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The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15
OUTDOOR DIVERSIONS OF
WASHINGTON'S SMART SET.

Washington. March 12.-Miss Edith Root
the only daughter of the Secretary of War;
gives a great deal of her time to horseback
riding. Like her father who Is oftentimes
a companion of the President in his long
jaunts across the country, Miss Root ia mar
uculariy fond Of horses and a Judge of what
is best in a saddle horse. She is of medium
height and slender and looks well when
mounted.
Her love of horseflesh is not the onlv
characteristic she has inherited from her
father. Like him, she has q judicial mind
ana Is fond of serious study and working
out various absorbing problems. While she
is fond OF general society to some extent
she has other fads besides horseback exer.
else. and takes excellent photographs.
Miss Root is tireless rider, and one of
her long taunts few years ago was a trip
over the Virginia hills to Mount Vernon, q
alstance OF almost eighteen miles from
washington. The party went down to
Alexandria on the ferry and rode from
there This trip going and returning made
rlde OF about thirty miles in one day.
MISS Root Is probably the most intimate
friend In Washington Of Miss Alice Roose-
welt, and was with her on her recent trip to
New Orleans. when both young women
were feted and courted In royal style at the
festivities of the Mardi Gras.
Miss Root accompanied her mother and
brother to Europe last summer. Since her
return to Washington she has not partic-
ipated to any extent in the social func-
tons OF the capital. as she has been in
mourning for her grandfather. Mr.. Salem
Wales of New York. who died while Miss
Root and her mother were on the ocean,
returning from their summer in Germany.
BEAUTIFUL MISS TOWNSEND.
Miss Matilde Townsend is, undoubtedly,
one OF the most beautiful girls Of the smart
set of Washington. She is Of the pure
blond type. with q patrician cast of
features and the most exquisite coloring.
Although possessing unusual beauty and
great weight, she is one Of the most un-
spoiled of society's favorites. This was the
winter chosen by her mother. Mrs. Mary
Scott Townsend, for the introduction Of her
daughter to the public world Of the capi-
tal
Mrs Townsend spent the summer abroad
collecting the most magnificent outfit for
her daughters social campaign. The favors
for the cotillon were purchased in Paris.
and all plans and arrangements for the
brilliant social debut were made.
All was changed in the course Of few
days by the death of Miss Townsend's
father, Mr.. Richard Townsend. who fell
from his horse while they were riding to
Chevy Chase. The catastrophe fell not only
upon this household. but upon all Washing
ton society. A deep sympathy was ex-
tended to the beautiful girl and her mother.
Miss Townsend was most devoted to her
father, and his death was most bitter.
blow.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15
TEN For THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Congress, after much hesitation on the
subject, has at last granted lump sum of
$1,000 to the family of every railway mail
clerk killed In the line of duty
The law will extend its first benefits to
those who lose their lives during the pres
ent year, and from this time on will bestow
an equivalent of pension, small though it
be, upon the widows and children of class
of Uncle Sans employees which is exposed
to extraordinary perils.
Indeed. there are no other Government
servants-barring soldiers and sailors in
wartimes, perhaps-whose occupation is
nearly SO dangerous
There is no other occupation in the world
that is so perilous as that of our railway
mail clerks.
They number about 5000. and ordinarily
they get something like 1920 a year,
though their pay varies somewhat with
length of service. 1t is not much, consider
ing the fact that they are constantly ex-
posed to chances of death.
During the last year. which broke the rec
ord for casualties, they were mixed up in
800 accidents on the rails.
Nine of them were killed, lightweight of
them were seriously injured and 302 of them
were slightly injured. This record was
nothing very extraordinary, however. In
1901 mail clerks were caught in S25 acci-
dents, in which seven were killed. sixty
eight seriously and 230 slightly wounded.
The variety of perils to which these brave
men are exposed is astonishing.
A short time ago, in Northern Ohio.
train of postal cars was derailed and two of
them were thrown into Sandusky Bay
with ten clerks shut up in them. Their es
cape from drowning was almost miracu-
lous.
On another recent occasion near Oswego,
Kas., a train was blown from the track by
q tornado and the post offce employees
were seriously injured. Another train on
the Denver and Fort Worth line ran into a
washout, the mail car was telescoped by
the baggage car, the wreck caught fire and
the imprisoned clerk was burned to death.
In several recent cases postal cars have
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The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15
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property Of Moniteau. and the channel d.
viding it from Boone was the best wheat
field in the county thirty years age.
On the south side of the island is a mar
row sluggish stream, scarce three feet Deep
that was once deep enough to allow the
passage of the largest steamboats,.
This change was made ten years ago and
owners of land on the island found them
selves in an embarrassing position.
Their deeds called for land in Boone
County. The Boone County line was divfd-
ed from Moniteau by the main channel Of
the river and the island was south of the
channel, and therefore Moniteau County
land. Moniteau County promptly sold the
property and the two possessors are now
fighting it out In the courts.
Each holds deed to the land and each
claims to be the rightful owner. In case the
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
Harrisburg and Wilton thriving Boone
Countv tov,rs ara in danger az baire
washed away nv the treacherous current of
the Missouri River
With them will 90 the village of Burljug-
ton and about Ii, 900 acres of the most fey-
tile farming land in the Missouri Valley
Three thousand acres of Boone County
bottom land has already been washed away
and an equal amount has become the prop
erty Of Mon.teau County by change in
the channel of the river
When the Nj, K & T. Ry was built
through Wilton and Harrisburg thirty years
ago, Wilton was two miles from the river.
Now IL is but a stones throw. and dur
ing high water the river encroaches on
the main street.
Each year finds it creeping closer. and If
the stream continues its present channel, it
is a question OF but a few years until the
town will be compelled to retreat to the ad-
joining hills.
During the last ten years the ravages of
the river nave Deen SO constant that no
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The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15

THE ANCHOR LINER ST. LOUIS.
WRITTEN FOR TIIB SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Word comes from New Orleans that the
sidewheel packet City of s.. Louis. one of
the most noted of famous line of Missis-
slppi steamers and the last of the fleet
but one, has gone to a mud berth at that
port and will probably never again turn
wheel.
In her day the St. Louis splendid
type of the floating palaces which gave
glory to the Mississippi. and was for nearly
twenty years a moneymaker for her own
ers, Cc.tains Dan Able. John a. Scudder,
William Postal. II. W. Smith and other
steamboatmen in the Anchor Line corpora
ton. Captain u. NJ. Connors now agent at
St Louis of the Lee Line. spent fifteen
years of his life on the City of ST. Louis
nine as mate and six master, having
shipped as one of her original crew. when she
left the ways at Jeffersoavile. Ind. where
she was built at the Howard shipyard.
When asked as to this report about the st.
Louis. Captain Connors said:
Yes, yes / guess that's about so. The
St. Louis has had her day beyond doubt.
She was an excellent vessel and ran a great
career"
ne e&pEeSSeU tHe opiliioH tldl Tue udy Oh
the through service for the passenger and
freight steamer was a thing of the past;
that the long run would necessarily be cut
up into short trades. The railroads, he
said, as nearly everybody already knows,
have warred upon the through Mississippi
trade until there was no longer living in
1t for the packets, though before the roads
began their onslaught a great business was
done by the vessels.
Within the last twenty years the Anchor
Line ran between st. Louis and New Or
leans these vessels. all of great speed and
capacity: Commonwealth. Ste. Genevieve,
Colorado. CITY of Bayou Sara, City of Ba-
ton Rouge. City of Natchez, City of Hick-
man. City Of Monroe, Belle of Memphis, City
OF Providence, Arkansas City, City of St,
Louis City Of Cairo, City of Helena, City
OF Greenville. City of New Orleans, City
OF Alton. City of st. Joseph. James How
ard, Grand Tower. Emma C. Elliott, Crys-
tai City. City Of Chester, City Of New Or
leans and w. p Halliday.
or this fleet but two remain-the CITY of !
st. Louis and the City of Providence-the |
latter being now in the excursion service at
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15

current should change again. the land
would be in Boone County and would re-
vert to the heirs Of the first possessor.
But the men who owned the land now
occupied by the channel of the river lost
it and have little hopes of ever regaining
it. Instead, the river keeps washing off
more and the bank is crawling closer and
closer to the town. A hundred yards be-
low Wilton the stream has encroached on
the NJ, X. & T. Ry.'s tracks, necessitating
a change in the right of way. From St
Louis to Kansas City the Katy has n river
route tina. required hardly any grading. 1t
is constructed along the bluffs and is an
ideal route SO far as economy in construc-
ton is concerned.
WABASH RAILWAY ALSO
HAS A RIVER ROUTE
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15
Are Women Who Write Mappyp 9zH 8sizSRs@s xs@

wherein she is not needed for other things
she has earned the time. Let her write es-
says or books Perhaps they may give as
much happiness to other women, il they
have time to read them. as 1t has given
pleasure for her to write them. I con-
tend that literary women are decidedly
happy whether married or single.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15

by Ell. S.othern

BY day. by night, by land and sea.
l and my awful enemy,
Who dogs me. aye. with silent feet
Whose yelled face never see.
His glance and mine never meet
No word has passed twixt him and me;
He makes IS no o,. sign no sa,ss sound nd and yet
Breathes in my heart. DO not forget"
Still day and night by land and sea-
Through meadow and through market III
Ger valley. mountain top and lea,
With stealthy, sure and dreadful pace.
He follows me, and follows me.
Alone. or in the laughing crowd
felt It as my tr9th vow'd. II
", I felt 1t in my lovers kiss, II
1hsist hds liz Let me me and this deadly & fear
Nine Enemy! If thou canst hear
Hark! Something answers 7 am herei'
And he stretches forth his hand,
nj, ! brace myself to meet the blow
eocs daa qenders and oR
Says. Look on me and understand"
Mine enemy! whom abhor? II
Those lips that smile such love at NAL III
That voice like some soft melody.
He ST smo9ths oe'nas my ny brow with genteness.
l have found something that I seek ii
TO duh all pain and cure distress III
"G9me!, and feel his cooling breath,s
The while he takes me in his srms Ii
Come where no mortal sorroWethI
Far from the world and all its harm. III
Peace dwels with me-my name Is DEATH II
The sins which strength and honor .t..,
Famine and plague and lust and war
And bloated greed, to which men kneei
Drive them all stricken to nv door
Where but comfort, soothe and heal
These are the Ills of lifa-not ,r;r.
After the turmoil of the world i
DeIeat the victory storm and shine II
Ihe battle Ger, the banner furi'd'
Drink OF my grateful anodyne" II
And 50 he folds me to his breast Ill
MY arms about his shoulder stesl
And thankfully sink to rest 4
" mere all my wounds forever hoo,
WIN TINS dear foe. who loves me best. II
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15
Genius.

Genius,
A genius who once did aspire
To invent an aerial flyer,
When asked, docs it go?"
Replied. IT don't know;
I'm awaiting some damphule to try 'er."-
N02p8rI0l ~ ~
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-03-15

Congress at Last Recognizes the Dan.
gers to Which Railway Mail Clerks
Are Exposed. $t*
The Seattle Republican., 1903-02-13

1t was a source of great worry on his
part to be able to protect the states
funds, which he had deposited in the
various banks of the state, amounting
all told to over $4,000 Though many
banks broke during that time the
state did not loose by failure of banks
to exceed $4,000, and this amount
IL Bowen made good from his per
sonal effects, which left him practi-
cally penniless. He returned to his
old home in Michigan, where for
months he was an invalid owing to
the great mental strain under which
he had so long labored. He, how
ever, recuperated and since that time
has been doing well in his native
county and state. At present he is
register of deeds of Cass county
Michigan, and is only visiting his old
haunts in this state for recreation
from Office cares.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-02-13

In the lobby of the Hotel Olympia
last Wednesday and Thursday two
men formerly very prominent in the
affairs of this state were seen pleas
antly chatting together. Though moth
ing unusual, yet the two attracted
vast amount of attention. The men
in question were hone other than ex-
Gov. John H. McGraw and eX-State
Treasurer o. A Brown, both of whom
held Office during the same four years,
retiling after the 1896 Populist cy-
clone. During the time these two men
held Office the country in general and
the state of Washington in particu-
lar underwent onesof the worst finan-
cial panics that was perhaps ever be-
fore experienced since the wild cat
banking days in the youthhood of this
country. Each of them left their Off
cial duties practically banlIrupts, ow
ing to the financial stringency in
The Seattle Republican., 1903-02-13

which they were compelled to pass
through. Though Gov. McGraw, theor-
etically speaking, never left the state
of Washington, strange to say, that al
though six years have elapsed since
he turned his back on Olympia after
retiring from Office in 1897, this was
the first time that he has laid eyes on
the capital city, Where for four years
he was governor of the state. The
governor assigns no particular reason
for not having visited the city only
he did not go. On retiring from office
Mr.. Bowen also turned his back on
the capital city and this was likewise
his first visit there. During Mr.. Bow
ems incumbency of the office of state
treasurer more banks failed in this
state than ever before or since and
The Seattle Republican., 1903-02-13

The bulletin last Monday morning announcing that
Hon. John w. Pratt had committed suicide at his
home came like clap of thunder from clear sky
He had not been we'll for time but
thought that his trouble serious to effect
his mind and yet that seems to be just what it had
resulted in and he took his while tempo
rary insane. Mr.. Pratt has been fer a number of
years of Seattles foremost business and
certainly of her leading professional men. He
generally liked and admired. He every
body's friend and everybody seemed to reciprocate
his kindness. AS editor of the Post-Inteligencer he
proved himself to be able and scholarly writer
AS grade tax attorney for the City of Seattle he
proved himself to be profound attorney at law. His
musical productions showed him to be we'll versed
in musical attainments He made splendid record
a soldier under the British flag while fighting
the Beers in South Africa. His record as legis-
lator in this state is highly commendable In short
everything which he turned his hands to he made
a success of The quandry then is with all of these
accomplishments why should he become his own
destroyer thing in the past he had had occasions
often to discuss and perhaps condemn. There
is other conclusion to arrive at but that he
demented at the time, for such could not
have deliberately planned to take his life and
thereby blight a useful and we'll spent life, which he
could cheerfuIy hand down to his posterity and
to mankind in general with stigma that would
cast dark shadow all he had done
The Seattle Republican., 1903-02-13

disturbed after he had discovered his
loss and returned in quest thereof,
that he showed it to his friends and
commented on his good luck. "Ah
there, my size, is that the first of the
SO 600 assignment of that bunch of
money that Colonel Blethen said was
sent to the King county delegations"
Whether it was or was not Mr.. Lewis
was too much embarrassed to either
affirm or deny it, and the boys seeing
his awkward predicament, made much
of it, and to his chagrin he has been
trying to explain it ever since. If
Lewis got the "wad" instead of Carle
Clark and others, the plot thick
ems, and the scheme becomes more
complicated
Few members of the eighth
Legislature is more generally pop
ular than Senator w. G. Potts.
He is not only popular with the King
county members, but is likewise popu-
lar with the members from all over
the state Potts is destined to be
very useful man for King county in
the future in pushing it politically to
the front.
member of the capital commission
was standing in front of the semi
constructed edifce with a painful eX-
preston on his face, when he was
asked: rs that a living monument
to your memory" Not much. I
deny the allegation and defy the al
legator | am only a creature of cir
cumstances in this instance and am
therefore not desirous to have this
fame CD hooked on to me-" There
is method in his madness.
The eighth Legislature is for the
most part made up of rather con-
genial aggregation of representative
men, and it is said by lobbyists who
have zbaep here before that the pres
ent body is turning off bills more rap
idly than is customary.
Senator Tucker is not much dis
turbed by the spasmodic outbreaks of
Gene Aliens paper published i'll his
tempered men in the senate, and he
generally gets what he goes after, and
he goes after good many things.
The paper in question, as matter
of fact, however, published absolute
falsehoods about him, for at no time
did he ever desert the candidacy of
Harold Preston.
If Gov. Mcbride would give him a
half chance it is hinted that Stanton
Warburton would steal his political
thunder and he himself seek the nom
ination for governor. Wabby can talk
pretty skookum good, but he does not
make many friends from a political
standpoint by his good talking.
During the past week three differ
ent classes of business men of the
state have been attracted to Olympia
to either lobby for or against some
measure before the legislature touch
ing directly on the business in which
they were engaged. First, the saloon
men came to fight the passage of a
bill making both the owners of build
ings rented for saloon purposes and
the proprietors of saloons liable to
pecuniary damages for any mishap
that might befall a man who drank to
excess in his place of business, or
pecuniary responsible for any damage
said drunken man may commit while
under the influence of whisky obtain
ed from said saloon. The measure is
a good one and should run the legis-
lative gauntlet.
Then came the bankers in the in
terest of their bill, and like the saloon
men they came in ones, twos and
scores. After the bankers came both
the advocates and the opponents of
the Railroad Commission bill, and
The Seattle Republican., 1903-02-13
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.

1t is claimed that Representative
Levy gets "set down on by his fel-
low members more than any other
member Mr.. Levy being the only
man of the Jewish race in the legis-
lature, it begins to look as though it
was done on account of his national
ity. Whether he does or does not
look at it in this way is not known
for he shows his good sense by as
suming the never touch me" atti-
tude.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-02-13

One day last week Representative
Lewis carelessly left a $4,000 check
on his desk during the noon hour,
and was so overjoyed to find it un-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-07-03
ONLY A FEW.
OF the multitudes of M

OF the multitudes of people
around us very few are really
in good health. Most of them
are victims to a greater OF, less
extent of some disease. For a
time nature holds her own, Of
ten with youth and ambition to
help her; then the overtaxed or
gans break down, and the poi
sonous germs in the blood and
tissues get in their deadly work.
This may happen suddenly OF
slowly, but the result is the
same. The. number of people
who are thus afflicted and hand
icapped is far beyond computa-
ton or estimate. In perhaps a
majority of these cases the all
ment arises from bad digestion,
and is thereafter complicated
with some form of dyspepsia.
The ordinary treatment is sell
dom or never successful, and
medical men now prescribe
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION
with view of purifying the
blood and stimulating the vital
organs into normal action. This
effective and original remedy is
palatable as honey and contains
the nutritive and curative pro-
perties of Pure Cod Liver Oil,
extracted by us from fresh cod
livers, combined with the Com
pound Syrup of Hypophosphites
and the Extracts of Malt and
Wild Cherry. 1t should be re-
sorted to on the earliest signs
,of ill-health, even if they do not
at first seem serious or impor-
tant. DR.. j. M. Guijosa says:
al prescribed your preparation
for a young lady having seri-
GUS affection of the respiratory
organs and from the first bot
tie she commenced to improve.
After taking six bottles she was
completely cured; she took it
with pleasure which was not the
case with other remedies that
were tried but were found too
repugnant to take" Every dose
effective. One bottle convinces.
impossible to be disappointed
in it. Sold by chemists here
and everywhere in the world.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-07-03
NEWS NOTES FROM
WAHIAWA COLONY

Mr.. Fred Tracy and Miss Edna
Bevans were qu!,sly married the after
noon of the Both. They drove to the
little Hawaiian church near Pearl City
and were married by the Rev. Mr..
Ezera.
Mrs. w. A. Buick of Leilehua Ranch
gives an afternoon on Thursday of this
week, in honor of her sister-in-law,
and Mrs. Tracy (nee Bevans) and the
Misses Clark
Rev. G. L. Pearson and family ar
rived in Wahiawa last evening. They
will occupy the White cottage for the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. o. Clark announce
that the marriage of their daughter
Adeline to Mr.. l.. B. Nevin, formerly
of Los Angeles. will take place in
August
Mrs. Waller and family of Honolulu
are residents for the summer, occupy
ing the home of Rev. Mr.. Thwing.
The pineapple crop is almost ready to
begin harvesting. Canning will soon
commence. The castor beans on Tropic
Fruit Co.'s plantation, planted about
March list, are now ripening their first
crop-four months growth. Castor
beans promise to be a quick maturing
profitable crop for the small farmer.
The Clark Farm Co. have been delay
ed in putting their cream on the Homo
lulu market. by the non-arrival of their
machinery, bottles. etc.. from San
Francisco. San Francisco can beat the
world for slow business methods.
Mr.. L. B. Nevin has accepted the
position of bookkeeper at the walalua
Plantation store.
CoLoNIsT.