Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1910, Page 5

4 . MAGAZINE ~ MEN President Advises Publishers Not to Overload Their Criticisms. POSTAGE ON BUSINESS BASIS wtlons Will He Settled Fairly Offfcinls Laboring with Big Problems Are Entitled to Fair Play. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—President Taft 101d the perfodical publishers of the United States last night that it they overloaded thelr criticisms of men In administrative authority with unparilamentary expres- slons and intimations as to lack of honor- able motives, nobody is going to pay any attention to them. Although he made no direct allusion to “muck raking’” it was plainly evident at what he was directing his attack. The president, addressing the Periodical Publishers’ Assoelation of Amerjca as their Euest gt dinner, did not give this advice 1o the editors assembled from all parts of the nation until he had prefaced lils em- phatie conelusions with good-humored treatment of his relative position to the wielders of publie opinion. “This is rather a formidable gathering o address,” sald President Taft, after he 1ad been presented by F. Hopkinson Smith, tomstmaster of the occasion. “Gentlemen who act as fates as to what is or what 1s not current literature would, under any circumstgnees, be formidable to addaress and under conditions prevail- ing in Washington and In legislative halls it_requires a brave man standing In my position to face them. wividence Must be Welghed. " “As to controversies lét me say that all evidence, questions of fact, must be welghed broadly to reach an ultimate conelusion. It s the cnse with every trust, as much a8 we condemn them for thelr iniquities. The evidence must be welghed, It does no &00d to denounce a person on the witness Stapd if he testifies against you. “You controllers of public opinion and controllers. of the rulers of the ecountry may hammer a man Into indifference as to what you say, but at that he will come neater to doing right than if he tried to fight. “But, serlously speaking, I would like to say that when you criticise a poor devil exérolsing a difficult responsibility, first #ive him the same benefit enjoyed by every criminal, that of reasonable doubt. - iBecondly, don’t use unparliamentary ex- Ppréssions If you can help it, for it you do and you overioad your eriticlsms with superlatives and intimations as to his lack of honorable motive ih the end you will wedken all your criticlsm and nobody i§ foing to pay attention to It. Postage on B ns B “In respect to this mattet of the postage, It ds for judicial Investigation and a cons cluglon_should be reached on a calm busi- ness basis. . I have no doubt that you Wil find in the committees of congress that careful judgment that is needed. I don’t agree with some of the committes who started out by shouting ‘grafter and robiber,! but nobody should be led astray just because some gentiemen's heat “Tae- ried them away from the bounds of judg- ment." The presidant was given prolonged cheers as he concluded. Senator Dolliver, in ad- dresaing the publishers, went directly to the postal question and aroused an uproar of appreciation when he said: “I venture ‘fl;‘;i‘gfl t before the postage i3 raised on '!Ih;.t\lre which is being read by ‘millions. of Americans there will be rather an elaborate examination Into the ex- penses and administration of postal af- fairs” Among other speakers were the Italian ambassador and Epeaker Cannon. MRS. TALBOT ON STAND Opera Singer Says Husband Struck Her Just Before He Was Accidentally Shot. ! RENO, Nev, Jan. 2.~Mrs. Mae Talbot, fha former opera singer, now on trfal here on a charge of murdering her hus- band, took the stand today and told 'of her marital troubles with Albert Talbot, the slain man. According to Mrs. Talbot, her hugband often- threatened to Kill her and on the night before the shooting he gave her a fearful .beating. The next day, sald Mrs. Talbot, she met her husband for the purpose of settiing property rights preliminary to bringing sctlon for divorce. An altercation ensued and Talbot struck her. The woman sald this dezed her. She re- = 0Z0 MULSION The Distinguishing Fea+ ture of Olomulliongis its CURATIVE QUALITY, Which All Other emul . sions Lack SAVED HER LIFE Among the letters from grateful pa- tients on file in our Laboratories is the following from Mrs. Mabel Osborne, of Jacksonville, Fla.. Gentlemen—I had been pronounced by my physiclan eonsumptive, and told that I would die, and had given up all hope, when a very dear friend gave me a bottle of your Ozomulsion, and it 1 bad not begun taking it right away 1 do not believe I would be alive today. i{'When I began taking Ozomulsion I had fits of coughing that left me in & completoly exhausted condition, 1 had abandoned all hope of ever being cured of that hated cough, but after taking ol Dbottles I have gained sixteen pounds, can do a hard day's work and must truly say that 1 feel like a girl of sixteen. I have lain in bed for hours after a fit of coughing, when life seemed a burden, but, thanks to Orzomulsion, I am now well and strong. Ozomulsion s known, recommended and sold by worthy aruggists every- where In 16 oz. and 8 oz. bottles. (Always ask for Ozomulsion by nam That all may experfence for them- selves what this exclusive preparation will do, a 8 oz Trial bottle will be sent by mall to all who send their ad- or letter, to the Ozo- Pear) ¥t,, New York, membered hearing shots and that the pis tol in her muff fell to the floor. She then fled and 4id not know that her husband had been shot until told so later. LATEST STYLES IN CRUTCHES Plain or Orpament Justea Holdups Ad- it ANl “If there |s anything that can compensate ® person for the loss or deformity of one or Both 1imbs, it is the exuberance of fancy In which he may indulge In the ornamenta- tion of his erutches,” sald a dealer in those aids to the halt. “That Is," he added, “pro- vided he has the money to gratity his tastes.” “According to th said the Inquirer, “crutches must be an expensive necessity?' “Not at all,” returned the dealer, “so long as you confine yourself to the bare, plain erutch. The light-colored, every-day article which you generally see on the street is a very cheap affair. It Is made of maple and costs only $250 to ¥ & palr, with 50 cents extra for the rubber caps at the end, “Why, you can get a first class crutch made of the finest rosewood for $9 or $10 a pair. A ecrutch of that kind Is as good as any reasonable person ought to want, for it 1s neatly finished In nickel and provided with splendidly padded spring ocushions and will last a lMfetime. It Is not in the cruteh itself that the expense lles. It is in the trimmings. ‘“You see, & crutch Is like everything else, Its cost depends not so much upon the solld material composing it as upon the fixings. You wouldn't belleve how fond #ome people who have been crippled for years are of a crutch. The senseless wooden stick becomes, to their minds, a part of themselves, It Is a never-failing friend. You and I sométimes think we bestow ex- ceeding care upon the fit of a coat or a dress or the shape of a hat, but that at- tention s slight compared with the thought a eripple gives to his crutch. 1 clipped an article from a foreign mag- azine a little while ago In which a wealthy Englishman was criticized for spending §200 on a palr of crutches. But I don't see why folks made such a fugs about it. Why, that 18 no price at all. I know men right here in America’ who have pald five times that amount. The trimmings of those ex- pensive crutches are o1 gold, and the best of them are set here and there with small, but valuable, stones. “The most sxpensive orutches T ever saw were made for an old woman over in the poorer district. She had her meonogram, J. C. 8.’ outlined In gems on each crutch. To get these decorations finished off in good taste required Infinite skill and pa- tience, and 1 declined to undertake the job at first, but when I reflected that her in- itials were the same as my trademark, and that the work would serve as a good advertisement for me, 1 accepted the or. der. Just why so much art was lavished on these crutches I never found out Neither do I know whether they were ex- pected to be of more practical use in thi way."—~New York Times BASELESS FABRIC OF DREAMS What Was Expected to Happen When Radium Was First Pro- duced. ‘When radium was found in pitchblende, hopes were high that It would make vital economic changes. A product which gives lght and heat without loss of substance meant, it cheaply produced, a substitute for gas and electrioity, for coal and pe- troleum. Imagination ran very high at such a prospect. One_ thought of a loco- motive getting Its power from bollers heated by a trifling bit of radium—a fuel that would outlast:the great machine it- melf_and its successors for all time. A pinpolnt of it In each Toom of ‘a house would light and warm, the structure; and another would run the family cooking range without replenlshmeént. The mills and factoriés might shut off thelr coal or oll supplies, and, posscssed of a few grains of radium, steam ahead at full speed. All fuel bunkers on shipboard could be added to cargo space, and an ocean liner could boom alohg on a lump of metal no larger than a thimble. Another lump might light & eity from the top of its highest-hill. These were some of the day dreams, but they were soon to vanish. A little matter of cost Intervened. Something like $2,000,000 an ounce was the retail price of radium on the street. It was cheaper to buy coal and gas for & generation than radium for a day. So the new metal soon came to be reégarded as a curio which had mixed | up theories about the conservation of en- ergy and ocould have no practical value unless pitchblende could be found in quan- titles. Perhaps—who knows?—the discovery will come to pass. Already a find of high- grade uranium ore is reported from Den- ver. No such mass of pitchblende was ever seen Dbefore, though It Is not yet known whether there is enough to make the new metal available In the world's work. If so, hope will range high that other discoveries ‘will follow until dollars rather than mil- lions ‘of them come to designate the mar- ket price.—8an Franciseo Chronicle, GENERAL DRAPER IS DEAD Former Ambassador te Italy Expires at Washington After Lomng lineas. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—General William Draper, former ambassador to Italy, died at his home here last night after a prolonged illness, aged 68 years, Brigadier General Draper was born in Lowell, Mass., April 9, 1842, He served in the unlon army from 1861 to 1564, holding commissions from second lleutenant to lleu- tenant colonel, commanding, and also colo- nel and brigadier general by brevet. He ‘was twice wounded. General Draper was a presidential eleo- tor and served as a republican member in the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth congresses, declining a third nomination. In 187 he was appointed ambassador to Italy, holding that post until 1%00. He served as commander of the Loyal Legion of Massachusetts. ) ——— Idaho irrigated lands for sale. Will mall you 40-page booklet, gives complete In- formation, on recelpt of 10c. The Denton Investment Co., Twin Falls, Idaho. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The tariff offi- cers of the government today recommended to the president through the secretary of {state that proclamations be issued to him declaring the following countries as not be- ing unduly diseriminative in their tariffs against the United States and therefore entitled to receive the minimum rates of duty imposed by the Payne-Aldrich aet: Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Bwe- den, Belglum, Bgypt and Persia. It is ex- Pected the proclamation will be issued by the president tomorrow or 3 The State Gepartment officlals having the matter in charge, Including the officers of the board of foreign trade relations and the tariff board, have been working overtime In thelr efforts to adjust the tariff differ- ences betwéen the United States and ce tain other Buropean countries, and espe- | happenings Minimum Tariff Rates For Seven More Countries DUN'S REVIEW &F TRADE Situation Presents Irregular Appear- ance, VOLUME OF BUSINESS HEAVY Paris Flood, British Electio Price Crasad Stock Market Slamp Some Distarbing Factors. NEW YORK, Jan. #.~R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade today says: Measured by such test ank clearings and rallroad earnings, there is no visible diminution in the volume of industrial and mercantile transactions, and yet with such the English eloctions, the Parls flood, the agitation over the high prices_and the rather violent break in the New York stock market, attributed to e aggerated fears, it would bhe strange, in- doed, It ‘the various tradgs. sublective to finaneial and political Influences, did not in some degree feel the effect of these dis- . Then the weather conditions aces unfavorable to dis- trl uation presenta an irregular appearance, due to an uneven trade dovelopment. This irregularity ~was displayed to some extent In the iron and steel trade, although an event of the week was the declaration of an extra dividend by the principal prodvcer. Moreover, tho decline in security prices, the recent fall in cotton and the tendency to lower values for some foodstuffs are a development likely to make the situation more wholo- some, however disturbing it is temporarily. Dry goods jobbing reports an improve- ment In house trade. Fall eottons, such as flannelettes, have been priced close by the largest producers at advances of one. half and three-quarters of a cent a vard and business tendered is large. Print cloth trading is light, with some recesaions in the open market on wide goods, Ginghams apll well and there is a hetter ‘demand for printed _cottons. trade continues light, but shipments on old orders are sul Business booked on men's wear staples and semi-staple by the largest producers for fall has bdeni large and ad- vances of 2% cents per yard on some num- bers were announced. Dross goods trade in very moderate, although the large corpor tions have booked good fall orders. or- steds and cotton I8 ArC eASy. ‘Wholekale dealers in shoes are placing initial fall contracts for later delivery with New England footwear producers; also some fair sized supplementary Bpring ‘con- tracts. Many manufacturers now have o satisfactory ~yvolume of resefve orders booked and prospects for the immediate future are promising. All varisties of do- metic hides continue wesk. Some sales of leather have lately been effected at lower figures than those previously quoted. BRADSTRERT'S REVIEW OF TRADE Cross-Currents in Demand Render Oharacterization Difficult. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Bradstreet's day says: Cross currents in demand render sharacterization difficult. Wholesale and jobbing trade In spring goods tends to expand, travelers on the road are sending n better orders and the outlook for the tuture in those lines s optimistic. Retall rade following the activity engendered by anuary clearance sales s quieter, pend- ng the further advance of the winter sea- on. . Filling in_orders from lers to /bbers are moderate. Manufacturing ustry is very busily employed, with srders amhead. Mildér weather has o J Eo‘llbl. for trangportation companies to catch up with the business hitherto de- layed by storms, and there is less anxlety as té coal supplies e‘rg:'llnl lummtclan!. plrit There are some e o at a g of Gonsetvatism 18 heing Sogendered by he breaks in securities and cotton, the alk of government prosecutions of alleged [ con:bmngo;\una‘m- wédfipr.d revolt agalnst high food pric vidences of this are found in lga esitation re- ported in some branches. of the iron trade and refiection of the lust mentioned de- vel is had in a very general reduction of prices of live stock, meats, eggs, butter ln(P‘klndM products. Collections show a_tendency to improve, though they are not better than fair. Busi- ness fallures in the United Btates for the week .ending with January 27 were 896, ufunn 275 last week, 811 in the like week of 1509, 359 in 1908, 211 In 1507 and 228 in 1806, Business failures in. Canada number 43, which compares with 40 for last week and 42_for the correspondng week last year. ‘Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending January 2, gregpte 8118178 bushels, against 2,004,746 bushels last week and. 8,044,008 bushels this week last year. For the thirty weeks ending January 27 exports are 96,743,343 bushels, nst 127, 042,429 bushels 'in the corresponding period last year. Corn exports for the week are 1,378,656 bushel ainst 683,8(4 bushels last week and 1, bushels n 1900 r the thirty weeks ending January 27 corn exports are 14,020,013 bushels, against 15,614,88 bushels last ‘year. CONSIDER THE BOY PRODIGY Remarkable Career of William J. Sidis, the Mathematical Wonder. to- eneral The feat of Willam J. Sidis, 18 years old, in elucidating theories of the “fourth dimension” before students and professors of mathematics at Harvard university this week has revived interest in the career of this remarkablé prodigy. Distinguished mathematicians from all over New England were present at the boy's lecture and gazen In wonder as the rosy-cheeked lad, in short trousers, placed on the blackboard row after row of fig- ures to prove his difficult’ and profound theories. Many of them frankly professed their ignorance of the subject of which the boy talked so glibly, and agaln and agein called on him to explain anew some mathematical theory, Young Sidls, who was ac¢companied by his father, Dr. Boris Siais, a widely-known paychologist, ‘stepped to the front, and, with & chlldleh laugh, began his lecture. He wore a red handkerchief such as is commonly worn by boys in the primary schools, and his handwriting was that of & child. But his mind was far from- child- ish, and some of his ideas were beyond the comprehension of many of his auditors. “The fourth dimenslonal = space,’ sald young Sidls, “4s the Buclidian space, with one more dimension added on. Tbe fourth dimensional solid 18 called a configuration and 1s formed by projecting on a line per- pendioular to the lines of the third dimen- sional figures. This (s ecasily done by Oyler’s theorem. A fourth dimensional fig- ure so construoted Is called a polyhedro- gon. It is possible to construet with this theorem a figure of 108 atmensional sides called the hecatonicocehedrogon, and also a figure with 600 sides called & sexicocened. rogon."" Young Sidis, with the ald of a crayon which he wielded with his lttle hand, ex- clally those with Germany and France. The statement was officlally made today that good progress had been made in set- Uing the tariff lssues with Germany. The live cattie and meat inspection provistons of the German regulations have been ten- tatively adjusted, the United States yleld- ing &s to live cattle and y walving its microscoplc meat inspection regulation. There s & provist, however, that the ques- tion of the lmportation into Germany of American live caitle be deferred and later on taken up diplomatically or through a special commission. There are still & numbér of important points to be mettied, and o0 far as the United States may yleld for the present in the matter of live cattle, such action will be eontingent upon 8. Satistactory settle- ment of remaining points under discussion, THE OMAHA SUNPAY BEE: plained the construction of some fourth dimension figures hitherto unxnown to the professors. He sald that tne new thories advanced by him at the lecture would rev- olutionize the study of geometry. Young Sidls was 1l years old when, two years ago, he first applied for admission to Harvard. His youth was a bar at that time, Recently he made his second appearance at Hervard, “What, you thorities. Yes, and this time I am going to get in," sald the child, And he got in. For two vears he had been studying at Tufts ocallege, which opened its doors when Harvard refused, and he proved himsslf more than merely prepared. In mathematios, for instance, instead of offering the usual requirements of ¥imple algebra and plane meometry, he will begin his eourse with quartenion: which is a pinnacle few ever attain. nt exclaimed the au- In Greek he would be required to know his Zenophon and some Homer; he not only fills this, but can declalm in Greek with the utmost familiarity. .He knows twice as many languages as are called for, and he is famillar with half a dozen sclences. He begins, therefore, with more knowledge than many students acquire during thelr entire course; he will be graduated at 11, when most boys enter college, and then he will go abroad for his degree of doctor of philosophy. His father has from the earliest years trained the boy to reason, and then has gratiffed the child's natural desire to study. Willlam has taught himself a largo part of what he knows. Books have always been within his reach and he has only had to read a volume to grasp It. He learned French In this way when ne was no more than 7 years old, with no teaching from Any one. Logle, too, he acquired a short time after the Frerich episode. 1t was merely & matter of finding a book “Do you know," the time, “I'm sorry 1 put off logie so long. If I had studled it sooner it would have helped me a great deal.” When he was 3 years old Willlam could read, write and spell, and from that time on it has been only a question of letting him use his mind. At 6 vears he entered the grammar school and In less than a year had completed the seven grades. At § he was In the high school and at U1 he was more than ready for coiiege. Greek he seemed to have absorbed with the air he breathed and hix record in mathematics 1= absolutely dazsling. The parents of young Sidis are Russian and bave played thelr part, like most edu- cated Russian Jews, In the revolution. Both father and mother are physiclans. Dn 8idis has made a name for himself in the fleld of medical psychology. The hoy has always heard clever talk and earnest dls- cussion from the time he could ask a ques- tion and could find some one ready to listen and explain. Dr. Sidis lays to this a large part of the child's marvelous de- velopment. He clalms, too, the law of “reserve energy” has much to do with it. Prof. James set forth this theory some time ago, when he explained that ths power of getting what Is properly celled “second wind” might be controlled at will and enable us to accomplish daily and regularly what we can all do under stress of circum- stances. Dr. Sidis thinks his boy bas learned how to use his “hidden energy.” He has given much thought to educational questions and criticlses modern methods with great frankness. He thinks the whole point lles in teaching a child, when very yourg, how to use his facultles aright, and it is his belief that he has so tdught Lis marvelous boy. i ¢ Dr. Sials Is; in fact, rather impatient of the theory that the boy's heredity accounts for his development, and will have it that his system of eéducation has more to do with the matter.—Philadelphia Ledger. WHAT WILL STALWARTS Do? This is Question of Day tn South Dakota Polities Preceding Huron Meeting. HURON, 8. D, Jan. 290—(Special.)— Reservations have been made at local hotels for delegates from more than twenty ccunties in Bouth Dakota to the stalwart conference to be held here Tuesday next. The call for this gathering. includes “all republicans in South Dakota who are op- posed to the extravagance and mismanage- ment of the present state administration are invited to attend a conference for the purpose of endorsing candidates for state and congressional offices for consideration of the republican voters at the primaries o be held in June.” Loeal politicians will see to it that all who attend are comfort- ably cared for. Speculation 18 rife as to who will con- stitute the ticket and also as to the plat. form to be promulgated. A plank setting forth the ‘extravagance of the present state government” will be one of the chlet features of the argument. It is also hintéd that an effort will be made to inaugurate a movement to take out of the hands of the commissioner of insurance the power of dlstributing inrurance statements and refer the same-4o the commission. Not a few old soldlers are disgusted with the suggestion that trouble exists at the Sol- dlers’ Home, which would not be tolerated under any other executive than Governor Vessey. Those in a position to know assert that the governor has given every consideration powsible to matters referred to him relative to the Soldiers'’ Home and that the records of that institution ara the best authority on matters pertaining to his management. WHEN DINNER COMES - One Ought to Mave a Good Appetite. A g00d appetite 15 the best sauce. It |8oes a long way toward helping in the digestive process, and that is absolutely essential to health and strength, Many persons have found that Grape- Nuts food is not only nourishing, but is a | Areat appetizer. Even children like the taste of it and grow strong and rosy from its use, It is esfpecially the food to make a weak stomach strong and create an ap- petite for dinner. “I am 37 years old" writes a Tenn. grandmother, “and have had a stomach from childhood. By great care @s to my diet I enjoyed a reasonable degree of health, but never found any- ng to equal Grape-Nuts as a standby. “When I have no appetite for break- fast and just eat to keep up my strength, 1 take 4 teaspoonfuls of Grape-Nut with good rich milk, and when dinner comes I am hungry. While it I go with- out any breakfast I never feel like eat- ing ‘dinner. Grape-Nuts for breakfast seems to make a healthy appetite for dinner. “My little 13-months-old grandson had been very sick with stomach trouble during the past summer, and floally we put him on ‘Grape-Nuis. ' Now he Is growing plump and well, When asked If wants his nur or Gu Nuts, brightens up and points to the cupboard. He was no trouble to wean at all—thanks to Grape-Nuts.” Réad the little book, “The Road to Welville,” in pkgs. “There's a Reason. Bver read the above A new one appears from to tuie, They &re penuine, frus, 4nd full' of Numan JANUARY 30 A Little Handbook for All Music Lovers he #ald to a friend at! fatin and | weak | 1910. qualified approval of the musical to endorse. that are wholly lacking in the 1311-1313 FARNAN ST. SEND THIS Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co.,, Om Gentlemen: — Name Address .. The Pianola Piano is the Standard instrument of its kind. Here is a little book with a big thought back of it. Henry T. Finck, the noted author and musie eritie, has done for musie what President Elliot did for literature in his much disceussed ‘‘five foot library.”’ Taking the Pianola catalogue of over 15,000 titles, Mr. Finick has selected 130 choice pieces that he specially recommends. Moreover he has grouped them into “‘Twenty Musical Evenings’ so that they represent a fascinating pian for heme enter- tainment. Each program is followed by interest- ing comments. The book is a sort of Pian- olist’s ‘‘Baedeker’”’ guiding the novice in the selection of music which is both first- olass and popular. The Pianola Piano Opens Up a Wonderful Field of Home Entertainment world. Pianola’s imitators. OOUPON FOR “TWENTY MUSICAL aha, Neb. Anyone who reads this little book cannot fail to be impressed with the unlimited enjoyment that the Pianola Piano brings into the home, Here iga delightful means of entertainment in which the entire family shares. It is the only one to have received un- It is the only one that the great pianists themselves are willing Only in the Planolas and Pianola Piano are to be found the vital improvements that give the hu- man-like quality to the playing. 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AS for a re- auctlon In shipments that might be.” On the other hand, the small dealers were equally positive that the packers are “only talking big” and that if only the boycott continues, concessions in wholesale prices must come. The family trade In meats throughout the city continues to dwindle and prices continue to fall in consequence, but as beet goes down, fish go up. The following declines and appreciations were recorded, in the retall markets here today: Porterhouse Steak from =i to 20 cents a pound; sirloin steak, 22 to 18 cents; prime ribs of beef, 22 to 16 cents; pork loins, 18 to 16 cents; pork chops, 20 to 18 cents; leg mutton, 22 to 18 cents; mutton, 14 to 12 cents. Fish: Salmon sieaks, 20 to 25 cents; codfish, 12 to 16 cents; halibut, 15 to 22 cents; bluefish, 12 to 18 and 20 cents; smelts, |15 to 22 and 24 cents. The price of poultry remained unchanged, but therf was a sharp decline in the quotations on egEs. Resontment against the cost of living has thus far mainly centered upon the| packers, but an independent Investigator came out with figures today which tend to show that in the better class trade at least, the retaller absorbs the larger shares of the profits, leaving to the packer only what he can make oo the sale of by- products. It is sald a New York packer buys a steer on the hoof in the Chicago stock yards. The steers welghs 1332 pounds in Chicagé, for which 7% cents is pald, mak- ing the cost to the New York packer $9657. Owlng to loss of welght by trans- portation the steer when slaughtered here | welghs only 120 pounds. When dressed it 'made 00 pounds of saleable meat, of which 734 pounds would bring top notch prices. In aaort, the packer resorves for his own uses 400 pounds and sells to the! butcher 800 pounds. For this 800 pounds the butcher pays the | packer $72 and the packer must make up the difference between his selling price here and the price he paid for the steer on the hoof in Chicago, by his sales of by-products. He is supposed to admit a profit on these of 15 per cent, Now comes the profits of the retalers. A table Is submitted purporting to show that the 800 pounds 1z sold to the house- holder at retall for a total of $165. In explanation the butcher's statement is given. . “We have to get very large profits,” he for nearly every steward or chef who deals with us expects his bit of the check his employer sends us.” Aside from the quarrel among the packer, the wholesaler and the retaller, it fs| pointed out by shrewd buyers that neither | the governmept nor a boycott can adjust the situation until the men in control of the cattle are brought to book “Where does the publlc get off?" is the question asked by the skeptics.’ The statement continues: “Ninety per. cent of the fish on the market Is frozen and eggs are mainly cold storage. This does not provide good am- munition for & boycott. “The packers will not lose. The situation must be looked at without self-deception. The packers will kill less beef, shey wili dfscharge many employes and the cattle | they do not kill can be held for a revived demand. Prices will drop but little ana when the natlon gets hungry again the packers will be Just where they were be- { | | | | the nvestigation of the so-called ‘“Beet trust,” and adjourned until Monday. Part of the session was devoted to cases of minor Importance and several true bills were returned. This leaves the grand jury free to proceed with the packers' probs without any more interruptions. LANIGAN SWATTED AKHOOND Recollection of & Pathetic Parody that Belt the Wworld with a Smile, The arrival of Wiillam Watson in this country and the republication of his ode on the death of Tennyson recalls to the mind of a Chicago Record-Herald writer the story of the world-famed parody on the death of Wellington by Tennyson, Here 1s an instance of the lesser becoming the greater. There are more persons who have heard of the parody than have read the original. “The Akhoond of Swat” Is a classic, more because the American people have appreci- ation for subtle humof than for anything striking or extraordfWary about the lines. When (eorge Lanigan walked into the tele- graph editor's room of the Chicago Times one might in 1877, and saw there this bul- letin, “London, Jan. 14.—The Akhoond of Swat I8 dead,”” the humor of the situation selzed on him and he returned to his re- porter's desk and dashed off the following with his fountaf pen, for that was before the days of the typewriter: What, what, what, What's the news from Swat? Sad news, Bad news Comes by the cable, led Through the Indian ocean's bed, Through the Persian gulf and the Red Sea and the M Iterranean. The Akhoond i dead. These lines and others that followed fixed & place in history for the Akhoond. Lani- gan was one of the “bright young men' of the Times. The term Is used advisedly, for in those days there were clever men in the fleld of newspaperdom, as there are today. Eugelie Fleld was just beginning his career and the Indlana school of poets and literati had not yet become famous. Lanigan was a poet, artist, reporter and, above all, a good télegraph operator. He was considered the fastest “sender” in the country, and at)the Chicago fire of 1812 was cut off from the main portion of the city by the flames, and so went Into a de- serted drug store on the end of the burning district, where he wrote one of the most graphlc accounts of the disaster «nd put It on the wire. He could sit at the Key and give an eyewitness description of one of the most dramatic scenes of modern times. Nothing that Lanigan did will live In tifs- tory except his parody. And long after the author, the manner in which it came to be written or the occasion for it will be lost to memory, the name of “The Akhoond of Swat" will be & famillar term. No one will ask the location of the country; in fact, the majority of persons of today belleve that it is & mythical kingdom. There was a real, live, human Akhoond, and he will never dle. His fame Is secure in the euphony of the mame. Lanigan exploited him, and both are the gainers,—Washington Herald. | ——e e ; Musings of a Cynie. Some people will take offense even when it doesn’t belong to them. We would never hear of some men If it wasn't for the enemies they make. A man's foresight is frequently wasted on things that never happen. No mai ould flirt with'a girl unless he is sure she is merely flirting with him. One-half of the world doesn’t know how the other half lives, but it has grave sus- plcions, The fellows who are looking for trouble are generally those who get married. Unless & man makes the most of his opportunities he can't expect his oppor- tunities to make the most of him. The young man who has no bad habits stands the bes' chance of marrying a rich man's daughter. He Is less expensive to ‘l‘!;lldnllln as a son-in-law than the other nd, ‘The devil Isn't as black as he Is painted, A Bood bit of his blackness has been rubbed off on the people who have tried to investi- gate the truth of the comforting proverb. —New York Times The ‘“Paychological Moment.” The great Oxford dictionary Is slowly but surely working its way through the ha- bet, and somewhat more rapid progr is hol or. The seventh volume, recently published, stretches from ‘“prophecy’ to “'pyxis,”" and by the end of the year, it is expected, “Romanite” will reached, Among other in the iatest volume Ik that mucn-mi psychological mowent.” It Is popu- larly taken to mean the critical or the op- portune instant. a matter of faot, It was taken blund!rlnrl( from the German by a French journalist who mistransiated “das psychologische moment’'— is to say momentum or impulse. To make the matter worse, the phrase s often trans- formed into “psychical moment," with more or less vagueness of sense.—Springfield Re- publican, l Recalelitrant. “If you think T'm golng to pay this as- sesament.” sald the man who had called at the office of the county cellector with & tax notico in his hand, “you're barking up the wrong tree!" 'What's the matter with it?'" ‘The matter? It's unjust! I always pay fore . than any of my nelghtors. ang they've got lots more property" than haye!" And you are not going to pay the as- sessment?' f No, sir! I'll see Cook county in the ever- lasting bow-wows before I'll do it! I'l earry It up to the highest court! 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