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The Washington times., 1909-03-13
COMMENT ON SPORT
TOPICS OF TODAY

Tenries is silent" says headline. Now
that Is real news.
The Washington times., 1909-03-13
Or. Reed SOP '7tn ST.

~ YEARS Successful Practice in tina
cure OF Chronic, Nervous, and Special
Diseases of Men and Women Means
Health to You If You Suffer
From, Catarrh, Obesity, Rheumatism Cor.,,
nation Piles, Throat. Lung, Brain Hear
Blood and skin Diseases. Nervous DebfIifv
KtdDev Diseases Bladder Troubles SDeci1ss
blood Poisoning. Eruptions. Ulcers and ali
Drtyats diseases cured for life by saf.
methods
CHARGES LOW, INCLUDING MEDICINES
Private Waiting Rooms for Ladies'
once Hours: 10 to 1. TO s. Sundays 10 10 AZ
eo4 SEVENTEENTH ST. n. W,
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Schmidt. Of Detroit. and our own Del
ought 10 get together and form little
holdout ci'cle OF their own just to keep
from getting lonely.
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Admiral Schley is said not 10 have
visited the White House for seven
years There are others. only their
names do not get in the papers.
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Now they are trying 10 bar football
sH Utah. Mere men certainly do have
troubles Of their own in that state.
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lt remained for Chicago pugiIist 70
get licked twice in the same night be-
FORE he realized that the other fellow
YES trying 20 knock him out.
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The English beat The Irish AT Rugby
lsst week. But take notice that 81 is
the FIRST time In fourteen years that
they have succeeded in doing IT,
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II Joe Cantillon's mining interests pay
80 well tina he can AFFORD 10 throw UP
a po,0oo-per JOB 10 manage Minneapolis,
what's the answer?
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Next comes the question II Pinch
hitter Criss wants 5000. how much is
Ty Cobb WORTH
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Certain New YORK promoters have
qualified for a financial jolt that Will
last more than six days
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see in The Times that some Of the
Detroit players have been roasting
Washington, complaining Of its mos
quitoes, hot asphalt and other things.
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There was a grand exhibition of color
hs1e whsn Jabez White met Joe Cans
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Hughey Jennings ought to get his
voice insured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
Not Good for Trade

The prevailing weather in December and January Is affecting various lines of trade. The makers of rubber goods have closed down and they have more goods on hand than they can sell. The makers of heavy shoes for winter wear are in the same boat, and so are the makers of heavy underwear. The huge piles of coal in the coal yards do not melt away-and so 1t is all along the line of dealers in goods for winter use.
 The weather clerk declines to create a demand for such goods and the peo- pie are not patriotic and altruistic enough to purchase goods they do not need. Overcoats are rarely seen on the streets, and the straw hat would appear if all had confidence in the con tinuance of the spring-like weather.
 While some dealers are confronted with lessened trade and prof1tss yet the consumers are not grumbling, and spring is near at hand-too near, for that matter, for blossoms are feared, and blossoms mean young fruit that the first frost can kill. An alarm has already been sent out from Georgia, and Medicine Hat has thus far refused to heed It. The truth is, Medicine Hat seems to have lost the power to start a cold wave with impetus enough to run over the country. Formerly it started one about once week, but this year it's waves are few in number and weak at that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
PROHIBITION IN THE SOUTH.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Savannah is reported to be in tacit re- bellion against the state prohibition law in Georgia. Complaint is made that the law is not enforced in that city, and the pro- hibitionists are yelling to Gov. Hoke Smith to make an example of 1t. Presi- dent Mrs. Armour of the Georgia w. C.. T. U. has inspected Savannah, and re- ports to the governor that anarchy Is rife in that city. The rifeness of the anarchy consists, apparently, in letting the saloons sell drinks as of old, and raiding them once a month and collect ing fines about equal to the former license fees We read in the Sun, an exceptional ly veracious newspaper, that the brand of restriction which curbs the bibulous pro- pensties of Virginia neither promotes morality and good public conduct nor con- tributes to the public revenue" The same authority finds that in Georgia and Ala bama, more particularly in the cities of Atlanta. Savannah, Birmingham and Huntsville. prohibition now appears to have stimulated the criminal record and at the same time crimped the treasury" There can be very little question that zeal has outrun discretion in the anti-rum movement in the south, and that much
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
Birmingham Man in Boston.

"One of the most extensive and success full institutions in Boston Is the Gucken- berger School of Music, B. Guckenberger, director" said a man who keeps in touch with the musical world.
 "Mr. Guckenberger was for several years the leading musician of Birming- ham. When he was offered the director ship of the Worchester festival associa- tion at a large salary, his old friend, the late Theodore Thomas, advised him not to accept 1t. MT. Thomas told him that he had better remain in Birmingham where he had big future. He said: If you make a change, however, go straight to Boston. Even if it does take time to establish ones self in a cultured center like Boston, when once established one is made.
 "In Boston today Guckenberger is rec ognized as a master of chorus training and as an orchestral leader he ranks high. The fact is that after Max Fried Ter, conductor of the Boston Symphony orchestra, there is no one at the Hub in Guckenberger's class"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
Nought's had, al's spent, Where our desire is got without con- tent. Macbeth.
Direct Elections In the Senate

Eighteen of thirty-one Senators that will be seated or reseated on the 4th of March were selected in primaries. The west and south have generally adopted the primary system and the legislative caucus is now confined to the eastern states, where 1t Is losing ground rapidly.
 It is some qualification to know that Senator Newlands of Nevada is to be re-enforced on the 4th of March by Benjamin F. Shively of Indiana, Charles J. Hughes, Jr., of Colorado and George E. Chamberlain of Oregon. These four will be the only democrats from northern states. Senator New lands certainly needed re-enforce- ment.
 A change of considerable interest is impending in Nebraska The legisla- ture is democratic in both branches and Governor Shallenberger is dem- ocrat A bill has passed the lower house to adopt the Oregon plan of pri- maries, and it is to become a law. w. J. Bryan carried the state last Novem- Der by a plurality of 4102, and it is believed he can carry it next year as a candidate for United States Sena- tor. Under the Oregon plan both par ties are required to select senatorial candidates, and the people are to de- eide between the two. This plan may put MT. Bryan in the Senate, place in which he would shine and be ex- ceedingly useful. It is the place where he should do the rest of his public work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
Thouahts of Men Widen.

"The prescience of Longfellows ob- servation about the thoughts of men widening with the process of the suns is strikingly borne out by the increas- ing uses now being made in highly civ- ilized communities of the newspapers" said Thomas P. Grasty of Baltimore, who Is stopping at the Morris. For in stance, within the week the advertis- ing columns of The Age Herald have car and electric light company to sh ow how not to get off a car; also to ex- plain why the public ought not to ask for lower charges for electricity.
 Ten years ago the average public utility corporation sometimes consid- cred 1t worth while to try to make peace with the public when under crit icism; but a big double-column adver- tisement with pictures and diagrams showing the danger of going around behind the rear end of a car when leaving it, would never have thought of.
 And far from taking the public into its confidence and making an exhaus- tive explanation about cost of renew als and maintenance of modern equip ment, the mere suggestion of any sort of explanation to the public would have been received with-is 1t too much to say-inso1ent indifference?
 Tn some respects newspapers are greater educators than school teach ers,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
What Conservation Means

President Roosevelt sent to Con gress last week the first report of the national conservation commission, and he did not in his special message ex- aggerate the importance of the sub jects discussed by the commission. The prevention of waste is, briefly speak ing, the subject the commission is considering, and, to show how import ant it's work is to all the people of the country, we select from it's report few briefly stated significant facts, as follows:
 Our coal supply will approach depletion before the middle of the next century.
 High-grade iron ores cannot be expected to last beyond the middle of the present century nor will petroleum last longer.
 The waste in the extraction and treat ment of mineral products In 1907 was equilavent to more than $500 0OO, 900.
 The average yield of wheat in the United States Is less than 14 bushels per acre. in Germany 2S bushels and in England g bushels.
 The greatest unnecessary loss of our soil is preventable erosion. Second only to this is the waste, nonuse and misuse of fertilizer derived from animals and men.
 Our wild game and fur-bearing ani- mals have been largely exterminated. With game birds the story Is much the same.
 Not less than 5ooO0OOO acres of forest is burned over yearly.
 One-fourth of the standing timber is lost In logging. The boxing of long-1eaf pine for turpentlne has destroyed one- fifth of the forests worked. The loss in the mill is from one-third to two-thirds of the timber sawed
 Of each 1000 feet which stood in the forest an average of 32O feet of lumber Is used
 By reasonable thrift we can produce a constant timber supply beyond our pres ent needs, and with 1t conserve the use fulness of our streams for irrigation, water supply. navigation and power.
 What the commission desires is, first, education of the public, and when public sentiment on the subject is ripe then legislation will have be- come feasible. In Congress, conserv- ation will have to reckon with special interests. All reforms do, and if the people will take hold of the great sub ject of conservation, the special in- terests will slink out of sight.
 The country has been so full of nat ural resources, the need of saving them and lengthening their stay has not been felt by the people, and the conservative commission is striving to awaken them to this need For this work the President asks for an appro- priation of, $5O,O0O, and surely Con- gress will not refuse so small an appro- priation in order to promote a move l, ment that is destined to result in the saving of millions-even tens of mil lions!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
THE LATE WILLIAM WINTER.
Critic DlsIncIlned To "Go Down the
 Steep" Prematurely.

From the New York Tribune.
 To the Editor of The Tribune-Sir: A number of years ago there was published in your paper a short account of recep- tion to the actress Modjeska, at which the late William Winter made some re- marks in his usual happy vein, quoting a passage from the poems of Tom Moore, on the philosophy of life. and using the simile of a boat with golden oars. have hunted my copy of Moore assiduously to find this passage. but without success. Can you help me? Yours truly,
 R. N. Dyer,
 East Orange, N. J., January r, 1909.
 ('~rhe late MT. William Winter pre- sents his respectful compliments to MT. R. N. Dyer and is happy to be of any help to him. Any difficulty in finding the desired passage cannot be consid- cred as other than a benefit, since it has entailed an "assiduous hunt" through the lovely pages of Moore. If MT. Dyer will look at the poem by the great Irish bard, called Let's Take This World As Some Wide Scene" he will find, in the first stanza:
 Let's take this world as some wide scene,
 Through which in frail. but buoyant
 boat,
 With skies now dark and now serene,
 Together thou and I must fioat
 Beholding oft, on either shore,
 Bright spots where we should love to
 stay;
 But Time plies swift his flying oar
 And away we speed, away. away.
 The occasion was a reception to Mime Modjeska at the Arthur Winter Memorial library, at Staten Island, late in April 1900 The account of that reception to which MT. Dyer refers, was published in the Tribune of May ?, 1900 The quo- tation from Moore there appears, cor. 1 rectly given. MT. Dyer's accidental sub- stitution of the phrase golden oar" for flying oar" may. perhaps, account for his difficulty in finding the passage. "The late MT. William Winter trusts that MT. Dyer will be found among those who are not dissatisfied because MT | Winters frail but still buoyant boat has not disappeared from this wide scene | To those others, several of whom have lately become vocal, who have intimated | a willingness to see MT. Winters boat | disappear over that last Fall'' mentioned by Moore in the same poem. MT. Win ter also pays his respectful compliments assures them that, like poor King Charles | he is sorry to be such an unconscionable long time in dying, but feels, in defer ence to the wishes of a few relatives and | friends, and also being somewhat un- certain of what exists on the other side of that Fall," he must defer as long as possible going down the steep. | WI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26

From the Scientific American.
 The ancient Tyrian purple was obtained from mollusks of the genera murex and purpura. The art of dyeing with this color was completely lost in the middle ages and the subject was not investi- gated until the eighteenth century. It has been proved that the color is produced by the action of light on the colorless se- cretion of special glands possessed by the mollusks. It is probable that the ac- tion of the enzyme also contributes to the result. Chemical investigations have indicated the presence of indigo blue in the dye Friedlander has made new study of the famous dye, and concludes that 1t is closely related to indigo, but is not identical with either indigo blue or thio-indigo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
AMENITIES TO BE FELLOWS.

Topeka CKan.) Cor. Philadelphia Record.
 The affinity business" will not be pop ular in Kansas hereafter. It is certain that the legislature will pass and Gov ernor Stubbs will sign a bill which makes it a felony for married woman to run away with another man, and vice versa. Even a temporary affinity is punishable by jail sentence. Any man who deserts his wife or a legitimate child under IA years of age will be guilty of a crime, punishable by a jail or penitentiary sen- tence. The same punishment is to be meted out to wife. If a man refuses to support his wife or child he must go to jail.
 Another bill, which also seems certain of passage, provides that prospective brides and bridegrooms must be subjected to strict questioning by a probate judge before they are granted a license to marry. In addition to the regular ques- tions as to age, consent of parents, etc., they much each give family history, dating back through several generations, covering matters of health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
HEALTH IN THE SLEEPING CAR.

In concluding paper on the sanita- tion of the modern sleeping car Dr. Sarah M. Hobson remarks that altogether the railroads are doing quite as much for the traveller as he is inclined to do for himself.'
 pr. Hobson notes great progress In the line of cleanliness on sleeping cars. She recalls from paper read in "a neighbor- ing American country only three years ago the declaration, made in all serious ness, that these pillows, or at least the pillow case must be disinfected and washed from time to time Cleaning, disinfecting and the prompt closing or sections upon known exposure to contag- ious or infectious disease are now matters of routine Ornate woodwork gives place to implicitly of finish; carpets are remov- able and diminished; cloth fabric is ban ished from the smoking room; smooth tap estry is being introduced for upholstery; the porter no longer frowns when asked to leave the screen in at night.
 Besides the personal equation of the boorish or selfish passenger, the most grievous unsolved problems according to pr. Hobson, are those of adequate venti- lation of the lower berth, supervision of the ice and water supply and the instruc- tion to employees. What appears to be good suggestion is that the conductor should receive instruction in the obvious diagnosis of contagious disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
Reflections on shIp Accident.

The story of the rescue of the pas sengers on the Atlantic liners by sis ter ships" said an observer, must have thrilled every reader who believes in the innate goodness, as opposed to the Innate depravity of the human heart. The ethics of the sea have been evolved during several thousand years by class of men notorlously human. These ethics have come by the exigencies of the life of the sea, and are man formed. Not only man formed. but formed by men who made no pretensions to piety, who make no pretentions. They have come out of the innate goodness of the human heart and should make us op- timistic of the future of mankind in general The full significance of this Incident is enough to make one proud of his race. A man-evolved wireless message, from a man-evolved steamer
 sets in motion the altruistic sentl- ments of man evolved ethics of the sea, and port is forgotten, instantly, in the effort to assist distressed brother of the sea. goodly epitome of a race that has raised itself from savagery."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
CHINESE GAMBLERS.
Why They Can Beat Any Other Race
 In Game of Chance.

From the American Magazine.
 '"They have latent power that is why I believe in them. They play poker well, for instance-play 1t like fiends. That's because 1t fits them. Strange to say. of all the trash we've put up to thing that fits the Chinese character at every turn, It's as if they had spent all these years just to perfect themselves for that game. It appeals to them it's philosophical, it's got sense. And they play it. inscrutable. smiling with pleas- ure in the hearts.
 I've spoken this way because I feel taht even with you there remains an inborn prejudice against his race. He's yellow. His skin Is yellow We'll, I ad- init 1t. But living as have along the coast, I've grown into boundless respect for these yellow people that you talk about. They have the strongest racial tendencies in the world; they are the most absolutely well-knit nation that know. Say what you will, their in- dividual characteristics are tremendous. I mean along the line of racial power. Nothing can touch them. They throw off the weakness of our religion and civiliza- tion as instinctively as you'd throw off man that was trying to suffocate you. They don't want 'eml They have code of their own. By heavensl I give them credit for seeing the grave faults our our civilization and, anyway, it's utterly unftted for their needs. The 1fc y,lot t1l, must know beyond a question that we white men haven't got anything that will last very long Progress, progress where has 1t ever led to but the gravef We teach our children how dep1orable 1t is that China has lain dormant for thous- ands of years; to me it's one Of tho wonders of the world that she's been able to, with every little religion and philos- ophy and vice in our category knocking at her doors.
 Isn't that the Caucasion all over though think of the insufferable conceit of itl The minute he thinks any, thing, or learns anything, or even dreams anything. hurry up and tell 1t to the next man-babble about 1t, disseminate 1t, spoil it. run it into the ground. cram it down somebody's throat who doesn't want it, but for goodness sake never keep 1t to himself to live and thrive by No wonder the Chinese laugh to see us running about on such wild missions. They know so well that that even in our country the charm doesn't always work. They've seen how inconsistent and irresponsible our own government and religion and ethics are And they laugh - ' as an old man laughs at a boy!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
COULDN'T KILL HIMSELF.

You can't always tell, says an ex- change, what will happen. For instance there is story of man who determined to commit suicide. He went to the store and bought rope, can of coal oil, box of matches dose of arsenic and a re- volver He went down to the river and pushed the boat from the shore and waded to where limb hung over; saturated his clothing with the coal oil, lighted a match and set fire to his clothing, took the dose of arsenic, put the muzzle of the revolver to his temple, pushed the boat from under him and pulled the trigger But the bull let glanced and cut the rope above him and he fell kerf1op into the river; the water put the fire out and he go9 strangled and coughed up the arsenic. He rose and waded out, and declared himself a candidate for the legislature on the re- form ticket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26

with the remark that the Steel corpora tion had the monoply of the steel and iron trade of the south.' said a manu- facturer.
 Tt is a well known fact that the Tennessee company is concentrating its thought and energy on the making of steel. It is producing some merchant iron now, but this is only incidental to its large operations along the line of steel production.
 The Sloss-sheffeld. the Woodward, the Alabama Consolidated and the Re- public are the large makers of mer- chant pig, and the U. s. Steel has not a monopoly, and does not desire such, when it comes to the production of pig iron. The time will soon come when all the iron made by the Tennessee company will be converted into finished steel products"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
Condition of the National Finances

In a ten-year period ending with June 30, 1907, the government had sur pluses in six years and deficits in four years. Just now it is experiencing deficits, but it is in no danger of bank ruptcy. On December 31 last 1t had an available balance of $163,853,352. A government with such a balance need not fear a deficit in even dull trade year.
 Congress is not alarmed, for 1t is preparing to order the construction of two more Dreadnoughts, and it Is not reducing expenditures in any direction, unless 1t be in the matter of rivers and new public buildings, all of which it no doubt thinks can wait
 The truth is, our deficits are largely due to an increase of 70 per cent in na- tional expenditures in the last ten years, and the receipts in a period of commercial inactivity are not sufficient to meet them. The next congress Is expected to adjust receipts to expendi- lures, and if it would act up to its sense of justice, it would levy an in come tax simply because it is the most easily borne tax In the entire list.