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said. "On the other side of the page
stands No. 35, Amount allowed to
cover depletion in case of mines and
oil wells y'understand, and you could
take it from me, Birsky, smart busi-
ness man like Rockafellar, with all the
expert bookke ,pers he's got, would
easy fill out No. 80 in such a way that
them Income Tax people couldn't
prove otherwise but what they owed
Mr.. Rockafellar $1S9. .4so 3d."
You're right, Zapp," Birsky said,
'and anyhow, Zapp, all he's got to do
to pay his income tax for 1915 to 1862,
inclusive, Is to put up the price of
gasolene couple Of cents gallon"
"He done that already, Birsky,"
Zapp said. "In fact, Birsky, he put
i. up so high that they appointed a
committee of Congressman to investi-
gate it; and the evidence shows that
wher Mr.. Rockafellar started to fill
out No. II, Total amount derived from
salaries and wages y'understand, he
discovered that under the decision of
the United States. Supreme Court he
was 1854 presidents of 1884 COM
panies which used to was the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey, y'under-
stand, and that he got 1854 salaries
amounting to $35, 1924, ,3SO.5O-1OO, under
stand me. He then figured out the in
come tax on it to be equivalent to an
increase of &c on gallon gasolene in
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
setts and Illinois, and done so immedi-
ately. Afterwards Michigan, Ohio and
New Jersey was added when he fig
rred out the income tax on No. 16, To
tai amount derived from interest on
notes, mortgages, bank deposits and
securities, other than reported on lines
II and 20,' y'understand, and when he
got down to No. %, Total amount de-
rived from other sources not enumerat-
ed above y'understand, and the chief
bookkeeper showed him the figures,
understand me, after they had loosened
his collar, famed him and given him
smelling salts, he raised his head and,
summoning all his strength, he whis-
pered a telegram to raise gasolene ten
cents a gallon throughout the whole
United States, Great Britain and Ire
land, France, Germany and the West
Indian Islands; and that's the way it
happened, Birsky."
Hes only fOoling himself at that"
Birsky commented, because in 1917
when it comes time to fix up his in
come tax return again, he's got staring
him in the face all them profits which
he would got to enter up under No.
IA, Total amount derived from busi-
ness, trade, commerce or sales or deal
ings in property, whether real or per-
sonal,' understand; and when he sees
what an income tax he's got to pay on
it, Zapp, he'll kick himself that he didn't
reduce the price of gasolene instead of
raising it. 1 tell you, Zapp, money
amt everything after all. 1t used to
be considered that feller with an
income of $5OO,OOO year was lucky
man, but nowadays when he's got to
pay in addition to the regular one per
cent tax a super tax of six per cent,
he leads dawg's life, Zapp."
"Well, he might just as well put a
smiling face on it, Birsky, because he's
got more coming to him yet" Zapp
said. "Next year we would all got to
pay a State income tax as well as q
Federal income tax"
"Sure, know" Birsky said, "and I
provided for It"
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

subway with one of them graveyard
looks on his face, and you say to him,
Halo, Max. You look like your best
customer would of failed on yOu,' he
will say: 4 wish he had why, what's
the trouble? you ask him, and his eyes
fill with tears. Business is terrible,
he tells you. Last year we made over
year it's worse yet. We got out our
trial balance yesterday and it looks
like we are ahead hundred and fifty
thousand dollars Considering that
this brings him under the per cent
supertax and he's got ruin staring him
In the face, what can you say to such
feller, zapp?"
Nothing" Zapp replied, Except tC
tell him when him and his family is
starving in two rooms on Forsyth
Street, on account they only got hun
dred and forty-four thousand dollars a
year left to live on, Birsky, that your
wife would call round there with once
In a while little cold meat from yes
terday's dinner or some Grade 3 milk
for the baby"
But joking aside,' Birsky said, "the
United States was able to pay its bills
before they had an income tax and
everybody was satisfied, whereas now
adays they don't raise no more money
by it and everybody is kicking, so what
is the use of an income tax anyways"
"Well, I'll tell you, Birsky," Zapp
said, ''it don't do no harm that once in
year business man should be on an
average only sixty cents truth on the
dollar"
Copyright, New York Tribune.)
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
Ambitions Uses.

Did you ever wake to sickening
realization of the fact that you had ar
rived at as high a point In your pro-
fession, your business or your pleas
ures as you are ever likely to attain?
That from now on every year of your
life will be very like the last, allowing
only for depreciation in effort and re-
suit? Did 1t give you turn, to think
that the precious ambition Of your
youth, the bright thing you hoped at
twenty to have caught at forty, must
now be dear to you only as guiding
principle, that helped in accomplish
ing the little you have done, and not
as the great, transcendent something
you hoped to have and hold and mas
ter? If you have felt this, and beer
bowed to the ground by the disap-
pointment of it all; you are on the
highroad to doing the best work of
your life, an Indianapolis News writer
observes.
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News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
European War News

The Roumanians who have been re-
treating in eastern Wallachia before
the Teutonic advance have made a
stand east of Ploechti, the Petrograd
war office announced. They assumed
the offensive on the road from Ploech-
ii to Buzeu and drove the Austro-Ger-
man forces back to the westward.
The British steamer Caledonia was
sunk by German submarine ON De-
cember 4, after 1t had tried to ram the
undersea boat, it was announced Off
cially at Berlin. Its captain was taken
prisoner.
The Danish steamship Sigurd, 2,119
tons, and the British steamship Avris-
ton, 8,S1S tons; COnch, 5,620 tons, and
Tanfield, have all been sunk, Lloyd's
announced at London.
The disciplining of Greece by the al
lies has begun. A blockade Of Greek
ports was formally announced by the
French government, which, combined
with previous French orders against
movement of Greek vessels from their
harbors, is expected absolutely to cut
the kingdom off from supplies.
e.
Ninety-four allied airplanes and 81
German machines were lost on all
fronts during November, the Berlin
war office reDOrtpd
The German emperor, according to
the Berlin papers, has ratified the aux
lliary service bill, which thereby comes
into force, says Reuter- dispatch to
London from Amsterdam.
The battleship Suffren, which left
port on November "a, has not been
heard from since that day, and the
French minister of marine considers
the vessel lost with all on board,
says a dispatch from Paris. The
Suffren displaced 12,750 tons. Its nor
NAL complement was 730 men.
On the Verdun front German troops
entered French trenches on hill 3O4
and captured the summit of the height,
the Berlin war office announces.
The steamship John Lambert, listed
In the maritime register as an Ameri-
can vessel, was shelled and sunk with
out warning by German submarine
off the Isle Of Wight, according to ac-
counts given by members of the crew,
Americans, who arrived at New York.
-
Bucharest, capital of Roumania, has
been captured, it was announced Off
cially at Berlin. Ploechti, the impor-
tant railway junction town, 36 miles
northwest of Bucharest, also has been
taken.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

An organized effort, directed by the
American Federation of Labor, to in
duce congress to grant wage and sal
ary increases to all employees Of the
United States government from the
president down to the humblest labor
er, was planned at a meeting in Wash
ingtOn, presided over by Samuel Com
pers.
With all of its members pledged to
secrecy, the Birth Control league Of
California has opened campaign at
San Francisco to legalize the practice
of birth control in that state. 1t is
proposed to write to every mother in
the state urging support for he pas
sage of a law legalizing the purposes Of
the league.
Picketing by organized labor during
strikes is legal, according to an opin-
ion handed down in the United States
circuit court of appeals at Chicago.
Big mlllers and board of trade wheat
spectators came In for condemnation
at the national conference on market
ing and farm credits, held at ChicIgo.
An embargo to prohibit the export
of print papers used by publishers of
newspapers is asked in a resolution in
troduced in the house at Washington
by Representative Campbell.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
Good Christmas Motto.

peace on earth, and good
will to men," is the Christmas
motto, and the Christmas spirit
should ring in our hearts and
find a kindly expression in acts
and words. What a joyful thing
for the world it would be If the
Christmas spirit of peace and
good will could abide with us
all every day of the year. And
what beautiful place this
world would be to live in. And
it might be so if each one of us
would resolve in our hearts that
peace and good will should be
our motto every day, and that
we, individually, would do our
best to make the Christmas
spirit last all the year round.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

during the year incurred in trade or
arising from fires, storms or ship
wrecks and not compensated by insur-
ance or otherwise What is it my busi-
ness? And anyhow, Birsky, if the In
come Tax people comes to you and
says they Eant to look at your bank
book, and they see on September 18th
$6S.25, and they ask you did you enter
it on line % of your income tax re-
turn, and If not why not, Birsky, all
you've got to do, Birsky, Is to tell them
that the $6S.25 was given to you by a
curb broker to keep it for little while
for him until he wants it again, be-
cause sooner or later, Birsky, that's
what's going to happen to your $6S.25.
Nobody can do you nothing for telling
the truth, Birsky-not even the Income
Tax people"
"My wife's uncle julius has got the
laugh on all Of u.s." Birsky said, with a
sigh of envy. "He imports imported
English briar root pipes from Germany,
and last year he lost in his business
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
Washington

One cent postage for local first-class
mail deliveries and zone system of
rates for second-class matter, which is
expected greatly to increase the charges
for magazines and other periodicals
having a nationwide circulation, are
provided for in the annual post Office
appropriation bill as virtually COM
pleted at Washington.
Contracts for 90 high-power hydro
airplanes for the coast artillery sta
tions in the United States, Hawaii,
Philippines and the Panama Canal
zone were let by the war department
at Washington.
A note to Germany protesting
against the deportation of Belgians for
forced labor as contrary to all prece-
dents and humane principles of inter
national practice was made public by
the state department at Washington.
=
Official information to the state de-
partment at Washington establishes
that the British ship Marina, sunk by
a German submarine, with loss of six
Americans, was in no sense a transport
and was entitled to the immunities of
a peaceful merchantmen.
Approximately 100000 foreigners
took steps to become naturalized
American citizens during the year
ended in June, according to the annual
report of the bureau of naturalization.
made public at Washington.
The American navy would be
strengthened by the immediate addi-
ton of four capital ships should con.
gress adopt the recommendations made
by Secretary Daniels in his annual re-
port, made public at Washington.
Germany, in a note made public by
the state department at Washington,
contends that the British steamship
Arabia, sunk in the Mediterranean No
vember 6, was in reality "a transport
ship for troops in the service of the
British government"
1t was announced at Washington
that the United States government has
inquired of the Austrian government
concerning facts surrounding the tor
pedoing of the American steamer Che
mung by an Austrian submarine.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
THROUGH Our Friends

We shall be greatly helped in our
acquaintance with God by knowing the
friends of God. Much Of the best that
God has for us Of self-revelation comes
thus intermediately through others,
lives. No friendship, indeed, has yet rem
dered its best until the friends have
made it more easy for each other to
believe in God and the spiritual world!
H. G. King.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
Christians Right Is Happiness.

God gives us always strength and
sense enough for what he wants us to
do; If we either tire ourselves or puz-
zle ourselves, 1t Is our own fault. And
we may always be sure, whatever we
are doing, that we cannot be pleasing
him if we are not happy ourselves
Ruskin.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
Domestic

English shell contracts in the United
States virtually all run out within six
months, and most of them within three
months, after the first of the year, and
will not be renewed, it was announced
at Toronto, Ont, by J. w. Flavelle,
chairman of the imperial munitions
board of Canada.
A lone robber threw pepper in the
face of an express wagon guard at Los
Angeles, Cal, and seized $4,000 in gold
and currency from the express wagon
and escaped.
A locomotive, loaded street car
and automobile crashing together in
binding snowstOrm resulted in In
juries to 16 persons. The accident oc-
Cured at Chicago.
J. P. Morgan, who has been in Eng
land for the last two months on a
financial mission, returned to New
York on the steamship Finland from
Liverpool. Mr.. Morgan is understood
to have conferred with fiscal represent
atives of the British and French gov
ernments on the subject of marketing
additional loans in this country.
Examination of witnesses in the
ARIZONA wild horse case" at Omaha,
Neb., in which the government alleges
that large number of persons were
defrauded of sums ranging from $1,000
to 5000 through the sale of phantom
herds of wild~horses in Arizona, de-
veloped that one of the alleged vic
tins had sought in vain for two
months, with field glasses, for sight
of the animals he had purchased.
Officials Of the farm loan board an
nounced at Washington that $4,000
farmers have applied for mortgage
loans aggregating approximately $780,
OOO or more than II times the amount
of money available for loans upon the
organization Of the II loan banks.
The governments investigation Of
the rising cost of living began assum-
ing definite outlines following confer
ences at Washington between officials
of the department of justice, the fed
eral trade commission and United
States Attorney Anderson.
The engagement was announced at
New York of Miss Elizabeth Kempley
Reynolds, daughter of Edwin L. Rey-
nolds, and Norman Hapgood. Mr..
Hapgood is well known as an editor
and writer and active worker in po-
litical reform.
California Favorite," grand cham
pion steer at the International Live
Stock show at Chicago, sold for ST.
977.5O to a Detroit firm. The ami
NAL was the property of the University
of California. He is Hereford Short
horn.
Mrs. Mary Warden Harkness, widow
of Charles w. Harkness of the Stand
ard Oil company, whose estate on
Thursday was appraised at $49, $50, 1896,
died at hospital at New York, where
she had undergone an operation.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
Saving Diamonds a Trade Secret.

The operation of saving diamonds.
although it would seem to be simple. in
wolves great deal of technical knowl-
edge and is really a trade secret that
is carefully guarded to such an ex-
tent that it is followed as a separate
trade, and some of the large establish.
ments that conduct all of the other
operations do not attempt to saw their
stones, but send them out to shops that
make a speciality Of this branch Of
work.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
Foreign

One thousand persons are believed
to have perished when an explosion
took place in an ammunition factory
at La Satannaya, the Russian paper
Rech reports, according to the semiOf-
fetal news agency at Berlin.
Field Marshal Prince Iwao Oyama,
commander in chief of the Manchurian
army of Japan during the Russo-Jap-
anese war, is dead at Tokyo. Marquis
IwaO Oyama was one of Japan's great
est soldiers. He was born in 1912.
Berlin reports the arrival of the
submarine merchantmen Deutschland,
after quick trip.
Dunedin, New Zealand, for Ross sea
to rescue the members of his antarctic
expedition maroooned there, according
to Reuter- dispatch to London from
Wellington.
The German emperor has established
a decoration for civilians such as mu-
milton workers similar to the Iron
Cross, according to a Copenhagen dis
patch to London, quoting the Berlin
Lokal AnZeiger.
David Lloyd-George has overthrown
the Asquith cabinet of Great Britain
and will become prime minister him.
self. The new government will be
coalition, like the old one, says a dis
patch from London.
Cardinal Mercier, primate Of Bel
gium, is being held in his palace by the
German authorities, according to the
frontier correspondent of the Amster-
dam TELEGRAPH. The reason given is
the action taken by the cardinal
against the deportation of Belgians.
Earl Curzon of Kedleston made
known his engagement at London to
Mrs. Grace Elvina Duggan, widow of
Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. Mrs.
Duggan is the eldest daughter of the
late ]. MunrOe Kinds, formerly Amer
lean minister to Brazil.
=
The fall of Bucharest was observed
at Berlin in a manner reminiscent Of
the celebrations last year of victories
won in the great offensive against the
Russians.
Official announcement was made at
London that the government had been
constituted, with a war cabinet COM
prising the following: Premier, David
Lloyd George; lord president, Earl
Curzon; Arther Henderson, minister
without portfolio; Lord Miner, minis
ter without portfolio; Andrew Benar
Law, chancellor of the excheQuer.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
BenevoIence VS.. Extravauance.

The greatest obstacle to charity in
the Christian church today is the fact
that men expend so much on their
table and women so much on their
dress, they have got nothing left for
the work of God and the worlds bet
terment.-Talmage.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
ALWAYS New.

"You surely don't give your husband
a necktie every Christmas?
'Oh, yes, do! And the poor dear
never seems to know that it is the same
one!'
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
EVERYTHING Matters.

Christianity is not mans confession
to God that nothing matters, since man
is what he is. 1t is Gods shout to
man that everything matters, since
God sees in man what man may be.
come.-W. 81. Blake.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
"She's afraid 1 wasn't going to give
What He Missed.

Groans-Old Adam was lucky man
in one respect, anyway. !
Grins-What's the answer?
Groans-Eve never gave him a box
of bargain-counter cigars for Christ
mas.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15
Wav Of Brothers Wives.

Each brothers wife thinks that all
the other brothers wives have every
thing they want-Fort Worth Star
Telegram.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

No reward of patient endeavor can
ever be too great to shower upon =
loved mother.-W. S. Royston.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

When you hang up the baby's stock
ings be grateful that 1t isn't enough
as yet to feel the need Of an ankle
watch.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

One thousand persons are believed
to have perished when an explosion
took place in an ammunition factory
at La Satannaya, the Russian paper
Rech reports, according to the semiOf-
fetal news agency at Berlin.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

Mrs. Mary Warden Harkness, widow
of Charles w. Hardness of the Stand
ard Oil company, whose estate on
Thursday was appraised at SAG, ,566 1896,
died at a hospital at New York, where
she had undergone an operation.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

Field Marshal Prince Iwao Oyama,
commander in chief of the Manchurian
army of Japan during the Russo-Jap-
anese war, is dead at Tokyo. Marquis
IwaO Oyama was one of Japan's great
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

Sir Ernest Shackleton will sail from
Dunedin. New Zealand, for Ross sea
to rescue the members of his antarctic
expedition maroooned there, according
to a Reuter- dispatch to London from
Wellington.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

1t was announced at Washington
that the United States government has
inquired of the Austrian government
concerning facts surrounding the tor
pedoing of the American steamer Che
mung by an Austrian submarine.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

The German emperor has established
a decoration for civilians such as mu-
milton workers similar to the Iron
Cross, according to a Copenhagen dis
patch to London, quoting the Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

Berlin reports the arrival of the
submarine merchantmen Deutschland,
after quick. trip.
The Ely miner., 1916-12-15

California Favorite," grand cham
pion steer at the International Live
Stock show at Chicago, sold for ST.
977.50 to a Detroit firm. The ami
NAL was the property of the University
of California. He is Hereford Short
horn.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
SCOTT AND FUNSTON
PLEASED WITH NEWS
WAR CHIEFS ARE UNOFFICIAIIY
INFORMED THAT PRESIDENT
APPROVES AGREEMENT.
The Contents of the Agreement
Have not Been Officially An
nounced - Believed Car
rama Will Acquiesce.

Ell ePASO. Texas, May 4.-Gener-
ais Scott and Funston were highly
pleased when informed unofIicially
that President Wilson had approved
the Ell Paso peace pact,
They jsaid no official news had
been received Of the presidents rat
ification of the plan and that no
ratifying conference would be called
until this notice had been received.
Scott pointed out that Washing
ton might suggest a modification Of
some of the details before giving
official notice of approval Of the
compact.
No trouble is anticipated on either
side. On the contrary the indica-
tions are that the plan will meet
with hearty favor among Off
cials in Mexico. General Obregon
would not say whether General Car
rama had ratified the compact, but
there is little doubt that the first
chief will follow Obrgon's demand
with implicit faith.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-05-04
WENT To DEATH 10
PRESERVE SECRET IS
ZEPPELIN DESTROYED To PRE-
VENT SECRET OF CoNSTRrC-
TION BECOMING KNOWN.
Three Of the Crew psrishcd and the
Others Have Been Rescued and
Intrrued for Remainder of
the War.

SYLVESTER. Norway. May A.
Three members OF the efcg of the
Zeppelin I~20. which vas wrecked
on the Norway coast yesterday after
a raid on Scotland. went 10 their
death 10 prevent Count Zeppeiins
secret from becoming known 20 a for
eign government Sixteen Of the
crew. rescued aud interned for the
remainder OF the war. told the story
OF their comrades heroism on their
arrival al kamaIde. southwest OF
here. They asserted that the craft
visited the English coast and south
east Scotland Tuesday night. The
craft was not damaged b. the Eng
lish anti-aireraft guns. according 10
an under officer.