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' 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- {
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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
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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
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$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
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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|
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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?"