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Connecticut western news., 1914-12-03
What We Must Pay.

Under the new "war tax the people of this country are obliged to pay, since Dec. 1 as follows:
 Bonds, d debentures, certificates of in- debtedness by any association, com pany or corporation, new issues, $100 par value, each five cents. :,
 Sales or agreements to sell stocks, $100 par value, each two cents.
 Agreement of sale of product or mer- chandise on exchanges, each $100 one cent.
 Promissory notes except bank note for circulation and renewals, each $100, two cents.
 Bundles shipped by freight and ex- press, one cent.
 Telegraph and telephone companies one cent on each message over 15 ce nts. Senders of telephone or telegraph messages on each over 15 cents, one cent.
 Certificates of profit of corporations etc, and transfer thereof, face value each $100 two cents.
 Damage certificate, etc., 25 cents.
 Other certificates required by law, ten cents.
 Brokers note or memorandum of sale, ten cents.
 Deeds or realty transfers valued be- tween $100 and $500, 50 cents.
 Deeds; each additional $500, 50 cents.
 Insurance of property, new or re- newed policies, each $1, one-half of a cent.
 Policies of insurance or band of na- ture of indenity or loss, each $1, one cent.
 Prefumery, cosmetics, etc., vaseline, hair dye, tooth washes graded in value of five cents up to 15 cents, each five cents of value, one-eight of cent, etc. upward.
 Voting powers or proxies, ten cents. Power to convey real estate protests, 25.
 Palace or parlor car seat or berth.
 The telegraph and telephone tax must be collected by the company from the person paying for the message.
 The government will collect te sleep. ing car ticket tax from the companies. The tax imposed under the new law Sldll uOL pc l6VlQ aICeT DecomD6r 5 1, 1915, .....
 Proprietors of theaters, museums, and concert halls where an admission is charged to be taxed as follows:
 Where the seating capacity is not more than 250, $25.
 Seating capacity not more than 500, $50.
 Seating capacity not more than 800, $7s.
 Seating capacity of more than 800, $10O.
 Proprietors of circuses $100.
 Proprietors or agents of all other public exhibitions or shows heretofore enumerated, $10. Lecture lyceums (Chautauqua) agri- cultural or industrial fairs or exhibi- tions under the auspices of religious or charitable associations are exempt from the this tax.
 Bowling alleys and billiard rooms, $5 for each alley or table.
 Bankers on each $1, ,000 of capital surplus and undivided profits employed in the business shall pay $1.
 Tobacco dealers and manufacturers and cigar and cigarette dealers, and manufactures are taxed from $6 for the first 1000 upwards. The bulk of the tax will be collected from additional imports on beers, wines and liquors.
Connecticut western news., 1914-12-03
Knew a Pudd' nhead.

When Colonel George Harvey chatted with the president on peace Sunday he told the chief executive a story which made MT. Wilson rock with laughter. They were talking about history and literature and other pleasant topics on which both men are exceedingly we'll informed when Colonel Harvey said:
 "Mr. President, do you know, there's s actually man here, a candidate for office, too, who has never heard of Mark Twain.''
 ''Is that possible?" asked MT. Wilson.
 "Yes, sir. asked him if he'd ever heard of Tom Sawyer. Was he from Ohio ? this man queried. I told him, No he was a Missourian.' I tried him on Huck Finn and on Colonel Mulberry Sellers but he didn't know them. Fin ally said, Have you ever heard of Pudd 'nhead Wilson? Yes, indeed, said the candidate; I voted for him. '
 And as the president held his sides, Colonel Harvey continued:
 "And he added: A lot of good it done me! !'''-From Washington Letter to the Louisville Courier Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1914-12-03
University Club Meeting.

The 18th annual mid-season meeting of the Litchfield County University Club will be held by invitation of the Watertown Chapter at the Taft School, Watertown, Thursday evening, Decem- Der 7. There will be a reception at o'clock followed by business session. The banquet will be served at o'clock.
 Teacher-"How many zones has the earth, Johnny ?''
 Johnny-"Five."
 Teacher-"Correct. Name them. '"
 Johnny" Temperate, incorporate, canal, horrid and ozone. .''-Washing- ton Star.
Connecticut western news., 1914-12-03

"There were lot of old shoes on the street when I went out this morning." |"
 Wedding or cat fight, do you SUD- pose ?"-Boston Transcript.
Connecticut western news., 1914-12-03
"Why were you arrested?" inouir

"Why were you arrested?' inquired the visitor.
 "For trying to keep money in circu- lation," said the prisoner.
 'I don't understand. ''
 "Well, they call me a pickpocket. " Life.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
Costly Clothes.

Members of the Chicago Dressmak-
ers' club say that few women in Chi
cago spend $4,000 each on clothes;
100 social leaders spend $4,000 each;
10000 others get along on $4,000 well
dressed clubwomen manage to worry
along on $1,000 apiece; but the mod
est suffraglsts and church workers,
who Though few of us have probably
noticed it, must dress about alike,
spend the same amount, namely $780,
Having various causes much at heart,
they have other uses for their money
than displaying it on their backs. The
social workers are, very properly,
more modest STILL spending only $500.
The stenographers, ehopgirls and fac
tory girls spend, respectively, s275,
$3.50 and 5000. AS the wages OF these
girls cannot average above SIS, $40
and So, respectively. 1t will be seen
that they spend too much on their
clothes, and yet they could hardly
present a decent appearance on less
They lose something by not making
their own clothes, but they must be
very strong to sew much after finish
ing their days work.-Leslies Week
lv
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
Answered His Question:

A wellknown and highly compe-
tent lecturer on the land question was
recently addressing a vast open-air
meeting, when he was repeatedly In
terrupted by an individual in the
crowd. who kept saying, What has
this government done for me?"
1t will easily be recognized that an
interruption, especially of persistent
character, can be particularly annoy
ing to a speaker who has to face the
difficulties which attend open-air ora
tory. However, after a short period
of persecution, the lecturer turned
suddenly round towards the man.
Il will tell you, my friend, what the
government has done for you. Some
time ago they passed a mental def
cheney bill, and l believe you will be
one of the first to derive benefit from
the measure"
There was a deep peace as far as
the interrupter was concerned.-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
Fishinu In Salt Lake.

The waters of the Great Salt Lake,
Utah, are the most heavily iIhpreg-
mated with salt of any large body of
water in the world, save perhaps the
Dead sea, in Palestine. No life exists
in the lake except a diminutive form
of shrimp, never exceeding one-third
of an inch in length. Residents of
Utah are thoroughly familiar with the
fact, and frequently play pranks on
visitors to the city who have not
learned the mysteries of the Great
Salt Lake. Some time ago the Anal
gamated Association of Street and
Electrical Car Workers of America
held their convention in Salt Lake
City, and local members of tie organ
ization induced a number of distin-
guished visitors to 'go fishing" in the
Great Salt Lake. After casting their
lines most dexterously for nearly an
hour and cursing their ill-luck in not
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
DESTROYING Cherished Illusions.

Scientific experts are never so COM
pletely happy as when they are de-
stroying illusions which we have cher
ished from our childhood.
A sunburned skin, which we are
all so anxious to bring back to town
at the end of August, is the latest
thing to be condemned as unhealthy.
Apparently "a nice healthy tan" mere
ly means that its proud wearer has
been exposing himself too rashly to
the influence of the ultraviolet rays
which is condemned as by no means
healthy process.
Another illusion shattered by the
same expert is that the pallor of the
man who is something in the city
Is always due to overwork or to the
struggle to keep out of the bank
ruptcy court. He is only pale because
the cloud of SCOT which hangs over
the city keeps out the ultraviolet
rays, which would otherwise alter his
interesting appearance.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
SHOW NO FEELING OF ENVY
UnseIfish Attitude of the Poor Toward
Pleasures They Can't Par
tlcipate In.

There Is something strangely pa
thetic In the unselfishness with which
the poor regard the pleasures of the
rich. Consider the university boat
race. One might expect the over
worked clerk and the underpaid Ia
borer to resent the time and money
spent upon training a few expensive
and improbable athletes. What we
find is a spontaneous national enthu-
siasm, a concentration upon results
which cannot practically affect in any
way the concentrating enthusiast.
People care about the boat race be-
cause 1t is a sport, game, because
its issue is uncertain-not because
they bet on 1t, although they do. So
even with the Derby, where the bet
ting is a much larger factor. But
how much more really sporting If all
these selfless souls who cheer and
gamble could be riding and racing on
their own account Our own
betting laws are Objectionable In
SO far as they discriminate unfair
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
HID LIQUOR BENEATH PULPIT
kafir Boy Found Ingenious Hiding
\ Place for intoxicating Beverages
He Was Fond of.

Residents of Bellevue East are en-
ioying joke at the expense of con-
gregation whose church is situated
not thousand miles from that dis
trict. says a Johannesburg, South AT
RIGA, dispatch.
Temperance above all things has
been preached in the church with I'M
failing insistence from the pulpit
Lately some people living in the neigh
borhood were interested in the fact
that there was always a large number
of Kafirs about the church in little
knots and clusters, and at last some
one-a trifle more curious than the
rest-asked if there was not native
mission or chapel attached to the
church. This not being the case, it
became difficult to account for the
presence of the natives, to whom one
would hardly suppose a church for
Europeans to be an object of particu-
lar interest or attraction.
No doubt the church officials were
puzzled, and so they set to work to
solve the mystery. The solution is
alike tragic, humorous and simple.
While the evils of drink and the vir-
tues Of temperance were being thun-
dered from the pulpit the divine was,
to all intents and purposes, standing
over native bar, for under the pulpit
were found concealed dozens on doz-
ems of bottles of liquor, apparently
stored there by the ingenious Kafr
boy in charge of the church.
One has heard of many neat hiding
places for Illicit liquor, but the base of
a pulpit does seem the limit. If that
Kaflr boy listened to the sermons,
how delightfully."- they must have devel-
oped his sense of humor
Nothing has been done in the mat
ter; so shocked were the congregation
that it was thought best to keep tho
matter quiet
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of tn. Interior, I
S. Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
September 81, 1914
Notice is hereby given that
George B. Starcher, of Magic, Idaho,
assignee of Zackariah T. Spellman, who,
on October rs, 1910. made desert-land
entry, Serial No. 09167, for NE1-4 of
SE1-4, section IL; NW1-4 of SEA-,
Nl-2 of SW1-4, section IL, township 2
south, range II East B. NJ, has filed
notice of intention to make final proof,
to establish claim to the land above
described, before the Register and re-
ceiver, U. s. Land Office, at Haley,
Idaho, on the 3rd day of November,
1914
Claimant names as witnesses:
S. G. Metcalf, James Cooley B. D.
Palfreyman, George Martin, all of
Magic, Idaho.
]. F. WILLIAMS,
Register.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

|, Ed. B. Carothers, of Dietrich, Ida
no, who made entry No. 1918, under
the provisions of an act of the legisla-
ture of the state of Idaho, common
ly known as the Carey Act"
approved March Q, 1899, which en-
braces the SE1-4 of the NW1-4, sec IL,
twp. 6 south, range 10 E. B. M, do
hereby give notice of my intention to
make final proof to establish my
claim to the land above described,
and that l have resided on, reclaime
and cultivated said land as required
by law, before Chas. j. Isle, represent
ative of the state land board at Rich
field, Idaho, on the oath day of October,
1914, by two of the following wit
nesses:
A. L. Fletcher, NJ R. Kays, of Rich
F. E. Berg, L. E. Weeks, of Dietrich,
Idaho.
ED. B. CAROTHERS.
Entryman
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
One Dimension.

A prosperous lumberman lives in
western Pennsylvania. He owns a
small railroad which runs from his
lumber camp to the main line. He
was riding the other day on crowded
car by the side of the president OF
the - railroad. After some CONVEX
sation, the president handed the lum-
herman his card.
What" said the Pennsylvania
Are you the president Of the -
railroad? l am the president Of a
railroad, too"
What is your road" was the cour-
teous reply.
THE M. & A."
Strange, l have never heard OF it."
WELL" said the lumberman, my
road may not be as long as yours, but
1t is just as wide"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
ORDER GOES TO LEFT HAND
instructions to Write Sent Automat-
Ically by the Brain to That
Organ.

]. G. tells the New York Mail some
interesting things about the psychol-
ogy of writing with the right hand, in
the case of left-handed person. ]. G.
is left-handed, but was taught to write
with the right hand. In college he
learned that the left lobe of the brain
controls the operations of the right
tered professor who told him that in
the case of a left-handed person
writing with the right hand there
would be a crossing of the brain i'm
pulse from one side Of the body to the
other-a shifting of the nerve base, as
it were-accompanied by a certain
waste of energy caused by this cross
ing of the wires.
The mental order to write is first
sent automatically by the brain to the
left hand, and must be transferred by
fundamentally conscious process to
the right hand, in order to accomplish
the act Of writing. Under this theory
a left-handed person should never at
tempt to write with the right hand,
but should simplify and economic his
mental processes by writing with the
left.
j. G. has always experienced GER
tain sense of vexation or obstruction
in writing with the right hand. But he
now began to write with the type
writer, and experienced at once a
sense Of liberation. The process, with
the left hand now doing at least half
the writing, became easier, more flu
ent, more responsive as between hand
and brain.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
Emerson's STYLE.

Any question about Emerson's style
cannot be better answered than in the
words of Emerson's dear friend, Thorn
as Carlyle. Wrote the Sage Of Chel-
sea" of his friends way of writing:
1T is pure. genuine Saxon; strong and
simple; of clearness, of a beauty;
but does not sometimes rightly stick
together. The paragraphs are not
beaten ingots, but beautiful square
bags Of buckshot held together by can
vas"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15

Both their National and their
State Legislative Programs
Are Right and will bring
results that YOU Want.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15
Not Worth IL.

$50 you saw the woman drop her
purse" said Mr.. Marks to his friend.
but lost her in the crowd Did you
advertiser"
"Oh, yes" said Mr. Parks, but ]
didn't get an answer I put this in the
papers: If the plain woman about
forty-hve years of age wearing a dress
and hat of last years style, who lost
purse containing $3.50 on Twenty-sec-
ond street on Saturday will apply to
-, the property will be returned
Good heavens, mani" said Mr..
Marks. mo wonder you didn't get an
answer No woman in the world
would own up to that description for
$3.50"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15

ly between the methods Of the rich
and those Of the poor, but in 2rinci-
pie the restriction Of gambling oppor-
tunities seems a good thing to many
who are not extravagantly puritanical.
Only il remains true that the proper
cure for such social evils as betting
is not prohibition but diversion.-New
Statesman.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-10-15

getting a rise" the victims. were
told of the joke 1t is said that 9TH
er sufferers, who, "fshed' for nearly
three hours, are still hunting for the
jokers who landed" them.-Wide
World Magazine.
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-04-13

'Ano her thing Delegate Wicker
sham called attention to was the
volume of trade. Alaskas trade with
the United States each year amounts
to So, goo. 900, or nearly as much
as that of China. 1t is greater by
100000 than the trade with Hawaii
and double that with the Philippines
With railroad up the Tanana and
the land thrown open to settlement
the exports from this long ne2lec ed
section will amount to more than
100000 900 a year in the very nea'
future Now that Uncle Sam has
the Panama canal abou; Finished it
is the proper time for him to take
hold of the Alaska railroad PROPOSE
ton and give that much hamperad
country some little chance to show
what it can do for itself Stewards
Folly is the Wisesr folly anyone
vas ever guilty of, and We should do
our part towards developing it, for
It is one of the greatest and least
understood sections Of the world
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-04-13
New Golf System Planned.

The American golfers who compete
in the British open championship
next June will face system of
play unusual both in this country
and England According to recent
decision of the managing clubs the
entrants will play qualifying rounds
on one or more courses, and the
100 returning the besl scores will
be eligible for the championship play
on the PrestWick links June Is and
10. This innovation will be Of parti-
cular interest to Jerome d. Travers,
Heinrich Schmidt, Francis Ouimet
and Fred Herreshoff, the quartet OF
United STATES players planning a
golf:ng invasion of the British Isles
this summer.
Announcement has not been made
of the courses to be used for the
qualifying rounds, but it is believed
that the ST Nicholas and Troon
courses will be selected for the
preliminary tests The constant!
increasing entry list, with its at
tendant congestion when the entire
tournament is played over one
course, made the change in the rules
necessary.
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-04-13
Got Fired. Was Lucky.

For once a ballplayer got a lucky
break when he was fired, and that
man was johnny" Evers, says
Christy Mathewson. After Murphy
had tossed the great secOnd-saCker,
he received guarantee of his salary
for four years from the National
league, had an offer to go into Vau-
devile and received a telegram from
Chicago newspaper offering him
the same salary he was to receive
as manager of the Cubs to write
baseball for il for four years. John
ny" was SO broke thai he did not
know which way to turn to take
down the most coin. | overlooked
mentioning the fact that the Federal
league also waved a bankroll in front
Of Johns eyes.
Fred Clarke, the manager OF the
Pirates. cabled Dreyfuss, who was
in New York attending the meeting
at the time Evers was loose, to grab
him. Before Barney had a chance
to turn around. Evers was gone.
"Johnny's" release certainly tore
him to pieces financially
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-04-13
RESOURCES Of
ALASKA GIVEN
A Bic BOOST.
A SALEM, OREGON, NEWSPAPER
REVIEWS WORK DONE BY
WlCkERSHAM.

What might be called, "Alaski
n Nutshell" is the following edi
torial which recently appeared il
the Salem, Oregon, Journal;
Delegate Wickersham of Alaska
has been showing the wise guys OF
the senate some things about that
country that are rather startling and
that made the sage wise guys sit
up and take notice. The govern
ment paid Russia for this vast terri
DRY the sum Of $7,20O.000 in 1867;
since that time Alaska has. up to
1911, paid the government in the
shape of internal revenue, customs,
&c, $l7,792 ,4G417, She has pro
duced in that time from her sea and
fur products more than 1920, 100000.
and this added to The product from
her mines, makes the total s429,-
523 go. and this sum, with the pro
ducts since. will reach well above
$5oo.oO0.0o0.
Alaska last year put up more
canned salmon than Oregon. Wash
mgton, California and British Column
tja combined The total pack was
800, 1853 cases. and of these Alaska
pu up 4,0Go129 cases. the value of
which, with her other fish products,
was more than $1S,000,OO0. Her total
products last year we're worth we'll
above si0,o00,o00, or nearly six
times her original cost
lie gave them some other Figures
and then got down to business. AL
aska wants railroad into the
great Tanana valley, distance of
773 miles. The general govern
ment owns % per cent. Of all the
lands of every description in Alaska
The government is holding this vast
territory as a reserve and very prop
erly so, but Is doing nothing to de-
yelop It. Under existing conditions
private capital will not undertake
the building of this railroad, and
it is up to the government to do it.
1t IS developing its own property and
adding % its value.
Few realize the vast possibilities
of Alaska. To most the name is syn
onymous with cold and snow, with
Billiards and icebergs, yet nothing
could be farther from the truth. The
coas, is covered with glaciers, but
the interior contains many fine val,
leys, that will, in the near future, if
railroads are built, surprise the
world with their wheat and other
hardy cereal crops The Tanana
valley is so miles wide and several
hundred miles long and its soil is
as rich as that Of the Mississippi
valley.
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-04-13
ALASKANS HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING

Members of the Fairbanks camp
of the Arctic Brotherhood and the
Native Sons and Daughters OF the
Golden North held their annual joint
meeting a Eagle hall Wednesday
night The meeting was presided
over by Arctic Chief r. f. Roth.
who gave a talk to the young peo-
pie. The program was as follows:
Response to Address of Welcome,
by Alton Nordale. president of the
Native Sons and Daughters of he
Golden North.
Address-"The History and Stat
us of the Native Sons and Daugh-
ters," by E. E. Dilley, organizer of
the order.
Prayer, by George Bevier. chap
lain of the Arctic Brotherhood.
Song, by the Native Sons and
Daughters.
Address-"What The Native Sons
and Daughters Mean to Alaska" by
Everett Dilley. II years of age.
Address-"Our Forefathers, he
Pioneers" by Dan Keller, II years
of age.
Address as a Permanent
Home" by Dorothea Johnson. 10
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-04-13
Copper Co. Incorporates.

Santa Fe, n, M.-The Big Burros
Copper company, with a capital of
$1.500.O00, was incorporated recent
ly, the incorporation papers being
filed with the secretary at Santa
Fe. The incorporators are R. X,
Wade. R. II. Boulware and John
Wiley, al of Silver City. The stat
utory agent is C. c. Royal.
The company was organized among
owners of copper-bearing property in
the Big Burros for the purpose OF
developing There are forty-three
claims represented in the incorpora-
ton. comprising a total of over 500
acres of extremely promising ground,
about three miles from Leopold, the
scene of the gigantic operations OF
the Phelps-Dodge company