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SHALL INDIANAPOLIS KULi: Till: i:tiicj-: stati:? When the cnerable senator, Sen. Dillon .f Iigrangr. arose in the upper house of the legislature Thursday to lesent being disciplined by the state democratic organization because he failed to vote for the Hell bill to create a. finance board for the capital City, and thus convert the mayor into a kin;;, he :-pokc for every democrat in the M;tt of Indiana, outside of Indianapolis, who believes tho .state is bigger than the metropolis. The senator in explaining his voto n the Hell kinship bill, had denounced it as bcin undemocratic and un-American, and announced himself as too old in his devotion to the principles of democracy to lend any in dorsement to such government. Be ause of this, i-'en. Al. Zearfng, of Marion county, a rncro organization tool, backed by others of his ilk in the upper house, began a campaign of opposition to everything that the Lagrange man might want, whether of merit or not, including especially a bill codifying the ditch and drain laws of the state, in which the capital city is about as much interested as it is in maintaining public decency and that is not promising much. It Is unnecessary to go farther into th merits or demerits of the law that will, if passed by the house, virtually confer upon Mayor Bell of the capital city, a kingly crown. It is enough that In free government it is the right and privilege of evcy man to believe in or not to believe Li, and to vote for or not to vote for such government, and the constitutional freedom of speech, conferred upon him, carries with it the right to give his reasons for his belief and for his voting. The same principle applies to members of the assembly. It is also the privilege of every man, and of every legislator, to oppose the codification of the state drair. and ditch laws if they wish to, but when a virtual conspiracy is entered Into to defeat the latter, not from any principle, hut as disciplinary to those who oppose the former, that is a different matter. .en. Hallow was chairman of a commission of three, all hold-over senators from the? (ISth session, appointed by Gov. Ralston, to codify the ditch and drain laws. For two years they had worked upon the measures. They were at least entitled to go bef'.re the assembly upon their merits, but .cn. Zearing. enraged because Rallon had opposed his pet Indianapolis bills, determined that merit should not count. He would lay the Ballou measures on the table indefinitely, and, whisperings were heard that these would not be the only Halloa bills to go onto the sidetrack. What Indiana democracy has a right to know is. whether or not i is necessary for its representatives In the assembly to bow one and all to the whims of the Indianapolis machine, even though it have the backing of the state organization, in order to get : few things that are needed outside of the capital city? That is what Fen. Hallou wanted to know. He asked the question in behalf of the entire state. Shall a mere metropolis rule? Have the people outside of Marion county any rights that the party machine inside that comity should be bound to respect? If they have not. senators and representatives from the other counties mi?ht as we'd resign and o home. Hefore doing so it might te well to so amend the Hell bill as to make th.e mayor of Indianapolis king of the Ftate. rather than of the capital city alone, and thus let the metropolis ride free from disguise. There is more to these IV11 measures than th.e average Ir.dhiilual at this distance will find it convenient to comprehend, owing to their extreme audacity. A legalized misappropriation of the finance controlling powers of the common council, is only one of the audacious schemes. Another is to enable the mayor or king to name a second police judge, which can be (-r no ether purpose than to have one who will be the "keeper of the king's cons, ience." Next, in disguised order, there conus a Pill knocking nut the JT.,000 limit of taxation against the city for a particular sewer or drain ise.;me nt. where the expense exceeds the benefits to the assessable proprty making an unlimited amount paahlo front the ueneral fund without the formality of an appropriation. Never in the history of the municipal legislation or the state has so mu h nerve been exhibited on the p.irt of any one man. to enlarge his grasp upon power, and because a few senators have m'ui fit t- oppose such Usurpation of power, they are to be discii hnrd; the w h-e state, if jmi p!ea.e, i to be disciplined. This is done, we assume. to apprise the members of the lower house as to what will happen to them at the hands of the state, organisation,, if the Hell bills pas.-ed by the senate, do ?m t go through down there. .Maybe the whole lloor can be whipped into

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PPIVTIVr. fflMPAW IVII1 i 111 V vv 4ttia 1 .South I3?nd, Indians, j he Pontofflce at South Bend. Iudiana to he seen. If it is, it will he because of weakness on the part of the rcpicscntatives from outside Marion county, rather than because of the strength of the organization. It will be a case of the "tail wagging the dog" and an Incipient willingness on the part of the "dog" to be wagged by the "tail." If demorcacy doesn't stand for principle it doesn't stand for anything, and if it does stand for principle, it should stand by that principle and not consent to be warped out of shape by any such autocracy as has sprung up in the legislature under Indianapolis control. FORM OF PATFHXALISM THAT H.VHIKS Till: STATU. While the awful wail of the taxpayer of the roan who is so fortunate as to have something to pay taxes on, is by no means always without excuse, there are times when tho Insignificance of the whinny almost drives one to the border of contempt. Such an instance comes to light in the house opposition to the Van Home bill, now pending before the legislature. The bill merely provides for the payment of expenses of witnesses in criminal cases and grand jury investigations, where the witnesser are subpenaed and compelled to go beyond the confines of their own county. The committee handed in a divided report, the majority favoring indefinite postponement, "because of the burden it would impose upon the taxpayers," as Rep. Micdreich bewailed. The minority favored passage, "because the taxpayers can stand it better than can the witnesses," as contended by Rep. Hagerty. Happily the houso had sense enough to maicc the minority report, the report of adoption. Tray point out to us, if possible, the justice of a man who chances to know something about a criminal case, being forced to quit his business, go away from home, perhaps to an adjoining county, or possibly half the length of the state, or farther, to testify for the protection of society a society composed of taxpayers so blamed parsimonious, that it will not pay the witnesses expenses. Yet that is the situation in the state of Indiana today. It is tho situation that the Van Home bill seeks to remery. It should be remedied. The criminal laws of the state are administered for the maintenance of public decorum and the safety of all. What incentive is there to a man, though he know ever so much about a case, to admit it and be made a witness, if aware that he is to be dragged away from home, and his time and money usurped and confiscated to the public good, in order that he may be browbeaten and bully-ragged by the lawyers em the opposite side all without oi.e whit of monetary appreciation? It would be a splendid compliment to the position taken by Rep. Micdreich, and others of his mind, if caught in the talons of some court subpena, they could be snatched across the state some day for testifying purposes, and made to travel, sleep and feed for a week or ten days, on the eontents of their own pocketbooks well-knowing too, that these contents were never to be replenished by public contribution. We half! Imagine that they wouldn't care so much, in such instance, whether such a bill as the Van Home bill enacted into law, cost the taxpayers of the various counties two hundred thousand tr two hundred million dollars a year. Of course, we all owe a certain amount of free service to society, but the experience of ages, and the study of human nature demonstrates, that the man who is so pesky penurious about his taxes, is generally just as penurious about rendering such free service. The prosecuting attorneys of the state of Indiana are hampered continuously, by the refusal of people to admit what they know about criminal cases, after they have once been caught in the trap of free witness service. Refusal of the legislature to pass some law, covering the aim of the Van llorne bill, would be wellnigh akin to tampering with the course of justice: with seeking to impede the enforcement of the criminal code. LYonomy is one thing, and parsimony is another thing. Economy is the antithesis of extravagance. Parsimony begs the question, rushes to the extreme of stinginess, and sometimes een makes a near approach to sneak-thievery. This latter is pretty near where it stands in Indl- j ana wttn respect to me Muiuuon in question. It is continuing a custom established by the pioneers. Indiana has since emerged from the woods r is emerging. and it is pretty near time for it to announce itself on several such subjects, as having- found the "clearing." ENGLAND'S WARNING AND Ol K DFTY TO IIFIU) IT. Great Britain has notified the

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snllinc- from tho InltP.l srtntrs direct- I - - - - - - - . ly for (jcrman ports or for neutral , r nltcd States in unequivocal language. j albeit unofflcially, that hereafter all j ports in Europe where it appears that the cargo may ultimately reach Germany, will be treated as contraband of war and be subject to seizure, ship and cargo, outright, without compensation. Now listen to the jingoes jingle and the putrid patriots preach. It's arbitrary unheard of action and England has no right to do this, but she has done it, and what arc we going to do about it? . It's up to Pres't Wilson to show the same qualities that sustained him in his stand upon the Mexican question. Quoting his own language: "It's none of our business." The terrible contlict in Europe has resolved itself into a war of extirmination. a struggle for the survival of the strongest. With Germany torpedoing England bound merchant vessels, right or wrong, considering Germany's sequestration of all grain for common use, viewing with impartial eye tho indignation of the Rritish public at the use of American cotton by the Germans for the manufacture of explosives to be directed against their unprotected cities this act of reprisal is not remarkable. It may be wrong from a humanitarian standpoint, but It's war. If you, as an individual, saw two lads pummelling: each other, you would feel prompted to Interfere but if the combatants chanced to be grown men, both as big or bigger than yourself you would probably let them light it out, and the more deadly the combat promised to become, the more prudent would be your course. Nor could any man deem your conduct pusillanimous. That is, unless you happened to be a policeman. The United States is not a world's policeman. It's not our duty nor prerogative to inteifere in the quarrels of our European neighbors no matter to what weapons they resort. In giving due warning to shippers that they send their vessels forth at their own risk, England is complying with the rules of fair play. When the United States echoes that warning, its duty is done. Till: ROY SCOUTS. Boy .Scout troops all over the country have just been celebrating the fifth anniversary of the founding of the order. Although the Scouts were organized in this country but five years ago this month, they already include over COO, 000 members in the United States alone. There are hundreds of other movements for interesting and inspiring boys. Hut most of them seem to be always trying to get the boys to elo what the grown-ups think they ought to do. The. Boy Scout movement has been an effort to tlnd out the kind of things that boys like, and then organl: ng them to do those things. Tld life and out door sports interest roys more than anything else. Camping out experiences, cooking out doors, swimming, paddling of canoes, setting of traps and snares, the learning the ways of wild creatures all this comes nearer to the heart of a real boy than anything else. A normal boy takes to Indian and frontier life like a fish to his native element. Don't expect live boys will sit still long listening to lectures on good conduct. After you have talked about five minutes, they are hiding each other's caps and sticking pins into each other's arms. Get them out doors following a woodland trail, and disorder disappears. A boy may not be willing to work five minutes piling up wood for the kitchen fire. But he will grub around for hours collecting dry sticks for a camp fire, lugging water, and cooking bacon and eggs. The meal of his own cooking may be smoky and burned, but it tastes better thin the best hotel dinner. Incidentally on the hike and in the camp, the principles of manliness, generosity and truthfulness can be taught. A ci:ij-:imATi:iFcAsi:. We thought, at the time, that it was Just New England aestheticism, over-worked, spiritual temperament, or something equally crazy, but now we're guessing that it wa3 plain, sordid materialism. Sometime ago. Dr. W. Lincoln Chase, a distinguished citizen of ! Brookline, startled Massachusetts by giving up his wife to Hartley Dennett, a well known Boston architect. Hartley was Mrs. Chase's soul-mate, the doctor couldn't stand between two souls with but a single thought, and all that, and so, two years ago, .Mrs. Chase and soul-mate went up to a nice little firm at East Alstead, X. II., where their souls could commune, steep in bdss, and all that. Tho New England world applauded Dr. Chase's nobility and generous self-sacrifice, but he now announces that he gives up his practice and is j going to live on that New Hampshire farm with the soul-mates. We can't help picturing the good doctor sitting on the porch of the little farm house, smoking his pipe over "the six Vest sellers." while one of the soul-mates Is out back of the house cultivating potatoes and such. Anyhow, the doc tor declares Hartley to be a saint, which is in itself an almighty line sign that it's the soul-mate who is to do the potato uplift. New England seciety announces itself all stirred up over "the Chase affair." But it's really that architect's turn to feel stirred up. I 1 ' nMi x i"MU, iwiuv 1HI.L.. j The compromise reached by which i the Pottawatomie park question is to

be amicably settled as between the city and the county, will, we believe, have general approval. The bill before the legislature assures the city of the retention ef the park upon payment of a reasonable consideration, all conditions considered, while the proceeds will go to the purchase of another site for a fair ground, and the building of a coliseum, which after all. has been the end and aim of the farmer movement. South Bend can well afford this purchase. The fair ground will be quite as much an asset to the city as will the park. It is a way in which the city can legally contribute to the purchase of a fair ground site, if contribution you may wish to call, it, though it is not. It is merely justice to the farmers. There is still no reason why their old fair ground site should ever have been started on the road to a city park, without some compensation. In this way they get it which is all there ever was to the controversy.

ISN'T it xici;? Russian Consul Dogoraviensky has 0 announced that the Russian government has awarded a contract for 13,000 railroad cars to a Seattle nrm and says that this order is only the beginning of business between the Russian government and the Pacific northwest. We rather suspected that Charles M. Schwab had an ace up his sleeve when he turned down a European order for steel for cannon "to preserve our neutrality." We will gamble on it that tho Seattle people are first cousins of the Bethlehems. AN AWTl'L TEST. We suppose that "an illiterate" is one who cannot read and write. But, we've read written business letters that would make the man who invented that definition take to the brush in shame. Heaven help the United .States, if they're going to swing this country on everybody's skill at reading and writing! Thus far, 1,279 German lawyers have been killed in that war. But Germany will quit lighting because she's run out of everything else, before she'll quit because she's out of lawyers. It won't do the allies any REPRODUCED FROM TILE NEWS IT LBS OF 11 Y12A11S AGO. Street car conductors will confer a lasting benefit on the human race by giving their passengers a change of air occasionally. There is an anti-corset movement on the way but we are not sufficiently familiar with the subject to discuss it intelligently. It lies very close to the heart of women, however, we understand. Wo notice ex-Pres't Roosevelt had a gobbler that weighed 20 pounds for his Thanksgiving dinner. Our turkey was a little hen that weighed only nine pounds, but we will bet a red" apple at 75 cents a peck that it was better than Teddy's gobbler. Young men and women who contemplate matrimony must begin to consider athletic training and strengthening treatment for the stomach as a further preparation for the coming event. Statistics show that the seven out of 10 brides and grooms aro unprepared to undergo the ordeal to which they are subjected by their friends in the way of anti-nuptial entertainments. It requires a double back acting and reversible digestive apparatus to carry one through the list of "showers" and other kinds of feasts that usually precede a wedding so that the young coupler begin life with the best wishes of hosts of friends and two well-developed cases of indigestion. A hunting dog is about as useful in this country as an exploded bicycle tire. The sovereign right of every citizen to kick against every thing that does not suit him is indisputable, but what if everybody should exercise it? A woman whose interest In mnnkind is not confined to the members of her family says she does not feel as if she could ever help at another rummage sale. . To hear people quibbling for a few pennies on the price of an article worth many times the amount asked for it aroused her pity and sympathy to such a degree as to bo painful. She presumeel that they must bo in dire need or they would not have been so saving of the pennies, a conclusion not warraned by the facts. At i'e, dath is a joke: at HO, a possibility; at 40. a probability; at 50, a certainty: at fiO, it impends; at 70, it comes. How old arc you? Some people are down on .smoke consumers because smoke is an evidence of activity, but we have a suspicion that it is in tho interests of the washerwoman's trust. There are a number of estimable citizens who desire to set rid of some of their superiluous Mesh, and there arc a number ef others who would be lad to take it off their hands, but the former can't deliver the goods. It -'enis the only way to et fat is to run to it. You can not get it by running after it. Perhaps after all. it is a wise provision of providence that it is so. Picture to yourself, for example. Perkins Ellis carrying about Frank Nippold's enlargement, or the dignified editor of the Times endeavoring to support his amplitude on Bob Milton's underpinning! The better way is to be content with your lot. The scarcity of eggs is due to the high price of lime, albumen, sulphur

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The republican national committee is going to keep hands off the contest for the presidential nomination next year. Why Bill Taftl That lets you in again, don't it? Who would hrve thought you'd ever have another swipe at the persimmon. "Every maji likes to make the impression that he is a man of peace but a bear cat when he does get started," pays the Atchison Globe. Yes. and some of those who yell loudest about their peacefulness are habitual wifebcaters. Ios Angeles will not ring her curfew with a hell or by blowing a whistle. Promptly at 0 p. m. all her city electric lights will "wink." Wink, little city, wilk! And all kids go to bed we don't think. Newest novelty in women's summer hats is to be a high hat, like the men's opera hat. You can step on it twice. In chasing it after the wind blowj it off her head. Yale brags of possessing the olCest law code known, a Babylonian tablet 4,000 years old. Bet Prof. Taft goes to whetting up his judicial temperament on it: Xo use talking, we're going to inter fere in Mexico to the extent of de manding that her presidents wear numbers. Villa make3 No. 10 since 1911. Woodrow Wilson told the U. S. Chamber of Commerce that "no man can lie about everything." Apparently Woodrow never attended an auction sale. Good thing! The U. S. supreme court decides that the woman, as co conspirator, may be indicted for her part in violating the white slave law. Anyhow, England really prepares for war, once she gets started. She's just bought a shipload of Louisiana jacks for the breeding of mules. Villa is reported to have been shot three times. That's a mere bagatelle. He's been half-shot a thousand. A news Item is headed "George Stone Dead." Wrhich George? and other building materials. Tho hens say they cannot afford to lay high class eggs down for the price now offered. People suffering from insomnia are recommended to try sitting on a fence while a golf game goes by. Latham Pine has a new ring-tailed cat sent to him from Newburyport, Mass. (with the accent on the Mans.), by John W. Teel, and the meeting of the Hammer club at Wyman's will know him no more for a time. John Ilartman had just been telling how gentle the old gray mare was when she kicked the dash off the buggy and lead a wicked left at tho auctioneer. John W. Teel has returned from his annual visit to Newburyport. Mass. John says the old town looks just as it did a hundred years ago. The perversity of inanimate things about Which some of our fine writers philosophize is not a marker to the perversity of animate things. Just think this over. Chicago ts a very dirty city just now. They are investigating their police department. Old Sam Bates was in town last week. Remember how he used to line a ball out when he hit it? There are degrees of poverty. If you do not believe this, think howpoor you think you are, then read the newspaper reports of what the police have discovered. The members of the common council are growing shamefully profane. Mr. DuShane invited them to take a trip to Hen island, but when the mercury fell down below zero they said, "not by a dam site." BITS OF INFORMATION V V Zr V vV V V vV y y J JW wj. j j rf From 17S9 to 1909, 20,000,000 men fell in arms on the world's battlefields or died on the march, er in camp, or in military prisons a man everj' three minutes night and day for 120 years. Miss Etta Kirkland is the only girl rural mail carrier in Pennsylvania. She assumed the duties of her father, whose route is between Natrona and Birdville, when he became ill, and despite seven inches of snow, zero weather, and the rough country, she performed her work well. The wealth of the United Kingdom in 1814 was computed at about $12,oOC',000,000, while a conservative estimate would place it now at about $83,000,000,000, an increase of 5S0 per cent, while population has grown ir.0 per cent. The income of the British peeple in this period luis increased 700 per cent from $1,500,000,000 to $12,000,000,000. A French officer who is a prisoner in German v has on two occasions managed to communicate with his family by attaching a letter to a toy balloon. The first was found in a lady's garden at Coulonmiers and carried a letter inclosed in an outer covering which bore a message asking the finder to forward the missive. The second balloon was found near Compiegnc. The warden of a Georgia prise n has been puzzled by an order to gie one of his prisoners a 19-day allowance on his sentence. As the sentence is for life, the order is difficult to carry out. The tango craze has reached another high notch, the new community in West Virginia being named Tango. Curiously enough there is not resident who is familiar with the dance. Some farmers in Germany uso roosters for hatching eggs and raising chickens. They take better care of the chicks than the hens do, even fighting ha.wks to protect them, and running with them much longer. In the t.scal year ending March 14. 1914. Canada welcomed 4 00,00) new ictticra.

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Letters of the People .The N'ews-TImM opens this column to Its readers for expressions of their views. It accepts no responsibility, however, for the opinions here put forth. Correspondent mtwt sbow grood faith, however, by ijrn!n.tf thlr communications with their correct name. Tills WM nt be published If the or respondent so denires and indicates, but the name SIIT accompany the communication or It cannot be considered. too all-ixcl,usit:. Editor News-Times: 1 not by recent issues of your valuable publication that lion. William A. Mclnerny has espoused the enactment of the anti-lobby bill, strongly .Ei'Iported by the Mi.shawaka Chamber of ProgTess, and with which law this organization immediately sought compliance upon its enactment. "We respectfully wish to inquire to just what immediate and definite purpose has the counselor entered his appearance before the present legislature. We understand that his registration credentials are rmite broad in scope, embracing "all matters coming before the assembly that affect the operation or management of public utilities." While we admire his candor, we nevertheless are just a little curious to inquire, by the way of a motion to make more specific, what is the real force and object of his appearance before the general assembly? And this is no idle or captious interrogation. It is being rumored about that the real import of his appearance beforu the general assembly is for the Philadelphia sas crowd that levies tribute upon these communities is t procure the enactment for his clients a law to deprive the cities pf Mi.shawaka and South Jlend from further taxing the gas franchise in these cities. We bet: to inquire from the News-Times if this be the purpose of the aforesaid Philadelphia corporation and its legislative counselor in appearing at Indianpolis? If you arc unable to answer this query, pr-rhups reference of s"me of your Indianapolis legislative buieau may get for vu positive confirmation r denial of the rumor. 1 beg your paper to inform these rommunitites if such a move is really likely to bo attempted. Huch a rumor, if false does a manifest injustice to him. On the other hand we would like to know if an attempt is to bo made to deprive these cities ; their inherent and hitherto unquestioned right to tax the franchises which they so freely gave to eastern financial freebooters without cost and without price. For mir enlightenment upon this question as'to whether such is tho intended fate of Mishawaka and South Bend, wc await your kind indulgence and favor. Sincerely. F. W. HA III LOWS. President Mishuwaka Chamber of Progress. Feb. 13, 1913.

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