Worae Yet.
Henry H. Rogers , the Copper and
Standard Oil magnate , was visited re
cently by one of his friends who has
teen under the weather for months.
! Mr. Rogers inquired kindly after the
health of his caller.
"I have been staying down at Lakewood -
wood , New Jersey , for six months , "
was the reply , "and I've been pretty
low. In fact I never was in so bad a
state before. "
Mr. Rogers smiled and asked , quiet
ly :
"You've never been in Montana , have
you ? "
Between the Lines.
After the Willoughbys had said
good-by to Mrs. Kent , they walked on
In silence for a moment Then Mr.
Willoughby spoke , thoughtfully :
"It was pleasant of her to say that
.about wishing she could see more of
people like us , who are Interested in
real things , Instead of the foolish
.round of gaiety that takes up so much
of her time and gives her so little sat
isfaction , wasn't it ? "
His wife stole a sidewise glance at
his gratified face , and a satirical smile
crossed her own countenance.
"Very pleasant , George , " she said ,
clearly. "But what I knew she meant ,
and what she knew that I knew she
meant , was that my walking-skirt is
an inch too long and my sleeves are
old style , and your coat , poor dear , Is
beginning to look shiny in the back. "
"Why what how" began Mr. Wil
loughby , helplessly ; then he shook his
iead and gave it up.
Unfavorable.
"Good weather for crops , eh ? " chirped
the traveler , one of your superficial op
timists.
The fanner shook his head sadly.
"On the contrary , " he replied , for h <
was nn educated farmer.
"No ? "
"As a matter of fact , the crops are suf
fering. "
"On account of the weather ? "
"On account of the weather. "
"Bright sunshine , following copious
showers , do crops suffer in such weather ? "
"Naturally , crops are bound to suffet
In any weather which makes fish bite. II
these conditions continue , we shan't rais
much .this year. "
And the farmer shook his head again
and sighed heavily. Puck.
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DEFECTIVE LEGISLATION.
LITTLE more than three years ago there
was a terrible disaster in Chicago. The Iroquois -
A quois Theater burned and hundreds of men ,
women and children lost their lives. It was
one of tbc greatest disasters of the age , and
the world was horrified at the number of
fatalities and the awful death suffered by
helpless women and children. The demand was emphatic
for an investigation 'and the prompt punishment of the
person or persons responsible for the wholesale slaughter.
The inquiry was made , and it was found the loss of life
was due to neglect of known precautions , which , if kept
in working order , would have protected the audience.
Then came delay in the trial of the manager of the the
ater on one pretext or another , until the whole affair
was little more than a memory. A change of venue was
also secured , and now the world is informed , after wait
ing more than three years , that the manager is dis
charged because the city ordinances of Chicago governing
theater buildings were defective and invalid.
There Is no disposition to criticise the findings of the
court , but it does bring once more to public attention the
loseness with which city ordinances and State laws'are
constructed. In this instance , because Council was negli
gent , hundreds of people were killed and no example
can be made of the person criminaly responsible. The
result of the trial should prompt city legislators to be ex
tremely careful in drafting laws providing for the pro
bation of the public. Toledo Blade.
NO HANGINGS IN MISSOURI.
| APITAL punishment has been virtually abolished
ished in Missouri. The bill which has passed
both houses of the Legislature leaves the
option to juries to assess the death penalty
at their discretion , but it is reasonably cer
tain that this authority will be rarely exer
cised only in extreme cases and probably
not at all. The other option , life imprisonment , is in
harmony with the growing tendency of modern society
to merciful and reformatory methods in dealing with
criminals , while capital punishment is growing more
and more to be regarded as a relic of barbarism , cruel
and murderous , stupid anil ineffectual. -
However , although the bill passed the House by a vote
of 99 to 23 , more than four to one , the debate disclosed
the fact that many educated persons still cling to the
Mosaic standard of justice , "an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth. " Regardless of the fact that this
makes the law an instrument of revenge , many of those
who advocate this stern measure of justice doubtless sin
cerely believe that In its practical operation it constitutes
the best deterrent to crime.Yhether or not this be true
cannot be proved by statistics in this country. In some
States that have abolished the death penalty capital
crimes have decreased , while in just as many others
there has been an increase. Thoughtful opponents of cap
ital punishment ascribe the increase in such cases to for
tuitous circumstances and point to the fact that waves of
crime periodically sweep over certain localities and com
munities , either as phenomena or superinduced by causes
( Which have no relation to operations of criminal jus
tice. Such concurrent manifestations'of human nature
OUR ARMY ENGINEERS.
Dig-grins the Panama Cjml Hns
Placed in Fit Ilniidu.
Although the supervision of the con
struction of the Panama canal will
prove far and away their greatest
work , the army engineers have justi
fied the faith which the country has
manifested in their qualifications for
this gigantic task in many difficult en-
are also manifested in another swing of the pendulum
in the shape of religious revivals , which come and go re
gardless of the immutability of eternal punishment and
rewards.
It will be interesting to note the effects , if any , of this
new act in Missouri. Whatever the outcome , the law
represents the sentiment of a large majority of the people
ple , and it speaks well for society in this State that this
sentiment is on the side of Christian mercy and charity ,
based as well , it is hoped , on a more intelligent concep
tion of the duty of society to its criminals- . Certainly , as
the antis say , "Tho poorest use to make of a man is to
hang him. " Kansas City Journal.
INDIVIDUAL FORESTRY.
ECAUSE of the rapid exhaustion of native
lumber , large territories are being set aside
as forest reserves , while lumber companies
already have created a demand for trained
forestry experts that is greater than the
supply of graduates from the few forestry
schools. This is a matter of forestry on a
large scale. There is a smaller department of the same
field that is almost entirely neglected. Along the road
sides and on the hillsides of New England are numberless
trees , which have sprung up by chance , and are of what
ever variety chance determines. A tree of value , such as
black walnut or hickory , to name only two varieties ,
makes no more demand upon the soil and requires no
more care than one of red oak or scrub pine. In spite
of the increasing use of concrete and steel for big build
ings , there is no falling off in the demand for "cabinet
woods" by the makers of furniture , carriages and house
furnishings.
If the farmers of New England would plant trees of
the proper kind on land now waste , fence corners and
along the roadsides , in a few years they would have be
come a source of Income that now they do not appre
ciate. By planting nut-bearing trees in large numbers
there is opportunity for income before the trees reach
maturity. Boston Globe.
THE PRACTICE OF HAZING.
HE spirit which abolished hazing at West
Point and Annapolis is very happily sub
scribed to in the Middle West The expul
sion of twenty-three cadets from a Missouri
military academy is just punishment to the
band of upper classmen who , without warn
ing , seized upon a IG-year-old youth and
almost drowned him in the campus lake.
President Roosevelt's recent address at Harvard now
known as the "mollycoddle speech" in which he in
veighs against femininity In college students , rings true ,
Every full-blooded American boy should , and will , find
an outlet for his surplus energy. Hazing , however , is
not to be countenanced as a healthful exercise. Superior
ity in the number of the assailants takes from the at
tacked any chance of defending himself. The practice is
dangerous. More than that , it is cowardly throughout
No schoolboy escapes being a "mollycoddle" by taking
part in a hazing bee. Rather does he stamp himself as
weak and cowardly when he helps to torment a fellow-
student who cannot fight back. St. Louis Republic.
time by the complete success of this
dillicult project.
Illustrative of the professional ver
satility of the army engineers is the
fact that , in addition to their so-
called civil duties the entire super
vision of the improvements of the
rivers and harbors of the country
are such monuments to their engineer
ing ability as the Washington aqueduct ,
Cabin John bridge , the Washington
MAJ. GEORGE WASHINGTON GOETUALS.
gineering projects which already stand
to their credit
High up on the roll of notable en
gineering projects with which the
army engineers have been successfully
Identified is the work at Hell Gate ,
once the worst obstruction in the east
ern approach to New York harbor. It
was under the supervision of Gen.
John Newton , a West Point graduate
and an officer of the engineer corps of
the army , that this obstruction was
undermined and hurled from its
foundation. At the time that the work
was begun the predictions were gen
eral that it would prove unsuccessful.
At that time , as now , criticisms were
ieard about the slowness of the work
of the army engineers , but Gen. New
ton blew up Hell Gate , and few people
are aware to-day of the sensation
caused In the engineering world at the
monument and the wings and dome of
the Capitol.
Nearly all the lighthouses of the
country have been erected by army en
gineers , and some of these have pre
sented engineering problems of great
difficulty. Each section of the country
knows the class of work that the en
gineer corps has done upon the rivers
and harbors of the United States. This
work has been almost entirely under
control of the engineer corps. It was
this corps which practically' made pos
sible through communication between
Buffalo and Duluth by means of a uni
form twenty-foot channel. The work
at Sault Ste. Marie is one of the most
notable of the accomplishments of the
engineer corps.
The work already accomplished by
the army engineers Indicates that the
building of the Panama canal is In
safe hands. Maj. George Washington
Goethals , who will direct the work , 1 *
a graduate of West Point , and was on
the staff of Gen. Nelson A. Miles as
engineer officer of the Department oi
Columbia. He served under Col. Mer
rill at Cincinnati in the construction o
dams , dykes and locks , had charge oi
the Mussel Shoals canal , Tennessee
river , and was instructor of practical
military engineering at West Point
During the war with Spain he was
chief of the First Army Corps.
ITALIANS THRIVE IN TEXAS.
Flourishing- Colony "Where All Ar
Happy and Growing ? Rich.
Bryan , Tex. , is an example of what
is being done in the South by colonies
of Italian immigrants. There are in
that township 2,500 contadini under the
spirited guidance of a young Sicilian
priest , Father Giovanni Militello.
They raise mostly grain and cotton
either on their own lands or on rented
farms , which they get at $5 an acre a
year. They save from $100 to $1,000
a year and live comfortably on the
restFather
Father Militello was able to collect
in a few days $1,100 to cancel the debt
on the local church. His parishioners
embellished the church with a number
of statues and presented their pastor
with a safe and buggy and team. Once
a month he drives to the farthest point
in the township and celebrates mass in
a tent
Living is cheap ; flour , meat , sugar ,
coffee and oil are at low price. Meat
sells at 5 cents a pound. State and
county taxes are very light and the
climate Is like that of Sicily. Land is
so abundant that its use is given free
for two years to those who will clear
it of timber. The Italians cut the tim
ber and sell it at $2 for eight cubic feet ,
raise grain the first year and get a crop
of cotton the second.
"It was encouraging to see along the
road the vast cotton and grain planta
tions , " says a visitor. "Those kept by
Italians could be distinguished because
of their freedom from weeds. As we
drove past the priest would call out to
some of the farmers by name and they
would leave their spade or plow and
come running to us , hat in hand. Be
hind the farmers came the fanners'
wives and the children ; and how many
children ! I found one mother with
eleven of them ! "
The man who lays his hand affec
tionately on your shoulder when he
talks to you , has to have a very ln-
teresMiig message if he gives satisfac
tion.
tion.A
A widow has many surprises , and
chief among them Is the nnaiber of
times she has to sign her naiie hi set
tling up an estate.
THE WEEKLY
1429 Siege of Orleans relieved.
1547 Charles V. defeated the Protest
ants at Muhlberg.
1626 Wa'llenstein ' defeated Mansfield at
Dessau.
1629 Peace treaty signed at Susa , ending -
. ingwar between France and Eng
land.
1662 Connecticut's famous charter
granted.
1605 Great plague of London began.
1704 First issue of the Boston News
Letter 7 first American newspaper.
*
\707 French and Spanish defeated the
English , Dutch and Portuguese
forces at the battle of Almanza ,
Spain.
L716 British Parliament passed the
Septennial act.
1763 Wilkes committed to the Tower of
London.
1792 Pelletier , a highway robber , first
executed by the guillotine.
1849 Political riots in Toronto and
Montreal over the rebellion losses
bill.
1851 Postage stamps first issued in
Canada.
1854 Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria , married to Princess Elizabeth
1862 Confederate forces withdrew from
New Orleans.
187 War began between Russia and
Turkey. .
1879 Prince Alexander Joseph of Bat-
tenberg elected Prince of Bulgaria.
1884 Fire destroyed the great mercan
tile establishment of Messrs. White-
ley in London.
1889 New York City began a three days'
celebration of the centennial ol
President Washington's inauguration.
1891 Dr. Talmage's new tabernacle in
Brooklyn formally opened.
1892 Hurricane at Mauritius destroyed
* * 1,000 lives.
1894 Coxey's army arrived at Washing
ton , D. C. . Earthquake near Athens , 4
Greece ; 227 lives lost.
1895 Russian , German and French gov
ernments protested against the ac
quisition of Chinese territory by
Japan..The Allianca affair with
Spain settled by the latter giving
ample satisfaction.
1897 Princess Victoria , daughter of the
Prince and Princess of Wales , born
. . . . Log of the Mayflower transfer
red from British possession to the
American ambassador at London.
1899 Miners' riots at Coeur d'Alene ,
Idaho.
1900 United States Senate denied ad
mission to Matthew Quay , who had
been appointed by the Governor of
Pennsylvania. . . .Hull and a part of
Ottawa , Canada , destroyed by fire.
1901 President McKinley received the
Cuban commissioners.
1903 Andrew Carnegie donated $600,000
to Tuskegee Institute , Alabama.
1904 Labor party came into power in
Australia.
1906 International exhibition opened at
Milan , Italy.
The Heal Rooter.
u
As a Little Child.
Bellevue hospital , New York City , baa
a most interesting patient in the person
of Timothy Kane , whose trouble began
three years ago , when a blow on the head
produced a lesion of the brain. Since
that time he has suffered intensely from
epilepsy , paralysis , motor aphasia and loss
of speech , with progressive impairment
of the intellectual perceptions. Several
delicate and unusual operations were per
formed , consisting of a removal of sec
tions of the skull and portions of the
brain. He is now on the road to recov
ery , but while retaining some knowledge
of things has absolutely lost the power
to transmute his power into words , and
the educative process has commenced pre
cisely the same as with a child , the train
ing being similar to that employed in a
kindergarten , with alphabetical blocks ,
picture books , etc.
" -
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Blensnrinj ? Railroad "Water.
The Sundberg committee has reported
to the Minnesota Senate that railway
property in that State has a real value
of $215,000,000 , or about $27,000 a mile.
But this property is capitalized at $400-
000,000 , or an average of $50,000 a mile.
The net earnings last year on the com
mittee's valuation averaged 18 per cent.
In making their estimate , the committee
considered the original cost of construc
tion , cost of equipment and all improve
ments , expense of operating under exist'
Ing rates , etc.
The Prospect * torte
to Be SOTTH in
1907.-Word has
St. Paul , April 24 ,
the Cana-
been received at the office of
d u Government in St. Paul that seeding
various points
ing has commenced at
.throughout Manitoba , Saskatchewan
and Alberta.
The heavy snowfall dunng the past
winter has left the ground In splendid
operations.
shape for successful seeding
The fine weather of the past few days
frost out of the
uas taken much of the
next week there
ground , and during
will scarcely be a district in. which the
. The most
operated.
seeder is not being
optimistic conditions exist , and In all
districts the farmers are busy getting
things in shape. There will be a very
large acreage sown In spring whea #
oats and barley. At many points-
throughout the three provinces the
their
unloading
newcomers are busy
stock and effects , working night and
day in order' to get on their farms and.
become active agencies in the effort to
make the year 1907 the banner year In
grain-producing in Western Canada.
As compared with districts many hun
dred miles further south than this , it
will be seen that Western Canada
ranks amongst the first In the line of
seeding operations for the present year.
It is safe to say that farmers , who get
In their crop before the 20th or 24th of
May , will receive magnificent returns.
A number of those coming in this
spring , who had not their land pre
pared last fall , will break up enough
land to get in a crop of oats and barley ,
and probably some flax. This , together
'
with the vegetables they will plant ,
will give them ample -food for theni-v
selves and stock during the coming
summer and winter. These early seeding -
ing operations are not confined to one
flistrict , but are spread over a country ,
BOO miles long by 400 miles In width , j
The agents of the Qauadian Govern
ment , located at different P ° iniSr
throughout the United States , are busy ;
giving information regarding the many' ' ,
new districts that are being made available - '
able for settlers. Low railway rates , '
Information and literature are given on'
application to the agent , whose name
appears In advertisement elsewhere ia
this paper. . . /
leather waste is no longer wasted.
Manufacturers use it in a compressed
form , instead of iron , to make cogwheels.
For more reasons than one , Garfield
Tea is the best choice when a laxative is
needed ; it is Pure , Pleasant to take ,
Mild and Potent. Guaranteed under the
Food and Drugs Law.
Rooms tinned for States.
"In a little town in the backwoods oi
Mississippi , " remarked a traveling
man , "there is a peculiar hotel. It IB
jest like any other hotel except in the
way the rooms are named. They are
not numbered , as is generally done , but
each room Is named for a State of the
United States. When I stopped at th
place I was assigned to a room called
'Delaware. ' It was correctly named ,
too , for it was one of the smallest
rooms In the house. The man who was
occupying 'New Hampshire' made com
plaint to the landlord that the man In
'Maine' was drunk and boisterous and
thus keeping him awake. This seemed
strange when we recall that Maine ii
a prohibition State. Two men up in
'Montana' were keeping up the repu
tation of the wild West by engaging In
a niosy poker game. A big , fat capi
talist had 'New York , ' which was the
best room in the house. The room
named for Alabama is too ordinary for
anything , and a farmer was occupying
it the night I was there. It was funny
to stand in the office and hear a bell
boy tell the clerk that towels wew
wanted in 'Iowa' and-that the fellow
in 'North Dakota' was kicking like a
steer because he had no fire. 'Be surf
to call the man in "Florida" at Q
o'clock in the morning , ' said one of th
employes. And thus it went. Thif
hotel Is a curiosity to the traveling
public. It is conducted by an eccentric
old fellow , but where he conceived the
Idea of naming rooms after States I d
not know. " Birmingham Age-Herald
PRIENDS HELP.
St. Paul Park Incident.
"After drinking coffee for breakfast
I always felt languid and dull , having ;
no ambition to get to my morning
duties. Then in
about
an hour or so a
weak , nervous derangement of the
heart and stomach
would come over me
with such force I would frajnentlr
have to lie down.
"At other times I had
severe head
aches ; stomach finally became affected
and digestion so impaired that I had
serious chronic dyspepsia and constipa
tion A lady , for many years State
President of the W. C. T. U. , told me
she had been
greatly benefited
by quit
ting coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee ; she was troubled for years with
asthma. She
said it was no cross to
quit coffee when she found she could
have as delicious an article as Postum ,
Another lady , who had been trou
bled with chronic
dyspepsia for years ,
found immediate
, relief on ceasing cof
fee and beginning Postum twice a day.
? r,7h ° 1Ij cnredSU11 aether
me that Postum Food Cof
fee was a Godsend to her , her heart
tombte having been relieved after leaf.
Ing off coffee
and taking on Postum.
u J iT ! ? * " * cases came to ffly no
concluded
coffee was the
cause of my trouble and I quit and
took up Postum. i am more ,
ed > say that my days of trouble
disappeared. I am well
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