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Show May Head tho Universal Peace Commission if He So Desires. PRESIDENT TAFT WILL MAKE APPOINTMENT It Is Up to Former President to Say if He Will Undertake Un-dertake Work. BY RALPH M. WHITESIDE. By Leased Wire to Tho Tribune. WASILLNGTON.pAuij. G. If Former President Roosevelt will head tho Universal Uni-versal Peace commission soon to bo appointed ap-pointed by President Taft, Former Sen ator McCronry of Kentucky will be another an-other member as well as Koprcsontativo Bartlioldt of Missouri. The commission will consist of five members. I have heard no report as to who nro likely to bo the other members, but if these three gentlemen arc not named it will be because they do not care to undertake under-take the work. The expediency of utilizing existing international agoncics for limiting the armaments of tho nations na-tions and of making the combined navies na-vies of the world a force for the preservation preser-vation of world-wide peace is the principal prin-cipal object of the commission. Power to consider tho report upon any other means which might diminish expenditures expendi-tures for military purposes and lessen the probabilities of war is vested nn the commission. It must report within two years. Fishiiiff on Pacific Coast. "Speaking of fishing along the Pacific Pa-cific eonst," Albert S. Kent, of Oakland. Oak-land. Cal.. said t.lie other day, "ono of the best fish in the Pacific "is the ycl-loytail, ycl-loytail, which is edible and palatable. In a morning's casting in tho Catalina harbor, Avnlon. 1 have taken three, four or five, averaging twenty-Jive and thirty pounds. In tho clear," transparent transpar-ent waters of that region tho angler pin' watch his quarry strike the drifting drift-ing bait, a live sardine, and then listen rapturously to tho whizzing of his reel for several hundred yards of line. And 1)3 the timo his finny meteor has become be-come exhausted by his efforts tho experienced ex-perienced eastern coast angler believes him to bo cousin-gennan to the more sobcr-hucd blucfish of the Atlantic. "The fish of the Pacific ocean," continued Mr. Kent, "will not compare edibly with those oi' the Atlantic, with one exception the sauddab, which is more like tho English sole than any fish ii; American waters. Tt. is small, from six to twclvo inches in length, and lies on the sea bottom, 500 to 1000 feet deep. To catch it requires a heavy line, weighted with a five-pound sinker, and with No. 12 to No. 2-1 minnow hooks, baited with cut sardines. The lino is on a large wooden reel or windlass wind-lass clamped to the gunwale of the fishing skiff, and is allowed to run out until bottom is touched. Tho market fisherman immediately reels in, and often on every hook will bo found a sanddab. A Vow hours' fishing will, if the atmospheric and tidal conditions are favorable, half fill the boat, and a ready market for the catch is. found in Los Angeles and Pasadena." Prohibition an Old Party. The person who would say that Uio Prohibition party has done nothing to entitle it to a placo in history is far astray, according to .James M'on'tgo;ucry of Minneapolis, Minn. "Tho Prohibition Prohibi-tion part3 has lived longer than did tho Liberal, tho Free Seal, the Know-Nothuig, Know-Nothuig, the Greenback', and the Populist Popu-list parties taken logothor, and they were the best known and most powerful of all our minor political organizations. 'For twico as many years as passed between be-tween tho birth and the death of the Whig party, which sent William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor to the Wlii to House, ami which had Webster, Clay. Fillmore. Kvorett, Hell and Crittenden Crit-tenden for leaders, it has been with us. It has participated in twice as many presidential campaigns as the Kucleralist organization, tho party of Washington, Adams, John .Ta Charles Colesworth Pinekney and Rufus King. Of all tho parties which have figured in American Ameri-can politico, tho Democratic and lie-publican lie-publican organizations alone have lived longer than tho Prohibition party, prohibition, pro-hibition, notwithstanding its apparent setbacks, will yet triumph, and the liquor business will be wiped out in the United Slates. The 'fact that the party has existed as long as it lias is con-clifsivo con-clifsivo proof that it is destined to live oil to a successful cnd."f Is a Children's City. "This is. beyond doubt, a children's city," w;ih the remark of C. A. Moore of liouisville. "I think 1 never saw so many children to the square yard ;js I have .'men in my rides- around Washington. Washing-ton. The parks are full of them, and the sidewalks and lawns in tho resident districts are fairlv alive with tine looking look-ing youngsters. Perhaps you people in Washington have grown so accustomed to your parks and breathing spots that you do not realize the. advantages you possess. Almost all cities now have big park systems, but many of them became be-came cities before thoy began to take thought, of such things. Consequently, Conse-quently, to reach a park you must travel miles on a car. Here! it seems, a beautiful open spot is just around the comer. It is great for the children. This certain' is a city for them." Railroad Man Judge. F. P. Lister of Greenville. Miss., says: "I am a railroad conductor and I know of no class in tho United States .hotter able to .iudgo the prosperity pros-perity of tho country, I travel through a cotton belt country, and if you can base an estimate upon tho price of cotton cot-ton goods by the cotton crops, you can be assured that lower figures will prevail, pre-vail, Por hundreds of miles there is nothing but cotton, and what ia more and very gratifying, there are plenty of negroes to work it. The negroes expect ex-pect to make moro monoy this year than they ever did. Consequently, we have no fears of a dearth of labor Where there is plcntv of 11101103' you will find plenty of 'help. While f live in Mississippi," I am from Tennessee, and always intend to retain my vote there. I love Tennessee, as does every one else who comes from it, T guess. E have just returned from a trip to Detroit, De-troit, where T was a delegate to the Elks convention. J have threo sons, and they are Flks, too. had hopes 1 would bo able to start a lodge of our own." They Beat Uncle Sam. "You have met people who would gladlj' spend the price of a good dinner on tho chance of getting passes to a snow warn uioy coum nuy a nan uo7.cn good scats for tho same money, haven't voir'' asked P. N. Jfackloy of Denver. "Well, I know of an incident that illustrates il-lustrates the case oven better. Last; winter a well-to-do Omaha woman and her daughter went to Furopo. The' traveled through Great Britain and a part of the continent. They visitod all of the principal places recommended by the guide books and all tho stores in London and Paris that had been recom-nionded recom-nionded to them. Thoy spent hundreds of dollars on gloves and hosiery and all sorts of feminine finer. Then thoy bo-gan bo-gan to figure on the question ol the duties thej' would have to pay at Now York. To hear them tell of it, they have suffered nervous prostration at the thought of giving up all that money to Undo Sam. Well, what do you think they did? "Thoy took passago on a boat to Quebec, got through all right; to Canadian Cana-dian soil, and then traveled down the border until thoy came to a certain port, which I shall not mention. Ono of tho customs officials on tho United States side wits an old friend of the family. They knew he wouldn't dare to examine their trunks if they declared they had nothing dutiable. They got by all right, and saved altogether about $200 in duties, although they had to break a commandment. But thoy hnd spent at least $500 moro than they would have spent hnd they come home by wn.y of New York. It was a net loss oi $300 in cash. What do vou think of that as a bit of high financiering?" |