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Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09
The Matter of Taxes.

A Cincinnati clergyman, in a sermon re-
Gently delivered, drew the following sharp
contrast between the lot of laboring man
whom he knew and one of the corporations
in that city in the matter of taxation. Said
the clergyman:
Here is an object lesson, not fancy
sketch either Mr.. B., a friend Of mine,
eighteen years ago was working for $40 per
week. He has the same job to-day and in
those eighteen years he has had an increase
of $3.50 per week. He has always been
sober and saving and industrious No pro-
fessioual regulator of other peoples lives
could find any fault in him
With this wage, the man, together with
the labor of the woman aud the children,
has managed to buy a little home The
Oldest girl is working for 81 a week. It
takes all of her wages, twelve weeks in
every year, to pay the taxes on their home,
and this, in part, amounts to paying taxes
on property which does not belong TO them,
for they have TO pay interest on a mortgage
besides. The house is listed for taxation
for more than they would be glad to take
for it. Yet the street railroad company, to
which this man has to pay FIVE cents for a
ride that is not worth over three cents is
capitalized for twenty four millions and pays
taxes on two millions"
This deadly parallel applies to every city
in the country with the exception of this
city, where the injustice is intensified, as
recently shown in Congress. The corpora
tion aud the owner of palahal home pays
less taxes in Washington than in any city
in the country while the owner of a modest
little home is taxed out of all proportion to
the comparative value of his holding and
the aristocrats on Connecticut avenue The
Government that is to say the taxpayers of
the entire country, contribute not only to en-
hance the value of the rich mans holdings
in Washington, but actually pays a portion
of his taxes! Take the tax annually as.
sessed against the Star building for an ex.
ample, and compare the amount with that
paid for a similar structure in any other
city in the United States. Is it any won
der this Legitimate" journal howls for the
old flag and increased appropriations to
beautify Washington"
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

plated are fixed at 5000 per annum, the
eight routes will cost 81 500. In this county
we will suppose there are thirty-fve post.
Offices all fourth-class but three or four.
Suppose sixteen of the small Offices are
abolished, isn't it a fact that the cauceila-
tions of the abolished offices 60 to other
offices on the routesf Some one may sup-
gest, however. that several of these routes
are projected from the larger or Presidential
offices, and in that event there would be no
creditto the pOstmasters at all, their COM
pensation being based wholly upon receipts.
If the receipts of these Offices increase, as
the result of rural service, and particularly
from the sale of stamps by carriers, as a
matter of course the Presidential post
masters receive increased salaries. This IS
a plain statement Of fact, without frills or
theory about it. But in this county, before
ruralfreedelivery, there we're in operation
three or four star routes, the carriers visit
ing all post.offices two or three times a
week. These routes have also been abol-
ished, although they did not cost one
fourth as much to operate them as the rural
routes will eventually cost.
But some peTverse and obstinate people
will still maintain that patrons of the rural
service viii write more letters now than they
ever did before. In every well regulated and
up-to-date farming community the tele-
phone is now used for communication, and
postal cards and letters, written for delivery
within the county or even in adjacent
counties, have dropped of very materially
in the last two years
No argument, devoid of plausibility and
political exigency will convince men of
sound sense and judgment that the rural
freedelivery can be made self-sustaining in
this great country within this century. It
has nothing upon which it can sustain L.
self. True, there are communities, whole
counties in fact, where the service is now
conducted with very little expense, but
these are favored exceptions and not the
rule in general
If Mr.. Loud's representations are to be
fulfilled, that the ruralfreedelivery in a
few years hence will cost more than one
hundred millions of dollars, it would seem
to be the part of wise statesmauship to
abandon it now before one half Of the farm.
ers of the country are driven into insanity
by the literary fulminations of Mr. Macheu
on the subject
Let the deluded grangers keep their little
four-quart letter boxes as souvenirs of a
political freak played upon them by the
ueophyte at the head Of the graft, who, as
recently stated by the Times, lis a native Of
Toledo, Ohio, born in 1861, and man of
great executive ability"
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

gan men have been poor AS long as the
world stands some persons will be unfortu-
nate. While we know that and know II is
true, we cannot avoid calling attention to
the arguments of those who have selfish in
terests TO subserve when they by specious
pleas, endeavor to- give bill notorious in
its inequalities and notorious for It's lack Of
equity, credit for property it does not
deserve, and which after all, is for the ben
eft of the few rather than the many.
1t may be called demagoguery in us to
write thus but we are no more guilty Of
demagoguery than they who day afte day
pirate about certain state of affairs brought
about as they claim by the use Of the taxing
pOwer-which we call the abuse Of the tax
ing power
Whenever honest men can be comfortably
clad and fed, and their families comfortably
clad and fed by special favoritism and
special privileges given to the few, it viii
be time TO denounce those who believe in
economy and fair dealing Until then they
who fatten by double taxation should hold
their peace.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09
Our Military satrsps.

Perhaps the bloodthirsty Bell in the
Philippines who wants to cut the throats
of every priest and friar in the islands will
pause in his sanguin airy program when the
Congress Of the United States gets through
legislating for the conquered people Of the
archipelago.
There are still a formidable body of citi-
zens in the United States who believe in
the Declaration of Independence and all
that that document implies.
Senator Hoar the past week presented
petitions from some Of those citizens not
only against the proposed butchery, but de-
manding justice for the Filipinos Such
names as those which follow must give
Bell, Cha6e ct al pause and admonish
them that the Imperial form of Govern
meut with Theodore Roosevelt as INabe-
yat0y or Dictator, has not yet been declared
by Congress as officially esta ablished. Here
are some Of the signatures head ing the
lists:
Carl Schurz, W. Bourke Cochran, Rev. c.
II. Parkhurst, Rev Theodore Cuyler, W.
D. Howells, Mark Twain. Auson Phelps
Stokes, George Foster Peabody and A.
Augustus HealY, of New York; Erwin
Winslow, Moorfeld Storey, George S.
Boutwell,, Charles Francis Adams, Robert
T. Paine, Charles X. Cotton, of Boston;
Charles Eliot Norton and others of the
faculty Of Harvard University; Prof. Jas. R.
Angel aud thirty-6ve 9th ers Of the Uni
versity Of Chicago George F. Edmunds and
Herbert Walsh, of Philadelphia; J. Sterling
Morton, of Nebraska, and Judson Harmon,
of Cincinnati.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09
Big Extravaganza and Tom Jenkins.
Champion Wrestler OF America,
at the Lyceum.

More burlesque stars of the first magni-
tude in point of popularity will appear at
the Lyceum tomorrow, commencing with
the usual matinee Monday, when Bob Man
chester's famous Beauty Show" the big
extravaganza company, The New York
Stars, make their initial bow to the first
nighters. Refinement and elegance char
acterizes the many features and big acts of
the new and merry burlesques, entitled the
"Sonsa Girls" and "a Hot Finish" and
special attention is given to its ensemble
and sumptuous stage settings. All the
ponderous and magnificent scenic effects
Of that colossal magnificent stage produc-
ton, The Sea King, has been purchased
and will be used The grand chorus of
thirty-6ve voices have been most carefully
selected for their talent and beauty and
during the entertainment ten all star vaude-
vile acts will be introduced
By way of dispensing with all arguments
just glance over the appended list of bur
lesquers: Jack Burke and Will McEvoy,
the celebrated boxers; Carlin and Brown,
the happy Germans; McIntire and Rive,
novelty comedy act; the Checkers, champ
ion baton twirlers Of the world; George
Cunningham, the dashing comedienne
the Gold Dancing Eight; La Belle
Parsons, the sweet singer; Belle
Hathaway's monster troupe of highly
trained monkeys and balloons, introducing
Captain links Of the Horse Marines an ex-
traordinary monkey, who thinks, talks and
eats like man and wears clothes, and, as
an extra attraction, Tom jenkins, the
worlds champion wrestler" is to appear
at every performance. He is willing to
meet all comers and will forfeit 6fty dollars
to any man whom he fails 10 throw in
fifteen minutes. jenkins is the man who
has won distinction by wrestling every
Turk that ever came TO America.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

The English government has been utterly
routed and exposed in its lying claims of
being our friend in the Spanish war and
preventing an European coalition. We
knew it was a lying claim from the very be-
ginning The leopard does not change his
spots, etc.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Rates Of advertising will be made known
at the Office or by the Sunday Globes &C.
credited agent g The Sunday Globe is an
exclusive local publication and will be found
a valuable medium to reach the patronage
Of the Washington public.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

The poor Of Washington suffered the
past week and there was the case Of
a human being starved to DEATH The
foreign ambassadors will make a note Of il,
that in this Nations Capital where ten
millions Of dollars we're recently donated
by private citizen for higher education"
the poor are allowed 10 starve 70 DEATH
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1902.
AslTO CIRCULATION.

The circulation of the SUNDAY GLOBE
Saturday and Sunday, February and ?,
was over 1900 copies.
(Signed) c. T. HUNTER,
Circulation Manager.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

Ex Commissary Clerk Evans must not
omit banqueting the members of the 6. A.
r. Pension Committee. His great and good
friend Beath is the dominating member
thereof
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09
TREMENDOUS COST
OF New Granger Fad Known
AS Ruralfreedelivery.
SUGGESTIONS FOR CONGRESS

In the Matter of Expenditures 1t
Will BE Called Upon TO Authorize.
The Deficiency Can BE Taken Out of
Machen's $1,000 Savings-PrOb-
able Cost in the Near Future OF
This Unnecessary Luxury over One
Hundred Millions!
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

Increase the salaries Of Congressmen and
rob the veteran soldiers Of their pensions, is
now the policy and the slogan of the great
Republican party.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

The Presidential decision in the schley
case will determine the Presidency three
years hence.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

That the world has got so many of the
queer 'uns that see.
There the man who finds real pleasure in
telling you bad news
There's the guy who keeps his spirits high
by contrary views,
Who's bound to be opposed to YOU what.
ever side you take,
And who'll argue black is red or blue lust
for discussions sake;
There the one who lies. although he knows
il cannot do him good
And knows he lies and that you know. and
knows he never should:
There's the man whose great delight il is to
knock" another's plan,
Who has his hammer always out for every
other man;
There's the friend who slaps you on the
back and presents you with your hat,
And the one who asks you when you're i'll
if you've not been on a bat"
There's the one who shows his queerness
by talking of his meals
Or makes you sick by telling you how
many pains he feels.
sa
TO live in hearts we leave behind is not
to die, sang the poet Campbell years ago,
and it may be added that there are, as then,
two ways in which mans memory may be
kept green. One is to lead worthy life,
make friends and go to fresh fields and
pastures new, having secured promotion OF
a better job. The other is that typi6ed by
Dick Swiveller in Dickens popular work,
namely, "Outrunning the Constable, " or
leaving small debts without the important
cuff ate,aaHft
both kinds have visited this community,
and it has been my painful observation that
the small but scattering and widely dis.
tTibuted debtor has been remembered by
far the longer.
A friend Of mine who has gone into the
business of supplying meals of the good
kind your mother used to make" has a
painful experience coming to him, fear.
The hardest problem on earth is to suit all
tastes, a matter on which the professional
italian, French or railroad restaurateur
never concerns himself in the least. but
which the painstaking and conscientious
beginner takes greatly to heart when he
surveys the line of voracious customers,
some of whose nostrils are upturned at the
very creation which was the pride of his
heart. We're / inclined to apostrophise and
cheer him in verse would say.
Chair. sir There. sirp' Soup, sir--yes,
sir"
Glass of water-bill of fare
Jabbers on my dread oppressor-
Alligator-roasted bearl
Where's that waiter2' one breath later
And the cabbage is no more,
Disappearing in the clearing
Of the gent" it stands before
Are we on the eve of busting"
Generally up, for good?
Are we seriously distrusting
Our prospective chance of food?
Are we to be hung tomorrow,
Executed to a man,
That We seek ''surcease of sorrow"
By devouring all we cam
Are we crammiug beef and lamb in
From an unsubstantial fear
Of grand potato famine
Shipped from Ireland, coming here?
What's the reason that we seize on
Grub" like birds and beasts of prey?
Is the question Indigestion,
That quack medicines may pay?"
All of which is respectfully submitted"
and with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe and
his Raven"
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09
His Monologue on the Police
Court Attendant
WHERE NE LIVE S
other Reflections ON Restaurants and
Things In which He Breaks Into
Poetry and PhilOsOphizes-The Text
from Barabbas Left on the Dining
Room Table for the Enlightenment
of the Proprietor.

/ have observed many strange things in
many police courts, and cannot at the
moment call to mind any place which
affords better opportunities for the study Of
character, nor one which provides a man
with a philosophic vein a more desirable
field. Have you ever tried It?
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

To tell the truth, have been led to be-
lieve that the best way TO feed the multi
tude in the business way is to pile the table
with a variety of cheap dishes and warm
overs, and "let her go Gallagher, with easy
conscience. I knew a man who was pur-
veyor of mixed dishes, otherwise a restau
rateur. / don't know how many of his
customers are living, for some of those
meals we're "fearfully and wonderfully
made" In ordering chickens he would
say: IF you haven't got chickens, bring
anything that's got feathers on" This
man sized up his customers by their dress
and pretensions, and charged accordingly.
One we'll dressed man who was charged
rs cents for the very meal for which his
ueighbor had paid two bits said not a word
on retiring but left on the table little text
from the Evangelists. There was only the
chapter and number of the verse, but I was
curious, 50 / copied it and went home to
look it up in the Bible ! suppose the
restaranteur did likewise. The text was,
Now Barabbas was a robber"
OBsERvANT CUss
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

Since then have had experience in many
such courts, but wherever have gone, in
the eastern or western hemisphere, have
always found in every court some such
regular attendant Not always so snuffy,
perhaps, nor always so old, but someone to
whom the police court appears to afford a
diurnal treat, necessary as food and more
inviting than the fresh air he cheerfully
exchanges for the stiffness of a courtroom
redolent Of stale alcohol and of that indie
scribable odOr .inseparable from the deni-
zens of vagdom.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

Remember the EiEs' Winter Carnival
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

In the debate on the item Of Rural Free
Delivery in the House on the 25d of last
month, Mr.. Loud, chairman of the com
mittee on post-ofices and post-roads said.
Let me call to your attention again the
grand army of possibly one hundred
thousand men in all our districts who, in the
near future, are to come demanding an in
crease of salary. They are but human.
They would not be satisfied with six hun
dred, nor seven hundred, nor eight hundred,
n0r nine hundred, nor with thousand, nor
eleven hundred. nor with twelve hundred
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

You come across some queer 'uns, no matter
where you 60,
And why they come TO be 50 queer is some
thing don't know.
For all my life I've tried to learn how IL has
come 10 be
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-09

And what does the police court habitue
do when there are no sessions? On Sun
days and holidays2 think have noticed
some individual cases wandering aimlessly
on a Sunday morning in the graveyard Of
the city which provides his weekday enter
tainment, and one, know, varied his at
tendance upon the court by reading at a
secondhand book-stall dusty depressing
looking volumes of sermons.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-05
GUARDIAN NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that we Tom Jeffries, guardian for the minor heirs of Dela JeffrieS, de- ceased, and C. w. McCrory, guardian for the minor, Grover McCrory, will file a petition in the Probate court, of Woodruff county, at the July term, 1902, praying for an order to sell said minors interests in the follow ing real estate, to wit: Lots 5, 6& z; Block ? in the town of McCro- county of Woodruff, state of Ark anSas, also 151 acres of the $. w. 1 of Sec. 5 and the $. part of the N. w. I Sec. 5, containing 17a A.; /; all in Township 7, R. 1 w.; for the benefit of said minors.
 Tom Jeffries,
 c. W. McCrory, Guardians for aforenamed mi nors. E. c. KRAMER, Atty.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-05

lady had a partner and as Bill Evans said, Ain t that a sight?" l did not see all that your devil said he saw, but my little boy said Walter sure saw those things for he and Walter were to- gether at times. 1 saw a man 30 inches high and one z feet 7t inch
 es tall. We had to look up at him. Dallas did all she promised to do for the old veterans and more too. They were fed well and that was good enough for a king. Good tents, cots and blankets to sleep on; all free, The crowd was immense. If you were in the city, you would think there was no one at the fair grounds. Go to the fair grounds, and you would be confident, everyone had left the city. It was this way from Monday until Friday. I left Friday morning before the buffaloes were barbecued, but they were. 1 regret to hear of my old veterans saying they were not treated we'll. Every thing was done to make the old boys pleasant. Officers and com mittees were just as nice as men could be. I often thought they had the patience of lobe. The crowd was so large, and many
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-05

We have a nice post office at this place and can any one tell us why certain young man posts letter at the millinery store most every Saturday.
 MT. Horace Gowan says he really must have someone to love and if any one will just say the word he will sure be her sun flower. Now, girls don t all speak at once.
 Mir. Will Melton of Augusta was in our town Sunday trans acting business. He must have been very successful for we are told he looked supremely happy and went away whistling only one girl. "
 One of our young ladies failed to attend the reunion at Dallas this year as expected, neverthe less she and prominent young man of Texas are going to have a reunion of their own in the near future. Everyone guess who. 1s
 MT. Horace GoWan has given our millinery store a new name. He says it should be called the court house" for when any one has a serious case on hand, they always carry it over there and it is usually decided in favor of d ring. We don't know whether Miss Mamie is a judge or not, but we do know that she is one of the most pleasant little ladies it has ever been our lot to meet and we don't wonder that all the people like to gather there.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-05

has plenty of squares. The farmers are laying by their corn. Corn is now in tassel and never was there a better prospect for good crops. Gardens are fine. Cotton chopping is very high as hands are scarce. Farmers are paying from $1. to 1.25 per day. Will say, if you have any goods box whittlers, send them out, if they will work. they can earn $125 per day and grub thrown in.
 Just here, l want to tell my old Woodruff county friends, if they think it never rains in Tex as, they are badly mistaken. We have had plenty rain all spring. It rained on May, 14th, 18th and 18th. 1 never saw a harder rain. It was too wet to blow for twelve days.
 We are pleased to see you have a correspondent at DeView. It is like a letter from home-folks. We hope he or she will write up old DeView each week. (The editor will certainly appreciate to hear from our DeView cores pondent weekly.) I will say to the DeView correspondent, that as far as pretty women, if he had been with me at the reunion at Dallas he would have seen the prettiest women the sun ever shown on; some of them were from old Arkansas too. I saw 300 pretty ladies, as ever lived, dancing at one time and each
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-05
CONSTIPATED BOWELS.

To have good health, the body should be kept in a laxative con- dition, and the bowels moved aft least once day, so that all the poisonous wastes are expelled daily. MT. c. T.. Edwards, 142 N. Main St., Wichita, Kansas, writes: I have used Heroine to regulate the liver and bowels for the past ten years. and found it a reliable remedy. soc at Dr. J. B. Neal.
Woodruff County news., 1902-06-05
GRAYS.
J. $. HAGGARD.
By Our Regular Correspondent.


 We had nice rain Thursday night and every one is happy.
 All you girls ask Charlie T. how the game of Yankee dime is played.
 Some one please tell us why the singing over at Revel is so attractive.
 Mrs. w. V. Angelo and Mrs. H. H. Holder went visiting in McCrory Thursday.
 Mrs. Barber and children of Tip were in our town shopping the first of this week.
 Quite a large SGcrowd attended our ice cream supper and every one seemed to have q lovely time.
 We are going to have another Gypsy tea at N. J. Hays mill in the near future. Every body in vited to join us. ! Miss Lena Holland of near McCrory was in our town this week and called on Miss Mamie Grentham. <
 Mrs. H. l.. Strickland and Miss Ila Stewart were visiting in Augusta Thursday the guest of Mrs John Revel. Someone ask Dr. Waldrop what that was he was trying to hide from the girls the night ot the moonlight picnic. Miss Jessie Blackwell paid the milliner store a call Thursday and of course MT. Gowan had business over there at once. A number of our young peo- pie enjoyed a moonlight picnic at Martin Junction one evening last week. They report a lovely time.
 Mrs. May King and Miss Lii. lie Martin of Howell were visit ing in Grays this week the guest of Mrs. H. L. Strickland and Mrs. Ola Stewart. Mrs. P. H. Y. Burrows return ed home Sunday from Tennessee where she has been visiting her mother and other relatives for some weeks past.