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departmental Mala 4000.
Set a hngr mountain ’tween my heart
and tongue! —Jullua Cneanr.
BEGINNING THE DAY—O Lord,
eure me of eunplcton. May I »»
elan no lm»e motive*, until nil mo
tive* of dl*lntere*tedne»*. of
thoughtle**ne**, of wenhne** have
been tried. Even then, help me to
NUMpend or temper Judgment, for I
may not know the thing* that lie
behind. Help me to he a* liberal
with another a* with iny*etf. May
I judge only that I may help. In
Chrl*t’» name. Amen.—II. M. I'..
Let huabaud* know their wive* liav-e
venae like them. —° heHo.
Amenities of War
Later stories from the trenches of
Europe indicate that Christmas was not
devoid of merrymaking, although the
combatants were forced to celebrate
on a scale considerably restricted by
the limitations of modern warfare. A
dispatch to the London Daily News
from the north of France gives an
amusing account of an exchange ol
felicitations between German and
English soldiers which came very near
resulting disastrously for the Ger
mans.
it-i_ „A*.*.rtavN/NvifTr»nt\ sJat.PS that tWO
British soldiers, after signaling truce
and good fellowship from the danger
ous crown of their trench, walked
across the intervening “no man’s land”
to the German trenches, bearing plates
of mince pies and seasonable mes
sages. They were received cordially,
given a good meal, materially im
proved by draughts from a soothing
bottle, and sent back with their
pockets filled with Christmas cards
for distribution among their com
rades.
Not to be outdone in yuletide cour
tesies, the Germans repaid the visit
later in the day by sending two her
alds, suitably caparisoned, across to
the British trenches. As soon as they
appeared, a soldier obsessed with too
great a sense of duty, promptly ar
rested them and forced them to crouch
in the dampest corner of his trench.
An officer came along presently and
asked the valiant soldier what he was
guarding. “Beggin’ your pardon, sir,”
answered Tommy Atkins, “a couple of
‘landstreamers,’ by the looks of ’em.
Said they’d come to wish us many
’appy returns, so I nabbed ’em, sir.”
After delivering a brief lecture to
the soldier on the true spirit of Christ
mas, the officer ordered the landstrum
visitors released and they returned to
their own trenches with the compli
ments of the season.
An officer of the Queen’s Westmin
ster Rifles also describes an extraor
dinary Christmas truce. “Many of our
chaps,” he writes, “walked out and
met the Germans between the lines. I
went over in the afternoon and was
photographed in a group of English
and Germans mixed. We exchanged
souvenirs. I got a German ribbon and
a photo of the Crown Prince of Ba
varia.” He is careful to add, however,
that these were Saxons and not Prus
sians.
Alabama and the Exposition
The Panama-Pacific exposition will
open next month and will continue un
til the last of the year. Recent reports
indicate that most of the exhibits for
which reservations were made will be
\ installed ahead of time.
\. The management has been working
'tard to have the exposition virtually
completed when the gates are thrown
open to the public. Most of the great
international fairs have been far from
ready on the advertised dates. Chica
go's Columbian exposition in 1893—
I the greatest world’s fair ever held—
was a year behind the original sched
ule. It was the same way with the
Louisiana Purchase exposition at St.
Louis.
But it was announced a year ago
that no postponement of the Panama
Pacific show, which ranks with the
great fairs of" the world, would be in
order. The work was pushed forward
| steadily with the idea of the February
opening always foremost.
The South American countries are
making splendid exhibits, and as a
matter of course the manufacturers
of the United States will be largely
in evidence. What is an agreeable sur
prise to the San Francisco people is
that the old world will make a fine
showing. The nations now at war will
all be represented by exhibits.
Of the 48 states of this country all
have buildings on the exposition
grounds with the exception of Ala
bama, Rhode Island and New Mexico.
The Alabama legislature should make
an appropriation for a state building
at San Francisco provided something
creditable could be erected within d^e
short space of a few weeks. TL4 old
legislature 'when in session fo^r years
ago was asked by the San Francisco
exposition committee to nj*rtce the nec
essary appropriation t^h, but the ex
position project seen^d somewhat in
definite, and the time was so far off
that nothing was/done in the way of
providing for participation in the fair
planned to comvhemorate the opening
of the great canal.
Alabama has been widely adver
tised as a state of wonderful re
sources, both agricultural and min
eral. It is the one state in the south
that hps a steel making district. The
absence of Alabama, therefore, would
naturally be remarked. The matter of
a state appropriation is certainly
worth considering, notwithstanding
the fact that little time will be al
lowed for assembling a state ex
hibit.
Judge Samuel E. Greene
Birmingham and the entire county
of Jefferson will lament the death of
Judge Samuel E. Greene. No member
of the judiciary has been held in
higher esteem, and no man in this
community has been more greatly be
loved.
Until Judge Greene was stricken
with a serious illness not quite two
weeks ago he appeared to be strong
and hale. But from the time of his
illness his friends had grave doubts of
his recovery. The very fact that he
was ill called forth expressions of
sympathy from every class of society,
and yesterday when it was found that
his end was approaching there was un
feigned sorrow.
The criminal court of Jefferson
county has had many admirably qual
ified judges, but none ever dispensed
justice or passed sentence with clearer
CQnsclence than Judge Greene. He
was kind and gentle in his nature; and
his heart went out to many an un
fortunate upon whose case he sat in
trial; but as a judge ho administered
the law fearlessly and with rare poise,
and his decisions were seldom re
versed.
In social life Judge Greene was a
charming companion. He was w’idely
read not only in law but in literature, i
Few men here were so broadly cul-1
tured, and none could be more sadly
missed. His memory will be long and
tenderly cherished.
London and Its Cults
In all large cities widely dissimilar
religious and philosophical cults have
their devotees, and London has long
been the home of all sorts of organiza
tions, religious, social and political.
While orthodox Christianity is
strong in London, many notable places
of religious worship which are avowed
ly centers of free thinking flour
ish for a time and then pass out of ex
istence. Visitors to London 30 or 35
years ago may recall two chapels that
were largely attended on Sundays,
especially Sunday afternoons. One
was the Free Theistic church in Swal
low street near Piccadilly, founded by
the late Charles Voysey, and the other
was the Free Ethical society in South
Kensington founded by the late Mon
cure D. Conway.
The Rev. Mr. Voysey was for many
years an active clergyman of the
Church of England, but being tried on
a heresy charge, and convicted, he was
expelled. He was a man of engaging
personality and of persuasive elo
quence. In his Theistic church he
preached to large audiences. Fine mu
sic was a feature of his services. But
after the founder’s death the congre
gation dwindled away, and yesterday’s
Associated Press news contained the
statement that the congregation had
I disbanded.
The Rev. Mr. Conway was even a
i more unique character in London than
r the Rev. Mr. Voysey. , A native of Vir
s ginia, he received his college educa
tion in Pennsylvania and started out
; at the age of 20 as a Methodist
r preacher. At the age of 25 he was or
i | dained a Unitarian minister and filled
t two important pastorates in the United
i Slates—Washington and Cincinnati,
- But he wished to be relieved even from
- the mild restraints of the Unitarian
- denomination, and after going to Lon
- don he became the head of an “ethical”
e or free lance society. He constructed
;. a liturgy which included passages
from the Bible and from Plato and
o readings from Shakespeare and other
.- modern poets. Conway drew crowds
e for a time, but the novelty wore off
n and when the pastor returned to the
d United States in 1897 his congrega
y tion had dropped off to a hand full
so to speak. Other free lance or “lib
e eral” ministers will have their day
a in London, but it will be a long time,
Such popular and
ey and Conway
, *
f men and worn
feel more com
; established re
an in one of the
kind.
e Future
Southern Rail
North Birming
laccompanied by
ceremony, but the fact that the first
unit of this large undertakirg repre
senting an expenditure of $1,000,000 or
more is now ready for service is worthy
of public recognition and grateful ap
preciation on the part of the entire
Birmingham district.
This work at North Birmingham was
accomplished during a year of indus
trial depression—exceptional depres
sion in the railroad world. But Pres
ident Fairfax Harrison is a man of
broad vision. In the comparatively
short time that he has been at the
head of the Southern Railway com
pany he has proved himself to be at
once plucky and far-seeing. He and
his associates felt confident that good
times would return and return soon.
Mr. Harrison put into practice, there
fore, those principles of business econ
omy which make for success. When
there was a lull in business was the
time to prepare for coming prosperity.
In other words, the Southern Railway
company in a particularly depressed
period constructed the Finley yard ter
minals here.
President Harrison gave to the
Associated Press two days ago a very
optimistic interview. He has always
talked hopefully; has never uttered
a pessimistic phrase. But with the
coming of the new year he feels
that prosperity is very near at hand.
In the old days when business was
extremely dull the railroads and other
business concerns simply waited and
marked time. The piethods of the
large corporations today are more
scientific. When there is little doing
is the very time to make improvements
that are absolutely necessary for the
economical conduct of future opera
tions; hence the construction in 191-1
of the Finley yards at North Birming
ham.
Railroad traffic will be very brisk
before the end of this month. Before
spring idle cars will be reduced to a
negligible quantity; and the Southern
and all the other lines traversing this
part of the country have done much
to meet the large demands that are
virtually in sight.
Forging American passports to get Ger
man officers and reservists back to the
fatherland may be a form of patriotism,
but It isn't going to make any more
friends for Germany among patriotic
Americans.
The rustle of new leaves being turned
was heard January 1 from one end of the
country to the other. A less audible
fluttering heard every day is the sound
of the new leaves falling back.
The latest estimate places the ago of
the earth at 100,000,000 years. However,
the age of the earth isn't half as impor
tant to a southern colonel as the age of
the liquor ho consumes.
Mr. Taft doesn’t think the Philippines
will be ready for self-government for a
long time yet. Recent events seem to
prove beyond all cavil that they are not
ready now.
People who expect civilization to “take
a great leap forward In 1915.’’ should
not forget that European powers have af
fixed a ball and chain to civilization's
ankle.
A New York man .accused of having
two wives says he will stand on his rights
as a lawyer. He must think he has more
rights than doctors and preachers, for in
stance.
A mechanical device has been Invent
ed by which members of congress can
vote by merely pressing a button. An
other form, apparently, of machine pol
itics.
Birmingham came very near having a
poison mystery because a police captain
"kept off” the case when told to by an
officious doctor.
The Czar of Russia is a practical prohi
bitionist. Conditions in this country make
Mr. Hobson a theoretical one.
It is now claimed that ventilating a
room won’t blow the germs out. Is there
no escape?
A year matures rapidly. In a short
while 1916 will have a fuzzy growth on
his chin.
The war in western Europe see ns to
consist for the most part of watchful
waiting.
The Formidable was another battle
ship to prove that there is nothing In u
name.
The Turks are beginning to figure in the
batting average of the European war.
After Washington's birthday is cele
brated we can tune up for spring.
Living in a trench paved with bricks
has obvious advantages.
At any rate, few tourists will be lost
In the Alps this year.
FILES OLD MORTGAGE
From the New York World.
Eos Angeles, Cal.—The Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe railroad filed foi
record recently mortgages executed In
New York 19 years ago.
“Someone went to sleep," the legal de
partment of the Santa Fe explained. “11
was thought they were filed long ago.”
The mortgages were made to secure l
total Indebtedness of (122,481,000.
t '
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Hear* Uood Reports
“I have not taken a trip through my
territory’ since last fall, and I have
decided not to start out again until
February,*’ said Hugh M. Brown, who
represents large shoe factory interests,
“When I made my rounds some weeks
ago I did not try to do much selling.
The merchants in the cotton sections
were not disposed to buy, and I did not
urge them. But conditions have now
improved very much. I get reports from
every part of Alabama and 1 feel con
fident from my general observation that
when I start out a few weeks hence
l will And conditions good—exception
ally good. The cotton farmers have ad
justed themselves to the low market.
Some are holding for higher prices, and
those who have sold at a loss have
pocketed it and forgot about it.
“By February, all the farmers will
be looking forward enthusiastically to
tlie spring. The cotton acreage will be
greatly reduced, and crop diversifica
tion will be the slogan. With favorable
weather, this year should be one of
Hie best for the history of Alabama. Ai
Any rate the outlook for business in
February is very bright.”
Talking at tke Opera
“Ever since I can remember there
l as been criticism now’ and then of
concert and opera audiences in the
large cities of this country, but as a
rule people refrain from talking
through the performance,” said an old
music lover.
“In every large audience some fus
sy person may be found who will com
plain if persons in front of him whis
per together. These persons who are
talking in a quiet way are really en
joying the music and are simply ex
changing criticisms. But the nervous,
fretful fault finder is full of wrath
because every one in the audience is
not seeming to be rapt. In New York
criticism of inattentive and talking
persons in the audience frequently
breaks out. A few years ago an opera
goer wrote to the New York Sun these
Just remark#:
“ ‘Those newspapers which always
endeavor to make a “big story” out of j
every trivial incident, especially in and
around the opera house, have exagger
ated a recent trifle into an event, and
in doing so have been extremely un
just to the occupants of the boxes at
the Metropolitan. There is much con
versation among these people, but it
is not such as to disturb people in
other parts of the house or to inter
lere with the performance.
“‘What occurred at the second per
formance of “Euryanthe” was this. Mr.
Toscanini began the very soft meas
ures prefacing t lie second scene of
tlie opera. The entire audience was
engaged in vivacious conversation, and
it was clear that no one heard the be
ginning of the music. The conductor
stopped t lie orchestra and rapped
sharply on his desk to attract tne at
tention of the audience to the fact that
he was about to begin. The conversa
tion ceased and the music went on
without further delay.
“ ‘Such a thing as the playins of u
few’ measures through talk might hap
pen at any performance of opera, and
it often does happen even at symph
onic concerts. Usually conductors go
straight on till the audience discovers
that it is missing something aind be
comes quiet. The occupants of the boxes
at the Metropolitan on Monday evening
were not conversing any more than the
rest of the audience.
“ ‘Mr. Toscanini, be it added, is a
very sensitive person and does not like
to have his artistic efforts ignored.’ ”
In a year from now democrats and
republicans will be Intent upon presi
dential Issues," said Jackson J. Mays
of Indiana.
“I think that President Wilson will
be renominated, and If he is the stand
ard bearer I hope he will be re-elected.
1 have always been a democrat and ex
pect to die a democrat, but it will not
surprise me to see the republicans
nominate a strong ticket; and unless
the country is enjoying a phenominal
prosperity, the republicans will be al
most sure to win. When times are bad
the public always blames the party in
power. This blame is sometimes unjust,
but the other side cannot be reasoned
out of it. I believe business will im
prove. If we have a boom between now
and the summer of 191H, nothing can
prevent the re-election of Wilson. Oth
erwise It will be good-by to the dem
ocratic party for sometime to come."
Business Activity Increasing *
“There has been a very marked im
provement In general trade since the
first of December and Improvement will
continue right along,” said N. W. Whit
son of Chicago.
"One of the best barometers of busi
ness Is the steel industry. It was at
rock bottom a few weeks ago, but to
ward the end of the year the situation
was decidedly encouraging. There is an
upward tendency now and the order
books of the steel companies will Bhow
large gains.
“In Chicago conditions In moat lines
of business are vastly better than they
were a month ago and there Is no
doubt but that the coming spring will
witness some high records in the In
dustrial field.”
In the Business World
Henry Clews, In his annual review, says
that the effects of the shock of war have
heq| safely passed, and that the world's
commerce has finally adjusted Itself to
a war basis with marvelous rapidity.
"The outlook for 1915,” says Mr. Clews,
•■■is unquestionably becoming more hope
ful. It seems Impossible to believe that
the war will last another 12 months.
Those optimistically Inclined think It may
be ended In the spring or not later than
midsummer. Let us hope their optimism
will be Justified.
"Germany went Into this war with much
less of a Jolt than any other power, and
will be better able to resist than was at
first supposed. As far as gains and
losses are concerned, England probably
stands to win most, if the allies succeed.
In that event her prestige and power
will be greatly enhanced. She will be
free to bend her energies to satlsfylnc
the commercial instincts of the race, oul
which have been restrained by fear of de
structive rivalry and the necessity oi
keeping a colossal navy. The British em
pire is already big 'enough, and its besl
' development will tax her energies foi
years to come. Under a period of assurer
peace British commerce would flourlah ai
; never before. Next, if not first in th<
, anke of winners, would come the Unltei
L states, which has reached a period t)f de
velopment that will force ua» whether w<
(
I desire it or not, into the circle or great
I powers We are no longer self-contained,
! but have become Interdependent with Eu
| rope, Asia, South America and Africa.
Moreover, these relations are bound to
I become closer and closer. With our grow
! ing population and a rapidly increasing
I production of raw materials and manufac
j lures we require and must have foreign
markets .
“If the next peace is to be permanent,
and if armaments are to be kept down, a
new means for working on the basis of
live and let live' must be invented. The
ideal plan would be some form of intt'r
naticnal federation, a United States of
Europe, a Parliament of parliaments and
an international court of final appeal with
power to enforce its decrees. If tnls U
nor possible, then at least some agree
ment should be possible for reduced arm
aments and the combined prevention of
war until arbitration has failed. History
shows that individuals were first disarmed
by force, then trbes, then cities, then
principalities and then states. Why should
not national force be controlled by in
ternational forces?”
WAR ECHOES
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: The
scientific and cold-blooded way in which
war in the western arena is being waged
apparently does not offer many opportuni
| ties for individual heroism. Reports from
j the French and German battle fronts tell
of weary weeks of firing at unseen foes.
However, the men made of heroic stuff
will not be kept down by any order of
events. In proof of this may be cited the
case of a French sergeant, who estab
lished an observation post In a high tree,
and remained there, under continual fire,
for three days, without food and water,
te’ephoning valuable information to his
artillery company. He got for that deed
the coveted “medaille militaire,” and
deserved it.
Another story is related of a trench,
well defended by entanglements, which
was held by a small force of Germans
against repeated frontal attacks. Two
French soldiers crawled to opposite ends
of the trench, and, lying low, began pick
ing off one by one the row' of men stand
ing in it. They killed eight of the Ger
i mans and wounded two, and the rest of
the defenders, puzzled and panicstricken,
by the mysterious and deadly lire, surren
dered. Heroic mettle was found among
the Germans when, in a French village,
three French spies were cornered in the
cellar of a building. They had to be taken,
but the German officers hesitated about
ordering men into that death trap of a
cellar. An apple-faced grocer s clerk vol
unteered to do the job—and he did it; he
shot all of the Frenchmen and came back
unscathed.
There is no means for verifying such
tales. But, inasmuch as they were told
in dispatches describing rewards of merit
bestowed, they are probably not inven
tions. One w*ants to believe them, at any
rate There is an inhuman quality in the
notion that men in the European war are
mere fighting machines, with no more
initiative and enthusiasm than a field
howitzer. It is incredible that war can
reduce 1000,000 men to one level of ef
ficiency.
St. Louis Times: It is not probable that |
a majority of people living: in the United
States even partly comprehend the mean
ing- of the word “mines” used In the
sense of a device of warfare before the
European war began. Yet the amazing
fact now develops that these deadly in
ventions are scattered over a good part
of the face of the seas, many of them be
ing in places where their presence would
never have been suspected a few months
ago.
It also appears that when a nation is
at war it has the right to place these mur
derous engines almost w'herever it pleases,
despite the fact that neutral vessels are
always in need of open avenues across
the waters, if the world’s commerce is
not to be injured.
There is a peculiar kind of degree of
arrogance indicated by a practice which
involves the scattering of death-dealing
devices in the way of vessels which are
seeking to carry forward the work of
civilization; and there is still a stranger
commentary upon the lack of universal
sanity in the fact that because a part of
the world Is in a condition of anarchy it
is regarded as a matter of course that
all the rest of humanity must bear with
complacency events and practices which
are contrary to the basic article of every
religious creed and every ethical profes
sion.
SELF-LIGHTING CIGARS
London Cor. Indianapolis Newrs.
The German military authorities and
the German postal authorities have au
thorized the transmission by parcel post
to soldiers in the field of cigars equipped
with a special chemical preparation that
enables the smoker to light them with
out the aid of matches.
The chemical preparation is applied to
the end of cigars, and is ignited by rub
bing it against a hard substance, like the
ordinary match, but it cannot be ignited
automatically. The chemicals used, it is
said, do not affect the flavor of the cigar.
Ten thousand such cigars were sent as
an initial shipment to the soldiers through
the Red Cross, and more have foilow'ed
constantly since then.
LUKE M’LIIKE SAYS
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
It might be a good scheme for every
couple to get married on the 13th of the
month. Then they would have something
to blame it on in later years.
When a man goes shopping with his
wife he is either henpecked or in love
with her.
Every clerk knows that if the boss
mode the office force undergo an effi
ciency examination, the clerk would run
first and the manager last. •
If we had to unbutton our overcoats and
get dow-n into our pants pockets to ex
tend sympathy, we would be as stingy
with sympathy as we are with some other
things.
Lot* of people who wouldn’t work for
you for $2 per rlay arc perfectly willing
to attend to your business for nothing.
Father »ometlnieB believes that the rea
son why the baby doesn't yell any longer
than It does It Is because father Isn’t home
any oftener than he Is.
Most women know that gambling is
wicked. But Jt eases her conscience a
whole lnt If her husband happens to
win.
A man who has patience enough to sit
down for a year and a half and color a
meerschaum pipe hasn't patience enough
’ to devote a minute and a half to undress
' Ing one of the children at night.
Some men are too thin-blooded to work
' In winter and too thick-blooded to work
t In summer.
You never hear a winner holler that the
: cards were stacked.
The old-faahloned girl whose face was
I her fortune now has a daughter who trav
els on her shape.
Cheer up! The cost of everything else
* has gone up, but happiness and smiles and
1 kind words are as cheap as ever.
Luke’s greeting Is: May the New Yeai
i prove a corn-fed one to all of you!
MORE TARIFF RUMBLINGSffl
By BHX VINKS
WASHINGTON. January 3.—(Spe
cial.)—The Schuylkill valley tar
iff experts have twice now called
upon the administration to quits its fool
ing, insisting that there can be notning
but ruin in large gobs, gloom, thicker
than the armor on a battleship and devas
tation such as follows the activities of
a 42-eentemetre gun until the tariff on
their manufactured products is raised
three-tenths of 1 per cent.
The lirst groan from these philosophers,
who are nothing if not consistent, which
jarred the otherwise peaceful atmosphere
of Washington was emitted early in July.
At that time they calmly—well, perhaps
not altogether calmly, perhaps a litttlc
hysterically—traced all the ills the human
race is heir to. or likely to be heir to, to
the Enderwood tariff bill. They were in
mortal dread at that time of these awful
importations from Europe, which must
of necessity lay low our domestic trade
and place it entirely at the mercy of for
eign competition. Now comes along the
European war and knocks importations
from Europe into a cocked hat, and leav
ing that argument high and dry, but does
that make them waver? Not a wave. With
heroic and commendable tenacity they
itlck to their one Infallible remedy; their
logic flows on sublimely with the most
supreme disregard of all facts, they re
fuse to be hampered with mere facts, and
they still stick to their slogan ‘‘raise the
tariff and we will flourish like a green
bay* tree."
In other quarters it seems that business
is picking up a little courage; there ap
pear to be signs of returning activities,
and manufactuiers and others are becom
ing a little optimistic. Not so with the
Schuylkill valley bunch, not so as you
can tell it; far be it from; they are ad
mirable in their pertinacity of gloom;
others may welcome signs of better
times, but none of these things can move
them to anything but expressions of wide
woe and calamity. Let one of them
catch the smallpox and it would never
have happened if the tariff had not been
tampered with; even should Gabriel toot
his horn and call an abrupt halt upon the
i world’s strife and man's ineonsistencieHy* .
these persstent gentlemen would rise
point of order and insist that he WouM |
not have done it but for the reductionRI
in the tariff on their industries. 7?
Ignoring the fact tliat under the Under- I
wood bill the revenues, counting the in- I |
I come tax, was greater than under the flj
Payne law' for a given length of time be- I
fore the wrar broke out, we are informed ■
by these logical., reasoners that there I
would have been no necessity for a war
( tax if it had not been for the reduction Bj
of the tariff. Marvelous! Under the same I
line of reasoning, if the Payne law * ad I
been in effect, we may have looked with I
| coi.lldence for the discovery of gold bul- I
lion growing on trees inside the treasury ■
building. ■
It is certainly a great thing to be a Hi
sage—a sage must be given credit for I |
wisdom and no questions asked. There I %
is no come back when a sage hands down I
his verdict. Our Pennsylvania friends are H
the most robust sages at large. They sim- I!
ply state a fact, and no one must go j
behind it; to poke at their fact with a
stick of inquiry, to develop any curiosity {
as to the foundation supporting said fact |
is impertience, they are right and every- I
body else is wrong—unless they agree j
with them. The war affect business? Bali |
—impossible—who ever heard of anything j
affecting business except the tariff?
Still we remind them, It seems to us j
we can recall occasions when neither the |
Underwood tariff bill nor the European |
war were raging, as they seem to be now, j
w’hen the ordinary dollar of commerce i
took on the appearance to the ultimate I j
consumer of a wheel on a circus wagon— I
how about the fall of 1907, when the sacred B '
Payne law was doing business, when for H
the first time In the history of the coun- j*
try a plain citizen who had money in the
bank couldn't see it with a Lick tele- j
scope—howr about tight times then? No |
use; they smile at you in pity for your
ignorance, and turn over on the other side
and mutter: “Raise the tariff, we want
protection.’’
All of which goes to prove that wars
may come and wars may go, but the tariff
issue goes on forever.
DEVELOPMENT OF SUBMARINE |
From the Scientific American.
□HE idea of a submarine boat is hun
dreds of years old, and its applica
tion to destroying an enemy's ships
was suggested something like 200 years
ago; nevertheless it is only comparatively
recently that this engine of warfare has
been regarded as practical, or more than
a dream of some visionary adventurer.
Even when the first practical boats were
built it W'as hardly expected by anyone
that they could be operated except in a
very restricted radius, so the present sub
marine and its doings are as wonderful
and as impossible to understand as the
“Nautilus" of Jules Verne. The Scientific
American, in a recent issue, contained an
extremely valuable article by a naval
expert covering every feature of sub
marine warfare, from which the follow
ing is taken;
So rapid lias been the development of
the past decade, that the largest of the
German submarines has a displacement
of 800 tons, a surface speed of about 17
knots, a speed submerged of aoout 10,
and a theoretical radius of action - on
the surface of 3000 to 3500 miles. One of
the United States submarines lias re
mained submerged, with the crew aboard,
for 24 hours; and, in the opinion of our
submarine officers, it would be possible,
by the use of chemical purification of the
air and by drawing on the air supply of
the submerging and trimming tanks, for
one of our submarines to remain sub
merged for several days.
The living quarters of the largest ves
sels are sufficiently commodious for a
fair degree of comfort, and the cooking,
washing and toilet refuse can be dis
charged in diluted form by fotce pumps.
The range of the submarine is limited not
so much to the capacity of the fuel tanks
as by the endurance of the crew. If tho
weather is fine and the submarine can
proceed, undetected, at tlie surface, the
cruise might extend to 1000 or 2000 miles,
without a. return to port. In surface cruis
ing in rough weather, tho watch is con
tinually drenched, and the lack of means jg
to dry the clothing and other discomforts
would render an earlier return to port a t
physical necessity.
The information which lias come through
regarding the naval operations in the
North sea, gives reason to believe that
the German submarines, in their searcli
for their quarry, have made cruises of
several hundred miles; for, moreover,
they have been reported as operating off
the English and even the Scottish coast *.
Their principal cruising ground, however,
is off their own coasts, where they go out
and lay in wait for the cruisers and de
stroyers which are steaming to and fro
off the mouths of the Elbe, tho Weser
and the Ernes. A probable plan of oper
ations is for a submarine flotilla to pass
out at night to selected positions on the
enemy’s patrol routes, submerge and await
the coming of the enemy. If the subma
rine is discovered, it can “go to sleep” on
tho bottom until the search for its where
abouts lias been given up. j
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dressing takes too gong
From the I.ondon Chronicle.
Soldiers at the front, as I have hinted,
learn to dress quickly because they do
not undress. But we at home may learn
something from the actor when we are
called upon to dress twice a day—and
take a long time about it. Personally,
my warfare with studs and shirte and
boots and trousers—and—I will not pur
sue the intimacies further-has usually
taken too big a slice from the solid day.
But the actor is the practical man In
the change of dress. Ho does it automat
ically between the acts in a sentry box
of a dressing room. With amazement I
have watched the actor undressing and
redressing three times, and talking al
ways. But the final surprise has been
his sudden change at the end, when he
cleans his face, slips into evening dress,
has no bother with studs or sleeve links
or the tucking in of his shirt^-but does it
all in a flash, ties his tie perfectly and
is ready for supper.
The actor, of course, has made an art
of quick dressing. My own record has
not been beaten since the morning chapel
bell sounded in nfy ears in the college
bed. I had ten minutes in which to tum
ble into the bath, dry, dress, race down,
find across the quay before the fatal two 1
strokes sounded which made all those
exertions vain. There w’cre defects, which
were covered by my statutory surplice.
But that garb did not cover the fact that
I was in slippers—nine minutes forty-five
seconds didn't run to the lacing of boots. |
Those ridiculous authorities complained >
that I wasn’t properly dressed!
EI GENE FIELD LOVED CHILDREN
From “Eugene Field, Lover of Childhood.’*
by Hildegrade Hawthorne, in the St.
Nicholas Magazine.
It was children whom Field loved best,
and he would take all sorts of trouble
to make a child happy. His room wai
crowded with toys, queer dolls, funny
little mechanical toys that ran about,
or boxed, or nodded strange heads, or
performed tricks. His study door was
never shut to a child, and he had many
child friends Ills*family knew nothing
of. Ills brother tells how, a few hour*
after his death, a little crippled boy
came to the door and asked if he might
go up and see Mr. Field. He was taken
Into the room where the gentle, much
loved figure lay, and left there. In a
little while he came limping downstairs,
the tears streaming down his cheeks,
and went silently away, known to nobody
there. I
MARCO BOZZARIS I
By Fitz-Green Halleclc.
At midnight in his guarded tent
The Turk lay dreaming of the hour
When Greece her knee in suppliance
bent,
Should tremble at his power.
In dreams through camp and court he
bore
The trophies of a conqueror:
In dreams his song of triumph heard;
Then wore his monarch's signet ring;
Then pressed that monarch s throne- a
king; „ . .
As wild his thoughts and gay of wing
As Eden's garden bird.
At midnight in the forest shades
Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band.
! True as the steel of their tried blades,
I Heroes in heart and hand.
There had the Persian's thousands stood,
There had the glad earth drunk theii
blood,
In old Plataea’s day;
And now there breathed that haunted air
Tlie sons of sires who conquered there,
With arms to strike and soul to dare,
As quick, as far as they.
An hour passed on; the Turk awoke;
That bright dream was his last;
He woke to hear his sentries shriek
‘■To arms! They come—the Greek! The
Greek!"
He woke to die 'mid tlame and smoke,
And Bhout, and groan, and saber stroke
And death shots falling thick and fast
1 As lightnings from the mountain cloud.
And heard, with voice as trumpet loud,
Bozzaris cheer his band:
1 “Strike till the last armed foe expires!
1 Strike for your altars and you fires!
Strike for the green graves of your
sires—
God and your native land!"
They fought, like brave men, long
well;
They piled the ground with Mo
slain;
They conquered, but Boszaris fell.
Bleeding at every vein.
His few surviving comrades raw
His smile when rang their proud hu
And the red field was won;
Then saw in death his eyelids clos<
Calmly, as to a night's repose,
Like flowers at set of sun.
Come to the bridal chamber. Death
Come to the mother when she ft
For the first time her first bo,n’s hr
Come when the blessed seals
Which close the pestilence are b
And crowded cities wail its stroke;
Come in consumption's ghastly to
The earthquake's shock, the <
storm.
Come wheic. the heart beats high
warm
With banquet song and dance
wine,
And then thou art terrible; the t>
The groan, the kqell. the pall, the
Ami all we know, or dream, or fe
Of agony are thine.
But to the hero when Ills sword
Hsb won the battle for the free,
Thy voice Bounds like a prophet's •
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be
Bozzaris! with the storied brave
Greece nurtured In her glory's ti
Best thee! There is no prouder gr«
Even in her own proud clime.
We tell thy doom without a sig
For thou art Freedom's now,
Fame’s—
One of the few. immortal names,
That were not born to die.