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Barbour County index., 1905-04-05

policy of publicity in the affairs of great
corporations. There is strong person.
al bond of sympathy between the presi-
dent and Mr. Garfield, on account of SIM
1larity of tastes in many directions.
They both served as United States civil
service commissioners. and are devoted
to the highest principles of civil service.
They frequently discuss together the
welfare of the civil service bureau and
the best methods of enforcing the law.
In another way there is similarity
of taste, and that is fondness of out
door exercise and sports. During the
slack season in Washington, when the
president can devote a few hours each
day to outdoor exercise, Mr.. Garfield
can be found two or three times week
pitted against the chief executive in a
game of tennis in the court in the rear
of the white house offices. When these
games first began Mr.. Garfield was not
very expert and the president usually
had the best of it. One day, after having
numerically beaten him, the president
declared:
Garfield, If you make as poor com
minssioner of corporations as you do a
tennis player, am going to put some
body else in your place"
Since that time Mr.. Garfield has i'm
proved, and the honors are now abc1t
even when they contest with the
racquets. Mr.. Garfield is very useful
also to the president on account of his
familiarity with literature. The COM
missioner is an omniverous reader and
devours everything in the way of new
publications. He is able to advise the
president as to the quality of any new
work that may appear, and Mr.. Roose-
velt finds it very convenient and ad-
vantageous to follow his suggestions.
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Traffic in Child Wives.

Traffic in child wives in Chicago has
been brought to light by Superintend-
ent Lester Bodine. of the compulsory
education department OF the board Of
education. He has made an exhaustive
investigation of the statistics In the
marriage license department. Superin-
tendent Bodine declares that the mar
rtage laws Of Illinois are inexcusably
lax and permit children to be sold into
matrimonial slavery by conscienceless
parents. His investigation shows that
the habit Of marrying child wives has
Increased alar-lingly in the last fc7
years, that 1t no longer is confined to
the Italians, to plead the traditions of
Italy as an excuse, but has spread
among other nationalities until it has
become a social menace. In the last
two years, it is reported, 3O1 girls in
Chicago under legal age have been
married. The ages of these girls range
from IA to 16. No proof of age was
submitted In any case except in the
affidavit filed by the applicant for
hcense-who generally was the pros
pective bridegroom. Superintendent
Bodine found 1t was a common prac-
tice for men Of the peasant class to
come from foreign countries, especially
from the southern provinces of Italy
and Sicily, and give their II, 13 or IA
year-old daughters in marriage in con-
sideration for money enough to pay
the passage Of the entire family across
the sea.
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After the Bachelors.

Once more the bachelors are beins
threatened by the legislators with all
sorts OF punishments, in the hope OF
frightening them into matrimony.
These legislators and their hackers de-
nounce the bachelor as a monster OF
selfshness, a wretch who shirks the
highest duties and responsibilities OF
life. The advocates of matrimony
says the Saturday Evening Post, are
hardly as discreet as they are earnest,
Are they not making the bachelor the
more resolute in his lonely way by
thus representing matrimony as state
Of grievous laval which it is not a
pleasure, but a grave duty, for man to
enter? Would they not act more wise.
ly and with better results if, instead of
threatening the bachelor, they treated
him as an object of pity, a5 one de-
serving of great consideration, because
he, through ignorance or feeble mind
edness or lack of destinations, was de-
MED the joy and bliss of headship OF
q family?
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secretary of the treasury. The last grad
uate from this Institution is Hon. Rob.
ert B. Armstrong, better known as
Bobby Armstrong, the young assist
ant secretary of the treasury, who was
brought into prominence by Secretary
Shaw. Mr.. Armstrong has just left the
government service to accept the presi.
dency of the Casualty Company of Amer
lea, New York insurance concern.
Some five years ago Bobby" Armstrong
was hustling, bright young newspa-
per man, whose work attracted the at
tention of Mr.. Shaw.
When Mr.. Shaw became secretary OF
the treasury, he made young Armstrong
his private secretary and later, when a
vacancy occurred in the most important
assistant secretaryship of the depart
ment, he recommended the young man
for appointment. Mr.. Armstrong was
then not more than % years of age, and
the youngest man who ever held the Of
flee. He filled the position for some
two years, and has left it to accept one of
higher salary by probably $4,000 year
than he has been receiving. In this he
has followed the example of Hon. Frank
A. Vanderlip, who came here as private
secretary to Lyman j. Gage Mr.. Shaw's
predecessor at the head of the treasury
department. Vanderlip also became an
assistant secretary of the treasury, po-
sition which he left to accept the vice
presidency of big banking institution
in New York.
Hon. Milton E. Allies. who began pub
lie life as a coal HEAVIER in the treas
ury department. working from that DO
sition to an assistant secretaryship, has
also graduated from the government
financial school, and is now vice presi.
dent of big bank in Washington.
James H. Eckles and Charles G. Dawes,
now prominent in financial circles in
Chicago, are also graduates of the treas.
ury school, both having held the position
of comptroller of the currency. Half a
dozen other men holding influential DO.
sitionS in the financial world began
their careers in the treasury depart.
ment.
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the biggest corporations in the
United States, the Standard Oil
company and the Beef trust. "
1t is probable that before long
he will have added to his list the United
is plain, matter-of-fact gentleman, pos
sessed of the valuable secret of keeping
his own counsel. He pursues the even
tenor of his way, directing corps of
inspectors in their investigation of cor
porations, without paying any attention
to criticism or commendation. Like the
Wisconsin statesman who "seen his
duty and done it" Mr.. Garfield has little
thought of anything but carrying out in
structions from the president and
filing the requirements of the law that
governs his bureau.
Mr.. Garfield is the youngest son of the
late President Garfield, and was mere
kid" when his father occupied the
white house He has had a fiattering
public career for a man of his age, hav-
ing been a successful lawyer, member
of the Ohio senate, civil service commits
Sioner and now commissioner of corpo-
rations, a position that is hardly Sec
ond to that of secretary of the depart
ment of commerce itself. He is such a
matter-of-fact gentleman that there are
few anecdotes and stories told about
him. He is serious-minded, although
appreciative of good joke, but seldom
makes one himself. He was a close
friend Of the late Senator Hanna. and
the latter was very anxious that young
Garfield should have placed him in nom
ination before the Ohio legislature for
man. The latter would have been proud
of the honor, but he re1inquished it in
faver of a close personal friend, John j.
Sullivan, now United States District At
torney at Cleveland.
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Chloroform with This.

DR.. William Osler. whose old-aga
theory has created such a stir, said
once in lecture that all prescriptions
and medical directions should he wit
ten very plainly, and in a way tnat
admitted of no double Interpretation
AS an illustration, he related a story
Of physician who told patient that
he must drink hot water an hour be-
fore breakfast, and, so that the dircc-
tions would not be forgotten, gave the
man a slip Of paper with them written
on it: Drink hot water an hour be-
fore breakfast" The patient returned
In a week, and reported that he was
worse than before. Did you follow
my directions. and drink hot water
an hour before breakfast" asked the
doctor. Il tried to-" was the dolcfui
reply, "but couldn't keep it up for
more than ten minutes at stretch"
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The Pace That Kills.

We hear great deal nowadays-some
truth, much twaddle-concerning this
subject. Like many another scapegoat
says American Medicine, it bears un-
merited burdens, but it's legitimate load
Is well worth occasional weighing. The
latest weighmaster halls from New York,
where, we are told, deaths from heart
disease and from nephitis have risen
from 1876 per 10000 in 1868 to 1916 per
10000 in 1904. Much of this increase is
attributed to changed conditions of life,
and the arguments, therefore, are suffi-
ciently sound to be at least partially
convincing. We work, play and eat un-
der forced draught, as marine engineers
would put 1t, and in the last-named it,
dustry rapid stoking and inferior fuel
leave troublesome clinkers in the CRATE
The rank and file, however, need not
worry. Hard work in making an actual
living is rarely pathogenic and still less
often fatal 1t is the man who would
add to his possessed fortune, small or
large, who must go the killing pace.
Looked at squarely. it is the eternal
hurry for wealth, or dissolution in the
spending of it, that dominates the pic
ture. Let this point be clear or faulty,
perspective will breed discomfort ard
alarm In the man with moderate COM
petence or less. The results of unnatural
living must not be attributed to the
simple life"
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In organization of their army the
japanese copied the German system
and in the navy the English and Amer
ican. In their code of laws they imi-
tated La Code Napoleon and afterward
the German principle and method. In
finance they copied the American sys-
tenn by adopting our gold, silver, nickel
and copper money. and they went so
far as to copy greenbacks from US.
II you will take up those old Japanese
greenbacks you will find them exact
ly the same as the American, except
in the writing.
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of coffee, valued at sSS,000,000 brought
into the United States, and practically
all of it was used by the people of this
country. The total worlds production of
coffee in the year 1904 was in round num-
bers 2,260. 100000 pounds, or only about
the double quantity that was brought
into the United States during the CAL
endar year 1904. In a general way the
United States consumes practically one
half of the coffee entering into the
worlds markets.
details giving the consumption of cof.
fee in the various countries is for the
calendar year 1902. These figures show
for that year consumption by the
United States of S52,272, 900; Germany.
3S0,S20.000 pounds; France, 1SS. .7GO 600
pounds; Austria-Hungary. 90. $50 900
pounds; Holland 81. 500, 900 pounds: Bel.
gium, 72, 600, 900 pounds; Sweden. 81 APO.
900 pounds; Russia, 39,6o0,0o0 pounds;
Italy. S5,640.000 pounds, and Great Brit
ain, 81, 100000 pounds.
There has been steady growth in cof.
fee consumption in the United States
Beginning with 1880 each decade up to
1890 shows an increase per capita as fol-
lows: In 1880 there were less than
three pounds per capita; in 1910. five
pounds; in 1850, Sc pounds; in 1860. 5.S
pounds; in 1870. six pounds; in 1880. SO
pounds; in 1890, rs pounds, and in 1900
9.S pounds. Since 1900 there has been
an increase until last year the consump-
ton was 1864 pounds The high
est consumption per capita was in
the year 1902. when it amounted to 13 SO
pounds for each, man, woman and child
in the United States.
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We Drink Much Coffee

HE people Of the
United States are
the greatest coffee
drinkers in the
W orl d. This is
demonstrated be.
yond dispute by the
figures compiled by
the bureau of Sta
tistics regarding
the use of coffee.
L a S t year there
were more than
one billion DOuDda
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Prompts the Speaker.

I is a constant
source of marvel to
strangers in the
house galleries how
the speaker is able
to decide complex
questions of par
liamentary proceed
ure on the spur of
the moment, cite
precedents a nd
give a decision that
will stand all tests
of parliamentary
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Training School for Financiers

HE United States
treasury depart
ment has come to
be a training school
for financiers, from
which they gradu-
ate into good posi-
tons with finan-
cial corporations
and at salaries usu-
ally double that
which the govern
ment pays to the
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Congenial Associates.

TIL the exception Of
Attorney General
Moody and Senator
HenryCabot Lodge,
of Massachusetts,
Mr.. Garfield is the
man most frequent
ly consulted by the
president. This is
due largely to the
work Of the bureau
o f corporations,
which is to carry
out the presidents
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To Be Considered.

DO you think that the world is as old as
biologists say?" asked the man who af-
fects science
1T may be-" answered Miss Cayenne.
but we must at least give it credit for
being remarkably well-preserved. -
Washington Star.
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law. Few OF these visitors pay any at
tention to tall, smooth-faced man who
stands at the speakers right, apparent
" with nothing to do but look over the
house. and occasionally open q book
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''Well,'' said Mr.. Titewad, putting
down his paper, that woman who got
all that money from those bankers GER
tainly was shrewd. Seems like a woman
can always get money from a man, no
matter how cautious he is.''
''She can," remarked Mrs Titewad,
so long as she isn't married-to him. -
Judge
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WASHINGTON LETTER
PERSONALITY OF COMMISSIONERS
OF CORPORATIONS GARFIELD.
OFTEN ADVISES PRESIDENT
Speaker of the House Has a Guide at
His Elbow - Treasury Depart
ment Valuable School for
Financiers.

. S H l n G T ON
Few men are more
prominently in the
public eye to-day
than James Ru-
dolph G a + Fl e l d,
commissioner o f
corporations in the
department of COM
merce and labor.
He has on his hands
Just now inveSti-
cations into the op-
erations of two of
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Always Wrong.

Tommy Cooking over the weather
observation-disclosures. what is a con.
trary wind?
Mrs. Tucker quitting another pin or
two in her hat).-Any kind. Tommy.-
cbicaED Tribune.
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Hundreds of war veterans have kid
ney and bladder trouble.
Impure drinking water, sleeping or
the ground, and all manner of expo.
Sures to wet and cold weather produced
cafarrh of the kidneys and bladder.
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The Execution

ERNEST HAROLD BAYNEs.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-04-22

corner No 5, an inch pine tree cut off
3 1-2 feet above ground and squared to
5 inches, a mound of earth and rock
placed around base, scribed 5-1SS8, iden-
teal with location; thence north de-
grees so minutes west, 160.04 feet to
intersection of line ga, survey 1910,
200. rs feet to intersection of line 2-3,
survey 1910, 1929 feet to corner No 6,
a pine tree inches diameter, cut off
8 IL feet above the ground and squared
to inches, with mound of earth around
the base, scribed 6-18S8. identical with
location; thence south SO degrees 20
minutes east, SOB. 8 feet to corner NO. Z,
a pine tree cut off IL feet above the
ground and squared to 8 inches, with
mound of earth about base scribed Z
1888; thence north 81 degrees OF min
utes 80 seconds east, 1902 feet to cor
ner No. 8, identical with location and
corner No. 4, Wide Awake placer, this
survey; thence south 63 degrees SO min
utes east along line 4-3 Wide Awake
placer, this survey, 1884 feet to corner
No 9, identical with corner No. 3, the
Wide Awake placer and corner NO. 3,
survey 1889, King Bird lode; thence
south 40 degrees. II minutes east, 25l.4
feet to corner No. l, the place of be-
ginning
The discovery notices of the above
named claims are posted at corner No.
l of each of the several locations.
Area of the Hidden
Treasure placer is 15.156 acrs
Area of Wide Awake
placer Z. 1914
Area of Minnehaha
placer . 1918 acrs.
Area of Minnehaha
in conflict with Sic
galCeek, claimed .OO4
Area of Minnehaha
placer. claimed, 10. 768 -
Total area claimed by
this survey, 49.foo acrs
The adjoining claims are on the east,
the Pickwick, Fish Hawk, King Fisher,
King Bird, and. Humming Bird, and on
the southwest the Siegle Creek. -
The notices and amended notices Of
location of the said claims are of record
in the county recorders Office of Idaho
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-04-22

county as follows: That of the Hidden
Treasure, original in book a at page 55S,
amended in book 20 at page 1877; that
of the Wide Awake, original in book 8
at page 446, amended in book 20 at page
1896; that of the Minnehaha, original III
book at page $50, amended in book 20
at page 1893.
]. B. WEST, Register.
First publication February rs, 1905.
Last publication April 20, 1905.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-25
sILAS IL. BUTCHER HURT.
Prominent HrOollynte Is Knocked Down
by Cab and slightly Injured

Silas b. butcher. president Of the Hamil-
ton Trust Company. was knocked down
by cab at Montague and Court streets.
Brooklyn. yesterday afternoon, and re-
oeived severe scalp wound. Mr., butcher,
who is 70 years old. was crossing the square
TO take Seventh avenue ear home. The
cab, which was in charge OF James Harri-
son of 1879 Madison avenue. Manhattan,
was on its way 70 Manhattan.
The horse struck Mr.. butcher. knocking
him down, and his head struck one of the
car tracks He was taken to his Office,
where DIR. F. II. Birmingham OF 1872 Non
tague street dressed the wound. Al the
time OF the accident the cab Was occupied
by Mrs. Mayer H. Beruheirner Of 10 East
Sixty-eecond street, Manhattan, whose
husband il a cotton broker. After she as
certained that Mr. butcher was not seriously
injured and learned that he would not enter
any complaint against the driver she con-
tinued TO Manhattan.
Mr.. butcher ia not only prominent in
financial afYairs but also takes a leadin <
part in Republican politics, and years ago
was one of the leading Republicans Of Kings
county He was able to go home unRc-
commanded
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-25
DEATH ~ SYMPTOM TUNNEL.
Workmen Overcome when They Try to
Inspect the ia ining of the portngS.

Special Gable DeJDIteh 10 THE Sun.
BERNR, Feb. 2i-When the boring of the
Simplon tunnel through the Alps was com
pleted this morning the last charge in the
tunnel was fred by an Italian named
Bedassa, who fired the first charge used in
the work. The explosion was Immediately
followed by a rush of boiling water from
the northern into the southern tunnel.
This had been foreseen, and the water was
carried Off by ingenious cofferdam works.
The atmosphere. however. was 80 sitting
that the workmen. who had gone 10 what
they supposed was a safe distance, were
nearly overcome. They waited until IT
was thought the air had sufficiently cooled
and then advanced 70 inspect the piercing.
They were too soon. Several of them
tainted, and one died from paralysis Of
the heart.
Three engineers reached the breach and
found the boiling water still gushing OUT.
They were unable 10 stay for more than a
few seconds. They hastily retrcated and
ordered the worknen out All reached
Iseue in safety. Work has been tempo
rarily suspended.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-25
LONG AGAINST LARGE NAVY.
ES'secretary OF the Navy opposes Presi-
dent Rooseyelt's Ideas.

BOsroN. Feb "a Ex-Secretary Of the
Navy John d. Long in a speech before
the New England Rubber Club here to-
night put himself on record as opposed
to President Roosevelts ideas OF building
a large navy and also 10 the treaty with
Santo Domingo He said
L am one Of those who do not, at this
Tune, look with favor on too great an in
crease OF the navy. We need larger navy
than army, because we can always impro-
vise an army. Ihen Is no danger that this
country VIII ever he invaded We need
navy for police duty, but IL is not desirable
to have it so large that we are tempted
TO seek employment for II, and VIC have now
a very good navy as II Is.
here are now under construction
twenty-four new armored cruisers and
battleships, 40 that we shall have thirty
I'VE or thirty-six in few years. This
year we should construct only one or none
at all. There are two reasons for not in
creasing the navy: First. there is danger Of
creating in the public mind a reaction Of
sentiment; second, II will be impossible TO
find sufficient men 10 man the boats ade-
quately.'
Referring to the treaty with Santo Do
mingo, Gov. Long said.
Il haven't a particle of sympathy with
the Santo Domingo treaty. 1t would DO
establishing n bad precedent to ratify it.
We should not ut ourselves in the posi-
ton Of becoming responsible for the debts
of every southern nation. 1t is question
II we should assume such a duty
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-25
WOTLDN'T SEE FIRENEN.
New Haven Directors stick TO Their Ex-
nress ed HnlicA-n eahN IL q Str1ke tonnes.


The officers Of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen who have been coming
from New Haven to New York almost daily
for week or more oblvious 20 the ult-
matum OF President Mellen Of the New
Haven railroad. made an unsuccessful
attempt to see some of the directors at
the Grand Central Station yesterday
j. j. HanrahRn, grand chief; Timothy
Shea. grand chief. and A. p. Kelly,
chairman. Of the grievance committee OF
the brotherhood, were tho officers who
tried 10 zee the New Haven directors. At
the company's Office they were told that
the directors having already refused the
demand that hrenen promoted 10 be en-
Rineers should be representedin negotiations
bv the frcmcn's brotherhood there could be
no further communication between the
brotherhood and President Melien on the
subject
P.H MorTisey, grand chief Of the Brother
hood Of Railway Trainmen, which proposes
70 have a similar grievance was expected
TO confer with the firernen's officers here.
but he did not come 10 New York. After
its rebuff the committee went to New
Haven.
To he ready for any trouble that may
occur the company has tho addresses OF
fremen who have been put through an
examination and are ready To Jump in and
take vacant places as coon as a strike is
deola ned. As the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers will not strike in sym
patty, the company is not alarmed over the
situation