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Disinterested Service THE CONVOY. 'The Road By John D. Rockefeller. iF 1 were to rive advice to a voune man atartlne- 011 in iih t should say to him: If you aim for a large, hroadgauged suc cess, do not begin your business career, whether you sell your labor or are an Independent producer, with the idea of getting from the world by hook or crook all you can. In the choice of your profession or your business employment let your first thought be: Where can I fit In so that I may be most effec tive in the work of the world? Where can I lend a hand in a way most effectively to advance the general interests? From The World's Work, Children Kept Too Clean. By Prof. Koch, Geneva School, Switzerland OT least anions the detriments to natural laviVknmant f nhik N dren is fashion, a forced culture of vanity and extravagance I Not only do the 'parents, but also the teachers set the example. 10 follow slavishly all Che extravagances of fashion aippears to be a far stronger tendency than the desire to tit refined and simple. Cleanliness is a virtue not demanded from the fac tory hand while at work, but children while at play are con stantly reprimanded because of their dirty hands, spots on their clothes, etc. So frequently are they called away from their real life because of tbls, and so dressed up are many of them, "because the father can afford and the mother likes it," that natural, intense wtld play is gradually re placed !by occupations of lesser value or by systematic games like tennis, basket-bal land baseball. Leslie's Weekly. &r &r gr Alcohol As Chief Cause of Crime Wonderful Advancement in Agriculture in the Last Twelve Years Week cleverest cartoon, by C. It. Macauiey, in the New York World. By Or. Henry Smith Williams. HE famous in vestieratinn rut th Mnaftnhiicotto Pimimk n9 1 "K I I Statistics Te-ealed the fact that 84 per cent, of all the criminals I under conviction in the correctional Institutions of that State owed the condition which induced the crime" to intemperate habits. The investigation included the inmates of such minor correctional institutions as jails and workhouses, a very large proportion of whom were arrested for being "drunk and dis orderly;" but if those were excluded, and attention confined to charges other than drunkenness, alcohol could still be made responsible for 50.88 per cent, or more than half of all crimes. An almost Identical result was reached quite independently by the investigators of the Committee of Fifty, who very carefully scrutinized the records of 13,402 convicts in seventeen prisons and reformatories scattered through twelve States. The Investigation did not include ordinary jails, and therefore took no account ? "persons convicted for mere misdemeanors, dnirikennfs or violation of liquor law." The average, however, was 49.95 per cent., a percentage which the committee puts forward with much confidence as representing "an approximate expression of the truth." Mc Clure's Magazine. 0 & On Education. CAPTAIN TELLS OF THE WRECK Ship Sank Under Him and Ke Was Rescued From the Sea' Williams, the Second Officer, With Him to the End Fished From the Water First, He Directed the Search For the Captain Praise For All the Ship's Men. C By Charles Battell Loom is J pLLEGE training is often a fine thing for a boy, and seminaries looking over the names of the great men and women in the do a great amount of good in the world, but when you are world s history, just remember that Mrs. Washington never graduated at a girl's college, and yet she was able to bring George up to be a credit to England his and her mother coun try and, although he spelled as badly as Robert Louis Stev enson and never went to college any more than Benjamin Franklin or fihakespeare or Farragut or Edison did, he was able to serve his country men well. Fill up little Alary and little John if you're sure they don't leak and are sturdy little vessels, I'.nd if you are quite sure that the game will be worth the candle. But don't pursue the filling-up way to the bitter end if the vesT?!s show signs of strain. A healthy, loving ignoramus is worth two peevish, invalid graduates of a finishing-school. And to give Dorothy an education just to prove that you're as good as the Paltnlees, is to show both a bad head and a bad heart. Now, in educating children it is a good plan to have children who are orth educating. It is a fat that the majority of men who have made the biggest names in literature and politics during the last three hundred years have been men who lacked early educational advantages, but that doesn't alter the fact that, given a child who is worth educating, education can do him no harm, and may do him a deal of good It seems to me that there are more important things than education; that it, school education. This seems to me a trite saying, but when I look about me and see the Johns and Marys all over the country, some of them leaky vessels that can never be filled, others weak vessels that will break if you fill them, I think that education is a god before which many mothers and fathers in their ignorance bow down. Have your sons and daughters examined. They may be dear good children, and a credit to your bringing up, but are they worth the expendi ture of much hard-earned money? If they are of the timber of which they make scholars and teachers, you ought to be proud to do a little skimping to see them through, but if they are not of the scholary kind, don't feel that you and your wife must do without that which makes life pleasant, merely to fill them up with useless learning most of which will have leaked away before you have recovered from the school-bills. From Smith's Magazine. 0 The Doctrine gf 0 Assumed Risk T The Count Could Not Contra vert It if They Would, Korttie Law Iteelf i at Fault. Bv William Hard. riE steel industry pays for its inevitable Iron ore. It .pays for its Inevitable coke. It pays for Its inevitable limestone. But it does not pay for Its inevitable accidents. Under the Doc trine of Assumed Risk the burden of inevitable accident la thrown upon the employee. And the Doctrine of Assumed Risk, a marvelously compre hensive doctrine, docs not stop even at this point. It gives the 'emptoree Ms choice between getting injured and losing his Job. . This agreeable dilemma was clearly and bluntly offered to the employee to the rase of Dougherty versus the West Superior Iron sod Steel Company in Wisconsin. , - Dougherty "was ordered by his foreman to leave - machine driven by liand-powcT and to begin workln at a machine driven by steam. Dougherty mas afraid. He objected. But he was threatened with discharge. In con equence of thi threat, he withdrew his objection and started to work. . l'lQn (WV - ...... ..... w v,..u -u j 'UauU'IUWCr Uff the machine anven 07 iuu, iwsiibij w m lonarm causal in a rapid ly revolving spindle and he felt the bones of his forearm crack. - Tie Supreme Court of Wisconsin, an absolutely incorruptible court, end one -of the most learned courts In America, considering this case, said; --;'-''; ,.-.;'; A: :-:v-V.- -'i f r If an employee, of full see and ordinary intelligence, uoon vein re i ealred' by &ls employer to perform duties more dangerous or complicated than those - of - hi original hirlnr, undertakes - the ; same ... knowing their dangerous character, although ' UBwimngly, from fear of los ing his emplolyment, and is Injured by , .reason of his lenoranceand ' Inexperience, tve cannot maintain an action therefor against Ws employer." . - . 1 w Tf tit 'tk tlw courts. I m not attacking their interpretation of the law of accientsr T am gofng farther. 1 am attackiing that law It elf. Everybody'' Magazine - . ,. ; . ' ' ' ' '" r1 .'' , National Characteristics. ' - ' ' 'Why Is it that we associate j tha Germans with qualities of soberness and stolidity, while we are unite ready to expect -frivolity and filghtl- ess front the French? do not know; foe In all matters of crltlcl'srii the French are pre-eminently eane, while no theory Is too fantastic to make the reputation, of a professor in Germany. London Saturday Re view. .. . New fork City. Captain William I. Sealby, of the wrecked White Star liner Republic, told the story of the disaster. One thing he did not tell was why lie had elected to stay with his ship until it sank. Being an offi cer of the Royal Naval Reserve and a commander for the White Star, Captain Sealby presupposed that this act needed no explanation. "Before 6 o'clock on Sunday night we knew that the Republic would never live to reach Martha's Vine yard." was the way Captain Sealby began his tale. "By 7 o'clock she was way down in the stern, and wal lowing with long, painful rolls, that meant there was very little more life left in her. Williams (R. J. Will iams, the second officer) and I stood on the bridge and kept our eyes ahead on the lights of the Gresham and Seneca, whieh'were towing. The ship was so low in the stern that the waves were breaking over her at that point and the water was swashing clear un to the ladder of the saloon deck aft. "I think It must have been just About S o'clock when we both saw that she was going to drop under us within a very few minutes. First thing we did was to prepare a Holmes distress light, which burns when It touches water. This we left on the bridge with us so that when we went down the men on the revenue cutters could be directed to the spot where the Republic went down. Whi!" we were working over the light Will lams, who has .1 bit of sportine blood In liim, joked about our situation. " 'What do you make of it, Will iams?' I had asked him. " 'I don't think it will be a loni; raco 10 the bottom.' he laughed. 'When you are ready let her go and we'll make a sprint of it.' "Before we had finished with the Holmes light we began to hear a roar ing and cracking of the deck seams back of us. It was the air driving out ahead of the advancing water. That is the last call of a sinking ship. I directed Williams to burn two blue lights, the signal to the revenue cut ters that we were gfting down and for them to cast off. Then I let loose flv' shots with my revolver. "We were going down steadily then and pretty fast. I jelled at Williams to make for the fo:o rig ging. We both dropped down the ladder to the saloon deck, each carry ing a blue light in one hand. By the time our feet touched the saloon deck It was at an angle of nearly thirty degrees, wet and slippery. Wo could not keep our feet, so we grabbed the rail and crawled. The water wa? rushing up on us from behind and the explosions and rending of the tim bers from 'midships told us that al ready the stfrn wag under Tatar. "We had reached the forecdstle head when Williams slipped to the deck and grabbed a post of the rail with his elbow. That was the last I saw of him until after it wa o wwl managed to get forward to the fore mast and to climb the rigging as far as the forward running light, about 100 feet up. Below me about half of the ship was visible and she was tipped up like a rocking chair about to go over backward. ,? "My blue light would not burn be cause it had become wet. I fired .one more shot from my revolver, the last. Then everything dropped and t was in the water with the foremast slip ping down beside me like an (-levator plunger;- " ' " v 1 "There was a soiling, yeas'y mass of water about me and a great roar ing.-, I. went under, but came . up again, for the ntr had gathered un der my greatcoat and . buoyed nw up. I guess I went around spinning for a time; then 1 hit a spar. From the spar I managed to get to a hatch cover, Things were flying around in the wat er and , I came near being badly banged up before 1 managed to pull my body . up. on the hutch cover and He there all spread ont with nothing but my head and shoulders above the waves. ' c 1 :: ji-,-. "It ; was very cold. I saw the searchlights on the Gresham and Sen eca trying to pick me up, but they went around and around and minted me. I managed to load my revolver again and It went off, although it had had a ducking. Soon after that a boat manned by four of the Repub lic's crew and four sailors from the Gresham commended by Gunner's Mate Johnson slid up near me. I waved a towel I had picked up out of the water. They saw me and came and picked me up. I was weak and cold quite finished. Williams was in the boat when It picked me up, 1 was glad to see. He was quite done up, too. We were quite back on our feet again after the men on the Gres ham bad ministered to us. I cannot speak too highly of the work of the revenue cutters that were trying to tow us: It was magnificent." Captain Sealby had a word to say about his officers and crew. "I have nothing but praise for the actions of the officers and crew of the Republic both at the time of the ol lision and subsequently duriug the very trying task of getting the pas sengers transferred to the Florida. The success of this maneuvre 1 at tribute to the remarkable discipline and cohesion between officers and crew. The passengers themselves aided greatly by their conduct. There was absolutely no panic among them and the women behaved splendidly." The Republic's commander also raid a eenerous comnliment to Binns, the wireless operator, who had stuck to his key although part of the wire less cabin on the boat deck had been carried away by the Florida's prow, Second Officer Williams told of his experiences after he had become sep arated from his superior on the slant- Ine deck of the Republic. He said "When I fell down on the saloon deck on the port side I hung onto the rail with my elbow. In three minutes it was all over. I felt her lift straight up in the air and saw the prow right over my head; then she Just slid down I felt the stern strike bot tom, for there was a Jar and then I felt something give. I believe she broke In the middle where she had been rammed by the Florida. "I was pitched off the deck before the last of her dropped out of sight. I just caught a glimpse of the keel dropping past me as I hit the water. I tread water for a second to get my balance, then I struck out for about a dozen strokes before the boil of the water got me. "A grating hatch hit me and I held on. I couldn't climb onto it because the seas rolled me oft every time I scrambled up. I was getting tired of trying when another grating came along. I grabbed it with one hand and held on between them. I guess I was in the water almost half an hour when the boat from the Gresham came along and pulled me ont. I di rected the men where to look for the captain and we found him in another five minutes," Williams saved a brier pipe and 1 pocketpiece out of the wreck and that was all. ' ' Jack Binns. the wireless operator who flashed the news of the Repub lic's ramming to Siasconset wireless station and who subsequently kept at his place communicating with the ships hastening in relief, seemed to believe that the loss of 600 cigarettes he-had with him when the Republic left New York on Friday was one of the most serious features , of ' the wreck. . v ' '' ' "Part of the wireless cabin was torn away in the crash," said Binns, ''but the Instruments were not hurt, As -soon as the captain heard what the damage was he sent me orders to send out the distress signal. I found that the Instrument was dead. The electric motors had gone bad with -the flooding of the engine room. I knew where the accumulators stor age batteries you .call 'them that are carried for emergencies Just such as that one were Kept, and t groped for -them in the dark. When I. got them coupled up I tried the key and found that the spark was right" s Ho Refuge On Earth Now For." '.i .' ,. ' Embezalecs and Defaulters. ' Washington; D. C -The last haven of refuge on earth for American bank, wreckers, emhezalers, defaulters and other criminals of that class was re moved when the Senate ratified an extradition treaty with Honduras. ! ; . It is believed that Under this treaty Honduras may be persuaded to sur render many old offenders who have taken up residence there, although that country has found them desira ble because they, always had ready cash. ... Virginia Railroads Loso : .'-iJS'f . ; Two-Ceat Case Again. Richmond, Va. The right of ap peal : to the State Supreme Court of Appeals In the two-cent rate case was refused to the railroads, .The roads now have two courses open to them. Th jyjcan either go into the United States "Circuit Court of Appeals and have the case heard at length, or they can go to the Corporation Commission and make application for a revision of the rates on the ground that the roads ar losing money. . Meantime the two-cent rate prevails. Washington, bpecial. in no sec tion of the country, probably has there been more wonderful' advance ment in agriculture within the past ten or twelve years than in the South. The belief is expressed by officials of the Department of Agriculture that the Southland is bound to take that place in agricultural develops ment she merits. A spirit 6f re-awakening is coming over the Southern farmer. The agri cultural progress in the South has been marked by a material prosperity such as, perhaps, has never before been enjoyed by the fanning element of that part of the country. The fl nancial condition of the Southern planter began to take an upward tendency about 1897, since which time the situation has steadily im proved. The production of cotton that great staple crop of the South increased 53 per cent, from 1896 to 1908, and the value of the crop 133 per ct. The Southern fanner, long delt-ridden, has to a marked degree been again placed on his feet as it were by the increased prices he has received from his cotton crop of late years. As a natural consequence he is devoting more time and attention to building himself a better home, to the education of his children and, he is in fact, deriving more of the com forts of life than ever before. Work of the Department. The agricultural progress of the South really dates back to a few years ago when the Agricultural De partment inaugurated an educational campaign for a diversification in the crops. The application of practical scientific methods to Southern agri culture in the opinion of Secretary Wilson has done more to uplift land than any other factor. Officials of the Department of Agri culture believe that the advent of the weevil was in reality a sort of bless ing to the South. While it was dis astrous in its effect upon that groat staple crop, it at the same time made the farmer realize that he roust ht devote all of his land to cotton, but must depend to a considerable extent upon other crops. The South was quick to absorb the scientific knowl edge so freely given by the Federal rovernment and is rapidly recovering from past mistakes. Secretary Wil son is a great believer in the doctrine that the foundation of this nation's prosperity is an enlightened agricul ture Secretary Wilson Pleased. "I am happy to have an opportun ity to express through The Associat ed Press," said Secretary Wilson "the Agricultural Department's good will toward the South and its desire to foster in every way the ag ricultural prosperity of that great and favored region. I have always taken a great interest in the agri culture of the South, not only be cause of its extremely interesting possibilities, but because I have felt a keen sympathy with a people struggling bravery to overcome th results af a devastating war. I felt that they needed such help as the De partment could give them, and I have lent a willing ear to their appeals. It is very gratifying to me to see the cordial spirit of appreciation mani fested by the people of the South' for the work the Department is try- lnpto do." t ' . Under Professor W. J. Spillman of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who-' has charge of the farm management investigations in the South, much i as been done to encourage better ays terns of farm management,, looking" to the restoration of fertility, the ' bringing back of humus into the soil, and the suggestions of improved ro tations. . "One of the most important meth ods adopted in fighting the cotton boll weevil" said Professor Spillman the diversification of crops and the introduction of new crops. Since the farmers have begun to rea lise that the weevil will in a few years spread over the entire cotton belt, they have become interested in other crops as they never were be fore. In many sections truck growing has developed amazingly. This is es pecially the case along the seaboard, and along the pnncipal lines of rail way connecting the South with the large industrial centres of the North. In other sections farmers have turn ed their attention to the production of hay. While not enough hay is grown in the South to supply the de mand, the quantity of the home-grown product has increased to a remarkable degree since the Department of Agri culture began its propaganda for di versified agriculture in the Sonth as a means of lighting the boll weevil. Ia some sections, especially in Alabama and Mississippi, alfalfa has become an important crop. Last spring one small town in 'Mississippi sold over $3,000 worth of alfalfa seed. Five years ago there' was hardly an acre of this crop in that vicinity. Stock Raising. "Many other crops formerly grown in small acreages only have bees sown on an increasingly large,, scale; for the past few years. This is espe cially true of corn, cow peas, and beans. The cow pea crop especially has become vastly more important than formerly. This crop is used both" for hay and as a seed crop, for which there has been n steady demand at' good prices. "Southern fanners also are turning their attention to stock raising. Cat tle have not been much raised in the South, both because forage crops f .i j. : 1 1 J u '1, were nui extensively giuwu mm uo- cause of the presence of the tick which spreads the dreaded Southern' cattle fever. The government, -both State and national, is now making an effort to eradicate this tick, witbj every promise of success. This will permit of the development of an im portant new industry in the South which is affected by the boll wee vil. "Apparently it will only be a short time bofre the South will adjust its agriculutral industries to the changed conditions brought about by the ad vent of the boll weevil, and wil be even more prosperous than it was when cotton was king At the same time, owing to improved methods of culture, and increased acreage, the cotton crop will probably be . even v.,,, greater than it is now.'.' " 1 V LUMBER SHIPPERS ARE REFUNDED e-f - $165,000 BY THE RAILR.OADS INVOLVED "Washington; SpeeiaL- By far tie largest specific allowance of repara tion ever ordered by the interestate commerce ' commission ; was maae Thursdayj ' when that- body approved a' settlement agreement of $165,000 in satisfaction of the claims on ae-1 -count 6f unreasonable- rates on lum-' her shipped from Southern mills, in volving about 125 eases and 11 dif-,j ferent railroads of the South. ' These are said to be about one-third of claims to the same kind pending be fore the commission. ' ' . ', COURT OF ADMIRALTY TO FIX THE . RESPONSIBILITY FOR REPUBLIC WRECKS r New York,; Special. Just f which ship . was responsible " for the Nan tucket collision mwhioh the White Star liner Republic and the Italian liner Florida figured and whicn com pany shall pay the, damages will be decided by the ' court of admirality. Both companies have filed suits. That of the owners of the Republic claim ed damages of $2,000,000 and recited in legal form the story or the recent sea disaster. The blame for the col lision , was placed on the Florida. The owners of .the Florida 'also filed 1' L a libel' suit and a petition for a limi-V V tation of liability to $224,000 against the Florida. Later the i Florida's IT owners applied for and; obtained " an order from Judge Adams in the Unit- ed States . circuit court staying all suits for damages against the steam-,' ship Florida on the ground that .their petition for limitation of liability -had been filed, ahead of the $2,000,- , 000 libel suit of the Oceanic Steam ship Navigation company. , ,. .'. ERECT WIRELESS TOVER AT WASHINGTON "Washington, Special The Navy Department opened bids for locating a wireless tower at Washington for communicating with ships at sea. The spcifictiPn" require . tbat'the tower or station shall be capable of -transmitting messages at all times and at all seasons to a radius of 3,000 miles in any navigable direction from Wash ington. - The messages are not to be interrupted by atmospheric distur bances or interference by neighbor- , inr stsKrm .-At the same time the department' asked for bids for twoJ seta of apparatus to be installed on naval vessels to be capable of trans mitting and receiving messages at all ,- .. ...... m times, seasons ana latitudes, to ana A 1 1 M wA . -1 - 1 "TV irom a oisianee ox j.,uw mues, nu ; . ti -vuteiva anuaarea from the Wash ington station at a disranee of 3.UC9 nilee at all tiff1- ,
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