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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

To you a little thing love seems
To me II IL the whole OF mes pursuit,
The only Inspiration Of my lutte:
Love opens vistas OF delights
Leads me 10 unimaglned heights
OF happiness. and vouchsafes CLEANS
That lift my thoughts to lovelier dreams:
1t brings new ravishment
From ever fresh displays OF charm and
grace.
Like the onticinE scent
OF violets in an unexpected place.
JAMES TERRY wHiIE
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

1t cost him only 80 cents. but it was
the principle of the thing.
He began to write to the Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury. who had
charge OF the revenue cutter service,
and demand justice.
That was about seven years ago and
the man has averaged about two letters
a week ever since. He numbers his
letters. and the last one was numbered
seven hundred and something.
When Charles Dewey Hilles was an
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury he
sent the man his personal check for 30
cents in the hope that It would end the
long correspondence, but 1t did not. The
man promptly sent back the check,
saying that he did not want the money.
but justice, and that the 80 cents must
come from the Government Itself.
And so the correspondence goes on
with no sign of ever letting up.
Representative Jimmie" Burke OF
Pennsylvania got to talking with his
seat mate in the smoking compartment
on the way across that state the other
day. Learning that Burke WAS from
Washington, the stranger began to ask
questions about Bryan and Champ
Clark and their ability as lecturers
also their charges for speaking.
And" went on the man. what about
that fellow James T.. Burke? I UNDER
stand he's O fair speaker, too"
"Oh, but | never speak for money ex-
cept in a court room." said Burke.
You're Burke?''
Yes"
Hum. Well, I'm glad to meet you.
and, considering your terms. maybe well
have you for our next lecture. We
never have our lectures in the court
ROOM
| Here is n sample OF the adrolt manner
in which Representative Jerry Donovan
OF Connecticut proceeds TO an objective
point.
Representative Donovan appointed a
| postmaster in his home town a little
| while ago and the selection was not sat
!sfactory 10 a lot OF persons who were
/ friends OF other candidates. So they
held an Indignation Meeting.
! II was the sense of the meeting that
great wrong had been perpetrated
and that "A committee should be APP
| pointed to appear before the Post Of
/ flee Committee OF the Senate and make
protest.
But who's going to arrange for tho
/ hearing before the Senate committee p
/ inquired one man. "None of us Is ac-
| qua 7ted in Washington"
"i'll fix II for YOU" suddenly spoke UP
a compact little man who had just en-
tere! The hall. Just leave II all to me-"
II was Congressman Donovan him
! self
You have a perfect right to be heard
before the committee" went on Dono-
van, land |, being your representative
at Washington, am the one to arrange
II, Send down big delegation. and
when they get through with the COM
mittee hearing I'd like to show them
about the town. Washington's never 80
beautiful as In May and June"
The day for the hearing came, but.
10. not n member OF the delegation from
Connecticut showed up. Donovan's Of
fer cf so much hospitality had Shaass'
them on.
(Copyri0ht. 1914, by Fred G. Kelly.)
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
The Movie Narksnan.
From The Morning OTe0onid


From the Morning OTe0onian.
What no. III whsng my sounding Tyre
And sing with heart aglOw,
The sheriff and his actions dire
Within the movie show;
How over bank and brse and shore
And sunny pastures mossy.
For miles the villain nees before
This sheriff and his posse,
An. evil villain. looking more
tuprlnciplcd than Nero,
Wearing your chaps hindside before,
Black moustache and sombreroi
The more view your makeup weird.
The more I understand
Why sheriff. curslng In his beard
should chase you through the land,
What no! The hunt Is up, my boys'
The villains on his way:
And covered by the drummers noise,
The sheriff Joins the play.
with ready guns the posse strong
Close with the sherif hangs
The drummer grabs hts popgun long
TO trap their Bang. bang. bangs
They gain upon the poor galoot!
With fury for their goad,
They shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot
And never stop to load:
His horse IL down ON foot ne creeps
Among some boulders near,
And after him the sherlr leaps,
Bang banging In the rear.
A yard behind the villains back
This savage sheriff runs;
At every Jump he takes a crack
with both his heavy guns,
I almost hear his painting breath;
I'm git yuh YETI" he Kisses;
But still tho villain lodges death
/ don't see how he misses
And when through miles OF MIN or more
The furious chase has sped.
And all the land Is sprinkled DER
with tons and tons Of lead,
The chase runs down: the villains caught
But as ! watch them run,
I always feel the sheriff ought
To brain him with his gun
I honor much that sheriff grun
Within the movie show,
And over miles OF country rough
I love to see him go
| like to see the posse run.
Their praise Is on my lip;
I glory in them every one
But darn their Workmanship!
For Home Consumption.
Those humorists deserve our pity
Whose labors take them far aheld,
While Jokes by thousands in this city
Walt for a chance to be revealed.
MethInks the ultimate consumer
Yawns when he sees point that's
stretched
And much enjoying local humor
Disiikes all such ~ h far fetched.
GEoaGs B. MosswesA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

This 40 cents controversy recalls an
other famous case in the Treasury De-
partment. Some years ago the crew
Of a Government revenue cutter gave
an entertainment OF some sort, and. ac-
cording to custom, assessed the cost
of the AFFAIR among those aboard. Each
mans share Yves taken from his pay.
one young min Was not In sympathy
with some f1eatve Of the entertainment
and obtecte "a ,osvins to pay his share.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Every little while you hear some body
say:
1t isn't the expense | mind. It's the
principle of the thing
United States Treasury officials have
found that the country is overrun with
persons VINO feel Just that way.
For example, not long ago a coal
dealer in Grand Rapids. Mich.-either
Grand Rapids or Detroit--broke a win
dow in the basement of the Federal
Building, or rather the dealers driver
broke it, owing to carelessness in back
ing up his team.
So the Treasury Department sent the
coal man bin FOR ~ cents, the cost OF
repairing the window.
Now 10 cents was not an insurmount-
able sum to the coal man, but he felt
that the broken window was not the
fault of himself or his driver. lie there
fore declined TO pay the 40 cents, and
the correspondence on the question went
back and forth for a few weeks and
piled up until the item had cost the
Government about sl9 in the form of
wasted effort, all on account of the
principle of the thing.
At that stage OF the proceedings one
OF the minor Treasury officials brought
to the attention OF Assistant Secretary
Byron X. Newton a formal inquiry ask
ing il 1t would not be entirely pract-
cable To deduct 40 cents from the next
voucher mailed to the coal dealer in
payment for his coal.
Newton scrawled on the corner uf the
note of inquiry these few simple words:
go to It,"
That Immediately threw one whole
wing Of the Treasury Department into
CONSERVATION. II would have been all
right II Newton had dictated note say
ing:
THE Assistant Secretary III the
Treasury feels that II would be per-
fectly proper and according TO law and
order as in such cases made ana pro-
yided TO deduct the sum of 40 cents from
the voucher ~ John Smith, coal dealer,
SC.
II he had expressed himself like that
all might have been well. But no one
about the Department had the remotesi
idea what ne meant by Go to It,"
so you can imagine the furry and
fiutter of excitement. For all | know
they may not yet have figured out whai
to do.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

William J. Spillman has a bigger ac-
quaintance on rural free delivery routes
than any other man in the United
States.
He is the chief OF the office of farm
management in the bureau Of plant in
dustry at the Department of Agrlcul-
ture.
IL sounds inconsp!cuous enough.
But Spillman gets more mail than the
President of the United States. His
province Is to answer questions From
questions pour In on Spillman's desk,
and he has to have some 800 assistants
to help him get out the answers
No matter what the question Is,
whether it's about crop rotation. ar
tesian wells. how to muffle a hydraulic
ram. how to rearrange ones fields to
save the maximum number of foot
steps, or marketing guineapigs, Spill
man has an answer ready. About the
only proposition he hasn't been able to
| unravel right off the reel came in the
other day. a man in the middle West
drew this picture:
MY son has returned from the Phil
ippnes after an absence Of two years.
and while there he got married and also
bought n small sized monkey. HIS wife
seems like an estimahle young woman.
and the monkey is right cute little
thing. Ii knows a number OF amusing
tricks too hut we have very little use
| for monkey. Where can | exchange
the monkey for nice young Pig"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21


Who was 1t who took the first pictures
OF the horse in motion?
CARL WINTERS.
Eadward Muybridge at senator Stan
ford's stock farm. Palo Alto. Cal. in 1855.
His photographs were taken by a row of
equldistant cameras spread along a tenth
OF q mile OF track and the shutters were
snapped by the breaking of threads by the
horse In AIS stride. The horse was Occl-
dent. the first trotter west OF the Rockies
TO hang up a record OF 30. This sue
cess with the cameras. combined with the
persistence OF images upon the retina long
familiar In the device of the zoetrope. led
to the invention OF the moving picture.
What was the period OF the engrsver
Balechou? HELEN BARNES.
Jean Joseph Balechou, born at Aries
l7l5. studied painting at Avgnon in COM
psny with Joseph Vernet. Turning to en-
craving he studied under the best masters
at Avignon and Paris. He died In AviS-
non in 1854 or 1865. His best work Is the
Rigaud portrait OF Augustus III. OF
Poland yet 1T ruined his career. for he
was convicted of the sale OF proofs before
letter and his name was erased from the
list of academicians. His fellow student
Vernet had no more sympathetic en-
grsver.
What Is the origin of the saying, 1T
makes a difference whose OK is gored" ?
Is II. perchance. derived from the old
Latin proverb "Quod licet Jovi, not licet
bovi"7 A. Il.
In It's present form 1t Is credited to
Franklin. the only American maker of
aphorisms. As he had no Latin It is
scarcely likely that In his commonplace
he was at all affected by the clas-
steal proverb. whose sense also is by no
means the same.
ask II any OF your sage readers can
supply the old school reader verses:
Three little words we often see.
Three little articles. a, an and the.
Q. b. v.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Edwin o. Wood. Democratic national
committeeman from Michigan. is a pro-
fesslonal joker. But on his last trip to
Washington Wood had a lot OF hard
luck with his pranks. Nearly every one
that he attempted had a bareback to II.
For instance, on the train he was
travelling with friend who doesn't
smoke. Wood went back to the smok-
ing compartment, leaving his friend in
his seat. Then he called the conductor
to him.
That man up yonder" says Wood.
pointing ont his travelling companion,
''is little Off his nut, and I am his
Keeper It seems to irritate him II I
stick around too close. so I'm going 10
take a chance on leaving him alone for
little while. But / wish you would
keep an eye on him."
In few minutes the conductor came
running back to Wood and said:
Your friends all right, but there's a
crazy woman back IN the next car and
they can't handle her. You probably
know more about such people than any
body else aboard So I'll have to get
you to come back and help us out"
Before Wood couls demonstrate the
conductor had dragged him back into
the other car and the crazy woman took
a great fancy to him. He was Obliged
to ride with her until she got of the
| train.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

SixtyrsiX. c. c. r, says: A bets that
when the stock is exhausted II II too late
TO score any marriages.
A Is wrong. He u thinking OF
pinochle.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
STATESMEN, REAL AND NEAR.
ny FRED @. KELLY.

@oL. GEORGE w. COCKTAILS, the
Panama Canal chief, works on a
~ schedule almost down to the Sec
ond. Visitors to the canal who go
about with Goethals find that they must
reach the train or the boat right on the
dot or else they are left behind.
This hitting the schedule extends even
bers of Congress who go down to the
canal are told, for example:
THE boat goes in twenty-five min
utes. This reception will last just
twenty-four minutes. leaving one min
ute to step over to the boat"
And II they tarry over the Rood-bys
they simply get left out of the picture.
When the Appropriations Committee
was on a trip of inspection to the canal
some time ago Chairman Fitzgerald
came In from a hot, dusty tramp one
morning with great hunger. He had
to eat rapidly, for it was the day they
were to visit the Pacific end Of the canal
and he had barely time to catch the
train. Moreover he did not catch the
train. The committee was obliged to
proceed on It's way chalrmanless.
ON their return his colleagues asked
Fitzgerald how II happened.
II had my watch in my hand" ne
said, land allowed myself plenty OF
time to keep on our schedule. But I
forgot and took two more swallows of
coffee than had figured on. That up
set my whole calculations"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Dice. ]. ] asks the value OF Ave aces
in one throw n; Indian dice.
II aces are high the. throw cannot be
beaten because the caster may call aces
anything he likes. But II the skies are
the Indians, as sometimes played. there
are number OF throws that will beat
five aces. because any four OF kind with
a six would be Ave of a kind.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

I ask II any OF your sage readers can
supply the old school reader verses:
Three little words we often see.
Three little articles. q, an and the.
3. b. ".
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Seven-up. a. T. NJ. says: Playing
three hand II the eldest hand begs when
the third man wants TO play the turned
trump Is there not rule that by giving
each OF them point the third player can
have the turned trump stay
The third hand has nothing TO do with
the making of the trump and when the
game is strictly played he is not allowed
to look at any Of his cards until the mat
ter Of the trump Is settled between the
dealer and the eldest hand
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

u. +. L. asks IL the player who Is told
to go by both the others In three hand
can play more, than one card and II they
count for him as they would in playing
two hand. 4 had In his hand ace. deuce,
trey when told 10 go at twenty-five.
He can play the three for run Of three
and thrty-one IL both the opponents tell
him to go
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Poker. w. ]. r. asks how the modern
rule OF compelling every opener TO place
his discard under the chips In the pool.
no matter what he has or what he
drawing TO. would work II there are eight
PLAYERS and the dlscards have to BE gain
cred to MI the draws
The openers discard remains under tn
chips in the pool and must not be dis
iurbed, as 1t is still part OF his hand
in which the whole table has an Interest
The discards from all other players ma!
be gathered and shufned for the dra-
II the pack gives out.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-05
APPRECIATES EFFORT.

1t always makes an editor feel good
to hear from his readers and es-
pecially from man who is competent
to judge and who is not in the habit
of Spreading salve." Last week we
received letter from one our new
made friends at Philippi his letter
follows: 20
Philippi, Oct. 20, 1sf4-Chas. L.
Weymouth, Esq, BeIingtcn, W. Va,
Ny dear sir:-I enclose check for one
dollar for the Progressive, Democrat
ic paper for the year. Allow me to
congratulate you on getting up some
clean-cut Democratic articles which
alone should make it popular with the
party. With my very best wishes for
your success, am,
Very sincerely yours,
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-05
SOME TWILIGHT sLEEPERs.

The Twilight Sleep Idea is a
beautiful one. Anything that tends
to reduce pain and suffering is to be
welcomed. But. twilight sleep is
nothing new in this part of the coun-
try. We know of some towns that
are in chronic state of twilight
slumber and they will never "come
to-" Some of our own citizens, men
tioning no names, go about from day
to day in never-ending twilight
slumber. And looking over our list
of delinquent subscribers makes US
rise to inquire what the doctors use
to bring their twilight sleepers out
of the trance? Send US the formula,
for there are few subjects on that
list whom we like to awaken. Did
we call them twilight sleeprs? Suf-
fering cats! The deepest, blacklist,
midnight could not begin to equal the
darkness and depth of their slumbers.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-05
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given that l will
SIT at my office in the city of Being
ton, W, Va, on Bridge street, every
Saturday in each week, commencing
Saturday, October 31st., 1914, for the
purpose of collecting the taxes due
the said city. 21a per cent. off if
paid on or before December 1st, 1914.
After that date 10 per cent. will be
added, according to law
GEO. w. PRICE,
City Collector.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-05
THEY ARE COMING.
Ralph Parlette ana Others.

The fact that Belington is to have
a Lyceum Course is now assured and
that it will be the best course the
city has ever had is without doubt.
The musicals are high class: Ralph
Parlette is again returned, and
everybody will want to hear him. Dem
ton c. Crowl, reproducing "Sam
Jones'" lectures will be appreciated
by all who hear him;this number
alone is worth half the price of the
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-05
ON INSPECTION TRrp.

Herman Viquesney, connected with
the office of the state game warden,
left Sunday night for Preston and
other counties in the state where he
will be joined by government inspec-
or, on an inspection tour of the look
out stations under the jurisdiction Of
this department.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-05
Operations Rendered pIffiout.

Berlin special: The operations in
Belgium have been rendered difficult
owing to foundations Of the User and
the Ypres canals by the destruction of
the sluices at Newport Our troops
have advanced on Ypres. At least
600 prisoners were captured, also some
dragons. In the east the battle
against the Russians still is indeci
sive.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-05
AWAIT Orders TO FIRE
British and French Fleets Men
acing Turkey.

Rome special Turkey is bent on
war, but intends to force a declaration
from the triple entente powers This
is the Summary of the present situa-
ton gathered by correspondents or
Roman newspapers in Sofia. Buchar-
est, Constantinople and Petrograd
Coached by Berlin, the porte is OBJ
viously intent on assuming the atti-
tude of the threatened, mistreated ma
ton and desires, apparently, to avoid
diplomatic blunders similar TO those
which placed Germany In the light of
an aggressor.
With every opportunity to di5avow
the acts of her feet, in the Black sea
and to reassure Great Britain as to the
Suez canal and Egypt, the Turkish
government remains silent while her
squadrons and armies are Fastening to
take positions for attack. The sit
uation is utterly impossible and can
not endure another twenty-four hours
without complete breakdown by the
porte
There would be no surprise here II
the forts Of the Dardanelles were fred
on today by the British and French
fleets, which are reported to be waiting
merely for orders from their foreign
offices to enforce satisfaction for the
destruction OF Russian property In the
Black sea. The allies are IN no mood
to temporize ~ is clearly Indicated by
ofieial statements in LONDON and
Petrograd.
Russian newspapers assert, asoord-
ing 10 correspondent in Rstfograd,
that Russia has Informed FxfkAy that
shs must decide nameAfately whether
shs wants var or pence. n the latter.
sAs must Immediately disarn tas 0se
bsa and the Brssiau ard Yspstriate
their asrMaa ofiicsss and ssemsn.
making also Reasonable anAnAs fsr
Ire acts q her hsst IA the Black sea.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-05
prsRsvatleas Fss VS..

Apparently Turkey has trsatsA the
uitmatuM with contempt III so q
declaration Of war w Russia. Grsat
britain and France may havs been
transmitted already to Ccnstantiaeple
Certain preparations by this country
Of which 1t is impossible to speak bear
out this conjecture.
1t is said that the British, French
and Russian ambassadors have de-
manded and received their passports
and that tho British and Russian EN-
bassies have left Constantinople The
French ambassador expects to depart
today. These reports come from Con
stantinople, with which telegraphic
communication was resumed Sunday
after having been uninterrupted for
fourteen hours.
The attitude of the porte is revealed
in a dispatch received from Sofia This
asserts that the premier of Bulgaria
inquired of the porte If the action OF
the Turkish feet in the Black sea sig
nified opening of hostilities The
porte replied that Turkey did not con-
slider that hostilities had been begun.
A correspondent in Bucharest says it
Is denied at the Russian legation there
that Odessa was bombarded The OF
toman embassy here takes the posi-
ton that Turkey does not consider
herself at war with England, France
or Russia, but will defend herself If
attacked. The statement is made at
the embassy that Turkey will not de-
clare war because she desires neither
to provoke nor to make war.
At the Italian foreign Office it is de-
MED that Turkey has issued formal
declaration Of War. The government
of Italy comedies that the situation is
alarming, but states that 1t is not yet
desperate.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-10
European Disarmament Would lmmedi- ateIy Result In Tremendous Pros
 Derity Throughout World
Bu LEWIS B. FRANKLIN, Banker

THE release of the two billion dollars which Europe
 annually devotes to military expenditures would give M PETUS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF, THE WORLD SUCH AS WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE. ...-..
 SUCH SUM, ADDED PRESENT AMOUNT AVAILABLE AN! NUALLY FOR INVESTMENT WOULD msANAN ABUNDANCE CAPT. TAI FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT HERE AND ABROAD LOWER INTEREST RATES PROBABLY LOWER COST OF LIVING ADD TO THIS THE TRANSFER FOUR MILLION FIVE HUN DRIED THOUSAND MEN, MAKE UP THE sTANpNG ARMIES OF EUROPE ON PEACE FooTNG LIFE OF ECONOMIC WASTE TO PRODUCTIVE PURSUITS IS NOT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT ErRoPE WOULD REQUIRE VERY FEW RECOVER FROM THE RAvAeEs ENTER UPON LONG PERIOD OF PROS PERTY FROM WHICH ONE OF THE GREATEST BEhE' FIcIARES. ...s-...
 Under such conditions capital would accumulate with surprising rapidiv and EUROPE WOULD SOON BE A HEAVY fBu TEX OF OUR SECURITIES and would witness in this country an era of expansion prosperity such have before experienced