10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH : Bttabliikti iS/t _____ s f PUBLISHED BY s THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. ( <E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Treaa'r. iF. R. OYSTER. Secretary. pus M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor, c Published every evening (except Sunt j day), at the Telegraph Building, 111 j. Federal Square. " Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. < New York City, Hasbrook. Story * t Brooks. , Office. 11l West street. Chicago, 111., Allen & VI ard. a . Delivered by carriers at N si* cents a wee*. MaM $d to subscriber* at 13.00 a year Ist advance. r Entered at the Post Office In Harrl»- ' burg as second class matter. ' 1 /t IN Association of Amer- a , ican Advertisers bas ox- <' 1 Slmw emined and certified to | I tho circulation of this p«b- i I lication. Tho figures of circulation I I l eontained in tho Association's ro- i ■ I port only are guaranteed. i. ' 11 Association of American Advertisers \ t J, No. 2333 Whitehall Bld|. M. T. City ![ , un-r-u-iJXJ- -- - - £ Inan dally snraft for tfce month ol June, 1914 Averaire for the year 1918—21.87T t Average for the year 1913—51.17» f Average for the year 1911—18,851 j Average for the year 191<^—17.495 TELEPHONES i Bell 1 Prlvnte Branch Exchange No. 1040. ] United ( Business Office. 303. . Room 586. Job Dept. 203. ' FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 10 j THE C. E. MOVEMENT HARRISBURG will be happy to 1 welcome back the Christian 1 Endeavor delegates of the ' State when they come here In ' 591 ft for their biennial convention. fact that this city was chosen as 1 the place of meeting over Philadel- 1 phia and Allentown is no small com- 1 pllment to Harrisburg and is a tribute 1 to the energy and hospitality of the ' local societies that banded themselves ' together in support of President Hug gins and other leaders who went to 1 Unlontown to extend the invitation. The great success of the State con- 1 vention held here more than a decade ' «go Is still remembered by Endeav- I orers all over Pennsylvania. It set an example that .pther cities have since followed and the convention of 1916 will no doubt far exceed it in size and interest. Directly following the first Harris burg gathering. It was reported that the Christian Endeavor movement had reached its high-water mark and was on the wane. From time to time thesa rumors have been current, but they have not been substantiated, and Dr. Clark, founder of the organization. In a letter to the Unlontown convention says: "Our cause was never so strong either in our own country or other lands as to-day." It Is bringing church denominations more closely together and arousing in young people a -whole some Interest in religion that steadies their course through years of after life. It is composed of a membership the like of which Harrisburg delights to entertain, and there will be no doubt of the warmth of the city's "welcome in 1916. Amos R. Wells must have been thinking of Palmer and McCormlck, ■when he wrote: "Useful Is the ally who •ays nothing; doubly useful V he ttfclks all the time, still saying nothing." PSYCHOLOGY AND SUGAR THE following very pertinent let ter appears in the Public Ledger of Philadelphia: To the Editor of the Public Ledger. Sir—We were assured by Mr. Wilson that the tariff was a tax on the consumer and that its reduc tion would cause a fall in the price of commodities. Before the new tariff on sugar went into effect the retail price of refined granulated here was 4 .cents. Since the change the price has ad vanced to cents. This is probably either a conspir acy to discredit the administration or a psychological phenomenon, hut the poor man has to pay the in creased price all the same. CARL. Philadelphia, July 8. 1914. That is just the point. The Wilson tariff was designed—if we are to take at their face value the icft-repeated campaign arguments of President Wilson and his supporters .—especially for the benefit of the con sumer. The wicked businessmen of the Country—ably abetted by the greedy lAmerican manufacturers—were In a tariff conspiracy to keep duties so high on Imports of household necessi • ties and foodstuffs that they could charge the consumer what they pleased. The whole Democratic theory was that LIVING WAS HIGH BECAUSE tTHE TARIFF WAS HIGH. Therefore, remove the tariff and Sown would go prices. The working man and everybody else wearing clothing and eating food would be benefited. It was remarkably simple. But how has It worked out? A table of retail prices, verified by .Reference to three reputable dealers ,whose names were given, was printed 0n the Telegraph last week. It showed that prices of provisions [have INCREASED ON AN AVERAGE (OF TEN PER since the (TARIFF WAS REDUCED. This is bringing tho matter right Jdown to Harrisburg. In a nutshell, President Wilson promised us that If the tariff was re duced prices would come down. In stead they have gone up. Who, then, is the beneficiary of the new tariff law? Why the foreign manufacturer who Bhlps his goods free of duty to this jrtcountry and the big jobber or lm- { . i 1 -■ - • • FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 10, 1914. porter who buys them more cheaply abroad than he can at home —thus depriving Americans of work that should be rightfully theirs —and who puts In his own pocket the money he saves by reason of the Democratic tariff. The qnly thing the new tariff has done is to cut down the output of American mills and put gold in the purses of the foreign mill owner and his colleague, the importer or jobber. The only excuse President Wilson offered for the tariff that is cutting the heart out of American industry is that it would reduce prices. Instead, as we have shown, prices have ad vanced. Is It any wonder, then, that the newspapers are filled with letters, like that quoted from the Ledger, from correspondents indignant with an ad ministration that promised so much and has failed so lamentably? STILL IX THE HARNESS STILL In the harness at 76 Is the proud record of John Wana maker, merchant prince of Philadelphia, who will celebrate his birthday to-morrow by going to his office as usual and putting in a. full day at his desk. Mr. Wanamaker has been a hard worker all his life. His activities have not been confined by any manner of means to the gigantic task of build ing up a business from a wheelbarrow load of goods to the greatest retail store in the whole world and the per fecting of a business organization that is the marvel of all who have come into contact with it. He has found time to take a great interest in re ligious work, to be president of the Pennsylvania Sabbath School Asso ciation, to participate in politics and to be Postmaster General of the coun try when the postal department was in one of its most active stages. Mr. Wanamaker has been success ful to a degree approached by very few men. He has an ample fortune and might have retired years ago to rest or to pursue some favorite "hobby." Instead, he has chosen to find his recreation* in his store and to make a "hobby" of his business. He is a fine example of the truth of the assertion that It Is not what a man does while at work that ages him, but what he does after work is done. Mr. Wanamaker has worked early and late, but he has lived a clean life. He is now in vigorous old age and finding "keen pleasure In work well done," than which there are few joys greater. REGULATION LUNACY THERE are unmistakable signs of sharp reaction in the United States against the propaganda of "reform" which has upset and disorganized almost every department of human activity. Men and women have been drawn Into the maelstrom of radicalism to such an extent that they can neither think clearly nor act sanely and as a result the very foun dations of society are threatened. In an article commenting on this phase of our present day life, E. S. Martin, in the current issue of Life, discussing people who spend all of their energies in accumulating wealth and the others who give all of their attention to re forming the world, says that neither group knows where to stop. As to the regulative people he says: Almost all their reforms have good in them, and are desirable to a certain extent. But there is no moderation in average reformers. Reform is their business, and they work at It all day. and when one reform is finished they open books on another. They never stop volun tarily any more than the acqulsi* tive people do. What happens is that when we common dirt have been reformed all our unregener ate natures can endure, we rise up in our misery and get clubß and drive the regulative people oft their job, and make them climb trees and hide in cellars. That is what is called reaction. When we have done it, we have comfort in living for a while, and take a drink on occasions, and go to horse races sometimes, maybe, until we fall in to courses sufficiently appalling to give the regulators courage to come down from their trees and out of their holes, and then they come for us again. And so life ripples along in a troubled course between the devil of acquisition and the deep sea of regulation. Mr. Martin has hit the nail squarely on the head. There Is reform that is not reform and reformers who are merely fakirs. Self-hypnotized these men and women go blathering up and down the earth annoying their fellows and destroying the systems which have been the outgrowth of generations of experiment. Too much regulation is quite as serious as not enough, and what Congress does not do the legis latures of the several States endeavor to provide in all kinds of enactments that only serve to disconcert and over turn that which is foun'ded on some thing like stability. Mr. Martin says further: The regulative people make laws on laws, and multiply commissions to watch and boss everybody, and the patient, regulated folks sweat under it and pay taxes on taxes and try to get along, until pres ently there rises a great cry that life is being so perfected that it costs too much to live, and that over-regulated existence is not worth having, anyway. At every session of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and the experience of this State does not differ from that of others, bills upon bills are in troduced for every possible "reform." Most of these propositions are silly, inasmuch as they propose to regulate everything from the wearing of a hat to the cutting of the hair, reducing to an absurdity the more sane and needful legislative suggestions which are lost In the avalanche of popular disapproval. Unfortunately, however, too many such propositions are en acted into law and the very thing that is suggested by Mr. Martin happens— reaction sets in and our last estate is worse than our first. Under these conditions small-bore politicians issue what they are pleased to call platforms or declarations of principles and with this propaganda go before the people asking that they be given place and power to do the fool things which they propose in their pronunciamentos which are simply high-sounding phrases to de ceive the gullible. / 1 EVENING CHAT I "Have you noticed the early hours that automobllistß keep when they are on tours?" asked a man who gets out early In the mornings. "It's astonish ing how men who ordinarily do not rise for breakfast much before 8 or even 9 are up with the roosters when tliey are scooting about the country in their cars. X have noticed that dozens of cars speed out of the city over the Market street bridge as early ns 6 o'clock and you can see people speed ing up the Riverside Drive even before that hour on their way to the north ern counties. The same is true about the Reading and Lancaster pikes. The automobile is a great thing to get people out early and once a party has enjoyed a run in the cool and bracing air around 6 or 7 it's early rising from that on. You see. they get in about 5 or 6 and are tired and ready to go to bed. so early rising is not the hardship they would think it at home when they sit up reading until midnight or are out at the theater or on business or at some social function until the early morning. The automobile may be blamed for mortgages and various other things and be the subject of many complaints on the score of ex pense. but it's a great thing to get people up In the morning. I think that quite a number of people get up early anyway while they are at home and go for rides. You can see big cars, driven by their owners, around any of the city markets on Wednes day and Saturday mornings. They get up early and take their wives or daughters to market and they get the early selection and the man who runs the car enjoys the fresh air about which he would otherwise know pre cious little. Gamy tish are biting in the Sus quehanna river these days and the real fishermen are commencing to haunt the spots where the boys do not go swimming these -afternoons. Almost any afternoon you can see men row ing oft°_ to the quiet places and the "riffles" about Maclay street are as popular as they used to be years be fore building moved up that way, Yes terday a couple of men waded around with hip boots and got some fine fish. The Rockville "falls" are another pop ular place for fishermen. Strange to say. the activities of the sand and coai fleets and the swimming propensities of the boys have not scared away the fish the way one would imagine. In fact, a fine bass was hooked within a short distance of all the fuss going on at Mulberry street and the men who fish from the bridges are on the job every day. The Susquehanna has so many channels and deep holes where fish can thrive that there is no danger of It being "fished out" or of the fish being driven away. A dispatch from London says fifteen automobiles have been thrown Over board from the Ant-hor Line steamship California, which is grounded off Torry Island. Dumping automobiles from stranded steamships seems to be a regular summer experience. A vear or two ago Kenneth Grant, a well known engineer who assisted in the first public Improvement plans of this city, was en route to Europe with a party who invited him to accoinpanj them on an automobile tour of. the continent. Their high-priced automo bile was in the hold and the outlook for a pleasant summer outing was most auspicious. Somewhere in the Mediterranean, however, the ship struck a rock and one of the first things that went overboard was the. big automobile. In this vacation period it Is Inter esting to observe that many of our Harrisburg tourists are traveling the world over to see the things and to enjoy landscapes that are no finer than those within a short ride of their homes. There is nothing more pic turesque in the way of scenery in the world, than the Susquehanna river and tho mountain gap at Rockville. Nor is there anything more attractive than tho sketches of the Juniata river near Dtincannon and the Aqueduct. E. S. Herman, John W. Bowman, Dr. John Oenslager. Mrs. Rothert, Harry Free burn. Joshua W. Gross and Samuel Fitzgerald have cottages there and other Harrisburg people have built and are building cottages on the moun tainside near Dauphin. And near the city In every direction are the summer homes of our own people who have learned to appreciate the gorgeous scenery which surrounds us every where. All that is needed is the build ing of highways which will be com fortable to travel over in reaching the delightful places that are near at home. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Ex-Governor Stuart is being boomed for one of the regional bank trustees in Philadelphia. —Robert Swan, director of works, is acting Mayor of Pittsburgh in the absence of Mayor Armstrong. —Congressman Michael Donohoe, who wants to make a permanent Fourth of July celebration in Phila delphia, is a protectionist Democrat from the Kensington district. —Arthur G. Burgoyne, Pittsburgh newspaper man, has been made chief of the bureau of morals in the city government. He has some job. —Ernest Behrend, prominent Erie man, has gone to Europe. —John Luther Long, the novelist, has returned from the seashore to his home near Philadelphia. POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS 1 —The upper end of the county don't count in Democratic patronage. —Realizing that they can not beat Senator Crow for senator again the Washington and Prohibition candi dates have withdrawn. —The old Guard leaders evidently believe in going to headquarters with their kicks. —H. R. Hummel has bagged the Watsontown post office. More trouble. —Fritz Kirkendall will appreciate a new revenue job away from the whirligig of politics in this vicinity. —Pinchot yesterday called Penrose "a big rat." His campaign appears to be running down faster than ex pected. —Central-JDemocratlc club members will celebrate the naming of the new revenue collections. Wonder how Herr Moeslein views them. —E. H. Filbert is out for mayor of Reading. There are nine others. —State Chairman Morris said that things had been "clarified" by Wed nesday's meeting here. Wonder who promised to finance the campaign. —A move to impeach the mayor of Kazleton has been started. —Gompers says he is going to get Congressman Moore. He is not the first who started to do that. —Congressman Palmer has endors ed Donohoe's plan for the Fourth. Peace there anyway. —Edwin M. Winters will run for mayor next year. So will Dr. E. S. Meals. —Dean Lewis said yesterday that he would straighten up the mine cave trouble. Nothing like being; willing, anyway. TENDER-HEARTED [From Tlt-Blts.l "He Is the most tender-hearted man I ever saw." "Kind to animals?" "I should say so. Why. when Kf found the family cat Insisted on sleep ing in the coal*bin, he immediately or dered a ton of toft coal." upper ew en i( COLD TUMM : Both Revenue Appointments Are Made From Harrisburg by Orders of Boss McCormick i MAY START LARGE RUCTION 1 Upper Enders Already Sore Over * the Rubendall Acceptance of the Democracy The two revenue service appoint ments apportioned to Dauphin county have been given to Harrisburg. An nouncement to this effect was wig wagged to the Democratic windmill from Fritz Kirkendall's district offices in Lancaster last night and there is gloom among the friends of one Hoff- , man of the upper end who was slated for the place—for a while. , The appointments were made as follows: 2 Harry A. Vollmer, Harrisburg, In J the upholstery husiness and chief of t the Central Democratic Club marching f squad and late candidate for coroner, to he deputy for part of Dauphin. Perry and Snyder counties, succeeding C. M. Bowerman. W iliiam S. Brlcker, former com mon councilman from the Ninth ward, • tormer Democratic chairman of rranklin county and conductor for • Harrisburg Railways Company, llke i\'Se^T I ? el I loorat ' c cor »niitteeman from the iSinth ward and a high powered Democratic worker when he f?ets - started, to be office deputy at Harris burg, succeeding George W. Adams. Brlcker was not on the slate as framed by Herr Moeslein and given approval by Boss McCormick. Moes lein wanted to keep the upper end in line by naming Hoff man, who appeared to McCormick have friends among Plays Some the bosses around the Politics throne. Vollmer i s said to have been given .. . „ t assurance last Fall that if he got beaten in the coroner fight that the bosses would look out for him and for months there have been rumors that he would get this • £ b ' , WhPn Brickcr's friends found that he was not to he given place here they set up a fuss and McCormick. who wants the home town kept quiet, heard what the upper end bosses had to say and then listened to Moeslein for a while. Then he picked Brlcker, showing that he is gaining in knowl edge of practical politics. Of course, there will be some snorting around, but there will be some other revenue jobs dangled around and the Little Boss always has the wire to the Post Office Department ready for work. Charles B .Lynch, Jr., and Francis Su., j llen ' Sr " wh °s© seats in the Philadelphia Democratic city commit tee have been placed under investigation hy the executive commit- "Old Guard" tee of the State com- Threatens n mittee, announces yes- Court \ction terday that they did not propose to relin quish their places in that body unless compelled to do so by the courts. The special committee which has under consideration the appeals of John M. Hill and James Gaghan. Palmerites, from the action of the Democratic or ganization in seating the two~Ryan men, will meet the last week of the month. It is understood that Lvnch and Scullen will not appear before the probers. Lynch declared yesterday that If the Palmer men force him and Scullen into legal proceedings to hold their places they will bring to light enough dirty linen in the reorganization closet in West Philadelphia to cause the Palmerites to change their tactics. Lynch made as a prelude to his threatened revelations the charge that the proxy of a dead man was used at the meeting at which Hill and Gag han declare they were elected. Richard Campion, treasurer of the Pennsylvania Protective Union, in a statement issued' yesterday, declared as absurd the assertion of Congressman Palmer Campion that the failure of thht Hits, at body to file a report of Palmer its campaign expenses would invalidate Pen rose's election. Mr. Campion said: "This assertion seems • to signify that Congressman Palmer is no better lawyer than politician. As : treasurer of the Pennsylvania Protec tive Union, you may be sure that I i have given this subject some con ; sideration. Not content with reading - the law myself, I have submitted it to competent counsel who assure me . that there is nothing in its provisions to indicate that the Legislature ever , intended political committees to file , statements of their expenses In pri mary campaigns. Some of the folks who lined up with the Keystone party movement in the upper end of the county four years ago and who helped bring to the front a ■ Upper Enders couple of men who 1 Refuse to Go are now making a ; With Deals lot of noise In poll tics are commencing to wondeV what is the meaning of the election of C. W. Rubendall as vice chairman of the ? Democratic county committee and the prominence in the McCormick ma- chine of men who took yeoman part ; in the great fight of 1910. Some of them are openly declaring that they s do not intend to follow these leaders s into the Democratic ranks this year . and to stand for Wilson depression and McCormick expense accounts and s will vote for Brumbaugh. It is be f lieved that as a result of tho election it of Rubendall as vice chairman the swinging of Keystone strength to the r Democracy will fall through although Rubendall will carry out his ambition t of being a Democratic candidate for - recorder in 1915 and will try to drag 0 County Commissioner John H. Eby along as a candidate for sheriff. f Rubendall has recently moved to the city and thus hopes to get away from 1 the idea of having both the recorder 0 and shrievalty candidates come from the upper end. '• Does the material sent to the Dead Letter Office undergo a post-mortem r examination?— July Llppincott's AN EVENING THOUGHT e I like the man who faces what he f, must With step triumphant and a heart of cheer. Who fights the dally battles with our fear; n Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps un faltering trust That God is God; that somehow, f true and just 1 His plans work out for mortals. » •—Sarah K. Bolton. [7 OUR DAILY IAUGH J ■ j jafy m 1:1 Expensive Joy Hcvcnge Talk about Little "High explosives!" dream on tne These here things night of the 4tn. set me back just twrty owtil A Special Prlv- Faithless Jameii ilege The Lady—-Ah, Say. Kid, tell Men! Deceivers you wot I'll do: ever! I lent James You go git your ten cents to buy Ma's biggest dish- the engagement pan an' I'll let you ring an' 1 fear sit on it an' lissen he's buyed shoot to your firecracker in' crackers wltn go off underneath! it! THE WHEAT CROP By Wing Dinger That message 'bout the wheat crop We're going to have this year, Is really very pleasing news For anyone to hear. And now, I guess, dear Woodrow Will deal a telling blow By issuing the statement, "You see? I told you so." "We promised you a whole lot. Which served for votes as bait, You mustn't be impatient^ Be calm, JUst watch and wait." That's fine, but it's like sitting Close to a lighted' bomb, Waiting for rain to put out The fuse, and still be calm. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of July 10, 1861.] Town Meeting: A call is issued for a town meeting to be neld in Market Square, to organ ize companies for the hundred days' call. Strnßulern Coming In A squad of citizens brought In one rebel prisoner and several deserters. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR i [From the Telegraph of July 10, 1864.] Rumors of Disaster Baltimore, July 9. The city is full of rumors of disaster to the forces of General Wallace. Arres't Seeesslonlsta Memphis, July 9. Excitement here consequent upon General Washburne's order of retaliation is intense. Several are under guard. THE HIGHWAY HOLD-UP [From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] The course of Auditor General Powell and State Treasurer Young in . continuing their obstructive tactics with regard to the use of automobile ' fees by the Highway Department for the repair of State roads smacks much of politics. They have appealed to ' the Supreme Court from the decision of Judges McCarrell and Henry sit | ting in the Dauphin County Court : upholding tho constitutionality of the ! motor license bill of 1913 and have ; asked that the appeal shall act as a ® supersedeas, thus effectually tying up I the accumulated fees until the issue! is finally determined. This may throw the whole matter over until Fall, when the road repairing season will have ; ended. Meanwhile there is a State j campaign impending in which two j parties are arrayed against the Re , publicans and the present adminis r tration naturally will be attacked. Mr. ( Powell and Mr. Young were nomi f nated and elected as Republicans in 3 1912, but the State Treasurer was no . sooner in office than he formally an . nounced his withdrawal from the Re % publican party, and Mr. Powell has r been openly operating with the Wash s ington party this year, after having - done all he could for two years to I defeat and embarrass Republicans. The effect of delay in road repairs is ? to arouse pubUc sentiment against the administration of Governor Tener and s to subject him and the Highway De- B partment to criticism and abuse for r neglect of duty. The fact that the s Governor and Commissioner Bigelow " have gone to the limit of their author ity to avail the department of Idle funds in the treasury, and which can 1 be used for no other purpose, in order 8 to repair roads all over tho State, is 8 lost sight of in the condition of dis * repair which exists and has become a 1 reproach. - The public does not under -3 stand that by every proper legal pro -1 cedure efforts have been made to com " pel compliance with the law on the ' part of the Auditor General, and that 3 even with a mandamus issued he has * stubbornly refused to act. being keenly e alive to the knowledge that' delay is e calculated to reflect on the admlnls " tration and In that manner injure the * Republican party. In this matter f Governor Tener and Commissioner Y Bigelow aro clearly the victims of s misrepresentation, a form of injustice r regardless of the merits of the Audi -1 tor 'General's contention, since lnter -3 ruption of highway work is in no ■ sense due to dereliction of the ad ri _______ e 1 e f \ h uiMBAaTKU trmu 1 j SHIRTS J SIDES & SIDES SUITS sls and $16.50 Hart Schaffner & Marx and Society The Best Clothes in America These Suits Are $25.00 and $30.00 Values From Our Regular Stock Your Size Is HERE, It May NOT Be Later. BUY NOW SPECIAL All Wool Suits $lO Guaranteed to hold their shape until the last day of use. They are odds and ends worth $15.00 to $25.00. Look at them in our Market street window. H. MARKS & SON Fourth and Market Streets ministration in any event—the act in controversy having been passed by the Legislature in good faith, and so signed, and in addition been sustained recently by the Dauphin County Court. the high cost of water [F. S. Dickson in July Yale Review] In one Item at least, the cost of liv ing has been increased out of all rea son—pure water. Our fathers found it everywhere, to be had for the tak ing; but modern sanitation has be fouled every stream, poisoned every well, and rendered every spring an ob ject of suspicion. If there be a "moss covered bucket" left anywhere, it would have to be sterilized before using. Untold millions have been spent to give cities and towns pure water, and after we have paid the resulting taxes we are warned by boards of health to boll the water before drink ing. The fever we get in the autumn we are told we brought with us from the country, wheer the water is only less dangerous than, the milk. Usually a city draws its water from the same stream in which it deposits its sewage, with a shrug for the towns below, and a curse for those above. In the sum mer of 1913 a fish, by some mischance, found itself in the Passaic river, and tried to escape by jumping. The event was so extraordinary that it was sober ly chronicled on the front pages of the New York papers. Yet there was a time, not so many years ago, when this stream supplied much of the food for the people who lived on its banks. We pav from 10 to 15 cents a gallon for water with a modest pedigree, but a high clascs certificate of purity costs us 40 cents, if we return the jug. The man who gets this price for water is admired for his Yankee shrewdness, while the men who supplies us with re fined kerosene at less than a third of Uiis price Is deemed worthy of fine ANNOUNCEMENT For the Balance of Summer We will close our Store At 1 P. M. SA During This Time We Will Run Friday and Saturday Morning Specials For To-morrow Morning We Offer ALL SUITS 1-3 OFF; STRAW HATS AND PANAMAS AT HALF PRICE ' Shirt Sale Now On $15.00 Silk Shirts now #9.00 $7.00 and SB.OO Silk Shirts now $.1.00 $5.00 and $6.00 Silk Shirts now $.3.65 $3.50 and $4.00 Silk Shirts now $52.65 $2.50 and $3.00 Russian Cords, Silks and Linens $1.50 $1.50 and $2.00 Soft Shirts, linen $1.15 SfDES & SIDES Commonwealth Hotel Building and imprisonment. The war tariff of 1864 put a duty on mineral waters, but this tax was taken off in 1872. Tho McKiniey bill of 1890 restored tha duty, but the Democratic bill of 1894 made mineral water free again. The Dingiey bill of 1897 restored and in creased the duty, which the Payne- Aldrich bill again increased, the Underwood bill reduced the tax, leav ing it at about the level of the McKin ley tariff. How this was accomplished those that know are not likely to tell. BOOKS and sß| |nj MAC^INE^M The new romance which has been brought back to the sea is described in "Sparks of the Wireless," by Walter S. Hiatt. This talking through the air has strongly appealed to the imagination of boys, and the sudden necessity for all steamers to have operators has given an outlet to these ingenious and ro mantic youths, many or whom have had occasion to prove themselves heroes. An Indian who was a candidate for the ministry and was asked, before the Presbytery the Important question, "What is orieinal sin?" answered that ho didn't know what other people's might be. but he rather thought that his was laziness. There are many who could truthfully give the same reply re garding "religious activities. The Christian Herald. "HAMLET LEFT OIT" [From July Uppincott's.] ■ A prominent Virginian had died, and his daughter in arranging the house for the funeral had gone almost to an ex treme in placing palms and ferns and plants In the drawlngr-room—in fact it had more the appearance of a wedding than a funeral. One of the old darkles came to pay his last respects. "Miss Mae," he said, "dls surely is fine all dese here trees; but. Miss Mae, where is you going to put your Pa?"
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