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TAFT REMEDIES TO CURE TRUSTS
AND ABATE RAILROAD ABUSES
FOR INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Favors a “United States Court of
Commerce,” Limited Railway
Pools, Increased Protection to
Shippers, Added Power to Com
mission Over Rates, Limited
Railroad Acquisition of Interest
in Competing Corporations, and
Forbidding Unauthorized Issu
ance of Railway Securities. i
FOR CORPORATIONS.
Urges Federal Incorporation of “In
dustrials,” With Prohibition of
Holding Companies — Interprets
Anti-Trust Daw as Permitting
Combinations Not Oppressive—
Declares Purpose to Push Prose
cution of All Suits to Dissolve
Monopolistic Concerns — No
“Good” and “Bad” Trusts.
THREE COURSES OPEN TO CORPORATIONS UNDER
LAW AS OUTLINED BY PRESIDENT TAFT.
The decrees of injunction recently adopted in prosecutions under
the anti-trust law are so thorough and sweeping that the corporations
affected by them have but three courses before them:
First—They must resolve themselves into their component parts
in different States, with a consequent loss to themselves of capital and
effective organization and to the country of concentrated energy and
enterprise; or
Second—In defiance of law and under somesecret trust they must
attempt to continue their business in violation of the Federal statute
and thus incur the penalties of contempt and bring on an inevitable
criminal prosecution of the individuals named in the decree and their
associates; or
Third—They must reorganize and accept in good faith the Fed
eral charter.
Washington, D. C.— President Taft
sent to Congress his long delayed
message on interstate commerce and
anti-trust legislation. In it he strikes
at the existence of holding corpora
tions and oppressive trusts. He rec
ommends the formation of a Court of
Commerce to review railway cases
and a Federal corporation bill to reg
ulate trusts.
The President does not advocate
the repeal of the Sherman Anti-Trust
law or of the Interstate Commerce
law; on the contrary, he believes in
strengthening and amplifying both
these laws.
The President comes out flatly for
complete Government control and
supervision of railroad corporations
and trusts. He announces that it is
his purpose at an early date to in
struct the Department of Justice to
Investigate all trusts with respect to
which there is a reasonable suspicion
that they were illegally formed or
are being illegally conducted.
The President, however, enjoins
caution on Congress lest it disturb
the confidence of the business com
munity and produce a halt in pros
perity.
The President deals in this com
munication with the two great issues
omitted from his annual message, the
Interstate Commerce and Anti-Trust
laws. In a message of some ten thou
sand words he deals exhaustively with
both subjects. Leading recommenda
tions as to the former include:
A “United States Court of Com
merce,” to have original jurisdiction
over classes of cases which are speci
fied, thus relieving the Interstate
Commerce Commission of certain
fabor and an incongruous combination
of functions.
Permitting limited railway pools,
Bubject to all the provisions of the
Interstate Commerce act.
Protection of the shipper in the
matter of rate quoted for proposed
Bhipments, by financial penalties for
refusal or omission by carrier to
quote proper rate.
Authority to commission to act. on
Its own initiative, in investigating
fairness of rates or practices, and to
pass on classifications of commodities.
Power to the commission to hold
up for a limit of sixty days proposed
Increases of rates until it shall have
passed upon their reasonableness;
and If found unreasonable, to forbid
the increase or fix a maximum.
Giving shippers the right to desig
nate through routes over which their
shipments shall pass.
Forbidding railroads to acquire in
terest in any competing railroad or
other competing corporation; but
with certain provisos affecting owner
ship already acquired.
Forbidding issuance of railway
stock or bonds unless par value has
been received for them—or, if at less
than par value, the reasonable market
value as ascertained by the commis
sion; the same to apply where the
consideration received is services or
anything other than money. Also
preventing improvident or improper
issue of notes.
Giving the Intersate Commerce
Commission power to determine upon
uniform construction of safety appli
ances on railroads, and facilitating
the serving of process in suits under
the Employer’s Liability act.
As to the Anti-Trust law, the Pres
ident recommends:
Voluntary Federal Incorporation of
Interstate industrial concerns, with
prohibition of the “holding company”
evil.
Indorsement of combinations of in
dustrial capital where these are de
cided not to constitute harmful
trusts; thus relieving certain classes
subject to unjust condemnation under
the existing law.
Several pages of the message are
devoted to an elucidation of the
Sherman act with a view to showing
that its inhibition does not lie against
combinations of which the main pur
pose is economy of administration
and increased efficiency, destruction
of competition being merely inci
dental; but only against those that
are formed to obtain the advantages
of monopoly in whole or in part by
Improper means.
Mr. Taft is careful to point out that
ihis Federal incorporation plan does
not repeal the Sherman Anti-Trust
law or permit wrongs which that
statute prohibits. He defends the
constitutionality of such a measure.
He declares emphatically that the
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Government does not intend to lessen
in the least degree its prosecution o£
suits to dissolve combinations which
are to-day monopolizing the com
merce of the country, and seeks only
to foster and encourage “reasonable”
concentration of capital—necessary
to the economic development of man
ufacture, trade and commerce. He
also points out that the worst of
fenders in monopoly must accept Fed
eral incorporation, face criminal
prosecution, or dissolve themselves
into their component parts in the dif
ferent States.
In industrial combinations called
trusts, the President says, the inter
state and foreign business far erceeds
the business done in any one State.
This fact, he says, will justify grant
ing of Federal charters to such com
binations under such limitations as
will secure compliance with the Anti
Trust law.
To this end he recommends a grant
ing of Federal law for the charters
to corporations engaged in interstate
commerce, protecting them from un
due interference by the State and re
lying on National supervision to pre
vent abuses which have arisen under
state control.
Such a law would subject the real
and personal property only to the
same taxation as is imposed by the
States and would require complete
reports to be filed at regular inter
vals. Holding companies will be for
bidden.
The President declares the Sher
man Anti-Trust law does not need
amendment, and that the series of de
cisions by the Supreme Court renders
a strong reason for leaving the act as
it is.
The public, the President says,
must disabuse itself of the idea that
any distinction between “good trusts”
and “bad trusts” can be introduced
into the statute.
The President declares that mon
opolies must be restrained and pun
ished until ended.
TAFT REMOVES PINCHOT.
Chief of Forestry Bureau Dismissed
For Insubordination.
Washington, D. C.—President Taft
dismissed Gifford Pinchot, Chief of
the Forestry Bureau, and the fight
between the Roosevelt radicals and
the conservative wing of the Repub
lican party is on in earnest. The
President’s action came after a Cab
inet session that lasted practically all
day. When it broke up, just before
dinner time in the evening, there was
issued at the White House a copy of
a letter sent by the President to Mr.
Pinchot. In this letter, after sum
ming up the acts of the forester that
led him to take such action, Mr. Taft
said:
“By your conduct you have de
stroyed your usefulness as a helpful
subordinate of the Government, and
it therefore becomes my duty to di
rect the Secretary of Agriculture to
remove you from your office as For
ester.”
Secretary Wilson was swift in car
rying out the decision of the Presi
dent. He addressed to Mr. Pinchot,
to Overton W. Price, Associate For
rester, and Albert C. Shaw, assistant
law officer of the Forestery Bureau,
letters substantially indentical.
INSURGENTS DEFEAT CANNON.
They Combine With Democrats and
Regular Republicans—149 to 146.
Washington, D. C.—For the first
time Speaker Cannon and his organ
ization were defeated in the House.
The vote was 149 to 146. Twenty
three insurgent Republicans, three
regulars and 123 Democrats turned
the trick against 145 regular Repub
licans and one Democrat.
The Speaker and his organization
admitted defeat and made no further
attempt to frustrate the will of the
majority. The insurgents won on the
issue for which they have contended
consistently since their movement
was organized; they took out of the
hands of the Speaker the power to
appoint a committee.
The committee which the Speaker
lost was the important House end of
the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation.
The three regular Republicans who
joined the insurgents were: Herbert
Parsons, of New York; Butler Ames,
of Massachusetts, and Hamilton Fish,
of New York.
f Kentucky’s First Distiller Dead.
J. C. Mattingly, who operated the
first registered distillery in Kentucky,
died at St. Mary's, Ky., aged eighty
six years. He amassed a fortune in
the liquor business and retired ten
years ago.
| Canada's Population 7,850,000.
The Canadian Bureau of Census,
kat Ottawa, estimates the population
of Canada at the close of the year
at 7,350,000. The Province of On
tario leads with 2,619,025.
Newsy Gleanings,
How Price of Milk Was Raised.
How the raising of the price of
milk from eight to nine cents was
brought about and how New York
City just missed a further increase to
ten cents were revealed at the Milk
Trust inquiry in that city.
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Increase in Sheep.
The National Association, in its an
nual estimate, places the number of
sheep fit for shearing in the United
States at 42,293,205, an increase of
1,981,657 over the preceding year.
Feminine Notes.
Seven co-respondents were named
and thirty-seVeu charges made in the
suit for divorce secured by Edwin E.
Martin, of Brooklyn.
White Aigrette, the property of
Miss L. G, Hopkins, won the gold
medal for the best cat at the Atlantic
Cat Club’s annual show in New York
City.
Mrs. Margaret Usher, of Lawrence,
the “Grand Old
She is over ninety
her husband served
the Interior in Lin
POSTOFFICEYiELDS MILLIONS
Shows an Increase of $12,083,
720, or 6.31 Per Cent
Dr. Granfield Pleads For Thirty Days’
Annual Leave For Clerks and
Carriers in Principal Offices.
Washington, D. C.—As r. business
institution, the Postoffice Department,
next to the United States Treasury,
is the greatest in the Government.
According to figures submitted by
Charles P. Grandfield, First Assistant
Postmaster-General, for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1909, in his an
nual report, the gross revenue of the
postal service reached the enormous
total of $203,562,383, an increase of
$12,083,720, or 6.31 per cent., over
the preceding year.
There were 7202 Presidential post
offices on July 1, 1909. Of this num
ber 398 were first class, an increase
of 14; 1707 were second class, an in
crease of 112, and 5097 were third
class, an increase of 230. The total
increase in the number of Presi
dential offices was 356. There were
1444 postofflces established during
the year and 2004 were discontinued,
leaving a total of 60,144 postoffices
in operation on June 30, 1909. Dur
ing the year 162 6 postmasters were
appointed at Presidential offices. At
fourth class offices 9161 postmasters
were appointed.
Concerning the routine of his bu
reau Dr. Grandfield says:
“The annual rate of expendjture
for the salaries of Presidential post
masters on July 1, 1909, was as fol
lows: First class, $1,408,600; sec
ond class, $4,012,400; third class,
$7,344,800, making a total of $12.
765.800.
"At the close of the fiscal year
there were 1978 assistant postmasters
at first and second class offices, an in- '
crease of 116. The number of clerks I
at first and second class offices in
creased from 28,220 to 29,930, and
the carrier force at city deliverv
offices from 26,352 to 27,620, being
a net increase of 1710 clerks and
1268 carriers.
“The retention of fourth class post
masters during satisfactory service
has become the established practice j
of the department, and the policy of i
recommending the reappointment of
Presidential postmasters who have
proved efficient has been followed con
sistently with highly beneficial re
sults.”
Dr. Grandfield makes a strong ar
gument in favor of thirty days’ an
nual leave for clerks and carriers in
first class and second class offices.
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PAPER TRUST MEN INDICTED.
Association and 140 Individuals Ac
cused of Violating Federal Law.
New York City.—The Paper Board
Association was indicted by the Fed
eral Grand Jury along with the 140
individuals and paper making con
cerns that made up its membership.
The indictment is under the Anti
Trust act, and the Paper Board Asso
ciation and its members are accused
of conducting an illegal combination
in restraint of trade and interstate
commerce.
The Grand Jury has been investi
gating the Paper Board Association
for a month, and one of the principal
witnesses was John H. Parks, Its or
ganizer. Parks was also organizer of 1
the so-called “Wrapping Paper j
Trust,” known as the Fibre and Ma- I
nila Association, against which a like
indictment was filed some months
ago. Its twenty-six members pleaded
guilty and got oft with a $2000 fine
each, while Parks put up double that
amount.
FATAL FIGHT WITH ROBBERS.
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Railroad Man Killed and Another
founded by Men They Captured.
Ypsilanti, Mich.—Suspected of a
jewelry store burglary, two men when
taken into custody by the baggage
man and ticket clerk at the Michigan 1
Central depot, drew revolvers and i
fought desperately.
Baggageman Henry C. Minor was
killed, Ticket Clerk Morgan Emmett
| was shot through the chest and prob
ably fatally injured, and both sus
pects were wounded.
Emmett’s injury disabled his right
arm, but, though unarmed, he clung
to his antagonist with his left till
clubbed into insensibility.
Minor, who had a revolver, engaged ;
in a pistol duel at twenty paces with
the other suspect till mortally wound
ed in the throat.
The suspects were arrested.
FIREMAN KILLED, SIX INJURED.
—
Women Overcome and 200 Hotel
Guests Driven Intc the Street. j
St. Louis, Mo.—One fireman was |
burned to death, six others were in
jured, several women were overcome
by smoke and 200 hotel guests were ,
driven into the street, with the tem
perature near zero, when fire broke |
out in a barber shop between and ,
under the Cambridge and Barbum
Hotels in St. Charles street, in the
heart of the business district.
Harry Tasche, lineman, and Assls- |
tant Fire Chief Haynes broke open
the door. Tasche was burned to a
crisp almost instantly in the sheet ol
flame that shot out. Haynes fell un
conscious, but was rescued by a pa
trolman.
The loss is estimated at $100,000
to the hotel and adjacent property.
PAYS $2,284,418 CASH.
H. C. Frick Company Buys 2644
Acres of Coking Coal.
Uniontown, Pa.—The Clairton Iron
Company has sold to the H. C. Frick
Coke Company 264 4 acres of coking
coal and 296 acres of surface land In
this vicinity for $2,284,418 cash—
$S5 0 aa acre for the coal land
and $126 an acre forthe surface land,.
This is a record price for coal lands in
this section.
Coughing Saved Boy.
At- Kattanning, Pa., surgeons
placed Norman Barnett, the little son
of George Barnett, on the operating
table to cut out his appendix. Just
as the knife was ready the lad was
seized with a fit of coughing and
emitted a needle, which caused his
illness.
Animal Oils Scarce.
Animal oils display a firm under
gone and as a result of the high prices
consumers, wherever able, are using
substitutes. Prime lard oil Is prac- j
tically unobtainable I
THE END OF THE ROAD.
—Cartoon by C. R. Macauley, in the New York World.
WAGES HAVEN’T KEPT PACE WITH
PRICES, SAYS STANDARD OIL MAN
Alexander McDonald Sees No Incentive in Work That Produces
Nothing For the Future, and Declares There Must Be
a Readjustment Somewhere—Ordinary Clerk
Cannot Support His Family and Save.
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Alexander McDonald, the oil millionaire, made
some declarations on the high cost of living that will challenge attention,
coming as they do from one of the original Standard Oil magnates. Mr. :
McDonald, who is seventy-six years old, and confined to his home by feeble
health, nevertheless keeps in close touch with current events. He said:
“It is becoming impossable for the wage worker to make both ends
meet. I do not recall when the cost of living was so high. Wages have not
kept pace with prices. We will have to have a readjustment somewhere.
“It is not good that the mass of our people should be forced to live a
hand-to-mouth existence. There is no incentive to work that produces noth
ing for the future. The saving ability of our people must not be curtailed.
“I cannot see how the clerk who must pay the present high prices-can
support a family and save at the same time. The results of such a condi
tion cannot be anything but bad. It discourages marriage, among other
things, and those who have means are living too extravagantly.
“The automobile, for instance, unfortunately has become a sign of
financial standing. The result is that it is now often acquired as much for
show as for use.
“This is an age of much business. We find rich American girls buying
titles. I say that nine-tenths of such marriages are purely commercial. It
is most deplorable.
“I have two grandchildren (the Misses Stallo). Should any one ask
for the hand of one of these girls and mention money at the same time, I
would order him to clear out.”
FOR COST OF LIVING INQUIRY.
Congressman Hull Asks For an Investigation—Mr. Douglas,
of Ohio, Statesman-Farmer, Gives His Ideas on the Sit
uation-Wants Rush Made For Farms—Let Every
body Produce and Prices Fall.
Washington, D. C.—Members of
Congress who insist that the salary
of $7500 a year, which they receive
now, does not go as far as their old
salary of $5000 did a few years ago,
are much agitated over the rapidly
Increasing prices of the necessities of
life. This subject promises to be
talked about a great deal in the House
and Senate this year. It is regarded
as practically certain that a joint
commission will be appointed to in
vestigate
A resolution by Mr. Hull, Demo
crat., of Tennessee, provides for a
committee of seven Representatives
and five Senators to investigate if the
high prices are due to:
1. Trusts and combinations.
2. The increased volume of money.
8. Increase in city population.
4. Increase in demand and de
crease in supply.
5. Increase of the Government’s
bonded debt, or
0. The tariff.
This resolution declares that the
prices of the necessities of life have
•increased from eleven to thirty per
cent, in the last twelve months. It is
asserted that the high prices of beef
have enabled the Armour Packing
Company to make a net profit of more
than thirty-five per cent, on its capi
talization. Mr. Hull charges that the
price of sugar is two cents a pound
higher in the United States than in
foreign countries and that this com
modity is controlled by the Sugar
Trust. ,
The most Interesting development
In the high price problem at the Capi
tol was a carefully prepared speech
by Mr. Douglas, of Ohio, who succeed
ed that eminent statistician and prog
nosticator, Charles Henry Grosvenor.
Ever since Mr. Douglas was attending
a performance in the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, and a pair
of opera glasses fell from the third
balcony and bounced off his head he
has been deeply interested in weighty
problems. He ha'3 given a great deal
of though* to this subject, and turned
loose the result in a 7000-word
speech.
Mr. Douglas has a theory that he
thinks would settle this high price
proposition. He believes that if coun
try life could be made sufficiently at
tractive to intelligent men and wom
en, farm houses fitted with open
plumbing, pianolas and mission wood
furniture and the land toned up and
made to yield 300 bushels of potatoes
to the acre where twenty now grow,
a great many worthy people who now
eke out a precarious existence laying
brick and driving hacks and running '
trolley cars would be for the country j
and proceed to get wealthy.
This, in its turn, would result in '
greatly increasing the production of !
all the necessities of life, which in '
volume have fallen behind the stead- 1
ily increasing percentage of popula
tion. He had an imposing array of
figures to present to the House to
prove that while the population of the
United States hadbeen jumping ahead
by leaps and bounds for the last
twenty years the production of cattle,
hogs, sheep, grain, potatoes and other
meat and vegetables, staples had fall
en behind.
Out on his farm in Ohio Mr. Doug
las raises lots of things. One of the
ways he makes money so that he can
stay in Congress is by fattening thin
cattle and selling them to the Beef
Trust.
“f get so much money for my fat
stock,” he said, with tears in his eyes,
“that I am ashamed to take it.”
Mr. Douglas added that any man
who had been running a decent farm
for the last five years and hadn’t'got
so wealthy that he had Brussels car
pet on the woodshed floor and a pedi
greed Great Dane sitting on the front
porch had only himself, to blame.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
told Mr. Douglas just the other day,
he said, of an instance in New York
not six miles from Ithaca where land
had been sold recently for $2 an acre.
Representatives John Dwight and
Dryden and Representative Bennet,
of the Eronx, later confirmed these
figures.
The Secretary also told Mr. Doug
las of the case of a New York farmer
who had a poor, Vorn-out hill farm
on which he had raised the year be
fore only twenty bushels of potatoes
to the acre. At that none of them
were large enough for market. The
farmer was induced by an agent of
the Department to try an experiment
with his land. He was supplied with
Government seed potatoes, told how
to do the trick, and without the use
of fertilizer he came across with 200
bushels to the acre, and since then
has raised nothing but potatoes.
That Mr. Douglas considers an ar
gument for a greatly increased appro
priation for agricultural purposes.
H. P. Wliitney Bays Father’s Man.
sion. Paying Nearly $3,000,000.
New York City.—The magnificent
mansion built and furnished at lavish
expense by the late William C. Whit
ney on Fifth avenue was purchased
by his son, Harry Payne Whitney, at
a price said to be a trifle under S3,
000,000. He obtains the mansion
with all of its costly fittings practi
cally intact as left by his father on
his death seven years ago.
In 1904 the house was sold by the
Whitney estate to the late James
Henry Smith.
Prominent People.
Professor Charles Le Verrier ar
rived from Paris to lecture.
General Wood is to receive another
promotion, the last one possible at
present.
Wu Ting-fang told a reporter for
the World of China’s eagerness to
build railroads.
Mark Twain returned from Ber
muda ill and saying: “My work in
this life is done.”
I Frederick Greenwood, author and
journalist, who founded Pall Mali
and St. James’ Gazette, died at Lon
don.
Americans Restore Chapel Built
in England by Prisoners of 1S12.
London.—The little stone chapel of
Prince Town, Devonshire, built under
forced labor by the American sailors,
confined in the adjoining Dartmoor
prison during the War of 1812, has
been restored, end a window has been
placed in it to the memory of those
engaged in the original work.
The cost of this renovation and the
window has been borne by Americans.
The vicar of the church recently ap
pealed to the American public &n
funds to restore the building.
Minor Mention.
All automobilists in Italy refused
to take out new licenses.
China and her awakening was dis
cussed by the American Economic As
sociation.
Mayor Gaynor took office and New
York City began its “businesslike”
administration.
The new pension order of the New
York Central Railroad went into ef
fect, and between 700 and 800 men
are retired.
The President decided to appoint
Judge Alfred C. Coxe a member of
the sew Court of Customs Appeals.
HEW JERSEYJTATE NEWS
Teachers Favor Reforms.
The New Jersey Teachers’ Associa
tion in resolutionsadopted at the clos
ing session disclaimed responsibility
for defects in the educational system
of the State, which Governor Fort de
clared to be “overofflcered and weak
with fads,’’ and called upon the Leg
islature to make a “complete and ex
haustive report” of the findings of the
Senate committee which is now prob
ing the administration of the school
laws. While the 300 teachers re
frained from going into the matter
more emphatically in advance of the
report, the convention reaffirmed its
conviction that the constantly grow
ing demand for trained teachers
makes mandatory the provision of ad
ditional facilities for professional
training, and freely conceded that
there is need of greater efficiency in
the rural schools of the State. The
report urges the adoption and actual
use of uniform courses of study adapt
ed to the needs of the country child,
and that county superintendents be
given greater powers by legislation.
In a further resolution which evoked
much enthusiasm the convention
“recommended to the schools the new
patriotism that begins at home, that
emphasizes a man’s duty to the com
munity in which he lives, that lays
upon every man, woman and child
the obligation to be clean in person
and home and to actively co-operate
in making the neighborhood clean and
beautiful; that urgesupon all to work
for good schools, roads and streets,
for pure water and food, and the pro
per enforcement of all rules, ordi
nances and laws aiming to make the
community a good place for a home.
The association will ask the Legislat
ure to remedy a material discrepancy
between State laws which permit
children over fourteen years to work
in factories, while making attendance
upon school compulsory up to seven
teen years.
Aged 70, Marries Woman of 30.
Dr. H. H. Lowrie and his bride,
who was Miss Emily Lacey, went on
their honeymoon trip, following the
marriage ceremony at St. Stephen’s
Church, Plainfield. The bride is thir
ty years old, and Dr. Lowrie about
seventy. Both have been in the em
ploy of an insurance company, the
bride as cashier and the bridegroom
as examining physician. The mar
riage was a surprise to the friends of
the bride, and more so to those of the
doctor, who has been a widower for
several years and has a grown family.
All his children are married.
In Jail Instead of Grave.
George Montgomery is glad to be
in jail at Bordentown instead of his
grave, for he had a mighty close call
from death. Montgomery has been
employed on a farm near Bordentown.
He broke into the house of Joseph
Higgins, on Willow street, at night,
and Higgins chased him at the point
of his gun. Placed under arrest
Montgomery said he was drunk and
did not know what he was doing. As
Higgins declined to make a eberge of
attempted burglary against him he
was sent to jail for sixty days by
Mayor Gabel.
Has Faith in Shore Farms.
Franklin Dye, secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, believes
that the abandoned farms along the
“main” or inland shore of the New
Jersey bays can be made to pay. To
prove it he ha3 bought a farm at West
Creek that formerly supported a large
family for a century and a half, but
which for the last generation has
practically been allowed to run to
seed. Secretary Dye intends to prove.
It is said, that farming along the
3hore can be made just as profitable
as oyster planting when as much skill
is used.
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Parole For Girl Whi Slew.
At its sitting at Trenton the Court
of Pardons granted a parole to Pearl
Paskayi, a pretty girl of eighteen
years, of that city, who was convicted
of manslaughter and sent to State
prison for three years last summer.
The girl had been insulted and an
noyed by the attentions of a man,
who finally attempted to assault her,
and in desperation she grabbed a ta
ble knife and drove it into his heart.
Kills Wife bjt Accident.
While reading a novel which she
had received from her husband as a
Christmas gift, Mrs. Edna Jacobson,
aged twenty, of Elizabeth, was acci
dentally shot by him with a rifle he
was examining and died a few min
utes later. The husband was arrest
ed, but the police believe the shoot
ing was accidental. The tragedy took
place In the parlor near a Christmas
tree laden with toys for their baby.
The Rev. Porter Snell Dead.
The Rev. Porter Snell, an inmate of
the Home for Aged Ministers of the
Presbyterian Church at Newton since
last July, died from the infirmities of
old age. He was seventy years old.
Mr. Snell came from Washington, D.
C., where he had been a stated sup
ply for the Presbyterian churches of
Virginia. He leaves a wife and seven
children.
Streams Stocked With Trout.
State Game Warden Percival Chrys
tie, of High Bridge, and Deputy Game
Warden John Parks, of Whitehorse,
stocked the streams with fingerling
trout. Several thousand fry have
been placed in the South Branch of
the Raritan River and Musconetcong
Creek. The fry were obtained from
the Allentown Fish Club. Private as
well as public streams will be stocked.
In AH Parts ^of the State.
Dogs killed 100 chickens belonging
to Richard Tice. H. S. Ireland, John
Hoffner and others raisers of Will
lamstown.
Clayton Council has authorized
Mayor Nichols to appoint a dog kill
er, but the Mayor says he cannot find
any one who will kill dogs.
The Williamstown Grange has
elected Harry Bateman, master; L.
W. Harper, overseer; E. C. Ritchie,
treasurer; James M. Tweed, secre
tary, and J. D. Tweed, chaplain.
David Hess saw a herd of deer
standing in the snow in the rear of his
place, near Cumberland.
At Bridgeport, Louis Folger has
6000 baskets of sweet potatoes, which
he i3 holding until spring.
The City Council at Woodbury in
structed the Appropriation Commit
tee to provide a sum to be used next
year for the pay jf physicians who
attend the poor.
The Board of Education of Vine
land, shocked when it heard that a
girl graduate of the High School had
indorsed a check on the face, decided
to add a course on business forms to
the curriculum.
The Hoad Rest.
Henry E. Dixey at a New Year sup
per was offered a cigar by a young
lawyer.
"It is easy to see,” said Mr. Dixey,
examining the cigar, "that you are
not married, but only engaged.”
"I am engaged. But how did you
know? It’s a secret,” cried the law
yer.
“I knew," said Mr. Dixey, "because
you have frequently offered me a ci
gar from your vest pocket and it has
always been broken.” — Washington
Star.
A Burning Eruption Covered Her
From Head to Feet.
"Four years ago 1 suffered severely
with a terrible eczema, being a mass
of sores from head to feet and for six
weeks confined to my bed. During
that time I suffered continual torture
from Itching and burning. After be
ing given up by my doctor I was ad
vised to try Cutlcura Remedies. Af
ter the first bath with Cutlcura Soap
and application of Cutlcura Ointment
I enjoyed the first good sleep during
my entire illness. I also used Cutl
cura Resolvent and the treatment was
continued for about three weeks. At
the end of that time I wa3 able to be
about the house, entirely cured, and
have felt no ill effects since. I would
advise any person suffering from any
form of skin trouble to try the Cutl
cura Remedies, as I know what they
did for me. Mrs. Edward Nenning,
1112 Salina St., Watertown, N. 5*
Apr. 11. 1909."
He Was Coming Down.
Some years ago there lived In
Perth, Scotland, a not very sober man
known as Jamie. One night an ac
quaintance found Jamie lying at the
foot of his stairs. “Is that you,
Jamie?” asked the caller. “Ay, It’s
me! ” replied Jamie in a tone of resig
nation. “Have ye fa’en doon the
stairs?” was the next question. “Ay,
I fell doon, but I was cornin' doon,
whether or no!"—Philadelphia In
quirer.
Piles Cured in (i to 14 Days.
Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding
Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c.
Spain’s Congress of Deputies consists of
406 unpaid members.
Tightness across the chest means a cold
on the lungs. It means misery and dis
comfort every minute, if nothing worse.
What’s the answer? Rub the chest with
Hamlins Wizard Oil quick.__
In twentv-five years the population oi
Berlin has tripled itself._
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
Whooping cough kills more children un
der five years-of age than scarlet fever.
Itch cured in 30 minutes by Wootford’s
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
ITALIAN CLIFF VINEYARDS.
Grapes Growing in Places Reached
Only by Ropes and Ladders.
The steepest vineyards in all Eu
rope if not In all the world are situ
ated on the northwest coast of Italy.
I have seon grapevines growing in
many countries and in many queer
places, but nowhere have I ever seen
vineyards located like those on the
seacoast between Levanto and Spez
zia.
The vines in some places along the
Rhine grow on very steep hillsides,
but nothing to compare with those
growing on the lofty Italian cliffs.
You can now and then get a good
glimpse of these vineyards while rid
ing in the train from Genoa to Pisa,
which follows the coast almost all the
way. The trouble is that tunnels suc
ceed each other in rapid succession,
thus continually breaking off the
view of the sea and of the rocky
coast.
After leaving Levanto, a small
town situated on a semi-circular bay,
and going through a long tunnel, you
soon come to what are called the vil
lages of the Cinque Terre. Each vil
lage Is separated from the other by
lofty cliffs. The vines cover the face
of these bold cliffs, which are almost
perpendicular. As such places can
be reached only by ladders or ropes
the difficulty of working the vineyard
and of gathering the crop of grapesj
can easily be imagined.
Almost as striking are those places
where the vines are trained upon
wire across gorges made by the
streams which cut the rocky coast.
This whole region is probably unique
in Its viticulture. Only men like the
Italian peasant farmers, who love
the vine and its luscious fruit, would
go to so much labor and trouble as
to plant vineyards on the face of
sheer cliffs.—American Wine Press.
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See That Coffee Was
Doing the Mischief.
A lady tells of a bad case of coffee
poisoning, and tells it in a way so
simple and straightforward that lit
erary skill could not improve it.
“I had neuralgic headaches for 12
years.” she says, “and suffered untold
agony. When I first began to have
them I weighed 140 pounds, but they
brought me down to 110. I went to
many doctors and they gave me only
temporary relief. So I suffered on,
till one day a woman doctor told me
to use Postum. She said I looked like
1 was coffee poisoned.
”So I began to drink Postum and I,
gained 15 pounds in the first fews'l
weeks and continued to gain, but not
so fast as at first. My headaches be-,
gan to leave me after I had used Pos^
turn about two weeks—long enough!
t.o get the coffee poison out of my sys-j
tern.
“Since I began to use Postum I canj
gladly say that I never know what %|
neuralgic headache is like any moreJ
and It was nothing but Postum tha|i
made me well. Before I used Postu«|§
1 never went out alone; I would getl
bewildered and would not know;
which way to turn. Now I go alone^
and my head is as clear as a bell. My ;
brain and nerves are stronger thaiy
they have been for years.”
Read the little book, “The Road to
Wellvllle," in pkgs. “There’s a Rea
son."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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