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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
MONDAY EASILY TOLD BY
IT'S WASH-DAY SMELL

rance of sundricd clothes is abroad in
the land. OF course, there are thous,
ands Of families that wash on other
days Of the week. but in the residence
districts most housewives are 50 old,
fashioned as to cling to Monday as
washday. and If the anxious hustler
about town viii take the time to poke
his head ont of back window or peep
through the cracks in a wall in any
uptown block he will see hundreds OF
clothoslinca sagging beneath their
weight Of shmmering white linen SO
mighty is this odor Of cleanliness that
il permoate8 brick walls and floats
over roofs and so perceptibly modifies
the stale mu5ty scents Of the street
that the passcrsby cry frequently:
The fates be praised for washday.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
PRAISEWORTH WORK OF
CARING FOR CRIPPLES

entire expense and as a result the
iuild for Cripple Children finds itself
by lack Of funds, The school
in Montgomery street, soon to be
moved into a new building in Water
street, Is at once the largest and old
ast Of the several controlled by the
guild On Manhattan alone there are
900 crippled children of school age.
and Of these 1000 live below -Four.
toonth and 1900 are crowded into
the lower Eastsido This school was
founded with two fundamental objects
10 give the children an elementary
education and to improve their physi,
cal condition Incidentally the effort
is made to render them sclf.support,
ing through courses Of manual train
ing Work began in the Montgomery
street school Six years ago. Thou,
sands have been benefited theirs and
dozens comDle.a,Y restored 10 hta!tb
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the kind in the world In its original
form the SCamans Church Institute
was known as the Protestant EpisCo-
pal Church Missionary Society for
Seaman in the City and Port of New
York, but at the last diocesan conven.
ton the 15.worded title. which was
used for 60 years, was discontinued
and the present one formally adopted
The situation in New York, so far as
the treatment of sailors was concern.
ed was about as bad as we'll could be
when five years ago tho Institutes
chaplain, Rev. Archibald r. Mansfield,
moved in over a saloon at No. ! State
street The house was the one In
which Robert Fulton. the inventor OF
the steamboat, lived for many years.
and whore he died. 1t was kept as a
memorial to him, however, and was,
all in all, as forlorn a rookery rs could
be found in the lower city, In the
basement was saloon whore fro.
queutly the men of the sea were rob,
bed The beer pumps were taken out
by the society and the sailors were
provided With comfortable home
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
PRESIDENT SPARES NOT
HIS OLD CLASSMATE

WASHINGTON. - There was for
W warded to congress the other day
In connection with report of the in
terstate commerce commission on the
Aame subject a letter written by Pres
ident Roosevelt to Charles S. Hanks
scoring Hanks and his colleague,
George w. Harrison, for their failure
to make good certain grave charges
made against the work of the inter
state commerce commission.
How Hanks got his job is an inter
esting story. Hanks belonged to the
class OF 10 at Harvard, Roosevelt to
that of so. They were the champion
boxers of their classes and met in an
interclass championship affair Hanks
Knocked down the future president.
After getting through college Roose-
welt plunged into politics. Hanks mar
ried rich wife and devoted himself
to golf He is the author of a book
"Niblick on Golf" Twenty seven years
later the two men met accidentally on
a train in New England. The presi
dent was travelling in a private car
He got sight Of Hanks in the car
ahead. He rushed up to him, greeted
him affectionately, dragged him back
i7to the private car, and presented
him to several members of the cabi
net and others of the party as the
only man who ever knocked me
down"
They talked about what they had
done. Hanks was forced to confess
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23

he had not done anything serious,
Its about time you did, old man.
said the president.
We'll, I'm beginning to think so
myself" said Hanks. "Eut what on
earth shall l do? Give me job down
in Washington and I'll go to work"
Il WILL said the president.
After much thought Mr.. Hanks came
down and announced that he had de-
cided his life work should be railroad
legislation. The rate bill fight was
then on. He thought he could furnish
the president with some valuable in.
formation if he was given an opportu-
nifty to study the subject :
So he was installed as a clerk in the
interstate commerce commission at
$1,000 year. He had an order from
the president on the commission to
turn the railroad problem inside out
and shake it if he wanted to.
Hanks be.,an drawing his $500 per
month from the government, living
meanwhile at the Willard hotel In
apartments that cost him 800 a week.
He brought G. w Harrison, a friend,
along, so that he would not get lone
some.
The result of this deep study on the
part of the exiled Boston clubman was
that he told the president all rates,
both passenger and freight, ought to
be given a horizontal slash of 10 per
cent.
The result is as stated above.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23

always been extremely careful that
he sold only 10 desirable people so as
not to iniure the value of his remain.
ing holdings He charges that Leath
secured the property by false repre-
sentauons and asks that the deeds to
him and Ware be nullifed
The property 1t as 1856 T street,
northwest. near Dupon Circle, the hab.
itat Of mult-millionaires. Several
wealthy senators and congressman
have fine homes in the immediate
neighborhood
The decision Ia the case viii be Of
immense Importance, because If Ware
loses It Will be regarded as iustifying
a clause in conyeyances excluding IN.
desirable persons from possible owner
ship
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
WILSON'S IDEAS AS TO
GOVERNMENT INVENTORS

Wilson holds that the law allowing
free patents if the inventor will allow
the government to use the invention
should be construed to mean the peo-
pie of the United States instead mere
ly Of the organization called the gov.
ernment.
Two Of the scientists under Wilson
have perfected mechanical apparatus
to be used in ascertaining the amount
of moisture in grains. 1t is to be used
in the grading of corn, wheat and oats
when the farmer brings them to mar.
ket. Any intelligent layman will be
able to use it. Secretary Wilson or
dered it patented and dedicated to the
people of the United States for their
free manufacture and use. The people
of foreign countries will have to nav
royalties on 1t.
Wilson's scientists have patented a
toxin that destroys the germs of hog
cholera and process for the propaga-
ton and distribution of nitrogen-gath.
ering bacteria which enables farmers
TO fertilize fields that have been rob.
bed Of nitrogen without inoculating
them with pieces of sod brought from
lands known to have the little insects
needed to restore the proper amount
OF nitrogen by taking it from the air.
The two inventions would have made
the inventors nillionaires, but Wilson
compelled the inventors, who were
working on government time and us.
ing government laboratories, to ded-
cate their discoveries to the free ase
of the people of this country.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
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1T is a queer idea James Wilson has,
the duty of an inventor who uses gov
ernment time and materials, toward
that government. He holds that what
ever the man invents should be pat
ented for the benefit OF the whole peo-
pie and be given to them for their use
without price.
Up in the army and navy when an
officer who has been paid for his time
ana has used government materials
and laboratories to perfect an inven-
tion 1t is the custom for the officer to
give the free use Of his invention to
the government, if the government as
an organization desires to use his pat
ent IF it does not-and they usually
see to It that it does not-the inventor
is held to be at liberty to sell his in
vention to a firm or corporation which
will use it and compel the government
to pay royalties.
That is the exact condition with re-
spect to the smokeless powder used
by the navy. The patent Is owned by
a naval officer. The navy department
has the right to use the patent, but it
refuses to do so. So the officer has
transferred the patent to the powder
trust, which exacts 70 cents a pound
for powder which reliable powder
makers will contract to furnish for not
to exceed 40 cents pound, if per.
mitted to use the patent worked out
on the time of the government and
with the materials belonging to the
government.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23

urcs with which he has surrounded his
young and beautiful wife.
The purchase Of Harvesting the
Poppics" marked Senator Clark for
NAL appearance. by the way. as an art
connoisscur who judges and buys his
trophies without the aid of artists and
critics. The senator, having conceived
a love for the fine arts, made special
study of .non, both in this country
and abroad
Mrs. Clark is an accomplished mu,
sician, and an amateur art collector
OF note as well, and in her Fifth ave-
nuo home she has fortune in gobe
lin tapestries alone. besides costly
paintings and bron2cs from every cap.
tal of the Old World
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
COPPER KING ADDS TO HIS
SUPERB ART COLLECTION

WITH the recent purchase Of Jules
w Breton's painting Harvesting the
Poppies, for which he paid $4,000,
Senator VIM A. Clark Of Montana has
added one more rare work of art to
to superb collection which adorrs his
mansion at Fifth avenue and Fifty
seventh street.
His is now ranked as the finest pri.
vate collection in the world, and even
rivals some of the government collec-
tions abroad. There is special pub
lie interest in it by reason Of the
fact that the Montana Copper King"
has planned his mansion so that on
one day each week the general public
viii be permitted TO view the art treas,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23

tics him appointed nm as page
the house of representatives at Lansing in 1879
while and later
became with the Smiley Smith Stevens lie was
admitted counse o
Chicago West Michigan the Detroit Grand Rapids Western
His with his railroad ou
Lansing Northern determined line to Grand Rapids
The task of securing right and Smh was
employed the rst
His this highly satisfactory and in consideration OF
These he moved ms
and lots to
1881 which poloh
he held building
Rapid his oWc laS
ings branch Belding.
Marquette said that William
nehborhood OF
1894
by increased mos each
In March, 1906 he bought controlling interest in the Grand apo
Herald. in which he had previously owned some stock
SIN married in 1855 to Maria oSter
s o William Alden Smith, Jr
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
DANISH SHERLOCK HOLMES

Baron Pale RUsenkrantz, probably the most
distinguished Of contemporary Danish authors and
playwrghts who is now in London, is llneal
descendant OF that family whose name was borne
by one of the courters in Shakespeares Hamlet
He traces his ancestry directly from the learned
Holger Roseukrantz who came to England as
messenger from the Danish king to his hrother-in
law King James This ancient representative
of the family though he undoubtedly furnished the
great bard with a name, bore no resemblance to
the character who cuts such poor figure In tho
pIay He was in fact famous theological and
classical author and down to the present time
members of the family have always been noted
either for their literary scientific or artistic tastes
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
LOVED BY MANY CHILDREN

Mrs Daniel Lothrop under the pen name
of Margaret Sidney has endeared herself i2 thons
ands of American boys and girls by her naturally
executed and fine favored books for juveniles
Mrs Lothrop's maiden name was Haiaet Mu
ford Stone. She was born in New Haven
1t was Mrs. Lothrop who first perceived the
assistance which would be derived for the further
ing of this eleyating spirit of love Of country, BY
the establishing of society to be composed en-.
tirely Of juveniles. With her usual energy and in
dustry she contrived and arranged the premn
aries for the establishment Of the National Society
Of the Children Of the American Revolution Of
which she the founder and first president
As a correction for the tendency or the danger
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
POPCORN PEDLER TO SENATOR

From popcorn pedder to United States senator
is the story of the rise of William Alden Smith.
He has represented the Fifth Michigan district in
congress since 1894, and is now the choice of the
Michigan Republicans to succeed Senator Alger.
Forced by the humble circumstances of his
family, William Alden Smith. at II years Of age
left Dowagiac Mich, his birthplace, went to Grand
Rapids and began selling popcorn on the streets
there
w w. Hannah of Detroit is said to have given
young Smith his first recipe for sugar-coated pop
corn. Smith proved to be such a success in the
popcorn business that his profits soon amounted to
much SIS a month
His first job in any way connected with poll.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02
WAR WITH JAPAN.

Japan feels that she has been
grossly insulted by California and of
course holds the United states re-
sponsible for it.
She refuses TO he cnnforted by dip
lomatic salve. The cut is too deep
to be healed by such mild measures.
The militant spirit of the little
island empire is vet reeling under the
intoxication of its Russian victory.
and it holds not. lightly any insult to
its national pride.
If war comes between the Japan
ese and the United States it will be
through misunderstanding. Japan
does not wish to force adult Japan
ese into California schools and Cal
fornia does not wish to exclude jap.
anese chil1ren from the schools.
If both countries begin on the right
basis to settle the matter it will be
but a puff of wind, but
SuUlhSt japan S4lDhlA NOAASNN iASA
magnificent fleet about the Philip
pines and ere we were aware. should
capture Manila?
The Philippines are 5000 miles
from the nearest American port. We
would re at the same disadvantage
as was Russia in her war with Japan.
We would he compelled to transport
soldiers and supplies half way around
the world to meet the Jap IN his own
dooryard.
Il would be no easy matter to de-
fend the Philippines against a real
Japanese war. vi
II Japan insists on reparation it
will be much easier and cheaper to
give it promptly, adequately, gallant
ly in a diplomatic way than to en-
gage in war with the Mikado.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02
REMEMBERS ANDREW JACKSON

The Memphis News-Scimitar says
of an old negro who remembers An
drew Jackson:
Fifteen years old when Andrew
Jackson moved the Indians out Of
Memphis, and still living.
Thomas Carr, a negro whose age
Is 10s, claims to bear this unique
record. He says that he was present
when the first settlers came to this
city. and that for SO years he has wit
messed the successive evolutions Of the
growth Of the bluff City" until
what was then but an Indian village
perched on top of the Chickasaw
Bluffs. has become a city of nearly
100000 inhabitants and the metrop-
oils of the south.
"Uncle Tom" as he Is commonly
called, was born on the Pidgeon Roost
road, or on the line thar Pidgeon
Roost road would have taken had 1t
then been in existence. He was for
an ordinary lifetime the slave Of An
derson Carr and during that period
lived on the Carr plantation, which
was about two and one-half miles
from this city.
Though somewhat the worse for his
years, "Uncle" Tom is nevertheless
almost as virile and active as most
men are at so. He says that he has
had two wives, but no children.
Finland has never had thunder
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02
Japanese war.
THE DREAM OF THE UToPIANs.

Il has been the dream of the ITO
plans Of all ages to place the producer
and the consumer where they will
touch shoulders; where they may pass
from hand to hand, the necessities of
life without the Intervention or assis-
tancc OF a third party.
Upon this dream the cooperative
commonwealth and the plans Of So
cialism are builded. Every effort Of
the reformers is directed toward the
attainment Of this Utopian state in
society.
The money-hunger Of the world
holds back it's progress and piles up
insurmountable obstacles in its path
way. but yet it moves forward. Its
energy cannot be stilled, because In
its accomplishment lie the golden
promises Of universal brotherhood
and universal contentment and as
long as these dreams inspire men,
their efforts will be warmed by the
rich red blood Of agitation and aspl-
ration.
The following dispatch from Chi
cago gives a glimpse of the progress
which this Utopian plan is making in
the United States:
Years Of dreams, in which farmers
have seen themselves thoroughly
unionized and dealing with the con-
sumer in Chicago through the agency
Of local unions without assistance
from the arbitrary middleman, are to
be realized, IL plans formulated by
representatives of the American So
ciety Of Equity, the farmers union,
at a meeting Of the Chicago Fedora
tion Of Labor are successful, says the
dispatch.
Under these plans the promoters
of the scheme expect TO be in a posi-
uon within a month to ship hay, but
ter and eggs and other farm products
TO Chicago. The Federation Of Labor
is to act as the clearing house for
the farmers produce. II Is intended
that the same plan shall be put in OPP
Grafton soon in other cities through
out the country.
N. C. Crawley, Wisconsin organizer
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02
THE ONLY RAILROAD REMEDY.

For so years Germany wrestled
with railroad rate wars, discrimina.
tions, rebates, throttled industries
through railroad favoritism, and all
the complicated and vexing multi
tude of railroad questions which are
new burdening the public mind in
the United States.
In vain the empire tried to regu-
late the private roads. The Prussian
parliament passed law after law,
made rule after rule and punished
without stint the guilty conspirators
who. through selfishness were re-
tarding the growth of the country
by discriminating rates.
Private ownership resulted in mo-
nopoly. Practically all of the great
lines of Germany were controlled by
one system. 1t was so we'll organized
that it was impossible for the govern
ment to reach it by legislation, courts
or agreements. The railroad octopus
reached the height OF avarice in Ger
many about 1875. 1t seemed that
nothing could stay its progress.
But there arose in Germany at that
time, the monumental intellect of
Bismarck, to offer a means of SAL
vation for the empire. This great
man, as potent and forceful in peace
as in war, called the Prussian cabi-
net together and for weeks labored
in preparing a remedy cor railroad
abuses in Germany.
When the parliament met in 1879,
Mismarck presented what is said to
he the greatest collection of railroad
literature ever collected together in
the history of the world.
The result of the message from
Bismarck was the naturalization of
German railroads AMI at once the
country was relieved of it's abuses
and enjoyed universal prosperity.
That is the only satisfactory rame-
dy. The people of the United States
viii come to it in time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02

for the American Society of Equity
informed the delegates to the fed
Grafton that the farmers union is
prepared to ship its produce to Chi
cago now and outlined a plan under
which the Chicago federation can
manage the distribution of such pro-
ducts at fair, reasonable and Just
prices"
Tho farmers have been forced to
a point where they must set a mar
ket price upon the product of their
labor" said Mr.. Crawiey. IF the
union men of Chicago embrace this
opportunity TO distribute the pro-
ducts without the assistance of the
commission men they will get these
necessities at reasonable price.
Otherwise the commission men will
boost the prices correspondingly and
you VIII be forced to pay them"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02
PE-RU-NA
A Reliable Remedy
For Colds.

aAA ita lpi pIldstH.
BY Kidding the system OF catarrh, it
cleanses the body OF those conditions
which invite chronic diseases.
Cold Affected Head, Throat and Lunss.
Mr.. Matthew o'Hare, lbs William St.,
Fall River, Mass, writes:
"About four years ago 1 consulted
physician to get relief from cold
which had stopped up my head and also
settled on my lungs, resulting in ca
tarrh and also throat difficulties.
"He gave me some medicine, but four
months faithful use OF the same did me
no good. then tried other doctors, but
it was just the same.
$50 1 decided to try Peruna and after
using two bottles my lungs began to
heal, did not cough nearly SO much
and slept better.
ain six months the cough, catarrh
and throat difficulties were all cured.
81 was pleased with the result and
wish to write you OF it. Seven bottles
of Peruna cured me-"
" "i'''' - "est Derlln, w.,
writes: 81 am happy to be able to write
you this letter in relation to what your
Peruns has done for my family.
"When l broughtth first bottle home,
1 found my wife and daughter both
sick-my wife with indigestion and my
daughter with a severe cold. They
were both cured.
81 am willing to state that Peruna,
taken in the beginning. will cure the
worst cold in p ~ 30 hours.n
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02

Mr.. g. w. Tayi yior, Clendenin, W. Va,
writes:
81 think that Peruna is the greatest
tonic that was ever put on the market.
For several years my eyes bothered me
so much. The pain was so severe some
times 1 would think they would surely
burst out OF my head.
81 tried Peruna and MsnaIin and am
to-day a well man. am sure ! should
have died had it not heen for DR.. Hart
mans wonderful medicine, Peruna."
Such testimony as the above has
given Peruna q high standard in tho es-
'imRtiOp 81 tho uublic.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02
Chicago's First White Child"

Alexander Beaubien, famous as hav-
ing been the first white child born in
Chicago, celebrated his S5th birthday
today at his home in Whlpple street
on January 81, says a Chicago cor
respondent. Beaubien's father was a
French trader who settled in Chicago
in 1900. There were five houses in
Chicago at that time and State street
was an Indian trail. Mr. Beaubien
claims that he killed the last bear slain
in Chicago. This was in 1885. For
many years he was an attache at the
Harrison street police station and re-
tired only a few years ago on a PEN
sion. In spite of his years, Mr.. Beau
bien is sprightly and in the best Of
health. Numerous congratulations
poured in upon him today.
All the news all the time in the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02

Senator Nottir CHAM has introduce
ed a bill recognizing the osteopaths Of
Oregon, giving them an examining
board and placing them on a plane
with other learned professions in the
state. 1t is a deserved recognition
long delayed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-02-02

The railroad attorneys may stop
the clocks in che legislature with
their eloquence on anti-railway leg
islatior. hut they have not yet pro-
duced a brand Of oratory which will
prevent washoutS. floods and land
slides. Here is an opportunity for an
aspiring young man.