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THE WASHINGTON HERALD. WEDNESDAY. MAY 8. A&I2, THE WASHINGTON HERALD rnbaabsd Iiof stomtng SB Uw Xnr s THE WASHINGTON HERALD COMPACT rcBucxxioN officii 1322 NEW YORK AVENUE. K, W. Tlphoas Vila xxn, (Flint Erasta Twans SUBSCRIPTION BATES ST CABBITBl riSj and Bandar...... .....C cents ptr tnonti Tnfir "4 Bradiy.......5. per mi say, vuhoot Sunday ...Jt cents er reacts BtJBSCBIPnOX BATES BT MAIL: Hy tad :Snnoaj.........i..... ,tS etui pec tnonta any tsd Bandar.......... .. t&0 per )iu H7, vttbont- Scadar ...... S cants xcr noatfc kflr, wiarot Btrodtj.......-;- taw per yser s-indaj, vitbost CiUr... ....... SVU per rear Ho attention trtS -paid to entmymev contributions, oikJ ho cannuclnllmi to ie editor tefll be printed except oper the bin of the writer. Afasvscript offered for fmlltcaHon icfll v returned it unavailable, but ttamoa hould It test with On tnanaeerlpt for 'hat pvrpote. AB rommuntoatlon Intended for this ieleepoper, whether for the dotty or the tyndav Istue, ehould bt eddretttd t BE -WABBINOTOIT HERALD. rr Tort Brrrtwntitlre. I. C. WILSEEDWO SPECIAL AGENCX. Brasswlck TfrrfWr . CbJeioi BttnstsUUn. A. B. BEATOB. R Hartford Bnfii-t WEDNESDAY. MAT 8. UI5. Safety on the Seas. Empowering the President to call a maritime Conference of the nations of the world is a move, in the right direc tion. Any measure looking to the pre vention of more sea disasters will un doubtedly receive, the hearty support of all civilized countries. T.Ss inquiry con ducted by Senator William Alden Smith has shown beyond all question that the tremendous loss of life in the' Titanic catastrophe could hate been averted had there been enough lifeboats provided, also that the accident itself would not have occurred had the warnings re ceived of the presence of icebergs been heeded. As far as the United States' is con cerned, this country should not -wait to go through all the red tape deemed so necessary mr dealing with international questions. Let the United States take the initiative, for while, American ships are not to be seen in fleets in foreign ports, there is -still a merchant marine and a navy to be considered, while the tonnage on the Great Lakes is much greater than is generally supposed. There is little question that alt nations will ultimately join in any move ment that will give a higher efficiency and a greater safety to travel on the high seas If this can be obtained by International laws the sooner the Presi dent is empowered to call a conference with that end In view the better. The action of the House in appropriating $300,000 for the purpose of equipping army transports with sufficient lifeboats to care for every person on board in case of a disaster is .a pretty good in dication of what the outcome of the proposed international conference will be. ervatjon is most effectively taught, b that such occurrences are necessary to impress upon others -the .need 'of care and vigilance on our streets,' However much: of the mingling with? the "world and intimacy with such sad circum stances may mure some, but few of vis can help think that the ingenuity which has enabled ils.as a people to reach such high state- among resourceful, Invent ive, peoples may be brought into sane and effective use in tne safeguarding of human life. Every age has its problem to solve. Some generations have many to meet But surely there is none more urgent or 'more impelling-than to see. that the price which we are plajjng' to our modem comforts and conveniences be not in the end asgrea.t and as deplor able ar ever was the tribute pi human lives paid to ogre or minotaur by the Greeks of old. The age when men and statesmen might sit calmly down and in com placent stoicism attribute these sad dis asters to the mysterious workings of a generally beneficent Providence, or see in it -the working out of certain nat ural laws especially Revised to thin out the too rapidly increasing copula tion, has -gone too far-back in the his tory of the, world to longer blind us to thr great and pressing need of proper precautions to prevent some thousands of the accidental deaths that annually take place throughout the United States. Bureau of Education, i ' The Bureau of Education, aJong with some other divisions of the Department of the Interior, has come in for some criticism both favorable and adverse in Congress. There is only one thing the matter with this department of the Federal government as we see it; and that is that it is not equipped in force. appropriations, or scope -of activities to do the great work which if is ca pable of doing, and which the, country would be greatly better for having it do. The allowances are niggardly,' the force of employes is far too small. while at its head is a man who from his past record both in and out of the service is able to do big things for the cause of education. It is absurd to keep the energies and abilities of this branch of the service limited to the gathering of facts, fig ures, and data about what is being done in the United States and abroad in the way of education, and to leav e the mass of information thus gathered to the specialist in education to dig out and to make comment on as his particular needs or his especial point of view may dictate. That is nothing of the great work which this office could and should do. This information should be made not only available, but it should form the material upon which the United States Commissioner of Education should publish and make known to the whole country the advances that are being made, and to furnish such infor A LITTLE NONSENSE. KAHB TO TtMAtm. Thes.nsi'ssiet la sprtaatlMS mm seals his many moaaa; Me sent Bit- Mwttt the chad, M cause ofc ssaay boa; Tee issiaasit ta spnnctime Xalatabte his -jaundiced view: The Tserry cake he deems s fake Because or berries tew. The pessimist In springtime Xe very quick to blame; Emits a screaBTabout tne team Because they lose a same. "Uncle PcbrtttIso 8711 Some, men grow 'under responsiDinty; outers merely svreu up. Xlsfct Be Desirable. 'A President bas to eat a good, deal these times.-' ' 'What do you meanT" Tne chief executive has to attend a treat many banquets and the Ilka." "Seems so. What -about JIT" "l was Just thinking tnat the next president ought to recognize the grow ing importance or this social side or tne JoD and appoint an addition to the Cabinet Hn the shape or. a toastmaster general." Mttr 8- In Historr. May 8, 16SS Possession of the English throne being In dispute, William Orange tnies m .nat into. the' ring. May 8, 135-Dr. Johnson requests his landlady to serve tewer prunes' and is requested to vsveate. Bosweil does not record this. Incident jn the pre of the great jexreograparr, It May Happen. A woodchopplng turn Is 'making a great hit in vauoevuie wis season, this may lead-to dtanwasning exhibitions end sketches depleting the sirttng ot ashes We may yet see the headline GREATEST 8E.NSATION IS VAUDEVILLE! Xoung uirl .Helping Her Mother With the Housework uon t Miss xnis Sensational Act. Genuine. JLaatprear we did abuse with glee The aunost-sprtng. .But this year's sample teems to be -rne real thing. a Bcagag1 1 111 1 1 ..sssaammmmmeaBBse ITO1SE MAT BTHKBIX JOtTDIK mW'nW alsHEL.iBt4uE ''"alsB iakslBW " ? kjBlBaHrljBlBlBlBB www FoolUh Talld: Is life trorth ltvlngr" -aw. what are you talking about? Ain't the baseball season open full blastT" JTotleed Any I "They say that tellow la a llend for work. He's a regular human dynamo.' -xea. 1 know. However, i see a jot of those human dynamos at the ball park wese oays, Lotb In Real Life. was your nrst meeting with your wire romantlcr" "Iot very, r called to collect some- back Installments on her piano, and 1 must say that, she wis very sassy tne flrst time we met." Tuna Knows His China. From the 2r Tort EctU. President Tuan Shlh-kal of the Chinese Republic Is still the shrewd, careful, and diplomatic Oriental. A special cable dis patch to the Herald from Pekln describes Yuen's first Presidential address and gives quite a pleasant thrill as It de scribes how the President of China has decided that the new republic must set aside the traditions of the empire and hire foreigners to place the new fiscal policy on a Western foundation. The Bed Cross 'with. Us. It seems but yesterday when the Red Cress was bounded by the Atlantic and the Paafic, when it did not reach, out bejond our continent But to-day that condition is different It is world wide in its philanthropy It reaches everywhere. The humblest savage in the Antipodes is not beyond its arm of benevolence. The international con tention now being held in this city is ample proof of -that fact Surely there can be no more con vincing contrast to American material ism than the Red Cross, which was originated by an American woman, has been expanded by American enterprise, and sustained by American dollars Washington has for jears heen the focal center of its good work. Delegates from near and far are now gathered here, emphasizing as never before the international character of the work Like all big ideas which have a deep human note, the Red Cross belongs not to America, but to the world. Washing ton welcomes its guests from abroad -whom the organization has brought here it welcomes them as missionaries of a peace movement which springs from the heart and not from the mind of man. unless the terms of the bankers making tne loan are earned out These terms provide for foreign "assist' ance," to say it diplomatically. In using the money when China receives It So Yuan, after all. knows what he Is about when he halls foreign advice In plsdng the fiscal scheme of China on a Western foundation. Heedless Loss of Life. Events of thepast few weeks have been tragic beyond measure, and the toll of human life that has been ex acted as a price of our progress and advancement in some directions has been large indeed. It is not alone in the fearful devastation that sweeps away hundreds or thousands of our people at one fell blow, as in the Ti tanic horror, or in the enormous loss of life by the unusual floods on the Mississippi, where deaths by hundreds are reported, that our loss is greatest These but emphasize the fearful levy on human life that is being made in our age. Equally strong is the blow and sore the distress when a young life, full of promise and exuberant with the spirit of youth, is blotted out, and, in the end, the sum total of these single bereavements and accidental deaths that are hourly taking place somewhere the length and breadth of our land far exceeds that of the isolated horrors which our people have been too often called upon to deplore. The tragedy of. it all is well-nigh overpowering as the thought "forces it self upon one that much of this sac rifice Is needless and preventable. We have not become hardened to the doc trine 6i the survival of the fittest None of us can rest with tne complacent re flection that had the little victim not contributed to his death by his negli gence, or that it is by such instances that a much-needed lesson of self-pm-j So tar, so good. But the fan ten ted- mau'on as would enable the people of e" of Tuan ,n uk'ng this apparently Jth. ...,. . 1... : .v- ... I "" '"" ' ce " reijr -policy. " """j " ou.c m u.c rai y 1 for. after all. his new republic cannot get and by the best known means the great I b0'A f the great loan it so sadly needs problems of school administration with which every progressive community is constantly being worried. The office of the commissioner should be made that of the highest- authority on education, in the world. As a peo ple we have perfected our sjstetn of education to a most creditable degree. Our schools are excellent We have set a pace for the world to follow, as is becoming to a democratic people who believe in giving every boy and girl an equal chance in life. But right at the very head pf this system, in an office from which might issue invaluable sug gestions and authoritative publications of knowledge that is now needed to both maintain and to increase the high standards set there isr being neglected one of the- greatest possible forces for national and individual good, and the hands of a. most competent and welt qualified official are tied by imperfect recognition of the possibilities of his bureau. Instead of wranglmg over an appropriation of $9,000 to enable this officer to carry out some much-needed investigations there should be placed at his disposal the amount necessary to make it possible to do the very sort of high-class educational publicity work for which the country is suffering. ELEANOR PEREGRIX. Jfew York, May eV Miss Eleanor Pere grin, who for ears nursed wealthy young Walter E. Duryea. who lived for thirteen years with a broken neck, is likely to Inherit another fortune. Cur yea, pften referred t'o his nurse as "my hands, arms, limbs and feet" and upon his death left her a fortune of K00.000. After his death Miss Peregrin Confirmed the rumors that she had refused Dur yea's proposals of marriage aev era times. An estate left by the young man's father, Edgar E". Duryea. who died re cently, estimated at- 11,000.000 has now been distributed among the heirs and there Is a balances ot 1Z7S.U1. Under the will Walter E. Duryea would fall heir to the residuary estate, but under his will the legacy would go to Mils Peregrin. FOR A SWEDISH BATTLE SHIP. 12,000,000 Crowns Subscribed by 1 People Presented to Klnar. Stockholm, Sweden. May ?. The linn cf 11,000.000 crowns (approximately S3, S60.0CO). subscribed by the public for the construction of a battle ship for the Swedish navy, was presented to the TCIng this morning by a deputation represent ing the donors. King Gustsv expressed his profound gratitude for the gift and for the demonstration- of the Swedish people's generosity and patriotism. imra tocu houx Br 'NORVIAV rBCTTT. Frer? tim Tift come to loan Tb tars Jtirt tiddln' Mm ill trans': That tb lion tranter Is the only- boon' ?o emten mils -possasi on tne srotcv CHORUS. 60 emus on boys izxl brine your hotm And ire vlU bent from toon to loan. And cut oar vote so fait and firm. Bo ttm tbere vlll q bo tbird term. Erery time. Taft ccmrs to toon Koosereit kicks bun all arnon . Bet Champ Clark footing Is safe and soon Ana 70a gotta, stop klcxin' &ia davf anon When tb procession starts for the VThJt Honke croon. Champ Clarlr will valre bis bat aroon. And. say: "Bill Taft. tire rat toot croon. Ana roa sous qalt uekm 107 daws; aronnv (Coprrttht. HO.) Another Africans Hero. From tb Cbkaco Port. The hop heads got around to a discus sion of shooting. It had -been demon strated that It was harder to hit a harte beest than an elephant while Thomp son's gazelle offered the main difficulty of Africa. Still, one of the party claimed to have killed one with a .41 and with one hand tied behind his back. The chief dreamer came along with the principal offering. "The western antelope at one time of )ear Is the hardest of all to hit he said. "That Is the tune when concern for his family makes him the fastest wariest keenest-scented animal on four legs. The nearest you can get to him he looks like a speck. "I had practiced on the ranges with a high-powered rifle which was given to me after a contest In Belgium, and after which t was decorated by King Leopold. One day I discerned an antelope with field glasses, and a great idea occurred to me Our ranch had been bothered a eood deal bv covotes Whv not nut poison on the bullets, kill tru antelope and have the carcass kill the coyotes? I bowled the antelope over at the flrst crack a mile and a half away Then I put two more shots Into him to make sure of spreading enough poison. To my surprise seversl cootes gathered shortly afterward although they are us ually night marauders but they wouldn't tonch the carcass. There Is no use shooting at a coyote. because they can dodge bullets, but I managed to sneak up upon them, and I ran two of them down, strangling them with my hands." mr WAR it sox jema, Xw rtmrnf wpt tfaweei la th Xttre Csvaatry. Tmsk the -tasalcsl World. The seedy and sun-kaked 1 emails c the Nile, the arid Uads ot the Teas PanhaaTk.th nitrate fleM U Chess, the desert of Africa In short. drled-out portions ot the earth which ttrt centuries have, resisted the efforts at the, farmer to Be reclaimed by the very thing that his- made them desolate the sun. There was shipped recently from PfcSa delphla to Egypt the flrst section of the first sun-power plant ever Invented and put to practical use. This Is not the ex periment of a dreamer, but the completed and tested work after many months of practical use In Tacony, a suburb of Philadelphia of Frank Shuman of Ta cony." Nor Is this wonderful plant "se ine; sent to .Egypt haphazard; It is going to All an order of 'the Egyptian government an order given after a board ot expert commissioners had spent months at the Tacony plant as special Investigators for the Khedive. It Is backed by Brltsh, capita!, placed only after the most exhaustive Inves tigation, of the practical use of the sun-power plant The Egyptian order was the flrst but not the only one which has been placed In the past several months. With the assurance from the Khedive's commis sioners and from the English finan ciers, orders have begun to pour In from every section of the globe until Mr. Shuman has found It necessary to begin the erection of a plant to make sun-power plants. The work on this plant Is starting now In Philadelphia. Tills, In brief, Is the story of the ulti mate success of years of effort cf work and of testing, but 11 gives only a slight Idea of the great .factor that has entered agricultural and manufac turing development and what this wonderful sun-ray-hsrnesslng machin ery will do. The main object of the sun-power plant is to produce practical power at tne least possible cost Tne idea 01 "harnessing; the sun" has been the dream of inventors and the desire ot the commercial giants for years. Soma efforts have met with a certain amount of success, but not with practical suc cess. Toys, almost have been Invent ed, which were they used for commer cial purposes would prove far too cost- lr to be practicable. It was toward the commercial use ot the sun-power plant that Mr. 8human bent all his efforts. To achieve his end meant high ef ficiency at a low cost ot Installation and operation and with a length ot service which would not make dete rioration a factor. It meant a plant so devised that It would not be unduly af fected by wind and weather and so di vided that If one section broke down it might be repaired without affecting the operation of the other sections. The in ventor bent his efforts to produce a plant that would originally cost no more than about twice aa much as a steam boiler of the same horsepower. The 10.000-horsepower plsnt now being shipped to Egypt meets this every re qutrement ' The plant which has been In opera tion near Tacony Is built low. so low that the winds have never Injured It since It has been In operation. It is ex pected to operate about eight hours a day In the Nile country and in this lat itude It has already turned out 1,200 gallons of water a minute, throwing it to a height o' 33 feet In Egypt it erpected to treble, possibly quadruple. this capacity. r " ' . " vl r . . n d i? nn m - . 4 - ...r:. " J' f ! f' "At 4 M Wwnb.w 1 Mate rer'twestty year:,, sat vM at work serfeueiy at K sasMt a few years aaro, wmb k Mas to expositions, jsrsaresetvissa conventions all at the ft Is now a ssaseive Com- nawwHh Hh TW.080 people the I&KI atlv aad referendum, the recall, three rtvat restreed systems, 7,M- real estate aaeat. aaa Mny other features which be teea during business hours lnv wKaln Us borders. Orecea Xas been known ever since Messrs. Xwli & Clark, the celebrated esieers team, discovered It In ISM, but It task half a century to find some use for it. la 1M Oregon was a raw and un- knewa Jatertor with a run of settled cosmtry around two sides. A railroad ran along these two sides and allowed the 17B.0W Oregonlans a small commis sion ea their products, after deducting freight charges. About this time, how ever, 11 was discovered thst by supply ing an ordinary apple tree with an Irri gation .oitca, a trained nurse, a mas seuse, an osteopath and soft music dur ing the spring season, the famous Ore gon apple could be produced. Since this discovery, Oregon hs grown rapidly and Is now covered with happy agriculturists lowering red apples out of their pedi grees orcnara trees with derricks and shipping them East to sell In Wall Street at S cents a bite. Oregon still consists mostly of desert and forest but It Is rapidly being con ventionalized by the sawmill and the Irri gating ditch. It abuts California on the south, and the Pacific "Ocean on the west and la successfully separated from Washington by the Columbia River. I wkic ts still strongly Jmpratl with t taaaatM red salmon which hs braaaht sgore cold to Oregon than Its placer mhsea In the southern counties. Oregon has a large variety of climate, laclueiss; perpetual snow on severs -' tsaeive mountains, perpetual dreucht la Its tetsrior and perpetual rala In the vidaKy of Portland, where umbrella are )'y& J made without any doatnr device. Ore gon people'are enterprising; sociable, and deeply Interested la politics. Amending the Constitution Is the favorite Oregon amusement having practically displaced baseball, while public officials are so dl dle that If a legislator wishes to smoke a cigarette he does so behind the wood shed where the stem eye of the recall cannot see hira- (OotrrrUnt HH, br Gearo Mittbew Adams.) "STATESMEN, REAL AND NEAR. Bv FRED a KELLY. NOTED COINS. the FUNNYBIRDS. BED CB0SS CLABA BABT0N. Her history Is written in the hearts of her countrymen and countrywomen. Her fame will live throughout the ages. Buffalo Times. "What a record was hers of devotion to suffering humanity, of ministration to' the afflicted by war. pestilence, famine or f nooo. New York world. For this noble woman the bugle of peace Immortal was sounded and sweet ly, simply trustfully she has answered me neavemy can. Baltimore Sun. Uster and Barton. In the storied urns which mortal dust supply, rest thee amonc the Immortal nimn that v.r. nor. Dora to die. New York- American. No "story of the development of the. jxii century can oe complete without taking Into account the career of this remarkable woman. Blnghamton Press. The world lrr the better for the ex ample of such women more especially when suchtan example Is re-enforced by the practical beneficence of high-minded endeavor, Philadelphia Ledger. aer reuer wont took $er to many countries,, so tnat she became a veteran ot wars fought under other flats, and where there was famine, floods, pesti lence, tragedies and calamities of pace this noble and Indefatigable woman was found. TJtlca Hersld-Dlspatch. More than any other womsn In this country she has endeared herself to the men and, women whose welfare had. In terested her. She was the founder ofthe American branch of the Red Cross, and she It was who initiated the Idea of eil tindlng the work td sufferers by flood or tornado or conflagration or sit other calamity. uuca Observe i mirWMMrWKt - r'-p3Sc JasasakX,.v VMS 3KnM.W- i yBBBBm llftiT MWB. Pii5?"5 IMvM WitoMbGSgg V twLll77A CSf Ari&TSu&S'' ft (sHawiif WtK if "(PsHKu dLsaVkac ; tr -rifflW. -I '" COPR. I I IftlHJl-s. ' t""T 1 i Penny Was In I'm Before CbrUtlan Era, Say Critics. The penny was In use before the Chris tian era, and Is mentioned In the Bible. It was Introduced into England In the seventh century, and appears in the laws of Ina, King of the West Saxons. The name Is derived from the word pendo, meaning "to weigh." and IW pennies were fabricated out of a pound weight ot sli ver In this manner twenty-four grains of silver the pennyweight became the crlglnal unit of the Egllsh currency An English penny Is 2 cents In American money. The gold penny, worth 3 pence. was the earliest coinage of gold in Eng land, appearing under Henry III In the year iza The shilling, known In England from the earliest times. Is probably the Roman eolldus or aureus numraus, the flrst gold com 01 Rome, struck 30. 13. C., and worm aoout 15.10 In American money. Some derive the name from schellen. "to ring," because of the peculiar ring of the coin. The English shllUna- Is silver. being one-twentieth of a pound sterling vine nne Tree shilling Is American. having been coined In the colony of Mas sachusetts, when Cromwell was turning .England upside down. The Beard Token was a copper coin, struck by Peter the Great of Russia. In YXl, to be given to those who paid the tax of So roubles. every year for privilege of wearlnc-beads. The Russian rouble of 17T9 wss of gold. That of 1S37 was of sliver, but both of the same value about 75 cents. The American cent named from ths Latin centum, meaning a hundred, was coined In 1TSH, and contained eleven pen- nyweignts or copper. Half cents In the same proportion were coined from 179! till 1SS7. when the cent was changed to seventy-two grains, being SS per cent copper and 12 per cent nickel. By an act ot Congress ot ISX the S-cent piece was sumonzea. it la composed of copper and nickel snd weighs sev entj -sev en grains. The sliver dime was coined In 17Sw but the silver 3-cent piece was unknown prior to ISSL Doles, sums Of monev siren at funmla in England. Scotland, and Ireland, are saposea to nark back to the sin offer ings of the Hebrews. Denarius w h chief silver coin- among the ancient Rom- ars, ana was worth about IS cents. a oucat was anr coin of cold or silver struck by a duke, and had various val ues. The first was coined by the Duke of Ravenna, when Justin was Emperor. Doubloon Is a gold coin of Spain. Mex ico, ana south America, worth about SIS. Farthing means fourthlng, being orig inally the fourth nart of a wnnv. Th shekel of sliver among the ancient Jews was worth about cents, and that of gold about 1(L A touch piece was a gold coin struck during the reign ot Charles H, and was given- to each person the King had touched to- cure the King's eviL When be lets himself out Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, can reach depths of sartorial Imperfection that place him In a category by himself. Borah Is pleasant affable, able, and all that but when he ippears In the Senate In bis favorite outfit consisting ot a blue double-breasted coat light gray trousers be longing to another suit and a vest be longing to still another, the only thing that saves his associates from being shocked to death Is the fact that they are used to it As a youngster, Borah craved the life of a railroad conductor. Though he after ward changed his mind and studied law, be has never brought himself to give up the Idea ot a blue double-breasted coat He Is frequently twitted about the dif ferent trouser combinations with which he supplements the blue coat but be seems to care not what folks think, sc long as he has the satisfaction of know ing that he Is not bound to so epnem eral a thing as current fashion. Some day, he fetle certain, the fashion plates will catch up with the blue coat and light trousers coalition, and then he wll! be in a position to laugh raucously at those who wear garments that match. A fw days sgo Representative Tim Ansberry paused to reason with Borah. "What are you doing trying to reach the apogee of Insurgency from the dic tates of fashion r inquired Tim. And he upbraided poor Borah at a greac rate. "WelL sir. you may be surprised to hear It" replied Borah, "but a certain Senator remarked to me the other day that I came nearer than any other man in the chamber to dressing as a Senator should dress. He said ' 'Hold on. there!" Interrupted Tim. "The only man that could have told you that with a clear conscience was Mr. Gore, the blind Senator" "Why, what a coincidence," gasped Borah. "That a precisely what my wife said when I started to tell her about It' A Democratic member of Congress sauntered Into a cloakroom with Mr. Uncle Joe Cannon and remarked: "Honestly, Mr. Cannon, sometimes I don't believe you're half as bad as you're painted. I've been reading mean things about you for years and enjoyed them all and agreed with them, but I'm willing to assume that perhaps some of them were more or less exaggerated. The former Speaker wrinkled up his face In that tunny smile of his and said: "As a matter of fact It people want to get hold of a lot ot mean, ornery things about me. I'd be glad to tell them things w orse than any that have yet been said." Representative Calder; the sole surviv ing Republican from Greater New Tork. has a superstition that If he ever at tempts to memorize a speech or part of one he is certain to disgrace himself. When he ran for Congress the flrst time be prepared a beautiful speech and memorized it But that was the last time. He wrote the speech out and then rewrote it After that he went all over It putting la euphonious words here and apt phrases there. It was a masterly speech. Calder thought When it was practically perfect he learned It learned It so thoroughly that he could say It forward or backward from any given starting point Then he practiced the finer bits of Inflection and gestures, standing in front of the big mirror In the spare bedroom. A week before the speech was to be sprung he had it all down so .pat that his wife said it was a work or art. une went to near mm on tLe opening night of the campaign. Calder mumbled the flrst two sen tences, looked at the sea of faces in front of htm. and forgot all the rest of his speech. When be reached home his wife looked up from a sofa pillow where she had been giving herself up to sobby. moist woe. and moined: "Oh. you were awfuL" "I know It" said Calder. "Hereafter X won't write out my speeches before hand, and then I can't forget 'em." The next time he preached just from notes on the back of a caning card, and his work brought out many encomiums. To-day he Is a first-rate speaker. "The day I took my seat In the Sen ate," remarked Senator Brown, of Ne braska, recently. "I was jtronglyre- minded ot my flrst Uy in court" "And he went on to tell about the court In-' ddent Brown, even now a mild-mannered man. was feeling greatly subdued by the ordeal of trying his flrst law case. "When 'the examination of wit nesses began. Brown. In order to appear at ease. leaned far back In his chair, the way he had seen grizzled old law yers doing, and made objections. The opposing counsel, seeking to upset the youngster, leaped to his feet and shouted across the table at Brown "Young man. when you make an ob jection, stand on your feet perplnd!elar. understand" And Brown, looking much humiliated, obeyed, just as he' had been on the other lawyer'a pay rolt "If anybody had suddenly shouted at me to stand on my feet perplndlc1ar when I flrst took my seat here." saya Brown. "I think I should have done so." Manuel Quezon, one ot the Philippine Commissioners in Congress, could not speak a word ot English when he struck San. Francisco on his way to Waahln-;-ton. Six months lster he waa making speeches In Congress, and everybody could understand him. (Copjr'sat, 311. br Trrt C Krilj AH rights n- scrrea.! Say. landlord; I thought you said this was a. quiet flat." "Well, how could 1 know that you; would hsng around home on, Sunday!" Receptive and Not Worrrlng. Fran the r-roridnic Journal. Among those mentioned. Gov. "Tom" Marshall ot Indiana Is of issus! Interest An tinkling of a character easier to-rous than to ruffle was afforded when the Governor, after granting the extradl t'on papers which enabled tho poueo to "kidnap" the McNamaras, not only fs.llf.rt to txpress xegrct for what he had dine, but declared he would have taken the same course, as a matter of executive responsibility, even had he known that the accused were persona of Uncommon celebrity and Influence, Gov. Marshall, like Representative Underwood, mani fests no concern over his fortunes. Un like Mr. Underwood, he Is. .not the bene ficiary ot active operations by friends. The Governor does regard himself aa a dark-horse possibility, and in that finds ample satisfaction. His air of content should refresh the 'spectators ot tur bulent preliminaries In other camps. The Indiana delegation is Instructed for him. of course, snouia the .Baltimore con vention become so snarled up that It can not choosif anybody else it might do worse that to let Indiana name the caa- oldate. MADEE0, 0B0ZC0, MEXICO. Another "sassy" note from Medero, and the State Department may And It necessary to resort to the stem expe dient of sending an American football team down there to straighten things out It might have been better, after alt If we had let Maximilian establish that empire of his In Mexico. Mexico always meant Uncle Sam tor a chaperon and not for a rival. Mexico administers a well deserved re proof to the newspaper advertising di plomacy ot the United States. The $7,000,000,000 of American money In vested in Mexican railroads and other enterprises 4s enough to give the govern ment at Washington cerlous concern. life and property must be protected, and In modem times property la es teemed more valuable than life. Just think what would have happened to Mexico b- this time if the Rough Rider had been In the White House. The Mexican ship of state will think It has struck a vast Iceberg if Ameri can citizens in Mexico are not accorded' the proper treatment Mexican, general robbed a bank and he didn't have to flee to Canada, either, Mexico's shoulders are hardly .broad enough to carry chips. Spanish pride may oe making tor another fait The only Teal charge against President Medero- is that he holds an office that other people covet It Mexico gets huffy over our note of warning, will It be because she thinks she Is too wise to have one word suffice? It la not knofm yet whether Gen. Orczco will look upon Uncle 8am as a meddler. Mexico's reply reads like a play to the anti-American element at home in ordtr to divert it from Orozco. The Mexican government Is disposed to resent a demand on the part of the government of the United States that the property ot Americans who have Invested la Mexico shall be safeguarded. lit saouM be remembered that ths Mexi can government haa troubles which naturally make It a bit grouchy. Nevertheless, the Mexican war will have to wait until next week. Madero seems to be as optimistic as the manager ot a baseball team. He now says he will end the revolution in Mexico in two months. Neesltr. George M. Cohan, at an aftsr-theater-supper at Delmonlco's, was talking about the "turkey trot" "There's a moving little story about the turkey troV " he said, -with his dreamy smile; "a story that Illustrates well the vicissitudes of an actor's life. "An elderly actor said In despair to a theatrical agent one day: "Is tbere nothing -you can do for rne! I've hung around your office, out of work, for eight months now "The agent, as he polished his diamond ring with his red silk handkerchief, an swered thoughtfully: '"'Look here. Bring yourself up to date. The "turkey trot" Is all the go. You train some animal or bird to do the "turkey trot" with you, and 1 11 get you on one of the circuits at a three-figure salary.' l-Tbe old actor thanked the agent grate fully; He bought an ostrich from a re tired circus man. and after a lot of hard work be taught the bird to turkey trot' with him splendidly Then he reported himself to the agent sum." "But the agent for all his 'promises, had nothing to offer. The poor fellow turned up every day for a while, then every other day, then every third day. but there was nothing doing, and at last a week went by without his appearance at the agent's office "Then the agent sent for blm and said: Wetl. rve fixed you up at last Tve booked you for that turn of yours at "- It's too late now.' he said "Too latst How is It too later saW the agent frowning. " Tve had to eat my partner, muttered the old actor." A Yonthfol SolOmoa. Trent Jodie. school Inspector asked the children of they could quote any text of Scripture which forbade a man having two wives. One cf the children sagely Quoted in reply the text: "No man caa serve two masters."