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ON A PROFIT-SHARING BASIS
Manager's Offer Most Generous, 3tlll
It Is Possible That the Greaser
Rejected It.
A common method of dealing with
greaser laborers In the new state of
New Mexico Is to have them work on
Shares. A somewhat original applica-
tion of the system is told on a well-
known manager of one of the 30,000-
eere ranch corporations.
A certain Mexican had been ac-
costing the manager several times
and asking for a job.
“Well, come over to my office,” the
boss told him finally, “and maybe I
can fix up something with you."
"Now, I need a lot of postholes dug,”
be began.
"What will you give me?” asked the
Mexican.
"Well,” replied the employer gener-
ously, "I will give you half. You can
dig my half on my ranch, and can put
your half wherever you please—pick
out soft ground for them If you
Want to.”—Metropolitan Magazine.
The Very Best Make.
i In the course of an after-dinner
speech in praise of woman, Samuel
Vntermyer, the New York lawyer, said
tn Pittsburg:
i "A commercial traveler remarked
the other day to a storekeeper:
j “ 'Make yourself a Christmas pres-
ent of a cash register. It will keep
strict and accurate account of all
you receive and all you disburse. It
will show you what you save and what
jpou squander, what you spend foolish-
ly and what you spend wisely, where
you should spread out and where you
should retrench, where you waste and
how you waste it—’
I “ ‘But,’ said the storekeeper, ‘I've
already got a cash register which does
ell that and more.’
” “Whose make is It?’ asked the
salesman, frowning.
“ ‘God’s make,’ the storekeeper re-
plied; and with a smile at once rev-
erent and grateful he nodded toward
his handsome wife seated in the cash-
ier’s cage.”
Counterfeiter Gets Stiff Sentence.
William Fink, a Brooklyn, N. Y„ dealer
In drugs, was sentenced by the New York
Court of Special Sessions, to imprison-
ment in the penitentiary at hard labor,
for four months. The charge was coun-
terfeiting the trade-mark for Carter s Lit-
tle Liver Tills, in violation of the penal
la,JTie Carter Medicine Company detected
the counterfeit before any quantity of the
spurious goods had been placed upon the
market. In sentencing1 Fink. Judge Deuel
laid special stress upon the injury done to
the public when a remedy so well known
as Carter’s Little Liver Pills is counter-
feited and put on the market. He im-
posed the sentence not only as the prop-
er punishment of Fink himself, hut in or-
der to deter others from the commission
of like frauds in the future.
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May Do Away With Fee at Mt. Vernon
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WASHINGTON.—The legislature of
W Virginia Is now considering the
propriety of enacting a law which will
do away with a 25-cent admission fee
charged at the gate to Mount Vernon,
the home of Washington. Earnest pro-
tests have been made by many citi-
zens of tho state against the charging
of any fee for admission to the
grounds, on’the theory that the public
generally, without restraint, ought to
be free to enter the grounds and In-
spect the many interesting things
that are to be found there. The legis-
lature of Virginia originally Incor-
porated the ladies’ society which ow ns
the Mt. Vernon estate, and has made
It what It is today, and of course an
amendment of that act, cutting out
the admission fee, may be made when-
ever the legislature In its wisdom sees
fit. Two years ago, when the legis-
lature was in session, a similar move-
ment was put under way, but there
was not legislation. This time the ef-
fort has been renewed with Increased
enthusiasm, and the no-fee bill is now
before the house committee on laws,
WITH HUNGER AS ALLY
SCHEDULE K OF THE PROTEC-
TIVE TARIFF IS FORTIFIED.
Just as Unjust Taxes Mark Up Divi-
dends and Surpluses, 8o Hunger
Cuts Down Pay Rolls In
Favored Industries.
which has been giving hearings to
men and women representing both
sides.
The whole country is Interested tn
this proposed change of the articles
of incorporation of the ladies’ Mt. Ver-
non society, for in every state there Is
a chapter of the society, and each of
these chapters has had charge of the
work of restoring one of the rooms of
the old mansion, or one of the out-
buildings, or some particular feature
of the grounds. The purpose of the
soeiety has been to restore the build-
ings and grounds to the condition
they were in the time when Washing-
ton was alive. ThiB work has been
carried forward pretty well to com-
pletion. In the mansion there is now
almost 50 per cent, of the original
furniture, for instance, while the out-
buildings are all to be found there.
The people who want the admission
fee abolished say the ladies’ society
has been making too much money!
that it is a close corporation, taking
money from the public and expending
it without let or hindrance, and pre-
sumably piling up a considerable sur-
plus in cash. The ladies’ society
doesn’t plead guilty to these charges.
It says the fees are only sufficient to
maintain the estate properly, that
there are no large surpluses, and that
the society has. not at any time made
it a policy to earn profits from the
patriotic impulses of American citi-
zens.
U. S. Soon to Have Big Army Air Fleet
Mixed the Orders.
A local doctor once sent his man
fwith a box of pills to a patient, and a
hamper containing six live pullets to
be left at the house of a friend. Un-
luckily the messenger bungled over his
errand, and took the hamper to the pa-
tient and the pills to his master’s
friends. Imagine the consternation of
the patient on receiving along with
the fowls the following prescription:
“Two of these to be swallowed ev-
ery half hour.”
A Mean Insinuation.
Maude—I’ve something to tell you.
I’m engaged to Jack.
Ethel—1 am not surprised Tack
never could say "No.”
The simple life is best. Let your only
medicine be Garfield lea. the pure and
proven remedy. All druggists.
! Many reputations blow up when a
political campaign Is in full blast.
Run-Down
YOU SHOULD TRY
HOSTETTER’S
Stomach Bitters
As Spring approaches
nearly everyone expe-
riences that run-down
feeling. The system
is full of impurities—
the blood is sluggish—
the liver inactive and
bowels constipated.
The Bitters will quickly
remedy this condition.
IT REALLY TONES AND STRENGTHENS
WITHIN two years the United States
W army will probably possess 40
aeroplanes. At present It only has
seven machines, a number so insignifi-
cant as to make comparison with
some of the powers of Europe almost
Impossible. In the development of the
so-called “fourth army” of the military
service, this country is far behind
France and Germany, notwithstanding
the fact that the first men to make
practicable the flight of heavier-than-
air machines were Americans. Even
Italy can show greater advancement
than this country, although this is due
to the fact that she has on her hands
a war which gave her an opportunity
to demonstrate the usefulness of tho
flying-machine in actual service. Tho
only thing approaching that opportu-
nity in this country was offered during
the period when we massed troops on
the Mexican border.
Notwithstanding the fact that our
army may possess 40 aeroplanes in-
side of two years, we will not even
approach France in the number of our
“avions,” which is the name applied
in that country to military flying ma-
chines. The French war department
proposes to buy during the present
year 350 aeroplanes, the minister of
finance having asked for $1,000,000 for
the extension of aeronautical service.
Twenty machines alone were used at
D
Hunger and schedule K of the pro-
tective tariff make a strong team
when they are both on one side, as is
the case with the owners of the tex-
tile mills at Lawrence, Mass. What
chances has poorly paid labor against
money and hunger?
Schedule K Is the one that the
president is In the habit of referring
to as ‘‘indefensible.” It levies almost
prohibitive duties upon many articles
that are manufactured at Lawrence,
so that by combination the American
market can easily be cornered against
any competing foreign product. As an
insurance policy against competition,
hard work for capital and small
profits there is nothing better than
an extortionate tariff.
On the other hand, hunger is what
makes labor docile. Hunger kills the
strike spirit Hunger does not nego-
tiate; it compels. Hunger fights al-
ways on the side of low wngea and
long hours—and the protected employ-
er. Hunger cuts down pay rolls in
favored industries, Just as tariff taxes
mark up dividends and surpluses.
Next to a corrupt congress, hunger
is the tariff’s best friend.
A fact which Americans have too
long ignored is that hunger rarely ap-
pears as an ally of capital in this
country except in the mills that are
buttressed on all sides by the inde-
fensible schedules of the monopoly
tariff. We have no other “pauper la-
bor.”
Every week the beneficiaries of the
tariff, who refused to arbitrate, noted
with pleasure the increasing number
of men, women and children who
were driven to work by—hunger!
This is another tariff victory.—St
Louis Republic.
ONE CONDITION TO IMPROVE
Rich Men Judge Gary Talks About
Might Assume Their Fair Share
of Taxation.
There are things said at the pres-
ent time akin to things said just prior
to the French revolution, and in my
opinion there is danger. I do not
want to wave the flag of distress, but
the situation appeai’B serious to me.
Unless capitalists, corporations, men
of great wealth and power, take a
leading position in improving condi-
tions from time to time, there will be
changes made later on by the mob.—
Judge Gary, at the Lehigh Club din-
ner.
There are also conditions now which
are akin to conditions Just prior to
the French revolution.
One of the things reformers then
had to work against was the practical
exemption of the nobility and wealth
from taxation.
We in this country have n federal
system of taxation which loads the
great coat of the national government
on the consumption of the masses,
and the local systems of taxations
which, through rents and prices, filter
the great costs of local government
down to the same thing. It Is a com-
bined system of taxing the people ac-
cording to their needs and not their
wealth.
Why then? Shall the Judge Garys
leave their beautiful altruism at the
banquet table and go fortli to defeat
the income tax amendment, through
which some little measure of this cost
of government may be placed exclu-
sively on wealth?—New York World.
the last French military maneuvers.
The new machines will be ordered in
lots of 20, 50 and even 100. They will
be of different types and will be sup-
plied by all the leading French con-
structors.
The day has passed when the aero-
plane Is a mere experiment for mili-
tary purposes. Only a few days ago
an Italian army officer, operating an
aeroplane in Tripoli, dropped boiuWs
among the Turks and Arabs and was
in return wounded by a rifle bullet.
He was using a monoplane and had
one passenger with him. The most
notable feature of the incident was
the fact that he was enabled to con-
tinue operation of the machine after
he had been wounded. His passenger
assisted him and the monoplane was
brought back to safety to the Italian
camp. Not only were projectiles
dropped among the enemy, but the
aviator and his companion made
sketches of the military works over
which they passed.
Creates Furore in Washington Society
RECORD BELIES HIS WORDS
President Taft Good Example of the
Difference Between Preaching
and Practice.
At New York President Taft said
something about tile tariff that is
worth quoting in full.
“The Republican party has come to
realize that high tariff duties encour-
age combinations of capital by sup-
pressing competition, and that there
is a much safer system, which limits
U.o duties" to »h« m easure of tho dif
ference between the cost of produc-
tion here and the cost of production
abroad, than the wholesale system of
Imposing high rates on some things
In order to obtain reduction at the
expense bf everything else.”
These are beautiful sentiments,
worthy of a statesman and a lover of
his kind. It Beems a pity that Mr.
Taft's record should be so strikingly
at variance with his creed and that
one who understands so perfectly the
nefarious nature of high protection
should have proved at once Its cham-
pion and high priest in the hour of de-
cision, when bills reducing the tariff
downward were received by him only
to be vetoed!
TOO GREAT TO BE ENTAILED
Presidency of the United States Must
Not Be Left in the Keeping
of Any One Man.
One thing that even Democrats must
admit Is that ninny of Mr. Taft's fail-
ures have been due to Mr. Roosevelt’s
bossism.
Mr. Taft never would have come to
the presidency without Mr. Roosevelt's
indorsement and command to a ser-
vile party.
If Mr. Taft had been less a proxy
and more a president not a few of
the scandals and humiliations of the
present regime would ltave (been
avoided.
Is it possible that the man who gave
us Taft is now, in the face of admit-
ted error, to sweep aside his under-
study and set himself up as neces-
Bnry? is It not possible that he Is
again mistaken?
In 1908 the mandate was: “Take
Taft or you will get me!" Now it is:
"Repudiate Taft, for you want me!”
The presidency Is too great a posl-
to ho loft In One Man’s keeping,
and that man n desperado. It must
not he passed on. it must not be mer-
chandized. It cannot he entailed.
No Diaz In the United States.—St
Louis Republic.
YOURS
Your* for uni-
formity.
Your* for great-
est leavening
power.
Your* for never
failing results.
Yours for purity.
Yours for economy.
Your* for every-
thing that goes to
make up a strictly
high grade, over-
dependable baking
powder.
That is Calumet. Try
it once and note the im-
provement in your bak-
ing. See how much more
economical over the high-
priced trust brands, how
much better than the cheap
and big-can kinds.
Calumet is highest in quality
—moderate in cost.
Received Highest Award-
World’s Pure Food
Exposition*
HER MONEY BOUGHT IT.
PS
_ o—
THE greatest furore has been cre-
I ated in Washington seciety by the
advent of Mrs. C. H. Anthony of Him-
J cie, Ind., who may or may not be
! making herself a dummy on which to
J display the art of millinery and mar-
} veious jewelry. Suffice it to say, the
I Queen of Sheba would not be one,
j two, three in the class with Mrs. An-
I thony as to gorgeousness of raiment
1 and lavishness of gems and jewels.
For instance, Mrs. Anthony wears
shoes so rackingly costly that she has
to put them in the hank vault at night.
There is nothing baser in the metal
about the person of Mrs. Anthony
than gold, and she scorns plain gold,
and has It set with jewels to match
hat, gown, coat, hose and shoes that
she wears them with. Real lace is
humiliatingly used to heel her slip-
pers, and her head is topped by $1,000
hats and such like. Her gowns—well,
it doesn’t take much material to make
them, and the least said about them
the better. They are of the finest
loom and the costliest dyes, and are
then overhung with gold and dia-
monds, turquoise, emeralds, sapphires
and pearls. Her coats are the hand-
somest and her furs the costliest that
have ever been seen in the city of
Washington. The heels of the won-
derful slippers are set with something
like diamonds, and she has these of
all colors to wear upon the streets.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth is wedded
to cut-glass heels on her shoes and
slippers, but has never gone so far as
cut-glass solitaires. Mrs. Anthony is
wedded to what she terms the "gos-
pel of clothes.” There is one thing
quite Certain, and that is, “Lead us
not into temptation” finds no place in
her gospel decalogue. With all her
love for finery Mrs. Anthony is In-
tensely American, and says American
clothes are good enough for her, and
she has all her dresses made in In-
dianapolis.
“American clothes are good enough
for me,” she declares. "Every gown
I own was made in Indianapolis.’
Just Happened So.
The demonstration at Lawrence,
Mass., of the kind of American labor
Schedule K supports, and of the way
It supports it, was not the result of a
deep-laid free-trade plot, but of an
accident. It all happened along of
the enforcement of a Massachusetts
law from which no such disorderly
results were anticipated. The haw
rence. operatives' noses seem to have
been already so closely applied to Mr.
William Wood's grindstone that they
really couldn’t stand the loss of two
hours’ work a week with correspond-
ing reduction of pay. Ninety-one per
cent, of the population of Lawrence
is foreign born—so we are told by a
resident of that city. That is the sort
of American labor the woolen men
will presently beseech congress to
protect from the competition of under-
paid Europe—Harper’s Weekly.
LIVE STOCK AND
MISCELLANEOUS
Electrotypes
IN GREAT VARIETY
FORj SALK ,AT THE
LOWEST PRICES BY
WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION
Kansas City, Missouri
I_1 Beat Couch Syrup. Taftea Good. Um kM
in time. Bold by Drnccirta.
VV. N. U., Oklahoma City, No. 11-1912.
Speaker Rides in an Automobile Now
WHEN he was elected speaker of the
If house of representatives Champ
Clark refused to accept an automobile
to be paid for by the government.
Such a provision was made by con-
gress during the term of Speaker Can-
non, and that gentleman used his gov-
ernment automobile to his heart s con-
tent. He became so enamored of the
joy of automobiling that at the end of
his term ho purchased one of his own
and puts it to good use.
While Champ Clark does not own
an automobile or allow the govern-
ment to furnish him one, he enjoys
riding, and, strange to say, he enjoys
riding with his predecessor, Joseph
G. Cannon.
Speaker Clark is seen very often rid-
ing about the streets and avenues of
Washington in Mr. Cannon's machine.
The speaker and the ex-speaker are
real good friends.
While Speaker Clark lives almost
three miles from the capitol he al-
ways walks up in the morning if the
weather will permit. He enjoys walk-
ing and declares that the exercise is
refreshing and puts him in good con-
dition for the long hours that he is
held at the speaker’s desk.
When the weather will not permit
he rides on the street cars, taking his
chances with the strap hangers and
the corn grinders.
On his way homo at midnight from
a recent Democratic caucus, Mr. Clark
hung by a strap and was Jostled by
the crowd in a car that was packed to
its fullest capacity.
As he neared his home he remark
ed, "If it hadn’t been so late I would
have walked. Walking beats this all
to death."
A Sharp Corner.
The esteemed Outlook, which some-
times says things with which the con-
tributing editor disagrees, remarks
that the ex-president’s declination of a
third term in 1904, repeated in 1907,
Is to be likened to a man at breakfast
who has had two cups of coffee and
who says: "Positively no more.” The
meaning Is that he will have no third
term and no more coffee that morning.
The devil himself cannot tell what he
will want the next day.
We absolve the contributing editor
from all responsibility for this subtle-
ty, says the St. Louis Republic. No
one not educated in theology could
have done this. We think we can
recognize the guilty man. He is Rev.
Lyman Abbott.
A truly good preacher can turn a
sharper corner than a politician.
Steel Trust’s Sweet Spirit.
It appears that the steel trust main
tains the twelve-hour day as a sweet
boon to its employes who are anxious
to work and earn some of the money
that congress confers upon them by
means of the protective tariff. In the
same spirit, no doubt, the trust black-
lists its men who Join the labor unions
because it does not want them to
waste their money in the payment of
lines and assesments. Philanthropy of
a high order marks the trust now as
ilways.
What Gary Had In Mind.
"We of great power and influence
have not all of us done the fair thing,”
said E. H. Gary of the steel trust the
other evening at a banquet of his
business associates, “it is imperative
that something he done to improve the
condition of mankind.”
Mr. Gary had been speaking of the
great popular unrest and had said that
in some respects our social, industrial
and political conditions were alarm-
ing. His remark therefore may be ac-
cepted as a confession and a warn-
ing.
It is true that the steel trust has
not done the fair thing and that It Is
particularly desirable that Its lead-
ing spirits should do something for
humanity.
Yet it is not charity but Justice
that is needed. An industry enjoy-
ing almost unexampled governmental
favor on the false pretense that it be-
Btows the benefit upon labor ought
not to work one-quarter of its men 12
hours a day. It ought not to deny
them the right of organization. Its
employes ought not to become the
poorest paid and most wretched of
American workingmen. It ought not
to maintain a blacklist. It ought not
to establish at Its plants a scale of
living so brutal and miserable that
only the most desperate of Immigrants
can be persuaded to enter its service.
If Mr. Gary and his associates will
quit their meanness, deal fairly with
their labor, loosen their strangle hold
upon the Republican party and sur-
render the vicious advantages which
they enjoy under perverted laws they
will not be asked to engage in any
schemes of philanthropy.
£2
>*7, 4
Hixon—To what does Landit owe hi*
eat in the senate?
Dixon—To his wife, I dare say. She
had the money, you know.
A Mild Suggestion.
“Why,” asked the benevolent trust
magnate, as he wiped away a furtive
tear of regret, "oh, why Is the world
so down on us?'
“Perhaps,” suggested his friend, “it
Is because you persist in holding it
up.”
Indications.
“Don’t tell me that girl is used to
the best society.”
"What makes you think she isn’t?”
“Why, if you notice, she is polite
to everybody she meets.”
Rather Rough.
"Why is it that they can't find a
'white hope,’ ma?”
“Because they first have to find a
man who is white.”
Solemn Pledge Violated.
When Mr. Roosevelt reiterated his
promises toward the close of his sec-
ond term he pledged the American
people he would not jockey with the
wiBe custom of limiting the presiden-
cy to two terms; he would regard the
substance, not the form; he would
not accept another nomination. Should
he now persist in his candidacy it j
would be a deliberate violation of this
solemn pledge and prove an ineradlc j
able stain upon his consistency and |
good faith.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Step Toward Lire Rule.
To break down the wise custom
that forbldB the non-consecutive third
term Is the first step to the destruc-
tion of the barrier against the con-
secutive third term and the consecu-
tive third term and the consecutive
fourth term, and so on to life rule,
and we do not see how any American
citizen not a fool or a crazy Idolater
of a person can otherwise regard it.—
New York Sun.
The Sun may rest assured that the
. voters are not fools or crazy idolaters
1 of any person.
Convincing
Argument—
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