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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
WHY AMERICA NEEDS A PARCELS POST.

The United States is behind the rest of the world in
good many respects You may not have realized it, but
fact and of the points where she suffers bv compari
is her lack of a parcels post
Postmaster General Villas wanted it. Wananaker
wanted it. Bissel wanted it. Now Meyer wants it,
Backed by the administration, he will urge before the
next congress.
Why does America need parcels posts
Here are very definite answers to that:
An express package weighing pounds was sent from
an American city to city of the Argentine Republic The
charges $500 Under the present parcels post rates.
the carrying charge would have been 81 cents
Who gets this business England the United States?
European merchant ordered goods from Minneapo-
lis The goods cost $3.50 The carrying charge $1435
How can Europe afford to buy goods in America?
That is foreign business, you say Then take domestic
comparisons.
Our present rates for domestic postal parcels are 5000
per cent than Genanys under her parcels post
Why?
domestic parcels post would save the small consumer
the peope-about $250,00o000 every year.
Who gets this $250,000,O00 nowg
The big express companies get most of it. That's
the they have fought the idea of parcels post so
bitterly. Then the government gets some
More opposition from many small retailers and
from country storekeepers They that parcels post
would rob them of their business and give all to the big
mail order houses Doubtless there is some truth in this
contention but the small dealer forges that under par
cells post system he knowing the of his trade could
order small lots OF goods at very little shipping expense;
de could anticipate the demands of his trade and satisfy
1t almost as cheapy the mail order houses he could
build up at financial risk very profitable commission
business.
He would lose little; the consumer would gain every
thing.
Millions OF people are not served now by the express
companies parcels post would bring the express office
to the front gate.
parcels post would make every rural free delivery
route sesupportng, and would result in thousands of
additional free deliveries
Think of your express bills, and then consider what
foreign countries have done.
Austria Hungary sends II pound parcels 10 miles for
CENTS further distances for II cents. Great Britain
sends Ii pounds for 25 cents France sends % pounds
% cents. Switzerland sends II pounds for cents and
much as A pounds for 80 cents.
Our express companies charge Ga cents for pounds
Our postofce at present sends pounds for 16 cents
Postmaster General Meyer is not planning to do every
thing in minute He is willing to make haste slowly. He
is willing to limit his parcels post to 10 pounds even
to pounds. But he wants to make beginning.
And the people the who will the money.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23

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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23

A WORD FROM JOSH WISE.

$ $ ' :: &: : ::'' : :: i e :
INK work makes Jack a
NV n loafer." E&
Speaking of crops, everybody is
now trying to get look-in on the
outlook.
Has the boil weevil gone the way
of the kissing bug?
That noise you hear isn't the
keys clicking, but the teeth Of the
stockholders chattering.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
AT THE VERY LAST

as this the place, aunty?"
Eyes, Bluebell."
"And is this the very spot where
you fell after that man had said
good bye to your"
Yes"
Then you lay back on the beau
tiful green moss and shut your
eyes. for your ankle hurt Just aw-
fully. and then a dog whined close
to your ear and you opened your
eyes right into the big, beautiful
black eyes of a very tall, handsome
knight, who lifted you up in his
arms and carried you to yonder
gate"
"You know the story well, hut
you must not forget that it is a
secret"
II have not forgotten, but you
and may talk of it here"
Eyes, you and l may talk of it
until tomorrow"
Tomorrow you are to be mar
ried. What is he like, that man
you are to marry-like the knight"
mo, child, no! Let us talk now
of the knight and not of-of him!"
. "And after he reached the gate, "
continued the child, "he lifted you
way, way up high onto the horse
and walked, yes, sir, walked every
step of the way to the house right
close beside you, didn't he?"
eyes, and them"
off hot h. n
the house to see you and brought
you flowers and books and music,
and grew to love you very much,
and you loved hi mbut didn't know
it for a long time. and when You
found it out you sent him away be-
cause-for-I never knew just for
what you sent him away, aunty.'
For honor, Bluebell."
"Whose honor?"
"a woman's honor, dear, a WON.
ans honor" groaned the woman,
and to herself, Heaven knows I
love him still, and tonight Clarence
comes back, and tomorrow l shall
promised before l knew what love
meant"
"Wbo was the man who was say.
ing good bye to you just before you
fell, aunty? You never told me. y
His name" said the woman
slowly, was Clarence Duncan"
There was the sound of footsteps
on the gravel path.
"You have come" said the WON.
an, rising from among the shadows
about the door and she held out
her hand
He pressed his lips to her cool
forehead. at seems natural to be
back" exclaimed Clarence, as he
followed her into the hall. 81 al.
ways hung my hat on that hook
and my coat here. think I ex
pected to see the house in dress-ur
clothes ready for-for the-for to-
! morrow"
at will all be very simple and
quiet" said the woman, 'if that
pleases you"
"The simpler the better for me
dil llShty odiu tHC Lloh iooeohihS.
There was the sound of small feet
running, down the hall. "Aunty,
aunty, here's letter; l put it away
this morning and forgot it," and
Bluebell chung to her aunt's skirts
in tremor OF remorse. "Please
read it right away, for it may be
important, you know"
To humor the child she tore open
the letter. Make yourself com
Portable. Clarence; you always liked
this chair" and she drew the letter
from the envelope.
The letter was without beginning
plunging at once into subject
which evidently absorbed the
writer.
81 know I ought not to write to
! you, but am sure you would under
| stand and forgive me If you knew
how my heart aches. Clarence does
| not know that l am writing. He
\ went away as soon as we found
out how much we cared for each
other. He is coming back to you
because he promised, long ago, and
he is breaking his heart and mine
thought maybe IL you knew you
1
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
MORE MANITo PICTURES

This weeks program OF moving
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Is the finest yet presented. 1t in
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"The Royal Train" "The Next
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In Tenement House" Gibson Ec-
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Mechanical Statue" and Between
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23

HELEN TAFT T O"CoME OUT"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
MILLIONS FOR 8-HoUR DAY

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Aug. %
More than $500, 900 has been spent
by the International Typographical
union In its fight for the 8-hour
day, according to reports of the Of
ficers submitted to the SD annual
convention, which opened in this
city.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-23
JOHN DIS CRISIS IS Only NERVOUSNESS

Special Correspondence to The Press.
LONDON. Aug, 23.-The London
financial world is inclined to view
lightly, if not with actual levity,
gloomy hard times interviews
which John d. Rockefeller has
given out in America this year.
mot to put too fine point upon
It," as Dickens Mr.. Guppy was
wont to say. they think the richest
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08

is probably just half the supply that
one of tho major leagues uses.
The American Association has
every game, and it is figured that
each clul' in that circuit sends fifty
dozen to the dump every year The
Western Association is credited with
smashing thirty-five dozen to each
club in a season. One who has fol-
lowed the vital statistics OF the curry
cd and wallopcd figures that each one
Of the American and National league
club matters from forty to fifty dozen
OF hasebals out of existence in their
chases for the pennants. One man
says that the New York and Chicago
teams use sixty dozen each season,
and places an average of nine balls a
game Tor every matinee on the home
grounds. American League teams are
very likely to toss out brand new am.
munition when the umpire announces
Il shortage, and of course this cncour-
ages an increase in the population of
the bali. II is figured that an Eastern
League club will get away with thirty
dozen season. and ten to fifteen loz-
en- is placed as the amount for the
small league teams.
OF course the number of baseball
mines in the land is constantly in
crcasing, leagues are becoming more
numerous and the game is being play
ed as it never was before. 1t is next
TO impossible to attempt to get an
estimate of the number of balls used
In one season by all teams, so many
are the clubs that are playing. They
are playing Tie game in few more
places besides Holyokc, Springfield
and Indian Orchard, and they'll he
banging home runs in the wilds of
South Africa some day when Ludlow
is the locus quo for the real city
sports. Down in South Africa big
shipments of bascballs are received.
and there are also big amounts of cx-
ports TO the Philippines. Cuba and
other distant lands.
The making of a ball to bang around
the lots requires more skill and care
than the average fan imagines. The
to the nice snow white sphere tied up
certain weight and circumference, and
any slip MP in the early stages of its
building will throw it completely out
Of killer at the finish. The rules say
that the hcft must not be more than
| 3 Ia ounces and cannot l,a less than
five. A local manufacturer of n ball
used in the Connecticut League and
several other leagues makes his
standard 1-S ounces. The circum.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
WHERE THE BASEBALLS GO

II probably never has occurred to
grandstands that an enormous
amount of baseballs are used every
season by the league clubs, college
mines and independent clubs. Some
expert out West ventured to guess
that thirty thousand nice white balls
were sent to their doom in one season
by the sixteen clubs OF the American
and National leagues. No one has at
tempted TO guess how many all the
other mines throughout the country
use In one season, and nothing but
guess could lie secured by him who
scouts for the statistics. But for
those who want to get half an idea"
IL may be stated that any league club,
major or minor, uses from twenty to
sixty dozen of balls in one season.
The majors use more than the mi
nors, but he is certainly a manager
for small details who could tell you
the exact number of balls which his
club uses in one campaign. The man
ager buys his balls much cheaper
than you think he does, and he will
probably figure by the dozen when
ammunition. His unit is the dozen,
and, though he is not tossing the
globes at the sparrows. he'll be salts
fled if he knows that lie has so many
dozen on hand, says a writer in 1.-THE
Springfield Republican"
In the Connecticut league about
twenty dozen a season Is the average
amount which club manages to use
though some OF the teams may use
even twenty-five or thirty dozen, de-
pending probably in part on the
amount of friends who seek souvenirs
from the managers. The league adopt
ed a rule recently requiring the home
team to furnish the umpire with three
immaculate spheres and three second
hand ones in good condition at the
beginning of every game. But the fact
that there must be three new balls on
hand at certain park three or four
times week will not lead you any
where If you attempt to figure from
this the amount used up. II takes
more than one game to put bail out
of commission. Still, there are times
when the round thing wing, away
from the home coop. Then balls ar
lost vauting over fences and 1Ol 9TH
er ways, and the fact is that the gen
eral consumption Is very large. The
average amount secured by the eight
managers of the clubs for one season
varies from $50 to 200 dozen, which
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08

ference must be between . and . fl
inches. so the mark aimed at is is
The ball in its first stage is a small
spherical piece of vulcanizcd rubber
OF II certain size. weight and bound
ing capacity. If the rubber is bit
n. G. the ball turned out will he II
poor ono. In fact. during the process.
OF evolution from the rubber sphere
To the nee snow white sphere tied up
In the box. measurements are taken
seven times. After the rubber has
passed the test 1t Is buried IN Il four-ply
yarn which must pass muster for
size. weight. strength and clcanncss.
If tho yarn Is oily. extra weight will
be added which viii cause damaging
results After II certain amount of
fourply yarn has been used, the
sphere Is ccmcntcd. then given n
coating of three-ply yarn. cementci
once moro and n twoply yarn is
wound around. The cement is again
used. This cement must also be OF
n certain standard
The next step in the manufacture
of Il league ball is tho addition of
camcrs hair, fine and strong. The
ball is then subjected to heavy pres
sure and is moulded into the proper
shape and size. Then 1t is ready for
its cover. Horse hide Is generally
used to hide tho yarn. and experts say
the hide must satisfy certain tests.
and that the only leather that will an
swer the purpose is horse hide prop
crly treated. Tho two parts to the
cover are sewcd by hand. and the
man with the needle makes the hole
for the thread as he sews. League
balls receive 1i2 stitches. and II is
claimed that the total number of
stitches never varies more than one
or two from this number Tho ball
now scwed up. isn't ready for use yet.
but must go through moro operations
before 1t Is shipped away TO the bal!
players.
In the making of tho Tails used on
the sand lots. of course. there isn't as
much care used. hut the operations
are practically the same. although
the material is different. 1t is fact
that hundreds OF Springfield women
use up some of their spare time nj
home sowing the cheaper grades of
ball, and 1t is figured that within the
last ten years moro than three thou
sand Springfield women have taken
part in the work. Tho cheaper grades
of balls are not scwcd in the factory.
hut are let out here and there. giving
To people who are physi.
cally unable to handle anything much
heavier than 25-ccnt ball Higher
price and league balls are all stitched
In the factory. Tho output of base
balls in Springfield factory. mclmd-
Ing all grades OF balls. is 100000 n
year.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08

in. o.
King Carlos of Portugal Is the larg.
est eater among the royal families OF
the world. Eating is Il more import
ant matter to him than any affair of
state. On the occasion of his recent
visit to King Edward he was asked
what feature of his English enter.
tainmcnt had pleast him most
The roast beef said the King
and after that your majcsty?"
was inquired.
more roast beef declared Carlos
with gusto.
One afternoon it was down on the
program that he should review the
army. The soldiers were in place. the
generals. in gorgeous uniforms. at
their heads. but 10 King ono hour.
two hours passed. but still no king.
An official was sent in search of Car
los He found him at table.
"Thc army awaits your majesty"
announced the official
Lot the army wait until have fin.
ished this glorious lunch" replied tho
King. And wait the army did. until
he had eaten three more phcasants
stuffed with trufflcs.
Carlos weighs more than 300
pounds. He has an annual allowance
of 100000. but never fails tn over
draw 1t. kmost of the money going
for food and drink the rest on the
races.
Neither King Carol OF Roumanla
nor his queen. known In the world
of literature as Carmen. sylvia. had
any desire for regal honors, and when
the assassination of Car Alexander
In ISIS; forced Them on Roumanla's
unhappy throne, they went protest
insly. Carol finally consented to be
King, but declared he would never sit
upon throne nor wear crown.
Tho Chamber and Senate ut Buch.
Arrest insisted. declaring the people
wanted and had righo Ia expect
these symbols of royalty. Carol pro
tested that coronation ceremony
would make himself and his wife ri.
dicnlous. like actors In play" but
was forced TO yield and get himself a
crown
But no hcadgcar of silks ANA pre-
cious stones for him. Iic sent tn tho
arsenal for one az The cannons can
turcd from tho Turks. ordered that II
10 melted down and from It's steel u
crown be made, in remembrance Of
the bravo Roumanian bloc shed for
liberty" And with this he was
crowned.
Carmen sylvia said of her husbands
crown: mo crown. surely. over
spoke as this one spoke In days gone
by. when 1t roarcd and numbered
night and day. and reeke with smoke
ana flame"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
Doyle Easy for Browns.

NEW YORK. August st. Louis
won the opening game of the series
from the local American today S to
!. The visitors batted Doyle out of
the box. Score:
r. II. L.
New York ....O01Oo3OoO-i u 4
Glade and Spencer; Doyle. Tiff and
klcinow. Time 2 hrs. Umpire OLougl-
lin.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
Even Nationals Beat Indians.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., August o
johnson held Cleveland to four hits
today and Warrington won to 2.
Tho features were Johnson's pitching
and Neil's batting.
II. II. T.
Washington ..o1O2o22O'-7 s 2
Cleveland ....000010001-2 1 3
Johnson and Heydon; Licbhardt,
Berger and Wakefield Time 1850.
Umpires Sheridan and Evans.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
PhIIa,s Rub 1t Into Cubs.

CHICAGO, ILLS, August 7.-Phila-
delphia whitewashcd Chicago today
by punching three long singles. Eight
cen Chicagoans persisted on fly balls.
Score:
X. II. L..
Chicago ......OOOO0OOOO-o ) 1
Philadelphia .0O0O03OO0- 6 /
Overall and King; Sparks and boo.
in. Time l:25. Umpires. Riglcr and
Carpenter
BrookIyn's Timely Hitting Won.
CINCINNATI. OHIO. August T.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
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The trip down tho historic Potomac
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
w OrId OF Sport

Brooklyn won from Cincinnati today
through timely hitting with men ON
bases. Score:
r. II. T.
Cincinnati ....OOO0OO11o-2 6 /
brooklyn 0200O01-4 Il .
Hit and Schlei; Ruckcr and Ritter.
Time LAB. Umpire TOMBSTONE.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08

Not For Him.
a quiet md retiring citizen occupied
seat near the door of crowded car
when n masterful stout woman en-
tered.
Having no newspaper behind which
TO hide, he was fixed and subjugatc,l by
her gllttering eye. He rose and offered
his place TO her. Seating hcrsclf-with-
out thanking hm-she exclaimed In
tones that reached to the furthest end
Of the car:
What do YOU want to stand up there
for? Come here and cit on my lap"
Madam" gnspcd the man as his
face became scnrlet. ~ beg your pnr-
don, II
what do you meanr" shrlekcd tho
woman. You know very well was
speaking to my niece there behind
you."-Ladies' Home Journal.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
Pilgrims Take Champs Into cnmp.

BOSTON. MASS, August hos
ton defeated Chicago today to In
II innings. The visitors secured
their run in the third on Il hit and
two errors. Score:
II. lie.
Boston OOOOOO0O1OOOO1-2 Pill 3
Chico 0OOOO00O0O-1 S /
Young and Crigcr; Altrock. Walsh,
Mcfarland aud Sullivan. Time 3 Hrs.
Umpire Connolly.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.

Birmingham, 1: Atlanta. 3.
New Orleans, Girst gamc), New Or
leans. 4; Memphis, l. az innings.)
Second game, New Orleans, o.;
Memphis. /. Called at 7th.)
Nashville, 4; Montgomery. Z.
No other games scheduled.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
AthIetics Rent Tlaers.

PHILADELPHIA. PA. August -
Philadelphia defeated Detroit today
in one of tho most exciting games of
the season. The home team won out
in the eighth on m error and home
run by Scibold. ISL
r. II. T..
Detroit ......1OOOO1ooO-2 s .
Philadelphia ..0010 2*-4 s 2
Killian and Schmidt; Bender and
Powers. Time lao. Umpires Stat
ford and Hurst.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-08
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Results Yesterday.

st. Louis-3oston, postponed, till
Friday.
Cincinnati, 9; Brooklyn, 4.
Chicago. O: Philadelphia. ).
Pittsburg- New York, postponed. on
account of rain, two games tomor-
row