?- /
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
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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