BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY
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Washington. June 25.— President
T a ft walked out of the capitol at 11
o’ clock tonight smiling.
The second session o f the 61st con
gress had just adjourned and he had
signed practically all matters of legis-
Istion that had been placed before him.
He received congratulations from his
cabinet and from members o f both
branches of congress upon the success
ful passage o f most o f his pet meas
ures. Mr. T a ft shook hands all around
and continued to smile.
The last measure signed was a joint
resolution to authorise the secretary o f
war to lend tents to the Appalachian
exposition to be held in Knoxville,
Tenn., in September, which Mr. T a ft
expects to attend.
Each house of congress marked its
closing hours by voting for an inves
tigation o f the McMurray Indian con
tracts. Instead of the usual scene o f
comparatively undignified relaxation
from the business o f legislation, both
houses devoted exceedingly serious at
tention to the charges o f bribery at
tempted and other forms of improper
influence made in the senate yesterday
by Senator Gore of Oklahoma, and sub
sequently, in the house by Representa
tive Murphy o f Missouri.
Two separate investigations are pro
vided for, one in each house.
Each
body passed a resolution creating a se
lect committee of five members to
pursue the inquiry to the bottom dur
ing the recess of congress, and to re
port whether any of its members are,
or have been, interested in any of these
contracts.
In adjourning the house, Speaker
Cannon made a brief statement in
which he said that he held no malice
toward anyone and hoped that all
would have a pleasant vactaion.
C O N S P IR A T O R S ARE FINED.
M otet H att Pays $6,000, F. A. Peck-
ham $ 5,000 in $1,000 Billt.
Washington, D. C.— Moses Haas, of
New York, and Frederick A. Peckham,
Washington, June 22.— A fte r voting o f Cincinnati, after fighting for five
down several amendments, the senate years against indictments returned
today decided, 44 to 25, to concur in against them in the cotton leak in the
the house amendments to the postal department o f agriculture, have en
savings bank bill and thus took the tered pleas o f guilty to the count in
last legislative step necessary to the the indictment charging conspiracy to
establishment o f a postal savings bank effect a misconduct in office.
in the United States.
On the recommendation o f the de
The measure was included in the ad partment o f agriculture, Justice [Gould
ministration's schedule, and its pas imposed a fine of $6,000 on Haas and
sage marks another triumph for Presi $5,000 on Peckham, which they paid
dent Taft.
and were released from custody.
The
In accordance with the program other , indictments pending _ against
agreed on yesterday, voting began at them were not pressed.
5 o’ clock and the bill was passed 15
Haas and Peckham paid their fines
minutes later. Most of the insurgent , in $1,000 bills. The lawyers for Ed
Republicans joined the regulars in sup win S. Holmes, Jr., the former asso
porting the measure in the final vote, ciate statistician, were taken by sur
but Senators Bristow, Cummins and^La prise when Haas and Peckham pleaded
Follette refused to yield, and cast their guilty and were not prepared to say
ballots with the Democrats.
what course they would take for their
Senator Chamberlain cast the only client.
Democratic vote for the bill.
Holmes was tried in 1906 and the
No sooner had the senate disposed of jury disagreed.
Charges
are still
the postal savings bank bill than there pending in the New York courts
ensued a spirited contest among sena against Theodore H. Price, the cotton
tors for precedence in the interest of operator implicated in the scandal.
other measures.
Among the important bills before A P P E A L T O THE U N ITED S T A T E S
the senate there were three candidates
for first place on the calendar. These
were the Appalachian forest reserve Nicaraguan Government Asks That
Filibustering be Stopped.
bill, the irrigation and reclamation bill
and the campaign publicity bill.
Washington, D. C.— I t was reported
Senator Brandagee, in charge o f the here that a large armed vessel carry
Appalachian bill, was the first to ob ing munitions of war for the Madriz
tain recognition, and on a ]rollcall his government in Nicaragua sailed from
bill was made the unfinished business. New OrleanB and that the Estrada in
Satisfied with [the attainment o f this surgent representatives have appealed
advantageous position, he graciously to the United States to send a warship
gave way for the presentation o f the after her.
other two measures, and both o f them
I t is being asserted here that the
were passed within 30 minutes.
steamer Columbia, which cleared yes
terday from '.New Orleans for Blue-
Washington, June 21.— Acting under
fields, carried a large quantity of mu
heavy pressure from the White House
nitions o f war for the Madriz army and
and in partial fulfillment o f promises
also three large high-speed gasoline
made to President T a ft by Speaker
launches equipped with machine guns.
Cannon and Chairman Payne, the
The launches, these men say, were
house o f representatives, by an over
marked “ J. I . , " and were to be un
whelming vote at 10 o’clock tonight
loaded at Pearl lagoon, on the east
passed the bill making available $20,-
coast, near Bluefields. They say the
000,000 to expedite the completion of
mark ‘ *J. I " consigns the launches to
government irrigation projects.
Julian Irias, whom Madriz has appoint
Passage o f the bill by the senate is
ed a plenary commissioner over the
assured.
east half o f Nicaragu.
Not one man in ten who voted for
A protest will be addressed to the
the bill understood its importance or
State department by Estradas.
appreciated the good it is intended to
accomplish. They voted for it because
W OM EN RIDE IN AIRSHIP.
of President T a ft’s insistence, and it
was apparent that the house would as
readily have voted $30,000,000 as $20,- Ten Brave Dangers o f Long Flight
000 , 000 .
In Zeppelin Craft.
A ll the amendments which were pro
Düsseldorf, Germany— The Zeppelin
posed in the course o f the four-hour
airship made a four hours’ excursion
debate were voted down, for the mem
over the industrial cities of this dis
bers generally did not understand their
trict. The return and landing were
significance and all but Westerners la
made without incident. The machine
bored under the erroneous impression
took a second but shorter excursion in
that the president wanted the ways
j the afternoon.
and means committee bill without any
The Deutschland, on the longer trip,
change.
carried 32 passengers, the largest num
Agreeing to vote at 5 o’clock to
ber ever transported by a similar craft.
morrow on the Carter motion to concur
The passengers included 10 women. A t
in the postal savings bank bill, the
one time, running with the wind, the
senate adjourned at 6 o’ clock after a
great dirigible attained a speed of 56%
day devoted largely to an onslaught
miles an hour. The trip was from this
upon the house measure.
city, to EsBen, Dortmund, Bochum and
Representative Mondell today intro
return. The airship passed over the
duced a bill in the house carrying into
chimneys o f the great Krupp works at
effect the recommendations made by
Essen.
the president in his message, advocat
On the return the Deutschland en
ing legislation permitting appeals to
countered a rain storm and had to fight
the Court o f Appeals of the District of
her way against a head wind.
On
Columbia from decisions o f the secre
! landing the women passengers said
tary of the interior upon questions of
they had not experienced a moment of
law affecting titles to lands entered
discomfort.
under the United States land laws.
Washington, June 24.— The Scott
anti-option bill to restrict Cotton ex
change transactions which do not in
volve actual delivery of the commod
ity, was passed by the house today,
160 to 41.
A joint resolution passed by the
senate today extends for two years the
time during which ex-Confederates
may file claims for losses of personal
property after surrendering. The reso
lution was introduced by Senator Brad
ley and covers the same ground as an
amendment to the general deficiency
bill, which was struck out a few days
ago on motion o f Senator Bristow.
A bill authorizing the appointment
of an assistant United States treasurer
at Seattle, Wash., was passed by the
senate today. The measure now goes
to the house.
There is every indication that the
$20,000,000 irrigation bill will become
law tomorrow. The conference com
mittee reached an unexpected agree
ment tonight on the one provision in
dispute, the army engineer clause, and
its report was promptly agreed to by
the senate. It will be submitted to
and approved by the house in ample
time tomorrow to permit the president
to sign the bill before night.
The senate today passed without
amendment the bill previously passed
by the house directing the issuance of
patents to settlers on the former Siletz
reservation where entry was made for
the exclusive use and benefit o f entry-
men who built houses on the land, im
proved it and actually entered into oc
cupation of the land for the period re
quired by law. The senate also passed
the house bill authorizing the construc
S T R E N U O U S ONE W ILL REST.
tion and maintainance o f a dike on
Washington, June 20.— On condition
Olalla Slough, Lincoln county.
that the senate would separate the
$30,000,000 irrigation bill from the Roosevelt Hopes to Renew “ Tennis
Washington, June 23.— Republicans bill authorizing the withdrawal of pub
Cabinet" Matches at Sagamore
and Democrats do not agree as to the lic lands, President T a ft today gave I
Oyster
Bay, N. Y .— Theodore Roose
increased cost o f living between 1900 assurance to four Western senators
velt has begun what he hopes will be
and 1910.
that he would not sign the withdrawal
The majority report o f the special bill until both houses had agreed upon a period o f real rest at Sagamore Hill.
When he went home it was with the
senate committee which has been in and passed a bill making available at
express intention o f remaining there
vestigating these questions was sub least $20,000,000 for irrigatoin.
with a few o f his old friends until next
mitted to the senate today by Senator
When this assurance was received
Tuesday, when he is to start for Cam
Lodge, chairman of the committee.
from the White House, the senate re
Labor organizations have lost their called the conservation bill, took off bridge, Mass.
W ith him were Gifford Pinchot,
fight to gain exemption from prosecu the $30,000,000 amendment and let the
tion under the anti-trust and interstate withdrawal bill go back to the house chief o f the forestry service, and
James R. Garfield, ex-secretary o f the
commerce laws.
Following a lively for conference.
interior. The tennis court at Saga
debate, and by a vote o f 138] to 130,
The house today passed the Jones
the house today agreed to the senate bill authorizing the Northern Pacific to more H ill has been put in shape for
action striking out a provision in the build a bridge across the Columbia the season and it is expected there will
sundry civil bill that would have a f river between Grant and K ittitas coun be a renewal of the “ tennis cabinet’ ’
matches.
fected this immunity.
ties.
The house having disagreed today
Instead o f reaching a vote on the ac
Th ief Boxes Up Plunder.
to the senate amendments to the bill ceptance of the house postal savings
San Francisco— When John T. V/hei-
providing for $20,000,000 o f bonds for bank bill, the senate was apparently
irrigation in the West, a conference is further from that consummation when land, local superintendent for the Gug
now in progress seeking to adjust the it adjourned today than when it con genheim Smelter company, returned
with his fam ily from a vacation, he
differences between the two houses.
vened.
President T aft and several o f the
Late in the day, and following found his house stripped o f all its sil
Western senators held a meeting today speeches in opposition to the house verware and jewelry and the furniture
to discuss the possibilities of reaching measure, Senator Bacon offered an and stoves packed and crated ready for
an agreement
The president was sat amendment striking out the provision removal. A steady stream of second
calling at the
isfied to omit the provision that no pro regulating the investment o f deposits hand dealers was
ject shall be aided unless it has the in government bonds, and the motion residence with orders for the furni
approval o f a board o f army engineers. was pending when the senate ad ture, which they had received from a
th rifty burglar.
Detectives were
Senator Jones today undertook to journed.
pass through the senate the Hamer bill
The principal speech in opposition to placed on the case and have succeeded
permitting the exchange of scattered the house bill was made by Senator in recovering the silverware.
school sections in the forest reserves Cummins, who contended the measure ,
20 Hurt in Train Wreck.
for compact tracts of reserve lands of was a radical reversal o f the senate
equal value and aera, but senator Hey- bill.
Des Moines, la .— Twenty-five people
budm objected. Jones w ill renew his
The conferees on the naval appropri-; were injured, two perhaps fatally, in a
motion at the first opportunity, though ation bill completed their work today rear-end collision on the Wabash rail
the chances are against its adoption.
and their report was submitted to the road near Percy, at 8 :30 o’ clock to-
The senate tonight agreed to the house by Chairman Foss, o f the house nighL The wreck was caused by a
conference report on the public build naval affairs committee.
This bill water spout, which had undermined
ing bill, which includes all the Oregon, makes provision for two battleship» to the track. The engine and three cars
Washington and Idaho items o f both cost, exclusive o f armament, not ex ran into the ditch, but the rear car was
house and senate bills.
ceeding $6,000,000 each.
le ft on the track. The passengers in
the rear car had not had time to recov
Mail Indemnity Asked.
er from their fright when a fast
Cruiser Meets Mishap.
Washington, D. C.— A recommenda
Washington, D. C.— On almost the freigh t struck it, knocking it from the
tion has been made to congress by last leg o f their homeward voyage for track and injuring nearly every per
Postmaster General Hitchcock that a the Far East, the cruisers Cleveland son in it.
law be enacted to indemnify the send and Chattanooga have met with bad
A. B. Hammond Defendant.
ers or owners o f third and fourth class luck. The commandant o f the naval
domestic registered matter lost in the station at Honolulu has been in touch San Francisco— United States A t
mails. The postmaster general urges with the vessels by wireless about 400 torney Robert Devlin has filed suit in
that no growth o f third and fourth miles to the westward, and reports to the United States Circut court, alleg
class registered mail can be expected the Navy department that the Chat ing that A. B. Hammond, the millon-
unless indemnity for possible loss can tanooga has lost her propeller, and is iare lumberman, has cut $211,85.10
be granted.
Refusal to grant such in tow of the Cleveland. I f all went worth of timber from lands belonging
indemnity, he maintains, is an unfav well, it was expected that the boats to the United States government and
The
orable discrimination against domestic would arrive in Honolulu by Wednes to which Hammond had no title.
timber was cut under the names of two
day.
mail.
different corporations, but it is charg
ed that Hammond was at the head of
President Signs Statehood Bill.
Forest Reserve Area Held.
Washington, D. C.— President T aft both concerns.
Washington, D. C.— The house of
representatives, in accepting the sen signed the statehood bill
at 1 :40
Spain to Ignore Vatican.
ate bill authorizing the withdrawal of o’clock yesterday afternoon in the pres
public lands, protected the Fulton ence o f Postmaster General Hitchcock 1 Madrid— A t the conclusion o f the
amendment to the agricultural bill of Senator Beveridge, chairman o f the cabinet meeting Premier Canalejas an
1907, which prohibits the extension of senate committee on territories; Rep nounced that the government’s relig
the forest reserve area in Oregon, resentative Hamilton, chairman o f the ious program would be carried out.
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyom house committee on territories; Dele He said the protest o f the Vatican
ing and Colorado, except by act o f con gate Cameron, o f Arizona; Delegate against the imperial decree o f June 11
gress. The conservation bill, as or Andrews, o f New Mexico; James T. would be ignored and that the decis
iginally passed by the house, would Williams, Jr., editor o f the Tucson ions o f the government already an
Citizen, and several others.
have repealed this amendment.
nounced would stand.
PASSENGERS BY
AERIAL ROUTE
L0M BR080
A B S E N T -M IN D E D .
T r im I n o lo K la t T o o k S o T h on ich t o f
M o n e y — A n iu s liiif A d v r s l u m .
One side of the late Prof. Lombro-
io's character little known to outslucrs
I made him adored by his children, es-
| pecl&lly his two daughters, who looked
: after him as though he were a child.
His two greatest domestic character
istics were disregard of appearances
and absent-mindedness, says a London
letter to the New York Sun. When
Carries 20 Passengers Safely Over he was invited out in the evening It
was the work of two or three days to
300-Mlle Course on Schedule
get him keyed up to putting ou his
Tim e— Tickets $50.
dress clothes, and even then he was
capable of weakening at the last mo
ment and going out Just as he hap
Düsseldorf,Germany—The first regu pened to find himself.
lar airship passenger service was in
Once when going to Rome he lost
augurated June 23, when Count Zep
his overcoat, but was not In the least
pelin’s great craft, the Deutschland,
I discouraged, as he entered the first
carrying 20 passengers, succesfully
j shop of ready-made clothing and
made the first scheduled trip from
Friedrichahaven, on the north shore bought the top-most warm thing which
o f Lake Constance, to this city, a dis cams to hand without even looking at
it. It proved to be a long, bright,
tance o f 300 miles, in nine hours.
The weather was perfect and the bottle-green cloak, which came down
motors worked faultlessly. The aver to bis heels and In which he looked,
age time maintained for the complete with his broad-brimmed felt hat. like a
course was approximately 33 miles an figure attired for the carnival.
His absent-mindedness was so great
hour, but between Friedrichahaven and
Stuttgart the 14 miles were covered at .Hat when under the care of the home
an average rate o f 41 miles an hour, circle he never attempted to look after
the best speed for a single hour being the money and would even leave the
43% miles.
house to go shopping without eve*
Count Zeppelin was at the helm looking to see If he had his purse with
when the Deutschland left Friedrichs- him. Naturally when he traveled the
haven at 3 o’ clock a. m. and sailed consequences for his pocket were dis
away on the trip that was to mark an astrous. He Invariably arrived home
epoch in aviation.
The passengers without a penny, no matter how much
were some o f the directors of the Ham- he had taken with him, having either
burg-American Steamship company lost it or had It stolen.
and the German Airship Stock com
In Vienna once he lost his purse,
pany, join t owners of the dirigible,
which frightened him so that when he
and guests.
recovered it he resorted to the expe
They occupied the mahogany-walled
dient of dividing his funds Into vari
and carpeted cabin situated between
the gondolas, and from the windows of ous small sums, which be concealed
which they viewed the scenery as the about his person In all kinds of un
aerial car swept along.
Count Zep likely places, so that at least he would
pelin steered for the greater part of not lose it all at one time. There was
a note In the lining of his hat, another
the distance.
The route was over Stuttgart, Mann in his boot, several pinned to his shirt,
heim and Cologne, to Düsseldorf. It and so on, but, notwithstanding this,
had been carefully marked out in ad he arrived home in his usual penniless
vance for the guidance of the pilot and condition.
was followed exactly.
There was no
air stirring and the Deutschland made
her way [unhampered through a flood
o f bright sunshine.
The hour and minute of the probable
passage of the various points had been
bulletined ahead, so that not only the
people o f the cities on the line, who
filled the streets, but the inhabitants
o f all the intermediate villages turned
out and cheered enthusiastically as the
immense torpedo-like structure with
its whistling screws drove over their
heads at a height o f between 200 and
300 feet.
The Deutschland swung
gently into her landing here at noon,
and the multitude surrounding the
landing yards shouted a welcome.
Regular trips w ill be made and many
tickets already have been sold for the
first few days from $75 to $50 each.
The airship is equipped with a restau
rant, which will supply the passengers
with a buffet service such as is afford
ed on railroad trains.
The dimensions o f the Deutschland
are: Length, 485 feet; width, 46
feet. Its gas capacity is 24,852 cubic
yards, and it carries three motors,
having a total o f 830 hoarepower. It
was designed to maintain a speed o f
35 miles an hour. Its liftin g capacity
is 4 4,000 pounds, o f which 11,000
pounds cover the crew, passengers and
express. I t is expected to be able to
Vary sheer white muslin and embroid
accomplish a continuous trip o f 700
ered flouncing are used in this dainty
miles.
lingerie
dress.
Count Zeppelin demonstrated the ad
The hat is a combination of ecru straw
vantage o f an air route in the section
and plaited net ruffles. A small bunch
of
the country
traversed.
The of pink flowers nestles under the lace on
Deutschland cut the railroad time the right side. The ribbon on the crown
one-third between Mannheim and Düs and st the waist, is also pink.
seldorf. covering the distance in four
hours, whereas the railway express
T h e Illn t e r .
time is six hours.
" I f there Is one thing I hate,” said
the
determined
young
business
Colonial Board Created.
woman as she sat down to lunch in
Tokio— The establishment o f a colon-- a down town restaurant, "it's the
ial board has been gazetted officially. hlnter. If someone wants to borrow
Marquis Katsura, premier and minister an umbrella or some money from you
o f finance, is president, and Baron
let her say so right out, not come
Goto, minister o f communication, is
shambling Into your office, take away
vice president. The board is to super
vise all affairs in Corea, Formosa and all your valuable time beating around
Japanese Saghalien, and joint diplo the bush and droping fool hints on
matic affairs o f this country’s leased the way, I don't take a hint. I ’m not
territory in Manchuria.
I t appears dense, but I want to discourage the
that when the term “ Japan” iB used it habit. I think it shows cowardice.
“ Take the man who wants to com?
includes not only the original islands,
together with Formosa and Saghalien, to see you. Why can’t he say, 'May I
call?’ No, he hasn't the courage of
but also Corea.
his convictions, but he has to hem and
haw, look sheepish and hint for dear
Alaska Steamer Crushed in Ice.
Nome, Alaska — The schooner Joe life. I won't have a man like that In
Matthews, from Nome for Golovin bay, my house. Same thing with girls.
was crushed in the ice o f Bering sea Don’t you hate the kind that suggests
just inside Cape Darby June 23.
The to a man that a taxi Is so comfortable
twenty passengers and the crew reach and she does loathe the street cars, or
ed shore in safety over the ice and the one who asks him If he’s seen the
found shelter at Chenik. The schooner lovely display at a certain candy store
has not yet gone down, but is hope or the 'cute' little boxes they send
lessly crushed and will be a total loss with Thorley's flowers. It would be
with the cargo.
The revenue cutter safer for her If she kept off the sub
Bear is standing by, but the best the ject, for the chief fun In doing things
Bear hopes to do is to be able to get lies In planning them, and nothing Is
off the passengers’ baggage and some so maddening as to have others make
valuable freight.
the suggestions.
The hlnter only
makes herself unpopular, and the
Wage Increase Refused.
sooner she knows It the better. Keep
Pittsburg— The wage conference be quiet or say right out what you want.
tween committees o f the independent
''Now, don’t hint that you’d like an
tinplate mills and the Amalgamated oyster cocktal, because you won’t get
association, which has been on for a
one If yon do. 81ng out like a little
vdfeek, has closed, with the refusal of
woman— have one? Good!"
the mills to grant the increase asked
by the men. The men, however, agreed
A p p r o p r ia t e D c e o r s llo s .
to return to work for the same wages
“ I see where ‘Cook hats’ are to be
they received last year, which is 2 per all the rage this winter.
I wonder
cent lower than the United States how they will be trimmed."
Steel corporation mills pay. About 25,
" I should Judge with wreaths of the
000 men are affected.
Ice plant
Zeppelin Airship Makes First
Regular Trip.
FASHION HINTS
Indian and Chinese Graduate
New Haven, Conn.— In the class of
nearly 300 graduates who received
their diplomas at the annual com
mencement exercises o f Y ale univer
sity for 1910 the three who attracted
mos attention were Robert Alphonso
Taft, son o f the president; Cheng-t’ ing
Thomas Wang, of Ningpo, China, and
Henry Red Cloud, o f the Winnebago
tribe of Indians. The last named is
the first American Indian ever to grad
uate from Yale.
S s t a r a l U p r is in g .
"Do you believe any one can bring
about the levitation of tables by
means of spirits?”
"Certainly, If they get to falling too
heavily under them and try too hard
»o get up.”— Baltimore American.
K M p I n S < s p ill on t h e J ob .
"That widow Is a good manage».
Isn’t she?”
"Manager!
I should say so.
She
got that house of hers practically fixed
up like new for nothing."
"How did she manage It?"
"She was engaged to the carpenter
Spanish Steamer Sinks.
till all the woodwork was finished,
London—-A Spanish sailor, who was
and then she broke It off and married
washed ashore at Penzance, says he is
the only survivor of the Spanish steam the plumber.” — Baltimore American.
er Febrero. from Bilboa for Newport.
R e fl « e t l o a ,
The sailor says that the steamer found
What is likely to lead a person to
ered with her crew o f 23 off Land’ s reflection ? A looking glass.—London
End.
Telaaranh.
à M ORAL CENSOR-
'a T h a t R o le K l u g E d w a r d V I I W a s
M o at S tr ic t.
When King Edward ascended the
English throne, the boon companions
of the former Prince of Wales who
thought that they would be able to
j clap the new King on the back and
be hall fellow well met with him, i
| they were when he merely was the
first subject, soon found out their mls-
| take. The few who tried It were re
minded speedily that familiarity with
the King waa quite a different thing
from familiarity with a more or leaa
Irresponsible man of the world, who,
by the very nature of his position, was
condemned to a life of pleasure see
Ing. It Boon became known that while
the King was no less truly democratic
than ever In his choice of friends, the
men and women he wanted about him
now were those who had done some
thing. and who could be of use to him
lu his task of governing the greatest
empire In the world.
One of the
friends whom he dropped then waa
Richard Croker, once boss of New
York. It was all right for the sport
ing Prince of Wales to meet and chat
with Croker on a racetrack, but It
would not look very well for the King
of England to be on familiar terms
with the man whose name stood for
the personification of a certain kind
of politics. At the same time, how
ever, he made a friend of J. P. Mor
gan, whose skill as a financier, taste
as an art collector and generosity as
a patron of the church he much ad
mired.
It was as a moral censor that King
Edward caused most surprise, for no
one expected that he would be strict
In this particular.
It soon became
known at court, however, that no one
against whose moral character there
was the slightest breath of suspicion
might expect to be received, and re
cently he had carried this form of
censorship further by refusing to re
ceive either party in a matrimonial
quarrel, no matter how Innocent one
of them might be.
B E TTE R OFF IN T H E SOUTH.
’ h e re t h e N e s r o I . K n e o u rtta e d
B ec o m e s S k ille d L s b o r e r .
to
“ The south is getting tired of the
political demagogue who gets office and
keeps It by stirring up racial preju
dice,” said Booker T. Washington In a
recent speech. "This was shown by
.he way In which Gov. Vardaman was
turned down In the recent contest In
Mississippi for a seat In the United
States Senate.
"The people down there are wearied
over having racial strife aroused and
you do not hear so much of the race
question in the political campaigns
la former years. I think there Is a
tendency among the thinking people
of the south to come to the conclusion
that the two races have got to live
there together and that It Is the sensi
ble thing to live In peace, so that each
race can help the other.
“ Down south the negro is not de
barred from places requiring skilled
labor. He doesn’t get Into such Jobs
up north by hook or crook, as a rule.
I cannot give the reason, but It Is a
fact. In the south he gets a chance
to work. The colored man gets a bet
ter chance In the south and he Is far
better off there as a rule than In the
north.
"You will find In the south, If you
travel a good deal, and I have gone
into a great many communities down
there, that between the Individual ne
gro and the white man In the south
there Is a close relation of friendship.
This la the sort of thing you do not
hear about—the thousands of things
that tend to promote good will. It Is
only about the rare difficulties that
reports find their way up north. I
have referred to the banks that are
owned by negroes. But the negro can
get equal credit with the white man
and can borrow money at the white
man’s bank on the same terms that
a white man can get It. And If a
negro wished to go into business I
do not know of an instance where he
has not bad the sympathy and en-
Muragement of
the white man.
Tilings like this, of which Instances
are numerous in the south, never find
their way to the newspapers of the
north.”
B lin d
I.en d ln ir
th e
B lin d .
In these days of type-setting ma
chines and of rusts in newspaper offices
as elsewhere It is getting more and
more difficult to read the big metro
politan newspapers Intelligently. For
instance, Sunday's New York Herald,
under an Ottawa date, says;
“ With all the women of the official
circle In mourning, society spent a
somber week, quite In contrast with
the bayety of the horse show. The
governor general and the Countess
Greelg, with Lady Sybil Grelg, are at
Ridean Hall,” etc.
Of course, most any one can supply
"gayety” or “ bayety,” but not all
readers know that the governor gen
eral's wife Is "Countess Grey” and his
daughter “ I-ady Sybil Grey" and that
his official residence Is “ Rldeau” Hall,
not Ridean.
This 1s only a fair sample of what
hurried copy, hurried composition and
hurried proof reading do on the big
oapers dally.
K r a p p W o r k m e n W e a r P in a .
Employes of the great Krupp works
In Germany can easily be distinguish
ed even when attired In their Sunday
best. Every workman, on his enroll
ment, Is presented with a curiously
Tashlened scarfpin, composed of a min
iature artillery shell made of platinum
ind set In silver. After twenty years'
service he receives a second pin, mold
ed on the same lines and mounted In
gold.
FADS AND FANCIES.
It was a radiant morning, sad as
the new boarder sat down In her ap
pointed place at the table, she fait Im
pelled to pass the word on. “ The
world Is an enchanted land la this
fresh snow," she remarked to her
right-hand neighbor. The stout lady
shook out her napkin as she replied,
"1 Increase my walk to two miles this
morning. That ought to tAke off a
pound or two. You see, I ’m under
treatment for my flesh. Good morn-
lag, Mr. Faxon!"
"Good morning, Mrs. Lovering!" said
the newcomer, taking the chair at the
new boarder’s left. “ How much have
you lost this week?”
“ Five pounds, Mr. Faxon. It ought
to have been six by schedule, but I
took sugar three times In my tea. I
must be more strict.”
"Mr. Faxon, will you take oatmeal
this morning?" asked the landlady.
"Wheat berries, please, Mrs. Holt.
Oatmeal Is too heating for my blood.
Good morning, Miss Lew is!”
"Good morning! No thank you, Mrs.
Holt, no cereal. Just my egg on toast,
please. And have mother’s hot water
ready. She Is coming as soon as Bhe
takes her fifteen breaths.”
“ How do you find your one meal •
day agrees with you?” asked Mrs.
Lovering.
"Thank you. It’s really the only way
to lire. You see, I can have all the
oranges I wish through the day. I
wish I could persuade mother to try
it. She’s simply killing herself with
that Hamburg steak aDd hot water,
but when she gets a fad you can’t do
anything with her.”
“ Mrs. Holt, may I have grapefruit
Instead of oranges? They’re so much
better for my rheumatism,” said th&
schoolmistress. "And I prefer trlscults
to muffins.”
"Bread twice toasted Is the thing,”
remarked Mrs. Lorering. " I ’m taking
Miss Boycott's treatment," she ex
plained to the new boarder. “ I’ve gone
off thirty pounds. Do you like cream
In your coffee? Why, that’s the worst
thing! I —"
“ I ’d rather go without coffee than
take It without cream. I’m so depend
ent on It," broke in Miss Lewis.
“ That’s what makes you so bilious,”
said the schoolmistress. "Why, If I
should take coffee with cream in It
three mornings running, I ’d be dead.
My stomach wouldn't stand It.”
“ Mrs. Holt, could I have a baked
apple?" aaked the man opposite.
"What course are you pursuing?”
asked Mrs. Lovering of the new hoard
er.
“ I ’m taking a few postgraduate
studies at college.”
“ Oh, I don’t mean that. I mean
what diet?”
“ Course In diet? Why, none, except
to eat what’s set before me,”— “ and say
nothing,” the girl wanted to add, but
■he refrained.
Mrs. Holt looked up with a gleam of
Interest In her tired eyes.
“ Not even buttermilk?” she asked,
tentatively.
“ Not even buttermilk,” replied the
girl.
"W ell, I've lost two Inches round the
waist since I began those new arm and
hip movements," said Mra Lovering.
“ What exercises do you take?"
“ I walk and row and golf and skat«
and— ”
’’I don't mean that. I mean for your
health?”
“ I don’t do anything for my health,”
returned the girl. There waa a note of
savagery In her voice.
“ R eally!” exclaimed Mrs. Lewis.
“You look healthy, but there, you
never can tell. Now I— "
“ Mother!” Interrupted Miss Lewis.
"Don’t get on to your feelings. You
don’t begin to suffer as I do, but as
long as you Insist on that disgusting
steak you won’t be well.” Mrs. Lewis
retired behind the steam of her lfot
water with a sigh.
At the week’s end the new boarder
gave up her room. "I'm sorry,” said
Mrs. Holt. “ Is It the table? It has
the name of being very hygienic.”
“ I don’t want to be hygienic,” re
turned the new boarder. “ I want to
be— deadly! I want to eat chocolate
on my raw oysters and Jam on my
onions if I so desire!” —Youth’s Comr
panlon.
For a
C en «.
One cent's worth of electricity, tak
ing the average cost In the United
States, will raise a passenger eleva
tor five stories a minute, or raise 250
gallons of water to a height of 150
feet, or raise ten tons 12 feet In less
than two minutes.
A huge electric magnet Is being
used to draw 13,000 kegs of nails to
the surface from the bottom of the
Mississippi river near New Orleans,
where they were lost when the barge
that was carrying them sank. So far
1,600 kegB have been recovered and
it Is estimated that It will take tw o
months to complete the job of getting
all of them.
F ir s t O il W e ll.
In the year 1859 E. L. Drake of Tt-
tusvllle, Pa., drove the first oil well.
Like other pioneers, he was regarded
as a dreamer or a fool, and people
laughed at the Idea of tapping a subter
ranean oil lake. It was only by pre
tending that he was In search of a bed
of salt that he was able to get drillers
to work for him. When the borer had
reached a depth of about seventy feet
Drake found his anticipations realised,
and he was the possessor of an oil well
which, with the aid of a hand pump,
yielded him twenty-five barrels a day.
—New York American.
T h e i r I d e a ls .
"W hy did you never marry, T on ?"
inquired the young benedict of the
T h e M a id W h o G o lfe d .
old bachelor.
L a st y e a r she d e ftly m ade the tee
"W ell, you see,” replied the single
A n d d ro v e the ball w ith skill and
grace;
one, "when I was quite young I re
A splendid m aid and lith e was she.
solved that I wouldn't marry until I
W it h p r e tty sunburned arms and found an Ideal woman. I was difficult
face.
to please, but after many years I
found her.”
This y e a r she still Is making tee—
“ Lucky beggar! And then----- ”
With catnip, though.
Instead of
"She was looking for an
Idea)
sand;
She tries to d r iv e the baw l, but. see,
man," replied the bachelor aadly.
’TIs ju st a ra ttle In her hand.
-P h ila d e lp h ia L ed g er.
When a man carries his first baby,
he carries It as carefully as If It were
When men meet they chat; wlitn a fresh baked cake, and he was afraid
women meet they chatter.
« f cracking the frosting