Shoveling Gold in a Siberian Mine.
The above picture was made at the Troitzk mines, which are the most im
portant and richest of the whole district. Women are largely employed in j
the mills and on the surface works. “It was curious to watch them hard at
work shoveling up the rich ore as it came from the shaft as though it were so I
much coal or rubble.” writes a correspondent. “Wages are ridiculously low as j
compared with what is paid in other mining camps I have visited—2 shillings ;
a day for miners and general laborers, while women and boys get even less.
Yet there is always an abundance of labor to be got at these rates. The
Troitzk district is nothing more nor less than a huge gold-producing industrial
center and presents a startling contrast to the dreary vista of endless forest
or steppes one has to traverse to reach it. “The ore is crushed by what is
known as Chilean mills.” No convicts are employed in these mines.
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FARM LAWS ATTRACTIVE.
INVESTORS PARTIAL TO AGRI
CULTURAL PROPERTY.
Life Insurance Companies and Banks
Favorable to This Class of Se
curities—Few Mortgages
Foreclosed.
Chicago. — The attractiveness of
farm loans in the middle west is hav
ing a decided effect on Chicago capi
tal, according to bankers and brokers.
Considerable activity is manifesting
itself in this direction, and many of
the leading life insurance companies
are acquiring first mortgages on farms
in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas.
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado, Min
nesota. the Dakotas and the country
adjacent.
The present holdings of the insur
ance companies considerably exceed
1200,000.000 in these securities. Farm
mortgages in the country mentioned
net five, five and one-half and six per
cent. They are limited, as a rule, to
I
j productive farms, and are made on a
! basis of 40 per cent, of the land value, j
| closely appraised, and not including
! the value of improvements. Bankers i
i point to the remarkably few fore
! closures of farm mortgages in this sec- j
; tfon. The number scarcely exceeds
i one-tenth of one per cent.
As compared with other invest
i ments based on lands in cities, the
| bankers of the middle west favor the j
: well-placed farm loans, which, they j
j declare, contain every element of at-!
| tractiveness. A farm loan is regard-j
i ed as a quick asset, whereas the con
! trary was 'true not much more than
| a decade ago.
Many trust companies now include a j
| separate department for the purchase
! and sale of farm loans. Chicago has a ]
number of firms dealing in them, and j
I it is estimated that close to $15,000,000 j
; in such securities is held by Chicago
investors. . A large increase in this!
I class of investment is predicted,
j Statistics show that the value of
| Missouri real estate, for example, is I
$2,000,000,000, while Kansas has real
property worth $1,000,000,000. Okla-'
homa real estate is estimated »,fc $358,
000,000.
Missouri has $204,000,000 invested
in live stock, $32,000,000 in farm im
plements. $92,000,000 in manufacturing
machinery and $310,000,000 in rail
roads.
Oklahoma is a land of homes. Out
of 87,000 families in 1900, more than
60,000 owned their homes. The peo
ple are engaged chiefly in agriculture.
The cash value of the farms is esti
mated at $233,000,000. The 1906 com
crop amounted to 125,000,000 bushels
representing $37,500,000. The cotton
crop has a value of $15,000,000. More
than 27,000.000 bushels of wheat was
harvested in 1906, and 23,000 tons ol
broom corn cut. Fruit of ail kinds is
raised in abundance.
Farm lands in Oklahoma range from
$18 to $65 an acre, or an average of
about $30.
PREACHES BRAND NEW RELIGION
-*
New Yorker Plans to Establish Com
rade Kingdom on Earth.
New York.—John Augustus Wall
has promulgated the newest of new
religions. .Mr. Wall formerly lived in
Valley Stream. L. i. His new religion
was launched at the Berkeley lyceum
amid the applause of 100 enthusiasts.
To prove that his religion is really
brand new Mr. Wall sent forth a cir
cular calling the meeting in which the
names of Jesus and Moses, Moham
med and Washington, Jefferson and
Lincoln, Roosevelt and Emerson, Ed
win Markham and Elbert Hubbard,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Darwin,
Huxiey and Paine, Ingersoll and
Bryan, Hughes, Hearst and Brisbane
are coupled. The circular reads in
part:
“'Do you believe in Moses, Jesus,
Mohammed, et al. (as above stated)?
Are you an atheist, infidel, moralist,
spiritualist, Jew, Christian, or ethical
culturist?
“Are you living in a secluded fur
nished room, a palace, a tenement, or
a brown stone residence?
“Are you married, single, young or
old, rich or poor?
"Do you believe in the new thought,
Christian Science, or just the old way
that mother and father taught?”
Mr. Wall explained to his audience
that the church is to be known as the
National church, and that through it
lie hopes to establish a comrade king
dom.
A branch of the church will be es
tablished in every assembly district.
Among things the new prophet hopes
to accomplish is the establishment of
department stores, hotels, bowling al
leys, laundries, insurance companies,
and skating rinks in connection with
each branch.
PRODUCTS OF THE MINES.
Country's Output for the Year 1905
Worth $1,623,877,127.
Washington.—A most interesting
chapter in the volume entiled "Min
eral Resources of the United States,
1905," published by the United States
geological survey, is that which con
tains a summary of the mineral pro
duction of the United States during
that year.
In 1905, for the seventh time, the
total value of the country's mineral
production exceeded the enormous
sum of $1,000,000,000. The exact fig
ures for 1905 are $1,623,S77,127, as
compared with $1,360,SS3,554 in 1904.
As heretofore, iron and coal are the
most important mineral products.
The value of the iron in 1905 was
$382,450,000; the value of the coal,
$476,-756,963. The fuels increased
from $584,043,236 in 1904 to $602,477-,
217 in 1905, a gain of $18,433,981, or
3.16 per cent. Anthracite coal show
ed an increase in value of $2,904,890
from $138,974,020 in 1904 to $141,879,
000 in 1905. The increase in value
of the bituminous coal output over
1904 was $29,480,962, a combined in
crease in value of coal of $32,385,942
in 1905, or 7.3 per cent.
The gain of $262,993,573 in the to
tal value of the mineral production is
■due to gains in both metallic and non
metallic products, the metallic prod
n.cts showing an increase from $501,
099,950 in'.. 1904, to $702,453,108 Iq
1905, a gain of .$201,353,158, and the
nonmetailic products showing an id
cfgfls.p. from $§59,383,604 in 1904 to
$#p3f4,019 in ' l905, a gain of $61,
64JJ,41§ To these products shofild be
a5|ded,. unspecified products, including
molybdenum, bismuth, tungstten and
other mineral products, valued at
$400,000, making the total mineral
production for 1905 of $1,623,877,127.
Besides the usual table and sum
mary of quantities and values of the
country's mineral output by products,
the volume contains this year, for the
first time, a summary, in tabulated
form, of the value of the mineral
products by states
Sometimes.
It sometimes happens that the black
sheep of the family turns out to be
the whitest one of the bunch. This
is always the case in books and
dramas.
Harem of the Shah at Teheran.
Infant Death Rate Reduced.
Novel Scheme of an Englishman Les
sens Mortality.
London. — Alderman Benjamin
Broadbent, M. D., the retiring mayor
o!' Huddersfield, England, has just an
rioltnced the result of the two years’
test of his novel scheme for the pre
vention of infant mortality in his na
tive part of the borough—Longwood.
On taking office as chief magis
trate ,two years ago, Alderman Broad
bent offered five dollars to the parents
of each child born during the period
of his mayoralty that reached the age
| of 12 months.
Instructions to mothers—some of
which were suggested by the princess
of Wales—were sent out, and the
mothers were visited by voluntary
women visitors, who reported prog
1 ress.
The Huddersfield rate of infantile
mortality had averaged 139 for ten
years, and in Longwood itself the av
srage for ten years was 122.
In Mayor Broadbent’s two years 112
babies received tile' promissory note
card for five dollars. Of that number
107 had actually received the gift he
had offered. Out of the five left four
had died and one had been removed
from the district and .he did not know
whether the child still lived or not.
If he counted only the four deaths
the figures were 35 per 1.000, and if
he counted the missing baby as dead
the figures were 44. These figures
compared very strikingly with the
previous figures of 122 per 1,000 for
Longwood and the average of 139 in
the whole town of Huddersfield.
The experiment has reduced the^
death rate to much less than half.
His own estimate of the result was
that it was astounding. For exactly
12 months—from October 9, 1905, to
October 9, 1906—not one of the babies
on his list died under the age of one
year. The babies belonged to all
classes and there was no selection,
some living in places hardly better
than slums.
Very great general interest has
been taken in Alderman Broadbent's
experiment and inquiries, including
one from President Roosevelt, have
been received from municipalities all
over the world.
Whist is Sinful Says a Champion.
Woman Stops Sermon to Renounce
Game in Which She Excels.
Des Moines, la.—Before a congrega
tion of nearly a thousand persons, and
while the preacher was in the midst
of his sermon, Mrs. A. B. Sims, a so
ciety woman and holder of the nation
al woman’s whist championship, arose
in the University Church of Christ
and denounced card playing as a sin.
Mrs. Simms is one of the most
prominent women of the city. For
many years she has been an active
member of -women’s clubs which af
fect whist and other card games. Two
years ago Mrs. Sims won the first
prize for women in the whist tourna
ment held at Cleveland. Last year at
St. Louis she won the national wom
an’s championship.
It is said that recent evangelical
meetings held in the city are responsi
bye for the change in Mrs. Simms’
ideas. She attended all of these meet
ings, which lasted tor three weeks,
«M^hjftJAat,.t.iro.e.. has come to the
conclusion that all card games are
wrong.
During the service Mrs. Simms Im
pulsively stood up and renounced card
games forever. -* ~
Her friends in the congregation,
who knew of her pride in her whist
triumphs, gasped in amazement. She
had told no one of her intentions.
Gets a Million; Quits School.
New Haven, Coin.—Having inherit
ed $1,000,000, Marlette Crouse, 22
years of age, until recently a Yale stu
dent, has founded a corporation to
publish a national magazine to be
known as the Journal of American
History. Crouse was studying me
chanical engineering at the Sheffield
Scientific school, but, becoming en
thusiastic over his work as manager
vof the Yale Scientific Monthly, he de
cided to go into the publishing busi
ness.
Remember that care killed a cat,
and the man who has no more than
nine lives can t afford to worry.
NEW POST OFFICE FOR LONDON.
Will Be Finest Building of Kind in'
World When Completed.
London.—The plans for building a
new post office in this city on the site
of the ancient Christ hospital in the
Strand have just been completed, and
the building, which is to be one of the
most magnificent in the metropolis,
will be made of armored cement, not a
brick or a single piece of stone enter
ing in its composition.
The grounds to be utilized cover a
surface of two and one-half acres, and
the whole of the enterprise is in the
direct charge of the treasury. Already
workmen have started to excavate the
grounds for the foundations, which
will be laid at a depth of 30 feet,
and which will probably be the cause
of many engineering complications be
cause below the level of the Thames
river.
When finished the building will be
the best specimen of cement construc
tion in the world, even the chimneys,
stairways, partitions and light wells
having to l>e cast in moulds.
1 THE BARRIERS OF WEALTH j
. | -BY VENITA SEIBERT |
Qooogosoccooooogcooooocgcc
(Copyright, 1906, by
Fraulein Pauline Von Engelruhe
flitted about her dainty room, hum
ming a snateli of song; now she paus
2d to arrange a dish of violets, now to
give her hair a coquettish little twist,
low to chirp softly to her bird.
Fraulein Pauline's sewing girl beat
her head over the skirt she was alter
ing, but not one of these careless
graceful movements escaped her, and
her whole soul was filled with longing
md discontent. The fraulein was a
young German lady visiting some
American relatives; she was rich, she
was loved and admired and made
much of, she could flit in her dainty
thes and talk to her bird. The sew
ing girl stitched away fiercely.
By and by Fraulein Pauline took up
a book, but her lovely eyes wandered.
They studied the dark face of the girl
Dent over her work, noted the sallow
skin, the tired droop of the shoulders,
the heavy frown. Presently a soft
hand was laid on the nervous fingers
that held the needle, and a gentle
voice said: “My dear, tell me what it
is that troubles you!”
The girl looked up with startled
eyes, then suddenly she burst into
tears. "Oh. fraulein, I hate to be poor!
1 hate it so! It is always work and
work and work, and I have no pretty
dresses and no pleasure! I am ugly
and poor—and I hate everything!”
"Poor child, poor child!" said Frau
lein Pauline, thoughfully. “You are
young, and have nothing, and you are
thinking that I, too, am young and
have everything, am pretty and rich,
and admired—is it not so?”
“My child, do you think rich people
have everything they wish for?" she
said, softly. “I will tell you a little
srory. Far away in a German city, at
one of the great music concerts, an ar
tist and a young girl were introduced
to each other. These two met many
times thereafter, and life was very
beautiful to them. Then came a
change. The man's eyes could no
longer hide the love that lay behir.d
them, but he did not speak. The girl
was an heiress, and he feared to be
called a fortune hunter. She was also
well-born, and he was but a poor
American; her wealthy relatives look
ed askance at him. Ho knew that he
was not a fitting match for her. The
girl did not want a fitting match; she
wanted a mate. But, ac.i! she could
not speak, she could only wait.
The sewing girl ventured to lay her
hand tenderly on the bowed head;
i her eyes were filled with gentle tears.
“Did you never see him again?" she
1 asked softly.
The other girl lifted her face.
I "Never again,” she said, quietly. “It
; is nearly two years ago now. 1 am too
young not to find joy in my friends,
j my flowers and my birds, my books
and traveling, but the best thing in life
I have missed, because I am rich!
And now I want you to have a Holi
day this afternoon. It is a beautiful
spring day, and you need some fresh
air. I want you to walk in the park.
The skirt can wait until to-morrow."
The girl glanced dubiously at a
large bundle that she had brought
with her. “Those are vests,” she said.
"My sister sews them, and I must de
liver them at the tailor shop this
afternoon. It is away up on Ha.^l
Thirtieth street."
“I will deliver them myself,” said
Fraulein Pauline, her natural gaiety
breaking forth in delicious smiles.
“Oh, no, not you yourself- They are
very heavy, and they make an ugly
bundle. Perhaps you could send some
one?"
“No; I shall play that I am a vest
maker taking home my week's work.
I wish to see how it feels. It will be
large fun.”
Fraulein Pauline did not take a
car. She was a good walker, and
Thirtieth street did not seem far off:
nevertheless the vests were so heavy
that before she reached her destina
tion she grew very tired. She
glanced wearily up the street, and
suddenly her cheeks grew white, then
pink. A man was coming directly to
ward her—a tall, brown-eyed man with
dark hair curling upward under his
straw hat. He bent upon her an eager
face.
“Paul—Fraulein Pauline! Am I
dreaming that I see you here?” he ex
claimed.
The fraulein stretched out to him
her left hand. '“No, Herr Westcott,
It is only me, and not a dream at all.
Ach. it is good to see you again. I
would give you both hands, but you
see the other is occupied.”
Herr Westcott dropped the little
hand he was holding. Certainly his
greeting had been too impulsive, and
his eyes saddened.
“May I walk with you?” he asked,
courteously.
“I shall be glad. I should like to
talk of home; it seems so long since
I left. Ich habe heimweh. You have
not forgotten the dear old city and the
pleasant little garden of The Lions?”
“Forgotten!”
Fraulein Pauline wa3 quite satisfied
with the tone.
"Those were happy days,” she con
tinued.
"I was obliged to leave hurriedly,
fraulein, and surely you must know
that those were happy days to me,
also.”
Fraulein Pauline shifted the bundle
on her arm, and Herr Westcott was
overwhelmed with contrition. He had
forgotten his manners.
; “Oh, I beg your parson! Let mo
have your bundle! Forgive me that
I did not think of it sooner! You
must be very tired!”
“Yes, I am very tired.” Fraulein
Pauline glanced down at the bundle,
and sighed deeply. “They are vests
, that I am taking to the tailor shop.
It is a long way from where I live, and
j the shop is on Thirtieth street.”
Herr Westcott started. He noted
| for the first time the contents of the
| bundle, the plain black hat, the sim
> pie gown. A light broke in upon him.
he stopped, stared fixedly at the de
mure face and downcast eyes, then he
csoeosocoooaecacosoooocosojil
Joseph B. Bowles.)
lifted the bundle, and looked at it iD
dismay.
“You to carry such a long way! Ia
it possible, that all your wealth if
gone, and that you are sewing vest1.,
for a living?”
“It does not pay well, but it is hon
est work,” said Fraulein Pauline, plain
j tively.
! “Great heavens! It is monstrous!
I could not have believed it possible!
! Was there no one to look after you?
j Forgive me for speaking so, but 1
have always been interested in your
welfare, and surely you will pardon
| a friend for his frankness.”
“True sympathy is never out of
i place, Herr Westcott. Ach, strange
things are possible. But you must
know that my wealth was never the
greatest thing to me. Not that it is
very pleasant to be poor.”
"Of that I am well aware, therefore
V~~—————————— ■■■■-' .
i “Ich liebe dich!” She Said, Simply.
| I deplore it for your sake; but for my
i own sake—"
“Here we are at the tailor shop!”,
; interrupted Fraulein, in a sudden llut
1 ter. “You will wait without while I
deliver the vests. I shall appear again
| directly.”
In a very few moments they were
proceeding on their way, minus the’
vests. Fraulein Pauline held in her
hand a five-dollar till. “A week’s sal
ary!" she said, viewing it meditatively.
Suddenly a hand closed over the bill
' and the lingers that held it. “Pauline,
! at last I may speak! I had no right to
before, but now you are poor, poor,
: and I cannot feel sorry, because I am
j so glad. Pauline, dear one, do you
i guess how I have loved you always
; from the very first? Sometimes I have
thought that you cared. 1 dared not
; let myself dwell long on that thought,
j but now I must know. Pauline!”
She lifted her long lashes and let.
; him see wliat lay beneath. There was
j no coquetry in those clear depths
l now.
“Ich liebe dich!" she said, simply '
i —words that in any language need no
| translation.
After a long, long time, when they j
J had once more become conscious of |
; the pavements and the shops and the
| earth, Fraulein Pauline said. “Ernest,
j :ny first care shall be to exterminate
;he one fault which I find in thee.
Thou art too proud. I was left lonely !
and unhappy simply because I had
more money than thou hadst. and thy
pride could not bear the thought
Couldst thou not have loved me so
well that wealth would have meant
nothing to thee?”
“It was for your sake—”
“For my sake! Then thou didst not
give me credit for equal depth of soul
with thyself. Ach!”
"Pauline, treues hertz, forgive me!
1 see my mistake.”
“It is well, for I have a confession
to make to thee. 1 have done my best
to please thee by being poor, but alas!
I am still rich. Ach, it. is a dreadful
change of prosuects, I am sure, but I
trust to thy honor as a gentleman
not to desert me under the sad cir
cumstances.” Her eyes smiled at him
mischievously. “It was only what you
Americans would call a bird.”
“A bird? Oh, I see. A lark! You
were carrying the vests for somebody
else, 'feut this plain gown?”
Fraulein Pauline laughed merrily.
“Thou art also a bird!” she said.
"Tliou art a goose! It is a Paris
gown. Dost thou think that vest-mak
ers wear such a fit But, Ernest, thou
has not said that 1 am forgiven for
still being rich."
Herr Westcott drew her into an
empty entry, and kissed her. “Dear
little lark,” he said, “I have learned
my lesson!”
Kentucky’s Good Old Corn Bread.
Land of the luscious, indescribable
and ever conquering corn bread, Ken
tucky, we hail thee! Other states
have their own bread, but no corn
bread on earth ever reaches the right
sftot in the hungry man’s make-up
like that of old Kentucky. Corn bread is
the Kentucky housewife’s monument.
See the genuine corn bread anywhere,
or even the imitation, and the mind
must instinctively go back to old
Kentucky, with all its treasures and
traditions of corn bread making.
This, verily, is "a land of corn and
wine; a land of bread and vineyards.”
See the Kentucky household gath
ered about hospitable tables to realize
the truth of Victor Hugo: “Oh, the
love of a mother, love no one for
gets;_ miraculous bread which God
distributes and multiplies; board al
ways spread by the paternal hearth,
whereat each has his portion, and
all have it entire.”—Louisville Her*
aid.
Sets Comfort Before Fashion.
Dr. Hans Richter, the famous
musical conductor, is a thorough be
liever in comfort in dress and not in
frequent!}’ sets fashion at defiance.
Washington Letter
SVhat Is Going On in the National Capital—Perry Belmont Build
ing Spre Fence to Shut Off View of Thomas Nelson Page—•
Great Demand for Ten-Dollar Bills.
WASHINGTON—Perry Belmont and Thomas
Nelson Page have “a mad” with each other.
Rapid-fire developments in the strife between the
millionaire and the author have kept society and
officialdom at the capital wondering what wou d
come next.
Mr. Belmont won the latest round. He bnilt
a spite fence right across from Mr. Page s bes:
beloved window seat, and those who have follow !
the Belmont fortunes in the struggle claim easy
honors for the capitalist.
Mr. Pane drew first blood, and it was perhaps
a stinging blow which marked the battle's incep
tion, when he wrote some pieces for the mag i
zincs which were not highly flattering to Pen r
Belmont nor to his brother, O. H. P.
Directly across from the charming home or Mr. Page is a triangular >:
of ground, large enough for a Iront yard, but too small for a city park. One
of the items that gets into the "dotty” columns concerning the "home lif••
of great authors" ascribes to Mr. Page the supreme pleasure of lingering in
his window seat and peeking across his own lawns into the restive hit n'
landscape gardening.
Mr. Belmont read the magazine articles. He also heard of the anecdote
in which Mr. Page played the lead. A few days later the real estate transtei
noted that the triangular tract of ground had passed into the possession i>:
P. Belmont.
When next Mr. Page sought recuperation from literary toil his joyous
landscape had degenerated into a barnyard symphony. Mr. Belmont’s labor
ers had erected a high and unsightly wire fence and another force started
in on a rock wall, which sets Mr. Page's property into a settlement by its* ;
and with the view terminating at the lot iine.
In the Belmont camp it is rumored with glee that Mr. Belmont is to build
a splendid home on his side of the high stone wall, and that there will be no
communicating and handy side doors between the two neighbors.
AN INDICATION OF GENERAL PROSPERITY.
Secretary Shaw lias succeeded in securing the
return to the treasury of COO $1,000 bills. The
place of these in the circulation has been taken,
in large part, by new ten-dollar bills. The reason
is that appeals have been coming to the treasury
constantly to send out more tens, because there
was a tremendous demand for them.
This demand is simply a sign of the great
prosperity of the country, according to financial
men. Several years ago there was a constant cry
for one and tvvo-dollar bills. That cry has passed
and people are wailing for tens.
The supposition is that in these fat financial
days the multitudes are looking upon ihe ten
dollar note as lightly as they looked upon a note
of 0119-fifth or one-tenth its value in the days
wnen banks were breaking and people were asking the way to the souphouse
There is probably no joke about the statement that the demand for bills
of a high denomination means that prosperity is abroad. When wages are
low and when people art- spending little or nothing for luxuries they may
went ten-dollar hills, but they don't get them.
The requests for “tenners” worried the treasury department for a long
while. Under the law it couldn’t put these bills out except in exchange for
money didn't come in as rapidly as it should; »o it was that an attempt was
made to get some notes of large denomination from the financial centers and
to put the “sawbucks” out in their place. There isn’t ranch use for $1,000
bills in the paths of general circulation, and it was considered better to get
them in and let the tans out. In this way the secretary managed to put
GO,000 tcn-doliar hills into the country practically at one shipment.
‘•JACK” GREENWAY DECLINES FEDERAL JOB
' ■ Cap' . "Jack” Greenway, rough rider and pe
.sonal friend of President Roosevelt since they
fought and camped together on the wet soil of
Cuba, has been offered the position of commis
sioner general of the land office to succeed Wi!
liaui A. iRichards, who is shortly to go out of
office. He cannot, however, accept, and greatly
regrets his inability to do so, because of the after
lion he bears his frieud#and chief.
Capt. Green way is engaged in iron mining in
Minnesota and has given certain pledges to th
1 company he is employed with. He does not thin i
’ he is at liberty to ask release from any of these
pledges.
The noted ex-soldier and football player of
Yale has been a guest of President Roosevelt for
several days, tie is received there on terms or tne most cordial friendship
and in past years has frequently visif ed the president and family. Ho is a;
much admired by the Roosevelt boys as by the president. If was Greenway',
great playing and management of the Yale football team in his college days
that many times defeated President Roosevelt's alma mater, Harvard. The
prowess of Greenway and his victories in the past appeal to the Roosevelt
boys as much as his courage in war and his manly qualities in peace appeal
to the president.
It was Capt. Greenway and John E. Mcllhenny. now a civil service com
sioner, who accompanied the president on his last trip through the south,
and he affectionately spoke of them as “the two Johns.” He succeeded in
getting Mcllhenny to come to Washington and take an official position, and
when he began to hunt for a man he thought, would be bomb proof against
certain influences exerted in the land office he thought of Greenway. The
latter's mining ventures are paying him too well, though, to take a govern
ment office.
FEDERAL JUDGES FACING CRITICISM,
Before the winter is over considerable is like
ly to be heard about federal judges who overturn
laws on constitutional grounds after the ablest
lawyers among the nation's statesmen have spent
weeks and months in perfecting the same. Re
cent decisions with respect to the employers'
liability act have already started the discussion.
in his last annual message to congress the
president referred to the almost nonchalant ease
with which federal judges declare unconstitutional
measures which have been-“solemnly” considered
by congress.
Almost everybody has forgotten that Judges
Evans and McCall were once members of the
lower house of congress. Neither of them made
a mark as a constitutional lawyer. The fact is
neing pomteu out mat many occupants ot the federal bench in the lower
courts to-day are men who, if their terms were to expire this coming spring,
would be known as ”:ame ducks.” Most of them have been appointed simply
to take care of them when they get out of a job. Judges Quarles of Wiscon
sin, McComas of Maryland and Pritchard of North Carolina were all senators
who had lost out when elevated to life iiositions on the bench. Aside from
Judges Evans and McCall, there is Judge Dayton of West Virginia, who was
a member of the house. Few if any. of these judges when in congress ever
cut any figure in constitutional debates. Inasmuch as President Roosevelt
has freely criticised judicial decisions in the recent past, it is probable that
the policy of rewarding so-called "lame ducks” also may come in for critic-m
from other sources of public life.
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A SAVING SOUTH AMERICAN DIPLOMAT.
There is a well-known South American diplomat here who is rather nig
gardly in his expenditures. He was the President's reception to the diplo
matic corps the other night, and fairly ablaze with gold lace. Because of his
rank he was well toward the end of the line. Every one noticed that he wore
no gloves, but carried a package carefully wrapped in tissue paper in his
hand. As the line filed past the President this diplomat, when only four or
five files away from the President, unwrapped the package and pulled on a
pair of white gloves. After shaking hands with the President he carefullv
removed the gloves, wrapped them in the tissue paper, and put them in his
pocket to await the next reception.
MAN HAD PECULIAR HEART.
The post-mortem examination upon
the body of a man of about 35 years of
age, who died recently in an English
hospital from heart disease, revealed
a singular state of things iri connec
tion with that organ. Instead of pos
sessing, like every other human being,
a heart with two ventricles, one to
propel pure blood throughout the sys
tem, and the other to send impure
blood to the lungs, there to be puri
Bed, the heart of the individual in
question possessed but a single ven
! tricle for both purposes. The heart
. was shaped like that of a frog, which
iresembled in all details, except that,
of course, it is many times larger!
Such a condition has never been
j known to have occurred in an adult l
before, and the mystery is how life r
was sustained-for so long in such ab
normal circumstances.
If you did unto your friends as the -
would be done by you wouldn’t even
have the core of the apple fcft.