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IIEARS'I' !S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, liA., SI NDAY, JUNE 1, 1»13.
FVFHY ATI ANT A Carnegie Latest to Feel Sting of Steunenberg’s Pen
CLASS PATRON Captain Who Ridiculed Atlanta Lampoons Laird
Government's Big Financial ln-
stitution Slow in Gaining Pop
ularity, but Grows Steadily.
FEW NATIVES DEPOSITORS
B. W. Farrar, in Charge of Local
Office, Believes Confidence of
Foreigners Is Promoted.
Army Man Who Called City an
Oxcart Town Derides Peace j
Plan of Ironmaster After Scor
ing Kaiser's Balkan Attitude.
The Tranquil ljfe,
Steunenberg’s Poem
The postal savings bank established
by the United States Government D
not the tuccees In Atlanta that It Is In
other cities Relatively few of Its de
positors are citizens or natives of At-
‘anta. according to the statement of
R W Farrar, who is In charge of the
postal savings department of the local
postofflce.
Almost any fine Saturday afternoon
a line of rnen can be seen threading
it* way along the lobby on the Plum
Street *ide of the postofflce. The line
!m motley, even cosmopolitan in ap
pearance. and interesting The men
who form it are depositors in the pos
tal savings bank, and are for the most
part wage-earners w r hose deposits arc
relatively smail.
Deposits in the Atlanta branch of
the postal savings bank aggregate lit
tle more than $25,000. with not quite
500 depositors.
•*I don’t thick that many natives of
Atlanta know that the bank is here or
understand its functions,” said Post
master H. L. McKee yesterday, but he
sees possibilities for great usefulness
In the institution
The mission of the bank, as he and
H. W. Farrar, clerk in charge, out
lined it, is considerable.
Stops Money Going Back.
“We should like for one thing to
promote the Interest and the confi
dence of foreigners.” explained Mr.
Farrar “Then probably would stop
the stlady stream of money that is
sent, back to the old country. The
sale of International money orders is
enormous, and a large portion of the
money of these eons of other lands
goes away from the United States. - ’
Mr Farrar thinks the amount of
deposits in the postal savings hank
everywhere Is lessened by the restric
tion placed on depositors, by which
not more than $100 a month tan be
depoeited This, he prophesied, would
be changed, and the limit of deposits
removed altogether.
Few of the depositors in the At
lanta branch are women, fewer even
than the boys There are a numtfpr of
boys, mostly Bov Scouts, who, to ac
quire standing in their organization,
must have a savings deposit of at
least one dollar But by far the most
of the depositors, almost 90 per cent
of the total number, are men. and
mod of them wage-earners.
* Evidence of the great variety of
personalities among the depositors In
Atlanta is borne In the records of the
local branch The first depositor aft
er the organization of the bank was a
'painter, the second a mail carrier:
^others., the order of their deposits,
were, respectively, engineer, modeler,
bookkeeper, merchant, rabbi, printer,
lawyer, school teacher, railroad man.
machinist, wire worker, cook, tailor,
meter repairer blaster, housewife and
plumber.
Little Money Withdrawn.
Little of the money deposited has
been withdrawn, and a number of the
depositors In the Atlanta branch have
purchased Government bonds. Ac
cording to the regulations governing
the bank, “a depositor will be permit
ted to exchange the whole or any par*
of his deposits in sums of $20, $40, $00.
$80. $100. or multiples of $100 up to
and including $500, into United States
registered or coupon bonds bearing
interest at the rate of 2 1-2 per cent
per annum."
"So, you see.” remarked Mr. Farrar,
“the bank helps out the habit of eav-
t Ing ”
A few' of the rules governing the
hank are:
No person under 10 years old may
he a depositor
The name of a depositor can not be
disclosed
Deposits must be for $1 or more, al
though postal savings cards and pos
tal savings stamps may be purchased
for 10 cents each, to be redeemed later
when $1 worth are accumulated.
, Interest at the rate of 2 per cent per
annum is allowed.
A depositor may at any time with
draw the whole or any part of his
money
Georgia Behind 40 States.
Patronage of the postal savings
bank in Georgia is less extensive than
40 other States, according to the 1912
report of the newly established de
partment jus* given out in Washing
ton. Deposits in Georgia up to that
time were only $48.32n, in New York
$3,332,304 had been deposited. Tin*
State of;the lowest deposits was South
Carolina, with'$11.258.
According to the report however,
the postal savings bank is growing,
and Uncle Sam rapidly is becoming
the Mgge«t banker in the world He
is adding deposits at the rate of $1.-
000.000 and depositors by the thou
sands every 30 days.
From T\ oruary 28 to March SI. 1918.
the deposits in all the branches in
creased from $32,500,000 to $S3.500,000.
and depositors from 325.000 to 335.000.
and this rate of increase kept up
through April
According to the report for Novem-
1912, the deposits* by States
Captain George Steunenberg has I
again leaped into the very center of
the spotlight, and again his vigoroos ,
trenchant and well-known i>en is the
cause of his attaining this coveted
position. This time he goes after An- ‘
drew Carnegie with a poem in which
he ridicules < ’arnegie’s attitude as an |
enemy to war.
Captain Steunenberg wears a sword
for a living, but he has ever prac
ticed in the belief of tlie* theory that .
the pen Is a mightier weapon.
A little more than a year ago. Cap- j
tain Steunenberg was gracing the
barracks and parade ground at Fort |
McPherson as an officer of the Sev- j
enteenth Infantry. Little was known
of him in Atlanta and this seemed to |
Wherefore he j
Have ye heard the glad tidings, ye
comrades in arms? Rejoice for
our troubles are past!'
The prize we , have struggled so long
to attain we hold In our clutches
at last.
Like mists of the morning our cares
roll away and vanished are sor
row and strife;
Our troubles we.’ll toss to the rol
licking breeze.
And pursue an existence of indolent
ease.
So write t«> your relatives.' tell ail
your friends, and convey the glad
news to your wife
For the Congress of Peace has dis
covered the fact that we'he lead
ing the tranquil life'
hurt his sensibilities
drew his trusty pen and began to see , n ave vou ever done time at the Leav-
that writh. ‘* n<1 ,hou « ht you
He got the notice When he had were earning your pay
laid by his writing paraphernalia tern - When you burled your face in the
porarily he had said things about At
lanta. and the things he said were
not of a nature to please the proud
spirit of Atlantans
He went after the city itself, and
when he was through it was hut a
country village, and not any country
village, to brag on. either. According
to his description, the principal meth
od of transportation here was the
trustworthy but obsolete ox team,
while mud, hub deep, was decidedly
the most attractive feature of the
civic scenery.
Then he went into a discussion of
the climate, and long before he was
through the Sahara Desert was com
paratively a garden spot and the at
mosphere of the village- was so ener
vating that the people hardly had the
energy to fan themselves with the
thermometer 102 in the shade.
From the climate, lie switched to a
discussion of the people According
to the gallant captain, they were
hardly worth discussion. He admit
ted that they were wonders at .chew
ing tobacco .and whittling soft pine
sticks in front of the livery stable,
but that was about all to them, ex
cept that they had considerable abil
ity when It came to making the night
hideous and doing more wicked
things than were ever heard of in the
naughtiest Parisian cafe
Architecture Doesn’t Please.
According to the captain, the archi
leaves of a book for some seven
teen hours a day?
Have you had to change station three
times in a year and pay fare for
your children and wife?
Have you blistered your heels and
grown weak in the knees?
Slept in wet blankets and swore at
the fleas?
Have you sprung from your bed in
the gray, early dawn to the
scream of the reveille fire.
And double-timed out to receive the
reports? That’s part of the tran
quil life.
It was once a hardship to sleep in a
tent, with the rain dripping
through on your bed;
When the tightening guy-ropes would
pull out the pins and collapse the
whole on your head.
Or to pant through tlie sweltering
afternoon with a hot wind at
tempting your llffv-
Dust rolling in from the company
street
Tent-fly flapping a lullaby sweet.
While with poison oak, ehiggers and
cuss words rare the tropical air
was rife—
I No hardship at all! Just passing
events in the course of the tran
quil life.
lecture, what little there was. must i
have been the work of a hopeless Who dreads the long years .in the
Inebriate, and while he admitted that Philippines now? The fever, the
some of the folks could read and heat and* the dust?
write, they must have had extraordi- j And the long nights on outpost
nary talent, for the educational facili- j through tropical rain that turns
ties were about in keeping with the j all the rifles to rust?
rest of the things around town. Or the endless pursuit of the festive
The captain had difficulty in get- L&drone, who has evil designs on
ting his story printed, but he finally j your life-
landed it in an obscure little daily Chunks of lead humming through
paper In the mountains of Montana. 1 the trees—
It took several weeks to reach At- (Trilling events in the life of ease:)
lanta, but when it did there was a ! And if we would forfeit a Juglar vein
howl that reverberated At Fort Me- \ to the swing of the murderous
Pherson.
A diplomatic War Department saw
:hat Captain Steunenberg’s Atlanta
Jays were few and he was transferred
to the more salubrious land of Hawaii,
where they do the hula hula dance.
Captain Ridicules Kaiser.
During the Balkan bickering, he
reached for his pen and wrote an ef
fusion called “Our Object Lesson." in
which he paid his respects to Wil
helm Hohenzollern, Rmperor and
autocrat of Germany. It caused con
siderable of a row in the War De
partment. but Steunenberg wasn’t
perturbed
He came right back with a poem
he calls "The Tranquil Life,” in which
he lampoons and harpoons Andrew
Carnegie, who Is supposed to be
worth many millions and can prob
ably bear up under the attack, even as
Atlanta did.
knife
What of it! Tin but a becoming fi
nale befitting the tranquil life.
No more will we swear at the long,
dusty hikes they're nothing but
pleasure trips now—
No more will the parting of family
ties bring a furrow of care to
the brow;
And the rifle, the bolo. the home-made
spear- once handy In shortening
Ilf*—
The barong, lantaka. and sinuous
kree.se
Are friendly and safe as the dove
of peace.
And though the dark war clouds may
hover apace and betoken Interna
tional strife. . I
Have never a fear, for the sun shines
clear in the path of the tranquil
life.
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2,271.785
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1.612,443
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New I!anu>*htr<
Rhode Island
Plat of Cot
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1.236.536 i Florida
MMLIftl Maine
U'U.nss : Vi*>.
l.tot.SS! f J-oulaiana
S96.06T ! Ark*n«a«
774.676 ' Wyoming
74A.240, Alabama
666.265 Went Virginia
5*0.143 Maryland .
53.1,568 Mlailwlppl
517.4AS South Dakota
427 114 Georgia
322.87© • New Mexico
302.344 North Dakota
260.348 Vermont
270.14" ' North Carollm
252.041
251.661
»uth Carolina
More Changes Are Planned.
a ot that created the system :a
o be so amended as to extend and
popularise Its most important fea
tures. Children under ten years old
will T>e permitted 10 have accounts,
and depositors will be given the privi
lege of drawing on their deposit?.
A liberal interpretation, it is held.
will permit regulations that allow de
positors to check out their money to
pay obligations to the Postofflce De
partment. The law says that "any
depositor may withdraw the whole or
any part of the funds deposited to his
or h<M pradit, wit h j he scosMd in tar
est. upon demand and under such reg
ulations as the board of trustees may
prescribe.”
July 1. when the parcel post offi
cials put Into effect the "collect onde-
li\crv" fViituiv. the Postofflce Depart
ment expects to make it possible for a
patron of a postofflce and a depositor
In a savings depository to draw on
his carrier Instead of having to hunt
up the exact change.
The lawmakers feared to go too far
when the act was framed lest the op
position of the bankers hinder its pas
sage. Since this the bankers have
found that postal savings have helped
rather than hindered them.. There arc
now, 27 months after the establish
ment of tile postal savings system,
more than 345.000 depositors and
about $34,500,000 deposited in the 12.-
160 offices. Some private banks may
have more money on deposit, hut none
has so many depositors.
Thursday, when the postal savings
division was transferred to the bureau
of the Third Assistant Postmaster
General, the head of that bureau be
came the chief officer of the, most
popular hank in America.
Growth Has Been Steady.
The growth of the system Is told. :n
the following figures;
June 30. 1911 400 offices. 11,918 de
positors. $667,145 on deposit. $56.82
per depositor.
December 31. 1911—5.24 7 deposito
ries. 162,697 depositors. $10,614,676 in
deposits; average of deposits, $65.24.
June 30. 1912 10,170 depositories
243,801 depositors. $2tT237.0R4 depos
its. average. $83.01.
December 31, 1912—12.823 'deposito
ries, 310.000 depositor*. $30,000,000 de
posits ; average.'$96.77.
January 31. 1913-12.823 deposito
ries, 315,000 depositors,-$31,000,000 de
posits; average, $98.41.
February 28. 1913—12.825 deposito
ries. 325.000 depositors, $32,500,000 of
deposits, average. $100*
March 31, 1913—12.823 depositories,
1335.000 depositqrs, $‘33,500,000 of de-
lposits. average, $100.
Suspicious and timid persons now
bring their money Trohr «R\sorts of
hiding places to deposit It with Uncle
i Sam’s bank. Having learned that the
; 'faith of the United States is solemn-
' ly pledged to the payment of the de-
j posits made in postal savings deposi
tory offices, with accrued interest.”
they are not afraid to trust their sav
ing* to n
Foreign born white persons, who
used to hide their savings or send
! them back home for safe keeping.
| now bring them to the people's bank.
| as is proved by statistic^.
Tiie number of. depositors, classified
i b> color and nativity, June 30, last
CARNEGIE, APOSTLE OF
PEACE, READY FOR WAR
' IF THERE IS TO BE ONE
%
AkK
CARNEGIE BEHIND THE GUNS.
Andrew Carnegie, the famous
apostle of peace, waxed quite war
like in discussing the prospects
and possibility of a war with Jap
an. He even threatened to go to
the front himself if such a thing
happened.
Notwithstanding his martial
spirit, the Laird of Skibo is to-day
on the high seas to spend his sum
mer at The Hague and other great
international peace depots.
But here are the words of An
drew Carnegie, able and . willing
warrior, if there Is to be a war;
'Will there be war with Japan?
No! There will never be war be
tween the United States and Jap
an. We are the best friend Japan
lias got. The idea of war with her
is absurd.
“Hut if anybody wants to attack
the United States let them come
in. Let them get into the interior
of this country and then, let them
get out—If they can. How are
they going to get out?
“We have got in this country
22,000,000 men who can fight and
shoot. There are lots of hunters
in the West Who know how to hit
the mark."
Waits 20 Years in Court
+»4* -I* • v +•+
“Patient Jane’s” Long Vigil
Miss .lane Hath
Independent Institutions Furnish
Instruction in Art of Growing
and Pressing Grape.
Every Week in That Long Period
She Has Paid a Visit, Only
to Be Disappointed.
Former Stage Driver
Reviews Old Scenes
Idaho Man Visits Los Angeles and
Compares It With Settlement
He Knew.
year, and amount on depqslt, were:
Native whites, 150,942. $9,774,605;
foreign born white/ ff8.186. $10,255,-
756; negroes. 4.4,68. $189,432; other
non-whites. 210, $17,291.
About $16,750,000 that formerly
would have Wpen sent out of
the country or buried somewhere
In this country Is now in circulation.
Of the total number of depositors
1 1 1.890 Are women, the majority of
them married.
The foreign born whites, compris
ing a little more than one-third of
all the depositors, have about one-
half of the total deposits. Native
white women have more money to
their credit than the foreign born of
their sex.
“Very little of the money deposited
In the postal savings offices was
withdrawn from the banks." says
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Dockery. “The system has fully met
the expectation that the foreign-
born resident would leave his savings
in the keeping of the Government
instead of sending It abroad. The
amount of International money or
ders issued increased at the rate of
$9,000,000 a year for the ten years
from 1902 to 1911, and $16,500,000 a
year during the last two years of this
period, the total (or the period end
ing Julie 30 last being $109,604,639.
One year later, and in the second year
of the operation of the postal sav
ings system, this had dropped to
$97,660,026, a decrease of nearly
$12,000,000. During this same period
postal savings deposits Increased
from $667,145 to $20,237,084.
“The net result is an increase In
the practice of saving, the restoration
to circulation of large sums that were
hoarded, and the retention In this
country of money “formerly sent
abroad.”
LOS AXtiELES, May 31.—Return
ing to visit the scenes familiar to
htm when Los Angeles was a pueblo,
Thomas Ranahan, of Boise, Idaho,
accompanied by hie wife, will spend
th*?> winter reviewing the places he.
kqew when he t was ii driver on the
stage line that* ran* l etween this city
and Santa Barbara before the com
ing of the railroad.
Mr, Ranahan. who for years was a
scout on the plains under General
Forsythe, a rider of the pony express
and a .driver on the Overland and
Santa Ft- stage lines, is spending
his time In the formation of a scheme
to reproduce the scenes' of former
days in a series of motion pictures.
To this end he has interested the
Governors df some of the in v er-moun-
taln States, and hopes to take a se
rif's of pictures, covering stage day
incidents between Sacramento and
Atchison. Kan. The Governors of
Idaho. Nevada. Wyoming and Mon
tana have promised their support
to the movement.
Holds Pastor’s Wife
Must Share His Lot
«■
“For Better or for Worse Applies
to Doth Parties to Marriage
Contract/’ Court Rules.
LOS 4NGELES. May 31.—“ For
better or tor worse’.applies in the case
of a woman marrying a minister.
Just the same as 1n the case of any
other couple," ruled Judge Monr >e
in refusing to grant a divorce to
Maude Carmack, a school teacher,
but awarding one to Rev. Joseph M.
Carmack on hia cross-complaint
charging desertion
‘We were married in Rockford. Ill.,
while he was on a small salary as «t
Methodist minister.” said the plaintiff.
"He did not provide me with enough
money to permit me properly to
clothe myself. I finally left him in
Chicago.”
"You knew the extent of his earn
ings?” queried the Court.
■ Yes.” admitted the plaintiff, and
Judge Monroe said her charges were
pot mifficient grounds for divorce.
SICKLE LOST 70 YEARS
FOUND IMBEDDED IN TREE
MOVING PICTURES PROPOSED
TO GET RECRUITS FOR ARMY
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Recruit,
ing for the United States Army by
means of moving picture exhibitions
showing the soldier’s life is proposed
b> Major R. C. Croxton, IT. S. A.
He has set forth his proposals in
;.n article in the Infantry Journal.v It
has attracted much attentiotr at the
War Department and is viewed with
great favor by many officers.
Majof Croxton maintains that
movies'* will get for the United
States Army more and better men
at much cost than i?» ’possible
under the present methods of re
cruiting. He helievds that tritcllng
moving picture shows will be more
efficient.
INDIANA. PA. May 31.—An old-
fashioned metal sickle stuck into a
maple sapling 70 years ago by an
irate father. Daniel Nupp. while he
chastised his two sons in a harvest
field, was found imbedded in the heart
of a large tree cut down recently by
Cyrus Nupp, of all persons just the
one to explain the mystery out of a
vivid memory of the ancient incident.
While Daniel Nupp, one of the pio
neer far mars of. this, county, was har
vesting the crops on the old home
stead farm, in Green Township, in
?I34Sf. ire asked ids two sons. George,
aged 10. and Cvtus, aged 7. to carry
water for the harvest hands. It was
.» warm day. and the boysw ent into a
nearby woods and sat in the shade.
The fkther. who was cutting grain
with a vdckle. became irritated and.
sticking the point of the sickle into a
small sapling, called the boys to him.
i ut a switch from a nearby bush and
chastised the tydy. Nupp returned to
the and. having forgotten what
he did with the sickle, hunted for it in
vain
NEW YORK. May 31— How Ger
man boys are taught to grow the
finest grapes and make the best wine
to be found in the Rhine Valley is the
subject of an interesting report to
the Department of Commerce from
United States Consul H. W. Harris,
stationed at Frankfort.
First-class schols are maintained
in several.desirable locations of Ger
many, where almost /everything a
boy or young man should know about
grape-growihg or wine-making is*
taught, with a-fair common school
education thrown in as an extra ac
complishment. One such institution
Is the (jrand Ducal School for Wine
and Fruit Groing at Oppenheim-
am- Rhein.
Entirely Independent.
It is independent of any other edu
cational institution and has at its
disposal about four acres In produc
tive vineyards and about five acres
ueed for experiments, acclimatizing
American vines, seedlings, and similar
purposes. The orchards, in which va
rious kinds of fruit are grown, cover
nearly twelve acres. The cellars for
pressing, preparing and storing wine
are well Equipped with necessary ap
pliances. Including several winds of
worm-werew, presses, a hydraulic twin
press, a Mayfarth hydraulic press,
machines for detaching berries, a
Lle^rich filter, a Reitz asbestos filter,
a Grur.ig filter, u Hollander filter, and
a complete Installation with motor
power for cleaning bottles. The wine
cellar contains on an average 8,500
gallons of wine.
"The regular course,” says Mr. Har
ris. "is divided into two semesters—a
\y inter semester from the beginning of
October to the last of March and a
summer semester from the middle of
April to the last of June, with holi
days from Christmas until after New
Year’s and two weeks at Easter. This
arrangement permits the students* to
take part in f he spring sowing as
well as the harvest w’ork, either at
home or on some well-conducted farm.
In case the students do not spend
their holidays at home, the school un
dertakes to find suitable employment
for them.
"The students take part in all kinds
of work in the echool’s orchards, vine
yards. and wine cellars. In addition,
excursions are arranged in the neigh
borhood of Oppenheim and other fruit
and wine districts. There is, further,
a po-called Praktikanten—Abeitlung. a
section in which preparatory practical
experience may be acquired by stu
dents too young to make the regular
course and other persons. Tuition for
the entire regular course is 50 marks
(11.90) for Hessians and 75 marks
($17.85 for others. This does not. of
course, include board and lodging.
Three Special Courses.
“In addition to the regular course
just described, the school gives three
kinds of special courses, which are
held from time to time, according to
the necessities of the district: (1)
Course for proprietors of vineyards,
wine dealers, inn keepers, etc., which
includes lectures on preparation and
care of wine, fermentation, as well
as practical work in laboratory, and
wine cellar; (2) course for wine grow
ers, the instruction covering newest
methods in planting and caring for
vineyards, manuring and combating
vineyard pes»ts; (3) course for orchard
gardeners, consisting of theoretical
and practical instruction of concern
ing fruit trees, planting, pruning, im
proving, etc. There are short courses
held at irregular intervals.
"Besides theoretical and practical
instruction offered in regular and spe
cial courses at Oppenheim. the School
for Wine and Fruit Growing send." its
teachers as ‘itinerant instructors’ all
over the fruit districts of the Grand
Duchy of Hesse has charge of an
organized attempt to exterminate
vineyard pests, supervises ‘model
vineyards,’ and carries on extensive
experiments in wine and fruit grow
ing in the vineyards and orchards
connected with the school.
•‘The ‘Wanderlehre’. or itinerant in
struction consists of lectures and field
demonstrations. Originally most at
tention was paid to lectures held in
wine and fruit centers. It has been
found, however, that growers derive
more benefit from lectures which sup
plement practical demonstrations. At
present instructors go through a dis
trict, follow work in the field, give
practical demonstrations, and then
close their visit by a lecture review
ing what has already been shown in
practice. The teachers of the school
are frequently invited to address
meetings and associations of perrons
interested in these industries.
Model Vineyards.
“The school attaches great impor
tance to the educational value of its
rocalled model vineyards, which are
quite independent of those which are
the property of the school. The model
vineyards are worked by the proprie
tors under the supervision of the
school.”
Another school. the Provincial
School for Wine and Fruit Growing,
is at Kronznach. It has an orchard
covering about five acres, in which
different kinds of trees. planting
methods, and the distribution of trees
and bushes can be studied. A second
orchard of about twenty acres is a
short distance from the school and
is used for ordinary and intensive
fruit grouiqg.
“The school year at Kreuznach,"
says Mr. Harris, “lasts from the be
ginning of October to the middle of
August. It will be observed that, in
addition to the subjects peculiar to
wine and fruit growing, it is aimed io
instruct the students along general
lines, with especial reference to the
needy of their future work.
“Furthermore, the school trains
young men for positions as manager?
of qgricultureal enterprises. In addi
tion to the above courses, their train
ing includes special instruction, vet
erinary science, management of farms,
and surveying. This is a two-year
cour^v.
“Besides the above regular course'
I the school offers a number of special
1 courses, held generally during the
j winter months and lasting one to thre*
weeks, thus enabling farmers am.
wine growers to attend.”
NEW YORK, May 31.—Jane Bath
visited the Supreme Court Thursday
Just as she has each Thursday for 20
years, and waited for the decision in
“her case.” She has waited so long
for this decision that she is known as
"Patient Jane” to the County Court
House attaches.
When the chronicles of the old
Tween Court House are written,
none will be more singular than the
story of Jane Bath. Back in the
eighties when she was sprier and
less wrinkled Jane Bath came to thP’
Court House and Inquired about her
case. She was told the decision would
be handed down the following Thurs-
day. Every Thursday since that time
seh has looked for it.
“She told me when she first came?
here,” the policeman, who has been
on duty in the Court House for a
quarter of a century, explained, “that
she lived in Allen Street. She said
she was suing a corporation for fa.lse
arrest and wanted damages for the
loss of her hair. It seems she was
locked up over night and worried so
her hair came out. The lawyer that
took her case disappeared and ever
since she’s been looking for a de
cision in her favor.”
Arkansas Town Has
4 Mayors in 2 Weeks
Democrat, Elected, Resigns When He
Names Committees and Is Suc
ceeded by Postmaster.
IMBODEN. ARK.. May 31.—Walter
Wells, one of the most active Repub
lican politicians, in Northeast Arkan
sas, was sworn in as Mayor of Im-
boden yesterday to succeed R. F.
Kirkpatrick, who was elected at the
recent election, but resigned Monda>
night after appointing his commit
tees for the year’s work.
Imboden has had four active Mayors
in the last two weeks. Mayor Joe Sul
livan, who left this week for Heber
Springs, Ark., was succeeded last
week by Mayor Kirkpatrick, who in
turn was succeded by Recorder Joe
B. Watkins, who acted until Mayoi
Wells could get his commission and
be inducted into office.
The first mayors were radical Dem
ocrats, while the last named Is a Re
publican. Mayor Wells is also post
master at Imboden.
POISONED ARROW THAT
KILLED CUSTER PRESERVED
FORT SCOTT, May 31.—Famous as
the last stand of Custer may be. there
are few people who know that he was
killed by a poisoned arrow.
It has been the general belief of
the American people that in this fa
mous battle, there were no arrows
used, but Philip Bloch, an old Indian
scout, and a man perhaps better ac
quainted with the Indians than any
one else in his time, claims he pulled
an arrow from the body of Custer, a
few hours after the massacre.
Bloch is an uncle of Gus Green
fields and on his last trip to this
city promised to send the arrow so
he would know it was in safe hands.
COLLEGE WORK
boast Is Now Made That the Sun
Never Sets on the Activities
of Old Eli.
NEW HAVEN. May 31. — Yale’s
boast to-day is the sun never sets
upon the worldwide stretch of her
activities. Wherever there is work
to be done, whether it be in the com
mercial or Industrial world or in the
forms of work directly undertaken
for the betterment of humanity, ther»
floats the blue.
Yale was the first American univer
sity to undertake, through its grad
uates. the creation of an educational
mission ir. the Far East, and its suc
cess there has had an influence on
othci American colleges. Harvard and
the University of Pennsylvania have
pushed the medical work in China,
and Princeton has • supported the
Young Men’s Christian Association
work in that country.
Non-Sectarian Mission.
Ya-li, at Changsba, in the Hunan
district, the center of Yale’s activi
ties in China, is no sectarian mis
sion—it is an educational institution
that its supporters hope in time will
be to China what Yale is to Ameri-
F. W. Williams, the chairman
of the executive committee, says: “As
it seeks no support from the churches
here, it takes no part in the direct
work of making converts in China.”
An editorial in a recent number of
the Yale Alumni Weekly adds: “The
day has in largo measure passed
when the religious energy of an Oc
cidental nation uch as ours ex
pended wholly in attempting to con
vert an Oriental nation to our way
of considering theological dogmas.
‘Missionary’ work to-day has come
to mean a different and a broader
and wDer thing.
“It seeks, as in this instance of
Yale in China, to give to a great peo
ple '-uch as the Chinese, struggling
to their f eet as an actor in the mod
ern world drama, the co-operation
and help of a nation such as ours,
further advanced in industrial and
educational and political experience,
to be sure, but able to learn some
thing in return ourselves from the
finer side of the Oriental character.”
The decennial of, the inception of
the Yale in China movement is be
ing celebrated this spring. Although
the college has not yet passed beyond
the hign.school stage, its curriculum
is being constantly improved and the
attendance has increased from about
a score to almost a hundred.
Yale Graduates.
The teaching force consists of
eight Yale graduates, seven Chinese
instructors and three under appoint
ment from America. The course in
cludes a thorough study of the Chi
nese language and literature, mathe
matics. the sciences, history, English
and German, the “modern” studies
being conducted in English.
Tne college is located in the capi
tal of Hunan, a walled town about
twice the size of New Haven. Most
of the work is carried on in a “com
pound” consisting of several two-
story houses, these of the faculty,
who do not live here being accom
modated in rental Chinese houses.
MARIE CORELLI SUING
ACTOR FOR PLAGIARISM
LONDON, May 31.—Miss Marie
Corelli, the novelist, is seeking an in
junction to restrain a music hall ar
tist najned Gray from producing the
sketch “The People's King,” on the
ground that it was plagiarized from
her “Temporal Power.” Gray main
tains that the sketch is a condensa
tion of a play he wrote in 1894, t and
that the lovemaking scenes in it
could not have been copyrighted. The
case came up in court to-day and
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FORMER GAMBLING DEN IN
CHICAGO BECOMES MISSION
CHICAGO, May 31,—What was
once reputed to be a gambling den
with secret doors and other devices
for the escape of gamblers in case
of raid9 was to-day converted into a.
mission as an adjunct of the Moody
Ch urch.
W S. Jacoby, who says he served
in Indian campaigns under General
Custer and later became a gambling-
house keeper, announced that he had
turned evangelist and that the first
religious service in the den would be
held to-morrow.
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