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Li'**'*'i 1 ^:o':u %€. ?8- W* ip »t*V fV 3r %U., n«f9 jfe fbt Unit aft Vf 'j'Sr: ••tt ,r 1 v^j- v"- ^C. 'K r- Itfci w* fa}?** '»3 '-(V •. 2 **4 *i .• #r §S A\ filial S ItsrW- \J jr-Tv-" 4 1 hi'' Ml4: $ .«• cW £y OT all will recognize un der the name Hatt! their old friends the Hlttltes, and when the identity Is acknowledged It must be with discrimination. The names are one and the same, and the peo ple, which the Hebrews called '"Children of Heth," or Hittites, was a southern outlier of a great group spread over eastern Asia Minor and north Syria, which seems to have called itself Hatti, and to have been well known to the Assyrians under that name, and to tie Egyptians un der^ the slightly variant form, Khita. But'whether rail members of this group were connected by blood or only by Yet it had forgotten it for a Hit tite or Hattl empire did exist once, with its center, not In Syria, but in far Cappadocia, towards the Black sea. We know the fact now on fcfie best of evidence, and those doubtin'gs of tfie learned are heard no more at all.' Our certainty has resulted from discoveries made at the site long known and guessed about, which is called by the uncouth-sounding Turk ish name, Boghaz-Keui—i. e., defile village. Here massive walls and gates of an early age, the. almost burled skeleton of a mighty building, which might have been palace or temple, and, most of all, the sculptured sides of a rock-shrine hard by, had puzzled explorers and scholars for seventy years." At last, in 1906, the excava tor's spade was put in earnest into the soil after a certain archaeological scent had been followed up. The hoped-for quarry was cuneiform tab His Relative*. "You are by nearest relative." Said Willie to his ma "But when I need some mopey My closcst one is pa." Settle It for Yourself. The question of the ®ay seems to've Resolved Itself to which Is The most entrancing thine to wear. A skirt or pal* of britches. A Labor Saver. "I saw you jump when my chauffeur sounded our new automobile shriek," said Mr. Chugglns. "Yes," replied the pedestrian. "It's a horrible noise but it expressed my feelings exactly.". Two Chairs Too Many. Mistress—I see that you have only one chair in the kitchen, Maggie I must get you another. Maid—That's all -right, ma'am I don't have anybody but gentleman callers. The Last Luxury. Ten-year-old Arthur had been telling Impressively of the number of serv ants employed In his home. He con tinued: "And our house is fixed so that if you want a drink, or a window raised, or to go upstairs, or anything all'you have to do is to pull a chain!" "But what do you want with so :many servants i: that sort of a house?" asked one of his bearers. "Oh," replied Arthur, "we have tfffc servants to pull the chains."—J udg*. I' v1- *'j D.G. HOGARTH 4. the'common adoption of a certain cul ture," we do not yet know. It is very late in Haiti 'history, and long after Its great period, that Hlttltes appear in the Bible story, with one exception and when found in Palestine they seem to be aliens in the land, or strayed remnants of a vanishing stock. Th«| presence of "Children of Heth" at Hebron in Abraham's time may have been due to such a survival, and so, too, may that of the hapless Uriah in David's realm. The promise made to Joshua and the Israelites, of "all the land of the Hittites" (even if a gloss of late date), and the Hittite mother whom Ezekiel imputes to the city of Jerusalem, seem to reflect a current tradition of past Hittite dom ination in South Syria but when the army, broke up before Samaria be cause a word went forth that the "Kings of the Hittites" were coming, It feared a power lying far to the north, which had once been greater, though it knew it not. The world of scholars has disputed about the Hittites ever since the mid dle of the last century, when the de cipherment of hieroglyphic and cune iform records revealed the fact that a people of their name .had filled a place In west Asian history far more impor tant than the Israelites. were aware. It has disputed especially their re sponsibility for the /monuments, in quaint individual style of art, and in scribed in some cases with undecl phered pictographs, which have been discovered during the last forty years all over North Syria and great part of Asia Minor and it has questioned most acrimoniously the ascription of the Asia Minor monuments .to them, which Sayce first proposed after com paring with the_ Syrian stones from Hamath the magnificent rock-relief at Ivrlz, the rock figures near Smyrna, which Herodotus thought to be repre sentations of conquering "Sesostris," and the far more numerous-sculptures to North Cappadocia,. at the ruined cities known as Boghaz-Keui and Eyuk. Close resemblance was admit ted, but the natural corollary, that,.at some time, there had been a Hittite "Empire" (In the loose oriental sense) was scouted. How should history have forgotten such a fact? a«#\ jz erct/ifrtm* jr ju(MMA-Km lets, broken pieces of which had been coming out of Cappadocia for several years, and by a chain of indications, some of them obtained on the spot by Chantre in 1890, had been traced to Boghaz-Keui. The well-known1 orien talist, Hugo Winckler, began the sys tematic search in 1906, and lighted at once on tablets. In 1907 he got more, most of them from the ruins of the great building referred to above, which proved to have been a palace —or rather, two palaces of different dates, one being built partly over the other. In a word, he found remains of royal archives, written in cunei form script, but partly in the Baby lonian language, partly in a tongue unknown. The first kind was readily deciphered the other is yielding its secrets only to slow and painful labor. But already we have learned enough to convince the most hardened scep tic that history had forgotten a great deal. This is, however, to do his tory some Injustice. She had not entirely forgotten the kings of Bog haz-Keul, but we could not under stand her records: Egyptian inscrip tions of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties mention four kings of the Khita under circumstances which im ply that theirs was no mean power but the texts give no indication that those, kings ruled elsewhere than in Syria, where the Pharaohs and their officers came Into contact with them. All these four names have now been fcsnd in the Boghaz-Keui archives, to gether with other names of the same dynasty, and we see that it was in Cappadocia that these kings were at home. From the tablets already read, the growth of this empire towards the south and east can be followed, and from the distribution of monuments of Hittite class Its growth westward as far as the Aegean sea may be reason ably be Inferred. The first expansion of the Hatti folk beyond the bounds of. Cappadocia seems to have been as early .as about 1800 B. C., when they raided down to Babylon and up set what Is called Its first dynasty but their careers of organized con quest was not to begin for nearly three centuries, till King Subbllulu, whom the Egyptians called Sapararu, came to the throne. When he died, In the time of Amenophis IV. of Egypt, he was over-lord of West Asia, from the Black sea to Oronotes afid- from the Tigris to the Aegean. From cor respondence with the kings of Egypt, of the Mesopotamian Mitanni, and ot Babylon, w'hlch has now come to light, the stages of his conquest can be traced—raids on the Mitanni ter ritory raids into northern Syria war with the Mitanni full establishment of Hatti dominiation over north Syria and north Mesopotamia recognition of the Hatti king as suzerain by the Amurri or nomads of the Syrian and Mesopotamian wastes. Kings of Egypt and Babylon acknowledged him as their equal, but as yet there was no war with the elder empires. That did not come till the time of Mutallu and Rameses II. The Hatti king had ad vanced south into the Aramaen coun try, on the upper Orontes, and- estah- Manoeuvres of the Humorists Explained. Two ladies, previously unacquaint ed, were conversing at a reception. "I cannot think what has upset that tall blonde man over there. He was so attentive a little while ago, but he won't look at me now." "Perhaps," said the other, "he saw me come In. He's my husband."— Penny Pictorial. On the Safe Side. Ingenious Woman. "Now that Snooper has bought a safety razor, I don't suppose his wife can use it to sharpen pencils." "No but she has put a handle on one of the blades and made a fine meat chopper." Heard Over the Telephone. "I'm detained at the office, dear," "Let the telephone receiver bang down a while, please." "What for?" "The orchestra Is just now playing my favorite selection." Not Exactly Pleased. "Did her father seem pleased when you asked for his daughter?" "No, I "can't say that he did. From the way he spoke I think he'd have liked it better if I had asked for hi* wife." .1 "Sir" He—Pardon me, but I'm not John, only just plain "Mr." She—Oh, well, you know, in these days, when there are so many new titles, I always give people the benefit of the doubt!—London Opinion'. JS»wf" 'vF^mrrr cspimL-jL Z0C2TJm%BRSSMT30Gim-KEDl listed himself at Kadesh, near the modern Horns. There the young Barneses II. attacked him, and fought the battle immortalized by the en graving of a court poet's encomiastic narrative on a wall at Karnak. Ram eses seems to have prevailed so far that- he stopped any further advance of the Hattl' towards,his own borders but when he made a treaty -, of peace and dalliance with Mutallu's successor. Hattusll II. (whom he -called Khit asar), its terms imply recognition of the other party's power as equal to his own. Part of Hattusil's corre spondence has come to light at Bog haz-Keui. It Includes a precis of the provisions of this very treaty, and documents which show that the Hatti king was still overlord in Mesopo tamia and able to deal on a footing of secure independence with Babylon. These records bring the history to about 1250 B. C. We know something of two more kings of Boghaz-Keui, making eight in all. The last reigned on the eve of that great re vival on the Tigris, which would ul timately bring Assyria down to the Mediterranean, and in his time the Hattl empire was evidently decaying for there were kings in Syria, where the monarch om Boghaz-Keui had once ruled alone. To this Syrian part of the empire we know what happened at the last. It was broken up by the power of Nineveh in the eighth century B. C. But how the empire dwindled and came to an end Inv Asia Minor we can only guess. Assyrian pressure was felt even there, for at least one Ninevlte king raided far across Taurus. From the oppo site side, the north, a wild people, the Muski, swept through the peninsula and finally settled down in .phrygla, probably freeing It, with all to west ward, from the Cappadocian rule, and certainly establishing a monarchy whose holders, under the names Gor dlas and Midas, loom large In eariy Greek legend. The Greeks,' finding the coasts undefended which the Cre tans of Minos had not been able to conquer, came over and colonized them. Lydla rose last on the ruins of Phygia, and by this time the power of Bobhaz-Keui -was only a name. To judge from the remains- of the city so far uncovered, it had enjoyed a sec ond spring at some period, perhaps about 1000 B. C. but this must have been short. Greek literature makes only one doubtful allusion to it in the sixth century, and none at all to Its former greatness. Yet, all forgotten as it was by the people In whose hands in chief the transmission of early history was to lie, the Hatti em pire had not existed In vain even for the development of that same people. Occupying for several centuries the most vital part of West Asia, through which all the land routes between east ai.d west must pass, the Hattl had been the main agents through whom the civilizing influences of the east had passed. Their art awakenedi art in Phrygia and Lydla, and left Its mark on the first Greek handiwork in Ionia. From their pictographic sys tem of writing were derived many al phabetic characters still used in Hel lenised parts of South and West Asia Minor, in classical times. Their re ligion was the type religion of Asia Minor, and ultimately responsible for those so-called "Anatolian" features which spread to Greece and through Greece to Rome and the west. Un compromprehended traditions and memories of their society inspired several Greek stories, notably that of the Amazons, one of whom—perhaps the divine queen of them all—Is carved on a gate post at Boghaz-Keui itself. As in these latter years Crete has shown us much foundation in fact there was for some of, the strangest myths of Hellas, so, la a less .degree, has Boghaz-Keui. It has much more yet to tell us, for not lis tenth part has been excavated and nothing is to be desired more earnestly than that its exploration should be resumed. A Couple of Lays. "Tie rain and the hen have their work, A» everything earthly must The hen gets busy and lays an egg. While the rain la laying the dust. Brifjht People. With people who agree with us, We And the most delight: That's the way we all decide. Who's wrong and who la right. Praise Disfigured. "There's such a thing as spoiling a person's good looks by praising them." "As how." "Well, I told Agnes she had a beautiful nose, and she has made her self cross-eyed looking at it." No Chance to Talk. Oyer—Poor Jaygreen has joined the great silent majority. Myer—You don't say! When did he die?. Gyer—Oh, he didn't die. He got married yesterday. The Pacifier. Some women while engaged decorat rag a village church were Informed that a goat was making a meal of a "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men" design on the leaves, which had been left In the church yard, says the St Louis Post-Dispatch. "Make haste, Pat," cried the women, "the goat is starting to eat again." "Let him ate away," said Pat. 1 am goin' to wait until he's got some 'good will to man' Inside of him." UNITED 8TATES AWAY BEHIND REST OF THE WORLD IN THIS WORK. ./••• EVOLUTION OF THE HIGHWAY Awakening of the People to Necessity for Road Improvement Slow. Pro cess—State Governments at Last Aroused—Vote Money for Work. By HOWARD H. GROSS. Is it not strange that in this coun try, where we have the largest aggre gate of wealth that the world has ever known and where we have achieved the greatest success in hu man history along certain lines of en deavor, that we have failed to keep pace with the march of progress, and that we are a century behind the rest of the world in the matter of handling public roads? The conditions of the highways in American are a great surprise to the foreign traveler, who has been used to smooth, hard roads throughout his land. Upon his arrival in New York he is overwhelmed by the -immensity of the buildings and the gigantic scale upon which everything Is done., A day or two In the metropolis prepares him to believe that Americans can do anything and accomplish anything. The resources of the country seem to be boundless. In this frame of mind he starts his journey westward, and from the railway window he can see roads that are practically bottomless and teams struggling through the mire that is nearly knee deep. He is perfectly amazed that such conditions should obtain. He cannot understand why it should be so in a country that has such marvelous resources. The fact is that America is the only coun try in. the world that is rich enough to Splendid Trap Road Near La'Grand, Ore. stand the drain, handicap and the losses that bad 'roads impose. Again, may we ask, why is it that In this land, where so many great successes have been scored 1n .ejf many fields that we have utterly failed in dealing with the highways? In the writer's opinion the reason will be found in certain fundamental mis conceptions. They date back to co lonial time*. In the early days the, people settled along the water courses, in the valley*. Farming was done in a primitive way. It was the day of the homespun. The hand loom and spinning wheel were found every where. The people lived very simply what they wore, they made what they ate, they raised. The community was self-centered and had- very little to do with the settlement over the hills in the next valley. The spirit of home rule was everywhere dominant. The roads were regarded purely as of local concern. They were just such roads as the people cared to build, and whether good or bad it was no one's business but their own. Thus the concept that the highways were purely a local matter and did not concern any one outside of the immediate vicinity became firmly es tablished and held undisputed sway until about 20 years ago, when a New Jersey man made a discovery that was far more important than finding the north pole, and that was that the roads were public property—they be longed to all the people and as such it was the state's duty to take up the question of highway improvement and not leave the whole burden upon the township where the amount of taxable property was limited. It was shown that the world's food supply had to pass over these roads and that bad roads increased the cost of delivery— made the food supply lntermittant in stead of constant, and that bad roads produced a b«avy burden to every one and was a serious economic error. A movement was started for state aid in road building. It met great oppo sition, and principally from those who would most greatly benefit from it— the farmers. They feared it was a scheme to take the roads out of their hands, and no telling where they would land or what taxation would be put upon them, but the movement grew because it was right. In two or three years after the people had had the experience of building roads un der the plan, had used and paid for them—they found it was a splendid in vestment and that Instead of adding to their burdens the good roads took many burden* off. The plan became so popular opposition died out and those who at first were strongly against the plan were soon among its foremost advocates. New Jersey began state aid with an appropriation of $50,000 per year, this, sum was soon increased to five times the amount. The state aid plan of road building spread from state to state, until now fully half of the states have adopted it, and it'has everywhere proved popular and successful. It is the plan that gets the roads and so distributes the burden that the taxa tion is not appreciably higher than it was before. State aid would have been Impractical in the early days of Turnips, Lamb—and Mutton. We traveled with one of those trou blesome fellow-passengers in a stage coach that' is called a well-informed man. For 20 miles we discoursed about the properties of steam, probabilities of carriage by ditto, till all my sci ence, and more' than all was exhaust ed, and I was thinking of escaping my torment by getting up on the outside, when, getting into Blshop-'s Stortford, my gentleman, spying some farming land, put an unlucky question to me— "what sort of a crop of turnips I thought ,-x This splendid road Is near La Grande, Oregon. It Is built of Trap Rock and has proven of Inestimable benefit to a fine stretch of country. Nine such roads are to be built. Photo supplied by the United States Office of Public Roads. A, the republic, but now under the coun try-wide plan of distribution of food products and the factory output and the enormous amount of city and cor porate property, all ot which is benefitted by good roads. The plan re moves a heavy burden from the farm ers, by requiring all classes of property to stand its just proportion of the cost. New York presents a striking exam ple of the growth of the good roads sentiment and the possibilities of road construction. This state began state aid with a measly appropriation of $50,000, but in five years by a heavy majority voted a constitutional amend ment authorizing the issue of $50,000, 000 of bonds for state aid in road building. Thus the wave of progress goes on with increasing momentum, and it will eventually sweep the whole country. When one looks hack over the cam paign for good roads in any community he finds that when the subject was first brought up scores of good peo ple became frightened at the ex pense, and they were loud in denuncia tion of the proposal, saying and be lieving, that it meant the confiscation of their property. That they never could stand the tax and that good roads spelled ruin. In every case, how ever, where the plan was proceeded with by state aid, the people were sur prised that' they had the roads and that they did not «*,feel the tax, that, in fact, more and more roads were demanded, up to the lawful limit. Thus it has ever been, aniL probably will be, for years to come. Good roads mean more social life, more pleasure, less drudgery. They mean better schools, a more enlight ened and intelligent citizenship, they mean progress and civilization. Teaching School Girls to Swim.. In the apparatus in use in Ger many for teaching school girls how to swim the pupil is supported in such a position as to leave the legs and arms free to perform the motions of a swimmer. The body is hung In a wide belt, suspended from ar. over head rail, while the feet are attached rt," si v.:. st A A* k,V to a pair of ropes running over pul leys and adjustable to various re quirements. The pupils thus suspended are then taught how to perform the movements of the breast stroke until the action becomes inmost instinctive. There is a decided advantage in teaching these movaments in sue a way in stead of In the water, for the pupil is not distracted by the fear of a ducking. It is not at all easy to learn the swimming movements even out of water, hence the advantage of ac quiring this knowledge until it be comes almost instinctive before en tering the water.—Scientific Ameri can. Utilization of Waste. A distinguished chemist once ob served that "My lady writes tender sentiments to her lord with ink made from an old copper coffee pot on paper made from old collars." The utiliza tion of waste products, which is add ing so enormously to the wealth of the world, furnishes many such fan tastic adaptations. "Give me," Dr. Long said, "the sew age of New York, and I will return you yearly the superior milk of 100,000 cows." The waste soapsuds from woolen factories which used to pol lute hundreds of rivers, is now precip itated and the coagulum is pressed into bricks and converted into supe rior illuminating gas. These are only examples of the ingenuity of man. That the field is far from exhausted is instanced In the estimate that frgm 600 to 1,000 tons of fine coal are thrown .away every day in the ashes of New York. It is not impossible that some one will shortly invent a pro cess for reclaiming this wasted ma terial. Easy-Going Individual. I. R. Sherwood, Democratic con gressman from Ohio, tells this story: A man had for years employed a steady German workman. One day Jake came to him and asked to be ex cused from work the next day. "Cer tainly, Jake," beamed the employer. "What are you going to do?" "Vail," said Jake slowly. "I tink I must go by mein wife's funeral. She dies yester day." After the lapse of a few weeks Jake again approached his boss for a day off. "All right, Jake, but what are you going to do this time?" "Aber," said Jake, "I go to make me, mlt mein frauleln, a wedding." "What? So soon? Why, it's only been three weeks since you buried your wife." "Ach!" replied Jake, "I don't hold spite long." Greed. 'A fool and his money are soon parted," quoted the bunko steerer. "Yes," replied the green goods man. "But the trouble is that a fool usually hasn't much money to start with." Startling. "That's queer," said the conductor. "What is?" "When I told that woman her trans fer was no good, she didn't tell me that she'd just that minute got off the other car." we should have this year." Emma's eyes turned to me to know what In the world I could say, and she burst out into a violent fit of laughter, maugre, her pale, serious cheeks, when, with greatest gravity I replied that "It depended, I believed, upon boiled legs of mutton/'—Charles Lamb. In friendship the absent are pres ent, the poor are rich, the weak are strong, the stammering speak, and the dead live.—Cicero. •Wl V, WHAT GOOD ROADS DO COST New York to Expend Over $5,000,000 This Year'In Repair Work.' How few automoblllsts and tourists realize as they glide over the good or bad roads of New York state what the upkeep of these highways and by ways Is costing their town, county and state, and indirectly tkem. If they would stop to think of this there would be much less profanity when one chances upon a mud puddle difficult to dodge. In the first place, the average, or, rather, the majority of tourists have no Idea of the number of miles of roads In New York state which must be annually repaired, oftentimes semi annually. -Frank D. Lyon, the deputy commissioner of the state highway department, has furnished statistics and information on this subject which are not only startling and surprising, but vastly interesting to motorists. There are in the Empire state 80, 000 miles of roads, a. greater mileage of which is improved highway than all the other eastern states put to gether, not including Massachusetts." There are now 2,000 miles of state roads and more under construction. There are macadam roads totaling in mileage 2,400, constructed by towns. There are more than *"40,000 miles' of earth roads, properly shaped and crowned, stones picked and removed, depressions filled, culverts and bridges repaired. Towns have constructed 8,000 miles of gravel roads. In first class condition. To keep these roads navigable, so to speak, shape means work, systematic, untiring labor on the part of a great corps of people. The state is divided into nine districts, with Mr. Lyon in actual charge of these. -Each district has a superintendent, an assistant to Mr. Lyon. Then the st^te is again subdivided into forty-four counties un der the supervision of fifty-four super intendents, who In turn are answerable to the nine assistants. Of Mr. Lyon. Then it is further subdivided into 934 towns, under 934 town superintend ents. By this system Commissioner Lypn can reach within twenty-four hours after notification any road in the state in need of repair. Work of construction and repair la now at its height, and Mr. Lyon's re port of recent date showed that on one particular day there were 26,000 men and teams on the roads of the state. Co-operation on the part of automo blllsts with thg state authorities is urged by the state highway depart ment. Mr. Lyon asks that tourists running across anything wrong with the roads immediately report the same to him. In this way tourists—those who are actually using the roads will not only aid the state, but them selves, in keeping the highways in the •best of condition. 1 "The upkeep of motor cars," says Mr. Lyon, "will this year be reduced 40 per cent. In my mind, on account of repairs to highways being made." Towns are this' year raising by taxes for highway improvement the sum of $2,504,675.23. The state is turning over to the towns to aid them in this -workf$l,593,070. Bridge work during the year 1911 Is to cost $628, 414.63. The amount to be paid out for new machinery Is $180,011.25. Special road Improvements in towns of the state are to cost $279,706.42, making In all $5,185,877.33 to be expended by towns this year. The state is to bond Itself for $19, 000,000 for the construction of state roads. Towns and counties are to be called upon to provide as their share $5,000,000. The state legislature has appropriated $1,800,000 for the main tenance of state roads already con structed. The sum of $21,985,877.33 Is to be expended in one year for road con struction and improvement throughout the great Empire state—that Is, this amount Is available for the work, and in all probability will be utilized by the state department of highways. The Pink Marble Personal. While the Japanese are rapidly as similating western business notions, they have not yet entirely divested themselves of Oriental extravagance of expression in their advertisements, especially those o| a personal nature, as the following, which some time ago appeared in a Tokio newspaper, will testify: "I am a beautiful woman. My abun dant, undulating hair envelops me as a cloud. Supple as a willow Is my waist.. Soft and brilliant is my visage as the satin of flowers. I am endowed with wealth sufficient to saunter through life hand in hand with my be loved. Were I to meet a gracious lord, kindly, intelligent, well educated and of good taste, I would unite myself with him for life, and later share with him the pleasure of being laid to rest eternal in a tomb of pink marble." Oxygen As a Cutting Tool. A jet of burning oxygen from a blow pipe may be sucpessfully employed to cut sheet iron, iron tubes, and small bars. The cut made is almost as sharp and thin as that made by a saw. In earlier attempts difficulty was en countered in clearing the cut of liquid metal and in preventing the spread of the melting effect beyond the borders of the cut. In later processes two blowpipes were used. The first has an ordinary oxyhydrbgen flame, which heats the iron to redness at the place where the cut is to be made. This la followed immediately by the second jet, composed of pure oxygen, wh^.S instantly burns the metal without melt ing. The liquidized iron Is blown swiftly from the fissure, so that there is no serious spreading of the heat to surrounding parts. The Caper Crop. Mrs. Nuwed—Mary, for dinner I think we'll have boiled mutton with caper sauce. Are there any capers in the house? Mary—No, ma'am. Mrs. Nuwed—Then go out in the garden and cut some. Expensive. "1 once proposed to a girl in a con servatory." "With what result?" "A lot of costly plant* were nipped by frost." Early Energy. "I intend to wake congress up be fore I get through," said the new member. "My friend," said Senitor Sorghuic, "don't stop with merely waking con gress up. See if you can't do some thing to make the framers of the United States Constitution turn ovei In their graves."—Washington Star. The person who corrupts the pure faith or goodness of another may com mit such an injury as the whole worM could not coicpensate.»'-Tucker. tj".. Mi./ c.-, It, b. .tft-i 'lT & NEW SYSTEM, SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL, IN PLACE OF SUP PLY AND DEMAND. COMBINES FIX ALL CHARGES Commission Similar to Interstate Com merce Body I* Suggested by Wickersham to Curb Cor ..... poration*. .7 Duluth, Minn.—Regulation of cor porations by a commission similar to that now governing the railroads was advocated by- Attorney General Wick ersham in an address delivered before the Minnesota State Bar association. The cabinet member declared also that the duty of fixing prices of com modities might devolve upoh this com mission, though he expressed some doubt of the practicability of' this phase of the plan. The law of supply and demand, Mr. Wickersham said, no longer .controls prices in the United States." For years, he said, the" prices in all the great staple Industries have been fixed by agreement between' the prin cipal producers and not by a normal play of free competition. An interstate commission, the attor ney general added, would prevent vio lations of the anti-trust laws and aid business men to maintain a.continued status of harmony with the require ments of the statutes. With the weight of an administra tion officer behind them, Mr. picker sham's remarks made a deep impres sion. There was nothing in the speech, however, to indicate how far the attorney general reflected the views of President Taft. On several occasions in the last year he has been regarded as the spokesman fqr the ad ministration. "That further regulation of corpora tions carrying on commerce among •the states may be necessary," he said, "is coming to be a matter of current comment. It has been openly advo cated recently by representatives of aome of the largest combinations of capital, probably as a means of salva tion and to preserve under govern ment supervision great organizations whose continued existence Is menaced by the recent interpretation of the Sherman act, the disintegration of which would be attended with heavy loss. To such it is a case of 'any port in a shipwreck.' Better continued co operative life, even under a powerful master, than disseminated properties and segregated activities without con stant government supervision. "But there are other reasons for such regulation. The federal depart ment of justice is not organized or equipped to maintain constant super vision and control of business organ izations. It deals only with cases of violation of the law. The activities of an administrative board or commis sion would be directed to preventing Buch violations and in aiding business men to maintain a continued status of harmony with the requirements of law. "Whether such a federal Industrial commission should have power to reg ulate prices is, of course, a matter for serious consideration. The Interstate commerce law prescrlbed^s a legis lative rule that prices for transporta tion by rail, or wire, or pipe line, shall be reasonable, and that no unjust dis crimination shall be madei between in dividuals or localities similarly situ ated. A similar rule migpt be made by congress with respect to the prices of commodities the subject of inter state commerce." »v WALL PAPER MEN INDICTED Members of Alleged Trust Are Ao cuied of Violating Sherman Law in Cleveland. "u Cleveland, Ohio.—Four indictments were returned by the federal grand Jury, which has been investigating an alleged wall paper trust. The indict ments charge conspiracy in restraint of trade under the Sherman law. The indicted persons are officials of wall paper jobbing houses. They are: J. B. Pearce, president of the J. B. Pearce Wall Paper company of Cleve land Norton Newcomb of St. Louis, Edward E. Maxwell of Chicago and C. C. Aler of Columbus, O. Bond was fixed at $5,000 in each case. The specific charge against the in dicted men Is that they met in Cleve land May 30, 1910, and after a secret session, notified wall paper manufac turers of the country that If they sold wall paper to 5 and 10 cent stores the jobbers would boycott them. United 8tates Warns of Hay Shortage. Washington.—A shortage of clover hay threatens the central western and northern states. The agricultural de partment advises farmers to replant by disking stubble about three Inches deep and sowing clover and grass along with a nurse crop by August 15. Small Gotham Bank Closed. New York.—Announcement was made that the Audubon National bank, a small Institution at Broadway and Forty-third street, will go into volun tary liquidation because of misappro priation of funds by one of its officers. National Bank Examiner Hanna Is in charge. Tax John D. on $6,000,000. Cleveland, O.—John D. Rockefeller's real property' In Cleveland and Cuya hoga county has been appraised at $6,000,000. Denies Ambassador Will Resign. London.—The foreign office denied a report cabled from the United States that James Bryce contemplates retir ing from his post as British ambassa dor at Washington, following the con clusion of the Anglo-American arbitra tion treaty. Thirty-Seven Massacred* Livingstone, Rhodesia.—Germfin Dis trict Commissioner Von Frenkenberg, two white sergeants, 14 police and 20 carriers have been massacred by the Okarango tribe of Bechuanaland. —, Wilson Sees 1912 Victory. Asbury Park, N. J.—Six hundred Ddtuocrats at a banquet at Avon heard Governor Woodrow Wilson predict Democratic success In- 1912. It was idle to talk of the formation of a third party, said the governor. Asks Safety for Ranchers. Washington.—American ranchers in Lower California are being threatened by the so-called Mexican liberals. The United States has requested the gov ernment of Mexico to afford them ade quate protection. Mft :1 V" -"'v ,pKi% Sarsaparilla Acts directly axd peculiarly on the blood purifies, enriche9 and revitalizes it. ind in this way builds up the whole sys tem. Take it. Get it today. In usual liquid form or in chocolate coated tablet* called Striata be. II GREAT TEMPTATION. MUNY0N5 PAW-PAW PILLS fit lit Aunt Dinah—Ephrum, datole Cunnel Leigh, is got some of ale. fines', moa* lubly young turkeys I eber sot my blessed eyes on. Dat sin a fac"! 3: Munyon's Paw Paw Pill" are unlike all other laxatives or -cutltartlci. Ihay coax the liver into aetlwlty by gentle "methods. They dq^iot icour, they da not srlpe, they do not weaken, tut they do start all the secreticitsfl of the livel and stomach in a way tlat soon puti" these, organs in a healthy condition, and corrects constipation. Iim my opinion constipation is responsible for mofck ail-. ments. There are 28 fe*:t of human bowels, which is really a sewer pipe.} When this pipe becomca clogged the whole system becomes p»otsonel, «aus Munyon's Paw Paw Pilta are a "tonie to the stomach, liver ani)_ serves. Ihey invigorate- instead of weaBien they en rich the blood Instead ot Impoverish,, it they enable the stoonaoh to get all the nourishment from £oim1 that Is put into it. These pill* contain 10 calomel! ne dope they are aoothiikg, healing andi stimulating. They school the towela: lo act without physic. Regular siu bottle, containing 45 pill*, S3 cents. Munyon's La.~tari.tory, JeSmon 8ts.. Fhiladebhh. Mmal kbtake, Tens. Crops planted mifed'lta.rvest&d erery OftODl& Mo failures. He<hftfl tiuma.U. Tonus 1-3 cull, balance lik« root. Write for fooortleu Sanderraon Dlckjon Oo„ Alamo Bank MtfLwtaao Antonio, Texas iuw, evil auu returns than It Is possible for yoJUe writ# tor oar free lllnstmtod hAggk -wanted. Planters Land Comptm), 8S» CtoaUiiiS gtraeW St. LotUs, Misuari price five to ten dollars.- Warrant deed.mageand tuticnlam furnished. icri*iitu*ahBriC«.,lihMia*ilnfc •CMI |E« andlenm bow mi cfcs birr ten 1CRU 190 farm for 15 centa k. dar- Bef«PL_-. Southern Trust On- Little Bock. Sood land. Ho rods. e. star Uncle Ephraim—Yaiu,. honey, dla" chile knows It. An' I can'y got 'llgloa two weeks ago! An' jes' two day»"L«^% befo'Thanksgibbln! Dliaati, I'se mighty fraid I'b goin' to be a back8llder, ,' 'v ahuah as youah bohn] Titles in Englind. Forty or -fifty years ttgo few people In. England had titles, There were only a few decorations -which entll led their owners to put time prefix "Sir" before their names. W« all of us looked down with loft? contempt upon the counts and barons that were so plentiful in continental countries. Now we can do so no long«r, for probably there is no other countu in the world where the traffic in titles is so open and so Indecent as In ISngland. What"' the number of our decomtlons I do not know, and I Imagine that few do. Every few years some mew one Is ere ated and an Englishman with a taste that way can easily imnage to ex hibit himself covered metal disks and bits of ribbon like some success ful cow at an agricultural-show. These embellishments may flatter the vanity of their wearers, but ttacy do not in-. crease the respect that bs felt (or Eng- llshmen.—London Truttu Might Help. Mrs. Willis (at the Utiles* AW so.$«JJ clety)—Now, what canjrou do for the^5^ poor boys at the front? Mrs. G111I8—I was reading today where the soldiers are always mak ing sorties. Now, why can't we gett the recipes for t] them ourselves boys?—Puck. h. Tfx, f. A 4-v--- thlsigs and make senad them to the [d E E j, 'If# hi? NtK A trial package of Munj?on'* Paw Paw-~y Pills will be *ent free to anyone on quest. Address Profesiox Munyon, 53d jsk Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia P*. If yw are£* in need of medical advice, lo not fail ten ff write Professor Munyon. "!Your comnmni- «r cation will be treated in ifcrict confidence, and your case will be 4iiH"-os«d ai ^care fully as though you had 1 personal inter view. ing biliousness, indigestion and impure ft* blood, which often produoe rheumatism and kidney ailments. No woman who^ suffers with constipation «er any liver ailment can expect to laye a clear ^f complexion or enjoy wxwl health- 11"^' I had my way I would prohibit the sale of nine-tenths of the cathartics that are J# now being sold for the neton that they soon destroy the lining o£ the stomach, setting up serious forme of indigestion,« and so paralyse the bowele that they re- T" fuse to act unless forced by itrong V. purgatives. yji rt»s 1 v» ':'V, C. lX'DKM, Sa-SM. areuet, lUtia Bart# *•».$ 554,000 IMll to We He