The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 14, 1905, Image 3
DIRECTED TO SOUTH
Civic Federation Would Send
Immigrants to Dixie.
; THE SCHEME DISCUSSED
* A Million Newcomers Arrived During
Present Year and Eastern States
Received Nearly All of
Them.
The United States immigration question
was taken up for discussion on
"Wednesday by the National Civic Federation
in session in New York city.
August Belmont, president of the National
Civic Federation, opened the
session.
The statement that over 1,000,000
Immigrants have come to the United
States during the past year, and that
the south and west, the sections ot
the country which needed and wished
for these new citizens, aid ot get
them, was made by Frank P. Sar?
gent. United States commissioner general
of immigration. Mr. Sargent, pro
posed that the Uhted States hereaf
tec distribute immigrants according
to the needs of the country.
v "I have just received a few figures,"
lie said, "showing where this immigration
goes to. Of the 1,026,491 im^
migrants who arrived last year; New
York received 315,511; Pennsylvania
201,708; Massachusetts 72,150; Illinois
72,750; six states of the union
received 777,748 vor 75 per cent of
the whole, which gives some idea of
, how popular those states are abroad
h\i ' and how rapidly they gained last
v' year.
-v "The beautiful and prosperous
% - south, entering upon a season of great
commercial activity, received 45.343,
v divided as follows: Maryland, West
; - "Virginia and Virginia, 9,000 each;
Louisiana. 5,000; Texas, 4,000; Kent
tacky, 6,018; Tennessee, 782; 'North
Carolina, 183; South Carolina, 32S;
Georgia, 518; Arkansas, 432; Indian
Territory, 438, and Oklahoma, 260."
^ - Mr. Sargent recommended that instead
of having the majority of foreign
immigrants received at the port
of New York, as at present, efforts
should be made to have them landed
at other sea ports.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
t American Federation of Labor, spoke
/' t * In favor of restricting immigration,
? -/y- saying that the overwhelming number
of foreigners is a detriment to Amerf
lean workingmen.
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CANDIDATE FOR h??0 MEDAL.
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.. Attentans Want Colored Man Honored
C ; for Brave Deed.
> A hero's medal may shine on the
J- v breast of John Hill, a negro coachman
of Atlanta, Ga.
His right to wear such an honorable
emblem meets with the sanction
of the governor of Georgia and many
y of the most prominent citizens of Atlanta,
who have so stated in a petition
to the committee in charge of the
Carnegie hero fund,
y Hill saved two lives by risking his
y'. own. Crippled and weak he rushed
into the path of a team of wildly rush
ing ana maaaenea norses uiai were
.. dragging a carriage over the crowd0,
ed Peacktree street asphalt. After a
0 - frightful struggle, during which *8
jf seemed doomed, he brought the plung
ing beasts to a standstill, and a little
0\ child aid a nurse, who occupied the
carriage, stepped to the ground in
safety.
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ISLE OF PINES QUESTION.
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Foreign Relations Committee of the
x Senate Investigates Titles.
t.A Washington special says: The
foreign relations committee of the
* senate met Wednesday to consider the
treaty between the United States and
Cuba for the adjustment of title to
the ownership cf the Isle of Pines,
v. This question has been before .the
rj senate in different treaties since the
: f wlnfer of 1908.
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JUW VINDICATES TOM LAWSON.
Failed to.Return True Bill Against
~ Him for Criminal Libel.
' At Boston,. Mass., Saturday, the Suffolk
county grand jury failed to return
an indictment " against Thomas
W. Lawson, who had been held for
that body by the municipal court on
the charge of criminal libel.
The charger, were preferred by Clan
eflco W. Barron, the proprietor of the
- Boston news bureau. The action ot
: the jury puts an end to the controversy
between Lawson and Barron so
far as the criminal courts are concerned.
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HERMIT BANKER CREMATED.
Eccentric Millionaire Dies in Flames
of Burning Home.
James Glettget, the hermit banker
of Hermitage, Wyoming county, N. Y.,
was burned to death Thursday in his
house, which burned to the ground.
He was estimated to be worth a mil"
Hon dollars. He was a graduate of
" Yale m the class or 1850.
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ASSASSINATEDBY WOMAN
General Sakharoff Shot Cown by Female
Warrior Belonging to Flying
Column?Death instantaneous.
The St. Petersburg correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph (London), in
a dispatch dated December 5, sent
hv wnv of Kvdtuhnen. says:
"Lieutent General Sakharoff, former
minister of war, was assassinated
Wednesday.
"Tbe government had deputed Gen- j
oral Sakharoff to visit the province
of Saratoff for the purpose of quelling
the agrarian riots there.
"A woman belonging to the so-called
'flyin.% column' of the revolutionary
movement called at the house of the
governor at Saratoff at noon Wednesday
and asked to see General Sakharoff.
She fired three shots at the
general, killing him on the spot.
"The tidings reached St Petersbury
Wednesday night. Count Witts
charged Lieutenant General Rudlger,
minister of war, with the task of
breaking the news to Madame Sakharoff.
"The event has created a profound
impression in St. Petersburg, owing
to fears chat the revolutionists here
will follow the example thus set
"I am personally convinced that
Count Witte's faith in the good sense
and political tact of the Russian thinking
classes, which recently was as
firm as a rock, is gradually weakening,
and with it his hopes for the
carrying cut of the liberties promised
in the emperor's manifesto."
COST OF POLICY FATAL.
"Victims" of Insurance Companies i
Under Investigation.
George Bldredge, first vice president
and actuary of the Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance company, who
had already been on the witness
stand before the life investigating
committee at New York for two and
' ? + nritTiooo on
<X UiUl KliXy O, nao iuc Uisv n ivuvua
Wednes4ay. He stated that one B.
R. Soliday of Trenton, N. J., took out
a policy in 1886 for an amount not
to exceed $3,500 in the Northwestern
Life Insurance company, which later
was bought up by the Mutual Reserve
company. Mr. Eldredge said
the Mutual Reserve gave Soliday a
policy for $3,500 in place of the one
he held in the North western, but put
a lien of $2,366 against it Excess
mortality charges later made against
the policy cut its face value to $3,o65.
Altogether Soliday paid $?,843 into
the Mutual Reserve as premiums on
that policy at the rate of $483 a year
and got for' it in 1965 a paid-up policy
for $332, which was all the company
would allow him.
Mr. Hughes then questioned the witness
as to why it made representations
to policyholders that its uniform
premium rate would be a certain
amount aid then made several assessments
against him in addition.
The policy -which brought up this
point was made out to Austen Lath
rap, Jr., of Corning, N. Y., who was
insured for $5,000 in the Mutual Reserve
in 1S82. After paying an Increasing
rate of assessment until 1S98
Mr. Lathrop got from the company
a new policy under which he was required
to pay a uniform rate of $47
bi-monthly. The company began to
levy special assessments on bin) in
1S04 and he paid them under protest
The company wrote him that this policy
allowed the company to make spe |
ciai assessments ana eigm ut uivui
were made on him this ye3r.
The next instance elicited this comment
from Senator Armstrong:
"It does not seem remarkable that
there was a high mortality among the
people holding such policies. I should
think it would kill them."
The policy was for $5,000 and was
taken out in the Mutual Reserve company
in 1881 by a man 46 years of age.
The premium on this policy ranged
from $39 the first year to $740 in the
last year, and amounted in all to
$4,396. After carrying the policy for
20 years the man allowed it to lapse
in 1901 and got nothing at all.
CANAL SALARIES EXORBITANT.
Representative Hepburn Gives Facts
Relating to Pay Rolls.
In the house Wednesday, answering
a question as to canal salaries, Mr.
Hepburn said he could make the general
statement that there were twentysix
salaries over $5,000; six between
$4,000 and $5,000; 55 between $3 000
and $4 ,000 and 136 between $2,000 j
and $3,000. These included engineers
of high skill. Mr. Fitzgerald of New
| York said he had been informed tnat
$1 ,000 a year was being paid a press I
agent, but Mr. Hepburn said he knew
nothing about that report.
FRESH STRIKES IN RUSSIA.
Half a Dozen Railway Lines in Em.
pire Are Being Tied Up.
A St. Petersburg dispatch, under
Saturday's date says: A strike has
begun on the following railroad lines:
Kursk, Moscow and Sebastopol, Riga
and Oiloff, Kharkoff, and Nicolaieff,
Southwestern, Southeastern, Samara
and Slatoust, Sizeran and Viazmsk.
PROBE OF TILLMAN
Run Into Insurance Scandals.
Wields Pitchfork.
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ASKS POINTED QUESTIONS
Calls on Secretary Shaw to Know if
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National Banks Contributed
to Campaign
Funds.
The subject of campaign contribu- I
tions by insurance companies occupied
the major portion of the time
of the senate Thursday. It came up
in connection with Mr. Tillman's resolution
calling for an investigation of
national bank aid in politics, and was
exploited by the South Carolina senator
in a speech of some length. It
was couched in characteristic language
and attracted considerable at- !
tentioa. The resolution, directing \
the secretary of the treasury to report
whether the reports of the na
tional bank examiners show that the
banks have made campaign contributions
in recent years, was adopted at i
the close of Mr. Tillman's remarks.
Outlining his reasons for the in- j
quiry, Mr. Tillman called attention to j
the recommendation made by the j
president in his annual messages of !
1904 and 1903' for the enactment of a j
law for protection-against bribery and !
corruption in connection with efec- j
tions. He quoted with especial em- j
pbasis the president's remarks .con- j
j ceming campaign contributions by cor- j
porations. "Our chief executive has |
taken a very progressive stand to secure
purity in elections," he said, and j
added: "Every good American will ;
say 'well done,' and look for progress j
along that line."
He concluded that the secretary
might not have the facts wanted, but
lie thcught he ought to have. Incidentally,
Mr. Tillman said that he had
been infermed that the comptroller ;
of the currency has been investigating
the subject of bank contributions :
with the view of instituting legal pro-1
ceedings. . I
Continuing, Mr. Tillman said that j
the comptroller has means of getting j
information which others have not, j
and aded that if he. would "push -in |
his probe he can make discoveries j
that would be worth while." He ad- j
ded that his reasons for requesting |
the information are founded In the |
revelations concerning the insurance j
companies.
"It has been shown by the testimony, j
| or confession of a member of this j
body," he said, "that for ten years the j
insurance corporations have been mak- j
ing annual donations to the republi- I
can parly, with the understanding j
that they should be protected from j
adverse legislation at Albany." He I
west on to say that such revelations {
were not agreeable.
"I am tiie holder of a small policy j
In one of the mutuals," he said, "and i
I don't like to have my dividends cut i
down in order to give Mr.. McUurdy j
$150,OGU and his sisters, his cousins I
and his annts $75,060 each.
Mr. Bailey asked whether the in- ^
surance oompany contributions to the
national republican campaigns had j
been returned to the donor.
"I understood," said Mr. THlraan, >
"that tiie president was going to have !
Mr. Cortelyou return them. But I do
not knew whether he has dond s6. 1 i
do know that I haven't got my
share."
Mr, Bailey said he had not supposed
that the president would make a sec- :
ond reoommendation on the subject;
of punishing campaign contributors '
until the money had "been returned.
"Ah, Mr. President," responded Mr.
Tillman, "all the Turveydrops and
Pecksniffs are not dead yet, although ;
I would not for a moment be under- j
stood as comparing our strenuous oc-'
cupant of the white house with those
characters. "What wq want is results, '
and these we do not seem to have
' procured so far." , j
MAY OPPOSE CARTER TATE, j
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Republicans Think President is Nam- j
Ing Too Many Democrats.
A Washington special says: There
is some talk among senate republicans
of opposition to tbe confirmation
of Hon. Carter Tate as attorney for
the northern district or Georgia.
This is based on no objection to Mr. I
Tate, other than that he is a demo
crat. There v/ould probably be none j
of this talk were it not for the fact j
that the Georgian's appointment '
comes along with two other democrats i
to offioes "which republicans crave.
YOUNG M'CURDY GOES OUT.
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General Manager of Mutual Life Pre- i
sents Resignation.
A New York dispatch says: The i
resignation of Robert H. McCurdy,
general manager of the Mutual Life Insurance
company, was presented to
the board of trustees Friday and accepted.
The resignation takes effect
| December 31. - *
.CAMPAIGN;. JNOTTON
Is Great Project in Europe and Desperate
Efforts Are Being Made to
Grow the Staple.
A Washington special says: American
consular officers, in pursuance
of instructions given them some
months ago, continue to keep in touch
with the efforts which various foreign '
countries are making to grow inde
pendent supplies of cotton, and report
on the subject reach the depart
ment of commerce and labor almost
daily.
In a recent issue of the Daily Consular
and Trade Reports there is
printed, for the Hist time in this coux:
try, a resume of the first annual re
port of the British Cotton Growing
Association, which is the most important
of all of the several organizations
formed, abroad during the past
few years.
The association is composed of
British cotton manufacturers and
others interested in the industry, and
its principal object is to promote the
cultivation of the staple by encouraging
its growth in the British colonies
and in other courtries outside of tne
United States, where soil and climate
are favorable. It is pushing its work
with the assistance of the British
government, and, while so far no very
formidable progress has been made,
the movement is naturally watched
with great interest in this country.
The report referred to is for the
year ending August 30, 1905. Among
ether things it is stated that shares
to the amount of 108,432 pounds
($542,100) have been subscribed to
date. Disappointment that there has
not been a larger response is expressed,
but it is stated that the association
realized that because of the
suffering of the British- cotton trade
during the past two years, due to the
short crops in the United States and
the manipulations of speculators, the
best results in this line could not b.e
expected.
The consul in charge of the report
new ventures to express the hope
that there will be a generous response
from the whole of the trade, and says
it believes that if spinners, manufacturers
and operatives will bring the
funds up to $1,500,000, there will
be little difficulty in raising the additional
$1,500,000 npeded from tne
allied trades and elsewhere.
Taking everything into consideration,
the report says, the consul is of
the opinion that the shareholders
have every reason to congratulate
themselves on the excellent results
so far achieved, and that there is not
the slightest doubt that with time and
money both larger and better results
can be obtained.
STRIKE ON A. & B. RAILWAY.
Engineers and Firemen Quit Work
Because Demands Were Refused.
At midnight Sunday night the engineers
and firemen of the Atlantic
and Birmingham railway declared a
strike against that company, and Monday
every freight train on that railroad
was tied up and the passenger
train were operated by men secuied
by the railroad officials trom otnv
roads.
The strike is the culmination of the
fruitless efforts of the engineers ami
firemen to secure an increase in salary
and a recognition of their brotherhoods.
PROTECTION AGAINST LYNCHERS
Involved in Case Just Decided by the
United States Supreme Court
The supreme court of the United
States Monday reversed the ruling or j
the circuit court of the United States
for the northern district of Alabama
in the case of Thomas M, Riggins,
and remanded the case to the courts
of Alabama with a direction to dismiss
the petition for such writs. The
case presented the broad question ci
the right of the negro to protection
against lynching under ' the . teder.M
constitution and laws, and thus involve
the jurisdiction of the lederal
courts in such cases.
DEMAND HIGHER WAGES.
Engineers on Georgia Central Appeal
to President Hanson. .
Just whether or not Major J. F.
Hanson, President of the Central of
Georgia railway system, will grant
demands made for increase in salaries
is what is uppermost in the minds
of some 226 men who handle the
throttles on engines of that road.
Although the men made known
their wants in the salary line some
time ago, <*t has not been generally
known, but the facts finally leaked
out. ,
RECEIVERSHIP PERMANENT.
Property of Southern Transportation
Company to Be Sold.
The temporary receivership of tne
Southern Transportation company
was made permanent by Judge Seabrook
in the superior court at Savan
nah Monday, and an order was taaen
looking to the sale of all the property
of the company. J. S. Nixon or
Augusta was made permanent receiver.
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SIZZLING SESSIONS
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Marked a Day's Proceedings
in the House and henate.
WILLIAMS ON HIS METAL
Minority House Leader and Lamar of
Florida Have Tilt?Tillman Pre-,
clpitates Debate on Railroad
Rate Bill.
With spirited debates on the sul>ject
of railroad rate legislation arming
through the introduction 01 a bil:
by Mr. Tillman to authorize the interstate
commerce commission to fix the
maximum rates, and the Panama ca
nal, due to a controversy over the
reference of the emergency appropn
ation bill to a committee, Mondav's
session of the senate continuous'v
proved interesting for more than four
hours.
An adjournment was taken without
a mention of the late Senator Mitchell
of Oregon, ana so far as can be ascertained,
it was the first time the death
of a senator was permitted to pas3
unnoticed by the senate. The erasure
of Mr. Mitchell's name from the rollfollowed.
Chaplain Hale called tne
situation to mind in his prayer by referring:
Dcintedlv to corruption and
death, and by praying that the members
of the senate be given strength
to bear each other's burdens.
The debate on the Tillman bill was
engaged in by a number of senators.
.Mr. Foraker declared that the bill
proved that its author believed tire
present, laws were sufficient to correct
all alleged transportation evils,
except excessive rates, and that there
was ample provision for the punishment
of rebate giving.
Mr. Tillman responded that he nad
though the laws sufficient until the investigation
begun by Messrs. Judson
and Harmon into the Sante Fe case
had terminated in a pitiable hasco.
Mr. Foraker asserted that the law
could not be blamed if "some person *
fell short in his duty. Mr. f oraker in
timaiea m ms Giscussion mat mere
would be some extended controversy
before the railroad rate bills were
disposed of this session;
After more, tban a score of senators
had discussed the Panama bill,
it was referred to the appropriations
committee by a vote of 40 to 23.
Lively House Session.
Monday's session of the house was
enlivened by a tilt, just before adjournment,
betwen Lamar of Florida
and the minority leader, Mr. Williams,
regarding committee assignments. Mr.
Lamar sought to discuss the matter,
but Mr. Williams objected in the interest
of democratic harmony, effectiveness
and good will. He was at
once challenged to call a democratic
caucus for Tuesday, but declined
to commit himself on the ground that
the house was .no place for democrats
to wash their linen for tne
amusement of republicans. Mr. Tamar
was taken off the committee on in;erstate
and foreign commerce.
The incident followed the announcement
of committees. Mr. Lamar of
Florida submitted and had read a
newspaper clipping purporting to
quote Mr. Williams to the effect taat
Mr. Lamar and Mr. Shackelford of
Missouri had been left off the interstate
and foreign commerce committee
because they had failed to follow
the democratic caucus' accion ot
last session on the railroad rate bill.
During the confusion Mr. Lamar
shouted: "Mr. Speaker, he went to
the newspapers with it and now he
objects to consideration here, but i
have got it before the house and the
house will understand it."
Before this incident the session had
proceeded without a hitch.
; Representative Adamson of Georgia,
a member of the interstate commerce
committee, introduced a rate
bill which provides for the fixing ot
interstate rates for all common carriers
by the interstate commerce commission.
' CARRIED TO CONVICT CAMP.
young Leonard Rawlings Begins Serv.
. ing His Life Term.
Leonard Rawlings, who was recently
sentenced by Judge Mitchell to the
penitentiary for life for his complicity
in the murder of the Carter children,
was carried from the Valdosta jail
Saturday to a state convict camp at
Babcock, Ga.
The parting between the young man
? - -? *
and his mother ana sisier ui me ianway
station was very affecting. Young
Rawlings has all along maintaiped
that he would rather be hanged than
to serve a life sentence.
NOTED ECONOMIST DEAD.
Edward Atkinson Passes Away Suddenly
at His Home in Boston.
Edward Atkinson, the well know a
social and political economist of Boston,
Mass., died suddenly Monday alter
an attack of acute indigestion affecting
the heart. He was 78 yeaia
of age
For forty years Mr. Atkinson nad
been looked on as an. authority on
economic questions. < ; ;
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' With
the Funny f
%mv'" |
Their Tarn. jfm
Now while we folks go back to work,
The hotel keeper ana his clerk
Fill with our gold their mammoth gripr
And go on royal pleasure trips. _
Pinned Mown.
Lawyer?"And what was the defend|
ant doing meanwhile?"i
Witness?"He was telling me a funny ----J
| story."
| Lawyer?"Remember, sir, that you
[ are under oath." ,
I Witness?"Well, anyway, he was telling
me a story."?Somerville Journal.
She'd Keep It.
"But can you keep house?" he asked,
doubtfully, for he was, above all things,
a practical man.
"If you get a house and put It in my
j name," she replied, promptly, "I'll keep
it all right enough."
Matters being thus satisfactorily set- ' .t||j
tied, their engagement was announced
?Judge. '"<?
All She Needed.
"*"* "T iin nacli f hlfl L" _'^^3
| X'ajilJg XCilCl ? J. <-au ?. vaou in.*,
check, madam, until you are IdentiMrs.
Bright?"Yon mean I have to <Jjf|
identify myself?"
Paying Teller?"Yes, ma'am." )
Mrs. Bright?"How simple! Have
you a looking-glass?" ? Philadelphia v||l
I A Good Thine,
Mrs. Newbryde?"I got some hams
here last month that my husband liked
very much. Have you any more of .
the same kind?"
The Grocer?"Yes'm. Got about a
dozen left, from the same pig." "'' 41
Mrs . Newbryde?"Oh, that's nice; ^ jHB
Give me six of them."?Cleveland
No Raconteurs For Him.
"Coming to our dinner to-night?"
"Yes, indeed. Wouldn't think of
l missingit."
"Glad of that There are to be present
some famoub raconteurs."
"Are, eh? By the way, I've just remembered
I can't come. Got an en- ; '3|i
gagement to stay borne and play crib*
bage with my mother-in-law." j|||j
The Man For the Job.
"But," asked the proprietor of the
Skyehye^apartments, "do you think this
man is suited for the position of jan- j
"Oh, splendidly," replied the man5ger;
"he has been, at various times,
an iceman, a coalman and a policeman. , v3|s|
Ob, he's just as independent and sassy ,5"^
as he can be."?Philadelphia Press. "
A Business Correspondence. '.
(Telegram from financier in New
York to his Dartner in Cleveland.)
"Am about to close a big deal with .'!?S
Skinham. What kind of a man is he?* ;
(Reply from Cleveland:)
"He is like a fish." "-fSflj
(Telegram from New York.)
"Wire at once what kind of a fish-<
shark or sucker."?Cleveland Leader.
Honor For Jefferson.
"Waal, yes," said Mrs. Bragley, of
Jefferson City, "I reckon that feller
that writ out the Declaration of Inde- .^l||
pendence deserved the honor."
"You mean the honor of being asj
signed to write it?"
I "Not at all. I mean the honor o* ^
j beln'named fur our town. They called
! him Jefferson, you know/'?Philadel*
phia Press."
A Broad Hint. / ;
"Do you think they'll ever find the ;$lg
'pole, Mr. Stay late?"
"Why, yes, Miss Daynty, I believe /Sag
; they'll reach it this time."
"Don't you wish you'd' gone with M
I *hem ?"
"Why, yes, I do."
"So do I." ;
\ And the clock on the mantel slowly .
I struck 12.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. ^
Useful.
"I hear , that you really take pump- 4
kins for subscriptions to your paper,*
drawled the old farmer, .who had \'s|j
mounted the winding stairs to the edP
M J-*.- .<?m1 nanop
tonal rooms oi iue
"For a while," repliedtbe, editor.
" 'Bout how long?"
"Until the autumn poets stop sending
in poems. We pay them off hr
oumpkins."?Chicago News. ~
Lau4ad HJm. u ... . '^tf
"How did young Phocksey ever gei - V?
! old Timmin's consent to marry his
daughterV" /--M
"He was calling there the other night
and he asked the old man if he "bad an
j extra pair of scissors. Said he wanted
j to clip some coupons, and that the job . 5
: was too big for him alone, and that the
| girl thought it would be fun to help
| him."?Cleveland Leader.
The Younj- Philosopher.
" 'Xother piece of pie, please, pa."
"But you haven't finished your first
piece."
"No, pa. But you know you told me
not to eat fast. And if you give me a
I second piece now I shan't eat so fast,
j because I won't be afraid that the sec?
- ?' r ?4.
ond piece will ne gone wneu j. ^cw
through with the first piece. Please,
pa."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. " '
The commercial (market) value of
the railroads of the United States is
su^5o.ooo.ooa.