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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-24
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MANUFACTURERS TOURNAMENT.
In the Manufacturers tournament last
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-24

S-piece Parior 5uite-mahogany I'M
ish--upholstered IN Verona. Velour.
silk. Plush or Dsmssk--1 large bev-
elisd French Plate Mirror with gold
frame. Parior Centre Table. / Par
lor Lamp with decorated Eiobs. pair
Psrior Pictures (cho.ce OF subtsct.)
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-07-24

The CIarksburg Industrial Company the frution Of
its designs in OPENING factory sites for the loeato
at It's disposal viii be occupied The next most IN
hundreds of employees In the different factories. To
meet this demand the company has plated portion Of
itSpr0perty into beautiful and desirable lots.
has opened up and Graded streets II has caused the
be had domestic purposes cheaper than any
other city In the state.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-07-24
minutes BY street car Fifteen minutes walk to court house
Located head Of Main street. to be directly connected BY
steel viaduc Don't forget the day. Dom forget the hour
Facts! Facts !! Facts !!

The stability OF any city Is measure
ed by its industrial and business enter
prises and by this measurement ClarlSs-
burs is entitled to ronk with the fore
most city. Of West Va. The growth here
is natural. steady and sure. Don't COM
pare this city with Doomed towns. Don't
make the mistake Of believing that we
have reached the pinnacle of our growth.
II is ONLY fairIy begun ond the years
will prove tfet our weaNltI1 of fuel will
conare9ate In this valley many naeni-
sficent manufactures. until at the no
Distant day Clarlsburs will realize the
dream Of q pron1inent b. s q. railroad
official and become the
pittsburg of West Va.
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look as if this unwelcome female was going
to insist upon thrusting herself into his
affairs whether or no. The colored woman
told him many other things, many of them
very discredi table. She was embarra ssing-
~ frank. Having assured her client of
comm out all right in de end" she felt at
liberty to modify her encouraging words
with a few plain statements. One may be
well aware of the fact that he is weak
minded and entirely unable to cope with
the more stressful events that come into
his life, but it is painful to know that other
people are son to- him. But there was no
fooling this fortune teller-or,, to be more
exact Old Hindoostan.
Three other studios" were visited, but
only few things of interest turned up. At
one clairyoyants headquarters on West
Ohio street the experimenter gained some
new information about "a lady with auburn
hair who was TO cross his path" ''She is
beautiful and charming" declared the for
tune teller, who employed an entirely new
system in gazing into the mysterious flu
ture--a sort of combination of astrology
and palmstry-" she is very wealthy,
too. 1t looks to if she is not an
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burg. L says, 'Histry repeats itself. If
this Reach bunch delivers the goods, why,
we business men are up against it, We
might just we'll sell our hacks and go
TO sellin' flowers on the corner or join the
Salvation Army. 1 remember Denny and
that crowd l says, and il amt no trouble
to git line on what'll happen If Johnny
Hoffman beats my friend Bookwalter.
It'll be up to them 10 make good with the
knockers, and they'll turn in and put this
town on the bum \Wen he gave me the
laugh, and he says Peg. you're nuts You
don't think for minute that these wise
guys running this thing fer Johnny HOltz-
best people in town by closin' UP things, do
good vote-gettin' salve. When they're in
they'll give us good town.
$50 this smart guy. who has TO make his
livin' drivin' hack, goes and votes for
Jim Keach's crowd and takes the bread out
of his own mouth, see? puts blue mark
on the old eagle and stands up fer Indian
apolis.' but there's too many that got tired
and laid down the town. l know just
what's comm. These fellers are goin' to
tie this town up tighter than Denny ever
did. You take Kissel and Rahke and Ows-
ley and that bunch. IL they think they're
goin' TO set TO do any funny business in the
open they need to wake up. There's nothn'
to Ii. They may have had a hard time 10
get piece OF easy money under my friend
Charlie Bookwalter, but what they'll have
under Hotzmanll put 'em on the hog.
hear Gus says he's goin' 10 move to town
and run bank somewhere near the monu-
ment. We'll your Uncle Peg is right here
to tell you that If he does one of them fly
cops'i come the wagon for Gussie and his
bunch. Gus is friend of mine, but I'd
tell him that 10 his face.
Its the same way with eyer~thinS else.
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class of citizens We got, too. You know
what they did to Denny? Well, they'll do
it to Johnny Ioltzzman, too, when the
time comes. There's whole lot Of people
already, I'll bet, thatre sick of this game
already, and if 1t keeps up, why Johnny
won't have as much chance as old Jack
here would.
''Pm goin' to run fer Council next cleo
tion," said Peg. 81 started to make the
race this trip, but after 1 got goin l found
1 was in the wrong ward and had to git
out. / got it all fixed UP, though. and there
won't be nothin' to it. It'll be Peg in a
walk. know a whole lot OF good people
who come around to me and say. Peg.
we're fer you, why don't you run They're
on the square, too. and 1t amt any hot air.
1 bet 1 could beat some Of these Holsters
they put up"
Somebody poked a head in the door. SIS
Peg there?" the voice inquired. There's
a load out here for him." Peg got up with
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II Johnny don't lock up these joints after
'leven they'll tear him to pieces fore his
terms up. The JournaTn jump all over
him and chew him up, and what the Jour-
nal don't do the News will. so I hard
time ahead for Mr.. Hoffman IL he don't
play fer the knockers bunch
did you ever hear about the game
worked by a man from Kansas during the
dry spell out there. I'm thinkin' about try
in it. 1 got it fggered out there's money
in it fer Peg. Well, this guy was smooth
pup, all right, all right. When the blue rib
bon bunch tied Kansas up in cute little
knots this here guy, 1 fergit whether he
was from Wichita or Topeka. he went to a
carpenter with his wooden leg. MIR. Car
penter fixes up that wooden leg to serve the
public and the job he done was a peach.
Then this guy would stroll along the street
and whenever he see a Teller that looked
dry he'd take him back in an alley and tip
him the wink. Then he'd take a three
finger glass out of his pocket, hitch up his
pants leg. turn a little faucet in the wood
en- leg. give the drink TO the thirsty guy
and so south with half-dollar. He made
so much money that he went East to spend
it. / druv him once in this town from the
Bates House TO the depot and he tells me
the story
Peg illustrated the yarn by exhibiting his
own wooden leg. the tribute, some years
ago, of admiring friends.
Xxx
at know some fellers right here in this
town who are drivin' hacks to-day who
beat the game under Denny. They had
their hacks all fixed up for trade in wet
goods. They had little places for whisky
and an ice box that held six or seven dozen
pints of Bud and some mixed drinks truck
They turned their hacks into up-to-date
barrooms and made more coin than they
ever saw before er have seen since amt
sayin nothin', am 1? But I'm here to MUIR
muir that II they push a man too hard
there's always way to fool some of these
wise ones.
'You know me-" Pegasus went on i'm
pressiyely. II don't duck nothin when it
comes TO a showdown. I'm fer a clean
city within limits, but there amt no sense
in runnin' things the way they're startin'
out this time. You take some of these
places down town, the good saloons,
mean. where people git 25-cent whisky and
drink beer that's more'n month old.
These joints gifts the worst OF it and they re
the ones that don't do no one harm.
They're right here where every cop can git
a squint on EN- any time. and they're kept
closed tight. But out on Indiana avenue
| or down on the South Side there is dozens
Of places stuck back in some alley. 'er
down stairs. or somewheres else where they
can't pipe 'em off from the street and they
so right ahead selling gasoline and coal oil
that's full OF murder and fight. l ain
| mentionin' no names, but If some of these
reformers amt damn fools l never see
| any.
We'll, they'll Sit their'n two year from
now Peg continued. This amt such a
slow town some people re always hol-
lerin. Folks who want drink want II
when thef want it. and they're the best
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lake had frozen hard and the ice-house
was filed. involving ice-cutting, and more
teaming. and more precarious hitching on
behind loads and going back in empties
And early in the winter there was the mo-
mentous and CORY killing of pigs. Oh that
was indeed a stirring time, They kill a pig
every second. no doubt. in Chicago now
adays, but that is mere mechanical rou-
tire with no quality OF sport in il.
There was nothing so very slow about the
country winter in days as late as the civil
war. L suppose soap-making a domestic
industry is as dead as household spinning
In those times of wood-fires and wood
ashes all self-respecting families made
soap. Our family had an outstanding
kitchen expressly for that use. with big
cisternlike hogshead behind it in which
ashes were ieached. and convenient tubs
for holding the soft soap. A very hand
some substance is soft soap of the proper
consistency and complexion, and a pleasing
exercise it used to be for the young TO stir
it with stick and watch its undulations.
All the superfiuous fat of meat from our
kitchen was turned into soft soap in those
nearby old times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
THE JOY OF OWNING A GUN.
To Boy Ii Is a Pleasure That Should
Not BE Denied Him.

Ward Sanford, in Sporting News.
1t has to be avbreech- loader now. I don't
know that a breech-loader imparts any
thrills OF possession that a muzzle-loader did
not furnish thirty years ago, or that that
weapon with its powder flash, shot pouch
and percussion caps rejoiced the human
heart any more efficiently than the flint
lock did in its day. But guns are expected TO
be up to the times, and nowadays the most
beautiful of muzzle-loaders goes I'D on the
wall, or up into the garrett even to the
junk shop, unless indeed. its barrels are
worth adjusting to new breech But
muzzle-loader might do for a boy to begin
on. and that would be a noble service for an
old gun to perform, for a boy gets out of
owning a gun all the joy there is in it. There
mighty few pleasures. anyway, that a
man can have that boy does not have on a
smaller scale but more intensely.
Some boys are hunsrier for guns than 9TH
ers-that is partly a matter of what there is
handy to shoot-but L never knew a boy
who did not want gun, and did not delight
in it when he got it, 1t is not because of any
innate righteousness in the boyish DISPOSE
tion but merely because tho gun means
power, suggests the relaxation of apron
strings. and is an exceedingly important and
interesting--not 10 say ominous-piece of
mechanism. Modern civilization may be said
to rest upon guns. There is warrant enough
for the boy to be concerned about them;
though they will interest him. as they do
his sporting elders, not as a means of ac-
curing civilization, but of eluding it. If he
has n gun, he can go out in the fields and
the woods somewhere and try to shoot some
thing, and he will like that
Let the boy have the gun. and IL possible
let him learn TO handle ii. The squirrel who
is eating the seeds out of the pears in the
garden is fair game for him to start with.
III he learns to shoot at the right thing In
the right season. never mind If he also learns
to hit what he shoots at. The boy who has
learned to handle gun is the kind OF a boy
who knows when gun is loaded. and does
not shoot his little brother by mistake, nor
. get the lockjaw from toy pistols on the
Fourth OF July.
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twenty minutes before his turn came. and
during this time several other visitors en-
tered the camp and took seats in wall
flower row. Two Of the new arrivals were
chorus girls from the Empire Theater.
near by. and the third was a gent who
looked as If he might belong 20 the sport
ing fraternity. TO judge from his loudly
checked trousers and the big diamond stud
which sparkled gladly from his shirt-front.
Stage folk are proverbially superstitious.
and sporting men are usually firm believers
in omens and occult indications OF coming
events.
The experimenter chose the little dark
man with the spectables as his occult adj
wiser, and for the sixth time that after
noon was soon being told what he had 10
look forward To:
1T seems TO me-" said the little man in
. the Blue Beard costume. that you are
person with some sense and rather deli
cate constitution. You are going TO live.
however. until you are seventy-fve years
old and then you are going to die. a dark
man is soon going TO make a very good
business proposition TO you and you viii
do well TO accept it. You are going to take
long journey. and--let me sect looks
very much as il a woman Of light COM
plexion-not exactly a blonde"
Look here" burst forth the client. lis
that red-headed woman you see hoving
up in the distance2''
Pray do not interrupt me-" said the
prophet. critically examining line in his
patrons palm. This is a serious matter.
AS l was saying. IL looks very much as IL
a woman-a reddish blonde-is going to
have something TO DO with your career. -
And so on, and so on. The prophet told OF
enemies i'm the guise OF friends. OF wealth
| that might not materialize. of things that
might happen and again might not and
when he had concluded he offered TO give
complete life reading for the small sum
of 30 cents. a portrait of his visitors
future wife for %.
But the visitor rejected the first PROPOSE
ton, feeling that he knew everything about
his future that he could possibly know
and the second proposition he was afraid
TO accept, for he was given 10 understand
that the photograph would be tinted. and
he knew we'll enough that IL IL turned out
to be the red-headed woman, who had by
this time become a sort of nightmare, he
might never get over the shock.
LOUIS w. Jones
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the negro sorceress, and his anxiety to give
her lift in her business-these are ques-
tons that have never been fully determined.
(not in the flesh. of course.) on an average
of once or twice each week at the home
of the witch DOCTOR
Nobody ever sees the spirit from the
Orient except the fortune teller herself. but
the credulous patron at a seance is willing
to take her word for it that Old Hindoo-
stan is lurking about somewhere over
head like an invisible genii in THE Ara bian
Nights" and getting in his best ticks at
the occult business. On this particular
occasion, the sorceress went into a very
satisfactory trance. and, with the able as
sistance Of the East Indian gentleman,
told her client a number of interesting
things about his future that the lady on
the South Side had omitted.
"Yo' is g'wine TO be hard pressed fo'
money sometimes" she began, and. as this
statement had the ring Of truth about it,
the visitor pricked up his ears; IAN yo' is
gwine TO know what it is to want some
thin dat yo' can't git. nohow. Yo' mus
be keerful of yo' health an keep out of de
Way OIL HOSSes, ~ II w uOll W 10 APT
to git hurt in runaway. Mistah Hindoo
tells me dat 20 is g'wine to have
heap O. good luck eff yo' jes' stick TO yo'
business an don't fool none wild de per-
LESSONS. Yo' Amt cut out TO no brain
work an yo' bettah leave it alone. Don [
yo' git diskeeraged when de money is kind
o. skeerce, but keep up yo heart an look on
de bright side. Dey's a sartin party OATS
g'wine TO hab lot TO do wild 20 f~tuh.
Mistah Hindoo say de party is lady wild
a red head
The red-headed woman again! This was
disquieting. Up TO this point the visitor
had been able to listen to his fate with a
certain degree of calmness, but now he be-
gan to feel uneasy. When he had gained
his first information regarding the lady in
question he had felt that perhaps there
was some mistake, but it was beginning to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

7HERE ARE all sorts OF fortune
teIlers in Indianapolis. and ap-
y / parentIy all of them are doing
EET-x1=SS a pretty good business. Some of
t&ESz1 them foretell the future by
means OF paImistry; some Of
them read the answers in the stars" as
the comedian used to do in the comic opera
of 1.-The Black Hussar:" some OF them stick
to the good old infallible playing-card sys-
tenn, and a chosen few have the great ability
TO go into frances and peer with their own
eyes into the future. or summon spirits from
the other world to help them out in their
business.
There are, of course, many fortune tellers
who Ego on the road" travelling from city
TO city continually and taking up their res
idence in each town for only two or three
months at time. and then moving on to
fresh pastures when business begins 10
grow dull. There seems to be an unusual
number OF these stroIlers in the city just at
present. and that is why there is an in
creased interest in occult matters among
the good folk of the Hoosier capital.
Most OF the professional fortune teilers
are women, for some reason or other, but
once In while You will run across male
clairvoyant, and when you do you want to
look out for him. a masculine fortune teller
Is an all-powerful parsonage. He scorns all
clairvoyants Of the gentler sex; he alone is
the only true reader of lifes mysteries, and
ne Will tell you things that the feminine
impostors'' would never dream OF telling
you-things that you don't want to know.
He will give you heroic treatment and al
most scare the life out of you with mystic
speeches and CHASTITY performances in which
all sorts OF unwelcome devils and things are
brought into play. He adyertises extensive
~. employing an army of small boys to scat
ter his Invitations throughout the resi-
dence portion of the city. leaving a printed
card on every doorstep-a card that assures
you Of gaining a perfect insight into your
future life if you will but call upon this
particular purveyor of prophecy for sit
ting
There are numerous resident fortune tell
ers in this city and these gifted persons
have little use for the strolling clairvoyants
whom they look upon as fakirs and "a dis
grace to the profession" The strollers, for
their part, look upon the resident fortune
tellers with whitening contempt. And when
the real truth is told, the resident fortune
tellers do not admire each other to any
appreciable extent, while the strollers are
always at swords points. There will never
be such a thing as a fortune tellers' union,
for the very reason that each one of the
profession claims to be the only real
thing" and holds all others in disdain.
An experimenter who foolish enough
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Thumbnail Sketches
IN Pegasian Vein

CAB, returning from the north
"a wheeled around the corner of
Market and Illinois streets, the
&68xSl black horses speeding like homing
pigeons straight for their stand
in front OF the Kingston Night owls
and cabbies loafng without emotion on
the levee. glanced up, recognized the out
fit. taking in with capable eye the nom
chalant skill OF the driver. grinned and dis
missed the incident with the laconic OBJ
servation. Pegs in hard luck"
Pulling up with a flourish al the Kingston
curb. Pegasus HamiItonius. Charioteer Of
the Levee. Friend OF NotabIes. Philosopher
and Politician. swung with easy grace TO
the sidewalk He was cold and very dry;
round-trip drive of twelve miles out TO
THE Farm" and back, conveying several
young gentlemen OF means DESTROYS OF sep
arating Gustavus Adolphus Rahke from
the profits OF his agricultural labor. having
caked his throat with dust and chilled him
TO the bone. The plain English of 1t was
that Peg needed a drink.
II was Saturday night, few minutes past
eleven. time when the Levee usually
pulsates with life: the shank OF the even
ing; the hour of the night birds. The ordi-
narily keen eye OF Pegasus failed to OBJ
serve the extraordinary facts that saloon
curtains were down. the street almost
empty, and deadly air Of dullness over
all. His faculties were concentrated on the
one important thing-to get drink in the
shortest possible time.
Through the restaurant Pegasus passed
with nod 10 Little Henry, until he came
the knob with confidence. discovered to his
amazement that the door remained fast
shut. gave cabalistic signal TO no avail,
and retired in poor order to the front of the
restaurant
What tells the natter" said Pegasus.
ANYBODY sick?''
CLOSED up replied the matter-of-fact
little cashier. There's nothin doin'"
-lIow's that?" Peg. inquired in complain
Ing voice.
Where have you been? The whole towns
locked UP. Police were around with or
ders for every saloon to quit business at II.
It's no kid, Peg"
Pegasus Hamiltonius collapsed into a
seat at table. lie ordered a cup of coffee
nieditatively and spoke not while a man
might count loo sympathizing with him
In his aiiliction, reporter from n morning
paper ventured: 'Well. Peg il won't last.
It's just one OF those moral shivers that
sweeps over the town once i'm a while"
The philosopher was buried in thought.
his mind travelling back over the years. re-
viewing history. Punch his bulldog. rubbed
against his foot, a friend I'm foul or fair
''You don't happen 10 have one OF them
Turkish cigarettes. do you." asked Peg.
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THE FARMER IN WINTER.


F. 6 Martin, in Harpers Magazine.
The great steady winter jobs on an
American farm in the North nowadays
are. feeding the stock and keeping warm.
And keeping warm nowadays means haul
ing coal. When 1 lived in the country it
meant cutting wood. 1t meant, for our
large family. constant teaming day after
day from the woods TO the woodward,
and a wood-pile that must have covered
a quarter OF an acre. 1t meant. towards
springs, the coming of men with a horse
power and buzz-saw TO cut fire-wood. and
that was almost as interesting an operation
as thrashing.
There were other stirring days when the
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dignity peculiarly his own. 81 guess
thatll be about all this evening" he re-
marked ''Ycu might say fer that I'm
goin' to write book. I've got a friend
over in London now who thinks can make
good and he's about the best ever. I'm fer
him for President. He says to me one day.
Peg. why don't YOU write book and get
some of the easy money that's floating
round. / didn't think much about it then.
but ] got line on plot the other day
and it's winner. amt settled on a name
fer it yet, but when / do I'll let you know"