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GETS HARDEST JOB
J. P. TUMULTY, At PRESIDENTS
PRIVATE SECRETARY, MUST
BE "MAN UNAFRAID."
MEETS PRESS OF WASHINGTON
Wood row Wilton and All Others Pre
dict Hs Will Mske Good In Filling
Poaitlon Which Requires Infinite
Tact
BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington. Woodrow Wilson's
present executive secretary, who baa
been appointed aa bla future private
secretary, , Joseph I'atrlck Tumulty,
ha been In Washington as the guest
of the Natlnnul Press club. There
n large gathering of correspond
ents and of othera to meet the man
who, In a way, will be second In com
mand ut the. White House after
..March 4.
If Mr. Tumulty can remember the
names and the faces of one-fltth of
ilio public men and Washington corre
spondents who greeted him here he
probably will prove qualified to a con
siderable degree for the duties of the
office which he will nssntme on the
first Tuesday of the first spring month.
It may be that at one time men were
given to the underestimating of the
necessities in the case of a president's
private aecretary. He is more to
president than any cabinet officer and
he can make or unmake friendships
for hla chief faster than any man who
tt at the president's round table. The
personal equation figures more largely
in the auccesa of an administration
ihan anything else to which mathe
matics lends Itself for a figure o(
speech.
Mr. Tumulty la a keen-lookiug Amer.
lean of Irish lineage. It ought uoi to
take him long to learn the names and
the faces of the men who will call
ukmi hla chief. If he Is not as quick
In learning their foibles, their temper
aments, their crotchets, their strengths
and their weaknesses, he may lie in
trouble, before the administration is
three months old. Heing all things to
all men Is seemingly an essential in
a private secretary to the president of
tbe United Statea.
How Ha Can Make Good.
Everybody says that Mr. Tumulty
Is going to make good, and everybody
hopes so. He has had numerous pre
decessors la office within the last ten
years. Ho will And that, like thvm, he
must accustom himself to what may
b called a "dignified humility" In the
presence of men who modestly think
themselves the great of the land. The
member of congress who haa a bill for
county seat la just aa big a man in th
White House aa tbe senator whom
seniority, If not qualification, haa
mado tbe head of the. finance commit
tee. "No member of either house haa
more than one vote and the enmity
of congressman who has made no
big mark on legislation may cost a
presidential aspirant the electoral vote
of a atate.
The secretary of the president of
the United States must be the "man
unafraid." There are scores of things
upon which be must speak for the
president, and he must always speak
with the certainty that his speech is
to go unchallenged by his chief. There
have been one or two secretaries who
declined on any occasion to speak for
the president, preferring to go to bim
on every trivial matter. The president
has a lot to do and he cannot act at all
times aa chief executive and as pri
vate secretary to himself.
Mr. Wilson, it ia said, has a mountain-moving
faith in Mr. Tumulty. If
he did not have it he probably would
not have made his present secretary
his future secretary. Mr. Tumulty, If
he follows the example, or is allowed
to follow the example, of some of his
predeceasora In office, will be oa many
subjects great and small the mouth
piece of the administration. He must
keep his tongue from tripping. See
reiariea have aucceeded in doing tbla
through long years and the strsln of
precaution seemingly has not worn
away their health.
Feathers and the Tariff.
It la possible, even probable,
that the congress of the I'nited
Statea may Interpose its authority
tti change utterly the fashion la
woman's hats. Doea It seem that this
is a trivial mater to take up the atten
tion of the careful law makers of the
lann? Tbe legislators apparently do
not hlnk ao, and good many of them
say that the agricultural interests and
all persons who love nature will rise
to call them blessed if they enter
wlln legislative intent Into the realm
of Dame Fashion.
It Is possible that the ways and
means committee under tba leadership
of Oscar W. ("ndarwood will make
up Ita mind before Marcii IS to ask
congress to prohibit the Importation
Into this country of all feathers for
millinery purposes, except those of
the ostrich, of domestic fowls sod of
.game birds. If the committee which
frames tariff legislation shall take thla
action It will mark the final step of
.success In a rruaade which had Its be
ginning In tbs parlora of a (ew Ameri
can hoinaa about fifteen years ago.
It is probable that for the present
congress will content Itse'.t with
provision In the tariff laws which will
prohibit the Importation "of the plum
age of American blrda. or of plumage
Indistinguishable from that of Ameri
can blrda. including aigrettes, crude
nd manufactured."
What the Provision Would Do.
The lusertion of this provision into
in nut tariff law Its beeaj urged sad
It Is said that the majority f the
members of tbe ways and means com
mittee Is favorable to ita adVipMou.
If it shall become the law It means
that the plumage o no bird, which
occurs In America and. which occurs
also In other countries, can be Im
ported Into the I'nited States. It also
will mean the shutting o'tt of the
scintillating feathers of scores of
birds not natives of America, but
whose plumage .n part l. Indlstln
nilshable' from that of the blrda of
this tountry. This provision of the
law probably will save from extermi
nation millions of humming birds now
killed nd sent Into this country to
giafli? the tastes of women to whom
"money (a no object."
Congress ia taking an 'merest In
the preservation of bird life. The
McLean bill giving the agricultural
drpartment the authority to regulate
the shooting seasons In the t'nlted
States and to forbid under the fed
eral law the killing of useful species
already has passed the senate and
may paa the house at this session.
If. In the hurry of things, the bill
does not pass It will be Introduced
again Immediately after the convening
of the extra session. It Is left to con
gress, however, to strike the dewl
llest blow at the plumage traffic
through the tariff laws, if is apparent
that one blow, not vital, will be struck
and that the deadlier stroke will be
reserved until humanity nnd educa
tional effort have been given a little
longer lease of time for continued
earnestness of endeavor.
.v. T. Hornaday of New York Zoolog
ical society and T. Gilbert Pearson,
secretary of the National Association
of Audubon Societies, have hern tell
ing Mr. t'ndcrwood and his nays and
means colleagues some facts about the
feather trade. ' John Burroughs, the
naturalist, la here doing what he can
In his forceful missionary way to turn
the heart of congress to the humani
ties of the case and the head of con
gress to its necessities.
Wilson Favors Publicity.
lieniocratin leaders in Wuahiffg--n
hear that It is Woodrow Wil
son's intention to make publicity
one of the efforts of his udministra
;io'i. The president-elect's reticence
'o:n crning present matters of burn in k
public curiosity and his disinclination
10 take the country into his confidence
on cabinet matters, makes the promise
of future publicity seem a little
strange, but publicity in legislattvt
matters has been marked !n New Jer
sey since Mr. Wilson became Its gov
ernor and It is said that he has found
it to be a public benetlt.
Mr. Wilson's first pronouncement in
favor of publicity after he should be
come president was withdrawal some
what hastily. The open door plan
which he advocated was really a pub
licity plan, but he found out, perhaps
from Mr. Taft in part and certainly
from senators and representatives.
tmjt if be tried keeping the door open,
thf. flood would set In and swamp hinV
and all persons connected with the
White House.
If Mr. Wilson intends to live up tu
his publicity promise.it meana that he
will talk freely to visitors and except
in certain cases will waive the rule
that "all is In confidence." It means
also that bo will tell the newspapers
freely what he thinks on public af
fairs and perhaps that he will allow
the use of the direct quotation. If this
latter course ' shall appeal to him he
will depart at pretty nearly a right
angle from the path followed by most
of his predecessors.
There is a law in Washington, un
written but stronger than any statute
that the president is not to be quoted
This does not mean thai what the pres
ident thinks or what the president In
tends to do does not get Into the news
papers. Presidents talk freely tt
some of the newspaper correspondents
and do so with the understanding, un
less direct request to the contrary i
given, that what they say may bi
used, but net in quotation marks.
How Roosevelt Gave Hia Views.
President Taft has departed from
the rule of no "quotes" a number ol
tiroes. Mr. Roosevelt lived up to it
pretty rigidly and yet his views wen
given more freely than those of nn
man who ever sat in the White House
Mr. Koosevelt believed In publicity
Newspaper accounts of happenings ti
come "given on high authority," or b
"one qualified to cpeuk for the admin
istration," were printed frequently and
freely and t.-ned the ends of bringing
expressions of support or oppouitior
from the public, and It was P.oosevelt'
desire always to kr.ow how the publit
felt. It is believed In Washington that
if Mr. Wilson Intends to use publicit
as an agent he will follow the persona'
rule of Koosevelt pretty closely In tin
matter. It ia not expected that h
will lies the "quotes." but that lie til!
reach t '.n same end by the Indirect
method
Wbou I resident Taft entered thi
White tot.se there was for uptime ul
most complete reversal of condi
lions. Mr Taft said little to member,
of congret which ho showed auy de
sire to hrve printed, and for a lonr
time hx virtually declined to see an
press representatives stafionvd In
Waaningt'tn. It did not take tbe pres
ident lonn to come to tue conclusloi
that he hid made a mistake, or if h
did not reach this eouclusio.i himself
some of Ms friends reached it for hiu
and following its reaching, the public
was allowed to know something direct
ly sbbut what tbe presldeut thought
ought to t-e done. Mr. Taft has been a
great believer In the plsn of going ti
the people and telling it f ret . hand
Ills publicity trouble wss t :t. I ave
as much as be did, there ter long
periods rf lime when he wss com
pelted to remain In Washington aui.
the people bad to wait for their tnfor
mat ion. Pwbilcitv. however, finally
vaaie tulo Ita owa la the Taft admit-istration.
STEAMER DRIVEN ASHORE IN BLINDING STORM
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Ill a recent, blinding snowstorm
in the "ships' graveyard." lust west
the revenue cutter Mohawk, which wont to the aid of tbe life savers of I-ong
TELLS OF ATROCITIES
Writer Reveals Fiendish Acts
Committed by Turks.
Bulgar Soldiers, Maddened by Treat
ment of Their Countrymen, Show
Moslem Troopa Women Are
Horribly Mutilated.
Kabaktclia Village, near Tchalalja.
-Owing partly to the fear of bloody
vejiieance to come for the horrors of
this war, partly to more mitural
i-auses, great migratory changes are
taking place In that rich eastern sec
tion of Turkey In Kuropo through
w hich tbe Uulgars swept on their hur
ricane storm to Tchatalja. . Though
from all appearances the old regime
of murder, mutilation and injustice
will soon be forever ended, thn fear
struck Turkish population is moving
southward again toward Asia Minor,
whence It came, while the llulgar
peasants of the Tchatalja district are
lleeing as nervously north. Amid
these scenes of exodus, ono is led to
think it may yet not be too late to
bring some order tn the Balkan racial
chaos.
Meanwhile, the Turks have waged
the present conflict in their old style
burning, violating, massacring. Al
most at tbe Uulgariuu frontier Uie
atrocious tale begins.
Weil, tho moment yie Mjtnj de
clared tho Turks began to loot icnii
burn the llulgar villages But as
the stern soldiers from the nortt
pressed down, winning victory aflet
victory, tho Turkish population, per
haps rightly fearing vengeance in kind
from the men who found their blood
kin wronged and slain right and loft,
set off on a frantic migration to Con
stantinople, where they arrived In the
pitiable state already known to the
world. Of such Turks as stayed be
hind tbe Uulgars felt forced to kill
some. Others they put to work with
the army transports, still others they
lefi m peace, their villages .ntact,
JuBt ps oue finds also Bulgar villages
intact where the Turks did not have
time to do a thorough job.
"We expected." said a ltulgar officer
with whom I talked at Tchatalja. "to
find a rich and plenteous country as
we neared Constantinople. We found
instead- what you see, nothing! Hard
ly a living being! ' Utter devasta
tion!" I met an eld Bulgarian woman near
Tchorlu who was the first Red Cros
nurse upon tho ground after tbe ter
tlble destruction at l,ule liuigas. She
said that on her way to the field hos
pital she was sent to the succor of a
Greek village where tbe Turks bad
scattered ruin. Unlock your western
ears now, and hear the truth. She
found young girls lying naked by the
roadside nearly dead. She found chil
dren stricken down by carelesa sa
bers. A lousewife had been mur
dered as she kneaded her bread, the
dough slill on her hands.' And In a
bloody sack the Turks had gathered
women's breasts!
it is not difficult to verify such
stories. They sre common knowl
edge here. The Bulbar peusaut has
no imagination. He tells what be
sees. I will give one more exampla.
According to the Mohammedan re
ligion, pork is unclean and Is forbid-h-u.
For a Turk to kill a pig is thus
considered a special insult to a Chris
tian. The advancing Hulgars found
many pigs shot down or stabbed lu
fx nn tarda '
The HuJgars began the war ia a
humane spirit, as such terras go lu '
war time. Hut not a soldier In that
army of 400, WO is Ignorant now of
certain fiendish evidence his comrades
have witnessed. In tbe Ughliug at
Tchatalja. thi Itulgara. having ad
vanced during the day, were fre
quently obliged to retire at n'uht. leaf
ing their wouuded on tbe field
When the next day's fortunes
brought them again over the same
ground they found only stripped bod
lea gmesomely hacked, while the of
ficers' corpsea had be. in mutilated la
a way so much wore disgusting than
anything I have hitherto meu Honed
that I cannot even wrlie of it. I think
rvcii kindly people In their tranquil
uouius scross tne world la America
will understand tbe reason now, when
I add -tist should the war continue,
no more Turkish wounded will fce sent
north to be aur4 is 'lulgar hosplt
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the banana steamer Nicholas Cuneo, with a crew of thirty, was driven ashore
of Point Ixiokout, jos. Island. The photograph shows the wrecked vessel and
als. While the Rulgara pass hereaft
er there will be no Turkish wounded.
Doubtless there are many good
Turks. No one who has seen the pale
and delicate faces of the Moslem wom
an refugees can look tin them without
pity. Out the basic fact remains:
Tho ways of the Turk are not tbe
ways of Europe.
FINDS MYSTERY OF THE DEEP
Steamer Discovers Bark but Fata of
Captain and Craw Is Like
That of Celeste's.
Newport News, Va. Another mys
tery of the deep, virtually paralleling
the disappearance of tbe crew of the
schooner Marie Celeste years ago,
came to port with tbe itrtttsh tank
steamer Roumanian.
The Marie Celeste was found at sea
with a pot boiling in the galley. Its
captain's papers on the cabin table
and every indication that men were
aboard within a few hours of Its dis
covery. Nothing, however, ever was
heard of the skipper or crew.
Tba story of tbe Norwegian bark
Remittent, with a crew of six. Is
equally strange. Tho Roumanian
sighted the Remittent drifting near
the Azores and took it In tow.
Tbe boat's deck planks, once holy
stoned to a glistening white, bore the
marks of many feet, but there was
Ario one aboard and nothing to explain
vtid difcappelranco of the master 'and
crew. In the cabin the lockfast places
were undisturbed; charts and papers
were secure. In the breaker there
was fresh water; salt junk and bis
cuits were In the stores. A mainsail
and two jibs were snugly furled and
lifeboats swung in the davits.
In a gale 100 miles off Cape Henry,
Captain Clarldge lost tbe Remittent.
No other ship has reported it since.
The Remittent was commanded by
Captain Torgersen and sailed from
Rio Urande do Sal Oct 25 for Liver
pool. THIEF BETRAYED BY A PATCH
Seattle Woman Recognizes Handi
work She Put on Trc users and
Bandit la Taken.
Seattle, Waah. Recognition last
week by Mra. William J. Mayorick of
a patch she had placed on the leg of
her husband's trouber: resulted In the
arrest of two men and the recovery
from the home of one of them a
wagonload of articles stolen from
Seattle homes. Charles Castro, from
whose home tbe articles were recov
ered, was wearing the clothes, and sat
opposite sirs. Mayorick in a .street
car. When she questioned bis right
to the clothes he abused hor and men
passengers took blm Into custody snd
delivered him at police headquarters.
Mayorick's name was written on a
pockot lining.
Tho other man arrested Is Toney
Donio, who was found In Castro's
home. Tbe police say be Is a mem
ber of a "black hand" organization
that has been terrorizing Seattlo Ital
ians and that he Is wanted In Idaho
to answer criminal charges.
ODD FACTS ABOUT HEREDITY
Color-Bllndness Descenda from Male
to Female, or Vice Versa, De
clares London Profeaaor.
I-ondoo Lecturing at the Royal
Institute ou "Heredity of Sex." Prof.
Kateson relatea aorue curioua facts
which have been discovered as a re
sult of examining several generations
of a family lu which colorblindness
appeared.
A color-bliqd woman, he said, la
very rarely found and she always is
a daughter of a colorblind man. He
sons and daughters would be normal,
her son's families would be normal,
but if her daughter had sons, they
would be fouud to be normal and
color-bUne la equal numbers.
A curious Anomaly with reference
to eolor-biindness appeared la twins.
They were girls, exactly alike la ap
pearance, but one waa color blind and
tbe other waa not. No explanation of
this exception bad been found. Prof.
Hateson said there Is a popular be
lief that sons la certain respects took
after nwtbwrs aodj slaughters after
fathers. Wlthia a reasonable range,
of speculation this la true, be said.
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WOMAN WRITES VOTE POEM
Varas May Aid Gladys Hinckley to
Win Ines Mllhollsnd's Laurels;
Male Imbecile Hunted.
Washington. Miss Ines Milholland,
you had better watch ouL
Miss Gladys Hinckley. Miss Mllhor
land's closest rival for the title of the
most "beautiful American suffragist,'
has enlisted poetry to her aid in the
contest She writes it herself. It Is
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Miss Gladys Hinckley.
all about votes for women, and doc
trines of that cause.
Speaking to her sister suffragists.
Miss Hinckley says:
"Iream no more of a Guinevere,
Or Lady Alice Vere de Vera.
Times have changed, and now the
women
Militant rise, demanding rights.
Man Is not on the defensive.
For he force has, and might makes
arguing for the cause, she says
of the suffrage tenets:
"Help the shop girls keep to honor.
Change the code so badly balanced.
If you think our role domestic.
Let our office be domestic;
Civic cleansing, gutter cleaning.
Let us hust and sweep the cities.
Woman's sphere can be domestlo.
In politics for all the nation.
Let us try. and if we blunder
Help us. for you long have hurt us
Chivalry of noblest order.
Now can grow If men and women
Stand together, understanding.
PRISON FOR LAZY MOTHER
London Husband Says There Is Noth
ing the Mattel' With Hla Stay
Abed Wife.
London How to deal with a wom
an who persistently stayed in bed was
a problem presented to the Exeter
magistrates when Margaret Wbattoy
appeared on an adjourned charge of
neglecting her two children.
Tbe husband said that hla wife went
to bed on December ZS, and ho had
not seen ber up until she came to tbe
court It had been suggested that be
should leave her stsrve. As far aa ha
knew, there waa nothing tbe matter
with ber.
The magistrates sent the woman to
prison for tour months at bard labor,
specially requesting the med'eal officer
aud chaplain to look after her In tba
hope that regular discipline would re
store her.
Dream Rsvsals Dual Marriage.
New York. Cbailes Urellet, a restaurant-keeper,
who asked for annul
ment of his marriage on the ground
that bis wife had another husband
from whom she bad not been divorced,
said that be knew uothlna- of t .l
le'ged duplicity until he dreamed he
found Wf walking In tba streets of
Paris with another man wboui aha
called busbaud. I' Don awakanin k
quwntltued her ana ha claims she ad
rnnua tne truth of the dream.
rmJucUl by th VfttloMl WmniiCWM
Ximn Tmpranc Uts4m.
RIGHT PLACE FOR A SALOON
If Wealthy and Powerful Canont En
dure Presence of Dirty Grogshop)
Why Should the Poorf
Where Is the right place for a sa
loon? Where la tbe saloon wanted?
If not the fashionable, mercantile es
tablishments, what other kind of
business are likely to be herped by
the proximity of gin mills? 1-et sosae
one name them. Ia It the baker, tbe
tailor, the shoemaker, the butcher, tho
milliner, the bookseller? Do any. of
these find it of particular advantage
to their trade to have a grog-seller
come and open up a shop beshle them?
What surroundings are nocessary b
order to justify tho opening of resort
for loafers, or drunkard mills, of dens
for the propagation of vice and crime?
What neighborhood shall he selected
for the debauching of men, for the de
struction of families, for thn making
nf paupers and felons? Which ts tbe
worst, to open a saloon near a school
or a church, or to open It next door
to a home, In front of a home, over a
home or under a home? What Is there
that shpuld make a grogshop a stench
in the nostrils of the publki on on
street and a sweet-smelling savor on
another? Is a saloon on Fifth ave
nue calculated to do greater barm
than a beer dive on Mulberry street?
If the wealthy and powerful cannot
endure the presence, of tho grogshop,
why should It be thrust upon the poor
and weak? Are the tenement dis
tricts tbe homes of thoee already
deep down in poverty, equator and
misery the proper places to set tbe
saloons? Are they needed to help
men live purer lives, to make happier
homes, to strengthen Uie weak, to
cheer the downcast, to guide thn er
ring? Who shall take upon himself
the responsibility of declaring where
the people shall be cursed with the
presence of grogshopB and where the
people shall not be cursed? These.
It seems to us, are the praetlcu ques
tions, and we should like to have them,
answered. Aroostook Republican.
WORLD RAPIDLY GOING MAD
English Authority on Lunacy and
Nervous Diseases Makes Start
( ling Statement on Drink.
"Tbe world is rapidly going mad."
says Dr. Forbes Wlnalow, an English
authority on lunacy and nervous dnv.
eases. "Today there Is one certl&ed
lunatic in every 269 of onr population.
and if the Increase In lunacy contin
ues at the same rate as It has doae
for the past fifty years, there will he
one lunatic in every four of the popu
lation by A. D. 2169. Ono quarter of
the world will be mad.' , I have no pa
tience with those who ascilbe this
terrible condition of affairs to in
creased competition, and the wear and
tear of modern life. It la mere shelv
ing of responsibility, aud tbe tree
causes of Insanity are tbe vires, not
the worries of civilization." He then
gives the causes of Insanity In tbe or
der In which he believes they should
be placed: "First, drink; second, olg
aret smoking; third, heredity," and
adds, "Until the drink question has
been properly dealt with . . . the no
tion will continue to go from bad to
worse. ,
ASHAMED OF THEIR BUSINESS
Saloonkeeper Hss No Use of Camera
to Illustrate Quality of Liquor
That Hs Sells.
The camera Is used for many pur
poses. Pictures are taken of school
children to Illustrate tbe products of
the schools. Granges get their mem
bers out tn a group and have them
snapped so that they ran proudly dis
play their membership before their
friends. Farmers have pictures taken,
of their cattle and horsoa. big pump
kins and fine fruits. Grandfathers
rejoice to be photographed with then
grandchildren, business places and
factories display their employees and
products with pride.
But did you ever see a saloonkeeper
who wanted to photograph and pub
lish the product of his saloon? Yoa
never ssw a photo of the brokeu tuea
and women displayed in a sqloon win
dow, did you? Or a picture of a bright
boy and a wrecked man labeled, "Be
fore and After Taking Our Brand of
Boose?" Msbon (Ohio) Patriot.
. Water Is Powerful.
Water la the strongost drink. It
drives mills. It is the drink of boiwea
and of lions. Samson himself never
drauk anything else Charles M
8purgeon.
A Distorted View.
"I trust that as brewers you aM
feel within you the same grateful eoa
vlction 1 feel, that we are the mans
stay of rational and practical temper
ance." Thus said the president of
the I'nited Statea Brewers' associa
tion to representatives of that body
la convention asaembled. And so
speaking he furnishes proof of the
scientific statement that one of tow
effects of alcohol upon h bums a
brain is to derange the whoW Intel
ligence system, thus causlag a utaa to
sea things as they ars vol. '