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James Southworth ("Jim") Parker used to teach at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.). In 1898 he went to farming, in Salem, N. Y. His neighbours saw he had "book learnin' " and sent him to the legislature, then Congress (in 1913). He wears square-cut clothes, stutters a little, reads studiously. As chairman of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee he supervises much intricate legislation and shares with Cheesemaker Snell in commanding the Republican half of New York's big delegation...
...enervated. In consequence almost half the territory which is legally Ecuadorian is actually within a "sphere of influence" impudently maintained by adjoining and militant Peru. Here again, as in Colombia, the factor of altitudes is vital and decisive. Gigantic parallel ranges of mountains, many over four miles high, cut off the nominally sovereign scions of Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly and simply taken. Quito perches at an altitude of two miles, has a Savoy Hotel, steep streets, abundant flowers, about one hour of rain almost every...
...miserere in the Episcopalian litany used to read, "Have mercy upon us, miserable sinners." .But the phrase "miserable sinners" has been cut out. Other similar changes have indicated that Episcopalians feel that Christians have been exaggerating their own sinfulness...
...most befuddled and the least efficient in the U. S., a customs inspecting squad whose special duty it is to prevent the smuggling of diamonds. How unsuccessful this organization has been may be understood from the complaints of reputable jewelers. Pointing out that they must pay 20% duty on cut diamonds and 10% duty on uncut ones, they show that disreputable jewelers, who buy from smugglers, can undersell them with ill-gotten gems. It is alleged that $40,000,000 changes hands yearly in diamond smuggling commerce; and the reputable jewelers have lately suggested the solution, highly insulting...
...Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand scandal of disaster. Fisk "went in" to save his partner, but Gould took cunning advantage of the generous gesture, ruined debonair Fisk, and saved...