Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 48, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 September 1909 — Page 6

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AMERICAN FIRE WASTE. OME impressively unpleasant figures, bearing upon the enormous annual fire waste In this country, are given in the report of the National Board of Underwriters, recently made public The ordinary fire losses, apart from ; such exceptional and largely non-prerventable disasters as that

at San Francisco, are more than 1200,000,000 a year. In the first three months of 1909 they were $53,000.000 an average of nearly three quarters of a million every day. The aggregate loss In five years is more than the amount of the national debt. -American city fire departments are recognized as superior to those of European cities; and although in this country a much larger proportion of the buildings consists of inflammable wooden structures than is the case in Europe, that does not account for the fact that our fire losses are from ten to thirty times greater than those of European countries. The National Board of Underwriters declares that the real cause is "carelessness and recklessness here, as against the care, forethought and wise supervision In Europe." More disheartening still Is the fact that American fire less is steadily increasing year by year. It is annually nearly two and a half times as great as In 18S0, and the rate of increase is almost twice that of the increase in population in the same period. The widespread movement for the prevention of unnecessary waste In natural resources and in raw material is most commendable, but it is even more desirable to check waste by fire. When buildings are burned there Is more lost than the actual money value of the buildings themselves, for business is usually interrupted and the communuitles are deprived of taxable prop-, erty. The problem of preventing this waste, since so much of It Is declared by experts to bo preventable, is one which may well engage the serious- attention of the American people. Youth's Companion.

RECRUITS TOR THE MINISTRY.

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attendance, while the engineering colleges are overflowing with eager students. There are, doubtless, a number of causes

entering into the growing reluctance of young men to devote themselves to the pulpit work of the churches. One of them, we fancy, i3 the fact that the young minister Is about the hardest-working, poorest paid citizen in the average small town. He is called to a struggling church, and upon his young shoulders Is laid the Impossible burden of making that church a success and of living, meanwhile, on almost nothing. And yet the church members, individually, may be doing the best they can. The point is, that there are not enough of them; or, rather, that their religious energies are divided up among too many organizations. While they are holding fast to comparatively unimportant differences of creed, and are clinging desperately to denominational ism, the real work of the Master goes undone. , The average small town 13 supporting In hand-to-mouth fashion half a dozen struggling churches, where there ought to be but one or two. Pride of denomination alone stands in tho way of setting up In such a town a single sacred shrine, where all may worship

EBONLESS SHIP BUILT TO SURVEY THE "WORLD. Destined for a fifteen-year cruise to all accessible parts of the world, the non-magnetic yacht, Carnegie, recently launched in Brooklyn, N. Y., is expected to become a prominent figure in the maritime hall of fame. Built for use In a magnetic survey of the earth, the Carnegie is expected to encounter experiences such as no other vessel has been through. She will wrestle, probably, with ice packs In the Arctic, and may meet terrific typhoons off the Asiatic coast. Her crew may shorten sail before the storm king of Cape Horn and whistle for breezes In the sultry Sargasso sea. Even In her construction, the yacht differs from ether vessels. No steel of Iron has entered into her construction, except about 00 pounds necessary for certain parts of her machinery. She will be nearer all wood than than any other modern craft afloat. It is hoped that the voyage of the Carnegie will bring not only fame to herself, but lasting benefit to all the great multitude who go down to the sea In ships. The scientists to sail In her hope to discover, among other thing3, the location and characteristics of the North magnetic pole. The Carnegie institution of Washington, which built the vessel about five years ago, undertook to make a series of systematic surveys. There was organized a department of research In terrestrial magnetism, which wa3 placed in charge of Dr. L. A. Bauer, who was formerly in charge of the magnetic survey of the United States under the coast and geodetic survey. Since then valuable work has been done in the Pacific Ocean, the yacht Gal Ilea making three voyages aggregating 60.000 nautical miles. It Is because of the peculiar character of the work for which she Is intended that the vessel wa3 built without the use of Iron or steel. Her beams and planks are held together with wooden treenails, and spikes and bolts of copper and bronze. Her engine and other machinery are of b. ass and bronze, and even the propelU- Is of manganese bronze. Those of us who recall our early history lessons remember, probably, tha statement that at one time on' the great voyage of Columbus hl3 sailors mutinied because the compass needle failed to point to the North star. Such eccentricities of the compass have bothered mariners ever since. Perhaps they did before. It is a well-known fact that the compass In certain parts of the earth does not remain true to due north. On some localities the variation may be several degrees. Off the coast of Oregon and Washington the variation Is as much as twenty to twenty-five degrees. This variation is found on 'land as well as on the ocean. There are a number of lines along which the compass needle always points due north. One of these lines of "no variation" begins In the eastam part of Lake Superior, runs through Ohio, about midway between

Great Papers on Important Subjects.

together in peace and amity, where one shepherd may be entrusted with the guidance of the flock, where personal differences of belief as to minor things may give way to the general good. Consider what a strong and useful place In the community the pastor of such a church could take. Consider how, with a salary sure t3 be paid and large enough to relieve him of financial worrynient, he could be one of the leaders in all good works. The chasm of creed between some of the denominations Is perhaps too wide to be bridged in this way. But those of the Protestant churches known as evangelical, are near enough together to make the plan practicable as, indeed, It has already been proved in some communities. If the denominations want to recruit their ministries with young zeal and new blood, they must do something of this sort. The world-wide success, of the non-denominational Christian Endeavor movement shows that the time is ripe for lt. Minneapolis Journal.

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races has been made so often that it can be taken as having at least a foundation in fact, and yet, of the two, the Japanese are undoubtedly the nearer to ot-r sympathies and comprehension, the readier to accept what is called civilization, and the likelier both to teach and to imitate the occidental world. The apparent lack by the Japanese of commercial honesty has been well explained by the circumstance that until recently their trading class was a low and despised one, while the fighting man was highly honored and naturally developed the virtues that are as much the effect as the cause of general respect. In China the conditions were reversed, the merchant being there the noble and the soldier the pariah. Soon the Chinese soldier will learn that it is shameful to run away from the enemy, and the Japanese merchant that it does not pay to break contracts. New York Times.

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for religious reasons, be regarded a3 exceptionally abiormal? The case does not prove that the Oriental Is per se more dangerous than the Cawasian; it simply shows that he is subject to the same passions and furie: a3 the white man. In France, or Germany, there could be no Sigel case, for the simple reason that only In America would a wife and daughter successfully defy the more worldly husband's and father's well-known wishes concerning the daughter's friendships among young men. To' this extent the New York tragedy is perhaps peculiarly American, as the Berlin commentators avow, and there is good reason for the social shock which the affair causes. Springfield Republican.

Cincinnati and Columbu3. through eastern Tennessee, cuts through South Carolina and strikes out into the Atlantic near Beaufort. On the east side of this line the compa33 needle is drawn by some mysterious force to the westward; west of the line It is drawn to the east. On the upper coast of Maine the needle gets a3 much as twenty-one degrees west of "true." The geographic north pole Is not the magnetic pole; just where the latter 13 remains as much of a mystery as the pole Peary Is seeking. And another strange thing about it, the magnetic pole 13 not stationary; It is continually moving, although very slowly. It has not been discovered la what direction the magnetic pole is moving. When the magnetic pole shall have been located and Its various phenomena ascertained, many of the existing problems of navigation will disappear. To solve these riddles will be one of the tasks of the scientists aboard the Carnegie. In building the ship some puzzling questions had to be solved. The boat had to be virtually non-magnetic. For that reason Iron and steel could not enter into its construction. It was to be the first vessel In which such materials were not to be found. With the exception of thin cast-Iron linings in the engine cylinders and the steel cams necessary for operating the valves, magnetic materials were excluded altogether. While Fall3 are to be relied upon mainly, auxiliary power Is necessary for maneuvering In harbors or for use In calm3 at sea. For this power It was decided that steam would not do. because the boilers and engines would be highly magnetic. It would not be practicable to use gasoline or oil, because of the danger of carrying such large quantities as woujd be needed In exploring faraway waters. The difficulty was solved by Installing a specially constructed marine gas producery using coal. In connection with a bronze Internal combustion engine. The Carnegie institution is not confining its magnetic survey work to the seas. It has had several land expeditions at work two in Africa, one in Asia Minor and Persia and one In China. It has also worked over, part of South America, Central America. British America and Greenland. REACHED THE BARBER'S LIMIT. Man Ilehlnd Chair Accounts' for a Illaaatlafled Customer. The bos3 called the barber at the second chair aside and asked him why he had marked the customer who had a few minutes previously left the shop, the New York Sun saz"You are the oldest man in the shop and you ought to set a better example for those new fellows," the boss continued. "How did you ever come to do what you did anyway?" Then the little man at chair 2 stood up and replied: "Well, everybody has an idea that they can tell a barber a whole lot and then get him started to talking, 'and " en they go away and abuse us beise we acted as If we thought this T. m A . as a Kauittsi.. "That customer came In here as you saw and crawled down Into my chair. While I was tucking the towel around his neck he asked me how I liked the weather. I turned around just then and pretended not to hear him. The weather doesn't brother me. "Then I began to lather him, and as I was rubbing it In he asked me how was business. I wondered what business that was of his, but I just said Tine,' and kept on rubbing. "Then as I was soaping him for

MERCHANTS AND SOLDIERS.

IR EDWARD MOSS, on his way home to England from the far East, repeats the familiar statement that as business men the Chinese are thoroughly trustworthy, while the Japanese are so tricky that dealings with them are unsatisfactory and unprofitable. This comparison of the two

AMERICAN TRAGEDY.

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real business, you understand, he aked me how was my razor, and before I could say anything he went on to say that he didn't want to be hacked, as he wa3 going to a party and wanted to be recognized. "Well. I thought that was getting pretty close to the limit, but I acted as If I hadn't heard what he had said. I was doing my best to give him a clean shave when he said he thought it would not be a bad idea for me to strop the razor on a joint of stovepipe o- the sole of my boot, so as to give It an edge. "I never had anybody say a thing like that to me even when I was an apprentice. What would you have done under such an insult? "That was an Insult," replied . the boss; "still you must remember that we have to put up with all sort3. I would have considered the source." "Well, I didn't :iy anything even then. I kept right on until I got through, and he had as good a shave as he ever had In his life." "You had done nothing to him up to that time?" asked the boss. "Not a thing," answered chair 2. "Just as I was about to hand him the bay-rum act he looked at me and said I was about the worst he ever saw. I simply smiled. Never made any reply. 'Then he asked me for a match and I handed him that. As he was lighting his stump of a cigar he asked me, What do you think of the tariff? he says. Then I picked up the razor and slit him under the chin. I won't stand for that." The next day he was promoted from chair 2 to chair 1. Sprinkled Her Costly Hat. Miss Victoria Harrell, one of the most prominent society girls In this city," and who Is well known In musical circles in this city, Little Rock and Memphis, recently sustained the loß3 of a $60 basket hat because the piece of headgear so much resembled a pot of flowers. Miss Harrell sang at a fashionable wedding in this city several nights ago and hurriedly returned home to enjoy an auto ride with friends. When she reached her residence on W. Cth avenue, the party was in waiting and Miss Harrell placed- her hat over a Jardiniere in which were some small ferns and which was hidden from view in a corner of the front porch. After Miss Harrel rode away with her friends her mother, Mr3. C. F. Coe, came out of the house and proceeded to sprinkle the flowers. Of course the covered jardiniere came In for a share of the "wetness." and when Miss Harrel returned she found the hat and its costly trir imings wilted and ruined. -Pine Bluff Cor. Arkansas Gazette. Up Against It. "Pardon ii... .o-.uu.lv., iald the lady passenger to the captain of the big ship, "but how do you ;manage to find your way acros3 the trackless ocean?" "By means of the compass, mada.m," answered the captain. "The needle Invariably points to the north." "But queried the 1. p., "suppose you wish to go south?" Detroit NewsTribune. Like One ol the Family. Wigwag BJones says that when he Is at your house he acts just like one of the family. Henpeckke Yes; he seems to be Just as much afraid of my mother-in-law as I am. Philadelphia Record. Politics and morality are seldom on speaking terms.

OF ÜLD SWl His Place Is Now Taken on Roads by Intricate and Safe Interlocking System. WATCER IN TOWER IS ALERT New Alignment of Tracks in Chicago for Northwestern Line to Care for Nearly 400 Trains Daily. Changes of a radical and Intricate aature are being made in the passenger terminal yards of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad as a result of the construction of the mammoth newpassenger station, says the Chicago Daily News. A new alignment of tracks to take care of nearly 400 scheduled trains each day necessarily will provide for a new interlocking switch system. At the present time the many trains arrive and depart over the double tracks on the single span lift bridge opened for traffic a few months ago. The days of the old switchtender are over, for " the reason that no switches are thrown on the surface by hand, men at the interlocking machines In the towers having supplanted thcm. These tower men, classed as train directors' and levermen, are about as alert a set of men as can be found In any line of employment. There 'Is no going "asleep at the lwitch" with them. They are required to know to the smallest detail every

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r THE DELICATE MACHLN foot of the terminal tracks and as they work at a long switchboard arrangement they see suspended above their heads, hanging from the celling and tilted at an angle, a diagram of large dimensions showing the tracks and the many signals which dot the terminal grounds. There are no great pumphandle Iever3 to be swung. Instead, the levers are only a few Inches long, giving the idea of a keyboard. But they do their work so cleverly that aot even a small lump of coal or a silver no larger, than the nd of a lead pencil can lodge between the rails at a signal point without the knowledge of the operators In the towers. "The work Is of the most Important nature and the operators are men who have been long in the employ of the company and trained especially for their duties." said Edward Milliard, who Is connected with the signal department of the company. "Every route is protected by a signal and it Is Impossible for the operator In the tower to give a conflicting signal, because the interlocker is so arranged that no two conflicting routes can be given. It is Important that the public should understand this point. The electropneiimatic machine is so constructed that In setting up a route for an engine all signal levers that control a conflicting route must be in a danger position before any switch can be thrown. Switches are so adjusted that an opening of the points even one-sixteenth of an inch would lock their lever and automatically call forth the repair man from his place In the tower. In the meantime the leveroien are at a standstill as far as that particular routing is concerned." HER NEW GOWN. rimed Over from Daufhtrr't and Mnde Mother Look Young, "That's the prettiest gown you've had for ages," announced Mrs. Marven. "Such a soft shade of gray, and then that touch of dull blue and silver In the Persian bands you never should have stopped wearing blue. Bertha. And that little frilly finish at the wrists! Honestly, you look ten years young " "Don't!!" interrupted little Mrs. Dalling, explosively. "Don't say it, Lavinla. I've made five calls this afternoon, and they've told me the samo thing at every blessed place; but from you! Count my gray hairs and look again. Reassure me! Speak a word of comfort! Say I'm not a frisky old thing!" "You're perfectly respectable and sedate, but you really do look younger than usual. Lucky woman to find such a becoming dress, 6ay I, and lucky to afford It, these hard times. I shall have to wear old duds made over, myself." Mrs. Dalling laughed ruefully. "I have to wear my daughters' old duds made over. This is Sally's best, that she used to wear to dancing class. She's seventeen and I'm forty-eeven; no wonder I'm sensitive. I couldn't even dye it, for the fabric won't take dye. Tell me truly, Lavinla, does this waist suggest to the casual eye that the trimming was arranged to cover

traces of pickled limes and fudge? And would you divine from the aspect of this skirt that it had ever whisked through the Virginia reel with a highschool football hero for a partner?" "I don't understand," said Mrs. Marven. "Surely it's the daughters place to wear their mother's made-overs!" "It is," agreed Mrs. Dalling, "when nature permits. In our family she doesn't. I'm four feet eleven and three-quarters; Sally Is five feet seven and a half; Muriel Is five feet eight; Ada well, if Ada stops under six feet I shall be thankful, but she'll have to do It pretty soon. It's a physical Impossibility to cut over my things for those three dear young giantesses, but alas! theirs can be cut over with plenty to spare for me. "Lavinla, I never thought at my age to shrink before the eye of a mere boy, but if ever, in this dress, I meet that right tumble, or tackle, or whatever the creature's called that danced with it, I believe I shall beat Sally on a blush by ten shades! I shall e afraid it might suddenly set to partners!" "Nonsense!" said Mrs. Marven, with a comforting laugh. "You carry the dress off all right It won't carry you. But if you don't like the girls being taller than you are, Bertha, why don't you grow? You look young enough!" "I repeat, Lavinla," rejoined the tiny lady, with Indignant energy, as she shook out the too frolicsome 6kirt and rose to go, "count my gray hairs." Youth's Companion.

BATHING WITHOUT WATEB. A Good Rnb and an Air Hath a Substltnte for the Tab. The conditions and conventions of our civilization demand frequent bathing. It Is popularly supposed that this frequent bathing is essential to health. A t ERY OF A SWITCH TOWER. - "This 13 quite untrue," says the Medical Journal. "We have seen fine and vigorous men among the habitants of Canada who have never taken a full bath In their lives. Were the truth known many thousands of our fellow citizens probably know nothing 'of the alleged benefits of the tub, though maintaining excellent average health. "Such people do not present the fresh and pleasing appearance of the frequent bather, however long lived they may be. Is not, however, much of the benefit attributed to the water in reality due to the complete exposure of the skin to the air? "The respiratory function of the skin is of high importance, and although water may be dispensed with closing the pores to air would result in speedy asphyxiation. The' historic instance of the boy who impersonated John the Baptist in a mediaeval procession and whose body was covered with gold leaf with rapidly fatal results is proof. "Th Ice cold bath Is a superstition; It Is a pastime for the abnormally vigorous, not desirable for the average civilized man. A bath not too cold is really an agreeable stlmvlant as well as being a luxury. The feeling of well being after a bath can hardly be obtained in any other way, and the rapid multiplication of tubs In hotels and private residences, soon to approach one to the Individual, shows how they are appreciated. "Unhappy persons, however, whosa travels In the provinces or into the desert may temporarily deprive them of sufficient water for bathing may find a substitute that will at least afford a part of their accustomed enjoyment. The body may be energetically rubbed with a brush or coarse Turkish towel and afterward exposed to the air for fifteen minutes or so. The accustomed feeling of vigor will follow and the process will be found by the uninitiated to be astonishingly cleansing." l'n familiar Coin. The returned traveler smiled remlniscently. "I wa3 mortified," she said, "when I was in South America to find that I did not know our own gold money by sight. We are so accustomed to checks, greenbacks and silver and so little gold passes from hand to hand in our daily shopping that when United States gold pieces were offered me abroad I always had to stop and examine them carefully before I could tell how much they were worth. This greatly amused the foreigners, whose gold currency circulates much more freely among all classes than ours does." Time's Change. "It seems strange," remarked the observer of events and things, "that a man and woman can go out and make frantic love under the blue sky, and yet they can't live long together under the same roof." Yonkers Statesman. Typical Decoration. "How appropriate for the Comeups to have their ballroom decorated with growing vines." "Appropriate In what way?" "Because vines, you know, are climbers, too." Baltimore American.

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. Still Readlnic Thesi Ont. The last issue of the National Monthly, the new Democratic organ established at Buffalo by Norman E. Mack, contains a lengthy arraignment of Senator S. D. McEnery of Louisiana. Senator McEnery voted for protec tion on sugar, rice, lumber in all of which his state is deeply interested as well as a large number of things in which it is not immediately concerned. For this reason the Democratic National Monthly reads the Louisianian right out of the party. All that is necessary to make the excommunication complete is the assent of Senator McEnery, the people of Louisiana and a number of other leading Democrats over the country. Now, we have no desire to meddle in these delicate questions which arise in the Democratic camp. However, we have an idea as to what constitutes the wisest policy for a large and hopeful Democratic national organ as well as for Democratic national statesmen. The idea is that the time has come to realize that nothing can be gained and that much can be lost by devot ine too much thought and energy to the heretofore favorite occupation of reading people out of the party. There may possibly be occasions when these distinctions may profitably be enlarged on. But that occasion is em phatically not now. What Democratic national organs and Democratic leaders should look for and pray for and study to attain is not grounds of disintegration and discord, 'but a formula of reconcilia tion and co-operation. Tliey should spend more time getting men in the party and less throwing then out. Of course, it Is difficult to resist the habit of years. Ever since Jir Bryan came to the front the proscrip tion or would-be proscription has gone merrily on. Sometimes, as in the case of Mr. Sullivan of Illinois, tue proscrintion decree has been graciously revoked. Sometimes it hasn't. But the habit has apparently survived all chance and change. As to whether Senator McEnery Is or 13 not a Democrat we express no opinion. It is not necessary. Com pared with the important issues that confront the party, this question Is unimportant It U so unimportant that a national monthly which aspires to be a national Democratic organ might very profitably postpone It un til other and weightier matters arc disposed of. This, from present pros pects. will take some time. The motto of Mr.. Bryan's Common er ought to be: "We read them out." The motto of a Democratic journal which aspires to da real service should be. though unexpressed in type. "We get them in." Society, government, party, all the practicable form3 of social and politi cal co-operation, are compromises on a grand scale. No party can be reduced to absolute uniformity. Toleration and intelligence in their leaders can alone make them large enough to count. Chicago Inter Ocean. Amending: the Constitution. The pendency of an amendment to the Federal Constitution for the first time in a generation lends Interest to the discussion of how amendment is bi ought about. The language of . the Constitution Itself Is vague on this subject. Article V recites that when ever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary. Congress shall propose. amendments to the Constitution, or on the application of two-thirds of the States shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which shall be valid parts of the Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States. Congress has proposed the Income tax amendment by the requisite vote and it is thus referred to the States The question of how long they have to act upon it is uppermost. Apparently there is no time limit upon the legislatures. The first ten amendments were proposed in the congressional session of 17S9 and were ratified in 1791. The eleventh amendment was proposed in 1794 and declared In 179S. The other amendments were proposed and adopted within a year. If the income tax amendment should fail to secure the approval of three-fourths of the States within two years, when every State will have had an opportunity to vote upon It, is It dead? Not necessarily. For anything to the contrary in the Constitution, It could be kept alive indefinitely. It Is an Interesting question whether the defeat of the amendment in any State would kill it in that State, or whether ' a subsequent Legislature could take it up and leverse its predecessor. It is another whether, one Legislature of a State having ratified the amendment, a later Legislature could retract the action. Evidently, we are about to learn some things about the Constitution Minneapolis Journal. The Crime of the A Id rich 11111. Summing it all up, it would seem that Iowa has been especially badly treated In the new tariff act. The boot and shoe men of New England and the users of leather generally escaped with slight reductions on their manufactured products. The New England papers, aided by the Chicago press, has proclaimed the wonderful reduction made on tho products of leather, such as boots, shoes, harness, etc. But we regard those matters as a farce. The tariff reductions on the products of leather amount to nothing according to our way of thinking. The noise was made to cover up the free hide proposition, which is the crime of the Aldrlch bill. Des Moines Capital. llinv A boat the Producer? The politicians who have been doing a big business in the names of the consumers may be compelled to meet some of the producers In their next campaigns. In this country about the only man who amounts to anything Is the producer. This is due to the fact that in this country every one is a producer, a producer of something. It Is only in the countries which have an idle class that the consumer as an exclusive object Is worth while, and there he isn't worth much. Cedar Rapids Republican. Prosperity has ruined more men than adversity, yet there probably Isn't a man on earth who wouldn't be willing to chance It.

COMPLETELY GOLD-BRICKED.

Iowa Farmern Will Lose $5,000,000 a Year on Free Hide. It is settled that the 15 per cent duty which has heretofore been imposed upon cow hides imported into the United State? is to be removed. New England was simply frantic to secure hides free from duty. New England feels justified now in the carrying on an eight years' campaign for tariff reform. New England, undoubtedly, had free hides in mind in th? old days when the reform campaign began. The results would seem to indicate that every man before entering upon the reform campaign had a particular purpose which he desired to accomplish. The threshing machine manufacturers wanted to get into Canada under more favorable circumstances. Foss. the Boston manufacturer of patented articles, which were independent of the tariff, wanted cheaper food products from Canada. Van Cleave, the stove builder, his articles being protected by patents, wanted cheaper iron ore. The entire list could be gone through with and a selfish reason found for the work of practically every one of the tariff re formers. Our Western friends went into partnership with them and were made tools of. The West lost a duty from hides and gained nothing else to take the place of the same. If the duty were taken off manufactured products of hides the proposition wou?d look different, y The shoemaker and saddler of Massachusetts will continue to have protection on their manufactured products. Our Western branch of the reform establishment appears to have been completely goldbricked. They have nothing to shovr for their work except that they have made themselves known politically. .The State of Iowa contains almost 5,000.000 head of horned cattle. The removal of the hide duty, we should think, v.ould reduce the price of every steer the amount of one dollar. If this ijg true, free hides will cost the producers of Iowa $5,000,000 per year. Nothing will be given in return for this sacrifice. It has been a greai game from stext to finish. Des Moines Capital. The World Market. ' Secretary James Wilson has just made a report covering twelve years of administration of the affairs of the Department of Agriculture. It is interesting to note that the same twelve years practically covers the life of the late Dingley tariff law, although, of course, no mention Is made of this fact In the report. - For years the American people have been listening to an Incessant howl about America's poor showing in ' the "markets of the world." We have been tcld by leather-lunged reformers that this country was constantly getting the worst of it Now comes Secretary Wilson and shows by actual 'figures that in the matter of agricultural products alone the balf.nce of trade In favor of the United States has increased In twelve years from an annual average of $234,000,000 to $411,000,000. or 73.7 per cent. The man who Is engaged in business and finds at the end of each year a constantly increasing cash balance In his own favor is regarded as a suc cessful business man by the general public. That is just what Uncle Sam has been doing as shown by figures which cannot be disputed and yet you would think to listen to a certain kind of talk that this country was ignored in the International market place; that it wa3 handicapped by unreasonable tariff laws, and that it was pa tiently waiting in shackles until some high priest of reform should come along and effect its liberation. The Wilson report serves two purposes. It reveals the marvelously suc cessful record of the Iowa man who has had charge of the Agricultural De partment, and It demonstrates again that the twelve years of the Dingley law's operation were without parallel in agricultural development in the his tory of all the nations of the world. Des Moines Capital. Fair Protection or None. A protective tariff cannot tndure in this country except upon the principle of -fair protection to all interests worthy cf protection. Especially it cannot endure if the farmers of the country are compelled to buy well-pro tected manufactures while they are themselves deprived of protection on the plea that raw materials must be free. Raw materials for use In a pro tected country ought to be as well pro tected as the manufactures, and as fot the export trade there are ways of assisting the exporters without depriving the producers of raw material ol their legitimate advantage within their own country. If there are strong Industries or populous sections which expect protection on what they have to sell without allowing equal protection on what they buy they will be disappointed. The followers of every industry which is thrown to the dog? will become the most energetic free traders in the country. San Francisco Chronicle. Oo We Wnnt Mere Cheapnef If It is mere cheapness we want, we can get our cotton goods and ,our other woolen and all-knit goods from Japan fror one-half of the money' we have to pay Americans. Japan can make such goods cheaper than any other country. They are skillful and they work for low wages, almost for nothing. But if we get shiploads of goods from over there, what are we going to do with the American laborers who are now employed in such industries? Put them on farms? But if every one is a farmer, who is gbing to be the consumer? Send the farm products abroad? But how much can Japan pay us for wheat and corn, when the consumers there receive only 23 cents wages a day? But the craze for cheapness Is on and the men who are talking about cheap things in Congress are the very men who wear $100 suits of clothes and whose neckties cost as much as a whole suit for a Chinaman costs in China or for a Japanese In Japan. Cedar Rapids Republican. A Und GneNH. ! A lad-, passing along the street one frosty morning, saw a little fellow scattering salt upon the pavement for the purpose of melting the ice. "Well, I'm sure," said the lady, "that's real benevolence." "Oh, no, ma'am," he replied. "It ain't benevolence It's salt." The Delineator. The Literary Man's Wife.! "Her husband Is a literary man. Isn't he?" "I guess so. She imagines it's something wonderful to get a new dress." Detroit Free Press.

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This costume could b carried out nicely n cloth and equally as well in a silk, if lomething for more dressy occasions is wanted. In either case, chiffon clotii would be a good choice for the waist, matching exactly the skirt material. Studies of th Vernacular. . -Hullo !- "Hullo! Oozatr "Smee Mayme. Thatchooc Moll?" Teh. 'tsmee. Wotiup. Mayme?" "Saymoll, wajja mean b'telJlnfanbout can yeer me, Moll?" "Yen. I herja. Telllner "otT" "Core shoo dunno!" ' "Core si don't. Orutblnstuffin yuhT"! "Xunna yerbix. Betchacant ue-J oo " "Bettacan! Fmtols " j j "Awrit out! ilainUeeenerslnce "Y,esh v! Yocn her wuz " "Aw ' 7evvin sake caiiChoo lemrf - -w I "Ljkeer. Mayme J Owbo'it BIl you vrummlnover " i , "Nuthindoon. Gee, I gottastoppen . backstore! Goo by. t "Avj-fulsorrygoobj'." FEEE LANDS IN WTO MTU Q. Chleasro A Northwestern Rail wax Send for booklet telling how to so cure 320 acres of U. S. Government lands in Wyoming free of cost, and describing various irrigation projects and the most approved methods of scientific dry farming. Homeseekers rates. Direct train service from Chicago. W. B. Kniskern. P. T. M, Chicago, 111. TEAINTNG QIULS F03 SOCIETY. Veneer Part t PolWh I'seil la Pnttlnsr Finish en .Miss A merlon. "Finishing" schools are training schools for society, and upon that training they naturally place emphasis. The pupil Is forced to shine. Not only ai the institutional reception, but at meals, at play and evea In the classroom ehe Is w atched by a competent critic of eocial behavior, and she succeeds, though ehe falls behind in her real studies, so loig as she does not commit the crime of a failure to "make good socially, says a writer in Hampton's Magazlnee. You observe that there may well ba a broad chasm between what Is taught and what Is learned. One studfnt of my acquaintance has, after a" three year's course, managed to choke down enough French to translate. If there's a dictionary handy, the ordinary. Gallic phrases encountered in a popular novel; she knows what a menu Is try-' Ing to say, though, of course, neither she nor anybody else can translate that verbatim. If she would take tim to complete it but she never takes time to complete anything she might be able to make a fair copy of a Charles Dana Gibson line drawing. She can recite certain chapters of tha Bible by heart, but knows about as much concerning them a3 the average actor knows -about the lines of his part And as for literature, she Las acquired the exact date of every great English author's birth and death without having any conception of wliat any of them wrote and without swerving one hair's breadth from her allegiance to the contemporary marshmallow school of fiction. One mother was rapturously descanting to me upon her daughter's social advantages. "But what," 1 essayed, "are her Intellectual pursuits?" Madam blinked. "Her intellectual pursuits?" she echoed. "Oh, wellshe just dotes on music, and she is a really wonderful speller." Wna n Plain Case. "You want to divorce your husband? You say you cannot agree? What evidence can you give of incompatibility of temper?" "Why. I want a divorce and he doesn't." Rlre. IT WORKS. The Laborer Eats Food That WonlA WrecL aa Od re JIan. lien who are actively engaged at hard work can sometimes eat food that would wreck a man who is more closely confined. This Is illustrated In the following story: "I was for 12 years clerk la a stora working actively and drank coffee all the time without much trouble until after I entered the telegraph service. "There I got very little exercise and drinking strong coffee, my nerves grew unsteady and my stomach got weak and I was soon a very sick man. I quit meat and tobacco and In fact I topped eating everything which I thought might affect me except coffee, but still my condition grew worst and I was all but a wreck. "I finally quit coffee and commenced to use Postum a few years ago and I am speaking the truth when I say, my condition commenced to improve immediately and to-day I -am well and can eat anything I want without any bad effects, all due from shifting from coffee to Postum. "I told my wife to-day I believed I could digest a brick if I had a cup et Po3tum to go with it. "We make It according to direo tioas, boiling it full 20 minutes and ass good rich cream and it is certainly delicious." Look in pkgs. for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Well ville." "There's a Tleason" Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest.