Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 May 1909 — Page 6

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liefere we had achieved the division of labor and specialization a single man produced a watch which now requires several hundred workmen to perfect. To-day each factory man Icarus how to make only a particular part of the machine, and without his hundred fellow workers would never find the watch completed. Towns and nations specialize in industries and need nil the rest of

the world to buy what they make and to supply them with what they do not make. Homes In days of old were tangles of all the handicrafts of domestic Interest. Hut now they do little but make beds and cook. All other household labors are performed In some specialized center the curtains cleaned in one shop, the rugs in another, the laundry done here, the dresses made there. The innovator is the one that makes the world, move, lie inaugurates a change, takes things from the old rut", forms new grooves. Without him we should still be leading the simple life simplicimus of the savage and the stone age. With him we hare wireless telegraphy, and flying machines, and steam heat, and printing presses, and a number of other things equally pleasant. ' Society will cot tolerate weeds. It will insist 'upon filling the world with flowers. Already it is allowing its women to help in the world's work and already it is beginning to instruct Its illiterate. The processes already set Into motion can end In nothing short of the education and the enrlchmjnt of all members of the community.

FLYING ECLIPSES ALL EXPERIENCES. By the Hon. C. S. Rolls.

After experience with every form of locomotion, including cycle and motor racing, a voyage in a dirigible balloon of the French army, and over 130 trips in an ordinary balloon, there is nothing so fascinating or so exhilarating as flying. The happy moment, I may say, of my life came when Mr. Wright, with his pleasant voice and quiet smile, said to me: "Mr. Rolls, I guess I'll take you up

this morning." When all was ready I took my seat on the flyer. The roar of the engines commenced. tTIf starting weights were released, and off we went with .i bound. Once clear of the ground, the feeling of security was perfect. We tore along at forty miles an hour. The machine at the will of the operator tilts up gracefully when taking a turn. Those accustomed to motor racing will appreciate the effect of this, which is that taking a curve on a flying machine will be actually safer than In an automobile. Our speed caused tears to roll dowir our cheeks. After a flight of several miles a descent was begun for a landing. At the right moment the engine was stopped aud we came to ground so gently that I found it inilossibie to tell exactly when the runners first touched'

SHE DIES AT 106. Vhank to Family- Majcic Bead, Mlenla Scfallotiky Lived Long. Mrs. Mlchla Schllotzky died recently fett the Home of the Daughters of Jjacob, at 302 Eait Broadway, at the ge of 10c years, says the New York ISuu. She came to New York from laslashuf. In the state of Wilna, Russia, twenty-four years ago, and had been at the home four years. The last year of her life she spent for the most part In the hospital of the tome. About Christmas time, however, she attended an entertainment given by the home at the Grand Central Palace, where she served as Judge of a casotzosky, a dancing contest In whlfch the dancers were men mho had passed their hundredth year. Mrs. Schllotzky came of a long-lived family. She left nine brothers and sisters In Russia, the youngest of whom was 08 when he died. Her father and jnother also lived long. The reason for this, they say at the home. Is simple. fThe family for more than 300 years fcias owned a string of amber beads. Very common beads they are to look it. giving to the untrained eye no hint f their power. Always the eldest flauguter of the hot:se has worn the Wklace. and while she wore it death as warded off. The beads were possessed of marvelous healing powers nd circulated as freely among . the children of the east side who had the fcrhooplng cough or the measles as generations ago they did between the huts pf a Russian village. On Sunday, when her daughter. Mrs. Fannie Kowner of 53 East 00th street, is.'ted the old woman, the beads were given to her. Take them." said the mother, "for It is not well that I should bear them longer." Then sV talked of the beads, which jver before had left 'her neck for friore than twer.ty-four hours. BEASTS NOT AFRAID OF AUTO. Starring Herda Approach Siofor Car Oeenpanta and Coax for Food. So commonplace has the motor car tecome that it no longer strikes terror to man or beast in remote sections of Ihe world where such things are slow CNUSUAL SKHIT IN to penetrate. Instances have occurred In out-of-the-way posts in Euroiiean nd Asiatic countries where thestarvlng herds of the plain and forest have Sot hesitated to approach automobile parties and coax for food from the wmpants of the machines. This was lh case last winfer in tfie thick forests of Thurlngla. Deer, practically run i in- wild, sometimes approached automobile travelers and ate from their stock of food. These parties usually were of the hunting class jUiul made It a point to visit the outposts with their snow-climbing " motor 21 AKIN' G THE CARIBOU USETTJIk jCaa)lta Z'lau for rarnlhi:r Transportation In Far Xorth. "The success which has follow--.! the introduction of reindeer in Alaska U;is roued attention In Canada, srid Ihe

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a step from intense mental concent ration to madness. He said he could hardly describe what ho felt in the moments when his sensations were abnormally acute and intense, that everything about him seemed to be alive, that he seemed to be raving and was scarcely certain tliat he really existed. Analogous are the Impressions of St. Paul, Nietzsche and Dostojevskl. And the illustrious Beethoven says: "Musical inspiration is to me that mysterious state in which the; whole world appears to shape Itself into a vast harmony where every feeling and every thought I have seems tu tesouud within nie, where .til the forces of nature seem to become instruments for me, where my whole body is seized with violent hlrering and my hair stands up on end."

WOMAN'S RIGHTS IN TURKEY.

One of the reforms demanded by the revolutionists was the repeal of the law preventing Turkish women from wearing the modern Euroiau style of costume. Constantinople Dispatch.

dian northTand," said Albert P. Steele of Ottawa, Canada, according to the Washington Herald. "One has to hoof it or use dogs up in the arctic stretches now, and It Is conceded that civilization will move slowly If no better means of transportation Is found. The United State imported reindeer into Alaska :! taught them that they could live just as happily 'and usefull' in Alaska as in their homeland. S' H.",f'Co are now In Alaska and th ire more th;in earning their keep. Can. la need not go to the trouble of Importing reindeer. She has herds of reindeer all ready up In the northern regions. All that Is needed Is to train them, for they are very wild. "These Canadian reindeer are really caribou, but Canadians say they will do as well. The caribou are plentiful TJIUUINGIA FOREST. throughout the Canadian north. Of ourse our people will have to catch i!'c animals and train them, but to a people who are building an empire that is a trifling matter. "The most rw-tlve advocate of using reindeer or caribou In the development f northern Canada is Fred S. I,awrence. who lives at Port Vermilion, on the lower Peace River. He has made his home In the north for twenty-tive years. He suggests that a start might be made toward domesticating Canadian reindeer by Inducing Laplanders to emigrate to Canada. The Laplanders, by reason of their pastures becoming crowded, owing to the great munter of their reindeer, are looking for some part of the world to which they can transjK)rt their herds and families ni'.d establish themselves anew. The itlndeer is fleeter and can be more vt.-ily kept than the horse. A prcsiect:r could maintain hin-.self fo- t year vrith ten head or reindeer. If his provisions gave out he could eat the reln-

the surface. On landing we skhmmtl along the surface rather like a toboggan, coming to a standstill a few yards from our starting ioint. With regard to the art of Hying. Mr. Wright and his machine seem to work together as one unit. The management of a machine of this kind In breezy weather is not at all easy. At the same time it can only require patience and careful practice before any intelligent man lossessed of coolness aud good judgment can learn It.

FOR OLD AGE. By Elizabeth Towne.

The cure for hurry is the cur : for old age to take lime every day, maybe several times a day, to beomnv agniii as a littie child, interested in one thing at a time as If that were flic only thing. Instead of whirling all the time dizzily on the rim of life, we must take frequent tiims to get back 1.) the center again for our bearings buk to the silent center whence we came. At that silent cen

ter we find all our ihil.d facilities waiting to be reeogJ nlzed and appropriated. Many cases of failing memory are mistaken ones, due to unreasonable expectations! How many grown-ups forget as many times a day as any child does? The trouble Is we expect, or try to compel ourselves to remember a great burden of incouscptcut and irrelevant things that the brightest child on earth could not remcmler; and we are. so preoccupied trying to carry these th'igin mind that our minds are half-absent, at least, trom the new things that are happening now and that ought to have our full attention, as they would have a child's full attention. The Nautilus.

TO HAPPINESS. By Prof. Cesare Lombroso.

Geniuses enjoy moments of supernal felicity. These are tin; moments of creative frenzy which in so many respects resemble the psychic excesses of epileptics only, since not an ordinary brain is being agitated by convulsions, but a great mind, and instead of some alrocious bestiality or dark crime there results a work of lofty character. Beaconsfield wrote that he felt as if there were bat

DOCTORS ET THE SCHOOLS. Medical Inspection Kpreada Here, America Still Ilehlnd Knrope. In the United States, Itnston seems to be entitled to the credit of establishing the first regular system of medical Inspection of schools. This was done in lfm ; but two years before this the sanitary Inspector of New York had appointed a medical lnspetor . f schools, who was probably the first medical ollleer of the public schools appointed In this country. In IS!) I fio physicians were selected by the Hoard of Health to inspect the public schools of Host on. In 1S03 nine such Inspectors were appointed In Chicago. In ix:7 the P.oard of Health it .New York appointed 134 medical inspectors for the public schools, .with a chief, at a salary of Jf:!.rN a year. . In lSIJS the bureau of health In Philadelphia passed a resolution directing that each of the 1." assistant medical Inspectors shall visit one public school in his district each day, inspecting It according to the methods employed In lioston. New York and Chicago. Since lH'Jl medical insjiection of schools has been largely adopted throughout the United States, and in some states has developed from mere inspection for detecting contagious diseases to systems calling for the most thorough physical examinations. Only four general State laws providing for or allowing medical inspections of schools have been passed, says the Medical Record. There Is. so far as can be ascertained, some form of medical Inspection of schools In vogue at present In 70 cities In the United States outside of Massachusetts, but the United States Is still behind Germany, and, for that matter, a number of foreign countries, in this important movement. New York Sun. Starting an Kiidles ( bain. Bth father ami mother struggled valiantly to teach little Etlie to repeat the letter 'A." The child emphatically refused to pronounce the first letter of the alphabet and after mauy vain efforts the father retired from the fight discouraged. The mother took the little girl on her lap and pleadee with her affectionately. "Dearie, why won't you learn to say A'?" she asked. "P.ecause, mamma," explained Effle, "des as soon as I say A' you an' papa will want me to say 'H.' Harper'3 Weekly. A woman wi'l keep out her best knives and forks Ioiutt .v wn visiting kin thac. ftv r,c; husband's visiting kin. Even the druggist who d.oesu'i care for society suuuia ts a tood nxlxer.

SPRINGTIME. I.o! already a fern new born Curls in the hedgerow his mimic horn, And the primros; hourly edges aside The leafy driftage of wintertide :

Far in the vale, whore the wood are still. Stands a delicate dauodil : Hasting brooks in tho prime of the year Murmur merrily April's here. With gentle rains and westerly vanes, Buttercup buds and daisy chain. Between moist meadow and sunlit sky The sad-voiced plover is circling high ; Sudden and loud through larch and fir Rings the laugh of the woodpecker; And the wagtail flirts his plumage pied In snatches of flight by the waterside; Garden voices that late were dumb AVhistle and warble a time will come For shade of leaves and pillage of shea ve And swallows a-twitter In last year's eaves. I,o ! she comes, in the old sweet ways. The happy April of other days, Makleu April, merry of mien. Trips afield in the meadow green; Sick or sound, or sorry or glad, Utter if. echo it, lass and lad. Lad and lass in the youth of the year Echo it. utter it April's here; Then -nnis May, pleasure and play. Holiday-dance and roundelay. Armine Thomas Kent. Was It a Miracle? I DninBaBBBBasnaaaaBB "Stranger, do you believe In mira cles?" I looLcd up from my newspaper. the columns of which I had been listlessly scanning and encountered the gaze of the speaker. I saw before me a man about 40 years of age. He had a bluff, open face and his hair was streaked with gray. He wore the reg ulation uniform of the railway, and 1 recognized in him the ticket agent. telegraph operator et cetera, of the station in which I was waiting for my train. I had tirished my business In the town some two miles away, and, as I had nothing to do until the train arrived, I was not at all averse to chatting with him. "That depends t entire' y upon what you cousider a miracle, " I replied, throwing aside my paper. "I don't know that I can exactly explain what I mean, but I believe that the event I am thinking of might be called one." Of course I expressed a desire to know what he referred to, Imagining that he had a story to relate to me. Well," he remarked by way of an Introduction, "it isn't often I tell this story, but to-night I feel Just like It. Perhaps the fact that the events occurred exactly seven years ago may account for the inclination. "It was Just such a day as this; the air was cold enough to make a fire seem comfortable, while at the same time it was not at all disagreeable out of doors. "At that time I was employed at the same Job I am now. There was of course less work to do In those days; this region has rapidly Increased In population during the last few years. "But this does not Interest you; so I will lire up and start on my run with a full head of steam. "Six miles west of here lies the town of Bartson ; ten miles to the east, Dawson. This Is the only station between the two. "It was exactly this time of day, half past live, when my sounder commenced clicking away at my call. For some reason I did not respond at once; when I did, I received the following startling message: " 'Wild engine headed your way Old Tartar. Ditch her.' "The message was from the operator Bartson, and In plain English meant that the engine known as the Old Tartar had by some means or other started off without any one on board, and was headed in this direction. To ditch an engine Is to open a switch, thus allowing It to run on to a siding where It at last leaves the track and probably goes over on Its side. Of course the engine Is badly smashed If not completely ruined, but It is the only safe course to adopt. "There was but one siding suitable for the purpose, the others having more r less cars on them. The switch was ilout a hundred yards down the track in the direction of Bartson. "It was evident to me that the Old Tarttr must have passed Bartson when they commenced calling me, and as wild engines generally travel pretty fast, I foresaw that I had not any too much time In which to carry out my Instructions. "I will mention one more fact; an iccommodatlon train was due from the Eait Inside of half an hour. "You may believe I did not lose much '.line In leaving the depot and heading for the switch. I had not taken half dozen steps when I heard a dull roar f but momentary duration. That told no as well as words could that the Old Tartar had crossed Mud River bridge, less than quarter of a mile away. "I can get over the ground at a fair rate of fpeed when necessary; and I considered that one of the occasions. had traveled considerably more than J half of the distance when, glancing up, I saw the Old Tartar shoot around th3 i-urve at the top of the grade which ands at this station. It was a raco jet ween myself and that engine, with the switch as the objective point. "Apparently I was sure of winning, jut I realized that I had no time to spare. "I had nearly reached the switch jvhen I stumbled and fell. Not more :han five seconds were lost, yet I failed. I was in the act of scrambling to :ny feet when the Old Tartar rushed rast me like a whirlwind. I realized that I had missed her, but I did not emoan my luck. There was not time Tor that, as the operator at Dawson mist le warned Immediately. "I rushed back to the station and railed him up. He responded lnnnedlitely, and I forwarded to him the message I had received but a moment be'ore. Back came the reply: "'Too late; the accommodation left Ive minutes ago.' "Perhaps you can imagine what my 'eellngs were when I received that answer! A collision which would surely esult in the loss of life seemed inevitable; nothing short of a miracle could i vert It. I blamed myself for the whole thing. If I had answered the ?all immediately, I should have succeeded In ditching the Old Tartar. I seemed to be standing on the verge of l precipice over which I feared every aioment to fall. I only camp to myself when I heard a rumble, and, looking low ii the track toward Dawson, saw he headlight of an engine. A moment afterward the accommodation pulled up at the station. "I lost no time In approaching the

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Scene In a Calcutta Street Where the Cow I3 Permitted to Rest. To the Hindus, who make up the great bulk of the population of India, the cow is a sacred animal, and many of the disturbances which break out between the Hindus and Mohammedans are due to the fact trfat the latter utterly disregard this Hindu reverence for the animal. Recently in Calcutta I the police authorities, out of deference to this sentiment of the Hindus, i?sue.l orders forbidding Mohammedans sacrificing cows. As a result, fierce rioting occurred and much dltli ulty was experienced in restoring order. The Hindus and Mohammedans are always at variance, and were It not for the strong arm of British authority, the former, who are submissive and peacefu'Iy Inclined, when their religious sentiments are not interfered with, would be slaughtered by the latter. The Hindu reverence for the cow often leads to peculiar situations. Wherever the cow chooses to rest it is permitted by the Hindus to stay, for they would never think of disturbing it. Our illustration, taken from tin? Illustrated London News, shows a cow at rest in one of the streets of Calcutta. The pious Hindu would never think of compelling it to find another resting place, even If it blocked traffic a who'e day.

conductor for the purjMise of learning how the collision had ben averttnl. To my surprise, he had no khowiedge of the Ohl Tartar's being 'wifa.' He considered me a fit subject for an insane asylum, and did not hesitate to tell mo so. I even began to doubt my own sanity. , "A message of inquiry was forward ed to Bartson, and the following reply received : " 'Illues was ordered to ditch the Old Tartar. Did he do It?' "Not one of us could offer any explanation until suddenly the conductor exclaimed : "'She must hare Jumped the track!' "Such proved to be the case. The Old Tartar was found at the foot of an embankment about a tulle wand a half east of this station. Near by were found several ties, most of ihem pretty well smashed up. "You doubtless wonder how this extraordinary thing1 happened. It was explained about a year later by Pete Scully, a member of a notorious gang of outlaws who had Infested 'this re gion. It seems that they had planned to 'hold up' the accommodation train. They had lanterns, et cetera, with which to signal the train; but fearful that the engineer would recognize them. they placed several ties on the track. so that If he failed to heed the signal his train would be derailed. "They had Just finished operations when the Old Tartar appeared on the scene. She knocked the ties a-ffying. but they did their work, for she Jumied the track and rolled down the embankment. Fifteen minutes later the accommodation passed that very spot unmolested. The gang had decided that under the circumstances It would be best not to 'hold up a train. "That was the Old Tartar's last run. And now, stranger, that you have heard the story, I want you to answer the question: Was It a miracle?" Waverley Magazine. REMARKABLE PADDLE WHEEL. Aew Drvlc Feather the Water Like an Ooarauian'a illade. An automatic feathering wheel for a paddle-driven steamboat has been invented aud perfected by W. N. Cruch011 of Seattle, who has patented the luvention. The new wheel has an automatic tilting contrivance, so that the buckets enter and leave the water without depressing or lifting it iq the operation. The new buckets are shaped corresponding to a spoon oar. which enables them to exert a greater force in propelling the vessel. By means of lateral wings on the outer edge they are able to enter the water with the least resistance, aud held l!y a stop pin while the pressure is exertNLW l'ADULE W II ELL. ed, when an automatic spring releases them and they assume their former inoperative position. The concave form of the bucket creates greater pressure against the water. The position of the buckets while out of the water and moving eonceutrie with the wheel shaft edgewise through the air diminishes air resistance. The manner in which the buckets enter th? water edgewise avoids the loss of power involved in. the downward pressure of the water. The automatic tilting of the buckets leaving the water throws off the back wash and eliminates dead weight. All Jar or concussion from the buckets entering and leaving the water is avoided. In starting the wheel without a load the buckets are only thrown into working position ly its movement either forward or back. Seattle Times. A woman, who has buried one husband, separate! from a seeond. anil lives unhappily with a. thin, doesn't usually think very wel of the men. If an actress Is callel an old stager It's enough to make her fussy.

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r : s?v. . ..rr r.: , v - .- 'a. S- J PARDONS G0EBEL SUSPECTS. Guv. YiI!on Give Cleiiieriey to Met Indicted fur Old Crime. The Issuance by (iov. Willson o Kentucky of pardons to W. S. Taylor ex-tJovernor, Charles Finley, ex-Secre tary of State, and other iersons In dieted for complicity in the murder o: William (Joebel writes the final chap ter in the story of a remarkable po litical tragedy. It terminates the ef fort on the part of the State authoritiei to solve the mystery of a crime whid has left a deep imprint on Kentucky life. The murder of William Goebel tool place on Jan. 30, 11)00, when Kentuckj was on a verge of an internecine con l OEM KU GOVERNOK TAYUJE. 1 II let over the outcome of a hotly-con tested election between William (Joebel Democrat, and WlUibni S. Taylor, Re publican. Taylor was elected by mauj thousands. Goebel contested the election vigorously. An appeal to a Demo cratlc election board proved unavailing As a last resort, Goebel moved to havt the legislature unseat Taylor and his colleagues. During the ensuing excite ment. while hundreds of mountain mei were In Frankfort, (Joebel was shot The next day, by direction of the Iegis lature, William (Joebel on his death bed was sworn in as Governor and J C. W. Beckham took the oath as Lieu tenant Governor. Then during the In vestigatlon of the murder that followed W. S. Taylor, Charles Finley. his Sec retary of State, and the rest of his active partisans were obliged to flee. Caleb Powers was? arrested In 'con nectiou with the crime, and was Luti times convicted for the murder, bu; just as often the judgment was re versed, till he was finally iiardonec last year by the Governor. Taylor found an asylum In Indiani since his flight. One after another ol the Indiana Governors have refused t give him up, and he has been able t defy his enemies In Kentucky. Mean while the Democratic majority In Ken tm ky chose its own Governor, and Mr Beckham, who was the candidate foi Lieutenant Governor' on the ticket witl William Goelni, was firs chosen by thi Legislature, und afterward elected bj the jH'ople chief magistrate. Beside the pardons issued to Tay lor and Finley, Gov. Willson exercised executive clemency In the cases ot John Powers, brother of Caleb Powers who Is believed to be In Honduras, t( Holland Whlttaker of Baker County John Davis of Ioulsvllle and Seacb Steele of Bell County, who did not fief the State. Fant Finger Talk. A ilaf and dumb iorson who Is fair ly export at linger language can speat about forty-three words per minute In the same space of time a person ii possession of speech will probablj speak 1Ö0 worils. Canada. Canada needs only 237,000 squarj miles to be as large as the whole con timnt of Europe. It is nearly thirtj times as large as Great Britain ani Ireland. Wasted Knerjcy. "Nursin a grouch," sand Uncle Eben "is like lu'gelctin' le flowers an' vegetables an' puttin in yon time tendin d- weeds,' Wssbiuztou Star.

m 0LIT8CAL Why the Democratic Pretm Ik WeaU. Chairman Mack of the Democratic National Committee is going to start a Democratic monthly. He has already sent out the prospectus and invited comment and commendation from the Democratic press. This enterprise of Mr. Mack's springs from the same idea as Mr. Bryan's suggestion that local weekly Democratic newspapers be established all over the country the idea that the Democratic party is greatly handicapped in a national contest by its comparative lack of partisan newspaper facilities. It also embodies a misap prthension similar to that under which Mr. Bryan labors the view that the trouble of the Democracy can be cured by merely treating a symptom. The diminution of the Democratic press to Its present size i3 not so much the cause of Democratic weakness as the result of It. The cause lies deeper, and when it is once removed, small doubt that the symptom will itself disappear. Even should the symptom be obscured by the establishment of Innumerable weeklies, as Mr. Bryan rec ommends, or scores of monthlies, such a3 Mr. Mack projects, the real sltua tion will not be materially improved. As the great contest of 1S96 fades into the merciful past it becomes evl dent that the real present disability of the Democracy lies in its neglect of its opportunities. We dare af firm that, no party in our his tory has ever had and lost so great an opportunity as the Democrat ic party had and lost during Mr. Roosevelt's second term. The Roosevelt policy of centralization was in direct conflict with the views and teachings of every great Democrat from Thomas Jefferson to G rover Cleveland. The Issue was there, plain and unmis takable. It seemed that Fortune had at last played Into the party's hands had compensated its vain wander ings in the wilderness by the sight of the Promised Land. But the Democratic leaders shut their eyes to the situation. They waved aside a great political verity and resumed the un successful opportunist tactics of the recent past. Up to 190S the Democratic party had at least had the original and exclu sive proprietorship of its catch-vote de vices. But in that year it even lost this peculiar vantage. The result was that it played the part of the accom modating bird that hatches out the cuckoo's eggs. Mr. Bryan's readers may start their weeklies. Mr. Mack may start his monthly, and Champ Clark may even issue an annual, but the Democratic party will get small profit from the enterprises. Let the party once awake to its opportunities and cease to neg lect them once more base Itself on broad political principles instead of the fancies of the hour and then not only Democratic weeklies, monthlies and annuals, but also Democratic dai lies, will have a message to deliver that will be worth while, and they and the party should flourish together. Chicago Inter Ocean. Prosperity Xote. , The Idle car test brings prosperity several degrees nearer. The last fort nightly report shows that 21,355 freight cars which had been weather ilng on the side tracks had been put into service. There is still left something more than 300,000 cars lacking cargoes, but this Is not considered a discouraging number when to the de pression are added the quiet timea that ordinarily prevail at this season. The big point Is that traffic conditions have so Improved that nearly 22,000 cars can be called into commission in the course of two weeks. The mild winter has kept a great number of coal cars empty, yet 1,000 more were transferred from the Idle column to the active lists. Tha efficiency committee of the American Railway Association reuorts that on pany of the lines conditions have been restored to the normal. A few roads Actually have been short on means of transportation, though the shortage Jias been Insignificant. 'v Another prosperity item is the news that the Westinghouse plants from San Francisco to London have made a restoration of wages amounting to a half million dollars monthly. The increases became known from slips placed in the envelopes of the employes. The company displayed admirable restraint in falling to take advantage of this fact to gain credit with labor to the Injury of an uncompromising competitor. The Steel Corporation has made the declaration that it cannot hope for an increase in business until the revision of the tariff has been finally decided. However, the trust maintains its prices, though the Independent companies have made cuts and thus placed several large orders. It would seem that the Steel Corporation is determined to make its $15 per ton on its production, or nothing. Toledo Blade. The mind Side of Soldiers. Great Britain maintains an active army of a quarter million men. She bears also the cost of keeping up an organization of 489,000 reserves. Fifty-five battleships, 103 cruisers, 325 torpedo boats and destroyers, sixty-one .submarines, nine scout ships and seventeen gunboats absorb their millions of taxes annually. Lord Roberts has made an eloquent appeal for an army of one million trained and fully equipped soldiers and the admiralty has petitioned for an appropriation with which to build six new Dreadnoughts. The Board of Trade Labor Gazette, London, publishes the following: "The general decline in empoymit, which began during the second half of the year 1907, continued In 190S. and although there was some slight improvement during November and December, employment at the end of 190S was, it Is stated, worse than at the end of any year since 1892. The prolonged disputes In the engineering and shipbuilding trades and in the cotton trade adversely -affected employment at many establishments not directly concerned in the disputes. "Returns relating to over 600,000 members of trade-unions show that the mean of the percentages of members returned a3 unemployed at the end of each month of 10S was 7.8, as compared with 3.7 in 1907, 3.G in 1906, and 5.0 hi 1905." The Hague Peace Conference, the peace societies, the lessons of the cen

5OMMEAIT I 5 turies and the "common sense of most" have still a considerable amount of work ahead of them. It might be a great thing for England if the interest of the militarists were shifted for a season from the subject of war to that of providing work for the idle and food for the starving. Exchange. A Coufeaton. No more foolish error prevails in this country than that which causes us to value foreign made goods above those manufactured at home. It has been a costly preference and has, moreover, held back Industry and enterprise Incalculably. The foreign manufacturer ordinarily does all in his power to foster this belief, so it is rather surprising to discover as we do, this exceeding frank statement from a Parisian maker of glace fruits, recorded In the Daily Consular and Trade Reports: "I have manufactured Provence fruits in New York, and American fruit as well, and find that the latter are little, if at all, inferior to the former. The cherries of California are at least as good in quality 3 the French varieties. We 'manufacture more cherries than any other fruit, the demand for this fruit being almost unlimited in the United States; we have shipped as much as 200 tons of to that country in one year. We" have even obtained better results with the American cherries than with those of domestic growing. You have also in California very good1 varieties of apricots suitable for glacage. The principal defeat of the California fruit is that it frequently contains too much water, but I do not think this defeat would prevent the manufacture o! glace fruits In California or elsewhere in the United States." From n Weatera Point of View. We have been paying high prices for tariff-protected articles made in the East without a murmur, and it is no more than fair that the East should pay a little more for Western products. It is proposed to remove the tariff from hlde3 and retain It on leather goods. "Would It not be more logical from a Republican standpoint to reverse the proposed tariff . schedules on hides and leather goods. Our Eastern Industries can hardly claim infancy. If protection is needed (and we do not say that it is not), then every Western product should retain its present protection. If revision Is necessary, and It Is, then lower the tariff on Eastern products. Up to this time, we have had all the disadvantages of a high protective tariff with scarcely any advantages. Troy (Idaho) News. A Jost and Equitable FrovUlon. It is hard to please some people. If the maximum rate were made the rule and the minimum offered as a bonus to the countries offering us special favors in return, the critics would probably denounce the suggestion as little better than bribery. Just aa they rail at the barbarity 0 the "complex and diabolical device" by which the maximum rates are held In reserve for the castigatlon of unfriendly nations. The plan is so simple as to be almost automatic in its operation; it can have no terrors for any nation that does not deliberately go out of Its way to seek to inflict injury upon our trade. It is a just and equitable provision, and forms one of the most admirable features of the bill. Brooklyn Times. ot an Kaay Job. It Is primarily the people's inability or indisposition to buy that reduces the value of Imports and the government revenues from them; and lessened duties do not operate to stimulate imports If the people -haven't got the money to pay for them. If the tariff -revisers In Congress can select a lot of schedules whose reduction would actually stimulate Imports and thus increase the government imports and at the same time properly protect American interests as they ought to be protected, they will do , much bet- . ter than most conservative and thoughtful persons expect. With tha existing treasury c eficit already a big one. their job is not a delectable one, New York Commercial. Deeply Interested. The play was one of Shakespeare's tragedies. Mrs. Simmons and her little boy, having been unable to secure seats In the parquet, were well located In the front row of the first balcony. where they could see better and hear almost as well as If they had been far ther forward on the main floor. Mrs. Simmons was agreeably sur prised at the Interest that Bobby apIeared to take in the somber drama. He sat leaning forward, with his elbows on the cushioned railing in front of him, resting his head on his hands. deeply absorbed. As the curtain went down on the first act he Etralg&ened up. "Well, dear, how do you like ShakesIeare?" asked his mother. "Are you enjoying the play?" "Mama," said Bobby, with the air of one who has made a great discovery, "there are sixty-nine men here that have got bald spots on top of their heads! I've counted 'em five times!" A Dlfferenee. "I don't see why that Idiotic swell set should turn down Nuritch." "Well, he's a self-made man, you know." "Yes, but so Is Snodgrass, and they admitted him." "Ah, yes, but he was made in liaglaud, don't you know." Catholic Standard and Times. Ilia Viewpoint. "It is a woman's lot to suffer In silence." she remarküi. "I should put It differently." rejoined the mere man. "How, pray" she queried. "A silent woman suffers a lot," h said. The Juvenile Idea. Teacher What Is your idea of greatness? Small Boy A chance to play baseball In uniform. Nine of Them. First Cat Listen, and I will tell you the story of my life. .Second Cat Which one? The mines of the world employ 3,000,000 persons and more than onethird of them are In the British oh pire.

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