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r.^J : ; r "I' % * MEXICAN W -l" The wave of rebellion against Hit every hamlet and city In the province Magdalona iletachnient, ready to take ure espousing. TOOKLOOI impression of Americans on Tour df Eternal City. On Banks of River Tiber?Brief Resume of the Historical Sights of Ancient Capital Depicted in Humorous Vein. London.?Thero is a large place down in Italy between Naples and Florence that Is known as the Eternal -City. You may have heard of It. It "was the place, you know, whore Romulus and Remus; Julius Caesar, the -victim of the black hand plot; Nero, .and some other famous persons used to hang out, and which was once aaved from soino one because a bunch of geese cackled at the psychological moment. Young Reinus and his brother Romulus, It seems, started the place and it has been eternal ever alncc, although a number of lowbrows ^attacked it with armies and broke up great quantities of its statues and statutes and tried to swipe it oil the map in other ways. Rut it bit its thumb at all these agitators and still manages to worry along on the lire and centi6imi it can wheedle out of ouri'vy* visitors. Hotel keepers have hecome its principal citizens. For many, many persons, who Just love antique things, go to see Rome - very year. Yes, that is the name of the place, if you haven't already guested it. If you want to do as the Rumens do, you can call it Roma. The julns are great stuff for those ho like to investigate) the civilization of the folks who lived at the time that ITncle Reinus drew a circle on the map and called it Rome, and when - -Julius Caesnr flashed the news to an eager world that all Gaul is divided .Into three parts. You must remember when he did that all the papers got VUV CAIIUS. Wo wero In Pompeii one day and a soldier in the place that must have %>een the corner grocery of the 1'ouipeiiaiia, tor it still seems to be the favorite hang-out for soldiers, guides -and other unemployed persons, told us that although these were pretty fair little ruins, if we wanted to see *ome ruins that wero ruins we should run over to Home tor a few days. We Tiad been out to the Blue Grotto the xiay before, and as we were still feeling rather blue frotn the experience, we decided to take a look at thit Rome place and see if we couldn't got cheered up a bit. So we caught a train that afternoon thai happened to be going to the Sternal City. We entered a flrstdasg compartment. The man who collects the tickets came around after a while and asked to see our billetl. Re looked at them a moment and informed us in a grieved tone that they were for the second class compartment We assured him politely that that was all right; that we should Just as soon stay where wo were, as we didn't like to change now that we were all settled. And Just to show him that we had no hard feelings toward him we gave him a couple of lire. He understood at once our aversion to making a change and locked the door of our compartment so that we shouldn't be disturbed. Those conductors are charming fellows. We arrived in Home along about nine o'clock and took a carriage to a hotel. "In the Eternal City at last," we murmured. Every one else was saying the same thing in rapturous tones as he got into his carriage, so we did likewise, thinking it was customary; It seems to be a popular remark. Just like every one pulls the old one about seeing Naples and dying when he lands the*-e. Early tho next morning we started out to see the Eternal City. We had to admit that it was quite a place, and that the two famous brothers tarted something when >hey founded the city.. We strolled around to look a*, the Tiber. We couldr't discover why any one should look ai the Tiber, but it seemed to be a popular pastime, ao we Joined tho rost of them. Red Baedekers flashed In tho sunlight as a. long line of sightseers leant' on ? OMEN IN ARMS TO FIG " ' > ' : v ~t*/ >! ? >''v v,' ** * <w * wpw^i > < ? . % s, ; relgu of Huerta, which is slowly but s of Sonora. Here the women are bandi s tip the cause which their husbands, ft (tat rome the parapet of a bridge and read what the book had to say about the Tiber. AH we could recall about the stream was that It used to be a favorite cemetery among the Itomans. Whenever a person became obnoxious he was thrown into the river. We concluded \ that such an action was the height of I insult. It was just like being thrown | into an unpnved street on a rainy ' day. "Isn't it lovely?" an enthusiastic young girl exclaimed, turning to me. ' "Great." I replied. "Only it seems ' to have a bad case of jaundice just I now. Perhaps this can be cured, how- . ever, fo we can't hold it against the ' poor river." SHE WOULDN'T PAY HER FINE Pretty Motorcyclist Gets Novel Sentence and a Dinner de Luxe. New York.?Miss Lillian Huberts, j seventeen, of Flatbush. was before ; Magistrate Gelsmar in the Flatbush ; court, charged with driving her motorcycle at 30 miles an hour. When a fine of $25 was imposed upon her Miss Roberts, a suffragette. | stamped her little feet and declared ; mat sno would not pay It. She was j ; given the alternative of a clay In Jail. ' She agreed to the latter, but the magistrate grew tender-hearted and de- . ckled that she could spend the time ; in the courtroom Instead of going to j the Raymond Street Jail. Soon after court closed a friend brought Miss Roberts a dinner de luxe, which was eaten on one of the benches. WEALTHY MAN'S SON LABORS Takes Place in Factory at Bottom of Ladder to Learn the Business. New York ? Augustus Cordier, Jr.. twonty-three-year-old son cf the lute : Augustus Cordier. who was president of the l.alnnc< Crosjean Agate Ware factory in Wood Haven, L. I? and was a son-ln-Jaw of Florian Grosjean, who founded the company, Is a workman in the factory. When the youth's father died tie left his extensive interests to his widow, who is worth several millions. Kach morning he arises early and goes to work in the factory to learn the but'ness, with an idea of some day succeeding his father in its management. He is studying the work of every department and dons overalls and works as hard as any of the other employes. CAN PUT PLANTS TO SLEEP French Scientist Claims That They Feel Pain?Makes Many Experiments. ParlB.?Can flowers feel pain? This is a question to which French physiologists are giving much attention at the present time. M. L. Chassaigne believes that they can, and do. His opinion is based on interesting experiments. Taking a mimosa plant, he exposed it to the action of heat. The leaves writhed as if In pain. A simple mechanical effect, say the skeptics; a proof of sensibility, snys M. Chassaigne, since it does not take place if the mimosa be anesthetized. If the vnso containing the mimosa ! is placed in a glass globe with a piece of cotton impregnated with cloroform j or any other volatile anesthetic for | half an hour, the foliage becomes wilted and the plant has all the ap: pearances of being in a deep sleep, i If it be now subjected to the action of ! heat it remajns unaffected M. Chassaigne has repeated the same experiments with many different kinds of plants, but always with the same result. "It is maintained." he says, "that plants do not suffer because they have no nerves. "Many physiologists hold that nerves are but the extension of protoplasm, modified and adapted to fulfill i the required function. Hence the prot toplasa of plants can perfectly well * - : -j * ==j HT HUERTA ^ J <W" 11 iSI/*!-: | | ' urely sweeping ovtr Mexico, is lelt ui ng into companies, ns shown by this ithers, brothers, sons uinl sweethearts KILLS HER FOR SLUR ON GABY New York Man Infatuated With Dancer Stabs His Woman Com panion for Remark. Now York.?From tho first timo that William Twist of the I Ironx saw Gaby Deslys dance on the stage he was so stuck with her beauty and grace that he became infaunted with her Although he was not personally acquainted with the dancer. Twist so revered her name that when Miss Louise White made a disparaging remark about the music hall performer he drew a knife and stabbed Miss White to death, inflicting twelve wounds as he attacked the woman in a hallway. Then Twist gave himself up to Police Sergeant John T. Meade, who found the slayer standing near the body in the hallway of the home of Miss White. "It was this way." said White "I saw Gaby Deslys dancing and I was Goby De&lys. willing to marry her i loved her so much and so. when 1 met 'his woman on the street and took he? home and she made some remarks about the woman I loved, ! b? came so angry that 1 took out my knife ai d stabbed her. Now. that's about all 'here Is to j it." ' act as a rudimentary nervous sys tern." MINISTER'S DOG RIDES IN CAB Ex-Premier Clerrertceau Has to Pay Fares for His Mastiff in French Capital. I Paris?M. Clenii'iiccnu. the French j statesman, owns a large and (lore* mastiff, whose lmbit it is from timeto time to mak" long excursions into I outlying part- of Paris. When he is tired, the dog will puinr into a horse cab arid si* then.' growl Ing and showing his teeth M the cub man attempts to remove htm. Seeing the name and a. dress of M Olemenceaii engraved on the dog's brass collar, t'.ie cat-man finally drive, the dog home In this way M C'h menceau has had several long f- res to pay VA/ill M/v* rj--.- 4- r nut r> <ft??v-'ie ciupcrs St. t'lairsville, \V. Va Elopers wh< lie about their ages in obtaining mar riage licenses here need liav : ->o font of the law Judge Nichols na.% annotincod that no more prosecutions foi I ago misrepresentation will be begun Arrest Brothers for Fighting. Yonkers. N. Y.?Frank. Andrew nnd ' Nicholas Holly, brothers, two of them twins, were arrested for fighting in a car. The trouble was caused by Andrew and Prank not liking t'. a !mcei I of Nicholas. Kv- ; ' 'J' PROVIDES FOR UPBRINGING OF FUTURE CITIZENS Widows' Pension Act. in Opera tion in New Jersey. Decinr:<* lo Be Great Success. KEEPS THE HOWE TOGETHER Under the Law Widows Are Enabled to Clothe, Feed ~:nd Educate Their Children ? Will Co Away With Public Institutions. V^' ; c It Cannot Take the Place of the Mother? New York Is Investigating With a View to the Adopt cn of the System. T\ *7 KWAKK, N .1 Sim stand-; in t' .In >r of :1m sli.tnty - h> rails !mnm on tlm outskirts of tlm el'y. A child clings to each hand and another dutches tightly to the folds of her pink calico dress last inside the door stands two new brass cribs Across tlm gloomy aspect of broken kitchen chairs and patched table beyond arc hooks in the brick chimney on which hang children's garments with the bright stamp of newness on them. There is coal in tlm scuttle bv tlm range, with its craeke I lids, and there is food a-cooking Dingy and gloomy is the interior of the single room, hut It is spotlessly clean. This is the home of tlm tirst widow In Jersey to be pensioned for being what she is just a poverty-stricken mother Thn ???.. !.? clothes, tin1 food are results of. that ilrst pension cheek Homes Are Proof of Worth. To the outside world perhaps the Widow's Pension act passed in Jersey last July Is a hazy reality, the real stg niflcance of which Is hardly appreciated It is only when one can peer Into a home where the pension has come? or perhaps, more aptly, has peered into it before and after the coming? that it dawns on one what this pensioning of widowed women who have children dependent upon them really means. Itriefly the widows' pension was the dream of Isaac T. Nichols, senator from Cumberland county, who plainly stated that In his opinion a woman who brought children into the world was entitled to a pension for her work when her husband, or support, was taken from her by death That was the beginning Senator Nichols was tor pensioning every mother <>f a child under sixteen years old Put there were those who objected. Such a broad act, they saiii. would allow unmarried women with children, women with husbands still living and others to share in the reward Intended really for the widowed mother. The hill was amend ed, ami became a law on July I First Pension on July 22. Py Jul} 22 the lirst hearing to determine the granting of pension had !> en held, are the lirst pension was grant ed It '< only a matter of time when every state will have its pensioned mothers, Senator Nichols said. There are :Ut'? wid<w e,| mothers drawing pension in New Jersey, and the number is steadily increasing. There ar*"- pensioned mothers i:i every one t.f the state's '2 1 counties save one. The illle i v?-eiiH.i*i frnm ... ?:m -st 'ins come is Oi'i'au county, in the s<>urh< rn part of 11?stale. Why no cry from :i needy mother has boon lit ard irotn there is a mystery to the state board of children's guardians which his the supervision of the pen sions and pensioners in hand The process a widowed mother must employ to gain a pension is simple. First, she must write to the state board of children's guardians for application blanks. She will receive three blanks, all identical. She must fill in each, one for the state hoard, one for the overseer of the poor in her district and one for the Judge of tho county court, where her case eventually will be heard. County Foots the Bilis. On receipt of her application the state hoard sends investigators to determine her eondition. Then a date Is set for her hearing and she goes into court and tells her story. The investigation of the state board is offered in evidence, and the judge passes on whether or not sh<? is eligible to a pension If she becomes a pensioner the checks are sent her out of the funds of the county in which she lives. The amount of the pension, which is really intended for ?he support of her children, i- fixed by law. It is S'.t a month i< r one child, #11 n month for two children and #1S a month for three ehililri-:. runt tor nn?ti , i.ti.i thereafter $1 a month The stair board's investigators havo supervisory charge of the dispensation <>t the pension anil of the conduct of ttn* mother. At the arrival of a ch'ld at the am* of sixteen, er before, at the discretion of the board, the pension tor ilint eiiilil can tie diseontinued 'Ii;is, liriefly, is what New Jersey has done for its widowed mothers How has the plan worked out .' The woman with the three children in a shanty on the dge of Newark I smiled when she was asked It was n ! tired smile, but there was no trace ol : unhuppincss in It "How does It work?" she answered l and her voice was full with emotion j "Fine!" She >*.iaed to smooth with u th.v hand ;lu< lmlr of a live-yoar-old boy J who clung to Iter dross. The other children, a girl of eight and a boy of seven, looked up at her as children only can look at those they trust. "It pays the rent." she went on. "and 1 it buys the coal and it gives me a I chance to clothe them as they ought 1 to he clothed. He fore the tirst check from the k ountv came we didn't have any elothes thnt you might call clothes. 1 didn't mind for myself. but the little ones were without warm j things except what 1 could make for them between the days' work, and j even in July the winter isn't fnr off. for the poor at least, and this house 1 is cold. 1 hated to look ahead and think of them shivering all day, and the coal most gone, and then it was aj puzzle as to whether to spend our lone dollar for food or warmth for them. "Hut now," she smiled again, "It's different. It pays the rent, and it buys the coal, and we can eat three times every day." New York Investigating. New York is fighting for the very law New Jersey now has. The foremost charity and philanthropic stuI dents in New York city ardently In! dorse it Kvery club In the City FedI oration ami all these throughout the .date have given it their unqualified approval. The state of New York has taken a step in the direction of widowed mothers' pensions, l.ast year the governor appointed a commission to investigate the workings of the law in several states, including New Jer-j sey. This committee will report upon ! the advisability of enacting similar re lief legislation One of the members of the commission Is Mrs William Fin 1 stein, president of the Widowed Moth- ; ! ers' Fund, who for many years has been the In art and soul of the now great movement According to her. there really is hut one side to the I nest ion. "Tln re is not a bit of doubt," she .declared." that the state owes the i duty to the children. 1 speak ad viscilty (if thf iliililrrii instead of the mothers However ditlicult and path.tie may ho the condition of a widowed mother, who B unable to support . hor children and who must bring them I i up in a state ol pitiful sordiness or re!in(|ii!sl! tin 111 to the state, the condl! lion of i he children is worse. Eighteen States Give Relief. "The inl'iiences of their early years I are the inliuem'es of a lifetime, and I ; I hey make or mar them And certainly | it is obligatory upon the administra1 tion to see that all possible be done to : i make those inlluencos of tlie best, j i Mother love and home surroundings i I are of Inestimable value, and since the , i state can preserve those to the chil j dren It should do so. "Since 1 have been interested In this problem. 18 states have adopted a sysi tern of relief for w idowed mothers, and 1 in every one of them it Is working j j beautifully, it can't help hut be a last ' ing success The argument that the state will be spending too much money is not worth consideration. The only dilTen nee is that the money will go di rectly into the needy homes instead of into institutions. It will do Infinitely more good in those homes than in institutions. "And, what is just as important, we wish to do away entirely with private charity That accomplishes very little It is only a temporary relief and doesn't for a moment get at the big principle of th<> situation " Mr ilruere, the head of the Bureau j of Municipal Research, believes in | tich relief, hut he declares the pres! ent scheme does not go far enough or quite .rasp t ii underlying principle ot j Ihl- question. Would Go Even Further. "As. :i step in the right direction," he said, "I am in favor of the present , movement. In considering it 1 have ' | none through many phases. And while 1 am theoretically in thorough agreei ment with it, 1 cannot help thinking that it stops .? little short, i "I prefer a general social Insurance that will lay b?ss stress on relief as a i | necessity and more on ?h" payment as a right For unquestionably there is i an in luhitnblo right that these moth r ers and children should have relief. "The danger in th?; present scheme, . j it st .mis to me, is that th'? mother has no absolute surety she will be pa'd, ! end iiat there is no inc ntivo for a . ! hush.i d and father to provide for his *S- * r ** . ' vC* &&<*'$&' fy. 1*^^?mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmBrn 'i* " " l-lll J MMIMMMMMMMW * Jl? ^OHHI family. However, the widowed mothers' relief plan is excellent. It indl- | eaten a wholesome interest in preventive work, it shows a splendid development of public thinking." * N Of the clubwomen of New York city, 80,000 in all. and the clubwomen , ; of New York state, 200,000 of them, there is not one who is not an enthusiastic advocate of the idea Florence Guernsey, president of the Federation of Women's Clubs, expressed herself forcibly. "State Owes It to Mothers." "J am very much In favor of It." she declared. "I think It Is a line, a wonderful thing. Only those who know of the tragedies of a home In which the bread winner Is gone can appreciate what such a thing will mean. The state owes something to the mothers. and it is its duty to accept Its ebliga- . 4 tion. i think it is the mother who should look after the children, take cure of them, and no one else, and the mother should be given the opportunity U> do so. ^ "All of the clubs of the city federation. as well as of the state, have Indorsed the work being done to bring about such u state of affairs, and If there Is any one thing women demand wnoienenrieaiy tt is reiter lor widowed mothers." Mrs. A. M. Palmer, president of the Itniny I>uy club, was even more emphatic. ' It would make better men and women," sho declared. ' There is no influence that can compare with that of a mother and with that of a home, and a child deprived of these is handicapped for life, it has not the advantage of those Influences that mako for fine manhood and womanhood. "Love, affection, care?these are the accessary things. Nothing ia so Important. No state institution can give them, and a child in such a place is Inevitably hardened, and its finer instincts never expand and develop as they would in an atmosphere of love and home. The chance of muternal fulflllment ia a duty owed by the state both to the mother and the child." Mrs. Brown a Supporter. ( ? Mrs. William Clrant Brown, a leading v clubwoman, who but recently returned from a trip abroad, where she went as a delegate to several conventions, speaks in similar fashion. "I am so much interested in tha movement," site said, "that 1 have given lip a considerable amount of my time to the work. All those who know the conditions In the homes of the poor agree that relief for widowed mothers is a much needed bit of legislation, and almost nil charity workers favor relief directly In the home. "Ii will be not only an economic saving In the long run, and perhaps even in the short run, but it also will be a blessing so great that It is hardly conceivable. Only the mother, who will he able to retain h?r Hivt born, and iho little girl who need no longer ferr the strange faces of some state institution can truly appreciate all It means " Miss Frances Day is general ;-;ej t of the New Jersey sttite board. She ia a woman of broad comprehension and human sympathy. Many of the cases she has investigated herself, and she knows what the.granting of these pensions mean to many a poor mother. 400 Applicants So Far. The greatest number of applications. she says, have come .rom Hudson and Kssex counties, the two most thickly populated in the state, the former Including Jersey City Itself. There have been lt)0 applications from each, with Mercer county and Burlington county not far behind. "Muscular Christianity." The new year in England is to see launched a church paper run on the liru-M r?f "iniiften 1h r f'h rl>?t Inn If v * . W hleh reminds one to ask, who was the inventor of that particular phrase? For Kingsley repudiated it. To a clergyman who, in a review, had culled him "u muscular Christian," the rector of Eversley wrote, 'You have used that, to ine, painful, if not offensive, term 'muscular ChrisI Canity.' My dear sir, 1 know of no Christianity save one " And in one of his "David" sermons at Cambridge Kingsley spoke of "muscular Christianity?a clever phrase invented by I know not whom." Now, if It wasn't Kingsley set it afloat, who , was it??London Chronicle.