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ability to meet popular opinion Dy re-
versin& themselves and giving the Tariff
Board not only liberal allowance for
eypenses. but the broadest and most def
mite authority TO determine cost poth at
the place of production and at the place
of consumption.
Mr.. Tawney. who has prepared the
provision inserted in the sundry civil
appropriation bill. has carefully avoided
the pitfalls which confront attempted
new legislation in an appropriation Dill.
The paragraph drawn by him does not
violate the House rule against general
legislation. since Ii only defines, In plain
language. what the President and the AT
torney General have declared 10 De the
intent of the present law. Mr. Iawney
is not a member of the Ways and Means
COMMITTEES of the House, but be undoubt,
edIy has acted with the knowledge and
consent of that committee In extending
the functions of the Tariff Boards The
reparation thus made for last years
blunder is ample as well as honorable,
for so long as the board has power 70
determine the cost of production here
and abroad. and TO submit through
the President to Congress information
needed for guidance in fixing the proper
measure of protection, it makes little diff
ference whether the body created is
ca lied a tariff commission or has to get
along under some other official designa-
ton. If the Senate adopts the Tawney
provision, popular opinion will be salts
fed and an important feature of Presi-
dent Taft's legislative programme will
be carried into effect.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
IN THE BERKSNiRES.
Igy Telegraph to The Trsspne,I

IEIy Telegraph to The Tribune
iscnoN. Mass. NAV Foliage and ETas,
are three weeks earher in the Berhshires this
year than last and the season, An che cot
tages is correspondingly early II IA usi-
ally Memorial Day before the golf club and
the boating club are open. but this year
there is already considerable golf playing,
and lake fishing al the clubhouse has been
inGulged in.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Woodward Haven are
among the early arrivals. They are oeeu-
pyiug this year IagIesIde. in S.oekeridge.
which Mr. Haven bought last year % Mss
Emily Tuckerman- OF Washington He has
nado extensive changes in the villa and
on the property.
Mrs Frank X Sturgis opened Clpston
Grange this week. Mrs Stursis delights In
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a PLAIN WARMING

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you please allow me TO direct
the attention of Tribune readers to the
timely and instructive article in "Pearsons S
Magazine" for May by DR. William Lee
Howard entitled "A Plain Explanation
of the Greatest Social Evil? The subject
treated is one about which a woful amount
of ignorance prevails. and 1t would be well
for the present and future generations "
every young man and woman in the land
could read it. as the information thus ac'
quirtd would save many of them from
much suffering. unhappiness. disease and
disgrace. The saying that ignorance is the
mother of misery Is especially apt on this
subject.
Both the author and publishers in placing
this important matter before the public ana
warning the innocent and others OF the dan
gers to be stunned are doing good work
toward bettering the health and morals of
the community at large.
e r uOLCOMB.
New York. May e. 1910.
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lection to wooden dwellings would thus
be effectually removed. Engineers and
architects have suggested other methods
of securing protection. Some of these
persons have proposed to prevent the
transmission of a shock from the foun-
dation to the superstructure of build
ing by introducing materials between
them which would act either as cushion
or lubricant These plans have a high
Il impracticable look. None of them has
rificant scale. Until something better
than the Japanese system is found, the
lesson furnished by the Island Empire, of
the East may well be needed by those
countries which are afflicted as Costa
isica has been.
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of the house, when he saw the score carus'
said to me: You lucky dogr Familiarity
which / would have resented had NOT
been told that it was an American ioiiii
of speech. few evenings later was
looking on when the same boy won a'
bridge, and, wishing TO be as polite as. me-
said: What a lucky puppy" Then theS
said ali sorts of uncomplimentary THINGS
and l have been doubtful ever since wneths'
L am still welcome in that set. yours Is
a queer language"
EARLY CHAMPIONS.
The Hittites were likely team
In days of long ago.
They always
FROM Babylon
And beat out Jericho.
The Hittites were a slugging tean'
They never tried to bunt;
Prefer ed TO ciout,
To line 'em out,
And make the fielders hunt.
The Hittites were a batting team'
And managers avow
They'd gladly sign
An entire nine
OF husky HittiteS now r,ia
Washington Herald
F;piscopaIians all over the country WIN
be interested in the announcement tno'
the Forthcoming convention OF tne
of Missouri the Right Rev Dr'
TuttIe the venerable head or thd' Jun
diction and the presiding Bishop Oh tio
Church in the United states, VIII propa-
b,v ask for a coadjutor. His peopie III
Missouri believe that Bishop Iuttie' "o
longer Young. should have some OF the pur-
aet,s of diocesan work shifted TO otner
shoulders. leaving him more time 10 oe-
vote to the affairs of the Church at large
..Iu never offer any more lrieiuiS
vice. ,7..
-He listened to me carefully, ana ih to
conrb m - ,o,,isviIle Courier-JournaL
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~ SENATOR BOURNES STATE

~ SENATOR BOURNES STATE.
In Oregon, whose democratic system
of government Senator Bourne has just
eul0giZed. the voters are going to have
their patience put to an exceptional test
in the next election. We have watched
the progress Of the initiative and refer
endum in that state with much interest
for the experiment there has been con
Quoted under favorable conditions. The
population is more than usually intelli-
gent and has more than the usual ca
pacity. industry. patience or whatever it
is that is required to make a pure de
m0cracy successful. 1t reads a large
book about the various legislative pro-
posals submitted. makes UP IFS mind and
votes upon everything with unabated
zest-at least with zeSt unabated hith-
erto-and III general its decision has
been sensible about as sensible rs might
be expected from the average legislature
But is there no limit to the patience
and industry of the Oregon voter? At
the last election he had TO pass upon Il
score Of legislative proposals after di-
gestfng q book as big as a best seller
setting forth their merits and demeritS
That was only an appetizer. so to speak
This year, as we learn from The Ore
gonian," he will have about thirty pro-
pOsals before him.
The Oregon people are only just learn
ing to use the initiative, and there an
pears to be q tendency in evepy group
or locality which has some project at
heart that would be hopeless before the
Legislature to submit it to the whole
people of the state. Normal schools are
initiating bills to revive themselves III
three different towns. Five new coun-
ties are trying to carve themselves out
of existing counties. There is an en-
ployers' liability measure urged by the
labor unions to be submitted to the
people; also a measure creating "peO-
pies inspectors" whatever they may be :
another for the payment of expenses of
delegates to the national conventions by
the taxpayers, and another providing
for the selection Of such delegates and
of Presidential electors at direct prma-
ries. We take our hat off to the popular
legislators of Oregon. If they keep UP
their interest they will soon vote on
Election Day upon as many bills as
come before legislature in session.
and the voters guide on legislative pro-
posals will be as big as an unabridged
dictionary
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
THE CABINET.

rFrom The Tribune Bureau
Washington, May THE Secretary OF
the Treasury and Mrs. MacVeagh enter
tanned at dinner tonight Senator Dolhver.
the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ana
Mrs. Norton. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Noyes'
Mrs. John Phillips. Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan.
Miss F'relinghuysen. of New York; Mr. ana
Mrs Charles MacVeagh, Of New YORK
Henry c. Emery. Lee McClung and Cnat-
field Taylor, of Chicago
The Secretary and Mrs. MacVeagh nave
as guest their nephew, Charles Mac
Veagh, of New York, who joined his wife
at the Macveagh home to-day for the week
end.
The Secretary of the Navy. Mrs Meyer
and the Misses Meyer will go to New YORK
for the launching Of the Florida on Thurs
dav
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aeln1Iork Gribntte.
SUNDAY. NAY S. 1910.

This newspaper is oicned and pab-
Hshcd by The Tribune association. q
ker York corporation: Office and prfrl-
cipal place Of business, Tribune Build
ing. No. ia Nassau street, Aeto York;
Ogden HIS. president: Ogden II. Reid,
secretary: James II. Barrett. treasurer.
The address OF the officers is the office
Of fhjs newspaper.
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WOULDN'T DARE SAY 1T IN TEXAS.

From The Houston Post,
Philadelphia doctor comes forth with
the old gag that young man ought not
TO kiss his sweetheart We do not beiieVo
IN lynch law, but men who oHer sucn
idiotic suggestions ought To be hanged, ana
Ing to law.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

From The Syracuse Herald
The taking of the census every ten years
solves the question of what some people
good for They come In handy TO swell
the census totals
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AND HARDLY MORE scANDALoUs.

From The Chicago News
That New York man who sold his wife
and sons for s25 knew a cheaper way thhn
going to Reno
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

We are glad to note the evidences Of
prosperity on the part of Our Lady Of
the Shows. We learn that party of
enthusiasts from Vancouver has ordered
a little matter of $500 worth of seats
for the Jeffries-Johnson exhibition in
California two months hence. The Ca
nadians, like our own people. are not
disposed to get on without the neces-
saries of life, even if they do come high.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

The House Of Representatives through
its Committee on Appropriations, has
reduced the total carried in the sundry
civil appropriation bill $16,000,O00 below
the estimates submitted by the eXeeu-
tive departments This is an admirable
achievement in economy, eQualling that
of the administration in reducing its es-
Inmates for the coming fiscal year below
the actual appropriations for this year.
What will happen in the Senate, where,
in addition to the other committee ma
chinery, a magnificent engine of re
trenchment has been constructed, the
overlordly Committee on Expenditures?
VIII the sundry civil bill Oh its emer-
gence from the Senate carry S16,GO0O0
less or S1600O,00 more than when it
was reported to the House of Repre-
sentatiVes?
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

The feature Of the recent socialistic
mass meeting in favor of universal suf-
frage for Prussia, held in Berlin, was
the orderliness of this enormous crowd
of more than one hundred thousand per-
sens. The German press, like 1.-The Lon
don Spectator" ascribes this to "Prus-
sian discipline and obedience" There is
a German proverb to the effect that
nothing is eaten so hot as it is cooked. y
1t applies admirably to the progressive
moderation of the socialistic programme,
so far as socialism can be said ever to
have had set programme. The moder-
alton of their plans seems to be grad
ually cooling the behavior of socialists
everywhere. Steady reflection upon d
Utopian theory usually has this effect;
SO has active propaganda in it's favor
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Can the commuter get his salary raised
to meet his increased expenses forced
by the railroads to meet their increased
wage scale forced by the trainmen to
meet their increased cost of living?
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Another prophet has come to grief. It
has been the history of charIatanism
however. that one is exposed and thrown
down only to make room for another
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

The Hon. William ]. Corners stands
upon the order Of his going in a fashion
which must be extremely wearisome to
the Hon. Charles F. Murphy.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Mr. and Mrs George G. Mason have gone
tn Tuxedo for the season
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Mr.. and Mrs. T Suffern Taller will so
to Newport on June I and open their villa
there for the season.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

W MaeNein RodeWald and Miss EIsansr
RodewaId are spending the week end az
Tuxedo.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould are booked
10 sail for Europe on May ~
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Swift have 70
turned from their wedding trip and ase ths
guests OF Mrs Swift's parents, Mr. ard
Mrs Randolph Hurry, No. PIP Lexington
avenue.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Mr. and Mrs StuyVesdnt Fish will open
their country place at Garrison, y. L on
May 81. and VIII remain until July, ~hea
they will go to Newport for the remainder
of the season.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
USEFUL EVERY TEN YEARS.

New York. May e. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
THE PLIGHT or NICARAGUA

New York. May 2, 1910,
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

The Ladies Kennel Association Of Amer
lea, Of which Miss Anna Sands Is president.
will hold a two-days' bench show for dogs
of all breeds on the fair grounds AT Mine
ola on Wednesday, June l. and Thursday
June >. The committee has already secured
long list of valuable gold. silver ard
bronze trophies TO be awarded as prizes
and the judges will include J. j. HOlgate- OF
Doncaster. and Midgely Marsden. Of Man
chester the former a specialist in terriers
and the latter in hounds and PomeranianS,
VINO are coming over from England es-
peciaily for the affair.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

Mr. and Mrs Horace Russell Will open
their country place at Southampton. Long
Island. al the end Of this month.
Mr. and Mrs John F., Parsons have teft
town for their country place Ht Harrison
-. "a, where they will remain until Ju1s
7 whs.n they vyilI go 70 I.eno<
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
Sank IA Inches.

Decided differences of opinion have
arisen between the selectmen of
Brattleboro and the Connecticut Riv-
err Power Company this week over
the West river bridge. All further
operations on the bridge were called
off Sunday afternoon, and as the
matter stands now no further move
will be made until John w, Storrs of
Concord, n. H., consulting engineer
of the Boston & Maine railroad, has
had an opportunity to examine the
bridge. This will not be possible I'M
til some time next week. Meanwhile
the bridge is open to travel at the
travellers risk, the selectmen refusing
to assume any responsibility for the
safety of the bridge, and warning all
that they pass through the bridge at
their own risk. 1t is probable that
the bridge is perfectly safe for Or
binary loads, and it might stand the
severest strain that could be put up
ON it, A crew of carpenters was a.
work on the bridge for the selectmen,
strengthening it and bringing it back
into line after the raising process.
An attempt was made to straighten
up the floor by tightening the iron
rods between the floor structure and
the arches, but it was discovered late
in the week that the east arch was
going down instead of the floor going
up. The crest of the arch dropped
about IA inches below the crest of
the west arch, but the flooring re-
manned in about its former position.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
DIR. MEAD'S PLATFORM.
bellows Falls Times).

John Abner Mead of Rutland has
been heard from. 1t has been rum
ored for several months that possib-
ly he might be prevailed upon to be
a candidate for Governor, and Curl
osity has stood on tiptoe. Thank
goodness, the suspense is now over.
John Abner is a candidate He says
so himself. An advertisement on
another page in this issue tells us
all about it and considerable be-
sides. The article is worth reading,
every line of it. 1t is the story of
remarkable business success. There
are plenty of boys who start out
with fifty cents and they have little
more when the undertaken calls
some years later Not so with John
Abner. He has made a success in
several lines of endeavor. He is
charged by his enemies with being
grasping and selfish, but what man
is not who succeeds in getting to-
gether a large fortune in a little
State like Vermont. AS business
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
YermOnter Killed.

w. II. Hogan of Atlanta, Ga, shot
and killed r. j. Prentice of Burling-
ton VT, on the street in Augusta, Ca,
Sunday. Hogan claims that Prem
tice and four others attacked him and
he had to protect his life. Hogan is
in custody Prentice was a waiter.
Mrs. Robert J. Prentice, the dead
mans widow, was seen at her home,
81 Pearl street. She had already
heard of the shooting and was nearly
Frustrated by the shock. With her
son she was intending to meet Mr..
Prentice in Augusta, Ga, and was to
start on Sunday. Nothing further in
regard to the affair could be learned
from her as she had received no de-
tails.
Mr. Prentice will be remembered as
waiter in Dorn's cafe as we'll as in
the Cometea lunch restaurant He had
made his home in Burlington for
three years and left a month ago to
accept a position in the South. He
was about 20 years of of age and is
survived by only his wife and child
as his parents died a few years ago
He came from Manchester Depot
where he was married
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
Two Library Meetings Held.

The Vermont board of library COM
missioners was recently invited To
attend a meeting of the New Eng
land Club of Library Commissioners
at Hartford, Conn. Among the many
interesting subjects considered werc
these, the desirability of securing
uniform library legislation in the
New England States. the possible
benefits of an active evangelistic Ii
brary campaign and the establish
mem of a standard of excellence for
public library librarians which
would ultimately make it necessary
for librarians as well as teachers to
hold certificates of fitness for work
The first Eastern meeting of the
library commissioners is being held
in the State Library at Albany, NJ
Y. Delegates from Vermont and
many other States are present and the
topics listed for discussion cover
many of vital Importance to the pub
lie library movement considered from
the standpoint of the State. Thirty
three of the States in the Union now
have public commissions that look
after the public interests and by a
comparison of their aims and meth
DDS the efficiency of the commits
sions will be greatly increased.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
CAPACITY OF OUR FARMS.

Our country is so large and so new
compared with those of the Old World,
and we have always had so much
room, that we have known little of
intensive cultivation of the soil Now
we are beginning to realize that some
day we shall not have so much land
to spare, and that it is better business
anyway to cultivate few acres thor
oughly than many acres specifically.
Prof. f. H. King of Madison, Wis,
in writing in the Farm and Fireside
on Soil Cultivation in the Far East, "
says
with our population increasing at
the rate of nearly a million a year
during the last half century it is clear
that we can hardly learn too soon or
too thoroughly our probable limit of
soil and crop production, and the best
methods of insuring and maintaining
1t. Probably nothing can give a sa-
fer measure of the maintenance ca
pacity of the farm and farmers of a
nation than the number of people
they feed per unit area of cultivated
field and it is doubtful if there is d
better place to study this problem
than in China and Japan at the pres.
ent time.
According to official statistics pub,
lished in 1908, Japan has in its main
islands, exclusive of Formosa and Ka-
rafuto, a population OF 48-542,736 ant
the area of its cultivated fields is 81,
321 square miles This is 2,277 people
TO the square mile, and besides these
there are also maintained 100000
cattle and horses, nearly all of which
are laboring animals, giving a popula
ton of one hundred and forty-two peo
pie and seven horses and cattle Il
each forty acres of cultivated field
condition sufficiently different from
our most fully occupied forty-acr'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
Invented a New Turf Cutter.

A new device which will be great
assistance to the landscape gardener
has been invented by II. V. Barden,
president of the Wallingford Manu-
featuring Company, and it will be
placed on the market at once The
machine has been protected by patents
and it will be manufactured in the
factory at Wallingford. The new inn
plement will be known as the Bar
den turf edger, schuffle holder and
border knife"
1t will take the place of the Ions
handled knives used in trimming the
edges of the lawn and is a great time
saving device. The knife that does
the work is placed in front of the
scoop, which lays on one side of the
grass and earth after 1t has been cut
and is circular in form. This dish
does not turn. II is so made thai
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10

farm to make the busiest man among
us stop and do some thinking.
"The old farmer who permitted me
to hold his pillow told my interpreter
that there were twelve in his family
and that he owned and was cultivat-
ing fifteen NOW of land, which is two
and one half acres, and that besides
his team a COW and small donkey
he usually fed two pigs This Is at the
rate of one hundred and ninety-two
people, sixteen cows, sixteen donkeys
and thirty-two pigs on forty-acre
farm; and population density of
3,O72 people. two hundred and fifty-six
donkeys and five hundred and twelve
swine per square mile"
The population OF the United States
to the square mile in 1900, including
Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, but
not Porto Rico and the PHILIPPINES,
was a small fraction over 81. EXclud-
ing Alaska and Hawaii the population
This is quite different from the Jap
anese figures, although the census of
1910 will show our population to be
a little denser than a decade ago. OF
course our rocky New England hill
farms cannot be cultivated like the
fertile prairies of the Central States,
but we can till them more intensively
by wise forest development, growing
more maple and apple orchards and
keeping the pasture land freer from
underground. The older countries of
Europe and Asia can teach many val
liable lessons to America.
The possibilities of intensive cult
walton of Anglican farms are so
great that they seem almost incredi-
BILE when told. We do not want a
crowded population like that of the
Old World, but it would be well if
we could raise the yield per acre ma
terially.