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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE - POUNDED BY EDWARD BOSBWATEft VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY PROPRIETOR gntmd at Omaha postoffice ae second-class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Cartter : ..',. per month. Dally and 8unday..... ,.,..&.... bally without Suaday. 46o.... Evening ana Sunday ...40c.... Evening without Sunday.... oSf - - - Qinoav wee only ..... V.aV n ' a o i o Mm in advance. 110 00. Send notice of change of oddroes or Irregularity In de ' livery to Omaha Baa. Clreuletloo Department By Mafl par year ...iS.Oo ,.. ... i.0 ... 4 i.o REMITTANCE. -Remit by draft, alpraaa or postal ordar. pnlyl-eent atarapa taken m payment of email aeeounta. Paraonal noee, except on Omaha and oaetarn oachango. not accoptad. OFFICES. Omaha The Baa Building. ' South Omaha Mil N atreat.' - Council Bluff a 14 North Main atreat. Lincoln 13 Little Building. Chicago til People'e Oaa Building. New York Room SOS, ! Fifth annua. 8t. Louis tot Now Bank of Commerce. Washington 1tJ Fourteenth atraet. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Addreei aontmunteettona relating to newa and editorial nattar to Omaha Baa. Editorial Department AUGUST CIRCULATION 8 55,755 Daily Sunday 51,048 Dwlght WIIHawa. alrculatlon manager of The Baa Publishing comfMt. Being duly aworn. says that average crMulatiori for the month of August, Wit, was t6.7SS dally, r.nd H.S4B Sunday. . t WIGHT WILUAMS. Clreulatloll Manage. Subscribed In my presence and aworn, to before ran this Id day of September, ISIS. .... ROBERT HUNTER. Netary PsbW- Sohecritws Iwritat lb city Umperarll" ' iImuM kara TIm Bm nallaol to tUm. A4 e)raa trill bo cbaafoe) aa cflm na raetalrael. I Stilt, some mean may be found to relieve the great day of its Mullencholy. ., " ' '' J' Remember that Nebraska can celebrate iti semi-centennial of itatehood only -once! ,.; '-, Next week ii Onuha'a big week, with some thing doing every minute. Strangers welcomel The report that Villa is railing a beard flatly contradict! recent rumors of a close shaVe. That democratic promiie of 'reducing the coat "of living -will have to .be characterised, at "an iridescent dream."' ,, ' '.' . ;f-V .All Nebraska governors seem to look alike -in magnitude to the artist who painted those or namental medallions. ; , ' Laundry prices are going up. Cleanliness, to make sure of being next to" godliness, ii trying to perch on the topmost rung of the heavenly Udder. '.'' ' '. No doubt Judge Howard appreciates the friendly consideration of Mrv Pearson. A com plimentary half column in the judge's best' style Is in order. . ' ,' ' ' :! V '" '; Our 6-cent electric light rate does not become effective until January next, but that will not prevent us from burning a little for Ak-Sar-Ben and the semi-centennial celebration. ' ' ' Mayor Jim isn't saying s word, but when it comes to doing the honors for a distinguished guest no aspirant for reflected light can push him into the background and keep him there, , Nebraska democrats will please take notice that "Boss" Arthur Mullen is their only' duly accredited medium, of communication with the president and govern themselves accordingly. The. land area recovered by. the Allied push barely equals the territory captured by the Ger mans in the Verdun offensive, This ties the score and leaves the combatants territorially about where they started last spring. j- ' , ' Labor unions are getting wise to the fact that contracts with employers willfully broken dam age the foundation of unionism. The failure of the sympathy walkout in New York materially strengthens (he position of organised labor in the metropolis.:;' .'' .':'.'.-'.. ' Accordirrg to official Japan, former Minister Sakatani spoke without authority on the immigra tion issue. 'The disclaimer is chiefly interesting for failing to disclaim the existence of the senti ment which provoked the disclaimer. Sakatani prematurely "spilled the beans." ; Iowa authorities experience much trouble in securing from the victims testimony against the promoters of crooked races. - This was to be ex pected. No matter how sore a victim feels about his losses, few care to expose their weakness and follies to public gaze.. Reluctance to give oneself away forms the most effective shield for swindJtrs; '. . " Bryan to the Rescue "sous Frueteea Chronicle" It is announced froth democratic headquar ters that William J. Bryan and President WiU son have buried their respective hatchets, and that as evidence of the harmony now prevailing in high democratic quarters, Mr. Bryan will take the stump for the president f re.umabiy, the main service expected from Mr. Bryan will be. to expound the mysteries of the administration's foreign policies, which were so admirably directed by Mr. Bryan while secre tary of state in the interest of "deserving democrats."- ' .tf He will, however, probably refrain from re peating one of the most eloquent and fetching paragraphs which he introduced into most of his campaign speeches of four years ago, and specifically in an address to a great meeting at Indianapolis on October 17, 1912, in which, re ferring to Mr. Wilson, Mr. Bryan said: - ."We present him, not only qualified in every way, but we present him pledged to a single term, that he may be your president and spend no time dividing patronage in order to secure delegates; that he may spend no time in planning for re election; that he may give you all his thought and all his energy. I believe that when a man is lifted by his countrymen to this pinnacle of power he ought to tear from his heart everv S thought of ambition, and on his bended knees ; consecrate his time to his country's service. That ,is our ideal president and we present to you a , man who measures up to that ideal." No paragraph in any ol Mr. Bryan's speeches j four yean ago waa delivered with more spiritual 'power, or evoked more thunderous and continued 'applause from the great audiences who thronged to hear the once boy orator of the Platte. It was a platform declaration by which Colonel Bryan set great store. It was, in fact, his pet plank in the platform which he had written, not only by reason of the great moral principle involved, but for certain practical reasons which readily occur to us, and which were doubtless appreciated by the multitude of Colonel Bryan's admirers. Probably no plank. in the platform of 1912 did more to secure the election of Wilson than that, now, alas, not available in the present emergency, Stop-Watch Statesmanship. Collier's Weekly does a distinct service to the Campaign of education by collecting and setting forth expressions of public regard on the labor question reflecting the inner sentiments of Woodrow Wilson when he was not seeking votes as contrasted with his vote-getting words: Extract from a baccalaureate sermon of June 13, 1909, by Prof. Woodrow Wilson: "You know what the usual standard of the employe is in our day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standard ized by the trade union and this is the standard to which it is meant to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average work man can do. In some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to a day's labor, and no one can work out of hours at all or volunteer anything be yond the minimum,' "I need not point out how economically dis astrous such a regulation of labor is. The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable under'its presei.t'regulation by those who have determined to reduce it to a' minimum. Our economic supremacy may be lost, because the country grows more and more full of unprofit able servants." ;, . -.'J1,, i . ' Extract from a letter of Woodrow Wilson, dated January 12, 1909, in reply to an Invitation to speak at a banquet of anti-strike and anti boycott advocates: , y- "I am a fierce partisan of the open shop and of everything that makes for individual liberty, and I should like to contribute anything that it might be possible for me to contribute to the clarification of thinking and the formation of right purposes in matters of this kind." ' At s dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria on March 18, 1907, Dr. Woodrow Wilson spoken as follows! , "We speak too exclusively of the capitalistic class. There is another as formidable an enemy to equality and freedom of opportunity as it is, : and that is. the class formed by the labor or ganizations and leaders of the country." Collier's is careful to explain that these sen timents of Mr. Wilson are not ours. They ate op posed to the views held by us and practiced by Collier's for more than thirty-three years. We reprint them here because they have an impor tant bearing on the question whether the demo cratic, administration, in what it did during the last week in August, was actuated by sincerity of lifelong conviction. . . .The Bee is able to add to this interesting compendium still another, which, to our mind is even more directly in point than the others. Woodrow Wilson, while president of Princeton university, was requested by Prof. Frank Parsons of the Bureau of Economic Research, in a letter under date of September', 1905, to join with others in signing this declaration: -',. ; ; I J. We favor the eight-hour day. ' ; ' , -2. Believing that the eight-hour day means S Ignger and richer life, a fairer diffusion of wealth and power, a better citizenship and a ; higher civilization through leisure for educa ' lion,, recreation, civic and social life, we wel come each Step in the progress of the eight. i hour movement and earnestly hope for the success of the typographical u .ions in their , efforts tov secure the eight-hour day. , . Woodrow Wilson refused to sign either of the propositions, saying: '. ... "It seems to me that nothing of this sort can be decided thus in the abstract and that no valuably . conclusion can be arrived at except . by a real discussion of specific cases." , Here we have what Woodrow Wilson then really thought of the eight-hour day what he probably now thinks about it, when permitted to think free from' the threats of labor leaders and unbiased by the allurement of labor votes. ' Frenchmen Can Still Tell Good Story. The fale 6f the aviator who brought down three enemy planes in two and one-half minutes, and then, fell 10,000 feet without getting hurt, shows the' French have not lost th,e art, of story telling. Qn the contrary, the war seems to have stimulated the faculty, and some really ; worth while yarns come to us 1 now and again from "Somewhere in France." Rigid rules of Censor ship have piqued the invention of the corre spondents, and their capacity for embellishing romance Is continually showing more and more what man may do If the incentive or necessity be presented. We may as well believe this story about the aviator as much, of the other informa tion we havq from the front. It is a war of won derful things, and nothing seems impossible in the list 61 accomplishments, least of all long distance lying. - ' , Germany's Message to the World. : Von Bethmann-Hollweg, spokesman for Ger many to t,he world, sends forth another message, expressive of the unchanging attitude of the Ger man imperial government aa to the war. "Ger many will not be permitted to think of peace while her house is burning," says the chancellor. "She must first extinguish the fire." More or less than this couldjhardly have been looked for aa the utterance of the great empire. It is formal notice to the world, too, that the end of the war is not immediately at hand. Germany has met reverses In battle, but has not been beaten to the extent of being willing to sue. for peace. This is in ac cordance with the views of the most capable ob servers, who hsve for weeks agreed that the of fensive of the Entente Allies must gain ground much faster than it has if Germany is to be put into a situation that will even approach an end to the war. Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg gives a picture of Germany united, its people animated by lofty patriotism, its resources ample, and its faith in ultimate success unshaken. Ad mitting the truth of this, no combatant was ever placed in the position now occupied by Germany without in the end being brought to the point of making terms. Nations as patriotic as the Ger mans, as highly animated, as well equipped, and with the world to draw on for supplies, are bent on forcing Germany to talk peace. It yet only a question of which side is .stronger. , The rush of world events nowadays largely overshadow the revolutions of peace. Some day history will record the political changea wrought by the direct election of United States senators, which now pass unnoted. An inkling of what history may embalm can be gathered from the report from the Bay State that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, campaigning for re-election, "rode into the fair grounds at New Bedford on an elaborate oxcart.". Only those who know the sen ator can fully measure the magnitude of his con cession to the mighty rural vote. ; By fixing his itinerary so as to reach Omaha just in time to review the afternoon historical pageant and to leave the city immediately after his evening address, the president avoids all en tanglements with the knife-wielding factions. As a smooth politician the president can give our local democratic "leaders" cards and spades and still beat them at the game. t . ; ., -, , : "Why I Am for Hughes' Raymond Robin The republican party though often domi nated by the masters ot special privilege ana made by them the instrument of vast exploitation has a rank and file of men and women who have oroved their caoacitv to reiect false or dis honest leadership. Conceived in moral revolt against human slavery, it was born, baptized and nurtured in the supreme national struggle to maintain Tie national heritage and fulfill the promise of equal opportunity to every citizen, Is not its rank and file best calculated to sup port a leadership that will create a national mind and conscience, and having preserved the integrity of the nation against the heresy ot se cession, will it not develoo and maintain a nro gressive national program of aocial and economic organization? I hope so, I think so, and this is one of the reasons why I am for Charles E. Hugffes. We need industrial preparedness, with a pro gram of standardization in our economic life. For the workers, we need living wages, fair hours of labor, workshop sanitation and fire protection, with accident, sickness, old age and unemploy ment insurance. Trade agreements and arbitra tion should take the place of individual exploita tion and industrial civil war. For capital, we need the intelligent co-operation of government, both at home and abroad. When this war is ove.- we will face the most intense industrial competition that the world of commerce has ever known. A comprehensive protection of the home market and support for American foreign trade is in dispensable it we are to preserve industrial pros perity. For both capital and labor we should develop a progressive policy in taxation that will lift the hscal burdens of government from labor and enterprise and place them upon monopoly and privilege. These things and these conditions I 'believe will be sped on their way by the election of Charles E. Hughes. ' ' Can these imperative national needs be Vaorked out by a state's rights democratic party that plans a state-dominated militia, with its menace of shiftless incompetence, spoils politics and organized snobbery jn a national defense force, at a time of world peril? More and more it becomes plain that most of .our pressing prob lems of large import are national in scope and will yield only to national action. Yet we find the democratic the modern, and, let us hope, the last, stronghold of the advocates of local sov ereignty. This doctrine of individualism, sec tionalism and disunion menaced and almost pre vented the freeing of the colonies from foreign domination. This doctrine well nigh defeated the adoption of a unifying constitution, wherein the American nation became a fact Wherever the fight for more efficient and more humane government has been waged, this baneful doc trine of states' rights has been invoked to rally and shelter the anti-social forces, to arouse sec tional bias, local jealousy and all the mean, nar row passions that hold men's eyes upon the ground, when great human needs call upon them to look beyond the rough and dusty road to the far country that is worth the toil and sacrifice of the long, hard journey. ' I believe in the character and courage of the nominee of the republican party. He is the most conspicuous example in our history of the possibilities that American politics may hold for success in able and unselfish public service. For myself, I gladly enlist with the great major ity of the progressives of the nation under the leadership of Charles Evans Hughes. The Cost of Living (K. Lonla Glens Democrat ' The term "high cost of living" has never been a joke except among the few, jesting at the scar who never felt the wound. Some wits have in verted or transposed the saying to make it read "cost of high living," and while the problem was less scute than now, such pleasantries were tol erated and even laughed at. But with practically all prices now on a steadily ascending scale, and with the question of how much more the cam el's back can carry before it breaks, anyone who undertakes to discuss the - question of living costs, their causes and present and continuing ef fects, must take up that task seriously. The Sublic mind is no longer in the mood for persi age about such a serious matter, i Defenders of the administration who seek to square with existing facts and figures that re markable plank in the Baltimore convention on which Mr. Wilson was elected, which declared that the comparatively low prices of that year were excessive and the plain results of a protec tive tariff, attribute all present phenomenal ad vances to the outbreak of war in Europe. But prices were advancing after the adoption of the present democratic tariff law and before the be ginning of war. In March of last year there was issued from the Bureau of Labor Statistics a large pamphlet entitled "Retail Prices, 1907 to December, 1914." In the comparative prices set out in the many tables of figures, it is shown that comparative prices of all sorts of meats rose at an average advance of approximately 13 per cent between 1912, the year in which what were called high prices were denounced as effects of pro tective tariffs, and the end of December, 1914, after the country had been under a free trade tariff law for fifteen months. The same sad story is told and can readily be found on pages 12 and 13 of this instructive compendium of prices of lard, eggs, butter and milk. In another table higher cost of fuel is shown. In bread weights we quote the1 pamphlet directly, where, on page 20, it is reported that "Comparisons of weights on December 15, 1914, and on December 15, 1913, are available for 228 brands, and of that number the weight of six brands was heavier on Decem ber 15, 1914, than on the corresponding date of 1913, the weight of eighty-nine brands was un changed, and the weight of 133 brands was lighter." A still more striking part of this showing is to be found by comparison with another federal official report. Not long ago we quoted a census bulletin showing that in December, 1914, there were 600,000 fewer employes in manufacturing establishments than in the same month of the year 1909. That was three months after the be ginning of the war, but before its great demand was felt on our industry. Such a falling off in employment means, invariably and inevitably, a heavy falling off in demand. Yet prices were still soaring. .The chief virtue of democracy, as it was pictured to the voters of 1912, was its power to lower prices of the necessities of life. Has anybody seen them going down? People and Events In the eyes of at least one woman a certain Kentucky man is worth $1,000,000. She sacrificed a fortune of that amount by remarriage. As her share of the fortune reverts to her children by the deceased father, it is unlikely the sacrifice will be as large as it looks at first sight. The last of the school lands of Kansas, about 1,000 acres .was taken up last month, making a totafaf 46,343 acres disposed of in twelve months. The school land endowment of the state origi nally comprised 2,476,628 acrea, for which pur chasers paid the state $7,885,573, or an average of $3.19 per acre. ' Oregon points with pride to one family dis tinguished for soldier sons. Mrs. E. B. Merry man of Portland witnessed the enlistment of her fifth son in the United States army,- making a total of 291 members of the Merryman family who have seen service in the army during the Revolutionary war and since. ; Among the effects of the late J. P. Morgan were $8,000 worth of cigars which cost $1.25 each. J lhe after-dinner smokes of the banker Colossus were ordered in 5,000 packages and were spe cially made by a Cuban. From tufers to $1.25 is some smoky span, but the joy of one is no greater than the other, provided the tsste fits the grade.. panwwaryaar- awaaer. aa JT Thought Nugget tor the Day. ' It has been a thousand times ob served, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pans with happy prospects In view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. Oliver Goldsmith. One Year Ago Today in the War. Greek Parliament voted war sup plies and state of siege in Macedonia. British fleet and French batteries pounded German defenses on Belgian coast. - French captured hill in Champagno and penetrated second German line. Rome reported Italian offensive making- headway in the Tyrol. Turks in Mesopotamia reported In full retreat toward Bagdad, pursued by British. , In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.. M. C. Meagher, formerly of Roches ter, N. Y., was married to Miss Jennie E. Webb ot Chicago, who has been spending the summer in Omaha. After a wedding trip to Denver the young couple will make their future home in Omaha. A large number of delegates, friends of candidates, lobbyists and the usual "lookers-on-ln-Vlenna," have left for Lincoln to attend the republican con vention. Among the departures were EDITORIAL SIFTINGS. uarr, se Judge Stenberg, Dr. Mercer, Casper E. Yost, John M. Thurston, Judge Crounse and the never-to-be-forgotten Pat O'Hawes and Frank Walters. The advisory board of the Toung Men's Christian association met to consider questions connected with the erection of a new building. Howard B. Smith tendered his resignation as member of the board and P. C' Hime baugh was elected to All the vacancy. Andreen and Emberson is the name of a firm ot welt known business men who have started a soap factory In South Omaha. - The residents on' Phil Sheridan and Park avenue met in Porter Bros.' store to consider matters connected with the pavement of their streets. Dr. R. C. Moore occupied the chair and C. V. Horton acted as secretary. The feeling of those present at the meeUng was in favor of cedar block pavement. Mr. Burson, an experienced foun dry man, Is in the city avith a view to locating an iron foundry here. The assistant ' city engineer, A." J. Grover, announces that he Is the proud father of twins a boy and a girl. This Day in History. 1792 An attack of over 700 In dians on Buchanan's Station, near Nashville, was repulsed by a garrison of fifteen men. 1840 Foundation laid for the Nel son Column in Trafalgar Square, Lon don. ',:.. V- 1844 The Mexicans , recaptured Los Angeles from the Americans. 1866 Rev. John Hennessy was consecrated Catholic blshp of Du buque, la. 1870 Public funeral ceremonies were held In New York for Admiral Farrairut I 1891 Genera! Boulanger, 1 ex-war minister of France, and subsequent leader of a party that threatened the overthrow of the' government, com mitted' suicide at Brusels. 194 George F. Hoar, United States senator from Massachusetts, died at Worcester. Born at Concord, Mass., August 29, 1820. ' 1909 President Taft attended the International exposition at Seattle. 1911 By the breaking of a pulp mill dam at Austin, Pa., the town was practically wiped out and more than 100 persons were killed. 1912 The governments of Bul garia, Greece and Serbia ordered the mobilization of their armies against Turkey. ' ' The Day We Celebrate. Lucius A. Welsh, local " weather forecaster, is just 68 years old'. He waa born In Union county, Ohio, and has been an official in the United States signal service and the United States weather bureau from 187 S un til the present date. Henry B. Liggett, secretary of the Pantorium, was born September 80, 1844, at Akron, O. He was educated as a physician and practiced for thirty years, moving to Omaha in 1899 to enter his present business. Max Rosenthal was born September 30, 1869, near Baltmore. He was connected with the Peoples Store for ve years, moving in 1893 to Port land, Ore., where he established a branch and returning to Omaha in 1894 to engage In business for him self. . ' Cadet Taylor la 68 years old today. He was born In Putnam county, Illi nois, is a printer by trade and was at one time part proprietor of the Omaha Dally Republican. Walter G. Silver of the City Trust company is celebrating his thirty ninth birthday today. He is a native of Lostant, III., and before coming to Omaha was with the Harris Trust company In Chicago. Rear Admiral William P. Dav. IT S. N., retired, born in New York sixty-eight years ago today. Rt. Rev. Joseph O. Anderson, Cath olic bishop ot Boston, born In Boston flfty-one years ago today. i Wilton Lackaye, one of the well known actors of the American stage, born In London county, Virginia, fifty-two year ago today. Cyrus Northrop, president emeri tus of the University of Minnesota, born at Rldgefleld, Conn., eighty-two years ago today. Winthrop M. Daniels, member of the Interstate Commerce commission, born at Dayton, O., forty-nine years today. Dr. John Henry MacCracken, pres ident of Lafayette college, born at Rochester, VL, forty-one years ago today. . Dr. Henry A. Buchtel. university chancellor and former governor of Colorado, boro near Akron, O., sixty- nine year ago today. John Holland, -owner and. manager of the St Joseph Western league base Dan team, born at, El Paso, Tex., forty-four years ago today. G. N. (Nap) Ttucker. pitcher of the Brooklyn National league base ball team, born at Alpharetta, Oa., thirty- one years ago today. Philadelphia Ledger: The 6-cent loaf Ii aequiriug eomething like the notoriety of the eight-hour day, Houeton Poet t , Ten yean from now Uncle Satn will tax everything from a man's morn ing yawn to his hopee of ealvation. Waehfngton Poet: A aueeesiful business nan can easily be identified when out motor ing by the fact that hie wife Is at the steer ing wheel. Boston Transcript: Mr. Wilson laya he will not attack Mr. Hughee on the stump. Maybe he ia going to send him a couple of firm but friendly notes. Washington Post: However, there are quite a few preelection prophets on each side who deserve to be rewarded with, a nice, soft berth in the court of claims. Philadelphia Ledger: A friend of Kitch encr quotes him as saying: "No officer should be an orator or speaker." In civil Ufa. aa in the military sphere, there ia a progressiva reduction of the premium upon mere eloquence. Baltimore American: The new Britieh armored car leaps trenches and ditches like a cavalry horse. The inventive genius of the age is responding wonderfluly to the unusual demands, but the drawback to this invention is that it is not construe tive, but ruinous in its bearing on human life. New York World: According to a state ment from Ottawa, Canada's net debt is now $658,621,270, an increase since July II of 129,417,3(6 and of 1186,212.889 dur ing the past year. The net debt has nearly doubled since the war began and there has been a total expenditure on war during the past four months of 176,810,719. With the population and wealth of the country taken into consideration, the figures are formidable. Springfield -Republican: Perhaps not a great distinction but one worth claiming is that of having built the first concrete boat- The honor, belongs to the United 8tates, the bureau of navigation announces, apropose of the launching of such a vessel In Norway the other day. The American pioneer waa built at Fairfield. Md.. in 1912. It ia entitled to a humble place with the first successful submarine and the first suc cessful aeroplane, both American Inventions. CHEERY CHAFF. Her father Can you support my daugh ter In the style to which ho has been ac customed? , Lover No-O, sir. ' . .. mi .t,. hi niin man. 1 iter r nisei in-u - , wiui afraid you thought you could. -Puck. Redd And does your wife take an In terest ln the carl Oreene No It eeems to be the only ining 'about the place she doesn't want to nlan litfe Tonkers Statesman. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Fifty thousand visitors are expected in Battle Creek, Mich., today to hear Colonel Roosevelt deliver the open ing speech In hia western campaign tour in, the interests of Hughes. Methodists throughout the country are to observe Sunday as rally day, the occasion being the 150th anniver sary of American Methodism under Philip EmDury. . President Wilson Is to address members of the Young Men'a Demo cratic league at Shadow Lawn today, which has been designated by the democratic national commute as Young Men s day." i Charles E. Hughes, the republican presidential nominee, is to conclude his tour of western New York with a speech, in Buffalo tonight WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES. Women campaigners for Hughes will visit thirty-one states, making a special train tour, In October. More than 100 citlea are included in the itinerary. Mrs. Jana L. Armstrong is to be the first woman warden in New York penal Institu tions, having bean appointed to take charge of the Valerie farm for women, she is the wife of ex-Senator William W. Armstrong of Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Catherine McCuIIoch of Chicago, well known aa a lawyer and suffragist, baa of fered her aervicea to defend Mrs. Ivy Barnes, accused of shooting her husband. Mrs. McCuIIoch thinks that the jury that tries this woman should be composed half of women. , Mrs. Russell gage, who Is 88 years of age, celebrated, her birthday on September 8 by giving 140,000 worth of presents. Sha gave 115,000 to Syracuse educational institutions and gifts of $5,000 each to Ave other insti tutions. Her gifts up to the present total 185,000,000. , I The congressional committee of the Na tional American Woman Suffrage association reporta that 8fi per eent of the congressmen who replied to their letter ia regard to their view about the federal suffrage amendment announce themselves in favor of it and their intention to vote for it, Clubwomen of Pittsburgh are going to be gin the elub year by putting into practice their theories aa to dress reform, in the sense of being simple. At the president's reception to be held at -one of the hotels on October 8, all of the women will wear simple white dresses, instead of the elaborate reception gowns that have bean In vogue of late years. S,tA 6Kr2fcTl-1 HrtfKtEP- -HowcfXH iieerrA , carl riee ' Ce AS rbinfeA loo AH Mrs. Toungwed There Is one queer thing 1 can't understand about Charley when he knows how anxious I am to meet all hla relations. . Mrs. Oldwlfa What ia that, my dear? Mrs. Toungwed He always puts me OK when 1 want to meet- the nice uncle he la continually getting money from. Baltimore American. rSana"" " . Wa".OUT.WEST. First Wenterner (In New York restaurant) Shall we ffo7 Second Westerner Don't be In hurry. If we wait a little longer maybe we'll see a New YorKer. Julie. "I'm walking for my health." announced the wayfarer, as a sort of preliminary. "Well, it ain't healthy for trampa around here." was the unsympathetic comeback, Louisville Courier-JournaL . R2STING TIME. . New York Timea. . -The quiet days are comlnf. On the hllla The aun glows palely, while the aephyra wing A. . . Their noiseless ways. Where onca the bab bling rills Told merry tales now only alienee falls. And when a lone bird for soma wanderer calls Its plaintive notes no faintest echoes bring. Gone ara the voices that the summer knew Those gay, glad voices joining vale and steep; Bare are the bowers where rare-hued flow era grew And tall ferns nodded, while the slumber ing trees Whisper, tn dreams, to every passtng breeze, Those dear, sweet secrets that a tree should keep. the days When 'neath blue skies, fond love pur sued its quest. Now Indian summer's chastely gleaming hase Bathes all the earth in quiet, minor tone. Yet summer's love has come into Its own. And heart to heart its many triumphs rest "Why, bless ye, child," she told ma. when I asked her how it waa She kept on sweetly smllln', though sha peared to have no cause; Taint my world, or cows, or chickens, or - my corn that's washed away; God just loaned them to Aunt Josle, an He wants them back today." And when dear granny passed away sha wasn't exactly glad, She jest kept on a Bmllln', but the smile was awful sad. 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