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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-04-24
No Press Agent Now at the White House

by appointment, and when the inter
view is sought the president requires
that the subject of It shall be stated.
cline to take up subjects he is not
ready or willing to discuss. In appli-
cation, however, there is good deal
of latitude After the subject men
toned is disposed of the president
talks about various matters brought
up by himself or his visitor.
President Taft has an intimate per
sonal acquaintance with nearly all the
newspaper correspondents in Wash
ington. He calls them by their first
names and by nicknames. He knows
their families and friends. With those
in whose discretion he has contide .ce
he chats in the same jolly, frank way
as Of old-with this difference: the
visitor is made to feel that he must
not take professional liberties. Mr.
Taft does not want himself or the
White House written up as a show. on
account of his personal intimacy with
the newspaper men he did not adhere
to his original plan of conGnng them
to very formal interviews, but this
concession does not mean making
copy out of casual conversation.
There is no more running to him to
verify reports, to learn who is to be
appointed to office to get stories about
senators, to get advance statements
prior TO official action
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-04-24

phone which must be accurately
learned by the beginner. They are
also printed by the automatic Morse
recorder on tape line. Receiving by
ear is, however, the most speedy, and
the method generally employed in ac-
tive service by operators In ships and
shore stations. On weekly cxamina.
tton days the instructor tests the
ability of each individual of the class
Ten to - words per minute is the
average scndirg capacity Expert
enccd operators under favorable cir
cumstancos, send from . to 10 words.
and receive as many as 50.
chief Electrician Rice imparts the
benefit of his expert experience in the
taxing apart and putting together OF
all the main electrical instruments,
This Is the most vital part of the
training Of wireless operators. Most
Of them are destined to be sent to re
mote localities, where they must de-
pend entirely upon their own technical
skill TO repair any break in their ap'
paratus. A novel sight is a section of
The class. high alOft on one Of the
fighting masts Of one of the battle
ships now at the navy yard, oXamin'
ing the method of arranging the aerial
wires.
During the 3Oday torn. with daily
practice of six hours and thorough
scientific and systematic drilling, the
wireless aspirants have been so per.
foctcd in the art that they are com
petcnt to enter any ship or shore sta
tion Of the navy. They are able to
fash a message from 100 to 1000
miles distance and to receive and
translate the most complicated com
muuicatlOn
In order to get a fine body OF opera
tors, the government offers liberal
pay Inducements including rations,
far in excess Of the remuneration Civ
cn to ordinary scamcu. The latter
receive only $50 per month, while the
young man who cnliats and passes the
preliminary examination in electricity
s rated as third class electrician, at
$50 per month Advancement Is Ger.
tain, If accompanied by conscientious
and ambitious labor, up to second
class, bringing $40, and thence to first.
class. at $50 per month The highest
rating Of chief electrician amounts to
SO The efficiency Of the govern
mont wireless telegraph Is strikingly
illustrated by the fact that a message
was received recently at the Point Lo-
ma station, in California from the flag.
ship Connecticut 1900 miles away.
on route TO New Zealand
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-04-24

THE size of the average family in
the United States has decreased
from So persons in 1890, the date OF
the first census, to 4,G in the same area
in 1900 according to a volume being
prepared by the census bureau at
Washington.
OF especial interest from a sociology
cal point are Stats les Of family life.
In 1890 families composed OF no more
than three persons represented only
one-fourth OF the entire number Of
families, while in 1900 families Of sim
liar size made up nearly 40 per cent
of all families. Families composed Of
six or more persons represented in
1890 more than onc.half, but in 1900
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-04-24

Rubber is one OF the great essentials
or steel, with copper, and with glass
1t may be compared in the diversity
of its use; it has the advantage over
these, and may be compared IN this
latter respect to corn, wheat, and the
necessary foods, in that it is capable
of eternal reproduction if mankind will
but apply to its cultivation his ex
perienCe and scientific knowledge.
There is scarcely a device OF daily
commerce into which rubber does not
enter as a necessity, and yet in the
annual statistical publication of the
department of commerce and labor
Commerce and Navigation S the
United States-the student will look
in vain for the word rubber" and
not until he examines the word or the
phrase 'indiarubber," India rubber"
or "lndia-rubber" will he be able to
see how vast and important is the sub
Ject before him. This conservatism
II the term may be here applied-is
traceable throughout all the literature
or all the libraries Of the English.
speaking world The aboriginal native
word describing the substance first
discovered by the early Europeans was
cahuchu probably pronounced but
surely corrupted into caoutchouc. This
later word has spread into the Ian.
Suages OF Europe. In French It is the
same word in German the only modi,
fication Is to substitute a for the c
apd in Russian nearly the same change
takes place. To be sure tho Spanish
uses frequently the word gonna, equiv.
alent 10 our gum, and this is made
more specific by adding the adjective
elastica. and the Portuguese has the
word borracha, but caucho is com
mercally we'll understood as might be
supposed from the first association
with the source of supply. Rubber. or
india rubber however, is undoubtedly
the term which will continue to be EN-.
r.oyed In English 10 distinguish this
indispensable product OF the tropics
Caoutchouc directly explains the
descent OF the gum and its adoption
INTO arts, out india rubber embraces
not only this history but conceals one
OF the romanCes Of the Industries
Trayelers-and It is said Columbus
himself was one Of them-noticed thar
the Indian inhabitants Of America
thought then to be an unkonwn por.
ton OF the Indies, played ball with a
curious substance grown in the print
tive forests and prepared according
10 native ways This substance was
also made into shoes; it formed a
protective coating for garments. and
from It were made bottles which could
be squeezed together 50 as to eject the
liquid contents This substance was
called caucho in some parts OF Amer.
lea. and the gatherers we're caucheros.
mother parts the gatherers were called
because Of the shape or the bottles and
ne uses % which the Portuguese saw
is'E Tut. sa-iugeis2s, syr.nge-men
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-04-24

0NE Of the most fraqucu. visitors to-
" the members gallery Of the house
Of representatives in Washington
since the conveuing OF the eXtr ordin-
airy session OF congress is Mrs Champ
Clark, wife Of the minority leacer, on
whom the eyes OF the couu'r, are
turned during this his first cxre -iencc
az chief Of his party in the hose
II Is true the leadership wa. armed
over BY John sharp Williams curing
the second half Of the last 50 sion
but the former leader kept a clos sur
yeillance over his successor Nor NJ
Clark is responsible for himself and
his management of Democratic fair
On the floor of the house q natter
~ deep concern TO his wife Who lie
uQst csIg. essE3eu's wives. takes the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-04-24

G ClNCE Mrs. Taft became the owner
y of Jersey COW she has been re
receiving hundreds of letters. Mean
while "Bossy" is giving generous
quantity of rich milk, wholly uncon
scious of what a stir she has created
Many of Mrs. Tafts correspondents
are housewives who offer her various
suggestions as 70 butter-making, how
to produce the most palatable cottage
cheese. etc.
The story of the purchase and de.
livery of Mrs. Tafts COW never has
been told correctly. Maj, Gen. Henry
G.. Corbin, who was a farmer in his
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-04-24
Wants LARGE sam for Navy.

Alfred Picard, named French min.
lister Of marine in succession - II.
Thomson, last year for the purpose Of
Toorganizing and carrying out reforms
in the French navy. has presented 10
he cabinet an extensive plan of 10
yelooment which not counting new
ships. involves an expenditure nj stTe
006, 30.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-04-24

What was considered the dream of
a visionary inventor few years ago
wireless telegraphy- is now an ac.
cepted fact, and the most skcpucal
admit its practical use wnen the war
and navy departments assign officers
to develop the new invention and be
gin to drill recruits as operators, says
Lillian f. Zeh in an article in The
Christian Herald.
Our government has decided to
make the most extensive use Of wire.
less of all the nations Of the world,
and the navy department has Just
asked bids for the erection Of high.
powered station in Washington. This
will keep the navy officers in touch
with ships 5000 miles out at sea, both
night and day, The recent triumph
OF wireless in summoning quick aid to
the Republic. thus saving thousands
Of lives, has fOrCibly demonstrated the
great value Of this method of C0mmu.
nication The practical training OF
Young sailor electricians for this new
ana important branch of the service
has been progressing fapIa'y h'n'o
the day Marconl S'ar'iod 'I'' ""r'a
by sending his message across both
sea and Iaha "iih"ut '"o a'u VI P"''
and wire,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18

ing composed Of cowgentlemen from
these parts-was real champions. They
wasn't never beaten. 1t came about this
way:
I'VE wasn't none of US plumb familiar
with this here game of base ball. I'm fair
to say some of the boys hadn't never
heard of it. and those that had wasn't
rightly acquainted with the way 1t was
done. But one day the mayor and me and
some of the boys. not including Hunger
named Norton. which had come to Arnim
to pass out. was sitting in Sans place
liquoring, when the mayor he pulls a pa
per out of his pocket.
I'm right puzzled about something he
says, tasting his liquor critical and OBJ
serving-the same being plumb unusual
with him-'and I'd like to have some
light shed on it. I picked up this here
paper this morning and / finds in it some
thing about base ball. This is the way
this paper lopes along:
The Nationals dashed the Yanks to
the mast yesterday afternoon and skinned
them alive to the tune of 10 to 1. Smith
was in the box for the home team, and
his corkscrews made the Yanks swat the
ambient until their teeth ached. Brown
was handy with the ash. getting a couple
Of bingles into the right garden. a grass
cutter through short and pop up that If
Jones hadn't died at the plate would have
been the goods
There's more to it, says the mayor,
drawing long breath, but that's a me-
dunn sample. I'm fair to say that I'm
familiar with considerable language, COM
mon and fancy, but that there line Of con-
versation amt known in these parts. But
it sounds good to me. There must be lots
of action in that there base ball PROPOSE
ton. I'm for it. Lead me to it. want
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ave told whether 1t was a ball game or

have told whether It was ball game or
q roundup.
1.-THE mayor. being some heated with
redeye. he started first. and IN q minute
gun. They was earnest and sincere. They
wanted to win the game. But the short
horn which was running for home didn't
understand. He wasn't used to base ball
In these parts. ard after he got half way
to home he changed his direction and
started north. He moved swift. He done
some fancy running. And the boys. just
to show they liked 1t. they loaded up
and famed him some more. They was
playful and conscientious. and they want
ed to win the game
Gentlemen. there amt much moro TO
tell; Old man Sanderson. which. as I've
indicated. was umpiring some fair and
impartial. he looked things over.
IT observe he says. after we had
liquored silent and meditating. that there
amt no home plate. and I'm compliment
ing some cow gentleman by tanning HIS
hardware swift and accurate. And I'm
also mentioning that the short horn
which was on third. he amt showed UP
yet. and as he was heading south and
humping some the last time I looked,
judge he's left for other parts. And %.
not wishing to be hard on this short
horn bunch, but aiming to be fair and
impartial. I hereby declare this here
tlemen from Arnim the champions
Which We was
The sheriff paused and rolled a cisa-
rette.
Did you ever play again. asked Jim
Hicks Of the Bar Circle.
I'VE was willing. but We couldn't get
nobody to play. We was too scientific
for these here short-horn Mines
IRVING c. NORWOOD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18
COMPULSORY TOWN PLANNING.

Bill in Parliament to Force Cities
to Provide for Growth.
From the New York Sun.
The magnificent ambition with which
our young towns plan out their future
growth has sometimes amused foreign
ers. especially those from old settled
countries where the growth of a town
has usually been spread over far too
long a period to admit Of any general
plan beforehand. Dickens laughed In
his American Notes" and Martin Chuz-
zlewit' at the disparity between aspira-
ton and achievement not only In the Mis-
sissippi Eden. but in the National Capital.
Since his day. however. those ambitious
forecasts have so often come true" or
near it, that some later travellers are
not unnaturally discovering another than
a humorous side to them. Mr. John
Burns. for instance, who Is now presi-
dent Of the local government board IN
England, seems to have been chiefly i'm
pressed on his American tours with the
practical usefulness of the foresight In
volved In these schemes Though mush-
room cities are rare In England. IT Is no
when the peasants are DESERVING agricul-
ture for urban employments. to see an
ancient town suddenly expand to double
or treble the size it has attained In the
course Of several centuries. These adj
ditions have usually come higgledy-pi
gledy with no provident attention to the
claims Of beauty and comfort. Mr.. John
Burns has asked himself why something
Of the American foresight should not be
imported His answer is contained in an
interesting section Of the local government
bill which he Is now plotting through
parliament.
This town planning section, as it is
called. goes beyond any instrument we
possess for attaining the same end. 1t
practically empowers the central govern
ment to compel towns all over the coun-
try to regulate their expansion along
esthetic and hygienio lines. The local
government board will invite every town
to study its possibilities of future growth
and the desirable or probable direction
of the movement, and to draw up plan
for buying adequate park lands, ETC., In
advance. The plan will be revised by the
board, and when finally shaped the board
will require the town authorities to carry
it out. The board will also help them
to carry it out. For instance, IL the
scheme involves the purchase OF private
property as to which the town authorities
cannot come to satisfactory terms with
the owner the board will fix the price
and its decision is to be absolute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18

the so-termed encore f1end.
There arc encore fiends, Of course, IN
every town; but there are not one-tenth
as many Of them as the theatergoing pub
lie is led to suppose The encore fiend Is
an Irritating lunatic: but he isn't IN any
wise responsible for the major number OF
the tedious encores to which the player
folk respond.
You can take it from me that the ma
tority of the stage folk positively love the
encore fend. and when by any chance.
there doesn't happen to be an encore
fiend in the theater. why. they just en-
core themselves. SO to speak.
This Is particularly the case in the
vaudeville houses. The popularity and the
financial success. viewed from the get
ting-booked standpoint Of the vaudeville
entertainers. depend, in large measure.
upon the number of recalls they get from
audiences: and so when the genuine. sure
enough recs1l doesn't eventuate, why.
they come out and do their little stunt
over again anyway. Just as II they'd been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18

"Wha- wha-why" gasped Mr.. Jobson,
almost choking on the word, and the gaze
he staked Mrs. Jobson to would have
shriveled her If she hadn't been used to
looks Of that kind for a whole passed. Of
years. "Say, you interest and entertain
me. You're the cutest diversion that comes
my way. -why?"
Eyes, why?" repeated Mrs. Jobson. a
little boldly for her.
Mr.. Jobson was SO astonished at her
repetition Of the question that he could
only splutter for a minute or so. Then
he got hold of some words that sounded
like words.
whats the use?' were the words.
whats the use Of trying to tell wom-
an anything? s'poss If some follow were
to take an aeroplane trip to the planet
Neptune, and come back here with q
verified story of his trip. you'd consider
1t of no more Importance than if"
But" put in Mrs. Jobson. lis the story
of DR.. Cooks trip to the north pole
verified story?"
Mr.. Jobson permitted sad, sad smile
to relax his taut features.
IF that isn't the eternal suspicious
feminine for you. I'll eat my hat" he
finally managed to say. Here's man
that trudges along through snow and Ice
and things and eats tallow and blubber
and junk like that and chops the icicles
out of his whiskers with Ratchet and
all that kind of stuff and then comes
back and tells the world what he found.
and the first thing a woman does Is to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18

'that the base ball season is about over.
Nobody contradicting, the sheriff ran
his eye regretfully along the row OF bot
ties behind the bar. turned his glass right
side up again and resumed.
Base ball." he remarked, reminiscently.
els a plumb grand game. If I was young
and frivolous and sort of careless-ltke
about my person 1 don't know anything
I'd rather do than trif1e with this here
base ball proposition. But. being middle
aged and settled. just puts in my time
chasing greasers and such and reading
about this here base ball mix-up In the
papers which Is safer.
II don't know as I mentioned previous
and explaining. but this town once had a
real bang-up base ball team. the same be-
ing called a nine. from the number which
performs on side. I'm admitting free
and sincere that 1t don't sound reason
able to say that a lot Of cowpunchers
which don't run around much except on a
cayuse could put up fancy article Of this
here national sport. But I'm talking
straight and 1 don't hear no protests
This team I'm mentioning-the same be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18

consequential hunk Of Edam in trying to
discredit his rival, and
Then you think they both got to the
pole?" inquired Mrs. Jobson.
1t doesn't make q burned bit OF DIFF
ference what / think replied Mr.. Job
son. beginning to crawfsh on expressing
opinions, the situation looked so foggy
as between the two explorers. "All I'm
saying is that Peary ought to get next to
himself, and II he thinks that he's going
to gain anything by trying to slap Cook.
why"
Just then the door bell rang and .
neighbor came in and the arctic stun was
laid by for a SPELL
Then came the heaping up Of the doubts
around the story Of DR.. Cook. owing to
the fact that he wasn't producing them
papers" by way OF substantiating his
story.
Funny. the way Cooks acting said
Mr.. Jobson one evening when things we're
In this condition. I'D hate to call him
bogus and all like that, but
II hope it's found that he really did
get the POLE" put In Mrs. Jobson. Il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18
The Portable Mine.

nOBERT wOMACK. though he discov-
X cred the rich Cripple Creek gold
lands. made no profit from his discovery.
and recently died at Colorado Springs In
poverty.
"Womack naturally was cynic about
mines," said Colorado Springs lawyer
HE was always cautioning me against
mining sharks. Once he told me BIT OF
the inside history of a mine. the Goio
Bug that 1 thought Of buying stock in.
"Womack said that samples OF quartz
from the Gold Bugs reef were sent to
New York and exhibited. The reef Is the
mine proper. Well, the quartz samples
were very rich. money flowed into the
New York Office, and in state OF great
expectation the New York directors wired
to the manager Of the mine:
"'Commence crushing at once
1.-THE manager wired back:
"'Can't till you return the reef.
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and just as we was getting plumb dis
couraged, the mayor he calls meeting
of the team.
Gentlemen he says, arguing and per-
suasive, these shorthorns look good. don
they? It seems as II they was about to
rub it in. We amt in it, are we? Shucks!
Meaning what? asks one of the boys.
Meaning says the mayor. closing his
left eye swift and indicating. that we
just got to practice. We got to skin 'em
alive. We got to fan the ambient and we
got to die at the plate. The meaning of
all which I don't know. but 1t sounds
good. 1t sounds like action. And that
what's there going to be-
"Gentlemen snort! Gentlemen. rave! 1t
come the day of the game. 1t comes to
the game itself. And things looked good,
Because there wasn't no umpire and old
man Sanderson volunteered. He didn't
know the game. but he was willing. He
didn't know a base on balls from fly.
but he was plumb willing to learn. and
when these here visitors kicked we just
overruled EN- 1t was done calm ana
judicious. There wasn't no hardware
used.
"Gentlemen, hush! Gentlemen, weep!
Gentlemen-but it was exciting. The
mayor which was pitching. he never let
them hit it. He never threw the balls
near enough. He kept away from EN-,
and when the visitors got mad old man
Sanderson the same that was umpire,
quieted them down.
I've been reading the rules he says.
calm and persuasive. displaying his arma-
ment prominent and ready. and observe
that the umpire runs things. What he