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that we have done offers greater pcs
sib1llties than the study of the areas
above the storm belt Little is known
OF these areas now. think these in
vest1gations will lead to much greater
accuracy in the forecasts for the west
and middle west.
This Pixies Peay station will enable
US to do for the west what we now are
doing for the east from the Virginia
station. The farmers will know what
to expect for fifteen days, according
to our plans now.
There are prophets galore who give
what purport to be, weekly and even
monthly weather forecasts. Some of
the more enterprising find no trouble
Whatever in doping out the weather a
year In advance. These reports will
be OF little value, however, compared
to the forecasts the weather bureau
will be enabled to furnish.
With it's improved equipment and it's
scores of trained observers the wealth
er bureau should be able to give the
nearest approach possible to an ac.
curate forecast of weather conditions.
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Money cuts a poor figure in a brain
vacuum.
The unconscious habit of smiling
promotes wrinkles.
A fat is often employed in the in
tsrest of harmony.
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If the officials of the G. Z e. /. rail-.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-16

A kitten in chasing its tail does not
appear to be useful, but it is cultivat-
ing grace.
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Why are people poor? was the question discussed at
recent meeting OF womans club city, and the
answers were and far apart Here few Of them
boiled down:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17

panse from the enlistment office TO the
naval school. and the first thing he en-
counters there i a still more rigit, ptysi-
cal examination than the first. following
which IF is put in a detention house
for al least twenty-four hours to give
manifest itself The detention house. Ii
should he understood. is not in any sense
prison cell. but simply a clean we'll
ventilated. attractive building. to which
the recruit is confined for short period.
Getting His Sea Toys.
Having passed this ordeal. the embryo
sailor has matriculated. His first taste
of federal generosity comes when he is
measured by tailor. from whom he
presently receives a complete outfit of
clothing for summer and winter. coupled
with an order to discard his citizens ap-
parel and don the new clothes. Sixty
dollars is allowed for each outfit. each
piece is marked with the owners name.
and the student receives a lucky bag
in which his clothes are to be kept He
and keep it slowed and the manner
Of folding IS such that the clothes are
always pressed and smooth.
The remainder of the outfit consists of
a hammock-not the usual lawn imple-
ment bat device fitted with a hair
mattress and blankets-very comforta-
BILE to sleep in once one becomes ac-
customed to ii. although a bit novel and
awkward at first.
The initial lesson of the freshman aims
to teach that neatness and cleanliness
are heavens fundamental law. Whether
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PoMSR HoUoE AM0 JToR11

the breakwater are small stages from
which they heave the lead In the rig.
ging loft instruction 10 given in Tying
knots. coiling gear and making spires.
and on a masthead in the yard fitted with
the ropes and spars OF a sea-gping vessel
the students make practical application
Of the theory OF working ship.
Interspersed with what may In tie read.
ing appear like dull routine ara oceA.
sional cruises about the waters Of Nara.
gansett bay and the nearby sounds. I'm the
course Of which the embryo sailors learn
navigation by practicing il. In addition
10 small sailing vessels for these cruises
there are larger vessels. rather moro
Eacht-like In construction and hitting than
the recruits will find when they get into
actual service. The cruises are naturally
looked upon as highly enjoyable part
of the course. and every undergraduate
has chance at them.
There is no end to the drills both ashore
and ahoat. Practice with small arms
revolvers and rihes-is an essential part
of the education. Familiarity with ther-
mometer. barometer and chronometer are
cultivated. There is. in short. hardly
branch Of knowledge which may come in
useful In the varied life Of battleship
feet which is not taught. either theoret-
!cally or practically. at the Naval School
Meanwhile the school adheres to a pol
icy Of plenty of food and plenty of sleep.
which combine with the constant exercise
to put the young sailors into the pink 81
physical condition. Hazing Is not al
lowed. although such practical Jokes az
all hoys play on one another can hardly
be entirely prevented. So healthful IL
the 'ife that there is seldom a recruit
who does not finish in better condition
than he was ever in before during his
life. and well fitted to take up the work
of defending the nag.
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PICTURESQUE PREMIER
STONE MASON.

labor leader. to see how some OF the un-
employed We're made useful on municipal
Improvements. Mr.. Price watched the
men at work for while and then turned
to Mr.. Burns in disgust. Its all very
well. John he said. Ito find work for
these fellows. but why don't you make
them earn their pay? If ] had them In
South Australia l would hustle them up
d bit.
Tom Price was born in North Wales,
but soon after his birth his father moved
TO Liverpool, where he was brought up.
The foundation of his education was laid
in a penny a week boarding school. but
when he was nine years old the family
bread winner. and he went to work.
Whatever he learned after that was in
the school of life, and from reading al
home after his days work.
Begins Life as Stonemason.
He became stonemaso and a goo.
ere. and when he was twentynne year.
old he found himself jobbing employer
in a small way. with a wife and baby
His health broke down. however and
the doctors told him that if he remained
in the English climate it would soon
kill him so. with the remainder of his
savings. he decided to emigrate.
He reached South Australia in the mid
die of a period of depression but. with
characteristic energy he sought employ
ment. Work was scarce. however, and
finally he asked an employer to allow
him 10 work for a week on trial. The
trial was so successful that he remained
with his employer for eight years 1t is
an interesting incident in his career tina,
he first building he was employed on in
South Australia was the parliament house
at Adelaide, where he now resides as
premier.
He entered the legislature In 1888 as a
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3O0WC U0V000 t01C lt06 0O C0t00 0O06 000O u
KING WILLIAM STREET, ADELAIDE SOUTH AUSTRALIA

good if not better work than they give
private companies or employers. The
influence on politics of the vote of the
railway workers is also greatly exag-
gerated. There are > 600 miles of railway
and the men are scattered all along IT.
The only place where their vote is
matter of any account is at Islington.
where the railway workshops are. The
value of our railway now is over
So 900 coo.
We had given away the street car
system of Adelaide, but after a struggle
We got it back at a fair valuation. and
now it is run by the municipality. The
government owns all the waterworks
which a:e worth more than $2OO0ohoO.
We also control the education. which
is free and secular. and we own all our
own harborS and jettieS.
State Operates Creamery.
We go even farther than that. We
do not tie ourselves to doing only certain
things. but we pride ourselves on finding
out what the country needs at the mo-
ment and doing it. For instance. we
realize that the backbone of any country
must be it's farmers. We cannot live
in South Australia by cutting each others
hair and taking in each others washing
We must have the farmer and we must
do all in our power to help and en-
courage nlm- Some time ago i received
complaints that the dairy farmers were
not being fairly treated by the great
'creamery companies. l started a state
butter factory at once, and any farmer
who is dissatisfied with his treatment at
thu creamery can send his separated
crea m 10 the state factory. where he is
sure o. receiving a square deal. Then,
ii he likes. he can go TO his creamery
AMI demand equal treatment If he does
not get il he can continue to use the
STATE factory. We erected a government
produce depot at a cost of SSOo.OU. and
the government butter is sent out from
there.
"A couple of years ago we had an over
production of lambs and as sheep rails
ing is our principal industry. and there
was no probability of our population
keeping pace with our production. l
erected a freezing plant at Adelaide. and
there we kill and freeze the farmers
lambs and export them. When this be-
gan the price of lambs in South Australia
was about 81 each Today it is $40.
Last year alone we handled 300 O0o
lambs.
Government Imports Wire Netting.
Wire netting is a necessity for our
farmers, and l found out that they were
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tiers generally. At S o'clock the hugle
sounds for breakfast formation. and the
recruit falls into line in the battalion Of
which he is a member and marches to
the mess hail.
breakfast is one of three hearty meals
passed out each day to the students of
the naval school. There is nothing elabo-
rate about these meals nor is there any
thing stingy-just good meat. potatoes and
other vegetables. bread and butter IN any
desired quantity. with tea and coffee TO
wash 1t down, and on Sundays and holt
DAYS, pie or other dessert. The appetite
with which il is eaten would make any
worse than that served 10. the young
sailors
Following breakfast comes sick call.
then assembly and prayer and from that
time until the noon dinner there are alter
mating periods of study. instruction or
recitation, which continue after dinner UNI
til the liberty period III The latter part of
the afternoon. Sports of all kinds are in
dulGed in during these leisure hours. the
American games Of base ball and foot ball
being favorite sports At S:35 the ham
mocks are piped down and taps sound at ..
Regular drills begin at once after the as
sisnment OF a recruit TO a battalion. Be
sides drilling. the future sailors learn Sig
mailing of al kinds The walls of the
drill hall are covered with the flags of
all nations and their signal codes. Wig
Wagging and semaphoring are practlsed
until the classes are proficient In these
arts. From q huge compass painted on
the wall they learn 10 box the compass.
School of the Sailor.
All departments of the sailors profess
sion are included in the course. With a
log and lead-line the boys learn how to
tell the marks and ''deeps." Out on
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an island This part of the govern ment's
naval equipment is valued at S9uo.nu
and so satisfactory has the work done in
1T proven. that a school of the same
nature is soon to he opened near Chi
cago at a cost for buildings of s. 400
600. and the Newport school will have
improvements and additions in the i'm
mediate future which will cost 11U0,-
900 more.
First Smell Of the Sea.
Seacoast towns and cities provide the
bulk of the student body at the naval
schools, but there are enrolled daily boys
an, young men from every part of the
country, many of them getting their first
smell of salt water when they alight
from the train which takes them to So
ciety's summer capital. These freshmen
as they may be called. are the recruits
who having gazed upon the alluring post
ers in front of the naval enrolling Of
fees, have taken courage and filed their
applications for admission TO Uncle Sam 5
service.
Applying is an important step. but it by
no means follows that acceptance of the
offe- of service will ensue An average
OF % per cent of applicants are able TO
produce their birth certificates, pass the
physical examination and demonstrate
that they are generally desirable and
promising enough to warrant the govern
ment in spending money to make sail
ors of them. 1t may be seen. therefore.
that the personnel of the United States
Navy is picked in a very real sense
Of the world.
The applicant who does get by the first
gate. is transported at government ex-
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Observation-Disclosures

all? Are these raw recruits licked into
| shape aboard the vessels to which they
were assigned. or are they enlisted from
the fishing and merchant fleets. with
! their apprenticeship in marine affairs
already fnished?"
Either guess, whenever hazarded has
been wrong. The boys who are doing
the hard work OF taking the American
fleet around the world are seamen be-
fore they step aboard a commissioned
war vessel as members of her crew,
and they are seamen in a far more lib
eral meaning of the word than had they
been trained to a life on salt water only
on fishing or merchant vessel. They
are. in short. the alumni of the coun-
| try's largest and least-known institu-
tions of learnng-the naval training
stations a Norfolk, Va, San Francisco
! Cal. and Newport. r. /.
I About 5000 graduates leave the naval
/ training stations annually. And this
great work is done with so little noise
! and ostentation that the country, as a
| whole, is totally ignorant of the place
1 and manner in which it is accomplished
/ While the annual output of the naval
schools is about 5000. there is never a
graduating class Of anywhere near that
| size The course is only four months
| long. from the physical eNaminat ions.
which open it, to the assignment to a
ship. which terminates it; and as the
batch of sailors finished UP and ready
for active service. And this is the man
ner of ma king.
The training school at Newport con-
sists of a collection of buildings of
crea n -colored brick on Coasters Har-
Dor Island, in Narragansett bay, on the
water side of the city of Newport, r. L..
from the mainland Of which it is sepa-
rated only by creek. which advances
the academy grounds to the dignity of
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A CENTENARIAN ON CHURCH
MUSIC.

THE REV Brooks Mason of Plainfield,
i y. j.. is 1871 years OF age. He stiIl
retains. however all his faculties. Thus.
in a recent interview. ne said Of Easter
music
Il like to hear special Easter music.
like churches TO provide fine music at all
times; but there are cases on record
where the music has been given too prom
inent a place.
AN eloquent brother divine from
South Carolina once told me that. going
to preach at a strange church. he was
taken aside by a deacon who whispered:
Beg pardon. sir, but | must ask you
not TO preach longer than ten or twelve
minutes. It's the music that the people
come here for
THAT was wrong. But worse still was
the case of supply preacher in church
famous tor its anthems and choruseS.
The stranger not noticing the scraping
and tuning of the tiddies rose and began
to preach, when the choir leader jumped
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adopted by Mr. Price is that all public
activities should be controlled by the
state. and that, when the state has al
lowed them TO pass into private hands
in the past, they should be acquired at
once.
Taking Over Corporations
1--WE believe in sticking to contracts
he said and where our fathers had al
lowed these activities to fall into private
hands we made an offer to the companies
controlling them. If they accepted the
offer we'll and good. but if they did not
we asked them to name their price If
that seemed to us too large we agreed
with them on the appointment of an
arbitrator and then we gave them 10
per cent over arbitrator's award to COM
pensate them for the disturbance"
All the railways in South Australia are
owned by the state, and they are among
the country'S most valuable assets. That
their management is excellent is shown
by the fact that although high wages are
paid the railways earned profit of q
per cent last year. The object of the
government, however, is not to earn a
profit, but to give the people OF the
country the lowest possible freight rates
while paying the railway workers the
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'ecial Correspondence of The star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON May s. 1905
-~LAIN TOM PRICE is the man
- of the hour in England. This
may seem somewhat dis
respectful way to designate
the premier of an important
colony. but il is the way in which the Hon.
Thomas Price. premier of South Australia,
prefers TO be described Tom Price |
was when / was a boy al our penny
school in Liverpool" he says Tom Price
l was when l was superintendent of our
Sunday school, and plain Tom Price l am
today when / am premier of South Aus
tralia.'
Mr.. Price is visiting England to repre-
sent his country al the great Franco Brit
ish exhibition which is being held this
summer. and incidentally 10 look after the
relocating OF a South Australian loan OF
s.U.OOOO0U which falls due at the end of
this year. London society. always anxious
for q new sensation. has seized on the
workngman premier minister and he is
the lion of the season. Dinners and re-
ceptions follow each other so rapidly that
he declares he has hardly time 10 think,
but through IL all he remains plain Tom
Price The shrewd, hard-headed Welsh
worklngman. who Is putting socialism To
a practical test Ill the colony whose deStl-
MES lie guides.
PLAIN Tom Price i a slender, white
haired man of fifty-sx. with shrewd gray
eyes and trick of looking straight at,
or rather through. one as he talks. You
feel sure that there is really very little
use in trying 10 deceive him, for his eyes
seem TO bore right in and convey your
very thoughts to his mind. This feeling
s strengthened by the startling way IN
which his answers and questions antici-
pate your unspoken thoughts. Perhaps
his is of the secrets of his success.
He himself however. insists that the only
:ecrets which have aided him to his pres
mt position are work and grit.
Apostle of Work.
The apostle of work and grit he calls
himself and he admits that he has been
A little of surprise to some of the Brit
sh socialists. who spend more time talk
ng about the wrongs of the workingman
han in assisting him 10 better his condi-
lion. He has nothing but contempt. too
for the workingman who talks more than
he works.
few days after his arrival he was
taken by John Burns, the president of the
local government board, himself an eX-
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THE HYGIENIC DANCER.

KTLLE. GENEE. the famous ballerna,
4V4 said of dancing at a luncheon in
New York:
ITO dance well one must love to dance.
Stiff. gloomy dancers don't | am sure,
dance for the love of IL.
They make me think of a French
prince who waltzed thrice running with
a pretty matron at a state ball.
Though he danced execrably, the
matron was flattered, and when the prince
claimed a fourth waltz she smiled and
said:
THANK you, sir, for this marked COM
pliment.'
- don't intend it as a compliment.
the prince answered.
she bit her lip.
Then she said, you must be very
fond of dancing
II detes. dancing said he
May l ask, prince pursued the lady,
why you dance?'
Madam he answered stiffly, If you
must know. l dance to perspire."
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AN ADVERTISING PARABLE.

7 lillian BRAYTHWAITE HILL. the
IL western advertising expert. SAID at
an Easter banquet of Duluth advertising
agents:
Gentlemen, he who cuts down his ad-
vertising on the score of economy Is as
ludicrous as the Paint Rock wine mer-
chant
"A wine merchant of Paint Rock, nav
ing married for the second time pro-
ceeded to lay bare to his bride the Sc
crets of the trade. >,
And how do you make white VINE!
she asked
I'VE get our white wine the man
answered. by adding water to coioreo
wine until 1t becomes pale.
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Remarkable Career Of
Labor Leader Who Began

Remarkable Career Of
Labor Leader Who Began
to Earn a Living When He
Was Nine Years Old-Be-
came a Stonemason and Had
to En1igrate Because He
Could Not Stand the Eng
lish Climate = The First
Building He Worked On in
South Australia Was the
Parliament House, Over
w hich He Presides as
Premier-Is Head OF the
Government OF South Aus
tralia-Tells of the Remark
able Work Which Democ-
racy Is Doing in That Col
ony Under His Leadership
Doesn't Care H ang
Whether People Call 1t
Socialism or Anything Else,
But Believes the State
Should Do Everything Pos
sible to Promote the Wei
fare and Happiness of It's
Inhabitants.
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labor member and soon became leader OF
the labor party. The party grew and ne
retained the leadership. finally becoming
premier of a government formed by
lahor and liberal coalition, about three
years ago
Since then the progress of South AuStra-
liza has been a steady one toward reai
social democracy and in this British col
ony the world can see an example or So
cialism successfully at work. Let IL not
be imagined, however. that there has Deeh
any radical Confiscation. The principe
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Uncle Sans Training
Schools Turn Out 5000
Graduates Yearly-Ilow the
Applicants Are Examined
and the Course OF Studies
Which They Must Undergo
The Jackie's Method OF
Eating. Sleeping and Work
ing-New Building for the
Great Lakes Now Under
Course OF Construction
Neatness and Cleanliness Are
the First Lessons the Sailor
Learns-The Food the Gov
eminent Supplies is Good,
Wholesome and Very Plen-
tiful-Personnel OF the Navy
IS Made Up OF "Picked' Men.
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But where does the country get them
all?"
The question is one which has been
thought or voiced many times during
the past few weeks as the 30. 900 blue
Jackets of Admiral Evans fleet have
studied. wide-eyed. the novel sights of
Rio. have enveloped the little town of
Punta Arenas, have enjoyed shore leave
at San Diego and tasted of the hospi-
tally of Los Angeles
Where does the country get them
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TOO TRUE.

THOMAS W. LAWSON, the noted
j broker and writer. sad the other
day of one of his early transactions:
MY share OF the profits was almost
invisible in it's smallness. My powerful
partners got the lions share
He smiled.
BY the way" he said, do you kno"
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highest possible wages. Accordingly the
freight rates will be reduced next year.
Our object" said Mr.. Price. is to
help our farmers and manufacturers and
to work the railways to the best adj
vantage for every one, while securing a
maximum of comfort to the workers Inc
minimum wage paid for the commonest
labor is $I.75 day, and from that the
wages rise TO the highest figure paid
anywhere for equal work. We believe
that this is the lowest sum that a man
can live on and enjoy fair amount OF
comfort.
Cooperation Along All Lines.
1.-The way in which we help our farmers
and manufacturers is illustrated by what
W, did last year. Wool is one of our
chief articles of production. and last year
the pri,- of wool was down in the market
30 per cent We were able to give our
farmers a reduction in freight rates which
enabled them to earn about as much as
formerly from their wool crop.
1t is often contended by the old
fashioned school of political economists
that the state. an employer. cannot
get efficient service. That is a fallacy.
Our men realize that their promotion and
their tenure of office depend on the way
theT do their work. and they give us as