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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-10-28

The house Of representatives had a
trough house session Friday night
md the unofficial report states that
the cause was not the cotton problem.
hut too much essence OF grain.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-10-28

The suggestion that all the dispcn-
fuYies In the state bc ordered closed.
by legislative enactment. until the
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
WAS WOMAN OF GREAT CHARM
Empress Jossphine One Of the Most
Remarkable Persos sases Of His
tcricaI Record.

4 While the Empress Josephine had
one million francs year for her pri.
vate purse, it is a well-known fact
that she was always in debt, and
while this led to stormy scenes with
Napoleon, and beyond doubt she had
an extravagant wardrobe, it must not
be supposed that she spent this sum
entirely upon herself as it is esti-
mated that she supported more than
two thousand poor people in addition
to helping many needy aristocrats
who had suffered under the revolu-
ton.
It is said that she owned several
hundred hats and bonnets which were
peculiarly becoming to her, and paid
her hairdresser six thousand francs
year. OF course, the preservation OF
her wonderful charm caused the
spending of many hours day in her
boudoir, from which all but a few
favorite waiting women were ex-
cluded So successful was She in ad-
dition to her own wonderful personal
ity, that at the age of forty, and a
grandmother, when arrayed in sim
pie white mousseline and string of
pearls, her husband exclaimed at her
loveliness and said he would be jeal-
Gus.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
Laws Aca'rst Noise.

Germany has probably the most
complete laws in the world against
superf1uous noise. For noises annoy
ing the public in general" an indi-
vidual can be fined up to 81, or else
imprisoned. For instance, barking
dog or cackling fowl which disturbs
a school makes its owner liable under
the law. In Berlin it is forbidden to
transport through the streets arti-
cles such as sheet iron, chains, and
other metal objects liable to make a
noise, unless packed SO as to be
noiseless. New ordinances, now com
ing into force. forbid not only music
in the streets without police permis-
sion, but also forbid music to be
played or sung IN the buildings where
it can be heard in the streets.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
TWO METHODS OF BEGGING
Plausible and Petite Menc:oaHt No
Doubt No More Deserving Than
His Opposite.

Like those of the Heather Chi
nee" the ways of the seeker after
aims are peculiar. A correspondent
writes to the London Chronicle.
Walking down Fleet street the other
day, / was accosted in the most casual
manner By an individual who at a
glance could be summed up as one of
life's failures. With refined accent
and in the most perfect English he
apologized while keeping pace with
me-for intrudhg his company upon
me unlimited He would not beat
about the bush Through cong!om-
GRAFTON of adverse circumstances tthe
phraseology is his own he was desti-
tute For the moment he could not
dig owing to his inability to find
an allotment wherein to delve: to beg
ne was most heartily ashamed, but
did it as a 'dernier resort Could i
spare a shilling-not as a loan, but
as a gift. and help lame dog over a
stile?
Il could-and did, against my bet
ter Judgment, He accepted the gift in
the spirit in which he had asked for
it I'm not going to thank you he
said; you know | would do the same
for you were our positions reversed,
VIII you shake hands" Further
down / came across his antithesis.
Siding up, with that crab-like slither
which stamps the professional mendi-
cant, he accosted me thus. Yer don
'appen ter ave a bit Of bread on
yer, guv'nor, do yer?' l did not-and
the curses of the disappointed one
followed me till l was out of earshot!
And | shouldn't care to have to decide
which of the two was the more de-
serving"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
SUIT THAT He WAS SAVING
Jones' Explanation Probably Did Not
Tend to soothe His irate Part
ner at Whist.

Jones didn't want to play cards.
never had wanted to play cards in his
life, and said so. But to no purpose.
His objections, conscientious and
otherwise. were waved on one side BY
the red faced person who was look
ing for partner.
Jones took his seat at the card
table. before they bad been playing
Is seconds Jones and tie red-faced
person took a 40.horsepower dislike
for each other. Then the wretched
Jones made his first serious mistake.
He of the rudy complexion banged
the table
"Why on earth didn't you follow
my lead?" he shouted.
IF there is one man in this world
today whose odious example l would
not follow in any circumstances you
are the mani" retorted Jones, with
dignity.
After that the jolly pastime pro-
ceeded. Then Jones put his foot in it
again, and again the rubicund one
Dashed the table.
Couldn't you see me calling for a
spade or club?" he doomed. Haven't
you got a black suit, man?'
yes, I have" said Jones, rising
from the table, "and I'm jolly well
hanging on to it for your funeral!"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
When the Work Piles uo.

We can get any amount OF TorA
done by taking it moment at a
tine 1t is when we try TO talse it
several moments at time that 1t
gets beyond US. A business mai had
a pile of work in front OF him OIL his
desk. and was "stewing around over
it, and saying how tremendously busy
he was. when another man said to
him, You're not busy: you're only
confused Seeing and thinking
about more than one thing at time
brings the confusion that multiplies
burdens and hinders the work. 1t
is sometimes well to clear our desk
Of everything except the one thing
upon which We must be working; then
to take up the next thing: and so on
until the days work is done. Concen-
tration routs confusion. Doing one
thing at time gets an amazingly
large number of things done.-Sun-
day School Times
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
"Pick Il To-"

Habits formed in childhood are usu.
ally lasting. With that idea as a
basis the playground and school au-
thorities in Rochester have placed
signs conspicuously located on the
Fairgrounds on which are displayed
these words, "Pick it up" The idea is
to have the children clear away the
disorder they create during play be-
fore they leave the grounds. The plan
Is reported to have shown immediate
results. 1t has been possible to dis
penss with the caretaker of the
grounds. The boys and girls leave the
grounds in perfect condition. No
waste paper is left scattered about, no
playthings are out Of place, all is
snugged up for closing before the
crowd of rollicking youngsters leave
their playground. 1t is just as easy
to teach children to be orderly as to
be disorderly.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
Kissing in the Street.

In seventeenth century New Eng
and kissing in the street was seri-
>us offense. But so back to fifteenth
md sixteenth century Old England,
and the case is very different. One
If the Bohemian travellers whose mar
'ative is given by Mrs. Henry Gusts
Gentlemen Errant" records of Lon
Ion: 1T is the custom in this town
hat at the first arrival OF guests in
my lodging the hostess, with all the
lousehold. comes forth into the street
receive; and each one of them it
)ehooves each one to kiss. Indeed, to
hem, to take a kiss is but as, to 9TH
RS, to offer the right hand" And
Mrs. Gust gives a whole sheaf Of
imilar foreign testimony to the pleas
Int English custom Of kissing in tho
ltreet.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
Tiz.-c cN THE SAND HILLS
F., N rfat Was Useless May Be
t.=|ae Psoductivs by Common
Sense Methods.

Every one knows that France has
scael her southwest department irom
TIE curse Of drifting sands by planting
pine trees. and that Germany has
taued some of the poorest soil in
Europe 10 human service by the
same methods But how many Amer
leans, even OF those who claim to be
well informed, realize that a similar
Work OIL at least as great a scale is
being performed by our own govern
ment in the sand-hill regions of Ne
braska?
In this district. where the real es-
tate moves back and forth with every
change in the wind, Uncle Sans for
est rangers are planting trees. They
are pinning their faith to the jack
pine, as being best adapted to stand
ing the severe cond. ions of tree
life in that country, and about a thou
sand acres are set TO these useful
trees each year. When they began
this work. nine trees out of every ten
trees planted died Now, the rangers
have perfected their technic till al
most nine out OF ten trees live; and
though the work is only dozen years
old, it is already Transforming a con-
siderable region.
Enthusia site foresters figure out a
fine net profit for the government at
the end of 20 years. One can not
help suspecting that most of this profit
will evaporate, but that is, after all
the smallest part of the matter. The
main thing is that region which was
useless and menace is being put to
service, and that the way is being
shown for state a-d private enterprise
of the same rat4.e on a still larger
scale.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
How Many Shots win Be Fired

The number of rounds that will be
fired during an ordinary battle can
only be imagined. We have data from
the Russo-Japanese war showing that
at Ljaopan one battery fired 1900
rounds in one day, while another fired
3,304 rounds, making for each gun
about 413 rounds in one day. This
was not an uncommon occurrence, and
1t shows the expense involved in car
rying on a modern war.
The most common projectile Of the
three-inch caliber is the shrapnel.
which is in itself gun, arranged by
time fuses SO that at the desired
height it will be made to burst, shoot
ling forward out of shell $50 lead
balls, each effective to kill a man.
Scientific American.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
Women Act.

While men are talking about thing
nd appointing committees to investi-
ate it women go ahead and do It.
Itometimes they wish they hadn't, but
In nine cases out of ten they are glad
hey did.
In Ithaca, where the women by the
use Of their traditionally simple and
iirect methods have established a
aourishing farmers market and given
! solar plexus blow to the cost of lty-
ng, they are particularly slat. of it.
And not only the women are rejoicing
At the success Of their Introduction OF
the producer to the corsumc-: the
farmers echo the sentiment, and the
aeads of households, noting the
shrinkage in the weekly bills, look on
Senignly.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05
Small Choice.

Small CHOICE.
Pat--Yis. sorr. wur-rk is scarce,
aut O. got a Job Sunday that brought
me foive dollars.
sir. Goodman-What. You broke the
sabbath?
Pat tapologetically)-W sorr.
twas wan av US had t be broke
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-12-05

Mrs. Smith--Bridget are there any
absolute necessities that you want for
the kitchen?
Bridget-Yis. mum OF want plush
rocktn' chair. an some pillows fer the
coZy corner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
trict of Columbia Assessed for Taxa
ton From 1890 to 1913, lnclusive:
No Tax Reduction in 1902.

Note how low and how fuctuatns the
assessments were under the old law which
nominally included both intangible and
tangible personally in the valuation.
And then note how as soon as the corrupt
conSpirators of 1902 had done their nefa-
rious work of relieving untold millions of
intangible personally from taxation the
assessment jumped 30 per cent and the
collection under the assessment over 2CO
per cent. And note that instead of huc-
tuating under the new law there has been
steady and substantial increase OF the
assessment each year ever since
Obviously the motive of the 1902 law
was not to Swind1e Uncle Sam into con-
timing the half-and-half plan by cutting
down corruptlv the local tax revenue: or,
if so, this criminal motive was mysteri-
ously hafiicd. Either she corruptionists
of Washington had not Irir.d as insin-
uated. and q weak aud degraded ConGress
had not been brioed as suggested or
these conspirators blundered and were
hoist with their own petard.
The crime of l!Sr2" was thus il reality
a municipal virtue. a community benefit
If the WASHINGTON taN-dodgers and male
factors Of great wealth hypnotized a
base ard plant Congress into this legis-
iation. designed to injure and to swindle
their criminal DESIGNS Were turned up
side down and Con@ress, like BaIaam uu-
dertakinS to curse, was compelled to
bless. For these swindlers who would
corruptly reduce the personally assess
ment by many millions actually increased
this asSe ssnlent 80 per cent. and multi
piled three-fold the cash collections un-
der the assessments. Desi ming to cut
down the realty assessment by one third
or iifty-eisht mi lions they actually in
creased this assess Nent by thirty-two mil
lions. Designing to hide their taxab e re
sources in order to swindle Uncle sam
they uncovered and exposed them. Either
as conspirators they were idiots. or they
were not conspirators at all.
Is there not an insult to Congress in
volved in every such suggestion that the
House and Senate have crininally par
tcipated III or weakly and basely yielded
to a swindIins conspiracy to secure cor
rupt legislation injuring the public 70,
private profit? In the light of the dis
closed facts should not those who have
thus slurred and slandered the Congress,
and the Washington of 1902 feel a sense
OF shame?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21

The tax-dodsing malefactors who (as al
leged) bribed or hypnotized Congress into
the crime of 1902, and crinlinally intlu-
enced a corrupt Congress to cut down the
tax rate on and the tax revenue from
Washington realty by one-third, must
have been aStounded at the actual re-
suits OF their nendiSh work. For instead
of reducing the triennial assessment of
1900 by one-third. or SOS, 900, the 1868
assessment under the new law added
$32,OOO,OO0 to the previous valuation. Con-
spring to decrease they largely increased
their tax-burden. The difference between
the actual assessment figures of 1903 and
those which should have been returned on
the Johnson-Prouty theory is $50, 030,00O.
Evidently property was in fact assessed
at higher percentage of true value url-
der the two-thirds minimum valuation of
1907 than under the nominal true valua-
ton which prevailed prior to that date.
And SO today WASHINGTON realty at the
nominal two-thlrds valuation is assessed
in fact, as comparisons of census figures
conciuslVely demonstrate. at a. higher per-
centage OF true value than nearly all of
the nominal full valuation cities.
Mr.. johnson also denounceS the 1902
legislation concerning personally as an
infringement of the organic act and cor
rupt and dishonorable reduction of the
tax revenues of the District to enjoy
longer than was equitable the national
half contribution.
The records of the auditors office show
that the average collections of personal
taxes under the act of March 5, 1877. from
1880 to 1902 were S169, 1864 annually.
The collections were decreasing. being
slS2,&3i.@ in 1899. s1192l7.9O in 1850. S11s,-
16 in 1901 and S16I. .6O9S1 in 1902. This
law included in the assessed valuation in
tangible as well as tangible personal prop
erty.
Under the act of July /, 1902, the re-
suit of a corrupt conspiracy to cut down
the local tax revenue and to swindle
Uncle Sam by emitting intangible per-
sonalty from the valuation, there was
collected in the first year over $500, 600
as much as had been collected in any
previous three years under the old law.
The tangible personally under the new
law was assessed at 81 per cent more
than the tangible and intangible combin-
ed had been assessed under the old law;
and this increase was not Spasmodic for
that year alone, but has been in sub
stantial evidence in every annual assess
ment since 1902.
Value of Personal Property in the Dis
trict of Columbia Assessed for Taxa
tiOU From 1870 q 1912 1ncIISivg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
MISS STARR IS ACQUITTED.
Found Not Guilty of Interfering
With Chicago Police.

CHICAGO, March 21.-Miss Ellen
Gates Starr joint founder with Miss
Jane Adams of Hull House. today was
found not guilty of interfering with the
police and resisting arrest.
Miss Starr was accused of obstructing
the police in connection with the
waitress boycott of the restaurants.
My acquittal is a vindication of the
right Of free speech. said Miss Starr.
1T is absurd to contend that a citizen
has not q right to protest against what
she believes to be a wrongful arrest
by police
Miss Starr was accompanied to court
by many persons prominent in social
and philanthropic work. who con-
graduated her after the verdict was
read.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Glasses and Amount Unchanged.
PLANS TO GET OUT THE VOTE.
New York Democratic Committee

ALBANY, N. Y, March 21.-Members OF
the newly reorganized democratic state
committee gathered here today for q
meeting to discuss plans for getting out
the vote April I. when the question OF
holding a constitutional convention in
1915 will be voted on. Speeches by Gov.
Glynn and William Church Osborn, who
recently was elected chairman, dealt
mainly with the question of the proposed
constitutional convention. to which the
party is pledged.
Charles f. Murphy, the Tammany lead
er. was present in the capacity of COM
mitteeman.
The governor declared that changes in
the life, business and views of the peo
pie made necessary a revision of the
state constitution as adopted in 1884
"Woman's suffrage, for instance he
said was then theory, while it now is
fact Legislative abuses which have
crept into the government were not fore
seen. Legal procedure is SO complicated
that judges cannot clear their dockets.
The influence of corporations has wild
ened Bribery at elections and malfeas-
ance in office. once silently endured, no
longer are tolerated"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
ACCEPTS NEW POSITION.
Rev. DR.. Waters to Head Theologi
cal Seminary in Atlanta. Ga.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Rev. DR.. Philip
NJ. Waters, retiring pastor of the Wash
ington Square Methodist Church of this
city, it is announced today, has accepted
election as president of Cannon Theo-
logical Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. for the
training of negroes for the ministry. The
seminary is under the general control of
the Freedmen's Aid Society and the re-
firing president is the Rev. DR.. Silas
E. Idleman. who will return to a pas
torate in northeast Ohio conference.
DR.. Waters was born in Brooklyn and
was educated in Amherst College and
Union Theological Seminary. He was for
six years superintendent OF the New
York district of the Methodist confer
ence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
GROUNDS NOT SUFFICIENT.
Applications of Labor Men for Re.
lease From Prison Denied.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 21-Appli-
cations of three of the labor men con-
victed at Indianapolis in 1912 on charges
of transporting explosives Illegally. asking
their release from the United States peni-
tentiary at Leavenworth, We're denied last
night by Judge John c. Pollock in the
federal court at Kansas City, Kan. Phil
ip Cooley of New Orleans. ]. +. Munsy of
Salt Lake City and Frank c. Webb of
New York, who asked release. were not
given their liberty on bond with others
of the convicted men awaiting final dis
position of their cases in the United
States courts.
AS the prison is located in Kansas, the
applications for release must be made to
Judge Pollock. Release for the three was
asked for on the ground that they were
convicted in Indiana, while none was
citizen of that state. Judge Pollock held
this not sufficient grounds for taking up
the matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
FEARS FOR SCHOONER.
Shipping Circles Alarmed Over
Long-Overdue Levi S. Andrews.

SAVANNAH, Ga, March 21.-Continued
failure to locate the schooner Levi S. An
drews, Capt. Slocum, two weeks overdue
from Norfolk. is causing grave appre-
tensions in shipping circles here. Re-
ports received here today from vessels
asked to look out for the schooner said
no trace had been found.
The schooner sailed from Philadelphia
and put in at Norfolk for repairs after
striking submerged wreck off the Fir-
ginia coast. She sailed from Norfolk
February Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21

clear as monday from Mr.. Johnsons s own
recital that this community, absolutely
without power in respect to legislation
affecting it, was in regard to this particu-
lar enactment utterly ignored by Con-
g: ess. treated as impotent and therefore
negligible. But this shifting of respon-
sibility for alleged sins of legislation from
the shoulders of the actual legislators to
Washington as scapegoat is in accord
with Mr.. Johnson's general theory of the
relations of capital and nation since 1875
which pictures Washington as a cunning,
criminal hypnotist who has nodded
long series of weak Congresses of i'm
moral tendencies into blind submission
and unquestoning obedience to his sug
gestions of legislative crime. Uncle Sam
since 1873 is pictured by Mr.. johnson
as cutting a so:ry and dissraceful figure,
emitting him to quarters In the criminal
ward at st. Elizabeths : and the personfied
Washington to a cell in the penitentiary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Mr.. Bryan's Lawyer Dead.

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, March 21.-Henry
G. Newton, federal referee in bankruptcy
for this district, died today Of heart
failure. Mr.. Newton was personal coun-
sci for William Jennings Bryan, executor
of the estate Of Philo Bennett in Mr..
Bryan's appeal from a decision in the
superior court which held invalid a be-
quest to the executor contained in a
sealed letter found with the will,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Discovering a Mares Nest.

The legislation of 1902 did not cut down
rates and did not reduce revenues. There
was no conspiracy to lower the tax rate
and reduce local revenues In that year in
order to swindle the people of the United
States into continuance of an unnecessary
one-half contribution. The fixing of a
minimum rate of realty assessment was
not intended to lower the tax rate and
did not lower it; was not intended to de-
crease the local tax revenue and did not
decrease ii.
Examination of the realty assessments
prior to 1902 when the nominal full val
uation was modified by the limitation on
the assessor that the valuation should not
be less than two-thirds, and comparison
with the assessment figures since 1902 cor
roborate this assertion.
Assessments of Land and improvements
in the District of Columbia from 1880 to
1872.