Wife of German Ambassador
f'efore her marriage to the Baron Speck Von Sternberg, Embassador from
Germany, the Baroness was a noted Kentucky belle; she is regarded as the
most beautiful woman in official life at Washington.
AIRSHIP IS LIKE HENS
FARMER GETS IDEA FOR FLYING I
DEVICE FROM ROOSTER.
Movement of Chanticleer Balancing
on Thumb Illustrates Principle
on Which Ingenious Machine
Is Modeled by Him.
New York.—How does a rooster bal
ance himself on a man’s thumb?
He sticks out his head, shifts and
extends his wings, which are lateral
aeroplanes, and then elevates or de
presses his tail. By causing his favor
ite chanticleer on his farm, near Fort
Plain, to go through various experi
ments on this phalangeal roost, Wil
liam Morgan has evolved a flying ma
chine which he now hopes to send
through the air.
He has a small model, which he
sends hither and thither, and it has
the movement of a surprised chicken
just shooed from its perch. The
small model, which he has patented,
can be made to fly at any time by
simply winding up the rubber bands
which form the motive power of the
two propellers in,front.
Of the big air ship its inventor said,
when seen at the Victoria Hotel, a
Bowery lodging-house:
“I would have it merely skim along.
It would, of course, have abundant
space to clear the 20-foot propellers
from the earth. It does not need a
gas bag. There are two large pro
pellers in front and the machine can
be steered by varying their number
of revolutions.
“It is kept up by the motion of the
propellers, and when they cease to
move the aeroplanes take such a po
sition that the machine cannot come
down hard, but will settle gradually."
Mr. Morgan flew his small model
for (he delectation of his fellow lodg
ers in the Bowery caravansary. The
inventor was formerly in the cigar
business and he also manufactured a
hair restorer.
OUR GUNNERS GOOD AS ANY.
Recent Practice on British Ship Re
calls American Performances.
Washington.—For several years the
navy department has not regarded it
as good policy to acquaint foreign na
tions with the performances of the
American naval gunners. It was felt
that the publication of a good record
made by our men would only serve to
stimulate the gunners of other na
tions to better their own perform
ances.
But the publication recently of the
fact that during target practice on the
British channel fleet in the presence
of King Edward one gun made nine
teen hits in twenty-one shots, thereby
earning a decoration from the king,
has naturally touched the pride of
some of the American naval officers,
but they find no reason to fear a com
parison with the gunners of any other
navy.
Taking some of the six inch guns
iu the Atlantic fleet, one gunner on
the armored cruiser Maryland made
eleven shots and eleven hits in one
minute. A gun on the battleship Ohio
was fired with a perfect score at the
rate of 10.81 a minute. A six inch gun
on the battleship Maine has a record
of a perfect score ai the rate of 10.41
a minute, and the battleship Missouri’s
best record was 10.30 shots a minute,
each lodged in a target.
But in the way of small guns these
six inch records become insignificant.
A three pounder on the battleship Vir
ginia made 20 shots and hits in 75 sec
onds, and another gun made 10 shots
and 10 hits in 22% seconds, a remark
able average of 26.67 shots and hits a
minute.
A MILITARY ROAD TO YUKON
Canada Is Building 1,600 Mile Trail to
Back Door of Geld Region.
Edmonton, B. C. — An important
work that is being carried on by the
Dominion government in the Canadian
northwest, concerning which people in
general know but little, is the build
ing of a military road from this city
to the Yukon territory. For two years
the construction has been under way
it. charge of the royal northwest
mounted police.
From Edmonton the road stretches
70 miles away to Fort St. John on the
Peace river, and then takes an almost
direct course over the Rocky moun
tains for 200 miles to Fort Graham, in
British Columbia, and thence in a
northwesterly direction for 700 miles
more to Atlin. This long trail of 1,600
miles lies through a region but little
civilized, and where nature at times
opposes her sterile barriers.
It is not a wide road—only eight
feet—and at regular Intervals of 20
miles small log houses are erected
as halting places. The principal work
so far has been from the eastern side
of the Rocky mountains, and last fall
the construction party, under the com
mand of Capt. Camies, reached Fort
Graham, where they have wintered
This summer, another party of work
men, under Inspector McDonald of
Whitehorse, will push the work from ;
Atlin until the two forces meet, which !
they hope to do before winter.
And the purpose of it is because one
of Canada's richest treasure houses,
the golden Klondike, lies cooped up
beyond the great mountains. The
two front doors to this country lie in
the United States territory of Alaska
—one opening in from Skagway by
means of the White pass and Yukon
railway, the other further north, the
estuary of the Yukon river at St
Michael.
Something Substantial.
Did you ever try egg soup. No?
Then you have lived in vain. Beat
thoroughly six strictly fresh eggs.
Add one quart of good cream and
season with butter, pepper and salt.
Simmer. When thick enough, serve
with grisini broken in short bits, or,
if you can not get the stick bread,
with toasted dice made of yesterday’s
bread. You can not imagine anything
more palatable or nourishing in this
weather or in any ether weather.
Plans Monument to Chicken.
Bloomington, 111.—A monument Is
planned for a phicken belonging to
O. L. McCord of Vermilion County.
It has just died, aged 12 years. It
was claimed to be the champion of
champions, having won first prize at
eight successive state fairs and also
at the Pan-American Exposition. The
fowl was valued at a high figure and
was considered to be one of the finest
blooded chickens in the country.
Find Indian Skeletons.
Railway Employes Discover Bones of
Many Red Men in Gravel Bed.
seven feet in height. In close prox
imity to the skelecon of this giant
were found implements of copper and
bone, these being found in each of
the graves near that of the giant,
while in another grave was discov
ered a copper idol about eight inches
in length.
A Fugitive Poem.
“This,” said the party with the un
barbered hair, as he pulled a manu
script from his pocket, “is a fugitive
pcem.”
“Why do you call it a fugitive
poem?” asked his friend.
"Because,” explained the versifier,
“every time I hand it to an editor I
have to run for my life.”
Automobile for Artillery.
European military engineers are
working on a form of automobile to
draw artillery.
NOVEL REFORM PLAN
I LAWYER PROPOSES GARDEN COL
I ONY FOR MILD CRIMINALS.
_
. Moral Suasion and Fruit Diet in Model
Country Town Advocated for
Criminals cf Amiable
Disposition.
Chicago.—A garden colony for ami
able criminals where they will learn
Co be good by growing peaches and
roses is the latest idea to be advanced
in criminal reformatory methods. The
author of the Arcadian principle is
John F. Geeting. editor of the Ameri
con Criminal Records, and a Chicago
criminal lawyer.
Mr. Geeting does not prefer to crim
inals of a dark and bloody turn of
mind, but to those kindly souls who
practice the gentle art of selling gold
bricks to the unsophisticated rustic.
These men, with their vast army of
brothers, who earn a precarious living
through variops forms of swindling,
Mr. Geeting declares, aside from their
irritating propensity to put their
hands in other people’s pockets, are
pleasant companions and not infre
quently blithe aud witty souls.
The present method by which the
rude law casts these men into the
common jail with murderers and an
archists is, according to Mr. Geeting,
the destruction of many of them, who
are only suffering from a slight moral
twist which might be straightened
out by the application of much milder
methods.
The scheme which Mr. Geeting in
tends to urge on the governor and leg
islature of Illinois is the formation of
a little town along novel lines. The
town will be situated in the center of
a little garden, where peaches and
roses may grow. For fear the rural
simplicity of the place might pall on
the city bred inhabitants and tempti
them to return to wicked places like
Chicago, a. stout wall will be erected
all about the town, whose ugliness can
be concealed with trailing vines and
gooseberry bushes.
All criminals who have not homi
cidal tendencies or have not been in
the habit of beating their wives over
the head with a poker will be eligible
to citizenship upon the order pf the
judge. Each will have a little cottage
and will grow pure and at least moral
ly beautiful in the peaceful pursuit
of botany. If he should try to filch
his neighbor’s tools or sell him a pota
to for a peach, he will be argued with
gently and brought back to the narrow
path by moral suasion and a fruit
diet.
Mr. Geeting is satisfied that his
scheme would prove the salvation of
many criminals, who are only con
firmed in their courses by the present
punitive methods. He purposes to
embody his plan in writing and have
it submitted to the legislature.
MARS IS NOT INHABITED.
California Astronomer Says Life Could
Not Exist on the Planet.
Berkeley, Cal.—Mars is not inhab
ited by man, according to Professor
Simon Newcomb, astronomer of the
United States Naval observatory. He
is special lecturer at the summer ses
sion at the university.
After telling of observations made by
Lowell and other scientists. Prof. New
comb brought up the matter of the al
leged canals on the distant planet and
discoveries made by experts in prob
lems in physics. He show-ed that Mars
is too cold to have irrigation canals.
The water in such canals, according to
Professor Newcomb, would be frozen
solid a greater part of the time.
He explained that Lowell’s theories
of canals were based without respect
to the new theories in these lines. In
speaking of the possibility of the hab
itation of Mars, he said the laws of
heat and theories of the atmosphere
made such reasoning imprudent.
“My conclusion in regard to that
is a general one,” he said. “Based on
the theory that not one of 10,000 of
the worlds of the solar system is of
sufficient heat to allow life.”
Professor Newcomb attacked Alfred
Wallace for his statements that Mars
and other worlds were inhabited, stat
! ing that they were preposterous. The
lecture was illustrated with lantern
slides.
Smallest Watch in the Universe.
What Is said to be the smallest
watch In the world is in the pos
session of a London jeweler. It once
belonged to the late Marquis of Anglo
sey, whose taste in ornaments was ex
travagant and bizarre. The size of
the gold case of this lilliputian watch
is just that of the smallest English
coin—a silver threepence. The min
ute hand is an eighth of an inch long.
Not the Music He Loved.
Mrs. Talkmore—“Your husband is a
great lover of music, isn’t he?” Mrs.
Chatters—“Yes, indeed. I have seen
him get up in the middle of the night
and try to compose.” Mrs. T.—
"What?” Mrs. C—“The baby.”—
Stray Stories.,
Paper Coffin Did Not Sell.
Cincinnati.—The failure of a unique
industry is recalled by the shipment
of hundreds of papier mache coffins
to be sold to paper mills as junk. A
company composed of prominent Cin
cinnatians was formed to make the
coffins, but no market was found and
the industry was given up. For years
the coffins have been stored, but re
cently they were disposed of to a junk
dealer. Papier mache coffins sold
cheap, but even public institutions
and those in charge of pauper funer
als failed to take advantage of the
paper shells, though made to repre
sent the finest woods.
Carpet Tack Restores Speech.
Utica, N. Y.—Edward Cox of Wil
liamstown months ago suffered a
stroke of paralysis that left him
speechless. The doctors thought a
blood clot had formed on the brain
and they said Mr. Cox would neyer re
cover the use of his speech. The
other day Mr. Cox sat on a carpet
tack. He swore—and was cured.
MinttFrocks
DA&rTr - JVOCK&
The first frock displayed is suited to expression either in linen, pique
or alpaca, while the bands could be appropriately chosen of cotton braid,
fanciful galon, or glace silk, and the vest should be of one of those cre
tonnes with blurred blossoms upon their surface, which fashion favors con
spicuously lately. The mushroom hat is of violet straw with a violet silk
bow at the left side and a bunch of violet pansies at the right. The other
sketch shows a frock of striped pique with trimmings of cotton cords and
a vest and under sleeves of embroidered lawn.
AN more distinct
ive possibilities of
the coat and skirt
as adapted to the
differing require
ments of the
“sweet seven
teen” ingenue be
imagined than
that which is
herewith sketched
for you? The cos
tume is of biscuit
colored tweed
faintly checked,
and introducing
near the hem of
the trimly-hang
ing walking skirt
a band of pale
blue cloth, head
ed with deeply
scalloped silken braid matching the
tweed in tone. On the charming
coatee the blue cloth and the braid
also figure effectively, and there is,
too, a waistcoat of the soft blue, fas
tening in a series of scallops, and all
edged with narrow black and white
braid, and a tiny ruffling of lace, tho
buttons, too, being in blue and black
and white rimmed round with gold.
The cotton voiles have come to rival
printed chiffons in the delicacy of
their colorings and beauty of pattern
and are essentially a fabric for festive
attire, and their cost being so little
they appeal to the home dressmaker
as particularly suited to the creation
of a» economical yet apparently cost
ly costume. Our illustration demon
strates the possibilities of this cloth. It
will be noted that the trimmings are
arranged in the simplest manner.
We will proceed now with the cut
ting out: The skirt pattern consists
of one-half of the \ top of the under
skirt, one-half of the flounce, and half
of the overskirt.
This last-named is cut practically on
the same principle as the underskirt,
only with the front edge to the sel
vedge and the bias seam at the back,
whereas the underskirt has the front
and back seams both slightly on the
bias, the latter more so than the for
mer, but neither so much so as is the
central back seam of the overskirt.
The full flounce in its turn demands
that the overskirt shall be heavily
gored so as to get plenty of width at
the hem and thus fall easily in with
the folds of the flounce.
For the back seam of skirt place a
length df Prussian binding along the
seam when tacking the two parts to
gether; machine one edge of this in,
when doing the seam; afterwards fell
the other edge down over the raw
edges of the seam, and thus aeaten
and strengthen it all at the same
time. The binding should match the
color of the voile, and if it is impos
sible to get this, a length of sarcenet
or narrow glace ribbon Will be nearly
as serviceable and possibly easier to
obtain.
The back seam of the overskirt
should be what is called a “French”
seam—that is, it should first be
stitched with the raw edges facing the
right side of the material, then this
should be folded face to face and an
other seam tacked, of a depth suf
ficient to enclose the narrow turns of
the first one.
The flounce has two rows of gath
ering thread run along it, and for
neatness’ sake the top is turned down
half an inch on to the right side, the
first gathering going through the
double thickness.
To join flounce on to upper, divide
it first into halves, then quarters; do
the same with the skirt, and then pin
quarter to quarter, drawing the gath
ering threads up and twisting them
round the pins when the material is
drawn the requisite length between
each, thus regulating the fullness
evenly. Tack on carefully, and then
machine on to wrong side of skirt,
after which press. Finish off the ends
of the V trimming of lace neatly, so
Dress of Flowered Cotton Voile.
that they do not look unsightly when
the loose overskirt blows back.
We now come to the fashioning of
the bodice. This has a seamless back
and full fronts, both gathered into a
narrow •‘American” yoke—viz. one cut
all in one piece. The lining of the
bodice is a fitting one, and must have
binding ‘ pockets” run up the side
seams, and darts for the bones to be
put into; these can then easily be
drawn out when the dress requires
cleaning or washing.
For a woman of medium height,
nine and a half yards of 42-inch ma
terial would fashion the costume,
while five yards of lace and about a
couple of dozen yards of bebe ribbon
velvet would suffice for the trim
ming.
SOMETHING ELSE THIS TIME.
Bride Was Sure There Wai One Ex
cuse Groom Couldn’t Give.
Miss VeBta Victoria, the English
music hall artist, whose song of a
jilted bride, “Waiting at the Church,”
Is as popular in America as it was in
England, said at a dinner in New
York:
“A clergyman, hearing the song at
the Tivoli in London, wrote me a let
ter of congratulation from Stoke
Pogis. He said he adored ‘Waiting
at the Church,’ and he told me of a
jilting that had actually happened
in his parish.
“He said that he had an appoAit
ment to marry a couple at four on
a certain afternoon. He appeared
duly, and the bride appeared, but not
the bridegroom. The clergyman and
the lady, silent and embarrassed, wait
ed tn the quiet church from four
till six. Then they sadly departed.
| “A. week later the same couple
I wrote to the clergyman again, appoint
and the bride were on hand duly, and
again the groom failed to turn up.
“As the two waited, time passed
slowly in the still and empty church.
It grew darker and darker. Five
o'clock sounded, then six.
“And then the bride broke the si
lence with a fierce ejaculation:
‘“Drat him!’ she cried. “Tain’this
trousers this time, ’cause I bought
him a pair.’ ”
Cheerful Hint.
Among the presents lately showered
upon a Maryland bride was one that
was the gift of an elderly lady of the
neighborhood with whom both bride
and groom were prime favorites.
Some years ago the dear old soul
accumulated a supply of cardboard
mottoes, which she worked and had
framed and on which she .never failed
to draw with the greatest freedom as
occasion arose.
In cheerful reds and blues, suspend
ed by a cord of the same colors over
the table on which the other presents
were grouped, hung the motto:
“Fight on;, fight ever.”-r*Woman’s
Home Companion. . ;
IVE million American wom
en and children are work
ing in gainful occupations.
Three million of these la
bor outside the home
These women workers are
handicapped by their
physical weakness and un
accustomed environment
Yet they have entered our
sharply competitive indus
trial system, and must
often take up single-handed a strug
gle for existence in which the war
ware is no less sharp because the
weapons are the tools of manufacture
and the stake the supply or failure of
their daily bread.
The fact that they have been able
to do this without loss of virtue, and
with an increasing degree of justice
from the men who are their competi
tors and employers proves chivalry
to be something more than a beautiful
dream of the past.
Whose little ones gather the spools
and watch the endless threads of the
cotton mills, or run to and fro on
the countless errands of the great
stores? These are not the carefully
protected children of the capitalist or
professional man. The frail young
girl who stands long hours behind
the counter or sacrifices health and
eyesight in some basement work room
is the daughter and sweetheart of a
wageworker. In proportion as the
conditions surrounding the working
man's life become less brutalizing, his
finer human sentiments urge him to
insist on the protection of those
bound to him by the tenderest of hu
man ties.
The labor organizations are not
only pledged to the protection of
women and children workers by these
most primitive and potent of human
ties, but by ideals that give deeper
meaning to the movement.
Economists assure us that wages
ru-e largely determined by the stand
ard of comfort demanded by the
workers. The high standard of the
American workman is threatened, not
alone by the competition of foreign
ers. unable to adopt it. but also by
the more insidious inroads due to
child labor, or to some forms of fe
male competition. How is a child
whose immature mind and body have
been stunted by tbe deadening r$und
of machine tending to learn pride of
race or attain the manly vigor neces
sary to claim and defend the priv
ilege of his class? Occasionally one
of exceptional strength may overcome
the difficulties of his youth, but the
majority grow up to reinforce that
class of incompetents, mentally, mor
ally and physically, who prove heavy
burdens within the unions, or with
out them menace their fellow-work
men more seriously by their short
sighted readiness to accept the lower
standard against which the unions are
struggling.
In the closing paragraphs of an ar-1
tide in the Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social
Science, Walter Macarthur says:
“The attitude of the American
trade unionist Is that of appeal to the
spirit of independence and to a reali
zation of the truth that the workers
are themselves the sole repository of
power to better their lot. The solemn
lesson of history, to-day and every
day of our lives, is that the workers
must depend upon themselves for the
improvement of the conditions of la
bor.”
Aside from inherited incapacity for
organization, women Jiave been de
terred from any systematic and per
sistent effort to better their condition
as workers by the feeling that their
employment was but a temporary ex
pedient, from which they would be re
leased by marriage. While this
must continue to be true of a large
number of women workers, still as a
class there can be no question of the
permanence of their position in the
industrial world or of the necessity
of developing the higher altruism
which shall prompt temporary work
ers to guard the interests of less for
tunate sisters, whose lives depend en
tirely on their conditions of work.
Notwithstanding these drawbacks to
organization on the part of the women,
their influence has not been entirely
wanting in the organizations of the
past. They were admitted on equal
terms with the men in the old English
crafts guilds, and seem to have re
ceived full recognition.
Women’s unions were not unknown
in the early annals of the English
trades unionism. We hear of them as
early as 1833. To quote from history
by Sydney and Beatrice Webb:: “Nor
were the women neglected. The grand
lodge of Operative Bonnet Makers vies
in activity with the miscellaneous
grand lodge of the Women of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the Lodge of
Female Tailors asks indignantly
whether the Tailors’ order is really go
ing to prohibit women from making
waistcoats. Whether the Grand Na
tional Consolidated Trades Union was
responsible for the lodges of Female
Gardeners and Ancient Virgins, who
afterward distinguished themselves in
the riotous demand for an eight-hour
day at Oldham, is not clear."
While women have been admitted
to membership in the older, more con
servative meji’s unions for over 20
years, their greatest advance in num
bers and influence has been during
the last ten years. To-day women not
only sit as members in the central
labor unions of the great cities, but
also exercise the full rights of dele
gates in the American Federation of
Labor. They have not received such
recognition in any other national or
ganization of men.
That this great central body has
complete faith in a wise use of what
ever power they may help put into
the hands of women is proven by the
adoption of the following resolution
in favor of woman suffrage, which
was introduced by Vice President
Duncan at the 1903 meeting:
I Kesoivea, mat the best interests
of labor require the admission of
women to full citizenship as a matter
of justice to them and as a necessary
step toward insuring and raising the
scale of wages for all."
The labor organizations have dis
covered that the principles of union
ism are as applicable to consumption
as to production; they are trying to
influence the demand for the finished
product, as well as the condition un
der which it is made. They hope to
do this by means of the union label.
In the recently published prize essay
on the subject Macarthur says; “The
union label enlists and arms in labor's
cause those elements which determine
the issue of every cause in civilized
society, namely, the women and chil
dren.
In many places there are women's
union label leagues organized to pro
mote the demand for union-made
goods.
“The instincts of woman and the
interests of labor are conjoined in the
union label. Both stand for cleanli
ness, morality, the care of the young,
the sanctity of the home; both stand
against strife and force. The union
label makes woman the strongest, as
she is the gentlest of God’s creatures."
One has only to look over the rec
ords of the American Federation of
Labor to realize that the labor organi
zations are unqualified in their con
demnation of child labor. Over ten
years ago President Gompers declared
“the damnable system which permits
young and innocent children to have
their very lives worked out of them
in factories, mills, workshops and
stores is one of the very worst of labor
grievances, one which the trade union 9
have protested against for years, and
in the reformation of which we shall
never cease our agitation until ««
have rescued them and placed them
where they should be, in the school
room and the playground.” Since
then the president and delegates have
repeated and indorsed these sent!- v
ments so often that they are now )
looked upon as axiomatic, the last
committee on the president’s report
remarking, “that the child belongs in
the school and on the playground in
stead of in the workshop and factory
is as well known and recognized by
those not blinded by personal inter
ests as is the multiplication table.”
EVER AN UPWARD PROGRESS.
8teady March of the Toilers Toward
Improved Conditions.
O. M. Boyle, a noted writer on labor
subjects, thus refers to the holiday:
“Labor day of 1907—the twenty-first
since the day became a legal holiday,
the twenty-sixth since its first actual
observance—finds the workers of
America vastly better off in many re
spects than they have ever been in
history. According to many labor
leaders and economists, workers are
to-day better paid by from 10 to 40
per cent, than two decades ago. Their
hours are shorter, and it is asserted
that they are better fed, better cloth
ed, and better housed; that their chil
dren are better educated; that their
environment is happiei;, and that they
have more leisure to enjoy the bene
fits of all the refining influences of
life.
“Twenty years ago there were few
labor laws. Now there afe many in
almost every state. In 1886 the num
ber of labor laws on the New York
-1
statute books was few, and all were
unim|>ortant. To-day there are scores
of important laws providing protection
and safeguards for labor of every sort.
In the infancy of Labor day wage earn
ers were poorly organized. To-day
upward of 2,000,000 of toilers are on
the rosters of trades unions. Reports
of the state labor bureaus show that
capital and labor in many important
industries are working in closer har
mony, and that trade agreements have
in numerous instances supplanted the
strike and lockout methods of settling
industrial disputes. Some close ob
servers, among whom wa3 the late
Senator Hanna, have within recent
years predicted that the era of strikes
is nearing its end. Public opinion 20
years ago was almost hostile to labor
Now it is largely enlisted on the work
ers’ aide, and, with the employer and
the employe himself, is active in pro
viding many betterments for the in- -'(P
creasing mass of toilers.
“These are a few of the most nota
ble gains labor has made In the last
two decades. Who will piedict whait
will be achieved in the realm of labor
20 yours hence?”
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