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L 4 K % ' if 'r ,1 ’' T h e P o r t v i W e f e v i e w , JtAS. W. FAIRCHILD, Prop. tOETVILLE. J. i Jl X N. V. maker. it to the marines, The departing guest at a Japa hotel always receives a gift, usually a towel. 1.-' -Hie..:- ^ ' -.-.V. I.'v,\-.' -.1 . ; ... •. •t Why C on servation 3ave the Waste; Develop Our Resources By GIFFORD PINCHOT, Chlel of Foreatfy Department United Staten Dept, of A|{rlcnltiire. New York's subway is being ex- posed again, but it has never yet been fully aired. Most of us who are the architects of our own fortune only get a chance to build air castles. It is difficult to preserve one’s gravi ty in the presence of a man who says he has suspended his. A Jersey minister has married 1,000 couples. The strange feature is that he’s bragging about it. The man who threatens suicide Is usually the first to yell for a musta'rd plaster if he has a pain. With the vindictiveness of a woman bound to get even with the literary critics, Marie Corelli has shot out an other book. The end of the honeymoon is well in sight when a man complains of the number of buttons on the back of his wife’s blouse. If life were a melodrama, we’d get our reward in the fifth act. As it is we have to wait until the final curtain has dropped. The man who is compelled to look life in the face would often, after close inspection, prefer to turn his back upon it. Some of the suffragette banners are described as highly artistic and deco rative. The ornamental instinct will not be suppressed. There is only one person more in sistent than an Insurance agent, and that is a woman discussing the per fections of her baby. Now that the country has been sc generally denuded of forests all the year round is the reason for disas trous American floods. SL Louis is talking of having an “ugly dog show.” Dachshunds and prize bulldogs are to be excluded in order to give the other dogs a chance. What with bank robberies, hold-ups and desperate encounters, the small person in search of the sensational need only read the newspapers nowa days. The war department is going to issue a new cook book for the army. In this book the menu will lead the simple life,- and incidentally, so will the consumers. The conservation of natural resources has often been taken to mean simply the prevention of waste. It does mean the saving of those resources which we are now engaged in using, but this definition is too narrow., The conservation of natural resources in cludes both the prevention of destruction and the pre vention of waste from nonuse. Conservation means development not less than saving. There are two forms of waste: One is such as takes place in the destruction of our forests or the waste of our soil from washing. There is no better example of this form of waste than the frightful and wholly unnecessary forest fires, which, in the last few months, have caused the loss of tens of millions of dollars in property and many human lives. Another illustration is found. in the enormous loss of fertility which the farmer suffers by the washing of soil from his best fields into the water courses to pollute their currents clog their channels, and^entail large expense for its removal. The other form of waste is far less spectacular, but no less real, When we allow the tens of millions of potential horsepower in our streami to go to waste for lack of usC^*^ are breaking the law of conservation almost as fully as if the streams themselves were destroyed. When we allow the water power to flow unused we draw unnecessarily and waste- fully upon our stores of coal and fuel oils to replace the power we waste by nonuse. When we fail to use the rivers for navigation, we make huge and unnecessary drafts on our supply of iron and coal. It is estimated that to transport freight by water requires less than one-half as much coal and iron as to transport it by rail. Unnecessary use is waste. When our coal and iron are gone they will be gope forever. Water power wilHast as long as the sun gives us rain. Let us fix it firmly in our minds that conservation means develop ment aa much as it means prevention of waste. Conservation is the com mon sense use of all the resources of this great country of ours Jor the best good of all the people for the longest time, and it demands develop ment just as insistently as it demands the preservation of bur resources and their efficient and economical use. Lesson of the Faded Leaf By KEV. W. C. BITTING. Selroit. In reflecting upon the possible fu ture of the airship as a freight carrier allow your mind to dwell tor a moment upon the Impracticability of establish ing custom houses in the air. The report that a Russian prince la about to marry an American singer is disquieting. It is enough • for foreign nobility to be marrying our money without also cornering our talent. How many Chicago people know, for instance, that Chicago has considera bly more thanr 3,000 acres of public -that these parfcr are~re= garded as models for all the world? A Chicago woman, guided by a spir it, found a large sum of money. A man, guided by spirit, finds it hard enough to find his way home without adding treasure-seeking to his trou bles. • Automatic announcers, it is reported, are to tell the streets as the cars ap- ipjcoach them. “Automatic” sounds rather wooden for the fob, but any kind will beat what street car patrons get pow as a rule. WllhUr Wright has beaten the world's record In the matter of sail ing in an. airship and is now king of the air. But at present his kingdom is but a sparsely populated one, thougll it is hard to say when It will not be of many subjects. Idle and inconsiderate persons take pleasure in putting freak addresses ■on letters, to test the ingenuity of the sclerks in deciphering puzzles. The firltlsh postmaster general has very properly given orders that government employes must not hereafter waste -their time, which is public money. In trying to decipher intentional crypto- grains. Many a poet has written of autumn- leaves. They tell most persons a true but melancholy story of how life budded, was green, flourished for a sununer, then ri pened, turned brown, fell and became the sport of winter winds. But that is not the tale with the one who makes a wonder ful prayer of which our tpxt is a part. He speaks of an inner self that has gone through moral experiences, not physical. “We are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment; and we all do fa^e and our iniquities, like the wlndj t a ^ iK' away. And shall we be saved ?” This man is kin to us all. We share his con fession, for who is there of us that in serious moments has not said the same thing ? The tr^fest patriot is a good citizen. Every person in our land who tramples justice in dealing with another, who crushes righteous ness in civil or commercial realms, who is a mere idler in luxuiy, whose occupation is degrading to himself or others, is turning our leaf from green to browm. The shiftless poor, and- the idle rich; the an archist who wants no law at all, and the equally bad anarchist who thinks to buy exemption from obedience to law; the bribe givers and takers; the criminals of bottom, mid dle-and top o i Qur social order, all help to tear from our foliage the leaves that are for the healing of na tions. Every institution that harms our national life must go, if our .glory is to stay. But, there can be no fading nation unless there are faded men and women. There is no such a thing as a nation apart from the persons who make it. How many a high purpose has become only the acrobat of present morajjdeeline, as our low lives turn it over and over, as the October wind does the faded leaf! • In; Germany the princes of the Im- y ' pbrial fsimlly do not have to run for ; ' .fofeee., JChey are bom elected, so the . i Jlmb'of the family who Is cutting so' .that his form may ’ re- , ttfrii ’to its sylpbllke shape of 'former ■ years will not have to join the wood- ; union or get It in the neck ■ ,;; at the polls. All German soldiers must learn to awinl. Botoie of them are so expert on their beUdS ;and' carrying ^nS and ammunl- ■ilOn, thqy can swlni. streams several hundred yards Wifie, The fact that thd street railways of Chicago are trying to prevent women itettjng pa the care backwards; should . protest from every thinking ipieinbefcpf ;t|e Se'it,', It is an Infringe-' Great Men Remain 0|?scure By AM HA? K8ECKEE Prophets long have been known to re ceive honors save in their own land. But even in foreign parts many of the greatest are relatively without recognition. Like the gold and .-silver and precious stones that are hidden in the earth, and like the impal- , ,pable air that sustains our life, and like the invisible electricity that does onr work, some of the most forceful, vitalizing, useful of the world’s citizens are those, whose work is nnlmowu, whose personalities are ob scure, whose value is not at all evident to the world whom they sustain and nohrish with their teeming thought. This is one of the findings of Lester F. Ward, himself a luminous in- Btance of the concealment of the great. Although the sociologists of America pronounce him facile princeps among them, and although there have been appreciations from abroad, even the foreign' scientific circles are laP^Ply uriaequainted with his momentous contributions to knowledge. And US for the world at large the ajithor Of “Dynamic Sociology,” of “Pure Applied Sociology,” with their epoch making ideas, is a nonentity, ■the facts in turn -which Dr. Ward has mustered in support of his magnifi cent theories are themselves tbe -unrenowned croppings of innumerable laboratories and almost unknown, men, scientific investigatory pursuing their toilsome researches -with little fame and less fortune, apostles, al beit, of human gladhess and comfort, priests in the cult of truth \arid reason. It is they that dispover the laws which lesser minds can apply, that give us our wireless telephones, our airships, our turbines, our serums! But the world knows^Iess about the greatest among them than it tells of in ev^^ evening’s entra’actes above the average chorus lady of the ; aiienfc ^ ip^tticohted right th^at htTi chatters every morning about the average 4ghter atrS less thaii it argues every afternoon about the areruee DoUtioian of .lhe a'fcrage plank Arid parity. WIBELEGS t o STEER tORPEDOi Young Bostoiffa^ Harnesses Ether Waves for Duty Under Water, Boston.—^An ingenious young man of Charlestown, the district of Boston that produced the inventor of the elec tric telegraph, is confident that he has discovered just how to harness Hert zian waves, so as to employ them in making submarine torpedoes dirigible and dischargeable at the behest of an operator aboard ship or on* shore. Patent rights have been applied for by this young experimenter, whose name Is Charles A. Logue, Jr. Mr. Logue, who is a student at Boston college, and 21 years oldi has tor years been Interested in scientific Inquiry, and since the first practical achievements in wireless telegraphy has devoted a great deal of attention to the study of ether waves and their possibilities. After months of diligent sfTort he succeeded, some months ago. In influencing the course of a mock :orpedo in a tank of water. After uany trials he succeeded at last in steering the tiny craft in the tank in any desired direction, and when the attention of William J. Doolan, a tor pedo expert at the Charlestown na-vy Vard, was directed to it, Mr. Doolap made an examination and decided to take a working model of tbe apparatus to Washington. DUKE ENDING TOUR OF GLOBE. Cousin of Spanish King In New York After Interesting Journey. New York.—Under the incognito of “M. de Villlers,” Ferdinand duo de Montpensier,. brother of the queen ol Portugal, cousin of the king of Spain, brother of the Due d’Orleans, son pi the Comte de Paris au3 .|p;aridson pi Louis Philippe, king of the Prench,* Is at the Hotel Knickerbocker, having MC.&WNTfiINm - ' -g liPS — - compTefed all hut the final stage of air adventurous and interesting journey around the world. Accompanied by his chamberlain, the Comte de Bernis, and one servant, the duke left Paris list winter, wenl rhinocerous hunting In an automobile in Africa with the Bashaw of Algeria, shot elephants in Indo-Chlna and toured 450 miles through Chinese Jun gles in the course of an exciting dash to Pekin by motor. Next he expects to start for Canada, where,, as the guest of members of the Laurentian club, he will participate in a moose hunt. After a few days more in New York he will go to Mexico and then depart for Spain. What Makes a Navy. While the maritime nations of the earth are striving for the mastery of the, seas through the building of gi gantic vessels, we may content our selves with the thought that here we have the men and the spirit that makes for victories. Sincerely it Is to be hoped that It will be long ere we shall be called upon to test our prow- eai^galnst these latest developments iri^aval architecture, but if the time does come we can comfort ourselves with the reflection that a gathering of ships does not make a navy—-now as always it is the man behind the btin.—Washlngtott Herald. , LlahthoMtes on British Coasts. There is a lighthouse to every 14 miles of coast lii England, to every 34 miles in Ireland uid to every gi iriles ill Scotland. ROUND THE CAPITAL Information and Gossip Picked Up Here and There in Washington. Squanders $4,000,000 in Five Years n r ASHINGTON.—Countess Julia W. W L. Seckendorf, the dashing beauty who rose from lady’s maid to mistress of millions of dollars, through which she ran In five years, declares that she had no regrets because her for tune has been squandered. The countess Is now said to be at least $100,000 In debt, and was forced to undergo the humiliation of seeing the last of her property sold at a debt sale. “I spent It when 1 had It,” the beau tiful countess Is reported to have re marked to a friend. \I haven’t any regrets now that It is gone. Some people have money, hut they won’t spend It. Frankly, 1 can not see what good It does them.” The career of the countess, who Is an American girl, is as romantically Interesting as that of any woman In the world. Once the lavish entertainer of cabi net members, ambassadors, senators and social lights in Washington, the Countess Seckendorf, who five years ago fell heir to the $4,000,000 estate of her second spouse, gained a reputa tion as a spender, tearfully watched her last possessions passing into the hands of others to the accompaniment of the droning voices of auctioneers. It Is said that the countess owes about $100,000, although the figure has not been authoritatively announced. Some years ago -Miss Julia Davidson, the present Countess, entered the em ploy of Mrs. John O. Donner as maid. The Donners had a daughter named Elsie, and Miss Davidson cared for the child. About six years ago Mrs. Donner died and Donner married Miss David son. Immediately the house became the center of social life among the wealthy people of the district. Serv ants seemed everywhere, and the new Mrs. Donner began to enjoy life to the utmost. Her millionaire husband was devot ed to her and his affection was re turned. Elsie, Donner’s daughter, still lived on the estate. After Bonner's death five years ago Mrs. Donner came into the great for tune. She went to .Washington and mingled with the fashionable set there, meeting the count, who captured her heart. She soon squandered her money. Leper- t o J l ave Home with His Family *|»HB strict isolation in which John R. 1 Early has been kept by the district health officers is to be broken. 'Within a short time Early is to be permitted to live with his family. That Is, h e will be allowed to dwell in the same house, but will not come in direct contact with them. He will have his o'wh sleeping apartmentj-hed linen, towels, dishes and other domes tic appliances. This has been practically decided upon by the health officials. 'The plan will not be carried Into effect until the commissioners have received the re port from the solicitor of the treasury as to whether or not the federal au thorities have power to transport the leper to North Carolina, the latter’s home state, regardless of the fact that that commonwealth has refused to accept him. Although the decision has not been forwarded to the commissioners, it Is known that the solicitor’s opinion is adverse. He has said that the federal department is powerless to act, and has reported to the secretary of the treasury to that effect. The commissioners will take no ac tion until thev have received the opinion in official form from' the latter. That Earijr is to he a permanent care of the district is the conviction of the officials. Plans for Early’s future care and treatment have beem, discussed by Health Officer 'Woodward and Dr. Wil liam Fowler, chief of the contagious disease service. It Is settled between them that the strict Isolation of the af flicted man is to be broken. It is considered likely that some old -buildingJjekmglng to the district will be turned over to the leper and his family for habitation and he will be in structed to provide for himself and keep his own quarantine. In the event that this building cannot he procured it may be that Early will bo permitted to live in th® house near the asylum grounds now occupied by his wife and child. On the other hand, it may be suggested to him that he buy a small place In tbe sub urbs. Physicians In charge' of Early are considering a plan to Inoculate him with the leprosy bacilli, which consti tutes the recently discovered Nastin cure of the malady. This method is said to have cured the disease in sev eral Instances, when used while the disease was in its early stage, as in the case of Early. Early clings to the faint belief that his disease is not leprosy, and that the. physicians have made a mistake in diagnosing his case. He does not favor this new treatment Welsh Singers Refute Preadent’s Wine “G what 25 husky Welshmen thought when offered some of Presi dent Roosevelt’s sherry at the con clusion of a White House concert the other evening. What each really said was: “No, thank you; none for me.” The Welshmen gave a private con cert for the edification of the 'White 'H'niiRB family. The event slid along like a hunk of tallow on a hot stove pipe. The president nearly blistered his hands applauding the “Men of Har lech.” Mrs. Roosevelt’s face was suf fused with pleasurable enjoyment at the rendition of “Old Black Joe.” The bad guess apd l£s consequences came as the last 'Words of the final chorus drifted out of an open win dow. An attendant came. Into the room nlftily juggling an enormous tray containing 25 glasses of sherrj’. He tendered a glass to the first man at the end of the line with black clothes and a white choker. He de clined with thanks. The next three men also refused. The other 21 had their mouths open ready to make similar announcement. The waiter likewise opened his mouth, but in astonishment. He rea lized that an awful blunder had been made somewhere. In a dazed manner he waved the tray until It was again waving around his head and hastily plunged from the room. Every mem ber of the Mountain Ash choir Is a total abstainer. Civil War Veteran Returns Pension V rESPASIAN WARNER, commlsslon- of pensions, told President Roosevelt the ofher day of a remark able case of stricken conscience. Some time ago the commissioner received a letter from a pensioner of the civil war surrendering his certificate and enclosing two $500 coupon bonds of the United States and a draft ?or $172, thereby making full restitution to the government of all money he had re ceived on account of the cer'fiflcate of pensions. Commissioner Warner refused to give the name of the soldier and de clared he bad not disclosed it to the treasurer of the United States, to whom was turned over the conscience money. When the conscience contribution first arrived the commissioner caused an examination to be made of the rec- o'rds ln-lhe-x:ase» Qn the showing the veteran was entitled to his pension beyond a question. A special exam iner was sent out to make an investi gation on the theory that the soldier might be mentally irresponsible. The conscience-stricken man was found to be in excellent health and of sound mind. Thereupon the ac count With conscience was declared closed and the bonds and money were turned into the miscellaneous receipts of* the treasury department. JUST A CHEAP ONE. Campaign Spellbinder Could Have* Done Much Bkter for $25. He had made a fair speech In favor of his political candidate for governor and against the other, and when he had finished a friend stepped forward and shook hands with him and said: \I want to cOinpliment you on your effort. It was groat.” “Then you liked my remarks, eh?” “They were bang-up. I didn’t know it was Im you to orate the way you did.\ “O, I did fairly well, I guess. But you must remember at the same'time: that this was only a 'cheaU speech. The regular orator failed them, and they rung me In lor f 15. Of course, I could not spread myself lor that. Say, I wish I had been making a' regular $25. speech. If I had been I should have called the opposition candidate » liar.” . ' \I should have shown his utter un fitness for offish’. “1 should: have proved that his elec tion Would ruin the country. “I should'have advanced statistics to chill the biodd. “I should have appealed to my hear ers not to bring about a state of an archy and bankruptcy. “I ifhould have summoned every patriot in the audience to go to the polls early and. die for American lib erty. “I should have trotted out Bunker Hill, the Affidrfcan eagle and the star- spangled banner and •waved them around until men would have busted a -lung in cheering for them. *^As I said, this waS only a cheap effort—-a few remarks for $15, but if they have pleased you and strength ened your belief In onr cause, why— Why-^\ -And they dtank together and fig- Urd^ 'but that the country was saved ngrilri.-^01ridinnatl BritWJraf. 4 ( pre mo coi T po3 for Vic me coi be( lav ] mi he hei Ap SCI ( ar( cn mi mi Ch ■wc an hi! he mi io: '63 In: a i ce ca In te th ai h( ih Ci ■w SI tc • ai d) h! oi ir fc tc c: a b 0 .'/■I
