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family gets an idea these days that it
is an increase of many times LII per
cent,-St Louis Republic.

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family gets an idea these days that it
is an increase of many times Ill per
cent,-St. Louis Republic.
Speaker Cannon's Enemies In Com
Eress.
Not infrequently 1t happens that a
veteran who has trodden smoky fields
OF battle without perturbation or COM
lplaint serves out his time and comes
home to places of peace, only to al
low "trifles light as air" to utterly un.
balance his temper. Such seems to
have been the case with Uncle Joe
Cannon, when the House the other
day put a climax to all his wrongs
by refusing an appropriation to main.
tain a 10y wagon" for the Speaker.
Thereupon Uncle Joe took the hoor,
and in speech in which his long.
bitterness of spirit voiced
itself he Sdefied the combined Repub.
lican insurgents and Democrats to re.
move him from the Speakers chair!
AS an evidence OF the Speakers excite
ment and haste he spoke of the IN.
surgents as Republicans on this side
who do not approve of the personality
OF their Speaker IS &.
The Examiner has seen no evidence
that any one In Congress has been
;tncited; to hostility toward Mr.. Can
non by anything purely personal III
himself. 1t is probably true that
many persons of quick perceptions or
fine. taste might imbibe a. prejudice
against him by merely encoantering
him in a street car. But the com
plants of the anti-Cannon men are
not based on any reconcile psycholog-
ical, emotions They do not oppose
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SERPENT AT THE BALI.


No Scene SO Gay nj Russian Court
That Fear Is Not Present.
For the grand balls at the court OF
Russia carloads Of rare flowers from
Nice, orchids and immense roses, came
every week to decorate the big houses
thrown open and the tables were load
ed with delicacies from every corner Of
the world. AN invitation to dine, sent
out at the opening Of the season, fire.
squently meant that one was expected
every week upon the night indicated;
sone went If one could, in an easy, ia.
smiliar way. and the banquet Gas al
ways spread, says a writer in the De.
lineator. One knew that many of these
iprodigal hosts and hostesses were
nearly bankrupt, and the peasants on
their estates might be starving and
that the humble tradespeople were
often not paid for years. ,.
But even in the midst Of this vast
display of wealth there is a hideous
scoiled serpent, ready to strike. 1t is
anarchy
All the guests were gathered, stand.
ing in complete silence as the doors
were thrown open for the entrance Of
the emperor and empress. Just as
they stepped across the threshold there
was distinctly heard in the hushed
room a sharp, unexpected click-click.
1t vas only the electric light as an
extra battery was turned on, but the
emperor uttered a lowscry and the en-
press staggered and turned pale, while
a moment of agonizing fear held the
roomful Of guests. t
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car.pesie On lvarlou. r \. &

During "a few days visit TO his for
ner homo city, Pittsburg, Andrew Car
,negte was much In the public eye and
was quoted on several live questions.
including the graft exposures, The:
Rockefeller Foundation, the hereafter.
ate. II was on Sunday in the famous
music hall folnded by himself that he,
spoke to large gathering Of citizens
ritter the free organ recital He said
that as his days lengt hened he was
drawn closer to the people with whom
he had been associated there. There
vas no time for the continuance of pet
~ jealousies. These should be for-s
gotten and they should live together as
brothers. He believed in the free Sun;
day concert, In an interview Carnegie,
said he thought that Rockefeller had
acted wisely and referred to his own
oft-quQted remark to the effect that to
die rich is to die dlsgraced. He had
found that the only class that benefits
from gifts is the class that helps itself.
He did not believe much in the So
called philanthropy. The day was com
ing whenf the State would take The
Submerged TENTH" house, clothej and
feed Il, hut never allow 1t to marry.
Carnegie seemed to be very sad over
the graft exposures in Pittsburg and
was inclined to think that the council
men had been debauched by the rich
bribers and were not so much to blame.
He sharply criticised those citizens who
had hooted and jeered Mayor Magce
when the latter tried to speak at q pull !.
lie meeting. Such conduct. he said,
was a blot on the city and would do
the cause Of reform more harm than
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Proare ssIon IL Lanq,uaoe,

It Is possible to tell almost. exactly
when the more elegant ''perspire"
drove out the vulgar asweat.p Accord.
ing to writer In the Gentleman's
Magazine in 1891 !, for some time past
neither man, woman nor child In
Great Britain and ireland. Of any rank
or fashion. has. been subject to the
gross form Of emulation which was
formerly known as sweat. Now ev-
cry mortal, except carriers, coal hea.
yers and charmen. merely 'perspire..
For these 20 years past the word
Sweat has been gradually becoming
more and more odious.1 Before ITO
or SO "perspiratioh. commonly meant
an Ynsensible process. s'sweatings the
grosser variety theredt. In one of his
sermons Wesley remarked that dur;
ing nights sleep ! healthy man pers,
pires one part In four less when he
sweats than when he does not That
would be meaningless to-day.
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Steal. for starving.

II Just couldn't stand It, Judge. My
father was out of work and despond-
ent. My mother was in Ill health, and,
my six brothers and sisters were
starving and in rags.
when the shop was closing, and l
thought wouldn't be seen, saw
those two dresses and thought how
useless they were in the store, and
how useful they would be to u.s., Then
i just took them"
Z This was the plea made to Magis.
trate Steinert in Jefferson Market
court by 16-year.old Charles Cater of
426 East Seventy-ninth street. charged
with stealing two silk dresses from
his employer, David Harris, of 1922
Fifth avenue. The boy was held. q
Young Caters story was verified
by an American reporter. He found
the family Of eight huddled in three
small rooms on the top floor of the
tenement at the Seventy-ninth street
address. There was practically no fur
niture in the fiat, not even a bed. Mr..
Cater is painter and decorator. He
has been out of work since Christmas.
Yesterday he told of the circum.
stances that made his boy thief.
HE is not bad boy. It, was only
love for us that made him thief"
said the father. Il know they can't
punish him simply for thinking Of his
home folks. can they?'-New York
American!
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~~~oo,

Things MIR. Taft snys Are aProved.,I
In the banquet-room at Providence.
r. u, with Senate. Aldrich himself
seated on his left, President Taft de-
clared that the practical operation dur.
ing seven months of the Aldrichs tariff
had proved seven propositions
That's one a month. YOU see.
One was to the effect that afree'
trade with the Philippines is msas.
5ure Of Justice, This Gree trade has
restrictions on imports Of Philippine
rice, sugar and tobacco, but ehe sub;.-
stantial truth Of the proposition must
sbe admitted. Another was that the
creation of;sthe new Customs Court
has Droyidedsa means for: the speedy
and Just determination OF tariff law.
The court hasn't yot beef organized,
SO its creation cannot yet have
proved anything, but the truth Of
this must. too, be admitted, prospec-
lively. No doubt the court will full.
NIL expectation. The value Of his new
Tariff Board is problematical. His
Idea offsuch a board is quite different
from the board for which Congress
I has made provision. rs, z
~ With his sother five propositions
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Bsre.iee'. a.e...

The children were playing about the
yard, where the old black gardener
was fixing up the flower beds. AS he
worked he KEPT up agunning CONVEX
sations with Berenice, the 8-year-old: 81
4 .Lemme see. how many of you chill
lluns p they Ellen am Zulia an Lulu
an Beteness an Billy Five Nv uin!
Foah gal chiiluns an a boy chillun!
Well, now All s. got Ave lil'schilluns at
nah house; Whpt you reckon they all
.is?n h \:
What do I reckon they all is?y re-
piled Berenice scornfully, /" reckon
they're all little niggers, that's what
reckon. + Houston Post. 4
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standard ON c.njtai.

Earnings of the Standard Oil Com
pany are understood to be at a rate
between s0,oO0, 900 and $4,000, 900 a
year as against disbursements Of
roundly $4,000, 900 a year to share
holders. While no definite action has
been taken by the company to In.
crease its capital, 1t Is known that
certain inside interests favor larger
capital and consequently smaller divi-
dends. The company is engaged in
litigation with the government, and IT
is not thought here WIFI be any en-
largement. Of the capital until after
the company shall have disposed .of
the litigation. has been suggested
several times that the stock be In
creased to $6OO, 100000 Chicago Trib.
s,,po ~ q III ets.fl ~ y q {f1s1tHs
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him so much for what he Is as for
what he has done! They maintain
that. he has disgraced the chair where
Clay, Colfax- and Blaine used to sit,
by an sfmpudent exercise OF gavel,rule,
butterfly intolerable to any self-respect-
ing re Preventative Worse yet, they
alfege tthatS his insolept domination Of
debate and procedure has always been
lii the effort to cripple or destroy use
full measures aimed at the predatory
| trusts. And they afarm that his con.
duct in this respect has been so per-
sistent and increasingly offensive to
the House and Injurious to the coun-
| try that to complain is no longer a,
privilege, but duty.
We believe them. We further ven
ture to say that duty in this case
ought not to stop with protest Can
mons battle-gage lies on the floor OF
the House, and nothing would SO at.
ltlngly finish the history of jo-cannon-
Itism as would congressional action va.
eating his position as Speaker! Then,
lif 10 would only appeal to the cleo
tors Of the Eighteenth Illinois Dis
ltrict. and If they should act at the
polls as decent, capable. second
thought must prescribe, nothing would
be left Of Cannon to trouble the coun-
lstry more than an. unpleasant recollec-
ton! Chicago Examiner.
IAdfann Republican, Answer MT.
- Taft. ~ ~ 81
AS vainly as 'anxiously will Mr..
Taft scan the platform adopted by the
Indiana Republican convention for
some word expressing approval of the
Aldrl ch-P Payne tariff law. This sig
nffcant omission, coupled with the
platforms demand for the speedy mod
if1cation of that law SO that the Amer
lean tariff shall be measured by the,
difference between the cost Of produc-
| ton here and abroad; and for the i'm
mediate creation OF genuine, per-.
manent, nolpartisan tariff commission
with ample powers and definite duties
fixed In the law itself. = proves that
Beveridge, not President Taft, has es.
tablished the tariff doctrine for In
diana in this present year.
The senior senator from Indiana In
hist strong speech before the conven-
tion gave clear expression to the fact
that the President has receded long
way from the stand originally taken ~
him His recent earnest and frequent.
praise of the tariff as it came out of
the AIdrich-C Cannon conference commit
tee apparently has had no effect upon
the first convention of his party to be
held in a western state. That a consid-
cradle number of other states of the
middle west will follow Indiana's lead
In this respect is fairly certain.
Republicans in none of the other
western states. except Ohio. have more
pressing need of expressing popular
sentiment on the tariff than have the
Republicans of Indiana There the
! Democrats have strong hopes OF elect
ing their state ticket, winning the leg
islature and placing member of their
own party In the seat Of Senator Bev-
|,eridge.3 Naturally. therefore. Bey
eridge's stand for tariff reform was
made the most conspicuous feature Of
the convention. On his tariff-reforra
record rather than on that OF the Re-
publican President Indiana Republicans
hope to win the fall election.
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PAPER MONEY LONG IN USE.
Idea That This Particular Medium Of
Currency Is New, Is Erro-
Ni; roneous. (. II

d -. ~ i * : 10 I
Paper money properly guaranteed
lis now generally recognized through
out the world as the most satisfactory
and convenient form Of currency. It,
HIS not, however, as is very generally
supposed. a comparatively modern
idea. ~ Il
The celebrated traveller, Marco Pau
ID Of Venice, was the first person to
announce to Europe the Sexistence Of
paper money in China under the mo-.
guls. 1t was subsequently introduced
by the moguls into Persia, where
their notes were called .djaou, or,
djaw, a word evidently derived from
the Chinese word schaio, sfgnifying
e want Of specie"
|; The fact of the moguls having in
Chine and Persia made use Of paper
money has induced the. belief that
they were the originators Of it. But
I'm the history OF Tchinghiz,khan and
of the mogul dynasty IN China, pub
Ilished in the year 1889 4 the author
speaks Of the suppression of the pa
per, money, which was in use under
the dynasty of, the soung, who, reigned
lin Chiaasp reyious. to the moguls, and
he also mentions, q new species Of
notes which we're substituted for the
old In the year 1864. Il \
The original financial speculation Of
the Chinese ministry to provide for
the extraordinary expenditures Of the
Estate, which were exceeding the reve-
nues, was in the year 119. B. @. At
this period were introduced the phi,pt,
or value in skins. These were small
lpieces Of the skin OF deer, which were
Kept in q pen within the palace walls
They were q Chinese square foot in
lsike and we're beautifully ornamented
with painting and embroidery. The
price OF those skins was fixed at q
sum equal to about $65. y 4
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In indianapolis a convention repre-
senting every county In the state en-,
Enthusiastically applauded u <iolent at
tack upon the Aldrich;Taft tariff and
the trusts, and unanimously approved
resolutions praising Senator Bever-
idge for his anti.Aldrich attitude and
demanding honest downward revision.
The convention was not composed
Of Populists nor Democrats. 1T com.
prised the flower Of Hoosier Repub,
slicanism. Yet, to man, they de.
aounced the ubiquitous tariff in the
face of President .Taft's known, desire
that they should indorse it, and they
nominated a state slate Of anti Aldrich
men from top to bottom and demand
ed direct election of United States
Senators by. the people
II President Taft and the Repub-
lican grand dukes who form his en-
ftourage cherish any remaining delii-
sions that, the West Is reconsiled to
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MscH1EF MAKER.

( An adults food shat can save
baby proves itself to be nourishing
and easily digested and good for big
and little folks. A Brooklyn man
says: ss3
n When bah, was about eleven
months old he began to grow thin and
pale. This was; at first. attributed to
the heat and the facts that bis teeth
were coming, but, In reality. the poor
little thing was starving, his mothers
milk not being sufhcient nourishment.
Zone day after he had cried bitterly.
for an hour, suggested that my wife
try him ON Grape-Nuts. She soaked
two teaspoonfuls in a saucer with a
little sugar and warm milk. This
baby ate 80 ravenously that she fixed
second which he likewise finished.
1t was' not many days before he
forgot all about being nursed ana has
since lived almost excIusively on
Grape, Nuts. To-day theiboy Is strong
and robust, and as cute q mischief
maker as q thirteen months old baby
is expected to be.
we nave put before him other
foods, but he WILL have none Of them.
evidently preferring to stick to that
which did him so much good-his old
friend. Grape.Nuts
Use this letter any way you wish,
for my wife and / can never praise
Grape.Nuts enough after the bright.
ness II has brought to our house.
hold"
Grape Nuts is not made for q baby
food, but experience with thousands Of
babies shows At to be among the best,
II not entirely the best In use. Being.
scientific preparation Of Natures
grains, # is equally effective as a body
and brain builder for groWh.ups. I
Read the little book. .sThs Road to
Wellxille," In pkgs. there's Rea-
SON. ~ q: 4 IS VI si'.ii ls,
Ever read the above letter. A
new one appears frsm time to time.
They are genuine. true, and full 81
hwnsan interest. +. &
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there must be radical and perpetual
dissent, in the sense in which he lays

there must be radical and perpetual
dissent, in the sense in which he lays
them down that is. as propositions es
stablishing the merit Of; the new tariff
For instance, he says that it. is "the
best revenGe-getter we ever had
This may be true, though a revival OF
business after months Of depression
has caused abnormal conditions that
make a seven months test not alto.
Sgether conclusive as to its ultimate
operation. .Jl Z
One of the chief grounds of fcom.
plant against the law is that 1t is toe
altogether good as a reyenue-producer
1t takes too much money from the
pockets of the people. It lays too
heavy tax on the articles Of con.
sumption of the plain people. 1t
bears too heavy a load OF responsible
ity for an obnoxious period of high
prices.
Mr. Taft explains triumphantly that
the new, law has a'the largest free
list" 1t does put works Of art, 20
years old, on the free list, for which
we may be thankful. and sunday ar
ticles of art manufacture, excepting
stainel-glass windows. Radium, whose
existence was unknown when the
Dingley bill was framed, is added to
the free list. X.
But is Mr.. Taft measuring by tile
bushel Or BY the yard when he says its
free list is the "largest?e The value
of a free list consists in the char.
acter, not in the number. Of It's arti-
scles. 4, y.,5
What an inestimable privilege it
must be to the people to have kindling
wood admitted free and the lumber
of which their dwellings are construct
ed and the paper on which their read
ing matter is printed taxed exorbi-
family under minimum schedule and
taxed outrageously under maximum
schedule.
8 Those whom the exactions Of the
textile schedules are causing to take
anxious thought as to wherewith they
shall be clothed should be content.
How irrational, when joss sticks are
admitted free; also balm OF Gilead,
and stuffed birds not suitable for use
on millinery, and blue clay-sh6uldn't
our blue clay be protected against the
pauper blue clay Of Europe?- and
cuttlefish bone and ipecac and lots Of
things!
And how can Mr.. Taft, jurist, ac.
customed to weighing evidence. say
that it has been proved" during
thesa seven months that the Dingley
rates have been materially reduced?"
Those months have proved" nothing
of the sort; rather the contrary.
:; In the closing days of the special
session the results Of computation
made by experts OF average rates of
duty were given in the House by Con-
gresham H. T. Rainey, of Illinois.
Those results, which seem to have
commanded confidence as to their ac.
curacy and have been widely quoted
since, showed that under the Dingley
law the average duties. reduced to an
ead valorem basis, were AIS per cent.
The minimum schedules of the Payne
.Aldrich law provide for average du-
ties of 1887 per cent. The maximum
schedules Of that law provide for an
average of 70.S7 per cent.
Mr.. Taft's proved material reduc-
tion Is q minimum increase of LII per
vent. and the purchasing agent of the
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Waiter" said the man at the table
In the far corner of the restaurant.
"this piece Of steak is decidedly too an
,ient, in !spots.'
Our beefsteak is all alike to-day
sir" sthfiy answered the waiter, and
you are the only man that has found
lnythlng wrong with it."
Probably that's because am fast
eater" re1oined the other; II hit only
The high places."- Chicago Tribune
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thes tariff outrage, thc convention at

! 4 ~ : = IL
theS tariff outrage, the convention at
Indianapolis should undeceive them.
Indiana fs now in open revolt
against Aldrich and the Aldrich-Taft
tarih. Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and
other western states will follow the
example Of Indiana. The handwrits
ing on the wall grows larger day by
day. and the possibility Of Republican
victory in the congressional election
in November dwindles into less than
an apology for a forlorn hope.
With Democracy's Day Close az
/ Hand.
\ President Woodrow Wilson sees very,
near at hand the day when Democracy
must take charge of the AFFAIRS Of the
country. 1t is SO near at, hand, in his
view, that he exhorts to sober thought
Ion 50 great a responsibility. Let us
hope, when the day comes, 1t win find
that Democracy. after its long period
iof deprivation of power and closer as
ISOLATION with the people, Is prepared
for the task. Z,
Mr.. Wilson brings not only acute in.
telligence to Interpretation Of the signs
of the times. but the results of wide op-
portunities for observation. His state.
mentliat dinner at Elizabeth, N. J.,
was based on data collected during
visits which, as the head of Princeton,
he has made in recent months to many
parts ofthe. country.
i Mr.shWilson has his own ideas as to
the distinctive work Democracy should
undertake. A part OF that work as out.
lined by him relates to "details, highly
important "details, 1t is true, but still.
details. Here is something funda-
mental:
1t lis the duty Of the Democratic
pasty to challenge the people by every
possible means to depend upon them
selves rather than upon fostering pow
ers lodged in groups Of Individuals. &
Nothing in the line of party duty
and opportunity is more obvious.
Groups of individualsp is Wilsonese
for machines of various grades, from
municipal to the hog combine machine
lin the Cannonized House AS he says,
the process which the people have all.
ready anaugurated In taking charge Of
their own Government in the smaller
political units should be extended to-
the larger, even to the general Govern.
ment of the units as a whole.
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w.nted-r,,o open se..on..

l y
Western Massachusetts, farmers are
trying to secure an open season for
deer, which. owing to years of protec-
ton. have multiplied until they seri-
ously menace orchards and gardens.
causing the farmers much loss.
Protection has also increased New
England tariff wolves to an alarm
ing extent. and they seriously menace
American homes and American pros
perity.
The working West will gladly use
It's influence to help Massachusetts
farmers secure an open season for
deer, If Massachusetts farmers will
help the West secure an open season
for the tariff wolves Of New England.
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