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The Press., 1913-12-24

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 Borough lists of taxable property must be in the hands of the assessors on or before Jan. 1st in order to save an increase in the list. The assessors will be at the firemen's rooms in Borough hall building every Tuesday evening.
The Press., 1913-12-24

Thousands in Connecticut h ave practical, every day uses for telephone service. How about you?
The Press., 1913-12-24

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The Press., 1913-12-24

Have you a telephone in your home? If not, why not?
The Press., 1913-12-24

The solution of the Christmas Prob
 ! lem is a telephone.
The Press., 1913-12-24
FRUIT

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 GRAPES. Crisp, tinted Malagas and Emperors.
 APPLES. A variety of natives and Oregons.
 GRAPE FRUIT. sizes. t#CAL. BURRE BOSC PEARS.
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The Press., 1913-12-24
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

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The Press., 1913-12-24

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The Press., 1913-12-24

Never can tell when you'll mash 8 finger
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The Press., 1913-12-24

It is always fair weather to the Ehousekeeper who can do her daily twork by telephone.
The Press., 1913-12-24

Are you protected? Have you [
 in your home?
The Press., 1913-12-24


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The Press., 1913-12-24

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The Press., 1913-12-24

Made from pure sugar. Carefully packed in handsome 2-lb. boxes, thus preserving the luster, preventing breakage and keep ing out dust and dirt.
 It's pure and wholesome
The Press., 1913-12-24

A. RAISINS % Fancy Table Clusters v (S. s. Pierce's best) in l ID. packages, 25c. 4 Grown Loose Muscatels,
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-05

Calls memory may be bad,
and then again his imagination
may be good. Anyhow, the as
sault upon Mrs. Beach occurred
on the night Of Feb. 20, 1912, al
though, owing to an error in a
court document, all the papers in
the country have heretofore given
it as Feb. %. Also the assault oc-
CURED just at $50 P. M
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-05

St. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 5.-A. B.
Call, professional long-distance
walker and runner, says he was
on the grounds of Frederick o.
Beact's home at Aiken, S. c., on
the night Of Feb. %, 1912, when
Mrs. Beach was the victim Of a
murderous attack for which her
husbands now on trial.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-05

Beach. A states chemist said
the spots on the knife were blood
corpuscles. The knife was intro
duced in evidence.
Gyles also testified to return
ing the earrings which were torn
from Mrs. Beach's ears to Beach.
Asked why he had done so, he
said that they were so worthless
he did not think of keeping them.
A deposition by Miss Lallah
Wyman, and testimony by Dr..
Hastings Wyman and his son,
Marion, was as follows
They had heard Mrs. Beach
screaming in the yard. They saw
a man running away. They
heard a door close in the house.
they heard the cries frow less
loud, as if they came from within
the house. Ihey heard some one
knock on the Beach door and
mans voice shout, angrily:
This is Beach; let me in. "
The case of the state is entire
" circumstantial, Besides the
points brought out, the prosecu-
ton will show that the Beach
cottage is in the heart of the city
and that it would have been i'm
possible for man to run from
the Beach garden after a murder
Gus assault through that section
at $50 o'clock at night without
being observed.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 5.-A. B. /
Call OrOfeesiOna1 1ot10-dietanre
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-05

Cali has written Beach offering
|. to go to Aiken and testify he saw
a negro run from the Beach
grounds that night.
1 was walking from Savan-
nah, Ga, to Boston, Mass, on
wager, said Call today. "On the
night of Feb. % lastyear, having
done about 80 miles that day, I
went into the yard of a home at
Aiken, S. C., to rest.
This was about 9:3O o'clock.
I found sheltered place and,
wrapping myself in blanket, fell
asleep. I was awakened by
someone stepping on my chest.
1T was a big negro. He jumped
back and I, still half asleep,
grabbed for him. He sidestepped
and disappeared. I heard
woman scream and there was a
commotioh in the neighbours
house across the street.
q believed a burglary had been
committed and thought it no
healthy place for a stranger to be
found. l got up and slipped out of
the grounds. AS I was going I
saw a man I believe to have been
Beach going through the
grounds. He held a revolver.
Il walked about a mile before
I looked at my watch. 1t was
1915 o'clockg
Calls memory may be bad,
and then again his imagination
may be good. Anyhow, the as
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
According to Uncle Ahner.

! have never seen burglar smoke
corncob pipe. especially when he was
on the job.
ROSTERS tail amt with two-bits
on the rooster, but it makes noise
like So when ii is on u hat in the
milliners window.
Elmer Jones says he met swell
chicken down to the city and she had
so much confidence in him that she
let him buy her 81 dinner. but she
had another engagement directly after
wards
! always git suspicious OF any Teller
VINO Is too sol dummed polite.
II begins TO look as though the COM
bination union suit has come to STAY
have seen n good many yaller dogs
but there amt one of 'em that don't
respect more than the Teller who makes
remarks about wimmen.
There amt any fellcr who kin criti-
cize show more severe than the one
who gets in on a pass
n hot-tenpered woman never ought
TO wear cellulod combs in her hair.
Goldfish is mighty nourishing dish.
but it occurs too frequently in some
lives to be fully appreciated
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14

pulling handy little girls pigtail.
He turns loose whistles of most dovilish
ingenuity and penetration. They sound
Ike being stabbed with n knife. Why
me pitcher docs not cringe and shrivel
before the blast can never be explained.
The feminine portion of the audience
and be quite sure that there is n fem
mime portion, duly chaperoned and
point-device in MILDLY blouses and bulG-
ing hair ribbons-is only distinguished
from the masculine by the fact that It
is not quite so gyroscopio II tries to
SIT still, and ends in perpetual wig
siins' us cries are inhuman. falsetto,
heaven seeking. 1t understands not
when to yell, SO yells necessarily.
Against this magnificent setting of
noise pass many comedy features. The
queer effect of a pitcher four and a
half feet high, who winds UP for five
minutes as If the victim of green
apples, and then launches n ball with
the terrible velocity OF a falling leaf
In autumn. must be seen. 1t cannot he
described. The ridiculous endcavors OF
bullpup to play tag with tho ball
become side splitting when the pup
chases the umpire around second base,
while the owner ''sicks' him on. Tho
spectacle of mild principal trying to
settle dispute by reading n rule book
in the centre OF n maelstrom of burb-
ling boys is essentially democratic
EVEN the batboy. who. to be in proper
focus, Is just half the length Of the
bat is miracle OF good ma tured POM
posity.
Apparently the game never ends, Yet
IL does give lot of healthy exercise
to the human young. and If mothers SIT
up ia'e mending rent trousers. doubt
Tess they do 1t with the gentle smile
mat transfigures woman into a ma
donna.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
From The HickcyvilIc CIorIon.

The members of Hank Tumms' lodge
chipped in and bought him Il hand
some watch fob. and now lie has got
TO go and buy n watch to hang il on.
There are times when every Teller
prays TO be saved from his fool friends.
Anse Frisby placed an order for n
new oatmobile down in the city the
other day. and the salesman said.
Your new car will have splendid
finish" Anse said. I'm glad OF 1t.
The last one 1 had had fierce finish.
1t tried TO butt a street car off the
track"
Elihu simms says there amt any
thing in this world like good old
corncob pipe. and I guess, by gravy,
hes right At least, there amt any
ming in the world that smells like it,
y photograph with rubber ear tubes
had just been installed in music
house in Hickeyville, and the first Gus
TONER to drop a nickel In the slot TO
enjoy the music was a farmer. Tho
clerk handed him the ear tubes, placed
them in the proper position in tho old
mans ears and started the machine.
The old man instantly dropped the
tubes and started for tho door on the
run. crying. Thunder and lightning.
hold on minute there's n brass band
coming down the street and there amt
nobody a-holding my team"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
Voice Of the People
Actors Plead for Bird protcct,on

To the Editor OF The Times- Dispatch:
Sir-As members OF tho Audubon
Society. we are deeply Interested in
legislation relating to the protection of
birds, If the bill has not already
passed we hope sincerely that it will
be passed. and it is incredible to think
mat 1T could meet with any other
fate.
AS Colonel Roosevelt has said, 81, is
disgrace 70 America that we should
permit the sale of aigrettes"
when some aigrette company tried
70 establish itself in New Jersey, Pres
ident Wilson. who was then Governor
OF that State, killed the bill that would
have allowed this indecent traffic. and
expressed himself in these words: II
thlhk New Jersey can get along with
out blood money"
The aigrcttc il torn from the live
mother bird in the nesting season. and
the little ones are left to starve
one OF the plume hunters Of n
southern country writes: The ma
tiyes of the country do virtually all
Of the hunting for feathers have
seen them frequently pull the plumes
from the wounded birds. leaving the
crippled birds to die of starvation. un-
able to respond to the cries of their
Young in the nests above. which were
calling for food ] have known these
people TO tie and prop up wounded
eerets on the marsh where they would
attract the attention of other birds
lying by. These decoys nre kept in
this position until they die of their
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
TmE CnowDED EARrH.

Tho islands of tho earth are these
days laboratories OF social experiment.
They are faced with peculiar problems
because they are small and they are
full. For perhaps the first time in
human history there is sense of
pressure from mere mass of people.
One aspect of this pressure is touch
ing the United states on the west.
Japan is an overcrowded island 1t is
not peculiarly fertile or productive
Its imports are constantly increa sing
without corresponding increase of
exports TO balance the trade ledger.
The only solution is to move the sur
plus population elsewhere II seeks n
means of expansion in every 0irec
ton. California, Mexico, Hawaii. con-
stitutc some of the most convenient
points for growth. The Immediately
surrounding territory in China, India
and Asia generally is suffering in the
same way as Japan. They offer no
advantages to the restless japanese
Their lands are equally covered with
people. and the prolonged intensive
cultivation has reduced foodstufrs to
a dangerous minimum.
Therefore, the question OF JAPANESE
immigration TO California is more than
matter Of local prejudice or selfish
ness 1T Is in embryo the problem
that the whole world must sooner or
later face: to adjust balance he
tween productivity in people and nro-
ducuvity in means of life. Tho United
states is not feeling this pressure yer1.
heavily Yet. though with the gradual
settling of all open lands it daily ho
comes more imminent. That is one
reason Tor the high cost OF living.
Ihere are more people to keep alive
yet the area OF the globe has not bae,
increased, and the improved methods
OF cultivation have not kept pace with
the demands of fresh births. The
tumult in England is largely due 10
the same cause. The tight little
island is really tight. 1t can no
Longer send Its younger sons TO other
lands. They are filling. too, and pro-
tecung themselves. The strike ~
Belgium is "a similar evidence of tho
economic problems faced by a small
country that is not making enough
1000 and cannot expand
Mnnifestly, this is n basic question
sooner or later 1t Will mean cutting
down the birth rate in order that those
VINO are born may be improved in
quality. II the State Departments OF
me nations Will look this fact square
IN the eyes. they might make less
'utiie attempts to adjust makeshift
poNcles 70 Inevitable laws
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
NIINIATi-NE EANs

Any cynIc VINO thinks that fervid
has died i'm the world just
because he is no longer young might
Well spend an evening on tho bleachers
st Byrd Park. watching q baseball
game between the grammar schools.
u he feel not again the rlamor OF the
Younger years and the wild patriotism
Of youth that mngnifcs a game into a,
cause, he is indeed already dead. ana
Ut IS unseemiy that he be walkiue,
around in the guise OF life For tho
team and tile fans are both genuine
WIN the safety valves tied down. and
every ounce Of energy pounding 10 one
chd victory for Madison or Fairnoun,
OF central
Inc principal rule OF such snorts
seems mat AT no moment Of tine shall
mere he ANYTHING short OF pand.,no.
mum. The miniature fan has any
'n'nf np''a miniature voice. lie roots
win his lungs his hands. his feet o, ~.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
1.-THE GREATEST LIVING sTr>oc
RAPHI.t."

VINO Is the greatest living stenorro-
pher? Remington Notes answers nm
ne is Woodrow Wilson. "a shorthand
writer and skilled typist" His skin
IN these allied arts has not served hin,
"s stepping stone 10 success. as il has
Editor Box, t;eorge.13 Cortelyou. Wi.
liam Loeb. Jr, Frank A. Vander,;p
Morgan a Shuster ana others who b5va
climbed the keys TO fame. win ~.
resident on the other hand. s,ennu-
iephy. although never a direct means
81 livelihood, has always been ana
sun Is an ever present help in ali his
tasks and duties Few Other man ,,.,.o
had the foresight and patience to mas
ter shorthand for personal use ana
soieiy because OF It's time saving ad-
Fantases over longhand. In doing tbis
me PRESIDENT has given a splendid ox.
ample To all other men who haze I'm
portant work TO do in the world" says
the typewriter journal
Just after Mr. Wilson was nominated
Tor Governor OF New JERSEY II hoco,,o
known that he used shorthand. Asked
about 1t, he replied 81 write shorthand
learned =, a,ra ~ years.
.o,d. ia n''een years
shorthand His outlines are declsro,,
excellent sborthand @ r'ciaFen
Great va,ua g. III ~ 'eeH OF
,eac,A, aru ms WORK as
He wr,.,o III o''THe PRESIDENT
ct;ef ,o.,,t.,ra,oa(. ''essase as
hand ana inc, $500 ~ S'loF, r.
manuscript, ~ ~. .l,, "Ao'e
American pcon,o. '"e
shorthand ana No, ,.,., o'e ~
machine rhe sa,nn ,..a 49, ." 'he
Of his guberoatoriol ,nos..,,I - n'"iy
his machine ovorn.,,,o1 ''''
c,uid take it 10 The lyni,a Hd..s ,,' ne
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14

scots. have seen the terrible red
ants OF that country actually eating
iI out me me eyes or these wounded, help
Wlthin sound of the call of their young
! could write you many pages of the
horrors practiced in gathering aigrette
feathers In Venezuela by the natives
Tor the millinery trade of Paris and
New York"
Intelligent, kind hearted women
wear these aigrettcs. birds Of paradise
ana other hat ornaments because they
are Ignorant as TO the manner in which
these things are obtained. No self
respecting woman (and, above all. no
mother) with anything resembling n
heart will consent to wear aigrette G
or certain furs. once she has learned
or OF me unspeakahle horrors. that attend
their procuring. Ostrich feathers are
humanely obtained, and may be worn
with clear conscience.
There is need for immediate action
aigrette traffic in the United States
The United States Congress has con-
vened in special session for the pur-
pose of passing the revised tariff. The
officers of the Audubon Societies have
strong grounds for believing that it
VIII be possible to have inserted In
this a provision prohibiting the inn
portation OF aigrettes. provided a wide
campaign of publicity can be imme-
diately inauGurated
mcnt by notifying millinerS that they
will withdraw patronage from any
millinery establishment that permits
The sale of aigrettes or other plumes
barbarously obtained. Women enter
ing a strange millinery establishment
can be OF the greatest service If. be-
fore making any purchases, they will
Inquire whether or not aigrettes are
sold by the establishment.
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE,
GEORGE ARLISS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
On the Spurofthe Moment
BY Roy X. Moulton

The Gcrmless Man.
OH Iupos came into this sad world
way back in ancient days,
betore the folks had started in the
germ and microbe craze.
no used to drink from old tin Guns
upon tho railroad train,
And never had q thought of death or
cen the slightest pain.
NO ptomaine poisoning for him; he
ate just what he'd wish.
ana never stopped to sterilize a knife
or cup or dish
He didn't seem to realize the chances
that he took,
AND what he didn't know of germs
would fill a large sized book.
He slept with windows closed Mt night
whenever 1t was cold.
FOR or tho perils OF bad air no never
had been told
Whene'er his jackknife made n slim
and carved right through the fat
he tied rag around his thumb and
let 1T go at that.
snake bites would mover worry him.
he would chew up about
"A pound OF plug and slap it on and
draw tho pizen out
There were no dlsinfected towels or
sanitary cash
Ut treatises on how to dodge tho mi
crobes In the hash
Old Bill kept iingerin along as happy
as a child.
He violated all tho rules of health that
were compiled.
The new ideas concernin' germs kept
bobbin' up. but he
RAD not the least attention far as any
one could see.
The up-to-date folks warned him that
he must reform or die
me microbes were just waiting for to
send him up on high:
but ne remained the same old reck-
less, germ -defying Bill
ana strange to say, In spite of all,
he's hangin' round here still.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
Tucker I'm the Ronk..

The announcement given out In
Washington Friday by Hon. Harry ST.
q. Tucker, that he would not be q can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for Governor. was learned with sur
prise and regret in Lexington His
near approach TO attaining tho nomina-
ton four years ago. the large number
or friends he has attached to him
throughout the Commonwealth and the
popular good will and public confidence
ne enjoys. gave assurance OF his max
ing n highly creditabe. If not alto
gether successful contest next summer
against Mr.. Stuart. For reasons satis-
factory to himself, n controlling ono OF
which Is probably his accord on pro-
gressive policies with Stuart who
promised to be his only opponent. he
mas declined to enter the field as a
candidate. His recognition of the dig
hitY ana Importance of the position OF
private citizen, who without asking
Tor Office. lights for good government.
can well be appreciated, and is worthy
or the example of others too many OF
whom commit to the officeholding and
ONCE seeking class altogether the de-
termination of public questions in the
commonwealth ana county. The office
holding class, particularly in Virginia
the county News is becoming more and
more convinced, assumes too much TO
be the rulers and too little the scry-
ants of the people. Mr.. Tucker is well
coined into the ranks of those who. as
private citizens. having only an ambi-
ton FOR good government, are deter
mined TO exercise their authority bv
speech utterance and votes as the real
rulers OF the Commonwealth -Rock
bridge County News
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
Indifference arises because they are

Indifference arises because they are
Interested In other things"?
The true underlying reason the ma
1ority OF the young voters are !ndif-
terent TO their civic duties Is because
of the contempt they have towards tho
way politics are conducted not ONLY
IN cities, but even smaller places The
blame by rights ought TO be laid on
the shoulders OF the young voters
elders. who Indifferent TO the rule
OF grafters Incompetence thrust into
public offices at the command of no.
iitical bosses). and city Hall rings that
control and defy the will of the peo-
pie.
When the older voters. realizing the
necessity for good government. show
their utter Indifference TO the welfare
or the community by failing to unite
ana overthrow corrupt rule they are
laying the foundation of the Drimnl
ana principal reason that Is the cause
or dishehrtening many a young voter.
and taking away his desire TO perform
his civic dutieg
In the majority of cases, when the
young voter il asked why he does NOT
take an interest in civic affairs and
hght against boss rule and ring CON
troi' he VIII answer: What's the use?
ihey are In Office and IL will take an
earthquake to get them out" And
.ne young voters get this idea from
me rack or unity and inaction Of their
elders Once In n while one Young
voter out OF hundreds comes out and
goes in for political activity and be-
comes a leader
10 make tho young voter take nm
interest In his civic duties nm az
ample or progression and an unflinch-
iHB zeal Tor pure politics and good
government must be set him by those
VINO wish 10 crush corruption in mu
hicipal affairs. This desired rssuIt
cannot be brought about by few
sht'ns against corrupt political prao-
tees. but by the voluntary ,nitinr -
eether OF the respectable element to
GUST from office men who are a dis
grace and detriment to the munioI.
paiity-Fredericks burg Journal