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i Publication Offlcej Pennsylvania AVenue seer Fourteenth Street i ii fj TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION pelvered by Carrier In Washington and jij Alexandria pally Swiday Included one month 0 70 pally Sunday Included one week 20 Daily Sunday excepted one month 60 Sally Sunday excepted One week 1S By Msll Postage Prepaid Dally Sunday excepted one year IS BO Dally Sunday included one year 8 40 pally Sunday excepted one month SO Pally Sunday Included one month 70 Sunday oneyesj 2 40 All Subscriptions by Mall Payable In Advance Remittances Ehould be made by drafts checks pXKtofflce orders registered letters or express orders payable to THE WASHINGTON POST CO Washington I Entered at the post offlce at Washington eecond class man matter iForeign A3ertlslng Representative PAUL BLOCK 30 Kb Avens New York Hartforl Building Chlcsgo SATURDAY AUGUST 28 1909 Its efficient operation would proviso less important jthaathatvwhlch super vlseathe affairs of tooysilways The1 administration ojtW pure food law needs the eahy act Ion of Congress The chief chemist the mdst Important man in the nation from the standpoint tof the pantry should be allowed greater time to pursue the big work that is properly in his sphere PRESIDENT TAFTS ORDEAL Our foremost banqueter though he Is President Taft may well hesitate before attempting the culinary conquest of the pttre United States The white Hag flutters at Beverly and pour parlers are Initiated with a hundred reception committees from Boston to Seattle and from Los Angeles to Richmond Go easy on the eats is the executive admonition but we listen vainly for cessation of the mighty rattling of pots and pans that Is heard in the land The metallic sound of typesetters preparing the menus for breakfasts luncheons and dinners comes from many cities The whole country is scoured for possums because of the presidential liking for this delectable dish Reporters in certain remote localities are sharpening tha pencils which will record that the Presidents table was set with tempting viands This swing around the circle is beset with many perils for the President He must beard La Follette in his own State must test the love of ten insurgent senators in theirs He must thrash out past and proposed policies before critical audiences But none of these Is to compare with the obligation of eating his way across the continent For a long time it was the Presidents practice to go without luncheon Two meals a day were enough for him the doctors said Well probably two of the kind that are now being planned along the route would be enough but an average of three at least will be spread before him each temptingly based upon the proudest products of the local markets not to speak of importations from a distance It is easy to imagine how jealously the citiiensrof Los Angeles will watch tof see If the President approvingly discusses the menu which true to proud California standards will consist of everything grown in Lps Angeles county and nothing else New Mexico and Arizona not to mention Texas if the President should last that long will do their deadliest with the tamale Il will attend two banquets within two hours with President Diaz and the Mexican feast will be peppery if It is properly served New Orleans will assault the executive stomach with the creations of its creole chefs and then will come Georgia and the possum and taters South Carolina with chicken and hofc cake and Virginia with ham and beaten hiscuit Later if the government at Washington still lives the President wll find solace in the simple White House menu of Mooleys milk and soda crackers The President enjoys more powfer than many a monarch but he does not delude himself with the notion that he can control the ambitions of patriotic and enthusiastic reception committees bent upon adtertislng the good things of their respective communities All he can do is to face the music and the menu and trust In Providence May the President win out SUSPEND JUDGMENT One or two of the muckiest of the magazines have already rendered a verdict In the Ballinger Plnchot controversy before the trial has begun They have found Mr Balllnger guilty of inysterlous crimes on Imperceptible evidence and nothing will satisfy them but his Immediate dismissal IE disgrace On the other hand some newspapers can see nothing good In the Plnchot policies or methods and are willing to Indict him for crimes as obscure but fully as heinous as those for which Mr Balllnger has been convicted In the muckrakers court Is it not conceivable that both of these officials are doing their duty as they see It and even working to the same end each In his own way Does a difference of opinion on the Inscrutable subject of conservation constitute a crime on one side or onboth sides Allegations have been made to President Taft by an agent of the Interior Depart ment that officials in that department have attempted to rush through to patent certain coal land claims in Alaska which are alleged tefbe fraudulent The President has called upon ths officials In question for a statement of their side of the case There is nothing In this matter so far as developed upon which the public can base an opinion and there is no occasion for jumping at conclusions Tha President may be depended upon to sift this matter to the bottom and in the meantime it would be well to suspend Judgment VERSATILE DR WILEY The chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture must needs be a man of many parts There Is no telling when some dealer in Kalamazoo may And up on his hands a barrel of pickles that have grown sad discouraged wilty and flabby from standing too long unclaimed at the end of the counter The grocer knows of a marvelous powder he may drop Into this barrel that will affect the mournful pickle as does a shot in the arm the habitual dope fiend There is nobody but Wiley to keep him from doing it and he transgress Dr Wiley drops his deliberations as BULWARKS OF PEACE The target practice of the Atlantic fleet off the Virginia Capes which the Assistant Secretary of the Navy Mr Beekman Wlnthrop observed with expressions of approval Is the most important gunnery test held In the navy for several years The layman who reads that the shooting is wonderfully rapid and accurate is not likely to grasp its full significance Service conditions at this practice are approximated as closely as possible without the agency of hostile fire The targets as well as the battleships are in motion in rough water whereas hitherto the gun pointers have fired from moving ships at stationary canvas screens in landlocked bays The gunnery scores under those favoring conditions showed a flattering Improvement from year to year dating from 1903 when obsolete methods of perfunctory firing were discarded and the principle of continuous aim established It was magnificent but It was not war nor was It sufficiently near the conditions of war to afford the maximum of training for the personnel It was a necessary step in the development of the guns their mechanism and their crews It established standards of gunnery which are invaluable to the real naval efficiency for after all it will be the hitting power of the fleet which will carry the day in battl The record practice in Magdalena Bay a competition between gun pointers in both accuracy and rapidity of fire at short range showed that the limit had been approached and the ease with which the canvas screens in Manila Bay repre senting the vital area of a ships side at real battle ranges were torn to shreds indicated that the men and officers behind the guns were well nigh perfect in the fundamentals Accordingly the practice this year was ordered to be held in rough water This marks the adoption of the nearest possi ble approach to service conditions as for instance also has the use of war color in place of the attractive white and spar so long characteristic of American men war In the service It is not expected that the perfect scores of previous years will be equaled Broadsides fired from a rolling ship steaming at 14 knots at a rolling target towed at 10 or 12 will naturally not be as effective as those from a ship moving without roll of Mother sGoose itMs recorded of the fine lady who rode a white horse that Wlti rlaga en her flaien and bells en her toe She snail baw mutle wherever in oetr Are we to have the days of Mother Goose back again Whether were an old fashioned court ot love to sit onr the question it would be pronounced fair to spring such a sud den and novel mantrap to the consternation and certain discomfiture of men everywhere we cannot say but the idea is said to be spreading like wildfire Probably when the novelty wears off the danger will somewhat abate Meanwhile let the bells ring we must take our chances in the world and will not run away tinkle they ever so compell ingly A FAMOUS AUTHOR Daatel Defoe was endowed by nature with an extraordinary literary genius and many of his writings are masterpieces of English letters Nature must have been in a riot of fruition to give to English literature Swift and Defoe in the same generation The Charleston News and Courier In a passing remark on the author of Robinson Crusoe has this to say Defoe Is described as a master of deception and evidently possessed a highly developed sense of what in these piping times Is known as yellow journalism When alarm was occasioned In England by the report that the plague was spreading in France Defoe promptly published a Journal of the Plague In which he described his personal experiences as a grown man during the plague of 1665 although In reality he was only about 4 years old In 1665 Defoe Jt is said also wrote a detailed account as an eyewitness of the destruction of the Island of St Vincent by earthquake and volcano which attracted much attention although as a matter of fact he had not been within miles of the catastrophe It is interesting however to note that many of his descriptions of that terrible event tally with the accounts of the more recent destruction of Mont Pelee notably the falling of the cinders on ships at sea Defoe was a consummate master of the quality of verisimilitude and in that Respect Swift himself was scarce his superior He wrote the Memoirs of a Cavalier and in no authentic history can you find so vivid a picture of The Thirty Years War on the continent and the military operations of the struggle between king and parliament In England The first William Pitt the great Lord Chatham held it to be veritable history and worse histories Have been written of that mighty and momentous conflict than this romance of Defoe It is wonderful that Sir Walter Scott who was never oh the scene wrote the opening chapters of Count Kobert of Paris but it Is equally wonderful that Defoe wrote that rather risque narrative The Life of Colonel Jack Unfortunately some of Defoes works are unfit for the young to read or the old either unless their literary taste Is so admirable as to separate the inimitable style of the author from his coarse suggestion Defoe could not have written A Tale of a Tub only Swift had the genius for that So also is Gulliver a far greater production than Crusoe but Swift himself could not have written the Memoirs of a Cavalier or Captain Carlton Only Defoe could have produced them MORE GOVERNMENT The Brooklyn Eagle notes the mania that Infects the American people for additional and new laws to make mankind rich virtuous and contented by acts of Congress and of the legislatures The idea is that the American people are no governed sufficiently and even a more vicious and false idea is prevalent adhered to by the leaders of both political parties that a majority can do no wrong and that a minority has no rights that a majority needrespect The fundamental principle of Anglo Saxon liberty is this Government is in stituted to protect the weak from the strong and guard the rights of the minority from tlfe encroachments of the majority Of all the odious despotisms imaginable it is that of an unbridled majority Athens had such a government and the absolutism of Persia was preferable to it For centuries there was a bitter conflict in England between prerogative and liberty Hence Magna Charta hence the GERMAN C01P0EATI0N TAX Payne Law Assessment Slight Compared ff jVWitb Foreign Measures From the Chlcagofkecorf HefaH WhUeTthecorporatlonVtax now to be Imposed by the federal government has called forth much compiSlnt Jheleyy Is so slight compared with what foreign governments takeTfrom corporations that it would seem almost negligible to the business men of most European countries vAn example of theway ia which German taxes bear upon oor porations was given a short time ago when the manager of thegreat Gelsen kirchen Coal and Iron Company stated that last year the amounts paid in taxes of all kinds by his company came to 54 per cent of the sum distributed in dlvf dends Germany makes especial Inroads on the companies which have their securities listed upon the stock exchange Just as a slight addition to existing taxes it was proposed in connection with the revenue bill this year that a special yearly tax be placed on listed stocks the assessment being in proportion to the average market price For the Deutsche Bank with a capital of 48000090 thjs single tax would have been 330000 last year This particular device was dropped but substitutes almost as onerous were found Hereafter all atocks must pay a 3 per cent tax when first listed on the exchanges Bonds are taxed one half of 1 per cent on listing The mere right to have a ten year coupon sheet issued In connection with bonds the regular German way of making interest payments involves a i per cent taxV TAMMANYS EED TAPE Ice Delivered to Central Park Melts on Pavement for Want of Inspection From the New York Herald Ice which has been delivered dally all summer at the Arsenal In Central park is still awaiting inspection as to quality and quantity before being used Rather there Is a spot where the ice has been left but all that remains of either quality or quantity is a large dampness on the grass Park Commissioner Smith was disturbed yesterday because the coolness had all gone out of the ice without any one receiving the benefit and he made known the facts Under a new system of inspection in the finance department he said no article can be accepted arid used until it has been thoroughly inspected Notices have been sent regularly to the finance department Mr Smith said asking for the inspection but the inspectors never came and the ice for the Arsenal was never used Occasionally a desperate clerk stenographer or policeman has ventured forth and chipped off a small piece to cool his parched tongue but no official recognition of the presence of the Ice was ever taken On hot days the hygienic law against cold drinks has been enforced literally While they have sipped lukewarm water the employes have been able to watch the large clear cakes slowly melt away No sufferer living near the park has been permitted to touch the ice nor has any attempt been made to stop its delivery The city will be compelled to pay the bill as the Ice companies cannot be held responsible for the system which prevented its use None of the men on duty In the fl Lnance department yesterday knew any thing about the wasted Ice It was suggested that probably the case would be referred to the bureau of municipal investigation with the hope that the investigators may find the means of estimating the weight of water and vapor in the pools around the Arsenal and thus deciding whether the city was cheated in height bill of rights hence the act of settlement and directed at a stationary target and the happy condition now prevails on an almost calm bay But our friends when the subject has the largest liberty the enemy would scarcely remain station consistent with public order and the crown ary and the fleet would have to fight is stripped of every flower of privilege in whatever sea prevailed when it found unnecessary to the reign of law the foe New lessons will be learned Our government is an offshoot of the during the next fortnight off the Capes British system founded upon it and and the fleet will be the more efficient for here too has continuously waged a war it It is a gratifying characteristic of between rights and duties between equa the American navy thatits officers in ity and privilege The doctrine once was responsible command today have no that that government is best that governs thought other than to solve the problems least But a new evangel1 is now preach of war as nearly as they may in order ed and if we should judsre by the sumptu that they their men and their ships shall remain the chief est bulwarks of BELLS AND BELLES to what Is whisky forgets his poison squad sidesteps bleached flour cuts the i peace international chemists convention and neglects a headline for the press while i he turns Old Sleuth in Kalamazoo and Numerous are the expedients of the gets the evidence against the pure food other sex to attract and rule over way violator He arrests his man and hales i ward man and strange would it be were him before a pure food court Judge he able to wholly resist all their fascinat Wiiey is on the bench Juror Wiley in ing wiles They have varied with the the box Prosecutor Wiley argues the period in which they were exercised ease and Expert Wiley testifies arid the stage of civilization which de The business of deciding these cases veloped them In earlier times indeed is one of the most important matters at the present time In sunnier limes before the people today It affects every individual every day and means national health or a lack of it The ramifications of the pure food law lead Into every corner of the nation Its authority is exercised over every individual who prepares anything for his brother to eat and profits on invested millions depend upon it When an issue against a manufacturer arises he is allowed to present his case while Dr Wiley represents the prosecution But as the prosecuting attorney Is also the judge the method of arriving at an equitable decision is Irregular to say the least Yet the pure food law prescribes that this shall be the manner of its enforcement The giant has grown to manhood and is eating his parent out of house and home Herein js found the defect In an otherwise great and beneficent law The provisions for the enforcement ot pure food regulations are inadequate There should be an authorized body outside of the departments before which questions of its violation may be brought When these questions are raised the accused should be allowed to prepare his case and the government to conduct the prosecution Dr Wiley theslguth might gather evidence1 Dr Wiley the expert might testify Dr Wiley the prosecutor might present his case but the judge of its merits should be somie outside body President Roosevelt realized this wjhenhe appointed the Remsen referee bard which the comptroller of the fxi asury hagnronounced lawful and to jrhieh have ben referred a few mooted questions Yet this board is merely a ody of chemists examining into cer tain tScJentiaci facts The pure food lawTWhich isva measure affecting inter state commerce jshnuld be enforced by sixommissipn imllar in high character na interstate commerce commission than ours dusky beauties who wish to enhance their charms wear rings in their noses and tattoo bewildering patterns in blue and red over their cheeks and shoulders Indian squaws bedeck themselves with multicolored beads and bits of glass And do not our fairest and best glitter and scintillate with priceless jewels Do they not patch and powder and paint just a little and try in various ways to add to their attractiveness Such practices of such early origin and so universally in use must have their basis in some deeply seated instinct of human nature and must have proved effective to have prevailed so long It appears that there are still lurking dangers hitherto unsuspected and it must be with a feeling akin to dismay that those susceptible to such Influences read of a new device calculated to add a subtle charm to those which sway us now We notice that in an Indiana town eight budding girl pupils wearing tiny silver bells about their ankles nearly broke up a school where there were boys with their distracting tintinnabulations and were sent home by the master to divest themselves of the potent mischief Think of tiny silver bells worn about the ankle Imagine the effect when a dashing beauty sweeps into a ballroom shedding mysterious muffled music as sne moves And when you swing her down the polished floor in a dizzying dance and catch responsive to her every graceful movement the mystic harmony that floats softly out to mingle with the stirring waltz as the little bells dance with her and gayly sweetly jingle out their joy will you not feel the charm Fancy strolling out with a fair damsel under the twinkling stars the rhythmic melody of tinkling bells mingled with her dulcet tones and bubbling laughter Would you not follow on forever Could you escape the spell In the ancient and truthful chronicle ary laws of the States and the meddling statutes of the Federal establishment we must conclude that the American people are convinced that the government which governs most is the best The income tax seems to be enjoying a well earned vacation Summer must be here again the sap is running In the asphalt In the language of the sport King Alfonsos beard had a whirlwind finish Dr Wiley still has What is whisky to practice technical jlu jitsu on anyhow Fewer immigrants who need reclvil izing would help the United States considerably too It is to be hoped now that benzoate of soda will be used to preserve the peace in governmental circles A registered letter at 10 cents per will be Just as welcome as an 8 center If it bring money from home When is benzoate of soda may be the supplement to that mysterious romance What is whisky The Republican rainbow garden in Virginia is going through a glorious season of anticipatory bumper crops The report that Mr Harriman Is lOu per cent better sounds almost lle a corporation melon way of expressing It Actors Pay in Germany From the New York Tribune The campaign of the German actors In favor of the new theater laws which are under consideration in the German relchs tag has caused much public discussion as to the profession and the income which it yields One statistical article which is being extensively circulated says that 45 per cent of Germanys actors receive from 720 to 1000 marks a year 25 per cent 2400 marks 20 per cent from 2400 to 3000 marks and only 10 per cent have an income of over 3000 marks a year The worst of It all the actors say Is that they cannot be employed for a whole year even at these figures That the theater year only lasts about nine months Is no fault of ours nor do we blame the managers but that 3000 marks a year about 750 is looked upon as good pay for an actor for a years services is proof that we should have an organization says one of the aggrieved ones Knox and Billiards From Putnams Magazine Once upon a time a writing man came over to Washington and spent a day in the White House with Mr Roosevelt Then he went away and wrote a whole book about the President based on that days observations Men have known Mr Knox for years and years and could not if their lives depended upon It write of him 1000 words of intimate characteriza tion Once long ago somebody seeking his anecdotal side wrote that he was a confirmed and brilliant devotee of the game of billiards Today there is hardly a newspaper in the United States that has not at one time or another printed something about Secretary Knoxs skill at billiards As a matter of fact he has never played the game It is a problem with him today whether he shall become an expert at billiards or issue a sweeping aeniai or the stories that make him one The Jeffries Johnson system of preliminaries seems to be in use in some governmental affairs at this moment Some of the irreverent will probably say the lightning stroke which killed that baseball player was Intended for the umpire The Cuban lottery is an infant industry outside the breastworks which would grow to menacing proportions If permitted to come inside Harvard Elms Are Doomed From the Boston Transcript Frequent reports that the stately elms in the Harvard yard could not much longer stand up under the ravages of various Insects are confirmed by the college authorities who declare that the trees now recovering from the defoliation by the elm leaf beetle are suffering even more through the boring of the leopard moth The elm leaf pest Is not so active in the college yard or in Cambridge this year but the trees already weakened are having a hard fight for life ind it Is thought that the elms In the yard will have died in five years As to the other trees in the yard no prediction can be made they are attacked by the leopard moth So grave is the situation that a number of men have been at work for weeks to minimize the ravages of the leopard borer but with little success Epithet proof umpires out of employment during the coming winter may be handy for the Fowler Cannon Plnchot Ballinger and Wilson Wiley series Gov Campbell of Texas has indicated that he will not be present at the meeting of Presidents Taft and Diaz Hope the governor is not skittish of frock coats and silk hats aSSJfcTKr Fowlers Repentance From the Pittsburg Post Whenever a Republican congressman doesnt get what he expects and has nothing equally as good in prospect he turns insurgent and fairly paws up the earth in ihls wrath against the evii powers that be whom he has helped Install It Is not on record while Congressman Fowler held undisturbed the chairmanship of the committee on currency that he ever voiced such opinions of Cannon as he now resorts to Mr Fowlers virulence sounds more like disappointment than the protest of outraged principle He has run too long with the machine to gt much attention now that he has beenrun oyer and hurt by it The eleventh hour is pretty late for a politlcian to repent TURKEY HONORS Portraits of Bandansiqr the almost legendary hero of the Uacedonianinsur rectionarjr movement anil Its leader have been published In almost every American newspaper and magazine He is a man whbhas visited the United Statest who receiveaihisfeaucaUQn at the American Roberts Cdllege atConstantlnople and who talks English without the trace of an accent For years the Turkish government had Vai large price set on his head Ferdinand ot Bulgaria was like wise anxious togetthe man In his power Knowing mai ne was tne mainspring ot the Macedonian movement against Turk ish rule and that he was a source of great danger to th Bulgarian throne For Sandansky not only made the base of his operations against the Turkish government within the Bulgarian borders seeking refuge on Bulgarian soil when too hard pressed by the sultans troops but likewise aroused such strong popular feeling among Bulgarians in behalf of their coreligionists in Macedonia as to convert into an object of Intense popular animosity any Bulgarian statesman or government official who showed the least disposition to interfere with him and his followers or to prevent the compromising of Bulgaria In the eyes of Turkey and of the great powers by allowing it to become the headquarters of the Macedonian insurrection Several Bulgarian ministers lost their lives at the hands ot Macedonian assas sins because the latter saw In them an obstacle to their operations Ferdinand was repeatedly menaced with death and with the kidnapping of his children un less he showed himself more friendly to Sandansky and his adherents and as Sandansky proclaimed that his object was to unite Macedonia to Bulgaria Ferdinands subjects took the ground that In Opposing the Macedonian movement he was standing in the way of the ag grandizement of Bulgaria Hailed as Liberator Today Sandansky Is an honored guest of the Turkish government at Constantinople where be is hailed by the new regime as one of its liberators He was one of the star guests at alegls latlve banquet given the other day by the president of the chamber of deputies at which the grand vizier the ministers and the generalissimo Chefket Pasha were present He has become Sandansky Effendi was one oT the principal leaders of the troops which in April last marched upon Constantinople to depose Sultan Abdul Hamid and to place Mohammed RecbAd on the throne and will doubtless be Invited to all the entertainments given by the new sultan in honor of King Ferdinand when tho latter comes to Constantinople next month to pay his promised visit to the padlshah Sandansky however no longer talks of uniting Macedonia to Bulgaria He has absolutely repudiated any such designs and now professes that his one aim and Idea is Macedonia for the Macedonians under the Turks but not tinder the Bulgarians Thfs tis however creating less resentment In Bulgaria than one would imagine For both Bulgarians and Macedonians are now uniting with the Turks in bitter enniity against the Greeks that Is to say the Greeks within and beyond the borders of King Georges dominions If Turkey goes to war with Greece she will have the good will and support of not only Sandansky and his Macedonian Christians but also of Bulgaria Blow to Marriage Broking Marriage broking which In the past has played so unsavory a role In connection with matrimonial alliances between impecunious noblemen and heiresses has just received a severe blow In France through the refusal by the courts to regard as binding any contract stipulating for the payment of a commission to a broker in the event of a successfully arranged marriage The judges proclaim that contracts of this kind are immoraPand against public policy because they make the agent heedless of the fitness of the projected marriage and anxious only to secure his profit The English courts have already adopted an Identically sirnllar attitude so that henceforth marriage brokers will be unable to have recourse to legal process for the recovery of their commission either in Great Britain or in France It only remains for Germany Austria and Italy to follow suit in this matter in order to put an end to a thoroughly discreditable traffic in which quite a number of broken down people of rank are engaged directly and indirectly and which has brought unhappiness to many foolish American women and young girls Most of the suits for commissions of this kind In the past have taken place In Germany and among the foreign nobles married to American women who have figured as defendants In actions such as these have been Prince Charles Ysenburg Blrsteln and Count Francis Joseph Larlsch Swedish Aristocrats In Scrapes For some time past the Swedish aristocracy which Is very proud and exclusive has been inviting public attention by the number of scrapes in which its members have been implicated To the names of Moerner Rosen Wrangel Klinckowstrom must now be added that of Baron Rutger Bennet whose father was one of the ehamberlalns of the late King Oscar and a popular figure at the court of Stockholm Young Baron Bennet who is about 30 and a graduate of the University of Lund has just been arrested and indicted at Malmo on charges of conspiracy and of forgery in connection with a Danish life Insurance concern It seems that a number of years ago the brother in law of the baron an engineer of the name of Karl Widen took out a policy on his life for JPOOO crowns Some time back the baron intimated that Karl Widen was dead But he was informed by the insurance company that no premiums had been made on the policy since the end of 1905 and that the policy had therefore lapsed Not long afterward Baron Bennet notified the Insurance company that his brother in law had not died In 1908 as had been understood at first but In the spring of 1906 When the policy was still In force He also declared that the demise of Karl Widen had taken place In the United States and produced an American death certificate and also a document purporting to bear the signature of Widen making the baron the beneficiary of the policy Both of these documents nave been since discovered to be forgeries and rather clumsy ones at that MARQUISE DE FONTENOT Copyright 1909 by tbe Brentwood Company Not to Be Cheated From Youngs Magazine This is a mighty dishonest world you know said Henry Dixey and It doesnt hurt to be suspicious of some people I sympathize with the old negro who came to a watchmaker with two hands of a clock 1 want yer fer to fix up dese hans Dey ainTkept no correct time for mo den sbr nttmts i Well where is the clock demanded the watchmaker Out to my cabin But I must hiiye the clock Didnt I tell yer dars nuffin de matter wid the clock ceptin de hans An here dey be You Jes want de clock so you kin tinker it and charge me a big price Gimme back dem bans SHEBTDAFS HOME A GROCERY Chicago Mansion of the Famous General One Center of Social GayetTes From the Chicago Daily Jfewt One by one the old time mansions which housed prominent families of Chicago of more than two and three decades ago are being abandoned to make1 way for the invasion of commerce Injeach di vision of the city atately old fashioned homes some of them of brownstone and others of white marblefrontahave been razed to make room for business structures Still others have been turned into boarding houses and one large residence in the west division of the city which was one of the show places 30 or more years ago will be remodeled for laundry purposes vv Surprise was caused a few days ago when announcement was made of the purchase by John Barton Payne of the former residence of Gem Philip Sheri dan at 2007 09 Michigan avenue In this day and generation there are many who will be surprised to learn that the hero of the ride to Winchester 0 miles away was at one time after the war a real bona fide resident of Chicago and a property owner herel The house formerly was the center of social gayetles and within its walls many celebrities of the civil war have been entertained by the general and Mrs Sheridan The generals last years were passed in Washington where hehidthe companionship of Gen Old Tecumseh Sherman and other famous warriors The Sheridan house in Michigan avenue is of brick and stone and the ground floor is occupied by a grocery store at present UEWSBOY EESCUES CAT A Agent Afraid to Climb Shoots at One of Loebs Pets From the New York Fresi Little Jimmie Flynn a newsboy showed more pluck than a grown up cgent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals yesterday when it came to tackling a custom house cat one of Collector Loebs pets that had been howling in a Battery park treetop since Tuesday Tho cat was heart brpken because all four of its kittens naJ been drowned but the crowd in the park sup posda it was mad WEen the animal societys agent came he said he wouldnt climb the tree not he So he stood off took what he called careful aim and fired four times Nohe of the bullets hit the cat Put that pistol away boss Ill get her for you said Little Jimmie He laid down his papers and shinned up the tree He stroked the cat on the head several times and came down with It under his arm while the crowd cheered The boy was about to walk off with the animal when the agent halted him Jimmie held out the cat but the man shrank back and ordered him to put her In a shelter house until he could get a wagon from the societys stable Descendants of David Prom A The history of the Sassoons Is on of the most dramatic in the very dramatic story of the Hebrew race The original Sassoon was a Bombay merchant but the family Is descended from a group known as Ibn Shoshan who at one time held the position of Nossl of Toledo The name Shoshan which signifies Illy in Hebrew was gradually transformed into Sassoon signifying gladness The family claim Davidio dascent and Abraham Sassoon who flourished in the seventeenth century stated that he was a direct descendant of Shephatiah the fifth son of David Not only are there many pfernrps tn the dame In Hebrew me dieval literature but mention of It is made In the Taimua Where They Smoke in Church From the Columbus Ohio Evening Dlspitch I attended a novel church service at Atlantic City last week said David Archer of the State railroad commission the other day It is a church at whose services only men are expected and attendants are permitted to smoke and lounge about as comfort may suggest while the services are In progress Prob ably nowhere else in the country can such a service be seen Pipes and cigars are the rule there I suppose It would be hard to get such people as attend to do so If they were not permitted to do as they please There has been some criti cism of the church but it goes right on The Episcopalians are behind it Religious Chickens Sayrllle Dispatch to New York World Mrs Nelson Sweezey of this place has a flock of what are known as religious fowls which answer to but one call or sound When Mrs Sweezey wants to feed her fowls she gathers them together by whist ing a familiar hymn Come Te Sinners Poor and Needy when the fowls will hasten to her side knowing that temporal foods awaits them From mere chicks the Sweezey fowls have been thus fed and they refuse to answer to the ordinary call of chick chick which brings other flocks to the feeding place Fair Warning From the Chicago News You are a likely looking chap said the gllb tongued proprietor of the summer hotel and there are lots of pretty girls around here Why notspend your time love making I may responded the young salesman on vacation but there just one thing I wish to impress upon your mind And what is that I am not one of those chaps who would rather make love than eat Conduct on the Train From the Pittsburg Gazette Times Whats the porter passing around Schedulesfor our trip across the continent Schedules of what Showing In which States it is illegal to smoke cigarettes take a drink play crib bage and so on Felt Quite at Home From the Kansas City Journal Yes Im just back from Europe Did you see any towns abroad that reminded you of home Oh yes In Venice everything was flooded and In Pompeii the streets were all dug up PASTEURIZED PROVERBS FIFTY YEARS PE0QEESS Words of Praisefor the Negros Devel vopmen From Henry Watterson From the totitirllle CourteivJaamU The proposition emanating from Booker Washington that the negroes of America should mark the fiftieth anniversary of their emancIpatioiKfcy holding An exhibition illustrative of their material de velopmentand of theirvfuture uplift is an excellent one and suchTas coua not fall fo be of great educational value to bojh whites and blacks Nor is the Interval which must elapse before the idea takes shape any toa long for a proper consideration andworklngSul of all the protP ems Involved 1913 wjll come soon enough for those having the project In charge If success ia to be assured Just how much has been accomplished since President Lincoln issued his proc lamatton of Independence Is less generally realized than one could wish the growth has been so gradual and so widespread it has taken forms so various and so elemental It has had to deal with creating and defining a status social moral and political such as occurring among us and as part of our dally experience might well be overlooked though it cap hardly be overestimated For the ten or fifteen years Immediately succeeding emancipation the negroes Were not much more than a political and merchantable assef the conditions of their life had been changed and there were no Very practical and present benefits resulting therefrom But thereafter though sometimes groping in the dark and frequently betrayed into false positions the march of the race was upward arid the progress such as the most biased critio could not fall to acknowledge arid applaud And this progress Is one In which the Southern States have home a noble share for it Is the direct result of education ahd of evolution fostered and encouraged hy them The desire to become a more intelligent and more responsible citizen has been met fairly and squarely there have been diseouragementsand much straining of patience travail and sometimes turmoil but there has never been a day when the Southern States have faltered in the duty self imposed and splendidly interpreted When the jubilee memorial exposition takes stock of 0 years of achievement it Will have a good word to say on behalf of Kentucky which has faced the great question with so honorable and honest a spirit as to stand in the front rank of those committed to a comprehensive and common sense scheme of betterment The money it has spent has been well spent nor ha It been spent grudgingly and its citizens of color are not citizens by toleration or by merely legal sanction but by their deserts freely acknowledged and credited They belong here and we do not shirk the responsibilities their presence involves That Is much DA SAFTEE RAZ Jse Cone In the Boston Herald I had a gooda customer Com free time week for shave BImeby he gatta een hees head Idea for wanta save Cant pay for shave free lime a week One day to me he says Dis week wen pay day com I gat For me da saf tee raz He no com een my shop 1 theenk For one week maybe two I theenk perhap I losa heem For wich I hata do Bayeause da barber beaziness Een summer time ees bum Da people off on da vacash An no for shava com One day my customer com een An takaheesachair Hees face look Ilka scratch weelh cat An scratch you tan for fair Bayforf I speak for heem he say Donask for eef you do I breeng da saftee razr een here An try for shava you A LAND LUBBER From the Detroit Free Press I do not care to aviate To run an aeroplane Im satisfied If on the earth I only may remain 1 havo no wish to fly about From fleecy cloud to cloud I have a face two legs and arms Of which Im very proud Ad id while it may be very nice To sail the azure blue I do not care to break a leg Or een a rib or two I do not care to aviate On earth Im glad to stop Wheie if I fall I still may live To take another drop Convicts in Luck From the Indianapolis News Convicts In French Guiana seem to be in luck They are reported to be worklns a gold mine on their own account Their warders apparently failed thus far to dis cover where they have successfully staked their claim The convicts uv turn escape from the settlement by twos or threes and remain hidden for a day or two They then return with their pockets full of nuggets and havea great time Others get away in their turn but come back eventually also with gold The mine Is thus kept regularly working by shifts of convicts The latter when they return to the settlement are regularly sentenced to a few days imprisonment for absence without leave but this is low price to pay for a share In a gold mine The Source From the Newark Evening News i Potatoes Corn COtton OatS PumPklns CanE BaFJey Milk WheaT RYe REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Fair feathers make fine hats Dont buy a pig unless he Is fat Children and fools sometimes amuse Brevity sometimes loses a mans job Health Is not wealth to Weary Willie Straws show what kind of a bed youre In The sun makes rich and poor feel Lallke A fool and his money are always sought Fishes follow the bait so do other suckers A guilty conscience sometimes forgets about it Cats hide their claws but you can see the scratch Comparisons are odious but wed rather have a fresh egg East or west home Is best except when the police are after you 1 jM From the New York Press Being good ought to make a long life because Its so mighty uninteresting i The reason a woman keeps house so well Is youM better tellfeer so anyhow The more a girl will kiss her brother the more she would mean it if he wasnt It takes a woman to look up to a man so far below her that hes scarcely in sight A valuable thing about a private vegetable garden is it teaches you to bear disappointments POINTED PARAGRAPHS From the Chicago News The average woman seldom feels sorry for herself if she can find some man to feel sorry for her A mans liberality always crops out when it comes to giving advice that he cant use in his business Watch any man long enough and Vou will see him da something he ought to be ashamed of Many a woman nags at her hushand until she either brings him to her way of thinking or drives him to drink Every time a married woman begins to talk aboht her rights its her husbands cue to enumerate a few of his wrongs Some men practice what they preach but the Ohio minister whose JncomeWas 14 for three months must have practiced economv whila he preached the gospel J1EWS OPVISITORS 4 IN WASHINGTON pJfssisslpp is oneSouthern State wheVa the prohibition law Is enforced as strictly as the lawa against pistol carrying the Sunday law and the gambling law said Gov Fv NoeU chief executive of that State at the Ebbitt House 4Wai are 4n fact the pioneer prohibition State of the South As far back as 1880 had local op tion laws in a great many or the counties and in that year we began a sys tematic campaign to drive liquor selling out of the Statev We forced It 4to the boundary counties and it languished there until last year wlfen we passed a State wide pro hlbition law which went into effect Decemher 30 At the time of the passage of this law prohibition was in effect Inali but eight of the 78coun ties In the State The cjght counties wereon the boundaries of theStat and the argumentjwas Ssed by these7 counties that no prohibition law could be strictly enforced because liquor could be brought ln from across the line but now these counties are dryf The two largest cities In the Stale Jackson and Meridian have beendrylr for severalyears and it Is impossible td procure liquor in those cities There are no saloons of any kind Prohibition has been a great thing for the State and the white people have realized It tor a long time You see we have In Mississippi one tenth of the entire negro population of the United States Three fifths of our people are black and had the white people been given their way prohibition would have been In force years agoi In my home town of Lexington the local option law has been in effect for fifteen years For fifteen years before that time liquor was sold and the town stood still the population being not more than 700 In the last fifteen years we have increased in size until we have 2000 people and business is thriving as It never did whlle Jtauor was sold Gov Noel is on his way home after a visit to Tappahannock in Essex county Va where he went to deliver an address at the unveiling of a Confederate monument Yes we have some pretty good bear sport in my section of West Virginia said William A Browning a young farmer of that State who formerly lived in Washington and is a brother of HClay Browning of the Arm of Browning Baines ot this city at the Raleigh last nighL We not Infrequently trap and pursue for miles before landing them some big black bears One we got not long ago weighed pearly 500 pounds which is a pretty good sized bear for a black bea I can tell you and he gave Us an exciting run Wo use the large scale chain trap about 3 feet long with grabs which hamper bruin in his efforts to get away by catching in rdots and heavy shrubbery causing him to stop every few feet look around and wonder what is hindering him In his progress The big fellow we got recently was In my county of Pocahontas We followed this bear for nearly 10 miles after he got into the trap from Cranberry River to Red Pun before we got a shot at him Then Gladwell one of the party brought him down with Winchester There was rejoicing atAcaaeiriy Va when we brought the carcass Into Paynes store there and for several days there was plenty of bear meat consumed In that vicinity I got the hide which is a splendid one had it tanned and prize It highly and I want to say and emphasize that one can get asrgooSNbear hunting in West Virginia as he can In aimost any other section of the oountry Up in the APPala6hiap range of mountains in WestVirglnla there Is a cblony of Englishmen thatwas settled some 3 years ago by Charles RH Bruce said Col James Hebden whoregisters from LInwood Va at the Raleigh Col Jimmy as he 13 known by this friends is a native Englishman who came to America 21 years go and has resided ever since that time at Mingo the rama the English have given to kthelr settlement Mingo Isnt a very farge place said Col Hebden It has a blacksmith shop a general store a couple ot churches and a population of less Than SOU but tn the 30 years It has existed there have been thousands of Englishmen who have taken up residence there Bruce was tho first man and he went there In the seventies on a sort of exploring expedition He found the shooting so good that ha wrote back home arid told his friends what a great place he had discovered and begged them to come over Many or them did and the resultrwas the founding of an English colony perhaps the only strictly English colony ja the United States When I first went to Mingo the place was 75 miles from a rail way but now we are setting hemmed in by civilization and the nearest railroad Is only 12 miles away The finest shooting In this country can be had np in tha mountains of that section and the vast stretches of mountainous land afford great country for he raising of stock On my place I have hundreds of head of cattle and sheep Col Jlebden Is not a real colonel He says himself that the title was bestowed upon him not because he earned It but through a mistake of the private secretary of Queen Victoria at the time of the Boer war Sir Wilfred Lawson a member of parliament whose son was one of the residents of Mineo directs the attention of the English war office to the number of Englishmen In Mingo and knowing of their ability as riders and rinemen he offered their services to tho queen and she replied thanking Col Hebden for the offer Ever hear of the wonderful cane that was presented to former Senatof John Jones of Nevada asked Georgo Amy a New York newspaper manat the Ralelgh I am reminded of Jt by these new fangled pay as you enter cars It is strange how quickly the public becomes accustomed to new things Over on the other side they are using automatic ticket vending machines and for a time there was a great howl because persons who wanted to buy tickets had to haye the right change Now they have become accustomed to carrying the proper change with them and there aro no more kicks Well as to the cane When In New York one day Senator Jones got on a car to ride to his office When the conductor approached for his fare thejsen ator fumbled in his pockets and found that he had ho money The conductor thereupon stopped the car and Senator Jones had to get off He didnt object hut commended the conductor for doing his duty When he reached if office after walking several block ft immediately laid In a supply of nlckel3 Then It occurred to him that it would be a good scheme to haye a cane that could be filled with nickels which would sup i ply the person who carried ltwlth car fare and guard against lapses of memory Tfle senator expressed the wish that he have such a cane and it quickly got about among his friends Outjat his home Judge GbodwJnttherianeditorlal writer on a leading newspaper wrote ait editorial about Senator Jones desire for a cane whereupon the senators friends quietly beganto takeup a subscription A fund of J500 was raised and a hand-some stick was purchased which was provided with a place ror holding nickels that couldbe slipped out aatheeonduc tors now take change from the holders they carry at their belts The cane was filled witbnIckeUvandat a dinner given in Washington the senator was presented with the cane He found upon tak ing it that the nickels caused the stick to weigh a lot more than he expected But he was game however and crrt the cane for a long time 1 il Mm 4 HT sS.