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5R lS93 fib Ube Wasbinston poat pnWicatien 9fScc Pennsylvania Avenue neat Fourteenth Street Cerms or Subscription Bcllverco 6s cirtiet In XEUsMnjton antt ftlcxanbrU Daily Sunday included one month 9 70 Daily Sunday Included one week so Daily Sunday excepted one month 30 jjauyusaycxcepteaoncweck 15 Xt flDail fofUge prepsto Daily Sunday excepted one year 6 00 Daily Sunday included one year 7 50 Daily Sunday excepted one month jo Daily Sunday Included one month 70 Sunday one year 1 50 Remittances ihould be made by draft check post office order registered letters or express orders payable to Cbe Cdasbington post Co CBabaaten Entered at the poet emee at Washington XX as second class mall matter New Tore Office FUUrou Building PAUL BLOCK Uaaater Cleago Office Barttord Building FACT BLOCK ibiipr MONDAY JULY 8 1907 Let The Post Follow You Washlngtontans who are leaving the city should not fall to have The Post follovy them In this way only can they keep Informed about affairs at the Capital Ad dresses may be changed a often a desired and the paper will come promptly to any part of the country Notify carrier or snd order direct to The Port Tel phone Main 4205 THE PHILIPPINE FIASCO The failure of the Filipinos to step up and take charge of a big share of their own Independence is an embarrassng incident both to those antl lmperlallsts who hare wept crocodile tears for the downtrodden Islanders and to the mistaken optimists who thought they perceived a remarkable capacity for self government in the Filipinos Only one resident out of thirty five qualified as a TOter at the recent registration The native assembly will therefore be elected by a few politicians and their hangers on instead of being chosen by the people as a whole Inasmuch as the beauties of partial self goernment through the election of a native assembly had been assiduously advertised to the Filipinos It Is fair to assume that their failure to register is evidence that they do not care a rap for the privilege of governirg them eelves They have never done so they do not know how and they do not care to learn The outcome Is of value in one respect at east It justifies the American government in going ahead with the improvement of conditions in the Philippines In its own waj without regard to the howling of the dervishes of despair The Filipinos having declared that they do hot oare to govern themselves they should be treated as children In government and thlr rights should be carefully safeguarded by the Americans who must continue to govern them Another lesson of the registration is so obvious fiat it would not be necessary to refer to it If the United States had not apparently Ignored It In the past This lesson Is that the plant of self government is of verv slow growth and must not be forced too fast There would be nothing but folly In establishing Impotent and anarchistic doumas In the Philippines to fall one after another as their menace to ertablished order became manifest The experiment In offering Filipinos the ballot Is disappointing of course to all Americans whose desre to see the Islanders self governed Is based upon a lively appreciation of the nuisance of governing them But the decks are cleared at any rate of a certain amount Of rubbish The United States can now proceed to govern the Philippines with out pausing at times to search its heart for the mythical xrorster of tyranny platform And it wouldnt be a bad move on the part of the Democracy to substitute something like that for its wild shriek Protection is robbery TEMPERANCE IN KENTUCKY Lest Sunday the lid was put on and held down In the city of Louisville Ky for the first time in the history of that town Not a drop was tobe had though it is possible that there la more good Ucker there than in any other place On earth A wave of temperance sentiment has swept over the old Commonwealth Geographically 97 per cent of the area of the State Is dry and in that territory dwell 72 per bent of the population Only the other day Bowling Green went dry thus closing the last saloon between Louisville Ky and Nashville Tenn There is but one wet town in the historic Eleventh Congressional District and but one in the renowned Gibraltar district These represent the extremes of the Btate geographically and politically every coun ty In the one being Republican and every county in the other being Democratic The thing has crept into politics and threatens to smother fer this year at least both the Democratic and Republican parties Gov Beckham is the favorite of the temperance folk and to that fact his admirers attribute his defeat of Senator McCreary in the primary of last falL The Court of Appeals recently ad Judged that the city officials of Louisville and fhe county officials of Jefferson County held their offices by fraud and decreed them vacant This gave the governor opportunity to appoint men to supply the vacancies It was the new mayor sworn in last Saturday wh6 ordered the lid on Sunday The Democratic candidate for governor has declared for temperance and charges the Republican party with an attempted straddle If that impression gets abroad we may look for an old fashioned Democratic majority in Kentucky in November but the Republicans make many and solemn asseverations that they are the best friends of the temperance cause In the State and point with pride to the fact that there was not a single artificially exhllarted delegate in the State convention they pulled off some two weeks ago In Louisville a remarkable almost a miraculous circumstance in light of political convention history of that town If the Kentucky public shall hold Its present reform temper this is going to be what the late Ben Butler used to call all sorts of a bad year for the wicked Not only is the State overwhelmingly dry but the temperance folk are proceeding to organize to secure vigilant and rigid enforcement of the law Blind tigers are to be extirpated and boot leggers are to be scourged That is the only way to manage a temperance crusade and unless local option Is strictly enforced it were better to have legalized saloons in every community Prohibition in Maine nd in Kansas does not prohibit it remains to be seen how it will cut the caper in Kentucky After a number of experiments London scientists have come to the conclusion 1 that automoblling enriches the blood and insures sound sleep Possibly it does in the case of the man who doesnt have to worry about the monthly installment on the machine and the repair bill from the garage A STATE INDICTED Mr Frank Putnam In the New Eng land Magazine makes divers and sundry statements relative to affairs in the State of Maine that will surprise the general public because they are entirely inhar monious with prevailing Impressions Mr Putnam has made an Investigation which he reports under the title A Study In Grafting Tax dodging and Isolation In his attempt to solve the problem why Maine with natural resources surpassed by those of few American States has re mained almost stationary in population for half a century Mr Putnam finds that the water power of the State amountfng to 6000000 units is not used to more than one twentieth of Its extent Its forests covering over 9000000 acres are In the hands of a few corporations and individuals and pay practically no taxes to the State Its railroads manufacturing Industries and wild land owners he asserts unite to control the State government pay low taxes artd send most of their surplus earnings out of the State Maines politicians he says in order to cover their own land grabbing tax dodging tariff wall building operations have kept the State befuddled and deluded with the issue of prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors He further adds The dally newpapers or Maine almost without exception are apparently owned by or declares that the American people are now becoming aggressively artistic That has the right ring Art that is not aggressive and even militant is mere tnollycoddleism The art that succeeds Is the art that butts rUht In and sets the blue ribbon against ail comers foreign or domestic The aggressiveness of Amerf can art is aptly shown in the big col4 lections already made by several billionaires who have turned from piracy to art They have gobbled op with absurd ease the finest stuff that Europe had to offer Foreign bidders did not stand the ghost of a show against the American sack In order to get this business accom plished properly however it is necessary that there should be organization Artists should bunch their hits that is the only certain ethod of winning out The United States government should lead off A department of ait supplied with 3000 000 or 10000000 as a starter and with a live hustler at the head would soop make the Greeks and Italians sit up and take notice Incidentally the department of art would have supervision over all statues erected in Washington and elsewhere to the memory of departed worthies The statues already erected are conceded by all agrresslve art lovers to be well they are not what they might be for the money expended We dont care to go Into details but all real art lovers will understand The rude populace never did know art and never will The time has come when the United States can well afford to use some of its wealth to stir up the art world Lets have art and lots of it THE ASHDvTGTP3SPOSTr MONDAY JUhT8tiSi07fif Hfy German phjsiclst declares that the human eve Is a rather ill contrived piece of mechanism He talks like a man who has been overlooking some good bets In a few days numerous cases of lockjaw are expected to develop throughout ine country but It Is far from llkelv THE EASTEEH J3H0M Ito Oyster Fishermen Are the Maine Yankees of the South From lit Bosjonr Transcript Times change There has arisen new South that knows not Joseph Massy A Baltimbrean of to day has as little per I sonal experience 0f the Eastern Shore as uc iu vi jaancnuria or remote notu The Eastern ShoT you queryMalai4 and mosquitoes is his alliterative response But you happens to be aware that life Baitlmorean himself sleeps under mosquito bar from Julytll October As for malaria chills and fever the Eastern Shore long since yielded to improved methods of tilling and drainage The dread name of ague Is as obsolete at Easton as it Is at New YorkThen you know too what your Baltimore friend has forgotten The ght fertile soil east of the Chesapeake produces each in its seasons pears and peaches as luscious as the apples ofl paradise not to mention succulent vegetables and garden true of a sweetness that never reaches city markets Then the Chesapeake wblci frets arid honeycombs the Inner coast is teeming with oysters and shellfish of many klads and Maryland rules of cookery are as authoritative as the decalogue These old salts of the Chesapeake are different from the old salts of the New England coast less salt less bluff without the Yankee alertness of mind ypt in their own way as original1 The net results of a winters reading with one old captain are such as few could hope to rlv al Say Dave asked a comrade in that Indefinable border drawl that must be heard to be appreciated what you bin a doin with jouself alL winter I bin a readln de Bible answered Capn Dave well what you got outenlt Well I bin a readln bout a strong man He was de strongest man ever lived Thomson was his name an he had a fight with de Phlllipses an killed em every one cept one an he broke de Jew bone that a one The Chesapeake oysterman Is a man of spirit and loves his fight For years a sort of border warfare broke out each season between the Maryland oystermen and their brethren across the Virginia line At last Virginia determined to settle the ownership of disputed oyster beds by appointing oyster police Encounters fol lowed with Marylanders and some of EmftM2EOM 8tatn wlithe latter were killed As a result grave That alleged disagreement between faenator Tillman and Senator Dolllver ought to be referred to the society for the suppression of useless noises They have a gentleman named Helle in Birmingham and Its almost a cinch that his name is taken in vain nearly every time central announces that the lines busv in thaf town A correspondent writes to one of tho New York papers that he is tired of Mark Twains slapstick brand of hu mor Possibly Mark would be tired of It too if he wasn getting about 30 cents a word for it A Deep River Conn boy was shot by comrade In Wild West nlay but his life was saved by the fact that the bullet struck a button which his mother had Just sewed on his trousers This should be a warning to wives and mothers not to neglect the trousers buttons When you stop work you are dead sajs a magazine writer And when we stop reading such stuff we are dead tired RISK nEIlESY In the standpatters lexicon the New controlled in the interest of the wild land York Tribune in have to be put along owners the railroads or the large manu slde that ery black sheep which rep I acturers so that they offer no sharp and resents Gov Guild of Massachusetts I constructive criticism of the policies that Jumping over a fence Into the free trade have for half a century retarded the de rahch It must be an awkward situation velopment of the States resources The for the paper in which the great grand New Haven Journal and Courier com father of the Republican party preached renting on these very serious allegations th doctrine of protection and which stiH ajs Tough If true Mr Putnam Is we i poncy wun believe eolne to studv Hnnnfrtlnt nnrt A good many people are developing a healthy dislike for Ralsull simply because he never pulls off a kidnapping stunt without reviving that ancient bound in Morocco Joke Starting right is half the fight comments the Birmingham Age Herald In the Squires Burns affair It appears to have been the entire scrap Defaulter Runjans career aa a crook is already ended and forms another addition to the ever growing list of cases where the fool and his employers money were soon parted A Denver man who Is a candidate for office is shown to be related to three Congressmen The fight must be getting warm when they spring a charge like that against a man The author of I the Shade of the Old Apple Thee has married again In spite of Its grudge against him the public will no doubt hope he got a pippin The gentleman who claims that heads are getting larger instead of smaller can easily prove It by the politicians who have been landing one office after an other The amount of information got out of Mr Rockefeller is a distinct disap pointment to the people who were hoping that he would hang himself There Is good reason to believe that at the bottom of the Democratic partys very evident uneasiness is the conviction that tho worst yet to come flexible fidelity But despite its awk when he does we hope he will find some I rau K0 Ulere Iorthlng here to please him ujo uaiju iu sue utterance 13 views which the standpatters conscientiously regard as free trade heresies For ampe it sajs that a surplus of fs 050000 is unwieldy and If the Treasurys receipts continue to grow a tey grew last jear sound national policy will dictate a reduction of taxes Why worry about those taxes Does not the foreigner tho seller have to pay them There is much In Connecticut that ought to be pleasing to an sensible investigator And there are in that as in ever other State glaring evils that call loudly for drastic reform measures Some of Mr Putnams assertions as to conditions In Maine are notoriously true There Is grafting on a huge scale and a gigantic amount of evasion of taxes Were it not Isnt It Just as easy to cut down a sur mony CTmea lruo rlane um pins bv making the taxes Ugh as to umers ana nsnermen the be prohlbltory as it Is to cut them down iabues mentioned by Mr Putnam would and thereby encotirajre ImDortatlon Tint be raore srosly felt But the conclu I non 01 mt rumam regaramg the news The Springfield Republican expresses the positive opinion that Mr Taft Is not a well man Presumably it has been pumping him latelj Our one best bet Is that it will be some time before another bank teller tries the suit case trick on his employers questions of international law threatened the peace of the neighboring Commonwealths Commissioners from Annapolis and Richmond at last settled the disputes amicably but they are not lacking who allege that in so doing the politicians who had previously egged on the belligerents gobbled the oyster and awarded each contestant a shell This oj ster war was strange to say the principal event of Eastern Shore History in ninety years The convulsions that have shaken our national life as a whole stopped short at the Chesapeake When a planter speaks proudly of our war ho means not 61 or 98 but the war of 1812 At that time there did anchor In Wor ton Creek a British squadron under Admiral Cockburn that plundermaster general who set out to fatten his men from Eastern Shore larders But at Caulks Field near Belalr CoL Read and 200 militia from Kent County turned bact the gluttonous horde of British marines and the British commander retreated leaving like another Cinderella a slipper behind him in his flight After that the oyster war The years from 61 to 65 left the region curiously tranquil Neither army Invaded It from without while within the sympathy of the people was overwhelmingly Southern Although Mar land as a State did not support the Confederate cause man of her stalwart Eastern sons went South to fight The sharp split hi sentiment which arrayed brother against brother on the western shore scarcely disturbed the unity of Eastern Maryland In Talbot County for instance only a single company could be found to fight for the Union Yet It should not be forgotten that old Gov Hicks who did as much as any one man to prevent the secession of his State was a citizen of Cambridge on the Eastern Shore and the first historical monument In the section was reared to his memory as a Union man A SERIOUS LOVE SPEtL ORDEUSTON OFu ROYAL DESCENT Lord Euston who arrived here ft day or two ago on board the White Star liner Baltic In order to take part in the thir tleth triennial conclave of the Knights Templars at Saratoga tthi week is the eldest son and heir of the almost nonage narian Duke of Grafton and when he succeeds to bis fathers honors will certainly constitute a most imposing addition to the House Lords standing as he does over 6 feet 4 Inches in his stock Iigs AJ presentl the Duke of Somerset holds the record for stature In the upper chamber of the national legislature Lord Euston who lives with his father in Chesterfield Gardens London is an ald de camp of King Edward and one of the principal Masonicdlgnltaries of the United Kingdom In fact he has already on a former occasion represented King Edward at great Masonic gatherings Jn this country For up to the time of his accession King Edward was grand master of the Masons of the United Kingdom Lord Euston who Is now a man of about sixty has not had his path strewn wholly with roses He has shared the monetary troubles of his father due to no fault of their pwn but to the well nigh Insane extravagance of the present dukes immediate predecessors In fact the dukedom of Grafton is to day probably the poorest in the land and under the circumstances it is not surprising that Lord Euston should have had on more than one occasion recourse to the court of bankruptcy In order to free himself of his liabilities Then too he was extremely unfortunate In his marriage His Unfortunate Marriage When quite young and Inexperienced he foolishly contracted a matrimonial alliance with one of the most notorious women in London at least ten years hs senior As soon as he awoke to the realization of the mistake which he had made ho settled upon her all he then possessed namely 30000 and left her emigrating tj Australia where he secured emploj ment and fulfilled his duties In a creditable manner He was summoned home by his family and friends who Informed him that the Investigation which they had been carrying on into the antecedents of his wife had convinced them that his marriage to her had been Invalid owing to the fact that Instead of being a widow as she had alleged herself to be her first husband a man of the name New York can be trusted to establish her zones of quiet a reasonable distance from her baseball grounds Presidential aspirants are going to have a hard time getlng the public to take any interest in their booms so long a the papers persist in printing well writ tenartlcles on What Shall We EatT the Tribune goes on In its heretical mood The fact that imports are Increasing even more rapidly than exports and the further fact that a larger and larger share of Imrort duties Is collected on ma terjals needed for manufacturing suggestssuggests tho conclusion that the DIrgey schedjles have done their work In certain lines and need revision That Is rank herey to the standpatters creed They Insist thst If there must be any revising it shall be In the upward direction taking the present schedules as minimum rates Still the Tribune is In happy ac i cord with the National Association of Manufacturers They declare that We find some of these schedules many times In excess or the difference between the cost of production here and abroad We find that Individuals who are at the top both In stock holdings and in management in some of these same industries declare privately that these schedules are wrong and that the best Interest of those Industries themselves as well as the Interests of the country at large require adjustment at the earliest possible moment But we have not jet finished quoting the Tribune That great ex pounder and defender of Republican faith and doctrine that sheet anchor of protection goes on to declare tha the balance of taxation on Imports could be shifted so as to readjust burdens and encourage trade We do not want to collect taxes Just for the sake of piling up money In the Treasury and the nations Incessant growth and rapid changes In the conditions of Its trade and industry make It desirable to overhaul our tariff and Internal tar systems at suitable intervals That would make an excellent tariff reform plank or a Republican national papers Is too sweeping There are quite a number of prominent journals In Maine that have not been muzzled LETS HIVE ART The centralization of power in the Federal government Is nowhere more vividly Illustrated than in the demand for a department of art whose head shall be secretary of art with a seat in the Presidents Cabinet The States having shamefully neglected their duties In art matters It is proposed that the United States shall assume full control of art somewhat after the fashion of the Frencn department of fine arts Right here and now this Journal gets on the band wagon and Joins In the shout for national rt States rights are a fine thing In theory but when they are allowed to shrivel up through lack of use it Is time for the United States to Jump in and get busy It is very clearly pointed out by the Fine Arts Federation the Society of Beaux Arts and the American Institute of Architects that art In the United States has got tobe reformed The people have been engaged in making money upto this time but now they are turning to art and they propose ta make things hustle The same energy that has gone into pork packing and oil refining If applied to art would soon turn out the biggest and finest paintings in existence to say nothing of statues that would take the shine off anything ever turned out by the slippery Greeks The Idea that Americans are deficient In art instinct Is a hollow fallacy They have never tried to let themselres out tnats alt It Is pleasing to note that Mr Trowbridge the father of the new movement Another partv that the lockjaw germ Is sare to overlook this year Is the fellow who stands around and sajs I told you so PLACING THE BLAME From the Detroit Free Ptmi Who is ft father always blames When things go wrong about the place Who bears the brunt of everjthirg And bears it with a kindly grace Who is It father blames when he Spills soup upon his Sunday vest Whom does he censure when he breaks A shoestring while hes getting dressed Mother Who is responsible when he While shaving cuts fnto his chin Who loses pedro games that dad Was verv sure that he would wlrt Whose fault is it when father finds His laurdry not returned on time Who gets the blame for all mstakes Ridiculous to the sublime Mother Who seems to understand his whims And smiles at all his cranky wavs Who strives to patiently avoid The argument that never paj Who takes the blame that father gives As though It were deserved and then Awnlts her chance to square up things When father lingers cut til ten Mother Saved by a Teddy Bear From tho Nw York Amwtcanv Four year old Edward Hackett of 1S4 Sumner avenue Brooklyn wanted his Teddy bear to hear a street band that was playing below his window on the third floor yesterday1 He leaned out lost his balance and fell He landed on an awning and rolled to the edge Patrick Hennessy a hod carrier was passlrgwlth a hod on his shoulder The boy rolled Into the hod but landei on his Teddy bear The shock sent Hennessy to his knees but he held the hod upright From Answers A young lady sits in our choir Whose hair Is the color of folr But her charm Is unique She has such a fair ehlque It Is really a Joy to be nholr Whenever she looks down the aisle She gives me a beautiful smalsle And of all of her beaux I am certain she sheaux That she likes me the best of the whalsle Last Sunday she wore a new sacque Low cut at the front and the bacque And a lovely bouquet Worn In such a cute wuet As only few girls have the knacque Some day ere she grows too antique In marriage her hand I shall slque If shes not a coquette Which Id greatly regruette She shall share my two sovereigns a wlque Dog Leads Blind Horse to Water Port Jefferson Dlspatcn to New York Worlfl Tom a bull terrier belonging to Oscar Thomas near Setauket is claimed by his owner to be the most intelligent dog in Suffolk County which contains some of Accordingly a suit was commenced in London by Lord Euston with a view to having his marriage annulled George Manley Smith was found In New Zea land with considerable difficulty brought to London at great expense and everything pointed to a complete victory for Lord Euston Suddenly at the Very last moment cross examination brought to light the fact Ignored even by Lady Eus ton and by her lawyers that at the time when she married George Manley Smith he himself had a wife living whom he bad wedded three years previously Hi union with the so called Kate Walsh being thus rendered invalid by his former marriage had been no legal obstacle therefore to her matrimonial alliance to Lord Euston and Countess of Euston she remained until her death about threo years ago restored her unfortunate husband to freedom During the last ten years or so of her existence she had been mentally unbalanced and legally Irresponsible for her actions Lord Euston having therefore no redress whatsoever for her extravagances of conduct Of Royal Ancestry Lord Euston like his father the Duke Grafton is entitled to bear the rojal arms of England brlsed by a bar sln lfler for they are descended from the first Duke of Grafton whom Charles II believed to be his son by his favorite Barbara Vllllers who after flourishing successively as wife of Roger Palmer Earl of Castlemalne and of Beau Fielding died as Duchess of Cleveland Countess of Southampton and Baroness Nonsuch True it Is claimed by eminent genealogists and by students of history that research shows the father of the fair Barbaras son Henry Fltzroy first Dune of Grafton to have been Sir Charles Berkeley one of the boon companions of the merrle monarch But the Royal College of Heralds of England the Crown and all the standard Peerages admit the pretensions of the Dukes of Grafton to be descended from Charles II and so the royal ancestry may be described as official though open to question The principal home of the Duke of Grafton Euston Hall in Suffolk was badly damaged a few years ago by a fire which fortunately spared the Van dykes and other valuable palntlngs It has been In the possession of the family since the first duke who figured as Lord High Constable of England at the coronation of his uncle King James II and wars afterward one of the principal commanders of the army that defeated the insurrection of his half brother the Ill fated Duke of Monmouth also a son of Charles II and who perished on the scaffold Later Ion this first Duke of Grafton deserted th cause of King vJames II for William of Orange and while fighting for the latter was mortally wounded In storming the city of Cork The present duke has likewise been badly wounded on the battlefield namely in the Crimea a bullet entering his chin and passing through his bod without touching his spine For several days his life hung in the balance but he ultimately recovered and on his return to England was ap pointed one of the equerries of the late THE CLROlft Iff THE WEST At One Mattc We W0 Cbl nese and 2000 Japs Present From Denver ri14 sal Finn The circus matt If lie is sf up right lives longer ant drinks In more real pleasure every day of his life because of the appreciation of the circus by the whole world He knows that there is nothing elsejn an amusement way that licks up the whole breakfast table The old person who leans on his church like a cane as well as the rosy cheeked boy and girt turns to the circus ent for common enjoyment The in between fellow who makes the sidewalk ring when he walks and has gathered up enough money and power to be proud cornea along Just the same althbugahe mayt4rfse his eyebrows at thesuggestionTEverybody all over the frontier West goes to the circus regardless of religion or politics and to the circus Jfolks themselves every day bring forth its own revelations of odd happenings and strange doings The oddest mixture of people I ever saw was in Arizona said the old circus man when tier came to town tnis week Indians Mexicans Japs negroes Chinamen and iowboys crowded the tent and squatted comfortably on tho hippodrome track The Indians and Chinamen were quie as usual buf the cow punchers Mexicans and negroes made the air ring The cowboys yelped like a pack of coyotes when the Bedinl girls Jumped from the ground to the back of their galloping thoroughbreds The Mexicans were aroused by the gymnastic acts and opened their voices until they were worn and hoarse The clowns caught tne negroes and they laughed until the ground Ishook That night the cowboys and the Mexicans turned the town Into a shooting gallery emptying their revolvers at the stars and expressing their sorrow at the going away of the circus by licking up all the refreshments in tbe town Along tha Pacific Coast the Chinamen make the circus coming an event They turn out of their holes decked In their best bib and tucker and quit business as if it had no interest for them Years ago in San Francisco fully 25000 Chinamen saw the show In one season 111 wager that half as many passed tho door of the big top In Portland They are not man and buy popcorn and lemonade as well as the best seats Some of them came in coaches drawn by handsome horses and they sat In boxes Rich Chinese merchants gave matinee par tis the men wearing richly embroidered gowns the women clad mostly costly silks At ore special matinee given In a Call DETE0ITS GLEL DIVEsT Miss Frances Baker Employs JHer Own Crew and Makes a Good Li ring Detroit Dlstaten to New Tork Worlt Detroits girl diver Miss FrancesM3aker is regarded as a protege by an the sailors of the Great Lakes She 1 twenty one years of age and has laid up a comfortable bank account by following her hazardous calling Her first professional work was when she raised 2D 000 worth of copper from the ship of WH Stevens which sank in eighty feet of water in Lake Erie several years ago Miss Bakers father Capt Baker was a captain of diversand from the big dltch nrst time she was allowed to go down to tha river alone she used to watch her fathers wrecking ship leave the dock and long to go with him The ambition to become a diver matured In her as she grew older and she deplored the late which had condemned her to be a girL At last her desire to become a diver overcame the objections of her friends and she began making wrecking trips with her father and soon became his inseparable companion She made a study 01 every part or the machinery connected PEOPLE MET IN HOTEL LOBBIES Yes I would like to build the Panama Canal said William Oliver the Kna rille contractor last night After er erybodyelse has failed he added Mr Oliver it will be remembered was the lowest bidder when the government called for bids to build the canal several months ago and It was thought he would be given the Job Mr Oliver organized a stock company for the purpose of undertaking the work hut at tne last moment It was decided to have the government continue the construction of the I am told said Mr Oliver who Is at the Raleigh on his way to the Jamestown Exposition that the government contemplates letting contracts for several specific pteces of work on the eanaL as for instance the building of the Gatun dam Personally I would not consider taking such a Job I would want to build the whole thing or nothing I hare so often said that I am confident I could do this that it is needless for me to re vm It In my opinion the best way to do the in any way wiin aiving and In time work is by contract I have never had learned to command the wrecking boat any trouble with the steam shovel work with greatskJU and assurance men and have been doing business with Her first descent was in Lake Huron them for many years I believe that the where a big wooden barge had gone most difficult work in connection with down and before the wrecking steamer the building of the canal will be en had reached the spot where the barge countered In the leveAtretchee of ground had sunk the owner spoke to Miss and it will grow more Afflcult a the Baker regretting the loss of a diamond I work progresses I believe the canal will HZJh7aLnJ3il 15 Mt We from any 10 1 money consideration I should like i ji im jjjui ene naa oeen planning for some time to make her first descent upon the first favorable opportunity When everything was made ready for her to descend her own father manned the compressed air apparatus which meant life or death to tn have the distinction of having been the canal builder It is a patriotic work more than anything else and the man who succeeds in completing the Job win be remembered when the history of this century 1 written iwA Calred d0Wn has attracted attentTorTto tTe PanVaS ships ladder and without a moments Canal work and no one will attemptto hesitation disappeared under the water deny that the need of sinrt In describing the sensations of tho the Pacific Is fi outlet to initial trip she said that the feeling atleer now mon PPant than ine outset as as ir some great creature with a thousand arms was pressing her gently but firmly on all sides and as if In a few minutes her breath wbuld be cut oft ertlrely but she was far from frightened and continued her descent until the shadow of the sunken barge the nomination He is a leartinr liirvr loomed up beforo her She had a strange of the State and has a large Influence in pontics I do not doubt that if President Roose West Virginia Is In no danger of entering the Democratic column said Ira Robinson of Grafton at the Raleigh Mr Robinson waa a candidate for Con gress two years ago but failed to get of George Manley Smith was still living fornia town there were 6000 Chinamen and 2000 Japs The Chinaman shows bis appreciation by coming time after time His face has no more life In it than the butt end of a cottonwood log When an Indian likes a thing in the circus he simply grunts He sits with his face In his hands and his elbows on his knees but his eyes rove round the tent and take in everything When we tour Texas the cotton fields are deserted Evejs nesro has to see the performance If IW has to sell his shirt to do It White folks usually go at night time and the negroes in the day time In some towns the big tent looks as If it were in mourning Here and there a white face looms up During a show the noise and laughter of these good natured blacks are almost deafening The clowns are their favorites THE STORK AND THE BEAR From the Philadelphia Frees Said the tall slim Stork to the little Teddy Bear As they met In the nurseree You never have to work you never have to care If you had to slave like me And visit the woods and lakes and swamp And go hlkln round nights In the cold and damp In summer and winter youd see Another guessed thing than being cuddled up In an automobile with a blue eyed pup A saillng round the countree Said the little Teddy Bear to the tali slim Stork You neednt get a Kitty cat fit Cause the girls all hug and the children lug Me around and Ive made a hit And ride In an auto and the railroad train From the Golden Gate to she State of Maine Id never be a slim Stork nit And so wadin round in the ebbing tide A bothering bout race sueslde I dont have to cause Im It Well perhaps you are said the tall slim Stork And his beak went Click click click I can fly as fast as a railroad train And I never have no kick A comln I never have to beg I kin stand all day on Just one leg And do it clean and slick As most folks can on four no doubt So dont git gay you better look out For Teddys Great Big Stick feelmg of buovancy and the twenty pounds of lead attached to her feet seemed no heavier than leather soles as she followed her companion to the walls Of the sunken ship and with his aid climbed over them At this point she experienced severe pains In her head and felt as if her nose were going to bleed but still undaunted she reached the cabin of the barge where she entered and with the aid of the eiectrlc light at her belt sought out thej corner 01 ine caDin wnicn contained a I small stand jipon which was the tiny box containing the much desired diamond ring In her haste to reach it she stumbled and fell and for the moment was consumed by a terrible fear as the pressure of the water together with breathing the compressed air had now become almost overpowering but she quickly gained her self control and with the box in her hand returned to the deck of the wrecker As a reward for this exploit Miss Baker was presented with the diamond ring she had recovered and It is now in her possession The ring marked the beginning of her fortune as she had proved that she could velt gives the sllgntest indication that he would accept the Republican nomination West Virginia would send a solid delegation to the convention Instructed to vote for him but I am convinced that the President is In earnest in his declaration that he does not want another term and I believe he will put a stop to any movement In that direction The fafct that Roosevelt carried the State at the last residential election by 30 000 while the Republican governor was elected by only 9 000 while of course indicating some disaffection in the Republican ranks affords no good grounds for the belief that Democratic victory may be expected at the next election West Virginia is naturally a Republican 8tate and always will be Local factional fights ooca sionally have made the outcome appear doubtful but there is every reason to believe now that the Republicans have got together and adjusted whatever differences they may have had in the past I do not know who will be nominated for governor We have several good men anv one of whom would make an excellent executive At Jamestown last week I listened to live under the water and to be able to the addresses of the governors of three states Hughes of New York Dawson of West Virginia andf Swanson of Virginia and I also heard the speech of Secretary Cortelyou All were splendid efforts The address of Gov Hughes impressed me very much and am of the opinion that he would make a strong candidate for the Presidency Secretary Cortelyou gave an excellent talk while the speeches of Govs Swanson and Dawson were eloquent efforts do this means that a person is worth anywhere from ISO to 200 a day to wrecking company As ninety nine out of every one hundred men who descend Into the waters of the lakes will in few minutes begin to suffer from bleeding at the nose head splitting pains and suffocation that is why all good divers from one end of the Great Lakes to the other may be counted on ones fingers and toes 7 Queen with whose household he re AOIll IB JiUl a OlIVT amino i ii 1 i uaiuyA uwivu 1 niav lliibjr until sense and a great deal of charity In his heart On fhe Thomas farm is a blind horse The animal was recently turned out to pasture and it was necessary tc lead him to water After he had been led several times It was seen he never would be able to find his way by himself Much to the surprise of his owner the dog who has always been attached to the horse was nptlced one day walking in front of the norse leading the way to the brook He kept Just In front and out of the way of the hoofs of the old horse and barked frequently The dog waited until he had had his fill of water and then led him back to pasture He does this three or four times a day When the old horse wnlch went blind this spring wans a drink he whinnies and Tom goes on the Jump for the pasture and attends to his duty her deatha being reappointed to the office on the accession of the present King nwu ww we can UUJf hood Mirrors as Detectives From the New Tort Press It Is not solely to please the lady patrons said an Interior decorator that mirrors so abound In shops Chey serve another and a more important purpose They help detect shoplifters If you should study tbe various watch ers In the employ of big retail stores jou would find that they dont watch the patrons directly They look at their re flections in the mirrors Of course their watching done that way Is unperceived The shoplifter glances at the watcher sees that his back is to her and secretes a pair of Silk stockings in her shirt waist The next moment she feels an unfriendly and terrifying tap on the shoulder and the watcher who has caught her by the mir rors aid bids her sternly to accompany him to the office POINTED PARAGRAPHS Front the Chicago News Fortaaate is tha mluctnall who has so kick com ins Unless you strrrt tor your rlcht yoa art apt jto setlett This woril remembers the man who Ales same for a flay A man nerer lets dyspepsia fronf atlng the things he alillies There ere minyj htto esUried teachers In the school at experience Martage is responsible for the aestroctlon ot many happy delusions A woman who gossips Is fca4 enough bat a maa vho listens to gossip la won Third Duke the Most Famous From an historical point of view the most famous of the dukes of Grafton was the tUrd ddke great grandfather of the present peer and who played so great a role as statesman throughout the long reign of George IJI To him many of the most savage of the public letters of the still mjstertous Junius were addressed and during his day Euston was the scene of many an Important political gathering in which Fox Pitt Lord North and Lord Rockingham participated While he un doubtedly laid himself open to many of I me reproacnes wnicn were nuned against him from every side yet much of his unpopularity was attributable to his dis approval of the policy of the fcrown and of the nation with regard to the American colonies which resulted In their secession and in their transformation into the United States He was the friend land patron of the poet Blomfield whose praise 01 tne duke in iie FarmeVa Boy and other verses may be i6t against the vitriolic denunciations of Junius One word more about the present Duke of Grafton and his son Lord Euston The form has old fashioned ideas about the observance of Sunday and on bis extensive estates exacts that each tenant and his family should attend some place ot worship with regularity on Sunday and that no work shall bedone on the land on the Sabbath or even any vegetables taken from the ground after 10 oclock In the morning under penalty of the cancellation of the lease Of course the duke has been a good deal criticised for this especially In the Liberal papers But after all it Is In keeping with tbe excellent principles which guide the conduct of so many of the great nobles and territorial magnates In Europe and which cause them to look upon themselves as responsible not only for the material but likewise for the moral welfare of all the people on their estates As Lord Euston now a widower had no children the dukedom of Grafton will eventually go to the only boy ot bis younger brother Lard Alfred Fltzroy The young fellow is a subaltern in his fathers rd grandfathers old regiment I the Coldstream Guards Mourning for Dead Cat LonisTllle Dispatch to New Tork American Died At his home Flnlej avenue in Reservoir Park Adam Ball Bryan aged ten ears and six months Few who read this notice In the obituary column of a local paper knew It was for a cat It was though and a plain every day black and white cat at that Yet its death was a blow to Mr and Mrs Bryan Ptomaine poisoning caused Adams demise after its owners hadN anxiously doctored and watched it a whole night A local phjslcian was called but could do nothing Undertaker Cralle prepared the carcass for burial It was placed covered with cut flowers in a small grave right under the bed room window of Mr and Mrs Bryan All tie neighbors wept at the obsequies The coffin was white with plush linings and silver finishings We raised Adam with a bottle said Mr Bryan his voice trembling The neighbors thought so much of him that they sent him a valentine every year My wife and I loved nlm as we would a child Shadows From the Philadelphia dger A nervous man on his lonely homeward way heard the echoing of footsteps behind him and dim visions of hold up men and garroters coursed through his brain The faster he walked the more the man behind Increased his speed and although the nervous one took the most roundabout and dev lous course he could aevise sun nis xracKer lonowed At last he turned Into a churchyard If he follows me here he decided there can be no doubt about his intentions The man behind did follow and quivering with fear and rage the nervous one turned and confronted him What do you want he demanded Why are you following me Do jou always go home like this asked the stranger or are you giving yourself a treat to night I am going up to Mr Browns and the porter at the ctatlon told me to follow you as you lived next door Excuse me asking but are you going home at all to night PSYCHIC EPILEPSY IN ARCADY From the New Tork Sun Amid the fields of Arcady We wandered she and I Our hearts were filled with happiness No cloud obscured our sky But as among the clover blooms We strolled with freqyent Stops A rude Arcadian drew nigh And chased us off his crcps Beside a brook In Arcady We sat and sighed our bliss And presently my lips sought hers To steal a tender kiss But Just at that ecstatic time Ere one could draw a breath Arcadian mosquitoes came And stung us most to death Beneath a tree Arcady We paused a while to rest Ah love I said of all the world This land is surely blest But as I spoke a thunderstorm Burst forth from heavens dome Alas we sighed this Arcady Is mightily like home Old fashioned Thunderstorms From the Boston Herald It Is not wise to mention It but the old fashldned thunderstorm does not reach the cities nowadays In the rural districts Jt may perhaps get in some fine work though even so It falls to terrify individuals accustomed to electrical displays Those good old times when people sought the protection of feather beds or ignomlnlously crawled into dark closets durlnsr a crackinar storm tt mim belfig struck by the lightning have vanished forever It a thunder bolt appears now It finds the householder prepared for It with a fire insurance policy near at hand We play with electricity and From the New Tork Times The Paranoiac you should know No longer stays to vex us Hes had a genuine knockout blow Plumb in his solar plexus The Brainstorms fallen to the rear Likewise the mad dyspeptic And now the latest crank is here The Psychic Epileptic TIs safe no longer on the street In daylight to meander Because the first big man we meet May belt us a right hander And after dark the very beaux Who stroll with May and Nellie May pounce upon them tear their clothes And pound thenTlnto Jelly Ma isnt safe alone with pa He might go daft and fight her And aunt would get an awful Jar If uncle tried to bite her And think the King of England he Whose charms were wont to dazzle May some day grab the Queen In glee And thrash her to a frazzle Tls awful to consider yet The thing is quite a blessing Theres one or two whom I have met But Ill delay confessing Some day when I am right In trim And meet my quarry pardless 1 11 punch the daylights out of him And go my way regardless man harnesses It to obey his will We I dont run away from its natural display aiabqucs de fonttkot i any more 1 Texas is having a big real estate boom said Pfeuffer St San Antonio at the New Wlllard If I were to tell you that In the last two years land has Increased in value in some parts of the State more than 1000 per cent you probably would not believe it but nevertheless It is a fact I know from experience that In some sections property that brought 2 an acre two years ago is now selling for J20 and there is very little of it on the market at that Many of the large ranch lands In the State are being cut up into farms and are be ing grabbed up by Investors The Influx of farmers is great and the Btate is rapidly being settled In all parts We have organized the Five Million In 1910 Club and It is spreading rapidly There is no doubt in my mind that we shall reach that figure before tha present decade Is turned The Five Million Club is a regularly organized club and is proving a big advertisement for Texas Recently one of its prominent members started on an automobile ride through the State and the enthusiasm all along his route was tremendous He purposes to continue his trip to the East and will visit Washington and the Jamestown Exposition I honestly believe that Texas la the most promising State in this country There are so many good towns scattered all over the State that anyone desiring to settle there cannot make a mistake wherever he goes San Antonio has nearly 100000 people and by 3310 we shall have more than 125000 It Is a modern city in every way The only thing lack ing has been first class hotel accommodation and we are now putting up a hotel that will cost 750000 and will be the equal of any in this country Oh Texas Is on the boom and will continue to boom for years to come We have the room and we are getting the people What more can we ask John Bankhead will be elected United States Senator on August IS without any opposition said FT Lynch of Montgomery Ala at the Wlllard Xt is not generally known I believe that Senator Bankhead was selected for the Senate last spring at the primary election in the event of a vacancy I believe this Is the first case In the history of this country whfers a man has been named for Senator before a vacancy occurred The primary election law gay the State committee the power to hold an election to name State officers and also to sIect men for successorshlp to the United States Senate Bankhead received a big vote Senator Bankhead therefore was entitled to the office when he was named by the governor to succeed Senator Morgan and he will only come into his own when he Is elected by the legislature next month It was a fortunate thing for Bankhead when ha was defeated by Richmond Pr Hobson for after his defeat tbe people began to realize that one of their ablest statesmen had been turned down Westwood Nixon brother of Louis Nixon constructor of the Oregon 1 at the Metropolitan Mr Nixon Is associated The Tomcat Won ir nm tt 9SllsiTnKi Pa fL A boastful machinist ernployed at Jessop Steel Milt near Washington Pa had the conceit taken out of him bya big tomcat one day this week He wa boasting of his strength declaring that he could pull a horse through the waters of Chartiers Creek Superintendent Wilson of the mill offered to bet 10 that he couldnt pull a catthrough the water from bank to bank The bet was taken a big black tomcat was secured at a nearby I hi hmihr in th foiiuimr vin bouse and the 200 mill workers gathered ana Is Washington looking after some at the creek to see the test of strength I contracts that have been awarded to The machinist was on one side of the gm creek with one end of a rope and the cat and the spectators were on tne otner The rope was tied around the cat and when all was in readiness the word was given and the tug of war was on The machinist held Jits own for a moment and then with a mighty heave against the straining hemp the cat pulled him into the water REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR From the New Tork Press A man ha a good temper when he only thinks bis swear words A widow Is awful clever to want men to teach her things she knows better than they do When aT woman want to get married because he has no Illusions about It ihea widow There la harly anything so exciting ts a girl ai to wonder it the man la the seat ta front of her tn railway car has light or dark ere If a woman could see canceled postage stamps erer again for some sort of preset res she woI4 4 tBink she wt beat housekeeper la the world My brother was given much praise as the constructor ot the Oregon wheq that vessel made Its memorable trip from the Pacific around the Horn to the Atlantic at the time of the Spanish American war1 said Mr Nrxon but the Oregon then looked upon as the finest ship In the navy cannot be compared with the ilps that are being built at this time It is still a good fighting boat but is far out of date when compared with tbe battle ships that have been built In the last two years This country needs a larger nary In my opinion We should have two large fleets one for the Pacific station and one for the Atlantic and then we would not have to send our boats thousands or miles In order to prepare for any trouble that might come to us from either side of our country We have a large number of contracts to build boats for foreign naviesi btjt we would much prefer to be kept busy building waj ship for our own conntrw itaI tf sti TX 5 i i.