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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
REVENUE BILL BY SATURDAY
BELIEVED HOUSE CAN PERFECT
AND PASS MEASURE BY THEN.
Trying TO Avoid Stamp Tax War Meas
Would Raise Money Other Ways.

Washington, Sept. 9.-FolloWing a
brief labor day recess. the first OF the
prolonged session. congress has re-
eumed work, chief interest centering
Il the emergency revenue bill TO raise
500, eco, 600. The house ways and
means committee hopes to agree upon
commodities to be taxed By Thursday,
at the latest, and Representative
Underwood, chairman of the commit
tee, believes the house can pass the
bill by Saturday night.
Informal conferences resulted in no
definite understanding az to What COM
modities should be taxed other than
beer. proprietary preparations and soft
drinks. Committee members still in
sist hat gasoline should be taxed and
that the arguments against it are not
well founded. They do not believe
that farmers and small manufacturers
who use gasoline would make any Seri-
GUS complaint.
Several members Of the committee
are still insi5tent that an additional
tax should be levied on distilled
liquors and the question probably will
be decided by a record vote in the
committee. Taxes on automobiles and
moving pictures appeared the most
likely additions to the list, although
the form they would take was in
doubt.
Members of the senate finance com
mittee are anxious to have the revenue
bill passed in the house. They hope
to be able to accept the house bill, but
many senators favor a stamp tax on
commercial paper, which the house
committee is inclined to avoid. A
stamp tax on commercial instruments
during the Spanish-American waI
yielded nearly sc, 900 900. Thus far
all the plans of the ways and means
committee have been on a basis ignor
ing a stamp tax, but if an agreement
cannot be reached on taxable commO
dities that will yield S25, 900 600 in ad
dition to the 81 100000 already tenta
lively provided for. it may be neces
sary to adopt a stamp tax. This may
be limited, however. to checks, drafts
kilograms, telephone messages, instead
of being applied to c~onveyances, deeds
mortgages and all legal papers as was
done in 1898.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
Japan 70 Raise War Fund.

Toxic, Sept. 5.-At the conference
OF local governors the minister Of fin
ance stated that the special appro-
priation Tor var p~urpQses-to be sub
mitted TO the special session of the
diet would be $4,000. 900 yen 1925 ,500,-
OOOD. Together with the sum already
expended Tor the present emergency,
II amounts 70 the total OF sou, 600, 900
yen $685. 900 ,00O). This sum Will be
defrayed from surplus funds. The
treasury has al present a surplus CT
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
Hopes Italy Will Joint Entente.

Rome, via Paris. Sept. 5.-The news
paper Corrie della Sera OF Milan pup
fishes an interview with King Nicholas
Of Montenegro, who is quoted as saY-
ing that he hopes thai Italy Will aban-
don its position of neutrality II slde
against the AustroGermans. Although
the Franco-Russian news is not no"
satisfactory, the king is sure that the
Germans and Austrians Will succuiho
under the weight OF Russian arms
King Nicholas persists in his lnien'
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
Berlin Issues Statement.

London. Sept. S.-The following
German official statement was receiv-
ed last night by the Marconi wireless
telegraph company: In the eastern
theater Of war~thrc austrian atracA on
Lublin continues and the armies com
manded by Generals Dank and Auffen-
berg are still engaged in dispensing
the enemy 81 as TO obtain the full est
advantage from their glorious VIC
tories at Kranik and Zamoso. Those
victories, which were achieved after
three days OF bitter fighting, resulted
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
Italy Not 70 Fight.

Rome. Sept. Celebrating mat
Italy is determined to remain neutral
throughout the war, Premier Salanda,
In an official statement, set AT rest The
revived reports that Italy has served
another ultimatum on Austria. The
premier said: THE Italian govern
ment is determined to maintain the
strictest neutrality. This action is in
dorsed BY the Italian people gener-
ally"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
DAMAGED Ships at Kiel.

London, Sept. THE official war
bureau reported receipt of informa-
ton that six German torpedo boats
and destroyers have arrived at kiel
badly damaged. 1t is believed that
thev are the craft that were most
seriously damaged in the fight OFF Hell
goland a week ago, in which two Ger
man cruisers and two d%estroyers were
sunk.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
Popular EaIlacies.

J Il That: mosquitoes only bite once
.. That mosquitoes only live one
4 day : ~,
3. That mosquito bites won't itch II
you don't scratch 'em.
4 That if you hold your breath you
can catch a mosquito and Stay it.
My experience is that mosquitoes
only bite once Tin the same place.;
, that they only live n day tat a
time); that their bites wont Itch II
YOU don't scratch 'em (but rub EN-
with sandpaper and the edge of a buzz
saw instead; and that If you hold
your breath you can catch a mos
quito and STAY 1t (provided you have
a shotgun in each hand n are a
good shot.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
Decidedly Unsuitable.

Parson Johnson-Why don't yo' como
TO church, Sam?
Sam Shinn-Nothin' suitable TO
ear, parSon.
Parson-The Lord won't notice y0
clothes, Sam.
Sam-No, but Deacon Butts might
recognize his shirt, and Bre'r Simpson
his umbrella.-Puck.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
She Had a Kind Heart.

Tramp-Please. mum, | amt had
a full stummick for three weeks.
Housekeeper (benevoiently) Too
bad. Well, you go somewhere and
beg a meal Of dried apples, and ]
Will furnish the water.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11

There is scarcely a neighbor around me
who does not use your medicine. Mrs.
J. F. JOHNSON, r. No. 4, Box 80, Prince
ton, Illinois.
Experience OF q Nurse.
Poland, N. Y.-"In my experience as a
nurse | certainly think Lydia 6. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound is q great
medicine. | wish all women with fe-
male troubles would take it. l took it
when passing through the Change Of
Life with great results and | always re-
commend the Compound to all my pa
tients if / know of their condition in
time. will gladly do all l can to help
others TO know Of this great medicine"
Mrs. HORACE NEWMAN, Poland, Her
Liner Co., N. Y.
If you are i'll do not drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at once
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Com pound.
If you want advice write
Lydia Z. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
(cOnfidentiaD Lynn, Mass.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
IN ALL our
N~E|GHbORH00D
There Is Hardly A Woman
Who Does Not Rely Upon
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.
Princeton, IN.-"I had inflammation,
hard headaches in the back of my neck

and a weakness al
caused by female
trouble, and l took
Lydia E. Pinkham's
V Vegetable Com
pound with such ex-
'cellent results that /
am now feeling fine.
/ recommend thu
C~ompoundand praise
it to all. l shall be
to haye you
nuhlish m " letter
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11

Please others and you may please
yourself.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
Confident Of Congress.

81 cannot close without expressing
the confidence with which | approach
a congress, with regard to this or any
other matter, which has shown so un-
firing a devotion to public duty, which
has responded to the needs OF the ma
ton throughout a long season, despite
inevitable fatigue and personal sacrl-
fee, and so large a proportion of whose
members have devoted their whole
time and energy TO the business OF the
country"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11

Washington, Sept. 5.-President VII,
son personally addressed congress in
Joint session urging legislation to
raise 500, 00Q, 600 a year additional
revenue through internal taxes to meet
treasury deficit threatened by the con
lict in Europe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24

TETHAT phlegmatic people the English! In
w the shadow Of the Zeppelin neck" one
of their engineers is worrying himself over
rubber tires for street cars, He says that
If heavy trucks can get 10000 miles out of
a pair on rough roads street car could
pay the added cost out of the money saved
in greater speed of escape from mangled
pedestrians.
So the world Is in for the silent life,
Everything is made Of rubber these days
even the styles With rubber cobblestones
only waiting for some enterprsiHg city with
bounce in il, we shall soon he giving up our
ears TO the doctors as useless organs, like our
appendices The only consolation is the
abolition Of accident insurance agents When
the traveller coItdes with anything in the
future he'll just bounce about till the shock
wears itself out on the rubber molecules Of
our clothes and our carriages. The golden
age is comiug-in rubber boots,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
PHILADELPHIA SATURDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1914.
Citizens Must Have Rapid Transit

A COMPLETE and authoritative statement
"A of the rapid transit situation, as it now
exists, is presented i'm the adjoining columns
of the EVENING LEDGER. The history of the
movement for rapid transit is outlined. Prog
ress has been made to the point Were Coun-
ellis ana the Union Traction Company must
act The sums which the latter is expected
TO contribute to the project amount to no
more annually than the investment at & per
cent. interest of half Of it's dividend yield.
Not only is the investment, therefore, an
attractive one in actual financial returns for
Union Traction Company stockholders, but it
offers to them also substantial protection for
their holdings for all time to come Their in
terests parallel the interests of the whole
community. It is expected, as a result, that
the company will not delay longer, but will
quickly sanction the program agreed to by
Director Taylor, on behalf of the city, and
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.
Then Councils act
The EVENING LEDGER will begin the publi-
cation on Tuesday. october -, of a series of
articles illustrating the great need for better
transit and outlining the benefits citizens
would be justified in expecting. The series
will crystalline public opinion in favor Of the
improvement. it, indeed, there are any pro-
gressive taxpayers now who are opposed
TO it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
Rascality. Rampant Raseality

TNHE charge is that Mr. Penrose person
Il ally contributed one-third of a corruption
fund of $l9S,0O0 used to debauch the Reyburn
Administration. 1t is not runner that con-
meets his name with this illicit procedure.
The accusation Is specific and direct. 1t Is
made by men who pass for responsible ,citi-
zens in this community 1t is brought by
newspaper of comparatively large circulation
The charge is repeated day by day; 1t is
being reprinted all over the country
The EvENtSG LEDGER is convinc 4 that the
revival of dominant Repubicanism depends
on the defeat Of Penrosesm, but far more
dangerous to the welfare of this community
than the temporary success of Mr.. Penrose
would be his defeat by means Of a malicious
lie If a journal can spread libel with i'm
punity the good name and standing of no
citizen is safe. The most terrible of all olights
on a city is a dishonest newspaper.
The issue, therefore, Is larger than politics.
The election will not end it, For their own
self-protcction, Pennsylvania and Phladel-
phia demand that Mr.. Penrose prove that
malice and falsehoOd have aCtuated the
newspaper that accuses him Of rascalttN. The
Nares mere maniliins ordinarily in the
hands Of such expert string-pullers as Mr..
pcnrose and the chief Of his contractors. are
incidental victims. 1t is the whole Common
wealth that is restive under Mr. Penroses
careless treatment of his own and other
people's regulations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24

land avenue elevated lines, instead Of their
being connected with the present Market
street subway elevated line through the
business district.
The delay on the part Of the Union Trac-
ton stockholders in ratifying the program
for transit development is inviting dis
aster to that company which Philadelphia
has gone to the limit to prevent. The
Union Traction Company stockholders now
receive rental of S1sO0,O00 per year on
their 100000 shares of capital stock, of par
value Of sac, 100000, upon which there has
only been paid In $3.50 per share, or gross
amount Of 900. Each stockholder is
therefore in receipt of dividends amounting
to 1915 per cent. the actual cash pay
ments to the treasury which his shares rep
resent. If the city is forced to proceed in
establishing It's own rapid-tr facilities,
without Union Traction Company or Phila-
delphia Rapid Transit Company co-opera-
ton the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany will be annhilated by competition
the lease of the Union Traction Company
to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
will be wiped out and the Union Traction
Company will be forced to take back it's
property, shorn of the advantages accruing
to 1t under the 1907 contract between the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and
the city. It will also be shorn of the
large volume of traffic earnings diverted by
the competitive high speed lines and con-
fronted with the certainty that no distribu-
tion Of profits to the extent of 17.15 per cent
on the paid In value of the capital stock
would ever again be permitted by the Pub
lie Service Commission of the State of
Pennsylvania In the absence of the present
lease or contract with the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company, which Is the sole
possible legal justification for that exorbitant
return on the investment.
Rapid Transit Must Come
Furthermore, in the event Of dissolution of
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company the
Union Traction stockholders would be imme-
diately called upon TO assume the outstand-
ing obligations of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company which they have guaran-
teed.
The people Of Philadelphia expect the ex-
listing companies to cooperate with them in
establishing the rapid transit system; in re-
turn they will afford the existing companies
protection against loss in their net income
which will result from the carrying out of
the cooperative program establishing the
lines
If the existing companies do not want this
protection. the city will go ahead anyway,
one way or the other. Which way depends
largely on the Union Traction stockholder
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
What Does Penrose Expect?

NTHAT right has Penrose to expect the
w votes of citizens who live in the Com
monwealth that William Penn called "a
holy experiment.?
What right has Penrose to expect the votes
of men who belong to the party that Lincoln
built by the rugged strength of his honest
personality?
What right has Penrose to expect a part
and place in government that has been con-
secrated and made sublime by such men as
Grant Garfield and Mckinley?
What right has Penrose to expect the sup
port of men whose most sacred and cher
ished interests are their homes their
churches and the schools of their children?
What right has Penrose to expect the votes
of men who know that the liquor business is
filling our prisons, penitentiaries and poor
houses?
What right has Penrose to expect the votes
of men who will have to hang their heads
and apologize for their State for six more
years if he is elected?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
Coal Miners Know PenrOse

DITUMINOUS coal miners, both as in
ID dividuals and as members of the United
Mine Workers of America, are showing ag-
gressive political independence. There was
time in the soft coal, as we'll as the hard
coal regions, when the mine workers could
be polled in masses just as their bosses
wished.
But the miners know Penrose. True, they
are not directly interested in his national
record, but they know that he controlled the
legislators at Harrisburg who voted down
the bills that were designed to safeguard the
lives and improve the conditions of labor of
the mine workers.
In the anthracite regions of Northeastern
Pennsylvania the miners voted soIidly for
Roosevelt in 1912. They will not turn around
and support Roosevelt's bitterest foe in 1914.
Those who know the miners will recognize
them as a hard headed body of men, alive to
their own interests. and not easy even for
willy politician like Penrose TO delude,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
A Foolish Bond OF Fate

AGALLERYPLAY or gamble, which-is
"a the insuring Of Westminster Abbey
against destruction by airships? Certainly
there is no common sense in It,
1t seems very unlikely that bombs dropped
from the skies can do any considerable dam
age; Rheims was under bombardment by
field artillery. which is another thing. More
over, they can hardly damage the spiritual
fabric of the Abbey, the inner essence of
national worship which caused Kipling to
write of it as the thing that makes us We"
If complete destruction, however, should
come to this anthem of England's glory done
in stone. what use would be the $I5o0OO?
No millions could call back the chapel hewn
in the days of Edward the Confessor or re-
articulate the sacred bones Of poets and
statesmen from the times of Chaucer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24

furnish elements of beauty often absent from
suburban areas and their easy accessibility
makes them ideal places of residence for the
tired city man. Not the least attractive OF
these Is Overbrook. 1t is not to be wondered
at that the Overbrook residents are protest.
ing vigorously against the establishment OF
n freight yard in their midst, Undoubtedly
the ordinance permitting the Pennsylvania
Railroad to build the yards will be with
drawn from Councils 1t should be so with
drawn at once. If the railroad must have
more yard space, another site should be
chosen and one that will not mar the ex-
quiste environs Of Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
UNDAUNTED BELGIAN EDITOR

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Among the unconscious heroes developed
by the contemporary unpeasantness In Europe,
none is more deserving of a round of applause
than the unnamed editor of the independence
Beige OF Brussels.
Driven out by the German Invaders, he calmly
moved his plant and staff to Antwerp. where
he continued to publish his paper until the
shellhre became too warm, when he departed
for Ostend. once menaced by the enemy, he
crossed the channel to London. probably clack-
ing his typewriter busily the way. Here he
has continued TO present the news for the
benefit of his refugee compatriots. If threat
ened by Zeppelns there. his next move doubt
less would be TO the United States
In any case, it Is safe to predict that the
Independence Beige will continue to come
out 1t takes more than shot and shell to upet
a born editor. He will get out his paper though
the building be tumbltng about his ears.
ADMIRER.
Philadelphia, October %.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
THE BABBLING FOOL

I'VE must get back, SAY the unduly WIS
folk, ito the fundamental facts of llte =,
A fine inspiring ALTERATION. The luhaa, ~.
mental facts. One thinks at once OF W, w
great emotional forces at work In the ur neDu.
lous and chaotic aura from which life spI91Iiss NJ
and a lot of nonsense in that vein Ll,s LN
may be a fundamental fact, TO the hslnss has
Perhaps Death is also. But all other la.s
are equally fundamental. To say that 80 -
fer example. is more fundamental thah J,
clety Is exactly as sensible as saying Ihs' I.
babies are more fundamental than pIIss
diers. And pleading the babies nudil! .
the reason.
The trouble is that those who use the phrasss
use it loosely in the same way that 'pIoP'ss a
is used, as If there We're certain essence "a
propriety For them, as George SanlayeIiss il
has written, Il is not enough that Whlshs "a
intoxicating to men. They must Ia
whisky intoxicating in itself and stand 10 SS
is fundamental without saying :for thsg
and their speech is only as loose as 'A''
thought. :.
And, incidentally 1t Is impossible 10 81
back. III by fundamental Is meant the M
escapable terrOrs and trials, the lneVitssss
escapades and trivial pleasures OF eAisteps eAis'.'ss
il is not necessary to get back. BeceS5s
mental Is meant the crude experience u tthoss
ing. the farther humanity gets from '''-
fundamentals, the better ,.,.srI
Civilization, according TO Herbert spenSenT'
is the progress from the simple TO the ~ 4,
pleX; and II did not need a Chestelto ton Us.
definitions in the world, because rehh9lI5 I5a
is 80 much simpler than barbarsI. bsf
civilization can be measured by the huutlss
OF nnessential frivolous and useless 49,
II car employ without losing control OF A9
Therefore, forward. and to frlvolity'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
JabberWARk,


Twas Joffre and the Churchill Pan
Did Kluk and Motke in the Aisne
All Ypres were the San Soldau
And Rennenkampf Lorraine.
Beware the Przemysl, my son.
The Stryz that bite, the Oise that scr.,.A
Beware the dumdum slugs and shun w"
The submarines that catch"
He took his Arras sword in hand
Long time the Antwerp foe he souybt
Then rested by the Cracow tree
And stood while in thought.
And as in Woevre thought he stood
The Przemysl with eyes of flame
Came Turcoing through the Uhlan wood
And Hasselt as he came.
Eeclool Thourout! And through and throu,h
His Arras blade went Berry u-bac
He left 1t dead and with his head
He came Suwalking back.
"And hast thou slain the Przemysl?
Come to my arms, my Ostend boy
Oh, Antwerp day Calico, Calais!
He Danzig in his joy.
Twas Joffre and the Churchill Pau
Did Kluk and Moltke In the Aisne,
All Ypres were the San Soldau
And Rennenkampf Lorraine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-24
THE IDEALIST

Yesterday / stood on a downtown street
corner conYersng with friend. Suddenly
his eyes stared fxedly at some one ap
preaching.
EXCUSE me-" he blurted out Here comes
a specialist among specialists-a good fel-
low, but -" at this juncture my friend
moved hurriedly away. / was left to the
specialist.
Forthwith he unloaded himself He found
me lamentably ignorant of his subject He
freely offered sympathy at my plebeian ig-
norance After which he proceeded TO at
tempt to educate me; he started at and
doubtless had the very definite and hxed
ambition of reaching u before he would be
though with me.
OF course, his words fell fiat upon my
ears | tried to assume a look of intelligent
interest as he prattled on. but all the while
| was doing tremendous amount OF
thinking
Suppose / thought, this fellow would put
one half the mental and physical energy in
his daily work that he puts into golf!-for
golfer. So mighty that 1t seldom left his
mind
Later / learned that out on the links he
was a fellow who assumed bored sort OF
air The reason was quite plain. His
energy was ali used up in discussing his
hobby rather than in actively pursuing it,
You cannot play your hardest II you have
consumed a gOodly portion OF your play
energy during the period for work. If the
don't be surprised when you discover that
he really lacks efficiency In his hobby The
man with a hobby has one OF the most
serious problems OF life on his shoulders:
To locate and to keep the balance between
his hobby and the world.