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T KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE SIGNERS

and the youngest was Thomas Lynch,
Jr, OF South Carolina. who was born
August 8. 1749. and was therefore a
month short OF being u years old,
although he had a close second in
Edward Rutledge Of the same State,
who was born In November of the
same year.
The first Of the signers OF the Dec
laration to die after the execution Of
the instrument was Button Gwinnett
of Georgia, who passed away on May
81 OF the following year. Charles Car
roll of Carrollton. Md. lived the longest
after the memorable date. He re-
manned until November 10, 1882. There
are persons living to-day who, so
far as years are concerned. might have
shaken hands with this. tho last sur
vivor Of the signers, and still remem-
Der the occasion.
James Smith Of Pennsylvania was
the only signer who lived to a more
advanced age than Charles Carroll.
He was 96 years old when his life ended,
on July II, 1906. There were three
others who became nonogenarlans:
John Adams OF Massachusetts. who
passed away at 81 years; William Ell
lery of Rhode Island. at % years. and
Francis Lewis Of New York. at 81
years OF age. The youngest to die was
Arthur Middleton of South Carolina,
who was only A years old at his de-
mise, on January I, 1888.
or the fifty-six signers but seven
had advanced past the age of go years
on July 4, l776, Nine were between
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Howl!ng canCsters have climbed
upon my running board and bawled
10 my fares that ! was irregular n
that they and | would get pinChed.
Sometimes my fares would get scared
ana leave me for a gang cab, This
sort of intimidation Is not practised
very much in the daytime, but regu-
larry every night.
protecting the line as Il Is
termed, is often done by gunner and
stronGarms from the gashouse dis
triCt down about Tenth ven They
are paid regularly u OF a fund go;
up by the gangsters who hog the
choice lines.
"Protection clubs'' are being formed
every little while. | had not been
driving more than a month when /
was asked for IN assessment OF 81 n
week to Join a bunch that were going
to play the line at a certain restaurant
ard keep everybody else out by hiring
touGhs to beat Independent men and
u their tires. l refused TO 90 in.
one way of 'hogg!ng'' that is prac-
tlsod regularly Is called "muzzlinG the
line" An outside driver who is the
victim Of this game. as | was many
times, might wait at the end OF the
line all night and never get 10 the
head Of l.. Just In front of Mr.. Iade-
pendent will be n driver who, though
pretending to move up a little from
time to time, will Jam back upon him
now and again, and while the new
coming gang drivers are circling
around like hawks he will stand still
and let half a dozen OF them in ahead
Of him, thus holding the Independent
nan back so that no will never get
a fare, 1t was mhddenlng TO me to
sec the same ganGsters come and go.
taking in fare after fare at the head
Of the line while I,was held back and
couldn't bulge more than "A few feet.
The gang men rccklcssly bang their
cars INTO yours. Ny mudguard has
been ripped oT 10y n gaugstcr's fender.
my lights have been smashed and all
sorts of Things have been done to me.
Yes, the rate law Is violated all the
time. $ mo Gangsters never take out
a fare that they don't o~vercharge.
They knock down all the un-
earned increment. But, mind you.
there are plenty nf drivers that would
scorn to do any sort of crooked work.
| have found college men. electrical
ana civil engineers. all sorts of men
among them in these job hunting
times-even a preacher.
All last winter I made pretty good
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who came to work as an extra dur.
ing her vacation and photographed
so well that she received an Offer
which forbade her returning to school
Now she is one of the brightest star.
In filmdom.
Another story is told Of a ho,.,
which employed a number Of at,rac.
tive college girls to add to the scenic
effects of the hosiery. Their bust.
ness was to be seen about the place
at luncheon, at dinner. at tea. They
played the part of the mysterious
but interesting strangers who. DESPITE
all lures. remained strangers. Doubt.
less the manager had his eye on the
crop of summer widowers that spring
up about this season of the year and
took this way to harvest !:
Then there is always the poprla.
summer occupation OF looking fSr .
husband. Even the college pir, finds
1t a fascinating pastimc. Despite h.r
wisdom she must have occurs TO N.
same weapons used by her more
frivolous sisters with the addition, o,
course, OF n bit Of Chaucer or a log.
arithm or two thrown in now and
then to show there is something on
her brain beside her couture.
She Is everywhere. is the college
girl. She IL a waitress. a tutor. an
interior decorator, a book agent, a
ticket seller. an indoor photographer.
an automobile sa,eswoman, a piano
player, n model. a playground worker.
manicure, an exhibition dancer.
You will find her managing a "a
rage. Why. she has ever been a barker
for a semi-educational exhibit down
at Coney Isle. Beyond this there Is
nothing.
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Also there would be several students
missing when the roll was called in
September. Cupid works Just u ef-
ficiently in a 1itney bus as he does In
a limousine.
One college girl has a brand new
idea. She came to New York. went to
a firm that sells second hand launches.
and announced that she wanted TO buy
a launch on the instalment plan. The
members Of the firm were a bit du-
bious. But this girl had not won first
honors in the debating class for moth
ing.
She showed f~fty-seven different
reasons why she was comforting a
favor on the firm by taking the launch
Off its hands. In the end the partners
weakened. probably because they had
run out of nos"
The launch is to be sent to a small
lake not far from the city. While 1t
is en- route the temporary owner is
learning about gasolene engines from
the ground up. She has discovered
they are as tricky as a Missouri mule,
but this only makes her the more
eager TO conquer them.
In a week or so the launch will be
skimming merrily over the waters OF
the lake, a pretty girl wearing a MILDLY
blouse and with a band bearing the
name of her college drawn around her
ZAP. at the helm. Will that launch
be popular as a summer source of
amusement? Wait and see. There
are a number of young men walking
about to-day in blissful ignorance OF
what Is approaching their summer
homes. undermining that Cupid is
putting a battery of IS inch guns in
position.
| Several hotels have registered the
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II LIFE MEANS TO AN INDEPENDENT TAXICAB DRIVER IN NEW YOR

So I was now ready to become n
of New York's taxi drivers. Not quite
ready, 10 be sure. for | had to hire
a regular taxi man for one hour to
coach me on how to evade the traffic
police and TO pass my license exam
ination.
roll up very tight and slip to the
examiner said my coach. he'll pass
you ever II you stall your car"
I gave him the dollar-the fourth
from the last n in my possession
and we went to the examiner. I
stalled the a all right, but was
passed, which may have been due to
the dollar. though I don't know
whether 1t was slipped" or not.
The mex day l answered an adver-
tisement and got a job with a man
who owned a rattly old iivver and
ran II himself during the day. He
gave me the night shift at $3.50 a
night. The first night I ran over a
man who miracu.ously escaped serious
injury by falling between the front
wheels. I brushed him of and apollo
gized p~rofusely. II he hadn't been
tic btst Hdtuieu CREATURE On tdTlH i
might have gone to the Island, but
he made no complaint to the police
and ] was still free to menace Man
haitian.
That night I counted UP s1.35 in
tips, which gave me s3.s5 for my first
nights work. Considering the fact
that al / was hoping for was a chance
to learn driving and that l was ex-
pecting to be fred from day to day, l
was satisfied. though the idea OF TAX
ing tips was rather repugnant to me
when It came right down to receiving
tho change out Of hand.
! was pinched by q trafic police
man tho next night for breaking over
to the wrong side OF tho street. where
there had been some ropes during the
daytime, a fact that drivers were sup
posed to know and remember at night.
On the way to the police station I
frankly told my captor how green !
was and how badly l was up against
II. He swore at me and hustled me
as though ! had been a pickpocket, but
greatly to my surprise he let me Off.
Evidences Of my newness to the
taxi work kept cropping up. One
night while on a long profitless cruise
| told another driver that the line at
a certain restaurant looked good "a
me and that I was going to play 1t.
mot on your life!" he cried. III
you play that line you'll get the
needle"
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United Colonies are.
and Of right ought to be.

and of right ought to be,
free and independent States;
that they are absolved from all
allegiance to tho British Crown.
and that all political connection be-
tween them and the State OF Great
Britain Is and ought to be totally dis
solved"
This. shorn Of tho preamble and tho
concluding clauses. is the Declaration
Of Independence which this country
celebrates sanely and safely or in
sanely and unsafely. as tho case may
be. every Fourth Of July.
1t is interesting to notice that Of
tho nfty-six men who finally affixed
their signatures to the document. to
the support Of which they pledged
their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor, none were so old as to
be liable to n suspicion of senility.
and few so young that they might be
accused OF immaturity of Judgment.
Even John Hancock. rather a rowing
blade and none too stable in his per-
sonal habits and predictions. was
80 years old when the General Con-
gress met In Independence Hall, Phila-
delphia. to sit In Judgment upon the
wording Of the historical document.
Tho oldest man In the assemblage
was Benjamin Franklin. then six
months past his SEVENTEEN birthday,
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ny JANE

TT HE college girls have come to
town.
In the full glory Of their
trigonometry, their Plutarch,
their psychics and their ethics. they
have packed their caps and gowns at
the bottom Of their trunks and come
20 AXE the world by he heels. or
they have been metamorphosed from
sophomores into juniors and mean
90 tarry with US only during the hot
months.
What are they going to do7 Every
thing there is 70 do. For the college
girl II a fearless lass. She will tackle
anything once. She will read Brown
ing to a group OF posing highbrows
in the drawing room, or sne will WELD
the dishcloth in the kitchen. Adven-
ture is her middle name. She is not
afraid of work. real work made up OF
muscle and determination.
ITS all In a college lifetime" h
says. and she smiles as she rolls up
the sleeves OF her blouse and goes
TO 1t with vim and velocity.
Sometimes. very often in fact, the
pocketbook of the college girl Is as
limited as her ambition is boundless.
She is working her way into a higher
education. She is all right during
The college year when she pays her
tuition by performing some service
In or out Of college. But during va
cation time h Is left to shift for
herself.
Is she daunted by this problem OF
vacation existence? Not a bit. The
chances are that she goes forth and
not only earns a living for herself,
but manages to put aside a neat little
sum for use during the ensuing coll
lego year. The ways and means
whereby she does this are as varied
- the wilkins Of a
The head of a certain bureau which
0pecializes in securing summer Jobs
Tor college girls declares there was
CONSERVATION in the student ranks
when the news went out that there
would be no jitney buses In New
York this summer. Dozens OF the
girls had decided hat their vacation
fortune lay in becoming jitney drivers.
And they We're right.
Picture, young man. a jitney bus
charging up Fifth venue, a fair
haired, clear eyed Smith sophomore
1t the helm. a Smith pennant floating
gayly from the top of the radiator.
There would be plenty OF men who
would spend their entire vacations rid
ing up and down town in jitney buses.
The entire automobile business would
be demoralized.
Cars everywhere would be interned
and their owners would become jilney
Joy riders. The front rows OF the
theatres would be deserted for The
front row of the jitney bus. The tired
business man could see for a nickel
what he pays 81 to see in the summer
reviews.
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He meant that the roughneck gang
sters handling fares there would pune
lure my tires. ! didn't believe him.
got into the line despite the fact
that the gang men all tried to keep
me out, for 1t is a very profitable
stand. The roughnecks undertook to
bully me and threatened TO beat me.
But ! worked up to the head Of the
line at last, got a good long call
l45th street. / think II was-and
drove away.
When about two blocks from the
place all my tires ven nat. I lost
my fares and complained to a police
a He said ne would investigate It,
but ] am satisfied now that hi didn't.
for such complaints against the gang
sters are being made all the time
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clared that I had lost a lap robe.
when | am satisfied he himself had
sccrctcl TIE trouble was he Thought
I hadn't been turning In enough
money, With three days | got a
commission job with a couple 81 young
college fellows who had bought a taxi
and expected to make their fortune
ont Of II.
| was allowed one-third Of the fares
I took In and al. the tips, At this
game | averaged about 81 a week,
but ! was trying 10 perfect myself for
a company job where rs nearly all
telephone calls and smooth sailing.
The Eangstors stand aside for n COM
pany cahhy, for tho companies prose-
cute and the independent fellows can't
afford 10.
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Experiences at "Playing
the Line" Of a Hustling
Young Man Who
Tried 1t as a Last
Resort

TO be brutally frank about II,
the woman who supplanted me
in the office was neither young
nor good looking, mol was she
very capable. but she was willing to
work for 81 a week less than the
salary / had received and so she got
my Job. And there / was, looking
up and down old Broadway and Won
dering how long my sls.75 would last.
I had Just eaten my lunch from
the arm OF a chair in a downtown
dairy restaurant, in which I had sat
. long time, for / was very tired from
much hunting about for work. Then
Q dingy little taXicab ratified by where
] stood on the curb. There were
two m in it. The driver looked
content Probably he had brought
them all the way down from Harlem
and was going 10 get . big tip. An
inspiration seized me. If that fell
low could drive a taxi and get q
salary and tips, why couldn't I?
SO I went and invested SO In les
sons in auto driving out in Columbus
Circle. A colored gentleman who
kept shouting at me sat by my side
and saved my life and that Of several
other persons by his noisy warn
lngs. I took three twenty minute
lessons a day for three days at 81
each and learned how not to run the
craziest old ark that ever was al
lowed TO Jingle and sputter and wheeze
around tho Circle.
Then / answered a Doctors adver-
tisement and became a chauffeur. The
doctor had a pretty little runabout and
h $40 a week he offered me would
have kept me going IN good shape,
but l got only 81 so OF It, for he fired
mo the first day for stripping my gear.
But In the four hours tina | ran that
car ] learned how TO back and turn
eround something my teacher could
NO impart to me before
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awl into them. and I soon learned
better than to make a complaint. Oc-
casionally one OF these pirates Is pun
ished, but not often.
My boss fired me the night after
those tires were punctured. lie de-
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Zesf Of lite. q ready. resourceful nature and the willingness to
accept what might seem a pretty hard job rather than to have no job
a all were elements that went into the makeup of the young man
who tells the following story. He W down. but not out. for he be-
came a taxi driver just to prove his self reliance. To be sure. in his
first raw driving days he was. as he says. "a menace to Manhattan"
but on the other hand the men he describes IS taxi gangsters were
and still ire q menace to him.
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and the policemen get tired Of them.
After that I found nat there were
several fat lines where neither your
life nor your tires were safe. I have
seen gangsters go deliberately up to
an outside drivers tires and drive an
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-03-26
OTHER COMMERCE DESTROY
ERS.

There is always a disposition with
a generation that reads little solid
history to hail the latest as the same
thing as the greatest. Illustration Of
this disposition is manifested in the
characterization Of the Eitel Frcder-
ick'S raid as unprecedented and the
most remarkable on record. Doubt
less the German commerce DESTROY
er'S performances considering the
difficulties in her way, the necessity
Of lodging the enemy'S wireless, tray
cling great ocean distances without
calling at ports, etc, one Of the strik-
ing episodes of war Astounding in
wonders, but it by no means eclipscs
in results the achievements of our
own old-tme sea rovers or the Con
federate cruisers,
The Transcript has already referred
to the activity Of our fast cruisers
and privateers of the War OF 1872
which made the narrow seas around
the United Kingdom a danger zone
for British commerce, and we need
not recall their performances. That
was in the era of sailing ships, and
the cruisers. like the Alabama and
sister ships are more analogous tc
the raids of the German trade-har.
riers of today. The Alabama, the
Florida, and the Shenandoah were
swift, handy steamers for their time
They were foot free and ranged the
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-03-26

but one movable article Of furniture
q chest of strange wOrkms nshiD and
redOlent OF alien lands Gallon stOop
ed over and pulled al the lid u came
open to his touch ana ne saw then u
strange cOngiOmeratiOn of articles An
idol lay there. lnHnimate. but lmpOr'
tant BE picked II up and az ne did 90
one Of its coral eyes fell out
To him it was = sinister omen. and
he stared for q moment cIntchine at
bis breast Then ne gave way to the
hysterta OF the hunted and the haunted
Il don't know whose god you are"
be muttered. but II you must nave It
take Il And into the open socket
he thrust the paper that held the 90
rret OF his mine
That sleep which Ii like 9 shot In the
neart overlook Gallon before the Santa
Clara was we'll to sea he was swak.
ened from u by the sound Of an alter.
cation
You've got To put back to pOrt.
said q voice In an ugly tone
There was q fusilade of shots. and
then the deck beneath him t1lted slow
~ The chest slid down the deck to-
ward shore. Gallon locked the chest
dragged It across the sill and then
looked bach to see an enormous wall
Of water This wall crumpIed. faded
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seven seas with orders TO sink, burn
and destroy. Both tropic waters and
Artic currents knew the keels of some
of their number. Wherever there
were American merchant ships to be
assailed or Union warships to be
avoided Semmcs and his fellows were
busy. Their records are wonderful
The United States before the Geneva
Tribunal claimed damages for So YES
sells destroyed by the Alabama in the
course OF her career, which lasted
from her launching, May Is, 1862, to
her destruction by the kearsarge. on
June 49, 1864 Second in number of
prizes came the Shenandoah, credited
with 40, and third, the Florida, which
made SO captures. The only other
Confederate cruiser which gathered
more than 10 prizes was the Tallahas-
see, which worked most havoc on the
New England coast. The most won
derful cruise was that of the Shenan-
doah, which carried her up into the
Attic, where she destroyed the great
er part Of the American whaling fleet
in that region. The Shenandoah was
so successful in keeping the sea that
the Confederate flag was floating
from her peak in August. 1865, four
months after Lees surrender, when
her commander learned from a neu-
trail that the war was over. Compar-
ed with these achievements the
Eitel Frederick in making way with
half score of vessels pale.
The lesson of commerce destroying
in all wars of modern times is the
same. 1t does not affect the result of
the contest; it does not turn the cur
rent of events. Our privateers and
cruisers of 1872 did not prevent our
own coasts from being blockaded or
the landing of invading armies. Sem
! mes, Mafttt, Woddell and all their
confreres did not pull Grant, Sher-
man, Farragut and Porter away from
their grim task of beating down and
starving out the Southern Confeder-
acy. The German cruiser command
ers have proved their intelligence and
activity, but they have proved moth
ing more, unless it is that commerce
destroying is the ready recourse o.
a navy that is weak in the line-of-
battle.-Boston Transcript
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-03-26
1T ISN'T YOUR ToWN--IT's YOU

If you want to live in the kind of a
town
Like the kind of town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in a grip
And start on long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really
new,
TITS a knock at yourself when you
knock your town
1t isn't your town-it's you!
Real towns are not made by men
afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead,
When everyone works and nobody
shirks
You can raise town from the dead.
And if while you make your personal
stake
Your neighbor can make one too,
Your town will be what you want to
see,
1t isn't your town-it's you.
Author Unknown.
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