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howling wildern --
Ir. marking up
its coal land, the go\eminent doe»
wisely. It is t’.ne : r a new policy
with rev | .
Ml
'"*• Bttt
*TT—• fatb W«<k
it is unfair to UM the
v 1 ■' f as a I
text for rwr n
-• past
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policy of th» govern
Wh«n It
practical
Reports from Panama •ho« tkM in order to ger p. ->;<e on the so.l. Ths
success of its po'hy >.- evident in the
ball follows the flax
wonderful develi pir.cnt of the W est. ,
Secretary Meyer's parcels post plan H«W n M h of that $ 1 »n icre value
«*mt to have been lost in the malls. is due to the fa
t
ra . • is are
ready to carry away the < d from the
Anybody who could hit a barn ought Wyoming m ncs? How m'.u h of it is
*> be able to pick a rhinoceros off of a due to the fact that th- r ■ are custom
limb.
ers for coal within a sb >rt haul of the
deposits? The price r; t for coal land
As an actrees Ella Ginglee Isn’t bad, is low, but It woui 1 have i> ‘en high
but she Is several laps behind E. Nes forty years age With nt ra.'.r ads. it
bit Thaw.
would have been | r '.i ~;t v ■. V- ithout
settlers, there wu’.il ! 1-
etn no suc
Since the stone wall did so much cessful railroads. £o '■ ma; say fair
for Galveston the town should call ly that the libera! p. 1
o: the govern
itself Jackson.
ment in the past his i n th-‘ factor
which nlakes its m<re bu .'i ■- v e pol
Every experiment proves that the icy of the pit- ir ¡.nd future possible,
balloon is only a distant relation to
the true flying machine.
“Brighten . om> on - vise's life. Cheer
so-me one cl.-e's pathway every day.
Treasury officials have declared that This is th.- best in - rent that any
the $2 certlfwatea are unpopular. We of us in this world can ever hope to
know one vote that wasn’t taken.
\,,
a
epeat the name of
the man who .aid it. He has an
Mr. Rockefeller advises us to nounced that he i > g Ing to seek ob
"brighten some one else’s life." He scurity henceforth. Moreover, there
refrained from telling us what to do are so many other p- pie «ho both
It with.
live as he does and talk as he does
The value of this year's crop is es that it is not nac< .s:iry to draw the
particular
man.
timated by Secretary Wilson at $8,000,- moral upon the
000,000. No wonder hard times see “Brighten some one el. e’s life.” Tiiat
is most excellent advi e. It Is good
23 on the horizon.
old-fashioned morality, just as good
Mexico discourages revolutionists by to-day as it ever was, and just as good
giving them long terms in prison, a for the future as for to-day. However,
practice which republics south of it in tlie sense In whi-h it is used it is
very imperfect, very partial advice.
would do well to imitate.
A little active work in brightening
It is a highly commendable move to some one else’s life by dire t personal
try to keep open the door of diplomat efforts needs to be supplemented more
ic preferment to capable American to-day than ever before by indirect
citizens who do not happen to be rich. methods of brightening other people's
lives, especially through restraint from
It Is said that when an author dies creating conditions which have the op
his books always pick up in popular posite effect. For many citizens, and
ity. There are some writers whom the especially for those who give the
world would be willing to boost under "brightening" advice mod freely, the
indirect methods of self-restraint are
those circumstances.
vastly more Important socially than
The officials of a Western college the other. When a man adopts a sys
have announced that the co-eds must tem of business opera, ions which have
have a chaperon. This is one of the as their direct result tire driving of
most crushing blows yet administered competitors out of business by meth
ods always unfair, and often illegal;
to feminine Independence.
when he sacrifices families ruthlessly
because he is not in immediate con
There are indications that the Seat tact with the suffering members; when
tle exposition is going to be a success his mechanism of business is so fine
in spite of the fact that It is strictly that he can dip his hands in the pock
a temperance affair. Are we to have ets of a hundred thousand families
no traditions that may be depended and gain wealth so easily that his
upon to last?
main thought is that he is to be per
sonally approved because he takes so
Miss Anita Stewart and her mother little, then, Indeed, it is but a poor
•re paying $1,000,000 in cash for the compensation that be makes it a point]
Portuguese prince that the young lady of directly brightening some neigh
is to get. It almost seems as if they bor’s life every day. To one life that
might have got him cheaper if they he brightens directly there are thou
had haggled a bit.
sands that he darkens Indirectly. The
new morality will take full account of
There are rumors of another hazing such facts at their proper value.
scandal at West Point. No sooner does
Annapolis succeed in getting the at
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
tention of the public centered there
than West Point jealously comes for
ward showing that it, too, can be very
foolish. The contest seems to be in
terminable.
SEED OF THE VIOLET.
BANDON RECORDER
An illustration of the difficulties met
by those who seek to raise the social
standard comes from London, where a
borough council recently erected forty
little dwellings for the poorest class,
•ach with a bath room. An investlga
tlon a few months later showed that in
thirty-six of the forty houses the ten
ants used the bath tub wholly for the
storage of fuel, clothing and general
rubbish.
In life, in literature, there is no
magic charm like that of personality,
but politicians are afraid of it in their
business. Of this they sedulously cul
tivate the Idea that it must be con
ducted by committees and parties,
••ver by Individualities. Everything
ia collective, nothing personal. In
trigue and subterranean management
•re the prime forces, and the old prac
titioners of the art are always aghast
when some man of native vigor comes
forward with open methods and direct
•p peals.
Individually, as all travelers testify,
the Chinese are an exceptionally hon
est people, but in the official life of the
empire there has long been systematic
corruption and wholesale pilfering
•uch as few other lands have ever
known. Of special significance, there
fore, is the recent removal of a Chi
nese viceroy on the charge of corrup
tion When the viceroy was suddenly
confronted with the charges, he was
•o amazed and confounded that he suf
fered a stroke of apoplexy. Such •
thing as interfering with the plunder
ing of the poor by a public official was
unheard of. The Incident is welcome
evidence that China Is really waking
up.
The Department of the interior has
been valuing the government’s lands
on which coal exists, and. Instead of
selling them at the old price of agri
cultural lands, is marking them up as
coal lands In some cases, the price
has been put as high as $500 an acre.
These coal lands were classified and
restored to entry tn June. At the old
rate, they were worth $7,500,000. Un
der the new plan they are held at $18,
500.000
The principle involved, the
Chicago Tribune declare», is much
More Important than-the amounts, and
it ad<la: ‘‘If this principle had been
ptrt in practice many years ago,’many
• fraud it; on the cnirnment would
tare been preven tod.” And many a
prairie, now cut up tn farm» and dot
1*4 wikfc tillage«, Would «till be a
Flower Blooai» Tn ice In a Sen.»« -
■ Ina un F.kplo.ive Pod.
-
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
SENTENCED TO HOME LIFE.
T is a wise judge in Malden. Mass., who
has 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.
At the end of this probation the lads are to be ex
amined as to the effect ot this treatment upon their
conduct.
The magistrate has exercised his discretion in the
direction of enforcing parental responsibility. In real
ity, it is the fathers ami 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 I
youth 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.
THE 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 power that can do the
work, and should set about it in earnest.
The isthmus was notoriously the most
unhealthy region in the world until Amer
ican engineers undertook to conquer its bad 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 ether methods.
Today 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.
The mosquito problem was attacked on the isthmus
with the determination to conquer. The problem in
New Jersey has been dallied with. There has been no
earnest purpose. The Legislature has been lukewarm
and parsimonious, legislators have been Incompetent to
size up to the great importance to the State of ridding
it of a pest that entails a property loss of many mil
lions, keeps away population and makes summer life
a trial alike to the sick and well.—Newark Star.
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR WOMEN.
LMA LOUISE SINGLETON'S name should
certainly be enrolled high on the scroll of
famous women who have won notable vic
tories for the cause of women's rights.
Elma Louise has succeeded in persuading
a divorce court that a husband who Is en
gaged in business six days of the week
should remain at home and entertain his wife on the
seventh, and that failure to do so furnishes good
grounds for severing the marriage bond.
This is a long step in advance from the days when
a man was permitted to whip his wife, provided the
whip was no thicker than his little Unger. Surely it
marks an era of new women's rights worthy of a little
extra jubilation and surely Elma Louise deserves to be
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 8 of an evening, taking tn 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.
THE YELLOW 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 • X-
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 dls-
astrous consequences, when it takes form in the publi
cation of a daily 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.
AMERICANS AS EMIGRANTS.
E are impatient with those immigrants
whe maintain their native ways of living
and thought within our borders. May it
not be that in the Canadian Northwest
the Canadian-born look with distrust upoii
the Americans recently settled there? A
traveler wrote that the saddest men and
women he had ever met were the American exiles who
were trying to be gay in Paris. The farmers who have
gone into Canada to till the lands all but given them
will not have occasion to know the sadness of the
exile. They will be too busy. Their work will save
them, will protect them, from the grief the banished
feel. But as these farm people grow older they will
have the leisure to dwell upon their relations to the
folk about them and to the institutions under which
they live. It is a characteristic of the American to
compare the things he sees abroad with those at home,
to the disadvantage of the foreign. And those who
have settled in Manitoba or Alberta, being as Ameri
can as any of us, are hardly likely to lose that habit.—
Toledo Blade.
buggy, or carriage, or wagon, or pedes
trian? Settle on a rule, and make it
compulsory, with penalties. Who has
the right-of-way, when the question
of precedence arises? No road law
should pass which falls to meet this
question. Then, again, there is the
speed limit, and the policing of the
road. Non-resident motoring parties
are in the habit of coming through at
a forty-mile clip, as though it were
the duty of all creation to scoot out
of the way. ‘Clear the track!’ is the
Ulen for Koiidw and Itoml l.nw«.
reckless motto by which too many of
John, Jr.—Will you give me a nickel I In a recent issue of The Jefferson- these touring cars are driven. No
fan, Thomas E. Watson, as was to ] State should adopt a road law which
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,
squarely with the aggressive contin those who have autos and those w'ho
to be good for nothing.
gent for good roads in Georgia, along haven’t."
IllKitest of All Mackerel.
with National President Barrett and
There can be no question that the
Until a few days ago a mackerel that State President Lee, of the Farmers'
average conception of the rules of the
exceeded four pounds in weight was ' Union, and the overwhelming major
highway is somewhat hazy and cha
considered something remarkable, but ity of officials and prominent citizens
otic. Conditions governing traffic have
when Capt. Rufus McKay of the seln voicing representative sentiment in
changed radically in the last twenty-
er Speculator showed one he had taken this State.
in the catch he brought to T wharf I "All of >is want good roads for all five years. Travel and patronage of
there was a change of opinion, and the of us,” declares the sage of McDuffie, the public roads has multiplied many
ordinary large mackerel looked like a in his straightforward fashion. Mr. times, and means are now employed
canner in comparison, a Boston dis . Watson directs attention to important for locomotion that introduce new fac
tors into the situation.
patch to the New York Herald says.
phases of the subject that must figure
When the present legislature comes,
Capt. McKay had been seining on in any blanket legislation by the gen
as
it probably will, to enact a uniform
the Rips and had taken some pretty I eral assembly. We need statutes and
big fish, many of them weighing above fixed regulations, he shows, that will road law. these features stressed by
four pounds, but when the men came newly and sharply define the "laws of Mr. Watson should receive mature con
across the real big one the crew stop the road,” so constructed as to conserve sideration.
Meanwhile, it is gratifying to know
ped work for a time to get a look at the interests and privileges of all par
It The fish was carefully laid in ice ' ties. Following Is an editorial extract that his Influence may be counted !
separate from the others, anil when ] embodying his views on a problem upon to further a movement so vital ,
with constructive meaning to the bona
the Speculator's hatches were opened now of vital concern to all Georgia:
fide
producers of Georgia.—Atlanta
it was brought out and shown to the
"The Jeffersonian courts no fame as Constitution.
dealers.
an old fogy, and has no disposition to
Immediately there was a struggle to cater to the popular prejudice against
IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
get ft, and ft was finally bought by automobiles. The motor car Is here to
Elmer Prior for P. H. Prior, 2 T wharf. stay; the air ship Is on its way. and Press Xian Found Proceeding« Dull
The fish was placed on exhibition In we might as well agree with tortured
and I.eft Volu iilarily.
the store and was viewed by hundreds Galileo, that the world does move,
Reporters are not allowed to be pres
It weighs eight pounds and is twenty- orthodoxy to the contrary notwith ent at the secret sessions of the Unit
nine and one-half Inches from the tip standing. • • •
ed States Senate. Some of the diffi
of the head to the tip of the tall, and
"Every -food citizen should favor cult work which newspaper men go
nineteen inches in its largest circum I good roads and, so far as we know, he up against at the capltol is gathering
ference.
dees. Scout
cars and newspaper the details of some outbreak after the
Mr. Prior was made an offer of $10 whoop-her-ups are not necessary for doors of the Senate chamber have been
for the fish by a Beverly dealer, who that. All of us want good roads for closed to all except Senators and one
wanted to present it to President Taft all of us. ♦ • •
if our road sys or two sworn employes who keep its
but he refused the offer, as he intends tem. which now bears somewhat heav records, says the New York Herald.
to have it mounted.
ily on the under dog. is to be changed, One newspaper man recently sat
let us adopt a plan which will dis ’hrough a part of a secret session and
Good Market.
left of his own free will. He is Jerry
“Is your son doing anything during tribute the advantages equitably.
1« lOpt some def A. Mathews, a representative of one
vacation?”
"Yes. He's making money hand over fnite 'law of the road,' adjusted to oi the three press associations which
pres nt conditions. We should pre- during tne open sessions of the Sen
fist selling a new fangled diary.”
“I shouldn't think that there would s> ribe. tin ler reasonable penalties, the ate are given the privileges of the
duty of the drivers of all vehicles, and fl ooi
be much money in that."
Coming down the corridor one after
"Every woman buys it. It has one the duty of all vehi le drivers toward
W1 ' h »1 le of the road noon dr. Mathews pushed through the
page a day for what you do yourself
ta e. Shall Senate doors and took his usual place
and ten pages for what your neighbors
. w th« d«r s dealt A treaty Was
e
fo tit« right, or to the
do."—Puck.
.
|
being r>ad
After looking about him
ect
ill
We still contend that the funniest J
p>
b ' I ’1 n rf it. What it da«ned upon the newspaper man
thing In the world Is cheap printing
:i,e fluti give to tut ( nat ae wai being closely examin'd
for cheap shows
by two or three Senators. One moved
over to a group and pointed at Mr.
Mathews, and together they seemed to
be discussing him. Things seemed
dull, and after a short stay on the
floor Mr. Mathews left the chamber
and joined some friends in the press
gallery.
"What is that they are reading down
there, Tom?" he asked the representa
tive of another press association.
"Why, I don't know,” was the reply.
"They are in executive session."
"No, they are not," hastily put in
Mr. Mathews. Then the situation
dawned upon him. There had been
no doorkeeper at the entrance when
he passed in to warn him. and he had
unwittingly enjoyed a part of an exec
utive session.
How
the Drakeinaii
Helped.
Thomas Moffat, consul at Trinidad,
distinguished himself while consul at
La Guayra by refusing to sign a doc
ument declaring the "sanitary condi
tions of La Guayra to be perfect."
The town at the time was in the grip
of the bubonic plague.
"The local authorities were angry
with me." said Mr. Moffat recently,
"for refusing to indorse their stupid
and baneful policy. They said it was
a bénéficient policy, but I told them
that it reminded me, in its ignorant
harmfulness, of a brakeman I once
knew.
“The man was a novice, and on his
first run there was a very steep grade
to mount. The engineer always had
more or less trouble to get up this
grade, but this time he came near
sticking. He almost lost his head.
Eventually, however, he reached the
top.
“At the station, looking out of his
cab, the engineer saw the new brake-
man and said with a sigh of relief:
“'I tell you what, my lad, we had
a job to get up here, didn't we?'
“ 'We certainly did,’ said the new
brakeman, 'and if I hadn't put the
brake on we’d have slipped back.’”
Tiie common Wild violet affor
of the most remarkable illustrations
of the care and api>arent forethought
of nature tu preserving a »pedes, a
w rlter in the St. Louts Globe-Demo
crat says. As everybody knows, the
violet grows in the shade, iu pastures,
woods and fields where the grass Is
abundant and long, it comes up early
in the spring and flowers at a time
when the grass ;• most a umlaut and
succulent. Of course, It is liable to
be cut down by the scythe, but much
more likely it Is to I e bitten off by
grazing animals.
The violets that come in the spring
either do not seed at all or very spar
ingly. But in the kite fall tho plant
bears another crop of blossoms that
are never seen save by the profession
al botanist. They are very small, ut
terly insignificant in appearance, and
grow' either just at or below the sur
face of the ground. These are the
flowers which produce the seeds for
the next season. 'Die flowers on long
stems blooming In spring are only for
show; the hidden flowers are for use,
and the number of seeds they bear
may be judged from the ease with
which a wild violet bed spreads.
Wh< n the seeds are ripe the pod ex
plodes. scattering them to a consider
able ¡distance, often to ten or twelve
feet from the parent plant, so that in
spite of its boastful modesty the vio
let not only takes care of Itself, but
becomes a troublesome aggressor.
Germany has become the greatest
producer’of cocoa butter in the world,
turning out about 7.000 tons a year.
The best Turkish tobacco is grown
in the low mountainous region border
ing the south shore of the Black Se4T
The entire tire department of Frank-
fort-on-the-Main, Germany, is to be
changed from horse to motor traction.
To prevent fraud in weighing, the
government is having self-registering
scales built for use in customs ware
houses.
The paper on which the Bank of En-
land notes are printed has been made
by a secret process in the same mil)
since 1719.
A resident of New Jersey has pat
ented a tapering stiletto on which
there is a sliding gauge to regulate
the size of the holes it may make, to
save an embroidery worker from car
rying a set of tools of different sizes.
Contrary to the general impression
that the country furnishe ’ by birth a
much larger percentage of
idlng men
in all walks of life than the city, Dr.
Frederick Adams Woods arrives at the
conclusion that it is the urban popular
tlon which takes the lead In tills re-
s;>ect. He bases his results on the
birthplace statistics given in a well-
known volume containing brief biog
raphies of notable Americans. Tak
ing the total urban and non-urban pop
ulations. he finds that the town shows
a notably higher percentage of produc
tiveness in the way of talent. This he
regards as consistent with the laws of
heredity, since talent of all kinds
tends to seek the cities, and should be
expected, generally, to reproduce it»
kind.
On of the most interesting achieve
ments of Lieutenant Shackleton's polar
expedition was the ascent of Mount
Erebus, the most southerly of all
known volcanoes, by a party led by
Professor David. The highest peak
has an elevation of 13.120 feet. An old
crater, fillesl with feldqiar crystals,
puniloe and sulphur, was found at the
height of 11.000 feet. The active orater
at the summit Is half a mile in diam
eter, and 800 feet deep. It was eject
ing steam and sulphurous gases to a
height of 2,000 feet when the party
visited ft. The ascent was made In
March, 1908; in Juno the volcano was
very active, and photographs of the
eruption were made by moonlight.
The neighboring volcano, Mount Ter
ror, was inactive.
Of course the ocean Is not as old a*
the earth, because it could not be
formed until the surface of the globe
had sufficiently cooled to retain the
water upon It. but it seems chimerical
to try to measure the age of the sea.
Nevertheless Professor Joly has under
taken the task, basing Ills estimate
u[K>n the amount of sodium it con
tains to that annually contributed by
the washings from the continents. He
thus reaches the conclusion that the
ocean lias been In existence between
80,000,000 and 170,000,000 years Th!»
does not seem a very definite determin
ation, but then, in geology, estimates
of time in years are extremely dif
ficult because of the uncertainty of tho
elements of the calculation. The most
that can be said of such results Is that
♦ hey are probable.
I p
Ilegiirtl
for
Appearance*.
Max O'Rell was once staying with
a friend at Edinburgh. Starting for a
walk on Sunday, he took his walking
stick. "Do you mind taking an um
brella?" asked
his
conscientious
Scotch host. "Jt looks more respect
to
Date.
Drummer—So the coal oil got near
the butter and flavored it, eh? I sup
pose you’ll lose It?
Storekeeper Jason—Oh. no, stranger.
I've jjust put a sign over It, "Try th»
New Petroleum Butter," and It 1» go
ing like hot cakes.
able."
I'crlifip« (he Happiest.
Corio«*.
Minister I made seven heart» hap
“It's curious,” said Uncle Eben, “dat py to-day.
a lot o' folks will hardly notice de
Parishioner How wan that?
speeches of de country's brainiest
Minl»t«r Married three couples.
men. an' dat devil read every word of
Parlghfoner That only makes si*
what an <-x
n of prize flghUn'
Minister IA 1). you dqftt thiuk 1
haa to say!”—Washington SLar.
did U k>C Both: ng? L.ia.