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Four READING TIMES May May May May May May May May May Established in ISM. Published Every Moraine Except Sunday. READING TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, Telegram and Times OulldJn, Hxth and Walnut Streets. Alexander TROUP. President WALTER F.

DUMSER and Treasurer WALTER T. DUMBER, Editor and Manager. FREDERICK S. FOX, Managing Editor. AH letters submitted for rublicatlon must be accompanied by name and ad at The name of the sendar will not be published without bis conseo Subscribers changing their address are requested to notify Reading Times office by mall or telephone, stating old as well as new address.

4C vainer, cci nww. By Mali, per Ey Mall, annually, 13,109 13.123 ....13,133 ....13,132 ....13,143 ....13,158 ....13,167 May 10 ...13188 May May 12 ,218 May 13 13,243 May 14 May 15 13,253 May 16 State of Pennsylvania, County of Berks, ss: 01.. rtf A 1313. Viftfori before My commission expires January 19, 1915. JSC Robert Tomes.

116 Nassau Street, New York, Special Eastern Representative. ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT. Entered at the postofflce In Reading. as second class matter. READING, JUNE 6, 1913.

MAY CIRCULATION nurin the month of May. 1913, the circulation of the Times Telegram was 357,953, an average of copies a aay, ment, setting forth the figures In deetail as is shown by the following sworn state May 17 Mav IS May 19 May 30 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 26 May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May THE READING TIMES. READING, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, i9l3 $3.00 .13,384 me, a Notary Public of the Com achievement in his tramo from New York Mondav for a I iTf m.ntv and state aforesaid, per. sonaUy ame Lew Vyrtloniirot the Reading Times Tele Iramee, who. being duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says the above and Foregoing is an absolutely true, accurate and correct statement of the actual cir culation Dy man, earners ana saies, uuinj ius LEWIS O.

EARLT, Circulation Manager, Sworn and subscribed before me the day anl yeaHarLd WERNER, Notary ruonc. Los Angeles, women voters and all, has turned back on its re form city administration and declared for a liberal administration. The report that those 2,000 rifles shipped to Ulster were made in Germany is not likely to improce Anglo Teutonic relations. Washington is hastily revising its ideas about the national Cap itol being so much different from that at Trenton. The successful petitioner in a New York divorce case has or ganized her witnesses into a permanent club.

Here is a hint for the colonel. Perhaps the Senate's decision that the Washington police are not to blame for the disorder of the crowd at the suffrage parade on the day before inauguration day was preliminary practice for a find ing that there is no lobby besieging the Senate. The declaration of the leading broker in Paris concerning the St. Louis San Francisco smash that "American credit is dead in France," indicates that over there brokers have an old fashioned and effete notion that they have some responsibility for the character of the Securities they unload on investors. A retired army officer bewails the hardship of having to live on threequarters pay with no allowances.

The majority of the people who have to furnish the three quarters pay would, on reaching the age of retirement, regard three quarters pay as a stroke of unexpected fortune. It is interestinrr that the nation is now rpca11.no thr hU CT 4iWl century old events of the Civil and the centennials of happenings in the'second war with England. This last week was the centennial of Sacketts Harbor, where a British attack was repulsed and July 10 will be oelebrated the hundredth anniversary of Commodore Perry's victory on Lake Erie. We are not celebrating the semi it jiLcinutiio yji any vivu uai v.111115 au jjicsci.l suite IMdV am! Julie, 1863, were not particularly encouraging for the Union. But in July will come the dates of Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Port Hudson, which were really pivotal in that conflict.

THE PANHANDLERS. The coming primary election is already casting its shadow in the shape of the complaint by the candidates of the pan handlers who are thus early infesting the vicinity of the court house and holding up those who are seeking office, for dimes and quarters and for any sort of a coin that they can abstract from the pockets of i.1 1 mm a me men wno are looKing lor votes, tne oannandier nas Deen a feature of politics from time immemorial and has been regarded as a pest by all who have sought office. It appears that the strict laAvs as to the expenditures of candidates and corrupt practices acts have little or no effect upon him. He is generally a sort of human dere lict, a loafer, a drunkard and an impudent, lazy, unwashed and un kempt specimen, commanding no influence, controlling not even his own vote, and yet he manages, during the greater part of the year to obtain booze money and to keep his clay soaked with rum at the expense of those who aspire to.joffice. If they complain about him as a pest, the fact that he is so is largely their own fault.

Somehow or other the ordinary candidate is a very easy mark and is overmastered by a certain timidity which causes him to fear the panhandler, and to imagine that somehow or other he will be creating an unfavorable influence if he refuses to accede to their demands. In doing so they are not only wasting their coin and failing to promote their own interests, but they are encouraging the idleness and dissipation of this most undesirable class of people. If they were not supplied with booze and in part supported by the politicians a great many of them would be forced to work, and by working and earning money honestly they might gradually come back to self respect and industrious citizenship. Besides this, it is a very serious question as to whether a candi date, who hands out small coin promiscuously to this class, is not violating the law and thereby subjecting himself to the risk of not Sunday being ae t0 qu'fy fr the office which he seeks, after his nomina .13,286 tinn anH plprtirm 13.302 Our advice to the politicians is to cease complain Hi US ing about the panhandler and to eliminate him by absolutely refusing 13.3S2 May 31 13.3S4 his demands, small or great, and, in addition to that, handing them Sunday over to the law as vagrants and public beggars whenever they prefer their requests WESTON AND THE WALKING HABIT. Payson Weston plans one more notable pedestrian T.

R. THANKS LAWYER. Detroit, June 5. James H. Pound, chief counsel for Col.

Roosevelt In his recent libel suit, received a letter from the Colonel which he will have framed and hung alongside his college diploma and the lithograph picture of the United States Supreme Court in his office. This is the missive: "My dear Mr. Pound: Let me con gratulate you upon the victory and let me express my hearty sense of obli gation for the untiring zeal, energy and force with which you put this case through. It has been a very gratifying outcome. With all good wishes, I am most sincerely yours, i 1,500 mile walk to Minneapolis.He hopes to reach his destination August 2.

Weston's feats upon the road are probably regarded by the gen erality of men as interesting, but exceedingly eccentric. Like the six year old boy who plays the piano skillfully, they might be worth attention, but of no universal application. The popular method when persons of sedentary occupation feel their physical vitality low, is to gulp down many copious gallons of mineral water or erect pulley Aveights in their sleeping rooms. They yank at these weights desultorily morning anfl night. They count their motions carefully so as to be sure not to do too many.

But it is not easy to manufacture health to order in this way. The man who enjoys walking is regarded as singular. When his friends meet him piking along, they pick him up, feeling that they do him a favor in helping him reach his destination. Those courageous spirits who sported ttieir straws recently have i i daily to his office and back, three miles each way, and a new respect for the conventional date, King Alfonso seems to be able to do some ruling on his own judging by his insistence of keeping the cabinet he wants. New York's subscriptionh for a sane Fourth now amount $3,000.

It is not likely to be wildly uncontrollable for that sum. to No plays are being produced abroad worthy of being brought here, says Henry W. Savage. This ought to give the American playwright his long desired opportunity. If that operation restores the memory of that lost patient in it may be a useful precedent the next'time a corporation loses his memory on the stand.

Any senator who has been approached by an insidious lobbyist and waits until he is grilled on the stand to disclose it will show a political incapacity hardly to be expected of a statesman of that rank. Some people in New York are agitating for a pension for all cityi workers. If this thing keeps on, some day a keen politician will strike a motner ioae oi popularity oy urging a pension ior taxpayers Those New York aldermen who have been investigating the po lice department appear to have discovered only a chance to make a political play. have it still. He says the young men and women who crowd the street cars, many of the fellows puffing at cigarettes, look at him trudging along as a curiosity.

Probably though, had Mr. Gaynor not kept up this exercise, he would today be under ground, as the result of the assassin's bullet. Even country people do not walk as they used to. Formerly the youngsters thought nothing of a three mile trudge each way between home and school. Now if they have to tramp more than a mile they must have a transportation wagon.

Mr. Weston is now 74 years old. His abundant physical vitality shows the possibilities of a ripe and vigorous old age for every man and woman. JUSTIFYING THE "JAY." It has been some years since the New York papers gloated over the misadventure of the "jay" visitor who blew out the gas, but at one time no joke was more pupular in the metropolitan press, probably because it gave the city resident such a sense of superiority over the benighted denizens from the rural districts. But time brings its re M' TT 11 I 14'4 4 venges.

lne tieraia ot yesterday pubiisned on its first page the story of a young New York girl visiting in Wheeling, W. who was found unconscious and her life narrowly saved because she had repeated the once familiar bucolic stunt of blowing out the light. The veracious correspondent explained that on regaining her senses she admitted that she did not know how to turn it off, having always been used to electric lights at home in New York. While sceptical of the absolute accuracy of the tale the moral should not be lost. It might be as conceivable that a New Yorker accustomed to electric lights and unacquainted with gas should try to blow it ouf, a sthat a ruralist of the older day accustomed to oil lamps and unfamiliar with gas should have done so.

But if there is any stigma of ignorance it should rest rather on the more modern with the greater opportunities for information. Of the two jokes that on New York seems much the better. For every laugh the city man has on the country man's ignorance of town the country man could as easily have one on the city man ignorance of the country. Mak ing sport of the stranger is a demonstration of one's own narrowness. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." BEFORE TARIFF DIAMOND RUSH.

New York, June 5. Diamond im porters are still rushing large quan tities of gems Into this country in expectation of an Increase in the tariff. According to the customs appraisers' figures the value of gems received through this port during May was $4, 606,323, record breaking figures for the month of May. Since the first of the year, the import of gems has amounted to over 323,000,000. reading man is steam; engineer.

Philadelphia, June 5. The South arid West united against the North and East won out yesterday at the convention of the American Order of Steam Engineers, in session in the Parkway Building, Broad and Cherry streets, in the contest over the nomination of a candidate for Supreme Chief. The rival candidates were George W. Goodwin, of Baltimore, and John Best, of Atlantic City, and the former received the nomination after a lively contest. Among the other nominations were: Chaplain, L.

J. Galaway, Ray Bowman, Reading; inside sentinel, Jack Morris, Atlantic City; F. S. Miller, Reading; trustee, F. J.

Armstrong, Manayunk; D. B. Heil man; Reading. HAITI NAVY TO SCRAP HEAP. Philadelphia, June 5.

Haiti's "navy," the converted yacht Ferrier which has been at this port for more thBn a year, left yesterday in. tow of a tug for New York, where, it is reported, she will be sent to a scrap heap. I Manager Said to Have Rolled in "High Life" in Alfred J. Keppelmann, Philadelphia manager of the Farbenfabriken of Eberfeld Company, a German concern, looms up as the romantic figure in the $500,000 suits instituted in the United States district court last Tuesday by the Nolde Horst Company, of Read ing, which seeks to recover $50,000, and two other textile manufacturers of Philadelphia, for three fold damages from foreign firms, generally defined as the German monopoly In the manufacture of dye stuffs. In ten years, it Is said, Keppelmann, acting as agent for the men who con trol the dye products, has amassed a fortune of more than $1,000,000.

In ten years he has become the big, con trolling factor in the sale of dye stuffs to textile concerns in this territory There have been independent dye stuff agents in Philadelphia, but they con trolled not more than one per cent, of the sales, it is charged. It is asserted that the progress of the dy manufacturers of Germany has, within a comparatively short time, made millionaires of peasants. Men who counted their fortunes at less than 500 marks fifteen years ago are now rolling in wealth. The progress in dustry and the merging of the manufacturing concerns, which is permitted without restraint In Germany, has re sulted in the creating of gigantic It was about ten years ago that Mr. Keppelmann appeared on the Philadelphia scene and began to get business for his companies.

Fifteen years ago there was competition among the dye stuff agents in Philadel phia, and prices, it is said, were relatively low. Then the change developed. It is alleged that the small agent was grad ually shoved to the outskirts. Prices it is said, were steadily advanced. There was only one source for the dye stuffs product, and the manufacturers had to pay the price.

Keppelmann, in the meantime, slow ly but surely took charge of the situ ation. Independent agents remained, but it is the charge of attorneys for the manufacturers that the "trust" sinply tolerated the little fellows for the 'sake of appearance." In the meantime Mr. Keppelmann became a social figure in the com munity. He owned a yacht and still owns it, and on this pleasure craft he entertained his friends. He not only owned one motorcar, but he owned several, and these were available to the friends he liked best.

And even his competing agents in the sale of dyestuffs were properly catalogued as Keppelmann's friends. He established a luxurious home at 6642 McCallum street, Germantown, where his friends frequently were en tertained. Keppelmann being asslated in social duties at home by a charming wife, whom he married in Berlin, and who still lives at the McCallum ddress, although Mr. Keppelmar.n for a long time has made his homo at the Racquet Club. With the filing of the suit against the alleged dye stuff trust now comes a rumor that a woman stenographer in Keppelmann's employ will be summoned as a witness for the plaintiffs.

She is said to have had a great head for business and to have been a big factor in building the Philadelphia trade of the German dye trust. Philadelphia. North American. CHILD'S ILLNESS KEEPS PASTOR HOME Rev. Mr.

Dickert Postpones European Trip Because of Daughter's Operation. Mary Dickert, the 10 year old daugh ter of Rev, and Mrs. Thomas W. of St. Stephen's Refqrmed Church, residing at 233 North Tenth street, was operated on at St.

Joseph's Hospital Thursday for appendicitis. The illness of the child will postpone the European trip of Rev. Mr. Dickert. He was to have sailed on Saturday morning to attend the tenth annual Council of the Reformed Churches Throughout the World, holding the Presbyterian system, which will convene at Aberdeen, Scotland, on June 18.

Mr. Dickert postponed his sailing on the "California" and has been in communication with the steamship company, endeavoring to arrange passage on the "Mauritania," which pails next Wednesday, which ship he will take in case the condition of his oldest daughter improves. By sailing on the "Mauritania" he will be enabled to get to Scotland in time for the conferences on the 18th or 19th and will be to represent the General Synod of the Reformed Church of the United States, which delegated him to the council meetings. TELEPHONE REORGANIZATION. Allentown, June 5.

The reorganiza tion and rehabilitation the Consolidated Telephone Companies of Penn sylvania is at last an assured fact. Yesterday in Allentown the five who rep resent practically all the stock and about two thirds of the outstanding bonds William B. Given, of New York, chairman; Colonel Harry Trexler, of Allentown; Alvan Markle, of Hazleton; John Graham, of New ville, and Murray Gibson, of Philadelphia met in Allentown and formulated the plans in substance as foliows: The old company will be reorganized under the name of the New Consoli dated Telephone Company. INJURED BY SALUTE. Ada, Ohio, June 5.

The premature discharge of a cannon which was to be fired as a salute to Gov. James M. Cox, this afternoon, caused injuries to Daniel Best, of Pitcairn, a former student at Ohio University, that may be fatal. Every member of the Mauch Chunk High School graduating class this year passed with an average over 90 per cent. 413 COMMISSIONERS PICKED OF EKillT.

Eight candidates for commissioners receiving the highest vote at the primaries will be placed or. the ticket for the general election in November, when the four having the highest vote will be elected. The changes which would be effect ed are still being discussed everywhere with much predicting as to the fall election and the chances of different men who will be candidates. It was said at City Hall Thursday that although City Controller Dorward has until 1915 to serve his term out, his title will change to City auditor im mediately. Another feature will be that two city assessors, Brissel and Schwartz, will serve out their term to 1915, while no successor will be chosen to Isaac V.

Haller, whose term expires this year. The term of City Clerk Ramsey expires on the first Monday in April. 1915. The city solicitor serves to May, 1914, the city engineer to May, 1915. and the city treasurer to December.

1915. These officials will hereafter be elected by the commissioners. Heretofore the treasurer was elected by the people and the other three by councils. The offices of clerks of councils will expire with the passing of councils. All this, of course, is conditional on the governor's signing of the bill.

There is no doubt of this, however, since the chief executive took a hand in framing it. E. J. Morris, who was the Demo cratic nominee for Mayor in 1911, and who is spoken of for one of the Commissioners under the new form of government, said on Thursday that he would make no announcement one way or the other until the bill finally becomes a law with the Governor signature. Mr.

Morris has always been a commission government advo cate and has read papers and made a number of addresses in favor of the new form for the past several years. Chief of Police Green and Charles Marks, clerk in City Clerk Ramsey's will spend some time fishing along the Perkiomen. Treasurer E. A. Filbert will spend a week at the seashore late in the season.

City Clerk L. S. Ramsey will spend his vacation camping with' the Sons of Veterans, at Gettysburg. Controller O. B.

Dorward, will motor to Bristol, and spend a few days there. Clerk Harry Zimmerman will spend a week in New York. City Engineer E. B. Ulrich win take a vacation late In the fall to attend tho pigeon shows and may, go to the big show at London, England.

Building Inspector A. J. Grove will spend a week at Atlantic City. E. J.

Deininger, clerk of Select Coun cil, will spend a few days fishing in Lebanen county, and H. R. Zimmerman, clerk in Common, will take trolley trips. Sergeant Kissinger is contemplating another trip to Canada. Detective Hallissey will go to Boston to spend a week and Detective McGov ern will go to Atlantic City.

Miss Louisa Potter will spend her vacation at Ocean Grove. The Mauch Chunk School Board has decided to enforce the compulsory school act in its entirety. PUT YOUR MONEY IN OUR BANK Every day the papers contain accounts of those who have lost their money by hiding it or by fire or burglary. Your money is NOT SAFE unless it is in the bank. There are many conveniences in a bank account.

We keep your accounts straight, give you advice free, relieve you of worry and anxiety and insure PEACE OF MIND. We pay 2 per cent, interest on Checking Accounts. The PENNSYLVANIA TlUSf 536 PENN STREET Resources May 1,1913. CITIES AFFECTED BY COMMISSION BILL Population. Cits'.

County. 1910. Reading 96.071 Wilkes Barre Luzerne 67,105 Erie Erie Harrisburg Dauphin G4.1S6 Cambria 55.4S2 Altoona Blair ....52,127 Allentown Lehigh .....51,913 York York 44,750 Allegheny Chester Delaware 38,537 New Castle Lawrence 36,20 Williamsport LycnminK Sl.SfiO Easton Northampton .28,523 Hazleton Luzerne ..25,452 Lebanon Lebanon Pittston Oil City 15,657 Bradford'. SlcKean 14,544 Frankli i 9.767 Titusvilie S.5S3 Iock Haven 7,772 7,598 Corry Erie 5,991 mm nr i iTnnmia ni in iirn'mnri'Mniii htmi mtii i HELEN FOCHT Who Died Tuesday. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS Mrs.

Louise Van Keuren, of Chicago, who shot and killed her husband, John B. Van Keuren, from whom she had been repsiratort, when he attempted to force aa entrance into her home, was held for tho Grand Jury on charge of murder. George Penrose, a jeweler, who admitted he been in the apartment prior to the shooting, was held as an accessory. Colonel E. C.

Cornington, chairman of the Progressive State Committee of Maryland, was shorn of his power at a meet in.i? at Baltimore because of his open espousal of amalgamation with the Republican party. Plans for reorganizing the Republican Congressional Committee were discussed by its officers in Washington. Secretary Daniels, of the Navy Department, promised to investigate the project to turn over the site of the Naval Home and Naval Hospital, at Philadelphia, to the city for use as a park and children's playground. Japan's rejoinder to the United State. reply to that country's protest of The California anti alien land law Insisted ihat the Webb bill was a violation of the treaty of 1011.

The note was delivered to Secretary Bryan by Ambassador Clilnda. By confessing that they would not foe affected by any tariff legislation which might be enacted, several United States Senators virtually have admitted that they are incompetent to vote on tr.is important issue, and that there'is need for the expert advice afforded thorn bv "lob byists Dr. Lauro Muller, Brazilian Foreign Minister, sailed on the dreadnought Mina3 Geraes for the United States to return the visit to Brazil in 19u6 of the then Secretary of State Elihu Root. Miss Agnes Hart Wilson, daughter of the Secretary of Labor, in an address in St. Louis, asked purchasers of clothing to demand garments bearing the union label.

Delegates of the great Powers, the Bal kar. States and Turkey met in Paris to settle the financial questions arising out of the recent war. These questions in clude the assumption of the Ottoman debt and the demand for a war indemnity. Daughter of James Cunningham Bishop, divorced, runs to him in court and judge awards her to him. The United States Embassy ship Scorpion passpd.

through tiie Bosphorus and paid a visit to Odessa, this being the first time an American warship has ever penetrated to the Black i5ea. The National Wholesale Grocers' Association, in convention at Atlantic City, indorsed the demand for a higher degree of efficiency in manufacture and a more scientific distribution of food products. John E. Wilkie, former chief of the United tates Secret Service in Washington, was elected vice president of the Chi. cago Railways Company at a special meeting of the board Of directors.

U. V. L.XOMMANDER Wilmington, June .5. Jojin P. Donahoe, a Civil' War veteran, died here this afternoon aged 75 years.

He served a term as Speaker of State Senate and in 1903, was elected National commander of the Union Veteran Legion, serving one year. PILES CURED AT HOME BY NEWASSORPTIONfiETHQD If you suffer from bleeding, itching, Mind or protruding Piles, send mo your address, and I will tell you how to cure yourself at home fcy tho new absorption treatment; and will also send some of this treatment free for trial, with references from your own locality, If requested. Immediate relief and por manent cure assured. Send no money, but tell others of this Write today to' Mrs. 'M.

Summers, Box P. Notro Dame, Ind. 1 Ml (ft to 8 I.