the high office beyond their portraits. This and the desire to save something of the presidential china which was then in the White House led her to start the collection. She was so successful in this endeavor that the collection now contains some piece of china, plate or glass which was used by every president's family except those of Zachary Taylor, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Van Buren and Johnson, and efforts are now under way whereby it is expected that the collection will be completed within a year. It has been made a part of the bureau of public buildings and grounds and is the permanent property of the government. National Nicknames. Like individuals, the nations of the earth have nicknames. The appropriateness of some is quite evident; but to explain the origin of others would be difficult. Englishmen have submitted to the name of John Bull, as suited to the national character. A Scottsman is Sandy; the Irishman gets his nickname, Paddy, from his national patron saint; while an ancient nursery rhyme records the fact that Taffy was a Welshman. In England the Frenchman is sometimes rather contemptuously alluded to as John Crepauat; but in France he is Jacques Bonhomme, or, as a bourgeois, Monsieur Prudhomme. Cousin Michel is the nickname by which the German is known to the continental nations. Mynehe Closh, an abbreviation of Nicholas, is the name applied to Hollanders; and the Switzer rejoices in the name of Colin Tampon—The Sunday Magazine. TELL OF HISTORIC SPOTS. Memorial Tablets on Wanhington Houses of Interest to Visitors. Visitors to Washington find the city spotted with small wooden tablets, made in imitation of bronze, erected by a committee of citizens under the direction of the inaugural committee. These tablets mark certain historic places, buildings in which famous men once lived or worked, sites upon which their homes stood, hotels and churches identified with the lives of statesmen, the scenes of important happenings. There are in all nearly 200 of these markers, every one of them interesting. Studied by the stranger with catalogue in hand, they disclose the long historic perspective of Washington. They present the story of the national capital as it is written in the records of men and events. Many of the landmarks are passing from view, for Washington is in a state of change. It is growing rapidly, and its growth involves sacrifices. The older buildings are being replaced by new ones, and steadily the urban area is extending into the suburbs and the newness of modern residence and apartment house construction is enveloping the territory. In a few years, unless permanent marks are established, most of the historic buildings will have been swept away, without traces left to note their existence. The committee on marking points of historic interest has this year produced a form of marker strongly suggestive of a permanent bronze tablet. If, in fact, these wooden tablets were thus replaced with enduring metal a visit to Washington would be far more interesting and instructive than at present during ordinary times. It is due to the people from the states, who regard the capital as, in a measure, their own city, that its points of historic significance should be permanently identified. Incidentally it is well to keep the Washingtonians themselves posted on the many items of local history. A fund to establish bronze tablets, according to some such scheme as that followed, for this inauguration, would be a profitable investment. But it should be a public expenditure, not private. The government itself should undertake the work. WORK OF THE SECRET SERVICE. How Makers of Bogus Moncy Are Run Down in the End, After a counterfeit is detected a description of it is widely circulated through the newspapers whose subscribers are chiefly bankers and cashiers, and then the service begins the work of discovering the makers and circulators of the bogus money. Sometimes the paper used by the counterfeiter may afford the clew which leads to his undoing; sometimes purchases of the peculiar shade of green ink that is used in the printing of the backs of the notes may be traced, for the legitimate users of these materials are all known in the trade and outsiders who purchase such things are apt to be remembered by the salesmen who keep in constant touch with the agents of the service. It has happened that information from these sources has led to the discovery of a counterfeiting plot before a single note has been issued, but this is a rare bit of good fortune. Later on there came the photo-mechanical processes where the camera was employed to lay the pattern down on a metal plate and etching blood took the place of the engraver. Inasmuch as camera and acid lack individuality the difficulty of identifying the engraver was increased tremendously. There are thousands of photo-engraving establishments in the country, each one of which is completely equipped with the apparatus and materials needed in the making of a counterfeit, and yet you can count on the fingers of one hand the cases where the equipment and technical skill of those places have been used illegitimately. And that, I think, is a pretty fine tribute to the innate honesty of the craft; at any rate, it goes a long way in sustaining one's faith in human nature—Secrets of the Secret Service, in National Magazine. A Tunnel for the Statesmen. For the convenience of statesmen a tupnel has been constructed from the capitol to the new office building just completed for the members of the house. The house members find the tupnel very convenient in keeping out of the wet and also in doling constituent and newspaper men at the rare intervals when they wish to avoid meeting the latter. A statesman can disappear into the capitol building and emerge ten minutes later from the house office building three blocks away. The tunnel is all nicely illuminated with electric lights, but a walk of three blocks is pretty strenuous for some of the statesmen, and they are said to be figuring on putting a trolley system in the tunnel. German Red Tape. A Danzig, Germany, paper tells a story of incredible red tapemill recently witnessed in that city. A fire broke out at a big sugar factory and great damage was done in a few minutes. The flames were rapidly spreading, but it was hoped that the storehouse containing 13,000 casks of raw sugar, each holding a hundredweight, might be saved, and all efforts of the fire brigade were turned in that quarter. Here, however, several custom house officers suddenly appeared and forbade the firemen to enter the warehouse, on the ground that the duties had not yet been regulated. Despite energetic opposition the officers stuck to their principles, and the whole stuff was consumed by the flames.—Baker's Weekly. River Postmen Employed on the Thames at London, England. It is probable that London has the distinction of being the only port where ships lying at anchor are privileged to have their letters delivered to them by river postmen, it being customary at other ports for sailors to apply personally for their letters unless the ship is in dock. The Thames is divided into two postal districts, each under the control of a river postman, who delivers letters and parcels every morning, in a craft which resembles a fisher boat more than anything else. Of these districts the first extends from the custom, house to Limehouse, and the second from Limehouse to Blackwall. The river postman start on their rounds punctually at eight o'clock every morning, and, needless to say, there is only one delivery a day. The mail bag may include as many as 500 letters, but this number is largely increased about Christmas time. As he glides from ship to ship the postman calls out: "Ahoy there!' and hands up the letters attached to a boathook to the waiting crew. It only takes from four to five hours to deliver the mail, so that the postman does not waste much time. In foggy weather, however, it takes considerably longer, owing to the difficulties of finding the various ships, and of steering between the large vessels as they lie at anchor. EXERCISE JOINTS AND MUSCLES Novel Machines Installed in a New York Medical College. The 30 steel machines, with their complicated mechanism, which will be used in the new department of mechanicotherapy in the Vanderbilt clinic of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York have been placed on public exhibition. The machines are a gift of Mrs. Ray Matshak, in memory of her husband, who was a prominent merchant. Arranged in long rows in a room of the clinic, they look like gymnastic apparatus of intricate design. Dr. Charles H. Jaeger, one of the surgeons of the hospital, explained the machines would give strength to the tissues, bones and muscles of patients convulsing from operations. The principle of the system is to exercise the joints and muscles to restore them to their normal condition. "These machines are so planned." Dr. Jaeger said, "that there isn't a joint or muscle in the entire body that cannot be exercised by one of them. The system might be called medical gymnastics, by means of which any workman who has suffered a fracture or other injury which has disabled a joint or muscle can have the stiffened joint or muscle restored to full working capacity in the shortest possible time." Advice to the Sick Illness may bring up from our sunken natures many a submerged thing—patience, or good spirits or self-obliteration; but it has not done its duty by us till it has dragged out of our quivering depths the military qualities. I know a woman who said: "I have been an invalid for 30 years. I am now growing old and my remaining days are few. I thought I had learned the lessons that God meant to teach me by physical suffering. But I have only mastered the easiest of them I thought I must try to be a saint Now I see that I must be a soldier." Physical malaise plays strange tricks with its victims; it conjures curiosity. Regard it as an enemy as long as you can. Nothing is sadder than mistaken friendships, and to make a friend of one's pathological calamities may be an important error precisely because one does not suspect that it is such. Recovery may be more a matter of will power than we suppose; or it may not be. Why not give it the benefit of the doubt?—Elizabeth Suart, Phelps, in Harper's Gazar. Practical Philosophy It is a rare philosopher who puts his reading into practice. A housekeeper whose patience was none of the best, had a Japanese cook, studiously inclined, and not overexpert in his profession. She went into her kitchen one day to direct the preparation of dinner. George was poring over a book. "What are you reading?" she asked. "Schopenhauer." George replied. "Do you think you can understand such philosophy?" the mistress inquired. "Yes," honorable madam. I understand it; I apply it. When you come to tell me how to cook, it is good to remember what the white man says about women. I read here, then I do not mind what you say." Inconsiderate. "I was sorry to hear of your husband's long illness and death, Mrs. Weeds. It must have been a great loss to you." "Oh, it was! It was! , had just started on one of the most brilliant social seasons since I made my debut when his illness stopped everything. If he had only been taken sick in the summer months, I could have gone away somewhere, but men are so seel fish." Made Her Weary. Little Helen—Sister, that new beau of yours makes me tired. Elder Sister—Why, dear? Little Helen—He has the manners of a street car conductor. When I went into the parlor last night he said "How old are you, little girl?" HOW TO TAKE CARE OF BABY. Advice That May or May Not Be of Interest to Fathers. My friend Miss Jones, whose "Mothers' Column" forms so popular a feature in that widely-read magazine, Home, Hearth and Henyard, said to me: "My dearest Victoria, why do you not write a fathers' pages for the periodical which you yourself represent? Now that the suffragette parades so hamper mother in her domestic duties, father must be prepared to assume many of those household cares which pertained formerly to her own province." Above all else, father should remember that baby is not a machine, but a bald, vocalized, nocturnal, rubicund, omnivorous mammal indigenous to flats, but found elsewhere in considerable quantities. A Binghampton father writes: "I have a sweet little toddler who cries himself red in the face whenever we endeavor to correct him. I am afraid that he will work himself into a fit. What shall I do?" Paint baby's face with stripes of delicate green. This will relieve the glare which is often injurious to father's eyes. If signs of a fit appear, rip baby up the back lightly with a pair of scissors.—Harper's Weekly. MAKES CAPITAL OF KNOWLEDGE Advice for the Worker Just Getting a Start in His Career. When you get a job, just think of yourself as actually starting out in business yourself, as really working for yourself. Get as much salary as you can, writes Orison Swett Marden in the Success Magazine, but remember that that is a very small part of the consideration. You have actually gotten an opportunity to get right into the very heart of the great activities of a large concern, to get close to men who do things; an opportunity to absorb knowledge and valuable secrets on every hand; an opportunity to drink in, through your eyes and your cars, knowledge wherever you go in the establishment, knowledge that will be invaluable to you in the future. Every hint and every suggestion which you can pick up, every bit of knowledge you can absorb, you should regard as a part of your future capital which will be worth more than money capital when you start out for yourself. Just make up your mind that you are going to be a sponge in that institution and absorb every particle of information and knowledge, every suggestion possible. Training of Children. Treat the child more as an equal—not as a hopeless inferior. There isn't much need of coming down to his level as of giving him an opportunity to come up to yours—which will not require such a frightful effort on his part as you sometimes imagine. If you can get a child to recognize and treat you as his equal you will have gained the highest possible position of influence over him and earned the best and sincere compliment ever paid you. We dwell greatly upon what parents teach their children, but we forget to record in equal detail on the opposite side of the ledger what our children teach us. It would be difficult to say on which side the balance would be found to fall. The child is not merely the ideal pupil but also the greatest teacher in the world. The lessons that we learn from him, if we approach him with proper humility, are the most valuable part of our education. Right to Bathe in Ice River When the temperature is at freezing a policeman is, no doubt, justified in concluding that a person diving into the Seine intends to commit suicide. Two Paris policemen, acting under this impression the other day, fished out of the river a man who was seen splashing about under the Pont des Arts. "Leave me alone," were the first words, "I am a free citizen and you have no right to prevent me from bathing if I want to. I don't want to die. I am making experiments to determine the strength of my powers of resistance to the cold. Leave me alone." He then dived into the water again leaving the policemen considerably astonished, and with a wider acquaintance than ever of the eccentricities of human nature. Natural Advantages. "I am sorry I did not marry in South America," remarked the ostensible head of the house. "Here I see where a woman from there is telling women's clubs that in South America the wives do not object to their husband's coming in at two and three o'clock in the morning, as they do not think it is any of their business." "Don't omit all the advantages," replied his better half, coldly. "You might recall that in South America, also, husbands can see snakes without arousing any ulterior suspicions." Enlightenment I wonder that you did not get angry when your enemy applied all those epithets to you." "I meant to be angry," replied the statesman, "but that man has a brand-new line of epithets, and I was busy trying to remember them for my own use in the 'uture.'" A Need of the Occasion: "Can you stake me off to a good dinner, old chap?" "Sure, if I can find a place with a good steak." A CONSTIPATION REMEDY FREE There is no action of your daily life of greater importance than to see that your bowels move. They should move at least once a day naturally, and by that is meant without any help, if they do not move at least once a day you can consider yourself constipated and it is time you did something about it. You will be glad to know there is a way out of the difficulty, Lemuel Landerdale, an old soldier at Quincy, Ill., Elmer McMillan, of Speed, Mo., Mrs. Monahan, of Stonewall, Miss., and many others were as you are now. But one day they awoke to the fact that Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin was curing their friends, so they bought it too and it cured them. To-day, they are loud in praise of it. What Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepisin did for them it should do for you. Surely your appointment is no worse than the one of whom it is. It only remains for you to realize that salts are of but temporary good, and what you want to permanently hold in your hand is culinary tails and such violent things make a great show of doing something, but do nothing that is lasting. Dr. Caldwell recommends a preparator, a laxative-tonic, a mild syrupy liquid that contains ingredients that not only cure the constipation, but to tone the intestinal tract again to work without help. A bottle can be bought of any druggist for the small size for families who have already found out its wonderful value in stomach, liver and bowel troubles, in old or young. Send your name and date to the doctor and a free phone call will be sent you so that you can test it before buying. Give anything about your aliment that you don't understand, or if you want any medical advice, write to the doctor and answer you fully. There is no charge for this service. The address is Dr. W. B. Caldwell bldg., Monticello, IL. Illustrated by Thrifty Philadelphia Pair and Their Eye-Glasses. A worthy tradesman of this city was discussing optics with a customer the other day, apropos of the latter's appearance with his first eye-glasses. "I've been wearing this pair of spectacles for nearly twenty years now," remarked the tradesman, "and my wife a pair just like them for the same time, and now we couldn't either of us see without them, and we never had anything the matter with our eyes in the first place." "What did you begin to wear them for, then?" inquired the customer. "Why, you see," explained the other, in a matter-of-fact manner, "when my brother-in-law died he left the two pair of spectacles, and we couldn't sell them for anything like what they were worth."—Harper's Weekly. FREEDOM. Son—Say, dad; when is the freedom of the city given to a man? Pater—When his wife goes to the country for the summer. Twenty-four Carloids Purchased for Lewis' Single Binder Cigar What is probably the biggest lot of all fancy grade tobacco held by any factory in the United States has just been purchased by Frank P. Lewis, of Peoria, for the manufacture of Lewis' Single Binder Cigars. The lot will make twenty-four carloads, and is selected from what is considered by experts to be the finest crop raised in many years. The purchase of tobacco is sufficient to last the factory more than two years. An extra price was paid for the selection. Smokers of Lewis' Single Binder Cigars will appreciate this tobacco. "That old fellow hasn't the slightest suspicion his young wife dislikes him." "How do you know that he hasn't?" "Because I have seen him eat her mince pies." Give children pennies if they buy digestible WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT. It is much better for them. Ambition makes a man feel that he could do something, if he only knew how. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. A man talks about love as though he felt ashamed of the conversation. Less and less cigar smoke. More and more WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT fragrance. If duty would use a megaphone more of us might hear the call. DODDS KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKUH R375 "Guarantee" CARUSO'S RIVAL FOUND IN PARIS Drabeloide's Pupil Is Like Famous Tenor in Name, Voice and Presence. Paris.—In the belief of his teacher, who is one of the four great masters of singing in Paris, a new Caruso has been found. He is only 21 years old, but already is an Apollo, and gives promise of some day rivaling the great tenor tenor in avoidupois as well as in vocal achievement. The young tenor looks like Caruso, and, still more strangely, there is a resemblance in name, for the boy's name is Carasa—Federico Carasa. But he is an Spaniard halling from San Sebastian, where from the time he A. H. Federico Carasa. was 17 he sang in the Orpheon, a noted choral society. There he attracted the attention of Marquis de Rocaverde, mayor of San Sebastian, who sent the young singer to Prof. Trabadelo, the noted teacher in Paris who trained the voices of Emma Eames, Geraldine Farrar, Sybil Sanderson and other famous singers. Federico Carasa has been studying under Trabadele for a little more than a year, justifying all his patron's hopes, and has just been accepted by the opera here—a remarkable distinction for a singer so young. He will make his debut in a few weeks, as soon as he has mastered French diction and can sing the parts in French as well as he now sings them in Italian. He will make his first appearance in "Romeo et Juliette" or "Alda." In Italian young Carasa sings all the repertoire of Tamagno and Caruso. He has a powerful voice, melodious and reaching up to high D. He has made no public appearance in Paris, but has sung at the chateaux of some of the most influential members of Paris society. Recently he was appointed a guest at the chateau of Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, where he sang for a distinguished company. HOUSE OF CHRISTMAS TREES. Odd Retreat of an Irishman on Barrier Sand Flat in Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo.—It is safe to say that no one else in Kansas City has treasured the symbols of Christmas longer than has Dennis Hooley, who lives on a barren flat at the northern extension of the foot of Tracy avenue. Not that Dennis is a man particularly full of sentiment; this is merely a case of Irish ingenuity. The superintendent of the city dump, near which Dennis has built his new home, had given orders that no shanties should be allowed on the field. That kept Home Made Out of Christmas Trees. hoboes out—but it wasn't at all fair to Dennis, who is a regular employee of the street department and keeps half a dozen blooded dogs to prove his respectability. After New Year's day loads of discarded Christmas trees began to ornament the bank of the river. Dennis saw in these an opportunity. He gathered some of the best preserved of them for a protection from the wind. The superintendent couldn't object to the windbreak, for it was almost ornamental. On the lee side of the windbreak Dennis planted some boards on end. The superintendent didn't object to these, either. Then Dennis nailed some horizontal boards over the top of the perpendiculars. They appeared to make a roof. When a stovepipe was struck through this roof, the eye could almost be deceived into believing that this collection of boards and Christmas trees really was a shanty. But it wasn't—for when the superintendent saw the place he grinned and spoke no word of remonstrance. . . That is the complete history of the house that Dennis built, which every day has the air of Christmas. "It's gr-r--reat!" says Dennis. In Time to Come. Jones—Where are you going? Brown—I'm going to the engine house to borrow a net. We just received a telephone message that a man fell off the top of the skyscraper, and we want to catch him when he gets down this far. If there is anything about your aliment that you don't understand, or if you want to be the doctor, and he will answer you fully. There is no charge for this service. The address is Dr. W. B. Monticello, Il. THE EXTREME OF ECONOMY. A TRAIN LOAD OF TOBACCO. A. Sure Proof. In Event of War By GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD. In considering the proper wartry against armed invasion, the fort gate is whether its wealth and history would engender envy and seize any part or the whole regions of an unscrupulous military only, as this country is largely mine whether it has a sufficient relied upon implicitly by its pre-land against invasion by would-land. In the construction of a mil- and interior home defense by a city is necessary to consider carefully preparing and organizing an army at hand, consisting of a nucleus cured and drilled soldiery and a mass states of America is undoubtedly the training in every way. The granary supply the needs of its nearly 100,000 large quantities of food for the other harbors of the principal cities and have in a very great degree been for the sea by a sufficient power to the fact is entirely overlooked that its insufficient and inadequate to proworth of the modern guns new in population. Our navy in its home waters—not a lay the coast open to an attacking fleet. And it is not certain that there could be little opposition and such grasp of territory could be manned with the flower of foreign mobilized troops educated and drilled army? Consequently, prepare for life of proportions commensurate with it could now be taken within a fortnight, and Washington be captured all spelling force could be concentrated. It is true that in case of foreign invasion drive the invaders out, and would not. But that could not be done when worked against our people, with despoiler; for volunteers come with upon millions of dollars that have been and it should be fostered and not be sent to the army as the army is to of the nation. Nenty of fortifications and guns, but work them. What is the use of having home if you can only shoot or bulleous sums of money constructing them with the most expensive device manned with educated officers, to care for such valuables of the In considering the proper way to defend a country against armed invasion, the first thing to investigate is whether its wealth and desirability of territory would engender envy and a covetous wish to seize any part or the whole thereof by grasping legions of an unscrupulous military nation; and, secondly, as this country is largely seabound, to determine whether it has a sufficient navy that could be relied upon implicitly by its prowess to protect the land against invasion by would-be conquering hosts. In the construction of a military force for coast and interior home defense by a commercial nation it is necessary to consider carefully the best manner of preparing and organizing an army out of the material at hand, consisting of a nucleus of educated, instructed and drilled soldiery and a mass of raw recruits. The United States of America, the globe, self-sustaining in every of the new world supply the needs ditionally furnish large quantities of the earth. It is true that the harbors of ways of our coasts have in a very against attack from the sea by a movement, yet the fact is entirely artillery is totally insufficient and more than one-fourth of the me ramparts of the nation. A defeat of our navy in its possibility—would lay the coasts guns of its victorious fleet. And land forces where there could be under its guns until such grasp or intrenchments manned with the reinforced by well mobilized troop if not a veteran army? Consequent and with an army of proportions be required of it. New York could now be traced and lodgment in rear, and Washi fore a sufficient repelling force ejection. It is perfectly true that in it would rise up to drive the inva- matter what the cost. But that destruction had been worked aga- tion to meet the despoiler; for preparation. The millions upon millions are well placed, and it should be necessary an adjunct to the army form the defense of the nation. There are plenty of fortifile men to man and work them. We which to protect your home if y of expending fabulous sums of tions and mounting them with less such forts are manned with competent soldiers to care for s The United States of America is undoubtedly the richest country on the globe, self-sustaining in every way. The granaries of this paradise of the new world supply the needs of its nearly 100,000,000 people, and additionally furnish large quantities of food for the other principal nations of the earth. It is true that the harbors of the principal cities and a few inlet waterways of our coasts have in a very great degree been fortified and prepared against attack from the sea by a sufficient power to give force to such a movement, yet the fact is entirely overlooked that the organized coast arritery is totally insufficient and inadequate to properly man and fight more than one-fourth of the modern guns now in position on the coast ramparts of the nation. A defeat of our navy in its home waters—not a probability, though a possibility—would lay the coast open to an attacking enemy under the guns of its victorious fleet. And it is not certain that such a fleet would land forces where there could be little opposition and hold a lodgment under its guns until such grasp of territory could be made secure by strong intrenchments manned with the flower of foreign soldiery, constantly reinforced by well mobilized troops educated and drilled into an effective if not a veteran army? Consequently, prepare for land defense in time, and with an army of proportions commensurate with the service that may be required of it. New York could now be taken within a fortnight after first attack and lodgment in rear, and Washington be captured almost immediately before a sufficient repelling force could be concentrated to resist land invasion. It is perfectly true that in case of foreign invasion the whole country would rise up to drive the invaders out, and would ultimately do it, no matter what the cost. But that could not be done quickly, and until great destruction had been worked against our people, without previous preparation to meet the despoiler; for volunteers come with war and without preparation. The millions upon millions of dollars that have been put into the navy are well placed, and it should be fostered and not be curtailed. It is as necessary an adjunct to the army as the army is to it, and both together form the defense of the nation. There are plenty of fortifications and guns, but too few officers and men to man and work them. What is the use of having four guns with which to protect your home if you can only shoot one? What is the use of expending fabulous sums of money constructing permanent fortifications and mounting them with the most expensive disappearing guns unless such forts are manned with educated officers, skilled gunners and competent soldiers to care for such valuables of the nation? Family Group Will Pass By ADA MAY KRECKER. under the father's guiding hand of the family group to declare individuality in the heart of or while there is much making for stitutions and customs, beneath Our democracy is making birth of men. And the rise of our movements for collective cultivation of the individual. A organizations are freeing the in from the ancient group activi is guiding hand. But the newer idea up to declare themselves as individi the heart of our current collectivit such making for sociality in our mea stoms, beneath all is the rise of theacy is making individuals. The rise and the rise of the women is the cre or collective progress fundamentally individual. All our swarming club freeing the individual. They are a group activity and providing him uniqueness. They furnish different c under the father's guiding hand. But the newer idea is for the members of the family group to declare themselves as individuals. They vindicate individuality in the heart of our current collectivism. For, true enough, while there is much making for sociality in our modern notions and institutions and customs, beneath all is the rise of the individual. Our democracy is making individuals. The rise of the masses is the birth of men. And the rise of the women is the creation of women. All our movements for collective progress fundamentally are measures for the cultivation of the individual. All our swarming clubs, societies, and divers organizations are freeing the individual. They are giving him his liberty from the ancient group activity and providing him with a channel for expressing his uniqueness. They furnish different churches for the same family, different clubs for different ages, different social sets for twin sisters. Mothers of a generation ago lived in and for their families, none of whom, perhaps, had similar tastes to their own. Now they choose their own mates in clubs and classes of congenial temper. And when husbands prove misfits they get themselves others. The children follow in their wake. Sisters no longer necessarily are chums by simple virtue of the family relation. The blood tie is insufficient when there are no bonds of the higher life. Each drifts into her own sympathetic circle, which is formed quite irrelevantly to the family communities. The youngest are separating from the family collectively. Witness our public nurseries. The rigid family institution holds too often uncongenial natures into close relationship with no reason save the most material and economic considerations. Therefore, it is bound to pass. It is a unit formed of bonds that cease to hold. Surviving so long as it proves useful, the family will be displaced by more loosely constructed groups of persons drawn together by super-physical ties. [Illustration of a military officer in uniform]. Great Cities Almost at Mercy of Powerful Few considering the proper way to defend a country armed invasion, the first thing to investigate its wealth and desirability of territorial engender envy and a covetous wish to apart or the whole thereof by grasping leeen unscrupulous military nation; and, see this country is largely seabound, to deter it has a sufficient navy that could be implicitly by its prowess to protect the coast invasion by would-be conquering hosts. The construction of a military force for coast or home defense by a commercial nation it may to consider carefully the best manner of and organizing an army out of the material consisting of a nucleus of educated, instructed soldiery and a mass of raw recruits. America is undoubtedly the richest country on every way. The granaries of this paradise holds of its nearly 100,000,000 people, and adopts of food for the other principal nations of the principal cities and a few inlet watery great degree been fortified and prepared by a sufficient power to give force to such a tirely overlooked that the organized coast and inadequate to properly man and fight modern guns new in position on the coast. Is home waters—not a probability, though a first open to an attacking enemy under the land it is not certain that such a fleet would be little opposition and hold a lodgment of territory could be made secure by strong the flower of foreign soldiery, constantly troops educated and drilled into an effective frequently, prepare for land defense in time, tons commensurate with the service that may be taken within a fortnight after first attack Washington be captured almost immediately before could be concentrated to resist land inva- In case of foreign invasion the whole country invaders out, and would ultimately do it, no doubt could not be done quickly, and until great against our people, without previous preparator volunteers come with war and without of dollars that have been put into the navy be fostered and not be curtailed. It is as army as the army is to it, and both togetherifications and guns, but too few officers and What is the use of having four guns with you can only shoot one? What is the use of money constructing permanent fortification the most expensive disappearing guns unwith educated officers, skilled gunners and such valuables of the nation? A Henry James heroine observed that a great many of her personal friends were not known to her mother. She was a representative of the times. For our contemporaries do not make friends by families, nor go out by families, nor think by families, nor even eat and sleep by families. It takes an older fashioned civilization for that. They do it in Germany to a degree. And in India they do it to a greater degree with patriarchal households of several generations. There are no individuals in such case only groups. The family acts as a unit and. But the newer idea is for the members to themselves as individuals. They vindicate our current collectivism. For, true enough, for sociality in our modern notions and in itself all is the rise of the individual. Using individuals. The rise of the masses is the of the women is the creation of women. All progress fundamentally are measures for the. All our swarming clubs, societies, and divers individual. They are giving him his liberty and providing him with a channel for they furnish different churches for the same different ages, different social sets for twin sisters ago lived in and for their families, none for tastes to their own. Now they choose their ties of congenial temper. And when husbands selves others. The children follow in their usually are chums by simple virtue of the family insufficient when there are no bonds of the other own sympathetic circle, which is formed only communities. The --- to defend a coun- thing to investi- ability of terri- ovetous wish to by grasping lea- tion; and, sec- bound, to deter- y that could be to protect the conquering hosts. y force for coast mercial nation it the best manner of of the material educated, instruct- draw recruits. the best country on of this paradise people, and ad- principal nations few inlet water- ed and prepared force to such a organized coast man and fight ion on the coast ability, though a enemy under the such a fleet would hold a lodgment secure by strong diary, constantly into an effective defense in time, service that may after first attack immediately be- resist land inva- the whole country imately do it, no, and until great previous prepara- war and without put into the navy rtailed. It is as and both together few officers and four guns with What is the use manent fortifica- pearing guns un- led gunners and on? for the members. They vindicate For, true enough, notions and individual. the masses is the men of women. All measures for the societies, and diversing him his liberty with a channel for matches for the same sets for twin sisters. their families, none they choose their and when husbands can follow in their virtue of the family no bonds of the wife, which is formed THE WOMEN'S HERALD SURED OF "SWORD-SWALLOWING." Knife-Eating Incident Calls to Mind a Little Trick. "While seated in the dining-room of one of our best hotels my attention was attracted to a dignified, well-groomed, prosperous-appearing man, who was deliberately eating with his knife. He also had a sort of strangle hold on his fork which he used backwards and sideways," said a western Pennsylvania man, according to the New York Morning Telegraph. "I cast my eyes about and noted a number doing the same thing. Folk of whom you would expect better manners, if from no other cause, from pure instinct. "It recalled to me the time when I was a young fellow and my uncle—a judge in a country district of Pennsylvania—gave a reception to many of the farmers thereabout, at which a gigantic old-fashioned spread was placed before them. "I knew well how these sons of the soil would gobble up all they could hold, shoving the food into their faces with their knives. "I was full of mischief at this time, so I got hold of all the knives on the quiet, took them to the grindstone and sharpened them like razors. Then slipped them back to the cupboard. "When the guests began their sword-swallowing, one after the other cut their lips with the keen-edged weapons, while I sat in a corner bubbling over with laughter at the affair and hoping the lesson they were being taught might be of advantage to them in the future." INSTRUMENT FOUND ITS SOUL The Story of a Violin That Was Wrecked in a Fire. After the Lucky Baldwin theater and hotel fire in San Francisco years ago there were nine feet of water in the baneament, where the instruments of the orchestra were stored. When a little of it had been pumped out, August Hinrichs, leader of the orchestra, hired a man to swim in and get out his famous Amati violin. It was wrecked—water soaked, warped, twisted and broken up into 68 pieces. The hot water had soaked out all the old glue, and every piece had fallen away from its neighbor, besides a good many patches of wood put in when repairs had been done. To all appearance the thing was smashed beyond recall. Nevertheless, Herman Muller, a local violin repairer, who knew and loved the old fiddle, took it, in hand. Twice he carefully joined the time-darkened pieces of wood. Twice he decided that the Amati would not do. So once more he soaked the 68 bits of wood apart. Then he carefully modeled out of clay an arch such as he remembered that of the old Amati to have had, and for nine weeks kept the bits of wood bound to it until they had gained the proper shape. Once more he put the bits of wood together. Then for five weeks more he patiently varnished and polished the more than 200-year-old fiddle until it shone. Then Hinrichs once more drew his bow across the vibrating strings, and the violin spoke. It sang, wept, bubbled with life and joy. The Amati had found its soul. Barn Dancing a Fashionable Exercise. Barn dancing is being turned into a fashionable exercise. But don't think "barn dancing" means dancing in a barn. It - simply implies an old-fashioned, vigorous "square" dance. Fencing has made many a woman gracefully slender and developed her wits as well as her arms, yet fencing is not as much in vogue as it used to be. The barn dance is the thing to bring a fat girl down to the right proportions for the bolster case empire gown. When a half dozen girls get together now it is likely they will fling about with great vigor in the barn dance. But there is one drawback. Such dancing does not suit the way most women wear their hair. Puffs and curls strew the floor and such exhibits are embarrassing. A Forest Under the Sand. What some believe to be a buried pre-historic forest on the New Jersey coast near the Sandy Hook military reservation, has been discovered by army engineers while boring for an additional water supply. When the test pipes were down nearly 400 feet a broad strata of wood was found. At one point the borers reported that they went through 20 feet of wood. Investigations are being made in the interest of archaeology. If a forest flourished where the sand dunes are now, it is believed it was covered with sand by the action of the sea until buried. A Church Saloon. A number of well-known churchmen of Montclair, N. J., are planning to open a model saloon similar to the one favored by the late Bishop Potter in New York. The movement was started at a church meeting recently and at the next period for filing applications for liquor licenses steps will be taken to secure a license for the ideal saloon. Besties the spirituous drinks, the "church saloon" will furnish coffee, lemonade and soft drinks, as well as light luncheons. Qualified bartenders will be employed. Depends on the Sculptor. "Do you think posterity will recognize you?" "No," answered Senator Sorghum, "not unless I am lucky enough to strike a sculptor more than ordinarily successful in preserving likenesses." RETAIN LONGING FOR ROMANCE Frequent Cause of Tragedy in the Life of a Woman. It is because women are always striving to keep love at some emotional height, while men, after a few years of marriage, are quite content to let romance die out and settle down to a placid, comfortable, hindrance existence, writes Mildred Herbert Urner in the Red Book. How often does one see a woman past her first youth, and yet with her insatiable longing for romance still strong within her, striving with all her arts and wilies to make of her stolid, prosale, middle-aged husband, an ardent, romantic lover. Usually the man is blandly unconscious of her efforts; or at most mildly wonders why Mary after all these years, could not take his love for granted and not insist on being constantly told of it. And there lies the tragedy of most women's lives. They want to be told—constantly, repeatedly told that they are loved. They can never be reconsidered to taking it for granted. However faithful and devoted they may know their husbands are at heart, they want it in words. They want, through all their married life, all the little love phrases and tender attentions of their honeymoons. And not one woman in ten gets them! Yet with what pitiful persistency they keep on wanting! LAST OF THE MEDICINE MEN Hut-cho-nu-pah Had Long Been a Power Among the Indians. Hut-cho-nu-pah, last of the medicine men, died last month in the Snake hills of the Creek nation. He was 95 years old. For half a century he had been one of the most turbulent spirits in Oklahoma. Hut-cho-nu-pah led the last rebellion of the Creeks in 1890. His faction was subdued by the Creeks themselves before the United States troops got there. In a battle Hut-cho-nu-pah's band was annihilated and he was condemned to death. But so great was the awe in which the old medicine man was held that no one could be found to be his executioner. With his adherents dead and himself imprisoned, his influence was so potent that he compelled the election of a friend as chief and was paraded. The medicine man fought for the northern forces during the civil war. He always asserted that he was under the special protection of the Supreme Being—Indian's Friend. Modern Pekin is Progressive Changes in Pekin are striking: Mac adamized roads, improved drainage, streets kept clean, side stalls removed into markets, traffic handled by uniformed trained police, modern public buildings, electric light, carriages and broughams in place of chairs or carts, improved schools with students in uniform, female education, public reading rooms and lecture halls, an intercourse with foreigners never before known, daily newspapers with tropical illustrations, zoological and botanical gardens, and a crusade against opium. Pekin, exclusive of its unimportant suburbs, has a population of 693,044 persons, represented by 128,008 families. The children number 173,261 one-half of whom are of school age. The city has 183 schools for boys and 17 for girls, with a staff of 1,200 men teachers and 100 women teachers. The average daily attendance is 16,282 boys and 771 girls. Reports Seeing Leprechaun Reports Seeing Leprechaun. A real live Leprechaun, one of the little folk, is reported to have made his appearance at Newport, Tippery, where people are credulous. A well-known resident of the district, whilst on his way home with a creep of peat, was startled at the appearance of a diminutive man. He was dressed in tightly-fitting pants, coat of brown, white shoes, grey stockings, and a brown cap, set off by a red tassel. Apparently years are telling even on the Leprechaun, for he walked with a limp. The gentleman who saw the mannikin was so anxious to capture him that he forgot that to lose sight of him even for an instant is fatal to one's chances of getting the pot of fairy gold. The man stopped to pick up a missile with which to "level" the Leprechaun, as he expressed it. When he looked up the cute little fairy had vanished. Letter "E" Caused Trouble The letter "e" has caused a quaint quarrel between the parish council and the overseers of Brockenhurst, Hants, England. The parish council decided some time ago to add "e" to the name of their village, but when the overseers received precepts for Brockenhurst they refused to pay, as they said they did not know of such a place. Consequently the council has no money and has got into debt, and now the overseers are being begged to pay, at all events, under protest, and leave the "e" question to be threshed out at the annual parish meeting. His New Job. "Assistant to an inventor! Oh, how delightful!" the young man cried. "Salary a hundred a month. Hours ten to four. Is it a go?" inquired the other. "Well, rather!" said the young man. "And what," he added lightly, "will be my duties?" "The simplest," was the answer. "I am an inventor of aeroplanes, and you will merely have to go up in my various new machines." TWO YEARS OF FREEDOM. No Kidney Trouble at All Since Using Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. J. B. Johnson, 710 Wee St., Columbia, Mo. says: "I was in misery s. I was in misery with kidney trouble, and finally had to undergo an operation. I did not rally well, and began to suffer smothering spells and dropsy. My left side was badly swollen and the action of the kidneys much disordered. My doctors with kidney trouble, and finally had to undergo an operation. I did not rally well, and began to suffer smothering spells and dropsy. My left side was badly swollen and the action of the kidneys much disordered. My doctors said I would have to be tapped, but I began using Doan's Kidney Pills instead, and the swelling subsided and the kidneys began to act properly. Now my health is fine." (Statement made Aug. 1, 1906, and confirmed by Mrs. Johnson Nov. 16, 1905.) Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. TIRED OF THE REPETITION. Plausible Argument Advanced by Youthful Tactician. Dorothy, aged eight years, was very kind of going to church, and when a severe cold made it unwise for her to be allowed to attend services one Sunday morning she was disconsolate. "Frauline will read the Bible to you," her father assured her. "I don't want to hear the Bible read. I want to say my prayers," objected the child. "God will hear your prayers just the same if you say them at home as if you were in church," she was told. "But I don't know any without the prayer-book," argued Dorothy. "Why, you know 'Now I lay me down to sleep.'" pana said. "But God has heard that so often," she remonstrated—Harper's Weekly. Leading a Husband. An Atchison family of three girls, all of them equally attractive, had a curiosity to know the best method of landing a husband, and agreed to try an experiment. One of them learned to cook, and was a domestic sort of girl. Another learned shorthand and got a position in a down-town office. The third devoted all her attention to society. If we were writing a story, we would marry off the girl who could cook within three months, but, alas! the facts are different. The society girl has landed a wealthy man, the stenographer has another nibbling; but the real heroine, the one who can make light biscuits, cook a beefsteak and boil a soup bone, has attracted no attention whatever.—Atchison Globe. WITH MOTHER A CLOSE SECOND "Hi, you, Willie! Wat's de matter?" "Nuthin'. I'm trai'n' for a Marathon!" How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersized and known Chewy for all business transactions and financially able in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Watson's Drunzers. Wholesale Drunzers, Toledo. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the system. Testimonials seet free. 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"If the window had been eight feet from the ground," poured the young wife, "justead of eight stories, I'd have thrown myself out when you quarreled with me. Then you'd have had to be sweet to me when you picked me up. A lot of wives attempt suicide, they say, just to be petted when they come to." "Yes," said he, "but sometimes they don't come to, remember." The Eternal Marathon. "Man," declared the old-fashioned preacher, "is a worm." "And," said a man who had been married three times and who was occupying a small space in a rear pew, "woman is the early bird." AFTER DOCTORS FAILED Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Cured Her. Willimantic, Conn.—"For five years I suffered untold agony from female troubles, causing backache, irregularities, dizziness and nervous prostration. It was impossible for me to walk upstairs without stopping on the way. I tried three different doctors and each told me something different. I received no benefit from any of them, but seemed to suffer more. 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Hold the under sides of these hot little pans against a wet tea towel, and the cakes will loosen at once. After greasing your cake tins with lard and before pouring in the cake batter dredge the bottom of the tins with flour, shaking out all that does not stick evenly to the lard. Cake batter poured in on this dry flour will rarely stick to the pan after it is baked. Wet the inside of china or tin molds with white of the egg before pouring in gelatin, cranberry or blanco mange, and the hardened dessert will not stick when you are ready to dislodge it. So many things have a disappointing way of sticking, and the house keeper without a long memory despares without these occasional reminders. PRACTICAL HINTS for the HOUSEWIFE The addition of a few chopped nuts and some candied orange peel is worth while in making mince meat. If the knife and fingers are slightly buttered when seeding raisins the work will be robbed of its stickiness and discomfort. Use dates instead of raisins when next making rice pudding, whether baked or boiled. The change will be found quite satisfactory. In cooking macaroni, rice, oyster stew or milk for a custard, grease the kettle with a little butter; and the mixture will never stick. Even though currants can now be bought "cleaned," the careful cook washes them through several waters, dries them on a soft cloth and put them in a slow oven for a time. A single meal can be kept warm with a single gas jet, the small one at the center of the stove. Place a bread pan over the jet, and put an iron under each end of th pan to bold it above the flame. Set the small dishes inside and cover with a pan of similar size. By raising the pan the heat is evenly distributed. Calf's Pluck. A delicious German dish. Soak pluck half an hour in cold water; then turn off all except heart and lights. Boil one hour; add onion bay leaf and some whole allspice. Drain, then press over night, as it must be cold and hard to cut properly. Cut in thin slices, then cut these slices in long, thin strips. (It takes one hour to cut it.) To prepare gravy. Large piece butter and flour well browned; add chopped onion and parsley; then soup stock to make sufficient gravy. The juice of four lemons and grated rind of one, pepper, salt and a little paprika and last add a tablespoonful sour cream. German home-made noodles with fried bread crumbs are to be served with this. To Keep Stale Bread. Make a bag of heavy white goods, cotton, duck or drilling; hang it in the kitchen as a repository of stale bread. When a sufficient quantity has been collected put in a pan and carefully dry in the oven. Roll on a board until fine enough to be sifted through a sieve. Keep in a glass jar. Angel Rolls. This recipe will make thirty or thirty-five rolls. Bake an angel food cake in a pan about twelve by six by three inches. Let cool cut in slices as thin as possible, trim off the brown edges spread each slice with icing, sprinkle with chopped nuts, roll it up, stick through with a toothpick, and stand on end. When all ar'd done in this way begin with the first one and ice the outside, rolling in chopped nuts. A drop of icing and half a nut makes a nice finish for the top of roll. When icing has set take out picks. Hamburg Steak. Make steak into flat cakes about three inches across and one inch thick. Broil or pan broil as steak, remembering that it will take longer to cook through than ordinary steak. Brush with melted butter and season on removing from fire. A Soup Economy Save water from vegetables and some of the vegetables themselves for soup. Gravies added to these will make enough soup for four people, which may be strengthened by an egg. Field Marshal Charles W. Bliss THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN PICTURE IT IS 9 IN LONG STEEL MEATING RAR THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR-STRAIGHTENER ALUMINUM CONES MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. £1.99 POSTAGE PAID. SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY DRIVER. Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minnesota, Minn. ALL HEAT COMES IN BAR. THE RABBIT From stereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y. "Every day is a fresh beginning, Every day is the world made new." Madonna Lilies and Other Flowers That Are Sacred As the campaign for nomination of city officers nears the close and one looks over the battle field he can see the plumes of Charles W. Bliss, field marshal for General Ira L. Reeves waving in the lead as he directs those under his command. To most of the political leaders this man Bliss was new to the business and an unknown quantity. Many of us thought being so new that he would be an "easy mark" and the man for whom he stood had no show but to our surprise he plays the game like a veteran and like Mark Hanna has swept everything before him. He has used no unfair tactics but has everlastingly hammered down on the opposition and while at first we may not have THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN PICTURE 1116 9 STEEL HEATING RAD SHAPE DOOR DRIVE MAGIC 10 PLUMBING COMB Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Jones, the lawyer, who thinks he is a candidate for police judge has never attended any of the public meetings but holds his conferences on the street corners. Jones is not fooling any one by these tactics. The trick worked once but won't work again. Can't fool the people twice. From stereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood "Every day is a fr Every day is the Madonna Lil and Other Tha In these sunny lays life grows reorient from the dust, a latent consciousness of wings stirs in the buried seed, and as if from very gladness of heart the sap in the naked trees mounts upward, ever upward, into the golden light. The tiny leaves, close-clasped together in the bud, flutter timidly apart, to grow bravely green, and flaunt their color on the passing breeze. The maple tree in the yard now hears a voice out of the unseen, calling from the blue skies, bidding it come up higher, and gladly does it make answer in the green tassels and shining leaves, telling of new growth and broader horizon. Out on the old arbor, the rough and scraggy grapevine is sending forth little gray tendrils, reaching farther toward heaven and away from the earth that hides its foothold. How blithely does nature echo forth her yearly message to every waiting heart—her message of resurrection, joyous activity, high-mounting aspiration! Her myriad voices cry through every sense, to touch and penetrate the spirit with gladness and good cheer. New readings from the Gospel of eternal hope are seen on every side, in the growth of plant, the unfolding of leaf, the blossoming of flower. The woods agreed with him we must now admit that the splendid organization made by Bliss and the way he has conducted the campaign for his chief has put the gallant captain so far in the lead that their is now no chance to change the conditions. We tip our hat to you. Field Marshal Bliss. You deserve the victory you have won and you have done it in such a gentlemanly way that we have no sore spots. All we now ask is permission to climb in the rear end of your victorious band wagon and we promise not to ask for the drivers' position. 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The heathen temples were adorned with earth's fairest blossoms, scattered on the altars, and twined around the brow of priest and acolyte. The amaranth bloomed in deathless beauty upon the Olympian heights, the myrtle was beloved of Apollo, the rose, the lily, the mistletoe were favorites of legend and myth. The flowers once sacred to Freya, the spring goddess of northern mythology, were chosen for their spotless purity, in form and color. And when heathen myth gave place to Christian truth, these sacred treasures were transferred to the Virgin, and became symbols of the queen of heaven. So it is that in every story of saint or madonna we find either the lily or the rose—the lily with its fragrance, its bending, bowing, waving bells, seems to whisper of purity and worship; the rose, with its faint and faraway odor, which seems to hint of eternal hope. 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The "Old Roman" has announced his intention of making the trip as soon as he can get his business affairs shaped up so that he can be away from home long enough to take the 25,000-mile journey. No specified time has been set by the owner of the former world's champions, but if he can get his new ball grounds finished and move into them in the summer of 1910, as he now expects to, he will start with his team the fall of that year. Agents of steamship lines already have called on Comiskey to figure with him on carrying him across the Pacific ocean and landing him in the orient. Since "Commy" learned of the great trip made by Mike Fisher and his combination of stars this past winter he has made up his mind that he will take his men farther than any other team has ever traveled. It has always been one of his ambitions to take a team around the world, ever since A. G. Spalding took his band on that tour 20 years ago. Baseball has become known to the world since then and it is now being played in Japan and China as well as in the island possessions of the United States. Such a trip would pay for itself from the gate receipts, and it would do the game a world of good by introducing it into countries that have never seen it played as it is played in America. While in California with his team Comiskey talked with some of the promoters of the oriental trip this winter and he learned that it is possible to make the trip without taking any great chance of losing money on it. It is not for financial gain, however, that he wants to make the journey, but for the purpose of introducing the modern game into the countries that have shown a desire to take up with it and to give his players a chance to see the world. It will be an incentive to the members of the White Sox team to play the best ball they know how from now until the time of the trip. The owner of the White Sox has often said he would take his men to Ireland to train. That country would be one of the stopping places of the team on the trip back from the far east. The men could be landed in New York in plenty of time for the start of the season of 1911, giving them some five months for the long expedition. TO COACH PRINCETON ELEVEN A JAMES M'CORMICK. Captain of Princeton's 1907 Football Eleven Who Has Been Chosen Field Coach for 1909. EUROPE CAPTURES BEST OF AMERICAN JOCKEYS Notter, Radtke, Nicol, Powers and Others Will Ride Best of Foreign Thoroughbreds. For some years the American turf has lost one or two expert jockeys, who have obtained good contracts with some of the big racing establishments abroad. This year the number of riders who have been employed by foreign horsemen has increased, and at least six will be lost to the American turf. There are indications that others will go to Europe, as negotiations are now being considered for their services. "Joe" Notter, Vincent Powers and "Eddie" Dugan, the three great leading jockeys of 1908, are to sail. Another prominent rider, "Dave" Nicol, has secured a contract to ride in France, and it is possible that Roscoe Troxler may go to the same country to ride for "Fred" Burlew, who is training a small stable of American horses. Dalton, McCarthy, Shilling, Upton and J. Butler have been invited to join the jockeys abroad. One might imagine that the passing of the Agnew-Hart bill last year in New York is the cause for the exodus of so many riders. While that measure undoubtedly has driven a few of the owners away, it is not really the cause of the departures of the jockeys. Notter will ride for the stable of A. & C. Von Weimberg, in Germany, for which George Walker trains, and he is to receive a salary of $15,000. "Eddie" Dugan goes to England to ride for Harry Payne Whitney, who holds the contract on his services. A year ago Mr. Whitney bought the contract on this rider from C. E. Durnell, and he rode in the light blue, brown cap all through last season. Twenty-seven horses, among which are many two-year-olds, are now quartered in England under the care of A. J. Joyner, and as Mr. Whitney has transferred his interest abroad he wants his own jockey to ride for him. Vincent Powers, who sprang into prominence several years ago, will join the American riders abroad and will be seen in the saddle in France. There have been several offers made for the boy, and he will probably ride in France for Leopold de Rothschild at a salary of $15,000. "Dave" Nicol will ride in France for Baron Maurice Rothschild, who is a member of the famous firm of European bankers. He will receive a retainer of $5,000 for one year's services, beginning April 1, 1909, with $30 for each winning mount and $10 for each losing mount. Some of the American jockeys who will ride abroad this year are: Shaw, Taral, Spencer, "Johnny" Reiff and Raattke, in Germany; Lucien Lyne and Jay Ransch, who will ride for J. Hennessy, the "Brandy King," in France; "Joe" Richards and Winkfield, in Russia, and others in England. DIAMOND GOSSIP Honus Lobert has signed his 1909 contract with the Reds. He will hold down the shortstop position. The National league umpires will report for instructions at the New York headquarters, April 12. The memorial to the late Henry Chadwick, "the father of baseball," will be unveiled in Brooklyn, April 20, the first anniversary of his death. "If Ames gets away right this year," says John J. McGraw, "he will undoubtedly be one of the season's greatest pitchers." It is being rumored that the Pacific coast outlaw league will shortly go out of business on account of its overgrown salary list. Jack Warner's contract with the Galveston team calls for no salary, but he is given a half interest in the club and possible profits. He is to manage and play with the team. Johnny Cocash, the former Detroit boy, will likely be retained by the Giants this year as a utility outfielder. BILL LANGE GIVES POINTS ON BATTING BILL LANGE GIVES POINTS ON BATTING FORMER STAR DECLARES PRESENT DAY SLUGGERS ARE NO BETTER THAN OLD TIMERS. TOO MUCH SCIENCE NOWADAYS Batsmen Fear Pitchers Too Much and Do Not Use the Proper Judgment When Twirlers Are in the Hole—Admits That Spit and Knuckle Ball Are Wonders. Bill Lange, who from '93 to '99 as a member of the Chicago National league team was perhaps the most sensational outfielder and one of the finest batsmen and base runners in baseball, is now a resident of San Francisco. During a family bee there the other day he took occasion to remark that the batsmen of the present time had not advanced in any way over the form shown by the stars of 15 years ago. "Instead of waiting for a base on balls when the count is three balls and one strike, I claim the batsman should wallop the next ball up against the fence if it happens to be over the plate," said Lange. "That was the system in the old days and I think it had its avantages. At any rate, it worked successfully and that is the main thing. "I have noticed that the habit nowadays is to be altogether too scientific. And that science lay is ruining the batters. There used to be such things as 400 hitters in the big leagues, and now the managers are spending fortunes in the hope of finding a 250 hitter. The reason they are so hard to find is because the batsmen don't follow out their natural inclinations to wallop the ball, but stall around at the plate in the artificial hope of drawing a pass instead of breaking a board in the back fence. "No batter, who has an eye at all, ought ever to wait when he has three balls and one strike on him, unless the pitcher is uncommonly wild. Think of the advantage of hitting when three balls have been called. You are dead sure that the next one will be over the plate if the pitcher can get it there. If he doesn't, let it go and take your base. But if you let a good one go then you are up against another proposition. "Then the batsman is in a worse hole than the pitcher, and his chances of making a safe hit are at least four to one against him, for a nery pitcher will take a chance on a curve or a high one in the hope of making the batsman bite. He wouldn't dare do that very often when the count was only three and one. The batsman who waits too long is just giving himself the worst of the deal." But Lange has noticed another featurer of baseball that is an improvement over the old days. That is the matter of working hard during the training season. Lange admits that, outside of the batting, the game has made great strides, and pitchers especially are using foolers never heard of in the old days. "We old timers were a long time in believing that there was anything in the so-called spit ball," said Lange. "But results have forced us to admit its existence and its power to deceive. Now they are talking about the knuckle or finger nail ball. For a long time I supposed that was a joke. But just this morning I had a letter from Clark Griffith, telling about a discussion he had with Anson during the schedule meeting at Chicago over the knuckle ball. Griff ought to know what he is talking about, and he convinced me of the knuckle ball's effectiveness." Speaking of Lange, it is interesting to note that he is one of the three great ball players who retired from baseball while still at their best, and that the other two, Mike Griffin of Brooklyn and Fielder Jones of the White Sox, were also center fielders. The retiring germ must inoculate the middle gardeners first. Lange quit to marry a San Francisco girl who wouldn't stand for her husband spending most of the year in the cast playing ball; Griffin quit when he couldn't reach a salary agreement with the owners of the Brooklyn club, and Jones has quit to look after his lumber interests in the northwest, passing up a salary of $10,000. Baseball Scouts a Necessity It is believed that before another year all of the big league clubs will have baseball scouts on their pay rolls. The digging up of young players is a necessity and the competition is on the increase. The Giants have Dan Brouthers on the job, while the Highlanders have the services of Arthur Irwin. Tow Daly is the Erooklyns sleuth and Tom McCarthy will keep an eye open for the Clinchnati club. Pat Donovan will scout for the Boston Americans. Jim McGuire will scout the minor leagues for the Cleveland. Ted Sullivan is agent for the Chicago White Sox and Jack O'Connor is on the lookout for the St. Louis Browns. New Shell for Crimson Crew. As an expression of her interest in rowing affairs at Harvard, Mrs. Robert Bacon, wife of the former secretary of state, has presented a new eight-oared shell to the Harvard crew. Mr. Bacon was prominent as a Harvard oarsman and each of his three sons has won his "H" at Harvard by work in the boats. 1 Richard A. Ballinger, the new secretary of the Interior, was commissioner of the general land office under President Roosevelt for several years. He is a resident of the state of Washington and was mayor of Seattle for a term. Mr. Ballinger is a native of Iowa and a graduate of Williams college. WILL MEET IN 1929 Copyright by Walton Fawett. Richard A. Ballinger, the new secre of the general land office under Preside a resident of the state of Washington Mr. Ballinger is a native of Iowa and a WILL MEE REUNION FEAST PLANNED 20 YEARS IN ADVANCE. Tunnel Engineers Who Worked To New York.—At ten o'clock in the morning, March 5, 1929, there will assemble at the corner of Fourth avenue and Thirty-third street, New York (if Encke's comet hasn't put that corner and the rest of this old planet out of existence before that time) something less than 40 men. There won't be 40. All of the two-score who have agreed to meet are sure to have many wanderings in these next 20 years, and some will have wandered across that border line which is never recrossed. But every man has given his word that if he is alive and able to travel he will be there for the anniversary dinner of Mike Quinn's "sand hog" bosses. These "sand-hog" bosses are the civil engineers who have had charge of the construction of the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel under the East river. One day not long ago they saw the last carload of rock from the big boring dumped, and knew their job was done. Friday evening, March 5 they sat down to a dinner together, and at the close of the dinner they bade each other good-by and made the agreement to meet again at a dinner in just 20 years. These men were all strangers when they started in on the job. Three years they worked together, and three years' daily association is bound to get a bunch of good fellows pretty well acquainted. They got along together beautifully, too, and Quinn, chief of the engineers, tells why. "At the outset we got together," he says, "and decided to settle all disputes among ourselves. None of us ever carried a complaint to the head office. If there was any argument over the way a piece of work was done, we had it out on the spot down there in the hole, and not a word of the matter ever reached the ears of the officers of the company." And so they got along very nicely. They had some good times "down in the hole, too." Fred Marshall, six feet two, once an athlete at Georgetown university, allowed he was the best boxer in the crowd. Frank Bixby, graduate of New York university, thought he could give him an argument. He did, but Marshall was the better man. There were some of the men who started in on the job three years ago and quit before it was finished. They also are invited to the anniversary dinner. Two of these are Jack Young and Roscoe Phelps, graduates of the Case School of Applied Sciences, at Cleveland, who left some months ago. They announced when they left that they were going to make a walking trip to San Francisco. Phelps was later heard from in Cleveland and Young in British Columbia. No man will miss this anniversary dinner because of the lack of funds wherewith to buy a railroad ticket. It has been agreed that, some weeks in advance of the anniversary dinner, those who are in good circumstances will register their names and addresses with the Scientific American. Any fellow who hasn't the price of a ticket from wherever he is to New York, can get it by writing to the magazine. Widely will their paths diverge. Roberts, first assistant to General Superintendent Quinn, goes to Panama; Van Wagner, a Dutchman, is going to Tokyo; Talbott, the only Englishman in the lot, has sailed for home; Steinfeldt, a Norwegian, thinks he will return to the sea; he used to be first mate on --- Puzzle Over Pig and Piglets a sailing vessel; Gibbons goes to Winnipeg, to work for the Canadian Pacific. Twenty years from now—how many men will gather at the corner of Fourth avenue and Thirty-third street for "anud lang syne?" SERVE PENNY LUNCH IN SCHOOL. Los Angeles Women Provide Soup, Fruit and Buns for Children. Los Angeles, Cal.—Under the direction of the women of the Civic association, the Ann street school children enjoyed their first penny lunch the other day, which from now on will be served to the children at cost. The hungry boys and girls were seated at long tables covered with plain white cloth, with white enamel plates and cups at each place. To each of the children was served hot soup, fresh buns and a variety of fruit. Although the food served cost about four cents for each child, the expense to each will be only one cent, and this amount will obtain as many bowls of soup and as many buns as desired. The penny payment is to instill a spirit of independence into each child. Similar lunchrooms will be established in all city schools. HAS THIRD OF DOLLAR BILL. iowan Has Unique Piece of Currency Issued in Year 1776. Sloux Falls, N. D.-Levi Davis of Anthon, Ia., is the proud possessor of a one-third dollar script that was issued by the United States government more than 133 years ago. It is $2\frac{1}{2}x3$ inches in size and is numbered 208929 and on one side bears these words: "One-third of a dollar, according to a resolution of congress passed at Philadelphia February 17, 1776." In the center of the script is a dial below which is the command: "Mind Your Business," and the signature of the person who issued the money. On the reverse side is a circle of 13 rings, on the rim of each being the name of one of the original states. On the inside of this circle is a sunburst containing the motto: "We Are One," and the words: "American Congress." Express Agents Find Trouble in Billing the Right Number. Mason City, Ia.—"Pigs is pigs," and a true story comes from Independence which is nearly equal to the mythical guilica pig story. Smith & Son are the local agents of the American Express Company at Independence, and back of their combined office and store is a fine, large Duroc Jersey sow. It was shipped from Dunlap, properly crated and properly marked. It had scarcely arrived at the first town when there was an increase and the messenger on the train wired Smith & Son: "Bring box to train. Sow on board with three pigs." Smith & Son were scratching their head to know just what to do when a second message came: "Bring bigger box. Sow on board with six pigs." And the elder Smith, who was more used to such things as this, had just concluded what he was going to do when the operator at Carroll notified Smith & Con: "Bring wagon. Sow on board with ten pigs." The Smiths got blankets and plenty of boxes and when the train hove in and the baggage car was opened it WOULD SELL ONE OF HIS LEGS. Unfortunate Kentuckian Says He Is Willing to Make Sacrifice. New York.—The fame of the Rockefeller institute, where prying hands transfer to utter strangers the most essential parts of the animal economy, has reached Highland Park, Ky., and stirred a man to offer "to part with one (1) leg to relieve a sufferer." The proposition is made in a letter, which says in part: "I need the money and am willing to part with one (1) leg to relief a sufferer if I can but find him. "I have been one continued failure at all attempts in everything from childhood up to 28 years of age, and at last, for the love of a child over whose future I was brooding over, a thought came to me, why not sell one of my legs to the New York wealthy for grafting? So I decided at once to take the hunch and try it on I leg. "I have met about all the failures their are on 2 legs, and I won't have much to avoid on 1 leg and I am anxious to try it, and really look forward to it, for if I can but change my fortunes and provide as I want too for this child, I'll gladly part with a leg and go to my grave happy with a peg leg. "My offer is a straight-forward business one. I am in good health and can give good social and Christian reference. I am ready at any moment to make the sacrifice for a reasonable sum." CUSPIDORS FOR "BIG INJUNS." Bureau at Washington Provides Sanitary Measures for Red Men. Gutble, Okla.—"Great White Father, heap big fool. Give big Injun thing in which to fire. Why don't he give war chief fire water? Ugh!" Thus Chief Man Afraid of the Soap spake in reference to the edict of the bureau of Indian affairs that the noble red man must cease expectorating wherever and whenever he so desires, and instead thereof confine himself to the use of government provided cuspidores. The Indian affairs experts believes that tuberculosis is doing as much to make the Indian extinct as the rifles of the ploneers and bows and arrows of the aborigines did to put the buffalo on the almost forgotten list. The government has outlined a plan of sanitation among the tribesmen. In the olden days, when the Indian was permitted to roam the forest primeval in peace and a feathery headaddress, he managed to avoid congumption, but since the conquest of the plains and the advent of houses and clothes, Lo, the poor Indian, has been veritably up against it in the arduous task of keeping clean. Especially is this true as to his exponentation, and as a result tuberculosis has been playing havoc with the radially thinning race. LAND A 400-POUND FISH. Anglers, with Tree for Rod, Have Sport with Sturgeon. Spokane, Wash.—Four sturgeon, the largest being ten feet two inches in length and weighing 400 pounds, were caught by Gustave Patten, Frank Vincent and S. C. Wamsley of Ilo, Idaho, in Snake river, near the mouth of Red Bird creek, southeast of Spokane. A two-horse team was required to haul the 1,110-pound catch to town. The men used 600 feet of heavy rope as a line, the rod being a tree. A steel hook was baited with a large eel and weighted with 20 pounds of lead. To permit the fish to play on the line the shore end was fastened to a tree, which swayed with every movement of the sturgeon in their eneavors to get away. The fishermen say they had the most difficulty in landing the smallest fish, which was six feet in length and weighed 200 pounds. It fought and lashed the water for almost an hour before it was brought to the river bank. These are the largest fish caught in the Snake river this season, where students of Izaak Walton have been busy for months. looked like the Chicago stock yards on Monday, "How many have you?" yelled Smith. "Twelve now, besides the sow," answered the messenger. Before the mother hog was landed in the wagon the family had increased to 13, but this was too much, and three died. The train messenger in making up the express bill added in pencil: "One hog billed, checks ten now, and still a comin'." Discovers Two New Planets Paris.—The astronomer, Gaillot, has announced before the Academy of Sciences that he had discovered two new planets situated beyond Neptune, which is the outermost known planet of the solar system. M. Gaillot stated that he had used the methods which had enabled Leverrier by mathematical calculations to assign to Neptune a position within the boundaries of a certain region, which permitted of its discovery in 1846. The Annual Rooter: "Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist?" "Yes, indeed," answered Young Mra Torkins. "All I have to do to see the difference is to observe Charley at the beginning and at the end of a base ball season." One of a Big Trio Theodore Roosevelt's Place in History By F. SPENCER BALDWIN, Professor Political Economy, Boston University. HE late Herbert Tuttle, professor of history in Cornell university, affectionately known among the students as the "Old Prussian," was once asked by an inquiring woman student in his class on English history: "What do you think, professor, would have been the course of English history if William the Conqueror never had come over to England?" "Good Lord, woman," roared the professor, "I don't know!" Estimating Roosevelt's place in history is much like the converse of this proposition. Anticipating the ultimate verdict of history on any great man of the present is as hazardous as speculating about "history that never happened" in the past. To one surveying the administration of Roosevelt with unjaundiced rye the work that has been accomplished bulks big. When he took office business and politics were in secret alliance at Washington. The stock ticker was installed in the White House. Government had become largely a matter of favored interests and special privilege. Roosevelt dissolved the corrupt partnership between business and politics, cut the wire to Wall street and promulgated the program of the square deal. President Roosevelt has seen clearly and met boldly the need of centralization and extension of the regulative powers of government to deal with the new economic relations created by the consolidation and expansion of industry and commerce. He has reasserted the supremacy of the law—statutory and moral—in the business and in the political world. He has read the riot act to combined capital and organized labor whenever either has shown a disposition to override the law and the public interest in the pursuit of class ends. He has put respect for law and the fear of God into the hearts of many malefactors of great and of small wealth. He has preached with tremendous effectiveness to the American people at large a wholesome gospel of hard work, fair play, social service and practical patriotism. He has himself set an example of disinterested devotion to the highest ideals of public service and public welfare. He has raised the national standards of commercial and political morality to a new level. In his economic policy President Roosevelt has struck out a straight course between the extremes of reactionary Bourbonism and revolutionary socialism. Perceiving the menace from these two sources he has projected a practical program of conservatism and constructive social legislation, designed to safeguard the working of the free institutions resting on private property and individual enterprise by eliminating abuses, regulating monopoly and securing a fair field, with no favors, to every man. History, in the opinion of the writer, will without doubt assign to Roosevelt a place beside Washington and Lincoln in the hall of presidential fame. These three are the greatest among American presidents thus far in point of personality and performance, statesmanlike qualities and inestimable services to the nation in time of crisis. Each of these men fought a good fight for human liberty. The fight of Washington was for national independence; that of Lincoln was for negro emancipation; that of Roosevelt for economic freedom and equal opportunity for all men. Roosevelt has courageously adopted and enforced the measures needed to prevent "government of the people, by the people and for the people" from degenerating into government of favored interests by the politicians for privileged classes. few years have been men trained in exact knowledge in their several fields. They have known how to organize and command the largest proportion of active, but untrained workers to the accomplishment of a definite tactical end. As they have proceeded those tactics to such ends have evolved and simplified. That first tactician who may have felt his way guardedly to the first accomplishment, not only moves faster and more surely to his end, but his methods are known to others. Other men, leading, have left to the observer their methods in leadership. What is to be a first effect of all this? Does it not suggest that without radical overturning of all existing basic principles involved in these practical arts, the young man who is to be graduated to-morrow must be prepared to fall short of that gauge of success established yesterday? In the science of "cost keeping," as it has evolved to-day, the managements of industrial and commercial institutions are catalogued as belonging to the non-productive labor of these organizations. In reality, the one man in a managerial position, encouraging and directing men, may be the greatest force in active production. But he is classed by the cost keeper as non-productive and to the extent that one man is able to manage twice or three times the number of men that he managed yesterday, he will be called upon to do so. Looking upon the crowding of young men into technological work, it is inevitable, however, that thousands are not of the fiber—not of the capacity and initiative—to have taken place at any time in the first ranks of the successful. This always must be true of candidates for all operations. I would be last to try to discourage one of these young men if, feeling that his talents lie in that direction, he attempts the peak of accomplishment in it. My thought in this is that a word of suggestion may be taken as timely when there are indications that there may be an undue rush on the part of young men toward a field which has not been as carefully surveyed as it might be. The whole point of view involves that old definition of what it is that constitutes success in life. But that young man who enters the field of material accomplishments for the material riches that are promised him; must look upon himself as a failure if he doesn't attain his end. Is he prepared for this failure in accordance with the laws of chance? Can he make the best of it, still falling short of his ideal? He may ask himself the question—and answer it if he can. T any great man about "history that never has To one surveying the eye the work that has been business and politics were ticker was installed in the W matter of favored interest the corrupt partnership best Wall street and promulgated. President Roosevelt has tralization and extension of with the new economic relation of industry and common law—statutory and moral—He has read the riot act to ever either has shown a dis interest in the pursuit of cle fear of God into the hearts wealth. He has preached w people at large a wholesome and practical patriotism. He devotion to the highest idea has raised the national sta to a new level. In his economic policy course between the extremes socialism. Perceiving the m a practical program of con designed to safeguard the wate property and individual monopoly and securing a far History, in the opinion Roosevelt a place beside Was fame. These three are the far in point of personality inestimable services to the fought a good fight for hum national independence; that of Roosevelt for economic f Roosevelt has courageously to prevent "government of from degenerating into gov for privileged classes. Chances in "Tech." Fields Lessening By JOHN A. HOWLAND. few years have been men trai They have known how to o of active, but untrained wor cal end. As they have proc and simplified. That first t to the first accomplishmen to his end, but his method have left to the observer the What is to be a first effo The drift of the young man to-day is toward technology, out of which men have been winning such large rewards. In this present age of materialism the young man feels the invitation to material rewards for his life efforts. These are more and more the gauge of success. Within the last dozen years perhaps the world never before saw so many technically equipped men rise to higher position, influence, and money compensations. But a note of warning reasonably may be sounded here. These men who have reached these highest positions in the last ed in exact knowledge in their several fields, organize and command the largest proportion of men to the accomplishment of a definite tacti- tied those tactics to such ends have evolved a technician who may have felt his way guardedly not only moves faster and more surely are known to others. Other men, leading, methods in leadership. Of all this? Does it not suggest that without using basic principles involved in these prac- isis to be graduated to-morrow must be prege of success established yesterday? Keeping," as it has evolved to-day, the man- commercial institutions are catalogued as be- labor of these organizations. In reality, position, encouraging and directing men, active production. But he is classed by the and to the extent that one man is able to the number of men that he managed yester- do so. ing of young men into technological work, it thousands are not of the fiber—not of the we taken place at any time in the first ranks must be true of candidates for all opera- to discourage one of these young men if, that direction, he attempts the peak of ac-ght in this is that a word of suggestion may are indications that there may be an undue toward a field which has not been as care- The whole point of view involves that old institute success in life. their several fields the largest proportion of a definite tact ends have evolved this way guarded, and more sure other men, leading suggest that without solved in these prac- tory must be pre- pereverday? d to-day, the man catalogued as be- tations. In reality, and directing men is classed by the one man is able to be managed yester- technological work, fiber—not of the one in the first rank rates for all operat- ces young men i- states the peak of ac- tion of suggestion man- may be an undu- not been as care- involves that old institutes success in life. centers the field of ma- e material riches that upon himself as a fail- l. nure in accordance with take the best of it, still may ask himself the an. --- SUFFER AND DIE IN A WRECK 'Tishermen Have Terrible Experience Off Coast of Iceland. A terrible tale of shipwreck was told by the nine survivors of the crew of 13 of the Grimsby trawler Washington, which was wrecked on the coast of Iceland on December 23. The men reached Leith recently, their hands and feet still showing signs of their sufferings during a blizzard. The vessel was wrecked during a heavy gale on the rocks near Selvoyr; and the only boat and two rots were washed away. Notwithstanding the gigantic seas which swept over the ship, the mate, Alma Kemp, seized a life-line and endeavored to swim with it to the shore 200 yards away. The attempt failed, however, and his shipmates had to haul him back to the ship. So terrible had been his sufferings that he went mad and died within half an hour. Then the second engineer went mad, and as the tide rose the crew had to retreat to the wheelhouse, where they stood up to their walsts in water, holding the insane engineer. When the tide receded they found some food, but it was soaked in salt water. When the darkness came on the tide rose again and the viilt of the crew through the long night was a terrible one, and before daylight came two of the hands and the mad engineer had been washed away. In the morning the plight of the shipwrecked sailors was seen by the islanders, and they were rescued by means of a line. REWARDED FOR HIS TRUSTING Shoemaker's Faith in Providence Evid dently Was Not Mismplaced. The pastor of a negro church in a southern state was one day making his weekly visit, when he dropped in upon a member of his congregation who was a shoemaker. The preacher was surprised to find that his parishoner, usually of a bright and lively demeanor, was on this occasion in an extremely despondent mood. "Well, doctah," explained the shoemaker, sadly, in response to the divine's question. "I'se just got a rival shoemaker dat's set up against me down the street, an' mahl trade is already beginning to leave!" "Come, come, man," expostulated the clergyman, "you mustn't allow yourself to be cast down like that! Meet your trouble like a man, and, above all, trust to Providence and all will come right." When, on the next round of visits, the minister called again on the shoe-maker, he was delighted to find the cobbler as cheery and gay as ever he was. "I told you your troubles would vanish if you trusted In Providence, didn't I?" demanded the preacher. "That's right!" quickly assented the other. "And I took your advice." Then, after a bit, he added, significantly. "The other shoemaker's dead!"—Harper's Weekly. Curious Mourning Custom. A curious mourning custom obtains among central Australians, who, although representing, perhaps, the lowest and most degraded type of human beings, have managed to evolve a most complex system of rites and ceremonies, which governs almost every action of their lives. When a husband dies, the widow paints herself all over with white pigment, and for the space of a year must not exhibit herself to a male member of the tribe on-pain of death. For the rest of her life, unless she marries again, which is sometimes allowed, she must not speak, but communicate with the other women by means of a sign language, consisting of movements of the hands and fingers, which has been developed by these savages to a marvelous extent, and by which their limited stock of 'deas can be fully expressed. A Dramatic Suicide A novel, but grewsome, method of suicide is that of Lieut. Stanwekicz, Galicia. He saturated the furniture of his room with naphtha, which he also poured over the floor, and he placed on the carpet a number of ball cartridges. Then he fired the room in several places, so that in a few minutes it was converted into a veritable furnace, and finally hurled himself into the midst of the flames. The smoke and a series of violent explosions alarmed the neighbors, who hastened to help in extinguishing the fire, but when it was possible to enter the house only the ashes of the leutenant were to be found. The American Voice Whatever be the cause, it is a fact that American men no longer seek to control the pitch of their voices as the gentlemen of the old school were taught to do. Undue haste, excessive nervousness, and a vigor of purpose that is likely to assert itself in an overemphatic manner have probably combined to produce in the American voice that raw, shrill, unrestrained quality so noticeable. The voices of American women are even more shocking when heard in contrast to the low well-modulated voices of European women.—Washington Post. Yellow Peril. "What is your idea of the yellow peril?" "The only one I'm afraid of," answered the comfortable statesman, "is the restaurant soft-boiled egg." Nothing Pure. Jill—Oh, yes; everything seems to be adulterated nowadays. LITTLE DEMAND FOR SERVICES Business of Ghost Eradicator Not In Very Flourishing Condition. These are the days of the specialist in all things and it is not surprising to read of a gentleman who describes himself as "The Original Haunted House Restorer and Ghost Eradicator." Nor is it astonishing to find that he complains of slackness of trade. A ghost, if it be a well authenticated and respectable ghost, represents an asset and these are days when property owners do not willingly sacrifice assets. Moreover, a well established family ghost with a history of generations has a title to regard himself as a vested interest and entitled to all compensation for disturbance, says the Westminster (Eng.) Gazette. If there were any real prosperity in this trade of ghost banisher we should have to counteract its destructive power by a great league and covenant of all the printers of Christmas stories, of the amateurs of the occult and the scientific searchers after a spirit world. For all these the ghost is an essential to continued existence. Banish the spook and their occupation would be gone, and John Burns would be invaded by an army of psychical researchers out of work and demanding special treatment in the forthcoming legislation of the government. SAW GROWTH OF DISPOSITION All That Good-Natured Man Was Will ing to Admit. There is an extremely good-natured Yankee merchant near Southampton, Mass., who has for years sustained the burden of "looking out" for an invalid cousin, a man whose infirmities of temper have increased in direct ratio to his bodily ailments. One day a neighbor had overheard the cousin's entirely unwarranted recriminations as to the manner in which he was being taken care of, recriminations that had been met with perfect equanimity by the long-suffering merchant. The neighbor was indignant. "Why on earth, Bill," he asked, "do you allow that old codger to abuse you so, you who are so good to him? He's getting worse and worse." "Well," said the good-natured man, "I suppose Tom's troubles make him a trifle cross at times. Though," he added, apparently against his will, "I must say that recently I've thought Tom was increasing a little in his disposition."—Illustrated Sunday Magazine. Free Masonry. The origin of Free Masonry is unknown. Its history can be traced for upwards of 500 years. Its traditions go back many hundreds of years previously. It is fraternal and benevolent in its purpose. Ancient Craft Masonry consists of four degrees only, but many other branches and degrees have been added from time to time, further exemplifying and illustrating the lessons taught in the original degrees. William Morgan was an impeccable printer of northern New York, who threatened to print the so-called secrets of Masonry, and who, on being arrested for debt or some other cause, suddenly disappeared. His appearance about 1825 was taken hold of and exploited for political purposes. The so-called exposure is unreliable and valueless. Morgan was not a true Mason. The Biter Bit. A week or two ago an attendant at one of the big theaters on the Paris boulevards found a fine pear necklace which she handed over to the box office. One of the spectators, a lady, saw the woman pick up the necklace, and went to the box-office and claimed it as her own. To mark her appreciation of the attendant's honesty she gave her 20 frances. The next day, however, the real owner of the necklace presented herself at the theater to make inquiries. On hearing what had occurred she burst into a laugh, and explained that the pearls were but imitation, and had cost her 12 frances only. So the smart "lady" loses at least eight frances on the transaction. The Esthetic Bachelor The modern bachelor is an ardent admirer of well chosen furniture and of beautiful pictures and china, nor is he oblivious to the charms of lovely old silver and dainty napery. To have tea with him is often an esthetic as well as a material pleasure. Only in one thing in his establishment does one note the missing feminine touch. A woman's room always contains flowers; a man's scarcely ever. -Black and White. Find Water Where Badly Needed. A Hindu engineer experimenting in artesian boring at Patiala struck a spring of water 100 feet below the surface which discharges 6,000 gallons an hour through a three inch tube. It is believed that the discovery may revolutionize local agriculture, which has languished owing to the lack of irrigation, as the artesian stratum extends apparently from Patiala to the timimalayas. To Develop American Artists Five healthy New York women subscribed $5,000 each to create a fund, the income of which is to be used to send one American architectural student to the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts every three years for a 2½ years' course. The donors are: Mrs. Goelet, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Auchauty, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Alexander G. Cochran. CANNOT STAY AWAKE: TAKES NAP IN POND ST. LOUIS RIP VAN WINKLE IS ROUSED, PUMPED FOR POISON, THEN LAPSES ONCE MORE. St. Louis—It was a nice nap that Vincent Tunes. 29 years old, was taking as he leaned against the wall of the Wyoming Street police station, but policemen who thought he was poisoned disturbed his slumber by rushing him off to a dispensary. The next time Tunes went to sleep he sought a place where he though nobody would disturb him—a pond at Nebraska avenue and Chippewa street, where he slumbered standing in the water. But even in the watery couch he could not dream without molestation. A night watchman had him taken to A man in a hat and coat is walking in shallow water, holding a lantern in his hand. Another man is standing behind him, holding a bucket. The scene is set in a natural environment with trees and rocks. The Watchman Found Tumes Asleep in the Pond. the City hospital, where he was locked up in the observation ward. Tumes was found first by Charles Kollmeyer, clerk at the Wyoming Street police station, at 5:15 p. m. Tumes was snoring contentedly, his shoulder against the wall. Kollmeyer shook him, but Tumes did not wake, Assistance was summoned, and he was carried to the station on a stretcher. Several policemen did their beat to rouse him, but in vain. "He's taken poison," some one said. "Hurry up the wagon." Tumes was bundled, snoring, into a patrol wagon and a hasty run was made to the South Side dispensary. Dr. Blesbarth had the sleeper placed on the operating table, zealous to pump the "poison" out. But Tumes upset the diagnosis of policeman and doctor by waking up and asking where he was. "Didn't you take poison?" he was asked. "No," said Tumes. "I've been walking a good deal to-day and I'm just tired and sleepy. Then he lay down again and took another little snooze on the operating table, but soon woke up and said he guessed he would go home. Dr. Blesbarth pronounced him only sleepy and he was released. At 9:10 p. m. Henry Ganter, a night watchman, found Tumes in the pond. The sleeper couldn't have been resting more peacefully if he had reclined on a feather bed instead of standing in the middle of a cold, muddy pond. "I don't know what was the matter with me," said Tumes. "I was just sleepy, I guess." BULL FIGHTS RED LANTERN. Light Caught on Animal's Horns and Excitement Follows. Philadelphia.—Joseph Griffiths of Mount Tabor undertook to drive a bull up Broad street. When a short distance above Westmoreland street the bull charged a red lantern that had been placed near an excavation in the street. Lowering its head and bellowing, the bull made a plunge at the lamp,ooking it on one of its horns. With the red lamp glowing in its face, the bull began a series of antics that were as interesting as they were exciting. It pranced about in a circle,trying to catch up with the aggravating light, until it had gyrated across Broad street and fell against the curbing in front of the Masonic home. Some of the aged Masons who saw the bull from the porch thought the New Jersey devil had come to this city. After the bull had recovered its wind it was driven up Broad street. Cowboy a Spartan. Upton, Wyo.—When it was made clear to Earl Hampton, cowboy, that he had to lose a leg or his life, he said to the surgeons in the Omaha hospital: "All right, then; take her off," and amputation three inches above the knee followed. While driving from one ranch to another two months ago Hampton was thrown from a buckboard and sustained a compound fracture of the right leg. A foot of snow covered the ground, the thermometer registered 16 degrees below zero, and he was miles from the nearest shelter, but for 15 hours he dragged himself six miles through the snow to a road where he was picked up by a ranchman. The surgeons who attended Hampton say that no one person in ten thousand would have survived his experience. Japan is now competing actively with the United States and Great Britain for China's trade in pianos, piano players and organs. Alaska gives promise of becoming in time a large producer of copper. The Bonanza mine in Montana has an ore body 300 feet wide, which was cut at a depth of 225 feet by a cross-cut tunnel, in which there is 120 feet of ore averaging 22 per cent. copper; the middle 25 feet being almost pure copper glance running from 60 to 70 per cent. of copper and 28 ounces of silver a ton. They make almost everything except free lunch of concrete. Sin Robert Hart, the veteran inspector general of the Chinese customs, speaking at a dinner in London the other day, said that he once, in Peking, sat out a banquet that lasted for 17 consecutive hours. There were 125 courses, and he tasted them all. "Phoniste" has been suggested as a name for the "hello girl" at the central exchange. This is one of the cases where what a person is called makes not so much difference as how quickly she will answer. The highest-paid workingwomen in France are said to be the cutters of precious stones. They receive about $1.80 a day. The lowest wage is 60 cents a day, and is paid to dressmakers. There are 14,000,000 women in France, and the majority of them earn their own living. A New York woman shot and killed a man with an "unloaded revolver." Isn't it about time that a bill was passed compelling all people who own revolvers to keep them loaded? An invention, which, it is said, will revolutionize the curing of meats has been perfected by Cleveland men. Electricity will be used to cause the salt to penetrate the meats and thus prepart them for the market in one-quarter the time the present method requires. "Yes," replied her hostess, as she adjusted her $7,000 tiara, "ma did have an awful hard time, but she's adolescent now, thank goodness."—Chicago Record-Herald. 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First one big bont makes a record run across the ocean and then another one trims that time down until it would seem as though there was no end to the speed which might be made. The latest and best time is by the Mauretania, which made 671 knots—773 miles—in a 24-hour run, an average of 30.18 an hour. This is a distance further than from New York to Detroit. Why, there are lots of trains that are not making as good time as that. The fastest train out of San Francisco for Oden takes $27\frac{1}{2}$ hours to go thirteen miles further than the Mauretania went in 24 hours. But how long is this sort of thing going to keep up? When is the time going to come when a man in New York who has a friend coming from Europe whom he does not want to see can figure with certainty that if he gets out of town at a certain hour the other fellow's passage money will be burned? The opulent seagoing public will have to answer these questions for themselves. The Mauretania will not be the last word in brine boiling unless her patrons want her to be. It's all a matter of money. What the scientific gentlemen denounce as "the law of diminishing returns" makes every additional knot of speed come higher, but there are a few knots left. The Cunard people themselves, however, will tell you frankly that they expect these knots to be left on the shelf unless the Mauretania can pull down one or two, which she is expected to do. Here are the reasons: First, the increased cost of transportation which would follow increased speed. It is a big question whether there are enough persons who want to be put into a steel shell and shot across the Atlantic in less than four days and who have the money to pay for being fired to make such ships pay. Steamship men say there are not. Greater speed means more coal burned, more room to carry coal, longer ships, deeper ships, longer docks, deeper water—money, money, money Who wants to spend it? Increased speed proposition simmers down to this: As hulls are now designed six pro- ELECTRIFICATION OF RAILROADS PROBLEM NOW FACED. Utility and Economy of the New Power Being Tested Out Before Radical Changes Are Made. Just where officials of the great railroads stood 40 years ago in reference to radical changes in railroad A. H. A. J. Cassatt, Late President of the Pennsylvania, Under Whose Management the First Steps to Electrification Were Taken. equipment, do those of to-day stand as regards adoption of a new equipment. Then it was a question of the use of steel rails from England. Now it is a problem of the electrification of the roads. The New York Central and the Pennsylvania have both made some preliminary attempts at the adoption of such power, but complete equipment waits on the perfect demonstration upon its complete practicability and economy. The New York Central may well be considered the pioneer in this matter of testing out the electric motor as a practical substitute for the steam locomotive, and the Pennsylvania promises to be a close second in the matter of trying the new equipment. The public has had some hint of it, but after all no good understanding of the intense thought the greater railway managers are now giving to this as yet undemonstrated problem. Moreover, it is not a question as to whether electricity can be so controlled and harnessed as to provide energy sufficient to operate railway pellers can probably be placed to work to advantage. With an increase of 50 per cent in the number of propellers larger engines would be required, more coal would have to be carried and the ship's draught increased, which would necessitate dredging out the docks some more. And for this tremendous outlay what results could be expected? When the Mauretain last year MILITARY MILITARY PAVILION FROM NEW YORK CHICAGO L. MICHIGAN INDIANA MICHIGAN POLK SON OKTO DETANIT L. HURON ENVELAND L. ERIE CANADA PENN NEW YORK CONY HASS WEN The Daily Run of an Ocean Liner Laid Out on Land. The Daily Run of an Ocean Liner Laid Out on Land. broke one of her propellers she unhooked the turbine from its mate and swam back to Liverpool at 20 knots an hour. This she did easily. When she came back last week with four engines humming she obtained for her doubled volume of power only a little more than six knots of additional speed. Behold the operation of the law of diminishing returns. And f two more propellers and 35,000 more horse power were to be added how much more speed would she gain? Not as much as she did when she doubled from two to four propellers. Steamboat men say she might get two or three more knots. trailus, so far as power is concerned, as well or better than the locomotive engine does. So also it was not a question with President Thomson of the Pennsylvania whether or not the steel rail, abstractly considered, would not furnish more adequate railway service than the iron rail or the carlier strap rail. Pittsburgh was inevitably the center from which radiated the first far-reaching development of railway equipment and operation. So also New York city, although for different reasons, is the centre whence will radiate the national electrification of railways, provided that comes in this generation. To make the comparison easy of understanding, there should be some historical reference to what was done in or near Pittsburg in the day of J. Edgar Thomson and Col. Thomas A. Scott. The eastern terminal of the Pennsylvania was at tidewater, and that, of course, was the limit of its eastern march. But the western terminal at Pittsburg was hardly more than a terminal in name, since the influence and authority of the Pennsylvania stretched from that point across Ohio to the great lakes, and even to the Mississippi. Mr. Thomson's attention was called soon after the war to the steel rail as manufactured in England, and as laid down on some of the English railroads. Sir Henry Bessemer's process of steel manufacture had made the steel rail commercially practicable in England. But there were grave doubts whether its high cost would not make it impracticable commercially in the United States or whether there would be traffic enough to justify substituting it for the iron rail. Mr. Thomson's courage was at no time better shown than when he determined to make the experiment. What he did by voluntary action the New York railway managers were compelled to do in New York city by command of the legislature in 1902. Tests have been in operation nearly two years, and for the last six months have been so satisfactory that it is believed both by railway men and by the foremost electrical experts that at last electrical apparatus has been perfected capable of safely, surely and with much greater facility and convenience than steam power operating heavy through trains on the main lines of the trunk roads. Cooking-school Girl—Bridget, what did you do with that cake I baked yesterday? Mr. Fljefello is here and I want to give him some. Bridget—Wull, mum, I'll get it fur ye if ye say so, but sure it isn't me wud be discouragin' a notice young man like that. New York Weekly. You Look Prematurely Old A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE Of Painting Requirements Will Save Much Expense. When one sees the surface of a house or other building scaling, or peeling, or spotted or bilistered, or showing other symptoms of paint "disease," it is evident that a poor painter has been on the job, and that poor paint was used—or possibly that a good painter had been dominated by a property-owner who knew nothing about paint. It is an easy matter to be informed on paint and painting. A complete painting guide, including a book of color schemes, either for exterior or interior—specifications for all kinds of painting—and an instrument for detecting adulteration in paint material, with directions for using it, may be had free by writing National Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Bldg, New York City, and asking for House owner's Painting Outfit No. 49. Then, every housecowner should make it a point to get only well-known reliable brands in buying his materials. Pure white lead is especially important, or the paint will not prove satisfactory. 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WRIGLEY'S SPEARMENTS County Election Board Defers the Date For Election Registration to April 22-23-24 UNIQUE INTERPRETATION OF TEXT OF TAYLOR MUNICIPAL LAW REGISTRATION TO BE THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BE- FORE ELECTION DAY, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, No registration of electors for the coming municipal election day, to morrow and Saturday, as the text of the Taylor Municipal election bili passed by the recent legislature would indicate. ‘The county election board in ses sion last nizht, read an entirely dif forent meaning into the registration matter deciding that there would be no registration before the primaries, but that the precinet poll books would be opened for additional reg istration Thursday, Friday and Sat urday previous to Tuesday, April 27, the date o fthe municipal election. ‘The letter of the law, from which the county board draws this unique interpretation, being section 9 of ar ticle one of the Toylar Muntetpal election law, reads: “No person shall be entitied to vote in any election held thereunder whose name {s not upon such regis tration list for his precinct as was Tequired by the general election law provided, that the registration off cers of ‘all cities of the first class, shall, on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday next preceding each first Neere Outlaws and indians. Now that the Indian Uprising * has abut cooled down we can view the matter with wore deliberation | and form a more nearly correct opinion than was possible at first| Diush, when two white officers had eon ‘shot dead by outlawed despera: does, It is more than probable that when the truth is known it will be found that some outlawed negroe| thieves were at the Indian camp, possibly by and with the consent of that branch of the Creeks known as ‘Crazy Snakes,” from their being adherents of and believers in Chitto Harjo, whose nickname is "Crazy Bnake,’ nd that believing that much stolen property could be found among the negro tents aud huts on the gounds, officers and men who had Jost valuable property by theft went there armed with searchwarrants to swek such property. That the Negroes Deing armed and greatly outnumber- nig the whtes, drove them off, The whites went to Henryetta, procured reinforcements and went back and attacked the camp which kept up a fusilade for hours. shooting one pos- weman in the breast. Then the Ne- # and Indians scattered and of- floors from Checotah and Eufaula un: dertok to round them up, In an ambuscade two officers were killed, reports got out that it was an In: lap “uprising” and the — national guard was called out to quell it, The above ix thought to be a fair femumary, of the actual facts, though it thay be incomplete and not alto: gether correct, » Rut the burning question now is should outlawed Negroes be per. mitted to take up residence among the Indians and incite them to deeds of erime and resistence to establish authority? That such Negroes are @ real menace to all admits of no argument. Drastic measures will have to be taken to drive them out dofore the Indian can even get his evidence fairly before the courts, He is handicapped and discredited by the very presence of the outlaws.— ‘Times-Democrat, Tuesday, March 31, 1909, The above article from the Negro- phobia sheet the TD, is in keeping with its record of always putting the Dlame on the Negro. It ts a well known fact that Crazy Snake and his leaders have been deluding anc robing the ignorant Negroes who come here from the states, The Negro has been fooled vy the wily Indian and) made to believe that Bnake could put him on the Indian roll and would give him 160 acres of land, The Negro would pay Snake $2.50 to join the society and get on the roll and then pay $1 per month as dues, There were about 2,000 of these poor tmorant fools and it could be easily seen what an enormous graft the old Indian had. ‘There are many poor wash-wo men in Muskogee who contrbuted to this fund. Wile we know the Negro Snakes from the states are clearly in the wrong yet they are more ined against than sinning and. the 7. D, knows it but in order to take the odium of crime from the real guilty party they are trying to place the crime at the door of one who has heen systematically robbed by the Buake and his white legal advisors. We are sorry for the poor deladed Negroes who have been robbed and We applaud the state and national government for taking a hand in restoring order, Tut we cannot for get that some inneent Negroes who had nothing to do with the Snake band were ruthlessly murdered by the vicious rowdy whites in the vicinity of Henryetta and those bra Ush devils should be brought to jus tice, ‘The state and national govern ment will be remiss in their duty to its citizens if it Is not done, It has been said that the whole mess Is a political trick to bolster up the cause of some politicians and unless the Indian, Negro and white outlaw are given the same treat ment it wil show the charge Is not without foundation, ‘The Eventn Democrat ts too partisan to be fai yet we know of individual democrats Who woukl seorn to stoop as the democrat has done and believe tt giving every citizen a fair deal be fore the courts but the TD, is not in this class Republicans Alive, Jones’ hall was the meeting place for a large number of republicans and two or three democrats last night from elght to eleven o'clock. ‘A number of these meetings have Deen conducted since the campalgn egan but there was better order ‘and better spirit between the candl datos at last night's meeting than there has been manifested at any ot the others, : Tuesday in April, open his registra: tion books and register, by the meth- ods preseribed by general registra tions, the electors of their respective precincts who have acquired the right to suffrage since the last previous general election, and all electors so registered shall be entitled to vote at any such elty election, provided, they are not otherwise qualified, On the three days above provided any elector who swears that he was unable to register because of sick ness or absence at the regular regis: tration may be registered; provided, that In the year 1909 any’ elector of & precinct who has failed t register before the sald three days f exira registration may be registered.”"— Phoenix, March 1, 1909. The above shows that the demies are seared and will fesort to any trick to win. Our republican leaders must be on guard and fight the devil with fire, There must be no. re treating but the bugle show sound the call of “advanee" and grand charge along the line must be made if we would rout the enemy, He {s aot) Ans vie Seen tele eae. Mr, Twine was chairman of the meeting. and in the outset warned the candidates against mudslinging, To use his own words he said ‘We are all republicans and 80 far as the chair {8 eoncerned he shall Insist that the eaudidates. who speak tonight’ refrain. from — mud: slinging. In other words there must be no washing of dirty linen here tonight.” As a result the best of feeling prevailed throughout the meeting. Nearly all of the candidates were present. themselves or by proxy. Mr. R. T. Thompson, represented Mr, Buchanan, who is’ gone where duty called, Mr. Thomson ix a rous ing speaker and the interest of Mr. Buchanan is not sutfering, so far as he is concerned. Judge Jefferson is another sout stiring speaker, and the audience is generally well pleased with hu mor which he naturally displays. in all of his speeches. Judge Jefferson spoke last night In the interest of W. H. Harper who. he said, had authorized him, But later Mr. Har per came himself and it was reveal ed that he did not know any one was there to speak for him, although he sald “any one is at liberty tc Sy Captain ©. C. Ayers delivered 1 spellbinding ten minute lecture ot republicanism, and in most eloquent terms denounced the infamous rib bon ballot. and the infernal Jin Crow law of this state, He sak very little of his candidacy bu pledged unylelding support to any man who the people nominated. The closing feaure of the evening was the introduction of Captain Irs 1. Reeves, When his name was called and th hero of the day came forward, there Was a simultaneous outburst of en thuslasm from the audience. The manly captain came forwarc and shook hands with the chair man, and this was another oecastor for loud cheers and Indian wat whoops. He spent most of his time amus ing his hearers with funny stories bat when he had finished it was Xery clearly demonstrated that Cap tain Reeves in this ward, as wel as in the fourth ward, ix the winning card with the people. Judging from the meetings being held the republicans are opposed to the commission form of government. It is only the few who get into ofice and then their head sweils and immediately they begin the hunt to destroy the party and appoint themselves a ring or take charge of everything in’ sight. Happily its the minority or silk stockings _ of both politien! parties that want the commission form, The rank and file of both parties ean put the silk stockings to sleep on the commis: sion. proposition. Every voter who believes. in_ fatr- hess regardless of his political lean: Ings shold sign the petition that will be elreulated on election day. to invoke the referendum in. the Infw mous Taylor, et al, election law, The republicans and socalists are A unit against it and all far minded democrats wil) refuse to swallow the dose prepared by the crowd at Guthrie who do. anything to place the moss-back clement of our state in the lead. Why» Met Me Bair. The etttorial appearing in yester- Jay's Evening TimesDemocrat anent the trouble at Hickory Ground in which an attempt is made to lay the blame of the unfortunate affair upon the Colored people, by the claim that Negro outlaws among the Snake Indians brought on the trouble and incited the Indians to murder and other rime is both unfair and false, sancalled for and unwarranted, and unworthy of decent journalism, That there were some Negroes among the crowd at Hickory Ground is not denied, But these Negroos in the main were nelther outlaws nor desperadoes, ‘They were simply misguided and ignorant old men and Women, believing in their ignorance that Crazy Snake could in some way place them on the Indian rolls and secure for them allotments as citizens of the various tribes, In the main they were harmioss; insur rection, riot, rebellion or treason was never in thetr minds The Intelligent, self-respecting No groes of Muskogee and other town: have even attempted to persuade such Negroes as would visit Hickor} Ground to remain out of the so called Snake gang and leave Crazy Seas ar troy a “Negro uprising,’ the Negroes of Oklahoma in common with the Negroes all over America have always been true and logical to the American flag; the maligned and abused, villified and miss-treat- ed, no traitor to his nation or assas- sination of his country's heroes have ever sprung from the Negroes. Let the white man of Oklahoma be too fair, too highminded, too honest with his conselence and his God to at- tempt to lay this unfortunate Snake affair on Negroes. Place the blame where It belongs, on a poor, miaguld- ed, ignorant old Indian and his fa- natical, ignorant followers, Meas an Cah Gack. The recent awarding of the con- tract for a high pressure pump for the waterworks plant by the city council brought forth charges from the Times-Demoevrat that graft had heen practiced by pump contractors in influencing the vote whereby the contract for the purchase of a pump was awarded, The Phoenix made investigation and not finding that there was any evidence of graft having been prac ticed, or that there had been any xrait’ whatsoever, called upon the Times-Demoerat to produce its evi dence and name the alleged grafters that the proper steps might be taken to weed out such nefarious _ prac: tices and yracticers if such existed ‘in the city counell ~The Times-Democrat wilted under the demand and has continuously since cast slurs and innuendoes up: on the city counell and sidestepped without, stint And for political purpose. ‘The public tx tired of the meaning less bombast that has been indulged in. by the Times-Democrat for a number of days. If it has any am: munition in its locker Jet it come forth boldly and shoot Or else retreat to the tall timber and subside, In the presence of the following five members of the city counetl Alley, Vogel, Shewey, Levy and Forman, who were present at last night's council meeting, Mayor Mar tin dictated and signed the follow ing statement “which emphatically speaks for itself Mayor Martin's Statement. “There never bax been an admin istration in the City of Muskogec that has as closely guarded the city’s finances as has the present admin istration. “This administration is absolutely free from graft. “There has been a continual harp ing on ‘graft’ in the city council. ‘defy any person to chow thal there is or has been any graft prac ticed in the administration of | the city’s affairs during my adminis tration, “If the editor of the Times-Derpo crat or any of his reporters or in formants will go before the gran¢ jury with any evidence of graft hav nig eaken place during my adminis tration, I and the entire elty coun cil and every member of the offi cial family will be more than glac to appear before the same bod without subpoenae, “If the statements that have beet pablished In the T-D. are not mer veiled, prejudiced falsehoods mad without the courage to specify in stances and names, then let hin xo before the grand jury before elec tion and give what evidence he has “{ have invited any one to cal and 1 will assist them In thelr work of Investigation, and so far nobody has appeared. “Any one is invites to come, singly or invite anybod) to accompany him,” (Signed T. H. MARTIN, Mayor. _phoenix. March 21. 1909. In the District Court of Muskogee County, State o fOkiahoma, Third Judicia, Wille ‘Thurman, Plaintim, vs. Ezekiel Thurman, Defendant. Publication Service. { No. 797 i Te defendant, Ezekiel Thurman, Is [hereby notified that he hag heen seed jin the above entitied action for an Jalsolite divorce by the plaintiff, Wil- ite Thurman, In the district, “court sitting in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and that unless he answer on or before the 1th day of May, A. D., 1909, the sald petition of the said Willle Thurman, against the said Ezekiel Thurman, filed in the clerk’s office of said court, such petition will be taken. as true and judgment for an absolute divorce rendered accordingly. | Witness my hand and seal of court, jamie ‘At my office In Muskogee this 3ist day of March, A. D., 1909. WILLIE THURMAN, Plaintiff, BROWN & STUART, | Attorneys for Plaintiff, ATTEST TONY MATNEY, Clerk of District Court. | RY ROSS HOUCK, | Deputy’ Clerk, The Joke Was On Her. A woman member of the bar ih New York gives the following corre: spondence with the reservation that no names shall be quoted: "fam one of the few women,” she says, who can see a joke even if aimed at myself, — do not feel that in this case I came off first best.” The letter was from a man lawyer and was as follows “Dear Miss Blank: We agree to the compromise as promised in your favor of this date, Not because your client has a just richt to such settlement, but) from the fact that we do not care to open a contest with a woman law er.” To which the reply was sent “Gentlemen: T note. yours agreelnr to a settlement, although I cannot congratulate you on your gallantry in begsing the question, Like the original Adam, yea seem to hide behind a woman's petticoats,” and the following closed the correspond: ence: “Dear Mies Blank: If you will turn to the early pages of Genesis you will discover that Eve did not wear a petticoat,” . epee peers Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the days to register, Let every man ‘he a committee of one to see that those who bave not registered do 0. Bert Woods is a young soldier and has not played the game many years yet he goes into the fight like & veteran and barring the mistakes incident to youth is making a real live campaign. He is earnest and is fighting to win, Like a young colt he sometimes kicks over the dashboard, but really does not mean to take advantage of his opponent. He makes the gatherings lively and interesting, W. F. Seaver is surprising the newcomers with his eloquence and logic. ‘The oldtimers all know Seav- er and know his ability, At every meeting he shows he Is a past mas: ter in the political art and plays the game according to the rules. No ‘one recelves more respectful atten: tion thin Mr, Seaver and he ts making the other fellows step live: ly. Col. Sango says he is a stip with- out a rudder and a soldier without ‘@ captain, ‘There ts still good fight- ing all along the line and the Col, can fall in’ anywhers, ‘The center of the battle is now around the office of police judge and each of the candidates adinit that he ean fill the place and 4s anxious to try. WILL THE NEGROES GET THE WORK? While the candidates were tolling what they stood for, and what they would do if elected, Rev, A, R. Nor- ris interrupted the mecting out at Dean's addition last night to ask the candidates what they would do about the work of the city, if they would give it.to the Mundreds of negroes here who want work and need it, or if they would continue to give It to foreigners, Rev. Norris says there are now thany Itallans em- ployed at work for the city while many colored taxpayers here were without work, and many of them with large families. Each candidate who spoke after- wards promised if elected to use all of his power and influence to see that home people get all the work in the future, Murray C, Sells, candidate for city treasurer, Is a young man of ability and is making a splendid campaign. The voters are interested in giving the young men a show and Mr. Sells hax eaptured every meeting he has attended, At every gathering some ‘of the rank and file speak out in open meeting for him. He adds strength to the party and the party will honor itself in giving him the nomination, which means an over: whelming victory. Four New Buildings. ‘Four more business buildings | for Second street, to cost ail told $65, 000 were announced Monday. Four splendid business buildings are now in course of erection on that street. SANSON WITHDRAWS FROM THE RACE. Fourth Ward Mass Meeting. A republican mass nreeting was hela at Walker's hall Monday night and all of the candidates except. T. A. Sanson, who It was learned Mon- day night, has withdrawn from the race, Geo, W, Seibold, Anselan Buch- anan, E. E. Skelton, Bert Pitts and Morgan Caraway were on band and spoke to the people, The meeting was conducted in good order, the only friction being between = Mr. Ramphendahl, candidate for city at- torney and his opponent, Mr. Gas- kill, who had brought out the stat- ute book to read a point of law against his antagonist. Mr, Ram- phendabt is evidently the favorite of the two out in the Fourth ward, but his opponent is determined to fight him every step of the ground, With this exception the condidates were generalfy fair and considerate toward each other. A great demon: stration was exhibited when Cap- tain Ira L. Reeves was called upon to talk, The gallant captain. explod- ed a bum by imparting the informa- tion that Mr, Sanson had withdrawn from the race, The report, he sald, had come to him from responsible sourees and be had no doubt of its authen- tentieity, After he had left the floor Lawyer MeRea motioned that the mass meeting ananimously endorse Cap- tain Reeves as the only logical re publican candidate for mayor of Muskogee, The motion was seconded Dut was never submitted to yote, because of several objections from the audience, Captain Reeves himself expressed his disapproval of this step which he said would not be fair to the other candidates, The motion was accordingly withdrawn, Bert Woods made a_ grave mis- take when he addressed the people by unwisely referring to Mr. Much- fanan as being “down at Hickory Ground shooting diristes.” "The assertion may have been made in the spirit of a joke, but it certainly put sentiment ‘against him, | The meeting adjourned about 12 o'clock with all the candidates in good spirits and each hopeful of his cian PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTERS. The recent awful disclosures of the work of a great organization of criminals in thie country. who. act ually sell girls into the most fearful aisvery should arouse overy. father and mother in the land to the dan ger of glowing their daughters to leave the country, unprotected, t seek their fortunes In the cities, ‘This criminal syndiente has its branches in every large city and its agents Ie in wait at the railway stations and steamboat docks to way- Jay Innocent giris and lead them, under fair but false promises — of employment into houses of vice. Once inside the doors of the places a girl is powerless, She Is threat: ened. Her clothing ts forelbly taken from her and she Is often beaten to ‘prevent her escape, The scoundrels who capture these girls fresh from the country receive $50 to $200 from the proprietors of houses of ill fame. The girls are sold like ewine and the demand al- ways exceeds the supply. Few girls ever escape the terrible life into which they have been de- livered by the agents of these vile syndicates until disease and death release them, ‘The Kovernment and the mupicipal authorities are attempting to destroy this traffic in girils and they urge parents on the farms and in the Villages and towns to keep their gitis at home. No girl should be permitted to go alone to a big city in search of work or even on. bitsiness, She is constantly exposed to the tricks and schemes of men who make it a bus- iness to entrap and ruin them, and they are constantly In danger. Parents who permit their girls to leave home for the city unaccom- panied or without finding in advance for them positive protection when they arrive are sadly remiss in thelr duty. Exchange. TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF MUSKOGEE. IT desire to say a few words in support of a most worthy young man who has stood and fought in the Republican ranks all of his life, and who is now before you as a candidate for clty attorney. ‘This young man comes before you with a clean record of honesty, and he is known as a man of great intes rity. I speak of Mr. F. Gaskill. 1 would not deem it necessary to say anything for this young man had I not been present at the mass ineeting held at. Walker's hall last Monday night and seen with my own eyes how unfairly he was treated, In spite of the denials of his op: ponent, Mr, Ramphendahl, 1 want to say that Mr, Gaskill Is’ as compe: tent to fulfill the duties of that of fice as any man who ever filled it, or any of those who are seeking to fill it in the future. I think there was no call for the attitude of his oponent on last Mon: day night. I have heard every talk Mr. Gaskill has made during this campaign, and I have never heard him diseredit the honor, the integ: rity and the ability of Mr, Gaskill ina single instance, He, on each occasion, has tried to show’ the people what ‘was best. for them to do under certain existing cir omstances, to protect the Interest of the Republican. party. I refer to Mr. Ramphendaht's case, which I fad understood (with many others), Was to be submitted to the supreme court of this state, ‘Td justify the stand he had taken Mr. Gaskill read a part of Section 274 (if [am not mistaken), and insisted that according to that ‘law it would be detrimental to the party to elec a man o the office of city attmney who the supreme court may decide 1s the lawful county attorney. Now who can deny this? ‘The chairman of the meeting, 1} think, was unduly partial to Mr Ramphendabl. He allowed that gen tleman to return to the floor behin¢ Mr, Gaskill, which was a wilfull vio lation of previously established rules It seems to me that there shoul¢ be some fairness in everything— polities not excepted—but there wa: very little shown Mr, Gaskill on las! Monday night. Mr. Ramphendahl said his ease would not be submitted to the su ‘preme court, but did not expla why, Now, I am not a politician, and I am taking no active part in pol ities, but [ feel that Mr, Ramphen dab!’ did. Mr, Gaskill an injustice last Monday night and my sympath; has turned more than ever to. thik young fighter for the right. / AN OL DTIMER. Republicans Hold Meeting in Deen's Addition. A meeting was held in the church ont at Deen's addition last night which converted the sanctum cane: torlum in a hot bed of political bumble bees, ‘The meeting was called to order by Chairman Adams about eight o'clock. Mr, Adams warned the candidates that the meeting had been called for the sole purpose of putting in a “lean eat” republican administra: tion, At the opening of the meeting there was hardly any eve there but ean- didates, ‘They came in slowly, however, until the room was crowded, ‘The meeting opened with invoca- tion by Rev, Wesson, who after: wards addressed the meeting. When there was @ call for the candidates the first speaker was C. C, Ayers, a candidate for mayor, who spoke with much feeling against the Jim Crow law of this state, which he said would be wiped from the statute books when the republicans got into power, He paid glowing tributes to Dr. W. T. Vernon and B. 'T. Washington, and when he finally finished he was loudly applauded. ‘The other speak- ers who were present and took part were: Judge Waldron, Bert, Camp boll, Judge Hoytt, W. F. Seavers, Bert Woods, Grant Foreman, J. La Huf, J. H. Klick, I. B,. Ball, Chas. Kimsey, Murray C, Sells, J. F, Gas kill, B. L, Steen, Harry Montague, Bert Pitus, H. C, Sullivan, W. H, Harper. Captain Reeves came in at a late hour and was greted with a storm of cheers, He spoke briefly but it was well received. Former Mistourians to Meet. Former residents of Caldwell Coun- ty, Missouri, are planning a meeting in’ Oklahoma City for April 22, at which time a state organization will be formed if possible. It Is esth mated that four or five thousand former residents of this county are how living in the state. ‘The organi zation movement was originated by 1, N, Splyey, secretary of the Cham: ber of Commerce at Anadarko, Okla. Several Caldwell County residents are now living in Oklahoma City. TO SAVE HORSES GOLD MEDAL TO BE GIVEN SEAT: TLE, WASH. DRIVER FOR ACT OF HEROISM. isestp THROWN INTO WATER ane, is Bay by Collapse of | ‘Trestle, Teamater Goes in After | Them and Cuts Away Har. | nese—Hero Is Modest. Seattle, Wash—In recognition of the bravery of John Patterson,¢a driver who risked his life to save his horses which had been precipitated into the bay by the collapse of a tres: tle at Elliott avenue and Stone street, the King county humane society has decided to present to Patterson a gold medal, specially designed by the s0- clety to reward extraordinary acts of Kindness to or bravery in behalf of dumb animals, At a meeting of the society the members decided that Pat terson, by placing his own life in Jeon ardy to save his horses, had won the medal, which will be the first to be awarded by the King county soclety Patterson, when he was informed that the humane society, had deter mined to present him with a medal for bravery, sald that he had done nothing more than any other man ‘would have done under the same ct cumstances, and said that he would much rather see the money expended in the purchase of a new sult of ‘clothes or a dress and shoes for some ‘poor child, He said that when he saw ‘his horses in the water, he thought only of freeing them from their har- ness that they might have a chance for thelr lives. “Why should T get a medal?” asked Patterson, “for doing just what any other man with red blood in his veins would do under the same clreum- stances? As for risking my life, there was nothing to that, for I have been able to swim all my life, and It was not likely that I would have been drowned unless one of the horses had happened to kick me, As for that GPE iA Re Vea CT] Ps Br Sy) Bani eS Ni f : =o = 3° ¥ i= z Es <3 ‘T never thought anything about it, for I was thinking of getting the team loose, so that they would have a chance to get ashore. “[ have been handling horses all my Mfe, and naturally I lke them, and ‘they like me, My father was a black- smith in Iowa and T began to ride and drive horses when I was a boy, and have been working with them ever since, There is no better friend to a man than a good horse or a good dog, ‘and when [ saw the team in the water after the bridge went down tt was just as if some of my friends were down there, 1 couldn't leave them there to drown, all tangled in the harness, so | just naturally went down again to cut them loose, “J was confused in a few minutes after the wagon went through the bridge or I would have saved myself ‘the trouble of climbing up on the bridge and then climbing down again, Dut at frst all I thought of was to get help. After I got clear I sew that the horses would not last long if I left them tangled up with the wagon, so I started in to cut them clear of the harness, As far as the medal is con- cerned there is a man who helped me get the team loose that deserves a re. /ward more than I do, for he came down in the water and worked like a slave helping me get the team free and |he had no interest in the horses at jail, I don't know his name. | “There was one funny thing that | happened when the team was down in. |the water, One of the horses was a erabbed, fractions animal, that was al- ways considered ugly around the barn, and yet when | was working to get him free he wes as quiet and gentle asa lamb, He scemed to know that | was trying to give him a chance | for his life, and when | got him clear of the harness he followed me like a cog, right up on shore, “It seemed for a while that would be unable to get old Buck, one of the | best horses in the barn, elear of the tangle, for one of his legs was fast ip | the harness. I eslied for a gun, for | 1 wouldn't leave bim there to drown, but after it was passed down to ma I thought I would make one more try to get him loose, and I succeeded that time, so I didn’t have to shoot bim after all.”