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1It aims co publish all the news possible
2It does so impartially^ wasting no words
8Its correspondents are able and energetic-
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circumstances would commit himself by word of
mouth, appeared as Chief Talks-Too-Much. Sen
ator Aldrich of Rhode Island, who, for reasons
which may be perfectly apparent to everybody
that knows anything about him, was called in the
newspaper man's Rockyboy relief measure Chief
Smooth-Medicine.
A copy of the skit fell under Senator Bever
Idge's eye. It amused him immensely. He hung
it on the wall of his room and showed It to call
ers. Finally one day it occurred to him that
Rockyboy and his band had done him a servicfc
of amusement and he concluded that turn about
was only fair play, and so he thought he would
look into Rockyboy's case and find out how" it
was that for years congress had refused to go to
the aid of some of its wards who were at the
point of starvation at least six months of the
year. The senator apparently thought that it
wouldn't hurt the members of the Rockyboy band
to have a few square meals, even though they
were not the most deserving reds in the land.
The senator did look into the case, and found
that Rockyboy and his wandering Montana band
were worthy of consideration. He made Rocky
boy's cause his own from that hour, and it was
not long before a bill "For the relief of the wan
dering American-born Indians of Rockyboy's
band in Montana," was passed by the senate of
the United States
A few years ago Robert Baker of Brooklyn
represented the Sixth New York district in con
gress. Mr. Baker's career was somewhat stormy.
He was known as a Socialist, but he was elected
on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Baker's fellow
members said of him that he was "erratic, effer
vescent, somewhat noisy, but always sincere."
There were scores of men who sat in the
lower house of congress during Mr. Baker's term
who hoped, perhaps for sheer curiosity's sake,
that he would be sent to congress again in order
that he might finish a speech which he once be
gan but was not allowed to bring to an end.
The blocking of the ending of the Brooklyn
member's address fell in this wise: Mr. Baker
had spoken on the single tax system and on the
iniquities ot all other kinds of taxation. He had
been given 20 minutes to unburden himself on
bill "To amend the law relating to taxation ln
the District of Columbia." When the 20 minutes\
were up the chairman's gavel hit the desk withT^
a thump that shivered one of Baker's best sen-'
tences.
The Brooklynite begged for ten minutes more,?
but the member who was in charge of the de-*!
bate on behalf of the Democratic minority cru
elly cut him off, but, relenting, allowed him one
minute in which to continue. This gratuity
made Baker look as if he felt insulted, but for
the good of his cause he grasped thefleetingmo
ment and did what he could with it.
Jfc tol* Mr. Babcock. chairman of the District
LEGISLATIV E
i WHEEL S &
WHIMSICAL bit of humor for which
a Washington correspondent once
was responsible had the result of
setting some"of the senators talking
and had the further result of secur
ing legislative action in the interest
of humanity.
It was Senator Beveridge of Indi
ana who took the initiative in the
matter of the passing of a bill whicb
brought joy to Chief Rockyboy and
liis band of Shoshone Indians. Rockyboy and his
reds needed the nation's help badly, and between
the humorously inclined newspaper correspondent,
the Hoosier senator and half a dozen of his col
leagues it came to them at a time when years of
disappointment had rendered them pretty nearly
bopeless.
If Rockyboy hadn't been so poverty stricken he
doubtless would have sent the leggings, the bead
ed moccasin, the antelope shirt and the eagle feather
war bonnet of chieftainship to newspaper man and
senator as a mark of thankfulness for services ren
dered.
Rockyboy and his following of warriors and
women and children had been wandering through
Montana for years and never had been able to get
a home. For some reason which history declareth
not, Rockyboy and his people were spurned alike by
reds and whites When the hunting and fishing
were poor Rockyboy's bands came to the edge of
starvation.
Bill after bill had been introduced into congress
to give relief to these roving reds, but no bill ever
am within sight of the passing stage. Finally the
name, Rockyboy, struck a newspaper man's fancy.
Possibly he had had the feeling himself. In an idle
moment he drew up a mock legislative measure and
in it Senator Beveridge figured as Chief Rockyboy,
while a dozen or so other senators appeared under
various names as members of Rockyboy's band of
warriors. The names either fitted admirably or
misfitted just as admirably
Senator Allison of Iowa, who In no conceivable
5TAHT5
Of Columbia committee, that
when he proposed to tax a
man for the privilege of do
ing business he made a
criminal of every man who
thought he had aright to
work at his trade without
being taxed for the work
ing, and who for conscience sake kept at his
work and refused to pay the government levy.
This view that Baker took of the inherent
right of a man to work at peddling or anything
else without paying for the privilege was not
new. It had been advanced occasionally in con
gress, and frequently elsewhere, by men of a cer
tain bent of mind. Mr. Baker, however, took the
last 30 seconds of the minute allotted to him to
spring something novel and it was for the finish
ing of that half-minute speech that certain of the
congressmen whose curiosity was piqued are
anxious.
The Brooklyn member told his fellow mem
bers pointblank and without any explanatory
reasons that they were guilty of causing the
deaths of 450 out of every 1,000 babies that were
born. Naturally, after being arraigned for whole
sale murder in this way, the members were anx
ious to know along what lines their guilt lay.
Baker, however, paused after he had accused his
fellows of being modern Herods in the matter of
the slaughter of the innocents, and before he
had a chance to show a willingness to let the
members know whether they were sending in
fants to the grave by fire, steel or the rope, his
time was up and he was shut off by the chairman
of the committee of the whole, and as a result
a great murder mystery still hangs over the
house of representatives.
When-the Grand Duke Sergius was killed Mr.
Baker made a speech in the house which indi
rectly attempted to justify the throwing of the
bomb the explosion of which brought death to the
duke. There is a good deal of conservatism in
the south. The southern members didn't like Mr.
Baker's remarks on the assassination of Sergius.
Representative John W. Maddox of Georgia
when given a chance to think even momentarily,
is something of a purist in the matter of lan
guage. He became so angry "at Baker's remarks,
however, that he forgot there was such a thing
as grammar on the face of the earth. Before
Mr. Baker was half-way down into his seat, Mad
dox was on his feet shouting in trumpet tones:
"The Democratic party don't stand for this
assassination business, now nor never," a ixoblo
If enigmatic utterance which brought forth rap
turous applause alike from Democrats and Re
publicans.
To Robert Baker is due a large part of the
credit for the legislation which prevents mem
bers of congress from accepting passes from
railroad companies. Baker was known in con
gress as Anti-pass Baker, and while the name
was given him as a joke he carried it proudly and
unquestionably he made campaign material ont
of it He attacked the pass accepting propensI*
ties of his fellows, constantly asking the pointed*
question how they could be consistent advocates
of the people's rights as against the railroads
while holding out their hands to the railroads^!
for favors.
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ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATUEDAT. JUNE 10, 1911.
The Brooklyn man received a
pass from a railroad company. He
sent it back by the next mail and
the letter he sent with it was of the
kind called vitriolic. If Baker
didn't stir the conscience of congress in the mat
ter of taking railroad passes he did stir the feel
ings of the public. The pass matter as a result
of Representative Baker's agitation was dis
cussed in the public press moue than it ever had
been discussed before, and the way was paved
for the anti-pass provision in the railroad rate
bill.
Robert Baker was not re-elected. He was giv
en a position, however, which paid him $4,500 a
year. He deliberately resigned from this well
paying position because he believed that while
holding it he could not consistently preach cer
tain of his beliefs concerning the methods of
government.
Henry M. Goldfogle, representative in con
gress from New York city, in a speech in the
house gave those of his colleagues whose knowl
edge of history does not extend to details an
interesting chapter concerning a Jewish patriot
of the revolutionary period who gave up his
money to help the government out of financial
straits. Mr. Goldfogle, like the generous one of
a past generation, is a Jew, and he took a proper
pride in the deed of the man of his faith.
In some respects this story of the giving of
money to the government by Hyman Salomon,
the Jewish citizen, is one of the 'most remark
able which ever has been called to,the attention
of congress. The country does not "know much
about it. It ought to know all about it and it
ought to appreciate not only the generosity of the
patriot but the action of the patriot's descend
ants who gave congress one of the biggest sur
prises it has ever received.
Hyman Salomon, like Robert Morris, helped
the government out liberally when it was in finan
cial straits and when there seemed little likeli
hood that any of his money would be returned.
Robert Morris has a place In every school his
tory, and the boy who doesn't know about the
friend of liberty who impoverished himself for
the government stands below the foot of his his
tory class.
Neither the school books nor the encyclope
dias seem to have given much attention to Hy
man Salomon, who parted with his shekels for
the benefit of Uncle Sam. In his speech in con
gress Mr. Goldfogle did something for^he mem
ory of the financier and even more for the fame
of the financier's descendants, ^The house
learned that in the years that had gone four dif
ferent congresses expressed, a willingness to pay
to the heirs of Mr. Salomon the money which
he advanced to the government without secur
ity. The part of the New York representative's
statement that fairly astounded his colleagues
was his declaration that every time that congress
had expressed its desire to give Hyman Salo
mon's heirs the money their ancestor had ad
vanced they refused to take one cent of the cash,
saying that if their forerunner's loan was in
spired by patriotism they desired to show that
his descendants held his patriotism as a heri-
It is said that the records of congress show
practically no cases which may nut as parallel to
this refusal to take money to the-ownership of
which there was every legal and moral^ right
MAGES 0
Horticultural Freak of More
Than Usual Oddity.
Abnormally Developed Cabbage Plant
That Has Borne Over a Bushel
of Small Heads and Is Still
Growing.
Santa Monica, Cal.Apparently the
time has passed when country folk
were justified in sneering at the ig
norance of their city relatives for
asking to be shown the cabbage tree,
or to be permitted to help husk the
pumpkins. It is true that no well
authenticated case has yet come to no
tice of pumpkins that needed husking,
but the cabbage tree is no longer a
myth born of ignorance, and persons
who have stood beneath its branches
are agreed that anything is likely to
happen.
So far as known, the original and
only "cabbage tree" is growing in the
garden of John A. Pool, 1302 Eleventh
street, this city. It is nearly two
years old, and is about nine feet and
a half high, with a "trunk" 11 inches
in diameter at a height of a foot and a
half above the ground It has borne
more than a bushel of small cabbage
heads, and many more are yet de
veloping, so that its days of usefulness
are not yet over. Near the top, it
branches in real tree-like fashion but
Mr. Pool feels that if cabbage heads
were permitted to develop on these
slender limbs they would certainly
break down the tree. So he cuts out
the heads that begin to form near the
top, but permits those that develop
along the trunk to grow to a size
adapting them to table use.
Nearly two years ago Mr Pool
bought a number of cabbage plants
Pool and His Cabbage Tree.
from a country woman, and planted
them in two rows running the length
of his garden All of the plants but
this one developed normally but this
particular plant early displayed a ten
dency to shoot up in the air, instead
of producing around and symmetrical
head. After growing several feet high,
It began to produce numerous small
heads along the stalk, but with no
abatement of Its ambition to keep on
going higher in the world. As it grew
higher and higher, it began to get
top-heavy, and a stout stake was
driven in the ground, to which the
plant Is tied to prevent it from being
blown down.
Inasmuch as the cabbage tree has
forsaken the_ annual habit proper to
normal and well behaved cabbage
plants, and has shown by two years
of growth, summer and winter, that
it is a perennial, there does not appear
to be any good reason why it may
not continue to grow indefinitely and
"Pool's Cabbage Tree," at Santa Mon
ica, may in time become famous as
one of California's tourist attractions.
At least it is a horticultural freak of
more than usual oddfty.
TO MARK SITE OF OLD FORT
Marble Statue Is to Bear Name of
Iowa's First White Woman
Settler.
Estherville, Iowa.-A marble statue
will be erected in the near future to
mark th*e site of old Port Defiance,
which stood where the city of Esther
ville is now located. The local lodge
of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution has the work of arranging for
the shaft in charge.
The monument will be 30 feet high
and will be built entirely of, marble.
A large marble cannon ball, the top
of. which -will be decorated 'with a
carved American eagle, wil grace the
top of the shaft.T"
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On a name plate at the bottom of
the shaft will be engraved the name
of Mrs. Esther Ridley, Mrs. Ridley
was the.first white woman to settle
in Iowa, and the town of Estherville
was named after her. ***%&* *%s
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Britons Get Big Contracts^
London.Contracts amounting tc
ever $2,000,000 have been signed in
London for the construction and equip
ment of the waterworks a Buenos
4yres with new pumping machinery.
O1
YOUTH LIVES IN THE PAST
Wisconsin Boy Reared by a Talented
Recluse Is a Most Accom
plished Latinist.
Hayton, Wis.Gustave Bauman of
this place is so complete a Latinist
that, could^he be transported to an
cient Rome, its language would be en
tirely familiar to him. Aside from his
unique knowledge Latin he' is alto
gether untaught. He has never attend
ed school a day, can speak English
not at all and German only in the col
loquial form common here. He is 18
years old.
When he was three years old he
was adopted by Henry Bauman, a tal-
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Gustavo Bauman.
ented recluse who has lived here in
a hovel that was once a stable, for
many years. Disgusted, he said, with
everything pertaining to modern life,
Bauman determined to rear his foster
son in the atmosphere of a by-gone
age. The classic tongue of Rome was
the only language taught to the boy
by his eccentric parent, who was well
able to follow his part, he having been
a noted Latin scholar in Europe
When the lad was ten years old he
possessed a knowledge of Latin that
the school taught youth of twice his
age could not hope ever to equal. Now,
he speaks the ancient tongue so well
and reads and writes it with such
fluency that he may well be said to
have, .revised & dead language.
The elder Bauman's desire to bring
up the boy in an atmosphere of aloof
ness from all that is modern has been
well carried out. The youth has never
ridden on a train, used a telephone or
in any way mingled in the life of the
village, which, narrow as it is, repre
sents to him the great outside world,
full of evils and temptations.
BIBLE THAT BROUGHT $50,000
Rare Book Which Henry E. Hunting
ton Bought From the Robert
Hoe Collection.
New York.This Gutenberg Bible,
from the Robert Hoe collection, was
sold in New York City at auction to
Henry E. Huntington, nephew of the
late Collis P. Huntington, for $50,000.
The Gutenberg Bible was printed
some time between 1450 and 1455. The
value of the copies of the Gutenberg
Bible lies not alone in their beauty,
groat as it is as an example of the
bookmaker's art, nor in their rarity,
for there are thirty-four copies known
The Gutenberg Bible.
to be in existence. The Gutenberg
Bible is the flrsj book known to have
been printed from movable types. The
catalogue of the Hoe auction says of
the copy recently sold:
"Printed on vellum of the finest
quality, it is in remarkably clean -and
fresh condition, the bold gothic char
acters standing put with undiminished
grandeur. Whereas all copies vary
slightly, the above is one of the few
known to exist with "headings at the
commencement of the Epistle of St.
Jerome, and the First Book of Genesis
printed in red, it being presumed that
on account of the difficulty encoun
tered in printing in a second color this
undertaking was discontinued. In the
British museum copy,, these spaces
were left blank. The other chapter
headings throughout are written in
red In* a contemporary gothic hand,
thus preserving the symmetry of the
page, while the beautiful illuminated
initials and decorations, taken in con
junction with the antique^and massive
appearance of the binding, contribute
to make this a truly magnificent ex
ample, if not one of the finest in exis
tence. The two leaves, Fo. 269 and
640, which are in facsimile, consti
tute the only defects.''
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Gotham Office Building Tallest
in the World.
Structure Rises One-Seventh of a Mile
From the GroundExceeded in ft
Height Only by the
Eiffel Tower.
New York.Men will be at work
daily in a structure of stone and steel
one-seventh of a mile from the ground
and in all of the 55 stories of the new
Woolworth building before the end of
next year, the time appointed tor
completion of the tallest business
structure in the world. Laid out flat
the giant building would be longer
than three city blocks, and Salvator's
record speed for a mile would make 14
seconds the time necessary for the
champion to cover the distance. Only
the Eiffel tower, in Paris, a steel skel
eton, will exceed in height this new
est New York pinnacle.
Higher and higher do our skyscrap
ers soar, outtopping everything but
the mephitic clouds of smoke from
their own boilers deeper and deeper
do they thrust down through the soil
until their massive steel rootsfindan
chorage in the rock below. The true
Titans of the modern world are the
builders, heaving their tons of steel
and stone and brick aloft in defiance
of the law of gravitation and the winds
of heaven and daring even the earth
quake to confound their work in ruin.
Besides these modern giants of struc
tural efficiency the builders of the
early world were but pygmies playing
with blocks in the nursery. How
high will the skyscraper of the fu
ture mount? Has the physical limit
been reached, or will the man-made
Sierras of tomorrow lift their giant
Woolworth Building.
towers out of the lofty masses of the
present like mountains springing from
foothills?
Chicago has its skyscrapers, but it
has not yet surrendered to the passion
for "topless towers" which grips all
New York. The Singer building, with
its tower lifting 612 feet above the
pavement, had scarcely ceased to be
the wonder of Gotham before the Met
ropolitan tower looked down upon it,
and now the Woolworth bulldlng.Is to
be piled higher yetnobody knows
quite how high. What is to be the de
terminating factor of the future in re
gard to height?
BURN MANSION FOR A SHOW
romoters Get Realistic Views of Fire,
Rescue and Bucket Brigade At
tempting to Quench Flames.
New Rochelle, N. Y.The historic
SIcard mansion, built 250 years ago
by a Huguenot family, and the scene
of many festive meetings of aristocrat
ic society in colonial days, is amass
of blackened ruins todays It was sac
rificed to furnish a spectacle for a
motion picture film. The site of the
house was recently purchased for a
new Episcopal church, and the old
mansion, offered at auction, was bid*
in by a moving picture company.
With the permission of the city au
thorities the company set fir,e to the
house in order to obtain a series of
realistic pictures of the rescue of a
child, a village bucket brigade in ac
tion, and a mourning family viewing
the ruins.
1,800 Foreign Girls Lost.
Indianapolis, Ind."Eighteen hui*
dred immigrant girls -were lost track,-'
of after having been received at Ellis
island, and put aboard trains for Chi
cago and other points in the west, in
the last year and a half," Miss Grace
Abbott of Hull House, Chicago, said
in discussing in the biennial conven
tion of the Young Women's Christian
association of America, the problem
of caring for immigrant girls. Miss
Abbott advocated a federal immigra
tion bureau in Chicago, "as a check 11
on the work of the white slavers." I^M
Immigrant girls deserted 4he quaint Jsf
shawls and aprons of their native *&
lands for the hobble skirt all toe
quickly, Miss Abbott said.
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