Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 October 1907 — Page 6

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Pnttinj: Uoonevelt at the Her!. The United States is glad of tb : i"preciation which it Is receiving at '".'he illague inference. M. Xelidoff, the rbead of tb-.U gathering, has approved 'the draft of the conference which was submitted to him by the special -om-jmittee, in which President Roosevelt is mentioned as the chief author and proImoter of the gathering. This is very Jagreeable to us, and better still, it is itrue history. Every member of the conference has given his signature to jthis tribute which has accorded to the 'United States executive the chief hou:or for the holding of the present Hague fathering. - It was daring the St. Louis world's jfair of 1904 that the present conference :had its origin. The Interparliamentary Union met In St. Louis that year, and a Missouri man, Hon. Richard Bart hold t, was the president of the union. That body was taiposed of members of the 'parliaments vi all the principal nations of the world and of many of the smaller ones. Our Parliament, necessarily, 'was represented by many of its neiubers. and a Missouri man was put at 'the head. The union asked President Roosevelt to issue a call for a new .Hague gathering, to supplement the work done by that of lSltf, and to consider new questions which have arisen since that body adjourned, and to tr.ke note of other questions which were before that body, but which assumed new asie.-ts afterward. Mr. Roosevelt issued the call, and the conference which is closing at The Hague is a consequence. The compliment which Tl?e Hague has extended to the United States is bestowed on the country to which it feIongs. The conference of 1S.W origiaated with Nicholas II., but it did littl, and in the lapse of a year or two was forgotten. Europe seemed to Ik? anxious to let ics memory drop out when the United States stepped in and Injected life into the tribunal. The United States did this by referring to it a dispute which we had with Mexico, and thns the world's attention was directed anew to The Hague. That issue was settled satisfactorily to both parties to it, and then Mr. Roosevelt t:xk the steps which led to the present tethering. When the Nobel prize was given to the President a few months ago for his work In the cause of world peace the world applauded the act. The world will also recognize the correctness of the tribute to the President which The Hague has now rendered, and the United States wins a new victory In the cause of peace. St. Louis (llo be- fX-iuocra t. What RevUlon Means. '""Business ' interests need not be alarmed. The Republican national convention to meet next June will declare unequivocally for a protective tariff and against throwing the American market open to foreigners. Thus speaks the Des Moines Capital. That assurance will not, however, prevent a serious disturbance of business when the hauling over of tariff schedules begins. The chain's Is made that some of the schedules are too high. No particulars are given. So the rainute the onslaught begins all protected interests will be in a nervous state; retrenchment will be In order, factories will slow down, workmen will be discharged, and business of all classes will show an unhealthy tone during the uncertainty of the tarinT discussion. And then, after it Is all over and another compromise b.ll is adopted, the country will again struggle back to its present condition of prosperity. Meanwhile the people will have experienced a slump that will ca?iw them to wonder if, after all, the present schedules were not all right and that it would have been better to stand pat Burlington Hawkeye. "Help Wanted." Reports show that work is waiting W 250,400 persons. -Washington Dispatch. Come, all yon men who want to work, there's jobs and jobs galore ; The country's fuU of workers, but it needs a million more. There's a hearty welcome waiting from the (joltfcn Gate to Maine For tho prepared to work their way . wth two good hands or brain. It matters not your creed or race, your station or your birth. So long cs id can fill the job the only test cf worth. There's vork for men in thousands, jobs all alun? the line. In field and fam and factory, in lumber woods and mine. The shirkers aren't wanted, nor any of the dross Need the signal of the whistle or the urging of the boss; Rut the ever-ready workers, iet 'em come in bigger mobs There's work and welcome waiting for the men can fill their jobs. New York American. The I'.tJilc of Proteetlon. There is no duty on the logs that may be brought into this country," says the Ilawkeye. Not In our schedules, but there is one in the Canadian. When Dingle raised the McKinley rate of ?1 Ui $2, Canada, resenting the dlscrimTnation against It lumber, put a HtifT export duty-on logs.' Sioux City Tribune. The Dingley tariff of. $2 on lumber was purely a protection to American labor. The intention was to allow the shipment of logs into this country .free of cost so that American labor could earn wages in sawing tl-in Into lumber; and to stli iulate this home industry a tariff was placed on lumber sawed by cheap foreign labor. The wage earner Is tetter able to build homes under the present era o! high wages, stimulated by the protective tariff, even with the present high pices of material, than he was unt'er the unprotected times of Democratic rule, wlu-n lmil.1ing material went .t -ging. Everybody was begging in those ('ays. Burlington Ilawkeye. The number of children's playgrounds is increasing rapidly in many cities. Recent statistics, covering I'l cities between 25.000 and I'OO.OOO population, show there has be. n in two years an increase of $1 per cent in school playgrounds, 4S p?r cent in park and municipal playgrounds, and a total Increase of all kinds of playgrounds of 01 per cent in that period. The most valuable crop in the Philippines Is hemp; rice comes next, followed by tobacco. The export of Manila cigars amounts to nearly $1,000,000 a year and the home consumption is probatiy larger.

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GERMAN TRADE AGREEMENT Enurmuui Increase In Our Importn tioiif of Competitive Article IiiUi nie Plain that the Germans Arc ; GetliiiK tlie Dent of the Harttalu. Indications are at hand of the workings of the German trade agreement 1b the jseeond mouth of its oierat!on. II will be remembered that for th riri mouth, July, there was an Increase ol about $:J,000,000 In competitive imiiort from Germany, as compared witJi Ju'y. 11XMJ. Official statistics showing the importations of dutiable articles for August have not yet been given oat by the Department of Commerce und Labor, but there Is reason to believe that a substantial increase over July will be shown. From a single consular district in Germany some heavy increases In competitive exjtorts to the United States, as compared with August, 1000, are reIorted. In artilieial fiow.rs the increase is more than 150 per c?nt ; in china and earthenware, more than per cent; in cotton goods, nearly iU' jkt cent; in glassware, alnui; 41 pe? cent; in metal goods, about l.VJ p.r cent; while of paper athl paper good' the export is nearly ten times as great as it was in August a year ago. All of those increases are m value only, quantities not being Indicated, li is, therefore, not possible to d.?cen:iin the extent to which German exprteri have taken advantage of the "expo. price privilege and have invoiced theii goods to their own agents in the Unite States at prices far below the cunei; wholesale market prices of "ipiivaler. articles in Gertnany. It is safe to sume, hmvever, that this "price-lei privilege" has not been neglected and that not enly has the undervaluation Ierinit been used to greatly augment the enteral invoice values of the total exiorts, but that, by reason of cut prices, there has been an increase In total quantities much larger than is indicated In the reported valuations. It would seem that at the expiration of nearly sixty days since the authority to determine dutiable values was taken away from American appraising oüievrs and turned over to local chambers of commerce made up of the very persons most Interested In evading houest tar'fl payments, the authorities at Washington ought to be able to present a statement, for July at least, Jhat will show what the increase of imports has een in quantities as well as In entered values. That is what is wanted. Values alone do not tell the whole story. For example, if the invoice values of pottery exports from a single consular district have increased under tu ex port price" undervaluation privilege, from $40,000 In August, 100G, to :;:!00,000 in August, 1007, 'how much more than that have quantities lucrcriod! We will suppose that In August of last year, when honest market values were ascertained by consuls and special agents, and tariffed accordingly, a certain quality of cups and saucers wtre invoiced correctly at 73 cents a doen. But in August, 1007.. the German potter is permitted to consign to his own agent In New York the same quality of goods at a lower "export price." Then it may easily turn out and it undoubtedly will that while the custom hou?e invoices show five times the value of pottery exports as compared with A.igust, 100C, eight or ten times the quantity of earthenware will have been actually exported to the American market If it be not true that quantities have increased under the German agreement in far greater proportion than values:If the undervaluation privilege or "export prices" is not being used ; If value? voluntarily fixed by exporters are a honest as values were when determined by the evidence of consuls, special agents and direct Importers; If, in short, the new deal is not yielding an enormous harvest of revenue, frauds, of tariff evasions and of unfair competition with American labor and industry,, then no time should be lost In making that fact known. The statistical experts of the Department of Commerce and Labor should get busy. The country has a right to the truth and It wants to know the truth without unnecessary delay. American Economist. The Worth of the Tariff. A recent consular report shows briefly and well what kind of competition the tariff Is keeping away from the American manufacturer. Consul Harris, in a report on factory Inspection In the grand duchy of Baden, says: "In the Black Forest clock Industry a working day of from 14 to 10 hours Is common; also in many other Industries. In the city of Pforzheim, which is a center of an enormous jewelry manufacture, the average daily wages for adult females Is, said to be 38 cents, and In the surrounding villages ,31 events, while the average daily wages of female chainmakers Is 4C cents, and In other branches of Jewelry manufacture is 43 cents. The average dally wages of burnishers of silverware at Carlsruhe is 70 cents, while that cf other female employes of the factory In that city is 3G cents, and In the surrounding villages 31 cents. Adult females working at their homes for a metal ware factory at Bohrenbach earn an average of 45 cents per day, while the average paid for female Hbor in tliat locality is 33 cents per day." Attleboro (Mass.) Sun. The American Payroll. True it is that thu American payroll has no equal anywhere. Compositors, stonemasons and plumbers, on an average the country over, receive 45 cents ' an hour. The general average in thj skilled trades is C5 cents an hour, as against 12 cents r.n hnir in (Jermany and 17Vj cents in Great Brikiin. In the la.-t generation, wh'Ie Ihr pop ulation has doubled, t!n va :c ; paid t labor has tripled, tlu v.u ibp vitnl AAA nil tmy J ili'M i I llllil HI i rupled. and the saving.-? imvsK-d in life insurance have quintupled. It is to get a phuv on t.i American payroll that immigrant arc com'ng in at the rate of a mlHi ui a year. The American payroll means "th IU11 1 k 4it .14.-. (.-1 .111, - Cortelyou says, something more than that. It means the American schon; and the American home. New York Mall. In France the average yield of wine is 112 gallons to every acre of vine- ' yard; In Spain it rises to 130 gallons per acre; but Algeria holds the record with 300 gallons to the acre.

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own rights. In which it would appear that there ought to be a certain justice, seems always, In fact, to be a very narrowing process, death-dealing to any fine enlightenment. The special structure Itself rests on the consideration of the rights of others,

and all social life in the home rests on It. Nothing lr In itself good for anything except in the good that we get out of it, so that the most beautifully furnished house, the most finely cultured people, may not make for anything vital, anything that stimulates the imagination or the heart or the Intellect; they may not give any of the spiritual comfort which is informed with heart-blessing Interest. No one who o3 to such a house gets anything from It as a household, but food and drink and comfortable chalra, and outside conversation. There Is nothing more to give you could get th same in a club or a hired drawing-room. Yet the smallest living room may have that aspect of homelife in it which shows it to be the real thing and a iower power because the action and retroaction of intimate and sympathetic and unselfish interest among the members of a family generate some spiritual thing which know the difference between the person who is conventionally delightful in society and the person who is delightful In society because she is delightful at home. Harper's Bazar.

A HUNDRED YEAHS HENCE. IFE Is much easier than it used to be, be-

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telegraph without wires. We have skyscrapers with elevators. Automobiles and trolley cars cam' us about rapidly. Subways

and elevated railroads eat up space In the great cities. But the llf of those who inhabit the earth a hundred years hence will be much easier than ours. Our modern Improvements will then be ancient history, regarded much as we regard the stage coach. Here, for example, is a hint of what the future has in store; In one daily newspaper are four separate telegrams telling of the progress of inventors In four different parts of the world. From London comes the news that the British admiralty Is considering a new form of marine engine, resembling the turbine but with important differences, which will drive a shin through the water at the rate of 100 miles an hour. In San Francisco the city electrician Is working on a device that will enable every policeman to keep In communication with headquarters by means of wireless telegraphy, the receiving station being his

When the young woman who had been called to the manager's office got out of the elevator she was wearing her hat and her Jacket was on her arm. As she passed the perfumery counter the girl with the lopping bang called to her and he stopped. -Folks sick, Manier asked the girt with the bang. They ain't now, but they will bo as oon's I get home, replied Marne. "I expect they'll have s'teeu different kinds o' fits. I got leave o' absence Without pay.' You're kidding me!" "No. honest P "Was you making a roar?" "Not me. I got It by the complaint route, all right, but it wasn't me making the complaint. A customer. I didn't turn handsprings to wait on her and then get out In the aisle for her to wipe her feet on we." "Pshaw!" "Don't you never think It," said Mame. "It ain't pshaw nor yet plshtush. It's what If you want to breathe, you wait till the customer's got his check and his change and then do it easy." "O course, you don't want to get too flossy, Mame," said the girl with the bang. "Was I too flossy?" demanded Mame. "Well. If I was I'd like to know it I was talking to Annie about something when the customer come up and I didn't notice her. She dldnt blow no horn or even sound a gong. First thing I know she says, 'Are you very busy, If you please?' Was I busy! I guess she knew whether I was bary or not Huh ! And bo-o-o polite. Well, I didn't say nothing. I just went on finishing what I was saying to Annie. It wouldn't have taken me more than a minute, but she was in a rush. ' Her time was worth a dollar and a half a 'second. 'If you will please wait on me.' she says. "Well, I broke off right there. I'd like to know what more she could have wanted than that 'Was there something?' I says. ' I want some hairpins J she says. "'Right la that tray,' I says, pointing to it "So she went to mussing around In It and I went on to finish what I was saying to Annie. Presently she coughs. Well, I ain't any lady throat doctor and I didn't take no notice of it, so she says, as if I was dirt: 'I wish you could find time to wait on me. If you haven't time I must ask for some young' lady who has.' What do you think of that? "Then she takes a hairpin out of her hair. 'I want some like that,' she ays. " 'We don't keep cm,' I Kays. 'Don't you think you could tell better If you were to look at it?' the says. "Haven't got 'em,' I pays. "What do you think she done? Went right up and complained to the manager that I was lus'lcnt and Indifferent and- I get word that I'm wanted. Seemed there was some pins In stoca like ehe showed me and she'd been getting 'em right along, but they wasn't in the tray and how was I to know that? As far as the other went, I says to Mr. Biggs, 'I treated her like a lady, I Bays, 'but she Just wanted to be snippety and make trouble,' I says. " We expect our salesladies to ho polite and pleasant to customers,' he says. We expect 'cm to take pa las to bo agreeable and assist purchasers and to keep In mind that they have no social obligations to their fellow employes during business hours.' He gave me that kind af talk for about ten min utes and then he put me on top of the toboggan and let go."

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helmet; thus permitting the whole force to be Instantly summoned in case of need. Brussels tells us of an airship which seems to have solved all the problems of aerial navigation, and in Morristown, N. J., a machine Is coming to completion which will write letters talked into it, thus doing away with stenographers and typists. A hundred years hence the world will be a different place from what it is to-day. Most work will be done by machinery, space will be virtually annihilated, communication all over the earth will be instantaneous. What then will become of national prejudices? The world will be one nation. War will disappear. All peoples will speak one language. But will poverty be w.'ikkI out? Will man's real concerns, those of his own nature, be less disturbing? Will envy, hate and all uncharitableness die away? Will man be any happier, any more content? Chicago Journal.

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Taction or which demands Immediate Independance for the Islands, elected a majority of the fifty members of the assembly. The total vote, in a population of more than seven millions, was about a hundred thousand. In Manila, a city containing more than 200,000 people, only a few more than 7,000 votes were cast The Islands were governed by the army from 1S0S till 1002, when a civil commission, created by Congress, took charge of the administration of public business. The civil cc remission continued the policy of establishing local self-government begun by the military rulers. Arrangements were made for electing mayors and town councils by popular vote, and for the choice of provincial governors by vote of the councils. At present the government of about CCO towns is as independent as that of towns in .America. The census was completed In 1005, and the creation of an independent elected assembly to assist In making laws for the whole group of Islands was promised at the expiration off two years, if order was preserved in the meantime. It Is In fulfillment of this promise that the recent election was called. The new assembly will be the popular branch of the Filipino legislature. Its acts will have to be approved by the Philippine commission, sitting as a ' legislative body. This commission, containing four Americans and three Filipinos, has been the responsible governing body since the withdrawal the military governor in 1902. Youth's Companion.

"Seems strange he'd fire you Just for that," said the girl with the bang. I guess she must have had some kim of a pull," said Mame. Chicago Dally News. COST OF STEAM YACHTS. About $25 an Hoar Required from Onner of Biff Vesael. Twenty-five dollars an hour seems a big amount to pay for one's pleasure, but with the millionaire expenses is of no. consideration where his comfort is concerned. He has taken to yuchtlng with a zeal that Is Increasing every year and his floating home is a marvel of beauty, says the Broadway Magazine. There are registered In the United States over 1,200 sea-going steam yachts representing, approximately, $G0,000,000. Of these more than 300 fly the flag of the New York Yacht Club. Others steam under the colors of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, or the Atlantic Yacht Club or smaller clubs. There are more steam yachts registered In this country than In England or France or Germany. Probably not one of the dozen big steam yachts In the New York Yacht Club fleet cost to build and equip less than $500,000. But the cost of maintenance Is quite another story. No one knows, of course, just how much it costs Mr. Morgan to keep the Corsair going. But If such a yacht, for example, carrying a crew of sixty men. Is kept in commission .for six months out of the twelve, the pay roll will run close to $30,000. To feed the crew, to pay for coal and oil, for docking and other necessary exienses will call for an expenditure of from $30,000 to $o0,000 or more. Then there Is tle expense of entertaining the owner, his family and his guests on cruise a mat ter of $20,000 bringing the total cost very near the $100,000 mark. Never In all history was another such costly and luxurious vehicle. Any one of a dozen American yachts now skimming the seven seas is costing Its owner from $15,000 to $20,000 a month. This means an outlay running from $500 to $700 a day, or approximately $25 an hour.' If the owner Is entertaining a party of eight persons on a foreign cruise exactly $75 a day, or $5,000 per cruise, is spent on each Individual guest. The Old War and the Netr. The young lady from Boston was explaining. "Take an egg," she said, "and make a perforation In the base and a corresponding one in the apex. Then you apply the lips to the aperture, and by forcibly Inhaling the breath the shell is entirely discharged of its contents." An old lady who was listening exclaimed: "It beats all how folks do things nowadays. When I was a gnl they made a hole In each end and sucked." Judge. , The I.nftt Journey. "The last time I saw Caüey he was bound for California. Don't you wish you could travel the way he did?" "No, he's dead." "I know he is now, but " "I hoie to travel in the opposite direction." Philadelphia Press. After all, most of us have pretty contented dispositions, or else thero would be more unhupplness, considering how often we see our own faces in the glass. One of the first things a man notices In a strange town Is what funuy name the people have.

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IXE years ago the Philippine Islands came into the possession of the United States through conquest and purchase. The first general election for members of a national legislature was held on July GO,

Naclonalista party, or the party a AN ODD SUPEKSTITION. DrltUh Flihrrmen Balk at the Name of Graham. One of the most curious of Britist fishermen's superstitious, the one which perhaps to this day has the strongesl hold upon them. Is that connected wltt the name of Graham. No flshermac will go to sea If he has heard this name mentioned, nor will he do any manner of work upon that day. Ht will refuse to sail In a boat with any one bearing the name, and a house painter from Newcastle called Graham, who had been sent to do some work in one of the large houses, found hia life made so miserable by the villagers that he Incontinently returned to the town, leaving his work uncompleted. The women who bait the lines In the winter will unbalt every hook and rebait the whole length the labor of hours if they hear it mentioned. A local tradesman bearing this unfortunate patronymic is never referred to save as "Puff;" another, an Innkeeper, is known as "Lccky Bits." No rational explanation Is to be found. On one of the most Intelligent fishermen being questioned on the subject he laughed the Idea to corn. , Why, his daughter was married to a Graham. But he added, a strange thing happened two years ago when he was off at the herring fishing and had not been home for some weeks. Having received a letter at Shields to say that his son-in-law was ill, he hailed a passing boat which had cnie from the north, asking if they had heard how Jack Graham was. "And, wad ye beleev't ne soonor had aa syed the words than tbeor wes a crash, and the mast went ower the side!" None of the crew spoke to him for the rest of the day. New York Post A mouse seldom lives longer than three years. The annual fish catch of England Is valued at $53,900,000. The factories of Japan close on the 1st and 15th of each month. The absorbing capacity of a brick Is about sixteen ounces of water. There were 1SS banks in Germany at the close of 190G, with capital of $850,000.000 and reserves of $233,475,000. The Methodist Conference at Milwaukee adopted a resolution asking President Roosevelt to stop United States army men from playing baseball on Sunday. Lord Brampton (Sir Henry Hawkins) celebrated his ninetieth birthday recently, when he gave this characteristic advice: "Never get mixed up in lawsuits or the law. I think I know something about It" Coal mining has become one of India's great Industries. The output last year was 9.781.250 tons, whereas the average annual production for the decade ending 1S05 was only 2 758.010. The coal now being worked U near the surface, and with the cheap labor employed. India Is ab!e to deliver its coal at the pit's mouth cheaper than any other country In the world. The average price a ton delivered on board freight car was $1.40 In 1000 an 1907. Probably in no other State in the Union does a big ranch constitute a district, a family the members of a school board, and the son of the family the only pupil in the school district. Such conditions exist on the Woods ranch, near Hardin, Colo The president of the School Board Is Charles Allyn, manager of the ranch; the secretary is his wife, the treasurer a young woman living in the home, and the pupil of the school the nine-year-old son of the Allyns. "A miss is a pood as a mile," said the deer as It ran away. "A miss Is r.s bad as a mile," said the hunter as he reloaded his gun.

Qoong Movr Has Unique Farm in Hartford. Hon toy, gul lung and lot Ju are being raised up In Hartford, Conn. No, they are not new brands of trouble; they're vegetables. They're Chinese, and many delicacies dear to the hearts and palates of the celestials are there eared for by Quong Mow and his American wife. The place covers about two acres a Ed every corner Is ablaze with bright flowersj the blossoms being sandwiched in between rows of hon toy, gul lung, lot ju and other vegetables of curious name and appearance. In China, says the Hartford Courant, It will be remembered, the farmers are the aristocrats of the land, so the Quong Mow, far from regretting hia change of occupation, feels very much elevated In his position. Quong took great pleasure In showing a visitor about his place and he explained the uses of the different vegetables with great care. The word "toy" in Chinese means greens of any. kind, and, In fact, has much the same meaning as our word "vegetable." A considerable space near the house is taken up with gul toy, which has a yellow blossom and a leaf about the color of the cabbage. The plant is used to fry with meat and also as a kind of garnish. One large bed Is filled with gul lung, which is practically the same as our spinach. Wok toy Is a green which is used earlier in the spring, but which is now being allowed to grow to the height of three or four feet for the seed, which will soon ripen. The blossom is white and the leaves are of a jieeullar shade of green and have a distinct taste of mustard. Quong pointed with pride to a row of squash vines, which were trained after the manner of pea vines upon bushes stuck into the ground. The fruit has just begun to form and Quong says that before frost comes there will bs an abundance of squashes about the size of oranges. The fruit, lot ju, which the Chinese cooks seem to use in nearly all their dishes, is represented ' among the products of the truck farm. In spite of its somewhat formidable name, lot ju is nothing but an ordinary green pepper, In the Chinese restaurants It is boiled, baked, broiled and fried, usually the latter, and no meal Is complete without it, served In several forms. Several strange-looking shrubs bearing spikes of red flowers, are being' raised for their seeds, and numerous beds of chooIng taw, or onions, are to be seen. While Quong takes great delight and pride in his farming, he has a flock of over 100 hens of all shapes and sizes and also sixty ducks. Looking meditatively at a "gal," that Is, a 'chicken, yesterday, Quong said to a newspaper man: "Write 'bout beautiful flowers and fine living I make, but nothing 'bout chicks." Now the flock of chickens was one which would make the heart of any householder beat with pride and so Quong's disinclination to have mention made of it brought forth many questions, which resulted in the Information that he was a member of the Farmlngton Avenue Congregational church and that he was afraid that the minister wouldn't like it If It was.made public that he kept chickens, which had to be fed on Sunday. The chickens seemed to be a burden on Quong's mind and yet are a source of pride and income as well, for many a fat "gai" goes to appease the appetite of Quong's fellow countrymen. Quong, who Is In theearly forties, came to this country twenty years ago and has lived In Hartford for the last fourteen years. Although he now owns no part of the store In State street he still works there a part of the time, so that between the store and the farm he Is a very busy man. Besides supplying the Chinese restaurants and two Chinese stores with vegetables, Quong sells considerable produce to Individual Chinamen about the city. His Is the only place In this part of tie State where Celestials can get fresh vegetables like those of their native land, except for a small truck garden In Bristol. ' ' When Quong was asked yesterday to step out In front of the arbor and have his picture taken he had just come from working in the garden, and looked every Inch an oriental He was wearing a broad-brimed hat and Etraw sandals, and was carrying a large mattingcovered box. Before he would stand before the camera, . however, be Insisted upon going Into the house and donning an American hat and necktie.

A. Ifnndy Mean a re. If you have a pint Jug and wish to measure off half a pint with tolerable accuracy it is useless to try and do so by guessing when the jug is half full. A better way Is to tilt the Jug until the contents Just reach to the upper end of the bottom of the vessel and Just touch the Up at the lower end of the mouth. In this way the space in the pint Jug Is practically cut Into two equal portions, each half representing the space taken by half a plat London Graphic. The Slse of It. "That political boss Is very arbitrary. They say the candidate Is completely his creature and wears his collar without daring to say a word." "Wears his collar I I've only been surprised that the boss has not been arrested before this for allowing his candidate to run at large, without taking out a license." Baltimore American. Followlns the Scent. "Talking of that couple who eloped In an automobile, I heard the girl's father tried' to run them down with dogs." "Yes, but It failed entirely. The dogs took up so much time stopping at every place where they sold gasoline that the couple were married before the pursuers caught up." Baltimore Ameri can. Doins Good. The woman crowded into the seat re rerved for smokers and sniffed ominously, contemptuously. "Tobacco," she remarked, "is :i vile K)lsim. Nicotine would kill a cat" "That being the case, madam," replied an unembarrassed smoker, "If I were you I'd make the cat cut it out" Philadelphia Ledger. Several Second Unongli. "Mr. Dubly is becoming quite attentive to you, I uoticc," said Miss Knox. "Yes," replied Miss Fnssay, haughtily, "but, really, you don't surpose I'd consider a projKsal from him for a minute, do you?" "Of course not; I know you wouldn't take that long." Mules are becoming so scarce and high that finally the newspapers will print an announcement of the fact when a mule colt Is born.

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IllouKe or Shirt Waist Sleeves. In the illustration 5iown here No. 1 is made of dotted batiste with cuff of embroidery, while No. 2 is made of linen and Nos. 3 and 4 of handkerchief lawn. No. 4 being PATTERN K0. "3770. trimmed with plaiting, while No. 3 I? finished with banding, but trimming and Diish can be varied again and again, the sleeves helng adapted not alone to the washable materials, but also to the silk and wool waist. Each sleeve is cut in one piece. No. 1 Is gathered and joined to a band to which the cuff Is attached, No. 2 Is finished in regulation shirt waist style, No. 3 is gathered and attached to the straight bavd cuff, and No. 4 is tucked and joined to a band, to which the roll-over cuff is seamed. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give loth the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. 5770. SIZE NAME ADDRESS Illonne r Shirt AValnt. The shirt waist that gives the broad shoulder effect Is one of the latest developments of that all popular garment. Here Is ore with plaits at the shoulders and which is both novel and smart It is finished with a patch pocket on the left front and is altoPATTERN NO. C737. gether severe in style, while at the same time it allows a choice of long or elbow sleeves. As Illustrated the material is white butcher's linen, but all walstings are appropriate, and taffeta, pongee and flannel will be satisfactory so made quite as well as linen and cotton fabrics. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this pap?r. Be sure to give both the number and size of pattern wanted; aud write very plainly. For convenience, write your order or. the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. oioi. SIZE NAME ADDRESS Thine to Think Ahont. "The German Emperor is a good bookbinder. ' Bromide of potassium often prevents seasickness. In the time of Henry VII. peppor cost $75 an ounce. 1 You don't save a whole lot of time by going at full siced. Abroad "dessert" means raw fruit only. Pies and pudding3 are called sweets. About two hundred oysters would be required daily to supply sullicient nourishment for one person. Vhh1 In building Is ucd much more sparingly in France than in America; nonce danger from fire is less. In fifty years the average height of British men lias risen an inch, to five feet eight and one-half inches. (Icorge Lycurgas, the manager of the Volcano House on the island of Hawaii, is having a telephone line extended Into the crater for warning In case of eruption. A consul at Trehlzond writes that recently it took ekjut mouths fur some stylographic pens to come by express from America to a port on the Black Sea. ' The startling calculation Is now made that the world's Methodists are now so numerous that by joining bauds they could girdle the earth. They number CO.OOO.CCO. The Increase of the rice crop la this country has been the means of booming a great portion of Texas land, so that It is now worth ten times what it was valued at ten years ago.

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Inexpensive Mixture of Ilarmleas Vegetable Ingredients'' Said t Overcome Ktdner and Bladder Trouble Promptly and Care linen matlsm. Here is a simple home-nude mixture as given by an eminent authority on Kidney diseases, who makes tht statement In a New York daily newspaper, that It will relieve almost any case of Kidney trouble if taken before the stage of Bright's disease. He states that such symptoms is lame back, pain In the side, frequent lesirfl to urinate, especially at night; painful and discolored urination, are readily overcome. Here is the recipe; try it: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparllla, three ounces. Take a teaspoonful after each meal and at bedtime. A well-known physician is authority that these Ingredients arc all harmless and easily mixed at home by shaking well in a bottle. This mixture ha a peculiar healing and soothing effect upon the entire Kidney and Urinary structure, and often overcomes th3 worst forms of Rheumatism in just a little while. This mixture Is said to remove all Wood disorders and cure the Rheumatism by forcing the Kidneys to filter and strain from the blood and system all uric acid and foul, decomposed waste tnatt:r. which cause the afiiictions. Try it if you arent well. Save the prescription. Ill Service. A party of distinguished Englishmen, which Included, the World's Work says, a judge of the High Court, an editor of the Saturday Review, and a naturalist were sitting In the editor's room when a singular spider ran across the floor and disappeared under some books. It was a giant one of the largest species found in England, and the nat uralist lifted the books instantly. The spider darted toward the old justice. He sprang up, and the spider's life ended. "It was e very rare species," murmured the naturalist regretfully. "I made It rarer." said the judje. SACS GAVE OUT. A Typical Case of Kldner Troabla and a Typical Core Mrs. Chloe Page, of G10 S. Pitt street, Alexandria, Vau. says: My back hurt me terribly; I had sharp shooting pains, changing to a dull, dragging ache. I could not stand for any length of time and my back hurt me when I Mt down. My feet and ankles were badly swollen every evening and ray stomach was out of order. Doan'a Kidney Pills cured me of these troubles In 1JC2, and for five years I have had no return.' Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bor. Foster-MIlburn Co Buffalo. N. Y. The jaws of a wasp are so powerful that the insect can cut its way through shells. Ann YOUR CLOTHES FAD ED f Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. HIGH WAGES IN AFRICA, Native Chare Eieren Cents Day ta Accompany Ifnnter. I had never got an African elephant or a hippopotamus or a rhinoceros, and I wanted to try. There is the whole story, says a writer in Appleton's. This brought me about the middle of last October by ship to Zanzibar, and thence by another vessel some six hours to the northward on the east coast of Africa to a town called Mombasa, tba southernmost seaport. of British East Africa and the beginning of the Uganda Railway. It seemed necessary to gather together for the outfit about thirty men, native blacks of all grades, various colors and marvelous types porters who carried daily on their bead sixty pounds of iry own luggage and whatever each needed for himself besides, and dressed In the most remarkable costumes It has been my fortune to see.. They will walk from fifteen to( twenty miles a day, up hill and down.' through jungle and over open Cats, with as little trouble as r would walk down fJth avenue. And In recompense for all this labor these dusky gentlemen get 11 cents per day and one and a half pounds of rice for the comfort of their lnsldcs. There were porters, a personal servant, a cook, gun bearers and a headmam The latter held the whole motley crew In the hollow of his hand, and ran them and me, and cheated us both with a frankness and thoroughness that was too genial to be Irritating. He stole and sold my aluminum cooking outfit that was the apple of my eye, and never so much as gave me a commission. TAKE THEM OUT Or Feed Them Food They Can ftndy On. When a student begins to break down from lack of the right kind of food, there are only two things to do; either take him out of school or feed hiin properly on food that will rebuild the brain arid nerv cells. That food la Grape-Nuts. A boy writes from Jamestown, N. Y saying: A short time nj I got into a bad condition from overstudy, but Mother having heard about Grape-Nuts food began to feed me on it It satisfied my hunger better than any other food,' and the results were marvelous. I got fleshy like a good fellow. My usual morning headaches disappeared, and I found I cniild study for a long period without feeling the eTets of It "My face was pale and thin, but is now round and has considerable color. After I hud been using Gr:ije-Nuts for about two mouths I felt like a new boy altogether. I have gained greatly lo strength as well us fiesh. and it la a pleasure to study now that I am not bothered with my head. I passed all of my examinations with a reasonably good percentage, extra good Jn some of them, and It is Grape-Nuts that has saved me from a year's delay in entering college. "Father and mother have both been Improved by the use of Grape-Nuts. Mother was troubled with sleepless nights, and got very thin, and looked careworn. She has gained her normal strength and looks, and sleeps well nlghtV 'There's a Reason." Read "The Road to Wellvllle,- In pkga.

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