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" 'Twas y'rsilf that looked gran' in
th' Labor Day parade last Monday,
Mrs. Dooley," declared Mrs. Hen
nessy, stopping in to talk things over
with her neighbor.
"An' 'twas proud I filt, Mrs. Hin
nissy, to be marchin' wit all thim
thousan's an' thousan's iv ither work
in' wimmin," answered the widow.
"Shure, what wit all th' wimmin that
do be, workin' to ltape a roof over
their heads nowadays they make near
as gran' a showin' as th' workin' min
do.
"I was radin' a bit in wan iv thim
United States Cinsus books th' ither
day, an' shure it says there that 605,-
436 Pennsylvania wimmin are out
workin' fir wages ivry day.
"What's more, it says 412,583 iv
thim are over twinty-wan an', whin
th' woman suffrage amindmint is car
ried this Novimber they'll be among
the 2,114,008 Pennsylvania wimmin
that'll be able to vote.
"Ye can't show me iny rayson in
Justice an' common sinse why wim
min shouldn't vote. They did'nt nade
a vote much in th' past so they did'nt
ask fir it. But now its different in
toirely things are.
"In th' old aays ivry dacint woman
did all th' knittin' an' weavin', the
bakin' an' cannin' in her own home.
Woman's place was in th' home in
thim days! Shure there was nothin'
to take her outside iv it.
"But it's a big diffirince ye'll find
now. It's factories an' mills that do
all that sort iv work. Th' wimmin
can't do their work in their own
homes at all, at all. They hev to go
to th' factories to work or ilse buy
their stuff after th' girls in th' fac
tories has made it fir thim. Thim
workin' wimmin has a hard time an'
they ought to have th' vote to liilp
thim out.
"Thim suffragists up in New York
give an illigint proof a couple iv
weeks ago that plinty iv wimmin's
places is outside iv th' home. An'
th' funniest part iv it was. they
proved it out iv th' mouths iv th'
very people that was savin' th' loud
ist 'Woman's place is in th' home
an' she does'nt nade a vote.'
"Thim suffragists announced that
fir jist wan day ivry wage-earnin'
woman would strike. Th' workers
would'nt go to work —they'd jist stay
at home, where they'd bin told they
belonged.
"Th' minute th' word wint 'round
there was a great ki-viing frim thim
that did'nt want wimmin to vote
because they said their place was in
th' home. Th' factory owners, th'
business men, th' store owners, an'
all thim that hired wimmin jined in.
Only th' byes in th' schools did'nt
care if th' taychers did strike.
"Oh, there was a gorgeous hulaba
loo an' th' rumpus thim people kicked
up was pitiable. They came bleatin'
an' cryin' that it would cripple busi
ness; that wit'out stenographers, tili
phone girls, clerks, salesgirls, wait
resses, millhands, factory operatives
nurses, taychers, an' all th' ither
wimmin workers th* city would be
like a lad wit a foine case iv th'
jim-jams—runnin" 'round in circles
an' steppin' an itsilf instid iv goin'
ahead dacintly about its business.
"Whin th' suffragists had thim gcin'
good—whin they'd made ivry wan
ravalize that th' world coulfi'nt git
along at all wit'out wimmin outside
iv th' home as well as in it —shure.
they announced that jist to show
what good sports they were they'd
call th' strike arff an' let it go at
that.
"It was a gran' bluff. They had no
more intintion iv callin' th' strike
than I hev this minute iv jumpin' in
th' stove. There was no nade fir
thim to go through wit' it. Just wan
hint iv it was enough an' to spare.
Th' mere talk iv it made th' public
see a great, bright light—people
could'nt hilp but 6ee that woman's
place was no longer in th' hom& ont^
An' whin they tumbled to this fact,
bang—all the argumints against giv
in' wimmin th' vote wint driftin' away
in smoke.
"But as I was tellin' ye, 'Votes Fir
Wimmin' will win in Pennsylvania
an' we don't avin nade to think iv
strikin' here. Shure, th' min iv
Pennsylvania see th' wimmin workin'
beside thim an' all around thim.
They know they're naded to make th'
wheels go 'roun'. Ivry man I meet,
whin I'm out clanin' by th' day, tells
me. that. All iv thim rayalize th'
justice iv th' demand iv 'Votes Fir
Wimmin' an' they're goin' to give
thim to th' workin' wimmin an' all
th' ither wimmin iv this great Com
monwealth be passin' th' suffrage
amindmint an Novimber 2."
JACKSON ENDORSES
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
State Commissioner of Labor
and industry Says it Will
Mean Another Great Advance
in Human Liberty.
Dr. John Price Jackson, State Com
missioner of Labor and Industry, said
in a recent interview at Harrisburg
that he believed that a great majority
of the men of this country had come
to the conclusion that women should
be given the right to vote. He said
that he himself had first learned the
justice of suffrage as a boy at his
grandmother's knee, and that his con
tact with the hundreds of thousands
of women wage-earners of this State
had since confirmed his belief that
suffrage will mean another great ad
vance in human liberty.
"If I possibly seem to put this
point in unduly strong language," he
said, "it may be because I can look back
for some third of a century and see
my Quaker grandmother in one of the
old farm houses in Chester county,
reading Wendell Phillips, Lucy Stone,
Harriet Beecher Stowe and other adr
vocates of human emancipation. I
still hear her telling us boys in no
uncertain tones that woman is the
equal of man, and that woman, in the
name of Justice, should have an equal
right to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. Though she contended
that this could be accomplished only
by giving women the vote, and though
she was an important factor in one
of the underground railway stations
for freeing the negroes, she a
good wife, an excellent housekeeper
and a magnificent grandmother.
"Since the time of my grandmother
conditions have changed, and even
in that short period much of the
industry at that time carried on
in the household has been trans
ferred to the mill or the office
This has made it more and more
necessary that women shall have
greater power in the control of
conditions that affect their lives. There
seems, therefore, to be more reason
why women should vote now than ill
the days of my early tutelage."
Why not make intelligence rather
than sex the supreme test of citizen
ship?— Hon. John W. Abercrombie, of
Alabama.
Where Was Wa'ea?
S|>eneer Leigh Hughes. M. P.. fells
of the following amusing experience
He was once passing the war office
building in Whitehall when his com
panion. a Scotchman, pointing to the
, emblematic devices engraved nver the
door, indicated the Scotch thistle, the
English iion and the Irish harp
: "Where is the emblem of Wales?" ask
l ed his friend "Oh." Mr Hughes re
plied. "I expect there is a leak 'c
the roof."—London Express.
Due to Big Acreage.
The increase in the wheat crop is
practically entirely due to the increas
ed acreage under cultivation this year,
as the average yied ior acre is ex
pected to fail slightly bo low , bat of
last year, being put at 10.3 bushels to
the acre, where last year's yield was
iO.G bushels to the acre.
The corn crop, like the wheat, is
threatening to pass another memorable
mark by turning out 3,000.000.000 bush
els. the advance estimate now being
3.918,000.000 bushels. This is uu in
crease over last year's yield of 245,-
000.000 bushels. Marketed at GO cents
a bushel, this crop will be worth $l,-
750,800,000 to the country.
The expansion of the corn crop is
due at once to increased acreage under
cultivation, and to a better yieid iter
acre, the acre yield having been in
creased. in spite of the wet weather,
from 25.8 bushels to 2G.7 bushels. This
crop will probably represent close to
three-fourths the world's total produc
tion.
The oat crop, the third of the three
great leaders, has increased over last
year's record by nearly 25 per cent, the
figures being for this year 1,402.000,000
bushels; for last year. 1.141.000,0000
bushels. Placed on the market the
crop will bring, it is estimated, about
J $841,200,000. Thus these three crops
alone represent a marketable addition
to the nation's wealth of nearly $4.-
. 000,000.000.
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Ypres in England.
We have the name of Ypres in Eng
land—in that of the Ypres tower at
Rye, in Sussex, though local talk
knows nothing of its proper pronunci
, ntion and broadly calls it the "Wipers
tower." It is a twelfth century budd
ing. the oldest secular building oi all
i the Cinque ports, and was at one r :ne
j the only stronghold of the town, tli > igh
j later walls and gates were built. The
• reason for its name is to be found in
1 the commonly accepted statement that
it was built by William des Ypres.
earl of Kent.—London Globe.
"Is It Possible?"
Prince George of Denmark was nick
named Est-il-possible by James 11. i;
is said that when the startling events
of the revolution of IGBB succeeded one
another with breathless rapidity the
emotions of Prince George found vent
in the repeated exclamation. "Est-il
possible?" King James, enumerating
those who had forsaken him. said,
"And Est-il-possible has gone too!"
A Lamblike Lion.
"Well, did you have that social lion
at your reception that you were tell
ing me about?"
"Oh. yes. He was there."
"And did he roar?"
"No. His wife was also present, and
he could only bleat" I—Birmingham 1 —Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Our First Silk Factory.
Ohio was the first state in the Union
to engage in the manufacture of silk,
according to Dr. William C. Mills of
Ohio State university.
"The first silk factory was erected
at Point Pleasant in 1841 by John W.
Gill and Thomas White," said Dr.
Mills. "These men planted twenty
five acres in mulberry trees and began
the raising of silkworms the following
year. Dress silks, ribbons, silk velvets
and figured silks were manufactured.
The buckeye burr in light buff was the
first pattern woven. A vast pattern
from this piece was presented to Hen
ry Clay, who also wore a suit of broad
cloth made in a Steubenville factory.
Since 1877 not a yard of cloth of any j
kind has been made in Steubenville,
although at one time there *** ere twelve
woolen, cotton and silk mills located
there."—Baltimore American.
The Sublime Porte.
The phrase "the sublime porte"
arises from an aspect of the sultan's
capital. The French words "sublime
porte" are derived from "porta subli
ma," meaning "the lofty gate." Con
stantinople city used to have twelve
gates, and near one was a building
with an imposing gateway called Bab
i-Humajun. In this building resided
the grand vizier, and there also were
the offices of the chief ministers,
whence all the edicts of state were is
sued. The French phrase was adopted
because at the time French was the
language of European diplomacy
Restricted Freedom.
One of the funniest things in the
world is the self conscious look of em
barrassment on the face of a distin
guished visitor when lie receives the
freedom of a city and its key. which
he knows won't even admit him to a
five cent moving picture show.—Phila
delphia Inquirer.
A Facilitztor.
Impatient Guest—Waiter, I must
ratcli a train, and I'm in a hurry.
What are the chances of my getting
served at once? Waiter—About one to
one. sir. Impatient Guest—l get you—
sl to one waiter. Here you ar?! Now
slide!— Exchange.
LIFE'S PURPOSES.
Life' s purposes are the attainment
of personal perfection and to help
in the whole life of the world. Men
are given their lives and the possi
bility of dying natural deaths only
on condition that they serve the life
of the whole world, whereas the
suicide exploits life as long as it is
agreeable and refuses to serve the
life of the world as soon as it be
comes unpleasant, ignonng the
likely fact that His service began
only at that moment when his life
became burdensome. Every work
is at first unpleasant.—Tolstoy.
Puzzled.
An old settler down Nola Chucky
way when the Paint Rock line first
began to run through his district un
dertook to explain the workings of the
steam engine to a little crowd of
friends. As he talked a train ran past
the station ami then backed lip. This
procedure of backing quite flabbergast
ed the old settler.
"By gosh, boys!" he confessed. "1
kin understand how the engine pulls
the cars, but I'll be busted if I see how
them cars pull the engine."—Exchange.
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YOU KNOW HIS NAME.
An Old Verb.
To laze is an old verb. In Samne;
Rowlands* "Martin Markall," IGIO, we
are told that "loyterers laze in the
streete. lurke in alehouses and range
in the higbwaies." The word occurs
I believe, in some of Mortimer Collins'
lyrics:
But Cupid lazeth 'mongst the faiery
lasses.
Whose clere complexion he oft sweareth
passes
—London Notes and Queries
Anchovi 3s.
The delicious little fish called the an
chovy is found in large quantities in
the Mediterranean sea and also on the
coasts of Spain. Portugal and France,
where extensive fishing operations are
carried on during the months of May.
June and July.
A Far Cry.
Ella—Miss Antique says she wishes
she could step to the phone and call
up her happy college days. Bella— lf
she did she'd have to employ the long
distance phone. —Florida Times-Union
Nothing hut tlie harmony of friend
ship soothes our sorrows. Without its
sympathy there is no happiness on
earth.—Mozart
Presence of Mind.
Young Arthur, the pride of the faini
ly, had been attending school all of six
weeks, and his devoted parent thought
it was high time he should find out
how tilings were running. So he asked
one afternoon:
"And what did my little son lean:
about this morning?"'
"Oh, a mouse. Miss Wilcox told us
all about mouses."
"That's the boy. New. how do vot
spell mouse?"
"It was then that Arthur gave prom
ise of being an artful dodger. Hn
pTh sed meditatively for a moment,
then said:
"Father, I guess I was wrong. It
wasn't a mouse teacher was telling us
about; it. was a rat."—Harper's Maga :
zine.
Couldn't Blame Them.
Papa had a grouch, and an atmos
phere of deep gloom settled ever the
family dinner table. Even little Bobbj
felt that something was wrong, but he
had to talk or burst and he preferred
to talk.
"Daddy," he asked, "why did they
throw the tea overboard in Boston har
bor?"
Daddy twirled the spoon in his cup
while he thought up this mean thing te
say: "If it was anything like this stufi
they certainly had a mighty good ex
cuse for throwing it overboard."
Having got this remark off his chest,,
the old man felt so good that he actual
ly smiled, and before be knew it his
grouch was gone.—St. Louis Post-Dis
patch. I
[ Barefoot Boy "j
Barefoot boy in the far green land.
Bearing a. fishing po'.e in your hand:
Barefoot boy in the old and still
End gate pool at the back of the mill;
Barefoot boy, with that careless swing.
Owner of Arcady, summer's king.
Tyrannous monarch of valley and hill.
You we welcome and you we sing.
Thanking the Lord that there's boyhood
still
That smiles oblivious to everything!
Barefoot boy—who are makin* eart>
A place of joy and a place o. .cirth;
A new domain for the vision life,
Softening ami sweetening ti zurden c
strife.
Bringing the sunshine to hea 'hat ache.
Lifting the souls t!...t are it: rife *
Mad struggle .-.ml conflict \ s!n snc
truth;
Up to a service for all men's sake
In the deathless combat life makes for
truth.
When there's so much more than the
truth at stake!
Barefoot boy, in the sunbright lane.
You are creating us over again;
You. with jour whistle, your freckle**
face.
Your wild abandon to native grace
Of movement and action and .-orig nr."
fz It>e—
Child of the blossom and bird and tree
King of the woodland, and friend of
stream.
God of the morning of vision to be.
Knowing your power a, ' keeping your
place
the sake of the song z j stnl'
and the dream
trvJ the hope of the spirit t set tit
free!
—Ba! Sun.
U. S. FLAG NOW FLYING
ON 2.768 OCEAN VESSELS.
New Register/ Law Sets Record Not
Touched Since 1E63.
The American flag now floats over
more skips in the loieign trade tiiau at
any other ... e sin e 18G3. and the
United States is pressing close on
France and Norway as a maritime na
tion.
Figures by the department of com
merce show a record increase in Amer
ican shipping for the year ended June
30. On that date there were registered
in the foreign trade 2.7G8 ships, totaling
1.813,775 gross tons, an increase of 3G3
ships and 737.G23 tons for the year.
Assistant Secretary Sweet of the de
partment of commerce said:
"This is about triple the increase in
registered tonnage for anjr previous
year in American history. Our reg
istered tonnage is now ir.fcb greatei
than at any time since IS3K, when wf
had 2.023.114 gross tons In foreigr
trade. It is many times mo& efficient
however, as the steam toannge no*
amounts to 1.273.007 gross tons, while
in 1803 it amounted to only 133.215
tons. \
"The increase from the ship regis
try act of Aug. IS, 1914, to June 13.
1915. was so rapid that tonnage under
the American flag now employed in
foreign trade is nearly equal to such
tonnage under the French or Nor
wegian flag. British tonnage, of
course, is more than tenfold greater."
The increase is directly dfle to the
enlarged commerce of this country on
account of the war and the retirement
1 of so many merchantmen of other na
tions.
WOMAN FINED $1,000,000.
Oklahoma Police Judge Gives Her
Ninety-nine Year Sentence Besides.
Police Judge Ed I. Williams, Mus
kogee. Okla.. fined Mandy Simon, a
Creek Indian woman, $1,000,000 and
sentenced her to serve ninety-nine
years in jail. She has been in the po
lice court virtually every week for sev
eral years.
Judge Williams said he set the tine
so high because he did not want her to
ever be at large again. The judge's
actions were recorded in the record
hooks of the police department, and he
was supported by Chief of Police Joe
Depew.
"Mandy has been a continual pest to
the city of Muskogee for years," said
Judge Williams. "She was always caus
ing trouble by getting drunk and dop
ing up. Counting all the times she has
been sentenced in this court, I would
estimate that had she served out all
her time she would have served some
fifteen years. I will see t> it person
ally that she spends the l- xxainder of
her days in the Muskogee jail."
On numerous occasions Wil
liams bad extended leniency Co the wo
man. Several times he 09t her posi
tions and released her from jail and
once got her a home. Mandy was re
leased by the judge on her last appear
ence in court. Aug. 10. However, she
came back to town Tuesday, got drunk
and was arrested.
Judge Williams believes he has as
sessed the largest fine ever recorded in
a municipal court, but also thinks his
action was warranted.
Traps In French.
A frequent trap in French for the
unwary is the difference of meaning in
similar phrases. For example, "faire
feu" means to tire a gun, while "faire
du feu" means to light a fire: "tomber
par terre" conveys the idea of falling
to the ground from one's own height,
whereas "tomber a terre" means to fall
from any height—in other words, to
tumble down and to tumble off. In
the same way "traiter de fat" means
to call a man a fop and "traiter en roi"
to treat him like a king.
The English bore may be expressed
in two ways—"un raseur" gives the
idea of an active bore and "une bas
sinoire" of a passive bore. London
Saturday Review.
CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT
ON NATIONAL DEFENSE
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sidered the problem may be
solved bt. . iiu x . h the least em
barrassnu r.i TO either the German or
American government by bringing
about iiis a dgnment to other dutiej
than that of military attache of the
embassy.
RffiSEiH BESNDS
Tilt SEAMEN'S LAW
Vessels Have iHGi Gone From
j Unoer Our Flag, He Says
New York, Sept. 13. —Andrew Furn
setli, preside t of the International
Seamen's union, the man to whom
Senator La i'ollette gave credit for
drawing up many features of the sea
men's law pa -ed by congress at its
last session, i -ued a statement calcu
lated to answer those who are now
advocating the rep< al of the law be
cause of its adverse effects upon
American shipping and the develop
ment of an American merchant ma
rine.
In his opinion the many recent
changes in ownership and routing*
are not attributable to the operation
of the seamen's law lut to the open
ing of the Panama canal.
"Now that the ves els of the Pacific
Mail company have actually been
sold," he says, "it is clear to all that
the threat of transfer to the Japanese
or Chinese flag \vj , more bluff. The
vessels have be n sold to an Ameri
can concern and will continue to fly
the American flag.''
He <-rys that while the trade in
which these vessels will be engaged is
problematical it i- reported that some
of them will tsike trans-Atlantic
routes while --hers will Lm placed on
the run from w York to San Fran
cisco byway of the Panama canal. He
thinks thp vcs-ch; now employed be
tween Sa T Francisco and ports in
Mexico. Central and South America
will cor* iue in that trade or will use
the P":;mre canal for trade with the
Atlantic roast of these countries.
STARLINGS MENACE FARMS
Bird is Greater Pest Than English
Sparrow, Say Ornithologists.
New York, Sept. 13. —The war
against the European starling, a bird
which bids lair to become even a
greater pest than the English sparrow,
has received a new impetus. The
bureau of biological survey of the de
partment of agriculture has often
recommended that the protection af
forded The birds in the various states
be withdrawn, but a few days ago two
citizens oi Montclair, N. J., secured
permits from the state fish and game
commission to shoot starlings annoy
ing them and this action may lead to
the abolition of the Jersey state law
which protects them in that part of
the country.
Starlings have spread as far north
as Albany, in this state, and with the
approach of winter, their roosting
time, it is probable that similar step*
may be taken against them here. Al
though the starling is useful to some
extent, inasmuch as it feeds on in
sects and does not destroy grain, it is
fond of small fruits, is a veritable
fruit pilferer and in nest building it
competes with useful native birds.
Few ornithologists hold that the
starlings are desirable aliens in this
country. The birds were imported
here from Europe* about twenty-five
years ago and their spread, through
out the eastern states especially, was
rapid. Fruit growers early branded
them as pests and spoilers of crops.
FAVORS SCHOOL WAR COURSE
Are We Going to Lose Happiness le
Conflict? No! Says Mr. Taft.
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 13.—1n an ad
dress before the business men's mili
tary instruction camp at American
lake William H. Taft urged military
training in schools and colleges. He
conLr.U'd:
"We ha***' happiness; we have
greater equ lity and a better social
rystem than any other country. We
are going to Th*>m in disastrous
war? No. and it is e ueh as yon who
will save us trom .-ue a face