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Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
India rubber, manu-
factures Of .. $500 1906
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The bill it is estimated, reduces the
customs revenue approximate $780,
100000 a year This amount is to be
made up by the income tax.
The measure represents the efforts
Of President Wilson and the house
tariff makers to carry into effect the
Democratic platform pledges Of down
ward revision in the interest of the
consumer.
Pro ectiOn to the farmer would be
cut g.. 1ughout by more than 80 per
cent. Protection to the steel and i'm
plement manufacturer would be cut
fully as much Heaviest reductions
fall upon foodstuffs, agricultural pro
duets, wooden and cotton clothing.
The free wool proposal. backed by
President Wilson and accepted by the
house committee. is expected to pro-
woke a hard fight within the Demo
cratic ranks. 1t is not clear whether
the Democratic opponents of free wool
and free sugar in the senate will be
able to force compromise on one or
both those provisions.
The decision TO make a gradual re-
duction in the sugar ta-iff was reached
after Louisiana cane growers refused
to accent a con prom Sc that would
have estab shed a one cent a pound
tariff for three years. wiki free sugar
in 1916.
Under the income tax provisions
incomes in excess of $4,000 will pay
l per cent tax up to $4,000; per /
cent from 100000 to $4,000; per
cent from $4,000 to 100000, and
per cent above that figure The cor
poration tax. levying per cent on
incomes above $4,000 is re-
tanned as par; OF the income tax.
To encourage foreign trade. the bill
aims to reverse the maximum and
minimum provision of the Payne Al
drich law. The new rates would be the
maximum. and the president would
have authority to negotiate reciproc
ty treaties and make concessions to
countries that grant favors to Ameri.
,an exports.
It is estimated that approximately
O0,O00.OO0 may be derived from the
income tax, including the corpora ion
AK.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
Penna. In Line FOR Erect Senator vot

Penna. In Line FOR Erect Senator Vote
Pennsylvania joined the ranks o.
the states ratifying the proposed
amendment to the United States con
stitution providing for the direct elec
ton of United States senators, being
the thirty-flth to fall in line
The joint resolution ratiiying the
proposed amendment, which passed
the house by a vote of 1913 to 3, sew
eral weeks ago, was passed by the
state senate by vote Of Al to o. Sen
ator McNichol. of Philadelphia. did
not vote.
The vote Of only one more state l.
needed to complete the ratification
bv three-fourths of the states neces
sary to put the amendment into effect.
The resolution was called up by
Senator HeYbst, and without a word
of debate was put on final passage
Some senators did not realize what
was before the senate. When they
learned that it was the question Of
direct election of senators they has
tened to be sure they were recorded
Tor the resolution.
Senator McNichol, of Philadelphia.
introduced a bill providing for the
nee cessary machinery for the election
of United states senators. 1t provides
that senator's shall be elected in tae
same manner as the governor Thr
governor shall have the right to I'LL
vacancies until the following general
election.
If the amendment is ratified Penn
syIvania voters will choose a United.
sta; esalena or in the fall OF 1914 10
Mi Senator Penrose.
lie agent
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
Cement Pavements

am equipped to do all kinds of cement
work, such as cement sidewalks, curb
and gutter, water proof cellars, floors,
foundations, streets, concrete buildings,
etc, at such reasonable prices as not to
fear competition. I guarantee all my
work, No experimenting. You get the
benefit of my experience and thorough
knowledge of the business. Inquire a
bout what l claim for myself before you
get in t0lch with me.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
DRASTIC CUTS IN
new TARIFF BILL
Many Articles Of Clothing and
FOGd on Free List
INCREASES ON LUxURIES

Sharp Reductions Made on Neeessar.
les Of Life-Many Steel Products and
Woolen and Cotton Goods Greatly
Reduced-lncome Tax to Make up
Deficiency.
The Sixty-third congress met in ex-
traordinary session in response to the
call issued by President Wilson. and
the Democratic party assumed full
control of the government for the first
time in nearly two decades.
The senate was ready for business
the minute Vice President Marshall
let fall his gavel and administered the
oath to Senator Sherman, OF Illinois.
and Senator Goff, of West Virginia.
South Trimble, clerk of the house.
called the house TO order and the oath
was administered to all the members.
the body being newly elected every
two years.
With the preliminaries out of the
way, the house turned its attention to
the choice of a speaker, and Champ
Clark speedily was reelected.
The tariff revision bill was then
presented by Mr.. Underwood chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee.
The bill removes the duty from many
articles of food and clothing. makes
sharp reductions in the rates on all
necessaries of life; an increase on
many luxuTies, and an income tax pro-
vision that would touch the pocket of /
every American citizen whose net in |
come exceeds $4,000.
Sugar would be free of duty in 1916, |
the bill proposing 25 per cent reduc-
ton now and the removal of the re- |
naming duty three years hence
Raw wool would be made free at
once, with corresponding reductions on
all wooden goods.
The free list, one of the longest
ever proposed to congress, follows:
Meats, flour, bread, boots and shoes,
lumber, COAL harness, saddlery, iron
ore, milk and cream. potatoes, salt,
twine, corn, cOrnmeal, cotton bagging,
dl AAlplGAlGnlos lGdNnCAs WOUQ
pulp, Bibles, printing paper not worth
more than 21s cents per pound, type
writer's, sewing machines, typesetting
machines, cash registers, steel rails,
fence wire, cotton ties, nails, hoop and
band iron, fish, sulphur, soda, tanning
materials, acetic and sulphuric acids,
borax, lumber products, including
broom handles, clapboards, hubs for
wheels, posts, laths, pickets, slaves,
shingles.
The principal items taken from the
present free list and taxed are: Dia-
monds and precious stones, furs, coal
tar products, 10 per cent; volatile oils,
20 per cent; spices, from 1 cent to
cents per pound.
While wheat flour is put on the free
list, a duty of 10 per cent is imposed
against countries which levy a duty
IN American -four. This will exclude
lour from Canada and many other
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
comparlson Of Rases.

Representative Underwood, in his
statement accompanying the bill, gives
the following comparative table to
show reductions in duties on neces-
saries, each item, both the present
tariff and the proposed tariff being
reduced to an ad valorem basis, the
rate being the percentage Of value:
The day book., 1913-08-09

D SSl lBlIGi , SOllSSJ
great jumping grandmother, how sell
dom! And it's cold, mummy, like
being beaten with whips. You were
right about the people here all being
kind; they are all the same kind.
know them all nOw-by sight; but
not by name, except, of course, some
who are stopping at WillcOx's.
But in spite of all this there is
truth that must be spoken. l feel
thousand times better and stronger
than when l came. have no one to
talk to but your letters. So don't
stint me. Stint me with money if you
can (here l defy yoU), but for the
love of Heaven keep me posted. If
you will promise to write every day
l will tell you the name of the pref
tiest girl in Aiken. She goes by eight
times every day, and she looks my
way out of the corner of her eye.
And pretend to be reading and try
very hardy to look handsome and in
teresting."
Such was the usual trend of the
letters. But that one dated March z
began with the following astonishing
statement:
81 love Aiken. ," and went on to
explain why.
But Mister Masters was not allow
ed to love Aiken until he had come
through the whole gauntlet of gos-
sip. But finally the real truth about
him, or something like it, got out;
and the hatchet of suspicion was
buried, and there was peace in
Aiken.
This was the truth that got out
about Mister Masters. He was a
nephew of the late Bishop Masters.
His mother, on whom he was de-
pendent, was very rich; she had once
been prominent in society. He was
The day book., 1913-08-09

NNSHy'i 81 ~ O''S
At first nobody knew him; then
the Hotchhsses knew him, and then
it seemed as if everybody had always
known him. He was, first noticed
sitting in the warm corner made by
WilIcox's annex Pairs or trios of
people, bareheaded, their tennis
clothes mostly covered from view by
clumsy cOOnskin coats, passing Will
cOX's, would break in upon whatever
else they have been saying to make
such remarks as: "He can't be, or he
wouldn't be at Willcox's;" or contra
dictorily: 'He must be, or he'd do
something besides sit in the sum-" or,
Don't they always have to drink
lots of milk" or, Anyway, they're
quite positive that it's not catching"
or, Poor boy, what nice hair he's
got"
The suspicion that this interesting
young man was cOnsumptive was
set aside by Wilcox himself. He
told Mrs. Bainbridge that Mr.. Mas
ters was recUperating from a very
stubborn attack of typhoid. So Mrs.
cambridge drove out to Miss Lam
grais' tea at the golf club, and passed
on the glad tidings with an addition
of circumstantial detail. Mister Mas
tiers had been sick for many months
at-she thought-the New York Hos
pital.
Mister Masters never remembered
to have passed so lonely and dreary
February. The sunny South was
a medicine that had been prescribed
and that had to be swallowed. Aiken
on the label had looked inviting
enough, but he had found the con-
tents of~the bottle distasteful in the
extreme. "The South is sunny" he
wrote to his mother, but, Oh. my
The day book., 1913-08-09
With An Illustration Posed Especially for This NeuUs
paper by Pauline Frederick, Famous Star of
"Joseph and His Brethren"

Copyright by chas. scribneTs sons.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-06
The BUSY Bee.

There is no domestic animal or
fowl that pays us as big dividends as
the honey bee. She works for moth
ing, boards herself, supports her
queen and the royal male harem, fer
tilizes the blossoms for miles around,
and frequently furnishes US with
enough honey in one year to buy the
entire hive, bees and all, twice over
Hives of bees are frequently kept in
large cities, as we'll as in the country
We have seen number of hives on
roofs of buildings, etc., where the own
ers had no other space available, and
the bees will do just as we'll there as
on the ground provided the hives are
shaded from the hot sun.
Your success in keeping bees de-
ponds upon one main factor, and that
is the food supply. They gather their
food in the form of nectar and pollen
from all sorts of blossoms. The nee
tar is eaten by the bee, undergoes GER
tain changes, and is stored in the
comb as finished honey. The pollen
is treated in somewhat similar man
ner, and is worked over into bee bread
with which the young are fed. A fairly
constant succession Of Towering plants
must be available for your bees, and
there must be enough of these flowers
so that the bees can gather more
honey than they need. Remember that
you don't get any honey until the
bees have all they need. You get the
surplus only.
Before you buy a hive of bees look
over the territory within a radius of
mile and size up the feeding posi-.
bilities. If there are considera BILE
amounts Of clover you are safe Sweet
clover, fruit trees and bushes, bass.
wood and mustard, buckwheat and fax
are heavy honey bearers. Of course
ornamental flowers do their share, but
they are of much less Importance.
If you find plenty Of feed without
too much competition from other bee
keepers, your next step is to secure a
good standard beehive with a strong
colony of Italian bees and tested Ital
ian queen. The eight frame Langstroth
ner. While your bees might be Sc
cured cheaper from some farmer, it is
easier to have them come right in the
hive at the start The complete out
fit will cost about SIS
Most people can handle Italian bees
without the slightest danger of getting
stung, after little practice. Before
then, it is we'll to use a bee veil anC
tie your sleeves tightly.
Your colony will increase from one
to five hundred per cent. each year
and each colony will produce from
fifteen to hundred pounds of honey
depending upon the season. It viii
not take ten minutes a week to care
for them, but you must spend a lot
more time than that watching them
as they are most interesting in thei1
habits
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-06
PLAN FOR FATTENING GEESE
Fowls Do Remarkably Well on Quite
Poor Soil, Finding Some Animal
or Vegetable Food.

Goose keeping is branch that
should appeal especially to those who
have plenty of land available
It is a mistake to attempt to keep
either breeding stock or goslings up
on very limited area.
An English writer says that upon
hundreds of farms scattered up and
down the country, there Is good
deal of land which does not pay to
cultivate, and which is only used as
an occasional sheep walk. On such
geese do remarkably we'll, as,
however poor the soil, they are al
ways able to find some animal or vege-
table food therein Besides they
quickly make a great difference in the
quality of the soil over which they
roam.
To fatten young geese, place them
in pen not too large, so that they
will not exercise too much, and feed
three times day all they will eat up
clean.
4 good fattening formula is corn
meal mixed to dry crumbly state,
and beef scraps amounting to 20 per
cent Of the bulk of the corn meal.
While fattening young geese they
should be kept as quiet as possible;
no excitement whatever should dis
turb them. When feeding approach
them quietly and do not irritate them
in the least, or they will not fatten,
but instead, grow another crop Of
feathers.
At ten weeks of age, or when the
tips Of the wings reach the tail, they
are ready for market, and should
weigh between eight and ten pounds.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-06

be either short pieces of tree branch
es, with fork left on one end large
enough to hook over the lug-pole, and
one or two nails driven in near the
other end upon which to hang uten-
sils; or they can be made out of
wire Gig. p. By making wire pot
hooks in short lengths, it is possible
to hang your utensils at any height
above the fire that you wish, and you
can hang cooked food at the right
height to keep it warm, without burn
ing it.
The camp crane shown in Fig. 3
furnishes another simple method of
suspending food over a fire. Often
times a small sapling will be in
such a position that it can be bent
over for such a crane. The end of
the pole can be notched to catch the
pail or kettle handle, or small wire
hook can be fastened to it.
The fireless cooker is becoming
more and more popular In camps, be-
cause it makes it possible to cook the
supper NEIL in it during the days,
without requiring any one member of
the camping party to remain behind
to keep up fire.
Here is a good method of preparing
camp cooker. Dig hole in a high
and dry part of your camp ground,
about 2 feet square and 2 feet deep
and line the bottom and sides with
stones. Then batten several boards
together to form cover that will
slip part way down into the hole
figs. 4 and g., and fasten four
pieces of wire to it for handles Zig
g..
Your pot of beans, kettle of pota.
toes, oatmeal, mush, or whatever YOU
intend to cook in the cooker, must be
started upon your camp fire. While
1t is cooking, build good wood fire
In your cooker pit. and allow it tc
burn down into hot embers. Then
quickly transfer your cooking uten
sill, when ready, into the cooker, rak
ing hole in the embers for it to sci
in, and fill in around and over the
utensil with Goals from your large
fire. The wooden cover should be f1t
ted down over the top, and the
space between this and the ground
level should be filed with earth te
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-06

will be lots OF surplus cucumbers to
pickle, as we'll.
They are planted by seed as soon
rs the spring weather is reax0nably
settled and the first edible cucumbers
may be counted on about ninety days
after planting.
The first important consideration is
cucurbitaceae, love a light mellow soil
and a sunny location. They belong
to semi-tropical desert class OF
plants and sunshine is much more
important than water, although boil
are necessary. The soil immediatel..
adjacent to the seed hill should b.
very rich with wellrotted compost O"
manure. An excellent plan is to dis
out the soil to depth of eightee:
inches and fill in with compost and
richer soil. A fine mixture is one part
wood ashes, two parts sand, one part
manure and two parts rotted sod o:
black loan.
Where space is unimportant, plant
the seeds in hills six or eight feet
apart, twelve seeds to the hill. Plant
an inch deep and firmly cover the
seeds. If desired, box frame may be
placed about each hill and pane OF
glass fitted over it. This will force
the growth and enables one to plant
month earlier than Is otherwise pos
sible. 1t will also protect the plants
from the striped beetle, but care mus:
be taken that the glass is raised when
the sun is hot, or trouble will result
Where used with late paintings and
for protection from bugs only, it is
better to replace the glass with cotton
cloth.
Remove the boxes as soon as the
plants send out runners and thin out
to the four sturdiest plants in each
hill. The striped beetle is the only
serious pest and must be guarded
against. It attacks the young plants
at the ground line just before they
run. If boxing is not resorted to, it
is good plan to keep the plants and
the surrounding ground sprinkle(:
with powdered white hellebore. An
plaster of COW manure over both
plants and soil. Do not thin out any
plants until danger from bugs is past
The usual plan is to let the vines
grow over the ground at their own
sweet will. The better way, espe
cially for the small city garden, is to
train them up on trellis or wood
and wire framework. This saves
ground and improves the fruit as the
sun gets better chance and the
vines are not crushed in gathering
the cucumbers. Cut off yellow leaves
with sharp shears and always cut the
fruit off instead of pulling or twist
ing It.
Frequent applications of liquid ma
nure to the roots will work wonders
and this practice cannot be too highly
recommended for all the later garden
plants. White Spine and Long Green
are excellent American varieties.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-06
1.-THE GRANARY OF
NORTH AMERICA"
GOVERNOR SULZER SAYS THAT
OF WESTERN CANADA.

The close ties of friendship exist
Ing between tho United States and
Canada were dwelt upon in addresses
by Premier Robert L, Borden, of Can
ada, and Governor Sulzer, at the an
nual dinner of the University Club of
Albany.
Canada and the United States"
said Premier Borden, have a common
heritage in the language, the litera-
ture, the laws, the institutions and the
traditions which have come down to
them from the men of bygone days.
Perhaps no more instructive object
lesson ever has been given to the
world than the four thousand miles of
undefended boundary line from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, which bears
silent but eloquent testimony to the
mutual confidence and respect of the
two nations. Time will shortly place
upon the brow of each nation the lau-
rel Of one hundred years of peace. 1t
matters not SO much as to the form
of the outward celebration, but let US
hope that it's full significance may
sink deep into the hearts of both ma
tons, and that, whether north or south
OF the boundary, we may stand with
bowed and reverent heads, offering
grateful thanks for the Divine blessing
of peace, and earnest prayers that in
the century to come, mutual confidence,
goodwill and respect may truly ami
mate the ideals and aspirations of both
nations"
possessed by the United States and
Canada, particularly along the St.
Lawrence River, the premier urged
that they be preserved and developed
for the people,
Governor Sulzer predicted that the
to become, before long, the granary of
| North America"
MANY of our best citizens, 1 regret
to say" said the governor, ARE leav-
| ing the States of the west and going
| into the Canadian northwest, because
of the fertility of it's soil, the lib
erality of the Canadian government
and the ability Of those people to bet
ter their conditions here.
I'VE should extend to them help
ing hand in their onward march Of
progress. Instead of closing our doors
by tariff barriers against these coun-
tries and their products, in my opinion,
we should open them wider and do
everything in our power to facilitate
closer commercial relations We want
their products and they want our prod
ucts, and all restrictions to prevent a
fairer and freer exchange of goods,
wares and merchandise should in so
far as possible. be eliminated" -Ad.
vertisement
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-06
WHEN YOU GO CAMPING,

The handy boy seldom remains a
tenderfoot long upon his first camp
ing trip, because having learned re-
sourcefulness he is quick to adapt
himself to his new surroundings, and
is generally able to find his way out
of difficulties and to make a pretty
good guess as to how things in gen.
eral should be done. For this rea-
son, things usually go along more
smoothly for the handy boy than for
the boy who never had to make him.
self useful at home, and has been al
lowed to shirk responsibilities.
Camping is a splendid experience
for all boys, and the less equipment
they can get along with the more
practical good they will gain from the
trip. With careful planning, the
amount of equipment can always be
cut down to minimum. Even If the
camp is to be in the back yard, or a
nearby lot, the rule to "go light"
MOULD be Observed
The handy boy will think of lots of
.hings to make while in camp, and he
should not fail to take along an
axe, hammer, saw, jack-knife, nails of
several sizes-including a supply of
spikes screw-hooks, screw
eyes, staples, wire, cord and rope,
for tools and working Materials Nails,
hooks and staples may be carried in
tin cans, but they will pack with less
waste space in small bags made Of
canvas, denim or burlap. These bags
should be provided with draw
strings.
Unless a small sheet-iron camp
stove is taken along, you must build
an open fireplace. Fig. 1 shows the
Observation-Disclosures scheme Two logs
are placed upon the ground side by
side, with one pair of ends close to-
gether and the other ends about one
foot apart, to form the sides of the
fireplace. By slanting the logs in
this fashion, small utensils can be set
across the logs at the narrow end of
the fireplace, and larger ones at the
wide end. For suspending pals and
other utensils over the fire, a hori-
zOntal pole, known as the lug-pole.
should extend over the fireplace from
one end to the other, upon which to
hang pothooks. The illustration shows
how one end of the lug-pole may be
spiked to a tree and the other end
supported in the crotch of a pole driv-
en- into the ground. The pothooks may