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The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27

have a regular saw tooth edge, and
the berries are blush, almost BLACK.
No, this is no relative Of the Rhus
family, but is closely allied to the
grape, and it's botanical name is Am
pelopsis quinquefolia, or, commonly.
Virginia creeper. 1t Is perfectly harm
less, and one of our most beautirsl
native -Harper's Bazaar.
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27
Pine Hou,s 600 Years Old.

This Is one of the buildings called
"staburs," which are to be seen in Tele-
mark, in Norway. They are built OF
pine wood, and mcst of them date from
the eleventh or twelfth century. They
are storehouses for provisions to be
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27
Improvement In Drilling Machines.

Although the primary use of the ma
chine shown in the illustration was in
tended to be the boring of holes In
fence posts, there are many other pur
poses for which it will be found useful
Steadlness and continuous inward pres
sure are the two essentials which must
be obtained in operating a drill proper.
ly, and both Of these results seem to ps
easily accomplished with the ap.
paratus, which is the invention Of
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27
;ss(Es(sfstAts 5stz(s{9lAoctst,
!. A Long, Tailed Breed
Of Japanese Fowls
Dr. WALTER L. BEAsLEY.
7 HE first specimen of the re-

markable long tailed breed of
fowls from Japan to be seen
in this country was recently
received at the American Museum Of
Natural History. The magnificent tail
feathers of this creature measure near
ly twelve feet, and are strikingly set
forth in comparison with the siX-foot
figure shown in accompanying illustra'
tion. Mr.. John Rowley, the taXider'
mist OF the institution, will mount the
new acquisition in a characteristic at
titude, after which 1t will be installed
In Bird Hall, where it will form one
of the most interesting exhibits Of that
department. Professor Bashford, Dean
of Columbia University, last year Wis
tied the locality of the long-tailed fowls
and had one grown for the Museum.
The Introduction Of the breed is
said to have been brought about by
prince Of Japan, whose imperial crest
was q feather. Yearly he offered a
prize to the subject who would bring
to him the longest feather. The great.
est skill and effort were therefore en-
plcyed by the breeders to produce the
greatest length of tail feathers possible.
At present only a few old fanciers
know the secret process of successfully
breeding these fowls. A few authen-
tic details have, however, been obtained
in regard to the method of their breed
Ing. The particular breed is confined
to a region in and around Kochi, the
capital OF a province Of Tasso, The
breed Is about a hundred years old
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27

used during the long winters, and con,
tain among other things quantities Of
the peculiar hard, fiat, Norwegian
bread or biscuit, which is as thin as a
pancake and thirty inches in diameter
Many of these buildings are adorned
with artistic wood carving and painted
bright red. There are wooden churches
Of equal antlquiy Y.
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27

poison Ivy itself; but where, oh where,
ure the stout hairy stems and the clus-
ters Of whitesh berries? Instead you
will notice clusters Of purple bean bios
SONS or. what follows later, some min-
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27
li9hlo To encounter,

No, DO not refer to tramps bears
or snakes, but to much more sly and
dangerous foes, the poisonous plants
and shrubs which lurk in every nook
and Granny, and there lie in wait for
their victims by every fence post,
woodland path. pile of boulders, or,
perhaps, on the same premises where
you are staying.
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27

or fall asleep. There are scores OF
ways OF varying this exercise. But thh
is the essential. OF course. it is as.
sumed that one sleeps with his bed.
room windows open.
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27
Suspicious Characters
Of the Woods.
By william S. Rice.
~R~%%~%~R~~a

1lLE you are in the coun-
try and roaming through
fields and thickets indis-
crimlnately, on your hunt
ing or fishing excursions,
let me utter a word Of
caution against the dan
gerous characters you are
liable 70 encounter.
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27

An unhappy wife is one whose hus'
band always let's her have her OVID
way.
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27
The Family Row.

The longest way home is the shortest
road to family row.-New York
Press.
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27
Oldest Love Letter.

The oldest love-letter in the world
is in the British Museum. 1t is a pro-
posal Of marriage for the hand of an
Egyptian Princess, and 1t was made
$500 years ago. 1t Is in the form Of an
inscribed brick.
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27

Religious instruction is not given in
japanese sohoolA
The suburban citizen., 1902-09-27

Force is at best fearful thing even
In righteous cause.--Schiller.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26

along as If there wasn't any Ligonier-
A careful study of that time table dis
closed the fact that on IL Ligonier had
Just two trains a day each way, four
in all. Then there was a roar in Llgo-
nier. This time Ligonier got to the
law first, though for that matter the
company wasn't giving them any race
Ligonier got an order directing the
railroad to stop two certain express
trains. one each way, at Ligonier and
the mayor went along down to Cleve-
land to see the order served on the
day that order was TO go into enecI
there was another new time table. By
ii the two express trains ran between
Toledo and Elkhart over the old road
and didn't go through Ligonier at all
There wasn't anything the town
could do just then. but ii wasn't be-
cause they didn't want to- II was
about this time that Ligonier began 10
get unhealthy for Lake Shore men and
the station agent there began to get
gray hairs.
About a year after this the company
put on two fast trains that also car
ried mail These trains, like most of
the others. failed to notice Ligonier,
and Ligonier saw a chance to do the
company. They petitioned the post
master general and he granted an or
mail service on the trains TO Ligonier.
Sure says the company. wen give
mail service to Ligonier; Wen be glad
to-. All right says Ligonier, we
guess you'll stop those trains here now
all right
And then the company sent anoth-
err gang of men to Ligonier- They put
up a mail crane and the mail trains
slowed down to about fifteen miles an
D \ L les1rr
and picked the outgoing bag of the
crane. There wasn't much chance for
| passengers, though
'All right says Ligonier, IF slow
ing down will satisfy you, slow down
some more and they passed an ordi-
nance requiring all trains to run at a
speed not exceeding four miles an hour
in the city limits. Thatn fix them,
said Ligonier.
Then the engineers began to develop
funny notions about speed. Once in
while one of 'em would get up To
fifty miles an hour in LigOnier. but
the average was about fOrty-five miles.
Ligonier hired a detective and once in
a while he'd get the name of an engi-
neer who had pushed through the town
faster than the law allowed. He'd go
off down to Toledo with warrant and
asked for his man.
where's John Thompson, engi-
neer?' he'd say.
why Thompson has been trans
ferred TO the Michigan division You'll
find him up in Lansing
so the detective would carry his
warrant back to Ligonier.
Lately, though, they've begun 10
get over their hard feelings and last
year the company gave them four
trains a day each way. But just the
same one of the old engineers will rip
through Ligonier today as fast as he
did when the fight was on. and if he
happens along in the night he won't
be liable to forget where his whistle
cord is, either
And the brakeman stepped out on
the platform to see if his markers
were all right.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26
PosEY COUNTY, INDIANA.
No Such Place as Hooppole Ever
Existed.

Chicago Tribune.)
Here is a serious disa appointment for
the humorists and satirists who find in
the recommended and fire.
quently libeled state of Indiana plenty
Of material for numerous commentaries
upon the conditions and customs of
Hoosierdom. "Hooppole, Posey county"
for years has been stock expression
with the joke makers, but now a man
comes forth in Chicago-think of it
and furnishes evidence showing that
the time-h onored legend is a myth.
This man is Ernest Dale Owen, a Chi
cago attorney, who is familiar with In
diana and its provincial history. He
says:
Il have just read an article entitled
'HOoppole, Posey County, in which the
writer takes occasion to say that the
boatload of learning that landed in
Posey county left its precious load at
Hooppole, in fact identifying Hooppole
as the social colony of PoSey county.
There never was such a place as
Hooppole, P0sey county. The place
spoken of is New Harmony. Posey
county. It was formerly called Har-
mony and was the home of the Rap
pites, a social colony that had it's in
terests in common and practiced Gel
ibacy. The town and the surrounding
was ill OOukQl OUT DN 1EOD6TI
Owen, the father Of Robert Dale Owen;
David Dale Owen. Richard Owen and
William Owen, and it became the home
of such men as William Mcclure, the
geologist; Joseph Neef, the educator;
Lesueur, the naturalist; Troost, the
scientist; Thomas Say the entomolo-
gist; Whittlesey, the geOlogist; Meek,
the paleontologist; Lesquereux, the
botanist, and Colonel Fauntleroy.
The history of New Harmony has
been written a good many times, and
aggregation OF intellectual men in any
town in the United States outside of
/ the few principal cities as in this little
town of New Harmony
However, it is not Hooppole but
New Harmony Posey county was for
merly called the land of hooppoles and
pumpkins, and Posey county pumpkins
are certainly luscious, but the hoop
poles used in Posey county are all i'm
ported from somewhere else, and how
this reputation became attached to it
is difficult to say
Years ago there was a story in this
regard attached to Posey county which
ran something like the following: For
merly as fiatboats floated down the
Ohio river interesting dialogues often
took place They would run:
MAN on shOre-where are you from /?
Man on hatboat-PoSey county.
Man on Shore-What you loaded
with?
Man on natboat-Fruit and furni-
ture.
Man on shore-What kind of fruit
and furniture2
Man on fiatboat-Hooppoles and
pumpkins.
This story may account for the iden-
tification of hooppoles with Posey
county from the earliest day"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26
PRINTERS STRIKE.
Was Won by Compositor Who Stole
Supply of Lower Case Els.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.)
Speaking OF printers" said an old
typo. reminds me of a printers strike
which was inaugurated in q small town
out west a number of years ago when
that section of the world was much
wilder than it is now. Cruder methods
were then used in the printing bust
ness, and yet some of Us older fellows
look back upon those days as the roster
part of our careers. OF course, We
struck hard lines. just as we strike
them now. But somehow there was
something about the grouping which
made the printers misfortunes easier
to bear than they are now Getting
back to the strike, the printers had
asked for a small increase, and had
insisted on it with the usual persist
ence and vigor. The owner of the pa
per said his income would not justify
him in granting the increase asked.
Besides. he said he did not intend to
allow a gang of printers to run his
business. That was a firebrand. There
was nothing to do but walk out. He
said he could get along all right, and
really we were inclined to think that
he could. But there was one mischiev-
Gus fellow in the crowd who said he
would fix the thing so the man could
not set out mis- paper. The town was
small, and was many miles from a
place where type or assistance of any
kind could be had. The first intimation
we had that anything was wrong was
when the paper missed an issue We
did not understand why it was But
the aforesaid mischievous man did.
Sure enough, he had fixed the thing
He had slipped around in the shop be-
fore we all left, but without our knowl-
edge, and had stolen all the lower case
e's- 1t is impossible TO get out news
paper without e'S- The is used more
frequently than any other letter in the
alphabet. The proprietor could not
turn a wheel. He finally threw up his
I hands in despair and said if the men
would come back and bring the missing
e's he would grant their demand. 1t
was some time before we located the
guilty man. He finally came to the
front, and said if we would all go back
! he would furnish the necessary num-
Der of lower case e's to get the paper
out. We went back after being out just
day and half, and the mischieyous
printer kept his promise by Juggling
| a peck of e's back into the shop. That
was the last of our trouble with the
owner of the paper, and after it was
all over he looked upon the larceny Of
his supply of e's as d good joke
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26
PRENTICE AND THE RATHER.
An Interesting Situation in the
Shack of a Western Citizen.
Chicago Inter OCEAN,

Chicago Inter ocean,
Every time John Prentice rolls over
in bed at night a big rattlesnalxe lifts
its ugly head and burr-r-rs, and some
night there promises to be battle be-
tween the two.
Ten days ago Prentice first heard the
warning bur-r-r of the RATHER in his
shack. He is an old westerner, and
dwells on the bank of the Columbia,
half a mile from Kennewick. and just
across the river from PaSco.
His cabin is a one-room affair in the
midst of wild, sparsely settled, sage
brush country, and is piled high on one
side with plumber gathered from the
river. Here are dozens of heavy boxes
and other articles which would take
half day TO drag out.
Prentice heard the RATHER looked
twice Al the boxes, and then decided not
TO interfere with the intruder esconced
behind the mass of rubbish. He shifted
his bed a little, and gave up half his
house to the snake. The rattlesnake
bur-r-rs at every move Prentice makes,
but the nervy westerner pays little at
tention TO il.
On one side of the shack dweIler as
he sleeps in a big shotgun, and on the
other bottle of approved snake bite
If / see that snake first. heaven help
him, remarked Prentice yesterday. If
he gets in on me first. here's the snake.
bite. I'm safe either way
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26
Great Days For the Drummer.

louisville Courier-JourndL)
Charles Frohman has finally rounded
to the plans which he has SO cunningIy
advertised for the past two years. and
Maude Adams and Sarah Bernhard are
to be joint stars in Romeo and Juliet
The supporting eOmpany's use of the
English language will give a Tower of
Babel effect, which will doubtless en-
nance the artistic excellence of the
presentation. Maude Adams, as Juliet
viii ask Of Sarah the divine the ques-
ton which is now puzzling so many of
us laymen: "Oh, Romeo Romeo
Wherefore art thou Romeo?'' Is it too
much TO hope that in this enIightened
age OF the "drammer' the managerial
announcement may shortly be forth
coming that Monsieur James Jeffries
viii assume the title role in a revival
of Julius Caesar" with Mr.. Robert
Fitzsimmons. minister pienipotentiary
from Australia, looking after the in
terests of Cassius. and our own distin-
guished fellow-citizen, Marvin Hart,
Esq, administering the knockout punch
TO the role of Brutus? As accessories.
Mr. James Corbett and Mr.. Norman
Selby Mccoy might be cast as noise
without" We live in great age. Let
us be hopeful
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26
MUCH TROUBLE AHEAD.

erlR. e. BENJAMIN ANDREWS has
Sc started 10 worrying about the fu-
IRE and The Herald is impelled TO
tfhare his troubles for the reason that
A1isery loves company, il for no other
Or. Andrews makes the lugubrious
ctatement that the supply Of mouths
increasing faster than the supply of
se.od and II is easy enough TO figure.
oNF geometrical progression. that with
" a couple of hundred years or so
there will be about twelve mouths for
a'ery mouthful.
oiySays the doctor: "Mouths increase
SIister than the food supply. Statistics
pAow that the population increases at
LEI alarming rate. and that were it not
n the decimating- processes of wars,
DISEASES and fanines, the world would
tyoon become overcrowded with people.
OF has been shown that the population
az the world doubles every fifty years
Slow 10 keep down the population of
ne globe and keep the earth from be-
alig overcrowded is a great problem.
II ID one OF which some men ought to
s.vote their lives TO working OUT
HFiguring on a basis Of 500. 100000 as
We population of the earth I'm 1900. Il
a painfully apparent that. according
q DR.. Andrews figures. the population
= in be $4,000 900 in POO. and $4,000.
gs,,9000 In 2200. When we think that IN
ditrife of 300 years. some of us who
re now eating mighty regularly three
wines a day viii have to hustle to eat
Pyce a week. it is enough to appali the
.ioutest heart. What shall we do. and,
nIsain, what shall we do TO avert this
srarful catastrophe that theatens the
tdry bulwarks of our nation, as the
Dator says?
1--WE might pass a law making it a
ctlony for any nation to be at peace
tflth the world for more than six
Months at a time. Such a law would
SldoubtedIy meet with the approval Of
president Roosevelt and other fighting
en-. Then the rules of warfare should
% modified so as TO make it unfair for
sfmies to fight until they were within
1Senty feet OF each other. And another
q lie should make II obligatory on the
c glorious army to turn and rent itself
7 it'll every man in its was destroyed.
Every country might adopt the Justly
Arlebrated plan that once prevailed in
>, adia. that Of feeding the babes to the
/ socodiles in the Ganges. Better still,
< might follow literally our desire to
q good locking girls. for some OF them
Certainly do look good enough TO eat.
hese are only random suggestions.
Grown out in the hope that they will
I'm the awful fear that must take root
the popular breast at the dissemina-
con of DIR. Andrews notions.
But until we know the worst. let us
I Jpe for the best. With national aid
n irrigation we ought TO be able to
Else enough foodstuffs out here in the
Pest to supply the worlds markets
en- though twice $4,000. OOO, 600 people
2Amand sustenance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26
SPOKEN IN JEST.

New York Commercial Advertiser:
Several years ago I was down in the
Indian territory on q trip, said the
dancing man, land some of my friends
got up a dance for me- / asked my
most particular friend what L should
wear. He informed me, full dress I
went that way and was the only one
at the dance with even a white shirt
on, and was the target for all the eyes
in the hall. Naturally / felt very un-
comfortable The girls, however. were
taken with me at once, and anyone Of
them was mine for the asking. In
fact, for a while 1 forgot there were
any other men present. The cowboys
stood around like lot of has beens.'
1 was it for once in my life. Eight
months later 1 made a return visit to
this little town, eighty miles from a
railroad, and happened to strike the
place on the eve of a dance by a CLUB
that had been formed that season I
received an invitation from my friend,
and, remembering nY Nrevious expert
ence, attended the dance in my trav-
cling clothes. No dress suit again for
Willie. To my surprise, when emerged
from the dressing room | found all the
men in full dress, and more evenly
balanced lot of dressy fellows 1 never
saw, all being dressed exactly alike. /
was the only has been in the hall.
I learned that the club had engaged a
tailor to come in there and fix them all
up correctly.
Chums: A man was travelling in a
smoking compartment of a city train a
little while back, and at a certain sta
ton a German entered the carriage and
took his seat opposite him. When the
train had started. the foreigner, motto
ing the others cigar, inquired if he
could give him one.
The Englishman, astonished at the
request, reluctantly pulled out his case,
and saw with disgust the other select
the best he could find. and take match
from his pocket and light it. After
taking few puffs with evident enjoy
ment, the German, beaming at his
companion through his spectacles, af-
fably continued:
Il would not hat droubled you, but I
had a match in mein boggit, und L did
not know vat to do NIT it"
% @ -
Indianapol Sentinel: Lawshe Baird
has been telling his friends of a funeral
he attended on a recent visit to AL
toona. The deceased had been the
good-natured foreman Of a section
gang on the middle division, popular
alike with his superiors and his work
men Baird and his Altoona host re-
turned TO the house after the inter-
ment, and Joined with numerous neigh
bors in consoling the widow. bidding
her remember her husband had a fine
showing at the funeral.
''Yis. indade.'' she sObbingly admitted
-"th' flowers there do be showing the
frinds he had. The cross is from tn
superintendent of the division; tn
Gates Ajar-r-r is from wan NV TIL
contra-r- actors; tn broken coI-yum' S
from TIL MAYOR
Here she broke off suddenly. her eyes
blazed with anger through the tears,
! and, Selling floral anchor, she threw
! it to the floor, exclaiming:
Who the divil had the ba-ad thaste
to sind that pick2"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26
HRIsTIANITY AND THE STRIKE

81 EW MORE revolving instances of
Al sacrilege have ever been presented
Hian that found in the reply of Presi-
i3rtnt Baer Of the Philadelphia & Read
fsg Railway company 70 a correspond
ut who asked him as a Christian 10
LIT an end 10 the anthracite strike. AS
= secutive head of the Philadelphia &
9eading. Mr.. Baer is president of the
.hthracite coal trust a monopoly as
t3soiute as the Standard oil trust and
avaricious as the beef combine. Mr..
ther wrote:
H"The rights and interests of the la
Firing man will be protected and
sired for. not by the labor agitators.
ut by the Christian men to whom
Cd. in his infinite wisdom. has given
entroI of the property interests of the
t9untry.'
{ BY what right does Baer call him
flf Christian man? Is it rot writ
IN, blessed are the peacemakers:
fr they shall be called the children of
1,od"? Is Baer a peacemaker? Has
Sr not refused every overture for ar
ttration that had for its object the
soclatming of peace in the anthracite
estrict OF Pennsylvania? Does any,
lpe doubt that Baer, by a mere af-
'rmative nod Of the head. could bring
an end the suffering and distress.
ie rioting and the murder now going
- in Pennsylvania?
IN old hymn says. God moves IN a
ysterious way his wonders to per
Germ" and there are few things more
Mysterious in Gods providence than
s permitting Baer ana ais kind to
,5ist the black fag on the sea Of bust
J ess and to pose as Chris. ian gentle-
Zen at the same time. y3aar Chris
I'm gentleman? God sac the ulaisi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-26
soHHsToN's HERoIsM.

1ATRoLNAN JOHNSTON of the
Salt Lake police force is undoubt-
:aly entitled 10 a medal for cool cour-
I BE in the face of imminent danger-a
urge leather medal about the size of
1 dinner plate. JohLston's exploit,
&hich was published in all its Iurid
Z tails yesterday merning. Will live
ing in the annals Of the local depart
Sent. and it deserves to live a long.
ng time.
/. Regardless of his personal safety.
l-lis gallant officer lay in wait for
] )me bold. bad burglars. When one
q the desperate fellows appeared,
e1hnston promptly seized him. The
sicious criminal made no resistance
hen placed under arrest but on the
ray TO the station he jerked away and
led. IN order that the frightfully awe
sme risk taken By the patrolman may