North Carolina Newspapers

i The News Has the Largest Circulation of Any Afternoon Paper Published in the Two Carolines . i :: 1 ?! nn CIA rmr NEW 1 SECTION TWO SIX PAGES. SECTION TWOSIX PAGES. ,- j 1 j THE ONLY EVENlNg ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN CHARLOTTE. ESTABLISHED 1888. CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 13, t909 PRICE 5 CENTS ELLS THE BHERT SOURCE OF T ch on E .,.,,01 1 lor 1!0T of the Balti-.'l. K." . .. i .rimvnt llr (V llnmn. 'ilv and well water ..... 1 1ft, I ,, , ;i."IMllM lUilllll I Ulll llll?- ,,: "The prevention of ty . . i h.is been :i subject of so . :n'. thoioii'ih discussion, that . i . ;iis ;is though every one nnr that it is a disease that , i ,! ,v.i to he entirely pre , it i lie very least the disease ,, in. Me so infrequent that it ,. i HtisiiW-n'd a curiosity. It ; .( i -r. to he also true that ..,, lnli.vf this must let the , i, -tinn resr with . . . others tiloiis are (loomed to in ; !e support." n-w.-w briefly, first, our ty , i..iiu n here in Charlotte as . ,1 w 'tth other cities; second, tn prevent typhoid as com v . ; 1 1 mher cities.; third, some e can and should do , p. I ws of this scourge. 'u.ie a city of -"0,000 popula I';, ,11 Sept. 1st. lltOti, to Feb. 1st, v, f.i.-e.--. of typhoid lever have hi il to the health depart t i.uirse all of our cases have . :i '.rp"i ted. ,1-. inur months of 190 5 show (., !-: Ho; showed 14f cases; :,. v. f.i v, cases; January, 190H, Mlworth water Oily ami Harris Kilhia Mirta Sal ml a Total 1 (i -8 1 1 1 2S5 Since May, 1905, there have been 50 deaths from typhoid fever in Char lotte. See Table 6 (a). Table 0 (a). Deaths Typhoid from Total per Year. Typhoid. Doaths. cent. l!H).- S mo.) ) 1S4 4.9 10 Oil -'J 4 -'4 ;,.' i( mo.) ... ii ' ::T2 ?,.: 100$ 1 478 1.5 Total 50 165S 3.0 25 to SO vears... t HO 1R0.00 SO to 25 .ears 3 f!0 ftO.OO 3.1 to 40 years... 1' SO ttO.OO 40 to !5 vears.... 1 SO 30.00 45 to 30 years... 1 Ti 2.1.00 50 to 5.1 years 3 18 54.00 5.1 to tiO vears... 0 12 C2 years 1 ... 70 years 1 ... Total .... 50 $694.00 Table C. tb) Of 50 deaths: White males Negro males , White females Xegro females Whites . . . Negroes 14 12 Richmond places the cost of the care of a patient at 50 cents a day. This includes food, medicine, doctors' and nurses' nlls. At this rate, the care of our 50 iiatients who died,, for three weeks before death amounted to $525. The total cost of these fifty deaths to Charlotte was ?1S):19.99. Using the same figures for the 25S cases that recovered of the total 285, assuming a sickness and loss of time from work of six weeks in each case, (42 days). Table 10 (1) I.nsH of Wages of 258 Cases. Wage Karnine: Capacity for 42 days of illness. .... Age, 20 10 14 24 24 20 Xo. of cases. 1 to 5 years. . 1 1 5 to 10 years. . 5ti 10 to 15 years. .32 15 to 20 years. . 4 20 to 25 years.. 4 0 2.1 to 30 years.. 32 HO to 35 years.. 12 35 to 40 years. . 10 40 to 4 5 years. . 4 45 to 50 years . . 1 50 to 53 years. . 1 55 to CO years. . 1 L.oss in . wages. $ .... Table 6 (e) Of 2S5 cases (Sept. '0C to Feb. 1st, '0; there were 27 deaths, a mortality rate of 0.47 per tent. White males 10 t ., M-tics are so inaccurate that ..' leuew shows little except i x,.Kro males.!!'.!'.! :. .a ca.-,es for July. 1907. W .1 ' .Ir-.e in iji'inmi irn nan the watershed about that Table 1. 1 ;. lttoT. 1008. 1000. 2 1 1 '. ! '2 ' i . '. 1 3 14 0 f.ti 17 32 22 2 3 Iti IS 17 i; x .1 ti 3 1 1 140 t.3 1 li.e ". cases, there were 151 II I. -males; 24:J whites, 42 White females Negro females 15 7 able 2. 151 134 2S5 243 42 2S5 128 23 151 113 10 124 i lituinp; at the age list, we no ;i i hili percentage of cases ; !'. years. 109 out of 24. Of tlie oiin:est was 13 months; v. ais Highest morbidity at ' i i" ears IT cases. Age of one 12 Whites 17 Negroes 10 Table 0 (d) Of 243 whites, 17 died, fatality of 7 per tent. Of 42 negroes, io died, fatality of 24 per rent. Of 151 males, 15 died, fatality of 10 per rent. Of 13 females. 12 died, fatality of 9 per cent. In the District of Columbia the . per cent was: Whites 10.3 Colored 24.2 Our death rate, as reported, has been about that of Baltimore, Rich mond, and the District of Columbia during the same period. See table .. ...I i. Table Citv. Period. Richmond. Va.. 1904-1007 Baltimore. Md.. 1004-1007 District of Columbia. 1005 1006 1907 05 -'00 Charlotte, N. C. varies from Average . . . May Typhoid death rate 100.000 43 about 35 45 4 5.0 40.G ...IS to 55 Our morbidity rate, or number of case ner 1000 population, is about the same as in Baltimore, Richmond, and the District of Columbia. See ta ble S. 'ated See table Table 3. No. of eases. 15 5 3R 2l .'! 3i 13 11 284 25.00 1150.00 50.00 24 50.00 112.00 10S4.00 62.00 7 44.00 fi2.00 020.00 02.00 248.00 50.00 50.00 3S.00 38.00 25.00 25.00 $7,309.00 Total 25S Table 10 d Care of 25S Cases. At 50 cents a day for six weeks, 4 2 davs $..,418.00 Total cost of 25S cases thai recover ed $12,727.00 Total cost of 50 deaths and 258 cases $106,546.00 To sum up: Our typhoid situation is about what it is in other places, and costs Charlotte about $50,000 a year. 2. What are we doing to better our condition Almost notning; oe cause we have no one whose business it is to prevent disease. The number of physicians practicing in Charlotte is a striking commentary on the con dition of public health. We have a city physician who cares for the city poor, and who ably keeps what health reports are sent in. We have an unpaid board of health whose duties seem to be advisory. It is not the business of either of these branches of the health department to prevent disease, and they make little 7 he Crime of a Kansas Prison By LEWIS E. PALMER. (Exclusive Service Charities and The Commons Press Bureau.) If 'most , county jails are "frefe schools of crime" then there is at least one state prison that ought to be called the university. The Kan sas penitentiary has for years ben a "boarding out prison" for Okla homa whose territorial government, since its' beginning, has shipped its convicts across the border io the Kansas prison in Lansing, in the old frontier days criminals were a-plenty in the territory and the contract with Kansas was highly agreeable to the Oklahoma settlers who were glad to free the territory of its "bad men." The further they were sent the better,, and what became of them no one cared. That was in the old days. When Oklahoma came of age last year and was entitled to put "state" in front of her name the same sys tem was in use and for 40 cents a day a man, Kansas ran its criminals boarding house. Stories of how things were carried on in Lansing had drifted across the boarder from time to time but nothing definite was known about the real state of affairs until last fall when Oklahoma's new commissioner of charities, Kate Bar nard, stirred up an investigation that disclosed an almost unbelievable state of affairs in the Kansas prison. It costs 10.9 cents a day to feed the prisoners in Lansing and by working them hard and long in the mines, at contract labor and in the twine fac tory, the state has cleared up a hun dred thousand dollars, "the blackest and dirtiest crime of modern states," says Miss Barnard. The state makes about 40 cents a day on each prison er. It's an interesting question what becomes of all the coal mined by the prisoners. Three tons a day for each man in the mines means a total of about 1,000 tons a day. The state institutions are supposed to consume all of this output. Do they? In her report Ok'ahoma's charity commissioner tells about a day spent in the prison c mines "creeping and crawling through bending pas sages where the props and supports of the roof sagged under the weight of the dirt ceiling." There the pris oners do their days work which con sists in mining three cars of coal. Three cars there must be and Miss Barnard tells about a 17-year-old up children with grown men and wo men. And yet Miss Barnard rinds that from August 1905 to the present time sixty hoys from Oklahoma un der 17 years of age have been in carcerated in the Lansing jail. They are cleaning things up now in Kansas. A committee has drawn up recommendations for prison re form that will in all probability be adopted by the legislature. The state is aroused and little Oklahoma can put another feather in her new state hood cap. ','Perhaps Oklahoma is a little fresh," writes a man from Kan sas City. "She's doing things though; there's no question about that." POEM ON LINCOLN. II FREIGHT OiJIFIC BUREAU Its Usefulness to the Business Man and How it Should be Operated For some time past the Greater. the same time is an utter impossibil Charlotte Club has had under serious I lay. The alert commissioner can al consideration the establishment of a j ways secure concessions or rulings freight or traffic bureau for the benefit for his members or territory if care of the merchants and shippers of Char- fu! study Is made of the tariffs, and lotte. The following matter has been whatever a particular tariff quotes a obtained from those who have had ex- lower rate or makes an exception to penence in this work and will give any ruling favorable to others or lo- rr ha fYn rt on in. t n Every genuine health department ' youngster from Oklahoma locked up consists primarily or n laboratory Table 8. No. of cases, per 1000 City. Period. population. Richmond 1005 4.4 lftOfi 4.4 1007 4-2 Baltimore 1004 3.C2 1905 3. ul 100C 3.24 1007 4.7 District of Col. 1005 4.3 lOOti f Charlotte 1005 (S mo) 3 loot; C 1007 (.0 mo) 3.725 The death rate by ages is normal. See Table 9. Table 0. Afyo. 1 to 5 years 5 to 10 10 to 20 20 to 30 30 to 40 40 to 50 50 to 60 .0 to 70 No. of cases. 1 13 Total .0 ''' ti'.'i-t ie,r. onahle explanation of i v.i. iid seem to be the milk sup ni'l t. nut of 179 cased in which '" ".it', Mipply U stated, 99 obtained tinir own or their neigh- " v The public dairies do not "' I- to blame for any milk opi- ill typhoid. Due to the negli :i 1 "-I t he medical profession, the ' IN'' I V lull! ftn.t.lt vi'nn ft t'trtCkl mtiik rui' n nun oiuv - . . . " ,v m e:. and was too vacue In 20 i culate, approximately, what typhoid I . See table Posting unartoue. Tame in mi Using figures a little tower than those given In the Health Report of Richmond for 1907. (p. 24) let its caicu '" be nt any service. Tnble I. M..I I : I, : 'ifi'iy. 'i'.-, i "' ' 1 1 I I v '' 1 ni'ii t hit n fnie) ' i "t dv Mi" I . . 1 " K.,; .!!!!!!!! ! '. ' ' 'lle.. Dairv. . M " " k &' KiV'iiVv.'. '. ! V' "' " It and risher. . , 1 ; U and lVe.M -v V. I' i : i II : I ' I ' I No. of cares. GS U0 ' 3 4S 30 5 i T i l l i l i i i i 13 K 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 28.1 Ape. No. of deaths. 0 lor i ho water supply show cases used well water as 30 to 3.1 to : years . . .1 to 10 years.. 10 to 15 years.. 1.1 to 20 years. 20 to 25 years.. 25 to 30 years.. 30 to 35 years.. 25 to 40 years. 40 to 45 years. . 4 5 to 50 years.. 50 to 55 years. . 55 to 60 years. . CO to 05 years.. (;5 to 70 years. . 70 to 75 years. . t 2 1G 13 Value. of life at given age. $ 1,500 2.300 2.500 3.000 5,000 7,500 7,000 C.O00 5, 500 .1.000 4,500 2,000 1,000 1,000 Value. Lives I-iOSt. $10,000 4,600 40,000 65,000 35.000 ii.'o'oo 13,500 '2,660 1,000 where suspicious milk and water and speciments from suspected cases can be examined, so that the earliest pos sible diagnosis can be made, and the proper precautions taken. There is no such place in Charlotte. In other places, case reports that are not properly made out will not be received. Any sort of report is receiv ed here; Other cities have their dairies in spected regularly and samples of milk bought in the open market and exam ined. Here it is possible to sell milk from any sort of farm, in any sort of vessel, at any temperature, or any age, and of any degree of filthiness. Our city water is examined here by the bacteriologist of the water depart ment, and occasionally by the bacte riologist of the Baltimore health de partment; from all accounts it seems to be very good. But there are no re strictions as to the use of surface well- water. Ninety per cent of our wells drain off the filth from one or more surface closets, and well water is to day the greatest single factor in pro ducing disease in Charlotte. Other cities are rapidly eliminating this evil, while we are doing nothing. Soil pollution, the chief cause of well water infection, is to all appearances not seriously regarded in this locali ty. The typhoid convalescent is at perfect liberty to deposit millions of germs in his surface closet, to go into the nearest well at the next rain. When a case of typhoid is reported in the District of Columbia a man is sent out to discover, if possible, the source of Infection and stamp it out. In Charlotte, case reports are filed away and never thought of again. Suspicious wells have repeatedly been reported to the department here, but it does not seem to be anybody's busi ness to close- them up. Our vital statistics are worthless. Cases buried outside of the city do not have to be reported. The statistics for three months in 1907 are missing from the records of the health depart-1 pressed opinions vented itself in Total .0 $182, coo Table 10 h Hlcfaiufliiri Wage Tafile. in a black dungeon ..and., chained to the wall "because he was unable to extract from the inky depths those three cars of coal! He told me with tears in his eyes that he had gotten out a little over two cars but that he just could not get out any more, that the coal was so hard and he never had dug any before and he did not know how to dig it. One big, strapping prisoner told me that he did not find it hard to get out his cars of coal because he understood the job, but that he felt sorry for the younger and weaker man. He said that sometimes when the guards were not looking he helped these boys get their cars full of coal so that they wouldn't be put on bread and water diet and chained up to the walls of the dungeon!" Some say that the stories of the 'water hole" and "the' crib" are iso lated instances that ought not to count too much in the condemnation of the Kansas prison. But there is a "water hole" and there is a "crib' and there are unprintable immorali ties all of which have their uses in subduing refactory men. Miss Bar nard says that while going through the mine a coal begrimmed prisoner ' shot swiftly, silently, and stealthily from the darkness, grabbed me by the arm and whispered hurriedly these words: 'See the water hole, girl, for God's sake see the water hole,' I said what is the water hole? He answered, 'Where they throw us in and pump water on us. It's ter rible, see it.' Before I had time to ask where to find the water hole the convict was gone the superinten dent was returning." And the super intendent said, "There is no water hole." Is there? A letter from an Oklahoma prisoner to Miss Barnard quoted in her report says, "After you had come and gone we fell into the old rut and by Saturday night the "holes" were all full and the crib and water played no small part, so official displeasure at your frankly No trumpet blared the word that he was born, 4 Nor lightning flashed its symbols on the day; And only Poverty and Fate pressed on, To serve as handmaids where he lowly lay. No trappings fell to his rude part A simple but and labor were its goal; But Fate, stern-eyed, had held him to her heart. And left a greatness on his rugged soul. And up from earth and toil he slowly won Pressed by a bitterness he proudly spurned, 'Till by grim courage, born from sun to sun, He turned defeat, as victory 13 turned. Sired deep in destiny, he backward threw The old heredities that men have known; And 'round his gaunt and homely form he drew The fierce white light that great ness makes its own. Sad-eyed and wan, yet strong to do the right, To clear the truth as God gave him to see, He held a raging country by his might, Before the iron hour of destiny. Nor flame nor sword, nor silver ton gnes availed To turn his passion from its steady flow; The compact of the fathers had not failed He would not let an angered peo ple go! a pretty clear idea of how such a bu reau . should be conducted. Freight or traffic bureaus, as they are commonly called, have assumed a place of great importance in the in dustrial activity of the country. Al though differing widely in scope and character of their usefulness, each and calitics. he can invariably secure 1he same for his memliers by merely calling the carrier's attention to it and requesting that these rates or rulings be extended to his client or territory. Otherwise it would be dis criminary. It is not the general prac tice ef the railroads to discriminate. every one, if conducted on a fair and j but when pressure is brought by a equitaoie basis, nas been 01 inesti mable value in their respective locali ties, and have not only prevented the arbitrary rulings and actions on the part of carriers, but have been of great assistance and benefit to the carriers in the betterment of disputes, which, in the absence of such a bureau to ad vise and instruct, would have been construed in different phases by the shippers. Should 'StancT for What is Just. A traffic bureau should always stand for what is right and just, no matter whether it operates against the ship per or in his favor, and it is only in this way that the carriers can be con vinced that it is to their interest to co operate witn the bureau instead of antagonizing it. This spirit of un friendliness and antagonism will un doubtedly exist at the start, but it will 1 5 to 20 years. . 20 to 25 years. 2.1 to 30 years. . v 1 'Mill.; Hi. f ', h W 1: '''' U "till I t l1Ml Irw.t . ill, Ulltl I lUttL f';V.'w" v-'dls were examined and """11 lllli.r I ...I. l. ........ . V " ":i organism irom me ""I wiih f)2 that used city water. 4.- ' to nic significant, especial-! VI in .10 "ve vt"W f,- .,, act (Ktt suspicious f'O to 55 years . nv'' I n repeatedly reported .r'r' 10 00 iear3-- years. ears . . . ears . ears Wae Earning Capacity per Annum. $200 400 500 500 . . .1 500 ... 500 " ! 400 . . . 300 ... 200 "1111:111 Ullej.lilios Table v, ..'. W. ;, ti",::: j 1 1. Mi i-piy. :i i . r :,l..,. ' V. 1;, "" M'linj.: V;it-r r No. of canes. 17 151 02 Table IO e Value of Wairfu Lout By Those nying. Assuming sickness of 3 weeks before death. Wage learning Capacity No. of for 3 Loss in i deaths. weeKs. was". 1 to 5 years. ... 7 5: to 10 years 2 10 to 15 years 8 1 5 to 20 years. . .. R 20 to 25 years. . . 7 ment. Of the twenty-odd thousand dollars, annually appropriated for the Health Department, the only money that ac tually goes into public health is spent in keeping inaccurate vital statistics, and in fumigating after infectious dis eases". The rest goes to the street cleaning department and elsewhere, yhis is not a function of public health. And yet typhoid alone costs the city 150,000 a year. 2. What can we do to better oar condition. (1) Require accurate vital statis'.tics. (2) Establish a public health laboratory. (3) Inspect both milk and dairies. (4) Adopt a policy looking to the abolition" of surface wells, and the gradual extension of city water throughout the corporate limits within a certain number ot years. (5) Adopt the ' dry pail" system of surface closets, or require that with ing a fixed number of years all dwell ing have sewerage connections, (b) Employ an inspector or health officer to- trace, and-eliminate wherever pos sible the source of typhoid infections (7) Pay for public health as a private economy. Committee on- Education and Legis lation Mecklenburg County Medi cal Society. $.- 12 23 96.00 161.00 retaliation upon helpless convicts That there are dungeons there is no doubt. Miss Barnard saw fourteen of them ill ventilated and unlighted, with iron hooks in the wall from which had cuffs hung. The"' convict lies on the floor during the night and when daylight struggles in through- the little openings at the tops of the cells, he is hand cuffed to the wall where he stands during the day. "On the second day of my visit," says Miss Barnard, "I went down to the dungeon and there found a 10-year-old old Oklahoma boy shack led up to a sprocket in the dungeon wall. Upon inquiry I found that he had been placed in this dungeon the He stood in calm, while shaking chaos swept The union North and South in seething flood And on his knees the griefs of both he wept, But kept unbroke, the compact sealed in blood. He saw the sullen smoke of battle lift That closed the carnage of the war of wars; And on the height, hailed through the azure rift The flag whose folds have never dipped its stars. But amnesty was in the conquering hand That yearned across the silent can non's mouth When with the knell that startled all the land There died the last hope of the bleeding South! With gentle tread, time wears upon the past. The field of blood is dried, the waste is tilled; And by the light of . peace around them cast Men read the earnest prophecy, ful filled. There is no woe in this braod land today, Held in the bonds of iaith, for ever one; The golden glow of progress leads the way, Where once the guns of wrath have darkly shone. Here rest their arms, while deathless glory tells The watch of time for al lthe trus and brave And here the grandeur of a nation lies The Union, that aLincoln died to save! Exchange. ksu??G re3tfo particular shipper or locality to make a certain concessions or rulings, the railroads grant same, hoping to be free from further complaint, not presuming that other shippers or localities might demand the same concessions. "All The Tariff Will Bear." One of the principal issues between the shippers and the carriers is the charging of rates amounting to "alt the traffic will bear." In resrject to this point the average freight bureau is naturally antagonistic to the rail roads, for it is constantly insisting upon them not to increase, but to reduce instead. The well-managert traffic bureau can avoid stirring np trouble and ill-feeling in this respect and at the same time maintain a position of vantage in protection of J its interests. A freight bureau should be only a course of time, if the bureau acquire ami maintain a reputation is conducted properly, until tins win for the most rigid honesty and fair be removed. However, no traffic bu- dealings. As soon as this is recogniz reau can succeed without the proper, ed. the work of the bureau is greatly man for commissioner. Usually tne facilitated and the nossibilities for commissioner has made an effort to the good service materially broaden raise his, salary by endeavoring to as-!ed. No freight bureau can afford to certain in just what respects he could' champion unjust or unreasonable de- best support nis constituents, but tne mands. even at the temporary cost of latter, as a rule, have been slow in the loss of some members. To the giving him specific information or credit of shippers generally it may data on what to act and after trying sajd that thev almost invariably to "go it alone" for a while, perhaps stand back of their traffic bureau as in the effort to have certain sectional against such members when it ap discrlminations set aside or more fav- pears that they are in the wrong and orable rates granted which would in-(When trying to take unjust advantage ure to the benent or tne entire commit- of the bureau to satisfy their person nity. he has given up the struggle in ai feelings. disgust. That has been the history Referring again to the matter ot of more than one bureau. rates. Have vou ever taken time to Common Sense to the Front. I consider that if it had not been for Today shippers, and receivers are the freight bureau of this oounrry all approaching this subject in a more rates in the official classification tcr- buslness-like manner. Bureaus formed Htory 'would have been Increase! in late years are enduring and making to an amount aggregating one mll- their efficiency felt throughout the en- Hon dollars during the past several tire land because their members make months? Would individual shippers of them paying institutions. Care have been able to accomplish what should be taken to secure as com- the mass meeting at Chicago on missioner a man of ripe experience, of Friday, May 15, did? It is unnecos- open mind and liberal views, and in sary, however, to answer this. There his work should be given the fullest co might have been, however, a few en operation of his members. The nature thusiastic shippers, as there are In of the services required of him varies everything, who would have made with the needs of the members, the their protests, but it would have financial strength of the organization, been of little avail, but wh?n hun- and the general relation to the carriers of his particular locality or conditions. To a very great extent the function of the bureau consists in guarding against discriminations of all kinds, but its field may be extended to such matters as claims, demurrage, quota tions, of rates and routes, changes or rates or classification, tracing of ship ments, motive of embargoes or block ades, and all matters of like nature, pertaining to the general shipping bus iness. Experience has proven that the more of the detail work done the greater is the value of the bureau to its members. New fields of- usefulness are con stantly opening and the alert, well supported, and liberally maintained commisioner I3 in a position to show results, "some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundredfold." He can also. dreds of representatives of traffic bureaus, representing more than twenty-five thousand shippers, met and decided on a plan of action and adopted the resolution they did at that meeting, then it was time that the railroads took notice that tlv opposition to their actions was an or ganized one and one that could not be overlooked. Uniform Classification. Take the question of uniform class ification. Every shipper of freight in the country making shipments from a territory governed by another, has experienced more or less trouble on account of the difference in the class ifications. Committees appointed by the railroads representing these dif ferent classifications are now at work on a uniform classification. This is a long and tedious work and several through constant relations with the I years will probably elapse before shippers and carriers acquire an un-i limited knowledge of the dimculties confronting both, ans is prepared tosjveness on the part of the traffic its completion, but if it had not been for the combined activity and aggres- LINCOLN. Earth held to him. The rough-hewn form, Looming through that unnatural storm, Hinted the rude, mixed mould Ere chaos loosed her hold A lone, wind-beaten hill top tree, His that pathetic majesty Forelorn even in his mirth, llis roots deep i nthe earth. "I'm sorry you're such a naughty boy," said the teacher. "You ought to be glad, teacher." "Why?" "You ought to be glad I'm' not twins." Yonkers Statesman. night before, and that he had cafled , Earth's is he yet. When from the for the warden at 7 o'cloclc in the hill morning when they lifted him from the floor to shackle him to the 'wall. Ncrw according to the prison rules and " regulation's, this guard should re port immediately to the warden and the warden call on this little boy. As a matter of fact the guard did not report that the boy wanted to see the warden, and as late as 3 o'clock in the afternoon I found him still chained to the wall." One of the first principles of the "new penology" is to keep children away from the contaminating influ ences of older prisoners. It is not at all unusual to find youngsters in countv jails herded in with con firmed wrong doers, but if is unu sual to find a state prison locking take up each question as it comes up in a dispassionate, judicial manner. His position becomes that of an ar biter and, if the proper man, his recom mendations will carry almost equal weight with each of the parties in interest. Railroads Disposed to be Fair. Railroads are generally disposed to 1 be ances ters are present d to thm m th prop er spirit and light, they invariably grant some relief if not all. although they may be, as we term it. "up against it." Railroads will usually no what thev can to satisty .111. lv. 1 V 1 . u ... . ' 1 I - . , or commodity, but to satisfy an at. bureaus of the country the carriers would have forever disregarded the requests and protests of the individ ual shippers and continued along their former lines. Traffic bureaus are here to stay. Experience has proven that they arc a necessity. Their purposes are many and they are serving them well. fa to3 shipped although a ppear-jThey are a protection to the railronds :esf;ometlmes.beliethlS.andifmat.U.s well as the -shippers, and their .i it, t f, nmn. usefulness will be increased as time passes. Why do the railroads form their own clubs, organizations, etc.? For their own preservation and pro tection, and for that reason shippers must follow thPlr example and sup- scction.' port loyally and financially their own The Great Poe. great Inconvenience to himself, went. "The late Charles Eliot Norton said , -h astonished parsan. and i IXWUH, ...... .Un., . mW wjth j, zrin plpre the modern youth a preference of b.-.tvvn to brain. "He used to tell of a foctball game of delight: , "Iook e 'ere, Sairry. Yer said this mormn as? 1 wu;; tne ugiK-si map in Hengland. Now. just look at thl.-i ne once wiinu. . . ...; a., u ,,,,,,,.,.. Philadelphia Record. splem'.rl player m Poe you will re-, mera!er little Poe? and Prof. Norton, thinking of 'The Raven :-.nd 'Annanel ' WASHINGTON'S PLAGUE SPOTS Ale in the low. mari,y "bottoms of the Potomac, the breeding ground of ma laria germs. Ther.e germs cause cblll. The warm gold flows, and hollows fill, The sunlight shines his fame, The winds blaze Lincoln's name. Ay. Earth's he is; not hers alone, Blood of our blood, bone of our bone, Love folded him to rest Upon a people's breast. John Vance Cheney, in .February Atlantic; "WThy do you laugh so hurriedly when your husband tells a story?" "If I don't laugh promptly, he tells it all over again." Cleveland Plain Dealer. What is not necessary is dear at a penny. Cato. Lee, said 10 the lad.at his side: " "He plays well, that Poe.' Doesnt he.' the youtn crie.1. 1 , . hiiinnsnuss t.umdlpe. "'is he said Prof. Norton, 'any - i lassltnde. weakness and general do- :-tlr.r tn t lio PTPfit Pnf' . ... .--. " 'Any relation ' said frowning, 'Why he is the Boston Herald. Horrible Example. A certain bishop was famous as be ing the plainest man of England. Ona day, as this homely parson sat in an omnibus, he was amazed by the persistent staring of a fellow passen ger who finally said: "Look ere, parson, would you mind ibility and bring suffering or death to the Vlh; thousands yearly. But Electric Bit great I . 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