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word. Let us assume that the pre-
vailing, worldwide, financial depres-
sion is due, directly or Indirectly, TO
the recent agitation against great
American corporations. Who, then.
is to blame?
"The judge who frightened in
vestors" by furnishing a criminal at
the bar? The officers of the law
who (tardily enough, goodness
knows) have brought lawhreakers
to book?
The questions are ridiculous. The
only blame that attaches TO anyone
save the officers of the offending
corporation IS that which rests ON
the American people for not having
long ago insisted that corporation
lawbreakers, like individual law
breakers, should be relentlessly
sought out and vigorously punished.
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JOSS STICK MAKING
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY

In all countries where Buddhist wor-
ship is celebrated there IS q great con-
sumption Of loss sticks" These cere-
monial candles are lighted on occasions
OF festivlty CT mourning prayer or
thanksgiving 70 diYinities. and the like.
Joss sticks are at once candles and in
cense, since, like the latter. they burn
without apparent flame. Their prepara-
ton is shrouded in some mystery and
the process is still practically unknown.
those who carry IL on being chosen from
4 special class and kept in religious Sc
clusion.
A squared strip of bamboo, OF vary
ing length and thickness, according TO
the size II joss stick that Is to be made
is skfllfully rolled on an inclined sur
face, in a mixture OF odorifsrodS pow
ders agglutinated by rosip. made Wis
cOus by slight elevation Of tempera-
tdre. One OF the ends is left 81 il Is
to serve as a handle. In some cases the
bamboo is replaced with a flexible rod
which enables the joss stick to be rolled
IN spiral form
The composition Of the odoriferuus
powders varies with the country; those
used in Indo-China come generally from
the province OF Carton, and include
fourteen different drugs. among which
may be named camphor, sandal wood
econite. and Glove. Aconite plays the
rart of a preventative and protects the
joss dicks well against the attacks OF
rats ana mtCe--ChicagO News.
The Washington times., 1907-10-11
Tufts Experience.

President Hamilton, of Tufts Col
lege, gives it as his opinion that CO.
education is turning that seat Of
learning into a girls place, and it
is time, he says, that the transfer
nation should end Otherwise, he
fears that young men VIII gradu-
ally disappear from College Hill.
His remedy is segregation. Give
the young men and the young
women separate departments or
colleges. THE student who desires
a general education as represented
by the bachelor of arts degree -
says DR.. Hamilton. every much pre-
fers to go TO an institution for men
only"
Now, if this were equally true of
the young women, too, there would
soon be an end of co-education alto
gether. Apparently it is not, and
hence the danger, if that is what it
should be called, of having the CO.
educationalized institutions finally
become entirely feminized. An old
subject has taken, at least in this
particular case, a very interesting
turn.
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on the national committee. Nathan Bay
Scott OF West Virginia, Winthrop Muir
ray Crane Of Massachusetts, Boies Pen
rose OF Pennsylvania, Levi Aukeny OF
the State Of Washington. and Weldon Brfn-
ton Hepburn. Of Idaho. There was a time
when Crane, was considered on the Adj
whether that includes loyalty 10 Taft IS
said TO be not the case now Scott has
whether loyal 10 the Administration, uu>
whether that includes lOyaley to Taft IS
another matter. PenrOse is, Of course,
committed 10 the cause OF Knox An
keny and Hepburn have always been
classed as friendly enough 70 the Ad-
ministration, but they are also inclined
to be friendly 20 the Senators who have
Presidential ambitions.
Another prominent member OF the
national committee IS Frank o. LoWden,
Of Illinois, a farmer and millionaire,
who once wanted 10 be governor OF his
State LOwden VIII be loye. TO Uncle
Joe Cannon when the committee meets
and his main thought viii be 10 make
sure that the convention goes to Chi
cago. This will be easy as II IS already
conceded that Chicago viii be chosen
Brovnlow and Babcock-
There Is but one other Representa-
tive on the committee, Walter P.
Brownlow Of Tennessee. and he IS not
row counted as a very ardent admirer
OF the Administration. although he was
once counted friendly 10 Taft A mem
Der OF the last Congress remains q
member OF the committee-Babcock. o.
wiscol sin. He failed Of reelection last
year, and is not sure that the powers
that be in Washington did anything 70
aid him. He does not consider himself
dead in politics by any means, and Will
be very active when Wisconsin takes
part in the next national convention.
"OtEer emirent me mbers of the COM
mittee are former Governor HerIiCk. Of
Ohio; Charles H Scott. OF Ale bama, the
first man on the roll call; Frank 3.
kellogg, of Minnesota. the Government
prosecutor Of the Standard Oil Gem
pany; Franklin Murphy. governor OF
New Jersey. generally classed as anti
Taft; Powell Clayton. OF Arkansas:
Charles r Brayton, OF Rhode Island;
Cecil Lyon, OF Texas. counted with the
White House; Dave Mulvane, Kansas
member. also a member Of the executive
committee R 3. SCHNEIDER. OF Ne
brasl1a; George A. Knight. of Cali
foTnia; Charles T. R-oos-e Of Connect
cut: William L Ward and Cornelius
Bliss. Of New York. New and Dover
are. Of course. members Of the execu-
tive committee. and William I. Stone
CT Maryland, is the sergeaut-at-aru.s.
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True COurage-In Our Own Time,

A story comes down from the
northeastern coast which must
make every strong mans heart beat
faster.
In the midst of q storm, with a
heavy sea running, and the surf
pounding so fiercely thateven the life
crew feared it, a schooner was seen
to ground. For an hour or so she
rocked in the waves. The seven men
of her crew signaled the shore des-
perately, until as a last means of
resisting destruction they dashed
themselves in the rigging.
The life guards at Chatham
brought out their boat, thrust in
trepidly into the surf, and tried
their level oest TO make THEN way
into the sea beyond. They failed.
They tried again. The second time
they were thrown back upon the
beach with such force that the res
cue was abandoned.
Then the men rocking back and
forth in the wet rigging of that
ship made out a strange sight. An
other boat was brought down the
beach. They did not know, but it
was the privately owned gig of a
wealthy summer resident. He stood
for moment in the wind and
spray, calling for volunteers. -Four
of his own kind answered--not fish
ermen or longshoremen or life
guards, but men of leisure with
large interests and none too great
knowledge Of the sea when
aroused. Sailors, born to the salt
water, knew its fury too well TO go.
But the men less trained succeed
ed where the life crew had failed.
They rode the surf into the sea.
They fought their way 0 the foun-
dered schooner. They took the
seven seameI-, half dead from ex-
rosure and peril, in their boat.
Then, with another battle not less
dangerous, they made their way to
shore. No wonder the dispatches
say 1.-THE crowd which had been
watching their frantic efforts gave
vent to their feelings, and cheered
over and again the plucky volun-
teers!" Where life guards fear to
go, courage of rare and inspiring
type is needed
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One Bullseyyse for Hughes.

The dispatches do not make out
Governor Hughes speech at James
town to be, extraordinary as a
whole. 1t Is too generously inter
larded with phrases like this: ''The
cry, Every man for himself is out
of date Yhs-demana ofsthe future
will be Every man for the people.
1t reads like an interfusion of the
letter of acceptance. of the recent
Judge Alton B. Parker, and some of
the less interesting utterances of
the President-both his fellow
citizens. E - ~. ~.
But the governor PUT his finger
squarelH upon one evil of modern
business life when he said.
It is an extraordinary perversion TO
suppose that the owner Of 81 per cent of
the capital stock OF a CORPORATION Is
free 10 wreak his. pleasure. in its man
segment The officer or director occu-
pies a position Of trust not for the ma
jority but for the entire body Of stock
holders And while hetmsyt execute. the
policy which the majority desire IL
must be a poIie@ Consistent with good
faith and fair dealingSa with all. Moth
ing is more reprehepsiblet than the abuse
of power on the part OF those VINO act
in a representative capacity.
To be sure, even the last sentence
of that paragraph is a truism. But
the substance of an impressive and
specific statement is there. Organ
lied under the law, corporations
have been permitted freely to cir
cumvent and eontemn the-law. And
no means has been more often
or more disgracefuliy used than
that of the purchase OF a majority
interest, with the subsequent open
disregard for the other and minor
ity holders of stock. The courts
can remedy this, if they win. They
are, in large measure, responsible
that the situation has arisen. If
as Blackstone thought. they are
never beyond the reach of public
opinion, they win not long permit
this evil, of which Governor Hughes
speaks with such accurate knowI.
edge, to go upcorrected.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Key West has salt water fire and
sanitary flushing system.
A well at New Burlington. Ohio.
yields both salt and fresh water
Steel piles are now economically ont
or by the use of the electric arc
Niagara Falls as a power generating
plant is worth S46 0000 600 per. year
Nevada seems apt to forge 10 the first
place in the production OF precious
metals.
Architects in many instances are
Specifying electric plate warmers in new
houses being constructed.
The steel sleeping cars which the
Pullman Company is building VIII vveiah
3 per cent more than the present cars
Tire Edison Company Of Milan Itaiv
IS at the head of the largest lly-firo gen,
Grating syndicate ever formed in that
country.
The record of the SIX ducks which laid
2O7 eggs between March ard Nav n
is beaten by the performance of four
ducks belonging to Albert AIlmutt Wit
tenham, Abingdon. In the same period
they laid $40 eggs.
Electricity Is now being largely used
in the bookbinding industry for emboss-
ing and such work. With the aid of the
current IL Is possible to make $50 i'm
Pressions per minute, which more than
atones for the increased cost of the
heat.-Nashviile Tennessean-
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maid, and the effect Is utterly different.
The FrenehwOman Is chic, and the
American is-just stonning
Then they come forth with the grind
air and with long strides They hurry.
They do not go very fast, and all the
men must wait. but they hurry No
they are not for mel It is because they
are so free-sO am /. I Ike Il. so do
they. That would never do, helm? That
sense OF freedom IS very good; It makes
them the grand air. II makes them beau
uful. II makes them very, very feminine
that surprises yOu2 1t IS true though
quite the contrary. The American Wou1-
an Is natural. that is 10 be feminine
That is why they are interesting No
woman Is interesting II she is ugly and
un1eminlne. The voices % CHICAGO
women are frightfuL and OF the COM
mon classes IN all your cities.
No Time for Society.
Il shall spend all the winter in New
York, working quietly here. and 7 shall
not 60 into American itch society ct
all. Yes. 7 have some very good intro
ductiOls 10 people IN your moneyed set.
but I shall not VISIT have no time
for that nor any interest IN It
I arm not here for American money.
do not want II. and I shall 20 on with
my work here. niinding 1ly own BUSH
affair II does not do me any particular
harm nor any particular good, and II i5
40 one elSC's business. ii IS not for
sale. not even for rent. and we have
never made capital Of IL Ii is name
and IL is mine-vOila tout"
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LILLIAN RUSSELL. $3.50:
HER PHOTO AT LOW PRICE,
LIKE OTHER THINGS SOLD

NEW YORK. Oct. 18th sale OF fur
nishings from lillian Russelrs house at
161 West F1fty-seventh street, in the
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, WITH James
p. Silo as auctioneer. attracted the
largest crowd which the autcion rooms
have ever contained.
A long time before the selling the
seating capacity OF the rooms was taxed
10 its utmost with a fashionably dressed
gathering. One saw the objects on sale
through a maze OF the newest creations
in women's hats Their owners had
come purely out Of curiosity. as most
of the things were sold to the usual
dealers and collectors,
Two hundred and fifty-one numbers Of
the catalogue brought S6,S13. As it was
the first days sale. the least interesting
things OF the fair singers collection
started II.
No. on the catalogue, a lot Of as
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Miss Clayton,
Weber Dancer.
Breaks Down

NEW YORK, oct. l1-Whie a typical
Broadway FIRST night audience was
going Wild over her dancing last night
the biggest hit of the premier Of Joe
Weber's new show, Hip Hip, Hooray''
Miss Bessie Clayton was figuring In
one Of those tragedies OF the stage, OF
which the public knew nothing
The woman had executed a number OF
acrobatic dances which had won her an
ovation. AS. she started the last, she
faitered, WINGED with pain, and then
stepping forward explained that she
could no longer continue owing TO an
accident she had suffered on a street
car the day before. when the ligaments
OF her ankle had been torn loose. She
tottered and was about to fall when
Joe Weber and another member Of the
company FASTENED forward and assisted
her to limp into the dressing room
where she tainted.
Doctors who are treating Miss Clay
ton today say that every step she took
last night meant torture.
Bessie Clayton's dancing was one OF
the redeemlng features of the Weber
show which opened the Belasco Theater
here several weeks ago.
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Who Is to Blame?

The Judge who frightened investors
with visions Of confiscation. by IL fiicting
that preposterous line. must bear the
responsibility of starting that Go s-nfalI,
not President Roosevelt.
These are the words OF Henry
Clews, addressed to the Kentucky
Bankers Association, in session at
Louisville
France is the only country that could
lend US any money at this time But I
found a decided lack OF confidence
abroad IN American securities brought
on. 1 think, by what are termed the
business. scandals. The meat and insur-
ance disclosures, together with those
developed in the present local fraction
investigation, they regard in a question
able fashion. 1-
Thiseis the view of former Sena-
tor William A. Clark, just returned
from three months stay in Eu-
rope.
Ia. ms take these two men at their
The Washington times., 1907-10-11
Yes, Papa Can Spank
Girl of Thirty-five
When Living at Home

PITTSBURG. Oct. u.--Miss Pauline
Law, aged thirty-hve, who lives with
her father, William Law. on Friendship
avenue, went out without telling her
parents where she was going and re-
raIned out until l o'clock in the morn
ing.
When she reached home her father
was waiting for her in his slippers. He
is sixty-ive years old, but he took OF
one OF his slippers. placed Miss Pauline
across his knee and spanked her. Miss
Pauline had him arrested for assault
and battery.
This afternoon the case was heard
before Magistrate Kirby. the father
was discharged, and the costs. amount
ms to $40. were charged to the young
woman.
Your father has a perfect right tc
spank you as long as you remain under
his roof ruled the court
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HUGHES LOOMS UP
STRONG CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENCY
Third Term Talk Hurting
Taft-Fairbanks Boom
at a StandStill.

The Presidential situation has shifted
greatly in A few months. This is the
judgment Of the politicians here who
have given the matter the most careful
attention. On the surface. not much de-
veloped through the summer season
under the surface, a great deal has hap
pened. and there is no comparison be-
tween the situation now and last
spring
One fact that has a5ready become pat
ent and is admitted ~ nearly every Re
publican politician that comes here IS
that Governor Hughes. OF New York.
has developed into an important factor
in the 1895 pre-convention campaign.
With the Presidents support ana an
ample campaign fund backing him, Sec
rotary TAFT must be rated as a fOrmid-
aOle candidate, but on the other hand.
ne Is meeting many obstacles. One OF
these. is the persistent thiTd-term talk
Tint this is hurting the Secretary Of
War. his best friends admit. The third
term talk is being kept up In many
cases. for the purpose to hurting him
IN others. TO curry favor at the White
House. in others. from genuine desire
10 see the President succeed himself.
~ hatever its purpose, IL mas held Taft
lack materially.
Vice President Fairbanks is making
no progress in his CAMPAIGN, according
10 Information here. Speaker Cannon
has illinois, but little else besides the
best OF we'll wishes.
Senator Knox Of Pennsylvania cannot
be regarded as eliminated. There is rea-
son 10 believe that after the fall alec
tons. much viii be heard OF the Knox
movement, and that its supporters Will
be highly active in many States. With
wealthy friends who are willing TO -FOUR
their own means into the Knox cause.
the Pennsylvania Senator cannot be
overlooked.
The Washington times., 1907-10-11

sorted bric-a-brac, was sold Meyer Solo
man-who is no relation to one OF the
actress former husbands-fOr 81.
Five pieces OF a carved and gliied
suite OF Bellevllle tapestry copied from
the original set in the Cluny museum
in Paris started at 500, and after much
spirited bidding was secured by Mrs.
Josephine Mooney for SI.Z75. which was
the highest price of the sale.
A framed photograph OF Miss Russell
was battled for furiously with advances
OF more than 5 cents. Finally, with a
bid Of $50. T. J. Flint acquired it The
prima dOnna's Limoges enamel cigarette
box. bought by the same buyer, brought
1850
A water color OF flowers by the beau
tifui Americans daughter-AIiss l. r
SOloman-sOld for $3.50 II WAS a great
figure. as few Of the drawings attained
that figure. Two pictures from the pen
ell of the famous French caricatUrist
Sem-marked IS. Z. NJ" on the cata-
logue-brought only 81. making them the
greatest bargains Of the day.
The Washington times., 1907-10-11
It's Up to You;
TheLenOn Club
Needs Members

Do you belong 10 "The Lemon
Club2" If you don't, you're behind
the times. II you do. you lose money.
Washington has a new club and
initiation into its mem bership Is ac-
complished without the knowledge
Of the iniuatee. It's a case OF bling!
just Ike that
In order 10 further impress the
anxious public with its real i'm
portanee. the club has a member
ship card, which is handed out to
each new joiner-a card which subtly
suggests the objects OF the organiza-
ton. the word. objects" being Wit
tingly used in an ambiguous sense.
! The card reads:
Thank you for your p cents
Membership Card.
Mr.. E. z. Mark.
You are now a member in good
standing of
THE Lemon Club.
Squeeze, Brother, Squeeze.
EFT Is now up 20 you to get a new
member"
So IL one OF your friends or some
body else comes up and asks you for
the loan Of a quarter. glance at his
free hand TO see IL It carcsses i bit
! Of pasteboard. II II does, don't lend
him the quarter. II II doesn't, don't
lend II 10 him anyway.
The Washington times., 1907-10-11

10 speak. His Wais- line struck the bar,
but left him staining some distance
away. Miner noticed that and wondered
now Macmillan could get near enough 70
anybody 70 give that almost whispered
intimation OF Desdemona's supposed
treachery And the moro ne thought of
IL the louder he laughed
What ere you laughing att" MaCmil-
Ian asked. DO you think because I've
been out on the road I'm a Hick? I can
get Iago over the lights IN a way that
VIII make Broadway sit up AID take no.
uce. Why. man. I can eat taat part"
The rest wouldn't make pleasant read
ing. Barroom alterations never do.
Still, II IL hadn't been for that Macmil-
Ian wouldn't have gone TO Jefferson
Market court to see X Il was possible 10
get a summons for Miner and have him
restrained from injuring a brother ar
lists professional reputation
be didn't get tn summons
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WHO Is MOST FAVORED
BY G. O. P. COMMITTEE,
QUERY OF POLITICIANS

The Washington correspondent Of the
Wheeling Intelligencer wires the follow
ing to his paper:
How does the Republican national
committee stand as regards the candi-
dates for the Republican Presidential
nomination. This is the pertinent ques-
ton just now, especially as the chief Of
ficers Of the committee will meet in
Washington next Monday 10 formulate
and send out the call for the meeting
OF the entire committee early in Decem-
Der.
There may have been a few changes
since COrtelyOu won the wonderful VIC
tory for Roosevelt in 1904. but the main
body OF the organization is about the
sane. The Administration people who
got the new list saw that Capers, the
present commissioner Of Internal reve-
nue., who Is considered an anu-Taft
man. is a member from South Carolina
Then they saw that John W. Yerkes.
who recently retired from the internal
revenue office. is a member OF the na-
tionsI committee from Kentucky. and
that State is not yet counted surely in
the Taft column A little further down
he list occurs the name OF Pearl Wight,
the member from Louisiana. A few
months ago he was asked 20 become
the commissioner Of Internal revenue
in place OF Yerkes, resigned. Wight
could not accept at the time because he
ha ; millions Of dollars worth Of con-
tracts with the Government. SO he pre-
ferred to keep on doing business. rather
than 20 take 5000 a year as commits
sioner. He was told that the job would
be held for him II he cared 70 take
hold in December. but the latest infOr-
nation IS that he will let ais fellow
committee member Capers continue in
the Job as long as he wished.
]. W. Lyons a Member.
Another one-time employee of the
Trea sury Is a member Of the committee,
hudson W. Lyons OF Georgia His auto
1raDh IS familiar to millions Of Ameri-
cans. as he was register OF the Treas
urv. and his name was on each piece
OF paper money. He was let out some
time ago and another colOred man, W.
T Vernon Of Kansas, put in his place
There was a gasp OF surprise when
s-,s anxious ones found the name OF J.
edward Addicks as the member from
the State Of Delaware.
There are five United States Senators
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A sAvAGE's SENSE OF DUTY.

Although the Australian aborigine has
his vendetta, IT is not always revenge
that he seeks.
Darwin tells of a native servant Of a
west Australian magistrate who went
one day to his master. saying that one
OF his wives had died. He must go
away, therefore. to q distant tribe and
spear a woman to satisfy his sense OF
duty to the dead woman IF you do.
III send you to prison for life." said his
master For a year the man hung
about, looking wretched and i'll and
complaining that he could neither eat
nor sleep, as the spirit of his wife
haunted him because he had not taken
another life for hers. At last he dis
appeared
A year la:er he returned in high con-
didon. There was no legal evidences
against him, but it was known that he
had gone TO distant tribe. had speared
a woman to death. and so, as he
thought. appeased the spirit of his de-
parted wife.-Ckarleston Mail.
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Real Count, Who Spurns Riches,
VISITS NeQU York With Letters
To Leaders of the Smart Sci
American Women
AS Seen BY Count

American women are all inter
esting. They give themselves
the GRAND air. They are stun
ming, but trey are not for me.
The American woman is nat
ural, that is to be feminine. The
voices of Chicago women are
frightful.
am not here for American
money. My title is private af-
fair 1t does me no particular
harm or good. 1t is not for sale
or rent.