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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 Scarcely anything s< to the man who can and long enough A homo without bo and newspapers is iik. ant win do Th- dent erfi wo wore i | diseri:nin;i “The at ill !hi inf: [ ded. | ef l lie ! in tor young | Diri> I the set : demon. I based < inn in s s Maar.zine.” ents Impossible will strongly nks. periodicals a house with- wbat you call that Is against 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.” INDISTINCT PRINT