CHILDREN'S. DEPARTMENT!
College Course Alot jure
Deatk
Ej Speaker Joseph G. Cannon
HOME FROM COLLEGE BAG AND BAGGAGE
O a bright young man wbo has anything in him a college
course Is not necessarily fatal to success. That is my
view of it. The college fellow becomes familiar with a
great many theories from instructors, who in the main
abound in theories and theories only. You do not know
a great many of them who could take charge, of a large
business or build up one to a grand success. You could
not learn to do that in any university or college in the
country.
The common school system the high school course gives the average
individual at least fair equipment for practical success in business or in the
various callings that men follow who live by the sweat of their faces. That
is about all that the average man will utilize. If he goes along four or five
or six or eight or ten years getting something more he is losing a very val
uable part of his life, but if he is a real student, a real specialist and he
must become a specialist if he is going to devote his life to research and
investigation the college course is necessary for him in order that he be
come proficient in his specialty. There is always a question as to whether
the average student will survive the spoiling effects of a college course.
However, you could not stop the collegiate or university course if you were
to try.
A very small percentage of the people can spend the time and money
necessary to go through college, but there are a great many students who ga
ahead and accomplish something along tire specialties, as there are a great
many of them -who accomplish' something practical in business and in poli
tics notwithstanding the burden of bearing a collegiate course.
The human animal on the average is not worth his salt if be is incap
able of making his own way. The greater rewards come in business not in
politics. A good business man is much better off than a por politician.
The business maa has bettex chances for advancement and receives greater
emuneratioa.
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War Plans of the Rations
By John W. Foster, ExSecretary of State
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HERE was never a time in the history of mankind when there
was so much danger of universal war, such gigantic propor
tion and such deadly machinery. For many years the coun
tries of Europe have been armed camps, and at present seem
to have reached their limit. Germany today keeps con
stantly under arms one million men and has on a war foot
ing t'nnr million, with the necessary establishment to put
them in the field on notice.
France, Austria, Russia and Italy maintain armies iuu
navies on a scarcely less formidable basis. Russia is trying to reinstate her
self to a position held before the Japanese war, and our own country since it
has attained the position of a world power has become inflated with the
mania. Our Secretary of the Navy has called for a navy equal to the great
est and Congress is meeting his demand.
The "picture is not complete without a glance at the other side of the
globe. Japan has demonstrated that every able bodied male is a fighting man
ready to obey the Mikado, and its large navy is still being increased. The
Chinese Minister to Germany ha hastened home to assume the duty of put
ting China on a war footing.
We have reached a time in the world's affairs when intelligent men are
Ignoring the principles of right and justice and are inclined to rest on brute
force, but a new force is come into the world to bring about universal peace
when the organized workmen of the world decide that they will no longer go
out to shoot dowu their fellow workmen to satisfy the greed and ambition
of rulers.
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Farm Warns the City
Economic Adjustment and Closer Relations
Demanded
Ey Senator McCumber
4 Y what law, God-given or man-created, have the denizens ot
- cities a greater right to the comforts, the luxuries, the pieas-
ures of life than have the tillers of the soil? The wonder-
ful prosperity of the last dozen years has developed a life
of reckless extravagance in this country. The great num-
ber of wealthy people now present in every large city has
r set a pace of high living with which the less ionanaie cue
X trying to keep up. Economy and self-denial seem almost
to have become a lost art.
The city gait is entirely out of relation and proportion to the more rigid
economy practiced by the rural population. There must and should be an
economic adjustment upon a plane of closer equality, and this means that
we must eliminate some of our most extravagant habits; that we may not
satisfy all of our expensive desires.
We make living expensive because we submit to excessive charges rather
than deny ourselves some useless luxury. Let us begin-our economy at the
right point. Let those men who need some expression for their excessive
boycott spirit turn it against the $5 to $25 a day rooms at their hotels. Let
those ladies direct it toward the $ 25 to $50 hat that has not $4 worth of actual
material on it.
When they have done that they will have accomplished a double good
they will have brought these and kindred articles down to a reasonable basis,
end they will have saved sufficient means to pay the farmer and the retailer
fair and honest compensation for their foodstuffs. They will have given new
etrength and power to the principle of. "live and let live." Columbian Magazine.
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HAVE often heard it said that Palestine i3 not a land of
much variety, even that it is very monotonous. If one com
pares it with other countries, the statement may be allowed
to be true; but in spring it affords delicious contrasts of cold
and almost grievous sterility with sofe and languorous opu
lence, the contrasts between the heights and the plains. Sad
and stony are the hills or sometimes dull in their rounded
nudity. Noble Hcrmon, with its glorious crest of snow,
excites the spirit. IJBut as one rides through Palestine,
the general effect of the hills is one that makes for a monotony not free from
melancholy. Monotonous, too, are the plains. But therein lies for me their
supreme attraction. As one slowly descends into them, picking his way
among the bristling rocks, he has the sensation of being taken as by some
green and tranquil sea, full of lulling murmurs, and of movements that sug
gest passivity to the mind. The wild flowers stir in the breeze, the prairie
of eoro. turn to a dicate pallor as the silken wind bends each ear. The Century-
"artocn oy CI. Williams, in tae Indianapolis News.
BILLION DOLLARS SPENT, MORE OR LESS
Tr.wney Figures Only Money to Be Used Next Year Congress,
Cut Outlay Livingston Reckons AH That' Was
Appropriated to Be Used Hereafter.
HOW LAWMAKERS STENT MONEY.
Hills. 1910. mil. Increase. Decrease.
District of Columbia $10.60:1.531 .40 $10,608,000 01,531
Armv 10U95.8S3.34 95.440. FC7 5.755,316
Fortifications 8.170.111.00 5.617,000 2.553,111
Agriculture 1 2.095 .036 .00 13.4S7.036 $192,G00
Deficiency 18.9S0.035.S3 13.614.970 1.530.116
Tndian .'. 11.S54.9S2.4S 9.612.64S 2,242,332
Diplomatic. 3.613.861.67 4.116.081 502,120
Tensions 160 .90S .000. 00 135.75S.O0O 4.150.000
Military AMemv 2.531.521.33 1.S50.249 675,262
Rivers unci Harbors 29.190.264.00 51.947.718 22.757.55-1
Postofficc 234.692.370.00 241.000.000 6.407.630
Lesislative 32.007.046.00 34.000.000 1.992,954
Navv 136.935,190.05 131.350,851 5,955.199
Sundry Civil 177,S42,109.34 117.I0S.970 433.139
Public Buildings 27.690.0fl0 27 .600.000 '
Lichthouse 1.358.559 1,358,550
Miscellaneous 1.S27.17G.93 1.327,176 -
Totals
SSS2.943.131. 53 $916,104,419 $62,469,938 $27,390,006
Washington. D. C. Democratic i
contention: Congress .it the sesion
Just closed again passed the billion
dollar hicrli-water mark.
Republican contention: Actual
probable fixed charge against reven
ues during the fiscal year 1011, $S93,
120.761. Both parties agre: Appropria
tions for expenses of the Government
made during the past session aggre
gate $1,027,133,446.
These contentions epitomize the an
nual review of national appropria
tions and expenditures, made public
by Chairman Tawney, of the Appro
priations Committee of the House,
and Representative Livingston, -of
Georgia, ranking Democratic member
of that committee. Tawney's fixed
charge statement Is based on deduct
ing from the aggregate the authoriza
tions which carry no appropriations;
Panama Canal cost, which bond sales
will pay for: the $20,000,000 for rec
lamation projects, which an issue of
Indebtedness certificates will cover,
and deficiency appropriations and
miscellaneous acts for payment of
claims and other special matters ex
pendable the present fiscal year In
stead of the nett.
Tawney asserted that a summary of
the constructive legislation of the first
regular session of the Sixty-first Con
gress constitutes a record of accom
plishment surpassing in importance
any previous session in the history of
Congress. Livingston denounced
what he called a large increase on ac
count of public expenditures, an in
crease of the public debt, "half a bill
Ion dollars, spent for militarism, and
the treasury drained for Army and
Navy."
Tawney said there was a substan
tial reduction in the current military
expenses, while L'vingston asserted
that under the reclamation ipsue and
naval appropriations "we have a pol
icy that stard3 for interest bearing
bonds issued against the humble
homes of the settlers and the lavish
handing out of . millions upon tens of
millions of dollars, raised by onerous
taxation to satisfy the greed of ship
builders and armor plate contractors,
and to maintain a national policy of
pomp and splendor."
Tawney urged abrogation of the
rule, instituted by a Democratic
House, giving to eight different com
mittees the power of preparing the
money bills for each Congress and the
adoption of a new rule constituting
one committee, large enough to be
representative of every section, to
have initial control over all appro
priation bills.
He supported this by showing that
the Appropriations Committee in the
bills in its Jurisdiction cut $16,933,
92" under the estimates, while the
bill from the seven other committees
exceeded the estimates by $27,931,
402. Tawney figured that the total defi
ciencies appropriated for at the last
session are less by $7,587,654 than
those of the previous session and
$11,825,789 less than the average an
nual deficiencies since the Spanish
War. Livingston, compai'ing the four
years of Roosevelt's term with the
last four years of Cleveland's Admin
istration, said there was "nearly $4,
000,000,000 for four years of Repub
licanism, as compared with less than
half that sum for the same .period by
a Democratic President."
Tawney contended that a reduction
of $2S,529,821 from the last session
of the Sixtieth Congress had been
achieved. He said that the Adminis
tration had rendered Congress mate
rial aid in reducing expenses, and
that a wholesome balance between
revenues and expenditures had been
restored, and that prospects indicated
that the Government receipts for the
fiscal year 1911 would exceed the au
thorized appropriations by $11,937,
812. The Democratic view was that
"again the high-water mark of a bill
ion dollars of expenditures is passed,"
that including the authorized recla
mation issue, river and harbor obli
gations, public buildings authorized,
lighthouses, etc., the total direct and
indirect appropriations for the last
session reached $1,096,952,051, in
creasing the previous regular session's
appropriations by $15,207,909.
BILLS OF TAFT ON CALENDAR FOR NEXT SESSION
Washington, D. C. The fragments
of the Taft legislative program which
failed of Congressional enactment at
the session just ended have been
packed in moth balls for preservation
until next winter. The calendar as
already framed up includes these
measures:
To create the Appalachian and
White Mountain forest reserve.
To build up the merchant marine
fcy a system of ship subsidies.
To regulate the granting pf injunc
tioni. To permit the Federal incorpora
tion of railroads and other common
carriers.
To regulate the issue of stocks and
bonds of transportation companies.
The enactment of additional con
servation measures, eight bills re
maining without action.
To establish a bureau of public
health.
To encourage the sudy of agricl
ture and ti-e meehanlcnl arts, for
TELEPHONE TRUST FIXED.
Mississippi Company Convicted of Try
ing to Shut Off Competition.
Water Valley, Miss. The Cumber
land Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany was found guilty of violating the
State anti-trust law by Judge I. T.
Blount in the Chancery Court, and a
fine of $175,000 was imposed.
The company was charged with en
tering into a contract with the Otford
Telephone Company in Marshall Coun
Xf uixal iff competition.
FIVE KILLED, 11 HURT IX FIRE.
Explosion of a Gas Tank Blows Roof
From fi Ruilding.
Minneapolis, Minn. Five men were
killed and eleven injured, two of then
fatally, by an explosion which first
wrecked and then set lire to the sa
loon of Edward Bushay, five miles
north of Minneapolis in the Anoka
road. The identified dead are Eugene
Hamlin, Edward Hammish and Chas.
Siggelkow, all residents of Minneapo
lis. Two bodies remain unidentified.
THE COWBOY.
Riding 'cross the wind-swept plains
Are the cowboys in their glory;
But their life is not so full of charm
As we're told in song und story.
While other sit beside the fire,
Sheltered from wind and snow,
After the half-starved, wandering herds
The brave cowboy must go.
Sometimes he sloops as on he vides,
In the saddle nifcht and de.y;
Sometimes he ne'er home returns,
But is the blizzard's prey.
IX SCHOOL. .
Teacher "'Who discovered the
S'orth Pole?"
Pupil "1 don't care to tell you.
Mother still says it wa3 Cook and
lather says it was Peary." World.
SHE WAS NOT SICK.
A young girl of fourteen was talc
ing a trip on Lake Michigan in a
small steamer. The lake was some
what rough and many were seasick.
The girl sat in the bow and was un
usually quiet for her. "Are you feel
ing sick, daughter?" inquired her
father. "No, I don't think I am sick;
but I should hate to yawn." Life.
which an appropiation of $10,000,000
is proposed.
A civil government for Alaska.
Modification of the Sherman Anti
Trust act.
Codification of the postal laws and
reorganization of the postal system.
A plan for the retirement of civil
service employes.
To expedite litigation in Federal
courts.
Beyond these there are many minor
matters to come up for action. Among
them are the Rockefeller Foundation
charter and a measure for the regu
lation of cold storage. Two impor
tant investigating committees will
make their reports and possibly a
third one. It is certain the Ballin-srer-Pinchot
committee will report its
findings to Cor.gress and the commit
tee which is to make the inquiry into
the election of Senator Irimer will
do likewise. It remains 1o be seen
whether the Core bribery charge will;
develop into a nntionnl pcndal.
FAIRY AND A CAKE.
Little Andeva stood in the big stone
Kitchen of the old Dame Gregon mix
ing a huge cake. As she worked she
longed and longed to be as happy and
free as other little girls, for she was
an orphan, working for her "board
and bed" at the old Dame Oregon's
castle. And the old Dame Gregon
was a hard mistress, domineering and
cruel, and she Lad no mercy on the
little Andeva.
When little Andeva first went to
old Dame Oregon's castle, in the
mountains, she was taught to make
very fine light, sweet cake, a certain
kind which the old dame was very
fond of. And every.day little Andeva
was obliged to bake half a dozen
cakes for the old mistress of the
Castle and her household of grown
daughters and sons and daughters-in-law
and sons-in-law, and the little
girl often became very tired and
longed and longed to be free to go
down, the mountainside to play with
the happy peasant children from the
surrounding gardens and villages.
But never had she the time to play,
even if she had had little comrades
to join in her pastime. She was kept
very busy all day long baking fine
eweet cakes for the darae and her
household.
And on the day of which I speak
she was very busy and also very lone
ly and unhappy. She was mixing in
a huge bowl the ingredients for a
cake, and as she stirred and sifted
and beat the things together the
dough began suddenly to rise from
the bovl into a white frothy moun
tain. Little Andeva was greatly sur
prised, for always before it had taken
the heat from the great even to cause
the dough to rise, and even then it
had never risen to such a height.
"What can be the matter with my
dough?" she asked herself. "Have I
put in too much yeast? But even had
I done so, it would not rise so quickly
and go so high in the air."
"No, little girl, you have mixed
your cake dough 'after tho right
recipe," said a voice near to Andeva's
elbow. "You are not to biani'j for the
action of the dough. I am responsi
ble for it."
Andeva turned about to see a fairy
standing beside her. Sha was so
much astonished that she could not
speak for a minute and stood staring
at the beautiful creature beside her.
"I know how unhappy you are,
little Andeva," said the fairy, "and
I have come to take you to a happy
home, where other children will wel
come you. And thi3 cake dough,
which, you will observe, is turning
very hard, wili lift its way through
the roof of this stone kitchen, and by
and by it will ascend to the clouds.
From there our way is safe once out
of reach of this castle."
"Oh, good fairy! Are you speak
ing truly, or am I but dreaming?"
cried little Andeva.
"The moment is real and not a
dream," said the fairy. "And now
we will ascend to the roof, and from
there to the clouds, and then we will
go on and on until we reach a land
far from here, and there you will
find a" happy home."
As the fairy said this she took
Andeva's hand, and together they
climbed to the roof of the stone kitch
en by the great pile of dough, which
had turned to a substance as hard as
rocks. As there were little steps
formed in the sides of the hard dough
the effort of going up was not very
difficult, and soon Andeva found her
self out of the kitchen and in fresh
air.
Then a strange thing happened,
and a must happy thing. Andeva was
led to a dear little wicket gate which
led into a beautiful yard full of flow
ers and tall trees, and there, in the
midst of this beauty, stood a white
stone cottage with gay windows full
of flowers. "Go in and tap at the
door, little Andeva, and you will find
your journey at an end, also your
worries and unhappiness," said the
fairy.
Little Andeva . did as instructed,
had her tap at .the door was answered
by a sweet-faced lady, who as cm!l
ing very cordially. "How do jou do,
Eitle girl?" she said. "Will yo.i come
in a while? And where did you come
from, for you seem a stranger to
me?"
Andeva turned to let the fairy
speak, but she had disappeared.
Then, soinew-hat startled to find her
self alone and among entire strangers,
she told her story. Rut before sha
began her narrative the lady Invited
her into the pretly living room and
bail? her to be seated. After she had
compb-tcd the story of her little lifa,
ending with her journey thither ou a
cloud with the fairy, tho lady took
her handii tenderly and said:
"The good fairy knyw that I had
lost a little girl jusl. your age, and
she led you to mo to take my own
dear daughter's place. Hero you shall
remain as my own child, and be a
sister to my little boy and little girl.
They are playing in tho yard now
down by the brook. I'll lead you to
them, and from thi3 hour you shell be
happy."
And so It happened that Andtiva
was happy ever afterward, and tho
mystery of the hard cake dough was
never explained in the castle of old'
Dame Gregon, who became so fright
ened over it and at the sudden disap
pearance of her little cake baker that
she died in great agony, and her sons
and daughters and their wives and
husbands became wanderers on tho
face of the earth a fate they de
served as punishment for their wicked
treatment of little Andeva. Wa.sh
ington Star.
A TABLE FOR BIRDS.
"Mamma, it makes me so angry at
the nasty dogs and cats," cried little
Nellie, as she came in one cold morn
ing. "I sweep away the snow for tha
birdies to get their crumbs, and then
some old cat or dog comes along anil
scares them all away. They aren't
hungry at all, the mean things, for
Sarah feeds them, but they just liko
to frighten the poor birdies," writes
Helen Richmond, in he Sunday
School Times.
"Yes, and it keeps us all play timo
watching the food," said Rob. "I
never get to coast a bit with my new
sled since the snow came. I don't
want the birds to starve, but it's hard
to lose all the play time."
"Well," said Mrs. Anderson, "my
little boy and girl must put their wits
to work to think up a good way to
feed the birds without any danger
from cats and dogs. I think you will
easily solve the problem if you work
a little while. You see, If you could
put the food where the cats and dogs
and chickens can not reach it, you
would have plenty of play time and
the birds would not be frightened."
The children thought about it all
that day and at night dreamed of
feeding the birds and driving away
wild animals from the little enow
cleared patch. "I don't know of a
thing unless I climb up on tho wood
house roof with the food," said Rob,
as he was starting to school. "And
even up there the cats would get it."
"I've thought of that, too," said
Nellie, "but it won't do. I thought
itfay be we could get papa to build a
high fence around the back yard to
keep out the stray dogs and cats, but
he says that is too 'spensive. I sup
pose we'll just have to watch them.
Oh! I have it! I have it! "
"Don't tell! " said Rob. "I want to
think it out myself."
They could hardly study that day
in school, and Miss Rose sajd they
surely must be excited ov some
great happening. Once when she
asked Nellie how many dolls she
could get for ten cents if they were
two cents each, Nellie looked bewil
dered and answered "Five birds," in
stead of dolls. And Rob sat working
with some string to get tho knots out
of it right in the midst of the reading
lesson, as if he had forgotten all
about school.
"I knew you could do it!" said
Mrs. Anderson as she saw the old
apple tree adorned that evening with
queer articles on strings. "Now you
can have time to coast and skate, and
the birds will be sure of thc'.r meals.
It is rather an odd table, but the
guests will not complain."
Perhaps you have guessed that Nel
lie and Rob tied pieces of bread and
meat to bits of twine, and hunt; them
in the tree out of reach of the cats
and dogs. The birds came whirring
down out of the cold gray air to peck
daintily at the meat and bread, and
then to perch in the apple tre-o and
eat the good food. Nellie a::d Rob
could hardly leave tho spot fcr watch
ing the dear birds and laughing at
the cats that jumped for the meat and
could not reach it. And all winter
the queer little table w as loaded with
good things, and tho children had
their fun, too. Newark Cull.
The Siamese language is a groat
mixture of nearly all the dialects and
languages of the Far East, namely,
Chinese, Malay, Mon, Cambodian,
Sanskrit, Pali and others.
In proportion to population, there
are in the United States more than
three times as many deaths from tu
berculosis as in England and Wales.