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POTASH TAX HITS ~ | 1 THE FARMERS HARD l looking to Washington For Ratio! From Gorman Exactions. Krorrs continue to secure relief from the enormous tax Imposed by Germany ion e*jK?rtK if potash to the I7nlt??d Btn tes. lu these efforts all agrlrul-1 turn! Interests nre deeply concerned for tlv reason Hint potash Is nu essentia! element of all commercial fertilisers. Realizing the seriousness of the burtlen so Imposed, President Tnft and the state department have made rigorous protest to Germany, nnd the matter Is -till pending. A representative of the state department who visited Berlin in an effort to secure redress from the German government lias Just returned to Washington, and further action by the administration la expected without great delay. Otncial efforts to bring abont a favorable settlement have from the start been actively aided by the nonsyndlcate potash mines which made the lAniet'lcan low price contracts. Did Germany Break Promises* | It Is understood that the state department had assurances from the German government when the tax law rwas first talked of that nothing would be done which would Impair existing trade arrangements. These assurances proved to be worthless, and after Ger many had secured the benefits of the minimum rates of our new tariff law the potash tnx wns put into force. [President Tnft in Ills message to conpress may have had this fact In mind (when ho said, referring to the successful working out of the maximum and minimum provision, "There are. however. unfortunately. Instances where foreign governments deal arbitrarily iwlth American Interests within their jurisdiction In u manner injurious and Inequitable." It was when the Herman potash syndicate found that Independent mines Ihud pot almost all of the American touslncss by making prices nlsnit 30 per cent lower than the syndicate prices that the law now complained of toy Atnerlc^tt consumers wns demanded by the potash I rust and enacted by the relcbstag with the avowed purpose to deprive Americans of the benefits of their advantageous agreements, running in some cases until lOtfi. The amount of the tax Imposed by |Oermany Is more than the entire cost pat the mines under the American contracts with nonsyndlcate producers and nakes the price on deliveries In the l*Tnlted States much greater than the }old exorbitant syndicate piMcos. As (the American contracts provide that /the buyer shall pay nil government YTiarges7. the tax fnlls heaviest upon the Consumer* of potash for the making ' f fertilizers. T*k Levied to Raise Price*. The ins law was passed, it is assert Cfl, with no other purpose than to detroy xisting contracts, to coerce nl? potash mines Into the syndicate unrt eo to bring about a return to high Erices and take away the market made ere by nonsyndlcate producers. ' Until this controversy arose it was not generally known that potash In IworVab'c quantities was found only in Germany. The produetlon is and has Iboen for rwei%ty years controlled by a ?yndlerre. which also fixes the price ithnt the world shall pay for this no jccssliv. In this syndicate, which U trictl' regulated by law, several <?er gnnn governments pnrti'tpnte as own iers of potash mines. It was during a ^temporary lapse in the syndicate, leavllug cvrv <>n* free t ? make Ids own 'figures, thai the low prices now causing trouble were made. WATCH ROADS THIS WINTER. Improved Highways Are Now Passing T?.ut of All Traffic and Woathar Conditions, arid Those That V.akoGood WiI' 8? Standards of th? Future. At the end of the present winter gorsl roads builders will be able to form dwindle opinions as to what shall be the -taiidard road of the future. Road building up to the present has been fot the most part tnort ?ur less xperinn ulal. Demonstration ^ ? fust hew LVind miine "finvt mn-t." I would prove to lie has been lacking j because improved highways have not been hnllt long enough to allow their i worth. On asi hnltie macadam la placed the , B1..I11 reliance of ronii engineers. Such flllghways have been proved absolutely j necessary to withstand heavy tratlle. i tiul th main question remaining to i be doeli: d Is the best "binder" to hold the stone of the macadam together. Borne of these hlndors "bleed" In summer ant! then get so brltMe that thuy lose" the road. The natural asphalts, uch as are used In street pavements, 4o not act In this way. Whatever may be next spring's vor 4fct as to what Is the lwe?t road, the Imovement for Improved highways Is Jgolng stendlly forward with lacrensod Mnerg>. The latest to enlist In the ignod roads cause are the presidents of Itbc Pennsylvania, N'ew York Central Mnd Southern railroads and Mr Yon Ikum of the Frisco, who were among Ithe organizers of the American Association For Highway improvement, now getting to work In Washington. [With Logan W Page, director of tb? Mffice of pulrtlc roads, as president. ? . DEATH CAUSED BY CARBON GAS. Gtlcago PhpticUn Succuntw to Odors Inhaled From tiwollae Engine. A muffler on the gasoline engine of hie automobile caused the death Friday night of Dr. John Aloeius Hemsteger. a prominent peyeiclan of Chicago. He died from the effects of carbon dioxide Inhaled on Wednesday while cleaning the apparatus on his machine. The death Is said to be the first of ita kind on record. Hemstoger, finding a quantity of carbon had accumulated in the muttler and engine cylinders, peured a mixture of wood alcohol and kerosene Into them to clean them out. Ho then started the engine and opened the cut off valve in the muffler. The garage door was closed and there wan no other outlet for the forming csrbou gas that rushed Into the room. The physician was almost overcome, but managed to open the door of the garage, which let in the fresh air. He was taken to his residence, where ho died the next day. Physicians who hold an autopsv assert that death was due technically to poisoning of the heart by the carbon gas. Dr. Hemsteger wna 56 years old. AVHOLKSALK POISONING. Nearly ttvery lliwldcnt of a Texas Village Made 111. Six deaths have occurred and practically all the members of the entire village of Telfener, In Victoria county, Texas, are ill, ascribed to the eating of food prepared with flour containing arsenic. On Monday the village grocer poured several sacks of flour Into a su.*a barrel and one of his first customers was Joe Brown, a negro. After the morning meal the entire family became ill, two of Brown's children dying the same night. Since ih?n four other deaths have occurred. How the drug anu flour came in cod'act has not been do Ler mined An Honorable Exception. The Hon. Thomas W. Loyless, editor of the Augusta Chronicle, was most agreeably surprised on Thursday evening of last week. Without any previous notice or Inkling ot what was about to happen, he was requested by a delegation from a meeting of some citizens of Augusta, which had quietly assembled, to present himself, accompanied by Mrs. IiOylesa, at the Chamber of Commerce hall In that city. On arriving there he found about one hundred or more of the leading business men of that city, headed by Mayor Thomas Hnrrett, awaiting him. Mayor Barrett, on behaif of those present, then presented Editor T-oyless with a solid silver service, which had cost the donors an ever thousand dollars, as an oxprt sslon of their appreciation of what Editor Loyless through the Chronicle and Individually had done for the advancement of Augusta. Editor Loyless is fortunate In living in a city where the business men appreciate his efforts In its behalf, and In honoring him as they did. hoy honored themselves as well. Mis case la an honorable exception the general rule In too many fiit'ea, and towns too. for that Dialer, editor*, of newspeners don't even" 'et thanks for what to d,? for their cities 01 towns, for vhotn they labor n season and out of season, to say nothing of a silver service The husI iness men if Augusts know a g^O'' Ihing when they have It. at.d it is not serpi-fs'eor that ?Key ere p'ond of the Chronicle and its able editor Itrave Firemen. Tientsin is us tally associated in the public mind with battle fields, nnd many inspiring are the records of deeds of vlor ?*? ! of strn.'gle Flt in these days of pence we aro continually heing reminded thnt tt -re are battles other than those in which m m are pitted against each other in den,lly combat. I'robal v among t' e most spectacular nro tiiose in which h.vdy, fearless and trained men wresl ? with the great fires which threaten property and lives. Intent upon 1 their duty and with r.o selfish | thought of themselves these flremon J isiana x.u-c to rice with danger iu such hat'le. and oftlmee as in the ovory recent c.rtssfronhies In Chicago, Philadelphia and other cities prove, they go unfalteringly to their death Such heroism is an inspiration to the performance, of du'y under ail circumstances and strengthens faith In human nature. Sonii'tliiiiK I niTsual. One of tho worst of English railI road accidents happened in that I country a week or two ago resulting In the loss of about thirty lives. The* singular thing about It is the fact that the railroad company voluntarily l assumed responsibility for the ftccl dent. It seems almost like a miracle that nuv large corporation or trust should take the blame to Itself 1T*i ually. It la the other way and the , trtwt legal talent. Is employed and \ every subterfuge resorted to In the effort to show that an accident is tbo i fault of others, an act of divine prorIffyice. or something else, and that | the corporation is as innocent as an j infant child. Happy New Tear to aLL friend and foe. ii . . , RICH CROOK DEAD WEALTHY YOUNG ALAN WHO LEO LIFE OP A BUHGLA1L i I1UII1U n?DUi*M ITflfl I ?I U>? I nderworld to a Life of Luxurj in Hit* Brooklyn Home. Death has ended the career of Thomas Wandlass, the "white front" burglar, who was shot and fatally wounded while breaking Into the home of Thomas Tapley, a contractor in Passaic. N. J. Wandless preferred the underworld to a life of luxury in the home of a fond and wealthy mother. He developed from a sort of "angel child" to a desperate criminal. Paralysis of his vocal organs shortly aft^r his capture kept the police from obtaining any correct aocount of his amazing career. Jean Mitchell, aged 17 years, who cnlled uerself his "chicken stall" and assisted him iu 22 burglaries, has pleaded guilty and will receive sentence. She declares she la eager to get back to her home in the New Kngland states as she has had enough of travel and nice dresses, the bait offered by Wandlass when she consented to become his accomplice. The police called Wandlass a "slipper worker" and a "dress suit burglar." He called himself a "white front" burglar and was fascinated by the danger of robbing a house while there were many persons about. Often he would stop to listen to the dinner chatter before making Ills escape. Generally he selected a dark or dimly lighted parlor, jimmied the window and climbed In. During the mouths that tho girl worked with him he relied upon lier to "Bplll a faint" as she i called it. and draw the crowd whilo he made his escape. Wandlass was about 30 years old. Ilic, n.ntlm. M ? " ...a iiivuidi, .his. /lu^nsiuB r neriinr, is a woman of wealth ami refinement In Prooklyn, N. Y. Her first husband, W'andlass, was ft hotel proprietor and well to do. Ho left i comfortable fortune, and when he died his son. Tom, was a model youngster and a great church worker. He was precocious, high strung and bad a vivid imagination. Just when he became transformed into a "bad man" no one seems to know, but he ran away from boarding school at 1? and the next bis mother heard of him was that he wai* a member of a gang of thieves. Ho was never what might be called a Itaflles, except tbat he dressed well and committed most of his burglaries while clad in evening clothes. He was known to the police as Kid Howard and Thomas Hanley and had served time in several penal Institutions in the state of New York. 1>1K1> ON WAY HOMK. After Ilelng Al*?ent Twenty-One Years I n heard From. A mysterious stranger who died *midenl.v in a hotel at Now Cnnan, ^om., a few d.iye ago has been IdenH.'tod as Francis Humphreys, a welt'<> 'o resident cf New Canan, who i! \*?nnn<?nra/1 f mm ? - -If ?? VM* -aio 4MMUC lUQrH i ears ago, leaving his wifo and four laughters. Humphreys, who was R.'? years old. returned with the Intention or JoinIn,: hla family, who had heard noth'' r from him since his disappearance. \Yenvied from his Journey, lie atoi >e ai ti e hotel to r?-8t and soon af . his a; !? .1 vas seized' with tu attack of heart disease, from which he dh-d almost Instantly. He did not Ive to see ar v ir.emher of his famly. A large sum nf money was found In his clothing and will be turned over to his widow. WORK OF A FIKNI). A t an of !.)? Thrown In the Face of a Young Fauly. With her fare and shoulders seured land scarred l?> the contents of a can of lye that was thrown in her fare Sunday night. Miss .Myrtle Rurney lies .it her father's home in Qakdale, j a suburb of Plttabur,r. Pa., and Is probably disfigured for life, while county detectives are searching for a man whoso dost rlptiou the youug Ionian gives. Misp Tlurney was wnlkiiK from the Oakdale btntlon lo her l)omt> Saturday night with a brotoer whfn a man appeared from behind a tree and dashed the content* over | her Instinctively she closed her j eyes, thus savin* her sight. The fainI i'y la at a loss to explain a reason for i the at tack. Thumb liln^s. That demand made by some ladles in an eastern state that married men be compelled by law to wear thumb rings lias at l?ast the r:"rlt of uo\?jlty, but It. wouid not wor.i Mod are ' saoh wicked. designing cre.'tur?-? thut ?h^y we'll find some way t > clrcumj vent the luw and contlnu* to flirt with und make love to unausnectlng I fern t ies. Tet the ld?*a has great possibilities Why not, for instance, enlarge It and compel a man to wear a ring for every marriage he has contracted. In some districts with some ! men the two thumbs would scarcely ' be large enough to carry aJl the rings. ' L. . 74 VKHSKL8 I-OST And Fifty-three People Out of 1.48b Loot ljut YearOut of a total of 6.6G1 persona Involved In 1.463 disasters to vessels of all classes within the scope of the United States life saving service, only fifty-three were lost, and about seventy-four vessels were completely destroyed, according to the annual repon or 9. u. MraDan, general superintendent of the Bervlce. for the fiscal year, which ended June 30 last. The next expenditures for maintaining the service for the year were $2,249,375.68. The enactment ot the hill passed at the last session of Congress b** the Senate providing for retirement pay for members of the life saving service and others or the field service and others of the field service Incapacitated for duty Is urved In the report. Of the 1.646 vessels of all kinds which met with accidents, the life SHveiw rendered service to 1.047, valued with their cargoes at $10,179,230. Other succor rendered by the life saving service Included the rescue of 137 persons from drowning, surgical aid to 60 persons suffering from gunBhot wounds, broken limbs or bruises and the recovery of 150 bodies of persons who had met death through ice or In other ways. Nine of this number were suicides. Oreat Wave of (Yiiue. As v.*e stated in a recent Issue the statistics for lust year show that there was a marked increase in the number of homicides in this country during that period. The numl>er of deaths by personal violence of all kinds in 1910. exoept suicides and lynclilngs, was 8.975. as compared with 8,103 in 1909. This record is not confined to such cases of murder and homicide as result In arrest and trial, but include deaths by every form of violence. The principal causes of these deaths were from quarrels, 4,049; unknown causes, 984; liquor. 798; killed by highwaymen, 93"; jealousy, 612; Infanticide, 125; highwaymen killed, 73: resisting arrest, 106; insanity, 225. The most striking feat ure of these figures Is the increase In murders committed by thugs, thieves, burglars and hold-up men, the number being an increase of 53 over 1909. The laxity of our laws In regard to the punishment of those who are guilty of taking the lives of other people will be at once recognized when It is stated that In the face of the fact that nearly nine thousand persons met death at the hands of other persons during last year there was only 104 legal executions during that period. This was three less than were executed In 1909. when there was 107 legal executions for crime In the several States. Classified by States, the record of leral executions I3 as follows: Alabama. 6: Arkansas. 7; California, 2: Connecticut, 1; North Dakota, 1; Florida, 4; Georgia, 7; Illinois. 2; Iowa. 1; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana. 4; Massachusetts, 1; Mississippi, 3: Missouri, 3; Now York. 9; New Jersey, 4: Nevada, 1; North Carolina, 2: Ohio. 4; Oklahoma, 1; Oregon. 1: "onns>ivanin. 9; South Carolina. 7: '"ennessco, 4; Texas. 6; Virginia, 11; Washington, 2. There were fhtrtc-sovon legal executions In 'he Northern States and tytv In the Southern States. Of those executed thirty-three were whites, fl't.v-three were negroes and one an Indian. The crime for which thes? ...n-u- .mm ji i wi'l't" luneiy four for r>urder. nine for ' api* and ?ne for attempted rape. In Addition to the above leeal erecn'ions. seventy three persona were lynched in the -outb and on<* at the North. This ia a fearful record. and the I xnrst nirt of it is we are doing little lor nothing to 'orrect It. Think of the thousands of nnir iers that wore committed during the past year for which leas t ban one hundred people were le- ally executed, and consider what la huni^r. life worth in this ho isted home o< *\e brave and land ! of the free. Tii v is no country on j earth where human life is worth so! little ng it is here. .Strict enforcement of the law la 'he only remedy fori thin fearful condition. Should lie Sifted. Of co'-"se 'here is an enquiry kb to the cause or causes that led to the death of so nnny firemen in the recent Chicago fire. There always is an Inest'gnrlon after a catastrophe und groat things Am promised At the ' outset of what is going to be done In ' the way of reform and of the severe ; | punishment to be ineted out to the j *ullty ones. Hut home way or other the investigation usually lingers on, | the report is smothered or male inocuous. no guilty one la punished, and.no reforms instituted. There i? an occasional exception to all this,' i but it Is only very occasional, and the | stockyard Investigation wi't be one of I tho exceptions if anything of value I roeults from it. Sent1?<?>ntally cons' ored An * ' Carnegie's S 10.000,000 151ft << j(rontote peace among the nations is ireU I timed, for tt Is made at the season i when la commemorated the birth of | the Prince of Peace whose mission !was to bring "peace on earth and good will anion# men." tt Is to be . hoped that the Aaptratlon of tha . donor and of *11 well wishers of man' kind may be fully realised.. HULVIRti GREENWOOD MYHTKKY. Young White Man Arrested (or At* tucking Mis* Pinion. Fletcher Golden, an elghteen-year.old white boy, has been arrested at Greenwood in connection with the alleged attempt of robbery at the home of J. F. Pinson on Reynolds street The evidence on which the arrest was made Is circumstantial, being based on the finding of a pair of trousers, which are said to have been identifled as his, in a vacant hulldlivt near the Pinson home with some of the young lady's hair In one of the pockets. Young Golden Is a carpenter and has been doing some work out In the country, though he comes home at night. Au Intenwtlng feature of the affair Is that young Golden's father la the man who shot at a thief who attempted to rob Plnson's store about a year ago and went so far as to Identify the man by his voice, fixing It on a young man here who proved conclusively that It was a case ot mistaken Identity. There Is considerable Interest In the case, there being many differing opinions. The peculiar hour, 7 a. m., at which the robbery was attempted puzzles most people and also how It was possible for a cut. so severe at to cut the young lady's hair, could be made without cutting her skin or ear. Golden asserts his Innocence. Awful Record of Crine. Last year was one of hloodshed and crime, and will go down Into history 8k ex .^ceding any other year In :he numb-T of murders and suicides In our history us a nation. During the year an army of people died by violence, the record being in round numbers, nine thousand suicides and thirteen thousand murders, making a total of twenty-two thousand deaths by violence. That Is an appalling record, and throws a dark shadow over the entire country. Every profession, callinu and occupation have representative a in this record of crime, and w. lie the rat- of increr.se is very mi ch greater in some than in others the Indications all point to a common cause, and that is a lack of appreciation of the sanctity of human life. This want of appreciation of the sanctity and value of human life is not confined to the uneducated classes, nor is this appalling record made up of the deeds of the poor or Ignorant. It touches all classes. The rich and well-educated people have contributed their full share to the carnival of blood and utter disregard of the sanctity of human life that overran the country last year. Many thought that the almost universal spread of prohibition over the country would have a marked efTooi In checking murders and other violent crimes, but it seems tha' the voting out the legal sale of all liquors has hud no effect in cheeking these crimes, ns the record for last year Is the worst the country has ever had In its history. There is as much if not more liquors sold now in many places than there was sold before the prohibition law was enacted. In addition to the !!(.*.? ?..l. - " ,?wi ji"i' iii liquors, quantities of ocalne and rr.orphlue are now sold and used b\ those who formerly drank whiskey. The effect? of tliet?e drugs are most de ratlin,g, and we believe that much of :he ncrea.sed r'nie is attributable to them. Another csi.be <<f crime is the nonnnforrement of the criminal lav.s o." the dtff!?? ? ? CT; ln**l-:.' !. It 1s very bard to convict men of "coital cr'.i .rt nr. } should they b convicted. It Is harder still to adeqrn'ely punish them. It is prac ticallv ir.ipossible in this Section of th? country to punish a man wit means for any crime. This applies to eo'ored as well ris white peor!? Over In Fnuland and other '-ono tries ucross the ocean it Is different. When a man kills another over there he is punished, reearlloss of h s zenith or -oclal position. Take th recent ea?e of the prominent d"ntl*t who murdered hi? wife in Engla id. lie was pursued to Amerlcn, captured. taken hack to R: gland. tried, convicted and executed in aixnit four months after his heinous crime ws committed That is the kind of Jus tJoe uee led in this countrr When we ha.e h the carnival of crime that now disgrace* us will be over, IVats t>fT Nevrro. At Chloairo Miss Ellen K. Sillier strom. a nineteen-year-old girl, re | sisted a nogo who attacked her ia?> evening in North Fiftieth avanue I After u struggle in tvhich the youn. ! wi.mr n r?fiivn..a ? - ' u < iit *r?? (? i1io >vh scratching and kicking him, h? knocked her down, rnn through *e *ll?y STld A?r?i lf?H ling in Hrr Far. j Mm. W. T. Duggnn. of Straw Plains. 1 oviti.. was able to show bet i grand children a enrlority wh.i h she ' has preserved, agniuvt Imr will. for . jriy years Thi? curiosity ? j i a wheat bug whlcii dropped Into hei right ear when sh? iu a ?rirl of 1' and which she cxir?? <?d Satyr I iy The death of Senator Elk Ins. whe was a Republican. means *wo h#mo Cratlt nnlted States Senator from) West Virginia, the Democrats *?ing in control of the legislature of thai State. We hope true blue Democrat! 1 will be svnt. I, M f ' SOME PLAIN TALK TOO MI CH VICE, WRBCKS, SUICIDES AN'D Ml'ItDEU l-XMt HER. t \ ... Mr*. Gattrtolle 8. Mulllner Indulfpn Glv?* ller Views of Hiln|H at a Woman'* Meeting, The New York World Bays jbefona a* vent y-flve womea Mr*. Mailt opt : (re^J a long paper in which ehl di>- I cussed the menuce to society of wo- | | men of the half world, unfat^ifnl \ nusoanus ana divorcee. She cloned the city of New York a* one kdgc j receptacle of everything foul u^er the sun. A I "There Is more vice per capltjKa New York," said Mr*. Milliliter, j "than In any other city of the woA. There are more wreck*, more s^i' cldes, more Illiteracy, more accldeuB i upon the public highways, more, thefts, more murders, more deprav? I Ity. more misery and distress. Antra 'the woman who surveys It all and a understands It all and wants to ter It all is beginning to make of * herself a true suffragist." M j Mrs. Mulliner aald the old Puritan \ standards that hud Inspired the writ Ing of "The Scarlet Letter" had been % mashed flat. Women, sh? said, w^r? looking upon the breeders of evil. & feminine home wreckers mid the like J with pity and patience Instead of I working for legislation that ehould punish the woman who enters a home \ and steals a husband as It punished A the thief wno breaks In and carried *\ ! off the silver. 1 "There is such a thing as the no- \ wr'tten law," went on the woman I lawyer, "and the written law often 1 countenance If If, upon the spur of the occasion, a husband kills the man i he finds with his wife. Why ehould i it not l?e just as much the recognized ; right of the wife to kill the woman who steals her husband? That thief L not stealing alone from the family; she is stealing from the social welfare and that of the soul in futurity. Hers is a marvellously wicked crime. "It is the woman whom ihe law allows to walk the streets and openly attract men by her hedlzement that Is the criminal at the base of New ! York's degeneracy, and at the base of the evil in all cities. She Is the community wife. And the decent women are not helping conditions by aping her In the matter of the hobble skirt, the mob bat and the naint and cosmetic. Hut even the deml-mondalne and the woman who tolerates her existence are not the ones to u,miit7. u in uif i;iw useir ana tne rottenness in politics thai Bees the ^ 'thin?- calmly through that Is to ^ .?lanie. Good women should worM to become elective eon-ituents of right-minded men upon the Hoard of Aldertnon and in other position! significant to the public good. "Itslse the ?-Mndard by setting a value on chasil Make an infringement of that standard punishable by law." | Mrs. Mulllner next presented her . pet topic, dive <3 "Every co-resjxiudciit ought to bo impounded in the penitentiary for a certain term," she asserted. "Such in offeader again?*, the public kood Is a criminal of the worst type." Every w ,iuen nt the meeting pledged hers"lf to l;eep a close watch I on hot own drawing vo?>m and to do her part In the proposed purging of society It is announced that Champ Clark .and o'her* lenioiv.it ,c leaders have lerlded not to retain to the speaker of the ne i bouse the power of appointing the committees, ms was advocated by all the South Carolina members except Mr Johnson who stands lor havii><: tlie committees nami'd by the house Itself. The Spar tanbur:.* !o in iS says to do so would havo been absolutely inconsistent ami undemocratic but considerations v)f this s'?n did not seem to appeal to t lie South Carolina me in hers mentioned. ? ?. ? Tbo mac In one of the western cities who compelled his erring wife to cre>n> on hf.iids and kaees from hta house to church, a dhtance of xevral blocks, before he would forgive he- must, we hope, stand alone In i cruel meanness It was but right tha* his wife should express her contrition. but to compel her to creep on a 1 fours, sobbing her heart out. to be a spectacle for u gaping, curious crowd was an excess of brutality almost un Imagine bio. The people of .Vie York, New Jersey or Ohio do rot want corporation machine Democratic Senators in p'nee of the corporation machine i Republican Senators bey are about o iflsplrce The Democratic has 'oo ninny such Senators now, and rhey should s??nd no more of tta/it ' kind ?o Washington ? r>' ?,?-. ;,r if! by the farm- ( ?r, S.'cre ury Wlleou says: "The , farmer r'-rr?lv.>? hardly more than half of mii.it the consumer pays for poultry. 6!? per cent for eggs. 4 8 per cent, for cahoaKC 60 per cent, for cel? ry." The n-iddl"tru<n gets the bal nee i We ha.-e rot bo.jrd of a serlotia ' accident ot an> other Incident that I happened In thla county to mar tho i Christmas holidays this year. For tl Is w# ?h miU ao sineoroly thaskfnU ,