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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
tuberculosis Congress.
Fron. the New York Herald.


The international tuberculosis congress
now being held in Paris is doing excellent
work the influence of which must be felt
throughout the entire civilized world. 1t
is peace congress IN its largest sense, as
1t gathers together the experts of all ma
tions to decide what is best for humanity
In dealing with common enemy that de-
stroys more than bullet or sword The
glory of science is to save life, and pre-
ventive medicine especially claims the
highest of all considerations. The real
good that is to be accomplished by such
conferences is the wide publicity given to
their discussions and the consequent
benefit of the recommendations made.
When it is stated, for instance. that alco-
holism overwork and oyercrowding arr
the main predisposing causes of tubercu-
iosis we can be beeomingly impressed
with the vast Importance of the purely
sociological problems that must engage
the attention of philanthropists and SAM
tary workers the world over. The fact,
although not new one, Is emphasized In
a way that gives 1t new Importance.
So, also. the necessity for healthy dwell
ings good food. cleanliness. fresh air and
abundance of sunshine is again enforced
In way that cannot be misunderstood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
Ten Millions.
York Times.

From the New York Times.
To the mind accustomed only to ordinary
transactions the payment of ten millions
oe dollars in cash is an impressive fact in
itself. and it is not very many years since
such a payment by an individual in the
course of business would have aroused
good deal of interest and some wonderment.
But when ON Monday the general educa-
ton board received that sum from Mr.
Rockefeller in checks-a half dozen of a
million each, and a couple of two millions
each-the matter attracted no especial at
tention, none at all as to the magnitude
of the payment, and not much to it's
object. On the part of the giver there were
evidences also of the commonplace nature
of the incident. The checks were signed
by his attorneys, as IL they conveyed sums
too small and too frequently called for for
the principal to deal with directly. If they
had been warehouse receipts or bills OF
lading they weuld not more completely have
followed the beaten path. The affair, as
one reflects on It, seems saturated with the
flavor of immense wealth. Poor Balzac,
fleeing from his creditors, and goading his
fancy to the conception of boundless for
tune never hit upon set of fictitious facts
SO magnificent in their suggestiveness. and
today the record of them passes as an item
OF current news. a contribution to the mere
fats divers of one big city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
Hyde.

James Hazen Hyde should come forward
and tell his story without reservations or
conditions. Let him come, not in spirit
o. bravado. or revenge. nor yet In one of
begging and humility. but as man who
possesses much information in which the
public Is interested and from which 1t may
profit. Opinion is divided about this man.
On the one hand he figures as a weakling.
whose head has been turned by wealth. and
whose capers. social and otherwise, have
been influenced by older and shrewder men,
On the other hand he figures as chap who
knows the way around, and has played the
game simply as he saw others playing 1t.
Being in New York he did as the New
Workers were doing. This much we know
he Is free, white and twenty -one-about
thirty, to be exact-and the public waits to
hear from him. Make way for Mr.. Hyde.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
coolie Labor in South Africa

The letter from Pretoria published in
Tuesdays Star, treating in particular of
Chinese crime in the Transyaal and in gem
eral of the coolie system in South Africa,
presents facts which are of interest In the
current discussion of the question Of
smoothing the way for the introduction of
coolie labor in the United States.
The Stars correspondent says that the
coolie system of working the Rand mines
has failed. 1t was proclaimed that the in
auguration of this system would usher in an
era of prosperity in South Africa such as
had never been Witnessed before. What
ever II may have done to fatten the banking
balances of the mining magnates," says
The Stars correspondent. sit has done
nothing to improve the economic coadi-
tons OF the Transvaal. Over 4i.000 coolies
have been Imported. Their dissatisfaction
with the system may be inferred from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

OF the road comes from a Canadian source:
THE road Is generally admitted to be
good one and 1t has q capital country to
serve, but political control costs the people
two prices for what they get. Not only has
the railway been made home for decayed
o. tired politicians sort Of hospital for
ircurable friends OF succeeding govern
ments-but for political purposes rates have
often been fixed absurday low. Through In
competency at political headquarters. through
the loading upon it for the benefit OF polit-
zeal workers of improbable branch lines
through the interference of partlsans with
its operations, through overlooking It with
employees and compelling 1t to run trains
that are not justified by the business cone.
the road has been brought to position
where the more business 1t gets the greater
Is the loss in operating It."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
President Mccall and 1904.

Mr.. Watterson sees the matter in this
light:
IF Mr.. John A. Mccall Is a democrat. as
Mr. Perkins says he is. he gave the Nc
kinney campaign fund of 1896 and 1900 the
money because he was afraid of Mr. Bryan
democrats shared his apprehension. But
there was nothing to frighten Mr. Mccall
away from Judge Parker in 1901. If he
gave money in that year, and Mr. Perkins
says he did. it must have been on compuI-
sion.
On the contrary, may we not assume that
Mr. Mccall felt greater apprehension in
I9oi than In either of the other years? I'm
like Mr.. Watterson. he was right on the
scene where the Parker game was being
worked He had noted the performance at
st. Louis, and after the campaign opened
he could almost see from his office window
the place where Thomas F. Ryan, August
Belmont and William F. Sheehan. all cor
porationists and in intimate touch with
trusts and corporations, were busy with
their coalition with Mr.. Bryan and his
anti-plutoerats and trus, busters >of the
south and west AS a New York business
man. with no political connections, he
could easily appraise the movement and
see that its success would mean a terrible
and disastrous experience for the country.
Gould Judge Parker have named a Secre-
tary of the Treasury who would have been
satisfactory to both factions of his partyY
August Belmont was maneuvering for con-
sideration, but imagine the effect of his ap-
pointment on Mr.. Bryan and his friends,
Imagine also the effect on August Belmont
and his friends of the appointment to that
post of any man acceptable to Mr. Bryan
and his friends! And how about the Office
of Attorney General? Would Mr.. Sheehan
the attorney of trusts, have consented to
the filling of that Office with man who
would accept his commission as instruction
to go after the trusts in court? And would
the appointment of any trust lawyer have
failed to arouse in Mr.. Bryan the very
deepest disgust and resentment?
The Bryan campaigns were full of wind
and full of menace, but the men conducting
them were sincere. Had either succeeded
the opposition would still have known
where to take hold. But the Parker cam
paign, in its essence, was bunco, and sue
cess would have thrown not only the coun-
try into disorder, but the two parties and
particularly the democratic party, into such
disorder as had never before been known in
our politics.
surance Company. Mr.. Mccall using the
company's money, had no right to con-
tribute. and should not have contributed, a
red cent to either of the three campaigns In
question. But the Parker campaign had
everything In 1t to warrant the uneasiness
that 1t gave him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

fact that despite the vIgor displayed In
hunting them up and bringing them back
to the mines. there are now about thou
sand OF them at large Regarding themselves
as the victims of white tyranny and In
Justice, marauding bands of them do not
scruple to rob and murder white people
when they think they can do so with i'm
punity. In the compounds themselves riots
are of frequent occurrence. The coolies are
far more troublesome than ever were the
Kaff1rs whose labor they have replaced
1.-THE Leader" of johannesburg says that
there are 1900 British workmen out of en-
ployment within a twelve-mile radius of the
Johannesburg market square and that such
widespread misery and restitution were
never known before the war. This condition
has aroused a fierce feeling of hostility to
the British government. even among peo-
pie of British birth. who feel that the gov
eminent has betrayed the country into the
hands of capitalists, who are blind to all
interests but those of their own pockets.
The South Africa coole problem is due to
the avarice, the narrowness of understand
Ing and the lack of patriotism OF the mining
capitalists. 1t shows for one thing that
man may have money without brains. We
have men in this country of no bigger cali
but let us nope. not many. Mining reports
published in London show that since the In
PRODUCTION Of coOlie labor the operating ex-
penses of the South African mines have in
creased out of ratio to increase In produc-
ton. 1t costs more to mine ton of ore
with the cheap, inefficient slave labor
brought from Asia than 1t did with the ma
tive black labor. Some labor may be bought
so cheap that 1t Is not worth the price.
Often the cheapest labor Is the most costly
because. it is the least productive. Labor
that is low In price and efficiency is never
cheap in those Industries where machinery
may be employed as In mining. The highest
farm wages in the world are paid in North
America and yet North American corn and
wheat can be sold cheaply and perhaps
more cheaply than any other. Very cheap
labor may be used on cotton and tea, be-
cause no effective picking machine has been
devised.
Outside of the failure of coolie labor in
South Africa to effect the economies ex-
pected Of it. it has demoralized the whole
industrial situation there. and thrown out
of employment the men who buy the goods,
pay the taxes and support the government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
A Picnic.

:
T wisht Twas a candidate.
With nothin' much to do
Except to travel round the state.
:. An make, a speechzor two;
To have my cash in fives an tens.
All ready to command.
To cali EN- Teller citizens
An shake 'em by the hand.
An when the votin' day was here.
With time an money spent
I wouldn't very muchly keer
Which way the lection went.
The office holders task Is great.
The way to have the fun
Is to remain a candidate
An jes' keep on the run.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
Joy!

AS we shudder and think of the Ills OF
the past,
The welcomest words ever spoken
Are heard when the weather man tells
us at last
That the backbone of summer is broken
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The Gospel of the Links.
From London Punch.

The bishop of Manchester declares that II
the people will not come to the church the
church must go to the people and follow
them to their weekend resorts. 1t is. we
hear, proposed to make a start by supply
ing golf links with missionaries. who will
sing short hymn after each drive. In the
event OF a foozle the hymn will be sung
with extraordinary vigor in order to drown
any lay remarks that may be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

If the enterprising New York youth who
wanted to show how easy 1t is to rob a bank
had only confided his intentions to some one
beforehand his philanthropy would seem
more plausible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

The next Presidents message will be more
than usually interesting. despite the scant
probability of its figuring as campaign
document.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

Representative Dalzell says the treasury
deficit is showing a tendency to disappear.
Mr.. Dalzell should be congratulated on his
success in conservative expression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
Would Have No Opposition.
FROM the syracuse Herald

Mr.. Rockefeller insists that people shall
turn their thoughts to higher things than
mere money getting Wouldn't he have q
snap then!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

The Norfolk judge who required a quar-
relsome husband to kiss his wife twice a
day was either q Scion or q Dogberry.
Time alone will tell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

John d. Rockefeller generally manages to
have his own way. He is now engaged in
giving away millions of dollars without a
word OF protest from Dr. GLADDEN..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
Hope.

$50 you enjoy seeing your son play foot
ban?"
Eyes" answered Farmer Corntossel eff
he ever gets into the habit of workin' that
hard, mebbe well make the farm pay yet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
His Opinion.

What do you consider the most remark
able work In American iiterature?" said the
man who asks idle questions.
my life Insurance conrpany's prospectus"
replied the'rueful policy holder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

Young Mr.. Hyde has had his troubles. but
he has at least been lucky, so far, in not
being called 10 the witness stand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
WHAT Not a Colonel!

From the Chicago RecoA1- Herald.
Editor Watterson has denied that he Is
an expert In the mint Julep line. and he
disclaims the title OF colonel. tIe continues
however. TO let the star-eyed goddess sit
on his doorstep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

After Grover Cleveland gets through dis
cusing woman's suffrage he may perhaps
be persuaded to say few words on dress
reform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

Mrs. Cassie Chadwick has evidently man
aged to saved enough out of the wreck to
pay for protracted litigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

There are fears that Pastor Wagner will
grow so popular and prosperous that the
simple life will come hard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

DR.. Osler has evidently changed his mind.
No one hears of his asking anybody to pass
him the choroform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

"Some men," said Uncle Eben. lis talked
about because dey's great. An some mer
seems great because dey manages to gil
talked about"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

Pat Grove must realize that he Is no
nearly as picturesque bandit as Raisoul.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

Judge Parker will at least have no cause
to complain OF leaving public life poorer
than when he entered it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

Mr.. Bowen is one of the people who per-
sist in refusing to stay rebuked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

Unless the car is careful Witte will be
the biggest man In all Russia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05
SHOOTING STARS.
Sarcastic.

"Mr. Bliggins is always alone He DOESN'T
seem to care for anybody's society but his
own
Yes. answered Miss Cayenne, 81 never
saw anybody so fond of bad company"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-05

CIn order TO avoid delays on account Of
personal absence, letters to THE STAB
should not be addressed TO any individual
connected with the o:dce, but simply 60
THE STAR. or to the Editorial or Bust.
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-02-09
wonder, Of Mining.

Tho deepest mining shaft has been
sunk to little more than q mile in Cape
Colony. and the deepest bore hole has
reached about the same depth in Silesia.
It is said that there should be no in
s,,rmountable difficulties In carrying q
shaft down IL miles. An approximate
estimate has shown that to reach q
deuth of two miles the cost would be
81. 500 900. Ten years would be required
and q rock temperature Of 122 degrees
Fahrenheit would be found: while to
penetrate IL miles would cost $25.000. 900
and would take IS years, the rock tenn
perature expected being 273 degrees
Fahrenheit.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-02-09

by his oratory, but he is still young and
persevering.
He is very devout, and in his early
youth he had decided to enter the min
fstry. He changed his mind on that
point on succeeding to the ancestral
acres and titles when only 10. He has.
however, always shown keen interest
In church matters. and only the other
day he berated church choirs aud or
ganists for being more devoted to music
than to religion and thereby sacrificing
piety to art. =f ,
When he was ~ q conservative gov
eminent whipped him off to New South
Wales as governor Of that colony. The
Aatipodeans. who have much less re-
spect for hereditary titles than English
folk. did not take very kindly to him.
His state dances were derisively dubbed
"Seidlitz Powder balls. because tickets
Of admission were blue and white. The
holders of the blue pasteboards were en-
titled to better feed than those who
had been provided only with white
ones. and had other exclusive privl-
leges, too. To the democratic colonists
distinctions Of this sort savored Of
snobbishness. and they resented it. The
earl did not mend matters any by taxi
Ing them to task for their small families
and declining birth rate. That sort of
talk comes all very well from President
Roosevelt. whose precepts are backed
up by the example his own home fur.
nishes of large and healthy family.
but Australian husbands and wives re-
garded 1t as sheer impertinence, COM
ing from a young peer who was at that
time still bachelor, although he could
we'll afford wife. la
In 1902 Beauchamp married Lady
Lettuce Grosvenor. q daughter Of the
late Earl Grosvenor and sister of the
second duke Of Westminster.
The earl is very good looking man.
and he knows it. too. Likewise he is
we'll aware that he has very shapely
hands. and they always figure promt-
nently in his photographs. He is con-
sidered the best dressed man in the
house Of lords. 45s
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-02-09
REPRlEvE GRANTED.
Governor Of Vermont Gives Respite
Of Four Months to Con-
demned Woman.

Windsor, VT, Feb. "a few hours
after receiving the last rites of the
Catholic church and hearing her father
confessor read the prayers for the dying,
Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers, who was SEN
fenced to die upon the gallows this af-
ternoon, listened with amazement to
the announcement of High Sheriff
Henry H. Peck that Gov. Charles J..
Bell had granted her a reprieve of four
months. Preparations for the execution
had been perfected. The gallows had
been erected in the west wing OF the pris-
on, heavy black curtain hanging from
the guardroom windows, shutting the
grewsome machinery of death from the
public view. The reprieve is granted
Mrs. Rogers SO that her claim to not hav-
ing a fair trial might be passed upon by
the supreme court.
The crime for which Mrs. Rogers was
sentenced to death was the murder Of
her husband. Marcus Rogers, on August
II, 1902, at Bennington. He held life
insurance policy for $500. Mrs. Rogers.
Leon Perham and Estelle Bates were
taken into custody. Perham confessed
According to his story, he and Miss
Bates went by Encouragement to the
place where Rogers was to meet his
wife to effect a reconciliation after sep
aration. After pretended reconcirla-
ton, she drew from her dress q piece Of
rope, and told her husband that she
would show him new game. Tying his
hands behind his back, she had him lie
down. Then she took q bottle of chlo-
reform from her pocket and, saturating
her handkerchief, covered his nose and
mouth. AS the dying man struggled
to get away, Perham seated himself
upon Rogers feet. Mrs. Rogers threw
the body into the river. Mrs. Rogers
was convicted Of murder In the first de-
gree and sentenced to death; Leon Per-
ham was found guilty of murder in the
second degree and sentenced to impris-
onment for life, while the case against
Estelle Bates was nolle prosed.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-02-09
TRADE AID tn ATTIC.

The lumber output of the mills in
the Minneapolis district alone last year
was 1888, 4S1 feet.
The cigarette trade in India has in
creased 80 per cent. in four years. The
amount of cigarette tobacco imported
last year was 2,24O, 200 pounds.
In the last Is years Chilli realized
about $500, 100000 from her nitrate
mines. Senior Valdez Vergara calculates
that in the next 20 years the output Of
the nitrate mines will exceed $3.50, 000,-
900 in value.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-02-09
ADVICE FOR EVERYBODY.
It u Given oratuitously by Young
and Handsome English
l1ohleman.

London.-Though he is only 81 yeass
old. the earl Of Beauchamp-pronounced
Beecham." you know-is said to pos
sess the distinction OF having made more
speeches than any other living English
man. He takes himself very seriously
and believes that Il u his chief mission
IN life to set other people right BY be-
slowing upon them unlimited advice and
counsel. He never lacks an opportunity
to ventilate his ideas. because lords ara
always in demand 1T public functions
In England. 1t has not yet been noted
that he has ever accomplished anything