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[e ld a 1 Odd News From Big Citi< PLC' m Stories of Strange Happening* in the Metropolitan Town* GOVERNOR S T U B B S OF KANSAS Governor Walter Roscoe Stubbs, who was re nominated at the Republican primaries of the state, has had a short career in politics, compared with most leaders. It is only seven years since he began to Interest himself at all actively in public affairs, and now the governor's ambition Is to succeed Senator Charles Curtis, whose term expires In March, 1913, and whose successor will be chosen two years hence. Stubbs is red headed, like that other Insurgent leader of Kansas Republicans, Victor Murdock Red hair means energy. Oddly enough, he comes of Quaker stock. His parents, who lived in Rich mond, Ind., when he was born, were very poor. Now fifty-two years old, the governor is wealthy as a result of many years of hard work as a con tractor, mostly in railroad building. Thus he has an Intimate acquaintance with one feature of railroad affairs, the cost of new lines. A big man physically, Stubbs has a face that is often boyishly emotional though it can change into granite hardness when his fighting spirit is aroused. His talk Is homely and direct. He frankly admits that he is ambi tious to go high in politics. He has hardly any “ book learning," and he does not pretend to have any. He has been, however, a very good friend to the state’s educational institutions and appreciates education. Stubbs began his political career in 1S03 by going to the legislature. In 1904 he became chairman of the Republican state committee and remained such for four years. He nominated Edward Wallis Hoch for governor, after Hoch had refused to accept the nomination. Stubbs hired two good talkers to use the long-distance telephone from Topeka on every farmer in the state who had a phone in his home. It cost a good deal of money, but Stubbs was satisfied with the result. "They wouldn’t have worried about a letter,” he said, “ but when they got a long-distance call they knew that meant some thing.” * C A R D IN A L G I B B O N S A T 7 6 V * I James, Cardinal Gibbons, who recently cele brated the seventy-sixth anniversary of his birth, is noted among churchmen and is head of the Ro man Catholic hierarchy in the United States. He was born In Baltimore, but at an early age was taken by his parents to their former home in Ireland, where his education began. Upon returning to the United States he lived for a while In New Orleans. He studied first at St. Charles college and later at St. Mary’s seminary in Baltimore, and in 1861 he was ordained to the priesthood. In a short time he was made private secretary to Archbishop Spalding and chancellor of the archdiocese. In 1863 he was raised to the episcopate and In 1877 was created coadjutor archbishop of Baltimore. A few months later he succeeded to the see, and on June 30, 1886, he was Invested with the insignia of cardinal. Cardinal Gibbons presided at the third national council of the church, held in Baltimore in 1884. He has written books and pamphlets on religious subjects and is noted for his char itable work. In the course of a general conversation with the cardinal recently, the subject of divorce came up and he at once opened up on it with all his bat teries. The evils of divorce are ever uppermost in his thoughts. "Divorce Is a canker which la eating into the very vitals of our life,” he said In the Interview, In which he also urged young men to enter politics. "Society— our whole civilisation uprears Itself upon the sanctity of the home and the unity of the family. When you attack the family you attack government itself. And government to protect and perpetuate itself must expunge from its statutes the criminal divorce laws which the best of our life abhors. “ I pray for he time when men and women may be persuaded to under stand the seriousness of marriage. Regardless of religious convictions, they should understand that they are entering upon a contract which is not of a day or a month, but of a lifetime. They should know that they must bear and forbear. The husband cannot pull one way and the wife another. They must pull in the traces together." W IL L GIVE A W A Y M IL L IO N S J f •>* I With the announcement that John D. Rocke feller, Jr., haa resigned from the directorate of the Standard Oil company and has relinquished other large business Interests to assume charge of the work of giving away his father's vast for tune. a new public interest in this young man has arisen. Now thirty-three years old, he has been looked upon for many years as the heir apparent of the elder Rockefeller’s habits of acquisitive ness and frugality. His talks to his Sunday school class have been keenly watched and re ported In the newspapers, and their tone has been considered, by a good part o ' ‘he public at least, that of unctuous, self-satisfied piety. But now everything is changed; both the father and the son aro preparing to demonstrate their belief that "faith without works is void,” and the works are to be great Indeed If all that is promised of the Rockefeller Foundation shall be carried out. October 1, 1901, Mr. Rockefeller married Abby Green Aldrich, daughter of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. The marriage, which took place In Providence, was a great society event, and was attended by 1,000 guests. The gifts were valued at $700,000. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller. Gradually the younger Rockefeller has been relinquishing his responsi bilities as a director in large corporations. As a Sunday school teacher Mr. Rockefeller has been an utterer of many precepts for the guidance of his fellow young men. He has advised against living beyond one’s means, against borrowing money on friendship, against drinking anything intoxicat ing, against shirking humble work, agninst discontent because of poverty, against sourfacedness, against timidity and several other things that have been the subjects of platitudes and homilies since religion began to be associated with morals. There is nothing original in his remarks, though they undoubtedly are the outpourings of a sincere, If conventional, mind. His Sunday school class, naturally, has been filled with young men eager to learn the way to success.' W E D S A J A P W AR A D M IR A L Miss Florence M. Roche, the only daughter of the late James Jeffrey Roche, the famous poet and author, was recently married in Boston to Read Admiral Henry Walton Grinell, formerly the “Yankee admiral" of the Japanese navy, and they are now touring Europe. They have been friends for years. The admiral was a friend of the young woman’s father while he was editor of the Pilot. During last winter the two were brought together a great deal at St. Augustine and their long friendship strengthened by con stant association, led to their engagement Miss Kocne Is about 25 years oid and has lived In Boston virtually all her life up to the time that her father was appointed consul to Genoa by President Roosevelt in 1905, when she gave tip her work and Joined him. Mr. Roche died two years ago. Admiral Grinell entered th* United States navy at an early age and rose to the rank of lieutenant Just before the Chines* Japanese war Japan asked for an American naval officer in helping to build up and organise Its navy. Grinell was made th* choice of the navy board. He was given the rank of rear admiral by the Japanese government and remained In Its employ for several year* In an advisory capacity V 'Í /, Z 2 E r e d i t i C w k U . »»04. B u n g lin g D ip lo m a ts C a u se T ro u b le knew that the note In question was sent. It was a regular routine matter in the German foreign office and fol lowed the stereotyped form. Nations are excessively polite to one another in their interchange of communications. Every letter that goes out from the state department to a foreign government has this cere ASHINGTON.— Ignorance on the monial finish: part of amateur diplomats con “ Accept, excellency, the renewed as cerning the proper form of diplomatic surance of my highest consideration.’’ correspondence nearly precipitated a The cermonail letters of all coun war scare in two nations not long since. It was announced that the em tries begin In about the same way peror of Germany had deliberately For Instance, all of England's com affronted the United States govern municatlons begin: “George V., by the Grace of God, of ment by employing affectionate terms In addressing President Madrlz of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Nicaragua, whom our government had ami Ireland, king, defend, r of the faith, emperor of India, etc." refused to recognize. "Great and Good Friend," is the - "Nicholas, by the Grace o ' God, em way the kaiser's letter to Madrlz was peror autocrat of all the Russias, c:;ar commenced. This had sinister sig of Casan, czar of Astracan, etc., lord nificance to the amateurs. Immedi of Plescott and grand duke of Smo ately the newspapers were filled with lensk!, etc.” Germany's letters are very much stories that Germany had espoused the cause of Madrlz; that the Monroe like those of Russia, in that they be doctrine had been thrown down and gin by announcing all the titles of the repudiated by the warlike kaiser;; ruling potentate. "William II., by also the emperor had been acting God's grace, emperor of Germany and queerly of late and undoubtedly was king of Prussia,” etc., is the way the bent on making all the trouble he present emperor addresses his cere could for the United States. After a monial letters. The emperor writes little inquiry the war scare faded with a quill pen, and if one may Judge by his signature on file in the state away. "In all probability," said a state de department, does not take much time partment official, "the emperor never about it. Uncle Sam A sk s A ll to Swat th« J o ° O • W Bad Land Title Tangle Is Revealed REPORT made to congress by a A commission appointed to examine land titles in the District of Columbia discloses that many lots of land occu pied by modern business houses and residences in the national capital are still owned by the government, not withstanding the present tenants be lieve they have a clear title to the property. This question of land titles In the national capital is not a new one. Two years ago congress created a commis sion to study It The commission con sisted of the attorney general, the sec retary of war, Senator Scott of West Virginia, Representative Bartholdt of Missouri, and one of the district com missioners. The report reveals a hor rible land tangle, which the courts will probably never be able to straighten out. The tangle Is the outcome of the wild speculation in real estate that took place for a good many years after the capital was laid ou t Private lands were acquired In Washington, in the early days, by a very simple process. The territory "not exceeding” ten miles square was ceded to the United States govern ment by Maryland and Virginia and placed under the authority of three commissioners, appointed by the presi dent. They or any two of them were required, under the direction of the president, to survey and by proper metes and bounds define and limit a district of territory, and the territory so defined was established as a perma nent seat of the government of the United States. Power was given the commissioners to purchase or accept land on the eastern side of the Poto mac, for the use of the United States, and the commissioners were further required to provide suitable buildings for the accommodation of congress, the president and public officers of the government of the United States. It was to raise money to erect the pub lic buildings that the government planned to sell its land to private par ties. No sooner had the capital city been laid out than land speculators ap peared on the scene, and as a result of their operations, It Is asserted, much land which belonged to the govern ment illegally passed to individual owners. whole United N EW States YORK.—The government, with its vast treasury of wealth, its brainy states men and Insurgents, Its army and navy, Its immense horde of high brows, against the poor little house fly! That's the line-up in a bitter war of extermination scheduled to set the nation by the ears and enlist the cour ageous support of every man, woman and child in this broad land. The final knell of the house fly has been sounded end the battle has Just be- f-un. "Catch ’em and kill ’em; show r-o quarter"—that is the war cry of the army of extermination that is to put forth every effort to rid the land of the Musca Domestica, the polite name by which the house fly should be ad dressed by strangers. Until the scientists got busy with their Investigations the house fly was considered merely as a pestiferous In sect, designed by the Creator of all things merely to take Its bath in the sweet cream and maple sirup, annoy the late morning sleeper, skate about with abandon on the polished Burface of shiny baldheads and practise the Morse telegraph code on the cleanest of windows. Long suffering housewives since time began were the only really active enemies of the seemingly Insignificant little fly, and they alone and unaided applied the imprecations and dish cloths vigorously against the nuisance. But after the scientists got onto the « a PTER x - • ' ,,kcd her father ' 0mco was, he anew« . V ,* 1» th« » “ "*« Job the fight against the to assume proportions of m! f ' old -fash ion ed That little insect which tt I , th » basement a" citizen was wont to regard ■ leading to the main . a domestic pest is now bran i l longer f a s h i o n a b l e lawyers and real most dangerous creature on 1 i sought building < house fly has been publicly J I , , offered electric 111 a murderer of the human] greatest disease propugator T " The Dsmeron u JLboUSS s q u a r e , a n d carrier jf more menacing at K divers small atton nant germs than all other r .. me.. ", the hasen put together. I th« peer- M This little, but potent, met K doer to a musty death wanders from thé sil f,b«ie 'he proprietor from the filth of the garb) ■* „.Uh a meat mot 1 pen* a n d p from the heaps of refuse of' Into the peaceful, happq hoij Lks to Dogberry Row the Sire. ! was .... lund, walks upon the butter, into this thorough the fruit, the sugar, takes' r „.later a f t e r n o o n si the milk, leaving every»] ■""1 « a s arm germs of disease that have f of some old books In upon Its furry feet and body. [ window. The venoi About half the deaths froi ' e oat Into the bare. In New York, according to t] to her of the h. authorities, are attributed d) JJlume m e a n w h i l e , w i l l the distribution of germs y KL| upon the page he files. And worse than that, tl t T Yes; he kept Fr show that of 7.000 deaths ol E , went into the shop babies in that city from lnfa , hi* shelves Of fOl eases, more than 5,000 were L very little demand Infection carried by house flit |»I<1 "Some of those According to a noted sole! T a little volume of extermination of the post Is J . rare, l *houl tively easy. All that is net. ■Vould take It for a dol says, is a systematic effort oi L,.... for a dollar. R of the public. If all the pt, . only offer. It Is fo. practise the utmost cleanllnj declared, the house fly will 1 Lite the Hugo." said 5 Ted It for her carefully, In this country within a few r r,l held the paeket the house fly cannot exist J it with his h filth. Induced a dollar fror "Cleanliness,” then, Is the w] I ü It from him. 1 have been her for the American public to pu i t to an Insect that Is not only Ear»; C'ongdon, Dai nuisance, but a terrible insti meron Block," repeated death to thousands of our every year. .m l loungers 0 [front nf the Justice’s Fber as she came ou L a nioment at the [t h e building. A g alvi dreds of miles of paved road» lead from New Orleans north, | ■it the eaves bore the west, and that for the first tin E Block, 1870,” in letter history New Orleans will po^ IlBie lust the false asp L to them originally hj urbs. The nearest town or settle Lgt Into the dim en any consequence is now 60 n Bihe miscellaneous sign tant from New Orleans. Wit L there. One of ther mllos o f every large city in t I E. D a m e ro n , R o o m 8 ’ try a million or more peopli ihe presently came _ door, where the and many Industries develop and wealth for the urban pol b repeated. It was bite This Is the end New OrlT possibly her father working to and will have real with her, she though knob. large part, anyway, by the red a dark room on a Panama canal is opened to fitly used as a place ol of the world. i was another room b Meanwhile modern sewer I;» door that stood hall drainage within the city proij 'was engaged; his voli practically and wholly solved l Inner room; and she .j outer door of the w sanitary problems, and the of a simple method of filti i looked about the pla waters of the Mississippi rip ■On a long table lay In given the city a pure water ie |many odds and ends- prden-seed under dusl celled by none in the world.' ’Gators and Insects H unt New I HAre EW ORLEANS.— More than 1,000,- N 000 acres of marsh land lying with in 50 miles of New Orleans are to be drained, reclaimed and transformed from a wilderness Into gardens, homes, namlets and towns. The work of re claiming eome 50,000 acres within the corporate limits of New Orleans is now well under way, while contracts have been let for the reclamation of fully 100,000 acres additional In ad joining parishes. This neans that within two years the alligator will no longer find abori ginal harborage In the Carnival city, that the breeding grounds of countless billions of mosquitoes will be turned terns are in operation and come to look upon the feeding as a into highly productive farms on which complete. They have cost T d u r n t h / matter of course, and State Game mosquitoes cannot breed, that hun about $25,000,000. ICES Warden Nowlin of Wyoming, who has RESTRICTIVE led the feeding experiments, Bays that the last of the great elk herds Is be coming rapidly domesticated. Several discussion of West Pointer! " * ^ j s arket Ì ranchmen in the Rocky mountain coun (T wgnder T?) many West Pointers acquire try have conducted private elk pre of perfection of symmetry ai ÆSKfefr / HIS MAME > serves for years. Outside of the pri rlage the acme of manly grl cam ee f EER and elk preserves may play an vate elk preserves there are few herds these are duo not to any lngei Important part in reducing the S & 5 V i s i t 1 left in the west. pltances, but to the systems] high cost of beef. According to gov and exercises that make the Barret Littlefield, who lives near ernment experts who have made an a certain extent, an athlete, investigation of the cost and methods Slater, has several hundred elk on his outset these young fellows of raising venison, declare that the great ranch. Every season he ships ASHINGTON.—"I have often heard through what are called the game laws of the various states are many carcasses of elk to the Denver a question as to whether West up’ exercises, their object preventing deer and elk farming and market, besides supplying zoological denying the country one of its chief gardens throughout the country. He Pointers wore corsets. It Is absurd In straighten the body and dev( sources of cheap and good meat. Deer has found it profitable to raise elk for a way, because should any effeminate chest. One might suppose that and elk can be raised readily in near the market—so profitable that he youngster resort to such a thing It require a great amount of sui ly every state in the Union. They are abandoned the cattle business years would be Impossible to keep the affair else to make any marked easily controlled and cheaply fed. ago and has devoted himself entirely a secret, and once known his school but three long hours of such The increase of elk under domestica to the raising of venison. There are life would become a burden to him on dally will soon produce benel tion is fully equal to that of cattle. two other elk preserves In northwest account of the endless amount of criti suits In the most stooped foi "The cadet uniform Is also The state and the government, ern Colorado. J. B. Dawson, a Routt cism he would receive from his fel through its Yellowstone park offlclaU, county pioneer, has several hundred lows. He would be made the laugh help In this direction. The drt have co-operated with Individual head of elk on his ranch near Hayden ing-stock of the school and would soon Is tight, very tight. The shouli In nearly every state In the Union find himself the possessor of any num heavily padded In order to gh ranchmen In caring for the vast herds of elk in the Jackson’s Hole region in the killing of deer Is forbidden ex ber of effeminate nicknames that a square effect. The chest Wyoming. It is estimated that there [ cepting in the fall and during a lim would grate upon his ears In any but thick, so that there will be no are 30,000 elk in the Yellowstone park ited period. If deer and elk are to be a pleasant manner. of wrinkling. All this for the "It Is true,” continued the old sol looks; com fort has no place region, constituting the only great raised for the market the venison herd left. For two or three winters , farmer must be allowed to kill for the dier, who was no other than Col. K. make-up of a West Pointer; it| these elk have been fed, and have now 1 market, whenever the demand Is there. B. Collins, a retired army officer. In a clpllne and looks.” N ow LAWÔ Planning a Substitute for i Beef No Corsets are W o rn at W est 0 D JgP W Governm ent’s Census of Indian W ards Dentists Believe T hey the government or by missionary en terprise Is 25,777. In these schools REE t STI «NKEDI CASH no effort Is spared to teach the child WHILE IN some Industry by which he may sup YOU ADVANCE W AIT port himself when he comes of age, and the Indians are gradually learn ing to live by the sweat of the brow upon the product of their own self- respecting handiwork, rather than up N the present census the govern on the bounty of the government. pHICAGO .—1"Well, I don’t know what The Apache Indians employed on ment has made a great effort to ob V under the shining forceps I am go- tain, through special agents, full and the Roosevelt reclamation project un >ng to do, anyway.” and a dentist in authentic data concerning the tribal der the act of June 17, 1902, earned j the Masonic temple sighed a perfect relations of the Indians, as a decade $34,000 In 1909, and rendered eminent mammoth of a sigh. ly satisfactory service in regions hence when the fourteenth census will The matter? Hair. Just plain hair be taken. It probably will be found where, on account of the heat, a white that those Indians who are now de man could not have labored. Sheep N o -n o t plain, either. Now, for In- pendent wards of the nation have be herding has given profitable employ * anc®. A !ady CAU1« “ P to my office ment to many hundreds of Navajo* the other day and wanted her teeth come full-fledged citizens. The Indian population of the United and Pueblos In the past year, and | ” *ed’# “ nd * took hold of the States decreased In the decade from Pima and Papago Indians, employed tep of her head with one hand, while as navvies on the Southern Pacific 1890 to 1900. from 373,607 to 266,760. k e' ' h* ° ther’ Then I In 1880 the care of the Indians cost railway, earned many thousands of tnrn°r| turned away to get an Instrument. the national government $5,206.109; dollars. The Sioux farmers have done and my sleeve button caught in her In 1909 the cost had risen to $15,- well, though they are deficient In the hair and the whole back of It, about 714,161, more than three times as quality of persistent patience that nr.een fat, shiny curls, cam , a ^ much. The total attendance of In makes the most successful sort of ag Wl' h She ■«mply froze me up* dian shlldren In schools conducted by rlcultural laborer and she didn’t come back to pay he^ I r H ave a bill, either. Say, this new hair style is putting me to the! “ The worst feature of the I thing is that the heads, or rati hair, won’t fit into the headra have tried all manner of scheml even had a new headrest builj lines that I was sure would the heads simply won’t fit ln^ thing. “ If we do succeed In gettlt mass laid out and tucked awal fully where it won’t bother us, j something like this: " ’Oh, mercy, doctor, you ari ing my hair all up. And I to a party this afternoon, too. "But the most usual thing ¡>1 doctor, there is a hairpin stlclf my head. Wait a minute. 0, da coming down. Doctor, do »topi ute while I fasten up my braid.| "I do tell you what, the ought to get together and boy present style of halrdress, or i slst that ail extra hair be “ before any dental work That would settle IL all Mg“ most enough earth to Hi a dozen fence plcke Tilth a string; and ■old newspapers. *>n tt per lay a set of hnrnei Me state of disrepair the walls were y ((newspapers containing _ Zelda did not kno' though any of the rbstone could have enl I to their character—the hi advertisements of th «ties. Ezra Dameron poor,” and complained » taxes and street In hit he had been the chh ititles In the county, kre that I've been very pknt Indeed," Ezra D "i have, in fa hmlly matter, calling P treatment, on the score ' with your husband. I otherwise, I would ha' I to take steps—steps Vinir the interests—the ly trust, I should say.’ Jinother extension of tw i luffieient for me to |b much for Olive not t • nchoollng was paid f 1 » mo!i, \ She gives me ■Her position Is assure«! ltag aside something • spply on the debt Idle." I two of these notes are Mrs. Merrlam. I t ■Wgstlons tin the stre It woman can’ t underst pints and exactions o: I 1 Sorry, very sorry, Mr. lUsk Is this extension. Ft* matter to y ou !” Jftct more than I can |8 Impossible. If it wer l**re my own money th lTou, I could perhaps be M a s it is, this money Hr—in fact. It is par iti estate. She is l utterly Ignorant of t •sary for me to exei tesre in administering |'t Is & sacred trust, M 1 sscred trust from 1 1 to-day,” said the “logetlcally, "hoping t “id be deferred." [ ’obe sure. It’s wise to But th« loan must b rtty of the last note, J'lose my wife’s esta II have timed all my dng voice stole thr i where Zelda sat fc listening with partei f*M pain in her eyes. I 1*» fell to the bars fli |*i4rp clatter that sta