Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 23, 30 November 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICnMOXD PAIXADIU3I AXD SUX-TELEGRA3I, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER .W, 1009.

The Richmond Palladium and San-Telegram Published and owned by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evenings and Sunday morning. Office Corner North 9th and A streets. Home Phone 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

lludolpb O. leeda Editor Charlea M. MvrgM . . . Managing Kdltor Carl Bernhardt AaMorlate Kdltor M". It. 1'oundatone Kdltor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Jliclimond per year (In ad vance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, in advance J5.00 Hfx months, in advance 2.60 One month, in advance 45 RURAL ROUTES. Onu year, in advance $2.50 Six months, in advance 1.50 One month, in advance 25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be Riven for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment is received. Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mail matter. era (Nw York tity j hi ..a MillHii to ttaa ntrenlltlm t aj tkia aakUeaUo. Oaly tas Hams a tslim u tu iflfen ky tk AatesUtUa. tt-i NICARAGUA There can be little doubt that the "Nlcaraguan situation is more grave than the country imagines. The secret orders given the forces of land and sea, and the apparent readiness of the marines in Panama, together with the disquieting statement of the American vice consul at Managua, that he is In danger, all point to serious trouble. The question is a much greater one than the mere one of whether or not the two Americans, Cannon and Groce were guilty or not of the alleged crimes for which they were executed. The rights of American citizens may not appear much Involved by the summary courtmartial and immediate execution of two soldiers of fortune. The real question is the American interests, present and future, of the United States in that portion of the world. The Panama Canal must be regarded as extending still farther the sphere of American influence. That Is the real crux of the situation. Can America allow the South American republics to disturb and overthrow their governments, endanger American Interests, render American life unsafe with so important a national investment as the canal, entailing, as It does, all the question of American business and national political supremacy on the Pacific? When the lives of the two American adventurers and the unstable condition of South American governments enter Into a question affecting our Asiatic trade and the safety of our Pacific coast, it is no wonder the marines arc in readiness and affairs have the silence of official suspense. Items Gathered in From Far and Near ZELAYA. From the Memphis Commercial Appeal. President Zelaya in his busy litt'e way has been doing things in his tea pot revolution, and he has gotten very near to the business end of Uncle Sam's buzz saw. .From the St. Paul Dispatch. It may be necessary to show Zelaya that Americans in Nicaragua must not be treated as innocent bystanders. Froni the Concord Evening Monitor. Uncle Sam should take Zelaya between his thumb and finger and deposit him some distance from Central America. From the Los Angeles Express. That man Zelaya is one of the brand of trouble breeders who should be "sot on" and good and hard, too. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. Zelaya is full of resources and it is much too early to say his days are numbered. From the Chicago Journal. President Zelaya acts like a man on "the morning after." Possible Uncle Sam will be able to prescribe a bromide. From the Springfield Union. President Zelaya's method of collecting a war fund evidently is to make the American merchants in Nicaragua put up or be shut up. THE STANDARD OIL DECISION. From the Omaha Bee. Now that the Standard is engaged in its final battle for existence, the significance of Mr. Rockefeller's recent remark that life is just one constant struggle for him becomes more apparent From the Salt Lake Tribune. Judge Sanborn has ordered the Standard Oil company of New Jersey to dissolve; but that concern has a habit of being very disobedient at times. From the St Louis Globe-Democrat. A full definition of the word "merger" has been postponed until the highest court of the United States gets through with Its consideration. From the Columbus Evening Dispatch. However, the dissolution of the Standard Oil company is not so immediate as to suggest calling of the undertaker. From the Albany Evening Journal. However, the Standard Oil Com pa-

, AN ENABLING A CT Those who are interested in the problem of obtaining a better form of government for cities and towns rather than in hysterical attempts at socalled reform, and those who regard the adoption of the Des Moines Plau by Indiana cities, as an effective way of solving the difficulty, must look to the next legislature as the place where this is to be accomplished. Since the town and city are the creatures of the state, and our laws affecting the government of cities and town3 proceed from the legislature, this must take the form of an act to enable cities and towns to have that form of government if they choose. In order to be fair to those towns which are satisfied with the present system and to also allow other towns to govern themselves along the most advanced system of municipal government, the legislature may make the Des Moines Plan of Government optional with the people. That is to say, that they may provide by the terms of their ac t that if a majority of the voters of any town shall vote to adopt the new system of government, they may do so. Although the present system is as complicated and bunglesome as it can well be, (so that any change that might be made to it would in air probability not be for anything but the better) the new plan ought not to be forced on the citizens of any town. They will adopt ;t sooner or later when they become familiar with the cardinal difference between the two plans. For It is inconceivable that the people in any community should not want the power in their hands to change any action of their mayor and council which does not meet with the approval of a majority of the voters. It does not stand to reason that they also do not want in their power tha means of removing any man whom they have found unsatisfactory. Besides, the actual simplicity of this form of government, which facilitates the actual handling of business, the two points which have just been mentioned are the most important features of the Commission form of go vernment known as the Des Moines Plan. It is well known that owing to the provision in the Des Moines Plan, which makes it impossible for a public service corporation to obtain a, franchise for which the people do not desire it to have, there will be much opposition in the lobbying in the legislature against such an enabling act. For this reason, it is well for the man who desires to check the advance of the power of public service corporations in city affairs to see to it that he sends men to the legislature who are favorable to an enabling act. which will give to any city the right to employ the things which we have already mentioned as characteristic of the Des Moines Plan.

ny's lawyers are not in their hearts displeased because of the litigation against it. From the Council BUiffs Nonpareil. Perhaps the Standard will have to apply a little more oil to get over the rough places. From the Toledo Blade. Instead of dissolving, it will be more like the Standard Oil Company of old to raise prices. TWINKLES (BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.) Grandeur. "It must be grand," said the effusive young woman, "to be a dashing speculator and organize a corner on foodstuffs." "Yes," answered Mr. Sirus Barker. "It's grand all right; grand larceny. An Approved Location. "So you enjoy studying the canals on Mars?" "Yes," answered the eminent astronomer. "They are near enough to permit me to watch developments and too distant to cause me annoyance by scandalous rumors." Holiday Shopping. "Merry Christmas'." soon will sound. Though for the present it must hush While this plain motto goes the round: "Come early and avoid the rush!" Out of the Picture. "How pleasant it must bo to sit before a blazing fire while the wind vainly rages outside." "Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel. "I 'spose it would be right pleasant." "Why, you ought to know. You live in the country." "Yes, but I ain't the feller that sits by the fire. I'm the feller that fetches in the wood." Doing Well." "How's your boy doing?" "First rate," answered the proud but anxious father. "He has lasted through seventeen Fourth of July celebrations and four football seasons." An Unromantic Place. There ain't no grand, historic spots at Pohick on the Crick. I've often heard folks tell as how in Europe they're so thick It's 'most impossible fur visitors to turn around Without remuneratin' guides fur showin', famous ground. We haven't any castles with their dungeons an' their moats Where people used to feast an' drink an' cut each other's throats That edifice that looks like one up yonder on the hill Is nothin' more nor less than Uncle Hiram's ol' grist mill. We haven't any landmarks of decapitated kings; We haven't any specters prowlin' round iuspectin' things An' frettin" everybody by unseasonable calls; We wouldn't hev sech goin's on in our ancestral halls. The ivy as it clambers shelters walls that peace has built. Our sunshine doesn't light no spots of treachery nor guilt; They kin hev their splendid ruins; we are satisfied to stick To the homely loves an' friendships here at Pohick on the Crick. When a division is taken in the house of commons a two-minute sandtime to enter the house. Then the doors are locked. Nothing so cheap for a good, wholesome, hearty breakfast, as Mrs. Austin's pancake flour. At all grocers. MASONIC CALENDAR. Tuesday, Nov. SO Richmond Lodge No. 196. F. & A. M. Work in Master Mason degree. Refreshments. Thursday, Dec. 2. Wayne Council. No. -10. R. & S. M., Stated Assembly and election of officers. Saturday, Dec. 4 Loyal Chapter, No. 49. O. E. S.. Stated Meeting.

ErPHTlASIA. You can't fall with Gold Medal Flour. Nora.

BEVERIDGE GOES TO THE CAPITAL AND IS PLEASED (Continued From Page One.)

well stand on his record, especially on the tariff question. There are, of course, a good many stand patters in Indiana, but. their number is small as compared with the great body of the people that wants the tariff revised downward. So Senator Beveridge is deeply in terested in the outcome of the next state election, and the party will be interested with him. If the party loses the state next year he will go down with it, and the state will be democratic for years. If the republicans carry the state they will be able to hold it for years. One of the most important features of the situation is the fact that at the next s- ssion of the legislature many important things are to be done. In the first place there will be United States senator to elect. Beveridge will be the only republican candidate. No other name is heard in that connection. The whole party is for him. Of Great Importance. Then there is to be a legislative reapportionment of the state. This could not be done last winter because the republicans controlled the senate, and the house was in the hands of the democrats, and an apportionment can only be made by the two houses acting together. This will be of the greatest importance, because the party that controls the legislature next year will be able to so divide up the state into legislative districts as to make it impossible for the other side to get control of the legislature for another ten years. This is a prize for which both parties will strive, and it will be the incentive for them to put forth their strongest efforts to carry the legislature next year. Then it is almost certain that the next legislature will also have to make a congressional gerrymander of the state. The districts will be made over and rearranged, and the party in power at the time in the legislature will have an opportunity to make up the districts in such a manner as to make sure of carrying most of them. SHARING PROSPERITY. A Proceeding Not Relished by Some Employers of Labor. A short time ago when the employees of the Westinghouse works, near Pittsburg, were paid many envelopes were found to contain from $100 to $1,000 more than the amount due according to the timekeepers' records. The recipients of this extra money, about $40,000 ail told, were salaried men in the employ of the company who suffered loss of time and earnings when the company encountered hard times in 1907 and had a serious slump. More men will be remembered in like manner during the immediate future. An official of the company stated that the firm did not deem it necessary to publish the uames of the employees being benefited and added: "The company desires to show its appreciation of the men. They lost money through no fault of their own or ours. The plant is large and has been working double time for some time. It is only fair that the nieo who stuck to the company should benefit in the great new rush of prosperity." Records of such transactions and of such declarations make pleasant reading for all people except a few those typified bjr; John Kirby of Dayton. O, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. As Mr. Kirby says, the "working people depend naturally for subsistence" upon the "employing class" and voluntarily to increase "subsistence" rations above a point demanded by law and the requirements of keeping body and soul together mast be. according to his theory, nothing short of criminal. Anyhow, what business has the management of a great big employing concern like the Westinghouse to prove by the "money talks' method that it tries to do the rery best it can for those who help make it grow and earn wealth? Fennsrlrani Orlt.

CENTERVILLE IS IN A BALKY MOOD

Town Will Not Contribute Payment of Fees to the Tax Ferret. to A FORMAL NOTICE GIVEN COUNTY TO BE NOTIFIED NOT TO DEDUCT FROM ANY TAXES THAT MIGHT BE DUE CENTERVILLE THROUGH PROBE. At the meeting of the town board of Centerville held last night, it was decided that the town did not desire to contribute toward the payment of any fees which might be claimed by W. L Lowe, tax-adjustor, who is now at work under a contract with the coun'y commissioners. This morning Attorney Wilfred Jessup. representing the town of Centerville, said he would formally notify the county not to deduct from any taxes that may be due Centerville through the work of the adjuster, any part thereof for fees of the adjustor. Is Following Richmond. This action, following that of the city of Richmond and the town of Cambridge City, indicates that other towns in the county may also join in the protest against the payment of tax ferret fees, basing their protests on the theory that the county commissioners cannot make a contract which in any way can bind the incorporated towns of the county. Marion county also Is witnessing some complications as a result of tho tax ferret system, a suit to enjoin the ferrets from putting on property and collecting their fees in certain cases, having been granted. The contract in Marion county gives the adjustor - per cent of all moneys collected, while Wayne county's board of commissioners entered into a contract that gives the adjustor 'M per cent. VERY SERIOUS CASE. A woman recently started laughing so heartily that she started to hiccoughing and her friend growing alarmed, summoned a physician. She stated that her mirth was caused from thinking what a joke a big washing was when rub-a-lac was used. You'd think so too if you'd only try it. LABOR IN POLITICS. Wageworkers to Form Nucleus of New Party In Pennsylvania. Organized labor will be the nucleus of the new party which the Flinn forces propose to form in Pennsylvania to combat with the Republican organization. This statement was made the other day by Alexander P. Moore, editor of the Pittsburg Leader, which newspaper is the reputed mouthpiece of ex-Senator Flinn. In an interview outlining the plan Mr. Moore said: "A formidable organization is being formed to make a fight within the Republican party, and during the next year Pennsylvania will witness a revolution in politics. This organization does not include so called politicans. It is the wage earners of the state who are falling in line, men who are not known as political workers. It does not include labor leaders. It is composed of the intelligent railroad ! men. of whom there are 23.000 voters in Allegheny county; of iron and steel workers and other artisans who are dissatisfied with the action of their present representatives. They are going to demand legislation for the wage earner, such as the employers' liability bill and acts that will prove somewhat beneficial to the laboring classes. Radj ical legislation will not be demanded. "As yet the organization is not completed, but every day new members are affiliating themselves with the j movement. We count on the support ! of the state grangers and railroad men all over the state. We want men who will demand an investigation of the abuses of the iron and steel workers at the hands of the state and national governments." The Real Protection. When a panic hit the country about two years ago the union workmen in the glassmaking industry accepted a reduction in wages approximating 50 per cent. Now that "prosperity has returned" these same employees asked for a restoration of 20 per cent of the 50 per cent reduction. After a three weeks strike an S per cent increase was granted. The new tarijf law gives the manufacturers a triple "protection" in order to enable them to pay good wages to their employees. While ninetynine out of every hundred of the glass workers favor a high protective tariff, the fact will now probably dawn on them that they have only been able to demand a high wage scale by reason of having a thorough union organization. The London police arrest over 10?.000 people a year. There are more than a hundred firms manufacturing chocolate in the United States. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternitv. Catarrh fceing a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting: directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the dl--ease. and giving the patient strngth by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that thev offer On Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Take Hail's Family Pills for constl-

A CLOSE SHAVE.

Many of Them Happening Every Day but Soon Forgotten. Close shaves would be of more frequent occurrence but for the tendar faces of many men, which will not permit of shaving often. Heretofore, nothirfg has been said in these columns about poslam, a new skin discovery, in connection with its use after shaving. La publicity and sales have been confined almost exclusively to Its remaikaMe properties as an eczorra; cure; it stops the itching at once and cures the w orst cases in a few days, j w nue ine application oi posam alter shaving is one of its minor uses, such as for pimples, the compWxioa, etc. shavers will find it a revelation, as it does for abrasions, roughness, and severe scrapings what it does for all manner of kin difficulties heals and cures in a few hours. 1: is the only article possessing real antiseptic and curative value that has ever been exploited for this purpose, and will soothe and tone up the skin as no toilec preparation cou'.d issibly do. Poslam can be had for fifty cents at any reliable druggist'3, particularly W. II. Sudhoff who make a specialty of it. Or the Emergency Laboratories, No. 32 West 2oth Street. New York City, will send a triai supply free by mail to s.ny one who will write for it. This 13 sufficient to show results in 24 hours. Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.ight, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye A HUMAN DERELICT. An emaciated old man dropped dead on Canal street this morning. There was no money In his sleek, shabby clothes, but ho was evidently not a drinking man. He could not be identified. The body was taken to tho morgue. Chicago Pally Newspaper. It Is a city commonplace. Life is so cruel to some! Nature is so careful of the type, but so careless of the individual! And the submerging of this old wreck, worn and waterlogged, makes scarce a ripple on the wide waters. Who was he? The recording angel only knows. lie lived perhaps as you and 1 have lived. There was a happy childhood, and he knew joy and sorrow and love and regret, prospered and failed, hoped and despaired, worked and saved, made and lost, until the day came when be was alone and friendless and weak and failing. Were you ever a poor, boy in a great city? Men hurry on intent upon their own. Piled tier upon tier in the great commercial palaces are the abundant masses of the swollen fortunes. Happy shoppers till the great stores. Sated men and women roll luxuriously in costly carriages. While you Your head is dizzy as you peer over the verge of the bottomless pit! Behind those plate glass windows are heaped huge pyramids of food, while you faint with hunger. In the crushing sense of the world's cruelty you drink to the lees of life's pitiful ironies. But to be thus and old! Here is the alternative to beg or steal. If you can forget your pride and beg, few will stop and listen. If you steal, they will put you in an Iron cell. The law of trade is something Sympathy? Charity? The city is too busy. It does not know. There are so many frauds! And the city does not understand or try to understand. And so, alas for Christian charity under the sun. the "Miserables" go gradually down, down, down, to that lowest plane of life whose outer verge is starvation or suicide or What shall become of them unless some tender human heart shall succor? Nature will not help, nor commerce, nor the angels from the skies. Let us open our eyes and hearts lest Rome of tKese frail, deserving human barks go down before our very eye! In the grounds of Dalhouse castle, Scotland, is said to be a famous example of the sympathy of the vegetable world with the human death. It was anciently believed in the neighborhood that a branch always fell from this oak when a member of the family died. Apparently the fall of the original tree early in the eighteenth century did not break tne sympathy, for a new one sprang from the old root, and it is upon record that as lately as 1874. an old forester seeing a branch fall from this on a still day. cried. "The laird's deed noor news of the eleventh earl of Dalhousie's death soon followed. OPERATE ON LYONS Drs. Bowers and Johnston operated on Dr. S. R. Lyons yesterday, reducing the fracture of the shoulder blade. The operation was tedious and painful, but the patient stood it admirably and is r -ported as doing as nicely as could be expected. The hardest thing for the Doctor to endure will be the lying in one position for two weeks, which the doctors sav he must do. 10 HAVE CORN CLUB Cyrus Saxton, an influential farmer of Franklin township will organize a Franklin township corn club within the next week or two at a public meeting of all the farmers and especially their sons who are interested. The place of meeting will be announced later.

A CRITICISM OF CITY'S BUSINESS METHODS IS MADE (Continued on Page Three.)

bull elk. appraised at $225 is enumerated but the female elks, whose number is considerable, are not In the Inventory at all. Your committee arc unable to see the utility of an inventory as defective as that. While examining the inventory, your committee came across the statement made by the park superintendent of j his receipts and disbursements. The j receipts amounted to $907.07. Among the items was one designated "Other sources (not named ?-'0o.9. It Is evident that such a report does not give the data for determining wheth er it is correct or not. A duplicate j receipt given upon carbon paior, such I as is used in department stores, would add little to the labor of the superintendent and would furnish some check uiKn the accuracy of the re port of his sales. We were informed that the park superintendent receives the money direct from purchasers, but that, in many cases, no account is furnished to the controller showing the items. We called upon the controller for an itemized account of the $907.61 received by the city and ho furnished the subjoined statement, but there was nothing of record to show- the number, character, quality or value of the plants, hay and logs sold, or the amount of work done for the Chautauqua and what was charged for it by day work, by load or in any other manner. Is a Poor System. It would be manifestly impossible for any one to conduct a large business on such p. system. While we have no reason to believe that the superintendent is not entirely honest and accurate yet it must be said, that if the place should ever be held by one who is not. countless opportunities for peculation would be furnished; the plants sold might be worth ten times the amount turned over and In regard to the "other sources" perfect freedom would be given to an unprincipled man to turn over just what he pleased and keep the rest. Such a system should be changed at once. Your committee in like manner, examined the appraisement of the other parks of the city and found no separate value given to the fountains and other improvements upon them. For instance, in Starr Park, containing 1.14 acres, there is a residence renting for $150 a year, but no statement of its value. A little tract of land on Eighth street was leased May 6th, 197. for ten years to the Home Telephone Co. who are to grade, fence, sow, plant vines, keep the walks in repair but pay no rent und the lessees have erected a structure upon the premises. In like manner the use of the second story of the old engine house on Souh Sixth street, appraised at $1,000, is given to the South Side Improvement association for their meetings, without rent and the association contemplates asking that the city repair the roof for them. These things are trifles, but they show the business methods which prevail. For these two things the council is responsible. The Market House. Your committee, in considering the appraisement of the market house and grounds, mentioned in the city inventory, also discovered instances of a lack of business methods similar to those which prevailed in regard to Glen Miller. It is fair to say that the market house conditions have improved in late years; there is no longer a deficiency, such as invariably used to exist; the receipts are now a little more than enough to pay expenses; but the system is capable of further improvement. The market master alone keeps the accounts, showing deficiencies in market rents and the amounts paid or due from those who have the privilege of backing up their wagons at the market place and there are no means by which the controller can check up the accounts and ascertain what Is due or whether the market master has paid over the sums he has received. A system of duplicate receipts ought to be provided here. The controller, although he has a list of the stalls bid for at auction at prices from $11 to $26 each, has no list of the temporary market privileges and no knowledge of what is or ought to be paid for them. This system should be Immediately changed. A number of small leakages appear in other matters in which the council could effect a saving for the city by appropriate ordinances. Raise Milk License Fee! Thus the milk inspector gets a salary of $1,000. The license fee for each milkman is $1.00. producing for the city only $43. Some of the milk dealers run a number of wagons, others have only a single wagon yet" have to pay as much as the larger dealers. This is neither r.!r or economical to the city and the license fees ought to be considerably increased and fines FOR THE PUBLIC w Form til ( area ( gki, ( 14a, BroarhMI mud Hoinrim ia Five Heara. Much is being done in these days to stop the ravages of consumption, but probably nothing has been so effective as teaching tne public how to break up a cold and cure coughs, bronchitis, tonsiiitis. etc.. with simpl home-mixed medicine. A laxative tuuh syrup, free from whiskey is the prime need. A cough indicates inflammation and congestion and thsf in turn are due to an excess of waste and poisons In the systemA tonic laxative cough syrup rids the system of congestion, while relieving the painful coughing. Get the following and mix at home: One-half ounce fluid wild cherry bark, one I three ounces syrup white pine comj pound. Shake the little and takfI twenty drops ever" half hour for four i hours. TM-n one half to one teaFpoonful three or four timea daily. ive children less, according to age. Irs, his out and save it for some

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A Marvel For Sore Feet. Acts Right Off. Sore Feet? Never After Using TIZ Good-bye sore feel, aching feet, swollen feet, sweaty feet, duelling feet, tired feet. Good-bye corns, calhtuses and bunIons and raw spots. You've never tried anything like TIZ before for your feet. It is different from anything ever before sold. It acts at once and makes the feet feel remarkably fresh and sore-proof. TIZ is not a ttowder. Powders and other foot remedies clog up the- pores. TIZ draws out all poisonous exudations which bring on soreness of the feet, and is the only remedy that does, TIZ cleans out every pore and glorifies the feet your feet. You'll never limp again or draw ui your face in pain, and you'll forget about your corns, bunions and callouses. You'll feel like a new jterson. If you don't find all this true after trying a box of TIZ. you can get your money right back. TIZ is for sale at all druggists at 23 cents per box. or it will be sent you direct if you wish from Walter Luther Dodge & Co., DepL 476. Dodg nidg.. Chicago, 111. imposed which would go into the city treasury for selling impure milk. The market master tests the scales employed by dealers in the city. Theso tests are made annually and oftene.if requested; sometimes a conveyancs has to be hired by the city to make the tests and carry the heavy weights required for the purpose, yet the ordinance gives no fee except for testing new scales, then the fee varies from ten to twenty-five cents. A larger fee should be imposed and paid whenever a scale Is tested, new or old. The valuable scales at the city bulldin;: for making these tests cannot be useJ because the weights have been lost and it is believed that the testing weights ought themselves to be tested. These matters are reported merely as illustrations showing the necessity of further examination of similar matters by a qualified ex:ert. Your committee is convinced that if more businesslike methods could be employed in the city government, many thousands of dollars could be saved to the taxpayers every year, and the efficiency of the government not diminished, but increased. The properly f the city should not be turned over to the new administration before a complete, systematic and accurate Inventory is taken, as a proper commenre. ment of correct municipal bookkeeping and as necessary for the protection of th outgoing and incoming city administrations. It should be the work of this Bureau to collect at the earliest moment a sufficient fund to prosecute Its future inquiries systematically. Respectfully submitted. W. IX FOULKE. TIMOTHY NICHOLSON. Many African tribes count snake flesh among the delicasies. and John Ward says that with the Australian natives "a dish of snakes is a much esteemed luxury. Many kinds of bird eat snakes. Pigs are particularly fond of them, as also are some deer; bet in the old days It was understood that deer only ate snakes in summer, foe w'hich reason their venison was at that time poisonous, a sagnacious fiction which it was doubtless well to mak-? widely known In times when there was abundant temptation to deer-stealing and regulations concerning close seasons would have been treated with Indifferent respect. Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. Cures backache and irregularities that if neglected might result In Rright's disease or diabetes. A. G. Luken & Co. ..Xmas Spectacles.. Get your folks that need them a fine pair of Spectacles or Eye Glasses for Xmas. Nothing makes a more useful present, Haner. The Jeweler 810 Main Si. F. H. EDMUNDS, Optometrist, A FULL LINE OF THE NEW ART BRASS CRAFT METAL0GRAPHY Moormar.n's Book Store, 520 MAIN ST. A FEW SPECIALS. Jones Little Pig Sausage, nothing finer in the country. Imp.. Swiss. Pineapple and Edam Cheese. Fat Norway Mackerel (new). Hickory Nats and all new outs in. H. G. HADLET. No. 103S. Phone 2292.