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EDITORIAL.
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PAPER is content to be a cheerful and independent chronicler
X of the passing day. • • • Hithin limited compass it uiil interpret
the largest facts of the clay's history arid offer an opinion or t'M
'While not an organ or a propaganiltsl. if ailT Jul e u strong and genuine
consideration for the average man, uho >s too often the forgotten man in our
Social and industrial arrangements. • • • As the paper is the produet of
practical newspaper workers, its sympathy with the bread-icmning masses
is natural and inevitable Its highest aspiration m to d* sen e and secure
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A CHILD S GIFT OF LOVE TO A CHILD
AND A RICH MAN’S GIFT TO HIS CITY
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The other day, a bi* green box was left at a Cleveland orphanage
To the box, which oontained a beautiful doll, wa» tied this note :
‘•To the little girl who gets my dolly:
‘*l am sending you my doll, because 1 won't be able to play with her
' any more. The doctor says that I’m not going to live muoh longer. Will
you be good to my dolly, and will yon name her Josephine after me. please *
l love her very much.—Josephine."
One of the little orphaned girls, named Jenny, was given the doll, and
j the said:
“Every night when 1 say my prayers I'm going to say one for the liTie
jffUl who gave me my Josephine.
“I hope she'll get well soon, so she can have her doll to love again.
I'm taking good care of her and I love her just the way she said I must.
Bat I’d do that anyway, for I never had a doll before and Ive wanted one
all my life!”
Oh yes, it's only the acts and the talk of children, but out of the
months of suoh as these cometh wisdom 1
Josephine, who evidently had much, gave that which she loved greatly
to one who had nothing.
The wise child knew that her precious doll would be best loved by one
who had no doll.
How many of us grown folks will give, at the end of life, with such
wisdom?
• Full half of all that grown folks give in the shape of public bequests
is blocked on as restitution, and that which they give to persons is often
tunas fought over by the mourners.
Love that promotes love does not enter in.
“I’m not going to live much longer. Be good to my dolly. I love her i
very much.'*
“Every night when 1 say my prayers, I'm going to say one for the
little girl,” replies the orphan.
A dying ohild leaves a deed of kindness and love that will live a life
time in the heart of a little sister who has neither father nor mother, and
every night the *nyla will record “God bless the little girl who made me
happy with that whioh she so muoh loved!”
The gift of this child emphasizes the telfUhneis of a certain rich man
—James Boott, by name—who died and left to the city in which hie fortune
had been made, what?
Money enough to provide a monument to HIMSELF, on condition that
it be erected on a eite to make it conspicuous enough to make the monu
ffl-h to honored tone of Detroit whose lives were clean and of usefulness
OBSCUXE.
How much less unselfish would it have been in this man had he di
rected that his money he spent in providing for proper care for the victims
of tnberonlosis in his oity—for those who need only wholesome food and
frith air to stay the monster just fastening its grip upon them.
In a hundred ways could Scott have left his money so that the Living
eovld have benefited in Detroit better than they will from the answers to
that will be asked on excursion boats passing the island in the
yaart to oome.
Not In the Orders.
Jim's boss sent him up on the roof
to paint It That was early In the
morning. Toward nightfall the boss
Clambered up the ladder to see wharo
his workman was.
“Jim, you laajr piece, what you been
doing?”
. ‘Huffin'"
“Didn't 1 sand you up here to paint
the roof?"
“Yaaelr."
“Why didn't you come down If you
had finished ? N
“ Deed, boss, yon Jee said paint de
roof. You nevah said nullin' 'bout
Cornin' down.”—Washington Star.
The Reason.
Nell —The widow Dashaway eays
•be has no fear of the back-biter.
Belle- 1 suppose that Is why she
wears such decollete gowns.
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There’s Some Difficulty in Finding Food for Mr. Skygack
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ADOPTED MPSKY6ACK v r . / t t>OHHERW^TER
** *» 1 BEES’ VESS. SURE - j UTbU IOOWS I ] HM. MOW many
reeoHw. vot J om bhs knefs. / ha cktch some bees. I 1 bee* knees Mw S
DOES HE EAT. j fHE Llkts 1 KNEES • I Wt WS VCRV I . L£)OKS like _J ' DINK TOO CAN * “ v' 7
— ' j BtEV / —, ) TONE* Os DCM. | A BEE-HIV/C. CAT, MR. ' « /
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The New Nut
We all have eaten hickory—
We ail have tasted wal
There's almond, hazel and pecan.
Why, sure, we know them aIL
And now here's to the Latest,
In society they butt:
Cvery dancer nowadays
Is au.lte a, Tango Not
—Jim Manee.
P. 9. —Considering one of the fa
mous portions of the tango, maybe
wed better call them dipped nuts.
In Charlty’e Name.
"We are going to have a series of
bridge parties for the poor. 1 love to
do things for the poor."
‘3o do I. I love to play bridge for
them."— 3L Louis Post-Dispatch.
THE DETROIT TIMES
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
Perhaps the ice boat would be more popular were it possible to rock It.
t • •
Jobu Church, Kansas man. has a family of 17. t'amily, did we say?
Congregation, perhaps, would bo better
Somebody has sent us the provisions of the Income tax. Someoue seems
to llXe his little practical Joke. *
9 • •
POPULAR SONG SUGGESTION
“l*d Swim the River Deep for You,
But Buppoee That I Should
Sink?"
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MUSICAL NOTE
j A. L Newton has been engaged
for the coming year to pump the or
gan In the Methodist churchv—Car
sonvllle Blade.
* ’ *
Just as some fellows had stepped
onto fools' bridge, they appear to
have swung It.
• • •
SAYINGS OF FAMOUS MEN
Edgar Willett—'‘So long."
• • •
Judge T. J. C. Flagg, of Missouri,
says a newspaper Item, remembers
seeing Thomas Jefferson. What did
he have. Judge?
• • •
The range of vision of a caterpillar
is limited to two-flfths of an Inch. At
that the oaterpillar is better off In
this reapeot than a lot of politicians.
• • •
A college professor says that If
. jtTmwMn•
“Lem Lowney we* readln* In a
book down t’ th' store last night that
th' owl is th' most inquisitive bird.
Blit ftubly allowed that explains why
th’ owl says ’Who?'**
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From Another Point of View
Hess Haskins
family trees were traced back. 20
jears moat everybody would be found
related. That's probably why we
| don't get along better.
• • •
Figure It Out for Yourself
News Item: Nathan Goldsfclen, of
■ Kansas, has Just found bis mother,
I lost since infancy. 23 years ago.
Diary of Father Time
Although it is only within recent
years that automobile construction
proper can be said to have tom
□.anted, man seems to have pictured
In imagination from the earliest dawn
of intelligence a means of individual
locomotion. Towards the end of the
13th century the learned Franciscan
friar Roger Bacon wrote: “We v.
be able to propel carriages with In
credible speed without the assistance
of any animal." Bacon was evidently
< gifted with a pretty correct sclentitic
imagination, for, in the same breath
he predicted steamships and dying
machines. In the 17th oentury the
first horseless carriage appeared driv
en by one Johann Houstach of Nur
emburg, described as a "manufacturer
of chariots going by spring and mak
ing 2.000 paces an hour." There was
no steering device, so the chariot was
only able to proceed in a straight
line. About the same period wind
driven vehicles, which looked like sail
ing boats on wheels, were used on
the fiat plains of Holland. About the
year 1800 the curious fallacy waw en
tertained that ordinary wheels were
Insufficient to secure traction, and
many curious systems of propulsion
by mechanical legs were Invented.!
That of l>avld Gordon, patented in
1624, looked like a huge grasshopper,
as it was fitted with six legs to be- 1
brought into use In hill-climbing.
It was in 1886, when the successful j
application of the gas engine to road
vehicles was invented, that automo- j
bile construction received its groat
impetus. ,
That's Why.
Theodore Hook once bragged that
he could mako a pun on any subject j
“Well, then," said a friend, “make
one on the king."
"The king is no subject," replied
the wit.
No Water for Him.
Mrs, Good sole —You nave an awful
ly dirty face
Soiled Sylvester—l know it, lady.
Can't yous» recommend a competent
dry cleaner?—Chicago News
HOOKS
"Shall Women Vote?"
Pe.ve and harmony seem to be the
| acme of existence according to Con
way Whittle Sams, iu his ‘ Book for
Men Shall Women Vote,” whereas
doubt and strangle toward higher
(thing’- are the steps by which we have
*Ua> and doubtless will always
progress. A corpse is peaceful and so
Is a stagnant civilization. The begin
ning of his book with a scriptural
quotation is archaic iu its iuharmon
ous relations to present conditions.
Mr. Sums believes in ‘ fixity,'• but ex
' peels u» to grow within this rigid
state The o.d Bible idea of binding
together a man and woman who no
'longer have any lies or spirit seems
to u» today immoral, but uot so Mr.
Sams.
As w e have pm sued these methods
for many hundreds of years without
the culminating morality which it
! should bring about 1: true, is it strange
i that women should be assailed with
doubts a.* to their condition being ihe
I best for themselves and Their children
and try to better it?
Mr Sams preseti a perfect uihu
and husband; also presupposes that
ail women have husbands, whom U
' would be a Joy tor them to ‘ serve'*
and “obey " Also, he neglects to take
notice of the economic state of so-
I clety and upholds, unconsciously, we
think, a state of serfdom.
He says: ‘After the wife has
! promised to obey and serve her hus
band she has no right to raise any
question afterward on this point The
matter was settled at the altar."
Mr Sams deplores divorce on anv
! but statutory grounds, and we con
j elude that the husband’s promises to
j support and cherish hi*, wife were not
i settled at the altar.
He exhorts ail men to beware of the
encroachments if the "female of the
species," which though being the
“weaker sex’* la bound to "strip men
of rhelr rlcbts ( whatever they may pel
and transfer them to women and chil
dren.”
We can only nay in conclusion that
the theory of ortho-geneses. which
claims that rh« perm plasm Is trans
mitted unchanged through countless
generations has a living example 1n
Mr. Rams and also that hi* ~book. if
read, will make more converts for suf
frage * ban anything heretofore writ
ten Neale Publishing Cos.. New York.
81.85.
"Another Man’s Shoes"
"Another Man's Shoes,” by Victor
Bridges, is an amusing story with an
old theme. It abound* in hair-raising
situations, which follow each other
with amaiJng rapidity, yet is related
in a breezy manner which wUI give
the ordinary reader a few hours of
entertainment and relaxation from
his every-day cares and perplexities.
Tbe hero is the usual indomitable
young man who tlnds himself without
a cent, and drops suddenly Into an
other man's place and fortune.
As usual, there is a love tale with
a South American heroine to add a
bit of color. The ending is essential
ly a moral one. which makes every
body comfortable, happy and ready to
go to bod and sleep. Goo. H. Doran,
Publisher, New York. Price, $1.25.
Kern Tc4i>
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Poor American Student
Has Hard Time in Germany
RAYMOND IV. PULLMAN.
I'tmt* Uas hi nylon Bureau, No. T I
Metropolitan Hank Huihlinj.
WASHINGTON, Feb. LV in the in
terest of the thousand* of Aui«rt
* , . run* who are aI-
American Students wa)- planning to
_ ,r l . complete their
German Schools #luUlei| abroad thto
Amcrika lustiuu la lierllu has tor
warded to Commissioner P. P. Claxtou
of the l alted States bureau of educa
Hoa a message of warning to those
student* who expect to find educa
*ional employment while working thei'-
way through German schools
The Amerika-institut Is an organi
zation formed in recent years to ad
vance and the cultural re
lations between Germany and the
United States Ly acting as a medium
of inquiry aud exchange la matters
of educational interest. ° Tile report
which has been received by Commis
sioner Claxton offers another piece
of evidence of tb.i practicability of
lue worn which this semi-official Instl
tute Is dotng to prevent the hardship*
which might come to students plan
ning to finish their education abroad
while working as teachers at the same
time. Many American college pro
fessor* and school teat hers are g» ti
erally Inclined to think that it is a
rather simple matter to secure a posi
tion t u i German school II 1 touch**-."
of English. The warning which Id
rector K Drechslwr of uie Amerjka-lu
stltut gives to Americans who expect
to find educational employment whll**
studying in German schools applies
for the most part to the condition
which will be met by men and wonieu
aiiHiyiug In the schools of almost any
of tbe European countries
'Americana w.. 0 o»tec to secure
position* In the German schools as
teachers of English must keep in tniud
aeveru’ important facta.* says Ur.
Drechsler. “The schools in Germauy
are under the supervision of the state
or the city, and ouiv native Germauh
who have passed the state exuiniua
tion c-an be employed lu these schools;
there art» no exceptions, not even for
a person having the highest degree
from an American university. The
same conditions prevail In ttie better
type of priva’e schools which are
independent of the support of state
or city This restriction concerning
the employment of teach* t* in for
the protection of German teachers
who have devoted years and years
of academic preparation for the pur
pose of fitting themselves for city
and state school service.
‘Anotner argument against the tem
porary employment of teacher* itt
German schools 13 that uniformity is
Impossible without a certain steadl
ness In the staff of teachers, for
neither headmaster nor parents nor
pupil* can be considered to be well
served in a system which permits
casual change* and the employment
of teachers who are not familiar with
the German teaching methods.
“Such a principle does not imply
any unfriendly discrimination against
foreigners Wo find a slruilur attitude
in the American educational world,
where even under the present system
DESIRES
1 wish that I could be
An old standpatter
To look around and see
Nothing the matter,
Ail new thoughts to repel
With brain that's flaccid,
And think that all is well.
Serene and placid.
What calm, what peace is his;
He's well contented;
To him all progress Is
A thing demented;
The world has gone ahead,
And all things show it;
Forward the age has sped
He doesn't know 1L
And so he drifts along
Through all the flurry;
To him there’s nothing wrong,
So he should worry;
To me life s sometime*) grim
Aud all things matter,
And yet 1 envy him.
The old standpatter.
—Uerton BraJey.
MONDAY
FEB. 2, 1 9 1 4
of the olliriul excuauge of teachers be
tween the Prussian ministry of educa
lion aud Hie Carnegie Foundation it
ha* often been tound more difficult to
find positions lu America for the rep
i ebentativt'H of Gutman education than
.1 has been to bud position* for the
American exchange teachers lu Ger
many. this li due to a certain lack
lof readiness ou the part of Aruerl
:cau headmasters to employ men on
| ttrely untried l u American method* of
i teaching.
To student* who expect to find
employment in private schools in Ger
| many while getting their educstlou lu
mat country, or a* private teachers in
.’umilles, it may be aaid that positions
may occasionally be obtained through
advertisement* There are no teach
»*rs' agendo* in Germany like those
> < ii< ti iii. common tu America to help
teachers to obtain positions The lack
' of such agencies goes to prove that the
| problem oi educational employment in
Germany is Mitfliciently provided for by
the educational civil service system.
" bo be sure, the American teacher
may sometimes count on employment
by chance. It does, indeed, occur that
the Amcrika-lnstltut refers occasional
inquiries from some private party
wishing to secure the service* of an
American for some kiu<l of work that
j w ould probably he congenial to the I
student or toucher, and help the lut
| ter to pay a past of the bill for hi* !
or her board or lodging. Although our
f organisation has uot the functions ofi
an agency to take cure of such case*, ■
the frequency of these applications
lias called for a permanent arrange
ment between the Institute and one o*■
the leading educational weeklies In
which advutLlsing.might yield the best
results under the circumstances.
“The American notion of earning
lone's way through courses also re -
quires correcting by those who are*
[acquainted wKh the situatlou in Ger-’
many. l'he suggestion may also ap*'
j ply to their earning their way through*
schools/ in other European countries. J
Tanv Americans who have counted
: upon possibllii lea o:" earning monev *
(trough teaching or other kind of work
I while carrying on their studies in'
Europe are often disappointed To mr!
mind no American should think of JSO-'
-'i;g to Europe to study without sufTi-*
clent funds to carry him through the.
complete period of study
The great need of today which I*!
; felt in both Germany and in the Unlt-r
ed States is th-3 establishment of sebob*
, arshlpa for Americans to study lu
1 Germany and for Germans to xtudv
I * ll America, hue wonderfully progres
sive methods of the graduate school
policy lu America, however, justly ut-f
trus ts many of those students of the'
kind who formerly felt that they could*
not get at home what they might oh- u
tain abroad. *
Our warning to German students!,
who expect to study in American* 1
schools and also find employment lu
teaching :s the same as to the Amen-y
cans who wish to try the name plan In:
Germany. In the requests frequently?
received by the Amerika-Inatitut forf
information concerning the poaslblll-1
tl< * for educational employment for*
Germans in America, It has become,
the policy of our organization to polnC
out that the rteadily Improving conT
ditlona in the educational field of the!*
United State* has created a situation
where Americans certainly have the
right to be proterred la most cases!
to outside/i of any natlocaJlty.’*
• • •
l'hat geography plays a large part
In the progreas of inventions is indi
cated unfailingly
The Geography by the study of a
of Invention. year’s report of
the United State*
patent office and a study of the pro
! portion of applications for patents to
| (be population of the various states.
1 he interest of people in invention ]i
much keener in some states than it la
In others for a number of reasons, the
chief of which Is the character ot
the principal industries In the state.
In a manufacturing community, for In
stance. Interest In invention is nat
urally keener, experts say, than lu
a section where the principal Indus
try is agriculture.
The forthcoming report of Cocpmls
Bloner of Patents Thomas Ewing, will
show that for the year ended Decem
ber 31 last the government received
70,307 application? for patents, against
87,388 during the previous year. The
geographical distribution of the vari
ous inventors offers an interesting
study. The last annual report shows
that In proportion more patents wore
Issued for citizens of Connecticut than
for thoae of any other state, patents
being granted to one In every 1,16 b
persons.
Teaches Infants.
Mr. Green—What a lot I seem to
have learned tonight.! How I have
benefited by this conversation with
you, my dear Miss Roberts' Some
how’ your Intellect seem* to appeal to
mine. Are you a literary lady?
Miss'Roberts—No, I am a teacher
in an infant school!
WORDS BY SCHAEFER
MUSIC BY MACDONALD