Show r Germany Is Worried It is not without significance that Germany Is l beginning to worry about the matter of trusts and syndicates Such organizations have played a conspicuous con-spicuous part in her Inner development nml In her trade relations for several years past A special commission of the Reichstag is now at work Investigating i Investi-gating and then reporting on the existence ex-istence formation and Influence or trusts domestic and foreign upon the nation with a view to possible legislation legisla-tion for their restriction or regulation Another special commission but made up of Government officials Is busy on the Baine task Uolh bodies arc expected ex-pected to visit this country in the course of their labors A painstaking nnd unbiased vork on trusts In Germany Ger-many and elsewhere written by Prof F C Huber of Stuttgart a noted economist econ-omist has just been published It makes an amazing exhibit of the enormous enor-mous recent growth of trusts In the empire em-pire What Is perhaps even more interesting In-teresting are the speeches being made by Dr Moller the Minister of Commerce Com-merce In Prussia before leading chambers I I cham-bers of commerce Before gathereing of the prominent merchants and shippers ship-pers of Bremen he declared Trusts and syndicates are a necessity He elaborated this Idea and pointed to this country as a striking proof of Its soundness adding Germany will have to pay close attention to all these things especially as they unfold themselves them-selves in America Before the chamber cham-ber of commerce In Hanover Dr Mailer fpoke even more plainly saying The United States Is hereafter Germanys most dangerous competitor In the worlds markets We must learn from them their business principles above all the feuccessful l concentration of capital cap-ital and manufacture and must adapt It to our conditions To further these alms the Imperial Government in about to send two additional commercial commer-cial experts here one to Chicago and another to San Francisco Prof Hu bera book shows that already whole and Important branches of German Industry In-dustry such as beet sugar and alcohol are completely under the control of irusts Harpers Weekly CedrIc the Largest Possible Ship By passing onward from larger size to larger size the transatlantic ship companies have finally reached what Is deemed by many observers to be tha I limit in ship expansion In the new sihlp of the White Star line the Cedrlc f which made Its first appearance In New York harbor in the latter part oC February iceolad and ponderous after a maiden voyage from England ca 1 achy Is afforded for over twentysix t hundred passengers in Addition to a crew of three hundred and thirtylive The decks of the vessel rise above tllo water more or less like the stories of a 1 hotel and newspaper artists seeking for some means of conveying an adequate ade-quate impression of the ships size j have drawn it to scale with the great Flatiron building in New York with a icsult not flattering to the building Increasing the size and Improving the accommodating capacity of the ocean steamships seems to have been fallen back upon I by the various cdnipanled us the only method of competItion now that the ship combines have become so farreaching and effective but It Is be licvod by l ship experts that the Cedrlc Is 1 the maximum possibility Colllora Weekly Day and Night Two drnoTTjfl forcer pal my door i Ono Kjuj one in sonlbre dross The ilnv one weird and endIeH < roar Tlio nlcht n million silenced To cnn I trhe DIG t slavo I am My ell rc of iKliur fevered breath Jhc other mid her godlike calm llfU me to dwell 1 1 with dcilh W Wilfred Campbell In the AplII I At lantic Revival of Foppism It may have been only one of lifes little lit-tle Ironies says the London Express that when Mr Becrbohm Tree was giving giv-ing a picture at his Majestys of The Last of the Dandles there should have been a revival of fopplsm all over London Carefully corseted young men may be seen daily swaggering down Piccadilly elaborately attired with tight t trousers gorgeous waistcoats and slender waisted frock coats and invariably invari-ably a crook stick swinging on the arm The eyeglass which hangs by a slender cord or is i kept III a special small pocket I pock-et Is by no means an assistance to the sight and though happily It Is no longer the custom to make up vast sums of money are spent In soaps and shaving creams hair lotions and even line face powder A mans dressingcase today has quite as many appointments as a ladys and can cost quite as much Male Corsets At the beginning of the winter season the Tailor and Cutter recorded the fact that gentlemen were paying attention to the shape of their waists and stated that while some tailors were padding the hips of the garments they made others were making their garments very close filling at the waist This journal now adds A walk around the West End today will convince the most skeptical skep-tical of the satirists who hurled their shafts of ridicule at the fashion a few months ago that they have wasted their energies and they will do well to learn that fashions follies never have been nor ever will be cured by these Invectives Invec-tives t Today the most popular overcoat over-coat Is the D B frock the newest lounge Is close fitting at the waist and If I the large number of Inquiries we have had during the past week or two for the names and addresses of mens corset manufactures IK 1 any guide to the taste of the smart dressed young men of today to-day then the wearing of these effeminate effem-inate articles of ottlre Is on the increase in-crease St Jamess Gazette An Appropriate Text Chauncey Olcott tells how when l he was a boy he went one cold and very stormy Sunday morning to church The building was Insufficiently heated and I during the aervIOfc he became very chilly When he arrived home his I I mother Inquired what the text was I Mnny wore cold but few frozen was UH reply How to Sell More Beer In the current exhibition of the Academy Acad-emy of Fine Arts In Philadelphia there Is a portrait subdued In colors by James MoNclll Whlotler that is called The Little Lady Sophie of Soho Before this portrait Harrison Morris stood the other day It Is beautiful he said and It reminds me of a story about Vhtstlcr Not a very appropriate not IL very poetical story perhaps but here It Is anyhow Whistler one summer set out with three or four young men on n walk through tho country of the English Downs The weather wan line and the walking good the tourists had a pleasant pleas-ant time They stopped at an alehouse ona warm afternoon and being all heated with the sun they called for beer thirstily thirst-ily Tankards eme set before them and they drank Then Whistler said to the host 4 My man would you like to know how to sell a great deal more beer than you do I Aye sir I would that said the keeper of the house Then dont sell so much froth said Mr Whistler Under the Table A small mite was with her parents at luncheon her hands demurely under the table Suddenly she said Mother you and father cant guess what I have under the table Then after the manner of parents who like to please their children they guessed all kinds of things but without with-out success so they said We give It up tell us Then the mltc drawing her face In h grimace said A stoma acheache LlpplncotlB t A Sonnet in X Emblem of things that puzzle anil perplex Of quantities unknown the kinds that mix The algebra for youthful brains of six As well as those that minds of wisdom vex Convenient symbol for the penile sex The hidden souse of sentences prolix And other mysteries we try to fix Some meaning to 0 wonder letter X Type of the Iroasuro III Pandoras box Of anything that needs a mental ax Or eyes more sharp than those of any lynx 1 Or scent more keen than that of any fox mange of all obHcurltlcs that tax The wits of man Strange riddle of the Sphinx Frank Dempster Sherman In Harpers IIImlne Our Language Still Lives In a recent issue of the London Spectator Spec-tator Mr John Murray comments upon a development of the English language lan-guage which he affirms Is gaining strength with remarkable rapidity This is the practice of nmnuficturing verbs out of nouns adjectives or any thing els6 that conies handy In reading read-Ing manuscripts for publishers hundreds hun-dreds of instances he says arc found novelists and poets having a special fancy for new verbs Examples are quoted He honrwed he husked she shrilled she tiptoed she glimpsed him he parroted to supreme su-preme to cnmornlng and last but not least yells of Joy arteslaned up his throat Mr Murray confesses to a prejudice against this promiscuous practice but Is not prepared to deny the right of Englishmen much less Americans moke a new erb whenever when-ever It Is needed It Is a property of the English language to develop verbs out of nouns or nouns out of verbs accord ing to the exigencies or the convenience of the occasion This properly is a proof that English Is still a living language and not petrified Good usage permits us to turn one part of speech Into almost al-most any other But image draws the line It has for example formally pronounced against tnisplcloned for suspected and there are many other possible locutions which the autocrats of propriety have tabooed Mnstery of good English requires a knowledge of the limits to which certain principles may be carried Baltimore Sun His View of It Judge Rufus 13 Smith of the Superior court was Journeying East some Lime ago accompanied by his young son Desiring to smoke he went forward to the smoking car as the room for thai purpose on the aleeyer was Small and nearly nil the slimmed occupied After he had bciii enjoying his cigar sonic minutes It Occurred to the Judge thnt he might be salting a bad example for his son To prevent this he said My boy If I were 1 you I would not smoke when I became a man Why papa 7 Well It Is a bad habit and besides I it might Injure your health and again it Is expensive The child was silent for about a minute I min-ute Then he said Papa I think when T am a ian I I will smoke and tell my little boy not I to do HO Cincinnati Enquirer |