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No Danger of Militarism
Tho opening of the war college at
Washington gave opportunity for
showing the characteristic American
spirit Ttila was fitly illustrated in
what was said by Secretary of State
Root who is regarded as tho father
of tho war college because he while
secretary of war gave Impetus to tho
movement which has resulted in the
completion of the structure There
was nothing inconsistent said Secre
tary Root in effect in a nation devoted
to peace possessing at the capital
such an institution as this The
sity for military Instruction was never
more apparent than now in the light
of the demands of modern science
And the country however friendly re
lations may be with others that neg
lects proper precautions assuredly is
not wise Secretary Root added We
are not a military nation and never
shall be We are warlike enough to
rise in defense of our rights We are
singularly like tho English and singu
larly unlike most of the nations of the
continent Our ideas are political and
not military We do not therefore na
turally run into the mold of military
organization Fears of the United
States being swept into the vortex of
militarism are absurd declares the
Troy N Y Times But preparations
for effective defense are based on the
soundest principles and the purest
patriotism Secretary Roots address
at the war college struck a note to1
which the common sense of the
try responds with promptness
Tragedy of Vanishing Forests
There are some men In public life
who profess to believe that trees grow
about as fast as they are used and that
it is foolish to worry about the future
and try to make provisions for it This
opinion is sometimes heard in the
halls of congress Secretary of Agri
cultural Wilson who has given the
subject much attention says We are
now using in one year as much wood
as grows in three with only 20 years
of virgin growth in sight This is an
alarming prediction but Chief Fores
ter Pinchot thinks it is too favorable
He says the country is now consuming
100000000000 feet of lumber board
measure annually which will exhaust
our supply of timber in 14 years We
cannot afford to run out of American
lumber in 14 20 or 30 years declares
the Philadelphia Press The waning
supply must be replenished Our bare
hills must be reforested on a large
scale When the necessity of this is
demonstrated so that the most incred
ulous must believe it the indifference
to reforestation will give place to zeal
and spasmodic efforts here and there
will be succeeded by a comprehensive
and continuous work of tree planting
A Kansas school teacher is in trou
ble because she pasted strips of court
plaster over the lips of a boy who
would whisper in school Now the
father of the boy has hired lawyers to
see whether the constitution provides
for such forms of punishment and if
not to make the teacher share a part
of her salary with the boy to soothe
his ruffled feelings If the teacher
wins out before the courts what a
large field it opens up What a fine
thing it would be for example if those
running for office could paste broad
strips of court plaster over the mouths
of their fool friends They could feel
comparatively safe with only their
enemies running at large Many
homes might be happier if the man of
the house when he wanted to sit
down for an evening of quiet medita
tion could just seal in this way the
lips of the dear and devoted wife who
wanted to spend the same evenirfg
telling him of his shortcomings
The mulberry wisest of trees as
Pliny termed it really likes Lon
don and fruits profusely even in the
grounds of the Charterhouse at murky
Smithfield London mulberry trees are
mainly derived from a fad of James
I who wanted to found a silk growing
industry With the proverbial folly of
a pedant the British Solomon intro
duced the black mulberry disliked by
silkworms instead of tho white varie
ty which forms their food The black
mulberry had been planted by Cardi
nal Pole at Lambeth in 1555 and
there were still older specimens in the
garden of Syon House According to
a pretty Greek legend all mulberries1
were originally white but a mulberry
tree was growing beside Ninnys
tomb when Pyramus and Thisbe
died there and the blood of the lovers
turned the fruit to its present color
The English suffragettes have elect
ed again to go to jaiL This is ominous
for the conquering of the movement
for when women make martyrs of
themselves they can succeed better
than any kndwn agency in making life
highly undesirable for other people
A daughter of the celestial kingdom
has just joined the 707 women now
studying In the University of Berlin
r This is Miss Li Tsu Zung the youthful
daughter of a deceased physician of
Shanghai
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MAY HEAD BIG BANK
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Frank A Vanderllp who unless the unfore
seen happens will succeed James Stillman as
president of the National City bank next Janu
ary began his business career as a reporter on
a Chicago newspaper in 1889 Believing the op
portunities offered in Aurora where he was born
November 17 18G4 were too limited he went to
Chicago for a broader field
After a short period of general reporting he
was made financial editor to succeed Joseph
French Johnson now dean of the school of com
merce and finance of the University of New
York
After seven years of daily newspaper work
Mr Vanderlip secured an interest in the Econo
mist a Chicago financial weekly He enhanced
the prestige of this publication by issuing under
its name a supplement known as Chicago Street Railways that conveyed
more Information concerning the mortgages contracts agreements and sta
tistics than had ever before been presentd
Mr Vandrllp did not remain long with the Economist Contrary to the
advice of his partner and some of his friends he became private secretary to
Lyman J Gage who March 4 1897 assumed the office of secretary of the
treasury Mr Gageat the time of his own appointment was the president of
the First National bank He was the one banker in Chicago the newspapers
were accustomed to seek for views on financial matters
Although Mr Vanderlip began as a private secretary he was within three
months made an assistant secretary of the treasury and this position afford
ed him a wide range of opportunities He was not only an assistant secretary
of the treasury but was in a way the confidential adviser of the secretary him
self
After four years in the treasury department Mr Vanderlip resigned on
February 2G 1901 to become vice president of the National City bank
The National City Bank of New York is by far the largest banking in
stitution in this country It has a capital stock of 25000000 and surplus and
undivided profits of 25219000 Its deposits are over 226500000
SS CHAMPION OPTSSV15ST
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William C Brown first vice president of the
New York Central railway system is an Optimist
Moreover the title should be spelled with a capi
tal o No lower case letter would ever do
justice to the great mantle of optimism that cov
ers Mr Brown as a blanket It is an avalanche
that falls over and around and about him like
the yellow sunshine or the balmy air of spring
Not that Mr Brown ever lets his optimism
interfere with his business Far be it Rather
he permits the optimism to gild and refine the
sordid business necessity to hallow it and make
it a bright rose color instead of the dull gray
that is presumed to be its natural hue
In the pleasant pursuit of his calling as the
high priest of optimism Mr Brown has just
announced that the railroads of the central west
are about to boost the freight rates on January 1 next He smiled pleasantly
when he said it as though it were just the one thing the commercial world
had been waiting for and longing for during the past six months
Of course there was an immediate response in the way of a long drawn
howl from the large business interests What does Mr Brown do then
Does he crawl back into his hole of a private office and refuse to see any
of the reporters Does he come out with an explanation that does nothing
but retract Does he rush into print with another interview that gives masses
of dry figures and comparative tables Not for a minute On the contrary
he permits himself to be quoted again He explains that the business interests
really want a raise in rates They dont know it but they want it bad Now
hes going to call a little meeting just a conference of the business inter
ests and explain to them just why they have been longing for the rate boost
He is going to make them like the idea
Wherefore we repeat that Mr Brown is certainly an Optimist
AN UNPOPULAR ENVOY
Charles S Francis American ambassador at
Vienna is the latest incumbent to find that espe
cial job a long way less attractive than it seems
from a distance Mr Francis followed Bellamy
Storer in the position and all the world or that
section of it which reads the United States news
papers remembers how Bellamy quit He re
signed it is true but the act was accompanied
by red fire effects during which President Roose
velt expressed several chaste but emphatic opin
ions of Mr Storer and likewise of Mrs Storer
Mr Francis has seen much of the diplomatic
game before and should have known how to
work it He was secretary to the Russian em
bassy while his father was United States min
ister some 30 years ago and on his own hook he
had been minister to Greece Roumania and Ser-
via Moreover he is a newspaper man owner and editor of the Troy N Y
Daily Times and might reasonably be expected to have all the tact sangfroid
smoothness and nerve anybody would need even at the court of Vienna
But Mr Francis has apparently got in wrong with Francis Joseph and
some of his friends He came home to vote of course and now on the eve of
his return some of the Vienna papers are editorially hoping the boat sinks
before he gets back Never in diplomatic circles says one Vienna journal
with a name like a handful of pied type Never has a more unpopular man
held the post of ambassador He and his family knowing no French nor Ger
man have complained of Viennese ignorance of English and have never con
cealed their contempt for Vienna houses shops climate and women When
he should have returned hospitalities he subrented the embassy to the Japan
ese legation sent the ladies to America and himself occupied a back room
on the fifth floor of a hotel paying 1 a day And a few other bon mots of
like tenor
Mr Francis may be a good ambassador In fact he must be for he has
been a typesetter reporter city editor and held other jobs wherein it requires
the diplomacy of an angel to keep out of eternal feuds and knockdown argu
ments with the foreman the editor and other domineering enemies of civiliza
tion
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Of course the editor may feel a little peevish about something
MAY GET TREASURY POST
Joseph H Millard formerly a United States
senator from Nebraska is said to have been
tentatively tendered the secretaryship of the
treasury in the coming Taft cabinet At least he
is near enough to a probability to make it reason
able that five and twenty bright young newspa
per writers in various portions of the country
beginning at Washington should sit down and
click out on their typewriters the near positive
assurance that the job has been offered accept
ed and all but started That may not mean
much to the reader or it may
Mr Millard is a banker of Omaha and is one
of the real pioneer bankers of the west His
institution the Omaha National is considered
one of the soundest of the western country It
has always been a great lender and never a bor
rower in the east During the hard times which followed the dry years of
1894 5 when Nebraska was In the throes of bankruptcy and hundreds of set
tlers were compelled to go east to save their lives the Millard bank and its
minor connections were never in peril
Born in Canada the Omaha banker is still an American in that both of
his parents were residents of this country who were temporarily domiciled
across the border His early years were spent on the farm He has been
president of the bant since January 1 1867 He was mayor of Omaha for
one term and served one term In the senate
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covvepcal city
A cynic has said that our minds are
ruled by catch words and there is
certainly this amount of truth in the
statement that ones mental image of
a place is usually based upon some
telling phrase which has stuck once
heard in the me Dry and become in
separably associav I rightly or wrong
ly with the locality to which it os
tensibly refers
The Greenland of my fancy thanks
to a mind exceedingly retentive of
childish lessons has for its natural
features icy mountains and very little
else That a coral strand of a deli
cate pink shade encircled the conti
nent of India like a fairy zone was a
cherished belief only shattered when I
first traveled to the east and wondered
why it was called shiny
But there are times when the fa
miliar phrase is more than justified
and preconceived notions are startling-
ly indorsed by first actual impressions
Every schoolboy knows that China is
inhabited by teeming millions and I
defy the most felicitous of phrase
makers with two words more succinct
ly to summarize such a first glimpse
of a Chinese city as is afforded let us
say to the traveler from Hongkong
who approaches Canton up the Chu
kiang river
In the west the over crowding of
cities is a problem which has come to
be regarded as amongst the most
pressing and perplexing of all that
confront the social reformer But
compared with cities of the east and
of China especially those of the west
may almost be regarded as depopu
lated Only those who have penetrated
the innermost purlieus of a Chinese
city can conceive the degree of con
gestion in which it is possible for a
human community to live In the
great Chinese towns it is literally true
that the population overflows its con
fines the result sometimes being as
at Canton those extraordinary floating
slums which choke the riverside and
form at once the most picturesque
and most pestilent feature of the citys
aspect
Stand beside the imperial custom
house at Canton and let the eye
range down the river towards Hong
kong As far as the sight can reach
lie boats boats and again boats
These are no ordinary craft mere ves
sels of transport plying hither and
thither but the countless homes of
myriad Chinese in which millions of
human beings have been born have
lived and have died They are the
dwellings of the very poor who live in
them practically free from rent taxes
and other burdens of the ordinary citi
zen
The Tankia which means boat
dwellers as the denizens of these
floating houses are called form a sort
of caste apart from the rest of the
Cantonese The shore dwellers re
gard them as belonging to a lower so
cial order and indeed they have
many customs peculiar to themselves
which mark them as a separate com
munity How the swarming masses of
them contrive to support existence is
a mystery but their chief mode of em
ployment is in carrying merchandise
and passengers from place to place
In some cases the daughters of the
family go ashore to work in factories
as do the girls of other countries but
the years earnings of a Chinese fac
tory girl would scarce suffice to buy
a single hat for her western sister It
So
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is of course hardly necessary to point
out that as against this low rate of
pay the standard of living is corre
spondingly different
The houses which make up these
vast floating slums are of all sizes
Some are but 15 feet long From these
cramped dimensions however they
range up to a length of 50 and 60 feet
A boat large enough to accommodate
a family of moderate size can be ob
tained for 20 and since the anchor
age is free it is obvious that the
Tankia effects many savings impos
sible to the shore dweller For a hun
dred dollars a boat that is compara
tively luxurious in its appointments
can be obtained and not infrequently
European travelers who wish to make
a prolonged sojourn in the vicinity of
Canton and do not care to pay the
high prices charged in the one hotel
hire a comfortable house boat at a
cost of about one dollar per day In
that case the native owners occupy
a small space in the bow where all
cooking is done for the traveler with
out extra cost with the additional ad
vantage of free transportation to any
point on the river
Most of the boats however are
small A thatch of palm leaves or a
cover of matting over a part of each
boat serves to protect the occupants
from sun and rain and serves as an
eating and sleeping place The in
terior presents a curious picture of
domestic economy beside which the
arrangements of an Irish cabin or a
crofters cottage in Lewis are palatial
On many of them pigs and chickens
are reared and frequency when the
smallness of the boat does not afford
deck space for such stock a box or
cage is suspended from the stern to
serve as a pigpen or chicken coop
Nor do sties and henneries in addition
to the apartments of the family ex
haust the accommodation of the tiny
craft for on many flower gardening is
carried on a considerable space being
set apart in the bows for the flower
pots
How life can be endured in such
quarters cribbed cabined and con
fined well nigh passes comprehension
It has been estimated that about Can
ton there are not less than 85000 in
habited craft and that of this vast
number some 40000 are- permanently
located 250000 to 400000 human
lives that is to say daily rising and
falling with the tide Births deaths
and funerals all take place within the
narrow limits of the boats and many
are the inhabitants of the floating
slums who never set foot on land
throughout the whole of their strange
existence
Not all the boats in the dense mass
Lat blocks the riverside are squalid
however There are some as gaudy
and resplendent as the majority are
wretched and poor and these are fa
miliar to every one who has visited
Canton Have you been to the flower
boats is a question continually heard
in the hotel and he is sure to be a
recent arrival who answers in the neg
ative
The flower boats are in brief the
pleasure resorts of Canton Whole
streets of them are moored in rows
that extend from mid stream to the
shore and every night they are
thronged with seekers after pleasure
and recreation of a sort For it can
not be pretended that the amusements
to be found thereon are of a very high
moral order Concerts or rather sing
songs are held on some but most
cater to that gambling instinct which
is the national vice of China
Vision of Husband Drowning True
Boston In a vision in which she
says it seemed as though she was
viewing actual happenings Mrs Lot
tie Johnson of Beachmont at midnight
saw her husband George Johnson
clinging to an overturned boat in mid
ocean heard him cry for help and
finally with one despairing shriek
throw up his hands and sink
With the cry of her husband ringing
in her ears Mrs Johnson awoke and
ran screaming to her mother Her
husband had started early in the eve
ning with a friend in a power boat
for Gloucester
Early the next morning the power
boat was found wrecked on the north
shore about twenty five miles below
Beachmont With ordinary speed the
boat would have reached there about
midnight The body was picked up
at noon and the medical examiner
said he bad been dead about 12 hours
SHOVED BY TIME
No Fear of Any Further Troujls
David Price Corydon la says I
was in tho last stage of kidney trouble-
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down to a mere
skeleton My back
was so bad I could
hardly walk and
the kidney secre
tions much disor
dered A week after
I bogan using
Doans KIdnoy Pills
I could walk with
out a cane and as I continued my
health gradually returned I was so
grateful I made a public statement or
my case and now seven years have
passed I am still perfectly well
Sold by all dealers 50c a box
Co Buffalo N Y
WHAT WOULD HE HAVE SAID
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Get up Jack You mustnt cry
llke a baby Youre quito a man now
You know if I fell down I shouldnt
cry I should merely say
Yes I know pa but then I go to
Sunday school and you dont
TORTURED SIX MONTHS
By Terrible Itching Eczema Babyo
Suffering Was Terrible Soon
Entirely Cured by Cuticura
Eczema appeared on my sons face
We went to a doctor who treated him
for three months Then he was so bad
that his face and head were nothing
but one sore and his ears looked as if
they were going to fall off so wo tried
another doctor for four months the
baby never getting any better His
hand and legs had big sores on them
and the poor little fellow suffered so
terribly that he could not sleep After
he had suffered six months we tried
a set of the Cuticura Remedies and
the first treatment let him sleep and
rest well in one week the sores were
gone and in two months he had a clea
face Now he is two years and has
never had eczema again Mrs Louis
Leek R F D 3 San Antonio Tex
Apr 15 1907
Kicks
Harry Payne Whitney the day his
own and other noted horsemens
racers were shipped from London on
the Minnehaha said of the death of
racing in New York
A good many jockeys have been
hard hit A jockey told me last week
a very sad tale of misfortune I lis
tened sympathetically
Ah Joe said I when a man is
down few hands are extended to him
The jockey as he chewed a traw
smiled bitterly
Few hands yes thats ri he
said but think of the feet
A Multiplicity of Father
Ardyce had been learning j sing
America at school and was trying
to teach It to brother Waym On
morning his father heard him shout
ing Land where my papa dic i land
where my papa died
Ardyce interrupted Oh no
Wayne not that way It is Land
where our fathers died
Waynes expression could not be
described as he tipped his heal side
wise and in a very surprise i tone
gravely asked Two of em De
lineator
Grown Up Children
It is not only the frivolous whom
the spirit of childishness is just now
leading astray Silliness Is the fash
ion even among the wise Women
especially affect a kind of childish
shrewdness in talking of serious sub
jects Like children who hae the
habit of romancing they lose tho
sense of reality and because tl y nev
er talk exactly as they think t iey be
gin to think exactly as they valk
London Spectator
CAUSE AND EFFECT
Good Digestion Follows Right Food
Indigestion and the attenda t dis
comforts of mind and body ar cer
tain to follow continued use of improp
er food
Those who are still young and
robust are likely to overlook the fact
that as dropping water win wear a
stone away at last so will the use of
heavy greasy rich food finally canse
loss of appetite and indigestion
Fortunately many are thoughtful
enough to study themselves and note
the principle of Cause and Effect in
their daily food A N Y young wom
an writes her experience thus
Sometime ago I had a lot of trouble
from indigestion caused by too rich
food I got so I was unable to di
gest scarcely anything and medicines
seemed useless
A friend advised me to try Grape
Nuts food praising it highly and as
a last resort I tried it J am thankful
to say that Grape Nuts not only re
lieved me of my trouble hut built me
up and strengthened my digestive or
gans so that I can now eat anything I
desire But I stick to Grape Nuts
Theres a Reason
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