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I 3 i V . si rt jsr- y i ? THE AMERICAN RAILWAY PYTHON.' IT VIOLATES IW f How Germany Helps Boys The Cdsfornia AnSi-JCp J Ey Priscilla Leonard. : '-Valentine tSoyeltiesi;61 , iCVs -4s F6TParties,J Luncheons; gc.SV ?: t Cfs ,"-... ?-w MPs-, y It I H&N an American boy i' i. , . Wi hnuw wnat sort or worK ne . warns ur ia ui v when he knows exactly what kind of job he desires, he of I i. ..4. 1 1 n it Q-irVi n inb as he aims for may not exist within his opportunities of place and time. So the boy leaving school may drift into an unsuit able occupation, or, worse, into no occupation at all, in spits of an honest wish, originally, to work. 7 y9 In Germany they order these things better. In that ad mirable study of recent German labor legislation, "The German Workman," the work of the Munich labor bureau for boys leaving school is recorded. Munich teachers became interested in finding suitable work for their boys in 1903, and now the bureau, with their help, has grappled with the question most successfully. Every year printed schedules of comprehensive questions are sent to very head teacher of the Munich schools to be distributed among the pupils who are going to leave the schools that year. The pupils are asked to put themselves in communication with the muni cipal labor bureau, which will advise them as to the choice of a vocation, and give them the best chance possible to secure work. Yearly circulars are also sent to all the trade guilds and other labor soci eties, to enlist their co-operation. The children respond readily to the aid given them. Boys come by doz ens to the offices of the bureau, in search of positions as apprentice or be ginner. Each brings a form of application, filled up by himself, but signed by his teacher. When the bureau finds a place for him, he is notified by post-card, and presents himself for examination by the employer, wherever and whenever the latter may appoint. Whether the boy takes the job or not, he must report to the bureau the result of the interview; and this goes on until work is procured which suits him and which he is able to do. For the direction of the boys, the labor bureau has prepared, with the aid of expert employers and medical men, a handbook of the industries open to a boy. This handbook describes the different kinds of work, the qualifica tions necessary to each, the prospects of promotion or steady employment, the health conditions, the dangers and difficulties, the cost and time of training, and everything else which the boy and his parents ought to know before choosing his career. A ladies' committee has lately been appointed to look after the girls, also, from the schools. So the young people of Munich have a first-rate chance for a good start in life. The idea is one which in spite of practical difficulties might surely be considered and adopted for use by American educators and social workers, as well as German ones. A system o.f this sort would be a blessing to many boys and girls leaving school In America today, and halting undecided and -perplexed on the threshold of industry. Youth's Companion. inwwuw , s The First Jlmerican Voyagers To Japan By Ralph 4 t is commonly assumed that until the memorable visit of Commodore Perry's squadron in 1853 had shattered the an I cient isolation or japan, no American snip naa ever oeea permitted to trade or tarry in a port of that nation. More than half a century, however, before the tenacious diplo macy of Perry wrested a treaty of "friend and commerce," two Yankee vessels had carried cargoes to and from Nagas aki. Their voyages were typical episodes of the era when -W 9. -T. --W a J. A mft A ,f. t- -- -- iTi A aTm ill Ji Salem shipmasters were the first to fly the Stars and Stripes from the uncharted coasts of Sumatra to the unknown islands of the South Seas. It was in 1799 that the ship Franklin, owned in Boston, and command ed by Capt. James Devereaux of Salem, won the historical distinction of be ing the first American vessel to find a friendly greeting In a harbor of Japan. Tyro years later, the ship Margaret of Salem, Capt- S. G. Derby, fared on a like errand. Excepting a handful of Dutch traders, these two ships visited a land as strange and unknown to the outside world as was the heart of Thibet a dozen years ago. The log books and journals of these voyages have to do with customs and incidents that sound as archaic as a chapter of the history of the Middle Ages in Europe. The Outing Magazine. f Strange Bird House n By Katherine HAT birds will sometimes choose strange places in which to build their nests was, perhaps, never better shown than in this instance of a bird building: hers in a vest ' norirt T ! An old gentlman, who was interested in some quarries, had occasion to visit them one very hot day and while there, feeling the heat very much, took off his vest and hung It up I am sorry I do not know just where but it happened many years ago. However, when he returned home he must have forgotten the vest, for h rrn o cairorfl novo hDtrrn Ha rarnmaH fn iiis surprise to find that a hanDv nair of - - muiuui urn per mission, for. the season as. a place in which to build their home and raise their little , family. The. old gentleman must have been one possessed of great Jkindness of heart, for he was so touched at what he saw that he went home without his vest, generously allowing the little lady and her consort to remain undisturbed In the possession of the site they had chosen for their home. . The kindly old gentleman was of goodly proportions, so possibly the Wrds -were not overcramned for ' - . .M p p LAsuy u my urea language Ey Erander HE advantages of a world-language are Indisputable."" With- ccijr mau must De content to express himself in his own tongue; and every man who needs to know what has been said upon the subject In which vhe is specially inter- ested must nf neposeltir mootn- . i. - - H- I "J ",BO a aozen other lan guages. And this is the disadvantage of the individual only; even more far-reaching and significant are the dis- advantages of the several communities, each of which has , . oniy Lne speech of Its own stock. In the absence of a com mon tongue they may fail to understand one another and misunderstandings may lead to bickerings, and bickerings may bring them to open strife When we see how much easier it is for the British and the Americans to understand each other than it for the French and the Germans, we perceive al I once how much the existence of a world-language would make for peace.-The Cen tury. n Her Unladylike Habit.. "She's no lady!" Why, I always thought her most re fined." "On the surface, yes. But what do you think of a woman who wears her little boy's football shoes to the bar gain sales and spikes everyone who gets in her way." New York Press. The clock at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, has a record pendulum, its length being twenty-two feet and the weight of the ball 24)0 pounds. leaves school, he does not always , ' , 1 f, . tr-r C-r O Y7 T e e D. Paine. Wallace Kilts. T I -T, 1 Jj hirds haA ipacorf u mftv. vi vvu "-wt vwnasc V-'ULlUg. yp 3 Matthews. C3 She Deserves It. "What is the object of the press humorist's association?" "To erect a monument to Maud Muller, I believe." Washington Her ald. The new dock3 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are to be further enlarged at a ocst of 65,000,000 milreis ($19,500,000), in addition to the extensive! Annir t,,i .w uwa TT VSl XV now going on. The docks are owned J by the Brazilian foofoi 1 - - . fc ment. EcXward II. Harriman 3Vow Has Witliln His Grasp Ten Great Railway Systems, embracing One-Third ' of the Total Railroad Mileage in the United States. ' New York City. The election of E. H. Harriman to the directorate of the New York Central is an impor tant event in the world of finance, for It means that Mr. Harriman -now has In his grasp more than one-third of the total railway mileage in the United States, and that third, em bracing as it does such important in terlacing trunk lines. Implies a do main far wider than the bare figures would indicate. Mr. Harriman controls to-day. In part or wholly, ten great railway sys tems, aggregating 77.000 miles, or more than one-third of the total rail way mileage of the United States. In cluding the Erie, In whose affairs his exploit of last April gave him the dominating voice, these are the sys tems thus controlled: Mileape. Union Pacific ............. R.916 Southern Pacific ........... 9,731 Illinois Central 4,378 New York Central ....12.282 Atchison .......... 9,350 St. Panl M 8.687 Northwestern 7,623 Baltimore and Ohio 4,462 Delaware and Hudson 845 Georgia Central 1,914 Erie 2.571 Total 77,759 3 The American neonle will not view with equanimity the centralization of such vast power in one person, de clares the New York Evening Post. They say, and say rightly, that it weakens, and occasionally even de stroys, representative government. It Is not the voters; it is huge corpora tions that more than once have de clared what the laws shall be and who shall execute them. This is why it Is inevitable that the unbridled greed of Harriman and his kind Is sure to be made the excuse for renewed agitation against corpora tions. - We have Just passed through a panle, and from one end of the country to the other financiers have been imploring, "Let ns alone!" Well. If letting alone results In one man's EARTHQUAKE FUND PROBABLY $35,000,000. Bator This Amount $15,000,000 Which Italy Appropriated Has Not .Been TouchedLooking to the Future Widows and Orphans to Need Help For Years Government's Policy the Cause of Much Criticism. Rome, Italy. Nobody, not even the Cabinet Ministers, can say yet what is approximately the present amount of the earthquake fund, be cause it is in various hands.' Some of the money was sent personally to the King and Queen. Nearly $600,000 was sent to the Pope. Some came to the Foreign Minister, the Minister of the Interior, the different embassies and legations, the national committee presided over by the Duke of Aosta, the Red Cross and the local relief. Certainly all this means an im mense sum, in addition to the Italian contributions and appropriations by the Italian Parliament. The last, ex ceeding $15,000,000, has purposely been left undistributed yet, since, be sides immediate relief, it Is necessary to be prepared to aid thousands not only for weeks and months, but for years to come. George Page, treasurer of the American committee here, says that France to Tax Foreigners on t Seven Times the Rent They Pay. . Paris, France. The Chamber of Deputies debated the question of levying an income tax on foreigners resident in France. The bill pro posed that their taxable income should be considered as ten times the rental value of their residences. I M. Siegfried proposed that It should I be considered at five times. M. Caillaux, Minister of Finance, said the Government would accept seven times as the basis, and this was adopted. - nails of Congress. An appropriation of $500,000 for military airships was placed in the army bill. The Senate summoned Secretary Newberry to explarn every Item In the appropriations bill. The Senate Committee cp. Judi ciary filed an adverse report on the Warner bill to amend the Sherman anti-trust law. The Navy Department opened bids for construction of a wireless tele graph station in the capital, to com municate with vessels 3000 miles at Cartoon by Robert Carter, in the New York American. securing so many thousand miles of railway the common carrier ,- of America the advocates of Govern ment regulation, and even ownership. will find weapons ready forged to their hands. A little more than two years ago. when open discontent over such "rail way dictatorship" had displayed It self, Harriman made a speech at Kansas City, In which he repudiated the charge. He then declared: "The impression prevails that 1 control more miles of railroad than any other man. That statement is made frequently. I deny it. It Is not true. I do not control one mile of railroad. I do not believe in. any one man or any one company controlling vast interests of this kind. There are., fourteen or fifteen thousand per sons who co-operate in the control of railroads and other corporations In which I am interested. This is, no doubt, one side of It Most people will, however, class this reasoning with the logic of the schoolmen. Wall Street looks, not for metaphysical distinctions, bat for hard facts, and the hard facts are that Harriman fully exercises the con trol described. If any shareholder doubts it, let him try to discuss the policies of the year in a Harriman company's annual meeting. It is not always fair to accept a telegraphed account of an off-hand conversation with reporters, but the comment ascribed to Harriman, in Richmond dispatches regarding his election to New York Central's board, was at any rate accepted on Wall Street as stating the position) "So far as the New York Central is concerned, I can say this: I was elected to the board of directors. 1 am going to serve in that capacity, and look after my interests. The Vanderbilts and anybody else can look after theirs." As between Harriman's interests and the Vanderbilts Interests, recent history of the New York Central gives a fair notion of which will be looked after best. even if international charity proveB to be $20,000,000 in addition to the Italian contributions, the appropria tions would not be a fiftieth of what is necessary. The Americans were more practical than the other nations, sending their own relief party to dis tribute the money and supplies by the Initiative and organizing power of Ambassador Griscom. who, through Vice-Consul Cutting, chartered the steamer Bayern, and the American committee, which has spent In this way $200,000, while Edmund Bill ings, the Massachusetts State agent, is still on the ground distributing $65,000. Naturally, complaints are plenty, people not understanding the motives of the authorities, who, now that the first horror is over, are obliged to think of the future, especially in re gard to the orphans, widows and aged, leaving further immediate re lief to the local committees. Rare Form of Insanity Ob served in a. Michigander. Kalamazoo, Mich. Claus Vander wall was admitted as a patient at the State Insane Asylum, suffering from a rare form of insanity. When the man is spoken to his body becomes rigid and relief seems to come only with the feeling that he is entirely unnoticed. In a local court room he stood an hour with one arm outstretched, nev er uttering a word or moving a fing er. Food is administered to him at regular Intervals by force. Women In the Day's News. Nearly 20,000 women are employed in Prussia as brickmakers. An eleven-hour day is the rule. Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the financier, started a crusade against unsanitary cigar factories. Calcutta, because of the high rate of Infant mortality, has appointed a female sanitary inspector at $50 a month. Miss C. de H. Benest Is the first woman driver of a motor omnibus In England. She was the only woman to tate the examination for motor en gineering recently held In London. For February festivities that take place on or near the fourteenth of the month, there are this year a host Df charming novelties. The old-fashioned valentines are, of course, out of date for everybody but children, yet trie sentiment of the day ' still lingers in the hearts and darts and pasteboard Cupids used on the new candy 'boxes. What, for instance, could be a prettier remembrance for any young man to give his "best girl," or even a young woman for whom he had no particular regard but to whose family he was indebted for in vitations to dinner or tea, dances or other functions of the season, than one of these candy boxes? Two differ ent styles are shown on this tpage one covered with bright red paper and decorated with a big bow of red rib bon, having in the centre Cupid him self, with his bow and arrows; the ather simpler, but Just as effective, covered with white crepe paper an" decorated with a gilt arrow pierced through two hearts. If these boxes are wanted for souvenirs at luncheons or -parties they can easily be madf at home by a clever girl, for the crepe paper is very simple to manipulate. The heart shaped pasteboard boxes can be bought ready-made at most stationery stores, and the hearts and arrows cut out of red and. gold paper respectively, declares 'McCall's Maga zine. Even easier to make is the little round box shown at the top of the left-hand corner of this group. Any CMAMjOTTfr-RUSSt 00X A MfcART round pasteboard box can be used as a foundation for this. It is cov ered with white cre-? paper and a big red heart pasted in . the centre. It adds to the appearance If the edges of the box are touched up with a line of gold -paint, as shown in our illustration. For serving refreshments at a val entine party there Is nothing more effective than heart and arrow ice cream or chocolate russe -boxes, and the best thing about them Is that they can be so easily and quickly made. Buy .some rather thin bright red pasteboard at a stationery store and also a sheet of white pasteboard. Then get some of the ordinary -pleat ed paper cases that are used for char lotte russe, blsquit glace, etc. An arrow is cut out of the -white paste board, painted gold or covered with gift paper and pasted across the large heart that has just been cut from the red pasteboard. A circle is then cut out of the heart, through arrow and all, the ice cream box inserted in the opening and held In place with a lit tle paste. The paper baskets can be even more quickly made, the foundation being the same sort of pleated paper case. In making the red -paper basket, this is given a handle formed of wire, with red crepe paper twisted around it and a heart and arrow pasted at the top. The paiper itself s simply covered with a frill of red paper, held In -place by just a touch A Modern Custom. v Frequently it : happens that' - the modern valentine is sent by men as an expression of courtesy or to show appreciation of social favors received. For this purpose a pot of growing flowers, a dainty bound volume, a basket of graced or tropical fruit or bon-bons in elaborate receptacles of satin, porcelain or crystal, are al. welcome tokens to most women, who gracefully accept them in the same spirit in which they were sent. "Tying Leve-Knots." - A picturesque St. Valentine con test, which will not cost the hostess but a few dimes, is to provide each girl with a length of colored satf'n ribbon, suggests The Delineator. This is the only apparatus needed or th same of "Tying Love-Knots." Eac man is to be the timekeeper for each girl and he must talk to her all cL j box viHrrtili vim- .nto hcaw ckn by-box vm "''N .. ...7 of paste, and a twist of baby ribbon. The white ice cream basket is made in exactly the same way, with the substitution of white paper for Ted and a little pasteboard Cupid stuck on the handle in place of the heart and arrow. The favors for a valen tine dance, children's party or cotil lion are simply? fancy -paper hearts fastened on slejnder sticks, wound with paper and decorated with ribbon streamers. The candle shade makes a most effective table decoration. It is of white -paper, decorated with red hearts and gold arrows, and the tojj and bottom of the shade are fin ished with twists of the paper touch ed up with gold paint. St. Valentine's Day was originally the day dedicated to the incoming of spring. The Romans kept it in honor of Pan and Juno, . and the festival, which lasted several days, was called "Lupercalia." The early Christian church, desiring to effect a change in this much-abused feast, very adroitly reconstituted the old practice of the lottery of lovers' names. In place of the names of real youths and maid ens, whose appellations, written on slips of paper, were drawn by the young people of the time, the church substituted the names of the saints. The idea had its own beauty, and the notion of dedication was thus pro served in a more spiritual sense than In the old Roman festival. "This feast, and not the existence of the real St. Valentine, Is the origin of the gallant CANDLt - SHAOe:' observances of the day; for It would be very hard to say which of the three early Christian bishops so named the 14th of February is intended to com memorate. Some St. Valentine "Don'ts." Remember that you want to enjoy the St. Valentine party as well .as your guests; therefore observe these rules: Don't fret and worry every hour of the preceding day until you are ner vous and sensitive to everything that goes wrong. - . Don't rush your games too close on each other's heels. Young people like to talk. Don't seem to be making an effort to entertain them at every moment. Suggest the games when the talking grows a little less spirited. That Little Valentine Boy. His other name is Cupid. That is what the old Romans called him. He had still another name given him by the early Greeks, Eros. But what ever he may be called, he is the same jolly little sprite that you paint, draw or paste on your valentines as the love fairy. He looks very harmless with his chubby-baby cheeks and his , loving eyes. But look at him closely and you will find in those eyes sparks of mischief rllntine through the - love, like points of mica in a quartz rock. time she is tying an artistic love-knot out of the ribbon. - He keeps his watch in hand, and tries to divert her attention and make her answer his questions. Three minutes is the time limit, and if she succeeds in making the knot, he must wear it through the evening, pinned to his cravat. If she fails she must keep at it until she succeeds. In Shakespeare's Day. In Shakespeare's time there was a practice of greeting the person met by saying, "Good morning, 't's Val entine's Daj" and the one who made the salutation first was entitled to a present. At this, time the element of choice appears to have joined forces with chance, for it is written that divers young persons contrived to ac cidentally see each other before thev saw anybody else cn the morning of St. Valentine's Day. ROOSEVELT SOUNDS A WARNij f 10 Pairing the "Result of Anti-Jap J School T,eH:7niftTi caool IreTislation t v'A ment's Side of the Case. 'Washington, Special. "The- r ox me auinim& i ration is to coajjjJ mg the real object which the of the Pacific slope have at W wnn ine minimum or Inctioa 7 . uuiuuru UlUn tif which I protest, are following a p0Ii euiciency wun tne maximum of in and which, while totally liul' achieve any real result for J luigut uucumpiihn an lniinity harm." veic juonaay in a long telegram Speaker Philip A. Staton, of the rv fornia Assembly, set forth tha jroveJ mem, o view ui me auii-.japanes scnooi legislation now before thai DOdy. The President said in part: "1 trust there will be no misunder. standing ot the Federal government TTT 1 1 amiuue. vve are jeaiousy enueavnr. ing to guard the interest of Califor. ma &na 01 me entire v esc in aceortj. ance with the desires of our West t T-k 1 1 peopie. cy inenaiy agreement m .Tanfln WP ar nnxc nrrvincr nut ..if i " " j ? Wit icy which, while meeting the interest! and desires of the Pacific slope, is je; compatible not merely with mutii; self-respect, but with mutual esteem and- admiration . between the Amenl cans and Japanese. "The Japanese government is lor- ally and in good faith doing its par; to carry out this policy, precisely u the American government is dob This policy aims at mutuality of obli gation and behaviour. In accordant with it the purpose is that the Japan- ese shall come here axactly as Ameri cans go to Japan, which is in effect that travelers, students, persons en gaged in international, business, nerl who sojourn for pleasure or stodr. and the like, shall have the freest ac cess from one country to the other. and shall be sure of the best treat! ment, but that there shall be no setl tlement in mass by the people of eith-I er country in the other. "During the last six months under this policy more Japanese have left the country than have come into it, and the tofpl number in the United States has dimin's'ned bv over 2.00H These figures are absolutely accurate and cannot be impeached. In other words, if the present policy is con sistently followed and works as we! in the future as it is now working all difficulties and causes of frictiotf will disappear, while at the same tim each nation will retain its self-re spect and the good will of the othei But such a bill as this ' school to. accomplishes literally nothing wial ever in the line of the object aiinei at and gives just and grave cause fo: irritation; while in addition the Unit ed States government would he oblig ed immediately to take action in tfe Federal courts to test such legislation as we hold it to be clearly a violation of the treaty. Navada Senate Will Back Anti-Aliei Bill. Carson, Nev., Special. The Assem bly bill prohibitinsr Japanese and Chi nese from acquiring lands or acting as corporation agents, reached the Senate Monday. Instead ot relernng the measure to the, Federal relation? committee, as was done in the Assem bly, the Senate sent it to the judiciary committee along with the anti-Japa nese resolution. Ffle Protest. Against Rainey's Speech Washington, SpeciaL C. C. Aros- emana, the Panama minister, juonaa. called at the State Department am filed a protest from his government against the speech made in the Housf of Representatives recentlv by Rep- 1 . . t Til' ir resentative Kamev. 01 iiiimn, wl,; President Oboldia. of PannmJ was severely attrcked. The minister acted in pursuance ot instruction. Eight Die in Boarding House Fire. Manchester, Special. Three wort men were suffocated to death Mon day morning in Manchester as a resul: of a fire in a cheap lodging house. Fif teen of the lodgers were removed to J liusmiai ouxiciiiig ...w y the flames and smoke, and subsequent- these latter died. Three hundred men slepfrin the house Sun day night, but most of them had gone to work before the fire started. ;A fe were injured jumping from windows. Captain Potts to Command the Geor pa. Washington, Special. Captain M. Potts, on -duty at the WashingtoJ navy yard, has been selected to com mand the bittleship Georgia, tara, the command formerly held by Cap- suspended from dutv following trJ1 by court martial at Gibraltar, tain Potts' last sea duty was in com mand of the cruiser Des Moines. News of the Day. TSfvm mn'Tiv towns come the ports of exploded ranges in kitche wnere ine ireeze 01 last wee up the pipes to water heater?. The New York Wotui offer? a of $10,000 for an livslap conte--' navigate over th l:ne of Roocrt ton's first and famous vo.va?c the Clearmont, up the Hudson when the lOndijiniversary w' celebrated nes Four en have been mad' .ay. Ui E ion loci knd ess clc Wi esj dit be St sti
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