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SATURDAY. .U/NH~TbTl.
THE RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE.
Six hundred mllilon dollars Is a great
deal of money, and that is the immense
value of the mortgage which has been
executed by President J. J. Mil. of the
Great Northern Railway Company, to
secure the Indebtedness of that Com?
pany and of the Chicago, Burlington
and Qulncy Railroad, and to provide a
working fund for sundry large pro?
jects the Great Northern has in view.
With this Issue of $600.000,000 of re?
funding bonds, the bonds of the Great
Sorthern and the C . B. & Q. roads will'
be taken up urio Iho C, H. & Q. will be
separated from the Northern Paci'lic
and merged with the Great Northern,
it being held in view of the recent de?
cision of the United States Supreme
Court such a merger will be lawful
under the rule of reason. We have no j
doubt of it. but it would be well to
fully apprise the public of all the facts
In the ense so that the merger may be
consummated without creating any
ooisapprehtnsion as to its benelits to
the people and its strict compliance
with the law. There is a better feeling;
among the people, because there is a
better understanding, towards the rail- j
roads. The Chicago Breeders- Gazette
speaks with hearty approval of "the
agricultural missionary work of the
railroads'- as manifested in the exploi?
tation of new regions, the stimulation
of the production of crops, the creation
of new markets and the encouragement
of newer and better and less wasteful
methods in agricultural work. All this
"missionary work" of the railroads has
had a most happy effect upon the pub?
lic thought of the country, with the re?
sult that there has been a marked and
healthy change in the course o:' leg- j
islatlon since the days when railroad !
ievelopmer.t was Impeded by wild eat!
legislation. The nearer the railroads i
cfen get to th*- people, the more they'
lake the people into '.heir confidence. ?
the better for both.
Many attempts have been made by ',
Congress to put a stop to ratlwuy
mergers and combinations and to com?
pel compcii'.ion among railways, and
always with results that have not
been of advantage to the people,
speaking generally, or to the rail?
roads. Two years ago a eopimlttee
was appointed by the British Board
of Trade, of which Winston Churchill
was then president, to investigate the !
conditions obtaining In England, and
to report what changes, if any.- would
be. expedient in the laws re-luting to
agreements among railway compa?
nies, and what general provisions. If
any. ought to be embodied for the
purpose of safeguarding the varlolts
Interests affected in future Acts of
Parliament authorizing railway amal?
gamations and working unions. Tins
committee held extensive- hearings ami
after a thorough survey of the whole
field and fljidini5"."tn'c attitude of the
trading and general public to be one
of recognition that more perfect ro
Operation between railway companies
was inevitable, and in most eases that
"in principle' it was not to be con?
demned," reached the deduction of
these principles:
Railways, by their very nature, tend
toward co-operation an,i amalgama?
tion.
Co-operation is a tendency which
no power of legislature or court can
check, for it is Impossible to make
industries compete whose interest is
hostile to competition.
Instead of Keeking to force compe?
tition, it were better and more effec?
tive by rr.tking amalgamation easier
and fit the same time more public,
and by guarding and protecting the
people, through adequate legislation
and penalties, to at one and the same
time promote the free course of com?
merce and the safety and service of
the public.
The British view Is belter than the
American view.
OVI %V()KKi:iJ.
When th? United States Supreme |
Court began Its sessions last fall Its '
docket contained about 1.100 cases. I
Now it has finished its deliberations I
lor the year, and hut ::r,fi eases have
been disposed of, although ihe judges
were unusually diligent. The court U
two years behind Its docket. There Is
no relief for this condition In sight,
and the situation Is gradually becom?
ing aggravated.
In at the organ';:al!on of the.
court it had but six members. Now,
after the passing of a century and a
quarter. It is larger by only a naif,
although the nation has developed tre?
mendously, and we. have become a liti?
gious people! .-lr.ee lf.!<S the court has
he;-.rc: appeal cases from the Philip?
pines and Porto Rico as an additional
burden on the docke t. "The chief cause
oi the accumulation is the American
tialt which Impels ft litigant to light
to the last ditch," s.ayB the Boston
Globe.
In Ufli the Circuit Court of Appeals
wits created for the purpose of reliev?
ing :ne congestion, but the relief was
only temporary.' It is manifest that
tho Supreme Co'irt ought to ho more
prompts in handing down its decisions,
but it is n physical Impossibility* to
move much faster Ihaii I1S0 rases the
year. Tills gives each Justice about
40 cases, each Involving complex and
hard propositions of law, The Justice
must not only sift the facts and apply
tho law. but must also sit in consul?
tation with his associates In tho other
cases, some of which are of supreme
importance. He must., be an unremit?
ting student?In fact, there is little
time In the year that he may cnll his
own.
There seems to be but one remedy:
to enlarge the Court to tifteen or more
members. This is objectionable be?
cause It Is repugnant to Judicial Ideas
to have a large consulting court. It
may havp to be done, however, if the
present agitation against the law's de?
lay continue.
YV.YTTBHSOX I'UTS HIS FOOT IX IT.
"For the first time It) sixteen years,''
says Henry Wattersori, in the Courier
Jottrna!, "the Democratic party is en?
joying a little spell of sunshine." It
now has a living chance to live, but It
Is not yet out of the woods. Its plans
have not been perfected; the disposi?
tion of the forces of the enemy Is not
fully known, and there are differences
of tactics rather than of principles
among the Democrats themselves
which require the most thoughtful und
intelligent study if we tire to present a
solid and an Irresistible front to the com?
mon' enemy at the ballot-box next year.
The most dangerous, because the least j
responsible, of tho men from whom
the Democratic party must be deliv?
ered Is Mr. Bryan, and in his fatherly j
admonition Mr. Wnttersoh pleads with'
the XebrasUan to give the party and'
the country a chance tn deliver itself
from the demag?guery of the last six- :
teen years, of which Mr. Bryan liasi
been the chief apostle.
"Marse Henry'" does not put it ex- \
jc'ciy in these words, but he must be )
awfully weary of the load which lie
and the rest of the loyal Democrats]
have been compelled to curry year af
ter year since this marplot deceived
the party of Jefferson and Jackson and
Cleveland into his support.
Mr. Underwood. the Democratic j
leader of the House at Washington, j
has had his way, and. as Mr. Watter- j
son says, "has thus far displayed good
qualities of constructive statesman?
ship and legislative- leading. Only the
other day. resenting 'he interference
of Mr. Bryan and his Impudent med?
dling with the work of the Democrats
in Congress, he scored a very remark?
able and encouraging victory, the Dem?
ocratic representatives adopting the
vi>-w that as the responsibility was
tlielrs, they would meet it in their own
strength, and not be diverted from
their true course by the t hreaienings
of ibis thrice defeated ?leader' of the
Democratic host. The tariff will be
the issue In the next presidential cam?
paign. It is really the only issue that
Is left. "At the moment," says Mr.
Watterson, "when Republican prolcc-1
tionists- are splitting hairs among,
themselves, Democrats, pretending only'
to be bent upon driving graft from the
tariff and reducing it, as we are able, i
to a revenue basis," It "were indeed a !
fate?a destiny"?should Democrats
"engage In chatter about the inclden-i
t:?!:; arid make controversy over the';
conveyance, set, as we all claim to be,
In a common direction and purpose.
So come away, Mr. Bryan. Avast, I
there, and leave the boys a chance to |
start the old carryall of Democracy
in their own way, not in your way.
You have scarcely had such good for
tline as commends you the best and,
only driver. Come off before your en
einies have the right to say that with '
you it is rule or ruin " I
Mr. Wattersoh claims that the Cour
ier-.i?urhal is Mr. Bryan's friend, but.
after this friendly admonition, wo are
Mire that Mr. Wauerson and the Cour?
ier-Journal will both be numbered
among the mercenaries of "the inier0
est-1." Our master in Louisville, whom
we Invariably follow when lie Is right,
will tind, however, thai he has mis?
judged < >ur Candidate, and that really I
the only way to get rid of Mr. Bryan
would he to liave him dissolved as a
combination in restrain: of political
success; a monopoly in violation of all j
the rules anil regulations and funda-i
mental principles of the Democratic
faith;
II V TUB nOVISH.VMENT.
Here It Is again. The Colonel has
projected himself Into ihe situation.
d|i| !i .tiling what soever of a prac?
tical sort hllc he. was in supreme
i oinmftnd of everything on Ihe fa, e
of this terrestrial ball for the space
of nearly seven years, except to say:
"1 will make the trusts come to me." 1
and how, when he has no authority at j
over anybody or anything, out
of his [-rent slock of legal lore ho
pronounces the decision of the United
States Supreme Court in the Standard
I Oil case as ? vitally defective." He
admits, however, that "the Anti-Trust
i.aw. as now construed; does accom?
pli.-li a certain amount of good." but
what he Insists upon as urgently
needed is "the enactment of drastic
and far-tenching legislation which
shall - >il tiie great Interstate business
corporations; of the type of the. Stand?
ard Oil Company. Hi,- Sigiir Trust
i and the Steel Trust and the like at
j lea Ft, completely under the control I
land regulation of the Government in
j each and every respect as the inter- j
j state railroads aie now put."
] Of course, that is the thing it. do.
: After /while if tin- progress we ate
making In the science of government
proceeds apace we shall have a gov?
ernment going into commercial busi?
ness regularly on Its own account, man?
aging department Mores, controlling
ice cream saloons, running restaurant
establishments and directing baseball
enterprises. Why not? 'is not this a
government of the people, for ihe
k people and hi' the pconlc. and are not
the people nil Intimately Interested
In the successful prosecution of every
enlerprls Ihn? touches their living
and their pleasures? With our coun?
try life commissions, which aro to
take over the control or bur families,
prescribe the manner In which they
must live and direct generally all tho
Intimate concerns of tho domestic es-'
tablishincnf. why should riot the Gov?
ernment become a great parental In?
stitution gathering under Its wings,
as the h.n gathers her brood of chick?
ens, all the people with their concerns,
big and little, so th:>t hereafter In
this New World we shall havo the
experiment of Socialism fully justified
before all men?
The pity of it all. however. Is that
the newspapers will permit their
columns to be used for the advertis?
ing of this dishonored Caesar. Why
not let him alone? The only good
Indian Is the dead Indian.
I FIGHTING FOU ''TUB 1'ARMEnS."
I The "farmers" have been making *
! hard light against the reciprocity
agreement with Canada, because, as
they have alleged, 11 would be of very
serious loss and disadvantage to them.
This lias been the light of only a few
of the "farmers." however: the main
body of the great agricultural work?
ers of the country being really in favor
of the agreement. Among the farmers
who have appeared at Washington,
either in person or by contribution. In
aid of the campaign which lias there
been waged ostensibly in the interest
of the agriculturists, we note the
names of Leonard Bronson. general
manager of the National Lumber Man?
ufacturers' Association: A. C. Hast?
ings, president of the American Paper
and Pulp Association; C. ,W. Lyman,
secretary to the president of the In?
ternational Paper Company, and Wil?
liam W. Wood, president of the Ameri?
can Woolen Company. Only- a few
weeks ago a delegation from the Na?
tional Orange waited upon Mr. Taft
at the White House, to present their
cause, tho cause of the farmer. Mr.
Taft, it will be recalled, spoke to this
delegation very plainly; they could
not fool him, and after the facts
brought out by Senator Stone, of Mis?
souri, who is reully making good these
days, we do'not think they will he able
to fool any of the people very much
longer.
Before the Senate Finance Commit?
tee oh Wednesday, Joseph H. Allen, of
the firm of Allen and Graham, of New
York, being on the stand, admitted
that the inch whom we have named
contributed to the campaign fund of
t!ie National Grange in order that it
might Impress the la wmaleers a t Wash?
ington with the idea that the farmers
of the country were organized against
tlie agreement with Canada. Of course,
the National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association is Interested in this agree?
ment, because it is the common habit
now for all the farmers in the North?
ern bell of States to raise a crop of
trees every year, and then It is very
well known that paper and pulp are
one of the garden varieties In Northern
New York, end that the farmers of all j
the border country would suffer great?
ly if the cost of paper that is used
extensively In the factories, stores and
homes of the farmers of that region
should be reduced in price.
The exposure of this so-called farm?
ers' movement ought to go a long way
towards impressing the members or
the United States Senate with the folly
of their present course. The opposi?
tion really in the Senate to the reci?
procity agreement Is political, and not
economic. There was never a fairer
proposition submitted to the lawmak?
er.- of this country than this proposi?
tion to put the United States and Can?
ada on wholly reasonable and advan?
tageous trading terms. Tho measure
is really not a political measure, but
an economic measure. It is so reason?
able and just thai It ought to have
been passed unanimously by both
Houses of Congress without waste of
words in debate.
THE GOSPEL OF GOOD ROADS.
One of the best articles on good
roads published in many a day ap?
peared lately in the Midland Methodist
under the title "The Gospel of Good
Roads." Our contemporary tells us
that it Is reported that up in Holston
In a certain community where "the
second blessing wus much in vogue
under the high sounding phrase of "a
full Gospel,'' tnc presiding elder one
day inquired of the ^pastor in the
quarterly conference if lie thought he
hud preached a fu'.l Gospel to his
people. The pastor replied that lie
thought he had. "Did you preach tho
gospel of good roads?" continued the
presiding elder. The pastor Jta'd not,
and so this afforded the presiding
elder a < hance to talk oh "the gospel \
nl good roads."
Tue Methodist has heard the. ques?
tion asked at many district confer?
ences, "Do your Sunday schools rim
all ihe year''" and this answer was
always given: "No, the roads are In
such condition most of lite winter that
wo have to suspend." Sometimes, it is
added, that the creeks have no bridges
und the children cannot get to'Church.
Hr, "the whole religious training of tho
children In Sunday school work has
to stop because of bad roads and
Lfldgelesa fclreams." That is the re?
ligious side- of the question, but it l's,
nevertheless, a large, side.
"There is nothing that advertises a.
country more than It? roads and public
buildings. It can be. set down as a
rule that a county that will not build
good roads Is behind In almost every?
thing else," continues The Methodist.
In counties which refuse lo construct
Improved highways, the. farms nre us?
ually in a poor stale of cultivation, Tho
.-took is scrubby, fences are in a sad
stale of neglect, house are unpalnted,
the schools and churches aro unsight?
ly. All public 'ritereats are itban
l doned; the farms have little value.
Ihtrtijutcrs passing through such a
[ county luugh nt the Inhabitants and
! advertise! It far and wide as a county
i with-li thrtftlc .1. spendthrift, ne'er do
I welt sort of citizenship. On the other
hand, good roads advertise the people
as thrirty, industrious and up-to-date.
"We could numo a few counties, not
so rich in natural resources as some
others, that -are known far and wide
simply- by Uta roads they have built."
says The.Methodist.
Our contemporary goes on to mako
this observation:
"Somevpeople tut- so afraid of taxes
that they would rather kill their
horses over muddy roads and steep
hills than to tax themselves to save
their stock and to work with ease.
So many people ure peunywlse and
pound Toolish. They are like the 'Ar?
kansas Traveler'?tiiey don't cover the
house In dry weather because It doesn't
leak then, and when it rains they can't
cover It, because It rains too hard.
They t ear up wagons and buggies
and kill or break down horses and
mules enough ih live years to build
good roads,' just to keep from taxing
themselves a few cents on the hun?
dred dollars' worth of property to
build roads and thereby save their
stock nnd wagon. The Increase In
valuation to , their farms nnd homes
alone is worth far more than the cost
of building the roads. Besides, with
good roads they could haul much more
with the same team and hurt it less
?not to mention the ease of travel." j
"We are persuaded that the gospel
of good roads needs to be preached," j
concludes The Methodist. Peoplo who!
refuse to build better highways de?
serve to be laughed at and "laughed j
Bt until they become ashamed of j
themselves." A few years ago a farm- j
er whose county had voted down bonds
for good roads told The Methodist that'
he would pay ten dollars the year the
rest of his life for a road to tho coun- j
ty town, five or *lx miles away, rather j
than haul his produce over such a road j
as his county had. "But. alas! the I
majority of the citizens were against
him, and they are pulling through '
mud tj this flay," says Tho Methodist. |
That is true, but it will not always |
be so.
WOULD SWEEP THE CO UN THY.
Word conies from Omaha through
tho Christian Science Monitor that
Roosevelt and Bryan axe tho choice
of Nebraska Republicans and Demo?
crats for Presidential candidates next
year. This conclusion has been
reached by n poll taken by a news?
paper In that State for an organiza?
tion known as the Progressive Repub?
lican League of Nebraska. Secretary
Shotwell reports:
"Roosevelt so far Is getting more
votes than all the. other Republicans
put together; La Follette Is getting ^
good many. Taffs vote is very light.
Bryan is getting the Freat majority
of the Democratic votes, while Wilson
and Harmon get very few."
Suits us, or can be made to suit us ,
by nominating Mr. Bryan for the first i
place and Mr. Roosevelt for the sec?
ond; a combination that nothing could
beat, for as in the time of David every
one that Is in distress, and every one
that is in debt, and every one that is
discontented would gather themselves
unto such a ticket as that. There
ought to be some tine pickings if all
the trusts are to be dissolved and
their assets divided among the people,
and with the Incentive of plunder
added to the Donnybrook disposition I
of these times there Is little doubt
that the combination would sweep the
country "from eend to eend." Let
the Nebraskans go on with the show;
but with the understanding that we
shall withdraw our support unless the
flrst place be given to Mr. Bryan.
At one of the Memorial Day exercises
this year, a group of old gossips were
stretched out on the sward, discussing
many worthies long gone. A comely
Utile woman came up to a grave near
the old men and deposited a beautiful
bouquet upon it. When she had gone,
one old'man said to the company.
"That's pretty nice, but she could af?
ford to do it." One of the others
asked what he meant. "Well," said the
aged philosopher, "that's the grave of
her husband's first wife. The first
wife saved the money, and now this
one is spending it. She can afford to
put flowers on No. l's mound."
Mrs. "Jack" Cudahy has been llg
ttring a got 1 deal in the papers lately.
Several weeks ago she was asked to
leave a hotel In Los Angeles, Califor?
nia, because her company was not de?
sirable, and now she has returned to
her home in Kansas City to fight for
the recovery of her children who were
taken from her after her husband's
difficulty with .lere Llllis about a year
ago. Mr. Llllis had been almost lost
to sight when his name was agnin
brought into the spot light by the
mention of the Cudahy infelicities.
There is another good feature about
Ihe commission form of government?
It wants the reportor around. The
commissioners in Birmingham have
passed a resolution directing thai
headquarters for the three City Hall
reporters be. Installed In some part of
the City Hall. An office will be tixed
up. with desks, telephone and type?
writers, together with other writing
appurtenances. Publicity is one of
the strong points of commission gov?
ernment.
Howard Church Chapln. a former
Union soldier, tells the Denver News j
that?
"Llbby prison was not nearly so had ,
as many people think. If we had been
g'vep more to eat we would have had
no complaint to make."
Considering tho circumstances of
the Confederacy, tho authorities of
Libby did the best they could.
Voice of the People |
?'The Cry nf Mnd Dog."
To the Editor of The Times-Difipatch:
Sir,?The riders are "P fo1' tne United
States Senate, and I think a lino from
this section will not bo amiss. In Mr.
W. a. Jones's iirst speech Im ata/tod
lie would not give it as a fact, but H
^ ? g
Absolutely Pure'
27*? om/j/ leaking esowtSos*
ntarte from (Royal f&rape
&ream of Tartar
t.0 ALU^MOIIME MSFHATE
Is his firm belief that Mr. Thomas S.
Martin had ridden thousands of miles
on free passes. Perhaps the wish wits
father to tho thought. Then he gra?
ciously tells his audience that he, Mr.
Jones, had never ridden a mile on a
free pass, lie never told his hearers
that ho lived only forty or IIfty miles
front Washington city, and If he was
the great man Mr. Jefferson wus ho
would buy a pair of brogan walking
'hoes, take Iiis grip in hand, und walk
to the capital of this greut country
(so called).
Mr. Jones has been In the, lower
house twenty years. I have yet to see
where he ever Introduced a bill In Con?
gress or engineered one through it. If
he is the great man he would have
the people believe, be would lie In his
seat in this, u very Important session
of Congress. He claims he has not lost
tin important vote this session. Grant
It. but hasn't every good man in Con
gross some inlluence which tie can use
with tho other members, instead of
ranting around over the Slate, making
political speeches and dividing the'
Democratic party'.' Mr. Jones has
been contradicted by a gentleman from
Isle of Wight, lie has been contradict?
ed in strong language by Mr. W. D.
Cardwell, of Hanover: also by Mr. Cur?
tis, an old veteran, of Richmond. And,
to use his own language, I believe he
has been contradicted by a gentleman
from Prince Edward county and Gov?
ernor William Hodges Mann.
Now, we come to Mr. Carter Glass, of
Lynch burg, Va, He and Mr. Jones
have charged that the press, or a good
part of It, has been bought up. Mr.
Glass has been contradicted by the
ecjltor of the Halifax paper in strong:
terms. He has relinquished his seat
in the lower house for one In the upper
house. Mr. Editor, I remember a few
years ago n Mr. Thomas, of Lynchhurg,
was elected to the State Senate. While
serving In that capacity he Imagined
that he could beat Major Daniel for the
United States Senate. While v making
the try for it Mr. Don P. Halsey was
ejected to his sent In the State Senate.
It would be history repeating Itself If
Mr. Halsey should get Mr. Glass's seat
in the lower house, and so mote It be.
In conclusion, I have known Mr.
Thomas S. Martin ever since the Con?
federate War. I have never known
him to say or do a mean thing. I ask
no favors of Mr. Martin nor any one.!
I say this In Justice to a man who
commenced from the ground and has
worlced his way up. This thing of ma?
chine politics Is all the cry of mad
dog. If Mrissrs. Jones and Glass were
elected they would soon form a ring
that would spilt the Democratic party
to atoms. But, Mr. Editor, they will
never be. elected?nil. not a bit. The
people of this State have too much
practical sense to listen to the song of
such birds. R, J. H?XC?CK.
chariot tesvllio.
IMomnlneK.
To the Editor of The Tirnes-Dlspatch:
?qlr,?An article in your May 23d
Issue gives an account of the members
of half a dozen families In Staunton,
Va.. being afflicted with ptomaine pois?
oning. I believe no better work can
be done by the press than to warn the
public of the danger existing from par?
taking of foods not properly preserved,
and of the necessity of utilizing canned
goods as soon as possible after open?
ing the can. Scientific, experiments
have determined time and again that
numerous articles of food, when not
kept In u hygienic condition, readily
deteriorate so as to become poisonous
substances.
The formation of ptomaines gener?
ally, although not always, accompanies
putrefaction. Therefore great cure
should be taken that meat, fish, fowl,
oysters, canned goods, etc., are eaten
only when they are In good condition.
It Is not economy to partake of food
when putrefaction has commenced.
Pood can be kept In a hygienic condi?
tion either by heat or refrigeration,
by the exclusion of nir or by tho appli?
cation of substances which, on account
of their antiseptic, properties, prevent
the growth of poisonous germs.
Statistics show that since the enact?
ment' of the pure food law there have
been 2.'!,177 cases pf ptomaine poison?
ing. 1,042 of which were fatal. Jt is
certainly distressing to think of this
vast number of persons becoming 111
and cf ho many Innocent lives lost,
merely because food products are not
preserved so as to keep them In a hy?
gienic condition until consumed. Such
distressing conditions will continue to
prevail as long or. consumers do not
heed the warning of the danger exist?
ing in consuming foods not kept In a
hygienic condition.
Yours very truly,
H. Lv HARRIS.
New York.
Sonnet to the Future State.
When that old chemist Time my hones
shall take.
And bifid oach atom in a bondage
now?
In dowers that bloom, or fairy vapors
make.
To flush the glorious sunset's fading
view?
Each element shall alng In gaseous
glee - ,
To the free Soul upon that magic
shore;
The. staj's shall chorus to the worlds
to-be
"Alpha and/ omega?to life death
goes before."
From cosmic, atoms old shall he con?
struct . \
A combination now which none may
know; *
As sunbeams In a crystal drop refract,
So vasty coasts from nothlngnoss
shall grow.
A figment of the mind, by falfh 'tis
seen,
Til symbols writ, with childlike, fairy
. nheon.
TCDMOND FONTAINE.
Charloitcsylllo, December, 1310.
Daily Queries and Answers
licet und Cime Sulfur.
What Is tho difference In quality be?
tween beet and cane sugar?
READER.
When highly - refined, no ono can
distinguish between cane and beet
sugar, as they are one, and the same
thing, between the crude, or raw
boot, and cane sugars there Is great
difference, the latter being edible, while
tho former Is not. fts It possesses a
very disagreeable odor and taste. Cano
sugar molusses is good for culinary
purposes, beet sugur motftssoa Is not.
Cunc Juice contains' glucoso (reducing
sugars), but beet Juice does not, though
the latter contains rafTlnoso and the
former doos not. In Louisiana about
twenty tons per acre is un average
cune crop, and fifteen to sixteen un
average beet crop in the United States.
Cane is. worth' $3 to $4 per ton and
beets }I to $1.60. Cane costs $30 to
$36 per acre and beets $26 to $30. Tho
sucrose content will vary In Louisiana
from 10 to 16 per cent, and from 12
to 18 per cent, in tho beets of the
United States. The cost of the pro?
duction of a ton of sugar is $60 to $76.
whether from cane or beets.
Psychopu ll u f chin in.
1 read an article in a papor a few
days since which had the following,
"In view of the. idea of psychopanny
chlsm." What Is that? W. It.
It Is the doctrine that the soul lulls
asleep at death und does not wake un?
til tho resurrection of the body.
Quo Vodls. -
What is the meaning of "Quo
Vudls"? When was It used?
R. Li. W.
It means whither goesl thou? it
wr.s addressed by St. Peter to the ap?
parition of the Lord, as Peter was
about to lice from Rome,to escape per?
secution.
Double Entendre.
Is the French phrase "double en?
tendre." or "double entente"?
W. K
Douhje entendre Is bad French. The
correct and full expression is "Mots a
double entente" (words that have a two?
fold meaning). The singular Is "mot
a double entente." "Entendre" is the
Infinitive, while "entente" Is a noun.
Turquoise.
Can you tell me anything uboijt the
turquoise?their shupc. where found,
market, value, etc.? J. G.
About thirty-live miles from Nlsna
pcur In the Khorassan In Persia, were
once the only mines in the world pro?
ducing turquoise gems. The best gems
?tIII come from that locality, which Is
",,000 lo C.OO'i foot above the sea level,
the mines being located In an area of
about forty square miles. They are
also found at various localities In Asia
Minor. Turkestan and Siberia. In th?
Untied States mines near Santa l'e,
New Mexico, were worked by the an?
cient Mexicans, and still yield duo
gems. Minos are also located In Colo?
rado. Arizona, Nevada and California.
The peculiar bluish-green or robin's
egg lint Is the preferred color. The
market value varies according to the j
demand. Among the early Mexicans I
the turquoise was-emblematic, of buc-,
cosh and was worn to preserve health.
The peculiar property of tho turquoise
of, becoming. Kreon in- color as It gives
tip itn'v'molaturo lotl to the belief that
tho; chVngo ^ln color :foretol<l misfor?
tune.. In tho Orient It was believed
to bo; a remedy for all diseases of tho
head qnd heart, and In cases of pol
Bonlng" on. snakeblto It wob given-with
wins. '; ,
It receivod Its namo from, tho fact
that it was brought Into Europe from
Persia" through Turkey.
Uurijer4-PoIe.
What Is tho meaning of tho striped
pole tho barbers ubo for their sign?
READER.
Its literal meaning (if u polo can
hnvo a literal .meaning) is blood and
bandages. In the old days, following
tho Middle Ages, the barbers were sur?
geons, and they attended to such Jobs
of blood letting and other surgical
operations us tho community needed
Jono. Bleeding was the first step,
usually, In the trontmont of sickness at
that time, and this the barber was
called In to do under tho direction of
the physician. Hair cutting and shav?
ing were not popular then, for most
men wore iholr hair long und let their
beards vegetato profusely. The barbers
hung out their .rod and white striped
poles to let the people know that blood
letting and bandaging would be neatly
done on demand. When close-cropped
heads and smooth faceB grew In popu?
larity, and blooding tho sick declined,
the barbers kept their peppermint atick
poles.
Put rick Ferguson.
Please give a brief history of Patrick]
Ferguson, u British officer In the Revo?
lution. J. H. McK.
. Ho was horn In Scotland In 1744 and
wus educated at a military academy in
London. Refore he was tlfteen ho was
appointed cornet In the Royal North
British Dragoons, known as Uiu Scotch
Grays, and served In the. German cam?
paign. In 1777. wlillo serving in Amer?
ica, Ferguson invented three types o?
breech-loading rille?, with one type of
which' a corps of sharpshooters was
armed. The corps distinguished Itself
at the battle of ihe Brandywlne, but
was disbanded thereafter and Ferguson
was assigned to duty in the Carolinas.
If. seems that Lord Howe, the British
commander-ln-chlof. had not been con?
sulted about the organization of Fergu
ton's sharpshooters and didn't like. It.
Ferguson was killed at the battle of
King's Mountain, where he held tho
rank of mujor.
The Ilenutlful Soow,
Please give the authorship of "Benu-t
tltul Know." IIie first verso of which ls|
"Oh; the (now, the beautiful snow.
Pilling the sky and earth below,
Over the housetops, over the street.
Over the heads of the people you meet.
Dancing, flirting, skimming along."
\V. 11. K.
It was written by John W. Watson
and wus published In Harper's Weekly
ir. iSSS.
The Cabinet.
Please ?lve a list of the names of tho
President's Cabinet. p. is. 3.
Secretary of State. Philander C.
Knox; Treasury. Frunklln MacVeaghj
War, llenrv L. Ktimson. of Now York
(appolnted'May 1.1); Attorney-General,
George W. Wickeraham; Navy, George
von L. Meyer; Interior. Walter L. Fish?
er; Agriculture, James Wilson; Com?
merce and Labor, Charles Nagel
SUCCEEDS HIS AUNT
IN BANK OWNERSHIP
BV HA JlAnat'lSB Dt: I-OXTKXOl.
?> HAN CIS MONEY-COLTTS. who 8UC
_, etecltd his mint, the uged Baron
i nss Burdelt-Conits, in her prc
A dominum share in the owner?
ship of Coutts's Bunk, and In tlie pos?
session of all her great, entailed pro?
perty, has Hied a petition to the crown
for the termination of the abeyance.
In his favor, of the ancient Baronies of
Latlmer, of .Scales, and of Buldcsinere.
which formerly belonged to the house
of Neville, and which have been in
abeyance since the death, seveful hun?
dred years ago, of John Neville. Lord
of Latlmer, of Scales, and of Bilden
mere, front whom the claimant Is de?
scended on the distaff side.
' The late Baroness Burdetl-Coults and
her cldeEt sister, the late Mrs. James
Money, who predeceased her, were co?
heiresses of these baronies, and some
astonishment was aroused when at the
time, of the elevation of the younger
of the two women to a peerage In her
own right, she should not have'select?
ed the title of Lady Scales or Lady
Latiiner. But this was strenuously op?
posed by her elder sister, and bv the
latler's son, Krauels Money-Coutt.i, the
present claimant.
In cases where peerages fall Into
abeyance, it Is usual tp permit them
to remain dormant, until all but one
of the co-heirs or co-heiresses have
died out, nnd then the peerage is only
called out of abeyance In the event
of the other deceased co-heiresses hav?
ing left no cblldren. This happens to
be now the case with tho Baronies ol
Latlmer, Scales and Baldesinerei and
it Is probable, therefore, that the Com?
mittee of Privileges of the House of
Lords, to whom the crown bus re?
ferred the claimant's petition for In?
vestigation, will report In his favor,
and that the sovereign will thereupon
terminate the aheyanco In favor of
Francis Money-Coutts, and summon
him to take his 6cat in the House of
Lords, asn Lord Latlmer, Lord Scales,
and Lord Baldesmere.
'Francis Money-Ufiutts Is married to
a daughter of C. Churchill, of Brny
brldgo Park, Surrey, u.nd last year fol?
lowed his thlrty-ilvo year, old son into
the Unionist camp. He purchased
about three years ago Stoodlclgh Park,
near Bampton, in Devonshire, but
spends most of his time In London.
Ho Is a member of th> bar, with ooe
tlc aspirations of a religious cha'rac
tcr. and has to Iiis credit several vol?
umes of poems and of piety, among
them "The Alhanibra." "The Romance
of King Arthur,.I'ho Book of Job,"
and the "Revelations of St. Love, tho
Divine." He was cordially disliked by
his aunt, the late Baroness Burdett
Cotitts, \yho would have disinherited
hin?, had she been able. The rancor
of tho. baroness towards him was main?
ly due to his being the son of her sis?
ter. With tho latter she had never
got on very well. But when -Lady
Bttrdott-Cnutls married in 18SI the
Brooklyn-horn William Ashmead-Bart
lelt, Mrs. James Money took hor to
task In the most flat-footed manner,
subjecting the hnroness to such ex?
ceedingly plain spenklng concerning
her conduct In wedding a man young
enough to he her grandson, that all
relations between the two wore broken
off. V
If Francis Moncy-Coult? Inherited
his aunt's property, it. was by virtue
of the will of Harriett, Duchess of St.
Albans, whose first husband, Tom
Coults, had left everything that he
owned to his widow. The duchess, an
ex-actress of the name of Harriett
Mellon, portrayed In several of Lord
Beaconsfleld's novels under . transpar?
ent pseudonyms, bequeathed this" for?
tune of her first husband to the young?
er intl favorite of hor two step-grnnd
daugliters (that Is to say, tho grand?
daughters, of Tom Coutts), Angela
Rurdett, child of Sir Francis Urn-den,
on the Understanding that she should
assume the name of Coutts, In addi?
tion to hor own, and stipulated that in
tho pvent of her death without issue,
the entire property, including her hold?
ings In tho ownership of Coutts's Bank,
should go to tho elder sister, Clara
Bnrdett, married to Rev. James Mohey,
and whose eldest son Is the present
claimant of the Baronies of Scales,
Intimer nnd Bnldsmcrc.
To' no one will the death of kindly
old Prince. "Hans" of Holstein-Glucks
hiirg provo a greater loss than to
.Kille George of England, to his .ala*
tere, end o? course to his mother. Quo. a
Alexandra. He was a younger brother
of the lute King Christian ui Denmark:
an uncle, therefore, of Queen Alexan?
dra, of the Kings of (Jreece ami Den?
mark and ot liio widowed Empress of
Russia, and the grandunclu of King
George of "England, of Emperor Nicho?
las of Russin, and of King liuakon and
Queen .Maud of Norway, lie was the
most kindly old bachelor that It is
possible to imagine, and was wonder?
fully popular, not only with all his
relatives, but with the entire Dan?
ish people, being a particularly warm
friend of his nephew by marriage, the
late King Edward.
i'rior to the accession of the Ist*
ter, he was a frequent guest at Marl?
borough House, and oil the occasion
of his tlrst visit there, ills grand
nephews and grandnieces. King George
the present King tlrst and foremost,
devoted themselves to teaching him
every conceivable, kind of English
slang, imbuing him with the Impres?
sion, however, that it was the choic?
est language. The result when a fn.w,
days after his arrival In London he
was Invited to Windsor to dine with
Queen Victoria, was. to say the least,
startling. For, with the most sublime
unconsciousness of saying anything
that was in the least degree unsultcd
for the ears of Her Majesty, he treated
her to all the London argot which ho
had learned from the young people at
Marlborough House, and gave utter?
ance to music, hall gags and slang o?
every conceivable nature, with an ulr
of profound deference, and even solem?
nity, that rendered the scene Irresis?
tibly comic.
It was only after Queen Victoria had
made, up her mind to ask him in Ger?
man where he had picked up his Eng?
lish, and learned who had been his
instructors, thut she gave free rein
to her mirth, In whicli all present Join?
ed, greatly to their relief, as they had
experienced the 'utmost difficulty in
suppressing their laughter. Queen
Victoria, altogether very austere look?
ing and Imperious In her manner, hud
an extremely keen sense of humor,
enjoyed a hearty laugh as well us any
of her subjects, and never forgot when
Prince Hans, whose baptismal name
was John, visited her on subsequent
occasions, to remind him of the ter?
rible solecisms of which he had rend?
ered himself guilty when he llrst at?
tempted to air his English at her din<
nor table.
"Warning off" Newmarket Heath la
a sentence so rarely inflicted, and so
drastic and far-reaching in its effects,
that it may ho well to call attention
to the fuct that this penalty lias just
been melod out to Norman Cuthbert
sbn, well known on both sides of the
Atlantic, but more especially tn Eng?
land, as one of the foremost of gentle?
men, ? that is, amateur steeplechase
riders. It seems that Cuthbertson rode
his mount in ' such a questionable*
fashion nt the Cheltenham races, pre?
venting his horse from winning or
even from being placed, that he was
at once taken to task.
The result of his being warned off
is that he is forbidden not merely to
ride, or own, or train a horse .entered
for any race, but that ho is forbidden
to appear in the paddock or inclosure
at any reputable race track In Eng?
land, 'Ireland. France. Germany, Aus?
tria and Hungary. In this country,
loo, a man who has been "warned off"
any European race-course, and as such
subjected to a social ostracism which
many regard as worse than death,
would not be welcomed on the Ameri?
can turf.
(Copyright, 1011, by the Brentwood
Company.)
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