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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-02-11
MARCH II SET
AS new DATE OF
RATE HEARING
Interstate Commerce Com
mission Postpones Coal Case
From February IL.
WASHINGTON MAN MAY
BE CAPE'S ATTORNEY
Rate Controversy involving Frisco
Abrogation Of Franchise
To Be Re-0pened.

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has postponed from February II
to March II the hearing set for the ex-
animation of the proposed advances on
coal rates between Illinois points and
various places in Missouri, including
Cape Girardeau, according to am
nouncemcnt in the Cape yesterday.
The hearing will be held In St. Louis
by Examiner Mattingly as arranged
previously, and plans have been made
by business interests in the Cape to
have the city represented when the
question of the Cape's coal rate is re-
opened.
Negotiations now are pending to re-
tain John r. Walker of Washington,
an attorney who has specialized on
cases before the Interstate Commerce
Commission, to attend the hearing in
st. Louis and represent the city.
The advanced coal rate that is being
charged on shipments into the Cape
has been made effective in violation of
one part of the city's franchise to the
railroad, which stipulates that the rate
On coal from the Marion, ILL.,, coal field
into the Cape shall be 60 cents. The
present rate that is being charged is IS
centes and the difference in the gross
charges on the total tonnage Of coal
into the Cape amounts to many thous-
and dollars in year.
l. r. Kelso as the attorney who drew
he franchise for the city, will repre-
scent the city at the hearing. He also
is cooperating with the Traffic Com
nittee of the Commercial Club, which
passed a resolution to have the adj
rance in the coal rate fought.
Under the terms of that resolution,
Mr.. Kelso was given the privilege of
retaining assistant counsel for the
conduct of the case, and he has indi-
lated that he will endeavOr to obtain
he services of Mr. Walker. Mr.
Walker has represented the Cape Port
land Cement Co., in several cases be-
fore the Commission.
The announcement of the postpone
mert in the date for the hearing was
made yesterday afternoon by Charles
L. Harrison, chairman of the Traffic
Committee of the Commercial Club.
He received the news in bulletin the
first of this week
He also declared that several men
from the Cape will attend the hearing
in st. Louis. w. H. Harrison and
Charles L. Harrison expect to attend.
Mr.. Kelso will be present and it is
probable that others will go from the
Cape.
The advance in the coal rate was put
into effect when the Interstate Com
merce Commission approved tariff
filed by the C. & f.. l. in which the coal
rate from the Marion field to the Cape
was raised to IS cents. The coal
from that field is hauled to Chaffee
by the c. & f. L., and there trans
ferred to the Frisco, to be brought to
the Cape.
The Frisco, it is said, does not re-
ceive larger proportion of the
rate since its advance than before, and
its legal department already has de-
clared that the road want sto see the
rate returned to the old figures.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-02-11
THE COUNCIL AND SIGNS OF SPRING.

the that the brss have returned
Gradeaus City Counlal of them pentbe
be that early
that modern which $50
That much helps
some.
refreshing between
excited than ordinary and it
be to atmosphere
1t costs Council to meet, which will
great quantity when
Giardeau go its worth last night
systems
ould be upon nothing bed Christmas if
they Main street. Merwether and
attempt which cogng virtually all Of the
thoroughfares
spectator
whether Cape evenay compelled provide each
f,o,n anUitha priyat pattorn
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-02-11
z COMMITTEES
ASLEEP ON JOB;
KACE INCENSED
3 IL Months Ago, Council
Ordered Street Widening
Bills Drafted.
LET CITY COUNSELOR q.
Do 1T, SOLONS SAY
Chairman Armgardt Announces
Lane Was Hired as Especial
Competent Counsel"

Mayor Mage Was lHCellSeU last nlSnC
on learning that two committees de-
signated by the City Council to pre-
pare ordinances for street widening in
the West End sewer district have not
held meeting, although it has been
nearly four months since they were re-
quested to begin work.
The inactivity of these Committees ul-
timately will delay the construction of
the proposed S150,000 sewer, the May
OF urged and his attention has been
called to numerous complaints by resi-
dents in the section affected, made be-
cause the streets have not been widen
ed.
The streets that the City proposes to
widen are Harmony, Benton, Themis,
HQnover and Painter The preparation
of the ordinances was taken out of the
hands Of City Attorney r. H. White
law b ythe Council on October Is, last
when the Committee on Propositions
and Grievances and the Judiciary
Committee together with City Engi-
neer Chris Silver were instructed to
go ahead with the work
Those two committees filed report
at that meeting of the Council recon-
mending that Whitelaw be removed
from the Job in favor of special COM
petent counsel"
At the close of three months and a
half, Arthur Bowman, chairman of the
Committee on Propositions and Griev-
ances, declared his committee had not
been assigned to the job. The other
men on the committee with him are
Charles Kaess and Jay f. Fowler.
Both Bowman and Fowler announc-
ed that they had not attended any
meeting of the committees. Council
man Walter D. Black, member of the
Judiciary Committee, declared that he
never had attended a meeting of the
committee and declared he knew moth
ing about the proposed ordinances.
THAT is the City Counselor's duty
Black and Fowler remarked, when in
terviewed.
Chairman Charles Armgarlt of the
Judiciary Committee, declared that
Senator T. +. Lane had been retained
as the special competent counsel
demanded in place of Whitelaw in the
report of the Council on October is.
Armgardt sal dthe committeeman
got together after their assignment
to that work and "hired" Lane. He
declared that Lane set no price on his
services for the work but told them it
it would be reasonable He forthwith
was retained, Armgardt said
81 saw him the other day and asked
him to make report on that matter to
the Council Monday" Armgardt said,
so that the public may know that the
committee is doing something"
Mayor Rage expressed surprise
when he learned that Lane had been
retained for the work on the street
widening ordinances.
"a committee cannot spend money
belonging to the City. His fee will
have to pass the Council in a resolu-
tion," the Mayor remarked.
At the meeting Of the Council on
November l, o. A. Knehans was named
City Counselor. Armgardt said Lane
had been retained prior to that.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
"Elood and Iron."

What is the real origin of the IA
nous phrase commonly believed to
have been used for the first time by
Bismarck? We all, of course, know
that in the Prussian diet Of 1862 Bis
marck declared: The great questions
are to be settled not by speeches and
majority resolutions, but by blood
and iron" The belief here avowed
remained with the chancellor to the
end, for in his Memoirs" he repeated
the declaration thus: I'VE could get
no nearer the goal by speeches, asso-
Citations, decisions of majorities; we
should be unable avoid a serious con-
test which could only be settled by
blood and iron" Bismarck, we may
assume, when first using the words,
had in mind a familiar song written
during the war of liberation against
Napoleon by Max ven Schenkendorif
in which occur the lines:
Nur Eis"n hann uns rtttcn
Und crloseu kann nnr But
only iron can save us, ana Dlood
alone can set as free'-a prophecy
the Prussian believes, fulfilled in the
craftsmanship of bismarck.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03

ly dispatched under difficulties, for it
was hasty scrawl, bore Leila's ini-
tials, with the enigmatic words: II
shall fool them yet, and you-I shall
never forget"
Striving to believe that something
might intervene to delay or prevent
the wed ding, Ware had fingered about
the town after Leila's return from the
city. but now, within twentyfour
hours of the ceremony, he abandoned
all hope. A willing bride or sacri-
flee, Leila had chosen, or had been
forced to choose stupid but wealthy
Boyd Weaver as her life companion
Therefore Randall Ware was about to
fly to familiar solitary haunts, to hide
himself. to mourn in secret, to try
to forget.
It was a strange coincidence, he re-
fected, as he was driven from the
remote pineries station to the old
camping place he and his friends had
so often visited, that he passed the
summer home of a cousin of Leila s.
In fact, it was here that he had first
met Leila. That was the previous sea
son. when she and her mother had
been guests of the cousin in question
and of his family
1t was quite dusk as the old buck
board WAGON passed the Lodge, as it
was called, and Ware noticed lights
moving about the place.
ar. L. H. ho inn rpd
| of the driver.
yes. and going to stay into deer
time, | hear" replied the native.
From the direction of the bungalow
merry voices echoed out as the wagon
passed on. Ware WINGED; it all re
minded him Of the pleasant hours he
had spent at that spot in the company
of Leila
| The old camping place was five
miles farther on through the woods
| As they arrived at the old cabin, look
ing lonely and desolate in the mel
! ancholy moonlight Ware spoke to the
| driver.
'NIy man" he said. mo one who
knows me saw me arrive at the sta
ton except yourself"
Eyes. sir" nodded the man inquisi
lively.
Keep it quiet from everybody" sait
Ware. handing the man a double fee
'You cal run up with your team. sal
twice a week, and get my orders 70
supplies"
"Yes. sir, thank you, sir" hobhet
the driver. I'm mum as midnight!
At times Ware had really believed
that he would become hermit, ant
that permanently The cherries as
pect of the old hut however, the ali
sence of all companion ip dampene,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
The Hermit
Lover
By Grace Beulah Windsor
Copyright, 1915. by W. G. Chapman.)

Randall Ware had read in some book
or newspaper that there are animals
which, when desperately wounded,
seek some secluded solitary spot in
which they may die peacefully. This
REQUIRED to him as he gloomily picked
up his sportsmans outfit, preparatory
to a speedy dash for the wilderness.
For he had been grievously wound
ed-in his affection. it was true, but
all that was worth striving for seemed
to have gone out of his life and he
was inclined to give up the struggle.
This had happened: The young lady
with whom he was desperately in
love, and who he was assured sincerely
returned his affection, was about to
marry another This was her wedding
eve. 1t had been torment unutterable
to remain in the same town where she
was, but jealousy guarded from his
| company-it was slow torture now to
| linger within the echoes of wedding
! bells that might peal forth the joy OF
| others, but to him misery-his doom!
1t was all the fault Of purse-proud
autocratic parents. If Leila Bridges
had gone SO far as to engage herself
to Ware the latter would have stood
his ground and maintained his rights
AS it was, while eye to eye had spo
ken unutterable devotion, no definite
promise had passed between them
Ware had been refused admittance t
the Bridges home. Leila was whiskeC
away to whirl of social gayety il
the city Only one tiny note, evident
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03

pertness, and she tried to make up to
her in various ways, which amused
Bessie.
Pert little thing that she was, Bes-
sic was quite frank about her history,
shamelessly so. She came from the
orphanage out on Grant street. Wake
field. who had somehow been in touch
with her parents before their death,
mad interested himself in her and CIV
en- her the position. Miss Robert S
alteration of her was quite the most
amusing thing in Bessie's experience.
Say. Miss Roberts. I'm going to get
a beau for you tomorrow" Bessie
would say. And when you're mar
ried, maybe you'll let me come and
live with you, instead of at the Girls
home. Well all be happy together
Mr.. Roberts and you, and me-.
She told us all how Miss Roberts
had taken her out to lunch and piled
her with affectionate inquiries. Did
she wear warm underwear? Here
Bessie's imitation of Miss Roberts
was inimitable. Bessie was going to
be an actress some day, everyone
knew. She had told Miss Roberts so
i and Miss Roberts, always serious, had
pointed out the dangers of stage
career. There was not much evil that
Bessie did not know by hearsay, and il
anyone was capable of protecting her
self, Bessie was.
Once. after Bessie had been taunt
ing her, | saw tears on Eileen Rob
erts face That hurt me, for | has
taken my part in the teasing. want
ed to warn Bessie; but then | did no
think she lad heart.
All things come to an end, and ~
end was in thu letter that was SCH
to Mr.. Wakefield On Christmas eve
Some Of the boys had ta.hca Ger !
for a Joke but nobody had meant !
seriously. 1t was only when BESSIE
said she would write it, and ice D2na
hue dared her to. and Bessie sal;
she would. because she was tired o
) the old job anyway, that the propose
was regarded seriously. OF course
would be a first-rate joke on Eileel
Roberts; but then / thought of tn
hungry MOTHERHOOD on Miss Rot
erts' face when she saw Bessie, and
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
The Danger
Point
~
Copyright, 1915. by W. G. Chapman.)
By GEORGE MUNSON

Copyright, 1916 by W. G. Chapman)
When Eileen Roberts reached the
age of thirty-five she resigned herself
gracefully to the prospects of spinster-
hood. She ceased to struggle against
a tendency to adiposity, and settled
down to the expectations of perma-
nent position in the firm of Wakefield
and Gray, exporters.
In an office filled with smart youths
and gggling girls, Miss Roberts ought
to have held higher position than
that of clerk. But she had never
had the money to study stenography
when she was girl, and afterward
she had her sick mother to care for.
a task which absorbed the whole of
her ten dollars week. Simple-mind-
ed, she was the butt of the younger
and more thoughtless element.
When a young clerk passes won.
an with the flippant remark, Say,
Eileen, I'll get you beau before long
trust me- he needs man of ma
ture age to take him across his knee
and thrash the viciousness out Of
him. At least that's my opinion
Poor Eileen Roberts looked woefully
out of place, and neither Wakefield
nor Gray had ever considered her
seriously for anything better.
With her placid, good-natured face
her tireless industry, her patience, il
seemed incredible that anyone could
make sport of her. She was just the
woman. too, whom some rogue might
have taken advantage of. Perhaps il
was better that she had not married
to slave for the sort of man who
would have deluded her into wifehood
At least many thought so. But mos
of us thought nothing at all. And il
was always good fun to get a rise
out of Eileen"
New girls were always coming ant
girls less new going. There was lit
tie Bessie Waters; she hadn't beer
in the office week before she begal
to tease Miss Roberts. 1t was +;
strange thing, too, but the elder WON
an seemed to take an amazing likins
10 her She never noticed Bessie!
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Pavinu Calls in Russia.

Town life in Russia is as different
as can be from life in the country dis
tricts. One curious custom is the after
dinner call People do not call on their
friends at teatime, as we do over here,
but after dinner at hight, or even after
the thcater, paying calls at midnight
being quite the thing to do. The Rus
sian dinner always begins with side
board course of cold meats, hors
d'oeuvres, etc; that is to say, the
dishes are laid ont on the sideboard
and the guests help themselves before
sitting down to partake OF the regular
meal 1t is from this custom that we
derive the term service a la Russo,
as applied to dinners at which the cary
ing is done from the sideboard.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Old Public Lotteries.

Harvard was aided by lottery in
1889 by special act. The scheme was
to buy Joseph Pope's orrery for the
college Three thousand tickets at
$40 each were sold The plan was
successful, and after all expenses had
been paid Harvard had the orrery and
$500 in the school treasury. Among
the public buildings erected in Amer
lea by the aid of lotteries Faneuil hall,
in Boston, has the most historical in
terest. The hall burned in 1851 and
then the selectmen of Boston were
instructed at a town meeting to petit
ton the general court to empower a
suitable person to raise by way OF
lottery such sum of money as would
be sufficient for the rebuilding of the
hall. The legislature granted the
petition, and the profits of the lot
teries. which extended to 1894, were
applied to the erection of the second
Faneuil hall, which held the town
meetings OF the Revolution and still
stands. In 1888 an act was passed
which put an end to the sale of lottery
/ tickets in Massachusetts.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Carrier Pigeons in Ancient.Times.

Pigeons. as commonplace as they APP
pear, are characters of antiquity.
Dove is the Anglo-Saxon name; pig
con, the Norman name.
During the fifth Egyptian dynasty,
5000 years before Christ. it was the
fashion to domesticate pigeons and to
train them as carriers and messengers.
The promptness with which Caesar
was informed of the rebellion in Gaul,
and thereby enabled to cross the Alps
before those uprising could possess the
entire province, was due to the use of
carrier pigeons In the Crusades, these
birds were skillful and faithful mes
sengers
The price of a handsome pair of
pigeons in ancient Rome was not a
trifle. for Axius, Roman knight, once
sold a pair of pigeons for 40 denarii-
about S75. At that time, too, they were
by lar the swiftest conveyers of news,
?nd we're much in demand at the cele.
,t:on OF the Olympic games.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
First Idea Of Steam Flowing.

The idea of the use of engines and
machinery to pillow the ground seems
10 hav originated with David Ram
s,v anu Thomas Wildgoose in 1918,
but the motive power they proposed
Il use Is not quite clear Francis
Moore in 1859 first attempted to use
Il steam engine for this purpose.
I history OF practical steam plov-
II dates from the invention OF Fowl
? SISTED BY Smith. in 1854.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Where ENGLISH River Rises.

The Duddon. one OF the most pic
turesque OF the English rivers. oozes
up through a bed OF moss near the top
OF Wrynose Fell. a desolate solitude
yet remarkable for it's huge masses OF
protruding crags ard the varied and
vivid colors of the MOSES watered by
the stream.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Has a Hard ne.

Someone Is quoted as hasirg said
that of al the letters in tho alphabet
e. is the most rs -tunate, because
it is always out Of cash. always in
debt. never out OF danger. and in hell
all the time. II Is also the most fire.
ouently used letter IN the alphabet
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Applause at a Concert.

You seem to enjoy the heavy Wag-
neridE numbers or the program? Il
don't Then wny do you applaud SO
s:rongiy?' Il want to hear the pretty
little pieces they always play for en-
cores.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Telephone Record.

The French language has been
found much better adapted tC long
distance telephoGi3g than the English,
and expert operators in Paris have
succeeded n transmitting messages to
London at the rate of 1870 words min.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03

a soft answer viii turn away
wrath les as De Good nook says. OBJ
served Uncle Ehen But too much
softness is gwinter ,erlpt somebody
to hand you a slap, jes fob de fun
of il =
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Guard Auainst Infection.

The Argentine national health de-
partment has posted signs along the
principal streets OF Buenos Aires tell
ING what animals and insects should
- avoided to lessen the dangers Of
infectious diseases.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
The End of All THINGS,

Man with Paper-"Here's preacher
in Syracuse, \. Y, who declares that
the time will come VIXEN there will be
no liars in the world" Pessimist-
well. the world is due to end some
time. < anadian Courier.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
DRAWING the Line.

Tomdix-"Is il true that young
Greenes engagement is cff?" Hoax
yes. Tcmdix was the trou-
ble-did the girl decline to live in a
fat Hojax-"NO; with one
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Ancient Jokes.

Did a man ever hold stakes" ash
the Atchlson Globe, without making
q remark about running away with
the money! And did one OF the bet
tors. following someone's offer to hold
the stakes. ever fail to counter with
who'll hold YOU"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Great City Less Eonnx.

Weather records compiled for more
than a quarter of a century Indicate
that the atmosphere of London is be
coming less foggy.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
A safe DARE.

Bishop Moreland said that a nagged
married man who does not seek d.
vorce is a true hero-but we'll dare
anyone Of them to wear hero medal.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
British Orders of knlahthood.

There are eight orders of knight
hood in the British empire. OF which
the highest is the Order Of the Gar
Ter.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Whe1 Baby Is Feverish.

Nothing is better than a sponge
bath with eight ounces of alcohol
added to a quart Of warm water
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
The Professions

CHIROPRACTOR
DIR. J. q. SCARBOROUGH,
Lady in Attendance
Dyches Building, Between PARK
and Auditorium
OFFICE HOURS
10 1880 a, m, 1880 to p. m.
1900 to $3.50 p. m.
and Examination Free.
Residence Phone 240 Black
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03

4. D. &H, D. MENDENHALL
CIVIL ENGINEERS
Suite 2l2-215 Drane Building
LAKELAND, FLA.
osphate Land Examinations anu
ant Designs. Earthwork Special
d, Surveys.
sidence Phone 27S BLACK.
Ice Phone 27S Blue.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03
Optimistic Thought.

Arms are worth little without wis
dom At home
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-11-22
AoREEs WITH ANONYMOUS

AGREES WITH ANONYMOUS
Anonymous" rings true. He has
stated nothing but sound facts,
which can corroborate by my own
experience. Even in this free land Of
ours there are many who dare not
voice their true sentiments, even in
a whisper. To voice an opinion in
opposition to some employers means
certain discharge. But there is still
hope. There are many good en-
plOyers who play fair. We have no
quarrel with honest opinion or with
those who observe. morality in their
discussions.
There is, however, a vast difference
between the right of. free speech, as
guaranteed by the constitution, and
license. Therefore, whenever an
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-11-22
CLEAN AMUsEMENT.-!

CLEAN AMUSEMENT.-IIike The
Day Book because it's a free press,
not an advertisers press. 1 am eX-
ceedtngly interested in the question
of public amUsements. Clean amuse-
ment is one of vital Importance to
society and would like to see in The
Day Book an open discussion of this
problem.
I hardly believe that censorship
will ever solve this problem; only
public opinion, I fear, can. 1 have
on hand home appalling information
regarding theaters and a public
school 1 wish 1 might talk with you
concerning this which has sorely dis
tressed me and for which 1 can find
no remedy.
The Day Book is a great force in
creating public opinion and, because
it is Independent, it is freeto do great
wOrk.-Mrs. Jas. G. Boor.