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MAY RECEIVE NOBEL PRIZE
Congressman Richard Bartholdt, from the
Tenth district of Missouri, is spoken of as the
. probable winner of the Nobel peace medal for
this year, a distinction which was won by Presi
dent Roosevelt for his work in bringing to an
end the bloodiest struggle in modern times, the
Russo-Japanese war. The congressman is the
leading figure in the Interparliamentary union,
a congress of members of national parliaments
in all parts of the world, organized to further
the cause of peace, and it was due to his efforts
that 200 members of the American congress
were brought in. Both King Edward and Em
peror William have received him and Andrew
Carnegie made him the custodian of $1,000,000,
the proceeds of which are to be devoted to fur
thering the interests of peace. He took a promi
nent part in the last peace conference at The Hague, where he made this
very practical recommendation:
"To each nation joining the community of nations in such a legislative
body will he guaranteed (1) territorial and political integrity and local
sovereignty or home rule; <2> an equal opportunity to trade abroad, and (3)
due voice in determining the law to bo recognized by nations in their inter
course with each other. These are the rights, you will observe, which to se
cure and enjoy has always been assigned as the only reason for the main
tenance of military systems.”
Although to-day an enthusiastic American, Congressman Bartholdt was
born in Germany, but came to this country when a boy. He learned the print
ing trade and has been a newspaperman ever since. He was connected vith
several eastern papers as reporter, legislative correspondent and at the time
of !i>.s election to congress he was editor ol' the St. Louis Tribune. I'u Is
53 years of age and has served eight consecutive terms in congress.
YOUTHFUL BANK PRESIDENT
John H. Edwards, who resigned the position
of assistant secretary of the treasury to become
president of the Mercantile National bank to
succeed F. Augustus Heinz, who was forced out
during the flurry that followed the collapse of
the corner in United Copper in October, is a
little past 30 years of age. He began life as a
bank clerk in Ohio, and by the time he reached
voting age he had been elected assistant secre
tary of the Bankers’ association of Ohio. Con
gressman Weaver of Springfield, O., offered him
the position of private secretary some ten years
ago. and Edwards accepted it and went to Wash
ington with him. That position he held until
1901, when the congressman was retired. His
work had attracted the attention of Postmaster
General Payne, who offered him a similar posi
tion. Edwards accepted. His duties brought him frequently into contact with
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, and when the latter was looking for a private
secretary he “borrowed” Edwards from Payne and never paid him back. When
Horace A. Taylor tendered his resignation of the position of assistant secre
tary of the treasury he recommended Edwards. He suggested that the an
nouncement be made on Washington's birthday, then but a few days off.
"It is the birthday of Edwards’ good old mother,” he said, “and the. birth
day of his young son. I would like to tell him of his promotion on that day.”
“Capital!” shouted the president, enthusiastically. “1 will go you one
better and send his nomination to the senate on that day.”
He was as good as his word and Edwards got the appointment. Because
the president of the United States and the secretary of the treasury in these
commonplace, practical and materialistic days, were sentimentalists, he was
confirmed in a position which he did not assume for several weeks later.
ALTERED PROHIB!T!ON WORK
Dr. Pulley A. Iiaker. head and brains of the
National Anti-Saloon league, speaking of the
temperance wave that is sweeping over the
United States, says: “We are fighting a demor
alized and divided enemy and smile at conces
sions shouted back by a whipped army in full
retreat."
Dr. Baker looks like a country preacher. He
was but he isn't. Once he rode the hills of
southern Ohio in a buckboard and ministered
to ten isolated congregations. He himself led
the singing. Now he rides over the United
States in parlor cars, an admiral on wheels in
a rigorous and scientific warfare against the
liquor traffic.
Officially he is described as the superintend
ent of the Anti-Saloon league of America. Un
officially he is described as a corporation lawyer, a political boss and a doctor
of divinity. His headquarters are in Columbus, O., and Washington. He is
quick and nervous, but his head is all the time clear and his brain knows little
if any rest. He dresses like a business man.
As the head of the Anti-Saloon league he has helped to select 250 paid
workers throughout the country, a considerable number of whom are lawyers.
Dr. Baker was born in the country. At 13 he had a step-father with the
usual results. He became a farm laborer. One night he drifted into a revival
meeting. Then the desire for an education seized him. He became a minister
and while laboring in Ohio he saw the effects of intemperance, but didn't
think prohibition could be made practical and successful if it continued in
politics as a separate party. He became interested with Howard H. Russell,
who as a student had gone to the Ohio capital to lobby a township local op
tion bill through the legislature. He resigned his pastorate and took up the
cause of temperance.
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IRISH PEER COMING
The duke of Leinster, Ireland's premier peer,
and a handsome, stalwart young man, is coming
to America, and the gossips are hinting that
there is a beautiful young American girl who
may wear the strawberry leaves as a result of
his visit. The duke is said to be the best parti
of the day, for he lost his parents while he was
yet a child, and the revenues of the estates
have accumulated during his minority until to
day he is a wealthy man, even for his position.
Loth his lather and his mother, the latter the
most beautiful woman in England at the time,
died of consumption, and it was feared at one
time that the young duke would meet the same
fate, lie was sent off for a long sea voyage
and he returned strong and healthy, with his
constitution apparently thoroughly built up.
Consumption was not the only danger that threatened the life of the
young duke, for shortly after the deatli of his father he nearly lost his life
a fire which destroyed Buncombe park, the country seat of his grandfather,
the old earl of Faversham, with whom he was living. He was rescued by one
ot the servants, who climbed to his window by a ladder, wrapped him up in a
^t't blanket and carried him to the ground. Both the ladder and the blanket
^ere scorched by the flames bursting out at the window, but the child was un
•njured.
The young duke of Leinster is a great-grand nephew of the famous Lord
Edward Fitzgerald, the Irish patriot, who, after a hard struggle with the
English troops and police, died in Newgate prison, Dublin, of the injuries in
flicted by them. Lady Edward Fitzgerald, who long survived him, was gen
ially believed, to have been a natural daughter of the regicide, duke of Or
gans, father of King Louis Philippe, and of Mine, de Genlis. The latter was
t.J Etnious French authoress, who, as governess, was intrusted with the educa
1011 ot Louis Philippe The romantic circumstances of the marriage of Lord
ist- * a<ly Ed'vard Fitzgerald, have found themes for the works of many novel
SUi aad Poets, including Thomas Moore.
Washington Whisperings
Senators Are Not as Rich as Reported
WASHINGTON.—What else are con
gressmen besides congressmen?
If they are not in congress, drawing
salary from a grateful people, what
would they be doing for a living?
When the official questioner went
around and asked the Sixtieth con
gress what, its business was when it
wasn’t cengressing 56 members of the
senate and lower house—15 of one
and 41 of the other, replied point
blank that they were “public officials.”
Of course, in both houses the law
years far outnumber everybody else put
together. There are 54 professed law
yers in the senate alone, and no less
than 235 more in the house—just 11
less than an even 300 all together.
In this category reads the names
one has heard before—Senators Tel
ler and Bacon, Heyburn, Borah, Hop
kins, Hemenway and Beveridge, Frye,
Nelson, Depetv, La Follette, Foraker
and Dick, Penrose, Culberson and Bai
ley. In the house the lawyers are le
gion, with Nicholas Longworth, Bur
ton, Tawney, De Armond, Littlefield,
Crumpacker, Overstreet and the New
York triumvirate of Bourke Cockran,
Herbert Parsons and Sereno Payne.
Bankers rank next in number, al
though there are but five in the en
tire senate, which seems like news—
Taliaferro of Florida, Nixon of Neva
da, Kean of New Jersey, Ankeny of
Washington, and Reed Smoot of Utah.
The house boasts 22 bankers, making
27 in all.
The two senators from South- Caro
lina confess that they are farmers,
though that is more than anybody else
in the senate will admit. These are
Senators Latimer and Tillman. Thus
the latter remains loyal to his pitch
fork. Two are merchants, Aldrich and
Perkins. Buckley of Connecticut says
insurance is his business. Lodge
claims literature as a profession, and
Platt is labeled, boldly enough, “Presi
dent of Express Company.” Warren of
Wyoming is a stock raiser, Stephenson
of Wisconsin a lumberman, Elkins of
West Virginia a miner, and Hans
brough of North Dakota admits to an
editorship.
There are 13 farmers in the house,
including J. Adam Bede; nine manu
facturers, four merchants, four insur
ance men, seven real estate dealers
and as many lumbermen. There are
also seven editors. There are five
journalists, four miners and three pub
lishers. There were two planters, be
cause John Sharpe Williams was one
before he graduated to the upper
house. There is one mining engineer,
one railroad constructor, one fruit
grower, a “trustee” (probably the only
professional one in existence), a build
er, an everyday contractor, one lone
capitalist, a miller, a stock raiser, a
surveyor and a tanner. One says his
occupation is “railroad,” and another
says his is “stone.” There are two
nurserymen and four physicians, be
sides Hobson, who is put down as a
“naval constructor," and Champ Clark,
who keeps on trying to prove that he
is a lecturer.
How much are they worth in money,
these lawyers and public officials and
merchants and insurance men and
farmers, who serve their country at
Washington?
Every third man in the senate is
worth a million or more. There are
32 millionaires in the senate and 14
in the house. Thirty-two senators are
worth, together, $210,500,000. The 14
house millionaires are worth $83,000,
000. "Retired” Senator Guggenheim is
worth about $60,000,000. “Lumber
man” Stephenson is worth $30,000,000.
Express President Platt receives $30,
000 a year in salary alone. “Merchant”
Aldrich is worth $12,000,000.
Do they all draw salary and every
cent of perquisites they can get, these
46 millionaires who are worth the stu
pendous sum of $293,500,000?
The answer is, they do.
Woman Frail Thing, Says Supreme Court
WOMAN is In a class by herself.
She's frail.
No matter how much she may hank
er for the rights of men, the right of
suffrage and other privileges, it is
impossible to close one's eyes to the
fact that she is the weaker vessel and
still looks to her brother for protec
tion.
This is so, Susan B. Anthony and
others to the contrary notwithstand
ing. The supreme court of these great
United States says so.
In a decision upholding the Oregon
eight-hour day law for women em
ployes, the court perhaps for the first
time in its history, told woman just
where she stands. And a laundryman
is responsible for this official pronun
ciamento as to the rights of the fair
sex. This thrifty Oregonian made his
women employes work ten hours, the
same as the men on his pay rolls, lie
was prosecuted under the eight-hour
law, which was upheld by the state
courts and again by the country's high
est tribunal.
Holding first that women's rights
can be no more infringed than those
of men, Justice Brewer, who an
nounced the decision, went still fur
ther and held that on many accounts
woman is entitled to greater protec
tion than her brother.
"Legislation designed for her pro
tection may be sustained even when
like legislation is not necessary for
men and could not be sustained,” he
said.
Other Professions of Our Congressmen
SENATOR STEPHEN B. ELKINS of
West Virginia, rated as a multi
millionaire, has arisen in protest
against the current lists showing the
wealth of the men who make up the
“American house of lords.7 One of
the latest of these lists, printed a few
days ago, set down Senator Guggen
heim of Colorado at $00,000,000. Isaac
Stephenson of Wisconsin came second
with $30,000,000 and Senator Elkins
was put third with a modest
$25,000,000.
“Discount those figures by 90 per
cent.,” said Senator Elkins in all seri
ousness, as he surveyed the names of
his very rich colleagues, "and they
will be more nearly correct. It is the
honest truth that many of the men
listed in the senate by these writers
as worth all the way from $1,000,000
to $60,000,000 each would be willing
to take ten per cent, of these esti
mates in cash to-day.”
Another senator, probably as rich
as Mr. Elkins, but who would not al
low his name to be used, declares that
fully one-fourth of the 92 senators
have little else than their salaries of
$7,500 a year. Another fourth of the
92 have somewhere between $20,000
and $50,000. The personal fortunes
of another quarter of the senate range
between $50,000 or $60,000 and $500,
000. Most of this class of twenty-odd,
the senator thought, were worth be
tween $100,000 and $200,000. The other
quarter comprised senators all worth
$500,000, and probably 10 or 12 only
entitled to be called millionaires, not
multi-millionaires, but simply worth
from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000.
Monstrosities Shown in Capitol Paintings
EVER since a magazine article roast
ing the art of the great paintings
in the rotunda of the capitol lias been
given circulation, the pictures have
been receiving more attention than
ever before from the capitol guides.
Even the oldtiiners in Washington
who regarded it as “green” to listen
to the capitol echoes or to look at
the pictures and statuary, are going
over the paintings to verify the ac
curacy of the magazine's criticism.
And the criticism seems justified in
two Instances. The great painting by
John Trumbull, depicting Washing
ton’s resignation of the command of
the arm£. Is found to contain the pic
ture ot a young girl of a freak variety.
Two little children gazing in
tently at the heroic figure of the fa
ther of his country are seen to be well
equipped with hands and arms. Be
tween the two of them the little girls
have five arms. It is asserted in the
magazine article that one girl has
three hands, but a careful examina
tion of the picture shows that the twc
little girls have five hands and tc
neither of them can any two of the
five hands be properly charged.
Another oddity of the rotunda pic
tures is that found at the great illus
tration of the baptism of Pocahontas.
Among the Indians of Pocahontas’ im
mediate family who participated in
the religious ceremony was one big
Indian with six toes. Whether he
really had six toes or was given an
extra toe by the artist is not discov
ered in the history available, but it is
sufficient to say that there are six
as well rounded Indian toes on one
foot as can be found in a day’s walk.
CHICORY FIRST USED BY DUTCH
War Blockade Responsible for Discov
ery of Good Qualities of the Root.
Although chicory was probably known
and used by the ancient Romans as a pot
herb, it remained for the Hollanders
about 200 years ago to discover that the
roots of the chicory plant dried, ground
and roasted produced a drink like coffee,
both palatable and healthful.
During the Napoleonic wars a strict
blockade of the continent of Europe was
maintained and all importations of coffee,
tea and cocoa ceased. This forced the
people to turn to chicory as a beverage
and it soon came into general use.
So good was its taste, so rich was its
aroma that the new beverage at once be
came exceedingly popular with the good
Dutch housewives who are known the
world over for their ability as cooks.
After the war when ample supply of
coffee could be secured, tin' Hollanders
were loath to give up their chicory. As
a result they blended coffee and chicory
and produced the good old Dutch coffee
now served in nearly all hotels, restau
rants and homes in Europe.
Not only did this blend produce that
rich aroma and flavor, hut it was found
that chicory counteracted the had effects
of straight coffop. Those who found ordi
nary coffee injurious drank the combi na
tion and it proved both refreshing and
healthful.
Thus it is seen that chicory has been
used for centuries in Europe, where it is
regarded as a necessary addition to cof
fee.
Americans began using chicory as soon
as they realized it was put on the mar
ket to improve the quality of coffee and
not in any spirit of dishonesty. Fortu
nately the new United States pure food
law requires all makers to state on their
packages what the contents are and this
protects the buyer from all substitutes
for pure coffee and pure chicory and in
sures a grade equal to that from which
the old-fashioned Dutch beverage is made.
Through our foreign horn citizens so
consistently demanding it. the merits of
chicory have become known by word of
mouth until those who have heretofore
been disappointed in securing the rich,
full coffee flavor in their morning bever
age have found that by buying coffee
mixed with chicory, they secure the exact
combination they have been seeking.
Asserted His Rights.
John Hunter was a negro given to
chastising his wife.
“You, John,” said a neighbor one
day. "Susanna say, ef you don't quit
heatin’ her she gwine to de Freedman
bureau!”
"She do, do she?” he replied, with
scorn. "Now, iemnie tell yer, wunst
an’ fer all! Susanna am my wife! An’
so long as she go 'bout her bizness I
gwine left her ’lone. But w'en she git
ter cuttin’ up I gwine ter beat her, an’
ther' ain’t no bureau nor no sidebode
nor no chist of drors what kin hoi’ me
back!”’_
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