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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-10-21
Town Finances

4, the September meeting OF the
Town Council. at which the newly
,,oc,ed officers took charge of the
Towns affairs, a resolution was
,doptcd calling. on the Finance
Committee to draw up report OF
,ho financial condition of the Town
- of September /. 1905, and sub
NIT same at the next meeting for
acceptance and publication.
The committee, consisting OF
Nessrs. John B. Neill and j T. l..
Iones submitted the following
statement at the last regular meet
;rc of the Council which was
accepted and ordered published i'm
the COURIER:
Amount of uncollected
raxrs in Trcasurcr's
hands $4,000
INDEBTEDNESS
Water bonds, bearing
; per cent interest S25, 10000
Due for right of way To
proposed \. & w.
Depot 10000
Borrowed money and
unpaid bills 3,5O0.0O
Total $29, ,OO0, 90
Notion September, 8 1908, 81
600 of bonds, payable 3 years after
date. and $4,000 of bonds. payable
years after date, were issued and i,
with the proceeds of these, $4,000
will be paid off, leaving the total
bonded Indebtedness of the Town
at $4,000.
Statement OF the estimated re-
ceipts and disbursements Of the
Town for the year commencing
September [, 1908 Tin making up
this statement the estimates we're
conServatively based upon the
records of the Town in recen.
years.:
RECEIPTS
Taxes on Realty and
Personality at soc per
800 $2.900.00
Licenses 100000
Fines 10000
Water Rents and Permits 1,450.00
Total S5,5OO.O0
Add uncollected taxes,
etc. $500
Total estimated re-
ceipts S6,073.00
DISBURSEMENTS
Interest on Water Bonds 81, $50. 90
Interest on 1000 loan $4,000
Salary of Water Super
intendent 1850
Salary Of Town Ser
geant $4,000
Salary of Recorder $500
Salary of Mayor $500
Salary of four Council
men 1000
Treasurer's Commits
Sions (estimsted) $4,000
Battletown Gas Com
pany (lights) 435.O0
Total fixed charges 5000. 90
Note-To the above are to be added
the incidental expenses, such as
repairs to and cleaning of the
streets, etc, not yet ascertainable,
and the cost of the completion of
the Reservoir on the Mountain.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN b. NEIIL,
j. L. l.. JONES,
Committee.
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LONG ABOUT THIS TINE o. YEAR.

Some folks say that life Is nothin' but q dismal
daily grind:
Other folks keep busy huntin' for the troubles
they find:
You can always hear 'em growlin' anywhere
You please to go,
But tbs old world still Is pleasant, you want
to make it so:
What for instance, could be finer than the
choruses you hear
In the orchards and the pastures long about
this time o year?
Some folks claim there's precious lfttls In TIA
way Of worldly gains
To repay 'em for their tolin' and their sorrovs
and their pains;
You can hear EN- growlin' steady. almost any
This old world as they look at 1t, is q mighty
But I'm thankn God I'm present when the DAYS
warm and clear
And the breeze is blowin' softly long about this
time O year.
I will not deny that toilin' sometimes gets to
be q bore:
Ther< are things which 1 could mention that
would often please me more;
Still there amt sense in frettin' all the DAYS
we have to live:
Seems to me we're compensated pretty we'll for
what give;
Though. I've done my share OF workin' I an
mighty glad I'm here
When the robins start to chirpin', long about
this time o year.
IS. q. kiser. In the Chicago Record Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
ALICE-SEASON RUSHER.

Yesterday Alice gazed out Of her window
And noticed the roadway with sunlight ablaze
The blue Of the skies was as bright as her eyes.
And she said: Spring is here with her won
derful days.
So bless me.
I'll dress me.
In costume BETTING the advent Of spring;
will don,
I'll put
Ny peek-a boo waist and my furs will fling"
This she did. for. the truth must be told,
This morning fair. Alice is down with cold.
And noticed the sunbeams that danced all
about;
The birds merry chatter her heart made to
patter.
She said, I'll look swell when today 60 out.
Hooray! Now here goes.
For my open-work hose.
My oxfords of tan without rubbers
I'll wear.
Though mother may scof.
My heavies I'll dOf
And 60 for stroll while the weather is fair"
This she did-and, Of course. all the truth
must be said,
Today her blue eyes are most woefuly red.
Today Alice speaks with thick, foggy accent.
So cloudy her voice. which was clear as a bell:
She gurgles and sputters. each word that
she utters
Proclaims the sad fate that to Alice befell.
..I'b got bad gold
Tb sight to behold,
She murmurs. my bead is stuffed NIB, I cab't
talk:
Ib bot sure the way
got 1t, say.
But thik that caught 1t while oubt for 4
walk
So she says but her waist and her open
Have gone back on the shelf till the May
Detroit Free Press
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pense of success would lose caste among

pense of success would lose caste among
his companions.
In Kentucky the night riders have re-
vived the old Ku Klux form. They are
lynchers. but their object is not human
life. OF course they will take life. but they
prefer to conf1ne themselves to the
destruction Of property and the humilia-
ton Of their victims They kill only when
resisted; and in order not to be obliged
to kill they raise tremendous hullabaloo.
They too could pull of "a very orderly
lynching" If the owners of tobacco placed
under the ban would submit quietly and
with philosophical resignation to Its
destruction. Yielding. however, to an old
fashioned impulse to protect their own
the planters force the mob. by watching
their property, to create a reign of ter
ror. The mob must either resort to noise
and violence. or suffer the modification
of having to dispense and be absorbed
again into the tame ranks of civilized So
ciety.
"A very orderly lynching' is by no
means a rarity. 1t all depends. If things
continue as they are now going. resistance
to the mob will become so feeble and per-
functory that only the most vulgar fellows
will create disturbance at lynching.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
A Brief Study in Mobs.

Some amusement has been caused nv
the announcement of "a very orderly
1ynching" down in Texas. The phrase
does sound strange, but is to be taken in
connection with the circumstances There
is rule of conduct even with lawlessness.
We have progressed in our lynching habit
to the point where good and bad forms
are recognized. 1t is good form to have a
particular object in view and to confine all
activity to the necessities of the case. It
ts bad form to go wild. and while under
such influences perpetrate a dozen out
RACES where one should have sufficed.
Let us suppose a man under charges in
the hands of officers Of the law on the
highway, or, helpless and disarmed, locked
up In Jail If there is no resistance, or
only feeble resistance, on the part of the
officers there need be neither fury nor dis
order on the part of the mob. The object
is to lynch that particular person. and
there is no excuse for noise or disorder
II the rope is used in dispatching the
victim, a volley fired at the swinging body
is allowable, but no miscellaneous shoot
ing. Come silently. go silently, is the
proper caper.
On the other hand, II a demonstration
of fury is necessary to intimidate the Of
ficers, or bring a fleeing or an intrenched
victim to bay. 1t must be made. Pride In
"a very orderly procedure must give
way to business. 1t is condition and no,
a theory that confronts the mob. Business
before order. The thing to do is to kill
the object OF the search. All mere pride
in the manner of doing the deed is OF
secondary consideration. mob leader
who should insist upon order at the ex-
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MARCH.

March. In the north they're singing OF March!
Comes in like lion! Goes out like lsmb!'
Or else 1t comes in like a lamb and goes out
With roar. and rattle of sleet and a slam
OF shutters and windows and doors and a whine
And snarl and ruction, a weep and q wall,
Like lion somewhat. a white poodle dog
That weeps its hard luck at not catching its
tail.
But In Texas-ah Texas. That's different nowi
There March comes In tiptoe, u maiden az
sweet
As blossoms and bird songs. and perfumes and
wreaths,
And laughter and love, from her head to her
feet;
Her hands full of new bursting buds she up
fings
And laughs as the showers Of blooms tumble
down,
And she goes training vines over age-roughened
things
By highway and byway and country and town.
And then she goes out-like n lion? Not she!
She goes with a laugh, hlnging blooms In your
face,
She goes with a smile looking out of her eyes,
She goes out with laughter and loving and
grace;
She goes Is let April come in with the tears
OF laugh on her cheek-her cheek rosy -
dawn
And she goes throwing kisses back all OF the
With laughing and loving she came-she u
gone.
Houston Post
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WHAT STEVENS THINKS.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
John F. Stevens says the Panama canal
is a white elephant. And 1t will be re-
| membered it was too big q task for John
F. to dig 1t.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
John F. Stevens. former chief engineer
of the Panama canal. says that the canal
is worthless. Some Of it's former engineers
seem to have been equally valueless to
the country.
From the Sioux City Tribune.
Perhaps the statement of John r. Ste
vens. the deposed chief engineer of the
Panama canal. that the canal is doomed
to be failure. can hardly be accepted as
unbiased testimony. There mac be just q
faint OF sour grapes in the utterance.
From the Rochester Herald.
Think of John F. Stevens knocking the
| Panama canal! We cannot believe that
the man has any other purpose than to
seek admission az a member of the Ana
Mas Club. -
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
In the vernacular. John F. Stevens dis
crediting Of the Panama canal sounds like
the talk Of "stungee.'
From the Newark Star.
When ex-Chief Engineer Stevens black
guarded the Panama canal he was proba-
bly, thinking Of the man who didn't take
his resignation.
From the Springfield Union.
gineer of the Panama canal, is now
quoted as saying that he believes the
canal Is doomed to be a failure It NAV
| turn out that Mr.. Stevens vision has he
come warped by wearing a railroad mag
mates spectacles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
Judge GRAY.

Nobody acquainted with the man will
be surprised to hear that Judge Gray has
no thought of attending the Denver con-
vention. His sense of the proprieties is
Of the highest. Even when in politics he
had nothing of the hurrah about him. He
was not spellbinder. and won nothing
by the ordinary arts OF the game. He
came into the field through the force Of
character aand superior ability. Had it
been necessary for him to buttonhole leg
islators and I'LL their ears with guff and
fattery. his state would probably never
have enjoyed the benefit of his services
in the Senate. Fortunately for the state
and for the country Delaware traditions
arthat time were high, and the successor
to Mr.. Bayard in the Senate must be q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15

From the Albany Times Union.
1t Is explained that the kaiser's letter
writing habit Is almost as copious and
explosive as is his distinguished Amer
lean counterpart's penchant for speaking
out loud confldentially.
From the indianapolis Star.
Now IL Emperor William had only writ
ten that letter to Mr.. Foulke all might
have been well.
From the Providence Evening Bulletin.
Perhaps the kaiser only sought to Sc
cure the autograph of the first lord of
the admiralty for his collection and was
willing to swap his'n.
From the Detroit News.
Lord Tweedmouth seems to be a second
Swettenham, SO far as vanity Is con-
cerned.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
Anyway, Tweedmouth got his name into
the newspapers. Previously the world at
large didn't know there was such man.
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man Of like dignity and methods.

man OF ike dignity ana metnodS.
But the story denied shows that some Of
Judge Gray's supporters thought hin,
capable of going to Denver and per-
sonally directing his own boom. They
saw him in the minds eye standing in the
center Of hotel parlor, receiving guests,
jollying and squirting on the faithful. tell
ing and listening to stories. and cutting
the capers generally OF boss and candi-
date. A Judge? Why, certainly; but he
had left his black silk gown at home.
Judge Gray is not that sort Of a judge.
He is to be complimented, indeed, upon
the way in which he has carried himself
through all the association of his name
with the presidency. There has been. and
still is, a Gray boom. The anti-Bryanites,
In their hunt for a candidate. could not
we'll have overlooked so attractive a man.
And seizing upon him they have made
all that was possible out of him. They
have praised him to the skies. and In
vested him with attributes to which he
himself has never laid the slightest claim.
A man of vanity and insecure balance
would under such pressure have commit
ted some blunder. either Of word or deed.
or both. But Judge Gray's conduct has
been without flaw through 1t ALL Not
insensible of course to the apprecia-
ton of his friends. and duly sensible
probably of the honor of seeing, his name
canvassed in connection with the highest
office under the government, he yet has
been able to see where friendship began
and left off, and where that selishness
and self-seeking began which had for its
object the using of his name merely as a
club against Mr.. Bryan.
And so he has maintained his compo-
sure, and lent himself in no way to the
scheming that has gone on, with his fine
character and record as man and judge
as a counter played by politicians in q
game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
The Tariff Issue.

Although tariff revision seems to be
won. the republicans favorable to the
issue should take no chances. In the
ranks of their opponents-the standpat-
ters-are to be found adroit politicians,
who are certain to try for advantage as
long as the way is open. Brought to an
attitude of surrender now-conceding an
expression at Chicago for revision-they
yet will appear there panoplied for bat
tie, and later, for the election of as many
members of the next House as possible.
For this reason tariff revision should be
kept we'll to the fore, both in the selec-
ton of delegates to the national conven-
ton and in the nominations for Con-
gress. At Chicago the platform commit
tee will find it's greatest difficulty with
the tariff Nearly all the rest will be
easy. But the tariff deliverance, to be
thoroughly effective. must be beyond all
cavil as to its meaning. Not only must
revision be promised, but the time must
be set. The country will expect the SUBJ
ject taken up next spring; and to meet
that expectation special session Of the
Sixty-first Congress must be pledged.
Nothing less will satisfy that large body
of men who. though we'll disposed toward
tHe IcpuOllCdH party OH pIluCIpleS Ill gen.
eral. on this principle in particular have
views so pronounced that they might be
lukewarm. or go over to the opposition.
If they feared they were being trif1ed with.
With such a plank in the national plat
form, and a candidate for President ac-
cepting it in good faith, the republican
candidates for the House will everywhere
be strengthened with tariff revision as
the leading issue. The standpatters will
have to face the music, and submit to
the decision of the majority as rendered
at the polls.
The final card will come when the new
has said that the tariff will be revised
up or down as the circumstances may
require. Revision does not mean q rails
ing of duties over present figures. 1t
does not mean a lowering of figures in
every case. But it does mean a lowering
of figures wherever they are now too
high, and a clear demonstration that du-
ties left untouched are entitled under a
fair application of the principle of pro-
lection to remain as they are.
We need not fear that Congress, IL in
structed by the country in set terms, will
shirk its duty. Anything resembling a
trick, or q denial of a popular demand
regularly expressed, would condemn the
body, and go far to disrupt the party
then responsible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
ALFONSO.

From the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Young King Alfonso couldn't have done
a more popular thing.
From the Chicago Journal.
King Alfonso's gameness should be re-
spected by anarchists: but. alas, anar-
chists are not noted for their respect for
anything.
From the Hartford Evening Post.
In going about where danger lies. King
Alfonso shows a surprising quality of
grit for fellow with such a weak jaw
bone.
From the Chicago News.
Alfonso hopes the anarchists will always
be kind enough to let him know their
plans in advance. His intelligent police
then can circumvent them.
From the Chicago Evening Post.
The more the public reads about that
young man Alfonso of Spain the more
convinced is it that he is too good man
for the job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
CANNED EXCITEMENT.

Like to see a melodrama.
Something doing all the time.
Loot and plumber, blood and thunder
And a medley OF crime;
There's the hero in distraction.
With his fortunes running slow,
And the killing Of the villain
To the music soft and low.
Out the heroine steps lightly
To the center OF the stage.
Sweet sixteen, or the demeanor
OF maiden of that age.
Then the plot begins to thicken
As the villain sails in view,
Under cover of her lover
He begins the girl to WOO.
Nothing doing for the hero
At this section Of the plot.
His intentions have dimensions.
But they do not take the pot,
For the villain does a murder,
Burns a will he doesn't need,
And he nearly proves II clearly
That the hero did the deed.
All, but right turns up triumphant,
And the wrong Is put to rout,
Just as certain as the curtain,
And the villain loses out.
And the hero takes the lady
By the dainty little mitt,
And the audience In rapture
Rises up and throws a fit.
Nashville American.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
HABITATIONS.

I'd like to live in Germany. where dogs an
eight feet long
They call 'em quadrupeds. but that is manifestly
wrong,
Yet they re not octopi, and this the wherefore Of
the why
They more than make up for their length BY
being one foot high.
I'd love to live In Scotland, where the cult q
Celts wear kits,
Or in Provencal marshes, where the peasants
walk on stilts:
ia like to live In England, too-but mercyi
what's the use?
Nobody'd understand my jokes-the Angles are
obtuse!
Cleveland Leader.
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The Pennsylvania Grafters.

To the public at large, beyond the Doun-
daries Of Pennsylvania, it seemed impos-
sible that jury could return any other
verdict than guilty against the men ac-
cused of grating In the construction of
the state capitol. Yet SO deeply rooted
has been the system of corruption In that
commonwealth for many years. and so
accustomed have the people become to the
thought of politicians growing rich on
small salaries, that there was by no
means a feeling of entire confidence that
such a verdict would be returned. The
news that the Jury has declared the guilt
of the four men accused of graft will be
the more welcome.
After the proof of corrupt practices in
connection with the capitol building had
been unearthed and the facts were set
forth before the world In amazing detail
1t was by no means uncommon to find a
Pennsylvania who shrugged his Shout
ders and declared that 1t mattered nothing
whether there had been a little stealing
up at Harrisburg" that the state was rich
and wanted the best and could afford to
pay for the best and was amply able and
entirely willing to allow some margin of
profit to the men who were engaged in
the work There is no use trying to
meet such an amazing argument. Yet
unfortunately it is frequently the attitude
Of the dweller within a rich and prosper
Gus community.
The fact that there is gross political cor
ruption in Philadelphia. and that election
frauds are practiced there with only the
faintest show Of concealment. is perfectly
well understood there and outside. Once
in, xr,It liz he
above the petty restrictions of party poll
tics rise and smash the machine, and then
lapse into a virtuous lassitude which is
| the prime opportunity of the professional
politician. The city pays the penalty in
excessive taxes and minimum OF service
from its municipal organization. The
whole state pays the penalty in a corrupt
electorate, taking its example from Phila-
delphia.
The Harrisburg capitol graft mounted
into the millions. 1t was barefaced,
shameless stealing. Nobody dreamed of
| exposure, or. even in that event, Of pun
ishment. But exposure came. through the
efforts Of an honest state treasurer,
elected by the opposition party, aided by
indignant republicans. Even then the cor
ruptionists laughed in scorn Of the efforts
to bring the charges to an issue. Slowly,
| surely. the net has frightened, and now
four men are caught within it, and others
are held for their turn in court.
1t remains to be seen whether Pennsyl-
vania will profit by this experience to the
| full. The cost will have been insignificant
If the commonwealth. once warned in the
most emphatic manner of the danger of
| trusting to political machine implicitly.
proceeds to set up a clean, square gov
eminent which stands for decency and
efficiency and economy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
The Royal Letter Writer.

And now 1t appears that the kaiser has
written letter to the King of Italy about
italian affairs. There are no reports as
yet from Russia. Austria. Spain or the
United States. but it would not be safe
to Assume that he has not used the mails
in those directions also. He writes well,
and takes a wide interest in affairs.
Maybe Lord Tweedmouth would not have
spoken of his letter If he had considered
that 1t might not be the kaisers only one
Of that kind. He was clearly "set up by
the royal missive. and could not contain
himself. He will probably never receive
another
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To the Weather Man.


Oh, Mistuh Weather Man! It's time fob
goin' slow.
A-dealin out de fros' bites an a-passin'
roun de snow.
You's had a heap O. worry wit de climate
insecure.
But it's time to staht in talkin' bout a
risin' temperature.
De consequential robin comes paradin'
eros de land;
LES jes like a drum major mahchin' for
wards Of de band.
An de branches Is a-shakin' like dey's
laughin' at de fun
OF de little dandelion maxim faces at de
OF course. jes flair an warmer doesn'
seem like much to say,
But If you has de sense to work it out de
proper way
It tells great big story-laws! hadn'
heard it since
1 was a chile-about de sleepin' beauty an
de prince.
tells you. Mistuh Weather Man, 1t
makes me jollify.
Dis wakenin' in de forest, when de sun
comes ridin' by.
OF cose 1 doesn't claim to know what
po'try ought to be,
But yoh recent compositions does seem
mighty fine to me.
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A LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL.

Willingly dedicated to the of any girl who
may need it,
Think not that I am oyerbo,d.
And look not with disdsin;
But were not arms made to enfold
Within them what the heart would gainn
Think not that there is any breast
Save thine against which would care
To let myself be fondly pressed
As you might sweetly fold me there.
Think not that would be. dear sir.
Your darling IL you chance to know
Another maid whom you prefer
But tell me. please, il 1t be so.
s. E. Kiser In Chicago Record Herald.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
A Pecuniary Pointer.

You saw great many paintings while
you were abroad last Year,"
II did," answered Mr.. Grafton Grabb.
"They bring great prices"
yet the old masters did not become
rich"
That's what I'm telling my boy who
wants to study art instead of helping me
run the ward. There's more money any
day in being new boss than an old
master"