The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-02-11
BACHELOR TAX.
Ve~ Jersey Legislature Will Pass on q
Bill Oiscouraging Single BIessedness.
IN END TO SEAsICKNEss.
boiling Chocks Being Put on Steamships
National Park 1T Fredericksburx-J
seph Smith Not . Polygamist-
Eight Hour Law Nunified

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 9.-In all prob
ability a. bill providing for the taxa
ton OF bachelors will make its appear
ance in the senate or house this week.
The subject has engaged the atten ton
If the law makers in Massachusetts,.
Virginia and some of the western
is fashioned after the measures that
are before the legislatures of the south
and west. The tax that the bachelors
will be asked to pay will possibly be
As high as 81 per capita The taxing
Of single men is not an experiment in
the state. For so years the single men
Of New Jersey paid 50 year for the
privilege of enjoying the sweets of
single blessedness, but in 1887 William
McIlroy, who lived in Warren county,
became tired of paying for the priv
leges that he enjoyed as bachelor,
and had the measure repealed.
An End to Seaaickness.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-The value of the
rolling chocks or bilge keels on ocean
steamships as preventive of excessive
rolling has been SO we'll demonstrated
in the course of the past year that
nearly all the big liners will soon be
equipped with them. The Cunard
liner Lucania, while in dry dock re-
Gently, had the new keels put on, and
her trip which ended at this port Sun.
lay was her first trial of them. Capt.
Mckay, when asked how they work ed,
said that the trip, although a tenn
pestuous one, had not been such as to
test the efficiency of the rolling checks.
Capt. Mckay said that he believed
that the bilge keels would accomplish
the purpose for which they were in.
tended.
|. For . National Park at Fredericksburg.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. "a bill was
introduced in both houses of the leg
Memorial Park association to care, for
the Fredericksburg and adjacent bat.
tlefelds. The object of the associa'
ton in the main is the same as that OF
the Chickamaugap park commission, and
is to mark and preserve the natural
features of the battlefields of Freder.
cksburg, Charlottesville, the Wilder.
ness, Spottsylvania and adjacent bat
Ties of the year 1923 and 1864 Nearly
Ill of the proposed incorporators
served on either the union or confeder
ate side during the war.
Joseph Smith Was Not PolyKamist.
KEwANEE, ILL.,, Feb. 9.-Before the
conference of Western Illinois Latter
Day Saints, Joseph Smith, the presi.
lent of that church in America, and
son of the Joseph Smith who founded
Mormonism. gave a bitter denuncia
ton of the practices of the church in
Utah. According to his statement his
father had nothing to do with the in.
PRODUCTION of polygamy. Plural mar
riage was brought about by the Utah
Mormons eight years after the death
IF his father, he said, and there was nc
warrant in the Scripture for it.
The Eight Hour Labor Law Nullihed.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Feb. o.
Judge Lunt, in the district court OF
Ell Paso county, rendered II decision
which practically nullifies the eight
hour labor law passed by the Colorado
legislature some time ago. The case
was one against the Colorado Springs
street commission for working men
nine hours. Judge Lunt threw it out
IF court on the ground that it was an
interference with a persons right to
make his own contract for labor.