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SOLDIERS AJTD SAILORS' ABT.
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
FOB PURITY OP SPEECH.
J"""""""" IT I ZENS of Westfleld, Mass., already re
I gF I Downed for a tendency toward reform, are
I I engaged now in a new struggle. They are
I 1 rvlnar t hiva mwaa t1 n rr otnrnofl CtT IrnnW thft
reason why, and they do not believe there is
a reason. Audible profanity in Westfleld
means a trip to the police court and a fine
of a magnitude distinctly promotive of abstention.
Westfleld will have the sympathy of the thoughtful In
this uplift, and there will be a hope that It may find
itself elevated to a plane to which profanity will be
alien. There Is nothing to be said in defense of the habit
of swearing. It not only mars a language more forceful
without it, but It is painfully offensive. The person
who is loudly profane regardless of his surroundings is
the most Intolerable of boors. The idle, Irrelevant oath
not only bespeaks churlish ignorance, but is shocking to
sensitive people. It Is to be heard in public places.
Ladies passing along the streets have their ears saluted
by it Men In street cars often swear as freely as
though to do this were a natural instead of an abnormal
act
While under stress of anger or pained surprise a man
"might swear without creating a feeling of disgust, the
ordinary and most objectionable profanity is utterly
lacking in excuse. If the people of Westfleld shall cleanse
the common vocabulary, they "will not only raise the local
tone, but set their neighbors an excellent example. Phil
adelphia Ledger.
A
RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION1.
FTER many years of agitation a comprehen
sive act dealing with the subject of immi
gration has been passed by Congress. Sev
eral minor acts have been passed in the
meantime, but now we have a law that cov
ers the whole matter. The extreme import
ance of the question Is seen when we con
sider that the country is obliged, by its system of open
ing the door to people of all nations, to receive and as
similate a million aliens every year.
The new laws specifies more clearly than did the old
law the classes of undesirable Immigrants who will not
be admitted. The list Is long and thorough. It Includes
all who are defective In mind or diseased In body, con
victs, anarchists, paupers and persons unable to earn
their living, persons who are Imported under contract
to perform labor, and other classes that need not be
mentioned. Stringent provisions for the inspection of
Immigrants and rigid regulations requiring steamship
. companies to deport all rejected imlmgrants make the
previous law more effective. '
For the benefit of immigrants, all vessels bringing
aliens Into the country are required to provide ample
space, which is specified in the law, for the use of pas-:-ttUttug
;juid.d I vision ju the. Department of Commerce
and Labor is to prepare and distribute to the newcomers
publications to show the resources, products and physical
characteristics of the several parts of the country.
The President Is empowered by a carefully worded pro
viso to forbid the entry into the United States proper of
aliens who have emigrated to the Insular possessions
from countries which Issue passports to their citizens.
This provision Is expected to exclude Japanese coolies
a step which is acceptable to tho Japanese government,
arid which was taken In deference to the wish of the
people on tr- Pacific coast to put a stop to the immi
gration of laborers from Japan.
A commislon is created which is to study the whole
question of Immigration and to report hereafter to Con
gress. These are the leading features of an act which
may not dlminsh the number of those who seek homes In
this country, but which will certainly improve the average
quality of those who are permitted to enter It Youth's
Companino.
GET OUT XffTO THE AZB.
HE most effective of the nresent-dav doctor
H "V I prescriptions Is one that hasn't a drug in It
I I It reads: "Get into the open air." The
to consumptives, and they save the lives of
most of the patients who have the nerve to
follow It
The best spring tonic has only one Ingredient fresh
air and the statement holds true when you substitute
any other season for spring and tack the word tonic on.
Fresh air won't cure all diseases, but It will prevent
most of them, and persons who have heard the old adage
know the comparative worth of prevention.
Man talks about spring fever and complains of lassi
tude. If it Isn't sheer laziness, this spring ailment is
nothing more nor less than the seasonable reawakening of
the ancestral desire to get out Into the open. Spring
fever afflicts only the walled-in. Mr. Roosevelt finds
fault with mollycoddles. If he hadn't struck for the open
as soon as he had the use of his legs It Is entirely possi
ble that the President might be a mollycoddle himself..
There is no opiate like the open air. The man who
sleeps natural sleep can't by any courtesy of terms be
called sick, though he be the hypochrondriac of hypo
chondriacs. Nature doesn't issue any fresh-air cure al
manacs with testimonials imprinted therein In large type.
She simply puts her cure where all men may get it with
out money and price, and probably holds as fools all who
don't take advantage of the opportunity. Chicago Post
THE PRESS AND CHIME.
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ET us suppose that the newspaper could be
LI censored, so as to exclude from publication
I all mention of crimes, catastrophes and
of the press were filled with accounts of
charitable and religious occurrences, and
everything that can be considered decent and
entirely respectable. What a paradise It would make
for criminals, villains and rascals of every sort The
most of them would never be brought to trail but for the
publicity given by the press, and if the same sort of
suppression of the truth were extended to the courts,
few would ever be convicted, since the pressure of public
opinion in Important cases goes a long way with the
average Jury. Fortunately, secret trials of criminals are
barred by the national Constitution, if that counts for
anything.
The same considerations of Justice which demand a
public trial demand likewise the printing of the testi
mony. There Is no argument in favor of suppressing
"or garbling the evidence which does not apply as well to
the exclusion of the public from the court room. The
right "to a speedy and public trial" is fundamental.
New Orleans Picayune.
NEWGATE'S HORBOBS.
Modern Structure Replaces Grim
Old London PrUon.
The recent opening In London of the
new Sessions House on the site of New
gate prison and the old Bailey marks
the passing forever of a grim and trag
ic relic of the past
' Newgate's history Is unusually filled
with horrors and tens of thousands ot
unhappy mortals have been executed
within and outside its walls. During
the reign of King Heury VIII. alone
72,000 executions took place at New-
hanged the mob would fling themselves
upon him and half murder him before
the rope could be put around his neck.
At the time, earlier than this, when
criminals were confined at Newgate and
executed at Tyburn, they were wont
to be assaulted on the way to Tyburn
by savage robs and were frequently
pelted with stones and mud as they
hung suspended from the gallows.
Nor was it the mere rabble who en
Joyed these degrading spectacles. Peo
ple of "fashion" paid as high as $25
for advantageous places from which to
witness an execution and tho governor
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THE NEW SESSIONS HOUSE, LONDON.
gate and Sir Thomas More tells us In
his Utopia that twenty thieves might
be seen hanging from a single gibbet
at the same time and that hangings
were of almost dally occurrence. In
those days the theft of a loaf or the
snaring of a hare upon a game pre
serve were crimes punishable with
death.
Up to 18C8, when Michael Barratt
an Irish Fenian, was hanged, all the
executions at Newgate were held in
public ' The public regarded uch
events as holidays and crowds used
to assemble outside the walls and camp
out during the night In order to have
vantage points from which to view the
ghastly spectacles. Whisky and gin
were sold freely, even upon the steps
of the scaffold, and often when a crim
inal, who had committed some glaring
ly atrocioua crime, was led forth to be
of the prison usually gave breakfasts
to "persons of quality" that they might
be in the proper humor to see the
hanging of a poor fellow mortal. How
enormous were the crowds who wit
nessed executions at Newgate may be
Inferred from the statement that 200,
000 Jeering people looked on at the
hanging of Jack Sheppard; and in
1807, when 80,000 people had gathered
to see a double execution, 28 persons
were killed and 70 injured In the wild
rush and scrample. Fights were com
mon among these onlookers and spec
tators often had their limbs broken and
teeth knocked out
Newgate prlsou dates back to the
twelfth century. One of the early
prisons upon Its site was built by the
celebrated Dick Whlttlngton. This
building was destroyed In the great fire
of 1600. Another Kewgate was destroy
ed during the Gordon riots of 1780,
when for several days London was at
the mercy 6f a mob and more than 450
persons were killed. On the burning
of Newgate on this occasion 800 crim
inals were set free and immediately
Joined the rioters to plunder and kill.
Lord George Gordon, who precipitated
these outrages because of his opposi
tion to remedial legislation for Catho
lics, afterward became a convert to
Judaism and died in Newgate prison
of fever. Old Bailey, which was virtu
ally a part of Newgate, was the trial
court Now both are displaced by the
new sessions court
Caootchono Tree in Cuba.
In describing the cultivation of a
hardy variety of rubber tree in Cuba
a writer in the National Magazine of
Cuba says that it Is advisable to plant
the small trees about six meters apart.
In this way, at the age of 15 to 20
years the trees having reached a height
or say thirty feet do not Interfere with
minor cultivations.
While the trees are reaching mnhir.
lty the grower can raise beans, kidney
beans, nuts or cassavas, malanga, cot
ton ana maize. The pineapple will
make a profitable Interpolated crop.
The caoutchouc requires no cultiva
tion, the grass and the vegetation as
sisting the young plant and when old
er the shade, eliminates all useless
grasses and herbs. The tree can be
tapped at the fifth year, but more sat
isfactory results will be attained by
waiting until the sixth year, and then,
instead of abstracting two or threat
pounds of Juice It Is prudent to take
no more than one to one and a half
pounds, according to the development
of the tree. An average of one and
a half pounds would be very reason
able. If methodically handled the rubber
tree is extremely long lived, and from
the eighth to the tenth year the tree
will produce about six pounds annual
ly and still remain in condition to give
service many years to come.
Salon In Pari to Exhibit
Their Work.
Paris is to have a salon milltaire,
or military picture exhibition, which.
it Is said, will awaken both surprise
and admiration. It Is a strictly official
affair. It Is to be held In the Grand
Palais, where the regular annual salon
displays take place. The honorary
presidents of the management are Gea
eral Piquart the minister of war : Gas
ton Thompson, the minister of marine,
and M. Dugardin-Beaumetz, who Is un
dersecretary to M. Brland In charge of
the fine arts section of the department
of education.
The hanging committee received
more than 800 exhibits oil paintings,
water colors, sculpture, engravings and
other art products. Edouard Detallle,
the great painter of war pictures, who
Is said to be the moving spirit in the
exhibition, expresses amazement at the
great merit of the work In a majority
of cases. A large majority of the ob
jects sent In will be In the display.
The contributors range from sublieu
tenants to generals. In the marine sec
tion captains in the navy have sent
sea pieces and midshipmen studies of
exotic life and scenery reproduced from
nature In Africa and Indo-Chlna. Gen.
eral Michel, the commander of the Sec
ond army corps, Is represented by a
pen and ink drawing of the barracks
at Nancy and their picturesque sur
roundings. Colonel Renault of the In
fantry, who exhibited a portrait of
Minister Bartbon, Is to have one of
General Brugere In the military exhl
bition. Naval Lieutenant Lacaze con
tributes a water color, "Summer Even
ing in Brittany;" Naval Captain Lan
dry, an oil painting, "Near Cherbourg ;"
Colonel Inspector t Lapaln, a picture,
"Ruins of Chevreuse," and Army Chap
lain Levegue,' studies from still life.
Those who have seen the collection
say that the cavalry artists seem to
run to water colors, the artillery to
painting in oils, the engineers to sculp
ture. The infantry are at home in
every part of the work, including burnt
wood and miniature painting. In the
sculpture section the work of two offi
cers who have some celebrity In art
circles is described as specially good.
They are Captains Allouard and
Jacques Fromont-Meurice of the re
serve staff.
Simultaneously with, the exhibition
there will be a "memorial" display of
works by artists who have served In
the army. It will Include the names
of Mel&sonier, who served as lieutenant
colonel in 1870, and of Detallle. who
was an ordnance officer on the staff
of General Appert New York Sun.
Simple Enough.
"The leddy hasn't the money now,"
said Delia, "but ye kin lave the Ice an
she'll pay ye on Saturday."
"But" protested the new Iceman,
"a'posln she ain't got the money then?
"Well, if she ain't ye kin take yer Ice
back." Philadelphia Press.
Oat of the Qaeatloa.
"As pretty as a picture," she
By all her friends is known,
And yet of course, she could not be
As prrtty as her own.
Philadelphia Press.
If we are ever tempted to stJ, It
lent going to be a dog.
NOT A SQUARE SEAL.
Mexican Gives Canae of Hla Oriev
ance Asralnat American Partner.
In looking up some mining claims in
Mexico, I found myself making Inqui
ries of a native named Don Est at so,
says a contributor to the Baltimore
American. His greeting was anything
but cordial, and he answered my que
ries In a way that gave me no Informa
tion. I was rather surprised at this,
and a few days later expressed my
self to a friend of the don. He couldn't
see through it but said be would find
out why things were thus. In a couple
of weeks he came to me and said :
"Senor, I know why Don Estanso
gave you such coldness."
"Well?"
"A year ago he was In the mine busi
ness with one of your countrymen. At
that time he was In love with Ameri
cans. Together they did business
much business. It was pleasant be
tween them. They were like sisters.
If one said so then the other said so.
Nothing was the trouble for a long,
long time."
"And then there was trouble, eh?" "
"There was. My good and sincere
friend, Don Estanso, he saw a chance."
"Chance for what?"
"To beat that American out of thou
sands of dollars many thousands. He
improved that chance and did beat
him."
"And Is that why he is down
Americans now?"
"Ah, no.
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One of the most Important lessons for a beginner to learn
the camera in the Bremer nosltlon durlne exposure, says the Circle.
there are corners of buildings or other objects which give vertical lines, the
camera must be held absolutely level. If this is not done, the buildings in the
picture will appear to be falling either backward or forward, according to the
way in which the camera was tilted.
There are times, however, when the camera may be tilted to advantage
In some cases it is an absolute necessity. For example, In photographs of
clouds, waterfalls, balloons, etc the camera may point upward; while li
taking pictures of people swimming or bathing, children at work or play, etc..
It may be pointed downward. Very successful photographs of prominent
speakers, parades, crowds, etc., have been taken when the camera was held
upside down. It makes no difference In the negative whether the camera Is
right side up or not By holding the camera In the way suggested many a
photographer has secured good pictures, while others who tried to use the
camera In the usual way made absolute failures. Often by holding the camera
by the side of the body and pointing It backward, one may Becure pictures of
children at play and of older people In natural poses without the knowledge of
any members of the groups.
Another warning to beginners Is necessary. Do not try to take a time
exposure while holding the camera In the hand. Even if the camera is held
against the breast and respiration stopped, the action of the heart Is suffi
cient to cause the box to vibrate and spoil the picture.
CHURCHES OK WHEELS.
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ONE OF THE CHURCHES ON WHEELS.
"If the people won't come to church, then take the church to the people,"
Is the advanced view taken by a band of English evangelists who are trying
to solve the problem of spreading the gospel. The churches are specially
constructed wagons, fitted up as homes for the workers. The idea has grown
until now there are eighty wagons In commission, carrying 180 evangelists.
Last year 40,000 services were held from these wagons and thousands of
country homes visited. To get from one place to another farmers are de
pended upon to donate the use of their horses. Housewives along the route
help thb evangelists' domestic economy a great deal by presenting them with
home cooked bread, pies and cake.
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PASSING OF "LAGNAPPE."
By agreement among the retail deal
ers of New Orleans, says a writer In
the New York Evening Post the time-
honored Institution of "lagnappe" has
been abolished slnoe the beginning of
the new year. The word means some
thing given "on the side," gratis, to a
customer. It comes from the Spanish
American word napa, which means "to
boot"
No matter how small the purchase,
something had to be added "for lag
nappe." Generally this something was
a small delicacy a piece of candy,
for example. Increasing competition
When your compatriot had and never-decreasing greed made the
oeen beaten he went to the courts. He
said It was a swindle. He called for
Justice."
"And did he get It?"
Not at all ; but what did he do? In
stead of leaving the case to the Judge,
whom my friend could have bribed for
$5,000, he demanded a Jury, and It cost
my friend four times that sum to keep
what he had swindled. It was a very
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rouuujuicu iuo iuea mat you will not
give what you call a square deal
Date Back to Days of Joahaa.
Moor and Morocco are words un
known to the people of that troubled
land. These people know themselves
as Arabs and descendants of those' win h inr-i,
valiant upholder, of the Prophet., The custom thus wiped out was pe
green standard who swept like a flood CI1iIar to New Orleans only through Ita
particular form and by reason of the
shopkeepers devise all sorts of schemes
for keeping up the custom with the
smallest possible cost '
The children, who have been eager
to run errands in the past Just for the
sake of the reward found In lagnappe,
suffered from this deterioration of the
custom to such an extent that the
board of health finally had to Interfere.
And It was at the Instance of the au
thorities that the retail dealers at last
decided to take the revolutionary step
of abolishing lagnappe entirely.
Complaints have already been heard
from numerous mothers that hereafter
It will be very hard to get the children
to do the errand-running. But that the
change Is for the better, no sensible
airnu North Afrtra at ttio lma '
heglra. The Morocco of the present
day they found possessed by a sturdy
race who claimed descent from the peo
ple who were cast out of Canaan by
Joshua, the son of Nun. Their coun
try, so far as its plains were concern
ed, was taken from them by the Arabs,
and their fighting strength was made
to serve the Arab cause In the con
quest of Spain. They themselves grad
ually took to the mountains, to the
Great Atlas. Here they have remain
ed ever since, speaking their own lan
guage, maintaining their own customs
and racial attributes and obstinately
refusing to be absorbed by the Arab
dwellers on the plains. These people
are the Berber.; their tongue is called
SMlhaJb,
firmness with which it was established
as an undeniable right Department
stores which give trading stamps are
simply doing In another way what the
merchants of New Orleans have been
doing for more than a century.
The same custom was common In
northern Europe as late as the seven
ties. It dates back to the days of plain
barter, when It served as a sop to the
feelings of the party who had the los
ing end of a trade.
Ber Head Waa Hot.
Lady Dorothy Nevill In her remi
niscences tells this story of the two
Misses Walpole, her cousin. : "On one
occasion, when both of the two were
well over ninety. Miss Fanny, the
younger, who had-that day been rather
HI. only Joined her sister in the sitting
room Just before dinner. On her ar
rival downstairs the latter (Miss Char
lotte by name) remarked : 'Fanny l
am going to be ill. too. I feel so hot
about the head. It must be apoplexy
Nothing of the sort!' exclaimed Miss
Fanny, making a dash at her sister's
head. 'Your cap's on fire, and I'm go
ing to put it out' And so the brave
old thing did."
Lives the Trolley Coata.
If along every mile of street railway
track in the United States a headstone
were raised for every death by acci
dent the routes we daily travel would
resemble one long-drawn-out cemetery
Within the limits of greater New
York the total number killed last year
rose to 227. For every person killed
a number are injured, some of them
crippled for life. That this slaughter
and maiming Is criminally needless is
sufficiently attested by a single fact:
In all London in the last year of
record (1903) the total number killed
was ten.
' According 'to the royal traffic com
mission the tram cars of London for
1903 carried 405.079,203 .passengers.
The total traffic of greater New York
last year was a little over 1.100,000,000
passengers carried. These figures, how
ever, include subway and elevated traf
fic, while the records of London do
not But even on the basis of a com
parison of traffic the number killed in
London is equivalent to about twenty
seven, against about 227 for greater
New York. And this Is no exceptional
Instance.
What Is true of New York is true
of almost every other large city in
America. What Is true of London Is
true of almost every other large city
la Europe. Everybody's Magazine,
A Similarity.
"Did you ever try the stock market
asked the Eastern man.
"No," answered Bronco Bob. "But
if. my guess that a deal In stocks is
pretty much like a deal In faro. You
want to fight shy unless you know the
dealer." Washington Star.
The man who brags Usually has a
lot to say about the things he Is going
to do; what he ha. done la far less
Important