A LOOK AT THE EXCHANGES Varied Gleanings From the Columns of Our Contemporaries. When Mr. McAdoo is Right. From The Wall street Jooroal. It Is so frequently necessary to criticize the official acts of the Secretary of the Treasury that it is a pleasure to vary the tune and say a word of unreserved praise. In appointing a committee to ransack, revamp and revise the antiquated structure of Treasury methods, Mr. McAdoo has As Mr. McAdoo points out in his letter of instructions to the committee, which is headed by W. P. Mallmrn, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the growth of : the Treasury Liepartmeut has been a ■ process of years, and as the structure has ; reached Its • present great proportions there have crept in much duplication of methods entwined with red tape which impedes business and causes needless expenditure of money. The Secretary declares it to.be bis purpose to see useless offices abolished, duplication of work eliminated and archaic methods replaced with the up-to-date methods that obtain in a modern business enterprise. In this laudable purpose all will rejoice except those bureaucrats who always do something because it has aiwuys been done before. It is np to the committee to make good, although it is to be expected that where legislation is needed Congress will be a stumbling block in the way. because the abolition of useless offices is an idea abhorrent to the average

Congressional mind. It might reduce tin 1 amount of patronage. The Best Paid Governor. From The Brooklyn Standard-Union. I The sum of $20,000 a year proposed tc J be paid to the Governor of this Slate is : double the present salary of the office | Only one State now pays more than $10,- . : U00 a year to its chief executive. Illinois, . ; where the salary is $12,000. California, 1 New Jersey, New York, Ohio and I'enn- ; sylvanla pay $10,000 each. The salaries in other States range down to $2500 in Nei braska and Vermont. Eighteen Stales pay | $5000 each. I Living Alone With Servants. | From Tbe New York Times, i Until further light has been thrown on ! the death of Mrs. Nichols, except to an ! expression of natural and inevitable hor- ' ror at the brutal billing in her own home of an elderly woman at once so helpless against attack and so ill deserving it, little can be added except a warning against the danger for such as she of living as she aid. What the danger is, and its extent, have Often been illustrated, and only a few months ago a precisely similar crime in precisely similar circumstances was committed in this city. But the warning is justified rather than useful. Neither men nor women of wealth pass by preference their declining years alone with servants, foreign or other. When they do. it is because the unavoidable hazards and happenings of time have made this dreary method of existence more or less nnavoidable. -S'hey are in a manner forced to entrust their lives and all their more immediate belongings to

"Queenie," Baby Zebra, Poses for Mutual Weekly

Keeper "Bill" Snyder, of the Central Park (N. Y.) Zoo, where one of the world's greatest collections of wild animals is on exhibition, is the proud guardian of a baby zebra, first of its kind to be born in the Zoo. ' Queenie" as she has been christened — posed in true feminine fashion recently, for a Mutual Weekly photographer and is presented to Mutual audiences in Mutual Weekly No. 34, released in the regular Mutual program. Keeper "Bill," who speaks with authority, avows that "Queenie" is one of the most beautiful of her species In captivity.

in tbem is uenrly or whol ly^merceim ry^ persons ^wlio. If not themselves tcmplei 0 unbles whlcli to tbem would lie a fortune s have no particular reason to sacrifice tbeli own safety, or even their own lives. It . the defense of someone to whom tbcj | are bound by no strong ties. Tbe old family retainer of other days, from whom limitless devotion could con q fldently lie expected, if not aitogethei extinct, is a survival rare indeed. Per- ' Imps they were never quite as numerous as legend claims, for the rendering for hire of personal service by one human being to another always has tended to create a division between the two and n latent resentment constantly ready to ! flame Into open contempt on the one side , and open hatred on the other. I-'nIthful and thoroughly honest servants there still are. not a few of them, hut they are mostly to he found in houses where the relation between master and man. mistress and maid, has been long, continued and has been closer than is at present College Boys in Wheat Field. From The Topeka State Journal. Eastern football stars came to Kansas to buck the wheat harvest, and were downed In their tracks. Pushing 'a 100,-000.000-busbel wheat crop all over the field Isn't an easy proposition, and there are several dozen Eastern pigskin heroes who are not planning a return game In the Kansas wheat flejds. When the Kansas call for harvest hands was sent East last spring some of the big colleges called together their football teams and told them of the excellent preseason training to be had in a harvest field. Most of the Easterners were as familiar with a Kansas harvest field as a new study of the details of a reform gov. ernment on Mars. But they heard the song of the harvest, sent advance letters asking for Jobs, bought railroad tickets and hastened to the big fields of yellow A few weeks ago a weary, sad and broken pilgrimage started for the East. It was the rah-rah boys going back to schools. The college yells were forgotten in a discussion of the merits of homely lost flesh and relieve mental anguish and distress. For a month the collegians worked in the wheat. They clawed and pawed at the wheat chaff that persistently found way into their clothes. They looked for the shower hath that was not to be found. They worked 14 and 15 hours a day, ate on the run. slept in a barn and spent most of their nights rubbing sore and aching limbs. One day recently a delegation of 20 collegians went East over the Union Pacific. They had worked In the harvest fields near Beloit, Lincoln and Salina. Most of the men in the party were football playsome of the stars of the big Eastern schools. Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton and other schools were represented. But there was no singing on the train that carried the athletes from the State. They had learned a new and serious lesson in the Kansas wheat fields. They tried their rushes and new formations against tbe trained Kansas farmers and had been hurled back for losses. "I went for 12 days without a bath, and then I walked three miles and washed in a muddy little river," one of the. Easterners Is quoted as saying. Another collegian admitted that be had lost 11 pounds of flesh In three days and that he preferred to fight his battles on the football field rather than In the Kansas gram fields. ~Ti

Is It a Woman's Job*? Gertrude Atherton not infrequently says a good thing, but quite as often she says a foolish thing, and of all the foolish things that she has ever said, or is ever likely to say, none could be more foolish tliun this dictum which came recently from her pen: "Writing is a woman's Job. Men ought to do things, not v rite about them. When a man does nothing hut write bis hands get soft and his character, too. He might as well be crocheting." Gertrude Atherton is a feminist, and it is one of the characteristics of -the feminists to assume that they know Just what a man ought to do, and what he ought not to do. They are a sad lot and a sour lot— these feminists. Such writing as is only ton common In America today may indeed lie a woman » Job. But nothing is more certain than this: That all the greatest works of the [ JE11L, j BREAKFAST Canadian Melons Cereal Fried Tomatoes Battered Toast Coffee LUNCHEON Brussels Sprouts au Gratin Sandwiches Plain Salad Wafers Cake Tea DINNER Puree of Peas Chops Scalloped Potatoes Baked Sweets Creamed Beets Rice Pudding Coffee 0

men. No great ivork of .science ever conn philosophy, and hardly a great poem, ii exception he made of a few fragments i hat emanated from the abuoruial Sappho. Even in fiction there are not over six women writers were half-maseuiine. The fitted for the production of great literature. To write masterpieces is a man's | job, not a woman's. Gertrude Atherton to ! the contrary notwithstanding. Poincare Looks Like a Ruler. | From Scribner's Magazine. ! Raymond Poincare Is by no means aa easy man to describe. He is the only French President within my memory who j looks the part of a ruler. In his person are centred, as it were, ihe aspirations of France, for lie Is a native of Lorraine. He was a captain of Alpine Chasseurs in his younger days, and shows the result of his military training in his erect and vigorous hearing. Wore yon to see him apart from his official surroundings you might well take him, with his air of energy and authority, for a great employer or a captain of industry. Deduct twenty years from Andrew Carnegie and give him the carriage of a soldier and you will have as good an idea as I can give you of the war-time President of France. MERE MENTION Arizona grows some olives, but California raises the hulk of the American crop. In the Ozark mountains of Missouri there is a subterranean farm on which mushrooms, celery and rhubarb are raised with great success. The entrance to the cavern Is by boat. The great quantities of wood pulp that are being used constantly for newspapers and magazines make It Imperative to find substitutes for spruce pulp. There are about a million honses in A three-wheeled tractor is said to have several advantages over its four-wheeled IN ALL PARTS OF JERSEY —Nearly 400 pupils are enrolled in the Pitman grammar school. —Mayor Edward H. Flagg, of Riverton, will have no opposition for re-election. —The suffragists have taken a census and declare they will carry Panlsboro by a big majority. —Rose Livingstone, the "Angel of Chinatown," spoke In the Woodbury Baptist Church last night. —The Mauchllne-Flrtb silk mill, in Plilllipsburg, has been closed down pending the adjustment of financial troubles. —The Mohican Canoe Club, of Florence, is holding its annual fall encampment on Government Island, in the Delaware River, opposite Florence. —Wesley Camp is laid up with injuries sustained when his bicycle collided with that of Miss Reba Carnell. at Glasshoro. The .young woman was not hurt. —The new school at Almonesson will he opened this morning, ana ihe Board of Education has employed a truant officer who will get right on the job. —A new brass band, organized at Sicklerville, by William White has blossomed forth In flue uniforms and will soon make its first appearance in public. —Survivors of Company A, Third Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, will hold

y their annual reunion at the home of e Tames Williamson, ai Pitman, tomorrow. ,1 —Business men of Wxulstown attended i s';?vla!, -service held for them iu the M. h. Church last night, and beard a * Yard°n b> tUe pastor- Kev- George W. I ■ v. >7i.obn 9W, 3 tvei -known G. A. It. t l ?r Gloucester, suffered a badly e , crashed hand _ at the plant of the New I 5 Turk Shipbuilding Company, iu Camden. . j Saturday. s | -Riverside Methodists have organized a j I °.f cottage prayer meetings Iu prepaI ration lor the Hughes evangelistic campaign to open in the Delanoo Tabernacle September 2C. —The Pennsylvania Railroad is building a new baggage shed, enclosing the passenger shed along the west-bound tracks station" a t '^Hen-'ide"'" vements about lts 1 —Employees of the Warren Foundry and ' Machine Company, PliilUpsourg. have do- 1 ■winded increased wages aud threaten to strike unless the demands are met. The company has promised to answer them i Wednesday. I -Seized with a fainting spell while alone Iu her home iu Trenton, Mrs. Nettie Ross, Bo years old. fell down stalra, and was found unconscious some I she6 w'ill 'recor "e'sh,K"3' 11 18 bought — DeWltt C. Carter, editor of The Bluirs- ' town Press, took all the newspaper editors 1 . of Warren county aud several from other districts to Easton. Pa., Saturday, enter- i 1 taiulng them in celebration of his thirti- 1 i eth anniversary as editor of his paper. —The Woodbury Chautauqua exercises i were free yesterday and hundreds of people took advantage of the treat. Dr. ' Paul M. Pearson made an address on < "Spiritual Declension." and E. Crawford < Adams gave a violin solo. In the even- ' lng there was a union service of the 1 churches. • <

LEHIGH VALLET LINES —Run over by Charles E. Iloch's automobile at Easton. Frank Warner. Jr. aged sustained a broken shoulder. Scluumpp, of Mauch Chunk. gara°e leverad an t 'M''u"'h G'bunk -Mrs. Margaret Thorpmnn, of Portland. i,l'.'7i„..aV„ ved ''-n?to" to take the Ity OreanizationrnSocletv ' °' tlle -Squeezed between cars, Max Dominic, of Nesqnehoning. a blacksmith of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, was "ushed to Coaldnle hospital. —Run over by a trip of coal cars at the No 11 Colliery of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, at Coaldale. Walter Herring, of Coaldale. aged 20. died half —James Kanouse. of Nesquehoning, a motorman in the tunnel of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company at Nesquehoning, was seriously burned by gas ignited by sparks from the trolley wire. -Harry C. Gephert, of East Mauch Chunk, assistant auditor for the Lehigh Navigation Electric Company at Hazleton, Saturday underwent a serious operation at the Hazleton Hospital aud is In a critical condition. —Because Carbon County Detective DanThomas and the Beaver Meadow police were unable to solve the recent murder of Michael Sinkehis, at Beaver Meadow, member, has put Philadelphia detectives on the mystery.

First Baby Zebra Born in Central Park Zoo. From the Mutual Weekly, So. 34, Released on tlie Regular Mutual Program.

HIRAM and CYNTHIA FINE. F E AT M E R.S"