Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1897, Page 7

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Oc8T-284 President Potter Declares in Favor of - Local Option. MAY BRING PEACE 1 L A W. Officials for Saturday's Foot Ball Contest Chosen. CURRENT NOTES OF SPORT CHICAGO, October 28.—Sunday racing, which has rent in twain the eastern and western realm of the League,of American Wheelmen, may be effectually disposed of to the satisfaction of all disputants if President Isaac B. Potter’s idea is indorsed at the next natioral assembly. The solution is in the nature of a com- promise, by which the national organiza- tion would go on record emphatically against Sunday racing, which would not be in any way sanctioned at the national rac- ing meets. District option, however, which Was so earnestly contested for by the Pa- cifle coast contingent before its secession, would be in practical force, allowing the territory in charge of each member of the national board to exercise local option by securing the consent of that official. Mr. V. Potter, who has come to Chicago to spend two days, outlined this idea last night. Unite East and West. “In this way,” said Mr. Potter, “the east, which is a unit against Sunday racing, would not be alienated from the organiza- tion, because the organization would not as such authorize this practice. At the same time the Pacific members would not object because they could exercise free will and race all day Sunday if they wanted to. “This idea bas rot been generally dis- cussed, and I am sure I do not know how it would strike the majority of the mem- hers, but it would reconcile the east with the west, make room in the organization for both extremes, and, in fact, it seems to me it ought to satisfy everybody. The Sunday problem is a delicate one, and yet it should not be so incapable of solution as to cause a breach in the organization. “Personally I think a state ought to have the right to race on Sunday if it wants to, and I don’t see how anybody elsewhere should assume to forbid that right, but I also corcur in the opinion of the majority of members that a general sanction of Sunday racing would do the organization irretrievable injury.” Omaha Withdraws Her Claim. In concluding the interview President Potter said: “It has just been announced officially that Omaha withdraws her claims to the next general assembly owing to her inability to get support from the mer- chants who are engrossed with their expo- sition, so the probabilities are that In- dianapolis, the other leading contestant, will got the meet next year.” FOOT BALL. The arrangements for the big game to take place Saturday at National Park be- tween the Columbia Athletic Club and Columbian University foot ball teams have about been completed. The officials were chosen last night by a committee consist- ing-of Louis Korn, manager of the C. A. C. team, and Manager Nichols, Assistant Man- ager Beatty and Grenville Lewis, captain of the team from Columbian University, and the selections give entire satisfaction. Lieut. Stout of Fort Myer and Lieut. Flem- ing of ihe 4th Artillery will alternate as umpire and referee, while R. J. Beall, jr., of the C. A. C., and Lieut. White, United States army, will act as linesmen. The choice of the committee is heartily indorsed by both teams, and there will be no need for a kick on any one of the officials as being incompetent, as each one of them knows the foot ball alphabet from begin- ning toe end. The game will be one of the most important of the year in Washington, and there will certainly be no other to at- tract more local interest and attention. Play will be started at 4:15, and the game will consist of two halves of twenty minutes’ duration. Princeton sccred but 12 points against the strong Elizabeth Athletic Club team yesterday in the toughest game that has been played on a Princeton field for many years. Sensaticnal plays, terrific tack- ling and tremendous smashes at the lines were the order of the game. The Eliza- beth team is the strongest one Princeton will have to meet before the Yale game. ‘The team ts made up of old college players, and the surprise given the Tigers speaks for the ckill of the men composing it. Al- though the ex-collegians’ plays were more spectacular than Princeton's, the Tigers at times played like demons, and nothing in the way of a foot ball team could have withstood their terrific rushes when.a gain was most needed. The Princeton center during the rest of the season will in all probability be Edwards instead of Booth. Edwards replaced the latter in the second half yesterday, and his play was so good he will be kept there. Other games yesterday were as follows: At Brunswick, Me.—Bowdoin, 64; New Hampshire Agricultural College, 0. At Medford, Mass.—Tufts College, 12; Boston College, 4. At Amherst—Wesleyan, 14; Amherst, 0. At Swathmore—Swathmore, 16; Johns Hopkins, 0. At Haverford, Pa.—Haverford, 28; Rut- gers, 0. The Columbia Athletic Club Juniors pluy- ed its first foot ball game with the Episco- 1 High School yesterday at Alexandria, Va. The game was called at 4 p.m. The E. H. S. kicked off; Columbia returned the kic! Columbia got the ball on downs and made a touchdown in less than three min- utes. Curtis failed to kick goal, leaving the score 4 to ©. The features of the game were the rans of Walsh, Curtis and Rob- erts, each being from twenty to forty yards. Hexton played the best game for the E. H. S. The line-up was as follows: CAC., Ir. Center..C. Waters (capt.) Nelson (capt.). Ross.. Coche W. Rhinehardt. A scrub foot ball team has been organ- ized at the Central High School, and has already given much valuable assistance to the first team in the matter of practice. The weight of the team is one hundred and thirty pounds, and it is proposed that games with the scrub teams from the other High Schools be arranged for. The team ts made up of: Jesse Underwood, full back and cap- tain; Reigart and Saffold, right half back; Arthur Devlin, left half back; Dickson, quarter back; Wilson, right end; Tindall, left end; Ourand, left tackle; Church, right tackle; Kelly, right guard; Noland, left guard, and Schlayer and Sherwood, center. BASE BALL NOTES. Despite all rumors to the contrary, seven distinct offers have been made for the Grand Rapids franchise in the Western League, and Chicago, Toledo, Buffalo, Tor- onto, Des ®oines, Omaha and Grand Rapids are in the market bidding for the plum. Arlie Latham, who was with the Mans- field team of the Interstate Leaguc last season, was in Youngstown, Ohio, recently, and had a consultation with the president of the board of directors of that team. It is said he is in a fair way to be engaged to manage the Youngstown club next sea- fon. ‘The annual meeting of the Richmond Base Ball Association day is legal, has gone to the su- waned fave ot When thay. Dock againat Salvation Oi. the best and cheapest. Preme court of Ohio. The constitutionality. of the Sunday law is the point now at is- net Ipe case is heard, the rights of Club to play on the Sabbath Sista mil probably, determin whether cision wi ly dete e et Cleveland will retain a National League franchise. A special from Columbia, S. C., says that young James, better known as Jimmie Mc- James, is keeping himself in good trim this fall playing on the Y. M. C. A. foot ball team of Charleston, where he is pursuing his studies in the medical college. James denied the report that he would pitch for Boston next season. There had been offers made, but he wished to stay with Wash- ington, and his contract held him with that team. It seems hardly fair to the players of other teams in the National League to de- — them of a chance to compete for the emple cup and share in the receipts of the series because the Boston and Balti- ™more players conducted themselves in a sordidly selfish and unsportsmanlike man- ner. It is by no means a certainty that either of these teams will be one-two next year. At that, it looks as if the Temple trophy will be a reminiscence after the magnates meet in November. The Western League magnates have wisely determined to put a curb on rowdy- ism in the ranks of its players next season. The hoodlums will be heavily fined by President Jchnson of the league, and he will have the earnest support not only of the directors of that organization, but of every club owner. Several offenders were disciplined last season, and the players, when th®y realize that they wil be pun- ished, not by the club owners,,but the league itself, will refrain from hoodlum- ism on the field. The National League and every miner league should follow the ex- ample of the Western League. Hoodlum- ism hurts the game, and it should be wiped out.—Sportirg News. The manager with a megaphone will rever get tcgether a winning team. W. H. Watkins, the new manager of the Pitts- burg club, knows this from experience and refuses to confide his plans for next sea- son te the’ Pittsburg press and public for that reason. He has had the befefit of three years’ association with that close- mouthed magnate, Mr. John T. Brush, and he has profited by his experience. Man- ager Stallings made the mistake of utiliz- ing the megaphone in the management of the Phillies, with direful consequences to that team and himself. ‘The successful manager is always ready to give out the news of the day, drop into reminiscences or “Bancroft” a reporter, but he never announces his plans or fathers roasts on Players of his club. TOO AUTOCRATIC. Movement to Brenk Away From the N. A. A. O. A movement for secession from the Na- tional Association of Amateur Oarsmen has been under way for several weeks, and is now abouf"ts break out into a war against the present governing body of rowing in America. A secret meeting was recently held at the Carrollton Hotel, Baltimore, at which a plan of campaign was mapped 6ut. Rowing clubs of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Newark and New York were represented, says the Baltimore American. ‘There were altogether twenty-three clubs. It was shown at this meeting that these twenty-three clubs were realy to join in the movement to secede from the parent body. These clubs embrace the very flower of the rowing talent of the country. Each one present at the meeiing was pledged to secrecy, as the matter was not to become public until the next meeting here, at which the movement be torm- ally ‘started. The officers of the local crgarizations are in favor of the movement, and wiil use their influence to have their clubs join. Without the twenty-three clubs now in the combine, it will be Imposstvle for the N. A. A. O. to hold another regatta, say these in- terested. It is the belief of those who met at the Carrollton that there will really be no fight. They think they will pnnihllate the N. A. A. O. It was their intention to permit the officers of the old organization to slumber until they engincer2d the coup here. probably next muntn. The date of this meeting has not been fixed. but it will occur some time between now and Christ- mas. The schism in the N. A. A. O. started from alleged arbitrariness by the national board. It was brought to a head when the board refused to appoint Carrigan of Phila- delphia to fill a vacancy. At the national regatta last August in Philadelphia a Yacancy on the national board was filled. The boating clubs of Philadelphia and the majority from other sections wanted Carri- gan for the position. The board wanted Preisendanz, and Preisendanz it was. Later another vacancy occurred, and the friends of Carrigan pointed out that an excellent opportunity had occurred to get him on the board, thus satisfying the feel- ing of unrest. Instead of bowing to the popular clamor, Dr. Root was appointed. There was no objection to Dr. Root per- sonally, but the dissenting clubs contended that they should have some representation. Directly after this the secession movement started. All the Philadelphia and Newark clubs are said to be in the movement, to- gether with those of Baltimore and Wash- ington. There are several New York clubs and some organizations in the New Eng- lena states that are pledged to join, it is said. “The board have become a close corpora- tion,” said a prominent member of one of the Baltimore clubs yesterday. ‘They have the machinery of the N. A. A. O. so ar- ranged that they may perpetuate them- selves in office. We object to such auto- cratic methods, and, as the board refuse to Usten, we have determined to start another organizatign.”” To Aid a Foot Ball Team. An entertainment was given at the Busi- ness High School yesterday afternoon for the benefit of the foot ball team. The af- fair was given under the direction of Har- ry Meynesa and George Weaver, manager and captain, respectively, of the team, and proved to be a complete success, the pro- ceeds being more than sufficient to meet all the requirements of the team in the -matter of dress and appliances to ward off danger from heavy falls. Centrals’ Cross Country Team. A great deal of interest is being mani- fested in the team that will represent the Central High School in the five-mile cross- country race to be given by Georgetown Saturday, November 6, and already there are a number of candidates training for places. . The team will ba chosen from the following: Stuart, ’98, the champion long- distance runner of the high schools; Ourand, 1901; Fitzgerald, 1900; Bradford,’90; Hunter, ‘99; Durdin, 1900; Wheeler, '98; Wilson, 99, and Hendricks, 1900. The Australian Cricket Match. LONDON, October 28.—There is consid- erable excitement among cricketers here over the first match being played between Capt. Stoddart's eleven and an eleven rep- resenting South Australia at Adelaide. In fact, it might be said that the news from the Australian cricket field is as eagerly awaited a3 reports from some great battle. The afternoon newspapers are iseuing ex- tras, which are being sold in great num- bers. The Australians went to the bat, and by close play made 861 runs for five wickets. Craney to Act as Referee. SAN FRANCISCO, October 28—Eddie Craney will act as referee in the fight be- tween Walcott and Lavigne tomorrow night. Craney was selected several days ago by both sides, but his name has just been given out. Betting continues quite brisk in the pool with e the pon Deol rents, ven money Raedy and Moore to Fight. “Pat” Raedy, the middle-weight of the District of Columbia, and “Dick” Moore of St. Paul will meet for a twenty-round pout at the Spa Club arena, on the Bladensburg road, on the night of November 16. Raedy recently met and was’ defeated by “Nick” Burley of California at the Spa Club. Moore and Raedy went twenty rounds to a di last December, and atnce then have been “"Knether fght Bion is eceaging r whic! attention is that nena “ a temic champion middie-weight of Pennsylvania, and “Nick” Burley of California. 2 Myrtle Wheelmea Run. ‘The century run of the Myrtle Wheel- men of Baltimore, advertised for last Sun- day, hss been postponed tif Sunday next. It will start at 5 a.m. from southeast cor- making the best percentage. Several of the Washington clubs wiil pete for there have ‘land, October 10, soon be sent him;for distribution. Johns Hopkins Men Coming. Three representatives of the Johns Hop- Kins University «will: participate in the field games of rgetown University, at Georgetown, Sat > November 6. They are Robert Garrett, the former Princeton champion, who will throw the discus and probably enter one of the jumps; George B. Scholl, who will’ make an effort to win the high jump, and George W. Knapp, jr., the short distance sprinter. ——— THE ‘COMING CHURCH. Rev. Wilbur Crafts’ Outline at W. C. T. U. Convention. The Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Ph. D., of the reform bureau in this city, spoke on the subject “An Extension Movement Among Christian and Reform Organizations” at the W. C. T. U. meeting in Toronto. He said, in part: “I bring you the greeting of the reform bureau, the little brother or the child of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, but I do not wish the bureau to be con- sidered too near of kin to propose marriage to the union after‘you have discharged your ‘woman’ function by securing woman suffrage. “The church of the twentieth century will become a combination of Y..M. C. A. and W. C. T. U., with a central institution building for both men and women in every town and forty departments of applied Christianity." I suggest to the W. C. T. U. as the world’s best organized reform, and €xtension movement, namely, the devotion of one of the regular weekly meetings in every month to a Christian reform federa- ticn, to which all other Christian reform or- ganizations in the city or village shall be invited, not as visitors, but as equal par- ticipants. “I hope to see erected in Washington, near the national Capitol, a union reform building in which the offices of the resident officers of the W. C. T.U.,the reform bureau, the Anti-Saloon League, the National Tem- perance Soctety.the Endeavorers and other Christian committees, and all other Chris- tian reform societies, shall be ranged around a central conference hall, like the lecture room in a modern Sunday school building, all co-operating in a comprehen- sive plan to secure righteous legislation, and at the same time promote reform edu- cation throughout the whole continent, Canada and the United States uniting to uplift the lower Spanish civilization and make the new world the “new earth” wherein dwelleth righteousness.” Mrs, Booker T. Washington's Paper. ‘The Foundation Being Remodeled” was the title of a report made by Mrs. Booker T.Washington of Tuskegee, Ala. She said, in part: “The sentiment of the south has changed. The southern white man wants to see the southern black man educated, and there are many noble examples among the south- er white people of ely and generous help toward this eid. “New England teachers and reformers first undertook the edycation of the south- ern negro. Bey “This training ofthé-head alone has been followed now for many years, and not un- til very recently hive @lucators and friends of the colored race ryeognized the evil of such teaching. = #1 “Today almost all, of the advanced schools are attempting sottie ‘handicraft work—not aS much as they should, not as much as they will do, sooner or later. “At Tuskegee, Ala., is located the Tuske- gee Normal and Industrial Institute, and {t is giving eis in the art of produc- ing something that the market wants, to- gether with a good, but simple, English course. yf “What the colored people of the south need today is suck an institution in every southern state, heartily approved of and supported by, not only white friends, north and south, but by the negro himself, who In too many case$ has come to regard work as something to be escaped. I would plead for the introduction, as far as possible, of the industries into the public schools of the states, and, more than all, into the schools situated in the country districts. In proportion as the race receives substantial industrial training, in proportion will its standard of home life, its ideal duty to church and state, be raised; and thus the race will not only receive the cordial re- spect of the outside world, but will respect itself also, which is one of the most essen- tial lessens for any man or race.” ——_———+ee. JAPANESE BOARDING HOUSES. The Inmates Are Usually From the Host’s Province. From the Chautauquan. There are five such boarding houses in San Francisco, three of which shape their accommodations to the entertainment of agriculturists and genéral travelers, while the other two specialize in the particular of sailors Nor do these houses vary in their outer profile from those of contiguous structures occupied by whites. They are usually large buildings, one inhabited by ‘wealthy denizens, who built their dwellings upon the outer rim of the business center, but who have Icng since been driven thence by the encroachments upon the neighbor- heed of the shops and the degeneration of the district through incursions of all the elements of small traffic. Against the door jambs of these pretentious but sadly passe structures will hang the perpendicular sign of the Japanese boarding house, bearing its column of Asiatic symbols, this alone indicating the uses to which the edifice is now devoted. Within, the number of those who find shelter fluctuates with the chang- ing intensity of the demand. A host of one of theze has testified that the capacity of his house was fifteen, but on a pinch he could tak> care of forty; there were those who thought they remembered instances when his place had contained a hundred, and there are Japanese in Seattle who have retired upon the mats of a iike hostelry in that city when the guests were a mui- titude of eight hundred. The reckoning of each of these is forty cents per day for food and lodging. There is no register kept except of the names of those who are strangers to the proprietor, and this roll is not so much a roster for the information of the respective gu and the tublic or for regulating the ac- counts of the house as it is a memorandum for the convenience of the proprietor. Most of the patrons of a particular house are adventurers from the certain province of Japan from whence came the host. Thus the hotel of Maruyama, on Banning street, is favored by the arrivals from Wakayama,- and those who patron! the establishment of Kishi, on O’Fargall ‘street, hail mostly from Osaka. When it occurs, therefore, that one of these falls short in meeting hi reckoning, the affaple host smiles, cackles a few monosyllabic sounds, and reposes his confidence in the faturd ard the varied ca- pacities of his guests, conscious that the payment is but d |. And so constant are his countrymenjin respect that one of the Bon:faces once stated that he had t ousted a thousang ang had never lost a A Romaneg, in,Gypay Life. ‘From the Baltimore Sim, :T For the past week or more bands of-gyp- sies have been gath in a woods near Shepherdstown, / this point a ren- dezvous from which, they start.on their an- nual fall ward. In one of att Fadileerss : § THE TRADING STAMP A Study of'a Scheme That is New to THE . SIMPLICITY OF SMOOTHNESS How Merchants Secure Cash Cus- tomers and Then Lose, WHILE THECOMPaNY PROFITS There's a new fad in town. It consists in collecting something, of course. Years ago, when merchants regarded a little printed card, bearing their names, the character of their pursuits and taeir places of business, as the sine qua non of intelli- gent advertising, the collection of such an- nouncements became a mania. The post- age stamp craze followed; then the cigar- ette picture insanity held sway, to be suc- ceeded by an equally ardent demand for cigarette flags and cigurette buttons. The present direction taken by the members of the pdpulation subj2ct to these attacks is toward the “trading stamp.” The trading stamp wes introduced into Washington five or six weeks ago. The idea of it originated in Jackson, Mich., about three years ago. Sperry & Hutchin- son of New York are the proprietors of the enterprise. The scheme briefly is this: A merchant who uses the stamp gives one for each cash purchase of 10 cents’ worth of goods. The purchaser saving the stamps thus received takes them, when his pur- chases amount to $99, and when his stamps show this, to a stove maintained in the same town, and ther2 exchanges them for a premium. A visit to the store in this city by a Star reporter discovered a brand- new stock of articles, any one of which is at the disposal of any person who brings in trading stamps representing purchases amounting to $#). here were musical in- struments, silver-plated ware, knives, spoons, china articles, ciocks, tables, rock- ing chairs, lamp s:ands and lamps, carpet sweepers and a host of other things. The retail value of such articles would prob- ably be about, on the average, $4. The cost price was probably $2.75. Mr. Sperry of the firm of Sperry & Hutchinson was there. ‘Any person coming in here,” he said to the reporter, “with stamps show- ing $99 worth of purchases, can select and become the possessor of any article you see in. this place, except that sewing ma- chine, a gramophone and a bicycle, these articles requiring additional books.” “The merchants using these trading stamps give virtually 5 per cent of their business for the privilege, do they not?’ asked the reporter. “Not at all,” replied Mr. Sperry. ‘These stamps are not given out except to pur- chasers who pay cash for their goods, and a very great number of these do not take them at all. “It is a very good thing for merchants,” continued Mr. Sperry. ‘“‘As I said, a great many cash customers do not take the stamps. Then, again, not more than one in ten of those who do take them ever keep them together until they get the number necessary to get a premium in the shape of the articles we offer, of which you can see the excellent character.” “Not one in ten ever keep the stamps together until they get the number neces- sary to get a premium!” Thoughtful con- sideration of this condition forced the con- clusion that when “something for noth- ing’ was adopted as the motto of this con- cern an intelligence of a high order was working. The unsuspecting merchant sup- plies a very substantial something and the Trading Stamp Company what is prac- tically a very alluring nothing. Taken altogether the plan Is about as clever a one for appropriating to an alien concern the profits of Washington mer- chants as could well be imagined. Recognizing the avidity with which a merchant properly seeks a cash trade, the More than equal eagerness with which the general public grasps the opportunity to get something for nothing, and, most im- portant of all, the ravenous appetite of tankind to “collect” something which, when sufficiently ‘‘collected,” means a prize, the ground is prepared for a magnificent financial harvest in which the Washington merchant pays the bills, the Washington public does the work, and the Trading Stamp Company gets the product. For no fact is better established than that in schemes of this kind a very small percentage of those starting out to “col- lect” a certain amount or number of a certain thing ever perseveres until the nec- essary sum or number is reached. On the basis of these shrewd conclusions the trading stamp was built into being. The modus operandi is simple. A mer- chant contracts with the Trading Stamp Company that he will issue stamps to such of his cash customers as ask for them, one for each 10-cent purchase, and will pay the Trading Stamp Company each week for such stamps as he has issued at the rate of $5 per thousand, regardless of whether or not they are finally redeemed by the com- pany, the latter having the entire benefit of the enormous odds that they will never be presented at its store for redemption. These odds, it will be noted, were stated by Mr. Sperry to The Star reporter to be ten to one—that is, that only one out of ten stamps was presented for final re- demption, or, to state it still more forcibly, that for each customer who received from the Trading Stamp Company an article of an average retail value of, say, $4, the un- wary Washington merchant paid that con- cern approximately $50. Truly this is “heads I win, tails you lose,” for if every stamp that the mer- chant issued was redeemed the Trading Stamp Company has a handsome profit in doing a retail business at a large profit, a business in which they are paid for their goods long before they are deliy- ered, but when is added to this the enor- mous percentage of unredeemed stamps, a vision of wealth, before which that of Croesus pales into insignificance, must rise before the enraptured eyes of its owners. But to the merchant who has entered into the scheme the matter assumes a much more serious aspect. In the first place, it may be stated that the average merchant does not average 10 per cent net profit on his gross sales, and that the larger establishments are well satisfied with a much smalier percentage. It follows that the greater the success of the Trading Stamp Company in inducing the merchants’ customers to demand the st the larger becomes the proportion of his business that he ts doing at a maxi- mum of 5 per cent profit, before transacted on @ maximum of 10 per cent; and if the company ts able to stimulate the craze to the extent that all the merchants’ cash customers demand the stamps, he will be obliged to double his cash business before he makes even as much profit as he did before embarking on this perilous sea. ducing it again to figures, if a merchant does a cash business of $100,000 per an- num, and on this clears 10 per cent net profit, or $10,000,-and if the Trading Stamp Company is successful in the fullest de- gree, and he is obliged to give stamps to the amount of 5 per cent of the entire cash business, he will be obliged to increase his cash business to $200,000 before he clears the $10,000 he did before he entered into the scheme, and under the terms of this most ingenious plan this rebate by the merchant of $10,000 from his profits does rot go to the customer, but $9,000 goes directly to the Trading Stamp Company, in the shape of unredeemed stamps, if the proportion stated by Mr. Sperry is correct, and for the other $1,000 they supply the articles shown in their store, at an exceed- ingly handsome profit to themselves. These calculations are based on the ex- traordinary statement of Mr. Sperry that not one in ten ever keep the stamps to- gether until they get the number necessary to get a premium, but only the proportions it-volved would be affected if the number of stamps redeemed was inaccurately stated, and the returns were either more or less than in that proportion. Naturally, the Trading Stamp Company is exerting every effort to induce all shop- pers in Washington to demand the stamps. This harvest fieid is too rich not to be well worked. But the serious question remaining to be solved is whether business can be done in Washington at a discount of 5 per cent for cash from the low prices already set by the most strenuous of competition, and whether, if this discount can be given, it shall be for the real benefit of the pur- chaser or for that of the Trading Stamp Company. It is interesting to know that the prob- lem that is confronting the local merchants has also disturbed other communities in which the plan has been in operation. A dispatch to the Boston Herald from Portland, Me., states that on the 26th a mass meeting of merchants assembled to air their grievances against the “trading stamp” plan, in which so many have be- come participants. The object of the meet- ing was to take mutual action, with a view to ridding themselves of the expense incur- red by the general distribution of trading stamps, which is making heavy inroads up- on their profits. ——— A HORSE THAT LORBIED. Vote at a re. From the Chicago Times-Herald. “I owned an extra good horse a long time ago,” began Governor Pound, “‘and he dil me good service, too. It was when I was fighting the proposition to dam the Dalles at Eau Claire, thirty years ago. My county had elected me chiefly to fight that move. We Chippewa Falls folks thought it would kill our town. That was before we had any railroads in northwestern Wisconsin to transport our lumber. To dam the Dalles meant great difficulty .in rafting lumber down the Chippewa. I knew it was a fight for my political life, and was also quite sure that my commercial life largely de- pended upon the defeat of Eau Claire. It was a great battle. I defeated our enemy that winter. ‘Buckeye Bill’ has never been given credit for the good work he did in that contest. Of course all of my co-work- ers in the battle rode after ‘Buckeye Bill.’ It didn’t end with them. Every assembly- man and senator who was active on Eau Claire's side was taken over the course as often as I could induce him to go. I was giving one of these a ride when he said: ‘Thad, the Eau Claire lobby and their friends are becoming afraid of “Buckeye BIL” Judge Bill Price says Eau Claire can easily enough beat Thad Pound alone. but it can’t down both Pound and “Buckeye | AA Ae An Ae Ae AA Ae MERTZ'S DRUG NEWS. —You don't see dusty, antiquat- { ed bottles and illy arranged <lis- plays here. You'll not get old preparations that have lost their qctliciency either. We pride our- q Selves on the freshness of our 4 Stock—and make it an object to 4 ask prices others can’t approach, { Rabuteau’s , Cucumber & Lettuce ‘ Soap, 3 cakes, 25c. Nicely put up tn bores, nicely perfumed ~& soap that is better than soaps you Pay double che money for. { Liebig’s Liquid Malt { Extract, 15c. bot. 4 $1.50 doz. bottles. It makes you hungry. : MERTZ’S ‘ Pharmacy, Lith & F. 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I invited her to ride. ‘May I? she asked. ‘Certainly,’ replied both papa end mamma. We rode over to the sane asylum. On the way back I got to thinking about the Dalles bill and forgot all about the young lady for some minutes, I begged her pardon and explained that I was having much trouble with a measure before the legislature; that it absorbed my attention days and kept me awake nights, I saw she felt sorry for me. “The next day her father, the influential assemblyman, came over to my seat ard asked me to tell him my side of the Dalles contest. It was the first time he would listen to me on that subject. No promise was made. The vote was to be taken the next day. My anxiety was intense until he voted against damming the Dalles. Seven other doubtful members voted with him, and I won. Upon adjournment I went to my friend ard thanked him for his vote. Looking at his daughter, who was ai his side, he said: ‘She's the one you should thank. Upon her return from that ride she asked me to help you with this bill. I said I had partially promised the other side, Then she asked me to hear your side. I did, and voted with you. Yes, Pound, Buckeye Bill and the young lady have done you a good turn.” “They certainly had. Two or three years afterward I sold Buckeye Bill to a Chicago man for $4,000.” the most effeciive winter. This will Pennsylvania Railroad - an EXCUFSIONS, 11: $2.00 hiladelphia Sunday, Oct. 31. Tickets good on trains leavin Sixth street station, 7, 8, 9 and 11 a.m., and returning on special leaving Philadelphia at 7 p.m. and all reg- ular trains same day except Congres- sional Limited. $1.00 ALTIMORE Sunday, Oct. 31, | ‘Tickets good on all trains going and | returming except the Congressioncl H | Limited same day. oc28-3t ik j , ! Hi 4 i i f | ! i Of Entire Stock Of Auction Sale Jacobs Bros., Jewelers, 1229 Pa. Ave.,