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Tfts SS THE WASHINGTON POST TUESD4Yi 6qTSBER 10 Iflptl IKHaeDitifltOTiv jpolf Publication Offices it 1 fc JPenruylvania Avenue aeaj Fourteenth Streak TERMS OF SUBSCRJPTJONwJ Delivered by Carrier In Washlngton and Alexandria Dally Sunday Ipcluded one month JO TO Dally Sunday Included one week 20 Dally Sunday excepted one month i 50 Dally Sunday excepted one week 15 By Mall Potaa Prepaid Dally Sunday excepted one year TJlv Rimiiii itiAindAil one rear ri Dally Sunday excepted one month SO Dally Sunday Included one month 70 Sunday one year 2 All Subscriptions by Mall Payable In Advance Remittances should be made by drafts checks postofflce orders registered letter or express orders payable to THE WASHINGTON POST CO Washington Entered at the postofflce at Washington as second class mall matter roo 8 40 Foreign Advertising EepreenttTe AUli BLOCK X50 Fifth Arsnue Newport Sieger Bulldlne Chlciso TUESDAY OCTOBER 10 1911 Why the Public Holds Aloof The center of pessimism may still have the sinking feeling that comes from the props tbelng knocked out from under but is not its cry for succor belied by the fact that it is able to keep Europe from going to the demnitlon bow wows Wall street is put in an anomalous position indeed when it throws up its hands in horror at the evidences of financial chaos in its midst and at the same time sends JSOOOWO over to bolster up shaky conditions in Europe Wall street figures that itr losses since the slump set in aggregate 86000000 But as none of the companies affected by the decline have stopped paying dividends can it be shown that intrinsic values have suffered These stocks at ruling prices are a big bargain Wall street itself says so and has another sinking spell upon discovering that the public stlli gives it a wide berth Now what else has Wall street a right to expect as long as it goes ahead knocking its own game and sends its money abroad for Investment in place of using it to better advantage at home We are told that Europe can have more gold on the same terms which means that Wall street prefers a 4 per cent foreign loan to a 6 or 7 per cent American security selling at 90 Furthermore when 1500000 gold was shipped to Paris from New York the other day the transaction showed a loss to the shippers at the prevailing rate of exchange of 3750 a thing almost without a parallel Is It any wonder that the outsider seeing the insider so intent upon doing the wrong thing gets the idea that there lsa conspiracy against values For such a suspicion there la of course ho basis of fact as a bear movement is as conducive to senseless sacrifices as a bull movement is to senseless excesses The sheep follow the leaders downhill as precipitately in 1911 as they followed them uphill frantically In 1907 till the crash came If the liquidation following upon the premature rally of i908 has more than wiped out the paper profits it simply means that the ghost dancer is paying the fiddler his price for longer hours Meanwhile the public abundantly supplied with money Is biding its time For a long time it has been and is now looking confidently forward to a return to normal conditions Let those who have charge of the machinery of finance speed It up with a measure of confidence and support from the Inside if they would recover lost ground The Puclcerless PerelMirjOn In the good old days around Which memory throws the mellow charms which the passing of time alone can bestow there was a rural character who Is known no more This was the singing teacher Ho filled in the brief hiatus between corn shucking and the winter re vival serving as an indefinable bond to Join the ponquest of nature with the first annual aspirations toward spiritual things He was neither a Caruso nor a PaganiriL Yet the7melodious twang of catgut never drew from ardent hearts more conflicting emotions than those which followed the moment when he struck his tuning fork uponthe sounding boardTand ottered the portentous words Prepare to pucker Treble alto soprano and falsetto followed as the lads and lassies essayed to encompass the melodies which the ringing cadences of his magic weapon called into being But the pucker of the rural singing school has passed And now that other pucker born of the astringent quality of the green persimmon is also to be banished forever Gdre and David Falrchlld of the Department of Agriculture Individually and collectively have solved the problem No longer will the fruit of possums and small boys need await the sweets of adversity brought by autumnal frosts The puckering qual lty has been trailed to its lair It is due to the presence of tannin an element that gives t6 tea its nerve Irritating qual ities and to tan bark the power to turn thttgreen hide into sole leather and harness Messrs Gore and Falrchlld have werkv ed aMtioUsly over the problem To them a green persimmon Is a green persInW moneven ftssto the yokelaprlmroseby the rivers brim a yellow primrose is to hlmr and nothing more Failing of success in their laboratory experiments they 5 turned to the Japanese for guidance All oblivious tq the spell of Madame Chrysan theme andt the thousand arid one other delights that subdued the souls pf Lot and Hearn they went Intp the regions of utilitarianism There they found com merclal methods and sake The Japanese It seems packed the green persimmons In wet sake barrels This rendered the fruit fit to1 eat though the process was slow Therf began the American system If gake Was gjood wpuid nqt alcohol be bet ter Alcohol was tried The rruit cracked and eoftened under the too powerful spirit Carbon dioxide was substrwted Into the Jlesednesota glorious future to which science la guiding us Uhjinj faJtertogstxJdesyjndiyet is there not wrgtin toughthe jMro chAutuacrcleajroftthoJonce existent singing teacher ahdthe substitution of iajfiiunaiqxiaeaflu siarciior toe twrncu astringent sweetness which the first frost gave to the free gift of the wild woods i Where th6 DangerLles Whilelit tetrue that the war between Italy And Turkey has been almost bloodless and has therefore given newspaper wits some excuse for sarcastio comment it is also true that the war is not oyerbyany means No one ever could foreseetheend of a war and tberes eht conflict Is bristling with ugly possibilities One reason why there has been little bloodshed up to date is because Italys activity hag been on the sea fvhere theTurk is conspicuous by his absence It is difficult to work up a light betWeen a sharlc and a tiger Some the Powers notably Germany are trying hard to bring about peace before massacres in European Turkey arouse the jarring nations in that quarter Threats of expulsion of all Italians In the Turkish empire and the confiscation of their property are freely made and in spite of the desire of the Turkish government to prevent massacre and pillage the situation may become uncontrollable at any moment The government is itself pitiably weak and vacillating on account of dissensions between thej Young Turks and representatives of the old regime There is nothing but the self repression of the Turkish people to prevent them from beginning a reign of terror The well informed Turks appreciate the danger of mob reprisals upon the Italians They know this would be the signal for aggressions by hungry powers which would not end until the Turk had been expelled from Europe Italy while active In Tripoli is observing the rules of war by treating Turkish officials and individuals with consideration and there is no evidence that Turkish nationals in ItaIyarB In danger as to life or property The danger zone remains In the Balkans The events of the past month have served to light a train of fuses leading directly toward a powder magazine The world will be relieved Indeed if the war is confined to north Africa Trust Problem in Canada Canadian financial opinion leans to the view that great care should be exercised In regulating the formation Industrial combinations on trust lines Big business has scarcely got a foothold over the border as yet but the fear Is expressed that if the problem is not grappled with In its early stages the gpvernment will find itself confronted by a situation not unlike that which plagues the United Spates Canada hopes Jo profit from our experience An interested eye is kept on the struggle between capital and politics as to the survival of the fittest monopoly or competition The opinion prevails that as the United States goes so goes the Do minion Without having had much opportunity to formanpptnloiat first hands 1 thetrend is rather against special privi leges rresraent Tarrswestem speeches appear to be carrying conviction to minds beyond the border Commenting favorably upon the Presidents speech at Waterloo Iowa the Monetary Times of Toronto hag this to say by way of interpretation The two Important points In these remarks are that business must face the necessity of throwing away the crutch of combination against competition and that there can be no distinguishing line between the good monopoly and the bad monopoly This Is as good as saying that various com panles have been allowed willingly or unwillingly according to opinion to try the trust cure for economic evils Imaginary and real that the trial has failed and that the United States government Intends to place those compa nles In their individual spheres again What can We In Canada learn from the experience of the United States The lesson appears to be that we should regulate with great care the formation of Industrial combinations for we are In the early stages of the combine movement Such regulation should prevent the building of an economic structure which later governments will find necessary to demolish as Id the case today In the United States The Canadian government has so far only taken a tentative step fn antitrust I legislation Parliament has provided a board of inquiry with power to curb wrongful tendencies toward monopoly and the law creating It haa been sustained after a hard fight in all the courts The board Is prosecuting the United Shoe Machinery Company of Canada as being In restraint of trade and the result is pected to show Whether further restrictive regulations need to be adopted Canada seeks light also on the question Do the theoretical advantages of ihdtfs trial combination really materialise in actual practice This Is still among the mooted questions one side maintaining that the coal oil trust in Its perfected form approximates all that Is clalniedfor combination while the other side holds that whatever economies and other advantages have come of It go to swell the dividends and that the promised benefits to the public have not materialized tltloTWTbe StfeJcorporatlonr norther Independents say advices from Pittsburgh is setting the paca In making concessions to consumers and jiaturallyit alaetttag1 the largest proportion bt new business Production fa increasing ln response tp the Improved demand but prices aratUl manifesting aTdownward tendencyjBes seme Is at thelowestquotatior since 1305 white pig Iron3s selling below sthe cost of production Probably theJWttom haa now been reached vfor doin busi ness around the cost of production is littlejnore than any branch of trade can Btand up under If prices in other lines jof business many of them free from any question of exorbitant values were as far down the scale as in steel products the cost of living would be down to hard pan It has long been characteristic of the steel industry In times of stress to cut prices to the point that brought a revival of demand which marked the beginning of re newed prosperity generally There is good reason for saying that the march of events is again to witness a demonstration of steels function as the barometer of business Enforcing the Law The French seigneur of an elder day was by common consent the lord of the high the middle and the low Since his time through the leveling tendencies of democracy the operations of the execu tive have been largely confined to the surface But the introduction of the aeroplane has complicated matters somewhat and the application of the law no longer possesses Its former simple problems Consequently when Sheriff DeMott and his deputies marched Into the middle of the flying Held at Nassau Boulevard In New York last Sunday and announced Any one who files from this field today the game being Sunday will be arrested there was introduced the third dimension Into the legal realm For the most part the blrdmen walked away blrdwomaa anything was the one Incentive to its performance The day thou eatest of the fruit thou shalt surely die was the challenge issued 6000 years ago in the garden Up to that moment Eve didnt want to eat Immediately following came the irresistibly desire And that Is why Miss Mathilde Molsant was present at Nassau Boulevard last Sunday That also Is why she wanted to fly and did fly To the unalterable decision of the legal authorities she gave the one inevitable reply Mike tune her up Quite a time they had Miss Molsant the deputies and the sinful monoplane The outcome of the melee Is neither here nor there6f at least It Is not here Enough to gay Hiss Molsant was eventually apprehended and brought before a justice of the peaee A jewel of a Justice was he second only to the cadi of Eastern lore who stroked his beard and asked Are there any winged ants In Jedda Ignoring the details of the code he Inquired What has she done and when Informed he gave the instruction that she be allowed to go In peace ItWouW jbo aggros delinquency to fail to recognize the energy and enthusiasm With whith the sheriff and his deputies bent their best efforts toward the enforcement of the laws clear demands Miss Molsant was evidently guilty Like the volunteer firemen of old they seen their duty and done it Who so recreant as to withhold the meed of praise To be sure sloe doors were open on that iame day in defiance of the excise law the click of the roulette wheel sounded cheerily in the upper room and strong arm men plied their honest calling But law is law And if too lenient justice sees fit to dismiss the case that Is no reason hy Sheriff DeMott and his deputies should fall in the plain performance of a disagreeable duty A womans idea of heaven is a place where all the other women wear last seasons halos Not so the Not to be permitted to do Still It does seem that the Duke of the Abruzzl is wasting time West Virginia hasnt even got a naval militia I Better lay in a supply while the markets low Turkey for the Indications are that the price of peace is going up If every one of the minor companies issue those coupons What a disaster the dissolution of the tobacco tryst Will prove to be If you dont think its the seasoned vet erans who really run the world consider what a fizzle the Young Turks have made The Dutch having won the tnterna tional balloon Ace we shall shortly hear that the war scare has broken out afresh in London fori air and starch was introduced Into theT processing compartment to absorb jht moisture The resultVas highly satisfactorysatisfactory The tannin has been withdrawn Irjr this process and the green per immonJs now a delectable edible wVbayei then the puckerless persim xrnon ihatiksjtot Ainerican ingenuity euperlWPOsw supon yapanese expen jnentationIt one moreleapjorward Steel Trnst in Law and Trade The Attorney Generals statement In denial of the persistent report that the government is about to ask the courts to dissolve the steel trust ought to clear the air in that quarter whence comes much unauthorized stuff calculated to give countenance to the long drive against steel stocks Much of the trepidation in financial quarters is attributable to the repeated assertions of impending pro ceedlngs against the big corporation as a violator of the Sherman law as interpreted by the Supreme Court Restraint of competition is the specific allegation according to rumor but Just what grounds the charge Is based on are not stated Had the various investigations of the corporation developed facts Justifying cause for action the government doubt Jess would have taken the concern lntoTtoniorraw court before now as It has ddhe with other trusts Chairman Garys claim thai thet corporation has always operated within the p1flSMrT SVa4 law isyet to be successfully challenged Ifone of the trusts competitors has made complaint or unfair methods of dealing And most assuredly the war ofprices which has been an for months and which is growing In acutenesswifheachjweek ap forward tejls Its ownjstory ptsfreedomotiCQtnpe 1 a Sunny Jim Sherman Is the only man In the United States who is hi the least in tetested In that vice presidential election in Mexico The lady mayor of Hunnewell Kans has gone on a long lecturing tour proving that even Jn Kansas the clouds have silver linings What a shame for Jersey to force that Indorsement on Woody when he was carefully saving It up for a more psychological moment Mr A Tennyson Dickens remarks that Boston women have beefy ankles Too bad his visit to Boston should have beer spolled by rainy weather If you marry a college woman you are mighty apt to stay married to her says a Wellesley report Tes it is hard to break away from these athletes A Berlin genius says that ragtime will drive Americans crazy The use of the future tense is hut another Indication of the conservatism of the typical German highbrow The wise newspaper reader hasnt time to bother with what happened1 50 years ago on account of being too busy trying to get a atralght tip on what will happen si i If is to be noticed nowadays that Mr William 31 Hearst can get his Views printed In the other New York papers Just as easily as hecanbreak Into hls owtT columns Chicago pastors who prayed that geo retary Wilson would see the light andtre gress have failed as lTamajimngures thattv golngvhe can seeboththeHghtJ and the dark I i 4W flM QBANG KTTXED BHIFS CAT Outside ofThisShipinateH Proved Hun I tlf QtUtoSaJon Long Voyage Fromthe Neyorsfiii when the gales roar in the forests of Borneo the grassy cradles of the baby orang outangs rock but do not fall and evenlfthey did Jt jould not matter much to babies who know how to Jiang on to ilmbs It is this arboreal sway ing that counts wlthftffe rang whenThe happens to gotoseaTjandthatils why isiuracer Jferry Webster of tb British steamship rinyerlydesald tfiaf the prang iwhieh was a part of the ships company ori as veryf jitdrmy lripfr6mJ Gibraltar where theJnverclydo touched on her wayfrorntherar Eastodidnot get seasick He had become accustomed tothe motion fromM baby days Ha Is called Shipmate partly because ot Jils sallorlike ability and partly be cause of hi3 good natured jHe did not do one mearTthlng onthewholetrip from Singapore excepftothV ships cat in the SedSea The cat took a 1 dislike to Shipmate and one day vented It by scratching him Shipmate reached out swiftly with one of his abnormally long red halred arms and Srrabbed the cat by ihe neck Theriext instanf he waswhlrllng arqunjTro wiftly thathe looked like aBimIan pinwheel and the cat was invisible on the periphery ex cept as a gray blur Shipmate leased suddenly 1n his gyration andthe cat was catapulted into the empyrean It came down finally and trie hole It made in Ihe Red Sea filled so rapidly that none of the officers was able to mark It Therefore the grave of the ships cat is not known precisely The first officer says he bellevesthe cat struck bottom and stayed therel If anybody should want to know approximately where the cat vanished the seventh mate says he might try latitude 19 degrees 13 minutes north longitude 41 degrees 33 nilnutes east not far from Suakim Shipmate had the run of the Ittverclyde and slept where ihe pleased which was usuauy in me coal winkers He was put in the officers mess and ate regularly with them limiting himself to frujt and rice After meals he smoked a pipe with the rest of em looking so solemn that the officers could hardly smoke for laughing He also took a pull at the growler of ale when It was passed around and drank Scotch like a native Second Officer Charles Hancock who had chief charge of Shipmate said hes did everything but talk English He is immensely cheerful as arule but1 shows symptoms of melancholy When the Jap anese poodle whch appears to regard Shipmate as a man is kept away from him a long time The poodle haa been aboard the Inverclyde ever since Shipmate shipped Shipmate was brought out on deck for a sun bath and introduction to the ship news reporters He looked mighty clean for an Anthropoid which had been sleep ing in coal bunkers The first officer said this was because he had Just received an oatmeal shampoo They thought a soap and water washing of the head might give Shipmate a cold and Webster and Hancock tried oatmeal on him effectively He did not like it at first Before the shampooing began Shipmate looked as if he were going to play end man in a minstrel show After all the black had been scoured off his red hair had a chance to assert itself He declined to be Interviewed and went down1 into the galley to help the cook wash the dishes He likes to do this as itgtyesjijm a ejiance to4lek the opiate Shipmate is middle aged for an orang ano bouuiaur feet i talk When he chooses to stand up straight FASHION AND DIVORCE Women Must Start Reform in Dress to Save the Home Botton Dispatch New York Trltfune Denouncing the extravagances and unhealthy fashions womens attire as of fenslve in the sight of heaven the Rev Myra Hoyt pastor of the Wales Avenue Free Baptist ChUrch of Brockton Implores womankind everywhere to ignore fashion which she declares wrecks more homes than all other things combined Fashion is the greatest wrecker of the home she said It is a foe to Christianity Women who labor In the shops here neglect their homes their family and church for dress I Have not had oc casion to hear many of their stories They say their husbands left asked why They answer because he cant support them Cant he give you the necessities and comforts of life I askt Invariably they answer Yes but he cant give me what other women have He cant dress me A man must earn not less than 50 a week to satisfy the desires of his wife in the matterof dress I am speaking of the common jeople Ida not mean those who are millionaires and go to the extremes Christian people would do well to start a reform In dress I wish we could convince women hOW foolish it Is to wear light corsets false hair and high heels and persuade them dress Instead for the glory of their Maker Dog Sears Lion Cubs Chicago Ditpatch to New Yorlc World There is one dog in Chicago that will feel at home In the African Jungles If her master ever decides to take her there She Is at present engaged In rearing two Hon cubs to full grown lionhood They were born recently at Lincoln park but the lioness flatly refused to nurse her offspring The Hon babies plteously proclaimed the fact that they were hungry Finally Devry learned of Lady Slopes a Boston bulldog whose eight puppies were drowned Lady Slopes was taken to the lion house andaftera preliminary sniff or twoghe wagged her tail approvingly The cubs ceased to whine and twenty minutes later they had forgotten that such a thing as hunger ever existed Longevity of Artists from the London Chronefe The longevity pf artists is almost pro ert Macquoid who at the age of 91 is still painting is remarkable but not unparal leled Cooper A exhibited at the Royal Academy for several years after passIngJufl ninetieth birthday John Mas sey Wright a water color artist born in 1773 was fully occupied and Inactive work up to the time of jiis death at the age of 93 Most notable however was Titian who born in 1447 lived Just oneyer short of fa century and continued to paint pictures until the Very last liOn i 1 Story Is GrowiugrJ yrem ft Nfew YorkWoTlfl jsJvJJ Jt RepresenUtiv FHr GiHetty of T3pringneiu Aiassxnas naa ur supscribe to anothTf clipplnbufeau to keep up WlthtlVIresultarof a recent adventure ofhiVsecretaryriWilllam Dearden Mr DeardenitJwiH bet remembered or ltoughttobe was attacked recently 6y afrbgwhile dresslngflsh At the waters edge atHardwickl MrGillett hai found tKaCthe stofy is thrlvlng as Jt travels A Pacific coat version of Jt aaysMr Dearden aJiana waa severely lacerated before iie iew the monster nitliiiiwav i i vS DEATHSBYvRABIES FROfi FOX1 BITES ii a Althoughthe British government adopts thV mostVextraordlnary arIdCtyrannlcal measures toward dogs wltbthe object of stamping out hydrophobia rendering the life of our poor four footed frlenda a burden to themit compelling them to submit to alLTrortaof muzzling regulations andttf a quarantine otseveralrnonths on their return to the United Kingdom if they have accompanied theb owner abroad yet It has leftat JlbeftyJthe xwACD wuiua are a inpusanci tunea more Jangerous in connection with hydrophobia tbandog8 There Ifr nothing no Tmrnnnrtiia 6 thA bltftof a foxvwhether wild or tame and in almost every 2 Ihstance it develops rabies What renders the mattermore troUbleSomeisthatln England at any ratejfoxesiire strictly preserved ffor hunting purposes and that wWeas any one can kllLa dogwhose bite is feartd to Inoculatl the germs of hydrophobia a man who shoots a ioxls regarded with all the horror due to a criminal despite the knowledge thatlts bite Is certain to produce rabies Indeed vuipjclde that is to say the killing of a fox otherwise than In the hunt at the end of a long run Is looked upon as an offense entailing the most drastic kind of social ostracism and as on a par with cheating at cards and welshing If I mention this it Is because of the death last week of Richard Bower the popular master of the West Wiltshire foxhounds In England frorri hydrophobia brought on by his being bitten In the hanothrouSh a thick Woolen grove at the end pf a run by a hunted fox which he was about to break up The fourth Lord Doneralle head of the St Leger family succumbed at Jils Jrlsh home of DOneralle Court in County Cork in 1887 to hydrophobia due to the bite of a fox and another peer who met with his death In identically the same fashion not in England but on this side of the Atlantic Was the fourth Duke of Richmond who waB in turn lord lieutenant of Ireland and governor general of Canada DlsraeUt Overdose of Brandy Now that Disraeli has been put on the American stage as the hero Of a play bearjng hlg name at present being pro duced Jn nne of the leading theaters In New York it may be worth while recalling the fact that although the great tory leader who died as the Earl of Beaconsfleld was the most temperate of men yet On one memorable occasion he wasso intoxicated in the house of com mons that he had to be assisted out of the chamber it was not altogether his fault He was premier at the time and as such It had fallen to his lot to speak at a late hour of the sitting reeling greatly fagged and worn out he begged one of the whips to bring him a glass of brandy and water The glass when handed to him instead of containing the minimum of brandy which was all that he ever allowed himself was filled with a good deal more of cognac than of water and he gulped It down without noticing the difference Before ten minutes were passed he was perfectly drunk he began sumble in his sentences and to become incoherent in his utterances then he stopped ab ruptly and smiled vacantly at the house then he let his handkerchief fall and bade wild attempts to pick It up like thff comic drunkard on the stage then he suddenly sat down and compfetely collapsed so that he had tflt be half led halfearrled ut of the legislative caam The house pretended to take no notice 4 of this extraordinary scene the truth of Which is vouched for by a number of witnesses including Sir Toby Lucy and Henry Labouchere the proprietor of London Truth who at the time was rep resenting Northampton in the house of commons It Is the only occasion in modern times of a prime minister at tempting to address parliament while drunk Laboucheres Daughter Sues Husband With regard to Labouchere his many friends in this country who are aware how deeply he is attached to his only daughter Dora will be sorry to hear that her marriage to Carlo dl Rudlnl eldest son ahd heir of the late Marquis di Ru dlnl who Was on seven occasions prime minister of Italy has resulted In failure and that she has been compelled to take steps to secure a Judicial separation Carlo dl Rudlnl spent a considerable time In this country where he was well though not favorably known so much so that his various attempts to secure the hand of an American helressr rlchl widow met with universal failure In deed the utmost astonishment was felt over Here especially In New York when it was learned that after his return to Etiropevhe had managed to secure the hand of the beautiful fascinating and accomplished Dora Labouchere for there is no man Hying who has been quicker than her brilliant father to penetrate througH the character of those with whom he was brought Into contact ahd to discover 4helr weak points and the Idea that he should have consented to give hla only child who was the apple of his eye to a man such as Rudlnl seemed Inconceivable It Is only fair however to Labouchere to state that he was opposed to the match and that If he ultimately gave his consent It was because he could notjbring himself to refuse Dora anything on which she had set her heart and she was perfectly Infatuated with Rudlnl ftudlnl ntanely Extravagant Fortunately Labouchere declined to give Ills daughter a dowry and accorded to her instead a very liberal allowance he wisdom of this jyas apparent when after the marriage Carlo Rudlnl resumed his former habits of insane extravagance and Dora was driven by her husband to make demands on her fathers generosity to get him out of all sorts of financial difficulties mainly in connection with gambling Realizing that his child needed his pro tection Labouchere gave up his home in England and transferred his abode to Florence where the Rudlnls were living aridiWhere his wife the one time popular actress Henrietta Hodgson died She will be remembered In America as haying chaperoned Mrs Langtry tnow Lady de Bathe on ttie occasion of IheSfatters flrsttheatrlcal tourjn the Unttedlstates but disapproving of certain things that Mrsf Langtry abruptly returned to England Then Labouchere gave tup hla active editorship of Truth which Jiehad filled torsomany years Indeed ever since the had founded it away back lnf the seventies Unless I am muoti mistaken he hasJconyerted Jt iromra plecejjf private anjij most remunerative ropertyifof his own Into a limited company in which fie Ms merely a stocunoiaer wxs vv A irv MARQCISBEFONTENOTZr 1CoprriglJtlSU 6x ini Brentwood 0ompi4y i Si Important yromUi Kt York TetejraplU Bacon HowJsSfadds Egbert bli theyve given hWljpr i itl I vTHVI WO 1WV9 19 MUMUCUMkUi J7erfW XS frrl BS COLLEGE OmiS BEST KATES Marry Late in 1 Life and See Things in a Soberer light Boston DUpttch to Nr Tork tralii Thit only a Bmall percentage ofcollege girls ever figure in the divorce court Is the contention of Miss Angle Chapln acting dean of Wellesley College They get married late In life said Miss Cha pln They know their own wants and they do not get married rashly tyi oeueve inav mosvcouege women niarry about the ageVof23 or perhapa somewhat later than thatThe course at couego carries a gin rawer wen inrougu theyehlldlshr period theT period when mere fascination might play so large a part Oncethla period Is overthe girl gains poise and sense she becomes more serious she loses the frivolity that many young girls possess she sees things Jn a soberer light and she feels more acutely mv aua ul ccvuotyuiiy uiav pvo jr piy spective wife and mother should have Ot course there arecollegeglrls and college1 girls and the environment has a great Influence on the girl herself and on her conduct inUfe Jn the light of figures that the Smith alumnae recently brought forth lOeems plainly evident that college training gives a girl that force of character and stability of temperament which makes her look upon divorce asnonexlstent and Undesirable perhaps unnecessary A great many girls get married at a tlme when they understand far too little of the duties of a wife and mother They enter Into the most serious contract of their lives In haste without due consideration without a realization of Its importance either to them or to others The woman of 25 who Is married to a man of her own age will usually select one suited to her temperament format that age she will have discovered just what her own nature Is and what it required At 25 also the girl will not be desirous of making vain conquests nor will she be overextravagant In dress nor will she be as frivolous as her younger sister BEATS KIDDS TBEASUBK Hundred Barrels of Whisky Buried River Bed Since 1866 Froip the CWcigo Inter Oeeifl A dispatch from Elk Point says that much Interest Is being manifested in the recovery of the cargo of the old steamer Leadora which in 1863 sank in the Missouri near that place With 100 barrels of good whisky on board It adds that several gentlemen have associated themselves and raised funds for the purpose of exploring the wreck and rescuing the imprisoned whisky If they are successful they count on making a small fortune out of the enterprise as the whisky has been valued by some as high as 45000 We should think there would be a good deal of Interest in the plan And we should also think that the Interest would not be confined to the little town of Elk Point There Is a human appeal in It which can be relied on to cross State lines and wake an answering thrill from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico Stories of lost galleons weighted down with cargoes of doubloons and pieces of eight and waiting at the bottom of the sea covered with coral and with shells move the souls of only a comparatively limited number Tales of the treasure buried by Capt Kldd on island and sea shore awaken the personal thrill in comparatively ew But 100 barrels of good whisky lying tangled hV the wreck of an old river steamer since 1866 aging in good tarred barrels against the day of their deliverancethat Is something like ltl It xomes straight home to mens business and bosoms with a personal appeal that there is no mistaking Down in Kentucky the news that 100 barrels of old whisky are awaiting the fairy prince that is to awake them from their long slumber will no doubt stir a tenderness that is akin to tears In Maine the news will be heard With conflicting emotions But nowhere It is safe to say will it be heard with Indifference not even by the UI There are however some extremely palnfui thoughts that always Intrude In connection with these fates of long lost whisky Will It not be spoiled as a result of untoward surrounding conditions Will hot the long years have been wasted after all May not the enthusiastic rescuers find after all their labor and expense and anticipatory relish that they have raised nothing more than a thick syrupy unpalatable stuff from the mud Or 100 barrels of muddy Missouri river water The possibility of a disappointment like that is certainly enough to make a man hesitate before undertaking such an enterprise It Is no doubt this possibility that accounts fbr the fact that the 100 harrels have so long lain neglected al the bottom of an old channel of the Missouri fiver that successive generations have passed the great opportunity by and devoted their attention to other and more prosaic enterprises However it seems that Elk Point T3 now boasts men of the true explorers the true adventurers breed men who are willing to run the risks of receiving a great possibly a fatal shock in pursuit of the enterprise that appeals Jo themmen who understand that he who would greatly gain must also dare the hazard of greatiyloslng WITH THEITATtpE5 RAKERS Testing Tuneful Cats WSave Wasted Making Violin Strings Item the New Tork Aaortcaa In the future When the cat ion the back fence makes hight hideous remember that the animal Is not doing this because It desires to keep you awake but merely for the purpose of determining whether It Is best fitted for strings for a first violin or waa intended by nature to become a part of the equipment ot a bassvlok DO not hurMhe contented the1 china closet at It Pause and remember that there is not only a silver lining behind every cloud but a sweet toned violin string paat or every feline yowl flqulre Baldwin of Cedar Grove has solved the question Jhat has worried makers of violin stringsfor years Heretofore not until the nine lives of a cat had been lost and Its interior developed commercially was it josslbleto tell whether a cat would yield A or strlnts TojMtls different The squire places hlscat in a box Hepfefers the black Ulla Abru8hia the box softly strokes the fur of the chest nd another rubs its back TheMalt of the cat is then pulled untlllt peases to purr and lets forth a yelL The brushes cinnected with a deli cate electrical apparatus register the tone or the cat The length of his existence after that depends upon the demand for the kind of fiddle strings he will make The squire says there is no uncertainty about the outcome except in a youngcat wijose voice is changing He says the aiapnram of every one of them is a sounding board which rings true when the cat yells The strings made from any one cat never vary according to the squire If he registers a deep bass every string Is a bass There is no needless sacrificing of cats Under the new system If strings are running short only cats that will furnish that class of strings are placed in the lethal chamber From the New Tork World A big hungry green fly as biar aa a horsefly flew up Horatio Southgates nose and Stayed there while he was swimming in Wreck Lead Channel back of Long Beach Long Island The fly stung the swimmer and gave him great pain Besides as he could not breathe well through his nostril Southgate had to open his mouth and he swallowed much water we would have drdwned had not help been near He was unconscious when taken ashore sft The Irrepressible Traveler From the Now Tork World What is the use of telling Mr Taft he travels too often and talks too much Good advice but It seems that It does not1 even dimple the placid surface of the Presidents enjoyment in the passing scene With half of his big 46 days trip behind him he Is a better man in health in heft and In spirits than whenhe started ThlngB have happened that might have shaken the complacency of a less buoyant wanderer Mr Taft has heard crowds cheer the local Eltjahpograih more man nimseic insurgent politicians who playedhls host have taken pains to rush into print the same day with avowals of loyalty to another presidential candidate He has had his conservation policy denounced by a land convention Just before heswas Scheduled to address Jt At a county falras he arose to speak the managers pulled 6ft an exhibition half mile by a pacing mare alsoan insurgent wlthoutbitor bridle driver or vehicle and hYhadto halt his address utfl his equine rival hadc made the circuit and theerowd had faced about again Depressed by these untoward happenings 4NomoreJthanfbyi the physical discomforts of travel which isnot at alC A main advantage ofhls trips according toMr Taftyts that he gets away oift a newspaper environment wherein he is constantly hammered for onesetoi snoricomings into other newspaper environments where his in terestiin himself Is stimulated by the revelation of new Sets of shortcomings That however Is but raillery The bottom fact Is that traveljs the Presidents recreation and hla spirits rise whenever he hears the dick of railroad wheels beneath tim fz gyfeSi NEUTRAL Tom Dalr In the Catholic Stindiri tad Timet No pleass I donta care slgnor For talka mooch bout deesa war Im not Italian no more Eh sure I once was Dagoman But now I try be Merican An glad dat here all men can be Jus free an happy Ilka me So pleass I donta care slgnor For talks mooch bout deesa war I mebbe would not mind to speak If so be dey gon fight da Greek Baycause hes Justa thief an sneak Oh I know wat kind man he ees Baycause hes steal dees frulta bees An mak som good Italian man Gon deegln een da streets agen Eef only dey fight heem slgnor You hear from me een deesa war I Oh my I weesh dey fight da Greek But no dey are sooch fool dey peeck Da hardest man of all to leeck You ho baylieve dat dees ees true All right I no care Wat you do But me I know how moocha troub Dey maka wen dey sweeng deit club So pleass I donta like slgnor For talka mooch bout deesa war 1 would be frands weeth evra wan Dat com by dees peanutta stan An mos of all da Irishman Eh Sure I know for Wat I speak Ees true sompeopla call dem Meeck But dont you know Poleeceman Burke Dat evra wan call Blgga Turk Dats name for Irish long bayfore Dees fight baygeen Not no Slgnor I dont care speak of deesa war TAKE HEARTI Eta Ota Proetor In the NittoniL All day the storm and wind has blown From off the dark and rainy sea No bird has past the window flown The only song has been the moan The wind made in the willow tree This Is the summers burial time She died when dropped the earliest leaves And cold upon her rosy prime Fell direful autumns frosty rime Yet I am not as one that grieves For well I know oer sunny seas The bluebird waits for April skies And at the roots of forest trees May flowers sleep In fragrant ease And violets hide their azure eyes thou by winds of grief oerblown Beside some golden summers bier Take heart Thy birds are only flown Thy blossoms sleeping tearful sown To greet thee In the Immortal yearj Perfection of Womanhood Boiton Dispatch to New York American Plans to make Radcltffe girls the most perfect representatives of young woman hood anywhere to be found are revealed In the card system introduced by the physical director Miss Elizabeth Agnes Wright Each student will account for her hours of sleep her hours of exercise and other details of her dally life An effoi will be made to balance the amount of exercise taken by each girl dally Walking will be especially encouraged Each day on making out the card the student will state whether she has caught a cold or not pointed paragraphs from the Chicago Nw No woman is as truthful1 as her mirror The football hero win soon climb back on his pedestal Its a surprise party If everybody there has a good time Occasionally a man proves his wisdom by acting foolish An ounce of flattery Is better than a ton Of tombstone obituary He Is a wise man who never argues with people he Is fond of Life la but a fleeting show yet it Is the best show a man has on earth It Is sometimes better tohave loved and lost than to be the other fellow And many a man doesnt owe a dollar In the world because his acquaintances know him too well A A young widow looks upon her first kiss from a bachelor is the beginning but It usually Indicates this finish If things were reversed sd that we could all start at the top It would only be a matter of time until there would beJust as big a crowd at thebottom REFLECTIONS OP1 A BACHELOR From the New Tork Presi Usually here are about a dozen men a girl isr afraid will make Jove to her and one Bhe Is afraid wont-Matinee performances seep bo much betterto girls than those in the evening because of the oandy The train bound for the fulfilment of Ideals has to stop at too many way sta tions evertoget there ItsMust the luck of a man for a girl to go on kissing htm from babyhood right up to the time when would be Inter xftnsr7 A girl ls so superstitious that when sheT Is out on the porch at night with a man and sees the moon through the trees it makes her afraid he wont propose If It furns out to oe a street lamp i PEOPLE METlNrJV 4 HOTElJpBBlEfe vgl All this talk you hear In thVHOrth about Senator Bailey not belnga candidate to succeed himself because he could not be elected nonsense said Col Johnston of the Houston Post at the Raleigh CoL Johnston came here Cram New York en routs to his Texas home Jlt Senator Bailey wanted the senator ship he undoubtedly would be elected continued CoL Johnston Like every other public roan who has been active Mr Bailey has made enemies but the people of Texas would have approved his can dlacy and In the light for the office he would have carried the legislature The wi nuwpver aoes jnoi care to Tae any part In the political contest which now is centering around the question of prohibitions His friends are divided on that issue which nqw seems tO be uppers most in the Btate and with many honors to his credit In th service of the State Mr Bailey will retire to private life and follow his profession There are four candldatestor Senator Baileys place two who favor prohibition and two who are opposed to it DoubtlesaX other candidates will appeal atert Thi way the situation Is working Out the cent struggle in the State over the liquor question Is to be revived and back of the fight for the seuatorshlp will be arrayed the prohibition and antlprohlbltion forces I begin to think that with all the present candidates in the field there may be a deadlock In the legislature that be true the solution of the problem that would confront the legislature might he solved only through the reelection of Senator Bailey However he toldfnjel only today that he would hot be a candf date and that his decision not to return to the Senate was Irrevocable Cof Johnston said that Industrially Texas was enjoying av satisfactory de gree of prosperity cv It Is the grandest State In the Unloh1 he continued and our dlverseindustrles and agricultural products are giving work to all who come Seldom has the out look In rice cotton corn sugar to bacccC and oil been better thin at pres ent We are now getting a satisfactory set of immigrants and these people are adding to the wealth of the State and making a high type of civilization We now have a steamship line running directly to Bremen and a considerable number of Immigrants landing In New York find their way ultimately to Texas My own cltyof Houston is rapidly Increasing In population and Wealth and It Is typical of the healthy growth of the entire Statey Canada3idsfor TourisW Not content with carrying off our American farmers of the Northwest by offering them fine agrlculturaTJanda ln the greet wheat belt of the provinces Canadian capital is now arrangingJof Induce American pleasure seekers to spend thetr Jdollars in the Dorolnlon said George Selbold of Seattle at the New Ebbitt The people of the United States who have not come into personal contact with the Canadians cannot appreciate the spirit of enterprise that recently has taken possession of them Money is being generously invested throughout the Dominion and especially is this true in the extreme western jor Uon a aJ Recently a company was organized convert Grouse Mountain across Burrard Inlet from Vancouver Into asummer and winter pleasure resort The principal features win be an inclined railway with tram feeders at esih4id ThlsMtTis 4 Said is to be the loneestr rallwa kind in IbeworTd andmUchliike1 liar one4at Mount Lowe California 0 3 thet summit of Grouse Mountain fronV which a magnificent view may be had fo miles around a large hotefis tbbe erect 4 ed The grading has been 4one on the first seotlon of the railway and the work is being pushed with truly American 4 speed In order lo have this new resort open forths next summer season If pos slble The location is admirable and undoubtedly many Americans will be attracted to this charming mountain top Says Country Is JProsperous The great volume of freight anl passenger business being handled by the entire Pennsylvania system which Is Increasing ata remarkable ratio said CoL John McAndrews general yardS master of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh at the New WWard on hia way to Cuba to study the operating sys terns act railroads in1 that country tls an unanswerable refutation of the cry set up by alarmists that the business of the country Js In bad condition At our great distributing freight yards at Freedom the largest and most complete with the most extensive mileage In the country we are now handling more than MWOO carloads of freight morfthly Sixty per cent of this great tonnaste of manufactured steel and iron products coal bridge material building material and other commodities produced Jn thef Pittsburgh territory Is going to tlie West and Northwest with 40 per cent to the East This movement of the freight in dlcatesfc substantial building boom in the West anof Northwest and similar conditions in the East The passenger traffic over all the Pennsylvania lines is unprecedented Extensive permanent improvements la the physical upbuilding ot the ttttaburih Fort Wayne and Chicago and the Panhandle systems west of Pittsburgh requiring the expenditure of millions dpi tars Is an evidence the confidence of the managers that the country is entering a substantial period of prosperity that will keep the great industries of thecoftn try humming furnish employment to the armyjf wage earners for a longtperodt and establish In large measure that status of prosperity that followed the repeal of the Wilson tariff and the enactment the Dingley lawunder the first administration of President McKInley There Is every evidence of a rapid increase In the volume of freight tonnage and the same is true of the passenger traffic When building material Is moving in large quantities with all the mills In the Pittsburgh district Wsy long expe rience In railroad transportation tells jIsV that prosperity Is at hand There Is work for all kinds of skilled mechanics in the Pittsburgh district especially in the mills mines and coke fleldsi CoL McAndrews is one of the big men of the Pennsylvania lines both in his official status and physically His official duties have to do with the dispatching of the greater percentage of all tonnage originating In Pittsburgh jind that which passes through that center pf Industry He Is one ot the best known men ia tha service He is nearly feet tall and weighs S0 pounds Hi HisNumber rrom Svturttn Lit The teacher asked When dfc Moses liver After the silencehad become painful she ordered Open your Old Testa nients What does It say there A boy answered Moses 4600 Now said the teacbeVrwhy didnt you know when Moses Jlvedf Well repliedhe boyi thotlghtJt was his telephone number.