HE MAY BE FUTURE STATESMAN OF OKLAHOMA
WASHINGTON.—Never was there a prouder father than
Thomas Pryor Gore, the senator from Oklahoma, and
according to him, there never was so bright a baby as that
recently born to Mrs.Gore at their residence, 3863 Mintwood
place. He is a handsome youngster, too, though pathetically
enough, the blind statesman must learn this from the mother
and from his numerous friends who have called to see the
child that may some day carry on the tradition started by
his father and become a statesman whom the young western
state will delight to honor.
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CHICAGO BEHIND THE EAST
Dr. Hart Says Other Cities Are Clos
ing Orphan Asylums and Putting
Children In Homes.
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Chicago.—"Chicago is far behind
the east in the care of the orphan
and neglected child, although the east
took up and followed along the lines
laid down by Chicago years ago.
“Orphan asylums in the future will
be unheard of. In some states they
have already disappeared.
"Chicago must wake up and make
haste along the lines originated by it
self, by Which other cities and states
have profited."
Dr. Hastings H. Hart, who is an ex
pert in the care of neglected children,
spoke these words in an address be
fore the City club the other day.
“The east, especially Baltimore and
Philadelphia, have developed at a re
markable pace, after following in the
footsteps of Chicago,” said the speak
er. “Those cities have used family
homes in providing for the motherless
and fatherless and have closed up
their orphan asylums.
“Chicago has not kept up with the
pace. Boston receives $126,000 a year
for the support of its orphans. New
York, exclusive of Brooklyn, is given
$500,000 a year for the support of the
children’s society, while Philadelphia
gives $85,000 for the same purposes.
“New York City has $20,000,000 in
vested for the sake of these children,
while Chicago has but one-half that
sum, or possibly three-quarters.
“I have a list of thirteen orphan
asylums being closed in Massachus
etts and twelve in Indiana."
Dr. Hart, while declaring that Chi
cago was lagging behind in the matter
of orphaned and neglected children,
insisted that the orphan asylums now
conducted in Chicago were excellent
in every way and the finest institu
tions of the kind. But home and fam
ily life, he said, should be provided
for the children and there should be
no more asylums built in Chicago.
Minnesota Swamps Are Turned
Into Productive Farms.
One-Fifth of Total Area of State of
Minnesota Is to Be Reclaimed, Ac
cording to Report of Drainage
Commission.
St. Paul, Minn.—Reports of the state
drainage commission on work done in
Minnesota from August 1, 1898, to Aug
ust 1, 1910, have been placed in the
hands of the legislature.
! The commission estimates that Min
nesota had originally 10,000,000 acres
Of swamp lands, too wet In their nat
ural condition for agricultural pur
poses. This vast area, comprising
about one-fifth of the land of the state,
is fast being transformed from swamp
lands to productive farms. Conserva
tive estimates place the total area re
claimed during 1909 and 1910 at 1,500,
; 000 acres.
; Ditches are constructed by the state
and by the various counties. These
a fe made by the drainage commission
<|jily where such ditches will benefit
state lands. Incidentally private lands
are also benefited, and In such cases
the cost is defrayed in part by assess
ing private lands according to the
benefits. Lands owned by railroad
companies are assessed like private
o
provement3 have been prepared and
furnished the counties affected there
by.
The legislature of 1909 appropriated
$200,000 for the use of the state drain
age commission. The commission says
that if it again receives such a fund It
will be able to drain practically all un
drained state swamp land available at
the present time for agricultural pur
poses. Anticipating further appropria
tions, the commission has caused sur
veys to be made and maps, plans and
estimates prepared for several sys
tems of ditches, which, if constructed,
will drain 100,000 acres of state land
and fully double that amount of private
lands. All of this will become avail
able immediately for agricultural pur
poses.
The state drainage commission con
sists of Governor Bberhart, State Audi
tor Iverson and Secretary of State
Schmahl. George A. Ralph is state
drainage engineer.
FISH THAT LOVE DYNAMITE
Winsted (Conn.) Variety That Feed
on High Explosive Are Not
Wanted by Women.
Winsted, Conn.—Highlaw lake fish
are at a discount owing to the dis
covery that they dine on dynamite
and like it.
Workmen who are blasting In the
neighborhood made the discovery by
accident. Since then they have
amused themselves by breaking little
bits from dynamite cartridges and
throwing these “crumbs” overboard to
see the perch grab for them. House
keepers regard the experiment with
disapproval. They fear the dynamite
fed fish would fry too noisily, and in
stead of reposing quietly on a plat
ter might suddenly decide to serve
themselves on the ceiling.
WIN SUCCESS BY RIGHT HUES
Wearing of Proper Colors Makes for
Worldly Advancement, Says
New Thoughtlst.
Denver, Colo.^-Success and charac
ter are merely a matter of colors. If
you want to be successful, wear a bit
of emerald green. If you are nervous
and high strung, wear more blue and
calm down.
Also wear good clothes and mingle
with rich people, even if you are not
financially able to back up your fine
“front." Opulence is a matter of vi
brations and by mingling with the
rich y«fu will absorb their waves.
These are a few of the theories ad
vanced by Mrs. Elizabeth Severin,
new thoughtlst, who announces the es
tablishment of the Psychological soci
ety, of Denver.
“If a man wants to know the essen
tials of a woman’s character, all he
has to do is to note the colors she
wears,” she said. “Red signifies love,
and persons fond of it are emotional
. and full of life. Orange stands for
pride and ambition. Yellow signifies
wisdom. Those who favor violet are
spirituelle.
“Black should never be worn under
any circumstances. It is the negative
of all things and depresses immeas
urably.
“A woman should not dress accord
ing to the shade of her hair, but
should wear the colors that her tern
perament calls for. If she wants tc
change her mood, let her change her
dress. Neurasthenics and anemic*
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should have a good share of their
household furnishings in red. It
should supply the color lacking in
their makeup. Color of course is a
mere question of vibration, and suc
cess Is, too. If a woman wishes to
succeed let her put on her rustling
silk skirt and her ostrich plume and
mingle with those who have already
found success. The success vibra
tions are bound to radiate her way.
It is so simple.”
Collegians Down and Out.
Oakland, Cal.—In an address be
fore the students of the University of
California on "College Men I Have
Met in the Slums and Prisons of New
York,” C. M. Mercer, special secretary
of the Association for Colleges of
North America, said:
“There are 12,000 college-bred men
in New York alone who are down and
out through liquor and fast living.
There has been a marked decrease of
the proportion of graduates who fall
since the prevalence of college ath
letics amounting, I estimate, to 60
per cent."
$30,000 for Moslem University.
Calcutta.—-The Aga Khan, the head
of the Ismaili Mohommedans, urges
the commemoration of the king's visit
to India a year hence by the founda
tion of a Moslem university at Ali
garh, "comparable to those of Berlin,
Paris and Oxford.” He offers a con
trlbutlon of $30,000.
joterI
0R D N&PBITI
c^r<3^
(Tlie reduction in rates for upper bertha
in Pullman cars is now effective.)
The wondering conductor stood within tha
Pullman aisle;
There was trouble in his visage and his
face had lost its smile.
For a passenger was asking him to fix
him with a berth
And he pondered o’er the pricelist while
he figured up its worth.
"All the uppers now are lower,” the con
ductor softly said,
While with nervous, trembling fingers
through the book of costs he sped.
"Though this makes the higher lower,
still the lower is no higher."
“How is that? An upper lower?” queried
the prospective buyer.
“This is it,” the wan conductor then at
tempted to explain,
"We have lowered all the uppers that we
have upon the train.
Thus, we have the lower higher than we
used to have the upper”—
"Hum!” the passenger then asked him.
.“What did you drink with your sup
per?”
"Can’t you understand?” then answered
the conductor with a sigh.
"Though the higher ones are lower, still
the lowers are as high.
With highers lower than they were, the
lowers but seem higher.”
"You’re off the water wagon,” vowed the
man, "or I’m a liar.”
And the passenger then left him and went
to another car,
While the poor conductor mumbled:
“Don’t you see, sir, where we are?
With the lower higher higher than the
higher lower lower”—
Then he plunged into the diner for a glass
of joy-bestower.
Misunderstood.
“What we want,” said the man in
the frock coat, "is a safe and sane
Fourth.
“You bet wre do,” agreed the man
with the wispy whiskers.
“We should put a stop to the un
seemly noises that shatter the very
air upon that day. I say to you, sir,
that on the occasion of the celebra
tion of the anniversary of the birth of
the greatest, grandest, most glorious
governmental structure that ever
has—”
“Yep,” interrupts the other man,
“we ought to choke ’em right off. I’m
good an’ tired of listening to those
flapdoodle, spread-eagle speeches, my
self.”
And the man in the frock coat
passed on with an air of the haughti
est kind of hauteur.
“Why,” asks the captious editor of
the new reporter, “why do you say in
your story of the banquet that the
‘table groaned.’ ”
“Because,” explains the new report
er, “because it had to stand for all the
after-dinner stories.”
Parliamentary Procedure.
“Pardon me," says the creditor to
the legislator, “but might I call your
attention to your bill for Christmas
purchases, which has been sent you a
couple of times already?”
“My dear sir,” responds the legisla
tor, sticking his right hand into the
bosom of his frock coat and thrusting
his cowlick back with his left hand.
“My dear sir, your bill has been passed
to the second reading. It will have to
follow the regular course, although I
will expedite it as much as possible if
it comes out of committee.”
What Started It.
Politely, the serpent offered Eve an
apple.
“Try that, madam," he asked. “You
can raise four hundred barrels of them
to the acre on one of our irrigated or
chard farms in the Bezingo Valley.
Your husband can purchase a forty
acre tract on easy payments."
Shortly afterward the family moved
from Eden to seek the new home.
I
No climate in the country has been
regarded as less encouraging to the
growth of Democratic timber than
that of the Pine Tree state, but since
the thaw of last September tho mete
orological conditions have been al
tered.
It was admitted by some political
Jeremiahs that a Democrats gover
nor might slip through the breach In
tho Republican lines and Intrench
himself at Augusta, but the most en
thusinstlc visionary hardly dreamed
of a Democratic legislature or i Dem
ocratic senator. Not since 1856) when
Hannibal Hamlin crossed the Kenne
bec, had a Democratic senator been
sent to tho national capital from
Maine, and not for thirty years had
any New England state elected a Dem
ocratic senator.
So. as Democratic senator from
11-rr-rmw ----- uiiio, unarms s’, jonnson win natu
rally bo the center of Interest when he
reaches Washington to supplant Senator Eugene Hale, lie has had less expe
rience as a legislator than his distinguished predecessor, but he has had long
experience in public life.
The newly elected senator was born 52 years ago in the old town of
Winslow, on the Kennebec. He was sprung of New England stock on both
sides, his father being a harness maker, not ft poor man, but by no means
affluent. Young Johnson was educated in the country schools and went In
duo time to Bowdoin college, entering with th& class of 1879.
After his graduation he studied law, teaching school in the meantime
to bring in some money. He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and has con
tinued to practice since then in the town of Watervlll®. <%
GOVERNOR-ELECT OF GEORGIA
Governor-elect Hoke Smith of Geor> <
gla, who exposed a plot of New York
cotton speculators to Infect the cot
ton fields with the boll weevil for the
purposo of cutting future cropB short
and enabliug the speculators to win
a fortune by going “long" of the cot
ton market, was a member of Presi
dent. Cleveland's cabinet. He was last
fall elected governor of Georgia.
The first information of the plot
came in a letter to Mr. Smith from »
man whoso name he refuses to give,
but in whom he places entire confi
dence. At Mr. Smith’s request the
writer came from New York for a per
sonal visit with the governor-elect.
Convinced by the evidence offered
by this Informant, Governor-elect
' Smith gave prompt warning to the
farmers and the planters of the south
that two plotters have In their posses
sion at least 1,000,000 live boll wee
vils, and are waiting their opportunity
to scatter these disastrous Insects
over Georgia and South Carolina.
The exposure created the liveliest
interest tnrougnout ueorgia, especially in vi»w ui iuo mni v«s«y mwuuj
the experts of the country gathered at Atlanta to make plans for combating
this Insect.
Governor-elect Smith Is a native of North Carolina, but studied law in
Georgia and was admitted to the bar in Atlanta, where his home has been
since 1872. He lias been a delegate to two national Democratic conventions
and was secretary of the interior under Cleveland from 1893 to 1896.
HANDLES BIG EDITORIAL JOB~
Hugh Chisholm gave a dinner re
cently to Jho American contributors
to the Encyclopedia Brltannlca.
There are 1,600 contributors to this
stupendous work In England and
America. They have written 40,000 ar*
tides, comprising 60,000,000 wonUb
Editing all this 1b an enormous undent
taking and even the proof reading If
a stupendous job.
The issuing of the encyclopedia
the greatest undertaking In modenf
literature. Even the binding of It mas*
create a panic in the market for fine
leather. The binding of 1,000 coplea
requires 15,000 skins. What makes
the task of producing the work more
Berlous Is the fact that it is brought
out In 28 volumes simultaneously,
whereas the last previous edition was
published one volume at a time and
took 14 years to complete.
Mr. Chisholm has 04 editors work
ing under him and the cost of prepar
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fact that for the first time in its history the encyclopedia is to be printed on
India paper as well as on the ordinary stock. The India paper edition will
occupy so small space (28 inches in all) that the entire 28 volumes and index
can be lifted at one time. Mr. Chisholm has been in charge of this work for
eight years. He came to it from the position as leader writer on the London
Times and he expect3 to go back from it to his newspaper work.
ELECTRIC RAILWAYS EXPERT
There Is now a movement In New
York for the building and operation
of a new subway to relieve the con
gested traffic conditions, and one of
the prominent bidders for the work is
Frank J. Sprague, whose portrait Is
shown. Mr. Sprague Is one of the
best known and most highly success
ful electrical engineers In the coun
try. At one time he was an assistant
to Thomas A. Edison and Is known
as the pioneer of the modern electric
railway. He founded an electric rail
way and electric companies and has
been engaged In electrical work In
navy yards, torpedo stations and bat
tleships.
The other bidders are William Mc
Adoo, who constructed the Hudson
river tubes; John Hradey, a large con
tractor, and the management of the
present subway.
One of the greatest problems con
fronting New York today Is that of
transportation. The facilities for
landling its millions of residents are entirely Inadequate and patrons of its
ubway. surface and elevated UneB are crowded into oars like cattle. It Is
ioubtful if any other community In the country would submit to the coa
litions /hich are declared to prevail In the metropolis.
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