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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-03-09

William Jennings Bryan, erstwhile
candidate for President of the United
States, is now a full-fiedged newspaper
man, and he thinks he should be in
touch with the Capital scribes. so he
mas applied for membership in the Ma
tional Press Club.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-03-09

AMERICAN IteVOluIlOn ana herBelf one or
the cliff dwellers' set. And be IL known
at all, but the old resident set of Wash
ington. Until you have been admitted
to that particular circle you are not
really lin society" Mrs. Scott says
Il think it is an outrage that so
tmany Of the leaders of society here
should desecrate Sunday by giving large
teas, dinners, musicales and other en-
tertainments. The custom was brought
here from the continent, and has been
growing ever since. If allowed to con-
| tinue it will undermine the life of this
country and bring ruin on us. I think
that Sunday should be observed above
all else, and that this continental habit
should be stopped. / agree perfectly
with Justice Harlan in all he said
Mr.. Justice Harlan in slamming New
York society was just little wide of
the mark. The custom of dinner giving,
musicale entertaining and all that kind
! of thing on Sundays was really intro
duced in Washington by the Baroness
| Hengelmuller, wife of the ambassador
of Austro-Hungary. 1t will be remem-
bered that Baroness Hengelmuller only
| a few weeks ago gave out a screed
| against the "slowness" of Washington
society and the lack of sprightliness and
spirit in the matter of entertaining here
which got her into no end Of trouble
4
vous illness which has kept her from
appearing as doyenne of the Diplomatic
Corps turnout the whole social season.
The Baroness called President and Mrs
Taft 'tWesterners," and without actual
~ saying so practically did say that
| they We're devoid of tact and social
applomb and need polishing up. When
Count Cassini, ambassador from Rus
STA. was here his harum-scarum adopted
daughter. who was the head of his
household, did Sunday entertaining with
an abandon that was perfectly startling.
When the Roesevelts were in the White
House they rather accepted the Sunday
entertaining idea. The Tafts, however,
particularly Mrs. Taft, are against it,
| and quite agree with Justice Harlan
| that there is not any necessity what
|,
Newspaper reports have made a
great deal. of somebody's suggestion
| that discarded Army rifles had been dis
| tributed among the dissatisfied IRON
workers in Pennsylvania preparatory
to vast strike. This led to close in
quiry. which develops the fact that the
military authorities have been taking
sure steps to keep the Krag-Jorgensen
rife, which the United States Army has
discarded in favor of the new Spring
| field musket, from falling into the hands
Of evil minded persons or those bent
upon resistance Of the legal authorities
For considerably more than q month
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-03-09

When he was young man former
Senator Albert j. Beveridge, OF Indiana,
did not wear jimswinger coat, boiled
shirt or tho like, but he wore home
made overais over his blue shirts. He
began railroading when very young, and
he made a good one. too. They say he
has q wonderful grip. like a wolf trap.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-03-09


President Taft has let 1t be known
that he is extremely fond OF red. His
fayorite necl<tie is of the brilliant poppy
red and entire nous 1t may be stated
that they are extremely becoming to
him. Miss Helen Taft also set the pace
for what is called Helen pink" prob
ably inheriting her taste from her faith
err She cannot wear the brilliant poppy
or scarlet red which her father wears,
so that to get as close to his taste as
possible she wears pink. that being her
favorite shade for her dinner dresses,
and it was the shade OF her coming
out" gown. Champ Clark, Speaker-to-
be, has at least 81 varieties of red ties,
which are strikingly becoming to him,
as he is as fair as a baby, his once gold
en- hair now sprinlled with white, and
he has a good complexion and deep-set
dark-blue eyes, all of which harmonic
with the red tie which he affects.
Another race war is on, and 1t is the
proverbial tempest in a teapot. Cheny-
tinZ r. Wang, a graduate of Yale and
well-known Y. NJ C. A. worker, is the
innocent cause of this new war, and the
men who have commenced the war are
young Southern fire-eaters. The young
Chinaman, who is remarkably bright
and brsiny, and in this respect remark
ably different to the young men who
are raising the row, has room in the
dormitory OF what IL called tho Bach
elor Club of the 7. M. c. A. Building.
He In said to Be one OF the most brill
liant young men the Orient has ever
sent here. Fer more than . year Wang
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
This Little Plant Does Most Every
things,

"In Mexico there is a plant that
feeds a greater number of persons in
more different ways than is known
perhaps in any other country OF the
world" said w. w. Lucas, Topographic
cal engineer for the Mexican Trans
continental Railway.
.sThe maguey is a species of catus
which thrives in greatest extent and
~profusion onN the great mesa of the
republic of Mexico. 1t is perhaps the
most remarkable plant, as regards It's
utilization, of all the mcTe common
tropical plants on earth. In this com
try a plant of the same family is
known as the century plant, but OF
course the variety in Mexico is diff
ferent, and here apparently the plant
is used only for ,ornamensl purposes.
tHThis plant throws out tiny sprouts
with from five to eight branches edg-
ed with small espinas or needles.
which identify it as of the cactus FAM
lily. It does not attain to its full
growth until it's fifth year, but it may
be made useful two years earlies. In
its third year one or all of its branches
are tapped, making cavities in the
sides of the branches in which the
sap or juice OF the plant collects.
"This latter liquid is what is known
in Mexico as eQua miel, an ~ef1cacious
medicine in many disorders of the
human system, but it must be used
as such the first day after it is pick
ed. If allowed to stand fermentation
takes places and the acqa miel
changes into what is known as the
most common of the intoxicating
drinks of Mexico-pulque.
when distilled pulque is the great
national drink of Mexico and is
known as mescal. The mescal distill-
ed in the state OF San Luis Potosi is
regarded as the best quality and is
called tequila.
1T is not only in its medicinal and
drinking qualities that the maguey
plant is useful. It is one of the most
important fibre plants in Mexico and
is. utilyfzed in the weaving of baskets
and clothing. It is a fought fibre,
but as flexible as a linen thread"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05

Recently a prison oficiaI said in
speaking of the parole system Of the
government that the first day Of the
released prisoner. was his hardest.
Having lost all touch with the outside
world, since his confinement of pro-
baby several years, he re-enters the
world unknown and in most cases,
utterly friendless. He knows not
where to go and he can find no en-
ployment, hence it is the natural
thing for him to forget his good re-
solutions and revert to his evil ways.
This official, who is thoroughly fami
liar with the subject, says the world
is too harsh in its judgment. 1t is
not fair to credit the man win a con-
tinuation of his evil practices, for in
the large majority of cases the re-
leased prisoner leaves prison with the
best of Intentions to lead a better
life. Society is to blame for the down
fall of such a man, he says.
Society is a broad word and in read
ing these words of this kind hearted
prison Official we agree that il is
society at fault. But why not take
it home and say: "I am to blame
for the downfall of the man, for GER
ldA44Ay - Will pa A1oC4 oOAACAJ
which is failing to do it's duty" We
too often lay, the charge at the
door of the church and say they ale
amiss. Perhaps so, but who com
pose the churches? These and many
other ugly bIots will remain on society
as long as we continue to expect the
other fellow to do our work.
Some may say it is somewhat out
of the ordinary to be thrown with one
IF these freshly released prisoners.
True, but the Identical spirit is called
fer loudly by many who have never
been behind bars. The world is full
of people who are tempted beyond
trat which they can bea~, AMI silently
they plead for a helping hand. Sill
eptly-yes, for few will ever come out
and ask assistance when the are tempt
ed to an evil course, but the trained
eye and heart Of an honest, earnest
soul will detect the wavering brother
or sister and timely counsel with hui
man sympathy will save when temp
tations arise which cannot be over
come single handed. This is pure re-
ligion and the kind which brings to US
a sweeter pleasure than any form of
worship-Ex.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
n..ns nn Raising the Human CrOp.

,ot;ns on Raising the Human Crop
BULL liz is the day of uplift and ups
[oovements. Some of them are
III and some are worthless. Asfews
gaou vor are Of the deepest signi-
no".oo and the widest Importance.
hcan0 he latter kind is the work OF
!na bulletins on the home train
ls of boys and girls, originated and
L .nTTried on by Professor William A.
c%oKeever, head of the department. OF
Nri1osophy in the State Agricultural
paIlege at Manhattan, Kansas. 1t is
sOscribed by Professor McKeever him
a ueif in the October number Of The
worlds Work.
Tbe spirit of the enterprise may be
- obtained from the following par
rornhs from Professor McKeever's
@The fact that many persons are
All following eighteenth century me
s cf child culture in the home and
~ the same time applying the aids
o. twentieth century science to wheat
O,1tnre, horse culture and hog cui-
turo has for some years appealed to
~ as one of the anomalies of our
time.
nd of the agricultural experiment
stations in sending out free bulletins
IN live stock to thousands OF inter-
octnd readers, I decided to undertake
. counterpart of their work with a
aorips of bulletins en- the home train
ing of boys and girls.
f is a matter of fact that the states
ond the nation spend millions of dol
lars and employ the most skilled ex-
nors 70 look after the welfare of all
i've stock and food fiber crops, but
NEGLECT almost entirely the most i'm
noTtant crop of all-the human crop.
With the great facts of modern medi
col sanitary and psychological know
ledge available, they r practically
oil allowed to go tc waste because
tbov are not taught to the people
and are moi applied by the people to
the every day problems of child-rear-
ing.
Professor McKeever has issued the
following bulletins: The Cigarette
Smoking Boy; Teaching the Boy to
Save: Teaching the Girl to Help in
the Home; Assisting the Boy in the
choice of a Vocation; A Better Crop
of Boys and Girls; Teaching the Boy
To Work; Teaching the Girl To Save.
The work, as it deserved to be, was
a success almost from the beginning.
Since it was begun, three years ago,
nearly 10000 900 copies of the bulle-
tins have been distributed. In order
TO have them be of the widest useful
ness possible, the price has been fixed
at but a few cents each.
There is scientific ,crop-raising and
scientific stock-raising.< Why shouldn't
there be scientific raising of boys and
girls?
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
sModel Husband VIII Have to Walk.
5. "Chalk Line"

Chicago, Sept. 29.-Edward Matt.
who today married Miss Gertrude Ell
lis, sought to avoid future domestic
infelicity by living with the county re-
corder a guarantee to be- as nearly
the model husband as possible. The
guarantee, signed and witnessed by
a notary, promised:
"She may do as she pleases. She
is free to go and come when she likes,
to go with whom she chooses and I
will not be jealous. / will not go
cunning for a fellow because he adj
mires her beauty, and because she
smiles when he speaks to her; / will
not interfere with any of her plans.
~ will be kind and good to her.
I will give her all my earnsings and
it will be her privilege to do with my
income as she likes, SO rs she feeds
well.
when we have a surplus and it
gee to the bank, I agree not to hold
the keys. The checks may be signed
by either of us. / agree to come home
at a proper hour each night or give
her a valid excuse.
"And / further agree that / will let
her get divorce if l fail to behave
as a kind, loving, gentle, c~onsiderate
husband should"
When the guarantee had been duly
placed on record, the couple sought
a minister and were married.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
Blue and Gray Veterans March With
Arms Linked

Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 29.-To the
strains of the fife and drum 500 vete-
rams of the Blue and Gray marched
with linked through the streets
of Memphis last night, bunting be-
decked and gaily Illuminated in their
honor. 1t was the eliminating fea-
ture of the reunion of soldiers who
fought in the opposing armies during
the war of the SOS. The Sons of Vet
erans and cher auxiliary organiza-
tons, state troops, fraternal associa-
tions and mounted police paraded
with the gray-haired mem Former
slaves, body servants during the war,
marched in the wake of the yete-
rams and spectators crowded the
streets to cheer the old soldiers
The most important action taken at
the reunion today was an indorse-
ment of a proposed peace jubilee and
a general reunion of all civil war
veterans to be held in Washington
in 1913. Other than this reunion was
principally a happy intermingling
to those who were foes so years ago.
This afternoon they participated in a
barbecue arranged by the Sons OF
Confederate Veterans.
The reunion was held in connection
with the fall festival and tri-state
fair, which began yesterday.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
Is The Postage STAMP no cor

Is the day Of the postage stamp,
with all its disease breeding, not to
mention disagreeable, methods Of
moistening numbered? A jealous
apostle of the new cult Of anti2dis-
ease and eficiency ideas has raised
the question, "Why is a postage
stampg and he declares that there
is no answer. The postage: stamp,
In his opinion is a relic Of a crude
age and has no excuse for existence
in this age of labor saving devices.
We have made no more than a. start
in the right direction by adopting a
regulation by which a concern may
pay for postage in bulk and print in.
the corner Of the envelope a state
ment to that effect. A system has
been adopted in Bavaria by which
large consignments of mail are turned
in at the postofice without being
stamped and are postmarked by ma
chinery and paid for in bulk without
any bother with stamps.
A budding genius of Chicago has
suggested that business houses could
be equipped with a meter, just as a
house is equipped with a gas meter,
and envelopes passed through it au-
tomatically weighed and the amount
due for postage collected by the mail
carriers. Anyway, some plan for the
elimination of the postage stamp must
be devised. The stamp itself must
go. It has been tried on hte charg(
that it is behind the times and found
guilty. That means that its doom is
sealed@Greensboro Record
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
GET.RICH-QUICK INDICTED FOR
FRAUD
FIagg and Associate Held by Grand
InrE for Fraudulent Use of Mails

FldSS duU -ASSUC1dCC ACAU Ny 0I0MO
Jury for Fraudulent Use of Mails
New York, Sept. 29.-Jared Flagg
and his eight assistants, including for
mer United States Treasurer Daniel
N. Morgan, who were arrested in, the
raid on the Offices of his SO per cent
a year concern, were indicted this
afternoon by the Federal grand jury
on the charges of using the mails to
defraud.
With the exception of Joshua Brown,
who had no bondsman in court and
for that reason was not ready to pleaY
all of the others, thru their attorneys,
pleaded not guilty and their bonds
were continued. Browns date of
pleading was postponed.
In addition to F1agg, Morgan and
Brown, those who were indicted and
the bail that they are held in r Al
vim L. Higgins, $4,000; +. Tennyson
Nicely. 100000: Elbridge s. Sewell,
$4,000; Edward L. Schiller $4,000;
James Shock and Henry A Jackson
$4,000 each.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
MAY CONSIDER sCHLEE CASE.

Congress Likely to Pass Bill Clearing
Record Of Spanish War Officer.
Washington, Sept, 29.-The justffi-
cation which Admiral Chadwick, for
merly of Admiral SIMPSONS STAFF,
has given for the loop of the Brook
lyn at the Battle Of Santiago is
bound to be taken cognizance of by
Congress.
The decision Of the court of inquiry
in the famous Schley-Sampson case
has become a part of the record Of
Admiral Schley and would be part of
the data to be used in case an official
biography of the hero of Santiago
were written. This fact taken in con-
nection with Admiral Chadwick's his
tory of the fight has put a new
phase on a caes which was regarded
as being closed for all time.
1t was a cass in which it was
thought likely by the enemies of Adj
miral Schley that no new testimony
thoroughly aware ef the value of Adj
miral Chadwick;s contribution to the
facts" and there is official grounds
for the statement that Congress now
has enough On which to re-open the
case and expunge the stigma of the
departments record of Admiral
Schley.
The minor officials of the navy de-
partment naturally are opposed to
talking when both the Secretary and
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy are
at their summer homes. Those here
say that it is manifest that some Of
the officials at least would fight
againt ~discrediting the judgment of
the court of inquiry which decided
the Schley-Sampson controversy.
1t is a common thing, however, for
defects in records or errors or in
Justices written into records, to be
corrected by Congressional action.
For this purpose special bills are in
troduced and it is not doubted even
by naval men that the statement CT
Captain Concas, of the Spanish flag
ship Maria Teresa is of itself sufi-
cient to warrant consideration by
congress. A special bill will no
doubt be introduced to clear the re-
cord of Admiral Schley.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
The 1Counfrvv LAWYER


The Columbia State writes Interest,"
fngly On this subject, as follows:
The Beattie trial, in the manner Of
its conduct, has elicted favorable
comment from newspapers in the
great cities of the country. The New
York Times, for example, commends
the fairness AND manifest endeavor
to hold the balances evenly by the
presiding judge and contrasts the dig
nifty Of the proceedings in the little
country court house with those of
similar trials in its own city
I'm the South good court house
manners are not uncommon. They
are net generally so good now as they:
we're years ago, but most of the reguz
Ilarly elected judges in this State are
faithful to the traditions of the older
days. Moreover, the character Of
Southern jurfes Is steadily improving,
in spite OF the encouragement that
the enforcement of the criminal laws
may sometimes receive, as an exam
pie, by the abuse of the pardoning
power in Tennessee. during the Pat
terson administrations.
THE surprise that metropolitan
newspapers betray, in spite of their
efforts to conceal it, at the ability
displayed by country" lawyers and
judges is amusing. The lawyer of
the better class in a small city or vii
lage is usually more fully and round
ly Informed than the practitioner of a
great city, for the obvious reason
that ne has more time to master the
principles of his profession. The
great city has lawyers who are spec
~ialists, whom the village lawyer can
not meet on equal terms in the form
er's particular department of prac-
tice, but one seldom finds in the great
city a lawyer capable of conducting
either a criminal prosecution or a
civil action with a high order of skill.
That sort of lawyer is not at all un-
common in the Southern court house
towns and from their ranks usually
come the Judges of the stamp of
Judge Watson who presided in the
Beattie trial. The late Joshua H.
Hudson CT South Carolina, who spent
his whole life in a town of $500 peo-
pie, would have won no less recogni-
ton from the people of this Republic
had he been placed on the Supreme
bench at Washington than he did win
from his fellow citizens of South Car
DINA"
The late Mr.. George Davis (attor-
ney general of the Confederate States)
had occasion about 1878 to visit New
York on business connected with his
profession. To a friend who asked
what was his impression of New
York lawyears, he replied that they
rP%An ~ nInoS.@I - H.
(maritime lawyers, patent > lawyers,
etc9, but that they were not to be
compared with the average country
lawyer in North Carolina in legal in
formation and efficiency. The late
Mr.. Hale used to say that, as a rule,
the prosperous mcneyed men of New
York possessed far less knowledge of
the principle of the government they
were living under than the sand-hill
countryman CT North Carolina who
read his weekly newspaper by the
light of a pine-knot-Fayetteville OBJ
server.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
Hanging of Their Father Asked By
Three Children

Chicago, Sept. 29.@Judge LatshaW,
of the criminal court in Kansas City
received a letter today from three
children in Chicago asking that their
father, John Buhrfin, either be hanged
or e~lectrocuted. The letter follows:
kind Friend, Mr.. L~aatshaw, of
Criminal Court: My name is George
Buhrfn and / am 10 years old. y
never seen my father but n time
that / remember, and that was-when
he had my mothers tongue hanging
out against the wall. Father Bong
told me to write you AID put that
man away from all and eternity, for
my mother is dying in bed.
"Dr. Freedman said she could not
live. This last shock has killed my
mother He has already married four
women and had children with them
all Please have him hung or cleo
trocuted SO all our troubles win end.
Your loving friend, George, Angeline
and Arthur Buhrfin."
"P. S-My mother is dying in bed.
Kindly please notify me as to the po-
sition OF my father, the Dutch dog
there your prisoner.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
To Help the Weak

San Francisco, Oct. 2-Humane
treatment of children and animals
will be discussed by men and women
from all parts of the country at the
thirty-fifth annual convention OF the
American Humane Association, which
meets at the st Francis Hotel for
three days this week, beginning to-
morrow. Among the ~adelegates are
some of the mcst prominent workers
in the cause of child and animal pro-
lection in the world. One of the most
notable features prepared for the en-
tertainment of the visitors will be
an elaborae banquet tc be given in
their honor by the Chinese merchants
of the city.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
no Show HOW New YORK is Bun.

New York, Oct. 2-Visitors to New
York's second budget exposition,
opened today and will continue until
the end of the month, may learn from
the numerous charts and illustrations
many interesting things concerning
the metropolis. For instance, the
figures show that in New York city
there is a birth every four minutes, a
death every seven minutes, and a
marriage every eleven minutes. Nov
ing pictures illustrate the work of the
city departments and show how is
spent the immense sum of $4,000, 900
that is required to run the city for one
year.