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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-05-20, Page 3--••••..•••• Alabama Town That Is wwtr Run Without Taxes A, Row would you like to live in a town where they don't have to pey eaty Wtaxea? here, in faet. if you tried. to pay taxee, you would be st,ernly refused? Down on ea -steam altore o obile Ilay there is a town et Melt for . fourteen. Yoarts has been giviag, so far AS is possible ander existing laws,, praeti- col exemplification of Holey George'a theory. It was established for that purpoae; it was built, on practically un. inhabited ground, mod in the , years of its existence; it itas grown front nothing into a thrivingawosperoue nate happy. com- munity. Its inhabitants pay no taxee end get eloog M fine style without them. Henry George's theory is commonly known as 'the single tax," a tem eoineti by the lato Thomas (4. Sherman, not because of its aemracy, but be- beause a ShArt and easy name was need- ed. Aetually, the George theory does uot contemplate the paying of any taxes at at It contemplates the wiping out of all taxation and the support of the community by tlie payment 01 ground rent into the treasaey. In fortn, of comae, that paymentfavpied be made a tax, but the Georgeitee drentend that it would not he i tax In the sense that. Ievy made npon one's personal be- longings, for example, would. be. SLNGLE TAxials STARTED IT. , It is impossible eompletely to demon- strate the efficacy of the George doc. trine to any - oomenunity \viler% perso»el property taxation and taxation epon improventente, to soy nothing of the indirect taxation of the tariff, exiets. But in Fairhope, Ala., they have got as near to demonstrating it as can ever be done under present-day conditions. Fairhope was started in January, 3896, by our single taxers from lowa. It is now a thriving town with agyity charter, throe schools„ a hotel, two newspapers, a wharf, a steamer, sev- eral stores, a umber of clubs and a free library. It has a waterworks aye - tem, but no water rates. It bets a tele- phone service which is free. It doesn't coat anybody in Feirhope a cent to go into his telephone room Auld call up anybody in Baldwin. °canter. How, in a state which levies taxes after the good old-faahioned way, it could be possible for .ft community to exist withont taxa,tiod of individuals might puzzle the huskiest, intellect. However, E. B. Gaston, J. liellangee, and. the other Iowa. aide& taxers dis- covered that where there's a will there's a way. Their scheme was simply this; To found a community wherein all the land shouM be owned by the com- munity—that is, by a corporation repre- senting the community; to let out the land on long-territ leases to individuate; to take from the lessees the _full amount of the ground, rent; to support the community out of that ground rent, and to pay the taxes levied by the' &Wee and county out of the saine fund. \Mita a change in the system, they Van get it. need Two; Adm -wean. Meonwhile, tbe benefits withal the Fairhope experimeut confers' 00 the su- periors are big and undeniable, Origin- ally Fairiespe, or the sandy ground whieh lenow Fairhope, evaa not w"lqkt A sou markee. Now, by tild presenee o hustling vomniunity, its valnee have riseu to suelt a point that the recelpte of the town are at,000 n netmut still and this free telephone oyatem ana free waterworks have been installet1. out of the proeeeds. all demonstrates the groundwork of Henry George's theory, whielt Was that land has no value until the pres- ence of 4 cOntmunity makes •that value, and thet as the eommunity makes it no individual should be allowed to reap the benefit of it. Since the commons- ty makes its the community ehould re - skive it—that was George position. The -statement that the telephone and. waterworks systems. are free shotild perhaps he qualified. A Fairhoper who wants A tOleph011e put in hie house has to pay $3 for •the maintenance of the eall box. That, however, is his last pay- ment; he has no quarterly rent coming • due. Under an ideal system of single tax he would not have to pay even that; it is, in Feirhope's ease, a payment made' •rteeessary. by the existing system of laws.,'So, too, ho has to pay $50 to 73stve Ins water drain 'connected, but af- ter that he has no 'rates to pay, and ouder an ideal single -tax system he would uot have to pay even the initial $50. The Home Telephone Company watch- ed with envious eyes the progress of the free telephone -system in Fairhope. ally they made a proposition to the Vairhopers to the effect that they would pny long-distance atones on !everything outside that region, -and on this basis the conneetioa was mute. Again it was a predicate demonstrae then of George's doctrine, a minor part of whieh theory it was that the ground rent of the community -would not only pay all expenses thereof, but would. en- able the community to eupport out of its own pocket what are now monopo- lies,. suelt AS the telephone, the tele- graph; the street railroads, etc. OWNS ALL THE LAND.. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation owns all the land, and its lease is for 09 years. If, for example, a person should acquire a leasehold whereon the annual rental was $25 he would turn .that amount into the communal treasury. Then the county or the. State would swoop down with a tax of sity $5, that being the assessed value of the improve- meute end of the land. It might also inelude any 'personal property that tho tenant might hold. Anyway, we will as- -smite that it is $5. When the tax as- sessors came down on the community they would find that only •the corpora- tion was liable'becithese only the corpor- ation held the land, and. they would as- sess their $5 against it. The -community thereupon would pay it—out of what? Out of the rentalatalue already turned in by the 99 -year tenant. In other words, the tenant simply pays over whatever may be the assessed valuation of his land and has tot no 'other consid- eration to care for; • the community looks out for that. It isn't an ideal demonstration of the single tax; nothing cafe be that while the present _ laws eontinuo in force. Nevertheless, it is about as near it :de you can get. The purpose of the ore- inators was to demonstrate the way in which a community .cen grow and prosper *Rh nothing but ground rent as the source of its revenue and its payments. That it hair done. . • WITHOUT A TAX LEVY. Faithope's tax theory, meat necessare• Hy be halting and incomplete. Never: theless, as far as it has been able to g�, it has made such. ra deonstration as must challenge the attention of the etudents of economics. In a far broader sphere the George theory has been tested. in New Zealand, and with satisfactory results, and a taxation. of land values is On the Liberal programme M Great Britain, but Fairhope is the only exam- ple Of an attempt to demonstarte it in the fece of adv,erse laws. The face that the experiment has been successful in eepite of the levying of taxes by the state and. county is a stelking bit of evidence for those who -think there may have been something in George's doctrine. It is a curious fact that the only acri- monious critics of Fairhope have been men who were themselves single taxers, and ;lost now there is raging a hot controversy mono them about it. Sifted down, it' comes to the imme- morial inability of social reformers to agree among themselves about, details. The opponents of Faithope want 0dem- ocratic rule substituted for the rule of the Fairhope corporation, arguing that the running of a single -tax community by a private company is undemoeratic. The answer of the Fairhopers is two- fold: First, that as long as the present system of taxation exists it is itnpossi- bie to run a single -tax community en any other basis; second, that the initito tive and referendum are in operation at Ihtirhope„ an. -any time a •majority AFTER DOCTOR S FAME . . 4 • Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound Cured Her. Toronto, Canada.—"I shall endeavor to describe to you how I felt before I began taking Lydia E. Plukhatafs Veg- etable Compound. I scarcely knew what it was to be well. 1 had awful bearing-downpains and usually before raymonthlyperiods I suffered terribly and had to go to bed,. I was not able to walk across the floor the pain was so had. I doctored for along tiMO, but the doctor's treat- rtient did not do mo any good. I gave up all hopes of ever being well again until one day mybusband saw the Com. pound advertised in the paper. Ile tleelded to get mea bottle, and am thankful he did. / httd not taken one bottle before I began to feel better, and / kept on taking it until now I am a different womau. It also helped. me during maternity and childbirth. X can thoroughly recoinmend your 'Veg- etable Colnpound to any woman who is afflicted with female troubles."— Mrs..T. M. Tweenntl, IG8 ?Nassau St., 'Potent:), Canada. The SUCOOSS of Lydia r.„ inklann s Vegetable Ooropouudone.de. from roots Aled herb, is unparalleled. It may be toedwith perfeet coufidence by women who gutter fronidisplaetanents, thllani- rtIon uleeretion, fibroid tuartors, Ir. regularitiee periodic paint haekachev bearing -dowse feeling, &Au eney, indi- portion, distineea, or nervous prolate* Pm. FOUNDERS OF COMMUNITY. The founders of this community Were E. D. Gaston, James Bellengee, J. 33. Hummel and Alfred- Wooster. They were all _Iowa men, devoted single taxers and. practical folks. Mobile Bay is n. sort of scallop in southern Alabama, On one side of tlte scallop is Mobile. On the other side was the sandy tract of ground wideh then was uninhabited and now in. Fairhope. These four Iowans came down- there and picked out this unpromising piece of earth es the Soon - dation of their model eommunity. That was fourteen rears ago. Now Fairhope is the biggest town in Bald- wia county. Tt certainly has got the liveliest nett most hustling population fa the State of Alabanutdif you leave out the big cities like Birmingham, Its growth to such a success from mieterably small beginuings is attributed bY Gaston and the other Men who have stayed with him to the application of single -tree (Inatome, .„ It is not by any means solely a single - tax eolony. There are people in it who never heard of the single tax or whit don't believe in it. All of them, however, take their leasetolds front the corpora- tion upon the sante basis as do the de- votees of Ftenry George. A SINGLE TAX 6411.ITIO. The most prominent monk the single - tax critics of the Fairhope enterprise is loseph Dana 'Miller, who has been for ninny yeara one of the leaders in that cult. In explaininghis opposition to the enterprise, as at present condneted, Mr. Miller said: "The objeetionnow seems to be among adramber of the people of Fairhope that the government is not demooratie. They objeet'that titcy have no voieo in determining the value of the land, or the taxes they have to pay. That, however," Mr. Miller ruldici, "has been remedkd V a referendum taken on the assess - merits." The eriticism ef rairhope from the inside appears to proceed entirely Mot oetsons who are not eingle taxers, and, who want to instal the old system of pri-. vote ownership. The land vainest have been created by the presenee et 'the ttna to that extki; havejus- tilted the aingle-tex therms,. Vfow that these land value, whielt originally Were nothing, have, grown to a remarkable risset, there are lemons in the towit who desire to reap the Advert:Agee of that eituation by reverting to the oli eyelet)) of ownershipooldeeliange. , . - •• el' I Children delight to use it. Polishing ,) shoes with "2 in 1" is child's play. No more sticky, mussy, hard shining propositions but an instantaneous hard finish, waterproof and permanent, which softensand preserves tbeleather at the same time. No substitute even half as good. loos and , 2os ,r 4 15:3' he, • 2 4)44 ' sac% etease NAMING THE FLOWERS, Designations of New Blossoms—Source of Old Fashion Popular Names. What a pity it is. that new varieties of flowers menet be named in the pretty homely Ivey of -their far off aneestors inetead of by the overpowering syllables thet are generally bestowed on them. It has been said that, "roughly speaking, all new flowere sheets the sixteentli. ru. tnry are the blossoming advertisements of Swedieli botanists, German professors, American wildcats -tires, and Scottish gar- deners."- They • always tettinize the names, too, and Latin flower namesare so bard and uusympathetle, a great con- trast to the Greek, which are _always beautiful. It is a delight merely to say such words as crocus, anemone, oareissus, hyaehrth, iris, daphne, asphodel.. But the best names of all are those 'popular names that were given to cotn- mon flowers not only in old England, but throughout Europe, such homely thine as are still allowed to bloom in an an- cient garden at Tarring, wIlich is saiki to have been originally planted by ¶l]ionms a Beeket. In the old. names the flowers have a, personolity of their own, they .are living and beloved. Mig- nonette means little darling, meadow - sweet is like a earess, traveller's joy and speedwell are kindly greetings to tbe wagerer, • You knowtbateflowers must have been ,an inanimate part of daily life when they were named for the things • in daily use•—gloves or slippers, mirrors er girdles. What a charming name is foxglove, and than:each. popular name is equally delightful; the blossoms are "los doigtiers de Notre Peelle," '- Some of the ohl world flowers were direetly personified es iu "ragged Robinh or "meet William" or "sweetNaney," others were fragrant with thoughtsof sacred things, as "star of Betlileherh' or "Maeygold," while others again whisper of travel, when travelling was a rarity. "Blackamoor's beauty" is said to date from the ()rosettes, mar' " emithernwood" carries with i1 suggestions of all the aroreatic spices of the South. Eve+ to -day 111 spite of the tendency to give ugly names to exquisite blossoms we sometimes find a touch of pretty senti- ment in the naming of flowers. Ae flower show hi Normandy last summer I saw some lovely new varieties of the iris, and 1 thought that the spirit. of the en- tente cordiale outet have been .present at their ehriStening. "King of the Blue," "Smiling Mary" "Village, Maid.," "Brit- ML GNAGG WOULD GO WALKING! HAVING LEMINED THAT MRS. CINACIG ISN'T ABLE TO. GO, Whereupon He (Matta 'Upon Her herent Laziness end the Impro- priety of Her Diecuesing Her All- ments, but Resents the Suggestion That He Might. Findiog that :des, tinag,g li temporari- inenpaei 18 tree for we Meng, Mr. tinegg natnrelly desired her to aceompalty him on A S11114 'Walk U the military, as 41041 leek At thi. Iloolting St111011 UP, Anil ROI a cloudlet in the sky. hem a springtime ;tenthly litre thie for it eoon's age. Huh; Setae la not only N ou pt ED • BUROLArt oJilisaus CORINiMili)Lni Van c..:trit palehosty remove AN corn. tiegi1 How a P;;.cksee of Staten aeweltaif and, eett•or blemune, 1 imelgiof rillumfg;• renteinenoati 1, •e; I Came Into the Hands .of the Police. nen eetratnerj sic r :tettrs volt • 4, t , r Slt 01' to LI tit tie May et heallee gums and rift!, Y‘ 4.',40ti I aye l handed ill at SPOt. ti n1 ard nnIttiiNtraiwilinaty POTINIAM'S PAIM„.ESS titta., Uwe Statratiteetl., Ity all di lig4ists noules. rains@M SOStinttt S. •CORN EXTRACTOR «ra she a matter Of feet. If yon want le take it Dont me, Ite pot a teeth. MOH fov • no to talk atout soh things. Grovd. 1.114 -Mg wit h h,r 0h81 there are certain' little idiotic% And thought to In. the ;tame elle haft been ; onumitiee an 1 delli•neles anti thine carrying. 1 • • • Darin her leurne • a well devoted A woman %tits teavelling ortti.le an omnibus from l'adlingtott tam aril Rolg• wart' toad rep:line; eith her a brewn pallor parcel containing 1111) pounds of -nap. She. alighted 81 AVebt bourne width should lie n MP! Vk 4,1 elan ietween g man awl wife, and it 11,4it't eettetly dainty, man sat next to her, nas, earrying a if you're inquiring of me, fer emu 10 sit lironu paper parcel'. U teft elle multi thore and dilate so espanmlyely ttp!,n these ailments tie yours. I don't talk abottl, my ailment,. I have onto% regent for the minor properties. lIow's that 1 Only ket week, yott say. I told you with great partieularity about tbe enee of hives I got from eating throe early strawberries? • That's it, go right ahead wet toss smiling; she it giggling, she s laughiug !Idiots up 10 inc. That was different, if ous loud. you'll be good enough to acknowledge Come on; I.et's beat it out of tine godly flat. Toos on your duds and we n ill hike out to the end of home trolley liiie or other and then, strike through the Wood* and gating a. tew hunks of this winey air und sunshine, We'll - How's that 1 A callous on your Ma that is kiUing you: llow would I know anything about R.? Bub: tt'e the• first I've heard of it. Kept' you. iu the house for the last lour &Sys, you say, and peeve mentioned it to me several. times? Awe!, don't any that. lie klud enough • .001 to try to hurl anything like that at ish Queen" were some of the names, in English, of Nurse, and the most surpris- ing oh them all, "Gold t'up of Thunder- bolt," waa doubtless full of kiwi inten. tions. Nor was the great republie of the west forgotten, for "3gangfellOW" ana "Beauty of America" were blooming side by side with "Mrs. Gladstone" and "Geit- 'deal Gordon."' -- New tirkates Thome. Dentoerat, IdNDER THE MICROSCOPE, ('dorouto Star.) • Not many would 'are to have all their saving -3 Rua doing' investigated in the Inierwopic and inquieitorlat way that was used in the ease of the young W01311111 ill this CARO. NO tWO enquiriet of the kind would bring out the 801110• revelations, the sante eanities, frivoli- ties vela ineineerities, but each enquiry woold reveal 'much that would steed out strangely if thrown against scoria background of tragedy. Vain and irre- sponsible saying* and flighty doings, that meant nothing at the time, wonld rise out of idle yesterdays - There is a large number of foolislt persons in Olt world—they 111N1 11 no ill, but many of their sayings, doing, and goings are unwise, yet as a rule get them into no serious trouble, for no. reekonieg comes. Should It come, many Would be amazed at the showing they would make in the sinister light of a keep out of it is a good picot! to criminal court. 4., Red, Weak, Weary, Watery 'Eyes Relleveti by Murine Eye Remedy, Com- pounded by experienced physicians. Mo- rino doesn't smart; booths eye pain. Write hiwelne Eye Remedy Co.. Chicago, for illustrated Eye ldook, At druggists. 4 • Royal Redpes. Georgiana, Countess of dhudley, who is 'about to john the ranks of aristoczatie authoresses -with a book on the culioary art, intend e to give 11 number of recipes most favored by the Royalties of Europe. Lady Dudley, one of the seven beautiful Monereiffe sisters, lms been for many years a leading figure. in society, and has, of courses had exceptional opportun- ities of acquiring the iefortnation *Which she purposes making a feature of her work. Of her sisters, only one survives 1—lamiteels.en Lady Porbes, of Newe, mother of Lady St. Oswald and Mrs. Willie 4 • V The Gateman's riesAtica. tho man from WasitingtOn, D.O., tvnit at tilt Dunker Montment. ITS regletered, looltetl at the outios- itios, and when told that to go to th'e thp lie would have to elfin)) the 'Stara dodged. Leaving, be elietted with the. gateman, who deseribed theviews from the window'a if. great detail, "How long have you boon here" "Twenty-five years." "What are the sensations meapor yo , lenced wlion u aro at the tepP "I don't know, I've never boon to the top."—Yrorn the Upstart. Ileeord, _ STOP DARNING INo more need of wife or mother spending hours of eye -strain- ing nerve -exhausting labors.darning for the family. She can end it allivith . ' l‘i EN/EIR DARN i t priAfT. a 1 Sede 11 FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN As the washing machine banishedthe wash board, and the sewing machine lightened the labors of the seamstress, so N EVERADARN floleproorHosiery will do away with the drudgery of the darning needle and the mending yarn. • You see NEVERDARN Holeproof Hosiery is not the kind of hosiery you have been used to wearing. It is better made—of better yarn and is Guaranteed Holeproof for 6 Months We are the only makers in Canada who make hosiery good enough to guarantee for six months. We use specially prepared maco and long fibre Egyptian lisle yarn. Our six strand yarn is interwoven by speelal machinery. This hosiery is made tk wear— extraordinarily durable, but not heavy—and the heels and toes are doubly reinforced, made to resist wear where the wear comes. Then they are so soft and easy on the feet. Holeproof Hosiery is dyed by an entirely new process. Dyeing hosiery in the ordinary way weakens the fabric, makleg it harsh and stiff, and, in a great many eases, positively unclean as the dye rubs off, discoloring the feet. Butour new process makes the Holeproof fabric as clean, soft and strori:g as Undyed hosiery. The colors of Holeproof arestbsolutely feat. Holepeoof Hosiery is the most eleanly and sanitary hosiery in exis- tence and coats you no more than the ordinary kind. You buy them 6 pairs $2 60, with the following guarantee in each box. If any In all of this six pairs of hosiery reePaire darning or fail to give emaciation within six months from date of purchase, we will replace with new ones free of charge. - No red tape—simply detach eoupon from "guarantee " enclosed in every box, and forward with damaged hosiery direct to us. State size, and whether black or tan. Only one site in each box of six pairs. Send in your (neer to -day, if your dealer cannot supply you fiend Ale Mosey order or hills for $2.00, and start enjoying Holeproof comforts right away. no it now. We alio make boys atd Girls stocks matt that mattg.glittlYit. " /es dienins ings same quality. Box containing 2 pair $1.00. AN 041 4 oleproof Haymow et.ld e etd,‘ Guaranteed for three months. ire 11 sloattrry t;0 0.0 me. This is the .first minute Pve known anything ebent any ealloue oo yonr foot as you call ie, mid 1 couldn't guess it, could 1, merely beenuee you've been moping aroued? 'You're moping around pretty nigh all the time anyhow, and if I were to be obliged to ,eopelude from yeur moping that various ailments ttl Meted you I'd have you doped out more than half the time ae a victim of the Whited! plague no the betide oh the housenudd's 'time or earpontere wrist or thing.; like those. Well, mime on out hart lite country anyhow, ean't sou? • Why can't you, nmeter up a little spunk mid gumption and tey and foeget about that trivial little complaint that you say you itave --what's the name of it, yoa say? Cal- lous foot? That's a new 000 on Me-- taikAIS foot. Where did you pick that. ups -the name, I mean? I've hear(1. about callous souls-liod callous hearts and cal - Imes honaholders and all like that, but this is the fh•at thee' I've ever 'betted about vallotra feet. What, are they cal- lous about? What makes 'em callous? What t rain of embittering ei ream ta nees mused km to become callotts? Can't e•ou sort of use your mind and pluck up alittle nerve and mime out in- to file country for a good long walk, hey? Maybe your callous feei'll forget it if you ask them to. 1VIty don't you frame up a petitoto requesting or be- seeching your callous feet to sort of bury the ha tehet and. smoke the pipe of Penes and behave, hey? Why doted you? • llow's that 7 Can't get your shoes on? Oh. Yon 00110 Well, have you tried to get 'ern ou'S When aid yon tryT three days ago; and yoii haven't tried to gel 'em on since? Well, ehat's like you. How d'ye know you can't get your sluice on your embittered, hardened, world weary feet if you 'haven't tried to get 'mu on for three days, .eb, and how d'ye know that you'll eve.r he able to get your shoes or' even moccasins on if you don't .give the job an occasional trial! Holt! I'm in bad, that's all, Pm -what they eall in Delete Here T am asking my wile to go out into the Country On the first really deeeut, eivilized Sunday of the year and she etands me off with 50111(1 kind of a fairy tale about lia.ving soinething the matter with her feet tliat never even beard about. If that isn't ealeulated to get man's Angora, then I'd like to lomw what it is. Only blooming day in the week that I have the chance to enjoy a little air and. sunshine and here I get flagged this way. By George! It's discottraging, Citipinart lioltort Knitting Limited 1(0., ii2 Mary St„ Hamilton, Ont. did you ever develop such a weird. Ally eencinded that V.:Int V1515 were *21x Sitittits )14 0 Ns mi. It a smstsgmits 0 mot trio ecsige ammalizo attonse uncenny, not, to say unbelievehle, tom. withoat signifloarteeP —Catholic Stare ODA'S Avhat 11 18. Discouraging, depress ing, disheartening and a lot of other things. Irritetting, too, when it comes to that. .Doggoned irritating for that matter. . Of course you ean't see it but call it pretty decent for 'a mau to invite his wife to go nut into the country With him of a 'fine aping Sunday, and there ere not many fellows, who'd be soft enough to extend their wives that kind of an invitation. Well, here I skate to the centre with a well meant invitation to you to spend the day with nte out under the Moo sky, an`d this is what get. It's enonglt to take the sap and the tar out of. any fellew, blamed if it Here, just shttek those floppy old slip- pers that. you're mooching around in, end see if you can't draw on some kind of a pair of ;Owe, won't you?, Hub! Just to sort of show Ole, won't you? Ol,. yes, of course, take your word for it that you've got hallous, halloos, wallous —oh, yes, callous, that's tha word—eel. loos feet. Take your weed for any old thing. That s what I'm here far. I'm the dandiest little Word taker in this eection of town, if I do say so myself; but, anyhow, just to please me, won't you at least give an imitation of some. body trying to slip on a pair of shoes? Clain do it, elt? Ob, of course you can't, Doretesuppose you can ever get on a, pair of slippers, elt? We could, take a little shorter walk Mt in the cOuntry— three.or four miles only—and you meld weer a pair of slippere for little trudge like that, eouldn't you? Xo? 011, It. 1 wase't eettermg front what could .ettllcd a little .piffling Amend I was downrigid slek• sdek as a human being could Ito .and there wasn't any pogo - !ditty of my being able tO 0011060.1 it from you. 11 there hail been any Snell A yhance you bet Hive taken it; • for I 'might ha vt. known ;homed. well Hint you'd throw it up tettne the first theme you got, aeyhow. Mere trying that nid gag of shifting the thiog over Wok. end I find that lee still idiot enough to permit you to ,Yet Away with that scheme. W e were conversing, you'll remember. about your peculiar and none too dainty haltit of fetching up the subject ot your own .ailments upoe eveey trivial oeeaelon told even when there isn't any occasion for it, Red don't pretend to Ite• switched of r or sidetracked till I get, through with. flat subject Pin not under the gun ta tbe present moment. pleaae understand We're diseuseing, you and what you call your callous feet. We----- • 7 -Tow's that? Why contieue to talk about At if don't. approve of the sub- ject., you sae!? Now, cloret try to shut Joe up that WRY. because it isn't going to do, it kith going to do at all. a'"1 guess 'leveler yet seerifieed the right to (teen my month Around here.. Anyhow, you brought ibis thing up. Yon stand it off wilheyhm. discursive, leanest', but not, tem boiled, to say, en- tirely edifying remarks on the subject, of callous 'feet—your callous feet, Since you insist upon stieking to that •subject, permit me to nudge iu tbe humble observation that WS strange thing thnt f den't ift1TP have auy suet; A hing AS callous feet. It might naturally he supposed that l'd be the Whets feet prOpoeition of thie consitiering that I do something with my feet right along—hoof it around. froin morning till night attending, business, and all that sore of thing. there never has been anything callous about my feet. Far be it from me to brag, but 1 never dragged a. °MMus foot around after me. So yield expeeteme to hang around this infernal. gloom,, 5111113-, sunless flo all -day Jo -day, ifiTyou, when .everybody on earth knows; that anythinghl Iteeout 1)1 the open? How's that? Von wouldn't mind at all if. I'd go- ont into the country for a walk mysel f ? • That's a fine pt•oposition. T enlist say. Wont to get ricl of me, don't yeti? Huh! Great! Can't endure to have me around this....dump for a few hours on Steatite', hey? It has (-elm to thet, has it? Huh! You only saggested any going alone because yen theught I'd enjoy the tramp in the open? That's what they all say; but you're not going to chase ine, you know, T decline to be chased. I'll stick around, here as long as e T please- and you needn't look gloomy and sad and sweet over it either. Banged pretty oote I must say when • a Woman becomes. So selfish that she in - slate upon having a whole bloomingten room apartment to herself all the time. inducting Sundays! I'd be a nice looking mutt. wonide't 1, trampieg through the wood's with not a 5001 10 talk to? I lead a lonesome enough life as it is. I -have nobody to talk to at home on the kind of topics' that I CAVA to ' talk about. 3. can't get you interested' in anything that interests me, and you don't care a hang, that's the,plain truth, whether I get any pleasure or satisfaction oub of my home life or not; and that's why there isn't a. lonesomer fellow in this man's town than I am evea when VIII in my owls home. Yes, that's why. Th•e nett time I dance around here like a big lummox of a fool Newfoundland pup ana You to take a Sunday walk with the in the eonntry—well, you won't have callous feet when that next thee comes around, because there isn't .going to be any next thee. I can find people to take walks with, don't you Worry about that—people ODOM be .gIaa to walk with me, and I won't have a bit of trouble in digging them up eithee. - • 4 • 14 ‘viutt's the use? 3.an just wasting my time and breath urging you to do thing that'd please me, aa well talk at the Chinese wall. What is this callous feet gag, anyhow? irardening of the sole of the foot, you SO)'? Well, that's a hit, That's the sure fire oomedy. That's the best I ever heard. Hardening of the sok of the foot, hey? 'hal You'll Mitre to exam inc for rolling atone& on the floe over Diet, heeatitie it's too rich,. yen know. "Oh, you don't see it, eh? Well, liere it it then. What, pray, do yott ever to that'd cause the soles of either or both of your feet to liaraen? That's where the laugh comes in. Wouldn't it bathyal- ty soppo.sed that folks who do something with their feet—Valk around a little bit, say, or At least staud up for touple 01 1011111155 at a stretch, ortonte• thing like that—that only emit people would become afflieted with whet you so glibly mil callous feet? That's the woe' it'd strike me, any. ho' ilea it's the knockout humor to think of your doing anything that tofu. - requires the use of your foot. You Wee a ear when you Wive to go two 'blocks, and I never see you standieg up for more than three minutes at tt streteh. The deep Chaim And the rockers Mel the mutat ;lain; your teelinleg Attention most of the time, eo far as I've beet* able to disoover. How the dickens, then, bus a AhOrt before she reached her destluation. Reaching hop she wa,s to»labed to find instead of the seep the Ieweley tuut watches, withal she eonsey• ea to Secaland Vont, It has been ascertained by the pollee that the. jewelry formed the proeeeds of burglary at Maida Vale a week ago, it is believed that the man was on the tve.y to the receiver the time he made the siogular exehange pats London Evening Standard. TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes, Granulation, Pink .eye and Eye Stvain. Merino doesn't Stnatt; soothes eye pain. les tompounded bdr experkuced physi- eittitsycontaine no injerions or prehtbit- ed drugs. Try Morino for your eye traublee, Yon will -like Merine. Try it in baby's eyes for scaly eyelids. Drug. gists sell aletine 500. Altirine .le)k Itemedy-Co., .Chicago;lwIll seed you in - toasting Eye Books free. 4 4 - A WASTED DISCOURSE. (Canadian Courier.) The visit of Dr, Orr to Toronto, and his highly instructive address on Bib- lieal literature,.have been regaraea with some eaution, both by the higher rritice and their friends. The reverend visitor has been implored to be 'explicit" lest the wayfaring man, to say notlung of the newspaper reporter, should misre. present his views on the early thepters -of Gelmels, " d" This desire for it decisive attituae ee- ealls the consternation experienced by worthy Ilemilton .pastor, years ago._ He had been. prenelung at Grimsby Patk with the laudable dole° to show Hatt the latest disooverlea in seience were quite in hartnony With the salient pointe of Biblical history. He admitted, how. ever, thet the "day" of Creation did not mean what we moderns mulerettiod by the monosyllable. As be was leaving the anditorium, he Was aecosted by et !dear oia lady' who exclaimed tearfully: "Oh, Dr, ant ea thaukful that am not 11ke yott—I 'believe in the Bible." What the wend:Down 11. •itaila WI't'81;1:7,1"ed, begun the young politician, Mid Was *but to propose, 'yon Itittst realist wiutt .freqeent, visits here meen1" "'Why, Ito," replied the Might .girtt volt 4,15 11. political:a I eater. 1.00 MANY WOMEN SUM IN SILENCE When the Blood is Weak or Out of The Shah has .decided •to grout Persia eonetitution. Only 0 short time age lie that the etnintry wee 1101. rip; for such. Whati.ver led hint to thaw Me opinion, hie netion may prove ceindoeire to hie health and nap- • i'11131 May to Deecoilier there wove Irdhli street aeeitteets 10 Ettgli4h eltics with did dentlie. Nearly half of these amidente oceurred in :London. In eight menthe motor ears Ha and wound- ed 2,800. Order Disease is !neva-able, Many women go through Rfe buffering i silence—weak, ailing And unhappy. The la»guor and bloodlessness of girls :,i)111.1elasYcalltItT TN4Y3ritie;Illi N8V1i1L0111131;eatdh:Cintee4T'vottilizs. ailments, back paths and failure of strength of wives and Mothers; the trials that come to all women at the turn of life, ase eaused usually by Me- poveriehed wetery blood. Or, Wilikente Pluk Pills for Pale People have helped more women. to the joy ofepod heelth and robust strength than any other Mediehte in the world,. These pills net - ally ;flake new, rich, red blood, which reaebee every part of the body, feeds the starved nerves, strengthens every organ, end makea weak girls and wo- men bright. and well. Mrs. A. Eagles, Dunda.s, Ont., eays: "1 Ant writing Ode 'letter out of gratitude. to let yon know the great benefit Do 'Williams' Pink Pills have beendto me. From the thee 11118 A girl I suffered from weakness and 'feinting spells --Was always doctor- ing, but it did not help As I grew Older I seemed. to grow Avorso. My blood seemed literally turned to water. Some- times 1 woeld faint as Often, AS twice in a de:Y. I suffered front indigestion. could not walk upstairs withoet stop- ping to rest on the way, and my heart would palpitate so violently as to pro- duce a smotheriug sensation, grew so weak that people thought I was in 0011- semption. .f was in this dreadfnl coo- 1(11,ietr°e" h twhen )or.ert yW Ire): t3i'onPrititilitcl ebs- gun taking them. The first sign of ben- efit I noticed wee alt improvement in my .appetite. Then I began to grow stronger, the color began to. return to my face; the fainting spells disappeared and. gradually 15-11 brought to a eon- dition of more perfect health than haft . ever enjoyed 'before,. This is what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills letee done for me, and tbet they have been. of lasting ben- efit is proved by the fact that it is sev- eral years since they, restored my health, and I have remained strong avid well ever since." - - Dr. Williams' Pink. Pills are a cure for all troubles due to impure or Watery blood, • sea as anaemia. rheumatism, ueuralgia,. headaches and backaches; in- digestion, St. Vitus donee, paralysis. etc. Sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 50 cents a box or sia. boxes for $2,50 from the Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Out. • es as tenons feet/ dArci and Tim% it is said that ,evldence tins been se. cured as to the hiding place of Abdul flantidts hoard, If it has not, the Turtles know some effective =Mode of obtain- ing It. .A.Ittl it is not likely that they wilt laaltato to use them, if a. few millions ere to be thus obtained. Seerelary .1noice lee Wilson, of the United States Department of Agriettl. lure, is verY severe on Peden end. 16 fellow speeulators ht wheat. ITC deciaree that Patten is not a nterehant, end that the moment pikes of wheat are artificial and due to a corner, Ile /meets the ermined' . of the tioverement erop re- ports. . • • evi The Britith Amolgamated Society of Railway Servants had in 1908 a, mem- bership of 80,321. Ilia is a reduction of 17,240 from the figures of 1007, due to ` the eetebliehment ef conciliation hoards and boards of arbitration, which has given the men confidence that they will receive fair treatment. The total num- bee of railway employeee la the Veiled Kingdom is placed at 4121,31 1. SentenceSermons. • It is good to be wise, but it le wiser to be .good. Heaven's lnanna site ill on the stom- ach of sloth. Heaven is deaf to us -when we are blind to others. Character is the sum of all life's choices. Star preaching is apt to mean night in the church. A. serene life alvddys has storms in ita past cutriculum, It is well to wat hothe virtues that employ ptess agents. The man with a putty backbone us- naily borrows a pious front. Itt may be the ill We are dodging is the cure for the greater ill we desire. Mau aro never greatly moved by those truths they full comprehend. Many three would be a good deal swee- tee if ,they were -not quite go sugary. Folk who are over anxious to live on velvet commonly wird up on the carpee. More are lame brim kicking than from, corns acquired in welkin the uar. TOW way. You eau toll a man's courage, not by the measure of his fear, but by the fight ho puts U. The best way to honor the dead pro- pliets is to make attaight paths for chs living people. The apparent power of death to' sap - :trate is the strongest bond that binds the living together. When yon find a man generous with black point for 'others you may be nee he has whitewash for himself. Too many think they have fed the hungry whew they have* told them how to mm ake an oelette. Henry F. Cope. OPEN AM LIFE. Get out of the house whenever you. can, If you lave only a little leisure time at your command spend it out ot doors. 11 you ere eempellea to stay in Open doors and widow s and 'Make yaer inao-r surroundiqs as nearly outside surroundings as is possible. Also, as -the house has been pretty well dosed all winter, now is the time to Oen 11 11P and let the sun and air hew tocess to every room in it. There is nothing like fresh air and sunshine an41 outdoor exercise for pro. meting bodily vigoe rota mental eon. tentment. Eighteen members of the conspirator plot of May, 1008, et Alipur, India, have been convicted and sentenced, two tc capital punishment, and ten to trans- portation for life. This is the ease in which tbe public prosecutor was shot dead in court last February. Seventeea of the perso,us placed on trial were ac- quitted. The lesson of the trial will uot be lost- upon the Hindus. The :Pennsylvania Court that tried the trbitla kidnapping case sentenced the principal in the crime to prison for life, arui the woman who took so prominent O part. in it to twenty-five years in pri- eon, a $5,000 fine and the costs of the process. We may probably with safety omit the fine and costs from the eonsid- motion, as being uncollectable. The State can afford to bear the costs of the ease if the result of the trial is to dieeonrage kidnapping as a short-cut to Wealth. The Mine le one of the most atrociette, and inthe opiniou of many merits- a death sentence. Let it once be larewn, however, that all the energiee of sookey wilt be bent to the capture ntel puniehment of such criminals, aril that .etteh salutary sentences will not only be pronounced on the guilty, but will be carried into effect, and the re- sults NVili be good. There is still an ele- ment of mystery in the Whitla case, and it is believed that the man and woman convicted could, if they choose to do so, east such light upon the matter. as would Iced to the conviction of the third party behind the scenes. They, however, nettintained silence during the trial and acted defiantly. Long yeare in prison ceps may bring abont a change of heapt. ' - For tho second, time since 1877 the British'railways have closed a year with- out the killing of a single passenger in train accidents. In 1901 a similar locoed %vas made. In that year 1,172,385,000 passenger journeys were made exchleive of travel by .season tieket holders. Of all this vase multitude, not one was kill• ea, and oniy 476 were injured. But excel- lent as was (Ito record of 1901, that of 1008 is better The number of pumm ors carried is estimated at 1,259,000,000, exclusive of .the teavel of season rekete holdees; of this number nob one was killed and only 283 injuries were re- poi•ted. Some people on this side of the evateloare. food of gibing at the British people as slow. The gibe is unwarraut- ea. They have nothing to learn from this coutinent ie the matter of fastness of traiva; and they certainly set us a stan- dard of safety in the handling of their traffic. It; is interesting to noto while consid- ming this matter that the Homo Of- fice has just issued a report, in which 11 1.8 ,stated -that ei 1008 there 'oemirred in England and Wales in the seven months ending December al, 17,073 street aecidents of whieh 746 were fatal. The elassification Is as follows: rata). Motor cars and cycles 4,499 308 Motor omnibuses —.1,166 60 Itoree-drawn Omnibuses... 201 11 Other horseelsawn vehieles 0,045 418 itorse.drawn 'tramcars 111 -- Itiee,hanically-propellea train tAt'S ...... .. 2,878 •GO •, Perhaps the feature evhieh will most strike the reader in this presentation is the large proportion of accidents causea by motor vehieles. It is pointed out that the uumbet pf easualties 1 London streets (musing death or injury rose ftom 0,200 in 1897 to 17,065 iu 1007, and itt the thre0 years muted eith 1907 the umber of fatalities increas.ell front l`th I ti' 283. or four ("tenths in every five days. Tertible as ;owl; a locoed is, it compares 1114.1 favoralAy with the lecoole ef great tniterl Strafe eities. '11w problem of safeguarding the public antid the rtt4h of ttuffie lu it peat Metropolis is a Meat itivtiOtts one. In the matter of tail. I may travel, it ()WNW AVeritg0- 1311 - ton scents ta 'onjoy an enviable of safety, tot .often reached outside of the ritilWay property,