f
fctartlflu* Reversal ef Form.
Nan—1 never »aw Kit aa plump aa aha
la nowadays.
Fan—Plump? Huh! She used to
have a dimple in her chin. It's a mole
, now!—Chicago Tribune
I n t nlf Ion.
"The worst has happened,-John !” pant
ed Mrs. Jipes, «inking feebly into a chair.
“Well, we'll have to-advertise for an
other oi»e; tbat’a all," moodily answered
Mr. Jipes.
For ho knew, without being told, that
the cook bad left.
The United States government is the
largest individual purchaser of electric
I imps in this country. It buys »uO.OuO
annually.
Mothers will find Mr« Winvlow'v Bo..thine
Syrup th- beat remedy to uee tor their chddraa
turluv the tuethius period.
Over one million per to ns visit the Brit-
iah Museum each year.
A feeling of security and freedom
from anxiety pervades the home in
which Hamlins Wizard Oil is kept con
stantly on hand. Mothers know it can
always be depended upon in time of
need.
The Persians have a different name
tor every day in the month.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
BRUN
f
Are the British rich in Immediate
danger of being taxed off the British
Isles’ This is a question that is be
ing asked seriously. The British press
day by day echoes the despairing pro
tests of the well to do against the rap
idly increasing burdens of taxation, of
which no man knows the end. The
prediction is freely made by English
men of affairs resident of this coun
try that any substantial increase in
taxation will be followed by an exodU3
of the British well to do, and espe
cially of the British rich from the
British isles. They will seek in this
country or some other a haven where
the idea of taking away the property
of those who have it to give it to
those who have none does not obtain.
The Englishman pays a tax when he
Inherits property.
He pays an Income tax on his rent
als and on his salary.
•
He pays a tax on his automobile.
He pays a tax on all stock exchange
transactions.
He pays’a tax on all his land and
on all increase in land values.
He pays, in addition to the rent of
his dwelling, taxes fog lighting, pav
ing and police protection.
,
He pays a ta# for the privilege of
wearing a ring with a crest on it, and
a tax for putting armorial bearings
on his carriage.
He pays a tax for bls carriage, his
dog, his gun and his pistol.
m orrmr isirs
He pays a tax for the privilege of
shooting game.
He pays a tax on every servant.
He pays a tax when he dies—or his
estate does and leaves property.
“Americans have little idea of the
various taxes that are imposed In
England,” says a writer on the sub
ject. “If you are a renter and pay,
say $300 a year rent, you would be
obliged to pay not less than $'J0 addi
tional, which would cover the light
ing. paving and police protection. But
richer people are caught in all sorts
of ways. For instance, in England I
would pay $5 a year for the privilege
of wearing this ring. It carries a
crest and if I had a carriage with
armorial bearings upon it I would be
obliged to pay $10 a year for that
privilege. When a man dies his estate
must pay a tax of 1 per cent on every-
thing, if his estate is below $2,500
in value; 2 per cent on $5,000, 3 per
cent on $50,000, 4 per cent on $125,-
000, 4 >-2 per cent on $200,000, 5 per
cent on $225,000, 5>2 per cent on $500,-
000, 6 per cent on $750,000, 7 per cent
on $1,250,000, 8 per cent on $2,500,000,
9 per cent on $3,750,000, and 10 per
cent on $5,000,000.
“Perhaps
the greatest burdens
which the land owner is subject to
are on account of the poorhouses,
which are maintained at great ex
pense, ami on account of the new pol
icy of old age pensions; that is. pen
sioning any one over a certain age
w ho hasn't an income of $2 50 a week.
The great question that is being con
sidered tn England apparently is not
what to do with the unemployed, but
with the unemployable. The people
who have saved money and have made
the most of their opportunities appar
ently will be obliged to take care of
those who have not taken care of
themselves and who never could take
care of themselves.”
The amount of the graduated death
duties, or inheritance taxes, collected
in the United Kingdom, which has a
population of 44.000,000 and upward,
ranges from $90,000,000 to $95,000,-
000 annually out of a total internal
revenue of $470,000.000 to $480.000,-
000. It is drawn from more than 67,-
000 estates. The revenue from the
death dues is a little more than half
that from excise imposts, and consid
erably more than half the amount real
ized from the income tax.
HOW THE WRIGHT AIRSHIP IS STARTED.
GEORGE JACKSON.
The Man W bo First Found Gold In
Kock*' Mountains and Died Poor.
To-day Idaho Springs will dedicate
a monument to the man who first
found gold in the Rocky mountains.
George Jackson is dead and beyond
the reach of the honor paid his mem
ory. He died several years ago In an
obscure corner of the State where he
was making a fresh try at fortune,
trying again in old age to find for
Pleasant. Palatable, Potent. Taste Good.
himself
enough gold to remove him
Do Good. Never Sicken.Weaken or Gripe.
10c, 25c. 50c. Never sold in bulk. The gen
from the necessity to keep up the
uine tablet stamped (' C C. Guaranteed to
search. Independent and self-reliant
euro or your money back.
ko the end as he had been when fifty
SEE THE GREAT
years ago he was living on the natur
Alaska-Yukon-Pdcific Exposition al food of the country and making his
Come to the Eair; you'll like it,
home under the stars, he who had
FINE ALBUM OF PLATES OF THE
pointed the way for many men to be
BUILD.NGS sent for 30c Money Order
And another of the city of
come millionaires through mining
SFATTFF, THE “GtM OF TIE COAST” gold, lived and died with empty pock
Very Fino. *or $1.05, postpaid
Live in Feat !e and be happy
ets.
417 Sdhvaf Bide
btAllll, WASH.
Lock Bai 1912
The day George Jackson found the
first gold in the land out of which a
FT*
IT' A pure pho’phate
great State was to be reared because
of
his find, he was most interested in
high priced baking
powders will do and does the fact that he had found some dig
it better. It raises the
dough and makes light gings where he (George Jackson) was
er. sweeter and bette: going to make a fortune if he could
risen foods. Sold by gro
cers 2 5c per pound, u and that he had killed a mountain
you will send us your sheep which would help out his di
name and address, we
will send you a book on health and baking powder. minishing supply of "States" grub un
til he could get back to where he
CRESCENT MFC. CO. Seattle, Wn.
could get more of the same. His chief
concern right then was the fact that
his dogs, "Drum" and "Kit,” had been
worsted in a fight with a carcajou and
placed m r y -
were too lame to travel. There wasn't
w here. Mttra<tM
ami kill* ail fl Ira.
ht'al, deals, orna much in all that to suggest thoughts
mental, eonri'n-
i-tit, I’l.Rp I,Mata of empire building or greatness. Time
m H acHMon.
Can
has taken care of that and brought
not mi ill or tip
over, will not soil
It into perspective. On his part It
or injure any
thing Guaranteed
was a simple act in the day's work;
, .
effective. Of all
Jealrra, or eent prepaid for 20 cent«.
in the light of fifty years we are
HAROLD SOMERS. I 60 DeKalb A»e„ Bkljn., N. Y
ready to pay with our regard the debt
of obligation under which he placed
a State which set up business in his
footsteps.
Time is jealous of its large tasks.
LBW
It picks and tests the men it permits
WR-IöHT
I
COFFEE
to perform them, Most often it con-
4
TEA SPICES
siders the privilege of doing them
BAKING POWDER
sufficient reward. Jackson was per
EXTRACTS
mitted to find the gold; others were
JUS! RIGHT
forced to be content with merely min
ElJNN
ing it. The others grew rich; Jack-
CLOSSET a DEVERS
A-neaxir
(
PORTLAND. ORE.
son had been marked for a blazer of
trails, a searcher. So he died poor in
tlie midst of the rich field he had
M-X THOO
or
sown; died as he had lived a poor
LA- v N c K i N G IHÎ j
prospector doing the work Time had
AU sri it
picked him to do. He left to the fu
The Wright airship has no wheels, but a set of wooden runners like a
ture only a memory, but that will live
on long after those who were privi- ■sleigh. These travel upon a rail, and fhe initial impetus is given to the
machine by the release of a weight which runs over a pulley in a wooden
1 « ul only to harvest in his field will
tower. The descent of the weight makes the airship fly off in a direction
have been forgotten. It is a way Time
away from the tower. The impetus causes it to rise a little, and afterward
has of evening up the score.—Denver
Republican.
the screws and planes keep it afloat.
“I have used your valuable Cascarets
and I find them ] erfect. Couldn’t do
without them. I tiave used them for
some time for indigestion and biliousness
and am now completely cured. Recom
mend them to everyone. Once tried, you
will never be without them in the
family.”—Edward A. Marx, Albany, N.Y.
CRESCENT
BAKIMG
POWDER
DAISY FLY KILLER
EASY MONEY.”
tor It Mllat He Paid
,oaa of Seif-Item|»ect.
In
There is no more pernicious ; soph Is-
y than this widely prevalent theory
bout "easy money," for it i strikes
human nature at its weakest point,
Work in Portland.
says a writer on the Kansas City
Journal. People who could not be
tempted to commit a crime will jump
at the chance to get something for
Should remember th it our f >rre i* so arranged
that WK CAN IX.) THEIR ENTIRE CKO* N. nothing, and many who might not be
BRIDGE kND PI A i W
\ DA1 ■ too scrupulous but would shrink front
nec^arv
PO > I 1'1 V El Y PAINLESS EX
TRACTING FREE w h n plates or bridges are or a heinous offense are no proof against
dure I WE REMOVE THE MOST SENSITIVE the seductions of "easy money." The
TI LTH AND KOO I S WITHOUT I HE LEAST
psychology of this weakness may or
PAIN. NO STUDENTS, nouncertainty.
may not go back
the garden of
For the Next Fifteen Days
Eden and the primal curse of toil.
We will give you a <ood 22k gold or porce
lain crown for.................................................... $3.50 Certain it Is that there Is an inherent
Bit brid.f !ee! h .................................................. I • 1
Molar crown
.................................................. 5,<X) revolt in human nature against the
Gold or enamel fillintn......................................... 1.00 drudgery of
earning bread in the
Silver filling-'» ............................................................... 50
Normally con-
Good rubber plates ............................................. 5.00 sersat of one's brow,
The best r»d rubber plates .............................. 7.00 structed people combat this rebellious
Painless extractions .................................... ...
.50
ALL WORK GUARANTEED 15 YEARS spirit thtough the human affections
which ennoble toil and consecrate the
hardest tasks to the comfort of loved
President and Manager
ones. But there are few people who
work ver? hard for the sheer love of
working hard.
“Easy money" is the dearest and
(INC.) Thirl and W ashington St».
hardest In the world: it is gained at
a fearful price, whether It is the booty
of the highwayman or the unearned
and ill gotten gains of the dishonest
man of business The human law may
Out-oLTown People
Dr. W. A. Wise
The Wise Dental Co.
act r«a< 4 th«, »iumir. tf U er /ton th» I
penitentiary doors may not swing shut
on either. But the price must be paid
all the same paid in the coin of the
soul, in peace of mind and loss of self-
respect. and In a thousand ways In
which our human nature, even while
it yields to evil, yearns for the eternal
good and stretches its hands upward,
no matter how low it may have fallen.
I reaching me. If 1 couldn't d> that,
I got my bead down and faced the
wall. I loathed myself—but what
could I do? You can't bathe in the
bay this sort of weather, and on the
Bowery you don't get a room with a
bath when you panhandle a dime from
some one for a pallet in one of the
filthy holes they call lodging houses.
I ve got a job now, and I hope to
HUNGRY AND DIRTY.
keep it. I'm working as I never did
in my life before, for while I'm not
<'oii'llllon Whirl» Mill Quickly De-
afraid of starvation and hardship, i
moriiDse tlie
am sincere in saying that I had rather
“1'11 tell you what puts a man in
die than go without bathing for three
the 'down and out class,’” said a west
weeks, under the conditions that the
ern man who has been ret rieved from
busted' man meets on the Bowery.
the Bowery, according to the Cincin
The bread line saved my life—or kept
nati Times Star's New York corre-
me from resorting to theft and high
spondent.
It is the impossibility of
way robbery—just as it has thouranda
keeping clean when you're out of
of others every winter. But if the
money. I went broke six weeks ago,
bread liners were enabled to keep
over in Jersey, and came to New York,
themselves clean, our army of 'down
thinking I could catch on here. The
and outs' would be r<Aiuced In a hurry.
few dollars I had melted away, 1 had
I know. If you're hungry and clean
found no job and I had(to hit the
you're a self-respecting man. If you re
bread line, Then my real troubles
hungry and dirty, you’re a bum. and
commenced.
you know It.”
"It wasn't that I didn't have enough
to eat or a place to sleep. I could
Almoat Got It.
stand that. But I couldn't get a
"Is there any difference In the mean
bath, A week of that sapped my self- ing of.the words ’nautical' and 'ma
respect. I began to slink along the rine?*" asked Mr. Malaprop.
street, instead of walking. Whenever
“Not much." replied Mrs. Malaprop.
J could. 1 d- II.-' L d-iWU -a sid«' street **One Is a cinnamon of the other."—
to av«lA nie< t-ing
A M« ap- Chicago* Re< ord-iistalii.
i
fACTl n TABLOID YOU.
South America had newspapers aa
long ago as 1594
The city death rate is generally
greater in winter than in summer.
Australia has more unemployed area
In proportion to population than any
other country.
Rhfftle Island received its name from
what was supposed to be a resem-
plance In contour to the Island of
Rhodes In the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Isabella McCosh. wife of the
late president of Princeton Unlver-
sity.'has just celebrated her nlnety-
second birthday. J. W. Alexander has
just finished a portrait of Mrs. Mo-
Cosh, which he has given to the uni
versity.
Among the 6,000,000 working wom
en in this country there are nearly a
million widows are nearly 800,000
married women whose husbands hava
failed to provide for them. Nearly
100,000 divorced women are among
the wage earners.
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker and the
newly formed Public Service League
of Women, have made a successful
fight against the ordinance which had
been 'sneaked through” the Denver
board of aidermen to permit the feed
ing of brewery swill to milch cows.
Mrs. Chapman Catt prdlcted in St.
James' Hall on Monday that Woman's
suffrage would come "as surely as the
sun would rise on the morrow." It
is only fair to explain that Mrs. Chap
man Catt is from the United States,
and has had no experience of our Eng
lish sunrises.—London Globe.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
The Prussian government is to issue
Lxcerpt* Pintle from Trade Reports • a loan, the proceeds of which are to
of V arlous Countries.
be used for the construction and equlp-
Belgian works are getting large or ' ment of new branch line railroads.
ders for steel rails from Brazil, Swe One line of the road is to have elec
den, the Kongo and other coun tric traction, for which $476,000 Is set
tries, also for bolts and metal ties, - aside. The total amount to be expend
says the New York Sun.
ed under this loan bill is $65,753,000.
The rubber Industry in Mexico Is
'
Beans, bean cake and bean oil are
not as profitable as was expected. In
the principal products of Manchuria.
side of a few years thf far east will
The prices of these during the last
have 60,000,000 para trees producing
’ season have been higher than ever be
from one to three pounds a year of
fore, but how much of this 1 b due to
rubber superior to the best Mexican
the ability of Japan, a gold standard
grades. Fewer trees produce more
country, to pay more in silver, because
rubber in the far east.
silver has been cheap, can not be posi
The study of English has been made
tively stated.
compulsory in the primary schools of
The Korean grass used In the manu
Gautamala.
facture
of grass cloth 1 b grown very
In 1908 there were organized in
Austria thirty-five joint stock com thickly and is usually cut the second
panies. with $15,590,000, about half the or third year after planting the roots.
The grass reaches a height of four to
1907 record In number and amount.
five
feet, and with a proper start and
Italian imports of American goods
lh the nine months ended March, under favorable conditions yields, it is
1909. reached a value of $47,278,791, roughly estimated, about 3,000 pounds
or $6.215.000 more than In the nine to an acre.
Hitherto skulls of prehistoric men
months ended March, 1908.
Argen
have
been said to resemble those of
tina's Imports were $25,484.817, an In
great apes, but now comes a distin
crease of $1,149,000.
The Swedish government has ap guished French anthropologist and de
pointed a tariff commission in prepa clares that one which has recently
ration for a thorough revision of the been discovered is almost an exact re
plica of that of Bismarck, Does this
tariff in 1910.
mean
that prehistoric men had superb
July 1, 1909, will begin the enforce
ment of the new pure-food law in cranial development, or it is a Gaelic
Switzerland.
The American meat fling at “M. le Bismarck?”—New York
trade is largely interested, as some Tribune.
Mother Francis Xavier Cabrlnl, su
of the restrictions are very stringent
and the inspection fees may be put perior-general of the Missionary Sisters
far too high.
of the Sacred Heart, has just returned
The Mexican railroad finds its fa- to this country from Brazil, where she
cllftle^ overtaxed to move the lmpor- recently opened a college for the high
tations entering the country at the er education of women. This is the
port of Vera Cruz. Notably among fifty-eighth Institution established by
importations the automobile demand the order in twenty-seven years. The
in Mexico is shown to be steadily in institutions include colleges, schools,
creasing. Taxicabs are a success tn hospitals and orphan asylums.
Mexico city. All told Mexico bought
An electrically wired tablecloth,
$36,897,715 worth of American goods upon which ornamental electric light
in the nine months ended March, 1909, fixtures diffuse illumination the mo
against $34,.>39,937 purchases by Amer ment they are set down, is one of the
icans of Mexican goods.
latest and most interesting illuminat
Portugal Imports yearly from $60. ing devices designed in England, says
000,000 to $65,000,000 worth of mer- Popular Mechanics. To the uninitiat
chandlse, of which 6 per cent is ed the ability to get a light by sim
American, Six articles—cotton, corn, ply placing a fiixture on the table is
petroleum, tobacco, wheat and staves nothing less than extraordinary, but
—account for ail but $700,000 worth the explanation is simple.
of the American goods Imported. That
Recent exploration of the Athabas
$700,000 is made up of nearly 300 ar ca-Mackenzie region shows that It con
ticles. many of which are materials tains many valuable fur-bearing ani
for manufacturing. In manufactures mals, and it appears also to be the
imported the American share is in
home of the last wild remnant of the
significant.
Transportation is our American bison family. The herds of
handicap besides want of knowledge bison are not numerous, and they are
of the Portuguese market. American being rapidly exterminated by wolves.
letters are not infrequently addressed The Canadian musk ox also inhabits
“Lisbon, Spain." Tariff rates are high. this region, and in the spring, when
The nature of the realty which con
tributes to the duties is varied, but
agricultural land furnishes less of the
total than household property and
business premises. For 1908 the net
value of household property and busi
ness premises was £28,137.000, while
In agricultural land it was a trifle
under £17.000.000
Leaseholds were
valued at £9.100.000 and ground rents
at £3.845.000. Other items exceeding
£ 1,000.000 were building lands; mines,
minerals and quarries; cessera of an
nuities, and sporting rights. Real
estate not classified was a fraction
under £2,000,000.
Owners of big properties alone will
not suffer. The great landlords, it is
predicted, will promptly advance rents
and stop all improvements and con
struction, Financial opinion is unani-
mous that enormous sums will be
driven out of the country. The bank-
ers and big houses which float gov
ernment and other foreign loans say
that the new tax on such transactions
covers the entire margin between
profit and loss and that such deals
hereafter will go to Paris, New York
and Amsterdam. The New York stock
exchange, It is said, will profit niate-
rially^ There has been large specu
lation In American securities in Eng
land, but the bulk of that business
hereafter will be, transacted in New
York to escape thé English stamp tax.
The effect of some of the other new. ■
taxes is problematical.
the rivers and springs escape from the
frost, great flocks of birds, Including
In Italy is regularly served a fist
most of the migratory game birds of
food which Americans discard through
America, resort thither to breed.
ignorance and prejudice. In Rome
What might be called a tabloid
the shark finds a ready sale at the
price of 8 cents a pound. The color watch has just been made by a watch
of the meat resembles that of the maker of I-ocle, Switzerland, says the
shad, but is ot firmer consistency and London Globe. The thickness is said
has comparatively few bones, The to be only three millimeters, so, a
shark is plenteouslydistributed up and meter being only thirty-nine Inches,
down our coasts from Maine to Pana one can estimate the thickness of the
ma throughout the year, and Is as pal watch. Taking the case and a glass it
atable as the sturgeon or halibut. But is found the works occupy a space
it Is systematically cast away at ev 1.9 millimeters. The spring is half a
ery haul of the net by the dory man millimeter. What makes this achieve
of the deep water fishing smack.
ment of the Locle watchmaker more
extraordinary is that it is asserted
Ground p < lifldren. *
It is not only the frivolous whon that the watch keeps time, varying
the spirit of childishness is just now only five seconds in twenty-four hours.
leading astray Silliness is the fash-
The Philadelphia Press has won the
ion even among the wise, Women first round In its fight to abolish toll
especially affect a kin of childish roads and toll gates in Pennsylvania.
shrewdness in talking on serious sub A legislative commission has been ap
jects,
Like children who have the pointed to Investigate the whole sub
habit of romancing, they lose the ject and report to the next legislature
sense of reality, and because they on the best means of getting rid ot
never talk exactly as they think they what the press calls a nuisance and a
begin to think exactly as they talk.— check on commercial progress of tha
London Spectator.
State. "There is much information to
be gathered in regard to these roads,
Pooled the Baby,
Hewitt—Ooes your baby keep you for though they have existed since ths
early days of our history they have
awake?
Jewett—No, I fooled him; as soon not been the subejet of official reports
as he wai born I got a job varkitif and great Ignorance prevails la regard
ta Uea.” says the Frss%
night*.
Where >hi<rk Meat In Eaten,
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