fflE FRANKLIN PRESS,
x Oi,UMIS;XXI.:
FRANKLIN. N. C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER )M.
Th Wind Is In the Maple. '.'
The wind Is In the maples
And lucre's music Id the pines,
The hemlock scent has burdened all
i : the air;
For I hear the mountains calling
Where the sun forever shines
And my feet would even wander with
you there.
Oh, to wade among the daisies
To the thickets dusk and dim, l
When the birds and bees are slum
brous at the noon
Whore we plucked the dogwood
blossoms
And the berries from the item
To return by scented meadows at the
moon.
Through that fair, old fashioned gar
den, Thick, with eglantine and rose,
' To the steps alive." with memories of
the night .
When the first kUs merged our
spirits;
Where the Oleander blows
His passion In the summer's waning
light.
Oh, the nights so cool and soothing,
Oh, the Jasper tinted day
And the sapphire, golden skies, for
ever new,
' Where I waited on the turnpike
By the Held of new mown hay
As you drove the cows to pasture In
the dew.
So I hear the mountains calling
In the- glad notes of the pines
While the sliver gleamB among the
maple leaves,
For I hate the murky city
With Its mills and trolley lines
And the mad chwse for the dollar,
dear, that grieves;
I would wander through the wild
wood, Down the old path by the mill
And list the distant taps for hands at
noon,
While we lunch beneath the hem
locks At the spring that bubbles still,
To return by scented meadows at the
moon.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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S Treasure Trove.
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Mr. Jehu Pontifex Btood In his gor
geous drawing room at Wimbledon
and chuckled freely over an evening
paper he held in his hand, while his
wife, who was a lady of weight so
far as adipose tissue was concerned,
.. jelned in his mirth.
"It Is a 'nevlngl.v idea," the grea
man said; "sooperb! People's gardens
dug up, the fences broke down, tha
roots of the trees cut through and
the trees themselvts ruined, and
what is It I see here? the bleBSul
watchdog throttled to death in one
case. Oh, a 'nevlngly Idea. I think
I'll follow It:"
"The newspaper man makes some
thing by it. What can you do, Jehu.
and what can you want? You're
worth half a million. Isn't that
enough?"
"It's business, my dear, business:
and I ain't going to be beat by any
newspaper man. What does he sell
his paper at? A penny, ain't it, or a
"Ha'penny? Well, I sell my cakes of
blacking at a penny. Why shouldn't
I have a treasure hunt, too? I am
as rich as he is, I'll bet a bob."
' "But, Jehu"
"Don't argue with me, Anne Maria.
Now, listen to this I drawed up at
the office thta afternoon. Listen"
and he took out a paper from the
pocket of his dinner jacket, and rea l
as follows: "Pontlfex's blacking Is
the blacking of the world! For years
It has been almost given away for
nothing. Now something is going to
be given away with it. Purchasers
of the cakes of this blacking will find
In every skin a paper, on which is
the Information its to the neighbor
hood where on a given day 10,0f0
have been hidden in two hundred dif
ferent penny pencil cases, each con
taining sovereigns to the amount of
50. Find It and you've got It. No
questions asked. Pontlfex's money
is good enough. You can find the lot
If you're sharp."
"Isn't It wonderful!" Mrs. Pontifex
gasped. "Oh, what a gift yours is,
Jehu!"
"I'm not a fool," her husband re
plied. "There's other geniuses in this
world except them literary gents, who
never seem to do much except abuse
each other. Now, Anne Maria, in
three days' time as ever was a hund
red morning papers in Ixmdon and
the country will have that advert. In
prominent place; a thousand sand
wich men will parade all the 'great
cities and towns of this country; a
lot of balloons will go up all over
the country just to chuck the leaflets
down on the people's 'eds; the factory
on tha river side will be a blaze of
gas, and where was I "
"Oh, Jehu, you are a wonder! What
can't you do? But tha expense."
"Blow the expense, as the girl said
when she told the waiter to bring an
other sardine on toast. But listen
gain, Maria. Baggs, our most trust
ed employee, as we call him, with
several help, will be all over the
country a-dropplng them penny pencil
cases about London and the environs
will 'get the most, and between our
elves, here In Wimbledon where I'm
so known and respected In the parish,
we're going to dash 'em about freely.
Two 'thousand pounds at least Is for
the good of the Wlmbledonians. If
that don't make me more popular than
ever, I don't know what w'll. Look
after your own, 1 say.
Five days later than Mv Pontifex
lad propounded this great scheme a
very handsome, well-set-up young man
was walking down a In the summer
time leafy lane, and this young man
was engaged on treasure hunt. But,
alnce he had not bought any of Mr,
Pontifex' cakes of blacking with the
direction inside- as ' to where Ms
sovereigns might be found inside their1
penny pencil cases, it was not for
them that he Was hunting. Tet, all
the same, It was a treasure belonging
to Mr. Pontifex which he was looking
for, viz., his daughter. For he and
tiiralel Pontifex loved each other,
and Pontifex was a stern parent of
the good old Surrey side style of
melodrama, and he laughed to scorn
the pretensions of Herbert Gay to an
nex his daughter and his ducats. But
Mirabel loved the young man, and,
consequently, they were reduced to
clandestine meetings, so that they
might have the opportunity of fre
quently repeating to each other the
state of their feelings, and bewailing
their unhappy fate and the hardness
of Mr. Pontlfex's obdurate and bust
ness-like heart.
"But," Mirabel often said to her lov
er, 'if you could only show father
that you bad some way' of making a
living, of making money, I do believe
he would give In. He likes you for
yourself, and It's nothing against you
in his eyea that you have got such
fashionable relations; only he says 1
shall never marry a man who Isn't
sharp enough to make money. If you
could make five hundred pounds, or
even one, and show him that you
made it cleverly, shrewdly, I oelleve
he would arrange things all right for
us. But you can't do that by writing
poetry, can you, dear?"
"No," Herbert Gay would reply
gloomily, "I can't. I suppose I muBt
gel a job somewhere."
But now, aa he walked down the
lane in question, he was not bent so
much on meeting Mirabel as on going
to an old oak tree, which bad, as such
things very often conveniently pos
sess to oblige lovers In novelB and
tales a great hole In Us decayed
trunk. He went toward It because In
this tree in the lane, which was out
side Mr. Pontlfex's domain, It was the
iiault for Mirabel to place a letter for
Herbert whenever anything "happened
to prevent bcr getting out to him.
He went toward It, therefore, and
was just about to Insert his hand in
the big hole, and grub about amidst
the rotten touchwood Inside, when, to
his astonishment, he saw a man some
two or three hundred yards down the
lane, who was upon his knees, thrust
ing something under a small heap of
fallen leaves. Watching him further,
he noticed the man trust tWs ")op.;c
thing," which looked like a small
truncheon, further into the leaves, and
then go on further, until at the turn
of the lane he was out of Bight. And
he now saw that In bis hand he car
ried another similar object.
"I'll just see," murmured Herbert
Gay, "whether Mirabel has left a let
ter or not, and then I'll go and find
out what the gentle joker has shoved
under the leaves. I expect It's a dead
bird or something. Perhaps be haa
a kindly heart."
Upon which Gay put his hand In
the hollow tree, and when he had
done so he found a letter from the
girl of his heart, saying she could not
meet him today. But he also found
something else.
His hand came Into contact first
with one of those truncheon looking
things the other man had been push
ing under the leaves, then with a sec
ond, a third, and bo on, until he had
felt eight of them, after which ho
pulled out one and inspected it.
"A schoolboy's pencil case," he ex
claimed to himself. "Let's see what
Is in It. I suppose that chap's an
Idiot, or playing a game with some
children. Good lord!" he went on, as
he opened the pencil case, "what's
this?" For as he did so out came
fifty sovereigns, while further Inspec
tion showed that the other seven
cases contained a similar amount.
"I understand," he said. "That
man's employed by the newspaper to
hide these things all over the place,
and he has left these here till he has
buried the other two. Well. ..nrahel
can't see me today, so I'll take them
off and put them away safely; but
first I'll go down and get the other
one he put under the leaves. Fifty
sovereigns are fifty sovereigns, any
how." "Your young man's a genius," Mr.
Pontifex said to Mirabel a few days
afterward. Then, turning to Herbert
Gay, whom he had Invited to dinner,
he continued: "However did you man
age to do it? Baggs said he hid them
all carefully way, and swore no treas
ure hunter would ever find them."
"My powers of divination," Herbert
replied. "It's a gift, you know. No
body, but me bad a cbance of finding
them."
"I should think it was a gift! I
can understand your finding one, or
even two, but all the blessed lot!
And with you, Baggs," turning to that
gentleman, who was also present, "to
hide them away so cleverly."
"Yes, It's wonderful," Baggs said.
"I could have, staked anything no or
dinary treasure hunter could have
found out where I put them" and the
humbug gave Herbert a wink. For he
understood that so long as he allowed
Gay to have credit of finding eight
pencil cases in eight different places,
and of keeping the money, Heroert
would never give him away or betray
his carelessness.
"I always told you Mr. Gay was a
clever man," Mirabel said to her fath
er, "and"
"Now I know It," that' gentleman
replied. "My boy," he said effusive
ly, "you must go Into business.
"I should like to," Herbert replied.
"Poetry doesn't py."
"Well, then, you shall. I do be
lieve your powers of what do you
call 'ems? would double my business.
Lor bless me! with a son-in-law like
yon I wouldn't mind starting a paper
myself. We could teach them some
thing they never dreamt ot"-Tho
King. -
LA FOLLETTE CORRECTED.
Better Prices- Under th Present
Method of Buying Grain.
Senator Le Folfette contrast the
present methods with "the old days
when the farmer brought their grain
to market and tha buyers gathered
around and bid for the product, :, Now
the farmer has to hunt up the buyers
In their offices there is no competi
tion, for the profits of the buyers
are pooled,"
7 The first part of this statement Is
true; the second Is not. Methods
have changed, but It Is all to the ad
vantage of the farmer. He gets more'
under the present condition than
would be Boselble If former practice
were In vogue. It Is true that In most
of the primary market throughout
the West his buying Is limited to two
or three parties. At the smaller sta
tions sometimes only on buyer Is
present. This Is not because of any
destruction of competlon by unlaw
ful methods; It Is simply because the
parties operating the handling plants,
which they themselves own, can af
ford to and do pay higher prices for
grain than any one not possessed of
such facilities. Wagon buyers are
just as free to operate as ever they
were, but the expense of handling
grain by the primitive method is pro
hibitory. The farmer of the West, In
stead of being limited to the com
petition of the local buyers of his
particular railroad station, has now
the advantage of the competition of
the world markets.
There are a number of large grain
concerns which put into the hands of
every regular buyer at every local
station on every railroad each morn
ing of the year a postal- or telegraph
offer based on the close of the pre
vious day's markets in Chicago, New
York and Liverpool, whichever may
be the highest. These men are ex
pected to telegraph how much they
will sell at these prices and there Is
the sharpest kind of competition be
tween the buyers at the local sta
tions to get as much grain as possible.
So keen Is this strife that the prices'
paid for grain frequently allow less
than one-half cent a bushel margin
for the buyer all of which Inures to
the direct advantage of the farmer.
Under the old method a margin of
three to six cents, and frequently
more, was exacted by the buyer le
order to Insure himself against loss.
This great benefit to the producer
has been made possible through the
concentration of the business Into a
comparatively few hands and the co
operation of the railroads In equalis
ing rates to the various ports. From
the Railway and Engineering Review,
NEWS ABOUT DOGS.
They Really Do Everything But Talk,
tt-Scem.
Under certain conditions, a tiny fer
ret can do the work of four men. The
animal is being used to draw tele
phone cables through , long conduits.
The ferret ran thnnigh,drftg.gjng a
string to which Is attached copfsef
wire, a cord and finally the cable
Itself. Formerly the work was done
by a laborious system of "roddlng."
The errets are employed exlenslve
ly In Indiana.
While Harold Goodwin, the son of
a builder, was walking through a quiet
part of his father's works near Lon
don last December a man flung a
heavy piece of jagped iron at him and
stunned him. Shot, the young man's
retriever, flew at the ruffian's throat
and kept hton prisoner until aid ar
rived. The dog became the hero of
the place, Mr. Goodwin's workmen
subscribing for a silver collar for him,
while the young man's family mad
him guest of honor at a dinner.
Pennies, a tiny New York dog. Is
a companion of Shot in the dog-hero
medal f.inrt. When his master, Wai
ter Brown, employed in a livery
stable, was attacked by Robert Reld,
a colored man, whose discharge from
the place he bad caused. Pennies
weut to the rescue. Reid drew a re
volver and aimed it at Brown, but
the dog quickly Impressed his teeth
in the leg of the assailant and spoiled
his aim. The shot went wild and
the man was overpowered and sup
pressed. John Hancock, a Cleveland genius,
has trained his fox terrier, Prince, to
fetch the kindling wood from the cel
lar. The dog acts at command and
Is skillful and industrious. Phlladek
phla Record.
Old Time Travel.
It was in 1658 that the first regular
stage coach began running between
the two capitals, London and Edin
burgh. It ran once a fortnight and
the fare was 1, which would be a
good deal moro than 120 today. The
time taken to the journey is not ac
curately known but between" York
and London it -wag four days. This
lavish system of communication was
not, however, kept up, as In 1763 the
coach ran between London and Edin
burgh once a month only, taking a.
fortnight, If the weather was favor
able, to tl ft journey. In 1754 a heroic
effort was made to Improve the Lon
don and Edinburgh coach, - The Edin
burgh Courant for that year contained
the following advertisement:
"The Edinburgh stage coach, for the
better accommodation of passengers,
wfll be altered to a genteel two end
glass coach, being on steel springs,
exceeding light and easy, to go in
ten days In summer and twelve In
winter, to Bet out the first Tuesday
in March and continue it. from Ho
sea Eastgate's the Coach and Horses,
In Dean street, Soho, London, and
from John Somervllle's, In the Canon
gate, Edinburgh, etc. Passengers to
pay as usual. Performed if God per
mits, by your dutiful servant, Hosea
Eastgate." '
In the days of stage coaches people
sometimes clubbed together and nlred
a post-chaise for their journey as be
ing quicker and leas expensive, and
Scottish newspapers occasionally con
tained advertisements to the effect
that a person about to proceed to
London would be glad to hear of
fellow "adventurer" or two bent on
the same Journey to share the ex
pense. Chicago Dally News.
Does spontaneous generation occur
in the world today? This Is one of
the burning question now before men
of science, and in all directions es
perlmenU are being made with a view
to its solution. Dr. Saleeby, F.R.8.E.,
consider the problem In Harper's, in
relation to the recent views of scien
tist and the remarkable 'assistance
of radium In their latest experiment.
The chief difficulty, he thinks, Is the
impossibility of satisfactorily defining
life. Dr. Saleeby Is an'earnest disci
ple of Herbert Spencer, as his latest
book, Evolution; the Master-key, at
tests, but possesses an essentially op
en mind. ' '
The Kansas City Star note that
Miss Oklahoma Is satisfied now that
her star is on straight.
I NEW YORK AS SEEN BY
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hi1 riiT-Erei tit iicit Mill is Cliapti Itw lit Stttl to Ittp It toa lanltf
Ami tt Jii-Sits look lirt-M Him Iltciei li Great Itlel, lit Tuns Fsr
i mill Can ri tr Ititsi Useill.
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How New York hurries; hurries la
work, hurries In play! There is
something electric about the very air
which makes one move the faster!
When I get back to Chattanooga I
shall find myself running across the
streets and hurrying out of the cars
as though all the world depended on
my getting from one block to an
other. I know that I shall. The
thing which has impressed us girls
who have come up from the South
to spend two weeks here is the fact
that so many persons In New York
do not seem to have anything else to
do but to hurry just as fast as ever
they can doing nothing. How Is it
that you all find bo much time to
play while pretending that you are
so very, very busy?
One of the first Impressions which
this great city made upon me with Its
noise, Its confusion, Its scurrying
backward and forward, Its din of
bells and whistles and Its roar of
wheels, was that in spite of all their
appearance of being so occupied many
had nothing to do but to play. But
then New York never really goes to
bed. People are tol'ing when others
play and playing when others work:
Somebody alv. ays has a holiday and
many are at their tasks when their
neighbors are up In the roof gar
dens. All Classes Have Play Time.
Of course, I know that somebody
really does work, but when? At mid
day, in the afternoon, in the evening,
at any hour of the day or night you
go to places of amusement, you sit
In the restaurants at luncheon,
breakfast, tea, dinner, supper. It
certainly does seem to me that there
are no three meals a day here, for
there are so many persons who have
nothing else to do but to eat at their
leisure at all hours and to look out
upon the Btrcets, where thousands
come and go, just as though they
were intended to run up and down
jthnt why forever and ever.
Y)0 you know that there is some
thlngvTffsf44at'n8 ahout this city of
yours? Of fcurse you must know It,
or you would, not stay here and keep
settling here S'ear after rear. I won
der how It is 1p8sible for so many to
find a place tq live on this little,
rocky Island, alh damped down with
steel and weighted down with big
masses of stone although you were
afraid that the varv "kTTHHuI would
hurry away from under your feetttml
- , ,
5 rTL'r T u ' 1,6 HThTmchw waa ,cfir.to"'y a delight.
uu umu ai huh,
But you don't labor In this town as
they do down South as far as
length of time Is concerned, at eaBt.
In New York the people squeeze all
their work Into a few hours, and then
away their go In their cars and auto
mobiles, hastening to the country,
hurrying to the theatres and running
toward the beaches. All classes have
time to play, for In the parks I see
laborers and their families taking life
as easy as a New York man can and
having such a good time. It isn't
any wonder that the first thing that
a stranger asks of New York Is,
"When do you work?"
New York Men Chivalrous.
Do you know that before I came
here I heard much about the coldness
and excluslvene88 of New York peo
ple, and I was not prepared to like
them at all. Well, they do have that
constrained air about them, but It Is
all an affectation. They don't mean
It. At heart they are kindly, polite
and attentive.
And the men! Oh, I do like the
New York men. They are the very
soul of chivalry; they are courteous;
they never presume; they take the
greatest pleasure !n doing any ser
vice. They are always so respectful
-od attentive, yet when there Is any
IN OLD WAR DAYS.
Row the Great Straggle Made Busi
ness For the Bucksport Stage.
It one wants to hear marvellous
tales concerning stage driving In old
times he Bhould go to Bucksport and
secure talks with Borne of the old
chaps who can remember back to the
days of the Civil War. Then, as now,
Bucksport was "eighteen miles from
everywhere" from Bangor, Belfast,
Castlne, Ellsworth and several other
smaller places. Stages left the old
Robinson House In processions every
day.
Some of those old drivers were re
markable men, skilled In handling
the "ribbons,1' very popular with
their patron and heroic, In their
labors to be on time under every con
dition of weather. - The names of
these men would fill considerable
space In a newspaper. Most othem
are dead now, but they are not for
gotten. There is another aspect of stage
driving during the Civil War times,
which no one has recorded a yet
the great traffic which was carried
on by hackmen and stage in carry
ing persons who were anxious to get
away to New Brunswick as soon and
a quietly a possible. The demand
for soldier was urgent, because the
needs of the nation were great. Many
young men who were physically able
to serve In the rank did not have a
liking for the Job, and sooner than
argue the case, they sought rest and
seclusion under her Majesty' flag,
even a many vessel owner did for
their, property, which was exposed to
the ravage of Confederate priva
teer, r '
Not all of these young men who
ought New Brunswick for safety
were residents of Maine by any
means. Many came to Bucksport by
the Boston boat, and went Inland1
on stage or on foot or by private con
veyance, as their 'finances dictated.
It the stories of those refugees could
be told, much of Interest would be
revealed.
Every stage driver know the "ske
dadlers," as they were called, and
all paid heavy tribute to powers that
controlled the ronlesi
From 12
A DIXIE GIRL
KATHCRINC ROBERTSON.
091
fun and any gayety they enter into
it all with such spirit. .They stop
at nothing. They have such an air of
knowing all about life; their manners
are perfect; they are so bright and
up to date, and their conversation I
always interesting and entertaining.
You hea.- of thechlvalry of the South'
ern people, but those in New York
know better how to be chlvalrouB.
Here. in New York a fclrl would soon
forget how to do her own "toting."
Now, about the women? I'm afraid
that I ought not to .write thlB, but 1
must Bay that those whom I have
seen impress me as very artificial.
Compared to the women whom I have
seen in the South, they do not seem
to be sincere. But how they do dress!
What style and carriage they have!
How well they wear their clothes,
and what an air of distinction!' A
New York woman would be know
anywhere.
Hard Look About the Mouth.
The expression of the facts of New
York women, although I cannot ex
actly describe it, is something which
one is not likely to forget. Well I
may as well say it they have a hard
look around the mouth and under the
eyes, and I have not seen many of
them who lookeM really happy. I
think that one coming from the West
or South might learn In two or three
months to dress like the women of
New York, and probably In a year or
so she would get that same expres
sion. It Is something that one seems
to feel, but It is hard to define or de
scribe. I don't know that I care for
it, and would not care to have my
friends look that way.
It Is very Interesting to watch
thousands of faces which you have
never seen before and will never see
again. It is different from some of
the little towns In the South that I
know, where you know everybody
and everybody knows you, and loves
you. Is It not a wonderful study In
human nature? I rathor like It.
How you New Yorkers have re
duced living to a science! You cer
tainly do knqw how to live. The city
Is so spick and span and smart. You
can see It in the hotels, little and big,
where there is always such system
and such a neat and expeditious way
of doing things. Why, the house
keeping of these great Inns of yours
Is just marvellous. Thoy took us
through the Waldorf-Astoria the oth-
night from cellar to root garaen,
Everything was shlniiisrro- bright.
I saw them making little autrtmobileB
nut. of almond n&ste and ic.Srear?
and nesselrode pudding, but
didn't have any corn pone or any
beaten biscuit In the whole house.
No Green Anywhere.
How big and clean and shiny the
whole city Is with Its tall skyscrapers
without a speck on them, just as
though they were dusted every morn
ing, and the great apartment houses
which look as If they were washed all
over- every night!
But how close together you all
live! Down South we like to have
large lawns and here you haven't
anything like that, not even the Van-
derbllts. Even Mr. Morgan has only
a tree or two.
Tou scarcely have anything green
around the houses to give your eyes
a rest. We girls like to get out In
the yard under the trees, where we
can have tea and talk.
New York Is a wonderful place,
and sometimes I feel that If I had a
great deal of money I would like to
live here for a while, and then again
I am not so very sure of it. All the
same, I must say that it certainly Is
a charming locality. New York Her
ald. to 1864 thousands of men from
Maine and other New England Btatea
took advantage of the facilities of
fered by remote stage lines and ef
fected their escape, though a major
ity of them returned and "squared"
themselves with the Government be
fore the close of the war.
Incidentally, It may be well to say
here that the famous Bar Harbor and
Bangor line was claimed to be the
swiftest and most elegant service by
horse-power in the country. Bangor
(Me.) News.
Profit in Mexican Land.
Land in the arid portions of Mex
ico is still very cheap and can be
bought in tracts of 1000 to 1,000,000
acres. The price is rUIng, but not
at the rato It will probably reach in
the near future. , Without any effort
at Improvement, investments made
with reasonable carefulness will
bring good returns by the enhkt.ee
ment that Improved methods of com
munication, - agriculture, etc.! are
bringing about.. There Is a good
chance to. enlarge considerably the
area of irrigable land in these tracts,
aside from the gain In value due to
improved methods, better stock and
other improvements a progressive
rancher can make. ,. The land invest
ment offers a surer, perhaps even a
larger, prospect for profit than In
vestments . in mining enterprise.
Comparatively few American engage
In the former, while nearly all who
come to the country, engage to some
extent In the latter. . The American
la prone to play for the "highest
stakes,"regardless of the greater risk,
Mobile Register.
: The Salvation Army' Emigrant..
In March of this year the Salvation
Army transported 1200 emigrants to
Canada. This month .1300 men,
women and children were sent out
to the Dominion by that agency. It
Is estimated that thi religious and
very business-like body will this year
send out 6000, next yea.' 10,000 and
the following year 20,000, in the
effort to solve, or partially solve, the
problem of poverty in' England,
INew Tork Press. ' .
HARD BLOW TO AMERICA
ABROAD. '
CHICAGO MEAT SCANDAL HAS
AROUSED EUROPE'S HORROR.
I orelgners Less Tolerant oil Publlo
Abuses Than Americans, anfc Effect
of Disclosures Will Not Easily Be
Overcome Call Our Business Meth
ods Rotten.
Much has been cabled about the ef
fect in Europe of the Chicago beef ex
posures, but it Is difficult to give an
adequate Hea of the worldwide fury
and horror created by Upton Sinclair's
novel "The Jungle" and the dally des
patches to the European newspapers,
writes the London correspondent of
the New York Sun.
It is frequently said here that Amer
ican memories are short and the
American public the most tolerant of
abuses of any In tjie world, but tto
manufacturers of American food pro
ducts will not find either of these
characteristics among Euroiun con
sumers. The effect of the recent dis
closures will last at least half a gene
ration. The prejudice which has been
created makes no discrimination, and
no reform or protests will effect it.
This ie not due altogether to the speci
fic scandal of the Chicago packing
houses. These revelations have come
as a climax to a long series of ex
posures with which American tele
grams to English and European papers
have teemed for many months.
The old world has come to believe rn
general terms that American business
methods are rotten. It Is a sad thing
to write of the reputation of one's
country, but It is the simple truth, and
the truth better be told without dis
guise. It will take more than a paper
reorganization of the great life Insu
rance companies and a cleaning of the
Augean stables at Chicago to restore
European belief in American honesty
and fair dealing. It will be a long
time before public opinion on this
side of the Atlantic will have any con
fidence in American corporate reform.
One thing and one thing only will
have any real effect In Europe. When
America begins to send Its greatest
criminals to Jail Europe' will begin to
believe that there Is a real standard
of morality in the country. The ad
ministration of Justice In the United
States Is today the subject of open
ridicule and contempt throughout Eu
rope. There Is nothing an Englishman
resents more than in Intimation that1
the American judicial system is sim
ilar to England's, and the chief argu
ment adduced against the pending bill
to create one court of criminal appeal
is the danger that It will prove to be
the opening wedge for American evils.
The Spectator, at the end of a long
article on the beef scandal goes as
far as it dares In friendly criticism
when It sayB that Englishmen will be
of the opinion that "the recent dls-
rtnBiiren mrpht tn he followed hv crlm-
-viiilnal prosecutions 'and In the ev- nt of
' MeTrylctions by severe punishment. It
remaTns"1khe seen whether the Amer
ican authorHrys-eW adopt an equally
rigorous reading ofntrttduties."
The Snertatnr also savsMiat the
two worlds have been shocked
furlated. The Chicago packing houses
appear to combipe pretty well all the
characteristic evils which degrade our
civilization. They are recklessly sel
fish. They stop at no offence that
promises to serve their purpose. They
are grossly oppressive to those In their
employ. They are familiar with every
kind of fradulent method for disguis
ing diseased offal, which It pleases
them to sell as meat. They know how
to square officials if they are threaten
ed by so much as the shadow of In
spection. They have not even tried
to conceal their misdeeds."
The Tlmes's New York correspon
dent says thBt half has not been told
In the newspapers about the beef scan
dal and that he is In a position to say
that the whole tmth can never be told
in print for the reason that it would
transcend the bounds of decency. In
such a case as this, however, the
bounds of decency have no claim to be
considered. The needless piling of
horrors, the needless familiarizing of
the public with horrible and disgust
ing details are always to be discour
aged, but heTe the word needless Is
not in place. The question Is not how
much does It take to shock the public,
but how much tt takes to arouse the
public to a sense of Its obligations.
Whatever degree of publicity Is neces
sary for this latter purpose ought to
be resorted to, no matter at what peril
to decency, The American public are
exceptionally careless In matters of
this sort.
To quote the Times correspondent
again, "Triey are not particularly
eager for protection against robbery,
legalized or otherwise."
In the face of such language as the
foregoing In the most conservative
and friendliest of English publications
It becomes the duty, however painful,
of any conscientious correspondent to
Inform his countrymen of the Indict
ment which the world at large is
bringing against them and to warni
them that It Is not corporate crim
inals alone who are being arraigned.
It Is the whole American people who
stand today at th bar of publlo opin
ion before their sister nations.
Never before has American com
mercial honor been so attacked abroad.
Never before have the American peo
ple been so criticised (or, neglecting
their primary publlo duties. England
and France and Germany and the oth
er nations are waiting to see how J
America will vindicate herself before
the eyes of the world. -,
I the House of . Commons today
John Burns, president of the Local
Government Board, In replying to a
question by William Field, member
of the Dublin, stated that he was com
municating with Foreign . Secretary
Grey with a view of ascertaining
what reliance was to be placed upon
meat Inspection by the United State;
Bureau of Animal Industry.
Mothers.
Jimmy Gee! I've got the be. ,
mother In the world; she don't mak
me wash my face but once a day. ,
JohnnyHuh, that ; ain't nothln '
My mother don't never cut her pfof
in less'n four pieces. American Spec
tator.
OLD MEASURES IN UIC
In Philadelphia 100 Feet I 100 Feet 3
Inches Arpent and Barleycorn.
In connection with the attempted In
troduction of the metric system into
this country Cassler's Magazine pub
lishes several interesting interviews.
One opponent admitB that it would
not be so difficult a matter to estab
lish the lit ra and the kilogram as it
would be to Introduce the metre.
' "I believe," he says, "there Is no
Instance In modern times in which a
unit of length once anchored In man
ufacturing industry or in titles to real
estate has ever been entirely supplant
ed. "Even the barleycorn is In wide use
today, for the difference between the
sizes of our shoes Is a barleycorn. The
State of Texas has been United States
soil since 1846, but In the portions of
the State which were settled by the
Spaniards how It is In the other por
tions I do not know the common
unit of land measure to-day Is the
Spanish vara.
"In Louisiana the corresponding
unit Is the arpent the old French
unit which iu'splte of a century of
compulsory laws Is still current In
France, and which, anglicized in pro
nunciation, is to-day the common unit
by which land is bought and sold in
Louisiana.
"In the older parts of Philadelphia
100 feet and 3 Inches are to-day legally
100 fet, because the surveyor's chain
with which that citywas laid out was
three Inches too long. Special tape
lines are made for use In Philadelphia
on which 100 feet 3 inches are grad
uated as 100 f'.-et.
"The half '.nch United States or Sel
lers standard screw thread has thirteen
turns per inch. Mr. Welsh, the origi
nal superintendent of the Westing
house Air Brake Works, for some reas
on, now unknown, objected to an odd
numbered thread.
"He therefore adopted the Sellers
standard, except that for the half inch
bolt he adopted twelve threads Instead
of thirteen. This decision has prov
ed to be a mistake and a nuisance, and
the company would to-day be very glad
to change It, but It finds itself power
less to do so. The immense number
of brake equipments which are out
all over the world, the constant call for
renewals, repairs and extensions makes
the simple necessity for continuity
paramount over all others.
"I know of no more significant ex
ample than this. This great company
finds Itself powerless to change the
number of threads upon the size of
bolt by one turn per inch,, but our
metric friends tell ns that we can
change everything and almost without
difficulty."
QUAINT AND CURIOUS,
A cow's hide of average size pro
duces about thirty-five pounds of leath
er. No animal Is so like man as a mon
key, yet no animal does man Mmli
deantsal
more.
the reasonfmit c,,ts dislike water
Is bectf;p (hqre S nothing oily about
elr fur. Consequently, it is easily
wetted, and does not dry quickly.
Applying for relief to the poor guard
ians of a London parish, an old woman
said she had a daughter who did not
allow her anything, bdt kept up the
the payments on her insurance policy.
Twenty-four survlvorB wof the fam
ous charge of the Light Brigade at
Balaklava mustered on the stage at
the Alhambra, London, recently, when
Mrs. Clement Scott recited Tennyson's
stirring poem at the annual matinee
In aid of the survivors.
A London dentist made a novel pro
posal of marriage. He fell In love
with an elderly patient who ordered a
set of false teeth from him. When the
teeth were delivered the woman found
a neat little proposal engraved on the
plate which held the teeth.
A good home-made barometer can
be made with a piece of strong, flno
cord with a weight suspended against
a board. Moisture causes the cord to
stretch, and when it dries the weight
Is lifted. By observing and marking
height on a board a good barometer
is completed.
One of the cherished relics of the
Hale family of Boston Is a watch once
carried by Nathan Hale, the martyr
spy of the Revolution. The watch is
of old Swiss or English make, large
size 22 or 24, skeleton movement,
solid steel balanoe, vermicelli finish,
key wind, hand made. The rubles
alone are estimated to be worth five
dollars apiece, and the whole watch
cost in Its day in the neighborhood of
$200. One competent jeweller declares
It shows evidence of having been made
In the seventeenth century. It may
have been, for Nathan Hale was ex
ecuted September 22, 1776.
Tyneslder tells us of a curious Whit
sun custom which has been observed
at Newcastle, England, for several hun
dred years. One morning just before
Wbitsun the mayor and other munici
pal dignitaries proceed In gayly dec
orated steamers and barges to the
mouth of the river; and there, while
the vessels are anchored, the town
clerk reads a proclamation, declaring
that the soli of the Tyne ie projerty
of the City of Newcastle. On return
ing to the quay the mayor and the two
principal sheriffs choose three of the
prettiest maidens among the specta
torh. salute them with a more or less
stately kiss, and give to each a new
sovereign. , : , v.,. .-, ;
Confided to th Fret.
This notice appeared exactly as fol
lows In an English newspaper pub
lished In a town nbt far from London:
"Will the girl who helped a lady
with a leg down a coal hole on Sun
day afternoon between three and four
o'clock please call at No.,
atreet"
The mere American reader, unused
to EugllBh ways, will wonder what
the "lady" wanted down the coal-hole,
and where her other leg was; or did
the latter belong to the other "party?"
The notice 1 ambiguous. Harper's
Weekly.
IS MARRIAGE A HINDRANCE
Is mnrriht a hindrance?
Will, you bef It Is
In vailous ways to
A fi-llow In his i
I-iiM!tr Wii.
CoiK-vlved u a "banh."
1 )M h Minulil he runnln
1 lit- whole shooting match,
II" thinks h-'s the matter
Hrt-:;nis he'B the man, ,
1 he hed of the fnm'ly,
'I h tret? of the span,
Tn. Jo m he ph-aaca
In running the house
From the si of a saucepan
n thinks that the- woman
ts wenk and should trust
AI! tn'i'tTH to him. or
Th hnepohold will bust.
TVht his la hla own;
Wh'tt lf hers, too, Is his
I? m.url:Ri: a hindrance?
W.-ll. you hot It Is.
'. J. Lampion In the New Tork Sun.
ftJiSNrSlDtoPUP
Vicar's wife "Now, can any of you
children tell me of asotherlffk?"
Bright child rk" the 'Erald Angels
Shi:;!" Punch.
T'ic Golf Girl "John seems to have
foczlfd In making love to me." The
Auto Girl "Well, something's gone
v.-ioic; with my spnrker, too." Judge.
Nell "I really believe she married
him for his money." Belle "Well,
eliminate his money, and what else
would there be or him ?" Philadelphia
ItTord.
"The people In the next flat Beem
to be fond of the latest songs." "Yes,
They don't appear to care for any
that are sung earlier than 10 p. m."
Washington Star.
t-'ela "Profe-HFor Lee says candy
is a rirc for fatigue." Bella "That's
true; a man who brings me chocolates
never makes me aB tired as a man
who doesn't." Harper's Bazar.
First tramp "Says in this 'ere pa
per as 'ow some of them millionaires
works eight and ten hours a day.
Hill " The Philosopher "Ah, It's a
'aid world for some poor blokes!"
Punch.
The Wire "He told me that if I
married him my every wish would be
ginllncl." The Mother "Well, Is It
not so?" The Wife "No, I wish I
hadn't married him." Cleveland
Leader.
"H'.-llo! I want to see Mr. Smith
at the telephone." "Mr. Smith says
if you wan't to see him at the tele
phone, you will have to come to his
office; he hasn't time to go to yours."
Baltimore American.
Jinks "Hello, Blinks! Hear you
had a great time getting married-
us mtirritju
her and mith-
eloped with the girl father and m.th-
er turious gave chase, but I
mt IlilniJ
"-raefch. von, did thev?". Bll
Uftlfs, sadly-
"No-o." New York Weekly.
"Are you ready to live on my In
come?" he asked softly. She looked
up into his face, trustingly. "Certain
ly, dearest," she answer, "If if "
"If what?" "If you can get another
one for yourself." Judge.
"You are taking a great deal of in
terest in this Investigation." "Yes,''
answered the Statesman. "I have to
give it close personal attention. I
want to make sure It doesn't develop
anything I don't care to have known."
Washington Star.
"What's the matter dear, you look
puzzled?" said Tess, meeting Jess on
the avenue. "I'm sure I lost some
thing just now," replied Jess, "but I
can't think what it was." "Probably
It wasn't anything very Important "
"No, It wasn't; I remember now. It
was that little Mr. Snlffklns who was
walking with me." Philadelphia
Press.
"This bill for your new frock il
really a bit high," observes the pluto-.
crat to his daughter. "Six thousand '
dollars Is considerable to pay just for
an auto suit." "But, papa, the suit
itself really Is quite inexpensive. The '
most of that bill Is for the trimmings."
"Trimmings?" "Yes, I spent $6200 for
an auto of the right tint to match the
suit." Puck.
"Don't you think," asked Mrs. Old
castle, "that the new minister wa
somewhat recondite last Sunday?" "I
didn't know what it waB at the time,"
replied her hostess as she toyed with
her diamond-studded fan, "but I do
remember that his face looked kind
of red and his eyes was sort of glassy.
QHI1 wn mightn't tn ha tnn hnrri nn th A
poor man. He might of taken It for
the Ta grippe.'" Chicago Record
Herald. Nature Study.
Sitting by my open window, I dl-'
tinr tly hear the grass mown. This 1
an old Joke, among minstrels, but I
believe It has never before appeared
In a nature study.
Have you ever observed grass?
It Is very Intelligent Two blade
of grass may be made to grow where
one grew before, and do other trick
hardly - less surprising.
Some say grass has no sensibilities.
They are wrong. Grass which a pret
ty girl has sat on sometimes doesn't
get over it for a week. We do not
blame it
In the Bible grass I likened to the
flesh which tomorrow i cast Into the
oven. 'This is drawing it pretty
strong, although some grass is un
doubtedly tough. i
; There are wild grasses and tame
grasses. One has to be wary In study
ing wild grasses, as they are extreme
ly shy. Puck, -.
On the Spot ,
A New York publisher dlrecreil one
of his clerks to bang out a sign, "Boy--wantol"
Five minutes later, sas a
writer in the New York 8un, a red
headed little "tad" appeared In the
office with the sign under his arm.
"Say, mister," he demanded, "did
you hang dls out?"
"I did," replied the publisher, stern
ly. "Why did you tear It down?"
' Back of his freckle the boy gazed
In wonder at the man' stupidity.
Why," he replied, "I'm d boy."
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