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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-08-14
The Delivery Wagon.

At no time have people been so in
tent on studying distribution problems
as now. The cost of living is closely
bound up with transportation problems.
So small matter as the grocer or
milkman's delivery service seems to be
infnitesimal The task Is accomplished
so easily. We are prone to forget the
thousands of delivery men and boys
who devote their time to this work, yet
it is a service that must be paid for.
The consumer may well remember
that if the merchant charges 30 cents
for basket of Michigan peaches, de-
livered, a very definite portion of that
charge is because Of the expense Of de-
livery. 1t may be 5 or or 7 or 10
cents, but the charge is there inexor-
ably because the grocer must charge
delivery off to general expenses and
add it to all his goods.
The best way to reduce prices is to
reduce the expenses Of your grocer or
dealer. The simple life calls for the
consumer who is not imbued with any
false sense Of pride that prevents him
from carrying a market basket.
The problems Of retail distribution
are difficult but not insoluble. If the
consumer helps to simplify the prob.
lem. he mas be sure that it will mean
dollars and cents for him as certainly
as it does for the retailer. ~ Elk.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-08-14
Dividend for Fair Money!

Have you received it? No, nor you
wont, not even penny. There's not
even half as good chance this year as
last, when you got nothing, but should
have had an additional Is per cent. 1t
might be asked, Who is being ques-
toned? Why, creditors of the defunct
bank, of course.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-08-14
Fruits, Plants and Flowers.

The Mineral Point Fair is near at
hand. Do yon realize it, We growers of
fruits, plants and flowers? Begin your
preparations now for a big dislay; it's
none too soon. The more you exhibit
the better We want the best display
ever made. W. u, FRlEpEN, Supt.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-08-14

The Dorcas Society has made arrange
ments with the Best Concert Co. Of
Chicago for series Of three concerts
to be given in this city Oct. ! and %,
and Nov. o. This company presented
a series of concerts here last fall and
their return will be welcomed by our
citizens.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-08-14
Rest Room at the Fair.

The w. c. T, U. will conduct a rest
room on the fair grounds as usual dur
ing the fair. Parcels, lunches, etc.
will be checked for the sum of 10 cents.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03
WILDWOOD CREST

Mrs. Harry Teidemann closed bel
Crest cottage on Saturday and opened
her winter home In Camden.
Mrs. Agnes Matson, of the yacht
club, spent last week in New York.
E. G. Middleton has decided to KEEP
his store open all winter.
o. j. Leigh and family vacated theil
Pacific avenue cottage on Wednesday
and returned to their Manayunk home
They will visit the Trenton Fair.
HI. Stricken is on a trip OF a couple
weeks, visiting Montreal and Quebec
and various other points. Mrs. Strick.
Ter, who has been staying there nearly
all the season, will accompany bel
husband home.
Collector HI. w. Lare is spending
week In Philadelphia, combining bust
ness with pleasure.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leedom and Mrs. Lee.
dom's father, Mr.. Conover, of the
Ocean City Motor Boat club, were visi'
tors at the yacht club this week.
Mrs. Frances Mcguire and niece, Of
New York, who have spent six weeks
here have returned to their home.
Warren e. Biscoe, a Philadelphia
contractor and builder, having bull
several houses at the Crest, is now hav'
ing Mayor Smith raise his cottage on
Heather road about ten feet and Is put
ting in two complete apartments, with
all conveniences and furnished up-to
date; also four rooms and toilet Ia at
tic complete. He is also putting In
two dormer windows in attic, making
the rooms more complete.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert StretehNH4t'
been entertaining at the Seaside apart
ments, Aster road, during the glorioul
autumn weather Mr.. and Mrs. Lewil
V. Biggs and son, Of Oak Lane, Pa.
and Charles Lawrence Stretch, of thu
Evening Bulletin, with his wife ant
daughter Marien, from Haddonfield
Extensive catches of fish we're in evi
dence, MI. Biggs, Sr., showing marked
ability in the sport.
Richard Scampton is planning ex
tensive alterations to his hotel, Tit
Pelham, by the addition of thirty NOR
rooms. Mark B. Reeves will be il
charge of the work.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

Mrs. Katherine Wolcott and daugh-
ter, Of Chicago, having spent the sum-
mer In New England resorts, made a
visit to Wild wood this week and were
the guests OF q. HI. Smith and wife. OF
e. Wild wood avenue, as was also their
daughter, Mrs. j. D. Hoffman, of
Philadelphia. :
Mr.. and Mrs. McCorkle, of West
Philadelphia, have been spending ten
days at the Havilla.
The Interstate Fair at Trenton this
year conducted their first Better Babies
contest. The babies are stripped and
examined as to their physical condi-
ton. There we're nearly 300 entries,
one being from Wildwood. Several
Trenton physicians and nurses dona-
ted their time for this purpose. On
Tuesday one baby from up the state
was examined which the doctors pro-
nounced almost perfect. The contest
was under the auspices of the Womans
Home Companion, a magazine which
started the worthy movement.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03
A Good Fish Story

A party of ladies living in Wildwood
went fishing one day this week to
Anglesea. After spending q few hours
there with good results, they took the
car to the Crest and angled there with
success also. After the party reached
home and the basket of fish examined,
there were noted seven different kinds,
as follows: bluefish, porgies, Cape May
goodies, sea bass, croakers, butterfish
and kingfish. The two latter were
caught at the Crest. This ought to
satisfy the most ardent followers of the
sport.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03
In Memory OF Garfield

"Thirty-two years ago on September
19, 1881, President James A. Garfield
died from an assassin's bullet. The late
President had one of the largest FAM
lilies of children ever brought to the
White House, and had he lived he
would today be proud of all.n
So said M. Stanley Brown, OF Cleve-
land, a nephew of the dead Presidents
private secretary, J. Stanley Brown.
"There were four boys and u girl
said Mr.. Brown, at the Willard. "Jas.
Rudolph Garfield is one of the promi-
nent lawyers of Cleveland, was In Pres
ident Roosevelt's cabinet, and is one of
the Progressive party's most agrees
sive leaders. Abram Garfield, the
youngest Of the family, a lad of tender
years when his father was elected to
the Presidency, is probably the lead
ing architect of Cleveland. Irving
Garfield is a successful lawyer in Bos-
ton, and Harry Garfield is the presi-
dent Of Williams College. Mary Gar
field, or sMollics as she vas called
when she lived at the White House, is
the wife Of Mr.. Brown, the Garfield
secretary, and lives in Long Island.
She has three fine children, and is one
Of the most beautiful women I ever
saw.
~. Stanley Brown, who was APP
pointed private secretary to the Presi-
dent-the position had not then been
raised to the dignity of secretary to the
President-had been a s~tenographer in
one Of the executive departments in
Washington previous to the campaign
of 1880. He became identified with
the Republican cam paign bureau, and
Mr.. Garfield was SO impressed with
his ability that he offered him the posi-
ton of private secretary. After the
death of Garfield Mr.. Brown married
sMollie' Garfield.
1.-THE widow of President Garfield lie
living at Mentor, Ohio, the Garfield
family home, and is enjoying excellent
health. She spends her winters in
southern California, and her summers
in Ohio and visiting her Children
Washington Post.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03
OTTENS TRACT NOTES

Mr.. and Mrs. d. R. Gibbs, who have
been spending the past two weeks al
at their cottage on east 18th street, have
returned home. They have had as
their guests their daughters, Mrs. HI.
Haynes, of Trenton, and Miss Minnie
B. Gibbs, who has just completed hei
course as q nurse at the Womans hos
pital in Philadelphia, from which she
graduated with the highest honors.
She will register with the College Of
Physicians in Philadelphia for private
work.
Mrs. VIM. Wilbraham and sons and
Miss Sarah. Wilbraham, of German
town, spent a few weeks at the Rud.
duck cottage.
Mrs. Wilson Howe had a delightful
stay at Washington visiting relatives
at the White House. She is a niece Of
President Wilson.
Mrs. lowering has returned from O
two weeks stay in Gloucester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sturm were over Sun.
day visitors at their 18th avenue cot.
tage.
Russell Ellis and wife and e. Harri.
gan and friend spent a few weeks al
the Pew cottage.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03
Republican Club Formed

A number Of citizens of the First
ward having in mind the success of
the Republican party met in the Jour-
nal Hall last week and organized the
First Ward Republican club, with the
following officers: President, Reuben
w. Ryan; Vice President, Stanley M.
Kalbach Secretary and Treasurer,
Lanning Myers. A great deal of Re-
publican enthusiasm vas manifested
and former Governor E. q. Stokes was
enthusiastically endorsed for governor.
The object OF the organization is to
interest every Republican In the First
Ward and get him to work for the his
toric principles Of the Grand Old Party
and to make the club an active factor
In the dissemination OF information
and in the pronunciation of Republican
principles. Among those present at
the organization Of the club were the
following citizens: Stanley Kalbach,
Warren Kalbach, 6ilas McWilliams,
R.W. Ryan, Frank Sheppard, J.Albert
Harris, CIV. Saul, Otto Martinez, w. J.
Harrison, Mr.. Halford, Otto Keoneke,
Mr.. Godfrey, J.. J. McNutt, H. q. Buck,
s. E. Lockwood, H. G. Koeneke. Jed
Dubois, r. ]. Kay, G.. H. Huppert,
E. T. Nye, Frank Willetts, John Dag
gan, Rev. Levanus Myers, III. s. Dun
ham, Henry Coombs, w. G. Todd.
It is the wish Of the organizers Of the
club to enroll in its membership every
citizen Of the First Ward who believes
in the principles of Republican govern
ment; and already many who wert
not present at the first meeting have
signified their intention Of joining d
the earliest opportunity.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

Maeterlinck in his book called "Le
Mort" says Of the mystery Of the after
death that outside of the religions
there are four imaginable solutions
and no more. These are total annihila'
ton, survival of our consciousness OF
today, survival without any sort OF
consciousness, survival with universe
consciousness or with a consciousness
different from that which we possess
In this world.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03
b Mass Meeting

A public Mass Meeting will be held
in the city hall, corner Montgomery
and Pacific avenues on Wednesday
evening next, October s, at 7.8O o'clock,
to consider the ~advisability of building
a public recreation pier on the ocean
front. All interested are invited to
come out and express their views.
By order of City Commissioners.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03
incorriaibIs.

"Have you laid by anything for a
rainy day ?" asked the serious friend
EYES," replied the frivolous person
lsTm cutting out all the fair and
warmer weather predictions and pre-
lserving -them."-Washineton Star.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03
daughter musical i''

10 yUuI "uSfCdII
sWell," replied Mr.. Cumrox, s.she
seems so In conversation, but when
she sings opinions d-iffer."-Washing
ton Star.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

You may stretch a truth into a lie.
but you can't shrink a lie into, tru1s.z
Selected
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

For Sale-Lots 5, 6 and 7, 90 feet front on
Juniper avenue, running through to 18th
street, block SO, Wildwood. Inquire George
J. Heck, Easton, Pa.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

Respectable working men can have good
board 234 E.. Rio Grande avenue.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

For S~ale-Eight room house, BIB West Mont
gomery avenue. Price 1000 cash. Size OF
lot 30 by 100. Address the owner, Joseph H.
Thorp, 25l7 N. 8th street, Philadelphia.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

$500 to loan on first mortgage. Apply to
II. L. Nickerson, Atlantic and WILDWOOD ave-
nues Wildwood, N. j.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

For Saie--Ten room bungalow, every mod
ern convenience, five bedrooms. Price 5000.
Lot 30 by 100. Easy terms. q. Slater, 1876 E.
Burk avenue.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

$500 to oar on first mortgage. Kings
Realty Co., l9 e. Wildwood avenue.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

For Rent-Store on Pacific ave-, suitable for
fruit and produce. Apply at Journal office.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

CoNEY'S storage warehouse. express and
boarding stables. Teams to hire, moving,
packing. shipping. Piano moving a special
ty. Phone 2l6 Post office, Wildwood, N. j.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

Several sums to loan on first mortgage.
Bring papers or send particulars. Robert
Bright, Anglesea. N. J.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

Poplar apartment with hot water heat fol
rent. j. 81. Coombs.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

PuOAu i0tCta
Mrs. E. L. Denton, Davis avenue, lie
spending two weeks in Philadelphia.
On account of alterations the jewelry
business Of Max Mayer will be contin-
ued temporarily under the Seacrest ho-
tel, Pacific and Oak n All
kinds of repairing done.-adv.
w. H. Bright, elected a member Of
the state committee at the recent pri-
mary, attended the Progressive con
vention on Tuesday at Trenton. Elk.
Senator Colby and a flying squadron
of automobiles tours Cape May county
on his first visit Tuesday, Oct. Z. He
will speak at Tuckahoe Has, Ocean
City at noon, Palermo at 1.SO, Ocean
View at 2, Court House at 2.80, Wild.
wood at 8, Goshen at 4, and Dennis.
Vile at 4.80.
Ex-Sheriff w. H. Bright and wife
will be guests at the dinner given to
Colonel Roosevelt In New York Friday
night on the eve of his departure fol
South America.
Daniel Wade, owner Of the fine resi-
dence on the corner Of Pacific and
Glenwood avenues, is having his house
raised and q finely finished first floor
apartment built. B.V. VanHorn has
charge Of the work.
Rev. and Mrs. Keiter are away on
their vacation, visiting relatives and
friends In Allentown and Bethlehem.
They have been away two weeks.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

$500 for lot near Holly Beach station. Easy
payments. p. o box ia, Wildwood.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-03

wanted-Mechanic boarders at 2l5 E. Rob-
erts avenue.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-17
BAIT THAT FAILED TO TEMPT.

"WAYS that dark and tricks that are VAN com
mend in politics. the who condemns
organization practical open operations in the conduct OF
campaign then to subtle and devious METHODS TO at
tain been instances OF late as
to how reformer that apostle of purity politics. plays
his little game Square dea And they try on the
newspapers "oomeons the gueess and gube
purveyors public opinion But it doesn't always take this
prescribed newspaper incubation They assemble
together at time maybe do the shrewd and
anglers for votes and this of their specimens OF
semagned their hope and ervent wish that
candidates for public Office be elected but as some OF
happen be candidates opposition ticket
they perforce, be cautious and willy not really WICKED
To the candidates in question an
open letter addressed and of copies Thereon were
regous to the The idea sought to be con-
veyed the author the letter might be antagonsc to
doubling Thomas" at all events
enlightenment before quanderng his vote Every
question leading and deftly put They adroitly
the and opened the for the candidates
say which they eager and painting to emit but
the provocaon 1t would help their cause
Such the intention The scheme struck the as
widowed they didn't bite much less swallow the
bait That The Star didn't bite; didn't nibble 1t just
the matter and unmatched the plot 1T is certainly
enough pesterd with pus of candidates by personal
This last attempt the trusting news
paper is surely the limit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-17
WASHINGTON LETTER
RY H,B. l(l!RA STAR STAFF
WALKER fIlilssSsI2 RESPONDENT
is THE BRYAN BEE BUzzINo7

| tary of state the nomination on a
silver platter.
This kind of talk has steadily de-
elined in volume Today, at the end
of six months of the Wilson admins
ration, there are very few Democrats
who believe that the President has
any intention of giving any attention
to the one-term plank.
| Whether or not Mr.. Bryan still sees
the roseate dream which was in his
mind six months ago, there are others
who do. There is growing convic-
ton among well-informed Democrats
that, instead of having any idea of
turning the presidency over to Mr..
Bryan, the President is quite busily
engaged In making 1t impossible for
Mr.. Bryan to do anything else than
support him for reelection in 1916.
Since the beginning of the admins
tration it has been Wilson that has
been the master and Bryan the handy
man. There was little pleasure or
glory for Bryan, the longtime apostle
and high priest of States rights, in
being sent to California to wage un-
successfully the same fight Roosevelt
had successfully made against anti
Japanese legislation. But Bryan
did it.
The Wilson tariff program threw
overheard many cherished Bryan
theories, but Bryan, with his eye on
1916, grinned and applauded, clutch
| ing at free wool as practically the
sole bit of consolation or concession
| thrown his way.
Bryan didn't like the pending cur
rency bill, which dumps onto the
scrap heap the entire financial gos-
pei he preached in 1896 and 1900, but
| he gulped once or twice and swal-
lowed the dose, and then went out
and told the insurgents who were
clinging to his teachings and theories
to get into line.
Whenever and wherever he has had
the opportunity Bryan has lost no
chance to tell what a great man
Wilson is. Whether Wilson has
changed his former opinion of Bryan
he has not said. There are frequent
visits by the secretary of State to
the White House, but it is an open
secret that it is Bryan who does the
consulting, not Wilson. The Presi-
dent, cold and secretive, has told no.
body what he intends to do in 1916,
but it is significant that not even
the most enthusiastic Bryanite now
refers to the one-term plank.
Many old-time admirers of Bryan
have for months been grieving over
his apparent infection by the bug of
society. 1t is becoming daily a little
harder for the former Bryan follow
ing to reconcile the secretary of state
with Washington mansion, a Flor
ida winter home, an amassed fortune
and a salary of $4,000 a year uron
which he is unable to live, with the
Bryan who once taught that $1,000 q
year was as much as any man could
honestly earn, and that judges were
corrupted through social relations
made possible by their big salaries.
Instead of making Bryan his sue
cessor, it looks more and more as if
Wilson was eliminating him. 1t
would not be surprising If he finally
achieved his one time ambition of
knocking the Nebraskan into a
Cooked hat"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-17
SPAIN AND GIBRALTAR
LEARN One Thing Every Day"
NO. ALCAZAR AT SEVILLE
Copyright. 1918. by The Mentor Association.

tribute of a hundred maidens paid to
the Mohammedan ruler had been
lodged in that part of the Alcazar.
History does not show that the calf
ever asked for such a tribute, and it
Is probable that the Court of Maidens
had not been built at the time when
this incident is supposed to have
taken place. Nevertheless, such a
story has grown up, and given to the
room a name that it will doubtless
bear for all time.
After CASTLE had thrown off Moor
ish rule Seville was made the capital
of Spain. For several centuries Chris
tian kings lived in the Alcazar ad-
ding somewhat to the original struc-
ture as the Moors had left it. The
name of Pedro is more closely con-
nected than any other Spanish ruler
with the history and fiction of the
building. He was called Pedro the
Cruel. A grim sense of humor and
a habit of going through the streets
of Seville in disguise have made him
the subject of many odd tales and
rumors. Some of these stories are
merely whimsical. He is said to have
met four candidates for a judges DO
sition beside a pool in the gardens,
where they had gone to find him.
Pedro, turning to the first, asked him
what was floating in the pool.
An orange" replied the candidate
without hesitation.
The second and third gave him the
same answer.
The fourth fished out the piece of
fruit with his staff, examined it and
replied more accurately, Half an or
ange."
Pedro Immediately gave him the
appointment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-17
The Metropolis of Islam.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
Some $40 miles south of Medina and
65 east of Jeddah, on the Red Sea, in
a narrow, desolate valley, hemmed in
by barren hills, and only accessible
through two passes, lies Becca-now
known as Mecca-one of the most an
cient cities of Arabia and the metrop-
oils of all Islam. The IIakaraba of
Ptomely, and the capital Of the He'd
jas, Mecca's fame chiefly rests upon
it's possession of the Kaaba, whereto
flock some 10000 or 10000 pilgrims an
nually. Ages before Mahomet was
born the Kaaba attracted pagan pill
grims as today it attracts Moslem; for
as a heather shrine, containing a
miraculous fetch, it enjoyed wide re-
pute in very remote times. Prior to
it's reconquest by the prophet, in 627
Give years after his fight or hegira
therefrom), Mecca was under the con-
troll of the kosaiteS and then of the
Koreish from whom Mahomet wrest-
ed it. For several centuries it re-
manned under the rule of the Caliphs
who spent enormous sums in adjoining
and restoring it. In $50 it was sacked
the sacred black stone and retained
it for over twenty years Mecca sub
sequently fell under the influence of
whatever dynasty-Fatimit, Ayyubit,
Mamluk-happene to rule in Egypt.
Finally it fell thus into the hands of
the Ottoman Sultans but their power
was never more than nominal.
From the earliest times Mecca has
been a notable trading centre. The
barren soil renders agricultural
operations impracticable, and the
Meccans are thus dependent up
on traders for provisions, but
Meccas command of the principal
caravan routes, both from north
to south and from coast to the high
lands, affords the inhabitants unusual
facilities for commensurate apart
from the city's reputation as holy
spot; which is, of course, the chief
source of it's prosperity.
Mecca is made up of quite modern
buildings. excepting the great mosque
and some few others, owing to the fire.
quent deVastationS caused by the tor
rents which pour down from the sur
rounding hills during winter. Through
it runs the sacred Course, wide road
extending from Safa to Marwa, which
must be traversed by every pilgrim.
The streets, though broad, are I'M
paved, and as filthy as the streets of
any other Eastern town. The houses
form irregular terraces, mounting the
hills upon either side, and are for the
most part of stone and fairly well
built. sometimes being three or four
stories high, with fiat roofs and pic
turesque lattice windows overhangine
| the streets.
Most of the inhabitants are engaged
| in pursuits connected with the annual
pilgrimages-as guides, clearinghouse
keepers, sellers of amulets and Other
less creditable occupations. There are
khans. where the pilgrim may lodge
free of charge, a hospital and public
baths. The two institutions first
named are patronized extensively but
the bulk of the pilgrims refrain from
all forms of ablution. There is, how.
ever, a plentiful supply of water-ant
no drainage. The population is esti
mated at less than $4,000 and combine;
the notable characteristics of PekiI
with those of Port Said.