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WOMAN'S ABILITY.
Tbo lato Prcralor Stolypln's recog
nition of ttao capacity, of women foi
public business took a very practical
form, which iu pleasing to tho women
of Russia In goneral ns well ns to
tho strong-minded Dowager Empress
It Is displeasing to men who aro can'
dldatca for official' honor, as It makes
women In certain cases their success
ful rivals. It Is truo that by an
amendment ordered after tho original
promulgation of tho order only ono in
fivo of tho civil Bcrvlco staff can" be o
woman; nor can n woman rlso higher
than tho sovonth of tho twclvo ranks
In tho sorvlec, nayB tho Milwaukee
Evening Wisconsin. 80 men will con
tlnuo to monopolize tho covotcd title
"High Excellency." and tho chance
that a woman will be n cabinet minis
ter Is vory remote. Ono noteworthy
feature Is that women rccclvo the
samo pay as men In positions of equal
rating. Womnn officials aro to rccolvc
full pensions, oven If they marry bo
foro leaving tho service and their
children will get tho samo pensions ai
if they had fathers In tho service
When both parenU servo, they will
get almost double pensions. In nil
cases, tho women nro to have ths
samo salaries, lodging and traveling
expenses ns tho men. This latter
feature of tho Stolypln system is the
ono that Is likely to niako tho deepest
Impression on tho women school
teachers of the United States.
WHEN President Taft reviewed tho Atlantic squadron In tho Hudson river nt Now York ho saw tho greatest
licet of American fighting vosooIb ever assomblcd. Our photograph shows a part of the long line and Duke,
tho most popular mascot of tho llcot, reviewing tho vossols from tho deck 0'. tho Dolphin as they passed out to
sea. 1
DANGER OF DISEASE
Alfred Tennyson Dickons from fat
away Australia plunges Ooston fern
inlnlty Into gloom by observing thnt in
respect to ankles "tho beefy eorl
greatly outnumber tboso graceful ap
pendages that linger so much longet
In a man's memory," says the Boston
Globe. This is ono of the effects ol
the recent rainy weather, and Is not
to be taken too seriously. Besides, so
far as our observation goes, tho criti
cism Is grossly exaggerated, not to
say unfounded. Mr. Dickens must
have poor vision or perhaps he spout
nil his time In tho shopping district
where, to bo frank, tho display of an
kles la very prosaic. Our women who
are striving to bo beautiful of course
will feel downcast ovor the unartUtlc
picture that Mr. Dickons frames. Our
ladles are accustomed to rcduco their
weight or Increase their avoirdupois,
as the case may be, to become more
Venusllke, but nobody yet has ever ad
vertised an ankle-reducing emporium,
nor does It seem possible that such an
establishment could opbrato to advan
tage. Probably this Dickons man, a
perfeot Suylock on fashion, would sug
gest that a pound of flesh be taken
from each ankle, so that It might lin
ger longer In his memory.
Leprosy and Bubonic Germs Lurk
in Hair Factories
The thing about Parts thnt seems
to have most Impressed our great fcl
low American, Edison, Is that, the
Champs Elysees is a twilight lane lu
the country compared with tho great
white way In little old Now York. It
Is te be presumed that this Is the
fault of Paris' ago. Being some thou
sand yeara the senior of Manhattan,
she is rather averse to casting too
much Illumination on her features
Many Children and Young Girls Ex
posed, Says Dr, Charles Graham
Rogers, State Medical Exam
Iner of State of New York.
Now York. That danger of leprosy
and bubonlo plaguo lurks in "rats'
and "puffs" und thnt there aro many
children and young girls In this city
and atnto who work In factories un
der conditions almost certain to
cause painful nnd even fatal diseases,
woro assertions mado by Dr. Charles
Rogers, medical axamlnor of tho Btnto
department of labor, at tho continua
tion of tho bearing of tho factory in
vestigation commission.
In the courso of his examination by
Abrnm I. Elkus, counsel for tho com
mission, Dr. Rogers was nuked about
factories In which white phosphorous
matches aro made.
"There nre two of theso factories
In this state," ho answered. "One Is
In Brooklyn and tho other Is In Os
wego. Beyond question thcro arc tho
most dangorous factories In the state.
Thoro is vory great danger to em
ployes who handlo tho matches and
work over tho phosphorous paste. Tho
chief menace Is a rotting away of tho
bones, particularly tjio Jaw bone, due
to tho action of tho white phospbqr-ous.
"Many women nnd children work In
theso two factories nnd In ray opinion
their employment should bo prohibit
cd. Although our present law says
that children may do nothing In such
places but pack tho boxes, I am qulto
sure thut they sort the matches, This
exposes them to ns much dangor as
threatens tho grown men."
Children, ho said, should not bo nl
lowed to work In calico print works,
In pearl button factories, In gas man
the limn feellne has been known bv
a part of humanity, It Is Bald. It takes wrks. a POttcrlos or In chemical
Irrepressible youth to stand the dnr
Ie. of Broadway, But it Purls
doesn't burn so many olectrlo lights,
It has charms thut Gotham cannot
match.
When sun learned that her husband
bad fallen heir to $1,000,000 a woman
who had gone to Reno for the purpose
of securing a divorce decided to with-
draw her application. Now If sho can
convince the gentleman that she loves
him for himself alone all will be well.
factories of any sort In ono pearl
button factory on Long Island, he
testlllcd, ha found 100 boys and girls
under tho age of 1C
"Every worker that 1 examined In
this placo I found to bo Buffering with
laryngltlB or bronchltlB," ho said
In factories whero gas mantles nro
made, ho wont on, bo had frequently
found boys and girls In a Btnto of in
toxication duo to Inhaling the alcohol
fumes arising from tho collodion used
In tho making of tho mantles. In
some of tho places, ho said, wood al
cohol was used.
"Tho Inhalation of the fumes of
this poison," ho snld, "causes total
blindness In time, completely and
permanently destroying tho optic
nerves."
Germ abound In tho human hair
factories In this city, Dr. Rogers tos
tilled, and ho had found all kinds of
bacteria, Including whnt ho firmly bo
llovcd to bo germs of bubonic plague.
Workers In human hair, ho said, wero
exposed to danger of tuberculosis,
chronic gnntrltls, intestinal diseases
and abscesses of tho stomnch. From
80 to 90 per cent of tho employes -in
human hair factories aro growing
girls, ho said.
11 a woman wiin an abrasion or a
cut on her scalp wero to wear ono of
theso puffs," he continued, nnd It hap
pened that tho article contained any
of tho gonna I have mentioned, se
rious results would almost cortalnly
follow.
"Ono medical man recently told mo
of a caso of leprosy of a young girl In
a nearby city caused by wearing an
infected puff or rat"
Tho danger to employes In these
factories, ho assorted, lay in tho fact
thnt tho workers swallowed quantities
of fine, small hairs. Pub producing
gorms on those hairs, ho explained,
caused abscosses of tho stomach If
thero was an abrasion of tho stomnch
lining.
This evil, ho declared, could be rem
edlcd at small cost by tho Installation
of an exhaust ventilating system. Tho
law at prosont makes it imposslblo to
remedy tho condition, ho said, nnd
added his bollof that children should
bo prohibited from working in hair
factories.
Tho only other witness was William
F. Tlbba, a deputy Inspector, who tes
tlncd regarding a candy factory In
this- city whoro tho conditions wore,
in his language, "dirty," and in that
of Mr. Elkus, who socmcd to be fa
miliar with tho promises, "filthy."
HOGS IN FIGHT FOR APPLES"
Missouri Farmor la Compelled to Pen
His Animals Up So They Can Sleep
and Not Waste Away.
St. Louis. Horo Is tho season's
prize fruit Btory. It was told In Ed
wardsvlllo tho other day by Rev. F.
J. Buschmann, paBtor of St. Paul's
Evangelical church. Circuit Judgo
Louis Bernreutcr had been helping the
minister to preparo caldrons of npplo
butter for tho winter, and the pastor
declared that tho applo crop waa exceptional.
"Peaphes, too, for that matter,'
continued the minister. "Why, do
you know, ono of my church members
living nt tho foot or tho bluffs has
had to pen up h)B hogs at night so
that th'jy could got some Bleep and
not wnsto away.
"They cat applos all day long and
at night when they can no longer soe
them thoy hear n big applo drop to tho
ground with a whack and Immediately
tho "Whole", drovo scurries to get il
Their owner tells mo they woro ac
tually wearing nway moro flesh in
this continued pursuit than they put
011, and he therefore had to confine
thorn at night'
PLANNING TO CHECK BABIES
Western Railroad Alms to Establish
Nurseries on All Trains With
All Comforts of Homo.
San Francisco. Attention, mam
inns and papas I
If this legand, "Check Your Baby,"
luroB your glanco when you enter a
passenger atntlon don't pinch your
self to sco if you are dreaming.
Just tako tho baby over to tho
white-garbed nurso that smiles at
you from tho portal of tho spotless
nursery under tho alluring legend, get
your chock and enjoy yourself whllo
baby Is having tho ttmo of its llfo
boforo train time.
Or, if you aro tired, you mothers,
thnt samo nurso will lead you to a
comfortablo couch,
Tho Idea of a Bpoclal room is now
bolng tried out by tho Southern
Pacific at Sacramento, if "tho ex
perience proves successful tho rooms
will probably bo established nt all
tho larger stations. It Is tho aim of
tho company to equip tho rooms with
all tho comforts of a homo.
AND OTflE
Chies
Foreigners a Problem for New York
EW YORK. Perhaps no other city
in the world qulto equals New
York In tho groat diversity of Its pop
ulation nud In tho variety of tho In
terests engaging tho population's at
tention. Constantinople would seem
to bo tho only rlvnl. In New York
pretty much every civilized nation has
its representation. Thoro nro gath
ered Jowb, Italians, Greeks, Polos, Ar
menians, Chinese, Hungarians and so
on,. Many nationalities not only
havo representation, but they havo
large ones. There aro today undoubt
edly mnny moro Jowb In New York
than ever had permanent rcBldonco in
Jerusalem at nny given time. They
constitute about one-sixth of the 5,
000,000 of population.
So it comes about that Now Yorlt
Is not a typical American city. It Is
too crowded with "people who do not
havo typical American conditions In
their homes, who do not havo Ameri
can ideals before them and who do
not go about their duties with tho
American spirit In brief, New York
is thronged with multitudes who nro
living in a different ago of tho world
and who nro dominated by other Ideas
of morality, duty and tho llko. Their
Ideas of cleanliness nro not tb03o of
tho typical American. It Is doubtful
whether American institutions mean
much to them. Foreign thoughts, pur
poses, Ideals, business methods, man
ners and customs nre swamping tho
city.
In splto of tbo very considerable
number of high grado American peo
plo who llvo and do business In Now
York, they do not form a pcrcentngo
sufficiently great to control conditions
In nny effective way. Thoro is n tre
mendous provalcnco or crime, insol
ence, Incompotcnco and ignorance.
As ono moves about and comes Into
-contact with Now York employes he
will bo fortunate indeed If ho does not
suffer from their bad manners, not
to sny Insolence. Probably some of .
this is duo to tho conditions of a great
city, and would occur oven under tho
best of circumstances. However, tho
presenco in the city of such enormous
masses of ignorant and incompotent
people, saturated with unAnlerlcan
Ideate and purposes, cannot help hav
ing n tremendous nnd bnd lnfluenco
upon others.' Tho conditions in New
York really constltuto a very great
problem indeed.
Nurses Find Cupid in the Sick Room
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Tho trained
nurse appears to play a moro prom
inent port In tho romantic news of tho
day than any other professional worn
nn. Hardly a day passes but tho news
papers chronicle somo marriage, will,
lovo affair or litigation in which a
trained nurso figures. Miss Eleanor
Peregrine, who nursed Walter E. Dur
yea, tho Now York youth with n bro
ken neck for twelvo years, Is, by
agreement among tho Duryea rela
tives, to receive tho $200,000 bequest
left her in his will. Miss Ida Corey
Murphy, who nursed Chalmers Dale, a
stock exchango broker, two years, Is
suing for 530,000 for her 'services; bo
cause Mr. Dale didn't remember her In
his will. Tho marriage of John Eller
ton Lodgo, son of United States Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodgo, to Miss Car
rie Catherino Connolly, a trained nurso
who attended him a year, is another
proof that Venus in a nurse's cap and
gown Is a most enticing siren.
Charles E. Halliwell, of tho Ameri
can Tobacco company, married Miss
Ruth Allco Cole, who had been sum
moned to nurso him In Now York city
nftcr n severe operation in 1000. , Tho
following year ho died, leaving her n
fourth of his $5,000,000 estate,
Thomas Caldwell, a Pensacola, Fla.,
recluse, loft his $75,000 estate to Miss
Annio Burkhart, who nursed htm for
two years. J. B. Currier of Lowoll,
Mass., left n similar fortune to Nora
Hessian, who had watched by his bed
side for six years. Sarah B. Harrison,
sister of former Governor Harrison of
Connoctlcut, left a $50,000 estate to
Miss Eva R. Gllkcr, who had beenhcr
faithful nurso for threo years. Tho
list could be continued indefinitely.
Men mnrry their nurses so frequent
ly that tho Instances aro beyond all
counting. A curious caso was that of
Ralph J. Voorhees, nephew of a
Brooklyn, N. Y., politician. Ho mar
ried Adclo F. pouf ton, who nursed him
through typhoid fovor nftor ho had
become engaged to Miss Faith E.
Moore. Lieut. J. Hammond Harding,
son of Philip W. Harding, n broker,
married Miss Agneo Eilvorthorne, n
nlcco of Elihu Root, as soon as ho had
recovered from a serious Illness In
which sho played thd part of his nurse,
two years ago.
PRISONERS ACT AS GUARDS
Jamaica has a new banana disease.
"With modern methods of tracing the
origin Bnd communication of disease,
It should be easy to handle it If the
banana tree were a Blow grower, the
outlook for this Jamaica .industry
would be worse.
A historian declares that the "early
Christian fathers protested against the
wearing of false hair." But as usual,
under such circumstances, they fall-
fed to say anything about padded
shoulders.
A Gotham minister says that happi
ness is tho best cosmetic This is a
valuable hint to husbands who dislike
their wives to wear artificial complex
ions.
Mart In Seattle Jail Go to Court All
Alone and Return After Ad
Journment la Ordered.
Scatlo, Wash. Hearing of tho cut
In tho appropriation for his office, as
made by tho county commissioners,
and realizing that ho miut continue
to bo short of deputy sheriffs. Sheriff
UODcn 1. nougu una auupicu uiu ux
podlont of Bonding prisoners to attend
court unaccompnnled by deputies nnd
on their parolo to roturn.
Tho other day tho sheriff sunt John
W. Dalton, charged with abduction,
dawn to-Justlco R. R, George's court
on parolo, and ho reported his arrival
at court by telephono and later asked
for permission to tako dinner downtown.
"No, you como to tho jail for din
ner; wo'H fix you up a warm blto,"
Bald tho shorlff. Dalton was back in
Jail in soven minutes after ho tele
phoned.
Only in essentials docs the spiral
glide performed by an aviator differ
from that of the bibulous clubman re
turning home late.
They tell us that this Is a busy
world, but one gains a different lm
preseloN by watching a crowd around
1 scoreboard.
Mr, Edison's remark that aviation
weeds scientific revision should glva
Ue aviators pause.
Jack Rabbit Is Hoodoo,
Dallas, Ore. Fred Auor, a proml
ncnt farmor living near Rlckorall,
Polk county, accidentally shot himself
whllo driving soma cattlo from Rick'
era!) to Dallas. A Jack rabbit ran nc
cros tho road and Auor reached for
his revolver iu his hip pockot' The
hammer caught on his chaps und ono
shell exploded, tho bullet entering his
aide.
Radium Rays Deadly.
Paris. Professor Bouchard's expert
ments with radium havo convinced
h'ttn that when projected on nerve cen
ters radium produces paralysis and
rapid death.
MISER'S FORTUNE IS FOUND
Money Discovered In M.-yiy Odd Places
uitiiKcd his Relatives and
Lived In Oklahoma.
Carrlor, Okla. To find a fnrtuno In
gold nnd currency hidden in strange
nnd Improbnhlo places In hlo own
homo was tho oxporlouco of Gorhart
Thelllcn, a German farmor living nenr
hero. This money, amounting to $11,-
G00.05, had beon hoarded by C. F.
Schultze, nn occontrlo recluso, who
had mado his homo with Thlelen n
number of years. Thlolen believed
Schultzo probably was worth $1,000 or
$2,000, but had no Idon of Us where
abouts. Jho money was found when
Schultzo died of pneumonia Boveral
days ago.
Schultzo formerly lived In Texas,
whoro ho has rolatlvos who now havo
fallen heir to his fortune. Schultzo
disliked his kinsmen, and In Texas ho
boardxl with Thlelcn's mother-in-law
When tho Thlolous moved to Carrier,
Schultzo followed and lived with them,
paying them $4 a month, always In
cash. Ho occupied n stnglo room, In
to which ho admitted no ono.
When tho boarder dtod Thlolen
wont to Enid and asked how he should
proceed In caring for the small per
sonal estato that had been loft by tho
old man. Thlolen was appointed ad
ministrator. During his lifetime
Schultzo had told Thlolen ho should
bo his heir, but no will bo far as
known evor was executed. Thlolen
upon returning homo rotusod to enter
nnd search tho old man's room un
less accompanied by neighbors. E,
M. Spado and J. P. Glgoux helped
Thlelon cxploro tho room.
Almost nt tbo first step gold and
currency began tumbling and rattling
from hidden plncca. There was
money wrapped up In socks, stored In
secret drnwerB, and in old clothing.
Thousands of dollars In $20 and $50
gold certificates wero the core of big'
bundles, of old Germnn yarn socks.
In an old vest which Schultze made
himself was round $5,300 In $20 bills.
Tbo money had been sowed In tho lin
ing of tho vest which Schultzo had
worn for years. In another vest waa
$1,010, and In an old blllbook wns $C0
In bills and $1.05 In silver. Tho vests
had been stuffed nway In bureau draw
ers barred by Intricate combination
locks.
In tho fnlso bottom of a chest mado
by Schultze wub $4,2G0 In $20 gold
pieces. Elsowhero In odd places was
$2,000 In notes.
Thlelen deposited tho fortune in a
bank nt Carrlor and will hold It for
the lawful heirs,
Work 47 Years on Same Street Cars
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CHICAGO. Chicago has the oldest
street car conductor and tho old
est street car raotorraan in tho world,
both in ago and point of service.
Thoy nro Michael Moran, sixty-six
years old, conductor, nnd Patrick
Brady, slxty-flvo years old, motorman.
Thoy Btnrted driving tho snmo car in
18G4 and nro still working together on
West Sixty-third street, from Central
Park avenuo to Fifty-Blxth avenuo.
Their first car was an old bus
mounted on trucks and hauled by
horses. That was soon after Chicago
adopted "street cars." Within a few
years from then the first regular horso
cars wero operated in Chicago, and
the old buses were abandoned. Then
Moran and Grady got a regular run
on State street.
Moran and Grady havo worked on
all of tho old routes, and, with tho ex
ception of short periods, never havo
been separated slnco they started.
For a year nftor tho Are of 1871
they wero separated, and after Grady
took his first electric car on Went
worth avenuo world's fair year tho
two ngaln were on different cars for
about two years und a half. Since
tnen they havo boon on tho samo car
and for thrco years continuously.
Neither has missed more than an
nverago of thrco days n year because
of sickness slnco 18G4. Counting holi
days nnd all, they say they havo not
missed moro than an nverago of eight
days a year. This does not includo
regular days off.
For thlrty-nino years on a horso cai
they averaged forty miles a day, or
669,400 miles up until tho tlmo thoy
took their first electric car. Their
average dally fares amounted to $35,
or 700 nickels. During tho thirty-nine
years they took in approximately 9,
574,500 nickels.
In the eight years they havo been
running electric cars thoy havo trav
eled an nverago of 100 miles a day,
36,500 miles a year, making a total of
292,000 miles. Their electric car has
avorftjged $200 a day, or 4,000 nickols-
New Rule at Northwestern.
Chicago. A now "slow down" sign
waa erected tho other day along the
speedway of love at Northwestern uni
versity, In segregated chapel Miss
Mary Potter, tho now doan of tho co
eda, announced thnt hereafter men
callers at Wlllard dormitory will have
to provide themselves with two cards
ono for tho calleo and the other for
herself, If the dean approves of the
visitor ho will bo admitted; otherwlso
and Miss Potter made tho situation
qulto cloar ho will stay outsldo. In
dignation over tho new ruling la great
among the co-eds and tho men stu-,
dentB affected.
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Women Said to Be Real Home Wreckers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Woman, not
man, is tho real homo-wrecker, ac
cording to statistics that aro being
compiled from tho dlvorco court rec
ords of tho atato of Kansas. So far
as tho statistics show, 80 per cent, of
tho dlvorco Bulls now ponding nro
brought by wives, whllo virtually tho
snmo pcrcentngo of tho buUs aro
brought on so-called trivial charges,
such as incompatibility of tempor, quar
rols and othor allegations which do
not charge infractions of tho moral or
civil laws.
Previous statistics show thnt in
Jackson county, in which Kansas City
Is, thoro wero threo suits for dlvorco
filed for every five marrlago Hconses
issued, and this startllngly high per
centage prompted an investigation in
to dlvorco statistics. It was found that
whllo 80 per cent, of tho plnlntilTs,
were women and 80 per cent, of their
BultB woro brought on trivial charges,
that less than 10 per cent, of tho suits
filed by tho men wero bused on tho
trivial charges, whllo 90 per cent, woro
baaed on the moro sorlous charges of
desertion, Immoral conduct or neglect
of tho homo through a preforenqo for
working.
Women, too, tho statistics show,
havo apparently less regard for tho
future of their children. Whereas,
when men aro plaintiffs In dlvorco
suits, tho avcrago is only 6no child to
a family, 300 suits taken consecutive
ly from tho docket, In which women
nro plaintiffs, show nearly 1,000 chil
dren, or an average of a little moro
than thrco to tho family.
Incidentally, tho statistics on a sldo
Investigation show that mother-ln-Iaw
is a very much maligned person, and
thnt cases in which mother-in-law has
taken tho son-in-law's part against her
daughter or vice versa aro Just as
numerous as whero mother-in-law bas
aider In with her own child.
