WESTERN FAVOR
FOR TAFT
Republican Policy Father of the
Arid Region.
Home Owners and a High State of
Civilization Go Hand in Hand.
The West has at all times furnished
the strongest hacking to President
Roosevelt and the West turned first
to Judge Taft as his logical successor.
Taft is the chosen leader of that party
of initiative and construction which,
hy its policies, has populated the coun
try, connected our two coasts with
bands of steel and has opened the door
of opportunity to every citizen of tim
republic. The Republican party from
its birth has been a party of home
steads for the people. It has enacted
and enforced the laws, permitting each
adult citizen of the United States to
establish his own home and roof tree
at a mere nominal cost.
I note Sam and Home Onner.
When good homesteads began to grow
crre and corporations, by double deal
ing, had largely usurped the birthright
of the individual, the party of freedom
and justice began to look into the ques
tion of reclaiming the arid West. It
decided to flank the subtle movements
of land monopolists and to practically
create a “new heaven and anew earth”
for the builder of homes, upon which
rests the cornerstone of th° republic.
Uncle Sam owned the whole arid re
gion--practically fifteen hundred miles
square—and he owned the water supply
too. Through the Republican party, he
decided to bring the water to the land,
ar.d by Ibis union to make possible a
measureless bounty for the present and
future generations. The Republican
party passed the National Irrigation
Act which became a law in June, I!X>2,
authorizing the government to enter
upon this work of reclaiming arid
America. The semi-arid region extends
over North Dakota, South Dakota,
Western Nebraska and Western Kansas
In to Oklahoma and the panhandle of
Texas.
Taft and <!>•• Went.
In this area the home-building policy
of the Republican party is to perfect
cne of the greatest experiments of
chlFzatlon. Mr, Taft Is thoroughly
familiar with conditions hero and loves
the West. His prescient vision of the
gvat. destiny of the republic is preg
nant with Titanic achievement for this
future garden spot of the world. He
knows the sources of the western water
supply. He Is the stalwart represen
tative of the party that Is busy with
the conservation of the natural re
sources of our country, and what section
of our land is to be half so much bene
fited by this promising movement as the
arid region?
Homes nml liidependenee.
On the tillage of the soil rests the
prosperity of all other industries. Upon
the upbuilding of homes rests the in
dependence of the nation. Irrigation
and conservation, encourages small
holdings and increases the number of
those who call no man master. These
two Republican policies have i bound
less potency for civilization. Ou the
desert sands of Egypt they were instru
mental in rearing the mightiest empire
of undent days. In India they are to
day revivifying and modernizing a
wasted land. In America their mission
is but beginning, yet it gives promise
of untold blessings to man.
I’oKKlhlllUrt of Elcelrlc Enprßj'.
One of the most valuable assets that
Is to come to the arid region through
the policy of the Republican party, will
be the vast electric energy possible by
harnessing the mountain streams. They
will thus not only give life to the coun
try but through power generated, will
Inject into that life the greatest pos
sible useful activities. In the arid re
gion multiplied millions of horse power
can be created through the natural
gravity system of water. There are
hundreds of valleys .ranging in length
from few' miles to nearly one
thousand miles where ample water
can be had for all power pur
poses, ns well as for heat and
light. So when the life-giving fluid is
applied to the parched plains and the
desert is transformed into the orchard,
the water then furnishes the source of
energy for mill, factory, electric plants
for lighting and boating and all possi
ble mechanical devices.
Perhaps at no other point on the
earth's surface are such combinations
possible to suoh a degree of utility.
Having the climate, the scenery, the
soil, the sunshine, the water, the tim
ber, the minerals of all kinds, the
stone, and in fact all of the products
of the earth, both from Its surface and
from its bowels so readily at hand,
here in the western portion of America
is destined to be wrought not only the
highest civilization, but the highest
Political Xofei,
Mr. Taft is not trying to reduce his
weight because he is afraid of his own
shadow.
Missouri has become the first state
in lead mining, as well as zinc min
ing. If ores are to be admitted free,
as Mr. Brynu advises, what will hap
pen to the wages of American miners?
"the wages will go down to the foreign
level and In many cases the mines will
close.
“What is to be done with J. Ham
fyew’is?'’ asks the Memphis Commerclal
and it is somewhat hard to say,
dOMlderlac the vt number of side
fhowa of Which the Democratic party is
tcade up. But Mr. Bryan may find
room for one more.
i!r. Bryan says he is the heir to the
lloosevelt policies and the New York
ifrorld is supporting him because he is
*l)pcsed to everything that Roosevelt
advocates. 'fbat is about as nearly
aa Democrats of the different varieties
ver come to agreeing.—Omaha Bee.
standard of citizenship and patriotism
—providing the party of construction
and enlightened citizenship remains in
power.
liesponsibilities of Dominant Party.
When we come to contemplate the
vast field of natural western resources,
available for food, for industry and
for commerce; wheu we attempt to
grasp in one act of thought, the
length and breadth and depth of the
riches with which Providence has
loaded this section; when we try to
realize how every possible want, every'
material aspiration of man can be
bountifully provided for; when wc
consider how measureless are the
values which will spring into being un
der the Republican policy of dealing
with the west, and how these values
when once created are solid and real,
can be incorporated into the endur
ing structure of human society, we
may begin to estimate properly the
measure of responsibility which rests
upon this nation and Its chosen rulers.
This is not merely to preserve un
harmed the priceless boon of civil lib
erty which leave* the individual citi
zen free to do his share In work of
development, but to adopt such meas
tircs as will prevent the waste of nat
ural resources, clear the way of
progress and promote the final triumph
of civilization. The record of the Re
publican party is one of progress.
Alluring Vi.iloa of tireatuetl.
Judge Tuft not only knows and
loves the west, and favors developing
it to the maximum limit, but he also
knows Japan, China, the Philippines,
the South Sea Islands and all the
South American republics whose shores
are washed by the expansive Pacific
ocean and whose products are destined
to augment the commercial supremacy
of our Pacific coast cities and the
trade centers on all the transconti
nental railroads. His well-known pol
icies provide for the west as well as
the east, the north and south and far
away possessions.
Looking at the great War Secretary
from this viewpoint, is there any won
der that the west is for Taft and Sher
man?
TAFT GAINING STRENGTH.
Independent Political Writer Finds
Republican Candidate Popular.
Walter Wellman, the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Rceord-
Herald, think . 4 Taft is gaining strength.
Writing of his candidacy recently he
said;
“It is not denied that for some weeks
after the Chicago convention there was
in the East, at least, an undertone of
prejudice against Judge Taft, springing
from the belief that he was a mere
echo of Roosevelt; that ho was “not
his own man,” that he could not have
been nominated but for the President s
aid, and that he is only a stalking horse
for the man at Oyster Bay. Curiously
euough, many men who like Rocseve’t*
and would vote for him If he were to
’un again, felt lukewarm toward Taft
because of this belief that he was only
the President’s shadow. Now this fool
ing is largely wearing aw r ay. 11 never
was entertained by men who knew the
facts, w’ho knew Taft himself, who
v/eie familiar with the strength of his
character, his independence of mind.
I Put the men who did entertain it are
beginning to perceive that he is his
own man and a strong one at that.
The more speeches Taft makes, the
more frankly and plainly ho talks, the
less will there be of this mistaken no
tion that he is overshadowed by an
other. Taft’s frank talk ou the labor
nr cl injunction questions and his plain,
blunt denial of the foolish story that
lie once said sla day was voices
enough for a w'orking man, has done
him more good than his more labored
and pretentious efforts.
“Judge Taft's friends argue that to
some extent he has been a misunder
stood man, and they want him to ‘take
the stump’ to show' the country what
be really is. They would like to have
the masses of the people look upon him
In the same way as he is looked upon
by residents of this city, where he Is
so well known. Ask any man of the
national capital, be he Republican or
Democrat, what he thinks of Judge
Taft, and he will tell you that Taft
is one of the biggest, strongest, finest
characters we have ever had In public
life. This is my own opinion, and for
twenty years I have known and watch
ed most of the important men of Con
gress and of the government of both
parties. I am not a hero worshiper,
nor a partisan. But Taft has Impressed
me, as he impresses every ono who
really gets to know' him. as the finest
tjpe of man this country produces, and
better fitted by temperament and train
ing and experience for the difficult
trsk of the presidency than any man
W( . have had In that office for many
years. The friends and admirals of
the Republican candidate believe the
country should know the man as he
U and as he is known to be; and they
think the best way to bring tnat about
Is for him to travel and speak Horn
one end of the country to the other."
When Mr. Bryan goes campaigning
down South some man may be thought
less enough to interrupt him in the
middle of a speech by asking him
how he stands on the Negro ques
tion.
“How will Mr. Taft explain to the
average man the benefits of protec
tion?” asks Mr. Bryan. Bless your
heart, the average man understands it
without any explanation. Omaha
Bee.
“I am the natural heir of Roose
velt,” says the Peerless One. The tes
tator, who ought to be good authority
ou this point, emphatically repudiate#
the claim.
Nineteen states have laws requiring
publicity of the use of campaign funds,
but the Bryan Democracy had to find
a campaign treasurer in Oklahoma,
where there is no such law.
By reminding Bryan that he voted
for Speaker Crisp, under whose regime
the rules of the House were practically
the same as they are present, Speaker
Cannon fired a hot shot.
APPEAL TO
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
1
Made by Judge Taft in Behalf of
the Filipinos.
“A Great Missionary Work That Is
Certain to Promote Christian Civ
ilization.”
The extension of a vitalizing Chris
tianity among the Filipinos as advo
cated by Judge Taft both before bis
speech of acceptance of the nomina
tion to the presidency and in that doc
ument itself has been widely com
mented upon in the pulpits of the
United States. The voice of the cler
gy has given earnest commendation
to the attitude of Judge Taft, who
when governor general of the islands
exerted the utmost influence for
amelioration of the condition of the in
habitants of the archipelago, and that,
too. at the cost of great self-sacrifice
on his own part in refusing the seat
on the supreme bench, to which he was
both called and commanded by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Never since he first assumed the bur
den of the governorship of the Philip
pines has the welfare of the Filipinos
ceased to be close to the heart of
Judge Taft. In his speech of accept
ance again he reminded the Americans
that it is the duty of this country as
a strong, Christian and enlightened na
tion to give spiritual as well as ma
terial aid to the distant brown breth
ren.
Taft’s Appeal to Church.
Rev. Albert Hurlstoue, pastor of
Roberts Park church, Indianapolis,
Ind., in a recent sermon thus spoke of
Judge Taft’s appeal to the Christian
people of America:
“Mr. Taft used words of wisdom in
referring to this question in his noti
fication speech. His appeal is not only
to his party, but it is to the Christian
; church cf America. It seems to me
that every man whose heart beats
loyally to Jesus Christ must rejoice in
the statement so truthfully made. Mr.
Taft said; ‘We liave established a
government with effective and honest
executive departments in the Philip
| pines and a clean and fearless adminis-
I tration of justice; we have created
! and are maintaining a comprehensive
I school system which is educating the
youth of the islands in English and In
i industrial branches: we have con
structed great government public
: works, roads and harbors; we have
[ Induced the private construction of 800
pules of railroad; we have policed the
islands so that their condition as to
law and order i )>ett2r now than It
has ever been in their history.'
“Mr. Taft is better fitted to specs
on this question than any other maj
in the government to-day by virtue a
his close connection with the problem,
his experience and personal observa
tion of the work being done; hence
what he says will be heeded by the
Christian church with intense interest.
Influence of Christian Civilization.
“More than ten years before Dewey
sailed into Manila, Bishop Thoburn,
our missionary bishop for fifty years
in India, predicted that ere long the
missionary would find an open door in
the Philippines, but God alone knew
how the door was to be opened.
‘'Now we hear Mr. Taft saying: ‘We
are engaged in the Philippines in a
groat missionary work that does our
nation honor and is certain to pro
mote in a most effective way the in
fluence of Christian civilization. It is
cowardly to lay down the burden until
our purpose is achieved.’ True, nor
do we believe that the American peo
ple will allow this to be done. The
| sacrifice has been made, the song of
the redeemed people will ere long fill
heaven and earth with gladness. The
selfish are ever lonely and joyless, but
they who bring the sacrifice to the
altar will find the joy of the Lord arise
: within them.”
THE ROOSEVELT POLICIES.
Republican Party Will Continue
Roosevelt 'Work.
i (From Sherman’s Speech of Accept
ance.)
Our platform, as it should do.
j pledges adherence to the policies of
j President Roosevelt; promises to con
tinue the work inaugurated during his
administration, to insure to persons
and property every proper safeguard,
[ and all necessary strengthening of ad
ministrative methods will be provider!
to furnish efficient inspection and su
pervision. and prompt righting of
every injustice, discrimination and
wrong.
Not a Wail for Bryan.
“Let us have the worst,” says the
' Brooklyn Eagle. That sounds like.
! though it isn’t a declaration for Bryan.
—New York Tribune.
Ball’s Eye Shota.
The “new diplomacy” inaugurated in
| the foreign policy of the United States
proclaims truth and frankness as its
characteristics. It is the absolute can
i dor of Mr. Taft In consulting openly
with his predecessor in the White
House upon questions relating to the
public good as allied with Republican
victory that so confounded his critics,
i There is nothing so dazzling as the
white light of courageous candor.
Both political parties can fly the
American flag on laud, but it is the Re
publican party that would keep the
American flag flying at sea over the
American merchant marine.
When Mr. Taft delivered his speech
of acceptance the country understood
| why he could not make it shorter.
| Every word counts, and every word
tells; not one could be spared.
Taft hits hard. He Is in the heavy
weight class and the opposition recog
nizes that there is nothing soft about
his fighting. Every blow he lands Is
i weighted with the force of conviction.
FARMER WRITES TO BRYAN.
In Terse Terms Tells Peerless One
Why He Won’t Contribute.
Here is a letter sent by an Illinois
farmer in response to the Democratic
appeal for campaign contributions:
“lion. \V. J. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.:
“My Dear Sir —Asa farmer, in my
reply to your request that the farmers
contribute to your campaign fund, I
will say that I cannot give you any
thing, as your speech accepting your
nomination shows that, as President,
you could not accomplish anything.
You say that, if elected, you will only
serve four years, and that promptly
after your term begins you will call
Congress in extra session, so that you
can begin to reform the abuses at once.
But if, as you say, nothing can be done
while Congress, or even the Senate, is
under Republican control, why convene
an extra session, as all know the Sen
ate cannot possibly change in less than
four years, if then?
"1 frankly admit your many good
qualities and generous impulses, but it
seems to me that a man who would se
riously propose your dangerous tree
silver and government railroad owner
ship schemes, as you have done, has not
t hat practical business tact required to
make a safe President. You d’d well
to drop these lunacies from your plat
form, but when, to still public alarm
lest, If elected, you would call them up,
you promised in your speech to only
favor as President what was in your
platform, you made a most serious mis
take, which effectually ties your hands
and disqualifies you for the presidency,
as scores of issues and subjects outside
of your platform, and which are vital
to the country’s interests, may press
themselves upon you for action.
“No presidential candidate ever made
such a promise as that before. The
fear of these two mistaken hobbies
marred your whole speech. It was
another fatal mistake when, to draw
attention away from these two hobbies,
you declared there had been great pop
ular growth iu your views and policies,
when, in fact, these two, which were
your only prominent ones, had been left
out of your platform. We have never
had a presidential candidate before who
proposed to bring in such a millennium
of reforms, who had to make so many
quirks in his speech of acceptance to
conceal and cover up his most import
ant views rather than to justify and
explain them.
“The abuses of which you speak are
the fruits of the evil inherent in hu
man nature, which are present in one
form or another under the rule of all
parties, and republican rule no more
created them, as you charge, than it
created your abuse of your party’s con
fidence, or the crimes of your party in
robbing a large element of our voters
of their ballots in several states, and
which, though claiming that the peo
ple's rule or rights was the issue,
you were afraid to even mention in
your speech, much less condemn.
“It was a great abuse of your party’s
confidence when, with your speech for
free silver before a former convention,
you deceived it into nominating you
for president with your false claim
that the country would be ruined with
the gold policy of the republican party
unless you were chosen to destroy it
with your free silver plan. But yon
now see it would have wrecked the
country’s interests, and you have even
kicked that lunacy out of your present
platform and, inferential!}’, made a
solemn promise iu your speech to never
call it up again. That abuse was more
dangerous than all the other present
abuses combined; but yon will agree
with me that republican rule did not
create it. That was a bad business,
but you are just as confident now that
the nostrums in your present platform,
with you as president to apply them,
will bring in the political millennium
as you were when running before, when
your success would have ruined the
country.
“If you are afraid that Mr. Taft will
be too tardy iu publishing his cam
paign subscriptions, or that if the rich
people give his campaign fund anything
it will prevent him, if elected as presi
dent, from reforming the abuses, why
don’t you publish the vast gifts of the
barons and silver klags to your cam
paign fund, when a former candidate;
or why did you take them? Or per
haps you would have been too good for
such gifts to have corrupted you had
you been elected president.
“It is a pity that every other candi
date is a rascal but you. If you are to
be elected the outlook is not auspicious.
With a man for president who is afraid
to put his chief views or policies in his
platform, and then to draw attention
from the fact by claiming a great
growth for them, and running on the
assumption that he is the only honest
candidate, and for a party which the
people have only intrusted with the
power for a short interval in fifty
years, and which wrecked all interests
with its blunders, what grounds have
we to hope that the country can pros
per?
“No, I can’t give you anything on
this outlook, and I don’t think any
other farmer ought to help your fund.
“Ax Illinois Fabmeb.”
The Soft Pedal.
Readers of the New York World are
wondering what has become of its
Bryan map.
Mr. Taft doesn’t seem quite so anx
ious for a big, strong horse since his
admirers have been assuring him that
he can win in a walk.
Twelve years of talking on the part
of Mr. Bryan having failed to cure the
public of its lack of confidence in his
statesmanship, he will do some more
talking.
Kansas is worried about its bank de
posits. When Bryan ran the first time
it was worried for lack of bank depos
its.
“An aggregation of experimental
malcontents and theorists,’’ Mr. Sher
man's description of the Dec ocratie
paity, is a phrase that hits the target
right in the center.
As to the Hon. Tom Watson, he will
remind the country from time to time,
as the campaign progresses, that he is
just as much a candidate for President
as any of the other fellers.
SERVED MANY
FLAGS: IS NOW
ALLEGED THIEF
COUNT, NATURALIZED AMERICAN
AND SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, IN
ANTWERP JAIL.
IS REFUGEE FROM SIBERIA
A Descendant from Noble French Family,
Subject of Czar, Fighting in
Tw o Wars.
TELLS STORY’ OF ADVENT IRES.
ANTWERP, Sept. 7.—The police here
today arrested Count De Toulouz-Lau
tree on the charge of cashing stolen cou
pons. The count protested against his
arrest, claiming to be an American citi
zen and displayed naturalization papers
issued in the state of Illinois. An in
vestigation showed that he had recently
been released from Siberia after having
been extradited from Bremen and hav
ing also been expelled from Spain.
Has Long Record.
Nicholas E. Savine, also known as
Count L>e Toulouz-Lautrec anil Prince
Savine. has a long record of adroit swin
dles in various parts of Europe and is
also known iu the United States. V\ hen
arrested at Bremen three years ago and
taken to St. Petersburg to stand trial
on a charge of swindling, Savine told
a romantic story of his adventures and
alleged persecutions, and appealed to
Emperor Nicholas, in return for the serv
ices of his ancestors and himself to Rus
sia to free his name from the cloud
hanging over it, and permit him to re
join the army, of which he was once an
officer, aud served against the Japanese
in Manchuria.
Naturalized in Chicago.
He asserted that he was naturalized an
American citizen in Chicago, April 27,
1898, and in his petition to the Em
peror then set forth that he was de
scended from a long line of counts and
princes who intermarried with the noble
French family of Toulouz-Lantree.
Savins iu his youth was an officer in
the aristocratic chevalier guards and left
the service owing to falling into the
hands of usurers, but later was allowed
to serve as a volunteer in the Turkish
war of 1877. IJe recounted in detail
a long series of trials on various charges,
which, he declared, were the result pof
malevolence of'Mils enemies, as chief of
whom he named ex-Minister of Justice
Muravieff, now ambassador at Rome.
Escaped from Siberia.
The final result of these charges was
his banishment to Siberia, whence, after
various adventures, he escaped to
America. Savine asserted that he served
as captain of the United States cavalry
during the war with Spain, and said
that he was wounded at Santiago,
KNOX IN AUTO CRASH,
Car Containing Pennsylvania Senator,
His Wife and Son Collides with
Another Near Geneva.
LONDON, Sept. 7. —A news agency
dispatch received here today from Gene
va says that Senator Philander C. Knox
of Pittsburg, Pa., and Mrs. Knox were
slightly hurt aud their son seriously in
jured in a motor accident. While pass
ing another automobile a tire burst and
the cars collided, that occupied by the
Knox family being ditched.
POPE IS URGING REFORMS.
Would Raise Standard of Clergy Under
Age Plan.
NEW Y’ORK, Sept. 7.—Raising of the
standards for admission to the Roman
Catholic priesthood and the advancing
of the age for taking orders to 30 years
are soon to take place, and a remark
able letter of the pope to the clergy,
made public here, is viewed as prelim
inary to these sweeping changes.
In accordance with the new laws of
the church, which are to go into effect
next year in Italy, at least, and will
gradually spread through the entire
world, the time of preparation for the
ministry is to be materially lengthened.
Students complete their seminary course
in this country at an average age of 24
years. They will have to devote six
years more to preparation when the new
plan goes into effect. The action of
Pope Pius X is regarded as removing
the impression that by opposing so
called “modernism” he is against study
and research.
It is also specified that after 1909 no
priest may be appointed to the position
of vicar general until he shall have re
ceived the degree of doctor of canon
law.
WANTS A LARGER ARMY.
President May Ask Congress for 40,000
Increase.
WASHINGTON. D. C-, Sent. 7.
President Roosevelt in his final annual
message to Congress probably will rec
ommended an increase iu the numerical
strength of the army +o at least 100,000
men. At present the army is on a foot
ing of 00,000 men, the number provided
for in time of peace. To the general
staff it has become evident iu the last
two years that 60,000 men are too few
properly to garrison the posts at which
it is necessary to maintain an army
force. These posts include the garrisons
in the insular possessions of America.
The law provides that the army may be
increased to 100,000 men in time of
need.
PRESIDENT’S HOLIDAY NEAR END.
Roosevelt Family to Quit Oyster Bay
for Capitf.i Sept. 22.
OYSTER BAY. N. Y„ Sept. 7. —Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s vacation, according to
present plans, will come to an end on
September 2. when the chief executive
and his family will depart from Saga
more Hill to take up their residence in
the white house at Washington for the
coming winter and spring. With • the
close of the present vacation of the
President Oyster Bay will cease to be
known as the summer capital of the
United States, an honor it has held for
seven years.
DAILY BULLETIN SUSPENDS.
FOND DU LAC, Wis Sept. 7.—[Spe
cial. ]—With Sunday morning's issue the
Daily Bulletin, which has been the
morning publication here since January
15, 1905, suspended publication. The
Bulletin will be merged with the Daily
Commonwealth, an afternoon daily, the
owner of which recently acquired con
trol of the Bulletin. In its final num
ber a The Bulletin announced that it had
been a failure from the start and had
cost its creditors and stockholders some
thing over $30,000. A short time ago it
was sold at public auction to P. B. Ha
ber, who says that he has lost SIOO a
i week since on the venture.
Scnwaab Quits Gotham,
to Live in Bethlehem, Pa.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3. —Charles M.
Schwab, president of the Bethlehem
Steel company, will give up his personal
offices at 111 Broadway in a short time
and make his headquarters in Bethle
hem, Fa., in order to devote all his time
to- the Bethlehem Steel company It is
said that the entire New York end of
the Bethlehem Steel company's business
will be centered at Uie steel company’s
office, 100 Broadway. Mr. Schwab was
at Bethlehem yesterday, and no one at
his office or at the office of the steel
company would talk about Mr. Schwab’s
plans. Mr. Schwab has a two years’
lease on his office at 111 Broadway. It
is known, however, that Mr. Schwab is
negotiating for a suitable residence in
Bethlehem and that he will take a lease
on it for at least a year, his present
plans being made for only that length
of time.
H. M. N evius, New Jersey,
Elected Head of G. A. R.
Bryden's Gift to Be
Like Chicago Monument.
The accompanying illustration shows
the Burns monument at Chicago. The
statue is the same as that which will sur
mount the Burns monument which James
A. Bryden has commissioned for Milwau
kee, but the design of the pedestal is en
tirely different. Lovers of art who have
seen the drawings and model of the pe
destal for the Milwaukee monument, the
work of Julius E. Heimerl, pronounce
the proportions perfect.
WANT MELODRAMA PRESERVE.
Reservation Planned in Wild West to
Inspire Authors.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. s.—Congress
will be asked to set aside a reservation
in the most picturesque part of the mid
dle west for an inspiration for melodra
matic authors, and for scenes for com
ing melodramas, if the plans of David
E. Russell, manager of the Imperial
theater here, do not miscarry. Russell,
with several other managers, throughout
the middle west, wants the melodrama
preserved, with all of the reckless blood
shed of the early frontier, for coming
generations. A meeting of melodrama
managers has been called to meet here
soon. The managers incidentally will
discuss the advisability of picking some
town as a sort of “dog,” to try the new
pieces on, and elevate the thrillers to
come, by having them true to nature,
geographically and scenically.
DONS TROUSERS TO STEAL RIDE.
Chicago Woman Beats Her Way to Den
ver with Her Husband.
DENVER, Colo., Sept. s.—Dressed in
her husband's best suit of clothes, Mrs.
Rosa Hall, the young wife of Arthur
Hall, a cook, was arrested in company
with her husband. Mrs. Hall, or Mrs.
Smith, as she gave her name at the jail
to keep friends in the city from learning
of her plight, donned her husband’s
clothes in Chicago, where they resided,
so that she could be with him in his at
tempt to beat his way to this city.
La Crosse Merchants Invade lowa.
LA CROSSE, Wis., Sept. s.—[Spe
cial.]—ln accordance with a plan adopt
ed by the La Crosse merchants and
manufacturers of making trips in big
delegations to cities and towns friendly
to this city, a special train will be run
to Waukon. la., September 16, carrying
members of the commercial organiza
tions.
Poultry Show for Sauk County.
NORTH FREEDOM, Wis., Sept. 3.
[Special.]—The Baraboo Valley Poultry
and Pet Stock association will hold their
second annual show here January 13 to
17. T. M. Campbell will be the judge.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
The horses of Iceland are shod with
sheep's horns.
Turkey holds the record for the num
ber of aged persons in proportion to fno
population.
Some of the screws made for the use
of watchmakers are so tiny 100,000
could be placed in an ordinary thimble.
There is an average of seven car col
lisions a day on the steam, subway, ele
vated and surface railways of New
York.
During the summer season the bor
ough of Richmond, New York City, dou
bles its population on every pleasant
Sunday, but only for that one day.
The newspaper was invented by a
Paris physician, who. finding Iris visits
welcome whenever he brought any news
or gossip, applied to Cardinal Richelieu
for a patent to publish the Purls Ga
zette in 1622.
For the last fourteen years a brood
af tomtits has been reared each spring
in the letter Uw at Uttoxeter work
house. Since the parent birds first took
possession of the box they have batched
-00 eggs.—London Standard.
Several German firms (in Efbenstock
and Zwiekau) hove purchased large
forest sections in the vicinity of Chlojd
ai, Ronmanla, where they propose to
erect sawmills and ship from there an
nually about 40.600 cubic meters of
umber to Italy. France and Germany.
Negotiations among the German man
ufacturers of wall paper have finally
led to the organization of a trust. The
•even leading manufacturers who have
already joined have a combined annual
production of about $2,620,600. Tho
total output of wall paper in Germany
Is estimated at $7,000,000 per annum.
Miss Jean Gordon, who has won a
I national reputation by her work in be
half of women and children, done as
factory Inspector in Louisiana, is not
Ito be re-elected to her office. II is as
sert tnl that she has incurred the enmity
of the manufacturers and the politi
cians and in spite of the protests of the
women of the State slit' will be turned
out of office.
The blood of the rhinoceros is very
highly esteemed by Burmese and Chi
nese as u medicine for all kinds of ail
ments. Whenever a party of hunters
are successful in shooting a rhinoceros
—they are less numerous than they
used to be —the native beaters carefully
draw off the blood and'bring it to Ran
goon stored In hollow bamboos. Tho
precious liquid is worth Its weight in
silver.—London Standard.
The sheath skirt Is not new in Bur
raah, where the women wear a garment
split to the waist, “now concealing, now
revealing.” The men wear tho same
sarong, unspllt. In Cochin and Travan
core, India, the reputable native wom
en wear nothing above the waist except
noserings and earrings; the Syrian
Christians wear a jacket and a comical
little “Cochin tail,” something like the
obi of Nippon, on their skirts.—New
York Press.
Pear-shaped balloons are the fashion
in Belgium. The point is upward, tho
base of the balloon is spherical. It is
claimed that balloons of this shape
pierce the air vertically with far great
er speed than the ordinary spherical
balloon. Consequently they are stead
ier. Also the upper pointed end pre
vents the accumulation of moisture or
snow on the surface, which frequently
weighs a balloon down and destroys its
power to rise.
Though Russia has much coal and
iron, her industries are quite undevel
oped. Her industrial backwardness may
be gauged from the fact that with a
territory and a population twice as
large as those of the United States,
Russia produces only one-tenth of the
quantity of iron produced in the Uni
ted States, and that she raises only
one-twentieth of the quantity of coal.
Agriculturally and industrially, Russia
is a mediaeval country.—New York
Evening Post.
Dr. 11. C. Stevens, of Seattle, rei>orts
recent experiments which show that
objects seen by indirect vision ordi
narily appear larger in the right half
of the field of vision than in the left
With a smaller number of persons this
is reversed. From these facts he de
duces a possible origin of right and
left-handedness. Right-handedness, or
its reverse, develops at about the age
of seven month*. Dr. Stevens suggests
that they may be due to the phenomena
of vision just described. By a reflex
effect the Infant reaches after the ob
ject best seen with the arm nearest to
them.
Miss Martha Van Rensselaer, super
visor of the reading course for fanners’
wives conducted by the Agricultural
College of Cornell University, believes
that there should be a woman Judge in
juvenile courts where girls are tried.
She bases her opinion on personal ob
servation of various juvenile courts,
notably those in New York city. She
believes that there are many questions
which girls would answer truthfully If
there was a woman on the bench, but
which they now invariably He about
when questioned by a man. This Is
one of the very few Instances In which
Miss Van Rensselaer believes segrega
tion of the two sexes would be benefi
cial.
In the total number of mammals,
birds, reptiles and amphibians (4,034),
on exhibition, the New York Zoologi
cal Park stands to-day at the head of
all the zoological parks and gardens
of the world. Berlin comes next with
a total of 3,149. The area of the New
York Zoological Park In land and
water embraces 246 acres. Of walks
and roads there are about eight miles,
and of fences ten and one-half miles.
The maintenance force of the park,
constantly on duty, embraces 141 per
sons. The number of visitors in 1907
was 1,273,046 —nearly one-third of the
entire population of the metropolis of
the American continent. Of this num
ber It is estimated that a quarter of a
mill ion were from outside of New York
city.
The average man isn’t usuamed to do
a lot of things that he would be asham
ed to be caught doing.