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7 Js My 54thBirthday
MORLEY ROBERTS Morley Roberts, a novelist and journalist of marked versatility, -was born in London, December 29, 1857. Following his graduation at Owens college, Manchester, he traveled widely, working with sheep and cattle, on railroads and in sawmills in many parts of Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada, and having served before the mast in sailing vessels. More recently he has visited the South Seas, the Sandwich Islands and Samoa, Cape Colony, Rhodesia and the Transvael. Mr. Roberts has published m'ore than forty books, the first, "The Western Avernus," appearing In 1887. Among the most popular of his many novels are "The Idlers," David Bran," "Lady Penelope," and Thorpe's Way."
COINS UNDER WEIGHT. In England It's the Duty of Those Who Get Them to Break Them. It is the duty of each loyal British ubject not merely to refuse gold coin that la under a certain weight but to break it. "Every person," the act reads, "sbali, by himself or others, cut. break or deface such coin tendered to htm in payment, and the person tendering the same shall bear the loss." But In apite of this act it is a risky business Interfering with coins which you may suspect to be under weight or spurious. Some months ago a Grimsby woman offered a half sovereign in payment of goods to a local shopkeeper. The latter put the coin in a testing machine and, as it broke in two, refused to take it The coin, however, was pronounced by experts to be perfectly genuine, and when the case was taken into a court of law the shopkeeper was ordered to refund 10 shillings to the customer. Honey, both gold and silver, wears ont at a startling rate. It is reckoned tbat there is usually 100,000,000 In gold coin in England, a very large proportion of which is locked in the strong rooms of banks. Yet of that which is In active circulation the wastage is so great that during every twelve months 70,000 worth of gold and silver is rubbed off into fine dust Pearson's Weekly. PUNCTUATION.
The Modern System Was Introduced by Aldus Manutius. Punctuation by means of stops or points, so as to Indicate the meaning of sentences and assist the reader to a proper enunciation, is ascribed originally to Aristophanes, an Alexandrian grammarian, who lived In the third century B. C Whatever his system may hare been. It was subsequently neglected and forgotten, but was reintroduced by Charlemagne, the various stops and symbols being designed by Warnefried and Alcuin. The present system of punctuation was Introduced in the latter part of the Ifteenth century by Aldus Manutius, a Venetian printer, who was responsible for our period, colon, semicolon, comma, marka of Interrogation and exclamation, parenthesis and dash, hyphen, apostrophe and quotation marks. These were subsequently copied by other printers until their use became universal. Most ancient languages were innocent of any system of punctuation. We And in many early mauacripts that the letters are placed at equal distances part, with no connecting link between, even In the matter of spacing, an arrangement which must have rendered reading at sight somewhat difficult
Strict School Rules. John Wesley held that school children should do without holidays altogether. When he opened Klngswood ecbool In 1748 he announced that "the children of tender parents, so called, bare no business here, for the rules will not be broken in favor of any person whatsoever. Nor Is any child received unless his parents agree that be dball observe all the rules of the bouse and that they will not take him from school, no, not for a day, till they take him for good and alL" Further, no play days were permitted, and no time was ever allowed for play on the ground that he who playa when be Is a child will play when he become a man. Every Friday the children Did to work till s In the after
J noon wltbout breaking their faat-
The Obvious Conclusion.
A very pretty fight Is in progress just outside of Philadelphia at Norristown, Pennsylvania. The local water company raised the price of water 100 per cent. The consumers bucked. Here is the history of the case from the news columns of the Philadelphia North American: "The company at Irst assumed a non-compromising attitude, and threatened to enforce its increased water rates by denying water to people who resisted its demands. In tbat attempt it met with objection from the boards of health, however, and when residents of the three counties In which the water company enjoys a monopoly instituted suits, the company changed its attitude and professed to be willing to demonstrate to all concerned that its rates were fair. "But when the committee representing the water consumers asked for the production of the company's records, as proof of its contentions, the company declined to furnish the records, and yesterday insisted that its books and records were its sacred property, to which the public has no right of access.
"We are not willing to giVe information on any subject for the use of this committee's expert to combat us," argued Edward Hall, as attorney for the water company. "Is it not only fair to the consumers to furnish such information?'' suggested Judge Swartz. "No, to give this committee such information 'would be an unjust and unfair burden on us," argued the attorney for the company, which has protested its readiness to prove its claim for higher water rates to any body of consumers. "The central protest committee, formed by citizens who had their minimum water rato arbitrarily increased from $! to $18 per annum was represented in court by Attorneys George Wharton Pepper, Henry M. Tracy and H. ft. Robinson. This committee has instituted equity proceedings against the water company, claiming that its increased rates are unreasonable and that consumers are paying for more water in the company's stock than in its pipes.
"When the equity proceedings were instituted and the water trust discovered that it was meeting with determined opposition in its attempt to enforce its demands for more revenues, it agreed with the attorneys for the central protest committee to set aside all money received under the increase in rates until the question of what it is entitled to charge has been decided finally in the courts. If the courts decide against the water company, all money collected by the company in excess of its old charges is to be returned to the consumers. "The central protest committee has had experts examine the entire supply system of the Consolidated Springfield Water Company since the suits were instituted, and recently filed an interrogatory petition, asking the court to compel the water company to furnish it with information in the exclusive possession of the company. The request for the information was made in order to enable the court to reach a proper decision with all the facts In the dispute before it. "But the water company insists that the court is entitled only to such information as the complainants can gather in support of their contention.
"George Wharton Pepper argued for the complainants that in the water rate dispute the court is acting in a capacity similar to a public service commission and is entitled to all the evidence in the possession of either side to the dispute. Mr. Pepper argued that the court should compel the water company to divulge all information in its possession about its earnings, its fixed charges, its underlying companies, their rentals, the dual stock ownership of the underlying corporations and their relation to one another, with dividends paid and cost of construction of the company's entire operating and distributing system. "In this connection, Mr. Pepper argued that there is a vast difference between a private corporation and its corporate secrets and a public service corporation, which ought at all time to throw its books open to public inspection. The court, reserved its decision." George Wharton Pepper, be it known is the attorney who helped Brandeis in his defense of Glavis which turned out to be a conviction of Taft and Ballinger. His argument may therefore be taken as the attitude of the best and cleanest force in the legal profession. He undoubtedly draws much of his inspiration from Louis Brandeis who stands at the head of his profession as a progressive citizen first and always. Louis Brandeis is the man who straightened out the gas company of Boston in its conflict with the citizens and reduced its friction to a minimum. Hfsattitude in this was to get at the facts. At present the Boston company gets an increase in its profit every time it reduces the price of gas. Public utility men of Richmond. Indiana, may sneer at this but on investigation they will find that, the company has reduced the price of gas several times and also raised its dividend rate.
It can be seen that no plan of this sort can ever be carried to its completion without the facts. The case of the citizens of Norristown vs. the Consolidated Springfield Water company which has preceded these side remarks is quite similar to the situation in Richmond. The public utilities here want to conceal something. What is it? Hoow great is their profit? Is it so great that they do not care to have the people know about it? That is the obvious conclusion.
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY '
DECEMBER 29. 1800 William R. Gladstone, famous English statesman, born. Died May 19, 1898. 1S43 Texas admitted to the Union. 1857 Canton. China, bombarded and taken by an allied naval force of English and French. 1862 Gen. Sherman, in his atack on Vicksburg, repulsed with heavy loss. 1865 The President restored State government to all the Southern states except Texas and Florida. 1868 Lord Lisger appointed Governor-General of Canada. 1876 Eighty persons killed and many injured in the Ashtabula railroad disaster. 1905 Raymond Prefontaine, Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, died. Born Sept. 16, 1850.
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COAST! If you travel on one of Chicago's elevated trains you vrtll note, standing at Intervals along the track, numerous white signboards. They bear the legend: "Coast." If you observe closely you will discover, as the motorman approaches these signboards, be shuts off the power. The thing is plain. The order to the motorman is for the purpose of saving power. At certain
points the grade is such tbat when j
the train is started it easily goes several blocks under its own momentum. So the motorman shuts oft the power and coasts. Experts say that by coasting down the inclined planes as much as 30 per cent of the power may be saved. The same is true of life. Too many persons get the habit of running down the easier grades when they might shut off the power, coast down and save energy. We waste power. Many of us find ourselves worn out in the middle of life because we have unnecessarily wasted energy. And so when we strike the up grades we find we haven't sufficient power. "The power is down"' before we get to the end of the trip. Why not coast part way?
Americans are fast goers. They run
themselves not merely on schedule time, but ahead. And they are surprised when they turn the lever on signal and the power is missiug. Coast some. Relax yourself at times. Let go. Coast. Take a nap. or at least lie down for five minutes, preferably in the middle of the day. Conserve your energy. Like electricity, your power must be manufactured, and the supply is limited. Coast. Do not attempt to run down grade full speed. It isn't necessary. You waste power. And, besides, you risk derailment and wreck. Slide down. Do not run downhill. Shut off and slide down. It is cheaper, easier on the system, safer. It would be a fine charity if some one would put up at stated intervals on the highway of life signboards that should bear the timely warning "Coast."
UNCLE SAM WANTS A WOMAN PRESSFEEDER
Announcement of the following civil ; service examinations have been re-' ceived at; the local post office: Law Clerk. Stenographer and Type-' writer: Food and Drug Inspector; Telephone Lineman: Press Feeder (Female); Logger; Topographic Draftsman (Male; Testing Machine Mechanic; Architectural and Structural Steel Draftsman (Male). Application blanks and information concerning these examinations may be secured of L. A. Handley, local secretary, at the post office. ;
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Siam's Amazon Guard. j Slam is one of the few countries! which boast of a corps of women police. The members of this amaaon guard are all o!d and ugly. They wear uniforms, though they are uot arcned. Their chief duty is to act as gate keepers of the inner, or women's, palace at Bangkok. They follow any stranger who enters the palace and remain with him until he rakes his departure. Men who have business inside the palace doctors, architects, carpenters, electric lijrht fitters, etc., enter the palace freely, hut are always accompanied by some of the Amazon guard. The palace has some difficulty in recruiting these guards, as the work is hard and the pay poor, and the qualification uncomplimentary. Loudon Standard.
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Friday, Dec. 29. King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called con
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It Depended. "Do you believe in capital punishment?" asked the lawyer who was examining the candidiates for the jury. "Well, that depends." "Depends on what?" "Oh. the defendant. If she is that good looking young woman who sits at your left. I don't." Chicago Record- ; Herald.
IN THE THICK OF THINGS OR THE THIN OF THINGS? It takes the steady nerve, the elastic step, the energetic body to meet modern conditions, and the quick mind grasps the fact that body and nerves must be properly nourished. Weak, hesitating, doubting natures are those who lack vitality. Their kingdom is the crust or outer edge the thin of things. SCUTS BsUSNN is the vitalizer for all ages. It feeds nerves, body and brain with pure, wholesome food -tonic It does not stimulate it nourishes.
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NORTHWEST COLLEGE CONFERENCE OPENS Natlonal News Association) I PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 29 A two days' meeting of the Northwest inter- j collegiate conference began in this ; city with an attendance of represen-, i EXCITEMENT at Wabash'
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