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The Marshall republican., 1900-12-28

ton county. mn old Salin" county man.
l. visiting his daughter. Mrs. Paul
simon. In this city.
Miss Mamie Sandidge. ~ the Buck
sor, school near Ucrndon. entertained
her pupils with "a Christmas tree and
u general good time.
Miss liiva Hawkins. who II attend.
Ing school ut Lexington. came down
Thursday Ia -pend her vacation NJ
her nome In Fairville.
T.. l.. C'oolcs. Of Oklahoma City.
travelling salesman for l;idcnour, Ba.
k"r " Co.. Ia the guest of Ills. La.
RI" Cnmpi~ll Saturday.
Miss Victor Levy, who teaches at
the Shelby school house l. spending
her vacation ut the home ~ Mrs. Geo.
Hunter south Of the city.
Miss Grace Po,cet. Of We-tport.
and Mr.. IIcni, &. Majors. of Pueblo,
Colo. spent Christmas week with Mr..
aud Mrs. Jno. NJ. Roberts.
Bert Pyle 81 class ~ 'WOf Missouri
Valley College, spent Christmas In
Marshall, which has attractions for
him that no other town has.
NJ. v. &. dismissed school on Sat.
| urday ut noon 81 that the students
who are going home for the holiday
could leave In the afternoon.
Misses Matte Pickett, Mary Harris
and Eva Baker form "a pleasant hous'
party ut the home Of Miss Sadie Nor
ris this week AT Arrow Rock.
l. ID. Reid. 81 Jefferson city. came II
Saturday for II visit To friends In thi'
city and will spend part Of the loli
] days with relatives at Odessa.
The Marshall republican., 1900-12-28

Miss Fanni" Cordcll rame down
Friday from blackburn and II spend.
Ing her vacation with her relatives
aud numerous friends In the city.
Mrs. Mary Slater. teacher u, the
Elm Grove school. l. IA" guest this
weak of the family AZ her cousin. u.
Is. Rum. on South Lafayette avenue.
Iicrtis Price and wife. of 81. Louis.
are guests of Judge Sparks and fam.
ily this week and will visit relatives
ut blackburn before returning Ia the
city.
u. l.. Bird aud Miss BETTE Naylor.
students "a, Missouri Valley College.
left i'rida! might for their HON" In
Mason Ci,y, H.. Ia spend the h"li.
days.
Mrs. Robert Conway and son.. Of
Kansas City, and Mr.. and Mrs. Con-
way we're guests IN Saturday 81 T..
". Dawes aud wife On East Arrow
street.
Lee Williams and wife. Of Wana.
maker, were IN our city recently. They
will leave January II, for Adair. !.
T.. which will h their home In the
future.
Miss Daisy Elsca returned Ia her
home ut Mt. Leonard on saturday at
ternoon after u visit az several days
Ito Mrs. Henry COlvert and other
friends.
Mrs. =. NJ. Taylor aud daughter,
bliss Fannie left saturday for Kansas
city. where they spent tn" week with
Me-damcs Nat Leonard aud George
Campbell.
] u, u, Taylor left Saturday for Kan
The Marshall republican., 1900-12-28

,a- City. where he met Mrs. True and
the remains Of her daughter. the late
Miss Mary True. who died IN Thurs
day at I,ockpOrt, Texas.
CELSIUS Orcar aud wife returned sun.
day from 81. Louis aud s,cn, Christ.
mas nj the Noble home on East Arrow
street. They left Thursday for their
home In Houston. Texas.
T.. II. Mills. formerly of this city.
hut for ten years u resident 81 King
Fisher. oklahoma, II with his wife vi-'
ting Frank aud James Martin and
their families here thi, week.
John Adams aud wife entertained
the following persons ut dinner Tues
day, the 18th: James Piper and fam.
lily, Mort Piper and family aud tha-.
Piper and wife of the county.
a collection will l~ taken an next
sunday morning ut the Presbyterian
church for the benefit ~ the ASSEM-
bly'- Home for Orphans of Deceased
Minister. IL, Firdcrick- burg. Va.
Mrs. Frank Srtherlin. al Arrow
Rock, was In the city saturday. Sh"
will with her husband spend the thri-i.
mas season with her mother, Mr-.
Frank Kidd near Wilton Springs.
Mrs. william hates, ~ the county,
was IN Marshall Friday tn meet her
daughter, Miss Lutte NanM.ter, VIII"
came up from Columbia. where sh"
attends school. Ia spend III" holidays.
George Green. formerly Of Sla;"r.
who now holds II position In the audi
tors Office ~ the Rio Grand Western
at salt Lake city, visited Marshall
friends recently aud left Tor Mcxir"
where he viii spend the holidays.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-31

Los ANGELES. Oct. n.-Creditors Of
the Briggs-spence Company. fruit ship
pers. are hoping that some arrangements
can be made by which the young men
may resume business. Tho firm. COM
posed Of George n. Briggs Of Chicago and
W. Glenn Spence Of this city. is in fnan-
cial difnculty. owing $4,000 with compare
lively little assets. OF this amount prob
ably $4,000 is owing to fruit growers. OF
TIE other Indebtedness the principal item
Is $500. due the State Bank & Trust Co.
II 10 understood that the fruit growers
a-s inclined to be ienient with the young
nsn. whose enterprise has temporarily
gone awry. Glenn Spence has about $40.-
wv interest In the estate left by his faith
er. f. r. Spence Of Monrovia. and the
statement Is made today that his mother
VIII come to his assistance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-31
Fruit Shippers Fail.

vot. tn. Republican Ticket straie hs
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-31
A
Family
Group!

We make a business Of taking pic
tures-make feature Of art photo
graphs. We study the arrangement OF
and our work Is the sort that fnsurea
8 tisfaction all around
Call and be convinced.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-31

buildings. The court holds that the in
sured cannot raise such question.
THE BOARD OR PLAGUE?
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
AN INVOLUNTARY THIEF,
Drove on with Another Mans Horse
and Wagon and Got Into
Trouble.

There is no fun in being criminal,
III. Jessup, the novelist and play
wright, who has now a big place in
Cabinteely, Ireland once lived in San
Francisco, says the Philadelphia Sat-
urday Evening Herald. There was an
epidemic of horse stealing at that
time, which was followed by a SYM
pathetic attack of lynching. Vigi-
lance committees were everywhere,
and strangers on strange horses were
viewed with suspicion.
Jessup and n friend were out driv-
ing one day and took part in picnic
where they knew nobody. They
passed several pleasant hours at San
Mateo, where the festival took place,
and then remembered an important
engagement. They left the crowd and
went to the neighboring grove where
the horses were tethered, and unfas-
tening their own rig, as they sup
posed, jumped in and drove off. The
horse had trotted two or three miles
when the friend said:
George, this isn't our horse. It's
a larger and better animal"
Jessup looked at the steed carefully
and replied: Upon my word, you are
right. This isn't our carriage robe
either"
1t was handsome affair, and they
looked at it with some curiosity. On
the inside of it was sewed a piece OF
cloth bearing the name and address
of the owner. The friend gasped:
George, do you know the owner of
this rig is the head of the vigilance
committee?"
Mr.. Jessup broke into cold per-
spiration as he replied: Lets drive
to the nearest telegraph station and
wire him"
They drove like mad, and when
they reached the station made ar
rangements at the hotel to have the
horse and wagon cleaned. Then they
sent dispatch, and waited their fate.
In due time the irate owner arrived,
and to their inexpressible Joy he came
in their own vehicle. There were ex-
plantations and apologies, and, accord
ing to California custom, the luckless
Jessup was compelled to ''treat the
house." an act which kept him poor
for the remainder of the month.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30

fag. and that it will nurture the mind
of youth and stimulate the wisdom OF
age. Mr.. Levin has ponderous and
exact ways of describing just how all
these miracles may be performed, but
the young men at the university ex.
press the same ideas when they refer
to the treatment as hitting the
brush" They unanimously agree that
by following the electricians instruc-
tions the human brains ability tC
withstand the fatigue of labor is vast
ly increased. Those who have taken
the treatment are also as one in the
assertion that no lsarm comes there
from.
Mr.. Levin has this simple method
of explaining the workings of his in
vention: The action of electrical in
fuences on the particles that compose
the brain centerS eXcites the nervous
action controlling the flow of blood,
in that way enabling the mind to do
more work than would be possible for
it under normal conditions. Added to
this is the fact that the atomic action
of the brain cells is rendered more
controllabe and faciie, so that the
usual exhaustion from long continued
brain work becomes merely a mental
recreation that neither drags nor wor-
ries nor eXhausts. In Encina hall, the
largest dormitory on the college cam
pus, where some 5000 freshmen have
during the last few years been intro
duced to student life at the university,
Mr.. Levin first placed his invention
He did it by way of an experiment to
see how it would be taken up by the
Inhabitants of the hall He well knew
that to be acceptable it must be harm
less looking, and he made it so.
1t is a simple thing to look at-a
small box of light oak wood with two
small handles attached, one at each
end, an electric switch and arrow in
dicator (the whole bound, screwed and
bolted tightly together)-that is
about all there is to look at. a simple
thing on the whole. this mystic ma
chine. on which you press a button to
make it 'alive," and to throw an un-
known quality of electricity into
common metal brush attached to the
box by a wire, a brush that stings
when YOU brush your hair, giving you
an uncanny sensation. That is the
kind of machine Inventor levin
placed in Encina hall.
To "hit the brush" became a by
word. That was some months ago.
Then Inventor Levin told what it was
this electric machine of his-but one
thing he did not tell and that was
the quality of the current he uses,
This secret he has patented, for in it
lie all the wonderful powers with
which it is claimed this invention is
endowed. President Jordan is pleased
with results so far, but with COM
mendable caution thinks the time has
not yet quite arrived for such une-
ouiyocal Endorsement as the idea
seems to deserve.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
KANSAS FIRST CAPITOL.
(All That Is Left of Pawnee, Once a Boom
ing Little City.)

governor, A. H. Reeder, who owned
land there and was a good deal of a
speculator.
The town association built the cap
itol a stone structure two stories high
and 40XS0 feet in outside dimensions.
They laid out the streets and boarding.
houses We're made ready for the first
meeting of the legislature. Then, in
1855, the governor called the legisla
ture to meet there, and the solons de-
cided that they would not assist him
in his plays.
They went from eastern Kansas in
prairie schooners, a long procession
that wound its way $50 miles out on the
prairie. the travellers growing more
angry that the governor had selected
SO distant a pace. They had provi-
sionS for the trip, and when they
reached Pawnee not one of them went
to the boarding houses, a had been ex-
pected, but they cooked in their wag-
ons and lived on the edge of the town
site.
On the day for the opening of the
Legislature they went to the new stone
sisted of organizing and adjourning to
Shawnee mission, in the eastern part
of the state, where, despite all the eff
forts of the governor, the remainder OF
the session was held.
Pawnee did not make a town. The
cholera broke out the next year at Fort
Riley and the people fed. The state
house stands out on the plain. deserted,
the roof gone and the interior place
for the hiding of coyotes and sandhil
owls The state has been asked to pur-
chase the old ruin and preserve it for
future generations, who will doubtless
appreciate it as a reminder of the eff
forts of the first-comers to make this
a great city, and for time it seemed
likely that they would succeed.
Kansas has seven capitols, ending
with the present handsome building at
Topeka. not yet completed; but none
has a more romantic history than the
old Pawnee statehouse, and none ap-
peals more strongly to the lovers of tha
picturesque.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
CHAPTER VII.
AGNES MURDOCH.

In a quarter of the city which is
rapidly surrendering to the relentless
encroachments of trade, there still
stand few old-fashioned houses, the
sole survivors of what was once an
aristocratic settlement.
One by one their fellows have been
sapped and swept away by the resist
less tide of commerce, until these an
cient dwellings, stubbornly contest
ing a position already lost, now rear
their sepulchral brownstone fronts in
stiff and solitary grandeur-huge sar-
cophagi in a busy mart.
One of these houses stands well
back from the street line, the tradi-
tional backyard of the ordinary New
York dwelling having been sacri-
feed in this instance. to make room
for tiny garden, which is separated
from the street by tall spiked iron
railing, behind which grows an ar
Dor vitae hedge. The former serves
as a defense against the marauding
of the irrepressible metropolitan
gamin; while the latter confers upon
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
Geth,senane.

The Garden of Gethsemane, which
was so closely interviewer with the clos
ing scenes in the life of Christ, is now
a desolate spot, containing a few old
and shattered olive trees, the trunks
of which are supported by stones,
though some of the branches are flour
ishing. 1t is small square inclosure
of about 200 feet, surrounded by a high
wall, little way out of Jerusalem. be-
low st. Stephens gate. and near the
foot of the Mount of Olives. Biblical
reference to it is made in Matt. &c 30
So; Mark 14:26-5s; Luke 22:39-53- and
John 1S:1-14. The garden is the prop.
erty of the Latin Christians, the Greek
church having fixed upon another To-.
cality as the true site of Gethsemane.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30

"Come and see the picture" he said.
81 should like your opinion of it,"
The reporter consulted his watch.
81 shall have to come back some
other time for that" he replied; Il
must hurry off now to keep my ap-
pointment with Mr.. Dunlap"
He started toward the door; but
suddenly facing Sprague again, he
held out his hand to the artist, who
pressed it cordially.
Goodbye, old man." he said, af-
fectionately, ''be as sensible as YOU
can, and don't wantonly play with the
fire"
And before Sprague could frame an
answer, the reporter was gone.
The artist remained thoughtfully
standing until his friend footsteps
had died away in the distance. Then
he turned and walked slowly into the
studio. Here, in the middle of the
room, stood an easel, upon which was
the portrait of a beautiful young
girl
Sprague gazed at it long and earn
estly. Then he heaved an almost in
audible sigh.
''Sturgis is right" he said to him
self, turning away at last, "and-and
l am a confounded idiot!"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30

the occupants of the garden a sem
blance of protection from the GU
rious gaze of the passers-by.
This property, having been the sub
ject of an interminable lawsuit, had
remained for many years unoccupied
and was even now beginning to be re-
garded by some of the neighbors as
haunted when at last it was bought
by DR.. Murdoch, a wealthy widower
with an only daughter. For some
months masons and carpenters were
at work; and then, one day, the new
occupants entered into possession
The Murdocks lived quietly but lux
uriously like people accustomed to
wealth. They had their horses and
carriages, their house at Lenox and at
Newport, and their yacht. Their cir
Gle of acquaintances was large, and
included not only the fashionable set,
but also scientific, literary and art
istic set. For DR.. Murdock was a
chemist of national reputation, a
member of several scientific bodies.
and man of great intelligence and
broad culture
On this particular New Years morn
ing DR.. Murdock was seated in his
study, apparently absorbed in read
ing the daily papers, a pile of which
lay upon his table. His occupation
might perhaps more accurately be de-
scribed as skimming the daily papers;
for each journal in turn was subject
ed to a rapid scrutiny, and only Il few
columns seemed occasionally to icCer-
est the reader.
There was no haste visible in the
doctors actions, each one of which
appeared to be performed with the
GOODNESS and deliberation of a man
who is not the slave of time; and yet,
so systematic were they, that, all lost
motion being avoided, every operation
was rapidly completed.
In short time the pile of newspa-
pers had been disposed of, and the
doctor, lighting a choice cigar, leaned
back in his comfortable armchair and
placedly pulled the wreaths of fra
grant smoke ceilingward. He was ap-
parently satisfied with the world and
with himself this calm, passionless
man. And yet a sharp observer would
have noted an almost imperceptible
furrow between the eyes, which might
perhaps have indicated only the
healthy mental activity of an or
dinary man; but which, in one given
so little to outward manifestation of
feeling as DR.. Murdock, might also
betoken more or less serious annoy
ance or displeasure.
While the chemist sat in this pen
sive attitude, there was a rustic of
skirts outside, and presently there
came a gentle knock at the door of
the study.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
HITTING THE BRUSH.
Treatment That Is Said to Be a
Cure for Brain Fag.
Rackw Ri University Students Helped
Along by EIectricity-1ears of
study Preceded the Appiicn-
ton Of the Current.

President Jordan, of Stanford uni-
versiby, California, is a hard worker
himself, and has but little patience
with a person of indoIent habits. He
has always encouraged his thousand
or more students to put in .heir best
licks while at the university, never
letting them forget that success can
only be won by hard work. To this
unremitting industry on his part and
to faithful imitation on the part of his
young charges can be traced the fact
that in the short space of nine years
Stanford has taken her place among
the leading educational institutions
of the land. In spite of everything,
however, the tasks imposed on the
youths under his care have proven
too much for them. Here and there
one or two would drop out of the race
and were soon forgotten by almost
everybody at the university. These
fallings by the wayside were the sub
ject of frequent thought on the part
of John j. Levin, chief electrician at
the university, whose misfortune it
was to have a special frienu drop out
through inability to maintain the
pace. Mr.. Levin set himself to the
task of discovering some way of Civ
ing backward students such aid as
would prevent them from falling be-
hind. That was five years ago, and
Mr.. levin is now ready to give the
necessary stimulant in such cases,
His Investigations have convinced him
that electricity is a sort of elixir OF
youth; that it is a sure cure for brain
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
KANSAS FIRST CAPITOL.
II Is All That In Left OF Pawnee, Once
the Seat Of Government of the
sun6Ower state.

One Of the ruins that Kansas pro-
poses to guard from the ravages of time
is the first statehouse Of Kansas, one
of the few relics of the early days. when
the settlement of the west was Just
beginning.
1t stands near Fort Riley, in the
central part of the staE- and. according
to the Philadelphia Press, is all that
is left of the town of Pawnee, the first
capital of the state.
The town was started by boomers
who stood in with the territorial
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30

music for the rider of the wheel and
his companions. in order to break the
monotony and give advertisement dur
ing long and tedious runs.
The mechanism. which is quite sim
pie, is mounted on an iron frame made
to fit into that of the machine. On this
frame are stretched piano wires, B.
while or the cross piece. A. are some
small hammers operated by pins on
the cylinder, c. and made to strike tho
wires. The cylinder is rotated by
worm gears placed at its left-hand end
and driven from the crank shaft by a
cord and pulley.
The inventor has foreseen the case
when the riders should tire of the
music, by providing small lever for
throwing out the gears and thus stop
ping the cylinder. The tune may bs
varied by putting in new cylinders.
and the time of any air may be quick
ened by increasing the speed of the
wheel. >
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
A MUSICAL BICYCLE.
Designed for the Purpose of Giving
Diyertisemenf During Long
and Tedious Runs.

At this time when so many improve
ments are being made on bicycles, in
the way of attachable motors, etc, the
machine illustrated in the Scientific
American will doubtless interest our
readers. 1t is the invention of Mr.
Samuel Goss, of Chicago, and was de-
~igned for the purpose of furnishir~
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
CHAPTER VI.
THE ARTIST.

Sprague was a dilcttante in art as
he was in life. If he had not been
rich, he might perhaps have become
a great artist. But, lacking the spur
of poverty, he seemed incapable of
sustained effort. Occasionally he was
seized with a frenzy for labor; and,
for weeks at a time he would shut
himself up in his studio. until he had
crcditably accomplished some bit of
work. But the fever was sQsn spent,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
Come in!- said Murdock, removing

Come in!- said Murdoch. removing
the cigar from his lips.
The door opened, admitting tall
and beautiful young girl, evidently
not long out of her teens.
Did / disturb you. father?" she
asked, stepping lightly into the
room.
"No, Agnes" replied Murdoch,
courteously; las you see, am indulg-
ing in period of dolce far niente."
The young girl laughed a clear, sill
very laugh, as her eyes fell upon the
pile of newspapers.
'If the reading of dozen news
papers is dolce far niente, | should
think you would welcome hard work
as a pleasant change
''Oh!" replied her father, "the
work | have done on those has not
amounted to much. L have only
been cleaning the news from tho
morning papers.
yes" he added answering her sur
prised look, 'it takes a deal of skim
milk to yield little cream"
The last paper which Murdock had
been examining lay upon the desk be-
fore him. From the closely printed
columns stood out in bold relief the
glaring headlines:
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30

pet Maltese cat belonging to an
English woman has been successfully
provided with spectacles to counter
act failing eyesight, A picture OF a
mouse was used by the oculist to test
the CATS eyes.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-30
Different nominations

"a man gave over a hundred dollars
for a copper cent the other day"
That's nothing. An English syn
dicate has just paid $4,000, 900 for a
woolep miu."-Harlem Life.