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New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
or pIRECT PRINARLES

| PROGRESS or DIRECT PRIMARIES.
Although the direct primaries issue
in this state has been subordinated il
has not been lost sight of by the public
As the county conventions up ia the
state are being held a surprising num-
Der OF counties, even counties favorably
disposed TO the "old guard" have de
clared for direct primaries. Apparently
the machine in several counties has felt
that il would be inviting defeat to fail
| II declare for the Cobb plan. Among
the upstate districts which in the last
| few DAYS have Endorsed the direct sys-
TEN are Washington. Warren, Jefferson.
Madison and ChenaDgo counties All Of
these are new recruits TO the cause Of
direct nominations, except Chenangc,
which declared in favor of the reform
/ last year. Even Wayne County, where
Nh Charles Ii. Belts, the most outSpohen
/ opponent Of direct primaries. holds sway.
will. according 10 reports, declare for
+ the Cobb bill. but this seems Improbable
unless the action of Assemblyman Green
wood in voting against that bill, after
! leading his constituents TO believe that
he would support Governor Hughes, has
aroused such deep and lasting resent
ment in the county as 10 make doubtful
/ the election of Republican to succeed
/ him who is not pledged TO the reform.
/ The spread of the demand for direct
primaries has not been due this year TO
anv agitation in their behalf. The aSs0-
/ citation which carried on an effective
/ campaign for them last year has been
| inactive. But events have tended TO give
| strength to the movement. The situation
within the party. showing how under
present conditions d group can maintain
/ its grip on party management ID def
ance of party sentiment, has been AL
object lesson in favor Of a change. The
declaration of both President Taft and
| Colonel Roosevelt in support of the Cobb
! bill has added strength to the movement.
| Moreover, public attention has been dt-
rected in an unusual degree 10 the direct
! prima rieS in ether states The system
has beer working elsewhere amid pretty
| general applause. In general the con-
science of the people has made itself
/ 1pl aI TIE direct ItIlludIttS " q UtSiSS
| that common experience proves TO be
| impossible under the old boss ruled CON
rention system. New Hampshire, for eN-
ample has just given a striking Illus
tration OF the benefits of direct pri-
marfes The Progressive element in the
Republican party there was impotent
! SO long rs the convention system and the
rubber stamp delegate were retained.
With direct primaries it swept the state.
and n notable triumph for cleaner poll
/ ties was won. Tie bearing of these cir
| clmstances has not been missed by the
voters of this state. They have noticed
that with the primaries held elsewhere
satisfaction has been widely expressed.
while almost nothing has been heard OF
the various defects and faults about
which 50 much of an ado has been made
| by the opponents Of Governor Hughes.
| The public has made up its mind
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
TIE TRIP OF EARL GREY.

ST Johns y. l., Sept. earl Grey.
Governor General of Canada, after open
ing a new avenue and planting d tree at
Grand Falls. boarded Lord NorthcHffe's :
steam yacht this morning and went to Bot
wood Harbor The party on board in
cluded Sir Edward Morris. Premier of
Newfoundland; Cabinet ministers, mill Off
cials and visitors to the town. Returning
to Grand Falls Earl Grey addressed a
melting OF about thousand workinen in
the evening.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
$50, 900 FOR AN ALMA-TADEMA
F. G. Penfeld, of New York, Purchases
the Spring Festival

London, Sept. 9-Frederic Courtland Pen
field, of New York, bought to-day Sir
I4aurence -SIma-Tadena-s Spring Fest =
VAL for $1,000. The picture was last eX-
hibited at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York
Frederic CoUTtlaHd PeHtieid was formerly
United States diplomatic represeHtative IN
Egypt. lie is the author Of Present Day
Egypt and other works. In 1895 be mar
ried Mrs. Anne Weightman Walker, dauSh-
ter OF the late William NeiShtman, . man
ufacturing chemist of New York City. from
whom she inherited Il fortune estimated at
from $4e,141 Gu9 10 &So,0V0,3.o. Last year she
was HcnoTed Ey tine Pope with the title O.
marc hioneSS. Recently Mr. Penfeld Of
fered to move at his own expense tho
obeIisk of RameeeS the Great 10 cairo.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
IRELAND'S DECLINE.

From The London Daily Mall
ireland at the end OF last year had 800
fewer inhabitants than in 1908 The Regis
trur, Generals report issued yesterday
shows that the population, l5n,o10 has
fallen by 1870 900 in ten years
Emigrants last year numbered 2S.6s6 o.
319 more than in 1898. ana 800 more than
the excess OF births over deaths.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10

pleted forty years of continuous serNl'o
under the State Department. foi
twenty-eight years he has been an 40
sistant Secretary, and his fanlii'li'S
with diplomatic history and usage mas
been freely drawn upon by all his SUI
periors. Changes in administration 10
not affected his tenure, and the capaclty
and Judgment which he has uniformly
exhibited assure his retention as long DIS
he cares to discharge the duties winch
he has so thoroughly mastered. HIS Is
an admirable example Of the man fitted
to the office and the office fitted to the
man.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
aea,-Dnrk Tribntsf.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1910.

This newspaper is O1rned aud pub
ljsHcd bg The Tribune association, q
Nc,r York corporation: office and pritl-
cipdI place Of business, Tribune Build
gag. No 154 Nassau street, Aelc York: :
ogden Mills. president; ogden ". Reid,
NocrefGrui; James II. Barrett. treasurer.
The address OF the officers is the office
0f this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
AMERICANS WELCOMED IN COREA.

Toxic, Sept. 9.-The delegation of Amer
lean business men, representing several
chambers of commerce of the Pacific Coast.
was welcomed in Corea and entertained by
Baron Shibusa wa, the economist. and other
Japanese who have visited America
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
MENELEK OF THE NINE LIVES.

From The Detroit Free Press.
King Meneek il dying again. While we
don't wish any one Ill luck. in Meneek's =
case we'd like to see him make good on
this proposition just once
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
WHAT TOWN HASN'T?

From The Washington star
The town that never had a tall-en1 sSsg salg
ball club cannot possibly realize ths -
pleasure Of a rising percentage.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10

recommendations should be accepted and
adopted. a long step would he taken
toward universal agreement upon the
much disputed question Of the boundaries
of coast waters Whether such accept
ance would he detrimental to American
interests is, of course, to he carefully
considered, and there is an encouraging
possibility Of an answer in the negative.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10

A writer in The Morning Post, of
London, comments regretfully upon the
lack of interest in Canada in the sub
ject of national defence, and attributes
that, to him, deplorable circumstance to
the prevalent feeling that Canada can
depend for defence upon both the United
Kingdom and the United States, and
that therefore there is no need Of local
preparations for defence. It is a mat
ter Of course that Great Britain would
defend with all her available resources
her most important colony. AS for the
United States, it certainly does not eX-
pect ever to menace the Dominion, and
it would probably regard any alien at
tack upon that country as unfavorably
as it did the French attack upon Mex
leo, and to about the same effect; and it
might logically, should there be OCCa-
sion, afford to British sovereignty there
the same guarantee of protection which
for many years it effectively gave to
Spanish sovereignty in Cuba. Canada
is safe enough without much self-de-
fence, though we should think that she
might be inclined to develop it on the
grounds of self-pride and independence,
and also of a filial desire to be a source
of strength rather than Il care and q
weakness to the mother country.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
Business is business. even In pious ooer-

Nearsighted Lady-The boy who Is trying IN z
to tie that tin can to that poor duS "a
ought to be thrashed WITHIN an ih'n "a ms
life. the horrid little brute
Maid-It's your boy, mum
My boy ~
Yes mum" ~, -or,.
Tell him if he'll stop III give him some
calSe."-Tit- Bits.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10

Mr.. Alvey a. Adee. the Second As
sistant Secretary OF State. has just COM
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10

William c. Oates, who died yesterday
in Montgomery, Ala, was inquire OIL
importance in national politics from
1880 to 1896. He served thirteen years
in the federal House of Representatives,
and after attaining deserved prominence
in that body resigned to become GOV
ernor of Alabama. His opposition 10
free silver coinage defeated him WheI
he sought the senatorship i'll 1876. lie
was a colonel in the Confederate army
and brigadier general OF volunteers III
the Spanish War and, having a lively
interest in military history, wrote a
book. notable for its originality, point
ing out the military reasons for the taii-
ure of the Confederacy- General oates
was a man of independence OF thought
and strength of character, who lived up
to the traditions of the old South and
was always ready to sacrifice himself TO
those traditions. He made gallant
soldier and an intelligent and useful
public servant.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10

That old familiar defect, the bad
memory, is on exhibition again. 1t Is
commorest among politicians and those
who have dealings with them.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10

In turning down Senator Wainwright
the Republican machine in Westchester
County failed to profit by the experience
of the machine in oneida County in try
ing to turn down Senator Davenport.
The incident ought to give stimulus to a
Progressive movement in Wcstchester
County
New-York tribune., 1910-09-10

There has never been time when
| Democrats would not eat harmony
dinner"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29
CHAPTER III.

MOTHER moment and trig,
"A well groomed soldier, ford
4 u faced, muscular, yet burly in
build, stepped briskly in and
''stood attention" His right eye and
cheek were still heavily bruised and
discolored. His nose was somewhat
swollen.
How did you happen to be in town.
sergeant?" was the abrupt demand.
Fitzroy colored to the brows. but the
answer was prompt:
II understood the colonel to say find
him. referring to Trooper Rawdon.
Friday night. and I went in Saturday
morning thinking to help. Then we
couldn't get back. sir"
"My order was to the sergeant of
the guard. not to you," interposed But
ton CURLY.
Sergeant Stowell was looking for a
man in uniform. sir. and had never
seen Rawdon except in trooper dress
and would never perhaps have known
him"
"Then how should your" was the
sharp query.
Fitzroy started. "I-had known him
longer, sir, and much better. I-had
occasion to reprimand him once or
twice and knew him and his-pals, II
the colonel will pardon meas none Of
the others knew him. There was that
young civilian Lowndes that went
along with us and got into trouble,
and-there were others. In fact, Il
the colonel will pardon me again, sir.
I do not hold high opinion Of Troop
er Rawdon, and
mo more of that, sir" broke In the
colonel angrily. unless you are ready
to prove your words"
"Give me two days and half g.
chance, Colonel Button" was the con.
fdent answer, land I'll show he had
something to do with the paymaster's
accident or-whatever it was!"
AS Captain Sumter said, the ladies
had gone no farther than the surgeons
quarters that memorable Saturday, and
with Sumter's full consent they had
not gone even that far. Friday after
noon he had wired his protest to the
father of Miriam Arnold, and with
startling emphasis the reply had come
early Saturday morning, II repeat that
l desire my daughter to return at
once" The tone was abrupt if tele-
| grams can be said to have either tone
| or manner. but that wire settled the
matter Miriam said she must obey.
| and nothing short of DR.. Larrabee.
| senior surgeon of the post. had pre-
vailed against her decision. He him
self had met the covered vehicle at his
| gate and had insisted on their alight-
| ing Your train is half day late.
said he. You'll be wiser waiting here
| than at the frowsy station. Besides. |
wish to see this young woman again. "
So saying he fairly lifted Miss Arnold
from the fur robed depths of the dark
interior and deposited her on the wind
| swept path Run in" said he. then
similarly aided Mrs. and Miss Sumter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29
WHAT is A LARGE FORTUNE ?

New England Cotton Mill Owner
Thinks Nothing Less Than Three
Quarters of a Billion Deserves That
Description.
Our protected monopolists appear to
have very different ideas of what con-
stitutes great wealth TO those enter
tanned by the rest of the community.
What we common people would call
a very comfortable living they would
call starvation, and what we would
call being rich beyond the dreams of
avarice they apparently regard as
making a bare living. In these days
of swollen expenses and sparse saw
ings most people would think them
selves well off if they had fortune
of $4,000. But our bloated tariff ben
eficiaries have other standards. When
they talk money they have no use for
any denominator less than millions.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29
What In m lda2
fro BE CONTINUED

What is an ide?' 1t is a natural
pitfall for modern generations. Even
Bulwer Lytton allowed one Of his R0-
man characters to say. ut stands fixed
for the ninth ide Of August" although
he must have known that ''ides" Is a
plural without singular. Why the
Romans called the 18th Of March. May.
July. October and the 18th Of every
other month the ides they do not seem
to have known for certain themselves.
Some thought it meant the halfway
day Of the month. rom an Etruscan
word meaning ito divide" but mod
ern philology. digging into Sanskrit.
has suggested that it means the bright
time of the month. full moon.-London
Notes and Queries.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29
Want advs., page 1, column 6.
Amended II.

When King George was Prince Of
Wales one Of his body servants was
once trying to explain to Sir Arthur
Bigge some incident that had taken
place.
me and the prince he began,
when Sir Arthur pulled him up.
You should say the prince and T."
he observed. The man looked at him
for q moment and then said:
II beg pardon, sir, but did not know
you were there at all. However, you
and me and the prince"
Sir Arthur was compelled to laugh
at this and, after another attempt to
explain to the man how the story
should be told, was content to let him
tell it in his own fashion.-Pearson'S
Weekly.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29

BillioEs sE TIE goal toward which
their business plans are directed. The
following passage taken from the tar
if hearings illustrates this point. MIR.
Lippitt, it may be explained, is a rep
resentative cotton mill owner in New
England:
Mr.. Longworth Il do not know
whether 1 understood Mr.. Lippitt cor
rectly to say that no large fortunes
have ever been made in this business
in New England?
Mr.. Lippitt-I think so.
Mr.. Longworth-My impression Is
that most of the large New England
fortunes have been made in it.
Mr.. Lippitt-We are not accustomed
to very large fortunes in New Eng
land.
Mr.. Longworth-Then may l ask you
what you call large fortune?
Mr. Lippitt-I would regard a for
tune of three-quarters of a billion as
a large fortune.
| Of course we must make allowance
for the fabulous notions of our tariff
pets. The illusions from which they
suffer are of our own creation. We
have lifted them into an unreal world
where men reap without sowing and
where the struggle for existence is
unheard of. A period of severe self
reliance would tend to sober them
somewhat.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29

town. And then a third in which the
gale went down and the garrison dug
itself out.
1t was barely 9 O'Clock Guard
mounting, the first held since Satur-
day. was just over. The morning re-
ports. the first rendered since Satur-
day. We're just in. and the staff and
company officers for the first time
since Saturday were beginning to gath
er at headquarters and to compare
notes. All had much to tell Stan
nard's wood pile. Snaffles storm shed
and Bankers COW had blown away.
Somebody had just reported Sumter's
north dormer window torn out by the
roots" which moved Button to say to
Sumter, who had returned:
i hope your quarters sustained no
damage in your absence"
Il do not know, sir. l came direct
to the Office to report"
before the storm"
"Only started. sir. They went no
farther than the surgeons quarters,
where we learned the train was six
hours late. had-business-in town,
and went on. They remained"
"Then the ladies have not gone
east?"
Neither they nor any one else since
early Saturday morning. The road is
blocked"
THE paymaster too? He went in
right after luncheon"
Il cannot say, sir"
The captain withdrew.
"Can l have a sergeant and twenty
men at once, sir, armed and mountedY'
cried Quartermaster Horton, hurrying
in. 1.-The ambulance with the pay
master never reached town."
"Order them out at once. Mr.. Bar
kerr" was Buttons instant answer,
turning to his adjutant, who went out
like a shot. What time did they
start?"
about 2, Saturday afternoon. It
was blowing a gale then and the snow
so thick we lost sight Of them within
hundred yards. Major Scott declined
an escort; said he and the clerk and
the two men inside were more than
enough. He had only $4,000 left and
thought that too little to tempt any
body"
The silence in the Office was oppres-
sive.
How did you learn they hadn't
reached town." demanded Button.
Sergeant Fitzroy just came out.
He'd been in there with Sergeant
Stowell to help find Rawdon. he said.
Major Scott had a section engaged in
the Pullman for Omaha. and Fitzroy
says he never claimed it-says he
searched every stable for the ambu-
lance, but there was no sign Of it, and
he says there was gang of half a
dozen toughs that had been hanging
about town for a week, and they've
cleared out I'd like to go and get
into riding rig, sir"
go, and I'll have a troop out after
you if need be-" Then. turning to his
adjutant. Barker. have Sergeant
Fitzroy sent for at once"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29


OF HIS OFFENSE"
stored in the troop stables since noon
the previous day, was himself account
ed for nowhere. In view of the fact
not be found there was nothing re-
markable about that With the morn
ing report book. however, there was
handed in a copy of an order duly
submitted by Corporal Watts to Snaf-
f1e's first sergeant. and by him to his
captain, which read in part as follows:
3. On arriving with his detachment at
Fort Gushing and in compliance with the
telegraphic instructions from department
headquarters Trooper G. P. Rawdon,
Troop L, -th cavalry, is granted thirty
days furlough, at the expiration of which
ne will report to the commanding officer
of Fort Gushing for transportation to his
proper station.
Just as the paymaster predicted, the
wintry storm broke with the early
afternoon. A genuine blizzard came
shrieking down from the mountain pass
to the northwest. Veteran first ser
geants told off stout squad in each
troop and sent them with sack load OF
rations to reinforce the stable sergeant
and grooms. there to stay to feed,
guard and water the horses.
But the telegraph wires went with
the first hour The stage. of course,
couldn't be helped to return from
| town, and. so far as getting news
from the surrounding universe was
concerned. Fort Gushing might as well
have been in Nova Zembla. And the
Sumters. three. with Miriam Arnold,
had set forth at noon. intending to in
tercept the eastbound express. and
the colonePs spirit was raging In SYM
pathy with the storm and in spite of
| his wife. for some one had started a
| tale that Sumter and his household
had ostentatiously called upon Robert
Ray Lanier. in close arrest, in utter
disfavor and inferential disgrace.
Now, while an officer in arrest may
not quit his quarters under seven
days and may not even thereafter visit
his brother officers unless authorized,
there is no regulation. prohibiting 9th
er officers or their households visiting
| him. Nevertheless, they who publicly
| do so lay themselves liable to the i'm
| putation Of sympathizing with the ac-
cused at the expense of the accuser.
And so resolved Colonel Button, a
brave soldier. gentleman at heart, 8
| kind if crotchety commander and a
| lenient man rather than a disciplinar
| ian. A vain man was Button, and
dearly he loved the adulation of his
| comrades, high or low. Veteran Irish
sergeants knew we'll how to reach the
soft side of 1.-The old man." Astute troop
commanders. like Snaffie, saved them
selves many a deserved wigging by
| judicious use of barney. Sterling
straightforward men, like Major Stan
nard, like Sumter. Raymond and Tru
scott. of his captains-men who could
not fawn and would not f1atter-were
never Buttons intimates.
Button believed it of Sumter that he
and his on the way to the railway sta.
ton went in and condoled with Bot
Lanier and doubtless vituperated him.
the commander, when in point Of fact
no one Of their number had seen OF
| spoken with Bob.
Then came the storm and then Sun
day and Monday in which no man
went either way between the fort and
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29
Elastic Currency.
All currency is elastic.

All currency Is elastic"
How do you make that out"
Haven't you ever noticed how
small dollar is when somebody pays
it to you and how big it is when you
have to pay it to somebody elseT-
Cleveland Leader.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29
CONTINUED

IF that be true, Colonel Button, Of
course l cannot think of going. l
withdraw my application" And, turn
ing slowly, he left the Office.
Instead Of carrying three enlisted
men present as casually at post" the
return" Of Troop c had but two.
Trooper Rawdon. whose horse. horse
equipments and field kit were safely
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-29
Want advs. page /, column 6,

At Whakarewarewa, New Zealand,
there are geysers, hot springs, boiling
pools, mud volcanoes and hot water
falls.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-05-05

Hayden Ray closed a deal with R.
E, Miller Tuesday by which he pur-
chased part of lot /, block 10, this
being the "a feet adjoining his build.
ing on the south side of theSquare on
the east. The consideration was
$3.50.
Mrs. Max Weiner left Monday for
st. Louis, where she will visit her
daughter, Miss Leah, who is attend
ing school in that city. Before re-
turning home, Mrs. Weiner will
spend few days with Mrs. w. w.
Graves in jefferson City.
Master Raymond Weiss, the eight
year-old son of S. w. Weiss, held
the lucky number in the drawing of
the Widow Jones suit at the Black e.
Arnold Clothing Company Saturday
the lucky number being $40. The
drawing was conducted by C. A.
Sleeth.