A SEASONABLE FORM OF RACE SUICIDE.
The Greatest
Influence in My Life
y General Jfelson Miles
HE Influences that affect one's' life may be innumerable. The
lights and shadows along the pathway of life affect us for
the moment and leave their lasting impressions upon the
memory. The lights inspire and elevate; the shadows
alarm, restrain and protect us. In the same way our pres-
. ence and influence affect the lives of others either for good
or evil. Far superior and transcending all other influences
has been the beneficent presence of those true and pure
spirits who have accompanied me on this journey of life.
A father who was the soul of honor, whose integrity was as sacred as
life, and who was one of the truest patriots I have ever known. He had the
courage of his convictions, frank and manly in expressing his opinions and
judgment of men and affairs ; as brave as a lion yet as kind hearted and ten
der as a child. He loathed a hypocrite. Intrigue and deception were foreign
to his nature. His ideas of truth and duty were inspiring and ennobling. A
sainted mother whose blessed influence from the time she first taught me to
lisp a prayer was the true light and guide of my life. The tenderest affection,
the gentlest admonition, the deepest love, the sweet melody of her sacred
music touched and forever impressed the better chords of heart and soul,
and their influence was ever present as a true inspiring and cherished mem
ory. The splendid influence of a noble brother who was the highest type of
American character and citizenship; also the refining influence cf two de
voted sisters who were the light and joy of a happy home.
Last, but not least, and embodying all the good influences of those above
mentioned, was the companion of my life, who made life with all its struggles,
its conflicts, its adventures, and achievements as far as possible a romance
and a success. To these influences I would attribute whatever there is of my
Ufe that is commendable and satisfactory. The Circle Magazine.
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Friends, Mot Foes?
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By Charles E. Page, M. D.
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Man Incompetent
He Cannot Support His Daughters an
Forces Them to Work
y Eenjamin Macmahon
4:J4 N my opinion it is adding insult to injury for women to be
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life.
way into the industrial world, and by obtaining work have
deprived men of it. As truly might it be said that the 4C0
unfortunate Englishmen and women elbowed their way into
the Black Hole at Calcutta. They were driven in; and the
little girls (for statistics show that 92 percent of female
workers start before attaining the age of 16) are equally
driven frcm home and school into industrial and commercial
Far from being able to protect and support their females, men have un
mistakably shown that they cannot protect themselves. They have allowed
themselves to be robbed and despoiled of everything beyond a mere living.
The report of the United States Bureau of Labor shows that the averse
wage of odult male labor during 1907 (the latest figures available) was flofs
per week.
No one who realizes how small is the purchasing power of this sum in
the human necessities of shelter, food, and clothing can reasonably deny my
contention that the average man has shown himself unable to protect him
self as head of a family. He 13 therefore compelled to drive his children out
at the earliest possible moment to make their own meagre living.
And the worst of the whole matter is he is satisfied with himself. In
stead of realizing that he is economically (and spiritually, too) "poor and
blind and miserable and naked" he is puffed up with a sens of his import
ance as a voter an importance which he refuses to share with his women,
kind.
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Stilts
(Senator tradtev, of Kentucky From th t
Congressional Record)
0"W, Mr. President, I do not want to talk anybody to death.
I have tried to be as modest as I could. I know that a jun
ior Senator stands mighty little chance in this body. Yvben
I came here one of my old friends in the Senate came to
me and said: "Be careful, Senator; remember you are noth
ing but a junior. Keep quiet. If you venture, these senior
Senators will take you in out of the wet." I have heard my
mother talk about the bogy man and all that sort of thing.
but I will tell you honestly that I have been alarmed ever
since I have been in Washington, and what I stand in dread of is the presep.ee
cf the senior Senators in this body.
There are a great many dangerous things In this world. Automobiles are
dangerous things; they are liable to run over you and kill you. Electric cars
are dangerous things; they are liable to run over you and kill you. But there
is nothing on this earth that can compare In point of danger with a senior
Senator when he stands properly on his stilts.
New York City. The blouse that
Is closed at the left of the front is a
favorite one of the season and has a
great many practical advantages. It
is simple and girlish and is very easy
'
Rlak and WWte.
With the white serge or other light
suit finished with collar and cuffs of
black moire, is carried a handbag of
the moire.
Rolled Hat Brim.
A modish touch is seen in the hat
brim rolled up at one side and fast
ened against the crown with fruit or
flowers. This rolling is smarter if
against the side front rather than di
rectly on the side.
to slip on and off. This one can Y.
made either with ,the long plain
sleeves or with those in regulation
shirt waist style and the neck can be
finished with the fashionable Dutch
Pinafore Rotlice.
The pinafore bodice is one of the
latest developments of fashion and is
exceedingly attractive. It is worn
over a guimpe .and it consequently
can be made from almost any season
able material. This one is simple in
the extreme and makes its own finish
at the lower edge. In the illustration
it is made of white linen with threads
of blue and is worn over a guimpe of
tucked net For the neck and arm
hole edges any banding can be util
ized or some pretty little braided de
sign could be substituted.
The pinafore is made with front
and back portions. The front is
fitted by means of dart tucks and is
extended to form a girdle, which is
lapped over onto the backs. The
guimpe is a plain fitted one with
long one-piece sleeves.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is, for the pina
fore, two and five-eighth yards twenty-one
or twenty-four, two yards thirty-two
or one and a half yards forty
four inches wide, two and a half yards
T is about time, as it seems to me, for us to restore the peo
ple to their wits, from which the bacteriologists and germ
theorists have frightened them by means of scare tales
concerning the alleged danger from "germs." When sol
diers go into battle it is manifestly important for them to
know friends from foes. Instances have been known in
which squads of the same army, in the dark or in the smoke
of battle, have fired into each other, causing a bloody sac
rifice and at risk even of utter rout by the enemy. That
the same dort of thing may occur that it has, in fact, occurred in war
against disease is susceptible of proof; and I would cite the experience of !
three eminent physicians, after quoting the remarks of Professor Jacobi that
"it may be possible that we can learn how to poison and exterminate the so
called germs, but in so doing we may kill the patient!"
The experience of Drs. Babi. Perron and Gimeno (Lancet, April 30, 1S9S)
is of great significance in bearing out Professor Jacobi's dictum: "When
dealing with tuberculosis of the lungs, the microscope having revealed the
presence of the Koch bacillus, but the patient is without fever, night sweats,
or yellowish green sputa, the results from experiments with serum from
donkeys were somewhat amazing as well as disastrous. Treated with, the '.
serum, their general health seemed to improve (poison stimulation, says the
present writer), and the number of Koch bacilli decreased in notable pro
portions. In two cases the last sputa examined showed that the bacilli had
entirely disappeared; but with the disappearance of the specific bacillus of
tuberculosis hectic fever set in, and one patient died in eight days and the
other In ten, with the symptoms of septic poisoning."
collar or with a neck band. Plain
linen trimmed with striped is the ma
terial illustrated.
The blouse is made with fronts and
back. There are tucks laid over the
shoulders, which extend to the waist
line at the back, but only for a short
distance at the front. The plain
sleeves are made in one piece each,
and can be finished at the wrists to
suit the fancy. The shirt waist
sleeves are gathered and joined to
straight cuffs. When the Dutch col
lar ip used it can be either joined to
the neck , edge or finished separately
and adjusted over it.
The quantity of material required
for the sixteen-year size is three and
seven-eighth yards twenty-four, two'
and five-eighth yards thirty-two or
two yards forty-four inches wide with
three-quarter yards any width for the
belt and trimming.
Girl's Drees.
A semi-princess dress for a young
girl was a neat attraction in white ba
tiste, trimmed with flounce of em
broidery in a banana shade. That
is, the flounce was white and embroid
ered in a small pattern of banana col
ored flowers. Bands of scalloped in
sertion decorated the seams. The
yoke and sleeve arrangement was
white net. The colors are extremely
beautiful in a combination, and it is
really a wonder that moro white and
buff tints are not used, especially
when there is so much demand for
coIot schemes.
of banding; for the guimpe one yard
of material thirty-six with one and
mm
-Cartoon by Berryman, in the Washington Star.
BOY WHO SHOT WEE GIRL TELLS OF DEED
l Don't Know What Made Met Kill Frances," Says Joe
Kane, Aged Eleven.
seven-eighth yards eighteen for th
joke and sleeves.
Burlington, N. J. Declaring that
he deliberately shot three-year-old
Frances Lord, but unable to explain
what impulse forced him to the act,
eleven-year-old "Joe" Kane, held for
the slaying of the little girl last Sat
urday evening, made a complete con
fession to Assistant County Prosecu
tor Robert Atkinson and Policeman
Claude Sell, of Burlington, at the City
Hall jail.
"I knew It would kill Frances and
I know they hang people for doing
things like that,'.' said the youthful
prisoner. Then recovering some of
the braggadocio he displayed when
arrested, Kane said he had been In
spired to play "robber" by moving
picture shows which he had wit
nessed. "All the boys play robber," con
tinued Joe. "Sometimes we use
sticks for swords and hold up all
the kid3 that come along, but it's
mere fun to use a gun, because you
can scare all the kids with that.
"We often used the old gun when
we were having 'fun' playing high
wayman. I came near shooting
Freddie Roberts once when I pulled
the trigger and the gun went off just
over his head. We used to swipe
caps and shoot them off on the gun
when there weren't any other loads
in it, as there was this last time
when I shot Frances. My brother
had loaded it to shoot blackbirds
last week. Sometimes I'd chase the
whole gang out of the yard, telling
them I'd shoot them. Once I got a
pistol and made a fellow run like
sixty.
"But I never had a fight with
Frances. She was just a little girl,"
said the boy, In tears for the first
time during the interview, and he
added remorsefully, "I don't know
why I did it. -
'When Frances ran up to see what
we .were doing I said, 'I'm going to
shoot you!' She says, 'Please don't
shoot me!' and put her hands over
her face and peered through her fin
gers. She started to run and I shot
the gun at her. The old gun kicked
so hard it nearly knocked me over.
"My mother and father told neigh
bors it was an accident, so I Just
said it was an accident and blamed
it on Tommy Ocas. I knew it wasn't
right to kill her. I didn't mean to
shoot her, and I don't know why I
did. We were having such a good
time playing robber!"
"Ever go to Sunday school, Joe?"
asked the prosecutor.
"Nope, but I'd like to go. Never
got any good clothes to wear. I ain't
a bad boy. though. Folks say I'm
bad when I'm just having fun."
Kane had an opportunity to tell
his story again before a coroner's
jury.
Local officials who listened to the
boy's story believe he suffered a sud
den attack of Insanity, and assert
that his case is a study for alienists
rather than a jury.
The boy prisoner seemed to enjoy
his experience on the trolley trip to
the county seat with Patrolman
Claude Sell. "I wonder if they'll
hang me for this," he asked the po
liceman. When assured that hang
ing was no longer in force in New
Jersey the boy seemed easier in his
mind.
"I wish I was out In those woods,"
he exclaimed as the car passed a
shady grove. "That's a bully place
to play robber."
"Playin' robber" seems to be tha
boy's chief joy in life. He was
"playin' robber" when he killed
Frances Lord.
"Joe's" eyes bulged and he wept a
little when the policeman led him up
the steps of the old county jail, but
he recovered quickly and chatted
wtth the turnkey and Sheriff Wor
rell before he was assigned to a cell.
What, to do with "Joe" is becom
ing more of a puzzle to the authori
ties every day. He is too young to
be put on trial for manslaughter,
and local officials wish that he might
be turned over to some "home so
ciety," and saved from the reform
school.
Testimony of Mrs. Lord at the In
quest that she saw her daughter
shot, and of eleven-year-old Thomas
Ocas, a boy companion of Kane's that
the latter deliberately shot Frances
after threatening her life, destroyed
the theory that the shooting was an
accident.
"He said, 'Me shoot you; me shoot
you, Frances." She cry, and then he
shoot her," the Ocas boy testified in
broken English, when Prosecutor At
kinson asked him to describe the
tragedy. Kane at first charged 0ca3
with the shooting, but afterward con
fessed that he did it himself.
Smiling and crying alternately as
he answered the prosecutor's ques
tions, the Kane boy was by far the
most interesting witness at ths in
quest. Rather small for his age,
with his round face plentifully frec
kled, the defendant seemed a perfect
ly normal boy, and a murmur of pity
ran through the room as he wa3
called to the witness stand.
The prosecutor asked him if he
knew what would become of him if
ne told an untruth.
"Yes. you'd send me to the reform
school," answered the boy.
"But if you died, what would be
come of you then. Joe?"
"I'd go to the bad man."
The little prisoner then rehearsed!
the events leading up to and sur
rounding the tragedy, which were
substantially the same as he had
given in part in earlier confessions.
He again changed the story to deny
that he shot the girl deliberately.
"Tommy had the gun and I took
it away from him; Frances came
around the corner. 'Lookout, I'm
going to shoot yon,' I said. She be
gan to cry and then the gun went
off," the witness testified. "I had
my hand on the trigger," ho contin
ued, "but I just pressed it a little.
I didn't mean to kill her. We were
good friends and nlayed together. "
For nearly an hour and a half the
jury deliberated before returning a
verdict which was the mildest form
under which the boy could be held.
Mrs. Kane. Joe's mother, broke
into tears as the assistant prosecutor
read the verdict, and fainted when
Coroner BIsbing remanded him to
jail to await the action of the coun
ty authorities.
Joe gravely shook hands with sev
eral boy friends, who said they were
sorry for him and hoped he would
get out soon. But he didn't cry.
MA.'Y WARD OFF OLD AGE.
Removal of Large Intestine Ur&cd by Doctor Who
Backs Up Metchnikoff.
London. As the result of investi
gations at St. Mary's Hospital. Lon
don, Dr. Dlstaso, of Paris, says he has
verified the theory of Professor Met
chnikoff that old age can be warded
Oil.
It will be recalled that Professor
Metchnikoff declared it to be his con
viction a couple of years ago that the
large intestine was the breeding place
of the majority of harmful germs in
the human body, and that when this
Intestine was removed the majority
of germs remaining in the body were
beneficial, with the result that life
was prolonged. Dr. Distaso's investi
gations were directed to comparing
the germs found in normal individ
uals and in those whose large intes
tine had been removed by operation.
He eo satisfied himself by his studies
of the truth of Professor MetchnI
koff's theory that he unhesitatingly
says that every child ought to have
it3 large intestine and appendix re
moved when two or three years old.
He further affirms that almost
every chronic disease can be traced
to the action of these intestinal
germs, among others heart disease,
arterial sclerosis and most kinds of
headaches. ' Everybody would get
along better without the big intestine,
but those who care not to sumbit to its
removal by operation ought, if they
want to live long, to eat very little
meat, once dally being, plenty, with,
green vegetables, and only vegetables
at other mealp.
Water should be drunk abundantly
throughout the day, but no tea, coffee
or spirits.
Experiments to Re Made With
View to Supplement Telephone.
Washington, D. C. In order to as
certain whether the heliograph can
be successfully utilized in the Na
tional forests to report fires and
transmit other messages in areas
where there is no quick method of
communication, experiments with In
struments like those used in the
United States Army will be made
during the summer.
If satisfactory, heliographs will be
used to supplement the telephone
Employers Declare That Union
May Drive Them Out of Lynn.
Lynn, Mass. A thinly veiled
threat to deprive the city of Lynn of
it3 chief Industry, that of shoe man
ufacturing, 13 made in a statement
issued from the office o the Lynn
Shoe Manufacturers' Association,
which includes practically all the
manufacturers in the city. The
statement, given out by Secretary
H. A. Sawyer, refers .to the alleged
domination of the shoe Industry here
by the labor organizations, character
izing it as fundus Interference.'