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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
LEFT ERICSSON
STORY AGAIN UP
Harvard Professor Casts Doubt on His
Discovery of. Anne RIGA.

It is Harvard profess or who now
casts doubt upon the story of Left
Ericson's discovery and ettlement of
America and OF the Morse occupation
of southeastern New ENGLAND under
the name of Vineland or Wineland
wherefore Bostonians have no occa-
sion TO resent the attack of ialiens and
lesser breeds upon a cherished tradi-
ton. But, indeed, even when thus
stricken by one of their own house
hold, they need not mourn as those
without hope. for the denial of the
Norumbega legend appears \to be
based upon a single point of minor
and not convincing Importance so
that laymen as we'll as the elect, may
be permitted still TO cherish the faith
which was so dear to Professor HQrs-
ford.
The argument against Leif's settle
ment of the banks of the Charles RiS-
er is based on botanical grounds. In
Labrador, we are told, there is a berry \
which is not found farther south. and
II was this, the iconoclast AYERS, which
the Norsemen found and which moved
them TO call the country Wineland.
And yet, according to Flateyjarbok,
the report of Tryker to his foster son
Left was that he had found vines
e-'NN % NRNSs anu ~ Net. VINO was q
German. added, to confirm his report.
that he knew what he spoke. for he
was born in a country where there
was no lack of grapes and vines" And
when Left and the rest of the party
went to see Tryker's vines and grapes
the did not contradict or correct him.
but gathered a boatload of the grapes
cutting down trees 10 get at the vines.
That certainly sounds more like the
wild grapes of New England than the
wine berries of Labrador.
Again, in the saga of Eric the Red
1t is told that in the place where Left
settled day and night were more near
ly equal in length than in Iceland, and
that on the shortest day of the years
the sun was not visible for nine
hours, or from 1870 to 4:30. That GER
ta1nly could not be true of Labrador,
but indicates some place near or at
the latitude of Boston. We shall not
be surprised, therefore, if the statue
or Left Ericsson is permitted to remain
on Commonwealth avenue and if Bos-
tonians and some other Americans
continue to believe the story of Nor
umbega and the legends of the Ice
landic and Norwegian sages.-New
York Tribune
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
Your Own Garden.

The possibilities and the utility of
the home garden are getting pretty
well understood in Kansas City. Last
years numerous experiments brought
profitable results. With the City Club
and the Athenaeum ready to Coop
crate, ready to give practical sugges-
tions to these who wish to cultivate
garden patches, the HON eowners OF
Kansas City should take advantage
of this means of lettering the condi-
ton OF their tables and participating
in good. wholesome, outdoor exercise
at the same time.
The high cost of living makes the
utility of the home garden a thing Of
extraordinary Importance. The cult
vauon of a little piece of ground can
do much toward eliminating the eX-
cesses of the grocery bill. The re-
ward is to the enterprising and the
Industrious. Get the boys and girls
interested. 1t is good for them. 1t
will make them kansas
City Star
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CONSEQUENCES.

There is a joy in doing the right
thing always. There is sorrow al
ways in doing the wrong thing. The
JOY or the sorrow may not follow i'm
mediately, but they follow surely.
There is not thing that brings affiic-
ton TO ones mind or body but can
be found if we go far enough back.
All consequences have causes that
partake of their nature
All this may be short of Emerson
ian. So much the better Ii is close
to life as the kernel is to the shell.
1t goes with us whenever we talk,
trade, visit, work. when we write, ride.
see shows or run politics There is
not a thing done but that is ticketed
with the appropriate consequence
The ticket is never lost. 1t may seem
sometime to be blurred or hidden, but
at last it appears. Since the world
was started it never failed to.
The man who lies, cheats, steals,
will sometimes find the consequences
appear in a form that seems unrelated
to the offense. 1t might not appear
in the loss of money or his house
burning down, but it may be a steel
thrust into the heart of his dearest
hope. No fortune, no friendship will
stand in the way. I'VE get back our
mete as we measure" sang Richard
Realf, and it is as true as twelve
inches inches make a foot-Ohio
State Journal
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
Helping Italian Children.

The Italian house of the children's
aid society is at Five Points, in the
heart of the downtown East Side Ital-
ian district. stones throw from Null
berry Bend, once synonym for con-
gest misery and crime, now the
site of one OF the best of the small
parks that afford breathing space for
New Yark's tenement population.
Founded in Leonard Street about SO
years ago as the Italian Industrial
School, last autumn the school re-
moved to two large buildings formerly
occupied by the Five Points House of
Industry, and opened new epoch in
its history as the social center of the
greatest Italian colony in the world.
The old Leonard street school had for
many ears maintained day classes for
the children u Italian parents who
were too poor to othe their little
ones well enouCh to SeIrs =. I'm to the
public schools, even If many of the
children had not been too backward,
by reason of their ignorance of Eng
fish, to profit by the instructions given
I'm those schools. The school not only
helped to clothe these children decent
ly, but also furnished q hot midday
dinner every school day. II also pro-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
LIFE AND DEEDS
OF ST. PATRICK
Details Concerning Ireland's Patron
Saint Are Rather Obscure.

st. Patrick lived in ireland. He
wrote document called "The Con-
fession," and he preached the Gospel
to the Irish people. These four facts
are virtually the only ones concern
ing the life OF the great patron saint
of the Land of the Shamrock upon
which historians agree. Deep OBJ
security surrounds the actual details
of the life and deeds of st. Patrick.
Not only do historical authorities diff
fer regarding many of the details of
his life. but such a mass Of legend
has sprung up in the course of cen
turtles that il becomes difficult in the
extreme to separate facts from tradi-
ton. Jocelin is the authority for the
statement that st. Patrick was born
in Britain, while other accounts state
Scotland was his birthplace The date
of his birth is given as 372 and il is
believed that he went TO Ireland as a
missionary in 1872. dying in 495 at the
age of 1913 years and leaving a Chris
uian people, whose faith has endured
through centuries of persecution to
this day. In his youth the great mis-
sionary, according to Jocelin, was
wild lad, and at the age of sixteen was
carried of by pirates and sold into
slavery. He was then said to possess
supernatural powers. After obtain
ing his freedom he returned to his
home and there he had a vision in
which he heard the voice of genera
tons of Irish yet unborn calling to
MIN TO save them. In obedience to
This vision he went to France, where
he studied theology, and thence t.
Rome where Pope Celestine sent him
to Ireland. OF the legends about St.
Patrick, none is more famous than
that concerning the shamrock and
that concerning the snakes. The sham
rock tradition has him at Tara, teach
ing the king and his court the truths
of religion. The king was unable to
understand the mystery of the Trinity
St. Patrick, realizing the difficulties
in making the doctrine comprehensive
sought TO symbolic it in some way.
Happily hitting upon the shamrock
he called the monarchs attention to
the trinity of its leaves. The symbol
satisfied the royal mind and brought
conviction and conversion. The leg
end Of the snakes is to the effect that
r.. atrick entirely rid Ireland of
eptiles by making a wondrous drum,
the sounds of which caused the SER
penis throughout the island to wriggle
to the seacoast and plunge into the
ocean.-KanSas City Times.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
Fancy Names for Fire Horses.

III you were a horse and ate oats
and slept on straw, would it aid your
digestion or sOOthe your rest to have
the plain name over your stall torn
down and name like Claude or Laun.
celot put up in it's place.?
IL you were a horse it probably
would, to judge from the airs assumed
by hve fire department horses yes
terday when Commissioner Waldo
sent an order to Engine No. 40, in
west Sixty-eighth street, changing
the names of the horses, Jerry, Mike.
Bob, Paddy and Chesty, to respective
ly, Hanover, Woodbine, Blue Jeans.
Alvine, and Arthur.
Woodbine kicked like a chorus girl
when fireman approached him with
a hoof pick five minutes after he had
ceased to be Mike, and when Blue
Jeans paddy that was) was offered
a pail OF water that had a straw in
IT he tried to bite the mans ear off
like Bosco. From which it will he
seen that horses, like humans. like to
rise on stepping stones of their dead
selves.
AT first, indeed, it was assumed that
the order must have been inspired bv
Commissioner Waldo's secretary. Win
field Scott Sheehan, but discussion on
this head was brought to naught when
1t was explained that under a new
plan of keeping an accurate account of
what each horse costs the department
1t has become necessary to do away
with duplicate Mikes, Paddys and Jer-
rys.-New York Herald.
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cutting it in two. then cutting one half
in two again, and so on. The last
possible, or conceivable, halving would
take place at the end of eternity-that
is, the process would go on forever
II was exactly the same with radium,
he said. Experiment had proved that
at the end OF 1850 years just half of
any given quantity of it would have
been dissipated, but the remaining half
would be only half gone in at end
of the next 1850 years, and the van
ishing point would never be reached,
since there would be no end to the
division.
This reminds one OF the old, old
problem sto when dog would over
take a hare if in each of successive
periods OF time the larger animal
gained half the distance that sepa-
rated him from the smaller at the be-
ginning of the chase. MathematicianS
laugh at the sophistry which demon
strates" that the capture would never
be effected, and agree with common
sense and experience in declaring that
the hare would surely be overtaken
unless his start" were as long as in
finity. The store either OF matter or
of energy in a gram or ounce or pound
of radium cannot be Infinite, and there
fore it cannot take an infinite time to
exhaust it by a constant drain by no
means infinitely small. Sir William,
however, was addressing a popular
audience, not one of scientists, and he
only took a picturesque way of telling
his hearers that the emanatiOns from
radium are in constant proportion. to
its mass.-New York Times.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
A new WAY or
PLAYING TATTOO
Detective Tries II ON Hammerstein's
Head After the Opera.


Alleging that William McFadden
mayors body guard, brutally ASSAULT
ed him Saturday night. outside the
Philadelphia Opera House, Harry
Hammerstein, the grand opera impre-
sario' swore out warrant for the de-
tective's arrest. McFadden will have
a nearing before Magistrate Eisen-
brown.
Hammerstein still carried bruises
on his head and lips from the blows
which, he says, McFadden gave him
with the butt of his revolver. Two
or the plaintiffs teeth were knocked
loose in the fracas.
Hammerstein says that after he had
Deen arrested McFadden struck him
in the face with his fist while he was
taking him to city Jail hall in a taxi-
CAP. HammerStein was to have had
hearing before Magistrate Beaten
on the charges brought by McFadden.
but the proceeding was postponed be-
cause the detective was a witness in
the Logan M. Bullitt case.
David Mandel, Jr., who is counsel
Tor Hammerstein, gave this version of
the arrest:
There were several taxicabs in
Carlisle street shortly before IL
O'Clock Saturday night waiting to take
the artists from the opera to the spe-
cial train in the Broad street station.
McFadden came along and ordered the
driver of one of them to move away.
"A young man who had charge OF
them protested. and McFadden. with
out showing any badge of authority,
threw him into the door of the opera
house. The boy told Mr.. Hammer
stein. who left the playhouse and ask
ed McFadden what he wanted Nc
Fadden told him the taXicabs had to
move out Of Carlisle street, and Mr..
Hammerstein told him they could not,
that they were needed there.
Up to this time McFadden had not
shown a badge. When Mr.. Hammer
stein protested McFadden gTasped him
and threw him up against the wall.
Just then several OF the stage hands
came out of the building. and McFad-
den drew his revolver and ordered
them back. He struck Mr.. Hammer
stein over the head with the butt OF
the. weapon, breaking his hat and Sc
verely hurting him. Then he struck
him in the face with the revolver.
loosening two teeth.
"NcFadden wanted 10 call a patrol
wagon, but Mr.. Hammerstein said he
would go with the detective in a taxi
cab. The cab was called. and the two.
with an officer Of the philadelphia
Opera House, started for city hall.
Mr.. Hammerstein and the detectives
started to argue on the way downtown,
and the detective, in the presence Of
the third party, struck his prisoner
in the face. philadelphia North
American.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
PRINCE HENRY'S
WONDERFUL TACT
Seeking Harmony Between Germany
and England, He Advocates
AirShipS.

The sincerity of Prince Henry of
Prussia as a prOpagandist of peace
and amity between the people Of Eng
land and his own countrymen is un-
Improbable, but he does not always
show tact as an apostle of peace
A case in point was his appeal to the
East Asiatic Society on Sunday, after
calling upon all Germans to recfpro-
cate the the good will which he found
in England on his last visit, TO give
Its support TO the plan of building an
airship dock at Hamburg and making
that city the first port of departure
for over sea airship travel. There is
no German enterprise that excites
more concern and suspicion in the
breast of the average Englishman thar
the development Of the dirigible bal
loon. The same newspapers in Lon
don that printed a synopsis of Prince
Henry's speech in which he said he
could count on the friendliness of Ger
man naval officers for the English gov
eminent and people, but found the
merchants suspicious and hostile, also
printed description of great air
ship designed by Anton Border, the
engineer, which is to have a speed
OF 145 miles an hour and to carry so
passengers. To be launched this
spring. it is predicted that the mon
ster, driven by five motors developing
$50 horsepower, will actually con
quer the air" and fly easily and swift
~ over seas.
1t was breath wasted for Prince
Henry to assure Germans that Great
Britain offered them IAN honorable
and sincere friendship" and that the
Idea OF aggressive action was absent
from the minds of British statesmen,
IL Englishmen were to learn that he
was promoting" an airship dock at
Hamburg for the departure to other
lands of the creations of Zeppelin
and Border. In the London papers
Prince Henry's appeal for common
sense and concord will make the usual
impression Of official good form, but
all England will talk about Hamburg
as an airship port and the claims for
the new leviathan of the clouds, with
its capacity for carrying soldiers and
explosives. Owing to the activity OF
the admiralty in new construction the
British people are beginning to laugh
at their fears of German naval rival
ly, but German superiority in airships
las taken its place as a nightmare.
British statesmen will be wise to
encourage inventors and aeTonauts
with promises of prizes and subsidies,
In the hope that the jingoes will be
Gilenced by the early appearance OF
q marvellous feet OF air flying the
Brities flag and prepared to repel in
vnders.--Esw York Sun.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
WOMEN GROWING TALLER.

Strange news comes to us from
England. Women are growing.
This does not mean that the sex
is widening its sphere of influence
or that women are STRENGTHENING
their hold upon society, nor that they
are developing intellectually, but that
they are yer growing taller than they
used to be. Not this or that particular
woman, but the whole sex in general.
or at least women in civilized coun-
tries. The average woman is steadily
growing taller. Young girls OF from
fifteen to eighteen are even now three
inches taller than their mothers. In
1895 the average height Of a young
girl was only FIVE feet three inches.
Now she Is at least five feet five, and
the growth continues.
so much the better" you may say.
This is making more robust, more
majestic race, and toward the middle
or the twentieth century we shall see
magnificent couples, such as those
which astonished the Roman conquer
ors In the barbarian provinces in the
time Of Caesar"
But you are mistaken.
1t is not the race which is growing
taller. 1t is woman-woman alone.
Her companion remains stationary,
or is even inclined to grow smaller.
Thus the difference in height, which
was the pride OF the masculine sex,
is little by little disappearing. When
the average woman shall be FIVE feet
eight or even FIVE feet ten, the mascu-
line sex shall have lost this advan-
tageifor good and ever, and the young
man1will have to look up to meet his
sweStheart's eye.-Marcel Provost, in
NV York American.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
"MOLLYCODDLES
And RED BLOODS"
Hamlet Was One While FOrtinbras
Was Red Blood.

&. Loves Dickinson, the English
man who has written symposiums on
culture, sad comments on American
cowboy crudity, and the immortality of
American journalism, as well as the
general inSufficiency of Western civ
ilization as compared with that of the
Orient, has recently given an instruc-
tive discourse on "Mollycoddles and
Red Bloods."
The red blood is the man of action,
the mollycoddle the man of the pale
cast of thought" Hamlet is a molly
coddle and Fortinbras a red blood.
The greater number of artists, poets,
and musicians are mollycoddles. Ben
venutO Cellini was an exception. He
was a terrible red blood, but, then, he
was not so very much an artist, in
spite of the fact that he wrote one of
the best autobiographies in existence.
But his sculpture was quite unin-
spired.
Mollycoddles are despised by red
blOOdS, but red bloods are admired by
mOllycOddles, and end by loving them
too well. Mollycoddles are subtle and
insidious, and just because they are
not controlled by their red blood, not
having any, they observe and study
women, as they do some other things,
more painstakingly than do the red
bloodS, and so ultimately please and
flatter and sympathize with womens
natures in a way that is impossible
for red bloOds to do.
An old definition of an artist COM
prises the quality of weakened vital
ity. AS long as one is full of red
blood one does not so completely look
at things. In a crowd of boys there
&c oil
looks on at the play of the others. He
is the mollycoddle. He has not enough
red blood to join in the sport, but he
can admire the game from the outside
The mollycoddle is often critic
Oliver Herford once defined the critic
as the man who peeks through a hole
in the wall to see and admire the
frolics OF the Graces and Muses. dis
porting themselves in the beautiful
gardens. He is your true mollycoddle
Most people are red bloods Some
are mixture of red blood and molly
coddle. There are few out-and-out
mollycoddlcs. and they are distrusted
and disliked by society, although there
are always some women who are de-
voted to them. 1t would be a terrible
thing, marking the near approach of
the last trumpet, if most people were
mollycoddles. But a few of them are
necessary. They act as recorders of
the meaning of life. They are the
Greek chorus, aloof from the drama,
commenting upon it, explaining it's
meaning. But they are always in dan
ger of being stamped out by the red
bloods, who hate the sight of them
and try to eXterminate them by all the
means in their power.
That the mollycoddles are necessary
to civilization is shown by their per
sistency in the face of the most vigor-
Gus persecution. They cannot be sup
pressed. They subtly and palely en-
dure and insinuate their eXasperating
meanings into the irrational, vigor-
out flow of life.-New York Press.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-07
CALL CHAUFFEURS
REAL GRIN IkALS
New York Taking SterneT View of
Fatal CareIessness.

Another reckless chauffeur has been
convicted of manslaughter in the sec
ond degree for doing what, not long
ago, Juries seemed inclined to excuse
as an accident" rather than to pun
ish as a crime. OF late, however. thew
have been taking a juster view of the
carel' ssness that results in death. and.
as a result of the change, sentences
to prison for this form of crime have
recently been frequent. The terms i'm
posed, 10 re sure, have been months
oftener than years, as most people
think they should be, especially when
the reckless use of the highway that
causes death or injury to pedestrians
is followed by fight and an attempt
TO escape responsibility for the harm
done. 1t is something, however, that
the absence of clear intention to kill
is no longer having the weight it
did with either judges or juries. and
that criminal negligence no longer al
ways gets off with a fine.
The law in regard to automobiles.
amateur or professional, who break
the speed regulations is explicit, and
District Attorney Whitman has in
strructed his assistants, in prosecu-
ing cases under it, to accept no minor
plea In cases of third offense. The
penalty prescribed is both fine and i'm
prisonment. To this the special SEES
sions justices object, ON the ground
tnat 1T deprives them of needed dis
erection. There is, of course, some
thing in the contention of one of them,
that a first offense may be a ver1
serious one, while a third may have
mitigating circumstances; but the dis$.
trict attorney takes the position that,
while the provision as to the first Of
lenders may be too lenient, that which
says third offenders shall go to jail
certainly is not too severe, and should
be enforced.
The Justice is not deprived of dis
cretionary power, except to the extent
that II he Furnishes at all it must be
by Imprisonment. He can, IL ha
chooses, suspend sentence, or dismiss.
assuming, naturally, full responsibility
when he decides to be merciful. Mr.
Whitman's stern policy will have. wei
feel sure, the full approval of a publ
lie that knows by daily perils narrsf<r{
iy escaped that chauffeurs who
either the skill or the inclination "a
run their machines properly are mn
merous in this city, and that fheE
cannot too soon be taught that pedeeH
TRANS have rights, even when the
venture on the sidewalk.-New YoE
Times.
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Alice Same.

Admiral Hichborn once had a Chi
uese servant, named Chow, whom he
brought with him from the East. One
day Chow asked permission to go to
q funeral.
All right" said the admiral. Then
ne added. Il suppose you viii put a
lot OF food and sweetmeats on his
grave as they do In Gilman
All same China" Chow replied.
Now, Chow" continued the ad-
miral' when do you think the dead
Chtnaman will come up TO eat the
food you leave on his grave 20
Alice same time Mexican man
comes up TO smellee flowers you leave
on his grave" answered Chow ur-
hanely-April Cosmopolitan.