PEOPLE OF THE DAY
The (onvliifd Senator.
TUo case of Joseph It. Burton, Unit
ed States senator from Kansas, whose
conviction by n lower tribunal lias been
nffirmed by this supremo court, now ap
pears to be almost hopeless. Senator
Burton was convicted on two counts.
His aggregate liability Is nine months
In jail nnd $2,500 fine. An appeal for
n rehearing, however, will net ns a
stay until next October.
The crime of which ho has twice been
convicted was committed iu the Inter
val from Nov. 18, 1!X)2, to March. 1003,
and he was Indicted early In 1!)03. In
the first trial he was convicted, hut the
JOSEPH BALPH BURTON.
supreme court held that the crime oc
curred not In Washington, ns appeared
tn the pleadings, but In St. Louis, where
the concern whose retainer he had tak
en had Its offices. Ills client was the
Kialto Grain and Securities company
of St. Votils, which was engaged In a
fret-richulck business which had been
barred from the malls, rind Burton was
retained to represent the concern be
fore the posfoffiee department. lie re
ceived a salary of $."00 a month for
five months, vhen he terminated his
arrangement with the company of his
own motion.
' A Delicate Compliment.
Asher Hinds, the parliamentary clerk
In the house of representatives, who
keeps the speaker straight on all mat
ters and who Is the great parliamen
tary slinrp of the country, comes from
Maine. He was at Bar Harbor one
day last summer during the horse
show.
A-nian approached him on the street
and said: "Don't you want to buy a
fiackney, sir? I have a fine one I can
sell you for $1,000."
"Great heavens!" exploded Hinds.
"Do I look like a millionaire?"
"Well," said the horseman after a
critical survey of Hinds, "I have seen
plenty of millionaires who look Just as
bad as you do." Saturday Evening
Post.
. . Honors For Foraker,
Senator Foraker of Ohio has received
nearly a hundred letters from the south
since he made his stand for equal ac
commodations for the negroes nnder
the Jim Crow laws In the south In con
nection with the rate bill, says the New
York World.
Each letter begins: "Dear Senator 1
h&ve named my son, just born, after
you. I shall call him Joseph Bensqn
Foraker Johnson" or something like
that
Railroad InveMlgatlon.
In the course of the Investigation of
the Pennsylvania railroad by the inter
state commerce commission, sitting at
rblladelphia, startling revelations were
made. The hearing was before Martin
A. Knapp, president of the commission,
and two other commissioners and was
an Inquiry Into the alleged discrimina
tion by railroads In the distribution of
cars.
One of the high officials of the road
unwillingly ndmlttPd that he had ac
quired stock worth $.'107,000 without
MABTIN L. KNAPP.
patting up a cent of money, and an
other admitted that he had been large
ly associated with land purchasing syn
dicates which took up coal properties
along the line of the railroad.
Other witnesses testified to stock
ownership and to discrimination In the
distribution of cars in favor of the com
panies in which railroad officials were
Interested.
Martin A. Knapp Is a native of New
York and a lawyer by profession. He
was appointed a member of the Inter
state commerce commission by Presi
dent Harrison in 1891 and reappointed
by Presidents Cleveland and Booserelt
He has been president of the commls
tlcu dure 1808.
LOSS OF SOIL BY EROSION.
One of the Lnrseat Leaks For Money
on the American Farm. ,
The moving of soil by water Is not
confined to large streams, as many
farmers know to tht'ir sorrow. Every
tiny rill trickling down tlio slope car
ries olt some of the finest and richest
soil on the farm. After a heavy rain
the spring Is solly nnd the puddles in
the hollows are muddy with It. The
deep furrows left up and down the
slope by the cultivator teeth become
miniature water courses, and the tric
kling water exacts a tribute of rich soil
before It Joins the large rill by the
road. The soil of the cornfield that
was left bare all winter has lost soma
of Its best loam by planting time;
Gullies appear on the "farm here nnd
there, widening and deepening after
every rain. The soil on the knolls nnd
hillsides becomes thin and yellow, for
the rich black surface part of It has
hurried off to help build up some excel
lent, farming, land about ten miles
downstream.
After a heavy rain the farmer can
see the best part of his soil creeping,
running, racing away from him. A
thousand murky rills slowly meander
across his plowed ground nnd gather
forces In the hollows. A hundred tur
bid rivulets pour down the hollows and
join the water In the gulch. A dozen
muddy brooklets rush down the gulch,
swell the brook Into a creek and race
downstream, bearing away tons of
the rich silt nnd loam that make plants
grow. When the rain Is over nnd the
souked soli has dried out enough to
till, there are gravelly places that the
farmer finds It hnrd to make pro
ductive, nnd rocks nre exposed that
have never been above the surface be
fore. Unchecked erosion has ruined many
farms and seriously hurt many others.
Thousands of acres of valuable farm
ing land, particularly the red clay soils
of the south and the loose, slmly soils
of the north, are gouged and gullied
every year until they become practical
ly valueless for cropping. I have seen
many hundreds of acres ruined by
washing In the Cnrollnns, Tennessee
nnd Georgia. On most farms, however,
the loss is less conspicuous nnd more
insidious. Every farm that has an Ir
regularity of surface, however slight,
pays tribute to the force that does
more leveling In nn hour than all the
patent leveling machines have ever
done or ever will do.
A very Important problem for the
farm owner to consider Is how to check
erosion cheaply and effectively. The
plan that will be most successful de
pends upon the locality, the lay of the
land, the kind of soli, the crop and
many other local matters. In extreme
cases it has been found necessary to
retain wooded areas running across the
slopes that are subject to washing nnd
otherwise disposed so as to prevent the
gathering of water. The water course
should be looked to carefully. A little
work directing streamlets Into legiti
mate channels is time well spent. There
are various methods of holding the soil
with plants. A cover crop of rye, clo
ver, vetch, etc, sown in the orchard
or cornfield In late summer may do
much to prevent surface washing dur
ing the winter. Steep banks may be
held with quack grass; slopes may be
put Into meadows. Cultivating across
the slopes Instead of up and down will
save many tiny leaks that amount to a
serious loss In some cases. Many other
methods of checking erosion will sug
gest themselves to the man who has
this problem to solve, and the methods
born of personal need and local expe
rience are apt to be most efficient.
The loss by erosion is, I believe, one
of the largest leaks on American farms
today. It is bound to increase as our
wooded area decreases'. Tills loss can
not be entirely prevented, ns long as
the rnln falls upon land that Is not per
fectly level. But a largo part of It can
be prevented. How to do this Is worth
considering by every man who has the
problem on his hands. Country Life In
America.
The Young; Writer In Fiction.
In fiction the young writer, with
a spontaneous imaginative creation,
whose t.'.ote relishes the concrete world
of nature and humanity about him nil
the .beauty, mirth and pathos of it
more than the images of the world
conveyed through literary tokens, has
from, the first an advantage, In that
he makes upon his readers' minds a
wholly native Impression. He makes
himself known directly by showing us
the lineaments of his spiritual face, the
charm of feature, mood and temper
which makes an impression at our first
reading like that of first seen faces
in our real human contacts. Such
writers are vital personalities in our
literature. They do not need to wait
They may come to ns as children come,
as soon as they can speak, having only
to break with Infancy; In their books
they grow up before us, giving us
plain notice of their adolescence and
maturity. H. M. Alden in Harper's.
Accepted the Estimate,
A widow In a Maine town, according
to the Boston Herald, was a strict con
structionist in her theology and would
admit no lodger Into her boarding
house who had a leaning toward Uni
versale views. One day an old sea
captain happened along to ask for
rooms.
"But what do yon believe?" asked
the widow.
"Oh most anything," replied the cap
tain. "Do yon believe there Is a hell 7"
"Sure," was tb.8 reply.
"Well," parried the widow, "how.
many do yon think will go there T"
The captain cautiously remarked that
he thought 20,000 would be a fair es
timate. The widow paused, then stated that
he could come in. "Twenty thousand
she aid, "is better than none.'
WOMAN AND FASHION
Ctmtnme For a Girl,
The suit for a girl herewith shown Is
made In white niohnir, with collar of
periwinkle blue. The coat Is of loose
box shape, closing In single breasted
style. The sleeves nre finished with
tucks instead of cutis, and tucks ap-
WHITE MOHAin BCIT.
pear at each seam of the skirt. The
latter Is In seven gores and may be
finished In kilt or umbrella effect In
either case havlug a pretty flare about
the bottom. The coat also looks well
at hip length and may be finished thus
If desired. The stilt will develop well
lu linen, serge or mohair as well as
any other seasonable material.
It el k ii of Tli In Fabric.
There seems to be a penchant for
decorating the thin fabrics with many
tucks of varied sizes around the skirt
hand run they must be, but If fleshy do
not have too many and have them run
ning from belt to foot. Flat flounces
with Bcnlloped edges are outlined
with a very narrow niching of silk.
Theu again many of the muslin dresses
nnd those of gauze, net and grenadines
have bands of Irish or cluny lace with
extra decorations by means of beauti
fully embroidered lace medallions, and
some of the wide flounces of the same
material as the dress nre heavtly em
broidered. Ofew Jncket For Outdoors.
There's n new sporting jacket for
the outdoor girl. It Is knit by hand
and fashioned like a short box coat, be
ing devoid of all seams except those
under the arms. A collar such as men
wear on their sack coats and deep
cuffs of leather, also pocket flaps, give
the garment lots of style and make It
fit for hard wear.
Single Colore For Dreeaee.
Very few mixed or combined colors
are shown tills season, the stylish taste
Is to have every material used for the
dress In the same color, be it the lace,
ribbon, galloon, button or velvet, they
must all match.
Smart Snmmer Sett.
Many of the smartest summer suits
are made with princess skirts and tiny
little coats In bolero style. This one Is
adapted to 'mohair, to silk, to veiling
nnd to linen, but Is shown In the last
mentlonml material, with banding of
heavy lave and frills of Valenciennes,
that conciliation luing one that Is well
BOLBBO COAT, PMNCE8S SKIRT.
liked this season. The skirt Is a plain
nine gored one that is eminently well
suited to the heavier linens and the
like and which can be trusted to laun
der with success, while the bolero Is
simplicity Itself, made with loose
fronts and plain back and open sleeves.
When lace banding is not liked a trim
ming of narrow soutache braid applied
In some simple design can be substi
tuted with success, or, again, em
broidered bandings can be used if bet
ter liked, while embroidery executed
by hand Is the most elegant of all
thbwe
THE BUSIrlliS-j LJCTOR.
Itnnm For a Spei Inll I I.i the "Dl
elie' oi' I:;.: --.- '.
lu these days of exp.'it.-i and special
ists it is somewhat astonishing that, so
far as the writer Is aware, business
doctoring, to use a convenient popular
phrase, has not been introduced as n
ivcc);,ni:-.ed profession. That tile In
troduction of the "business doctor"
that Is, a specialist In what may be
tunned the "diseasi's" u!' business as
a factor lu modern business, whether
purely commercial or associated whh
manufacture, offers gr:-at possibilities
no business man will deny.
In some respects n business doctor
must be a Jack of all trades, for his
knowledge must cover a considerable
range of Industry, and he must be fa
miliar with business methods nnd cir
cumstances almost Irrespective of the
nature of the business done.
Hu must also possess capabilities for
looking on both sides of any matter
brought before him and of weighing
evidence carefully before he will ac
cept all that Is told him or is placed
before him ns truth or as being abso
lutely correct, for It must often hap
pen that the cause of the trouble he Is
called In to remedy will be found to
lie In a state of affairs that appears to
persons actually concerned ns entirely
satisfactory, but Is really the reverse.
Moreover, he must be an expert In
ascertalnliv, sources of weakness or
dissatisfaction that nre not apparent
In many cases before matters have
reached a stage of real seriousness.
Further, he must be familiar with all
the ordinary methods of fraud and dis
honesty nnd many of the special forms
of roguery ns well.
In addition, a really capable business
doctor must be of unimpeachable char
acter himself. Ho must be quite Inde
pendent of Influences which may bias
his Judgment, nnd If called In he must
require to be told everything or he
must be enpnbla of ascertaining how
far the Information given to hi in Is
the incomplete or Inaccurate. Cassler's
Magazine.
University Mine.
The authorities of llirniiuglmui uni
versity hnve recently opened on thn
university grounds an experimental
coal mine, occupying nearly nn acre of
ground. The purpose Is to give practi
cal Instruction to. students lu all the
problems and operations of coal min
ing. They are exercised in underground
surveying, the connection of surface
with underground surveys, the testing
of ventilation, the measurement of nlr
volumes nud velocities, the friction of
air currents, the various methods of
breaking coal nnd the management of
different kinds of drills and cutting
machines. The completion of this ar
tificial mine has been awaited with In
terest, and it is expected to prove very
valuable In teaching the science of
mining. Chicago Journal.
The Jew In the Dooma.
Eleven Jews have been elected mem
bers of the Russian dounia. Among
them the best known Is Dr. Wlnawer,
one of the leaders of the Cadet party.
Other well known leaders are Jolles
and Ostrogorskl, newspaper men, and
Dr. Frenkel, Bramson and Scheftel,
lawyers. The other five members are
well known Zionists: Pr. Levin, elect
ed from Wllna; Dr. Bruck-Wlttebek
and Counselor Jacubsohu, from Slo
nlm; Dr. Rosenbaum, from Minsk, and
Dr. Katzenelsohn, president of the
Jewish Colonial bank of London, who
will represent LIbau.
A Wonderful Catalogue.
The name of Dr. Richard Garnett,
who died In London the other day,
will ever be associated with the great
work of cataloguing the vast library
of the British museum. The treasury
agreed to set aside $.10,000 a year for
the purpose, and the work of editing
the new catalogue was handed over to
him. By 18S0 the presses were at
work, and ten years later the task was
completed. The catalogue of today
consists of 800 volume in all and con
tains nearly -1.000.000 entries, Includ
ing the cross referenci.t. Nearly 00,
000 fresh eutries are added each year.
DraxU'e Treunnre Trove.
The director of the treasury of Ura
cil, while hunting for some lost papers,
has made an astonishing discovery. A
box which had not apparently been
disturbed for ninny years was fo":i.?
to contain gold, silver and dlnmo:).?
to the value of at least $700,000. Anion:
the valuables recovered are the Impe
rial crown and scepter of Brazil, val
ued at $105,000, and the Imperial man
tle, bordered with gold. The box In
which the treasure was found Is be
lieved to have been deposited In the
treasury since 1836.
A Venturesome Woman.
"I prefer ballooning to lawn tenuis."
Thus said Mme. Du Gast, the venture
some and versatile French sportswom
an, to an interviewer recently. Motor
boating or motor car driving, however,
Mme. Da Gast finds most fascinating.
She has always been her own chauf
feur, and with her first automobile, a
six horsepower, she went all round
France without an engineer. This Jour
ney may be said to have been a pre
liminary to the part she took In the
Paris to Berlin and Paris to Madrid
races.
Hla Mreteriona Vlalta.
An amusing story Is told of the new
French minister of the Interior, who
on arriving at his office for the first
time tame upon a secret document
concerning himself, which set forth mi
nutely all the details of his past life
and career. One Item relnted to week
ly visits which the minister paid to a
mysterious Individual, supposed to be
an enemy of the government with,
whom be spent an hour or so on each
occasion. The individual In question
was, as a matter of fact, his chlropo
dlst 1 - Ll-eSBFaaeSBBaSMaSataM
I LINE OF THE HEART
'Til read your hand. I've been
studying it; books and all that sort of
thing, you know. Come over by the
had never noticed how round and
white her arms were until the loo.se
sleeve fell back when she took his
hand. The touch of her cool fingers
thrilled him.
"I thought so," she began. "You nre
a dreamer, and you do not want the
world to find It out. It's been rather
u hard life In some ways. You haven't
always had all that you wanted."
lie shaded his eyes with his other
hand and resteil his elbow on the table.
"Safe observation," he remarked.
"Don't chaff, please," she said. "I
can't do anything If yon do."
"All right, little girl!" he responded
half caressingly. "Goon."
"Your palm Is elastic. That shows n
hopeful nature and a strong one. Your
lines nre deep. You will get the full
of living In suffering nnd joy."
The piano sounded softly In the next
room. Her sister was playing half to
herself nnd half to her father, who sat
nodding In the library.
"The mount of Jupiter Is well devel
oped," she went on. "That means
pride, ambition, desire for power not
a snobbish pride, you know, but that
wllch will not let you stoop to base
ness." He smiled to himself. She was read
ing him very well.
"Saturn Is rather weak. I'm afraid
you're not very fond of quiet or study.
Yet you have an Ideal of a home which
you have not yet found. Apollo Is good.
You like music, pictures, books. Re
ligion appeals to you from the stand
point of the senses It's the stained
glass windows, the organ and the vest
ed choir with you, not the doctrine."
"How well you know me!" he began.
But she paid no heed to. the Interrup
tion. The girl In the next room drifted
In the opening bars of the "Serenade."
It sounded like some faro ft melody.
"You like money, but not so well as
you do some other things. Books and
pictures nnd travel and your own way
come first." He colored, and her lips
twitched temptingly.
"This is Mars. You know, there are
two mounts of Mars. This one under
Mercury means passive courage, self
control, resignation nnd strength of re
sistance against wrong. The other one
over by your thumb means temper. I'm
glad to see that It Is less prominent
than this." She looked up at him with
an adorable mlschlevousness that made
him feel a queer tightening around bis
heart.
"Here's Luna down here. This means
romance, Ideality, Imagination and
mysticism. If It swells here It means
a reverence for well, for the 'eternnl
womanly.' That's the best part of you.
You want to put a woman on a ped
estal and keep her there."
The bewildering sweetness of the
"Serenade" sounded dimly through his
consciousness and mingled with the
breath of the roses his roses on her
breast.
"You are sympathetic and charitable,
generous to a fault Friendship means
much to you. Ah, I know that!' she
said to herself. "But this line of
heart! It's too far down In your hand.
Feeling Is your court of first and last
appeal. See how deep it lies. How
It dominates your hand! There's a
marriage line, too only one mere's
only one woman In the whole world
1 "VARNISH DEEP" CLOTHES
h There are two grades of clothing;, CLOTH SJ
I CRAFT and others, some merely made to sell. rV
There are two grades of clothing;, CLOTH
CRAFT and others, some merely made to sell.
CLOTHCRAFT is made to wear.
Good clothes on the surface Is not enough, some
good looking furniture for instance Is only "varnish
deep," you don't know how soon it will go to pieces;
Surface Clothes cover a multitude of the tailor's
sins and the worst of It Is, you've lost on the
transaction more than you thought you saved.
Back of CLOTHCRAFT garments stands a glo.
rious record, a name that means much to both the
maker and the wearer, it means much to us as
well, because you will NOT be a one-time customer.
It's the coming back again and again that pays us
to sell CLOTHCRAFT CLOTHES pays you to
wear them too.
All that brains, shears and needle can accom.
plish Irt skilled hands, are made manifest In this
splendid make of splendid clothing, that standard
by which so many of the "best" makes are
measured. " Be sure you're safe.' If oleomargarine
Is just as good as butter, why buy butter? "Just
as good as CLOTHCRAFT " is the best argument la
the world for you to buy CLOTHCRAFT.
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for you;
The lamp flickered. "It must need
filling," she said. "I must hurry or we
will be left lu darkness."
Woven In with the "Serenade" her
voice vibrated on his heartstrings now
merry, now serious, now so wholly
sweet nnd tender that it sounded like
the vision of Schubert In the room be
yond. "She will be all the world to you,"
she said wistfully. "There will be no
room for your old friend then. That
Ideal home you have dreamed of will
be yours nnd hers," Her eyes rested
full upon his, nnd almost In a whisper
she mlded, "It Is not far away."
For a moment he searched her face
Intently, but the lamp was almost out
now. Then something that he snw
there gave him courage, nnd he slipped
swiftly out of his chair nnd knelt be
Bldu her, taking daring possession of
her.
"Is that little home to be truly
mine?" he whispered. "Ah, sweet
heart! Don't you know?"
Tale and frightened, she tried to slip
away from him, but he held her fast.
"Oh, no, no!" she cried, half Robbing.'
"riense, darling!" He tried to draw
her dowu to him, but she resisted, nnd
lie wisely waited for her to come to
him.
"Can't we go on just ns we were,'
she ventured, "friends and all that?
You will find some one else for the
other but no such friend as I!"
"There's no going on, dear," he said
gently. "This is the parting of the
ways. There Is only one woman In the
whole wide world nnd the little home?
Why, my life, It wouldn't be a home
without you, don't you know?"
The roses were scattered on the floor
among their drifted petals, and even In
the shadow she snw his face, tense
with appeal. His arms were drawing
her closer. The lnmp flickered nnd
went out. She could feel his henrt
throbbing against her. She fancied she
could hear It too. The "Serenade" was
nlmost finished now, and, thoroughly
humble In her surrender, yet wholly
womanly, she bent down and kissed
Mm In the dark.
"Step Lively!"
Every one Is familiar wlili the Im
perious conductor vd:o Ir.slsts with his
"Step lively, please!" that you shall
hurry ns you get Into the car. Most
people resent this peremptory order
and feel a bit ruffled ns the ear starts
forward with the customary jerk, nnd
they either fnll abjectly into a seat or
clutch with frantic haste the first con
venient strap.
A friend of mine coming from a
quiet Inland city to a bustling seaport
town heard the "Step lively!" of the
car conductor with some surprise. For
tunately for herself she took h.T seat
without losing her balance; theu, lift
ing her benignant face, framed In the
soft dove colored Quaker bonnet she
gazed at the brusque young man who
came to take her fare. "What Is thy
name?" she said.
Bather surprised in bis turn, he
meekly replied, giving Christian and
surname.
"Friend William Blank," the passen
ger observed, still looking steadfastly
at him, "thee would not have said
'Step lively!' to me had thee knows
that I was ninety years old."
The conductor touched his cap, beg
ged her pardon, and when the lady of
ninety left the car be assisted her de
scent with the gallantry of a knight of
Md. Woman's Home Conipnnlon.