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One year, 13.00: six months. 31.50: three months. »« senta, one month, SO cents. _ VOL. LX XXIV.—NO. 48. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 33. 1915._ THE LURK IN THE CANAL BILLS. A State normal school In South Jersey Is the con templated bait In the Morris Canal bills for South Jersey votes. A boulevard In that section of the .State Is offered In the bills. This lure also appeared !n the canal bills last year, but It was not effective South Jerseymen looked the gift horse in the mouth nod didn’t like It. A State normal school Is s more attractive proposition. A State school costa nothing locally. It brings boarders and trade and is therefore a source of income. But the question is. IVhere shall the normal school be located. Presumably in Camden county, for that county has three votes in the Assembly. With the exception of Atlantic County, which has two Assem blyman. Is the home of the sponsor of the canal bills and does not ask for a normal school, all the other , , ountiea of the southern tier have each one Assem- j blyman. But each of the counties covets the school, and »o ! also do different localities In each county. Aa the j State cannot well undertake to build normal schools ad libitum as bribes for South Jersey votes for the canal bills. It follows that only one locality in one county can be satisfied. And what of all the rest? How will they stand this discrimination? The flamboyant scheme of a canal parkway In North Jersey was meant to capture the Imagination of that section of the State and its legislative votes. The i Governor has shown Its grotesqueness, and It will probably be dropped In favor of soma other bid for North Jersey votes, but how can the conflicting claims of South Jersey be reconciled? And that section, too. will doubtless like to know how and where the money is forthcoming. The Legls- ] ature has practically decided anyhow In favor of i uilding a new normal school In South Jersey, and will this year or next year vote the appropriation. It may be affirmed that the money will come from the slate treasury much sooner than the nebulous pay-1 ment from the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company "PLAYING PEANUT POLITICS." The answer Indirectly made hy the Republican 'tate Committee to the Governor's message, In which •he committee was excoriated for Its remarkable act in giving a partisan indorsement to the Morris Canal bills, is more abusive than explanatory. It ought to be humbly apologetic. It. Is the duty of the Governor of this State to give ; warning against an attempted public wrong He share* with the Legislature the duty of lawmaking. He would be a recreant, to his duty IT he failed to point tut to the Legislature and the people the vicious fea tures of lobby-prepared bills for which the legislative ways had been greased. The State committee, which tas no recognized status,* tells the Governor that in discharging his sworn duty he Is "playing peanut poliilcs." What kind of a game has the Republican State Committee been playing? And into whose hands has it playod? As for tho very surprising accusation that the Governor has “Joined with the press of his party In misrepresenting the attitude of the Republican State . Committee relative to the Godfrey bills," the answer1 to that is the authorized and published statement by i the committee sent out by the committee’s secretary, which amazed the State. It wasn’t possible to mis represent that statement. The only comment neces sary is that it utterly misrepresented the Republican \ soters of the State TWO NEW DREADNOUGHTS. There will at least be two super-dreadnoughts to he added to the American navy, and the naval experts will see to it that they are without their peers afloat. All the most modern improvements In battleships are now at the command of the Navy Department, which also has learned something about naval architecture from the lessons of the present European war It Is true that thus far In the war there have been no important fleer engagements in which battleships figured, but the department experts hare ob servingly studied the capabilities of tb* submarine, and the vessels to be constructed w*n,be bnllt to be as nearly invulnerable to undersea attack aa to the guns of the enemy’s forts and battleships ;_...... WAR DOUBLES OT7R POOD EX PORTA. Figures of exports for the seven months ending with January are Impressive as showing the heavy drain which tha European war la making upon Amer ican foodstuffs. It has meant just about the doubling of our task of feeding other nations, for we exported In that period $377,400,000 worth of breadstuffs and meats, as against $189,400,000 In the same months of 1913-4. The increase includes as its most important item a hundred million bushels of wheat- But If the warring powers do not stop planting mines In the path of our commerce we are likely soon to have a great deal more of our food products for our own consumption. Those war zones in the sea may cause the next set of export figures to tell a different tale. . RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. England’s amazing change in her attitude toward Russia In the matter of Russia obtaining a “warm water” port is the diplomatic feature of the present w'ar. It Is portentous and may be accepted In Ger many as a revelation of a desperate situation which compels England to shift her position in order to hold the support of the czar. It is indeed surprising when England reverses a policy which she has maintained for centuries. Like politics, diplomacy makes strange bedfellows. The hated Russian bear Is welcomed to the lair of the English Hon. No more shall they quarrel; the bear and the lion shall divide the spoils. But the war has not ended. Perhaps tha bear has jan inkling that the German eagle Is not Its worst } enemy. And perhaps tha Hon has seen the trend of , the war In eastern Prussia and in Poland. THE STATE AND THE SEACOA8T. How to protect the New Jersey coast from the ravages of the ocean has been a problem for years, but It has never been seriously considered by the Legislature. In the last two decades ths loss of I property from Atlantic Highlands to Cape May by storms may be reckoned In the millions. Private enterprise has tried to solve the problem in spots, but these attempts have been failures. So great have the Inroads been that there is now grave danger of the destruction of at least one of the beautiful resorts on the northern coast. The State Harbor Commission, which has Investi gated the conditions, asks for an appropriation of $35,800 for a survey of ths coast for several months of the present year. The commission’s report Is In structive In the facts it presents. It shows that the prerequisite of any plans to be adopted Is an elabo rate expert examination of the coast with the tidal j action and movement of tha sands. We must know 1' the nature ef the problem to be dealt with, and we cannot borrow methods In Europe, where the tidal conditions may bs entirely dissimilar. It Is time for the State to act, and the plan pro posed by the State commission should be adopted at ' once New Jersey’s most valuable asset Is her sea coast, which increases in value every year. It Is an evidence of the Improvidence and neglect of the State ! that up to the present time It has done nothing to pro tect this property. t - COX SOLIDATIOX OF MUNICIPALITIES. As the governor will sign the bill parsed by the , :wo houses of the Legislature permitting the munlci- ; palltles in North Hudson to vote in the election next i fall on the question of consolidation, that section, with its rivalries, will soon be embroiled In a contest. Only those municipalities that approve, will consoli date Into a single North Hudson city. The three West Hudson towns went to the Legis lature some years ago with consolidation bills. One was for union with Newark and the other for a con solidated West Hudson city. They were denied their request. West Hudson Is geographically, as well as socially and Industrially, a part of Newark, and Its future is bound up in Newark. The dividing line between Newark and Jersey City is the Hackensack. When consolidated North Hudson is joined with Jersey City, Hoboken and Bayonne to make one municipality, the Greater Newark will face this city on the Hackensack, and in course of time there will be accomplished a greater consolida tion, that of Newark and Jersey City, with their an nexed territories and populations to make a rival om this side of t.he Hudson to the metropolis WEART OF WELL DOING. T he Palisades Interstate Park Is a public reserva tion and its upkeep is properly a State charge, hut thus far the coat of maintenance has been met almost entirely by wealthy citizens, including Mrs. Harriman and George W. Perkins. The latter, who Is chairman of the park commission, thinks It Is about time for the State of New York to look after Us own property, and he asks the Legislature to appropriate 1130,000 for the purpose thlB year. But with New York facing a 119,000,000 8tate tax and Governor W'hltman urging that no money be voted except for emergencies, these public-spirited New Yorkers are likely to enjoy for at least another year the privilege of philanthropy to a great State. FARM CREDITS BILL AS A RIDER. The passage by the Senate of a farm credits bill as « rider attached to the agricultural appropriation bill was a clever move to get. this Important measure through < ongress at the present, session, when there was apparently no prospect that It would h* taken up for consideration. Ab the bill, having been pa«sed by the House, will now go Into conference, the rider may be eliminated, hut the chances are that It will go to the President as a part of the hill and become law. The farmers of the country will rejoice when this long-delayed boon 1b granted. 1 OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES jj Not I/Ue the 1tnn»o~J*l>*n»»e Wer. From tbs WnI! Street Joornal. No sooner hail hostilities begun than President Wilson made a meri torious attornpt to bring about a rec onciliation. He was politely, but emphatically, given to understand that outside Interference was not desired. Further advances at this time would be offensive Tet people are still nagging him to do something end the wsr. A prominent Judge In n. public speech referred to the fact that Mr. Roosevelt found a way for sn amicable adjustment between Russia and Japan. But the gentleman overlooked the fact that at Port Arthur. Mukden and Harbin, Russia had suffered hu miliating defeat, while Japan W3s exhausted. Roth parties were In po sition to welcome an opportunity to make peace. Had Mr. Roosevelt ten dered Ids good offices before that time its undoubtedly would have received an unpleasant rebuff. When the moment arrives, Mr. Wilson can be counted on to make an offer of mediation. Jt will not be difficult to recognise the moment. CoAiluitlaevk'i Fourth Fell. From the Providence Journal. Constantinople may be the first de cisive prise for the allies. The an cient city on Europe's stormy fron tier has been hammered, assaulted and besieged many times, but taken only fhrlee In all Its history. And It has been seriously threatened but, once since the Turks wrested It from the descendants of the Caesars near ly five centuries ago. Ahmed's Kuls fer Long rite from the Hartford Courant. Ahmed is a veteran of the Algerian Tirailleurs, lie and his comrades have been brought over from Africa to help flg-ht. the battles of franca lu Europe He has already been on tha fighting line, and picked up three wounds from thu experience. He was I sent to Paris to be brought again into fighting shape. The other morn ing he stood on a station platform iri Paris, his three wounds healed, and waiting for the train to carry him back to the trenches. The Paris cor respondent of the London Telegraph caught sight of him and says: "Upright, slim and vigorous, Ah med bear* bravely the weight of six ty-six years and half a doaen cam paigns—those of 1870 and 1914 includ ed. 'War is amusing,' he said. ‘Ueath —what is death?' hs jibed with a fine fatalism. ‘It comes soon or late to every man. and what better death than a bullet through the breast?’ •And what is tha secret of your mar velous health and vigor?’ said the pertinacious inquirer. 'I’ll tell you,' answered Ahmed. ‘First of all, 1 don't drink ever, and then I hav« never, worked. Work is very bad for people; it deforms them anc break# them "down. I have n*v« done anything but fight. Fighting la the only natural healthy life for a man.” Ahmed Is pi-obably an Arabs bis build la of that race. There are eev eral millions In the world like him, not only physically, but intellectually. It Is dull times with them when there la no fighting to be done. The ideal* of mankind vary considerably What la a Trite •» «M2.oen.*S*f Prom the N'ow 5'ork World. Tho United States Senate appro priated JIM,000,000 for pensions In I four minutes, but at the present rate | 1M,000,000 minutes would he required to pass $4 for national defense.—New York Tribune. The House has passed a navy ap propriation bill, carrying *144.850,000 to wdilch the Senate committee or naval affaire has added *8,313,000 making a total of nearly *153,000,000 Without a dissenting vote the SenaU Tuesday passed an army appropria tion bill of *103,000,000, while th< House passed a *8.004,000 fortifica tions bill. To the Tribune a trivial sum Uk< *2*3,000,000 a year for purposes of na tlonal defense—the largest approprl atlorue ever made when the countn was not actually at war—is not wort! mentioning. Tt has worked Itself lnt< such a state of political nerves tha' it cannot believe its own new# di» patches Truro Washington. I ODDITIES IN TODAY’S NEWS =========================== Regie feteile Tiny Dog; I.oaea Hold, eml Voinerenliui Rreak, Uf. HASTINGS, Feb 28.—Tiny, a full blooded Pomeranian dog, owned by Prank P. Wupperman. nearly fell a victim of high living yesterday. As It was be broke a leg. Tiny and a maid were exerobging on the roof of the Wupperman residence when an eagle ewooped down and seized the dog in its talons. While the maid screamed the big gray bird soared oft with its wriggling prey, but li soon lost its grip and dropped Tiny on the lawn in front of the house. The pet with the broken leg is being doctored in the Ardsley ken nels, and the eagle Is presumed to have sought its aerie on the pali sades. Child * Heart on Right side; Operation Prove* Fatal. NEW YORK, Feb. 26—An opera tion at Flower Hospital yesterday on David Reinward, three years and nine months old, established definitely what a previous X-ray examination had shown—that his heart was on the right side. The boy, who w as the eon of Samuel Lelnword, of 402 Hast Seventy-eighth street, wag stricken with pneumonia, and upon his removal to the hospital an unusual pressure on his right side was noticed. The X-ray examination disclosed the unusual condition and an operation was decided upon. David did not rally and died at 7 o’clock last night. V*l«-Priuc»hia Football Haul* Forms Fart of Divorce Suit Flea. DEDHAM, Mass., Feb. 28.—Airs. Frederica "M. Cameron, who before her marriage was a chum of Alice Roosevelt and Katherine Elkins, com pared her husband, Evan S. Cameron, formerly a Princeton football star, to Dr. Jelcyl and Mr. Hyde in her testi mony yesterday In the suit she is bringing for divorce. Financial troubles were not all that she had to contend with, according to her testimony, for site said that on the night of the Prtnceton-Yale foot mll game of 1913, a tie game, her lusband came home hbout 2 o'clock u the morning, Intoxicated, and in nate.] on starting a Princeton Jubilee. He woke her up and told her that Princeton had won the game. Then is went to her mother's room to .pread the glad tidings. After some liscuesion he permitted her to go lack to bed. RLen**h* (Ml.), Start* Municipal School for Servant Girl*. KENOSHA, Wis., Feb. 28.—Kenosha Ls a municipality today began an ef ’ort to solve the servant girl problem. V school wag opened for the educa lon of servant girts, fifteen young women of various nationalities being rntered as the first students, all em iloved in the homes of members of he Kenosha City Club, which pro noted the school Classes are organ zed in bneadmaklng, table serving, musekeeping, btrlmaking, and other lomestic arts. Two teachers are In •harge of the work. The expense of the school will b What kind or storm ; Anower to Yesterday's llirrio. lug. When Stars Are Old No sweeter strain from viol e’er was wafted •Than the dear dream that brings the thought of you; No lovelier word was e’er in reverence spoken Than the sweet name the cherished years bring back. i How close it seems our sundered hearts have traveled— Though oceans roll their depths between our lives! How green the fields in which our fancies wander! j I1 And yet how still the night that calls us home. Dear loving heart, how sweetly bloomed the roses. When on that night of nights, your hand in mine, Love conquered all our fears and griefs and sadness— And touched the rhythmic harp of life anew. Tonight the tears come with the-olden gladness, | And memory hears the music of your voice. Death soon will come to snuff the dream forever— But still the love will live when stars are old. —Leslie Bayliss. HEALTH AND HAPPINESS BY Dl. LEONARD KEENE HIRSH DERG. A. B., M. A, M. O. (John Hopkins). How Science Now Conquer* Mi* Dread Pneumonia Peril. Pythagoras, who flourished 500 B. C„ said: "Every man has either had pneu monia has it now or will have it ul timately.” Although this phrase of Pythagoras is not wholly true, it has much In it., and was, in a fashion, the foundation of an equally inac curate phrase of Sir William Osier, who said that "pneumonia is the old man’s friend,” meaning that it pre vented their living too long. The newest scientific treatment of pneumonia has just been made known. As soon as the dark, particular family of pneumo-cocci, or pneumonia germs, is found in the sputum of the patient —this must be done at once without a moment's unnecessary delay—the appropriate type of flnti-pneumonta serum is begun. As yet this serum is not for sale, but can be obtained quickly from the Rockefeller Insti tute of Medical Research. Dr. Rufus I. Cole is the discoverer of tills eerum and has it under charge. Eighty to ninety cubic centimeters or three ounces of the serum is inocu lated into the sufferer. Twelve hours later a similar injection is repeated. The next day the same double treat ment Is continued and for several days more, if necessary. Verifying the Di»guo*l*. Before this Cole serum is injected, pneumonia bacteria can be cultivated from the pneumonia patient’s blood. Since this ta one of the causes of death In this lung malady, a good sign Is the disappearance of the germs from the blood. In every victim examined, imme diately after the pneumonia serum was injected, there were no more microbes to be found in the blood. This is a, sufficient proof of tho serum’s efficacy. Another demonstration of the bene fits derived from the use of the anti pneumonia serum, is the fact that ( blood taken from a patient so treated immediately makes white mice Im mune to the disease. Yet ordinarily every mouse Infected with pneumo cocci dies within a few hours. Finally and best of all, a large percentage of lives are now saved with this new anti-serum, who would have been doomed before. New Shipping Method* Dr. Avery, one of the assistants of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital, recently devised a way whereby large amounts of this anti-pneumonia serum—made from horses vaccinated with the digested germs—can be used and shipped. In fine, he has concentrated the serum by clotting and coagulating it. The coagulum is an albumen-llke substance called a globulin. Its use pains the patient less, because there Is decidedly less bulk; it avoids the hives and other chance eruptions, which cause "serum sicknesses,” and larger amounts may be given safely without disturbing the distribution and pressure of the patient's blood. Dr. Rufus I. Cole, who made tills great discovery, is a most conserva tive and modest research worker. His experiments cover several years’ work, Some of it was begun at the Johns Hopkins University, where Ills early studies were made. There Is little doubt but that his findings will take historic rank with those of Flex ner, Noguciii and Von Behring, the discoverer of diphtheria antitoxin. Answers to Health Questions ANXIOUS FRIEND.—Q.—W1H you Idndiv publish a prescription that is good for fits? A-—Keep your Intestine* active. Never eat meats. Take two triple bromide tabloids in a glassful of water every four hours. S. M. S.—Q.—1—I am bothered with corns on my toes, and have tried many remedies, but. nothing eeems to help me. Will you kindly suggest a renu 1 y ? ?—What is the treatment for a pain in the instep of my foot? A.—1—Faint the corns with ten grains of salicylic acid in one ounce of collodion. Soak the feet twice a day in hot soapsuds. £—Massage the instep with cam phorated oil and take plenty of walk ing exercise. Wear thin stockings and shoes. MARY.—Q.—Will you please give me a cure for constipation? A.—Eat figs, apples, dates, prunes, I spinnach, oatmeal, shredded wheat, j cereals, currants, cabbage, stewed pears, prune Juice and clear eoups. Drink two glasses of distilled water one-half an hour before meals. Aleo take seven grains of oxide of mag nesia before meals and charcoal after. Sleep In a well-ventilated room and get plenty of fresh air and *unllght. ,T. H. H.—Q.—What shall X do for a dry scalp and falling hair? A_‘Massage Into the scalp twice a day: Resorcin, fifteen grains; balsam peru, one-lialf dram; sulphur loti, four drams; castor oil, fourteen drama; oil ef theobromine, three drams. Ta K. abor will attempt to amend the one day’s rest In seven law, which excludes from It* provlelon employes of gas and electric manufacturers, drug uteres, livery stable*, garages a.nd other public or seml-publlo servants. Including employes of hotels and restaurant*. Tb* union* have filed a bill which would annul the exemption of hotel and restaurant employe*. UPLIFT TALKS BY ORISON SWBTT MARDHN, Author of “Boohing to tho Front," Eto. Copyright, ISIS. WHY NOT BE A GIANT OF ACHIEVEMENT? Many touching reports are reaching us from the Italian earthquake zone, but perhaps none is more thrilling or shows greater personal courage and devotion than that of the rescue by Count Restas, former deputy and one of the best known Italians of Avez stano, of his wife and five sons. After the earthquake, finding him self uninjured, the count at once commenced a search for his loved ones. Unable to convince others that be neath the crumbled ruins of ills cas tle his family might be found alive, he labored alone undaunted day and night. Finally, one of the officers commanding a. relief party was so touched by the count’s devotion and remarkable determination, that (re sent men to his assistance. After hours of persistent labor they reach ed the main room of the castle, and there found the countess and her five sons, uninjured, but suffering great ly from hunger and exposure. How many of us under similar con ditions would have accepted wlr.it we considered the inevitable and given up to despair! If we could analyze a strong, vig orous character, we should find it made up largely of the conquering habit, the habit of overcoming. On the other hand, if wo should analyze a weak character we should find Just the reverse—the habit of failure, the habit of giving up, the habit of wielding Instead of conquering—the lack of courage, of persistency, of grit. There is no genius like that of holding on, and making continuous effort under difficulties. There are a thousand people who have talent to one who has the grit. Brilliancy gives up, and talent gets disheartened before difficulty and lets go. There are some very brilliant men in publio life who almost do great things, men who raise great expecta tions in some particular line, but who never win out. They remain perpet ual prospectuses of works which are never published. I believe that most people faU from the lack of staying power than from almost anything else. All along life's course we see people who have fallen out of the running at different stages. Men may be industrious, hon est, enthusiastic, well educated anti have had good opportunities, but lack persistency and courage, anti with draw from the race when the un seen goal is only a little ahead. Courage is an indispensable quality in our success; but if it is not bal anced and regulated by prudence, cautiousness, it will run away with us and lead us into ali sorts of fool liardly things. Boldness is a great quality when it is held in check by proper cautiousness and guided by good judgment. I know a man whose courage is very much over-developed and his faculty of caution Is very deficient He does not know what fear means, and he plunges into all sorts of fool ish operations which do not turn ou< well, and he is always trying to g«t out of things which he has gone into hastily. If his prudence had been equally developed with his courage, with his boldness, he would have made a very strong man. Futile endeavor, half-hearted ef- a forts, never accomplished anything. It takes the flrq. of determination, energy, push and good Judgment to accomplish that which counts. It is the well-balanced, enthusiastic man, with Are in his blood and ginger in his brain, who makes things move and achieves the seemingly impos sible. BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN FEBRUARY 26 Catherine McDowell, Mary Leapor Copyright, If IB, BY MARY MARSHALL. Mary Laapor was born on February 26, 1722, and she gained fame for some imitative poetry in the style of Pope and Dryden. Her father was gar dener to Judge Blencowe, and Mary received little education, but she read copiously, and tvas especially Inter ested in the poets, Dryden and Pope. At one time it Is said that she worked as a cookmaid in a gentleman's fam ily, but later she found herself and took to writing poetry’ Her work, especially that In imita tion of Pope, was quickly talked about, and some people of rank and means started a subscription to pub lish ber poems. Before this subscrip tion could bo completed, however, the promising young poet died of measles —In 1746, at the age of twenty-four. Two years later, however, her poems ,* were published. Tt is said that the poet Cowper sin cerely admired her work. Catherine Sherwood Bonner Mc Dowell was born three years after Miss Leajior died—on February 20. 1849—at Holly Springe, Miss. She was educated In private schools In Mis sissippi and Alabama, and Was mar ried to Mr. McDowell when she waf twenty-four. After her marriage she removed to Cambridge, Mass., and there was for a time secretary to the poet Longfellow. Under the pen name Sherwood Bon ner she wrote several popular books— "Like Unto like,” "Suwanee River Tales" and "Dialect Tale*” among i them. She died in 1888. NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY The Story of a Historic Cane At the time the workmen were re moving the walls of the Croton reservoir, than situated at Forty* second street and Fifth avenue, New Fork city, they found that these walls were of such massive construc tion and had been built with such perfect workmanship that it was necessary to blast much of this granite inclosure before the wails could be torn down. I happened to be walking one day In the vicinity of the old reservoir when the workmen were blasting the foundation with the late Charles F. Cox, who for many years was at the head of the treasury of the Vander bilt system west of Buffalo. I called Mr. Cox’S attention to this work and he then told me that his brother, Jacob I). Cox, who was Secretary of the Interior in President Grant’s first Cabinet and who as a soldier in the Civil War was frequently in Washington, told him that when workmen were tearing down the old State Department building, shortly after the close of the Civil War, they found that It was of such strong con struction—probably reflecting similar constructive work for the Treasury Department building—that it was necessary to blast some of the walls in order that they might be removed for the purpose of putting up an ex tension to the Treasury department. "My brother told me an interesting anecdote respecting a relic of the old State Department huilding, saying that he often wondered what had be come of that relic, since it would be a valuable memento of the old build ing,’’ aald Mr. Cox. “I don’t know exactly how it was brought to my brother’s attention," Mr. Cox continued, “but I will tell you the story es he narrated it to me. Shortly after the original State De partment building was torn down one of the clerks of the department brought a cans to a member of the cabinet, saying that perhaps he would like to show it to the President and to the cabinet when that body was in session. He said that he, hlmeelf. had fashioned the cane. ■Tie was asked whether there was any special reason why the cano should ha taken into the cabinet room for Inspection. In roply, he said that upon it the hand of every President from Washington to Johnson liad at on* time or another been placed, as also the hand of every secretary of etate, including William T. Seward. Many of the senators and represents tir es In Congress and many meraberr of the cabinet had grasped that wood with their hands. He then went on to say that when the obi State Department tmlldtni was being demolished he took the liberty of cutting off a piece about four feet long of the railing upon th» banisters of the main staircase from the street to the secretary of state's office. Upon that railing the hand of , every President and every secretary of state had been at some time placed, for ail the Presidents occa sionally visited the State Depart- • ment. He had been careful when making the cane to preserve the sur face of the rail. The cane was not much as a work of art, but he thought It was invaluable as a memento of the Presidents, secretaries of etate and other celebrities. The cane Anal ly disappeared and my brother could never And eut what had become of It.- _ j (Copyright. 1918, by ID. J. Edward*. > All right* reserved.) Wail from the Sanctum. “What a blessed thing It would be,1" sighed the Scammon, Kaa., Miner, ‘if one could run a newspaper and never ask some of Its subscribers to pay up As long as the paper goes on week after week and no statement Is sent for arrearages everything goes like clockwork and you are one of the best and most accommodating editors on earth; your paper Is the best In the country; your Items are highly polished; your advice followed; your sayings gladden the hearts of the household and happiness reign* *u preme. "But oh, what a. brute you are after sending the paper two or three years for nothing, if you politely send In your bill and ask what Is due or a portion of It. Your ratty old paper Is not any account. I Just took it to accommodate you; no one In the family reads It; we can get all the reading matter at the drug stores, and hundreds of other mean and con temptible things are hurled at the , editor and his paper. Tf we were rich we would not ask anyone to pay fer his paper—wo would not print one."— Exchange. DURING 1914 The Prudential paid its policyholders over $39,000,000. This great sum of money, the greatest amount ever paid policyholders in any year by The Prudential, saved thousands of homes, kept thousands of families intact and opened the doors of hope and opportunity for thou sands of widows and children. Everybody is invited to visit the Prudential Exhibit on Life Insurance and. Public Welfare at The Pana ma-Pacific Ex position, San Francisco. \ ‘