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The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1906-09-12
JOHN D. ROUNTOS.

Brunswick's Candy Store.
Don't buy burnt sugar and IMAGINE
Tou are getting pure chocolate. Suon
substitutes are injurious to health.
For pure chocolate and all other can.
dies cali on me.
A fresh supply received every weel,
from Menier the famous chocolate
maker Either in bulk or in beautifnl
pound and half pound boxes. .
FINES FRUITS, CIGARS AND TO.
BACCOES, ETC.
TAFFY CANDY MADE FRESH
DAILY,
2o8 Newcastle Street,
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led the commons since the days of Pam.
Mr.. Balfour is personally the most popular.
He has with him a winning way that
weaves a spell alike around friends and
foes. When for business purposes he de-
sires to see particular course adopted, he
manages the matter so deity, with SUCH
extreme Difference to honorable and right
honorable gentlemen opposite. that when II
is arranged In accordance with his view.
the house. more especially the opposition.
believe that the idea was their own, and
that the precise method of carrying it out
was suggested by them.
It ~ strange to be reminded that there
was time when Mr. Balfour was an unat-
tractfve speaker. Those who remember his
efforts a quarter of a century ago. VIII rec
ognise the fact. Today there is no reader
or more effective debater in the house or
commons than it's leader. His range is eX-
ceptionally wide. He can, frequently does,
make the house roar with laughter by flash
of wit. Upon occasion he is capable OF
touching the chord OF pathos Like ms
uncle, he possesses the gift. priceless to one
in his position. of being able straightway TO
speak on any subject that may chance to
come up. The ma jority, even of his most
important speeches, are delivered without
the assistance of notes. at most with a few
scribbled on a space not exceeding that or
the historic half sheet of notepaper.
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this change occurred between noon and
pm. il Indicated very rainy weather in
summer. and rain or snow in winter. And
so a table. claimed to be constructed on a
due consideration of the attraction o. the
sun and moon in their several positions re-
speeding the earth was prepared i1r all
the hours, and thus was weather forecast
ing simplified and made easy.
The full moon has usually been associated
with clear, cold weather This is probably
because we notice the full moon 50 much
more when the weather Is clear. and also
clear nights are cooler on account OF more
rapid radiation of the earth's heat than
when blanketed with clouds. Also since
the moons path on the heavens = so near
the ecliptic. and full moons are always 40
degrees from the sun, they are Gar north
in winter and thus longer above the horizon
in the northern hemisphere ;iidn Trey are
in summer, and thus we assohciate iuil
moons with our long, cold, winter nights
50 much for the moon IS Il weather FORE
caster. Let US take a look into the plane
tary theories
Along with astronomy, which had its be-
ginning away back in history among the
Chaldeans, the Chinese and the Egyptians.
there grew up the art of 1stro'3Sy. Egypt
was particularly r.ch Geld for TINS art.
Astrologers not only professed to tell the
future weather and the seasonal conditions
from the relative positions of tue planets.
and the sun, moon and const sllatioas in the
heavens, but could foretsll the results II all
human endeavorS and desires They could
read the future of the individual and tie
state. Astrological preii :tipns, however,
could not stand the light IF educ alton and
modern scientific knowledge, and We could
hardly say that in the twentieth century,
in educated countries, they have any Gre
dence whatever. Yet the predictions OF cur
day so-caled long-range fore casters, based
upon their planetary theories. have as lit
tie foundation in deraonstraS ID facts as did
those of the astrologers.
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A QUINTET OF
PRIME MINISTERS

Written for The star by Henry W Lucy (..Toby
NJ p, Of Punch.
OF the five prime ministers ] have known
three with considerable measure of personal
iutimacy-lwo had the misfortune TO be in
tile house OF lords. y third, Mr.. DisraeH
reached that political asylum before the
close of his career. But he suffered the
change solely in consideration of falling
health and strength. His history was made
where his career commonwealth the house
OF commons.
Lord Rosebery's discomfort with a lot that
includes an earldom Is we'll known. He
justly recognizes Il as a bar TO the fullness
of his political success. 1t was Queen Vic
toria, who, in the exercise of her preroga-
tive. called him to the premiership. step
which owing 10 no fault of his. led direct
~ to the disruption of the liberal party
The fact is less familiar that when his
time came the late Lord Salisbury strongly
resented the call 10 leave the house OF com
mons. He went so far as to consult an
eminent legal authority on the possibility
Of his ignoring the summons TO the house
of lords. and remaining with the assembly
where ne had already made his mark. He
was advised that such procedure was i'm
practicable
Oddly enough. in later years his son-in-
law. called to the Earldom OF Selborne. dis
played similar distaste for the elevation.
With the assistance of two other heirs 10
peerages Mr.. George Curzon. the late vice.
roy of India, and Mr.. Broderick, the secre-
tary of state. he entered the house OF
commons. and attempted to take and keep
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Under the sealer of weights and measures
there Is a small corps of inspectors busy
day IN and day out in a systematic canvass
of the shops, stalls, hucksters carts and
all manner of mercantile establishments.
Each Is provided with set of standards
for testing all scales and measures used by
each business man, and upon each scale
and measure tested there is placed the
small leaden label of the sealer's Office. or
else the stamp which goes to certify that
the measure balance will register accu-
rately the amount paid for.
Altogether during the last fiscal year the
sealer and his men examined total of d.
00o scales and measures. and of that num-
Der approximately 10 per cent were found
to be in some way defective. Two thousand
measures and go scales were condemned
and destroyed. Two hundred and sixty
seven scales were condemned for repairs.
Within three MONTHS usually. the sealers
store room, in the basement of the District
building, is filled to overlooking with a
great variety of defective standards. and
once each three months the law requires
that the 'junk'' be broken up and sold at
auction.
Such is the work of the little body of men
who do much TO conserve the interests OF
the populace OF the capital.
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thirty years ago sat with far-away look as
If he did not hear or see his ancient enemy.
Up to the last Mr.. Gladstone preserved
the contrasting habit of restlessness. When
practically single-handed, he, approaching
his eightieth year. carried his home rule bill
through committee. it used to be said in the
house that. If the premier could only be
taken away and put to bed on the stroke of
midnight. the progress of his bill would be
appreciably accelerated. There was a good
deal of truth in that way of putting it.
Mr.. Gladstone not only wasted public time
by unnecessarily talking himself. but his
interposition in debate was the occasion OF
waste of time by others. In the course OF
sitting 1t was frequently easy to trace
loss of an hour by the accident of the pre-
mier's presence at a particular moment.
Either he would be futilely drawn into de-
bate by the chance remark of an inconsid-
cradle person, his interposition bringing up
the leader of the opposition whence the de-
bate still further spread, or the mere fact
OF his presence on the treasury bench and
the hattering attitude of attention main
tained, led to prodigdous proongation of
tepid pr9ttle. Though others might on
approach of the dinner hour leave the
house to solitude and some hopeless duIIard
availing himself of his only opportunity OF
catching the speakers eye, the prime min
lister, with the weight OF empire on his
shoulders, sat with hand to ear eagerly lis
tening.
Disrael was equally steadfast in his at
tendance through the long sitting; but he
very rarely interposed. Silent impressive,
he scarcely seemed awake. II any thought
he slept they were nightly mistaken. AS
he sat In his familiar attitude, his eyes
bright to the last, furtively surveyed the
enemy'S camp. ever returning to the bench
on the other side of the table, IL Gladstone
happened to be in his place. To the last
he maintained his control of the house
which Mr.. Gladstone at recurrent epochs
lost. His slow rising in the course of de-
bate, the deliberate opening of his speech,
was marked by instant filing up of the
benches, and steady. settling down to at
titude of rapt attention. AT no period of
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his seat, albeit he was what is called dn
story books a belted earl.
Once translated TO the house of lords, the
Marquis of Salisbury's Unborn aristocratic
tendencies developed, and with them Ger
tain personal dislike, even openly-avowed
contempt, of the other house. During his
premiership nothing delighted him more
than nouting its authority. He affected to
regard il as body which, If not corpora
rily non-eXstent, was of no importance.
What particularly pleased him was an OPP
portunity of delivering an important state
ment of foreign affairs in the lords without
observing the custom of arranging for cor
responding and contemporary disclosure by
the representative of the foreign office in
the Other house.
Save for this whimsical tendency. Lord
Salisbury WAS great parliamentary leader.
He possessed the gift. shared with DisrdeIi.
unfamiliar with Gladstone, of knowing
when IL was better not to make a speech.
When he did interpose in debate it was with
the authority of 4 statesman and the art OF
a supreme debater. His style had the polish
of the literary man, acquired In early days
writing for the Quarterly Review Unlike
made no notes preparatory to speaking.
But he forgot nothing and, in replying on
% debate. however long or Intricate, said
the right thing in the right way. With
slow utterance, Sonorous voice, occasionally
dropping into icily hooking tone, he sped
the barbed arrows of his whitening sar-
casm.
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MOON AND WEATHER.
How the Lunar Changes Are Utilized
by Almanac Makers.

From the Popular Science Monthly.
Nearly all countries have had Their al
manaes, but they were particularly popu-
lar in Germany and England. In America.
probably the almanac has been more wide
Iy read and its weather forecasts NOR e
generally credited than any other. Yet the
weather predictions appearing In it We're
based entirely upon the time of day the
moon entered into any one of her four
quarters For instance, If this happen d
between midnight and am. 1t indicated
fair weather In summer, and fair with hard
frost in winter. unless the wind be south
or southwest. While, on the other aand, II
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they are confscated in large numbers
every year.

X X
Occasionally startling incidents of efforts
to cheat by short weights or measures are
uncovered by the inspectors in their
rounds, and then, unless the culprit knows
that his wrongdoing has been discovered
and makes a quick getaway" the Police
Court judge usually backs up the sealer's
men in their efforts toward enforcement
of the law by imposing the maximum SEN
tence. During the past summer one such
case was found when a negro oil wagon
driver was overhauled and in the bottom
of one of his big gallon" cans was found
a block OF wood which subtracted nearly
one-fourth from its capacity In East
Washington a man who dealt In coal in a
small way was prevented from realizing
his everlasting fortune because the In
spectors unkindly objected to him selling
LOCO pounds for a half-ton This mans
plan was quite ingenious. First he would
and get orders for coal, and then he would
HE away to one of the big dumps to buy
his supply To the wholesaler he would
declare that his wagon would hold only
LOCO pounds and thus get short load
aboard. while to his customers he would
deliver the 1000 pounds as a bona fide half
ton His thieving profit would come out
about every ninth load, when he would car
ny away the accumulated excess OF 100
pounds for each half-ton He received
the limit of the law.
Coal dealers generally are closely watch
ed. not so much because ii is believed that
the large and small operators themselves
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quarts or pints of the fruit Hundreds of
berry boxes were among the 1000 me 4sures
condemned and destroyed by the sealer
during the year. In general way, the
sealer states. the huckster who goes
along the streets selling berries al a price
per box which the Legitimate dealer cannot
hope to equal accomplishes his profit by
using what is termed Il skin" basket,
which is smaller by about one quart in six
than the standard; by pinching in the sides
of a standard basket so that 1t holds less
than the stated quart or pint or else by
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ages so that enough can be picked off the
tops of about eight nine boxes TO ma Ike
one more. All of these schemes are termed
fraudulent and are prosecuted in court
when detected.
Not much different from this, in the
far-reaching plan to do the public was
the semi-scandal created among ice cream
dealers when it was found that many of
them were using quart. pint and smaller
boxes, which in measuring up to the stand
ard contained only twenty-four. twenty
six or twenty-eight ounces instead OF the
thirty-two ounces of a legal quart Prose
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cutions and a general confiscation of the
illegal measures followed. Subsequently
the dealers claimed land 1t was shown
with a fair proportion of right on their
side) that a box measuring a full thirty
two ounces would hold more than one
quart of ice cream, because the ice cream,
when sold, Is always pushed down hard
into the rather f1imsy receptacle. An or
der was accordingly issued by the Commits
sioners permitting the use of thirty-one
ounce ice cream boxes in Washington.
Examination of milk bottles from time
to time discloses short measures, too, ana
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on their scales at the beginning and live up
to the principle of for value received

on their scales at the beginning and live up
to the principle of for value received
Unfortunately. after this expose on the
flour question, it was found impossible to
sustain prosecutions in the Police Court be-
cause of defective law. The statute re-
quires that each BARREL of flour sold in the
District shall consist of not less than 1876
pounds and each half-barrel of not less
than ninety-eight pounds. but there is no
reference to smaller fractions of the unit.
II is very likely that some adequate lesis-
lation to cover the point will be advocated
during this session of Congress.
4 question very similar to this came up
during the past summer when 1t was found
that several butchers throughout the city
were selling Clipped beef in boxes contain
ing less than one-half pound. This, how
ever, was found TO be honest deal and
finally an arrangement for convenience
alone because the inspectors learned that
the butchers. being unable TO sell half
pound of the meat for less than thirteen
cents had originated the smaller package
to sell for ten cents. Action was takep,
nevertheless. to prevent possible fraud :
compelling all dealers using such sized pack
ages to stamp in half-iuch letters on the
outside of each box the amount of meat
It contained
During the spring and summer of last
year probably more than the usual
amount of trouble was experienced with
itiuerant berry dealers, and scores of
hucksters were prosecuted for selling less
quantities than they represented for
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Among certain dishonest retailers in the
city the campaign of deception sometimes
goes Ola for weeks and months before dis
vovery is made by the inspectors of the
ONCE Of the sealer of weights and measures,
because the limited force at the sealer's
command cannot be everywhere at once
bUs when discovery does come and the
offensc is obviously intentional and habit
ual, punishment, quick and often severe, is
melted out in the Police Court ITO give
just little less than agreed seems to be
in the very air these days" said Sealer
Haskell the other day, and on every hand
We and the otherwise upright merchant de-
scendiEg to articles, growing out of close
competition. to put a trifie less in each
package than the purchaser pays for
Many and ingenious excuses are offered by
the offenders when they are caught but
If We have previously given warning
(Which We usually do upon uncoverng a
first 4fense the case must go to the Po-
lice Court
Take the -four dealers. for instance"
the scsler continued, only a few weeks
ago. when our inspector in this branch Of
the service began an active campaign. he
found, and made report, that in nearly
every case the -four sold in bags, contain
ing fractional parts of one barrel was
under weight. Thus the bag marked one
fourth OF barrel carried forty-eight
pounds instead of forty-niue pounds, the
eighth barrel bag holds twenty-four pounds
even instead of twenty-four and a half
pounds. the sixteenth twelve pounds instead
of twelve and Onc-quarter pounds. and the
thirty-seCond six pounds instead of six and
One-eighth. The dealers acknowledged the
point, but claimed that the flour was thus
packed for the sake of convenience IN
weighing just as if it wouldn't be quite as
easy for them TO put the correct weights
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measures law of the District of
Columbia and quite as many
neopIc. possibly have hazy idea
that tie faithful performance OF his duties
f,- the sealer OF weights and measures
means that there Will always be Delivered
at their door 2,24O pounds of coal When theS
nay for a ton. and similar honest quahIiteS
Of all produce and merchandise purchaseu
from any dealer anywhere, but few persons
save those who have listened to the inter-
,stirq, tales told by Mr.. W. c. Haskell, the
District sealer can appreciate the 1ar-
rs,cbinr effects of this one law of the CAPT
tsI city of the country. \ probable cause
secondary to the law, but leading up to
nelghtoning of the effect. is the competition
in modern business Thus it will be seen
that the office of the sealer of weights and
measures in many instances now passes
moi, the legality Of weights or size of meas
llres long before the order of a Washing
ton grocer or hucksters for the scales or
measures is finally filled.
This phase of the crusade for honest
standards has grown out of the determine
ton of the sealer of weights and measures
and his assistants not to permit the use
Of anything in the line of measures or
Weights that would even smack of misrep-
reseutation. Last summer the sealers office
was kept busy examining ice cream boxes
berry boxes. milk jars, etc, and 80 many
of these articles were condemned that the
merchants and huckSteTs. after being con-
vicJed iR the Police Court, took the lessons
to heart and would not order boxes or bot
ties from their former sources of supply.
Feeling this blow at their trade, the manu-
facturers sought and soon learned the
cause. The result has been "a stated-and
nearly every week the sealer of weights and
measures is asked to stamp upon a submit
red series of samples the exact amount
eirh one equals according TO the standard
required in the District of Columbia.
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are likely to conspire to cheat the public,
but because il has been demonstrat ted that
the employees at the different coal pockets
are prone to wax careless and the public
suffers. Laden wagons held by the
inspectors in all sections of the city nearly
every day and taken to the nearest scales
for examination.
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Successful Advertising.
From the London Milling.

The art of advertising consists not mere
sly in attracting a reader. but In conYinc-
ing him, and this can only be done by the
sober statement of facts. Mere sensations
aiism cannot win in the end.
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his career did Disraeli rise to higher ievel
as a debater than he reached during ms
premiership. whilst old members who per
sonaIly knew Palmerston in his prime
agreed that his management of the house
did not In tact, skill and success, exceed
Disraelis.
Whilst these four premiers distinctly dill
fered from each other In manner and me-
thod. Mr.. Bafour, as becomes his modern
ity, differs from each and all. Toward the
close of his first premiership, hampered and
harried by incursion of controversy that
I has riven the unionist party as effectually
| as Mr. Gladstones advocacy of home rule
| rent the liberals, Mr. Balfour fell upon eVii
| tines, and had to bear the brunt or sharp
| criticism of his ways In the seat OF the
| leader. In return he adopted and preserved
a certain attitude of contemptuous lndif-
| ference that recalled the habit OF his NUS
| trious uncle. ..9-----s,,ssst
In respect of attendance throughout
debate he has introduced something that
would make his predecessors stare. When
| Disraeli was premier. not only was ne AT
| his post through the whole OF the suing
however compare lively immaterial the cur
! rent business might be. but he expected ms
| colleagues to keep him company even
| though the question at issue dld not alIect
their department Gladstone belonged to
the same school, and strictly kept MS col
| leagues within its rules. In only less per-
| emptory manner did these statesmen insist
on the obigat ton when transferred to the
front opposition bench. Deposed from
| office they kept watch and ward with an
| alertness and a patience that only in the
slightest degree fell short of treasury bench
| custom 1t is Mr.. Balfours custom of an
afternoon to make his appearance when the
questions are half through, and, unless the
| order of the day be In his personal charge.
| TO quit the house as soon as questions are
over. returning only when the division bell
| rings That has obvious Inconvenience be-
You'd the immediate effect of irritating the
house.
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powers. Hampered by the smallness of his
majority in the commons, faced by an eX-
ceptionaliy strong opposition, worried by
conflict in his own cabinet, his lot was not
a happy one. Little more than twelve
months after he assumed the premiership,
the frail structure of his ministry crumbled
In the dust The still young premier was so
wearied of the business that on the party
going into opposition. he appalled, it and
startled the world by announcement of his
intention, as he picturesqueiy put it, thence
forward to pillow his lonely furrow On
the assembling of the new parliament he
indicated his new position by withdrawal
to a corner seat below the gangway But
though he might lay down the crown OF
leader of the liberal party he could not dis
pose of the scepter that makes him the most
powerful liberal peer In the kingdom.
Disraeli was already an old man when,
in 1874. he rea ched the goal toward which
the steps of all great commoners tend Long
a pariah among the aristocratic tory party,
he straightway became it's idol. few years
later amid universal acclaim, to take his
seat In the-Aouse of lords with a title ere
ated by him when his fame chiefly rested
upon his novels. The dramatic character
of the episode was completed by the cir
cumstance that eoineidentally with his
lofty flight came about the rtrnous. at the
time regarded as the irrevocable, fall of his
lifelong adversary.