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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-03
Making HimseIf EI,c,b,o

From the Catholic Standard and Times.
What's the matter with Fox these
days? He's positively stupid"
'Oh. no; he's only pretending to be"
Pretending to be stupid? What's the
idea in that?'
For some reason or other he's trying
to get into society"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-03
Exception TO Physical Law.

from Harper's Weekly.
Newton discovered why the apple
fell down. did he not?''
HE did"
well then, It remains for some equal
ly brilliant mind to discover why it is
that plums fail to those higher up
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-03
The ntherK Kind

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Rubber" suggestively remarked the
young lady crossing the muddy street
The man behind her paused. Then he
picked up the rubber. assisted her TO re-
place it, and went his way
All is not slang that sounds It.
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Independent.

From Life.
Patient (smiling)-I don't suppose, doc
tor, that you could possibly supply me
with a new heart, could you?
The physician-Tm afraid not. You see,
sir. the factory where you were assem-
bled makes a rule never to renew parts.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-03
The IntrIcacies of EngIish.

From the London Sketch
What do you think of stodger's last
book"
We'll. I thought it was the driest thing
/ ever read, but 1 managed to wade
through it"
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a good humor. The piano-player IS in
great demand. There are two or three
really expert story-telleEs, If the reports
of the officers are TO be relied upon, and
such Of the jurors as were not practiced
pinochle players before the trial began
are now versed in all the games intrica-
cies. The eleven who could not manage
the piano machine in the beginning are
becoming so familiar with it that
stranger could hardly pick out the
original musician.
The monotony IS varied a little on Sat
urday and Sunday There is the late nap
in the morning. then the leisurely break
fast. and finally the consultation over
plans for the holiday" This week sun
day was spent indoors. most or the twelve
having tired of drives. On the previous
day, only their good temper had prevented
a mutlny over Lynch's veto Of the theater
proposition. On the whole, however, the
two days with 10 court session are a
welcome relief; for, after all, the five
hours or more on the hard seats of the
jury box are harder TO endure patiently
than the hotel Imprisonment
Unusual RigOr.
The rigor with which these particular
jurors are watched and curbed is unique.
even in New York. The men who sat in
the case oil. ABE" Hummel. about whose
trial unwonted care was taken. had the
privilege Of talking privately with their
wives ana close friends. Those who sat
IN judgment on Molineux, Patrick, and
Kennedy. though guarded. were never
subjected to the surveillance allotted To
the Thaw panel. But the present case
presents novel conditions. While the de-
PENDANTS in previous trials Of spectacular
interest have, in some instances, COM
manded considerable funds and much in
fuence. there has never before been held
in the New York courts a trial wherein a
man charged with murder possessed prae-
tically unlimited money for his defense.
Nor has there been another case in which
were involved personal interests OF so
many different persons or classes of the
city's population. If ever there was dam
ger IN relaxing Watchfulness over a jury,
in short. it would seem that the danger
exists in the present proceedings.
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The Ruling Passion.

Prem London Punch.
Doctor docking at clinical thermometer
Hello! This won't do-hundred and
thrcei
Goling Patient-What's bogcyT
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ALASKANADYENTURE
Danger and Delights of the
Mining Camps.
SEEK GOLD IN FROZEN FIELDS

Former WaShinEtOnian Tells of the
PeriIs of the North by Sea and
Land-Thc Daily Fare of the ES-
kImo-An EquinOctiaI Gale Which
Blows Good to the Miners.
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Eskimo Diet.

''The contrast here between civilization
and barbarism viii be appreciated when
il is called to mind that the staple diet Of
the little Fat man CT the North is frozen
fish with seal-oil sauce. Seal oil is his
chief delieaey. It is somewhat watery.
and its odor viii drive a white man from
an igloO unless he has exceptionally i'm
portant business there. The Eskimo
gourmand takes a bite OF frozen fish with
one hand while with the other he scoops
up big mouthful Of seal oil to slide it
down.
Yes; conditions were very satisfactory
~ Alaska when I left, and for a mining
country the good order Is remarkable.
Perhaps this may be partly accounted
foT by lie fact that x is somewhat din
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a watch is kept on their food, so that
they will not eat anything likely to make
them Ill. In the strain of weeks, perhaps
months, it is regarded as possible that
one or more of them may succumb. The
officers are on the lookout to see that the
suite is well ventilated that the water
is pure. and that the twelve tender
charges are properly protected at all
times against the weather. The other
day, when juryman started absent
mindedly TO so out into the snow with
ont his overshoes. a kindly officer re-
minded him OF the deficiency.
Yet, with all the restrictions. the Jury
men have managed to keep themselves in
The National tribune., 1907-12-19
DEATH OF PAST JUNIOR VICE CON-
MANDER-fN-CHIEF SHUTE.

Comrade' Charles H. Shute. one of
the best-known members of the Ma
tionaI Enqampment. and who for many
yedrs kepsi the eampfites of the Order
burning Brightly in Louisiana, died sud
denly at his home town. Cambridge,
Mass, Nov. 26l3 He was born in Con-
cord. N. r., inI1sSS. and May II, 1861,
enlisted in Co. B. I'd N. H. He rose thru
all the grades to First Lieutenant. and
was musteredbout June 81. 1864. He
took up his residence in New Orleans.
and became prominent as business
man and banker. At the time of his
death he was addressing a class of
Christian Endeavorers. His last words
were. You must put your whole faith
in God" Commander P. H. Boyle, of
the Department of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi, has issued very touching gen.
eral order. expressing the intense sor-
row of the Department at the loss of
one who was so much to it. The order
is headed with the last words of Com
rade Shute, and Commander Boyle has
most appropriately headed his order
with these. He says:
"Our beloved comrade was essentially
a soldier, and a soldier of that high
order that battles only, but ever, for
the right
''To him love of country was second
only to love of God, and next to love
of country came his love for the COM
rade who served that country in it's
hour of peril
''The words quoted at the head of
this order were the last uttered by our
comrade, and were addressed to a meet
ing of his young friends in his home
town.
'"To us they come as a final message
from one whom it was a privilege to
know and an honor to call our com
rade.
ITO many weary comrades in this
Department these words will come like
the cheering words of great com
mander to men in line of battle.
"From them they may gather cour-
age, take heart, and pressing onward,
know that God is right. and that in the
final ending of all things God and right
must and will prevail
The National tribune., 1907-12-19

The Postmaster-Genera tries to dis
arm the opposition of the country deal
ers by recommending a special parcels
post system on the rural-delivery routes
for packages originating IN the towns
from which the routes start. He sug-
gests rate of five cents for the first
pound and two cents for each addi-
pounds. For packages of two ounces
or less, one cent; over two ounces and
up to four ounces, two cents; over foul
ounces and up to eight, three cents;
and over IL ounces and up to 16 five
cents. He argues that this will give
the farmers in the country all advan-
tages that people in the cities enjoy in
the way of the delivery of goods, that
1t will increase the trade of the loca
merchants, and put them even in Z
better position than the retail mer
chants in the cities which have to EN-.
ploy their own delivery wagons. They
can deliver goods up to the weight o.
IL pounds for 25 cents, while the whole
sale merchant would have to pay il
the cities II cents a pound, of $1.3:
per IL pounds, in order to reach tn,
same customers.
s. r. Miles, President of the Ma
tional Hardware Dealers Association
and ]. w Fitzpatrick, President of th'
Georgia Wholesale Merchants Asso.
citation, are out very strongly agains
the whole parcels-post system, an,
have written long arguments against j
which are being generally circulate,
| thru the country. The Spokane grocer
denounce the parcels post, and sa.
| that the whole mercantile Northwest i
being aroused against the plan. The
claim that a one-cent letter rate woul,
be a greater boon to the patrons o
the Post Office.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19
A bitter fight against pr. wiley.s op-

bitter fight against DR.. Wiley's op-
position to sulphur as a preserving
agent still continues. This must be the
case when it is considered how great
are the interests which are attacked.
Substantially all of the dried-fruit men
and the makers of molasses use sui
phur, and their interests run into many
tens of millions of dollars. DR.. Wiley
says that the tests have demonstrated
that sulphured fruits and other foods
tend to produce digestive disturbances,
1t seems to us, with all Difference to
DR.. Wiley, that the troubles are not
chemical. but physical. The use of
sulphur on foods tends to alter their
physical condition precisely as tannin
changes a skin into leather: that is, in
some way it makes a skin harder. less
pervious to liquids. and consequently
less subject to the action of digestive
| fluids. Sulphur has the same effect
upon vegetable tissues The contest
ants for the use of sulphur are right
in their claim that chemically sulphur
is not injurious to the human system
when taken in small quantities. but
they both overlook this change in the
tissues which the use of sulphur brings
about. We all know a dried apple is
not nearly so digestible as a green one,
tho its chemical constitution may be
the same. One that has been treated
with sulphur is less digestible by far
than an ordinary dried apple That iS
all there is of it.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19
CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.
The reports from Consuls give a v

The reports from Consuls give a very
Russia and the hopelessness of any i'm
mediate improvement. The densely ig-
norant peasants have little idea of rais-
ing cattle. and it will take a long edu-
cation before they are able to do so
with much success. The cattle, sheep
and pigs have generally been raised on
large estates, where the proprietors
have more intelligence. In the riots
these estates were wrecked and the
stock slaughtered. This was not taken
for the use of the public. however, ex-
cept small portions, and the rest of it
left to be devoured by dogs which are
increasing to an alarming extent. Altho
order has been restored in many of
these districts. the proprietors of the
larger farms are naturally reluctant to
restock their places. since there is no
telling when another outbreak will take
place. Consequently there is a growing
demand for meat, and Russia has pass
ed out of the worlds markets as an
exporter of this article. Much of the
to the growing of first-class animals,
since the Winters are so long that stock
has to be carefully sheltered and fed
which the peasants will not and cannot
do. Only the stunted and hardy Rus
sian OK can survive In that bleak eli
n I,ac hoI in,
increasing the Importation of cocoa but
ter, which can be sold much cheaper
than real butter, and takes the place
of many other fats. It has also the
advantage of being available in the
Lenten fasts which the Russian Church
precedence over oleomargarine.
The same unwisdom of the peasantry
has destroyed the fishing in the rivers,
so that that supply is exhausted, and
"cavia-e," which once formed so i'm
portant a part of the Russian diet, espe-
cially on fast days, mas now gone up
very high in price, and immense guam
titles are imported.
The bottom of the Black Sea has a
great many sulphites which are con-
tinually decomposing and giving off a
foul odor of sulphuretic hydrogen,
which destroys fish life in the sea and
kills off such river fish as have to
periodically resort to the sea.
The wheat crops in all the Provinces
have been poor, and has also that of
rye and barley. The only crop that
shows up fairly good is that of tobacco
which is sufficient in quantity and good
in quality. The Russians themselves
are not good at raising tobacco, and
have to import foremen for the work
from Turkey.
The main breadstuff in Russia is rye
and much anxiety is felt as to just how
much of this has been produced, as
upon that will depend whether the peo-
pie starve or not.
Odessa, which is the principal city
in the south, is the only great city in
the world which is losing inhabitants.
More than $4,000 people have left it,
owing to the labor troubles and other
disorders, and the prospects of the city
are regarded as very gloomy.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19

A decided sensation has been Great
ed by fraud Indictment found against
the great mail-order house Of Sears,
Roebuck & Company. The first count
is as to a sale of paint which Sears,
Roebuck e. Company claimed to con-
tain pure white lead made in their own
factory, but it is charged that Sears,
Roebuck & Company have no paint
factory. and that their paint. which is
of a very poor grade, contains no white
lead whatever. The second count is
that jewelry represented to contain
pearls and sapphires had neither
The National tribune., 1907-12-19
Editor National Tribune: A:

Editor National Tribune: As to the
pension bill giving all veteran soldiers
81 per day that I introduced in the
House of Representatives last Tuesday,
let me have space for a few words.
This bill is not general legislation.
1t modifies no existing pension law. 1t
is only intended to benefit veterans
the men who stood behind the guns.
1t is not based on age, because l be-
lieve that the man who entered at the
age of 1S in 1861 is entitled to just as
much patriotic consideration and COM
pensation as myself, who enlisted at
the age of 26.
This bill provides a pension of 81
per day for all soldiers who served 18
months or over. If sooner discharged
on account of wounds or disability con-
tracted in the service, the pension will
still be due; also due to all soldiers
captured in battle or in line of duty
and confined in prison.
If this bill should become a law il
will be the first pension law since the
war in the exclusive interest of the
veterans who fought and won the great
battles of the war.
The bill if enacted will not take
large amount out of the National
Treasury, and it will only last few
brief years.
1 base the merits of this bill on this
patriotic proposition. The Government
of the United States is strong enough
and rich enough to make the last days
On earth of the men who loved their
country better than life in '61-'65. Con-
cede this, and how can this best be
done and with the safest economy.
1t is now costing the Government
and State Governments, including PEN
sions now being paid over $500 per
year to be housed and fed and clothed
in so-called Soldiers Homes. In one
National Home it is costing the Gov
ernment $1,000 per year for every sol
dier inmate.
every veteran 1855 per year and allow
kindred and friends?
I have now heard already from over
800 soldiers serving in Soldiers Homes,
and everyone says the military disci-
pline of these Homes makes life there
seem like prison. Some $50 of the
veterans of the Michigan Soldiers
Home, of Grand Rapids, all of whom
served over two years, have sent me
petition for the 81 per day, saying
they will go home to friends of early
manhood and be glad to escape the
environment that seems to them like
a prison.
Soldiers everywhere who favor my
bill would do well to write their Con-
gresham; also send petitions-Isaac
r. Sherwood, 9Th Ohio District, Wash
ington, D. c.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19
JAIL AND GALLowS.

The Appeal to Reason. the Socialistie
paper published at Girard. Kan, gets
out Jail and Gallows'' edition which
| is particularly vicious number. 1t is
on the assumption that all the good
men have been sent to Jail at one time
or another in the worlds history, while
all the bad men have been left free
The logical inference from its infiam'
matory articles on the martyrs OF
the past, from those of the Haymarke'
in Chicago back to Socrates, is thai
only one man in about 100000 has eve'
been right or true, and he has beer
| put in prison or hanged, while the re-
manning 99,999 have been grossly and
wickedly wrong.
| This is so absolutely contradictory
| of human reason as to carry its own
refutation. While society makes blum
ders and mistakes and occasionally
commits cruelties in the name of JUS
tice, yet society represents the very
best that mankind at that stage were
| capable of. 1t represents, it always
has represented. the best thought. the
highest desire for order, human devel-
opment and the rights of person and
property. If there are wrongs or in
justices in the constitution or society
the way to correct these is by teaching
proper doctrines and gradually bring
ing the community up to perception
of still higher order of morality and
right. This is what the schools
churches, fraternal societies and other
organizations are 1aboring so hard for
to-day. For any one man to set him
self up as entirely right and the re-
mainder of the 100000 wholly wrong,
and to come into active rebellion
against them, is criminal in the high
est degree. The men who take the law
into their own hands and invoke upon
themselves the condemnation of justice
have very rarely been men whose lives
and relations to others have been such
as to commend them to healthy public
opinion. They have deserved the pun
ishment they have received for their
absolute disregard of the rights of 9TH
ers and their criminal acts toward
them.
All good men in this country and
Europe have been constantly trying to
perfect the methods of justice and to
make laws which would insure the
prevalence of right to every man. OF
course, we are far from having at
tanned an ideal condition of society,"
but we are working forward toward
it as fast as the schools and churches
can lead us. There is absolutely no ex-
cuse for any man bringing down upon
himself the punishment of the law.
The men who do so, instead of being
benefactors of their species, are nine
tenths of the time actuated by diseased
vanity and a desire for notoriety.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19

A most important ally in the temper
ance cause has appeared in DIR. Czeruy
of Heidelburg, Germany, one of the
greatest of living authorities on can
Ger. He strongly urges a simple, clean
ly life as a preventive of this dread
disease. He advises that the skin be
kept scrupulously clean and the ricl
food and alcoholic liquors be strict,
avoided. He says that there are 10000
deaths annually from cancer in Ger.
many. and a large portion of this i:
due to the drink habit The X-ray.
and radium have shown some value a.
curatives. but their precise worth re.
mains to be determined.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19
NATIONAL WATERWAYS SCHEME.

The scheme of the Inland Waterways
Comm isson is to construct a network
of canals, river improvements and chan
mel deepening which will unite the Great
Lakes with the rivers of the Mississippi
Valley and thus secure an unbroken
water communication from Hudson Bay
to the Gulf. "a Western inner pas
sage" is contemplated, which will con-
meet the mouth of the Mississippi with
all the ports from New Orleans to the
Rio Grande "The Eastern inner pas
sage" will connect the Atlantic seaboard
by the way of the Suwanee River. and
canal across Florida with Mobile and
the Mississippi River The upper Mis-
sissippi will be connected with the Red
River of the North and this in turn
with Hudson Bay. Chicago will be
connected. with the Mississippi by the
extensionoof the present drainage canal
down the Illinois River. The Ohio, AL
legheny, Monongahela, Cumberland,
Tennessee, Arkansas and Red Rivers
are all to be improved. 1t is not ex-
pected that this will all be done at
once, but that there will be a start
made upon the; most pressing piece of
work and the others follow The total
cost of the work will be enormous, but
it at once in the most important dis
tricts, and letting these help pay the
way for the others
The National tribune., 1907-12-19

Gov. Hughess boom takes an inf1a-
ton that is more than inconsderable
by the reception of his name at the
ninth annual dinner of the Pennsylva-
MIA Society in New York. There were
cheers for Pennsylvania's own candi-
date, p. C. Knox, but when Hughes's
name was mentioned the enthusiasm of
the audience was unbounded, and even
the Governor of Pennsylvania, who was
present, Joined in the acclamation of
Hughes as "our next President" When
such solid men as the Pennsylvania
Quakers get enthusiastic over Hughes,
his candidacy ceases to be a negligible
quantity.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19

man history is the inYariableness with
which men blame some one else 70,
their bad luck. In 1861 the Southern
planters went to war, because they had
bankrupted themselves by going in debr
for high-priced slaves to pick chear
cotton, and they blamed it on the
'AbolitiGnists." In 1893 the people
out West were in bad financial shape
because they had overproduced silver
and wheat, and they laid the blame OF
the Republicans. In 1907 the get
rich-quick" fellows IN New York and
elsewhere burst their own bubbles by
their greed, and they blame Roosevelt
for it.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19
CLASSIFICATION OF WIDOWS.

Can any right-thinking man see a
justification for the distinction that has
been made by the pension laws between
two classes of widows? 1t is something
repugnant to our Christian civilization.
Pagan and semi-civilized Nations rec
ognize many different kinds of union
between the sexes, but our church and
our civilization has never recognized
but one, and that was the holiest and
highest, complete marriage. Every
church in Christendom recognizes that
la second marriage entered into after
the first partner had died, is in every
respect precisely like the first mar
riage There is nowhere q shadow OF
difference. The common law of the
land is as firm in this respect as the
religious law. The very silence is ex-
pressive. There is nowhere a syllable
or suggestion of difference between one
and the other. Only the pension laws
establish a variance. Not only is this
absolutely wrong in principle as dis
crediting marriage. but it is absolutely
wrong from a practical point of view.
"A WDftldH WIN Illdi d iiidii III
die life has much less prospect of hap
piness and advancement from it. The
husband has lost the eagerness Of
youth and has far less of prospects for
his future. He has begun to be bur-
dened with the cares of life, and he
has probably a family, which she must
help rear and give to it all the affec
ton that the real mother, bound by
the ties of nature, coul6 give the chill
dren. Then, alasi too often her hus-
bands powers begin t. fail under the
disabilities incurred ir the service, and
she has to become the faithful nurse
and spend much of her years in as
siduous attention upon him. 1t is pos
sible that she has to even support him
during his last failing years as he is
travelling down the slope of life toward
the grave 1t is cruel injustice to deny
her a pension because the date Of her
marriage is somewhat later than that
of her predecessor. She has given all
of her sacred womanhood to the mar
riage, and she deserves all the con-
sideration from the Government that
it can give her.
The National tribune., 1907-12-19

New York has been good" now for
two Sundays. but the experience has
struck thousands of her people as more
dreadful than the blizzard. What is
the use of living in New York, If one
has to be as decent as "hayseed?"