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: Editorial Opinions of Affairs
"While Hie republic endures let us advocate what the great masses of the people J
believe in." GOVERNOR JOHN M. PATT1S0N. :
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Who Comes to the Rescue?
Vov some years the ancient tTnele Sam. hn.s been stran
ded with the old ship of stile and being washed ashore,
stands shackled on the rocky r ill's of monopoly. In the dis
tance, on the horizon of the great sea of turbulent waters,
there appears a sturdy old ship, at the helm of which stands
a man of determination and leve of. country, piloting the
battle scared craft to the rescue of Tiiele Sam, pinioned mid
the rocks' of monopoly. The effort is a jnontenluous one,
most hazardous. The craft may be dashed to snulhennes
upon the shoals of the mighty millions, but thai pilot plys
the wheel to the rescue, and the old ship will bear him on
to strike the shackles from the imprisoned, suffering saint.
That old craft to the rescue is called "Democracy" and
strange it may seem the pilotj's President Jloosovell.' This
country is held in the grasp of monopoly and the President
is making a war on wealth, to save the country from a finan
cial panic. The great rail-road companies have combined
and pushed the freight rates so high that the small dealer is
squeezed out of business, making monopoly possible and the
people helpless in the face of high prices. "President Roose
velt is waging war on this'state of affairs, and his champion
on the (loor of the senate is that matchless democratic leader
Senator Tillman. The"democralic parly is fighting with (he
president for the people, and
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enemies to his hopes. Democracy, piloted by a
must save the country from revolution against
sion of capital.
Speed the rescue. May
and may Democracy stand to
til (he breast-work of (ho enemy is surmounted with the
waving (lag of the people's rig
Intellectual Honesty Is
Demanded In Official Life
By VtSHASIAN WAKNLlt. United Stales Senator rrum Missouri
"HE demand of tho liour in
IIOXESTY, n demand for
think right; officials who
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gives them light to see their duty, letting the chips full
where they aiay.
v. v. v.
The president's efforts to secure legislation clothing the interstato
commerce commission with POWER TO INSURE A SQUAEE
DEAL between common carriers and shippers have my unqualified
support. The rebato evil, which gives the dishonest dealer an unfair
advantage over the honest one, should bo driven from the channels of
commerce under the lash of the law. H this is not done it will bo bo
cause tho IJOXEST carriers and the shippers of our country fail to
co-operate with the national administration in enforcing law.
. v. f.
Life insurance companies are to a great extent the savings bunks
of tho people and should by legislation bo placed under as strict sur
veillance as national banks, and tho misappropriation or embezzlement
of funds by tl.oir officials should be declared to be a felony PUXISII
AHLE i' DIL'JUSOXMEXT in the penitentiary.
IF WARRANT CAN BE FOUND IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITD STATES FOR SUCH LEGISLATION DY Tri- GENERAL
GOVERNMENT, OF WHICH THERE IS GRAVE DOUBT, IT SHALL
RECEIVE MY SUPPORT.
Too Much Femininity In
LitSrH tllle ? I)r- -UUWIG rUUA. German Author
- - wj. m. . . a w r jnd PUywriiiht
IX tho latter day literature tho trend is toward femininity
JIEUOLXES JXSTEAU OF JIKKOKS and an atmosphere
, of delicacy tending to the ofl'ote. This is so in my own coun
try, I feel convinced. Jt may bo, and 1 suspect that it is, nioro
true of America.
In America tho men aro prone to go in for morcan.ilo pursuits.
That iiiitiit'.ill.v J)ULVES tho women into tlio study of the lino arts.
They become tlio Mudeuts, tho apprcciaton. of literature and in tho end
tho exponents of it ul&o Til 12 AUT11QKS, X"v u mun who writos
in those hitter da soon discover this. ITo discover; that tho WOM
EX AUK THE HEADERS. Jf ho would sell hU book ho uniht
cater to their tasted, That lends to effeminacy.
aiyiunican WOMEN TAKE A MORE PROMINENT PART IN
PUBLIC AFFAIRS, MORE PARTICULARLY THOSE TENDING TO CUL.
TURE, THAN DO OUR WOMEN.
Most Rich Men's
Sons Are Worthless
iiy UAUni L'MIL C. IIMtSCIl uf CT.iicaJP
fHOil my personal oborvutiou und acqiminUiucG T tun convinced
that U5 iior oont of ALL JUUi aIE.N'H SON'S aro practi
cally wurthlotui. Among thU great majority am wiuo who ub
ucrvo ordinary decouuy and own conioun to the appearance
of olomontury virtuos, but oven Til Kilt pjud ipiaKtii - ai ot a nega
tive &ort. Ofton they recoivo praise, not t r fund tlu I ue ticcoiu
plished,but VQH EVIL THEY HAVE IEIi:AIl'D FROM.
THE MONEY GETTING FACULTY, THE DESIRABILITY OF
WHICH MAY BE DEBATABLE, IS ONE OF THE MANY QUALITIES
THAT DO NOT SEEM TO DE8QEND FROM FATHER TO SON.
his own parly leaders are the
Republican
he oppres-
the president tbo successfu
his aid in this noble work,
un-
its.
official life is INTELLECTUAL
otiioialrf to act right, as well as to
how to tlio lino of duty as God
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Sppcl.il WnshltiKtnn Letter.)
IX several slntct tin Itepubllcnu
fiictlims in o I'luryliiK on such
Kllkeuhv cat lltjhti iih arc likely
to put (lie ti. O. 1'. out of eoni
inKilou, teiiiior;nlly :it leant. In West
A'it'Klnlii. New York. Pennsylvania.
Mnos.icliusetK Delaware, Ohio, Illi
nois Missouri nail Iowa the battle of
tlie faction1 N tleroely willed. Some
times, as In Miixu:iciiu.(lt mikI Iowa.
It it a question, of principle on which
they divide. In others, as in Ohio, New
York. Missouri and Delaware, It Is the
bald and unsavory question of spoils
Some of these contests, notably those
In Ohio and Iowa, are likely to attract
national attt'iit'-m because in both
ease tlie presidential aspirations of
certain more or less eminent Itopublic
an statesmen lijrure. In the Ilawkeye
State it is Cuuiiiiius versus Shaw, each
In his mind's eye a presidential nomi
nee in posse. Tlie same is true in Ohio,
with tlie cast of characters changed
from Cummins versus Sliaw to Kora
ker versus Tan, Hut, when all has been
said about the contents in tlie states
afoiesaid, (he Republican factional
tight which is destined to be of most
intense and widespread InteieM is that
now on the tapis in Wisconsin. In that
state spoils, principle and presidential
ambitions all aie Ingredients in the
caldron now seething and bubhlhit,'.
To this must be added the personal an
imosity toward each other of the two
elder lijjnre in the state. Robert M. I.a
Poliette and John ('. Spooner.
A fact which adds fuel to the Wis
cousin lire is that Messrs. Spooner and
La Follette face each oilier dally In tho
.senate chamber, rivals there, as they
are at home. In the Ohio and Iowa
cases the comba dints are not cooped
up in the same chamber day after day,
week in a. id week out. Sometimes
I'omkcr in the senate can think of
.sometliluy: else or of somebody else be
sides Taft at the oth.-r end of the ave
nue. Ditto as to Tnlt letlectlnj; upon
Kor.iker. Ditto Shaw as to Cummins.
Ditto Cummins as to Shaw, fiat, as Dr.
i:dward Kerett Hale Is praying for
the universe in general and the senate
in particular every morning, I.a Kol
lette is wondering what Spooner Is up
to and Spouner is wondering in tlio
same manner as to I.a Follette. Tall;
about the Kentucky mountain fends!
The aie not a marker to tlie Spooner-
I.a Follette feud In Wisconsin and in
the senate. Iioth are able men liril
! limit and belligeient. Intellectually,
I they do honor not' to Wisconsin only,
but to the whole country, and uncon
sciously and unintentionally they are
lendering the country good service by
their feud, because they are producing
a situation in Wisconsin w liicb must
inevitably place that state in tho Demo
cratic column one.! more, a consumma
tion devoutly to be wished. Truth to
tell. the. would have done that already
b.id the Democrats of Wisconsin been
united lor the hist decade, but the
Democrats are getting toget'ier, while
the Itepublicaus get turlher mill farther
apart. Both Spooner and La Follotto
are exceptionally strong speakers. A
joint debate betwi.t them all through
Wisconsin would attract nearly as
much atteuMon as tlie Douglas-Lincoln
debutes; but In all human probability
we will be deprived of that rare, treat,
because they dislike each other bo
cordially that peihaps both would de
cline tho stunt.
A Talo of Two Colonels.
Hold, brilliant, belligerent and bizarre
are tlie adjectives which perhaps inot
aptly describe the minds of Colonel
Theodore Hooseelt, president or tho
United States, and Colonel James Ham
ilton Lewis, once a repnwentativo in
congress from the. new state of Wash
ington, now coiporatlou counsel of the
city of Chicago. " These two mo per
isoual friends, both having iered In
tho Spanish American Imbroglio. They
are both niM-li in the limelight, tieenu.su
nature, ge.-wrjus to each, lltted them
for tlio Center of the stage. Colnuul
Lewis bus been In AVa-jhlagton recent
ly, where tie Is always received with
the glad lima" because la Ids two years
of service In the house he made a mere
Indelible i'l.pressiou upon men anl
things than an ordinary member wouid
have done la a decade. While hero lio
gave out an Interview In which ho huub
cd his friend In the White House ocr
tho coals at a lively rate because r,f
bis speech on "the man with tlio muck
rake." ,ll;o nil the rest of Colonel
Lewis' iittoruiiL'cri, the Interview eon
stltutoH what Horace (Ireeley would
have deuoui'nated "mighty Interesting
leading," Hut surely tlieie In a lalo '
iuysage of his White House frleud
which Colonel ..owls ought to caic
niitad 1 mean the oao In which tho
president oveorlnten Judge Humphrey
of Chicago tor Ids decision In tho beif
iHCltr' casus. That ought to waun
Iho cockles or thu heart of Colonel
i.owls, for It was this same Judir
Huoiphroy wlio reemitly soaiteucid I
Colonel Lewis to sixty days In Jull for
bringing a curtain suit in u statu court.
Colonel Luv.-u purged Idaiself of con
tempt by dlsiiiWsing bis suit As his
friend mid admirer I wish he hud gouu
to Jail mid served out liU sixty days,
John Hun an wrote "I'llgrltn's Prog
ress" while In Jail, and Colonel l.owm
In that length of time could have lu
murtullzed hiuibelf by writing two
books, both sadly needed, one entitled
The l'ropwr Ijwltatio.js of the 'U(tqx.
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Republican Factions Battle In
Many States The SpconervLa
Follctte Feud The Senate's
Young Men fttetrrnfttr
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mid Practice of Contempt of Court,"
the other entitled "Tlie Sub' TVleney
of tlie Federal Judiciary to (treat Cor
porations." Iiy so doing lie would have
rendered a vast public service and Inci
dentally would hau achieved Imper
ishable renown.
Exit tho Old.
Wheu fiulllel said. "Tlio world
moves," he was not thinking of the
United States senate, ljut nevertheless
Ids celebrated dictum applies to that
body, which is sometimes styled "the
most august." In It Is lncrtiau Is at
the maximum, but even it moves. For
decades In fact, ab urbe coiiillra- It
had been the rule until late years that
new senators should experience a
novitiate, should for a certain period
remain silent hi the presence of their
seniors, tuke a back seat and tarry at
Jericho till their beards were grown,
uiijjer penalty of being sat upon heav
ily and unanimously if they violated
the hoary precedents. I5ut Uiange is
written on all things human, and In
course of time even that consecrated
rule bad to gle way. Just who was
the lirst to infract it may not be stated
with precision. Perhaps it wns John
Cii'Illiu Carlisle, once of Kentucky, now
of Now Vork. Whoever was thu
pioneer in breaking it, it is now only
a reminiscence. New senators in this
year of our Lord and Master lf)0(i enter
the oratorical lists wliciuner the spirit
moves them, and, truth to tell, they ap
pear to hold their own with the patri
arch). Joseph Weldon IJailey of Texas,
though still 'in his first term, looms
largo on the senatorial horizon, leading
the Democratic contingent In tlie lall
road rate bill, a momentous question.
He now ranks among the great con
stitutional lawyers, not of this era only,
but of all time. Ux-Attorney General
Philander C. Kuov spoke like a vet
eran on the same bill, or, to use a
popular newspaper pleonasm, like "an
old veteran." This is the second sena
torial year for the Peunsylvauian.
Senator Rayuer of Maryland shied his
castor Into the ring and won Immense
applause. He is just beginning his
second year. Senator Francis (J. New
lands of Nevada, bright, gnuriul,
scholarly, philosophic, the father of the
irrigation bill, spoke as though bo was
seasoned to senatorial manners.
Then came ox-Governor Hobcrt M.
I.a Follette of Wisconsin, who demon
strated bow completely the old senate
rale has fallen into "Innocuous desue
tude" by speaking .somewhat more
than two days on the rale bill! The
fact that the conscript fathers treated
him with such scant courtesy that most
of them left the chamber when he be
gan only drew the more attention to
tlie pugnacious Bob. Up In Wisconsin
the Spooner faction think that his prop
er appellation is "Itobert Le Diablo."
I heard him for an hour of ids three
days' speech, and that hour demon
strated thoroughly that he is muster of
bis subject and if the Itepublicaus do
not look out he is liable to be master
of their side of the senate. It was dur
ing that hour that I.a Follotto called
attention to tlio fact that his senatorial
biethren wore giving him the marble
heart by temporarily vacating their
seats, which lie intimated might bo
permanently vacated, so far as the
present occupants are concerned, so
soon as the people come to understand
the true luwnrcluess of the situation.
This was received with upioarious ap
plause by the crowded galleries, which
so outraged the tender feelings of Sen
ator Ken a of New Jersey that he askitl
that the galleries be "cleared." Tb'jy
were not "cleared,1' but simply "ad
monished." By actual count there wfru
exactly ten senators present during
that episode, but others came trooping
In. KvLli'iitly Hon. Kobert M. La Fol
lette brought his nerve with him to
Washington.
Republican Doctor Disagree.
Tho St. Louis Globo-Uoinocrut Is a
Republican organ or tlie stanchest sort.
So Is the Washington Star. Here Is an
editorial from the Star commenting on
a (Jlube-Democrat editorial, which fur
nlhhes much food for retlectiou:
The St. Loula Ololie-Dcmociut thus f.
Ik-ltates Its party:
"Orthodox Rcpubllcm doctrhio will bn
hfeuid on tl.n stump hi nil tlio western
HUieti m jne comlnif campaign, No
speaker who will iinpear buforo tlio peoplo
flll And any reason to apologize for any
thing Alitch the putty has donu or which
It Is attempting to do No newspaper or
ItrHibIlcun lt4(ltM will need to upolosigo
for anybody who will b uotle in (.he
campaign in ull the position of tmal
nnd rfspunilutllty In the cuiivush of JW
itvpubllcans will l on inmrd."
It In muel- teo early to talk Ilka thin.
L'ongres may be In hc-Hlou two or three
cioie months, und In tout time the mujur
Jty party way huve some stirring e.pc
yluncua. The situation toiluy Is anything
but ccimforiubju for thu Hemiblicur,
They could not ffoid to go to tho country
on the lemrd no far miule, for It fa one
nalther of Miangtli nor consistency. It is
not too late tu muke It what It bhnuld be
In the things uttemptut!, Ixit there lu no
nino to lose.
Wliut If thu statehood bill falbi or an
limiatlafactory compioinlse reaultsY 'I'he
president gave Id views vtry fiankly on
the subject, und tho house ratified them,
but the senutu facta the other way, und
the matter In hanging are now In curt
feroncr Whut If th Philippine tariff bill falls?
The president and the house agree ulso ux
to that, but the senate objects. 11 r.
Lodg' so far has not been able to get the
bill eieii out of committee. If the session
ends wltU nothing done on that subject
the F.ep-tltcans will be held acuountab.e
The ralro.d rate bill may turn out u
-&, inaj; turn out u sermon. If it
aong.Jf it moots pojmlur expectation and
PMses ninator Ir. tlie courts, tho Icopub
llcaiiH mo boli'iil to lienunt; if u Kurinon,
If It hecomri u law In a stinpn to disap
point thu public anil Invltoi the, crlllcUm
of the courts, It mnv nerve as a runson for
a robnUn (it thu pnllx, .
ISut tho Ololio-Ucniucrat speaks only of
tilings done and things nttomptod. How
about tlihiRS I'vadcdV It may be there
that tlie JlcpuhlicniiH will Una their gre'U
cst eiiilmiruSBmont. They haven't even
attempted to do anything with tlio tariff,
and so far then Is nothlur; to show that
even If tliey carry the next house revision
will follow. The wclKht of opinion Is tlio
other xvuy. If tho stand putters contliiuo
their hold, only a panic or a Democratic
victory will Insure a adjustment of
schedules.
Wo must wait nwlille before foiccasthiR
the coming campaign. Mere partisan
Jollying is unsatu and even prejudicial at
this time, tletter face tlio actual situa
tion und help Improve It.
Democrats of Ohio.
Ohio has only one Democratic, rep
resentative in this congress Hon. H.
C. (Jarber. He Is also chnlrnu.u of tho
state committee, and much of tho credit
of electing a Democratic; governor last
year should go to lilni. Ho Is an In
defatigable worker and a skillful or
ganizer. He has Just returned to
Washington from Ohio and brings with
him splendid accounts of Democratic
prospects In Hint state. According to
Mr. Garber, the Democratic admlnlstra-
tion has been and is u pronounced sue-
cess notwithstanding tlio sickness of
the governor. The Democrats in the
legislature appear to have done what
they promised to do and have loft un-
done what they said they would leave
undone, or, to use the usual formula,
they have redeemed their nnto-electlou
promises, it good thing to do always.
The chances are that dlilo, instead of
having on'ly one repieseututlvc lu tho
Sixtieth congress, will have much near
er one dozen.
Election Expenses.
Hon. William Sulzer of New York
rendered the country a valuable serv
ice by giving the .sums spent by na
tional campaign committees through a
series of years. Where ho dug up his
figures tills deponent saltli not because
be knoweth not, but ho says they aro
reliable, and wo all know that they are
Intel esting. They show, what many
Intelligent persons have always believ
ed, that the great ltepiiblicmi victory
of lfellii was bought Just as one would
buy a calf lu the open market. Cynics
sneer at the idea of purifying elections,
but they have not read tho history of
Knglisli elections. In the days of the
Duke of Newcastle a seat In parlia
ment .sometimes cost $."00,000. In our
day we have seen a member of the
bouse of commons unseated for, giving
a voter ids dinner! Surely what tho
Knglisli have done we can do lu the
way of curtailing election expenses.
Otherwise we must acknowledge our
inferiority, which no genuine Americau
is willing to do.
Hot Words In the House.
As the sap rises in the tieos, the tem
per of members of the house of repre
sentatives rises also. At lirst blush
there would seem to be nothing lu the
subject of restricting immigration to
arouse personal animosities, Xoverthe-1
less It engendered such boat betwixt
Mr. Hopkins of Kentucky .and Mr. I
liennet of New York that tho house
squandered two hours of valuable time
expunging from tlie record a half dozen
personal remarks made by Mr. Hop
kins. On the expunging resolution
Hon. John Sharp Williams of Missis
sippi was so wrought up that bo de
livered some remarks touching Mr.
Bonnet so personal that after two or
throe days' cooling time ho voluntarily
asked that they bo stricken from tlio
record. Mr. Small of Xorth Carolina
and Mr. Macon of Arkansas said such
bitter tilings to each other in u dobato
about tlie appropriation for the South
ern railroad that In the good old days
they would have pistoled each other at
Hhidonsburg. Likewise, iu a running
lire debate concerning certuiu alleged
abuses at the St. Kliznbeth's Lunatic
asylum, General Orosveuor of Ohio
amr Mr. Clark of Florida used such
lien ted words that Mr. Williams of Mis
sissippi urged that they bo stricken
from the record, which wus douo by
mutual consent.
It appears to bo the general consen
sus of opinion that the president's ora
tion touching "tho man with the muck
rake" Is likely to rank with his most
notable performances, not, howevur,
because of" anything lie mild on ills
subject, but because of whaf. ho said
about taxing the large fortunes of dead
men. It will bo remembered tlmt dur
IiiK the disoiiHslou or tho income tax
feature of tho Wilson tariff bill that II
hwtrlous orator, Hon, William Uourko
Cockrun of New Vork, declared that It
would drho the very rich of Gotham
into the htthlt of committing perjury.
Tlio president's plan bun one advan
tage, for dead men cannot commit per
jury in rnci, nceorciuiK to tin out prov
erb, "Head men tell no tales,"
rr, llartholdt of St. Loula has won
a .wide reputation by his connection
with the International peuce parlia
ment, bo much so that all the Quaker
loeletles lu tho country Invito hhn to
address them, but they will not let hhn
Wear his bpado tall coat when, bo dulue;,
Which has put the sood doctor Into
fie dumps, as he dotes on that sort' of
Itcar, Btlll ho will survive It. Good
(or thu doctor!
As thu ifUPsses of experts as to th
time within which tho luthmlun caucl
can and will be built vary all tho way
from rive to 500 years, Sir. J. J. Hill
will probably adhere to his opinion that
It will prove to b6 only an exucuolv
toy,
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MOVABLE TYPES.
Tho Honor of Thetr Invention Oolongs
to tho Far Cast.
Uliimt, (lie "crutllo of tlio arls,"
claims the honor of tlio invention of
irinlimj. Away back in lliu jcar
oINI, nearly J,000 ycara before Gut
enberg issued the lirst volume of
liis famous Ilihle, the Chinese wero
using lhci "block system" of print
ing, and in the tenth century, 400
years before Europe hud become ac
quainted with the "art preserva
tive,'' Iho almond eyed Celestial
typos were better versed in iho sci
ence) of setting movable types than
wero the American printers' of the
days of Benjamin Kranklin. The
"block system" of printing, which
wns so well known in the L'lowory
Kingdom less than six centuries
after the lrirtji of Christ, did not
find its way to Europe, until about
tho lirst of the fifteenth century,
when "devotional manuals," each
bearing a portrait and n few lines
in printing, became popular,
These
cuts and printed lines were taken
from engravings made on n single
bloc, tho enrliest lMod j.
, ' . ,1, ,, , , i '-n,,
men ,of U.lnt ch fi100,1' " l(1 l Eu"
roP ,)cnnnS of Ui'
J-here is still a question as to
who was the lirst European printer
to atse the movable types. It is not
a question as to what European in-
vented movable tvnes. for it is
known that the honor belongs in
the fur east. The honor of being
tho lirst to adopt the system appears
to rest between Laurenz Coster of
I Haarlem (died ld'10), John Faust
I and John Gutenberg. In tho above
list some include the name of Peter
Schoffer, a son-in-law of Faust.
Dutch authorities claim that Coster
was the lirst to nse the movable
types and that Gutenberg, who was
at one time a workman in Coster's
shop, stole the idea from him. The
Germans give Gutenberg the honor
and set the date of his lirst success
ful practice of the art at 1 l.'Ju". The
lirst entire European book over
printed from movable types bears
the name ot .loltann hattst on its
title page. Jt bore the name of
"Tractatus Petri lli.spnni'' and was
printed at Mcntz in 1 L-i'.'. As Gut
enberg did not put his name on all
of his books or the date when they
were'' issued, there is some doubt
when the first appeared or how
many wero issued. Gutenberg's
great work was bis Latin Hiblo,
which appeared in 1 Lid and which
is often catalogued as the "lirst
book ever printed on movable
types."
Joffcrson's Idea.
Joseph Jefferson was a strong be
liever in early marriages, ami bo
never missed an opportunity to im
press his convictions upon young
men. In an address at Yale once ho
said :
"I abominate bachelors. The old
er they grow the more conceited
they become. 1 was talking to one
and I asked him why lie did not
marry. He parried the question by
tolling me about different young
women ho had known, finding some
fault with each one. But it appear
ed that all of them had married.
"'You are in danger of getting
left I said to him. 'You had bet
ter hurry up before it is too late.'
"'Oh said the bachelor, 'there
aro just as good fish in the sea
"'I know that I said, 'but the
bait isn't there danger of the bait
becoming stale?'" Everybody's
Magazine.
May Do Rewarded Hereafter.
A child is born in the neighbor
hood; the attending physician gets
$10. Tho editor gives tho loud
lunged youngster und tho happy
parents a semlolf and gpls $0. When
it is christened the minister gels $10
und tlio editor gets $00. It grows
up and marries. The editor pub
lishes another long winded, flowery
article and tells a dozen lie3 about
tho "beuutiftil and accomplished
bride;" tho minister gets $10 and a
piecu of cako and tho editor gels
.$000, Jn tho course of lime it dies,;
the doctor gets from $3fi to $100,
the undertaker gets from $50 to
$100, while tho editor publishes a
notice of tho death and an obituary
two columns long, lodgo-and socioly
resolutions, a lot of poetry and a
free card of thanks and trots $0,000.
I fo wondor'so many editors get rich,
-Jieaue ijio.j ujobe,
Marjio Figures,
"The most remarkublo arrange
ment of numbers that I know of,"
suid a local business college man
who takes ti delight in solving curi
ous problems and digging up mnthe
Hiatical oddities, "is tho combina
tion of tho six figures 1 1V,857, Mul
tiply this number by 3, and tho
answer is .'.'85,711; by 3, and the an
swer is -138,571; by 1, mid tho an
swer is 571,-iyS; y 5, und the an
swor is 714,285; by 0, and tho an
ewer is 85'j,U'i- Kuch answer uon
tains exactly tho same digits us the
original sum, und, to cap tho clinuiXj
multiply tho number by 7, and tip
comes tne uuswor ouyJUO. Try it
and seo if it is not so'Phllodel-
phia Uecord.
ACROBATIC DANCING.
It Wus Rogardod by tho Ancient Greeks
With Contempt.
A passage in Herodotus tells us
with what contempt tho Greeks
treated mere. acrobatic dancing nnd
how inferior it was considered to bo
to tho higher art. A cerltiin Ilip
nocleides, liuvinc been asked to
uliow one of the many accomplish
ments which entitled him to be
come the husband of tho daughter
of tho tyrant of Sicyon, proceeded
to display himself in the dance, atid
having commenced with a stately
measttro he then wished to show his
wonderful agility, and so well did
he succeed that Clisthcncs, the ty
rant, angrily exclaimed, "Son' of
Tisander, you have danced away
your marriage!" refusing to have a
son-in-law who was so, little of an
artist that he could make a boast of
his mere skill. Socrates, too, had
great dislike to the "wonderful
tricks" which dancers could perforin
with their bodies and thought them
very ugly. What would have been
his disgust could ho have seen some
of our modern contortions? As in
all great art, thes Greeks in their
dancing made use of mechanical
means only in so fur as they could
assist in currying out the artists' in
spiration. Tho true artist should not
be so hampered by any technical dif
ficulties. Jle must be an absolute
master of "technique' but never
should he allow that "technique" to
be the end and aim of his art. I3y
so doing he forfeits all claim to the
title of artist in the real and high
est sense of that much abused word.
Looking, then, at the subject
from this point of view, we can see
the gulf which separates modern
dancing from the Greek dancing.
The modern term denotes some
thing entirely mechanical, however
pretty and pleasing our dancing
masters contrive to make it by hav
ing rhythmical acrobatic feats per
formed" by beautiful executants.
Dancing in the Greek sense must be
interpreted quite differently. It is
rhythmical movement and so far
it is mechanical but it is also pan
tomimic. Jt is the imitation of
words by gesture, tho bodily ex
pression of a feeling. Nineteenth
Cenlurv.
Siberian Lonoliness.
ile afldr mile its you travel
along there is no break in the mo
notony of this great ft oxen land.
Everywhere is snow, everywhere the
vast white plains. In tho perspective
of distance the very ridges melt
into the general level, and as you
look around you are met everywhere
with the same mantle of unbroken
snow. The country lies before you
as an earth that is dead, so still, so
motionless, so rigid is the land
scape. Life has lied before the icy
I winds that draw out of the north,
and tho land you traverse is surely
the land of death. There is scarce
ly the cry of a single bird to break
upon the ear in this untenanted
wilderness. The very streams are
motionless masses of ice. Land
there is none, and you may wander
east, west, uortli and south without
landmark to set you right. Day
after day and week after week your
deer will gallop along their frozen
way, nnd. your compass or, if tlie
gray clouds will lift for awhile, tlia
Btars in the heaven above will be
your only guide. "A Winter Jour
ney." Everybody Wac Quiet.
Back iu the seventies of the last
century u report reached army head
qunrters that the Indians had
swarmed down on a little villago iu
Idaho and murdered every inhab
itant. A second lieutenant, who
had just received his commission,
was dispatched to tho scene to as
certain tho authenticity of tho ru
mor. A few hours after his arrival
in tho villago ho sent this dispatch
to tho commanding ollieer:
"Evorybody is quiet here."
Whereupon tho commanding of
ficer I'ojpliud:
"Your report is unintelligible.
Wo have it from responsible source
that Indians have massacred ovcry
inhabitant'
Tho lieutenant unsworcd:
"Jfpport is correct. Everybody
has been massacred, Everybody is
IJIIIOl.
He Struck Jt Wrong.
When Tommy was about ten
yeurs old ho was taken to sco his
grandfather, who was very rich, but
extroniojy parsimonious. Quo day
tho old gentleman asked Tommy if
ho had u pockotbook. lteceiving a
negative, answer, ho said; "That's
too bad. If you had u pockotbook
I would give you a quarter to put In
it." Tho lufxt lime Tommy went
to seo his grandfather io took care
to have the pockotbook. As beforo,
ho was askctl if ho possessed tho ar
ticle mentioned, und ho hastily an
swered affirmatively, at tho sumo
time producing it. Much to his
chugrin the old misor slid: "Well,
now, and so you havo a pockotbook,
have youP I was just going to dvo
yott a quarter to buy oao."
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