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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21
ASTORS GIVING UP.

1t is heard from London that Will
liam Waldorf Astors offer OF his two
newspapers for sale indicates that he
has given up his campaign TO become
an English lord There is hardly any
doubt that it ends a career that has
been signal and characteristic.
Mr.. Aston made a vigorous attempt
to break into American politics before
he transferred himself to Britain. He
got to the New York legislature, but
when he tried to rise to higher levels
he failed. The congressional contest
between him and Roswell p. Flower is
still regarded by the professional poll
ticians as the great year for making
money. He got the ministry to Italy
in consolation; but when further po-
litical schemes failed he abjured the
United States and transferred himself
TO Great Britain.
His activities there have caused
more testing than admiration. People
laughed when his magazine claimed
his descent from the Spanish house Of
Asterga, and they gloWered when he
closed public paths in the Cleveden
estate. King Edward exploded when
Astor with premature aristocracy at
fronted a friend. Astor spent his
money literally for'the unionist party.
He might easily have been Sir Will
liam. Possibly Mr.. Balfour might
have braved sarcasm by making him
a baron But Aston was determined
to gain higher rank and while ne was
waiting the Tory smash arrived.
Now when Lloyd George is playing
hob with the house of lords Aston has
probably concluded that there will not
be enough in the title TO make 1t
worth the money. Anyhow, an excess
sive millionaire finds neither England
nor America genial 10 his schemes
PittSburg Dispatch.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21
THE MELTING POT
COMET TAKE POTLUCK WITH U.S.
AXE POTLUCK WITH US.

across one of these papers owned by
an old Virginia woman living a few
miles out OF Washington. falls for il
and sends out ?. column story on il.
And we print it. And by o'clock in
the morning the first aged Akron man
turns up with a copy. Expect 10 get
more later as the remoter precincts
are heard from"
WE unequivocally indorse Secy.
Bryan's stand on the collar button
question and believe that in demand
ing that this product shall not be sold
for more than nickel he has enunci-
ated a new and imperishable principle.
In the last analysis il would be alb
surd TO class collar buttons among the
Injuries They are purely necessaries.
Why do we purchase collar buttons
Because we need them. That is the
test. And IL we did not need them
would we get down on our stomachs
TO hunt them under the bureau? Mr..
Bryan is right and we hope he will
permit neither friend nor foe to dis
lodge him from the nickel button.
THEY have a Chaplin st. in Jackson.
Mich. but it runs the other way.
WE have played golf With preachers
and CONT TO political meetings with
them, We even slept with one III our
callow youth when he was invited TO
our house for a nights lodging and
had to split bed with us, but we never
went fishing with a disciple ofPeter
until yesterday and then there We're
two Of them. The new experience did
not differ materially from the old, but
il confirmed our early conception of
the preacher, that he is just an every
day man in disguise.
A BASEBALL percentage column is
as variable as a Wall st. ticker or the
family clock Not knock for the
clock that has licked the time in
measured rhyme, by day as we'll as
night and did its best without rest,
but never gave 1t right. There we were
in our old place at the bottom with
every body on top hollering More
beef when, presto, change, the stile
clicked and up we shot nearly TO our
high watermark- There are heart
moments on the sporting page as we'll
as on the bleachers.
THEN there was this thought:
What do you expect of a world that
is made up Of human beings?
c. y. T.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

WE used to say that, or words to
that effect, as ]. w. T., Of fragrant
memory was wont TO say. To old a. l..
II. long before We knew Epictetus ever
thought of il. You've got enough"
we would say when he had four or
five bass Hopping around at the end
of his string you ought 10 be salts
fled" Strange how the same thoughts
run unguided through the centuries
and each new thinker of a thought
thinks it original with himself. We
did and doubtless Epictetus did, but
somewhere back of him the odds are
ten to one somebody beat him TO IL.
TIME.
Father Time with brutal analysis
Tells the unsupported truth
OF what is deeply hidden
In the pink and rose OF youth.
d. B. II.
WELCOME back TO our midst, ID.
B. II. We have missed you when the
glamour Of evening came on and the
pipes were lighted.
That Ulster County Gazette WheeZe
about a man who lived IS years with
his heart on the wrong side, but that
is not. though wonderful, as serious
as living all your life on the wrong
side Of your heaart Yes, lot of peo-
pie do. Their hearts are in the right
place, but their heads are on the
wrong side.
That Ulster County Gazette Wheeze.
The old Ulster County Gazette
story" writes old II. A. from Akron,
has bObbed up again. and we printed
it, We use the wire service
here and they send out mail stories
for time copy under signature of Vic
tor Elliott / imagine you get the
same stuff there. Well Elliott who is
on the Hearst Washington staff runs
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21
THE USELESS THREE-FOURTHs.

Let us then eliminate the so-called
class experiments. from which the
students derive no profit in the way of
instruction. and bar the ViviSectons
practised in laboratories for study and
practical work, which are of no ser
vice to science; and then let us di-
minish the sOcalled experimental sur
gerry which, according TO the opinion
of Nelaton. of Lawson TAFT and of
Quenu, is only of infinitesimal use in
the surgery of human beings. Let US
suppress the mberleSs and useless
Yivisections through the help Of which
persons try TO determine the action of
particular poisons or remedies on
certain organ or on a certain function
of the organism; doing 80 because to-
day We know from the chemical con-
stitution of the substance in question.
the action which it should exert with
more precision than We can know this
by fortunes inflicted upon animals.
When all that is suppressed vivi-
section will be diminished by at least
three-fourths and the regulation of
the remaining fourth will have the
cooperation of scientists themselves
For scientists are not wanting-and il
suffices 10 mention the name of Char
cOt-who. by observations of i'll per-
sons, have made discoveries in medi-
cine of more Importance than any eX-
periments on animals could accom-
plish.-NeW y orw Herald.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Such an extreme measure would ag-
gravate the feeling already existing
between the white and yellow races.
The land legislation in California
wounded the pride of the Japanese be-
cause of the allegation that they were
an inferior people, and the protest of
the Hindus is that exclusion is not
aimed at individuals, but against the
race.
This racial question presents a prob
lem of delicacy, the adjustment of
which will require careful diplomatic
effort. 1t should be approached by
the nations concerned on mutual
grounds, and an understanding
reached that would be of benefit to
both sides, thus strengthening friendly
relations. Constant agitation VIII have
the reverse effect. -Pittsburg Post.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21
KILLED BY TRAIN.

NILES, July 21-Matthew Don Of
Laporte Ind, was instantly killed
early Monday morning az Dayton.
Mich, when struck by an eastbound
Michigan Central train No. as. The
body was found by employees OF the
railway and was badly mangle6. IL is
supposed that he was walking on the
tracks and failed TO hear the approach
Of the train. Following the coroner's
inquest. the body was taken To La
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21
MAKE DUMMY DIRECTING UN-
FASHIONABLE

The trustees OF an estate have
brought at Boston an interesting suit
under the Sherman act against the
New York, New Haven q Hartford
Railroad company, and all its direc-
tors from 1904 TO 1909 who are now
living, and the estates OF three direc-
tors who are dead.
The compliments, holding as trus-
tees some New Haven shares, allege
that the acts of these directors were
in violation of the Sherman act, and
that under the damage provisions of
the act the stockholders are entitled
to recover not only $102 900, 600, the
estimated amount squandered, or
worse, by these directors, but even
three times that sum, or $5O6,OOO,OOO.
The proceeding is an effort of a
minority stakeholder to bring to reck-
oning and restitution these directors,
whose infidelity to their trust and acts
in apparent violation of the law re-
suited in such enormous losses to the
actual owners of the New Haven cor
pOration property.
1t is an interesting proceeding.
Upon its chances of success lawyers
may be left TO debate. Judge Braley
has issued an order TO show cause why
a receiver should not be appointed,
not TO interfere with the present man.
agement but TO take possession of all
interests of the defendants pending a
decision on the merits.
Should the final decision be in favor
of the cOmplainants they will have
gone far 10 show how dummy and
other unfaithful directing may be
made most decidedly questionable.
When the corporation hooters,
active collusive, or merely compla-
cent witnesses, shall be compelled to
make threefold restitution OF the plum
der it is certain that corporation loot
ing will cease to be a hazardous
and even "gentlemanly" occupation or
musement-Chicago Herald.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

Or. 5. Josephine Baker. head OF the
New York bureau of child hygiene.
says race suicide is a question OF dol
lars, not eugenics. But watching the
procession OF automobiles one can see
that the dollars cannot be spared.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

Pres Wilson expects the primaries
OF the middle west TO indorse his poll
cies and il is a hundred 10 one shot
that they Will The president has
made good
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
OF The Daily Times.

Miss Nellie Carpenter has returned
from a visit TO Valparaiso.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Toepp visited
Elkhart friends yesterday.
George Hans returned from a visit
10 Chicago.
Lieut.. l.. T. Anderson, third cavalry,
is visiting DR.. and Mrs r. z. Eastman.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

Ii is said that all indications now
point 10 Lieut.. Porte getting away on
his transatlantic trip by Aug. 1. The
fitness OF the America is steadily in
creasing and confidence IN the success
OF the enterprise is grow ing.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

Opening their eyes 10 the real facts.
after hearing from the interstate
commerce commission. the railroads
ind big business bearing down upon
them and will have TO hustle TO handle
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

A 81. Louis congregation has started
"A campaign against overdressing at
church which is likely 10 work both
ways. Some people never would go
To church il they couldn't wear their
glad rags
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

St. Louis has produced a. cave man.
who captured his sweetheart and ran
away with her and it Is expected that
all OF St Louis eligible girls will ex-
pose themselves 10 a like fate.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

on a small scale the triumphal en-
try into Mexico City promises TO com
pare with the grand review in. Wash
ington in 1855 We hope it will have
a similar significance.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

Haiti and SantO Domingo may have
a guardian. With the exception of
Mexico they are the foolest republics
on the western hemisphere
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

NEW ORLEANS. La. July 2i.-Sx
persons were injured today when the
Queen and Crescent New York linn
tied was derailed while going forty
miles an hour near Derby Miss. En-
gineer Frank Howe and his fireman
viii probably die.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

King George is taking a real per-
sonal interest in the Irish question,
and it isn't hurting his chances of a
long and successful reign a bit.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21
TWO MAY DHs.

porte where the burial viii probably
take place
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

Speaking OF progress have you
road County Agent Bordners report? ,
The farmers have certainly hit high
speed.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

The summer white house at Cor
nish. y. H.. will not be opened this
season. This is the presidents busy
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

SIX MONTHS WITH POETS AND
PHILOSOPHERS.
There is no unbelief:
Whoever plants "A seed beneath the
And waits to see IL push away the
sod
ciOd.
He trusts I'm God.
-Bulwer Lytton.
Fortify yourself with content
ment, for this Il an impregnable
fOrtreSS.-Epictetus
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

II South Bend could play double
header every day the road to the top
would be cut in two
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-21

No matter how hot and humid the
day may be or how many men go
about among their fellows in cute lit
tie dancing pumps, Third Assistant
Postmaster General DOckery wears
the same kind OF footgear that he
does in winter. He wears old fash
toned. leather bOots-the kind that
reach 10 the kDees-and ne wears
them regardless OF fashion or weather.
But he wears his trousers on the out
side.
Copyright, 1914. by Fred c. Kelly.s
The Washington times., 1914-02-07
Tiny Anti-Suffragette Defends Boys
of Wheatley School
The boys of wheatIey School have fair defender

The boys of Wheatley School have a fair defender
says years old an-sufra ene but
ncglects sign the The
little Miss Mary Noones the boys
hand the voey ball over, trembling
Il of your paper, she says the
article by Miss Mary Noone She said the girls wanted
the voey they would demand from the boys give
the ball in trembling condition but this is
Although do go this school, know boys who
told this know those boys have pluck than
wants give them credit for.
81 believe ufragism think womans place
home with her kids voting for the looking man. as
antisufragette.
P S. If article is not published send it to Mary Noone"
The Washington times., 1914-02-07

the street began to shiver and tremple
with the cold: the furnaces, which mad
been allowed to cool, were rushed with
fire and the cold houses shut. The
flowers froZe. turned black and dropped
from their stems and the trees shed
their wilted leaves.
Down the street came the same farm
er who had passed before, and again
he spoke to his friend about the
weather.
Here it has frozen up, and just
after that hot spell mad brought up
the wheat and made the fruit trees
bloom cried the farmer. First II
is hot as summer and the trees,
flowers and fruits come out; then II
is as cold as the Pole and they freeze
that means that the nation must
starve next year. There VIII be noth-
Pauline was Worried. FTerything
she did seemed wrong. II guess |
had best leave the weather alone,
she sighed. 1T seems TO know best
how to get along by itself" So she
wished that IL would begin raining
ard be Iust like il was before she
started to interfere with the climat 2.
lust then a ray of sunlight stole
in the window and lighted on her
eyes and with a start she awoke.
why. ii has really stopped rain
ing" she laughed in delight. "ard !
am glad it did SO itself. j have found
out 1t would be sorry weather II had
to manage II. / will make one more
wish," she continued, as she settled
the red cap on her curls, "and that
is that in future I viii know better
than to grumble whether II rains or
shines"
The Washington times., 1914-02-07

house, which Was heated by a furnace,
was so warm that every one left il az
Cept Pauline. who was too busy to II link
about her own feelings.
A farmer passing down the street
stopped by the window. and Pauline
heard him talking to a friend about the
weather. 81 can't imagine what is the
matter" he exclaimed. This sudden
July in January will ruin the country
our crops will sprout. The wheat will
die. the fruits will be frosted by the
next change. We were having a nice
soaking rain when this happened. We
don't need hot weather. but a good fall
of snow to help the crops
Pauline had begun herself to see that
she had made "A mistake in bringing
summer so suddenly into winter. Peo-
pie who were dressed for the cold
weather we're suffering; so were the
farmers and everything else with the
heat.
Il believe ] would like to 90 skating
this afternoon, Pauline said, aloud
SO I wish it would freeze and freeze
everything hard as a rock
In moment a violent change was
seen. People who had been painting in
The Washington times., 1914-02-07
If CHILD IS CROSS,
FEVER|SH AND SICK
Look, Mother! If tongue is
coated give California
Syrup of Figs"

Children love this fruit laxative" and
nothing else cleanses the tender Stom-
ach, liver and bowels so nicely.
a child simply will not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result is
they become tightly clogged with waste,
liver gets sluggish, stomach sours. then
your little one becomes cross, half-siCk
feverish. don't eat, sleep or act natu-
rally. breath is bad. system fun of cold
has sore throat, stomach-ache Or
diarrhoea- Listen, Mother! See if
tongue Is coated, then give a teaspoon
full of California Syrup OF FIGS" and
in a few hours all the conStipated
waste, sour bile and undigeSted food
passes out of the system. and you have
a we'll, playful child again
Millions of mothers give California
Syrup of Figs" because it Is perfectly
harmless: children love il, and il never
fails to act on the stomach. liver and
bowels.
ASK your druggist for a 5O-cent bottle
of California Syrup of Figs. which
has full direction for babies, children OF
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Beware OF cOuR-
terfeits sold here. Get the genuine
made by California Fig Syrup Com
pany-" Refuse any other kind with
contempt.-Advt
The Washington times., 1914-02-07

II
L was bad enough to have rain at
boarding school. when one was at her
lessons; but to have it when there was
SO much fun to be had was something
too trying on the nerves.
So Polly sat in the big chair before
the library CRATE fire and sulked. Bev-
eriy was off at a Boy Scout meeting.
Mamma was taking a nap, Mary was
busy with mince pies in the kitchen, and
the house was as still as a mouse. Not
sound but the tick, took of the big
clock in the corner of the hall and the
drip, drip, drip of the water running
down the pane.
She threw her coat on the back Of
her chair, but the red tam o'shanted
cap she still kept on her brown curls.
AS she leaned back she felt the wooien
tassel flop in her face.
IF this were only wishing cap,
she laughed. Il would pretty soon fix
things all right. I would never have
any rain or snow. and the weather
would always be pleasant and sunny,
with no wind at all"
1t is a wishing cap" she seemed TO
hear a voice say out of the shadows OF
the big room.
My. what YVES that?" she eXclaiped.
be a wishing cap. when il Is the red
wooden one dad gave me last year
Just try it once" came again a
voice out of the gloom.
All right" laughed Pauline. Here
goes-I wish it would stop raining and
turn warm, and tie flowers would
come out and the trees be full of leaves
and it would De suTlmcr again."
Before she had ceased to speak a
wonderful change took place. The rain
ceased. the sun came out hot, the How
ers sprang up i'll the yard as If by
magic, and the trees were green in the
SUNNI air. But the people going by
with their winter clothing on began to
grow faint with the unusual heat. The
The Washington times., 1914-02-07

IFvrY men and women met at a
l. certain library in H street the
other night and amused them
selves by playing checkers,
sards. Ind. chess. There was no lack
OF noisi and gayety, it was a positively
hilarious party, and none of the games
| Jagged.
Yet every one of them was stone
blind, and every game that was played
represented hours of patient work on
the part of some teacher and her blind
pupil The National Library for the
Blind, at 1729 II street, with Miss Etta
Josselyn Giffin in charge, has had many
Of these social evenings for the blind,
and at none of them is there ever any
indication of the tragedy of blindness
or any suggestion that the participants
are enveloped in the great night.
The practical purpose of this institu-
ton Is to print books for the blind in
the Braille system, receive, exchange
and distribute such books, and to serve
at the same time, as means OF en-
ployment for the blind themselves.
There Are No Folded Hands.
Blind people should print blind books.
It is a blind business, and does not re-
uuire sight This was ably demonstTat-
ed by Miss Giffen as she showed me
around the little library today. Four OF
the girls in this school were at work
on a book, while in another room. with
a sighted reader, a yoUH5 girl was
typewriting in the Brbllle system.
Churchilrs new book, Tile Inside of
the Cup
What the National Library really has
for purpose, however, and the real
lesson that is taught TO the girls. who
work there. is that they are not afflict-
ed, not queer and different from other
people. but merely Handicapped"
There are no folded hands here, no sad
faces. no dissatisfied workers.
Pathetic in the extreme is the real
reason why the blind are interested in
the printing of books. 1t makes their
blindness seem all the more real.
They can see what they do, with the
tips of their sensitive fingers. when they
print books in the Braille system. Each
ard each worker is able to realize a
tangible result from his work. As a
rule. when working for money. they
do not like 10 do typewriting. because,
one OF the young girls said TO me, II
cannot see whether or not my words
Are written correctly. | do so hate 20
depend upon some one else Tor every
thing"
MISC Giffin then showed me how in
dependence was to be the saving of the
blind. 1t takes away the helplessneSs Of
the affliCtion and robs it of most of its
terrors. The stories of each of the girls
in the library is a lesson in will power
ard bravery. One blind girl paid OFF the
taxes of her home with her work. AnOth-
er is self supporting and others are able
The Washington times., 1914-02-07
follows:

Having sat on the first grand jury
of which women were members,
have failed to observe a single rea-
son to disqualify them from giving
splendid service. The pioneer in any
movement must be prepared to meet
disappointments and obstacles which
those who follow will not find, but
the Judge and every official who has
expressed himself, ADMITS that this
last grand jury has given Scn Mateo
county the most thorough house
cleaning that it ever received.
And why was it different from the
preceding grand jury? Simply Ee-
cause women, with their clean con-
science, Unborn honesty, clean-cut
sense of right and wrong and tireless
energy and patience, formed part
Of the body and served TO the best
of their abilities. ] certainly think
women are beneficial to any jury,
grand or trial. No jury OF either sex
O. = enjoy the many diverse points OF
vi. " which are brought out by
mixed jury.
believe the woman grand Juror
has come to stay For the public
good, l hope so. Every earnest civic
worker should be more than willing
10 serve once, at any rate. 1t GER