Commissioners' 5tatement -OF THE- Finances of Jefferson County For the Year 1907. AMOUNT OUTSTANDING 1002, 1904, 1885, 106 AND PREVIOUS. Tear, District and Collector 1904 Barnett W. A. Wallace fl905 Barnett W. A. J al.ace 1905 Brookvllle John H. Shlck 1 1905 Clover N. A. McLaughlin 1905 Plnecreek Frank Walters ,1905 Polk A. L. Lockwood 11906 Barnett W. A. Wallace !jj6 Oliver J- A. Geist 1906 Plnecreek John Hatien 1906 Polk A. L. Lockwood 1906 Punxsutawney ...H. H. McHenry 1906 Reynoldsville Wm. Copping 1906 Wlnslow Amos Rtrouse 1906 West Reynoldsville. W. B. Stauffer County Poor Bond Btate I Dog It 3 64:8 4 41 ) 8 83 8 1 98 J t 175 23 87 60 44 07 29 00 190 04 85 95 85 95 17 16 9 90 123 82 70 17 70 17 123 06 28 17 164 99 66 49 65 49 . 27 79 4 95 13 40 IS 60 13 60 9 01 24 75 31 37 23 92 23 76 14 08 9 35 I 182 93 49 64 16 76 21 42 8 80 119 38 66 67 23 39 6 71 22 00 66 9S 89 99 21 90 8 05 87 40 231 23 67 98 19 74 9 40 8 80 167 73 79 86 36 89 12 85 6 50 2 63 139 07 384 97 203 06 81 63 271 15 23 3 03 1 04 1 82 2 02 AMOUNT OUTSTANDING FOR 1007. Tear, District and Collector Barnett H. L. Agnew Beaver A. F. Keitz Bell A. J. Grafllus Big nun A. G. Anderson Brockwayvllle G. W. NelRon Brookvllle E. O. Heaxley Clayville James Lnckard Clover J. 1. Hctrick Corsica J. F. Luther Eldred Wm. M. Wilson Falls Creek D. C. Smith Gaskill Geo. A. Keliar Heath John Paine Henderson John W. Hnag Knox O. C. Stewart McCalmont W. D. Wachob Oliver -..J- A. Uelst perry S. L. Stewart Plnecreek John Hatten Polk A. L. Lockwood porter Chas. Miller Punxsutawney H. H. McHenry Hose A. S. Klouso "Reynoldsville Wm. Copping v Bummerville O. 8. Sampler Snyder C. M. Frindle Svkesville J. F. Webber - Union .Q. C. Aaron Warsaw R- v v,.NV ell Washington -J- J- Sterrett Wlnslow ;Amrs Strouse West Reynoldsville W. B. Stauffer Worthville S. P. onderllng Young T. C. Haag ICounty Poor Bond State Dog $201 38 70 10 8 23 4211 14 00 I 12 6f 158 20 62 85 17 87 13 30 15 00 327 63 118 11 86 30 4 00 14 50 101 45 26 32 13 94 . 7 98 6 60 291 77 97 77 , 31 84 15 96 17 00 617 78 270 76 91 03 13 84 7 00 384 95 128 33 43 01 17 60 260 171 73 69 48 21 40 8 17 1 09 " ftS5 91 " i29 66 "ii'oi ' "4'64 '-80'60 197 79 66 82 . 22 42 8 08 16 00 129 72 42 95 10 89 11 37 19 50 14 13 4 10 1 84 2 34 4 50 605 35 202 14 67 21 113 76 86 64 301 93 97 41 82 75 9 90 41 84 855 06 2S5 24 93 70 13 13 94 20 409 40 161 74 63 34 11 69 17 60 147 50 65 65 17 35 23 66 25 60 444 90 148 36 49 61 14 64 60 00 218 76 72 88 24 31 6 70 8 00 81 99 60 48 21 30 2 45 10 50 1914 69 638 92 213 05 102 97 32 50 421 42 142 52 48 73 14 81 24 60 1222 94 365 03 116 66 13 63 80 60 68 04 23 62 6 81 16 67 3 01 85.1 4i 113 66 87 95 82 49 42 00 151 70 46 63 13 20 11 97 10 00 150 64 60 26 16 77 81 03 10 00 809 64 269 45 89 93 48 32 83 00 661 21 186 86 48 95 3 43 27 40 2424 74 815 13 271 64 61 97 161 60 133 10 45 28 14 43 10 68 20 63 6 83 2 24 1005 09 337 78 109 59 11 96 43 60 Receipts and Expenditures for 1O0T. RECEIPTS. Amt. In Treasury. ;8 15,916 31 Outstanding tax, 1905 and ,,., previous z,zl - Outstanding tax, 1906-7.... 71,198 10 Rented tax lien record i2 99 Unseated tax lien record.... 1,887 60 Interest J? Hotel licenses 1.03 ! . Redemptions .,2,11 Com. costs and fines 8,1 1 1 69 Returned tax JJ 67 Rent 6 00 8-4 State personal tax re returned 8.449 nn Jury fees 28 00 Miscellaneous receipts 618 99 Btate for primary election, June. 1907 1.874 07 State for premiums 1,088 00 Btate for fire and game wardens 155 90 Btate for Agriculture Asso ciation 900 45 Redemptions Rec'd Treas. Bale Hook 212 04 necelnts and Expenditures for 1007.. Poor Fnnd. RECEIPTS. Amt. In Treas. last settlem't.$ll,433 14 Outstanding tax 1906 and previous ; . 4.805 72 Outstanding tax 1907 15,804 45 Unseated tax lien record.... 472 25 Seated tax lien record 21 76 Amt. received for care of Inmates 2.229 26 Ptnte aid 3,554 13 Burial of inmates 144 40 Rent 21 00 Miscellaneous receipts 409 10 Total 107,014 12 EXPENDITURES. Assessors' bills Auditors' pay Allegheny Co. work house.. Appeals Auditing Reg. and Pro. ac counts Appropriation to G. A. R. for Memorial Day Blank books and stationery Bar Asso'n 1-2 Com. fines.. Bridge and bridge repairs.. Ballots, Feb. Election Ballots, Nov. Election Burial Indigent Soldiers.... Ballot boxes Commlsloners' Atty Court Cryer Clothing for prisoners .... Constables' - returns -. County Supt Care of Clock Commissioners Pay J. N. Kelly J. S. Burr : E. T. McGaw Commonwealth bills Discharged cases and In quests Commissioners' Clerk District Attorney Delivering ballots Directors' Association .... Dog tags Express Election billR, Feb Election bills. Nov Election booths Error in settlement 1906, order 151 Fuel and light Freight Furniture Fire and game wardens bill Fair association Head stones for Soldiers.... Insurance Interpreters fees Jurors Grand Petit Traverse ,' Janitors pay Jury Commissioners Jail physician Livery hire Medicine for prisoners Meals for jurors Markers for Soldiers graves Penitentiary bills Prothonotary's bills Postage and Box Rent Probates and fees Printing bills Primary election, Aprit .... Reform schools Repairs to court house and Jail Register and Recorder Repairing prisoners shoes.. Rent Road and bridge views Rent for telephones Refunding orders redeemed Redemptions paid Registrars of vital statistics Stenographers Supplies Sheriffs bills State tax Transcribing records Telephone Messages Talesmen Tipstaves , Traveling expenses and mileage Transferred to poor build ing fund Treas. per cent, receiving 890.865.77 -i Treas. per cent, paying out 881.296.64 Water rent Balance in Treasury ....... 4.809 64 276 00 1,929 00 87 14 50 00 200 00 914 81 536 36 19,602 62 266 00 84 00 6S5 00 260 00 250 00 219 00 1B7 CO 470 96 200 00 60 00 800 00 800 00 800 I0 5,400 11 294 48 1,000 00 1,250 00 59 05 100 00 27 00 23 64 1.968 30 1,794 64 91 60 112 00 1,563 43 16 14 44 75 91 70 900 45 90 00 163 91 214 50 1.040 27 2.902 04 1.739 66 493 33 141 79 - 60 00 202 25 60 62 265 90 40 00 1,419 66 706 10 392 77 1.555 00 2.174 56 1,490 67 639 65 643 81 47 95 13 15 100 00 760 60 246 00 77 23 213 63 709 75 1,208 65 257 89 8.725 38 8 599 42 212 75 25 20 22 00 385 76 76 10 20.000 00 1.138 07 1.625 93 327 60 2.741 65 Total 138,895 21 EXPENDITURES. Blacksmithlng 49 65 Burial lot 19 00 Cattle - 71 00 Commissioners' pay J. N. Kelly 400 00 J. B. Bnrr 4O0 00 E. T. McGaw 400 00 Commissioners' Atty., Stewart 250 00 Disinfectant 17 00 Drugs 276 23 Farming Implements 226 79 Farm 6,300 00 Freight and hauling 46 31 Furniture . , 354 17 Feed - 108 85 Fertilizer 76 60 Fuel and light 986 27 Groceries and provisions.... 2,928 19 Hospital bills Warren 3,588 25 Polk 275 00 Dlxmont 274 00 Wornersvllle 104 29 Passavant Memorial .... 37 60 Insurance 1,602 98 Livery hire 64 60 Outside relief 1,585 65 Orders of relief and Insani ty certificates 254 50 Organ for chapel 100 00 Pinecreek school district ... 6 40 Plumbing and repairs 666 61 Rent 37 60 Refunding orders 28 62 Shoes and clothing 809 27 Supplies 349 78 Seeds and Plants 98 28 Salaries Shields. Supt 800 00 Miss Shields. Matron.... 200 00 Elizabeth McCullough .. 415 00 Dr. Thompson, physician 300 00 M. M. Hnugh 660 00 Thomas Hctrick 300 00 Rev. Bartlott 60 00 Wages 624 21 Traveling expenses and trans porting limates 307 24 Telephone 4 80 Treas. per cent, receiving $27,462.07 843 28 Treas. per cent for paying out $25,142 24 502 84 Bal. In treasury 12,906 85 Total ..$38,895 21 General Statement. ASSETS. Poor tax outstanding 1906 and previous 971 08 Poor tax outstanding 1907.. 5,192 26 Unseated tax outstanding... 832 64 Cash in Treasury 12,906 65 Total $19,902 73 LIABILITIES. Nothing Assets over liabilities 19.902 73 Total ...$19,902 73 Poor nulldlnr Fnnd. RECEIPTS. To amt. transferred from county funds $20,009 00 To outstanding tax 1906 and previous 1,844 36 To outstanding tax 1907...., 6,297 27 To unseated lax lien record.. 157 63 To Seated tax lien record.. 10 81 To amt. from poor fund 4.095 40 Total $107,014 12 General Klstnnrat, ASSETS. County tax outstanding 1906 and previous $ 1,704 88 State tax outstanding 1906 and previous , 142 26 County tax outstanding 1907. 15.484 84 State tnx outstanding 1907.. 665 86 Unseated tax outstanding.... 2.601 89 Cash- In Treasury 2.741 65 Total .$23,540 88 LIABILITIES. Nothing Assets over liabilities 23,540 38 Total .$22,640 88 Total $31,403 87 EXPENDITURES. Bonds redeemed 25.600 00 Coupons redeemed 6.700 00 Treas. per ceni. receiving $7,309.97 91 37 Treas-. per cent, paying out 130,700.00 f.l 00 AUDITOR'S REPORT OP THE Finances of Jefferson County For the Year 1907. Total $3'-,406 87 General Statement. ASSETS. Poor building tax outstanding 1906 and previous 5C9 55 Poor building tax outstand ing 1907 , 1 707 85 Unseated tax outstanding ... 845 80 Liabilities over Assets 76.472 70 Treasurer's; Account. IRA J. CAMPBELL, Treasurer, In ac count with Jefferson County for the year ending December 31st, 1907. COUNTT FUNDS. DR. To am't In treasury at last settlement $15,916 81 To cash received on county tax of 1907 47,509 08 To cash received on state tax for 1907 7,507 85 To cash received on outstand-' Ing tax of 1906 16,181 73 To cash received on outstand ing tax of 1906 and previous 2,215 97 To am't of personal tax re- turned by the state 8,449 66 To am't of hotel license re ceived 1.035 00 To commonwealth costs re ceived 8,109 69 To am't of fines received.... 63 00 To am't of Jury fees received 28 00 To am't of rent received from J. W. Walker 60 00 To am't of redemptions re ceived from Commissioners 66 47 To am't of tax received from Treasurer's Receipt Book.. 68 67 To ain't received from Clarion county on Cooksburg bridge 34 49 To am't received from Forest county on Cooksburg bridge 75 74 To am't received of C. H. Blood on fees .-. 303 98 To am't received of J. B. Means on fees 204 78 To am't received of state for Primary elections 1,874 07 To am't received of state for premiums on weasles, etc.. 1,088 00 To am't received of state for premiums to Agricultural Associations 900 45 To am't received of state on forest fires 155 90 To amt. of redemptions re ceived 212 v To nm't received on unseated tax of 1906 1,887 60 To Interest received on un seated tax 13 31 To am't received on seated tax of 1904-5-6 73 99 SHEEP FUND. DR. To am't In treasury at last settlement To am't received on dog tax of 1907 To am't received on dog tax of 1906 To amt. received on dog tax ' of 1905 and previous 800 0 175 17 698 27 BO 01 Total t 1.661 63 CR. By sheep orders redeemed..., By refunding orders redeem ed By am't paid school districts By Treasurer's percentage for receiving $1,361.63 By Treasurer's percentage for paying out $1,318.15 By reserve fuud In treasury.. 826 75 18 10 973 80 17 01 26 86 200 00 vanm. do certify that In pursuance of the 47th Section of an Act entitled Act relRtlng to counties, townships, etc., passed the 15th day of April, A. D. 1834.' we met In the commissioners office In the Borough of Brookvllle, Pa., on the first Monday of January. A. D. 1908. It being the Blxth day of saltl month and did audit, adjust and settle the several accounts required of us by law, agreeably to the several sets of Assembly and supplements thereto, according to the best of our Judgment and ability, and find them as set forth in the above report. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hand and seals at the office .foresaid this 7th day of February, A. D. 1908. THOMAS D. ADAMS, (Seal.) ' G. H. 8MAIL, (Seal.) J. H. CARR, (Seal.) We further renort whereas many citizens renuest a more fully Itemized statement of the expenditures of the county we therefore present the fol- Invln ll an,l..,l hrl.ltrA ..nan... tnv 1007' Am't paid for stone work of Cherry run bridge $1,666 09 Am't paid for superstructure of Cherry run bridge 1,125 00 Am't paid for filling approaches of Cherry run bridge 150 00 $ 8,141 08 Am't paid for stone work of Burket Hollow bridge 81,241 57 Am't paid for superstructure of Burket Hollow bridge.... 1,125 00 Am't paid for filling approaches of Burket Hollow bridge.. 180 19 1,496 7$ Am't paid for stone work of Soldiers run bridge $1,747 88 Am't paid for superstructure of Soldiers run bridge 1,228 95 8.171 81 Am't paid for stone work of Beaver run bridge $1,360 15 Am't ptld for superstructure of Beaver run bridge 1.574 84 Am't paid for filling approaches of Beaver run bridge 146 61 Am't. paid on lawsuit regarding weaver run nriage . ?.; " Am't paid James B. Caldwell as bridge engineer 868 84 Am't-pald on bridge contracts for 1906................... 1,889 63 Am't of repairs on Pickering St. Btats bridge In Brookvllle 417 27 Am't paid for painting bridges 848 88 Am't paid for other bridge repairs 8,218 88 Total $79,095 40 LIABILITIES. Bonds-outstanding 75.000 00 Amt, due poor fund 4,095 40 Total $79,095 40 JEFFERSON COUNTY. SS: Pursuant to law, we the undersigned Commissioners of Jefferson county, publish tho foregoing statement of the receipts and expenditures of said cnun. j ty for the yea 1907, and also present ine sweii una jiaoiuiie ox tne county on the 1st dav of January, isok. Witness our bands and seals of office mis ii in oay or euruary, lues. J. N. KEI.LY, (Seal.) J. B. BARK, (Seal.) 10. T. DleUAW, (Seal.) Attest: Commissioners. A. Ii OALBRAITH, Clerk. Total $107,014 12 CR. By county orders redeemed. .$71,610 24 By refunding orders redeemed 77 23 By am't paid directors asso ciation 100 00 By am't paid County Superin tendent 200 00 By am't paid Btate Treasurer on personal tax 8,599 42 By redemptions paid 213 63 By am't paid registrars of vi tal statistics 709 75 By am't transferred to' poor building account 20,000 00 By Treasurer's percentage for receiving $90,885.77 1,136 07 By Treasurer's percentage for paying out $81,296.64 1.625 93 By balance in treasury 2,741 65 Total $107,014 12 POOR FUNDS. DR. To am't In treasury at last settlement $11, To am't received on poor tax of 1907 15, To am't received on poor tax of 1906 4, To am't received on poor tax of 1905 and previous To State aid received 8, To outside relief received for maintenance of Inmates of Cotinty Home 2, To am't received on produce of county farm To am't received for burial of Inmates of County Home... To am't received from rent.. To am't of unseated tax lor ' 1906 Te nm't of seated tax for 1904, 1905 and 1906 433 14 804 45 380 33 425 39 554 13 229 26 409 10 144 40 21 00 472 25 21 76 Total $38,895 21 CR. By orders redeemed for main tenance and expenses of in mates of Cnuntv l-Trima . . t10 70A ? By orders redeemed for pur- i-iiHKuiK real estate lor countv farm . R9id nn By refunding orders redeem ed 20 62 By Treasurer's percentage for receiving $27,463.07 843 27 By Treasurer's percentage for paying out $25,142.24 602 84 By am't of poor funds In treasury 12.906 86 Total $38,895 21 POOR BUILDING AND BOND FUNDS. DR. To am't transferred from COUntv account . . nnn nn To cash received on building " ' bond tax of 1907 8 297 27 To cash received on bond tax of 1906 j 4n gg To cash received on bond tax oi i:ua ana previous 424 38 ?'' of unseated tax for 1906. l-epolvAri . M To am't of seated tiii"fnr 1904-5 and 6 io 81 10 ami. aue fund 4.095 40 Total $31,405 37 en. BV Rm't of nnnr l,n,l. Rv e3d; V ' $26,000 00 By a tnt of poor coupons ro- . , , r lcmg-e tor receiving $7,309.97 91 3; By Treasurer's percentage for paying out $30,. 00.00 614 00 Total $ 1,661 68 Sheriff. Account. GRANT SCHEAFNOCKER, Sheriff. DR. To am't of orders drawn . ...$ 3,725 88 CR. By am't due at last settle ment $ 210 2C By boarding prisoners, 4962, at 60o per day 2,481 00 By 113 commitments at 60c each 56 50 By 73 discharges at 60c each 88 50 By removing 20 prisoners to workhouse and penitentiary 462 27 By removing 1 prisoner to reform school 45 E8 By removing 1 prisoner to warren 4U zv By drawing and summoning Jurors 208 29 Bv fees for attendlnir court 29 days at $3 per day.... 87 00 Bv court and election nrocla mations it 75 By extra care for Antonio Ala saro. 37 tiavs at boc Der dav 18 EC Bv fees on tines and costs col lected by sheriff 65 36 Bv bench warrant November term, laui 13 92 Total I 8,725 38 Commissioners' Account. JOHN S. BARR, Commissioner. CR. By one year's salary as Com missioner and poor director 1,200 00 DR. To am't of orders drawn.... 1,200 00 j. pi. K.t-L.11, commissioner. CR. Bv one year's salary as com missioner ana poor director 1,200 00 DR. To am't of orders drawn.... 1,200 00 is. T. McGAW, Commissioner. CR. By one year's salarv as com missioner and poor director 1,200 08 DR. To am't of orders drawn 1,200 00 Cummlsloner's Clerk Account. . A. E. OALBRAITH, Clerk. By one year's salary'. 1,(00 00 DR. To nm't of orders drawn.... 1,000 00 County Superintendent's Account. PROF. 1 MATNB JONES, County Superintendent. CR. By am't of vouchers filed... 200 00 DR. To am't of cash received from County Treasurer 200 00 Steward's Account. S. M. SHIELDS. Steward of County Home. CR.. By one year's salary DR. To am't of orders drawn .... 800 00 800 00 Matron's Account. MISS MYRTLE SHIELDS, Matron of county Home. CR. By one year's salary 200 00 DR. To am't of orders drawn.... 200 00 Jnnltor'n Account. GEORGE H. GROVES, Janitor. CR. By one year's salary 480 00 DR. To am t of orders drawn.... 480 00 County Home Physician's Account. DR. II. P. THOMPSON, Physician. CR. By one year's salary 800 00 DR. To am't of orders drawn.... 800 00 Jail Physician's Account. DR. W. W. MATSON, Physician. CR. By one year's salary 100 00 DR. To am t of orders drawn.... go 00 To balance due Matson 60 00 T"'"' 831.405 37 Total $ 100 00 County Solicitor's Account. A. B. STEWART, Solicitor. CR, By one year's salary 600 00 DR. To am t of orders drawn 600 00 ,Biii; ?.J'?ill','t,.T,r"""rr! ccennt with the Rand. School, Wat t'Mit Iw 11. . ' ,ne TwPS "1 UorougU. of Jcltcr.on DISTRICTS. Barnett Beaver Bell Big Run Brockwayvllle ... Brookvllle Clover Corsica Eldred Falls Creek Gaskill Heath Henderson Knox McCalmont ...... Oliver Perry Plnecreek Polk Porter Punxsutawney ... Reynoldsville .... Ringgold Rose Snyder Bummerville Bykesvllle Union Warsaw Washington W. Reynoldsville. Wlnslow Worthville .. Young Clayville Am't on hand and U c'd by Treas . C 0 o" JS ' u P- to 2 -el 0 Si c S ! S3 a- 0 "a js j J S $ 98 91 169 80 15 63 20 21 6 07 8 33 'i57-78 26845 16 58 6 83 4 60 'm'ii S i 9 ' 3 2 77 69 78 17 343 441483 42 207 541256 3S 101 95 90 74 414 42 562 96 104 781464 72 97 80 264 40 5 64 16 74 173 64203 99l 40.. 281220 03 1 791 276 51 78 89 32 169 09 5 64 291 79 293 23i 15 91 68 62 677 69 2 51 83 6 93 631162 66 91 1 73 277 46 663 48 . 73 62) 36 98 S3 tn t. 83 78 26 62 15 47 34 4 33 61 4 37 3 69 81 91 31 72 32 29 14 62, 26 91 63 53 97 41 12 94 34 77 11 60! 4 12 15 92 21 3C, 52 96 28 98 49 23 39 73 6 19 13 77 IK 45 33 08 63 66 10 93 48 49 3 421 83 17 40 78 Am't paid to Dis tricts In 1907 3 B ct ?! a o e a u B) 5 0 M o 0 Amount Due Districts B C 0 0 s a esa 3 n 15 161 55 45. 13 74 34 00 37 281 275 00 132 30 173 15 24 921 375 00 69 18179 10 68 85 75 24 90 00 356 61 30 28 61 06 104 97 90 00' 91 262 12, 74 84 360 29 395 12: 178 73 68 74 208 0 1 791 409 05 8 73 180 00 1 73 363 90 33 78 25 62 15 47 34 84 33 61 4 37 8 69 81 9 31 72 82 29 14 62 26 9 53 53 97 4 12 94 34 77 11 60 4 12 15 92 21 36 62 96 28 98 49 23 39 73 6 19 13 77 18 45 33 06 63 66 10 93 48 4f 3 42 33 17 40 78 83 751 15 53 6 07 141 93 8 14 4 601 185 31 40 31 68 44 48 36 83 10 414 42 29 64 7 80 5 64 173 64 48 67 181 0 78; 8 94 108 01 5 64 186 82 3 53 8 26 73-62 o o a u CO -a S M o 0 a 8, 103 85 20 21 9 33 126 15 6 83 346 17 63 25 108 421 77 28 15 901 202 67 59 60 85 67 16 74 135 25 11 96 293 23 15 91 68 62 268 64 2 51 174 84 2 86 319 68 '"os1 15 85 85 CO 08 JEFFERSON COUNTT, BS. : We. the uu.Jorsiar.ed Auditor of Jefferson County, In the State of Pennsyl- Total THOMAS R. ADAMS, J. H. CARR, $18,602 52 (Seal.) (Seal.) By Dr. Felix Adler. 04H 444O0 i44)4444) X P Preventive Medicine Ey Sir Frederick Treves. $. i I JL He Lies to His Wife 1 T By Winifred Black. 1 CUaitENT magazine takes up some valuable space discuss ing the subject of "Why men never tell the truth to women. That's easy enough to answer. . A man never tells a woman the truth If he can help it, because he hates a scene, and he knows he will get one if he hands her the plain, unvarnished truth without a little pink string around it to make it look rietty. Why does a woman tell a man. the truth? Becanfi Rh Vnnwa ha will make a scene when she does it, and that's the very thing she is after. Men nate heroics. Women love them. The best woman on earth would rather flcht with her husband than Bit Btill and look pleasant while he reads his paper and forgets all about her. tne meanest -man on earth would rather smoke his pipe in peace una think about the fish he didn't catch, last Summer than quarrel with any woman who ever breathed. If I had a husband who wouldn't nnarrel with me Rood and hard once in a while. Just to show that he cared whether I was cross or not, I'd divorce him and marry a Bengal tiger to get excitement Into life. a woman doesn't hate to hear the truth from the man she loves any more than man hates to hear the truth from the woman he loves he only hates the results worse, that's all. The only time a woman ever does hear the truth at all Is when some man tells It to her her father, her brother or her husband. The rest of the world Joins in the conspiracy of flattery that sends many a poor silly goose neacocklne throueh life under the Impression that she's a swan of royal bearing at the very least. For a good, sensible woman with no nonsense about her, commend me to the woman with brothers. She's heard the truth about herself often enough, you may depend upon it. Me? Do I like to hear the real -upright and downright no-nonsense-about-it truth? Well, er a yes, when I'm feeling Just like It. At all other times I like to have the people I love say to me in gplrit, "See here, I love you so much, let's pretend I think you're beautiful and wise and charming and kind," and the first thing I know I'll be trying my hardest to be all the things we're "pretending." Why don'A men tell the truth to women? Because they dassent. They might get a dose of truth in return. From the New Tork American. National Short comings N my heart of hearts I am an optimist with respect to tho nsasnnr ixwA f.tMi.A nf rr.T amtntrV Tllt In film til 8? tO thlS J subject I fancy you must feel very much as I do, that to be 2 a member of a people convicted in the eyes of the world of ntion. so much UDO V..., fW, .... ... ...... , " ' ' - . dwelt on In the newspapers of the present day, Is like feel ing as the member of a family that has a blemish on lis escutcheon. You cannot go abroad and listen to the gibea of the Europeans, however little they may be justified, with the same sense of contempt that one might have had. So there is a grow ing feeling of pessimism among Americans as to our experiment in government. The way to conquer this pessimism is to work your way through it, and not shirk facts. There is a disposition on the jart of those who know unpleasant facts to gloss them over and say things are sure to come right. That has not been the way of the world, things go wrong unless there are those who deliberately see to it that they go right. ' la the early days of our history we were the Joseph among the nntions. Joseph must have seerued an Intolerable prig to his brothers. In his ambitious dreams he saw greatness which had not yet given any external evidence of Itself "Behold I saw my sheaves in the midst of my brothers', and their sheaves bowed down to my sheaves." He was a foolish boy to prate about It, but all the same he was conscious of the stlring 6f his aspirations. So in the but all the same he was conscious of the stirring of his aspirations. So in the former half of the last century especially. We have no great leadership In politics or In other fields. The average American Intelligence Is high, but we have not the peaks that tower above the average. No country needs great leaders so much as a democracy, and In no country have they appeared less than In our democracy. The falsa idea of equality, I Imagine, has something to do with It.' It is a curious fact, Americans are the most individualistic and the least individualistic. No where in individualism encouraged and nowhere so much discouraged. The American Is filled with the spirit of enterprise; on the other hand, he is less Independent than the Englishman. He would never assert his rights when he has been ousted, as the Englishman; he is afraid of being singular when he steps out and resents that which others bear the crushes on the Subway, for Instance. Democracy is unfavorable to individualism in this respect. i AM certain it is safe to prophesy that the time will come when hospitals for infectious diseases will be empty and not wanted. I also look forward to the time when It will be as anomalous for persons to, die of scarlet fever, typhoid, cholera, and diphtheria as it will for a man to die of a wolf's bite In England. Very llttlo, however, can be done by the legislature, but everything by the progress of medical BClence, and in a much larger degree by tho intelligence of the people. We must recognize that the say ing that every one must eat a peck of dirt before he dies is erroneo and see that dirt Is undesirable. Preventive medicine is founded upon hard fact, prudenco, and common sense. The mystery of the ancient doctor, his use of long names, and his extraordinary prescriptions are passing away. Multitudes of shelves lull of bottles which surround doctors are also passing away, and being replaced by simple living, suitable diet, plenty of sun, and plenty cT fresh air. The fight of the present day Is against millions of microbes, and the weapons are sanitary regulations, municipal government, the sanitary Inspector, end the medical officer of health. American Magazine. i
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