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fr THESEDOfGTOlSrgOr XUBSDVt AERI 6 Tfbe MWnton post Publication Office PeBaartrazda Ansgt sear Fourteenth Street TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Delivered by Carrier In Washington and Alexandria Daily fhnuUyladudedeae month 10 70 Dally SuBdayacttidea eee week 20 Dailyr Sunday excepted on month SO Daily Sunday excepted one week It By Malt Postage Prepaid Dauy Sunday excepted one rear 00 Dally Soaday included one year 40 Dally SunSay excepted one month 60 Dear Sunday lnrtnrted oacmcirUu 70 Sunday cne rear 2 40 Bemlttaneee should be made by drafts enedct peetefflcc orders registered letter or expreai orders payable to THE WASHINGTON POST CO Washington Entered at the posKrfnee at Washington as second daa mail matter New York Office rutlron Bending PAUL BLOCK Manarer Chicago Office Hartford Buudlac PAUL BLOCK Manarer TUESDAY APRIL 1909 A JCDGE THE WHITE HOUSE It Is a more or lew curious fact that of the twenty fire Individuals who attained to the cnlef magistracy of the United States prior to March 1909 but one had ever filled a Judicial station and he the one among them the leaet endowel with the Judicial temper as he live in tradition and In the estimation of the average intelligent man who came after him Gen Jackson im years on the bench and no doubf he was a Just Judje possibly a capable Jurist But we tnlnk or Jackoon Irrt as a soldier and second as a consummate party chief William Taft aerved both the Stale of Ohio and the republic of the United States In a Judicial capacity and his talents for the work of a Judge and nls dl plsy of tbe Judicial temperament rui dered him conspicuous lone before lie attained to the meridian of bis great intellectual powers Be It remembered that there is one official who is bound to think the man on the bench teho retains tle respect of the bar A statesman may go blind a military commander may take reckle chances a lanyer may mangle Ills ca a doctor may kill his patient a clergyman may preach liereay but jour jude hrs to walk steadily and he cannot oo that unless be thinks and ponders Prescient Taft is a thinker and he cau welsh and consider He is a man of energy and industry And his Integrity cannot be challenged and It will be nut at all strange if when he shall retire from the Presidency the people will look around for another chief magistrate wth a judicial training If Salmon I Chase bad not beca cfcef Justice of the Supreme Bench it ter HLely that be would hare been the Democratic candidate for President In 1RRJ As It was lie would hare been nominated if Seymour had suck to his declination but the electorate have always ucen eierse to the policy of making Presidents of Judges and If William Taft iiad hrta online Supreme Bench It is safe to say be would not hate been President Be that as may be we doubt not the people will have occasion the next four 3 eura to jcongratulate them el ei on tic Tact thar the President had a Judicial training THE nihil IN BtREtlCKACl When the late war between Russia and Japan was declared the aterage Intelligent reading man had little doubt that Japan would be overwhelmed and later ebeorbed by lien powerful adversary and nearly all of Christendom was amated when victory inclined to the Oriental In eiery battle and very nearly In etery action ofthat bloody conflict The light has been turned on and he that will read the account of tbe war ftom the pen of Gen Kuropatkln will ni longtT be surprised that victory inclined to the side it did It was not the genius ct the Japs for war nor the talents I their generals and admirals conspicuous as they were that defeated Russia so rcuch as the corrupt and lmbclle bu ttaucracy into which the empire of Peter tbe Great and Catherine the Great had fallen There were a sufficiency of brac soldiers and able captains but fao discipline There were plenty of arms and money and supplies but no effective or ganization On the other hand nee army nor nay was more providently eneemely managed than that of Japan It recalls how the hardy Swltzers swept off the field the brilliant chivalry and veteran men of arms of Charles tie Bold We can find example too In England Cromwell gave orders to the con uneni unaer vnanes 11 England waa practically a dependency of France Cromwell made 100 go further than Aries could maVe 1 000 go The contrast of the two Napoleons Is even moie marked Napoleon the Great made every sou countNapoleon tne Little tossed milliards to the grafters When the test came tae war department reported that not a button was missing In the equipment of the army In truth there was not a single regiment prepared for war wbereas the German forces were the beet disciplined the best equipped the best organized and the best supplied In the world An Imbecile and corrupt bureaucracy will soon sap the vitals of the greatest nation But it did not take from either France or Kussla the warlike genlua of their people and a day may come ere the middle of the century when Russia will either seize and hold Constantinople or retake Port Arthur and If she does either she will do both What Russia needs Is a man like Teter I or a woman like Catherine IL AOTES OP DEMOCRATIC SEXATOItS In casting their votes oponf amendments to the tariff bill will tha Senate Democrats follow their traditional habit Of opposing propositions that may come from unfettered Republican senators or will they embrace any opportunity presented to correct or lessen the degree of tbe high rates of duty that are sure to appear to the bill when It comes from tne committee on finance This question Involves tae most serious aspect of the situation at the Capitol today Without the help of the Democrats the efforts 4f Republicans who will seek to amend the bill In the Interest of con Burners will faJL This Is not the time for Democrats to attempt to make political capital The old practice of the minority of permitting the majority to pass a bad ajblll as possible will so longer be tolerated The country demands patriotic nonpartisan action The program of tbe Senate Republican leaders is to throw a few protection sops to tbe revenue tariff Democrats In ex change for their votes against meritorious amendments offered by Republicans on the mala features of the bill Tuns they hope to secure high duties oa sugar 0 leather good lumber paper Ac The general public not In a state of mind above partisanship and assist unpledged and tmtrammeled Republicans In very way they can to amend the Aldrfch bill when it conies from the Committee Nothing Me will be accepted by the American people as a fulfillment of public duty Wm tne Democrat rise equal to the emergency UP TO THE SEIf ATI The Increasing iorce of the public demand for a more liberal tariff bill was manifested yesterday In the House when the rule providing for a vote on April was passed by the narrow margin of sixteen votes Twenty Republicans opposed the rule and four Democrats voted for It The committee on rules was forced to make several important concessions In order to make sure of a majority A separate vote was conceded on the paragraphs relating to lumber barley barley malt hides oil tea and coffee and an amendment was proposed by the committee changing the countervailing duly on crude oil to a specific duty of 2 per cent ad valorem These concessions are regarded by the advocates of high duties as very jIoerM indeed But they will not strike the country that way The public protest against Increased duties on hosiery and gloves grows stronger daily and the average man wHI not be able to understand why the House does not take a record vote on these items The sugar schedule has not attracted much attention in the House tut it Js scrutinized elsewhere and the failure of the House to make a substantial reduction In sugar duties will not be overlooked Why should the House fall also to vote on the steel schedules the roost widely ducussed part of tbe tariff bill The action of tbe House yesterday mill convince the general public that the real work of tariff making will be done by the Senate There must be a full and fair discussion of all the items In tbe tariff bill In order to satisfy the public The committee on ways and means by changing Its mind on the tea coffee and oil schedules has cast doubt upon the value of its entire output The bill has lost ground in public estimation tror the day it was reported On th on hand consumers have discovered tLai they would reap no benefit while on the other hand ultra protectionists have made haste to devise changes when the bill shall reach the Senate The Democrats of the House missed their opportunity when they failed to frame a consumers tariff bill They could have presented a measure which could have been used with telling effect as a contrast to the Payne bill The Dem ocrats of the Senate have such an opportunity still They should grasp It at once not for partisan purposes for such an attempt would be as obnoxious as the effort of tbe Republican majority to Im pose high duties upon necesaricshut for the purpose of bringing down the excessive rates which are proposed Real statesmanship In behalf of all the people will accomplish more for the Democratic party now than partisanship thai It a misfortune apdrmtsUke that tedepeMtnce at any period war ever mentioned In connection with tbrra How wholly unreasonable the extremist there have grown be Js Illustrated 17 their action in regard to the tariff Almost more than for any other ne thing Mr Taft has labored to glv the Islands freer trade with us because It would be manifestly to their good Realizing that such was the case the Islanders who favor Immediate independence nave petitioned against the benefits of a change of tariff regulations being extended to the Islands because they fear It would make the country prosperous and beget an unwillingness among tbe people to contemplate the sundering of the political relations between us and them which alone make free trade possible It Is hardly to be supposed such counsel will be given weight On the contrary coming from such a source and basedon the reason stated It furnishes the best of reasons for conforming to Mr Tatts views confirming as It does his opinion that freer trade would give the islands the prosperity and contentment which are their due from us and which if we are able to give It we have no right to withhold WESTERN IDEA A new idea In public school life the introduction of toup kitchens for the pupils lias been adopted at Indianapolis The head of one of the schools of that city conceived the idea that If the pupils could be served at noon with a hot bowl of nourishing soup It would benefit them physically and mentally as they would study to better advantage than if com pelled to eat a cold lunch or go a long distance iome to obtain a hot one so he instituted tbe system of serving a plate of hot soup to those who wanted it at a cost of i cents a bowl The result has been very gratifying according to a re port road to the school authorities The enrollment of pupils In his room Is 69 and the daily average of soup eaters 6L Bean tomato noodle rice barlej and other kinds ot soup are served alternately and the cost as given by tbe teacher ts For material per week 3 for labor a woman being hired to at tend the soup making 250 making the total cost 550 or an average of a little less than 2 cents a bowl Each pupil re ceiving the soup is required to pay 10 cents each Monday morning or 2 cents for each school day Care is taken that the soup shall be of excellent quality both as to nourishment and flavor A committee of flu mothers has been crganlzed and each superintends the work one day each week If further experience demonstrates th feasibility of tne scheme and that its results are good the plan will be adopted In other cities Certainly 2 cents a day for a good bowl of hot soup Is cheap enough for anybody and will prov much better for the children than a cold lunch eaten out of a basket Then too many of the lunches prepared at home for school children are mainly made up of sweetmeats not conducive to health while soup is alwajs nourishing The example might be followed with profit by the proprietors of some of the large department stores employing a large number of clerks and by manufacturers They could well afford to furnlfh the soup at Its actual cost as the Improved condition of their emplojes would mor than counterbalance the trouble UNITErIal LANGUAGE It Is a merry war that Is being Jabbered anon among the universal lan guage sharps Brother Baker hgh priest of Esperanto couples the Ido iioremjnt with the morals of a gang of train wreckers and Brother Foster wno edits Ro the efficient organ of Ido discovers his pen writing bitter things in retort Having apparently exhausted tho dictionaries of both languages in their efforts say what they think about each other the two distinguished gentlemen have been forced to fall back on Kngllslt And this Is where all these new languages falL In each Instance their inventors have forgotten to lay In a goodly supply of cuss words How thev came to commit such an oversight cannot be explained unless it was their opinion that each word of their created language was outlandish enough to satlsf7 the most violent disposition But it was fatal mistake No language caiild hope tJ survive without those sturdy props to all emphatic expression In superheated moments the swear words Wha ef fect upon a mule for example can any Esperantlst driver think it woul I have to holler at him Mund llng futur deb eser The chances are that when the mule heard It the first time he would Btop in his tracks turn Impudently around and answer back And the man denied the eloquent expletives of his native tongue would be speechless It is many a jear now since Volapuk undertook to set aright that unfortunate affair of the Tower or Babel It led the way with a flourish of vowels and con sonants that trumpeted like a Lohen grin herald But it made its exit weakly and the chorus of Imitators following In Its train was but its feeble echo until the Esperantlst shied his castor Into the ringi Came then Kondukanto Teu tonlsh and Ido each claiming merit and Immortality For a time there was enough of the enthusiasm upon which they feed to go around but now having fallen upon lean times it Is meet that they fall upon each other And their very quarrels make their weaknesses painfully plain Might as well stop the row and make It up gentlemen You are both wrong Xelther Esperanto nor Ido Is the real universal language The only honest simon pure djed ln the wool article of universal use is that virile homely speech of Anglo Saxon derivation which any good man when lie Is mad can supply In place of those eloquent matks HAX0CK YBTMCATED Pending CoBtroreray Pnrres Tariff PeneBal Isaac From tat Nw fork World The ways and means committee has beerf forced by public sentiment to abandon the duty on tea and coffee Chicago clubwomen expect to obtain WiJDOO signatures to their protest against the higher taxes on Stocking gloves and underwear Forty Republican representatives have signed a memorial asking for more protection for the lumber coal and iron ore Interests of the West and Northwest along with a doty oflO per cent on niaes 4 Thirty of this number are said to have informed Speaker Cannon and Chairman Payne that if their demands are denied they will vote against the ul putting the bill on Its passage Speaker Cannon Isquoted by the Trib une as declaring that the Republican nirt la trrXvier a lff htll wilt out unnecessary delay even if It ttt quires Democratic votes Mr Bryan and Representative Fitzgerald are exchanging the compllmerU of the season in the matter of Vhat Is a Democrat Champ Clark the Democratic leader of the House is having as much difficulty as Speaker Cannon in keeping his fol lowers in line There are Republican representative wao advocate free raw materials and Democrats who clamor fcr protective du ties on lumber sugar and rice Less than SO years ago Gen Hancock was hooted from one end of the counjiy to the other for saying that the tariff was a local issue It now seems to ba a personal issue NEW WIEELESS DEVICE Boston Inventor Finds Way to Prevent Interruption in Telephoning Boiton Dlapatch tathe Nw Tork Times Reginald A Fessenden of Brant Rock is said to have perfected a wireless telephone so that the United States navy operators failed to Interrupt the waves in a recent test of the efficiency of the new device Ellhu Thomson an electrical Inventor of note has full falta in Mr Fessendens invention Mr Fessenden keeps the details of his discovery secret but he declares that the recent test during which the station at Brant Rock was instructed to keep forwarding messages while coast stations and government vessels equipped with wireless apparatus made attempts to interfere established beyend doubt that the honlnterfeiing system is a success in every way Wireless messages between Brant Rock and Washington are now of constant occurrence and transmitting and receiving apparatus for battleships and coast stations which Is expected to work over a oisiance oi lwo miles is soon to be installed ORDER Of THISTLE TO HAVE A CHAPEL Even the stork has Joined the fight against poor dear BonL It will take Gibraltar a long time to feel Us old sedate self again Mr Clark of Florida Is certainly an ultra Hancock Democrat on the tariff question Bacon of Harvard for ambassador to France Wnat has become of the Tale tackle and hold Mrs Bear Bites Her Hubbys Ear Off Prom tlxe New Tork World There is a scandal in the zoo Mr and Mrs Grizzly Bear have agreed to disagree and have separated Until yesterday afternoon they were like turtle doves In demeanor but now they dont speak Mr Bear whose front name is Zip and Mrs Bear who is known as Toss were talking over family matters early jester day afternoon on the edge of the swimming pool when something he said annoyed Toss and she hit her husband a biff on the side of the head He ungallantly started to beat her He only started for Toss bit a chunk out of his right shoulder and then bit off bis ear for good measure Zip retreated Mrs Zip was getting ready to continue her meal when Keepers Stacy and Ferguson put an end to the family quar rel They took Zip away and put him In I cage by himself to nurse his wounds and outraged feelings Thanks to King BdwarcTs Initiative the Scottish Order of the Thistle Is after all to have a chapel of Its own once more It may be remembered that the late Earl of Leven and Melville left at his death a sum of 200000 to be devoted to tbe restoration ot the ancient chapel i of Holy rood where in the olden times the Knights of thej Thistle were wont to perform their devotions It was found however that the Restoration of Holyrood Chapel was impracticable since It could not be accomplished without the complete dlsap pearancetof ah the ancient portion of the architecture of the ruin which dates from the thirteenth century Public feelng indeed throughout Scot 1 land was against the Idea or the restorat Uon It was argued that the romarrtically picturesque ruin in Its present condition constitutes a great historical monument harmonizing with the sentiments of the scene In wh ch it standi and that any attempt to tamper Vith it in the way pf iestoratlon would partake of the nature of vandalism Consequently the bequest was declined and reverted to the estate of the earl being divided among his heirs It was felt however that the Order of the Thistle should have a chapel of Its own In the same way that tbe Knights of the Garter have their stalls In St Georges Windsor castle the Knights of the Bath in Westminster Abbey the Knights of the Order of St Michael and St George In St Pauls Cathedral and the Knights of St Patrick In St Pat ricks Cathedral at Dublin and accordingly King Edward placed himself in communication with the authorities of St Giles Cathedral at Edinburgh asking them whether they would be willing to convert a portion of that ancient fane into a chapel of the Order of the Thistle Meets Part of the Expense The Kirk Session at once expressed Its readiness to cooperate with the monarch In the matter and learning this young Lord Leven has placed at the disposal1 of the king his share of his fathers unused bequest that Is to say about 1130000 which will be devoted toward fitting up a portion of the cathedral as a chapel of the knights ot the arifcient Scottish Order of the Thistle The Order of the Thistle which Is thus to have its chapel In St Giles with stalls for its knights from tbe open canopy of which their banner will be suspended their names and dignities being inscribed on a brass plate let into the hack of the seat is asserted by Scottish tradition to have antedated the foundation of the Order of the Garter by several hundred years It Is said to have originated In the vision of a bright cross in the heavens seen by Achaius king of the Scots and by Hungus king of the Plcts while they were engaged In prayer the night before their battle with Athelstane King of England In the eighth century What is historic however Is that fn 1340 James of Scotland revived the order and assigned to its knights stalls In the now ruined Chapel Royal of Holyrood at Edinburgh King Jamea II the last of the Stuart kings Queen Anne and in later years George IV modified iU statutes Its membership is restricted to great Scottish nobles and Just before King Edward left for the continent he held chapter of the order at Bucjclngham palacevwhen the establishment ot a special chapel for the knights In St Giles Cathedral was determined upon Lure a9LB XAm New England lakes Up ProMem of IU 1G0OO Struggling Women BEATS FISHT JJT 200 Boston DJapaca to Kw Tork Frtav To solve the problem of what to po with the 160880 spinsters and widows ot Massachusetts who can never hope to xnarryi owing to the scarcity ot men la this State threescore prominent buslnen andV prof esstonal women of Greater B04 Iton have formed anr organization for the purpose of winning State aid in gettlne small tracts of land near1 large clue where romen can engage in profitable agricultural enterprise The Womens Massachusetts Homestead Association plans to encourage the many thousands of women of all ages who are forced to struggle to gain a livelihood to take up the cultivation of smalt plots ot 1 a isnu ue guuuitq aim iaq awc herbs plants mushrooms strawberries vegetables squabs chickens bees and piss To achieve this end the association wants the Commonwealth to buy tracts of land wherever available divide this land into acre lots and then through a commission supply womenparticularly spinsters who would like to engage la such pursuits with a share of the land It the State fa not willing to furnish the land free then the association asks that it take a mortgage on land bought by philanthropists develop this land build cheap comfortable homes barns and outhouses on it and then furnish thenecessary Implements for cultivating tbe soil A wealthy New Tork woman has become Interested fn the project and it Is announced that she is coming to Massachusetts in June to investigate and that she will spend from 200000 to 1500000 It the cause appeals to her in buying land for struggling old maids TROUT CATCHES SNAKE Llama Kilklta Kate After LosgFiereel Strnfjk rrom tM New Tark BaraM Death ended ooi of the fiercest figMs between animals In years at the Brox Park Zqological Gardens Sunday Two llamas engaged fat a battle which lastrl almost half hour before the keepers were able to venture close enough to in terfereL The beautiful day brought thousands of stght seers to the Zoo The walks ur rounding tho llama corral were packs 1 with people watching the herd eat their Sunday dinner SIssloo and Moreytwoof the herd between whom there has been a long standing quarrel came to blows when the food waa distributed and bafo keepers could be summoned the cauels were In mortal battle Persons watching the fight thought tho llamas were playing until cries ot rate from Morev told that he was wounded Slaslon had struck him In the neclt with her sharp thoof and the flesh was torn A moment later the combatants were stretched out on the ground kicking and biting All the cunning known to expert animal keepers was employed by Keepers 8ry der Quinn and McKTroy when they surrounded the llamas Each carried a Ion sharp stick as a weapon In case the rage of the animals should be ttamed on ope of them But tbe precaution was needless so absorbed were Blssloa and Morey In flghtng each other Finally the keepers separated the llamas Wtta their sticks as prodding iron they Jumped In between the camels They were too lite Morey was dying from the wounds Inflicted by Slsslon and before remedies could oe applied he dropped dead Reptile Fast on Hook Which Protruded From Fishs GUIs From tha New Tork Frcaa Hartley Teager wao waa spearing for eels along the Gravel Run stream a mile from Jacksonville Sunday after noon saw a great thrashing of the water in a secluded pool near the Brink tannery He Jammed his five pronged spear into the water and when it encountered an object he gave It a quick jerk into the air There was a flash of whirling color for a moment and then Teager saw what appeared to be a snake and fish In deadly combat Teager feeling sure neither could escape into the wateia watched tne reptile and the fish which proved to be a large speckled trout until they lay quiet Then he investigated He found the reptile which was a water snake about two feet long was fastened to the trout In a curious manner Through the gills of the monster trout stuck a fish hook which the flsa evidently had broken from the line of an angler It protruded about half Its length the butt being apparently solidly anchored On that harpoon the snake had been caught as It skimmed over the water Tao effort to escape resulted In the terrific I struggle Teager saw In the water before he yanked the fish and enake to the surface The snake still was alive but utterly exhausted and Teager had little trouble in killing It Promises drawn on the Senate seem to be the main asset of the House managers in tariff harmony Mrs Boyle the woman of mystery Is giving the Man with the Iron Mask a hard run for first place Members of the House will now proceed with verbal assault and battery under the flve mlnute rule A EW FILIPINO SCHEIE The Filipino Is a good deal ot a puzzle What Is to be done with him The question Is to be looked at from two different standpoints Many persons hold and It Is an attitude which the President seems to share that only the Filipino himself should be considered and that our attitude toward him and treatment of him should be wholly altruistic It is hell that destiny or an all wise Providence has rut the Filipino In our charge and that whatever we do must be entirely for his benefit without reference to ourselves nay more that we are bound to go on pouring out money on him like water ttli uch time as he can Stand alone without In any way attempting to make the situation accrue to our own pood On the other hand thre are many who believe that while we should treat the Filipinos with Justice and kindly consd eratlon our first duty Is to ourselves The argument lstmade that they came to is as a conquered ferrltory and after a great expenditure of money and that it Is perfectly proper for us to do what always done by the victor with territory acquired by war make the most we can out of It for ourselves It Is said on thfl best authority that the country In rlca and capable of Indefinite development and that while there are a few Intelligent men among the Tagalogs tbe population as a whole Is utterly Incapable of self govern nenti and must remain so for generations Tbe revolt against tbe Spaniards did not contemplate Independence for which they knew they were unfit hut only redress of grievances and they never would have thought ot It had not the Idea been sown among them by a handful of Boston doctrinaires who have wholly misunderstood and misrepresented conditions out there from the first and who are crazy enough to urge the Immediate granting of Independence It la the opinion ot one of the ablest and most astute Japanese diplomats who have been accredited to this country that in the developments which the East now faces the PhlttbDlnes will be of IncaJculahT te applaud this kind of atatesmanahlp I value to the United States that we ought The minority to the Senate should rise bever to think of giving them up and Still Chairman Payne and his associates deserve some credit for Increasing the ranks of the suffragettes Perhaps the reason the Oklahoma war correspondents cannot find Crazy Snake is because he has changed his skin The price of upper berths In sleeping cars is to be reduced but the quotations on porters tips remain unchanged A New Jersey man has gone Insane over baseball Its a little early yet but he will have plenty of company soon Is getting so that the twilight zone of politics Is the only place a Federal officeholder can operate In withisajetr A growing chorus of married men Is suggesting that the women can get even with the new tariff law by boycotting glov es No It Is not another Italian earthquake Just the Neapolitan vivas rending tho atmosphere in the vicinity of Vesuvius Time has been called for another round between Coal OH John and Uncle Sam It ought to be a gresA mill considering the 7000000 preliminary words A Teform member of a common council In Connecticut aa been charged with stealing milk from doorsteps If he keeps on be may develop into a grafter The Increase in postal receipts Is hailed as a sign of returning prosperity but then perhaps they are only sending out a new lot of duns for last years bills Candidates for the post at St James are unanimously of the opinion that Dr Eliot has well earned a rest which should not be Interrupted by tbe exactions of diplomacy A man missing from his home twenty rears returned hungry His wife simply said Come ln John dinner is read That woman should hare all the hus bands the law will permit New York Grows London Decays rrem the Worlda Work While the statistic pf New Yorks growth continue to startle the world London has stopped growing within Ihe last seven rears tbe annual birth rate has dropped per cent the numoer ot children in school has declined about per cent and thelnumber of paupers In the city has Increased IS per cent in the meantime the assessed evaluation Jiaa ad vanced only 17 per cenC tfhlle tae debt has increased no per cent A Grim Toy From the Dundee Advertiser A citizen ot Pans a pensioner boajts that he has witnessed thirty seven executions and now that he Is getting old being unable to follow de Paris the idea of tae guillotine has so obsessed him that he has had made a model on a small scale which he has used for cutting clrar ends Recently he had friends to lunch and after the repast tbe model was produced For some reason the knife lef used to act The host feeling that his reputation was at stake set about to Uls cern the cause Examining the machine very closely his nose got Into the lunelo Probably the machine was shaken At all events the blade fell and with It the tip of the morbid gentlemans nose His first care was to visit the surgeon and after the injury had been attended to he went home brole up and burned ia Veuve Governors Island From the Array and Nary Keg iter Tho Vrmy engineers hope to finish tne project for the enlargement of Governor Island next jear The plan originally proposed the addition of about S3 acres to the area of the island by inclosing with a bulkhead part of the shoal southwest of the Island and filling the lnclosure The estimate for the wcr was 1100000 which Included the bulldluz of a wharf and several necessary buildings and dredging In front of tbe wnart to a depth of 26 feet Since the act of 1301 providing for such work the area to be added has been Increased by 20 acres and the land becomes a valuable addition to the army post on the island All the work Is done with the exception of filling up about IS acres and closing a gap in the seawall about 3S0 feet Ions No More Sauce for the Goose From the Montreal 8ttndaiM You must not say As silly as a goose any more for naturalists have been studying this anlmalpf late years and they have come to the conclusion that she Is the wisest old bird going She never quarrels without cause she sees danger before any other fowl she has more courage than the rooster she is far braver than the gobbler and If given a fair shpw she can beat offhe for A flock of geese squatted around the barnyard at night Is a mch greater protection than the watchdog1 They are light sleepers and wll give the alarm the Instant they see a stranger moving about So In future say As wise ash a goose and give her all credit Farms With Telephones Ffom the London Oloba During the past year the government of Manitoba ran the telephone system In Its own province buying out tho Bell Telephone Company The years working shows a profit of about 50000 and Mani toba wljtch already hss the cheapen telephones in the empire win reduce the cost to subscribers by about per ttnt Emulated by this success the other prairie provinces Saskatchewan and Al berta are considering proposals to manage their own telephone systems Nearly every farmer uasa teiepnone in canida In Bacon Ridfe From the ChUaiNea Mrs Byetop Npwt thats that Judson Tassel Hes a likely looking chap but hes been calling on NancjrSqulres for nine rearnd heTtasn proposed yet Mrs Hardappie sarcastically Oh give the boy a chance cynttua Maybe he afraid ei break tbe speed laws Sir Rowland Blennerhassett Sir Rowland Blennerhassett has rot long survived Jne attempt made to father upon him the so called kaiser Interview which appeared1 in the columns of the London Dally Telegraph last fall creat ing such a sensation In Germany for he has Just succumbed to heart failure at his house In London the close of hi life having ben saddened by financial troubles In fact It was only the other dav that Judgment went against him by default in London In connection with a promissory note for a relatively small amount Inasmuch however as most of ha property was situated In Ireland this did not create much surprise Sir Rowland is succeeded by his son Arthur a member of the Indian civil service In the baronetcy created a little over 100 years ago But while the title Is relatively modern the Blennerhassett family Is an ancient one hailed originally from Cumberland and has bean settled In the Emerald Isle ever since the reign of Queen Elizabeth by whose favor blr Thomas Blennerhassett one of her knights managed to secure a considerable portion of the lands of the Earl of Desmond The now widowed Lady Blennerhassett was by birth a Countess Leydcn who up to the time of her marriage was a lady ln waltlng of the Empress Frederick remaining on terms of the greatest inti macy with the kaisers mother until the latter a deatn This together with the fact that the late Sir Rowland was one of the best known Britons on the continent and a member of all sorts of foreign scientific bodies and orders rendered It difficult to accord credence to the extraordinary letter which his brother in law Count Caslmlr Leden published In the German newspapers not long after the kaiser Interview In the London Telegraph Count Ley den declared in this communication that inasmuch as the interview was acknowledged to be based en remarks of the kaiser to an intimate friend of the latter it could not possibly have been Sir Rowland since he Count LeyJen could furnish the most solemn assurance that Sir Rowland had never had the honor of being personally presented to the kaiser and that far from being an Intimate friend the kaiser had nevervmet him Neither the late Sir Rowland nor yet Lady Blennerhassett made any response to this assertion of the count Turkish Envoy a Russian Ahmed Tewfik Pasha the new Turkish ambassador to the court of St James is curiously enough ot Russian origin I am not quite sure whether he himself waa born In tha Crimea or not But his father was a subject of Emperor Nicholas I who took service In the Ottoman army rose to the rank of general and died as governor tof the fortress of Widdln Tewfik was educated for a military career but after graduating from the staff college was assigned to the embassy at St Petersburg where the outbreak of the Turko Russan war of 1877 found him as charge daffaires Joining the Ottoman army at Plevna he served there throughout Its memorable siege and on Ghazi Osman Pasha being wounded he conduct ed In bis name the negotiations for the surrender of the fortress After the watv he was appointed Turk ish envoy first at Athens and then at Bukharesr where he married a German lady His next post was that of Turkish ambassador at Berlin where he remained for ten years persona grata at the court of the kaiser and on the then German foreign secretary Baron Marschal von Bleberstcln being sent as ambassador to StambouL Tewfik was recalled and ap pointed minister ni foreign affairs at Con stantinople a post which he retained for no less than fourteen years falfillmr his duties with Tare tact and diplomacy making few enemies and very many irieno It is a peculiarfact that nearly all the Turkish ambassadors In London have either been Christians or It Mohamme Idans have had Christian wves Thus his predecessor in London Rlfaat Pasha now minister of foreign affairs is mar ried to a Russian lady a daughter ot Gen yon Rennenkampfr while tbe wife of Musurcs Pasha who died as ambassador In London was a Princess Vlgorides of ut well known Greek family ot that name Marquisede Tontenot Coprrsht 190 by tha Brctvood Company Out of the Mouths of Babes From the Chicago Nawa Motner writing Bobby how many times have I told you to keep quiet Bobby reflectively Seven Teacher Can any one in the class teu me what a lawsuit Is Small Boy Yes maam I can Its a suit worn by a policeman Tommy Say Johnny did you evar think you would like to be a pirate when you became a man Johnny contemptuously I should say not Pirates are played out I want to be president of a big trust or something of that sort You know Elsie that ferment means to work said the teacher Now you may write a sentence on the blackboard containing the word ferment After a moments thought Elsie wrote as follows In summer I love to ferment among the flowers In our garden Intelligence of Crows From the London Globe If Cunlsset Carnots observations are correct the crow Is one of the most intelligent of birds Normandy Is a place where crows love to congregate and 1 Paris contemporary reproduces Cuns set Carnots experiences to the effect that In 1878 the first maneuvers took place In Normandy after the war and jt Is nof an extravagant hypothesis that manv crows who saw tne troublous times 1870 were alive in 187S These birds watched the soldIci3 at a distance of about 200 yards but when In firing the men were extended on the ground the birds would hover about at quarters so close as 7 feet evidently in the opinion of tbe observer mindful of the times they had enjoyed six years before and In expectation of a further feast Fear of Premature BnxiaL From the Wastminater Qazctta The fear of premature burial which prompted the late Lord Burton to direct by his will that his heart should be removed from his body has caused many well known men and women to order a surgical operation to be performed upon their bodies Harriet Martlneau left her doctor 10 to amputate her head and Lady Burton directed that her heart should be pierced with a needle The late Edmund Yates left Instructions that his Jugular vein should be severed with a provision that a fee of 20 guineas should be paid for the purpose Literary persons appear to have been particularly afraid I premature burial Bishop Berkeley Lord Lytton Hans Andersen and Wllke CM lins all took measures to protect themselves from It Search for Submerged Palace From the tindon Dally Malt The expedition left Llandudno Degan wy and Penmaenmawr yesterday afternoon with the object of traclnr if pnaii ble the submerged palace of Llys Helig a Welsh chieftain of the sixth century The palace Is said to be visible at very low tides at a point mid way between Penmaenmawr and Great Ormes Hsad but it cannot be said that yesterdays search established its existence The exploring party was divided Into two sections one of which laid bate whai looked like an old wall while tbe other claimed to have traced the outline of a wall 13 yards long with a shorter wait running at right angles The rising of tbe tHe compelled the explorers to leave the spot before completing their search Asthma Plant of Queensland From the London Glob The euphorbias are very numerous in the colony of Queensland and Amonz them Is the Euphorbia pllulferl the Queensland asthma plant which ua a remarkable reputation for curing this troublesome complaint Several pharmaceutical preparations of the plant are extensively sold In Australia Analysis shows that a green plant contained is per cent by weight of water and 2 per cent ot ash leaving 1 points of vegetable matter A dried plan contained an alka loldal substance to about one part in a thousand It contained also a ghicosaldal substance to the Amount of not mor then four parts In the thousand Possibly one or both of these was the active principle of tbe plsnt SONNETS TO THE HEN From tha Chicago Naws To thee oh fowl of more than rural iime I dedicate this noncomnetlnr tav Whlle at my morning meal from day to day 1 feed thy product to this mortal frame Or boiled orpoached ox scrambled tis I ponder deeply on thy nnnifni Dost ever from thy path of duty stray Thou provident persistent barnyard damet Rich are thy jewels pearls of highest price So high at times they fairly mkeus sasp A few of them mayhap not overnlce Too primitive for modern taste tn rra Though reminiscent of an ancient charm Lost ages ere they left the native farm An artist for arts sake thou seemst to me Dear hen content to wait unseen unknown Until the work is finished all thine own Whereat thy heart speaks forth In mln strelsy Nor who shall gainsay this reward to thee As thou decendest from thy modest throne No Jealous rooster with his strident tone Howeer Important or pretentious he And so ambition spurns thee to aspire nr priceless art ror many Ta build the tr Statistic ever hlrhr Until at last kind friend permit these rears Thy cold pale form and tough alas shall be Served In our house as chicken fricassee THE AGED STRANGER Bret Harte to date From the Now Tork World I waa with Payne the stranger said inea tne woman Say no more SJe signaled to the neighbor dames They crowded round her door I was with Payne again he spoke Shrieked the women Nay no morer Some jabbed him with their bat pins fierce And some his scalplocks tore As I was saying I was with Payne What nerve to show your facer Some hissed some fainted others sobbed The crowd Increased apace And you were with him when he framed His odious tariff bill Suggested buttons gloves perhaps They mobbed him with a wilt Not so Not so he wildly cried Forgive pray and forget Once on a train I rode with Payne Before this Congress met 1 Robin Joins in Singing Church Service From the Scotsman On a recent Sunday mornmg I conducted service in an asylum On my way to the Institution I wondered whether my fluffy fearless chorister of last winter would attend I had missed him hitherto and feared some mischance had befallen To toy delight there he was on the upper bar of the window sash Just a little down from the top am as we began to sing down he darted to the floor In front of the reading desk and poured forth his silver treble with throbbing Joy On the giving out of the text he returned to nls perch and remained silent till the parting paraphrase brought him back once more to render with full heart his gladsome song Modern Diogenes Loses Barrel Uontclalr Dispatch to the Kaw Tork Frasa Notoriety which he did not seek has cost the Hermit of Verona his home The hermit lived In a barrel beside the Erie Railroad near Verona He was discovered a few weeks ago and since then the lonely man who Is an Italian baa been pestered by kodak fiends and relic hunters who 1sltd his Diogenes Ilka dwelling The end came Saturday when a band of boys went to the hermits camp In his absence and broke In the staves ot tbe barrel When the hermit returned onlr the boons were Intact He packed op his few belongings and departed In the direction of Cedar Grove where he probably hopes to find anotaer barrel with all modern conveniences anl no small boys As the Twig Is Beat From the AtcbJaoa Ckba There is some hope for the boy wte has to be driven Into the bathtuX but there Is mighty little hope for the be who has to be driven away from the mirror TALKED ABOUT IN HOTE LOBBIES Had Admiral Cerveraa wlse advlce gardlng Spains proper course uw Spanish American war been adoptca a great and needless lo of We wouW have been artrted and history would have re corded different results saw vaawujr Cook a well known New Tor attorney at tne New wuiard a captain 01 voun tears tn the war with Spain Mr Cock aided In recovering many of the personal effects of the officers Tof the destroyed croiaer Infaata MarU Teresa at Santlazo and returned them to their ownars Tor this he received the personal thanks or Admiral Cervera Capt Victor Con cas commander of the cruiser and et the Spanish press One of the many evidences of the un preparedness of the Spanish fleet at Santiago said Mr Ceok Is shown In the published logs ef the ships as kept by Lieut Jose Muller ot the flagship Maria Teresa It records that near Santiago the Almlrante Oquendo signaled the Vla caya to learn If the latter could use a rresn cow which the former ship did not need Fancy a cruiser almost going Into action with fresh milk cows on board Six hundred of Admiral Cerveras men were killed at Santiago and they all died bravely If Admiral Cenreras advice had been followed by the Spanlabt naval authorities the fleet never would have left Spain He knew haraa going to certain defeat Sullys cotton warehouse scheme is doomed to failure before it gets started said CoL Burkhardt of Memphis lenn a Tennessee cotton planter at the Raleigh In the first jilace the scheme has been tried before The Southern Cotton Association made tremendous efforts along the same line even esUbllshrng great weekly paper to help the movement along It failed Then the Farmers Alliance took It up but did nothing with the plan It Js folly to attempt such a scheme for the reason that the cotton planters do not want It The cotton crop of the South la handled now by the gins com preases factors and buyers to the satisfaction of the planters with the exception that In years when there are bumper crops the price is too low but this Is regulated solely by the law of supply and demand A hlz cron meana faw mfoa nA when the boll weevil is especially active and a smalt crop results the price of the staple Is correspondingly high The plan of Sully Is not practicable Why should the Southern planters wait for a Wall street speculator to show them the way out of the cotton wilderness If they want a system like Sullys they win Inaugurate it themselves iou can talk about the sport of huntinghunting the fox all you want said MaJ Charles Russell of Vlnlta Ind at the Shoreham Down In western Texas where I used to live we have a sport that beats fox hunting all hollow I refer to hunting prairie wolves on horseback In that country we chase the varmints on Texas ponies with hounds and when we get the wolf within shooting distance kill him with a pistol And let me tell you It is exciting sport Some of the wolves are larger than a mastiff and can tear up a pack of dogs In no time I have even seen the creatures when brought to bay not hesitate to attack a mounted man I have killed Jhem when they were leaping for the horses throat and I haye seen them almost pull a rider Uramhj9hoxseUsualIy It takes more than one shot from a heavy pistol to slay tbe wolf We have another sport In the Texas Panhandle almost as exciting continued the major and that Is the Jack rabbit hunt on horseback with greyhounds Contrary to general opinion a Jaekrabbit cannot outrun a good greyhound except straightaway for say 300 yards Even a good cow pony can run over a Jaekrabbit within a half mile Those horses can Jump too once owned a bald faced pinto pony that could Jump a five strand barbed wire fence POINTED PARAGRAPHS From the Chicago News The glad hand grasps the Jackpot Honesty never has to crowd anybody in order to make a living Tou cant tell which way a train aas gone by the track It leaves Girls would rather suur soprano than alto because It Is higher toned A woman ikes to go away for the summer because most of her friends cant The best mothers do not get tielr Ideas on the child raising subject from books REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Fram the Xrw Tork Praaa A girl always longs for the sailor bat style except tor sailing Tbe strongestargument tn favor of reform is the hardest pain The sure thing shout a womans complexion Is maybe it Isnt so sure Every man has a chance some time to make money but he has a chance all the time to lose IU The reason a woman knows the babr eoinr to be a rreat man la his teeth came I in Just Uxe all babies Argentina today offers tbe greatest prospects of making money ior thei fanner of any country on the globe said Hodgson ot London at the Metropolitan Mr Hodgson has traveled extensively tn South America especially In Argentina Land Is cheap In that country and the government holds out every kind of Inducement for Immigrants There are more than 1QO00O Italian farmers tn the republic today They are all prosperous and there Is plenty of room for more Argentina Is rapidly becoming a cosmo politan country for in addition ts the Italian population there are thousand of all the European nationalities The immigrants usually go In for wheat raising and the finest wheat In the world Is raised on the great plains Cattle raising is another Industry that flourishes but It requires considerable capital ta embark hi that business Argentina is one of the most law abiding countries In the world and life and property are safe there more so than In the big cities of this country or Europe For a young man wlto wishes to farm and to get rich In a reasonable time let me advise hint to go to the Argentine Young man go Into the summer drink business it you want to retire a million aire said Albert Bralsted of Bos ton at the Arlington know one mau who started twenty years aa a with a1 capital of HO The first year he mad and sold only CO gallons of a certain drinlc of which last year more than 1000030 gallons were disposed of Ia twenty year the man who started with Wnow earn on his summer drink more than l0O900t each year He builds every twelve month rr office building In some ot the Wg cltieV with part of bis profits And his business Is growing larger every year There 1 a tremendous proOt la it for stuff that he sells to the soda fountain for 14 nlTair costs him about JLSO Tea tbe summer drink business If one gets started Is better than almost any manufactories business There are In this eountry more than KM persons who manufacture suin mer drinks tn Immense ouantltlra ait of them are accumulating or have al ready accumulated fortunes Get In the rummer drink business It yon want to rolll There to a woman tn Africa ruled a tribe of natives or years according to an English consular officer who recently made a report to his home 1 government said Richard Hlnton of St Louis at the Kbbltt House sne a woman of tdvanced ace but rets Ins a wonderful alertaeaa 01 mind and has remarkable diplomatic tact She uves very simpry ner native kraal about seventeen raOea from the capital piacv ctui jaoako unj in Swaziland Every six months she takes a trip ta se me cnguszt commissioner and not Ion since she announced that Swaziland or Its own free will had decided to go under the Imperial protection The womans name Is Mdhlonvkoxf meaning Female Elephant and when she travels she has a great following of chiefs and natives She travels in a cart drawn by six mules wnicn were prvavniea to cer by Lord Selborne ef England The paramount chief of Swaztbi uf Sobhelza Is a Ud of 30 years who hav ing shown no sign of vice np to the present gives promising Indication for the ruture inna are tour or nve chiefs to the country who are hereditary legislators of great Importance the leader of them belnr an old man named Jakmm A native council exists but It Is domi nated by the chief regent the Female JJSCyuaa 1.