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a I POTASH TAX HITS " ' THE FARMERS HARD I 1 looking to Washington For Ralls! From Gjrman Exacltons. ' KT/ortu .continue to secure relief from Abe enormous tax Imposed by Germany itni exports tf potash to the United Slates. In these efforts all agricultural Interests are deeply concerned 5tor Hi reason that potash is an essential element of all commercial fertill men. Realizing the seriousness of the burden so Imposed, President Taft nnd the state department have made vigorous protest to Germany, aiul the matter is still pending. A representative of the state department who visited .Berlin in an effort to secure redress from tlie German government lias Just returned to Washington, and further Action by the administration is expected without great delay. Official efforts to bring about a favorable settlement have from the start jbeen actively aided l>3' the nonsyndiicafe potash mines which made the (American low price contracts. Did Germany Break Promises? | It Is understood that the state department had assurances from the German government when the tax law fWH8 Ul I Kill VI lUUl lliMliiHK nuiini |>e dono which would impair existing trade arrangements. These assurances proved to be worthless, and after GerWRn,v bad secured the benefits of the minimum rates of our new tariff law the potash tax was put Into force. President Taft. in his message to congress may have had this fact In mind rtvhori he said, referring to the successful working out of the maximum and minimum provision, "There are, however, unfortunately, instances where foreign governments deal arbitrarily with American interests within their jurisdiction in a manner injurious and Inequitable." ? It was when the German potash syndicate f' uml that Independent mines had gol almost all of the American business by making prices about 30 per cent lower than the syndicate prices runt ti:nv now compiamea or by American consumers was demanded by tfm potash trust and enacted by the relchstag with the avowed purpose to deprive Americans of the benefits of their advantageous agreements, running in some cases until 1010. The amount of the tax imposed by lOermany Is more than the entire cost at the mines under the American eon-" tracts with nonsyndicnte producers and amakes tlie price on deliveries In the United States much greater than the told exorbitant syndicate prices. As (the American contracts provide that ?the buyer shall pay all government charges, the tax falls heaviest upon the ! consumers of potash for the making i*of fertilizers. Tav Levied to Raise Prices. *rho cmV law was passed, it Is assort cd. with n<> other purpose than to destroy existing contracts, to coerce uP potash mines into the syndicate and eo to bring about u return to high j>rloes and take away the market made .here by nonsyndieate producers. lentil this controversy arose It was not generally known that potash In > (workabb* onvntitios was found only In Germany. The production Is and has ibeen for twenty years controlled by a eyndleat . whi< h also fixes the price that tin* world shall pay for this ne Cesslt.v. 'a (bis syndicate, which is trie}1, regulated by law. several tier- ] man governments parthlpnte as own. j lers of potash mines. It was during a (temporary lnose ' 11 the so ndicnte, leaving e^ ?*rv o;t ? free to rneke his own rflgures, jh:iI the low prices now cans "tug trouble were made. WATCH P0AP3 THIS WINTER. 'Improved Highways Are Now Passing Twt of Aii Traffic and Woather Conditions, and Those That N" >*>k* G .,od VVi!. Bp Standards of the Future. A-'. T At tlii* rtu4 of t lie present winter V* (food roads btiitriers wjll in* able to fbrm debm'e opinions ii.h to wli.it shuil be tliv* tandnrd road of the future. Ronci Jr tiding np to the present has been t'ot the most part mon or h>ss ?xperiu?"nt.i! Demonstration ^ fo Just lu'.v good some "pood roads" would prove to be has been lacking because Improved highways have not been built long enough to show their worth. On asphnltie macndnni is placed the tn ?in re'.htuee of road en luoers. Such blgh ways have been proved absolutely necessary to withstand he:iv> trallle, and the main question remaining to be deck ed N the* br >1 "binder" to lurid the stone of the macadam together. Some of tlit'se hinders "lile-'d" In summer and then get so brittle that, they ^lose" the road. The natural asphalts, tieh as are used In street pnvenieutft, 4o not not in this way. Whatever may in* next spr'ng's vcr 4fr't as to what Is the lmst road, the movement for improved highways Is ifoing steadily forward with Increased ' uergy. Tim latest to enlist in tho food roads < nu.so are the presidents of (the IVnnayivania, N'ew York Central *nd ftnuthern rallrotids and Mr. Yoa Ikum of the Frisco, who were among Ithe organisers of the American Asso-rUtton For Highway Improvement, ow getting to work in Wash big toil, With Logiui W. Psfe. director of t.bs +tBco of public roads, as pretuleuu I _ | PKATH C AI SKI) BY CARBON GAS. ' Chicago Physician Succumbs to Odors Inhaled From Gasoline Kngine. A muffler on the gasoline engine of his automobile caused the death Friday night of Dr. John Alosius Hemsteger, a prominent psysLcian of Chicago. Ho died from tho effects of carbon dioxide inhaled on Wednesday while cleaning the apparatus on his machine. The death is said to be the first of its kind on record. Hemsteger, finding a quantity of carbon had accumulated in the mufiler and engine cylinders, poured a mixture of wood alcohol and kerosene into them to clean them out. lie then started the engine and opened the cut off valve In the muffler. The garage door was closed and there was no other outlet for the forming carbon 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 he died the next day. Physicians who held ?n autopsv assert that death was due technically to poisoning of the heart by the carbon gas. | Dr. Hemsteger was 56 years old. WHOLESALE POISONING. ? Nearly Every Resident of a Texas Village Made III. Six deaths have occurred and practically all the members of the entire village of Telfener, In Victoria county, Texas, aro 111, ascribed to the eating of food prepared with flour containing arsenic. On Monday the village grocer poured several sacks of flour into a j su?sa barrel and one of bis first customers was Joe Brown, a negro. After the morning meal the entire I family became ill, two of Brown's children 'lying the same night. Since then four,?other deaths have occurred. Mow the drug and Hour came in con'act has not been determined ? ?,-? An Honorable lOxception. The Hon. Thomas \V. Lovless, 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 so'me citizens of Augusta, which had quietly assembled, to present himself, accompanied by Mrs. Hoyless, 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 Barrett, awaiting him. Mayor Bar rott, on behalf of those present, then presented Editor T.oyless with a solid silver service, which had cost the donors an ever thousand dollars, as an expression of their appreciation of what Editor Loylcss through the Chronicle and Individually had done for the advancement of Augusta. Editor Loy less is fortunate in living in a city where the business men appreciate his efforts in its behalf, land in honoring him as they did. hey honored themselves as well, 'lis case is an honorable exception o the general rule In too many cit'os, and towns too, for that mater, editors of newspapers don't even -et thanks for what to do for their itlts or towns, for v horn they labor a season and out of season, to sa> nothing of a silver service The bua'rier-s men of Augusta know a poo1 niug when they have it. and it is rot yrprhdng that they '.re p"otu! of the Chronicle and its ah'o editor. Heave Hiionion. Heroism is usually associated in the public iniii f with battle holds, and many inspiring are the records of deeds of valor an 1 of struggle. Hut in these days of peace we are continually being reminded that there are battles other than those in which men are pitted against each other in deadly combat. Probally among the most spectacular are those In which hardv, fearless and trained men wrestle with the great tires which threaten property and lives. Intent upon their duty and with no selfish thought of themselves these firemen stand face to face with danger in such bat Ho, and oftimes as in the every recent oatas* roubles in Chicago, Philadelphia and other cities ! prove, thev go unfalteringly to their death. Such heroism is an inspiration to the performance of duty un 'dor all cireuinstances and strengthens faith In human nature. Something Unusual. One of tho worst of Unliah raili road accidents happened in that , country a week or two a up) resulting f i 11 the loss of about thirty lives. The singular tiling about it Is the fact that the railroad company voluntarily assumed responsibility for the accident. It seems almost like a mirnclo that any large corporation or trust should take tho blame to Itself Usually. It la the other way and the best legal talent is employed and J every subterfuge resorted to In the I effort to show that an accident Ih the fuult of others, an act of divine provirjnco. or something else, and that 'tho corporation Is as Innocent as an Infant child. Happy Now Year to all. frlond and foa. . RICH CKOOK DtAU WEALTHY YOtTN<J MAN WHO LED LIFE OF A HLTttaLAU. f ^ ThomuM WundlaKH Preferred the l"nderworld to u Life of Luxury iu His Brooklyn Houie. Death ban 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 I n Passaic. N. J. Wandloss preferred the underworld to a life of luxury n the home of a fond and wealthy mother. He developed from a sort >f "angel child" to a desperate criminal. Paralysis of his vocal organs ihortly uft'ir his capture kept the poire from obtaining any correct account of his amazing career. Jean Mitchell, aged 17 years, who called herself his "chicken stall" and assisted him In 22 burglaries, has pleaded guilty and will receive sentence. She declares she is eager to get hack to her home in the New England states as Hhe has had enough of travel and nice dresses, the bait offered by Wandlnss when she cont n Kn/?rnYi?? hie scrnni nl Ip.a The police called Wandlass a "supper 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 porsous about. Often he would stop to listen to the dinner chatter before making his escapo. Generally he selected a dark or dimly lighted parlor, Jimmied the window and climbed in. During the months that the girl worked with him he relied upon her to "spill a faint" as she called it, and draw the crowd while he made his escape. Wand lass was about 30 years old. His mother, Mrs. Augustus F. Ilerner, is a woman of wealth and r^finemen. <n Brooklyn, N. Y. ifor first usbaid. Wand lass, was a hotel nroprleior and well to do. lie left i a comfortable fortune, anil when he died his son, Tom, was a model youngster and a great church worker. He was precocious, high strung and had a vivid imagination. .Tnst when he became transformed info a "bad man" no one seems to know, but he ran away from hoarding school at 17 and the next his mother heard of him was that he was a member of a gang of thieves, tie was never what might bo called w I a Raffles, except that 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 Hap ley and had served time in several penal institutions in the state of New York. DIED OX WAY HOME. 1 After Being Absent Twenty-One Years Unheard From. A mysterious stranger who died suddenly in a hotel at Now Canan. " M'Ti., n few days ago has been idenas Francis Humphreys, a wello-'o resident of New Cauan, who disappeared from his home there 2: ago, leaving his wife and four * v. ghters. Humphreys, who was ??r. years old, returned with the intention of Joining his larnlly, who had heard nothing from hi in since his d'soppea ranee. *\ mai led from his journey, he jto;> >o i at the hotel to rest and soon af. his arrival auin sc.i'<?e?l v>itii an at? ta k of heart disease, from which he died almost instantly. He did no:. 1i\e to see any member of his famM y. A large sum of money was found ir. his clothing and" will be turned over to his widow. WORK OF A FIEND. \ Fen <f Lye Tlii'own in the Face of a Young Lady. With her face and shoulders seared ?nd scarred by the contents of a can of lye that v, as thrown In her face Sunday night, Mies Myrtle Htirney { lies at her father's home in Oak dale, la suburb of Pittsbu: Pa.. and In probably disfigured for life, whllo county detectives arc searching for a man whoso description the young woman gives. Miss Burnoy was walkin: from tho Oak dale station to Iter i homo Saturday night with a brother i when a man appeared from behind i a tree and dashed t tie contents over her. Instinctively she closed her! eyes, thus saving her sight. The fain- ! ily Is at a loss to explain a reason for . ! the attack. ?- ? ? ? Thumb ItingH. That demand made by some ladles ( In an eastern state that married men bo compelled by law to wear thumb rings has at least the e ,rlt ofVowl-j ty, but It won hi not wor. Men are such wlcl. 'd, designing crt tnres that .they would And some way > clreum- ! j vent the law and continue to tlirt i with and make love to unsuspecting i' females. Tot the Idea has groat pos' nihilities. Why not, for instance, enlarge it an<l compel a man to wear a ring for every marriage he has contracted. In some districts with sou.e I men the two thumbs would scarcely I bo large enough to carry all the rings. % 74 VR8SKLS LOST I ? And Fiftj thrfe People Out of !,44K> Lost liMt Year. Out of a total of 6.661 persona Involved In 1,463 disasters to- vessels < of all classes within the scope of the 1 United 8tates life saving service, on- i ly fifty-three were lost, and about seventy-four vessels were completely destroyed, according to the annual report of S. L. Kimball, general superintendent of the service, for the fiscal year, which ended June 30 last. , The next expenditures ror maintaining the service for the year were $2,249,375.68. The enactment ot the bill passed at the last session of Congress b" the Senate providing for retirement pay for members of the life saving service and others of the held service and others of the field service incapacitated for duty is. ur?od in the report. Of the 1.64 6 vessels of all kinds which mot with accidents, the life savers rendered service to 1.047, valvied with their cargoes at $10,179,23 0. Other succor rendered by the life saving service included the rescue of 137 persons from drowning, surgical aid to 60 persons suffering from gunshot 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. I Great Wave of Crime. As wo stated in a recent issue the statistics for last year show that there was a marked increase in the number of homicides lu this country during that period. The number of deaths by personal violence of all kinds In 1910, except suicides and lynchlngs, 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 those deaths were from quarrels, 1,0 19; unknown causes, 984; liquor, 79S; killed by highwaymen. 930; jealousy, 0 12; Infanticide, 125; highwaymen killed, 73: resisting arrest, 10G; insanity, 225. The most striking feature 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 persona met death at the hands of other persons during hist year there was only 104 legal executions during that period. This was three less than wero executed in 1909, when there was 107 legal executions for crime In the several States. Classified by States, the record of loral executions is as follows: Alabama, ; 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; Mis Kouri, 3: New York. 9; New Jersey, 1: Nevada, 1; North Carolina, 2: Ohio. 4; Oklahoma, 1; Oregon, 1: Pennsylvania, 9; South Carolina, 7: Tennessee, 4; Texas, 6; Virginia, 11; WosHn gton, 2. Tliore were tnirty-seven icgai executions in (ho Northern StJit.es and fifty in the Southern St.itos. Of those execute! f h irtv-t.hreo were whites, fiffv-throo were negroes and one an Indian. The crime for which those cxeei'tions tool* place were uinetyfour for murder, nine for rape and one for atf mpted rape. In addition to the above level executions, seventy-three persons were lynched in the ^oetb ,'i"d orm at the North. Tills is a fearful record, and the ?vr"f D"rt of it is w^? are doing little or nothing to correct It. Think of tl'O tho'Tands of mur lers that were r ontti 11;P(.| during the past year for which less than one hundred people wrre legally executed, ami consider what is liuman life worth in this' boasted home o 'he bravo and land' of the free. Tin re is no country on ! earth whoro human life is worth so H t I.? n,. 11 la \\ <>?*.? Sf rlr<f on fnrfatnnnf 1111**7 ?f1 * 1 iO M? . r.. % ?*.... v/v.M> ?.V , of the 1 h vn' is t ho only remedy for this fearful condition. Should He Sifted. Of course there Is an enquiry as to the cause or causes tha* led to the deat h of bo many firemen In the recent Chicago tire. There always is an lno8tlT"lon after a catastrophe and great things are promised a*t the outset of what !s going to !>?? done In the way of reform and of the severe 1 pm Islunent to ho meted out to the guilty ones. Hut some way or other the investigation usually lingers on, (the report Is smothered or male inoeuous. no guilty one la punished, I n*\A >\.i pnt'i->r!in! IjmtMnhul T!w>l'i? Ia an occasional exception to all this, j | but it Ir only very occasional, and t.hQ| stockyard Investigation wi't bo one of I the exceptions if anything of value results from It.. Sent' oentally#cons' lorod A ' a OamegfrVs $ 10f*00,00?'? gift '? promote peaoo among the nations is well timed, for H is made at tho season when is commemorated the birth of the Prince of Peace whose mission I was to bring "ponce on earth and ' good will among man." It is to be ; hoped that tho aspiration of the donor and of all well wtehera of man-, 'kind may he fully realized. 1 SOLVING GREENWOOD MY8TKRY. Young White Mnn Arrested for At? tnilig Miss PIdmml Fletcher Golden, an eighteen-yearold 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 identified as his, in a vacant building near the Pinson home with Kome 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 ( comos home at night. An interesting feature of th? af- j fair is that young Golden's father is I the man who shot at a thief who attempted to rob Pinson'B store about a year ago and went so far as to j Identify the man by his voice, fixing ! it on a young man here who proved j conclusively that it was a case of 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 | wus po?slble for a cut,- so severe a* to cut the young lady's hair, could be made without cutting her skin or ear. Golden asserts his innocence. Awful Jtecord of CYiiue. Last year was one of bloodshed and crime, and will go down Into his-| torv as exceeding any other year In ! :he number of murders and suicides I in our hio'nry as af nation. During j the year an army of people died by j violence, the record being in round j numbers, nine thousand suicides and j thirteen thousand murders, making a total of twenty-two thousand deaths by violence. That is an appalling record, andthrows u dark shadow over the en-j tire country. "Every profession, calling and occupation have representative in fliis record of crime,"and w. ile the rate of increase Is very ; nuch greater in Rome than in others t (ho Indications all point to a com-' in on 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 uni-' versal spread of prohibition over tiio country would have a marked effect In checking murders and other vio-' lent crimes, hut it seems tha' the voting out (he legal sale ol' all 11 rjuors has had no effect .In checking! these crimes, as the record for last year Is the worst the country has ever had in its history. mi ^ t v. . c _ ^ i ?i I i xierw is <ih iu iic.ii 11 nwi ruore ?i- j rjp.ors sold now in many places than i (here was sold before the prohibition : law was enacted. In addition to the j ilicit of liquors, quantities of "opnine and morphine are now soM ana used by those who formerly d'-nnk whiskey. The effects o? theao drills are most do railp*?. and we believe that much of the incruased crime Is attributable to them. Another cause of crime* ie the nonmforreinent of the crlminai laws of f1 ' O - / - c ' T1 ' ^ i ' ! 't is vary hard to convict men ot' *cpit:?l ^rlrnvr, and should they b* convicted. it is harder still to adequately punish them. It is pr.uficn'ly iTMposs'hle in this paction of the country to punish a man will means for any crime. This applies to colored as *"e|] as white people. Over in England ant! ot.Y*er "onv t?icp, across fin ocean it If* di'Teren!. When a in <n Kills another over there he is pun'shod, regar "oar of b's wealth or social position. Tako the recent cr*^. of tlio prominent dentist who murdered his wife in Knglam'. He was pursued to America, captured, taken back to TC; gland, tried, convictt d :??Hi executed in about four months after his heinous crime wa committed That is the kind of justice ueeded in this country. When we -:a"e it the carnival of crime that now dis?rr.;ces us will he over Heats (XT Negro, At Chicago Miss Kllen K. Miller Strom, a nineteen year-old girl. resisted n new vj o attacked her lav>" evening in North Fiftieth avanue. i AH' r a at rugate4 in which the yotim woman returned the negro's blows scratching and kicking him. he knocked tier down, ran through an a ! ley a u d ppcmpod Hug in ller Knr. Mrs. W. T. Duggan, of Straw TMairs, Tonn., was able to show her grand children a curiosity which she has preserved, agnimt her will, for jrty years This curiosity wan u wheat bug which dropped into her right oa?- when sh? .as a clrl of 14 and which she extra* .ed Ratnrliy. The <loatb of Senator Klhintt, who com a Republican, means avo Democratic ?7nit"ri State# Senator from Wck' \"1 r<rini the Democrat# belnp in control of the legislature of that State. We hope true bine Democrats will be sent. SOME PLAIN TALK I TOO MUCH VIC?, WRECKS, Mil- I CIDK8 ANI) M17RDKII FOR IIKBT^B Mm. Gabrielle 8. MnUiner Indulges W (Jim Her Views of Things at ^ Woman's Meeting. The New York World says before ' v i seventy-five women Mm. Mulilner read a long paper Id which she dts- Ml cussed the menuce to society of men of the half world. unfaillifdlL |l husbands and divorces. She classed' Jf the city of New York as one huge receptacle of everything foul under if the Bun. h "There Is more vice per capita ta New York," said Mrs. Mulliner, "than in any other city of fbe world. j There are more wrecks, more suicides, more illiteracy, more accident* upon the public highways, more thefts, more murders, inoro depravity, more misery and distress. And the woman who surveys it all and understands It all and wonts to tor it all Is beginning to make of ^^1 herself a true uufTraigist." Mrs. Mulliner said the old Purtta* standards that had Inspired the writing of "The Scarlet Letter" had been mashed flat. Women, she said, were looking upon the breeders of evil, feminine home wreckers and the like with pity and patience instead of working for legislation that should punish the womnn who enters a horn* and steals a husband as It punishes tho thief who breaks in and carries On 1.11 V Mliv-jr, "There In such a thing as the unwritten law," went on the woman lawyer, "and the written law often eo 11 nf en an'oh it if, upon the spur of the occasion, a husband kills the man ho finds with his wife. Why should it. not be just as much the recognised right of the wife to kill the woman who steals her husband? That thief !s 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. . r "It is the woman whom the law allows to walk the streets and openly attract men by her bedlzement 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 wo-;, men are not helping conditions by aping her !ti the matter of the hobble skirt, the mob hat and the paint and cosmetic. Hut even the demi-mondaino and the woman who tolerate* her existence are not the ones to blame. It is the law itself and tho rottenness in politics that sees tbe thine calmly through that Is to hlame. Good women should work to become elective constituents of right-minded men upon the Hoard of Aldermen and In other positions significant to the public good. "Raise the standard by setting a , value on chafti ! Make an Infringement of that standard punishable bj law." ' * Mrs. Mulllner next presented her pot topic, dtvf.'C "Every co-respendent ought 10 t>o Impounded ,4n the penitentiary for a certain term," she asserted. "Such an offender against the public good is a criminal of the worst typo." Every women at rhe meeting pledged herself to keep a close watch on her own drawing rcon. and to do her part in the proposed purging of society. ? ? -??. -?*.? .. i. Tt Is announeed tint Champ Clark ?nd oth'.i ieriio.- ()!.<: leaders have decided art. to a;ri the p.peakcfs^L , of the nee house 'he power of poin*lug the committoes, ns was advo'mtftd by all the Fnuth Carolina members except Mr. Johnson who stands for hnv'ng the eommitteos named by the house 'trolf. The Spartanburg Journal 8av? to do ho would have been absolutely inconsistent and undemocratic, hut considerations of this sort did not. seem to appeal to the South Carolina members mentioned The man in one o' the western cities who coir polled hit; erring wife \ to ere? f? on hands ind Unees from hie^^ | house to church, * distance of sev-, 'era! blocks, before he would forgive her must, we hope, stand alone In cruel meanness It *vae but right that his wife should e\t>rotjB her contrition. but to compel her to creep on a 1 tours, sobbing her heart out, to he a spectacle for a km ping, curious crowd wan an excess of brutality almost unimaginable. The people of N< w York, New fevsey or Ohio rlo tot want corpora- t Mon machine Don oo rattle Senators n place of the corporation machine Reonblicnn S-narora ihey are about * r\ d ! w I . O 00 'V b 1 \..I > I /? rv i? ef If vw i ic ? ? . v., i i iv i/ruiuti aui wj has too many such Senators now, and fhoy b .orlil sond no more of th^t kind to Washington. Of the p*".,' .<?? received by the farmer, .v'crfhry Wilson says: "The farmer tfCdveH hardly more thae half of what, the consumer pays poultry, r?o por r<?nt. for eggs, 4 8 per cent for rabhax*. HO per cent, for celery '* The middlemen gets the btl* at ?c?. ? , Wf have not hcfr.rd of a serious accident or any other Incident that happened In this county to mar the 1 Christmas holidays this year. For it his we ahvulri he sincerely thsskftl 4