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The Washington times., 1908-08-30
Pensions and Industrial insurance

The Inferno tionaI Harvester Com
pany is organizing a pension project
for the benefit of its 10000 employees,
similar in general to the relief and
insurance funds maintained by many
railroads. The company announces that
If % per cent Of its employees enter
the organization it viii donate $4,000
TO the fund; that is, it viii give a tride
over s. per capita of the members to-
ward founjing a fund with which to
retire employees at the age of sixty
five years.
This looks like a liberal and hand
some donation. But it is really a per
Torrance in intelligent selfshness.
Employees are not to be pensionable
unless they shall have been continu-
ously with the company twenty years.
The man whose years are beginning to
rest heavy, and whose service has
brought him in sight of retirement
age is likely TO take a decided in
terest in keeping his position He is
pretty wei insulated against the strike
infection.
Properly organized and managed, this
kind of pension enterprises are bene-
fetal to both employer and employe.
But as commonly handled in this coun-
try, the employer gets the most bene-
fits, and the employe pays for them.
The great relief associations of the
railroads, for example, are used to in
duce the employee to waive his right
to damages at law, in case of acct
dent; if he sues the company he is de-
MED his right of recovery from the
relief association, whose funds. in fact,
We're almost entirely produced by his
contributions. This is not right Laws
have indeed been passed in many States
to prevent such restrictions on the en-
ploye's rights; but despite these, va
rious ways are found OF using the re
lief or pension organization as "a means
to force the employee to carry his own
accident insurance and to relieve the
employer OF his share of the liability
These Pensioning and relief organiza-
tons need the most careful supervision
by Government. As a rule they are
based on unse !entifie principles, because
they are intended to give more of real
benefits to the employer than to the
employee. Every such organization I'M
der the control of a railroad ought to
be strictly regulated by some proper
Federal authority; and for those which
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
YANKEE SIDESHOWS
TO INVADE ENGLAND
Circus Promoters VIII Soon Build
"COveys" in Different Eng
lish Cities.

An extensive invasion OF England by
American ''side-shows" Is planned for
next year. a syndicate. known as the
European Amusement Parks. Limited.
has been formed with a capital of
s. 500 0U0 The control is IN the hands
OF four Americans J II. lies. H. Z.
McGarvie Frank G. BostOck, and Jo-
seph Merchen.
The idea of the company had its
birth in the success of the few side
shows at the FrdEcU-B Bril- Ell Exhib-
ton Chief amo Ig these we're the
scenic railway, owned b. Hes and the
JohnstoWn food. the property of Mo
Garvie. The scenic railways success
was astonishing TO the English show
men and TO the American proprietors
as well
The original cost a. construction was
about Slo0. coo. In the first six weeks
the receipts paid of 1his investment SD
that the takings now are practically ali
velvet" as the running expenses are
comparatively light, being something
like 500 day On one day, over 81, 600
people paid y cents each &c ride on il.
The new company win have wide
field next year at Iha Anglo-American
exhibition. which is projected for the
Earls court grounds All the Coney
Island features such as the scenic
railway Johnstown food. old MILL roll
Ter coaster loop the loop, and so on,
vii be given. and many new ones viii
be devised and built.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
MEMBERSHIP
is DECREASING.

Last year was lean year for the
churches both at home ant abroad. The
BAPTIST communicates In Great Britain
in 1907, according TO the Independent.
were 1887, which was ASH fewer than
IN 1906. There were IA ISore Sunday
school teachers. but 3,16l fewer pupils.
The British ngregaCionausts nave
almost held their own, bat EOL quite
Their membership is 459dC3 Tor $780, a
loss of %. While the Sunday school
teachers have increased 10y lsJoS the pu-
pills have fallen on by $3.50
The Wesleyan Methodists snow the
same loss, the membership of 5z5s-o6 be-
ine zoe fewer than ia the previous
year. while the pupils are fewer by
nearly l0ey0
Five smaller Methodist denominations
show a total loss OF s,5l5 pupils, and a
small loss in members a single one,
the Primitive Methodists. report gaia
of 500 members, but they also lose 14zJ5
Sunday school pupils.
In Wales the largest denomination
is the Welsh Calvanistic Ne hOdisC Con-
nexion, which is Presbyterian an gov
eminent. It's membership is given as
1S7, 76S. a loss of 1885.
The total loss in membership Of the
noYconformist denominations is about
14an and that in Sunday schools is
more than s. ,000. Indeed. one Of the bes-
ecclesiastical statisticians IN Great Brio
ain nuts the loss in mesqbers in Eng
land and Wales at I7s45A
A principal cause of this ebb is the
sloughing off OF the excess memb ers
who Joined the church during the ex-
citement of the Welsh revival.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
Hopeful With Reason.

Both the Chicago and the Denver
platforms indorse the postal savings
bank idea, and it is chiefly for this
reason that Postmaster General Meyer
L. more hopeful than ever that the
legislation for which he has worked
so hard viii soon be effected. The
Democratic platform, to be sure, ap-
proves the idea conditionally, while the
Republican document supports II .nre-
servedly. The Democrats want postal
savings banks onlg if the radical Bryan
scheme of having national banks es-
tablish a guarantee fund cannot be
realized; furthermore, they insist that
the money deposited in the postal saw
ings bank system shall not be shipped
of to financial centers. Mr.. Meyer ex-
plains that it has always been in
tended to keep the money in circuia-
ton near The place of deposit.
One of the headstrong conservatives.
United States Senator Hopkins of Hi
nois, has made the point that the party
is not bound to follow the candidate
or to carry out his personal wishes,
which was an intimation that the
stand-patters would tie Taft to the
platform. But if the party only goes
as far as the platform, then that will
be progressive enough in the matter of
postal savings banks.
When the matter was before Con
gress last session it won the support
of the Senate committee, but ran
against a snag in the House. The
snag, of course, was the little group
of House leaders. So the question is
not entirely Hhether or not the party
viii follow Jhe candidate 1t must
also be asked whether or not it will
follow the platform, and fidelity to
the platform pledges means unmistak-
ably the establishment of postal saw
ings bank system for the convenience
of the people and the encouragement of
thrift"
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
INTERESTING ITEMS.

New York's new postoffce cost
s., O0O, OOO
ouinine is sold by public sale in Ba-
tavia, Java.
One ounce IF eggs viii produce IS. 600
silk worms.
Electric cars in Lancaster are used for
moving vans.
Cash registers are used in a church in
Massachusetts.
ore from the gold mines of Santiago.
Cuba, assays $40 u the ton.
The first skyscraper in England will
be a twenty One-story structure in Liv-
erpooL
Roadmakers in CHA have struck for
American money instead of native sill
YER
The expectation Of tobacco from Cuba
during May amounted to S2,119,s7S.
An Ohio man has contracted to erect
a first-cIass telephone line in Ecuador.
Governor Magoon has been made hon
orary president Of the fremen OF Ha-
yana.
Wales. with more than half million
population, has only two small soda
fountains.
Household goods shipped to Cuba as
freight must be accompanied by a GER
titled invoice
Belan Observatory, a private institu-
ton conducted by the Jesuit Fathers,
VIII furnish weather bulletins for Cuba,
An Altoona dentist is said to be con
structing a sidewalk Of human teeth
which he has extracted IN the past
twenty years.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
HAIR AND CRAFTSMANSHIP

Six Of the seven men in this years
crop of Presidential candidates have
smooth-shayen countenances The
seventh-that's Mr. Taft's-has only a
mustache. The era of bearded politics.
which began with Abraham Lincoln IN
1861 and continued, with onIy one in
terrUption, until the end Of Benjamin
Iiarrison's administration IN 1898, is past.
What is true Of Presidents and would
be Presidents is equally true of Con-
gressmen. OF 103 photographs of mem
bers Of Congress published in a con-
temporary last December only ten had
boards. in public life whlskers have
gone ont. rather than come out
Nowadays hair is not a facial asset
Three of the seven candidates of this
year do not have any even On their
heads. We have gone back 10 the Ro-
lnan-like physiognomy OF WashingtC n
and the early fathers.-New York
Tribune,
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
WEAKEST AND STRONGEST.

Which is the weakest thing of all
Mine heart can ponder?
The sun, little cloud can pail
With darkness yOnder?
The cloud, a little wind can move
Where er II GSteth2
The wind, little leaf above,
Though sere, resisteth?
What time that yellow leaf was green,
My days were gladder;
But now, whatever spring may mean,
/ must grow sadder
All, met a lear with signs can wiring
My lips asundeTi
Then is mine heart the weakest thing
Itself can ponder.
Yet, heart, when sun and cloud are
pinned.
And at a blast which is not wind
The forests wither.
Thou. from the darkening deathly curse.
To glory breakfast
The strongest Of the universe
Guarding the weakest!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
The Railroads.&c. 90 and Now.

"Every intelligent and thoughtful
railroad man from president to section
hand should vote and work for the
election Of the man who publicly
stands for everything that is vital
TO the well-being of railroads and rail
road men," Thus Theodore p. Shonts,
in an interview favoring the election of
Mr.. Taft.
"The welfare of the railroads and
the country at large requires a return
TO Democratic principles and the cleo
tion of the present Democratic candi-
date" Thus, substantially, Melville E.
ingalls,.
What does it signify that the Chi
cago and Alton and the Big Four rail
roads-through their leading officers
see the political situation so differ
entlyf
Well, for one thing, it signifies that
there is to be no repetition of the
shamelessness of the first Mckinley
campaign.
What happened in 1896 is known of
Aevery man brought into even remote
|associstion with railroad Offices. Meet
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
MOST FREQUENT
MISCONCEPTIONS
Mistakes Made in Quoting From
Even the Best Known
Authors.

Critics who assert that we get more
sIovenly and careless every day in
speech, manners, and customs have
proof of part of their ass ertion, at any
rate, IN the manner in which the writ
ings Of famous authors are continually
being misquoted and dhitorted. In Cole
ridges Ancient Mariner" are these
lines: Water. water everywhere, nor
any drop 10 drink. Ninety-niue people
in a hundred say, And not a drop TO
drink for the last line.
Again. how often we near people
sing Rule, Britannia. Britannia rules
Gnstead Of rule the waves, and quote
Macbeth as saying screw your courage
to the sticking point instead OF SUCK
ing place" Those two familiar lines OF
Samuel Buffers, He that complies
against his viii is OF his own opinion
stilT' are usually MISGUIDED as Con
vince a man against mis- viii, he's OF the
same opinion still
Shakespeare never wrote IL an ia
wind that blows nobody good, although
this is the version generally gwen "a
the correct words from Henry ~,
which run: iii blows the wind that
profits nobody Nathaniel Lee is slml-
farly treated In regard TO his phrase,
s'KVhen Greeks Joined Greeks then was
the tug of war" which more often than
not is misduOted as, when Greek meets
Greek then comes the tug OF war.
Money is the root OF all eNl is d
travestv of the line from the first eplstle
of ST. Paul 10 Timothy, The love OF
money is the root of ali avn Another
scTfptural passage which is often mcof-
rectly quoted is The sentence Ifoh
proverbs: Pride goeth before destruc-
fior and an naughty spirit before a
fan" The popular version IS 'FrIde
goes before a fall.
That fine phrase from Wolfes poem,
'-The Burial OF Sir John moore WHICH ~.
,r,9s oPuf We left him alone with hls
eIorv." is very badly treated hy. people
Who say. Alone in his glory while the
correct words, as written by LougtelloW,
ca,,,a 70 MIN who waits" are. All
things come round 10 him who viii buI
yt-a 81 Tit Bits
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
SCHOOLBOY BECOMES
ELECTRICAL WIZARD

Imagine the temperature something
below zero, and the clock striking G.
the time to get W and start the fire
in the kitchen stove!
At sucL a moment what would you
give 70 have your home equipped with
an invention that would enable you 10
remain cuddled in your warm nest and
start the flames roaring in the kitchen
stove without having your anatomy
'goose-heshed'' from exposure 10 the
wintry frigidness?
Does the suggestion of starting the
fire by pressing a button while lying in
bed appeal TO you? The idea was born
in the mind of Craig Walden, a fifteen
year-old electrical wizard, who may
some day astoLtsh the world with his
achievements HIS one ambition now is
TO become one of Edison's assistants.
Craig is a poor boy, small. delicate.
very stoOp-shOuldeTed, and IS i'll great
zeal Of the time He is the sole support
OF his mother and small brother, who
live in Lanark H.
An through the winter il was Craig's
job TO crawl out OF bed at exactly 8
o clock every morning go downstairs
and start the kitchen fire Craig had
70 have his breakfast and be at work
Tor one OF the local telephone COM
panies by Z o clock.
While lying IN bed for the clock to
strike o one morning Craig conceived
the idea Of making his old friend, cleo
Jriclty do the shivering for him
He placed a push button In the head
Of his bed and connected it by two
wires with a small f1ame-producinp an
paratus fastened just below the CRATE
ia the cook stove.
Before retiring, the young inventor
nils the CRATE with paper, kindling. and
coal In the morning al he has 10 do
is TO push the button, and the electric
spark does the rest.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
PLENTIFUL.
IN MANHATTAN
Garnets ane Other Jewels Found
in Soil of New
York.

Though the finds" have never been
important enough 10 tempt any oas
commercially, Ma9lattan Island Is noe
a little OF a GoIeOuda In its rocks,
nearly every time big excavation is
made, there crop out gems. oftantimes
of no small value. Even gold IS TO be
found under the buildings and streets
Of New York. and diamonds aud siIe--
aids are pretty nearly the only seO,1as OF
adonment that have not be- discav-
cred.
The gold is not in sufficient quantities
10 make prospecting expedition rsorth
while, as at best it will not run over s.
a ton In value, but II exis-s heVerrhe-
less. There have been discoveries also
nearly 10 dIfe rent varieties OF s-ems
stuck on the rocky ribs Of Nanhattan
Garnets take the lead Of All. few
rubies and sapphireS have been round,
buL they seldom are of great value.
Wlth garnets however, Il is quite an
other thing.
In Twenty-ffth street, near Broad
way there was discovered, rot SO very
long ago, one of the most beautiful rs
well as one u the largest garnets IN
the world. IT was unearihe1 in the
course OF digging a sewer. The vicinity
e Madison square has proved a fairly
rich garnet teld, q good many having
been brought TO light in that neighbOr-
iiocu- soma ga eAeakalOtS VINO have g
casual knowledge Of minerals say that
1t would not be surprising if garnet
mine of fair value mignL not be some
day discovered there. "a the course Of
blasting for deep building foundations.
the trouble about ln0ing gems in tbs
course of such work he viewer. is that
neither the contractor nor his men are
IN search of them. and when Lhey dc
come 10 any ones notice X is purely by
chance 1t has been by the pUrest stroke
of fortune that any have been found at
all Probably hundreds more, better
and more beautiful, have been careless
~ carted away with the loads of rock.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30

ings in behf.lf of the Republican candi-
date were held in the shops of practi-
eally every American road, plaeards
were posted on the official bulletin
boards, foremen and superintendent
were nudgeI to indicate shat a vote
against Brs IN was in the line of good
service to che railroad mans employer,
and scores upon scores of brakemen,
tiremen, engineers, track hands, office
employees and mechanics were hauled
free to Republican meetings all over
the country. MIR. Mckinley must have
wished as often as he thought of that
campaign that the railroads had ex-
erted little less pressure. The men
upon whom that pressure vas directed
wished it, also, and a thouand times
resented the whole movement.
Up in Altoona they are taking the
wrappings off the "Pennsy's" Teddy
Bear engines las they have been called
from the white castings in which they
lay idle in the roundhousel and hun
dreds of men have beer put back at
work. This was done, as may be sup
posed, without an utter disregard of
the impending election. But such
step, such declarations as have been
accredited to Presidents Shonts and In
gals, are UNNECESSARILY less dangerous
than the almost open duess put upon
railroad voters twelve years ago. The
country has grown better in these
three Administrative and the prac-
tices of the railroads have improved
with the country.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
Miss Aimee LoQUther VIII Forsake
London Society For Stage Life

LONDON, Aug @e-Another recruit
from London's arisfocratic society for
the American stage is Miss Aimee Low
ther, the daughter Of the late Capt.
Francis L0wther She has announced
her intention or going TO America in
November TO appear IN American draw
ing rooms as a dramatic artist assist
ed by Miss Rita Jolivet
Miss L0wther is well known in Ing
land and France as an amateur actress
and author. She has been decorated by
the Academy cG Paris with the purple
ribbon for her clever French plays
Heretofore she has only played for
charity benefits.
Sic Is a sister Of Claude Iowther
N. p. for Cumberland Toupie Lowtner,
the champion lady fencer, is d younger
The Washington times., 1908-08-30

sister. Miss Lowther IS a cousin of the
Right Hon James Lowther. speaker Of
the house OF commons, also Of Sir Ger
ard LowtheT. British amba ssador at
Coustantinople. who married Miss
Blight
She has played several times before
the King and Queen. and has acted
with Lady Mary Sackville Griffin. Ern-
est Lambert, Lord Rossyln, Cora Brown
Eotter, and the Duke OF Manchester
she VIII play THE Dream Flower, :"
written 10y herself. with the music by
Ralph Bunham, of Virginia: The Mad
rIgal OF PieTrot, % ''The KISS" and other
sketches ldiss IlOwt1er's family are
much Opposed 10 her appearing in pub
JIG, but she Is determined 10 do 50. It
IS probabie mat She viii open her series
of entertain in Baltimore
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
10 Motion for More Trade.


Washington has gotten in motion for
more trade at last. There have been
many indications Of it lately-the ex-
cursions from the surrounding shipping
zone managed by the retailers OF the
CITY; a determined effort to- obtain
every reasonable advantage in rail
road traffic; a business getting train;
and new spirit OF cooperation among
the men who viii profit directly when
2his is made a better city to make
money in.
But there are two recent indications
which have not yet been emphasized
They are the issue by the Chamber of
Commerce oI a booklet really credit
able to the Capital as a place where
business is and can he done, and the
conference held a day or so ago be-
tween the executive committee of that
body and the local association Of hotel
managers.
Better booklets have been issued. of
course, than this which has Just ap-
peared for Washington Shortly, the
local trade bodies may be depended
upon to improve on this, to issue fold
eTs which tell the essentials OF our
trade possibilities at a glance, to drive
nails for the District one at a time and
drive them deep.
But this booklet deserves much
praise. In size it is well calculated to
slip in the pocket of the out-of- town
reader. Ia appearance it Is nightly
attractive. The illustrations and ad-
yeTtisements give a fair view of the
City-in all its phases-as one turns
the pages. The text is admirable for
clearness, for eogency, for dignity, for
pulling power. If the Chamber of
Commerce does nothing more, it has
sent forth the best salesman for Wash
ington which has ever represented the
city.
The confere0on with the hotel men
Is equally encouraging. Washington fs
OF right pre-eminently the convention
city of America. Its hotels and halls
ought to be in constant use for national
assemblies. But it has allowed places
like Niagara Falls to outdo it two to
one. The reason is that Washington
stood still and waited while other cities
got busy and hustled.
An energetic convention committee
Sn the chamber has found it compare
lively easy to interest these national
bodies. But it could not undertake
10 meet the inducements offered bvI
Dther municipalities where the business
men have been alive and breathing the
air of enterprise for TWO generations
5nstead Of two years. So the questions
OF entertainment funds, of halls and
hotel accommodations, of git-up-and-
git-after, were referred to the execu-
tive committee. And now that body
has sought, and obtained, the hearty
cooperation Of the hotel managers in
spirit, labor, and money.
The battle IS not won for conven
Iions yet. So FAR not even all the local
forces are enlisted-for the benefit Is
not matter of hotel keep alone, but
also of cab companies, street car lines.
restaurants, and retail stores, and
through them the whole business com
1nunity is helped. But in this meeting
The right kind of start has been made
at last and the city has obtained there
by new ground of hope for the
future.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
SUNDAY. AUGUST 80. 1903

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The Washington times., 1908-08-30

could not be made amenable to Fed
eral statutes, he States ought to be
come responsible, and assure that the
employe, who frequently is practically
forced to join against his viii, is not
required either to surrender any sub
stantial right or to pay more for his
insurance than he has chance of get
ting cut of it.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30

forty of them says a grizzly is a cow
ard and he has never seen one show
fight. Must be wildly exciting, then,
TO plug them fun OF bullets
The Washington times., 1908-08-30

The woman editors are now telling
how to tx over shirt waists ana things
so they Will be proper during the fall.
but nobody has thought, apparently
about explaining how fathers seersuek-
er can be furnished up for winter.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30

A Philadelphia Chinaman who was
about to leave for a vacation visit to
the Celestial kingdom. took his wife
around 20 a magistrate with the re-
guest that she be locked up until his
return The heartless magistrate de-
clined to accommodate him, and she
heather went away wondering why
these benlghted Americans refuse 10
learn ancient improvements.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30
ROSEATE PREDICTIONS.

rs a prophet always without honor
III ais own country
a class prophet usually is" respond
ca the college graduate who was ma
nipulating the controller OF a trolley
car.-Exchange.
The Washington times., 1908-08-30

President Roosevelt is going to pre-
sent medal to Hayes, the Marathon
winner. AIR Roosevelt has taken all
the prizes for running in the Political
Sweepstake.'. and feels deep interest
in Hayes
The Washington times., 1908-08-30

It has been discovered that the CO.
set was invented by the Greeks. which
is rather hard on the theory OF the
anti-corset people that no corseted IA
tion could have produced the classic
Een1ISps