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The Week in Congress "With the exception of a brief time Slven to the generel calendar, the Sen tte devoted the entire session Wednes flay to the consideration of the rail road bill. Senator La Toilette occu pied the floor for almost five hours In mpport of the Cummins amendment requiring the approval of Increases In railroad rates by the Interstate Com merce Commission. In the course of his speech he declared that It would be necessary to add greatly to the wjulpment of the commission In order" to put It Into condition to render ef fective service. The House consider ed various bills on its calendar. Meas ures were passed to provide a railroad In tli e Hawaiian Islands and to build in Nome, Alaska, a house of detention for persons simpected of being Insane. Mr. Olmsted of Pennsylvania explain ed at length the bill to provide a new civil government for Porto Rico. The Senate Thursday by a vote of 29 to 43 rejected the Cummlnsamend ment requiring the approval of rail road rates by the interstate commerce commission before they beccme effei:- live. It also adopted an amendment providing for six months extension of the 120 days' suspension of now rates and regulation in case the hearing is not concluded within the time. The ;apltallzatlon provisions were stricken from the bill. Because the President Jxceeded his traveling expense allow ance of 120,000 voted by Congress for Ibe present fiscal year and the com mittee on appropriations sought to meet the deficiency by making the ap propriation for next year "Immediate ly available," the House was thrown Into lively debate. Chairman Tawney attended several Democrats by sug gesting that the President had made bis extended Western and Southern trip largely upon the urgent solicita tion of Democrats of the House. Sev eral Democrats made angry retorts and the motion was defeated. The-Senate failed Friday to reach Inal vote on the railroad bill. Scnatoi Dixon moved an amendment placing telegraph and telephone lines undci the Jurisdiction of the Interstate Com merce Commission. This provision had no sooner been adopted, though in dif ferent form, than Senator Brown, oi Nebraska, offered an amendment pro hibiting railroads from acquiring con trol of competing lines under a pen alty. Unwilling to accept so import int an amendment without more op portunity for consideration, the Sen ite adjourned. The House twice re lected amendments by Mr. Kellher, ol Massachusetts to authorize canteens al loldiers' homes where such institutions ire within five miles of a town or city in which the sale of liquor Is author Ized. It appropriated $1,500,000 foi State and Territorial homes for dis abled soldiers and sailors and refused lo move from New York City to Wash ington or anywhere else the board ol managers of the national horaea fot lisabled volunteer soldiers. The Senate Saturday laid aside the railroad bill to listen to a personal ex planation by Senotor Lorlmer of Illi nois of the charges of corruption in lonnectlon with bis election. He in troduced a resolution directing the committee on privileges and elections lo make an investigation. The remain- lor of the day was devoted to eulogies in the life of the late Representative Uriggs of Georgia. The House devoted ho day to the sundry civil appropria tion bill. Led by the Democrats, It , turtalled the appropriation for the pro tection of the public domain, cutting in half the amount authorlxed to be used In bringing the work up to date, and prohibiting the use of any of the money to meet the existing deficiency. With the exception of the adoption )t the Cummins amendment shifting to railroad companies the burden of proving the reasonableness of Increas es in rates, and the rejection of the Brown amendment prohibiting the consolidation of competitive railroad lines, the Senate's consideration ot the railroad bill Tuesday was confined to discussion. Senator La Follette of fered a resolution .lWl'.iig th Attor ney General to bring suit to enjoin ;he recent railroad rate Increases, but Senator Curtis announced the Attor ney General had acted already In that llrectlon. Early In the day Senator Dwen delivered a set speech in sup port of his resolution for the election if Senators by direct vote. In tbe House nearly tbe entire session was ;onsumed by a discussion relating to appropriations to make effective re sent legislation creating a bureau ot nines and mining. Up to the time of adjournment $488,000 had been appro bated for this purpose. Amendments naklng additional appropriations for .he bureau will be voted on when the tundry civil bill is again under con ilderatlon. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS. Potato Aelda of Minnesota averaged 1S bushels to the acre during 1909. Alfred Wade, Montesano, Wanning ton, raised 123 bushels ot wheat on two acres of land. From records from nursery houses It la learned that more than 50,000 cherrv trees have been set out this spring by Tarmers or Door County, WIb. The In Justry in the last few years has reach- ad such vast proportions that the ter rltory Is being given the name of tho Fruit Belt of the North." Karl Jorn, the Metropolitan opera tenor, who gave his wife her freedom Us become the wife of the man sh toved, sailed for Europe from New fork, disguised, and with little left it hi season's earnings. Negotiations between the officials ot Ihe Erie lull way and the committee representing the conductors and train xitrn were broken off owing to the re- 'ubl of the company to deal with th inlon direct or to promise a wage set tlement on the bunts of the U. & O awrd or of the more recent New York Central award . A strike vote was or lered, the returns to be counted OD Ja 16th. 'St L '. 4 t - I f i. . 1 tP f V ECAUSE little is printed of late about the arrest of Child pick pockets and precocious thieves the Impression generally pre vails that crimes of this character committed by children are on the decrease As a matter of fact, there is-as much, If not more, of such lawlessness on the part of unrestrained children of the streets than there ever has been, declares a writer In the Chicago Record-Herald. There are to-day many Faglns O whose Ingenuity and depravity easily pulclve creature so graphically depicted Faglns, however, have progressed with lark the fiendish Ingenuity of the English of modern methods to arouse the interest of children, and by reason of the growing lack of inbred morality and the Increasing lack of parental care of youngsters naturally bright and hereditarily torpid as to right and wrong, their field of operations is much wider, and their profits much greater, and acquired with less risk, of detection than when the original Fagln first hit upon his despicable Bcheuie of making the world pay him a living he conceived it owed him without "No, 'taln't no use tryln' to do the line on yer. Once bad, always bad. Is no use gettln' by that, I guess." The boy was speaking earnestly to a city magistrate. He was the typical smudgy-faced youth of 18 or 19 years that you will find In the districts that breeds the tenement. He was deformed, ana grew up as "Humpy," and that was part of the name he cried out when be walked from the prisoner's cage. though he had been arrested before and was known to the police as a pickpocket. With a dogged air he eyed the magistrate, as he continued, "I wasn't doln' anything, yer honor. I've- been straight for near a year tryln' to be good an' help mother. I was a kid when know nothin'. The Faglns got me they I'm all right now If the p'leece will let "That's true enough, too," broke In rail. "You see, sir. my boy" the old "never had a chance. That's hard, it Is never had a chance. It makes it awful hard. The p'leece won't let my boy be good, that's the way It eeemB." -There was no bitterness, simply passive submission. She spoke truly and from the depths of a mother's heart. schools of crime. As a mere child he be did until he was Jailed for the first offense. Almost every magistrate that has held court In the poorer sections ot a large city, pays a writer, has heard repeatedly of the Fagln schools, but has been rarely able to get evidence against them. It Is only by the con fession of one of the small pupils that an arrest can be made. This seldom occurs, as the little Oliver Twists believe that a dire punishment awaits them If they do. The Fagln rarely permits his scholars to know his home address, as that would give a possible clew for a call by the police. His haunts or loafing places during his leisure time are generally unknown. He collects them around him In tenement basements, in unoccupied houses and in places where he Is likely to be unobserved, and after, In some cases, ad ministering the most terrifying oaths of Becrecy, gives them lessons In pocket thievery. In the slums of poorer sections of large cities there are hundreds of young boys, organized Into gangs. In most cases the pupils get a small percentage of what they steal; the rest goes to their Instructors. When they deprive some unsuspecting person of an article of Jewelry It is the duty of the Fagln to dispose of It to his "fence." As he only realizes a comparatively small part of Its real youths that commit the actual thefts School Children Recruits. The existence of these schools ot crime has been repeatedly brought to light by the police. Their investigations ot affairs shocking to even those who cities. Another thing for the reformer groat percentage of the recruits of these gangs are made up of pupils from the public schools In the congested districts. There are dozens of young boy who learn reading and spelling, attend the mysterious classes of their after school hours and in the evenings. Some of these Fugln classes num ber as many as a dozen pupils, and have an alumni of hundreds. Boys who hang around corners, and boys witn the police are sought for by the assistants, or "drummers-in," of the Fagln schools. . One Fagln with originality In his criminal methods manufactured a contrivance which helped greatly In teaching his subjects that proficiency and deftness ot the finger so much desired in that class of work. He had a dozen handbags of assorted shapes loose money ana cnange or other valuables. Several long strips of wood were then placed on about a level with a person's hand when at rest. With a space of six feet separating each, the handbugs were hung carefully from pins placed In the strips, the slightest Jar being sufficient to cause one of them to fall to the ground. Then tho students wore gathered and sent down the line with instructions to open each bag as they came to It, rob it of the contents, and then close it again. This was not easy by any means, for often a pupil would get at the end of the line after successfully steal ing the contents of the other bags and then by one cureless twitch of a THINGS WORTH KNOWING. For every $250,000. spent on engi neering It Is estimated that a .man is killed. In German cities food prices are now about as high as In the United States. There are 270 active volcanoes In the world, many of them being compara tively small. Only about one uut ot every thou aand married couples live to celebrate Its golden wedding. eclipse that of the fanged and re- In the story of Dickens. Modern the times. While many of them tutor of crime, by the adoption honest toll. right thing when the cops once get a the way they rigger It, an' ther ain't He was picked up on suspicion they first pinched me an' didn't did an' made me a bad un, but me be." an aged woman, standing at the eyes, pule and faded, grew tender "Humpy" was the victim of the was taught to pick pockets and this value one can readily see that the get but a mere pittance. have many times revealed a state are familiar with crime In great to ;jonder unon Is the fact thnt a writing and arithmetic by day and Individual Faglns during recesses, who have been In petty encounters and colors, each containing a purso. A bushel of grain will make four and one-half gallons of spirits or twenty-seven gallons of beer. The Argentine Leglnlture Is con sidering the construction of under ground railways uJr Buenos Ayres. It Is Just being reulUed that tho Trans-Siberian Railroad was a poor job from an engineering standpoint. Nearly two-thirds of the crime in London Is perpetrated between 2 p. ni. on Saturdays and 9 a. m. on Mondays. VOiS G finger send the last bag Jangling down at his feet. This would mean that he would be sent to the foot of the class and wait until another opportunity gave him a chance to retrieve himself In the eyes of the Fagln. The methods of teaching the pupils vary, of course, but as soon as they are regarded as sufficiently expert they are sent out with one of the lieu tenants. When the evening's work is over they meet again to talk over their experiences and adventures. In this way these dangerous gangs of youthful criminals are formed. As they grow up most of them lose their allegiance to their Farcins and start out for themselves as full-fledged thieves. Often they graduate into a higher school of crime as burglars and begin to crack "cribs" and look for bigger game. Sometimes young girls are in cluded In the Fagln bands, but generally speaking they are not as success ful as the boys. Shoplifting Is the best line for the girls, and there are many crime-hardened women ready to teach them the business, as Indi cated by the fact that they often Instruct their own offspring and plaee them in this nefarious calling. Fault with Parents The first fault rests with careless parents. They should keep their "BUY A PAPER, MISTER." children closer to the fireside, keep them off the streets, where they run wild; make sure of the character of their playmates; ascertain that any dis play of spending money has been earned in the right way; prevent their hanging about dive corners or the doors of cheap theaters, where they are likely to hear crime freely discussed by those fully acquainted with it; and last, but not least, exercise a general and careful supervision over their education, morals and manners, for as the old adage Bays: '.'As the twig is bent so will It grow." It Is also the Imperative duty of every citizen to help In this work. If he should see small boys associating with older ones of bad character he should notify the parents or the society that looks after children In such cases. These children are not bad in the beginning. They are victims of environment, associations and the evil teachings of the crime-hardenod. Until some such course is adopted, or until city or State governments look more closely Into the matter .these boys will become pupils of Faglns, then Fugins themselves, leaving to posterity a lasting heritage of crime. It Is a fact well known to the pupils of the Faglns, as well as to the older crimlnaU, that it is harder to pick the pocket of the man from the country or small town than that of the average person In a large city. The man from the country, hamlet or village, not being used to crowds, feels every finger that touches him. He U alert because he is not familiar with the pushing process and is most always suspicious of such a proceeding, lie comes to town with his money In his Inside pocket and believes that every stranger that gets close to him has designs on It. On an average several million dollars Is stolen annually by pickpockets In the larger cities of this country. Of this amount a great proportion Is lost in the crush of passengers on car lines, at theaters, parades and In crowded elevators. The detective bureaus ot these cities assign men to each line, public meeting place and 6pots where crowds are wont to congre gate. Wherever these men are the public Is protected, but they cannot be everywhere at once, and consequently tho Fagln bands rove about, keeping a weather eye open for the officers of the law. Many" arrests are made, many convictions secured; but this does not act as much of a determent to those that follow. The preventative lies far below this surface. You will find that most of these children who bocome pupils como from the slum section, where they are allowed to run about at will and associate with any companions they may choose. This Important matter is left to their childish Judgment. Thonu bt leaa. "Yes. George," said Mrs. Gollghtly, nrgumentatively, "but if, as you say. It's so difficult to get food to the men In lighthouses In the winter why do they bnild them in such out-of-the-way, dangerous places?" Tlt-Bita. Hard to Deal. Wlgg How do you get along with old CrustyT Don't you find him hard to deal with? Wagg As h'ird as a wornout pack of curds. Philadelphia Record 3 SAYINGS OF SAGES. Much may be said on both sides. Fielding. The heart will break, yet broken live on. J. Q. Adams. Keeps a clean hearth and a clear fire for me. Tennyson. Iutegvtty without knowledge Is weak and useless. Johnson. No man knows so well where the shoe pinches as he who wears It. Lincoln. KEY WEST A GIBRALTAR Commodore Beehler's Plan to Use Old Rattle Ships as Perma nent Forts. DEFENSES ARE INADEQUATE. With Small Expense and by Utiliz ing Discarded Ships Harbor Could Be Made Impregnable. The transformation of Key West Into a great naval and military station which shall rival In Importance the fortress of Gibraltar, is advocated at considerable length in an article by Commodore W. H. Beehler, U. S. N., commandant of the- Seventh Naval District, which appears in the Journal of the military service Institution. The first part of the commodore's paper la devoted to an urgent plea for the more complete co-operation of the army and navy forces. "Their co-operation In the defense of any particular naval base should be definitely arranged In time of peace, and they should man euver and drill, now under the com mand of a designated officer of the coast defense service, whether he be an army or a naval officer," says the writer. In hl3 proposal to make of Key West an Impregnable Gibraltar It Is pointed out that the present defenses at Fort Taylor are inadequate, for the reason that battle ships can lie at the entrance 'buoy, seven miles south of Fort Taylor, beyond the range of the twelve-inch rifle mortars, and de stroy Key West from that point with out being exposed to any danger, the remaining velocities of projectiles from the direct firing ten-inch and twelve Inch guns being insufficient to pene trate the armor of any battle ship, whereas these same caliber guns on a battle ship could shell the city of Key West and completely destroy ,it. This consideration brings the com modore to the novel proposal for ren dering Key West Impregnable. He points out that in place of high hills or a huge rock as at Gibraltar for the mounting of coast defense guns. Key West harbor, twenty-five miles in length, is sheltered on the north by a line of low reefs and shoals which form a complete protection on that side, while seven miles to the south of this line there is a parallel line of eastern shoals, some of which are scarcely awash at low tide and none more than eight feet above high water. Commodore Beehler proposes to take our monitors and older battle ships which have passed their period of use fulness on the high Beas, mount them in selected positions upon these reefs and utilize them as permanent turret forts. Thus, for Instance, selecting the shoal known as Rock Key, where there Is a small natural harbor, he would lighten the old monitor Amphl trlte by the removal of her propel ling engines, haul her into the harbor, build around the vessel a dyke of pil ing, rock and riprap, and then fill In the space between the inner face of the dyke and the ship with material hy draulically dredged and deposited. He estimates that the work would not cost more than $50,000. The ship as thus Imbeded would fur nish, says the commodore, a complete, modern rtuuble-turreted fort, with every necessary feature to operate the guno, and with quarters for the offi cers and men of the garrison. The monitors Mlantonomoh, Terror and Puritan could be installed upon the ad jacent reefs, and the range of the six teen ten-Inch and twelve-Inch guns of these forts would command a large part of the straits of Florida, and espe cially that part which is used by west bound vessels entering the Gulf of Mexico, which navigate close to the Florida reefs to avoid the strong cur rent of the gulf stream. Incidentally It may be mentioned that tbe dyke would be extended In each case to form a small harbor of refuge for torpedo boats and submarines. It is a question of great Interest and of unquestionable moment whether this very novel proposal of the com modore does not provide an opportuni ROUTING DIRT FROM CHICAGO'S STREETS IS ONLY HOUSEKEEPING ON A HUGE SCALE MAGIXE a modlshly-dressed woman getting down from ner T I electric carriage in a dirty street to give orders about the l I I tarring of a paving strip, or the laying of a sidewalk, or the jj mJi cleaning of a stopped up sewer. And imagine the men doing the tarring and stone laying and sewer cleaning, following the woman's Instructions without a sign of argument or sur prise. That, writes Dorothy Dale, is what Chicago sees every day and has seen every day for the last sixteen years, from the dirtiest Nineteenth District, where Hull House Is located, to the busiest First Ward In the shopping "loop" district. Chicagoans are so used to it that they don't even turn to look. Or, if they do, it's to say, "How do you do, Mrs. Paul?" for everyone In the city knows the woman they call their civic housekeeper. Mrs. A. E. Paul, who lives at the Palmer House, holds the most unique position of any woman In the country. She is one of the ward superintendents, a position that is like being Mayor on a small scale. Chicago Is divided into thirty-five wards. Each practically has its own government, so far as property conditions go, with the ward superintendent at the head. Mrs. Paul has from seventy to 100 men working for her all the time. She spends about $60,000 a year keeping some one of the city's thirty-five houses in order. It's essentially a woman's work, she says. "Tarring pavements or sealing up cans of fruit what's the difference?" said Mrs. Paul, as she talked of her work. "I can't see why a woman who knows how to clean cupboards Isn't Just the proper person to clean streets and yards. And sidewalk laying Isn't so different from putting down a carpet. Until I became a sanitary Inspector, I remained at home and kept house. This simply Is keeping house on a larger scale. I make out a pay roll for 100 instead of for Mary, the cook, and Betty, the maid. And look ing over bills is looking over bills, no matter whether they're for steak and potatoes or hrlck and mortar. Only, you see, since I undertook my big housekeeping, I hod to give up the smaller task and live in a hotel," So Koollnh. "She Is neglecting her game of bridge dreadfully." "Why Is she doing that?" "Some silly excuse. Says the chil dren need her, I believe." Pittsburg Post. Ills Vacation. Mourner (to widower ( You seem to be enjoying the walk. Widower Certainly. When one is In business it is mighty bard to get away for a day. Pele Mele. ty to greatly lengthen the useful life of the battle ship. Many obsolescent shins, becaupe of their powerful armor and armament, would be perfectly well able to stand up In the first fighting line, If they only possessed the requi site speed and maneuvering quality; and if It should be found practicable to utilize them In the way suggested by Commodore Beehler their powerful guns and heavy protection would ren der them most formidable when mounted as part of the permanent fortifications of our sea coast de fenses. One of the Chinaman's most engag ing peculiarities Is his strong sense of gratitude, which Is not merely person al, but racial. So, at least, the Rt. Rev. John Sheepshanks says in his book, "A Bishop In the Rough." In I860 he was a young missionary stationed at Fort Hope, British Columbia, and he came much In contact with Chinamen. On board the river steamboat there was a Chinaman with whom I con versed, and who was much astonished at my acquaintance with the religions of China, and inquired my name. It appears that he mentioned the circum stance to 1:1s fellow countryman with whom he "-as to lodge, and It happened that this man had been for a few months nt New Westminster, and I had taught him to read. So he set to work to find out where I was staying, and presently brought me nn offering of a very handsome purse and a brace let of sandnlwood. Right glad he was to see me, and we shook hands and nodded and grinned at each other heartily. The next day I called upon him at his store, and he served up refresh ments for me. The Chlnanwn are not only personally grateful for benefits or kindness received, but they have 3 racial gratitude. Because I did my best to teach a few Chinamen at New Westminster, and was of course cour teous and kind to them, I was always most kindly and hospitably received by Chinamen throughout the colony. When I visited Victoria I was wel comed by Chinese storekeepers there, and Invited to partake of refreshment? wherever I called. KILLED ON RAILROAD TRESTLE. Caught on a narrow trestle ot the Cotton Belt Railroad near Robroy, Ark., with his wife and two other per sons, Frederick G. Zeisler, a construc tion engineer, threw hl3 wife from the trestle and then met almost Instant death under the wheels of a train. Henry Dobson of Leavenworth, Kan., and his wife were also struck by the engine, and badly hurt. Mrs. Zeister escaped with only slight bruises. Mrjerberr and Thunder. Meyerbeer, Jlke Handel, composed best in a "thunderstorm. He had a room made at the top of his house with glass roof and 'sides, so that he might enjoy these conditions to the full whenever they presented them selves. It is said that no beast of the field, no raven or nightjar, could scent the approach of a storm more uner ringly than Meyerbeer, and nothing was allowed to interfere with his soli tary enjoyment of it when it arrived. Wherever he was he would leave at the first premonitory rumble. SPLINTERS. Game laws Poker rules. Big Income ship entering the har bor. Too many people Judge the world by their own breadth. Lots of people will he you spend, but tew will help you dig. You want to be sure of your foot ing before you climb too high. The increase In tbe price ot leather has made shoes pinch more than ever.