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tit.sdav. j)i:ci:mint 13. ton. iHE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIME- S SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIME- S' ME THE LTING PO PRINTING COMPANY. Hrnd. In3an he I'or-tulflc-; at .South Bend. Indian V I b'V 1 !- f3 the t llijrcrcnts in Ilurop. to send r n- - ys to their next annual meeting nnd tho l.ellieerents may do it to. provided there is anyone who ran ho Fparrd from the front. It is with ex. reeding k'reat deli'ht tint we comply with their request for announcement of their pious Invitation. THE NliWS-TIME- S no V.Vst Colfax Acr:. Entr l a? r matter at t itv Daily ami Fun day in ad'unce, per yfir ... $5.00 COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US. carkit:k. Daily in Sunday by the weck.,.12o Daily, slntrle co:y 20 Run. J ay, sir, tie copy 3 c HY MAII Drily and Sunday In advance, ner year ; , . $1.00 Dc'ly, in advance, ptr ye.tr If your name a;.; oars in the telephone directory , u ran telephone your want "ad" to The Nes-Timp- s oflice and a bill will bo mailed after ltt insert! n. 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Wavne. 7 T T f M- - (3 4 T JL M WW ml ii. X save muca umo and laocr in Vji h, Tl rift for every member cf the display. w . SfH n ? i NOt'TII lli:.M, INDIANA, moki: ijr;iiT or tiii; wokk or r tin: ami:i:ica. -- ki:l i'iv." If io-- would enjoy a Kiimi'j of the, I r h.'-- a of the National Defence .jfcawcialion, and the e.ie with which il -- et.s its "ready-made.- V into the puldic print.s. beyor.d question to ad- - ance the financial welfare of the 1 -- nanufacturers of armor-plate- , puns, war uuipni nt though under l ictene of Kreat national patriotism, the following from the New York lit raid will be of interest: Quantity rather than quality. diffU3-ne- and uncertainty in u of brevity and sureness. and some- thing too much of excursions into rhetoric and verse sterns to be i the striking features of Sec'y Daniels' report n tho navy. There appears also, doubtless without design, his lack of any real sym- pathy With tiie inexorable duties of his office and his temper- amental ability to understand the thought and traditions of the .sen ice. More perhaps than any other member of that queer cabinet, Mr. Oaniels haves the impression of his obsession by the same passion f:r phrases and the same insist- ence upon unchallenged and in- disputable premises that of lato illustrate the president's discus- sion or evasion of realities. In a large degree the length of the secretary's report is attributable to the injection of non-essenti- al or settled things all of which in hae with grim humor and amused comment been passed up- on by the people. Why repeat them, save, perhaps, in an apolo- getic tense ? of We hear, for example, too much of the wonderful education- al system of "the greatest unlver-Mt- y in America" and too little of what the constituents of sea force and what the reorganization and readjustment of the personnel fhould be. Auain we are forced to listen to the temperance rally effusions of the fatuous general erd r '.'.. which, stripped of gen- eralities and left naked, brands naval r Ulcers as irresponsible and incapables that must, despite themselves, be saved from the demon rum. We have previously called attention in to the efforts of this association to dis- credit 'ec'y Daniel's and his udminls-tratio- p. of the navy department, es- pecially since the stand he has taken In fa or of government manufacture ; -- .f its own war equipment. The above j is a replica of an Kern sent us to that end. That it she. Ud have found its v.av into the editorial column of so prominent a paper as the New York ! Herald, speaks many times more than if it were some little country weekly, ihvays anxious to get something ap- parently bright for nothing. It is sig- nificant of the system by which the spirit of militaryism is being encour-;ge- d throughout the land. The motto of these corporations, moki: fiiom tiii: mim;. Office competition in the race for I'oet laureate of the Municipal Christ- mas ftstival. brings this one from Don Fall: Christmas time is coming soon. Tile tune of yfu cheer. When all th world will be in turn- - Yts. yes. 'twill soon be here. O, Christmas time, O Christmas- time Pray, isn't this an awful rhyme? Fall hails from Albion college. Henceforth college graduates aro baried. Fred C. Kelly, after a thort vacation, has returned to the columns of Tha News-Time- s with his "Statesmen Near and Great." a daily letter of humor-..u- s sidelight on the big men at Wash- ington. Kelly is an artist in his line; but then, what line would you expect him to be an artist in anyway? Fol- low him and witness the way in which he embellishes his models. Michigan threatens to make mani- curists take out a license. Thus one or more tips will be wasted in paying a horrid fer. Better have your mani- curing do;:e in Indiana. The highest judicial tribunal in the land Is now considering the dissolu- tion of ont of our best-know- n Ameri- can institutions the Thaw case. Statesmen Real and Near. By Fred C. Kelly WASHINGTON. Dec. l.V No l.rnr. or insect, or worm is so lowly or j humble that Dr. L. O. Howard cannot j call it by its tirst name. He givec .a bug or a mere insect a single glance and knows its family history, hercdi-ar- y traits, and minor vices. The fact is that Dr. Howard knows practically all the things about the average bug or moth or worm that there are to know. He is the government's chief entomologist, or, to use a lay term, bugologist. For more than oO yearn he has been studying about all man- ner of creeping things, and today, while house hies and boll weevils and winged ants and June bugs and a lot of things like that are a good deal of a nuisance, yet they are nothing liko the pest they would bo if it were not for Dr. Howard. Kxcept for Howard ;.nd the bureau of entomology the boll weevil alone would be just as great a pest as the man who buttonholes you and persists in telling the latest Font story. Iiefore proceeding further with this learned scientific discussion, one nat- urally pauses to inquire what sort of man Is he who devotes nearly his whole life to bugs. Bugs and insects have to be handled and understood, of course, but many of us in casting about for a life work say to tho world : Get somebody else to study your hugs. Unless it would be danc- ing the modern dance steps, there is probably nothing that most of us would care less about doing than to start in and spend 50 years learning i he main facts about our leading bugs. Yet Dr. Howard has elected to do 'hat and he is not a queer person cither. He is not at all like the pro- fessor (me sees in farce comedies with specs, golf pants and a butterfly net. To the contrary. Dr. Howard looks rather chunky and prosperous and just like regular folks. He has a small, scientific-lookin- g, general purpose set of brown whiskers, which might lead one to take him for a consulting pill doctor or surgeon; but one would be more likely to pick him for a captain of industry the head of a railroad or a bank. When Howard was a youngster seven years old, in Ithaca, N. Y., his mother took him on a trip to a point on Long Island. If he had not gone away from Ithaca tluit summer, somebody else would probably be our chief inspector today. While visit- ing on Long Island Howard fell in c. ,.f i.iavmnj u-ii- n till CJ. fCllIf-- , amused themselves hunting cocoons i and watching them hatch butterflies. ! He grew so intensely interested in that sort of thing that when he got back home he went into the cocoon j mm & te mm 0 imy-- 1 V ' , V- - pis h miM Moclem il J intr ar.d the wind is ishing wh.cn w. finish our path for the f ) tst eps of men. But while we v.re trying, tho snow has been flying and we find that our trench has been cov ered again. William Austin. IT was reasonable to expert that the M. P. would receive compositions on the beautiful snow after the fall af Sunday, and we were not disappointed, as the foregoii.g testifies. There must bo some vent for public sentiment and we know of none better thin the M. P.. especially when the sentiment car-lie- s a thought. AVE have always maintained that it was a waste of energy and perfectly good temper to shovel snow from side walks if the snowplow man could be prevailed upon to do it. That's What Makes Them All I all. (Morrison. 111.. Sentinel.) George Humphrey, alderman from the first ward, and driver of the street sprinkler, suffered with a dizzy spell about a week ago and fell off his wagon. FOK our part we don't care how eoon the telephone succeeds the mail service, our pet abhorrence is writ- ing letters. What is yours? He Must Have Deft South IScml. (Holton. Kan.. Signal.) In addition to the bore who insists on telling you how this government should be run, we have the fellow who knows all about the cause cf the Eu- ropean war. THE tramp who confessed murder to get lodging rid food for the winter and the next morning admitted he was lying had more initiative than persist- ence, and that may account for his being a tramp. Can't a (irass Widow Drive? About the saddest sights in all this world are a bachelor holding a baby, and a woman trying to thro a- - a stone, and a one-arme- d man out riding with a grass widow, A good warm fire And a comfy bed Are a darned sight better Than being dead. C. N. F. PAPERS SAY in Terre Haute, as they undoubtedly are, there is no telling how far it may go. The real question in that city, as in every other, is whether there shall be government by the people, or gov- ernment by the gang. On the answer to that question depend the safety, happiness and prosperity of the peo- ple. Indianapolis News. TWENTY YEARS AGO Ileinladcrs From Uw Columns of The Dally Timer, W. O. DeVay, head of the Indiana Paper company, died. John Phillips, a resident of Greene township for 60 years, died. Dr. Charles Stoltz is in Chicago on business with the alumni of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons. The A. O. U. W. elected the follow- ing officers: Jasper K. Lewis, master workman; Charles N. Havens, fore- man; W. B. Trowbridge, overseer; J. A. Byers, recorder; G. H. Alward. fi- nancier; J. E. Kelley, receiver; W. H. Trowbridge, guide; Robert T. Buker, inside warder; W. R. Phillips, outside guard; H. A. Fink. C. A. Dougherty and F. M. Sawyer, medical examiners. t. Joseph lodge F. and A. M., gave a banquet after degree work. Hu-chan- an sent a deligatinn of I." visitors. Mr. and Mrs. John Frederickson en- tertained the Once a Week club. The favors were won by E. L. Johnson and Mrs. George 1 eerar and the boobies by Claude Matthews and Mrs. Walter. PRACTICAL VII AV. Jimmy giggled when tho teacher: read the story of the Roman who swam across the Tiber three times' before breakfast. i "You do not doubt that a trained ' swimmer could do that, do you. Jimmy?" "No, sir," said Jimmy; "but I won- - dered why he didn't make it four, and ; get bock to the side his clothes were en." Top-Notc- h. PAT EWTS Many otherwise mrrltorlotis und val-ua?- d "inventions nre rendered vrorth-le.-- 1 from te stmolpednt e pitent pro-teetio- n due to l:i k cf skillful proseu-t- l u. Twenty years' experiea v. HlgL-refrree- s. Full inforra.ition given upon request. No cliitrgf for advi e. 11th nrh ifflec teir the P:'tr;:t offt.-- at W isMugtun. Gi:oit(;i; .. oltscii lletlt,red Patent Attorney. 711-1- 2 J. M. S. IildK., outh lipiitl. Ind. RE n Home Phone Bell Phones 5613 613-60- 7 Emm 1mm iiomu oummNG stoui: For Tlirlf ty Butrra. SIX MONTHS WITH lOI7r.S AND IMIILOSOI'IIKKS. Who. through long tlajs of In! mm And uiKiits devoid of im, Still heard in his soul tlu xnuii Of wonderful mchxiies. Longfellow. The ?xt philosophy U that which suggests itself to those who nerd it. Anon) niotis. IF we admit the indictment that "he who hath not music in his soul is fit for treasons, stratagems und spoils," or words to that effect, we have our neighbor on the west convicted, at least in our own minds. He loves not poetry, and he who loves not poetry, loves not music. Kgo. our neighbor is "fit for treasons, stratagems and spoil." Still, we would not condemn him utterly. We shall first prescribe the reading of the poetry that appears trom time to time in the M. P. in tho fervent hope that it may soften his lump of cynicism. ESPECIALLY are we hopeful since he himself is not altogether immune to the divine afflatus. As witness his effusion on the Christmas tree. WE have been in the newspaper game long enough to know that while the mule may be trained or hoppled to stop its kicking the public can't be cured. Hut there are more reasons why the public should kick than for a mule to indulge in its favorite pas- time. If the public should cease to kick we fear progress would cease. Heautiful Snow. Once more it snows, the cold wind blows and we have no time with oth- ers to talk, for with frosty nose and freezing- toes w- - must soon get out and shovel the walk. At the break of day we make our way to the sidewalk in front where we are soon at our task and we stop not to say why the snow-drift- s we slay when the wonder- ing pedestrians pause before us to ask. At noon we're dead beat, so we stop in to eat, then with shovel in hand wo walk out as before, and with half-froze- n feet from the snow and the sleet, we renew our onslaught on tho once more. Tho day is dy- - WHAT THE GOOD MAYS FROM TKRRK JIAUTi:. The people of Terre Haute do not seem to have any fear that the expo-i-ur- e of crime and corruption in their Uty, and the punishment of the crim-'nal- s and corruptionists will injure the town or in any way "hurt business." What they chiefly fear is that Terro Haute may be injured by the main- tenance of existing conditions. Tho chamber of commerce has already indorsed the cleanup movement and contributed money to it. This is true of the women's clubs and the Y'oung Men's Business club. All these organ- izations are deeply interested in the campaign that has for its object the cleansing of the political life of the town. What has given Terre Haute a bad name is, not the effort to redeem it, but the shameful condition that has existed there. Always the men who protit by crime and corruption, by il- legal liquor selling and fraudulent elections, raise the cry that business is hurt by the effort to stop these prac- tices. Their interest, of course, is purely selfish. What they fight for is, not the good name of the city, but the graft on which they fatten. Yet occasionally substantial citizens, and men who should know better, are in- fluenced by these hypercritical argu- ments. But the people of Terre Haute have learned from a long and bitter expe- - rience that tho real enemies of the j town and its trade are those who de- - . bauch its political life. Naturally. therefore, they are rallying Vj the sup- port of those men who are trying to drive the scoundrels from power and into jail. The chamber of commerce, we must assume, is not indifferent to the commercial welfare of the town, composed, as it is, of business men. It realizes that business has been hurt by bad government and corrupt poli- tics. So it is fighting and working for good government and clean politics, feeling that these are the best adver- - .... . ..... isomemf tnat a town can nae. And ...... that, ot course, is the trutn. w un the people back of this new movement nnm n u mumni in, t0. This obi friend told Howard tific tourse by studying medicine there was still a chance that he might amount to something. So. in the fall of 'TS ho began to tit hims If for a doctor. Meanwhile his fame as an hisecter had spread to Washington, and before he had been at medicino many weeks he was offered a place as assistant in the bureau of entomology, in which bureau lie is now chief. He probably knows more about combating bad insects and mothering good insects than any man alive. (Copyright. 1 f 1 4 . by Fred C. Kelly.) SOME NEWS NOTES. Davles Lumdrv. Both phones. Dr. Stoeckley. dentist. 511 J. M. S Canadian Holiday F; ul CO In effect Dec. 19. 20. 21 it 22 0! U Good returning until Jan. 11. t 4 IV Ilevil $C0 ?fi Montreal $27.40 HtuitfJ $1.1.70 Orillli J17'.0 A Hrovkv'e $.'4. 10 Ottavm fjtuo CtuuLam $ P.f.. Owen Snd. $l".r5 Co hour? $ls..V ro'erhoro $10 (nsierlrli s-9- PctrolU $ re!0 iuelph $:.-?!- ) Stratford $i?.r,o ll'milton f ii 53 Mrathroy j:o 70 w KIngr4t'a $:2.:.0 Toronto 113.73 Loudon $11.70 I'reportionate rate to other points P.ur Canadian trairi. IrxSud-ir.- g TIi Intenjatiorrtl Llmite-1- , with obrvatJoa, dnuing room, librarj and comiwrttuent car. Complete particnliirg frora C. A. MoNlTT. Vm. A.ent. n C. T. Ky. Station. Brll S3; Homo Wryj. E I) ! A I M ft ;u 15, 1. nic marriage to le demanded by law. The United FtaU-.- s bureau of rduea- - tion has agreed to cooperate w ith the league of compulsory attendance oifi- - rials in the collection of Ftatistics Waring on attendance problem?. As art of the movement for Letter at- - tendance, it has been urged that a permanent 'census bureau be estab lishctl and maintained in every city in the Lnlted States. And thus the dc mand for more government activity. land a consequently larger government expense for tax-payin- g grouches to grumble over, continues to grow. L.(; i:i:i not follow Tin: CI loss. Any effort to draw this nation into war with Mexico, or induce it to in- terfere in behalf of any religious de- nomination or its properties, must fail and ought to fail. This is neither a Protestant nation nor a Catholic na- tion. It owes allegiance to no church, r.or protection to any church proper- ties outside its own domain: this es- pecially, when, as in Mexico, it in- volves u condition purely of Mexican making. It would be just as legiti- mate for this government to inter- fere in Mexico in behalf of Wall st. interests, as it would be to Interfere behalf of a church, and it is beyond cur legitimate province to undertake either. A letter written by Uishop Alerding, Ft. Wayne, regarding conditions in Mexico was given out Sunday for reading in the various churches of the diocese. He calls upon the federal government to interfere in behalf of tlie Catholic church properties there. The same condition prevails with regard to the Catholic churches in Mexico as does with regard to the protestant missions in Turkey. We feel for them, hut our federal supreme court held following the Spanish-America- n war. that the constitution does not follow the flag, and wc be- lieve that it would be equally justiiled holding that the Hag need not, nec- essarily, follow the cross. There can be but two excuses for United States interference in either Turkey or Mexico; one to protect the interests of and to resent insults to the United States, and the other for purely humanitarian reasons the iormer or wnicn can in no way m- - volve church rights, while the latter can make no distinction as between priests, missionaries and their eon-'ert- s, and any other type of people with souls. A TUniTKCT'LOSIS IHVOKCC Justice P.lanchard of the New York supreme court has established a pre- - ,.,.,iont tn that state bv granting a wife ti1( f;U.t tuit u Was suffering from , tuberculosis. "The court admitted that he had been unable to find any case where Mich a ruling had been made but, ns a f noral proposition, the rule held that anv misrepresentation of a material :art incli nt;l to the contract of mar- - riage was sut'icient to void it. No evid- ence-as to tho character and prob- able consequence of infection, or of transmission and heredity, was before the court, but the decree was granted on tho broad plea of public policy, as interpreted in the light of popular touching the peril of the ciseae." says the New York Iaw Journal. As the first of the kind the decision w ill attract wide attention. Whether it will be carried to the court of np- - J bcals for final judgment is not known, but in view of the possible wide np- - ; plication of the precedent it would I be interesting to have it determined j 1 y the court of la st resort. I Till'. PROGRAM COXTINrr.S. . . i F.very seven years it is the regular order to ask congress for an amend- - , . . . 1 I ment to the snerman ann-iru- st law , !...m,, m ,i,i,r., .h,. M,m,ut v.Mi-ieilin- between imhlie earrhrs i iiko railroads and the production and , f (0mmodities which thev carrv. ... . was a real live agitation t cn this subject and In l!o. ana It-O-S a law was parsed the so-call- ed j Vommodities clause" of the Hepburn bill. It requires usually about seven i years for these lav to be declared in- - j ! ah.i bv the Fnited States supreme: c ourt. Then an attorney general as in the present instance Mr. Gregory has done a.is congress to make another com- - J . . . . mo i::: cause w men m u.e umur, au- - jcr another seven years, can be carried 'through the various courts to the su- - preme court, again to be recarded as "invalid" by the solemn judicial gen-- I tinmen who hand down vetoes from that ultimate and highest power of government. Meantime the coal trust takes the pennies from the shivering ooor and respect for the courts and legislative procedure declines. Next to the National Defense kfso- - . : i i . . .if(l tu ni Tin (in In tir.iTi'ii. 1 iti i i 41i liliil ..4.t't. ft,'.. tion of militarism, perhaps the biggest pest in the land is the American Peace society. Now thvy have asked reaping large protits from government a divorce on the ground that the hus-patrona- ge, stems to be anything and 'L)UUi had concealed before marriage i our rarioF The Semi-I- n direct Gas g 1 T " The source business on his own account. HiSjtiI:lt ir ho u-on- follow un his scicn- - lIliT line of vision. It is useful light because it is widely distributed, giving plenty of light without glare in every part of the room. Welsbach mantles reduced. 35c Grade rfT Xk Mant everything to down whatsoever and j vcrvhody wh to move to j put a crimp in those profits. Pretend- ing an anxiety for national defense, what thev are really anxious for is to j line their own pockctbonks. and anti- - cipating a national light-headedncs- H. j they hope to accomplish that end by - inoe.:la! tng the public mind with the viriM of war than which a more despicable brand of traitorism could hardly exist. MAY TYPi: Ol' TKl'.WT OIT'ICKIL The "1,1 idea cf the truant otiieer as a "kid i op" is passing away, aceoid-in- - to W. S. IVh'enbaugh. of the United SiaUs bureau of education. ! The new truant otl:.ce: a o riling to Mr. I'eiU n a- - is ,i man oi entirely different t ;c. quite fr in fact. ;. woman, In - i al eities a large percent a of truant ot:iccrs are- - col- - -- ra luat. mi other cities they j :ne-- i am! women with t perience oiial orkrs; but whi t h. r college ! i.radaates t .r nt. they are required to know and bmicrsbind the home con- - eiti"!1. of sehool children. The bnal! s hoel might bear this in mind in T'annpg .i:s K P. n u'ler s Attindar.ee e'.ScV.- - of the UeV l. ' .4 re ir;'-ret- ' 1 in removing t,1I1,!;l" I menb-- l i nu.-e-s f tru a:n rather than in i i' 1 e a I ir tiie offenders. The' 'hicf c.i' - ( i.-- . accon'.irg to tho na-:- e tamal b : ef compulsory education 1 v. equate tamilv life. s. b donted at the red nt . orcanizatio:'.. there- - : e. i a ! f.-- idequate ar.d uniform :arria- - ai.d diveiee laws for the f j ii;t lO'.l .4.n.tli'ui, (. u.ii. uik ill and er.forcenn nt of laws pertaining to I the issuam e f marriage lict nses thit '.ill prevent child marriages and pro- hibit the marriage of persons phys- ically, morally ar.il mentally umit to wed."' They urge that the juvenile j courts be given ib-tinit- authority to jdaeo pj rents, as well as children on j or..' aton for truancy and delin- - t qaer.ey; they asK ' otter state supir-- 1 vi.-ir.- r. of der. nde::t children; civil service : r a:i iru.ir.i omccrs; ami me uahitf nance of parental schools, spe-- . ial room-- for tii.anls and incor- - hs. ar.d h ilth inspection o ' choo!.- - as material factors in child welfare. AH thN is very good, except perhap-- , as regard the proposed eu- - l'.l' ...t . . of light is above the AW ? W CtltfW le, now 15c GIFTS mm mp hi y. Sec the artistic Semi- - Indirect Lamps at the Gas Office, or send for a representative. Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Company South Bend and Hishavika ' parents bought him books containing life size portraits of beetles and pinching bugs, and he read them while other boys were busy with their Nick Carter or geography. Yet lie was not a queer boy. He played base- ball and other sports with the boys who did not know about bugs as he did, and he was the best player of the bunch. Today he is a good golf plaver. doesn't lie about his score. and at night reads the most frivolous kind of detective stones. He is thor- - OUKhly human ani likeable. Ah, yes. but we were telling how 1 . . 1.. ........ . .. I .1 I (V.i uc napiencu n go m mi ou-,- s a work. All through the public ehool-- e the teachers made him write essays about his favorite insects and he was regarded as a youthful au- thority on the ways of the insects that buzzed about his home locality. Howard's mother, a widow, told him it was time he was quitting his but- - tonl' phasing and thinking about tomcthmg serious. khe persuaded ui,,, on1.- - fl,.in,.oHn,' s:.. ii. entered Cornell university and set out ; 10 become a mechanical engineer. He; liked the engineering course fairly well, all except the mathematics. All his life he had been a rather poor mathematicker and figures annoyed "im. He could do ordinary addition anil subtraction, but when it came to hlllhrr algebra and trigonometry he. wished he were somewhere else. Without saying anything to his mother, he switched over 'into the scientific department of the university and began to take all the courses thy had which dealt in any way with bugs. Commencement day came and mem- bers of the graduating class were iight-hearte- d and gay, all except Howard. He fcnew that he would have to confess at last to his mother about the wicked way in which he-ha-d let her believe he was making a mechanical engineer of himself, when Vi. rrin Mi ifi(wi'it(ri( ll i tii w 1 f ti ! lie i .1 r it iini 'i i.iiius iiiiii.- - 11 ii iiu strange insects and becoming a scien- tist. His mother sent for an old friend of the family to ive the lad a talk- - CHRISTMAS Casseroles, Percolators, Aluminum Ware, Sleds, Skates, Safety Razors, Etc., at SIBLEY'S MAEBWASE i w --V. Try NEWS-TIME- S Warn Ad
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moki: ijr;iiT or tiii; wokk or rtin: ami:i:ica. -- ki:l i'iv."
If io-- would enjoy a Kiimi'j of the,I r h.'-- a of the National Defence.jfcawcialion, and the e.ie with whichil -- et.s its "ready-made.- V into thepuldic print.s. beyor.d question to ad- -
ance the financial welfare of the 1
-- nanufacturers of armor-plate- , puns,war uuipni nt though under
l ictene of Kreat national patriotism,the following from the New Yorklit raid will be of interest:
Quantity rather than quality.diffU3-ne- and uncertainty in u
of brevity and sureness. and some-thing too much of excursions intorhetoric and verse sterns to be ithe striking features of Sec'yDaniels' report n tho navy. Thereappears also, doubtless withoutdesign, his lack of any real sym-pathy With tiie inexorable dutiesof his office and his temper-amental ability to understand thethought and traditions of the.sen ice.
More perhaps than any othermember of that queer cabinet, Mr.Oaniels haves the impression ofhis obsession by the same passionf:r phrases and the same insist-ence upon unchallenged and in-
disputable premises that of latoillustrate the president's discus-sion or evasion of realities. In alarge degree the length of thesecretary's report is attributableto the injection of non-essenti- al
or settled things all of which inhae with grim humor andamused comment been passed up-on by the people. Why repeatthem, save, perhaps, in an apolo-getic tense ? of
We hear, for example, toomuch of the wonderful education-al system of "the greatest unlver-Mt- y
in America" and too little ofwhat the constituents of sea forceand what the reorganization andreadjustment of the personnelfhould be. Auain we are forcedto listen to the temperance rallyeffusions of the fatuous generalerd r '.'.. which, stripped of gen-eralities and left naked, brandsnaval r Ulcers as irresponsibleand incapables that must, despitethemselves, be saved from thedemon rum.We have previously called attention
into the efforts of this association to dis-
credit 'ec'y Daniel's and his udminls-tratio- p.
of the navy department, es-
pecially since the stand he has takenIn fa or of government manufacture ;
-- .f its own war equipment. The above j
is a replica of an Kern sent us to thatend. That it she. Ud have found itsv.av into the editorial column of soprominent a paper as the New York !
Herald, speaks many times more thanif it were some little country weekly,ihvays anxious to get something ap-
parently bright for nothing. It is sig-
nificant of the system by which thespirit of militaryism is being encour-;ge- d
throughout the land.
The motto of these corporations,
moki: fiiom tiii: mim;.Office competition in the race for
I'oet laureate of the Municipal Christ-mas ftstival. brings this one fromDon Fall:
Christmas time is coming soon.Tile tune of yfu cheer.When all th world will be in turn- -
Yts. yes. 'twill soon be here.O, Christmas time, O Christmas-
timePray, isn't this an awful rhyme?Fall hails from Albion college.
Henceforth college graduates arobaried.
Fred C. Kelly, after a thort vacation,has returned to the columns of ThaNews-Time- s with his "Statesmen Nearand Great." a daily letter of humor-..u- s
sidelight on the big men at Wash-ington. Kelly is an artist in his line;but then, what line would you expecthim to be an artist in anyway? Fol-low him and witness the way in whichhe embellishes his models.
Michigan threatens to make mani-curists take out a license. Thus oneor more tips will be wasted in paying ahorrid fer. Better have your mani-curing do;:e in Indiana.
The highest judicial tribunal in theland Is now considering the dissolu-tion of ont of our best-know- n Ameri-can institutions the Thaw case.
Statesmen Realand Near.
By Fred C. Kelly
WASHINGTON. Dec. l.V No l.rnr.or insect, or worm is so lowly or j
humble that Dr. L. O. Howard cannot j
call it by its tirst name. He givec .a
bug or a mere insect a single glanceand knows its family history, hercdi-ar- y
traits, and minor vices. The factis that Dr. Howard knows practicallyall the things about the average bugor moth or worm that there are toknow. He is the government's chiefentomologist, or, to use a lay term,bugologist. For more than oO yearnhe has been studying about all man-ner of creeping things, and today,while house hies and boll weevils andwinged ants and June bugs and a lotof things like that are a good deal ofa nuisance, yet they are nothing likothe pest they would bo if it were notfor Dr. Howard. Kxcept for Howard;.nd the bureau of entomology the bollweevil alone would be just as great apest as the man who buttonholes youand persists in telling the latest Fontstory.
Iiefore proceeding further with thislearned scientific discussion, one nat-urally pauses to inquire what sort ofman Is he who devotes nearly hiswhole life to bugs. Bugs and insectshave to be handled and understood, ofcourse, but many of us in castingabout for a life work say to thoworld : Get somebody else to studyyour hugs. Unless it would be danc-ing the modern dance steps, there isprobably nothing that most of uswould care less about doing than tostart in and spend 50 years learningi he main facts about our leading bugs.
Yet Dr. Howard has elected to do'hat and he is not a queer personcither. He is not at all like the pro-fessor (me sees in farce comedies withspecs, golf pants and a butterfly net.To the contrary. Dr. Howard looksrather chunky and prosperous and justlike regular folks. He has a small,scientific-lookin- g, general purpose setof brown whiskers, which might leadone to take him for a consulting pilldoctor or surgeon; but one would bemore likely to pick him for a captainof industry the head of a railroad ora bank.
When Howard was a youngsterseven years old, in Ithaca, N. Y., hismother took him on a trip to a pointon Long Island. If he had not goneaway from Ithaca tluit summer,somebody else would probably be ourchief inspector today. While visit-ing on Long Island Howard fell in
c. ,.f i.iavmnj u-ii-n
till CJ. fCllIf--,amused themselves hunting cocoons i
and watching them hatch butterflies. !
He grew so intensely interested inthat sort of thing that when he gotback home he went into the cocoon j
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Jintr ar.d the wind is ishing wh.cn w.finish our path for the f ) tst eps ofmen. But while we v.re trying, thosnow has been flying and we find thatour trench has been cov ered again.
William Austin.IT was reasonable to expert that the
M. P. would receive compositions onthe beautiful snow after the fall afSunday, and we were not disappointed,as the foregoii.g testifies. There mustbo some vent for public sentiment andwe know of none better thin the M.P.. especially when the sentiment car-lie- s
a thought.AVE have always maintained that
it was a waste of energy and perfectlygood temper to shovel snow from sidewalks if the snowplow man could beprevailed upon to do it.
That's What Makes Them All I all.(Morrison. 111.. Sentinel.)
George Humphrey, alderman fromthe first ward, and driver of the streetsprinkler, suffered with a dizzy spellabout a week ago and fell off hiswagon.
FOK our part we don't care howeoon the telephone succeeds the mailservice, our pet abhorrence is writ-ing letters. What is yours?
He Must Have Deft South IScml.(Holton. Kan.. Signal.)
In addition to the bore who insistson telling you how this governmentshould be run, we have the fellow whoknows all about the cause cf the Eu-ropean war.
THE tramp who confessed murderto get lodging rid food for the winterand the next morning admitted he waslying had more initiative than persist-ence, and that may account for hisbeing a tramp.
Can't a (irass Widow Drive?About the saddest sights in all this
world are a bachelor holding a baby,and a woman trying to thro a- - a stone,and a one-arme- d man out riding witha grass widow,
A good warm fireAnd a comfy bedAre a darned sight betterThan being dead.
C. N. F.
PAPERS SAY
in Terre Haute, as they undoubtedlyare, there is no telling how far it maygo. The real question in that city, asin every other, is whether there shallbe government by the people, or gov-ernment by the gang. On the answerto that question depend the safety,happiness and prosperity of the peo-ple. Indianapolis News.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Ileinladcrs From Uw Columnsof The Dally Timer,
W. O. DeVay, head of the IndianaPaper company, died.
John Phillips, a resident of Greenetownship for 60 years, died.
Dr. Charles Stoltz is in Chicago onbusiness with the alumni of the Col-lege of Physicians and Surgeons.
The A. O. U. W. elected the follow-ing officers: Jasper K. Lewis, masterworkman; Charles N. Havens, fore-man; W. B. Trowbridge, overseer; J.A. Byers, recorder; G. H. Alward. fi-
nancier; J. E. Kelley, receiver; W. H.Trowbridge, guide; Robert T. Buker,inside warder; W. R. Phillips, outsideguard; H. A. Fink. C. A. Doughertyand F. M. Sawyer, medical examiners.
t. Joseph lodge F. and A. M., gavea banquet after degree work. Hu-chan- an
sent a deligatinn of I." visitors.Mr. and Mrs. John Frederickson en-
tertained the Once a Week club. Thefavors were won by E. L. Johnson andMrs. George 1 eerar and the boobiesby Claude Matthews and Mrs. Walter.
PRACTICAL VII AV.Jimmy giggled when tho teacher:
read the story of the Roman whoswam across the Tiber three times'before breakfast. i
"You do not doubt that a trained '
swimmer could do that, do you.Jimmy?"
"No, sir," said Jimmy; "but I won- -dered why he didn't make it four, and ;
get bock to the side his clothes wereen." Top-Notc- h.
PAT EWTSMany otherwise mrrltorlotis und val-ua?- d
"inventions nre rendered vrorth-le.-- 1
from te stmolpednt e pitent pro-teetio- n
due to l:i k cf skillful proseu-t- lu. Twenty years' experiea v. HlgL-refrree- s.
Full inforra.ition given upon request.No cliitrgf for advi e. 11th nrh ifflecteir the P:'tr;:t offt.-- at W isMugtun.
Gi:oit(;i; .. oltsciilletlt,red Patent Attorney.711-1- 2 J. M. S. IildK., outh lipiitl. Ind.
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SIX MONTHS WITH lOI7r.S ANDIMIILOSOI'IIKKS.
Who. through long tlajs of In! mmAnd uiKiits devoid of im,
Still heard in his soul tlu xnuiiOf wonderful mchxiies.
Longfellow.
The ?xt philosophy U thatwhich suggests itself to those whonerd it. Anon) niotis.
IF we admit the indictment that "hewho hath not music in his soul is fitfor treasons, stratagems und spoils,"or words to that effect, we have ourneighbor on the west convicted, atleast in our own minds. He loves notpoetry, and he who loves not poetry,loves not music. Kgo. our neighboris "fit for treasons, stratagems andspoil." Still, we would not condemnhim utterly. We shall first prescribethe reading of the poetry that appearstrom time to time in the M. P. in thofervent hope that it may soften hislump of cynicism.
ESPECIALLY are we hopeful sincehe himself is not altogether immuneto the divine afflatus. As witness hiseffusion on the Christmas tree.
WE have been in the newspapergame long enough to know that whilethe mule may be trained or hoppledto stop its kicking the public can't becured. Hut there are more reasonswhy the public should kick than fora mule to indulge in its favorite pas-time. If the public should cease tokick we fear progress would cease.
Heautiful Snow.Once more it snows, the cold wind
blows and we have no time with oth-ers to talk, for with frosty nose andfreezing- toes w- - must soon get outand shovel the walk. At the break ofday we make our way to the sidewalkin front where we are soon at ourtask and we stop not to say why thesnow-drift- s we slay when the wonder-ing pedestrians pause before us to ask.At noon we're dead beat, so we stopin to eat, then with shovel in hand wowalk out as before, and with half-froze- n
feet from the snow and thesleet, we renew our onslaught on tho
once more. Tho day is dy- -
WHAT THEGOOD MAYS FROM TKRRK
JIAUTi:.The people of Terre Haute do not
seem to have any fear that the expo-i-ur- e
of crime and corruption in theirUty, and the punishment of the crim-'nal- s
and corruptionists will injure thetown or in any way "hurt business."What they chiefly fear is that TerroHaute may be injured by the main-tenance of existing conditions. Thochamber of commerce has alreadyindorsed the cleanup movement andcontributed money to it. This is trueof the women's clubs and the Y'oungMen's Business club. All these organ-izations are deeply interested in thecampaign that has for its object thecleansing of the political life of thetown.
What has given Terre Haute a badname is, not the effort to redeem it,but the shameful condition that hasexisted there. Always the men whoprotit by crime and corruption, by il-
legal liquor selling and fraudulentelections, raise the cry that businessis hurt by the effort to stop these prac-tices. Their interest, of course, ispurely selfish. What they fight foris, not the good name of the city, butthe graft on which they fatten. Yetoccasionally substantial citizens, andmen who should know better, are in-
fluenced by these hypercritical argu-ments.
But the people of Terre Haute havelearned from a long and bitter expe- -
rience that tho real enemies of the j
town and its trade are those who de- - .
bauch its political life. Naturally.therefore, they are rallying Vj the sup-port of those men who are trying todrive the scoundrels from power andinto jail. The chamber of commerce,we must assume, is not indifferent tothe commercial welfare of the town,composed, as it is, of business men.It realizes that business has been hurtby bad government and corrupt poli-tics. So it is fighting and working forgood government and clean politics,feeling that these are the best adver- -.... . .....isomemf tnat a town can nae. And......that, ot course, is the trutn. w un
the people back of this new movementnnm n u mumni
in, t0. This obi friend told Howard
tific tourse by studying medicine therewas still a chance that he mightamount to something. So. in the fallof 'TS ho began to tit hims If for adoctor. Meanwhile his fame as anhisecter had spread to Washington,and before he had been at medicinomany weeks he was offered a place asassistant in the bureau of entomology,in which bureau lie is now chief.
He probably knows more aboutcombating bad insects and motheringgood insects than any man alive.(Copyright. 1 f 1 4 . by Fred C. Kelly.)
SOME NEWS NOTES.Davles Lumdrv. Both phones.Dr. Stoeckley. dentist. 511 J. M. S
Canadian
HolidayF;ul CO
In effect Dec. 19. 20. 21 it 22 0!
UGood returning until Jan. 11.
t 4 IV Ilevil $C0 ?fi Montreal $27.40HtuitfJ $1.1.70 Orillli J17'.0A Hrovkv'e $.'4. 10 Ottavm fjtuoCtuuLam $ P.f.. Owen Snd. $l".r5Co hour? $ls..V ro'erhoro $10(nsierlrli s-9- PctrolU $ re!0iuelph $:.-?!-) Stratford $i?.r,o
ll'milton f ii 53 Mrathroy j:o 70 wKIngr4t'a $:2.:.0 Toronto 113.73Loudon $11.70I'reportionate rate to other
pointsP.ur Canadian trairi. IrxSud-ir.- g
TIi Intenjatiorrtl Llmite-1- ,
with obrvatJoa, dnuing room,librarj and comiwrttuent car.
Complete particnliirg froraC. A. MoNlTT. Vm. A.ent. nC. T. Ky. Station.
Brll S3; Homo Wryj. E
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nic marriage to le demanded bylaw.
The United FtaU-.- s bureau of rduea- -
tion has agreed to cooperate w ith theleague of compulsory attendance oifi- -
rials in the collection of FtatisticsWaring on attendance problem?. Asart of the movement for Letter at- -
tendance, it has been urged that apermanent 'census bureau be establishctl and maintained in every city inthe Lnlted States. And thus the dcmand for more government activity.
land a consequently larger governmentexpense for tax-payin- g grouches togrumble over, continues to grow.
L.(; i:i:i not follow Tin:CI loss.
Any effort to draw this nation intowar with Mexico, or induce it to in-
terfere in behalf of any religious de-
nomination or its properties, must failand ought to fail. This is neither aProtestant nation nor a Catholic na-
tion. It owes allegiance to no church,r.or protection to any church proper-ties outside its own domain: this es-
pecially, when, as in Mexico, it in-
volves u condition purely of Mexicanmaking. It would be just as legiti-mate for this government to inter-fere in Mexico in behalf of Wall st.interests, as it would be to Interfere
behalf of a church, and it is beyondcur legitimate province to undertakeeither.
A letter written by Uishop Alerding,Ft. Wayne, regarding conditions in
Mexico was given out Sunday forreading in the various churches of thediocese. He calls upon the federalgovernment to interfere in behalf oftlie Catholic church properties there.
The same condition prevails withregard to the Catholic churches inMexico as does with regard to theprotestant missions in Turkey. Wefeel for them, hut our federal supremecourt held following the Spanish-America- n
war. that the constitutiondoes not follow the flag, and wc be-
lieve that it would be equally justiiledholding that the Hag need not, nec-
essarily, follow the cross.There can be but two excuses for
United States interference in eitherTurkey or Mexico; one to protect theinterests of and to resent insults tothe United States, and the other forpurely humanitarian reasons theiormer or wnicn can in no way m- -
volve church rights, while the lattercan make no distinction as betweenpriests, missionaries and their eon-'ert- s,
and any other type of peoplewith souls.
A TUniTKCT'LOSIS IHVOKCCJustice P.lanchard of the New York
supreme court has established a pre- -
,.,.,iont tn that state bv granting a wife
ti1( f;U.t tuit u Was suffering from ,
tuberculosis."The court admitted that he had
been unable to find any case whereMich a ruling had been made but, ns a
f noral proposition, the rule held thatanv misrepresentation of a material:art incli nt;l to the contract of mar- -riage was sut'icient to void it. No evid-
ence-as to tho character and prob-able consequence of infection, or oftransmission and heredity, was beforethe court, but the decree was grantedon tho broad plea of public policy, asinterpreted in the light of popular
touching the peril of theciseae." says the New York IawJournal.
As the first of the kind the decisionw ill attract wide attention. Whetherit will be carried to the court of np- - J
bcals for final judgment is not known,but in view of the possible wide np- - ;
plication of the precedent it would I
be interesting to have it determined j
1 y the court of la st resort. I
Till'. PROGRAM COXTINrr.S.. . i
F.very seven years it is the regularorder to ask congress for an amend- -
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ment to the snerman ann-iru- st law ,
!...m,, m ,i,i,r., .h,. M,m,utv.Mi-ieilin- between imhlie earrhrs i
iiko railroads and the production and, f (0mmodities which thev carrv.
... . was a real live agitation t
cn this subject and In l!o. ana It-O-S
a law was parsed the so-call- ed j
Vommodities clause" of the Hepburnbill. It requires usually about seven i
years for these lav to be declared in- - j
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ah.i bv the Fnited States supreme:c ourt.
Then an attorney general as in thepresent instance Mr. Gregory has done
a.is congress to make another com- - J
. . . .mo i::: cause w men m u.e umur, au- -
jcr another seven years, can be carried'through the various courts to the su- -
preme court, again to be recarded as"invalid" by the solemn judicial gen-- Itinmen who hand down vetoes fromthat ultimate and highest power ofgovernment. Meantime the coal trusttakes the pennies from the shiveringooor and respect for the courts andlegislative procedure declines.
Next to the National Defense kfso- -. : i i . . .if(l tu ni Tin (in In tir.iTi'ii.1 iti i i 41i liliil ..4.t't. ft,'..tion of militarism, perhaps the biggestpest in the land is the AmericanPeace society. Now thvy have asked
reaping large protits from government a divorce on the ground that the hus-patrona- ge,
stems to be anything and 'L)UUi had concealed before marriage
i our rarioFThe Semi-I- n direct Gas
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" The sourcebusiness on his own account. HiSjtiI:lt ir ho u-on- follow un his scicn- - lIliT line of vision. It is useful light
because it is widely distributed, giving plentyof light without glare in every part of theroom. Welsbach mantles reduced.
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everything to down whatsoever and j
vcrvhody wh to move to j
put a crimp in those profits. Pretend-ing an anxiety for national defense,what thev are really anxious for is to j
line their own pockctbonks. and anti- -
cipating a national light-headedncs- H. j
they hope to accomplish that end by -
inoe.:la! tng the public mind with theviriM of war than which a moredespicable brand of traitorism couldhardly exist.
MAY TYPi: Ol' TKl'.WT OIT'ICKILThe "1,1 idea cf the truant otiieer as
a "kid i op" is passing away, aceoid-in- -
to W. S. IVh'enbaugh. of theUnited SiaUs bureau of education. !
The new truant otl:.ce: a o riling toMr. I'eiU n a-
- is ,i man oi entirelydifferent t ;c. quite fr in fact.;. woman, In - i al eities a largepercent a of truant ot:iccrs are-- col- -
-- ra luat. mi other cities they j
:ne-- i am! women with t perienceoiial orkrs; but whi t h. r college !
i.radaates t .r nt. they are required toknow and bmicrsbind the home con- -
eiti"!1. of sehool children. The bnal!s hoel might bear this in mind inT'annpg .i:s K P. n u'ler s
Attindar.ee e'.ScV.-- of the UeV l. '
.4 re ir;'-ret- ' 1 in removing t,1I1,!;l"I
menb-- l i nu.-e-s f tru a:n rather thanin i i' 1 e a I ir tiie offenders. The''hicf c.i' - (
i.-- . accon'.irg to tho na-:- e
tamal b : ef compulsory education1 v. equate tamilv life.
s. b donted at the red nt. orcanizatio:'.. there- -
: e. i a ! f.-- idequate ar.d uniform:arria- - ai.d diveiee laws for the
fj ii;t lO'.l .4.n.tli'ui, (. u.ii. uik illand er.forcenn nt of laws pertaining to
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the issuam e f marriage lict nses thit'.ill prevent child marriages and pro-
hibit the marriage of persons phys-ically, morally ar.il mentally umit towed."' They urge that the juvenile j
courts be given ib-tinit- authority tojdaeo pj rents, as well as children on
j
or..' aton for truancy and delin- -t
qaer.ey; they asK ' otter state supir-- 1
vi.-ir.- r. of der. nde::t children; civilservice : r a:i iru.ir.i omccrs; ami meuahitf nance of parental schools, spe-- .ial room-- for tii.anls and incor- -
hs. ar.d h ilth inspection o '
choo!.-- as material factors in childwelfare. AH thN is very good, exceptperhap-- , as regard the proposed eu- -
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parents bought him books containinglife size portraits of beetles andpinching bugs, and he read themwhile other boys were busy with theirNick Carter or geography. Yet liewas not a queer boy. He played base-ball and other sports with the boyswho did not know about bugs as hedid, and he was the best player of thebunch. Today he is a good golfplaver. doesn't lie about his score.and at night reads the most frivolouskind of detective stones. He is thor- -OUKhly human ani likeable.
Ah, yes. but we were telling how1 . . 1.. ........ . . . I .1 I (V.iuc napiencu n go m mi ou-,- s a
work. All through the publicehool-- e the teachers made him write
essays about his favorite insects andhe was regarded as a youthful au-thority on the ways of the insectsthat buzzed about his home locality.
Howard's mother, a widow, told himit was time he was quitting his but- -tonl' phasing and thinking abouttomcthmg serious. khe persuadedui,,, on1.- - fl,.in,.oHn,' s:.. ii.entered Cornell university and set out ;
10 become a mechanical engineer. He;liked the engineering course fairlywell, all except the mathematics. Allhis life he had been a rather poormathematicker and figures annoyed"im. He could do ordinary additionanil subtraction, but when it came tohlllhrr algebra and trigonometry he.wished he were somewhere else.
Without saying anything to hismother, he switched over 'into thescientific department of the universityand began to take all the courses thyhad which dealt in any way withbugs.
Commencement day came and mem-bers of the graduating class wereiight-hearte- d and gay, all exceptHoward. He fcnew that he wouldhave to confess at last to his motherabout the wicked way in which he-ha-d
let her believe he was making amechanical engineer of himself, whenVi. rrin Mi ifi(wi'it(ri( ll i tii w 1 f ti !
lie i .1 r it iini 'i i.iiius iiiiii.-- 11 ii iiustrange insects and becoming a scien-tist.
His mother sent for an old friendof the family to ive the lad a talk- -
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