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THAT DISCRIMINATING DUTY
Wha1 avsII be known in our history as
the discriminating duty of 1S07 is a
Avhich seems to have been sur
reptitiously inserted in the
tariff bill without the knowledge
as tliey aver of either Dingley or Alli
son or even of Speaker Reed the Czar
of the House of Representatives who
was resting in his official dignity and
fatness under the erroneous impres
sion that he knew it all and that
nothing could go through the House he
had gagged and terrorized without his
knowledge and express permission He
aiow insists like President Grant when
the latter signed in 1S7 the bill de
monetizing silver that he didnt know
the pesky thing was in the bill It
is the excuse of the small boy makes
when he pleads that he didnt know it
was loaded
The discriminating duty of 10 per
cent is -to be levied at all Custom
Houses in addition to the regular tariff
rates on all goods brought into the
Tnited States from a foreign country
ihi which those particular goods were
not produced It would naturally inter
fere with the trade carried on with
Japan through the Canadian transcon
tinental railroads and with the goods
brought to New York from Buenos
Ay res in steamers sailing under the
flag of Sweden ami Norway
This blunder of the legislative body
has caused much botheration in the
Treasury and Law Departments at
Washington and those functionaries
who are experienced in construction
have all been called upon to construe
the new regulation All agree it it is
chiefly aimed at the Canadian railroads
and that some enemy has sneaked
the provision into the statute And
now it has also been concluded that the
-clause is invalid as against goods
brought by sea in foreign vessels of
most of the European countries -with
whose governments ours has treaty
stipulations which cannot be broken So
that the whole matter appear to
be involved in an inextricable confu
sion and it may be as in the case of tne
Income Tax the administration may
liave to resort to the courts ana ask the
judges to tell it what to do New York
News
3allinc Gold Prices
Senator Chandler has succeeded in
getting himself disliked by the advo
cates of gold because he is honest
enough to tell the truth
In a recent article given to the press
i by the Senator he says The fall in
v silver will not lessen the present or
-prospective Avoes from monometallism
It only points the moral of demonetiza
tion The gold price of silver falls and
so falls the prices of all the other com
modities
Such sentiments as these will call
down upon the Senators head the
choicest invectives of the subsidized
press All men who fail to worship the
golden calf are characterized as foois
lunaiies knaves and repudiators by the
intellectual giants who Avrite editorials
to jjrove that when a man borrows one
dollar he must pay back to the lender
two dollars in order to prove that he is
honest
Nothing can be plainer to a man of
sense than the fact that a two busnel
measure will hold twice as much as a
one bushel measure and when the
measure which contains two bushels is
called a bushel measure the price of the
commodity measured is cut in two
When half of the Avorlds money was
destroyed the other half Avas doubled in
value and it now requires twice as
i much of any product of labor to secure
n dollar as was necessary before de
monetization took place
Wheat went down and down keeping
pace with the fall in silver until the
famine in India and the short crop in
Argentina and other foreign wheat-raising
countries created a demand so great
The price Avas forced up by competition
to obtain it Under normal conditions
wheat Avould sIioav no increase in price
Create a demand for silver by opening
the mints to unlimited coinage and sil
ver Avill rise just as wheat has lisen
but unlike the cereal silver avouIw re
tain its price because the demand
would be continuous and unlimited
V
Ioss and Gain to Farmers
ProAidence has given the farmers of
the United States an opportunity to sell
their wheat at a profit of some 20000
000 What has the gold party given
them
Take the Avheat crop alone for an ex
ample Under the Avorkings of bimetal
lism dollar -wheat Avas the rule but
since the demonetization of silver 50
cent Avheat has pre ailed For fifteen
years the farmers hae been robbed an
nually of 5200000000 making a total
loss to the agriculturists of 3000000
000 This is Avhat the gold party has
done for the farmers so far as Avheat
is concerned
It is not at all reasonable to suppose
that those avIio have tilled the soil for
the last fifteen years only to find them
selves robbed and almost ruined by the
clique of gold will be fooled and cajoled
by the hypocritical cant of Republican
newspapers over the rise in the price of
Avheat this year Three thousand mil
lion dollars of loss cannot be balanced
bv two hundred million dollars of gain
especially when the gain comes from
an act of Providence and the loss came
from an act of the Republican party Do
the Republicans take the farmers for
unreasoning men Avho cannot trace an
effect to its cause
It is a good thing for the farmers that
the price of wheat has gone up they
can reap what benefit the speculators in
grain have left them and they can re
flect on what they have lost through the
demonetization of silver and they can
ponder on the fact that this loss is per
manent and will continue so long as the
advocates of gold control the currency
Chicago Dispatch
Foolintr the Wn ire workers
During the last Presidential cam
paign the laboring men -were told by
the gold advocating employers and the
Republican spellbinders that a Arote for
Bryan Avas a vote to reduce Avages and
to increase the cost of living
Under threats of this kind enough of
the labor Aote Avas coerced into Repub
lican ranks to put McKinley in the
Presidential chair To day the laborer
is confronted with a demand to submit
to a reduction of Avages The President
of the Amalgamted Association of Iron
and Steel AVorkers has already signed a
scale reducing wages all along the line
These laborers get less money for their
Avork than heretofore and are com
pelled to pay more for the necessities of
life When the Avorkman buys flour
uoav he has to pay a dollar for the same
quantity that seventy live cents Avould
buy last month Soon Avoolen goods -will
go up because of the beneficent Dingley
tariff and in fact almost every neces
sity of life is going to cost more money
But let the Avage Avorker dare suggest
an increase in pay to the gold brick
employer Avho played a confidence
game on the employe to get his vote
and Avhat is the result Refusal and
if the demand is persisted in discharge
AVhat glorious things the Republican
party has brought to pass for the mass
es IIoav perfectly ha e the politicians
kept their promises Surely the wage
Avorkers will believe these hypocrites
hereafter and always Aote for low
Avages high prices and protection
Altirelds Trenchant Utterances
Crushing out of government by injunc
tion the municipal ownership of gas and
water plants and street railways the Gov
ernment ownership of coal mines tele
graph service and railroads and the es
tablishment of postal savings hanks
these were the keynotes Avith which John
P Altgeld sounded a grim warning mk1
pointed i moral in his Labor Day speech
at Philadelphia Some of his bitingly
sarcastic sentences on the question of
government by injunction follow
The corporations discovered years ago
that to control the construction of the
law was even more important than to
control the making of it
The corporations do not buy the courts
because it is not necessary
The favor or the opposition of the cor
porations has come to be almost the sole
test of the constitutionality of a law
The laborers first got hungry and then
restive A whip was needed to restore
contentment and the Federal courts
promptly furnished it
It will be noticed that these injunc
tions are simply a whip with which to
lash the back of labor
Almost everything a corporation lawyer
could think of has been covered by these
injunctions
All of these proceedings in the Federal
courts are an attempt to do things that
belong exclusively to the police powers
of each locality in the administration of
which these courts cannot interfere with
out being guilty of usurpation
My friends let us save our institutions
government by injunction must be crush
ed out
If our government is not rescued from
corruption and if the snaky form of gov
ernment by injunction is not crushed
then it would be better for your children
if they had never been born
Theres No Escape
The treasury statement for August
sIioavs that for the first tAvo months of
the present fiscal year there is deficit
of about 23000000 At this rate the
Avhole fiscal year should show a deficit
of 150000000 The only thing which
can prevent this enormous minus sum
is a policj of strict economy in every
department of the government Pen
sions public buildings rivers and har
bors salaries in all civil departments
must be held doAvn to the actual work
ing necessities But pensions -will not
be reduced On the contrary they -will
be larger than ever There is an enor
mous list of public buildings demanded
by the Congressmen and which having
been held back so long by the policy of
Speaker Reed -will brook no curtailing
Fees Avhich under the Cleveland admin
istration Avere derived from the consul
ates Avill noAv go to swell the pickings
of officeholders But greater far than
all these means of deficit is the new
tariff If it really does Avhat it is in
tended to as a prohibitor of imports it
Avill throw all other deficit makers into
the shade There seems therefore no
escape from a most disastrous year for
the government Chicago Chronicle
Senatorial calaries Bir Enoiierh
It is a mistake to suppose that the
salary of a Senator 5000 a year Avill
not support him and his family in a re
spectable manner in this city Of
course a Senator can spend any amount
of money if he has it and Avishes to do
a good deal of elaborate entertaining
But a man of small fortune coming to
the Senate can get along Aery comfort
ably on his salary There are Senators
avIio have saved and invested 1000 a
year and have at the same time lived
in a style not discreditable to them or
their constituentsWashington Post
Prosperous Time for Trusts
The Sugar Trust is increasing its
-wealth the Glucose Trust though
young is doing well the Steel Trust is
I multiplying its resources and all other
trusts are enjoying increased revenues
under the operation of the new tariff
laAV But the records of the treasury
tell a different tale The customs re
ceipts for this month -will be less than
for any month recently and the deficit
promises to be upward of 10000000
the largest for a long time But Avhats
the odds so long as the trust magnates
are happy Kansas City Star
Moved to Mysterious Silence
One might conclude for all that he
can learn from the editorial columns of
our contemporaries that the Avar in
Cuba ended soon after McKinleys in
auguration and that peace reigns there
and prosperity is preparing to alight
upon the desolated island Save for
their news columns Avhich now and
then contain some note about Weyler
no one Avould knoAV that the same cruel
Avar that so stirred their hearts and
Avagged their pencils a few months ago
is still in progress St Paul Globe
Callinjr Too Many Hard Names
It is high time that a little more dis
cretion Avas manifested in the applica
tion of hard epithets To call a man an
Anarchist may In time make him so
and persistently to call a man a pluto
crat may ultimately drive out of his
heart much consideration for his fel
lows that had place in it The industrial
problem cannot be solved by calling
names and men who belieAe them
selves right are not going to be silenced
epithets New York Journal
Keyond the Dreams of Despots
Overtaxation has been the bane of
governments since the earliest his
tory of the Avorld It has overturned
empires and created republics Yet an
examination of the expenditures of the
nations shows a Avonderful increase in
modern times It shows that when the
taxing poAver is intrusted to the repre
sentatives of the people themselves
they go beyond the utmost dream of an
cient despots Mihvaukee Journal
Runnins Too Much to Militancy
The increase of militancy is to be
studied as a sign of the times to come
in connection Avith other signs But it
is not to be studied as an outgroAvth and
a guarantee of political or any other
kind of freedom Ail increase of mili
tancy is certain in the long run to de
stro3r both political and individual free
dom History does not teach any truth
more plainly or persistently than this
Rochester N Y Herald
Something Not Yet Explained
The connection between dollar Avheat
and the new tariff law is not quite so
obvious as it might be to some of us
but of course it must exist and it will
doubtless be made perfectly plain Avhen
the Republican stump speakers get to
Avork this fall Providence Journal
Brief Comment
If many protected Republican bosses
had not cut Avages the phantom of dear
bread Avould be Avelcomed instead of
dreaded by thousands on this side of
the water Kansas City Times
It is very considerate on the part or
Mr Havemeyer of the Sugar Trust to
Avarn the public that the heaAy fruit
packing season is likely to cause an ad
vance in the price of sugar Mihvaukee
Journal
The South has paid about 750000000
as a Avar indemnity in the shape of pen-
sion money since 1S05 and before the
last pensioner dies if he ever does she
will have doubled that Aast sum
Louisville Post
Mr McKinley has settled it The
crops did it in the West and the tariff
in the East As betAveen Providence
and William McKinley honors are easy
in the estimation of the latter Min
neapolis Times
What has become of that adAance in
Avages that Avas promised under the
Dingley bill j he advance in the neces
saries of life is here but the boom in
the wage market for some reason has
been delayed Peoria Herald
The latest ruling of the pension de
partment to the effect that a marriage
certificate is not necessary to make a
Aalid marriage for pension purposes
shows that the pension fund bunghole
is still kept Avide open Boston Herald
The Crescent tin plate mill in Cleve
land O has fenced out its striking
hands Avith barbed Avire Barbed Avire
is an ideal protection and Iioav beauti
fully it typifies the barbed Avire tariff
which keeps out of the country even the
skins of foreign calves Philadelphia
Record
The printing and binding scandals
that Avere unearthed during Drakes
term are enough to damn the Republic
an party of Iowa as effectually as the
expose of the rottenness in Republican
circles in Nebraska has damned that
party in this State Ouna ha World
Herald
John Sherman is to appear on the
stump in Ohio this fall In shoving the
old gentleman out of the Senate to let
Mark Hanna in and then forcing him to
tell the Buckeye voters that the trans
action was O K the Republican lead
ers are going to the extreme of imposi
tion Manchester N H Union
There does not seem to be any suffi
cient virtue left in the Republican par
ty to enable it to escape unassisted
from the tangle of corruption and
in Avhich it has become in
volved It is the mere plaything of self
helping schemers Avho use it for their
own advantage and advancement
Philadelphia Record
It is reported that an English officer
named Harrington has discovered in
India a working telephone between the
two temples of Pauj about a mile
apart The system is said to have been
in operation at Pauj for over two thou
sand years In this connection Ave may
observe that Egyptologists have found
unmistakable evidence of wire com
munications between some of the tem
ples of the earlier Egyptian dynasties
but whether these served a telegraphic
telephonic or other purpose is not
stated
WANTED BABYS NAME CHANGED
Christened It Cicero but Didnt Like
the Pronunciation
A man avIio was bald with the ex
ception of a small red fringe Avhich
reached around the back of his head
from ear to ear Avas Avaiting for the
laAvyer Avhen the latter came into his
office
I Avant to consult you on a rather
unusual case he said after greetings
had been exchanged What I came to
find out Ls this can a persons name be
changed
Certainly All he has to do is to
show some good and sufficient reason
for adopting another name and it can
be very easily arranged
I knoAV that But can it be done
without the knoAvledge or consent of
the party most interested
Why of course not
I was afraid you Avould say that
But maybe Avhen you hear all the cir
cumstances
But there are no circumstances
which will permit you to change a
mans name AAithout his knowledge
There arc lots of mean things you can
do behind a friends back but Im glad
to say this is not one of them
But this person isnt a man
The same thing applies to a wom
an
But its not a woman either Its
my baby The trou
ble is that were having too much edu
cation in our neighborhood I honestly
believe that Avhat I am trying to do is
for the babys own good My Avife and
I were anxious to give him a name that
Avould have a substantial sound and at
the same time be associated with clas
sical tradition So Ave hit upon
Cicero
Thats a very good name
Your remark shoAvs how easy it is
to be deceived We liked it first rate
until our eldest girl got into the high
school One day she came home and
informed us that Ave Avere mispronounc
ing the babys name It isnt Sissero
she tells us its Klckero
Thats the pronunciation usually
taught noAv
So I learned upon inquiry And if
youll take the case 1 am Avilling to go
to any expense to change his name to
Thomas or John or Jeremiah or most
anything that Avont sound as if Ave had
taken an Indian papoose to raise
Washington Star
One More Enoch Ardon
The story of a second Enoch Arden
comes from Wilton Boone County Mo
In 1SG1 Rowland Griggs a strapping
young fellow of 25 years left his home
near Wilton to join the Confederate
army He bade good by to his young
wife and their daughter
Margaret and promised to return in a
f eAV short months But months passed
and then years and all the neighbors
and friends who were in the armies on
either side returned but Griggs came
not After waiting nearly ten years for
her husband Mrs Griggs gave him up
for dead accepted the attention of
Riley Riffelo a prosperous bachelor
farmer near Wilton and married him
Of this union five children Avere born
A stranger came tills week to the Wil
ton neighborhood No one knew him
though he said ho was bom and reared
near by He asked for Mrs Griggs
and an old farmer told him of the mar
riage to Riffelo
The stranger said he had known her
when a girl and would call on her He
did so but Avas not recognized He
was invited to dinner Then he an
nounced his identity He said he Avas
RoAvland Griggs and that Mrs Riffelo
was his wife He told his story and
proved it by documents and other eAi
dence He had been wounded on the
battlefield of Murfreesboro and cap
tured by the Union army Remaining
in the hospital and prison until the
close of the Avar he heard Ms Avif e and
child were dead He did not return
therefore to Missouri but Avent to
IoAva where he has been engaged in
farming A longing to look on the
scenes of his earlier days seized him
and lie came back to Boone County
After mutual recognitions followed a
problem Avould he claim his wife She
seemed happy and content in her new
relations and the first husband would
not disturb her Accordingly after a
visit to his baby Margaret now mar
ried for the second time Griggs left for
his home in Iowa Kansas City Star
Excavations in Rome
Workmen engaged in digging the soil
of Rome have within the last feAv days
come upon remnants of the older and
well nigh forgotten world of art and
beauty In the Villa Lante on the
Janiculum Hill in the making of a
road the Avorkmen came upon an an
cient but nameless tomb containing
the bones of the original inmate and a
number of the objects that were buried
with him Nothing of unusual interest
was found here Unlike many of the
tombs opened near Rome Aery com
monplace articles of terra cotta and
metal were found
In the Corso the chief street and the
most fashionable highway of the city
during diggings made in front of the
princely palace of the Sciarra family
a statue of marble has just been
brought to light It is a female figure
ef very good workmanship but head
less and armless These essential re
quirements for the identification of a
statue being Avanting it has been found
impossible to pronounce with certainty
that the personage or divinity repre
sented by the new found marble may
be
Just at this very time Avhen people
are surprised at the extraordinary rich
ness of the Roman soil in Avorks of an
cient art an account conies from Pe
rugia the chief city of Umbria of an
other remarkable find A letter dated
June 30 from Perugia relates that yes
terdaythat is to ay June 29 the
workmen employed in the reconstruc
tion of the spire of the historical belfry
of St Glnliana discovered in one of the
Avails a vast niche which had been
covered up Within it Avas a statue of
gold together with a very great num
ber of ancient gold corns the AvJiole
find of inestimable value Rome Cor
Baltimore Sun
IN NEWGATE PRISON
The Prison Was a Noisome Place in
Queen Elizabeths Day
In St Nicholas there is the story of
Master Skylark the story of Shakes
peares time Avritten by John Bennett
One of the leading characters Gaston
Carew a rufiling player has been put
in Newgate for killing a companion at
cards The hero Nick Atwood the
Skylark visits him there
It AAas a foul dark place and full of
evil smells Drops of Avater stood on
the cold stone Avails and a green mold
crept along the floor The air was
heaAy and dark and it began to be
hard for Nick to breathe
Up Avith thee said the turnkey
gruffly unlocking the door to the stairs
The common room above was packed
with miserable Avretches The strong
est kept the AvindoAV ledges near light
and air by sheer main force and were
dicing on the dirty sill The turnkey
pushed and banged his Avay through
them Nick clinging desperately to his
jerkin
In the cell at the end of the corridor
there Avas a Spanish renegade who
railed at the light Avhen the door was
opened and railed at the darkness
Avhen it closed Cesare el Moro Ce
sare el Moro he was saying over and
over again to himself as if he fears he
might forget his OAvn name
Carew Avas in the middle cell ironed
hand and foot He had torn his sleeves
and tucked the lace under the rough
edges of the metal to keep them from
chafing the skin He sat on a pile of
dirty straAV Avith his face in his folded
arms upon his knees By his side was
a broken biscuit and an empty stone
jug He had his fingers in his ears to
shut out the tolling of the knell for the
men avIio had gone to be hanged
The turnkey shook the bars Here
Avake up he said
CareAV looked up His eyes were
SAVollen and his face Avas covered with
a two days beard He had slept in his
clothes and they Avere full of broken
straAV and creases But his haggard
face lit up Avhen he saw the boy and
he came to the grating Avith an eager
exclamation And thou hast truly
come To the man thou dost hate so
bitterly but Avill not hate any inore
Come Nick thou will not hate any
more T will not be worth thy while
Nick the night is coming fast
Why sir said Nick it is not so
dark outside t is scarcely noon and
thou wilt soon be out
Out Ay on Tyburn Hill said the
masterplayer quietly TAe spent my
Avhole life for a bit of hempen cord Ive
taken my last cue Last night at 12
oclock I heard the bellman under the
prison walls call my name Avith those
of the already condemned The play is
nearly out Nick and the people will be
going home It has been a Avild play
Nick and ill played
An American Lord Chancellor
It may not be generally known that
one of Englands lord chancellors was
born on American soil His name was
John Singleton Copely and he was
born in Boston May 21 1772 He Avas
the son of J S Copley R A the por
trait and historical painter avIio was a
resident of America during the Avar of
independence and Avho at its conclu
sion elected to remain a British sub
ject When the future chancellor Avas
3 years of age his parents Avent to Lon
don and resided at 25 George street
Hanover square As a barrister the
son joined the Midland circuit He en
tered Parliament in ISIS a smember for
Yarmouth and in 1S19 as Sir John
Copley became solicitor general in
1824 attorney general and in 1820
master of the rolls In 1827 he became
lord chancellor and Avas raised to the
peerage as Baron Lyndhurst He was
lord chancellor in two administrations
and held the great seal until the fall of
the Peel government in 1S4G
Xounqest Daughter of Revolution
A daughter of a reAolutionary soldier
residing in Stamford one who might
without much fear of dispute set up
the claim to be the youngest real
daughter of the Revolution living
Her name is Mrs Nancy A Warren
and her age is G5 years She is a daugh
ter of Elisha Gifford of Patterson N
Y Avho married May 21 1S30 Polly
Washburn of Camiel N Y she being
then 29 years and he 82 years of age
The issue of this marriage was foul
children Nancy Elisha now a clergy
man in Somerville Mass Lodesco re
cently deceased and Van Rensselaei
living in Northfield Minn Mr Gif
ford died June 3 1834 aged 86 the
fourth child not then being born His
AvidoAV survived him about half a cen
tury and drew a pension for many
years dying at the age of 78 Hartford
Times
Wouldnt Couut that Time
A clergyman whose piety had not
lessened his sense of humor pays that
he A as one day called down into his
parlor to perform a marriage ceremony
for a couple in middle life
HaAe you ever been married be
fore asked the clergyman of the
bridegroom
No sir
Have you to the bride
Well yes I have replied the bride
laconically but it was twenty years
ago and he fell off a barn and killed
hisself when wed been married only
a week so it really aint worth men
tioning Harpers Bazar
There may be some doubt about a
hell beyond the graTe but there Is no
doubt about there being one on this
side a it
A LOST OPPORTUNITY
The Story of How a Fortnnc Got
a Man
A little group of men were talking
the other evening in the gloaming1
time Avhen people seem to think morej
about Avhat they might have been than
they do at any other hour of the day
and the subject was lost opportunl l
ties
I hate to refer to the matter at all
remarked the colonel Avho fought
through the late Avar at the head of a
Michigan regiment because It onlj
makes me renew my contempt for my
self but Ive had chances in the North
west to put myself in the millionaire
list that nobody but a confirmed yap
would think of neglecting After the
war I was a land looker as they are
called and I knew the whole country
from Detroit clean through to the far
corner of Minnesota and right Avhere
there are big buildings and beautiful
city squares to day I could have bought
land at any price I might name Onei
man wanted me to buy in Duluth a
few lots at 50 apiece and I laughed
at him They are worth 5 a square
foot to day and upwards I picked up
one piece of land at Agate Harbor for
a hundred dollars and sold it for a
thousand that is worth 50000 now
and I wouldnt give a man 250 for ai
tract that is Avorth as many thousand
j
this very minute
But those are small potatoes and
feAv in a hill to the biggest piece of lost
opportunityism I Avas ever guilty of
and the colonel sighed profoundly
You knoAV that famous Mesaba iron
mine country up there on Lake Su
perior Avhere they are taking out thou
sands of tons every year of the richest
ore on earth and any quantity of meix
are enjoying princely incomes fronr
their royalties Well before anybody4
eAer heard of the Mesaba iron ore JC
was up there running a line north front
the Cloquet river and one day I began
to have all sorts of trouble with my
compass
Ordinarily it was a Aery tractable
and reliable instrument but here for
some reason it acted strangely or rath
er refused to act at all and I could
hardly get any sense out of it I kept
going ahead however and for terrl
miles my trouble continued Then it
was over and I never Avas quite so
glad of anything as when that com-
pass began to work again and I did
not have to lay my course by sun j
I knew before I finished what the
matter AAas but Avhat did that iron
under the ground that SAverveJ my
needle out of its course mean to me
Nothing Thats all I was a plain
every day chump What I was after
was timber and the timber all along
there was not of sufficient quality to
justify my giving the land a second
thought and I didnt Think of lt
men and brethren sighed the colonel
again there I was walking over and
standing on millions and millions of
dollars and I could have had all of It
I wanted for the mere having sense
enough to take it up and I didnt have
the sense Washington Star
Evolution of the Color Sense
It has often been said that natlona
are developed like individuals passing
through the same successive stages ot
infancy youth maturity and old age
This theory receives support from
Avhat is historically knoAvn respecting
the evolution of the color sense in the
infant According to recent observa
tions the process is as follows At
first it has only the perception of light
but soon learns the difference between
black and Avhite then begins to notice
objects and apprehend their move
ments At about six months the sensa
tions of red and green take their rise in
the central portions of the retina and
are perfected at the end of the second
year During the third year the child
becomes acquainted Avith yellOAv dur
ing the fourth Avith orange blue and
finally with violet the chromatic sense
is thus fully unfolded at the age of five
or six Within another year he forma
the habit of distinguishing the above
named colors in his talk
The Annamites we are told are able
to discern aside from black and white
only red green and yellow hence the
intellectual growth of this people so
far as vision is concerned may be com
pared to that of a 2-year-old child
Would Make Good Senators
Washington correspondents are as
a rule men of fine education and train
ing for their Avork says Henry Wat
terson The Senate and the news
paper corps number about the same in
membership Ill wager that take them
man for man the newspaper men avou1
if necessary that they are better
informed more active more skillful
more competent in every way to deal
with affairs of state than are the
ators I think that if the Senators and
the correspondents could change placest
the work of the Senate would be muefcj
better performed fewer mistakes
would be made and Aviser legislation
prevail and the country be better ofTi
On the other hand the Senators Avouldt
make a poor fist of it if directed to
write daily to the home papers tha
news of the day in the capital
Americas Fishtinjj Population
The Adjutant General of the TJnited
States Army has reported to Congress
that the number of men in the United
States physically able to perform mlb
itary duty is 10G245S4 The United
States noAv leads the world in this re4
spect The foremost place was held
previously by Russia The best esti
mates put the present population of the
United States at 72000000 The popu
lation of Russia by the last estimate
was 80000000 The number of availa J
ble men in Russia however is not so
large in proportion to the Avhole popula4
tion I
17e nver knew a loafer who did xo
iay a lot of rights coming -to Mm
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