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?- / y ^Fame=? 1 Ey Kills O. Jones O be famous la not necessarily to be great, and to be great 5 I is not nocessarily to be famous. In the vernacular, to be I 2 famous is to "make a hit." The next question to be decided b B I by the authorities, self-appointed or otherwise, is whether I I the fama is deserved. That invariably starts an argument. ^ I nu icuhc nao CfCI uiiauiuiuus. I I Fame, therefore, can be token only at It* face value. Just as soon as we attempt to subject It to the critical ansiysis of different viewpoints, we are embarked on the tormy sea of dispitatlon without compass or quadrant, without destination --Mng-polnt, doomed forever, like the Wandering Jew, to float on and on " -'essly is the shade of Poe. In the ordinary acceptation **?mous, and the effort of his detractors to make ^se his fame. Whether he is justly or de t. " question, a question which is both Irrelevant because fame Is objective rather thrn subjv ' its quality from the contempUting public auu "Mon, bringing us to sociJ Introspection and U.. r plenipotentiary -h'.ds us out. Hence the que??.. since arbitrators plenipotentiary disappeared with the The matter of Poe's going into the Hall ot - . . ds and should de-?ncl upon those having the Hall of Fame In charge. . ier they be An nv rnmcfnrJ/u r?ina T -- ,. .... uui? j 1.uu0, juuu jlj. ouuivauB, or uiner gennemen wno m?.y have happened to become famous In their chosen sphere. Others should k.*ep hands off. Whatever the outcome, the Hall of Fame merely reflects the opinion of .hose who have it In charge. No matter how much public discussion there may be, no matter how much outsiders may engage In controversies in which they have none but a bellicose interest, the governors will still use their own Judgment, and we will bo supposed to infer that their selections were deservedly famous. There is no danger of any one's deliberately starting a Hall of Unjust Fame. The only other way would be to decide it by referendum. If we should vote him in and hia fame w-as still undeserved, then, of course, it would prove that we were a bad lot.?From Lippincott's Magazine. JZ? i? 23 i raining jor uunatf ^ ^ Cy Cora S. Day ^ < * 44 e let little things annoy him. He gave way to outbursts if a I anger, when a moment or two of lirm self-control would ?. _ + hr e carried him safely past the crisis. He rather prided 7 I?B + himself upon his "quick temper," so unruly, so easily T I I roused, and so hard soothed. Then came the climax, when + * * one day he flew into a passion, and almost before he real | ized it, he had committed a crime which by a narrow mar H444444* sin escaped being murder. His neighbor was a quiet, pleasant young fellow whom everybody liked and respected. He was never even suspected of owning the naturally quick temper which he kept as sternly under control. He made It a point to be master, and he succeeded. When the tirst young man went to prison for his attc-mpt upon the life of another, the second accepted a position of trust, of honor, of lfirge responsibility, where his self-control and ?TV.r- invniimhlp to himself and his emJuvenal says: "No man becomes a villain all at once. i^.quan> i?u?_ that no man becomes a saint all at once. Training goes before both; and that training is a matter of individual choice. Your temper, your taste, your faults and your virtue, all are your own, to train as no one can train them for you. For what are you training then? ^ ^ ^ Outrages of the Telephone ^ ^ By Minna Thomas Antrim ^ HE Drunken Sailor's fate having been satisfactorily settled, Twhat shall be done with the Telephone Fiend? This distressing problem Is agitating more than one long-suffering soul. The Fiend is pettlcoated, rarely trousered, who holds you up until you are ready to hurl anathemas upon the V M very Inventor. Whore is the specialist who will conquer this disease of the wire?disease that is working such II wholesale havoc, rifling husbandly purselets. stealing Time bodily, breaking the needed rest of invalids without a qualm, and robbing the "party" at the other end of all surety of peace? For all else seem we to have found a quietus, but for the "caller up" at any old time or place, no remedy seems forthcoming. That the telephone has blessed many a man, saved many lives, and helped pile up fortunes, is true"; but has it not cursed some women, ruined more lives, and hastened domestic misfortune? It has. Has it not become the favorite pastime of the woman with nothing to do? It has. Does it not accelerate gossip? Aid the flirt and the wayward, constantly? It does. Selfindulgent women waste their husbands' money by ordering food over the too handy telephone, rather than bother to dress for the street, thereby losing both their wholesome morning exercise and their chance thriftily to secure the best there is for the price at market or at stores from which the family larder is supplied. The time wasted by women in foolish 'phoning can never be offset by time gained by forehanded men in business,?for what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world if his "world" is lost through folly? Telephoning from a habit finally becomes a vice, and a menace to the courtesies. It has destroyed a fine art of social correspondent*. St crowned Haste with Courtesy's laurel.?Lippincott's Magazine. ^ ^ ^ ^ UV J />/j *Jt I C Cr Thomas L. Masson CE is used as a handy medium for conveying microbes from ^ 2 the interior into large cities, where the inhabitants can in W dulge in them freely. J ^ + In the winter, when it is not needed to cool the air, the Hudson River la filled with ehinr*<?/t i/?o 'ii=? _ ? ? ? - ** UIV.U U10(*}r Xpears as soon as the weather gets warm enough to make it ftiTftttti **obJectXIce fills many uses, but Its highest mission is in the early morning, when it floats up to a man who has been out all night. At other times it may do some good, but this is wheTe it truly shows Itself a humble instrument in the hands of Providence. Ice comes in bergs and lumpe. In the early morning the ice man will leave a berg on your door-step, charging for it by weight. But when you 9et It, it is a lump. This Is due to its shrinking nature. Packed in refrig orators, it gradually pines away, until on Sunday afternoon, when it ia most oeeded, it has silently disappeared, leaving naught but germs behind, A rerefrigerator, by the way, is an Invention of science to melt ice in the quickest manner. Ice la used in drug-stores and Wall Street. When placed conveniently around cornstarch and sugpx and vanilla; it makes ice cream. No "Uncle Thai's Cabin" to complete without it. It forms on lakes and mill-ponds, and is used io sit down on by people learning to skate, or to fall through by young boys who have wandered away from home. It also cornea In rlnbaw *c I". ,1'" l,?l'i'l'.f ?*" SITUATIONJ.ARMING The General Government of. Spain Great Straits?Reports Sent Oi Are Assuring While News Fro The Interior Indicate the Opposit Madrid, By Cable.?The goveri ment annunces that despite the att tude of the populace of Catalonia an tho desertions from the army i Northern Spain, the response of tl recruits a"d reservists to the call I the colors in other provinces, lit Andalusia and Aragou, was unan moos. The Minister of War has prohibi ed the departure from Spain of a persons subject to military duty ui der the penalty of being considers deserters. The government has ah placed a ban against the sale of fo sign papers containing accounts < recent events in Catalonia and M< rocco. Despite the official announcemei that order has been restored in Cati Ionia, renewed measures have bee taken to prevent the Bilbao regioi where the Socialists and Republicai ire organizing. The garrison at Bu: jos, Victoria and San Sabastian ai being held in readiness to act quid ly and energetically. The latest news received Saturds From Barcelona is to the effect thi fighting between the troops and tl revolutionaries continues fiercely, is reported that 40 revolutionary have been shot without trial at tl Montjuich fortress, among them b ing Kmilianolglcsias, editor of Tl Progresso, the organ of Deputy L roux,chief of the Republicans in Ba celoniu. The situation in Pnlnma the centre of the cork industry, is r ported to be alarming and fears ai expressed for the safety of foreigne: there. OSAKA'S GREAT FIRE. Lasts 25 Hours,Burning 20,000 Hom< and Public Houses?Much Distre; Prevails. Osaka,Japan, By Cable?Confusic prevails here as a result of Satu day's disastrous fire. Thousands < persons are homeless and hunger staring many of them in the face. A system of relief has been orgai ized by tie municipal authoritie but it ;.s inadequate to supply a ~ -1 _ A-.i-I J, ?* * iickus. vnusiue ernes arm towns ai generously sending in contributioi to be used in alleviating the suffe tugs of the homeless and destitute. m ?,? -? j? (hat 20.0( these are given roughly at sever; million yen. An area of over four miles squar containing some of the city's ham somest structures, including tl Buddhist temple, the largest in tl world, was entirely burned. Tl stock exchange, one of the most it portant in this country, was entire destroyed. This loss, it is believe will tend considerably to disloca the business of Osnka, which, wil its manufacturing concerns, is one * the chief commercial cities of Jnpa Many tounching sights were to 1 seen during the fire. The worm * n..,i i,;>i., wcic id iifi-si i ivncn unit anrti umi' and thither with their children, son of whom later cried piteously f< food that could not be obtained f< them. The conflagration lasted more thf 25 hours and the burned section pr sents a deplorable sight. The stree of the city arc very narrow and tl houses were mostly of wood constru tion. Had not the water supply be( curtailed by the drought the fi would have been quenched withoi great damage. Electric Cars Collide. Spokane, Wash., Special?Ten pe sons were killed and at least 60 we: injured in a head-on collision of tv electric cars at Caldwell, Wash., < the Spokane and Inland Railway la Saturday afternoon. Both trains were going at the ra of about 15 miles an hour. Th< crashed together without warnin .. G. A. Kimball Short $15,000. . soutuern I'ines, special.?oam day morning the officers of tlie Cil zens' Hank and Trust Company pos ed the following notice on the fro! of the hank building, and soon aft the doors opened to receive depos tors who brought their pass bool for settlement: "There appears to be a short a] of about $15,000 in the accounts < George A. Kimball, cashier, and tl bank examiners are here. We eann (five accurate information or detai until a complete auditing of tl hooks is made." Two Mangled By Train. Newberry, S. C., Special.?Char) Williams and Ernest Bauknight, t\ young white men, were struck ai killed by Columbia, Newberry Laurens passenger train No. ? bound for Laurens to Columbi about three hundred yards above tl ousenrn depot in Newberry short I after 3 o'clock Sunday afternoo both being horribly mangled, the fc trier being killed instantly, aad t Ezru ("WASHINGTON NOTES In ^ Unquestionably the session Wei . nesday was the busiest of the thri 111 weeks the bill has been in eonferenc n Dozens of Senators sought audienci j ind were received by the Sena (j members of the House, including tl I rommittee representing th'e anti-fri )e raw mnterial insurgents. In the co to ridors swarmed agents of special ii .0 terests, who seemed to realize thi the crucial period of the conferem had arrived. Senators Elkias and Scott, of We jj Virginia, and Clark, of Wyoming, ei leuvored to get the conferees I 5" make the rate of 45 cents a ton < d joal apply to the short ton, whic ;o it is said, would make a difference < __ ibout 5 cents a ton and would ope f &te to advance the rate to the equ calent of ftp cents. The Senators i; ^ lerested insetting all the protecti< possible for coal were not successfi it Just before the close of the sessu n- I he rate on print paper was fixed n f>3.75 a ton. This is only 25 cen u, less than the Senate rate, and $1.' is more than the House rate. r re Entering: upon the last stages of i t- ronsideration by Congress, the tar bill, as reported by the conferees, w iy submitted Friday to the House 1 it Chairman Payne and ordered prin ie ?d in The Congressional Record. It Three hundred and fifty of the 31 js members were in their seats wh ie Chairman Payne passed up to tl e- Speaker's desk the bulky documer ie which had occupied the attention i e- Congress for four and a half montl r- and then the Republicans broke o s, into loud applause, e- President Taft expressed himst re as immensely pleased with t rs tariff bill as it was finally agreed by the conferees last evening. It known that he is not entirely sati fled with all of the bill, and he to several of his callers that it wou 88 be the greatest miracle of the age 88 a tariff bill could be designed th would please everybody. >n The President declared that the r_ were a great many things about ti bill that he was delighted to have hi a part in, and that he would be equj 13 ly delighted to sign and defend t measure in its finished state, n- Without attempting to go into <] s, tail the President declared that p a great many ways the new tariff la will be a marked improvement ov the Dingley act. The House Saturday night adopt the conference report on the tar ,U I kill 1flr. <n 10 V U1 -! ? . oivu ttgttlll the report, two Democrats for it. e The vote was the climax of an ele jl' en-hour session, conducted throu) ie most oppressive heat, but enliven ie by a dozen or more speeches of mo ie or less fiery nature. The galleri n_ were filled. Iv The day opened with what appei (j ed to be part of an organized filibi ter against the conference repo ^ when Mr. Mondell, of \7yoming, <j 3f manded the reading of the lengt n document. This proceeded for aho Ijj an hour and a half, when with abo ;n two-thirds remaining: to be read, A er Mondell permitted the debate to ie on51 Chairman Payne defended the 1 9r port and appealed to his Republic colleagues to support it. prophesyi in at the same time that when the h e- was enacted into law it would me ts the approval of the country. Mr. Clark, minority leader, a c_ many of his colleagues, denoune >n the bill, and chastised the Republ re cans for failing, as they alleged, at revise the tariff downward and th keep their party pledges. Perhaps the most sensatior speech of all was by Mr. Mann, Illinois, Republican, who said r" would vote against the report, pi re vided the rates on pulp and pri ro paper as reduced by the House, we )n not retained. He denounced th te particular schedule and he declar that Cauda would take such acti regarding pulp wood and print pap te as to place an almost prohibito iy price upon paper in this country. B* At 9:07 p. m., the House, with t conference report ready to be m< saged to the Senate for action, ? r- journed until Monday noon. Such revision downward as li . been made, said Mr. Underwood, ' Alabama, a minoriay member of t 11 * ways and means committee, was cr the interests of the great cor|>oi ii- tions. That was conspicuously so, ks explained, in the placing of iron c and hides on the free list, tje "I have just been looking over t of report," interposed Mr. Hill, of Cc he necticut, "and I find most of the 1 ot duct ions of the steel schedule ha lis brought the duties below the rates lie the Wilson bill." "Since the Wilson bill was pa: . ed," replied Mr. 1'nderwood, "the a has been a revolution in the prodi tion of iron and steel. What was low rate when the Wilson bill w id passed, is a high rate today." ft Mr. Underwood inquired wl ,3 when the President was urging a i ia' vision of the tariff downward, he <3 he' not advise the woolen schedule don ly ward and he questioned the practii ,n bility of the maximum and minimi (r! elause. b0 Wood pnlp and print paper form the subject of a lengthy speech T??*r ** I 'IPf 1.1 L\M MLl.rY*mwf1 w > Mr. Mann, of Illinois. His annou < men* that because of the rates ? ^ by the conferees on these prod [j_ he would vote against the confen report, moved the Democrats to 1 applause. e- Under the maximum and minir es clause, he said, the charge of $ te a ton on wood pulp would be creased to $(>.d7 a ton. ie "That maximum," he exclaii se "is as sure to go into effect bets r- Canada and this country as that n_ made little apples unless Canada moves her restrictions on the ex a tation of the pulo." ce sl REPORT IS AGREED UPI n to Majority Members of the Confer* >n Committee on the Payne-Aid: h, Bill Bring Their Labors to a & of den Close?Aldrich and Pa r- Hasten to Fort Meyer and See ii- President. n" Washington, Special.?After w< Ing for nearly three weeks at v; )n proved to De one or tiie longest at most anxious tasks ever expericn Is in tariff building, the majority m bers of the conference committee the Payne-Aldrieh Mil brought tl ts labors to a sudden cl -se at 6 o'ci iff Wednesday evening. 118 Without a moment's delay* Senate and House leaders, wl names are carried by the bill, stai 50 away by automobile with the inl ?n tion of laying their report bel lie President Taft, who had gone to 1 o? Mj-er to see what had been inten ,s to be the last official aeroplane ffi ut of the Wright brothers. All day Ions* the conferees 1 j'*" struggled with the question of hri ing down the House rates on luni js to figures they felt would meet v is- executive approval. In this ef Id they failed. Lumbar was made dutiable at ri at only a little below those named the Senate bill, and there was a v re slight shading from the House ri 'ie on gloves of good quality. Altlio ^ It was not admitted by the confer the general impression drawn fi the hurried trip to Fort Myer le- that Messrs. Aldrich and Payne ln been authorized by their colleae IW to incorporate in the conference port such figures as could be agr upon with the President, in so fai ed they came within range of what iff leaders believe will be accentahlf iat -....v...... u, wUlil il.iOS although neither would discuss IV_ conclusions reached. It was announced officially that e,j Democratic members of the eon re enee committee would be called es session Thursday. In view of President Taft's ut ir- ances, Senate and House leaders w is- predicting that the conference ri y! t An irinvoo 1 1 ?... v/ii ?iici lumucr wouiu le- prove satisfactory to him. iiy Final Test Postponed. j" Washington, Special.?A per tent wind and a suddenly discove K? atoppage in the gasoline feed pipe re_ his motor prevented Orville Wri from making, Wednesday evening, final cross-country two-man test jjj the aeroplane. After he had wai ,et in supposed readiness for the st for an hour with the aeroplane on n(j monorail at Fort Myer, the wind <3 e(j down at last to little more thai ,c_ whisper, nnd then it was discove to that the fuel-feed was obstructed. us that time it was dusk, and the fli was declared off for the day, ,nj army officials granting him three d Gf additional time for the test. The t he limit under the original contract ro.. pired Wednesday, nt The failure of the trial disoppo .r<J ed an immense crowd, includ iat President Taft and practically all ed the most prominent government on ficials. All along the course laid er for the trial, people were gathei >i-y on foot and horseback nnd in hides of every conceivable charac he At Shuter Hill, just outside of #s- ?itv of Alexandria, where the turn id- point was located, was asseml what must have been a fair quoi las af the people of that community. ?* Thaw on Witness Stand. White Dlains, N. Y., Special?I ra ry K. Thaw's fate lay in his < hands Wednesday. For six hours ?rc occuP'e^ "ie witness stand while trict Attorney Jerome, the man 1 he twice tried to send him to prison, in_ who once already has thwarted re. pffort to release liira from a crimi ve insane asylum, delved into his Gf history. Thaw emerged credita from the ordeal, ss- !re A Female Blockader. lc. Macon, Ga., Special.?Surroun a by a crude outfit, with beer in a? tubs and the ripple of a little str trickling among the flake stai iy, near the prosperous town of Spi re- in Hancock eounty, United Sti lid Deputy Marshal Frank Riley ^ rn- nesday arrested Pearl Gordon, o sa- eharge of running a blockade di un lery. In all his long experience the service this is the first woi ied the officer ever captured in a "n? by shine* plant. N, ... i bISNAPPY AND BRItf } net t snce " 0 loud Items Gathered and Told While You Hold Your Breath. ' f oum in SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS ned. lively and Crisp as They Ar Gar * ^ nered From the Fields of \ *i>n por- at Home and Abroad. The railroad commissione of [IN Kansas are notifying the it <.*.vila that they must enforce the lidrinkiny art of the lecislatur* . ? inc? ing it unlawful to drink on tiaiuo. ^ Lewis Einbnck, at Newport News, ?et his grapophone to goiDg last Sun- mm day morning while his wifo was anxious to sleep some more. When he . refused to stop it she shot him with rr^- a number 22 rifle through the arm. hat He repeated his crime in the after.infj noon and she sent a pistol ball into '40 >ced hU '?* j Just as John P. Rodel, 67 years ^ old, had put a noose over his neck on to hang himself at Philadelphia last heir Sunday he fell dead. ^ ck A club of eight girls in Cleveland, Ohio, have formed a compact, it ^ jyl0 aeems, to commit suicide. One 17year-old, Rebecca Honshek, has kept 108C the compact and Esther Stromberg, ted who revealed the fact strongly intiten mates that she will be the next. fore Reading abnormal literature is at the _j , bottom of it. 1 'ort _ . Jeremiah Hunter and Solomon ?-?*? Lancaster, of Cumberland, Md., reight cently saved the life of a cow **+ amputating her injured leg and i 1!U] made her a wooden leg on which she I gets about measurably well. Senator Stone, of Missouri, feel. ing himself insulted bv a negro waiter on the train, struck him. Magfort istrate Grannon, in Baltimore, exon- ^ erated him from blame when he jjes heard the evidence Wednesday and . dismissed the case. At Atlanta, Ga., a dog h kept in JM er- prison as an important witness to ,tea form a link in the chain of identity ugh of its owner, charged with grave eeij crime. It seems the identity of the r9m dog is unquestionable while that of its owner has an element of doubt. Women missionaries find it not Ejj practical to do missionary work in rues Chinatown, New York, the wrought- flj re- up condition probably being the out eed growth of the Elsie Siirel tragedy. S,, as Expert alienists pronounce Harry ,."M" tlie | inaw sane. , in I In the late Gulf storn\ a ft. i'intr. $ rord I MOtV !of thisL-H. ..-JS MrE2 &> life at ' rnliimA " L She wL^| * ingtonfc^^s ' i fedracL^ea crs ofL?^ '' tion r^J "*2$ rji ^ t"is af p^p in^tonU^^T -?* and th r^L ^ n?i r ?* Charlott ***. A ?p lnrlr<wt near hoL>Su an ice cream treafi^" police 1 the b-v Mr- A- Stanley* terial ~ ' ""jf ays President Taft m case an ime 18 as the date of ind^ ex- President Diaz at? . Parcels from f ?*W, at int- hereafter to be ca^?- COntainm^^^Y**! linjr as to prevent sm^R thff life y wRRf 1 of- A joint monumefl^ "f m out at Washington The af^jBP**jC red, peace after the the one ve- veterans, U. S. Bt ^fo LrJlj^'rt' ter. of Confederate I Brew in Stockholm, ifi' ^ :t his a ^ and went on tijal next* >wn cided6 to build B ^nca* *B * 1 this year of ^E| uC testijf DreadnaughtaJ r ready has! W an channel in li^B? A visitc I A^?9 life than h!s? phlR Wa? *f ibly The Ho[iv? Mraina i Ayres will ' I "rU fln^n | j HHon but j w| mM KunH werejKm iikj fK ruptionjjf ^ ^'Uon ^uM J ' MA