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th« colt- .. t r to th« scarcity of farm
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labor, ami L« sees no reason to Chang's
that view. Thousands of fertile acres,
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he says, are lying idle in the Ur West
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because their owners cannot get
If you must criticise your boss, do "hands” at any rate of pay. Amerl-
can boys drift to the cities, while
ft Inwardly
Immigrants, even If from purely agri
Time will tell—unless the gossips cultural districts, are either unable
beat it under the wire.
or unwilling to do farm and field
work, while many of those who try
Too many men try to build a sky It prove to be Incompetent owing to
scraper on a one-story foundation.
the different methods and the Im
proved machinery employed here.
A good story is better than solid Those who regard this theory as In
facta—from a literary point of view.
adequate and who think that monop
oly is not without considerable respon
"Get married,” »ays Senator De sibility for the high prices of food
pew But he doesn't say how often. stuffs must admit that the scarcity of
agricultural labor Is a fact, and as
An astronomer can advance almost such it at least partially accounts for
any theory and the average man has the phenomenon in question. Hence it
nothing to say.
Is highly desirable to continue and ex
tend the work of the federal Informa
When will automobilists learn that tion division of the bureau of immi
a reckless joy ride generally means gration, which has sought to promote
death to some one?
the better distribution of immigration
and has taken particular pains to di
Dr. Eliot’s list of best books con rect the aliens to the western states
tains none of the kind one would care or localities where the shortage of la
to read in a hammock.
bor is greatest. There has been oppo
sition to the activities of this divi
Five fat years are coming, says J. sion, and only the other day Secretary
Ogden Armour, Let ’em come, with Nagel "turned down” a recommenda
nobody yelling for anti fat
tion for Its abolition. There is plenty
of room for co-operation between the
What would be the outcome if the federal agency and state bureaus of
Black Hand operators could be col- labor and Immigration. Secretary Wil
onlzed In Breathitt County, Ky.?
son’s explanation also emphasizes the
need of scientific and practical teach
Unfortunately the crop of peach bas- ing of agriculture in state colleges
ket hats has not been in the least and special schools. A good deal has
■polled by the frosts of criticism.
been written on the subject of late,
and ft certainly deserves all the at
A man In New York ate ten pounds tention ft receives. The drift city
of beefsteak at a sitting. He omitted ward can be checked by making agri
potatoes, as the price w-as too high.
culture profitable and attractive- as a
career. The liberal professions, w?
There are women In the country are constantly told, are overcrowded,
who could maintain a husband and and the average earnings In them too
get along nicely on an income of $36,- small to compensate for the time and
000 a year.
labor spent In preparation and wait
ing. Agriculture is very far from he-
Fools In glad rags are often per Ing overcrowded, and the
posslbllf-
mitted to rush in where unlaundered ties of intensive cultivation, of econ-
hobos would be knocked down and omy and Improvement, are Infinite
dragged out.
In this country.
Beware of the people who pat you
REVIVAL OF STENCILING.
on the back. They may be looking
for an opportunity to kick your feet
Adaptation of Straw Matting to Thia
from under you.
Style of Decoration.
The courts often seem more or less
cruel. Mrs. Howard Gould will have
to struggle along on $36,000 a year un
til further notice.
It is suspected that a heathen that
■ticks to his idols is more to be
trusted than a Chinaman that Is con-
verted with an eye to worldly things.
The weather has again upset some
of Walter Wellman's plans for reach
ing the North Pole. The weather has
always been a great bother to Arc
tic explorers.
No two papers 6eem to agree on the
price of radium. One has it quoted at
19,000,000 a pound and another at
|5,000 an ounce. The market is very
bewildering to the poor consumer.
Highwaymen in Brooklyn who
robbed a drunken man of 65 cents
got a sentence of seven years. No
wonder, with all the modern improve
ments In opportunities, that justice is
disgusted when the majesty of the law
Is defiled for less than a dollar.
A western university professor p re-
diets that the population of the
United States will soon overtake the
food supply. This fits in nicely with
the theory of the other professor who
says cannibalism is the proper thing.
Food can be supplied and the popu
lation kept down by the simple mode
advocated, which will thus kill two
birds with one stone. It is not often
that the learned experts so neatly
dovetail their theories.
A resident of New York, who died
the other day, founded in 1854 the
Holy Name Society of the Roman
Catholic Church, having for Its object
the discouragement of profanity. Its
membership of more than a million
Indicates a general desire among the
young men of that church to be clean
of speech. It also Illustrates the fact
that to call attention to the wicked
ness and foolishness of profanity Is
to take a decisive step toward lessen
ing ft.
Prof. Osler is to be congratu-
lated on having reached his sixtieth
birthday, not only hale and useful, but
unconcerned over the weird windings
of the Osler legend, from which there
Is for him no escape wherever he may
go. Many a good man who has said
a less sensible thing than Professor
Osler said, and who has had it dis
torted in less maddening ways, has
gone to pieces under the strain. Wild
ly trying to convince the world that
tie never said what he was alleged to
have aald, and tilting ever at the
windmills of a nation’s jesting, he has
soured or weakened In the end. Not
•o with Osler. For him there has not
even been an effort at denial; he has
laughed with the laughers. When the
talk Is about chloroform at 60 he
has appreciated the joke as much as
anybody. If anybody wants to believe
that this is the Osler advice to the
world the professor Is willing Such
being the case, this particular six-
tleth birthday at any event may safely
be said to have been passed In seren
ity and ease The example Is a good
one to many a serious young man who
■hows less elasticity at 30 or 40 than
Osler does at 60.
Secretary Wilson returned from a
geceut western trip with the couvlc-
Never has Japanese matting been in
such popular favor for decorating and
house furnishing articles as during
the present season, the Boston Post
says.
Now that stenciling'is the favorite
fad In decorating, many and beautiful
are the various decorative schemes to
which the matting lends Itself to sten
ciling. Matting rugs decorated with
a stenciled border are very attractive
and useful for the porch or summer
cottage. Plain white matting is used
for the stencil decorating and the rug
ends are finished by raveling out the
matting to a depth of four or five
inches and knotting the strands In
bunches of six or eight, close to the
last strand of matting, thus forming
a pretty fringe. A conventional bor-
der for the rugs is the proper style of
decoration.
Porch floor cushions are equally at
tractive made from matting and bound
together with rafia and decorated with
a stencil design.
Screens filled with stenciled matting
always look cool and inviting. Lamp
and candle shades of stenciled matting
bound with rafia are also very popu-
lar for summer use.
Utility boxes, chair seats and tables
covered with matting are also recelv-
ing their share of stencil adornment.
A screen of green mission filled with
white matting, decorated with flights
of brilliant-hued butterflies and "darn
ing needles"—the wasp-like insect
which our parents often threatened us
would sew up our childish lips for
acts of naughtiness—was recently the
storm center of admiration in an ex
hibit of arts and crafts.
The work Is fascinating, the effect
charming and the cost next to noth
ing.
Enough said.
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Service.
One of the greatest nuisances of
traveling Is tipping. A smile from a
head waiter is a costly commodity,
and no menial service is too small for
remuneration. An unusually ingen
ious plea for a tip Is that of a small
Hibernian, mentioned by Mr. John
Augustus O’Shea in "Roundabout Rec
ollections." The author was traveling
In Ireland.
1 drove down to the station on the
faint chance of catching the train to
Dublin. When I got out of the cab
at the station a bright faced boy ac-
costed me.
“Ah, sure, sir. you’ve just missed
the train,” he said.
It was true. I booked my luggage
and ascertained when the next train
would leave. While I was waiting, the
lad came up to me and asked me for
a tip.
"What for?” I asked.
"Sure, sir, I told you that you were
too late," he unblushingly responded.
< npe Cod’« Grim Toll.
On the shores of Cape Cod there
were, during a period of twenty years
following 1881, as many as a thousand
wrecks of vessels carrying precious
cargoes of human beings and of
freight.
Peace
Preserved.
"It's hardly worth while to buy a
lawn mower for just twenty-five feet.
I-et's get one together.”
"No, thanks. Mr. Naybore. I value
your friendship too much.”—Kansas
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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
THE BLACK HAND.
MORE systematic method In crime, a
broader organization, have been revealed
In the Black Hand than police authorities
have ever before been ready to believe.
The type of criminal who employs the
Black Hand ways, in spite of the terror
he Is enabled to create, Is of a low order.
Hfs Intelligence Is often seemingly more bestial than
human. The discipline of a large band of workers, the
secrecy necessary, and, above all, the division of spoils
—these call for an understanding and a singleness of
purpose that the ordinary Sicilian and Calabrian rogue
does not possess.
Because of the recent revelations the alarming sug
gestion has been made that native American criminals,
confidence men and cracksmen of superior wit and re
sourcefulness have entered the field. This would ac
count for the organization discovered. It would explain
the apparent subservience to a leading Intelligence and
It would satisfy questions the police ask as to the ex
istence of a central fund and a working arrangement
common to several sections of the country. The Ameri
can criminals would naturally hide themselves under
aliases of Italian names, and, too, they would have all
arrangements so that the foreigners and not themselves
should suffer In case of discovery.
The Black Hand Is probably no worse than other
forms of blackmail except In so far that it causes a
greater fear among Its victims and a more general un
easiness among the police. The methods used in the at
tempt to break it up have proved of little avail. A
penalty ai severe as that for kidnaping might tend to
cru.h 1L It is worth trying.—Toledo Blade.
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MRS. THAW’S BOOK.
RS. THAW, the mother of Harry Thaw,
has written and published a book in
which she makes a bitter attack upon
those whose duty it is to administer jus
tice in the courts of Now York. Sho
makes District Attorney Jerome an es
pecial <arget, declaring that he has gone
outside of his jurisdiction several times to persecute
her son. The public will hardly be led to take any
different view of the Thaw case by the publication of
this book than it already entertains. It will, however,
be disposed toward charity and excuse the foolish ful-
mlnatlon upon the ground that it is the case of a
mother fighting for her son.
Money was the greatest curse which ever fell upon
the Thaw family. If the mother had taken a different
course when her son was young; if 6he had limited
the amouunt of his spending money, and if she had
insisted that he be put to work when not in school,
the later years of her life might not have been clouded
with this great sorrow. Because the Thaw family was
rolling In wealth, It was considered ridiculous that
Harry should be other than a gentleman of leisure.
There was never a more tragic illustration of sowing
the wind and reaping the whirlwind. To-day he Is a
Chester bustled in with an air of
great Importance. Taking off his hat
he reached up and hung it on its hook
Instead of giving it the careless twirl
by means of which it customarily at
tained that position.
"Say, Dave," he began, "there’s a
new kid cornin' to-day and we bet
ter----- ■”
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"Well, don't I know it?” Interrupted
David. "Think
secret?”
"Aw, g’wan!” exclaimed Chester,
"You never knew a tiling about it till
I just told you.”
"I did, too," retorted David. He add
ed. chuckling: “You kin learn a lot If
you git down early enough.”
"Well, anyhow,” pursued Chester,
“it's a good thing for the boss that
he made up his mind to get in anoth
er helper. I tell you I wasn't goln’
to stand for it much longer. It’s a
fright, the way we had to work and
me havin’ so much responsibility an'
all. Just between me and you I was
figurin’ on lookin' for another------ "
Chester's voice died away as the
office manager appeared with a red-
haired boy in tow.
"Good morning, boys,” said the
manager. "I’ve brought you an as
slstant. This is------ ” He turned ili-
qulriugly to the red-haired boy.
"John Fitzgerald, sir,” supplied the
youth, promptly.
"Well, John, hang up your hat and
the boys will tell you about the
work.” The manager walked away.
"Well, John,” began Cheater, taking
possession of the floor with an Imi
tation of the manager's manner, "I
might as well begin to put you wise
to the job. There's a lot to learn lu
this department. We have to copy
all the letters and index the letter
books and sort out the mail, and an
swer the switchboard and run the
buzzer calls and chase out on er-
rands, I gen'lly run the switchboard
myself becuz Mr. Selden's awful par-
ticular ’bout the phone calls, and I
guess David better do most of the
lndexln' and copy in' for awhile and
you kin run the errands and answer
buzzers at £
get kinder
used to the work.”
A whirring of the switchboard
drew Chester's attention aside for a
moment. The new kid thereupon
winked an Impudent green eye at
David, who responded by half-closing
a round blue orb.
’’Well," resumed Chester, turning
again to the new kid, "let me «ee—-
Tbejr're awful particular
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murderer and deserve« life imprisonment, if no greater
punishment. Hs has escaped prison on the flimsy plea
of mental unsoundness. He ought to be thankful, as
had the members of his family, that he has made so
good an escape from the electric chair. However, the
family is turning heaven and earth in an effort to
have him proven sane. It is hardly conceivable that
the courts of New York will permit so great a travesty
in the name of justice. Meanwhile Mrs. Thaw's book
will take its place among the curiosities of American
literature.—Des Moines Capital.
HARD TIMES AND MATRIMONY,
HERE is probably not more than a frao-
tlon of 1 per cent of truth in that un-
pleai-ant old proverb, “When poverty comes
In at the door love flies out of the win-
d< w,” but it is not to be denied that when
poverty is the first to take possession, poor
love has to sit on the doorstep and waft.
All through the year 1908 the little god has been shiver
ing outside many homes where he had every expectation
of spending a cozy and perfectly delightful twelve
month. And during the year of hard times marriages
fell off 20 per cent.
In Manhattan Borough alone nearly 20,000 persons
are going about In single blessedness—or otherwise, as
they take It—who ought, from the statistician's point
of view, to have been married last year.
The statistician takes a cold-blooded view of ft, mere
ly marking it dewn as an Interesting fact to be "footed
up” with other interesting facts. He hasn't a word to
say about love’s young dream, and hope deferred, and
all the furtive tears for which those 10,000 non existent
marriages are responsible. You can’t make averages
of such things as a young man's disappointment and a
nice girl's heartache.
The results of hard times are always, first of all.
fewer diamonds Imported and fewer marriages record
ed. Jewels and matrimony go hand In hand, as indica
tions of a rising or falling In the barometer of pros
perity.—New York Times.
WHY CORRUPT THE CLOCKS?
LL the advantages derived from the Cin
cinnati "daylight” ordinance, and similar
measures proposed elsewhere, could be ob
tallied without making liars oi the town
clock and all other public and private
timepieces.
The principal advantage
sought 1« an increase in the number of
daylight hours available for recreation.
In the summer time, when the evenings are long, It
Is proposed to "knock off” an hour earlier than Is now
the custom, and so that this should not disorganize in
dustry by reducing the number of working hours In
shops and factories it would be necessary to begin work
earlier in the morning. But why should the clocks be
set an hour ahead? Cannot workingmen be made to
acquire the habit of early rising (an excellently good
habit In the hot season) without making prevaricators
of our clocks?—Philadelphia Record.
about bein’ respectful to the heads
of department« ’round here, too, so
when you speak to me you’d better
just call me ‘sir.’”
Chester paused reflectively,
The
new kid, leaning against a table,
crossed his knees, thrust his hands
Into his pockets and regarded Chester
between partly shut eyelids.
"Aw, fade away, kid," he remarked,
languidly. “Don't you try to work
any of your answer-the-buzzer-tlll-you-
get-on-to-the-Job games on me. I in
dexed more books and copied more
letters than you ever seen in your
life, and I kin run any old kind of a
switchboard that ever was put in."
lie drew one hand from his pocket
and leveled a forefinger at Chester.
"And, look here,” he said, "you better
not come round me with any of your
fresh talk 'bout me callin' you ‘sir,’
unless you want to get pasted one in
the lamp. I ain’t lookin' fer no scrap,
but if they's goln' to be one it ain't
me they'll be carryin' out feet first
when it's all over. See!"
He straightened up in a leisurely
manner, strolled over to the awltch-
board where Chester sat and gazed
calmly down upon the enraged but
speechless youth.
"Now,” he observed, "if you're
through throwin’ bokays at yerself,
an' one o' you kids'll put me wise to
where you keep things In this little
old joint and who belongs to the buz
zers, I'll get to work."—Chicago Dally
News.
TERRAPIN AND FROG FARM.
Scheme to ltnl»e DeHcacle» on Lon«
Iftlnnd for New York Market.
There is an Industry out on Long
Island which is yet in the very earliest
stages of infancy and about which its
sponsors are exceedingly reticent. It
is the rearing and marketing of terra
pin and frogs, strictly according to
the rules and regulations laid down by
the Secretary of Agriculture.
So far the names of only three men
Interested in the prospective terrapin
and frog farm have reached the public,
l ut there Is reason to believe that a
number of others are considering the
whys and wherefores of lending some
thing more material than merely their
moral backing.
Cuthbert M. Leverldge, of Boston,
who Is reputed to be an expert In mat
ters appertaining to the domesticating
and nurturing of terrapin in the
South, has succeeded In enlisting the
Interest of two Brooklyn dentists.
They are Dr. F. C. Royce, of 65 Greene
avenue, who la not at all sure that
he Is willing to be mentioned in con
nection with this undertaking, and Dr.
David S. Skinner, whose home la at
75. on the same street.
Dr. Skinner would'have been will-
1P4 to divulge the details «f the
acheme, it seemed, had it not been
for two circumstances. The first was
that his co-workers were anxious to
keep the matter to themselves for the
present, as Dr. Skinner Indicated by
putting an index finger to his lips as a
token that silence had been enjoined
upon him. The other was a certain
backwardness on his own account.—
New York Sun.
NEW YORK S HORSE CARS.
Receiver Reports Illa Deficit on 28th
nod 29th Street» Line.
Joseph B. Mayer, receiver of the
28th and 29th Streets Crosstown Rail
road Company, filed yesterday with
the Public Service Commission the re
port of the road for the quarter ended
March 31, the New York Tribune says.
The report show«, a deficit for the
three months of $4.275 and an operat
ing ratio of 230.02 per cent. In other
words, It cost two and one-half as
much to operate as its earnings were.
The road was divorced from the
Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany's system over a year ago and
placed in the hands of a separate re
ceiver. It has In operation three horse
cars, which are run at fifteen and
thirty minutes’ headway alternately.
The road Is 3.3 miles long, with sin
gle track and turnouts.
Gross earnings from operation for
the quarter were $3,174 and operating
expenses were $7,019. Income from
other sources was $108 and rentals
were $538. The balance sheet Is amus
ing, as the only Item carried on the
assets side Is the quarter's deficit of
$4,275. The receiver says that he Is
unable to present a "general balance
sheet.” He adds that no other assets
exist. The figures as to the cost of
the road, he says, are not available.
As a sample of high traction finance
the story of the road Is interesting.
It received its charter In 1886, but was
sold at foreclosure in 1896. It was
turned over to the Metropolitan with
a capital stock of $1,500,000 and a
bonded Indebtedness of a like amount.
This made Its capitalization $893,388
a mile, which would seem to be close
to the record for street car lines. In
view of these figures the inability of
the road to operate three cars without
a large deficit is significant.
Every little while, »all • London
detective re ently, the police arrest
a man with a set of burglar's tools tn
his possession, and one naturally won
ders where they all come from. It Is
easy to buy a gun of any description,
and the most reputable person would
not be alarmed to be seen purchasing
the most wicked looking knife ever
made, but who would know where to
get a jimmy or a device for drilling
into a safe or any of the many tools
used by the professional burglar in the
pursuit of his calling?
There probably are places in the
large cities where these things are
made and sold to the user, but such
places are exceedingly scarce. It may
seem a little strange to learn that
most of the tools used in burglaries
are made by mechanics who are look
ed upon as respectable men In the
community. When a burglar wants
any particular tool made he goes to
a mechanic who can do the job, and
pays hint perhaps live times what it
is actually worth for making the tool
and keeping quiet about It. Many de
tectives can recall cases of this kind
that have come to light in London.
One In particular occurred some
years ago, when an escaped convict
named Williams went to a blacksmith
In the East End and got him to make
a lot of drills to be used In safe crack
ing. He personally superintended the
tempering of the steel, but when the
job was nearly completed it leaked
out, and Williams was arrested. In
this Instance the blacksmith knew
nothing of the use to which the tools
were to be put. Most of the tools used
by burglars are secured in the same
way.
The only regular establishment ever
discovered where they were made was
in the East End. This was years ago,
and the place was soon pounced upon.
i
Legal Information
The New York Building Code, sec
tions 153-155, provides that, on the
refusal of an owner of an unsafe
building to make it safe or remove
it, a report of the building shall be
made to a court, which, If It finds
that the building is unsafe, shall com
mand the commissioner of buildings to
take it down or make It safe, and that
the expense thereof shall constitute
a lien on the premises. Section 157
provides that if a building collapses
the city may remove the debris, to be
paid for out of the fund, under sec
tion 158. In the case of In re Jenkins,
115 New York Supplement, 385, such
provisions are construed by the New
York Supreme Court, and it Is held
that the city has no lien on property
for expenses Incurred in removing de-
brls of a collapsed building and the
bodies of people burled beneath the
ruins, and is directly liable to the
contractor employed to do the work.
The Maine Supreme Court's refer
ence in a previous decision to a search
warrant as "a sharp and heavy police
weapon to be used most carefully lost
It wound the security or liberty of the
citizen,” is f*ily justified by the con
duct of the officers as related In Buck-
ley vs. Beaulieu, 71 Atlantic Reporter,
70. Under the authority of a warrant
to search certain premises for intoxi
cating liquors, and armed with axes,
pickaxes and crowbars, they entered
the house and made a search from
attic to cellar, and even dug Into the
floor of the cellar. On finding no
liquors, and strongly suspecting they
were somewhere concealed about the
house, they broke into and tore out
a strip from the interior walls of the
rooms below stairs entirely round each
room, and dropped the debris upon the
floors and carpets. All this was done
In the hope of finding, not the liquors,
but some pipe or other clue leading
to the liquors. The officers then de
parted. leaving the occupants to re
move the debris, and leaving the plain
tiff, the owner, to restore his house
and make It again habitable. Such
conduct was declared by the court to
be unlawful, and such a search en
tirely unreasonable and In excess of
the officers' authority. It was no de
fense to an action for damages that
they acted In good faith, In the full
belief that the occupant was keeping
liquors in the house in violation of the
law.
A Fitting Deduction.
"Do you know what an oath is, lit-
tie girl?”
“Yes, sir; I must always tell th«
truth."
"If you always tell tho truth, wher«
will you go when you die?" .
"Up to heaven.”
"And if you tell lies?”
“To the naughty place, Rfr.”
"Are you sure of that?”
"Quite.”
"Let her be sworn. It Is quite clear
she knows a great deal more than I
do.”—Modern Society.
Golnif Ont.
Mr. B. There, I've let my cigar go
out. Do you know that It spoils a
Horsemanship in Heaven.
cigar, no matter how good it Is, If you
Little Kenneth and his mother were allow it to go out?
Mrs. B.—Yes; a cigar Is a good deal
about to go for a drive.
"Who was God's father?" asked the like a man in that respect.
boy.
Luck at Last«
"He had no father,” replied th«
"I’« done had de proof dat dar’a luck
mother.
"Then,” persisted Kenneth, thought In a rabbit’s foot,” »aid Erastua
fully, "who hitched up the horse for Plnkly.
"What were de proof?”
God's mother?”—Success Magazine.
“I doae «old de one I’« been carry
What becomes of a man a respecta in’ bo long to a superstitious white
bility after death*
lady foh to' bit«.”—Waahtugton Star,
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