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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14
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II won't do any harm We plan 10
turn the Puritan over in a week or
so TO the naval militia OF Maine. The
experiment will not injure it," But
IL did. In fact il blew the wadding
out of the craft The Puritan was
sunk and the turret side was cracked.
1t Will take several months 10 repair
the ship, and the spending of several
hundred thousand dollars. (Taft com
mittee on retrenchment and economy
please take notice.. And now ,he
navy gentlemen are trying to explain.
What they will have trouble in eX-
planning TO the entire satisfaction OF
the public is the fact that 1t should
take such an expensive argument to
break through the prejudice OF the
officers for civilians.
hear that Life has been bought
by Pierpont Morgan. Gee, He VIII
have The Appeal to Reason next!
Speaking of military inventions, did
YOU know that officers in our naval
service are permitted TO take patents
on devices worked out with govern
ment assistance? Fact. There are
quite a number of men in orr navy
department who are growing rich
from the royalties on patents-de'
vices affecting the mechanism oil
guns. etc-which patents were work
ed out during office hours and with
the help OF craftsmen and experts
under their orders Some OF these
patents have been sold 10 manufac'
turing firms which furnish foreign
governments with the same devices
furnished our ships.
Just before it happened, John
MAYS Hammond met President TAFT
and asked him how he felt. he
president replied that he felt mucr
like that small boy who, while COINS
across a wide field, was pursued by
a large and buttsome Billygoat The
boy thought of only one thing TO do
namely to run. which he did with al
his might. About half across the
field he looked back and saw that the
goat was rapidly gaining. Then rs
decided that there was one othel
thing he could do. which was TO pray
But il was too late And | am no
sure" said Mr.. Taft, that | have no
delayed prayer too long" So | sus
pect that Mr.. Taft knows he was
bumped.
Sincerely, RAlH'
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Dec. IA 1910.
Dear Dad The master OF the ma
tional grange names correctly the
three reasons why farm produce is
high priced TO the consumer and low
priced at the farm. They are: Poor
roads. making II expensive TO get the
produce from the farm 10 the rail
way: freight rates based not on cost
OF carriage but watered stocks. and
middlemen who call themselves
commission merchants" but who
are generally wholesalers trust,
standing between the goods and the
consumer.
There are four reasons why the
parcels post legislation has always
failed. They were correctly stated
by former Postmaster General Wana
maker to be: the American Express
Co, the United States Express Co.
the Adams Express Co, and the
Wells Fargo Express Co
Just why should there be any de
lay in the adoption OF the parcels
post?" | asked Frank Hitchcock, q
few days ago. We'll. you see he
replied. I'VE are not quite ready foi
It. II would be expensive and-and-
we'll, you see We are not quite ready
for IT. favor II, but we are MOI
ready for IL"
"ln other words" said sweetly
you favor it for some other post
master generals administration
which Is 10 follow yours
Whereupon the subject dropped
with a dull thud.
You noticed in the papers about
the sinking OF the monitor Puritan
with a charge OF nitrogelatin? You
are wondering what it all means
Well, I will tell you. The explosive
used was not what the navy officers
said it was in their official inter
views-"a we'll known explosive
whose properties are quite familiar tc
the experts" Instead of that, this
gelatin is a compound invented by q
civilian who tried long and in vain
10 induce the navy officers 10 test it
Finally the inventor appealed to con
gress, and a paragraph was put into
the naval appropriation bill makine
il compulsory on the department tC
try the effect of 200 pounds of the
explosive against the turret and the
armor plate OF the Puritan. Before
II happened the officers all said: "Oh
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14
ADVERTISING TALKS
Continued from rage one.)

EARNEST, CAPABLE BUSI-
NESS MEN and STEADY AID
VERTISERS. Their business
grows every year They make
every effort to go forward. They
are never satisfied.
In every community there
are one or two merchants that
set the pace-they are usually
the inspiration for the whole
community. Other merchants
say, IF So-and-So has succeed
ed, why should not II"
A man who is struggling
toward success with the RIGHT
IDEAS is never envious of the
man higher up. On the con-
trary, he will STUDY the things
that have made the man higher
up successful, and will try to
/ IMPROVE on some of the things
he has done to attain success.
A gentleman who went into
the retail business some months
ago sat around luncheon table
with other business men, and
they asked him how he liked the
retail end of business.
He replied that he liked it
very much and thought there
was GREAT FUTURE ahead
of him IF HE FOLLOWED
THE EXAMPLE OF THE Sue
CESSFUL MERCHANTS in this
city.
They asked him the names Of
men whom he regarded as being
successful merchants and he
told them, but he did not men,
ton any of the men who sat
around the table, although they
are in a measure successful.
One of the merchants this
young man had in mind is over
seventy years of age, but he is
still on the job every day, is con-
stantly trying to improve every
department in his big shop
never content-always reaching
up, and | might add ALWAYS
| ADVERTISING. THERE is
! NEVER ANY LET-UP IN
THAT.
1t will pay every merchant in
every community to follow the
lead of the successful men. The
greatest help, however, in
climbing the hill of success is
that help which is given by
! CLEAN, RELIABLE ADVER-
| Using.
{ To be continued
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orrom the Detroit Journsi.J

ffrOm the DttFOtt
The objections TO accepting this be-
quest for the purpose OF erecting a
fountain and a statue TO Jim Scott
on Belle Isle are really three-fold:
First. a fountain. any kind OF a
fountain. is not needed on Belle Isle
at this time. or at any other time. a
more inappropriate place for toun-
tain cannot be conceived. There Is
water surrounding Belle Isle. That Is
the charm OF Belle Isle, its natural
beauty Instead OF being an orna-
ment. a fountain would be a blemish
and an eye-sore. Ii would be- inartis-
tic and vulgar II would deface that
entire section OF Belle Isle. I'm time
| that fountain. that halt-million dollar
| blemish. will become a burden on the
taxpayers OF Detroit. That is newt.
able. Nothing OF that sort is ever
| completed within the appropriation
| There will be no fund left for main
tenance The taxpayers must stand
that. Why, then. accept something
we do not need. something that would
he a blemish. simply because we ap
parently get IL for nothing? Instead
of getting it for nothing, 1t will be Z
charge on the taxpayers for all time
or until some wiser future generation
plucks it up by the roots and throws
il into the river
second. a fountain from Jim Scot
and statue to Jim Scott would mere
Inv mean the selling Of valuable an
beautiful public property TO do pre-
= 0ogTeTOus- arrf-ttttiAseF FeA-Aonar-
scott. That is establishing a bat
precedent-for good or bad mon 4
follow. Jim SCOTS executors Should
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

1t. but lawyers here align them in
about this way.
&c onse rvative 49, Chief Justice
White, Justice Day. Justice Holmes
Justice Lurton, Justice Hughes-tota
.. Radical-Justices Harlan. Iustlc,
Van DeVanter total ..
Observation-Disclosures Lemar, Justice
McKenna--total 9.
Some are inclined 20 put Justic,
Hughes In the uncertain list becaus,
he Is regarded as politician. bu
Hughes friends say that he will de-
eide according TO The facts in the cas-,
ana That his mental makeup In Law
matters is conservative
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14
CONSERVATIVE" WAY wALL-ST.
VIEWS u. s. SUPREME COURT
new York News Bureau Describes
~ Makeup Of High Tribunal Since
tte New Appointments.

st NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Wall-st.
( pronounces the supreme court as now
made up as conservative
Il The New aork News Bureau, organ
o. the Street" in a Washington spe-
oiAl today says:
Members OF the bar of the United
Mates supreme court in trying to elias.
oify the probable attitude of the cour,
tn It's new membership, reached the
topclusion that the court Is now more
rQneeryative than Ii was when the Gil
Ind tobacco cases were on hearinc
( Ioet term.
Is: "Of course, no maa would attempt
forecast the actual division of the
>ort on any OF the questions before
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14
MINERS HOLD ELECTION.

SAGINAW, Mich, Dec. l4.-At all
the mines the Michigan miners yester
dav voted on national officers. The
race for president AMI vice-president
t. of especial interest. Thomas l..
Lewis. national president. VINO Is OPP
ed for reelection by John T. White
ofN Iowa, carried the Michigan dis
trict by between 100 and 1900 al the
last election, but indie ations are that
bis majority this year will be CIT
down 20 few hundred For vice
president, f. ). Mccullough, formerly
president OF the Michigan district, is
/ putting up hard race against r. J
! Hayes of Illinois. The ballots Will I'd
sent to the national secretary az In
dianapols and will not be opened m
til the annual miners convention Il
be- held at Columbus. G. Jan. IL.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

paign just ended.
The Conservatives
mark We'll the
W ord 49, solemnly
told the people or
England that Am
erican millionaires
h u q contributed
their corrupt coin
To the Golfers of
the wicked Irish
Nationalists in or
der that John Red
mond might rule
the British nation.
The American dol
lar bOgie was not
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14
WHAT WILL THE CITYS
ALDERMEN DO ABOUT 1T?

be made to buy "a lot in a cemetery
and there erect Jim SCOTS monument
TO himself-not on public property
Third, the late jim Scott in his lie
was not the kind OF man whom ms
community can honestly, or decently,
or safely honor by selling a public
site for a monument, even though the
price be large one. To do that Is a
lie-whatever the inducement for
lying
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

American dollars" and Irish die
tators" were the tags attached to the
twin Tory bogies brought out 10
frighten the English voters in the cam
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

~ So much for Senator Adrch
81 Now United States Senator Du Pont
Did Shepherd The Times correspondent
which told election of the legislature that will
Reflect Du Pont upper Maryland
u b. NEGRO VOTES SOLD FOR S.
Er WHITE VOTES SOLD FOR $40
Mayands representation
United senate
Consider with the representation YOU in the
United States
you
single other than his immense wealth for the eump
part hold office
WHAT MUST MANS IDEA BE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF AN
OFFICE UPON WHICH HE HIMSELF SETS PRICE?
says connection
other powder indicted
But his relatives have his pense mo interest made
npon honest basis than Aldrich's
then position question involving
trut involving powder, it up him officially
d So Adrich and
IA That's two United States
II Now Lorimer.
The committee appointed investigate his election that M
o Legislators bbed Jackpot which Rep White
told about in his confession to the Chicago Tribune
Not exactly that, either.
The committee by (for days
more), reported charges proven"
Gibson Gardner, this newspapers correspondent told Times
weeks that they would not be proven.
We have faith the intelligence of Times readers
that number them thought the investigation would
any other kind of a report
Rep White however paid ST.
Loimer and is still standing pat
sAge
The first time approached the the capitol
0e contemplated place
AAa
But that the mud from tracks leading along to some
Of the
Verify how opinion has changed
And verify how opinion remain who. . ., a.
people have been given direct matter men who shall r
ant them the floor of this branch national legislature
M Michigan has step recommend the
and states which find tbemss
1 resented by money bags
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14
1e Come To You With
Three Bushes for Our
United States Senate
Three Members Whose Presence
IN Seats Of the Upper House
y Emphasize the Shame OF
e Denying the People
Direct Vote on This
t Office.

Adrch denial enough andpa press which directed
tak representative OF that class OF undesirable l-
as "muckrakers'
dch basis enough for the standatters to mock
{Aly would be held for awhile
The New York World has been quietly
dhctng investigation
this investigation The World declares that the books
the United company THAT $40 SHARES OF THE
PREFERRED STOCK ARE HELD BY ALDRICH
Says commenting oay the disclosures made
in the investigation
proved Adrieh and his heavily
vcepresident
OF
United States
Adrch
arbitrarily the duty manufactures
Aldrich family
rubber Adreh family
70 o
benefit Of the Adeh family
blunty admitting he
w. tariff for his pocket
the
He still the arbr OF legislation and
NE American
bat opposition for a while.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

The United states has for years led
all other countries in the manufacture
of asbetos goods. Most of the raw
asbestos Is Imported from Canada.
wEsrs there are 10 9uarFies.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

To charges made against him some
weeks ago by Senator Bristow, Mel
SON W. A,drich, United States sena-
tor representing Rhode Island (os'
tensitly), replied with denial that
he or any member of his family ever
had any pecuniary interest as to
whether the rates on manufactured
rubber were 80. sc OF 800 per cent,
or whether crude rubber was on the
free OIL dutiable list.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

Little COMMANDMENT. For B,p
business.
For j. p. Morgan: Thou shalt not
,oVct.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

\ new mine rescue apparatus
brought ont tp England does away
with the helmet And weighs hut -
pounds yet viii permit q pian TO work
4-..s-iIlore- ILau-lNe hons
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14

There are IS eggs OF the great auN.
now extinct, In existence. They arc
worth about $1,000 each 10 collectors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-16

intendent OF schools New York:
Emma L. Johnston. principal of thu
Brooklyn Training School for Teach-
ers. city of New York. AMI MAZDA
lene d Farnum. teacher of Englfsn
IN the Brooklyn Training school Tor
leachers. New York The Amer
can Book Company.
THREE RIVERS: THE JAMES. TIIt:
POTOMAC. THE HI DSoN; a Retro
spect or Peace and War. Ey Joseph
Pearson Farley. L. : T. New York
and Washington: The Neale Pub
fishing Company
THE SLAVERY OF PRoGRESS. l,,
Causes and Its Cure by \ T.
Thomas New York and Washing
ton: The Neale Publishing Company.
THE WAY TO WIN. BY John " Fer
guson. New York and Washington:
The Neale Publishing Company
RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN: Sto..
Of the Virginia Colony. BY lame
Otis. New York The American
Book Company
THE HUMAN BODY AND HEALTH.
BY Alvin Dawson. NJ. $. y. NJ Ph H..
professor of biology in Lafayette
College. Elementary. New York
American Book Company
BLAXINE, Half Breed Girl BY Mar
garet Smith Cobb. New York and
Washington: The Neale Publishing
Company.
THE EARNING POWER or RAIL
ROADS, 1910. Compiled and Edited
by Floyd w. Mundy. New YORK:
Jas. III. Oliphant Il Co
THE POEMS OF JAMES RYDER RAN
DALI. Edited with Introduction and
Notes by Matthew Page Andrews
NJ. A. New York: The Tandy-
Thomas Company
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-16

become a living part of the great epochs
of life only, those spirited golden periods
that mark the submits OF human achieve
ment. sleeping away the meanwhiles of
dull and toneless ages One confesses the
seduction of the scheme. The next is a
Morse tale, a lusty. bloody, snarling story
of fighting and conquest. and death.
gloomy and implacable like the land it
self. Then there comes a modern story,
growing out of the sentimental hysteria
of women over criminals. a pdtiful story.
OF the lure to weak emotions of published
crime and the attitudinzing of criminals
before the public. A story with moral.
The last one is about socialism. fanatic in
zeal. anarchistic in method. transpianted
from Russia to America, where 1t strug-
giles fmpotently toward realization and
ends In personal tragedy. Each of these
is vivid tale. strongly conceived and
well constructed. Their only bond here,
if this can be counted a bond, is diver
sity-and the lids of the book
THE MAGADA. BY w. M. Ardagh. New
York: John Lane Company.
The author here pre-empts a new land
for the growing of this historic story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-16

for me. When 1 come, salute me and
follow
Allard stiffened to rigdity, his eyes
seeking the others.
Il am guilty of what they accuse: do
you still wish this?' he demanded
There was something more than adj
miration in the visitors smile.
Did you question me in Palermo, or
did you accept caste as enough? Yes. l
wish It," He turned to the official and
offered him the gold case. II wanted to
give the poor devil a cigarette" he ex-
planned. But he says it is not allowed.
All, l have forgotten to sign your reg
lister; will you come back"
Yes, sir, readily consented the man.
curiously inspecting the diminutive gold
tipped, perfumed cigarette lying in his
ample palm. The nicotine bonbon
touched his massive sense of the ludi-
crous; he was still contemplating it as he
led the way back.
When the two vanished Allard went
swiftly down the long room, casting
around him glance of feverish scrutiny.
nounced the time when he should have
returned from his work. Snatching up
the coat, he slipped into it. pulled out the
yachting cap with it's gilt insignia, and
finding a pair of gloves drew them over
his stained hands. So far WELL
The most dangerous part, the journey
across the broad, open wharf. under the
gaze Of the armed guards in the towers
at least gave him the tonic of the sweet
wet air.
II need John Allard's mistaken nerves, -
he told himself grimly. IF reach
there. perhaps I can believe he still ex-
lists"
The cloudy twilight, Just light enough
dark enough to veil discrepancies aided
him. He walked quite slowly and natur-
ally. carefully avoiding puddles. stop
ping once to turn up his collar against
he n ri 1ty,r aft, iYlln hn
looked back for his companion, and stroll
ed on again.
A dozen eyes watched the self-possessed
figure as he leaned nonchalantly upon the
barred gate, and passed from him to the
more interesting spectacle of the small
white launch and immaculate crew wait
ing outside.
There was little time, and the visitor
now with three attendant officials. moved
slowly across the space.
Cod" prayed Allard, dumbly. leaning
against the gate in anguished waiting. Il
think l have paid; but IL not. let them
shoot-to kill
The group came nearer, halted. Aiard
drew himself stiff1y erect and raised his
hand in salute as the tauest man came
opposite. then obeyed a slight movement
of direction and stepped behind him. A
grating of locks. brief exchange of COM
pliments, and for the first time in two
years the prisoner stood without the bar
riers. Free. If only for that instant. Free
and in reach OF the tapping river.
The sailors waited at rigid salute, the
visitor stepped into the swaying launch
and as Allard followed the gate closed
behind him. The tiny engine pulled.
caught its beat, and the boat darted to-
ward the dim white shape out in the
stream.
Lights were flashing up here and there
in the buildings, shining through the
barred windows. To see the uncheckered
sky again!
At the tbrob of their motor the yacht
cleaned unexpectedly into an outline of
myriad-pointed fire. Men ran across the
decks. miniature staircase fell in readi-
ness.
Follow me closely" directed the cool
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-16

Naval Campaign of 1898, in Pursuit
and Destruction Of the Spanish Fleet
Commanded by Rear Admiral Pas-
cual Cervera. BY James Parker.
formerly Lieutenant Commander. l.
S. Navy With Portrait. New York
and Washington: The Neale Pup-
fishing Company
An INTRODUCTION TO AGRIClL-
TURE. by 4. 4. Cpham. teacher OF
science. State Normal SCHOOL, White-
water. Wis. New York: u. Apple
ton & Co.
A CYCLE OF SUNSETS. By Mabel
LOOMS Todd author of Corona anu
Coronet." etc. Boston: Small. May
nard & Co.
NERVOUS STATES, Their Nature anu
Causes BY DIR. Paul Dubois. probes >
sor Of neuropathology at the Uni
versity of Rerne. Authorized Trans
Iation by Edward G. Richards. New
York: Funk & Wagnalls Company
AND WRITING; Book One.
(For Use in ThirdYear Classes).
BY William H. Maxwell, city super
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-16

by nature, too unschooled by experience
to know that the reaping is to be OF the
whiriwind. The husband is fine fellow.
one for men to pattern after. When the
storm does break, it is great to see this
group of people ring closer. to bear, If
may be, part of it's brunt. The story
ends. as 1t begins with two young Qua
kers under a tree by the river side. But
In the passage of time between these
meetings the two have been to school to
Iife with hard lessons learned, with vision
cleared and with the unrealized love of
their childhood disclosed now and per-
fected through the stress of these inter-
vening years.
THE AWAKENING OF ZOJAS. BY
Miriam Nicholson, author of I'm the
Bishops Carriage etc. New York:
Doubleday, Page & Co. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
Four stories. The first of these is an
ingenious invention, whose theme is sus-
pended animation. a theme worked out
with formal precision in copy of scien-
tific method. Here the subject puts off
and takes on sleep, even century of
sleep. Its clear object is to permit one to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-16

scale OF womanhood, and then. suicide.
One closes the book with an aching pity
for ruin so complete. But, what to do.
when these old tyrants of the blood,
watching down the years, shape and set
our ventures to the groove of their own
accumulated desires? The story. adnira-
PIE IN It's literary art. leaves one, out of
its corroborative fidelity and completeness.
depressed. incapable
TONY'S WIFE. BY George Gibbs. au :
thor OF In Search of Mademoiselle.
etc Illustrated by the author. New
York: D. Appleton & Co.
Cncommoniy well told Is this common
story of the nnhappiness entailed by the
incident of hasty. youthful marriage. De-
spite the theme. the story has a tonic
quality, lifted into clean air. and that.
too. without loss TO the logic of its move
ment. Fine people here radiate vigor.
Young men sturdy in friendship, a real
young woman, beautiful old one. all
ringing round these victims of a false
god who took on the tones OF love. The
wife, winsome thing. with careless hand
sets to sowing the wind, too ungrounded