CAPTAIN ROSTRON’S REPORT
ously had lookouts doubled, knowing that Titanic had struck ice and so
took every care and precaution. We soon found ourselves in a field of bergs,
large and small, and had to alter our course several times to clear bergs.
“We stopped at 4:00 a. m„ thus doing distance in three hours and a
half, picking up the first boat at 4:10 a. m., boat in charge of officer, and he
reported that Titanic had foundered. At 8:30 a. m., last boat picked up. All
survivors aboard and all boats accounted for.
“At 8:00 a. m. the Leyland steamship California came up. I gave him
the principal news and asked him to search and I would proceed to New
York; at 8:50 proceeded full speed while researching over vicinity of dis
aster.”
WOMAN HEADS CHILD BUREAU~]
. Miss Julia C. Lathrop of Chicago,
now and for many years a colleague
of Jane Addams in the work of Hull
house, has been appointed chief of
the recently created children’s bureau
of the national government. The nom
ination was sent to the senate the
other day by President Taft.
Miss Lathrop is the first woman
ever selected to direct a bureau of the
federal government. Moreover, to her
will be committed the foundation and
development of the activities which
the national government is about to
undertake to further the welfare of
children.
It is expected she will build up an
institutien which will be an important
branch of the government service in
the investigation of conditions of child
life and in corelating and accelerating
the activities of individual states in
bettering such conditions.
The appointment of Miss Lathrop
was urged upon President Taft by so-
cial reform organizations not only in Chicago but in other parts of the coun
try. He was informed that she has made a specialty of the study of child
life and its amelioration in connection with settlement work and that she
has been prominent in the movement which resulted in the enactment of
child labor legislation in Illinois.
The same organizations which indorsed Miss Lathrop brought about the
creation of the children’s bureau by congress.
BARON HENGELMULLER ANGRY |
Ing the passage money from his own pocket, crossed over to Manhattan.
Then with all speed he drove to the St. Regis.
The baroness, the daughter and the maid alighted. Then came the
baron. He stepped to the chauffeur and asked brusuely:
“How much?”
“Six dollars and fifty cents. The fifty cents Is for ferriage,” answered
Volkman.
The baron’s face grew red, his eyes were fixed hard on the chauffeur
and he gasped:
“Six dollars and a half? I’ll not pay it.”
Ambassadors being bigger than New York police, Volkman turned the
account over to the company for collection.
PRINCESS PAT IS AN ARTIST |
New Yorkers are enjoying the
opportunity of Slewing some of the
artistic handiwork of Princess Pa
tricia of Connaught, who recently won
so much popularity there.
Six of her paintings were selected
from those shown at the Montreal art
exhibition, and are now on exhibition
in New York. As a water color painter
she has few rivals in Europe, certain
ly none in its royal houses.
A picture, reputed to be o,ne of the
cleverest works of the princess shows
King Edward, smiling in perfect con
tent, leaving the dinner table.
“I Was Hungry” is the title of this
whimsical conceit.
King Edward dearly loved his niece,
Patricia, and did his best to spoil her.
He used to urge her to give imitations
of their kin and roared with laughter
at her skill at mimicry. As she grew
older it is said she exacted a promise
from him that he would never use his
royal prerogative to force her into a *
marriage she did not desire. Cert alp it is, if she has not been able to marry
the man of her choiice, she has at least remained free.
Capt. A. H. Rostron was In com
mand of the Cunard line steamship
Carpathia, which rescued the survi
vors of the Titanic disaster. His ship
was east bound on Its regular trip
when the distress signal was picked
up by the vessel’s wireless operator.
In his official report to the general
manager of the company, the captain
said, in part:
“I beg leave to report that at 12:35
a. m. Monday, 15th Inst., I was in
formed of urgent message from Ti
tanic with its position. I immediately
ordered ship turned around and put
it in course for that position, we be
ing then fifty-eight miles away. Had
heads of all departments called and
issued what I considered the neces
sary orders to be in preparation for
any emergency.
“At 2:40 a. m. saw flare half a
point on port bow. Taking this for
granted to be a ship, shortly after we
sighted our first iceberg. I had prevl-
Baron. Ladislae Hengelmuller von
Hengervar, Austrian-Hungarian Am
bassador to this country, journeyed to
the Hamburg-Anferican line docks in
Hoboken the other afternoon to meet
the baroness and their daughter, who
were passengers on the steamship
Amerika.
Outside the docks were scores of
taxicabs on which were taimeters
which registered distances and the
amount of change due from passen
gers. But the Baron passed these by
and his eye lighted on a limousine car
owned by Hexamer’s garage and driv
en by Fred Volkman, one of its chauf
feurs. There was no taximeter on
this'car, but in his pocket Volkman
carries a schedule of prices.
“We’ll take this,” said the baron to
the baroness, and he assisted his wife
and daughter and the maid into the
vehicle, and to Volkman remarked:
“The Hotel St. Regis, New York.”
Volkman drove to the ferry and pay-
THE NEED OF
WOMEN
MISSIONARIES
By Edward A. Marshall,
Ditector of Masoaary Coune of Moody Bile
lonitute, Chicago
_____ l । ..
TEXT—And the angel answered and
said unto the women, go quickly and tell
his disciples that He is risen from the
dead.—Matt. 28:5-7.
The condition of heathen women in
foreign lands today demands that the
fn this lies a sig
nificant fact that
it was in his pur
pose to have
womankind ever
telling the Gospel
to the women of
the race.
One of the rea
sons why the
Christian women
of the world shall
be foremost in
their evangeliza
tion. Christ made
a woman the first
messenger of his
resurrection and
evangelization of the women of the
world must be done by women who
have acepted Christ is because they
can be reached by women only. It is
a common saying that men do not un
derstand women. Evidences of this
have been presented in the thousands
of divorce cases and oft repeated fam
ily troubles which are commonly re
ported in these days. If this be true
in civilized countries, where the grace
of God modifies the harshness of hu
man life, how much more must it be
true among the heathen, who have no
spiritual or moral standards such as
we have, and no divine power to as
sist them in living righteous lives.
There are no women in foreign
lands who will open their hearts to
men. Being very shy and suspicious,
they are often reluctant to do this
even to the missionary women who
visit them. In fact, such a network
of suspicious fears has been woven
around the lives of women in non-
Christian lands that they shrink from
every foreigner who would pry into
the secrets of their inner life.
It would be entirely improper for a
man to visit the home of any native
woman in any non-Christian land, even
should she be a member of the church.
So rigid are the customs that often in
case of illness, the male doctor is not
permitted to see the female patient.
A missionary doctor' In China was
once asked to visit a Chinese home to
prescribe for a sick wife. When he
insisted on seeing the patient, the hus
band remonstrated. However, when
he found that no relief could be given
without examination, such as the feel
ing, of the pulse, he hastened to her
room, tied a twined string around her
wrist and passed the end out of the
window to the doctor, telling him to
take hold of it and see if she had
fever. There are thousands of wom
en in Asia who would rather die than
let a man see their faces.
Over most of the territory from Ja
pan through Korea, China, Siam, Bur
mah, India and on to Palestine and
Turkey, women are shut apart in
places called the “woman’s apart
ment.” In poor Indian homes, this
secluded portion of the house is made
’by hanging a sari of coarse piece of
cloth across one part of the room, thus
forming a retreat for the women when
men come to visit their husbands.
The women of the Orient are guard
ed as though they were untrustworthy
and as though they were unworthy of ‘
human privileges, or were in capable !
of exercising proper management of j
the family affairs.
Under such conditions as these, it '
can be easily seen to be impossible
for the men of the mission stations to i
preach the gospel to the quarter of a i
billion women living in the Orient; it
must be done by women.
In the first place, the women of
these non-Chrlstlan lands need the
gospel for their own sake. The soul
of a Hindoo or Chinese woman is as
truly precious in the sight of God as
that of any other woman, for he does
not look on the outward appearance;
whether the person be black or white,
or whether she be dressed in a calico
sari or a sealskin v cloak, whether she
eats rice with her fingers off a ba
nana ‘ leaf or dainty delicacies from
cut-glass ware.
Another reason why the women of
the Orient must be reached is be
cause they support and maintain the
religious systems of the countries in
which they live.
It must be readily seen that the
hundreds of millions of women in
Asia must perish without the gospel
If the women of Christian .lands do
not respond to the call of Christ and
carry his message into their homes.
The response w'hich these women
give to the missionary lady who asks
for admission to their homes is a
guarantee for untold usefulness for
any Christian woman who can find it I
in her heart to take them the words
of life. In the non-Christian lands
women are often so anxious to hear
the message concerning the “new
way” that they will listen with in- I
ense eagerness for a longer period
.han the missionary is able to speak
With such an open door of blessing
>ffered to the women of America who
lave come to know Christ can there
be any trade or profession which
would prevent one from entering the
ioor with the true message of salva
tion?
ORIGIN AND MANY REDEEMING
FEATURES OF MULEFOOT HOG
Full Blooded Animal as Large as Any of Other Breeds
When Given Same Attention—Sows are Gentle*
Kind Mothers and Usually Raise Large
Litters of Pigs—Demand Is Large.
* Grand Champion Mulefoot Boar,
(By JOHN H. DUNLAP, resident of
American Mulefoot Hog Record As
sociation, Williamsport, Ohio.)
Aristotle, who was born in 384 B. C.,
wrote of a race of hogs with undivided
toes or consolidated hoofs. Later Lin
naeus, the Swedish naturalist, born in
1707, wrote that hogs with undivided
toes were not uncommon about his
native town in Sweden. This hog has
been known to naturalists in differ
ent parts of the world for more than
2,000 years. At the present time these
hogs are said to be found in Sweden,
Holland, Scotland, Norway and Tur
key, and they have been found in dif
ferent parts of the world for cen
turies.
The sows have large litters and us
ually raise them. Although I person
ally prefer not more than ten pigs to
a litter, large litters are to be pre
ferred to litters of two or five, which
seem to be the number that sows of
some breeds farrow.
While they seem to be the same as
any ordinary hog except for their feet,
I find that their intestines are smaller,
and this makes them kill out a larger
percentage of meat. The liver, also,
seems to be different from the ordi
nary hog. Soldiers of the Civil war
tell that they saw these hogs In sev
eral of the southern states at that
time and that they found them hard
to capture, but that the meat was
fine.
The full blooded mulefoot hogs grow
as large as any of the other breeds
I when they have the same care. The
I only thing that will keep their size
down is breeding too young. A great
many new and inexperienced breeders
get a pair of these pigs and breed
them too young, and after they get
started with them inbreed them to the
detriment of their whole herd. Pros
pective buyers of this- Improved breed
should be careful to buy of experi
enced breeders who have more than
one boar in their herd and who can give
proof positive that they do not in
breed.
The American Mulefoot Hog Record
association, with headquarters in Co
lumbus, 0., was organized to protect
the buyers of these hogs as well as to
assist its members who are trying In
an honorable way to build up this
great breed. All hogs of pure breed
ing can be recorded with this associa
tion that is backed by some of the
oldest and most reputable of breed
ers.
My attention was first called to this
breed by a letter from Mr. Quinn of
the United States department of agri-,
culture. It seems that the govern
ment has never been able to find out
where or how this breed got its solid
foot. There are a great many ideas
Grand Champion Mulefoot Sow.
held about its origin, but this, as well
pts the tendency of the pure bred mule
foot to assert itself with a solid foot
when crossed with other breeds, is
still puzzling the experts.
This breed gets Its name from its
solid foot, which is solid like that of
a horse or mule. The flesh Is of a re
markably fine flavor —even better than
the Berkshire. President Taft was
sent a dressed mulefoot pig for
Christmas a few years since and
praised it highly. People who are not
informed sometimes think the meat of
this breed is not as palatable as other
breeds, but all with whom I have talk
ed personally tell me that it Is the
best flavored and tenderest they ever
ate.
I have made a great many experi
ments with hogs and am now conduct
ing hog breeding experiments, with
the help of Mr. Spillman of the United
States department of agriculture. But
the mulefoot in the different tests I
have made by cross-breeding keeps its
solid foot in nearly every case.
They are a great boon to fanners
' in districts where they have trouble
with their hogs mixing with their
neighbors’ hogs, since the mulefoot
is easy to tell from any other breed
on account of their solid feet. For
this reason I advise breeders not to
sell to any of their immediate neigh
bors if possible. This one point is ■
worth hundreds of dollars in case of
disputes about hogs when they get
mixed. Since there are so few herds
In the country it prevents any one
driving off your hogs if you have this I
breed. A great many suppose that ■
they come from the wild hog. but I
find them very gentle and easy to
handle.
Claims are made by breeders of the
pure bred mulefoot hogs that com
’ pared with other breeds they are
1 hardier, have greater vitality, mature
■ earlier and cost less to make the first
1 250 pounds. The sows are gentle, kind
mothers, and are usually very prolific, i
i ““' ———-
Prize Winning Boar.
raising large litters of pigs, which,
if turned out, will hustle for their liv
ing, or will grow and thrive, paying
big returns under good care and at- |
tention. They claim the pigs are '
hardier and more free from pig dis-1
eases than pigs of other breeds, are
great rovers, hustling for themselves ;
from the time of birth, and will us
ually demand a premium on the mar
ket
There is a wonderful demand for ■
them and this leads some breeders to i
breed their gilts too young. One of i
the larger boars of the breed weighed ।
970 pounls, and I have several that j
would weigh 1,000 pounds if properly j
fed to put on weight
EXCELLENT HINTS
for Vegetables
When Soil Is Warm and Mellow
Sow Seeds of Such Tender
Plants as Beans and
Sweet Potatoes.
Sow seeds of tender vegetables if
the soil is warm and mellow. The
important ones are beans, corn, cu-i
cumbers, egg plants, melons, okra,
pepper, pumpkins, squash, sweet po
tatoes and tomatoes. None of'these
young plants can stand even a light i
froet.
First thinning and transplanting of ■
vegetables and flowers. Write your
labels and mark on the labels the dis
tance apart plants should stand when
thinned or transplanted.
Transplant tender vegetables and
flowers from hotbed to garden.
Set out bedding plants If you must |
have them. But think twice. Don't i
you really want something less gaudy ;
and more permanent, namely, hardy
perennials?
Finish second thinning of every- i
thing in the garden. Transplant cel-1
ery the second time.
Keep an eye out for these:
Jack Frost, first signs of cabbage
and cauliflower insects; also
The moment when the petals fall in
the orchard. Then you want to
spray.
Make paths and borders neat.
Provide poles for beans.
Cultivate strawberries for the last
time and mulch them just before they
bloom.
Keep ahead of weeds.
Dig dandelions out of the lawn.
They make fine greens.
Didn’t Fully Understand.
A New York judge went over to
Ireiatad recently and met the brother
of “Tom” Costigan, a well-known dis
trict leader in one wing of the Democ
racy. The judge* told “Tom's” broth
er in Ireland all about what a great
man "Tom” had become, about his
popularity and Influence, devotion to
politics. The brother, instead of shar
ing the judge’s enthusiasm, looked
anxious. "Before you* go,” said “Tom’s”
brother, “please satisfy me on one
point. Isn’t all this attention to
politics interfering with my brother’s
| business?”
If a woman's judgment is bad she
trusts her intuition.
Before retiring, a cup of Garfield Tea!
For good digestion and continued good
health.
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