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B ( N (T § 4 Censor of the Press ? —————— WY SO 50 A s % Ey Agneés Repplier. % SOO 0009009 HIE Nineteenth Century and After, that most genial of Brit 2 igh dictators, has expresged its opinions—mere in sorrow than in anger—on the subjeet of the American Sunday news 2 paper. This amazing produet of our civilization strikes the i English critic with something akin to awe. its vast bulk, Se@e 'he enuormous figures which repiesent its reai or fictition circulation; its wide grasp of material, from liierary novel m ties like “The Wandering Jew,” 10 the range at which Maste: Archie Roosevelt shot a rabbit; its determination to provide entertainment for every grade of intelligence and genility; Its advertisements ite iltustrations, and the generous breadth with which it defines that pleasant word “society,” are all equally bewildering te an alien, He pauses 1o speculate upon the “gifted prophetess,’ who for twenty-five cents “and upwards” pro vides “gyvpsy sympathy,” fortune t¢<lling, palmistry andspirit communications,” He is pleased and surprised to see that the seven royal children of an unpro nounceable German principality are as dear to our hearts, and our press, as the lady who sings “Seven Lumps of Sugar, Sweetie,” in advanced vaudeville, and whose portrait flanks that of the Germanic nurslings. He asks on what principle of selection this mass of heterogencous rubbish is collected and dis tributed weekly, Above all, the colored comic supplement of the Sunday newspaper Is a stumbling-block to the critie’s path. For whom, he wonders, snd for whom, we wonder, too, ean these pictures be intended? Do grown-up people trace the disastrous congequences of Sammy's Sneeze, or follow Falthful Fritz through his ever-repeated ducking and tumblings? Has American humor re verted to the simple anvestral type which regarded an accident of any kind as mirthful? Are the supplements designed for the exclusive refresnment of the feeble-minded, or as a blight upon the intelligence of youth? Or can it be pos sible that we are all, without knowing it, at the “Slovenly Peter” stage of men tal development? These are questions which the Nineteenth Century lacks the spirit and intelligence to answer. It merely ohserves that “a family which has saturated ftself with the Sunday newspaper is in no mood for church-go ing, nor for any serious occupation”—a statement too obvious for regard. A family “saturated” with the Sunday newspaper would probably be tottering on the verge of idiocy, but the American mind is not of a porous quality, It was the wise Marcus Aurelius who—tormented with the superfluities of Rome—ad viged hig readers to save themselves by inattention from the knowledge of useless things.—From Life, Y Six Hundred Millions % é‘ Worth of Floods Yearlyg R By Walter J. Ballard. . :'H-H'%M(u:‘ T"s estimated by the United State geological survey that : % floods cost the American people $100,000,000 a year inloss of property, while the mere menace of these floods prevents the ; I x development of thousands of square miles of otherwise val :’l' uable property and limits the usefulness of a rfar greater Mo}-o}-}--fi-fli area. Great as is the annual destruction of property, great mz:&g* er ‘s't'ilg .!fs '.‘!?(' loss by l‘h‘e waslewnf t:lm '\\{u?cr ltself, A'(v-()n: B % servative estimate places the water loss at five times the value of the property loss. If the flood water of the United States could be stored for future use it would be worth $500,000,000 a year to us. Therefore, it is safe to say that, directly and indirectly, floods cost the American people a total of $G00,000,000 a year, To prevent or minimize this great loss the engineers of the water resoure es branch of the geological survey have been for a number of years making systematic studies of flood conditionsonmany streasms th.roughout thecountry, and several*of their reports have been published. Attention is now drawn-to Water Supply Papers Nos, 88, 92, 96147 and 162. Renewed impetus was giv en to the work by the great flood in the Ohio river basin in March, 1907, which was one of the two greatest in a hundred years, the other having occurred in 1884, The ideal remedy for flonds, according to the engineers of the survey, is the keeping of the earth’s surface in a porous condition, so that the water will be absorbed and held as by a sponge, and allowed to pass slowly into the streams, Vegetation is the great agent that produces porosity of soil, and the must effective form of vegetation for the retardation of surface flow is forest cover. Forestation, therefore, is the prime requisite for the prevention of the needless waste caused by floods, The next requisite is the construction of reservoirs to hold the waters so that they may be made useful during seasons of low water. Nearly all Amer ican rivers can be readily controlled by the construction of storage reservoirs on the headwater streams. The cost of such work, though heavy, would be as nothing compared with the enormous benefits to water power and irrvigation, as well as to flood prevention and navigation, & < < & gj)—m The Mwfl,{@ Orient Watching the g Filipinos g By Major George P. Ahern, Director of For estry in the Philippines. é’um-—-mu -\nr--w.-fé Fe————— UST now the English, French, and Germans in the Far East { sneer at the American idea of establishing an ideal republic i in the Philippines. They say we are making a grave mis ‘ take in giving the natives too much leeway, The English in ' e India give a few selected natives a little power, but the | great majority of natives in the English colonies have no j voice in the government and earn little social recognition, el The American experiment, which probably is the most re markable the world has ever seen, gives the poorest native the same chance as the wealthiest, education being free to all. At Manila, in stead of climbing up a tree to see what is going on, the Filipino citizen can 80 to a reception of the governor-general and shake his hand and leave feel ing of considerable importance. While the representatives of European civili zation sneer, the eyes of the entire Orient are turned seriously on this great American experiment. If it succeeds, there will be startling developments in Java, China, and India, not to mention other countries. The natives of India will say to themselves: “If such great freedom can be given to the Filipinos, why cannot it be given to us?’ Manila today is swarming with Orientals from all Eastern countries, for it is one of the cosmopolitan cities of the world. & < &~ & Ryl Yysmretiprrs . Do) The New Patriotism@ Ey A J. Haynes. é HE old patiiotism was much concerned with suns and flags and all the paraphernaiia of war. The new patriotism is to be a thing of schools, hospitals and churches and mission halls for all who feel the extraordinary burdens of life. The P new patriotism will concern itself with clean streets and ,‘ well built houses; it will demand that the rich be satisfied | ‘ with less and 'that the poor have more; it will not be so — spectacular, but it /will be more real, more vitally related with the raw needs of human life. The day or the hero on horseback is past; the day of the hero in the bonds of civic sell-sacrifice has come, :.'l-"1.1.1.1.1'fl...1.1.1.1.1.....1:, = A BATTLE WITH $ - n % » - “PUMPKIN SEEDS” = o - st Sum o " By Pavr E. Trigs, "-: ': Te e e Ne N N Years ago, when Mr. Purdy heard that the Crawfords, from his old home in Maine, had become frontiers men and had like himself settled in Towa, he stuck a notice on his cabin door to the effect that he had gone visiting and would reiarn within a' couple of months, and started on horseback to welcone the newcomers. He enjoved his visit, but fould his former neighbors not disposed to take serionsly all his advice. 'When he spoke of the ferocity of the wild hogs that infested the country— “pumpkin-seeds” they were called, because of their tawny color and conical forms-——all the Crawfords langhed, "“Wolf, there, can take the biggest razorback that ever squealed, and put him out of bhusiness in no time!”’ Jim Crawford scoffed. Jim was twenty vears old.” “Maybe 50,” mumbled the old ma.n‘.l Then his eyes hegan to twinkle, and he spoke again. ‘“‘Along last fall,”i he said. ‘I heard a racket out in the brush behind my ecabin, and 1 went out to look round. On the other gide of a clearing where I'd had potatoes, I spotted a big black bear, standing over a pumpkin-seed that he'd just walloped the life out of. Next mo ment another pig showed up-—big gest one I ever saw, he was, and it seemed to me his ears were set half way between his nose and the root of his tail. Before I'd stood there two minutes, twenty or thirty more pumpkin-seeds had sneaked into the clearing, and were looking kind of doubtful at Mr. Bear.” ; “And then Mr. Bear got mad and thrashed the whole outfit,”” laughed Mrs. Crawford. ‘“‘Don’t tell us that a bunch of ‘scrawny pigs made a hear run, Elijah Purdy.” “They didn't make him run,” agreed the trapper. ‘‘They circled round him, and then, all of a sud den, bear and pumpkin-seeds were piled up ten deep. But it was all over in a lew minutes; there wasn’t anything left of the bear but a few bits of fur and his bones, and those were polished pretty clean.” This story roused in the settlers a spirit of ridicule. They laughed at Mr., Purdy's respeet for wild hogs, and Jim oifered to go out with a club, accompanied by the great half mastiff dog called “Wolf,” and ex terminate a drove of the animals. | A few days later Mr. Purdy and Jim started down the Maquoketa‘; River beyond what is now the town}l of Hopington. They were armed with heavy, long-barreled shotguns, that took eight drams of powder for each barrel, an%tjat were powerfgl enough to kill &' fox or wild turk‘% at shotgun range; also they were accompanied by Wolf. Buddy, an English bulldog who had been givenl to the Crawfords by some east-bound rovers, was to be unchained as soon as Wolf was gone—for the bulldog( and the half-mastiff were never al lowed to run at the same time. Thus Mrs. Crawford would have the com panionship and protection of Buddy while the other dog was away. Unfortunatley for this plan, before the hunters had tramped two miles Jim discovered the white bulldog skulking a few rods behind. “Confound the dog!” said Jim. “Father won’t be home till night and mother will be nervous without a living thing for company. We'll have to lead Buddy to keep him and Wolf from fighting, too.” The bulldog was secured by a strap Jim had worn about his waist, and so leashed, trotted amiably at his master's side. Occasionally he wrinkled his nose at Wolf, but it was easy to keep the enemies apart. Game was scarce. Mr. Purdy dropped a goose as it rose, flopping, from a side current in the river, and Wolf killed a woodchuck. Aside from this, they had seen nothing when they stopped to eat dinner near a marshy stream that emptied into the Maquoketa. “Looks as if 1 wasn't going to get anything!” Jim grumbled. ‘I say, Mr. Purdy, what do you suppose Wolf is after?” The men turned and stared into the brush-filled bed of the little stream, which had been behind them as they ate. Then, at sigkt of an animal which broke from the cover of the slough, Mr. Purdy jumped to his feet. “Call off that dog!"” he eried. “He's chasing a young pumpkin-seed, and there'll be a whole swarm after him and us if he hurts the brute.” But even if Jim had wanted to call his dog, he could not have done so. Wolf was hardly a rod behind the pig when it ran from the brush, and in a dozen leaps he had over taken and killed his victim. “That shows what a pumpkin-seed amounts to with Wolf,” Jim boasted. Mr., Purdy was staring into the brush. For a few moments after the pig's squeals had ceased he stood listening and watching. Then he pointed up the creek. “‘See there!” heexclaimed. “There’s the first one! There'll be plenty more in a minute. . Call this dog, if he'll come. We can get out on this tree that slopes over the river.” Awed by the fear that showed on the trapper's face, Jim called fran tically to the mastiff and began drag ging Buddy toward the tree by the river. Buddy saw Wolf worrying the body of the little pumpkin-seed, and hung back, growling and trying to brea™ away. Mr. Purdy urged Jim to loose the dog, but this the young man was unwilling to do. In- stead, he crught the bulldog by the collar and dragged him to the foot e tree. b :\}i this point he paused to look | bak. Fifteen or twenty pigs ha;ll fflm,pmnd—:reat tawny beasts, “’,t ' long lezs and lean sides, looking, .]?- | deed, more like wolves than like b H)l;:..é{.p how they keep the little ones behind ” said Mr. Purdy. The drove had formed a crescent, which advanced with its hollow side toward Wolf. The dog stood menac ing them with bared teeth; but that even he was frightened was apparent from lds taking the defensive. Sud denly the foaming, rabid animals that formed the horns of the half-moon closed in hehind the dog, and with squeals of rage threw themselves upon him. “Come up here!” commanded the trapper, grasping Jim’s shoulder and whirling him toward the tree. “It'll be our turn next.” Probably Jim saw the mneed of flight. His face was as white as his companion’s as he clambered out along the sloping trunk of the bass wood to a place where he could steady himself and Buddy by throwing one arm round a branch. When he ooked toward the pumpkin-seeds, Jolf had disappeared, and the brutes were tearing something that might have heen an empty sack, or even a pile of leaves. Afterward they came in a ramb ling line toward the tree where the men had found shelter. At its base they paused and stared up, their little eyes shining red and green as the lust for blood surged through their dwarfed brains. Jim raised !both hammers of his big shotgun and planted its stock against his shoulder. “Now,” he muttered, “I’ll put some of you where you won’t kill !an‘v more dogs!” Probably he would have done so | lhad not Mr. Purdy grasped the bar rel of the gun and held it toward the water. ‘‘lf you shoot one of them, they’ll stay here till we starve and drop out of the tree,” he said. “Wait. They'll keep us here long enough, anyhow.” ~ The pigs might have been forgot ten their grievance if they had not seen Buddy. But at sight of his square, muscular body, quivering with eagerness to get down and set ‘tle in his own fashion the matter of the right of way, they bristled and squealed with renewed anger. Mr. Purdy glanced toward the end branch of the basswood. “Can’t get farther out,” said he. ‘There you come! I knew you'd do it!” ° A hog, whose long, shark-like muz- | zle was lathered with seam, had run l up the trunk, but had slipped and . fallen. As he splashed .into the swirling water, bobbed under for a moment, and then reappeared. to set ouf_clumsily for the other side, the rest of the drove edged away from the steep bank. For a while they stood champing their jaws and peer ing up into the tree; and at sight of their hideous faces Mr. Purdy shiv ered and edged out on his branch, while Jim stood sullenly and defied them with hot eyes. Then, just as the old man’s fingers were working nervously at the hammers of his gun a pumpkin-seed ran straight for the foot of the tree and ran up its rough, scored trunk. “Knock him off with your gun!” shouted the trapper. But the pig was too close for such tactics. Indeed, so rapid had been his charge that he was already within ‘reach of Buddy, at whom he snapped with a quick, snarling lunge. At the same instant Buddy closed his teeth on the fleshy nose of the pumpkin 'seed. There was a piercing squeal as the animal tried to free himself, and after a short struggle, dog and hog dropped from the tree. ~ “That critter’ll remember the last time he tackled Buddy!” Jim shout ied. forgetting his peril in joy at the ’plg's dilemma. When the combatants came to the surface, Buddy waz still holding his enemy by the nose. Even the shock of cold water had failed to loosen his grip, and as the two floated away, the dog, at least, seemed happy. The other pigs trotted along the bank, but evidently were unwilling to plunge into the water for the sake of helping their companion. “Now's our chance!” Mr. Purdy said, excitedly, as he saw the drove sweep into the brush of the intersect ing creek. ‘‘They'll follow till Bud dy and his friend drown or float ashore. Let's run for it.” They scrambled down, and in five minutes had covered so much country that they felt safe in slowing to a walk, Two hours later they reached the Crawford homestead; and while they Wwere eating supper, rejoicing because they had not shared the fate of Wolf and Buddy, and mourning because two good dogs had been killed, some thing scratched at the door, and suc ceeded in forcing it open. It was Buddy, wet, footsore and cut about the head and muzzle, but happy. It was impossible to learn how he had escaped, although Mr. Purdy suggested that he might have clung to the pumpkin-seed until the latter went down, and then floated ashore across from the drove. Even to satise fy their hatred, the pumpkin-seeds would hardly have tried to swim after him. Like their cousins of the farm }yard, these wild hogs were not fonqd ot swimming.-——Youth's Companion. et et e e . 5 A Reasonable Precaution. “In order to be a regular optimist,” said Uncle Eben, “it's a good idea to staht out wif you arrangements all made foh three square meals a day an’ de payment of de rent."—Viashe ingion Star. - s-RING PARADE OF THE CANDIDATES. \ c‘/',,7" : X, po s e 4% T *{r"'_'/f YL Jai” Y '// Yo U e m (‘ r TN 2l RSB 000 V 8 GO (=R B T, O 27N, SPTTUSS d Ba —aee 7 A aBLS A eVe -,;-“;A% S S N RN s a 9 1K NGRS NAZIINI B RKoo NS L \. \ “\& NS Yo Jo i e %‘ iSI N 9 | AR NS ,‘*\flfflfff i/ iy e ’ 5 G sA, SRR\ WS § Nl Y s o /N ~. SR Solak ""' W A,j 3”7?‘/4' 7/7‘ ) SRS e £ TR\ gl N R AR 0 ,J"..'%"-«, GSN N ek \Y oVe }’“&l{”M S ‘.l’fr‘;r-rri:?’fif,{ @x‘) X Tl it~ w 7 o "’*"‘”""\l{'@% > DO Ll iB Y 2 phy L, el s Ui L S Pwemn le?u i, IR\ W ‘;'/‘*' b '\Q As . 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Boston, Mass.—‘“You have a fleet' that, ship for ship, comparing the ships designed at a given date—and that is the only fair comparison—is equal to anything the world contains. ‘ And next to the British navy, I think vour navy is the best in the world.” This opinion was voiced by Sir William Henry White, K. C. B, for mer Director of Naval Construction to the British Adiniralty, in the course of an extended inteiview, Tak ing up magazine criticismas of the American navy, Sir William took is sue with nearly every point raised by the writers, declaring they ‘‘are all wrong as to facts.” The thick waterline armor belt, upon which the best known ecritic says the life of the ship depends, he characterized as a ‘‘fetich” which was abandoned by the British Admiralty many years ago, and mistakenly re verted in the Dreadnought class in making a redistribntion of weight rendered necessary by the great num ber of twelve-inch guns. As to the Dreadnought, which was used as a basis of comparison, Sir William pointed out that her thick armor belt is from a foot to eighteen inches below the surface of the SETTLEMENT WORK ROUNDLY DENOUNCED W. H. Allen Says Most ;'f the $20,000 Spent on Play ground Was For Pictures of It. Chicago.—William H. Allen’s blunt assertion that settlement workers were mostly inefficient and incompe tent, coupled with many other disa greeable declarations, has brought an avalanche of denunciations from the settlements on the New York man’s head. Mr. Allen is secretary of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York. He and his vie./s are in dorsed by organized charity here. The Social Economists’ Club was told that the charities and philanthropies which it represents are just so much misdirected and misdirecting effort and wasted money. As a climax Miss Rebecca Holmes, of the Bureau of Charities, who ven tured the opinion that woman suf frage would cure all the evils pointed out by Mr. Allen, was told by the speaker that woman suffrage would simply mean a new golden era for confidence men and the perpetuation in office of grafters and incompetents. Mr. Allen declared the best possi ble results in all lines of social serv- SACRILEGE INVOLUNTARY. =~ . Feilbogens Say They Were ";'—a—ken by Surpx-iise---Leave ¥ I?ome'_ to Escape Penalty. Rome, Italy.—Professor Feilbogen and his family, who recently in the Sistine Chapel after the sacrament had been administered {0 them, spat the sacred breads on the floor, have left Rome to escape punishment for sacrilege. Professor Feilbogen is a man of high character, and it is said that he could not have committed the sacrilege vountarily. . Indeed, he is deeply grieved at the occurrence, GOVERNMENT ESPIONAGE SYSTEM EXTENSIVE Washington, D. C.—That there has existed in Washington for years a Government espionage system as se cret as any ever maintained in St. Petersburg was brought out in testi mony before the Appropriations Com mittee. Assistant Chief of the Secret Service Moran testified that detectives from his bureau were employed by all departments of the Government, in violation of law, and that they were used for many secret purposes, from following Government clerks to gath ering evidence against an Annapolis midshipman, which evidence was afterward used in a divorce action. Moran was a most unwilling wit ness, and the record of the hear- Oil Fuel For Only Two of the New Destroyers. Washington, D. C.—- Oil-burning apparatus is to be installed on only two of the five torpedo boat destroy ers now under construction, the bids for such installation on the remain ing three being regarded as excessive. No changes are to pe made on these destroyers, which will be completed according to the plans and specifica tions providing for coal co.sumption. The cost of the installation of the oil burning apparatus on the two vessels will be about §25,000. water when she is fully laden, while the armor belt of rhips of the Con necticut class, under the same condi tions, is from six to nine inches above water. So far as the Dreadnought and the Connecticut are concerned, he said, the Connecticut is better protected above the water line, inasmuch as when fully laden her sides are pro tected by armor that extends sixteen feet above the water, while under the same conditions ‘‘the English ship’s defense on the sides is restricted to armor that rises only from four to four and a half feet above water.” Sir William denied that there is any danger involved in the direct hoist, which the writers say is re sponsible for the accidents which have occurred on American ships. He said he himself was the inventor of the ‘‘broken hoist,” so called, and it was brought out by him to save time and not to minimize danger. The accidents on the American bat tleships he attributed to inexper ienced men and the policy of placing a premium upon the greatest number of shots and the greatest number of hits in a given time in target prac ‘tice. ice are to be attained through the Government and not through private agencies, and the best use to which private philanthropy and volunteer efforts at social service could be put would be the aiding of public social service, “I have seen,” he said, *“$20,000 expended on a playground on the roof of a New York settlement house. It was to demonstrate the value of such a place to the tenement district, and most of the $20,000 was used in taking pictures of it crowded with the half dozen persons it would hold. In the meantime a great municipal playground two blocks square was being built within a stone’s throw of that roof, and teamsters cut down all the trees that had been planted while the settlement people were absorbed in their own little petty affairs. “I know of another settlement within two blocks of a public bath which could take care of about thirty eight persons a day. The public bath could take care of 5000.” He was urged by his wife, who was eager to get a closer view of the Pope, to make his way closer to the altar. He did so and thus they found themselves among the communicants, The communion breads were placed in their mouths by the Pope before they realized what was being done, and they wefe so taken by surprise they had no time to reflect upon their action and immediately spat them out. ing shows that it wasg only by the most adroit Guestioning that the facts were drawn out by Chairman Tawney, Moran testified that during 1907 seventy-eight .detec tives were detailed to various de partments of the Government besides the Treasury. Sixty-one of these were used by the Department of Justice alone, €hairman Tawney and his commit tee inserted in the Sundry Civil Ap propriation bill a clause that in the future the Secret Service Bureau shall be strictly under the Secretary of the Treasury and that detectives shall not be detailed from it for service in any other department of the Government. et i 154 Chicagoans Deprived of Citi zenship in War on Anarchists. Chicago, Illl.—As 3 direct result of the war of State and Federal Govern ments upon Anarchists 154 men have been deprived of citizenship by the Superior and Circuit Courts of Cook County, The naturalization papers of fifty five men suspected of being at least allied with Anarchists were revoked this week and these supplemented the cases of ninety-nine men against whora similar action was taken last week by Judge Bal,,