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HINTS BY THE SOCIAL ARBITERrTrip to Italy Popular at This Season and What

Preparations Are Necessary for the JourneyI

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By TJIHIn last decade the Mediterranean

tSp has become the fashionable outingsuccessful rtrtU of Florida the

Bahama and t this season the wornout matrons and JadeA bofles of society

tums their eyes toward tbe sunnyshores of Italy and lunging for thefar ntente of a vacation then No nos-

trums that have ever been compoundedae one of the cures that havesprung up in the peat ftjw years can com-

pare with the long sea Voyage that carriesone to the Land of turn and the in-

souciant existence of a few weeks thereas a cure for the wodd weariness thatsettles down upon one after a strenuousaecson That this fact is fully appreciatedby Americans is shajm by the swarmsthat infest that earthly paradise in thespring and their visits have greatly in-

creased Italys exchequer and localitiesthat were once povertystricken have

flourishing centers through the lav-ishness and generosity of Uncle Samstraveling children

Years ago when It wits an event to goabroad once in a lifetime and those whowere so fortunate as to go twice or threetimes were pointed oat as curiositiesmuch was written regarding preparationsfor the voyage and conduct while travellag such advice would seem to be un-necessary now that overy other personone meets has crossed at least once andmany a dozen times while a certain few

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makes the mistake generally of takingmuch steamer luggage All that is

needed for either the northern 0r southem route can be packed in a grip and aBfajner trunk any more baggage thantils ia a stateroom Is very much in

In the last few years it has becometie fashion on some of the transAtlanticlies fur the men to wear evening clothes

NT dinner and for women to appeari the conventional gaxb that society at

demands often in low neck andaned arms No matter how popular this

tustom may be nothing can excuse itfor It is both uncomfortable and impracti-cable To begin with to make an elabo

toilet on a rolling ship in the limitedonflnes of a stateroom is difficult then10 matter how tight the ship the con-stant opening of the doors that lead tohe decks make unavoidable draughts andurs must be worn to Insure any degree

comfortAfter dinner It is the invariable custom

to go up on deck said to sit there in a de-collete gown and than slippers is

inviting illness Besides to appear in her ban gown on a steamer looksas tUSfjfh a woman so garbed had noother place to exhibit them or that she IBa thoroughly toexperteoeed traveler

All that a woman really needs for tendays on a steamer is abundance oflingerie since it is impossible to have anywashing done m transit a warm and at-tractive bath robe a smart tailor madetraveling dress two extra skirts oneef woolen aad one of silk with whichfancy watts can be worn a half dosenlinen safet waists two of light flannel orsilk and one or two lace or silk waistsfor evening wear A man should neverbe without his evening clothes andthough it is not good taste to dress Inthem for dinner on n steamer he mustdo so for the dinner aad thereare often other funottono given duringthe voyage where the men are expectedto niPpier m full regalia

The impetus traveling has taken in thelast quarter of a century makes the orldseem a much smaller place than it didformerly One never takes an oceansteamer without finding if he does notrun across personal friends some onewho is toe friend of some friend and soan endless chain of acquaintances extendsaround the globe The stiffnecked

regards it as questionable formto make steamer friends and yet to thecosmopolitan this is one of the mostagreeable experiences in life Many last

friendships have be formed pa thedecks o the tranaAtfliuitic and trans-pacific liners to say nothing ef the mar-riages that have resulted from the flirta-tion tbt were begun on the bonnyblue deep No one gets half as muchpleasure out of traveling who insists uponwrapping himself in a cloak of unapproachable reserve for it is not onlyscenery architecture and art that theglobe trotter should but a more in-

timate knowledge of his fellowmen asthey exist in different countries and underdifferent conditions from his own Themoat intelligent man Js the man whobest understands human nature thereis no study in a college curriculum somuch worth while and ao fascinating sothen do not discourage advances thatmay be made to you aboard ship foralthough there may be blacklegs eonndetiee men and professional gamblersamong the passengers they form asmall minority and th ry even they areto the student of human nature wellworth knowing

Traveling In Europe is much facilitatedby a knowledge of French and German-It is of course an easy matter to getalong without speaking any tongue butEnglish but one is able to travel cheaperand to secure better service if he mas-ter of the language of the country inwhich he te traveling Indeed there isquite a different price for those

the language and those who donta tact confessed to The Arbiter by theproprietor of hotel in the Tyrol whocould or would not be convinced thathe ywss wrong to tak an advantage ofthe tourists who did Dot to beUngulate

The best companion for 1t long Jour-ney is perennial eheerfolness A smilingface and gracious manners are opensesames wher gj W and passports fanThe morose and scowling person is al-ways suspected while gxwd humor Is con-tagious and inspires good will This isespecially true of Italy and the South ofFrance where no matter how hard theircondition how ground down by povertythey are the peasantry seem to take lifeas a huge jokeS and ever gay andmerry in the midst of the most disheartening surroundings A fact that shouldalways be kept in mind is that you wetraveling for ptrsonal benefit and

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housewife from one of the NorthwesternStates when staying in Rome said thatif haiti realized what filthy city Itwas How filled with unsightly rubbishshe would never have gone there forsueh untidiness was a terrible strain onher nerves Indeed it proved so Annoy-ing the untidiness of Rome that shecut short tier visit by waelts say-ing that she purposed coming back whenthey had cleaned up the place a

Chauvinism will pass muster at homebut it fk In the worst possible tasteabroad and travelng patriots Should bearthat In mind when the inclination tomake the eagle scream takes possession-of them America Is of course thegreatest country on Dearth that we willall admit but therE Is no need to givethis socret away for it will surely bodiscovered sooner or later by those sounfortunate as to bo born outside herboundaries It is perhaps needless topoint out the bad taste of comparing for-eign customs with ones own If thetraveler is on the lookout for exactlywhat he can get at home it would bewiser and more economical to remainthere anti yet the Arbiter has met travel-ing Americans in Europe who grumble ateverything the railway service the postalservice the food theaters whatnot

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As to sight seeing every one must follow his own bent It is the habit withsome to rush through a town guide bookin hand seeing everything in a few hoursand knowing as little about what he hasseen when he is through ac he did whenhe began Such people return home littlebenefited by their travels The best planif one really wants to gain experience andculture is to settle down in some largeeitx and make excursions from there tothe neighboring places of Interest Onecould pass a year In London and yet not

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whose names appear ia the mater of thetattoeaor If ao to whom should the apptkxt-ioN for Bd MomaUon t adft Maul Tbapktafyou bj stalIN far the iafonaaUon desired and for-UM mtendM advice ftwn which I hove derhwd Mutt

ASPIRANT TO 1 A K

Answer You sign yourself Aspirant toD A R and ask information regard-Ing the eligibility for the Society ofColonial Dames but from tbe tenor ofyour letter The Arbiter assumes that it tothe Society of the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution with which youwish to connect yourself The only re-quirement for membership to this so-ciety is that you must prove your descentfrom some ancestor either on the spearor distaff side who fought in the Revo-lutionary war The War Departmentalways most amiable in giving informa-tion on the lines you seek The office ofthe adjutant general is the proper placeto apply You could doubtless find inthe Library of Congress a history of thetownship in which your family lived thatwould furnish you with the desired in-

formation The secretary of the Daugh-ters of tbe American Revolution whoseoffice is n the Washington Loan andTrust Building will furnish you with anapplication blank for membership shouldyou desire It For membership in theSociety of Colonial Dames it is necessaryto trace your descent from some ancestorwho was prominent in colonial tim-

er QomionTheatergotoR Is antMthhig I aw veryland of when ia pfeaot compMy tatimfortunaUly that appeal to ao away emuJib caniagaa petit aonpen and towtn that Itwould take a longer jne then Bttoe to tatiafy tINaand the R lady TIle eoatom hers is ao exneitoghat either I will haw to ebooee my campaaioa

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F ARNOLD BABDTIt is entirely unnecessary to provide a

carriage flowers or a supper for theyoung woman whom you invite to go tothe theater Indeed it would be badtaste to ask a young lady to go with youalone in a carriage to the theater or

any else nor would it be goodform to ask her to take a teteatetesupper with you As to the flowers Ifyour Dulcinea insists upon this tributethere are just as good fish in the sea ashave ever been caught and I would wereI in your shoes seek out another Dulcinea lese exigent and more considerateBut whatever happens stay in your ownclass there would be neither peace norcomfort for you outside of It

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Answer It is never good form in Wash-ington to wear a frock cost for dinneror in the evening Those who do so showat once their provincialism and their In-

sistence that it is all right at homeanyhow only emphasizes this trait

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how should a bcatoe wait for a taidyguest prodded UNIt gun fe a Tery diatiDguifbcdman Suppose for taUwwe AnbawMior Ikyee-ghooW be late for dinner bow to sheeN the per-son siring the diaacr wait fee

HOSTESShostess should not postpone

the serving of her dinner for a tardyguest longer than fifteen minutes no

what his rank or station But noperson having a knowledge of the con-ventions of society would be a quarter-of an hour late without calling up thehouse at which he was expected by tel-ephone and giving the reason for his de-

tention All things are excusable inevon tardiness at dinner but this

fault is inexcusable in any other class

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AtfaMer for a young girt Mill in school to see oneof Itaeoa plays I hue raaoHacly refined to lotthe girts under my care lie say of Iteena tka 3hot when RofmerahobK was pkytd here bjr MrsFhe I roeoired what amwited to ra order fromthe father of one of Bqr pnp1te to allow his daughterte SB Of crane I was forced to cotvMnt and shewent but em afatce ins had an attack of tbemop Ito my mIst Ibcen i not for young girtsWill yen kindly give me your views on the mbiac-

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has no greater admirerthan The Arbiter Rosmersholm Is amasterpiece if not his greatest

and was superbly given by MrsPisko but you are quite isnot for children nor for immature anduncultivated minds His work Is farabove the heads of the average theateraudience who want to be amus A andnot forced to think and far beyond thegrasp of a schoolgirl unless she be aphenomenon so continue to keep yourgirls away from Ibsen until they aremature enough to understand him

8 OtwrtiouWhat ia the way to say goodby Should one linger and linger sad after he orahe has shaken bands with the hostess and tattle heradieux to the others in the neon stand about stilldeatetg ia oesJp and banalities My mothertaught me that when I had said goodIt to go di-

rectly oat or the worn and out of the house so thatI am very reach annoyed when my callers keep meBtBwllng while they ay aemtfaiiiji that could justat bare been said they rise from theirseate cause me to neglect my other guests

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begin to exhaust Its storehouse of treas-ures The same Is true of Paris Berlinand the Italian cities

Students along almost any line are awe-struck before what Rome has to otterand to know It thoroughly a lifetimewould not suffice This story Is told ofPope Leo XIII who when giving anaudience to a party of Americans askedone of his visitors how long he had beenIn the Eternal City Three weeks wasthe response Oh then said his holi-ness with gentle Irony you know allthere Is to know about Rome Turningto another one of the party he saidAnd how long have you been in RomeSix months was the reply So you

have begun to see a little and you howlong have you boen In our city askedthe Pope of the third Four yearsanswered the person interrogated antiI know nothing about Rome SometimesI think I never shall But you al-

ready know much remonstrated the holyfather In that you have learned howlittle you do know arid how much howvery much there Is to know for RomeIs truly a lifetime study

It is well for all travelers who goabroad for something beside more reeveatkm to take a course of reading pre-paratory to their voyage and to lay In astore of suitable books for rending onthe steamer Italy is the destination ofnearly all j f these who will sail for theother side in the next few weeks andabout that earthly paradise the moatfascinating books that over ssw the lighthave been written books that not onlyserve as guides but are an intellectualfeast as well Who does ifot enjoy Flor-ence the more after having read Romolo the histories of Machiavelli andNardi and the Walks in Florence bythe Homer sisters and does not one

more quickly familiar with Romeif he knows Gibbon anti Monneen if heis familiar with Hares Walks In Romeand has rend Storys fascinating ROM dlRoma To visit Pompeii without havingfirst read Last Days of Pom-peii Is to miss halt the charm andromance of the place Cram for the tripby all means It you are going to Italyit will be well worth while and you willenjoy it a thousandfold because you areprepared for the wonders that await you

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by the hand give a sweeping bow thatincludes all the others in the room andthen go a directly to her waiting car-riage as possible It is extremely badform to linger for a moment even afterone has taken leave of ones

7 QearthmAViti yea kiwtty sir M recipe fora mmea writable to serve at a targe aftemmi racesUOBt BAOHKLOK

Answer There Is no better recipe fora comparatively light punch than thefollowing One pound of lost sugar orrock candy one pint of strong Englishbreakfast tea one gill of French brandyone gill Jamaica rum one gill maras-chino Juice of three large oranges andof three lemons one quart brick of pine-apple water ice pour over this one quartof imported champagne and one pint ofsome sparkling water

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the apostolic legate is notaccredited to the United States govern-ment as the diplomatic representative ofthe St Siege but to the Roman CatholicChurch in America anu his office is toact as an Intermediary between thechurch and the Pope and to settle anycontentions that may arise

I QjmrtBBDo you thfek Amertea stria citetoo much time anti aUenUm to dnaal Ia a worth

peannee Would It be better tolime m the eaUiraUon the mind in tidmttsgwhat we shall SWBBT SIXTKBN

best reply The Arbiter canmake to your question is the followingquotation from Sydney Smith Neverteach false morality How exquisitelyabsurd to tell a girl that beauty is of novalue dress of no use Beauty is ofvalue her whole prospects and happi-ness in life may often depend ui on anew gown or becoming bonnet and ifshe has live grains of common sense

find tills out The great thing is toteach her their just value and that theremust be something better under the bon-net than a pretty face if sIte would havereal and lasting happiness But neversacrifice truth

JUSTICE IN THAW CASE

Prof Goldwin Comment onthe Insanity Pica

OoUwiB Smith in Toronto SueThe rules of evidence are strange Ex-

perts are not disqualified by having re-ceived a fee perhaps a heY fee fromthe party on whose behalf they appearwhile only having expressed a cursoryopinion on the incident of the day Is adisqualification for the Jury box A courtof justice la not a suitable place for the

of a question of sanity InEngland a day or probably half awould have sufficed to complete the trialThe proof of the fact which was

clear would have been put in Theverdict would have followed it Sen-tence would have been passed and

to the home secretary who wouldhave communicated with the judge andIf the judge expressed any doubt on theground of insanity or any other groundwould have suspended execution and reviewed the case Thaw Is now sworn bypaid experts hito the lunatic asylum Bypaid experts he will presently be swornout of it He will then walk the streetsof New York a privileged murderer Suchis the power of wealth

Who Cnrcn for the PhilippinesFrom tile Springfield Rejwbltean

About the only person In WashingtonInterested In the Philippine tariff bill isSecretary Taft and as ho is to be verybusy from this time on looking after hisPresidential boom the measure Is alreadyregarded as practically dead for this session It may be ever so Important for theprosperity of the Islands but who earN

rap about the Philippines anywayThey have been to the country like a newtoy to a dear plaything tilt firstday to be kicked off Into a corner andforgotten the next This Is what somepeople seem to regard as a demonstrationof our superior fitness to hold colonies

Pofttmnster General MeyerPreen the Beaton Herald

Few men have brought better organiz-ing and executive ability to the PostofficeDepartment than Postmaster GeneralMeyer From his entrance upon the dutiesof the office he haslfoeen a working offi-cial getting into tduoh with the variousbranches of the service He has foundsome defects readily and has inauguratedreforms for the good of the service Otherreforms have been suggested but mustbe sustained by continued effort to overcome obstacles If they are to be accomplished

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INTERURBAN ELECTRIC ROADS

Remarkable Development of NewMethods of Conunnnlcntlnn

hugh J McGewan to Municipal Engineering

The growth and success of Interurbanrailways Is not confined to any particularsection of the country They flourish InNew England anti the Middle AtlanticStates as they do in the Western and Pa-cific States They were early known Inthe South and were welcomed in theNorth But I may be pardoned in statingthat It Is believed by many that theyhave reached their highest efficiency inthe States of Illinois Indiana and Ohiowhich be characterIzed as The BigThree Thp total interurban railwaymileage in this trio of States

MOO miles representing an Invest-ment of many millions of dollars As anindication of the possibilities of throughtravel It may be mentioned that uponthe completion of a gap of fifty miles onemay journoy m interurban cars from EastSt Loqis to Chicago and upon the build-Ing of a short connecting link betweenDanville III and Crawfordsvllle Imlit will be possible to go from St Louisto Buffalo by electric traction At

the interests which I represent owna through line In full operation betweenParis III and Zsnosvllle Ohio a distanceof over 300 miles and will in the nearfuture Install a through service betweenIndianapolis and Toledo ss well as

Cincinnati and Toledo thence toCleveland and Buffalo

Indianapolis is located in the center ofthis great network of andoccupies a unique position in the trac-tion world Front the middle of a largeblock owned by the traction companysituated in th heart of the city on oneside of which hi the State house anti onthe other the most beautiful and loftysoldiers and sailors monument in theUnited States rises the now famousTraction Building erected three years agoat a cost exceeding JltO6tO with Its spa-cious and handsome terminal station

conceded to ba the tiniest in theworld Nine tracks enter this staUpnaccommodating twelve interurhan linesand divisions which run in all directionsFour hundred cars on an ertrage arriveand depart daily which on a steam

would equal lit trains of four caneach In IMS more tttan passen-gers were carried to and from this ter-minal station and it is estimated that inMOT the number will reach 00960 Thesefigures do not include passengers carriedbetween points outside of the city limits

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profitable realities New marketsare opened The reciprocal relationswhich develop between city and townand between the village and farm arebeneficial to all The dweller in the smalltown while escaping the expense of liv-ing In a big city may still enjoy all itsadvantages He receives by means of theinterurban cars his morning paper every-day before breakfast and his afternoonpaper before his evening meal and is intouch with the news of the world Theweekly newspaper is getting to be thingof the past His sons and daughters mayattend the institutions of higher educa-tion in the city and return to the parentalfireside every evening The theaters andgrand concerts are likewise available Nolonger is the narrow view entertainedthat interurban roads benefit the largecities at the expense of the towns

CRAZE FOR DECORATIONS

Xnvnl Officer Repreccte tine RagePrevalent 1 This Country

Prom of Rear Admiral Chadwfck to the

May I say a few words in generalupon the present rage in our country

titles and decorations so much tobe deprecated Congress unfortunatelyyielded to this some years ago and passeda law enabling officers ef the army andnavy to wear with uniform the decorations-of Ute patriotic societies to which theybelong An officer can if he should aowish thus appear at a foreign court indecorations all of which he has voted

himself almost as numerous as thoseof the German Emporer I have seen a

colonel of the civil war appearat the English court with five decorationsof this character Three were corpsbadges and two were badges of marks-manship It was somewhat embarrass-ing to be aXed frequently by foreignerswho knew that at the time our govern-ment granted no decorations what thesewere I hold that no officer should wearabroad any badge or decoration whichhas not been given him by the government itself I am pleased to say that-I not known an instance of a naval

doing otherwise So much has thispassion raged in Washington that gen-erals of sorts heretofore unknown havecropped up in all directions and societycertainly not the officials themselves

chooses to apply it to every one in whosetitle the word appears I have seen inthe newspapers that the usage commonamong subordinates of addressing thePostmaster General or any of the As-sistant Postmasters General as generalhas been forbidden by the former It isthe first step which I have seen taken incorrecting a ridiculous absurdity whichour people should not be guilty of It isnot so serious in practice as it is in theindication of a failure to recognize thedignity of a system which in theory hassystematically set its face against theuse of any title which Is not necessaryfor public purposes Let us have adignity ot practice which shall corres-pond the theory

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Of menStout young hearts their IratfntiU brhmfezTo their Kngtaod laM most dearAll heir flower and fragrane fiingwgAt scamd feet queenly fairFar and wide around her SftroadFleets whose number none wlRht mfconMany a craft of Van der DocketManned by Englands mighty laidDrake and BJake and Xabwi tbftre-Ami seemed to guard andAs halfseen they eaSel betide herOn to victory Temeratre

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CENTENNIAL OF ANTHRACITE

One Hundred Yenrs Since It WasFirst Used for Fuel

1rwn the Scientist AmertcsnAppropriate celebration of eenten

anthracite coal Is being consideredby the citizens of the town of PlymouthPa la TS7 the first shipment of the

black stone was by boat downthe Susqwahttana River from Pijrmouthto Columbia Pa This date marks the be-

ginning of the UM of anthracite whichaccording to records of the United StatesGeological Survey was discovered about1760 but was burned only by the UK ofblowers antI forced draft before UK

It was the discovery that anthracitemust bo reed from every Impurity anticrushed to a uniform size before it couldbe successfully burned which started thegreat Industry that this year will proba-bly have an output of 70000100 tons

People had become accustomed to burnlug soft coal which so muchgas that lumps of any size could bereadily ignited and burned without diffi-

culty Few would have predicted thatunlike soft coal which is sent to marketas it comes from the mine hard coalwould require preparation for market almost as complicated as the manufactureof flour from wheat

The actual mining of anthracite is onlythe beginning of a series of processeswhich produce the accurately sized purecoal which is so satisfactorily burned

la millions of homes and in heatingplants of large buildings which must havesmokeless chimneys As it comes from themines anthracite varies in size from lumpsas large M a watermelon to those assmall as a walnut The large lumps sireindividually examined on benches by menwho are expert jn detecting layers ofblack slate or other impurities which lookmuch like coal and which are unavoida-bly mined with it With small axes thelumps lire cracked and every vestige ofun material is removed beforethe coal is passed on to be crushed andsorted by passing over moving screensinto the numerous sizes ready for loadingon the earL

Lumps too small to be separately in-

spected on the start are crushed first andscreened into uniform sice after whichboys pick out all the impurities as thecoal passes slowly in thin layers downlong chutes In some localities considera-ble dirt adheres to the coal and in addltics to the chsshing and sizing it is nec-essary to subject it to several washingsduring preparation so that it will be cleanand bright and all impurities can bereadily seen and removed

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the Wall Slyest JournalThe attitude of representative Southern

spokesmen toward immigration has fromtime to time shown itself hi a decided an-tagonism to the appearance of certain

of foreigners in the States southof the Potomac and east ef the IVIissi-ssippt The South European has usuallybeen objected to as not furnishing adesirable addition to tbe populationThese people have been given to under-stand repeatedly though nut ottfcialiythat they were simply not expected-

In contrast wkh this attitude is that efMassachusetts which accepts what comesher way employs it In her Industries andthen makes systematic inquiry into thesise of the problem which confronts herTbe Southern attitude is one ofThe Massachusetts method tewhich business sense and scientific in

unite to get tbe best out of thenation

No depreciation is Involved in referringto the Southern attitude as sentimentalThe South has its institutions its tradi-tions and its ambitions which it is dutybound to preserve and protect from anything less desirable Oa the other handMassachusetts has her pride of elitismshiP but she has also her industries andher commerce for which skilled and un-skilled labor is needed In hundreds ofthousands If Northern Europe does notfurnish what is needed then the SouthEuropean is welcome to meet the demandsas the next best solution of the laborproblem

Massachusetts meets this problem insystematic way which may be com-

mended for general adoption The Bureauof Statistics of Labor expresses the cuethus That which we have thereforesuspected but perBaps too vaguely forsouse years we can no longer avoid ac-cepting as a fact namely that our prob-lem of assimilation In the years immedi-ately ahead must have to do less and lesswith Celtic and more and more withSlavic and Ibertc infusions Each ofthese latter infusions has increased nearly

1 per cent amce 1886 against 317 perrent of Teutonic and 364 of Celtic Theimportant thing is to know the facts IDexact numbers and then to begin tomake the best possible citizen out of thealien on the spot

SWEDENS NEW MONARCH

Democratic King Who Hiu DeclinedCeremony of Coronation

PraM Current UteratweSwedens new monarch has declined te

go through any ceremony of coronationon the ground that such a thing to notin accordance with the spirit of our ageUnlike his father the late Oscar II Gustan Y is not the worlds pattern of acourtly monarch Oscar avers one whoknew him well writing In London Truthwas courtly in all his conceptions af thefunctions of a king Gustave is primarilya husband and king comasafterward Oscar was inexpressibly grandin manner irresistibly delightful In per-sonality Gustave has a strain of stern-ness and reserve that tinges his wholecharacter He is typically Swedish Inlila outlook upon life whereas theblooded the Norwegian point of viewwith that of Sweden The Norwegiansare not swayed by reason writes a wellinformed authority in Blackwoods butare excited by a vague sentiment By tem-perament they are buoyant and excitableThe Swedes on the other hand have adeeprooted dislike of innovation Theirhistory which is a history of heroes hasgiven them a natural respect for cus-tom and tradition It was indeed theiropposing temperaments we are toldwhich separated Norway and Swedenand Gustave V incarnates Stockholm asagainst Christiania He is not showyas his father was lacking the late Kings

careless air in wearing smart newclothes which according to LondonTruth the Due de Talleyrand used toenvy Tall rather dark nearsightedand unassuming Gustave is essentiallydemocratic while seeming the oppositewhereas Oscar was aristocratic althoughne made much of the people

Plea for Rivers and HarborsMouton Pest

It ought to be clear to experienced legis-lators like Mr Tawney that if tine policyof Improving rivers and harbors is to beabandoned every other year for revenue-or political consideration the progress ofthe country will b greatly retarded Withthe demand for more pensions and agreater navy it is evon improbable thatthe revenue laws unless they be amendedwill ever create such a surplus as willadmit of continuing river and harbor im-provements We know the Republicansare not going to cut present regular ex-penditures Do they intend to abandonour rivers and harbors

Test of Public EnduranceProm the Baltimore Sun

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LECTURE NO 27No Job that exeus will not do Im

getting tired of these eternal excusesI told you that because you fell

asleep in Little Haleys bed and set thecounterpnina on tire that I wouldntstand for any more smoking in thehouse I thought that it wouldnt be anygreat hardship for you to take a littlemn around the block every time youwanted to smoke one of thornNaturals as you call em and when youwent out after dinner Job I calculatedthat maybe youd smoke about two ofem and come back and here it is pUt

12 oclock and unless them cigaretteshave got alcohol in em youve been mix-Ing In with some of your old cronieswell you neednt think you can bluffme out that way Job That no amok

rule stays up as long as Ive gotanything to say about it

Im sorry you were not hare Jobcause Glnny came while you were out

She stopped off on her way from NewYork to the country and she left youher love She looked awful pretty shehad on a pink bombazine trimmed withreal liicey and had a real mink cottarand muff her husband sent her fur avalentine You know shes only beenmarried a but it certainlyhas made a wonderful change in herShes got lots more hair than when yousaw her Mat She says that all the NewYork ladles are spending their moneyfor hair nowadays Even if it doesntquite match it doesnt matter Youknew it used to be the fashion to dnVematched teams and then the fashionchanged and they drive a white horsewith a black one or a brown with asorreL Its just the same with hair areal blonde wears brown sausages asthey call the new curls and possiblyher rat underneath is black I think111 get some Gtnay says its real cheapas most of t Isnt real hair but it anlivers the purpose and you knowmy false front te all faded sinceday it fell ia the washtub

dreadful shape From what I can seetheyll Just have te get another partyHere everybody jumping onto poor Mr

back at TOm Mr lUiney and Mr Clarkand Black sad Culberson sad Forakerin Me party and out of itthey all beginabusing him and now as a last strawthey say that his latest message toCongress I to be dramatized That willbe his finish wont it And all thetime theyre abusing Mr RooseveltHeres Mr Leeb suffering I bet hawishes thai hed taken that street earjob dont you Then onl the long-suffering passengers in Washingtonwould seoid Mm now everybodys scold-ing him and I shouldnt wonder iftheyd blame him if war should breakout

Mr Taft dont seem to be makingmuch headway either not with Foraker alter bin Its like a game of tenpins every time Mr Taft sets up apostmaster Mr Foraker knocks himdown aad there goes a lot more votesAnd all the while tine Democratic partyseeing to be getting stronger No soonerdoes somebody got up in Congress anddenounce Mr Bryan than here comesthe news of strong recruits to theocratte Onion of Texas Mr-Gertick of Louisiana and Mr Leek

Georgia All they need now is a MrLImburger if they can flad pne anywhere and theyll be so strong thateven Philander Knox wont care totackle em

And In the meantime I cant seebody struggling very Hard for the jobof Vice President They seem to forgetthat thats going to be vacant tooTwelve thousand dollars a year it paysJob and nothing much to do Aint youeligible for it Job I wish youd try forit just think what we could do with allthat money I suppose though whenall is said and done theyll give it toBaby McKee Longworth The job mostalways was to a baldheaded men

Have you reading about thefleet Job I see theyre down aroundChile now Thats where the Chileconcarni comes rom

Little Emilys beets following thecourse the fleet on her map andyoud be astonIshed at all the geographyIve learned through that child Wefollowed the fleet alt down put thatgreets country Brazil that is its greenoa the map eo suppose it means greenfields and we stopped at Rio de Janeirothats on the tropic of Capricorn youknow Job burned after one of themanimals with a horn sticking out of itsforehead Nothing happened there except a man hit a sailor over the headwith a bottle Then we went on townthe fleet did and we followed em witha lead Urucuay a pink place

where we tounched somebody se thepapers say at Montevideo Then wewent on down past a purple countryArgentina until we cause to the Straitssocalled because theyre so crookedeverythings topsyturvey in theseSouthern countries and we went rightthrough with a purple map on one side

came out on the other side and nowwere in the Pacific sailing up the long-est strip of yellow country In the worldChile It runs all the way from CapeHorn to dont know whatthat mat means but if you pronounceit right it sounds like a chicken drink

ins And after that well get to abrown country Peru wont that be in-

teresting I tell you Job If this voyagenothing but show us what a lot of

beautiful colors geography is everybodyought to be satisfied

There soother thing that justities to my mind the galling of the fleetand that is what theyre doing in SanFrancisco I see that they haventgot all the ruins of the late fire outof thg way and so at last there comesa real Wile for all those free seeds theCongressmen have been sending outTheyre going to sow the ruins with all

seeds that Congress sends out sothat when the fleet there the townwill look beautiful On the site of thePalace Hotel theyre going toforgotmenota and In the place winreonce was Chinatown theyre going toplant poppies and on Market sreettheyre going to put in vegetable seedsand dogwood wilt blossom where oncetile Psoele Dog held forthbeautifulJy poetic I call it Job You may notlee it because you have no poetry iryour soul

Isnt It awful Job that they shouldput those women in Ixmdoo In jail justbecause they have tried to get a chanceto vote Id like to see them do it infroe America Why this is the freestcountry on earth I see that a judge outWcflt hat decided that it is not the dutyof pedestrians to dodge automobilesIll bet they have them jumping in London and Paris As for me after thiswhan I hear an auto horn Im just gotog to stand stilt and if they run overme its HP to you to collect the dartages Join

before I get away from politicsJolt what do you think of these Taftb UOM theyre giving oat in ChicagoIf theyd make them buttons that abody eookl use there might be someease In them but I cant see that anywomans going to be tickled to deathuseanst her husband comes home tvitaa picture of a fat men in his buttonhole

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Have you reed about Eddie FoysVoice being insured Job When weheard him the other night I thoughtsomething ought to have been done t-

it I expect if tbe truth were knownthat he had to Insure it against drown-ing it was so wet all the time I neversaw a man on stage who could spiton so many people all at once I tellyou bes a great senor Job nowtheyre talking of running him forHamlet I should think insurance was

wryTheres one thing I never can agree

to though and that to this propositionte tax cats in Washington Why iftHy do that all the cats will be excommunicatdd I mean exterminated andyou know Job that without Cain wepoor people would hardly get on at allIts alt right for Mrs Rockefeller andthe rest to go clad in ermine but penpie with our Incomes have to get ourermine from the cats A good fluffypussy properly dyed looks just as goodas these thousand dollar things ifduSt look too closely Anyway

bat a few people can tell the dif-

ferenceDid you read about the tailors con-

vention and what they did Theyregoing to snake coats with seams andtrousers without pockets Im mightyglad of the latter clause That meansthat a assail have to leave his moneyat in charge of his longsufferingwife not that youll have much toleave Job I never found anythingmuch in your pockets Say dear whote ttote man Morse that everybodysgoing to get after tomorrow with war-rants It isnt the dramatic editor ofthe Washington Post is it Hes toonice a man for anybody to arrest andhe does write the nicest criticisms Idont see how anybody could arrest him

J 9 I wish youd pay attention towhat rm asking you What has be-come ef Mr Lawson First of alladvertised that there would be a panicunless people followed his advice andWhetS they didnt follow and a paniccame anyhow he seems to have disap-peared And say Job dont you evertell me any more funny stories I seewhere a lady in Kansas dislocated herjaw laughing at one of her husbandsstories Just think dear if I was tdislocate mine and wasnt able to goover the stews of the week with you

And Job did you see about thatwoman that aokl her baby carriageshe could get enough money to buy atheater ticket Wasnt that dreadfulBut after all I would like to go and-s e a show next week and little Haleys carriage te up there in the loft notdoing anybody any good

Whats that Job Now Ive alwaysopposed your going to sleep when Imtalking to you but I think that tonightyoud better go to sleep You needntpull out one of them cigarettes causeyoure not going to smoke it in hereNo sir If you want to smoke you justget your things on and get out and takea walk around the block Thats what allgood husbands have to do Oh going tosleep are you Well thank heavenIve trained you in one thing anyhow

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RECENT LABOR DECISIONS

Will They Be Overruled by Growthof Popular Sentiment

the Boston TranscriptIt is probable that the remaining months

of Ute Roosevelt administration will wit-ness much zeal on his part toward raodl-fyhig to some extent the legal status oflabor The line of decisions which haverecently attracted so much attention re-

flect a disposition on the part ofcourts to hold In check the growing demands of labor much like the line of de-

cision in the days of reconstruction whenthe Supreme Court stood as a protector-of Southern rights It is usually possibleto discern the prevailing drift of legis-lation by the and unanimity ofthe courts decisions upon a particularline like questions of State rights a generation ago and now of freedom of contract The Presidents school of public

however believe that some of theselatest decisions are not likely to standwith any permanency because of theinevitable movement of modern opinion-

It is rather noteworthy that in a recentdecision in which the court stood six tothree against what would have boon theRoosevelt policy the minority includedthe two Massachusetts judges both hisappointees and both coming from

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Congress Fueling Inevitable Resultof Fixed Tenure of Office

Frost the New York AmericanCongress Is facing at last one of

most disagreeable duties in its historyThe inevitable has arrived In the form ofthe final cold proposition that the agedand infirm department employes must gIt is not proposed to pension them butsimply to turn them out

On one side Is the waste of public reve-nue iiuretaining an army of governmentservitors grown gray and stooped andwho cannot do the quick work of younrmen and women On the other is thecruelty of a great government turning itstimeworn employee into aworld in which they cant compete forlivelihood

With permanent tenure of office duringgood behavior it Is inevitable that anarmy of government employes will serveuntil very old age No pension system

provided the government Is obligedeither to retain incapacitated attaches orturn them out ruthlessly It is all owingto the procrastination of Congress in dealog with an inevitable consequence of per-manent tenure of office

Will Need LabelsFrom the lUebwond

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