$ v * I Joseph Cannon I i Versus ! !Herbert Parsonsj v ••• v * *•* * * * * * * ma i w ,m - K » wi " j&P Ys l,e ki ' , ' li| . v lv - I m.-i IIV it' .1 limes .1. Arihu" Johnson fail '" se, " e 'he heavy- , asa Ml weight champion ship eo nt roversy 1 this winter, there is another contest on j that promises to make tip for any dis- | appointment in that direction. This is the Cannon-Parsons bout, and if Mich affairs were fought out in the squared circle instead "!' the political j arena the announcer would step to the middle of the Hug. elevate his chin, scowl deeply and then probably intro duce the men as follows: "(lents an' odders, dis bout is at a hundred an' fifty-eight pounds. Queens berry rules. See? I>e guy In dat cor ner is Herb Parsons of New York. I)e odder guy i s Joe Cannon of Illinois. Shake hands, yousp. an" do loist bloke wot hits in de clinches pits his slats pushed In. See - ;" All joking aside, howi ver. t!ie amaz ing charge Herbert Parso'i-. congress man from New York ami niirman of the New York ltcpubli iii . oiinly cotn mittee, has made against Speaker Can non and Ills own party lias caused a great sensation throughout the coun try. and the affair promises to develop Into one of the bitterest tights in the history of politics. Mr. Parsons charges that Tammany llall entered Into a deal with up state Republicans to defeat the efforts of New York city Itepublicans to perfect the signature law during the last legislative sessiou in Albany and a part of the deal was t: Tammany should support Speaker Cannon and the rules of the house of representatives. He also claims that the Republican representatives of New York city were not informed of the deal either from Albany or Washing ton. This charge followed the declaration of the county chairman that Tammany was planning wholesale frauds in the coming election and that most com pre- V . . ' •" 1 SPKAKEK CANNON OPENING CONGRESS. hensive preparations would bo made by the Republican forces to circum vent them. • So much for Mr. Parsons' side of it. When Mr. Cannon was informed of the charge he was just lighting his fourteenth after dinner cigar. "Humph:" he growled, only he used another and. some might think, a more expressive word. "If that chap Par sons is looking for trouble he has come to the right place." Asked as to his attitude in the matter, the speaker smiled grimly and dryly continued: "1 don't make a hullabaloo about such things until I'm hurt. When 1 first used togo hunting as a boy along the Wabash I saw one kind of an ani mal that 1 never bad seen before and kicked at it.l was weeks in recover ing. "I was weeks in recovering." added the speaker sententiously, "and since that time I never have kicked at that kind of an animal—in private life or in politics." Almost every one is familiar with the career of Uncle Joe Cannon. Mr. Parsons, too, is a man of much promi nence politically. He was born in New York city just forty years ago and took up law after graduating from Yale in the class of 1800. Soon after being admitted to the bar in 1594 he entered politics, became the leader of his district and is at present its repre sentative to congress and chairman of the New York Republican county com mittee. In speaking of 11i.s charges against Cannon and others Mr. l'ar sotis recently said: "I had no idea < ' preeipi' iting a iia /'ITWkMMN tional dispute or /' ) controversy when Cv / S 1 I made the state- J ment, but I am not worrying. My posi tion is simply this, ~ -p—•»- and I shall maintain it. no matter what may happen. 1 believe that a man in my position, with tlie power that 1 have as chairman of the New York county committee, can in a few years put a stop to illegal registration and fraudulent voting in New York. I be lieve it is the duty of a man in my position to do that. I have no doubt ihat in three or four years I will suc ceed." Methuselah. Hoax—lt's a good thing Methuselah ■wasn't a woman. Joax—Why? Hoax —The world would never have known how old she really was.—Philadelphia Record. Striking manners are bad manners. -Ilall. Hard Luck. Old Lady—Poor man! What have ! you done to your band? Uuemploya ble— Broke rn.v knuckles, mum, knock in' at people's doors askin' for work. - London Scraps. CTi'sPC rn " uiiibi ill i.jti. i Object to Ceing Called Unclean by I reacher. RESENT OR. AKED'S REMARKS Sothern Retorts by Saying He Has Had Clergymen In His Company and Has Found Them Very Well Be haved. 11l speaking of the injustice of prej udice the Rev. Dr. Charles K. Aked. pastor of the Piftli Avenue Baptist church of New York, the church at tended by John D. Rockefeller, said: "Take the case of actors and ac tresses. All Christian people put them under the ban. All Christian people regard them as unclean, and 1 tell you that Christian people have no right to be surprised if they act as though they were unclean." The statement has aroused the lead ing figures of the stage as few other utterances have done in recent years. The general attitude is timt Dr. Akcd's statement belongs to the time when the English statutes classed actors as vagabonds. When lv H. Sothern commented ou the m ittei Miss .1 nil t Marlowe was present an! tiled frequent approval of the actor's -allrical remarks. "Until I read Dr. Aked's statement I did lei Know eiors and actresses as . ' lass had been placed under a Imu b; .til Christian people and that 'all t'hl'i-dlan people regard them as un t•!■ :in." " said Sothern. "But if we are " eminently proper for liini to plead ur cause in the pulpit, that we may get a fair chance. Clergymen on the Stage. "But this occurs to me Though one continually hears of eccentric conduct on the part of persons connected with the church, there lias not been, so far as I am aware, any unkindly criticism of those persons by the men and wo men of the stage. We have looked charitably upon these hackslidings as the result of ordinary human frailties. We have never thought of ostracizing (hose church people as a class. 1 have some delightful friends among the clergy. "I have had in my companies three clergymen, and we found them very well behaved. There really was noth ing objectionable about them. One clergyman came to me while 1 was preparing "The Proud Prince' and asked for an engagement. lie said he wished to exchange the pulpit for the stage, for just what reason 1 cannot now recollect. Perhaps it was his voice. "'I thought of taking him. and he hastened to friends to tell of his good luck. He returned next day and said his friends thought he luid better with draw because lie might not find the people in the company proper persons to associate with. I replied in all good humor that he need not let that deter him from earning his living with us. as the important thing might prove to be whether the people iu the com pany would wish to associate with him. "Besides,' said I. 'admitting we are a depraved lot, this is the place for you, a clergyman, right liere in our sinful midst. Redeem us. act with us. pray with us, save us.' "He was a good natured, stupid look ing sort of fellow, and be laughed and went away and left us to our wicked ness. Well, he meant well. Dr. Aked icans well. We all mean well. It is good to know that we are unclean—we can now begin to reform. Clergymen ar.d Actors In Jails. Rome time ago a clergyman started nne such discussion as this, and the i cxt day there appeared iu the records of a legislative debate a statement ihat -t.OOii churchmen were confined in jails, inebriate asylums or kindred in stitutions. At ihat time there were but three actors in the country con fined in like places." Miss Rose Cogblau. a distinguished member of an old stage family, was incensed by Dr. Aked's sermon. "Perhaps Dr. Aked got his idea from the fact that actors and actresses are continually before the public aud their troubles are thoroughly aired. Consid erable space is given by newspapers to the troubles of society folk, and if newspaper interest continues to iu crease in them it won't be long before Dr. Aked will be able to get up in the pulpit and say that all Christians put society men and women under the ban and regard them as unclean. It is merely a matter of publicity, that's all." "Dr. Aked's statements could have been inspired only by a desire for no toriety." said Robert Edeson. "It is strange that a people so low in the ryes of Christians should continually be besieged by these very Christians with pleas for financial aid for chari ties. I know of no other class of men and women who give so freely to all worthy charities, not only of their ni ney, but their art and their time, as d'> the people of the stage." TOBACCO'S NEW RIVAL. Chicago Students Turning From Ciga rettes and Pipes to Chocolate. Chocolate is replacing the pipe and the cigarette as the really wicked and manly indulgence of Chicago univer sity men if the result of the last re port of the Reynolds club indicates anything. It shows that there was al most as much chocolate sold as to bacco. It is eaten right in the club rooms and In large quantities. The club, a men's Institution, has over 500 members. Will Leave Million For Peace. Edwin Uinn. the publisher of Bos ton. an earnest advocate of interna tional peace, has made provisiou in his will that on his death $1,000,000 shall become available for the cause of universal peace. He will also con tribute $50,000 annually to the peace cause during the remaining years cf his life. Tree and Sea. I>j the way, what is t lie tree most nearly related to the sea?" "The beech, of course." "Are you sure? Isn't the bay tree nearer''"— London Scraps. in A , . ill . il. < mi i - a; (■rings tin- i up i" U' ' i second time an-1 i . . t itii. il States next yea I i> i \iili»n ami aeronautic conti-Ms. Tile lirst inSeiiiatioii.il I.MIOOII eon lest. Which -Illicit 1it..11 I .iris Scot, iil). 11iiiii, wis won by uti .vnieri an. Lieutenant I* rank I'. La inn. v\tn> li.ui as his aid Major lleiiiy It. lleisey. The contest for Ulti'i was held in St. Louis and was won by Oscar KrbsioU ot Germany in the balloon I'oiniiiern Ills balloon landed within a tew yards of the Atlantic ocean, on the New Jer sey coast, and less than one mile from that spot landed the balloon L'He de Prance, with M. Alfred Leblane pilot and Mr. Mix as his aid. In that trip a new world's duration record of forty-four hours was estab lished and stood until broken the fol lowing year by Colonel Sehaeck, win remained in the air seventy-three hours in his trip from Berlin to the coast of Norway, where lie landed in the sea. Mi. Mix. while an American citizen, lias spent many years in Paris, where he is engaged in business, lie is a member both ot the Aero Club of Prance and the Aero Club of America an I has represented both countries in the international contests, lie was born ami reared in Ohio, and during the race from St. Louis in liMiT bis balloon passed over his native place jnsi a iter sunrise on the morning of Oct. it was the lirst tifiie he had seen the place In twenty years, and as the balloon sailed along he locked dowu ,ind called out to several old neighbors and told them who he was. GERMAN COLONY IN TEXAS. Foreign Companies Carrying Out Plans to Raise Cotton In Our South. German and British spinners are putting into execution their threat to buy land and raise cotton in Texas. The sale of several tracts of land, ag gregating nearly 250.000 acres, in southwest Texas to a Berlin firm led to the disclosure that German and Eng lisli spinners are the actual purchasers and that they plan to buy more land upon which to grow cotton. Their agents hold options on several thou sand acres, all in Frio. Lasalle. Webb, Duval and Mc.Mullen counties. Plans have been perfected for col onizing German cotton growers, who agree to sell their crops to the spin ners direct. l'tie spinners contend that the grower will get a better average price tor ni« product season by season thai under present conditions. The details of the plan are not announced. hut in some way the spinners will hold a sort ot lien on the land to insure the sate to them of all cotton grown on it. The lirst colony of about uOO German families wi • settle on the land about Jan. I. 'J tie price ot the land ranged from SL' to .sjo an acre. SENT AD. EY WIaELESS. Latest Method of Communication Used by Enterprising Auto Man. To transmit advertisements by wire less is rather a new wrinkle and seems just a little in advance of up-to-date ness, even lor the automobile bus'- ness. This was a feat recently per formed by the advertising manager for one of the big automobile companies in New Orleans. The advertising man was trying to steal a few days away from business, aud part of the plan was a trip by steamship from New Orleans to New York. On the second day out. when in the middle of the gulf of Mexico, It occurred to the publicity man thai he bad forgotten to prepare copy fot a full page advertisement he had or dered Inserted in a large list of papers. Not to be thwarted, he wrote the copy and transmitted the 1.500 words, to gether wilh instructions as to illus trations and composition, by wireless to Key West, Fla.. whence it was for warded by mall to the various four nals. Spermaceti added to boiled staret: gives the goods a gloss Borax makes the starch stlfTer. We Shoot. Out 75 Pounds Nearly Every Minute Each mammoth gun, at each dis- Crisp and nut-like — four times as charge, shoots out 75 pounds of porous as bread. Grains that melt in I ufifed W heat or I'uiTed Rice. the mouth. And a gun, to meet the present There is nothing else to compare demand, must be shot about every vvit h them. No cereal food half so mmnte. g ood. For, last month, seventeen million \vi f .1, >llll.l , , / , When you try them, you 11 be glad meals were served of these new, en- u j i . ' that we told you about them. And ticing foods. / , , , your folks will be glad. If your folks like what most folks Don't wait longer. Order one like, they 11 enjoy these gigantic package. Submit it to a vote of your grains. table. Puffed Wheat —10c Puffed Rice —15c 1 he.se arc the foods invented by Prof. An- Then the guns arc unsealed, and the steam dcrson, and this is his curious process: explodes. Instantly every starch granule is T. , . , . . . blasted into a myriad particles. i lie whole wheat or rice kernels are put into " sealed guns. Then the guns arc revolved for . 7,10 k f rnc,s of K rain arc expanded eight sixty minutes in a heat of 550 degrees. times, ct the coats are unbroken, the shapes are unaltered. We have simply the magnified 1 hat fierce heat turns the moisture in the grain, grain to steam, and the pressure becomes tre- One package will tell you why people de mendous. light in them. Order it now. (7) Made only by The Quaker Oats Company fl.-l INTELLECT J 'mVEL. Hfc.v# s New Elcvin- k £,tu asnt Is a Men.;. ..ondit William .). Sldls, I lit' eleven j i*iii■ i il boy :H I 111 111 I'll In 11 tl I" V;i r« I dm \n'-ilj us I In* youngest matriculate in i tit* long History nl' ili<> iiisiiluilini. couid spell, rt'jiil mill write nl lln* ime f he naked eye for some time, although one may get a peep at it through the tele scopes shortly. After it appears it will continue to grow In brilliancy and length until it is the size of about ninety full moons and will remain until the latter part of May, 1910. Then our celestial guest will disap pear from sight of man again, going no one knows where. The astrono mers say it will not return for another seventy-five years. Particular interest among scientific men is attached to Ilalley's comet because it is the first one to reappear as predicted. Prior to the time of Ilailey, comets were -supposed to be only occasional visitors. But Ilailey found that by calculating that the comet traveled In a closed curve it would return to the solar system at intervals of about seventy-five years. After his observations of the cornet In 1 <'Si! ho calculated that it would return in 175S or 1759. lie was right. The comet was again seen in 1835 and lias been absent since that date. When first sighted the comet was very > ' I I ; -V ;i fe : -v® 1 v> \ j [ v • W/t?* A COMET CAfOnr BY THE C AMEBA. large and brilliant. Since then it has been smaller and less bright. In it was only about half as large and brilliant as in 1759. Ilalley's comet is so called not be cause Ilailey discovered it, for it had long been knowu, but because he was the first to calculate its orbit and to predict its return. Ilailey was born in IGSG and was educated at St. Paul's school and Queen's college, Oxford, lie was a notable astronomer, traveled much on the continent and was a friend of Sir Isaac Newton. In 1720 be was made astronomer royal, and, besides predicting the return of the comet in lt'xS-, be recommended the use of the transit of Venus for obtaining the parallax of the sun. He died in 171- with a European reputation as an astronomer. No one need hide under the bed or seek a cyclone cellar because we are to have a visit from this comet, how ever. There is not the slightest dan ger of its colliding with the earth or in any way disturbing us, as all comets are looked upon with scientific curios ity rather than fear. Not so with the comets of the past, however. The appearance of tho comet In 1150 spread terror all over Europe, and in all the churches people prayed to be delivered from the Turks and the comet. Three years earlier Constan tino, the last emperor of Byzantium, had died the death of a hero on the Sandjakdar Yokushar. the Sultan Mo hammed had entered the city, and the Church of St. Sophia had become a mosque. The crusades were over, and Christianity seemed fated to succumb to Islam, for nothing was able to stop the conquering -Moslems. Then, in 1450, the comet appeared in the heav ens. and Europe saw in It the scimitar of Othman, foretelling the subjugation of Christendom. As to the appearance of Ilalley's comet on its return, it depends en tirely upon its position with regard to the earth and sun. If the earth hap pens to be near the comet about the time of its passage round the sun. when the comet's light Is necessarily greatest and the train most extended, then we shall have a splendid view of the glorious spectacle. At its return In 1759 the comet had a train of 50 de grees in length and was best seen in the southern hemisphere--that is. the train of the comet extended to a distance equivalent to a little more than halfway front the zenith to the horizon. At its next return, in 1535. it was somewhat short of its splendor, for its train was but 15 degrees in length. How the comet will look now It is im possible to conjecture, but It Is to be hoped that It will treat us to a dis play worthy of its former reputation. The Next Best. "Hubby. I haven't had a new dress for a month." "Times are slow for me. my dear. Better go in for literature and pretend to be superior to the fashions."—Kan sas City Journal. Her Discovery. Husband—Think of It! Here is a hairpin I have found in the soup! Wife —Yes? Now I know where our things have gone. A shoe horn disappeared too! Harper's Bazar. Liberty cannot be established with out morality.—tireeley. RISE OF A PRINCESS. Wife of Austria's Heir Recognized at Last by Emperor. NOW KNOWN AS "HIGHNESS." After Nine Years Francis Ferdinand's Morganatic Spouse Is Honored by Her Husband's Uncle—Helped by tho Kaiser. By granting the title of "highness" to the Princess of Iloheuberg. morga natic wife of Archduke Francis Fer dinand of Austria-Hungary, the old ruler of the dual monarchy. Emperor Francis Joseph, bas renewed the dis cussion of the exact status of the „ princess and the possibility of her • sitting on the throne with her hus band. who is nephew and heir to the aged emperor. The princess and her husband will shortly visit the kaiser at Berlin, where they will receive great honors. The kaiser is said t" be responsible for the new honor accorded to the princess, although it is known that the aged Francis Joseph has been in a relenting mood for some time past, and chapters in what is now called "A Romance of International l.ove and Politics" seem to be written fast. The children of this morganatic mar riage are the Princess Sophia, aged eight: Prince Maximilian Charles, aged seven, and Prince Ernest, aged live. > v wv I 'V i • v. T %i: < -g * V £ 4 PRfNCESS OF EOHENBEHO. The kaiser's reasons for inducing the emperor to honor his heir's wife, ac cording to the Austrian authorities, is due to a desire to promote better feel ings toward Germany on the part of the new duchess, who has been a stead fast opponent ot pan-Germanism. Married to Archduke In 19C3. i The wife of tin- heir to the Austrian I throne is t he daughter ul Count Chotek, I former Austrian ambassador to Hel ' giutn. At the tim«> ot Uer marriage to j Francis Ferdinand. .Inly 1, 1900. she [ received lroni the emperor the title Princess ot Iloheuberg Archduke Francis Joseph is the only heir to the throne in thistory Of Austria who contracted a inorga- I natlc marriage for the s;ske of his I wife, who is a member of tin old Bo j bemian family. The archduke for ten years resisted ail th" imperial j efforts to marry tiim to a woman of his own rank. The emperor himself vainly endeavored to stop the mar riage. but finally gave his consent. At the wedding the archduke look an I oath that he would not