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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

Judge A. Saxey addressed the High
School students Wednesday afternoon
on experiences at the battle of Chica-
maya and Missionary Ridge. The stu
dents We're very attentive and the adj
dress made fine impression on the
stu cents.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

The young men at the Electric Thea
ter are to be commended for the pro-
gresiveness about their place of bust
ness. The latest improvement is the
grading of the floor; dropping it FIVE feet
in front, giving splendid view of the
different scenes from all part of the
house
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11
HERE IS A FEW THINGS WE WILL CARRY:

The Mitchell Wagon, Columbus and Michigan Busses Syracuse
and Success Pows also Complete Line of q O. Implements.
Success Manure Spreaders Threshg Machines Tanning Mills
Cream Sepaato. Work and Buggy Harness. Wire Bolts Staples
Wire Sheches Disc Pows and arows Grain Drills Beet mpe-
ment Wagon Jacks Tongue Scrapers Sshers Stoves Ranges
And in fact everything the farmer and Neman needs Anything
we haven't got get in short notice
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

Don't forget to see the Holly City
in moving pictures at the Electric The
alter this week.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

To Mrs. Ole H. Olson, delivery boy,
Feb. LIST.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

To Mrs. David Prior, girl, Jan. 81.
To Mrs. Arthur Nielsen, a girl, Feb
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11


same at postoffice for owner.
For Sale-6 1-2 acres af land at Lee
land. Enquire of j. H, Hayes.
Lot for Sale 4hx2S rod, blocks
west of Coop. See J. II. Hayes.
Miss Ada Hartley of Salt Lake will
be the guest of Mrs. Theo. Lee from
Friday till Monday.
Taylor Thurber has returned from a
business trip to the Fluorine mine in
southern part of Nevada.
Thos. Hill is intending moving to
Thistle, where he owns land and is
interested in rock quarry.
One fare for round to Provo February
18th on account of Utah county teach
ers convention via Salt Lake Route.
The Young Mems Coop. have peep
'o'e "a .''e'' wi''oow ',''s weeN ioi ms"
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Inc dance at the city pavilion wed
nesday evening under the auspices of
the kensington Club was grand sue
cess, socially and financially.
DIR. and Mrs. Stoddard entertained on
'ei' MISS "reer' Inc guesls were
entertained with music ana song FOL
lowed by DAINTY refreshments.
Hyrum B. Robertson and wife have
returned from Salt Lake, where Mr..
Robertson went to receive treatment
,,novance for a co,r,e &c ,yaaLs ue
;s much ;mnroved
Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts entertained a
few friends Saturday evening in honor
of Mr.. E. Cluff from the Canal Camp.
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Ter are TO De commended for the pro-
gfesiVeness about their place of bust
grading of the floor; dropping it Ave feet
in front, giving splendid view of the
different SCENES from all n.rt of tho
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

At Presbyterian Church Sunday, Feb
ruary l4th: Sunday school at II a. m. /;
topic, The Apostles Imprisoned, Acts
5.1-42. Song and preaching service at
7:30 p. M, subject: Life Lessons from
the Book of job. Boys club Friday
from to 9 p. m. Mothers meeting at
Mrs. Lees Thursday at p. M, Febru-
airy 18th.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11
New Babies.

To Mrs. VIM. Rigtrup,a girl, Jan. 81.
To Mrs. Jas. Patterson, a boy, Jan.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

Mrs Karen Kirstina Larsen died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Oran Lewis of this city, last Thursday,
February 4th, of old lage and general
debility. She was visiting here when
she took sick. She was born in Den
mark 70 years ago. The remains We're
taken to Pleasant Grove for burial,
where the family settled in the early
days.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

A special program was given at the
Presbyterian church Sunday morning
in honor of Lincoln's One Hundredth
birthday. Judge Saxey and DR.. Stod-
dard gave very instructive talks on his
life and his great service to his coun-
try. Several patriotic songs were rem
dered by the choir The Star Span
gled Banner" was sung by Miss Doro-
thy Stoddard, and Lincoln's speech at
the battle of Gettysburg was recited
by Russell Lee. A large and appreci-
alive audience was present.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11

The Kensington Club meta at the
home of Mrs. j. b. Hughes February
9th. Ten members were present. Mrs.
Alma Jensen gave some very interest
ing talks concerning the life of Lincoln.
A reading was furnished by Mrs. A. b.
Rockhill entitled Forgiveness. A
very pleasant afternoon was spent by
all present, after which refreshments
were served.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-03
PAGE SIXTEEN
IN FAVOR OF STAMP TAXES.
Concluded from Page 1

the Evil One. Ask a Congressman
to advocate system of stamp taxes,
and the chances are that he will con-
slider you a traitor to your country,
a sympathizer with schemes mon
archical, an underminer of the Con-
stitution. Besides, he will tell you
that nothing could be more unpopu
lar than the use of stamps for taxing
purposes. This, he really believes,
puts the case out Of court at once.
1t was once unpopular to assert a
belief in the rotundity of the earth.
But the sphere retained it's shape,
none the less, and popularity eventu-
ally came it's way, leaving the earth,
however, no rounder than before.
One of these days stamp taxes may
be regarded with sufficient favor to
Justify their permanent adoption in
this country, for they are really not
monarchical, nor subversive of JUS
tice; they are merely practical,
straightforward, common-sense meth
Cd of collecting a portion of the ma
tional revenue, and they have the
merit of constantly reminding the av-
erage man that he is making a direct
contribution to the support of the
Government, a fact which he too Of
ten forgets. Perhaps he likes to for
get it, It Is not we'll that he should
do so.
So much of the taxation of this
country is imposed in ways that do
not make themselves directly felt, di-
rectly apparent to the majority as
taxation, that there has grown, nat
11,o11 u IN a CCOPia
national carelessness as to details, an
indisposition to watch the national
expenditures. Our people are happy
under the delusion that taxation is
best when it is not felt. They pay it
all the same, but in forms SO indirect
that half the time, perhaps three
quarters, they do not realize that
they are paying it at all. They would
be more careful if they felt it more,
felt it as taxation, and did not have
it Jumped into their rent and the
prices of all the commodities they
buy. The more they felt it the more
they would ask: what is it for?"
When the stamp taxes were taken
off the bank checks after the latest
war the drawers of checks thanked
fortune and the Government, and
said: "The war taxes are ended. :"
OF course, they were not ended, and
the persons who use checks would
have been wiser if they had urged
the retention of the stamp tax and
it's extension to many other forms of
business documents-to affidavits and
agreements, to receipts, appraise-
ments, and all forms of licenses, to
leases, promissory notes and bills of
exchange, to bills of lading, mort
cages and deeds, drafts and declara-
tions, powers of attorney, securities,
and so on.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-03
15be .5effersonian

Of course, this suggestion will
make many worthy citizens gasp with
amazement. But after some refec-
ton they will see that it is a sensi-
BILE suggestion. Other countries find
it so. There are lands where every
poster has stamp affixed. Why
not? You have to pay taxation in
some way, even though you never re-
ceive a tax bill. A great many per-
sons find it difficult to get this fact
into their heads; nevertheless, it
makes it's way to their pockets. The
Government wants more revenue
Very we'll, why not get it from stamp
taxes? Why load up the tariff? Of
course, it is easy to get it from the
tariff because a majority of the peo-
pie seem to think that somebody else
pays the tariff duties.
The stamp taxes of the United
Kingdom bring in about $40, 100000
a year. Taxes similarly imposed in
this country would bring in more.
Last year the British Government re-
ceived over $15,00O,000 for stamps
on deeds; over $4,3OO,000 for stamps
on bills of exchange; over 100000
for stamps on bonds; over $685,000
for stamps on contracts; over ST.
100000 for stamps on marine insur-
ances; over $45O,000 for stamps on
life assurances; over $8,6O0,000 for
stamps on receipts and drafts; over
$4,000 for stamps on packages of
playing cards; and so following.
Why not give some favorable con-
sideration to system of stamp taxes
in this country? What valid objec-
ton can be raised against them?
Are they inconvenient? What tax
is convenient? And why is it more
inconvenient to stamp business docu-
ments than to stamp letters? The
truth is that a system of taxation by
means of stamps is practical sys-
tenn employed by practical nations
which look after the details of their
national expenditure much more
closely than we do in this country
Some Congressman with courage and
information should interest himself
in the subject; associations of bust
ness men would do we'll to discuss it;
publicists to write about it. The
American public will be the gamer
as it becomes more familiar both
with the theory and practice. Stamp
taxes are not paid by the other fell
low-Boston Herald.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-03
ALL FOR ONLY $3.50
The Ti-WeekIy Constitution

and Waon Weekly Jeersonan of the best farm and home
papers published The Constitutions and special features and
departments all addressed especially the business the
farm the head of affairs his domain. It almost daily
and right with the outside world it's for your read
ing every other day No farmer should deny himself the luxury of
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-03

Both men and women can make
money with us. Free admittance.
Particulars 2-cent stamp. Texas
Prospectors Association, Dallas, Tex.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-03
READ THIS BOOK

The Cause of Our Financial Pan
les, and How They May be Averted.
By S. Fourtner. Worth it's weight in
gold. Price rs cents. Address
Peoples Protective Association
P. o. Box 81, Seattle, Wash.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
A Wandering Monument.

1t is probable that no burial monu-
ment in existence has more peculiar
history than one placed over the grave
of young man who was buried on
the banks of the AssinibOine River
in Manitoba, Canada. Everyone natu-
rally supposed it would remain there
The ground, however, is sloping, and
owing to the nature of the soil the
bank, grave, monument and all. have
been gradually sliding downhill. Re-
Gently. the new Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway constructed their roadway
some little distance away, and the i'm
mense weight of the embankment
greatly accelerated the pace OF the
landslide. The stone, still bravely
endeavoring to preserve the perpen-
dicular, is now at least a hundred feet
from it's original position, and the
question arises as to the whereabouts
of the grave which it formerly COW
cred, but undoubtedly no longer does
Wide World Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern; Can
adian Pacific; Chicago Z Northwest
ern; Northern Pacific; and Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul
THE reasons in favor of the tcle-
phone are clear and concise. In the
first place, counting the time saved In
calling and the quicker repetitions, or
ders are handled about SO per cent
quicker than by telegraph. This means
that the dispatcher can dispose of his
work that much faster, has more time
to figure out movements, meeting
points, etc, and can handle Il great
many more trains on his track, and
handle them more promptly. Another
important feature is the fact that IL
works as well in bad or foggy weather
as in good, which is not the case with
the telegraph. Bad weather does not
mean instruments out of adjustment
and an operator breaking in the middle
of an Order with a string of dots like
the discharge of gatling gun, trying
to adjust himself and not knowing how
The telephone remains in adjustment in
any kind OF weather. The signaling
apparatus NAV be affected. but the
telephone will not he"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
What May HAPPEN to Earth.

The earth and all its inhabitants are
doomed inevitably to destruction, ac-
cording to Prof. Percival Lowell, who
declared in the last of his lectures on
Evolution of Worlds" yesterday af-
ternoon that one of four possible fates
awaits this planet and everything on
it. tramp star might strike the
earth, he said, and grind it and it's
people to powder, or ride full tilt into
the sun, when the earth's living crea-
lures would be scroched to death.
Tidal friction. by it's gradually retard-
ing force, might paralize the earth's
motion so that one side of the globe
would be eternally baked by the sun
and the other side forever trapped.
This has already happened to Mercury
and Venus, the professor explained.
By the loss of all water and air
through depletion or absorption the
earth might become dry, desiccated
mummy of a planet, wandering life
lessly through space. Mercury, again,
is an example of this and so is the
moon. The most sure death of all.
however, as depicted by Prof. Lowell,
is the decay and freezing of the sun,
which is certain to occur sometime
gigantic ball, bereft of all radiance
and warmth, and it's retinue of inert.
dark tramps, among them the earth.
will drift about awaiting collision with
some other planetary derelict, which
would mean at once destruction and
new blrth.-Boston Journal.
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Some Needed Inventions.

padded card table for use in smoking
cars for whist playing commuters, so
that when they play the winning card
the cacophanous sounds of their knuckles
striking on the table may not disturb the
reveries of suburban poets composing
protect the said knuckles from being
Skinned.
meter to be placed upon the meter of
taXicabs, to register how much farther
the meter on the cab has Travelled in a
given course than the cab has; also one
with photographic attachment that will
announce in stentorian tones the amount
of the fare registered on dark nights
when IT is impossible for the passenger
to see the dial.
foot holder to be screwed on the
floor of Subway and other cars for the
restraint. and holding within proper
bounds the feet of those who. hiding be-
hind their morning paper cross their legs
and project their pedal extremities three
feet out into the aisle. designed to pro-
tect the company against those who are
daily getting any number of extra trips
for nothing
a mewless cat that will serve by day
as pet for the children without becom-
ing nuisance to the whole neighbor-
hood when he INDUCES in discussion OF
the tariff or other subjects on the back
yard fence in the otherwise Silly hours OF
the night: also rubber boot-jack which
when thrown at the same, will be suffi-
GENTLY resilient to bounce back into the
owners hands.
An ash or SCOT sitter, to be worn over
the collar. so that ones neck linen may
trade. or an employee of the garbage-re-
mcval department.. after a five minutes
promenade through the streets of our
large c1tieS.-Harper's Weekly.
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The Chinese Almanac.

The Chinese Almanac is the most
largely circulated publication i'm the
world. the copies printed and sol /
yearly reaching several millions 1t is
printed at Picking and is monopoly of
the Emperor. no other almanac being
permitted to be sold in that country
Although containing reliable as
Economical information, it's chief mis-
sion is to give full and accurate infor-
nation for selecting lucky places foy
performing all the acts, great and
small, of everyday life And as every
act of life in China, however trivial
depends for it's success on the time in
which and the direction (point OF
compass) toward which it is done, il
is of the utmost Importance that
everyone should have correct informa-
ton at all times available to enab.e
him so to order his life as to avoid bad
luck and calamity and secure good
luck and prosperity. So great is tbs
native faith in its infallibility that not
long since the Chinese Minister 20
Germany refused to sail on day
which had been appointed because /,
was declared in the almanac to be un-
lucky.-New York Herald
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Clusters Last Barracks.

All that is left of old Fort Lincoln
is one of the trees which stood in front
of the Commanding Officers quarters.
understand this tree was left stand
ing because it marked the set of
quarters occupied by General Custer
when he started on the Campaign OF
1876, which resulted in the massacre
of him and his command on the Little
Big Horn. The ground, formerly &C.
cupied by the Quartermaster's office,
Commissary office, storehouscs,
stables, and blacksmith shop, l found
fenced off into fields of growing wheat
and corn.
Impelled by sentiment. | picked my
way slowly over the debris until |
stood in front of my old open fireplace,
around which so many hours had been
spent in happy song. My mind
wandered back to many scenes that
came wildly before me as they had
been when l used to sit, guitar in hand.
singing, dreaming, and watching the
pictures in the smoke often until Che
wee sma' hours, with naught but the
freight to illuminate the faces in the
large, square room.-"Uncle Sans
Magazine
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San Francisco's New Chinatown.

Among the various features of the
old Chinatown not yet provided for in
the new, is the theater. In the old
Chinatown there were two large thea
ters AS yet, they have not been re-
placed, but site is prepared at the
corner of Clay and Stockton streets,
and plans have been drawn for a
building which is to cost $4,000 and
will be far superior to either of the
old ones. lNea
The theaters in San Francisco's
Chinatown were famous. and in the
audiences there We're always a large
number of whites. The plays are his
and accompanying it to the end, even
if it occupies ten years or ten CEN
turtles. The plays are filed with mag
nificent pageants and the actors
CARRIED in gorgeous costumes.
The new Chinatown contains no Joss
House. In the old Chinatown there
were half dozen of these gorgeous
temples, ana the absence of these
places of devotion eXciteS comment
from all visitors. But the Chinaman
is practical before everything. When
you interrogate the dwellers in China
town about the absence of the Joss
House. they reply that they are not
any less religious than they were, but
they think that shops. dwellings and
schools ought to be built before tenn
pies.
To show the up-to- datcness of China
town, the San Francisco Telephone
Company has Chinese Central"
In the telephone book there are over
five hundred numbers belonging to Chi
nese subscribers. In this book the
names and numbers appear both in
Chinese and in ordinary characters.
Thus these members of one of the old
est and most conservative of nations
are more progressive in this regard
than many merchants in European
cities Bohemian
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MONUMENTS TO POTATOES.
Statues of Sir Francis Drake Erected
in German Cities.

When I was in Germany last year.
said man who travels. 81 saw some
people who like potatoes even bette
than l do. At any rate they erect
statues to them.
"Offenburg was the first city to erect
monument of this kind. The upper
part consists of a statue of Sir
Francis Drake, who introduced the
plant into Europe. This, as well as the
pedestal. is draped with garlands of
the potato vine. with full-growrl
tubers.
"On the pedestal on one side is Six
Francis brakes name. the second side
explains what a blessing the potato
has been to mankind, the third records
that the statue is a gift of a certain
Andrew Frederick, of Strasburg, the
fourth contains the names of the cree
tors. A statue similar to this is placed
in the town of Murz, and / have been
told that there are other copies IN
many small towns. New York Sun
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Dead Letters in Germany.

The dead letter department of the
German imperial postoffice is working
overtime. and from a comparison IT
the statistics compiled for number
of years the persons who use the mails
are growing more careless or ignorant
of the correct method of writing the
address. OF every million pieces of
mail handled by the imperial post the
unbelievable mater increased from 1921
pieces in 1904 to 1896 in 1907. a gain
of PIT per cent. During the latter
year an average of 10000 pieces OF
mail were sent daily to the dead letter
department to puzzle the experts.
Although illiteracy is exceedingly
rare among the native Germans, where
a good education is possible for any
child, nevertheless the incorrectly adj
dressed letters are, for the most part
examples of a woeful lack of schooling
1t is very probable that in the vast
majority of cases the sender is a newly
arrived immigrant, possessing practi-
cally no education one of the great
class that has been attracted by
Germany's rapid commercial develop
ment. Many of the dead" letters
entirely omit the point of destination
in the address. and others give only
the first name of the addressed In
In 1907 rs per cent. of the nonde-
liveries were of the picture postal
variety.-Harper'S Weekly