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TEACHING PATRIOTISM. t
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Xove of Country One of the Host J
AhnrlcHnfll nf TTnmnn Sentiments. a
From the London S|?ectator.
In his speech at Brail field College on ^
Friday week Lord Roberts dealt with the x
objection so often urged against military c
training in schools?that It will create a J
taste f<>T War in the English people. He j
Hrgum, wiseij enougn, uiui, un me tun- j (
trary. it was the best deterrent to a fool- r
ish Jingoism, which had for Its chief in- *
jtredient ignorance of what fighting meant. ?
A man who has got to the stage of knowl- c
edge which consists in realizing how little c
lie knows will be much less inclined to t
venture rashly than the man whose self- J
conceit lias never been wounded by a prac- a
tical test. But. anxious as we are to see f
every boy trained to arms, we are still c
more anxious to see him trained to >
patriotism. We are far too ready to )
assume that the common virtues are i
finished products', given or denied to
men at the beginning. We argue that j
those who have not family affection ?
or the love of country are people who. as ^
m-e say. are "wanting." They are sup- ^
posed to have some flaw in the structure a
of their being which cannot be remedied ^
by taking thought. Such a view has no j
warrant in psychology or in common ex- c
prrience. A child may by n iture or by f
the accidents of his early training have no ?
proper sense of honor, but if he falls Into
(rood hands he may turn out an honorable
man. Or he may begin life with a
complete Insensibility to the beauties of
nature, and by a fortunate chance find the ]
eecret of appreciation. It is a dangerous
r.nd shallow creed which dogmatizes on the
absence of special qualities as a sign of i
Borne mental or moral deficiency that can
not be supplied. Michael Angelo saw In
every block of marble a statue, from which '
It was the artist's duty to strike off the
encumbering flakes. So, too, with the character
of the child. The statue is there, if
we can only get rid of the shell. The
creative hand may never touch It, and the
block may remain to the end dull and
formless; but there is the permanent
Chance of making something of beauty and
value out of the stone. This view to the g
philosopher may be a fallacy, but it Is one
of those working assumptions of life without
which progress is unthinkable.
We have long desired to see the teaching
of patriotism made one of the foundations
of our education. Our business is to train
the young to become not only good men
and women, but good citizens. If education
is a state duty, then this ideal must
be the Justification of state effort. A man
may be virtuous and capable, and yet remain
an Isolated unit, his creed one of individual
attainment uninfluenced by any
corporate responsibility. But patriotism
means the sense of citizenship, the individual's
belief that happiness must be
sought and ambitions realized In and
through the community of human beings
of which he Is a member. It has many
elements in it. First, there Is the love of
country, the homely affection which a man
feels for the place where he was born and
has grown up in. It Is one of the most
aboriginal of human sentiments, and may
be narrowed Into love of a parish or broadened
and deepened Into a kind of imperial
patriotism. People often argue as if such
love, to be Intense, must have for Its object
something i-mall and private?a house,
a village, a glen?and that If It Is expanded
over a wider area it becomes thin and
feeble. But there is no warrant for this
view either in history or psychology. Such
action is not a thing of limited amount
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vhich man is endowed with at the outset;
t Is a dynamic quality, growing In volume
vith experience and reflection, and may atach
with equal power to an empire aa to
i parish. Joined with this love of country
v. ? ??... t? I - . * ' - 1 "
uti v in a cci tain niiricsi in num&mty. A
nan feels that his Interests transcend hlmielf,
that his life must be lived among
nen, and that he can attain true well-being
inly through the aid of his fellows. The
miversal humanltarlanism of the school of
tousseau and Jefferson may be a very
eeble passion; certainly In Isolation it tends
o become an unlovely mixture of sentinent
and selfishness. But patriotism involves
some kindliness toward humanity
it large. If for no other reason than that
his feeling must lie at the bottom of the
ivic sense. No misanthrope can ever he n
itizen. The corrective Is supplied by the
hird element, the love of race. The parlot
realizes that he has been created by
^ovidence not only a man, but a man of
i special group, with a history behind him
ihared by the other members, and with
lertain political Ideals before him to which
le and they are committed. There need
>e no Chauvinism in the feeling, for it is
>ased, not negatively on hostility to other
rroups. but positively on kinBhtp with one.
knd the result of all these elements Is that
i man lirlf iKIUSt'Il KU UOUIia UP With ttl
lestlnles of his country that he regards
ler misfortunes as his own, her interests
.s his, looks upon all the problems of life
vith that grave idealism which is only
>?8Hlble when selfishness is forgotten, and
omes to entertain for that country which
lymbolizos all that is best in his aims
lomething of the passion of a lover.
NEW YOHK'S NEW SCHOOLS.
Tew of the Buildings Make Pretensions
of Architectural Beauty.
riom the New York PreM.
When the public schools of Greater New
fork open September 10 six new scholastic
>ulldings of the most approved modern
ype will be ready for occupancy. Before
November has passed six more school
>ulldings will have been completed. These
welve ne>w structures, together with the
rings and additions to those already In
ise, will Increase the seating capacity
18.400. Great as this number may seem,
t Is far inadequate to the needs of the
>eople. The latest obtainable figures from
he board of education show that there are
0.243 children on part time. Deducting
rom this the additional seating capacity
if the new schools, leaves a balance of
learly 38,0(10 who must perforce be put on
>art time. Add to this the natural increase
>f population. It Is a conservative estimate
hat 50,000 children will not be fully pro
iui. A<i)ur jiuv-ieuan s promise or "a
leat for every child" Is still unfulfilled.
There are two things about the plans of
;ht??e new school buildings which tend to
?how to how great an extent the building
department of the board of education Is
endeavoring to use the money at its disposal
to the best and most economical ad
vantage. These are the abandonment of
,he wealth of architectural ornamentation
:hat has been such a striking and pleasing
Mature of the modern public schools and
;he utilization of the spare ground adjolnng
the schools In the older parts of the
joroughs of the Bronx and Brooklyn for
:he erection of wing*. In many cases theso
vlngs afford a greater seating capacity
han the original building, and yet the cost
las been kept down to a marked degree
>y making use of the aide walla already In
pl&c*.
THE FIGHT-HOUR lift
Railway Postal Clerks Claim 1
Benefit of It.
THE LIFE IS STRENUOUS 1
Hard Work and Much Study Their '
Lot.
THE RAINY DAY COMES SOON (
How It Goes Between Washington ]
and Greensboro, Which is an
Average Bun.
The railway postal clerks, with headquar- f
ters In Washington, along with their brethren
throughout the country, are waiting
almost with bated breath for the decision ?
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ui uic Auuiutry uciiciai its iu wucuici uicj
are entitled to the benefit of the eight- 1
hour law or not. At their recent conven- 1
tion in Chicago they adopted a resolution *
declaring that they believed themselves ?
entitled to an eight-hour day, and petition- ^
ing the department to allot their work to
them on that basis. The post office department
referred the matter to the Department
of Justice, and it is on the decision reached r
there that the whole matter deiwndB.
In stating to the postal clerks that he j
would refer the matter to the Attorney j
General for decision the Postmaster Gen- f
eral said that it would be Impossible to
allow a railway postal clerk to work eight r
hours and then rest sixteen, that the eight r
hours might be up right In the middle of t
a run, and that It would entail such a 1
vastly Increased force and afford so little \
actual reuer as to* rentier it entirely mex- t
pedient. 1
Answer of the Clerks. a
To this the clerks make answer that they 't
want no such provision, but that they 1
simply want to be placed on an equality j,
with other government employes. They r
say that they do not ask to be relieved
at the end of an eight-hour shift, but ^
that they simply want to get credit for n
the work they do over and above that. a
They point out that every other government B
employe gets his Sundays and holidays oft, h
but that they do not. Now, all they ask h
Is that they be required to work only an h
average of eight hours per day during a
each working day of the year. They assert e
that the government requires every con- p
tractor for government work to comply o
with tkot n-lxnlnlo ?- ?<- - 1
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est laborer they have, and that It applies p
the principle to every other class of em- g
ployes it has, and then they significantly c
ask why they alone are debarred from Ji
the benefits of the principle. a
The public knows but very little about ?
the duties of the men who while trains go n
bounding through the country at some fltty q
miles an hour are aboard those trains s
working for dear life to get the malls as- tl
sorted and prepared so that every man may p
get his letter at the earliest possible moment. r<
For "strenuosity," as one of them styled L
it to the writer, it has every other voca- c;
tlon left at the post. In the making of a
railway postal clerk he has to pass a phys- s]
leal examination that Is about as rigid a
as any physical examination ever required tl
by the government. If he Is not a per- n
feet specimen of health and development e
he stands about as mimh Rhnw nt irottino r
into the service as an Icicle stands in a ?
furnace. When he passes this examination Ii
he has yet other worlds to conquer in the tl
mental examination. This examination is T
about as rigid as any required in the civil o
service. J<
The Making of a Clerk. L
If our would-be clerk steers safely 4
through the tortuous channels of these o
two examinations he in then reaAv tn An
ter the government service as a substitute
railway postal clerk, his pay being at the cl
rate of $800 per year for the time actually g,
served. The embryo clerk is given what n
is known as a "scheme." which Is a list fl:
of the post offices of a given state, ar- g
ranged by counties. He is also furnished r<
with a schedule of ail mail trains for the et
division in which he is employed?the *1
United States being divided Into eleven
divisions. He has to get himself what ti
is known as a case. It being a sauare about ..
one yard square, and having some 800 t]
pigeon holes In It. corresponding to the y
distributing ease the traveler sees In the a
mall cars. Then he has to get some 8,000 Bl
little cards, on the one side of which he p
writes the names of the post offices In hla
territory and on the other Bide he writes p
the name of the county In which It is lo- jj,
cated and the Junction prints through a
which It may be reached. He must get all
these things down so pat that he can put
every card In its proper pigeon-hole by looking
at the post office written on Its face and w
without looking at the county or the Junetlon
point written on Its back. These cards a
and the pigeon holes correspond with the .
letters and the case on the actual train
runs. The new clerk must get these things
down so pat that he can put the cards In
their proper place at the rate of about .
forty a minute. When he Is ready to go I,
before the chief clerk of his division and .
do this he does so. If he succeeds In do- .
ing It to the satisfaction of the chief clerk
he is said to have passed his first exami- I;
nation. Then he has to master another R
list Just as big and then another, and so
on until he has some fifteen or twenty
thousand post offices at his fingers' end, so **
as to be able to throw letters into the'.r ?
proper cases at a rate of some forty a f"
minute when he goes Into the mall car. If i'
he puts letters In the wrong pigeon holes i
he gets fined for each error, and the more ?
mlsthrows he makes the less likely Is he ,
to get a promotion. 81
A Sample Bun. el
One may g?t a very good Idea of what ?
iiic TTVI IV VJL ? * IM1 <rr vvrwucu L1T5I R 119 Uy ^
taking for an example the run on Southern
trains No. 37 and No. 38. between Washington
and Greensboro, N. C. The distance
Is 288 mdlee. No. 37 leaves Washington
at 10:45 at night, arriving at 'T
Greensboro at 6:55 next morning. The
clerks on this train have to go to work c'
at about 4 o'clock in the evening1 in the P
Washington yards, so as too prepare the 81
mall for distribution en route. Tney have a
to work practically fifteen hours without ?
intermission, even if the train is on time,
whereas it is more often two hours late "
than it Is on time. The mere matter of ?
keeping one's feet and accommodating him- P
self to the Jarring and lurching of the c'
train during the better part of the time P
makes a prtetty hard day's work, but -when . *
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uuv i ciieciuiia:! o iii?i uui'iiis hub ume ine ?:
clerks have to hand4e tons of letters and c
other mall, throwing each piece Into its *
proper place with an accuracy and a speed
that Is little short of marvelous, and would P
be so even while a train was standing still,
he sees what the cierk has to do, and that ?
he Is not far from the truth when he tells 1
you that he has to do- two men's work
while he is on duty. When he gets to J1
Greensboro, he gets his breakfast and a ''
bed In which to sloop a few hours. At *
about 4 o'clock he must have finish**! Ms *
nap and hds meals and foe back In his car *
at work on the accumulated mail for the ?
return trip. His train leaves Greensboro fat
10:G1, and reaches Washington at 6:55 ^
next morning. Again the train is more *
often- two hours late than on time, and *
the clerk's work is lengthened according- ?
ty. When the clerk gets back to Wash- *
liiBiuii ne may uiuvv iwu or inrtre reporw
to make out and departmental teeters tt>
answer before he gets to beef. At 4 o'clock
In the evening he must be ready for the
same trip a?aln. He works thus for six c
days, making three trips, and then he gets 7
six days off. .
nnilt hA o Cairo f^r l? tVn, via aUm.11 i ?I 1
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the same deductions for Sundays and hoi*- 11
daye that other government e<rrq>loyes cure t<
given, and that beyond that he ahaJl not a
be required to apend more Chan an aver- f,
age of eight hours a day In the actual a
duties of his poettlon. It depends on the t
forthcoming opinion of the Attorney Gen- ?
erai wiietoer be ehail get it or sot. s
rnmmrn trip
_ord Mayor Combination of
Charity and Shrewdness.
/ATICAN AND THE FRENCH
Bus Trust Likely to Raise the Price
of Fares.
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II. Antoine Will Not Even Feature
Melba as a "Headlitier"
In His Bills.
Ipeclal Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, October 6, 1908.
Both the Paris and London newspapers
ire "booming" the forthcoming visit to the
rrench capital of London's new lord mayor,
vlth all his splendid trappings of office, his
fold coach, which 1s 130 years old; his gorpeous
flunkies and attendant sheriffs and
ildermen. The visit, with the procession at
indent London along the boulevards of
?arls, will be as good as a circus or kind of
heatrlcal display for the Parisians. It is
lomethlng they have always heard about?
he glory of London's "lord mayor/* who is
text to the king In imnortance and before
vhoee shining light that of the house of
ords pales. Now Paris will see him in all
lis glory and in raiment that would put
Solomon to shame.
Sir William Tretoar, a well-known carpet
nerchant, w.ho is personally a shrewd buslless
man, public-spirited citizen and pracIcal
philanthropist, has combined the qualtles
of all these three in the long career
rhlch is about to be crowned by his wel>von
exaltation to the position of lord
nayor. To those outside the citv. no rtnubt
le will appeal most Irresistibly In hlg chartcter
as fairy godfather of poor cripples;
nit it has not needed the prominence begot en
by this special work to impress those
irho know him In any capacity with the
:lndly and straightforward nature of the
nan.
Sir William has been In opposition as fre[Uentiy
as any other city councilor who
eeis tnat reforms are needed, but his puglaclty
has nothing offensive In It, and there
.re few o.f those who have fought his
ehemes who would not admit his thorough
onesty of purpose. Success has not puffed
ilm up, and It has been a treat for the Bolemlan
sometimes to observe the worthy
lderman wearing court costume with an
asiness of deportment that contrasts hap11
y with the absurd exclusivenesa of some
ther dignitaries in the same circumstances.
The widening of Ludgate hill, the aproach
to St. Paul's Cathedral, is the bigest
feather, perhaps, which decorates the
Ivic cap of Alderman Treloar, and he is
astifiably proud of the diamond brace!?et
nd the service of plate which were preented
to Lady Treloar and himself as a
lemento of this triumph. On the Sunday
uestlon, too, the lord mayor-elect has
trong views with regard to the liberty of
lie subject, and a portrait of himself,
alnted by Horsley, is a possession which
eminds him of the National Sunday
.eague's gratitude for his work in their
ause.
Sir WilMam is a delightful after-dinner
weaker and a diner-out who Is much sought
fter as a guest. In the midst of the good
nlngs which prosperity has brought him he
ever forgets the claims of the poor, and
specially of the poor children, and his
hrlatmas banquet to them at the Guild
[ail Is one of the features of the civic year,
t is one of the Ironjes of circumstances
lat sucn a couple as sir William and Lady
i-eloar shouM have no children of their
wn, but they have completed their family
)ys toy the adoption of a son and daughter,
.ady Treloar Is delicate, but not too deliite
to perform the more Important of the
utlos which will . fall to her as lady mayress.
The Pope Stands Pat.
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hance that )ess intransigeant counsels reardlng
the religious question In France
lay in the end prevail in the Vatican. The
Ispute between the Vatican and the French
overnment seems gradually getting narjwed
down to the famous article 4 of the
ipar&Uoa law. the article providing for le
creation of the Associations Cultuelles,
> take over and administer the property
t the church, or, rather, the property of
le government, which it is proposed to '
ansfer to these associations In trust for
le use of the church. The pope rejects
lem because they are composed of laymen 1
rid no bishops being respected, thus detroylng
the hierarchy, which Is a vita)
rinclple of the Roman Catholic Church,
he pope, in a recent Interview with a 1
rench Journalist, demanded that the chamer
of deputies and the senate should pass
n amendment to the law giving satlsfacon
to his demands, but this I regard as
nposslble. 1
If the law goes back to the chamber It i
111 be reformed, perhaps, but not In a ,
Lshlon the Vatican would Kite. It will be
,?i?^ I t liu- i T*ri?m
muio iuvoi ski auu icbb n<ucra>. vv iitJ-L
le more moderate men in France desire is
lat the pope should content himself with
n Interpretation of the law by the council ,
' state, safeguarding the hierarchical prinIple.
When a law is passed in France by
le parliament it is sent to the council' of 1
tate, which goes through it and furnishes i
idication of the fashion in which its pro- i
Isions are to be interpreted. This inter- .
retatlon is sometimes as important as the
lw itself, especially if the act| of parliament
have been loosely drawn up by incom
stent private members. No Interpretation
f the separation law has yet been issued,
nd It will 'be time enough for the Vatican
) declare war when this Is unsatisfactory.
! only the extremists on both sides do not
rive things into an absolute Impasse there
i no reason why some modus vlvendl ,
nouM not be found. ,
The great mass of the French people deIre
to avoid a religious war and will welsme
any arrangement that will bring
bout p*acf. First and foremost In this
re the French bishops.
Threatened "'Bus Trust."
London is now threatened with a 'bus
ust, and so I Buppose we will be talk- ]
ig of the bloated 'bus capitalist. It was 1
levitable that the various motor 'bus
ompanies which have grown to such a '
rnmlnence in London's traffic should con- ,
ider seriously the effects of their rivalry,
nd the news that four of them are conIderlng
the advantages of combination
i not surprising. It Is a notable fact, I
owever, that neither of the two great
ompanles which have done the major
art of passenger carrying in the past is
oncerned In the scheme as it stands at
resent, though an authority with whom
discussed the question thought It quite ,
robable that the London General Omnibus ,
'nmnfinv would he wllllne to 1oln. The
ime hopes are not entertained of the :
Load Car Company, the other big comany,
which has played the part of the
idependent reformer In previous years,
nd which Is not expected to give up Its '
idependence now.
With a combined capital of ?4,000,000,
owever, the amalgamated companies
whose number with the London General I
rould be six) would have little fear in the
'ay of competition, and It Is extremely '
Keiy trial me ?cueum win u? reuiuea.
'ares will Increase, of course?and the
iondoner still In trouble with the Disrlct
Railway will resent this?but It Is
sserted by the projectors of the trust that
lie slight rl?e will be more than recomensed
by the enhancement of comfort
nd reliability In the time tables which
lust ensue.
Turner's Cottage for Sale.
There Is a chance for a wealthy Amerlan
to distinguish himself by purchasing
'urner's cottage. Mr. Maxwell Balfour,
he painter who lived in the cottage on
he riverside at tjneisea, nas given up nis
enancy, and the cottage is for sale. There
3 a hint that It will probably make way
or residential flats. Very little has been 1
ltered in It since Turner lived obscurely
here, and the neighbors called him Mr.
tooth, or "Admiral Booth," out of re- I
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with its rails like a little bridge deck, can
still be seen from the road. Turner had
the faculty common to many remarkable
men of awaking at any hour that he had
determined upon before going to bed, and
he is said to have struggled up to the roof
swathed in a blanket to greet the sun and
make notes of the sky.
He told William Kingsley that he never
missed a single sunrise and not many sunsets
after he rented the cottage. The accuracy
of Thornbury's life of Turner is
not now accepted as it used to be. but the
story how within an hour of his death his
landlady wheeled the painter to the window
to look at the sunshine on the river
is one of the great legends of the Thames
that must be true. You can see the window
just over the trees in the little front
garden. Here surely is a chance for the
Turner enthusiasts, who compose one of
the wealthiest bodies in the world. The
cottage and its grounds are to be bought
for the sum which not few collectors have
made out of the rise in the value of his
pictures.
Till a bodv of subscribers in 1900 bought
from the executors of the late Earl of
Wharncliffe for ?6,500, and presented to
the public Burne-Jones' "King Cophetus
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miu l uc jdcgeai maiu, uiic ui inc iiiubi
representative works of his middle period,
the Imaginative painter of the angels of
pity and of love was unrepresented at the
Tate Gallery. Under the will of the late
Mr. William Imrie, one of the owners of
the White Star Line, there will In due time
be added Burne-Jones" large "Free of
Forgiveness." It shows two fhll-length
nude figures, occupying nearly the whole
of the picture space, projected forward toward
the spectator with the anatomy of
the limbs In powerful relief. The picture
was painted in 1882, and first seen at the
Grosvenor Gallery that year in the East
Room, close by the Venetian interior by
Sargent and Watt's now widely-known |
"Dove That Returned Not Again." Mr.
Imrie's "Rosetti," destined for the Tate
Qallery, where already is his exquisitely
pure "Ecce Aneilla Domini." painted In
1849-50, and retouched In 1873, is of almost
equal interest. It Is a smaller version than
that in the Walker Art Gallery of "Dante's
Dream," where Dante is led by Love to the
bier of Beatrice. The pictures will be eminently
welcome when the time comes for
thpm to h? handed to th<? nation.
Hard on the Stars.
M. Antolne, the new manager of the
Odeon, the state theater of Paris, is evlflently
determined to have no nonsense
ver the "star" system. His posters for
his first production give the names of the
whole of the company in one and the same
type, with nothing to distinguish the principals
from the merest cypher in the cast.
By adoptinK an alphabetical order a fur
ther blow Is. dealt to a system which it Is
anticipated the Edna May Incident of ten
(Jays ago will help to do away with altogether.
It may not be generally known
that at Covent Garden there is never any
"featuring" of grand opera artists. The
names of Melba and Caruso, for instance,
are printed in exactly the same type as
those of the other artists, the names being
arranged in the order in which the characters
are set out by the composer in the
?ai >uua \jyx:iao.
M. Antolne's departure Is, therefore,
only new In so far as he Is applying the
Covent Garden system to the bills of ordinary
plays. Qrand opera represents the
zenith of stage art, the specific abilities
of the artists being far and away beyond
any other branch of the theatrical cult.
"Featuring" and "starring" would seem,
therefore, to be associated with the more
ephemeral side of the stage. In some theaters
the practice obtains of printing the
names of tne cast In the order In which
they make their appearance on the stage.
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nui yjin v uucfl hub ncip ulc auuience HI
opce to know who's who, but is a step In
the direction of equalizing matters, at all
events In the pragrams. L. H. MOORE.
Pioneer in Flash Signals.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Another remarkable detail of the antelope's
anatomy is the white area on each
buttock. Although it seems at first like
the rest of his spots, a mere patch of white
coat, it is found to be specialized for an
Important service. It is composed of hair
5* aucu iiuui onui i in me v.diic-1 IU lung ai
the front edges. Under the skin of the part
Is a circular muscle, by means of which
the hair can In a moment be ra.'sed and
spread radically Into two great blooming
twin chrysanthemums, more or less flattened
at the center. When this is done In
bright sunlight they shine line tin pans,
giving flashes of light that can be seen
further than the animal itself, affording a
conspicuous identification {nark that must
be of great service to the species.
As soon, therefore, as an antelope sees
Bome strange or thrilling object this muscle
acts and the rump patch is Instantly
changed Into a great double disk of white
that shines afar like a paten of snow,
and by its flashing spreads the alarm.
This, it will be seen, is simply a heliograph.
Man flatters himself that he was the in
ventor of flash communication, but he is
wrong; the antelope had It first. They
used it thousands of generations before
man ever dreamed of It.
Motors and Morals.
From the Sew Zealand Free Lance.
On his feet the motorist may be a kind
father, a loving brother, a true friend and
a rtprpnt On his cat he wants to
yell ''Hooray!" and run thing* down. If It
Is a horse he collides with, well and good;
If a man, why didn't the fool loolc out?
Past traveling is destructive of morals.
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au important, nowever, m selecting
i of known quality and excellence,
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a laxative which sweetens and cleans
when a laxative is needed, without ai
ts, as it acts naturally and gently or
ply assisting nature when nature nee<
ping, irritating or debilitating the inte
> it contains nothincof an obiectionab
s the plants which are combined wi
.cture of Syrup of Figs are known to
leneficially upon the system, the ren
general approval as a family laxativ
idering in making purchases.
luse of the fact that SYRUP C
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inferior reputation. Every family s
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medy is required. Please to remen
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,11 reputable druggists, and that full i
? California Fig Syrup Co., is plainlj
of every package. Regular price, 50<
"9RNIA flG SYRI
Sfcn Fr-fcnci?coT CM.
THEY HAVE >N0 WORRY
PUBLISHERS OF THE SMALLEST
PAPER IN THE CITY.
Do Not Claim the Largest Circulation
Nor Do They Accept Any
Advertising.
There Is a little newspaper published
weekly In this city which modestly lays
no claim to having the largest circulation
In the city, or, In fact, to any circulation
at all, neither does it assert that as an
advertising medium Its columns will be
frtimd /if vallta tn An r mnxnV>nnta "?
r .uu?a . u*uv tv VUi lliCIVtiailU), 1UI I1U
paid advertisements are received, yet It
goes right on coming out every week and
doing business at the same old stand.
The name of this unique and diminutive
periodical, as there are but two or three
like it in the United States, is Postal Information,
and it sees the light every Saturday
in the city post office. Postal Information
is scarcely a year old, and though
Its exchange list can be counted on the
hand, and It has no purchase price, it
nevertheless is a thriving youngster In the
field of Washington Journalism, and Its
managers are not worried over ever-present
question of a bona-flde, guaranteed, paid
circulation.
Some time ago a small appropriation
was obtained, and a plant sufficiently large
to get out a folio of 8% by 11 Inches was
installed In the basement of the registration
division of the city post office. Every
Saturday Postal Information "goes to
press," being run off on a small electricmotor
press and set up a day or so pre
viously by one oT the employes of the
office who understands the work. While
some of Its matter Is "standing," yet much
of It Is new weekly, and altogether It presents
a very smart and up-to-date appearance.
Tiniest Local Newspaper.
"We have found this little paper of much
service to the officers and employes of the
Washington city post office and its stations,
for whose benefit Postal Information is
nn-hllfshpri." fialrt an nffiMal nf th?* rltv nr*<t
office to a Star reporter.
"We run oft weekly about 150 copies, distributing
them among the employes of the
office where they may be of ready access to
all employes, and sending copies to the
various stations throughout the city, the
respective employes in these stations being
expected to read It weekly, as It may be
used Dy tne postmaster to convey certain
notices and orders affecting the service in
the city to their attention.
"Washington is now one of the larger
post offices in the service, having incorporated
the various towns within the District
In Its jurisdiction, with ten named stations,
-half a dozen or so lettered stations, sixtyfour
numbered stations, doinir a business
of about $1,300,000 annually and ranking
third In the per capita use of the malls.
It has a regiment of employes numbering
about 1,300 in all.
"Very often the employes of other post
offices wish to secure transfer to the Washing
city post office, and vice versa, and
where these application come to our notice
we Insert paragraphs In Postal Information
divine thfi name, of the clerk, the Dost
office at which he or she may -be stationed
and the grade and salary. Any clerk who
may be Interested may then address a
communication to the postmaster, and frequently
the exchange is effected. These requests
for transfer to our office come from
all over the country, and we have on file
now one from as far south as Portsmouth.
Va., from Boston, Mass., on the north, and
Lincoln, Neb., on the west.
"All offenses committed by and penalties
jinyuacu upun cinyiuj t o idi iiui acuvn ui mc
rules are als-o given weekly, as they serve
as reminders to the entire force, as In
the Instances of carriers being derelict in
reporting for duty or for failure to record
time. All recant fraud orders Issued by the
department against such concerns are
weekly enumerated by name and address,
etc., and would-be money-order purchasers
and those who would send registered letters
to such firms are warned by the postal
rlprWn All nriipr* nf the Postmaster Gen
eral and his assistants which it is desired
to call to the attention of our force are
also published.
Suggestions on Many Subjects.
"Then we publish & list of stolen money
orders which are purloined from time to
time from post offices, while we give in
full the schedule of the foreign mail service,
and the hours for the departure of
mails to various local points and the principal
cities, as well as a city post office directory
showing the names and titles of the
officers of the office and the number and
InnaHnnB rvf th^ vftrintw stations.
"There are more or lees constant changes
In the force of the office by reason of
death, resignation, promotion, transfer and
other causes which are of much Interest to
the entire fofce, and these are detailed
when occurring. Modifications of^the postal
laws and regulations by the Postmaster
General are likewise given, together with
all orders, Instructions and suggestions
from the postmaster. Instructions regarding
the handling and the clarification of
mall matter from parcels post to fourthclass
matter are constantly given, as la
Information regarding the establishment of
naw substations, monay aquivalents of pomM
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tal rates in the republic of Panama, prohibited
articles In the malls for China and
Korea, post cards mailed abroad on the
high seas, new postal conventions made
with foreign countries, winter uniforms for
carriers, the name of substitute carriers for
special delivery messages, requisitions for
supplies, organizations of postal employes,
damaged fourths-class matter, and upon
scores of other subjects as they may arts?
from time to time in the furtherance of the
business of the office and the convenience
of the public.
"A similar littln folio of ooatal informs
tion is published in Philadelphia, Pa... under
the title of the Post Office News, and the
New York office gets out another along the
same lines which is called the Official
I Circular.
Information for the Patrons.
"We receive so many Inquiries regarding
the office hours, delivery and carrier windows
and our registry and money order facilities,
tliat I am sure the following information
will be foilnd of general value to the
Washington patrons of our office:
"The general delivery of the main office
is never closed. Stamps may be procured
VtA-sv I ?? V^.? ? V> Un,.ra
uicic in oiiici 11 i^uaiiiuic^ urinrrn iiir uuuig
of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., when the tegular
stamp windows are closed.
"The carriers' windows of the main office
are open from B to 7 p.m. dally, except on
Sundays, when they are open from 'J:30 to
11 a.m. On holidays they are open from
9 to 10:30 for delivery of mall to persons
In the several executive departments, and
to the general public from H to 7 p.m.
"The registry division is open for the
reception of mail at all hours of the day
and night. The delivery window is open
dally from a.m. to <1 p.m., except SunI
J * U/mi-O n?<v
UllU W Iiril 11IC I1UU1P Hi r nuill
9:30 to 11 a.m
"The money order office transacts both
domestic and international money order
business from it a.m. to 11:30 p.m., except
Sundays and holidays.
"The bureau of information is open for
the transaction of business between th?
hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. dally, except
Sunday.
"The cashier's office Is open from 8:30 a.
m. to 4:30 p.m. dally, except Sundays and
holidays.
made in Mew xors.
From tbe New York Sun.
One-sixth- of the $15,000,000,000 worth of .
manufactured goods produced In the United
States last year was turned out by mills,
shops and factories In the state of New
York. About two-thirds of the total output
of the state was made In the city of New
York. From this city alone there came
about 11 per cent of all the manufactured
products of the country, estimating the
output on a basis of value.
The manufacturing- Industries of both the
state and the city have more than doubled
? Tho In.
wimin Lilt; last iwciuj-mc _ iu - ?> ?
crease and the rate of increase for the
state are as follows:
Value of Output.
1R8<> fl.uNi.aM.BM
1800 1.711.377.671
1900 2.17.V72U.900
1905 2.4KK.343.57B
Inasmuch as the report for l!?0fi does not
take in a considerable number of small establishments
which it has been customary .
to Include in the regular decennial census
returns, the comparison is somewhat
faulty. On a basis of the usual full return.
the figures for 100f> would probably
be increased about 10 per cent. Unless the
country experiences an economic setback.
It is probable that the thirteenth census
(1010) will show the state of New York as
the producer of some S3.<100,000.000 worth of
manufactured goods. That is about the
value of the manufactured products of the
entire country at the close of the civil war.
Ahnut 1 ooo.ono of the oeoDle of the state
are directly engaged In the production of
this merchandise. In 1K80 the number similarly
engaged was 531,500 and In 18H0 762,000.
Capitalization has increased from (514,- ,
240,575 in 1NV0 to more than $2,00(I,000,000
in 1905.
This is a very pretty contribution for a
single state to make to national development
and national wealth.
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ifurtner isresn^tnuu uiuum.
"Who Is this?" asked Judge DeLacy la
the Juvenile Court when a large colored
girl was brought before him yesterday.
"Lena Smith," answered Mr. Joseph Harper,
the clerk.
"I hope we shall take a stitch in time,"
commented the Judge.
The girl was charged with incorrigibility,
and his honor decid-^d to seek additional information
as to the girl's habits before he
disposed of the case. The iiearing was continued.
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