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W-i T-.f - .-- r v'V' - M-n-Jf-Wgr-v- 3ff&&'K&n ySJg3)H'S$'yg!t 'iT??&$S"-. -jSST .-3c3J' -Cif4 v :"5I ' - ;l . "l I PETRIFIED FISH - sHHbMpPbH4 IfflBSaBslBsBslBSHBlBsBSf sBsBsffaHBsc9 bsbh BssBSaBsaBHBHssBVI This extraordinary petrified fish is erected in Wurtemberg as a memorial to William I., German emperor and King of Prussia, and dates from prehistoric times. It is twelve feet long without its head, which has not been discovered. The diameter of its throat is six-and-a-half feet. BUSINESS VERSUS POLITICS Horn "Corns" Art Effected and the People Wonder Why. By ERNEST McGAFFEY "UveOnes"Keep Tab on Available Politicians Un derground Route Between CU Hall and Inner QrcUs of Commercial life. IN knocking about in politics, speak ins. electioneering, canvassing, and oc casionally casting about for suitable candidates, togeth er with the more active of the ward politicians, I often met with the "business" men of the ward. Men in all sorts of llpes. hardware and "soft ware." real estate men, gro cers, butchers, bakers, plumbers, and other pursuits', coal dealers, printers, jewelers, restaurant men. tailors it was wonderful what a variety, there was in the way of business enter prises. Now, no man can carry on any busi ness whatsoever in a ward without finding that politics is going to cut some kind of a figure in his chosen line. It may be directly, or it may be indirectly, but it is sure to affect him in some way. A good many business men simply shrug their shoulders and charge politics to "profit and loss." The condition of a street or district was a matter of politics; the paving and sidewalk surroundings, whether good or bad, meant politics; 'the health of the ward depended on it; the light ing of the streets at night and the sprinkling of them in summer and the removal of the snow in winter was "politics;" the schools, parks, alleys, boulevards why, the very air one breathed asd the waterlhe drank was a matter of politics. And yet the majority of the busi ness men dabbled only in politics as It might happen to affect their particu lar line of work A paving contract or or a sidewalk builder was sure to be active; a grocer or a butcher, Every Saloon Keeper Was an Active Partisan of Both Sides. passive. Every saloon keener .was an active partisan of both sides, as could be readily inferred from the pictures of all candidates hung conspicuously la his windows, together with a rep resentation of the flag of our country bringing up the rear. Some business men who have large interests, -manufacturers doing a wholesale business, for instance, usu ally had some one In their company or corporation, who kept unassuming, but doss, "tab" on political doings. These concerns sometimes wanted to "Grab off' some out of-the-way little chunk of ground for a stub switch enj, to ran la cars to their factories; or maybe they wanted to scare away tome costly smoke-consuming device; or choke oS a paving scheme; or save money In some other way. They very hrewdly therefore, kept la close (J nr9 ' vote ton J voTo)rofi Iff AS A MONUMENT communication with the ward lead ers of both parties, and while they were of course patriotic, they did not allow patriotism to warp their com mercial judgment. They contributed to the legitimate expenses of the ward and municipal campaigns, generally had some sort of representation in the official rosters of the ward clubs, and displayed a commendable activity in public af- L fairs from the simple reason that (hey could not afford to be dead ones." Business men who were active democrats, or active Republicans, as the case might be. boldly hung the pic tures of their party candidates on the outer battlements meaning the plate glass windows of their establishments. But of course If a man was an "all round" politician, like the proprietor of a "thirst boudoir," he hung them all up. Democrat. Republican, Inde pendent, Labor,-- Socialist, Socialist Labor, and even, when waggishly in clined, the portrait of the Prohibition candidate. Now. your "business man" who was on good terms with his employes, was a political power to some extent He did not control, by virtue of the Aus tralian ballot, the votes of the men who worked in his establishment; but if he was a sarewd man, and treated b?s man right, he could swing a good many votes the way he wanted them. What so easy as to have a quiet "talk with the men," showing them that the prosperity of the business, the suc cess of the plant (the workmen's bread and butter, d'ye see) depend ed on the election of this or that set of men? Was it done? Well, Well! Certainly when a "boss" was dis liked he couTd not have swung a soli tary vote with a hawser, but when the men liked and respected him, they could be and were influenced by that magic argument, nationally cele brated, locally vital, the "full dinner pail." This argument could be used in any old election, from alderman to presi dent These big business men sel dom personally held any interviews with the "small fry" politicians of the ward. They had their representatives to deal with the question, and when fully identified with any particular party, they were counted on to con tribute to the campaign fund. The popular idea of money spent in polit ical warfare is" that it goes for whisky and to bribe voters. Comparatively little goes for whisky to what it was in the old days, and as for bribery, what's the use of "bribing" a man to vote, when he can take the money and vote as he pleases, and no one be the wiser as to hov? he voted? The bulk of the money in campaign expenses goes for thoroughly canvass ing the wards and getting all the vot ing strength out; for sending out cir culars and other campaign literature; for hiring halls, and hack hire for ora tors; for brass bands and torch-light processions; for carriage hire to make a thorough canvass of the ward by the candidates; for the precinct captains dn election day: for printing bills, and divers other expenses. The money that "goes ovei the bar is what the candidate himself puts up as a rule. Now the business men contributed their checks to see the men win who they thought would be friendly to them in a pinch; they selected their party candidates when they could, and lam of the opinion that the most of the "big men" wanted absolutely trustworthy and reliable candidates who would not he too ferociously stub born about granting any little "harm less" privilege. They were bitterly opposed to "graft," of whatever party they happened to belong to, but they had their Individual -ideas of what that baleful term meant For Instance, suppose some highly repubtable merchant wanted to ele vate the sidewalk above his place of business to facilitate the handling of freight Suppose such an elevation practically "hogged" that part of the sidewalk, to the exclusion of the rass- ing pedestrians who demurred at climbing up the elevated sidewalk, there to stumble over skids and through piles cf boxes and barrels. Was that any part of the public's busi ness? Pish, and also Fie! . Nothing is so obnoxious as the average pedes trian. He is always getting tangled up in electric cars, or cabs, or skids, or wheels, and having his plebeian anatomy defaced or broken by getting In the way of "progress." Then there was another type of business man. This vwas the typo that had no particular ax to "grind." They were "party men," who gen erally held their conferences with the "down town" leaders, and who played! "politics" in a genteel way. They never contributed unless they knew where the money was going to, and they did not use politics-as a means to an end. Sometimes they were chosen as aldermanic, or other candi dates, and when elected made good officials. They were often selected for posi tions of non-salaried prominence, and they represented what might be termed the passive respectability of the party. The "active" respectabil ity of the parties .was divided among the professional men, "big" mer chants, small tradesmen and ward pol iticians, in proportions which varied according to localities. Sometimes one of these men would turn "re former" and often he made a very per sistent and active man behind the gun of reform. Reform, bad as it some times Is, must be credited with having accomplished much, both in local and national politics. ' About the only way the average business man could be reached with political argument, 'was either by mall, or by a personal call. You never saw a "bunch" in your life so immune from campaign oratory. Many of them took their politics from their papers, and voted straight the ticket which their editor had selected for them. They might be induced to read cam paign circulars if they reached the house on Saturday so as to be on hand for Sunday, but they "side-stepped" the meetings, unless some bright par ticular star of verbiage had been an nounced to speak. Nationality cut always a figure, sometimes more, sometimes less, in their predilections, but personal interest was the key stone of the arch of their political gateway. - Occasionally a proposal to do something which might interfere with their ideas of right or wrong, or entail considerable pecuniary sac fice upon them, would result in "mass meetings," which were largely attend ed, and at which much pyrotechnics! oratory was indulged in. At these mass meetings they generally had the aldermen in the ward attend; and Nothing Is So Obnoxious as the Aver age Pedestrian. when the alderman got up to speak. he knew what was expected of him. and usually "went with the current" If he didn't, he would "go up the spout" the next time he ran. The business men in the different wards had a great deal more power than they divined, but as "business" was their first thought they left pol itics to the politicians; and thereby hung their scalps. But once aroused, and maddened by the sound of human oratory, and they would sometimes de velop into a solid voting force that would sweep the politicians off their feet But as a rule they were apa thetic about everything but the fetish of "business." Those who were business men and politicians combined, who had a pay ing business and a paying combination with official life, were not an unusual sight; and these were surely the subtlest In the game. If their candi date "lost out," and they were gently separated from the "trough." they simply smiled and went on doing busi ness "at the .old stand." If their can didate won, and they were retained in office, they won out at "the store," and also at the "city hall," thus both "eating their cake and having it," and outdoing in completeness the southern process of catching the 'possum "a-comin" or a-gwlne." ERNEST M'GAFFEY. (Copyright 1908, by Joseph B. Bowles.) The Figures Settled It Two men got into an argument dur ing lunchtlme in the Astor bouse ro tunda at New York the other day. One was from the east, one from the west Each had many things to say of the infinite inferiority of the rest of the country- Finally the man from the east challenged: "Come out here an get licked, you big stiff," he begged. "You can't lick me," said the other, decidedly. "Cer'nly I c'n lick you!" shouted the man from the east "Lookee fiere." He went to a weighing machine near at hand and solemnly climbed up on it He peered at the dial for a moment "There!" he said In tri umph. "Two hunner' and forty-eight pounds. Cer'nly I c'n lick you." The westerner walked over to the scales and focused one eye on the needle. "Guess that's ri', " he com mented. "Gissa drink, bartender." Who can say, after that, there Is need ..for an International Peace so ciety. The Honest Friend. We are all travelers In what Ahn Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels Is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find them. They are the end' and reward of life. Rob ert Louis Stevenson. KNEE Perhaps one of the hardest household duties that anyone can be called upon to perform is that of scrubbing, and any device to lighten work of this description will well repay the cost and trouble that is entailed in its construc tion. Our sketch illustrates a capital article for this purpose, and one that with out difficulty can be made at home. It consists of a piece of wood about an inch in thickness and semi-circular in shape, the upper side of which is pad ded either with wadding or sawdust, and covered with coarse canvas nailed on at the sides or underneath. In the article from which this sketch was made, the canvas had been cov ered with a piece of fur cut from an old mat, which made it additionally com fortable to kneel upon. In front, and made of American, cloth, there is a kind of hood which pulls over the knees and keeps the skirt from becoming wet The mat for want of a better name, is easily shifted about, as occasion arises, and such a device as this is invaluable in a case where stone has to be knelt upon, and may be the means of saving colds and other illnesses. In the upper sketch, on the right hand side, the interior of the article is shown, and underneath there is a diagram of the shape of the wood. In another part of the sketch, the dotted line and arrow Indicate the way in which the American cloth may be pulled up over the knees, to protect the skirt from splashes of water. COATS IN HALF-LENGTH. Garment That Gives Graceful Finish to Hat Costume. There is no more graceful finish to a hat costume than the charmingly transparent half-length coats of tulle embroidered in fine paillettes or with flosses, or of fine lace, whatever its kind. They are not only most becom ing, but give an- air of grand chic to the wearer if her figure is slender and shapely. One especially was of black "tulle, very delicately wrought by hand with pink and black silk the latter in traceries brightened with cut jet bugles. It was a low-necked model, with a bust insetting of real Alencon, triangular in shape. At one point in the middle of the bust line there was a finish of a handsome jet buckle across a lace bow of Alencon, with finished ends. This coat had a slight gathering of front fullness on each front and caught under the jet buckle to give ease to the fitting across the bust, while at the same time producing a de cidedly smart effect. The fronts, al though open, were swept back on each side with a long downward curve, the back being half-fitting, showing the two long shoulder seams now so gen eral. The half-sleeves were formed from the front and back pieces, and embroidered to correspond. In shape they were wide at the elbow and slit up to shoulders on the outside arm line, calling for gloves long enough to incase the entire arm. Tbat long glove line enters as a feature of dis tinction into the ensemble, but for wear in extreme midsummer heat a transparent, close-fitting, wrinkled long sleeve to match the gown may be worn, made either of gauze, crepe de chine or lace, according to choice made. Vogue. Remodeling Last Year's Sleeve. In remodeling a part or the whole of ! any garment the first thing to do is to rip it up and clean and press well. After the sleeves have been carefully pressed they are ready to be cut over. Lay the pattern on the sleeves and cut carefully, according to directions. When the sleeves have been seamed up and the cuff replaced the sleeve should again be carefully and thorough ly pressed before It is replaced in the garment Any gown can be remodeled in this manner and made to look decidedly up to date for merely the cost of a good sleeve pattern and the time that the remodeling takes. White in Different Tones. In these days there come so many fabrics that are near white that it is not necessary to get snowy linens in order to get the white effect. There are mustard-colored stuffs, pongees, linens, mercerized cottons and mulls that are delightfully refined and dainty in appearance. And if one does not care for yellow there are the rose col ors, the natural tan tones, the soft pale apricots, and the delicate grayish white fabrics. These do not soil quite as readily as the white goods, and are almost as youthful in effect J(jlj)jljj1j-(fVXAAWJXfUVV'W'fVVV''"'" " ' ' ! To Keep Lace Firm. ! Nearly every girl does a little home ' dressmaking at one time or another. Some make nearly everything they wear, while it is the luck of others only to do the darning and see that things are in order generally. 1 A great many girls find trouble from lace stretching at the edge, es pecially around a Dutch neck or at the tcp of a collar which is made out of lace sewed together. When once it has pulled it is impos sible to get it into shape again, and to the end of its days it will never set right Before the dress has been .washed baste a strip of newspaper under the lace, then rn the edge through the scwinz machine. The paper, which Is torn off when finished, keeps the sewing machine from catching the thread underneath. Alcohol for Tender Feet If you are starting out on your vaca tion and if vou Intend to do a great deal of tramping around, stow away this little hint In a corner of your brain and see how much good it will 4o after a lively game of tennis or a MAT A WORD AS TO MEDICINE. Danger in Taking Drugs Not Pre scribed for the User. It is a very common thing among women that they will take medicine which is recommended by friends and also give it to their children without investigating ijs formula. They will have prescriptions refilled which another woman's physician has recommended for her particular case, or take up what remains in her bot tle. This is a most dangerous practice, and should not be continued. If a phy sician has written a prescription for his patient, he understands her partic ular case and is not prescribing for anyone else who wishes to take it. He may not only give her medicine for what he thinks she needs, but may give her drugs which she needs and knows nothing about. It may be something to strengthen the heart or other organ of the body, same drug which would be very harm ful to another person; or opiates may be in the formula which would have an entirely different and disastrous ef fect upon another constitution. It is a very dangerous practice for yourself, but in all common sense do not give such things to your children. If your child is sick and you do not understand what to do. call a physi cian and let him prescribe in the right way, even if it does cost more money. By this it does not mean that the doctor has to be railed for every small ailment of the child, but if the child is really sick you will know it Do not risk the child's health by giving It things which you do not understand and which may be poisonous to it You are running a terrible risk by doing it. The crepe de chine coat is a great favorite. T.e presomt sleeve is close, but not tight; it melds the arm without bind ing it Tte satin coat is an excellent ex ample of the present craze of associ ating a cloth or veiling skirt with a wrap of satin. The small sleeve, when not carried to an extreme, is always becoming. It is one of the few fashion manifesta tions which the stout woman may gaze on. One of the best examples of the typi cal small sleeve is used in the tailleur. It is full length, of course, close fitting and with no perceptible fullness at the armhole. A girl of 12 years will look dressy If she has an everiing frock of nun's veiling, with a lace yoke and sleeves and silk band trimming. A dress of louisine trimmed with quilling of silk is pretty, also, with a lace yoke at the front and back. jaunt into the woods. Bathe yout tired feet with hot water and with a coarse towel rub away any callouses which might be there. Then rub them well with alcohol. It not only toughens tender feet, but it is amazingly refresh ing and in many cases it will prevent disagreeable perspiration. Soft Scerf Girdles. In direct or position to the princess, bsbe princesse and jumper frocks, are the new soft scarf girdles now being exploited in Paris. They are the des pair of the stout woman who wishes to disguise the fact that she has hips, and the delight of the slender woman who has secretly been bemoaning her lack of them. The new girdle is mere ly a soft sash that Is wound twice about the waist and drawn up half way to the bust. With a skirt and coat costume it takes the place of a waistccat, or rather Is both belt and vest in one, and it actually helps to dress up the blouse into a semblance of a fitted bodice. Preferably the scarf girdle should match the color of the gown, unless a decidedly contrasting tint is necessary to "tone up" the costume. 1 x . Jr'' ' AN INTERN DIRDkB WORLD-WIPE MOVEMENT TO PROTECT OUR. FEATHERED fl?EMDS. iSSBBSSSSBSSSSSSSSBSSStBBSSSSSSSSSSS WKtKmBgiimiTfS9P3S!mtl H bbbbbbbibbbbbbSvW JibibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI VTHkP vbbbbvSiShMHB3& 77 oBtavmart tent BLACK-BACKED GULL The movement for bird protection which began many years ago In Mas sachusetts where the first Audubon society in this country was organized, I has grown with the years until the ' movement has become world-wide. It is no longer a national Audubon soci ' ety, but an international Audubon so , ciety which is actively engaged in pro ! tecting the bird life of the world from destruction at the hands of its innu- merable enemies, both natural and un natural, the two-legged animal man coming under this latter classifica tion. The United States as a whole com pares most favorably with other countries in the matter of bird pro tection. The history of the "Audu bon movement" is most interesting and significant. It really began in the early eighties, when the Ameri can Ornithologists' union earnestly discussed the matter of the undue destruction of birds, and the council of the union was directed to prepare a memorial to congress to ask for help in bird protection. From the United States department of agricul ture was secured $5,000, and a superin tendent. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, was appointed by the Ornithologists' union to help in properly spending the money. From this beginning has grown up the biological survey, which works in close collaboration with both the department of agriculture and the National Audubon society. I The National Audubon society itself was organized in 1886, at the sugges tion of a committee of the American .Ornithological union. It started under most flourishing auspices, receiving en couraging letters from such men as Henry Ward Beecher, John G. Whittier and Bishop Potter. At the end of 188G the society had 16,000 members. The next year it began to get out a special organ, the Audubon Magazine, and the membership increased to 38.000. Two years later came a shimp. The public seemed to lose Interest in the movement The bird laws were broken repeatedly. The press paid little at tention to the Audubon workers. Thing3 were discouraging during the next few years, but in 1896 the question of the protection of birds was again brought before the public by the organization of the Massa chusetts State Audubon society. It is the formation of such societies al! over the country that has kept the second Audubon movement from failing like the first The matter was simply too large for one society to carry out alone. Pennsylvania, and then other states soon followed the example of Massa chusetts, and at the present time there are but ten states in the union in which an Audubon society doe3 not exist. In most states the societies are large and continually increasing. They have their own magazine, Bird Lore, a successor to the old Audubon Magazine, but much more ambitious. In all but three of the states which have the society the uniform Audubon law for the protection of non-game birds has been adopted, and this law is in force even in some states which do not possess a state Audubon organization West Virginia, for in stance. The National Association of Audu bon Societies is not a distinct club, but simply a loosely-drawn federa tion of the various state societies. Its object is to secure uniform action and establish some sort of union admitting of concerted action when occasion arises. A national commit tee has been formed, to which com mittee each of the state societies sends a delegate. This committee meets every year. m bbbbbbbbV I I .SBBBBBMBBBBBBBBBftci? w- ji I VsSvBBBBHBBflJJfijJ K H&BBWjBMBBHbBBV JUULftriAJXArLri.ru irirn-i --. m m m m m m m . m m m m ...., MV)nAuu, . JUST A MODEST SUPPER Boston Bull Was a Little Hungry, That Was All. "The dog in his domesticated con dition more nearly approaches the ab solutely omniverous than any other animal of my acquaintance or of which I have knowledge," said a Jer sey resident. "The other day I be came the owner of a pedigreed Boston bull pup that had spent his short life in a New York flat. He weighed 17 pounds and I deemed his avoirdupois would have relation to his appetite. However, he ate two pounds of dog biscuit, the bones of half a dozen lamb chops, a pint of Ice cream and a quarter of a pound of marshmallows. We were just leading him on to see what he would take. Then he went out in the yard and tore up a rubber pls-t that stood three feet high and at that leaf, stem and root He then lK.aded the house and during the nirfbi ate my leather automobile cap, a pair of shoes, got my wife's hat and ate that bolted a paper of tacks, ate ATION AGUE At present the work of the na tional society consists In forming new state -Audubon societies, strengthen ing the weaker ones, maintaining a warden system, by means of which sea birds, such as terns, are specially protected during the breeding sea son, and attending to all matters of legislation. Besides all this, the national committee interests itself greatly in various bits of educational work, including the dissemination of illustrated leaflets. It Is also a valued medium of exchange belween the state societies. Though the foreign methods in the struggle for bird protection dif fer from this country's, the move ment Is truly International. On the continent It has taken the form of international conventions or con-' gresses. It was the German Ornitho logical assembly which first brought up the matter of bird protection in 1845. One Baidenus suggested the idea, but, according to the records, his proposal was first "rejected;" next year, at the meeting of the Saxon Ag ricultural society, "shelved," and ten years later, at the second meeting of German ornithologists, "ignored." It was not until 1868. at the twenty sixth assembly of German agricult- uralists and foresters, that a. request was made by vote of the assembly to the Austro-Hungarian foreign minis ter to take .measures for bringing about the formation of international treaties and agreements. Switzerland and Italy were the first states to join in the movement It was not until 1884, however, that the first international ornitho logical congress actually met at Vienna under the patronage of Crown Prince Rudolph. On account of various delays, such as the death of Prince Rudolph of Hungary, who had been the moving spirit of the first meeting, and .the quarrels between various officials, the second congress did not take place till the year 1891. It was held at Budapest, and little of Importance was accomplished, though there was a general feeling that the matter in hand demanded close and immediate attention. Finally, in 1900. the third Inter national ornithological congress was held in Paris, and in 1902 the con vention was signed by the dele gates present. Its most important res olutions were as follows: "Bird3 useful to agriculture, particu larly the insect eaters, shall be uncon ditionally protected by a prohibition for bidding them to be killed In any way whatsoever, as well as the destruction of their nests, eggs and hroods. "It shall be forbidden, at any season and in any manner whatsoever, to steal nests and eggs, to take or destroy nest lings. "The Import of these nests, eggs and nestlings, their transport, the colportage of the same, their putting up to sale, their sale and purchaso, shall be pro hibited. "The construction and employment of traps, cages, nets, nooses, lime-twigs or any other kind of Instruments used for the purpose of rendering easy the whole sale capture or destruction of birds, shall be forbidden. "It shall be forbidden from March 1 to September 15 of each year to take or kill useful birds. "The "sale or offering for sale of the same is also, during the same period, forbidden." c Among the nations represented at the convention were Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, Belgium. Greece. Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Norway and Switzerland. Italy sent dele gates, but they withdrew early In the session. Two years aco. in 1906. Austria-Hungary incorporated the conven tion into its corpus juris. There is hope that the other countries whose delegates signed the convention will soon follow Austria's example. Al ready several of these nations have laws protecting birds to a certain degree. French Doctors In Bad Way. The number of physicians in France has nearly doubled in ten years. There are now 20,000, and nearly 2.000 are turned out every year by the medical schools. Fees have decreased alarm ingly because of this competition, and because of the diminution of disease due to hygienic precautions. In some districts In Paris a franc is all that is paid for a doctor's call. his brass studded collar and leather leash, upset and drank a jar of har ness oil and arriving at a bottle of Piatt's Chlorides capsized that and lapped it up and laid down at last in peace." Celluloid Explodes. A celluloid factory in Vienna, Aus tria, where several hundred persons were employed, was completely wrecked by an explosion due either to me ignition of celluloid dust or to the action of some of the powerful chem icals which are used in the process of manulacture. It is known that at least 17 persons were killed. From His Own Experience. "Have you 'What Can Be Done with a Chafins Dish?'" asked the customer in the book store. mep "No'm replied the haggard-looking clerk, who had attended a welsh rarebit party the night before "bat I can tell you what should be done wit a chafing dish." PhiladIpaia Prsss llPiiiiiiiiiEiLs5l llkffl A PAIR OF AV0CETC ?l? -"?, .A-U-i&aa s&Z&i S"fo- , --Mti--l J4 't.Jf 2i
