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AMERICAN SAYINGS.
'"ThOughts That Breathe and Words
That Burn.o

Give me liberty, or give me death!
PATRICK HENRY.
Speech in the Virginia Convention. March 1775,
We must ali hang together, or assuredly
we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
At the signing of the Declaration OF Independence
July 4, 1776.
These are the times that try mems souls.
THOMAS PAINE,
The American Crisis. No l.
My only regret is that l have but one
life to give for my country.
~ NATHAN HALE.
On the scaffold 1176.
IT'S our true policy to steer clear of per
manent alliances with any portion of the
foreign world. g
rsGEoRGE WASHINGTON,
al m, Farewell Address
Millions for defense, but not one cent for
4 CHARLES G. p1NCKNEY.
When Ambassador to France 17l6
To the memory of the man. first in war.
first in peace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen. = 4
BliOgy on Washington. December a aS.I i7oe.
Don't give up the ship!
Captain Of the Chesapeake, June /, 1918
We have met the enemy, and they are
OLIVER H. PERRY.
Battle Of Lake Erie, September 10. 1873.
Our country! In her intercourse with for
eign nations, tnay she always be in the
u STEPHEN DECATUR,
Toast given at Norfolk April, 1916
would rather be right than be Presi-
dent.
HENRY CLAY.
Speech, 1850.
If any one attempts to haul down the
American flag, shoot him on the spot.
JOHN A. DIX
Onicial dispatch, January 90 1851
Hold the FORTH am coming
w. T. SHERMAN.
Signal to Allatoona, October 8, 1854.
With malice toward none, with charity
for all.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Second Inaugural address. March 4 1856
Let us have peace!
ULYSSES s. GRANT.
1868. ~ -
Don't swear-shooti4
LEONARD WOOD.
Colonel Of the Rough Riders June "a. 1893
Don't cheer! the poor devils ar, dying.
JOHN W. PHILIP
Captain Of the Texas. July 8, 1888.
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An Orthodox Jewish Wedding.

From the Minorah Monthly
The Talmud requires that a benediction
De given to the betrothed when they enter
into a contract, with the injunction. how
ever, that they must not enter upon the
conJugal life before the nuptials take place.
Inc nuptials are termed Chuppa or Nissuin
and were usually held in the young hus-
bands dwelling. and seven days were al
lowed for the celebration. As usual a sort
or canopy, termed baldachin, was impro-
Nlseo' IL was the custom to conduct the
pride from her home to the groom's abode
III required ten persons while the marriage
was being performed, so as to give the act
publicity and solemnity. 1t became a gen.
eral custom that a rabbi performed the
rites and gave his benediction. although II
was not essential, since the bet ROT hal act
was virtually a marriage COMPACT II was
only curing the middle ages that a rabbi
was required, so as to make the act one of
Nalulty. In modern eras the nuptiaIs are
held IN synagogues and temples. A Gun OF
wine was also used as a symbol of iov Of
winch both the bride and GROOM partook
ana 10 commemorate their willingness to
~ hceIorth drink together from the cup Of
me winch a providence NAV allOt them
An important procedure before the num-
tial ceremony was the execution of a legal
document known as the Kethuba marriage
deed, a law framed by Simon ben Shatach.
VINO was the president of the SVnhedrion
OF Jerusalem 100 years before the advent
OF jesus. The minimum obligation was 300
denarll Tor a virgin bride, and 100 for a
widow, which deed could be amended bv.
additional sums. This document was 10
serve also as mortgage on all the groou's
personal effects and real estate for the
amount stipulated. This document was as
humane as it was equitable in behalf of The
woman In those eras, when polygamy and
concubiage were in vogue, and that evil
disposed husbands could deliberately nut
away thelr wives, leaving them without
support or protection
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There was jolly sailor man, who thought
that 1t would be
A courteous act to bring some little token
So he bought a pretty parrot of a most re-
splendent hue,
And took him down before the mast to
learn thing or two
This jolly tar was wont to pass the idle
hours away 4
With tales which moved his hearers to
much doubling and dismay
And the parrot often heard them as they
said, in accents low,
When Jack had spun another yarn, Il
wonder if it's sop
The parrot was presented to an officer of
state;
He was frequently admitted to the councils
of the great.
He set fine example mid discussion and
research;
He retained his self-possession, and he
ne'er came off the perch.
They told of how mariner had met hos
tile feet;
How by telepathic valor he had doomed it
to defeat.
But there came an interruption; twas a
ioioL, ct lilOuSnlleSS, dow
The parrot blinked and sagely said, 81
wonder if it's so?"
He heard them read dispatches from a
country far away
Which said, We've whipped the enemy
just fourteen times today;
To question my proceeding scribes and
p"9risees may dare,
But -nember that round robins are not
likely to be square.
We have found the foes intrenchments,
and we have him on the run;
We will see him duly punished ere the
setting of the sum-
And they felt serene and happy till, in
measured tones, and slow,
There came the innocent remark, ct Won
der If it's SOP
Twas thus the parrot prattled till, with
murderous intent,
They took him to the river Just behind the
monument.
They held him in the water TILL beneath
its tepid touch.
Expired the hapless bird who talked not
wisely; but too much.
Quoth they, We'll stop this clatter when
we've put you out of view"
The poor bird did his best, and said the
only thing he knew.
The hills caught up his last words, uttered
in the twilight glow,
And echoes far and near repeat, 'T wonder
if it's SOP
X
An Honest Effort.
Mr. and Mrs. Meekton had been very
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Chinese Indifference 10 p,,n

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat
"A very curious thing about the Chinese
Is their indifference to pain" said DIR. E.
L. Simmons, the veteran missionary of
Canton, who was in the city a few DAYS
ago. I'VE do a great deal of surgical work
IN the great City Hospital conducted by
the united missions at Canton, and il was
at first supposed that there would be end
less trouble in persuading the natives to
take anaesthetics. but the doctors found
to their surprise, that anaesthetics were
rarely needed, and that their patients en-
dured the most serious operations without
fiinching the fraction of an inch The
average Chinaman will assume the re-
quired position and hold it like statue
When the knife touches his flesh he be-
gins a slight, monotonous moan and keeps
1t up until the ordeal is over, but he gives
no other indication of pain. Whether this
is due to nerve-bluntness or stoicism, OF a
combination of both, 1 have never been
able to determine, but the fact remains
that the Canton hospital uses less chloro-
form or ether than any other large insti-
tuition of the kind on earth"
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THE GENUINE BAD MAN

''You often hear and read yarns to the
general effect that bad men are almost in
variably cool, silent chaps and that there
is no such a thing bad man who blus-
tiers, the blusterers, according to these
stories, being all cowards," said Jared Nc
Albert, a well-known Montana mining man
who visited Washington recently.
''These yarns make me smile. The regu-
lar he-devil of bad man is almost extinct
now, but I've met several hundred of 'cm
in my day, and every man of them was not
only wfckedly bad, in fact, but also on his
own confession. The worst men of the lot
were the fellows who publicly gloated over
their devfltry, the braggarts who not only
announced with whoops that they ate
wolves, but who were always ready to
stand for anything they said, drunk or
sober. 1t was part of professional bad
mans badness to let everybody know that
he was bad, to yelp 1t out between the
cracking of his guns; to roar 1t out in the
middle of the road whenever the fancy
struck him. Moreover. these self-an-
nounced bad men were never called with
the frequency that some of these yarns
would have you believe. I've generally
discovered, on investigation, that the
quiet, cool bad men were fellows who
shot or stabbed their victims in the back.
Il am always entertained when l read
fairy tales of the way the bad men used
to get themselves done up occasionally by
hat-chested, one-lunged tenderfeet from
the east. few years ago 1 read a story
In a st. Louis paper about the way a pret-
ty, blue-eyed tenderfoot lad had made the
famous Cor, rather, infamous) Thurston
Lfllibridge dance, and it like to have
uckled me to death. AS a matter of fact,
the man never lived that got the drop on
Lilibrfdge. He committed suicide by jump
ing from second-story window in Den
yer while in a spasm of the d. is. Lilli-
bridge was about as bad a man as ever
struck Leadyille when Leadville was bad,
which is saying enough. He was the worst
braggart, the most tremendous blowhard,
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Seeing the Sights.

The stranger in a great city was being
shown over the offices of a great publica-
ton establishment. He saw the presses and
the type-setting outfit, and then he said,
with a little timidity:
There's one thing more I'd like to see"
whats that?'
I'D like to see 'em edit
"Oh! OF course. L had pretty nearly for
gotten that. You know, were so enterpris-
ing that the editing is only small part of
it. But we've got editors Lots of 'em. See
that man with the waste-basket by the side
of his desk and the stack of mail three feet
high?"
Yes
We've gotten up discussion on kissing
bugs. He's the kissing bug editor. The
man just to his right, with all the dia-
monds, gives advice to people in love. He's
the wounded hearts editor. Those portly,
handsome gentlemen to his right, who are
engaged in ordering the Office boys around,
are the Sea-serpent How-to-be-beautiful
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THE INTERPRETER STUMPED

"A mysterious steerage passenger turned
up at the New YORK. barge office the other
day." said Treasury Department special
agent. He arrived with a big batch of
German immigrants on one of the Bremen
steamers. He didn't look like a German.
though, nor, although his makeup was
pretty rough, did he look like the conven-
When 1t came his turn to be put through
the usual questionsHas to where he was
going whether he had enough money on
him to insure him from becoming public
charge, and all that sort of thing, the Ger
man interpreter tackled him. The man
looked at the INTERPRETER out of his twin
king blue eyes, but stood mute. The Ger
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THE ACTOR KEPT STRAIGHT

was reading yesterday of the wide
swath which well-known American lead
Ing man has been cutting lately in England,
and wondered If his good behavior has
become permanent and chronic said a To-
cal theatrical manager to a Star man. He
was last in Washington two years ago last
winter, and he aged me up heap in the
course of the week during which he was
booked to do leading business at my house.
He is one of the best actors in the profess
sion, and a pretty substantial, nice chap
when sober; but he was then addicted to the
jamboree-at-intervals habit, and the misery
and sorrow he caused his employers, not to
speak of the local managers throughout the
country, were certainly something fierce.
He. started in on one of those things at
Philadelphia on the Saturday night that his
outfit-one Of the most prominent dramatic
organizations in the country-was due to
start for Washington to open a weeks en-
gagement at my house on the following
Monday night. His manager didn't nail
him until Sunday morning, and then he got
him into train and brought him along,
personally conducted, as it were, to Wash
ington.
self on the way here, This fellow has sim
ply got to be kept sober this week, any
how. Washington is sold out for nearly
he entire week. There's no understudy for
AAS uuiiCi anu we Cttii get Il man III lot
his parts in less than a month. It's up to
me to cook up some scheme to keep him in
navigable shape, and that's all there is
about it
He did cook up scheme. When he had
deposited his leading man at hotel he
came to me, and, without mentioning any
particulars, he asked me If l knew where
to lay my hands on a large, bullet-headed,
squash-faced, projecting-eared, mixed-ale
prize fighter with 17-inch biceps and Shout
ders three feet across.
Il just happened to have such an ac-
quaintance on my staff, and 1 told the man.
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Time for Action.

From the Richmond Dispatch.
Freddie (whose pa is a strict disciplin-
arian)-"Ma, can you have a man arrested
if you think he's going to kill your
Ma-"Certainly, my son..
Freddie-"Then I'm going to git out
warrant for pa"
Ma-''You shock me, Freddie. What rea-
son could you possibly have for any such
action against your father"
Productivity, l heard him tell the lum-
herman this morning to bring him a cart
load of shingles"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05

and Summer-drinks editors. The How-not-
-with-your-knife editor is away on his
vacation. The Is-it-right-to-hug-w while
Observation-Disclosures editor is doing his
work. The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
editor is away on his vacation, too
And that unassuming man, who sits
away off in a corner, and doesn't seem to
be in it?'
oh, he's just managing editor. or an
editor-in-chief, or Somebody don't know
exactly what"
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man gesticulated and spat out Plattdeutsch
1or hve minutes, but the low-browed immi-
grant only grinned at him and sucked on
an old briar-wood pipe.
bod Won ain'd no Choiman, said the in
terpreter finally to the immigration official.
What is he, them asked the immigra-
ton man.
g I oop-pass it, nod?' said the interpreter.
Maybe he's Frenge'
Tackle him in that, then, said the i'm
migration official. and the German interpre-
ter went at the mysterious chap with
very Notwithstanding bunch of the lam
guage of Gaul.
1.-The mysterious immigrant sat down on
box, cleaned out his pipe and grinned
He nod oonderstand,' said the interpre-
ter.
What the dickens is he, anyhow? said
the immigration man, scratching his head.
Don't look like a Spaniard or an Italian.
Maybe he's a Bulgarian, or something like
that Or Turk. Get the Turk spieler and
see II he can't dig something out of this
cuss'
THE Turkish Interpreter came up, and he
tackled the mysterious proposition from
the Bremen ship in the whole bundle of
LIMOGES from that section-Algerian, Rou-
maman, dialects of the Balkan provinces,
hungarian, all the Magyar spiels, Beloo-
cnistan' Iurkestanese, all the 'eses' and
stans-and the immigrant whitfield the
caking out of his pipe and looked at 'em
all pleasantly, but said never word
Then the Scandinavian Interpreter took
hand, and tried him in NorWegian Swed-
ioi anu DdulSIl, throwing IN a few in Fin
nish and Laplandese, but it was no 90.
me Swiss dragoman heaved in sight and
he tried one or two, but the mystery lust
looked him over from his collar to his shoes.
TOOK a hitch in his trousers and grinned
some more. The small boy who sWeeps ont
the pen whistled You're Up Against the
Real Thing Now, and the Immigration man
mopped his forehead
This gets me going said he He's not
a hindu, nor Hottentot. nor Zufu-what
me deuce can he be? Hey there, Bill,
Ther FIN IN the name q polyglottery do you
j." 'Wot t'elrs' de matter wit youse peo-
pie, anyhow? said the mystery, looking the
whole crowd Of interpreters over with in
finite contempt. 'T'r5win' yer ginnv talk
T INTO guy u; y, wot was born and dubbed up on
cherry H1ll-ye make me face ache
Then he mildly reproached the immigra
ton man for hot gfvin' him. de straight
spiel In de foist place, and told him that
ne was deep-#ater sailor from New York.
ana mad been paid off from his last voyage
IN Bremen, where he embarked per steer
age for his country. He was passed in
hurry, and now they're trying plain old
English first on all Immigrants whose ma
tlonaiity doesn1e stick out all over EN-
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Not to BE Refused.

Not to BE Refused.
She borrowed from the roses
To adorn her pretty head,
And each blossom earth discloses
To her service has been led.
And still she's disconnected
And she calls for heavy books
And in corners unfreQuented
Turns them DER with solemn looks.
She declares that life's battle,
And she vows it is her right
To go forth mid roar and rattle
AS hero in the fight.
And the world. too wise to quarrel
VIII accord her even that,
If she asks a wreath of laurel
As a trimming for her hat.
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Only One Way to Do 1t.

From the Chicago Post
Il am writing an article,' he said, ION
The Way TO Manage a Woman"
Il suppose it will be a long one" she re-
piled in slightly scornful tone.
NO., he answered; sit will be quite
short. In fact. it will consist of only two
words-Don't tryp"
Then she knew him to be man of sense
and experience, in spite of his apparent
youth.
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WHY HE COULDN'T SLEEP.
Brown Was Awakened Every Morn
Ing by DtnbOIlcnI Parrot

There is man in Washington who does
not believe in the biblical maxim of loving
ones neighbors as ones self. In fact, he
wishes he did not have any neighbors.
Look sleepy, do 70" said he 10 a friend
the other day We'll, / reckon I've plenty
or cause to look sleepy. No. 1t isn't in
sPmnia I'm troubled with and my appe-
title is all right. too. Trouble? Well, yes:
it's trouble. but not the kind You read
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From Pick

Mrs. Slimson-'T don't know whether to
get pew or sitting in church next year"
Siimson-"Are you going to have the
same clergyman?
Mrs. Slimson-sYes'
lower berth"
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ROwdyism.
From Puck


DO men ever play golf in long trousers ?"
Yes; it is quite impossible wholly to
eliminate rowdyism from the game, you
know"
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Mamma, If had a hat before had this
one. it's all right to say that's the hat
had had, isn't it?''
Certainly. Johnny
And if that hat once had hole in it,
and I had it mended, could say it had
had hole in it. couldn't I?''
Yes, there would be nothing incorrect
in that"
Then it would be good English to say
that the hat had had had had hole in
1t, wouldn't ft?"-Pearsons Weekly.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Meekton had been very
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
A Sadly I.e1t Dime.

When last in New York. Carnegie
had bitter experience with messen-
ger boy, whose hardness in delivering
a business message came near upsetting
deal of great Importance Referring
to this incident while at dinner with
friends that evening, he told of an Office
boy who worked for him many years
ago when he was of far less Importance
in the commercial world.
"James," said Mr.. Carnegie, "was
willing boy, but his ability as a slut
terer was simply wonderful, and Of
ten found it more convenient to attend
to little errands myself than to wait for
his explanations. One day neighbor
wanted to send nice note clear across
the city, and I permitted James to carry
it for him. The trip was a long one.
and James was gone quite three hours.
When he returned, asked him how
much he had charged for his services.
fifteen c-c-c.centsr
was the gasping reply.
"'Why didn't you make it quar-
ter?' asked.
"'I c-c-c-c-c-could-could t
s-s-s-s-say it, he replied, with tears as
we'll as hyphens in his voice.
"Right then l made up my mind
never to give any one my services with
out first making sure that could recite
my price without suffering, and l
never have. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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"olL PAINTINGS"
Those That Cost 90 Cents Apiece and
Sell For s..


"Most Of tlse cheap oil paintings"
said the picture dealer, "are done by
Italians on the east side in New York
They work in their living rooms, and
most Of the paintings have several
half grown children as assistants. The
wholesale dealers have a number of
such artists on their books and agree
to take all they can do, the firm sup
plying the canvas, but not the paints.
OF course the pictures are done rapid
ly.
"An expert will range six or eight
canvaSes on a shelf that is used in
stead Of an easel and generally has
colored print tackled up above as copy.
Then he proceeds to rapidly block in
the subject. A favorite scene is
mountain lake with a ruined temple in
the foreground. He will indicate the
lake, the sky and the mountains with
out attempting any details and pass on
to the next canvas. BY the time he is
through with the last one the paint on
the first is dry, and he proceeds in the
same order with the trees, clouds and
temple. Meanwhile his helper is put
ting in all the small accessories, and
by the time daylight wanes the row
will be done. By this system of work
ing the artist does not have to be con-
tinually changing his brushes, and he
loses no time in waiting on the drying
Of pigment.
eve sell such a picture as he would
turn out at about 50, including frame.
the net cost of the canvas to the deal
er being in the neighborhood of 80
cents. The workman gets 40 cents
apiece for his paintings, and most of
them average $3.50 a day year in and
year out. l know one man who makes
just double that amount, but he has
two clever children. AS you may see,
some of the pictures are by no means
devoid of merit in spite of their slap
dash handling. In fact, a good many
of the 40 cent artists occupy their
leisure in doing artistic things whichs
they may or may not be able to SELL
The others bring in steady income
and keep the pot boiling."-New Or.
leans Times-Democrat.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-08-04
Sound Transmission.

Water is very good transmitter OF
sound. A scientist of the name of Cal
ladoa made some experiments on Lake
Geneva. Switzerland, to demonstrate
the power of sound to travel long way
in water. A clock was made to strike
under the water and was heard to a
distance of 10 miles. In second ex-
pertinent the striking of a clock was
heard to distance of 27 miles.
Tin is one Of the Oldest known met
ais. The Chinese have used it in the
fabrication of their brasses and
hronzes from time immemorial.
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PLANO.

PLANO. Aug. 2-Will Rowley is
home from he institule held in Mitch
ell.
w. S. Logan, of Mitchell, was look
ing alter his farming interests in this
vicinity Friday.
viii Blair, of Forestburg. visited
with his brother, Lue, over Sunday.
81. o. Anderson and Virgil Emerson
spent Sunday in Mitchell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Blair, of Mason
City. Iowa, are here to spend the sea.
son with the latter's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. Grove.
Thirty mum bers were sold az the
dancing party at r. LaRue's Friday
evening. Those present report an en-.
joyabie time.
Harvesting is proc ressing nicely in
Plano. We have had two good rains
this week that have helped corn.
Miss Emma Hawks, who is spending
q few weeks at J. Walli.', spent
Thursday evening with Miss Ethel
Jewett.
Mrs. VIM. Pattison has been quite
sick the past week.
The Farwell creamery paid its pa
irons IA cents for July butter.
r. r. Lang's team ran away Tuesday
while hitched to binder, breaking the
binder all to pieces.