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Since lons' before the birth of St.
Patrick people have".seen" snakes and
crocodiles and mvr«
Irollej Mania
iads of other ugly
IN tlie l,Hte»t. , . ....
anu terrifying' rep
tiles, and some have seen things out
side of the reptilian family which made
them" shudder and shake at the knees;
but it remained for Mr. William Hoyt,
of this city, says the New York Sun,
to "bee" trolley cars. Koine time ago
Hoyt was struck by one of the cars of
the Metropolitan Street Railway com
pany and received several injuries
about the head and body; and the fact,
os alleged, that he is now suffering
from a peculiar mental condition de
scribed by his physician as "trolley
mania" was disclosed in the supreme
court, where Hoyt brought suit
against the railroad company to re
cover $25,000 damages. Although, so
far as we know, the term "trolley
mania" originated in this case.phrases
somewhat similar to it have been for
some time employed to express a sort
of fear or apprehension felt by many
residents of New York •whenever they
attempt to cross streets traversed by
trolley ears. It i., indisputable that
some persons,generally those from the
suburbs, travel several blocks out of
their way daily in order to avoid cross
ing a street in which the cars are run,
and when necessity compels them to
cross such thoroughfares they appear
for some minutes to be in a dazed and
nervous condition. Hoyt, it is said,
fancies that everything in motion,
from a wheelbarrow to an automobile,
i- a trolley car, and for trolley cars he
is everlastingly on the watch. Trolley
oars overtake him on tlie sidewalk and
follow him home; they roll around the
floor of his house like marbles; at night
they go up on the roof, turn somer
saults and come clanging down
through the chimney, and, once on the
ins-ide, they play tag around his bed
and vie with each other in running
down frail and unwary pedestrians.
The railroad company, it is said, has
employed physicians for the purpose
<>f determining whether trolley mania
really is a new and prevalent disease.
They will, no doubt, seek to ascertain
how many persons, if any, have suf
fered from hallucinations similar to
those described by Mr. Hoyt, and will
endeavor to learn the specific and
technical cause of the malady,and a'.so
the percentage of cases wherein it has
shown grave and refractory tenden
cies, Trolley mania, if it actually ex
ists, is not an affliction to be trifled
with, it should receive the immediate
end undivided professional attention
of those who are best able to deal
with it.
An advertisement in a city newspa
per recently asked for information re
garding a certain depositor in a sav
ings bank. The depositor saw the ad
vertisement, answered it, and learned
that :i!i years before liti had placed s2fio
in the bank; Hit i lie had gone to Eu
rope and forgotten the deposit. The
sum had increased to more than $2,000,
and came to him .* a time when ihe
•money was greatly needed. Ueeent
statistics eoncernnig the savings banks
of the world show that the Ignited
States leads all other countries, having
over $2,300,000,000 so invested, with an
average of over S4OO to each depositor.
Such figures make cheerful reading—
for depositors.
A young girl who spent part of the
winter in Washington some years ago
was telling about the array of forks
at the big state dinners. Now, she
knew the uses of .some, but the oth
ers puzzled her greatly. So she said:
"Whenever I made a mistake I moist
ened the fork with my lips, wiped il
on the sly on my napkin and put it
back in its place. And after that 1
watched a gu< si opposite, who was well
posted, and followed her in every move
ment. Then I Mas safe."
Mrs. Sarah 1I igley, of Meir, ind.,
was rescued from drowning about a
year ago by Marion Rutherford and
William Miller who happened to be
on hand on the offer of Mr. lligley
of SI,OOO to any one who would sate
his wife's life. Then Mr. Higley re
fused to pay and assigned his farm
to Mrs. Higley. The court has de
cided that Higley must pay, and the
farm has been sold for the purpose.
THE OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT.
Evrrytlilng Point* ton Splendid
Victory for the llriiulillrua
Party.
Never did a party begin a year of
an important political canvass with
brighter prospects than present
themselves to the republicans at this
moment. The country's prosperity
in 1901 and the probability that a
still greater degree of prosperity will
come in 1002, the year in which a new
congress is to be chosen, is a fact
of great consequence for the party
which is dominant in the nation, and
which is popularly credited, even by
the bitterest of its enemies, with
having a large share in bringing this
happy condition. All the indications
point to h-heavier trade, to greater
industrial activity and to a higher
level of prosperity in the year which
has just begun than were scored in
the one which has just ended. In
the first business day of 1002 many
stocks on the New York exchange
touched higher points than were ever
reached before. The orders for all
sorts of iron and steel products
which are being placed at present
are far in excess of those given at
this time in 1901. There is a general
feeling throughout the country that
the financial record of the year
which has just, opened will be much
better than was that of any other
twelvemonth in the country's his
tory. Obviously all this will lie a tre
mendous factor in favor of the main
tenance of the republican party's
power, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
There were many predictions of
republican discord recently, some of
them being based on the rivalries of
different aspirants for the presidency
in 1904. Indiana was said to be par
ticularly disaffected on account of
the aspirations of one of its sena
tors, but at a banquet just held in
Indianapolis, at which both the
state's senators anil several of its
representatives were in attendance,
the opposite sort of a feeling was de
cidedly manifest. Said the particu
lar senator who had been mentioned
in connection with the presidential
nomination two years hence, in a
speech on that occasion: "We meet
with no trace of factional disturb
ance. With the party united and
harmonious throughout Indiana, this
is indeed a happy augury. It fore
casts certain republican victory."
That particular personage and the
rest of the speakers declared that
there was the utmost harmony be
tween the Indiana republicans and
the head of the national administra
tion. The same condition has been
expressed by Ohio's leading repub
licans, especially by Messrs. Ilanna
and Foralter.
The election for congress this year
will, in a large degree, forecast the
result of the presidential canvass two
years later. The democrats were free
with their prognostications a few
weeks ago of republican disagree
ments on several important issues,
but none of these predictions have
shown any signs of verification. On
the question of the general treat
ment of the Philippines there is no
divergence of any consequence
among the republicans. This was
shown in the action taken by the
house on the Philippine tariff bill,
in which there was only a trifling de
fection on the republican side. On
the Cuban question there is likewise
practical unanimity. If there should
be a disagreement on, the ship sub
sidy question it cannot possibly be
greater than was that in the late
congress, 12 months ago, and that di
vergence, as the overwhelming vic
tory for McKinley afterward proved,
did not hamper the republicans in
the slightest degree. The democratic
soothsayers have been widely astray
in their divinations of republican (dis
cord. The party was never more
harmonious and enthusiastic than it
is at this moment. An overwhelming
majority of the people of the United
htat.es are, manifestly, on the repub
lican side. A reverse of some dimen
sions or other for the party in power
is the rule in the congressional elec
tion in the middle of the presidential
term, but it seems clear that the re
publicans in the canvass of 1902 will
pass this danger line in safety as
tiiey did in the congressional contest
of 189S, when the conditions were far
less propitious than they are to-day.
E7.\s one looks back over the first
year of the new century the manifold
and strong evidences of constantly in
creasing prosperity seem at the first
glance to constitute its most note
worthy feature. Put a little thought
brings out tlie fact that far more im
portant than the evidences that pros
perity is with us are the evidences
which the year has brought that it
Is substantial in its nature and rests
upon a secure basis. It has undergone
the severest tests to which it could be
subjected and stands- unshaken. It lias
withstood blows that would ha»e bad
a crushing effect in ordinary good
times.—Albany Journal.
cy'l'lie rivalries between Ilanna and
Foralter in Ohio do not affect, the party
in the state or the nation. Ohio is ro
bustly republican, and will remain so.
Ilanna is not opposing Foraker's re
election to the senate, which will take
place on the first ballot. IJoth Porn ker
and Ilanna ind<ors« the Roosevelt ad
ministration. There is no aid or com
fort fur ihe democrats in the rivalry
between the two republican ehieftairs
for the organization of Ihe Ohio legis
lature. There is not a break in the
republican line anywhere in the coun
try .—St. Louis Globi-Democrat.
ItHow time flies! When one sees
"16 to 1" in print now it, awakens
memories of what seems to be the re
mote past.—Albany Journal.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1902
FINANCIAL VIEWS OF SHAW.
The Xcw Spcrflary of tbe Trrn»ur>
IK Sound in Hin Financial
l'ollcy.
Propriety estops Gov. Shaw, our
next secretary of the treasury, from
answering l the natural questions of
eager reporters as to his "financial
policy," or from indicating how far
he agrees with Mr. Gage and where
in he differs. Certain, questions re
lating to tlie great subject of na
tional finance are justly regarded as
settled, at least so far as the sound
money elements of the country are
concerned. The gold standard is es
tablished, the legal tenders arc "im
pounded," and the independence of
the treasury is safe. But certain im
portant questions are outstanding,
and Mr. Shaw's position with refer
ence to them is a matter of legiti
mate interest, says the Chicago Even
ing Post.
It has been intimated that the new
secretary will suspend the purchase
of bonds and thus arrest the pres
ent tendency to withdraw bank cir
culation. ll«- will probably do noth
ing of the kind. The provisions of
the sinking fund sections are ex
plicit and mandatory, and the new
secretary will no more disregard or
evade them than Secretary Gage has
done. It is equally safe to say that
the deposits of government fui.ds in
the national banks will not be re
duced. The now familiar steps for
the relief of the market will be
taken when the situation shall im
pose such action.
An examination of Mr. Shaw's pub
lic addresses on the financial and
banking questions will furnish an
swers to other and larger questions,
lie will undoubtedly support tin- Hill
and Overstreet propositions for the
redemption of silver dollars in gold
coin. In one of his speeches he rec
ognized the danger of the metallic
greenbacks," and added:
••AH I cantend for is that every note
signed by a solvent debtor, every draft on
a solvent merchant, every deposit wiili a
solvent bank, every piece of paper that cir
culates as money and every coin shall ulti
mately be payable, redeemable or cx
changeable In the standard coin of this
country. Ir, no other way can It be protected
from discount. Safeguard it as you may,
under conditions easily conceivable, the
silver certificate or the silver coin may be
at a discount, and so long: as there Is' the
element of danger, however remote, so long
there will exist an ever-present cause of
panic."
With regard to our paper currency
Mr. Shaw holds that its volume should
be coextensive with the needs of the
country, and that it should lie issued
exclusively by the banks. "The time,"
he said once. "is. past when the govern
ment should issue a part of the paper
currency and the banks a part. ' Only
fiatists and paternalists believe that
the government ought to monopolize
the, issue of currency, but the consen
sus of progressive opinion certainly fa
vors the retirement of the legal tenders
and the withdrawal of the government
from the note-issuing business.
This logically leads to the question
of asset banking. Is Mr. Shaw an advo
cate of that reform? Certain expres
sions indicate that he is, yet his cau
tion and reserve show that he is bj
no means a radical on the questii n
Here is what he said in one of liis
speeches:
"I repeat that currency based on assc'*
contains, in my judgment, no element of
danger, except popular prejudice. This v 11
vanish as the question is. discussed and . x
plalned by those who make a study of it.
The depositor would be in no worse con
dition than, now."
But in the same speech he declared
that elasticity could be secured with
out resorting to asset banking, ai.d
that he recognized "a public prejudice,
akin to fear, against a currency based
on assets, and prejudice, so long as it
exists, constitutes an element of da ti
ger, even when the thing itself against
which the prejudice lies contains no
element of danger." Asset banking is
not a question of "practical politics."
It will come gradually and as the re
sult of evolution. There will first be
provision for emergency circulation
and for branch banking—reforms de
manded even by the most.conservative.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
By A Denver newspaper solemnly
announces that Mr. Bryan has not
been a success as an editor. When
was Mr. Bryan ever an editor?— D
etroit Free Press (Dem.).
imt. is recorded of Gov. Shaw, now
secretary of the treasury, that he
never foreclosed a mortgage, though
holding many. No wonder Wall
street, doesn't like him.—Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
C Bryan's one-horse press hits not
power enough to let t.»ose all his
verbiage, and he is going on a lecture
tour more to turn a nimble sixpence
than to convert the public to his po
litical views, that tune on his well
worn fiddle being played out some
time ago. —X. Y. Tribune.
rrThe situation as regards the
democratic minority in the house of
representatives at Washington is fair
ly and tersely set forth by the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat: "Mr. Itioh
ardson. of Tennessee, is trying to
ure out how lie can lead a minority
marching in several different dinyj
tions and ready to claw each other."
And the more he tries the less is he
able to learn where he is at. —Troy
Times.
E-?"On the whole, it has been a pretty
good old year. There is no haste to
see it go and make an end of it. There
has been general prosperity in the
United States, and the welfare of Al
bany has steadily advanced. The one
great sorrow of the year—the as
sassination of President McKin'ey—
was followed by no great disturbance
, to business and there was no abate
ment of the country's material pros
perity. I.et us. he.pe that the new yeai
will make as good a record. —Albany
Argus (Dem.).
STOLE GEMS.
A Very SlriiiiKf <"«»<* !»«• vrl»p> lei New
Oriean*.
Xevv Orleans, Jan. 16.—George I.
Kline, of St. Louis, and ltobert L.
West, of Cincinnati, were arrested
across the river Wednesday morning,
charged with robbing the trunk of
T. E. Manners, of Chicago, of about
$2,500 of jewelry. They are alleged
to have represented themselves as
Manners and another guest, at the
St. Charles, paid the bills, and left
with their baggage. They crossed the
river in a skiff and were caught be
fore the train came on which they
expected to leave, through the watch
fulness of a newsboy who had read
the story in the newspapers.
Later in the day Manners went
over to identify the property and
Kline accused him of being a thief
under an alias. As the whole affair
had a suspicious appearance Man
ner:-. was also arrested. The police
believe he may be Kerns, the Xevv
York jewelry thief, and Chief of De
tectives Titus, of New York, sent a
telegram here which strengthens the
idea. Manners claims that he is
with his father in the pawn broker
: age. business at Chicago, and that the
| jewelry taken was unredeemed
; pledges that he was trying to dis
i nose of.
Fifty diamond pins, a gold watch, a
| diamond brooch and some pearls are
, in the lot.
Now York, Jan. I(s.—Cnpt.. Titus, e>f
: the detective bureau, said late last
night that he had received dispatches
from New Orleans which said that a
man believed to be the missing valet
| Kerns, who is accused of having
robbed Paul (i. Thebaud, of s.*>o,ooo
worth of jewelry here, was under ar
! rest there. He added that he had re
: ot.ived a detailed description of the
' man under arrest antl that he be*
He veil him to be. Kerns. 110 said the
; description tallied very closely, even
to the gold tooth Kerns had. He
: said slops would be taken looking
toward the complete identification of
tlie arrested man. If this is estab
' lished requisition papers will be ap
plied for if necessary.
| Chicago, Jan. 16. —There is no
pawnbroker in this city named Man
ners and the officials at police head
| quarters declare that tliey de> not re
call any pawnbroker of that name.
According to the city directory there
' are only three m4n named Manners
'in Chicago. One is a painter, one a
laborer and the third a janitor.
KLONDIKE AND ALASKA.
A lliiiu-li of New* from tin- Fields
ol llie I'ar North.
Port Townsend, Wash., Jan. 10. —
The latest advices from Dawson were
brought yesterday on the Cottage
City by Charles Berryman, who left
the Klondike capital the latter part
of December. Berryman says there
is a stampede from Dawson for Hen
derson creek, near Stewart river. He
reports that several thousand men
are on the creek and all claims have
been staked.
During the winter the gambling
element in Dawson has resorted to
all kinds of schemes to induce the
authorities te> permit the opening of
gambling, without success.
Preliminary work has been com
menced on one of the largest and
longest mining tunnels in the world
near Juneau, Alaska. The tunnel will
be more than 8,000 feet long and will
be started on the beach south of
Juneau and run into the mountains
to tap a large number of claims in
the Silver Bow basin. A large mill
will be built e>n the beach where it
can be operated the year round. It
is said that the tunnel will cost in
the neighborhood of $2,000,000.
Spinner* Strike.
Mavnard, Mass., Jan. 16. —The Asse
bet mills of the American Woolen Co.
acre are shut down except in the
carding and sorting departments, be
cause the spinners have struck. The
probability is that the entire mill
will be closed unless the spinners'
grievances arc adjusted. This would
make about 1,500 employes idle. For
30 years the company lias been weigh
ing the rope used with beam scales. ,
Lately the scales were changed. The
employes assert that this change
works hardships against them. The
employes also demand that for over
time tliey be paid toji cents per hour
over the regular wages.
Tlir Lake furrier*' Convention.
Detroit, Jan. 16.—The system of
sjioveling grain at Buffalo under a
superintendent appointed by t lie
Lake Carriers' association, instead of
letting the contract to some indi- I
vidual, operated so successfully last j
season that the .members of the as- ;
soeiation, who held their ninth an
nual convention here yesterday voted j
to continue it another year under
Superintendent Thomas Kennedy. A
statement was presented showing
that 132,209,492 bushels of grain were
handled at Buffalo in 1901.
Flection* In Canada.
Ottawa, Out., Jan. 16.—(Much inter- j
est was taken here yesterday in the
federal elections. The conservatives' I
greatest surprise was* the victory of j
Archie Campbell in West York. He !
reduced ii conservative majority of 1
more than 800 to a majority of about
200. West Durham, which went con
servative at the la£t general elec
tion, tias turned liberal again. The
result of yesterday's voting in the
nine constituencies is that, seven '
have gone liberal and two conserva- I
tivc.
Will Advance Wage*,
St. Paul, Jan. 16.—1t is semi
officially stated that the new wage j
schedules adopted by the Great j
Northern at the request of engineers >
and firemen operating the new and !
heavier freight engines, will advance
the wages of engineers who have
been receiving $-1 per 100 miles to
$4.50.
Killed lu a Mine.
Clarksville, --via., Jan. 16.—Thomas
Johnson was instantly killed and
Jo 11 ii Frazor fatally injured in the
coal mines at .Npadra yesterday. The
accident was the result of a blast.
A FIERCE BATTLE.
Sheriff and One of Hia Deputies
Killed in Oklahoma.
OIIIccr« Tried to rupture OiitluiTH In
un Indian lint The ItcNperiidocN
i:»caped Slir rill' Continued
to Shoot Alter Beiim
Wo un red.
Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 16.—Sheriff
Frank Smith and his deputy, George
Beck, were killed by highwaymen
early Wednesday morning in the
vicinity of Auadarko, the home of
the officers. A posse of 100 men
started immediately on the trail of
the murderers, but no arrests have
been reported. The posse expects a
fierce fight before the men shall be
taken, and it is known that the no
torious highwaymen, ' Bob McCune,
Ben Cravens and Bob Sims, are at
the head of the gang in that region.
Sheriff Smith was appointed from
j Norman, Okla., where lie had been
lon the sheriff's and marshal's forces
! for a number of years. A number of
j murders and robberies are charged
to the gang that murdered the of
j fleers anil efforts to capture them
| have been made by all the officers in
that vicinity.
Sheriff Smith and Deputy Beck met
death while storming an Indian hut
eight miles west of Auadarko. High
waymen on 'Sunday night had held
up and robbed persons going home
from church and Smith and Beck, ae
; companied by Deputy Briggs. located
j the robbers early yesterday morn
| ing in the hut. In attempting to en
i tor "Smith was shot through the
■ breast and died in a few minutes.
I Beck was also shot through the
j breast and his left arm was shat-
I tered. Briggs was not injured. The
| highway men robbed tin; dead bodies
of the officers and then fled.
Sheriff Smith made a dying effort
! to arrest the roboers and shot sev
j eral times through the door and
walls after being wounded. Beck
continued the fight until killed.
WANT RECIPROCITY.
Cuban Sujjar I'luiitcr* .Ire Heupcrate
in Tlieir I'lcadlngM Willi t on^renM
inrll.
Washington, Jan. 16.—The ways
and means committee*began hearings
yesterday on the subject of Cuban
reciprocity, with a large representa
tion present from the various inter
ests which would be affected by legis
lation of this character.
Edwin F. Atkins, of Boston, said
that if present conditions continued
Cuba probably would become so des
perate as to be forced into annexa
tion.
Mr. Louis Place, a merchant of
Havana, and head of the Cuban dele
gation, presented the case from the
Cuban standpoint. At present, he
said, Cuba was buying large quanti
ties of foreign goods, and if reciproci
ty was brought about with the
United States, Cuba would buy
American cotton goods, wine and
many other articles now bought
abroad, lie believed this market in
Cuba would amount to
within two years.
Francis li. Thurber, of the United
States Export association, said that
the primary consideration was one
of good faith on the part of the
United States to Cuba.
•Hugh Kelley, of New York, who
has large sugar holdings in Cuba,
said that as an American he urged
that reciprocal concessions be made.
He believed that if there was no re
ciprocity Cuba would ask for annex
ation. If this occurred the voice of
the American people would be for
admitting the island.
Mr. iMendez, of the Cuban delega
tion, pictured the distress if present
conditions were continued and said
the loss on the sugar crop of the
island this year would approximate
$12,000,000.
FOR NEW EQUIPMENT.
Kanta I'V Itailwuv Umiiijrcmciil Wilt
Spend $13,000,000 Till* fear.
Chicago, Jan. 16. —The Record-
Hern Id says: The management of the
Santa Ke has decided to spend $13,-
000,000 for e<|uipment during the
present year. This? statement is made
by an official of the company, who
added that the money would come
from the proceeds of a'new issue of
$30,000,000 ot bonds.
.lust how the expenditure is to be
apportioned is not stated, but it is
known that an order has been given
lor 5,000 box cars, 50 mammoth
1 "eight engines and iOO more engines
of a smaller type, and that practical- j
ly all <>f 1 lie passenger equipment of
tlie company is to be renewed.
The official statement regarding
the amount to be expended for
equipment makes it plain what is to
be done with the proceeds of the
bond issue. It will take fully $12,000,-
000 to give the company over SOO
miles' of new line free from debt.
This sum and the equipment ap
propriation taken from $30,000,000
leaves $6,000,000. Of this amount
fully $2,000,000 will go'toward the
new terminals in San Francisco and
the rest will be used for grade re
ductions, etc.
Iloiiclit !>,ooo Acres ol' I,and.
Cumberland, Md„ Jan. 16. —It was
announced here yesterday that Sena
tor Stephen I>. Klkins, of West Vir
ginia. bad bought 9,000 acres of coal
land on the Sand Fork of the Little
Kanawha river, at a cost of $225,000
A Scientist ISropi* Dead.
Cambridge. Mass., Jan. 16.—Alpheus
Hyatt, assistant professor of inverte
brate paleontology at Harvard uni
versity, dropped dead here last, night,
lie was 61! years old and served in the
civil war. He was considered one of
the leading' zoologists of the country.
A I.ocomot vc i:\plodcN.
Conncllsville, Pa., Jan. 16. \ Pitts
burg A; Western engine blew up yes
terday near Broad ford, on the Haiti
more <X- Ohio railroad, and sent clouds
of scalding steam over lour train
men, all of whom were badly burned.
Thev reside at Clenwood.
THE POOR SINNER'S BELL.
IdoiiiiiK Account of tlif CaMtlng of a
Fill* Church Bell in UreMluii, I'rim
• la.
The poor sinner's hell is a bell ir»
the eity of Breslau, in the province
of Silesia, Prussia, and hangs in tbo
tower of one of the city churches (
Jt was cast July 17, 1386, according
to the historic records, says the De
troit Free Press. It said that a greaj
bell founder of the place had under
taken to make the finest church bell j
lie had ever made. 'When the metal J
was melted the founder withdrew /
for a few moments, leaving a boy to
watch the furnace and enjoining him
not to meddle with the catch that
held the molten metal, but the boy
disobeyed the caution, and when he
saw the metal flowing into the mold
he called the founder. The latter
rushed in, and seeing as he thought
his work of weeks undone and liis '
masterpiece ruined, struck the boy
j a blow that caused his immediate
! death. When the metal cooled and
! the mold was opened the bell was
| found to be not only perfect, but of
! marvelous sweetness of tone. Th«
j founder gave himself up to the ail-,
| thorities, was tried and condemned
; to death. On the day of his cxeeu
| tion the bell was rung to call people
j to attend church and offer a prayer
| for the unhappy man's soul, and
J from that it obtained the name of
I "the poor sinner's bell."
i WANT DUTY SUSPENDED.
AtitomohlllMlw ol" Till* Country Seek-
Ingto Hal 112 Toilrin<; Slacliinei* I'reely
Admitted to Canada.
Reciprocity with Canada in the
matter of touring vehicles crossing--
the border free of duty was tin/
! chief topic discussed by tiie law com-\
j mittee of the Automobile Club of )
America at its session held in New (
York City.
Mr. George F. Chamberlain, chair- j
man of the committee, called the at-J
I tention of the members and also of
! Mr. A. IS. Sha*ttuck, president of the
i club, to customs regulations obtain
ed in 150S by the Canadian Wheel
men's association whereby members
of either, upon presentation of their
membership tickets and securing' the
permission of the collector of the
I port of export, could take their bi-
I cyefes across tin* border duty free.
Mr. Chamberlain urged that an ef
j fort be made to obtain for touring
i automobilists similar privileges
through like custom-house regula
tion? by the Canadian and United
States treasury departments. A com
mittee was appointed to visit Canada,
for the purpose.
Find Your I'lacc and Fill It.
It is a sad parody on lire to see
a 11 un earning his living by a voca
i tion which has never received his ap
| proval. It is pitiable, to see a youth,
J with the image of power and destiny
| stamped upon him. trying to support
J himself in a mean, contemptible oo-
I cupation, which dwarfs his nature,
i and makes him despise himself; ar
occupation which is constantly coi,
demning him, ostracizing him
troni all that is best and truest in
life. Dig trenches, shovel coal, carry
a hod; do anything rather than sacri
fice your self-respect, blunt your
sense of right and wrong, and sliu'
yourself off forever from the trui
joy of living, which comes from thi
consciousness of doing one's best.-
iSuccess.
The Lrmrr Evil.
A father, fearing an earthquake in thr
region of his home, sent his two boys ti
a distant friend until the peril should bt
over. A few weeks after the father re
ceived this letter from his friend:
"Please take your boys home and send
down the earthquake."—Tit-Bits.
"Yes, they call it a 'rural play;' but it
seems to me there's something lacking.''
"Why, so there is. There's no mortgage on
the farm."—Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin.
When the fiddler brings in his bill, thft
amount is always greater than you expected.
—Atchison Globe.
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