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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-24
TO FIX AUTOIST'S LIABILITY
Supreme Court Asked to Decide Duties
of Passengers in Danger.

washington. oct. &.-Whether PAS
,enecr on the back seat Of an automobile
is freed from responsibility for looking out
for dangerous crossings and a passenger
on the front scat is So obligated, IS a
question which tho United states SUPREME
court to-day decided not To review at pres
ent
Tho case WAS that Of Charles r. Hender-
son. who was injured Mt Camden, y. j" IN
collision between an automobile and a
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad train lie obtained
no damages because he was riding on the
front seat and had not cautioned the
driver Of danger. woman passenger re-
ceived damage because she VAS sttihg
in the tonneau and was under no dnty 70
guard against danger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-24
HELD FOR SHOOTING DOCTOR
Woman and Physician Had Been Sweet
hearts.

Huntington. W Va. oct pa quarrel
with his former sweetheart. the police he
love. is responsible for the shooting Of Dr.
g. C. Mcdonald, prominent physician. Of
Logan. ". Va. who Is now at his home
at that place with bullet in HIS right side
81 thc Same time, Miss Addic Cook. aged
twcnty-hve, is Ia jail at Logan. awaiting
Developments IN his condition. The police
bclieYc that tho young woman went 20 the
doctors Office, whore they engaged in u
quarrel They think he elected her into the
hallway and then locked the door. The off
Gers believe she then shot through The glass
door three times The last shot taking effect
she Was placed under arrest but denied
any knowledge Of the SHOOTING
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-24
cRoToN RESERVOIRS FILLING
Record for Last Week iE GAIN ut
: 300 0nn .Onn Gallone.

The water famine spectre. which has heen
held before tho public ~ Commissioner
Tbomraon of the Water Department con
,i,,,sd 10 fade away before the heavy raina
THE month
Tho report from the Croton rf7or'o'r
for the week ended ~ =. m. on SUNDAY
shows that there Vas gain for the week
If 2sooo0oooo gallons in the total water
stored The amount then on storage was
Is s,s oo0ooo rs compared with a@"'"''"
gallons a year ago
Tho waterfall on tho Cro'on 0'te'fneu
r.., week reached the extraordinary to'f'
20 II inches. Mos, Of that did moi reach
,,o reservoire I'm time to affect tho toisls
,nlrc hut should appear I'm the figures for
this week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-24

:, ,.oa ,h,, the Informal ballot be de-
clared formal The mo'lo''
unanimously. the delegates rls'"s - -
feet cheering, and giving MISS ""'" wv
Chautnuqua salute.
,ties ebav, nIedzed every power OF oooy'
mind and heart 10 the work Hn' 'SK'u
for suggestions from any suHras'S' ""'l
,,,o-rod foelin-lv 20 the diamond siarT"o
e,nraae Gag passed on 10 her aitcr TIC
death OF Susan h. Anthony
uisg Iaura CIav. who received 81 Votes
for frs, yicc:president. against l'7 LOT '"87
Adams. moved that Miss Adams e'eo-
,ion ho declared unanimous. and TINS was
done with cheers.
Other officers were elected az follows.
Second vIcc-president, Miss Sophronispa
Breckenridge, Chicago; corresponding
rotary. Mrs Mary Ware Denncu' ~"
York: recording secretary. Mrs. susan "
Fitzgerald. Boston; treasurer. MIS- jessie
Ashley. New York. first auditor, Mrs Belle
la Toilette. Madison, WIS; second auoltof'
Mrs. James Lees r.aldlaw. New YORK.
IT was section Of the revised constitu-
ton. which provided for monthly meetings
OF the official board. composed OF national
officers. that occasoned numerous sharp
exchanges The section amended SO as 10
can for meetings OF the board Al least
once I'm every two months. finally was
adnpted. Inasmuch as tho question involved
the proposed transfer OF headquarters and
ucssibIy the choice OF officers. II provoked
heated debate. some OF the delegates get
ting almost personal.
Most Of the debate followed an announce
rnent by Miss NJ. Carey Thomas. president
of Bryn Mawr college. that three women
rad offered to supply money TO d"fray the
travelling expenses of officers going 10 the
bimonthy board meetings. Evidently mis-
taking the point one delegate intimated
criticism of the administration by national
officers OF what has been known "a the
Susan r. Anthony $4,000 fund. Several
arose at once 70 protest but Miss Shaw
recognized none. and. OK csthedra, she re-
II ted the inslnuation OF iniudIcious use ~
the money explaining. with tears in her
owes, the circumstances IN detail
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REPUBLICAN, LEAGUE TO MEET.

Washington. oct. 2&-Fre -ident John
HAYS Hammond of tho National Republi-
can League day issued cal for a meet.
ing II the executive committee Of the league
N be held here December 10. the dav set
for the national Republican committee meet
ing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-24
NEW CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL

Albany. oct. 23.-Approvsl has been gwen
Nv tho state authorities 70 ths application
of the Civic League Of Osslning 70 establish
a tuberculosis hospital Tho local health
officer declined ~ sanction tho application
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-11

has charge of educational work among
the .Eskimos in Alaska, and is giving
them instruction in agriculture, cooking,
sewing, bench work. washing ciotnes'
1t also helps the destitute natives In their
hours of need, requiring all ablebodled
natives who receive such help 10 perform
in exchange for supplies received. an
equivalent amount of labor in furnishing
frewood for use in schools. in cleaning
the premises or in the removal OF re1use
from the vicinity Of the native houses
The bureau also has charge OF the rem,
deer herds of Alaska. There are I@'UU
reindeer in the thirty-four herds In the
territory. The income from the sale OF
reindeer products more than quadrupled
in a single year, and the natives are hho.
ing the reindeer industry one OF the most
important features in their economic NE.
The commissioner of Indian affairs has
charge of Indian tribes or the Oniteu
States, exclusive of those IN Alaska. theiI
lands, moneys, schools. the purchase OF
their supplies and their general wetIare-
There are now approximately 100000 In
dams on the reservations of the United
States. Formerly it was the policy or the
government to deal with the Indians as
tribes instead of as individuals. All or
this has been changed. and the efforts
of the Interior Department are toward
the progressive assimilation OF the Indian
into the body polite, with the greatest
with . a minimum Of injury to the COM
munity to which he may belong.
It has come to be recognized that the
only way to accomplish this is to deal
with each of them. as ar individual
Therefore as rapidly as an Indian
demonstrates his ability to perform the
duties of a citizen and to be subject
to the same social. political. moral and
legal obligations. he is given his freedom
from the -tutelage of the federal gov
ernment and made to hoe his own row
as any other American citizen. To change
the characteristics OF race. compelling
1t to surrender It's traditions. its Gus.
toms and it's impulses. is matter of
generations rather than years.
The full-blooded Indian OF today still
asserts a stubborn. resistance to the ef-
forts of the government to transform
him into farmer. with fixed habitation,
or to interest him in the trades or COM
mon vocations of life. In the govern
ment's policy Of individualizing the In
dian for civic usefulness one Of the
most potent influences is the distribution
Of tribal properties among the individuals
who constitute the tribe.
Tomorrow - THE AMERICAN Gov
EMINENT.
IX-The Patent ONCE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-11

the beginning of the fiscal year 1911 was
more than 4,OOO,OOO.OOO OF this $685.
QUO, 900 was paid out for civil war pen
sions. In other words. more than four
teen-fifteenths of all the pensions paid py
the national government have been on &C,
count of the civil war. The admltteo
pension claims in the files of the pension
office are so numerous that they I'LL tWen-
thousand tons. More than three and
quarter million claims have been hled
since the establishment OF the American
pension system. A million and quar-
ter of these have been rejected.
Mrs Phoebe NJ Palmeter of Brookfeld,
N Y, aged eighty-nine years, pensioned
by a special act of Congress as the
daughter of Jonathan Wooley, VINO serV-
ed under George Washington in a New
Hampshire company. was the only PEN
sioner on account of the revolutionary
war remaining on the roll in 1911 The
last widow pensioner OF that war was
Esther S. Damon of Plymouth Union, VT,
who died in 1906 at the age of n1nety-two.
army was Daniel F. Brakeman. who died
at Freedom, Cattaraugus county, N. =,
in 1869, aged 100 years months and .
days. The last survivor of the war OF
1912 was Hiram Cronk OF Ava, N. T.,
who died in 1905, aged 1O5 years. More
than $50 widows of the war of 1872 were
still carried on the pension rolls in 1911;
The bureau of education Is part OF the
department OIL the 1ntcIiOI oAiu oAA'o W
serve as a sort Of national clearing house
for educational information. 1t seeks to
gather such data with reference to the
educational activities of every progressive
community Of the world as will enable
the more BACKWARD communities to take
advantage ofsthe lessons Of progress, and
to bring themselves to the forefront OF
educational work. II one community hap
pens to make a marked success OF a sys.
tenn of transporting pupils to rural
schools the bureau Of education SENDS
experts to study all the details OF its
operation, and then prints the results OF
this investigation in pamphlet form so
that interested educators and legislators
the country over may have the benefit OF
the experience.
The school administration division OF
the bureau aims to secure the establish
ment of better systems of school account
ing and school statistics throughout the
country. A specialist in higher education
is engaged in gathering information relat-
ing to standards of collegiate and pro-
fessional education, the statistics and ac-
counting systems of colleges and univer-
stiles, cooperation in graduation studies.
the opportunities afforded in this country
for students from foreign countries and
many related matters. The bureau also
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-11

Burton paused at the door and looked
back. Dick had spoken with a shade
more reserve than he liked. Il am able
to take my medicine. Bennington" he
said. a little diffidently, "but you have
limited at hope You won't turn me down,
will your
II is necessary, but / am not the enemy
Of any single man-least of all. you. Still
you have to get out Of this scrape through
my door,
AS soon as Burton had withdrawn, Dick
called up the Holland, told the exchange
girl that she had won the chocolates, and
requested her to put Kate on the wire
again as soon as possible. When she In
formed him after a short delay that MISS
Burton had again left the hotel, DICK
slowly hung up the receiver and stared
resentfully at it for a moment. Then. with
a sigh. he called his uncle. At first that
gentleman was frigid, but in the end he
promised to hasten to Dicks office as
promptly as possible.
Il feel though jig saw were rum
ming in the back of my head, said Dick.
clasping that article and leaning his ell
bows on the desk.
All the different scenes Of the morning
crowded about him until he scarcely knew
whether he was waking dreaming The
threads of so many different fates were
held in his grasp that they seemed a
hopeless tangle. and for the first time he
began to doubt his ability to manipulate
them. For breakfast he had only had
sufficient courage to eat two of Ivan's
leathery fapjacks, and he had eaten moth
ing since.
Il haven't size enough he muttered
with honest pessimism. My plan was ali
right but I'm too much of lightweight
to carry it out"
HIS arms sank to a heap on the desk
the active mind was as a motor from
which the current has been turned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-11
CHAPTER XXI.
The Struggle for the Wheel,

The door to the outer Office opened and
Kate entered. her face flushed from the
haste in which she had come and the
mingled emotions which beset her.
els Mr.. Bennington unengaged?" she
asked.
Ivan nodded, but having grown accus-
toned to having his sacred office treated
with disdain. made only feeble pretense
of dismounting from his stool.
Kate crossed the Office hurriedly and
knocked. Dick aroused himself with an
efYort and was at first tempted to escape
through the closet, but the few moments
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of absolute relaxation had given him new
force and he Strengthened in his chair
and called: Come in
Kate entered and closed the door behind
her. why did you wish to see me%' she
said. with reserve.
Because I'm dog tired and you are the
most refreshing sight in all the"
please stop. Under the circumstances
I consider your fiippancy to be direct
insult. You have deliberately determined
to ruin my father-he told me so less than
an hour ago. and it is killing him. l did
not come here to listen to f1attery.
| came to see-to see. Why did you wish
to see me? Tell me the truth
81 am not your fathers enemy" an
swered Dick. sincerely. He is not ruined
yet. and IL he is, it will be through his
own obstinacy."
The girl looked at him proudly. for a
moment the expression wavered toward
anger. and then it settled to wistful dis
appointment. This Is what l feared"
she said. in a voice which refused to be
quite steady. "Oh, Dick. Dick, l trusted
you SOL thought you so chivalrous and
noble under your careless manner. Dick
1 did love and respect you, but / never
can again."
But I'm not responsible for your IA
| theirs obstinacy," exclaimed Dick, In
| amazement.
1t is the smallness Of your nature, the
craftiness, the
Go right ahead" encouraged Dick,
SAY just as mean things as you car
think up II II will be the slightest relief
| to you. My spirit is bruised to a navy
| blue. so that il you wish to unload any
| little gobs Of hatred-I'm that entire de-
partment. You started out by saying
This is what feared What is that you
| feared?"
! The girl hesitated. Make It as plain
as you cam begged Dick. land IL yor
| can draw q picture to illustrate II, thai
will help a lot. My brain was only a
days business has started 1t to crum
bling
II am ashamed to put 1t into Words
I'm too weak to do any mind reading
reckon you'll have to say II"
Kate turned her face away from him
Il hate even to think It," she said, in q
| low tone. but / am sure that You have
made my hand the price OF my father
ambition. Dick. you have broken m!
hearth
Dick had risen as soon as he had oh
served his visitors identity. but whel
she had Joined the others in attacking
him he had seated himself defantly. Nov
he rose and took her face very slowl,
and very gently between his hands. Turn
ing it toward his own. he gazed into it
long moment and said, very soberly
Kate. l should be glad to have you dis
appointed in me, IL l were such q cad
but. thank heaven, I am not. have no
thought of your hand in this deal-not TO
a moment-I am willing to work for you
all my life. but II you could be bought
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oufzzical voice, "who the devil are you,
Way-MephistopheleS?"

uuizzical voice, who the devil are you,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
There is nothing remarkable In what
I have done" replied Dick. with becom-
ing modesty Business is only game
The great trouble with most young TEL
lows is that they get the shlvers at the
size of the stakes, and buck fever at the
noble bluffs their elders put up. You re.
member that marble game I invented
when l was a kid? Well, I'm just play
ing 1t over. only I'm stringing the two
biggest steel plants IN the country instead
of Jim Haskell and Buddy Sanderson.
you've hit the nail on the head, boy.
It is only a game. but it Is cruel hard
when 1t sets against you I've lost my
grip. and when you lose your gr1pE?ust
for q moment-yOu're done FOR. DICK.
will you take over the plant ana run IL!
mo. I don't want to do that. uncle.
merely wanted to force you and Burton
into q merger, and start little business
of my own which would bring IN an IN
come Of twenty or thirty thousand year
without too much bother-but did not
have the slightest desire to swing ire
mendous thing like the merger would be"
Ibid not have-how about 1t now!'
asked Bennington. eagerly.
Dick stood in the center of his office
thrown back. hands clinched at his side
and his eyes flashing. "Oh. uncle, it's
great.' he said enthusiastically. ITO
think Of all the mighty forces a man can
FOCUS on one point ana IdlTly IueiI IL, VI
focus on another and weld it: to feel the
concentrated strength of thousands center
In ones shoulders and wait calmly for the
bidding Of ones brain! Oh. uncle, it's
more fun than a speckled pig!''
The old mans heavy hand came down
on his nephews shoulder with . resound-
ing slap. you've caught it, he cried.
That's the secret. That's why We fling
youth and health and pleasure and
leisure and-and sometimes more. into
the furnace. It's not for the filthy dol
lars! Why, Dick. II I'd been paid a
salary four times bigger than my income
you couldn't have hired me to do the
work have DONE That's where your So
cialism myth goes to smash! A man. q
real man. don't want to burrow like a
worm in the ground. he wants to fight for
the biggest thing he can see, and when
he wins 1t he wants to call it his own.
1--WE don't want the safe thing, the easy
thing. We want the hard road and plenty
Of opposition. We're different breed.
boy: we're the same strain that marched
to the crusades, that sailed the unknown
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seas. that tore the wilderness from the
grasp of the savage and turned it into a
garden. We're q tough proposition to
combat, Dick, but those who follow after
can lie down and sleep with their doors
unlocked. Why. hang it, boy. now that
l see that you have gumption enough to
be practical, don't mind sitting up until
o'clock every morning talking theories
with YOU"
AS the old mans fervor increased Dick
began to cool. you still look at every
thing from your side," he said, quietly.
IF you love opposition and hard roads.
why do you stifle competition and estab-
lish monopoly at the first opportunity?
1t is true that you are industrial pioneers,
and as such are untitled to respect. but
you are not entitled to the privilege OF
taxing all succeeding generations. AZ
lows do all the playing and the great
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mass who produce actual wealth do all

CII6 P6y IH8s a,
Don't sink back to that stuff. Dick"
said the old man, testify. There are
plenty Of idle fellows to wrangle about So
cialism, but you have your own work cut
out. The laboring man doesn't care a
hang about socialism. SO why should you.
am perfectly willing to let the preach
ers and the lawyers and the doctors and
the writer's be socialists It will never
amount to anything until the millions
who work at day wages take 1t up. and
they don't bother their heads about 1t.
You come In with me and live your own
life
Go be continued tomorrow.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-11

Prize entries by Ella w. Peattie, Tudor
jerks. Joseph A. Altsheler and II. D.
Couzens, In our next Sunday Magazine.
The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-01

are fiction they are valueless. and
that II the episode of Daniels friends
and the fiery furnace and OF Jonah
and the whale are uot factual your
Bible Is no good. Pay no Ned to
such assertions. The mighty lessons
and truths are not les-ened in the
least because they are not based on
facts. Never he satisfied in merely
chronIcling facts. Any person can
do that. BE satisfied only in giving
the world great Truths.
Finally. he said, there are certain
qualities essential TO your doing this.
They are knowledge and Conviction.
Know much You cannot reveal
truth unless you know it. Know
books. hut do not know them book
ishly. Know nature. hope some
OF you will Use your scalpel and the
microscope. hope some of you Will
use your mathematics and the tele-
scope. Know men. Whatever else
you may know or he. be Human.
Never treat men professionally, treat
them humanity. Finally, know Christ.
You never can know men truly except
as you know them in the light OF the
Life OF Christ. There you will be able
to see their possibilities. Know him
as the men o. the New Testament
knew him. but more. Know him ex.
perimentally.
Have some great tconvictious about
these things which you know. You
know, by knowing nature that God
is near. Live accordingly. Reverence
all things. You know by knowing
men, that all men are brothers, and
one H. Father even God. Live accord
ingly. Never. by thought, word OF
deed dishonor or iniure. or allow
Others to exploit men. In knowing
/ Christ. you know Gods plan fol
men, and Gods plan for you. Liv,
after that great pattern. class o
/ 1911. Always he true, bearing per
feet witness to these truths, and yot
shall be worthy to be called Kings
After the sermon Mr.. Arthur Wad,
sang, "Hold thou my hand" in ,
very effective manner. and Rev. Stour
pronounced the benediction.
The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-01
The Colorado
Telephone Company

At a hearing before the tie Board
OF Equalization In Denver Saturday.
May p MIR. Vincent showed that the
Colorado Telephone Co. placed a vail
uation OF Sl2, ,559, 709 on its physical
properties in Colorado and that, TAX
ing it's own valuation as correct. the
state Board of Equalization should
raise that company's valuation for
purposes OF taxation about 200. 900.
This does not take into account any
valuation for franchises or untangi-
BILE property. Mr.. Field, represent
ing that Company, admitted in an
swer to "A question from AR. Vincent
that his company does not own the
transmitters and receivers used ON
its Instruments. but pays an annual
rental to the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co. for the use of them
Mr.. Vincent showed that the Colo
RADIO Telephone 60. pays $L00 per
year rental to the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co. for use of
the transmitter and receiver on each
ohc VI tue boo ttlcpuOutr III Use III
Colorado; and that neither company
pays taxes on these tr2nsmitters and
receivers. Ii may be of interest to
Colarado Telephone 20. patrons to
know that 81 per cent of its stock is
owned by the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co. which collects an
annual rental Of Sl.00 on each trans
mitter and receiver used py the Colo
RADIO Telephone Co. in addition to
the divideu d di a vns n stock. Tim Y
also toe OF Interest that the AIn-rirau a
Telephone oni Telegraph Co la 1910
earned SIS. .3ss. .32s.7l ON an operating
expense of 50 A.. .Il4 -. the net earn
ings being S3l. .953. .2l4-I9. To this
fund every user OF a Colorado Tele-
phone Go. instrument contributes
about 81 90 per annum.