Bandon recorder., January 13, 1910, Image 7

PEOPLE OF THE Ouï
Naw Illinois Congressman.
The Uew« st
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of < III
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'id''loll to the bouse of
a ll lam J. Moxley
W 11" I • p! «- I .1 -
Illinois district. He was chosen to
till tlie vacancy caused by the election
of William lAirlmer to the Unite«!
States senate.
Jl'he neu congressman is essentially
a business man, and he has been sue
cessful. He uever allowed his name
to be used for an elective office until
his nomination for congress was lit
«■rally forced upon him.
Congressman Moxley is a native of
Ireland. But tins lived fifty-seven of
his fifty-eight years on the west side
of Chicago lie began his business ca­
reer in the teaming business and work
ed early and late. Before long he ac-
WILLIAM J
MOXLEY
quire«I a little- capital and by Judicious
Investment in real estate grew wealthy
A glimpse of iris character is showu
by the following: In 1900 he decide«’
to erect a new building and had the
plans drawn. Then catne a strike In
the building trades and work came t<
a standstill. He wanted the building
put up. so lie cast about for a way tv
accomplish it. He hired a superintend
ent to oversee tlie construction. Then
he went to the business agents of the
unioitH and employed the me.n he need
ed, paying union wages. The work
moved along without a hitch, and th«
structure, costing $200.000. was com
pleted in good time.
THE COMET HUNTER.
Mi* Emotion* When He Finds a New
Wanderer In Space.
The pt««-».-« of comet buutiug is per­
haps the most fasciuatiug branch of
practical astronomy, if there still lives
among us moderns one only survivor
«.I tue iriditionai astrouomer, one pa­
tient. expectnut lover of the skies,
seek him among the comet hunters,
for today, as of old, you will find him
perched ou some tower scanning the
heavens from dusk to dawn, sleepless,
almost hupeleas of success, yet ever
supported by tlie thought that perhaps
be. too, may add ills chapter to the
story celestial. Let us follow him at
his work. Suddenly be sights a faint
patch of hazy light, is tor au-instant
utieenaiu. yet trusts that bis eye de­
ceives him not. Another miuute and a
larger telescope has made him sure, it
is there. He hurries to his library aud
Consults Herschel's catalogue of known
nebulae. He finds the place. in the
book; down the page runs his eager
finger. There is nothing recorded at
that exact spot on the sky. It must be
a comet, Yet even Iler» bet's careful
scrutiny was not so very infrequently
at fault. As yet there is no certainty
He must apply the final test.
The larger telescope is now brought
into play, if tiiis is truly a comet it
must be following some appointed or
bit in space, it must be changing its
position 1 with reference to the stars,
Prqbably half an hour will serve to
settle the ' question to an exiwrieueed
eye. The • minuteH pass. Is there mo-
tiou or is i there uot? He thinks there
is. Now he is almost sure there is
Yea. No man could remain impassive.
His pipe goes out; lie forgets to smoke.
Another quarter hour makes assurance
doubly sure. Success is hia.
But now he is seized with a new
fear, is be the first or lias some other
anticipated tlie discovery? There is
another tireless comet hunter who
lives in Vienna. Perhaps even now
word is on t lie telegraphic cables.
Tli ere is need of haste. Tlie astrono
mer runs to tlie telephone, calls long
distance and asks for the Harvard
college observatory, which is the cen­
tral distributing station for announc­
ing uew discoveries. They tell him
calmly that they have heard nothing;
tiiat the discovery will be at once veri­
fied and made knowu by cable and
telegram in every observatory through
out Hie world before morning. Our
astronomer goes to shut up iris tele­
scopes. He will work uo more tonight,
but lie sways a little as he crosses tin*
room.—Professor Harold Jacoby iu
Harper's Weekly.
A Cruel Jest.
Samuel Rogers, the poet, reside«!
with Lad.v Holland and amused him
self by exacerbating her fears of ill­
ness and death. During tlie cholera
epidemic Lady Holland was a prey b
indescribable terrors. She could think
of nothing but precautionary measures
and on one occasion was describing
to Rogers all that she had done. Sir.
enumerated the remedies she had
placed in the next room—the baths, tlx
apparatus for fumigation, the blankets
the mustard plasters, the drugs of ev­
ery sort.
"You have forgotten the only thing
that would lie of any use,” observed
Mr; Rogers.
“Ami what is that?”
“A coffin.” replied the poet.
Lad.v Holland fainted.—"Memoirs of
tlie Duchesse de Dino.”
Significant Words.
There have been so many versions
of a well kndwn saying in American
politics and so many statesmeu have
been credited with its authorship that
it is perhaps interesting to observe that
Adlai E. Stevenson in his book of rein
iniscences gives the real author a.-
John Randolph of Roanoke. Steven
8««n writes;
"Seldom have more significant word,
been uttered than those of John Ran
dolph of Roanoke when told that n
certain man had been denouncing him
“ ‘Denouncing me?' replied Randolph
with astonishment. 'That is strange
I never «lid him a favor.’ ”
A Terrifying Smoke.
Assistant In State Department.
The Mexican peon smokes cigarette:-
made of the dried leaves of the merri
liuana weed. One of the peculiar el
fects of tuerrihuana smoking is to dis­
tort tin* bigness of all animals, makin;
them of enormous size and horrible
shape. Tlie smoker is tilled with a
horrible fear, something like the hor­
rors brought on by delirium tremens,
A kitten or a puppy to his distortisl
vision ap|>eiirs as some terrible < rea
ture. A common sight in Mexico is t<
see a swarthy "greaser,” armed to tin
teeth, Hee in terror from a small dog
while be would fearlessly attack nip
man with his knife or his machete.
New York World.
Chandler Hale, who was recently
appointed third assistant secretary of
state, is one of the youngest men who
ever held mo important a post, being
still in his early thirties. The third
assistant In tlie state departmeut is a
sort of general utility man, managing
things that nobody else has time t<
attend to
son of Eugene Hale, th«
veteran senator from Maine and one
of the three men who are said to run
that august body, young Hale has en
joyed every advantage that money
and social position affords.
Mr. Hale has had some little oxpe
rlence in the diplont:.
« «». Not
long ago he was attach, t< ihe Unit-
How Old Spiders Live.
Old spiders, which have neither wel
nor tlie materials to make one. oftei.
liuut about to find out the webs ol
other spiders, younger aud weak«’,
than themselves, with whom they vet:
ture battle. The invader generail.«
succeeds, and the younger spider is
driven out to make a uew well, am!
tile old spider remains in possessi« ■
until a stronger spider Invades tin
web and drives it out. When thus di-
possessed tlie spider seldom venture-
another attack, but tries to subsist
upon tlie few insects tiiat may fall
accidentally into its dutches and
eventually dies of hunger.
Insolent.
"Why tiro you so indolent?" deni: land-
ed the stern parent, "You don't see
me letting tlie grass grow under ' in.v
let some
wouldn’t
over your
< iiandli . b hale .
ed States dm bas sy :it Vienna. He h is
had a pretty thorough training tn the
business nnd I is well up In Interun-
tionul law Mr. H ile’s mother wn* :i
d.iugliii*i of I th • lute Za< Imriiili Ch in
•lier, nt one 1 time senator from Mielii
li whs computed in
gan. «tinse i >'
million-*.
lie i-stdes being ridi in hl-
•iwn right, Mr Clumdler es|mnse«i
wealth Ais i lit five yeiirM ago lie mar
ri«'d n «hiu.li lifer of the Into F< uat
I »oll t'amrl'irt u of PenilMi Ivnnia. v.
hud il lot of I i.u'iie.« of her own. Y> i I
Mr* Hille I* « one of the beaut. ■:
Washington. She la a tall, atatd
i i.»nd and I.* very popular In so« iety
the son. "If you I had
under your feet yon
near bar Ing it grow
i
’—Philadelphia Record.
I
An Optimist.
"Pa. what's an optimist?”
"A man who has four children and
continues to think the price of living
is no more than it’s worth.”—Ex­
change.
Perhaps It le.
"If you want a thing well done"—
“Get nn expert to do it for you.
Ain’t that more sense than what yott
were going to say?" -Cleveland Lead­
er.
What we suffer springs generally
from what we have done.—A rie top ti­
an ee.
Loss Entailed by Injury Should
Mot Be Corne by Them
THE ACCIDENTS OF INDUSTRY
Cost Should Be Charged Against Ex*
pen*« of Operation—Law Ought Not
to Suppoae That the Toiler Assume*
"Risk of Business.”
Discussing the profiofled plan of the
New York Central railroad to pension
its employees, the New York American
says:
The announcement of the New York
Central Railroad company that it is
about to introduce a pension system
for its superannuated employees will
generally be regarded as a good exam­
ple and a measure of Justice that all
great employers of labor should fol­
low.
This matter of providing for old age
out of a man's surplus of earnings iu
his working years should be dealt with
on a businesslike basis and should not
be thought of as having any tincture
of condescension or gratuity.
If the New York Central people im­
agine that they are testowing favors
and earning the gratitude of their em­
ployees their false attitude in the mat­
ter will induce false methods and viti­
ate the whole pension scheme.
Workingmen will not welcome the
idea of being treated as objects of
charity.
If a wornout railroad man Is to have
as good treatment at the bands of rail­
road corporations us an old horse gets
from a good farmer it will be because
railroad employees have, on the whole,
won their way to a position where
such treatment can be demanded.
it is worthy of remark in this con­
nection that Mr. Addbert Moot, presi­
dent of the New York State Bar asso­
ciation, said a sound legal word for
railroad and other employees in a
speech in Buffalo.
Speaking of the enormous number of
accidents to life and limb suffered on
railroads and in factories, Mr. Moot
said that in a case where the accident
is due neither to the special negligence
of tire employer or the employee, but
to the mere inevitable "risk of the
business,” it is grossly unjust that the
injured workman should bear the mon­
ey loss entailed by the misfortune.
He said that, in spite of the ancient
English rule to the contrary, the law
ought not to suppose that the "risk of
the business" is assumed by the man
that takes the job. Such risk and the
losses caused by it should be thought
of as a part of the natural cost of tlie
undertaking. And it should be charg­
ed. not against the workman, but
against the business itself.
That is to say, railroad companies
ought to make provision for pitying,
and ought to be made to pay, adequate
money damages for all the injuries in­
curred by workmen in the ordinary
course of railroading.
The cost of such accidents should be
regarded as a part of the fixe«) charges
of the railroad busiuess.
Pensions providing for tlie inevitable
march of a man's years should no
loubt be comprehended under the
same rule aud the same reasoning.
Following a similar line of reasoning,
the New York Times has the follow­
ing:
There could hardly be a more impor­
tant task for a legislative committee
properly constituted—as to the inten­
tions aud capacities of its members,
that is—than the investigation of the
whole subject commonly described as
“employers' liability.” Past practice
and laws dealing with industrial acci­
dents and the responsibility for them
have been and for the most part still
are grotesquely unreasonable, illogical
and inefficient and. while cruelly un­
just to the worker, have been no real
protection to the employer. In spite of
the fact that he was the one who de-
vised and perpetuated them.
Until very recently the employer's
one aim and effort has been to limit
his direct liability when he could not
avoid it altogether, aud iu the execu­
tion of this purpose there has grown
up a great system of precedent and
law. with tlie three foundation stones
of “contributory negligence,” "the fel­
low servant rule” and "voluntary as
sumption of risk.” For each of these »
principles there is something of excuse
and even of reason, but as they have
worked out iu combination the em­
ployer pays his money to lawyers’in-
stead of to injured workmen, and then
be pays it again as a member of the
community ,in which he lives in sup­
porting as paupers the direct and indi­
rect victims of accidents whose claims
his lawyers are hired to fight. The lia­
bility Insurance companies have still
further complicated tlie problem and
diverted still more of what may be
called the accident fund from its legit­
imate use.
Now there is a growing inclination
to abandon entirely the venerable
foundation stones Just mentioned and
to build up a system of remuneratiou
and support ii.aseil on the idea that ac­
cidents are n natural and inevitable
part of every business and that the
cost of such of them as cannot he pre­
vented by Intelligence and care should
be added to nnd then drawn from the
price of that business’ output of prod­
uct. In other words, the consumer is
to pay for the men worn out in indus­
try exactly ns he does for the ma­
chines that are worn out. He does
tiiat now in a way. and a very bad
way it is, but he is to do it better,
more economically nnd as n niattsr of
natural obligation instead of as a re­
luctant or extorted favor.
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