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IDEAL MARRYING AGES 23 TO 28, ®EXPERT “Persons Who Wed After They Are Thirty Are Most Suscept ible to Affinities. LONDON. Aug. 15.—What is the best age at which to marry, and why? These questions were answered by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, LL.D., F. S. S., one of the delegates to the International Fugenics -congress. Incidentally Dr. Hoffman, who occupied the position of statistician to the Pruden tial Insurance Company of Newark, N. J., exploded what he described as one of the most popular fallacies that has ever prevailed regarding successful marriages. “My experience and observation.” said Dr. Hoffman, “have convinced me that the best ages for marrying are between 23 and 26 for men and women alike. I have no faith ill the theory that there should be a wide disparity between the age of the man and the woman. “My reason for fixing on between 23 and 26 as the ideal marrying age for both sexes are. roughly, these: Physically Best Then. “The man and the woman are then, so far as marriage is concerned, at their best physical, mental and moral development. , Their hereditary traits now are dominant. On the one hand the twig has been bent or the temperament has been moulded in the form it will probably retain, with a little modification, for life. “On the other hand they are both suf ficiently plastic and malleable to readjust themselves an<T become mutually com plimentary to one another. In other words, the man is willing to sacrifice himself to the happiness of the woman, and the woman to the happiness of the man. This is one of the essential condi tions of real marriage. Perfect coordina tion is another. “A boy or a girl of, say, 18, quite apart from other considerations, can not be ex pected to know his or her mind. This point, I think, requires no elaboration. At the same time I should like to state with all possible emphasis that every man of 25 or thereabouts who is earning his liv ing and wishes to marry should be per mitted to do so, provided only that he and his prospective partner are healthy. His Salary No Object. “The woman of a man's choice has no right whatever to demand that he shall be earning a certain number of dollars a week before he enters into wedlock with h< r. I strongly deprecate these so-called ‘marriages of convenience.’ Moreover, no restriction should be placed—within reason, of course—on the number of chil dren. No marriage is perfect or satisfy ing if there are no children as its out come. “Men particularly who are over the age of 30 and wish to marry do so at their peril. At this age or over a man is gen erally so strongly individualized, so set in his judgments, that to often in court ing a wife he is only courting disaster. “Again a marriage celebrated after 30 tends to become an affair of friendship than anything else, and this in my opin ion, at least, is by no means all, or any thing approaching all, that marriage should signify. Although I confess I have no facts to bear out my contention on this polfit, observation leads me to think that the sudden appearance on the scene of ‘affinities’ of both sexes frequently follows these ‘over-30’ marriages. “And now let me just touch on the question of successful marriages. There was never a greater fallacy than the popular belief that a reaaljy successful marriage is necessarily a happy one. In deed, 1 consider that that marriage is still incomplete which does not know sor row, loss, disappointment, aye, and even death!’’ HUNDREDS CHEER WOMAN RESCUING THREE IN RIVER NEW YORK, Aug. 15. —Mamie Ram sperger. 25 years old, swimming In structor in the women’s section of a public bath on the East river front, saved a man and two little hoys from drowning while hundreds cheered her. •A young man in trying to rescue the two lads who had fallen from a float which had drifted out into the river was himself overcome and sank. Miss Ramsperger jumped into the tide swept river and, reaching the place where the man disappeared, dived and finally reached him. She swam to the float with him and, having got him on it turned to the boys, one of w horn had gone down. LEITERS IN A PALACE GO "BACK TO NATURE” WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Mrs. Jo seph Leiter, wife of the millionaire ami former wheat king, has eschewed the pleasures of Bar Harbor and' Newport for the delights of her mlllion-dollar glass palace in the woods on the Vir ginia hills. The Leiter dffuntry home overlooking Washington has recently been com pleted. There Mr. and Mrs. Leiter are living a happy, back-to-nature ex istence. While the mansion is in the woods, it is luxurious and has been named the glass palace because many of the outside rooms are inefosed i»* glass. SEVEN-INCH BABY IS GAINING WEIGHT FAST PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 15. —Russell Dailey, twelve-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dailey, is making rapid strides in size and appearance. His present weight is one pound elever ounces, and his length Is six and three quarter inches. The infant is kept wrapped in t. lambs’ wool bag. in an incubator, at the University hospital. The mother of the baby is not yet sixteen. She weighs less than • 10ft pounds and is five feet two Inches tall. The father is not yet seventeen and not s'out. Children of the Regiment Soldiers True PETS AT FORT MILITARY, TOO ~ .> JF '-•fwsr -a a Si 4. gH V ! BP ¥ \ Two beautiful children at Fort McPherson. Margaret Snyder, daughter of Lieutenant Sny der, on left, and Katherine, daughter of Captain Bankhead. Then, the soldierly dog “.Jack,’’ mOGTORSIN ENGLAND URGED • Advocates of Plan Would Have Minister of Public Health With Cabinet Rank. LONDON, Aug. 15. —Free doctors Yor ’ men, women and children is the object i of a new scheme which Professor Benja- | min Moore, of the Liverpool university, j suggests can be worked in conjunction I with the insurance service, to be admin istered by a board of health, under a min ister of public service, with cabinet rank, assisted by expert medical advisers. The whole profession, he suggests, should be organized on the lines of other state serv ices. An association has been formed with the idea of promoting these objects, which are supported by a large and influential body of medical practitioners and many public health officers. "We are not a political association,” Professor Moore emphasized to an inter viewer. "I am in favor of the insurance act. Each doctor under our scheme would be a minister of health just in tlje same way as a clergyman is supposed to be a min ister of grace. Private practice will exist as hitherto and be paid for, not by the individual, but by the state. You would have to safeguard the specialist by at taching him to a hospital, and it would be necessary, in the interests of the mid dle and upper classes, to allow special ists attached to hospitals a certlin amount of freedom for private work." The objects of the association were framed before the inception of the insur ance act. It is further proposed that all hospitals should be nationalized. 120 LIVES ARE LOST IN TERRIBLE STORM ON SPAIN’S NORTH COAST MADRID, Aug. 15.—At least 120 and possibly 200 lives were lost in a terri ble storm which swept the northern coast of Spain along the shores of the bay of Biscay, according to dispatches received here today from Bilboa. The storm raged all day Tuesday and Tuesday tyight. destroying fishing craft in the bay, blowing down houses and wrecking telegraph and telephone sys tems. It was not until yesterday tha| the firs’ meager word was received here that twenty were dead. Further in vestigation today increased the death list to 120, while it is feared that it will go much higher. At Bermeo, a seaport sixteen miles northeast of Bilboa, many fishing schooners which were at sea when the storm struck are missing with their crews. The beaches are strewn with wreckage and many dead bodies have been picked up. TO DELVE INTO MINDS OF CONVICTS TO STOP CRIME JEFFERSONVILLE, IND.. Aug. 15. Psychological study of state convicts, aimed to cure mental deficiencies that led men and women into ways of crime, will be attempted in the Indiana re formatory, according to an announce ment made KV"Superintendent David C. Peyton. A laboratory will be estab lished in the reformatory, where tests of each prisoner’s mentality may be made, after which cures will be at tempted. according to the patient's needs. INHERITS SIOO,OOO ESTATE. MACON. GA.. Aug. 15. —Dr. Henry McHatton is the principal beneficiary in the will of his late mother, Mrs. Eliza Ripley, who died recently in Brooklyn. N. Y.. leaving an estate worth about SIOO,OOO. He will go to Brooklyn soon to settle Up tfce estate. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 191 z. Play Dropped for “Attention” When “Star Spangled Ban ner” Floats in Air. i It was afternoon and dress parade was on at Fort McPherson. A long, unwavering line of rifles caught the sun. A sharp staccato re sounded across the parade ground. A sonorous crash of melody came from the post musicians and the glittering hand wheeled from the line and started I its march the length of the column. Everything at the fort was rigid. The I soldiers in line were at'"parade rest,", ) the domestics about the place were filled . with sudden martial spirit. Even the | convicts felt the melodic cadence. The sounds of it brought the wives : to the front windows in officers row, and they threw their shoulders back a triflle while their pulses kept time with the martial beat. Jack Breaks Discipline. But to Katherine Bankhead and Mar garet Snyder, daughters of Captain Bankhead and Lieutenant Snyder, it might have been "parade rest” or it might have been "mess call” for all that they heard. With a zeal more severe than was in the manner of any of the soldiers, they were laboring in an ef fort to persuade "Jack" to sit on his haunches. But Jack being a bulldog of the most militant sort was diffident, nay positively reluctant to perform while “Semper Fidelis” was being played. "Come to attention there, Jack,” ad monished Margaret severely, “or you’ll be sent to the guard house." Jack must have doubted her author ity. for he continued to sniff about in disobedience. "Jack,” wheedled Katherine, “won’t you sit up for us after all the beefsteak and bread we gave you?” Children at Salute. Jack turned a whimsical glance upon her which as much as said: “I’ve paid you back many a time and oft for that little bit of meat—besides, I want to listen to the music." “Jack." said Margaret, taking her turn. “I don’t believe you know your manual. I think you will have to be placed in the green squad until you be come a real soldier.” This must have touched Jack's pride, for he immediatley sprang up on his hind feet and remained there until a sharp word from the two children brought him to ground again. By this time the band had completed its circuit. The sound of "Open ranks" was heard, the cannon boomed and then with slow majesty the first few notes of tile "Star Spangled Banner" fell upon the ears of the playing chil dren. Whereas before they had been playing with absolute disregard to everything that was going on about them, they flow sprang to their feet, drew their heels together, held up their chins, threw out their chests, braced their shoulders and brought their right hands to the salute. Kiddies of the Post. At first glance the platoon of chil dren —sons and daughters of officers— who play about the grounds of the fort seem exactly like al! other children. Military life seems to interest them but little. In /act, the average boy outside of the army is much more eager to don the army blue than the average child of the post. One small lad at the post was asked: “Are you going to be in the army when you grow up?" “Naw,” he responded; “the army'll be over by then.” This same boy, however, has an in timate acquaintance with the inside of a carbine, knows the military divi sions from squad to brigade, knows the meaning of every bugle call, knows the uniform, knows everything, in fact, that he well could know about army life DARES DAUGHTER TOWEDJAKENUP After Midnight Supper Girl and Youth Hunt for a Preacher and Join Newlyweds. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15. —When Mrs. Maj' Baiiej’ dared her daughter and the I daughter’s sweetheart to get married, |at an after-midnight supper, she was 1 astonished when the challenge was ac- I cepted. i The sweetheart, Willard E. Mills paugh, 21 years old, proposed to the girl on the spot, was accepted and the mother, protesting yet unwilling to quit when her "bluff had been called,” as the youngsters express it, consented to help them get a license. As the girl, Miss Alice Bailey, was only sixteen years old, the mother's consent was necessary. The three mo tored to East St. Louis and sat on the steps of the marriage license office un til morning, when the clerk came down and issued the permit. The marriage ceremony was said by a justice of the peace. They returned to St. Louis about 9 a. m. and Millspaugh notified his par ents of the marriage by telephone. The bridegroom, who is employed in the ticket office of the Vandalia railroad, went to work. That afternoon his mother came downtown and met her daughter-in-law for the first time. As Millspaugh is a Catholic, a second wedding was decided upon. It took place at 10 p. m., the Rev. Father Pe ter J. O’Rourke, of St. Mark church, officiating. WEALTHY VIRGINIA HERMIT MAY HAVE BEEN POISONED HARRISONBURG. VA., Aug. 15. Rockingham county authorities investi gating the unexplained death of George M. Nicholas, the wealthy hermit far mer of Port Republic, have discovered most extraordinary affairs in the old man’s life. He died last week after drinking coffee. Worth a quarter of a million, which he is said to have scattered in at least fifteen banks through Virginia and Maryland, the old man lived with an aged housekeeper in squalor in a fif teen-room mansion bare of all furni ture. and slept upon a bed on the floor He always wrote his checks on scraps of paper. Nicholas left no will and died unmarried, leaving four brothers. YOUNG “BOB” TAFT’S CUB IS RESCUED BY OLD BEAR BENTON, MONT., Aug. 15.—What to do with the cub bear presented to Rob ert Taft, son of the president, by a Blackfoot chief on his arrival in Glacier National park, has been solved. An old bear, hearing the wails of the cub, made her way last night into the Taft camp on Red Eagle mountain and gnawed through the rope that tethered the cub to a tree. Then she retreated up the mountainside. Guides started in pursuit, but young Taft shouted: "It’s probably her cub, and there is no room in the white house anyway. Let her go.” . ■ ■ 1.. ■ - - CRISP SPEAKS AT ASHBURN. ASHBURN, GA., Aug. 15.—Judge Charles R. Crisp, of Americus, candi date for congress from the Third con gressional district, spoke for more than an hour to a large gathering of Tur ner county voters at the court house. The Ashburn band furnished music. STANLEY ASSAILS 1 T.R.ANDPERKINS Chairman of Steel Probers Tells How Aid Was Given This I Trust. WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. —Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Perkins of Har vester trust fame and the Federal bu reau of corporations were jointly as sailed by Chai: man Stanley, of the .steel investigating committee, in the house for aiding in the protection of the United States Steel Corporation and accepting any means to prevent the power of this monopoly from being lessened. ’’The government by commissions as conducted by the bureau of corpora tions,” said Mr. Stanley, “Is more than pleasing to the interests and they are today more enthusiastic than ever in their advocacy of an extension of the ■ante. For several years the chief in ermediary between big business and • ho: • intrusted by the government with the duty of investigating has been a gentleman by the name of George W. Perkins. To pry Into the secrets of the bureau and to keep the interests most concerned advised as to the progress of the assumably secret inspection, was the task for which Mr. Perkins showed his peculiar fitness.” Describing the manner in which a $50,000 donation was given Mr. Roose velt by George W. Perkins, Mr. Stanley said: "Pocketed Insurance Money.” "Mr. Perkins gave his peisonal check to Mr. Bliss and was reimbursed by a check of the New York Life Insurance Company, payable to J. P. Morgan & Co. The proceeds of this check were traced to the pocketbook of Mr. Per kins and for this eminent service he was arrested under a warrant charg ing him with grand larceny. As Chief Justice Cullen, who tried the case, says, Perkins knew that this money was drawn from a life insurance policy without the policy holder's consent. "This man (Perkins) escaped the prison ceil by the skin of his teeth for having picked the pocket of a shroud for the use and benefit of the Republi can party.” Referring to the assimilation of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company dur ing Roosevelt's administration, the speaker continued: "The of Roosevelt can scarcely conceive that he would in twenty minutes have commissioned the Steel Corporation to squash its last competitor. Had he possessed one tenth of the information which the commissioner of co: porations after ward admitted having, he probably never would been guilty of this act." Up and Down Peachtree Prunes Join in Living Cost Flight. Where are the prunes of yesteryear? Gone up—like beefsteak, flour, pota toes and everything else that man here below cares to eat. There was a time when prunes were served breakfast, dinner and supper. There was prune cake, prune pudding, prune pie. prune syrup and the good old Sunday supplement prune joke, which ran like this: Landlady (passing the dish of prunes)—What are you bowing and scraping about, Mr. Starhoarder? Mr. Starboarder —I always salute old acquaintances. All of these have disappeared, how ever, because prunes have, within the last year, taken such an ascension that they can now be well classed as luxu ries. A well known produce merchant of Atlanta stated today that prunes had advanced 100 per cent in price within the last twelve months. This puts them quite out of the reach of the "common rabble.” Little Danger of Kiss Germs at Terminal Depot. If mother or father or brother or sister or aunt or uncle or weir dressed young man and his fiancee say a fond farewell in Atlanta’s Terminal station just before making a summer trip, all the well wishes, cautions or perhaps last remembrances are given with the eyes—not the lips. According to the station attaches, there is little kissing done in the great building which shelters the entrance to trains. It Is so much in the minority that train callers, matrons and regular visitors there look on with mild sur prise when the parting ones forget those around them and kiss each other. When kissing just must be done. It is usually indulged in at the home, down at the husband's office —or maybe in a car riage. Even Fritz or Louie or Michael, fresh into this country’, rarely’ ever greet rel atives or friends who came before them with the universally known smack. They sometimes fall Into one another’s arms or express their feeling with vig orous pats on the back, but not a kiss! TO FILE LIGHTING BIDS. MACON, GA., Aug 15.—Bids from the Macon Railway and Light Company and W. J. Massee's new company’ for the new five-year lighting contract will be filed next Tuesday night in open council meeting and opened Immediate ly. Thus no mistakes can possibly oc cur. i PUBLIC CAN ADVANCE I ONLY WITH ROOSEVELT, SAYS ALFRED H, LEWIS By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS., I ATEW YORK, Aug. 15.—1 n a recent I I editorial, one of our dailies, speaking for the trusts and for criminal privilege—those thumbs and Angers of Satan!—taunts the public with its political idleness, and in pass ing calls it a "a Pharisee.” The public —says the condemnatory daily—com plains of criminal privilege and accuses it of coercion, corruption and bribery. The daily points how the trusts are frequently the victims, not the crimi nals. and—threatened by the public’s own elected officers—pay not bribes, but blackmail. The public, crying for protection, should—by word of the dai ly—in its turn protect. It should save the trusts from extortioners in office before assailing them as extortioners, bleeding the public. This charge is not new. It was made four years ago by Mr. Archbold. You know Mr. Archbold. He sits all day at No. 26 Broadway, inclosing certificates i of deposit for SI,OOO and $2,000 and so,ooo and $50,000 to "My Dear Gen eral Grosvenor" and “Dear Sibley" and ’’My Dear Senator Foraker" and “Dear , Mr. Penrose," meanwhile urging per ( incident that this measure be killed or that measure pressed, or this man be , made a judge or that man prevented t from becoming an attorney’ general; f and all and singular with a view to ex , tending a corruption which in the be- I ginning produced him (Mr. Archbold) and has ever since continued to pleas ( antly foster and fatten him. Public Should Reform Itself. Mr. Archbold and tl\e metropolitan daily have some reasonable right on their side. Good can come out of Naz ’ areth, truth proceed from a metropoli ’ tan dally’ or an Archbold. It may even ’ be echoed by a Chancellor Day./ Ami : because of a woolsack aphorism which ? insists that 'he who comes into equity - must come with clean hands, a convict- - ed public, complaining of trust extor- ■ tions and the encroachments of criml f nal privilege, should turn honestly ac • tive In an effort to reform itself. As declared by Mr. Archbold and re ' declared by that metropolitan daily defending criminal privilege with red ' faced zeal—the public too often and ’’ too carelessly has maintained a band of 1 wolves at Its capitols as part and parcel ’ of what It calls congresses and legis latures. ’ Falling of its plain duty, the public, in the business of its office-filling, has ’ allowed Itself to be ruled by bosses ruled by money. These bosses were 1 mere wolf-masters. They picked out 1 and controlled the public wolf-packs. ? Tlte big parties were both to blame. 1 There was the Republican part of the " pack, which corresponded with the e black timber wolves of our Northwest “ ern woods. There was the Democrat ' fragment of the pack which —dingy and brindled as to inoral hue —found their prototypes in the big gray wolves of the plains. \ 1 Being gathered together, gaunt, hungry-eyed, famished of flank, the wolf-pack, letting its glance rove about the plains of business, describes a fat trust —felonious, but fat. It is now the chase begins. ’J’lie fat company Is be set by some bill or some Resolution, cal culated for its injury or destruction. Price Must Be Forthcoming. At this crisis, enter the ill-odored , folk of the lobby, whose province is the unclean province of the go-between. ’ The threatened trust is told lite price of peace and safety. Unless the price be forthcoming the Injurious bill or de structive resolution will be voted through. ’ The harassed company pays the 1 price. With that the wolf-pack fall ’ upon that blackmail—afte: the bosses and minor wolf-masters have torn off f their shares—and rend It to pieces. 1 Who is responsible for this special and particular corruption? Is it the I trusts, hunted by the wolf-pack? Or is it the public, lazily Indifferent both to ’ Its ballot duty and its political respon ! slbility? t The above, however, doesn't mark in full the boundaries of a public culpa bility, and Mr. Archbold and the metro s politan daily’ stopped talking too soon ' In Its laxities of polities the public is 1 not only to blame for wolves of black ’ mail in legislatures arid congresses, but 5 also for the leg freedom wrongfully enjoyed by a multitude of trust organs and felons of criminal privilege. Os these Mr. Archbold and the excited daily say suspiciously nothing r Consider those beef acquittals in I Chicago and those sugar dismissals — I through the interposition of a conven ! lent statute of limitations —in New I York. Consider the score or more of y similar waterhauls in anti-trust litiga tions —those farcical dissolutions by the supreme court of Tobacco and Stand ard Oil. Forget not, too, those one t ' hundred and one •investigations" of ■ steel and sugar and railroads and in r surance. Those trials and investigations in their results gave the world a long and ebon roll call of self-confessed male factors. These letters yvere self-ad mitted criminals, by both letter and spirit of the law. They had committed crimes of rebate and perjury and lar ceny and forgery. Than they no Paul Kelly, by’ their own admissions, was more the proper candidate for stripes. But the law was not enforced. There came no convictions, no sen tences, no stone walls. As to these rich and trust-bulyvarked rogues, the pub lic’s attorneys heard as little, saw as little, forgot as much of yvhat should militate against them, or go to prove their mean iniquities, as they might. Trust Rogues Rich. The reason? Those trust rogues yvere rich and therefore "respectable,” and "respecta bility," as a phrase, had been tyvisted and turned and improved upon until It operated as an indulgence. It so oper ates today. He who is “respectable" may commit bribery and perjury and larceny and embezzlement and pecula tion—by means of robber commissions and salaries never earned—and still live safe from the law lash. "Respectability!” It is the modern benefit of clergy. Today’ the thief has but to plead his "respectability" and courts, juries, the very law itself, grovel before him. No . officer lays hand upon his shoulder. No prosecutor presents, no grand jury in dicts, no court convicts, no chains clank, no bolts shoot home. For, io, he is "respectable!" \\ hile the public is correcting those blackmail evils of legislatures and con gresses. against which Mr. Archbold and the metropolitan daily have so ytailingly—and honestly—protested, it. should also demand the RECALL, " herewith to twist the recusan tails of trust-owned judges and money-ruled district attorneys. In his "Confession ,of Faith” Mr. Roosevelt sets forth "The right of the people to rule.” No one will challenge this claim. And yet, co-related to that right to rule” is the responsibility of not only ruling, but tailing tightly. As a picture of popular power and the pub lic’s ability to command its own offi cers, Mr. Roosevelt also uses these words: M hatever I did as president I was able to do only because I had the backing of the people. When on any point I did not have that backing, when on any point I dif fered from the people, it mattered not whether I was t ight or whether I was wrong, my power vanished.” Law Never Suppresses Crime. 1 his last suggests a thought some what aside from politics. The thought is not novel, yet no less important. The public has imposed upon it not only a political duty, but a duty of sentiment. ’Time is never suppressed by'effort of mere law. Men fear prisons less than they fear infamy and loss of name and friends. And it is these last great pen alties. as mu< h as any failure of action by judges and district attorneys which are peculiarly wanting In the cases of our rich and "respectable" scoundrels. Take the men who at these trials and "investigations” confessed— creatures of mi re-born avkrice and a morality of mud! There followed, as stated, no Jail sentence. But what was their social or commercial punishment? Did they lose place, or fall behind? Wore they thrust aside? Did they become outcasts as the result of their discovered and admit ted guilt? ’ Perish the thought! Nothing of dis aster. whether of church, dub. draw ing room or bourse, arose to overtake ' their evil heels. The same friends , grasped their hands and dragged them home to dinner. They dealt with the t same banks, and their accounts were as ! welcome and their money-potent signa . ttires as deeply rejoiced over as of yore ■ At n.ght they repaired to the same ' dHnk >'< P " co " ntPr as warm, h a " S as con,f '’* t‘ng. and play btidge for old-time thousands with the same old “respectable” gamblers and sots with whom they had guzzled and finiiiblpfl fop years “Respectable” Till-Tappers. ' Irtue is its own reward," says the moralist, and Lord Byron adds in his Journal: “And truly the poor jade ought to be damned well paid for her trouble. \ i rt ue is its own reward! Unit may be as it may. The fact re mains, however, that our “respectable” ill-tappers of politics and money know so little of virtue that they will do naught, fail of naught, for its pale and tasteless sake, I he Eskimo, of dull, perverted palate if offered his arctic choice between a iluster oi grapes and a dripping morsel of whale s blubber, will seize the blub ber. And so with our “respectable” • rime-saturated rogues of trade and politics. As between virtue for virtue’s dollarless sake and those rotund if rot ten millions, they will never hesitate. I’hey will take the rancid millions, finding for them and for themselves thereafter as wide and as ready an acceptance as for uhiter characters and money much more clean. Recurring to the political angle, and letting the moral-sentimental go adrift, it is safe to say that publics are new r saved from thp shore. They save or sink themselves. Whether It, were a blackmailer in a legislature, or a trust tamed district attorney, not an evil has been mentioned which the RECALL wouldn’t cure. Hope Lies in Roosevelt, How are you to get it? Mr. Taft is against the RECALL. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Roosevelt profess to favor it. Who is the surer man in that recall con nection—Mr. Wilson or Mr. Roosevelt? Mr. Taft, by his own word, is out of the question. He is for the god of things as they agree. To vote for him Is but to confirm present conditions or retreat to worse. Os the other two on whom would you sooner rely to put through a RECALL—the man of action or the man of alcoves? Frederick the Great once said: "If I wanted to punish a province. I’d have it governed by a phi losopher.” Mr. Wilson is a philoso pher. With a last word, It’s all In the lap of the public. The public can advance with Mr. Roosevelt; it can stand still with Mr. Wilson; it can go backward with Mr. Taft. The public is its ffwn architect and builds for itself. For whatever happens publicly the public has no one save itself" to thank. It can not be too often repeated that government is ever the just expression of its people like a flower of Its stalk. For good or bad, or black or white, it is unflaggingly a match for the popular desert. In the eternal fitness of things, men will get man-government, dogs will get dog-government. And why not? Why waste a man-government on a dog-public? Would you pelt pigs with pearls? A dog-public should have dog-government—a kick, a kennel, a collar, a bone to gnaw, ■ chain to ' dank. 3