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AND LOWV/LLE TIMES. H. A. PHILUPS PUBLISHING COMPANY. LOWVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1909. VOLUME 50. No. 31. OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Items of Interest from Glorious Gotham. The Defence of New__Yj>rk—Famine I Feared—Bingham's Blow—Fact Finish—Actor's Alter TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. New York, June 15.—With twenty thousand soldiers manning: every inch of the coast defenses of this port, Go- tham is to-day practically held under armed rule while its force of regulars plays war with several coast artillery from the of costly ammunition are each hour being volleyed from the mighty cannon upon which Uncle Sam has staked the safety of this city. From the batteries of Wadsworth, Hamilton, Totten and Schuyler, the foremost fortresses of this harbor, broadsides are being belched in a constant campaign to stand off whole squadrons' of imaginary in- vaders. Side by side in the trenches the boys of the volunteer service are laboring with grizzled regulars while the officers of all branches are plotting together their intricate plans of coast warfare. Never has New York seen a stronger showing of its defending forces and no one is grading them one hour of their military occupation. Starvation and sickness are to-day threatening to sweep the poorer quar- ters of this town where every form of meat has now jumped some ten cents a pound in price since the first of the year. In this week alone the prices of the retail butchers were raised from 10 to 15 per cent., while the meat men promise further advances next week. Steak, chops, mutton, lamb, pork, poultry and chickens have advanced from one to five cents a pound and no one can see any hope, of future reces- sion in these starvation prices. T5 the poor of the East Side and the uptown tenement districts these prices are proved to be prohibitive. Meat once a week, meat once a month or no meat at all are the rules which are to-day being adopted by the worried house- wives of the tenements who are strug- gling to bring their children through the siege of summer. Every one blames every one else for the Badly soaring meat prices and no one can locate the responsibility for what may prove a fatal condition here. Sensations such as have rarely been revealed to this town are promised be- fore the present inquiry of the mayor in- to the methods of Bingham's bluecoats is finally disposed of. While the police commissioner's enemies both in the force and out of it are to-day rushing to help beat down his defense in the heckling that McClellan has ordainned, it is more than likely that later devel- opments may make them turn tail and run to cover. Friends of the police head are whispering that he has trump cards which will startle and shock the whole community when he is pushed to lay them down. Bingham has had /Plenty of time and opportunity to learn the\ secrets of this town*'4fia~iW>- one would be surprised if his final defense should implicate in most unpleasant ways many a man who has heretofore escaped the slightest suspicion. With a thousand men working day and night on the finishing touches of its gigantic structure, Manhattan Bridge has to-day been promised to the public before the leaves begin to fall. In this fourth bridge to span the East <*»iver, Gotham is now receiving the most remarkable case of prompt build- ing bridge on record. Months before the contract date and only a year after the first work was begun on its suspen- sion, this third largest structure of its kind in the world is to be finished and ready for the public. It has taken the labor of 300 men each day since the bridge was begun to bring about this unusual result and never has a day gone by without at least this number of faithful workers on the job. New York is proud of her new bridge and its speedy opening will mean great good each day to hundreds of thousands of the people across the water. No change in the Fifth Avenue world t)f swell society here is creating more comment than the remodelling of the two famous Astor residences from one of which the late leader of the 400 issued her decrees for years. Colonel Astor is to-day causing the two houses to be made into one for his own especial uses and the hand of the brutal builder seems actually about to pull apart and alter the arrangements sanctioned by the former society leader. Within the walls of these two particular structures the exclusive of holies has always been maintained and an invitation to pass within them always meant social suc- cess of the highest kind. What the walls reshaped will hold for the younger aspirants to social leadership nobody can say. • Mead. GIVES AWAY $25,000 A DAY. Mrs. Russel Sage is Establishing Record in Charities. Big Concern Will Invest $4,000,000 in Fleet of Canal Boats for Erie and Barge Canal. A new freight transportaion line has been organized to operate boats on the Erie canal. It is to be known as the New York, Buffalo and Great LakeB Transportation Company and is capital- ized at $250,000, which will soon be in- creased to $4,000,000. Three fleets have already been purchased, most of the boats being nearly new. It is planned to purcahse several more boats next regiments of i summer. Owing to the size of the locks militia. Tons of the present canal'the boats will be of short length and beam, but they are to be built of sufficient height to allow of loading about nine feet draft. By building them this way they can be con- verted into boata of greater capacity when the barge canal is completed. Oil will be used for fuel by the power boats in place of coal as heretofore has been the custom. THE ENGLISH SCARE Critical Battle Will be Waged in German Ocean. DEATH OF A GREAT MAN. Edward Everett Hale Died Sat- urday in Roxbury, Mats. ROOSEVELT AND THE SOUTH. the Ex- CONDITION OF GRAIN CROPS. Agricultural Department's Report on Wheat, Rye, Oats a«d Barley. Washington, June IB.— Spring wheat condition averages 95.2 per cent; win- ter wheat, 80.7; average sown to> spring wheat, 1,391,000. Rye, condition, 89.6; oats, 888.7; barley, 90.6. This, summarized, was the report of the Department of Agriculture on crop conditions June 1. The spring wheat condition is com- pared with 95 per cent a year ago and 10-year average of 92.6. Winter wheat average is against 83:5 a month ago, 86 a year ago and a 10-year average of 80.5. The spring wheat acreage is 18,- 391,000, or 6.9 per cent more than was sown last year. For important spring Wheat states the June 1 condition this year and the average June 1 condition for 10 years, respectively follow: Minnesota, 96 and 92; North Dakota, 98 and 93; South Dakota, 94 and 54, and Washington, 93 and 94. For important winter wheat states the June 1 condition and 10-year aver- ages, respectively follow: Kansas, 72 and 76; Indiana, 82 and 73- Nebraska, 78 and 84' Missouri,82 and 82; Illinois, 81 and 77; Pennsylvania, 91 and 86; Ohio, 76 and 76; Oklahoma, 73 and 82; California, 75 and 80; Tennessee, 88 and 80; Virginia, 93 and 83: Maryland, y3 and 96; Michigan, 86 and 72; Texas, 76 and 73; Kentucky. 88 and 81; Wash- ington, 90 and 93; North Carolina, 91 and 83 Oregon, 87 and 92; New York 90 and 84;. REVIEWS CONFEDERATES. Fate of the Empire Depends on NavalWas Supremacy in Home Waters, Says Baifour, Addressing Imperial Press Conference. London, June 17. -Arthur Baifour, leader of the opposition in the House of Commons; Secretary of War Hal- dane and Field Marshall Earl Roberts, speaking at the Imperial Press Confer- ence on the defence of the empire, stated that they agreed with every word the Earl of Rosebery and Sir Ed- ward Grey had uttered with regard to the danger of the European outlook and the need of preparation on the part of the British Empire. Baifour declared that the fate of the empire depended upon the maintenance, of naval supremacy i* home waters. The German Ocean, the English Chan- nel and the neighborhood of the British Isles, he said, were the thea- tres in which an Armageddon, should there be one, would jtake place. The fate of Australia, New Zealand. Canada, South Africa or India,he said, was not going to be decided in the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean. Everybody who might attempt to read the signs of the times would agree with the weighty words of Lord Rosebery and Sir Edward Grey. It must be rec> ognized that nobody now speaks on the subject of imperial defence without a note of anxiety in his voice, but there was no panic. In dealing with the problem of ob- taining unity of action in time of grefft imperial emergencies Mr. Baifour said that the individual constituents of the empire never could be safe and never could be powerful and strong if their defence were only local. On the other hand, serious menace to their independ- ence would be impossible as long as the system of imperial defence was ade- quate. ___________ HUGHES FORCES WIN. Chaplain of the United States Senate and a Noted Clergyman and Author—He Was Aged 87 Years. Boston, June 14.—Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale died in his home in Rox- bury last Thursday. News of the death of the distinguished clergyman and chaplain of a the United States Senate shocked Boston to an unusual degree, i because comparatively few knew that Dr. Hale was sick. / A few days ago he was present at a celebration in honor of the 80th birth- day of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, his con- temporary in many of the reform move- ments with which Dr. Hale had been identified for more than 50 years. To the family of the Aged man it had been apparent for some time that his health was failing. In fact, for more than a month his children had been anxious. , i A few day8 ago heart weakness was ! noticed and his condition became alarm- \ fng. His great age, 87 years, militated j against him. In fact, 'he had not been confined to his bed at ajiy stage of his illness. He retired at the usual time but his physician had noted evidence . that led him to warn the immediate j members of the family that the end was not far off. ! On this account be was not left alone. | As the night passed Dr. Hale constantly : became weaker until the end came •about 3 o'clock in the morning. Grouped about Dr. Hale's bedside when the last feeble flicker of life was extinguished were Mrs. Hale, Philip L. Hale, his son, who is an artist; Ellen, his daughter, and the family physicain. The end came peacefully and quietly. : Dr. Hale was born in Boston in April,' 1822, and by training, education and tradition he represented throughout the . 87 years of his life the stock and spirit | of the founders of the Massachusetts j Bay Coloney. He wtis one of the oldest ! Son of Victorious General of Civil War Attends Reunion of Wear- ers of Gray. Memphis, Tenn., Junel 4— Clad -in the rough gray homespun which they wore in the '60's and carrying the ancient rifles, 10,000 United Confeder- ate veterans to-day marched in what was probably the last big .parade in which theyjjvill ever_ participate. The heat was intense, anoTat the sug- gestion of the parade committee the line of march was cut down to about a mile and the counter march was elimi- nated. v Bands from all over the South were interspersed here and there through the procession, and when steps lagged or agred limbs trembled stirring notes of \Dixie\ or \My Maryland\ were sufficient to reinvigorate the marchers. Everywhere were flags—the stars and bars of the lost cause. In the reviewing stand surrounded by the governors of three states was Gen. Fred D. Grant, U. S. A., son of the commander who received the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox. Bearing a strong resemblance to his father, Gen. Grant attracted a great deal of attention and more than one aged hand was brought sharply to visor in salute as the parade passed. REYES TO VISIT U. S. Assemblyman Smith Defeated in His Own Town in Oswego County by HI Vot*«. The first gun in the fight for control of the republican organization in Oswe- go county between the Hughes and anti-Hughes forces was fired when the town of Schroppel, where lives Assem- blyman Frank L. Smith, refused to give him a delegation against Thadius C. Sweet of the same town for a re- nomination. The caucus was the larg- est ever held in the town. Autos and other; conveyances Were pressed into services and .the village of Phoenix, J^Ber*? the contest was held, was the scene of much excitement Both sides had plenty of money and used it When the ballots were counted Smith had lost by 111 votes out ef « total of 673. \- ' • • Smith opposed the Hughes policies in the Legislature last winter. Sweet came out on a platform in favor of Hughes. The county machine was with Smith. The contest will be carried in- to every town in the county. Sweet is a rich paper manufacturer. He has been a member of the republican county committee for eleven years. His victory makes him the leader of the Hughes forces in Oswego county. The indications are that Sweet will be nomi- nated andelected.as it is admitted that Smith'8 defeat put him out of the race. The primaries in all the other wards and towns of the county will be held on August 10. This dispatch does not tell the whole truth. Other matters besides Hughes and anti-Hughes entered into the con- test Factional fights in Oswego county have been lively for some years. AMERICAN HUTS COMPLETED. And an Interesting Letter by President It has been intimated that Mr.Roose- velt lost much of the hold upon their sympathy that he had gained early in his presidency; and he certainly was, at times, and in special localties, bitter criticism. But is it not a fact that the figures of his election in 1904 show that the vote against him in the South was almost the same as the vote against McKinley in his second election? The republicans again carried four congress- man, and in the ex-Confederate States he cut down the, majorities in three cases* and rajs,e4 them, in some jcaaes very slightly, in eight.states, and, in addition,, gained the great State of 1 Missouri, which is, however, a West- ern, rather than a Southern state. The last election may be said to give some indication of the Southern attitude to- ward the \Roosevelt policies/' repre- sented by Taft, and the republicans made further gains in both congress- men and the popular vote; As to the character of Mr. Roosevelt's appointments in the South, it is a fact that he mace a special point of seek- ing for good men, getting advice, when not satisfied with the recommendation of the republican party organizations, from disinterested persons outside of the scramble and jealousies of partisan politics—often from high-minded ex- Confederates. The writer happens to know who some of these un partisan advisers were, and they were men fre- quently of party affiliations opposite to these of the President—men to^jvhom a patriotic executive would naturally turn for sincere and unselfish assist- ance, Mr. Roosevelt's own feeling on the subject is forcibly expressed in a letter to a friend, from which we are per- admmi- Rand init hjaud: ^ of the loudest ctmplaints of Southern- ers and of independent and Democrat Northerners has been that the federal nectedwith the Boston Advertiser many years ago and his first charge as a clergyman was in a church in Worces- ter. He was a prolific writer and had ..for years been allied with the principal which it was alleged in no way repre- sented the people of the states. I have felt that there was a great deal in this attack, and when I took office I made rphi.anthro-pic movetaSIts of ST«5S. ^™ ?K*\Jjl^t^ «_» New York, June 16.—In less than three years Mrs.Russell Sage has spent more than $25,000,000 for public pur- poses and the benefit of mankind. The recent investigation abroad of the ques- tion of workingmen's insurance and the . - \establishment of a gigantic -employ- ! tna r .... ~3nt bureau call attention anew to her r capital. rolific bounty. •It took Russell Sage fifty years to' get $65,000,000. This great sum repre- sented the pinching and scraping to- gether of what amounted to' $3,500 a day for the lifetime of the astute finan- cier. Mrs. Sage is now giving away the fortune at the rate of $26,000 a day. If the widow continues her charities at the pace Bhe has set all will be gone in five years. Comparison ot the finan- cier's power to make money with Mrs. •Sage's faculty of giving it away shows that the widow is giving away $2 in the same time that it took Mr. Sage to ac- cummulate the proverbial \thirty cents\/' — ~ Colombian Executive Takes a Vacation for His Health. 'Washington, June 15.— President Reyes of Colombia is.- to visit the United States. There has been no, official notification of his visit, but private advices received seem to indi- cate he ia already on his way to the United States and will arrive in New York about June 18. It is said President Reyes is coming for his health, which is not good, and that before returning to his own coun- try he will visit Europe. During the absence of Gen. Reye8 the government will be in charge of Gen. Jorge Hol- guin, eminent Colombian politician and government leader. It is said in Washington that Gen. Reyes is not in any way relinquishing the presidency, but is merely taking a vacation. Hia trip is surprising, how- ever, as there has been no intimation of his departure from Bogota, at least not for the United States. There was a message to the State Department some days ago to th,e effect President Reyes had left the Direct Nominations Junket. Albany, June 14.— Senator L. Meade, of Rochester, who probably will be chairman of the joint legislative com- mittee to investigate, {he question of direct nominations, was in Albany to- day on his way to New York to attend the first meeting of the committee to- morrow afternoon. Senator Meade visited the State library, where he ar- ranged to\se~cure~data en~fVte there on the subject of primaries. It is prob- able the committee after organizing will first visit Massachusetts to study its primary system and later go to Pennsylvania. The commoittee will also visit a number of western states where direct nomintaions are in vogue. Jury Awards $20,000 Damages. Poughkeepsie, June 15.—Twenty thousand dollars, the largest verdict ever rendered by a Dutchess county jury, was awarded in supreme court to-day to Mrs. Amelia C. Mayer, of Fishkill, against Miran Karagheusian, a wealthy rug dealer of New York city. Attorneys for the defendant moved to have the verdict set aside as excessive and a new trial granted and Justice Tompkins has reserved hiB decision. September 26, 1908, Mrs. Mayer and her husband and little childTwere com- ing up the post road .below Poughkeep- sie when Mr. Karagheusian's high .power: car collided with the smaller automobile, .throwing Mrs. Mayer and her husband and child into the road. Mrs. Mayer alleged that she was sev- erely injured and is now a physical wreck. Could Not be Better. No one has ever made a salve, oint- ment lotion or balm to compare with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Its the one healer of cuts, aoies,. .. scalds,. eczemaa, salt rheum. For sore eyes, cold sores, chapped hands its supreme. Infallible for plfts. Only 25c at Fr C. Snyder's. ^> —One of the season's problems is to find a present for the June bride that looks as if it cost a good deal more. Work of Building 3,300 Houses in Italian Earthquake Region Finished. Buff alb, June 14.—America's main relief work for the earthquake, suffer ers at Messina, Italy, has been com- pleted. Ernest P. Bieknell, of Washington, D. C, director of the American National Red Cross Society, has just received word that the work of con- structing 3,300 new houses has been finished. Mr. Bieknell is president of the natoinal conference of charities, and correction and came to Buffalo to pre- ide over t^at conference. \Captain R. R. Belknap of the United States navy has just sent me word of the completion of the work,\ said Mr. Bieknell to-day. ''Material for 1,100 of these houses-Was sent to Messina, material for 10,00 to Reggio, material for 300 on. the outskirts . ef Reggio and material for 900 were turned over to the Italian authorities for distribution in small towns in the afflicted district.\ Summer Uniforms for Army. Washington, June 14.—The first step toward clothing the army in a new summer uniform will be taken Thurs- day when a special board of army offi- cers will open bids in Philadelphia for furnishing the new shade of olive drab cotton cloth to the quartermaster's de- partment. At least 825,000 yards of this cloth are desired by the army and in the bids the government makes provision for the purchase of an additional 60 -per cent, if desirable. As fast as the pres- ent uniforms are discarded the new uni- forms will be issued to the soldeirs. Maj. Amos W. Kimball, Capt. John R. Hanney constitute tne board to Hopen the bids. Gift t« Vftssar. Poughkeepsie, June 15.—Rear Ad- miral Uriu of the Japanese Navy and his wife, the Baroness Uriu, who is a graduate of Vaasar .College, were guests of honor during the commence- ment exercises at Vassar. An interest- ing incident of the day was the presen- tation by the Baroness Uriu \to Vassaf College of a large silver bowl, decor- ated in enamel and hammered relief work. The bowl was given to the Baroness by*the Emperor of Japan as a token of his esteem, and when the Emperor learned that the Baroness was to visit America he caused word to* be sent to Her^that she might give the bowTto heir college if she so wished. Usually a gift from the Emperor may not be transferred without offense to the royal donor. —Ask the Lord to bless your garden, but use the hoe to keep the weeds out. State and nation. It is recalled that on returning to Boston, from Washington a few weeks ago, having temporarily relinquished his duties as- chaplain of the Senate, Dr. Hale become ill on the train, but the sickness was ascribed to a disorder of the stomach and he apparently re- covered within a day or two. For three quarters of a century and more,Dr. Hale had been a distinguished p y point as high a grade of men to office in the South as in the North, and that though I would appoint but a limited number of colored men, yet that they should represent the very best type, the Booker Washington type: . N . and I therefore made up my mind that when I could not get a really good man who was a Republican I would un- hesitatingly take a Democrat. . . . This is the course I have carried out to the letter, with the result that my ap- Shk hl SKd^de\ 'HlM^r!. wUh j !*»*«• in the South, taken as a whole &K!_ f-SSSJK. SS J5K 2S£Ml£SX^X8; W!«»iWB8 B V IBUIIU«^ one un me lecvuro v____-,v T V__^ KBA.»> aKt.«+«. MtwitiiAn^ platform and mthepulplt throughout because I have been able to act without the United States and in foreign lands, having to pay anything like the same Literary work and the remakabl*. £ eed . to V$} Uc f ] , consideration as in effective*'Lend-a-Hand-Society,\which dealing with states haying Republi- he originated, made his name a house ! cftn8 ' • • -• -Absolutely the only -hold word even in far off countries. rett8On *** { have eve J disregarded any local party organization has been because I have~becorrre 7SonvtffCed\~tBa't' that organization waB not recommend- ing to me thoroughly good men.\—Edi- torial in June Century. The Democracy and the Tariff. \Look up and not down. Look forward and not back, Look out and not in, Lend a hand.\ Dr. Hate's literary career began un-. usually early, for six years after his ' The Democratic party promises an- birth he was studying Latin under the other schism on the tariff issue. One direction of his father. Rev. Nathan , wing would treat it as a moral ques- Hale. His studies were continued in ! tion, and the other holds that it is an the Boston Latin School and in Harvard economic question. One Democrat will College. , tell you that it is wicked to levy a Besides being a preacher,Rev. Nathan ! contribution on one rrian to make an- Hale was a printer and in his office the i other man's business profitable. He son, Edward, learned typesetting and | looks on the issue as Mrs. Stowe looked developed a Waning toward newspaper | on the slavery question. Another work which it-ring his college course Democrat will tell you that thegovejn- at Harvard he cultivated by becoming ment should grant-an-incidental pro^ OLEO MUST BE MARKED. Courts to Say Whether Manu- facturers May Imitate Butter. y a reporter on the Boston Advertiser. In later ycart,although he had elected to follow his father's calling as a clergy- man of the Unitarian faith, he became editor of the Advertiser, occupying the chair at the time of the Civil War. Dr. Hale never tired of telling about his experiences in newspaper work and always considered himself a member of that fellowship. His pastorate at Worcester over the g p tection to neutralize the wage scale of the domestic and foreign producer. That is the way Henry Clay viewed the slavery question—as a mere matter of business. Virginia, that was always more or less a protection State, intends to have protection for peanuts, and double that afforded in the Dingley law, and Florida is not satisfied with the present pro- tection of above 70 per cent on oranges, Church of the Unity, followed service , but insist? on a tariff on raw cotton. with a number of smaller churches. In his congregation at Worcester was George Frisbie Hoar, later United States senator, with whom began a mutual love like that of brothers. The death of Senator Hoar four years ago was a tremendous blow to Dr. Hale. Then there are the sawmill men of the Gulf States hot-foot to maintain the protection on lumber. To the ordinary understanding, the democratic party surrenders the whole case when it ceases to make a moral question of the tariff, under which man The South Congregational church of! ner it gained the great victories of 1890 Boston became Dr. Hale!s ministerial i and 1892. If that party shall accept home in 1856, and it was there that his '• the republican and the declaration of most famous sermons were delivered. ; the new republican president that the For more than 4o year? he preached \ tariff is a very simple proposition to be to old and young, and was an active j regulated by duties ''compensatory\ for the difference between foreign and Agricultural Department Fighting all Efforts to Deceive Consumers—Holds that Substitute Most be Sold as Such —How Product is Shipped. Oleomargerine will have a hard time masquerading as butter, if the state agricultural department has its way. Butter is one of the necessities of life and oleomargerine is one of the com monest substitutes made from fats other than those of milk or cream. It looks like lard, but the fact that it does is due to the law which says it shall not be made in the semblance of butter. The courts sustain the state's point that oleomargerine must not be colored- to resemble butter and now the battle is on to prevent the manufacturers from giving the substitute article a re- semblance of the taste or smell of but- ter. The agricultural department holds that if oleomargarine has the taste and smell of butter, users are deceived, which is against the law., The manu- facturers ,ajre fighting* this point which is brought up in a case now before the appelate division. Efforts were made at the last session of the legislature to secure an amend- ment to the law to make it read plainly that the Bmell and taste of butter shall not be imitated. This was defeated, but the legislature did pass a law which in part reads as follows: \Any keeper or proprietor of any hotel, boarding house, restaurant, sa- loon, lunch counter or place of public entertainment who uses or serves, therein for his guests any oleaginous substance as a substitute for butter, the manufacture or sale of which is not prohibited by the agricultural law, shall print plainly and conspicuously on the bill of fare, if there is one, the words 'Oleomargarine UBed Here,' and shall post conspicuously the same words in the room where meals are served. The words must be in letters at least two inches in length and so printed as to be easily read by guests or board- ers.\ The manufacturers of oleomargar- ine, who are the owners t of the meat packing plants, pack the material in cakes containing at least five pounds, each. These packages are plainly marked \Oleomargarine but when the wrapper is removed there is noth- ing to show what the material is. \So far as the law is concerned,\ Deputy Commissioner Flanders of the Agricultural Department says, \the aim is to prevent deception. We want the consumer to know just what they are buying and also that the article sold is not harmful to health. We hold that it is a deception, to smell and taste of butfcr.\ \If manufacturers are allowed to give oleomargarine a resemblance of the taste and odor of butter there is nothing to show the consumer that it is any different from winter-made butter, except that butter makers are allowed to use coloring matter to give the usual butter appearance. There might then be^an effort to prevent-by law-the use of the coloring material and the oleo- margarine could then be successfully substituted for butter. So far as known no oleomargarine is made in this state. The agricultural department is pre- paring to issue a circular giving the recent amendments to the oleomargar- ine law. GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. HOLDS AGREEMENT ILLEGAL worker in the social uplift. Since 1899 Dr. Hale had been pastor emeritus of the parish. % Of his literary works the most noted were: \Ten Times One Is Ten,\ \My Double, and How He Undid Me,\ and \The Man Without a Country.'' These books, together with hundreds of articles dealing without many subjects, were written in Dr. Hale's picturesque home on the Pudding Stone Heights of Roxbury. A study, packed domestic wage, then it becomes a mere matter of statistics, and you can estab- lish anything by statistics. But as for that matter, the democratic party threw the tariff issue to the dogs when it set up Bryan, and perhaps there is nothing left for it but to continue to stand and take its punishment.—Washington I \Post.\ < Sues for $20,000. An action to recover $20,000 from from floor i to ceiling with books,pamphlets, curios i An action tp recover T and scientific instruments, even thft: ilrrNew York Air Brake Company on ceiling of which was utilied.hookB being account of personal injuries received driven in to hold backets containing I through the alleged negligence of the literary material, was his workshop. As Dr, Hale's age advanced his de- , g lighted tO CclobrtttO hlrthHny ffl Especially noteworthy were the occa- sions of his 70th and 80th anniversaries, at both of which public ireetings were held. In 1892 a purse of $5,000 was given him, while in 1902 a fund of $28.- 000 was raised. In the latter celebration a great audience honored the distin- guished divine, while his friend, Sena- tor Hoar, delivered one of his most eolquent addresses. Many Invitations for Taft, Washington, June 15.—Massachusetts people are inviting President Taft to all sortspf functions during the summer when he is supposed to be resting at the seashore near Beverly. He has al- ready accepted an invitaition to attend a picnic of the East Boston Bethel church and Sunday school, at Point Pines, the pastor of the church being the father of ex-Gov. John L. Bates, of Massachusetts. --Representative! Roberts has.invited* the President to attend the laying of the, corner stone t>f the new Y. li^. C. A. building in Chelsea in July, and the annual outing of the Essex county boards of trade early in August. The President did not aceept either of these invitations and may not do so. company, has been commenced by John H. McDermott, of Watertown, through Jerome B. Cooper. The plaintiff is an- other victim of the elevator accident at the Factory street plant of the defend- ant, which occurred on December 14, when the elevator, loaded with cast- ings, without any warning whatever fell a distance of abdut 26 feet The plaintff claims that he sustained a fracture of the left leg, his right leg sprained and the tendons of his leg and knee torn, bruised and mangled; that his left leg was made shorter and will always be shorter than- his right leg. ________________ Sale of Slammed Milk a Crime. The court of appeals has handed down a decision in which it holds that the sale of skimmed milk in New York city is a crime. The court sustains the lower court in overruling a demurrer of the Liberman Dairy Company to an action brought by the State to recover'. $6,000 penalties for the sale of skimmed milk. The company—contended, statute prohibiting the sale ol.sk inim pg .u milk in New York and permitting its sale in certain other counties was un- constitutional. Attorney-General Rules National Banks Can Not Use Savings Banks' Securities. Albany, June 15.—Attorney-General i 6'Malley, in an opinion tonday to the superintendent of banks,holds as legal, an agreement which certain savings banks and national banks have attempt- ed to'make by which investment se- curities of savings banks were to be used by national banks. The agree- ment provided* that the savings bank should sell to the national bank securi- ties'.mentioned at a' certain price and deposit the price with the national bank, receiving interest upon it at the x-ate earrited by the securities and an additional one per cent a year upon the total circulation of the national bank which might be received by it from the treasurer of the United Stages on account of such securities being placed in that treasury. It was also provided that upon de- mand of the savings bank, the national bank would re-sell these securities to it and that upon the demand of the na- tional bank, the savings bank would re- purchase the same at the same price as named in the original agreement The Attorney-General holds that this agreement is not in any sense a sale but merely a loan and that it is an un- successful attempt to avoid the opinion of Attorney-General Mayer that such could not be made. The Hamlet System. j ' At the conference of Charities and i Correction at Buffalo, lately, Prof. Bailey, of Cornell, who was chairman j of President Roosevelt's Country Life Commission, said that the view heUUn some quarters that a hamlet system would give a better kind of a com- munity life in the agricultural districts was erroneous. The hamlet system of the old country is the result of a social condition that never obtained in the United States. Prof. Bailey deplored the custom of American farmers of taoving to town as Boon as they derive a\Qompete»ce from their farms. They do not become progressive citizens in the town and become men without a country. A tenant class is left on the farm and a social stratification IB the natural result with a low social and moral development in the open coun- try. \We need to develop such a rural civilization as will satisfy farming people to remain on the farm as a place of abode, even after the man has de- rived a competency from the land,\ said Prof. Bailey. Among the methods of bringing this about the speaker suggested among other things, v dividing up the large farms; co-operation and organization among country people; establishment of factories and industries in the open country, and the development of good local Institutions, suciT\ as~sdiools, churches, libraries, etc., and the exten- sion of all kinds of quick communica- tion. United States to Lend It* Support to Extension of American Capital to Enterprises in Orient, London, June 14.—The British bank- ing houses, which are participating in' the tri-partite loan for the financing of the Hankow-Sze-Chuen railway* in China, in connection with which ^the contract for a loan of $27,500,000 was signed on June 6 by the representatives of the British, French and German groups, are greatly interested in the intelligence which reached them to-3iay that a powerful American syndicate, with the strongest possible support from the government, proposes to par- ticipate in this enterprise. The American firms composing the syndicate are Kuhn, Loeb & Co., J. P. Morgan & Co., the National City Bank > of New York and the First National bank. They base their claim for status in this enterprise on assurances which the Chinese government gave the' American minister in Pekin in 1904—it is understood, in writing—that Ameri- can and British capital would be invited to finance this railway, if the Chinese were unable to raise the money them- selves and that British and American capitalists would have preference over those of all other nationalities. The American claim to participation in this business has been conveyed to the British, French and German goven- ments by Ambassadors Reid. White and Hill, respectively, and also to China by the American minister, W. W. Rockhill. The American govern- ment believes that American interest in Chinese railway development will add impetus to the powerful internal campaign on the part of the Chinese for the expanding of their domestic and foreign commerce and for the plac- ing of China in the position her wealth and resources entitles her to among civilized nations. The government's step in giving its support to American financiers is regarded as a great de- velopment in President Taft's policy to make the United States an influential factor in Oriental affairs. London bankers believe that it is one of the fruits of Tang Shao Yi's special misson to the United States Heretofore, it is pointed out by English financiers,* the attempts of Americans to gain a foothold in ^he promising field of Chinese finance have been handicapped by the government's hesitancy to lend its support, whereas the Belgian, French, German and British and par- ticularly the Russian and the Japanese governments have given assistance to enterprises undertaken by their people. The American syndicate is sending rep- resentatives to Pekin. London, Berlin and Paris to make arrangements to carry out its plans. Washington, June 14.—State Depart- ment officials to-night confirm the dis- patches from London that a strong syn- dicate composed of prominent New. York firms, will participate in the loan . of $27,500,000 signed K \ -»HTI_-f IliiTTJ~' v of the British, F*wch e 3 ^™\***— nationB for financing thg ,.,„_ „, ^ ? — railroad in Chin*.. Ww .„ proportion \St. the American syndicate gets is not*'^ known to the department, that being ft : feature of the transaction entirely 'V- within the province of the banking in- • Btitutions engaged in the enterprise. - The department it was explainetfr has had no part in the negotiations, but at the same time has been fully adviBed of the salient features of the processs of the negotiations. .-. It has been evident to the department that American financiers would ha,ve to - meet the keen competition of foreign capitalists in securing loans of this character and it always stood ready to be. of assistance in aiding them to ad- vance their interests. Other nations are far in advance of the United States in the resources they have at their command In looking after: the interests of their financial invest* ments in the Far East. The disposition:; of the State Department has been to encourage in every way the Investment^ of American capital in the Far East in ' enterprises of reputed credit, FOREST FIRES IN MAINE. •'•?/' >« % • •'•*••>' J'^'v''^- >$$S~ K&j\ —A short answer things along. sometimes helps —Money talks, and it's about the only kind of talk not too cheap to be worth handling. Village of Hillman Wiped Out and Other ^ Small Towns in Eastern Part of • — State Menaced. Houlton, Me., June 14*.—Forest fires continue to lay great stretches of ttm« : ber land in Eastern Maine. The new village of Hillman, new Smyrna Mi 11B, ., was wiped out of existence late this afternoon. That no lives were lost was due alone to the timely arrival of a re- lief train which carried the 60 inhabi- tants to Smyrna Mills. Twelve build- ings were destroyed at a loss of about $20,000. Over a territory of 160 square miles in northern Aroostook county there is a fire front of 20 miles, extending back> some places for five mileB. This arepr~ however, JB considerably broken - l)jr^ large sections of untouched land, which, have escaped the flames. - *' At Presque Isle, some of the persons whose homes were burned but in Mon- day's $260,000 fire, were again forced to flee before the flames to-day when embers from forest fires there started blazes in farm buildings. No buildings were destroyed, but at a late hour to- . night a setlement in the Perkins dis- trict, consisting of six sets of. farm ~ buildings, were in great danger. '- Large lumber mills at Davidson were threatened to-night Near Calais to- day a number of fire fighters were forced\ to crawl for some distance through the burning forest to reach a place of safety. The fires in the vf- cinity of Calais are still unchecked,and back fires have been set and trenches dug to save homesteads and farm build ings. In Aroostock county the fires have disarranged the telegraph and tele- phone service. Toronto, Ont, June 11.—A special to the Mail and Empire from St. John, N. B., says: Conditions in New Bruns- wick from forest fires are hourly grow- ing worse., To-day a whole village, with a large saw-mill, in Victoria county was wiped out; Fire swept down on Couillard and Guimont's Mills and the ninety inhabitants of the vil- lage fled before it for two miles, when they were rescued by relief trains of the International railroad. A special train with large crews has been dis- patched to the worst points. —Courage is a virtue that the young cannot spare; to lose it is to grow old- before the time; it is better to make a thousand mistakes and suffer a thous- and reverses than run away battle. —If children desire to be nice in pany a good rule for thetnito follow is to do nothing they wouUrlike to do. '• / •••\. t ;r- ; ?* \'L~::c'J'r* m r'•'-•• . . _ V -^ • s .;£;,, — --~ . • t -< **.. —. - _. -_ ____ f-i'v'- 1 '' *_• A-**j( '?S' *' Vy*'*. 1 *•&:<£**%•\
