ran oitizhh, wisdnusdav, fkb. 2, 1010.
MOSES THE BEST JOURNALIST
Reporter of Crimes 8uch at No Mod
em Paper Would Dare
to Print.
Kansas City, Mo. Addressing the
Ministers Alliance of Kansns on "The
lYUth of a Journalist," Walter Wll
Hams, dean of the School of Journal
Ism nt Missouri University, spoke of
tlio similarity of the UIhl to the mod
orn newspaper.
"Tlio best Journnllst with whose
work I am acquainted," said Mr. Wil
liams, "was Moses. He was tho first
great editor. You plead for the publi
cation of only tho good and the beau
tiful In your favorite dally newspaper.
It was an earlier people, not a wiser
one, who cried: 'Prophesy unto us
smooth tliln.'
"In one of the live books Moses
edited the great editor gave more
criminal news, and that more graphi
cally, than to-day's newspapers would
dare for example, tho reports of the
disobedience of Adam, the drunken
ness of Noah, tho falsehoods of Abra
ham, and the iniquity of tho city of
Sodom."
OOOOOOOOOOOODODODOOOOODOOO
O Uncle Sam's Employees. O
The Government's employ
O list Is growing by leaps nnd g
o bounds. The grand total of all o
O Federal employees nt present Q
Q is 370.0G5, as against 30G.141 In O
Q 1907, an Increase In the two Q
q years of about 04,000 persons o
or about 20 per cent. There
were 2S.947 persons In the Fed- O
Q oral emplby In Washington on 2
Q July 1 last; the annual pay roll o
9 for them Is $31,541,225, an aver- H
age of nearly $1,100 each. This Q
total will be temporarily swol- yi
len by tho addition of about O
3,000 persons to the clerical 9
force of the Census Dureau, O
adding nearly $5,000,000 in sal-
aries during the year or more of O
their employment.
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NEW DIVORCE CURE.
Dr. Worcester Predicts Victory for
Emmanuel Movement.
Boston. The Rev. Dr. Elwood Wor
cester, founder of the Emmanuel
movement, is extending his work Into
many novel fields. He believes that
tho end of the divorce evil will be the
eventual triumph of the new cure.
His method of mild mental sugges
tion, the introduction of happy
thoughts among melancholy persons
and the removal of the causes for di
vorce in the mental attitudes of hus
band and wife. Is already proving effi
cacious, he says, in many threatened
divorce cases that have come under
his observation. One of tho chief
causes for divorce the liquor habit
is receiving especial attention
through his Boston club of alcoholics
and his special cases.
Dr. Worcester says emphatically,
however, that suggestion plays only a
small part in the Emmanuel treat
ment. Appeals to conscience and rea
son and the better nature of parents
have as much to do with the cures as
anything else.
SHAVING GUARDS HEALTH.
Men Without Mustaches Less Subject
to Colds Than Those with Them.
London. "Clean Shaving as a Pro
phhylactlc Measure" Is the subject of
an article in this week's Lancet. The
matter Is brought up by a contributor
In The Lancet noticing that clean
shaven persons enjoy a kind of Im
munity from common colds or are less
frequently attacked than those who
cultivate a mustache.
The Lancet says that it is conceiv
able that the mustache affords a nur
sery for organisms, whereas a daily
shave acts as a regular antiseptic rou
tlno. At this rate women should en
joy similar Immunity, says The Lan
cet, unless stress he laid on tho fact
that no method of their toilet eqyals
tho drastic cleaning process of tho
razor and soap. Moreover, lino downy
hair Is natural to the lips of women
and children.
IDIOSYNCRASY COSTS LIFE.
Scratching Left Ear with Hoof, Tren
ton Man's Purchase Is Strangled.
Trenton, N. J., Just becuuso a
horse tried to scratch his loft ear with
one of his hoofs, Thomas M. Everett,
a Trenton man, is out $251. He pur
chased the animal two days before
and had to pay $1 to have the dead
body removed from his stable.
While attempting to do tho acrobat
ic stunt the animal slipped and was
strangled by tlio halter about his
neck. Tho beast had a habit of scrat
ching his ears with ono of his hoofs,
and bis former owner always put an
unusually largo halter about his neck,
but Everett was unawaro of his
horse's odd habit and as a conse
quence is mourning his tinanclal loss.
The animal was dead several hours
before the body was found.
SUICIDES BREED SUICIDES.
Toronto Professor Talks at Yale of
"Morbid Influencec."
New Haven, Conn., Close Inquiry
Into every suicide to determlre the
cause of the act was advocated by
Prof. J. G. Humo of Toronto Unl
verslty In a paper read by him before
the American Philosophical Ar.eo- la
tlon at Yale.
He asserted self-destruction was be
coming more and more prevalent and
that realistic, sensational accounts In
newspapers of "harrowing details of
unfortunate acts" exerted a morbid In
fluence upon those struggling with fie
temptation to commit crime.
R0ADMAKING3F
, J
ROAD IMPROVEMENT CRUSADE.
Economic Importance of Good High,
ways Becoming Known.
The economic Importance of good
roads Is becoming more thoroughly
demonstrated with every succeeding
year, and throughout n constantly wid
ening territory. The movement for
state aid and state regulation of roads
which began In a small way but a few
years ago, has grown until there nro
now 23 stntes In which some kind of
moasuro of aid, or co-operation with
either towns, counties or Individuals
Is practiced by the state.
Tho Good Itoads Magazine In Its Is
sue of February, 1908, published In Its
annual review of the road situation
a tabic which had been compiled by
the Odlce of Public Roads, which gave
the data concerning the roads of the
country for the year 1901. At that
time out of 2,151,000 miles of public
roads in the country 38,600 miles had
been surfaced with stone, 108,200
with special material, making tho Im
proved roads 7.14 per cent, of the
total.
In the report of that office for 190S,
It Is estimated that the macadam
roads have Increased 12 1-2 per cent
making 43,450 miles; the gravel 13
per cent to 124.4GS miles; the special
materials 25 per cent, to 8,512 miles.
The average cost of macadam has
been estimated at $4,500 per mtle,
gravel at $1,500 and other surfnclng
mnterlal at $1,000.
There are about 1,975,000 miles of
earth road which it is estimated ha
cost for grading, culverts, bridges,
etc., about $500 per mile. The rlg'at
of way of these roads is worth, at
acreage valuation as given in tho cen
sus reports, $342,000,000, making a
total value of $1,720,589,000 for all of
the roads of the country.
Experimental roads have been con
structed In various sections, for the
purpose of determining what materials
and methods are most likely to meet
the changed conditions of traitlc
brought about by the high-speed auto
mobile. In several states exhaustive
experimentation has been going on
with different kinds of tar and asphalt
combinations for this purpose.
New York's Disadvantage.
in comparing the cost of highway
construction in various states, New
York appears at a disadvantage. In
Massachusetts, from 1893 to 1907,
there were built 558 miles of road at
a cost of $7.6G3 per mile; in Connect!
cut, between 1899 and 190G, the cost
was $6,072 per mile; New Jersey, from
1894 to 1907, paid $4,676 per mile
while according to the report of the
Engineer and Surveyor of Now York,
the roads under contract at tho b
ginning of 1909 was 520, and the con
tract price, plus special agreements,
amounted to $4,817,488, or $9,265 per
mile; and there is awaiting contract
1.03S miles of road at an estimated
cost of $10,824,910, or an average of
$10,326 per mile. "It Is to be hoped
that, under the new highway commiC'
slon which will soon come into exist
ence, this state of things may be rem
edled."
Use of Oil on Earth Roads.
The Illinois Highway Commission
has undertaken experiments in the
treatment of earth roads with oil In
an endeavor to construct a waterproof
covering sufficiently durable to with
stand traffic. Two sections of road
have been constructced, one on a light
clay soil and the other on a black
sticky soil. So far both sections give
promise of success. It remains to be
seen if tho durability of the roads Till
warrant the cost. The treatment re
quired about two and one-half to
threo gallons per square yard, making
the cost not less than 30 to 40 cents
per square yard complete.
California's Plan.
A bill has been Introduced in tho
California legislature at tho request
of the Governor, and with the approv
al of the California Good Iloads asso
ciation, providing for submitting to
the people a proposition to vote for
an $18,000,000, bond Issue for state
road purposes. Another bill, similar
ly presented, provides money and reg
ulations for mapping out a system and
getting ready for work. Tho work Is
to ho under control of the state de
partment of engineering.
Will Lose Out.
Tho country which falls to build
good roads Is inevitably going to lose
out In tho prosperity game; the fawn
er is going to the market that gives
him the easiest haul, even though It
is a longer one. If he can carry ten
bales of cotton to a mnrket twenty
miles away on a single trip, he Is
surely going to that market, In pro or
enco to ono only ten miles away whore
he can haul hut live bales at a load.
An effort Is being made to organize
Good Itoads Club3 In every county In
Georgia. B common consent, the
Rural Mall Carriers, of whom there
are about 1,500 in the stnte, are tak
ing tho lead In tho agitation and form
ing the nucleus for the thoroughly per
fected state organization which Is
aimed at.
The use of oil nnd tar In road con
struction Is attracting the nttentlon
of road builders the world over, par
ticularly as the effect of modern mo
tor trafflo has completely changed the
conditions of wear on roads that suf
fer any great amount of this kind of
traffic.
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Commnieiilt J
Of Interest to Women Readers
NEW HAIR NET.
8mall Hairpins Are Woven Fast to
the Border and Meshing.
It required three Londoners to de
vise the improved hair net which Is
shown In the Illustration, but it would
probably take more than three to got
it off milady's head unless somo ono
of them know the combination. Tho
net portion of this Important articlo
Is no different from thnt of any other
hair net, but tho value of tho Inven
tion lies in the fact that It will "stay
put." Along tho borders aro fastened
a lot of little hairpins and a circle
of double meshes passes through the
middle part. Hairpins are also attach
ed to this circle and are woven Into
the meshes. When one of these nets
Is adjusted It is there to- stay until
the wearer is ready to withdraw tho
multiplicity of little pins that hold It
In place. Fitting so closely It has not
the objection raised to some old-style
nets that the ends come loose and
give an untidy appearance to the coif
fure.
HINTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS
A few drops of lemon Juice
added to eggs that are being
scrambled improves the flavor.
A little oil rubbed on the stub
end of a pen will prevent its
rusting In the handle.
Large Gothic letters are tho
most In demand foF marking
household linen.
Stand in borax water for a
little while dishes that have be
come brown from baking in the
oven and they can be easily
cleaned.
Rubbing with a piece of po
tato dipped in common baking
soda is said to be an efficacious
method of cleaning silver.
A plate scraper Is a wooden
device shaped to fit the curves
of a plate and attached to a
handle of convenient length.
FOR THE BRIDE'S TABLE.
By Miss Eunice Clarkson.
A beautiful conception for a bridal
table is a "Cupid's Road." A tiny
road the length of the table. Is made
to represent Cupid's driveway. This
path Is made of rice bordered with
smllax and white roses. All along
tho thoroughfare are placed bisque
Cupids, and at tho end of the way Is
a mixture bridal carriage decorated
with smllax and white roses, all ready
for tho brldo and groom to drlvo away
In.
Have suspended from the chandelier
directly over the table a largo bell
made of white roses and smllax, or
any flower which Is used. Place a
whlto roso at each placo and for name
cards use plain white ones decorated
In ono corner with a water color or
outlino sketch of a brldo and groom
walking up the aisle.
A bridge of flowers is another very
pretty sohemo. In tho center of the
board rests a large circular mirror
bordered with flowers. At each side
some distance apart aro silver cande
labra crowned with candles and pret
ty shades. From one candelabrum to
another are stretched two stout wires,
covered and hidden under n broad
band of ribbon. The ribbon Is car
ried under the wires also, tho two
bands being pinned together Invisibly
under Uttlo fern sprays and airy
bunches of whlto llowors. To give
tho prettiest effect somo of the blos
soms and greonery should fall natu
rally and easily over tho edge. A
bisque Cupid should bo placed at each
end of the bridge, nnd at the base of
each candelabrum aro strewn flowers
and ferns. Tho Idea is a unlquo one
for a bridal table decoration, express
ing the idea of crossing tho (lowering
brldgo to matrimony.
Chinese Women Study Medicine.
The Woman's Medical School at
Shanghai awarded diplomas to six
graduates lately. The school was
founded a little more than threo
years ago by funds furnished by LI
Ping Shu, prosldent of tho Chttiope
town council. The principal of Uio
school Is a Chinese woman who took
an advanced educational courso In
both Canton and Hong-Kong. During
tho last year thero were 30 studejts.
Each of the six graduates read an es
nay, two of them In English.
CONFIDENTIAL.
He Might Tell George About It But
not Bill.
'Well, sir," said the book-agent In
a patronizing manner, "I am pleased
to Inform you that you have beon
designated as ono of tho fifty persona
In Oil City who are to receive copies
of tho book for which I am agent It
Is a history of our Presidents, from
Washington down to Taft. and you
are fortunato In deed in being ono of
the chosen to get It."
"Possibly that Is so," answored tho
merchant, "but just to save time I'll
tell you I don't wnnt It."
"What!" exclaimed the agent In
feigned surprise. "Do you mean to
tell mo you are going to permit me to
report to Washington thnt you will
not take tho book??"
"I don't caro a continental what
you report to Washington." replied
the merchnnt. as he turned to wait
on a customer, "but don't tell Taft
about It" Oil City Blizzard.
SAFE BET.
Bertie I have a suit for every day
In the week.
Willie Where are they?
Bertie This Is It I've got on.
New York Telegram.
Philanthropy.
Here is the story of a small boy, a
mother and a barrel of apples, and a
moral which does not have to be told
In words:
The windows of nn orphan asylum
overlooked the back yard of the house
where the boy. the barrel of apples
and tho boy's mother lived. Now,
the apples that were In the barrel dis
appeared at a famous rate, and the
mother, being a knowing woman as a
matter of course, made inquiry of her
son. Yes, he had eaten the apples;
but, "Mamma." he said, "I have to;
the orphans want so man- cores."
Philosophically.
A laborer had worked all day put
ting in several tons of coal. For his
day's "hard work he received two dol
lars. His way home led him by the
open door of a saloon. Inside ho
heard the magic rattle of the dice. A
crap game was In progress.
Getting hold of the bones the labor
er placed a dollar on the table and
"rolled." ' He lost. He wagered hl3
other dollar with the same result. Get
ting up from the table, he said:
"Well, easy come, easy go."
Getting at the Facts.
Directory Canvasser--Wbat is your
husband"s occupation?
Mrs. O'Hoollhan Sure, an its a
shovel cnglnocr on a railroad he do
be.
Directory Canvasser You mean a
civil engineer, don't' you?
Mrs. O'Hoollhan Faith, an' yez
may be rolght, sor. He's civil enough,
Oi'm afther thlnkkin', but annyway
he shovels the coal Into the engine.
Not by Aesop.
Sirs. Hen, having performed her
oviparous function, took a constitu
tional around tho yard. Returning to
her nest she found it empty and
clucked angrily.
"Whaf's tho trouble, ma'am?" ask
ed the rooster.
"It's mighty funny." she grumbled,
"that I can never ilnd things whero I
lay them."
Lunchroomcse.
Three men went Into n quick-lunch
restaurant nnd ordered a ham-and-egg
Bandwlch and a glass of milk, two
poached eggs on toast, and two saus
ages on macaroni. Hero's what the
lunch-counter man sang out to his
Invlslblo cook:
"One combo with a cow; two mcu
on a raft, two Blorlots on tho Chan
nel." All Going Out.
Judgo (sternly) Threo times In a
month! What do you make of this,
sir?
RastUB (apologetically) 'Deed I
doan' make nuffin'. You fellows up
hero seem to bo de only ones dat get
any 'cunlary profit out of hauling me
up.
Safe.
A kind old gentleman, seeing a very
small hoy carrying a lot of newspa
pers under his arm, was moved to
Pity.
"Don't nil those papers make you
tired, my boy?"
"Nope," tho mite cheerfully replied.
"I can't read!"
They Were Shady.
Bung So you havo succeeded In
tracing back my ancestors? What Is
your fee?
Genealogist Twenty guineas for
keeping quiet about them.
Valuable Information.
Guide: After this point there's no
vegetation, five hundred metres high
er, no beer, and after another live
kundred, no post card'?.
British Titles Claimed by Foreigner!!
An Interesting parallel in tho
pecrago of Scotland to tho Barony
of Fairfax, the claim to which has
Just been decided, Is the Nowburgh
earldom, the holders of which have
for more than a century been Italian
nobles. In 1757 Cecilia, grand
daughter or Charlotte Maria, Coun
tess of" Nowburgh, became tho wife
of Benedict, Prince GIUBtlnlanl, and
In 1793 her son Vincent became de
Juro the sixth Earl, although ho did
not claim the title, Since that timo
tho Scottish peerage which was con
firmed by the House of Lords to Vin
cent's daughter has been distinctly
foreign and quite dissociated from
this country. On the death of tho
third Baron Gardner the claimant to
the title was ono Alan Hyde Gardner,
the son of a Mohammedan Princess
nnd the husband of an Indian wife.
Tax on Chinese.
Tho $500 Canadian head tax on Chi
nese Immigrants is causing a scarcity
of unskilled labor at Victoria. Tho
British Columbia salmon tanners aro
petitioning for a reduced head tax, in
order to permit Chinese to enter tho
province.
Defining the Russian.
The Marquis de Custlno once de
fined the Rusian government as "an
absolute monarchy tempted by assas
sination." Tho present situation Is
described by Constantin Wallszewski
as "an anarchy tempered by a state
of siege."
Kiilllriently .Marred.
" You want to l i . ;. .F. j c ...
pose," said the lawyer to whom Mrs.
Donovan's husband escorted her on
the day after she and Mrs. Leahy had
indulged in a little difference of
opinion.
'Damages'" echoed Mrs. Dono
van, shrilly. 'Haven't I got dam
ages enough already, man? What
I'm after is satisfa tlnn."
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