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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-07-24
ROMANTIC SECOND MARRIAGE
chas. jackson Returns From Philip.
pines and Marries His First Wife.
c.lvert Hooper prowned. 7

Ottosen, July 2l.--Calvert Hooper,
the is years old son Of J. H. Hooper.
member Of the board Of supervisors
of Humboldt county, residing one
mile west Of Ottosen, was drowned
while bathing with . number of other
boys IN Des Moines river, three miles
west ~ here 8as
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-07-24
TRY TO KILL A BRAKEMAN
Five Bullets Fired BY Tramps Punct.
5 ured His Clothinu.

Mason City, July 24.-Sever Han
5kedahl, a brakeman on the Milwaukee,
had narrow escape from being shot
to death. The brakeman discovered
several tramps stealing ride Just
as the train left Ventura. He ordered
them to get of the car. A general
fight ensued in which two of the
tramps were knocked of the car. The
other members of the gang began
shooting at the brakeman, five bull
lets puncturing his hat and clothing,
but none of the shot had any effect
Hankedahl was finely felled by club
and knocked senseless, the tramps all
making their escape. The authorities
are making diligent search for them
ROMANTIC SECOND MARRIAGE.
chas. Jackson Returns From Philip.
pines and Marries His First Wife.
Sioux City. July 24.-Mrs. Olive
Bell Hopkins has just beeu married
to Charles H. jackson a sc.o,l time.
Ten years ago they were married.
He went to i the Philippines. She
hearH ne MaM been EIlsel, ann married
Hopkins. Recently Hopkins died.
In the meantime Jackson had return
ed, but finding her married, decided
not to disturb her peace, but when he
heard of the second husbands death,
he made known to her that he was
alive. They: correspondent several
weeks, she being in Eagle Grove, Nh,
and he at Hermosa, s. D, and the re.
suit Is 4 re-marriag2.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-07-24
Monk's lite was Too Quiet.

Dubuque, July pa Two young men
came to this city to join the monks
at the Trappist monastery at New
Mellery One Of them has just left
the Institution and Is seeking other
employment He says It is too quiet
to suit him. The monks own q fine
farm, which is seven miles long and
three miles wide.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-07-24
FLEETS READY TO FIGHT,
Alarming Story Sent Out Regarding
Situation as to Corea.

SisS0~'S' 90 w SSISos
London, July 24-The Daily Nails
Toxic correspondent sends rather an
alarming view of the situation in the
east to his paper He says that
Russia's retention of Manchuria, the
increase of her fleet, the despatch of
achievements to Manchuria, the
southwark movement of the occupying
army in Manchuria and the defiant
conduct on the Corean frontier alarm
ed the Japanese many of whom are
convinced that it would be better to
fight now than risk the eventual loss
of Corea and the RELOCATION of Japan
to secondary place He says the
Japanese are accommodating stores and
negotiating the purchase of ships;
that squadron is off Vladivostock, to
which port Russian vessels have been
sent as a precaution, and that both
fleets are ready for action at any mo.
ment. He says a perusal of the ST.
berian press reveals the aggressive
spirit OF the Russian military party:
that the Russians believe they will
lose prestige if they give way now
with the result that their far eastern
empire will be lost and japanese in.
fiuence will become predominant, The
appointment of Marquis Ito as presi.
dent OF the privy council, the. CORE.
spondent says, is favorable to peace
out That Russia must retreat or there
Will be very grave danger of war. He
says the Japanese believe that France
and England viii Join in the expected
conflict, which diplomatists at Toxin
taf6@' utsdc, & Once begun, continue
Tor years, involving disastrous results
10 Russia and France and the creation,
OF sort OF Balkan difficulty in Corea
he adds that confidence is shown 1 ~
the Angh-Japanese. "a
The Standards Tien Tsin zorro
spondent says that since the f,fteenth
OF TINS month there has been an meas
SAM increase in the concentrati,:n ~
RUSSIAN forces at Port Arthur ana
elsewhere, many who were ostensihiv
emigrants being in reality soldiars
he adds that there is not the SHOWERS SIeJ'ers.
evidence that Russia intends to Wis
draw or moderate her policy. "''n'
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-07-24
Russia Is MobIIIzino -.

London, July 24.-The standa ~.
oaessa correspondent says # 10 ~ :
portea mat $4,000 troops are ha,na
mooinzed from central and orth ers
garrisons in Russia for immedia t en al
s;tv ~ ~ Inc lar east in case Of neces.
r re.y. ne also reports that on the re
pM vurn o. General Kuropatkin tha
man.,a war minister, an extraordins ~
ate OF the imperial council ~ shs
seate, which will be attended nv :, t the
co oa WI discuss Manchurian and
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-07-24
Fevv NvjlA Elerhants.

sS There are certainly not more than
I 10. 900 Wild elephants len, against X
h Quarts On million ID 1875.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-07-24
General Wood Reaches Manila.

Manila, July TO- Gen. Leonard Wooo
arrived here yesterday. He will coz
Ter with Governor Taft and Gener =,
Davis on the Moro question and VII 4
leave shortly for znmboanga to Q, gan.
lze the government Of the MoTo n
province.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-07-24

Tho NrrIWaddy Flotilla company
owns The record number Of steamers
for any one companyi16 IN Ill.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

the deck. The speed of the boat is
retarded somewhat by the sudden
plunge into the water, but she imme-
diately gathers Roadway and without
hesitation her captain steers her
straight for a threatening ice foe.
Instead of a shock there is a gentle
gliding undulating movement as the
shallow bow of the scooter mounts
the foe, and in an instant the craft is
again skimming over the ice. This
alienation of ice and water marks
the trip across the bay. Seven miles
from Patchogue to the outer beach is
accomplished in about fifteen minutes.
When the winds fail the boats are
rowed through the water with oars,
hauled on to the ice foe by means
of the ice scoop and are then poled
across. They are absolutely safe, so
the element Of danger Is eliminated.
The runners underneath each boat
are six feet long, tapering with both
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

years and the old-fashioned winters
which the oldest inhabitants remem-
Der, prevail no longer along the south
side of Long Island. In those days
the Great South Bay was frozen from
shore to shore so that it resembled
a great shimmering mirror At times
the ice was so thick and safe that trot-
ting matches were held on it's smooth
surface.
But within the last thirty years the
winters have greatly moderated. Ice
boating became a dangerous pastime.
1t rarely happened that the bay was
frozen over evenly and air holes and
broad stretches of open water en-
countered here and there made the
sport extremely hazardous, without
reckoning the great patches of thin,
treacherous ice to be Unexpectedly en-
countered at almost any point. This
condition has relegated the ice boat
to the past on the Great South Bay,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

. While there is much in poetry to
discourage the action. it is true. new
erth eless. that something must be
done to protect our newly married.
No sooner do two young things get
through with the trembling and the
wedding cake, than they become the
prey of oYer-actiye friends, loaded to
the ramparts, as it were, with volleys
OF old shoes, placards and rice. Get
ting married is strenuous experience
and by the time the advancing hosts
thunder down upon them, LOWE" and
''dovie" are ready to capitulate, re-
ceive the old shoes in the ear. the rice
in the neck and the Ilacards on the
trunk!
The bride, trustful, clfnging vine
that she is, has been wont to shrek
Historically, shake the Chinese show.
er out OF her back hair and lingerie,
and turn to the groom for consolation
and protection. The groom, after rip
ping the tell-tale placards from the
continues to be delirious.
Now comes a society, however,
which demands protection for the
newly married. This society pro.
fesses to disbelieve Quarles' assertion
that:
The way to bliss lies not on beds of
down.
And he that had no cross deserves no
CROWN
The society insists, on the ground
that it is cruel to strike a man when
he is down, it is likewise wrong to
prosecute 1.-The truly beautiful and the
good" when they are about to start
on their honeymoon. The members
assert that Gray had what Chimmie
Fadden would dub bum steer
when he declared:
THE hues OF bliss more brightly glow.
Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe!''
In other words, they ask that the
honeymoon be not filed with distract
ing effects. and that the bride and
groom be left e the full enjoyment of
their roseate dream They desire
that the newly married may be fully
rested before they wake up and tackle
the problems and morning fires of
married life. They argue it is a
shameful sin to rudely hit a great joy
with CASTOR Trilby-cover. Let the
two hears beat as one without for
eign interference.
You have noticed, no doubt. the
autumn sun setting on the placid
bosom Of q miniature lake! All the
glortes Of the sky are there depicted
II is so with love. The honeymoon is
like the. lake and its beauteous refec-
tons. Imagine a country lout throw.
ing an old shoe into the middle of
that beatifc picture!
Yes, the newly married must be
protected. In this sentiment we will
be rigidly upheld by the old clothes
man.
cor clos! or clos. or clos and
shoes! Who has 'em? Who has 'em =?
Who has 'em to-day?"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
Company In Misery.

A story Is going the rounds about 9
party Of young people who were hay
ing a sleigh ride IN 9 bobsled At .Tope-
ka. Say. Jennie" whispered one OF
the girls TO q companion, 81 wish you
would introduce me to the man sitting
IN my lap" It reminds the KANSAS
City journal OF the best story ever
written in depicting the utter abandon
OF seasickness A seasick woman and
a seaEfck man were in chairs side by
side on the deck OF q steamer. The
man had his head in the woman's lap
and the woman sat with her hands
hanging down, the picture OF detection.
The steward came along and inquired
solicitously: Cant do anything for
you or your husband, madam" oh"
moaned the woman, che amt my hus-
band. ] don't know who he is.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

Some facetious sawmaker saws
Once fisherman, always a liar!"
The attention of Grover Cleveland and
his verbose vocabulary not having
been called to this, we will say "just
what is in us" to refute the SANDER.
The small boy who was told to write
what he felt and ''just what was in
him" responded bravely with a long
list beginning with mince pie and jam
and ending with the stomach ache. Or
dinarily when a man writes Gust what
is in him" he does it from the heart
rather than the abdominal regions,
hence we say that the author Of the
aforesaid calumny is either a horse
thief or a man who expectorates in
street cars! He can take his choice.
Many man has fshed all day and
gone home sorrowful; hand in hand
with Truth. Remember the story of
the boy who was caught Sunday morn
ing on the tank OF the stream, by
the deacon, who cried out in horror:
boy, boy, be'ant you 'shamed to
catch fish on Sunday ?"
And then johnnie replied as truth
ful as the seasons returning:
"Who'se ketching fish: / amt ever
had FER darned nibble!"
Once We caught sixty-seven fsh be-
fore breakfast, had the fish photo.
graphed, with ourselves in the back
ground, took the proof home With as,
and the tarnal doubters wanted to
know what time we had breakfast!
We had omitted having the break.
fast and the morning photographed
and we had no afidavit from the fsh
themselves.
The, trouble is not with the fisher
man; the world is too suspicious. The
angler comes home laden with rms and
with no smell of 'snake-bite" about
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

while its modest rival, the scooter,
began to work its way into the esti-
nation of the baymen. Beginning its
career as a "Barnegat sneak boat"
which was sailed through open
stretches of water, poled over ice
foes and was equipped for race
speed Of a mile in two minutes, there
has emerged the full-fedged scooter,
with mainsail and jfb, a stanch hull
for water and two runners, six feet
long, to carry the boat skimming over
the ice.
Seen from the shore. a feet Of
''scooters" skimming over ice foes
and ducking into and sailing over open
stretches of water, with their white
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

bow and stern. They were first shod
with steel, but it was found that this
style Of shoe cut through the soft
ice, greatly retarding the speed OF the
boat. Then somebody tried brass
shoes, and the softer metal was found
to glide over the spongy ice scarce
1y leaving a trail.
First the boat was sailed with 3ib
only, but it was soon found that a
mainsail added to speed without en-
dangering the efficiency or safety Of
the craft. Baymen who can steer a
sailboat by simply manipulating GER
tain sails, have no thought about pro-
viding the scooter with rudder, so
her captain simply sits in the cockpit
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

sails and white hulls, looks not I'M
like lot Of huge sea gulls. In the
cockpit, with head and shoulders alone
visible, sits the master of the boat
guiding the craft by a ski1ful manipu-
lation of the ,jib, while he brings her
about by leaning his weight toward
the bow and keeps her or by simply
leaning his weight on the stern.
The boats are only intended to carry
one man. owing to the limited space
in the cockpit, but each of the scoot-
ers will really carry two men with
ease and safety.
Equipped with a pair of oars, a
short ice pike and long combination
Ice pole and scoop the captain OF the
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
ON ICE OR WATER.
Great Bay Scooter" Handy Winter Graft Com
binaton Of Boat and Sled Deve1oped Meet
Local Needs-Craft Is Very Speedy.
~~~~~

For thirty =esrs the Great South
Bay scooter" has been nccing its
way to the front Recently when
big free-for-aH regatta for scooters
was held it took it's place among the
recognized sailing and ice skimming
craft of Long Island.
Resembling a miniature whale back,
the craft is a combination water and
ice boat. Like seal it is equally at
home in or on either and having sue
cessfully weathered the ridicule of its
opponents during a long period of
probation, it seems to have come to
stay.
Great climatic changes have been
wrought along this coast in recent
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

car-the eyes of Miss Lucy Minton,
and the eyes were dancing.
OF course, etiquette demanded that
he should take absolutely no notice Of
her; indeed, no sooner had the dane.
ing eyes met him, than they were
turned in another direction.
The puppy continued his yelping. 1t
was only when the conductor began to
make kindly inquiries concerning the
breed, and what it was fed on, and
other things, that Mr.. John Preston
caught up his basket and swung of
the car into the road.
The car passed him as he strobe
along gloomiIy. He had an idea that
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

scooter is ready for a trip across the
bay. With his supercargo safely
seated In the forward part of the
cockpit, the captain starts his scooter
on the inclined side of an ice foe.
something after the fashion of a
take what is known to the juvenile
sporting world as '.belly-whopper.''
With running start he springs on to
the back Of his craft and the scooter
is OF.
Across the ice the craft skins at a
two-minute clip and at full speed
plunges into an open reach of water
ahead. The shallow bow dips lightly
and the water scarcely ripples across
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
Planta and Ansesahetiea-

Ether and chloroform. so useful in
sending men to sleep, have the very
opposite effect on plants, which are
stimulated to the greatest possible ac-
tivity. by these drugs In Denmark
and Germany advantage mas been
taken of this fact to force flow
ers in rooms and glasahouses and to
make them bloom out Of season- The
results are said to be marvellous.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
Learn From the Animals.

Learn OF the animals. The horse
teaches Us to be silent under punish
ment and patient In suffering. From
the lion We learn bravado. From the
cat We learn to proWl At night. From
the dog We learn how to be faithful 20
q friend. The camel teaches rs absti-
hence. The elephant teaches rs how
to be calm in Gdversft5. The hoppe
pota1nub teaches Us repose. The shy
little rabbit teaches us how to die
without q murmur. The antelope
teaches us the fcclishness Of idle curl
osity. The hoptoad teaches uB the
evils of gluttony. The ant teaches US
industry and wisdom IN council. The
hen teaches us to go In out of the wet
yet I have seen fool. hens which did
not know the difference between sun
shine and rain). Some people might
learn Of hogs how to be gentlemen
New York Press.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

and ground mp he. announced proudly
that $4,000. O00. had just been rendered
vaius1ess. A few moments later il
occurred to him that he had not eaten
lunch. and, diving in MS pocket, found
that he had not q penny there.
Say, Tom, = he said, TO the visiting
Prince George Countian, "F'm sorry to
trouble you, but I've let all my change
at home, and wish you. would let me
have quarter for lunch"
'Tom" stopped still where he was
and just gazed ct Magruder silently
for two full minutes. Then he said:
Mac, I'd lend you the coat on my
back under ordinary circumstances.
but any man who deliberately destroys
$30.00O.0 900 before my eyes and then
ask me for twenty-five cents could
starve before I'd give up"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
Deserves to starv,e.

C. c. Magruder, Jr., OF Upper Marl-
boro, Nd, has charge of the destruc-
ton of old money at the treasury. He
was showing friend of his from home
the process in the maceratfng room.
and. after bale after bale of green
backs had been piled into the machine
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

drowned the rattle Of the wheels. In
stantly all eyes were turned on Mr..
Preston aud he endeayored to sup
preEs the puppy by pressing him hard
between his knees.
7 don't b1ieve the pore thing can
breathe in there" said an elderly lady
sitting opposite. Come to that, /
don't think the law let's yer keep 'em
shut up like that
Mr.. John, Preston looked helplessIy
round. and then he observed curious
thing. He was looking straight into
eyes that he knew, in q corner of the
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

holding a rope attached to the iib, and
with this he directs his amphibious
craft much after the style of a man
driving a spirited horse. The craft
is brought to q stop on the ice foe
simply by plunging the point of the
Ice pick into the ice and holding on.
The craft then rounds up like a two
year-old colt. the captain jumps out,
places his ice pick beneath the rum
ners and the scooter is at anchor.
While not forming a part of the
equipment furnished TO the life saw
ing stations by the government, every
station along the outer beach has one
or two scooters by private owner
ship.-NeW York Sun.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

We regret the Plutonian gloom that
stin hovers over the enete East, and
trust the missionaries may soon con-
clude their godly labors in China, and
elsewhere. to give their. attention to
the enlightened of our own people. It
is well understood in the West that
fasteners fear for us always, rea1iz-
ing the dangers we brave hourly from
Indians and prairie dogs. Never .
New Yorker comes West for the first
time without providing an arsenal to
brace up" his misgivings. This, we
say, is common parlance to our under
standing. The inherited Eastern idea
of the land of the setting sun" has
not appealed to us so much of recent
years until now when 1t is brought to
our attention with alarming eandor. A
seven-year-old boy of Brooklyn ran
away, clear out West" to Hoboken,
across the river into New Jersey
where he was later found earnestly
engaged in hunting for Wild Elephants.
bear and other fractions" critters" or
the wildwood! Ever since he learned
to drink, he imbibed with his milk the
general New York idea of the West.
and at the first opportunity, he set out
to seek his fortune. True, ne didn't
get far West. but even Hoboken is
some farther Californiaward }, than
many down East" people ever get
with their luggage. Their imagina-
tons. however, continue to run I'M
bridled west of the Rockies! West
erners should look to their guns; there
may be a Chickasaw uprising most
any day now.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
dental inspection IN germany.

The question OF engaging a special
star of dentists to ezamins periodi-
caIly the teeth of the children In the
primary schools in Berlin is occupying
the attention of the authorities. Zen
tai inspection has been already intro
duced into the schools at GIeiwftx Is
t<Ss place once . year.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

Two leagues have been started In
London by society people. who pledge
themselves not to drink wine or other
intoxicants between meals. They
make no promises. however. as to the
number OF meals they intend to have.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

News comes from Constantinople
that the grand vizfer has instructed
the treasury to cease all payments
until further orders. This Is indeed
discouraging to bill collectors.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

The man who taught King Edward
20 play golf Is in this country. He
ought to be able to command big
prices for tuting, especially around
New York.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

State prohibition in the matter OF
kissing WIN never succeed It Is bet
teri t. settle questions OF that kind by
adopting the policy OF local option.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
HIohlanders' rnssinct.

It Is curious TO observe how deeply
rooted some national characteristics
are. Lord Lovatss speech at the ban
euet to the Lovat Scouts on saturday
aisclosed the fact that the Highland
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

Women are not always devoid OF a
sense of humor. The late Mrs. Grant
used to cali herself Penelope, because
she accompanied Ulysses on his wan
derings around the world.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

Paris objects to the American cake
walk as "barbarous and disgraceful;
therefore 1t will not displace the
chaste and modest can-can in public
favor.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

China certainly feels convinced that
1t is not always the 'commercialized"
country where knighthood never was
In flower that is the Shylock In max
ing q settlement.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

a New York genius is converting
the popular plays into books. This. is
n worse ofense. If possible. than max
ing plays out of the popular books.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

One of the new babies in New York
weighs only two and quarter pounds,
and yet the parents are strangely
proud of it.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

The Haitian revolutions are an i'm
prOvement on some of the other revo-
lutions. They are managed with such
celebrity that the government does not
have much chance to get deeply in
debt
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

The news that the eminent German
historian, Prof. Mommsen, in fit Of
studious abstraction set fire to his
hair points to boom in F1iegende
Blaetter's absent-minded professor
Jokes
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28

A high German official has COM
united suicide to avoid being snubbed.
Some people take snubs altogether
too seriously.