ELECTRIC LINE TO
LINK NORTHWEST
Portland to FuRct Sound By
Trolley Is Flan.
$2,MH),000 Worth of Work In 1913
Hranch Lines Will Tap Itirh
Sections Along Route.
Portland, Or. Throe Important
link in a rhain of elctric railway
thut eventually will connect Portland
with tht) principal cities on 1'uKet
Sound will ho built by the Washington
Electric Railway company thi year at
cost of f.2,000,000.
A. Welnh, of thia city, who la gen
eral manager of the roinpuny, ha
completed plana for conMtructlon work
anil ha arranged adequately to finance
(ho projects, which, in addition to
railroad building, Include the develop
ment of a 12,000-horse power hydrau
lic plant on the Kalama river.
The railroad unita that will be built
thi year are the following:
From a oint near Orchard, Wash.,
connecting with the line out of Van
couver, Wash., to the Lewis Kiver, 20
mile north.
From the preaent southern terminus
of the line operutintf out of Chchalis,
Want)., to the Cowl its Kiver.
From the northern terniinua of the
line operating out of Centralia, Waiih,
to Olympla, a distance of 2tl mi lea.
In addition to thia work a new road
also will be built from Vancouver to
Cama. Wash., where are locatel the
plant of the Crown-Columbia Paper
company, but thia development will
not form a part of the maih system.
When these various unita are com
.plcted there will remain a gap aliout
Ml miles wide between the Cowlitz
and the Lewis rivers, Thia will have
to be connected before tho line be
tween Portland and Putfet Sound is
complete. As the territory is com
paratively sparsely sett Nil and as it
present cntfihccrinK dilllculties that
will necessitate heavier expenditure,
this xirtion of the line may not be
built for three or four year.
Meanwhile, however, tho connection
between Olympla and Tacomii will be
made, as this project is physically and
economically practicable now, Mr.
Welnh hoK;s to have electric cars run
ning from Chchali and Centralia
through Olympia to Tacoma within a
year.
TO MARK INVISIBLK AIUSIIII'S
New Material for I'lanes la Ob
tained Ity Government.
Washington, I. C The invisible
aeroplane is now a possibility, owintt
to a new material discovered by gov
ernment aviation oflicem. This ma
terial i like transparent celluloid, and
much like the backing now used for
photographic film. It is non-inflam-malile,
flexible ami tough. It can lie
made in sheet of any thickness and
size, and the War department has al
ready ordered several gallons more of
it for experimental purposes.
It is one of the features of the ma
terial that it comes by the gallon rath
er than the square foot, ami can le
molded into any form of plane-covering
without stretching the frame. It
ha been tested for strength and
weight, and is both lighter and strong
er to the square foot that canvn. It
is as smooth as glass, so that the ele
ment of friction, which Is considerable
in an aeroplane, is reduced to a negli
gible factor.
The engine, the aviator and the
frame. of the machine are still opaque,
as usual, but It has been found by ex
periment that when GOO square feet of
surface are made invisible the aero
plane when stood on edge is virtually
invisible at 600 feet. This is murh
closer than an aeroplane will ever
uN-rate under war conditons, and with
mutlled motor the aeroplane with
wings of the new material would be
not only unseen but unheard.
New Laws Recommended.
I'hocnix, Aril. In hia call for a
special session of the legislature, Cov
er nor Hunt recommends the passage
of many new laws in order to conform
to the mandates of the people with re
gard to amending the constitution.
Among the statutes recommended are
the following: Abolishment of capi
tal punishment, prohibition of sale of
cigarettes to all persons under 21, to
Mrmit the state to engage in Indus
trial pursuits, minimum wage for haz
ardous occupations and pay for con
victs working on public road.
Women to Hold Primary.
Grinnncl, la. To determino whether
women in (Jrinnell really want the
right to vote or whether it is only the
desire of (Kiliticians and enthusiasts
that they be given thia right, a "regu
lar" women's suffrage primary elec
tion will be held here. Women only
will be allowed to vote, and tho pri
mary is to he held under the same reg
ulations which would govern an ordi
nary election, except that It will be
under the auspices of the local com
mercial club, intend of tho state or
muncipal authorities.
Girl Sella Seed Corn.
Stillwater, Okla. Miss Est fiea
man, winner of a prize of $200 for
growing tho best acre of corn In Okla
homa, in competition with 500 hoys,
has received orders for oil tho seed
corn she grew on her prize acre at $2
a bushel. Mis Ilenman produced 9f
buhels and 10 xiunds of corn on rocky,
stumpy upland, doing all the work her
self. The money will bo used by Miss
Ileamnn for a courso at the State
Agricultural college.
Suffragist to Stay Out of Parade.
Washington, I). C. Tho National
American Woman's SulTrngo associa
tion, as such, will take no part in the
inauguration of President-elect Wilson
on March 4 next. Nor will "General"
Kosalio Jones and her "army" of
marchers have anything to do with the
itigural parade, although they will
Take part In the suf-
' i day previous.
DEFENDS POSITION ON CANAL
Preaidrnt Willing to Submit Ques
tion to Arbitration.
Baltimore President Taft, shak
ing at the annual banquet of the
Merchants' and Manufacturers' asm
ciation in this city, defended the ad
ministration'! attitude in the I'unama
canal disagreement withKngland, de
clared that Its position was not un
patriotic or dishonorable ami asserted
there waa no reason for anyone to op
pose the proKiHul for arbitration by an
impartial tribunal.
"Whether you call it a subsidy or
not, I am in favor of making the rates
between the coasts through the Pan
ama canal lower," he said. "Now
the question is, can we do that under
our internationl obligations? I think
we ran, and if you read the authorities
I think you'll find we may. Hut if we
are bound not to exempt coastwise
vessel we ran agree to submit the
question to an Impartiul tribunal.
"I'm willing to admit there are ar
guments on the other aide. We are
willing, however, to submit our views
to arbitration. There is nothing in
the attitude of the administration, as
I have stated it, to show that we have
been dishonorable. There is nothing
to show a disposition to evade, and we
are willing to rest our rase with a
tribunal that is impartial."
The president concluded his speech
with an appeal for constitutional gov
ernment, endangered In the lust few
months, he said, by those who pro
posed remedies but who could not fur
nish concrete examples of their pro
posed reforms.
TREKS, ROCRS AND ICE SLIDE
Eastern Washington Roada Hadly
Crippled Iiy Elements.
Seattle, Wash. The slides that are
descending Uxin the mountain divi
sions of the three transcontinental
railroads contain ice, trees and bould
ers, a well a snow, and cannot be
tossed aside carelessly by the rotary
plows.
Men with shovels and wrecking ap
paratus muHt remove the debris.
The teniierature continues high and
the snow melts rapidly. The scene of
the Great Northern blockade is not far
from Wellington, now known as Tye,
where an avalanche struck two passen
ger train and killed 93 persons in
February, 1910.
The passenger of train No. 43, the
llurlington-Creat Northern from Kan
sas City, had a bit of excitement.
Their train had just thrust its nose
out of a long snowshed at Alvin, on
the west slope, when a mass of snow
and earth, which seemingly had been
lying in wait for the train, leaped
down the mountainside and caught the
two engines and the baggage car. The
train was stopied and after the en
gine ami car had been dug out the
train was backed into the snowshed
without anyone having been hurt.
The passenger endured no hard
ships, there being plenty of food and
water. It had been intended to send
the train back to Spokane, but there
were slides behind it also, and the
pasRengers clambered down the steep
mountain trail from Alvin to Scenic,
which is a winter resort with a hotel.
They were brought to Seattle by train.
A snowslide three and a half miles
east of Leavenworth, on the east
slope, struck and instantly killed Joe
Teneralli, section forman of tho Great
Northern. A rotary plow waa also
struck by this avalanche and the snow
caused an explosion of the boiler,
frightfully scalding Engineer An
drews. Expert Favors Canal Tolls.
Philadelphia Professor Johnson,
special commissioner of the United
States on Panama traffic and tolls, in
an address here, said that the owners
of vessels in the coastwise trade would
derive greater benefits from the Pan
ama canal than the owner of any oth
er vessels; that double the rate fixed
by tho president would not prevent
coastwise carriers from using that
waterway; ami that in view of these
facts it seemed just that those who de
rived immediate benefit from the use
of tho canal should pay reasonable
tolls.
Rails Heavily Bought.
New York Three railroads - the St.
Paul, tho Great Northern and the Chi
cago & Northwestern came into the
market last week for supplementary
orders for rails aggregating l&O.OOO
tons, and additional orders from Cana
dian roads, aggregating 30,000 tons,
practically have been placed with
American mills. Tho Canton & Han
kow railroad of China has ordered
6000 tons of rails, a Brazilian road
3000 tons of standard sections, and
Canadian traction lines 6000 tons of
girder rails from the United State.
Apple Blooms Held Bark.
Washington, D. C W. F. Thomas,
if this city, owns an orchard of fiOOO
young apple trees in Maryland. The
unseasonably warm weather haa
coaxed out the buds and there is dan
ger of blooming. In caso of frost tho
trees would be injured. Mr. Thomas
consulted experts of tho department of
agriculture, anil on their advice ship
ped 100 tons of Ice to tho orchard.
The Ice will bo broken up and applied
to the roots of the trees in the hoe of
chilling them, thus preventing the sap
from rising.
Ton of Combs la Mailed.
Leominster, Mass. Six hundred
packages of hBir combs were sent out
of here by parcel post by local comb
manufacturers. The consignment
weighed more than a ton and was
mailed by parcel post by the manufac
turers as an experiment. If they find
it operates satisfactorily, they will
use tho parcel post exclusively. Many
other manufacturers aro giving close
attention and will follow tho lead of
tho comb manufacturers.
Bolivia May Fight Peru.
Lima, Peru The F.rn, in an alarm
ing edition, declares thnt war seems
Inevitable between Pern and Bolivia,
This conclusion is drawn from Bo
livia's recent warlike preparations and
the expressions of (mineral Ismael
Monies. Ilnlivinn ambassador, and
other Bolivian offlcers In Paris. Ho
livia'a ambition Is said to be a port on
the Pacific
NOMINATIONS TO
CAUSE TROUBLE
Republicans May Retaliate If
Taft Is Opposed.
Precedent Requires That Appoint
ments of Out-going President
be Approved by Opponents.
Washington, I). C. No one seems
to know at this time what disposition
the senate will make ultimately of the
thousands of nominations submitted
thia session by President Taft, Gen
erally, Democratic senators are in fa
vor of preventing confirmation, so that
all the offices affectod shall become
vacant March 4, and then Le filled by
Democrats. But Democratic senti
ment is not unanimous, and quite a
few of the present minority and soon-
to-be majority party are disposed to
allow the Republicans to clear up their
slate before the Taft administration
closes.
Several times the Democrats of the
senate have caucused on the question
of nominations, yet they have reached
no binding agreement as to policy,
rather playing for delay, in the hope
that something may develop to point
the proper course to them. For it is
acknowledged that there are two sides
to the question of holding up Republi
can nominations during a Republican
administration. For Instance, prece
dent decrees that nominations made by
a Republican president shall be con
firmed during his administration, ex
cept in case where appointee are per
sonally objectionable to some Senator
or senators. That waa the policy in
the days of Cleveland, and Harrison,
and McKinley.
But more than this, if the Demo
crats of the present senate, by filibus
ter or other means, undertake to pre
vent the confirmation of all the Taft
appointments, now pending or to be
submitted later this session, they will
arouse Republican senators, and it will
be quite as easy for Republicans in
the next senate to hold up the nomina
tions of President Wilson, and thus
embarrass the incoming administra
tion. Some Republican even go bo
far as to threaten to hold up the Wil
son cabinet nominations next March,
unless the Democrats agree to allow
the present senate to vote on Republi
can nominations now before tho sen
ate. And it is quite within the power
of any senator or group of senator to
hold up even the cabinet appointments.
EXPRESS TRAIN IS WRECRED
Southern Pacific Derailed By At
tempt Bobbers.
Oregon City, Or. An unsuccessful
attempt to derail and rob the ban
Francisco Express of the Southern 1'a-
cific was made here Saturday night as
the train was approaching Oregon
City.
A pile of ties was thrown across the
tracks st Sixteenth street and Rail
road avenue (the tracks), just within
a few roils of tho trestle across Aber
nethy creek. The train crashed into
the ties at a good speed, but only four
of the car were derailed, the train
traveling more than eight block and
across the trestle before stopping com
pletely or before the cause of the
trouble was learned.
Tho train carries ten cars, including
pne tourist sleeper, four standard Pul-
mans, baggage ami express cars ana
three coaches. Instead of jumping the
rails the engine scattered the ties,
some of which were carried in front
of the engine eight blocks. Several
were carried four and five blocks en
tirely across tho trestle.
The train was not damaged when
the four cars left the rails. They
were replaced in quick time. That a
disaster was narrowly averted is de
clared by the railway officials. That
the idea of the would be robbers was
to derail the train and send it into the
ditch 60 feet beneath the trestle the
railway authorities assert.
Serum Held at One Million.
Berlin That Dr. Friedmann wants
$1,000,000 for the American rights to
hia tuberculosis serum," is the state
ment made here. German physicians
strongly condemn what they call his
"non-ethical Bttitude." They go so
far as to say that he is more concerned
in the monetary than in the humani
tarian aspect of his discovery. Dr.
Friedmann ha so far failed to carry
out his promise of submitting a cult
ure to tho government. lie denies
that mercenary motives govern his
sction.
Students Sing Services.
Trenton, N. J. Eighteen Princeton
students were brought here Sunday in
the capacity of strikebreakers and
sang the morning and evening services
of St. Michael's Epicsopal church in
place of tho members of tho regular
choir, who had struck, because, they
declared, the rector was interfering
with them and their organist. The
organist also had walked out and a
substitute had to be engaged. The
strikers emulated their bretheren in
labor disputes by picketing on tho out
side of the church.
Liners Keep Company.
New York La Savoie, of the
French line, and the Campania, of the
Cunard line, arrived at about the same
hour Sunday, after voyages across the
Atlantic in which they were almost al
ways in sight of each other. Tho pas
sengers exchanged many wireless
greetings and a few bet with those
alxiard tho companion vessel as to
which would reach tho pier first. The
Camnania won by less than an
hour.
Turkey Gets $10,000,000 Advance.
f n,l..n Th finut ant inrttiU fnrria
IJWMDt'll HIV JVIO'llviie-J--v " " "
pomlent of tho Daily Telegraph learns
that a contract nas necn signeu, unucr
which the imoman gnvtrii.
obtain an advance or iim'."".
be reimbur .ol J
tlnople.
CAPTAIN PENDLETON
1 X f r
,: 1
Considered to B the Best All-Round
Athlets at Princeton.
TENNIS
Abolition of the rating of tennl
players In the United States la being
considered by the oRlcials of the Uni
ted States National Uwn Tennis as
sociation, which will bold Its annual
meeting. It Is declared the rating
committee finds the work too great a
tasks because players fail to co-operate
by sending In the data required
for the ratings.
Oeorge Standing, champion recquet
player of the world, retired from com
petition, according to announcement
at the Racquet and Tennis club, where
be is Instructor. With the exception
of Tom Petit of Boston. Standing Is
the oldest racquet and court tennis
player In the United States.
AQUATIC
The board of the Schuylkill Navy
has decided to make application to
the National Association of Amateur
Oarsmen for next year's national re
gatta, to be held on the Schuylkill
river.
Vale has again changed head crew
coaches In mldseason. Captain Snow-
den naming Averlll Harrlman, son of
tho late Edward Harrlman, to that po
sition, and announcing the resignation
of James Otis Rodger, who wa
named head coach this fall. Rodgers
was also selected for head coach lat
vear but gave way to the veteran
liob Cook after the Eli crew arrived
In their training quarter at New Lon
don. Harrlman ha been maae cniei
of the coaching staff because of his
Investigation of English methods and
styles of rowing during his visit to
that country last February, tie was
then freshman crew coach, hi eight
proving the only Yale crew that .de
feated Harvard on the Thame last
June.
HORSE RACING
In deciding that Anna Axme I a
three-year-old. and waa eligible to the
futurities which she won, the National
Trotting association board say that
a hore- age cannot bo told by the
teeth.
John R. Gentry, the famous pacer.
twice holder of the world record and
ire of sixty four turf winner, was
aken to Tennessee from New ora
on a special car o eyeim
of his life there.
The Abbe. 2:04. will be given a
great opportunity In hi new home In
Tennessee where no win oe niaieu
with the choicest of the Hal mares
That a great pacer will come from
ui tiiom is little doubt: also he Is
apt to get a lot of speed at the trot.
At W II. Phaclln's Horse Baiaar
Oriole Md.. 2 head of horses and
mule were sold at fair prices. In the
lot were Somerset rtoy (5). by Cooper
Ilanni. a half brother of Alice Me.
trial. 2:U4 pacing for $!S5. to Will
iam Darrack. of Whalleyvlle. Md.
MISCELLANEOUS
Th) University of Pennsylvania
rrlrket team may again Invade Eng
lnnd. Petrolt Athletic club Is to build a
now ten story club house costing
$750,000.
The French Automobile clnh has
decided to hold the Grand Prix race
In 1013 In the neighborhood of Am
iens. Canadian Amateur lacrosse associa
tion, formed the other day. 1s to be
the governing body of Canada n.v
tlonnl game.
James A. Sullivan, secretary treas
urer of the National Amateur Athlet
ic union, will be director of athletic
.ports at the carnival which will ie a
rcntnre of the opening of the Panama
Pnclllc exposition In 1915 at San Fran
clfco.
Princeton's hockey team Is plnnlns
Its faith this year on tho wonderful
all round ability of Ilobey Maker to
lend it to Btiolhcr championship de
spite the fact that four members of
last year' seven Iibvo been gradu
ated After several days' conference with
University of Minnesota athletlo au
thorltle. Coach K. C. Stlehm of the
t'nlverjltr of Nebraska rompleted ar
rangements for a basket ball came be
tween the
. two ni.r.... and al-l "JJ .a'ac,., "1 - "at .;U,r
will rr Jumrp lfnr-, (h.ir own anr for a m
i "J I if mtv witn fc.ioiw." , , ' tji mm mm
a track ni"
probably
a4 m
WORLD OWES DEBT TO WOMAN'
Fostering of Agriculture Ha Bs
From th Beginning of Tim In
Fmal Hand.
Agriculture today depend chiefly
upon the work of the primeval woman
We are Indebted to the nomad' wife
for the greatest of all economic serv
Ice. She tamed the young of the
more tamable animals, gave them tc
her savage husband, and made of bin:
the more civil herdsman who foi
age followed hi flock after the man
via gt Tafih Bnd f.t mnA Jnh. Thll
fertile wife of the nomad became t U J
wife of farmer, and she made a farmei
of her son by placing In hi hand th
precious seed of the grain, the pre I
ent bail of agriculture, the bread ol
man, and the concentrated food of al
our domestic animal.
Where did this ancient mother gel
these precious seeds? In many casei
wo do not know, and cannot ever
guess. She found some plant wltb
one or two rich seeds, planted them
and then generation after generation
her descendanta picked over their lit
tie grain patches, selecting seeds tc
be preciously preserved from tho har
vest festival to the next prin
planting festival, which we now call
Easter. By this process running or
through unknown generations of men
the plants became so changed by the
artificial application of Darwin's la
of selection that now no botanist darei
suggest what plant or planta were the
wild forebear of some of tho preenl
grain from which the world today ob
tain Its bread.
We are Indebted to this cave oi
tent dwelling woman. But shall we
accept ber work aa final? Can sclenci
do no better than follow along th
path she laid out? The fact that ag
rlcultural science Is today doing lit
tie more than this Is one of the pa
. . . . ... . I . . 1. . .m.lln.1. Al
meilC Illustrations oi iirn
our view. Prof. J. Russell Bmitn, it
Harper's Magazine.
IN HOUSES OF CORNSTALK
primitive Dwelling Place That Are
Occupied by th Poorest Class of
Egyptian Peasants.
On the outskirts of Alexandria wc
passed numerous groups of Bedouins,
camping by the side of the Mahmou
dleh canal. Out In the fields men and
women, dressed alike in the loose cot
ton gown of the country, were busily
at work. The fields were dotted with
curious doorless structure made of
cornstalks. They are used as tempa,
rary homes at certain seasons of the
year, as, for instance, when the cropt
are being gathered.
Later on I entered one, and found
It to be not more than five feet
square; one could not stand upright
Inside. The place contained nothing
but a few jars and cooking utensHs
In the winter the occupant wraf
themselves up in their clothes at
night, covering the head also, but
leaving the feet bare. The hut I saw
was occupied by a man and hi son.
These people, of course, aro the fel
laheenthe peasants the pure Egyp
tlan of the poorest class. Christian
Hereald.
13,000 Miles of Silver.
The greatest money count In the his
tory of the United States Is now on
Every piece of money In the country"!
billion bulging treasury must be han
died and each security fingered. A
corps of men the most expert money
counters In the world will work at
the task day and night, but It will
take them sixty days to finish It
There are 156.708,960 silver dollari
alone In this vast sum. Much of the
coin counting Is done by weighing, but
there is sn Ingenious machine which
digests silver dollars, quarter and
halves and counts them aa fast as
man can turn the handle. If the sil
ver dollars were stacked one on top
of another, they would tower 83f
miles high. If they could be laid Ic
a continuous line, each touching the
other, the silver horde would stretch
out for a distance of 13,000 mile.
Robert D. Heinl In Leslie .
Egyptian Justice.
In ancient Egypt all court buslnesi
was carried on In writing. In ordei
that the decision might not be in
fluenced by oratory or personal ap
peal. The laws lay before the Judget
upon a table, and the accuser declared
in writing how he had been Injured
whereupon the defendant stated lr
writing what he had to eay. Then
came a rejoinder from each party tc
the case, after which the judges de
liberated among themselves until the)
had hit upon the proper legal penalt)
for the party who had In the mean
time been adjudged guilty. This point
being reached the president of the
Judges touched with an Image ol
Thmel, the "Goddess of Truth," the
manuscript of the guilty pleader and
the case was over.
His Support Poor.
A Mississippi Democrat made sev
eral efforts to get a congressiona'
nomination. He was soundly beater
every time, and at last announced that
he was going over to the llepubllcar
party. Hundreds of negroes were lr
the district and among them the new
leader did most of his work of organ!
zntlon. He built up clubs and heli'
meetings mid when another elect ur
period came had himself nominated
The neKi"0'' paraded diligently nnd
the campaign had all the outward ap
pcarance of being full of hustle, but
when the ballot boxes were openi'd
there were but two votes for the lor
mer Democrat, and on top of tha' In
was nrrested for repeating. Chic-age
Evening Post.
American Character In 1793.
The. nrrcft of Mldad MltcheP, i
young American nnd protege of Ua-iui
von Steuben, by the Spanish com
nmiul uit of New M.ulriJ, Mo., In 'JS
on the charge of espionage, gave Don
Manuel tlayoso de Lemos, lieutenant
governor of I'pper Louisiana, an op
portunlty to express his opinions ol
Americans. Writing to Paron tie Car
ondelet. lord governor at New Orleans,
ho said: "In general that (Inconslst
ency) Is the character of the majority
or Anlo-Amerlean. re anomwr i.
in M Jfll
SAYS MONEY NO GUARANTEE OF WORTH
J. Ogaen Armour or Chicago, who
I himself worth numerous millions,
does not think much of money. That
Is, money In bis philosophy 1 a guar
anty neither of worth nor character
and I by no mean that touchstone of
happiness which It Is generally sup
posed to be, particularly by those
without It. Also, he observed that
the poor man has a much chance o
be happy as the rich man.
Incidentally, Mr. Armour said that
he waa nothing more than a working
man, and a hard working man at that
Mr. Armour said: "Maybe you
don't think I work! Why. every man
must work If he Is worth a million.
If b Is worth a hundred millions or
If he Is dependent on his weekly sal
ary. We ought all to take our places
In th great organization and work
of the world.
"You know money doesn't mean
everything. In fact, very little In
some case, for the full value of It la
not gained. Take the sons of some rich men; their money 1 squandered la
drinking and otherwise.
"I am the son of a working man. I was brought up to work. My father
tramped from the Atlantic to tho Dutch Flat In California. With a pick and
a shovel he worked as a miner and wa glad to work. He bad to work to
live.
"8ometlme a poor man I far and away better off than a rich man.
I watch my men. I know the live of many of them. That doesn't mean only
the men who are close about me, but the men In my plant Some wltb only
a moderate salary are far happier than men to whom the worth of a bank
mean no more than a box of cigar In value to the ordinary person. Be
cause a man has money, that doe not make him any better. Perhaps It
would be better If all men were equal in wealth; still if that Utopian condi
tion were brought about, there would be tome In the world that wou'd corral
the dollars of the other and we would coma back to the condition of the
present day.
"But, let me tell you something rifcht here. I have no rich men working
for me; I don't want them. When a man take a position and Is rich enough
not to be dependent on the salary which comes from that position be ha
reached a stage when ha I not worth a continental."
BOARD THAT ORIGINATES AND DIRECTS
slogan la compiling It Tha board surplants half a dozen committees of the
assembly, not only In regard to flnancea. but in the field of new legislation,
reforms and progressive laws that mean something to the people all tho
people of the great badger state
This unique governmental force was created by the legislature of 1911.
Instead of providing for several separate committee to Investigate and re
port on a variety of highly interesting matter, the legislature enumerated
nnHin nrohlem. in on hill and aDDointed one committee to consider all.
The seven able men who do this
assigned by a staff of economists, educators, sccouniams ana iuaem.
Summarized, the board' chief duties are:
1. It Is a governor's council with the governor as chairman. It advle
him on tate affair and discusses with him all changes In state administra
tive matters.
2 It is a hold-over legislative committee that tudle all the great
problem affecting the peoples welfare, social and economic, and reports
something concrete on them to th legislature.
S. It Is a bureau of economy and efficiency in tate administration, mak
ing up the budget and cutting down expense wherever possible.
HELEN GOULD'S FIANCE IN RAIL WORK
Flnley J. Shepard met Mis Gould
-... antoriniF the oDeratlng de-
partment of the Miasourl Pacific-Iron
Mountain lines, in June. "
.f,mnnnled Mis Gould and her
party last March over the Denver A
Rio Grande line wnen sue mu
tour of Inspection of th railroad
Y. M. C. A. buildings. A clos friend
ship sprang up from that trip.
Mr. Shepard I forty-five year old
and the son of a Connecticut mini-
ter who died recently. He baa been
n railroad work since 1S89. Befor
entering the ervlce of the Gould
line he wa with the Northern Pa
cific and the Santa Fe.
When H. F. Rush, president of th
Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain line,
was also chosen president of the Den
ver ft Rio Grande In January. 1912.
Mr. Shepard was selected a his as
sistant, and recently his appointment
as assistant to President Bush on the
Missouri mtliiv-uwu uuinm, wiiu
(urlsdlction over all departments of two big railroads, wa announced.
. i o . i - .w. At- ch.n.H hat heen
cmce going io di. miuii viguieeu iuuuius bv
active ocially. and I known a a lover of books, a musician, and an all-
round athlete.
"I first it Mis Gould on our trip tf Inspection in the outnwesi. saiu
Mr. Shepard the other day "Cp to them I had no more Idea than you hav
what she was like. Before then I had ad.nired her In an Impersonal way for
the wonderful humanity and beauty of her nature. I then was charmed
by her remarkable personality.
"The announcement of our engagement Is about the pleasantest news
I've heard, and her acceptance of my offer has flattered me highly. The ar
rangements and plans for the future have been up to Miss Gould and her
relatives in the east I am thoroughly delighted now that our engagement
. . a
OSS Deeu annoum-eu.
"The date for the marriage will
say, however, that tho marriage will
Flourishing Frog Farm.
Mis Isa Morgan, a Maryland girl,
conduct what 1 probably the most
nulqu enterprise In this country a
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In Wisconsin history I being made
In respect to state government With
a board headed by Governor McGov
ern and Including strong member of
the senate and house of representa
tives of the general assembly also
the secretary of state the finances
of the commonwealth are kept under
close surveillance and, as an all-lm--
portant departure, progressive eco
nomic and social reforms are investi
gated and here and there put Into
practice. The state board of public
affair I the name given to thi body
of such (weeping and variegated
power. It ha seven member.
The board I a combination of the
legislative and executive. Legislative
ly It Investigates the financial needs
of the state departments before the
legislature itself convenes; th board
make up a budget of departmental
expenses and submits this to the gen
eral assembly. This budget I based
on actual needs. Economy Is the
work serve without extrs pay and ars
b arranged by thoso In the east
b soon "
Tea In Universal Us.
Today tea Is used the world around.
It la tha natural drink of Russia, ex
tending all over th Russian empire
and Into Siberia, It I tha favorite
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