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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-22


mir. Gen. Reed, aiming with delibera.
ton, fired, and COL, Aston dropped
dead.
His sister, most spirited woman, was
almost orazed with the news of his death.
She secured the lead that had killed him,
and with her own hands nodded 1t into
bullets and ssnt them to her brother,
Willis Aston, and implored him to come
and avenge the death of his brother. She
wrote that he had been murdered, and
the Alstons adhered to this belief, al
though the general statement is that the
nesting was fair one, Gen. Reed using
only mis- just right in firing after the ex-
plosion Of Alston's Wager"
AT any rate, it was very we'll under
stood that Willis Aston would seek re-
venge for his brother sdeath, as the family
had for generations made one of all their
qnarrels. The first meeting between
Aston and Reed was dramatic. The
legislature had met. and Reed was elect
ed speaker. He was young man of ex-
ceptional power and popularity, and his
life promised TO be brilliant and Illus
trious. He had invited his friends to the
usual legislative supper. and the ban
quet was in progress, and everything 60
ing merrily and well. Suddenly a tall
figure, muffled in swinging cloak and
with SLOUGH hat drawn over his face,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-22

that is that the convict lease system Ia
doomed.
The appearance of Capt. Cox, after
having passed under the st adow of death
exercising supreme control over the pris-
on house in which he once served with
cut ray of hopo for the future. recalls
interest in the sad tragedy, which began
with the agitation against the lease sys-
tam, and makes the whole story read
more like romance than realty.
Col. Robert A. Aston belonged to a
remarkable family in North Carolina,
known as the Fighting Alstons of Hall
fax. 1t has been for half century a
tradition in the family that its men died
with their boots on. For generation af-
yer generation this has proved true, and
the history of this audaoious strain of
blood Is interviewer with ths history of
those days when gentlemen fought at the
dropping of hat and slight move OF
the pistol finger was the answer to an
lnsul1 or an 1nslnuation-the close of all
argument.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-22

In England a clergyman usually takes
precedence of barrister.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
Legislative Work for Iowa.

Dies MONIES, March 2L-In the house
merely routine was done. Petitions were
received protesting against extra session.
a number of bills were indefinitely post
poned and committee reports received.
The senate bill passed allowing cities to
change the form of bonds, making sums
payable only after certain period. In
the senate The appropriation committee
recommended the passage of bill for
travelling Libraries. under the management
Of the state library trustees, and to pay
the expenses OF the commission that 10.
Gated the position Of Iowa troops at
Shiloh. The senate passed the bills allow
ing an appeal to the district court from
decisions of the state board of examiners
compelling the burning of the bodies of
hogs dying from cholera. and providin G
punishment for selling such bodies or
hauling the sane on the public roads.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
LICKED UP A HALF A MILLION.
Fire ut Philadelphia Burns Out the T!,ac!S-
era Co.-WUrkmcn in Peril.

Fire ut Philadelphia Burns Out the T!,acIz-
era Co.-WOrkmen in Peril.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2A-Firc broke
out about ) p. H. in the six story building
of the Thacllera Manufacturing company,
manufacturers aad dealers in fancy gas
fixtures and candelabra, at 1924 and 1876
Chestnut street The firm employs about
200 hands who were at work at the time.
Before the engines arrived the entire front
part of the building was on fire. Mean
while n majority of the workmen made
their escape. About n dozen or more,
however, Were hemmed in and had to be
taken from the windows b. the firemen.
The Thackera building is valued at
$4,000 fully covered by insurance. The
rear part was but Slightly damaged. The
loss on the building will amount to about
Sl510O0 The Thackera company's stock,
machinery and patterns was valued at
about :2J1,O These are Il total loss, but
are protected by an insurance OF about
Si5r.O0o. Hale & johnson, architects, oc-
cupicd several rooms and met with small
losses. Sharpless X Watts, manufacture
erS of ties and mosaics in the Baker build
ing adjoining, lose about $4,000, princi-
pally by water.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
TRANsvAAL PREPARES FOR WAR.
Ereathes Hatred to England and Builds
Some Qualifications.

Ereathes Hatred to England and Builds
Some Qualifications.
NEW YORK, March IA dispatch TO
the World from Capetown, South Africa,
says: The Transvaal is being fortified,
the lurghers are arming TO the teeth and
other warlike preparations are being made.
Eight forts are being built at Pretoria,
the capital. Hostility to Great Britain is
openly and freely expressed at Pretoria.
Emissaries have been sent to the Orange
Free state and to Cape Colony. it is re-
ported, to stir up race feeling. Germany,
Austria and France, it is said here, will
guar antee the Independence OF the Trans
vaal if necessary.
President Kruger Will not go TO Eng
land. after all. He desired 20 accept Col
onial Secretary Chamberlain's invitation
to visit London and confer with the Brit
ish authorities with reference to Trans
vaal affairs, IL is asserted, but the Bo.rs
obi ected. Kruger left the question to be de-
ciGed By the yolksraad Gcgislature) which
refused TO grant him permission to 90.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
NEW voR IS m'klNLsY BOOM.
Launched at . Large Meeting of Gotham.
ties in Cooper Union.

ties IN Cooper Union.
NEW YORK. March 2i-The presidential
boom in New York city of William Nc
kinley, of Ohio, was launched at Cooper
Union last night. The hall was well
filed, notwithstanding the snow storm
which haa been in progress all afternoon.
Over the center of the stage was a life size
picture Of Ex-Governor Mckinley, framed
with tin pl,-es. Underneath the picture
was silk Banner with the following in
gold letters:
"The Anti Machine Republican Organ
ization of the City and County OF New
York" On the right of the platform was
another banner, The Republican Party
Stands for an Honest Dollar and the Way
to Earn It." and on the left was banner
with the inscription, civilian McKin-
ley, Prosperity's Advance Agent"
Major Lowell jerome called the meet
ing to order. He said it was useless for
the machine politicians to disregard the
returns that We're coming in from all parts
of the country favoring the nomination of
William Mckinley. The latter was the
enemy of the bosses, and not their tool.
Major jerome introduced rs the chairman
of the meeting General Wagner Swayne.
The meeting, he said, had been called
to make plain to the people of this state
and throughout the country, and to the
delegates TO the convention about to be
held, that the second choice for president
of the United States was William Nc
kinney. Cheers Governor Morton, he
said, had rendered valuable service to the
state.
Some of the audience Missed at the men.
ton of Governo or Morton's name, but Cen
eral Swayne stopped this in Il hurry. He
said that the Governor deserved to be
checred, and that the machine in the Re.
publican party was none of his making.
1t had been hoped that the name of Gov.
ernor Morton would go before the conven.
| ton without opposition, but it appeared
that the sentiment of the county was for
Mckinley.
Resolutions We're adopted declaring il
the purpose of those attending the meet
| ing to use all honorabls means to secure
the nomination of William Mckinley for
president at St Louis and formulating q
plan Of organization.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
ABBREVIATED TELEaRAMS.


An unknown man, who registered as 2.
". b. Hobbs and who was supp ,sed to be
from Chicago, was found asphyxiasei in a
St. Joseph, Mo-. hotel.
Rev. !. d. Thornton, who lives near
S,ron. Tex, was TAX II out Saturday and
whipped with switches By men who had
warned him not to preach in that vicinity.
He has many friends who are greatly
wrought up over the outrage.
The Rock Island directors have declared
the regular quarterly dividend, payable
May l.
The steamer Richard Peek arrived in
New York with several thousand Win
chester rifles and an enormous quantity
of ammunition, which will be sent to the
Cuban insurgents.
With the aid of cathode rays Thomas A.
Eddison has succeeded in seeing the
heart, lungs, arteries and all the internal
organs of one of his assistants with tho
naked eye.
Obituary: At Janesville, Wis, John J.
T. Pease. 20. At Anderson, Ind, J. p.
Carney, a.. AT Danville, KY, Mrs Sarah
Simpson, 96. At Lgonier, Ind, Joseph
Teal
Siiverware and iewelry are rapidly dis
appearing in the Englewood and Wood
lawn districts Chicago suburbs) owing
! to the operations Of an unusually daring
thief.
Governor Morton. of New York, has
| signed the Raines high license bill and it
Is now a law.
General George II. Nettleton, president
! OF the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
railroad. is critically ill at his home and
it is not thought he can recover,
| The Haytian revolut;onists at Kingston
are badly torn up. General Manigat re.
fuses to conduct the expedition they had
planned.
President Zelaya has established press
censorship which prevents news unfavor
able to the government concerning the
Nicaraguan rebellion from being sent out
Private information says the insurgents
are not losing ground.
Carthage, a Cincinnati suburb, has an
independent ticket in tho field, which
bears the name of father, mother and son
These are r. c. Phillips for township
clerk; Mrs. Lou Phillips his wife, fo
member of the board of education, ant
Harry Phillips, son, for councilman.
| The Populists of Milwaukee have adop
ted resolutions denouncing Senator Car
ter's bill providing for military drills in
| public schools.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24

Colazzo Expedition Lands in Cuoa-That
Victory of Maceo.

COiaZZO Iape0siOn s.lnuS ia SuDa-lnaC
Victory of Maceo.
TAMPA, Fla, March 2i-Letters have
been received from persons connected with
the Colazzo expedition stating that on the
17th inst, while in sight of the Pan de
MatanZas, n mountain near Matanzas,
three Spanish warships. Tho Infanta Isa-
bella, Marquis dc l., Encenada and the
Contra Maestro, were sighted. The cX-
petition drew off from the land to avoid
the warships After dark one of the lat
ter proceeded along the coast scrutinizing
it with saarchlights. The steamer bearing
the expedition slipped in just behind her
and unloadcd. Il was attacked Mt day
light by n small Spanish force and driven
away, but another band o; insurgents
hearing the firing came to the rescue and
the small quantity Of arms captured by
the Spaniards were retakcn.
a letter from n Spanish source gives n
report of the engagement at Candclara
On the 18th inst, when Maceo and Quar-
tin Bandcra with 5000 men attacked
Colonel Francis. The Spanish loss, the
letter says, was 800 soldiers. four captains
and eight licUtenants. Francis surIen-
dcred, giving up all his arms and ammu-
milton. This, it is slid, inccnsed General
Weyler, who announced that Francis
would return TO Spain on the next
steamer.
HAVANA, March 2i-The insurgents
are displaying extreme rigor in enforcin z
their prohibitions against countrymen
bringing vegetables and milk to Sancti
Spiritus. As a consequence the sick and
children are suffering and groccrS are
enjoying the benefit of greatly enhanced
prices.
a story comes from Cayo MADEIRA that
the insurgents ravished two girls, aged
respectively IL and 10, in the presence of
their father. The report that the irsurg-
ents hanged five peaceabie laborcrs near
Remedies, III the Remedies district of the
province of Santa Clara, turns on. to be
Incorrect.
General Melquiz met 80 insurgents at
| the village Of Portilia after it had been
burned. The cavalry charged and killed
ten of them and found one man hanged.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
His Insanity Is demonstrating,

SPRINGFIELD, III, March 2l-Girard
Chouteau, an alleged horsethief, who is
connected with the old and wealthy
Chouseau family OF st. Louis, was re-
leased yesterday from jail here at the
request OF ex-Governo. Seay, of Alabama,
q relative, and taken to an Alabama in
sane asylum. He has been in the Kansas
and southern Illinois penitentiar.es and
in the Jacksonville insane asylum twice,
escaping from the latter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
BECAUSE THERE WERE H RsE RACES
A hallway Is Permitted to Repudiate n
Contract.

A Hallway Is Permitted to Repudiate a
Contract.
MILWAUKEE, March 2l.-Judge Jenkins
has refused q petition of the Clybourne
Park company, of Chicago, in the Wis
cons!n Central receivcrship, holding that
the company was not entitled to equitable
relief because it permitted gambling on
its premises in opposition to the laws of
Illinois. The Central company repudiated
contract TO run trains from Chicago to
Clybourne park at the rate of Sl7 per car,
and demanded $50 per car.
The receivers held that the contract was
buriensonie. Judge Jenkins said that if
it were not for the gambling he would
have ordered a referee to determine Just
how far it was burdensome, and in event
of its being but slightly SO would have
overruled the action of the receivers by
virtue of the general powers of the court
in rcceivership cases.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
FIGHT OVER FREE SPEECH,
One Man Fatally Shot in Riot at Dun
more, Pa.

more, Pa.
SCRANTON, Pa, March 2i Following a
lecture given at the Christian church at
Dunmore by an alleged ex-priest named
Ruthven, n fight br IKE out during which
about fifty shots We're fired and resulted
in four men being injured. They are:
Fred Mink, of Pittston, probably fatally
shot in the back; Frank Heller, shot in
the leg; William Seagraves, shot in the
ankle; - Murphy.
The ex-priest has been giving lectures in
this vicinity for some time, and as he was
leaving the church fully 500 persons gath
cred about the place and greeted him with
vollcy of eggs. 1t is claimed that he i'm.
mcdiately drew a revolver and fired in the
air. Revolvers Were then fired Off in every
direction with the above mentioned re-
suit. Ruthvcn fed to this city and denies
that he fired the first shot.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
Man, Wife and Child Crema,ed.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, March 2i-The
most horrible fatality that has Mapped in
lhis section for a great while was the
burning to death of William Coxey. his
wife and child on Paint creek. 1t appears
that the house caught fire and the VIC
tins We're cut off from escape. Two
cruMn dauyhfer, esclnei.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
Chicago Grain and Produce.

CHICAGO, March ID
The following were tn, quotations the
Board of Trade today: Wheat - March,
opened 6l34c closed 90 Sc; May, opened go &C,
closed 62c; July. opened e3t4c. closed 623s Sc.
Corn-NIarch nominal closed 2S3sc; May,
opened 295sc. closed 293sc: July. opened
3O3sc. closed 3j3sc Oats-March. nom
nal, closed lS1sc; May, opened .OIsc, closed
1850; July, opened 2Jl4c closed 1899. Pork
March opened s9.l2s2, closed $50; Nav,
opened 1925 closed SlO2ia Lar1-March.
opened 500 closed s5l2ls; May, opened
s5.32la closed S525
Produce: Butter-Extra creamery, 2lc
per lb; extra dairy, 1sc: PACKING stock Sla9 &c.
Eggs-Fresh stock, 9la5 sos perdozen. Dressed
Poultry-Spring chickens. % Gl0. per Id
old hens SiaG9c: ROSTERS, 5Gi sc; turkeys u
@l41ac: ducks. l0@l3c; geese, 1Gl0c. Potat oeI
-BurbanSs, lSglJc per bushal. Sweet Pota.
toes-Fair to choice. s10JGL7j per Dbl. Ap-
ples-sair to choice S2.00G5.15 per bbl.
Honey-Whlte clover, Lib sections, fancy, leg
lie per h.; broken comb S9lJc; extracted
5Gjc. Cranoerries - Caps Cod, T.5OGS5I
per Dbl.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24

LITTLE Rock, March 2i-Representa-
tive Bass Little, Of Arkansas, was
burned in efiigy at Fort Gibson, L 7.
The execution was caused by bill intro
duced in congress by Little to remove the
court house from Fort Gibson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24

CHANDLER Tex, March 24.-Thc dead
bodies of the three boys. aged Is, 10 and IL
years named Boone Smith, Tom Shifiet
and Charles Mcmillan. respectively. Were
found en- the railroad track south Of
Brownsboro. supposed to have been killed
by n train during the night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
THE MARKETS.


NEW YORK. March %
Money on call nominally 1904 per cent.
prime mercantile paper SOS per cent.
sterling exchange was firm, with actual
business III bankers bills at 1873 t453 for
demand and 4s6i4(e 1877 for sixty days; posted
rates. 4siJa@isS and 4SS1a9is9; commercial
bills. 4S6
Silver certificates. 6slsl9sSs4; no sales; bar
silver 6s5s; Mexican dollars, 5i4.
United States government bonds steady;
new As registered, 1858; do coupons
ll612; SIS registered. ll3; IS coupons. lI3;
As reg stored, los; As coupons. ll)la; rs
registered, 9j; Pacific is OF 80, l0l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
POLICY OF SPAIN.
Has q Rather Defiant Hue as Re.
CARDS Uncle Sam.
WAITING FOR OUR NEXT MOVE.

What We VIII Hear If the President Sends
in a Damages Message, According to q
New York World Special-An Intimation
That the spapiard Can Attend to His
Own Business-Report That Colazros
Expedition Has Landed in Cuba.
NEW YORK, March 2L-A dispatch to
the World from Madrid says: 1t is an
open secret that the Spanish governments
will be much pleased if President Cleve-
land sends message to congress regard
ing American losses in consequence of the
rebellion in Cuba. Such message will
not only give to the Madrid government
a long desired opportunity to take Of
fetal notice of what has been going on of
late in the United States and Cuba, but
following steps:
Will Send Note to Uncle Sam.
First-S.ndinging a note clearly stating to
the United States government SPANS in
tcntion to put down the rebellion in Cuba
exactly as America did the rebellion in
the southern states-that is to say, with
out toleratiny any foreign interference,
out taking the slightest notice of any
recognition of Cuban belligerency except
to regard IL rs further reason for insist
ing upon n stricter regard for neutrality
and the principles of international law
than the United States have manifested
even while considering the Cubans as
simple rebels INST a friendly govern.
ment
TOUCHES on the Monroe Doctrine.
Sccond-Sending "A memorandum to for
cign governments, especially European
powers, setting forth that Spain is defend
ing Il common cause of European nations,
defending their as well as her sovereign
rights over colonies in America against
American Interference and the pretcn-
sions of the Monroe doctrine
Third-Claiming ON the eve of general
election that the policy of the Canovas'
cabinet has been vindicatcd, thus casting
the onuS of n conflict on the United
States, as senior Canovas, since March,
| 1855. has done every thing in his power to
| avert a rupture Of cordial relations b..
| tween Spain and the United States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
Chicago Live Stock.

Live Stock-Price5 at tn, Union Stock
Yards today ran, led follows: Hogs-EstI
mated receipts for the day. % 0lJ; sale;
ranged at s. l5GtD pigs !39jGLlo light
$j.SyG&9o rough packing, s3.S GGAD mixed
and s59.tGLgo heavy packing aud shippin ;
lots
Ca Estimated receipts for the day.
. 5U; quotat ons ranged at s4.0ogL IS choice
to extra shipping steers, $31JGi0j good t.
choice do, s3-,0Gt.-0 fai- to COOL. S&3gJ} z.
common to medium do, S320g3.71 butchers
steers, S2.Sog3.3j stockcrs. $32j d3 - feeders
sLaOG3Jj cows, s.40gl.1j heifer5. s20JG35
bulls. $25Eai0o Texas steers, AMI s3.01gj 2,
Veal calves.
Sheep and Lambs-E.timate1 receipts for
the day. l5.oJJ; sales ranged at S.5J Gj.JJ
westerns, s2lO9335 Texas - 5oG4OJ natives
and 81 25Ss4.10 lambs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
TURKISH hath ROOMS

Baths Of ell kinds, including
Turkish, plain, shampoo, cleo.
trio, electro-thermal, etc.. may
be obtained st the Sanitar.uE
Bath Rooms, On the first floor Of
the Harper House.
ROOMS OPEN.
FOR Lsdies-from Q q. IL. 10
I'm on week days For Gen
tlemen-From 2 o. m. 20 10 pm.
on week days On Sundays the
rooms will be open from Z a. IN.
to II a. m. for Gentlemen only.
Electric and Electro-shermal
baths may be obtained at any
time during business hours.
Gymnasium connected with hal
rooms
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24

RURhINGToE RoUTE-C., ". 4 q ssil-
- Tay-Depot First sysDue aid NTtosnIh
street. VI. IoGLS. AGENT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE

HicAao, ROCK ISLAND 3 PACIFIC
E,ii.ay-Ticsets can he purchased or b.e.
gage checked st 6 e Twentieth street Genct
OF q 4 dspct coY,er FIFTH avenue sad
q irty-urs, street P-suk n. F.ufnmer. Agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24
The Local Markets.
0DAH. ITO.

The Local Markets
oRAu, ETC
Corn-s41s3c.
Oats-l6ct10c.
Hsy-Timothy. $40: upland, S91G2: wild.
S6Ds9; slough, &7Gc$s; baled, SSe1$i350; millet,
$40.
vE6ETABLEp,
Po.atoes-25c,
PRODUCE
Butfer-Fair to choice, 16c1lsc; fresh CREAM
cry. 21c.
Eggs-Frefh. &c.
fhicssns-sc
Turkeye-Sc.
Geese-7c.
Ducks-Sc.
LIVE STOCK.
Csttie-Butchefs pay for corn fed steers
3AcG 3Zc; COVE and he.feys, Skclexc; calyes.
3ncG4hc
ROgs-3LQ3Zc.
Sheep-3AC.
Spring ianlb-4c pound
Coa,-Soff, 1oc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24

carnival. fDepartGre. tDs'ly, exosp, Sunday
AL CHEERS da;ts Telephone .usS
SUNDAY even RS a Pullman sieeper will he 81
the d 20. rfer 10 90 which viii leave tor Caic.-
go ct 2:5S q. m. Monday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-24

Passenger trains cave u. r. I. & p. (Moliue
ayenue) depot rye % minutes earlier than tine
given. Trains marked . daily, ali other trains
daily except sunday
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-20
Englishmen Not Afraid OF 1s to 1 .

EnglIshmen Not Afraid OF 18 toll.
Suppose Mr.. Bryan becomes Presi-
dent with local bimetallism; suppos.
ing also that free silver or national
bimetallic law is passed and gold,
as is predicted, goes to a pre-.
MUM Of 100 per cent. in the
United States, what will be the effect
on the large number of British bank
ers and financial houses who are in.
terested in American securities and
financeH They fear $50 cent dollar. !"
Surely from their own point OF view
1T would be better, even if they con-
suit nobody's interest but their own,
that England to guard her own inter-
est should join with other countries
in international bimetallism. That
would, according to precedent and
authority, insure that the silver dol
lar would be 400 cent dollar" equal
ly with it's gold counterpart, and for
such a contamination it would be
worth their while to stop gold appre-
citation, even if it involved our stand
ard of value again becoming unstable
and gold being reduced to the eco
nomic idea Of an honest measure as
between debtor and creditor, and be-
tween buyer and seller. London BIZ
metallist.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-08-20
Az Edi.or.. sunday Picnic.

-" SAASSa - SAAsoSS = tO"bO.
Sam Davis went on picnic last
Sunday and this is the way he en-
joyed himself:
The Appeal editor accepted an in
vitation to attend q picnic on Sunday.
He packed 60 Id. hamper nearly a
mile up mountain side to eat lunch
in the bed of an old creek. To add
to the horrors OF the occasion the
party was strictly temperate. 1t was
80 hard to find level place to spread
a table cloth that in the center of the
feast was a stump which gave the
layout the appearance of circus
tent. Four kids fell in the creek,
two we're lost in the woods and the
editors horse got away. We are led
to conclude that some fashionable
house of worship is the place for the
editorial brain to find rest and
recreation on the Sabbath day and
the time and profanity exploded in
getting your underclothing clean of
black ants, are drawbacks to a pious
life.