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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-10-21
Cured nay Fever ana summer.

OuFOul may HStSt @hSS sASsAtn
Cold.
a 8 Nusbaum. Batesvllle, Ind.
writes: "Lsst year l suffered for
three months with summer GOLD
30 distressing that IL iutsrfered
with my business 1 had many
of the eymptoms of hay fever, and
dGosor's prescription did not
reach my case, aud Isook several
medicines which seemed only to
aggravate IL fortunately / in.
cited upon having Foley's Honey
and Tar. 1t quickly CURED me.
My wife has since used Foley's
Honey and Tar With the same
success" Sold by all druggists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-10-21

Itohing piles provoke profanity,
but profanity will not ours them.
Doan's Ointment onres itching,
bleeding or protruding piles after
years of suffering, AT any drug
store.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
EVERY AIGRETTE TELLS OF
BRUTALITY AND TORTURE
By Wearing Plumes of Beautiful Birds Women C%ountenanCe and
Encourage Cruel Fate of Feathered Creatures and Offspring.
BY BARBARA KENT.

p N spite If the fact that the Audubon Society has appealed to women to
n assist in the work. the wearing of aigrettes and pumes on hats seems to
II be more popular than ever.
We all know that woman's tenderness md compassion are her most win
charms, but it seems that III is selling this lovely roy because of
her vanity
I admit that tn aigrettei is an exquisite thing n words cannot de-
scribe its grace. It's significance, however, is more beautiful n should by
all means be sacred in womans eyes. or 1t is the nupial plume OF the bird
and its token Of motherhood -F los 44 -S . - 44. Is
Because women covet this adornment it is torn from the qutvering body
by the brutal hands of men and boys in the South.
Do you know that yu are educating thesep people to butchery and crime?
The young birds in the nests are left to starve. and the ground is strewed
with the bodies of their mothers.
1t is really IL massacre of imocents in the desire to decorate you hats
with beautiful pumage. I an certain that no womanly woman would wear
an aigrette if she really believed it was obtained at such a cruel COST
manity, of womanhness of motherhood, that woman refuse to wear the
aigrette and to influence other not to d. so.
Let it not be said that woman is responsible for the extinction in America
of n of the most beautiful feahered inhabitants
Pretty artificial flowers are just az effective Oh you hatsa a plunes. n
remember, it is a m who nus st al example in charity toward hu-
maniy.
The child IN school should be taught the cruelty o. wearing aigrettes and
she in turn will be able to influence her mother. If the teacher tells h child
that it is cruel to wearfe feathers she wills ask her mother why se wears them.
And IN thsm mn much "a be done to do away with the practise.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
THE JUDGMENT OF II LEdlsLA TOR.

II 1t has generally been understood that political platform pledges are In
tended in a Pckwickian sense. Party platforms sin this State have always
been held up to scorn by the refomer Is insncere and tnuuthful and o 10
account but inconsistency h I'M reformer processes to be greatly shocked
if the political party in the mex Legislature Toe lot literally carry ut
every pledge, and to the very letter. OF if a single reform promised is delayed
the lastt three years that there has beer a singular fulhlment of heir most
important pledges Witness, for example railroad tx REFORM which las hun
fire for a generation. A Legislature contains eighty-one individual judg-
ments and it's acts are dictated by a majority of these judgments operating in
unison. Platforms deal with principles and generaHtes The Legislature
deals with details and methods. 1t is easy to decide upon a genera principle
but h same judgment pauses when it comes to consider TO- the principle is
to be carried out There is where the eighty-one judgments in the Legislature
differ Some men are impulsive and headstrong others are cool and denber-
ajve; some would de an act bnndly ant others var all the light they car get
Every legislator has his W standard oil what is polite, what is right n
what is wrong n the difficulty in legislation is to reconcile these differing
Established they W their permanently to the deiberaton with which they
were adopted And many a promising reform has beens set back for years or
ruined because of he preciphancy of impatient advocates who pucked the re-
form fruit before it "a ripe The legislator is to be appauded, not On
demned, when lie insists upon deliberate action in some matter of State policy
o. vita Importance. The fact that there is a platform pledge does not bind
his judgment al 10 way and means or give son other legislator a right to
dictate 10 him. We would ave curious State legislation if every legislator
Immediately accepted the orders of som small group with advanced and
usually hah-b baked ideas and passed laws that did lot meet their individual
judgments. The Trenton State Gazette well remarks that Haste is not al
ways reform, nor is inconceived legislation an honest fulflment Of platform
pIeduae"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
WXT HEN you were a tadpole and 1
wv was a fish,
In the Paleozoic time,

NKT HEN you were q taQpole ana l
wv was a fish,
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawlcd through the ooze and
slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian
fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For l loved you, even then.
Mindless we lived n mindless we
loved,
And mindless at last we died;
And deep in a rift of the Caradoc drift
We slumbered side by side.
The world turned on in the lathe of
time,
The hot lands heaved amain,
TIL we caught our breath from the
womb of death,
And crept into light again.
We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed,
And drab as a dead mans hand;
We coiled at ease meath the dripping
trees,
Or trailed through the mud and sand,
Cracking and blind, with Dur three
clawed feet
Writing a language dumb,
With never a spark in the empty dark
To hint at a life to come.
Yet happy we lived, and happy we
loved,
And happy we died once more;
Our forms were rolled in the clinging
mold
OF a Neocomian shore.
The cons came, and the cons fled.
And the sleep that wrapped us fast
Was riven away in a newer day,
And the night of death was past.
Then light and swift through the jungle
trees
We swung in our airy lights,
Or breathed in the balns of the fronded
palms,
In the hush of the moonless nights.
And oh! what beautiful years were
these.
When our hearts chung each to each;
When life was filed, and our senses
thrilled
In the first faint dawn of speech.
Thus life by life, and love by love,
W. passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath, and death by
death,
We followed the chain of change,
Till there came a time in the law of life
When over the nursing sod
The shadows broke, and the SOU awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.
I was thewed like an Auroch bull,
And tusked like the great Cave Bear;
And o my sweet, from head to feet,
Were gowned in your glorious hair.
Deep in the gloom of a fireless cave,
When the night fell DER the plain,
the moon hung red DER the river
bed,
We mumbled the bones of the slain.
1 faxed a flint to a cutting edge.
And shaped it with british craft;
l broke a shank from the woodland
dank,
And fitted It, head and haft.
Then I did me close to the reedy tarn,
Where the Mammoth came to drinks
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
EVOL UTION--By Langdon Smith

Through Drawn and bone l drave the
stone,
And slew him upon the brink.
Loud I howled through the moonlit
wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin;
From west and east to the crimson
feast
The clan came trooping in.
Ger Joint and gristle and padded hoof
We fought and clawed and tore,
And cheek by jowi, with many a
We talked the marvel DER.
I carved that fight on a reindeer bone
With rude and hairy hand
l pictured his fall on the cavern wall
That men might understand.
For we lived by blood, and the right of
might,
Ere human laws were drawn,
And the Age of Sin did not begin
Till our brutal tusks were gone.
And that was a million years ago,
In a time that no mar knows;
Yet here tonight in the mellow light
We sit at'Delmonico's.
Your eyes are deep as the Devon
springs.
Your hair is as dark as jet:
Your years are few, your life is new,
Your soul untried, and yet
Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay,
And the scarp of the Purbeck flags,
We have left our bones in the Bagshot
stones,
And deep in the Coraline crags;
Onr love is old, our lives are old,
And death shall come amain;
Should it come today, what man nay
say.
We shall not live again?
God wrought our souls from the Ire
madoc beds
And furnished them wings to fly;
He sowed our spawn in the worlds
dim dawn,
And I know that it shall not die.
Though cities have sprung above the
Where the erook-boned men made
war,
And the ox-wain creaks DER the buried
caves
Where the mummied mammoths are.
Then as we linger at luncheon here,
Ger many a dainty dish,
Let us drink anew to the time when
you
Were a Tadpole and l was a Fish.
Langdon Smith, newspaper man, who
wrote Evolution; will be buried in
Brooklyn tomorrow.
The stanza next the last in his poem
is as strong and beautiful as Omar
Khayyam's:
Il sometimes think that never, blows
SO red
The rose as where some buried Caesar
bled,
That every hyacinth the garden wears
Dropt in her lap from some once love-
ly head"
Of Mr.. Smith and the poem, the New
York Press says:
Save Kipling there were few con-
temporaries of this obscure newspaper
writer to strike the buoyant, masculine
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10

There els a familiar adage, you can eat your cake and keep it." You
can't keepo on increasing the State expenditures especially in the ACE of a
decreasing State income, without running inoS Stat bankruptcy And it is
to that condition, virtually, we have come at las. in New Jersey State
finances. Governor Forts message to the Legislature a the first fits kind
in many years State Comptroller anderson, when in office in 1892 addressed
a communication % the Governor for the Legislature showing the State treas
uy TO 10 in the m critical condition as o and advising against appro-
piattons to create a larger deficit His admonitions were needed. There
were phlanthropsts, theorists and reformers in the Legislature at that PEE
rid. and if they had not been chez kd a receiver might have been neces-
sary for the State treasury. The taxpayers of the State have received with
m-grace the disguised alternative of a State tau which is the meaning of the
recommendation that the State shall appropriate nearly half a million dollars
of the railroad taxes assessed for the benefit of the municipalities. AS a
matter of course. the State las the right to take this revenue and compel
the municipalities to raise n equiva lent sun by local taxation, but is it
just % put thisS State al on the ope n order to create fat State COM
missions? If the people are to be taxed half a million o pay the cost of
Legislative commission experiments, should they not be consulted? Was there
anything in n party platform about a State ak or a reduction of III
nidpal revenues to pay the expenses of new State commissions? With a
State treasury deficit now confessed, the duty of the Legislature is re-
trenchment. The people with their high ssessnents are heavily taxed
and they won stand for more in the shape o a State tx for the sake of
creating a lot o. high-salaried con missions in addition to the large com m
mission brood that draws sustenance from a depleted State treasury.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
WATCH YOURSELF GO BY.

Just stand aside and watch yourself go
by;
Think of yourself as he instead of
81"
Note, closely, as in other men you note
The bag-kneed trousers and the seedy
coat.
Pick flaws; find fault: forget the man
is you
And strive to make YOU estimate ring
true.
Confront yourself and look you in the
eye
Just stand aside and watch yourself go
by.
S. w. Gillian, in Success Magazine.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
GOVERNOR HU0nes TO LHdisLA U

Governor Hughes mortified att the defeat Of the racetrack bills in the
Senate strikes back at the Legislature with a message demanding the en-
actment of these bills and OF other bills yet Enacted on He proposes to call an
extra session if his recommendations shall be unheeded Among the Governorsi
recommendations is for a commission to investigate Wall Street speculation.
The criticism has been made an evidently with effect that while betting on
the race tracks a mathematical, the vastly greater gambling in securities
and the values OF staple products thai goes on every day in New York ws not
mentioned. The Governor meets thisc criticism With his recommendation for a
commission. But on the race-uack issue it is evident that Governor Hughes
faces the hardest proposition of his official career
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
CANADA is STILL ADOLESCENT.

We have not yet become accustomed
to t~ransacting national business. Some
of us still think that u petty party
squabbles are the greatest struggles
in the round world. Our fault is not
that we have not risen to "a national
stature. but that We have risen far
beyond it to the stature attained by
conceited boyhood.-Canadian Courier.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10

note in verse. And what a waste of
white paper has been devoted to the
lispings of poets who could never hope
to express a first-class thought in the
first-class language that Langdon
Smith used to dress up his idea Of
Evolution"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
MIXED, BUT EMPHATIC.

Since o got married you are late
every morning" complained his EN-
ployer.
"Well." explained the GREATNESS
clerk, 81 have to button up the ashes.
and shake down a shirtwaist and carry
out the furnace every morning.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
MAYBE AN INTERIOR WATERWAY NOW.

A favorable report to the Senate at Washington IN he resolution TO a
survey of the route or al interior wa terway from Boston harbor to Whining
ton, N. c, made yesterday practically insures the survey which will take in
the route across New Jersey from the head of RarHun Bay to Trenton or
Bordentown oil the Delaware. This will involve the deep dredging OF the Della
ware from Trenton down, if that point is selected for the outlet of the New
Jersey canal on the Delaware This great project has been ncubatng for
years d it seems now about % hatch.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
TAKES HIM AROUND.

He (curiously)-What part does Hen
peck's wife play in their domestic
drama?
h (giggllng)-I rather suspect she
is his leading woman.-Baltimore Amer
lean.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
HIS PLEA.

Mrs. Slipp-George, you've been
drinking!
Mr.. Slipp-Eh? Me?
Mrs. Slipp-Yes, you. oh, | can tell.
Mr.. Slipp-Don't do it, M dear. Les
keep it a family Observation-Disclosures
Press.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
| OF THEM.

ut is a rare old loom with which
her grandmother used to weave hair"
sort of a hair LOOM
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
HAVE A LAUGH WITH Us.
HOW IT HAPPENED.

How did you come to sever your en-
gagement with Miss Dashly, the heir
ess?" the poets friend asked.
Il will tell YOU the bard sadly re-
piled. Il wrote a sonnet to her and
had it published. In one of the lines |
made use of the words her plant
The printer made it her paint So you
see how little things continue to upset
our fondest calculations"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10

The Union County Democratic Committee, in refusing by a vote of 40 to 8
to indorse the candidacy Of Bryan for President, acted in accordance with
common sense and party policy in the State. An Endorsement, If given, would
have been worth nothing and have 10 particular significance. The large vote
opposed to the resolution introduced in the committee vas significant.
without much difficulty the employ ers liability bill passed by the House
of Representatives a passed by the Senate yesterday and sen to the Presi-
dent. This bill relates more particularly to the employees of the railroad
companies injured in the discharge of their duties, whether by the negn-
gence of the company or of other company employees 1t is a just bill.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
NO ZIGZAGS FOR HIM.

She-And do you believe In second
sight?
He-Well, hardly. You see, I'm a tee
totaller.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
P4THRsoNs ANARCHISTS REVEALED.

The indignant denials by the Paterson newspapers that their city har-
bored any anarchists have o been beHed. Paterson's Mayor, stirred up
to action by the violence of the anarchist organ printed and openly cir
cnlated in Paterson, is obtaining a list of the members of the anarchist group
there, son of whom have fed the city. The fact that in most OF the cases
of anarchist outrages in Europe and America n late years there has been
some connection with Paterson should have enlightened the local authori-
4s fnnp anoI
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-09-03
/ BIG KANSAS WHEAT CROP
STATES PRODUCTION WILL b
7s.SoO,Ooo Bushels.
Hall . MIlllon More Bushels Thar
Was Raised In 1e07-The
Corn Crop.

Topeka, Aug. 29.-Kansas produce
more wheat this year than in 1907 an
the Indications are that the corn pre-
duction will be about the same as las
year, acreage and condition being con
sidered together. This is the conclu
sion to be drawn from the crop repor
issued by r. D. Coburn, secretary o
the Kansas board Of agriculture.
Kansas will produce 1880. 900 bush
els Of winter wheat this year, clost
to 100000 bushels more than in 1907
but much less than in 1906. The corr
condition Is reported at 68.7, lowel
than for several years at this time
but the larger acreage indicates that
the crop will be about the same al
last year, possibly larger.
In the main the larger average
yields per acre are in the northeastern
quarter Of the state, the highest yield,
20 bushels, being reported by Republic
county; Nemaha and Pottawatomie
following with 10 bushels per acre
each. Doniphan, Brown and Shawnee
each report IS bushels per acre, while
Marshall, Riley and Washington coun.
ties are each credited with II bush.
els. Among the counties having the
larger wheat areas Barton and Pratt
lead in average yields per acre with
16 bushels each and in aggregate yield
Barton is first with 4,251,24 bushels;
Ellis remote second, with 1,S1O,37O
bushels; Pawnee third, with 2,758, 1862
bushels, followed by Stafford with
2,667.3O0 bushels; Pratt, 2.524,192
bushels. All counties but one In the
central third Of the state raised 1,O00-
900 bushels or more each and aggre-
gated over two-thirds Of the states
crop.
The smaller yields are in the coun.
ties of the southeastern and western
parts Of the state and In some Of these
the crop was practically failure. A.
ter several years Of rather surprising
Increases In the sowings Of spring
wheat, in some Of the western coun-
ties especially, 1t seems that interest
In this variety, exec ting possibly in
A half dozen Of those in the northwest
ern corner Of the state, is diminish
ing in a marked degree, as this years
returns show 100000 acres in spring
wheat as against 1SS,4O1 acres the
rear before, and 1904 acres in 1906.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-09-03
Charges Against Federal Attorney.

Honolulu, Aug. 29-It has just de-
veloped that charges against United
States Attorney R. W. Breckons, pre-
ferred by Rev. e. W. Thing and others,
have been sent to Attorney General
Bonaparte at Washington. They in
clude . number OF specifications, re-
ferring both to official and personal
conduct alleged to be detrimental to
the administration of federal law, es-
pecially among the Oriental part Of
the community.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-09-03
Dune Trade Review,

New York, Aug. Or. @. DUN 4
Co.'S review Of trade says: Gradual
Improvement continues, especially In
respect to the percentage Of manufac
turing plants in operation, and coun-
try merchants are more disposed to
replenish stocks. Retail trade ID sea
sonably quiet, except where sales are
stimulated by clearances sales but
Ah0IsSalS and jobbing houses are do.
iAs a-gOOd fan business, although col.
lections are irregular. With the ex-
ception Of the cotton mills, there is
much less idle machinery in the lead
ing industries. Several wage agree
ments have been signed and there is
little strife between capital and labor.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-09-03
okI.homa PhysIeIan cosnvIetsd.

Sulphur, Ok, Aug. 2s.-Dr. W. G.
Harry, physician, who has been on
trial here for the past week for the
murder Of Daniel Durgin, was Friday
found guilty Of assault and battery
and fined 500 and costs. The crime
was diabolical. 1t was committed last
Christmas eve, when Durgin, In an In
toxicated condition, came into Harry's
once. While Durgin was asleep
Harry placed him in the operating
chair and with mallet and knife had
almost severed the mans head from
his body when discovered.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-09-03

?. J. DAILY, q l247 ". Congress S.,
Chicago, tells Of a way to become
strong. He says: "My mother who
Il old and was very feeble, is deriving
50 much benefit from Electric Bitters,
that feel it's my duty to tell those
who need tonic and strengthiDg
medicine about It. In my mothers
case Q marked gain in flesh has re-
suited. insomnia has been overcome,
and she is steadily growing stronger.
Electric Bitters quickly remedy stom-
ach. liver and kidney complaints.
Sold under guarantee at ~. M. Gleiss-
ner's drug store. SOC.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-09-03
rrlleka,. Maksa oharaes.

Kansas City, Kan, Aug. &C. W.
Trickett, assistant attorney general for
Wyandotte county. gave out a state
ment Friday in which he said that he
had been offered q $4,000 attorney
ship that would have required him to
give up the fight against the Joints
Mr.. Trickett said further that J. J.
Helm had volunteered to support him
for the Kansas City, Kan, postoface.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-09-03
A kansas.c colorado trolley.

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 29.-The Kansas
4 Colorado Railroad company was
given a charter by the Kansas charter
board Friday. The company has q
capital stock Of 100000 and It paid
$3.50 for its charter in the state Of
Kansas. This is the electric line that
IL being planned to run along the Ar
kansas river valley in Kansas and
Colorado. The company is chartered
to run through Kearney, Finney, Ham
iltOn, Gray, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt and
Scott counties in Kansas and along
the Arkansas river in Colorado to
Pueblo. The main line IL to run en-
tlrely along the river with branches
to Scott City.