Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 2, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 October 1908 — Page 6

TUE MOST IMPORTANT THING.

DRUMMING UP LABORERS IN AFRICA.

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OLITICAL FARMER AND THE TARIFF. rort)-U Question Which Will Worry 31 r. Ilrynn to Answer. In his Des Moines speech advocating a tariff for revenue only Mr. Bryan declared that the protective system taxed the farmers of. the country for the benefit of the manufacturers. The örsi lenefits of revision upon Democratic lines, he insists, will ci n.-j to the farm. As for protection, 'the whole system is vicious. Business should not be built upon legislation." For thl3 startling tUcory the "American Economist" says Mr. Bryan ought to be defeated, if for nothing else, and in its current number it propounds a series of 40 questions to the Democratic nomine for President, all relating to specific schedules covering agricultural products, and asks whether Mr. Bryan farors removal of the duties quoted. 0 course, Mr. Bryan dare not favor anything of the kind, for the moment he does the farmer will take alarm, and In this particular year Mr. Bryan; Is very solicitous for the agriculturists-. With the DIngley bill in effect onr Imports of agricultural product amount to $414.000,000 a year. What THE F ARMEE AND TEl

The Protected Farmer Well, Mr. Bryan, If it's a "vicious" system that has given my farm the richest ten ye ars I ever knew, and then, even though crippled with give-away foreign trade agreements, has enabled the country to weather a year of hurricane ranie, then all I have to say Is that the system Isn't quite "vicious" enough to suit me. I'm going to vote for the man that's under orders to keep it as "vicious" ns he can.

they would go to If Mr. Bryan should apply his revenue tariff no man can tell, but we should soon find that the American farmer was getting the worst of It. Mr. Bryan is very fond of giving out the Impression that aianufaeturers and the great organized business of the United States are the only beneficiaries of protection. Yet practically everything that grows or Is produced on the farm is protected. The list, which Is formidable. Includes cattle, swln horses, mules, sheep, barley, barley malt, buckwheat, corn, cornmeal, macaroni, oats, oatmeal, rice, rye, wheat, wheat flour, butter, cheese, milk, beans, cabbage, cider, eggs, hay, honey, hops, onions, Deas. potatoes, commercial seeds, f traw, vegetables, sugar, wool, hides, leaf tobacco, fruiU, nuts, bacon, ham, fresh beef, yeal, mutton, pork, extracts of meat, lard, poultry, and tallow. So 4f will be seen that; If Mr. Bryan's .great scheme for scaling down the tariff until there Is no protection, Cut merely revenue, becomes a reality, the farmer will hare to take his medicine along with the manufacturer, for we ibare the assurance of the Democratic party that It plays no favorites. Let the farmer who contemplates voting for Bryan ponder on these things. Let him remember that It was Mr. Bryan who drafted the free wool Claus la the Wilson bill and that it Is this same Mr. Bryan who "denounces all protection as vicious Including protection for the American farmer." . Pittsburg Gazette-Times. A Short Sermon. In Loth bis first and second battles Mr. Bryan polled much the largest total Tote ever cast by the Democratic party. The Republicans won by Increasing their own vote Immensely over their former greatest effort. If they had not done this they would hive lost. An examination of the figures is instructive for they have distinctly a present bearing. Mr. Bryan's total vote in 189C was C.502,925, and In 1000, 6.CG8.1S3. The largest previous Democratic vote. In 1892, was 5.55G,018. Brya:i bioke the Democratic record by over 800,000. If the Republicans had failed to offset the big increase they would have been defeated. Republican apathy would hare been fatal in either the first or second Bryan campaign. In the Parker slump of four years ago the Democratic total sank 10.5,082,754. But that is not a mark to be considered by Republicans this year. In both his former campaigns Bryan was stronger than Parker by a?;out n million and a quarter votes, and stronger than the Democratic party . had previously been by S00.0C0. In fighting Bryan in 1800 and 1000 the Republican party rose to the occasion. Its highest vote before was ß,4tD,21G, In 18S3. In ISO it went up, as z. result of the most vigorous effort, to 7,104.775. It increased to 7,207,!i2S In TXO, and to 7,021,480 In 190-1. But what would happen If the Republicans should be apathetic this year? It Is true that Bryan does not get votes in proportion to the crowds be draws in traveling throughout the country. But, at the same time, he has polled 800,-

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4. 000 votes more than were ever received by any other Democratic nominee for the presidency. These figures are the plain mathematical proof that the Republicans must work with all their might to bring out their full vote. There Is no sure margin If less is done. St. I-onis Globe-Democrat. But for tho Tarif?. The magnificent Industrial development in the United States owes its existence and prosperity to the protective tariff. l!ut for the protective tariff there would he no sugar factories in the United States to-day. The protective tariff built up the Iron, steel, tin, and. in fact, every industry of note in the land. The stronger the tariff protect hn the greater development of industries. Hence the more the American people should cling to their Industrial development and foster and encourage it by wise legislation. Were it not for the tariff there would be but few Miiokcstacks, mills or factories in the United States. Those countries that had their manufacturing interests highly developed and that were paying labor wretched wages, could hold the American market indefinitely with their products, and tlKdr competition would make It un"VICIOUS SYSTEM." proßtable and impossible to. develop American industry. Under the stimulating influence of the tariff tills country has become the leading Industrial center of the world. The high degree of development It has attained In thl respect may warrant certain modi ficnt Ions In tariff schedules, hut this should be carried out by the friends of protection not the veiled advocates of free trade. National Farmer. The Tariff oa Lnmbrr. If the comparatively small tariff on lumber were to be removed, the lumber manufacturing located in Burlington would probably be moved to Canada, near the seat of production, so as to save rehandling. Our Canadian cousins would add the amount of the removed duty to their charges and we would continue to pay the prices we now pay. The net result would be our loss of our lumber Industries and most of the families to whom they give employ ment. The same rules apply to other products that could be manufactured abroad and In a way to various nrotected fsrm products which are cheap er In Canada than with us. Now would the people of Burlington and our Vermont farmers have the Taft or Bryan form of tariff revision? Bur lington Free Tress. Am to Fre Wool. We think the New York Commercial will prove to be mistaken In its pre diction that a demand for free wool will be strongly passed when Congress takes up tariff revision. If such a de mand Is made It must come from the manufacturers of woolens. These gen tlemen have memories, no doubt. They cannot possibly have forgotten what happened to them when free wool and ljwer duties on woolens were the product of the tariff revision of 1804. Neither are they such fools as to suppose that free wool would give entrance for their woolens Into world markets. They know better. What they need Is tin privilege of weaving woolens for American consumption. This they would not have In the event of free wool. Burnt children dread the Are. Unlit In Cither Cane. No man can vote for Bryan In the coming election except on one of two grounds. Either he must believe that Bryan stlil yearns for the destruction of the gold standard and the establish inent of free silver, as he did in ISDO, or else lie must believe that Bryan was wrong then and that he knows better now. In the one case the conclusion is inevitable that Brjan Is unfit for President. In the other he Is a faulty rea?oner and an unsafe guide. Ilrynn an L'nnfo Ileasoner. One of the favorite and familiar ar uumcnts of Bryan Is that his renomination by the party after two defeats is evidence that they still believe in and endorse "the principles that I have been advocating." Well, what are the principles that Bryan has been advocating? Certainly there Is none that he advocated so strenuously as free coin age of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1.

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That Lahor Should rir of All IIato "Work and Wnr. We think the intelligent union worker knows thnt what the labor program of tho Democratic party is after Is not the bestowal upon the unions of all that

they want in the way of legislation on injunctions, hut the votes, along with the cash contributions, of organized labor. And wo also think the intelligent union workman knows that the most important thing to him and to the country is that he should have full work at good wages. Neither he nor any one else can see in a Bryan political pros pectus the work and the wages that he has actually experienced under the practical policy of the party which makes business, first of all. for American Industrie's and therefore work for American wa ge-earnors. There was little enough for labor to t!o, in the mill and factory or on farm cr railroad, after the election of 1S02, bearing- war upon American industries in answer to the protests of Mr. Bryan's "beggars" and to satisfy the demands of Mr. Haskell for secret dis crimination against union lalKr. But the want of those days would become plenty in comparison with the ruin which would be made of our producing agencies if farmers, manufacturers. merchants and wage-earners were threatened with an enforcement of the policies of Mr. Bryan and a Democratic Congress in sympathy with and subject to him. We don't imagine anylody can fool the wage-earner, organized or unorganized, Into believing that there will be an abundance of work for him when business indefinitely shuts down or that there can be wages, or anything but bread-line support, for the worklngmen of the United States, skilled and un skilled, when there is no work. One would need to have a minimum of faith In the common sense of organized labor to credit it with complete ignorance on the cause and the underlying founda tion of its welfare a natural program that stimulates business, and with it work and wages rather than one which ravages our Industries and impoverish es our workers. And It would be neces sary for organized Iaber to-be utterly bereft of all memory to believe that the man who has always been proved wrong in ail his prophecies and promises since he first began to make them would now be right in the new prophecies and promises which he puts out as he again seeks the votes of those who have refused to follow him Into error and mis fortune. New York Pres:. LOW TARIFF AND LABOR. What Dryan'i Plan Would Do to Men Who "Work for Wate". Bryan's assertion that the Republican party is upholding the trusts because It does not agree with him on tariff revision, Is only another dream of the "Peerless one." Any thinking man knows that low revenue tariff would injury the working man, because It would reduce wages to the level of the cheap working men of Europe; would cilpple many Industries in the country that have not yet secured such a foothold In the industrial world as to be able to compete with free trade conditions and starvation wages of the countries where no protection is provided by law. Bryan does not seriously believe In revenue tariff himself. lie considers it, however, good bait to catch the laluring man's vote. Ills only mistake is in considering the working man of today to be an Ignorant creature, made up of credulity, and ready to swallow any sugar-coated pill of promise held out to hi m. Yesterday the laboring man took time all over the country to celebrate his own attainments, and the representa tive crowds that filled Lafayette's streets showed no strain of mental weakness In their faces. On the other lia nd, Intelligence, brains and common sense were to the fore In every speaking countenance. Such men as inarch ed so Joyfully is yesterday's parade ar In the habit of think!ng for themselves, md are educated as much s Mr. Dryaa along lines of business prosperity. Such men would laugh If the proposition was seriously put to them to exchange the protection now afforded them by the present tariff with all Its Imperfec tions for the starvation wages and low standard of prices for all Ameri can produce that would mark Bryan's theory of revenue tariff. The Republican-party has pledged itself to revise the tariff and make it as amenable as possible to the country's condition. But It has also promised to take care of the laboring man, and this thought It will ever have in mind white adjusting tills Important Issue. La Fayette Courier. Will Farmers Contribute t There are admittedly "hundreds oi thousands of farmers abundantly able to contribute." Indeed, the prosperity of the American farmer canhardiy be overstated. But that prosperity will not move him to contribute to help elect Bryan or any other Democratic candidate. For It is the result not only of Nature's bounty, but of twelve years of Republican rule, and is the most complete possible refutation of th Democratic claim that the prosperity of the manufacturing Industries under the Republican tariff system Is gained at the expense of the agricultural industries. The farmer's flushness, cited by Bryan and Kern as a reason for his contributing to their fund, la therefore the very thing that will most incline him to do the exact opposite. Ha will contribute not to the Bryan campaign fund, but to the Republican campaign fund, and he will not have to be solicited by Mr. Taft to do so. Allentown News. Executing the Antltrutt Law. The Department of Justice has Issued a revised statement of the civil and criminal cases bgun by the government tinder the Sherman antitrust law, showing that in the Harrison administration there were four equity bill9 filed and three Indictments returned; tint under Cleveland there were four bills, two Informations nnd two indictments; urder McKinley three bills In rqi'ity and under Uoosevelt eighteen bills, twenty-five criminal Indictments and two contempt proceedings. In all, $147,0C0'ln fines was imposed. Under tho interstate commerce net there was one indictment returied under Cloveland; thirty-five indictments and five convictions ami four acquittals under Harrison; twenty indictments and nino convictions under Cleveland; twentytwo Indictments and five convictions under McKinley, and 1T7 Indk-tments and eight convictions to date under Bocsevelt, eighty-eight cases still pending, and fines imposed to the amount of $1,113,023.

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A NKJEIil AN CIIIKF'S MKTIIOI OF SUMMONING HARVEST HANDS BY BEATING OF DRUMS.

In the primitive parts of Africa labor is not regularly employed, and when one of the petty chiefs needs workers he collects them in a peculiar manner. In Nigeria, when a chief Is ready to begin his harvesting, he sets his tribesmen drumming. They beat huge kettle

THE DAY BEYOND. Wben youth is with us, all things seem But lightly to be wfshed nnd won; We snnre to-morrow in a dream And take our toil for work undone ; 'For life is long, and time a stream That sleeps an J sparkles in the sun. What need of any haste?" we say; '"iVraorrow's longer than to-day." And when to-morrow shall destroy The heaven of our dreams, in vaia Our hurrying manhood we employ To bui!d the vanished bliss again; We have no leisure to enjoy, "So few the years that yet remain ; So much to do, nnd ah !" we say, "To-morrow's longer than to-day." But when oar hands are worn and weak. And still our labors seem unblest, And time goes past us like a bleak Last twilight waning to the west, "It is not here the bliss we seek"; Too brief is life for happy rest. And yet what need of grief?" we say ; "To-morrow's longer than to-day." Waverlev Magazine. Find the Moral Before Stribling got married Mrs. Sanaper told him she had no Idea of Interfering with his domestic affairs. 'I hope I always have realized that young people must find out for themselves what is best for them, and settle their own differences without the help of any third person," she said. "When you marry Bessie I can't help being your mother-in-law, but I'm not going to be the kind of mother-in-law that you read about in the funny papers." "It Isn't necessary for you to tell me that," said Stribling, smiling. "I'm coming to 6ee you now and then," continued Mrs. Sanaper, 4,but I'm not going to make any six months' visits." "I wish that you'd make up your mind to live with us," said Stribling, with perfect sincerity. "I won't," said Mrs. Sanaper. "I think too much of you both. And another thing Is that Bessie needn't come to me with any of her troubles, thinking I'm going to take her part, for I'm not. I tidnk you're a dear, good boy, but I Jo not think you are an angel, and I know Bessie isn't, so you'll hare your troubles." "I don't think they'll be very serious ones," said Stribling, confidently. "Well, that's all," said Mrs. Sanaper. "Now you know what you've got to expect I've declared myself, aud that's what I wanted to do. Bessie will be down in a few minutes." Stribling married Bessie about a month after that interview nnd he was not long In discovering that Mrs. Sanaper was living up to the letter aud spirit of her declaration. She came to see the vounz people, but not half often enough to please Stribling. When she did come her cheerfulness, her warm appreciation of everything done or planned In the little home, her approval of everything tbey had acquired, made her a household Joy. When the first baby arrived ber helpfulness was beyond words and Stribling was almost tearful in his gratitude. But even the baby was unable to keep her a day longer than she was absolutely needed. "No, John," she said, when Stribling entreated her, even reproached her, "I don't live so far off that I can't be here the minute I'm wanted, and I'll be over to see the little precious often enough. But I'll never forget what I went through with my own dear mother when Bessie was a baby. Mother was with us all the time and she wouldn't let me do a single thing that I wanted to do with my own child. No, I'll call you up every day that I don't come, but I've got to go now." If any one wanted to stir Stribling up he had only to speak slightingly of mothers-in-law even In general terms. "It makes me weary to hear a man who pretends to rudimentary sense nnd dec! alklng that way," Stribling wout- way. "I tell you that no man can have a greater blessing than a mother-in-law of the right kind, aud they're generally of the right kind, let me tell you. I don't know how I'd ever get along without mine." 'Terhaps yours Is an exception," one of the atlllcted ones would sx:ggest. "You bet she's an exception," Strib ling would s.iy, carried a little Into In?onsistency by his enthusiasm. And then he would begin to brag of Mrs Sanaper. Terhaps the fact that Mrs. Sanaper actually had sided with iiim in one or two little domestic difficulties helped on his enthusiasm. Mrs. Stribling on ono occasion was disposed to regard ! her husband's staying out late rather Kloo seriously nnd her mother gently de fended tho man. "It will probably hap pen again, my dear," she said, "hut the wrost thing In the world to do is to make a fuss about It. He's a man and men don't like to feel that they are not allowed a little liberty. Besides, why i shouldn't he have a little change once iu a while? You give him a cheerfu ( welcome when he does got home and i tell hlzn you hoxe he enjoyed himself,

drums made of skin stretched on calabashes, and some small side drums beside. The sound of the drumming carries for great distances, and soon the laborers begin to respond. In a short time a small army of workers is gathered and the work of harvesting is rushed to completion.

even If the fact's only too apparent. He won't want to stay half as long the next time as he will if he anticipates tears and reproaches." She apologized for other delinquencies of Stribling's from time to time, as when lie wasn't nice about a hat, complained of the dinner or brought guests home unexpectedly In the course of the next fifteen or sixteen years. So everything went along very happily indeed, upon the whole, until one fatal evening Stribling came home and found his mother-in-law In the sitting room with her embroidery. "Why, hello, mother!" said Stribling, a little surprised. "I thought we had lost you." "My rheumatism was troubling me so this afternoon that Bessie wouldn't let me go," explained Mrs. Sanaper. "I'm sorry," said Stribling. "I can sympathize with you, too. I've been bothered with neuralgia all day. Where is Bessie?" "She went downtown to do a little shopping," replied Mrs. Sanaper. "I thought surely that you would come home on the same train." Stribling frowned as a sharp pain shot through his temples. "It's a dickens of a time for her to stay," he said. Irritably. Mrs. Sanaper put her hand suddenly to her back and dropped her work. "Drat It!" she exclaimed. "I should think she'd manage to buy what she wanted and be back In time for dinner," growled Stribling. "I don't think you ought to be cross about It," said Mrs. Sanaper. "She Isn't away when you come home very often, poor girl!" "I suppose you think she ought to be." said Stribling. "She's an abused, trampled-on, domestic drudge. Isn't she? And I'm n brute. Is that what you mean?" Mrs. Sanaper groaned a little and then said with som energy: "I certainly think you are do; In a very amiable mood this evening, John." Stribling turned on his heel and left the room. That night Mrs. Stribling said: "What have you been saying to mother, John? She's been crying about something and she won't tell me what it Is." "I'll tell you," said Stribling. I wish she'd go. She's been here two days now. Because she happens to be my mother-in-law I don't see why I'm to be criticised by her. She's been trying to make out that I'm mean to you or she thinks bo, that's all. It's the natural hostility of a woman to the man who marries her daughter, I suppose, and I suppose I'll have to put up with It; but I don't like It. Just plain mother-in-law." The moral is that eternal vigilance Is the price of toleration. Chicago DailyNews. REVIVAL OF DICKENS NEAR. Instead of Snubbing Mnn, She Look Up to 1 1 litt a u Superior Belnif. We are threatc-ned and there is no use any longer disguising the fact with a formidable revival of the Dick ens girl. An audacious milliner, in a thoughtless moment, reintroduced the cottage bonnet" (familiar In portraits of the young Queen Victoria) as a kind of blinker for motoring, nnd the head gear, tied round the dimpled chin of a pretty young woman, reminded numerous elderly gentlemen of sirens of the 70s Like Yvette Guilbert, tle first girl who ventured to wear the coal-scuttle bonnet had a success de grand'mere. The contrast was piquant. Irresistible. For some tiuio past the artists of the younger school have been painting crinolines and shawls, parted hair and cameo brooches all the Insignia, In short, of the young person of the Dick ens novel and period. And now she. is upon us In the flesh, and not upon eanvas. The cottage bonnet and floating veil sweep all before them, the most devout woman hater Is disarmed, the susceptible fall at one glance. And with the Dickens bonnet will surely come a revival of the feminine manners, the feminine attitude of the '4!s and '00s. It will be a surprising volte-face. Missy will have to put away her golf clubs nnd hookey stleks. and take to tattiug and playing the piano Young persons with a pretty wit and a talent for conversation must henceforth sit mumchance, and their voices miijt not be heard at the dinner table. Instead of snubbing and chaffing Mere Man. she will have to prostrate horsdf before him ns a being of superior powers. One can foresee some diverting contingencies until the heroine of. another and more audacious period becomes, for the nonce, the fashion. London Sketch. HOW FLOWERS niDE HO'JEY. Pit Where Sweet.i Ara Stored In th Lily. "Before the bee sucks," as Ariel put It, he must find the wonderful places where the flowers hide away their honey, to be found like the priests' hiding holes In ancient mansions, by tho ri?ht sort of visitor, and to keep away all intruders. In the recesses of the crown imperial IMir nt 41ir (finlnr mil ho rnn civ- i rrr, I honey pits, one on every floral leaf, and

each is brimming over with a big drop of honey and glistening like a teardrop. Shake the flower and It "weeps" as the big drops fall from it, soon to be replaced by other tears In the 'rapidly secreting flower. The simple folk call the Cower "Job's tears." The snowdrop Is literally flowing with honey, for In swollen veins traversing Its fragile whiteness are rivers of nectar. The petals of the columbine are ingeniously and elaborately designed with a view to providing good places of hiding for the honey. Each is circular, hollow, shaied like a horn. Iu each the honey is secreted in a round knob at what would be the mouthpiece end of the horn, nnd the five are arranged In a ring, side by side, with the honey knobs aloft. Though the honey store is obvious from without, yet the insects who would sip it must creep Into the flower and penetrate with a long nose up the curving horn to the knob. Sometimes the petals are all Joined together into a tube and the sweet nectar simply exudes from the inner side of the wall and collects at the bottom. This Is the case In the dead nettle, the tube of which forms so toothsome a morsel that some children call It suckles." The honeysuckle is similarly planned, and its sweetness Is so striking as to have furnished- Its name. The monkshood has quaint nectaries. If the hood be drawn back there suddenly spring into sight two objects on long stalks, which are sometimes like a French horn, sometimes like a cowl, or, looked at sideways, not unlike a pair of doves. Their presence within the hood has p-ovlded the nicknames "Adam and Eve" and "Noah's Ark." Thus the honey bags are carefully tucked away and protected. Chicago Tribune.

DISCOVERIES AT KNOSS03. Betulta of the Recent Excavation ly Dr. Erani In Crete. May I beg a little space to Inform those Interested In Cretan exploration of a series of discoveries lately made at Kuossos? says a writer In the. Loudon Times. The news from Dr. Evans is exceedingly good.- He has been working , all the season In the large house which lies to the west of the palace, but unfortunately Is deeply buried under the talus of a hill. With great labor Dr. Evans has now reached the further limit of this building, and on his way has found much. A magnificent steatite vase in the shape of a bull's head, with Inlay of cut shell about the nostrils and with crystal eyeballs, the Iris being painted on the back of the crystal, reveals to us a new technic. In another quarter, on the north, a great hoard of bronze Implements and utensils, inciudln- a large tripod cauldron in perfect preservation, will much Increase our knowledge of the finer domestic apparatus of Mlnoan civiliza tion. As Dr. Evans sneaks of bavins unearthed a great number of early vases with these tools there should be no difficulty In dating the latter and thereby getting standard forms. On the south of the palace a range of buildings has been found at a lower level, largely burled under debris of the palace Itself. The latter Included a mass of Ivory fragments, the remains of carved caskets and of fresco paint ings. Inside the south building Itself, under a staircase, a small hoard of sliver vessels has come to light some bowls and a Jug. These will be welcomed as first fruits of that work In precious metals which so greatly influenced the ceramic artists of the middle Mlnoan ieriods, but has generally disappeared. We hear, too, of fine vases of various kinds, one with papyrus plant ornament in relief and others In the best "palace style." Work is also proceeding actively on the restoration of the royal apartments on the east of the palace, and every effort Is belüg made to get Into the great dome tomb found last year and to find other tombs IIa I a Poor Subttltate (or Irrigation. And Irrigation Is better than rain, infinitely better. That also sounds like a paradox, but Instead It Is almost a truism. What is better to give a plant just as much and no more water than It needs and just when It ihhhIs it; or to parch it or drown It accordlug to the whim of the clouds? The rain falls upon the just and upon the unjust alike; upon your strawberries that cry for It and upon your sugar beets that want uninterrupted sunshine. Bam is all rieht in its place, but It Is a very poor substitute for Irrigaticn. Otherwise why would the lawns of our cities be sprinkled or irri gated, instead of leaving them to the tender mercy of the clouds? No. Arid lands are more fertile than ordinary land?!, nnd Irrigation Is" better than rain. Success Magazine. Trying to Trove an Alibi. "Now, Tommy, either you or Johnny have been stealing grapes again. Here are the skins." "Tw?sn"t me, ma honest it wasn't I et al- my skins." Cleveland Leader I.onferi nt the Tool Table. The Lest pool players In any town a re generally the young fellows who nev er h;nigonto one job very long at a thu I Kansas City Journal.

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