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Show , Cockran and teupp. J. L. Cockran. an Ohio newspaper s roan and for a long time cfry editor ol a Cleveland paper. Is the publicity I man for the bureau of mines He i writes today as he always has written, t well, and he Is an authority on every thing connected with efforts to prevent I mining disasters and rescue work aft- er the disasters occur. Tbe buresu ol mines ss a separate bureau Is of recent re-cent creation. Its work Is large and i growing. I Francis E. I.eupp Is the man who ' wrote the Inspired Interview with president Taft which recently ap- ' peared In tbe Outlook, to which Col 1 onel Roosevelt Is a contributing edl 1 tor. Leupp Is a newspaper man of dla-tinctlon. dla-tinctlon. For a long time he was the t Washington correspondent of the I New York Evening Post, a place from 1 wblch Colonel Roosevelt when he was 1 president took him to make hlrn commissioner com-missioner of Indian affairs. Leupp ' was greatly Interested In his new du- ties and he took the cause of tbe In- dlans to heart I Gus J. Karger of the Cincinnati Times Star Is another newspaper man who was mentioned casually In one ol these newspaper dispatches recently. Karger has not gon Into the govern-f govern-f rnent service, but be Is one ot tbe po. Iltlcal advisers In chief of President . Taft Gus Is looked upon bv his tel i low correspondents as something In tbe nature of a wonder. He was born i on the other side of the wster and - came to this country when s boy uu I abi to speak a word of Englli-h H developed Keen political sense and t strong Journalistic sbtllty The corre X spondents like him and the president l leans on him. It Is probable that Kar ger knows the name and the factional t leanings of every politician In tb United States, no matter bow obscurs . be may be L. White Busbey today U a secre- r tsry of tho high Joint commission, otb erwlso knowo as tho International l boundary commission. Mr. Busbey for t years was tbo Washington correspoa dent of tbo Chicago Intor-Oceaa. a A convict In Ohio has comrsrtet o tuberculosis from tainted money tllli t wblch be slipped In his mouth Tbli h Is a terrible wsrnlng. but tbo cbsccoi j aro that given tbo bills, tho majorit; will consent to risk tho germs. t A medical journal declares tt Is I v woman a duty to bo pretty, and tha a powdt - and rouge aro rommendabU to this effect Tbo average worr.si e striving, however, to do her duty teeii L. hardly to be stimulated la this way |