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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-18

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NM city is always an inter
esting study. at least 1
find IT So" said a veteran
newspaper man to a Times reporter the
other day. at is only well-behaved
people who come TO Washington. and !
often amuse myself following them a
short distance. and. finally falling in and
talking with them. I find the men and
women who come to the Capital. and
you can see them here every day in the
year. are intelligent. and have ideas
worth hearing. II you can only get them
talking.
You can tell the stranger. He walks
slowly. as though ne were going no.
where in particular. and his eyes ard
head are turning constantly 20 see what
there IS 10 be looked upon. You will
meet them at the hotels, on the Avenue.
about the public buildings. and almost
anywhere you have a mind to look for
them. Sometimes II is a newly welded
pair but more often a man and wife
OF mature years. a man alone. or a wo-
man alone. who have come 10 look over
the Nations Capital
These people are invariably quiet and
go about their business. Perhaps they
have an idea that people are watching
them. and they will not unlimber I'M
less you show them that you are worthy
Of their confidence. The other day I
saw n woman about thirty years old. !
should Judge. with troubled look on her
face. walking through Judiciary Square
toward the Pension Building. She was
walking very slowly and seemed absent
minded. She wore a long cloak. carried
a small handbag. and was in that con-
dition called by our fathers as brown
study"
ct would have been bad manners TO
have spoken 10 the woman, but turn
ed and went past her and as I passed
she sized me up. / went along 70 where
the walk branched of. took out my
pocket book and waited. She came up
and asked me TO help her out OF the
most peculiar muddle that ever a
stranger in a distant city fell into.
She said she had been directed 70 go
70 the Pension Building 10 find the
brother Of a friend OF hers in Iowa. He
WIS I'm some position there. She had
lost her memorandum with the namo
and official position. and. coming up
from the station. she had tried her best
10 recall IL and could not. What was
she 70 do?
Come with me, ] said. and we will
try 70 refresh your memory I took her
70 the captain OF the watch. and VIC
went over the list Of clerks. whose
names were the same as that OF her
friend. We found # in a few minutes,
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Phones That Are Rarely Used
C(IDoN'T know why it is" said the

IT DON'T know why IL is said the
telephone inspector. as he gazed
into the ''innards'' OF the ma
chine. busted the transmitter and got a
few sample calls to see that things were
working properly. but we have "A num-
Der OF subscribers who do not have one
call or make one call from the years
beginning to fits end
We install the telephone, inspect it
regularly. and that IS all there is to IT,
don't know why they have put il In.
II may be they like the looks Of their
name in the book, or they think It gives
Them standing in some way. But they
have as little use for a telephone as
lone man on n desert island would
have for a local lire.
There are other subscribers who only
use the phone once or twice in a quar-
ter. There are lots of these II would
be cheaper for them to go TO a neigh
boring drug store and pay their TO-
10. 20 cents. or whatever IL may be. But
men are vain-or women. rather. for
these persons mostly are women. So
they keep the telephone for which they
apparently have no use"
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finally dismissed from the school. and
his education stopped, because the teach
er was not allowed to give him A sound
thrashing. which would have stopped
the whole thing. The little rascal finally
did get the whipping, but Il was left
for a strong man 10 do 10 one night in
n street car. The boy having been so
successful in making himself a nuisance
In school tried on the same tactics in
street car. II happened that a man and
his wife were on the car returning from
the theater. The woman was suffering
from a headache. The boy had kept
his squeezing conversation going for
some time when the woman told her hus-
band she could not stand IL. and asked
him TO take her of the car and wait
for another. The man went to the boy
and explained that his wife had a Sc
we're headache. and requested him TO
stop his noise.
Kicked Of the Car.
This only served to increase the an
noyance. The young bully thinking
himself secure. squawked louder than
ever. looking over toward the woman
and laughing. The man stood II for
about five minutes. He then got up.
grabbed the boy. took him to the door
and kicked him off the car. the con
ductor stopping IL midway of the block
Tor the purpose. This had the desired
erect. and this boy has since been
cdrerul about annoying people with his
peculiar vocal talent. II this how had
been soundly thrashed I'm school bv an
able-bodied teacher. he would probably
have turned out one of the best pupils
in the school.
Forty years ago in a little school house
up In Ohio, young man was hired TO
take charge Of a notoriouslv bad school
In place called Punkinhook He was
tail, slim, slightly STOPPING. and had a
quiet, gentlemanly demeanor. There
were two DULLES in this school who
worked together, and they had driven
about TOUT teachers away by actually
throwing them out OF the school house.
The first morning OF the term as the
scholars arrived they saw the male man
sitting at his table busy with his hooks
and papers. As . O'Clock aDnroa cbed ba
pushed back from the table and re-
quested one Of the boys I'm a low tone
to ring the bell. The two DULLES had
entered and were sitting in the hack
part or the house making remarks nm
der their breath and laughing bolster
ously.
Prepared for Trouble.
The new teacher had been informed
by the directors what to expect. and
he proceeded accordingly. AS soon as
school had been called to order one OF
the DULLES spoke out loud. and several
OF the big boys laughed But the loud
words were scarcely out Of the mouth
OF the bully before a heavy stone pen-
ell took him square on the forehead
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Wbo Rules Mp Goouse =?

Who rules this house l love so we'll
This mortal tenement of elay9
Within this castle where I dwell
ofttimes wcnder who holds sway.
It's true l cali the place mine own.
But there be powers behind the throne
/ sometimes hear the noise of strife,
The awful din, the clash of arms:
And then | tremble for my life
And shrink away from wars alarms.
Were l not such an arrant knave
would be master here-not slave.
But | am weak am not strong:
/ cannot always eleave to Right
Sometimes the giant hand of Wrong
Lays on and holds me in Its might
Who rules my house? l wonder why
may not know until die2
Lawrence Poreher Hext in New York
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-18
Great Difference.

Mrs. AIRS Lever says she has hard time
70 manage her automobile.
Mrs. We'll she mustn't expect automobiles
TO be as easy TO manage as husbands. Chicago
News
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A Model School Ever After.

Inc teacher then gave Wilder a SINH
lar whipping. and sent him to his seat.
From that moment there was never any
more trouble in that school. Marshall
the teacher. remained there and taught
several years. and the two boys whom
he whipped became studious, afterward
went TO an academy in a neighboring
town, and Niets became a teacher him
self. Six boys who afterward became
college graduates witnessed that ter
rible work of a determined teacher. and
one of them, now practicing law in
Washington, tells this story.
Marshall was the most popular teach
er Pmkinhook ever had and il was all
due in the first place to the thorough
whipping of the DULLES who had
brought the school into disrepute
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teacher said In low tone of voice:
John Wilder. bring that pencil to
me-"
The singing blow on the head had
unnerved John for a moment. and
coward that he was. he stopped TO take
up the pencil. but just then the other
bully. named Andrew Viets. caught il
and flung IL back toward the teacher.
The latter had kept his eye on the
boys, and a wooden ruler went whfzzing
through the air and caught Andrew on
the top Of the head. causing him to cry
out in pain. The school room was as
still as death
Now both Of YOU come here thun-
dered the teacher. and the boys sheep
ishly obeyed.
He stationed one on one side OF the
stove and one on the other and told
John Wilder 10 omen his mouth. AS he
did so he placed a peg OF wood be-
tween his teeth. which propped his
mouth open in rather a painful posi-
ton He walked around and com
manded Vets 10 do the same. He de-
INJURED, and would not open his mouth
The teacher never hesitated He
grabbed the boys coat by the lapel and
sleeve and tore il from his back before
Viets had any idea Of what was going
to happen. He then stepped back 20
the blackboard. caught a rattan cane.
and rained the blows upon the boys
back and shoulders until he howled
enough.
John Wilder witnessed the perform
ance. but his mouth was wedged apart,
and three or four efforts to dislodge
the wedge had been unavailing. He was
so disconnected that he could not inter
fere. Vets was thoroughly cowed, put
on his coat, and went to his seat. smart
ing with main
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-18
SpARING THE ROD IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL

THERE is z well-established rule in
Washington that there shall be
no whipping in the public
schools. In the expression OF the
SYM athletic. this form Of punishment
has been relegated 10 oblivion. II there
Is any chas,lsement to be performed the
teachers leave it TO the parents. and the
result Is the boys and girls of this gen
Grafton are never whipped. as were
their fathers. and. il the facts Of his
tory must be told. their mothers. too.
n the minds Of some the sparing Of
the rod in school is not regarded as a
good thing. There are reasons for he
lieving that not only the schools. hut
many Of the younger children. suffer
worse torment than whipping because
OF the lack OF il. There are some boys.
as there are some men and animals.
with whom you can do nothing until
they have been soundly thrashed. Kind
ness will Do much. but II will not bring
down 20 law and order a born bully.
The School Bully.
With our mixed population, the foreign
clement predominating in some in
stances. with sentiments Of IawIessness
bred in the bone. q whole school may be
fairly ter-Orized by one bully There
is no length to which a mean boy or
girl viii not go IN their domineering
over younger and more timid playmates.
There are such DULLES in every school in
THIS city, and the watchfulness of the
. teachers does not keep them out and
does not stop their riding over the
younger and weaker pupils. These boys
and girls do not study well. They plot
mischief. and are cute enough 70 keen
within the regulations and not be ex-
PEELED. They worry the teacher and
give little boys and girls nervous pros
tration with their inhuman treatment
Of them. There is many "A nervous cir,
0r boy made sick by the terrorizing Of
bully. and the anxious parent. in his
innocence, thinks IT is from overstudv.
In the old district schools in the coun-
try. and in the older town schools the
bully met his proper punishment. He
was soundly logged, as ne ought to be.
and some OF the lawless bows OF the
olden time made good students and rem
utable boys afterward.
Boy With the Squeaky Voice.
In the main the rule Of sparinp tbe
rod is right but for the school bulIv
IT is not right. A few years ago there
was bully in one Of the schools OF the
northeast section who discovered he
could annoy everybody in sight by rasp-
ing the words out OF his throat I'm q
manner that would set the nerves NJ
everybody who heard him on edge. This
boy annoyed several little girls In the
grade under him Until two OF them no
came Ill, and two or three were taken
from the school. Many complaints
reached the teacher. The boy wa
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-18

IfVN TATCHING strangers in the
NM city is always an inter
esting study. at least 1
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-14

Born, Saturday evening, to the
wife Of George Klee, a girl.
Miss Daisy Powell Of Richmond, /.
visiting her mother, Mrs. John Powell.
Miss Anne Ireland returned from a
visit TO Miss Caltha Campbell at
Graceland.
Rev. W. NJ Mundell, OF Odessa,
was in the city Thursday on his way
to Grand Pass.
George W. Charlton, who recently
returned from New Mexico, is visit
ing friends here.
The case OF Lille Walton (col J
charged with murder in first degree
was set for May 9th.
Mrs. Fannie Saunders went TO Kan
sas City Thursday afternoon to visit
her sister, Mrs, W. A. Brannock.
George Wade, who has been visit
Ing friends here for several days, left
Wednesday afternoon for Portland,
Oregon, to join his company.
George W. Marquis returned from
Jefferson City Thursday afternoon,
where he has been attending a meet
ing of the State Assessors Association
Mrs. C. A. Black, of Omaha, and
Mrs. W. M. Mundell, of Odessa, re-
turned to Odessa after a weeks visit
with Charles S. Mitchell and family.
Mrs. G. A. Nickel, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Eckle, for some time, left for her
home at Harwood, Mo-, Wednesday
morning.
H. B. Schultz, who has been enga-
ged in the furni hing goods business
here for the past few months, left for
Kansas City Friday morning, where
he will open a store.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-14
General News.

Earthquake was felt at St. Louis
Monday.
President Roosevelt is getting fat in
spite OF his Nervousness
A race war is threatened at Fayette,
Mo-, because OF the whipping Of three
negroes by the law aud order league.
President Roosevelt has sent for
Sargent.
A TIDAL wave, it was announced from
San Francisco Monday, resulted in the
death of one thousand South Sea
Islanders recently.
President Roosevelt is engaged in
clearing a forest on the banks Of the
Potomac partly for the benefit II the
Dutch Reformed church, to which lie
belongs, and partly to get IN practice
for chopplng stovewood on his Rocky
Mountain bear hunt in april.
General TRIBE Tribe has commit
ted suicide, heartbroken it is said over
the failure OF the last Colombian
revolution. He was the hero OF forty.
SIX battles.
President Roosevelt has enjoyed the
worlds champion fencer to become his
fencing master. A tew days ago be ex
cused himself at "a cabinet meeting on
the Venezuela CRISES to arrange the
details for the lessons.
The big excursion steamer Madiana
with q hundred passengers abroad was
dashed on the rocks during a storm off
the coast of Bermuda Islands Tuesday.
For hours the life boats could get 20
closer than a mile. All were finally
rescued.
President Roosevelt will 90 bear
hunting in Montana in April. This
time he wants no press agents. II he
does not find a bear he does not wat
anybody to find it out. He has an idea
that publicity does not improve luck In
hunting.
On Feb. 9 a force Of one hundred
constabulary under Inspector Keit hly
defeated a body of insurgents under
San Miguel at a small town rear
Manila. San Miguel is the last of the
irreconcilables and unfornately was
neither killed nor captured.
President Roosevelt has this week
given his consent for the sale of eques
TRAN photographs Of himself, taken
last summer during his vacation by an
expert photographer summoned to
Oyster Bay for that purpose.
There are many other important
Roosevelt items but not enough world
happenings to separate them.)
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-14

thc W w 4 OAuAhs
l began with a bottle the first week in
March and il certainly did me a great
deal Of good. 1 was so well satisfied
that I purchased another bottle and fol-
lowed the directions, and can say thatit
has cured me.n-Henry Distin.
A large per cent of those who are
afflicted with this epidemic, instead Of
getting well as they ought to, will have
chronic catarrh as the result. This is
almost invariably the case unless Pc
una is taken as soon as possible after
the grip begins.
Every n who has observed the effect
of Peruna during the last three epidem-
les Of la grippe positively knows that
this remedy will cure it permanently.
The fact is, however, that a great null
titude of people will not take Peruna,
and a foundation for chronic catarrh
will be laid.
Even in cases where chronic catarrh
has affected the lungs, and the early
stages Of catarrhal consumption have
been developed, Peruna can be relied
upon as a prompt and lasting cure. La
grippe and catarrh are at present the
two great enemies of life in the land.
Peruna is a cure for either.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use Of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving 3
full statement Of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address Dr.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. O.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-14

J. M. Crowder and Chris Walk
went to Kansas City Thursday morn
ing to attend a banquet at the Mid
land hotel, given by the Young Mems
Republican Club.
Thomas Gibbs and wife, who have
been here this week visiting relatives,
returned to their home near Odessa
Thursday morning. MI. Gibbs was
one Of the grand jurors.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-14
A SPANISH COUNT CURED OF La GRIPPE .

AIEARLY everybody is having Ia
grippe again. It resembles some
= what in the beginning a severe
cold. Achn or cold spell is followed by
aching bones, sore throat, headache,
cough, and general weakness. Its course
may be quite slight OF severe, but in
either case it nearly always leaves one
in a miserable condition.
Unless Peruna is taken 1t VIII be
weeks or months before a person re-
gaius his usual health. II the victim is
fortunate enough to begin the use Of
Peruna at the commencement OF the
attack the course of the grip is much
shortened, and the system is left in .
natural state.
People who have had la grippe, but
r still suffering from the after-effects,
should not neglect to take Peruna, as II
will promptly restore them to health.
Henry Distin, the inventor and maker
of all the band instruments of the Henry
Distin Manufacturing Co., writes the
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-14

Count Segundo de OWES "a a Carst exile. The signature Of his uncle,
Louis De OWES, is found with that Of John Quincy Adams ceding Florida to the
United States n a treaty with Spain. The Count is orysx years of age, an exile
IRON oretto, situated in the northern partof Spain, and has been exned since 1875;
hes wealthy, and has travelled and studied the customs, habits and Languages Of
twenty-five different nations.
In arecent letter to The Peruna Medicine Go, Of Columbus, Ohio, the Count
gives his endorsement to their great catarh remedy, Peruna, in the following
WORDS;
The Garfield, Atlantic City, NJ j.
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio:
GentIemen-"Last winter my secretary had a severe attack of
la grippe which was cured effecfuaHy by the use of four bottles of
Pernna, SO when I contracted the same unpleasant sickness last fall
Lat once sent for a bottle. Ii truly worked wonders, and removed
the sickening and sore feeling / had within a few days. IwouLd not
be without 1t now for any money, and when / go away / carry
Peruna as a valuable perquiste to my travelling outfit. "--JULAN
SEGUNOO, CONDR DE OWES.
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G s Mitchell & Son
FEED STORE

The best and cheapest line Of feeds
kept In Lexington at the Franklin
st. Feed Store. We do a general
exchange business with the farmers
for wheat or corn. Our Flour is the
best on the market. Phone 170
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AOAAO lis
144l South Ninth
street, Philadel-
phia, Pa;
al had a bad at
tack of la grippe
last December
which asted
0 than three
m 0 $, and
W hich left me
with catarrh, and
S several of my
advised
- ~
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-14

Earthquake was felt at St. Louis
Monday.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-01-29

In his address to the Legislature
on the irrigation problem the other
day, Congressman Newlands gave
the number of acres now irrigated
by the streams of the State and
the number which would be IT.
rigated when the waters were SUI
ficiently stored and saved until
needed instead of running to waste.
According to his statement Carson
river now irrigates 50,0O0acres and
If the water was saved would IL
rigate 175. 900 acres. Walker rivers
$4,000 acres would be increased to
100000. Humboldt river that now
irrigates 100000 acres would do
the same work for 10000 acres,
and the $4,000 acres irrigated by
the Truckee river would be in
creased to 2Sc, o00acres, or in other
words the 4l7,000 acres now, IT.
rigated would be increased to
LAOS, 900 acres if the water of these
rivers that now go to waste were
stored until needed.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-01-29
TERMS.
The Bill Should
Pass.

Senator Prudential of Lincoln
county has introduced a bill in the
Senate that should pass both houses
unanimously for a Nevada exhibit
at the st. Louis Exposition.
Nevada's exhibit at the Buffalo
Exposition. under the supervision
of Mr.. j. A.. Yerington was the best
investment the State has evermade
since it was admitted to the union.
1t has besn the means of lifting
Nevada from a decadent common
wealth to one that is growing in
wealth faster than any other at
the present time. Still that bill
was bitterly opposed in both houses
and out by the silurians. 1t is
a s ource of considerable gratifca-
ton for the News to recall the fact
t hat it was about the only news
paper in Nevada that advocated
that appropriation.
The present matter is one of
equal if not greater importance.
The Buffalo exposition brought
about results that are too well
known to demand repetition now,
and the Exposition at st. Louis
will result in a continuation of the
good work, with further advantages
that the foundation has already
been laid.
Every progressive member of
both houses should vote for a lib
eral appropriation. The State that
runs the cheapest is not the wealth.
lest State.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-01-29

There is a whole chapter in the
following paragraph which the
boys of this county should read
and reflect over.
Fort Scott, Kansas, lays claims
to the youngest locomotive engin-
eer in the country in the person of
Ed Gilbert, aged q, who has just
passed a successful examination
and been "set up 1t is noted
that three years ago young Gilbert
went on a switch engine as fireman
and that his boy friends made
sport at him. Worse than that,
his girl friends "twitted him about
his black face and rough hands,
And now, says a Fort Scott paper,
he is in a position which pays $3.50
a month, while some of the young
men who laughed at him are meas
uring calico at So a week.
A boy who is the master of a
trade is independent for lie, and
not only that. but he is in the Zine
of promotion" Manyof the heads
of railroads, and of other great en-
terprises, commenced their rec
at the bottom Of the ladder. 1t
was their practical knowledge of
the business in which they were
engaged that made rapid promotion
possible. A parent can best
equip his son for the battle of life
by compelling him to learn a trade.