Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 May 1906 — Page 6

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4-i m s m f !H ? lit Itfnlf ttt TTTtTT TT 4 CiTT What a Party Is For. For. I Those who undertake to make party operations a mere clash of personal likes and dislikes, ambitions and jealousies, lose sight entirely of the larger facts in the domain of politics. Natural leaders arise whose exceptional usefulness to the principles of a party give them, as long as they are true to the right standard, an extensive following and influence, but the notion that any great party is to be swayi'd by personal squabbling is ridiculous. A party may be injured by an indulgence of such foolishness, but thereby loses sight of rits mission and opportunities. The number of voters In this country Is becoming so vast that their judgment must be reached by clearly defined alms in public policies, and the feudal political chieftain and his , clan have ceased to be of much consequence In his favorite role of disturber. Some of the states have more than a million voters, and it Is vain to attempt to lead them here and there by small, egotistical quarrels they have no desire nor time to think about It Is only by machine politics, the game of getting nominations far removed from the.peoP 4 pie, that the squabblers find It worth while to pursue their spltework. An electorate of 13.000,000 In the country, with a correspondingly large distribution of voters In the states must be apiealcd to by responsible parties on issues that deserve, and often "compel, general consideration. Suc!j questions may arise quickly and under un expected circumstances, it was so in ' the summer of 1805. The Democratic party had been overwhelmed by defeat In the preceding two years and its prospects were at the lowest ebb. But by Ckloptlng a new Issne and ctoosing as ft leader a man who, nationally speaking, had been unknown, and who even gained entrance to the convention In a contested delegation, the. party made one of the greatest fights in its history, polling Immensely Its largest . vote. Nothing short of a phenomenally big vote on the other side averted the success of that surprisingly sudden change of front in the situation. As the country grows, such developments In politics must occur frequently. They will call for able party action and united effort It is Idle to guess what . shape the next national Democratic campaign will take. The drift of things will be indicated In some degree when the next state and congressional , plat- ' forms are put In the.field, yet the main strategy and tactici of 190S may not materialize any sooner before the election than In 180Ö. Since It Is manifest that Important duties are ahead, the policy of squabble

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looks silly, Indeed. The political dutie3 of thU year are by no means light, . -and especially Is this true In Missouri.

to retain. Several state officers and a legislature are to be chosen, with sixtern congressmen. If the next House should be close, Missonri might turn the scale. At all events, the country will learn next fall whether this state wishes to stay politically , in. the ' company of New York, Pennsylvania I11I'.nois and Ohio, or to revert to that of South Carolina and Mississippi. The , decision will' have a wide significance. It will govern the estimate of the state In national opinion. These are the esißentlal points to be kept In mind. How can any one fancy that personal . wran'gling In party proceedings Is other than .detrimental to Its interests and absolutely blind to Its true objects?; The squabblers put a mark on themselves that all earnest Republicans can see ana eomprenena. st, ixrais GlobeDemocrat Vhe Next . Conrreaa. In thn present national House of Representatives there are 252 Republicans and 138 Democrats, a Republican majority of 114. The congressional committees of both parties are now organized and the contest Is on for control of the next Congress. - Chairman . Sherman of the Republican committee admits his party will lose some seats, but U . confident it will ralntain con- - troL In order to capture the next House the Democrats nr ust not lose a 'single member and must displace fiftyeight Republicans with that many Democrats. This looks like an Impossibility, and to bring It about will require a political revolution. . The Wall Street Journal presents some figures to prove that such a revolution, however, would be but repeating history. In 1892 Grover Cleveland was chosen President and the House elected with him contained 210 Democrats, 120 Republicans.. and 12 Populists. Two years later the Republicans elected 244 members," Democrats 110 and sevJ-n unattached. In that year the Republicans gained 120 votes In the House, or C2 more than would be needed by Democrats to control, the ' next Congress. ' It Is true, as the Wall Street Journal points out, that the elections of 1904 took place at a time of great financial depression which had a marked effect on the voters. But go back to 1880. the year "Garfield was elected President. With him was elected a Congress composed of 152 llepubllcans, 133 Democrats and three unattached. In 1S82 the country was enjoying a period of great prosperity and yet the Congress elected that year contained 194 Demo crats, 120 Republicans and eleven unattached. If , the Democrats make as great gains this year as (they did in 1882 they will, control the next House. . However, it Is too early to make estimates. Much will depend on the action of the present Congress. If the .Senate has the wisdom to pass a Just railway rate bill, and If our national lawmakers will show a disposition to no longer look upon the schedules of the present tariff as something sacred and not to be revised," but will start the work of revision along sane and protective lines, then there will be no danger of a political revolution. There will be a revision of tariff schedules nnd it should be done by the Republican party, bnt If that party does not show a disposition to act In accordance with the sentiment of the people there is no telling what wlil happen on election day next November. Toledo Blade. '. ' 3ot Much Eneonragement. The British percentage of Canadian Imports has decreased from 1901 to 1905 only from 29.92 per cent to 29.87. But this slight change was entirely at the expense of Germany, while the United States percentage has Increased iron 0X8 to 52.31. In the two years

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since the surtax was applied Canadian si nop the surtax was unfilled Pfliiiillan imports from Germany have fallen off half. The truth seems to be that the Industrial interests of Canada are. so bound up with those of the United States by direct investment of American capital and heavy loans of American credit there that the Dominion can not escape dependence upon our markets. Almost all the industrial machinery there comes from the United States. So long as Canada continues to establish new Industries our trade with her must necessarily Increase without regard to tariffs. There Is not much encouragement In this for the reciprocity agitators. Minneapolis Tribune. Who Are the "Mack Rakers V Many newspapers of the country are now busy dodging the presidential denunciation of the "muck rakers." These papers have posed as "conservative reformers" and for months have been publishing untruthful drivel of sensational t writers who have made money by reviling public officials and attack-" Ing the Integrity of the United States Senate. No other motive Inspired the authors of these slanders than that of Inviting publicity and receiving checks in return. The newspapers themselves abetted this .scandalous- enterprise by printing Journalistic rubbish sent out from Washington and elsewhere. The criticism of the "muck rakers" was couched in unequivocal terms. President -Roosevelt Struck straight from the shoulder and the blows hit pome of the very editors who have been fawning at his feet and lauding him as a man who could make no mistake. Now these same papers are vowing that they are not "muckers" but are publications of spotless purity. They have been catering to a vicious and a dangerous class prejudice in order to make money profit, utterly regardless of the fact that what they printed was, for the most part, a tissue of falsehood which ruthlessly blackened reputations and stimulated the spirit of anarchy. Who are the "muckers" referred to by the President? They are not the legitimate correspondents at Washington who day after day follow the proceedings of government ami who should know. If anybody does, what wrongs are being perpetrated. The. "muckers" are notorious commercial Journalists whose writings have been published by the so-called respectable newspapers and magazines .which are equally responsible for the deluge of stuff that has swept over the country. These newspapers and their writers have attacked the United States Senate as an organization of legislative bandits bent upon public plunder and in league with mythical "corporate Interests" of various .kinds, whose tools they are. The wholesale Indictment of the Senate Is Its own refutation. There are wrongs to be righted as pointed out by the President, but they can be righted without besmirching our entire system of, government. The "muckersV also find a fertile field for their Imaginations In our financial and business system. Because some dishonesty was found and made public, the "muckers" spent their . days and nights In condemning by wholesale the men who direct banks and other financial organizations. They disregarded 'the fact that our financial system Is the best on the globe and our financiers are the highest types of men of principle, honor, integrity and experience. It Is nt hard to tell whom the President referred to when he raked the "muckers," for as the hit dog howls so are the "muck" newspapers making frantic efforts to clear their own skirts. Kansas City Journal , Le&rlalatlve Usurpation. Because President Roosevelt, rather than exercise his power of veto, chose to send a message to Congress Indicating how a bill could be amended to meet his approval, he Is being criticized for attempting to "usurp legislative functions." His critics, who would be sticklers for form, claim that he has no right to thus" appear to direct legislation, that he must either approve or veto and throw foe entire responsibility on Congress. That position Is absurd. The veto power Is designed to be a check on legislation, not a destroyer of It It Is supposed to operate In two ways one by Imposing extra caution. on legislators who will not deliberately Invite a veto, and will, therefore, frame their bills to meet legal and public requirements; the other, by lodging In the President a final supervision, whereby legislation will be subjt:ted ; to close scrutiny as to its language and Its Intent In a way the President possessing the 'veto power . becomes a co-ordinate branch of Congress as to ' all matters of legislation that require his sanction. So President 'Roosevelt, rather than defeat a meritorious measure, merely because It contains objectionable features, confers with Congressmen with a view to having these objectionable features eliminated. If this be usurpation. It Is of a kind the people want A great California .Industry Is the manufacture of salt from sea water. In Alameda County 100,000 tons were produced last year. Only a few years ago the State Imported all Its salt Now It produces enough for its own use which is enormous, owing to the fisheries and packing houses and exports large quantities as well. Care of the hands Is almost as Im portant as care of the face. Nothing Is more unsightly than liands which show neglect ; and In this respect they are a very fair Indication of character. With one hour a week and five minutes care daily, any woman can have hands tjat look as well ms though a professional manicure had treated them. In Alaska the paioose Is placed In a kind of waving cradle, into which It 'Is securely tied, the whole being fastened to a young sapling fir planted in the ground In a slanting direction; it moves up and down at the slightest provocation. In summer the baby Is left for hours together outside. A Scandinavian writer has come to the conclusion, after carefully study ing the situation, that a new ice age Is impending. The time and munny spent In learn Ing to play a good game ov billyards would buy a nice farm. New York City has more Jews than Jerusalem and London together.

Opinions of 4 GAJC3LIN3 AND HOUSE OST If not quite nil the a Mn against gambling, ami tue H kinds of betting on games

norse racing. Iut the laws have not been rigMly enforced. The Western Union Telegraph Company until recently maintained a bureau of racing news, which supplied to all

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who paid the price the result , of horse races on all the tracks In the country. TLis news was so'd to what are known as pool rooms. Now a pool room Is not a piace where the game of pool Is played with a cue and balls, but a place where clerks and laborers and messenger boys and other iersons of small income assemble to pool their bets on the result of a race. The money goes to those whose wagers were laid on the winning horse. Demoralizing as pool rooms are, nnd forbidden by Jaw, It Is difficult to suppress them. Indeed, those who are Interested in horse racing have been so Influential that they have secured laws In some States which permit betting within a race track enclosure, but make It a punishable offense outside. The Governor of New York has lately announced his intention of trying to secure the passage of a law which will make betting as much a misdemeanor within the race track as without Many persons maintain that there would be no great race tracks In the outskirts of New 'York, Washington, St Louis, Chicago and New Orleans If It were not for the money made by the gamblers; In other ,words, they beHew that the race tracks are gambling places,-and little else. ' It is not possible for any law to prevent a man from . hacking with his money his opinion as to the speed of his horse, or to prevent a test of speed; but It Is possible to prevent the maintenance of betting -Ings on the race tracks, and thus remove from the way of those of weak moral stamina the temptation to squander on their Ignorance of horseflesh the money which they should use for their families. Youth's Companion.

HANG OH TO YOUB, POLICIES.

HE reports of the lapsing of life Insurance policies make very unpleasant reading. A

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fctä VU fc, AJ VVUUti J mi v 1 it r a u n IIS pay any more premiums. They are either throwing away their policies altogether, and thus are losing all the money they had paid

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to the companies, or are making a settlement with the companies on the basis of the premiums which they have already paid, and are getting out. ' la that case they sacrifice a little, but they save something out of the wreck. These policy holders are unwise. Vast amounts of crookedness have been revealed In the big companies, nnd some policy holders fear that the rest ofJhe companies are also honeycombed with graft This Is an unsafe deduction. The companies which have bten run chiefly for the benefit of their leading officials and' friends are probably very few. And a general housecleaning baa taken place In those few. Corrupt and extravagant oilicers have been thrown out and men who will run the companies In the interest of those. who pay in the money that Is, In the Interest of the piey holders have been Installed. A great improvement ias been forced In the personnel and the management of the big companies. This change. It Is likely, will be permanent Under the new' conditions a policy Is, worth more In

MiIadame,,, remarked Ta Jones, in a chesty sort of a tone, as he majestically Btrode Into the happy home find deposited a package on the dlnJa table, I think that I have told you on one or two occasions that your, lord and master was something of an artist I. 1 think that I have mentioned the fact that when It comes , to slinging paint the man whom , you and your dear mother led like a lamb to the altar has no peer among the knights of the smearful brush ! Unless my memory fails me I think that I have also Informed you- " "What are you talking about you crazy freak?" demanded the petulant Ma, urging little Fido to recede beyond the hoof range of Pa. "Wha are you trying to stutter? What alls you this time? Where does it hurt you? Why don't you " "Be calm, sweet violets ! Be calm !" rejoined Pa, with a condescending smile. "Don't agitate yourself! This is no time to work yourself up Into a spell of snapful hysteria! This is no time to show the pretty spirit of the kinky Smiths ! What do you suppose I am talking about? What would you call It if you tried to give a guess? Do you think that I am cackling quotations from Shakspeare? Do you imagine for one moment that I am giving you a squally recitation with all the, elocutionary frenzy that accompanies it? Not on your life, darling ! Not on your life! I am singing the .song of paint! I am preaching the gospel of linseed oil and turpentine ! I ara "For mercy's sake, forget It you garrulous gabber!" was the irritable' interruption of Ma.. "You sound worse than a squa wkf ul crowd of crows ! You sound worse than the buzz of a brass band! Why don't you talk sense? Why don't you act " "I won't forget it, madam! I won't forget It!" responded Pa, shoutfully. "I refuse to boost It from my mlndi I am going to add further fame to the artistic tastes of the Jonses! I am going to heap more laurels on the undying glory of my noble ancestors ! I am going to paint "the Interior of this house ! I am going to decorate " ' "What's that?" exclaimed Ma, flaring up like an arc light and throwing her eagle orbs on the old man. "What did rou say, you heathen! Sing it oveiagain to me! Just warble it once more I I want to" ; "You heard what I said. Smithy! Tou heard what I said!" interrupted the explosive Pa. "You are not so deaf for an old lady! You haven't got your ear bobs on! I think that you heard me remark that I was going to do the palntful stunt! I think that you heard me articulate that I was about to decorate liome, sweet home, with this can of ready-iiuule Juice! I think " "No you don't Hen Jone! No you äon't!" was the Indignant ejaculation of the exercised Ma. "Do you suppose that I am going to let you make a fool of yourself without a kick? Do you suppose that I. am going to stand quietly by and let you smear up the house and ruin everything In It without a yelp? You Just bet that I won't Mr. Yap! You Just bet that I won't! I have seen some of your artistic workl I have seen, you make a monkey of yourself before! I have " "What's the matter with you, woman? What's the matter with you, ducky dear?" roared Pa, in a thunderatlon voice. "What's aching you, anyhow? Clh't i do as I pleas in my wn

Great Papers on Important Subjects.

FACING.

HKXi than it was in 1903, or in any previous year since the grafting began. The man who holds a term policy Is likely to realize more on.it when It matures than did those whose policies expired in recent times. The expenses of running the companies are being lowered. The absurdly large salaries of the heads of the companies aud the big commissions allowed to favorites of the insurance chiefs have all been abolished, so far as the general public has learned. The steals of various sorts which seem to have been perpetrated with considerable freedom In the past few years have ended. In the absence of all these drains much larger sums will necessarily be left for division among the policy holders. Tay up your premiums regularly. Hang on to your policies. This Is the advice which should be heeded by every Insured person in the United States. St Louis Globe-Democrat

States have laws x 1 1 laws appiy xo an of chance and on

consistent? . Is there any good and sufficing reason why the doctor should spell "teacher" with an "a" and "feed-

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served In 'instead" and dropped from "pleasure" and "read?" What necessity or advantage In spelling It "come" when "kum" will serve the purpose, or "backed" when "backt" or "bakt" would seem to fit any emergency? These are the puzzling questions that come up to confound and perplex the skeptic who is willing to be convinced. . , , The trouble seems to be that phonetic spelling as at present urged Is a hit-and-miss, a go-as-you-please, affair. Johnny has his own Idea of the way a word sounds, Jimmy has his and the good Dr. Andrews his ; and so it goes down the ' line that stretches out to the crack of doom. . - It may be that phonetic spelling is coming as surely In the future as the air ship and the eight-hour Journey to New York; but meanwhile its advocates should get together and settle on a few plain nnd easily absorbed rules which will give the proverbial verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing method. Dr. Andruws Is an able man and capable scholar. Let him perfect his system and give It to us for consideration. Otherwise we must consider it what Artemus Ward, that great master of the phonetic school, call-1 a "goak,'; Chlcagc Post

policy holders scathouse? Can't I Improve my own property without calling a conference of the squawkful Smiths? Must I ask your permission every, time I wwii to do a new turn? Must I consult your dear mother every time. I want to change my diet? No, precious treasure! Emphatically no! I want you to distinctly understand that I ara the only high priest in this synagogue! I want to tell you right here that I am the only hen on the nest ! What I say gees, and I don't'want any Smith help to push it along! Do you understand, Mrs. Jones? Do you understand? I am going to do Just what my conscience dictates! I am going to paint the interior of this peaceful dove co, end what Is mere tile procession will start in the sitting room in Just fifteen seconds !" With this fiery insertion of his lordly rights Pa Jones picked up the package of paint and hustled for the sitting room, closely followed by Ma, and notwithstanding her strenuous objections, was soon opening cans and unwrapping brushes. "Now then, madam," said the exasperating Pa, as he mounted the step ladder, "Just look this way and see a red thing paint! Observe your Uncle Henry and get wise to the ways of artistic skill ! Notice the delicate touch of a master hand! Cast your searchlights on " "Shut up, you simple sinner!' retorted Ma, angrily. "1 don't want to talk to you ! I don't want to 'hear your musical bark! You haven't got sense enough to dodge the trolleys ! You don't know enough to steer clear of live wires ! You don't H"Don't , be peevish, pretty Polly! Don't be peevish!" broke in Pa, tauntingly. "Don't sit there and make a valentine of yourself! Why dont you eat honey ana try to look sweet? Why don't you pull the twist out of your face and Madam, can't you see that dog? Can't you keep him out of that paint? Do you want him to eat that indigestible stuff and become as dyspeptic as the rest of the Smiths? Get out of that, you infernal kloodle ! Get jwur snoot oat of that can, or I will flam you clean through the tin roof, and bang you up against a starry constellation ! Sneak, or I " Pa got no further, for at that unhappy moment the step ladder yielded to the vigorous disturbance at the top, turned a 6udden flip-flop, and the esteemed Henry took " the most direct route to the sitting room floor. Naturally the pot of paint followed as quickly as possible, and lost no time In "hshfully spreading itself on Pa's ssical features. A few quarts also .1 on little Fido, whilt the enraged Ma got all that was coming to her and a few spots to spare. , "I toid you so, you contemptible brute ! I told you so !" shoutfully exclaimed Ma, as she energetically plied a fllnisy handkerchief. MI told you tat you would do It! I told you that you would make a monkey of yoarself! ,1 told you that you would ruin everything in the " "Fly away, angel ! Fly away !" sputtered Pa, trying to unload a part of his surplus complexion. "Hie thee hence! Get thee goqe! You make me sad ! You make me sigh! If it hadn't been for that blooming dog and the Jarring effect of your seraphic song the ladder wouldn't have upset!" It was late at night when Ma wheezefully spouted the final word of the argumnt that ensued, nnd the next day, while a graduated painter was finishing Pa's Job, the good lady went down town and ordered a new carpet for the sitting room. Philadelphia Telegraph. You often hear people speak of dry wit" Is thare such a thing as wet wit?

PHONETIC SPELLING. ARENTS of children subject to modern methods of instruction, or rather lack of Instruction, in spelling, will be Interested In the plea of Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews for the adoption of phonetic spelling. , Truly it is a timely pubject. Dr. Andrews means well, but Is he wholly

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SECRET DIVORCES. HE whole State of Indiana ha? recentlv been

Tl startled by the manner In which divcrces I are granted. The secret divorce between a

even the papers were taken from the court room to avoid publicity, Is the latest sensation. In this case the whole proceeding oc

cupied less than half an hour. It Js a burning shame that the people of the Middle West should regard this question as lightly as they do. The sacred relations of the home are apparently very JIghtly regarded. All that makes life worth living is In this way publicly trampled under foot and no one seems willing to undertake to stop It Farm and Fireside.

CIRCLED GLOBE IN A CANOE. Capt. J. C. Voaa Enda Adventurous Vorage of Five Yean, . How politics "and. Incidentally, revolutions," are run In Ecuador, is told by Capt J. C. Voss, F. It. Q. S., who left here In 1001 to circumnavigate the globe In the Indian canoe Tillikum, hewn irom a single tree trunk, says the Victoria (B. C) correspondent of the New York nerald. The adventurous cruise was successful and the Tillikum Is now on exhibition in London. Capt Voss returned to New York shortly before Christmas and became Interested in an Ecuadorian mining Ten ture that looked well on paper, where allowance need not be made for the revolutionary eccentricities of the South American temperament. Arrlv Ing at Guayaquil on Jan. 15, the cap tain found revolution In the air, fever rampant and business the last thing thought of. "On Jan. 18," he says, "I witnessed the battle in which the Ecuadorian rev olutionists overthrew the government The revolutionists, who, . I afterward learned, had been planning for some time, went off to the Guayaquil police station, rushed the place, grabbed their rifles from the guardsmen, broke open the doors and took a supply of arms ad ammunition. With the captured munitions they began 'shooting up' the town promiscuously, firing in the air and up and down the streets, making it decidedly unsafe for the Innocent by standers. , "Then, as they gained recruits, led by a man named Ofarrel, they marched to the government barracks, eight or nine blocks away, and attacked the troops. The latter met them and they had a fierce battle in the wide street, all being packed pretty solid. . It was bad flght Ing, for In the two hours no fewer than 253 were killed and more than 200 wounded. "This battle ended the revolution. The government troops surrendered to the revolutionists. Next morning the government at Quito followed suit. The revolutionists took charge of things and our mining concession was not worth the paper it was written on. I left Guayaquil, crossed to Colon-and came home." Capt Voss cruise began at Victoria on May 21, 1901, with N K. Luxton as his companion. He sailed first to Suva FIJI, where Luxton left him, being replaced by a sailor named Begene, The latter fell overboard when 1,200 miles off Bydney, taking the compass with him, and Voss made the Journey to New South Wales without compass, navigating by dead reckoning and the set of the ocean swell. Fierce electric storms, a series of bad waterspouts and the difficulties of navigation without a compass saved him from madness. He subsequently went with the canoe to Melbourne, Hobart (Tasmania), New Zealand, the New Hebrides (where he was captured by cannibals and barely missed being eaten), Thursday Island and Durban. The canoe was thence taken overland and exhibited at Johannesburg and Pretoria. ' Ite-embarkiug at East London, Voss voyaged around the Cape of Good Hope to Port Elizabeth and Capetown, afterward sailing to St Helena, Pernambuco, the Azores and London. Tvro Kinds of Trouble. "What are you so gloomy about?" "I am unable to keep out of debt' "My boy, you don't know what trouble Is. I can't get anybody to trust me." Louisville Courier-Journal. llvcrvthtuir Iteturned. "Are you beginning to get any returns from your literary work?" Yes, Indeed. I'm not getting any- ! f.ilng else." Kansas Cltv Tinies.

TYPE OF GASOLINE MOTOR CAIL A' finish fcght is on between the railroads and the interurban trolley lines. The Union Pacific is first In the field with what is the most novel and at the same time serviceable motor to do battle against the trolleys. The car Just built by this company In Its Omaha shops, as seen. In the accompanying picture, is battleship form, and islhe pride of E. n. Harrlman, president of the Union Pacific, who has taken personal interest in It It Is constructed mostly of steeL The motor Is 55 feet long, the operator's compartment occupying 12 feet 8 inches, and the passenger compartment 41 feet 10 inches. The total seating capacity is 75 this including a semi-circular seat for 11 persons at the rear. The car on a test covered forty miles an hour and climbed graces with ease. One of the features of the construction Is the windows, which are round like portholes in vessels. It Is said these are the first absolutely dust-proof car windows ever used. The interior of the car Is finished in English oak. Entrance Is by side doors. The weight of the car Is 58,000 pounds. In adopting motors the steam roads hope to run them as frequently as interurban trolleys, give easier riding, and by reason of advantages in rights of way make better time. The Union Pacific motor is propelled entirely by gasoline. The Lake Shore system Is constructing a number of motors of a different design, which will be operated by electrical motors, the power generated by gasoline. A close .study of this' and other motors Is now being made by officers of all the suburban service.

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THE "DREADNOUGHT" LARGEST BATTLESHIP EVER BUILT. England's new sea terror, the "Dreadnought" is to be the greatest battleship ever built Details of construction have boen carefully guarded, but it is claimed that the "Dreadnought" will embody all that was learned from the Russo-Japanese war, and England's naval officers were the only ones who were given opportunity to study the conflict from the decks of Japan's battleships. It Is said that the vessel will be Immune to torpedo attack; that her displacement will be 18,500 tons; speed, 19 knots; main armament ten 12-inch guns, besides which she will carry eighteen 3-Inch quick-firers, f.hc will be -propelled by turbines. The Japanese at their own government shipyards have started on the construction of a battleship of 24,000 tons which, .when completed, will be even greater than the "Dreadnought" ,

CONCERNING THE CLOCK. Some of the Peculiar Thing; About a Tliuekeper. ' Did you ever take time to consider the clock? You should have done so, if you have not, seeing the clock glve3 you the time whenever you ask It The clock Is so sensitive that it constantly keeps is hands before Its face. This Is due to the fact that through no fault of Its own It has been doing time for many years in the most public manner, says the New York Herald. It may be that as the face of the clock has no eyes, nor mouth, nor, nose, nor chin, nor cheeks, nor any of the usual facial appurtenances. It keeps Its hands over It to hide these defects. But this can scarcely be, we fancy, because Its hands have no fingers nor thumbs, nor has it any arms, and any attempt to conceal one defect would only expose another.' Most clocks have only two hands, but many have three, and it is somewhat remarkable, anatomically as ; well . as numerically, that the third hand is the second hand. It may also be remarked that the minute hand is not the minute hand, for it is longer than the hour hand. The clock has neither feet nor legs, but it runs Just the same. It may be fast or slow, but it does not walk. It always runs and it never runs up. It runs down unless It Is kept running round. Providence wisely did not give feet to the clock. The clock has a key but no lock, and for that reason even the, most Ignorant person never tries to open a clock with the key. . Some clocks strike and some do not but no clock ever strikes with Its hands. Just why a clock should be so peculiar is no affair of ours. , (Of course this is no Joke. The striking of a clock may be an affair of hours, but It is not spelled the same way. We are not trying to be funny. This Is a dignified article.. Please do not Interrupt us again.) That passage In Scripture which says "By their works shall ye know them" does not refer to clocks, but It might well have done so, because that is the way a good clock Is known. The clock speaks a universal language, and no matter, whether It Is a German clock, or French, or Spanish, or Italian, it can tell you the time Just as distinctly as if it were plain Yankee. This clock differs from all other human affairs In that while their operations end when they are wound up, the clock's do not begin until they are wound up. ' There are no clocks In heaven, because there is no time there. Neither Is there any night and an eight-day clock wouldn't know when to stop. LUXURIES OF GIRLHOOD. In the Modern Millionaire Household the Schoolgirl Is Pampered. An Interesting picture of a young girl's life In the palaces of the very rich Is offered by Emily Harrington In her article, "Housekeeping on Half a Million a Year," In Everybody's. She says: "The luxuries to which, these children, particularly the young girls, are early accustomed, are, It seems to an outsider, of dubious advantage. The 14-year-old daughter of such a home remarked one day, 'I was looking for a brooch that I missed and found nine that I had forgotten all about' Every one of these brooches was studded with gems. This girl's private suite of rooms was luxurious, although the appointments were appropriate to her ago. Her sitting-room was furnished in white enamel, covered with roses and morning glories. Her fireplace fender and firedogs were of silver as well as the fire Irons and the stand." When she chose to take a meal In her nvn apartments she Indulged her languor on a brocaded couch, propped up with embroidered pillows, and as her youthful appetite was unimpaired, a servant was detailed to take each course to her as it was served in the dining-room And yet she is still ionly a schoolgirl,' with no part in her mother's ceaseless round of entertainment; her days still innocent of the delight-

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ful complexities, personal and social that are ready to enmesh her as soon as, four years later, he becomes a debutante." Education of Women ta China. Consul Haynes of Nanking writing about female education In China, says, according to the , Washington Star ."The viceroy of Liang-Klang province, Choufu, one of the most progressive or the higher Chinese officials, has recent ly founded a school for girls In Nan king. It Is supported by subscription from a number of leading Taotais of Nanking, who have raised $4,290, and the viceroy has subscribed $1,432 an uually. The school is located In quiet place with spacious buildings. Six women teachers hava boen engaged, three to' teach English jinr. three Chinese. ' "The opening of this school Is an Important thing In Nanking," says Consul Haynes, was It Is really the birth of female education In this ancient city, for, as has been remarked. In every new undertaking tor the advance'' nt of China, unless the Ghinese terilselves feel the need and assume the responsibility. It cannot be said to have taken root in Chinese soil The Interest taken in 'this school by the leading officials of Nanking Indicates the dawning ef freedom for China's girls and women. For the last few years the missionary girl schools have been doing good work, but this is the first school established under the patronage of the viceroy. Chink Is awakening to realize that a nation's strength and prosperity lie In the education of her daughters." Chopla'a '"Inspiration." Many people have heard the "Marche Funebre" of Chopin, but few are, aware that It had Its origin In a rather ghastly after-dinner frolic. The painter Zlem, still living in hale old age, relates how, some flfty-six years ago, he had given a little Bohemian dinner In his studio, which was divided by hangings into three, sections. In one of these was a skeleton sometimes used by Zlem for "draping" and an old piano covered with a sheet During the after-dfnner fun Zlem and the painter Ricard crept into this section, and wrapping the old sheet like a pall around .the skeleton carried it among their comrades, where Poiignac seized it and wrapping himself with the skeleton in the sheet sat down to play a queer dance of death at the wheezy old piano. In the midst of it all, Chopin, who was of the party, was seized with an Inspiration, and, seating himself at the piano with an exclamation that brought the roysterers to their senses, extemporized "then and there .the famous "March runphre." while his Bohemian auditory applauded in frantic delight Snperflelallr Civilised Only. The Sultan of Morocco Is somewhat barbarous in . his methods, in spite of his acquaintance with European civilization. Not , long ago, the story runs, he visited his private menagerie with a camera In order to photograph the animals. Arrived before the cage of a tiger, the young monarch suddenly desired the minister of war to hold the beast by the ear while he photographed It Dreading his master's displeasure if he refused, the trembling minister approached th cage and. thrusting his hand between the bars, grasped the animal by the ear. With a fierce growl the animal sprang to its feet while the minister clung grimly to it divided between fear of the tiger aud dread of the sultan. At that moment to his inexpressible relief, the camera clicked, and his ordeal was over." His courage did not go unrewarded. The sultan has distributed numerous copies of his photograph as an evidence of his skill as a photographer and of the pluck of his war minister. What has become of the old-fashioned man who always asked his tall friends : "How is the weather up there?" The older you become the mora risk, there is In marriage. y: -

MINING GOLD IN IRELAND. ompanr Developing Lead Flret Worked la 1790. , Gold is being mined In Ireland, Inci

dental to the development of a mine of lead sulphide, commonly known as galena. The mine is in the Glentogher valley, a few miles from the market town of Carndonagh, County Donegal, says the New York Tribune. There is no Indication, however, that the ininng of the gold will Interfere in the slightest degree with the emigration from Ireland, which has been so gen eral for the last few years or that It will relieve the labor situation of the Emerald Isle, 1 The locality of the mine is near the northern extremity of- Ireland, on the' peninsula of Innishowen. The galena deposit was worked in 1700 for silver and lead, but for some reason the enterprise was abandoned. Another attempt was made to work the mine in 18G0, but this also was unsuccessful for lack of capital. Some inoiths ago a Belfast man, who had practical ex-, perience in silver and lead mining in the United States, examined the locality. A number of assays were made of samples from the mine, which showed an average of an ounce of gold a ton, GO per cent of metallic lead and a vari able quantity of silver. A mining lease was obtained, from the Earl of Shaftesbury, the owner of the property, and a force of men was set to work cleaning out theold work ings of more than a century ago, and a smelter of the 'capacity of 100 tons a day was contracted lor. The output of lead, it is stated. Is now paying tba working expenses, though the amount of gold obtained is very small Geolog ically speaking, the mine is a "fault" or fracture of the rock strata, in which was deposited the mineral containing the metals. . ' . r I 7 cinmiG the dish 7Asmm. . The experiences ot an English householder in India are declared, by the au thor of "An Indian Garden," to .be sometimes trying and often amusing. - An Instance of one of the. amusing experiences is given: The old gray-bearded butlei, announced to me at luncheon one day that the dish washer was III with fever, but If the mistress would give some medicine he would soon be able to resume his work. I happened to have none by me, but as the matter was urgent clean dishes being Important I asked: . w "Can he go to the chemist's, do yog think, for some physic If I give him a letter? I don't know what to write for." "Oh, yes," he said, "he is quite abl , to go that short distance." I thought that was much the bed way, and then the chemist could give him what was proper. . So I wrote: "Please give the bearer a dose oi medicine. He says he has fever." I forgot to inquire about him till two days after. Then I said: "IIow is the dish washer?" - "He is much better, your honor." "Ah, then he took the physic?" "No, your highness, the bazaar coolli took the physic by mistake." "The bazaar coolie I" Ij exclaimed "What for?", The dish washer said, 'Work therefore" ca.anot go myself; bszan coolie goes errands; he may fetch m the physic.' So bazaar coolie took letter. Shop master prepare physic, thca told bazaar coolie to drink It "Coolie said, Not for me is the medicine, but for another man. I take.il to him. ) "'Not so, said the shop master. Tti mistress has written, "Give to bearer," and she means you must drink It here.' "Many times coolie said he was ncJ the man, but they . would not listen, and they made hlra drink it" A Land of M)tlclm. ' Persia probably do?sn't know shj'i sore problem to the, foreign eecrt tal-ies of nations, besides being the d spalr of all missionaries. " Her shah "king of kings" ensconsed In barbane splendor in his vast rambling palace al Teheran is, of course, a mere puppet Juggled alternately by Bussla and Great Britain, both of whose huge empires Impinge upon that of the "shadow of God upon earth." A land of other days, Persia's glorj is departed, like that of the Medes and Parthians, the Babylonians and Assyrians. Her cities are crumbling to ruin; her laws are the whims of , grand viziers; her court a mere hotbed cl harem intrigue more strange than any found even in the glowing pages ol The Arabian Nights." Four-Traci New8, ' Motor Skates Dein- Perfected. ' At the great automobile exhibition In Paris much Interest was taken la the "Pa tin automobile," or motor skate, a new idea for rapid iomocotlcn, whicä seems to be in process of development across the water. The apparatus consists of a pair of four-wheeled rollet skates, about ten Inches high, whic'i are driven by a motor of one and onehalf horse power. The reservoir It contained In n belt which Is worn around the skater's waist and holdj( enough fuel for a run of over fifty miles without replenishing. Having successfully btarted, the skater can work up to a speed. It is said, of thirty mile an hour. , Rather a Baelc Xambtr, The late Ogden Goelct, when a dlreo tor In a gas company, was called upon to pass upon the making of a contract with another company. He said to his fellow directors: "Gentlemen, I happen to be a director in that company, and I never will consent to be a director in one company and pass upon the business with another company la which I am a director. I will resign first" And , resign he did. We commend this to the board of trustees of the big ll.'e Insurance companies. American Grocer. - A Uni Time Back. Miss Chlnn I met Miss Gldday's fiance to-day. Miss Ascum Indeed? Who is he? Miss Chinn Why, you told me you knew ber fiance very well. Miss Ascum Oh! but that was nearly a month ago." Phlledalphia Preso. How to Get a New Library. Mrs. Justin De Bunch I wish I had something new to read. Ive read every book iu my husband's big library. Mrs. AI De Mustahd Why don't yoa get a new husband? Cleveland Leader. By the time a man becomes Interested In his third love affair, he must feel as If he were In a second-hand store. When boys are playing together, about every fiveminuies this is heardt "You haint my boss."