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»Ti «T« »?<■ »Ti »T« »?« »T« >'« »T« »Ti »T i »?« í *: 4 4 i»T.5 I I I TOPICS OF !W. TIMES Reports from Panama baseball follows the flag. »ho\* :« :« that Secretary Meyer’s parcels post plan •ectus to have been lost in the malls. Anybody who could hit a barn ought to be able to pick a rhinoceros off of a limb. As an actress Ella (¡ingles Isn’t bad. but she Is several laps behind E. Nes- bit Thaw. Since the stone wall did so much for Galveston the town should call Itself Jackson. Every experiment proves that the balloon Is only a distant relation to the true flying machine. Treasury officials have declared that the $2 certificates are unpopular. We know one vote that wasn't taken. Mr. Rockefeller advises us to “ brighten some one else’s life." He refrained from telling us what to do It with. The value of this year’s crop Is es timated by Secretary Wilson at $8,000,- 000,000. No wonder hard times see 23 on the horizon. Mexico discourages revolutionists by giving them long terms In prison, a practice which republics south of It would do well to Imitate. It Is a highly commendable move to try to keep open the door of diplomat ic preferment to capable American citizens who do not happen to he rich. It Is said that when an author dies his books always pick up In popular ity. There are some writers whom the world would he willing to boost under those circumstances. The officials of a Western college have announced that the co-eds must have a chaperon. This Is one of the most crushing blows yet administered to feminine Independence. There are Indications that the Seat tle exposition Is going to he a success In spite of the fact that It Is strictly a teinpeirnnce nffair. Are we fo have no traditions that may be depended upon to last? Miss Anita Stewart and her mother « r e paying $ 1 . 000,000 in cash for the Portuguese prince that the young lady Is to get. It almost seems as If they might have got him cheaper if they had haggled a bit. There are rumors of another hazing scandal at West l ’olnt. No sooner does Annapolis succeed in getting the at tention of the public centered there than West Point Jealously comes for ward showing that It, too, can he very foolish The contest seems to bo in terminable. An Illustration of the difficulties met by those who seek to mise the social rtnndnrd comes from London, where a borough council recently erected forty little dwellings for the poorest class, each with a hath room. An Investiga tlon a few months later showed that In thirty six of the forty houses the ten ants used the hath tub whollt for the storage of fuel“, clothing and general rubbish. In life, In literature, there Is no riaglc charm like that of personality, but politicians are afraid of It In their business. Of this they sedulously cul tlvnte the Idea that It must he con ducted by eommittees and parties, never by Individualities. Everything is collective, nothing personal. In trlgue and subterranean management are the prime forces, ami the old ’prac titioners of the art are always aghast when some man of native vigor comes forward with open methods and direct appeals Individually, ns all travelers testify, the Chinese are an exceptional!.“ hon est people, hut lu the , fflelal life of the empire there has long been systematic corruption and wholesale pilfering iti’ li ns few other lauds have ever known. Of special significance, there fore. Is the recent removal of a ('hi nese viceroy on the charge of corrup tlon When the viceroy was suddenly confronted with the charges, he was so Rtniu. 1 and confounded that he suf f. red a stroke of apoplexy Such * thing as Interfering with the plunder Ing of the poor by a public official ways unit, ard of The Incident Is welcome evidence that China Is really waking up. The Oepartment of the Interior has been valuing the government's lands on which coal exists, and. Instead of * Milu th»‘tn a 1 the old price of asrl- cultural landIs. 1» miirkln g I hem up as coal land In some ca:ses. the price has Ixs n pul: as hi gh as 9690 an acre Them* coi;tl lands wero classified and restored ito entry In Juin • At the old rate, they w<ite worth $;’,600,000. Un ♦h r the n<i‘ W plan tht‘ V are held at l i t , fion.nOo r o prlnc Í pie involted,, the ('111» Hkjo Tr 11lume dr•clan ’s. Is mtioh Inore impor?«tnt thani the amounts and It add* ‘ If Oil* prind pie hail tH»en put in practice many years ago. many a fraud U | « m the government would have been prevent*! And many n prairie, now cut up In farms and dot tod with villages, would S t i l l be * howling wilderne s. In marking ay Its coal land, the government does wisely. It Is time for a new policy with regard to natural resource*. But It Is unfair to use the new value as a text for recriminations about the past policy of the government. When It ! practlcallj gave away lands, It did so In order to get people on the soil. The success of Its policy Is evident in the wonderful development of the West. How much of that $500-an-acre value Is due to the fact that railroads are ready to carry away the coal from the Wyoming mines? How much of It Is due to the fact that there are custom ers for coal within a short haul of the deposits? The price set for coal land is low. but it would have been h forty years ago. Without railroads, it would have been prohibitive. Without settler-!, there would have been no sue cessful railroad-;, So we may say fair ly that the lib< ral policy of the govern nu-nt In the past has been the factor which makes its more businesslike pol ley of the p suit and future possible "Brighten some one else’s life. Cheer some one else’a pathway every day This Is the best investment that any of us in this world can ever hops to make.” We won’ t repeat the name of the man who said it. He has an nounced that he is going to seek ob scurity henceforth. Moreover, there are so many other people who both live as he does and talk as he does that it 1s not necessary to draw the moral upon the particular man "Brighten some one else’s life." That Is most excellent advice. It Is good old-fashioned morality, just as good to-day as It ever was, and Just as good for the future as for to-day. However, In the sense in which It Is used, It Is very Imperfect, very partial advle*. A little active work in brightening some one else's life by direct personal efforts needs to be supplemented more to-day than ever before by Indirect methods of brightening other people's lives, especially through restraint from creating conditions which have the op posite effect. For many citizens, and especially for those who give the "brightening” advice most freely, the Indirect methods of self-restraint are vastly more important socially than the other. When a man adopts a sys tern of business »iterations which have as their direct result the driving of competitors out of business by meth ods always unfair, and often Illegal; when he sacrifices families ruthlessly because he Is not In Immediate con tact with the suffering members; when his mechanism of business Is so line that he ran dip his hands In the pock ets of a hundred thousand families and gain wealth so easily that Ills main thought Is that he Is to be per sonally approved because he takes so little, then. Indeed, It Is hut a poor compensation that he makes It a ¡K>1nt of directly brightening some neigh bor’s life every day. To one life that he brightens directly there are thou- sands that he darkens Indirectly. The new morality will take full account of sip’li facts at their proper value. FACTS IÎJ T A B LO ID F0EM. The absinthe consumption of France Is increasing. In Honduras even the meanest houses are built of mahogany. Corn Is our greatest crop, that of 1908 being valued at $1,616,000,000. SENTENCED TO HOME LIFE. T Is a wise judge In Malden, Mass., who laps prescribed the home treatment for youths who wreak mischief in the streets. Several boys were brought before him. charged with wandering misbehavior. He released them temporarily, on condition that their parents keep them at home from 6 o’clock in the evening until the next morning. A t the end of this probation the lads are to tie ex amined as to the effect oi this treatment upon their conduct. The magistrate has exercised his discretion in the direction of enforcing parental responsibility. In reul- lty, it Is the fathers and mothers, and the homes they make, rather than the childern, that are on trial in this test. The experiment will enforce, at least during Its period, the presence of these boys every evening In the family circle. The influence of its environment must make itself manifest In either marked improvement of manners and diligence, or in sullen deterioration; for yourh must grow’, either upward or downward. It Is possible that the trial of this method may disclose whether It Is the parents who need reformation.— Washington Herald. a man was permitted to whip his wife, provided the whip was no thicker than his little finger. Surely it marks an era of new women’s rights worthy of a little extra jubilation and surely Elma Louise deserves to bo the central figure of the rejoicing. Soon we shall have other offenses listed as valid ground for cutting the tie that binds. Eating pie with a knife, stopping out after S of an evening, taking in more than one ball game a week, smoking a nasty smelling pipe, refusal to wear a high collar in August, eating onions, neglect to curl the mustache, and snoring may now hope to be recognized as just cause for divorce. The forward sisterhood will be justified In holding a real celebration then. But In the meantime common fairness demands that Elma Louise should receive im mediate recognition as a gre-e-e-e-a-t benefactor of her suffering sex.— Chicago Journal. T H E Y E L L O W JOURNAL EGOIST. F a man like Thaw, whose condition of "exaggerated ego” led him under certain favorable circumstances to the commission of a homicide, should therefore be per manently secluded in a hospital or jail as a measure of public safety, why should not the public safety be further assured by the seclusion of other more dangerous madmen whose insane egoism creates vastly different social in jury? Why not bring to bear the restrictive grip of the law upon cases of exaggerated ego which find ex pression In yellow journalism? To habitually murder the truth, for the sake of no toriety and profit, is a crime so far reaching in its dis astrous consequences, when It takes form in the publi cation of a dally newspaper, that any corrective ruling of the courts bearing upon the matter Is most welcome. The egoist who, as publisher or editor of a newspaper, seeks to keep himself in the public eye by riding every inviting hobby, by making indecency more Indecent, revolting fact more revolting, and by constantly min istering to the depraved appetite, Is more dangerous than an army of Thaws.— Philadelphia Record. TH E MOSQUITO PROBLEM. HAT was done on the Isthmus of Panama can be as effectively done in New Jersey for the extirpation of the mosquito. The State.is the only poyver that can do the work, and should set about it in earnest. The isthmus yvas notoriously the most unhealthy region In the world until Amer ican engineers undertook to conquer its had name. They ascertained that the mosquito was the conveyer of the malaria and yellow fever that had carried off thousands of human beings. So they attacked the in sect in his lair. They destroyed the breeding places by drainage and other methods. To-day the Panama Isthmus is as healthy as any section of the United States, and the change Is entirely due to the work of the American engineers and sanitarians. A M E R IC A N S AS EM IGRANTS. The mosquito problem was attacked on the isthmus E are impatient with those immigrants with the determination to conquer. The problem in who maintain their native ways of living New Jersey has been dallied with. There has been no | and thought within our borders. May it earnest purpose. The Legislature has been lukewarm not be that in the Canadian Northwest and parsimonious, legislators have been incompetent to the Canadian-born look with distrust upon size up to the great importance to the State of ridding the Americans recently settled there? A It of a [test that entails a property loss of many mil traveler wrote that the saddest men and lions, keeps away population and makes summer life women he had ever met were the American exiles who a trial alike to the sick and well.— Newark Star. were trying to be gay in Paris. The farmers who have gone into Canada to till the lands all but given them A N O T H E R V IC T O R Y FOR WOMEN. will not have occasion to know the sadness of the exile. They will be too busy. Their work will save I.MA LOUISE SIN G L E T O N ’S name should them, will protect them, front the grief the banished certainly be enrolled high on the scroll of feel. But as these farm people grow older they will famous women who have won notable vic have the leisure to dwell upon their relations to the tories for the cause of women’s rights. folk about them and to the institutions under which Elma Louise has succeeded In persuading they live. It is a characteristic of the American to a divorce court that a husband who is en compare the things he sees abroad with those at home, gaged in business six days of the week to the disadvantage of the foreign. And those who should remain at home and entertain his wife on the have settled in Manitoba or Alberta, being as Ameri seventh, and that failure to do so furnishes good can as any of us, are hardly likely to lose that habit.— grounds for severing the marriage bond. Toledo Blade. This is a long step in advance from the days when \ ¥ n KàTtj Nine days’ sickness per annum is the average for the human being. The highest track-laying record on the Western Pacific railway is 7,800 feet a day. It has been estimated that rats in England do damage to the extent of $75,000,000 annually. The figures of the London police courts show a very decided increase during recent years in serious crime. The salmon output of Alaska equals the combined catch of British Colum bia, the United States proper and Japan. The greatest cotton crop in the United States was that of 1908, which, on the farm, was valued at $722,000,- 000. Irvine King, of Grovetown, Ga., has a turkey gobbler sitting on about five dozen eggs, three dozen of which are guinea eggs. Cats are subject to a form of influ enza which is communicable to human beings, and they can catch It from man Just as readily. Cigar boxes of glass are coming more and more into use. They are cheaper than the wooden boxes and keep the cigars fresh a longer time. Of the eighty-eight millions of popu lation of the United States, one-thirds speaking in round numbers, are found in the thirteen original States. The amount of blast furnace gas power lost each year approximates 2,000,000 horse power, although tills Is being reduced by the Installation ot gas engines to utilize the power. During the fall and winter season of 1908-09, which ended March 21, 221 persons perished by shipwreck and eighty-nine vessels met with disaster off the New England and British North American coasts. In 1839 Velpeau, one of the greatest surgeons of his time, wrote as follows: “ The escape from pain in surgical operations Is a chimera which It Is- idle to follow up to-day. ’Knife’ and 'pain' in surgery are two words which are always inseparable In the minds, of patients, and this necessary associ ation must be conceded.” There will shortly be opened In Switzerland the Wleser viaduct, on the route from Davos to Filisur. It Is entirely constructed of stone, at a height of 90 meters, or 292 VO feet, and has a central arch of 55 meters and six others each of 20 meters, the en tire length of the bridge being 175 meters. It Is, according to a Paris contemporary, the mo*t beautiful bridge in the world. The extension of prohibition through T H E ENGLISH LANGUAGE. out the United States has caused a buggy, or carriage, or wagon, or pedes-(by two or ,three Senators. One moved largely increased demand for “ soda trlan? Settle on a rule, and make it lover to a group and pointed at Mr. pop,” as Indicated by the great demand compulsory, with penalties. Who has j Mathews, and together they seemed to for bottles. Two big factories at the the right-of-way, when the question i be discussing him. Things seemed Alton (111.) glass works have been of precedence arises? No road law ¡dull, and after a short stay on the working since last fall, night and should pass which falls to meet this ¡floor Mr. Mathews left the chamber day, manufacturing soda pop bottles. question. Then, again, there Is the land joined some friends in the press The prohibition wave has also caused speed limit, and the policing of the gallery. "What is that they are reading down a big increase in orders for all kinds road. Non-resident motoring parties are in the habit of coming through at there, Tom?" he asked the representa of large bottles. The Institute of Marine Engineers a forty-mile clip, as though It were tive of another press association. »*1 "Why, I don't know," was the reply. in London recently discussed the sub the duty of all creation to scoot out ject, and H. A. Mayor, of Glasgow, said mvitri"1""" of the way. 'Clear the track!’ is the "They are in executive session.” l ’ l« ‘ii f o r It ou «l w m i d Itoad l.n u n . "No, they are not." hastily put In that the prospect for electric propul reckless motto by which too many of In a recent issue of The Jefferson- these touring cars are. driven. Mathews. Then the situation sion for ships is very hopeful. Lead No Mr. John, Jr.— Will you give me a nickel Mi. Thomas E. Watson, as was to State should adopt a road law which dawned upon him. There had been ing shipbuilders have been considering If I ’m good all day, dad? John, Sr. No, my son; I want you have been expected, aligns himself fails to deal justly with all parties, j no doorkeeper at the entrance when it for some time. \V. P. Durtuall said squarely with the aggressive contin those who have autos and those who he passed in to warn him. and he had that in the all-electric Paragon meth to lie good for nothing. gent for good roads in Georgia, along haven't.” unwittingly enjoyed a part of an exec od of driving vessels, the electric mo III k u c M o f A ll M a o k e r o l. with National President Barrett and tors are coupled direct to the propel There can be no question that the utive session. Until a few days ago a mackerel that State President Lee, of the Farmers' lers, and run at equally high efficiency average conception of the rules of the exceeded four pounds in weight was Union, and the overwhelming major in either direction. Since the steam highway Is somewhat hazy and cha ll n % v ( h e II r a k e in n ii H e l p e d . considered something remarkable, hut ity of officials and prominent citizens otic. Conditions governing traffic have Thomas Moffat, consul at Trinidad, turbine can run in only one direction, wlien ('apt Rufus McKay of the sein voicing representative sentiment In changed radically In the last twenty distinguished himself while consul at the new method saves the expense of er Speculator showed one he had taken this State. five years. Travel and patronage of La Guayra by refusing to sign a doc a reversible turbine. In the catch he brought to T wharf "A ll of os want good roads for all the public roads has multiplied many A minor drawback connected with ument declaring the "sanitary condi there was a change of opinion, and the of us." dec-lares the sage of McDuffie, times, and means are now employed tions of La Guayra to be perfect." the use of the electric flatiron has ordinary large mackerel looked like a In Ills straightforward fashion Mr for locomotion that Introduce new fac- The town at the time was in the grip been found to be in the fact that the calmer In comparison, a Boston dis Watson dir rccts attention to important tors lnt0 the situation. temperature varied considerably as it of the bubonic plague. patch to the New York Herald says. phases of the subject that must figure was passed from one piece of work When the present legislature comes. "The local authorities v»ere angry ( ’apt. McKay had been seining on It. any blanket legislation tty the gen as It probably will, to enact a uniform with nte." said Mr. Moffat recently, to another containing more or less the Rips and had taken some pretty eral assembly. We need statutes and moisture. This has now been over road law, these features stressed by j for refusing to indorse their stupid big fish, many of them weighing above | fixed regulations, he shows, that will come by an automatic means of con Vr. Watson should receive mature con and baneful policy. They said it was four pounds, but when the men came newly and sharply define the "laws of slderatlon. ] a benefleient .policy, hut I told them trol by which the temperature is main across the real big one the crew stop ¡the road." so constructed ns to conserve Meanwhile. It Is gratifying to know that it reminded me. in its ignorant tained at one point within a fraction ped work for a time to get a look at | the Interests and privileges of all par- that his Influence may be counted j harmfulness, of a brakenian I once of a degree. When the Hatiron is in !t The fish was carefully laid In tee ties. Following Is an editorial extract use a large amount of current Is per upon to further a movement so vital , ^new. separate from the others, and when embodying his views on a problem with constructive meaning to the bona j "The man was a novice, and on his mitted to pass through the heating the Speculator’s hatches were opened now of vital concern to all Georgia: fi.de producers of Geor^a.— Atlanta first run there was a very steep grade coils, but whenever the heat rises un It was brought out and shown to the “ The Jeffersonian courts no fame as Uon«titutlon. to mouyt. The engineer always had duly a switch automatically introduces dealers. an old fogy, and has no disposition to more or less trouble to get up this | the resistance necessary to cut down Immediately there was a struggle to cater to the popular prejudice against IN E X E C U T IV E SESSION. grade, but this time he came near the current. get It, anti It was finally (anight by automobiles. The motor car Is here to Chief Engineer Rurgess, of the Hon sticking. He almost lost his head. Elmer Prior for P. H. Prior. 2 T wharf stay; the air ship Is on its way, and I ’ ruak M i n i F o u n d P r o p e o d l n i f i H u l l Eventually.'however, he reached the duras National Railway, giving advice Th fish was placed on exhibition in I we might as well agree with tortured and I,eft \ o i II n 111 r l I v . to engineers working in the tropics, top. the store and was viewsd by hundreds Galileo, that the world does move. Reporters are not allowed to be pres " A t the station, looking out of his says emphatically, "Don't get lost!” It weighs eight pounds and is twenty- orthodoxy to the contrary not« lth- ent at the secret sessions of the Unit cab. the engineer saw the new brake He adds that a man should no more nine and one half Inches from the tip standing. • • • ed States Senate. Some of the diffi man and said with a sigh of relief: think of going out Into a tropical for of the head to the tip of the tall, and “ Every good citizen should favor cult work which newspaper men go '• ’ I tell you what, my lad. we had est without a compass than of going nineteen Inches In Its largest ctrcum good roads and. so far as we know he up against at the capitol is gathering a Job to get up here, didn't we?’ to sea without one. Without a com fere nee. dees. Scout cars and newspaper the details of some outbreak after the “ We certainly did,' said the new pass one has no way of getting his Mr Prior was made an offer of J10 whoop-her ups are not necessary for doors of the Senate chamber have been brakeman. 'and if I hadn’t put the direction. In a few minutes he Is for the fish hv a Beverly dealer, who that All of us want good roads for closed to all except Senators and one brake on we'd have slipped back.’ " turned round. The sun can only be »anted to present It to President Taft, all of us. • • • i f our road svs- or two sworn employes who keep its seen. If at all. when directly overhead. hut he refused the offer, as he Intends tent. which now heirs somewhat heav records, says the New York Herald. Reward f o r A i»|*ea rn n c e s . There Is no moss on the trees to serve to have it mounted. ily on the under dog. Is to be changed, One newspaper man recently sat Max O'Rell was once staying with for a guide. Distant elevations, or let us ad >pt a plan which will dis through a part of a secret session and a friend at Edinburgh. Starting for a mountains. If any exist, can not he ( • m o t M n rk < * t, left of his own free will. He Is Jerry walk on Sunday, he took his walking seen on account of the density of the " I s your son doing anything during tribute the advantages equitably. "Besides, we should adopt some def A. Mathews, a representative of one ¡ gtlck ..Do you mtnd taking an urn- forest. Even on the treeless llanos ot vacation?" ot the three press associations which brella?” asked his conscientious South America, where the mountains Yes lie ’s making money hand over lnlte 'law of the road.' adjusted to present conditions. We should pre during tue open sessions of the Sen Scotch host. " I t looks more respect are too distant to be seen, the com flat selling a new tangled diary." ate are given the privileges of the able." "1 shouldn't think that there would scribe. under reasonable penalties, the pass Is the only guide. One can tell duty of the drivers of all vehicles, and (float he much money In that." the direction of east and west at sun C 'u r io u n . Corning down the corridor one After- "Every woman buys It. It has one the dtit> of all vehicle drivers toward rise and sunset, but In the middle o f ’ It’s curious." said Uncle Eben, ” dat Which side of the road noon Mr. Mathews pushed through the pngo a day for what you do yourself people on foot the day the sun Is useless as a guide, S h a ll’ Senate doors and took his usual place a lot o’ folks will hardly notice de and ten pages for w hat your neighbors must meeting vehicles take? because It is almost directly overhead, A treaty was speeches of de country's brainiest each team turn to t ' e right, or to the elow the clerk's desk, do.”— Puck. and often one may stand In the le ft” M (ke a rule on the subject and being read, After looking about him men. an' dat dey'll read every word of shadow of his own hat.— Youth's Com We etlll COB tend that the funniest penalize each violation of It. What dawned upon the newspaper man what an ex champion of prize ftghttn' panion. thing in the world Is cheap printing »a rn ln g must the auto glve to the that he wa* closely examined ha* to sa) ! "— Washington Star. for cheap show* i r