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WORK ON PANAMA CANAL PROGRESSES RAPIDLY //v rut OBUPO CUT WtfWPCTOX. - It! tk* P***®* canal mill be pmeUchUl roiuideied is 19)12 is in*9t: trident oy the report of the isthmian canal rca.iuL'isioa for the fescal year «o«od June 2* last. which has just bees made public. The »(rt of miTktlM has gone on with remarkable rapidity. despite the <rtay* cauMd in many Idare* by SooJs and landslides Tne makitip of the luck cates already Is under way In P.ttsbsrg. Health conditions in the ratal rune are improved. and. as Pres dent Taft tcld the employees the other day. (be laborers there are the best paid In the world. Colonel CoethaU. the chief etc:n-er of the commission, h_s expressed the b. lief that the canal will be iut-ally Hals'ej kmc before the ual« set for the «•£*»’.**. and President Taft and otter officials who have been to I‘a nan. a of Htr seep ren well satisfied with the progress of the eighty task COL. OfOQCt W. QOETHRLS PROGRESS iN SAMOA Horse Racing Is Principal Amuse ment of Island. Leading Katie* Product la Copra, Hid* From Cacoanwt—Also E» per.-nrnt W.tfv All Sorts of Rubber Plants. Hew York—The volcano la Satall. Cite ivent of tiic Samoan Islands •Uck was awarded to Great Bnuis •Lea Samoa was divided up a little Caere that, tea rears ace and sdu.ii etas later ceded to Geru any in ea ch* tc lor tiiuablc rights la the Solo «WR* and Tones islands. Is atU! active aai lava baa rained a large part of CSe island, according to Ur \V. H. Sol/, the governor of German Samoa. »bo arrived Iron. Apia on his say to Germany to take a holiday Uoctor So.f has been governor of German Samoa ever since the colony fcecame such He is popular with Americas diplomatic and consular representatives He speaks English •» easily as his native language. He Lad a good sard to say for Captaia l*artei. the governor of Tutuila. "Captain Parker, a very able u.an. Is much beloved by the Samoans. “ •ald ltoetor Sol/ at the Holland bouse. ‘'Relations bet seen the Americana nnd Germans are most cordial and the datives have become Quite pacified. They hare also begun to snow a lit tle more interest la their work. They •til never work for other people as •oa tract laborers, however, and this la the reason why the German govern dent felt obliged to import Chinese labor. The Chinese coolies have so tar been found satisfactory. There are now about 1.000 of them and there Is n Chinese consul at Apia. The Country Is developing fast TU i< ading mine product It copra. made front the coroanul Tht {•TMiUMiii Ue im4t stringent li«i that onljr * tood quality of (tie stuff be produced, tad tills hat raised the value of Samoan copra The natives •re obliged to plant cocoaaut trees on all Idle lands. The white planters «o 1* for cocoa and rubber. In Apia there to Invested English and Amerl can capital betide Ormans The three nationalities and the natives art living together harmoniously The while population to crosmt. and so la the Samoan. “As for rubber, so far there bas teen practically no output For five or six pears «• have been trying all sorts of rubber plants. The samples are Very good. Several companies are planting, but none of the product bas been vx|«irted yet. The revenues of the country are now five times, bigger than they were ten years ago We have n telephone service and good rands Automobiles sre few. but we have fine horses. In fact, horse racing Is the principal amusement of the place There to a sports club, of Which I am the 'protector/ and good prizes are offered It to our boast that we have the best horses m the Pacific iJoctur Solf lives la Hubert Louis s old home. Vailima. which was bo up I.; by the German govern ment. erlarg* d ar.U turned into the government bouse. "There are excursions every steam ship aay to Yailuna ind Stevenson's tomb on the hib." said Hotter Solf. "MMy of the travelers who nuke the pilgrimages are Australians and New Zealanders, who seem to be among his moat devoted admirers Xo. u» do not have much excitement in Samoa, as a rule, though the volcano on Savaii l»aa provided a lot o' It. In the first years of its activity it destroyed lots of fertile territory. The natives were transplanted to Upolu. But lately the lava has found an outlet underneath the older lava, by which it flows di rectly to the sea. We hope this will continue open and that there will be no more outbursts A great region is now covered thick with lava, and, of course, the land is destroyed for agri cultural purjoses It is quite black.” Refreshments at Auction S3le. New York —United States Marsha! j Henkel was to serve chocolate, cake j and ice cream at his United States : bargain sale of fashionable French j gowns the other day The dresses were collected by customs officers for non payment of duty. The event t promised to rival the prince of Wales- j horse show, where buyers were fed j royally. Louisville Bars Fireworks. Louisville, Ky.—The toy pistol, the cannon cracker and the roman can die are to bid adieu to Louisville ; After one more celebration the new j measure which prevents the sale of ! all dangerous fireworks in the city after January 1. 1911, will go into ef fect Most Healthy City. North Carver. Mass—This town, population SOD. Is so healthy that i there are no doctors and no under- j lakers. The last funeral was held I two years ago. The town once boast- ! ed a physician, but he moved away IS i months ago. ATHLETICS TO CHECK TALK Society Girls Who Engage in Them Maws Clearer Minds—Day of Tomboy Is Past. iKisloe.—Miss Marie Lee of Brook line, a co'JSi i of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. says athletics, as engaged j ui by the present day society girl. have given her a clearer mind and ! driven out scandals and Intrigues which once filled the lives of many j women of leisure. Miss Lee was the organizer of a baseball team composed of Boston so j rlety girls who have their summer homes on the north shore. She is a J daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lee. Alor.g the north shore last summer the girls had more fun out of their baseball team than out of anything else Miss Lee says: "Alice Thorndyke is the captain and under her leadership some of the rTls have become quite skilful play ers. Among the many other girls *ho have taken up baseball are Clara iVlnthrop. Catherine Breed. Susanne Thayer, Mary L. Armory and Gladys | Munn. The typical society girl of today * the prophet and saviour of the or dinary young girl of the twentieth century. Thanks to the society girl, the young woman who shoulders a golf bag and starts for the links six days In the week Is today a normal 1 type. It Is due to her that the girl j 'it 'oday who swims, rows and rides a horse is no longer looked upon as a 'tomboy or as 'mannish.' "In no phase of present-day life can the contrast between sociely as it is and as it was years ago be more : strongly set forth than in the popu larity of athletics. Rich and poor ; have Iteir part in outdoor sports and athletics have a larger share of fern inlne attention than they ever had. "It is true the colleges have done ! niueb In recent years for the popu larity of athletics. A girl among girls j ip college has the time and the in centive to go into things of the sort :hat in many cases she does not have at home. Yet if a girl's part in ath letics were to be confined to her col lege days it would not amount to much. Even for the ordinary girl of j no special advantages athletics today j play an important part in her life | and the slandered society girl is re- ! sponsible for this. It is the society girl, and not the college girl who has done more for athletics than any other class of young persons in the country. The young woman of fashion makes ath letics attractive to the general run of persons. The scandals and in trigues which a century ago were linked with what was known as high society' have given place to some thing better and more wholesome.” ' Drop in Fur Values. Fredericton. N. B.—The Canadian fur trade is expected to be less profitable to trappers this season than formerly. Advices from London, one of the im portant fur markets of the world, to which a large part of the Canadian product is sent, announce a heavy drop in values. The slump ranges from 10 per cent, on raccoon skins to 50 per cent, on silver fox. Decries Careers for Women. Ann Arbor, Mich.—“Deliver me from the woman who comes to the university to prepare for a career," said President H. B. Hutchins of the University of Michigan, in his annual address to the women of the college. He urged the women to select studies that v^ould better fit them for being homemakers and mothers. If they had particular ability the career would seek them. UTILIZE HANGING AS CURE Patients in English Hospital Suspend e J by Neck it Rope's End for Nervousness. LckiIob lioui the neck l»y • fopr Ui s recognize 1 form of treatment for certain nervous die oases at the Nal.onal Hospital (or the Paralysed and Kpi.epilc in iilooms bury In wryneck. In particular, this hanging ts said lo have given results. Certain cases totally unrelieved by Other more conservative methods of treat mint responding sell to this strenuous cure. The apparatus used consists of a metal tripod eight feet Ic height, with a polity at the top Over this pulley is passed a rope at Cached to two large metal clirrups. we*! padded with lecher, one of which fils beneath the patient's chin nod the otb'r Lent alii the protruding part of the head. The principle of the treatumt la that the weight of the patient's body la used u> ntedeh the c»atr. rte-5 reck vtd muscles, which cause she •••■ad lo be held on one side. "»\e begin the treatment." said one *>f the hospital staff In explaining It, by gently pulling the free end of the rope until the patient is raised up on his toes After being kept in this po sHioa lor a few seconds he is given a few moments' rest. The second time ,h*» *• ^ted a little higher, so that more strain falls on the neck's mus cles. The process is continued every | routing for a fortnight, the dose be ing gradually increased until toward |the end the treatment the patient can stand being suspended clear of the ground for twenty or thirty sec | ends. | “immediately after each morning's treatment the patient is at once put i ack to bed, where he stays until the next morning's treatment While this hanging cure has given good results In certain cases, it must not he under stood that we treat all wrynecks in this way." Love will forgive lcve everything. Convict Writes Anthems -\>w York. A book of anthems for church choirs is being composed by Alfred Dalby, a prisoner in the Toombs prison here, and will be finished, he hopes, by the time his term has ex pired. 1 he first of the anthems was sung at the prison service the other day. It is called “Entreat Me Not ” and is founded upon the first chapter of Ruth, which describes the decision of Ruth to cling to Naomi. Dalby ac companied the singers on the organ of the little Toombs chapel and the prisoners showed their satisfaction by congratulating him at the close of the services. New Coronation Garter. London.—There are several candi dates for the Order of the Garter which the prime minister has had at his disposal since the death of the late Lord Spencer. Among those in the “running" the likeliest are said to be Lord Beauchamp, Lord Granard and Lord Morley of Blackburn. Ac cording to precedent two additional Garters will be given out next sum mer in honor of the coronation. SEEMS SLATED FOR SPEAKER Although Speaker Canucn’s term does not ex pire until March 4, 1911, the campaign ns to who will he the next to occupy the speaker’s chair is already being warmly contested. Many well informed Democrats declare that Champ Clark of Missouri, leader of the late Democratic minority, seems slated for the speakership, although James Hay of Virginia and Robert L. Henry of Texas are active rivals for the place. Dorn in Kentucky in 1S30. Clark emigrated as a comparatively young man to Missouri and also had an early but brief experience in Kansas. In 1ST5 lse located at Bowling Green. Mo., and be gan the practise of law and in 1S93 he was first elected ■.) congress. Since then he has repre seated his district continuously, with the excep tion of one term. f lark like many other men who have made Rood, gives full credit to ‘ .h ' -oIOr? S^e r*,a,Ti<id Clark she was Miss Genevieve Bennett, a school earner, ^ith a local reputation as an elocutionist. Clark was a young lawyer Aithout any marked promise of future greatness and mighty little chance i shm° 83 a self-composed, fluent speaker. His wife took him in hand. 1 • . . Jm *n e'ocut*on- drilled him in Delsarte until his gestures became .as>. ana after each speech made by her husband while candidate for Prose u-o Attorney of Bike County, she made little suggestions as to how his speech might have been made more effective and pleasing. The hoi^e life of the Clarks, it is said, is delightful—just one little domes .ie -.'.oud being known to the neighbors. This is the untidy condition of the i library. Reserving to himself this room. Mr. Clark issued General Domestic Older No. 1: Nobody is allowed to touch the books and papers in the library or attempt to clean up the room." Distinguished visitors come to the Clark home often and are delightfully entertained, the hostess making but one request of her husbands friends: "Please don't go into Mr. Clark's library!" Around the walls are bookshelves filled with volumes that show their owner to be a student and a careful buyer of books. In the center of the room la a long table where things lie where they fall until the czar of the library sees tit to move them. The room is heated by an old Hagey stove, red with rust, and its pipe is fantastically draped with cobwebs. His name isn’t "Champ" at all—-it's James Beauchamp, the latter being his mothers maiden name. Clark early made up his mind that this was too much of a name to carry into politics, so he shortened it to Champ, by which he has become known to fame. OUR AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO The life of Henry T.ane Wilson, ambassador of the United States to Mexico, was reported to have been attempted by rioters at Mexico City during the recent embroglio. Many Americans went to the American embassy declaring to the ambassador. Mr. Wilson, that they intended to arm themselves, as they considered the conduct of the chief of police. Felix Diaz, during the dis orders unsatisfactory. Mr. Wilson declared he was satisfied with the attitude of the Mexican government, but that he deeply regretted that the chief of police had made no great effort to prevent disorder. Mr. Wilson then had a long conference with r'enor Creel, minister of foreign affairs, who as sured him that Americans would not suffer any more and that the agitators would be punished Senor Creel In an interview later said that the relations between Mexico and America were as cordial as ever. He denied reports of friction between the governments and gave assurance that all would be sttled diplomatically. Mounted i>olice patrolled the streets to prevent any further anti-American, demonstrations. The principal high school and the national university were guarded, as was the American embassy. Henry L. Wilson practised law and was a banker In Spokane. Wash., from 1S85 to 1890 and considers that city his home. In 1889 he was appointed minis ter to Venezuela by President Harrison, but declined; from 1897 to 1903 he was minister to Chile, anil from 1905 until the present year lie served as minister to Belgium. Mr. Wilson was born at Crawfordsville. Ind., in 1857. and was graduated from Wabash college in 1879 From 1882 to 18S5 he was editor of the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal. “LAFE” YOUNG FOR SENATOR i_ . Lafayette Young, who has been appointed United States senator from Iowa to succeed the late Senator Dolllver, Is a native Iowan. Most of his life has been devoted to the newspaper pro fession, and last spring he celebrated his twen tieth year as owner and editor of the Des Moines Daily Capital. Mr. Young was born in Monroe county in 1848. He learned to set type in the office of the Albia Union, finishing his trade with Mills & Co. of Des Moines. In 1870 he was city editor of the Des Moines Register. In 1871 he established a paper at Atlantic. Iowa, called the Telegraph, which he successfully published nineteen years. !n 1890 he bought a well-nigh defunct daily news paper at Des Moines and the paper is now a thoroughly modern daily with a building of its own. Mr. Young served twelve years in the state senate while living in west ern Iowa and had an opportunity to go to congress, which he declined. He was with General Shatter's Fifth army corps as a newspaper man in the Santiago campaign, and has made a reputation as a lecturer on that cam paign. “I.afe” Young is a national figure in Republican politics and is noted as an orator. In 1900 at the Philadelphia Republican convention he nominated Theodore Roosevelt for vice-president. He has been twice delegate at large to the Republican national convention from Iowa. He accompanied President Taft on his trip to the Philippines some years ago and is a personal friend of the president. Senator Young will serve until the next legislature meets. January 8. It will be the duty of that legislature to elect a senator to fill the unexplrcd term of the late Senator Dolliver, which ends in 1913. ORIGINATED GARDEN FARMS The woman who Is principally responsible for the formation of the International Children's School Farm league Is Mrs. Henry Parsons of New York city. She has made a practical Issue of the “hack to the soil" idea, and has been a real mother to thousands of children during the past ten years. She managed to secure from the city the privilege of using ah old dumping ground as a garden farm. So many children applied for admission that hundreds had to be turned awav. The system she followed was to award to each child a plot four by eight feet for three months. Seven vegetables were planted and twice a year crops were harvested. This was done under the direction of assistant teachers and the crops were given to the children. ““““It ts 3aid that wonderful results are being ac complished Sickly children have become strong and happy from the open air exercise an.t sunshine. Industry has been inculcated and principles of honesty and courtesy established, and the health and lives of many children have been saved through these charming breathing places in the center of the congested districts of our large cities. Mrs Parsons is sixty-two years of age, but bright, cheerful and energetic. She has found that children love farming. Not only has she succeeded in interesting them in digging and planting as a novel occupation, but she has led their minds into Intellectual fields. She has even interested them in pood roads problems, the saving of our forests, the uplifting of the farming community and giving to their minds a strengthening and healthy tone. A Merciful Man. -My husband is so gentle and con siderate.” • In what way?" ‘‘Why, he wouldn't let me- get a vacuum cleaner because it employed exhausted air.” Yes, That’s What We Want. W. L. Sanders, a Denver machinist, has Invented a contrivance that will feed a press. If he could invent a machine that would feed a family he’d win everlasting fame.—Denver Times, j Man’s Dual Roles. “Men bring happiness to the women who love them, but also do they bring much sorrow, especially husbands."— “Two Men and Gwenda,” by Mabel Barnes Grundy. See Concordance. Minnick—I don’t find any passage in the Scriptures that forbid a man to have more than one wife. Sinnick—Must have overlooked this one, then: “No man can serve two masters.” Somebody’s Baby By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY Owricht, wio. by A so Mrs. George Congdon had run into Philadelphia for the day to visit her mother. She had brought with her her girl baby, ten months old. and had been accompanied by her hus band as nurse girl. His business was in the city, and at five o'clock he would call for and take her home. : Mr. Congdon was a young man, but be understood babies. He knew that they should be held head downward i —that they should be given r. father ly finger to bite when they cried, and that tickling the bottoms of their feet ; when they had the colic was » certain ! cure. That was the finest baby in the state of Pennsylvania. The father, j the mother, the grandmother. Aunt j Ethel and all the neighbors at the 1 Congdon suburban home said so. H* allying, young as she was. that she would be kept awake at night when her sparking days came, she got as much infant sleep as possible. Mrs. Huntington, the grandmother, had very little to do with the baby. It was her duty to recommend sage to? and catnip mixture and mild mustard plasters and to declare that the baby looked justs like its father. Having done this, her duties were ended. Ethel Huntington. Mrs. Oongdon’s only sister, was uineteen years old. She was not to blame for being an aunt at that age. Some of the girls poked fun at her. but she was loyal Smiled at the Man Bending Over It. ! to the child. She characterized It as the nicest, sweetest, brightest, hand somest. darlingest thing ever born, and if she could have kissed it oft ener she would certainly have flat tened Its nose. Mrs. Congdon and baby were duly left at grandma's and duly welcomed. The Infant was kissed, toasted. | hugged, flattered and talked to. and the day passed without calamity. Along toward five o'clock in the after noon Mr. Congdon telephoned that his firm had given him an errand to do. and that the wife must make her way home alone. This brought Ethel to the front. She would not only ac company her sister to the depot in the taxi, but take the train home with her and hold that "darlingest” on her lap all the way. It was set tled at once that this should be the program, and at a certain hour It was carried out. That is. the two ladies and the young prodigy were landed at the Chestnut street depot twenty minutes too late for one train and thirty minutes too early for an other. The ladies' waiting room, of course, was the only place left to them. After ten minutes Mrs. Congdon wc :t out to buy a ticket for Ethel, having her own return in her purse. She met friends and stopped to chat—the history of the baby had to be told. She was proud of the opportunity to tell it. Time was passing and Aunt Ethel became impatient. More time passed, and she became alarmed. Sh? picked up the sleeping baby and walked out Into the general room to find her sister. Just then a young man wait ing for a train fainted away. Some said it was a case of love, and some that he had a weak heart. A crowd gathered. Just Qen somebody said the depot was on Are. He lied about it. but his object was praiseworthy, lie wanted to add to the excitement, and he certainly did. Young Aunt Ethel was impetuous and excitable. Down went baby on a vacant seat, and away rushed the i cmm4 Lu«»1> l1!*** caretaker. She spent ten ra!r.i:tes looking at the young man and ru>> ins around to find a here tho fire was. and was then taken by the arm by her sister and rushed for the tram, and they aero hardly aboard aiu.i the v.heels began to more. They ha ! found a seat when they sudd > •Kissed something and cried out ;a chores: “My stars, but where is baby. If Miss Kthel Huntington h* 'at been :o excited when she laid t by down she might have noticed 1 d Ashley sitting close by. She wc d have pronounced him s young ms: about twenty-three, very good-look well dressed and a gentleman b * could have figured, that he was t. J to take a train, but would have had o guess that he was a civil engineer. Yes. he sat there, and he saw u > dumped down and knew that the ox cKercent had called Its attendant away. He moved one seat nearer the infant, instead of three seats further away, as many a young man would have done, and he said to himself, re ferring to Visas Kthel: "She isn't the mother, or she'd never have done that, and she's too good looking and well dressed for a nurse girl. Couldn't have brought the kid here to abandon Not old enough to be so hardened. Probably come back In five minutes. Ha' There she goes for the train with another lady! Clear case, and the kid goes to a foundling home!** But It didn't, tt awoke and smiled at the man bending over It- H« j smiled back. Then a woman earns | up and blushed and laughed and said: “So the minx played a game or you'" “If you want to hand it bach on her I can help you.“ continued the worn an with the came sarcastic smile "There was another woman with her, and she went away to buy a ticket for Blankville. twenty miles out. That’s where they have gone to gether.” “And that’s where 1*11 follow “ said Mr. Ashley. ”1 think 1 can get it there all right.” “Sure. You are a young man of ! spunk. It has a nursing bottle here, and it it cries, you feed it.” When the baby was missed by its ; mother and aunt the train was under full headway. The railroad company doesn't stop and back up its trains for : lost babies. The only way was A | get off at the first station, seven j miles out. and send a telegram to the depot master and follow It by the | first train. Another telegram was | sent to the father. Mother and aunt • returned to the city and rushed up | and down the big depot. They found I plenty of babies, but not the baby i wanted. After twenty minutes of the greatest anxiety, and after Miss Ethel ; had pointed out the spot ten times over where she had laid the infant down, an old man who explained that he was going to Montana when ever his train came along, added : “Say. 1 saw a young fellow steal that kid'. Yes. sir, he looked all j -.round to see If anybody was watch ing. and then smiled and clucked at her and took her up and walked out to a train. I’d haTe tackled him. only I’m an old man and have a bad liver The doctor told me not to get ex cited. Yes. sir, he stole that baby as sure as shooting, and he’s a hun dred miles away by this time!” There was weeping and walling and telephoning to Mr. Congdon and tele graphing to conductors. One of the latter answered: “Young man with a baby In his arms got off at Blahkvllle. Had my suspicions.” The trail led to Blankville. Irony of Fate! Young man steals a baby In Philadelphia and gets off the train where it’s father and mother live. A le’egram to the police at Blankville read: “Arrest young man who got off c -*e o’clock train with a girl baby Case of kidnaping." And there being no case for the "ollce to blunder and arrest an old voman leading a goat, they nabbed Mr. Paul Ashley as he sat In the de pot playing with the stolen child and asking everybody If they could idem tlfy it Father, mother and Aunt Ethel arrived and ru'hed and precipi tated themselves, and that sweetest nicest, darlingest little bit of human ity actually kicked and fought and cried when torn from the arms or its bold-faced abductor. The police had no case. The < y case they appeared to be. after ex planations had been made, was bm tween Miss Ethel and Mr. Ashley. It hasn’t been fully concluded yet but it has been settled that Paris will be one of the continental cities visited during the coming summer. A Case of Pity Misplaced A good many books and plays are based on the Idea of a man’s taking up a line of thought or action and sticking to it long enough to carry it through. But working toward such a cl'max demands a rigorous consist ency that may not be true to nature, for see from a concrete example how real life slews us round. Here is the case of a man who was drugged and robbed of his life's sa yings. He pursued the offender for months, over hundreds of miles, caught him and secured his convic tion and Imprisonment. A well-exe cuted piece of vengeance, you say; a public duty handsomely performed. But no; the avenger weakens, turns tail, back-pedals or whatever you like, and is now working as hard to get the criminal pardoned as he once worked to get him jailed. Such a lack of consistency and con tinuity is, of course, ruinous to a well rounded plot. Clearly, there is always the risk that stated vengeance mhy produce a revulsion of feeling and that justice may be elbowed out by pity. The brakes must be put on U time.—Chicago Record-Herald. Curious Oath. In the second oath administered tc a man about to take his seat In tha supreme court of the United States ha swears among other things "to dn equal right to the poor and toth theh'h J* h,&S b6en in the oaths him the beginning or the government. must have been fashioned for the ex purpose of assuring the Door hTh ^eyf f^ou,d have Justice lnPtb£ highest tribunal of the land Th! terms used are good plain English and easily understood. S h Politics and Cucumbers. ^d w**at>" asked a visitor to the North Dakota state fair, "do you can that kind of cucumber " "Treplied a politician is the insurgent cucumber. It doesn-v always agree with a party.-'-Krerri body a. 7
