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THE OMAHA SUNDAY" KEE: JANXATtY 19. 1909.
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MRS. POTTER PALMER WINS
Triumph of Chicajo! Social Queen
Over Waldorf Aitor.
PRIMA BONIU SINGS FOR HER
Mr. and Mrs. Astor Entertain Roy
alty Affair Slow Beeeeaa of
Death ef Klac
Oscar.
tVnnV Tan Ifl lRnll UMfl. Pot-
Ptlmw V vnrd nvr .V 1 1 1 i ft ITT Wal-
Sorf Aster. The wealthy Chicago widow,
"who spends only half her time In Englsnd.
haa triumphed over tha expatriated Ameri
can plutocrat, who haa iwnrn that he will
never revlalt hla natlv land again.
And thla la how It comet about. For
tome yeara paat Mr. Astor haa been In
the habit of giving two or threa private
concerts during the London aeaaon at his
town residence In Carlton House Terrace.
Hla aim haa alwaya been to make his
private concerta auperlor to any other that
take place In England. And he generally
tuooeeda by virtue of hla great wealth,
which enables him to engage the bent pro
fessional talent procurable, regardless of
the fees demanded.
It waa natural, therefore, that after
Tetraxxinl had made such a tremendous
hit, at Covent Garden, he should seek to
engage her for one or more of hla own
forthcoming private musical functions.
Poealbly he might have' succeeded, as he
never hagglea over terms, but for the
fact, ao the atory goes, he wanted the
diva, to agree that she would not sing at
any other private concert during the sea
son. In' other words he wanted to make
a "corner" in Tetraxxlnl. The prima dnnna
took umbrage at this. She Is a high
nirlteA woman and declared that she
would not submit to any restrictions as
regarded her private engagements, no mat
ter how big the fee that might be offered
her.
Steal March on A star.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, who Is now in Amer
ica mav have heard something of this.
She has friends In London who keep her
posted on what Is going on in the social
world here while she la filling her winter
role of Chlcago'a social queen. Anynow,
he conceived the notion of getting Tetraa
iint to alne- for her at two private con
certs, which she Intends giving at her
London residence, Hampden House, this
..imm.r Rhe cabled over to the noren
tine nightingale, so 1 am told, and the
imnnm.nt was made. Tetraxxlnl win
ling twice for Mra. Palmer and will not
i.. t all for William Waldorf Astor.
Just now Hampden House Is being made
mirk and scan In readiness for tiie noney
moon couple, the hostess's son and his
hride-to-be. Miss Kohlsaat of Chicago.
-rfumnr haa It that Mr. Potter Palmer
meana to have a London house "of his
hut T rannot say If this Is true.
Hampden House is such a big mansion
thmivh externally a hideously plain one
that hla mother would have no difficulty
m providing accommodation ror noin ntm
and his wife whenever they want to take
a nina In Tvtndon.
The party that assembled at Clleveden at
he Invitation of Mr. Astor. jr.. and his
wife "to meet" the duke and duchess of
Connaught waa distinguished, but I am
told that for sheer unmitigated dullness
the affair waa a record one. Of course
this waa In consequence of the death of the
late king of Sweden. At first It waa Intl-
mated to the Aatora that the Connaughts
y ' could not go. Mrs. Astor, however,, wrote
and aaid it would be a very quiet gathering
and that If the duchess wished there would
be neither music nor bridge. Bo they went.
As my friend explained to me, "One was
made to feel all tha time that the Con
naughta were doing something very wrong
and were arald of being found out." The
result waa that all the rest of the guests
felt It Incumbent on them to assume an
Sy sir of dignified gravity and the host and
'hostess must have been thankful when the
day for departure arrived and they saw
their royal friends off the premises. As a
rule the Connaught family aj-e a breexy
crowd and they love Americans bceauso
5f their liveliness and unconventlonallty.
Mra. Aator'a Jewels.
One pleasure at l"ast Mrs. Astor had. She
waa enabled to exhibit her amaxins Jewels,
ahlch showed up all the more gloriously
because of the black dresses she was wear
ing out of deference to the fact hal the
Connaughls were In mourning.
Since the elder Astor gnve Clleveden to
nls son as a wedding gift the magnificent
mansion, which occupies the finest site to
be found along the whole length of the
Thames, has undergone extensive altera
tions. Outwardly it remains much as it
was when It was the residence of the old
uke of Westminster, but the living apart
ments have been completely transformed.
They are now arranged In suites, somewhat
after tha style of fashionable flats, and
for each bedroom there Is a sumptuous
bath room. In the royal suite the baths
are of the finest Cararra marble and when
occupied a fountain of perfumed water mav
bo turned on, and music, too, by merely
touching a awlteh.
Lady Paget' Bedtre.
At her royal dinner party the other night
Lady Paget'a bodice, w hich was practically
composed of diamonds, aroused more In
terest than the king himself. Even her
shoulder strape mere of diamonds, with
Just a aoftenlng of white tulle. She wore
no-tiara, only a single crimson rose In her
hair. She waa the observed of all as she
went In to dinner on the king's arm.
Though at ill lame. It I hoped she will not
be ao alwaya. But I think she looks
younger than before her accident. She
makes no aecret of the fact that she Is
delighted to have her daughter settled
down and off her hands. Daughters are an
affliction to a really aniart mother and
the office of chaperone la a moat trying
" one.
The duchess of Roxburgh waa one of
the gueata at the dinner. She wore a spray
tit wild rosea In diamonds which reached
serosa her bodice from shoulder to shoul
der. It waa a gift from her mother, Mrs.
Ogden UoeJet. Ha effect, however, was
nothing Ilka so sensational as that produced
by the diamonds of the American hoetess.
The king haa never cared for flowera on
the dinner table, considering them a nuis
ance, as they Interfere with hla vision.
Before all thtnga he likea to have a. good
view of everyone Billing at hla table. Thla
having cunw to the knowledge or Mra.
Lulu Harcourt, ahe decided to revive an
eld notion for the king's tUieetatton. The
Cinner table of the American hostess when
she last entertained the king waa entirely
bereft of bloaaoma. Instead there waa a
uperb display of exquisite old cut glasa.
tht
.iinnMr tMrvim hefnr or ola Bevrea. a
ro d rvntert.iece of the kind In vogue among
the French ariatorrary about' a century
nd a half ago waa uaed.
LADY MARY.
POLICE CAPTURE TERRORIST
art.lan ttsnerra Take Wwss
llevnl te Have Aaalsled
B4 at Tills.
PA HIM. Jsn. 18. The police of this city
lave raptured a woman named Rosalia
j. Empastask. who Is belle cd to have
seen a member of the Russian terrorists'
sand that In July last year secured 1200,006
ts. TUlka.
Standard Times
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The dot between the hours
f THIJ. reader has ever picked
up aft almanac in order to finl
out from It the times of the
rising and setting of the sun
and moon, he has purely found
these times to diverge so widely
from those actually observed by him, that
it needed but a few trials of this sort to
convince him that the almanac he had waa
of no useto him whatever, and he may
have been tempted to declare openly and
before wttnesaes that the man that wrote
that aim ana a knew his business as poorly
as the weather man. and that the wtiole
almanac, from one end to the other, waa
only poor guesswork, that he could write
a better one himself, and soforth.
Such sweeping condemnations must, of
course, be followed by remorse, as soon as
quiet reflection has smoothed down the
ruffles or declamatory disappointment.
After all. reason will whisper to us. every
place on earth cannot see the sun and moon
rise and aet at the same time. The earth
la a sphere, not a plane: Half the earth
does not see tlie sun at all, and for the
other half the sun is In all possible positions
In the sky. This argument ought to b?
sufficiently convincing to make anybody
disclaim ever having said anything at all
against an almanac. k
Graft Rampant
MONUMENT TO BRITISH
The palatial Hammersmith work ho.use,
with baths, that cost 175 each and a
Palace.
l.ONIKi.V. Jan. IS. (Special. i Englishmen
who enjoyed talking about the corruption
and dishonesty in American municipal life
are singing very small Just now. Even the
most patriotic Briton 1s apt to feci that
for him to abuse America on this score is
dangerously like the pot calling the kettle
black.
. It has alwaya been the boast' of English
men that all departments of I heir govern
ment were free from corruption and to a
great extent tills has been the case. Lately,
however, there has been a rude awakening.
Investigation after investigation Into tlie
workings of various Boards of Guardians
and other local government authorities
have disclosed a state of affairs which
would put to shame the greatest grafters
that Tammany Hall or the Philadelphia
ring ever produced. It is true that the
amounts of money Involved in the English
disclosures Were smaller than those that
JOHN B1TINS,
Ex-labor leader, who. as president of
the local government board, has taken
the lead In xpoing municipal graft in
England.
we are accustomed to hear about from
America, but the only reason that this was
so was that the amounts that could bd
stolen were smaller. Working on the per
centage basis, the British grafter haa far
eclipsed his American cousin.
Credit Dai Jobs Barae.
The one man to whom the credit for all
this house-cleaning Is due Is John Burns,
the ex-labor leader and socialist, who la
now a member of the Cabinet as president
of the Local Government Board. Thla
board haa Jurisdiction over the work of all
the local elected bodies and Is expected
to wateh them an4 exerelae a check on their
expenditures. Until the advent of John
Burns, however, it waa chiefly conspicuous
for Its somnolence.
Mr. Burns' first Investigation after lis
took office as lo connection wlt'i the
administration of the poor law by the
West Ham Board of Guardians. West
Ham la one of the pooroet and moat
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' w-vai 3 ..rT i-L" fr ,iIl"-letrB 4Slr M f I" I "5 i li' I H':
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of the Moon's Rising,
and minutes Indicate P. M.
Ye are not done, however. We all know
that vast sections of the same country use
exactly the same time to the second, aa,
for example, the whole Mississippi valley
uses what Is known as nineteenth meridian,
or central time. Now. It is evident that
when I see the sun set behind a hill, a
friend of mine, living some miles to the
west of me, surely does not see the sun
setting at the same moment; his day will
close a little later, while it has closed some
mlnutis sooner for toy eastern friend.
We will, therefore, without calling In
expenslYexperts for consultation, con
sider the case closed, and with perfect
unanimity admit, that while the almanac
we have in hand Is not correct for Omaha,
it may be, and. let us say It magnani
mously, probably Is, surely Is correct for
the place for which It was computed As Is,
or ought always be, the case In a recon
ciliation, when one party Is generous and
noble in yielding up what it considers Its
sure right, the other party will not per
mit Itself to be outdone. With this Idea
In view, we rresent herewith a table giv
ing the times of moonrlse and mponset for
Omaha for the year 1908. rt has entailed a
large amount of computation, but the cause
was worth It.
Now, to prevent the possibility of a re
in English Municipal
GRAFT AND WASTEFULNESS.
which cost 31.675 for each or the paupers
system of electric lighting King Edward
thickly populated districts of London,
and Its legitimate expenditure for the re
lief of the poor must always be very
large. The local taxation, however, rose
at an alarming rate and the rate-payers
complained so loudly that It waa evi
dent that something was wrong.
The investigation disclosed the state of
affairs that Is so familiar to Americans
who have followed tlie course of munici
pal government In their own country.
There was no appointment in the gift
of the guardians that waa not put up
for sale to the highest bidder. The mas
ter of the workhouse paid $500 for his
job, the medical officer paid $5,000, and
relieving officers., who earn about $12
a week, paid $100 each for their appoint
ments. The contractor who supplied coal
to the workhouse was allowed to supply
a quality Inferior to that he contracted
for and to charge for twice the quantity
lie actually supplied. Other contractors
were treated In the same way and every
contractor paid money regularly to me.n
bers of the Board of Guardians and offi
cials. The favored contractors were al
lowed to examine their rivals' bids be
fore they were formally opened and ad
just their own bids so as to mako the
granting of the contract tothem a cer
tainty. The result of this Investigating
waa that five guardians and the coal
contractor went to Jail.
Political Workhouse.
At Greenwich an investigation f-howed
that checks for $12i had panned be
tween contractors and guardians and that
there was Irregularity of much the same
sort as that proved at West Ham. At
Hammersmith, where a palatial work
house, superior in many respects to the
king's palace, has been built, the grossest
extravagance was shown, and officials
whose duty it was to watch the work
of contractors admitted that they hud
received presents from them. It was
shown that the building and equipment
of this workhouse cost $1,675 for each
of the paupers It was designed to house.
Baths which cost $75 each were fitted,
and a system of electric lighting and
wiring was Installed which had actually
been rejected by the king whe-n It was
proposed for Buckingham palace, be
cause be considered It altogether too ex
pensive. Experts swore that $3,000 had
been wasted on thla lighting system
alone. The total cost of this paupers'
palace was nearly $1,500,000, and It was
stated that It could have been built for
little more than $1,000,000 and that a
building whioW would have been In every
way aa serviceable could have been se
cured for $600,000.
The Investigation Into the affairs of the
Mile End Board of Guardians, which 1s
now In progress, has shown an equally
aniaxing state of affairs. The guardians
there had a system of maintaining tha
pauper children In what are known as scat
tered homes. whJoh means that m dosen or
niore children In charge ef a matron and
superintendent are Installed In an ordinary
dwelling house and form a sort of poor law
family. Tha Mile End Ouardlana few
years ego wanted half a dosen more houses
for their scattered hemes. Six houses wra
offered to them at 11.(00 saoh. They re
fused tha offer, and a few weeks later
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Meridian Passage
newed misunderstanding, a few precautions
must be premised. The first Is that thla
table Is computed for the city of Omaha.
For every fifteen miles eaet or west" of
Omaha the difference will be one minute,
sooner for the east, later for the west.
For every twelve miles north or south
the difference will b one minute or fraction
thereof, sooner or later, wherever the
moon happens to be. More accurate terms
cannot be used here, since they would prove
uninteresting and technical.
Secondly, all hills are supposed to be re
moved, and, of course, the houses on the
hills. At the Creighton university observa
tory, the bluffs to the east are exactly on
the horison line, and the sun and moon are
always seen to rise on schedule time. To
the west the hills are about two lunar
diameters above the horizon, so that as
the heavenly bodies set obliquely, sunset
and moonset occur always about six min
utes too soon.
Thirdly. About once a month tha moon
does not rise at all. What becomes of It?
Well, there Is nothing to be alarmed at;
everything goes on In Its usual way. Let
the reader look at the first column, which
gives the time of rising for January. He
will notice thnt. as an average, moon
rise occurs about an hour later every day.
Undertakings
It was designed to house. It Is equipped
tliougnt too expensive lor Buckingham
bought the same houses for $3,000 each.
Needless to say, it was testified -that a
good deal of the difference went Into the
pockets of certain guardians.
Market Price Doubled.
This waa not the end of the graft in con
nection with the scattered homes. When
the houses were bought it wii) discovered
that they were badly In need of repairs snd
experts testified that the repair work was
done by the only contractor who could se
cure work from the board and was charged
for at just twice the market price. Some
of it was rharged for and was not done at
all. In three years the guardians spent
more than the original value of theso
horses on them in repairs, and one mem
ber of the board who was asked why this
was so. gravely explained that pauper
children were very hard on houses.
TVe Investigation of the Camberwell
Board of Guardians has Just begun. So
far it has been brought out that the offi
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Computed at the Crelghto
I say "on an average" because this In
terval Is variable; It may be aa amall as
twenty minutes or as large aa an hour and
twenty minutes. Thus, on January 19 the
moon rises at 6:33 p. m., the presence of
the dot between the hour and the mtnutes
denoting p. m., Its absence a. m. The next
day the time Is 7:32; that la, not one hour
later, but one day and one hour later, or
after an Interval of twenty-five hours.
Coming down to 'January 24. the moon
rise occurs at 11:33 p. m.. and. as the next
one must be about twenty-five hours later,
It surely cannot be on the 25th, but in the
early hours of the 26th. 12:36 a. m. ; that la,
the moon does not rise at all on January
26, which was to be proved. For the same
reason, the moon does not cross the merid
ian or "south" once a month, nor does It set
once a month. It Is surely reasonable to
allow her one offday a month.
Fourthly. On January 21 moonrlse hap
pens at 8:32 p. m., the meridian passage at
2:41 a. m. This is clearly not the meridian
passage following the moonrlse of 8:32 p. m.
of the same day, but the one of the pre
ceding 'day. Bo that the mpon that rises
on Januarj 21 at 8:32 p. nr., crosses the
meridian at 3:25 a. m. and sets at 10:10
a. m. on January 22. the next day.
FiAhly. In order not to give too much
at once, the pbases of the moon are not
cials at the workhouse were accustomed
to feast daily on Salmon and pineapples.
That would be equivalent, as far as cost
is concerned to terrapin and canvasback;
duck In America.
A most delightful Instance of municipal
corruption was disclosed in an investigation
at Monmouth In Wales, where a new elec
tric light plant wtis laid down by the city
council. About $50,000. was thrown away
and In several streets mains were laid, and
when It was found that there were no pos
sible consumers of the light they were torn
up sgaln. Tammany never did anything
better than that. MA,TNARD EVANS.
OTHER BANKS TAKE BUSINESS
Bankers' Association ef Csisds
Handles Affairs of Sovereign
lastllatloo.
TORONTO. Ont., Jsn. 18. Wbsn cus
tomers of the head office In Toronto and
seventy-six branches throughout Canada
called a.t the Sovereign Bank of Canada,
they found other banks In possession as a
result of a transference of all business of
tho Sovereign bank to the Bankers' Asso
ciation of Canada, consequent upon the de
cision of the Sovereign bank to go Into
liquidation. There will be no Interruption
so far as theSovereign bank's customers
are concerned. Other banks will take care
of the bank's bunlness. Difficulty may be
created, however, In the case of the borrow
ers of the Sovereign bank. From early last
evening until early this morning meetings
were held In all the banks to discuss the
situation created by the liquidation. The
officials of the banks interested In the
financing of the vartaua branches of the
Sovereign bank were engaged In making
arrangements to obviate any panic follow
ing today's announcement.
The heaviest shareholder Is the Dres
den bank of Berlin, Germany, $700,000.
MONTREAL. Ont.. Jan. 18. It Is an
nounced In connection with the liquidation
of the Sovereign bank that the Montreal
uptown branch and its business haa beqn
taken over by the Bank of Toronto and
tl'.at the main office in Montreal has been
taken over by the Bank of British North
America. The depositors will be paid in full.
Russian Discount Lowered.
ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 18.-The rate
of discount of the state bank was lowered
today from-"4 to 7 per cent.
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n University Observatory.
printed In the table. They may be found
with an accuracy sufficient for ordinary
purposes in this way: We know that when
the moon Is full It crosses the meridian at
midnight. Running down the column m. p.
(meridian passage) until we come to the
midnight hour that Is. the line where no
time Is given we can at sight find the
date of the full moon. Thus. In January It
Is on the 17th. In reality it Is on the 18th
at 7:37 a. m., but our method Is sufficiently
accurate for all except experts.
In the same way the new moon crosses
the meridian at noon, the first quarter
near 6 p. m. and the last quarter near 4
a. m. Hence, from the table the new moon
happens on January 2, (3. 3:43 p. m.). first
quarter on tho 10 (10. 7:53 a. m.) and last
quarter on the 26 (24, 9:01 a. m.) When I
say "near midnight," "near 6 p. m.." I
always mean "twenty-four minutes later."
because central time, which we use In
Omaha, Is that much fast of local time.
In this way we shall always get the exact
date of the moon's phase.
Sixthly and lastly. The times In the table
apply to the moon's center and have been
corrected for refraction and parallax.
If the reader will kindly observe these
six precautions the man In the moon prom
ises on his part to be always on time to
the minute. WILLIAM F. RIGOE, 8. J.
PEER- WITH MANY HOBBIES
Lord Blythiwood at Work on New
Flying: Machine.
PRECIOUS STONES BY CHEMICALS
In
a Pine Laboratory He Pamaes
' a me rolls Experiments In
Chemistry and Me
chanics. LONDON, Jan. 18. (Special.) When the
famous French airship "La Patrle" broke
adrift and went voyaging on Its own ac
count Into the unknown it was reported that
It had been seen sailing over Clydebank, In
Scotland. It subsequently turned out that
It was a huge box kite with which Ixrd
Blyth8Wood had been experimenting that
had been mistaken for the French aerial
derelict. That haa called attention to the
scientific bobbies and achievementa of this
remarkable peer. If there were many more
men with the brains snd ability of Lord
Blythswood in the House of Lords little
would be heard of the popular clamor for
the abolition of that venerable institution.
As it Is, he Is one of the exceptions, which
proves the rule that mediocrity la tlie men
tal characteristic of most of the hereditary
legislators.
There Is hsrdly a branch of science of
which he does not know something and In
a few departments he Is in the front rank.
At Blythswood, his magnificent country
seat near Glasgow, he has built himself a
J big laboratory filled with machinery and
the latest scientific instruments for pursu
ing Investigations In chemistry, optics, elec
tricity and mechanics. There may be seen
what is said to be the largest static elec
trical machine In the world. It waa de
signed and constructed by his own work
men under bis superintendence. In strik
ing contrast to this noisy, lightning-producing
monster is another machine of Lord
Blythswood'a devising which Is his particu
lar pet. He describes it as a "dividing en
gine for ruling diffraction gratings." With
a diamond splinter It will make l,4u0 lines
to the Inch on a metal plate. It Is used
for spectrum work.
Aerial navigation Is one of the subjects
which Lord Blythswood has taken up with
great enthusiasm and at present he is hard
at work on a new flying machine. The
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big Nix kite which was mistaken for ths
l.a Patrle" was one that he used for tesU
in wind pr. ssuie.
The artificial manufacture of precious
stones Is another matter to which he Is de
voting much attention. It has been dls
covered that when the mineral corundum.
which Is a colorless crystal oty exactly tha
same nature as the tor-ax. smethxst. r il'T
and sapphire. Is placed close to radium for
a pet lod of about two months. It chans.-a
t(. the color of one of these gvnis Two
specimens at Blythswood. which have been
under the influence of a speck of radium
for several weeks, are already of s beautN
fill topes color. The permanency of the .
color has not yet been proven, but untie
every possible test these stones sre In
distinguishable from the gems they repre
sent.
Irl Blythswood Is 73 years old. hale ant
hearty, with little about him save his snow
white hair and beard to suggest the typlcat
savant, which may bo accounted for by
tho fact that he has other Interests be
sides science. Ho Is a keen sportsman and
particularly fond of fishing. He goes in
activrlyfor politics and Is one of the bnU
wntks of tlie conservative party In th
w-st of Scotland, Before a peerage was
conferred upon hint In U3 he was for
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LORD BLYTHSWOOD IN HIS WORK"
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several years a member of Parliament. Ha
began life as a soldier. In the Crimean
War he served In the famous Scots Guards
and was badly wounded at Internum.
Though he Is the first peer of his line,
he comes of one of the oldest and most
renowned of Scottish families, being de
scended from the same ancestor as Uisj
dukes of Argyll Sir Colin Campbell ol
Lochow. He Is enormously wealthy, own
ing a lot of valuable land In Glasgow, biig
he has never succumbed to the temptation)
to merely take life easy, as do so many
men who Inherit riches In England. Hid
wife is a sister of a prominent liberal peer.
Lord Carrington, but she was converted)
to her husband's political faith long ago.
They have no children, and the heir t8
the barony is Lord Blythswood's brother.
Rev. Sholto Douglas Campbell-Douglas,
who assumed the last surname on succeeding-
to the Douglas support estate In
Lanarkshire some forty years ago. He)
waa intended for the army, but early aban
doned a military career for the churchy
and was ordained In 1S66.
Some three years sgo Lord Blythswood
had an excltintr chase after burglars, who
had broken Into his mansion. Springing
out of bed, he pursued them along the)
corridors Into the drawing room, where)
they leaped through a window, slid downi
a ludder and were soon lost to view. They
left several thousand dollars' worth, of
plate untouched. '
MASTERS AND MEN WILL ACT
Coninrrrltl Parliament Convenes las
Paris to Resist Knoronrhmenta
of Hevolntionlsts.
PARIS, Jan. 18. The significant events!
marking the growing determination of th
conservative classes to resist the encroach
ment of revolutionary socialism were ob
served here today. The first is the initial
meeting of the "commercial parliament."
The chief aim of this parliament ia ta
meet the socialists en their own ground by
promoting Joint action between masters)
and men. The second event Is the appear
ance In Paris today of a weekly pape
called Opinion, on the model of the Lon
don Spectator. Tha purpose of the pub
lication is to marshal conservative repub
lican opinion of all shades against thai
demands of collectivism, such as premature)
asplnttlons for disarmament, etc. The)
prime movers In this movement are Paul
Doumer. former president of the Chamber
of Ieputies, ex-Premier Rlbot and Alexan
der Miller, former minister of commerce.
III
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ou very kindly sent me a bott e of
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Nashville, Term.
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