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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
COAL AND ICE MEN CONQUERED

Many coal found among the biggest and
interruptions cheats. and the classes were
their principal victims. Mr. Gein caused law to be
passed forbidding the coal to other bas-
except those measuring orehalf bushe bushel
and bushels, respectively.
So accustomed they the short weight. which
Noted them many thousand dollars that tho
coal tried various devices to keep up the scheme.
ard 100 OF them be arrested before they could
realize that of things had dawned in Chicago
They sell three bushel of coal for
4 full busEcl and three-eighhs for u half bushel.
In instance a load of coal supposed to weigh
l20 pounds found TO be 356 pounds short Another
bad he 1875 pounds short. and still another
$40 pounds short
At first City Sealer could only fine dishonest
dealers each oense, but he caused law to
passed enabling him fine them $500 He is seek
ing authority enable him to revoke the license of any
convicted of a second OifCnse
He has succeeded having the scales of the public
schools made official public weighing scales, shat
any purchaser coal by paying 10 cents, force
the driver of a to drive to the scales and weigh
the coal
Next to the coal man the ice man was found to be
a short-weight individual He was selling 60
@~- 900 s>ollnda and 3s-nounh "h"E- F"- IN
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
Remarkable CIR
SADIE tOProteCt
themselves
against Dishon1
est Dealers.

IN ARMY of Chicago s0omen-5ooo.
III or more of them-are 7Oaging one OF
4 4 the most remarkable and relentless
s0ars of modern times.
They are battling against the short
sceight and the dishonest measure. already
Their crusade has resulted in the arrest Of
more than 1900 dishonest dealers-and in
corresponding protection to household buyers.
For long time the aOomen Of Chicago
--as haze those in other cities-snbmltted to
imposition and theft on the part of short
weight Dealers They appealed to their hns-
bands and fathers, but the men eoere too busy
Nth their oscn affairs. They called upon the
authorities for aid-bnt the authorities, per-
haps, had high regard for municipal politics.
HI any rate, no attention 1vas paid to the out
cry.
Then righteous indignation seized the
ionls of the long-sufering 1pomen. If the
men and the city gvould not help them, they
you'd help themselves. They evould Danish
he short 9ceight and the dishonest measure
through their oaOn efforts.
Hoao they proceeded and hos0 near they
haze come to restoring honest dealing is told
here Nothing like this crusade has ever been
knoson before.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

language spread like tagion among the students
Many engaged themselves cabin boys and servants
ships in order acquire knowledge of the Ian
guagc
Many attend classes at night. saving the money
earned in the until they devote their en-
tire time to study.
Nowhere. perhaps. does find such a difference
between poor and rich students While poor students
stUlY night and exert every effort 70 loarni the
Of the rich usually do little at school eN-
opt engage in drinking debauches,
In the of the rich the pawnhrokers' or uncleS
find their best customers.
Perhaps the most exciting times in the quarter are
when students dissatisfied with their protes-
sors. They simply go a strike and re Iuse 10 az
tend classes Speeches made. the educator is
nounced things are made unpleasant that he
usually
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
How Chicago Women Made
War on Short Weights

magic until it numbered than 5000 members 1t is
called the "Womens Full Weight Club. 1t represents
of all classes of all nationaes and of all Sec
tons of the city.
Upon investigation the club members found that on
the citys statutes laws which made short-weght
theft punishable oense Therefore they set to work
to have the law enforced.
They soon saw that their next step must be to get
man in accord with them the head of the depart
ment vested with the enforcement of these laws. So
the club asked the help Of other all the city
in behalf of the candidacy of Joseph ren for the office
Of City Sealer-which official has supervision over
weights and ~measures--and all solicited the votes Of
their husbands. fathers brothers and sweethearts in
his behalf. Hence the election of Grein by
whelming plurality.
Assuming office, Mr. Gren work at once
earthing scandal after scandal In the theft methods
practiced by dealers and making arrests by the whole
sale Fourteen packers arrested and they squrmed
most furously big fish will do when caught in net
One hundred and twenty coal dealers made demon
straton equally spectacular when they caught At
first amazed, then enraged merely renionsratve,
they finally became humbled submitted to the pun
ishments imposed Ice dealers endured the humu
ating experiences Dishonest butchers and
of all kinds who deal in weights and measures went
through the stages of discontinue.
Everywhere and all times tho Womens Full
Weight Club aided City Seaer enforcement Of
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

the law The club sent women out to secure evidence,
and those who remained home secured evidence there
and they, in turn, induced other join in the
movement And so it was that nearly every woman in
Chicago became virtually deputy city seaer.
The Women's Ful-Weight Club is presided over by
Mrs. Samuel Shaefer of the organizers and hard
workers in the crusade against short weights The
other officers are First vice president, Mrs Henry
Schmitz second vice president. Miss Anna Berg; third
president, Mrs S. Reynolds recording secretary.
Nellie Gaffgon; financial secretary. Miss Mamie
Kczynsi; Miss Henrietta Notter; sergeant
alarms. Mrs Sarah Riley.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

purchase those who could afford to buy by the
ton.
Small purchases, however, netted the dealers tne
richest BOOTY in that the minute shortage in each was
either noticed deemed unworthy of protest
Baskets and sacks OF coal found to be from
oreeighth orefourth of buslel short of measure
1t is estimated that the people of Chicago we're robbed
of 100000 last by these coal thefts alone.
Tired of complaining their husbands and waiting
for them to act. the Chicago decided to take
the matter into their hands.
They organized themselves into club which started
with membership about a hundred grew like
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
Nzz65Anna.BeLp, 5eco1d Wce
Ace1aaa< 9f The Go1.

Grein will recommend the passage of an
that will force all grocerymen to sell by weight
instead of by dry measure. that such cheats Will oa
rendered Impossible II the future.
In a raid of the Chicago markets the flying
squadron butchers had iron nuts
back scales make the scales weigh
than indicated Slices of bacon were found pasted
to the side of the scale for the same purpose
Even the pcdders not to be outdone. There Id
compelling peddlers have their measures tested
by the City Sealer which the Seaer's official stamp
he placed the bottom indication that the
meas
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
Life in the Latin Quarter of Toxic

Y N TOXIC, Japan, there is a Latin Quarter as
interesting that of Paris
Although less gay and full of color than
the bohemian section of the French capital
the Latin Quarter of the japanese city presents
even more striking contrasts and a more wonder
full picture Of reckless, carefree living than the
place where Trilby posed in studios and Sue found
material for adventure and romance.
Here, in abject, unbelievable poverty, live
hundreds of students who come from the provinces
of Japan. Their purpose is not so much to have
a merry time as to study; there is little drinking
in this part of the city.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07

ed and convicted
Three hundred and sixty-four grocers arrested
for practicing all kinds of devices to steal from
Some of them pretending sell sugar
less than wholesale prices opound packages of
advertised in these sales found to be three
Often the packages consisted of heavy
and with paper, sugar and all would not weigh two
pounds.
The worst shortages the part of grocers were in
packages put ready for sale Packages Of potatoes
supposed to contain peck would often contain but
pounds when peck should weigh fifteen pounds.
Every one of the grocerymen arrested was convicted
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
TONS OF DIAMONDS.
An Estimate on the Output OF the
Mines OF the World.

Like all precious metals and stones,
the unit of weight usually employed
I'm regard to diamonds is the carat, OF
which 1917 so 10 make up a single
ounce. To think OF sacks of diamonds
by the ton staggers the imagination;
indeed, the average annual output OF
the Kimberley mines is not more than
half ton all told.
Statistics have been published re-
Gently at Cape Town giving the out
put for several years past Of the Kim
berley mines and the river diggings.
These yielded i'm the three years 1903
05 nearly 1850. 900 carats, say ton
and a half The monetary value of
these diamonds was e10,450, 600.
Since the first diamond was dscov-
cred by the banks of the Naal in 1867
down TO the end OF 1906 il is estimated
that the total weight of diamonds ex-
tracted from the GriQualand mines is
over 1879 tons. OF a market value Of
fully G95.OOO, 600.
If statistics of this sort can be trust
ed--and I'm the case Of the South Afri.
can yield they closely approximate to
the facts-only II tons Of diamonds
had been mined all over the world TO
the end of 1901 With the same rela-
tive output since that year from Bra
I'll and India the worlds output of dia-
monds is now more than 20 tons.
The figure seems small, considering
the ages diamonds have been worked
in India and elsewhere in the east,
and must be largely guesswork with
respect to the output in antiquity. 1t
is, however, certain that more dia-
monds have been placed on the mar
ket in the last 40 than in the previous
thousand years.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
INNS OF OLD ENGLAND.
Fruitful and Interesting Fields Of
Study for Traveller Abroad.

Those who learn history from
stones, those who travel to read the
long account of races and nations in
the time-scarred h lildings of the past,
will find In old inns one quality pos
sessed In the same degree by no other
remains of antiquity. They will find
broad human nature
Cathedrals will give you the history
of the priest, castles and manors the
story of the mobiles. and cities the
record of the guildsman and merchant
But ii is at the waysido inn that all
meet together 1t is there, at the COM
Portable hostelry, that each, for a time,
throws aside his calling and jostles
with his neighbor as a wayfarer.
Inns have never been renowned for
stiffneckedness It has ever been their
pride to hold out welcoming arms to
all who can pay their way whatever
their character or creed. and, indeed
they must run the risk Of being cheat
ed by those who have not a grOat.
They must find a room for the king
If need be, and a shelter for the polite
stranger who nightly cuts purses on
the kings highway
The runaway couple must be worth
lily refreshed, While their smoking
horses are led into the galleried court
yard, and within an hour mine host
must screw mp his face for welcome
10 those who post In hot pursuit-In-
doors and Out
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
Chance Of Scene for HOLIDAY.


Too many people bear their firing
burden with them when they 20 away
for rest. There must be a change of
thought as well as scene For the
farmer there's nothing better than a
glimpse of city life But the city man
should shun the summer resort And
that is where he is usually found. He
has no plan about his vacation. Get
away from the crowd. Get back to
nature. Live in the open Sleep in
the open if you can. Make friends
with the birds and trees and flowers.
Rub up against rural nature and see
what enlightenment will spring from
1t. Get the views of people who look
at life clearly and frankly and at new
angles. Get sunburned. get freckled,
get tired and then get rested again.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
Odious COMPARISONS.

1.-THE money that built this library"
said the person who is inclined to be
fanatical, lis tainted"
MAY be so" answered the literary
Individual but if it keeps all the
modern fiction on its shelves the
money couldn't be nearly as bad as
some of the books Washington
Star.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
Xmas Restricted Diet,

When King Edward VII visits
Marienbad for the cure his diet is
much restricted For breakfast he
may partake of eggs. cold ham, rusks
and coffee. Luncheon is served about
1870, and the following diet is recon-
mended: Fresh trout, chicken, veal
and compete of plums while white
wine with Geisshubler water is drunk
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
Iona in Public Life.

Judge John V. Wright, OF Tonnes
see, now an attorney in the general
land Office, at Washington, who was so
years old in June, has been connected
with public life for a greater period
than any other living American. He
is still as vigorous as n man of 60 and
keeps up with the things of to-day
without forgetting what has passed
and gone.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
From Society News of the Future.

AT midnight, amid the customary
shower of rice and old shoes, the
bride and groom left by special eX-
press elevator for the roof, where they
went Immediately aboard the Mars
American liner Windjammer, which
flew at nine o'clock this morning. On
their return from an extended tour
of the planets, the young couple will
reside on the forty-second floor
Puck.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
TaImaae,s Widow a Writer.

A leading favorite in the literary
circles of Washington is the widow
of T. De Witt Talmage, the celebrated
Brooklyn preacher. Since the death
of her husband Mrs. Talmage has
passed much of her time at the CAPT
tai She writes for magazines and
newspapers, generally verses, but al
ways under a nom de plume.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
New M etric Chart.

A new metric chart representing
geographically measures of the inter
national metric system of weights and
measures has been prepared by the
bureau of standards of the department
of commerce and labor, and will be
furnished free to any school teaching
the system.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
Tired Of His DIET

Servant-My master seems quite
tired of vegetarianism. At first when.
ever he passed this picture of ham
and sausage he made wry face, later
he smiled at it, but now he always
sighsi -Meggendorfer Blaetter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
Rule WORKING Both Ways.

An English judge expresses the
opinion that husbands should have
the legal right to inspect and revise
their wives visiting lists. The women
probably would be glad to acquiesce.
provided they were granted the same
privilege in respect 10 their hus-
bands visiting lists.-Washington
Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05

Every great city is characterized by
certain odOrs of its own. The smell
of London suggests hanson cabs,
smoke, asphalt, iucifer matches,
church hassocks, and Virginian pipe
tobacco. animated by a Whit of the
sea and punctuated by coal tar
London Academy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
A Practical Reason.

Investigating Teacher-Do any Of
you boys know why 'X'' stands for an
unknown quantity?
Wise Little Aleck-I know, cause
my pa says when you lend an 'X'' you
never know when you're going to get
1t back.-Baltimore American.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05

elsie, said the little girls mother
who was tidying up their cabin as the
big ocean liner started down the bay,
where's your father?'
"Why," replied the little girl, Il
think he's upstairs on the side porch"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05

Many a man is willing to turn his
children over to the care Of one whom
he would not think of trusting with
his automobile or his favorite horse
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
Wire Replaces Stone Fences.

The picturesque stone fences Of
Connecticut are disappearing, being
replaced by wire fences.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
There's a Difference

Patch by patch is good housewifery,
but patch upon patch is plain beggary.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
Last Words.

If you would learn of mans good
deeds attend his funeral.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-07-05
When you don't know what
to get for dinner order a brick
Of Stewards ice cream.
When YOU
Market Prices in Paw Paw.

Following are the correct market
prices as paid by Paw Paw merchants,
corrected every Thursday:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
POLICE BELIEVE
MAN TELLS TRUTH
story Of Respectable Woman's Pas
sonate Longing for Liquor Taken
as Correct Interpretation
I. of Her Actions

Harry Boggs, who was arrested Sat-
urday night in connection with the
trouble in the Rennie lodging house at
5105h South Spring street when a wo-
man whose name is given as Mabel
Clayton was also arrested, was released
Yesterday morning from the city jail.
1t was thought by the police that
Roggs had tried to rob the girl and had
drugged her in order to make the work
easier, but Investigations made by
plain clothes men Cook and Botteroff
led the police to believe that Boggs'
story of the trouble was correct in
every detail.
Boggs says that the girl has pas
sionate love for liquor and at times
goes on periodical "sprees." At all
other times she is a very respectable
woman. When these "sprees" occur she
is apt to do and say anything and that
is what he says occurred Saturday
night.
Mrs. Rennie, who conducts the house
from which the half-crazed woman was
taken, says Miss Clayton was sent to
the room by Boggs to rest up and that
she got lot of whisky and took 1t
with her. For two days she remained
without a meal and smoked cigarettes
continually Fearing a fire Mrs. Rem
ME saws she asked the police officers
to take the girl out.
Miss Clayton is said to be living
under an assumed name. 1t was learned
Yesterday that she comes from a very
respectable family In Santa Barbara.
Her real name is withheld to save them
from needless notoriety.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24

mo happier duty could be desired
than that which, by your gracious invi-
tation, devolves upon me now-the
preaching of the baccalaureate sermon
to the graduating class, 1907, of the Los
Angeles state normal school. We give
you warm and sympathetic greeting
and welcome, my friends. to this sacred
place, and assure you that we love you
we'll and wish you all honor, usefulness
and success in the high career that now
opens before you.
1.-THE word WISDOM as used in the
text, means knowledge applied to the
best practical ends.
man. the chief of all living creatures,
is born into this world the most helpless
of all living creatures. Other creatures
do not have to learn. Whatever per-
tains to them they do instinctively, inn
mediately, perfectly. A lark builds its
first nest as skillfully as its last. A
spiders 8, first embroidery is as perfect as
anything it does in adult life. A bee
constructs it's first cell and compounds
its first honey with an efficiency that
leaves nothing to be desired. Birds and
insects are not required to go to school.
But man must learn. He is dependent
for his future career upon his surround
ings, on what is done for him, on what
he is made. He has to learn every
thing-how to use himself, his eyes, his
ears, his tongue, how to develop and
unfold every faculty of his complex
nature. And the whole success or
failure Of his life depends upon the kind
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24

"This, then, being true, would ask,
in a most practical way, without rhe-
torical broidery or oratorical display:
What does education mean? On what
lines should it be conducted? To what
ends should it be directed? These ques-
tions which you will do well to keep
in mind as you pursue the high and
honorable vocation for which you have
been prepared and to which, | trust,
you have been divinely called.
First, then, when is man educated? ?
When Is a woman educated? When are
they not educated?
"That man Is educated, many would
reply, who has been graduated by a re-
putable institution of learning, and who,
therefore, is we'll learned in the humani-
ties, sciences and arts; and he who has
not been thus graduated, who is not
learned in these studies Is not an edu-
Gated man.
But Robert Burns, the plowman, who
never entered a college as student,
was as truly scholar as Wordsworth,
the Cambridge graduate, who was a
master of Italian and of the classics
and English poets. The few words
spoken by Abraham Lincoln at Gettys-
burg will live In and stir the hearts of
men ages after the classic grafton of
Edward Everett, the profound and
polished scholar. has been forgotten;
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
NAVAL MILITIAMEN
TO CAMP AT VENICE
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
VENICE. June 23.-Word has been
received by the Kinney company from
Capt. Bauer of the California naval
militia to the effect that thirty officers
and 500 men will attend the annual en-
campment of the militia to be held
from July 1 to July is on the cricket
grounds here. Elaborate arrangements
are being made for entertainments and
receptions at which the militiamen VIII
be guests of honor
The encampment will include three
divisions of the militia from San Fran
cisco and one each from Eureka, Santa
Cruz, Santa Barbara, San Diego and
Los Angeles. The northern companies
are expected to arrive next Sunday on
the government ship Albert and will
probably be landed at the long wharf at
Port Los Angeles,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
Not Disparaqina Colleges

OI lllNlSlOlC SOlioSSAoSAOAA5 ""S
graduated only by the university of ex-
perience.
Not Disparagng Colleges
ST am not disparaging the college and
university All honor to them for the
noble men, strong in sound learning,
they are sending out to do the busy
work of this busy world! am only adj
yocating practical standard by which
to measure ourselves, by which to try
our universities and schools, and by
which to determine whether our chill
dren are gradually approximating
true educational ideal.
What, then, shall this standard be?
Here is a man standing on the verge of
eternity. Now by what test would you
decide whether he had been prepared to
live, and whether he had truly lived
this life? Would it be by his academic
degree, by his social position or by the
amount of money he possessed? Or
would it be by the ability he had shown
for standing on his own feet, for giving
and taking sturdy blows in lifes stren-
uous battle; his intellect, his moral life
whether he had been able to enjoy
Gods gifts as using and not abusing
them, to keep his body in temperance,
soberness and chastity, and to put the
iron and the fire and the energy and
the purpose into life-if he has honored
and worshiped God as the creator and
the governor Of the material and moral
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
ADDRESSES CLASS
ON EDUCATION
NORMAL SCHOOL GRADS HEAR
DEAN WILKINS
Speaker Tells Them Graduation from
University of Experience Is Often
More Desirable Than Tech
nicaI Knowledge

What is Education For?" was the
topic of an eloquent baccalaureate SER
mon delivered yesterday morning by
Very Rev. ]. ]. Wilkins, dean and rector
of St. Pauls pro-cathedral, before the
graduating class of the state normal
school, He spoke in part as follows:
Wisdom is the principal thing; there
fore get wisdom; and with all thy get
ting get tanding.-Proverbs All.