The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1909, Page 12

ka saat mah ea eer iver rt espe aay ning World Daily Magazine, I tn nn nnn tant iy bees ct ‘ i QR NING Bingn 5 £ 9 7s ‘ Che ‘Pears orld, ' P ros it ! t The Story of -<c=-~ . Published Daily Except (ET ee Rt Press P ibiithing. Company’ Nos 52 to 69 ; ; 2 +1—- aa A 3 een ama nesannen eet ut By Maurice Ketten, ' Abraham | ‘Lincoln Entered at the Post-Office at New York os § Laatste ch ct Rita GONG RS OEE ete eae — et | Bute DH tor thet ‘ited Statew ; ye » § Late , ena) ey * : i 3} ane ttt mee an + $4.80 | One Year. ay 3 Personal Life By } 340 | One Month 9 and Albert | VOLUME 49. Unrate ‘ 0. 17.840. H OC y : Anecdotes Breton et es = 5 of the ; WHY TAX COFFEE? DER ; | Martyr President Terhune t ORE coffee is drun K { fons Sas | sss | ALDER! : ! the United beer and whiskey com- bined. As a bever- popu milk and choco- late. The only fluid of which a larger quantity pours down the United States throat is water. Also the less the family income the the portion of coffee to other ages. Day laborers 5 greater pro- bever- have no 5 o'clock Women tea. who cook their famil breakfast have a cup of chocolate in bed. Coffee is now on the free list. Therefore nothing is more suitable than coffee on which to im- pose a tax that people of wealth would pay little and that people of mall means would pay much. That is one of the reasons why the highly protected trusts and their friends on the House Committee on Ways and Means intimate that a five-cent a pound tax on coffee would make up the deficiency | in the national revenue caused by extravagance. | Besides the revenue argument, committees of coffee planters from Porto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii ere siivovating.a five-cent cof- fee tax so arranged that coffee from their plantations would get in tax free and have a bonus of five cents a pound. | The average consumption of coffee in the United States is eleven | pounds, The poorer the family the more coffee they drink in propor- tion to their consumption of other beverages. ‘The tax on each family of this city would be $3.30 a year, with the addition of the importers’, | jobbers’, distributors’ and retailers’ profits on the increased price. Five dollars a year is a modest estimate. | How many families are willing to contribute $5 a year to make | Porto Rico and Hawaii prosperous? How many families prefer to pa: more for their coffee than to have the tariff limited to a revenue basi, There is already a tax on shoes, a tax on clothes and a tax on sugar. The Standard Oil collects its own tax on keroséne and the packers’ trust on meat, and the commission houses or vegetables, The | ¢~ ana Mr. Jarr Is Tossed About in a Whirlwind of Housecleaning; He Flees From a Cold Breakfast and the Wrath ot Mrs. Jarr | taxed is a daily in- vitation to tax it Oey too. do not Wi iy Eowht ‘ Uy (et? Wl \ N And using those new glass towels unless I do ft,! tearing the frayed collar that had been | Jever done tn this h By Roy L. McCardell. and the dust ts that k on everything very carefully sent to the laundry al- rags ar cloths! I do deck Every man R. JARR was awakened by a that you can wr! name on it! though It was apparent that it wasn’t ait who objects to whirlwind, The door of the room Pleas» get out of and let me worthy of being worn again. 1 to hear an angry to hear at least the few open, the window flew up, | straighten up thls room “I wonder why they have to goad paying a coffee tax the bed clothes phen Mr, Jarr realized that the whirl- themselves on in a rage and fury to Lea ¢ t rather than to re- were torn from ind was Mrs. Jars, She had clean up the house?” thought Mr. Jarr fiance and He he had won fam Dae years; UAncolns nada ty LAA ih Ht) b w 9 Y h ft. “Why can’t bedcloth and that sh joney, Yet he c Iilinois Legislature, m a } es : alr was bound up himself. ny can’t bedclothesa be Mid a trust made ee on ne ves were hung out of the window with a merry Part in local politics. h ey tariff should write Pe natibelninesl? the laugh? Why can’t they hum some ¢ the only sc 4 certain name asant, but to his represents standing on th crimes old song or trill a roundelay when they the short | public speaking: i a) exelted, , P mee: floor tert Pee of the home are turning over a mattreas? Why does Were the was a queer mixture ¢ e had stu tive and Senators a ne A OnInG: nig day ag sac- sweeping Int off the carpet and wiping |!n& © rough backwoods style a childs taiWashincton an pillows, sheets and jut off the mantel and picture frames then she lived he j {slat ashington and rea be accompanied teeth and frown- la” “BI * like “che say so. Far better ea ttn cai ing brow or volces raised in flerce ant e tas a leg A now wh 4 7 denunciation?” aware i ile logical, His ehre Beforethey were know where your clothes Wethist avizagreeytt would it be to un- ail out the win- roar Lares area iri ai nel Peccurealitoy hen becaluneyihe)| Caevcat acount cus cla cenRiLe Revie a te] had er ay of cropping out tax many things dow ¢3 down could hear the voice of Mrs, Jarr in ony acral ie Ha Te ae Git t nts of his spseches—a, d yr. U. . th a soft thud, angry tones arising in the kitchei ue is that he made constant taxed now. Untax ad half in. This “Look at that sink! Do you ever Ouca) env sperers @ simple—often vulgar—but leather and hides known among women as lye down in {t? No! That's lett f r Was secking to make, Hig directy that at Tt is gener metodo! I pay people to do the work eo heCal fee an shoes may be jone on a day when It fs sure to| tt and then when It's to be done Ido tt my- DINE 1 © ae er iha lable OAT POAT PPADS cheaper. Untax tin self, Look at this cupboard! Who put pone oe a ig Mareen a 5 z 7 ; te) bread! and these) cene covered: w 0 Suv G Coming to the Front. these scraps of s potato peelings h And those new pans I bought only a week or s0 ago ware set out to clean, Mr. Jarr ga glance at the outfit and fled. wo hours later Mrs. Jarr, array nd was stil] whirling In 8 being upset, the aside from the wool that clothing may he ch cheaper. Untax lumber t d Untax § by nder { papers, ook at them! Al ted or burned o Have as few taxes as possible a i Aewrunder ene tea and 50 ne holes tn t And the ha: alee eanevent) Cov beanus ven LB run the Government economi i better todo) Mr. Jarr dus t and d of this china It It were ta estent eriils irene aon nope WI sosvcoeaiae " ay, go dow pr such as he could find, He was even|out of some people's wages they SvermACilRtHe hat extravagant government wastes rad thts F ' lunseif to the extent of | wouldn't be #0 quick to smash things! | | of those who can spare it least! oys of Yout Letters From the People 6 r— “Loole the Bowler.” bow “World” renown, He's the {dol of the alley and the hero of the town, And then he's a4 y makes a strike, The strikes, he thi the spares And Loule's that boy His new ball knocks the dt and sets them up ks, at 1 an It A Business Pi To the Fait Will reate ing: “A and B disso $3,20, B #1 have at first?” “Which Is Corr t evtt! kine ducation and Girls To the Editor Many ay mers, and Hife ace | ‘Oh, Jimmie, wouldn't we have a lovely ride if the world was all ‘own hill!” | “Yes, But just think of pullin’ de old sled way up again for a fresh | start!" ‘ ter? though she knows Kings and Emp Graw @ perfect man | Wednesday, February 10, 1909, TENTH tea gm y OOOO OO ONDOOUDOOU0U! CHAPTER 3—A FIGHT FOR FAME. all the good things I have ever done are remembered as long azd Ape Wilk Shields it ts plain I shall not eoon be tor- i 1 1 i | as well as my gotten, Thus wrote Abraham Linco!n long after the affair, Ye the “scray>" grew out of a splendid sense of chivalry d an effort at establishing honest politics, Therefore there was uo need for the shame with which the jair always reierred to lt. is the sto! State capital of Hlinois had beén from Vandalia to Spring- vi ucoln also moved, He w James Shields was a Democratic official. Lincoln prote t c@tiin party acts of ds’8 Which he considered against of good government He use! his keen, satiric wit as 1 sco Shields into better be- havior, Mary Todd (a young Kentu isl who was living -n springfield and to whom Lincoln was repo! ) took up the quarrel and wroto for the local papers a series of Anonymous contributions, peose and verse, lampooning Shields and holding him up to icule. Shields was a hot-headed, brave you into a rag snymous writer to moj Todd from notoriety, came forward and sponsible for the attacks, Shields chal and chose the longest and largest ay was a famous swords: Lincol had arms as long and as strong as a & e intended to act wholly on the det ba thing prove needtul, _ ” i A “Duel” and a Joke. SN This sort of talk coming to " ked by Lincoln's fal as @ strong man, did much to coo t ember morning enger. So wh d to shake hands and n of the con boa L rigged up a log in a red 8 distant spectators it had ai joe 4) 8 Y 1 3 Were fas more s: be the couple were 1 D Mss Todd, She w u and in many ways d 4 ' first fascinated him, Poor litt Lincoln and Mary Todd be ry Mary began to be seen in pu Douglas, who was one d 5 4 Wh 3 Todd cared { M ce jeaivus, Lin What else did you say?” he told her scene, 1 found the tears tricklin caught her in my arms and hissed I shall abide by It. ps her. Bees A Strange Marriage } 1 tre a. If belnt at d four terms in the Legislature (being one of the immo) none of whom was less than six feet tall), Fiercely he opp 5 extension; fought the “Black Laws’ that barred {res negroes f. ng Illinois, and worked successfully for transfer of the State cap! held. ‘Then he turned to the practice of law, leaving active politics a time and trying to establish a foothold tn his chosen profession, He was p¥ niless, swamped by debt and factng a future that seemed to offer Nttle, this merely strengthened his, resolve to succeed, Meantime, while out of political office, he was working hard for the Whi party, and that party's foes learned to dread the sting of his tongue At o campaign meeting George Forquer, a former Whig who had turned Demo‘ (and who was known as the only man in Springfield whose house was equip with a lightning rod), took occasion to sneer at Lincoln's grotesque manner of and added that “the young man will have to be taken down.” Lincola ° g to his feet and retorted: “It is not for me to say whether I am up or down. I dostre to itve and I desire place and distinction, But I would rather dle now than, like Mr. Forquer, live to see the day that I would change my politics for an office worth $3,000 a year, and then feel compelled to erect @ lightning-red to protect @ guilty conscience from an offended God!" This “lightning” Joke be a byword. It kiNed Forquer, polticatly, In 1815, when he was only Lincoln was elected to Congress. He hi worked for years to earn this honor, Elis first act in the House of Represen- tatives was to Introduce @ bill abolishing slavery In the District of Columbia. he bill failed to pass and Lincoln was denounced ag @ “negrodover,” Then caine the Mexican war, which he opposed as foolish and needless, Such daring, est opinions as his were not of the sort to curry favor with those in high power, $0 he served but a single term in Congress, going back then to his private law practice. hary Taylor ran for President In 1848, and Lincotn af4 much fn the Western s toward securing his election, In return Lincoln asked the one political ve of his life, He wanted to be a land commissioner, Taylor refused and gave the office to a more Influential p follower. He offered Lincoln, by way of Consolation, the Governorsiip of Oregon. Lincoln was tempted to accept the post, It meant more money and higher position than he hed ever enjoyed. But M used to move westward and prevailed upon her husband to de- ‘The man’s futura lay not on the western but the eastern side Long Nine," sla en to Sprin Lincoln flatly ref or, Lincoln unconsclously 4 her hunband's career in many ways | (i fc atrife drove him to & at : Iiikh hopes { s Ho travels the j Lincoln's hearth: was warmed c y temper. One man \\ scolded 1s said to have come to Lincoln for satisfaction. \ 1m whom she had flercely “Could not you endure for Af was Lincoln's reported answer. By this time the future President was at the head of the Ulinots bar. He wae also known as one of tho very few lawyers who would take up & case that ate tacked the privileges of slave holders. ‘Then, in 1864, occurred something that brought him Into « national publicity minutes what 1 endure all day and every day | whieh he held henceforth to the of his death, Ry ‘ (To Be Continued.) ’ ‘ ‘