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The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-01
RAILRoADING ONE OF THE MOST
HEALTHFUL OCCUPATIONS
World Wide Statistics Show Low Kate
Of Mortality for Workers.

Railway employees follow a
calling more healthful than al
most any other, according to
figures compiled from the United
States census and compared with
the showing from foreign count
ries bv the Bureau CT Railway
News and Statistics. The occu
patton of the railroad man, not
only In the United States but
evidently the world over, is
shown to be among the most di-
rectly conductive to health, while
the expectation of life for the
railway employe is higher by a
wide margin than that of the
average person who works for a
living. ...
Figures for the United States
covering twenty-seven industries
show that for every 1000 en-
ployes engaged there is a yearly
mortality of about Is, varying
from 1913 In the case of coopers
and 1855 among flour aud grist
mill workers to- only 8, among
plumbers and gas and steam fit
tiers.
How low in this scale of NOR
tality the railroad man stands is
shown by the fact that "steam
railway employees" report only
1913 deaths per 1000, compared
with 10 for all classes. Most sig
nificant in the showing for rail.
way men is the scarcity of deaths
due to bodily lnfirmlties, for
while deaths due TO accidents are
higher than in any of the other
occupations reporting, mortality
due to tuberculosis, pneumonia,
heart disease and diseases OF the
nervous system is so far below
thae for almost any other calling
shat the total deaths per l, 900.
more than 4 less than the aver
age for the 81 occupations.
That the outdoor activity of
railway employees is beneficial
abroad as well as here is shown
by the figures which are avail
able for several foreign count
ries. In france for instance,
while the occupational death rate
average per 1000 between the
ages of % and "a, 11,2 from 80
to Al and II 8 from 45 to 81, the
railway death rate at the same
age is only 6,6, 81, and 1874, per
1000 respectively. In Switzer.
land, as in America, the railway
mans liability to accident, as
might be expected, is above the
average. according to available
figures, yet even with this dis
advantage the total deaths rate
is considerably below the aver
age. tuberculosis especially
claims far fewer victims, the
average death rate per 100000
between the age of 20 and %
from this cause being 304, against
only $50 for railway men.
In Great Britain not only il
the railway mans death rate be-
low the average, but the inferior
mortality grows more striking
with advancing age. The gener-
Al death rate among wage earn
sEs is Ga per 1000 between rs
and "a against the railways AS.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-01
Full Realization,

Briggs-"Did you experience a sense
Of loss after you had been operated
upon?" Griggs-"I did when got the
bill."-Life
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-01

L. g. N. TIME CARD.

Time OF arrival of trains passing
through and departure of trains
originating at Darlington.
Effective Sunday, Jan. 10, 1914
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-01
Brittle.

Little Elsie latter being lectured)-
Mamma, the commandments break
awful easy, don't they?" - Boston
Transcript.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-01
TIE
Merchant Who AdVertiSeS
THE

in your home paper wants
your trade and does not
hesitate to ask for il. He
is not ashamed of his goods
and wants you to see them.
The merchant who does not
advertise in your home pa
per does not care about
your trade, or carries a line
of inferior goods not worth
advertising. You would
not think of attending a
social gathering without an
invitation, neither should
you spend your money
with a merchant that does
not think enough of Eyour
patronage to ask for it.
Think it over? There's a
reason.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-01
M. n. g. {. TIME CARD.

NJ. n. Il l.. time card went into
effect Sunday, Jan. 10, 1914.
No. Il2 leaves. 3 40 a. IN.
No. ll3 arrives. 1890 p. m.
ll2 and llS daily except SUNDAY,
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-01
Advertising Rates

Entered at the darlington
poet Office as Second Class
Matter.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-01
From Mrs. S. T. Richmond, Providence, r.
A Minister'S Wife Writes:

CLooUET MINN"I have suffered very much with eguariti
pain and inflammation but your wonderful medicine Lydia f. I'm
hams Vegetable Compound has made well and recomme
the all that troubled with these complaints IN
AKERNAN c/o Rev. X. AKERMAN, Cloque, Minnesota
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
a CORPS in Himself.

Judge Moon the chairman Of the House Com
mitee on Post Offices and Post Roads, ought to have
waited q day or two longer before issuing his uti-
nahum The diplomatic service must GO If he had
delayed fate would have put in his hands com
plete answer to his own thunderous query, "Why
Diplomatic corpsT Why indeed maintain corps.
except for the purpose Of paying off the political
debts of our eminent Secretary Of State, when Sen
ator Jim Ham" Lewis, of Illinois. late Of Seattle,
stands ready to do its work for ii whenever an
emergency arises at some foreign court? An am
bassadors salary is 1880 and minister's $4,000.
But "Jim Ham, drawing only $500 per annum,
is perfectly willing to practise diplomacy anywhere
and everywhere on an expense account basis.
Send the Illinois statesman to safety at sea
conference or an international health congress on Il
per diem allowance and all outstanding diplomatic
differences will yield to his magnetic and tactful
touch Just q pleasant word from him at the Amer
lean Club luncheon in London last Friday and Great
Brtans cordial cooperation in Mexico even to the
recall of its present diplomatic representative in
Mexico City, was signed and sealed.
Jim Ham" can wear statesman's frock coat
and pearl gray gloves under an equatorial and
never wilt He can invade the frozen North and
bask In comfort in the aureoe glow Of his own
whiskered splendOr If Pindell, Of Peoria, can't
get Job Jim Ham" would tread the toes of
no valued constituent in compacting with the admin
istration 10 be its foreign service. Mr.. Wilson and
Mr. Bryan ought to jump ut the opportunity They
have every reason for knowing that Jim Ham is a
complete full-rgged diplomatic corps in himself
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
\ Touch of Feminine Justice.

Tho nous that Mr. William j. Cummins OF the
ron,bs has been ousted from his cecil dc luxe pN
Mice Davis Commissioner Of Correction, VIII DC
hard swallowing for those critics of women VINO
bave assured us that the sex did not know what
justice meant. 49,
The idea among these wise males has oeeh ln"'
q woman could not deal out abstract justice piu
the prisoner have long silky mustache: was ne
kind 70 his mother? Such questions would control
with = court or fury of women, who, poor things
q. bv nature incapable Of that pure, lofty concep-
,ior of iustice which dwes within every masculln
bosom.
And NOW comes along Miss Katharine Il. Davis
female. and with complete calm re-
places the petty favoritism Of a man with real
coual Justice. Is the sentimental female to become
. myth along with the ever Just and logical male:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Attorney General McReynods to town the
other day and paid call upon physician who halls
from Tennessee. The physician out, and as Mr.
McReynolds had no card with him he left his name
and title with the English footman
When the physician returned he was informed that
there had been "A caller.
Il cawnt remember his name sir" said the foot
man, but he was a member Of Parliament"
Mrs Briggs-So there's not going to be a postal
strike after all. Mrs. Johnson?
Mrs. johnson remembering the coal strike)-Well
you never can tell but what it may come any
ment so | shall lay in good stock of stamps now
Punch.
Little Myrtle the daughter OF Colonel and Mrs
Margetts, of the Salvation Army. apparently in
tensely interested in a sermon by Colonel Samuel
Brengle, for many years friend OF the late General
William Booth, at Salvation Army headquarters, in
West 14th street Her parents highly approved Of
this reverent attitude.
You greatly impressed by Colonel Brengle's
speech were you not my dear" said her proud
parent after the meeting.
Yes, papa" she answered enthusiastically Il
was wondering all the time he was talking how far
his chin sank into his whskers. Colonel Brengle
blessed with particularly impressive hirsute
ment.
The pen is mghtier than the sword" quoted the
Wise Guy.
Yes but the sword never gets a fellow into libel
suits, added the simple Mug.-PhiIadel record
There used to be general freight agent on one of
the Vanderbilt lines who had habit of returning
papers in reports of loss damages etc, upon which
he wished further information with the sententous
query How now" At time a report came in
OF a horse billed TO a certain station being found
dead in the upon arrival at destination.
The report was duly forwarded TO the agent at the
starting point who reported that the horse was APP
parently all right when loaded in the car and that
he had receipted for the animal being in railroad
parlance in good order and condition"
Hurriedly the c. F. A. glanced over the papers.
automatically jotted down his usual query. How
now" and sent them on to the agent who had made
the first report.
The answer that came back a day later
rvalled in the q. F. AS favorite query
Ii consisted of three words:
Horse still dead"
Where did the phrase The longest way round is
often the shortest way home originate" o
II don't know" replied the with a motor
Probably with traffic policeman. Washington
Star
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
The Weather Man of kaeoshima.

There will be conflicting emotions in practical
Occidental minds the suicide Of the weather OK
pert al Kagoshima We esteem life moro highly COR
think we do and mistakes we take less seriously.
At any rate suicide is not here considered either
the brave or the polite method Of apologzing for 4
bunder.
Perhaps this is just well in the case of weather
sharps America would be mussy place to live IN
if weather man Quit life soon rs he guessed
wrong Who does not recall the optimis who prom
sed fair weather for a certain inauguration and
the slush that resulted. Almost grave bunder
this was as that Of the Kagoshima expert in under
estimating the danger from neighbornc volcano.
Yet no one suggested hara-kri for the prophet III
the case. for the obvious reason that no one was
particularly outraged surprised.
In short the weather prophecy is another great
American humbug We like to read its sapien
words: we like to believe them; yet we fully expect
the prediction TO be wrong and are glad TO chucNe
amiably when 1t is. A long way from Kagoshima rs
this land OF the free and easy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
Work for the Homeless.

Mayor Mtchels visit to the overcrowded city lodg-
ing house seems to have been productive of good in
twofold way. One phase is the assurance that all
the homeless shall he sheltered, even if temporary
quarters have TO be found for them on the city :
piers or in the srmores The other is that the city
shall not be entirely without recompense for this,
and that It shall not be undiuted charity, but that
the men. at least. shall be required TO work for
their shelter and food by helping to clean the city
streets.
II is a simple thing for nearby cities to get rid
Of their homeless and unemployed by dumping them
into this city New York Of course, is rich. But
II has its own problems. and cannot undertake to
help all the universe The idea of forming the
homeless ones the lodging house into auxiliary
street cleaning squad is excellent. It will help
them help the city by washing the faces of some
streets which the regular force can't seem to care
for and above all, 1t will discourage the profess
sonal takers who seek to graft winters living at
the expense Of the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
Nonopolizine Gin Any Degree.

Nothing will be gained 10y inserting the words III
any degree I'm the Sherman act prohibition aga'"S'
monopoly as is proposed by Representative Stan-
lev. speaking for the administration the intent u
the law will not he made ono whit clearer Inc
nbrase will have the effect which rhetorclans say
VERY" has in most sentences. II Will snow tha'
Congress meant 10 he emphatic against monopoly
but did not exactly know how.
Tho annljcation Of the sherman act has turned
hitherto not so much upon the degree 10 WHICH
commodity was monopozed as upon what the act
meant BY "monopolzing and by RESTRAINT OF
trade" ON the meaning of these expressions the
addition Of the words "in any degree will afford
No LIGHT The phrase will indicate that Congress
is very much opposed to monopoly mat Is an
I-ron tho courts however will remain at least so
far as this amendment is concerned. the burden OF
making the law workable The law might be en-
forced to render any business progress lmposSlDle
The cry used 70 be raised that il must necessarily he
so enforced. But the courts ruled that Congress
had an intelligent purpose in view when 1t passed
tho law and they endeavored in their decisions TO
carry ont that purpose That endeavOr. and not
any softening Of the laws rigors was what was
meant nv the rule of reason or the employment
of the light Of reason The addition of the words
in any degree will not make any less, but rather
more difficult for the courts TO discover and carry
into effect the intelligent purpose Of Congress, for
they will constitute just more general phrase
To be taken into consideration.
Reason enters into statute Interpretation because
language is an imperfect instrument 10 convey the
nurpoSes OF a legislature When statute may be
construed so as TO produce foolish result the court
saws: CLEARLY the Legislature did not mean TO have
if produce that result. We must find out what were
the Legislatures real intentions. OF the Sherman
act one Judge said only few years ago that inter
preted as he thought the Supreme Court was tend
ing 10 interpret it. il would forbid two rival cartmen
doing little express business across state line
from forming a partnership and thus ceasing from
statute reduced 10 an absurdity by too literal an
application The Supreme Court naturally refused
to contrrIe the Sherman act unreasonably. Would
the addition Of the words lin any degree signify
that it must hereafter apply so as to forbid part
ncrships between rival cartmen? We do not believe
Congress would insert them with any such inten-
ton We do not believe that they are sufficient TO
lead the courts 10 such construction. We do not
believe that they are sufficient TO lead the court.
Faving in mind the practical consequences of the law
as Congress must be assumed 10 have had them in
mind in passing it, TO any drastic construction
Of the law than it has already reached. They will
amount merely making faces at big business for
political effect
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
The University and Its Head.

In the article on Dir. Finley and the University of
the state of New York. printed elsewhere in this
issue is analysed the purport Of a unique branch
of our state government, the name Of which still
suggests 10 many n very hazy idea OF educational
administration. The haziness was actual obscurity
in past years when any one went to Albany and
tried 10 find the buildings and teachers which we
ordinarily associate with the name university; but
IL lighened materially last year, when the university
threw open It's magnificent building and clothed it,
self with home which could easily be found be
cause il is the whitest thing in Albany. Now the
institution has still further emerged from obscurity
by finding voice and becoming artculate, and. as
Mr.. Ten Eyck sagaciously points out, the people of
the state are now in fair way to discover what
the University Of the State Of New York was
meant to be- is and is likely TO become.
President Finley succeeds two notable admins
traitors who have left TO him the state collections
Office routine and what not. carried 70 high state
OF perfection. with the most cordial political rea
tions established throughout the state, and he is
free therefore TO deal with Office routine and
governmental bureaus, nor with politics and state
appropriations but directly with the real business
of the uDyersty-tbe improvement of education,
from the child learning TO read in the country school
house the graduate student adding TO the worlds
knowledge by the most advanced university re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
National Incendiarism.

It is worth while to save 81 100000 worth OF prop
erty from destruction: wherefore the reduction of
our national fire losses by that amount in 1913 as
compared with 1912 is for qualification. But
that even with that reduction the total loss last
was S2O3 40S, $50 is a reproach upon our national
efficiency
In one year Chicago has S6OOO,OO0 Of fire losses,
while Berlin. city practically the same size. has
only 100000. Is not that contrast which should
set Americans TO considering whether not
suffering from sort Of national incendiarism-per-
haps involuntary, but because of negligence scarcely
less criminal than If it were intentional?
Does ii mean nothing to the American business
man. the economist, the conservationist, that in
the last thirty-twO years national fire losses
have amounted to more than S5JOOO000C0 or twice
as much all the net public debts Of the United
States, national state and municipal?
Perhaps if we took the European view of fires we
should approximate the European freedom from
them Here every fire is assumed to be innocent
and inevitable unless it is proved criminal over
there it is assumed to he cupabe unless is proved
innocent There is radical difference between
those views and there is as marked difference In
results.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
Colonel Gorgas for Surgeon General.

No dissenting voice will be raised against the
Presidents nomination of Colonel Gorgas for Sur
ceon General Of the Army On the contrary, there
will be general approval Of an act of exemplary nit
ness BY his elimination Of yellow fever from Pana-
ma. his great suppression of malaral diseases, his
successful administrative control of peculiarly deli
cate and difficult situation-in brief his transforma-
ton in spite itself, Of of the worst Of plague
spots into a healthy region-he has shown precisely
the scientific skill and the executive efficiency which
should make him an ideal head of the armys health
department So much for simple merit; while If
ever any one has earned high promotion by fidelity
in artluous toll and in reality and value Of results
he is the man.
Ten years ago the people of Panama were laugh
ing at the buresques of him and his work which
were presented by festival maskers in the streets;
though their fun was good natured and was mingled
with serious recognition OF the immense importance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
THE WHEELING WAY
Why Women Dislike 1t and Prefer the
Ballot.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: That indirect influence has eff
ficacy" Is statement no suffrasists
deny. It - only that Miss Alice Edith
AbbeIl and the ANTS" say they deny 1t.
which is quite another thing. They
would as soon deny that one could walk
to San Francisco because they are at the
same time aware that an express train
goes faster.
They are lighting against being arbi-
trarily forced into the exclusive use Of
this wheeding, time losing. energy vast
ing, undignifed. undemocratic method
Of indirect influence. Those of them who
have tried Ito improve social condi-
tons" smile indeed at Miss Abbell's
naive conception that II is done by wom-
en- at the present time and with this
tickle tool without an infinite "dissipa
ton Of energy" And Furthermore they
are aware that In an incredibly short
time after this philaEthropic turmoil
there is usually nothing solid TO show.
II is for the enforcement OF certain
laws that woman suffrage is invaluable
TO a community. Two examples in point
(among hundreds Of others) arc the laws
compelling employers to provide seats
for their women employees and the pure
food laws.
That the indirect influence of women
was largely instrumental In securing
certain reforms Or. Wylie has testified
that the laws were soon nullihed when
they could have been protected by the
simple device the ballot offers OF re-
wards and punishments he has also tes-
titled in his many addresses explaining
his conversion 10 the cause of woman
suffrage.
Do the "antis" really imagine il IS
given to them TO tell US there Is "a
great waste OF feminine energy. strength
and money in the suffrage movement?
DO they imagine Jane adams and the
hundreds like her enjoy thus diverting
their invaluable energies7 There is in
deed tragic waste OF those women
most able to serve the community and
more anxious TO get back 10 their normal
work JULIA RANSoM.
Atlantic City, Jan. l6. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
THE NEW SHERIFF
An Admirer Points to Achievements
Already to His Credit.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | desire to point out through your
columns the efficient way In which Max
S. Grifenhagen. the new Sheriff OF New
York County. has gone about the admin
stratcn of his office by giving one in
stance Of reform already made ef-
fective.
Under the law the Sheriff may hold an
execution in his hands sixty days, and
usually does So unless given contrary
Instructions: but frequently attorneys de-
sire immediate return OF executions,
knowing that the judgment debtor Is
without property. and having issued exc
cutiOn only because II is a condition
precedent to certain further proceedings
In previous administrations there was
no way Of finding out when an execution
had been returned other than by Journey
ing to the SheriH's office or telephonng-
both methods usually being unproductive
OF results. But Sheriff Grfenhagen, Tor
fee OF five cents Ito cover the expense
for which he has no appropriation, mott
ies the attorney by letter within three
days after receiving the execution as 10
the success OF the deputy who was in
trusted with It. mentions previous execu-
tons issued against the same debtor and
their result, and sends a form to he
signed and returned to his office in case
the attorney then wishes an immediate
return of execution
A layman can appreciate how many
steps and minutes this will save an at
torney. A harlequin in the Sherff's office
dispensing tin badges to imitation depu-
ties might make more newspaper copy,
but for efficiency in the public service
give us more Grifenhagens and fewer
musical comedy orators.
+. G.. MUNSON.
New York Ian t6. 1914