"EASY THERE, UNCLE! GO EASY I"
Saviour Slain for
Fighting Labors Battle f
Ey the Rev. Charles Steldle, of New York,
jL Superintendent of the Department of Church and
I Labor of the Presbyterian Church J
HE most Important thing about the labor question is to give
Tx the other fellow a square deal. The labor question will
2 never bo settled until the last day's work is done. Our
z ideals are constantly advancing and no matter how high
our ethical standard, the next generation will declare that
I our conception of the solution of the labor problem has
been altogether inadequate.
As though it were the business of the church to keep
down social unrest! Rather is the opposite true. It is the
business of the church to create social unrest. There are no labor troubles
In Darkest Africa, but if the missionaries that the church is sending there
re on their jobs, you will soon hear of demands for better social conditions
among the workers.
The church must also make a fight for the masses of the people living in
our great cities. The filthy slum, the unsanitary' factory, the dark tenement,
the long hours of toil, the lack of a living wage, the back-b leaking labor, the
Inability to pay necessary doctor's bills in times of sickness, the poor and in
sufficient food, the lack of leisure, the swift approach of old age, the dismal
future these weigh down the hearts and the lives of the multitudes in our
great cities. Many have almost forgotten how to smile; to laugh is a lost
art. No hell in the future can be worse to them than the hell in which they
now are.
It is in meeting the needs of these that the Church mu:t be aggressive.
It must tell the truth about the people, as well as those who are oppressing
them. For this is what Jesus did. It must tell the truth even though it he
crucified, as its Master was. It was because Jesus went to His death for
your sake and for mine that His Power is growing today a3 it has never
grown before.
Workingmen are saying that if Jesus were on earth to-day He would
fight the battle of the laboring man. and they are right. He fought them
when He was upon earth. They killed Him for doing so. The progress
made by working people, throughout every generation has been due to the
Influence of Jesus in all ages. He has been their champion and their friend.
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Traveling Americans Should Follow Customs
of the Country Visited'
Ey William Allen White
IPS are un-American. But if Americans don't like them
they should stay at home. And if they don't slay at home
they should conform to the custom of their hosts. Bui, on
the other hand, the Americans shouldn't be fools about it.
TVov chnni.i vinfnrirms like the vonne woman in tile
M I story, without being a fanatic on the subject. Tips in Eur--YV
I ope go to honest, underpaid, hard-working people. It is not
8 BS ll their fault that they have to live on tips. It is partly the
fault of the system of caste which keeps them servile and
dependent. So when a hotel bill is paid one should take 5 percent of the
urn no more and no less and give it to the help. The ordinary middle-
clasB hotel pension, where the rates run from J1.4U to $2.40 per day, will have
four or five persons who could be tipped: the head waiter, tne tame waiter,
the chambermaid, the porter, and the concierge or general factotum at the
door, who tells you what car or 'bus to take, who knows all about the town
and whose friendship and good will are pearls of great price. Eur
opean newspapers are filled with advertisements of men and women out of
work who can speak three languages. The heart-break oi j-urope is tne nun
dreds of thousands of honest, intelligent men and women., awakened by the
sDread of free schools and universal education to aspirations from which
caste and class lines bar them. And, if theee poor people have to beg and
that is what the tip system amounts to Heaven knows no one should visit
his wrath at the system upon the victims of the system.
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Uses for the North Pole c
By Professor Edward C. Pickering,
Director of the Harvard College Observatory
H ETHER both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook have actu
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wwy any stooa on tne spot uuu represents me nunueiu cuu ui
WW the earth's a.xi3 is of no real imporuince to science.
With tha Inatnimanta that 9rrifiH tht h.AQt that POllM
be expected is that they have been approximately at the
North Pole, or, say, a mile or so from the spot.
The delicate observations and calculations necessary
to determine the exact position of the pole can never be
made until a meteorological station- of some sort is estab
lished near the pole, and I thdnk the United States government could best
take full advantage of the splendid work of these two explorers by sending
up into the North a floating meteorological station aboard a ship equipped
like Nansen's Fram that could enter the Arctic ice pack and in three years
drift across the region, while a body of scientists on board make the observe
tkms and collect the data possible.
More than this, I think that, now that the public's interest is aroused, it
would be well to remember that the United States government could keep a
floating station of the Weather Bureau always in the polar region by sending
two or shree ships out at intervals of a year or so, in order that as one ship
drifting away from the top of the world another would be approaching it
Telepathy to Mars
By Erni e Pickhardt
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WEDENBORG in hia "The Earths In Our Solar System
Which Are Called Planets" describes the Inhabitants of
of Mars aa being not only of superior intelligence but also
of a high degree of spirituality.
If this is true it would seem rational to suppose that
V. J I they must be unusually susceptible to psychic influences;
I and since space and time are no barrier to thought, it
Jl might be a good plan, to hare published throughout the
world the date and hour when the experiment is to be made
with the request that at that particular time as many as possible of tWTK-"
habitants of this earth direct their thoughts to the inhabitants of Mars
with the purpose of urging them to give attention to what is going on here.
'Ala telejathic impulse, from millions of minds on this earth would perhaps
hare the desired effect
Swedenborg clearly stated what to now generally accented as being ex
tremely probable; that there are Inhabitants on Mara; thai they are intelli
gent beings, ot much the same nature as ourselves; that they are superior
to aa to psychic development, and that they are susceptible to the same physi
aJ Influences. There would thus seem to be good grounds for the idea that,
(ranting the possibility of producing a signalling apparatus of sufficiently
dimensions to be made use of In connection with the telepathic scheme
outlined, communication could ultimately be established.
Cartoon by Triggs. in the New York Presi.
THE NEED OF THRIFT.
There have been no more pertinent and potentially profitable
observations on our National prosperity, present and prospective,
than those which were recently nitifle by President J. J. Hill, in
which he deplored the increasingly high cost of living and pre
scribed the cutting down of expenses, public and private, as es
sential to our continued welfare.
FOOTBALL IN 1909 CAUSED 26 DEATHS.
Highest Total in Many Years and Almost Doable That of 1908
and 190770 More Seriously Hurt Chicago Tribune's
Figures Show That Majority Killed Were College
Players Trained by Expert Coaches.
As a result of the numerous fatal!
Tables showing the football casual
ties in 1909, as compared with the
two previous years, follow:
DEATHS.
1.907. 1908. 1909.
High school play
ers 0 4 9
College players.. 2 fi - 10
Other players G 3 7
Totals 14 13 26
CAUSES OF DEATH.
Body blows 5 3 r,
Injuries to spine . . 2 3 r.
Concussionof brain 2 3 6
Blood poisoning. .01 2
Other causes .... 5 3 8
1.1 J USED.
College players . . 67 C4 38
High school players 25 61 22
Grade sch'l play'rs 9 0 0.
Athleticc'b play'rs 9 . lf 5
Ml other players. 12 3 '4
Totals 131 134 69
Chicago. Twenty-six killed, sev
enty seriously injured, and scores of
others painfully hurt has been the
cost of football to the United States
thus far this year, according to the
figures collected by the Chicago Tri
bune. The list of the dead seems to
be a decisive answer, the Chicago
paper says, to the assertion of the
football experts that the development
of the open game would lead to a
lessening of the perils of the gridiron.
That is the grim, ghastly tale of
the gridiron covering a period of sixty-seven
days.
The "open game," hailed to be
without brutality by college enthu
siasts, wrought fearful havoc. Twelve
of the dead were schoolboys under
twenty years old. Six college men,
properly trained for the bruising en
counters, were sacrificed, while only
one member of an athletic club or
seml-nrofessional team was placed on
the altar.
Of the 209 players maimed, par
alyzed or dying from tbe effects of in
juries sustained 165 are wearers of
college colors. The giants selected
from near and far for tbe perilous
pastime, conditioned and trained to
the "pink of perfection" for smash
ing contests, were forced to bear the
brunt of the Injuries.
Thirty-nine schoolboys, many un
der fifteen years old, assisted in swell
Ing the grewsome total, while only
five semi-professional players were
reported in the list of cripples.
The number of deaths is the high
est it has been in years, and Is almost
double that, of either of the two sea
sons recently passed. In 1907 there
were oily fourteen deaths, and in
1908 only thirteen.
It should be noted that the Tri
bune's total Includes a number of
players hurt in games played during
the past year or even earlier, who
hare died during the current twelve
month. The facts also seem to disprove the
claim of the game's supporters that
It Is the games of the untrained boys
and the athletic clubs that cause the
fatalities. Of this year's dead the
majority were college players, sup
posed to have been hardened and
made fit for the contests on the grid
iron by eipert coaches and long preparation.
I ies and the agitation which they have
stirred up, several colleges have dis
handed their teams, and many of the
city high schools in various parts of
the country have been forced to give
up the sport.
Georgetown University, of Wash
ington; the University of Virginia
the United States Military Academy
at West Point and St. Mary's College
in Kansas, were among those which
suspended the playing of tbe game.
A meeting of the Board of High
School Principals in Washington, D
C, resulted in the casting out of all
the games scheduled for this season
and the game will not be resumed
next year unless the rules are changed
radically.
The Faculty of Loyola University,
at Baltimore, also canceled all the
games for the remainder of the year,
and the School Board at Bellefon-
talne, Ohio, decided to rule out all
contests following the death of one
player there.
The State of Virginia will probably
be the one which will give the heav
iest blow to football. Following the
death of one of the State University
players and the Injury of several of
ber youths within tbe State, a bill
will be introduced into the Legislat
ure at the next session to forbid all
such contests in the future. It is ex
pected that this bill will be passed.
Already the City Council of Norfolk
and Portsmouth have forbidden all
contests within the city limits.
Tbe death which attracted the most
attention throughout tbe country, and
which revived to a large extent the
movement for the suppression of
football, was that of Cadet Byrne
a West Point cadet. Byrne was an
upper classman, twenty-two years
old. when he was fatally injured dur
Ing the contest with Harvard Univer
sity. His neck was broken during a
mass play, and despite the fact that
every attempt wag made to save his
life, he died soon after.
The Interest in this accident was so
great that expressions of opinion were
asked from tbe heads of nearly every
Institution of learning In tbe country.
Some of them saw in it proof that the
game should be abolished, while oth
ers urged changes in tbe rules. Some,
however, looked upon It as an unfor
tunate accident and declared that the
game as it Is now played could not
be made less dangerous without tak
ing away the exciting features.
The deaths In football to date have
resulted in more agitation against
football this fall than at any time
since the present playing rules were
adopted. The representative 'varsity
coaches of tbe country realise that
something must be done, some new
rnles adopted, by which the risk of
death or Injury must be greatly re
duced. The winter session of the
Football Rules Committee in New
York this year Is sure to be of unu
sual length, and will result In some
rather wholesale and radical changes
fallowing a discussion in which the
sponsors for football In every section
of the country are pretty sure to par
ticipate. The new rules diminish the num
ber of fractured ribs, but at the cost
of Other broken bones.'
OPPOSED TO "FRATS."
There are hard times ahead for
Chicago's public school "f rats" and
sororities. The president of the
Board of Education, despite the fact
that he has a son and a daughter who
have belonged to them, declares that
he has no use for them, and the new
superintendent of schools, Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young, Is strong In her opposi
tion. New York Sun.
USE FOR ANTIQUES.
The use found for "antiques' Is
sometimes amusing. Recently a gor
geous soft cushion was worked by a
fashionable woman from an old em
broidered waistcoat, Inherited from a
French ancestor, who had been a cele
brated beau and bon vlvant. As the
corners did not quite reach to the
cushion corners she supplemented the
waistcoat, which was of salmon satin,
with pieces from a priest's vestment
that she had picked up with some
Chinese loot, using it also for the
back. The pockets, with their silver
lace, she left to tuck her handker
chief in when reading on the divan
it was to ornament. New York
Tribune.
INFLUENCE ON BOYS.
"Girls don't seem to have any In
fluence on boys' manners nowadays,
and in my time they had so much,"
said the white haired matron in a
troubled tone. "It seems to me that
boys are making modern manners;
the girls follow them In everything.
Why, my youngest granddaughter,
who is Just fifteen, borrow3 her boy
cousin's neckties, calls him 'chum'
and boasts that her baseball score Is
better than his. Fancy a girls' base-
, improvident," she remarked, with
twinkling eyes, as she dropped an un
sealed letter on my desk. "I've told
him that better is a dinner of herbs
with contentment than a mailed ox
with excessive busyness, or words to
that effect. I've explained that I'd
rather be a doorkeeper at one thou
sand a year than the whole thing at
ten thousand. I've told him- but
read it. And then hurry and shut
your desk, and let's get out in tbe
country to see how the little leaves
are turning red. It must be dread
ful," observed the gray eyed girl, pin
ning her hat on over a very contented
face, "It must be dreadful to be so
eaten up with ambition that one
hasn't time to think of little red
leaves. "
And I truly think she is right.
Sara Langstroth, in the New York
Telegram.
nrertyr
J9W""7
The so popular empire green ha
found Its way into footwear.
Nothing masculine is now fash
ionable in the feminine outfit.
Toques and turbans are to be won
by young and old this season.
Rather new are the sailor col tart
found on long separate coats.
There has been some abatement in
the use of buttons on dresses.
Net is a material in great favor
with French women for tea gowns.
There Is an ever increasing tend
ency toward the skirt that is draped.
Designs For New Post Card
Iseae Have Been Accepted.
Washington, D.C. Designs for the
new postal cards to be issued by the
Government have been approved. On
tbe ordinary card the head of Mc
Klnley will appear as now, and on the
small card a likeness of Lincoln. The
two-cent international card will bear
a portrait of Grant.
On the first half of the reply card
wHl appear a portrait of Washington,
while ttie stamp on the second half
will be a likeness of Martha Washington.
Oast of Campaign tm New
York Dropped $500,000.
Albany. N. T. The Association to
Prevent Corrupt Practices at Elec
tions announced that at the hour of
closing the Secretary of State's office
on the last day tor the filing of elec
tion expense statements, IOCS candi
dates. 76 county committees, 633 sub
committees. 39 clubs, organisations
and leagues and two State committees
had filed statements.
The amount of money expended for
the campaign of 1909 was at ttaat
$S0,00 Mai than during lies.
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Planked Chicken. Cut the chicken down the backbone
and complete the dressing as for a broiled chicken. Broil
over coals, or under the gas flame, five to eight minutes to
sear the outside, then baste liberally with butter and let
cook In tbe oven, or farther away from the gas flame, from
a half to a full hour as Is required. Baste every five minutes
with butter melted in a little bot water. Set in place on a
hot plank, put curried rice around the edge, and fill in the
open spaces with cooked cauliflower, corn fritters, stuffed
tomatoes and small boiled onions. Serve Hollandaise or
Bechamel sauce in a bowl apart.
ball team! And last week I actually
came upon them boxing with each
other.
"When I was a young girl no boy
I knew would have dreamed of com
ing into my presence whistling, with
a "Hullo, Polly!' Ah, me! boys were
deferential in those days, because
girls were girls and not imitation
boys. Perhaps the new way is 'heaps
more fun for girls,' as my grand
daughter says; but it seems strange
to an old-fashioned woman." New
York Tribune.
COATS GROWING SHORTER.
The skirt with the high waistline
Is the only thing seen In New York
City for formal afternoon and evening
gowns. Many of these skirts are of
the circular variety in one or two
pieces, swinging quite clear from the
figure at tbe waist. They are cut en
traine, of course, with the odd, grace
ful fish-tail sweep a new train not
very long, but decidedly narrow, and
cut off squarely at .the bottom.
Suit coats are growing shorter
again, but one sees a great many of
the fifty-Inch separate coats worn over
one-piece dresses. They undoubtedly
are a great economy, for one good
looking coat of this kind can be worn
indiscriminately with an entire ward
robe, and you know hqw hopeless it
Is to mix suits. There is a well-cut,
flat-backed, double-breasted coat of
this kind that Is much worn at pres
ent. It has a generous armbole and
a most comfortable sleeve. The big
shawl' collar and deep cuffs aro an
excellent way of utilizing half-worn
furs that can be re-cut. Delineator.
GRAY EYED GIRL'S DECISION.
"Would yon take it if you were in
my place?" asked the gray eyed girl,
staring moodily at her typewriter
ribbon.
This is a practical world, and bo
the first thing I answered was:
"How much will it pay?"
"Twenty-five hundred a year and
I'm getting one thousand now.
A cool difference of fifteen hun
dred! I hardly dared ask the ques
tion closest to my .'ins.
"Shall you like It?"
"No," she burst out frankly, "I
shall not. I've thought that all out,
and, honestly, if I take it it will be for
the money only. It s not the kind
ot work that attracts me.
"Miss B " she said, "whose
breakdown leaves tbe place vacant.
had her nose continually to the grind
stone. In tbe last year or two the
business had completely absorbed her.
I doubt if she bad retained the capac
ity for rejoicing in mere sunshine.
"Opportunities oughtn't to come
to us when they're not for us. It's
distracting," complained the gray
eyed girl. "No doubt, after I tarn
this one -down It will return unlike
Opportunity in -that dreadful little
poem and haunt me forevermore."
"Not If you are absolutely certain
your decision is a wise one. Think
It over." I suggested, "and don't
merely weight money against money.
Measure fulness ot life against ful
ness of life, freedom of mind and up
lift ot spirit against fredom of mjnd
d uplift of spirit. Take wh.chever
promises the most of the things that
aount"
That afternoon the gray eyed girl
same Into my room. 1
I guess I'm what yon migft call
Some of the new hats have becom
ing brims turned back sharply at tho
side.
Many of the new slippers have for
mal rosette bows of ribbon, shaped,
like a daisy or a small sunflower.
The turban worn by young women
is a much larger affair than that In
tended for more elderly ones.
There has been a revival of shirt
blouses which the shortwaisted gown
rather put in the background.
The large square meshes and large
flat dots constitute the fashionable
veil, but they make the face hideous.
For dressing sacks flannels and al
batross are appropriate, as well as
cotton crepe and other wash ma
terials. Dutch collars will be worn in the
house because of their comfort, but
for modish street wear they will be
less seen.
A novelty in silk shows a corded
material, the cord in one color and
the background In another, in change
able effect.
The use of the button has become
a fine art. For coats the buttons are
almost always large and compara
tively few of them are used.
Bedford cord is an old favorite that
has come back. It is lighter in weight
.than the old-time version a cotele
weave, they call it abroad.
Many women prefer spun silk- hos
iery to the higher priced stockings of
all silk. The mesh is fine and soft
and is not harmed by washing.
One or three buttons is tbe popular
number for coats with the deep neck
openings and fronts that are double
breasted only at tho waistlines.'
FASHION HINT.
For a EtU morning drt tli would br
attract! vt mid of cotton voile. Thest
voile wh beautifully W "
thy come in the prettiwt patitrnt. hep
arc mot incxntaitre whicb i saotBer point
Uici. in or.