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■ -■ '3 i ■m ,,V ■-; K''; ,• t ' ”. .': ■ r - ' . s iiv: :;■« .;• 5J.'' Y. i f ' K ' F - •.'■ IF'-’* \In Gpd W*'fr««ti’> ' The passage hy the^ house of '/eprer ■entatlves of th^ bill to restore to the ■United States coinage the motto *“In, Wd\ we trust” was accomplisiied by a Vote so overwhelming as to be almost Unanimous. Five members only out of 260 voted against It, The action, which was the direct result of widespread agltuiion and innumerable protests and .'petitions from religious ^persons and associations, will undoubtedly be regarded as disclosing a deep and far- reaching religious sentiment through out the country; and that view-Is prob ably Just. The controversy which gave rise to this vote, states the Youths’ Companion, was started by the deci sion to omit the motto from the gold coins designed by MFr. Salnt-Gaudens, but the coin on wilch It originally ap peared was the two-cent piece of 1864. The period was one of great national depression and of deep religious feel ing. The peril of the union lay heav ily on'med’s hearts, and caused the serious-minded to turn their thoughts . more than was their wont to the Cre ator for help and comfort. A Pennsyl vania clergyman had written to the secretary of the treasury, suggesting the recognition of the ’Deity in some device on national coinage. The sug gestion was passed on by Secretary Chase to James Pollock, a deeply reli gious; man, formerly governor of Penn- syivanhi, .whom President Lincoln had ■ made director of the mint. Mr. Pollock suggested ;as mottos for the new one, l;wo 'ahd thr'eescent pieces which were a.i(ipb,to be issued, either “Our coun- tryi^QUr God,” or “God oiirttrust.” Sec- retaiTt .Ohase in his reply said: “I ap prove.-your mottos, only suggesting that, the oite. he changed to read, ‘Our •God and our country,’ and the other ‘In God •we'.trust” ' Mr. Pollock was a close friend as well as the appointee of Lincoln, and it Is regarded as quite ptObahle that the martyred president himself had a voice in the selection of tho motto finally adopted. The his tory of the inscription, therefore, as ’Sfell as its sentimeut, was such as to mske the omission oif it seem to many ■Americans a double sacrilege. Power of the Government. , The arraignment before a United States district Judge in Chicago of 36 . men charged with violation of the antl- ? _ lottery laws and arrested in different pdrts of the country recalls the erctent -® f j ^ '’lottery business until federal ^•’~taw8 riiddly enforced put an erid to the concerns so far as existence in the \United. S^tes was concerned. Lot- tqrie's of ^ e character possessed in -earlier times, which fiourished under the enormous patronage enjoyed and which were carried on openly, are now unknown here. The very facts in the cases tmder consideration go to show dhat the- concerns In question . were -conducted under false pretenses. They- could not do. business otherwise. But — isttanficmrJater;maya.jtheJrToy (N. Y.l Tlme^ the federal power which Sup- pressed the great lottery corporations once supposed to be impregnahly In trenched overthrew the business, and A'demoralizing Influence came to an end. Incidentally- the history of Ameri- . -cSn lotteries goes to prove that nation al authority can do 'what states some- tlnies seem powerless or disinclined to accomplish. And everyone inter ested in 'the moral welfare of the peo- ,.piels content to see such imwCr exer cised. I'’”' The prefect of police ol Paris has tS- kued an edict barring all hand-organ's- from the strcfets. This action has called forth a storm of protest, not only from the organ grinders, of whom •there Is an army, but from multitudes - of residents, young and old, who ap pear to regard enjoyment ot the form of music in question as an Inalienable . fliKhfc But the pVefkct remains flnn, • the bandrorgans must go. Just vVrftat ground the prefect hikes Is hot aU-tfed, but, remarks the Troy CN. Y.) itrthust; seein to ihe -average American a t least that there are Worse -hjdla than‘6rg>n-grlhdlnjg. If the ob- iJ^t; ^ g«it rid of the neia^ which h’d dduht la ohjefctlbnable. to some sem alUVq oars, think how much,worse is the' racket made In other ways, ^m e yis^toxs to Paris have declared th%t the holaes of the Fh’wch capital are more Varied, nerre-rabkluk And ear- |ieryng than\Any heard In.the United •F'^lates. . No doubt the organs 'add to tie :dln, yet there i s flb occAsloji for surprise that there fa Indication over ; the Attempt tb AuppteSs t’the inuSlp of the .pedple:\ ■5^en thh Amerlcah belresS grants tq buy ,a duke . s io Is told to take an : ^ e r i d a q hUsbabd be iabpyi jDlr vorcei in high Jife at present would to; pruve the case’r- she appears hi: atahd as- geod a sBbw for happiness ■Wjth.the man of her o f n s.election And jwrchasej A t h l e t i c s ■■\.it ;■ ........ r.-■■■;■• v; i Aye Excessive . collegiate Conteiiti^ B y P R O F . HENRY tow 'W flim ' • ClwInBm- Pw!«l<r Co|»inlM«» o a Atlilittic*, WllUamk-'-COlteiei’ '* D u r ing t i e past few years the policy o f ither facu lty cotiuhitf-ee’ on athletics at W illiams college has beeit- t o - pe^ucfe-tlhV. n w » “ her of intercollegiate athletic coiqtests. T h # .faculty iias for- iNDIiNA MOB SEVERELY BEATS k WIFE WHIPPER LATTER FINALLY MAKES HI8 ES CAPE, Vy|TH TWO BROKEN RIBS Aiib MANY BRUISES. m ally approved this policy, and i s in accord w ith th e resolu tion passed by the Intercollegiate A thletic A ssociation of the D n ited States a t its annual m eeting i n Decem b er, 1900, “that inter-class gam e s and intramural sports in general slh^uld be fostered, to the end that a larger num b er o f students .may receive the benefits, and that intercollegiate com p e titions be made rather an incident than the m a in end o f college and university athletic sports.” The trustees of the college support this po sition. T h e reasons f o r th is movement are obvious. Intercollegiate athletic contests have come to assume an undue importance i n the, m in d s h f the undergraduates and o f the public. A m a tter essentially seco n d a ^ Jiajj been m a d e of primary importance. A wholesom e rivalry' h a s -sg r o ^ into an unwholesom e straining for results. T h e educational aim o f cMlCges and im iversities has been obscured. A judicious lim itation of th e num b er of intercollegiate athletic con tests w ill tend to remove the emphasis now placed on th e public and spectacular side, and to place it where it belongs, o n the sid e o f the greatest good to t h e greatest number. Too rapid head grow th m - a tree is remedied, and th e m a in branches are developed, by pruning at the tip. ^ B londe R a c e s B y i n ^ O u t . Aji Germ learn to pif ;them so expert with their clothing. On ihelr heacla w a ^ e a r r r ih s su n i and ammunttiqn, *h«jr-,eam,k^ri,-AhveraJ'hhW yariiA/ In every coxmtry where scientific, obser vations have been made th e fa ir com p lexion proves t o be dying out. I t w ill vanish alto gether unless the decline is checke,d- Uvery- where the conclusion is the sam e— a dark type supercedes the fair. A few years ago the British M edical Journal raised objec tions fo some o f th e argum e n ts advanced, but at tha close it m o u r n fully adm itted that “the fair hair so m u ch beloved h;^ poets and artists seem s to be encroached upon and even replaced by that of darker hue.” I t is a m elancholy prospect for the esthetic. E-ven peoples like the Spanish and Italian s , w ith whom black locks are the rule, conceive celestial beings as fair. B u t I apprehend that consequences m ight follow even graver than th e Ipss of beauty. ■ - I t cannot be a n accident that nearly all those conquering races which were also colonizers have been fair. Perhaps there is only one indisputable exception— the A rab; f o r of-the tribes which furnished a large proportion o f the Bom a n armies i n the earliest tim e som e were blonde, doubtless, as B; E. G. HINNIGK. th^ Sanmite.' So i t w a s irath fhe-Spam’sh conquerors; one m a y see^ fl^ e n hair, blu e eyte, and. Sven red eliqeks’ in Costa Ih c a , Segovia, and;el^ & r e r e n o t infrequently tt> thih day^. B u t s e t against th e darkji,colonizing’ people w h ich Jn igh t he foun d the m u ltitude of Gauls, T eutdas, Slavs, Greeks, Scandinavians^ English, in Europe; Persians, M edes, In d ian Aryans, A fghans o f A sia; the preponderance o f the fair i s overwhelm ing. M r .. L e P e e r ’ d iscusses the soldierlike qualities o f each nationality represented in the Prench foreign legion, and there were m a n y . B e finds h im s e lf rmable tp set one above another for courage, “ but,” he proceeds, “ there was one d a s s o f m en far more lively, far less given to gm m h ling, and altogether possessed of more brilliancy and resilience of tem p eram ent than the others. T h is was th e inen o f fair com plexion. A ll fairbaired7B u e ^ y i^~aQ lS iefs^Beenied able to w ithstand bad conditions of liv in g more easily a n f better than their dark complpxioned comrades.” I f th is com p lexion be dedining now and vanish in g , those w h o fancy that “the Aryan is played out m a y find there a striking confirmation of their views. T h e fact is assured, a t any rate, and the cause of it ascertained; the constitution indi cated by ligh t hair and eyes is not adapted to the conditions o f tow n life. The old Quakers were tau g h t to cherish the value o f m o n ey and the fe.ar of God. Nowadays we value money and fear nobody. W omen who were form e r ly rom a n tic and un practical are learning to attach a new im - .portance to wealth, and especially to wealth that belongs to them. Indeed, if we probe to the root o f m o st conjugal unhappiness, i t wiU be found in money. J u s t aS our fore fathers bhperfully cried, “ C herchez la feln- m e !” so we now shrewdly ask\: “Where*. !* the money?” Aloney governs all things— habits, custom s, pleasures, pains, i t is the . cause o f the great struggle, never ending^ TiaVfes” and the “haye Hots”— the wages of. life , and Soxne W h ence do P o w e r o f t h e P u r s e S t r i n g s By U W VIOLET eiEyilLE. Laporte, Ind,—'William Tolton, ■who, 'five ye#r0 ago, was saved by the au- I^ofltles from being lynched by an In furiated;-mob, at Westyllle, this coun ty, under the impression .that.he had murdered his wife and thrown her body into a pond, had another ex perience the other day with a mob, from which he escaped with two broken ribs and numerous cuts and bruises. Though badly beaten, he will recover. Tolton, who Is a middle-aged man. Is one of the characters of town. He has no regular occupation, but after a previous experience with the law. They Gave Him a Beating. when he faced a murder charge till his wife, returned from Chicago, where she had unexpectedly gone bn a visit, he kept out of serious difficulty until the other day, when he took a notion to whip his wife. This trouble is said to have resulted from the wife’s taking the part of Edith Lang- mai^ her daughter by a previous mar riage, ■whom Tolton ,had whipped be cause he said she was not behaving. After Tolton had abused his daugh ter and the wife expostulated, 'Tolton' threw his wife and daughter out of the house, and followed this by pitching out the furniture with the exception of a bed, table and a few other articles. Neighbors were incensed, and when Tolton left the house they seized him and gave him such a beating that when he escaped he returned to the house and barricaded the doors and wlndos'ws. In the meantime an affidavit had been filed looking to his arrest; A warrant was issued by Mrs. Clara M. Hess, said to be the only woman jus tice of the peace In the state, but the town marshal and the township con stable were unable to dislodge Tolton, and, although the entire population of 200 people was at their backs, they did not venture to break Into the house. The siege continued till midnight, and then Mrs. Hess telephoned to Sheriff Smutzer of this city. The sheriff sent Deputies Anstiss and Marr to \West- —vUle-ln-nn^utomobHey all--speed -laws- being shattered on the run, fqr It was feared that the mob might get rest less and possibly set fire to the Tolton ■home. \When the deputies arrived they de manded that the door be opened, but Tolton, who had a 12-year-old son with him, refused. Then the deputies with af rail battered down the door, which had been nailed and bolted from the inside. Tolton, fully dressed, lay in bed while the door was being forced, and he was -crying when arrested. At' his side stood a loaded shotgun. When asked why he did not use it, he mumbled, “What’s the use?” Being without money or friends, and unable to ^ v e bond, he was committed to ,jall to await grand Jury action. R O W ® ■ n ^ J c A i ’n ' A L Informatton and Gossip Picked Up Heir* and There lit Washln^toiir , Present G>iij3’ess Thus Far Shy on Talk THIS mot A & j*. o a o WASHINGTON.—Investigation dls W closes that congress has not talked so much Curing this session as many of its critics allege. Other congresses have talked more and have .consumed more space in the Congres sional Record. All this in face of the fact that the present has been widely attacked as a do-nothing congress, bent only on end ing the session without passing any measure that could he assailed in the presidential campaign—with each member intent on filling as many pages as possible of the Record with burning thoughts for the edification of hla constituents, and for impressing them with the Idea that the in cumbent is the best possible man to return to Washington. Up to date about 5,000 pages have been taken up in the Congressional Record with the proceedings of con gress—that Is, with its doings and sayings. This looks like a lot of DOG IS GUEST AT WEDDING. Faithful Brutus Attends Ceremony and Marriage Feast, between the o f ns, as has been bitterly said^ rOfteive only a dying wage, m a trim o n ial -w o m es spring ? Pitbln'.the power o f the purse-strings, tigb t- ly-dra'wn, squeezed together, fjm i Parents should give th e i | girls an allowance, however sm a ll, fr6in their earliest years. T o learij,, economy, it is necessaiy to spend; And how can one spend tvhat one has not got? K eeping accounts is .an adf m irahle practice, th o u g h the great D r. Johnson scofied a t it. “^^Mou -woii’t eat less beef tO-dajy” he said, “ because you have w r itten dotvn w h a t i t cost you yesterday.’’ Prom, whidh utterance yon can gauge th e good .dOei tor’s capacity for hOuse-keepingi. T h e 'woman who keeps accounts holds,, the m a stery o f her fate in Bet hands. She does h o t d r i f t -with th e tid e e t worry foolishly,'. She can prepare for eventualities, and jealonsly preseiv6 th a t valuehjfe toargln which th e ivise Micttwber deefared m u s t alVvayS iprove the bounaary lin e between hap|)inesa and m isery. B h t why, after all, m n s t siieh, a sordid affair a s money einhitten oW liyeg and Tide onT conduot? yVhy can We not be like those simple SieiHa^^^ia;^e^a.^ for art and good-fellowsbip, who say they do not cam foh 4^166 sddohg,AS . * 1 , , - ...... . 'mne has a roof and enough to eat,>’ -im poro di paste, e vino tosso, And s MS'tne money; beyond tbah? We Italians do npt believe liq wOlking more ^an il ' W* ji»Ve .the doke far ;ni^te after wofk' k o'veir, Cincinnati.—Brutus, a big New foundland dog. Was an honored guest at the wedding of„MIss Marjorie RIner Sayler, daughter of the late Nelson Bayler, and John Lawrence Hawkins, a prominent Baltimorean. The wed ding was one of the most fashionable of the season here. . Years ago, when the bride was a mere child, the big dog saved her from drowning, and Since then Brutus has been her constant companion. Hq has walked sedately at her side when she took long country walks, and has raced at her horse’s heels when she ' chose riding. The dog was present when the cere mony .was performed by the Rev. Dr. Dudley Rhodes, and wore a huge white boW OH his collar in honor of the iOvent At the wedding supper Bru- ;tns was served with the rest of the guests though not at the table. Work of Sjjartina Grasses, pr. Qtto. Stapf described the re clamation •Work pOirformed by Spartina grasses, wfiich,, hesalrf, spread by un- der^qund. Shoots .and seed,, which Was qisperseq by tides and currents, aad presumably by water birds. Certain space, and would appear to the casual observer to afford room for a. lot of legislation, as well as a great deal of conversation. But as the average con fe s s does things and talks about them, it is not so much. For example, the second session of the Fifty-ninth confess,; wbffih ended on March 4, of last year, flllqd nearly as much space In the Record as has this session up tn the middle qf April, 1908. The first, session of the Fifty-ninth congress had filled more space by several hundred pages. Similarly, the present congress will stand comparison -with several other talkative congresses. The longest speech in either house-• was made by La Follette. The sen ator from Wisconsin consumed the larger part of three days In attack ing the Aldrich hill. The Browns ville case has not occupied a great deal of senate time thus far, but there are several speeches yet to be made upon It. Aside from the fact that the senate- has not indulged in much protracted talk. It has not been working as a body as regularly as usual this ses sion. Most of the time It has been ad journing over from Thursday to Mon day—which Is not true of the house. But if congress cannot fairly be ac cused of talking more than usual, it must be admitted. that it is going a rapid pace In the matter of Introduc tion of bills.' In, the house alone ■about 21,000 have been-fartreduced up to date—an average of nearly 50 for each member. Queer Actions of G)unt Gizycki Recalled .WrASHINGTQN society Is keenly In- if . terested in the contemplated di vorce proceedings between the Count and Countess Gizycki and is recalling the unusual conditions under which the engagement of the count and the former Eleanor Patterson of Chicago was made known. \When the parents of Miss Patterson became convinced that their daughter was serious in her attachment for the Polish nobleman every effort was made to put an end to the affair. This was in 1903, soon after .Miss Patterson had returned froni St, Petersburg, ■where she had bee^ visiting hbr 'aimt, Mrs. Mcdormlck, wife of the then American ambassador to Russia. One day, without the slightest warn ing, the count appeared in Washing ton. Society was startled at the un expected visit, but much more so when Miss Patterson made a round of visits to her particular friends and announced her engagement to the count Her parents are said to have been keenly annoyed by their- daughter’s action, and some means of making the engagement formally known then -was decided upon. Mr. Patterson -was genuinely provoked, and insisted that the engagement should be announced merely without the formula stating that the parents of the prospective bride authorized it Mrs. Patterson, it is said, seeing that her daughter was fully determined.to become- the Countess Gizycki, persuaded her hus band to make the announcement in the regular way. The wedding fol lowed soon. In. his visit to Washington, Count Gizycki was not Invited to h e a guest at the Patterson home, but remained at the New Willard, where he occupied a room on one of the upper fioors, and in the least desirable section of the- house. He was attended by a man ■servant, who came, to the hotel when needed. After the \wedding the coimt left the Patterson home and returned to the hotel to get his luggage, and It ■was currently rumorfed that he did not gt> back to the Patterson mansion for his bride, but telephoned that ho would meet her at the station, and that the new countess left her home In company with her parents and her brother. Roller Skating Popular at the Capital IITASHINGTON has more skates to W the square mile than any other city In the union. There Is no call for opponents'of the liquor traffic to view this statement with alarm. It merely means that the capital’s long stretches of almost perfect asphalt pavements afford an ideal surface for roller skating and that people take ad vantage of the condition. In Washington roller skating is as much a business as I t is a pleasure. A stranger is surprised by the num ber of persons he sees flitting about on rollers. People skate to and from business in Washington. So general Is the habit that traction companies complain of dwindling revenue. In Pennsylvania avenue between the treasury and capital the skaters out number automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles two to one. One might ex pect to see children, in a majority, but more grownups skat* In Washing ton. Itis a dally sight in F street’s shop ping district to see young yrbmeat, and matrons, as well, swing to the cm:b In front of a department store, slip off their skates and enter, bearing them In their hand, ready to be donned again when the shopping is done. In some of the shops skates may be checked. Gray bearded men plug along sedate ly, twisting and turning to avoid wag ons and trolley cars with the nimblest of the youngsters. Some of the elders are so skilled in the art that they manage to maintain a respectable rate of speed while reading a news paper or a magazine, but few take these chances unless the street is reasonably free Jrom traffic. Butcher bdys deliver steaks and chops on skates; the clash and ring of the tiny wheels betokens the ap proach of the matutinal rolls and cream; the newsboys skate; letter car riers in the outlying routes use atetes to get about speedily and easily. Lovers no longer, stroll about in the parks, but glide hand In .band where the skating Is good and in streets where the elpctric lights are not too thickly sprinkled. A roofed- over skating rink Would starve to death In Washington, where almost every one has rink room gratis In front of his door. Chinese Minister 'Is Now “Poctori’ Wu W HEN the former minister from .. China was restored to his pres tige and returned to 'VYashlngton as minister, everybody fell'Into the old habit of calling him Mr* \Wu as Of yore. But Jt seems that since he left these shidfes; various academic honors have fallen to his lot. . The degree of doctorate hats been conferred by the Hoyal totYdrslty of Peking. The Germans, toA, have taken; note of ccr. tain economib efforts oft'the diplomat and have enrolled him '*’6uhong thd savants of t h # imperial institute. The minister Is very paftlctiiar about hlB title. He takes a* hiUeh delight In being addressed h* doctor tw g youth who has Just ft^en bis Sheqp- skln from a medical 'schooL He cor rects gli lapses Intp “Mr.” ahd all his official documents’ and letthr ’ paper hear his ne'w title. MK'Wq, \so rumor has It, Would like to receive degrees from American universities, and he is delvlhg into'historic'research which will lead to such hohCrs; Though he has iai’tvays pfblesiSd the utmost adrnlratl'On of American meth ods, he has chosen thb University of Oxford as the place to-edutaiiC his only son. This young;, mah* itegan his career In letters at the Washington high school, and aftef graduating there we*t to: a military school a t Atlantic ;Caty, He is how ifi the uniTersity a t Pehlhg. He intends to attfdy iayf with m excursldH Into the domain Of Uihslc. Young Wu is a delightful periOriner on vio; and piano, and i t Is as much his ambition to aWaken Chlag. tou«caliy as it fs of H i Ijrualrlous fettiAffd' cOjn- w e Cmfiese ecoiiomid ■tnaiiwakenlhg r : '•• - wUS I m< J Si ^ cll of tho often of mi notat •old b nent later whicl jOf th end 0 It sta of the rende scout] fighte eers, the s( chief Mlsso to a c rlvalr fell s cratei Joum Then a s a were Toomi ■mont; gun neces timbe sougl ■move now ■mere has raze ■■'V.
