Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 July 1909 — Page 6

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7 Vm Face the Muie. The oration tax saves all the provisiu. , of the Income tax that are constitutional and can be enforced. The income tax 13 unwise, unjust and unconstitutional, while the corporation tax is wise, just and constitutional. The Hon. Elihu Root, In the Senate, July 1. This is a lawyer's view, not a statesman's. Let not Mr. Root or any other constitutional lawyer deceive himself. It is not by labeling groups of citizens and their wealth as "industrial" or "mercantile" that special burdens may be Imposed on them from which other citizens and their wealth shall be free. The business men of this country will accept the situation. They will not welcome it. but they will be resigned to it, provided they are not Bubjected tc . government espionage, regulation and control. The corporation tax, having been deprived of Its inquisitorial features, will be accepted by them on the practical ground that the government must have revenue. They will make their business arrangements accordingly. But let It not be Imagined that business Incomes will be taxed and other kinds of Income escape. The plain equities of the case will make it sure that there finally will be no exemption that all incomes will be treated alike. That a $6,000 mercantile income should be taxed and a $25.000 lawyer's income, a $10,000 physicians income, a $20.000 engineer's income or a $7.000 preacher's or college president's Income should go free, is an absurdity and Inequity so manifest that the mere statement of it Is sufficient to point the way. No matter what Mr. Root or any other lawyer may argue, the taxation of corporation incomes will inevitably be .extended to the taxation of all incomes large enough to make the tax worth collecting. If this be unconstitutional, a way will be found to make it constitutional. The way to do so lies plain and open. It is by constitutional amendment. The spirit of American institutions will -not permanently tolerate inequality of citizens or of groups of citizens and their wealth before the law. A lawyer may be deceived by a label. A statesman would not be so deceived and the American people will not be ro deceived. We are embarking on new policies. Let us not blind ourselves as to their nature. Let us face the music. Chicago Inter Ocean. A Xen Joker" Discovered. A goodly number of jokers have been discovered in the Aldrich bill. A joker is something which Is concealed and has a different purpose from the one that is apparent. A number of these jokers have been discovered and corrected. Now a new joker ha 3 been found. It ha3 been discovered that a large merchandising establishment in Chicago which has used its Influence In exciting the women of the country in regard to the duty that was proposed to be put on high class gloves for women, owns its own glove factories in France. The same concern has been selling Its own imported gloves to the women of the Northwest for twentyfive years and has been paying no duty, or if any, it has been trifling. The firm we refer to has been passing in the public mind as a patriotic institution, spending Its own money for postage and for circulars for the public good. Now It Is discovered that these patriotic individuals have been working for their own Interest fcnd have "worked the women of the Northwest to a finish. The concern when it went to establish a glove factory did not establish it In Chicago. Elgin. Rockford. Lake Forest or any place in Illinois, but established it in France, where cheap labor could be had. Now, they do not desire to pay a duty on their own gloves made by their own cheap labor in France. Such selfishness makes the heart sick. Rut the truth is out. Possibly it Is knowledge of facts like these which makes Senator Aldrich the mean man which he seems to be. Possibly Aldrich has discovered that there are other mean men besides himself and Lodge. But a fact like this will not cut any figure nor will it become known widely. The other fact has taken deep root. Furthermore, the ladies want cheap gloves and they will stay by the original proposition of having those nice gloves that reach to the shoulder come in without paying the government anything. Des Moines Capital. A I rah I pa and the Tariff. In drafting amendments to tho Payne tariff bill, the United States Senate has not taken Into account thj effect which Major Baden-Powell declares the operation of air ships will have on International tariffs. The major, discussing aerial navigation in the National Review, declares that flying will become common means of transportation within four years, and that such problems as the rules of the air, recognition of international frontier, the ownership of the air above, and the establishment of a flying squadron of police must be solved soon. Smuggling, it is declared, is like.y to become easy and lucrative and th restriction against alien Immigration of no effect on account of the Insurmountable difficulty of halting air ships at frontiers. Because of the danger which Major Baden-Powell believes is imminent, it is facetiously suggested that Congress abolish duties on all commodities except grain, coal and lumber and a few other bulky articles of commerce. Else some dark night an airship load of smuggled diamonds from Africa, Teddy bars from Germany, knives from Sheffield and brushes from Japan might be landed in Toledo and Col. Bonner would never be the wiser. Toledo Blade.

Crime. She I can't bind myself until I'm sure. Give me time to decide, and If, six months hence I feel as I do now, I will be yours. Ardent Adorer I could never wait that long, darling. Besides, the courts have decided that dealing in futures, without the actual delivery of the goods, Is gambling pure and simple. Puck. 31 t- ii of Ulm. Hanklns Kr what 13 the latest conceit In ladies' summer hats? Judklna My wife.

THE CORPORATION TAX.

Menn of Kninlnic llrvru ne to Which Muiiaaer of Mk Concern. Object. Many corporations continue to pr test against the corporation tax. They propose to bring a test case to decide its constitutional's-. This is thvj latest news from AVashington. Yet not a few of these same cor I-cratipns were heard from a shore time ago to quite a different effect. They vere demanding a stiff reduction of the Dingley tariff. They were renting out quite properly its outlived conditions. They were telling the administration to make good the deficit sure to result from tariff reduction in torne other field. They appar?nily didn't care what field. They left that to the administration. The administration took the Wait sought another field and brought forward the corporation tax. It estimated that this tax would fill' the hole made by tariff reduction. Its course was natural and logical. Money had to be got for government expenses. Somebody had to pay. So the demand for tariff reduction 1 about to be answered not fully but partly answered. The necessary conseauence of the reduction is to be pro vided for. And yet many corporation managers are not happy. Having had their wish, they would modify its consequences. While eating their cake they would like to keep it. too. They cannot, or will not, realize that in these days of heavy governmental expenditures a concession at one point must be made up at another. Reduced revenue from the customs means heavier taxes in some other quarter. This is a simple, Immutable fact of the government to-day. No amount of arguing first on one side and then on the other can alter it. No volume of general discourse can obscure it. There is no magical way of getting public revenues. Now as always it is simply a question of the homely processes of subtraction and addition. The sooner that is learned the better for all of us. Our advice to the man who has cried on one side of his mouth for tariff reduction and on the other against the corporation tax is to resign himself to taking his medicine. He called for the conditions that make it unavoidable. It may not be pleasant. But it is much more pleasant to him than the draught that remains behind and against which the corporation tax is practically the sole protection. We mean the income tax. There Is little 'doubt that the constitutionality of the corporation tax will be tested. In a country as large as this there is sure to be at least one man who objects to paying out his money for taxes sufficiently to pay it out for a lawsuit and a judicial decision. But suppose that the protest triumphs there. What then? Would the victory be worth while? No. Two years' exemption from the obnoxious tax is all the personal advantage It could mean. In two years all 'constitutional objections to both income and corporation taxes would be removed. One of these would surely be Imposed. And the chances are that it would not be the less onerous. In other words, two years would probably bring ihe income tax. But the delay could easily mean some personal disadvantage. The business situation always scents an element of danger In insufficient government revenues. And a victory In the law courts would unquestionably cripple the government's Income seri ously. These are matters which the com bined tariff reducers and corporation tax objectors might consider with profit. The time has passed for any policy of revenue and tax reduction in Washington. To lower one set of taxes nowadays means to raise another set. It is a condition that confronts us and not a tneory. We all might as well look the facts In the face. Chicago Inter Ocean. Oleomargarine. , Secretary MacVeagh may ask Congress to put a uniform tax of 2 cents a pound on oleomargarine. The uncolored pays a quarter of a cent and the colored 10 cents. He reasons that the government would get more revenue. The 10 cent tax is so high that unscrupulous men are continually evadlig it. They buy the uncolored stuff, give It an attractive yellow hue and sell it at a great profit for first class butter. The special agents of the Internal revenue bureau are always on the lookout for them and catch some, but there is so much money In the business that others take their place. With a 2 cent tax the incentive to fraud would largely disappear. The consumption of colored oleo, known to be such, would be increased. The consumption of oleo which buyers are duped into believing is butter would be decreased. The government assuredly would be the gainer if the tax were lowered. It is not likely that the butter Interests would be affected. The price of butter is so high now ai to Insure substantial profits to the dairymen, even if a larger quantity of colored oleomargarine were put on the market. But it is doubtful if the dairymen can be made to see this. After a protracted fight they succeeded in getting the legislation which they believed would put an end to oleomargarine competition, and the probabilities are that they are determined to hold on to this protective legislation. In that event it is not likely that Congress can be persuaded to alter the tax rates and put a few millions in the national treasury. Chicago Tribune. Shifted. "Say, I've got a new one on Smith." ! "What is it?" "Why, the other day " (etc., etc., etc.). "Yes, that's ä new story on Smith. Uu the last time you told it, it was on Peters." Cleveland leader. Another 'oiiiceteil Center. The Professor Do you know in milk, for instance, there are 2.00') bacilli to the cubic inch? Binks Haw, yaas everything row is beastly overcrowded. Lor.-.lcn Opinion. Identification. Mistress (at door) Well, my dear, what is it? .Little Girl Please 'm. our kitty is losted. Did you see a kitty go past here by the name of Xuddles? Boston Transcript. Same Tlilnj?. "All of his ancestors were slavo drivers." "And what has he turned out to be?" "A subway guard." Thirty-three survivors of the heroic charge of the Light Brigade at Bal VJava are still alive.

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REVIEW OF INDIANA

t James H. Bacon, lineman for the Central Union Telephone Company, living at SOG West Twenty-seventh street, Indianapolis, wa? killed by an electric current while working on the wires near Central avenue and Forty-sixth street. ; It cost W. II. Kingery $41 to kill a redbird at Terre Haute. That was the amount of the fine and costs when he was arraigned by a deputy game warden. It is not commonly known that redbirds may not be killed or caged and that the line is a heavy one. ; Edward R. Floyd, of Frankfort, one of the best known men in the county, died at the Palmer Hospital of an acute attack of indigestion. Ho served one term In the State Legislature, was postmaster at Middle Fork for a number of years, and also served in the army. He was about 58 years old and leaves a widow and family. Members of the Masonic order in Fortville gave a reception recently for Uncle Silas Helms, aged 84 years, living north of the town, at the "Old Mill," near which he has lived for more than seventy-five years. He has been a Master Mason for more than fifty-five years, and is the only living charter member of Fortville Lodge No. 207. The members piesented him with a handsome gold headed cane. Begging for an ax, knife or razor, so that he could keep away the elephants, tigers and enemies that were attacking him, an insane man supposed to be Fred A. Mitchell, of Indianapolis, was placed in jail at South Bend. Judging from his talk, the man, who is about 30 years old, is well educated. It is believed that he has escaped from some hospital, as he begged piteously not to be put in the straitjacket. All the jail officials could get out of him was that he was from Indianapolis. When asked his name, he crouched to a sprinter's position and said: "To the general public, I'm Fred A. Mitchell, but confidentially I'm John the Baptist." Charles F. McClelland, a Danville undertaker, has had the unusual experience of conducting six funerals at three homes in Danville within the last three months. On April 5 he buried Alfred Allee, and on July 3, Mrs. Allee, his wife. On June 2 he buried George Gentry, and on June 11 Mrs. Gentry was carried from the same house to her last resting place. On June 8 he conducted the funeral of Mrs. Samuel Moore at the home of her son, John W. Moore, and on June IS he had charge of the funeral of Mrs. Lizzie Scott Kowlski, which was held at tho home of Mr. and Mrs. Moore. The prize nature-faker story comes from this State and is as follows: A cat, owned by Dr. Charles L. Stevens, of Corydon, is a living barometer, and by its peculiar antics residents can tell what kind of weather is coming. Due to this fact Dr. Stevens' home has .become the Corydon weather bureau. A peculiar feature is that the cat transmits her barometrical characteristics to her young, and for (his reason her kittens are in great demand. Dr. Stevens frequently receives telephone calls inquiring of the cat's antics, as all residents have come to depend upon the animal for weather predictions. Two little English sparrows whipped r. large bald eagle, according to H. Denton and L. D. Simons, who say that while hunting in the woods east of St. Anne they saw a bald eaglo perched on the limb of a dead tree, vainly trying to beat off two sparrows that were attacking him fiercely. Presently, the hunters assert, the eagle started to fly away, the sparrows pursuing and picking the bird savagely under the wings and about the head. The eagle uttered loud and frequent screams, either of fear or rage, or both, the men said, and when last seen was making "record time" in an effort to shake off his pursuers. Property owners in the vicinity of the farm owned by Robert Baker, near Idaville, a town a short distance west of Logansport, threaten an Injunction suit if Baker persists in his purpose of starting a skunk farm. Baker Is a trapper, who has made mucn money from skunk oil and skins. But skunks are getting scarce, and this has led him to believe that he can make more money i:i raising them than in hunting. Experiments which he has made convinces him that they can be successfully and profitably raised, and he is now arranging to go into the business on a big scale. He is going to fence in five acres with fine meshed screening, which will be sunk in the ground three feet and which will be six bet high. Baker figures to raise about one thousand skunks every year, and he has contracted for machinery to extract the oil. This Is almost as valuable as the skins, which average about one dollar each. Neighbors fear that the odor from the skunk farm will make life unbearable in that vicinity, and wish to prevent Baker from going Into the business. Chris Relgier, of Greensburg, has a hen that has a taste for English sparrows and catches them and kills them. Mrs. Belgier is authority for the statement and she says she has seen the hen catch the birds. Once wealthy, owning several Wabash County farms, Sampson Hoch, who lost his fortune through bad investments, and was made a cripple for life In an accident several years ago, died a few days ago at the County In firmary In Wabash. Miss Oakley Brown, the 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. Margaret Brown, a widow of Evansville, committed suicide because she was disappointed In not getting a new dress. The "Panic Hair Cut," a new style in hair dress'ng, has made its appearance at Oak'und City. The hair cut consists of a close clipper cut, afterward shaving a strip about an Inch wide from the middle of the forehead j to the back of the nock. The peculiar ! name given it arose from the effect produced when one wearing this style of head dress lifts the hat. While out fishing in the waters of Sugar creek, near Clark's dam, Chas. Steinhauser. of Crawfordsville, caught a soft-shfl turtle upon the bottom of which were carved the initials "A. B." and the date '1907." The Anti-Tuberculosis League obtained a location for its tuberculosis colony, and the cottages will be erected at once. The? site will be the old fair ground, midway between South i-:d and MLslsawaka, on the north 5idf of the St. .Tosepr river. The camp will be modeled after the one in Indianapolis.

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Mrs. Annie Emery, widow of Orlir Emery, of Evansville, who died a weel ago, followed her husband in death i few dags ago. Her death was caused by grief. Mrs. Elizabeth Sutphin, S4 years old tripped on the stairs at her home it Middletown and fell to her death. Sh was the mother of the late Dr. John Sutphin, former head of the Ohic Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Andrew Ritter Is dead in Hunt ington from tetanus, resulting frort running a splinter into her foot whil walking in her yard. The accidenl .ook place ten days ago but only honit remedies were used until lockjaw be gan developing. Ethel Hudson, of 2645 Shelby street Indianapolis, was taken out of a Chi nese laundry at Vincennes and sent home by the police. She claims Locli Suey as her sweetheart, and says she will marry him. Five hundred saw net taken to the station. Suey v. as not al lowed to escort her. ' Joseph Schu's 10-yea?-old dog "Bob," one of the best-known' canines of Evansville, died of a broken heart. The dog's master left the city a week age for a trip, and the animal grieved ovei his departure, refused food aftd finally passed away after waiting In vain foi his master to return. A bird's nest caused a fire at the Columbus barns of the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern Traction Com pany. A robin had built a nest between the interior trolley wires and the ceil ing, and It is supposed a spark from a passing trolley wheel fired the nest The blsze spread to the celling and the fire department was called to extinguish the blaze. The loss was trivial. Charles Warner, a glass blower ol Terre Haute, who is spending the summer vacation in Westfield, with his father-in-law, Luther Cox, was assisting at the saw and planing mill of O. E. Talbert & Co., when his hand got caught In a ripsaw He lost two fingers of his left hand. Several who have met with similar misfortunes at this mill are talking cf holding a reunion. Around the world in the famous cruise of the battleship squadron went Harry D. Meyers, 22 years old, ol M uncle, only to die at home from the effects of the voyage. While aboard the battleship Tennessee he contracted a lung affection that became so serious he was confined to a Government hospital in Colorado for a while, but subsequently rallied considerably and came home to Muncie, where he died. He was the son of Michael Meyers. John Brown, a farmer living a mile south of Milton, brought a dog home from Richmond a few days ago. The animal was of the Scotch collie breed and when brought over Mr. Brown had him in a closed carriage. The animal was kept confined a few "days and then let out. Soon afterward it was miss ing and after fruitless inquiries as to its whereabouts, Mr. Brown telephoned to Charles White, of Richmond, the former owner of the animal, and found that it had gone back home, sixteen miles. The Standard Oil Company is building a million-dollar plant at Whiting for the manufacture of butter. The processes have been fully worked out Heavy oils of no use for illuminates are passed through red hot tubes to decompose them into fixed gases menthone and ethone. These are then converted into methyl and ethyl alcohols, thence into acetiv and other acids. These are transformed into glyceral testers of afts by heating with glycerin, and by combining fats In proportion a pure butter Is made. Mrs. Delores Partlow German, a pretty girl of 23 years, who was married to Charles German, an Elwood tinplate worker, May 17, found that her new matrimonial alliance was a disappointing, one, and after a brief wedded life left a note saying that she was going to the home of a sister In Arkansas, and that it would be useless to follow her. It is said, however, that she was seen in Tipton a few days ago. She left her wedding ring and a fond farewell, with thanks for kind treatment at her husband's home. Mrs. Harry Nadlng is the owner of a millinery store at Flatrock. Mr. and Mrs. Nadlng are also the owners of a little dog. Mrs. Nadlng went to the store after supper, having a hat to trim, and when she finished she locked the place and returned home, leaving the dog in the store unintentionally. About midnight a resident of the place happened to pass the store, and hearing a racket ran to the Nadlng home, where he informed the household that there was a burglar in the place. Mr. Nading was soon on the spot, and after peering into a window saw that the dog was creating all the noise. He unlocked the door and found the curtains had been pulled from their fastenings, hats scattered in all directions, and artificial flowers and fruits damaged. John Preble, a Fort Wayne & Wa bash Valley Traction Company lineman, sustained a shock of 2,200 volt3 In a fall off a forty-foot trolley pole, yet was not severely Injured. Tho annual session of the Northern Indiana Teachers' Association will be held at Fort Wayne April 7 to 9, 1910. Professor L. N. Hines, of Crawfords ville, chairman of the executive com mlttee, announced the selection after a trip to Ft. Wayne, Investigating the hotel accommodations. Typhoid fever is prevalent at Gary Dr. T. W. Tcmplin, the health officer, traced the source of the disease to milk shipped from Miller Station an McCool dairies, where farmers were found to have children sick with the fever. Chester Worth, of Plainfield. who played the piano constantly with both hands from C p. m. one day till 7:02 a. m. the following clay, challenges any one In the State to repeat hi3 perform ance. It i3 estimated that Worth sounded 1,100,000 notes In the thirteen hours he played. Henry Hawkins, aged 99 years, fell dead of heart failure at his home near Ft. Branch. He was active to the last Ho came to Ft. Branch from the South as a1 boy, more than eighty years ago, and nothing was ever heard of his rel atives, if he had any. The reports from Kendallville ar that all the thirteen business rooms which were formerly occupied by saloons have been rented for legitimate businessos. The county recently voted "dry" and the chief argument ol the "wets" was that a "dry" county meant a dead town.

rvHarStorieJ

Murfreesboro. Stone River, of all the engagements of the late war In which I wa3 a participant, strikes me as the most singular, in more respects than one. There were one or two circumstances connected with and Immediately preceding the battle which have ever been to me a mysterious puzzle, and which I never could account fe" except upon the hypothesis that the command s of tho Federal right was a blundering incompetent, and went to sleep at a time when he should have been on the alert. Hardee's corps (to which my regiment, the First Arkansas, was attached), on the 30th of December, 1862, occupied a position on the extreme right of the Confederate army. Bragg, on that day, came to the determination lo deliver battle on the following morning, &nd fixed on Hardee's corps as the force which should bring on the en gagement In pursuance of that plan we were transferred, on the evening of the 30th, to the extreme left of the army. It was past midnight before tho movement was fully accomplished. We bivouacked In the open fields, less than half a mile from the Federal line. The night was frosty and crisp, and we built great fires of dry fence rails. There was over a mile of those bright, blazing fires. They Illuminated the whole country for a great distance, and the glare was re flected high up In the heavens. On the morning of the 31st, just as the first faint streaks of dawn began to show themselves above the eastern horizon, the reveille was sounded, and the men fell Into line like puppets, moved by a common spring. As far as the eye could reach to the right and to the left there stretched an unbroken line of glittering bayonets. In front of us, at the distance af about 500 yards, was a high rail fence, stretching across the bare and level stubble-fields for probably a mile. Just beyond this fence, and skirting it for its entire length, loomed up a dense cedar forest Nestled amid these woods, apparently little dreaming of the close proximity of an enemy, were the Federal hosts, and there was probably not a man of the Confederate forces but expected that we would In a few minutes be en gaged In deadly strife with these hosts. At about the hour the sunbeams began to glint the tops of the tallest trees, the skirmish line was thrown forward, and immediately following the whole Confederate line was In mo tion. When the worm fence .was reached It went down before the solid hu man wall wHth a crash, a3 if smote by the wand of a magician. Not until this point was reached did the skir mishers fire a shot. There a few pickets were encountered, and proba bly not more than fifty shots were fired before we were In the very midst of the Federal camp. In advance of us the woods were full of the enemy. fleeing In disorder. The pursuit was kept up for three miles, and but for the Intrepid and cool-headed Phil Sheridan the day would probably have witnessed the most disastrous defeat the Union arms sustained in the sanguinary four years' war. Every student of war history knows how the gallant Phil brought order out of chaos, checked the onset of Hardee's corps, and saved the day. Now, the mysterious and unaccount able feature of that episode is, why did the Federal force on the right allow a large army to plant itself im mediately in their front, within rifle shot, build bright fires that could be seen for miles, bivouac there unmo lested all night, fall into line the next morning, advance upon them in battle array, capture their camp and baggage. and put them to flight without their offering so much resistance as the fir ing of a single gun? This question has time and again presented itself to my mind, and the more I think of it the more difficult to answer it becomes. Arkansaw Traveler. Old John. John was a noble clay-bank horse, of the Copperbottom stock. He was bought by my step-father, a physician, when a colt, and had been raised by him. and being an intelligent animal. I baa taught him many tricks. The war coming on, "we boys" vol unteered in the Confederate army. The darkles took French leave, so my ptep-father had to tend this horse him self. Our house fronted on the main street, and the lot ran back to an alley upon which was the stable. My step-father, when he had a professional call In the country, to save time, would bring John through the back and front yard and out the front gate, and the same also in returning. The "non-conscript" act let me out of the Virginian army, and I returned to my home Alexandria, Tennessee. The Yankees being unpleasantly nu merous there, I persuaded my step father to let me take John and join the rebel cavalry. A year after this I was captured and carried to Camp Morton, Indiana, where I remained thirteen months. then returned home, Just two years and one month from the time I rode John off to the war. I should here state that mother and sister, after I went to the war, would very often feed and caress John, and he would come at their call. Upon my return home mother told me the following: About a month before my return a body of Federal cav alry passed in front of our house at a double-quick. Just in front of our gate a soldier, riding a large clay-bank, turned out, galloped up to the gate, and stopped so suddenly as to nearly throw him forward. The horse commenced whinnying, pawing, and nosing the gate most energetically, the rider in the meantime cursing, jerking the reins, and roweling the animal most unmercifully with his spurs. The roor beast moved off reluctantly. My mother and sister had seen all this, and the latter said, "Ma, I believe that is old John. If It is. he will know my voice." So she called, "John poor John." By this time the horse and rider had moved up the street about fifty yards. But at the word "John" the horse wheeled and came back to the gate with such velocity that the rider scarcely kept his seat, and actually dropped off at the gate, and was so awfully mad at the horse that no doubt he would have shot him had not my sister and mother Interposed In his behalf. By leading him the soldier finally got him away. And yet further. That night a noi:;e was heard in the yard. Upon examination it was old John, as was his custom, grazing on the tender blue grass. The part of a halter on his head showed that he had broken his fasten'ugs and came back to scenes he loved. Although tull

two years had elapsed, he had not forgotten hi3 ancient habit of coming in

at that self-same front gate, or the j voice of one who was always gentle and kind to him. But he was cruelly taken away the next day, and never more heard from. One Snd Picture of the War. Every effort should be made to show the dark side of the war rather than its bright aspects. Boys hear old soldiers tell of the charge, the hand to hand encounter, the heroic defense. They see the waving flags, hear the music, and watch a regiment of militia march pat, perhaps see a sham battle at some reunion, and then imagine that they understand all about a batUe. They forget to study the day after the battle, when scenes are presented not so pleasant to look upon, scenes which show the dark side of war, and call for courage for a different type from that displayed on the battle field. I will draw one plcturo which Is protographed uion my brain, a picture that no painter can reproduce with a brush. During the battle of Spotsylvania, a man was brought to our field hospital with one arm torn away at the shoulder and chest terribly lacerated. He was a private soldier, but his dress and manners, even there on the battle field, wounded and dying, showed the cultured gentleman. He was a man of magniflcenc physique, and with a natural vitality that enabled him to hang on to life for a time where nine men out of ten would have died instantly from shock. With the care and medical skill of a large hospital, with perfect quiet and every surgical appliance at hand, there was a shadow of a chance of carrying such a case through successfully; but in the field surrounded with wounded, In crowded tents, each surgeon with over two hundred to attend to, the hot sun pouring down upon the canvas roofs, and above all, the necessary removal from the front over rough roads to the distant base, made the case a hopeless one, and it was my painful duty to Inform him of our decision. The man was a Christian soldier, and death had no terrors for him. A few messages to home and loved ones, and earthly things seemed to be dismissed from his mind. He lingered for four days patiently awaiting death, not a murmur escaping his Hps, when gangrene set In and we had to place him in a little shelter tent, all alone and some distance from the other wounded.' I visited him at frequent intervals during the day and always found him praying or repeating portions of Scripture. Once I offered him a drink of whisky, but he declined, saying: "I want to be sober when I meet my God." When the boys of to-day try to picture the field of battle, they must remember that there were dark, heartrending scenes as well as glorious, exciting charges. Oldest Soldier lm Service. Major General Daniel II. Rucker, U. S. A., retired, who 'has recently celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday. is the eldest sol dier in the service, and has worn the uniform longer than any other officer who ha3 followed the flag of the United States. It la hardly probable that the rec ords of the world will disclose the name of another officer whose span of service has been gen. rucker. equal to that of this American veteran. He lives In Washington with his daughter, Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan. This veteran of the United States army, still strong in mind and in spirit, was appointed a lieutenant in the army from the State of Michigan by President Andrew Jackson 72 years ago, and in the army he has been uninterruptedly ever since. General Rucker was born before the war of 1812 with Great Britain. He was 15 years old when Black Hawk took the warpath and he had Joined the United States army before Osceola, the Seminole, had been driven to bay in the everglades of Florida. West-Pointers. West Pointers were not all philosophical. The Colonel of the writer's regiment now Major General S. S. Carroll who had recently been assigned from the regular army, was one day passing through the camp when he overheard a strapping Irish private giving Impudence to a little corporal, also an Irishman. "How dare you speak like that to your corporal, sir?" asked the Colonel in a sharp tone. "What's it to you, you red-headed f" was the man's answer. But It was scarcely out of his mouth when the Colonel picked up a musket that stood near him, and, grasping It near the muzzle, swung the weapon around his head, and struck the aggressive fellow full on the sconce with the flat of the butt. The man fell to the ground and lay as if dead, and the Colonel, with the Indignant taunt, "That will teach you how to talk to an officer!" passed on and paid no further attention. In a minute the man sat up, rubbed his head, and with the remark. "Be gobs, the Colonel has a quick ha-dl" arose and went about his duty, here was no resentment there, and when on the march a few days afterward the Colonel riding along the column espied the man he had knocked down, he called out pleasantly: "Dan, how's your head?" Dan answered, "It's all right now, Colonel. But it was a hard knock you gave It." General Carroll was a man of imperious will and courage, but at the same time he had Immense tact In commanding troops. His men would go through thick and thin for him. I nlon Annr of 2,KU8,304 Men. Enlistments in the Union army during the Civil War numbered 2,898,304. Thi number includes about 230,000 militia and emergency men who served for short terms, and some of whom were not mustered Into the United States service. The number of individuals under arms was considerably les.i than the number of enlistments because of re peated enlistments by lndiv'-'uals. It is probable that many of the 200,000 men who served for short terms is 1861-1S62 enlisted again. The water produced by the melting of glacier Ice in summer flows down through crevasses to the bottom ol the glacier, and, forming a channel by erosion, emerges öfter, as a large stream. In the arctic regions thes phenomena take jize on a very largi scale.

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I Work of Gongress The House, after four hours debate Monday, adopted by a vote of 317 to 14 the joint resolution submitting to the various legislatures for ratification the proposed amendment to the Constitution empowering Congress to levy an income tax. the Democrats voting to a man for the amendment. Adjournment was taken until Thursday. The Senate was in session twenty minutes Tuesday, adjourning at 12:20 until Friday. The major portion of the time of the sitting was devoted to a discussion of the unanimous consent agreement not to transact any business while the tariff conference is In progress. Senator Carter tried to have passed a bill pertaining to the affairs of the District of Columbia on the ground that the bill was "such a little one" that no harm could result from its passage. But Senators Lodge and Culberson, standing guard over the Interests of the two sides of the Chamber, objected and thus prevented action. The House was not In session. The Senate was not in session Thursday. After a lively debate thj Democrats in the House failed in their efforts to have a provision brought in by Mr. Tawney appropriating $23,000 for President Taft's traveling expenses ruled out or stricken out of an urgent deficiency bill. The latter measure was under consideration throughout the session. Members on the Democratic side were unsparing in their charges of bad faith, because the House at the last session, as they alleged, pledged itself not to make any additional allowances to the President. Mr. Rainey of Illinois gave as the reason for its presentation at this time the desire of the President to "boost" the League of Republican Clubs throughout the country. The Senate was In session only eighteen minutes Friday, adjourning at 12:18. p. m. until Tuesday. In addition to the swearing in of Senator Clay, of Georgia, the business consisted of the presentation of petitions and the introduction of bills of minor Importance. Feverish excitement over the baseball game scheduled between teams representing the Democratic and Republican sides of the chamber was resnonsible for a short session of the House. Chairman Tawney's desire was to conclude consideration of the ureent deficiency appropriation bill, but strenuous pressure was brought to bear upon him, and the Speaker caused them to agree to let the bill go over until Monday. The only action of importance in connection with the defi ciency bill was the striking out of the appropriation of $30.000 for participa tion by the United States in the Brus sels exposition. At 2:44 p. m. tht House adjourned until Monday. HAS REPTILES TO TRADE. 1 Snake Expert at Bronx Zoo to Make Exchanges in Europe. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of the rentile house at the Bronx zoo, New York, has gone to Europe with several crates of poisonous American snakes ?nd a number of surplus animals which have found birth in the zoo These he will trade to the zoological gardens in England, Germany, France and other countries for other snakes, and animals which the Bronx zoa de sires. In specially constructed crates he has taken a dozen vipers, a dozen diamond rattlers, a dozen common rat tiers, a dozen coral snakes, several lance-head vipers from South America, a dozen moccasins and a few other deadly reptiles. In exchange for these Mr. Ditmars will bring back specimens of the cobra, asp, and other deadly snakes which are to be found In the East. The sflake3 and small animals of the Bronx ioo have been multiply Ing so rapidly that it has been found advantageous to trade them abroad for specimens not represented here. Model 11 omen tor Cltle. No utterance made at the recent Conference on City Planning at Wash ington has attracted wider attention than that of Henry Morgenthau, who said: "We now have In the ninetyone largest cities In the United States 25,000,000 of population at Jeast. Many are dependent upon incomes of less than $500 a year. In twenty years this number will be doubled. What a great service to this nation It would be to solve their housing problem, make healthy, patriotic citizens the mainstay of the republic, instead of letting them drift Into a disease-Infected, sociallstically inclined mass, and then spending millions of dollars on hospitals to cure them, provisions to punish them and police to repress them." NUBBINS OP NEWS. Official orders have been issued at Winnipeg. Man., prohibiting any United States circus from parading the streets unless it flies a British instead of an American flag. Sherburne M. Becker, known as the "boy mayor of Milwaukee," arrived in San Francisco the other day on his return from a visit to the canal zone, where he went on the Invitation of President Taft. Two daughters of a Montana rancher named Mueller, living at Helena, slipped Into the Missouri river from the bank and were drowned. They were 20 and 16 years old. A brother, aed 13, was drowned trying to save them. The gold output of the Fairbanks district In Alaska from the opening of spring to June 30 is estimated at $4,750,000. The will of the late George Mere-' dlth, author, was offered for probate In London, England. HU friends were surprised to learn that he left an estate valued at $161,500. ' The failure of eighteen New York fortune tellers and palm readers to foretell their own fate resulted in their arrest by a siuad of detectives at the Instigation of District Attorney Jerome. Martin J. Keese, custodian of the New York city hall for twenty-eight years, died In a New York hospital at the age of 72. He was made a cripple In the battle cf Bull Run, but considered himself too much of a patriot to ask a pension. On application of tho Union Trust Company of Pittsburg, trustee, Oscar Röhn, of Butte, was named as receiver for the Pittsburg and Montana Copper company's property near Helena. The complaint alleged the conpany had defaulted in the payment of Interest on $2,216,000 of outsanding bonds.

A Crime In France. . Although Oliver Wendell Holmes always replied to autograph hunters when stamps were inclosed, Alexander Dumas did not. He kept their stamps

and used them himself. Some citizens of Marseilles have followed his example and have thereby got into trouble, a Paris dispatch to the Denver Newsribune says. A local wine merchant pestered three prominent men in his district. Including a retired Judge, with letters offering his vintages and inclosing stamps for reply and all kept the stamps. Whereupon the wine merchant lodged a complaint against them for a swindling abuse of confidence and apropriation of sums intrusted to them. The Judicial authorities received tho complaint, acted upon it and opened criminal proceedings against all three persons on the charge of appropriating a 2-cent stamp each. It seems that no other legal course was open to the authorities than to proceed in the matter. The sequel is worse. It is reported that the police, armed with search warrants, have effected domiciliary visits in the residences of the three accused persons in order to discover the "corpus delicti" la each case that is to say, the wine merchant's letter containing the stamp for a reply. If the stamp be found unused the three accused persons will be ordered to disgorge the property wrongfully detained by them. If It be not found the presumptlo.i, apparently, will be that they used the property and, logically, a conviction for sw ladling should follow. WHY PEOPLE SUFFER. Too often the kidneys are the cause and the sufferer is not aware of it Sick kidneys bring backache and side yTV pains, lameness and jf Btlffness, dizziness. uuiuavuü, Vit tu'itti Ing, urinary troubles. Doan's Kidney Pills cure the cause. Nathan R. Hill, Stryker. Ohio, says: "Kidney troubles pulled me down until I was skin and bone. I could not work and finally took to bed. Doctors said I had gravel and advised an operation. The secretions were painful and sometimes almost stopped. Doan's Kidney Pills brought relief and finally a cure. Remember the name Doan'a, For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-MIlburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. Badly Hart. Imagination has a good deal to do with troubles; it can both create and Intensify them. A writer in the Kansas City Journal tells of an Incident that occurred on a Kansas train some time ago. The rails spread, and the engine, tender and baggage car left the track, but the jar was not heard enough to disturb the sleepers in the rear Pullmans. Jn the last Pullman the porter was shining shoes, and thinking that the train was stopping at an unusual place, he went ahead to see what was the matter. He was told that the engine could be put back again within a couple of hours and the track re paired. So he went back to his shoes. Suddenly a head popped out of one of th berths and a man shouted: "Say, porter, what we stopping here for?" "Oh." answered the porter, "we had wreck." "A wreck? Wow! Oh oh oh oh wow wow! My neck! My neck! My chest! My back! Oh oh oh!" Lack on tike Staff. Stock exchange men and racing men regard luck as a side issue. They follow it secretly and make excuses for it if It goes astray, as If It were a personal friend; but the actor has a deep reverence for it and superstitious customs that sprang into observance during the Restoration period are still mainl ined in the age of socialism and problem plays. It is almost pathetic to see the joy that beams in the faces of a theatrical company at rehearsals if a harmless, necessary cat strolls on the stage; but if the cat sits down and appears to watch the proceedings with approval the joy becomes ecstatic. Black and White. Touch and Go. "Good morning, sir," said the tall man in the suit of faded black, opening his valise. "My name Is Glasspy. I am the inventor of a little device for " "I am glad to meet you. Mr. Glasspy. Interrupted the man In the doorway. "My name is Washabaugh. I have the sole right in this county to take subscriptions (or a new and copiously illustrated edition of the works of " "Good day, sir." "Good day." Chicago Tribune. Lead Them All. Teacher Who Is the greatest inventor? Shaggy Haired Pupil Pat. Pending, 1 guess. I see hh n&me on more inventions than I do any other man's.Keenest Delight of Appetite and Anticipation are realized in the first taste of delicious Post and Cream. The grold en -brown bits are substantial enough to take up the cream; crisp enough to make crushing them in the mouth rm exquisite pleasure; and the lavour t!at belongs only to Oht Tcasties "The Taste Lingers" This dainty, tempting: food is made of pearlj' white corn, cooked, rolled and toasted inttf "Toasties." Popular pit.. 10c; Large Family size, 15 M by POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Battle Cret', Mich.

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