Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 January 1909 — Page 6

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SHOOTIXG AT AIRSHIPS. T is not going to be all easy sailing for the flying machines when once they become the commonplace occupants of the air. They will face dangers which are not entirely of the suspended law of gravitation. When the great ballwn race was run from St. Louis in tne attempt to reach

the Atlantic shore, several of the balloons were fired on, one of them four times, while in the state of Ohio. A German balloon was shot at by guards while it was crossing the Russian frontfer last week. This, we suspect. Is a peril likely to be a permanent feature of air sailing. Hunters, far from the neighborhood of the constable and having a grim, Italian sense of humor, will find delight in taking a shot at flying machines. Irresponsible youngsters on housetops will try to pepper dirigibles in the same temper of Impudence that they throw stones at passing railroad trains. Punishment Is remote, the temptation, not a small one, and a curiosity to see what would happen strong. ToliceIng the earth for the protection of aeronauts will be a difficult labor. Toledo Blade.

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E is a bold man who dares say so. yet here are the words of Itev. John llalcoui Shaw, of Chicago, in the columns of the Ilomlletic Review : "Men are naturally democratic Left to themselves they seldom draw sharp social lines or insist upon conventional dis

tinctions. What do we find in the one sphere where they are supreme the political world? How much class distinction exists there? Not so with women. They are more gregarious, but at the same time more conventional. Is not fashion their standing incrimination at tlds bar? If rich, they are the more exclusive; If poor, the more sensitive. Social lines existing In the world without they have extended Into the sacred inclosure of the church, until to-day there is no more conventional body amrng us than the well-to-do Christian church. Nothing hurts us so much as this one condition, and for Its existence I hold our women almost exclusively responsible." Such reasoning comes with a shock to those who have ei brought up to believe that women were the main ort of the church, that they carried It forward n men were too lazy or too indifferent, and that the

-HE SAFETY OF THE SEA. The landsman, safe in his snug bed, pities the poor sailor, whose narrow oerth swings at the mercy of tho waves. The "tar," on the other hand, feels more security anion; the tumbling blllows than among the perils of the dry land. An old sailor, whom James Greenwood describes In "The Wilds of London," gives expression to the dangers of the shore from the nautical Iomt of view, and backs up his argument with personal experience. "ItY safer than on shore, that's my opinion, though, mind you, I never really liked the sea. For eight years I never put out without being seasick. Ain't that true, missus?" "Aye, sir, that It Is," answered the wife. "Many a time I've seen him shudder at the sight of bis great boots as he was pulling them on before he went down to the boat" "Well, well," continued the sailor, "I ain't the only one. What I was going to say Is this, that I never was one who took kind to the sea, but J always thought, and now I am downright sure, that It's safer than being ashore." "I'd be glal to know jow you make that out," said I. "I'll tell you, s'r. I've been fisherman for thirty-five years and never got hurt, and how many landsman can say that?"' "Never got a scar, you mean," Interrrpteil the- wife. "Bless the man ! He's got hurts ' enough I" "IIov. V asked her husband. . "Why, how many times have" you been washed overboard?" "Pooh! How many times have you nashed plates and dishes, old lass?" replied the fisherman, impatient that his good lady should think such trifles worth mentioning. ' "And twice run Into r.nd foundered." "Tnat hurt the owner a sight niore'n it did me." "And once the lightning struck you. Surely you don't forget that, William?" "And didn't it strike the market'house ashore the same night, and didn't It rive the old pollard up on Wilson's land? Didn't t kill Millar's horse the same night, ,b It stood in the stable? Don't tell me, eld lass! It'6three to one more dangerous on land. I wonder you can talk so if ter t'other night!" "That was an accident." "Yes, one of your shore accidents! Never had such a fright In oil the years I've been at soa. Tell jou how It was. I'd been out three tights, and was glad to gei ashore and lie down-.In bed for an hour or more. Old lass he foes to market. 'Don't! you touch things drying about the fire says she. "Well, I falls off, and presently I gets It Into my head that I'm being drowned, &rA ?.ave to fight for my life. So I wak" np, choking, and the room la full of smoke, and an old flannel petticoat, hanging before the fire, Is all glowing red, and the chair smoldering. Wasn't that an escape? Pooh! Don't tell me about the perils of the ear WHY UNSKILLED WORKMEN. They Are Called the Result of ImPraetlcaltle School Training. Less than 5 per cent of all the millions of school children in the United States ever reach the secondary school, Rays Rheta Childe Dorr In the Delineator, and it is safe to say that not more than 2j per cent of the whole number ever go above the fifth grade. That is to say, of . the 2:i,7Dl,,7i'J children enrolled in 1007, at least 18,000,000 will leave school between the fifth and sixth grades. A report of the United States com missioner of education Issued in 11)04 gives the- average amount of schooling for all public school children as years. The term varies from 2.84 years in the So.ith Atlantic division to 5.9:1 In the North Atlantic. The average term has ncrer.sed slightly since 1004. The term Is still very short, not more than live years. If the children who finish grammar school and spend iorhaps a year In the high school are ;is densely ignorant as tb evidence indicates the average child who attends school live years must go furth to meet the struggle for existence almost an Illiterate. Last year, 11.831 children left the

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church was purely democratic, patterned after the universal brotherhood doctrines of Christ. Yet, not so long since, the wife of one cabinet officer at Washington quarreled with the wives of other officers over social precedence. The woman of the tenement, proud in possession of a new feather fo: her bonnet, boasts over her next-door neighbor. Fond mothers approve their children trying to establish a secret society aristocracy in the public schools of Chicago. Is the church exempt from human nature? If not, then perhaps Dr. Shaw Is right, after all, and another childhood Illusion has perished. Chicago Journal.

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In operation In the United States the proposition would run something like this: Every postolfice In the land would become a depository, not to unlimited but to limited amounts, for the savings of the people. This money wo ild be in turn- deposited by the government in regular banks, and the individual depositor would be allowed Interest at the rate of, say. 2 per cent. Having taken charge of the money, the government would become responsible for its safety. Philadelphia Inquirer.

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dition which foretells their filling the ranks of the lower strata of society. With frequent and protracted wars a thing of the past, with the questions of national defense less pressing than ever before, with the conquering of plagues which in other centuries claimed their thousands yearly, the common welfare does not demand families with eight or ten children, particularly if the parents are poor. Brooklyn Standard Union.

New York City fifth grammar grades. In lesser numbers children in every town and city in the United States, from Maine to California, left school at the same time, the vast majority of them to earn their bread. Children of the people, for whom the public schools exist, they left school with minds practically vc id of knowledge. Most of them could barely read and write, and not one of them had been taught anything that would even remotely or indirectly help him to earn a decent living. Think what this means industrially! It means that 'every year millions of American boys and girlsfor all grow up to be Americans, no matter where they were born are sent out wherever workers are needed to factories, to trades, to commerce, to all Industries as Ignorant and helpless as kittens! They are turned out into a world of 3erce competition utterly unfit to compete, into a world of splendid opportunities, without the training or the intellectual power to enable them to take advantage of these opportunities. Is it strange that skilled workmen are so few, or that the unskilled, low-waged occupations are so overcrowded, or that our armies of unemployed are larger every time hard times bring them Into notice? , 4 4!4&J I NOT TREATING HDI FAIRLY. In Oriental countries public writers are familiar to every traveler. In the lialkan states their outfit consists of a It of ink, some wooden rens, some pieces of paper, a jx-pjicr-box uf sand, a constant cup of coffee, a tobacco-box and a flint. The trustworthiness of these scribes is shown in the following anecdote, taken from a book entitled The IJalkan Trail," by Frederick Moore : A veiled woman presents a letter at the booth. "From whom? 'asks the sage of cipher. "Our husband," the woman replies. "Most beloved of wives," the flattering fellow begins to read, "I am well. I wish you are well. The weather is well. The buffaloes are well. '" Here the wise man studies the document closely, and asks, "What is your husband's name';" "A 1 moon, effendL" "Ah, yes; A 1 moon." The woman pays two metaleeks. A few weeks later the same woman appears with another letter. "From whom Is it?" again the question. "Our husband." "Most beloved wife,"' he starts In, by way of variation, "'the weather is well. I am well. I wish you well.' What did you say your husband's name is?" "Almoon." "Ah, yes; Almoon. Your husband's letter writer does not form his letters well." The woman pays two more metaleeks. gome time later she returns again. The Intelligent man of letters recognizes her this time, and employs his trained memory. "Most Itelored of my wives,'" he begins. "I hope you are well. I am "' "Effendi," the woman Interrupts, "this letter, I think, Is from my sister." "Ah, you should have told me!" 'Jack Iloblnson. Jack Robinson has long been a favor ite synonym for rapidity of speech or action, but possibly few people who ue the phrase are aware that Jack Ilolinson was a real live person. "As a politician." says Lady Dorothy Nevill in her "Reminiscences," "Jack Robinson was a great favorite with George III. His political carper was long, for he was a member for Harwich during" twenty-six years, being n one oceaI slon bitterly attacked by Sheridan, who. denouncing bribery and Its Instigators, replied to the cries of 'Name! Name!' by pointing to Robinson on the treasury bench, exclaiming at the same time; 'Yes, I could name him as soon as l ronld say Jack Robinson.' and thu originated the saying still current sit the present day." I'eople never got so old that it tljos not hurc them to be scolded.

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POSTAL SAVINGS PANKS. HE iostal savings bank is no new thing, except in this country. All enlightened governments of Europe has maintained it for years. There is nothing problematical about it. It has been thoroughly tested, and there is not an Intelligent Immigrant who does not know all about it.

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T is now recognized In this daj of universal education that it is better to raise three children so their minds shall be reasonably equipped for the battle of life and their bodies strong so as to withstand the hardships of adversity than to bring five children to the age of maturity In a con

Legal Information The Supreme Judicial court ofMassachusetts in Mulvey vs. City of Boston, S3 Northeastern Reporter, 402, held that a change by the legislature of the statute of limitations from six j-ears to two, allowing SO days in which to bring actions for personal injuries against cities, which accrued more than two years before, Is not unconstitutional and that in a small state like Massachusetts where means of communication are so adupjate, an allowance ol CO days is a reasonable time iu which to bring au action which would be barred by the change. The parties to the case of Johnson vs. Saum, 114 Northwestern Reporter, 018, had made a settlement of their accounts. It appeared that plaintiff was Indebted to defendant for $."-10, in payment of which plaintiff transferred to defendant a mare. Subsequently plaintiff found that he was mistaken in supposing himself Indebted to defendant and brought action for the recovery of $,"-10. Defendant offered to prove that the mare was worth not more than $o0, which offer the court refused and plaintiff recovered Judgment for $4GT. The Supreme Court of Iowa held that recovery should have been limited to the value of the mare, expressing the devout hope that the unfortunate mare, which had twice made the journey from the trial court and back again, might not be again compelled to repeat the dreary round, and suggested to her sponsors that the game was not worth the candle A railroad company In reconstructing a highway had fdled Its bed with two or three feet of sand, in which plaintiffs automobile became stuck while passing over. Assistance was necessary to disengage the car, which while being extricated, was injured. Action was then instituted for damages. In Doherty vs. Town of Ayer, 8.1, North eastern Reporter, C77, the Supreme Ju dicial Cotrt of Massachusetts held that a statute, enacted more than 100 years ago, providiur that highways should be kept in repair at the expense of the city or town, so as to be reasonably safe and convenient for travelers with carriages, could not reasonably be con strued to embrace heavy machines Ilk? modern automobiles, as this would pui towns in sparsely settled districts under enormous expense in the maintenance of highways. An Amateur. During a little pedestrian trip a gentleman came unexpectedly uin a eountiy raw course, and on one portion of the ground found a thlmblerig establishment In full work. Notwithstanding the remonstrant of his companion, the gentleman, who was a bit of a madcap, insisted on watching the game. "Now, would the gent like to wager a crown he can find the pea?" remarked the expert. "Yes," was the reply. The money was on both sides depose Red and the pedestrian, lifting up the thimble, pointed out the required pea, and took the stakes. A second !ct, "double or quits" ended, to the surprise of the expert, In the same result. Then a third wager, "a pound or nothing." steadied tho nerves of -the loser, and the trick was accomplished with great caution. The gentleman lifted up a thimble and showed the pea, at the same time pocketing the stake. "S'lielp me." etc.. "I diJn't put it tliorel" exclaimed the Lewileh rod artlst"No, but I always carry my own iea." rejoined the man who had come J out right, as he went on his way with J the spoils of war. Shop '1'hIW. Cigar Dealer Yea, that is my wife over there the one with the tine wrajv per. American filler, and perfect c shape. Judge. "I 'am so sympathetic," you often hear people say. And they sympathize more with themselves than with other prop!' If a man gives his wife some money just before he leaves the hmi-'1 she is not so apt to notice it if be fails to kiss her good-fcye.

THE UNREMEMBERED. Where have they gone, the unremembered things. The hours, the faces. The trumpet call, the wild boughs of white spring? .Would I might pluck you from forbidden spaces, AU ye, the vanished tenants of my places! Stay but one moment, speak that I may hear, Swift passer-by! The wind of your strange garments in my ear. Catches the heart like a beloved cry From lips, alas, forgotten utterly. An odor haunts, a color in the mesh, A step that mounts the stair; Come to me, I would touch your living flesh Look how they disappear, ah, where, ah, where? Because I name them not, deaf to my prayer. If I could call them as I used,, Each by his name! That violin what ancient voice that railed I Yon is the hill, I see the beacon flame. My feet have found the road where once I came. Quick but again the dark, darkness and shame. -Florence Wilkinson, in McCIure's.

The Turn The man looked about him, conscious Df an overwhelmig flood of strangely mingled feelings. In quick, vivid flashes the whole past raced before eyes and brain, stirring him to the depths of his being. ' What a well-remembered odor greeted his nostrils, and what unforgettable music throbbed in his ears! It was the same rippling, dancing sea, the same interminable sand, with its undulations and ridges, lt3 patches of sun-dried weed, its scattered rocks and shells. And the wide water looked kind; it greeted him with a flush and a smile; it wanted to put him at his ease, to! show him its friendliness and welcome after the dark days which had flown, j It knew him as a baby, a boy, a youth ; and it loved him as such, forgetting, , and perhaps not caring, about the darker strain of the man. , j For Hugh Rodney, after an absence of five years, during which he had disgraced the good name he bore, had returned to his native soil, an outcast end a wanderer, sickened with ther turmoil of cities, whose glamour had been his fall, and now fully repentant, desperately in earnest to hold his head level with the rest of his fellow-men, j and to live something of the life which, In a moment of aberration, he had forfeited with such calamitous results to himself and to those abcut him. Suddenly, however, he felt himself wrenched from the pleasant train of memories Into which he had drifted by the appearance of one who was the very last he wished to recall a man somewhat bis senior, with a hard. Intellectual face, yet urdenlably handsome and honest looking to boot. For the moment Kodney was under the Impression that Frank Leyton. like the res of the townspeople, had not recognized, in the changed and Raddentd pilgrim, the brilliant, well-beloved Individual who had left his seaside home to seek his fortune In the wider haunts of men, and whose future seemed so full of every blessing and prospect which this world can bestow. . Hut Leytön knew him at once, and with an Indescribable shrug of the shoulders, he approac.ied the yqunger man with a smile on his face Ills hand, however, he kept behind him. "Not dead, then?' he began, staring Rodney full in the eyes. I thought I rememlH?red you. Something about your face, you know." And the speaker laughed, perhaps not brutally, but it sounded so to the erring one. Rodney felt his face flush. "I hardly expected to see you here, Leyton." he said; and then he looked away, Incapable of framing further speech. "It must be why! almost five years since we've met," said tho other. "A lot can happen In five years eh, Rodney?" "A lot has happened," said Rodney, almost angry as he lifted, his gray eyes, "and you know it! I've stolen a bank note; I've been to prison; I've hastened my father's death. All that has happened, and now I've come back to see what I was, to see what I used to love before I learned to gamble and squander money which wasn't mine." Leyton was hardly prepared for such 1 clean-breasted rebuff. It stung something of the self-righteousness within him, and the humor of his next attempt rang a little untrue. "The prodigal's return ah! ah! I idmlre your courage, old -boy. Hang it ! but it wants some nerve. People don't forget eh?" Rodney's Up quivered painfully, his eyes flashed, and his pale cheeks burnt a scorching red For a moment he seemed on the point of turning away without saying another word, and then he hesitated, tiually stepping nearer to the other. "No," he said quietly; "people don't forget. I'm learning that lesson continually; I shall know it well In time. I suppose that you, who have always had the strength I lacked, couldn't forget some things, even for me!" "You shouldn't have Iteen such a fool," said Leyton, a little uneasily. Somehow, his opinion of his own great worthiness seemed to be weakening. Rodney was putting things in an unaccustomed light. There was a moment's pause, then Rodney, now muh palen and apparent ly laboring under the stress of a deep emotion, said : "We were rivals once you recollect, Have you been " And then he stopped abruptly, while his mouth tightened Into hard lines, and his eyes grew dull end somber. "Yes," said Leyton, grasping everything in a moment, "I have been suc cessful, and " "And Edith," blurted Rodney, t iking the words out of the other's mouth, "is your wife?" Iieyton nodded serenely. "Yes, she Is my wife. You hardly expected her to wait for you, eh?" Rodney was on the point of saying something which he would have bit terly regretted ever afterwards, but he mastered himself with a supreme ef fort, and slowly rejoined: ''No, I never expected it. She was a lot too good for me, even when I wasn't a blackgnard. Don't tell her you've seen me. I shall be gone to-night." Leyton laughed. "My dear fellow, he said jocularly, "Mrs. Leyton lias long forgotten your voy existence. You suioly didn't think that any woman could remember a thief!" lie hardly meant to say t, and It was out bc-foro he realized the stinging cruelty of It all ; but thoughts of the cast, wheu Hugh Rodney had stood first

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in the favor of Edith Clair, touched a sore spot iu his pride, and he had little compunction in using the first weapon which came to hand. Rodney staggered under the blow. "You paragon!" he muttered, flashing kindling eyes at the well-dressod man. "Perhaps it will comfort you to know that you've blackened the one day I've been waiting for the one day in which I hoped to forget that I've ever been to jail. Tell your wife that, will you?" He could trust himself no further, and so, turning swiftly, he plunged over the sand ridges, through mounds and hollows anywhere, anywhere to escape from the wretched past How pitiless the world was! How unforgiving, how brutally Immaculate! His short dream was over; only the nightmare of remembrance in Its place, always holding the black picture before him, always deadening every little happiness he sought to grasp. He could scarcely L"ar to look at the sea. What was It to him? What was the göod of striving for the sunshine and music of life, when there were those who met him on the highway and declared that such things were not for him? How he wished he had never been tempted to see his home once HOW PITILESS THE WOULD WAS. more. lietter to nave armed witn the big stream which had engulfed so many than to 6ee every little ray of hope prove nothing but a miragel He al most hated the ripple of the waves; tb.2 brilliance of the heavens made his eyeballs throb wildly And so he wandered on, his soul In a tumult of despair, his heart as dry as dust Water splashed over his boots. but he .heeded it not, scarcely noticed it. Occasionally lie heard voices children's voices, the call of fishermen. the laughter of merry shrimpers; but they were far away, in a world remote from his. After a while he found himself gazing stupidly over the sea, without knowing why he did so. Something must have arrested his footsteps, but why? II would press onward again to escape from his misery, to shut out the fool's paradise which only maddened him the more as the day wore on. And yet, somehow, he did not move, his feet refused to answer to his will. What was it that prevented him? Dimly, as in a dream, he became conscious of a strange face gradually growing distinct before him. A strange face, and yet was It strange? What could memory not do with those misty blue eyes, those ripe lips all a-tremble. those tangling locks, those brown arms with their slim, tapering fingers loosely holding the haft of the big net which was just afloat on the tiny ripples? Why was he standing so still, and what was memory doing? "You you haven't forgotten me, Mr. Rodney?" Surely he remembered the voice! It was such an unusual voice, so unlike the many he had heard. "It sounds like Nora," he said, finding speech at last, "but It can't be. I have forgotten." "Perhaps Nora hasn't!" came the tremulous words. "I knew you at once." He looked harder than ever, and this time lie was not mistaken A fresh, blooming girl stood before him, clad in the simple but picturesque attire of a shrimper; her skirt gathered up at the waist, her loose sleeves rolled above the ?'!!iov, while her hair blew free from the ribbon which was her only head dress. "I thought you would come back," she resumed, going close up to him, and sjK-aklng siowlj-, with a flute-like sweetness. "You are not much changed, Mr. Rodney5

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"Not much changed V He laughed eddly as he repeated the words. Then he looked at her again. "You have grown, little Nora but you cannot have heard." She nodded gravely. "I have heard everything, but I'm little no longer I'm twenty, Mr. Rodney." He laughed again. It seemed sc strange to see Nora a woman, the pretty little. Nora who had cried so bitterly when he had told her, years before, that he could spend no more afternoons helping her to catch shrimps, but must be off to London to seek his fortune And now she was a woman with the same sweet voice, the same pleading oj-es "And I am twenty-eight," he said, hardly knowing what prompted him to do so. "And two years have been spent iu prison, little Nora, and I'm a blackguard and in disgrace." "You are not!" she cried, dropping Lcr net and flushing hotly. "Nobody thall say it. I will hate them for it if they do!" Rodney stared about him. utterly bewildered. Nobody had spoken to him in that way before. A few had sympaihized. many had pitied.' but not one had stretched friendship to such limits. Rut was it friendship? If ever eyes were to read, those blue ones could be fathomed at that moment, answering everything, veiling nothing which need not be veiled before permitting one to see and to feel every depth within. "I am ashamed of myself," he said. Involuntarily stepping back a pace. "And I " "Yes, yes!' cried Rodney, stretching forth a hand and grasping her arm till the blue weals started on the soft flesh. "Oh! have you never guessed?" she whispered, looking splendid In her wild blushes. "Have I ever forgotten you by night or day?" She dragged her a-ni from his strong clutch, and buried her face In her hands. "Have you come only to say good-by?" "You can't love me, Nora, and forget?" cried Rodney, well nigh dumfemnded at the sudden revelation "Forget !" The face lifted swiftly to his. "What have I to forget, but you? I would have gone to prison as well, could I have seen you there. I ought to have forgotten you ten years ago, but I couldn't Now say good-by, and' don't come near me again!" she added, biting the quivering lips. "I have said too much." Rut even as she retreated, Rodney followed her, heedless of the water which swirled about his ankles."Say It again! he said, catc-hlng a fold of her skirt "Let me hear it again, Nora. God knows I've suffered enough !" Nora shook her Lead, but she was smiling now. "And I have been fool enough already!" she said. '"Don't make me worse, my Hugh!" And. as the name lingered on the girl's lips the man felt the burden lifted from his soul. One still had faith, still trusted him; he had not lived In vain. Philadelphia Telegraph

THE PLAYFUL POBPOISE. A Sportive YonnsRter, That Had Fna ivlth a Motor Iloat. Writing of a motor boat trip on the. Rlack Sea, Henry C. Rowland In Applcton's tells of the playfulness of the porpoise: "That evening was a lively one, the air of a delightful temperature, very clear, and the sea like a mill pond. A big school of porpoises came over to play with the boat, and the water was so sparkllngly clear and of such a glassy surface that we Vere able to follow all their movements even when they plunged to their fullest depth. They had not the slightest fear of the noise of the motor, but swam dangerously close to the propeller and frequently rubbed themselves against the sideis of the boat. "One sportive youngster kept getting across the stem. . For almost an hour I lay on my face forward, with my head over the bow, watching him. He was playful as a puppy and at last Invented a little game of his own. Lying across the stem, he would let the curve of the bow roll him over and over, presently disappearing to swim back and repeat the performance. I have watched porpoises In many waters of the globe, but have never seen any as kittenish as these." nirds of a Feather. There Is a ieculiar romance in summer hotel. or boarding house life. Yojr neighbor mry be a princess or a bank clerk. So long as the bills are paid and the two weeks' vacation lasts, all are equally lofty. A writer in the New York Times tells of two persons wha had met by chance at Atlantic Cltjl The man was convinced that the giri was a Southerner of high caste, and she Imagined him to be a "rich New Yorker." "Yoir are from New York, aren't you?" she abruptly asked, when they had paused for a moment after a stroll along the beach. "Yes," he answered, determined to be honest. "I live in East ICth street where I have to get along on $10 a week. But you, you are "No," she replied, coldly, "I live In East lfith street also. I, too, am a clerk." "Anywhere near No. 23S?" he faintly asked. "Yes; next door No. 25G!" "Waterproofing Matches. Perliaps some of your readers would be interested to know that I have found a simple. Inexpensive way to waterproof matches, says the Scientific American. Into some melted paraffin (care being taken that It was as cool as possible) I dipped a few ordinary parlor matches. After withdrawing them and allowing them to cool It was found that they scratched almost as easily as before being coated with the wax. Several were held under water for six or sever hours and all of them lighted as easily as before immersion. When the match is scratched the paraffin Is first rubheel off and the match lights in the usual way. Matches treated as above would be very useful on camping or canoeing trips, as they do not absorb moisture. Since more rubbing is required to light them than the ordinary match, It would be practically Impossible to set them on fire by accidental dropping. Accomplished. "She's got a future." "Can she act?" "No, but she can work her eyes better than any lady In the business, and as for wearing swell clothes gee, she couldn't do better if she was twins!" Life. If some men were to lose their selfconceit there -wouldn't be much left

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Trust Magnate and the Tariff. It had not occurred to the people of the United Srates to refer the question of protective principles to the heads of the largest trusts in the country, through accurate information Is welcome from any source. A powerful established trust cgi take care of Itself with or without protection, for Its first great Vbject is to occupy the field In a dominant way by getting the upper hand of competition. No one doubts that the threat steel Interests represented by Mr. Carnegie, Judge Gary and others of their financial class can continue to make large dividends without regard to tariff considerations. Their companies have the advantage of vast capital and. Immense running plants. They can buy on the preferential rates Identified with the largest operations and cannot be forced to sell until they are rendy to fix prices, in combination, perhaps, with the trusts of Europe or other foreign regions. But how about wage-earners in tho steel business and smaller concerns that would like to engage la the business as new opportunities appear? One of the great aims of protection In the tariffs of this country Is to maintain the rate of American wages, which Is much the best In amount and relatively, paid anywhere iu the world. These trust chieftains who are appearing before the ways and means committee consider the question from the dividend-paying point, not from that of the wage-earners. Mr. Carnegie says the steel Industry can now stand without protective duties. Would he be willing to Insure, personally as far rs his bond would go, that putting steel on the free list would not be followed, soon or late, by a redaction of wages In thU line of production, which reaches into the mines and transportation by rail and water, as well as into the iron mills? Free steel would certainly put American labor In direct competition with poorly paid foreign labor In the same business, and as far as wage-earners are concerned there Is nothing to offset the risk or to warrant It. Possibly Mr Carnegie could push his trust affiliations in Europe o that the advantages of his corporation, and his dividends, would be greater than ever. Iiut there would be no accompanying chance that American wages would be advanced; nor any obligations entered Into for their maintenance, nor any fund set aside to provide against their rosslble reduction. Protection is the mother of American wages and American home competition' In the general sense. The trusts say they can do without it It is an instructive statement Wage-earners have not Joined in it nor will they. ' The Standard. Oil Company has amply shown that it can do without protection. For years Its dividends have been from 40 to 4S per cent a year In a recent financial crisis the oil trust poured" $32,000,000 cash into Wall street in a single day. Such a monopoly palght become mightier than the government especially if It undertook to say how the Supreme courts of the States should be made up. Free traders are busy Just now with the Idea that they are to take a hand in tariff revision. They will find that the Republican party will nttend to this business on an absolutely firm protectionist basis. The revision promised by the Republican national platform Is to "preserve, without excessive duties that security against foreign competition to which American manufacturers, farmers and pnxlucers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of living of the wage-earners of the country who are. the direct beneficlari-?:? of the protective system." Will Mr. Carnegie assert that he is as sure e f the future of American wages Inf sterol industry as he Is of the divideu. of his huge coriwration? St Iuis (3 lobe-Democrat Fish t inn: for Honest Revision. The determination of a compact alliance of Middle West Congressmen ' to accept nothing less than an honest revision of the tariff laws from the new Congress, is matched by the extermination of President-elect Taft that liepublican promises shall be translated without evasion into Congressional ixrformances. The revisionists are careful to explain that their organization involves no reflection on the ways and means committee, and Implies no doubts as to the sincerity of the committee's intentions. So far as has appeared, Mr. Payne's committee or the Republican majority thereof Is going about Its work in a thorough and straightforward manner. It has taken up the task of gathering the necessary data on which to base the new law. With an energy quite luipreeeelonted. The revisionists, no tloubt recognize that the enemies of honest tariff revision will find the best cover ftr ambuscades in the Senate cloakroom The Senate has a record for spoil In the best-meanc tariff bills by the simp:.-prex-ess of covering them, with amendments. Rut the Senate may itself surprise us this year, by Improving Instead of aborting tariff legislation. There is a new deal In the Senate, as well äs elsewhere, and its good effects ought to be'come evident. Signs multiply that the new Congress will take up the tariff question at the extra session m the right spirit and dispose of It on the Hues of fairness" to all, without unduly pnlonged debate. Mlnneapoli..Tournal. No lleyuMlcan Hnpture. The fear that the-re will le au i'iu harassing contest among" the Republicans at the outset in President 'faffs administration rests on no tangl!!e basis. Mr. Taft vants honest tariff revision. So does every other Repuuil can. A few Republicans are saying there will bo some opposition to the re-election of Mr. Cannon as Spraken. Frcni present Indications there will not be enough of this feelins to create a ripple in the House caucus, which will meet just before the extra session ipens In March. Exchange. Xotbing I)oing. "Jive me a goou cigar, my boy, saus the customer in the tobacco shop. "Give me one that s:nekes free." "Can't do it, mister replied the boy. "We haven't a cigar la the tlace that smokes for less than 5 cents." Faithful for Year. ! Gyer There goes a man who certain ly loves b'.s country. Myc. -Why elo yem think so? Gye. -lie has held a government job for thirty years.

HANDS HAW AXD SCAT?. Itched and Burned Terribly CoI4 Xot 31 ore Thnwba Without Tlesb CracUliiK Sleep Impossible Cntl , cuta Soon Cared Ccr.mii. "An itching humor covered both my hands and got-up over my wrists and even up to the elbows. The Itching and burning were terrible. My hands pot all scaly and when I scratched, the surface would be covered with blisteri and then get raw. The eczema got so bad that I could not move my thumbs

without deep cracks appearing. I went to my doctor, but his medicine could only stop the Itching. At night I suf fered so fearfully that I could not sleep. I could not bear to touch my hands with water. This went on for ! three months and I was fairly worn ; out At last I got the Cutlcura J lerne- " dies and in a month I was cured. Wal- ; ter II.' Cox, 1G Somerset ct, Boston, Mass., Sept. 23, 1008." ,' Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sol Props, of Cutieura Itemed les, Boston, 'f Jfo Batter la Great Britain. j The British Isles are In the throe of a butter famine. The state of affair which now exists In London has never been experienced before in the memory of the oldest living merchant That city, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, V Bristol and other great centers of trad j may be said to be in a state of panic.' There is no reserve of cold stored but-f ter at all. Many of the prominent mar garine manufacturers In England re-? port that not for many years have they' been working at such high pressure to ' fill their pressing orders. It is RntId-: pated that durin the present high price of butter It vill meet with an enormous. V sale. ' EHRT III A WRECK. Kidneys Badly Injured and Health Seriously Impaired. ' William White, R. R. man 201 Cod- j etantine St. Three Rivers, Mieh., says: ; In a railroad collision my kidneyi i must have been hurt. as I passed bloody " nrinewith pain for a 2 long time after, wai j weak and thin, and ' 60 I could not work. I Two years after I ! went to the hospital and remained almost six months, but my case The urine passed in voluntarily. Two months ago I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills and the boxes have done me more good than all the doctoring of seven years. I h&raV gained so much that my friends woa-!. der at it" 1. Sold by all dealers. COc a box. Fos-' ter-Milburn Co Buffalo, N. X. t The Canadian railways had a tots! - Ieurth of 22,402 miles on June 30, 1907, i or 27,011 miles including double traciv 6idings and spurs. The greatest mileag . z . ro : i t in wiuj province wks i,vK4 uiijc-a. iu vjix tario, and the least was Oö, in YakonJ 'The dominion and provincial government! have given these road $lSl,298,412.,be-t sides 31,703,943 acres of dominion hndx' and 20,420,100 acre of provincial landsJ The International road, 485 miles lonfcf was built and is operated by the governs Here la Hellet for Women. ' If you have pains In the back, Urin' i ary. Bladder or Kidney trouble, and want a certain, pleasant herb cure foiy ; woman's Ills, try Mother Gray's Airirt j !iaa-l,eaf. It Is a safe and never-falling' regulator. At Drug-gist or by tnatl SQ cts. Sample package t'Rt-.C Artdres The Mother Cray Co.. LeKoy. K. Y. ; rllhlnir Ulm Off. , "What. was the cause of that fearfai V racket la the other room a little wbilii asor "Some of the boys were putting s whirl wind finish oa a campaign liar." Qucaj; Tribune. 1 Onlr Ob BROMO QUIXINE" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Loo tor tie ulsnatiir of E. W. GKOVE. Used th Wond over to Curs a Cold la On Dm. Übet ' i Ills Limit., "Orlando, mamma nays yoa mustn come to see m any more " "Gracious heaven, Dora! What tar I " j "Than four times a week hereaftei Quit that Orlando! Let me alone!" j , Good Ilonsekeepers l"e tkn Beat. J That's why they use Ced Cross Ball Blue At leading- rrocers. 5 cents. t An Car Snare. The other day a man walked Into 1 ; barber's shop, deposited upon a tabl t a number of articles which he toot from a satchel, and arranged them witl j artistic care. ! "This is pomade,n said the -visitor. . I ana well supplied," said the bar, 1 ter. . ' j ui.i a a an 11 m. a a,i nil "I am full up with liar's srease." ' IIere Is some fine bay rum. "Don't doubt it, but I make my owi bay rum and put on foreign labels. N . body knows the difference." "Here is some patent cosmetic rot the mustache." ; T l.nA. I. .i AstVfcA ntlnv ' - for the whiskers and. that that, bu1 j ; 'I'm thoroughly stocked aud reeklnj; with cosmetic at present." j "Here are an eJi-ctrlc brush, a dup'.ej elliptic hair dye, lavender water, and a, patent face poweier." ' "I don t want any of laem." "I know you don't." "Then why do you ask me to buy , them?" "I did not ask you to buy them. DkS fcv j Hy -w j w nw themr "Come to think about It, you didnt" 1 did not come here to sell anything. I wish to let you know that I possess all the toilet articles that a; gentleman has any business with.; Now give me an easy shave without asking me to buy anything." 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