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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

"Do I7- said Farmer Granville; "of
course you love your grandpapa. Where
does be live7"
II don't know" said the child, "nc,
love you better than | do Frankie 6
grandfather, for he can't ride me on lis
foot OF on his shoulder. or give me APP
Piles 10 est. either"
IAN invalid. no doubt" thought
Farmer Granville, but he felt fiattered
nevertheless. He had not the remotcst
idea that he was talking to his grand
child, and that the "grandpapa" the lit
tie boy referred to was q picture Of
himself inclosed In case. carefully pre-
served by his discarded daughter. 50 he
answered:
We'll. / will be your grandpapa while
you stay. and ride you on my foot every
day. and on the pony, too. tomorrow, II
you like"
This is Frankie's grandpspa," eaid
the little boy, Just as his mother had
always said to him when she showed
him the picture: and he ran his fingers
more vigorously through the long,
thick beard, and passed them lovingly
through the wrinkles about the eyes
and mouth.
Things were progressing just as
Aunty Morton wished, so the next Cay
she brought the baby over, a sweet,
curly-headed little girl of two years.
The baby was double JOY in the Gram
vile family, and when she kissed
"dranpapa" after Frankie's prompting,
the pride and qualification of Farmer
Granville was without limit, who IN re-
turn tossed her toward the ceiling, and
allowed her to pull his whiskers and
cover his eyes to play "bopeep' as much
as she liked.
Thanksgiving was drawing so near,
and the worry of hope deferred worked
Mrs. DR.. Wellman into a severe head
ache, which lasted over the following
day. So recommending her to keep
quiet, and giving many instructions TO
her servant, Mrs. Morton took the two
children with her to complete the ar
for her neighbor's Thanks
giving feast, where they were again in
stalled "chief in state and power"
AS she was about to take her depart
ure for home, while making the chill
dren ready, Farmer Granville asked
her to bring the mother to see them,
adding:
'She must be almost an angel to have
such lovely children"
THANK you; no doubt she will be
pleased to come" Mrs. Morton replied.
81 will have some things at home to at
tend to tomorrow, being the day before
but we will be but walk
ing in the afternoon and will call on our
way home"
True to her promise, Mrs. Morton
called in the next day at Farmer Gran
yille's with the children and .heir
mother The reader, no doubt, antic-
ipates the result. Farmer Granville
took his daughter in his arms and
pressed her to his heart, weeping like
child. Indeed, there were no dry eyes
among them, but all seemed to rally
sooner than he.
1t is needless TO say that Aunty Nor
ton lost her visitors, for not step were
they allowed to depart from the Pa
ternal roof. And when DIR. Wellman
arrived in response tn Mrs. Morton's in
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

vitation, to help eat the conventional
Thanksgiving turkey with her. he
found the invitation transferred to the
Granville homestead, where there were
more heartfelt rejoicings than had been
known for the last six years. And no
one was happier than Aunty Morton as
she saw with what pride Farmer Gran
vile introduced his children and grand
children to the assembled guests, and us
the festivities ended she joined in sing
ing that grand old hymn:
Praise to God. immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days"
adding &c herself:
The minister was right, and this
life-error is at last righted."-E. Ellen
Cherry, in Good Housekeeping.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

MoRE than 72 per cent. Of the enlist
ed men OF the United States navy are
now American citizens, aud more than
SO per cent of the apprentice boys are
American born. according TO the state
ment Of Adm. Ramsay, chief of the
bureau OF navigation. in his annual re-
port. During the year sos men and
i46 apprentices deserted, by far the
greater number Of desertions being at
home ports
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

THE fact that the change OF about
o5, 900 votes in the late election, IL the
votes had been placed in the close
states, would have reversed the result
while still leaving Mckinley with
1000, coo plurality has revived the dis
cussion with regard to change of the
plan of electing presidents, and the
Philadelphia Ledger urges the adop-
tion of constitutional amendment
providing for the election of presidents
by a popular vote. II declares that 1t
is wrong to have the casting OF the
electoral votes OF state and the de-
termination OF the election dependent
upon few thousand votes.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

DUNNO the last session OF congress
Representative Heatwole, of Mime
sofa, introduced resolution providing
for non-partisan currency commits
sion of nine citizens to act with the
comptroller of the currency to Offer
recommendation for needed changes
in the present banking and currency
system. This resolution, 1t is said,
may be pressed during the coming ses-
sion of congress.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

JOSEPH r. EScKE, of Trenton, N. j.,
has developed n scheme for an inland
canal. and also for one across the
country connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. He proposes that the
government build the canal by issuing
Doninterest bearing bonds There are
20 be double docks, so that steamship ps
going in opposite directions can pass
through There will be enough water
TO let any battleship or steamship go
through at the same speed that IL
goes on the ocean. There is to be
railroad running parallel with the
canal on one side, and the other side
is TO be devoted TO industries
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

IT is possible that an ordinance viii
soon be passed By the board of alder.
men of New York city forbidding boys
and girls TO be on the streets at night
Strong arguments in the affirmative
will be laid before the board by the
advocates of the measure.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

THE celebration OF the 5Oth anniver-
sary of Rev. DIR. Richard ). Storrs, pas
tor Of the Church of the Pilgrims at
New York. recently took place and the
venerable clergyman was banqueted
by Congregational ministers and pre-
sented with magnificent loving cup.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

The notification of the Torrens law
by the supreme court of Illinois on the
ground Of unconstitutionality will be
disappointment 10 those persons who
favor the simplification Of methods as
well as the expediting OF processes in
the transfer Of real estate. The ground
upon which the court condemned the
law was that the act conferred on the
registrar OF titles judicial power.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

AcMLIE BEIoIs, OF Biddeford, Me-,
thinks he has a machine that will gen.
crate perpetual motion. 1t Is now in
the Washington patent Office with an
application for patent. For two
months before he sent II away IL has
run, and was running when boxed for
shipment
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

NEWSPAPER correspondents and po
litical gossips are busily at work con
structing cabinets for Mr.. Mckinley
and some OF them go 50 far as TO write
upon their states even the foreign ap
pointmeBts which he win make.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

Mis- HENRY MooRE. Of Munroe Falls,
o., has Just presented her husband
with the 10th child. They were all
single births, nine boys and seven
girls. and the couple have been mar
ried 20 years Mr.. Moore works In a
paper mill for si25 n day and IA of the
children are living.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

JUDeE FISH, OF the Southwestern
Georgia circuit, recently expressed the
hope that the legislature at the pres.
eut session would do something TO pro-
tect doves from indiscriminate slaugh.
ter. He tells OF one party which
killed 1900 doves in a few days last
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

A sAvioABLE airship, for which II is
claimed that II may be steered in any
direction, even against a moderate
wind. was recently exhibited in Berlin
by DR. Woclfert lie calls his airship
an "aerostat" The balloon part OF IL
is cigar-shaped, made Of silk, covered
inside and out with vulcanized rubber
and filled with hydrogen gas. The
car. which has the shape Of long and
narrow gallery. is made OF bam boo and
willow, and Is rigidly attached TO the
balloon proper Trial ascensions made
with this aerostat have shown that II
may be steered In almost any direction
while travelling at fair rate Of speed.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

THE army pay roll was increased
about s75O. 900 last year by the advance
of wages from 50 TO si5 a month foi
the first year Of enlistment
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

The London ST. James Gazette re.
Gently published leading article in
the course OF which it said: Lord
Salisbury's great admission of the
principle that the United States has
the right TO intervene in frontier dis.
pu,es OF the American powers and 10
compel the disputants To arbitrate al
together transcends in importance the
question Of the Guiana boundary. 1t
Is formal recognition OF the hege-
mony OF the United States on the
American continent and gives the
president position in the new world
which the medi@val popes and emper-
ors tried vainly TO claim in Europe"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26
CURRENT COMMENT.

MAJ. McKISLEY will be the first col.
dier in the white house who entered
the army as a private.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

GARRErT A. HOBART, vice president
elect. recently said: II have had SOC
babies named after me so far and the
end is not in sight"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

AocoRDrSG TO Mr.. Moody there are
10000. 600 people in the United States
who do not 20 to church.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

SECRET SOCIETIES -"My pas an odd ieL
iow," boasted little boy. "My pas q
freemason,' replied the other, IAN that's
masons Tit Bits.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

THE successful harnessing Of Niagara
falls revives The idea Of the possibility
of hsrnessing rivers which have rapid
currents
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

GoILEY-"Is there a ballroom in this
hotelw Gadser-"'Ycs, sir; downstairs to
the left! only we generally call il the bar in
this part OF the country. .m-Roxbury Gazette.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26
Mauhssivioo
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f s.. i; ;:::: f.: q: !: :::; (:
~ tempest on TIE
deepl
with the golden sheaf Of autumn lifted in
its stalwnrt hands,
.it the threshold Of the winter, 10. a CRATE
ful nation standsi
Up the years long path OF blessings. heed
less, thankless. we have trod.
But, to-day. the peoples altar sends rs In
cense up 20 God
Ping aloud. In spire and turret-in your
windy prison cells
Ring the morning In with anthems o.
Thanksgiving. o ye bells!
Gather. y ye people, gather, where the
rudy hearths are bright,
And the shades Of care and sorrow vanish
backward from the light!
LINK anew the charmed circle OF the house
holds broken chain;
Let the land be fun Of worship. and the
heart Of love. again;
Homewar1 to the festal service call the
wandering child that rOams;
Tor to-day the nations altars are its fire.
sides and its homes.
Moon by moon the year has ctrcled, and
before US is unrJlled
All the seasons perfect drama, as In count
less years Of Old.
In the valley sank the snowdrift, and the
snowdrop sprang anew,
And anon earth woke In flowers from a
summer dream OF dew:
Winter. spring and summer failed not, and
she drank the light and rain,
TIL the sunllt heaven lay mirrored In her
waving fields of grain.
Ger the wave the white-winged vessels
came, as went the ships OF Greece
Happy ArgOnauts. returning with the prai-
ries' golden fleece.
Ger the land the song of labor. In the work
shop and the field,
Forth, from ocean unto ocean, in a choral
wave has pealed.
Therefore, wake, In all your turrets-in
your windy prison cells
Ring the morning in with anthems OF
Thanksgiving. ye bells!
David Gray, In Christian Work
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26
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RS. MORTON, or
Aunty Morton, as
everybody called
her, had returned
from the after
Moons pra ye T.
meeting, and had
arranged every
thing for t h e
night. and now sat
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-11-26

HICKs-"Are YOU fond Of childrenr
wicks -"Imm odera' ely. A house is so rest
full after the little dears have been put to
bed. Boston Transcript.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-18
WILL REED RETIRE ;?
There seelhs to Re Ample Authority Fos
 Thinking So.

There Seeihk to He Ample Authority EOH
 Thinking So.
 Notwithstanding the denial of the speakers friends, there is excellent au- thority for the statement that MT. Reed is being strongly urged to retire from public life at the close of this term. He will then have served 20 consecutive years, during four of which he has fill ed the office of speaker, a dignity to which he would again be elevated were he member of the next house In re- tiring from public career which has been conspicuously brilliant the speaker would consult largely his own inelina- tions and particularly those of his fam fly, who have since the Fifty first con- gress urged him to withdraw from poli- tics and devote the remainder of his days to the practice of law. He has not positively decided that he will do so, but there is strong expectation that this will be his final determination.
 1t is believed that MT. Reed will for mally announce his intention not to be again candidate for congress after the meeting of the Republican national con vention next month. The congressional elections occur i'll Maine in the middle of September. and the conventions are usually held about 30 days previously. It is understood that MT. Reed will make public his intentions in ample time for the aspiring politicians in his district to begin their fight for the suc- cession. It is doubted if he retire from congress that he will locate again in Portland He has influential political and business friends i'll New York who believe that that city presents greater inducements for man of his ability taan provincial town like the Maine metropolis. One of these friends, who urged him four years ago to begin tho practice of law i'll New York city. has since told him that, had he done so, enough business would have been thrown in his way to enable him to earn during the interim fully $500, 900.
 It is also said in this connection that the reports which couple MT. Reeds s name with the seeretaryship of state under the next administration are not we'll founded. MT. Reeds purpose in resuming the practice of law would be to accumulate sufficient means to ren- der him independent But for this in- ducement he would remain in the house, where he has been for many years 8 brilliant party leader-an honor which he would not relinquish even for the glittering rewards of premiership. = Washington Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-18
Scatch Air Ia Beat.

"Out in Arizona we have way of bragging on the purity and clearness of our air, y said Judge Murphy, the dele gate from that territory, "and we have reason for it, for there is nothing like 1t in the known world. The air of Cali fornia may surpass that of Arizona from photographer point of view, and it is claimed that it does, but as the Ari- zonian only cares for air for breathing purposes, we are not at all jealous on that point We can see mountain tops for over 100 miles, and some here claim ed that mountains 130 miles distant can be discerned with the naked eye. I was speaking of this to some friends here recently when l was blandly in- formed by Scotch clergyman, who was here on visit, that that would hardly be regarded as in any way remarkable in Scotland, where, too. he said, the air was very clear. We can see farther than l30 miles in Scotland, he said. We can see all the way to the moon. 7 Exchange.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-18
Lost His Bet.

1T will never bet on the meaning of words again, said R. P. Williamson of Chicago at the Riggs. T was at Wheeling, when a travelling man, look. ing up from his writing, said: I want the word that means happened. have already said happened. What words mean the same thing?' I suggested transpired. 'Transpired?' he remarked Why that means to sweat. Oh, no I replied. .Perspire means to sweat. Well, I say transpire means to sweat. We argued the matter for awhile, and then we bet So on it, and a dictionary was produced, which said that transpire meant an invisible per spiration constantly exuding from the body. Transportation and precipitation are synonyms, remarked the stakehold- CT, and thought so, too.
 1.The next day was in Charleston and concluded to get even. so l looked up from letter was writing and pur- sued the tactics by which was caught It worked like & charm, and l soon had $10 bet that transpire meant to sweat. A dictionary was produced, and the stakeholder decided that trans piration was an invisible precipitation, while sweat was visible perspiration, and lost my $10. Washington Star
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-18
VAST SUM LAVlSHED.
Enormous Cost of the Coronation of the
 Czsr of Russia.

Enormous Cost of the Coronation of ths
 Czsr of Russia.
 It is said that 68, 900, 900 rubles have been expended upon the present corona tion Some people may find it hard to realize how such sums can be expended. But that sum merely represents what the court and the country have spent. It does not represent what has been spent by Moscow itself, by the special em- bassies, by France, with her 1000, GOO of francs, or by Austria Hungary, with a vast grant. supplemented by almost as great one from the princely house of Lichtenstein, member of which now represents the dual empire in Russia Every country has contributed to the grand total. It will be interesting to give some account of some of the items which go to make up such vast expendi- lures as those of the above mentioned 68, 900, 900 rubles.
 Two entirely new imperial trains have been specially built for the corona tion, the one as an imperial train to convey their imperial majesties to the coronation, the other to convey their guests from the Russian frontiers, or in- deed farther still. A third complete train has been built solely for the suit. The train for the imperial guests, with its 16 carriages and its two new loco- motives, cost 800, 900 rubles. The price of the other two has not transpired, but the imperial train will most certainly not have cost very much less New York Herald
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-18
HE WANTED PIN MONEY.
Baltimore Man Jailed For Being Saucy
 to His Wife.


 How the new woman and the new man get along together in practical life was illustrated i'll case before Police Justice Grammar of Baltimore the other day. Mrs. Ida Kuhn, good looking woman. had her husband arrested on the charge of abusing her.
 Mrs. Kuhn, who is collar maker. testified that she had supported herself and her family for IA years. The hus- band said that while his wife worked at the factory he attended to the chil- dren, dressed and sent them to school and performed the other household du- ties. All he wanted was little spend ing money on Saturday night, and it was the argument about this that led to ais arrest. Mrs. Kuhn said she could get girl to do the work her husband did for $l. % week, and she would not have to stand any impertinence.
 Justice Grammar fined Kuhn $l and costs, and as his wife would not pay up he had to go to jail in default. 70 Times Herald.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-18
Awful Lazy.

lhes lazlest man 1 ever knew was IoWson of Peoria, said J. c. Tap or fhat city at the Howard. Jeff teo lazy to work and fished in "a Bake, about three or four miles le 1he city. He was more constant er fhan Dickens fat boy, and it
 to De said that he slept as he lea. but 1t is certain that as soon as at down he would fall asleep. On unt of this habit he lost several and fishing lines. which caused " Mopt an original method. He 'n ne bank, fastening the line to ankle If fish bit the hook, it " Wake him, and he pulled it in.
 oay q larger fish than usual snap saAe Dalt, and when Jeff awoke he IT me river. After the most ener- s1fpggle he ever made he succeed
 eettlng to shore, but it looked as sn he would have to devise q new
 Dat he did not abandon tying the
 p nas ankle. He simply procured a
 ana fastened one end around his
 ana the other to a tree, and ill vet ne has tished and slept for a
 years now. "-- Washington
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-18
DRAGGED ELEVEN MILES.
Yet This Railway switchman Is Alive to
 Tell the Story.


 Tell the Story.
 An accident which has rarely been equaled in the history of railroads hap pened to Frank NJ Boyer, switchman employed by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad, last night at lO:40 o'clock.
 It was while in discharge Of his dn- ties at the brake that Boyer met with the peculiar accident that is today al- most the sole theme of conversation among the railroad men, Boyer was in freight train bound for Chicago. It is the custom of the railroad to have the switchman stand on the top of the cars from Crete to Dolton Junction, and it was from this position, Boyer says, that he fell beneath the cars, which were go- ing at the rate of 40 miles an hour, clung to the bottom of a cattle car and rode 1 l miles in that position.
 Before this Boyer sat on the top of 8 cattle car, leisurely sniffing the country breeze. All of sudden he heard & crumbling sound. Running across cars of coal and merchandise and thinking he was on the car from under which the noise came, Boyer applied the brakes with all the strength he possessed As he was giving 1t last jerk the round wheel which he had hold of broke off. letting him down between the cars. At the time the cars were going down 6 steep grade, and on account of this they were running unusually swift
 When Boyer was rescued from his po- sition under the cars. he was taken to the home of his brother in law, A. O. Benedict, 3333 Armour avenue, where he was seen by 8 reporter. Boyer was in bed and hardly able to talk above 2 whisper.
 T don't see how am alive today, ; began Boyer. ''It was tho most miraeus lous escape from death ever hesrd of. When that wheel broke, thepght it would be a matter of only few nin- utes when would breathe my last. don't know how landed, but guess 1 must have fallen with my feet firat. Be- fore could realize my position about three cars had passed over me I began to scramble for something to catch hold of. 1t seems hard to believe, but I grab bed the brake beam and clung to it un. til I reached Dolton, an Il mile ride, where l yelled to the conductor, who | helped me to crawl out. l have beer coughing up gravel ever since. There i: severe soreness ill the region of my back. As matter of fact, feel sort all over. but I am awful glad was no killed outright. '
 Boyer's clothing was literally torn t pieces His trousers were torn in two and even his underclothing was rippet to shreds, but not scratch could bt found on the fortunate mans body Boyer lost his coat and hat through hi experience, and Conductor Mitchell vii make a search for them today, ant thereby ascertain the spot where Boye fell The latter is 26 years old. and hi home is in Danville, where his wife i residing. Chicago News.