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PROGRESSIVE NEWS.
The long drawn out contest over the
Wilson-Underwood tariff bill is still
dragging wearily on in the Senate,and
despite the professed optimism of some
of the leading Democrats as to an
early termination, the end is not yet
in sight. The Republican standpat-
ters have been playing a peculiar
game. From the first it has been ap-
parent that they had no hope of de-
‘feating the bill, even if all of the so-
called ‘‘progressive’”” Republicans,
who have voted for many of its indi-
vidual provisions, should join the ole
gaurd against the bill on its final
passag. They have kept up their
chorus of wails from day to day.
Most of them talk as if they really
believe what they say. It is obvious
however that if they are sincere in
their predictions of woe, and desire to
turn what they describe as a Demo-
cratic blunder to their political ad-
vantage, the best thing they. could do,
from a partisan stand point, would
be to cease their tactics of delay and
permit the measure to become a law
because if it is to produce disaster the
sooner it gets to work in that way
the quicker and more pronouced will
be the reaction against it.
But it is extremely doubtful if even
# the most hide-bound standpatter, like
Senators Gallinger and Penrose, real-
ly believe that the measure will pro-
duce the commercial distress they
have so steadily prophesied. As a
B matter of fact, general business con-
ditions of the country are against
such a result. The steel trade, which
is universally accetped as the most
accurate business barometer, is un-
deniably prosperous, and itis so firm-
ly established that the leading men
in it have for several years openly de-
clared that it would not be affected by
even greater tariff reductions than
are contained in the pending bill.
Moreover, President Wilson has man-
aged most adroitly during the sum-
mer to discredit this standpat calam-
ity howling, and it now appears that
he has successfully discounted the
probability, if not the possibility, of
any material degree of fulfilmént of
these dire predictions.
The week has been unusually plac-
id in Washington and there was
only one flurry of excitement. That
was occasioned by an outburst on
the part of some radical Democrats
against certain provisions of the in-
come tax features of the tariff bill.
These radicals did not believe that
the bill as reported levied sufficient-
ly high tax upon large incomes.
The result of their protest was the
holding of a Democratic caucus, in
which an agreement was reached
for revision of that part of the
bill with a slight increase in the
rates of taxation on large incomes.
The new paragraph provides a tax
of 1 percent on all incomes over
$3,000, with a graduated surtax, by
which there is to be levied 1 percent
additional on that part of an income
exceeding $20,000 and not exceeding
$50,000; 2 percent additional on that
part of an income exceeding $50,000
and not exceeding 875,000; 3 percent
additional on that part of an in-
come exceeding $75,000 and not ex-
ceeding $1000,000; 4 percent addi-
tional on that part of an income ex-
ceeding $100,000 and not exceeding
$250,000 5 percent additional on that
part of an income exceeding $250,000
and not exceeding $500,000; and 6
additional upon all in excess of
$500,000. *
The Democratic Senatorial caucus
has also adopted an amendment,
submitted by Senator Clarke of Ar-
kansas, providing for a tax on cot-
on futures of 50 cents a bale, with
a stipulation that the tax is to be
refunded where it is shown that act-
al deliveries have been made.
Chis is intended to preyent specula-
ive gambling in cotton, which has
been so detrimental to the cotton
growers of the South.
It may be that the tactics of the
tand patters are inspired by the rec-
gnition of the fact that their proph-
bcies of disaster are false and un-
ounded and that they are really
eeking by this delay only to give
heir tariff beneficiary friends a little
Dnger enjoyment of the Payne-Ald-
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Culmination of an Old Romance
Looked That Way to Some
People.
By W. P. DUNN. .
“Well, James, what is it?” asked
rich Mrs. Tuckerman, testily. “I told
you I didn’t want to be disturbed. The
guests will be arriving in half an hour
and I must get things ready for
them.”
“lI beg your pardon, madam,” an-
swered the butler. “There's a young
person outside with a violin who says
she has an appointment with you.”
“0, it must be that Miss—what’s her
name?’ said rich Mrs. Tuckerman,
crossly. “Let her sit down in the hall
and wait until I'm ready.”
“Yes; madam,” answered the butler.
Half an hour later Mrs. Tuckerman,
flushed of face, emerged from the re-
ception room and found a slender
young woman, with a wreath of cop-
per-colored hair and timid demeanor,
waiting, a violin in her hands. At the
sight of her patroness she rose.
“Well, so here you are,” snapped
Mrs. Tuckerman. “I don’t know
whether I shall want you or not. It
depends on how tired my guests are
after Krissel has played. You had
better wait—you had better wait in
the cloak room, and I'll give you three
dollars extra to take charge of the
ladies’ wraps, because my maid hasn’t
come.” :
The girl felt the blood surge into
her face; then, remembering the sick
mother at home she bowed her head.
“Yes, I shall be glad to, Mrs. Tucker-
man,” she said.
“Good!” said Mrs. Tuckerman.
“James! Show this young woman to
the cloak room and instruct her in her
duties, And keep an eye on her if
you have the chamce,” she added in
a lower voice. “I don’t know about
that class of person, and I don’t want
anything stolen.”
“Yes, madam,” said James..
Mrs. Tuckerman’s reception was the
talk of the avenue, for Herr Krissel,
the famous pianist, had actually prom-
ised to grace it with his presence. And
every one thought it an honor to have
Herr Krissel, since he was an inti-
mate friend of the/ music-loving regent
of Bonn, where a lady who ranked so-
cially high above Mrs. Tuckerman
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Herr Krissel Was Short. Stout and
Bald.
Wafr=rns
had met him and taken him up. And
so Herr Krissel’s tour of America was
punctured with social triumphs. Had
these good people known it, however,
Herr Krissel was not at all conscious
of the honor that he was receiving,
nor of the reflected glory of the re-
gent of Bonn, which he showered over
his hostesses. He attended such func-
tions because he had always done so,
,and to his simple Teutonic mind all
whom he met were his equals.
“Yes, Her Krissel is really coming,”
said Mrs. Tuckerman to her guests as
they assembled. “You know whom I
mean—the great pianist, the friend of
the regent of Bonn. You know his
romantic story, don’t you?”
Then, before the other could reply,
Mrs. Tuckerman would plunge into
the often repeated tale of how, twen-
ty years before, when Krissel was a
poor music teacher, he had fallen in
love with the daughter of a rich land-
owner and secretly married her; how
the marriage was discovered, and the
count, furious at the discovery, had
him drafted into the army, where he
served seven years, hearing nothing
of his wife. When at last he was per-
mitted to return the count was dead,
the petty state had been swept into
the maw of Austria, and the war which
had devasted the land had obliterated
all traces of his wife. He had never
found her again. And so, not know-
ing whether she lived or died, he had
never married, but had devoted him-
self to his art.
“Dear me, how romantic!” exclaim-
‘ed the other invariably. “I am so anx-
ious to see Herr Krissel.”
* «Hush! Here he comes now,” said
rich Mrs. Tuckerman.
The first glimpse of the famous man
was admittedly disappointing. Herr
Krissel was short and stout and bald,
and if any romance had ever come into
his life it must have been fully twen-
ty years ago. Then, too, he acted as
naturally as though he had never been
in society before. He laughed loudly,
forehead
so that the
with
a red handkerchief;
guests, not knowing whether to resent
this or to admire it as a \oken of
genius, were somewhat at a loss what
to do.
But when at last Herr Krissel was
coaxed to the piano and took his seat
and began to play every chattering
voice was stilled. Under the magic
touch the piano awakened, the full
tones rolled forth as from an organ.
All eyes were fixed upon the player
when, suddenly ending in a crashing
chord, he rose from his seat and
bowed.
A: the end of the room the young
girl stood enthralled. At the first
sounds of the music she had stolen
‘from the cloak room, and now, clutch-
ing her violin, and wholly ‘oblivious of
her surroundings, she watched Kris
sel as one in an ecstacy. Krissel saw
the rapture in her eyes.
“Mrs. Tuckerman,” he exclaimed,
“will you not present me to that ydbung
lady with the beautiful hair?”
A woman seated near by tittered
loudly. She could not help it; this
was the funniest thing that Herr Kris
sel had done. But Mrs. Tuckerman,
perceiving the young performer, frown.
ed angrily.
“0, my dear Herr Krissel,” she said,
“you are mistaken. That is the cloak
room maid. She has no business in
here at all. I am very angry.”
“But the violin?” faltered Herr Kris-
sel.
‘“Well—I thought perhaps that as
the young woman had some skill on
that instrument she might possibly
play us something later. But now I
shall send her home at once.”
She walked hurriedly toward the
girl, but before she could whisper to
her to leave the room she found that
Herr Krissel was at her side. And
the famous pianist did a still funnier
thing than ever before. He put forth
his hand and tugged at a locket on a
slender chain of gold around the girl's
pretty throat.
“Where did you get that?” he ex-
claimed tragically. i
“It is my mother’s,” faltered the
girl, recoiling from the pianist in
something approaching terror.
“Your mother! You are a German?
Who is your father?”
“He is dead,” whispered the girl
“He was killed in the wars, years and
years ago.”
Everybody was hushed now, dimly
conscious of some impending denoue-
ment to this strange scene. Herr Kris-
sel wrenched apart the half shells of
gold, carved with the arms of Laufort.
Inside was a faded portrait—his own,
taken in Germany 20 years ago.
The girl saw the likeness now, as
she had half-unconsciously recognized
it before. Herr Krissell placed one
arm round her, with a Iook of infinite
tenderness and, without speaking a
word, he led her from the room.
And that was the funniest thing he
did that evening.
© (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.)
TELEPHONE UNDER THE SEA
New Invention That Promises to Be
of the Utmost Commercial Value
in the Future,
Long distance telephone calls and
conversation between continents is
claimed for the near future, as the re-
sult of the submarine telephone, in-
vented by an English engineer named
Williams.
The first demonstration test was
made recently from the Pacific main-
land to an island 11 miles away, a bare
iron wire being stretched the distance
and lying in naked contact with the
salt waters. Then over the bare wire
went the sound of human voices and
distinct conversation was kept up for
several hours.
This invention is said to overcome
two supposed basic laws of electricity.
The one which claims that any bare
wire conductor in contact with water
would be short circuited the minute a
current of electricity passed through
it, and the other which claims that it
is not possible to have an electrical
charge on a metallic conductor with-
out that conductor's possessing an
electrostatic capacity. Both the above
things, however, were accomplished.
The commercial value of the inven-
tion may be judged from the fact that
whereas it will cost the United States
-$400,000 to lay a new cable to Alaska,
according to present conditions, the
new invention would enable the work
to be done for $20,000.
Didn't Want to Take Chances.
I remember once hearing of a man
—a farmer he was—over in the Coun-
ty Down. He was a great one for in-
venting—always turning out great
ideas that were great failures. Natu-
rally, in a place like that he was the
“great joke” of the countryside. Well,
anyway, he invented a flying machine.
It was really a pair of wings made
from wire and hens’ feathers.
He took a year to do it—secretly.
But the night before he made his first
attempt to fly, being both a hopeful
and cautious man, he went round all
the cottages within reach, and after
sitting for a little while chatting, but
never mentioning his great invention,
he said, in an off-hand way, before
leaving:
“If any of yez sees a strange lukin’
burrd flying about the couniry to-
morra’, for the love ov goodness don’t
be shootin’ at it.”—The Bystander.
Breaking It to Him Gently.
“My dear nephew,” wrote a wealthy
old uncle, “allow me to congratulate
you on your approaching marriage,
and please accept from me the accom-
panying wedding gift. You will find
it extremely appropriate in the cir-
cumstances.” With much expectation
the prospective bridegroom opened
the parcel and found inside a large
book marked “Household expense
book.”—Tit-Bits.
.
LIFE'S V2ORTH ONLY
AS IT IS OF USE
for the investment of life?
These tens. of thousands of
boys and- girls who are crowding for
the first time to the doors of our
schocls and colleges came here te
learn how to invest their powers and
vears to the best advantage. Hach
has a gift in the hand—the gift of
a life and power which the world
needs and they alone can give. The
figure of Christ's parable holds. The
master of Life has called his servants
and given to each a sum to be used
in life's business—to one ten talents,
to another five, to others one or two.
Life is of no worth unless it is put
to use, The money that is merely
hoarded cramps the soul. The scholar
who thinks of learning only as ac-
cumulation has no reason to expect
useful or happy days.
the scholar must think of their work
as training for investment. The
teacher who best succeeds in kindling
the imagination and relating present
tasks to future purposes will accom-
plish most and earn most of the pu-
pil’s gratitude in memories to come.
Life's Real Value.
Just in these days of school comes
a world-wide reawakening of discus-
sion about the origin of life which
will work its way down in influence
to the minds of all our children. Just
now, also, we have that noble, but
mistaken action by which a great man
of Japan has taken his own life as
+ protest against the growing luxury
and carelessness of the boys under his
charge in the nobles’ school. Both of
these bring warning that life is to be
weighed in its qualities and not as a
thing of value in itself, They urge us
(0 make wise investment of our years.
The life that begins in such simple
forms tha the chemist is beginning to
believe that he can fashion it, is not
to be compared in value with the life
which the boys and girls*are learning
to invest for the good of others and
their own power and joy.
Quality Above All
These discussions which seem to
call in question the value of life in
.tself considered, have this to say
to all of us—that quality is the great
thing after all. Suppose the chemist
tucceeds in putting together the form
which life, as we say, inhabits, so
that it moves, jt feeds, it renews its
tissues, it divides and multiplies. Be-
tween that simple form of life and its
aevelopment into the lowest type of
man, there are millions of years of
struggle and endeavor, running
through uncounted millions of separate
lives. Before the lowest savage could
rise to the level of the American
schoolboy’s opportunity there were in-
numerable years and uncounted lives
of struggle and self-sacrifice. Of all
these years and lives we are the in-
heritors. It is the fruit of these strug-
gles and savings which we are learn-
ing how to invest.
If we invest selfishly and unwisely,
we are bringing all the efforts of the
ages in our behalf to naught. We are
defeating all the winners of these
countless battles. We are disappoint-
ing God, our Heavenly Father, and our
fathers and mothers upon earth, Such
splendid attalnment, measured by
such countless years all whose patient-
ly accumulated treasures of power
and quality are trusted to their hands
for investment! Shall we fling back
into the gulf of darkness whence it
came? Or shall we take our part in
the advancing multitude of those who
are studying how to invest their lives
for God and for their brothers?—The
Congregationalist and Christian
World.
HAT is our education but a
W preparation and a guidance
Turn Sorrows to Service.
Don’t let your sorrows stagnate;
they will turn your heart into a fen
of bitter waters, from which will
sprout the rank rushes of self-ill and
rebellion against God. Turn yowr sor
rows outward into currents of sym:
pathy and deeds of kindness to other
people, and they will become a stream
of blessing. A baptism of trial may
be your best baptism for Christ's ser
vice. Working is better than weeping;
and if you work on till the last morn-
ing breaks, you will read in that clear
light the meaning of many of your
sorrows.—Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D.D,
Ra
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The school and
of the
CHURCH SERVICES.
Evangelical church, L. B. Ritten-
house, pastor—Sunday school at 2:00
p. m. Preaching at 7:30 p. m.
Methodist Episcopal church ser-
vice, Rev. G. A. Neeld pastor—Ser-
vices at 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 9:30
Epworth League at 6:45 p. m.
at 7:30.
: Church of the Brethren—Preaching
10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
School, 9:30 a. m. Christian Workers
Meeting at 6:30 p. m, Bible Class,
Saturday evening, 7;30 p. m. Teacher
Training classes meet Monday evening
7 and 8 o’clock, respectively. Sunday
School Workers’ Meeting, Friday
evening, 30th inst., at 7:30. -
At the A. M. E. Zion church Sun-
day School at 3:00 p. m. Preaching
at 11 a. m. Christian Endeavor_ at
7:46 p. m.
Evangelical Lutheran church, J. A.
Yount, pastor— Sunday ‘school next
Sunday at 9:30 a. m. Morning ser-
vice 10:30. Evening services 7:30.
Luther League, 6:45p. m. Mid-
week service Wednesdny 8:30 p. m.
S88. Philip and James Qatholic
church, Rev. J. J. Brady, pastor.—
Mass next Sunday 8:30 and 10 a. m.
Wilhelm Reformed church—E. S.
Hassler, pastor—Haryest Home Ser-
vices will be held on next Sunday at
10 a. m. The usual Sunday school
seryiceffat 9. a. m. Everybody wel-
come.
Brethren Church:—H. L. Gough-
nour, pastor. —Preaching seryices
on September 14th, both in the morn-
ing and evening in the Meyersdale
church. Sunday school and Christian
Endeavor at usual hours. All are
invited.
meer ese.
THE POOREST OF ALL PEOPLE
Natives of the Arctics Who Have
Enqugh to Eat Are Considered
Very Fortunate.
I have not known so poor a winter
during the whole of my stay among
the Eskimos (now 22 years), says a
writer in the Christian Herald. While
the coast is ice-bound, the days short,
snowstorms frequent and the ther
mometer often 40 degrees below zero,
it is not possible for the Eskimo to
do much to secure a living. One way
for the women to produce something
was to cut holes through the sea ice,
which reaches a thickness of six fuet,
and there they stood fishing for rect
cod, most days securing only between
five and ten fish. The mission en
leavored to help, but poverty was so
general that all resources were taxed
tr. the utmost.
An outsider has no idea of what
poverty among the Eskimos means.
At. the best of times the wants of an
Eskimo are few and his food con-
gists of the coarsest of substances.
Seal walrus and whale meat form a
large part of their diet, and the blub-
ber of these animals serves in the
place of pork or butter.
In China the famished inhabitants |
subsisted on roots or some inferior
vegetation, but here the vegetable
kingdom has nothing to offer. The
earth is frozen and ' deeply covered
with snow and ice; the birds have
gone south and one might walk for
miles without seeing a living crea-
ture. At the same time it is of in-
terest to know even these primitive
people have for ages found a kind of
substitute for food somewhere. Along
the beach, which is known to have
plenty of seaweed, holes are cut
through the thick ice and the sea-
weed and mussels pulled up through
the holes, and it is on record that the
Eskimos have sustained life on this,
one might say, refuse of the sea, dur
ing the long winter months.
The Eskimo has no word for “God”
in his language, and it has been fitly
marked that the very austere aspect
of life may have helped to exclude
the conception of a superhuman
benevolent Being from the beliefs and
superstitions of these people of thy
Arctic.
Question of Economy.
He—*"“We must economize. Suppose,
darling, that you try your hand at
making your own clothes?” She—
“Oh, George, dear, I could never do
that. Suppose I begin by trying to
make yours?”
Lvs
Politics and Friendship.
“Have you decided how you are go-
ing to vote?” “Yes; but let’s changs
the subject. There's no reason why
you and I should not continue to be
friends.”
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Tribute to American Sailor.
By all who know him, it is cuomee-
ed that the American sailor is a clears
and thorough athlete. He takes m
deep Interest in anything he tackivss,
and so, to make his athletic endeavoss
correspond with his otherwise high
standing, he goes in: for clean wor,
and if he wins he is modest and if lhe
loses he is the first to congratuiisis
the winner.
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Pretty Compliment.
The Disraelis were visiting Strate
fleldsaye in the time of the old duks
of Wellington. Going up to the bed
room, Disraeli found his wife and hae
maid moving the bed from one sids ali
the room to the other. When he fas
uired the reason, his wife sail:
ell, my dear, the duke sleeps on tik
other side of the wall, and if I Mes
against it I can boast that I hawm
slept between the two greatest men ma
Hnglend.”—San Francisco Argonani
“mang