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The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02
THE VANISHED DAYS

(By Tennessee Attorney.) Lay the jest ahout the julep in tut
 camphor balls at last, For the miracle has happened and tn, olden days are past That which makes Milwaukee thirsty
 does not foam in Tennessee, And the lid in old Missouri is as tight
 locked as can be- Oh, the comic paper Kurnel and his
 cronies well may sigh, For the mint is waving gaily, but the
 South is going dry. By the stillside on the hillside ir
 Kentucky all is still, For the damp refreshmeut must be
 dipped up from the Till; Moth C'.'!na's stately ruler gives his
 soda glass a shove, And discusses local option with the
 South Ca'lina Gov. It is useless at the fountain to be
 winkful of the eye. For the cocktail glass IS dusty ana the
 South is going dry. It is water, everywhere, and not a
 drop to drink: We no longer hear the music of the
 mellow clipk. When the Kurnel and the Major and
 the Central and the Jedge Meet to have q little nip to give their
 appetiles an edge, For the eggnog now is nogless and the
 rye has gone awry, And the punch bowl holds carnations,
 and the South is going dry. All night caps now have tassels and
 are worn upon the head Not the nightcaps that were taken
 when nobody went to bed; And the breeze above the bluegrass is
 as solemn as is death; For it bears no pungent clover on its
 odoriic breath; And each man can walk chalk line
 when the stars are in the sky, For the fizz glass now is fizzless and
 the South is going dry. Lay the jest about the julep meath
 the chestnut tree at last, For there's but one kind of moonshine, and the olden days are past; For the water wagon rumbles through the Southland on its trip. And it helps no one to drop off to pick up the drivers whip, For the mint beds now make pastures and the corkscrew hangeth high, All is still along the stillside and the South is going dry.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02
THAT WANDERING BOY

When ma comes home from her club an pa gifts in fresh from his'n or sets behind his paper readin' the gamblin' market reports, a great hue an cry is set up about our wanderin' boy tonight, warranted to smoke a package of cigaretts ever' fifteen min it's. Whats to be done? Why, pa heaves sight like a bellowsd's hoss, an ma huns tunes betwixed her smiles. Now, what's to hender pa from gwine out arter the youngster vii rawhide, an yankin' him home, and teachin him lesson that he'll never forget as long as he lives? Men, tion it to lem an you're cruel mon- ster. What. raise whales on the beau- tiful an tender skin of our darlin' boy! Why, you're too old fashioned for to live. Whats the state but to be parent to our darlin' child? Can t it pass laws to protect him from whiskey an tobacco? An then it's hocry for ever' thing but the right thing. Now, I ain't got nothin' in the world ag'in prohibition or the anti cigarette law, when tue state has law on it's books, Pm for it eff it's good, bad or indifferent.
 But what 1 say is that sech laws don't go to the root of the matter ; they don't kill what you might call the family boil weevil. The trouble, whether's any is to be found right in the home that the wonderin' boy strays frem, an I say that thur ought CT be a law pertectin' children from weakminded parents. Ever man an woman that's got boy child should be made toe the mark an raise the'r children right. It may be hard thing to do, but thar ain't no secret about it; it may take up good deal of the'r time an attention, but what are they here for? That's what I want to know. Uncle Remus Magazine.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

It now appears that the House Of Representatives has taken the bit in its teeth and purposes to bid defiance to the Presidents big stick and enact but a small part of the program he
 has laid out for it. Only that part of his program as outlined in his special messages, has been given favorable consideration including such measures as have been forced upon the majority by the determined action of tho min- ority and for which the latter voted with practical unanimity. One meas ure, however, his recommendation oi placing wood pulp and white print paper on the free ilst, still hangs fire through the action of Speaker Cannon in introducing resolution providing for an investigation of the so-called paper trust, for the evident purpose of delaying action and thus prevent ing consideration on the main Ques- tion, and for which investigation the minority were obliged to cast their vote. It is not probable that the con- sideration of the recommendation o1 the President, backed by the demand of the Publishers Association, for the repeal of the tariff on wood pulp ant white paper can be reached during the remainder of the present session
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02
WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO

It will be a surprise to many of oul readers to learn how many cents anc nickels wear themselves out in theil service. Out of 500. 600 pennies ant 300, GOO nickelS redeemed every month at the Philadelphia mint, five out o every 100 go to the melting pot. The reason why cents and nickclo year out more rapidly than other coins is be cause they change hands oitener. When the worn pieces come to the mint they are carefully sorted over by nim ble-fagered women, they are cut in two with big pair of scissors and then sold for old metal The good coins that are too much worn for further circulation are melted and re- coined.
 Very few mutilated coins are found any more. because people will not ac- cept them. It used to be the fashion with some people to drill d hole through coin. put it on railroad track for a train to pass over it, or otherwise likewise deface it.
 It takes almost 100, 900, 900 new pen nies every year to kuep up the supply, which must constantly increase be- cause some Western states that once did not use so small a coin now use them, and the slot machines and pen ny papers make extra demands. Somewhere there are 1l9, ,O0O GOO of the big copper pennies that have nev- CT been redeemed; 5000. GOO 2-cent pieces, and 2,O00,00O nickel Scent pieces. What has become of them is a mystery. Selected.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02
PAPER AND WATER

Congressman Perkins of New York in speech in the house last week gave some interesting details relative to the International Paper company, better known as the paper trust. He was rather better qualified to speak of the matter than some others because of his personal experience. When the company was launched he was induced to invest at good round price in some of the common stock, which proved to be practically of no value, and has examined into the company's $ affairs quite closely.
 The company has been paying divi- derds on its preferred stock for some time, although since the agitation in favor of abolishing the tariff on it's product threatened to become succ ess- ful it has reduced the amount. The trust is grossly overcapitalized, ac- cording to MT. Perkins. When the consolidation took place one plant with capital of $500, 900 was taken in on valuation of $2, 250, GOO in the company's securities. Another plant valued at $5O0 GOO was taken in on a valuation of $2, GOO, GOO. One mill that has never earned dividend was talk en in on valuation of $500, 900. MT. Perkins alleged that the combined value of all the plants taken into the trust was not above $l5, 900, GOO, but that they were capitalized at $50, GOO, 000-$lO, GOO, GOO in bonds, s22, GOO, 00( in preferred stock and about SIS, O0o, GOO in common stock.
 Mir. Perkins says that he is confident that dividends were paid on the com mon stock for time by insiders fol the express purpose of creating ; market for the stock and that they then unloaded the stock onto the pub lie, whereupon the dividends ceased and have never been resumed or earn ed. If the common stock be left ou of the account it is still evident tha the trust is paying dividends on large amount of water. The bond and preferred stock aggregate $32, GOO, GOO, while the plants acquired were really worth but $l5, ,0O0. GOO The company therefore is taking ad vantage of the tariff TO wiring extor tionate profits from the public.
 Mr. Perkins, however, made stil stronger argument in favor of repeal ing the tariff on pulp paper. He said
 "Every year, so the government for ester tells us, the trees that are GU off in this country to be ground up in to wood pulp would cover an area al most as large as the state of Rhod Island Here also it seems to me would be wiser to pay bonus on tn wood pulp that could be brought i from other countries, and thus say our own forests. than to impose tari to keep it out. y
 The argument on this questio seems to be all on one side and Con gress has no good excuse for refusin to act.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02
THE FLEETWOOD QUESTION

The paper situation in the United States is a live topic. The great con- suming newspapers refuse to keep quiet while the paper manufacturers politely but firmly squeeze the life out of them. Mir. Don C. Seitz, business manager of the New York World, has contributed to The Worlds Work an article which shows a comprehen- sive grasp of the situation from the paper consumers point of view. He says that the message of the manutac- turers to the consumers is virtually "doubie the price of yonr newspapers, increase your advertising rates, cut down the size of your newspapers, and give us the beneft.' In 1896 the paper which the newspapers used was sl. 65 per hundred pounds. The first move of the manufacturers to increase these competitive prices was the formation of trust. The publishers proceeded against them, got judgment, and broke up the trust.
 Taught by experience, the manufac- turers have now been able to effect their purpose without any formal or ganization. The representatives of he mills simply met and fixed prices, and following the meeting the price was jumped to s2.50 per hundred pounds. This increase so important factor in the production of a news paper, virtually brought consternation into many offices. The increased cost of the prime raw material wiped out their profit. A cry of anger arose on all hands. But it has failed to soften the hearts or mitigate the prices of the monopolists. "Here is the whole material of vast industry," Mir. Seitz says, "held in the hands of less than twenty men," Yet the mills are selling their paper in London, Eng land, three or four thousand miles away, at $2 hundred pounds, and ir Australia, on the side of the world, at s2. 40.
 Mir. Seitz points out that it is prob able Canada will within year place a prohibitive duty on the export o timber. "American manufacturers, he says, 'are already crying to tht newspapers and periodicals to save them from this calamity. They will get no help. They have pulled tho house down upon their own heads With a rare unwisdom they have cap italized their business unti! it can bt capitalized no more." He puts tho case very strikingly when he says tha they are asking the publishers to cur tail, to keep down, to diminish, whel if their mills were wisely managed they would be in q position 10 urge publishers to increase, to progress Mir. Seitz commends a removal to Can ada, on the ground, for one thing that they can then give the American forests forty years to reproduce them selves. The statemen5 is further hint to us, if any were needed, tha whatever policy we adopt must be ; policy that will not at the end of ; generation leave our pulp areas 1T ruins. Mir. Se'tY concludes his able paper in these words: eff tie timber land owned in Canada by American mills cannot be tapped, manufacturers will go to Canada to invest, and th' tariff will come down. It is only ; question who shall get there first. ''- Toronto Globe.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02
THE EPIC OF A COLLAR
He paid half a dollar

He paid half dollar For shiny rubber collar And he wore it all the years he was allowed.
 When he died they took 1t off an Gently laid him in his coffin, With the collar in pocket in his shroud.
 When he reached the gate of heaven, It was late-the hour H. And St.. Peter showed the pathway leading down, Said, "On earth you were cheater, But you can't fool Uncle Peter You may wear your rubber collar for crown.".
 Toronto Mail and Empire.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

The standpatters can stand as pat as they may wish to, but all the signs of the times show that the demand for tariff revision is growing more and more insistent. In the last analysis the matter will doubtless resolve itself into question of whether the tariff will be revised by it's friends or its enemies.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

Nobody in congress is opposed to the partition of the Fourth judicial division of Alaska. The president, the attorney general, the governor of the territory profess to be supporting it, and it has been agreed all around to pass the bill as an immediate neces- sity. As an active movement to that end the house judiciary committee has set report on the measure a month ahead. At that rate it will die on the calendar when the present con- gress expires next March. It looks as If somebody in power in congress or in the executive end of the govern ment is juggling the Alaska judicial bill for political purposes. Maybe the president or the speaker of the house has promised the patronage of the new division to about 9S5 men to get the votes for somebody in the Repub- lican national convention. It seems certain that the bill is condemned to drift with the current. Valdez Pros- pector.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

Mir. Bryan has been making an oc- casional 'hasty swing' about the cir cle of the states where Democratic state conventions have lately been or soon are to be held, but so far not all together with results encouraging to a realization of his presidential hopes. He does not appear to have been re- ceived with the glad hand in Michi- gan, which, state is now awaiting a similar visit from Gov. Johnson, o1 Minnesota, who bids fair to be his principal contestant for the nomina- ton as the most promising dark horse likely to enter against him.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

The motto "In God We Trust" has been restored to United States coins. That is wise. Nations as well as in- dividuals should observe Hamlet's ad- vice, "Assume a virtue, if you have it not"
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

A woman has died in the East at the age of 106, and it is mentioned as matter of some importance that she smoked pipe. This establishes very clearly two facts. One is that she is dead, and the other that she smoked pipe. We have heard of women dying at a much earlier age, who did not smoke at all.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

The enrolment of the University of Michigan, for the year 1908. shows that the 5, 900 mark has been passed, the exact number of students being ,, ,Ol3, the list representing forty-eight states, the enrolment from the state of Michigan alone being ?, ,729 while among those from foreign countries are six Japanese, six Chinamen and B Germans. The enroll nent is the largest ever recorded at the Univer- sity, being the first time that the number of pupils received in school year exceeded 5000.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

The frenzied haste recently display ed by large number of people in New York to get hold of what was described as largely advertised mining stock" will likely be ere long surpassed by their unconquerable desire to get rid of it. Widely adver- tised mining stocks have a habit of affecting people that way.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

The Massachusetts republican con- vention failed to instruct its delega- tion for Taft, as was expected, but 1t is claimed that big majority of the delegates are as strongly inclined to support the portly war secretary, as they would be had they been formally instructed that way.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

The mayor of an Illinois town, re- signed because the city went "dry" and he is said to be an eminently respect able and temperate gentleman, too.
 His reason for his step is not particu- lar sympathy with the liquor traffic,
 but based on the plea that the town is hard up ard needs the liquor license money. If it can't have it, he pro- poses that some other man shall over- see the job of making both ends meet.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

An American artist who has lived for many years in Hayti tells an anus ing story of the Haytian army. .One day the troops were drawn up for in- spection by the Commander-in-Chief. A friend of the al tist-an Irishman- wagered that he would break up their ranks and throw the whole army into confusion. "How are you going--to do it?" said the artist. For reply his friend took few silver coius from his pocket, and with shout threw them into the air. Immediately there was scramble, on the part of the soldiers to get the money, the Commander-in- Chief who was first on the spot, get ting the major portion of it. The Irishman was nevertheless arrestad n" a charge.of bringing the army into discredit, and sentenced to three weeks imprisonment, but judicious distribution of ''palm oil' and a bottle of rum soon settled the matter, and within twenty minutes he was free again.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

Senator Elkins has addressed plea to the press of the United States that they refrain from printing reports about his daughter and her relations with the Duke of Abruzzi. This is interesting as indicating that there is still one solitary person in the United States who believes that there is some sense of decency yet left to the editors of the 'yellow" press. But Senator Elkins will discover that he was mis- taken,
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

The board of directors of the Tyee Copper Company, Limited, in Lon- don, England, have appointed Mir. w. H. Trewartha James (who is mem- Der of the well-known firm of James Brothers, consulting mining engineers, of London) the company's general manager, ane he has been in charge of it's affairs from the beginning of April. His headquarters in British Columbia are at the company's offices, Bank of Montreal Chambers Victoria. The action of the directors of the Tyee Copper Company in appointing to that position mining engineer of such high professional standing and acknowledged ability may be regard ed as indicating an earnest intention to maintain the excellent name the company enjoys, and we'll merits, as a thoroughly business-like and success fnl mining and smelling organization. Further, it is no secret that it is ac- lively seeking another good mining property, so that it may ensure a sufficient supply of ore to keep its smelting works in regular operation and, as we'll, has arranged for the early enlargement of the treatment capacity of the shelter, so as to be in position to also sinelt all custom ores obtainable on conditions that will allow of it's earning reasonable profit thereon. Mir. w. Gardner, who has been acting general manager pending the appointment of successor to the late Clermont Livingston, will shortly after the arrival of Mir. Trewarther James, leave Victoria on his return to London to there resume his ordinary duties as secretary of the company B. c. Mining Record.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

A rather gruesOme, but wholly fun. ny, incident isr eported as having oc- cured few days ago in an Arizona town. A man named Davis, who had been stabbed in fight and pronounce cd dead by the doctors, while being conveyed to the cemetery for interment recovered consciousness and managed to make known his dissent to the pro- ceedings in progress. The hearse was stopped and the oasket in which his body had been coffined and confined was opened, and the corpse climbed out and in language wholly unbecom- ing gentleman made known his ob- jection to being buried alive, and was so mad about it that he burst the cerements in which he had been in- urned, refused the change of convey ances proffered by friends paying their last respects, and hiked back home on foot. Now he refuses to pay any part of the cost of the casket from which he was released, or of the fun eral ceremonies with which he was honored, and insists that the whole amount shall be charged up to the fool doctors.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-02

Mr. Edison-whose illness, necessi-
 tating surgical operation, has lately
 been reported-has, says the London
 Daily Chronicle, at length finally solv- ed two problems which have been oc. cupying his attention for some time
 The first of these in his estimation is ''the problem of decent existence for the poor man," for the proudest mo- ment of his life, according to his own statement, occurred during the second week of the last month, when he ''put the finishing touches to the iron cast that makes the cement house so much talked about-in reality the poor mans palace." In this respect, said the wizard, his most extravagant hopes have been realized. With the iron mould he is now able Ito build a twelve-room house, as ireproof as any bank vault, at the rate of $20 a room, including foundations, roof, electric wiring, bath tubs and everything else.' These iron moulds are to be turned over to a company, which will begin working in June.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-11
IT PAYS TO
RAISE COLTS

It is strange that more farmers do
not appreciate the advantage of colt
raising If managed right it need in
terfere little with the regular work
of the farm. The farmer who has one
or more mares is making great mis-
take if he does not raise colt or two.
1t is often possible to so arrange the
time of foaling as to not materially
interfere with the mares work, or,
if there are number of mares, SO
there will be some fit for work at all
times. The fact that a mare is with
foal need not debar her from work; in
fact, reasonable work is good for her.
Of course, she should be treated kind
ly and not be worked to excess. Draft
or coach stations are the best sires
for the farmer to use. Trotting and
saddle horses require more care and
training before they can be marketed
than the farmer can give, while the
only requirements of a draft horse
are that he be sound and has size.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-11
Sporting Hats.

Sporting hats of fine panama are ex-
tremely fascinating and they are in ia
vor, as are the various, varieties in
fancy straws and chips which answer
for summer wear. But the white duck
sailor-broad and straight of brim,
stiffened to perfection in the pressing
prCcess-is the smart wear with the
light spring woolens, coat and skirt
suits, where white generally enters
into the designs of stripes, blocks or
plaidings that are in cross-bar lines.
These hats are trimmed either with
a two-inch silk hatband in white or in
single colors, quite as simply as a
mans straw hat, or they have crown
twist of soft white satin ribbon with a
fetching chouX on the side of the same
ribbon. Some nf the pale-colored rib.
bons are seen also, as there will al
ways be some one who will insist on a
blue or a pink trimming, but the best
style permits nothing but white
Vogue.