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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-18

iron strength OF hts face, and passed. He
looked away as he spoke &. s,ls {. d
fs" II knew it;sI knew that. My Dan'l was
like all that Frisco bunch. They get
tangled with women sooner or later.
taxed DanI with it. / spleened against it
and LETT him know IT. But he was 9 man
and his own master-if you can rightly
call asman his own master: that does them
things. Do you know what fur woman
this one was, Billy? e. ft .ls.4 III,
s We'll last time. DanI j. was up. to
Skiplap, there was swell party on the
car-kind of q coppery-l -looktn' blonde,
Allie Ash, the brakemanson No. 4, he tells
me she used to- be In Spokane, and now.
she'd got her hooks on to some minin'
property. up in. the Occur d'Alene. Course
this mightn't be the one
The old man had ceased to listen. He
was aroused to the need for action.
"Get movin'. Billy! We can get down
to Eden tonight: we'll have the moon fur
two hours on the trail soon's the sun s
gone. can get 'em to drive me over to
skiplap first thing tomorrow, and can
have EN- make UP train there fur Mon
tana City. Was he
''Danl j. has been took home--the
noozepaper says.
They turned back down the trail, the
old man, astride Billy Brue's horse. fol-
lowed by his pack mule and preceded by
Billy. @
Already, such was his buoyance and
habit of quick recovery and readjustment
under reverses, his thoughts were turn
1 ing to his grandson. Daniels boy-there
was the grandson of his grandfather-the
son of his father-fresh from college. and
the Instructions of Europe travel, know.
/ ing many things his father had not
! known, ready to take UP the work OF, his
father, and capable. perhaps. Of givins
4 it a better finish. His beloved west hat
lost one Of its valued builders, but an
other should take his place. His bo.
\ should: come to him and finish the task
of his father; and in the years to come
make, other mighty tasks Of empire-build
j ing for himself and the children Of hi
children. It did not occur to him tha
I. he and the boy might be as far apart II
sympathies and aims as at that momen
they were in circumstance.
l gls% To be Continued. .A-.>.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-18
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was allotted the easiest as being the most
probable route He was to follow up Pad
die creek to Four Forks, thence over the
Bitter Root trail to Eden, on to
Pass to Iiellandgone. He was
to- proceed slowly, to be alert for signs
along the way, and to make inquiries OF
all he met.
You're likely to get track of Uncle
Peter" said Pangbirn, 'over along the
west side of Horseback Ridge just be-
yond Eden. When he pulled out he was
talking about some likely foatrock he'd
picked up over that way last summer.
You'd ought to make that by tomorrow.
seeing. you've got good horse and the
trails been mended this spring. Now you
spread yourself out, Billy, and when you
| get on to the Ridge make special look
| all around there
| 4 Besides these directions and the tele-
gram, from Toler Billy Bruce took with
i him a copy of the Skiplap Weekly Ledge.
! damp from the press and containing the
4 death notice of Daniel J.. Bines, a notice
Esent out by the News Associations, which
/ Billy ,Brue read with interest 4 as he
| started up the trail.I The item concluded
Ethus: fs:f s'7.z aH$t;; s;;. -
1.-THE young and beautiful Mrs Bines,
| who had been accompanying her husband
i on his trip Of inspection over the Sierra
Northerns is prostrated with grief at the
shock Of his sudden DEATH = =
! Billy iBrue mastered this piece of intel
| ligence after six readings, but he re-
Trained from comment, beyond thanking
God, in thought, that he could mind his
own business under excessive provocatior
1 to do otherwise. He considered it INC
meddling. however, to remember that
Mrs. Daniel j. Bines, widow of his late
employer, could appear neither young nol
|beautifuI to the most sanguine of news
n gatherers; nor to remember that he hap:
lpened to know she had not accompanied
i her husband on. his: last trip of inspection
q over the Kaslo division of the Sierra
:. Northern railway Co. e. go" IL -
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-18
A SAFE INHERITANCE.

Brooklyn Eagle.
anything?''
WILL
''Then. | suppose, the other relatives won't
contest it."
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-18
TIRED MOTHERS STORY
Of Baby's Dreadful Suffering
from Eczema Happily Cured
by CutiCura Remedies

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
ASS AND OK LEGEND.

The legend of the Ok and ASS as witnesses in
the flesh to our Lords birth is not contained
In any primitive narrative. In germ 1t was d
Greek term used by St Luke, which Identical
term is also employed in the Septuaglnt or
Isaiah's prophecy. This germ was fortified by
Origen whose genius effected an allegorical
Exclusively in this form it was widely propa-
gated in East and West till about the middle OF
the fifth century, and chiefly by pulpit orators
all of whom were dependent directly or lnul-
rectly upon Origen. During that period II ap-
reared at least once in art. Subsequently II
shed its spiritual for a grossly material form IN
a literary impOSture originating in the ranks OF
the orthodox in the late fifth century. Its ma
FERTILIZATION was largely helped forward through
the aid of a mistransated Hebrew prophecy
Misled by this latter, and misunderstanding the
real tradition of the Fathers in the matter, the
Roman Church embodied the distorted prophecy
in its Liturgy for Christmastide, and interpreted
it In favor of the Bethlehem OK and Ass story.
The earlier symbolical significance of the legend
waned: the sense aspect gained the aScendency
Later still, theOlOgians StOutly maintained 1t to
be a constant tradition of the Church Catholic.
Nevertheless, the legend owes is preservation
to its appeal to the popular taste and to the
grand creations of Christian art rather than to
having been surrounded with theological fence
work; and though without warrant in history
or In early church tradition. yet. shorn of its
full among the Christian legends for its engag-
ing simplicity and innate Hkelihood.-(Austin
West in The Contemporary Review
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
WE GROW POLITICAL WITH YEARS.

1t in his maturer years that Solomon
wrote Vanitas vantatis, and the hearts of many
COrroborate his evidence And thus it comes TO
pass that the positive spirit, when ii has
weighed the world and found it wanting, tends
to be transmitted into the pOetiCal spirit. In
other words, the man who first looks on LIE
from the positive point of view is very apt 10
change his position and look it from the po-
etical Weary of the present, he seeks to set
himself at a distance from ii, in the future or
the past. To some it may seem little less than a
paradox that a man should grow moe poetlcal
with years Youth is commonly considered as
the especial season of the flower of poetry
Yet if we consider it, this youthful poetry really
concerns itself with the here and now which are
entirely absorbing to positive minds; and the
transition from the positive to the pOetical out
look upon life is really very natural, very ANAL
ogous to other natural processes. The physiolo-
gist traces the growth of the race in the growth
of a single individual of il from the earliest
prOtoplaSmic germ to the COmplexity OF the ma
ture animal So, too the psychologist may trace
the development of the mind the child and the
savage furnish US with an example which has
become trite, and, in like manner, the lndl-
Vidual, in society no longer primitive, shows,
in his development from youth to manhood, the
parallel change through which that society has
passed.-CH. Herbert Dodwell. in Macmtlan's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HOUSE.

The twentieth century house. when it is thor
oughly worked out, will be very different in
character from the houses of any former period.
For example. it is very doubtful whether it will
have chimneys. 1t seems highly probable that
electric heating will supersede the coal fire. and
In that not only will the chimney stack and
the blackened and backening chimney pots go.
but also the internal grouping of the room about
the fireplace; instead there will be a heater in
the centre of the apartment At present electric
heaters appear to be designed by ronmongers'
apprentices in their spare moments, but there is
made very gracious and beautiful thing. More
electric fan and will come in through proper
shaft and filter, and these appliances not only
afford scope for the designer and metal worker.
an architectural feature, but they release the
windows from the task of ventilation. The archi-
tect will no longer be tied to the hygienic sash
window obliged to keep the tops of his win
dows close to the ceiling level; he will place
them entirely for lighting and for beauty of in
ternal and external effect. There is
greater advantage in curved lines, more es-
pecially at the corners of rooms and windows
and where the wall meets the floor, If only be-
cause they prevent the accumulation of dust;
and there is no reason why that abandonment
of purely rectangular structure. which began am
stopped short long ago. with the coming or
the arch should not find fresh impetus in the
ease and economy with which corner shapes
curved slabs OF artificial stone and the like can
be heWn out with modern machinery.-(H. g.
Wells In The Strand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
SAMUEL RAwsoN GARDINER

In truth. fine though his perception of char
acter, after long years of intimate study came
to be- ii was in grasp of principles. and in deal
ing with the history a whole. that Gardiner
chief strength lay 1t was for that reason that
he could turn aside for moment from his i'm
mediate task marshal his facts. as it were in
an instant, and seattle in a brief review an
ignoble or hasty adventurer, or pulveriZe an in
geniOus argument he did when he wrote
What GunpOwder Plot Was" He was at home
in the seventeenth century because he knew its
principles as well he knew its men.
Since his great book began to be widely read
it has often been questioned whether Gardiner S
would be a permanent fame. Historical reputa-
tons. which used to be easily made, are now
more hardly won but perish more rapidly. Tried
by Professor Bury's standard. the standard of
that remarkable inaugural lecture at Cam
bridge which marks epoch in historical study
it is not certain that the History of England
16t3-1653. will survive but this at least is GER
tain, that the Short History of the English
People" will die before it. and that if it dies
The Norman Conquest" and even THE Con-
stitutional History of England" will not be long
in following it to the tomb.-CW. II. Hutton, in
The COrnhilL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
THE BALLOT OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Tie mode Of voting by ballot was at the outset
very difficult to acquire by many of those who
all their lives had been accustomed to the sys-
tenn of open voting. and, in consequence, there
was much larger proportion of spoiled ballot
papers then than now. We remember at the first
election in one of our large manufacturing
towns after the Ballot act had come into OPP
Grafton an elderly voter known by the sobriquet
Of the Shadow Of Death" coming into the poll
ing station to record his vote. And, by the way,
it NAV not be wholly uninteresting to explain
the origin of this somewhat dolorous, but. as
will be seen. very appropriate, nickname Those
were the days before the halfpenny post and
circulars by special messenger than TO send
them through the pOstoftice. The voter referred
to combined in his person the occupations OF
tailor and circular deliverer, and when he heard
of any one being seriously ill, would call at the
door to inquire after the health OF the su1creT
Oh the response to his inquiries being given. he
would say in a low funereal whisper, II any
thing should happen. and in case you might
want me for delivering the funeral letters, my
address is so-an-sO.' mentioning his usual place
of residence Our old friend, having In due
course been supplied with Il ballot paper, was
put into the usual compartment TO mark ms
vote. Five ten, fifteen minutes elapsed. and
still no word of his emergence, when the pre-
siding officer lifted the curtain and was greet
ed by the trembling Shadow with the ANXIOUS
and fear stricken inquiry, What am l pltten IN
here for?' No doubt the poor wretch thought
that he condemned to Il prOtraCted period
of imprisonment for some unknown misdemean-
or!-(Wiliam Aud, in LOngman's.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF MR.. LOW.

The Republicans were at that time running
candidate of their own. General Tracy, as much
against Mr. Seth Low. the choice of the Citi-
gems Union, as against the Tamr2any nominee,
and their battle hymn, II my memory holds.
went like this:
Seth Lows highborn daddy.
He had dough left by his daddy,
Proud as a peacock L should say. .
He hasn't grown cOnceited-he was born that way
From party he can't Wean US,
No Cit come between US,
We're for Tracy thick and thin,
That high toned lad can't win!
II Is only in America that the president of a
famous college, a gentleman OF the highest
character and of a capacity that had been test
ed and proved in three arduous and widely DIFF
ferent fields could be upbraided for being high
born'-Mr Low is the of a Brooklyn tea
merchant-for having inherited money, for liv-
ing In a brownstOne house. for carrying into
public life the ordinary manners and department
of a private gentleman MIR. Low would nave
made an admirable Mayor OF an English town
but NeW-York has scarcely yet been educated
I'D to his standard. There was the distinct con-
sciousness that he and his colleagues, and the
atmosphere in which they lived and worked.
reached a perilOusy undemocratlc degree OF
good breeding.-(Sydney Brooks. in The Fort
nightly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
English December Issues.

fined to Old Testament law. Is also to be FOUND
in Hamnurabi's code, and probably existed IN
the older regulations which he had To mana
. Various other parallels can be found with
Biblical law and Biblical ideas of justice whlle
the Talmud would furnish n much rlcher mime
for rules and customs which SAVIOR OF Bdbylohla
this being partly due to analogous Developments
and greatly to actual Babylonlan influence
But the Importance to universal history OF
HammuFabi's code surely lies only in very silldIl
part in its action upon Talmudic law or IN the
parallels to Biblical conceptions. Rather does II
chiefly lie in the commanding position Whlch
Babylonia occupied with respect to the entlre
trade of antiquity. that not only the weights
and measures of BabylOnia, but also the legal
ideas. customs and rules, spread over the whole
of the ancient civilized world Ana perhaps the
Romans themselves who, as the last heirs OF
universal traffic and universal empire, arranged
and codifed all law, owed something indirectly
to BabylOnia in the beginnings OF that exceed
ingly precise and important legal system whlch
they developed. In any case they assuredIy
took over from foreign codes much which was
actually or originally Babylonian-( Professor
Carl Lehman. in The Nineteenth Century.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20

Some of the papers charge the President and
his government with having secretly fOmented
the revolution and given it encouragement. 1t
is not necessary to examine into that charge
too narrowly. While l do not believe that the
administration gave direct encouragement to
the revolutionists. or violated neutrality, it is
probably true that the Panama revolutionists
were not discouraged by the Washington gov
eminent; and it is admitted that the govern
rnent carefully watched affairs and if not in
formed of what might be expected able
most intelligently to anticipate events which
is one of the things every well organized gov
eminent ought to do if it would protect its own
interests 1t is not denied that the sympathies
of the administration were with the revolution
lists nor is it denied that some of the Presidents
closest advisers hoped to a revolution, be-
Heving 1t would be the easiest quickest and
cheapest way by which the United States could
begin the work of constructing the isthmian
canal.-(A- Maurice Low, In The National Re-
view.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20

critic who wrote the famous or Infamous, essay
on Sha kespeare which D'Alembert read before
the French Academy in 1II6. yet NOltaire would
be assured of Immortality even if his notoriety
had not made him known to those who have
never read him. "Candide" and his Letters"
are an imperishable title TO fame With these in
his knapSack, Voltaire may march through the
centuries, diSCardinS as he goes along all the
tedious and prose by which he won an
ephemeral glory. Exquisite in style. mordant in
irony, "Candide" is the wittiest satire upon Op-
Letters present to in the very gayeSt of
terms the brilliant life of a brilliant epoch. The
man Of genius who composed these masterpieces
need not ask attention for false PHILOSOPHERS,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
THE AUTHOR OF "CAND1DE."

And his plays. and his odes and his epfcs-
will they ever again find an appreCiatiye reader?
1t is not probable. To read one must be awake
and no one can read single CantO of the Hen
riade," which once was deemed to be superior
to Homer without being oVertaken by sumGer
Again it was as dramatiSt that NOItare first
the worlds admiration. Condorcet detected
in his plays a sense of art of nature which
were absent, said he. from the barbarous TRACE
dies or Shakespeare and to-day the plays of
study than to be presented upon the stage. But
though we exclude the of Voltaire's WORKS
from consideration. though we cannot call him a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
BRIDES PRICED.

To US 1t semes curious whim on the part OF
our ancestors of the eighteenth century that N
their marriage announcements they should SO
often choose, and with such seeming com
placency, TO enlighten the world with regard 20
the amount Of fortune received with the brides.
Here are two cases in point: Mr.. James Cout3
OF Jefry's So, merchant to Miss Peagrum OF
Knightsbridge 10000" wv. Smith. gentle
man. OF the I'd Troop OF Horse Guards, 10 MIS-
Ann Gardiner, a maiden lady. aSed us SAID.
near 20. with fortune OF f20,OO0"-(Chanr
berss Journal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
RoME's DEBT TO HAMMURABI.

In estimating the value OF this unique docu-
ment great stress has been laid upon its relation
to the law of Moses Doubtless there are re-
semblances. The pictorial representation of
Hammurabi receiving the laws from the sun
god has suggested to some commentators a
comparison with Moses Mount Sinai. AN
eye for an eye and tooth for TOOTH" familiar
to us from the Bible, though by no means con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20

crude Newtonisms. futile gIimpses into the OBJ
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-02-20
Garland.

Mrs. Della Naylor is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Head, near Mt. Pleasant
Miss Lulu Raymond visited hel
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. e. w. Wash
burn, of Owosso, part of last week
Allison Durham and family, of North
Fairfield, were guests at Miles Simpsons
SUI day.-Mr. an Mrs. Dyre Carroll. OF
Chaplin, and Henry Carroll and wife, of
Middlebury, visited at the home of VIM.
Green Sunday.-Rev. j. Colwell, of
New Lothrop, and Rev. d. s. Cramer,
of Burton, assisted Rev j ID. Young in
the quarterly services at the M. p.
church, which were well attended. L.
Master Howard Scott gave valentine
party, Saturday, to eight little boys at
the home of his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Park Scott. Each little guest re-
ceived pretty souvenir of the occasion.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-02-20
Middlebury and soiota

Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Finch and Mr. and
Mrs. George easier visited at Elihu
Ousteehout's, north of Ovid. Friday
About forty young people surprised Ed
ward Van Dyne and wife one evening
last we&. All report a pleasant time
George Slocum, George Stanton and
Will Brookins have purchased the
threshing outfit of Larry Doyle-Rev.
NJ p. Karr was able to be at his APP
pointment at this place Sunday, having
been absent the previous Sunday on ac-
count of illness. He said it was the
second time he had missed an appoint
ment in fourteen years-a good record
Edison Putnam will build large
barn the coming summer. Ernest
Alchin, of Bennington, will do the
work-There are twin girl babies at
Fred Gute's-M Mrs. Belle Howard, of
Bennington. was at A. E Towards
Saturday-Mrs.L Lucinda Howard en-
tertained her sister and nephew, of
Perry, Saturday and Sunday-Verne
Allen and family were at d. E. Ham
mond's, Thursday-Mrs. Hattie Bald
win is sick with blood poisoning-Ir-
win Hammond is driving fine team of
colts.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-02-20
Burton.

Mrs. Lillian J. Myers, of Fenton, is
visiting friends in this place-Several
from this place attended the quarterly
meeting at Carland-Rev. John Cald-
well, of New Lothrop, preached in the
NJ E. church, Sunday evening
and Mrs A. E. Cadz spent one day last
week with their brother and family,
Mr.. D. S. Wright-Frank Crane, of
Ovid, spent one day last week in this
place-Mr. Harvey Whitaker has
sold his farm to Charles Baker of
Owosso- Invitations are out for the
marriage of Miss Lena Giles to Mr..
VanLiew Patrick at the home of the
brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
M. Giles, Wednesday, March 4th, at one
o'clock-Endeavor meeting will be
conducted by Mrs. d. S. Cramer Sun
day morning. Topic, An evening with
home missions Acts. 1, 6-S-Married,
by Rev. j. D. Young at the M. P par
sonage, Tuesday, February II, Mr.. Mel
vim Leavette and Miss Tilla Smith, of
Carland-Miss Hattie CHASER has
returned from her visit to Vernon
Mrs. Alice Scott and daughter Laura,
spent one day last week with her sister,
Mrs. Farr, of Owosso--Revival meet
ings are still going on with good sue
cess, nearly twenty having come out on
the Lords side in the two weeks of
meetings.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-02-20
laingsburS.

Uncle Joseph Perkins died on the
18th inst. at his home in this village.
He was nearly 80 years of age. One OF
our pioneers, an old veteren, a good
neighbor and consistent christian man.
Funeral March 10, at the Reed Church
in Victor. Presiding Elder Stewart
will preach in the NJ E. church Sunday
morning, at 10:30-E. E. Bixley has
purchased the house and lot of Neil
Putnam Consideration 00.-Luth-
er Ryon living in the north part of the
township of Sciota, met with small
fire on Monday last. Insured in the
Shiawassee Mutual. Mrs. Alta Smith
has been very sick but is now improving
somewhat. There is considerable sick
ness in the village at the present time.
-Four petitions for membership were
received at the Tuesday night meeting
of the l. o. o. F. lodge. The society is
booming. The Nellie Peck Saunders
Co. gave an entertainment at the Con-
gregational church Thursday evening,
for the benefit of the High school, -
G. NJ. Whitney and p. Wilbur, with
their wives, are in town, at the home of
Mrs eatherbee, where Mr.. Whitney's
mother is dangerously ILL