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THE TTTICE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH
FEBRUARY 1ft.
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW.
. ;n Athens S'itl-
MEXICAN PAPER ON THE
POETS OF THE SOUTH.
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
From
Mexican Hera
Stantc
the
Soutr
sons:
be proud
Lone SI
of Judd
folic
ar. State
Mortimer
From
In t
Carolina. i
for popuia
ing the i
South Cai
-v York Tribune,
y day? each of the colo-
:o have had its own flag,
in '■ fin g ef Masse 'hu-
rattlesnake flag of South
ch became the chief rivals
aver. Previous, to adopt-
l.e.snake as her emblem,
had used a blue flag
e crescent moon, and it ;
GREATEST DISASTER
Pittsburg
o. Ore-
l.'South
rhich the -child j poetry C 'l
umber of we.
Wyoming pi»<
id the length
New York Correspondence
Dispatch.
“Wouldn’t it be awful If New York
were stricken by an earthquake?” ia a
question asked once, at least, by every
inhabitant of this city, since the ca
tastrophe at Kingston. But few per
sons who have asked the question have
tried to picture the terrible c.onse-
uj to r •uc such a banner that Ser- j quences that would follow the up-
gc.vr Ji r heroica’ly exposed him- heaval of the earth on Manhattan, such
. f r; Sullivan in 1T7G. The as occurred in Jamaica, Gotham’s
Continent.:!I Union flag was the British buildings average seven stories in
It is true that the newspaper poet.’ ensign with six white stripes on the
ta ; who tries to meet the demand for pen- red ground-to-'kignify the separation
n. . uiar poetry of a timely character, finds the Y iiOl»i”s from the mother country
0 _ it difficult to turn ou! serious work I—a device tbit may have been sug- to Leonard street, and here the aver-
I which he would i;ke to preserve. It Jr gested l th il.ig of the English East age old-fashioned shops and ware-
Captain Mahan on tha U. 6. Navy Fif y
Years Ago.
Between the day of my entrance in o
the service, fifty years ago, and the
present, nowhere is change more nota
ble than in the national attitude to
wards the navy and the comprehension
of its office. Then the navy was ac
cepted without much question as part
of the necessary lumber which evert
adequately organized maritime state
carried, along with the rest of a na
tional establishment. Of what use it
was, or might be, few cared much to
inquire. There was not sufficient in-
of
but common conception,
merely a matter of inspira
tion. that the best of poems may be
prepared by a brainy poet at a mo
ment’s notice, from day to day. Of
West V
ming.
The ages betweer
must attend, and th<
in each year, differ,
the age from'6 to 21
time not • less than
twelve States make 1
14, 15 or 16 years, and the nnmbei
weeks from twelve to a full te
twenty States make the ages from 8 to : But J. M. Lewis was well known to
16. and the length of time from twelve ! the readers of the Houston Post bef te
weeks to a full term. ’ j he made such a success with his book
Most of these States have n factory of poems, “Sing the South.” He has
law. also, as does Tennessee, prohibit- been called the Eugene Field of the
ing parents and guardians from allow- I South, but he need not play the second
ing their children under 14 years of j fiddle to the fame of another, however
nee to be employed in factories and high in the esteem of the world. He
nd
of
course, a few such as Stanton sing
to the tune of nearly a caiuirpt a day.
so that the gems shine with an added
indiii Company. When it became nec- 1 houses along the river, is not far from
try to adopt a standard for the new j ten stories. If it became necessary, for
United' 6tat®? the only change was the : instance, owing to the prevalence of
substitution', fot; the subjoined crosses ; earthquakes. to have everything next
of Si. George and St. Andrew on the j to the ground the activities which are
canton.- of the thirteen stars, "repre- now piled on top of . each other in the
seating a new c ’r.'nellation.” After the I cloud ticklers' would spread over hun-
adtftisrion of Kentucky and Vermont ‘ dreds of square, miles. The skyscrapers
brl’IHney because of the “slush.” -j into the Union, for twenty-three’.years in the Broadway district and in Wall
. .. " said the Georgia Sen-
t .'.'yeral -m.iJl items that
to have added to the-river
bill. As you are on the
omniittee, I hope you will
v are looked after. They
h, Just a few sur-
{s; .iltogther they
<*r *75,000. They
in conference, but
them inserted in
the Senate.”
them.” said Mr.
it will be wprtb *75.-
ountry to keep you in the
; term expires in 1999 and
it he is likely to meet with
si (ion. Mr. Stone probably
mind when ho made the
and harbor
mines.
Without a compulsory school law in j
Tennessee, our factory law had better j
be repealed, for it does more harm
than good: thnt is to say children |
would be better off engaged in such
the flag contained fifteen stripes'and
fifteen stars, and *t was this flag that
inspired. Francis Scott Key to write
“The Star Spangled Banner." It was
not until ISIS that the present flag was
adopted, with its thirteen stripes and
one star for each State. The Stars and
Stripes wore flr«t used in battle at
has a wonderful wav of his own. a ! Fort Stanwix. on August 2. 1777. the
touch that the heartstrings echo ; ensign being made ef a white shirt a
through the home of love. red petticoat and Abraham Swart-
One of the touching poems of “Sing 1 wout’s Iblue cloak. To Paul Jones be-
the South” was ’The Little Orphant longs the honor of first raising the
Feller." but ail of his child verses are Stars and Stripes over an American
light work as is usually given them in \ so exaiilsitely tender that the reader is j man-of-war. and of receiving a sabi’e
our factories, than to be prohibited .jmoved to wonder whence comes the in- ! to them from a foreign power. The
from such employment nnd not com- j.miration of poems that are so true to. j first public school to fiv the United
p»I’ed to attend school. The result.-in life—whether Mr. Lewis has some little States flag appears to hove been the
- - - - 1 boy or girl of his own to make a pii’y- . one at Catamount Hill, Massachusetts,
ground of his poetry. Hi= latest bo?k j In May.
of poems has just heen published with S . name of Old
the attractive title of “Lilts o’ Love.” | Glory- as applied to the flasr has been
’’Lilts o’ Love" is dedicated to Mfss 1 cfttferuHy Invefflgqt^fl by the author.
Bessie Kirby, the season’s bride, with,
the following felicitous lines:
Because you are in iove and young
and .sweet and fair and true.
All the love songs by poets sung.
Might have been penned for you.
thousands of Instances, is an Idle, ig
norant and vicious population of boys
and girls and ultimately of men and
women.
But the question of a compulsory
school law In Tennessee had Just as
well be taken up now as later, for
without it half the money for common
schools is worse than wasted.
There are a few counties ‘and quite a
number of municipalities in tha State
In which the supervision of schools: ia
! such th3t very good results are ob-
I tained. but Ahe great majority of them
i week, the city of , g j, ow jjj 6 average dally attendance
. .uT 1 I* 1 school is not much over half thj en-
n. While other aliment For example, in McMinn
"In', i* ‘°L ” ,<>r ° ! County there are 2,000 out of our 6 606
s, Toledo obtained Ug ' •
nore th
Toledo h
/ey m.'iii
)or up I
ns! outside the city, or practically the
tend of navigation for lake boats. Mr.
gout hard had charge of the matter, but
, , . ■ . scholastic population who never darken
..-n^d for or expected. school house door. Here arc the tic
anxious to have a sur-
ures: Our scholastic .population for
,, . . , . i 1906 was 6,606, but the enrollment was
Maumee river to a point onIy 4 52 3.
mouth of the har-
aid that In some way the charts
iocilleations got mixed and there
was some confusion as, to just what
.onint the survey was to stop.
Chairman Burton received a telegram
from Seen ’.iry Flowers, of the Toledo
Chamber of Commerce, tying that the
survey d- sired was up to the terminal
railway bridge, on ITio Qoplt railroad that
t-ncircli s the city. In the bill, however.
1 "the Fa.s. it : treet bridge” Is named as
the limit of the survey, which it has
(been discovered since, is some seven
miles beyond the pninl named by Sec-
• rr.tary Flowers in his telegram to Bur
ton. and over four miles beyond the
‘ .navigable limit.
The error may he corrected in the
Senate, anti probably will be. for if the
■survey authorized by liie House should
,be curried out. it is estimated that it j
'would entail an expenditure of at least '
1*1.000.000 more than the original rec-
‘ ’ommendations, made by the Toledo
Chamber of Commerce, contemplated,
t Many members think that it is a
good joke on Mr. Burton, but there are
,|t!hose who wonder if ho would have
'}>ecn equally c ireless if the matter had
'related to ,i district farther removed
.'from the Cleveland R.-pre.-eninnv.r-
' territory.
lilt
TV.
Maj. Joseph
krmy paymaster, ha.-
American Dri vfus.
isome reason. His COS
marknblc. Twelve y
Wham, a retired
s been called the
and not without
is certainly rc-
irs ago he was
ourt-martialed and dismissed the ser- I
(<•<■ for alleged Irregularities in his ac- (
ounts and for refusal to pay an alleged
( debt of 81.1100. Subsequent investiga- i
tion disclosed the fart t>„u the ,-harges :
against Mnj. Wham were groundless •
and that he did not owe the money j
claimed President Cleveland com
muted his sentence and placed him on I
• he retired list, but the iim.I'U was not
satisfied with a partial vindication. Ho .
has been strivim. ever .since to clear j
his good name and obtain justice. He :
1 is a Civil War veteran with a splendid
' record, served under Grunt, and par- ,
jtlcipatcd in thirty-two engagements. |
iHe was appointed paymaster by Grant
in the closing days of his administra
tion.
In 189S Congress passed a hill, prae-
llcally witlimn serious o: position, "re-
toring Maj. Wham to duty, pwtooi
(rank and sta us in the United States
(army, and full pay."
The bill was passed in July and ap
proved bv President McKi. ley, but for
This means, in other words, that
about 680 children In every 1,000 in
McMinn County are rot enrolled in our
common schools. But granting that
even half of these not thus enrolled m
tend some other school, there would
still be a* thousand children Jn the
county getting no kind of an education
But let us take the average daily at
I tendance of those who do start to
school: For the year ending June 30
1906. this was only 2.659 out of the
4.523 enrolled or about 580 out of every
1,000! However, there lyis been some
improvement in McMinn County in late
years, but in a general way conditions
have been about the same for twenty
years or more and will remain so until
a remedy is applied.
McMinn County, however. Is hot the
only sufferer. Conditions arc- pretty
much .the same for the State at large,
Here Is what the figures, show for Ten-,
nessee: Scholastic population (1905)
white, 582,099; colored, 190.795. Total,
772.894.
Enrolled, white, 405,135, Or about 680
in every 1.00P: colored, 102.288,
about 530 in every 1.000.
Average daily attendance: White
277.537, or about 6S0 in every 1,000:
colored, 71,151, or about 000 in every
: 1.000.
Now. let us look at results in some of"
the States enumerated that have com
pulsory school laws and n system .of
county supervision by which the coun-
ty superintendent is required to give
his entire time to school work. We
will take Wisconsin because the fig
ures for that State are handy:
In Wisconsin 1.2S4 children of' the
entire enrollment, attended less than
one month, but in Tennessee 13,590 of
those enrolled, attended less than one
month.
Of those attending as much as two
or three months. Wisconsin had 7,943
but Tennessee had S4.517.
Of those who attended four or five
months Wisconsin, had 11,021, while
Tennessee had 85.5S4.
Of those who attended six month
or more, Wisconsin had 141.557, while
Tennessee had SC,045.
In other words, while In Wisconsin
only 20.250 children, enrolled in her
my-
rlous
Isom
jrled into effect.
Senator Warren,
enuto committee
ild yesterday thi
i-hy Mr. McKlnle;
t effective b\ a
Sam back on the a
bwerful Influence appa
to prevent it. At
was done, and an I
rhich had been approve
it was. to all intent?
son was never car-
thaI rmap of the
military affairs,
he* n< ver under-
- had not made
ppo'.nting Mr.
live list. Some
irmly was ex-
any rate, noth
in of Congress
.1 b> the Ptvsi-
anJ purposes,
still seck-
BUllified. and Maj. Wham it
ig his vindication.
He is too old today for tha active list,
nd it is claimed that th,' act of 1SS3 is
now inoperative.
Senator OuHom has offered a bill
oking to Maj. Wham's relief and vin-
lcatton. which would give him the
ink of a brigadier .general on the re-
ired list with back pay. There is
|junal! chance of any action on the mat-
Jter at this
ifrtends are
|flght in ha
lt can be stat
[committee of C<
[who lias investh
[case lias found a|
(has al! the fa ts
[ently on his side, .
[obtain simple justi
m. but Maj. Wham’s
mined to continue the
if until he is righted.
<d as a fact that no
engross or individual
cased thi- remarkable
gainst Maj. Wham. He
and evidence appar-
:t is unable to
John Sharp Williams, the
[the Democratic minority in t 1
is said to be seriously consul
] practicability of getting a bil
[Congress to subsidize a inn
[ships between this country
| rope.
He received a letter the c
I from “Charles A. Williams,
iif the W'lliams Aero Commer
ligation Company. ,«r Seattic.
(urging a subsidy for his proji
The minority leader said
eattle Williams was no reluti
but thought ii would be on!
eader
• Hooa
ring tl
throus
of a
n d Et
public schools, attended less than si'-
months. Tennessee had 141 557 children
who attended less than six months.
But the serious feature of these fig
ures is to be seen when the age of
these children is considered. For ex
ample. among children under 10 years
of age enrolled in the public schoois-of
Wisconsin, 904 attended one month or
loss.
In Wisconsin there were 4.775 child
ren under 10 years of ago who attended
school two or three months, but in
Tennessee there were 23.C17 such
children.
In Wisconsin there were 50.S37 child
ren under 10 years of age who attended
six months or more.
Here, however, is a still more serious
feature: Between the crucial ages of
40 to 14 years, Wisconsin had only 203
that attended one month or less. Of
those between 10 and 14 who attended
two or three months Wisconsin had
1.72S. but Tennessee had 765. and of
those of these ages who attended four
or five months Wisconsin had 4,039,
while Tennessee had 42.598.
Those comparisons might be extend
ed to some other States, and they hold
good for other ages higher than the
above, hut thesi are sufficient to
demonstrate that the school problem is
yet unsolved in Tennessee.
The remedy lies in large part in a
compulsory school law and its enforce
ment. with sueii local supervision as
will guarantee the employment of com
petent superintendents whose duty it
shall be to give their whole attention
to the county school.
And. so, to you I dedicate
All that my p-n has penned
Herein of love. Slay pleasure wait
Down every path you wend.
Not because you are young and true
And fair, and skies above
Arc clear. I tune my song to you
Because you are in'love.
As an illustration of the charming
simplicity of some of Mr. Lewis’ po
etry. here is the first verse of “Ah
Outrage":
White clover blooms, and roses red.
And green leave-, wet with dew.
My teenv-weeny tousle head.
Are ”bio!ets” to you:
And so you pick them right and left.
And . you seem loth to stop; '
It seems to give you wondrous Joy
To pick”botays for.pop."
One of the best of the little Ivrics is
“Parting.” a serious po“ni clnd in the
garments of spring with’ the tragic
heart of winter:
The dust ts on the highway
That leads around and down
The footpath and the byway
That le'ads away from town.
The dust is on the highway.
. And on the soul of me:
Oh. God o’ love, that my way
Should take me far from thee!.
But biythe will be the highaway
Begirt with blossoms end dew.
Dear heart o’ mine,- when my way
Shall lead me back to you.
It is not necessary- tosav that Mr
Lewis is writing poetry that will be
preserved to posterity as a joy forever,
that it is classic in'subject matter or
-tyle: but it is pnetrv that anneals
popular poetry, and whether it liv«s or
dies, it will give delight during its in-,
terval, which is as much as the tem
porary thrill of a single song bird or
the lone lute of the troubadour. It
will bring a tear to the eve or a laugh
to the Jins, a hundred heartaches or a
svmphonv.of sighs to the present—so
•T. M. Lewis mav not care what poster
ity proclaims.—B.
A Bia Fall in Prices.
Wall Street Journal.
Financial matters should not be the
subject of unseemly jests, but truly
the sentiment of Wail street is becom
ing so hysterical and hypochondriac
that a little fooling may be permitted.
Especially is there an obvious attempt
on the part of the bear element to ex
aggerate the extent to which business
interests and business confidence have
been adversely affected by the style
nnd methods of President Roosevelt in
dealing with the economic, problems
which have assumed so dominating and
and he giyep the credit to Capt Wil
liam Driver, of the brigantine Charles
Doggett. A hyge American flag w
street are the' really altltudlnous
structures, averaging twenty stories.
There are now piles of structural steel
and masonry towering to the height
of twenty-five and thirty sto
ries, a forty-story building is being
erected, and a fifty-story tower has
been planned. Counting the area of
Manhattan Island as twenty miles, and
multiplying the ground space by the
Democrat repeated to me with convic
tion the master's dictum, that the navy
was a useless appendage—-a statement
which the work of the War of Seces
sion, as well on the Confederate as on
the Union side, might seem to have re
futed sufficiently and with abundant
illustration. To such doubters before
the war. there was always ready the
routine reply that a navy protected
commerce: and American shipping,
then the second in the world, literally
whitened every sea with its snowy cot
ton sails. In my first long voyage, in
1859, from Philadelphia to Brazil, it
was no rare occurrence to be becalmed
In the doldrums in company with two
or three of these beautiful semi-clipper
vessels, their low black hulls contrast
ing vividly with the tali pyramids of
dazzling canvas which rose above
GOTHAM AND GOTHAMITE.
New York Tribune.
When it is considered how much New
Yorkers will put up with uncomplain
ingly the question maj be asked if
the "application to them of the term
Gothamites, or inhabitants of Gotnam.
teiot significant. The name of Goth
am has been synonymous with
town” for centuries. ^
nursery rhyme runs—
The
foolish
old-time
number of stone?, allowing for the In- [ them: a distinctive mark at that time
tersecting streets and- avenues, some ' American merchant shipping. They
laea may be reached of how much ♦ needed no protection then; and none
space would be required for New York , foresaw that within a decade, by the
overhead, provided it were necessary operations of a few small steam-cruis-
to place it on a plane. Some idea may * ers, thev would be swept from the seas,
ai-0 be had of what terrible havoc a never to return. Everything was taken
severe earthquake would cause were for granted, and not least that war was
the big structures in the business dis- a barbarism of the past. "From 1835
triet to totter and tumble. Statistics to 1850, the lifetime of a. generation, in-
give some expression to the magnitude ternationa! peace had prevailed sub-
of the skyscrapers which have recently ' st antiallv unbroken, despite numerous
been built or are undergoing construc
tion. The Singer Building, at Broad
way and Cortlandt street, for instance,
which is three times as high as the tall
presented to Film when he sailed from j sryre of old Trinity church anit more
Salem in 1831 to return the reformed; than twice-as high'-as the Flatiron
P’ u t;" eei l s °:5 .t®*! Bounty | Building, is to have forty-one stories,
to Pitcairn Island from Tahiti, where ! The are , of a! 1 its floors combined will
thev had been temporarilyj-eirnved ; He be almost 42.000-shtlare feet Naturally
nailed this flag Old | the occupants of the gfgan’ic buildings
„_?• V 1 !. 1 a 6 " he Vf i are perturbed since the Kingston dis-
L n 3t r a rL had cmKThied j aster. The other afternoon a crowd of
J*S r *7 W I manufacturers were discUs-ing the
Lv. V-W-S J' ed r"uilt m hen i'» on-ike at Kincs’on A broker said:
e rv was taken by the Union troops. . j Plrt on the „ round floor . and 1
^5s°^wL-;*h^ n *.< ,nrSpr “V h J s C W ! a'wavs feel safe.” “I am nnlf nltie-
TJ S.T7-JSV,s !s < ! 7 t r r n’ • m"i • U ' 1 flonr " an Officer of the
was re 'o over (he state r^niio) m i
niece ’of the srre"?r flag of the B ! ->-th
f'h*o r-rivpepf. T-» a ^e’ter written by
Can* Driver'on F-hruary 27. 1 c f\ re-
j>itb-=es to Wsilo’d shin’s p-g a= “Otri
Glory.” T* is now t n the Es«ey TusM-
tu‘e et 'Salem! AT rs K. -n. X. South-
v.-n-th —eve to Whittfer the story on
which he 'r*” 0 ’(v'/b*e fa—»-us poem con
cerning Perhsra. Frietehje. A voun-er
wontph. ’howeVer. e:d to have berni
Mf?S Mafv nnantrell. was the one who
'.•”•0 1 her flag in r-e fare of the Con-
feflemtes. • 'Abut Frietchie appears to
have postponed her. own patriotic
fio-r.-nitration until the -arrive! of the
Northern soldiers u”d'er Gen. .Reno, al
though she is credited with hevl-.
nrv'hlo Sfael -Company of America,
“in the event: of an .earthnuoke yen
wni'd get ail the hrick and the roof.
* , ' ... -while, on the other hand I would he
C^untt-g the jncldent be Several ti-nas wiled, too' but the fellow Who foils
from the f.f‘h or tenth story would
surely meet the same fate ns the man
in the offices next to' the roof.”
• A "FREE” SYNAGOGUE.
Raihhj Ftephen g. lYise. who gave tin
of th® largest-and richest of the
Western Jewish synagogues.' Beth Is
rael. nt Portland."Ore. to establish in
this city wh"t he calls he "Free Syn
agogue.” announced yesterday that he
had obtained moral apd financial sup-
revelutionary movements internal
the states concerned: and it had been
lightly assumed that these conditions
would thenceforth continue, crowned as
they had been bv the great sacrament
of peace, when the nations for the first
time gathered under a common roof
the fruits of their several industries
in the world’s exposition in 1S51. The
shadows or disunion were indeed gath
ering over our own land, but for the
most of us they carried with them no
fear of war.
The political condition and balance
of the world now is very different from
that of the period of which I have
been writing Of tb ! s universal change
and displacement the most sirntficant
factor—at least In cur Western civili
zation—has been the establishment of
the German empire, with its ensuing
commercial, maritime and naval devel
opment. To it certainly we, owe the
military inotike which has been trans
mitted everywhere to .the forces of sea
and lard—an impulse for which. In
mv judgment, too great gratitude can
not he felt. It has braced and organiz
ed Western civilization for an ord"->l
as yet. dirrlv perceived.-—Gaptain A. T.
Mahan, in Harper’s for February.
Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl.
If the bowl had been stronger,
Mv story had been longer.
The credulous confidence of men sup
posedly wise who trusted thetn«Uve«
to the mercy of the waves in so frail
,and -aeilv upset a vessel as a bowl
could be predicated of no persons less
I foolish than the inhabitants of so fa
mous a place as Gotham. This ■the
name of an actual English town in Not
tinghamshire. and the term has- come
to be identified with foolish or credul
ous people. The tradition is that in
the reign of Kin? John it nas made
known to the people of Gotham that
that merry monarch purposed maKingr
a royal journey to the town for the
purn se or’ securing a castle. winch
stood in its neighborhood. T , ne
pie. however, had no idea of being .->.-ia-
dled with the expense of maintaining
royalty, which would impose grievous
burdens upon them from which they
had been exempt- So. to divert the
mind of their royal master trom the
intended purpose, the people, with a
wisdom which was farsighted ana fore
knowing. engaged In antic tricks and
idiotic pursuits so long as the royal
cavalcade was quartered among them
and SO disgusted the King with them
that he gave up his intended plan, and
thus their simulated idiocy relieved
them from what thev had feared. But
the same tale is told of other Euro
pean towns, so that whether it was
original with Gotham or,’ Indeed, ever
happened there may be questioned
At any rate, the f^rm Gothamites
came to be resrarded as synonymous
with foolish nnd simple people, and
after Washington Irv'-ig had made usq
of it In application to the people of
New York c«tv. in his "Salmagundi.”
a book published just a century ago.
the name clung to New Yorkers. Its
ico was repeated by Irving in Jils
Tgr.j r Vcrboc v er’s Historv of New
Vnrk.” in which be called the city
Gotham. Bnt whether as foolish wise,
or ivise fools, the neonle of this oitv
(.orractiv ca’ied Gothamites mav
v>o ntjesHored. Tf there is wisdom in
feilv nerhans thev thus re«emhle
t'-e people of nno'ent Gotham. If like
so-called wise m°ri who w»pt fo
coo in a howl thev disolav credulous
e-ePdance that things will come out
aU r’rM. ro r- a ttej* what may he done,
then thev may he c’a'sed as fools.
An oifuiv-e writer wives this account
of the experience of the people of Goth-
drivon^ some,of th^xetreat\ nz South' p " rt *** ^-“e rs sufficient to
ervers nW .h«r W'-erd with her : gu ’ rl ’” t « e the establishment of bis con-
cane and “vigorous language.” - erecation and eventaullv ’.he build-
Poston a-d the Five Lews.
Boston is st!]j struggling with its
sumntuarv law^, especially Mossachu-
s n tts Sim da v laws. Last Sunday, a
lieutenant of po’ice. acting under the
orders of the not-vet-sunoressed Dis
trict Attorney Moran, visited the clubs
to find out what the members drink
how it is served, ard how it is paid
for. FOr Moran’s convenience, the po
liceman also trade a note of recant
bnnouds hold at the clubs, taking
down the names of the guests. It be
hooves a strap ver to be cautious, per
haps. before attending a banouet at a
Poston club. Besides this, still under
the whin and lash of Moran. Police
Commissioner O'Meara proposes' 7 rig-
idlv to enforce the Sunday law. Ac
ceding to recent decisions of Boston’s
judiciary, here are some of the things
which may and mav not be done in
that town of a Sunday. Bootblacks
may shine until 11 a. m.; then they
must retire. Bakers may sell bread
before 10 a. m.. and from 4 to 6:30 p.
A florist mav sell flowers for
Sunday funeral, but not for a Sunday
wedding. Ice cream mav be eaten,
but not made or sold. Photographers
may not. made, tor sold. Hotel porters
may not xrftxitictfie' sidewalks of their
inns. Show -nfinflows may not be
dressed. A shop keeper may not wash
the floor of his store. A musician mav
not piav at a hotel. These are some
of the momentous decisions of the mu
nicipal courts within the five days
prior to this writing. They make a
Boston Sunday look like a London
Sunday, and nothing more is needed
to induce travelers to wait until Mon
day before going there. It is open to
IlscUfsion whether Boston’s Sunday
those who are sacrificing in the midst
of business prosperity and agricultural
plenty, good dividend-paying securities,
out of fear of- Washington legislation,
we should suggest that at the very ex
treme the worst that Mr. Roosevelt and
Congress could do would be to order a
general division of property.
In connection with this possibility
?) we are reminded of a story told
about -the banker Rothschild in the
early days of the Paris Commune. A
formidable looking band of commu
nards entered the office of the rich
financier and its leader addressed M.
Rothschild as follows: “You are enor
mously rich, sir. and we are poor. This
cannot last. You must .divide your
wealth with the people.” “Very well ”
responded the banker, apparently un
disturbed, “how much do you think I
am worth?” The communist leader,
after a moment’s thought.
100.000,000 francs or more.’
- . | uis
morbid a position in his mind. To ■ habits or the Massachusetts statute
book shall
Weekly.
be reformed.—Harper's
Gems From “Succes
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to the man who can
and long enough
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wbat you call
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PARIS OF AMERICA.
Buenos Ayres is “the whole thing”
in Argent'na. I know of no country
In the world which is so dominated by
its capital, writes Alhert Hale, in the
Render. If the traveler conies from
tile interior after leaving behind the
, splendors of Andean scenery and
- crossing the five hundred miles of
• prair'e. he feels like a swimmer who
has been a long time under water and
tn.kes his first (Pep breath of civiiiza-
, tion when lie enters the city,
i I arrived at 6 o’clock in the morn-
j ing, before the busy life of the harbor
! awoke. As we rolled along the broad
water front and up the Avenida Mayo.
I said to mys if. “I must have taken
replied: ' the wrong steamer or I am dreaming.
“Very Furelv I am in Europe.” It was not
well.” continued M. Rothschild, “the that things seemed European or that
pouiation of France is about 37,000,000. 'It was (an- to detect an im'tation: it
My fortune, divided would be two ' tvas Europe. No amount of seif-argu-
of
SlDllillCS-
toward the en
o>. tfcp -efroncr will
ive; but dire 'ted U
francs, fifty centimes to each one.’
Then, turning to his cashier, he had
this sum counted out and tendered to
each one of his visitors. The story
goes that the communards walked
rather sheepishly out of the banker's
office and M. Rothschild was not ilio-
lested again.
Tn looking at some of the tremen
dous declines that have taken place
in properties of the highest Investment
standing, we are reminded of another
story- one which our friend “Toin”
Hamilton, of the “Herald.” liked on oc
casions to introduce Into the financial
I columns of his paper. It is another
story of the days of the barricades in
Paris. Civil war is raging and fresh
Government funds have fallen, we will
say to 70. An excited investor rushes
into the banker’s office, seeking ad-
hat he shall do. "Buy
s M. Rothschild terselv.
the frightened capital-
evolution on hand and
;o 7 n ?“ “If it were not
ment would overcome this illusion;
tlie asphalt smelt as it does in Europe
and was cleaned in th.e European way;
. the lltla trees grew in the tradition
of European culture, tne bui'dings
were French, the cafes, th- news
stands. all the lazy life of the early
;i orn'ng was continental, and the
Swiss porter touched his can as ne
usjeed me in French—for which he ex-
T> ■'■ted a titi—whether monsieur wished
his haggng£ sent at once to his room.
No wonder a chatty old French lady
asked rr • -it deieuner. “How do you
like Buenos Ayres? It's T.itt’.e Paris,
Isn't it?"
gregation and evontaully ‘.he build
in’* a. pvregogue.
Rabbi Wise, who is considered one
of the most learned Jewish scholars
in this country as v’teil as a fircq'ul
and brilliant orator; was offered by
‘wealthy Ne"’ York a substantial ? U m
of money for the ' estatbl'ehrrent of '«
svnacogue on the East' Bide, hu he
declined this, saving that he could ac-
comn'ish more for the good of man
kind if he worked among those of the
more fortunate class and preached his
doctrines in a new synagogue of a new
tyre.
The Western rabh''s new svnngoguo
he-aided as the 'fi-st insti'ution of
its kind. It will have a liberal creed
based upon Jewish teachings He ex
plained yesterday that it was riot to
be a synagogue for Jews only, for he
wanted to reach all classes. ' There will
be no dis inction b't w een the mem
bers of the new congregation: no man
will be entitled to the front psw any
more than any other man: distinctions
of cias’ ard wealth will be wiped out.
and the Free Synagog-e will depend
upon whatever each Of the congrega
tion can afford to give for its sup
port. Dr. Wise has already obtained
the moral support of persons-not Jews,
as well as the financial support of
wealthy Jews, who believe that his
plans will benefit humanity and bring
religious and ethical comfort to rich
and. poor. ,
That Dr. Wise in'ends to preach to
his congregation without the u'e of
“dexterously unoffending phrases” is
evident from his declaration made in
Portland in his farewell sermon, which
he repeated yesterday that “not the
least of ‘he offices of the Free Syna
gogue will be to apply the Judean
laws of justice and eouilv and right
dealing in such problems of the life of
our age as take their rise in oresent-
day social wrongs and injustices and
inequities and iniiumanities.”
“Without the moral liberty of truth
speaking,” he said, “the church be
comes a favorite agenev of social in
surance. with the minister n social
policeman instead of a prophet. The
very men who would bring about this
arrangement forget t s at the preaeher-
poiiceman canno', and it may be would
not. avert revolution, but the preach,
er-pronhet can point out ,and lead in
the nath to peaceful evolution. With
out liberty of tru'h-seeking the church
becomes a cemetery; with no Ezekiel
to resurrect the=e dead bones to. life.
Without pulpit liberty the church de
generates into a mor'uary chapel and
the preacher i* degraded into a 3->b-
sioner and parasite of certain classes.”
Dr. Wise will establish, along with
the Free Synagogue.' a high school, de
signed to bring men together and fur
nish them instruction in the Bible
along different lines from the ordinary
Bible class. They will be instructed
in Hebrew, and will begin at the be
ginning of the Old Testament.—New
York Times.
House of Lords.
Frun Tit-Bits.
The House ot Lords consists of the
spiritual lords of Eng’and the temporal
peers of Er^lnm!. Great P-ifntn and
the United Kingdom, and of represent
ative peers of Beot’and and Ireland.
The ful' assembly consists of the
blood r~yal 2 archbishop*, ?2 du'-es 23
marquises. 124 e"rls. 40 viseountsi 21.
bishops, 336 barons, and 16 Scottish
nnd 28 Irish representative peers mak
ing a total of 618 peers Of the 618,
347 are Conservatives 'US are Union
ists 91 are Liberal*, 45 are independent
or have no stated politics and 10 are
mi”ors.
The bishop of S-dar and Man ca.n sit
in the House of Lords, but he cannot
sneak or can he vote, although he uos-
s-asses both privileges in the Manx
House ef Keys.
In addition to the*e arerc are a^out
In addition to these there are about
not members of the House of Lords,
their peerages bei”g those of Scotland
or Ireland only. There are 15 ladies
who are peeresses in their own right.
12 of England and the United Kingdom
and 3 of Scotland.
Female succession may occur In the
imperial peerage in anv barony of
England, which- was conferred by writ
of summons, but it is subject to the
rule of abeyance whenever there are
more than one daughter, sister, etc.,
eligible to succeed. The term “impe
rial” includes the three series of peers
of "England” (up to June 30. 1707)
“Great Britain” (theo'c® to close of
1800), and the “United Kingdom” (1800
onward).
There are also a few cas°s in which
"special remainders” have been grant
ed to female relatives in the absence of I r,cp s”ch as
Pri i” er-'ronce .about a mil® smith of
tt-t’urn «*ands a bush, local'” known
ns the “CueVon Bush.” and with wb'ch
a s’rapgp )eg°rid is associated. The
nrepent hush is planted on the site of
the or'edml one and serves as a me
morial of the event which gave the
village Its notoriety. King John, as
t’-o jj'Arv goes, was marching toward
Nottingham, and intended to pass
th-apgh the Onthnvn moaflow. The
..pi-,—rs believed that tbe ground over
which a king passed became forever
af’erura-d K Pphl’C read. HI'*, n't be
ing m ! ”ded to part with their meadow
so cheaply- bv pome rnea”s or other
f-ev prevented tt-e King from napsing
’bat p»v, Incepped 't their proceed
ings. he sent soon after to inouire the
reaceu of fhetr rudeness and ipciv'litV.
e-phtless 'nfe”diog tc mmlPh thpm hv
fine or otherwise. When thev heard
of the approach of the messengers
thev were as envious to escape ’he
conspouences of the monarch’s dip-
rfleacorp ap the’- hod been to pave their
meadaw. What time thev had for de
liberation or what counsels thev took
we are not told, but w-ben the King’s
servants arrived thev found some of
the inhabitants endeavoring to drown
?n eel in a pond: some dragging their
carts pad trains to the ton of a barn
to shade a wood from the sup’s ravs;
some ttimHjino- c bpeeps down bq] m *he
exoectfltfon that they would fi"d (heir
wav to Nottino-harn market, and some
employed in hedging in a cuckoo which
bad perched on an o'd hush! In short,
they were all emn'oved in such a
mormer as convinced the King’e of
ficers that th o v were a vil'age of fools,
amt oonpermentl'- unworthy of his ina-
iestv’s potire. They. 0 f course, hav
ing outwitted the King, ipaagineri that
they W“re wise. Hei ’e arose the say
ing. “The wise r®ols of Gotham.”
Fuller savs. alluding to th's storv
and to some others to which this gave
The Menu.’ Tales of the
as
\ud.
| ably nu
, ject
much
air as
Mr. W' li.i:r
cniars- uy
i could
thout tli
-spro-
Jg po
tes the bank
buv rentes -
ctor-of the a
id pr
P"rils of the Poor.
Newark News.
Two little children in New Brunswick
were recently burned to death because
they were locked in and could not es
cape when the house took fire. Th«
parents of the children are to be held
to an account for criminal negligence.
The case referred to is a very sad one.
but those whose duties or charitable
inclinations take them among the poor
state that the practice of locking
young children in the house while the
parents go out to earn their living is
much more genera! than is realized. It
often happens that both father and
mother must go out to work and what
j then is to be done with the children?
If left to themselves they are liable to
run in .the streets and be crushed un
der the cars cr carts. If locked up in
the house they escape the dangers oS
a" j the street, but they are apt to play
with the fire, and death finds and
Down i- the Fire Room.
K'- nt in “Success Magazine.”
.v • ' four hours long, began
: ill.- morning, and at 4 in tlie
i-v the vest of the time was mine.
-g v 1” a; it was my turn to carry
nd holn clcfin up the mess room.
,i .. : .,,f into the fire room o’
n linep i- uuforgettab'e. Although
d -rutfile has long since been
ip i". ir ■ is a mere theological
me - u* "ful'to keep people
: therjrise an imposition
fnt'-l’igonee and not worth I claims them -for its own. Poor chil-
r, general s- clime of : <j ren of the poor, there se erns to he no
safe place for them. There are in
Newark and other cities such things as
asidize si
:c water.'
J. Tr.iv:
of Mr.
imger in the
Mr. V
plon of
Geirg,-. A. Srrit:
ad-er'ypg business. He
with ire firm -f Waterman. Anthony &
Go.. 67 Ex ’hanee Place, members of
Lthe New York Stock Exchange They
about to open a branch office up
of which Mr. Travis will havt
aanagem.enL
heart ’.ergs.
It is a grander thing to he rab
metpbered than to be nob';.- b rr
The door ’-Pt-veep ys -s- -j -
car no* be open* while the* betwe
And our fellow-men is shut.
w;-ec I
Minneapolis Jour
“It is a fact that
vacation occasionally
true this is of r azo:
! of locomotives—and
©f te.egraph wires."
profited by ’ their
'.animate as we.!
tired and need a
You know how
. of automobiles,
- is just a> ;ru?
a • down that series of laH-
hs bowels of the old “Elbe."
" •! to jump ten degrees a j . . ,
-ar-think that I might I nurseries, where httie children
| ,'t la--; the final { may be cared for. and there should be
ieopned. an-- w- w*r„ nt the | more of them. If there is any possi
bility of avoiding the locking of little
children alone in their homes it should
by all means be avoided.
ro’tnm ot everything, was
t in-'more minds than one that
The be a d fi-ojnan of our watch
cum my atenfinn to a
'-v an inch and a half thick
-A- "Trip;” v e
v ... ;■ a „d j,« threw open
d-nrs o' a f a-e. n'"-o-
- - t waa -o do with the noker.
av’~’y rai-»d it
a'- ard cot It started into t”"
- v er propped none too neatly
't “Hurry-un. you s.aw-pie ”
atr-i
*c rake out the aaaes.
finally managing
A JOYOUS JINGLE.
From the New York Sun.
Ohl it s jueky to be lucky.
And nothing can exceed
The pluck of bring clueky
In the hour of need.
Oh: the *un of mimic folly
And gloriously glad
The joy of being .iolly
.Wtien w» could be s&dt
males.
An Irish peer who holds an imperial
title.has also the special privilege of
being able to seek electiorf to the
House of Commons far any constitu
ency rot in Ireland itself.
It was in the re>°m of Edward ITI.
that Parliament was formally sepa
rated into the two houses of Lords and
Commons and that the deliberations
were conducted in separate chambers.
The original numbers in the House
of Lords have heen greatly augmented
f’-orr time to time, and there is no lim
itation of the power of the crown to
add to it by fi.r’hei- creations The
power of the great Irish p'ers is lim
ited bv the act of the uni,-> n , s0 fbat
oniv one can be created whenever three
of the peerages of Ireland have become
extinct.
The chief functions of the Lords and
their power to pass hills- affecting the
peerage which the Commons may not
amend are the only properties peculiar
to them apart from their personal priv
ileges.
The chief powers vested solely in the
House of Commons are those of impos
ing taxes and voting money for the
public service. Bills for these purposes
can oniv originate in that hou'e. and
the Lords may not make an alteration,
except for the correctness of clerical
errors.
In addition to the power of express-,
ing assent or dls«ent hv a vote peers
mav record their opinion .T’d the
grounds of it by a “protest” which is
entered in the journals, together with
the names of all the peers who concur
in it.
When the Common” have packed a
bill thev send it to the' Lords. FormoWv
it was forwarded by one of their own
members, who was usually accompa
nied by not fewer than eight other |
members.
The Lords send down hills by two
masters in chancery unless they relate
to the crown or the royal family, in
which case thev are generally sent by
two judges. According to an agree
ment made in 1955 one of the clerks of
either house may he the bearer.
The British Cvnstltu’lon is not
founded on any single written instru
ment. hut it rests unon a few funda
mental nrincinies. which are unchange
able. since thev have developed from
the people themselves.
Tn theory the sovereign is invested
with supreme power ai;d authority, and
the hereditary House of Lords enfovs
eoual influence with the elected House
of Comm-ns. and every change in the
laws of the country must receive the
indoendent sanction of all these
powers.
In practice the entire power of the
crown is vested in the ministry for the
time bei”g. and it woti'd he an ot?»n*e
ago»r,«t the unwritten law of the Con
stitution for the sovereign to refuse
| assent to any bill that had passed both
houses.
Mad Men of Got u am." puNi^hed in th^
time of Henry V7IT, “Gotham doth
breod as wi*»e people as any wb'ch
causeless'y laugh at tlmm simniic'tv.”
i A poet, writing of the tales told ) n
I regard to the wise people of Gotham,
I concludes:
The fools are those who thither go
To see tbe ouokno hush I trow.
The wood, the h.arn. the pools:
For such are seen ”oth here and there,
And passed by without a sneer
I By all but errant fools.
! The words Gothamist and Gothamite
j have heen derived from Gotham, and
I are defined as meaning wiseacre, a per-
: son of limited inteliigen e. so called
from the Nottingham village in Kng-
I lard, and in a humorous sense applied
j to the inhabitants of New York r.itv.
The word Gotham has no connection
; with the word Gotha, which is annlied
I to the Duchy of Gotha, a part of Savo-
Cohurg-Gotha. and the canital city
Gotha in which is issued the famous
political register, the Almanach de
Gotha, which has been published for
more than 140 years, and Is regarded
as an authority in matters of statistics
and genealogies. The capital of the
Duchy of Gotha stands near the north
ern border of the Thuringian Forest,
and dates back to the time of Charle-
31? gpe.
Early in the seventeenth centurv a
farce, entitled “A Gotham Election.”
; was published by Mrs. Centllvre. It
was a satire on the Tories, and was
never put on the stage. Andrew Rovd,
j a native of the town, wrote "The Mer-
| rie Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham”
in the seventeenth century, founded on
an order by Henry VII about poaching
there. The term Goth'amists was u”ed
j in “Fraser's Magazine” as me.nninjj
j American Cockneys. Among the tales
■ of the foolishness of the people of
i Gotham was one that they sought to
direct the course of a stream by put
ting hurdles in its bed. and then when
' a mad dog bit a wheelbarrow the peo-
I pie chained it in a shed lest it should
go mad.
I ComparsMve Virtue,
I (From the Louisville Courier-Journal.)
Perhaps Philadelphia is comp’acent
I I tse she is not as corrupt as Pitts-
4>urg.
Critics of Socialism.
Charles Johnston in a recent number of
The North American Review, gives a con
cise but comprehensive analysis of recent
utterances by James J. Hill Judge Mor
gan O'Brien antj Premier George C!»m-
oneenu \mder the title of “Three Critics
of Socialism." The writer observes: "It
is significant of the present dav. when
the tide of Sneialisni is rising in many
lands, that the opposition to Socialism is
growing clearer and more outspoken, and
is resting on deeoer principles and broader
considerations There is a wise aopre-
henslon lest, fleeing- from les'er evils, we
might fall into greater- moving b=eVward
into darkness, pot forward toward the
light. Three distinguished men have re
cently spoken on themes related to So-
clalirrn. hrlrine- 'is to new v;ews o* irs
promises'and dangers, and hringin” into
r-u-f eertrin nrine’ri„ s 0 f life. Wflriy
differing in aim they are nr.e lucidity
and fo-ce. A-rf two ef th“m ere the more
valuable witnesses because ;h~y are not
nrimarily oritje'si-ng &o''i-a , lvna at ’ll.
With a quite different purpose i n mtnfl
they nevertheless bring out certain fa-ta
fn conflict with the claims of Socialism
and they make us aware of serious d»hJ
-*er» which the Socialist* ignore.”
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