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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1913
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A Profitable Lesson The cause of journalistic decency will be well served if a number of editors profit by the lesson taught to Editor Newett of the Ishpeming Iron Ore. Newett has discovered to his discomfiture that Dame Rumor is most fickle and unreliable and when cornered will always refute the tales she tells. The truth of this was frankly admitted by the Michigan editor when he swallowed his humiliation and testified that it had been impossible for him to corroborate the charge he had made that
Col. Roosevelt had been known to get intoxicated. In teachincr Newett his bitter lesson, Col.
Roosevelt has conferred a great benefit on all honest, decent men in public life, who will no longer be the target of unjust and irresponsible criticism. He is also to be commended for his no small part in uplifting the standard of journalism.
Smoot is prominently identified with the Mormon church and that organization is deeply interested in. the beet sugar industry. His answers to the two following questions will prove most interesting reading: "Please state whether or not you are financially interested in the production, manufacture
or sale of any article mentioned in the Tariff Bill or any other bill now pending in Congress, or which has been considered in your term as senator. If so, state fully the nature and extent of such interest and whether you ever sought to in
fluence any other senator as to the duties upon such articles. "Please state whether you represent, or are connected professionally or otherwise, directly or indirectly with any person, firm, association, corporation or organization which is engaged in the manufacture or production or sale of any article named in the Tariff Bill now pending in Congress; if so, state whether you ever sought to influence any other senator as to the duties upon such articles." What will be the answers to the same questions when Senator Warren of Wyoming, known as "the greatest shepherd since Joseph," is placed on the witness stand? Will it be possible for him to satisfactorily explain that his opposition to free wool has been actuated by his belief that such action would be fraught with serious consequences to the Amer
ican people?
EDUCATIONAL NOTES .
Louisville, Ky., has established an open air school.
German universities enrolled 64,590 students during the year 1912-18.
Four thousand teachers in Massachusetts, where the pay is higher than in most states, receive salaries ranging from $5.77 to $10 a week.
The Progressive Primary Progressives of Richmond in attending the primary for the election of their city ticket will Vm firinrr fVio nnor innr mm in Vio nnmnniom trt nrn.
IkSW A! bill. W V-lllll f-y W" . Vliv WMAi.jt-'.- " Trmr4-r V.n4-4-r vi r irmrnr A-f V inland 1 " r o 1 mlnllinol
government. Thprp is pvprv rpnsnn fnr trip Proorpssivps to
. . - o feel optimistic over the outcome in November for the t'et they nominate next week. In the first placJTthey should derive a feeling of secur
ity from a consideration of the division of the city vote in last fall's national election. This
was uivmcu uclwccu me iuui icciuuik uai iica xn
the following manner: Roosevelt. Wilson. Taft. Debs. 2,418 1,956 834 691 In the second place when the vote by wards is considered, Progressives should have that full feeling that comes, politically speaking, from having digested a majority of them. The vote by wards was:
THE CHILDREN
Shut from out God's air and sunshine, By the grip and lust of greed, Hear ye not the children crying, In their hour of bitter need? Naught of life know they nor feel, Save Its grind and iron heel, Born to catch the lilt of song bird. Bred to note the whirring wheel. Careless, know ye not, my brothers, Smiling in your seats of power, That a bud once dwarfed and blighted Cannot grow to perfect flower? Gone, alas, the Nation's bulwarks, Lest ye wake with sudden leap, Guarding well her weal and glory. Trusted to their childish keep. Ever Holmes.
A parent-teachers' association, where one-half the members are men, is the fact in Gettysburg, Pa., according to information received at the United
States Bureau of Education.
The Spanish-American Anthenaeum
of Washington, D. C, is seeking to make Spanish a required subject for
entrance to college on a par with French and German.
One citizen of Louisiana is so im
pressed with the need for medical in
spection in the schools that he has furnished the necessary funds for the
salary of the health officer in his com munity.
To control cigarette smoking and to censor moving picture shows are the two subjects of a co-operative plan formed by the Parent-Teacher Circle and Civic Club ofLack Haven, Pa.
STATISTICS OH COAL
Mltllllu ASTOUNDING
This is especially true of anthracite. In 1899 the average expense reported per short ton of anthracite was $1.34, as compared with $1.72 in 1909. while the average value per short ton was $1.44, as compared with $1.84 In 1909. The increase In expense amounted to 38c per ton and thelncrease in value
460,000,000 Tons Was Total 1 5 40c j?r on The avera?e wages
Production in Country in 1909.
(National News Association WASHINGTON, D. C, June 2. Sta-
MASONIC CALENDAR o
Monday, June I. Richmond Commandery, No. 8. K. T, Stated Conclave. Tuesday. June 3. Richmond Lodge No. 196. F. A. M. Stated meeting. Wednesday, June 4 Webb lodge. No. 24. F. & A. M. Called meeting; work in Fellowcraft degree. Thursday. June 5. 1913 Wayne Council No. 10. It. & S. M stated
tiatics of coal mining in the United j r mines, employing S3. per cent of States for 1909 are given in a bulletin !the wage earners in the industry, and is3ued by Director Durand, of the Bu- j Produced 94.6 per cent of the entire reau of the Census, Department of t quantity of coal mined. While there Commerce. It was prepared by Spec-jwere a,so J05S individual operators, ial Agent D. A. Morrow under the : 664 firma and 31 others reporting.
supervision of Isaac A. Hourwich, ex-' near,' aU of lhe8 were relatively
j smau concerns.
The corporate form of organization predominated among the producers of coal in 1909. The 1,942 corporations
comprised 525 per cent of the total i assembly
number of concerns reporting, eperat-1 Friday, June 6. King Solomon's
ing tS.3 per cent of the total number j Chapter. No. 4. R, A. M. Called meet
ing. Work in Uoyal Arch degree. Re
fresh ments. Saturday. June 7. Loyal Chapter. No. 49. O. E. S-. stated meeting and floral work.
A farm of 160 acres has been deeded to the schools of Paola, Kans. Money from the farm is used to buy books, clothing, etc., for boys and girls who wish a high school education but can not afford it.
It is planned to transform the vacant lots in Lebanon, Pa., into flourishing gardens through the aid of school boys. One hundred and eightynine boys between the ages of 8 and 14 have declared their wish to be gardeners this year.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
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ONE OF OUR LIVELIEST CENTERS. Topeka Capital. The notion that nothing ever happens in Marquette, Mich., Is about to be discredited.
Roose. Wil. Taft Debs 205 415 77 93 176 179 95 75 222 184 93 113 337 371 161 99 662 298 142 117 309 201 110 75 381 203 92 61 126 105 64 58
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The Progressives carried five out of the eight wards by larcre majorities over their nearest od-
: ponents, the Democrats. Of the three wards carried by the Democrats one, the second, was by the slender majority of three over the Progressives. In the third place a fine class of men are contending amicably and honorably for the various positions on the Progressive city ticket. Far from past experience, it will not be a difficult task at next Monday's primary to select a ticket composed of representative men of the community; of men who, embued with the spirit of Progressivism, will clinch for their ticket a feeling on the part of the voters of the community that a Progressive city administration will be a real step forward. When Progressives realize that a duplication of last fall's voting results will assure the election of a Progressive mayor and city clerk, all four councilmen-at-large, five and possibly six of
the eight ward councilmen, it should stir them to participate enthusiastically in their primary next Monday.
WILLING TO TALK ABOUT IT, ANYWAY. Detroit Free Press. California and Congressman Sisson aren't afraid of war, anyhow.
BIG RESERVE SUPPLY. Baltimore Sun. Even if the White House mint bed should fail, there is the large and prosperous preserve of the Maryland Mint Julep Association.
Rutland, Vt., has had for ten years a summer school for pupils who fail of promotion in the regular classes.
Eighty per cent of the pupils have made up deficiencies and been promoted and nearly all those promoted have continued to make good during the year that followed.
pert special agent ror mining. i
The total production of coal in the I TZ'TVT T United States in 1909. in round num- i f bout ,"J-00. M 'f V
bers, was 460,000,000 tons. The total
tonnage of bituminous coal was 379,-
000,000 and the total tonnage of an-" ;
were produce! for sale or for use as fuel, and 50,000,000 tons (of bituminous coal) were converted into coke at the mines, producing 32,000,000 tops of coke. (A few other mines with a 6mall production of coal about 2,000,000 tons which did not furnish full
CRATER UKCS HUGE RIM."
All That Is Left of a Onoa Mighty V
uno In Oregon.
The highest mountain in Oregon U Mount Hood. 1125 feet above sea Kvel. Compared with Mount Whitney,
For corporations, the
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000
tons, for individual S.0O0 tons
I The average waue navmpnt nr Ion
for anthracite produced bv corpora-
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ZTLl r ""I0"8 7 th of other concerns, but i " ,th "Uth ? rn Jiouut Z oonTP , TTTJZntC?,t ?08'';the latter nure includes no valuation j Iialn,r; iu ""ns,W 000,000 tons, of which 408,000,000 tons f . . , . . each rising well above 14.0O) feet.
f , Hount Hood does not appear aa a aky
iviiuiu manual lairvn. Of the entire output of coal in 1909 nearly one-half was mined by opera
tors known to be closely affiliated j with railroads or industrial concerns, i
Producers connected with railroads
mined more than one-fourth of the
Klnrtarira u a tr ro lim Avnn .t
" : .i V ,:... total production, and more than
1 V 7 , , , ,, "6"'" ' , of anthracite
. ' iwicai value? Ul ail ' 1 WV1 liV. IB W 1 a 1 . jj . . uaries 01
iue muusiry was oi i ,i4j,uuu, ana me
three-fourths of the total in the case
era per. However, according to th geologists of the Tnited States geological surrey
i and other authorities. Oregon bad at i one time, probably before the dawn of
life upon the earth, a great volcano which towered as far above Mount Hood as does Mount Uainier, poesibly
i even several thousand feet higher.
The coal mining subsi- i Thi M.s the mt Mount Maxama.
iron and steel companies Uut thousands of years ago this moun-
total net expenses of coal mining and ! ftTZ t r , rl ' Uln dUttrea into tb bowU oC coke manufacture at the mines were ! t0nnage' and h8e f lndustrlal t the earth, and all that is left today la
Parents who keep their children at home to help in the housework and with the family washing have been warned by the Milwaukee authorities that these will not be considered valid excuses for keeping children out of school. The truant authorities have been ordered to be on the lookout for all such cases.
"There are no difficulties in the south that white men and black men, working together, can not Bettle," said Booker T. Washington recently'There is enough wisdom, patience, Christianity and common sense In the south to solve all the so-called race problems." In his trip through Virginia Dr. Washington urged the negroes everywhere "to grasp the fundamental things of life; to get some land; build a good home; start a bank account; become reliable and progressive in labor; remain in the south on the land; keep out of northern cities; economize time and money; draw the line hard and
fight against loafers, gamblers and drunkards, and get an education which fits for service."
MAKE IT PERMANENT. Washington Star. Classic dancers and exponents of the turkey trot have expressed mutual disapproval. An arrangement to suspend both until a decision can be reached might prove satisfactory.
TRUST THE GIRLS. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Deal justly with your domestic servants," advises Vice President Marshall, addressing sweet girl graduates in Washington. Huh! The domestic servants will see to that.
A SMILE OR TWO.
Now We Know. True courage is that noble quality of mind which makes us forget how afraid we are. Puck.
Not Quite. "Is he what you might call a police captain at large?" "No; he's only out on bail." Town Topics.
Even. Gunman "Ha! ha! I fooled ye all right. This here gun ain't loaded."
"Don't mention it, old top. That roll I gave you stage money. "Life.
SARDINIAN BAGPIPES.
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An Interesting Inquiry
111 If a number of United States senators respect
the oath they take when they are examined as to iheir business connections much beneficial information will be obtained by the public as to causes responsible for what opposition there now is against the Underwood tariff bill ; why the tariff was revised upward instead of downward four years ago, and why much legislation of genuine merit has in recent years been cast into the discard of the "greatest deliberative body in the world." This most searching investigation ever undertaken into the personal affairs of the "elder statesmen" was scheduled to begin today before the sub committee of the senate finance committee, and it is the outgrowth of President Wilson's protest against the tariff lobby. Questions prepared by the sub committee to be asked each senator are such as to carry the investigation far outside tariff matters. Before the examination of a senator he will be placed under oath and it is reasonable to believe that
some of the members of the Republican-Demo
cratic "old guard" would much prefer an exper
ience with the Spanish inquisition than the
ordeal in store for them.
. Picture to yourself, for instance, the mental
torture of Senator Smoot of Utah when he at
tempts a satisfactory explanation of his activity
t against placing sugar on, tho free list. Senatorstandard.
Consoling. Adam heard them blame the cost of living on the middleman.
"The only thing they don't blame on the first man," he
thankfully observed. New York Sun.
Getting His Bearings. Woodchopper "I seen a lot o'
bear tracks 'bout a mile north o' here big ones, too!"
Hunter "Good! Which way is south?" Chicago Daily
News.
Pertinent Question. Mistress "Jane, we are going to
have company for dinner, and I want to speak to you about the cooking.
Maid "Yessum; are they your relatives or your hus
band's?" New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Weakening. "Yes," said the old man, "I find my
strength is failing somewhat. I used to walk around the block every morning, but lately I feel so tired when I get half way round I have to turn and come back." Woman's
Home Companion.
In Their Steps. "Look here, now, Harold," said a father to his little son, who was naughty, ' if you don't say your prayers you won't go to Heaven." "I don't want to go to Heaven," sobbed the boy; I want to go with you and mother." New Orleans Times-Demo-crtit.
Cousins to Solomon. The story is told of a well-known traveler who on one journey was much annoyed by a pedantic bore who forced himself upon him and made a great parade of his learning. The, traveler bore it as long as he could, and at length, looking at him gravely, said: "My friend, you and I know all that is to be known." "How is that?" said the man, pleased with what he thought a complimentary association. "Why," said the traveler, "you know everything except
mai you are a iooi, wa i know that." London Evening
8o Exhausting That Nearly All Wh Played Them Died Young. Bagpipes are the Bulgarian national
instrument Until lately the servants who waited on the Turkish grand grand vizier In Constantinople were mutes, though not, as In former times, persons specially mutilated, but children born deaf and dumb. They used a language of signs, with a special gesture to describe the representative of each nation. To Indicate the Bulgarian agent they imitated a man playing on the bagpipes. It was not the Bulgarians who invented the pipes, however. They are among the oldest of musical Instruments. An ancient gem showB Apollo with them, and two instrument In the book of Daniel are believed to have been bagpipes. The bagpipes range not only in time from Apollo and the Bible to the pres ent day, but geographically from China to Spain and Great Britain. England is said to have given them to Scotland. One country, however, finally lost a peculiarly severe form of the Instrument This . was the Sardinian "lannedda," which had three pipes, all placed in the piper's mouth, and was played by rubbing strips of wax up and down over the holes. The work -was so exhausting that nearly all the pipers died young, In 1845 George Burdett came across one who had survived to the age of eighty. But he was the last of the lannedda players, and when he died the instrument was played no more. Chicago News.
$530,359,000, of which about four-fifths was for wages and salaries. The number of wage earners employed at the mines with complete reports was 743,000. Anthracite coal is produced almost exclusively in a comparatively small area In eastern Pennsylvania. The most important bituminous field is the Appalachian, extending from western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio southward as far as Alabama; the next most important is that embracing a large part of Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and part of western Kentucky. The large areas in North Dakota and the Rock Mountain states are mainly lignite and Eubbituminous coal.
Pennsylvania's Preeminence. The marked pre-eminence of Penn
sylvania among the coal mining states
is shown. In 1909 Pennsylvania pro
duced nearly half the total output of the United States. The anthracite industry was practically confined to this
state, and its bituminous tonnage was greater than that of any other three
states combined. Next in order were West Virginia, Illinois and Ohio. Together these four states mined 75.9 per cent of the total coal production of the Uuited States. As showing the great development of the coal mining industry from 1889 to 1909, the total output was 141,000,-
000 tons in 1899 and 460,000,000 tons In 1909, an increase of 319.000,000 tons, or 225 per cent. By far the greater part of this increase was in the bituminous production, which rose from 95,629,000 tons to 378,975,000 tons, an increase of 296.3 per cent. In Pennsylvania the increase in the bituminous output was 101,461,000 tons, in West Virginia 45,591 tons, in Illinois 38,792,000 tons, and in Ohio 17,866,000 tons, or 280 per cent, 732 per cent, 320 per cent, tnd 179 per cent, respectively. The average value per ton has increased in every region except the Rocky Mountain, Northern Great
Plains, and Pacific Coast. For the en
tire country the increase for bituminous coal was from 99c in 1889 to $1.07 in 1909; in the Appalachian field,
the most Important, the average value of bituminous coal was 85c per ton
In 1889 and 95c in 1909, and that of anthracite, $1.44 and $1.84 respectively. In general, the increases in average values can be ascribed to higher wages and greater cost of mine supplies. Capital Invested. The capital invested In coal mines and the output and value if coal produced were more than three times as great in 1909 as in 1899, and the average of land controlled was more than
four times as great. By far the greater part of this development took place in bituminous mining. In general, from 1899 to 1909 both the average expense of production and the average value of coal increased.
concerns nearly as much.
WANTED Competent House Man. 115 N. 10th. 31 "
AGRICULTURAL FAIRS.
The Innovation by the Columbian So oiety In 1809. According to a bulletin of the department of agriculture, the first full fledged agricultural fair, primarily for com
petitive exhibits Instead of for marketing, was held at the Columbian Agricultural society, which wa3 organized in 1S09 by a number of gentlemen interested In agriculture residing in Maryland. Virginia and the District of Columbia. Its first exhibition was held in Georgetown, May 10, 1809, and the National Intelligencer of that day report ed that It was "attended by a numerous assemblage of members of the society, among whom we noticed the president and his lady, the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of war, the comptroller, register, etc, and many other ladles and gentlemen of respectability." This fair was mainly devoted to domestic animals and manufacturers. Semiannual fairs were held until the spring of 1812, when the war with
, England and the expiration of the
time for which, the society was organized caused its discontinuance.
The oldest existing agricultural society that holds fairs is the Berkshire Agricultural society, Pittsfield, Mass., which held its first fair In the autumn of 1810 or only one and one-half years after the first fair of the Colombian
Agricultural society.
RAIN FELL ON FOUR DAYS DURING WEEK
Risky.
Doctor, my wife says she Is getting
deaf."
"Tell her It's because she Is getting
old."
"Do you believe she is deaf enough
for that to be safe?" Houston Post
the huge rim around Crater lake.
Crater lake is the csldera of this extinct and collapsed volcano and Is nesrly six miles In diameter. The inside walls of the rim of the ancient mountain are in places nearly 4,000 feet high and - almost perpendicular. The lake itself is in places 2.000 feet deep, and parts of the wall rise above its waters another 2,000 feet A restoration of the mountain in fancy, using as a basis the angles of the lower slopes, which still remain, shows that
the apex could not have been far from 15,000 feet in height, so that Mount Maxama was one of the most lofty and majestic peaks in the United States.
THE RED SQUIRREL He Is a True American, With All the National Traits. If the red squirrels do not have as. actual game of tag they bare something so near it that I cannot tell the difference, writes John Burroughs la Harper's Magazine. Just bow X see one In hot pursuit of another on the stone wall. Both are apparently going at t&e top of their speed. They make a red streak over the dark gray stones. When the pursuer seems to overtake the pursued and becomes it" the race is reversed, snd away they go to the back track with the same fleetMos of the hunter and the hunted until things are reversed again. I have seen them engaged in the same game la tree tops, each one having bis ta nines by turn. The gray sqnirrel comes a4 awes, but the red squirrel wo hare always with us. He will live where the gray will starve. Ho Is a true American. He has nearly all the national trmlts servoes energy, quickness, resourcefulness, perlnees, not to say tmpadonco and conceit Ho is not altogether lovely or blameless. He makes war oa the chipmunk. He Is a robber of birds nests and is destructive of the orchard fruits. Nearly every man's hand la
against him. yet he thrives, and may bo continue to da sot
MASS MEETING OF THE P ROGRESSIVES WILL BE HELD AT THE PYTHIAN TEMPLE, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, AT 8 O'CLOCK A. BAVIS WILL PRESENT HIS VIEWS ON THE MUNICIPAL SITUATION. EVERYBODY INVITED.
Rain fell on four days during last week, the total rainfall for the week, according to the records of the meteorological observer, being 1.03 Inches. Temperature for the week: Max. Min. Sunday 69 47 Monday 65 54 Tuesday 64 50 Wednesday 79 44 Thursday 79 53 Friday 85 61 Saturday 82 57
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