8 COUNCIL PARES DOWN BUDGET Hig Cuts Made to Get Ex penses Within 1918 Revenues Continuing their executive sessions members of City Councilesald to day thev had not cone over the en tire budget the ilrst time, but were still far above the amount ot reve nue available next year with the tax rate at ten mills. • It was said that the bis items in the estimates of various departments which could be eliminated or pro vided from other funds has already been dropped, but there was still about SIOO,OOO to be "pared trom the total it could not bo learned from any of the commissioners what had been done with the salary in creases, but reports in councilmanic circles created the impression that there would be some cuts made in those items also. ... , r The big increase in the cost ot ash and garbage collections for next year is the cause of much ot the trouble, according to city officials. By increasing the tax rate one null the $53,000 revenue which is raised just equals the added cost estimated, lor removal of refuse and purchasing equipment for the municipal ash collection work. GBORVBI W. OA ES Word was received liere to-da> or the death of George W. Oves. aged 55 formerly of this city, afld a brother of City Treasurer Harry K Oves. Mr. Oves has been a resident of East Mc- Keesport fo. a number of > ears. Mr. oves is survived by his wife, one daughter. Miss Rhoda Oves; his hroiher City Treasurer Oves. and a sister Mrs. Jacob Frank, this city. Funeral service; will be held at Dillsburg. ' j. TOYS | p|Q N Velocipedes I to $1.7.1 to $15.00 $ Blocks, 250 to 500 * DC l I <ii CAß f<—- ES t0 Games, 50 to 150 5 SI.OO to $4.50 5 In iron or reed. ' * " Books, 50 to 500 ♦ 5 Skates, Razors, Knives, Kodaks, Footballs and many other | Sporting Goods articles make appreciated gifts. ! HEAGY BROS. OssLiissg i 1200 X. THIRI> STREET mm N Help the Coal Dealer . Househplders should shovel away the snow from in front of their building so that the coal wagons are not delayed. This will greatly aid in the making of prompt deliveries. If you want fuel in a reasonable time, don't compel the driver to shovel snow. Co-operate immediately. United Ice & Coal Co. liUinhrr Department Foster nnl Cowdcn Struts ■ A ' 1 THURSDAY EVENING, MORMON'S WIFE NO. 2 TELLS OF LIFE IN H AREM Fathers Preached and Prac ticed Polygamy; Girls Know Nothing Else Pittsburgh—How it feels to be one of a Mormon's wives was told in de tail by Mrs. Marion Williams, before the National Reform Association, at its convention in the Smithfleld Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. was wife No. 2 of a Utah Mormon for several years. Her address, entitled "My Life in a Mor mon Harem," follows: "Many people ask, 'Why did you go into polygamy?' For the same reason that other girls did who held many advantages over me. We know nothing else. Polygamy was preached in the Tabernacle, our fathers preached polygamy and prac ticed polygamy and we were en couraged to go with married men. "I was permitted to go with Mr. and Mrs. Williams to dances, but neither she nor my people knew of our trysting place down by fin old bridge. I was never allowed to go with single young men, but when it discovered that I had fallen deeply in love with Mr. Williams all hands went up. Standing among the Mormons is not measured by faithful church attendance or min istering to the sick but by tithing, in which Mr. Williams was found delinquent fifty dollars. He laid that for permission to take me through the Temple. "At the same time his first wife was at home in sorrow and tears, a beautiful brown eyed girl, a pood mother and a good wife. But had she been a good Latter Day Hiilnt, she would have gone to the Temple with us and before the altar placed my hand within her young husband's and said: "To thee this woman do 1 freely give.' How many tlrst wives have been talked Into swallowing that bitter pill; sullying her Hps with a lie in the house of tho Lord's an notated to please her criminal .ius band and that night gone to a lonely bed and drenched her pillow with tears. Goes to Other Wife "My husband alter our marriage remained in the city 10 years, then returnod to his wifo in the Worth. Not until then did 1 seem to" realize what I had done, and it would be impossible to describe what 1 felt. Mr. Williams later came to Salt l.ake City and took nv to my new home in Bear located just across the street from his tirst Wife. "Mrs. AViliiams was very much liked and hud many friends, r.nd everyone was in sympathy witn her. She snubbed and hurt me and under the sting 1 had to smile, jiretend I saw nothing and heard nothing. I was shunned at the dances where 1 had been most sought. Those' who preach and advocate polygamy like to see it in other families: they*enjoy the change, the gossip, the slander, and fill the tirst wife full of rebel lion. They love to sympathize with her, for sne will receive a crown of great glop' if she keeps quiet and says nothing.. leather Hart Two "I rrecall the day my "fa tire brought to my mother's home a sec ond wife—a little girl 16 years old, one year my senior. There were five children in our home older than that girl. I had known of suicides and seen women pine away and die; I had sat up to the wee small hours ot morning and listened to pitiful stories and tales of woe from the lips of martyred women; first wives' sisters betrayed, housemaids dis graced, girls excommunicated be cause they would not go into polyg amy, women who drank to drown their sorrows, girls warned to pro tect themselves against certain bish ops, girls courted at the same time with the object of marriage to one man, girls fallen by the wayside saying 'I am jio worse than my mother;' sisters standing at the gate waiting and watching for the same husband, a. widow and her own two daughters bearing children and "bed ding tears for one husband under the same roof. 1 saw a strong man weep when Brigham Young robbed him of his Amelia. All this had 1 known, and yet 1 went Into polyg amy, but It was all so different from anything I had ever imagined that 1 concluded I could not live in it—■ I preferred death. "I had been initiated Into polyga my four years when Mr. Williams concluded he would leave the coun try and go to New Mexico. Mrs. Williams No. 1 refused to go if he took me. However, he sold his prop erty and we went to Salt Lake City. 1 cherished the hope that 1 would soon be in Mexico, away from every one I had ever known, little dream ing my real sorrows were yet to come. I kept quiet, 1 saw nothing, 1 heard nothing and asked no ques tions. I had been educated to that. "Mr. Williams began to take great pride in his personal appearance. He wore the best of clothing and al ways was* well groomed, while X looked very shabby. 1 never had respectable clothing which would allow me to appear anywhere—my poverty was pitiful. 1 was the last consideration, and I often heard it wished I looked like other women. Only once had he taken me any where, and that was not from t.holce. My spirit long had been crushed, but I did try to brace up and be myself again. "I asked Mr. Williams to take me for a drive. He had urgent business elsewhere. That afternoon he passed the house with a lady in a carriage. "Two great actors were playing in the city, and I asked him to take me to the theater. Tickets were too expensive. That evening he and the same lady sat in a box. "Then I overheard memWers of the family talking of a third mar riage for their boy. I knew he was taking a woman out, but I did not think it had gone so far. Evey member of the family' had gone to the theater but the mother. I pre pared my little girl for the night— she was my life, my staff and my strength; then 1 sat down to await fate. "Knowing where he was, conniv ing at his plots and plans, the mother said: 'Where can my boy be to night?" Assuming that air of in difference that had been sapping the very substance out of my soul for years, X smiled and said 'Why won der tonight, after the many nights he has not come home, and for days we have not seen him.' Then she said, Why don't you leave him?' 1 shall,' said I, not only for marry ing another woman, but for years of neglect and deception; for bringing me to the city to live at the mercy of his people; for leaving me night after night with a sick child; for spending money freely while we go destitute; for taking women to the aters, who are very much my infer ior.' "The rich men's wives may. have a place in society, but not those of a poor one. A woman lives with a polyga mist until he tires of her, and then she is a miserable cast-away. It is a crime to allow this thing to go on under the guise of religion, orig inated in the heart of a thief, a blas phemer, an adulterer and a mur derer. Married men are courted by women and girls.and looked upon as heroes. Why have women commit ted suicide and died with oroken hearts In polygamy? The only way out of its practice is death . "I packed my scanty wardrobe, left the house, and went into the world to battle with poverty and temptation. I was at Nie critical point of my life—two roads loomed up before me. Which way should I go, up or down? It was easier to go down, but I sat by the little grave of my child, reviewed the brave light 1 had made, and made up my mind that I couldn't afford to lose that fight. — Mrs. Marian K. Waite Dies in Sydney, Australia Air. and Mrs. C. Edward Kennedy, of 1011 North Seventeenth street, re ceived a cablegram last evening from Sydney. Australia, the death there of their daughter. Mrs. J. H. Waite, formerly Marian Kenedy, of this city. She was the wife of Dr. J. 11. Waite, who is connected with the Rockefeller Foundation in research work in Australia. The body will be brought to this city in the first boat sailing from that port. Surviving Mrs. Waite, who was a gifted violiniste, are her husband, twin children, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Kennedy, and two sisters, the Misses Alda Kennedy and Margaretta Kennedy, of Harris burg. MRS. I.AIRA O. EHLY • Mrs. Gardiner Khly, ">4, died at her residence, 1632 North Sixth street. to-da.y. after a short illness. She was a member of Memorial Luth eran Church, and is survived by her husband, William A. Ehley; a son, Leonard S. Gardiner, and three daugh ters. Mrs. Norman Tyler. Harrisburg: Mrs. G. A. Kerstetter and Miss Eliza beth Gardiner. Funeral services will be held Friday evening, at 8 o'clock. Th> body will be taken to Pottstown, Saturday morning, where further ser vices will be held and burial will be made. 1 y - HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FROM PRISON TO POTASH KING' Frank L. Hulen Makes Re markable Comeback After Serving in Penitentiary Denver, Colo., Dec. 21.—From a prison cell in the Colorado peniten tiary- at Canon City to the "Potash King of America" and possessor of a fortune estimated at close to ?2,- 000,000, is the romantic story of Frank L. Hulen, owner of thousands of acres of highly productive potash swamps in Nebraska. Hulen was in Denver recently, and met his former jailer, Tom Tynan, warden of the state*penal institu tion. Hulen has never forgotten the warden's friendship, displayed when a parole was secured through Ty non's efforts, and at a dinner given Tynan here the man who once laid stones in prison garb recounted his experiences. Hulen left Oklahoma in 1910, trekking up through Colorado and then on into Wyoming. While profe- fjT Where Satisfaction Is An Absolute Certainty rep 1 1 Ever since the establishment of this "Different Kind of a Jewelry Store " | we have laid great stress upon the fact that "no customer must leave our store dissatisfied." We sincerely believe that every person we have had the pleasure of serving is a pleased customer because of our satisfying service I and the class and quality of the merchandise purchased. 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Special at ~..5Jt.00 Cheese Servers, sterling silver handle. Special at 50<* and SI.OO i | Back the Boys in Khaki to the Limits Join the Red Cross j ;|| | Today—"A Heart and a Dollar Is All You Need" OPEN EVENINGS cggj j ... Jttff'rti. ~~N pectlng for oil in the latter state lie wan arrested on a charge of bigamy, brought In Colorado by Bertha Fen nell Hulen and Charlotte Richards ilulen, both claiming him as their husband. Hulen was sentenced from Jeffer son county, Colorado, to two years In the penitentiary. His faithfulness to duty and the thoroughness with which he performed the arduous tasks around the "stone pile" attract ed Warden Tynan, who assigned him to clerical work In the prison office. L.ater Tynan secured his parole. Willie waiting tor trial in the county iail at Golden on the aigainy charge Hulen had become infatuated with the sheriff's daughter there, who frequently alleviated the pining of those in the custody of her father by furnishing sweets and performing small kindnesses for the unfortunate inmates. Folowing his releaso from the Canon City institution Hulen went to Golden. While attending lectures at the Colorado School of Mines lie was deeply impressed with the declara tion of a professor in chemistry, who, in describing a sample of water sent from a lake in Nebraska for an alysis, said that the sample showed traces of potash that indicated the possibility of immense wealth if the territory that produced it were de veloped. Hulen quickly won the hand cf | Miss Dennis, the sheriff's daughter, and the couple started for Nebraska. He built a hut on the edge of a vast | swamp and for nix months the new lywedb underwent many privations. To the bride it was a scene of deso lation. but Ilulen saw visions of un told wealth irt the irlreary surround ings. He acquired as much of t-he territory as possible, including a large lake adjacent to the uwamp land, and evolved his plans for the manufacture of potash. When the British shipping block ado cut off the supply of German potash Hulen was- prepared to fur nish Uncle Sam with sufficient pot ash to offset the loss of the Teuton supply. He had the potash, but was handicapped by a very limited cap ital for putting it into marketable condition. Followed many legal entangle ments with Nebraska bankers, but after months of litigation Hulen won his fight with the capitalists, and now 'controls approximately 85 per cent of the potash output of the United States. He has an immense plant at Antiocli, Nebraska, and is rapidly accumulating a fortune that may rival the wealth of a Carnegie or Rockefeller. Hulen. In his affluence, still keeps In touch with Warden Tynan, and replenishes the exchequer of many of his former prison mates as they are released from custody. DECEMBER 20, 191T Methodists of North Gain 155,225 in Year New York, Dec. 21.—Methodists of the north report a gain in member ship last year of 155,225, the ijreat est in any one year in the history of American Methodism. The total i membership is reported now to stand at 4,2 83,289, the largest of all Amer ican Protestant bodies. This increase is evenly distributed in all sections save only the state of New Jersey and that part of New York around the city of the name. The greatest relative increases were in and ijear Buffalo, Cincinnati, De | troit, Minneapolis and throughout i the state of Kansas. Church property, including par sonages, is valued at almost SHOO,- 000,000, a gain of some $10,000,000 this last year. This gain is in spite of the fact that the number of Methodist churches decloned, owing to changed conditions in the middle west. The decline there is only sev enty-one. Methodist gifts to causes other than church support were last year $4,700,000, the largest In the his tory of Methodism, and said to be the largest of any American religious body. The average salary of Methodist ministers is now $1,037, it passing the SI,OOO mark this year. So nmny Methodist ministers are in the field that their salary cost last year con siderably exceeded $19,000,000. ©>t3(crtt4e Knit rJml XI reef hy Btli A vena* NEW YORK A new fireproof hotel, most conveniently located. Two ave ' line Mocks from Pennsylvania U. K. Termtnni. Single Rooms and Suite* Permanent-Transient nlmi Ihe ncn Goldfish Restaurant Smart and rcflncd Wllllum S. O'llrlen, I'rea. . |.l ' Skates Ground While You Wait Federal Machine Shop i CRANBERRY ST. NEAR COURT
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