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it Prices!
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Skirts at cost. Ladies’ and Misses’ Capes and Coats below cost.
Good selections and styles. Children’s Coats, $1.25 to $2.50. In-
fants’ Long Coats 75 cents to $2.50. Call early for best selections
at these prices.
Clothing And Overcoats!
We have good heavy Men’s and Boy’s Ker-
sey Suits at $2.75 to 5.50. Overcoats worth
$3.50 to 15.00 at 2.75 to 9.00.
Children’s Suits and Overcoats worth $1.75
to 6.00 at 1,00 to 3.00.
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the best.
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We have jobs in Shoes, Hats and Caps,
Wool Tam O’Shanters, Fascinators, Hoods,
etc., also
Heavy Wool Underwear,
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Shirts, Underwear, Dry Goods, Dress Goods, ete.
Few of Our Reduced Prices:
Men’s $5.00 Suits reduced to 3.90. Extra Heavy Men's
All Wool Suits that were $7.50, 8.50 and 10.00, now go at 5.-
90, 6.90 and 7.90. Men’s All Wool Black Clays that were
$10.00, reduced to 8.90. Fine Suits that were 12.00 and 14.-
00, we now sell at 9.50.
Fine Hats, Fine Shoes, Underwear, Shirts, Rubber Foot-
wear, Dress Goods, Dry Goods, Overcoats and everything in
our store for Man, Youth, Woman and Child, at prices away
down to make room for Spring purchases.
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WINTER ARRANGEMENT, IN EFFECT
SUNDAY, NOV. 19, 1829.
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The Blanks We Keep.
Tre Star has just added a large
stock of Deeds, Mortgages, Judgment
Bonds, Property Leases, Constable Sale
Blanks, Summons Blanks, Commit-
ments, Subpenas, Criminal Warrants,
Judgment Notes, Receipts and many
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save lots of writing. A full line of these
goods will always be kept on hand at
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“REGULARITY”
AND ITS MEANING
Quay Machine’s Example of Try-
ing to Get Democratic Votes.
REPUBLICANS REMEMBER THIS.
How the Fight Is Going in Washing-
ton—The Trusts All Trying to Help
Seat Quay—The Attempted Deal
With Clark, Demoerat, of Montana.
A Pen Picture of the Situatiom in
the Capital City.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Harrisburg, Jan. 23.—There have
been several sensations in Washington
during the past week in connection
with M. S. Quay’s attempt to break into
the United States senate with Gover-
nor Stone’s assistance. The principal
was the attempt of Quay to join forces
with the Demccratic senator, Clark, of
Montana, who is undergoing investiga-
tion for the most flagrant case of brib-
ery, according to the evidence, ever
presented to any legislative body. Mr.
Quay fs in need of at least eight votes
to secure his seat in the senate. His
attempted deal with Clark, of Mon-
tana, was to this effect: That if Clark
would agree to give Quay a certain
number of Democratic votes to help
elect him Quay in return would give
the Democrat a certain number of Re-
publican votes from among the men
who are Quay’s particular cronies and
who would not hesitate to vote for
anything or anybody to get Mr. Quay
back in the senate.
But the newspaper correspondents in
Washington got on to the scheme and
published it broadcast. It put a damper
on the Quay plan and hurt Clark's
chances among certain Republicans
who might have felt disposed to vote
for him. But it is a singular thing
that Clark, of Montana, who is being
investigated by a senate committee and
who, men have sworn, gave $10,000 a
head for votes, should join forces with
Quay, Republican from Pennsylvania,
several of whose warm personal friends
are out on bail in Pennsylvania wait-
ing trial for offering $5,000 a head for
votes.
Mr. Quay is setting a very bad exam-
ple before the independent thinking
Republicans of Pennsylvania by thus
dickering for Democratic votes to help
him out. His machine and his shout-
ers in Pennsylvania are going to make
their campaign this vear on the “reg-
ularity” platform. They are going to
denounce the anti-Quay Republicans
for joining forces with Democrats who
believe in beating Quay, and brand
them as kickers and “irregular.” That
is what they will do in Pennsylvania
while all the time in Washington Quay
is straining every nerve to make deals
with Democrats for votes and thus
save himself from political oblivion.
If Quay’s case is clear. and the Repub-
lican party is so much in love with him
as his friends try to make out, it is re-
markable that he should have to go
down on his kners, metaphorically, tJ
bez Democratic votes and assistance.
It is well for Republicans who think
for themselves to bear these things in
mind. The Quay machine is always
“regular” when it is not irregular.
When it suits its purpose to buy or
trade Democratic votes, as it did in
Philadelphia three years ago, when it
made a deal with Democrats which
cost McKinley 30.000 votes, it does not
hesitate to get them. It is a notorious
fact that Quav controls the Democratic
vote in Philadelphia through his lleu-
tenants. and Zot all the time his shout-
ers and moutnpieces go up and down
the state crving alcud for “regularity”
and demanding that Republicans stick
to the partv., which of course means
sticking to Quay.
But the Republicans who are Repub-
lcans are not beine deceived by any
such clantrap. They have defeated
Quay and ther are going to see that
he stays defeated. And if it is necessary
to call in the aid of.all honest men ir-
respective of party to keep the machine
under control and keep Quay out Gi
the senate they are more than likely
to do it.
Every trust and monopoly in the
United States is workinz tooth and
toenail to seat Quay. The Philadel-
phia North American, in one of its
Washineton dispatches on Thursday
last. said:
“The Standard Oil company is not
the only corporation which has its
agents scurrying about Washington
trying to drum up enough votes to
land Mr. Quay in the United States
senate. That company’s emissaries are
active enough, but there are others
representing scarcely less wealthy and
influentiz! interests who haunt the cor-
ridors of the Capitol. the Pullman Pal-
ace Car comnany being one of those
that have joined hands with Standard
Cil crowd inthe prosecution of this end.
“Onc senator said today that the
pressure that is being brought to bear
upon wavering members of the upper
house of congress was something ter-
rific, but that so far little progress has
been made by the corporation agents
“in the enemy’s country.”
This is interestinz news for farmers
and the plain people of the state. It
was only a couple of years ago that Mr.
Quay was parading himself before
them as “the man in the blouse,” who
was asking all other men in blouses to
vote for him. That was before he had
shaken the plum tree. Today Quay is
the friend of corporations, as he has al-
ways been. The reason the Standard
Cll company and the Sugar trust and
all the other trusts are for Quay is
because he has been of use to them,
and will continue to be of use to them
if he gets back into the senate. The
following extract from a leading Re-
publican newspaper briefly describes
the situation in Washington last week:
“The Quay lines are wavering. No
one knows this better than Quay him-
self. Rendered desperate by the situ-
ation, he has urged his henchmen to
greater effort. and they have responded
with alacrity. Around Washington
they go dashing in carriages, paid for
out of the funds of the corporations
that are making the fight for Quay,
looking up this man and that who may
possibly have some influence with
those senators who have the hardihood
to held out in the cause of decency
against those whe wou!d force Quay
into a senate seat in defiance of public
sentiment and in violation of the con-
stitution.”
————
CERTAIN Senators who are on record
in similar cases as opposed to the Quay
position are now prepared to change
their attitude and vote to seat the
Pennsylvania boss. The people of IIl-
inois learn with annoyance that Sena-
tor Cullom is one of these. If Senator
Cullom had voted differently on other
cases involving the same question of
constitutional law, his support of Quay
might be excused. But in changing
his position on a question of constitu-
tional law in order to accommodate an
offensive boss who is trying to thrust
himself on the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, Senator Cullom is not reflect-
ing credit on the state of Illinois. It is
to be hoped that ha will yet reconsider
and cast his vote with the opponents of
Quay.—Chicago Record,
ON A TANDEM TO "FRISCO. | ure to Philadelphia and now somebody
Exciting Experience of a Couple Who Pass-
ed Through Grantsville, Md., Last
Year, on a Bicycle Built for Two.
The following was written by Mrs.
Jack Williams, who, with her husband,
has just completed a trip from Phila-
delphia to San Francisco on a tandem,
says the San Francisco Chronicle. The
journey was the outcome of a $1,000
wager made by her husband that they
could cross the continent awheel with-
in ninety days, exclusive of Sundays,
starting penniless and earning their
way as they went. But they lost the
bet, for their journey took them a little
over four months.
“The way of the transgressor may be
hard, but it does not compare with that
of a wheelwoman from one side of the
‘continent to the other. My first real
scare was up in the Ozark Mountains,
about five miles out of Jefferson City,
which is midway between Kansas City
and St. Louis. Finding the mountain
roads impracticable for riding, or walk-
ing, we had gone fourteen miles out of
our way to reach the railroad track.
This brought us to the Gasconade
bridge and it was on_this dizzy eleva-
tion that a freight train disputed the
right of way with us. It was misting
heavily and we could not see through
the gloom far enough to discern an en-
gine, nor could we hear one for the
noise of the rushing waters below. We
decided to take chances. Gasconade
bridge is a third of a mile long, and of
part it is a drawbridge. On the middle
span a freight train thundered down
upon us.
One has to think and act pretty quick-
ly when in a crisis like that.
“Crawl under!” shouted my husband.
I made a dash for the open space and
swung over, bracing myself against an
abutment of the bridge. Jack held the
wheel over and swung beneath that
bridge, resting the wheel against the
abutment. I hung between the freight
train and the river. It seemed hours
rather than minutes, while the bridge
shook with the terrific weight that was
tearing over it. "All I remember think-
ing was, ‘What muddy water to drown
in” How we ever crawled up again 1
scarcely know. I was nearly dead with
nervousness and sat down on the bridge
in the rain to shed some very damp,
discouraged tears.
Through the mud we went to Kansas
City, where the cycling club received
us most kindly, and where we made a
small fortune—$3.15 over expenses—
selling photos. Such a time as we had
the night after leaving Topek.! We
were on a lonely road with absolutely
no shelter visible, not even a tree or
ditch. So we lay down by a barbed
wire fence with the cold prairie winds
sweeping over us. About 8 in the
morning we were so chilled that we got
up and walked until we found a white-
washed fence, from which the winds
drove us until we reached a haystack.
Few people can claim change of ‘hotel’
accommodations three iimes in one
night.
‘Bucking’ the Kansas winds, which
are small sized cyclones, to Denver,
Col.,, was a hard task. We made it
mostly to the unmusical accompani
ment of prairie dogs’ barks. One day
twilight found us at a dilapidated farm-
house, where we begged shelter, but
there was no barn to sleep in, so we
had to go four miles further in the
darkness, stumbling over prairie dog
holes. But we were warmly welcomed
by an oid Englishman, who fed us and
put us to bed Tia wheat bin. We had
to shove the chickens off that were
roosting on the edge, and, with a guilt,
over us, burrowed down into the wheat
and slept soundly.
I required a queer list of accomplish-
ments during my trip. Icould write a
new cookbook upon the possibilities of
a frying-pan, and am an expert at
climbing into haylofts and scrambling
down again. Sometimes I had to elimb
by way of horses’ backs, but the ani-
mals never kicked. I think they must
have had an instinctive pity for a woman
whose boudoir was a barn. Once I
gave an old horse the scare of his life
though, by suddenly dropping from over
head into his feed box.
A curious accident to the wheel oe-
curred seventy miles or so the other
side of Denver. We were riding fast
down a steep hill that had a washout at
the bottom, my husband using his foot
for a brake. He stopped so suddenly
that the top of the diamond broke right
at the head. We rode on without dis-
covering this until the next morning,
and then walked eight miles tothe next
town, where a blacksmith mended it
with a piece of wire and a clip from a
carriage wheel, after which we rode
forty-three miles into Denver. The
peculiar nature of this accident caused
considerable interest among wheelmen
in Denver.
Denver proved our Waterloo, for af-
ter leaving there we ran into snow-
storms that made travel impossible.
We did not reach Cheyenne on account
of bad roads after the snow until the
eighth day after leaving Denver. It
was this that lost us the wager. But
we hastened on, sleeping sometimes in
cold stationhouses, again under shelter
made of railroad ties or in sheep-herd-
ers’ wagons and dugouts. Through the
desert or dodging loose engines around
the Rocky Mountain curves, or roosting
like turkeys in a dripping tank house,
we managed to keep alive, and finally
reached the snow-sheds in the Sierra
Nevadas.
I shudder when I think of those aw-
ful tunnels, especially Nos. 13 and 86,
the latter ending at the summit, 7,017
feet above sea level. There is room in
them to get off the track, but the re-
verberations are so loud and incessant,
the darkness so intense and the trains
glide down grade so silently because
they need no steam, that to walk
through either tunnel is to enter a
chamber of horrors.
At the expiration of our time we
were 180 miles from San Francisco, in
a snowshed. We telegraphed our fail-
else is spending our thousand dollars.
The night before reaching San Fran-
cisco we sought shelter in an old scow
near Benicia with a dozen Italian fish-
ermen, who at 5 o'clock woke us—we
slept on the floor—to give us black cof-
fee, in which one of them had surely
lost his pipe. At 11 the captain of the
Solano ferryboat gave us 50 cents and
we cooked our last camp meal in the
marshes, making tea of salt water.
I went armed with a 32-calibre dur-
ing the journey. Twice I used a gun
in self-defense, but had no serious
trouble.
I'm glad we are alive and in Califor-
nia. All I ask is that we be given a
chance to earn a living here.”
RIN
Frostburg Editors Disagree.
The Frostburg Mining Journal and
the Frostburg Gleaner are having a hot
controversy over the advertising ques-
tion. The Gleaner advocates what it
calls the flat rate, viz: Ten cents per
inch, no matter how many inches of
space an advertiser contracts for.
The Gleaner argues that one inch of
advertising space is worth just as much
as another inch, and for that reason a
10-inch “ad” in the Gleaner would cost
as much per inch as a two inch “ad” in
the same paper would cost.
The Journal does not agree with the
Gleaner, and it terms the Gleaner’s ad-
vertising schedule a “phase of newspa-
per lunacy.” The Journal has the best
end of the argument, for reasons as
follows: It requires just as much la-
bor to set up a 10-inch advertisement
for one insertion as for ten insertions,
and for that reason a 10-inch “ad”
should cost less per inch or per inser-
tion for ten insertions than for one in-
sertion. To illustrate further, let us
liken the wholesale and the retail mer-
chant to the large advertiser and the
small advertiser, or in other words, to
the regular advertiser and the spas-
modic advertiser. The wholesale mer-
chant buys ten carloads of flour at 75
cents per sack, while the retail mer-
chant buys ten barrels of flour at $1.00
per sack. And mind you, one sack of
flour is worth just as much as another
sack of flour of the same brand. To
cat a long story short, any fool knows
that the larger quantity any article of
merchandise is bought in, the lower the
rate or per pound, yard, etc. The same
rule should govern advertising, espec-
ially so as in many cases there is more
type to set in a 3-inch “ad” than in a
10-inch “ad”.
However, we think in the Gleaner’s
case it is good policy to stick to the flat
rate of 10 cents per inch straight.
Why? Because the Gleaner is a small
paper and has but a limited amount of
advertising space to sell, and it is bet-
ter policy to sell a large number of
small “ads” at a high rate per inch than
to sell all its space to a few big adver-
tisers at a low rate per inch.
The publisher of the Gleaner is onto
bis job in adhering to the flat rate of
10 cents per inch, but that plan would
not work with a large country paper,
one that had a large amount of adver-
tising space to sell. The flat rate is all
right for a very small newspaper, but
for newspapers in general it would be
what the Journal terms it—a phase of
newspaper lunacy.
Salvation Army Man Arrested.
Lieutenant Robert Ryan, of the Sal-
vation Army, was recently arrested in
Frostburg on the charge of causing
turmoil and disturbance on the public
streets. He plead guilty of singing, ex-
horting and praying loudly on the
streets, and passing cards to the assem-
blage.
~ftyan was fined $1.00 and costs,
amounting to $3.10 in all. ~The fine was
paid by sympathizing citizens
arrest was caused by a numbei
ness men, who claimed that th
interfered with their business.
The arrest was proper and in
We have seen enough of the Salv
Army and its methods to feel just
in condemning it. A howling ban
Salvation Army people is very lit
better than a crowd of sputterii
drunkards, and both are public nui
sances that should be suppressed.
We are aware that some people will
argue that the Salvation Army will
seek souls in the slums and dens of
vice where the respectable churches
can not reach them, but they do not
state the case correctly when they
make use of that argument. The re-
spectable churches can reach men any-
where, if they want to, but there is too
much of the “I am holier than thou”
sentiment in the churches. Too many
church members are satisfied with
praying: “Lord, I thank Thee that 1
am not as wicked as some other men
are.” Instead of trying to get men out
of the slums and reforming them, they
stand back like the Pharisees of old,
while the howling Salvation Army
brings reproach upon religion by con-
verting men, not to true repentance,
but from on form of lunacy to another.
The Salvation Army, we truly believe,
is a hindrance to the Christian religion,
not a benefit. Some of the songs sung
by the Salvation Army are little short
of blasphemy.
Gowns for the Judges.
The Montgomery county, (Pa.) Bar
Association, by a unanimous vote, has
requesied that the Judges of that dis-
trict wear black silk gowns. It is also
recommended that all members of the
Bar and all attendants at Court rise
upon the entrance of the Judges and
remain standing until the Crier has
performed hisiduties. In this way it is
proposed to raise the dignity of the
bench and cause greater popular re-
spect for it. Undoubtedly there are
courts whose dignity is in need of ele-
vation, and lawyers and court attend-
ants who are lacking in respect for the
Judges on the bench. But it is doubt-
ful if simple ceremony on the part of
bar and spectators or the donning of
gowns by the jurists would change this
condition of affairs. As the Philadel-
phia North American remarks, “there
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SALISBRURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY, 25. 1900.
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are two ways by which courts can be
made so impressive that Judges shall
not seem like common men. One is to
place on the bench citizens so upright
in character and so learned in the law
that none will venture to question their
integrity, impartiality, and ability. The
other way is to have resort to theatrical
art and give to the Judge, whoever he
may chance to be, a make-up so ma-
jestic that the vulgar will be awed by
the sight of him.”
The same journal suggests that hon-
est and able Judges need no gowns to
lend them dignity, and that, if we are
to follow English court customs we
might as well get horsehair wigs along
with the gowns. An orchestra might
also be an improvement; and if an
orchestra, why not stage settings and
mural decorations and scales of justice
and other impressive paraphernalia?
And if the Judges of county courts are
to be gowned, why not police magis-
trates and Justices of the Peace, who
often find it hard to make those who
appear before them entertain proper
respect for the court? And if the ad-
ministrators of the law are to have
their special insignia, why not have the
Legislators and Congressmen, the peo-
ple’s lawmakers, similarly provided?
Their gowns need not all be black ; that
would be monotonous. Clothe some in
green, some in scarlet, some in sombre
colors, with due regard to appropriate-
ness and picturesque effect. The pos-
sibilities in this line are limitless. Our
statesmen might come in time to be
like those of China, from whom removal
of yellow jacket or feathers is the se-
verest punishment possible short of re-
moval of their heads.— Pittsburg Com-
mercial-Gazelte,
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The First Telegram.
Annie Ellsworth Smith is dead, and
it is said of her that when a girl of 17
she sent the first telegram ever dis-
patched over a regularly established
commercial line. The message, “What
hath God wrought,” has become fam-
ous. The telegraph, from being a mar-
vel, has extend to the remotest corners
of the globe and become onc of the
commonest necessities of mankind. Yet
it had its beginning in the life time of a
woman just dead,and who has not lived
to an unusual age, for she died at 75.
She might have looked over the aston-
ishing growth which the invention has
made and exclaimed again “What hath
God wrought,” for the invention of the
telegraph could be no more astounding
in the day of the first line than the
commanding importance of the electric
wire is now. The telegraph wire was
the forerunner of the telephone, and
probably of the entire structure which
rests upon the wire as conductor of
electric currents. The application of
the moving force upon the wire, which
was first made to operate the lever of
the receiver, was the beginning of that
greater transmission of power which
now drives machinery and serves in
some manner in every town and city
of consequence in the country. When
Mrs. Smith sent the first message from
Washington to Baltimore, South Africa
was months distant from the United
States and the Philippines no nearer.
The wonderful invention which she in-
troduced to the world has brought both
those sections into a range that is al-
most instantaneous, while there is no
such thing as distance now in this
country or between the two continents
so far as verbal communication is con-
cerned. And what has been wrought
in the progress of cutting out distances
has likewise been wrought in many
another direction in the same short
life time.— Pittsburg Ties.
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large sum of money, and as the so-call-
ed Anti-Imperialists have been very
diligent from the start in collecting
money for the propagation of their
views, the suspicion is not a remote one
that they sought to further their cause
and embarrass the government by em-
ploying the cable to let the Filipinos
know in the quickest manner possible
what was being said by the allies of
Aguinaldo in the Senate of the United
States. There is apparently nothing
lacking to show that the bullets which
killed Gen. Lawton and so many of
those who served with him were aimed
in America.— Pittsburg Times.
i —
It now seems to be a settled fact that
coal miners all over the country are to
have an increase of wages. The com-
panies have about all given notice that
they will pay an increase on April 1st,
and the miners iz their national con-
vention held recently at Indianapolis,
have decided to demand an advance.
This being the case, what is to hinder
prosperity from swooping down upon
the miners? =
i —
Tur preachers down in Kentucky
bave appointed a day to pray the shoot-
ing habit out of existence. It is likely,
however, that a little more hanging in
than more praying. If they want to
bring about better morals in Kentucky
by praying, they should back up their
prayers by firearms in the hands of the
troops, as Uncle Paul Kruger is doing
in South Africa.
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Iris not to be overlooked that the
Democrats who are preching against
the wroug which our country is engaged
in in fighting the Filipinos are doing
the most of their speaking at dinners
given in honor of that toughest, and
yet greatest, of Democrats and soldiers,
Andrew Jackson, who believed in ex-
pansion with a great big E—Dallas
News, ( Dein.)
St ea
Sovrnt Carorixa, it is estimated,
ranks next to Massachusetts in the
number of its cotton mills, and expects
to lead Massachusetts by the end of
1900. This is not exactly the sort of a
future for that locality to which Cal-
houn, McDoffie and the rest of the Pal-
metto State’s Representatives in Con-
gress looked in the old days. Yet no-
body in South Carclina regrets the
change in the conditions in that com-
munity. South Carolina is larger,
greater and wiser than some of her
distinguished citizens of half a century
ago supposed she would be by this
time. Tee change in her condition is
one of the marvels of the century.—Si.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Lrevrexaxr of Police todgers has
reason to wish that he had earlier
awakened to the wisdom of being an
honest man. Tor serving the Quay
machine as a ballot-box stuffer he has
become a fugitive, and his $1200 a year
job at Washington is vacant. Though
Rodgers may travel around in idleness
at the machine’s expense for a time,
it is no fun being a skulking criminal,
seeing in every curious glance the
threat of arrest. If Rodgers had to
live his life over again he would prob-
ably ehoose the hardest kind of honest
work for the poorest kind of a living in
preference to taking the risks of being
a Quay heeler, with ali thecmaluments
that the machine has to give in return
for crime committed in its interest.—
Philadelphia North American.
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Wives and Mothers.
I cannot close this paper without a
reference to the unjust laws relating
to wives and mothers, which disgrace
the statute books of most of the states,
and which should be annulled. Only a
very small proportion of the States of
the American federation allow the mar-
ried father and mother to be equal le-
gal owners and controllers of their mi-
nor children. Their legal ownership
resides in the father in most States,
and the mother who bore them, and
won them at the risk of her life in the
valley of death, is denied a share in
them. The laws of many States not
only give to the father the minor" “hil
dren, but the legal ownership of the
wife’s person and earnings, which prac-
tically reduces her to slavery. To the
husband is given the right of choosing
the domicile for the family, regardless
of the wishes of the wife. If the hus-
band dies intestate, the law divides his
property among his heivs, and very of-
ten in such a way as to cause great
hardship to the wife. These unjust
statutes are an inheritance from a long-
gone past, and were not formulated by
the legislators of the present. The ma-
jority of American husbands and fath-
ers are better than these laws and nev-
er enforce them, and many are entirely
ignorant of their existense. Still, their
influence is felt in the community, and
their practical results are always dis-
astrous to the home and the family,
when interpreted by men who lack an
ideal comprehension of the worth and
:otherhood and home.
oe —
ming when an exalted
~rhood will prevail,
Biden,
[The following is published by re-
quest and is respectfully dedicated to
those it hits.] a
Have you heard of the terrible Tamiiy
“They?”
And the dreadful, venomous things they
say?
Why, half the gossip under the sun,
If you trace it back, yon willjfind begun
In that wretched house of “They.”
A numerous family, so I am told,
And its genealogical tree is old;
For ever since Adam and Eve began
To build up the curious race of man,
Has existed the house of “They.”
Gossip-tgongers and spreaders of Hes,
Horrid prtople whom all despise!
And yet the very best of us, now and then,
Repeat queer tales about women and men,
And quote the house of “They.
They live like Lords and never labor,
A “They’s” one task is to watch his neigh-
bor,
And tell his business and private affairs.
To the world as large they are sowers of
tears—
These folks in the house of “They.”
It is wholly useless to Yollow a “Thy;
With a whip or a gun, for he slips aw y
And into his house, where you cannot go,
It is locked and bolted and guarded so,
This terrible house of “They.”
Though you cannot get in, yet they get out
And spread their villainous tales about.
fn seals under t
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com
tor never one
that state would work better results
nged to the house of “They.
—The Chosen Friend,