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UNCLE JOE, 76, STILL YOUNG |
"Uncle Joe” Cannon celebrated bls
eeventy-slxth birthday at Washington
the other day under a cloud of grief.
The night before he exultantly an
nounced that he was going to observe
the day by dissipating wildly. A cir
cus was in town and he was going to
take the afternoon and, if necessary,
the evening oft and go to see the lions
and tigers and the hlppograffe and the
beautiful lady acrobats and the hair
raising trapezists.
Instead of that he went meekly up
to the home on Congressman Weeks,
of Massachusetts, with his daughter
and spent the evening decorously
there.
“Thought you were going to the cir
cus,” a reporter said to him.
“I was,” said Uncle Joe, "but it
rained. And in the course of seventy
five—l mean seventy-six—years of
quiet and Irreproachable life I have
found that whenever it rains and I go
to a circus I always get wet.
“The people around me seem to be dry and happy. I always get that
wet spot and am miserable. If seventy-five years—l should say seventy-six—
teach a man anything, it must be to profit by experience.
“It has taken’ me seventy-five years to learn anything, but now that I'm ■
seventy-six I have learned this lesson, if not any other, and I have just sense
enough not to go.
“So I’m up here at John Weeks’, with Mrs. Weeks and my daughter, and
I’ve missed the circus, but I’m happy and I’m not damp.”
“I suppose you got a lot of congratulations?”
“Yes,” said the ex-speaker, reflectively. “Quite a number of people came
up to me and congratulated me on being a year nearer the grave. Funny
thing to congratulate a man on. Don’t you think so? But they meant it
kindly.”
SULTAN A MEDIATIZED RULER~~[
ent Sultan and nominal ruler of Morocco, is known to his subjects as tho
Prince of True Believers and is the thirty-sixth lineal descendant of Ali,
uncle and son-in-law of the Prophet Mahomet. He revolted against his broth
er, the Sultan Mulia Aziz, in 1907, and his usurpation of the throne was
recognized by the powers in January, 1909. He is a learned and devoted
adherent of Islamism and has written several books cn theology and philology.
GOV. WEST TRUSTS CONVICTS~]
“The only honor lacking in the aver
age criminal is that which is wrenched
from him by incivility, distrust and
inhumanity. Extend to a convict the
courtesy, confidence and trust due him
as a man and he will respond with
more honor than the average person
who has ndver seen the bars, the dun
geon or the dismal gray walls of a
penitentiary.”
Basing his action on this bit of
philosophy, Gov. Oswald West of Ore
gon recently threw open the barred
doors of the Oregon state penitentiary
and turned more than 200 convicts out
Into the inviting forests and fields to
serve the remainder of their terms
without guards, stripes, chains or
stockades.
With one sweep the dungeon, the
dark cell, the striped suits, the ball
and chain and the gallows were wiped
out as unnecessary parts of the insti
tution and in their stead was estab-
—
lished a unique and revolutionary.
honor system. Since the first wholesale liberation convicts have been added
to the list as they have proven eligible until the total number today is about
500. Honor is the only guard over fifteen convict camps which are maintained
permanently in various parts of the state, in some cases many miles from the
dingy walls of the prison, and in all cases in the forests where the only
effort required to make an escape is to leisurely disappear.
The men are engaged in building roads, oprating rock quarries and
clearing land.
VICE-PRESIDENT OF BIG SHOW~]
diplomatic officer, and Mr. Archibald C. Emery, secretary. General Edwards
and Admiral Staunton were detailed by President Taft to represent the army
and navy. The commission is accredited by the department of state to Amer*
lean ambassadors and ministers abroad, and bear letters to th» highest go*
•rnment authorities of the various countries visited.
On March 30, France inaugurated a
change in her political dealings with
Morocco, by the signing of a treaty
with the Sultan, Mulia-Abd-el-Hafid,
establishing a French protectorate.
France has had much experience in
the government of the North African
countries, which line the Mediterran
ean from Tripoli to the Atlantic ocean,
and the decision to leave the govern
ment nominally in native hands is a
wise one. It is evidently based on the
success of her peaceful conquest of
Tunis where the externals of Arab
rule have been preserved. In Algeria,
on the other hand, where the admin
istration is directly and openly
French, her domination aroused the
bitter jealousy and hostility of the
natives who saw in the elimination of
their narive rulers a threatened sub
version of the Mahommedan religion,
with the result that France has had
to maintain her footing by rigorous
military rule. Mulia Hafid, the pres-
. Reuben B. Hale, the vice-president
of the Panama-Pacific International
exposition, to be held in San Francisco
in 1915, celebrating the completion of
the Panama Canal, was one of a spe
cial commission appointed to make a
trip abroad to lay before ministers of
foreign affairs and army and navy
authorities, the details and scope of
the enterprise. The commission sailed
on the Mauretania April 24th. Mr.
Hale Is a well-known merchant of
San Francisco, who was the first per
son to suggest the holding of an ex
position to celebrate the completion of
the Panama Canal. The commission
consists of Mr. John Hays Hammond,
president; Mr. Reuben B. Hale, vice
president of the Panama-Pacific Inter
national exposition; Brigadier-General
Clarence B. Edwards, U. S. A.; Mr.
William T. Sesnon, vice-president of
the San Francisco chamber of com
merce; Mr. Theodore Hardee, execu
tive officer; Mr. Charles F. Wilson,
OWENTON
MEASURE FEET CORRECTLY
Device, Invented by Massachusetts
Man, Equipped with Tape, Fits
Closely Around Foot.
Custotn-made shoes arep likely to be
more comfortable through the inven
tion of a Massachusetts man. Where
formerly the cordwainer was obliged
to rely largely on his own judgment
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To Measure Feet.
and on such measurements as he
could obtain with a right-angle rule
and a tape measure, he now has a
device by which the correct measure
ments of all important parts of the
foot can be procured in a few min
utes. There is a heel-piece and sole
of soft leather, the former running
up well above the ankle. Small tape
measures run through slots in both
pieces of leather and when the foot
is adjusted in the device the tapes
are drawn over and around it and the
measurements noted. The advantage
of this contrivance is that instead of
each measurement being taken sepa
rately, all are taken in proper rela
tion to each other and when the foot
is in the natural position if should
occupy in the shoe. The result should
be that the shoe is more comfortable.
IS A PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS
Theory of Atomic Disintegration of
Radium Suggests Large Number
of Unanswered Problems.
“The greatest of our scientists know
little about radium,” remarked Prof.
H. D. Blackie, of the University of
California. ‘'The theory of its atomic
disintegration has suggested a large
number of problems, some of which re
main unanswered. For instance, there
is a mystery concerning the nature of
the ultimate product or products of
the atoms of the two primary elements
of radium —uranium and thorium.
There is some ground, but no positive
proof that lead is the ultimate product
of one, but as to thorium there is no
solution.
“Even the origin of radium is un
known. We know that it is an ele
ment of intense activity and of great
rapidity of disintegration, resembling
its short-lived and active constituents.
The period of the average life of
radium is not accurately known, but
it can not be more than a few thou
sand years, some say 2,500 years. Thus
in a few centuries all the radium in
existence today will be gone. What
there was of it in the world, say at the
time of the building of the Pyramids,
must have largely vanished by this
time through disintegration.”
Human Skull Elastic.
Fortunately the human skull, al
though composed of bones, is elastic —
much more so than one would think.
The average male adult skull, in fact,
is so elastic that it may be com
pressed lateraly in diameter by a blow
or pressure applied at the center of
area at right angles to the surface at
that point by 1% centimeters, or about
six-tenths of an inch, recovering its
original diameter and form without
breaking.
Diseases Cured by Cold Air.
Diseases cured or improved by cold
air are specified in American Medicine
as malaria, tuberculosis, digestive dis
turbances, yellow fever, tetanus and
organic troubles affecting the blood
pressure.
Face Immersed in Water.
To enable a person to keep his face
immersed in water for several min
utes, as for facial massage, a Wash
ington man has invented a clip to
close the nostrils and a rubber tube to
admit air through the mouth.
Test for Smokeless Powder.
Ultra-violet rays from a quartz mer
cury vapor lamp have been found to
accelerate the spontaneous decomposi
tion of smokeless powders, and are
purposed as a test of the stability of
such powders.
Many Languages Taught.
French, German and English are
taught in the schools of Holland, and
pupils are required to pass an exam
ination in these languages before grad
uation.
Highest Scientific Staticn.
The highest scientific station in the
world is on the summit of Mount
Misti, an extinct volcano in southern
Peru. It is 19,000 feet above ' sea
level. ।
MAKE STUDY OF ATMOSPHERE
Kites and Balloon* Used to Lift Self-
Recording Instrument* to Obtain
Air Condition*.
M. A. Lawrence Rouch, at the Blue
HUI observatory, near Boston, in 1894,
was the first to employ kites, attached
’ to steel wires, to lift self-recording in
struments and so obtain records of the
various conditions in the atmosphere.
Since that year they have been used
extensively in this country, in Europe,
and from the decks of steamships, fre
quently ascending three aqd four miles
into the .air, writes Paul Foster in the
American Review of Reviews. About
the same time the small ballons-sondes,
or sounding balloons, were perfected
in France, and began to be employed to
carry instruments far higher, some
reaching the extraordinary height of
15 miles.
These discoveries and improved
methods of research led to the organ
ization of an international commission
for scientific aeronautics, under the
ai.spices of which measurements are
made simultaneously at an increasing
number of stations throughout the
world. Started as a private enter
prise, the work is now an international
undertaking, and balloons and kites
have been employed monthly for some
years at many stations in Europe, and
within .very recent years at one or two
stations in the United States.
ADVANTAGES OF NEW CLOCK
Twenty-Four Hours on Dial Prevent*
Serious Mistakes in Arranging
Appointments by Wire.
Beginning June 1 the hours of the
day will be numbered from 1 to 24,
from midnight to midnight, on all
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Present Clock.
French railways and in the postal and
telegraph service.
The new arrangement is Intended to
replace the awkward “a. m.” and "p.
m.” designations. A partial test in
the telegraph service has given satis
factory results.
New time tables for all the lines
will be printed and instead of 4 p. m.,
for instance, the simple number 16
The New Idea.
will be used, and instead of 11 p. m.,
the hour will be designated as 23, and
so on. Postmarks will be similarly
registered.
NOTES OF k _
^SCIENCE M
? Invention
London is the banking center of the
world.
Radium emits three streams of mi
nute particles.
Palmistry was practiced by the an
cient Greeks.
Cinnamon is a species of laurel that
thrives in Ceylon.
In point of instinct’ants rank above
all animals except man.
The sand dunes of the Sahara desert
move about 50 feet each year.
A chair in aeronautics has been es
tablished at a Vienna college.
Men of science have not yet decided
whether microbes are plants or ani
mals.
English mortality figures indicate
that farmers are the healthiest class
of men except clergymen.
For drying stockings a New Yorker
has patented a wire frame to stretch
them, adjustable to any size.
Asbestos recently was discovered tn
Sardinia in quantities that are ex
pected to make mining profitable.
The' amount of starlight reaching
the earth is equal to that of three
thousand stars of the first magnitude.
More than 1,100 women students are
enrolled at Berlin university this year,
of whom 60 are from the United
States.
Because it has more phosphoric
acid in easily digested shape than any
other fruit, the apple is one of the
best brain foods.
The queen of Bulgaria has a medical
degree, and the young queen of Bel
gium is said to be the only oculist of
royal blood in the world.
An attachment for a gas jet that
will cook almost anything as well as
a gas range would do it has been In-
I vented by an Englishman.
An
Underestimated
Force
By Rev. J. H. Ralston.
Secretary of Correapondence Department ol
Moody Bible Intitule
TEXT—Study to be quiet.—l Thessalo
nlans> 4:11.
Nerve s enter
largely Into the
com position of
human kind, and
are often permit
ted to control be
yond their right.
By many things
men are easily ex
cited and in no
sphere is this
truer than in the
religious. Religion
may embrace true
or false faiths,
cults and fads,
over which men
grow excited very
easily, a fact that explains an attach
ment to them that 1* often without
rational or scriptural support.
The Thessalonian Christians were
excited touching the coming of the
Lord and were neglecting other ex
ceedingly important things. In his
characteristically loving way Paul
sharply calls their attention to the
walk which pleases God, their per
sonal sanctification with respect to
conjugal relations, to honest treat
ment of the brethren, and brotherly
love, all of which they were neglect
ing. Paul calls them to study to be
quiet and to attend to business. The
same principles apply in our day to
religious fanaticism, sometimes in
connection with the second coming of
the Lord to whom the appeal has come
to be quiet and to attend to business.
The principle appeals as well to the
lower spheres of life. The kaleido
scope of scientific, business and po
litical life is turning very rapidly and
we do not know at what moment
some social or political proposition
will be made that is a shock to our
commonly received traditions. Parties
are disrupted, new parties are formed,
and the body politic becomes almost
a mob. In these days, therefore, not
only the religious person, but the citi
zen as well, needs to study to be
quiet. This is the more important as
the world is growing less so rapidly
through the agencies of steam and
electricity and phobias of all kinds are
cast before us.
Quietness an Aid to Efficiency.
Agitation, or unrest, interferes with
efficiency, and efficiency is the key
word of the day in which we live. A
, man of today does not ask for the
blusterer, he asks for thq man that
can do his work, and with the least
bluster. The nervous marksman rare
ly hits the bullseye. You do not care
to go under the knife of a surgeon who
does not have a steady hand. Hysteria
explains much of the abuse of the sec
ond-coming of the Lord. Men, not
studying to be quiet, nor going about
their business, become lawless, and
alienate many sincere believers in this
great scriptural doctrine. It has been
illustrated over and over again, that
the man who is quiet is as a rule the
powerful man. The quiet Grant seems
to be the only Union general to make
Appomattox possible, and in great
business interests ofttimes the man
who sits and listens to the heated dis
cussions of his associates, and at the
end quietly speaks a few words, car
ries the day. As yet the strength of
man is often found in standing still.
The painter depicts on the face of
restless people the unmistakable fact
of an inward unhappiness, and on the
quiet face clearly intimates an inward
joy.
More and more are men studying
Jesus Christ to get proper ideals, and
here is a good place for such study.
We cannot conceive of Jesus Christ
becoming agitated.
The Will Must Act.
A man’s Intellect sometimes car
ries him far asea on its tossing bil
lows, and he puts his hand to the
rudder, which this text suggests, is
study. A man’s heart or emotions may
carry him far, and he again resorts
to study. But now his will must act.
The Thessalonian Christians were ex
cited as to the coming of the Lord,
but they ought to be quiet and as far
as any faculty that they possessed
was .concerned, they were compelled
to call upon it to act, and that faculty
was the will. To be quiet requires ef
fort just as in the time of sorest be
reavement when we are disconsolate,
and some friend says: "You must con
trol yourself; you must make an ef
fort.” Solomon tells us that the man
who rules his spirit is better than he
who takes a city. Storms will over
take us, but at all hazards we must
try to be quiet and await the Issue.
If men will not meet this Injunction as
it comes from religious teachers, they
may have to meet it as it comes from
some awful disaster as that which re
cently overtook the great ocean steam
er, the Titanic. The same was true at
St. Pierre, at Messina, and in the
earthquake on the Pacific coast a few
years ago. At such times men stop
and say: “Maybe there is a God, any
way. We are going to study these
things.” How fortunate is the man
who has learned to trust God, and
when something meets him suddenly
with upsetting quickness and form, he
can calmly say: “Give me quietness,
tench me thy will. I believe all wifi
be well!”
ECONOMICAL SOUL WAS THIS
Hebrew’* Attempt to Save F*r* Prob
ably Went Astray, but the Idea
Wa* a Brilliant One.
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Arthur W. Marks of Washington
tells this story to illustrate the talent
of the Hebrew race for economy.
A little Hebrew got on a train la
New York to go to Philadelphia, but
had' no ticket. In the car with him
were the members of several the
atrical companies and he noticed that,
when the conductor asked them for
‘heir tickets they would reply:
“Company.”
“What company?” the conductor
would ask; and the actors would re
ply by announcing the title of the
theatrical company under whose
name all their transportation hiffi
been paid for.
“Give me your ticket,” the con
ductor finally reached the Hebrew.
“Comp’ny,” said the little fejlow,
looking carelessly out of the window.
“What company?” asked the con
ductor. '
Said the Hebrew: “The Pittsburgh
Cloding company.”—Popular Maga
zine.
Lamb’s Tenure of Life Not Long.
A party of privileged sightseers
were admitted to a private view of a
menagerie between performances,
and among other things were sho^n
what Was called a “Happy Family,”
that is to say, in one and the same
cage there was a toothless Hon, a
tiger, somewhat the worse for wear,
and a half-famished wolf. Beside
these wild animals, curled up In one
corner, was a diminutive lamb which
shivered as it slumbered.
“How long have the animals lived
together?” asked one of the party.
“About twelve months,” replied th*
showman.
“Why,” exclaimed a lady, “I am
sure that little lamb is not as old as
that.”
“Oh,’’ said the showman, quite un
moved, “the lamb has to be renewed
occasionally.”
Got a New Wife.
“Wombat is working like a horse.
He used to be rather lazy. Why the
change?”
“He’s under a new management. His
latest wife needs a lot of expensive
things.”
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and those weakened “run
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these yield to the influence of
this purifying remedy, so mild
and harmless, yet so powerful.
Your money back if it fails to
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Don’t accept anything else in
its place. Don’t be “put off”.
If the druggist can’t supply you, write
to The Blood Balm Co. Philadelphia or
St. Louis. We’h see that you are supplied.
Insist on what you want.
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver is
right the stomach and bowels are right,
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