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lake4fhat afternoon. He was all alon,
in the boat with the youngest of tn,
old lady's three pretty daughters
When the boat keeled over under tn,
wind Jimmy could hardly help sitting
close to her indeed, but she didn''
seem to mind it a bit. Once sud
den gust of wind almost capsized tn.
little craft and after it had rightet
again the pretty skipper looked a
Jimmy with an arch smile and said.
well, that was close shave, wasn'
it,"
Jimmy blushed rosy red and looked
at her second time. But he decidet
that she didn't mean it.
When they started out Jimmy hat
seen Miss Maginn watching them ou
of the hotel windows. Now, as the,
drew near the landing he saw he
again, standing out on the end of tn,
pier, waving a handkerchief as if t,
beckon them in.
20, Mr.. Baker," she called befor,
the boat had been tied up, here's al
important message for you. ! thinl
it wants an immediate answer"
Jimmy wondered what was COMM
now. He tore the envelope and read
James Baker, Oconomowoc, Wis.
Big bulge in wheat. Shall let 60 hal
million bushels for a profit of sxt
| thousand? T. S. Sullivan
Nothing important" said Jimmy
II wish I could get the boys not t
bother me about trifles when I'm O.
my vacation"
Then he helped his fair partner OF
Of the boat and walked up to the hote
with one Of the girls on each side c
him. "'',."-., j.,
Jimmy did not stay out the Who'll
two weeks. At the end of the tent
day he discovered that he had jus
money enough left to pay his car far
back to Chicago after the hotel bill wa
settled. So ne took his departure be
tween dinner and breakfast. He LEI
at leaststwo girls behind him who ha
ttaken his proposal Of marriage unde
for a few days. Doub>
less they are still wondering wha
ever became of him.-Chicago Tr
bune.
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THEY DO NOT WANT RICHES.

One Owns a Silver Mine and thu
Other a Heaith-Giving Spring.
II know two men in Colorado" sale
Col. Alexander, an officer in the
army, "who may be ranked as pecu
liar characters. One of them owns
the greatest silver mine in the state
and does not develop it, and the
other owns a hot springs which is {
marvel in its curative properties and
he does nothing to encourage people
to come to it. The mine owner digs
out some silver ore from time tc
to Denver, where he sells it. In this
manner he gets enough money to sup
ply his necessities, but he will de
nothing more. He might become g
silver king if he would develop thai
mine and take out the wealth of sill
yer. l can't say why he will not dc
so, but he won't, and that is all there
is to it.
The other fellow has spring thai
is wonderful and those who could
stand the treatment they received al
his place have been cured of chronic
ailments of most serious nature. He
has a few tumbledown cabins about
and with nothing in the way Of luxu'
ries or even comforts. II he would
put up good hotel and make his
place attractive for sick people he
would have great crowds there, but
that is something he will not do.
HE says those who want the bene
fit Of his spring must take what they
find and be satisfied with what salts.
fies him. If they don't like it they
needn't come is the way he puts it,
and he cannot be induced to make
improvements or to allow others to
do So"
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The Industria, Revolution.

They spun and knitted l. the sun
L the good old days, the good old ways:
And work with homely joy was done
L the good old days, the good old ways.
The needles clicked and the tale went
round.
The spindle hummed and the laughtey
rung.
All, honest work had a merry sound
When the world was young!
They mind the threads of the whirring
loom
In the latter days, the weary days,
For the soul and Joy there is no room
In the latter days, the weary days.
They piece the snapp'd threads one by
one,
No song is sung and no tale is told;
And there's little mirth beneath the sun
For the world is old.
Harold Johnson in London Daily
News.
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promptly I'm not a dancing man,
Miss Maginn."
You really ought to learn, Mr..
Baker Why, it's perfectly lovely.
There's to be a dance over at the Mer-
rift house this evening, and if you
like I'll give you a lesson. I'm sure
you'd learn quickly"
All! the power of few feet of
State street frontage!
I'll be delighted" said Jimmy. '1ll
call for you at o'clock. Shall I
dress?"
Jimmy started to walk away from
the desk when Miss Maginn called
him back. THAT message came col
lect, Mr.. Baker. Shall put it on
your room bill?" ..,..
why, yes" said Jimmy in a lordly
way. "Or, wait minute. I'll pay it
now. hate these extras on ones
hotel bills
He pulled out his diminishing roll
OF, bills and put Miss Maginn to the
trouble of changing the only twenty
he had left. Then he left her in a
most excited and delighted state Of
mind. On his way across the hotel
lobby he pulled one hand out of his
coat pocket. With it came the tele-
graph message and dropped unnoticed
on the floor.
He was at the breakfast table when
the mother Of the three charming
young women who sat at the next
table came hurrying up.
lis this Mr.. Baker,"
Yes? Well, found telegram
of yours on the floor in the hotel lobby.
I'm glad to be able to return it to
you. It's too bad for you to sit over
here all alone at this table when we
have an extra place at ours. Wed be
delighted to have you join US, Mr.. Ba-
kerr
Jimmy decided as he accepted the
pressing invitation to change his seat
that the boys in the barber shop had
builded better than they knew. After
a pleasant breakfast with the three
pretty girls Jimmy accepted an invi-
tation to go out yachting with one of
them in the afternoon and then
strOlled out into the hotel lobby again.
Miss Maginn looked up at him with
q ravishing smile on her face.
May have blank and a pencil?"
he asked. THANK you. I'll send ar
answer to that telegram"
This is what he wrote:
~. 8. Sullivan, Chicago, H.: Use
your own judgment about selling. Don't
bother me about details. ! am trying
to rest. James Baker"
Send it paid, please" said Jimmy,
as he laid half dollar on the desk
The look that grew in Miss Maginn's
beautiful eyes as she read over the
careless message in which Mr.. Baker
put away from him a mere matter of
100000 might we'll have warmed the
heart Of colder man than Jimmy.
You won't forget our dancing les
son this evening, Mr.. Baker?" she said
with q caressing note in her voice.
Jimmy had lovely time out on the
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THREE DAYS IN PARIS.

How to See Enough in That Time to
Last Thirty Years.
took friend to Paris once fol-
three days She had never been there
before and she did not know when she
might go again, and she had only
three days.
"Fou will see more in three days
titan you will forget in thirty years, #
you leave it to me-" said l.
We went, and I fully proved my
case. The first night we went to the
Theater Franchise and the next night
to another theater, and the third We
gave to dinner party. Instead OF
trying to see all the pictures in the
Louvre, took her to see my favorites
among the Titians, Valesquez and Mu-
rilos. We did not waste time in look
ing at miles and miles of "stone gals .
hut worshiped at the shrines of the
Venus of Milo and the Winged Victory.
We gaZed with awe into NapOleon's
tomb and let the little old man at the
door of Notre Dame swish us with
holy water We logged along the
quays and bought old books for twice
their value; we walked in the shadow
Of the walls of SarbOnne. We drove
in the Bots, and we lunched and dined
at restaurants that the tourist knows
rot Of At the end Of the third day
we went back to London.
"Was it not worth while to have
spent three days in Parish / asked.
81 feel equal to writing book OF
the manners and customs of the Pari-
sans was the reply.-Jeanette Gil.
der in Booklovers' Magazine.
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A Summer Millionaire

Jimmy Baker is journeyman bar
ber Last July he got on good
thing" at racetrack and won $120.
He Immediately resigned his position
and started to take two weeks va
cation. He had heard some of the
patrons of the downtown barber shop
where he worked talking about Ocon-
'omowoc as being a dead swell place. =
| and he decided that it would just
about suit him so long as his $120
held out
He took fine room at the swell
est" hotel and started in to try to en-
| Joy himself But nobody at the hotel
seemed to be anxious to make his &C
Quaintance. Even the pretty young
woman in blue and pink lowered shirt
waist who acted as telegraph opera
tor in the hotel lobby was exceedingly
chilly. In the big hote! dining room
| the summer girls and their guardian
| mammas never even seemed to see
Jimmy, though he never came in un-
| til everybody else was seated and was
| always careful to comb his hair into
elaborate semi-circles on either side
his forehead
Four or FIVE days had gone by in
this way and Jimmy was almost ready
to declare that society life was all a
| snare and a delusion.
Meanwhile the small blond young
woman who sent and received mes
sages had unconsciously twined her
self tightly into the tendrils of jim
mys helpless affection. Time after time
Jimmy sauntered airly up to her desk
| and made some playful remark which
was intended to be fascinating. But
1t was no use. Miss Maginn always
looked up with sober and business
like air and inquired whether he was
expecting message.
That finally gave him an idea. He
had never received but two messages
by telegraph in his life, but there
seemed to be no reason why he should
not get few. He sat down and
wrote a long letter to one Of the boys
In the barber shop at Chicago.
That evening Jimmy spent in pain
fully watching a dance in the hotel
dining room, watching with envious
eyes young man in white yachting
suit as he whirled the beauteous Miss
Maginn round the long room in o
waltz. And Miss Maginn never even
glanced in his direction.
Dear me! What a change there
was in the morning. When Jimmy
came down into the lobby on his way
to breakfast pretty Miss Maginn, look
Ing as fresh as daisy before the sun
had slipped the dew from it's petals,
looked up at him with smile.
"Mr. Baker" she called to him, tive
message here for you. ! fancy it's
an important one"
Jimmy took the yellow envelope with
what he tried to make a bored express
sion: He leaned carelessly against
the ornamental railing about Miss Ma
ginn's desk, tore open the envelope.
'lnfoldei the message, and read it.
James Baker, Oconomowoc, Wis:
Have offer of 100000 spot cash for
your State street frontage. Shall l
accept! z. S. Sullivan"
For just wink of the eye Jimmy
was knocked out. But he was game
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Commands Large German Fleet,

Prince Henry has been cruising in
French, Portuguese and Spanish wat
sers with the largest squadron of mod.
ern ships that Germany ever put to
sea. He has the battleships Kaiser
Frederick III. Kaiser Wilhelm II,
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Gross, Kaiser
Barbarossa, Wittisbach. Zahringen and
Victim; the armored cruisers Prinz
Heinrich and Victoria Luise and the
four protected cruisers Amazone, Ari.
adne. Medusa and Fraueplob. !.
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SUMMER EXCURSIONS

* VI. e. F. i :. Z " f = .
Via Grand Trunk Railway System.
& BOSTON-Single fare. Going dates
June Is, 26 and ~. Return limit Al.
gust LIST, 1908.
BOSTON-Single fare plus 81. Co.
ing dates July LIST to 5th inclusive.
Return limit September LIST, 1903.
TORONTO-singls fare plus 81. Co.
ing dates June goth and Goth. Return
limit July Sth, 1903.
SARATOGA - Single fare. Going
dates July 5th and 9Th. Return limit
July Goth, 1908.
DETROIT-Single fare. Going dates
July 18th and 10th. Return limit Au.
gust 18th, 1908.
For further particulars address Geo
w. Vaux, A. G. P. & T. A., Excursion
Dept, Chicago, III.
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had discovered an unsupported mil.
liOnaire.
Beautiful morning." said Jimmy, as
If he had dismissed the telegram and
it's contents from his mind alto.
gether.
Charming" gurgled Miss Maginn
Il didn't see you ut the dance last
night, Mr.. Baker"
o, the gay deceiver! Jimmy knew
perfectly well the reason why, she
had not seen him. She had looked clear
over his head. But he cOuntered
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Real Distinction.

Miss Redingote-No, Aunt Brindle,
1 aE4ot engaged When marry it.
will ~ great man.
Mrs. Brindle (doubtfully)-Well
dunno. You cant always tell how 4
man will turn out. Now there's 10
siab-
Miss Redingote-You don't mean tr
Say Uncle Brindle has ever distin'
Guished himself!
Mrs. Brindle-We1l, TT tell you what
he did. sent him down to the store
with ribbon the other day and he
matched it-NeW York Times.
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Her Ruse.

Mother-You say your husband no
longer spends his evenings at the club:
Daughter soon broke him OF that
Mother-How did you manage?
Daughter-Before going to bed put
two easy chairs close together by the
fire, and then held match to a cigar
until the room got faint odor of
smoke.-New York Weekly.
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SELLING Cream for ca.h.

Cream like the agriculturists' grain or
miners gold, can now be sold for cash.
the most perfect creamery, just complet-
ed by r. e. Cobb at st. Paul, to buy hand
separator cream at any point within 4OU
miles from ST. Paul.
This house also pays cash for butter,
egS/ and poultry throughout Minnesota,
Dl osa and Wisconsin. By writing to
RNE. COBB, St. Paul, Mimi, you will
Immediately receive prices and full par
ticulars.
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and quickly recovered himself. The
boys In the barber shop at home were
soming it pretty strong, but that was
10 reason why he should weaken and
spoil the game.
Carelessly he doubled up the bit Of
Fellow paper and thrust 1t into his
coat pocket. Pretty Miss Maginn was
Watching his every movement She
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ksaPe permanently cured. no nervousness aftca
SVV , hrst days use OF Kne's Great Nerve RestOr
er Send for FREE 02 90 trial bottle and treatise
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DR.. }. n. RINDLAU1 (speciali.to,
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
Fargo, N. D.
Just az Good.

Elderly Customer-Have you any
preparations that will eradicate wrin.
kles?
Conscientious Druggist-No, ma am,
but we have preparation that will
fill them up.'-Chicago Tribune
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You can't measure genius by the
length of his hair.
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Ydo not believe Piso's Cure for Consumpt'o'
has an equal for coughs a: colds.--JoHN T
Boyer, Trinity Springs. Inc Feb. 10. 1900
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The most polite people in the world
are those who have gold bricks to sell
you.
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Look for this trade mark: "The Klean. Koo:
Kitchen Kind" The stoves without smoke,
ashes or heat. Make comfortable cooking.
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The man who agrees with nobody
thinks everybody else is wrong.
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So says Mrs. Josie Irwin, of
525 So. College St., Nashville,
Tenn, of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Never in the history of medicine has
the demand for one particular remedy
for female diseases equalled that at
tanned by Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and never
during the lifetime of this wonderful
medicine has the demand for it been
SO great as it is to-day.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and throughout the length and breadth
of this great continent come the glad
tidings of woman's sufferings relieved
by it. and thousands upon thousands
Of letters are pouring in from grateful
women saying that it will and posi-
lively does cure the worst forms of
female complaints.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all wo-
men who are puzzled about
their health to write her at Lynn,
Mass, for advice. Such CORE.
spondence is seen by women only,
and no charge is made.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-09-23
JEWISH NEW YEAR
viii Be Celebrated by that Nationality
The Hebrew Merchants will Close
Their Stores for Two Days Com.
mencing on Monday Evening.

All of the Hebrew stores in this
city will be closed on next Tuesday
and Wednesday, September % and
%, in commemoration of the Jewish
New Year. All OF the firms will close
their business places on Monday
evening at shutdown and remain
closed until Wednesday at shutdown
as their festivals are reckoned from
their calendar beginning at sun
down and ending at shutdown.
The Jewish New Year has more
real significance than the Christian
New Year as theirs is more of re-
ligious celebration while the latter
is holiday. Time in the Jewish
calendar is reckoned from the seventh
month of the lunar year, making the
beginning of the new church year,
the Dist day Of September.
Directly following the New Years
day celebration, comes the ten day
of the Repentance. the conclusion Of
which, the day Of Atonement, which
is by far the most important day in
their calendar. The nine days pre-.
ceding it are for the purpose of
preparing for the final celebration.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-09-23
BIG FIRE.
Monongah the Scene of SI75, 900
Blaze Last Night.


Fire Broke out in Engine Room ana
DESTROYED ali Buildings at No 2 Tip
pies-Large Amount of Coal Burn.
ed-eO0 Men Idle.
Fire at Monengah Saturday
caused loss of $125,000 The fire
started st IL o'clock and burned IN
til o'clock this morning when II
was gotten under control and ext:n-
guished.
All the buildings at No. tipple
were destroyed. They covered about
three acres of ground. Along with
the building went six slack bins
containing 1900 tons of coal
This is still burning and will con-
tiuue to burn for year or more.
1t is not known how the fire start
ed but it was first seen in the engine
room of No 2 which is saturated
with oil.
The fire company had hard time
of it to save Triples No /, 5 and 6
The wood work connecting these
was chopped away and the blaze
prevented from spreading.
During the fire several boilers ex-
ploded adding spice of danger to
the conflagrasion.
No one was hurt during the ex-
oitement however although there
were some narrow escapes.
Six hundred men arc thrown out
of employment by the fire.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-09-23
THE GENERAL CONFERENCE
Ofthe M. Z. Church and its far
Reaching Scope.

Election Of Ministerial and Lay Dele
gates 10 be part Of the work in
Wheeling Conference--oome LegIsIa-
tion PropOsed-Loeai Candidate for
Lay Delegate.
The General Conference of the M.
e. Church will meet In Los Angeles
CAL, on the First Wednesday Of May
1904. Already delegates are being
elected, and much interest is aroused
as the elections proceed. At the COM
ing session of the w. Va. Conference,
held in Wheeling Sept. 30, there will
elected five ministerial and FIVE lay
delegates The General Conference is
composed Of about six hundred MEN,
bers, elected to represent l24 confer
ences, IL missions In the U. S., and
IL missions In foreign countries.
These elect an equal number OF min
isterial and lay members. The Gener-
al Conference is the law making body
of the church. The expense of the
last session four years ago was $50, 900
The Conference will be called on to
elect several Bishops. Four Bishops
have died during the Quadrennial,
and a number of others are likely to
be retired by age. Many believe that
a large number should be elected,
Others try to keep the number as small
as the work will allow. Editors, and
secretaries of the great church socie-
ties will be elected.
At the General Conference num-
Der Of important measures are to come
up for discussion; among these the
consolidation OF the great publishing
houses into one centrally located: the
change OF the time OF probation from
six 10 two months for all candidates
for church membership; perhaps, the
question OF the election of Presiding
Elders by the Annual Conferences,
this is an old question, but up to the
present the appointment OF Elders
has rested with the Bishop; Dlstricting
the Bishops, this is movement that
seems TO increase in power, the plan
advocates the appointment OF Bishop
to certain territory where for four
years he shall have constant supervis-
ion. At present the Bishops travel
throughout the entire territory of the
church, very rarely holding the same
conference twice in four years. The
churches feel the need of more direct
supervision by the Bishop. Other
questions will be up for settlement,
and the Methodist people throughout
the world are greatly interested.
Geo. G. Sturgiss has been elected
lay delegate from Morgantown, Mr..
James Koontz from Morgantown Cir
cult, and Mr.. II. II. Reed from Mason
town. These representatives Will attend
the Wheeling Conference and join In
the election to Laymen to the General
Conference. While Mr. Sturgiss has
not announced himself as candidate
for the General Conference his friends
are hoping to secure his election. mol
better representative could be sent
from West Virginia, loyal and devot-
ed to his church, he has an intelligent
grasp Of the needs and work OF the
church, that would make him strong
factor in the legislation suggested.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-09-23
EIGHTEEN SUITS
Filed Against Striking Glass
Workers by Companies
Each is for $4,000 Defend

Each is for $4,000 Defend,
ants Named Trespass on the case
Seduction Of Returnable
at October Rules.
Eighteen lsuits were flied by
w. S. Meredith and Chas A. Goodwin,
attorneys for the Economy Tumbler
company and the Seneca Glass COM
pany, against former employees OF
these companies, now on strike, for
damages OF $4,000 in each case. The
papers are on file at the circuit clerks
office and the sDmmonses are issued
returnable at October rules.
The men who are thus sued by the
Economy Tumbler company, for $4,000
damages each are, Frank Ecker,
William Rosenmerkle, George Decker,
Frederick Rosenmerkle, Frank Feck,
J. 2. Slime, Pete Slime, George Ros-
enmerkle, Anton Sigwart and Joseph
Lohry.
The defendants in the suits, exactly
similar to those above, brought by the
Seneca Glass company are Jacob
Schenk, Sabatino Spadaccio, Frederick
Bishop, Nicola Spadaccio, Joseph
Baur, Frank Ecker and Joseph Ecker.
The suits are brought for trespass
on the case. The declarations are not
filed, but it is understood that the
principal count for claiming damages
is the seduction of masters servants.
1t will further be declared that the
employees OF these companies have
been prevented from working for the
plaintiffs by the intimidation, coercion
and abuse practiced upon them by the
defendants, thereby damaging the
business OF the plaintiffs in the
amounts named above.