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HP JJfT fr- ' WBSS=S=. T O/ze o/ the Saddest , I fer.s m Human History A Prof. W. I. Thomas, of thm University of Chicago. 5 ? ? * * NDE3R our individualistic and competl^ve industrial eystei ^ ^ men ttre no longer able to Keep their women or even thel o > children at home. Both Mr. Booth and Mr. Rountree ei 2 J ^te that out of a population of 40,000,000 In Qreat Brltali ; ? 1 ,(HI are either under or on the poverty line. The w< ? ; *?n the children are forced to work, because th *atlon of society Is no longer able to fee J T A -*? transpires one of the saddest chaptei >? machine which man invented b relieve him o* rapidly has led to the factor ayetem of industry. n are forced to follow the wor to the factory. The . .1 expression of man's ingonutt; of his effort to create an n, to whom no wages have to b paid, but it falls Just short o. m. lllgcnce. It has no discriminate Judgment, no control of the wora <. hole. It can only finish the wor handed out to it, but it does this wu superhuman energy. The manufai turer has, then, to purchase enough intelligence to supplement the machlnt and he secures as low a grade of this as the nature of the machine will pei rait. The child, the immigrant and the woman are frequently adequate t furnish that oversight and Judgment necessary to supplement the activity c the machine, and the more Ignorant and necessitous the human being tb more the profit U> the industry. But now comes the ironical and pitiful par The machine which was Invented to save human energy, and which Is so grei a boon when the Individual controls it. Is a terrible thing when It oontrol the lndividiihl. Power-driven, it has almost no limit to i-v speed, and n nmu. wnatever to Its endurance, and It has no nerves. Whe\f, therefore, ui der the pressure of business competition the machthe is speeded up and th girl operating it is speeded up to its pace, we have finally a situation in whic the machine destroys the worker.?(From The American Magazine. -en? I Moving Old Landmarks I I Ji Plea for the Preservation of Familiar J \ Faces | Y Cy David J?. Curtis. ^ S it a fair question to ask a man why he did it, when, afte ? J he has reached middle age or passed, he shaves off th W mustache which has been a prominent feature of his fac A a a for rrmnv vpoin' t This Is by no means the idle query it may seem to b< ? ?? The most careless observer of humanity must have notice tlTITl ritil that the last ten or twelve years the fashion of wea ^ lng the beard in any form has failed to appeal to the rlBin generation. No longer does the callow youth rejoice whe the distinctive mark of masculinity begins its growth on his lip, chin, < cheek. The Joy his father felt when dawning manhood appeared in visibl form, marking the passage of adolescence, does not appeal to him. Rathe does he bewail (or secretly exult in) the necessity for frequent shaving, an seek to avoid that which mankind has for ages regarded as a dignity and a ornament to the person. With this choice, yerhape, no reasonable fault can be found. If it seen better to n men to be beardless, he can doubtless urge many reasonable a But, sir, I submit that it is a vastly differei his face, so to speak, in one way for a lift e it, suddenly and violently, great numbers discarded the mustache. A they are, of course, only to be pitied. Th photograph from Africa is enough to war any one wnu may ueiuui. with the thought that shaving will lmprov his appearance against yielding to the impulse. The betrayal of physlognon ical weaknesses and worse is almost without exception a lamentable thing and if the mirror does not tell the tale, your nearest friends will do it wit unkind emphasis. But this is not the real grievance of the act Is it not a foolish and graceless thing for a man who has worn one face for a life-time to call o his friends suddenly to recognize another? It is at least a suspicious thin for a man to change his name. He must justify it by good reasons, or incu criticism. Does the same rule hold, or does it not, when he changes his face f Who Is My Brother? j nIV ft,, P/71. f/n n M/ir/V C - i NE Sunday rooming, the sixth of last IX-cember, I went t Ooue of the famous downtown churches in New York. 1 was about half filled with a fine appearing audience h sermon was a good sermon, a poetic sermon; tho miniate ' H=. l. was on able man; the music was excellent. It was all ver H respectable and admirable?and dead. Nothing happened no one expected or wanted anything to happen. People ha come to see their neighbors of the same limited class and t be seen by them, and to enjoy a half hour of lntellectut stimulant. In the afternoon of that same Sunday I went to see the tuberculosis ei hibit In the American Museum of Natural History. It was thronged with pe< Pie; on that day 43.713 persona visited the exhibit?more people, perhup: then attended all the Protestant churches on Manhattan Island put togethei And as I circulated among those throngs?Protestants, Catholics, Jews, rlc and poor?and talked with many people?I seemed to feel a great surge c faith In the possibilities of a newer, finer, sweeter life in New York city. Wltl out creed, or doctrine, or church edifice, I felt that here, indeed, was the tru spirit of religion. It may have been blind, but it was big, big; and later it blindness will pass away. It was a symbol of a new way of visiting the fi uirncoi aim luc wiuuwa iu tupir auiicuon. one ot the test questions of an true religion Is this: "Who is my brother?" and here tmonft a score of elbov tag races and nationalities of rich and poor, I caught the grandest of gran answers.?American Magazine. 7'he Magician s Gift 1 By Marion Mob ley Durham * s **EN the Earth was young, the first tree that sprang fror Wher bosom made plaint to the magician who tended It. "Every day. Oh, Master, when I see you coming an I going I whisper to myself; 'Would that I, too, could g hither and thither, but alas! I must stay in one spot througl the long day and the weary night. All things else mov ^ ^ from place to place. The great sun rises and sets, the star move across the heavens, the winds come and go>, th stream laughs as It runs to the sea, birds fly every wher in gleg their songs, that seem to say happiness is movement, nothing Is cot ant to stand still.' Oh, Master, hearken to the moaning or my branches tha shade you, and let me, too, go here and there over th* beautiful Earth." The magician was mowed by the prayer of the tree, wa**? i?afy crow: shielded him from the sun. Hs blesssd the tree, giving it blossom*. ?bos perfuma should he to It ss soother life?a soul that could wander sbroad o the breese. And when the bloom should fade and drop. It would leeve silk pads fall of seed that, bursting their sheath when ripe, should float joyousl res the winds to Had lodgment in the earth and produce yet other tress. Thus the tree lived everywhere and wae happy. It gave of its hoaeye Mum to bees and butterflies and winds thus showing more gratitude for it fragrant soul Mu?n mortals show for the great gift of immortality.?Unci . JEsaoru* s Hcue M' ^ojclna. i SNAPPY AND BRIEF { I m ! Items Gathered and Told While d I You hold Your Breath. d . I L SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS d J ?? b " Lively and Crisp aa They Are Oar- r n nered From the Fields of Action 0 'r at Home and Abroad. * 1( i, r i > J. B Cleveland, 33 years old, was o killed at Atlanta Monday by stepping * d off the track of a freight train on to k "a the track of an unobserved approach- f t> ing passenger train. ^ President Diaz expresses himself as vary much pleased at meeting Pres- h ^ ident Taft. He formed a favorable 1: e impression of him personally and B ^ thinks the meeting will have good , political and industrial effects. ?, Dr. Cook is making up his party to r r- scale Mt. McKinley next spring to o show to the world that it can be done 1 >f and thereby to offset the sworn tesi- o e niony that he did not do it as he 1 L claims to have done. , Six persons are known to have per- \ ished and it is believed that many B ? others were killed in the havoc wrought by the terrible wind storni % h that passed over the island Luzon, 0 Philipine Islands, last week. 1 Senator Ben Tillman refused to pnj v J _11 * - * * ? " vcn noiiars ior a piaia at the L'olum- | 1 jj bia banquet to President Taft. He | a C says if Columbia wants the honor oi | j ) banqueting the President it should , not charge up the bill to others. 0 I Six persons were killed in a recent . cullission on the Pan Handle division ' of the Pennsylvania railroad neai , I Collinsville, O. The ashes of Mrs. Hayes, the last ? > member of the Jefferson Davis fain- I I ily were shipped Monday from ths 1 !r home cemetery in Colorado to be plac <i ? ed in the Richmond cemetery with c :e the other members of the Davis fain- J ily. Mrs. Hayes' body hud heeu ere- 1 e- mated when she died. e r. A fine fat "possum" in one side ; p g of an orange crate whose other side f n was filled with "taters" was put )r aboard the President's train at Hemp- * le stead, Texas, for the Sunday dinner r >r but unaccountably all disappeared e d However anotlier "'possum" read} n dressed was put on at Longwood anO the "'possum" liking president line i is his feast. r*. It is said that the British and the' j itl i:..s? . ' ?w^.n living Harmoniously lr , ^ e' South Africa as if there hail never t been hostilities between them. r "e Tlie State commandery of the Loya! ^ Legion of the United States hns sent c ,e out a circular protesting against a 1 3 congressional appropriation to erect * . 1 statue in the National Capitol of Gen. | i k Robert K. Lee. This body uses th? I word treason in connection with hii I a name t n Peter Richstein, at Dallas, Texas 1 g Saturday, was fatally stabbed by 3 1 ir memuibec of the Texas guards. It I 7 seems he was in front and was push- I ed by the press when the guard seem- s ed recklessly hasty in thrusting hire t w through the breast with the modern 1 sword bayonet. The guard was arf rested. | On account of the failure of ves> sels to keep up with the Oleander, |l President Taft's flag ship, his sche3 dulc was greatly broken into. The steamer Ornv Vn.rlo VJ. l.n I presidential fleet, went abound neai Helena Wednesday, and her cargo ol r officials and delegates were transfery red to the steamer Illinois. ; In a special election held last Tuesd day in Ihivall county, Flo., the $1.0 000,000 bond issue was carried. Thi> tl money is to be used in building good roads to tho county lines, connectins t. with ronVis from other counties. > At Sun Dance, Wyoming, last Sun3, day, Mrs. Lent Henderson was in the r. yard with her small child. Hearing h shrieks from her two children in the >f house she rushed in and found them bitten by a rattle snake. While doe ing for them she heard a faint crv ? from the younger child and rushed * - out in time to see is fall into the well y where it drowned. Coming back to the two she found them in the throei d of death from the snake poison, thn? losinc three children in one dav The sickness among the girls that caused the temporary closing of the j I Athens, Ga., Female College, has been j * diagnosed as ptomaine poison from , | eating fish. ( I Mrs. John Kunselman, living neai j j Pnnxsutawney, Pa., eould keep th? t ' secret no longer, though threatened ] } with death if she divulged the secret. t had her father arrested Tuesday fot < a killing her mother a year ago. 1 | Gen. O. 0. Howard, the last of the j Union commanders in the Civil war. < ? died at his borne near Burlington. ] Vermont, Tuesday. I At Denton, Md., Mr. David Stewart j 3 found in an antiquated desk a cheek , bv. George Washington for $1,317. h j Seven teen-yea r^oid Elizabeth Milt ! ler at McRae. Ga.. Thuradav told nn t v j the stand in the trial of her father, t B W. A. Miller, .for the murder of her { 9 I sweetheart, W. Thomas PooTe, the n \ story of the killinft And a<lmitted as y ?h? bitterly that her relations y with the young were improper and that she was in fault of the 1 d tragedy. ? The orraniretioe ??f ' t- n?i!I uion have tcs.'ilved to curtail pro I 1 j <!notion 20 per rent. WASHINGTON NOTES } f Bids are to be opened at the navy apartment here on November 20 for redging at the Charleston Navy * 'ard to secure an entrance to the dry ock nnd berths alongside the wharf y the removal of accumulated deposits from the Cooper River. A hannel will be dredged to a depth S f 30 feet below mean low water, b ending from the river to the dry tl lock. The channel will be 165 wide, e widening out to 500 feet at 30 feet t >elow mean low water, length, 1,000 a eet from face of quay wall. * The Brownsville court of inquiry las decided to visit Brownsville, Tex., ate in November to hear any new j aaterial facts bearing in the famous o 'shooting up" of that city on the light of August 13, 1906. Every j. easonable opportunity will be given o the discharged noncommissioned j pfficers and men of the Twenty-fifth ^ iegimcnt of Infantry to prove they j rere not c ignged in the riot with a n 'iew to their re-enlistment in the ^ irray should they desire to take ad- ^ 'antacp nf lh? nffnr- A L - o- 111 l"? n tct of Congress creating the tribunal, j ["he court will follow up the Browns- ^ ille hearing with a similar proceed- ^ ng at Washington. The discharged ^ uen will have the privilege of appearng before the court represented bj ^ in attroney. ^ g What is regarded as a distinct conession to improting interests ann to n France was made b\' the Treasury ^ Department Monday in directing the o :ollectors of customs at the various 8 Jnited States ports to keep custom ouses open until 4:30 p. m. Snturlay, October 30, on which date the 1 nmmpwin 1 nirfnomniiio 41 1,1? M^ivviuuiuo nuu l' I aiit'Uj . Switzerland and Bulgaria expired. ' ^he purpose of the order was to give ivery fncility to importers to enter fl roods at the reduced rates of the extiring treaties and applies particulary to New York and a few other cities M rhere the custom houses close ordi- a larily at 1 p. in. on Saturday in defrence to local law or custom. s ii The horse as a means of transpor- * at ion is more than holding its own < inder the competition of the auto- f nohile, according to Maurice Connelly a tlr. Connelly says the trade in horse- v Irivoii vehicles this year was greater j] han ever before, and the business nl- g ea<ly booked for the coming year c vill eclipse all previous records. The c inly manufacturers of carriages ai'- 0 'ected are those who cater to the mil- ( ionaire class, which has in a large t ueasure discarded the landau, the g srouKiiHiu una ine victoria lor the notorcar. Accordingly the manufac- a urers of these higher grades of cariages have taken up the manufacture p if automobile bodies. The carriage f Mulders who turn out the moderate- c iriced vehicles for city and farm use, such as buggies and surreys, are said o have more than they can do. 5 No grave apprehension is felt in iVwdiington for the safety of Prof, j Charles K. Leith and Arthur I^eith, t vho, with others, since last summer ^ as been making geological investi- , rations in the Hudson Bay country. E They had intended returning here by ^ October 1, but in letters received j'rom them early in August it was ipimated that their return might bo j lelaycd owing to weather conditions. { FVofessor Leith is uttached to the ex- t sedition as a representative of the University of Wisconsin, where he ^ iolds a professorship, while his j irother Arthur, who lives here, is ac- j 'ompanving the party as an ama- ^ ;eur scientist. ( Tnfiirnnilion tins ronclipil flin Department that the celebrated Alsop t daim against Chile, involving vain- t ible guano deposits and silver mines, j s in a fair way of settlemen. The c Alsop case, which has been pending , for thirty-five years, had its origin fl n the actual advance of money by f Americans to the Bolivian govern- ( nent in return for rights to valuable ^ fuano deposits. ? Every national bank that is loan- ] ng money in excess of the amount permitted by law is being asked to j educe the loans to the required limit j ind to abstain from any such excess ( n the future. This effort to haye all r he national banks observe the legal , imitation is being made in a eon- ^ icrvative way, and it is believed by g ifflcials here that none of the banks will defy the official "request." In learly every bank that fails loans in ' excess of the limit prescribed by law J have been a contributing cause, and . the concentration of k>ans to a few * interests has always been regarded as in element of weakness. 1 Somebody is out just $100 because if carelessness in fnrwardimr mnnav ;hrough the mails. The division of * iead letters, of the i'oet-Offiee De- 1 partment Saturday received an enve- 1 lope, unsealed and unaddressed, eontaining an amount of currency aggre- < gating about 9100. The envelope was * deposited in a street letter box in a town in New York State. Thus far 1 inquiries by ) ? u< m-peetirj i have failed 1< locate the owner ] Southern Colleges Crlpi Probably In I Atlanta, Qa., Spcinl.?With oik lout hern college closed, the studen ody of another all but depleted am he work of a third seriously impair d by the simultaneous appearance li hese institutions of a strange inal dy apparently of an epidemic natur ki.l. v A: i-m ? riiivu iui u ume nameu puiysicians iut which is now?in two of thesi chools, at least?declared to be pto aaine poisoning, due to the eating o mpure Western meats, a serious sit atipn has developed for the consider tioh of the Federal and State pur ood authorities. This announcement was made her ri connection with the illness *f mor han forty cadets at the Oeorgia Mili ary Academy, at College Park, eigh lile from Atlanta, the majority o rhom were rushed to Atlanta liospi nls, seriously ill. The other school fleeted are Lagrange Female College -agranee, Ga., with two hundred stu ents, and the Athens Female College Ithcns, Ala., with one hundred stu lents, which closed carlv in the week The eating of boiled boneless hati y the cadets of the Georgia Militar tcademy is believed to be directly re ponsible for the development of pto aaine poisoning in that institution Is Atlanta is the distributing cente f a large section of the South, it i uggested by an official of the militar; chool that the diseased meats foum heir way from Atlanta to the othe V MILLION GIVEN BY ROCKV New York, Special.?A gift of $1, 00,000 by John D. Rockefeller t ght the "hook worm disease" wa nnounced at the office of the stand rd Oil Company here late Thursday A dozen well-known educators am cientists, selected in large part froi nstitutions of learning in the Sout rhere the parasite is prevalent, wer ailed in conference with Mr. Rocke eller's representatives at the Stand rd Oil Company's offices at 2(5 Broad ray last Tuesday, and at that meet ng Mr. Rockefeller's desire to or anize a commission to carry on ampaipn apainst the malady was dis ussed. As a result of this discussioi f the situation the "Rockcfelle Commission For the Eradication o he Hook Worm Disease'' was 01 anized. The members of this commissior s selected by Mr. Rockefeller, are: Dr. William H. Welch, professor o >atholopy in Johns Hopkins Universi y; president of the American Medi al Association. Dr. Simon Flexner, director o SUFFRAGETTES TRY TO D1 London, By Cable.?With the ev lent intention of destroying ballot n a box at the Bermondsey by-ele< ion Thursday, as a protest apaim be exclusion of women from tli 'ipht of franchise, Mrs. Chapin, luffragette, smashed a bottle contair ng corrosive acia upon me uauc fox. What she accomplished was th gainful burning of solne of the elei ion officers and the assurance of he >wn arrest. Slipping into one of he booth where perhaps a thousand ballots ha >een deposited, Mrs. Chapin dre 'rom under her cloak a bottle i which ink had been mixed with coi jOMEZ ADMINISTRATION Hanvana, By Cable.?A meeting <1 he national committee of Conservi ives was held Friday with the pui >ose of dociding preparatory to th >pening of Congress November what the future course of the part ihall be. All the speakers agree hat the administration of l'residei lomez was a failure and that it wo he duty of the Conservatives to nbai Ion the policy of sustaining the gov EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES New York. Special.?Kxtracts froi etters written by officials of th American Ice company to agents an tustomers were read in court Wee esday as evidence that the com^an rax guilty of illegal monopoly in il leelingx with independent produce! ind retailers. * "Our opponents are steadilV weal ining and are very much worried, rrote President Oiar to R. F. Hot tins of the Boston Ice company i lunc, 1904, according to one lette 'The icemen here are sick unto deat tnd full of onxiousness," was an e> WHITE SLAVERY IS SAID New York, Special.?Jeremiah V Fenks, professor of political econom it Cornell, gave out .a statement hei n which he says that "white sh tery" does exist in New York a barged by a recent anti-Tatnman nagmzine article but be does not hoi my political organisation respensib 'or the traffic. Professor J inks, wh va* a met bar of the eotamixslon ni rKiiii f aJ by t ongrcsa to iu.estsga*. . i - [SON MARKET j >led by Ptomaine Poison, I 3onoless Ham. I ? institutions affected. "It is an alarm t ing situation," he added, "and calls jF 1 for a vigorous investigate Ti the . authorities who have sup over vf i the food supplies which -hipped . into Atlanta from the cenp ters." At the Georgia Milita nj a 4m b number of the cadets a > \iv of . the boiled ham Saturda > !av. f Two sons of Preside \ '..nurd Jfl . were the first taken i! i . or more were compla sMfl B morning. Tuesday forty-three were violently ill, necessitating the remov- v3 fl 1 nf rrtocf nf !>/??? a ti ? *-- * ? vri mciu IU AllUIUB nose pitals, after the college infirmary was - <3 0 filled to capacity. The afflicted boys _ were first stricken with chills, follow- 3 ^ ed by vomiting with pulse low and e temperature sub-normal. This con- 1 dition continued, with severe head aches and pains in the muscles and " s limbs developing on the third day. (> Five of the boys have recovered sufficiently to go to their homes, while twenty-five are still in local hospitals and eight in the college infirmary, i- Several others are confined to their rooms. n The student roll at the military academy shows an attendance of 165. V The school will not close down, tho authorities believing that the present * situation is well in hand and are not i. apprehensive of the development of % r further cases of the illness. q The temperature of the patients in 3 the local hospitals is stated to rango * v between 100 and 104 , although the 1 condition of no one of them is conr Kidnro/1 ac*r\Anc ., ^1 ELLER TO EIGHT HOOK WORM Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re0 search. ,jj , Dr. Charles W. Stiles, chief of the division of zoology, United States * public health and marine hospital *. service, and discoverer of the Ameri1 can species of hook worm, and the n prevalence of the disease in America. t *** li I)r. Edwin A. Alderman, president e of the University of Virginia. ^-\ >- Dr. David E. Houston, chancellor I- of Washington University, St. Louis, I*'"[ Mo. ^ 2 Prof. P. P. Olaxton, professor of ?. - education in the University of Tennes- ^ a see. i- Mr. J. V. Joyner, State Superinli tendent of Education in North Caro- _ r lina, and president of the National ** f Educational Association. " ? Mr. Walter H. Page, editor of The World's Work. i, Dr. H. R. Frissell, principal Hampton Institute. f Mr. Frederick T. Gates, one of Mr. i- Rockefeller's business managers. >. i- Mr. Starr J. Murphy, Mr. Rockefeller's counsel in benevolent matters, if Mr. John D. Rockefeller. Jr. ESTROY BALLOTS WITH ACIO pi i- rosive acid, and before she could be s stopped hurled the bottle upon the !- box. It broke into many pieces and ;t the acid splashed upon the election ic officers. ? a A number of these were so severely i- injured as to require medical atten- * )t tion. .??* About the same time a similar outie rage was attempted at another booth s- by a young girl who wore the suf>r fragette colors. In the latter instane* little damage was done beyond the " is burning of the finger tips of the eleo- . ' <1 tion officials who removed the bits of "" J w broken glass. So far as could be asn certained not much acid reached ther-' ballots in either case. ^ Hfs ADJUDGED-A~FAILURE ifternment wh.eh hitherto they bad foli lowed for the purpose of giving it a r- fair trial and to begin an active anti- """""J ie administration campaign in Congress 1 and the press. A resolution to thiay effect was unanimous . ^ j< d is rumored that Pr ; it probably will attempt ? <3 is Conservatives by offe i- tions in the Cabinet i r there are two vacnnch AGAINST THE ; "S -n tract read from ano t ie lack Mr. Olar to W d agcr of the company a. 1- branch, three months Ic v we ure in a position t- d;s vice to be heeded an< r s followed," the same J I. The State*8 attorne; ut tation of evidence to & " American Ice eompar o y- enforce famine price*, e n into the Maine ice in f ^ r the crop down to h K h lowing most of its ice e- ^ (- to rot and fall down. TcTExTsTiN new vonkoiV m. J. immigration conditions, saya in partr M y "I have no knowledge as to wheth- ^ ,e cr the traffic is greater in New York tH than in Paris. However, I believe it is greater in New York than else- || 1# I where in the United States. Because, / v first, New York is the largest city; jm d second, because it is the ehief port of >e entry. Women imported for immoral 4M o purposes for Chicago and . : Tur^ 1 I e many of the dealers are he. t ^ -?