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TKt VAGRVOIWERl By W. M. MAUPIN UBCOLBJ. BHUIEA Fame Deferred. John LaFarge. for many years a cele brated mural painter. when lie reoetTed a medal of honor from the Architec tural league of New York, a few weeks ago. accepted It -with tome reticence of thanks," as he said in a spirit of pleasantry, as coming rather late. His veara of work were almost past, he said, and recognition now was useless "as a help to live, although had it been accorded earlier it would have smoothed a verv toilsome road. A few days previous to this presentation. , when Mr. V. P. Frith, member of the Royal Academy, attained his ninetieth birthday, it was noted that pictures he had sold in bis early days for a hun dred dollars afterward brought more than $5.000 of which, of course, he re ceived nothing. Another academician. remarking on this fact, observed that fame sometimes yields little practical benefit to the one who wins it. to his family, or to comrades he would gladly aid. Millet s "Angelus" was sold by the painter for $200. but after Millet became famous It changed hands tlx times, always at an advance, and was finally bought by an American for $160,000. Yet its value, as a work of art, was fixed when it left the easel. So the academician suggested that in similar cases a percentage of the ad vanced price should be paid to the artist's heirs, or if there were none, be sed by the state to purchase the pro ductions of living paiuters. Anomalies of the "Angel us" variety are not con fined to any class or artists. Authors, composers. Inventors and all who exer cise creative gifts are subject to the experience shared by the painters, nor is it easy to name a practicable rem edy. AU the more keenly, it may be. says the Youth's Companion, one feels "the pity of It" that fame, or the re wards of fame, should come too late to help a genius to live; and one wishes that, before expending vast sums for "old misters." prospective purchasers would try to satisfy themselves that no new master is striviug and starving within easy reach. An important step toward, stopping the waste of the fuel resources of the country has been taken by the VTnited States geological survey in Its tests of ike coals of the Rocky mountain region at the government plant in Denver. Vol. At that plant the purpose has been to determine what coals of this region are capable of making coke that can be used by the great metal lurgy Interests of the west. Of 3' coals tested, the government experts succeeded In producing good cuke from all but three, though a number of these coals bad never been known to be capable or making coke. These re sults, which will prove of much impor tance to the west in the next few years, were obtained by following out a carefully prepared treatment of the coals. Kach of the coals was washed in order to get rid of the ash. sulphur and other impurities which prevent the waking of coke that is of any use in metallurgical work. The washing tests not only prepared these coals so that they made good coke, but also demonstrated the fact that many coals of the west which have too much ask and sulphur to be used economically under a steam boiler may be rendered of commercial value through such treat menu IN THE PUBLIC EYE NAGEL'S FIRST ASSISTANT Oruisby Mcllarg. who has been appointed assistant secretary of commerce and labor, is a native of North Dakota and has been in close touch with affairs at Washington for several years. His selection was personal with Secre tary Nagcl, who was anxious to find a man who bad the business and legal ability to run the de partment of commerce and labor iu Mr. Nagel's absence. Mr. McHarg was graduated from the law school of the I'niversity of Michigan in 1S96, and returned to North Dakota to practice his profession. In 1S9 he went to Washington and entered George Washington university, taking several degrees. Later he became an instructor, of law at George Washington. About two years ago Mr. McHarg was en gaged as a special attorney by the department of justice and assigned to the prosecution of land fraud cases in New Mexico. Later he represented the de partment in litigation connected with Indian affairs in Oklahoma. While thus engaged he was selected by Frank H. Hitchcock, then in charge of William H. Taft's campaign for the presidential nomination, to prepare the cases of contesting delegations for presentation to the Republican national committee, and the committee on credentials at the Chicago convention. The manner in which Mr. McHarg handled these cases attracted to him the attention or the party leaders, who recognized his ability at once. After the convention he was actively engaged in campaign matters under Mr. Hitchcock. Mr. McHarg succeeds WiUlani R. Wheeler of California as assistant sec retary of the department of commerce and labor. Mr. Wheeler last December was on the point of tendering his resignation to accept the position of man ager of the traffic bureau of the Merchants' Exchange of San Francisco, for which he has been chosen at a salary of $15,000 a year. At the earnest re quest of President Roosevelt, however, he made arrangements whereby his assumption of his new position would be deferred until after the close of the Roosevelt administration. GOT NEAR TO SOUTH POLE MAINSTAY OF PITTSBURG TEAM Lieut. Ernest H. Shackleton. the young Brit ish naval officer, whose south pole seeking expe dition came within 111 miles of reaching that much-sought spot, smashed a lot of precedents in pole-hunting when he made his dash. In the first place, he made a good share of the jour ney by automobile .and the last desperate dash for the pole he made with hardy little ponies rather than with dogs. The ponies were killed and eaten one by one as necessity demanded. The food supplies carried by the expedition contained very few vegetables and an unusual proportion of meats. The latter have been found superior to keep up the strength of the men, while the vegetables soon become worthless as food in the Antarctic regions. Lieut. Shackleton has a reputation as an explorer earned by a varied line of experience in that pleasant if somewhat frost-bitten pursuit. One of the members of the expedition in recounting the story of the journey, said that when they started on the trip to the magnetic pole the weather was so hot they had to pull their two sledges in singlets. There was half a ton of provisions on each sledge. After a comparatively easy 250-mile journey along the sea ice they had an almost hopeless climb to the inland plateau. They carried their lives in their hands, fighting their way Inch by inch and suffered great privations on the return journey Wees rescued by the Nimrod they were a party of gaunt skeletons; the Nimrod had almost given them up for lost. The members of Lieut. Shackleton's party state that when they were compelled to turn back their bodily strength was diminishing so rapidly that their temperatures went down to far below normal, in some cases reaching S3 degrees, and in others considerably lower than that. Had this party been two days later in reaching the Nimrod it would have been frozen in for another season. They declare that any future explorer at tempting to reach the pole must be provided with much larger supplies of food, because there Is no doubt that the- south pole is situated on a high plateau and that the coldest and stormiest weather in the world prevails there, there being TO degrees of frost under the very mildest conditions. PATENT CHIEF REMAINS Women of wealth and fashion in New York are now personally lobbying for the support of legislative bills in which they are interested. Whatever way be individual opinion on this de parture from established convention, there is no doubt conditions are chan ging and that the period or transition now unmistakably upon us Is bound to bring forth results leading to a marked readjustment. Whether that readjust ment will be for the better or the worse remains to be seen, but hope is give by the fact that important move meats of the present are in the main morally and socially progressive. At least the good sense of the public may be relied upon to check excesses in the way of reforms. NO NEED TO TAKE CHANCES There Is a Sore Way of Knowing Paint Material. There is rea5y no need what ever far any property owner to take chances ia the selection of his paint material. It doesn't cost a cent to tear how to be on the safe side. Certainly every property owner has enoogh at stake to find this oat. A complete painting guide, known as Hooseowner's Painting Owtfit Not 49, can be had free by writing National Lead Company. 1302 Trinity BuKdiac. New York. This company is the largest maker of pore white lead in the world. Its Dutch Boy Painter trademark is famous as a guarantee? of parity and quality. The outfit includes a boo of color schemes, for either Inteilor or exterior painting, a book of specifica tion, and a simple little Instrnment. with direct ions for testing the parity of paint materials. ASKING SMALL FAVOR. This famous player will again cover the position of shortstop for the Pittsburg team this season. He is regarded as one of the greatest play ers the game has ever produced, and is conceded to be half of the strength of his club. For several seasons he has topped the batting list. LOUD UNIFORMS PASSING FROM MODERN BALL FIELD . Edward Bruce Moore, commissioner of pat ents, nas been requested by Secretary Ballin- ger to continue as the head of the United States patent office during his administration of the de partment of the interior. Mr. Moore is the first commissioner to be appointed from the office force Rinr-. I .' u 1 m I - " I ' 1 I mS con,m,ss,on'r he nas succeeded in so im- Iv- T . w?v 1 I i" uuua committees or con- Xl'''v' .l I R1188 with the needs of the office that that body 1 &k' , .1 I has increased the force by S8 people and raised KVefvL I the salaries or the examining corps all the way - - . - . . v amt ua;, unjusni the work -of the office up until it is now practi cally current Iu all its branches. Mr. Moore was sent abroad last summer by the department of state. It is understood he was successful ia negotiating treaties with foreign nations relating to the non-working of patented inventions in foreign countries, which had been for some time a source of great annoyance to the manufacturing and commercial industries of the country as well as the inventors. Commissioner Moore is president of the Washington Societv of the Sons of the American Revolution. By numerous decisions he has rendered he has protected the flag and national emblems as well as the emblem of the Ameri can National Red Cross society from use for marks of trade in this and foreign countries. The justices of the court of apieals of the District of Columbia were high ly grattnea wnen lniormed tnat Mr. Moore would continue in office. As one of them expressed It, in view of the fact that all appeals from the commis sioner Ke to that court, it is quite necessary to have an experienced man as commissioner, as the practice of the patent office is highly technical and is what has been termed "the metaphysics of the law." Gay Color Display of Yesterday Has Disappeared and Plain Hues Now tule. , Color is passing from the baseball field. Today there is little left to resemble the uniforms of yesterday. White at home and gray abroad are soon to be the color schemes of the big league clubs. The sporting goods houses who fur nish uniforms annually are still cata loguing the gay colors in their sam ple books, but orders for them are rare rarer this year than ever before. The love of color, which is more or less barbarian, has passed into baseball history. In 1S65 when the men who had fought in the civil war were returning home to begin the work of reconstruction, a small fac tory in New England began to manu facture baseballs. Previously they had been made of strips of rubber shoes worn with old stocking yarn. The rule requiring uniforms for teams was adopted in 1882. The stock ings worn by the players were: Detroit Old gold. Worcester Brown. Cleveland Navy blue. Chicago White. Boston Red. Troy Green. Providence Light blue. Buffalo Gray. The floods of color come in the ranks of the amateurs. Youthful am bitions are partly realized in wearing uniforms of. oriental shades, they please the youthful eye and add lofti ness to positions on the teams that delight Boyville on the corner lots. "Wnen I started out in baseball they were strong for color display," said "Hughie" Jennings the other day. "The first uniform I ever owned was one of a rich red. I don t think I ever saw a shade of red that was quite as loud as that ot my uniform. And how proud I was of that red suit. I was quite the biggest boy in our town. The ancient gold cup from which Ving Edward drank to the health of the city of Berlin has been engraved with an inscription recording the dates and the circumstances ot the reception land placed iu the strong room ot the Rathaus, to be kept as a memento. Ed- ward VII. was the first foreign ruler jwho baa visited that municipal palace on its own behalf, and this ancient cup ia to be treasured as the symbol of a new era in the history of Berlin. EX-ROUGH RIDERJS WAY Prof. Hugo Muensterberg says there are not enough bookstores in this coun try. The professor baa probably been trying to fiud a store with a window display consisting of bis works. Any author who starts out with such a pur pose in mind Is sure to- arrive at the conclusion that the bookstores ought to be more plentiful. f New Jersey claims to have found Ponce de Leon's fountain ot youth. Notber watered Jersey corporation we don't take stock In it. l.overnor George Curry, former rough rider friend of ex-President Roosevelt and bv the lat ter made first governor of the island of Samai and later promoted to the governorship of the territory ot New Mexico, does not agree with his benefactor in the matter of treating cnfriendlv editors. Whereas Mr. Roosevelt painstakingly bombarded the recreant men of the blue liencil with interviews. -ritieu statements, bitter let ters and libel suits, -his New Mexicau protege follows the niutii simpler and equally satisfac tory method of getting the bad editor into his otf.ee aud beating him up. Editor A. J. Loomis. of the Santa Fe Eagle. ptihlisned the fact that Gov. Curry and his dele gation of official statehood workers at Washin tou had beeu instructed by the president to re- turu home and not pay their expenses on'- of the ten torial money appropriat ed for the Washington campaign. The iadignant governor telephoned to the editor who.! he reached home aud rt-s.fi the newspaper. Rsponding to the telephonic summons. Editor I-ooiuis wen to the capitol, met the angry execu tive and was punched. It is more piotupt than the Roosevelt way, less trouble and probably productive ot more results. The trouble created considerable comment and resulted in Gov. Curry ten dering bis resignation to President Taft, but the latter requested him to re tain his post. FIELDER JONES IS OUT OF THE GAME FOR GOOD Former Manager of Chicago White Sox Declines the Offer of Owner Comiskey. SSIP -A V. A i nam j to, mm m Venturing a guess as to the probable lineup of Pittsburg in the opening game at Cincinnati, a Smoky City cor respondent presents the following com bination: Battery. Maddox and Gib son: first base, Absteln; second base. Abbaticchio; third base. Leach; short stop, Wagner; outfielders, Clarke, Wil son and Moeller. Abstein. new first baseman for the Pirates, is a star association football player. When the Pilgrim eleven comes over from England next fall the diamond star will be one of the men to oppose the Britishers at St. Louis. Manager Lajoie becomes more opti mistic each day. He can see nothing but Cleveland in the American league and predicts that the Naps will jump into the lead and never be headed. Grant is leading off for the Phillies and has convinced Murray that he is the best of his team mates at getting to first base. Despite the optimism which comes from the Naps" training camp, the boss of the bunch is still trying to get a shortsiio. Ball and Austin or the Highlanders are being considered. At a rainy afternoon dopefest one of the Giants figured out that McGraw's team has been batting at a .300 clip in the practice games. A big shakeup in the New York Highlanders is threatened unless the team batting improves. Jack Thoney is unable to get into condition through illness and Hooper is likely to get his place on the Bos ton Americans- Brown, former Boston catcher, who started the craze of having the appen dix removed to help in ball playing, refuses to report to Toronto. He says he is sick and couldn't earn his salary and wouldn't cheat the club. Barney Dreyfuss told a very 1 close fr'end at Hot Springs the other day that he believed he had a much strong er team than last year. The final refusal of Fielder Jones to barken to the flattering offer of President Charles Comiskey of the Chicago American league club dispels the last ray of hope that the great field general will see fit to change his plans. When Comiskey met Jones in Portland, ' Ore., and offered to allow Jones to write his own contract the former White Sox player simply said: "No; I am out of baseball for good. That's final." His refusal to play again recalls his statement made last season when the White Sox still had a chance to land the American league pennant. "It makes no difference- where we finish this season: when it is over I am through with baseball for the re mainder of my life," said he at that time. "I will meet my brother in day or, so and close a contract with him. which will make ns business partners, and the baseball public will see no more of me after the bell's tap for the close of the game, nnless it be in the world's championship series. I am in such a , nositioo that 1 c do better out of' baseball than ia it. and. furthermore, I am wearing out un der the strain and want to get out. There is not the slightest chance of my changing my mind. When I said I'd quit I meant it, and I am through when it is over this year." The passing of Fielder jones is a sad blow to Charley Comiskey's hopes. and the baseball world loses one of its brightest stars. Like Griffith and a few other great stars, Jones is of Welsh descent. He began playing ball in the minors many years back, but didn't remain a minor for any length of time. When he was seized by the Brooklyn club be was picked solely for elegant and elabo rate batting, and was not thought to be anything above the usual class of fielders. As the years went on his batting fell away. He was, apparently, one of the men who never recovered from the blow inflicted by the foul-strike rule. But with the fading of his batting came almost superhuman skill in the field and the ability to manage men. He became an outfielder of, the Fo- garty-McAleer variety, and no gardener in history knew better where to lay for the flies or how to direct the men beside him. Finally he became a play ing manager, won one world's pennant ard the undying esteem or the Chicago fans. 55 "Papa, mamma says that if yoe're too lazy to do anything else, will yes please sit near the clothes eioaet and blow the smoke ia, so as to kill tfce moths!" Little Barbara's Complaint. Four-year-old Barbara weat to chorea with her two sisters aad came boom crying. "What is the matter, dear?" taqoire her mother. ' "He preached a w about M Mary aad Martha.' Barbara, "and sevei about me." Lippincott's. FRENCH WRESTLING CHAMPION New Catcher Looks Good. Of the new Pirate catchers. Mike Simon appears best. He is reported to be a fine thrower and one of the boldest workers in the game. Harris' Great "No man ever maintained his life at higher level of jumpifual coed humor " writes James W. Lee of Joel Chandler Harris ia the Ceatnry. day before he died, when he ready beginning to pass fate the cars valley of death, one of his sow eanre Into the room aad inquired: "How are yon this mornfag. fatherT ' " 'Well." responded Mr. Harris, 1 ass about the extent of a tenth of a gsaTs eyebrow better."" Couldn't Convince the) . "I have heard of the) kisses of other kinds, hot 1 1 of a man biting kis wife as as evidence of his affection for her," reavarked J tlce O'Neill of Baltimore, Ifd, wheal George Phoebus, aged 27. of East Bal timore street, endeavored ta espials the biting of his wife, for which ef- fecse she kad hiss arrested. Sfrs, Phoebus said her hssbaad deSberaxe ly bit her on the cheek, aad. thosch the pain was excruciating, he said that It was a love hite." The JissrJee Caed him five dollars aad gave him tea days In JafL NOT A HERIIIT OF R0UAKCE. Man's Reasons for Lrvinfl in. Self use. Though Excellent, Somewnat prised Yowng Lady- The beautiful yevac lady stood at the mouth of the care ha the mtanm taia and addressed the ragged aad long-haired hermit. "So yon are a real. Ess hermit! I have never seen a real hermit before, although I have read aTJ abowX yesi many times. I suppose yoa had a very sad love affair la your yoath and the loss of your beautiful sweetheart drova yoa to this wilderness to Be alone. Was she so very beastlTa! Tow have tomato caas tilled with sseav ey hid te the ground, haveatt ywT "Not at all. aot at an." iaterrsned the hermit. "I have so money hexied It Is all In four per cent, awotameat bonds. My first fcrre affair was alto gether too sueeesafol, and that's fhe real reason fm here. Tow didst sew square-built, red-headed wessaa aw the trail looking for a husband, did yoa? It's about Umm I snowed again, aayhow. srace so many people are coming here. Tain't safe to stay."" Par At a Chinese banoaet ia Sas Fraa I Cisco eggs 1M years old were the greatest delicacy offered. We Bhet to see the Chinese enjoy thunasetves re- eardless of expesse. hot we caaaet help thinking that for practical Bar neses the ordinary Biaa waaMi anal eggs tea years old ewite enoogb ef a deficarr The wianarement of" a London me nagerie, kavtag advertised for "a lady to dance in the Boss Sea." reculigd 437 applications for that nerOons pes. and chose a iay wno aic tne hio land fling and escaped in safety The Honk took no notice of her. If baaaaa being would follow their example, few. r persons woald sees notoriety sy foolhardy feats. Raoul de Rouen Who Recently Met Defeat at Hands of Frank Go ten in Two Straight Falls at Kansas City. . Dr. Long, the nataralist. says that men are more savage than beasts that if animals have a tonwi fc faod. they share it loyally with their less I fortunate comrades and. unlike i take no more than they need for ' I selves. But Dr. Long baa , stamped by aa em in eat authority : a nature faker. The new catalogue' of Columbia uni versity' shows the total sameer of of ficers of the administration and in struct io to be CTft; the total somber of resident students 5.C33. as against 5.1 5 S last year. Since the last cata logue was pnboahed eight special funds have been created by specifis gift or bequest.
