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fa Wife and Six -Children
Are Proving
SH JN a man be thankful, this : Thanks.
giving, just after he has been defeated
for the distinguished office of Gover
nor of a sate of , the Union? .
He can, and he is. , ' '
Whatever other defeated candidates of
the fall elections may think of their luck, and
however small their appetites may be for, the
Whanksrhinz turkey and pie, there is one
man in Massachusetts who will sit down at the
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behind him of defeat at the polls, and with an
appetite for the meal before him as hearty as
uiy he has brought to dinner his whole life
long.-'
He is James H, Vahey, who received the
Democratic nomination for Governor on the
platform .of six good-looking children, and
practically nothing else in the way of political
assets, unless. his handsome wife be counted in
at the high valuation her husband holds her.
The figures of the election show that the
half dozen children have counted for 51,000
votes, or at the rate of 8 500 votes per child.
In fact, if Mr. Vahey had only had txvo :
more children if he'd had only one and a
half more children he would have been
elected. " ' . : . ''l -V"'
The case is the most remarkable one in
ttie history of American politics and will rank
as something altogether exceptional, both on
election and Thanksgiving Days.
THESB statements, so boldly and amailngly made,
have all the earmarks of exaggeration and sta
tistic twisting. The facts of the Massachusetts
campaign bear them out as being simple veri
ties. '. - ' '', . -
. In theBrst place, Mr. Vahey, with his family of six
plm the handsome wife strictly relegated to the .
privacy of the home, was last year so emphatically
beaten by Eben F. Draper that bis political aspira
tions looked as though a couple of steam rollers had
been prancing over them. He was a Democrat, and
earnest old Massachusetts came piling down on his
ruiiernatorUi candidacy with fO.000 majority for
Irper. who was renominated this j Ar, after serving
irm whlrh left his popularity where H was when tie
rf n 1M Vet st the fall elections Mr. Vahey. renewing
candidacy with only his beloved half dosen chil-
J.it to his platform, reduced that Ort over-
hrlmlnir majority to a scant t0(. thus transforming
Mt butet t politit- into toe simple equations:
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..iy rating for ckildren knows In tne
it mi in r fr; er; as4 Governor Prapor d4
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tn I a d and done, tfce rhild and family
. -,r on I'm drew avay Uiooo 1 1 votes
: -i t l.ia Rff jtiitas mnritr. It was this way:
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hit claim to the nomination. "I have medlatefl be
t ween capital and labor and have brought together
contending- factions. I have been the head of 180,000,
000 Invested capital. I can win 20,000 Independent Re
publican votes." ...
"1," rejoined Mr. Valley, "am a married man, with
iz children : He is a bachelor. What?"
, ' Whereupon the convention nominated him with loud
cheers and a heart and a half,
Now; if Mr. Vahey had conducted his subsequent
campaign pn the usual political lines - It might have
been contended . that he came so near his election
through other arguments. But he went right Into the
fight on the basis of the relations which, he asserted,
exist between, a working man's 'family and hi earn
ings. That Is the way he put It
"It Is the lduty of every man to get married, and,
after marriage, to give his best effort and the best
part of his time to his family.: Marriage ennpbles man
and lifts him to a higher plane. Nature certainly in
tended every man to mate, and the man who does not
misses the Inspiration such as only a true wife and
helpmate can give. , - .
"I .certainly believe for the most part In our illus-
. r,ou- "-President's view, on race suicide, and i
imvo aune my pari ra living VP 10 mem, as you can
see for yourself. I have a family which Is dearer to me
than anything else on earth, and any success that may
have come to me I can truthfully say t owe to my wife
and family. Without them life would be a dreary
desect and scarcely worth living.
"I believe every young man's first duty, is to con
sider his future wife and. on attaining anything like,
a reasonable salary, to take ufito himself a' .Helpmate.'
T view with great regret the seeming tendency In these ;
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N PARIS they havo a novel way of providing
skeletons for the market. , t ;
. According to the French system of burial,
you don't buy a cemetery lot outright. You
, simply hire a grave for a certain term of years.
A recent legal inquiry into the disposition of
corpses the leases on whose graves had expired
led to a most startling disclosure. ' -
It was found that these corpses "were being
turned over to a skeleton factory, where bones
were cleaned by boiling,, reassembled and sold at
groat profit. - " :
- Oscar Wilde's rent ran out several weeks ago"
and the bony form of the celebrated bard himself
might have . been disinterred to grace- a platform
in some medical lecture room had not a kind friend
come forward with the. money necessary to hsve
the lease renewed.
' . It seems strange that no one ever took , the
trouble before to find out what became of the
dead tenants. J It is equally surprising thac such
an industry could have flourished in tb very heart
of the French capital without an inkling of it
reaching the ears of the authorities.
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f-pTIERE are about six different slassos of burials
I In Paris, varying In magnlflceace aad display
. I according to the slae of lie fertane possessed
by tbe decedent. The popular term of rental
evea years. alLhoogn buriaJs or toe nrst. aeeaa
aad third cleaves are uaualir for a lonrrr Mrlod.
If the loaae be net ronoirod at Its expiration, tbe
body of the occupant is spdily removed to make .
i? for that of oome new tenant.
The Inveatla-atloa brought to light the fart that
many of tbe bodies thus turned out were flndms tbctr
way to a akelvton factory ior-at4 la the Hue Albort.'
Tbe factory is a larso woodrn shed inrieing a
bur Van It, ahove whk-h a tall brick chimnoy r
to the roof. As imd as th Kodtos arriro the m
pie, throe la nmbr, carry them a fot Iadsr
to tho top of a steaming r-attidron and drop hm in
to atw awhilo. Ahout (AS pounds of human tKtnoa
are troated th it daJir. and tho rot is krt
immorirr all the ts. It la !! that too tnoxk '
i'trg spoils tho klent. oo they are takoa rot
of the caulSroa just as oon as -tee benefl av fee
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V times on the part of young men to defer, sometime '
.forever, the marriage state, although I must admit that
' the trusts and the tariff are a good deal, If not wholly,
to blame for It. - . -
, , - "As the saying is in Massachusetts, 'Everything has
gone up but salaries,'; and I can scarcely : blame the
, young man and the young woman of today for' hesi
tating to take upon themselves marital responsibilities.
. The statistics furnished by the Republican party itself
shows that, thanks to the trusts and the tariff, the'eost
of living has advanced in the last few years 100 per
cent., and In some cases and some sections much more.
"In Massachusetts, according to Republican figures,
It has advanced 8 per cent since last August, making
the cost of even a mere existence for one almost pro-
. hlbltive, and marriage absolutely out of the question.
WANTS YOUTHS TO MARRY
"While other questions undoubtedly enter into the
causes of, the admitted decrease In marriages, minis
ters, sociologists, settlement workers, statisticians and
t investigators of all kinds who have studied the subject
are practically agreed upon the fact that today a dol
lar will scarcely go as far as 50 cents ten years ago,
and that this is by far the most important factor in
keeping our young men and women single. -
"That the blame is upon the Republican party, and
the 'Interests' It so solicitously cares for, there Is no
doubt; and yet this' is the party that a few years ago
became' so virtuously indignant when the 16-to-l craze
proposed to debase the dollar to one-half its vslue.
"They have done the same thing themselves, only
in another way: and so I say, aside from the moral and
social aspects of the case, if,you want to see our young .
people enter upon the marrlag state, the only- sane -
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boon sticking- lo thorn.
Ator being thoroughly cleaned the bonos are taken '
to aaotbr ostabliehmoat to andrrgo the finishing
jroco. They are ivon a good tooking In a prr -ing
fluid and rrartlculated br moans of fine wire. , .
Tho akolotona turaod oat by thooo Iss-tntoao Paris
line are aald to aurpaa all othora la oualtty. Thr
aro in sroat demand for voe In anatomcal tntioeuTns
aad medical othoola la ail parts of the world, es
pecially America.
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aTlro cu'd lt In Parts, for tho ridt of that
ilr aro noted for tho rTrt thoy yay to the e.
?ot a fatal f- eloa the trot bnt all i -trlara
remnro their hata ad atand almoot tks ai
diea at aitr,il'"a ant'.i tho erte m no hf.
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.And natural way to live, the thing upon .which our na
tional salvation and the foundation of - our nation
rests, the Republican party and all that it stands for,
the fraudulent tariff, Jhe trusts, the 'interests,' the
'plunderbund' must be defeated and the cost'of living
reduced to a normal scale."
Thus were those half dozen children of the. happy
Vahey home, capitalized . into votes, by connecting
their hungry mouths with the working man's wages.
It war. as cultured Boston remarked, wjth more than
-academle-aprobatlottr th,e rgttmentum-ad hominent,-
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celebrities Interred there, it Is almost a second West
minster Abbey, aad Is rialted by great numbers of
tourists from ail sections of the world.
Among the famous men and women who root In
this cemetery era Labarpe, tteaumarehala. Mollero.
la:entalne. H1no. tr.embers of tbe Koltscblld fa mil 7
and the rrtnoeva of ue.
Tho sronnd tttelf was a gift of Loots XIV to his
corfeoanr. Father Loch alee, who converted It Into a
burial around, for whica it baa over since bean used.
Two of the meat tir.preaitvo atehta of the place are
tbe great monument of the dead, whxh Is on tho nilB
ren ae. and the tomb to the memory of Abelatd and
Hei-le
Really, every oe la Parla as boon taken by ear
f.'l by tho aorouKdlxff revolatloaa. The Ilea that a
tao almoet oatrod ahijH bo converted to tnooov
rrakfna -f 'e iroot r x a"- ,o ort bovor M""i o
bo efiteros any ore heal ontil the earsal was
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meaning art argument of that brand which ships your
opponent home on a shutter.
,iret, t even fter the -enormous reduction of the
Republican , majority, ther were those among the
political witeacrer of. Massachusetts who sought , to
find all sorts of explanations other than the Vahey
brood. They hastened to, go, into the returns with
their microscopes, analysing here and disputing there,
in the effort to discover the remote reasons fop.the
change. "
The more1 they analyzed and disputed the mora
obvious became the importance of Mr. Vahey's human
irgumriiu. uovirnur vivr vui vui vi.tna wiwin
which are - the Republican strongholds, with 27,000
plurality, while Mr.. Vahey carried BofctOn by soma
19,000. In the outside cities, many of them pronounc
edly .Identified with manufacture, there was a general
rally to the Vahey standard, ' some of them making
a complete overturn of thelit normal majorities. .
Fall River and New Bedford,, which Governor
Draper carried last year by small majorities, Vahey.
captured" this fall by a corresponding excess.
CVhen the vote 1n various districts was classified,
on" a percentage basis, it was seen that, in localities
like Fall River and New Bedford,' Draper lost about.
22 per cent, and Vahey gained about IS per cent..;
In the towns. Draper went back about IT per cent from
his record of last year, while Vahey advanced soma
S per cent. ' Draper lost XO per cent. In Boston ahd .
Vahey gained about 4 per cent ." - ,
There may be other defeated candidates, who,
fmdlng their progeny fall In carrying them across
a crevasse 60.000 ballots wide, would be inclined to.
Imitate that crusty old woman who lived In a shod,
and, taking the whole half dozen across the parental,
knee, give em a good spanking -end send , 'em to
bed. But Papa Vahey Isn't that kind of a loser.
- - "Another helping of the white meat, chlldrenr
- That will be his way of handling thero. seat
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And, since Massachusetts elects a Governor an
nually, and only a couple more youngsters would bd
needed to win him a substantial majority, and lie
"certainly believes In Our illustrious ex-President's
views on race suicide" well, who knows?
Reptiles.as Pets
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OW strange are many of our prejudices! To II-
lustrate this in common affairs, what boy Is
there who shrinks from picking up a frogT
Moreover, what young fisherman hesitates to dig
worms for bait, or handle them? Tet these same
yeane-sfere wUI shrink with loathing from a. mall
snake. Tbe 11 ret impulse Is to kill the reptile as a
horrid thing. But the little, browa or green onoke of
our country roads Is cleaner and nicer to handle than
a frog or an ang.eworm. lie a .ually harmleea alta.
and if gantlv treated will make an amuting playthinc
This prejudice Is tho resuit ,of custom and educa
tion. In some rations such reptiles are not drea le.L
I.lxar-ds and snakes ore toleratei a well a butier
f lea. and are evan vsed as f eta. If job catch a butter
fly and give Mm a taato of a bit of moitered sugar
on your band yoa may releaeo blm. Ht will-not fly
awav, but will remain perched on your fUger and
rortlnoo to feed. Toads may bo tamed to take files cr
wiillere frnm for hand, and n rnar the little 'r
Iiars whlrfc abound In oome portion Cf lho -onntrv.
K!ndnes vrlil work wonder wi!b msrv cf n'
ferlor creatures which wo bate or deepiso. Tt the
ereiuice arainet them la bard te root est. Oftea It
nets ahconec iou'.y.
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