Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 December 1909 — Page 6

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America is not afflicted with an attack of "German invasion" hysteria, or even with Japanese jingoism, but there was inaugurated in Washington recently a movement which, it is believed, will have almost as widespread an effect upon the youth of the land as did the recent sensational organization by Lord Roberts and Lord Ashburton of 100,000 junior "scouts" in England, when the whole British world went militia mad. The outdoor tournament or field day was held on the Congress Heights range, the first of its kind ever held in" this country. And this is only the beginning of a great movement which, it 13 expected, will sweep throughout the country, the Washington meet serving as the model for those to be organized first in every city of 100,000 inhabitants or more, and later in smaller communities. The outdoor shoot is to serve as a sort of college course for the boys who have- learned the A, B, C's of the indoor shoots, which have been held here and elsewhere for several years. Lieut. Albert S. Jones, secretary of the National Rifle Association of America, in discussing the aims and ideals of the junior marksmanship work, says: "In these days of crowded cities and strenuous work all forms of exercise are valuable to the growing boys. Shooting 13 an interesting open-air sport, in which the skill attained constitutes a valuable possession through life. It also involves more physical exercise than is generally appreciated. In particular, it develops coolness of nerve under excitement, power of observation and rapid judgment, which are important mental qualities. ' Rifle shooting for boys teaches also a moral lesson. No boy can smoke cigarettes and hob, a rifle steady, so that In order to be a good siot tobacco and alcohol must be avoided. For this reason rifle shooting, either as a pastime or as military training, is essential in the upbuilding of a strong, sturdy American manhood. "It is always expected that opposition will be met with from those citizens who are opposed to military training of" any sort-j-people who still have Tory or Quaker blood running in their veins and who do not appreciate that the highest duty which every citizen owes, after his duty to God, is that owed to the nation of which he is a part. If we become oblivious to the obligations which devolve upon U3 as citizens to look to and safeguard the future, then we rre lacking in patriotism, and the future is in jeopardy. , "Under the plans of the 'government no boy In any public school is compelled to learn to use the rifle. If he or his parents object, the matter ends there. But every boy should know how to shoot, or he is something

HHY3IES OF ANCIENT MARINER. Ifeiirtl la Hobit's Dark Room by Greennolnt's Murky Water. Some wild, weird taies from off the sea broke loose in town last night when kindred soiils of Jona3 Ilorne. o the barkentine Belle White., foregathered la old Hobb's back" room, by Greenpoint's niurky tide, and cheered themselves with glowing pipes and something else beside, according to the l.eld the stage. With chairs close drawn about, he told how ringnosed cannibals had failed to count him out. ' I was wrecked In said Home, "aboard the Silly Sue. and found myself alone alive of all our husky crew. 3 washed ashore on lucky waves, and woke up on the sands to find myself a prisoner In rather hostile hands. A bunch of six black cannibals, with rings stuck In their noses, danced 'round in glee, and I could see my future held no roses. , "They hitched me to a near-by tree tnd held a long pow-wow. I figured they were settlin when to serve me up. and how. At last one fellow goes away, and that was some relief, but it seenis that he had been dispatched to -fetch . the native chief. lie stayed away so bioomin long the other dubs got sore, so they sent another fellow off, nd that left only four. "New, pretty soon the four of 'em began to get so weary they laid up by a tree to doze, and that made me some cheery. And when the four began to snore this chicken got right busy I wiggled and I wrestled with my ropes till I was dizzy. I yanked this way, I pulled that way, I struggled like a steer, and squirmed and turned until, b'gosh! I pulled out free ! and clear. ' "And did I go away from there? Not ; yef.! I wasn t through. Says I, Now, lyoys, you've played with me. I'll have some fun with you. You see, those boys were sound asleep, their backs against that tree, so I took the rope they'd tied me with and went to work with glee. I strung it through the bioomin rings that dangled fromtheir iieak3 clean 'round the tree and tied he ends, and left th dusky freaks. lay a bark canoe, and on my way I heard a fus3 that tickled me clean through. Those cannibals had started up. hut found their noses tied. They fought and mauled each other while I laughed until I cried. "Well, off I rowed in their canoe to another Island near, where I found a ship and that Is why I'm able to be here." INTERESTING OLD DOCUMENT. In 1N2H School Hoard Iteferrrtl Rtilroad a "a Device of Satan." Alexander Wells, an old citizen of Wellsville, Ohio, has a copy of an interesting and novel document issued by the 6chool board of the town or Lancaster, Ohio, in 1828, says the Illinois Central Employes' Magazine. The questions of steam railroads was then In its incipient stage, and a club of young men had been formed for the ; purpose of discusr.ing tne pomis ai issue. They deseed the use of the tchoolhouse for purposes of debate. This was looked upon by the members of the school board as an innovation bordering upon sacrilege, as indicated by the reply of the board to the re

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po.csslon of Mr. Wells. It reads as follows: "You are welcome to the use of the fcchoolhouse to debate all proper questiens in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing i God had designed that Ills intelligent j creatures should travel at the fright- j ful speed of fifteen miles an hour, by gteam. He would clearly have foretok

less than deserving of the heritage handed down to him by his sharpshooting forefathers. "One must not fall into the error of believing that knowledge of military training makes a boy anxious for military service or war. The reverse is the case. The more a boy knows of what war means the less eager he will be to urge his country into a conflict with another nation. While military training, and especially instruction in rifle practice, would make a boy a more self-respecting, able and self-controlled man, it will also teach him that war is something to be avoided. It is generally the man who knows least of war from personal experience who is prone to look upon that last resort most favorably. "Rifle training makes for many other things in a boy than an adJed value as a probable soldier In war time. It teaches him hew to avoid those shocking accidents which one reads about so often In the daily papers, through knowledge of the proper handling of arms. The first rudiments drilled into the boys are: Never to point a gun, either empty or loaded, at another person; always to open the arm when taking it in hand, to see if ' it is loaded, and, when firing at a target, always to keep the muzzle toward the target. If these rules are observed no accident will ever happen, and they never do with boys who have had these lessons drilled Into them. "While the United States government is spending nothing in promoting rifle shooting in the schools, other nations are making strenuous efforts along these lines. In England Lord Roberts, commander-in-chief of the British army, within the last few years has succeeded in organizing over 100,000 schoolboys. The writer will never forget the inspiring sight of 400 schoolboys, representing forty preparatory schools, competing for the Lord Ashburton shield, every one using the service arm, ' on the great Bisley rifle range in England. "Something has been done in this country in a small way. Col. John Jacob Astor this year presented a cup for the intersehool indcor rifk shooting championship of the United States, which trophy was won by the Morris High School of New York, with a very high score. One team entered the contest from Washington, representing the Central High School, and was seventh. "At the coming session of Congress the bill sent to that body by President Roosevelt with a special message urging its passage, and which provided for carrying on rifle shootlnj; instruction in the schools and among the citizens, will be reintroduced and pushed. All well-wihcrs icr tho future should unite in doing everything in th:ir power lo help the passage of such legislation." Washington Post.

it through His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to hell." Such sentiments possibly reflected the feeling to some extent in the days of sixty-five years ago, but they sound strange at the present time, when the "device of Satan" i3 daily tarrying people over the land at the rate of sixty or seventy miles an hour. The world has progressed somewhat since 1S23. riND FOOT QF MAMKOTH. 31ounlrr lrus wltb and 1 1 nl r After Lnpue of Criiturle. Northern Siberia, in particular, was a happy hunting ground of the mammoth and other prehistoric beasts, as. to-day, it is the happy hunting ground of those who seek relics of the animals of many centuries ago. .The remains illustrated on this page were fouii;? two years-ago on the banks of a sm.! stream by natives who were hunting foxes. These men notified the nearest town of their find, with the result th-it recently the St. Petersburg Academy of Science sent a special expedition to recover the relics, which had been 4'irkmh tour of luiinoru. buried in the river bed. The scientists dug up first of all the skull of a mammoth, with part of the skin and flesh and one eye cavity In a good state of preservation. The right hind foot was found next and was also well preserved. The hair covering it was from five to six inches in length. Thi3 excellent state of preservation is not as uncommon as might be imagined. In 1816 the ren.ains of a mammof.h seen by Adams had suffered so little through the lapse of time that its th-sh vfa3 eaten by natives, dogs and wild animals. It was on this same occasion that it was proved that the mammoth uaed tQ ffied on the shootf. of conlf(,r. i 0U5 treeJ The mammoth varied from ,ne to eleven feet In height. -Illu ittrated London News. why lie oird. "Why are you crying, Johnny?" "We was playing train, and I was "Yes?" "And pa corned in and switched me." Judge. A Though I fnl Yoiiiijj Wife. "I know what' I can do to l:eep these cigars for Alfred. I'll put a IitI 11U cmiljmui m iiit uj.. jji ui. unit; b - Ma5llij The next time a faker calls ou yoi -; membei that If he gets a dollar u ' yc, 90 cents will be profit

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SEEIHG DOUBLE. A well-known oculist of New York City iells a story of one of his patients who proved rather more than s matvh for him. The patient was a quaint old fellow from one of the rural counties of tho State, fifty ycar3 of age or more, who strolled leisurely Into the doctor's oflke, and after taking an optical Inventory of the place, including the doctor himself, remarked that he was afraid that his eyos were "gltting a leetle out o' kilter," and he guessed the doctor had better "take a peek at them." He was seated and, as a preliminary, was invited to look through a prism at a photograph. "Why, now," said be, after squintlug a while, "this Is curious. I see two photographs. What makes me see like that?" The doctor, who is something of a humorist and Inclined to be jocose with certain of his patients, replied that this phenomenon was certainly very interesting, and that while possibly it indicated some slight abnomality. it yet had its compensating advantages. "With double vision you have a great advantage over me, for exam:lo." he continued, smiling, "for you '.III b' able to see twice as many beautiful things n the world a3 I can. You will have twice as many friends. Your family will be doubled. You will have iv.ice as much real estate and two pocket books Instead of one, and when you hitch up your horse to drive out, ;c will have a 'span. ' The old fellow did not say much in reply, but seemed to be pondering it; and meantime the doctor completed hlj examination, and having made the appropriate prescription. It came time to receive his fee, which in this case was ten dollars. Very slowly the old man, still pondering, drew forth a roll of bills, and ?arefully selecting a five, looked hard at It for some moments, then profferirg It. said quietly, "Here's your ten dollars, doctor." The Hunioroa Hat. The hat, whether In action or repose, may be the occasion of much humor. The spectacle of a disheveled man madly chasing his hat across the street is one that never loses its zest; and it Is said by a writer in the London Globe that the dignity of the British House of Commons Is not seldom relieved by some unfortunate statesman's misadventure with his glossy "topper." The House ia always hugely delighted when a member slt3 on his hat, as Colonel Lockwood did one night, and the incident, although by no means infrequent, never seems to pall. As a matter of fact, the member who provides some such relief as this at a time when party feeling runs high does a considerable although unwitting service. It ia a matter of common observation that the tension between parties is always sensibly relaxed when one of these little incidents has occurred. Th most faii'ous hat Incident took place when Mr. Gladstone was premier for the third time, and had to Interveno on a point of order after a division had bten called. The rules renulie that in such circumstances th-j membf-r addressing the chair must do in v.ith his hat on, and Mr. Gladstone tou.'d not Cnd hfs hat. In despair he grabbed that of a colleagu wMch was at least four sizes too small for him. and tlie spectacle cf the minute head-gear locking about rn Mr. Gladstone's massive head was :z that those who saw it will never

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Effort of the W hite Alan Has Been a ttlisht Upon Pjople of the Arctic. FI1JE STUDY FOR SCIENCE. Native of the North One of the liost Extreme Variations of the Human Race. It is to be hoped that mission work among the Eskimos at Etah will not proceed beyond talking aiout such work, frr wherever the whiNs civilization has touched arctic peoples indscrilbbly deplorable conseq isi.ee j have followed. In öpite of the hardship? which the ttsUImos have with reluctant unture they were at one time by no means a miserable race, but made themselves comfortable in a frozen region, where ail else would have perished, took a healthy enjoyment In life and were distinguished by gentle domestic and social qualities, the New York Press says. The butting In of the white man has brought with It hypocrisy, poverty, hie very, selfishness and total loss of self-respect and independence. The Eskimos are one of the most extreme variations of the human race and because they have lived for ages in almost ideally sterilized atmosphere they present at first hand many of the difficult laboratory experiments already worked cut, but which Metchnikeff, Flexner and other experimentTHE "TAXI-CAB" At : ;:: iMllM'HIMIIlliUlMlllilllA

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THE LI-MEASURING CARRIAGE OF OLD CHINA. Attention wa3 called to the ancient measure-mile-drum of the Chinese In a lecture given by Prof. Giles of Cambridge some time ago; and that gentleman was good enough to correct the sketches of our artist's reconstruction of the vehicle (here reproduced). The professor found a reference to the "taxi-cab" in the History of the Chin Dynasty (A. T). 2C5-410). In the years A. D. 813. 820 and SS7 further mentions were made of such a "taxi-

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give. "At the completion of every II, the wooden figure of z. man in the lower story strikes a drum, and at the completion of every ten li a man in the upper story' strike a bell." The length of the Chinese li i3 variously estimated. Some say that It was 479 yard?: others that it was G99 yards. An authority at the Chinese Legation has said- that it was equal to 581 yards. It Is supposed to have represented one-tenth of an hour's march. London Illustrated News.

ers are strenuously seeking along the lines of human immunization. It is very necessary for science to know well a people like the Eskimos, who have always been free from cancer and tuberculosis, but the trouble is, medical science, with a few exceptions, ha3 'not awakened to the serious neces sity of studying so strange and Interesting a branch of humanity. Medical science is trying to establish an environment free from disease germs. Now in the Eskimo science has this very thing, the Eskimos having been In a germ-free environment for ages. Just to give an off-hand illustration, England has had a royal commission investigating cancer for years, but with no positive conclusions. The fact that the Eskimo Is free from disease germs and all other new growths may mean that cancer is caused by germs. The fact that the Eskimo has the most powerful digestion of any human being ought to lead to a close study of his insides, and especially in regard to appendicitis and other fatal, probably preventable diseases of the abdomen. The depredations of the white race have been as vicious on the top of the world as on the bottom. The Terra deb Fuego Welsh and Scotch sheep herders shot the Onas Indians as If these pitiful, harmless Indians had been snakes or wolves. One Scotchman still living in Terra del Fuego shot sixty. These wretched Indians mistook the herders' sheep for their native guanaco and killed aril ate a few. COW IN A PAELOK. It 1'itok I'oeiMlfit of I lie IIotte lien the I'nmll)' Was Awity. The placidity of the cow has been a proverb for all time?. That she is endowed with a good bump of th? "curiosity tbnt killed a cnt" a suburbanite learned to Iiis sorrow one day this summer. Mr. Blank lives In the east end with his family of wife and five children, the Louisville Times says. They have a cow that is a pet, having Won raised from babyhood and now fin rii.-Iiing all the lacteal lluid and by-prcdiut.s used by the family. Not so long since, after Blank hai come in town for the day, Mrs. Blank took the children and went for a day's outing to a neighboring suburb, leaving the home (supposedly) carefully (lo.Ld and the cow In her stable. But missing familiar forms and the sounds of domestic activitv. the grew lon-e-

son. anc managed to escape the incloture -nd came into the yard and proi'cede t to investigate. She climbed the step. to the back tionh, consumed tluve knives of bread left by the baker's l.r.y.' She succeeded in getting the kitchen dcor open, where she devoured all but the granitsware part of a threepound crock of butter. Her appetite still unappeased, she also ate the fancy paper oft the shelves, and in so doing pulled down all the tinware and scattered it about the liocr. She could not work the combination on the ice-box, so moved on through the dining room into the sitting room. Mr. Blank had the day before purchased four new shirts at $1.50 each, and these had been sent home and were left in a bundle on the couch. She "considered" these, ate all but a few fragments, and went on her way. She wrecked chairs, and even a bed, and upset the contents of tables by pulling at and eating the covers. . When the family came back late that evening an affectionate "moo" of welcome greeted them from the cow, her head thrust through the parlor window. Mr. Blank said it took ten men and a derrick to get the cow out of the house, and the cost of repairing damages would purchase enough milk and butter for the family for a year, 'sans care." There's a cow for sale; she's no longer a big hit in the famiiy. CHILDREN OF THE CIRCUS.

Travel with I'arenta Dnrlns Seanon How They Are Educated. "It is nothing unusual for the larger circuses to carry thirty and forty children, ranging all the way from mere babies to boysand girls 13 and 16 years of age," said Jerome S. Rogers of Chicago, a former circus man, according to the Washington Herald. "The majority are traveling with OF 1644 YEARS AGO. :: the vehicle, a portion of which 'we a .: their parents, both the father and mother doing daily duties in the ring, and while often they are trained to follow in the steps cf their elders they are seldom allowed to perform in public. "It is a common belief among circus men that the performer whose training is not started until after the age of 6 will seldom make a distinctive record. I often saw groups of boys, some of whom could not have been over 4 or 5 years old. practicing rudimentary somersaults and handsprings, while their parents looked on with gratiSed cmiles. These were the families of the circus aristocracy, who treasure the records of their ancestors with the pride of a son in hi3 father's sword and who see no more Inspiring calling for their own children than that, of the great white canvas. "Not that their education Is neglected in other respects; several of the families often hire an Instructor perhaps one of the performers who has the time and ability for such work to coach their children in the standard studies. One circus, Indeed, has now established a traveling school for the youngsters. If they are to be acrobats they are to be educated acrobats." t Two of n. Klntl. There is something about the character of mules that makes their owners at times almost equally stubborn. In the. Washington Star this dialogue concerning one, if not two such animals, is reported.' "Why don't you get rid of that mule?" "Well, suh," answered Erastus Plnk ley, "I hates to give in. If I was to trade dat mule off he'd regard It as a personal victory. He's been try in fob. de las' six weeks to get rid o' me." llriviirr of lil .! An.Lnglish dramatist should guard himself against ideas as carefully as a young girl should preserve her character. Dramas of Ideas are ephemeral. Dramas of adventure are immortal. Era. Not AcqiiainttMl with It. "Pa, what's -a sine qua non?" "Oh. piMiaw, don't ask me! I ain't had my automobile1 long enough td Irani about oil ,pf the;-c technical names jet." Cliltfigo-Record-Herald. N ii of Humility. It is necessary that one should sometimes loig.t that he is a superior, and to remember that ho Is a brother. Bishop Wilson.

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The l'ro.HlUntM I'ollrie. Mr. Taft's first annual greeting to Congress and country contains no surprises. He finds that our relations with all the world, except Nicaragua, j are cordial, and on that issue he says nothing save what the newspapers have been telling from x day to day. The treasury deficits, which have been with us several years, he believes will end in the fiscal year 1911. Frauds in the collection of customs duties in New York, on the part of the sugar trust and other concerns, are referred to, and the government officials are endeavoring to discover ; the offenders, with a view to their punishment. The imposition of the maximum scale of duties of the Payne act against the countries which discriminate against vis, which is placed within the discretion of the executive, will, he thinks, lead to friendly negotiation through which that scale will not need to be enforced. If, on careful, examination, the new tariff board finds that the duties imposed by the Payne act ar.e excessive, under the promise of the Republican platform of 1908, he will call the attention of Congress to this fact aud urge action thereon,, but he will not do thi3 unless the divergence from the platform pledge is marked. He urges the creation of a postal savings bank and the granting of government aid to the merchant marine, in the interest of the establishment of regular lines of vessels between our ports and South America and the Orient. , On the question of injunctions Mr. Tafe makes a recommendation which will attract attention. After quoting the plank on that subject in' the platform of 190S he urges the enactment of a law forbidding hereafter the issuing of any injunction, temporary or permanent, by any " federal court, "without previous notice and. a reasonable opportunity to be heard on behalf of the parties to be enjoined; unless it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the court, and the delay necessary to give such notice and hearing would result in irreparable injury to the complainant," and he wants the judge to place his finding upon . the court minutes, . with the reasons fcr his act. The practice of the federal courts, in such cases as the President has in mind, has been to refuse injunctions unless where the judges believed that irreparable injury might be committed if they were withheld. The President's recommendation here is in line with the platform, v but a good many Republicans at the time believed that the platform utterance was unnecessary. The effect of the President's suggestion would be merely to put the present procedure in the statutes. It must be remembered that nebody complains of the practice of issuing Injunctions without a hearing, except those who want to violate some law, in letter or spirit. In all such cases the hearing conies soon after the granting of tho injunction. The party which is enjoined seldom suffers any barm from the restraint. In the hearing before the court, which is never delayed long after the granting of the injunction, the enjoined party has the privilege of getting a full and fair hearing for hts side. ; The country, and especially the business element, looked for some suggestion of modification of the Sherman antitrust law and the interstate commerce act, in the message. Mr. Taft makes none, but he says he will do so in a special message, which will be sent to Congress at the "first convenient opportunity." This postponement is wi?e. Doth those statutes touch Industry at many points. The interstate commerce law of 1S87, with the Hepburn amendment of 1906, are spread over a very broad space on the statute book. Both the original act and its amendments attracted wide attention while they were before Congress. The Hepburn amendment was under discussion in the Senate for several months. It was of vital Interest to all the important railways in the country. Except as to its commodity clause the roads soon adjusted themselves to It. On the whole, it has given a fair degree of satisfaction to roads, shippers and public. It could be modified at some points, however, with advantage to shippers and people. One of the most important pieces of legislation since the Civil War days was the Sherman antitrust act of 1SD0. That law has done a vast service to the country. Some of the ablest men who have been in Congress in the past half a century Sherman, Allison. Edmunds, Aldrich, Morrill, Spooner, Hoar, Dawes and Frye among them aided in shaping that act. Trade conditions have changed materially in the nineteen years since it was framed by that Republican Congress and signed by President Harrison, but, in general, the law has proven comprehensive and elastic enough to meet most of the demands which have a;isen in this time. On some points modifications would undoubtedly be advisable, but whatever changes are to be made should be considered with great care. The country will await with interest Mr. Taft's suggestions on the interstate commerce and antitrust acts. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Teniiui !nlantur. A certain you4 ;:iau. wishing to be very thrifty, quit eating meat. "Franklin abstained from meat," quoth he. "and so will I." But he didn't stop to consider how prices have gone up since Franklin's day, and especially within the last few years. The result was that when he hadn't eaten meat for about six inonths he was so much money to the good that he lost his head and became one of the gilded youth. The outworn ideals of yesterday should be taken up very guardedly, if at all. Puck. I iti port it lit if True. Miss K. I'm told your husband, under the influence of the wine at dinner the other night, declared he had "married beauty aud brains." Mis. B. Well, well! How nice. Miss K. Nice? Aren't you going to investigate? Evidently he's a bigamist. Newark Star. The total value of church property reported in 19if,, for all denominations, was $1.2:7,57.".,Si'7, of Vilich $90,912.5VS was reported for Protestant bodies, ?292.rr,S,7S7( for the Roman Catholic church and ?JS,00 l,r.02 for all tho remaining bodies. ' The wood of a treo crowing on the coast cf Lake Tchad, in Africa, hay even less specific gravity than cork.

CONGRESS AND ITS BURDEN.

A high scns3 cf responsibility has never characterized the American Congress. Shoulders have never been Lowed by the realization of the burden of t:;sks to be performed. The gray hrds upon which the visitors in the galleries lcok down are gray, not by reason of worries cr tatesrmanship, of anxious hours for the public interest, of distress let the people fail to seture the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity. , Mr. Taft, while upon his recent tour, said he feared lest the period of his administration would be too short in which the pledges of the Chicago platformcould be carried out. Speech after speech detailed new economic problems, considered legislation made necessary by rapidly altering conditions of life and thought, reviewed the work inherited from his predecessor and the imperative obligation of urging its completion. There is no question as to the work on hand. House and Senate leaders have Indicated in 'a vague way the subjects which must be taken up.' Commissions of investigation are to be appointed. A fight must be made between the forces which desire the prosecution of the sugar trust In the courts and those who argue for a congressional inquiry the witnesses for which will, under the law, gain Immunity by testifying. The great subject of waterways will be threshed out and then we shall know whether the scientific Improvement of harbors and rivers prevails or the "pork barrel" politics is still strong. Scores of other measures must be settled, scores of others given their moment of discussion and put aside. Yet, at the beginning of this session, as at other beginnings, one reads the interviews of members of Congress in which they say nothing of importance will be considered before the holidays. After that, something like a program will be mapped out. The leaders will decide what legislation is to be brought up and what suppressed. So read the dispatches. . To find the note of seriousness in Congress one must wait for the very end of the session when the appropriation bills are ready for presentation. Toledo Blade. Another lur.t!;?ntlun. An Investigation of the customs service will be demanded in Congress a3 a result of the light thrown upon the sugar frauds and the smuggling practices at the port of New York, "hiere is promise now that the inquiry will go much further than at first expected, the Internal revenue service bing booked for a thorough scrutiny. It is the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury that the government loses many millions of dollars every year through the dodging of internal taxes. Unusual opportunities exist for violations in the collection of dues upon tobacco, spirits and oleomargarine". Forty agents and about 3,000 collectors, inspectors and gaugers constitute the force which must see to the payments" of taxes and the purchase of stamps and license. There is hardly a town of more than a thousand oi two of population in which cigars are not manufactured. ( The hundreds upon hundreds of saloons in each of the States in which a prohibitory law does not exist cannot all be watched keenly. The tax of $1.10 a gallon on whisky offers-a strong temptation to tho unscrupulous among distillers. The making of "moonshine" whisky in the Southern mountains goes on in spite of constant raiding. In the last fiscal year, about 52,000,000 pounds of oleomargarine was manufactured, only C.000,000 pounds, according to the Sec--etary of the Treasury, paying the tax of 10 cents. Until 1902, about J2.500.OOC was .collected upon oleomargarine With the passage of the new law the revenue fell .to $23,000 annually. Besides violations of the revenue laws through failure to buy stamps and licenses, there is a suspicion of fraud through collusion with government employes. When the congressional commission begins the threshing of evidence, no small scandal may be uncovered In the internal revenue offices. This, at least, is the view in Washington. The '1IoI- Alllnnre." Senator Gore in his speech In this city declared that there was "practically no difference between a progressive Republican and Democrat." A reorganized and reunited Democracy means an alliance between hungry Democratic office-seekers and disgruntled Republicans. The Democratic party has been shot to pieces. Its few surviving leaders know this. They know also that their only hope of resuscitation lies through an alliance with n.alcontent Republicans. The bouquetä they are handing to these "progressive" Republicans are, very beautiful and fragrant. Their love for Republican citizens is touching in more ways than one. This alliance bodes no good to the country. By practically aligning themselves with the remnant of Democracy the 'progressive" Republicans show how little they care for party ties or party organization or party principles. To gain power they will ally themselves with their old-time foes and wreck their own party, if need be. They raise a hue and cry when President Taft declares for party organization and party loyalty, and try to make the country believe that the President is "reading them out of the party." The fact is they are reading themselves out of the party as fast as they can. They do not attempt x conceal their joy if they are able to thwart the work of their party. They are doing all they can to wreck the administration and cheerfully ally themselves with the enemies of their party when necessary to gain the power they s?ek. This is the alliance the Republican party must face and fight. Milwauke Sentinel. l.licht it inif Only. Crawfoot I say, if you are so ri.ar. at problems, tell me how far rff hu. der is when yon hear the first rol. Lightning Calculator I can", dthat. Crawfoot Y r a can't. Lightning Calculator No; I'm the lightning 1 calculator. Philadelphia Telegram. . l'uil Oi erlooUt-tl. "You're goingrmarry the baron? Why, he's up to'AiVi oars in debt."" "That doesa't matter. He's not very tall." Meggendorf er Blatter. Robbs Jones' was just saying that he wished everv1 day was Sunday. Dobbs What's the use? His wife wouldn't let him 0 fishing.

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Maraftrlilno Cherries. Weigh the stemmed cherries, after removing the Btones. To every two pounds of fruit make a sirup of a pound of sugar and a half-gill of water. Heat to boiling, stirring to prevent burning, and pour over the, cherries while warm, hut not hot. Stand for an hour, then put over the fire and heat very slowly. Boil for Just five minutes, take out the cherries with a skimmer, and lay on platters, allowing the sirup to boil for twenty minutes more. To every five pounds cf fruit allow a pint of maraschino, and add this to the sirup just before taking from the fire. Put the cherries in jars, fill to overflowing with the maraschino sirup and seal. Fruit Cookie. Cream one-half a cup of butter with one cup of sugar, beat two eggs Ter light and add them, then stir fn fnar tablespoonfuls of sour milk Into hcb has been beaten one-half a'teaspoonfu'i of baking soda. Mix together a cup of chopped raisins and one of chopped nuts, flour them and stir them Into the batter with one-half teaspoonful of ground cloves and one teaspoonful of ground cinnamon. Fold In quickly two cups of flour and drop the mixture by spoonfuls on greased paper. Bake In a good oven. A Novel Cranberry Vie. Take a good-sized cupful of cranberrlescut them In two and put them In cold water to draw out the seeds. Mit a tablespoonful of flour with a cupful of sugar, and then add slowly a scant cupful of. boiling water and half a cupful of raisins stoned and cut in two. . Lift the cranberries out of the cold water, which should be thrown away, and mix them with the other in,;redients. Bake between two crusts. Sometimes a teaspoonful ot vanilla Is added. Renewing; an Old lee Dox. Scrub the zinc in your ice box and enamel it white, giving It a priming of ordinary white paint first Then give the outside a coat of stain and Varnish in any color you like. The material may be bought all prepared for about 20 cents at any paint store. I have a friend whose husband is in the ice-box business, and he says a housekeeper would do well to buy an ice box without stny enamel and enamel it herself. It comes a few dollars cheaper. Plnm Pnddlntr. A plum, pudding that is not overrich wants a cupful of chopped suit, a cupful of sour milk, a cupful of molasses, a cupful each of raisins and figs, minced fine, three cupfuls and a half of ilour, two eggs, a teaspoonful of cloves, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, a grated nutmeg, a little salt and a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little warm water. Fill a mold twothirds full with the mixture and steam tLree hours. Shrimp and Tum! Sal.id. Put boiled shrimps on Ice until very cold. Strip the skin from large ripa tomatoes and scoop out the insides. get these aho In the Ice to get chilled. Fill the hollowed tcmatoes with th phrimps, set each tomato on a leaf of lettuce and pour mayonnaise dressing over all. Macaroni nnd Munhroora. Break the contents of a small box of macaroni into pieces' and boil until soft. Have ready a cup of stewed mushrooms and a cup of grated cheese. Put macaroni; cheese and mushrooms in layers in a buttered baking dish and bake until brown. llreaded Fardlnn. Drain the oil from large sardines and dip In cracker dust. Bake in good oven to a delicate brown, and transfer to ' strips of crustless toast. Squeeze a few drops of lemon Juice on each sardine and serve, garnished with sprigs of parsley. Roulette. Cut beef into strips, the same as for beef olives. Cover each strip thickly with chopped red pepper; roll and ' finish precisely the same as beef olives. Remove the strings, dish And serve with them macaroni with to malo sauce. Peanut SnJnlchi. Cut white bread into very thin slices and remove all the crusts. Spread with peanut butter, and put the slices together In sandwich style. Cut the sandwiches Into triangles or kito rounds with a biscuit cutler. Household Uluta. To revira a dying fire scatter on the embers a spoonful qr two of granulated sugar. Radiators will not be so conspicuous if enameled in a color to match the wall paper. When rubbers look old, apply a coating of patent-leather shoe polish and they will be like new. Finger-marks on doors can be removed with a rag dipped in paraffin. Afterward wash the door with a little hot water, and the smell will soon go off. To cut hard jelly squares, use a perfectly clean pair of scissors dipped In cold water. Thus one can cut small pieces more easily than with a knife. Carefully clean and dry the scissors before putting them away. Hominy given long cooking and served as a vegetable with butter is one of the standbys of North Carolina tables, being used in place of potato. The cereal is cooked In a double boiler for an hour or two. A kettle-holder to which is attached about a yard of tape is very useful when one 13 working in the kitchen. Tie the tape to your waistbelt, and then the kettle-holder will be ready to hand "whenever you want to take anything hot from the stove. Coffee stains, even when the coffee has been mixed with cream or mtlk, may be removed by rubbing the spots with pure glycerin. Rinse afterward in lukewarm water, and press on the wrong side of the fabric (cither silk or wool may be so treated) with a warm iron. To whiten handkerchiefs which have beccme discolored through careless washing, dissolve some pipe clay In warm water and leave ihein to soak In the solution all night. Next day wash and boil the handkerchiefs in the usual manner, and they will be wonderfully improved in appearance.