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Sheriff's Sale • — : — r By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias, for « f " sale of Mortgaged Premises, to me di- g rected, issued out of the Court of Chan- c oery of New Jersey, on the 12th day of ], March, A. D., 1014, in a certain cause ti -wherein Frank Learning is complainant, p I - and Edward L Hughes pt ux et als, are t defendants, X shall expose to sale at s public vendue, on o MONDAY, APRIL 13th, 1014, I between the hours of twelve and Ave v o'clock p. m, to wit, at 1.00 o'clock in t tie afternoon of said day, at the Sher- t ilTs Office, in Cape May Court House, j Qapc May County, New Jersey: i ' All those tracts or parcels of land and premises hereinafter particularly described, situate in the City of Capo Mat - in fhc County of Cape May and State ol i New Jersey, being Jots numbered 3 and" - 4, on a certain Map of James Mooncy 1 property as surveyed by S. H. Townsend, December 23, 1902, and more fully i described as follows, to wit: J Beginning ot a point in the easterly i side line of Perry Street, which point is l two hundred and forty feet northwestwardly from the westerly comer of t property of George Fryer and also the t westerly corner of lot No. 5 on said < plan; thence north, sixty-seven degrees : fbrty-five minutes east along the north- j «ly side line of said lot No. 5, one hundred forty-five and four-tenths feet to a point in the westerly side line of lands ] td I. L. Sheppard; thence north twenty • three degrees fifteen minutes west ( ■long the lands of I. L. Sheppard and J. Henry Edmunds, , eighty and two-tenths feet to a point and easterly corner of lot No. 2 , an said plan; thence along the southerly j ride line of said lot No. 2 south, sixty- j ■even degrees and forty-five minutes ( west, one hundred and forty-five feet to f a point in the easterly side line of Perry ( Street and southerly corner of lot No. i 9; thence south, twenty-two degrees and | fifteen minutes east along the easterly side line of Perry Street eighty feet to the place of beginning, containing eleven thousand six hundred and sixteen square J ; feet of land, more or less & Being the same lots or pieces of land which Edward E. Mandeville et ux con- ' veyed to Walter J- Fcnderson, Jr., and Edward L. Hughes by two deeds; the ! first dated November 10, 1905, recorded in the Clerk's Office of the County of Cape May, in deed book No. 210, pages 74, etc.. and the second, a deed of confirmation dated July 17, 1900, and recorded in the Clerk's Offise of the County of Cape May, in book No. 205 of Deeds, pages 190 etc. Excepting thereout and therefrom, all that part of the above described land and premises as conveyed by Walter J . Feaderson, Jr., and Edward L. Hughes et ux to Rosalie M . Wenrtell by deed dated September 22, 1908. and of record in the Clerk's Office of the Ccunty of Cape May, in book Nc. 214 of deeds, pages 292 eto. Also subject to the conditions and restrictions cf a certain agreement made and executed by Walter J- Feaderson. Jr., and Edward L. Hughes et nx. and Rosalie M. Wentrell et vir, bearing date October 4, 1906, and duly recorded in the Clerk's Offiee of the County of Cape May, in deed book No. 289, pages 424 otn. The said Walter J. Fenderson, Jr.. conveyed all his undivided one-half interest of, in and to the said premises to the said Edward Tb. Hngbes by deed dated September 23, 1986, whieh deed is recorded in the Cape May County (Jerk's Office. Also all the bowling aley, balls, pint racks, pool and billiard tables, que* and balls, que racks, cash register, chairs, benches and all other fnrnitnre and fixtures now in or that may be hereinafter placed in the building oa the above deariibed premises Also all the bowling aWeva, balls, pins, benefits of the said Walter J. Fender, aon, Jr.. which he has or may hereafter have under and by virtue #f said agreement lastly above referred to: COLEMAN F. CORSON, Sheriff. Dated March 18, 1914. James M.'E. Hildreth, Scl'r. 3-21 -4 1 p. f- ffW.99 Sheriff's Sale By virtue of a writ,of Fieri Facias, for sals cf Mortgaged Premises, to me diluted, issued out cf the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, on the 9th day of March A. D„ 1914, in a certain cause wherein Ottier Edward is complainant, and Alice Chew and Alice Chew, executrix cf George H. Freeman, deceased, Robert Keith, Herman Finnemann and Nancy Finns man, are defendants, 1 shall eaposc to sale at public vendue on MONDAY, APRIL 13th, 1914, briween the hours of twelve and five o'clock p. m., to wit, at 1-30 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the Sher-iff-s Office, in Ckpe May Court House, Ohpe May Oounty, New Jersey: AU that certain lot, tract or parcel of land and premises hereinafter partisulvly described, situate in the Borough ad Weet Oapc May (formerly Lower Dcwcship) in the Osuaty cf Oapc May Mfi fltoto sf Saw Jeraey, bounded and damned nc tcDcwn, via: Bqgtoririg at a petot in the nerifeme* ■B Mac dt Mmmring Arams five hmcdjk Ml dplpdha and miahaBi

feet northwesterly from the northwest side line of land of the West Jersey thence extending iy fionU^ width northwesterly alottgAlfe northeast side line of said avenue fifty feet; thence ^ extending of that width between para!- R lei lines at right angles with said avenortheasterly one hundred and forty C« eight feet to land of Enoch Creese, con- ^ taining seven thousand four hundred T. feet of land, .be the same more or less. CI Being the same land and premises conveyed to the said George XL Freemen, by deed from Return B. Swain et ux, e date April 26, 1879, and recorded the Cape May County Clerk's Offiee, Cl the deed book. No. 54, pages 271, etc. c; COLEMAN F, CORSON, Sheriff. Dated March 16, 1914. L ! .Iam» Hildreth, Sol'r. ^ 3-21-41 P-.f- \\ J. l'EXNSY'S STOCKHOLDERS. Reports just compiled show that the) Pennsylvania Railroad Company on Jl 1, 1914, hud 89,313 stockholders; c of tliis number -42,971, or 48 per cent, were women. L Thirty thousand and sixty-six— prac p ticaliy one-third— of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad live in the S of Pennsylvania. Approximately c 15,000 live in New York and 16,096 "live in New England. Foreign countries have 11,732 of the stockholders. c The Pehnsylvania Railroad System g 1 has just issued its annual Record .of Transportation Lines. It shows that the S Company has 11,729 miles of line an ^ 26,198 miles of track. The System lias c 630 miles of four-track railroad. C The Pennsylvania now operates in thirteen states and the District of Co- ^ lumbia, where more than half the population of the United States lives. In these thirteen states it has. in addition to its 11,729 miles of line. 3,717 miles of second track, 821 miles of third track P and 9,298 miles of side tracks, ever. 5 mile of it built to enable the Systet P to evpidite the movement of freight an d ^ * J LOCATION OF FIKE ALARM TELEGRAM STATION* Keys roar b« obtained id," vicinity of alarm boxes. No. 35 — Washington Street, near Schellenrer'e Landing. ! 32 — Washington street, near Union. I No. 47 — Washington Street and MadNo. 54 — Lafayette and Bank streets. I No. 58— Broad and Elmlra streets. „\ . No. 45 — I'iftsburg and New Jersey ave. g No. SS — Stockton avenue, between Jefferson and Queen streets. ' No. 73 — Franklin and Washington at. . No. 75 — Howard St. opp. Stockton aveNo. 82— Columbia ave. and Guerney st. I No. 84 — Ocean street, near Beach ave. j No. 91 — Broadway and Grant. . '. No. 92 — Broadway and Beach a Venue. . No. 93 — I'erry street, near Bridge. , No. 94 — So. Lafayette and Grant St. j t) . No. 95— Washington and Jacksor. sts. i ^ j No. 97— Columbia ave and Decatur st. ' f All active Firemen. City Police Officers and Hotel Watchmen are provided ! with toys. |p i Legal Forms of all description in j J ■ stock. Special forms made to order at j j. . short notice. Star and Wave Stationery ! I Department . | TIDES FOR APRIL. t High Low I , A. M. P. M. A. M. I'. XI < 10 Friday 7.1(1 7.41 15.S 2.115 j | 11 .Saturday 8.04 8.28 2.41 3.04 1 j „ 12 Sunday - 6.52 9.16 3.28 332 9 i 13 Monday 9.40 10.04 4.16 4.40 a 14 Tuesday 10.31 10.56 5.04 5.31 l 15 Wednesday 11.24 1131 536 0.24 16 Thursday .... 12.22 631 7.22 ■ 17 Friday 1231 1.23 731 8.23 j i i 18 Saturday 135 2.24 835 9 .24 1 1 i, 19 Sunday 237 3.24 937 1024 I 20 Monday 335 4.18 1035 11.18 jj r 21 Tuesday 4.47 5.08 11.47 .... j :- 22 Wednesday 5.34 532 12.08 1234 23 Thursday 6.17 635 12.52 L17 s, 24 Friday 6.58 7.16 . 135 138 •. 25 Saturday 738 735 2.16 238 t 26 Sunday 8.17 833 .235 3.17 !- 27 Monday 855 9.12 3.33 3.55 > 28 Tuesday 933 930 4.12 433 r. 29 Wednesday 10.14 1032 430 5.14 ; 30 Thursday 10.59 11.18 532 5 59 i CASTOR I A Per Iaficlt* uul Children. Tin DsIYn Urn Atop Baagtt »f M Mailing tubes, 3 cents per foot. ll' Special price in large quantities. Star u" and Wave Pub. Company, d, id "Th£ Place of Honeymoons" will L" start on April 18th, in the Cape Ma 1 Star and Wave. IX) not miss any pari of this famous story. ln legal Forms of all • description in T" stock. Special fprms made to order at short notice. Star and Wave Stationery D-partment. it CITY DIRECTORY. : 'F Mayor, fm. M. Cassedy. ■d Alderman. Wm. T. Stevens. Jan. 1, 1918. Justice of the Peace, Lewis T. SUreao, _S May 1. 1918. h m rieaacU-S. T. Bailey .....*a. L 1617 ■»" - Memnean Hughee Jam. 1. 1918 to - Ma W. Miliar M L Mlf

Charles York Jan. 1. 1917 ! »'■ V. M. D. Marcy ..Jan. L 1919 1 John T. Jacoby . .Jan. 1, 1816 ] - Wm. S. Shaw Jan. 1. 1916 "^Fred'k W. Wolff. Jan. 1,1916 Wm. B. Gilbert ..Jan. 1. 1916 of Council. V. M. D. Marcy. and Superintendent of Water Works, Thoa. W. Millet. Jan. 1, 1918. • Collector. Walter 4. Fenderson, £r„ Jan- J 1. 1816. . . Assessor, Allen Wales, Jan. 1, 1816. I Stephen B. Wilson, Jan. 1. I 1916. Solicitor, J. M. E. Hildreth, Jan. I 1. 19X5. Building Inspector. Wm. T. Stevens, . I Jan. 1, 1915. . 1 . Engineer of Water Works. Frank C. B. Siieaoe. City Engineer. Edward Miller. Jan. 1, j "< 1916. J f of Police. George C. Baldwin. I ( Board -of Education: : | Luther Ogden. March. 1915 ( Shepiiard .' .... March, 1915 , Samuel R. Stitea March, 1915 : Porter March, 1917 : 1 Hewitt March. 1917 ' COUNTY DIRECTORY 1 of Supreme Counrt, Samuel Ka- j lUch, Dem.. June 1«. 1918. ] . Judge, Clarence L- Cole. Dem..1 , 1918. Judge, Henry H. Eldredge, Dem.. ; ; April 1. 1916. of Pleas, Matthew Jefferaon. j i Dem.. 1918. ! ! Coleman F. Corson, Dem., 1917. j • N. A. Cohen. Rep., Wlldwood, | ' Nov.. 1914; Wm. H. Thompson, Rep.. | Lower Township, Nov., 1914; Mark Lake, Rep., Ocean City. Nov., 1916. Clerk. A. Carlton Hildreth, Rep.. Jan., 1916, Edward L. Rice, Dem., Nov., Senator. Harry Wheaton. Dem., 1916. Assemblyman, Lewis T. Stevens, 1915. Collector, Joseph L Scull. RepCounty Board of Elections — H. S. Dougherty. Alfred Hand. Walter Rutherford. C. M. Westcott of Court — Second Tuesday ln April, September and December. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Cape May County Dirtrict Society for | . of Cruelty to Animals, Office j , 518 Washington Street. Cape May, N. J.j Dr. S. F. Ware; Vicc-Pre-:!- 1 Dr. Emlen Physick; Secretary, l«wis T. Stevens; Treasurer, Everett J.j CHURCH DIRECTORY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor, William Dyre MeCurdy. : Preaching on Sur.uay at 10.30 and j in the evening at 730. Sunday school j nt 3 p. m. Xvednesday evening Prayer .Meeting at 7.30. Men's Union Meeting, evening at 730. FIRST M. E. CHURCH Rev. W. E. Take. Pastor. Preaching Sunday 1030 A. M., 730 j P. M. Sunday School 2.80 P..M. Sun- . dya Praise Service, 9 A. M. and 6 P. M. , Class Meetings on Thursday and Fri- j day .evenings nt 7.45 P. M. Prayer; Wednesday evening 7.45 P. M. ' 1 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ! Sunday service*. 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 : p. m. Sunday school 3.00 p. m. Mid ; | week. Wednesday* , 8.00 p. rn. Y. P. S..C j j E. Fridays. 8 p. m. Junior Endeavor j Fridays, 3.45 p. m. P. E. CHURCH OF THE ADVENT I ! Lafayette street. Between Jacksor j a. J Decatur— Rev. Arthur Hess, Rector ' Sundays — Celebration of the Holy ; 730 A. M. Morning Pray or, Litany and Sermon, on the firal I Sunday of each mon': relebration of I Holy Communion. IC30. Sunday Sehoo' I P. v.. evening orayer $.00 P. M I ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH I Rev. D. S. Kelly, Rector. [ Mass Sunday at 6, 8, and 10 a. m.; evening services Sunday and Friday at 8 p. m. Confessions — Saturdays and Thursdays before the First Friday, from 3.30 to 6.00 P. M., and from 730 to j 030 P. U. SECRET SOCIETIES Adoniram Chapter, No. 89, Royal -cR Masons— Convo.-tions third Mon- ; day of each month at ' jdge room. Wash , iii' ' - and Franklin itiwli. Cape Xlay Lodge No. 80, F. and A. M. — Communications second and i fourth Tuesdays of each month at lodge . room. Washington and Franklin streets. | Mayflower Lodge, No. 258, Independent Order of Odd Feliowa — Meets each Friday at Audit-rilim, Jackson St. Ogallalla Tribe, No. 157, Improved Order of Red Men. Meets each Tuesday !

evening at Auditorium. j Columbia Lodge, No. 23, Independent > Order of Mechanics— Meets each Mon- . day evening st the Auditorium. Cape May Lodge No. 21, A. O. U. W.. ' Meets first and third Thursdays of each _ montl. at Ogden'a Hall. Perry street. j Cape May Council, No. 1691, Royal 1 Arcanum — Meets first and third Thursdays of each month at Auditorium c Cape Mi* Conclave, No. 183, Improved j Order of Heptaaopha — Meets at Ogden'a , q Hall, Perry street, on second and fourth , Thursdays of each month. Fatriotie Rons of America — Meets ! 'b each Saturday evening at the Auditor- 1 ium, Jackson Street. Cape May Camp, No. 8772, Modern n Woodmen of America— Mgeto first T/«d- ' t neaday of each month at the And) i-riui. ' Coll Sprinr Council. Jr. 0. U. A. M No. 135 — Meets in Hall at Gold Sprint every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. i Cape May Fire Department meets ot fi at Monday evening in each month mt , th- corner of Waahimrton and Franklir . st.eeta. Friendship Council, No. 27, D- of A^ ; k aeeis on Tuesday afternoon of eaab i. week at 230 to Jr. O. U. A. 3L The John Meerny Post. No. 46, G. A' 7 R, meeds on the first Monday of sssB ' 7,f° 1

UJorsljiprir in €itg of CUfob ggssjow little did the first STaff fm '-^r'Btian8 *bo reverenra sff CQ tlally prepared n place ||E wS 89 for their fellow worshipPftByQICT en suspect that theee same tombs should soon their churches and their hiding places! The first catacomb? of Rome were excavated by wealthy Christians j for their own families, and later, when ! ' extended, the bodies of their poorer brothers and sisters in the faith were admitted. The extent of the labyrinths , which undermine the suburbs of "Rome rivals their, complexity. In four cen- j turles 550 miles of corridors were cut ] from the rock, some of the passages ' 75 feet below the surface. I I The passages themselves are only ! ! wide enough for a procession to : march ln single file. On either hand . ! are the sealed niches containing the ( | bodies of the first Christians, and oc- j casioually an arched doorway leads i | Into one of the larger crypts, which ■ ! used as chapels In times of per- j I secutlon. In which Easter was certainly celebrated, when the insane wrath of the emperor drove the Christians to cover. These chambers which were need for worship were small and the numbers who assembled ln them were limited. There was a raised seat for the bishop, a lower seat for the preebyters and a bench about, the wall to accommodate the worshipers. Frescoes and Inscriptions indicate that the Easter feast was celebrated with the eucharlst in these vaults. The doors and stairways were sometimes blocked, with Roman soldiers on guard. Then the airholes were ' i used, and the worshipers were low- j ! ered Into the charnel recesses by ' I ropes. It was here that the embryo of mod- ' 1 era civilisation was nurtured and kept alive through a period of great ; j trial and stress. Had Nero's soldiers j ! known the catacombs as the Chris- j i tlans knew them, the world might I still be laboring along under some ( \ silly pagan creed. The life of Chriej tianity at one time depended upon the dark and seclusion of a tomb. In the faint, red light of torches [ which illumined the sepulchral chambers the venerable and courageous i leaders of the little flocks adminis- . ! tered the Easter sacrament to fearful I yet resolute Romans, in whose veins ' • was all the spartanlsm of Rome, made holier by an ardor and faith which II the presence, of men who had seen . and spoken with the Master Inspired. . ,| St. Peter may have stood in one . ' of these very cublcula and told of the . i truth and beauty of Hi6 life and words j while the distant clank and rattle of ' I bronze and steel bore witness to the j soldiery on the search for more provI ender for Nero's lions. ' I The beautiful pageantry of our Eae- 1 ter, with its flowers, song. Incense, ' music and accompaniment of sun- j ' shine and the warmth of spring, con- 1 ' trasts strangely with the setting of the j Easter In the catacombs. There all I ! was sad and somber, damp and morbid. The walls, covered with their funeral Inscriptions, were cold and I moist, the torches flickering fitfully ' ln the heavy atmosphere of the sepulcher. The Christians, hunted.

i||p • c Diagram of the Catacombs. *

persecuted, many of them without home, were a forlorn and jaded spectacle. Only the undying. Invincible spirit of their cause upheld -them. The preacher had to dwell upon the Joys of the future and the Master's [ promise to dispel the heavy gloom. ; There was no rich organ music; no display of color; no sound of mirth and gladness from without The spring song of birds did not reach them, only the deep roar of infuriated , animals and the tramp of the legion- ; aries penetrated to mingle with their j voices ln the service. So was Christianity kept alive and our modem civilization born. Easter Thought The keynote of Easter Is hope. Winter's night la over. The leaves, the flowers, the songbirds have awakened to the morning of the year, and hearts too may fill with glad new life. The real Easter la the power of Christ's resurrection that raises our spirits to heavenly places, and fills our lives an earth with the Joy and peace, the victory and lore of the spirit of the risen Christ — -v 1

[fjrMey Ceremonies' of Today Hi an^ __ of the Past ITH the coming of Easter W Interest is always aroused in the ancient belief, i ceremonies and observ- 1 ' ances that are brought together in the celebra- 1 tion of the modern festi- ! j val. These Include such things as ' eggs, cakes, flowers, presents and the ' .j Easter hare, to say nothing of other. I Items obsolete in our times, individual ' notings of one or another of the cere- , monies or observances have there j been, but ltjis by no means easy to j lay hand on any assembling of them, i j Authorities agree that the remote I 1 ancestor of Easter wad a ceremony of I pagan worship. Distant as are the origins of the old religious forms and intertwined as are the threads, connecting them with the present, it Is not now easy to disentangle them, so that it may be said that Easter observances among the people Include remnants of the ancient worship of the sun, the moon and fire and water. The keynote of the festival has been from the very beginning resurrection, the re-awakening of the vernal world. The name is that of a goddess ot I spring, and certain of the emblems have had a co-relation that Is remarkable, and through thirty centuries ' they have come down to ua'logether, 1 | preserving the early significance of 1 resurrection, although the faith that ' ; originated the ideas had ages ago ' j been forgotten. The idea of Easter ! 8 prang truly from a tomb; that tomb ■ was, however, the tomb of winter.

I The etrong angel that rolled away the ! I I stone from the door of the sepulcher j r i was the April sun. ■ I Although Lent has the claim of J ^ I j Christian origin, there are antiquar- t 1 | ians who assert that it is of far mora a ' ancient origin. It arose, as nearly as B 1 ] has yet been determined, in the fast- 6 ing that was customary among the t I ' Babylonians, whose worship formed • j the starting point of Easter. The fast P i was one of sympathy with the goddess " - ' of reproduction, who mourned her con- >] 1 sort, and the period was marked by i : fasting and an abstinence from mirth d ! I and social festivals. Fasting has been j l 1 a widespread custom, Humboldt not- 1; i ! Ing fasts In Mexico, where, curiously t . ! enough, the Invading Spaniards found j ' the natives practicing baptism, with ' j an invocation to Cioacooatl that "the 1 5 i sin which was given before the be- I t ginning of the world might not visit j 3 -the child, but that cleansed by these -j waters It might live and be bora j | anew." ^ . Easter was at first a continuation , ' of the Jewish Passover and caiae on I ' the fourteenth of the month Nisan. . _ _ I When the revulsion of feeling in the ' j ' church against the Jews occurred it j t j j was changed and deliberately fixed 1 1 w ! so that it could by no possibility fall i „ j on the same day as the Passover, j This matter was settled in A. D. 325. 1 1 ' Easter was set for the first Sunday ! 1 following the full moon" that comes J 1 r ■ after March 21. This relation to the | 1 s vernal equinox brought it to the time i ' * of the pagan festival of the goddess ! < j of spring, dating back to the Astarte ' t worship of Babylonia. The name, Easter, is comparatively modern, but ! ( the principle of the story and the i 1 emblems and observances are of this i ; ancient date. I "Easter fires continue even now in ' ' northern Europe." wrote Grimm a j ' generation ago. On the Weser a tar j i barrel was tied to a fire tree and ! , lighted in the evening and the men ; and the maidens sang and danced ' , 1 about It There was a fire on every i hilltop. There were processions to i ' these fires and hymn singing and the j ! bearing of white rofts were features. | ' The people liked to carry the fire ] home with them: It was a sacred fire J and embodied elements of the,: old , fire worship. It was produced by ( friction, a natural method, and to kin- 1 , die it two boys were selected who ! knew nothing of the vanities of the , , world. Within a quarter of a century j ; j in Hildesheim the Easter fire has i j been struck with the steel. Here the t people take the fire home to rekindle { j. their extinguished hearths. The old . "a sacred fires were lighted by natural j means, some of them by concentration 0 of the" sun's rays through mirrors. tf uierc iiaffarjsprittgtcf tfhoulb lark, arte -mam prop » hi tnir faifk 1 d • C L. £ tit a tuhn-e ' l kS X Co/ S3

( In approaching a problem such aa ths I agitated- acquisition of this country! telephone systems by the Federal Government, it is but natural to review ths experiences of other nations in the eon- | duct oi great public utilities,' and from | such observation and study to weigh the . ' probability of our own Government sucf cessful coping with an undertaking ; which' has been pursued by such unfortunate aud -pronounced developments ia r: England ad in every Continental covin- r 1 try. The general rule '■ of inefficiency [, and inertia which characterizes tbe oper- '• i atlon of the telephone and tbe Icle1 graph under public ownership, and which I has boen the subject of many recent dispatches from the other side, is not conB i fined merely- to Europe. For, deplorable r and even ridiculous as liave been por1 t raved tbe conditions which attend ths i- furnishing of telephone service by ths 9 ] British, FrensJuyiil^Aher European gov9 I ernmcnts, we need not crosslbe ocean to b j find like examples of the disastrous ref suits which have followed the public aca quisition and atempt at operation off i the great public utilities, l- At least three of our own states 6 North Carolina, Maryland and Texas, 0 have made a trial of public ownership, v y Each attempted to operate a railroad. / * But after fifty years of political misr_ management, North Carolina leased its n line to a private company. Maryland i, went a stap further and sold what was L left of the Western Maryland to ths lf Goulds some years ago, and Texas, disallusioncd and disgusted, it now trying B to unload its road upoq some private r company. Mepsured by every standard, ,f not only were these railroads financial it failures, but they proved to be utterly o inadequate in the furthering of public service, as the States themselves will b testify.

Our Federal Government has, in liks respect, experienced with till- operation ] of a public utility — the telegraph system in Alaska. During the year of 1911, the last on which authorative reports are at hand, its .inanncial statement showed a substantial deficit of $28,and this notwithstanding tbe fact its mile-for-tuilc charges arc 289 cent, or nearly three times those made by our( private owned companies in this section of the country. Our Canadian neighbors have had their disappointing cxi>erience8, too. The of Manitoba, in Canada, not se years ago become enthused with the idea of public ownership of telephone lines, extravagant promises o4 efficient service and lower rates been doled out by the political party which stood behind the project. telephone plant of the Bell ,Company in that province was taken over the government, and — just' as was promised — the rates were (educed. But j Manitoba's dream was short lived. For j was soon realized that the reduced rates were quite insufficient to operate the system without a substantial loss. J an«f*$lie subscribers to the service, whs . had been lioodw inched into believing J that public ownership really promised | them increased benefits, were in a short j time confronted by a vastly less effij cient service, coupled with a rate inI of 25 per cent., aud the charges I It would scein to be the rule sf history that no nation can be developed inthe modern systems of party politics st^nd in the way. Yet it is more likely I that the dismal failure every nation in the conduct of, its important business i undertakings are attributed to the ever increasing requirements of government which leave all too little time for the J performance of those exaeting public j services which now require all tbe iYmjtiative ability and high organuiraiion of ! private enterprise. J A prominent Senator once made the 'statement, without denial from any competent authority, that our nation, j which wasted three hundred million dolrevenues, in the legimate functions of government, would easily waste its funds in even greater proportions were I it to go into business and with its man- ; agement subject to the review and decree of the men employed. , Were the promised benefits of public ownership of tbe telephone lines substantiated by the experience of other n« tions the people of this country might perchance be disposed to pocket the loss or waste which is incident to bo*eminent operation, but with nil preee-' dents unfavorable to the realization of any such benefits, the inefficiency of Uncle Ram's business ability must 1»weighed strongly in the consideration which will be given to this subject by the American people. Typewriter and Adding Machine Ribbons. all colors and styles, at the -Star and Wave .Stationery Department. Legal Forms of all description is ■toek. Special forms made to order at short notice. Star and Wave Stationery Department. B«at ths 8 tar and Ware. 1