DAYLIGHT THIEF
STEALS PAINTING
$10,000 Masterpiece Cut From
Frame by Vandal.
W at Loaned to Muaeum by Rich San
Francisco Woman, Who Is Now
Traveling in Europe.
San Francisco, March 15.— Careful­
ly cut from its place in the great frame
that held it, while a score o f persons
wandered about admiring the other
works o f art, Jean Francois M illet’s
famous painting, “ The Shepherd and
Flock,” valued at $10,000, was stolen
from the art museum in Golden Gate
park this morning about 10:15 o’clock.
N o one saw the daring thief remove
the world-renowned canvas. The police
are without the slightest clew in the
case.
Great excitement prevailed when it
became known that the masterpiece
had been carried away. The news was
telephoned to all local clubs and the
theft was the topic o f conversation in
cafes and the places o f amusement dur­
ing the day.
The painting is the property o f Miss
Sarah M. Spooner, o f this city, who is
now traveling Europe.
It was pur­
chased by her from T. D. Trimon, of
the Rue La Fayette, Paris. The can­
vas is 21 inches by 17 inches.
Two other paintings o f equal value
were loaned to the art museum by Miss
Spooner
when “ The Shepherd and
Flock” was hung. They are Dupre’s
“ Tw ilight” and a landscape by Charles
Daubigny.
The police are
undecided as to
whether the theft o f the painting is an
act o f vandalism or the result of a
well-laid plan to steal the remarkable
Millet work and place it upon the mar­
ket again at some future time through
the medium o f a European “ fence.”
FREAK PAR T HORSE, COW, DEER
Spine on Side, Horn on Front Legs,
H oof Points Backwards.
GREAT P A IN TIN G
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY
WORK OF NATION’S LAWMAKERS
RECOVERED.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF IHTEH-
ESTINQ ITEMS.
Stolen by Young German Artist and
Found in His Studio.
San Francisco, March 16.— Declar­
ing that he took the picture merely to
make a copy o f it, William Kunze, a
young German artist, recently from
Portland, Or., was arrested this after­
noon in possession of the $10,000 M il­
let painting “ The Shepherd and His
F lock ," which was stolen last Sunday
from the Golden Gate Park Museum.
Kunze was arrested in his studio af-'
ter a search o f the city which has been
prosecuted with the utmost vigor ever
since the valuable painting was cut
from its frame by an unknown thief
last Sunday.
Detective Sergeant Edward Wren
refused to divulge the clew which led
to the arrest. Immediately after book­
ing the prisoner on a charge o f grand
larceny he left the city prison accom­
panied by several detectives and it is
believed that they went in search of
possible accomplices.
To the questions o f Sergeant Wren
the arrested man answered that he was
led to take the picture by his love of
the beautiful and a desire to make a
copy o f it.
|£R
The painting which was lent to the
museum by Miss Sarah Spooner, of
this city, was the work of Jean Fran­
cois M illet in 1832. It was found in
the room used as a studio by Kunze
and it is now in the custody o f the
property clerk of the police depart­
ment.
The theft occurred in the morning
shortly after the museum was thrown
open to visitors.
While the curator
was absent for a short time the canvas
was cut from the frame and carried
away from the building-
C e a w s U
Washington, March 19. — Although
congress has been in session nearly
four months, practically nothing has
been accomplished in the way o f con­
servation legislation, and so far as the
records show, not one single recom­
mendation of the president has yet re­
ceived final consideration at the hands
o f the legislative branch o f the gov­
ernment.
The senate, it is true, has done a
little, but the house of representatives
has yet to pass, or even consider, the
first one of the bills so strongly re­
commended by the president in his spe­
cial message last December.
The failure o f the house to act is
not due to lack o f interest on the part
o f the members, for whenever any one
o f the conservation bills is reported, it
w ill be discussed with fervor and it
w ill be passed. But the house cannot
consider a bill until it has been report­
ed by a committee, and up to this time
not a single one o f the conservation
bills has been reported, or even con­
sidered, by the house committee on
public lands.
Washington March 18.— A fte r hold­
ing the floor in the senate for four
days, Cummins o f Iowa, today com­
pleted his speech opposing the Admin­
istration railroad bill.
The Senator’s discussion today dealt
principally with the provision regulat­
ing the consolidation o f railroads.
With this he found much fault.
Pointing out that the regulation ex­
tends to railroads alone, he declared
that, in the omission o f water lines,
there was possibility o f great abuse,
and said it would be impossible to pre­
vent the transcontinental railroads
from acquiring the water lines through
the Panama canal, thus cutting out all
competition.
He also pointed out that electric
roads o f every description had been
specifically excluded from the provis­
ion and declared it would be jsjssible
for an electric line to gain control of
all the railaoads in the country.
Speaker Cannon was importuned by
Republican congressmen today to re­
sign from the speakership, or at least
announce his purpose not to be a can­
didate for re-election, and thus end
the turmoil that has tom the Republi­
can party asunder. To all such sug­
gestions the speaker turned a deaf ear.
He declared that he would not vol­
untarily retire when under fire.
The forest service announced today
it would ignore the decision o f the Su­
preme court last Monday in the Cali­
fornia grazing case and continue to in­
stitute criminal prosecution o f all per­
sons who drive livestock on the forest
reserve without a permit.
BIG STRIKE IS AVOIDED
BY MEDIATION OFFER.
Chicago, March 16.— Danger o f an
immediate strike o f 27,000 locomotive
firemen, the throwing out o f employ­
ment o f more than 125,000 other em­
ployes and the temporary suspension of
business on practically every railroad
between Chicago and the Pacific coast,
was averted today through the accept­
ance o f offers for mediation from the
Federal authorities.
• A t the request of the general mana­
gers o f the 47 railroads involved,
Chairman Knapp, o f the interstate
commerce commission, and Commis­
sioner o f Labor N eill telegraphed an
offer of mediation to the union officials.
This offer was accepted, W. C. S.
Carter, president of the Brotherhood of
Enginemen and Firemen, stipulating,
however, that action must begin at
once.
The appeal to Washington was taken
as an eleventh-hour move to prevent a
walkout, which, it was declared,
threatened the greatest railroad strike
since that o f 1894. Thirty-seven mem­
bers of the Western Federated Board
o f the brotherhood last midnight form­
ally voted for a strike. The hour for
striking had been set for next Monday
morning, and the members were pre­
pared to start for their homes and put
the strike into effect when the media­
tion steps were taken.
Ottawa, Ont., March 15.— A t the
village o f Buckingham, on the Quebec
side o f the Ottawa river, a few miles
from this city, is a horse, i f such it
can be called, that is only a third part
horse, the other two parts being divid­
ed equally between a cow and a deer.
As a freak the animal probably has
no equal. The normal parts are its
head, eyes, teeth and one hind leg. Its
back bone is not in the center, but runs
along the side o f its back. One side
o f the stomach is that o f a deer, per­
Washington, March 17.— Represen­
fectly formed, with the fine, close-set-
tative Hamer of Idaho, made a con­
in ribs, and the delicately curved body.
vincing argument today before the
The other side resembles that o f a cow,
ways and means committee in support
very full, with big, rough ribs and the
o f the bill to raise $30,000,000 for re­
hide much rougher than on the other
clamation work. He produced records
side.
to show the Reclamation Service had
On one o f its front legs there pro­
encouraged settlers to take up land un­
trudes a twin horn which measures
der the Payette-Boise project and else­
four feet and 11 inches from the tip to
where, and now those settlers were
the base, turning up at the point and
unable to raise crops because the gov­
weighing about 25 pounds. The hind
ernment was not able to furnish water.
PAU LH AN OFF IN HUFF.
leg on the le ft side is put on back­
In that way, he argued, the govern­
wards, so to speak, all the muscles of
Injunction Obtained Prohibiting Tak­ ment was obliged to hasten the com­
the leg are on the inside and the hoof
pletion o f that and other projects.
ing Away His Four Machines.
points backwards.
Hamer also insisted that a return to
New York, March 16.— “ I am ready cooperative plan o f building, under
and glad to leave this country,” de­ which the settlers were credited for
Madriz Announces Terms.
clared Louis Paulhan, the aviator, to­ work done, would not solve the difficul­
Managua, Nicaragua, March 15. — day, in reiterating his declaration that ty, for that plan merely hatsened the
Replying to the proposition recently he had made his last flight in America completion o f distribution systems and
submitted by General Estrada with re­ and would return to France by the i did not advance construction dams, res­
ference to the friendly mediation of first steamer.
ervoirs and headworks, which are the
the American government and appeal­
Paulhan packed up his machines and key to irrigation developments.
With
ing to President Madriz to accept such prepared to leave, despite every effort the passage o f the pending bill, he
mediation so that peace might be as­ which his manager, Edwin Cleary, said, reclamation work would become
sured, the president has sent the fol­ made to induce him to stay and com­ an income-producing proposition inside
lowing message :
plete his contract.
o f three years.
“ I feel the fullest confidence in the
Cleary obtained an injuction today
The committee seems more favor-
United States government and would prohibiting Paulhan from taking with alby inclined towards the bill today
accept its mediation with much pleas­ him any o f the four aeroplanes he than ever before.
ure were it not that several o f the bought in this country. There are two 1 Secretary o f W ar Dickinson today
bases o f settlement that you propose Blériot and two Farman machines, i sent to congress a report recommend­
are wholly unacceptable.
With his craft tied up and Clarey ing that $10,000 be appropriated in the
“ Your patriotism should have pre­ threatening a damage suit for $150,- I river and harbor bill for dredging and
cluded conditions affecting the autono­ 000, friends tried to pursuade the maintaining a channel four feet deep
my and honor o f Nicaragua and such Frenchman to reconsider his decision, and 100 feet wide from La Conner to
as the mediator probably would refuse but he was obdurate and is determined Saratoga Passage, in Swinomish slough,
to sail.
to consider i f they were submitted.”
Washington.
Engineers report adversely on the
Law
Requires
Strenuous
Journey.
Halley's Comet Located.
proposal to build an eight foot channel
Cleveland, Or,. March 16.—Joseph through the entire slough, on the
Pacific University, Forest Grove,
Or., March 15.— W. N. Ferrin, presi­ Burns, who recently raced from the in­ ground that the commerce to be bene­
dent o f Pacific University, thinks the terior o f Alaska to Cleveland in a fu­ fited would not justify the cost, $260,-
report from Silverto.i that Halley's tile effort to reach his baby before she 000
comet has been seen for the past three died, was today summoned by the Fed­
Washington, March 16.— Although
evenings is a mistake. President Fer­ eral government to return to the snow­
rin says the comet is now in the con­ bound territory as a witess in a stab­ the Republican members o f the house
stellation Pisces, many degrees from bing affray, in which he was injured. took radical measures today td prevent
where the Silverton observer reports In a wooden hut in the wilderness repetition of yesterday’s defeat at the
he saw it. He gives its position as 14 n*ar Fairbanks, Alaska, a grand jury hands o f the Democratic-Insurgent Re­
degrees from the sun and almost di­ has been summoned and it will take publican combination on the question
Mr. Burns 40 days o f strenuous travel o f maintenance o f an automobile for
rectly in the west at sunset.
and cost the govermennt $1,040 before the speaker, the allies scored another
victory over the regulars even more de­
he can give his evidence,.
Japs Oppose Mikado Tax.
cisive than that o f yesterday.
San Francisco, March 16.— Six hund­
On an appeal from a decision by
Russia Sorry for Action.
red Japanese, assembled in a meeting
St. Petersburg, March 16.— During Speaker Cannon, on the question of
today to discuss the registration tax
precedence
for a joint resolution the
imposed by the government o f the mik­ debate in the Douma upon the appro­
ado upon all subjects residing in the priations for the foreign office, Profes­ house voted against the speaker, 163,
United States, passed resolutions de­ sor Milukoff sharply
criticised the to 111. In addition to the full Dem­
manding dismissal o f the local Japan­ Far Eastern policy o f Foreign Minister ocratic vote and the 30 insurgents who
ese consul, Matsuzo Nagai. A protest Iswolsky.
Taking as a text Russia’s have always stood against the speaker,
against the payment o f the tax was rejection o f Secretary Knox’s proposal a dozen other Republicans, heretofore
embodied in the resolutions and will be for the neutralization of the Manchur­ regular, voted to overturn the ruling
forwarded at once to the foreign office ian railways, he declared that the situ­ of the chair.
An agreement was reached today by
at Tokio. It was agreed that the tax ation in Manchuria was far more seri­
would be resisted with force, i f neces­ ous than that in the Balkans. The
Germs Prefer Currency.
minister, he said, had made a danger­
sary.
Washington, March 16.—Germs—
ous mistake in making common cause
92,000,000 o f them o f manifold var­
with Japan.
Man May Sweat to Death.
iety— were found on a $1 bill micro­
Los Angeles, March 15.— Thornton
scopically examined at the request of
Cable Fouled on Wreck?
Freen, an elevator operator 21 years
Victoria, B. C., March 16.— A report Representative W iley, o f New Jersey,
old, has been suffering for years from
a'constant fever, and his physician, has been made to the Marine depart­ according to his statement today be­
Dr. Henry Herbert, has just discovered ment by Captain Heater, of the whal­ fore the house committee on banking
the cause - two extra and entirely un­ ing steamer Orion, that the steamer and currency, in support o f his bill to
necessary ribs. According to members fouled her cable when taking a whale provide clean currency by burning all
o f the Los Angeles Medical associa­ six miles south o f Uclulet on what paper money returned to the treasury.
tion, Green’ s case is something ¡new in some assert to be a submerged rock. Among the many diseases found to be
medical annals, and it is feared that Captain Heater is o f the opinion it circulating about this money were
the young man will have to undergo an may prove to be the British sloop of small pox, scarlet fever, typhoid, tu­
operation for the removal o f the ribs war Condor, which foundered in De­ berculosis and diphtheria.
i f he wants to avoid sweating himself cember, 1901, with 104 officers and
Pellagra to be Studied.
to death.
Washington, March 16.— Passed As­
Guatemala to Borrow S40.OOO.OOO. sistant Surgeon C. H. Lavinder, of the
Bellboy Made Bad Money.
New York, March 16.— Guatemala public health and marine hospital ser­
Riverside, Cal., March 15.— The find­
ing o f a counterfeiting outfit in a cel- has closed a deal for a $40,000,000 vice, was today designated to go to
under a hotel here led to the arrest loan, but F. Sanchez la Tour, national Milan and other places in Italy for the
o f Harold Mun, 14 years old, a bellboy, treasurer o f Guatemala, who made purpose o f making an investigation in­
who declares he is the son o f a wealthy this announcement, refused to make to the origin and prevalence o f pella­
ckman o f Snyder, Texas.
The lad public today the names o f those had gra and into the measures being taken
It is generally to combat the disease. Surgeon Lav­
is in the custody o f probation officers negotiated the loan.
with two charges against him, theft o f believed here that the loan was ar­ inder also w ill inspect establishments
a revolver and that o f having manu­ ranged by prominent New York bank­ in Germany which make viruses and
analagous products for American use.
ing houses.
factured bad money.
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C r ille la a «
H eaed
t 'p u a I k . H a p p a a t a g f l o f I k o U s f
the conferees on what is known as the
— H is t o r ic a l m od flo w s N o t » « .
“ white slave” bill, and the measure
A noiseless cannon? The next thing
will become a law as soon as it is
signed by the' president The provis­ «rill be a uniform without gold braid.
ion which made it a felony to furnish
The coming race Is likely to be one
tickets to send a person from'one state,
territory or district into another for between some comet and a flying ma-
the purpose o f prostitution was elimin­ -hine.
ated.
A Washington boy baby is said to
Hearings on the postal savings bank
be In great danger of inheriting $100,-
bill, which recently passed the senate
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__
and is now in the house, began before 000 , 000 .
the house committee on postoffices and
Kerns it Is the better shot, but Father
post roads today. Representatives of Roosevelt holds the strenuous Presi­
the American Bankers’ association, dent record.
which organization embodies the prin- j
cipal opopsition to the bill, appeared
The Indications are that the English­
and stated their objection to the pos­ man still loves a lord, but not as fer­
tal savings banks. It is expected the
vently as he used to.
hearings w ill occupy some time.
E. R. Guernsey, vice president of
A fortune awaits the man who can
the First National Bank o f Fremont, invent an alarm clock that will have a
Neb., and a member of the executive
pleasant sound at 4:30 a. m.
council o f the Bankers’ association,
said that the establishment of postal
Germany Is agitating the question
savings banks in Nebraska would cause
of abolishing prison stripes. Has Ger­
withdrawals of large amounts of mon­
many been sending any bankers to
ey from the banks o f that state, ser­
tail?
iously upsetting business.
With a last effort to be impartial a
Washington, March 15. — That he New York woman willed $10,000 to her
would oppose the administration rail­ dog and a siimlar amount to her hus­
road bill even though it might result
band.
in an effort to read him out o f the
party, Senator Cummins, o f Iowa, in
A Cleveland paper is trying to trace
effect, declared in the senate today, the relation between poetry and Insan­
in the initial speech on the railroad ity. We care for our Insane, but neg­
bill. He commented especially upon lect the poets.
the history of the measure, which he {
said, had originated in the executive
In Denmark every egg that is sold
branch o f the government rather than must bear a stamp showing just when
in congress.
It was laid. People )iave time to
A fte r occupying its place on the watch the nests over there.
senate calendar for 18 days, the bill
was taken up at 2 o’clock, and thus
There are still a few old-fashioned
was launched the discussion o f what mothers In the country. One of them
the members o f the senate regard as broke her hand while spanking a 10-
the most important legislation before vear-old boy the other day.
congress. The Iowa senator had spoken
about two hours when he asked leave
A Kansas City judge has advised all
to suspend until tomorrow.
women out there to carry revolvers for
Vice President Sherman and Speaker their own protection. The innocent by­
Cannon will have to content themselves
stander will, therefore, take notice.
with riding to and from the capitol in
common streetcars or in out-of-date
The wife of an English baron has
horse-drawn vehicles. The house to
eloped with a young man who possess­
day declined to provide them with 60- es no title. A lot of American heir­
horse power touring cars. The vote
esses will regard this as decidedly
was 113 to 94, the “ insurgent” Repub­
careless.
licans throwing almost their entire
strength with the Democrats.
Caroline Bartlett Crane says dairy
The proposal to have congress re­ cows should be bathed all over every
ward Commander Peary for his discov­ day and wiped dry with Turkish tow­
ery of the North Pole met with an oth » els. They should also be provided with
setback in the house committee on na­ napkins while eating bran mash.
val affairs today. Representative En-
glebright, o f California, at today's
The man who claims that the ex­
meeting o f the full committee, moved travagance of American women is re­
to discharge the sub-committee which sponsible for the high cost of living
has been considering the award bills, probably forgets that be wouldn't wear
and was defeated, 17 to 1.
socks and mittens knitted by his wife
Another motion to direct the sub­ If she were willing to furnish them.
committee to consider bills providing
for honoring Mr. Peary was adopted
A New Hampshire farmer claims to
by a unanimous vote.
have a hen that lays three eggs at one
sitting. We are compelled, owing to
Washington, March 14.— H. Sonne- the fact that he Is not “ rich beyond
hill, a grocer o f Baltimore, thiB after­ the dreams of avarice,” to doubt the
noon read to the senate committee on truth of the New Hampshire man's
statement.
the cost o f living a statement giving a
number o f comparisons o f the cost of
A suggestion comes from New York
that hockey ought to be reformed. As
commodities for several years back.
Among the articles mentioned as it Is now played the game Is said to
be brutal and a mere excuse for the
having increased in price were butter,
development of rowdyism. One of the
eggs, cheese, flour, beans and rice. best things we know about hockey Is
He declared that during the last ten that nobody is compelled to play it
years the price o f potatoes had de­ •"gainst his will.
creased 15 per cent and chocolate and
Norway has for the first time elect­
cocoa 10 per cent.
The witness estimated that the price ed a woman to the Storthing, its na­
o f flour had increased 12 per cent dur­ tional parliamentary body. The wom­
ing the last 12 years, but his figures | an who gets this distinction Is a teach­
for five years back showed it had in­ er In the public schools. She Is elected
as a deputy, or alternate, and has a
creased about 25 per cent.
Representative Englebright, Repub­ vote only in the absence of the regular
lican, o f California, the only member member from her district.
o f the house committee who favored
Nearly a hundred and fifty million
bestowing congressional honors upon
Commander Peary without an inspec­ dollars were given last year, In large
tion o f the explorer’s proofs, does not sums, for educational and philanthrop­
intend to let the matter rest.
ic purposes in America. It Is esti­
He says he will force the committee mated that the total of such gifts in
to vote definitely for or against a Peary j the last seventeen years will reach
award i f he can. The various bills for more than a billion dollars. Yet there
the Peary award are still before the Is need for more, and the small sums
committee.
given by the persons of moderate
Without active co-operation o f the means are as welcome as the millions
president, the Western members o f the •»f the weatlhy.
house w ill not be able to secure the
passage o f a bill making available
Anthropologists have long held that
$30,000,000 to hasten the completion the shape of the head was an Infallible
o f government irrigation projects.
Indication of race, far more trust­
worthy evidence than that offered by
Will Fight Corporation Tax.
language, complexion or national cus­
Washington, March 17.— Attacks on toms. Now an inquiry made under the
the constitutionality o f the corporation direction of a professor from Columbia
tax loomed into prominence today when University seems to demonstrate that
brief after brief in opposition to the it takes only one generation for the
law was filed in the Supreme court of "cephalic Index” of immigrant peoples
the United States. Final argument of to show a marked change. Children of
the cases involving the question is set long-headed Sicilians and those of
for next week. Prominent among the round-headed Russian Jews present an
briefs filed was one o f ex-Senator For- almost Identical Intermediate head
aker, o f Ohio, solicitor for Louis W. form. This fact, if verified, makes it
Jared, a stockholder in the American | appear that many of the most pro­
Multigraph company, o f Cleveland, nounced variations of rare are super­
Ohio., who seeks to have the company ficial, and point to the development
enjoined from paying the tax.
sooner than was at first thought pos­
sible of a homogeneous "American”
Lands to be Restored.
racial type.
Washington, March 17.— The lands
The new administration building of
in Idaho, withdrawn under the first
form o f the reclamation act in 1904, the Carnegie Institution In Washing­
1907 and 1908 for use in connection ton, which has recently been completed
with the Minidoka irrigation project, at a coat of $220,000, gives little sug
w ill be restored to settlement, with the gestion of the magnitude of the work
exception o f about 944 acres along the carried on under the auspices of the
Snake river, which have been incorpor­ institution. It will be recalled that
ated within a power site withdrawal, Andrew Carnegie gave $10.000,000 a
as it was thought they contain power ; few years ago to endow the Institution
possibilities. The lands that w ill be j for assisting In investigations in any
restored are no longer needed.
department of science, literature or
art, and to co-operate to this end with
governments,
universities, colleges,
New Schedules to Be Signed.
Washington, March 21.— The presi­ technical schools, learned societies and
dent, at Albany, New York, will sign i Individuals. The fund Is in the hands
a proclamation giving to the products of a group of representative men as
o f France and Algeria, imported into trustees. They have made appropria­
the United States, the minimum tariff tions for Investigations in anthropol­
rates o f the Pavne-Aldrich act. A ogy, archeology, astronomy, biology,
special messenger from the State de­ botany, chemistry, economics and soci­
partment left Washington today for ology. engineering, geography, geology,
Albany, where he will deliver to the history, literature, mathemtlcs, meteor­
president the form o f the proclamation, ology, paleonotology, phonetics, phy­
sics, psychology, zoology and other sub­
which he is expected to sign atbnce.
jects. The Washington headquarters
Oregon’ s Modified Sheep Quarantine are occupied by the executive offices
Washington, March 15.— The secre­ of the institution, hut the research
tary o f agriculture has removed the work is conducted in all parts of the
quarantine against sheep scab in all of world, wherever a man is engaged on
Washington and in that part of Oregon an Investigation of Importance and
east o f the Cascades. Western Oregon needs money to carry It on.
will remain under quarantine, but the
R. T. Crane, a wealthy and well-
department will continue its efforts to
known Chicago captain of industry,
eradicate the disease.
not oniy teeis, use a certain Tillage |
worthy, that there are lots of lunk­
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
heads in college, but believes that the
college may spoil good raw material
end produce lunkheads in defiance of
Burglary and house breaking are on
the original plans and gifts of Mother
Nature. The indictment is so thor the decrease in London.
ough that It condemns both hallowed
The tick list of tha London police
traditions and the practices of our own force average* live hundred men every
day. Educational reformers who have day.
sneered at the old academic idea are
The average height of a wave In feet
left far In the rear. All the time spent Is about half the velocity of the wlud
In the higher institutions of learning in miles.
is wasted. While the college boy is
The pay rolla of the enlisted men la
throwing away precious years, the for­
the navy during 1911 will aggregate
tunate youth who is denied the for­
nearly $18,000,000.
mer's opportunities, so-called, is ac­
Fishguard
promises to supplant
quiring the best kind of learning In
his bredfiwinnlng work and is laying Queenstown as & stopping place tor
up capital for the future. Let it be transatlantic passenger vessels.
In Ceylon the manufacture of salt is
admitted that there is truth In the pic­
ture. Many a college graduate who a government monopoly, and yielded
has failed to make a financial success In 1908 1,760,551 rupees ($585,850) to
of life has cried out In bitterness of the revenue.
spirit that his education is worthless
A translation of the Scriptures into
and that he should have gone into modern Idiomatic Spanish is being pre­
business earlier. There are even men pared for use In Porto Rico, Cuba. Mex­
of professional training who would ico and South America.
consign both the college and the pro­
Canada's total railway mileage last
fessional school to the bottomless pit July was 30,330 miles. This means
when they measure themselves by dol ! that there Is one mile of railway for
lars and cents. But it is also a fact every three hundred Inhabitants.
that there are very successful business j
Water thrown on the Ice of the arc­
men who lament their lack of a col- |
tic regions will crack it, just as boiling
lege training. We have here a very water will crack a piece of glass. This
complex question of values. There are I
Is because the Ice Is so much colder
other measures in addition to the dol- j than water.
lar. And there are college graduates j
Fears that the sea will soon become
who have acquired great riches in
business and who have never found j depleted of food fish if the operations
the
college education a handicap. of steam trawlers are not restricted,
There are men who believe that it has Is not sustained by experience In the
North Sea for the last ten years.
a value of its own and that it has
In the recent parliamentary elec­
actually helped them to get on in the
wprld. These are statements of facts tion in Victoria, Australia, women cast
that lend themselves to pages of in­ more than 33 per cent of all the bal­
terpretation and argument. But pass­ lots polled. This was the first elec­
ing from individual rases, the all im­ tion in which women were allowed
portant fact is that the experience of to vote for members of the state par­
the world leaves very little encourage­ liament.
Miss Helen Gould gave $150,000 to
ment for Mr. Crane’s crusade. The
higher education responds so well to the Girls’ College In Constantinople
the needs, aspirations and ambitions last year. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt
of many men and women that before it gave $1,000,000 for sanitary tenements,
can be destroyed humanity will have and Is supposed to have given half a
to be made over. The crusade will not million to a home for cripples at Chap-
stand Mr. Crane's own tests because paqua. N. Y. Mrs. Russell Sage gave
it is futile and, therefore, not a good $2,500,000 to schools and colleges,
$300.000 for the relief of aged women
business proposition.
and $180.000 for an Industrial home
at Lawrence. L. I.
Writing on billiard playing, a Chi­
f
INDIANS AND WORK.
| cago News correspondent says: “ It
has been my pleasure to play frequent­
ly on a miniature table— three feet by
Indians and work are terms that are one foot six Inches— using steel balls
not associated together. The ideas are of one and one-eighth Inches diameter,
not even neighborly. Nevertheless, one and I can testify to the great satis­
faction these games have given. Tha
can get a large amount of work done
balls, being of steel and having great­
by an Indian if the task assigned to
er solidity than Ivory or composition,
him takes the form <*' carrying a ca­
have a playing weight approximating
noe over a portage, or of setting traps
to that of the full sized billiard ball,
for beaver, or of following a moose
so giving that resistance to the cue
through a trackless forest, with snow
which the small Ivory ball does not
two feet deep and no snowshoes. This
tir e ."
is what a white man would call work,
In France experiments are now b»-
but It is the Indian’s recreation. What
the savage is at farming is told in the ing carried out using the aeroplane
pages of J. W. Sanborn's book on the as an offensive weapon. In one such
recent experiment the aviator flew to
Seneca Indians.
One day in May, making calls upon a height of 375 yardB with a gun
the Indians, I observed three young mounted on the aeroplane. According
men of about 25 years plowing. To be to one report, a new type of aeroplane,
more exact, the Indians lay In the carrying two or more machine guns,
shade of an apple-tree, the plow slept Is being tested in the camp at Chalals
In the furrow, and the horses stood Meudon. Latham Is said to be flttlng
a rapid-fire gun to one of his Antoin­
nodding. Returning an hour later,
ette machines. He believes that, as
there was no change of base.
much of the steering can be done with
The thought occurred to me, "Here
the feet, he will be able to aim and
is a chance to give those lazy fellows
Are the gun while flying.
a lesson they will not forget.” So
Inland waters may be put to many
bitching my horse, I jumped the rail
fence, took the reins, started the team, uses; sometimes they are utilized as-
sewage outlets for great cities, some­
and finished plowing the piece.
Then, turning to the aggravating In­ times they are converted Into commer­
different three, as they "reclined be­ cial highways, or they may become
neath the branches of a wide-spread restricted because of the reclamation
tree,” I volunteered the following ad­ of fertile bottom lands. All these may
be good and necessary developments,
vice:
.
"Boys, If you want to get on In this says Science, or any one of them may
world you must not spend much time be obviously best under the circum­
stances; but In promoting any such
In the shade.”
The Indians, delighted to know that schemes due regard should always bo
the job was finished, cried out to ask paid to the Importance and promise
" i f the missionary would not be kind of natural waters as a perpetual source
of cheap and healthful food for the
enough to unhitch the team!”
I did unbttch my own horse, and | people of the country.
drove off at a high rate of speed, re- I There was recently sold at auction
fleeting on the doctrine of total de­ In Berlin the celebrated Lana collec­
tion of antiquities and art objects.
pravity.
Probably the most valuable of the rel­
Author of “ A s n lr linoner.
ics was a bumper of hammered tin.
Florence Storey, once a musical
which brought the top price nt the
prodigy, author of the words of that
Bale, something more than $8,000. This
once
popular song, “ Little Annie
piece has ever been known by con-
Rooney," (since when she adopted the noiseeurs the world over as the “ Bres­
name of Annie Roonev) and composer lau tin bumper,” because it Is sup­
of a number of marches, caused smiles posed to have been made In that city.
to apiYear on the faces of those present It dates from about the year 1500. and
In Adams street court when she came Is octagonal In shape. Its sides having
before Magistrate Dooley and admitted scenes from the lives of evangelists
being intoxicated, the Brooklyn Stand­ and other religious figures. It Is one
ard-Union says. Annie's court garb of the finest specimens of hammered
consisted of a threadbare black skirt, a metal ware extant.— Harper's Weekly.
shiny Prince Albert coat and a sailor's
Following an ancient city custom,
hat, cocked at a smart angle. As'she the corporation has recently made
has short hair she looked very much presents of what Is called “ livery;
like a weazened old man, but she is as cloth” to certain high officers of stats
active as a girl, for when Magistrate and public officials. The .custom Is
Dooley suspended sentence she was so thus explained: In the early' periods
elated she danced a hornpipe outside j of history the retainers of great lord»
the courtroom.
wearing their liveries were so numer­
For twenty-five years she played in ous as to be dangerous both to th*
England. Germany, France, Australis, i king and the laws, and the disorders
South and North America. She also In which they took part required all
the vigor of the king and the legis­
became a skilled cornet player.
When she wrote "Little Annlt ] lature to restrain. Many statues for
Rooney" she dedicated the song to the that purpose were passed between 1377
real Annie Rooney, whose sister Kitty and 1504. In these prohibitions and
and brother Pat were her particular exemptions were made in favor of the
members of guilds and fraternities In
friends.
Annie says she Inherited $68,00b cities and boroughs. This probably
from a relative In Lynn, Mass., and explains the creation of "liverymen”
left Seattle a month ago for Boston In the various companies, and Is sup­
to settle up her affairs. According to posed to be the origin of this annual
the will she is to receive a yearly al­ g ift of “ livery cloth.” —London Dally
New*.
lowance. While In Boston she de- j
elded to visit Brooklyn. She promised [ Meta llllng, the actress who was re­
sponsible for the English theater In
to return to Boston.
Berlin this season, and who died In
Frankfort a few weeks ago, was the
Doctor's Funtf.
Judge— I am led to understand yo- daughter of a master carpenter. When
stole the watch of the doctor who hail she was 14 years old she became an
Just written a prescription for you at apprentice In a atore In Bernburg. her
the free dispensary. What have you native town. A biographer, contradict­
ing several misstatements as to her
to say to this chffYge?
Prisoner— Well, your honor, I found career, says: "8he worked faithfully
myself In a desperate quandary. His for three years, but the life behind th «
prescription said “ a spoonful every ; counter was distasteful to her. 8 h »
hour." and I had no timepiece.— File- loved the theater and spent much o f
her time reading the German classics.
gende Blatter.
One day she surprised the proprietor
T b r It .-I In hie Dish.
of the house by asking him to listen
to a recitation. By moving pieces o f
Now, let our hopes anew be fired.
The frugal mind this comfort furniture a church scene with an altar
gleans:
was Improvised and presently Meta
No wicked trust has yet conspired
was kneeling and reciting for her audi­
To raise the cost of pork and beans. ence of one Marguerite's plea to tha
—Washington Star.
Virgin. This showed her talent;« the
When the Lord made mankind the •erved out the contract quarter an<$
then began her (tags career"
devil added the tongue