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Aston. In New York there is but one
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Aston. while acknowledged in an
academic sort of way, long since ceased
to be practical affair. Those whom
she included in her list were generally
accepted by those claiming to be of the
best society" though not always, and
many entered the sacrosanct portals
without her aegis. There is no longer
Society in New York, and 1t seems
to be much 1amented by some that Sc
ciety has grown so Heterogeneous and
so mixed that it is impossible to tell
just whom one should know and who
should be eliminated.
Mrs. Aston was not the exclusive
person that some have imagined. She
did not make wealth nor family the
criterion of admission to her social
circle. She rejected many who would
fall within this category, while she ad-
mitted those of brains and ability who
had no other claims and needed none.
1t was Mrs. Astor who once made out
nized socially, and this number has
passed into our Technology as being
mark Of social distinction. But in
few years the number had risen to
1000 and was not intended to be VIII oily
inclusive or exclusive. In recent years
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Mrs. George
Gould have become social leaders, but
there are others. In the vast popula-
ton of the metropolis the number OF
the socially eligible from many points
OF view has grown SO large that it is
no longer possible to make up a list.
Society has developed groups, each of
which claims at least equal rank with
the others
Mrs. Astor at least had the virtue
of trying to keep society clean. In
the days of her actual leadership there
was less of scandal than now. She
wanted society to be respectable, but
in these days it cannot be said to BIO
wholly virtuous. And 1T is interesting
that one of the loveliest of Philadelphia
women is now THE Mrs. Astor.
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Democratic Treasurer Herman Rid
der comes out of the campaign con-
tributor of the first magnitude.
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NOT YET.

1T is polite, don't you think, for q
man to invite you to take trip with him
in his aeroplane?"
Yes, but it isn't safe
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The solid south contributed more
votes than dollars to the cause.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-06

When the President voted at Oyster
Bay that locality made its last appear
anee in the national spotlight.
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THE LIFE ROAr

THE LIFE ROAD.
It's rocky road to travel,
With many chance to spill.
But it won't seem half so toilsome,
IL hope is with you still
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The backgrounds are just plain
states this morning. Even the pivot
is not more than that.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-06

The era of blatherskiting was round
ed up by ballots which settled the en-
tire business.
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Bulgaria has put away its gun and
peace reigns in the Balkans.
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CAN YOU DO IT?

CAN YOU DO IT?
When your dearest plans are shattered,
When you're bruised and sore and bat
tered
And by worldly mire despatched
That's the time to smile.
When your closest friend deeeves you,
When unchanging woe bereaves you
And no ray of hope relieves you
That's the time to smile.
PAUL COOK.
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The real vote has utterly supplanted
the misleading straw vote.
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DEATH OF MRS. AsToR.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Mrs. Aston is dead. 1t hardly need
be added that this was Mrs. William
Aston. In New York there is but one
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It is safe to say that Mr.. Taft will
take several days off before he begins
work on his inaugural address.
Young Roosevelt no doubt hopes TO
be promoted as fast as Leonard Wood
was even if it makes him dizzy.
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Democratic Treasurer Herman Rid
der comes out of the campaign a con-
tributor of the first magnitude.
When the President voted at Oyster
Bay that locality made its last appear
anee in the national spotlight.
The backgrounds are just plain
states this morning. Even the pivot
is not more than that.
The era of blatherskiting was round
ed up by ballots which settled the en-
tire business.
Bulgaria has put away its gun and
peace reigns in the Balkans.
The real vote has utterly supplanted
the misleading straw vote.
the modern ballot does not fall like
snowfiakes. 1t is too big.
Hisgen at any rate advertised his
axle grease.
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out side of the significance which is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-06

The modern ballot does not fall like
1t is too big.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-06

Hisgen at any rate advertised his
axle grease.
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Washington Bureau Herald, 1921
G street, n. W.
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TO MAKE LIFE EASIER

Robert Kennedy Duncan, Professor of
industrial Chemistry at the University
of Kansas in November Harper's
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The Failure of Success.

From Harper's Weekly
If any man were eloquent enough to
persuade authors to love art more and
money less, to be content after a master
Tiece to let his mind lie fallow until once
more, of its own accord, a compelling sub
Ject springs up, and by care and nurtuis
and watchfulness, the setting, the data.
the decoration accrue into it, he would do
that greatest service to art that could be
done. Even to such great writers as NJ.
Maeterlinck, the kind and good Mr.. Ben
son, and the brilliant Mr.. Hichens, one
would like to send round robin petition
Begging for two years silence and then
\ worthy product.
When one remembers, too, the rejected
rounds of most great novels, one would
like, too, to urge upon all readers and
critics the indubitable truth that a book
is great by virtue not of the evil that is
left out of it, but by the vitality that is
Tut into it, Shakespeares masterpieces
ere not hawless, but they live by the pow
tr of their fullness of being, the effort,
tie concentration, the wealth of observa-
ton, the characterization, the human sit
datons; these make any one of the great
plays an invaluable and lasting document
But the divine afflatus cannot be beckoned
Gown every day. and a writer who ha
once done a fine book should consecrate
himself thereafter to the production of
greater and greater work. Only thus,
only by turning away the face from de.
bilitating praise and concentrating the
whole strength upon the unwon heights,
shall we have new race of giants in the
realmn of literature.
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What We Owe to Our Coal.

From Leslie's Weekly. n
when England loses her ascendancy
in coal production" said William Stanley
Jevons. British political economist, in
1867, her fail will be quicker than the
Roman empires was after Odoacer. the
Gernianic barbarian. upset the shadow
throne of the little Augustus and made
himself king of Italy The United States,
which was low In the scale Of coal pro-
duction when that prophecy was made,
has since then passed far ahead of Eng
land. OF the more than 400, 900 tons OF
coal of an sorts produced in the United
States in the calendar year 1907 much more
than three-fifths was anthracite, and near
w all of this was furnished by Pennsyl-
vania.
In 1880 the United States passed ahead of
the United Kingdom in volume of manu-
features In the aggregate, and the lead
has been increasing ever since. In 1907 the
United States in pig iron production, 26.-
1000 TONS beat the United Kingdom,
Germany and France combined. In 1908
cur s120,O00 900 900 of wealth exceeds that
" the United Kingdom and France taken
together, which are our nearest rivals on
that roll. Much of the United States in
dustrial and financial preponderance over
the countries of the world is due to the
utilization of anthracite, which started on
February IL, 1905.
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order to handle the increasing traffic
resulting from the country's growth.
They do not appreciate that the owners
of railways receive u lower return on
the value Of their property than do those
engaged In other lines of business They
do not understand that the delay in the
movement of freight, and inability to Sc
cure cars as promptly as desired has
been due to the fact that the facilities
of the railroads have been taxed beyond
their capacity and that even if cars had
been furnished they could not have been
. moved. A great majority of the people
have been too much engrossed with
their own affairs and the upbuilding Of
their own enterprises to examine into
these matters. Investigations now in
progress by state commissioners for the
purpose of determining the value of rail-
roads and for other purposes, the IN
yestigations of the interstate commerce
commission and the reports required by
the commissioners of the carriers will do
much to educate tire public and to re-
move erroneous Impressions which have
been spread abroad by persons having
little knowledge of the facts and biased
by some personal interest. The fact that
the books of carriers are now open TO the
inspection of the interstate commerce
commission is a guarantee that no ques-
tionable practices can in the future De
INDUCED in. The people are not hostile
to conditions which really exist. They are
hostile to supposed conditions which they
have been led to believe exist. Ii IS
for the members of business organizations
and for the railroads to set the people
right and to clear up MISUNDERSTANDING.
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GEORGIA MUCH WORRIED
OVER CONVICT LEASES

they are coming back to the penitentiary
to make sure of being taken care Of"
Another wrote that he had two mora
men than his contract with the state
called for; that he simply couldn't stand
the expense and asked that they be trans
ferred elsewhere AS he was working up
% his contract limit his request was CONF
piled with. And yet less than a year ago
camps all over the state were begging
for all the extra men the state could
furnish.
The convicts are bringing the state
about $225 for each ablebodied man. There
ere a number of subleases where the
price has gone up, and in one or two.
Instances to more than $500. This is what
had encouraged the state authorities to
elieve the state would get even a bet
ter price under the next contract, which
will go into effect April l., 1909 unless
the legislature should decide to put all
the convicts ON the public roads, which
is scarcely considered likely.
But unless there is material improve
ment over the conditions now prevailing,
in the lumber business and in other
lines, 1t is feared the state will not even
do as well as the present figures.
These are circumstances which arc
likely to cut some figure when he general
assembly takes up the question of the
future disposition of the convicts this
summer.
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THE MAN OF STEEL AND FLINT.
Huqhes Showed His Rigid, Stern and
Serious Side at insurance Quest.

Erman J. Ridgway, writing OF the
personal side of Governor Hughes, in
the March number of Everybody s,
characterizes the insurance investiga-
ton as one of the most arduous tasks.
"Since Hughes has been before the
public he mas been engaged in mighty
serious business. The insurance IN
vestigation tried his best powers 70
the limit; besides, the public was IN
no mood to stand for merry quips from
the head counsel for the commission.
The entire nation wanted to know the
facts about the insurance scandals.
And Hughes stood up there day after
day cross-questioning the giants Of the
world, rigid insistent, pitiless, a per-
sonification of outraged America. No
wonder Hughes is associated with ice
and steel and flint. 1t was at the In
surance investigation that Hughes first
came into the wide public notice, and
it was there that the newspaper men
got their first impression of him.
Hughes has a peculiar type of mind.
He explains it himself rather whimsic-
ally by saying that he cannot shift
easily from the serious cog to the hui
morous cog-which is to say that when
a serious question is up and he is con-
centrating his mind upon it, it is not
easy for him to shift Off to a pleas
ant-ry and back again without serious
ly disturbing his thought. When his
mind is only half employed seriously
he juggles words and turns phrases
and applies stories in a way to surprise
the man who has known him only
through his Investigations and polit-
ical speeches"
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NEW LEGISLATION WILL
NOT HURT THE RAILROADS

st. Paul, Mimi, March 2S.--(Special.)- y
w. r. Begg. general solicitor of the
Great Northern railway, James J. Hills
system and for years the dominating fac
tor in the northwestern railway situation,
declares in an authorized interview given
today that the mass OF new legislation in
the various states will not in the long
run harm the railways. in q remarkably
clear statement which is significant be-
cause Of its manifest authority, Mr..
Begg says:
I'VE should not be dismayed at the
mass Of legislation aimed at railroads.
Generally speaking the railroads have
nothing to fear from the people. First
because most men intend to be fair and
to respect the private property in rail-
roads and to allow a proper return upon
the value of these properties. In the
second place, the peoples own interest
demands fair treatment of railroads
These great highways of commerce are
as important for the prosperity of the
country, and for the interchange of
products of farm and factories as are
the circulating medium and the banks
Faulty railroad laws, which impair the
security of the investment in railroads
and discourage further investment, must
in the end cripple the service, impair the
usefulness of these highways, impede the
interchange of commodities. destroy con-
fidence and thus injure the people in the
same manner and to as great an extent
as faulty financial legislation would in
iure them The railroads cannot suf-
fer alone. II any of the regulations
now imposed by law prove to be unwise
and work real injury to the railroads, the
action of economic forces will bring
about the modification or repeal of these
regulations The faults of railroad legis-
lation will be discovered as readily as
the faults of legislation for other BUSH
ness enterprises.
"The hostility of the public towards
railroads, If it exists, is largely due to
misunderstanding. The people do not IN
derstand railroad conditions. They do
not realize the immense amount of money
necessarily expended in creating and
perfectng these highways so as to make
them suitable for the efficient handling
of the great volume of traffic moving
over them during the past few years.
nor the amount which must still be ex-
pended to increase their efficiency IN
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MONTGOMERY PEOPLE
COMMEND MR.. HEFLlNy

Montgomery, March 2S.-(Special 1.-The
shooting of a negro and the accidental
injury of a white man at the hands of
Congressman j. Thomas Hefin in Wash
ington yesterday has been leading topic
OF conversation today. 1t is conceded
that the young Alabamian could do no
less than he did in the protection of =
woman from insult and administering
punishment to a man who had no more
regard for others than to carry on as
TIE negro evidently did.
There is, strange to say, no evidence
in the press reports that the crew of the
car made any attempt to keep the inso-
lent negroes quiet or to prevent them
from using the vile language attributed
10 them. This, it appears TO the Mont
gomery public, would have been the best
way to have prevented the trouble. But
the report show the negroes were for
some distance drinking and talking in
such a way as to make gentleman's
blood boil, with nothing done on the part
Of the crew to suppress Them
Judging from the reports no one took
a hand to prevent the negroes from in
SuillnS lhe iauies III eho Noi VI NsiAi9
such epithets such as no gentleman
would be willing to allow in the pres
e1ce of any female. Consequently, ac-
cording to local opinion, there was moth
ing else for the congressman to do. He
either had to punish the negro or get
cff the car, leaving the lady victim to
the boisterous conduct, in addition to
running away from what seemed certain
trouble which no man is likely to do.
Scores of kilograms have been sent
to Mr.. Helm, assuring him of sympathy
and support also expressing the hope that
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Atlanta. March 2S.-(special)-Fear is
expressed that unless conditions ma
terially improve within the next few
months, Georgia will have difficult time
n leasing her convicts again at anything
like a satisfactory price.
1t is said the only reason that those
lumber manufacturers in South Georgia
who employ convict labor, have not shut
Gown their plants as result of the BUSH
ness depression, is that they are re-
quired under their contracts with the
state to keep the convicts at work and
that is the only way in which they can
do it.
Several of those employing convicts
have recently urged the secretary of the
prison commission to send them no more
men; those they have, they say, are
largely a drug on their hands, as they
would like to close for while or ma
terially curtail their output, but are so
situated that they cannot.
One employer of convict labor writes
another convict who had escaped from
his camp three or four years ago. had
come in and given himself up.
1T looks like a convict can't make a
living on the outside he wrote, land
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BOSTON AND, THE NEGRO.
No Disposition Among White People
To Assist Him.

Raw Stannard Baker, in American Maya
zine
One of the first things that struck
me when | began studying race condi-
lions in tn north was the position OF
, the better class Of white people with
regard to the negro In the south every
white man and woman has a vigorous
and vital opinion on the race question.
You have only to apply the match, the
explosion is sure to follow. 1t is not
so in the north. A few of the older
people still preserve something of the
wartime sentiment for the negro; but
the people one ordinarily meets don't
know anything about the negro, don't
discuss him and don't care about him.
In Boston, of all places, | expected
to find much of the old sentiment. 1t
does exist among some OF the older
men and women and | was surprised
at the general attitude which l en-
countered. 1t was one of hesitation
and withdrawal. Summed up, / think
the feeling of the better class of peo-
pie in Boston land elsewhere in north
ern cities) might be thus stated:
We have helped the negro to liberty;
we have helped to educate him; we
have encouraged him to stand on his
own feet. Now let's see what he can
do for himself. After all, he must sur
vive or perish by his own efforts.
In short, they have cast the "bant-
ling on the rocks"
Though they still preserve the form
of encouraging the negro, the spirit
seems to have fled. Not long ago the
negroes of Boston organized concert
at which Theodore Drury, colored
musician of really notable accomplish
ments, was to appear. Aristocratic
white people were appealed to and
bought a considerable number of tick
cts; but on the evening of the concert
the large block of seats purchased by
white people were conspicuously va
cant. Northern white people would
seem to be more interested in the dis
tant southern negro than the negro
at their doors.
Specifically, at least, the negro in
Boston still enjoys the widest freedom;
but after one gets down to real condi-
lions he finds much complaint and
I9Ao s9oISeu 10 lIgd eql no JuIeIe
growing restrictions.
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"SANS-SOUCI"
On St. Clair River
FOR SALE.
Rare Opportunity for Several
Families Wishing to Locate
Together.

Sans-Souci (Without Care) is the ap-
propriate name given to group Of
three cottages, three boat houses, and
large separate dining room 1this din
ing room is the original Java coffee
house which was used for the Java eX-
hibit at the Worlds Fair, Chicago). In
the rear of this dininglroom are the
kitchen, ice house, wind mill and pump
ing engine that pumps water from the
middle of the channel for all necessary
purposes. Water connection with each
house; hot and cold water; bath rooms;
water closets; clothes closets with each
sleeping room. Cottages have seven,
six and six sleeping rooms, respect
lively.
Three boat houses, built on canals in
rear of property, have running water
IN upper stories. capacity 10 beds
each. One Daimler gasoline launea
and several rowboats. Property is wen
furnished, complete in every detail. t1aS
exclusive location with private WateIro
way connecting at both ends with the
river. Satisfactory dock privileges:
Has $50 feet river front. All klnuS VI
outdoor amusements may be lnuulgeu
in, including good fishing, safe pal1l mn e.
Situated on Harsens Island, ST. GAR
river. affordlng beautiful view o. a.
ever-changing panorama all the sn NJ
ping of the Great Lakes passing u us
spot Sans-Souci is 35 miles from De.
troit. and is reached by boat direct 10
its dock three times daily. 1t is tllIee
miles from Algonac by boat, ana r 1neniJi9
by electric road every nour u Doe
in three hours. oe ex.
The property is in the hands OF Elk
ecutors who are desirous OF ciosins
up an estate cole
For further particulars, terms oi .,s S;os
together with Photographic DESCRIPTIONS
Oh properly a John ID. n. FORD,
70 GrisyvoId ST., Detroit, Mtch'
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more good winners, including Mr.. Corri-
gan's Planute that won the Fleischmann
trophy as a 2-year-old in 1906 Planute
WAS built to be a great race horse, but
otter this his maiden effort, he went
wrong and efforts to bring him around as
Il 3-year-old proved unavailing. Be-
sides Planute others that Planudes has
sired are Penrhyn, Sirville, Durgo, Laugh
ing Eyes, Miss Angie and Tenacy by
Courtesy. In getting two such good ones
as Planute and Melick he has done
enough TO make the reputation of any
Young sire.
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Practicins for the cotllIon.

From the San Francisco Chronicle
Nobody ever told me that I was a good
dancer" declared Edward NJ. Greenway,
leader of cotillons, but I'll tell you IL
compliment a young woman did pay me
once. She said: You took me through
that crowd without collision and with
out any one treading on my skirt
"Well | never had a dancing lesson in
my life, but / used to practice dancing IN
the days when women wore those great
long trains and it was not considered good
term to pick them up. They trailed along
behind for several yards. Those were thu
days when you had to guide and keep
moving your partner so as to keep that
tain following gracefully"
But how did you practice?"
USED to tie two sheets to any ordinary
chair and then dance In and out among
Il dozen chairs scattered over a dance
floor"
"Save on your doctors bill. How?