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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-02

on across the Pacific Ocean to Shang-
hal. 1t is lucky that Giant Collarsand-
cuffs is such good spirit, for you can
imagi how surprised seafarers would
be if he were to be inclined to wicked
ness and were to stretch all that mass
of material around the world so that
the ships would suddenly run into
liren and cotton where they had al
ways been accustomed to open water.
There are some persons living to-,
day who remember little Fairy Col
larsandcuffs when he first arrived in
Troy
Before his arrival folk had been
wearing shirts with collars and long
wristbands all in one piece. After he
had taught the wife of the blacksmith
how to manufacture the collars and
cuffs in separate pieces, a retired
Methodist minister. the Reverend
Ebenezer Brown, who was keeping a
small dry goods store, was clever
enough to see that before long every
body would be clamoring for them
So he set to work at once to make
them in large quantities, and he be-
came very rich because of it. At first
these separate collars were made only
by the women of Mr.. Browns house
hold, but the increasing demand for
Browns store collars" encouraged
him to hire help, and before long the
wives and daughters of most Of his
neighbors were at work making col
lars and cuffs for him, taking their pay
in. goods" from his store. He must
have been shrewd bargainer, for
when he sent work out to be done,
each instalment was accompanied by
card saying "In pay you buy my
goods at my prices"
The collars were tied around the
neck by tape and were commonly
called String collars"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-02
Insects That DratD Pictures

Few people, except lumbermen and
scientists, know that there are lot
of American insects that draw pic
lures. But 1umbermen know it to
their cost, for the pictures are drawn
in the timber of valuable trees, and
the drawing instruments used by the
little artists are their jaws and boring
tools, with which they carve their de-
signs so deeply into the trees that
they die.
The most striking pictures are made
by the Columbian timber beetle.
When this insect bores into oak, it
makes a perfect engraving of a steam
boat. The hull, with its rounded keel,
and the black funnel are so we'll made
that it does not require the least bit
of imagination or study to see it. AS
soon as any one lays his eyes on a
piece of white oak in which the tim
Der beetle has been he is sure to ex-
claim: why, look at the picture of
a steamboat
Sometimes timber beetles work so
buslly in section of oak that whole
fleet of ships appear when the lum-
Der is split or quartered.
In poplar trees this same beetle
draws long streaks, sometimes as long
as man, and these are colored black,
green and blue, so that the lumber
men have come to call such wood
calico poplar, because the markings
make it look like printed calico.
A bark borer that burrows under
the bark of cotton woods engraves
the picture of cork-screw.
The ash bark beetle sinks long,
wide groove into the wood of a tree
and then bores beautifully curved tun-
nels that branch out from each side
of the central groove. These tunnels
are like the fourishes made by a pen
and-ink artist, and at the end of each
one is a thick black spot.
The ash beetle digs the side tun-
nels, not for artistic purposes, but in
order to prepare a snug home for its
young. 1t lays eggs in each tunnel.
But to the human eye the work of
this beetle looks exactly as if the
creature had tried to draw a picture
of the backbone and vertebrae of an
animal as it looks in skeleton form.
The hickory bark beetle is another
artist, but its work is geometrical.
After it has finished boring its home
the completed engraving is a beauti-
full, graceful bundle of -feather-like
lines, bound together in the middle by
what looks like a picture of bead
| belt.
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come SO mighty since that day when
he appeared to the good wife of the
blacksmith that now there are almost
eighteen thousand persons laboring
for him, and they divided ten millions
of gold dollars between them last
year for it.
The women of the country alone
were paid four and one half millions
of dollars by Giant .Collarsandsuffs.
He has been loyal to the State of
New York, where he first got his
chance to grow, for he has given it
ifty-four factories, while all the other
States have ffty-seven between them
There is not a town within twenty
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miles of Troy now wherein some part
of the female population is not en-
ployed in some branch of manufac-
ture for him. At least one-half of all
the folk who live in Troy itself are
workers for Giant Collarsandcuffs.
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yet not SO long ago but that
all your grandfathers were alive, there
was a great country whose people
were always wanting more work to
do. This was quite different from
other countries of fairy tales, where
nobody ever did anything except to
fight dragons and look for buried pots
OF gold
The lands of the fairy stories where
no one worked have all vanished now;
but the land that this fairy story de-
sCrlbes has grown bigger and bigger.
Because they did not waste their time
in searching for buried pots of gold,
the people found millions and millions
of pots brinful that were in plain view
ali the time, only, of course, they
could not have been seen by folk who
kept .peering into holes and caves. In
stead OF looking for dragons to fight,
these wise people minded their own
business, and that, as everybody
knows who ever has lived where
dragons are, is quite too deadly for
these monsters. They only thrive
where folk spend their days in gazing
at them and being afraid of them. So,
in this country, whenever anybody
cried aloud that he knew Of a terrible
dragon, all the other folk kept right
on working. If the frightened person
continued to lament, the rest laughed
merrily. And at the sound of laughter
from persons who have work to>do a
dragon melts into thin air.
You can tell at once that this story
is a true fairy story, because the coun-
try is the United States of America.
And you all know that there are no
dragons here now.
Well, once upon time, seventy-fve
years ago, there were many folk who
wanted new work to do. They Won
dered and wondered, and looked and
looked, and thought and thought.
While they were all thinking, there
was an honest, hard working black
smith in the town of Troy, in the
State of New York. Troy was a great
place for blacksmiths then. This
blacksmith had a wife who had heard
of all the folk who wanted a new
work to do and she, too, was wonder
ing and thinking and looking.
Now it was a well-known fact that
the United States was full OF fairies
at that time, as it is now. But they
were not the kind of fairies that you
hear of in other fairy stories, that ap-
pear to a mortal when he throws him
self down in the grass and weeps be-
cause everything is going wrong.
They would have run and flown and
jumped a million miles away from
such a distressing person. These real
fairies never appeared to person
until that person was thinking with all
his or her might, like the blacksmith's
wife, for instance.
She had not been thinking so very
long, before all at once funny little
figure came trotting up the road. 1t
was not human shape, nor yet an in
sect, nor yet a bird, nor yet an ami
NAL 1t was unlike anything that ever
was before.
1t ran right up to her and bowed
low
Mrs. Blacksmith" said the queer
being, 81 am a fairy and I have come
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Rasouli captures a number
of travellers and demands
money for ransom. A num-
Der of travellers secure $1,000
for their ransom. Rasouli
I being anxious to get rid of
his captives, however, re-
duces the ransom price, MAX
ing it $a5o less per man, so
that the $4,000 releases one
more captive than expected.
How much per man was
the original ransom price7
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Then the girl turned to Mrs. Gran

Then the girl turned to Mrs. Gran
ston. taking a step toward her in her
eagerness. Mother" she said fercely,
you took my letters away from Jane.
I saw you talking to her"
"Why. daughter, p
"Did you do it?" the girl demanded
sharply. Did you3"
Mrs. Cranston hesitated and then
said falteringly, her eyes on the carpet:
"You were so unduly wrought up and
excited by-by the report Of the shoot
ing that really I-I"-
Mother" Lydia interrupted her,
you have gone too far. You had no
right under heaven to act as you did.
1t was a crime, considering his con-
dition and-my feelings. Mrs. Hill
yer, is Hortense at home"
Eyes, she's thar, Miss Lydia"
E.. "Well. I'm going to explain to George,
and I'm going now," Lydia said. "He
shan't wait one minute longer to know
how feel and how I've felt all along.
You have done everything on earth to
make me untrue to my better self,
mother. and at last resorted to actual
dishonesty. I'll never marry the man
you want me to-neverw With that
the girl turned quickly from the room.
To RE CONTINUED.
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sage, a line from the woman he loved,
but not thing come. l got to lookin'
fer it. too, fer | lowed I'd made no
mistake in sizin' the woman up, an
t'other day. when big bunch o roses
come fer i'm with a note, l actually
run up to his room with 'em, was 81
glad. | knOwed whar they growed,
an, like fool, l told i'm they was
from the right source. His pore, pale
face flushed all over. But when he
opened the note it was from somebody
else. His lip jest sagged down an
jerked as he tor me / was mistaken In
the pusson that had sent them. My
Lord, | was hoppin' mad then! Say,
what are you uns, anyway, that you
kin hold yourselves aloof from sech q
man at sech time? Even eff you did
intend to balk the marriage you could
"a treated i'm like a human bein,
stricken in upholdin' his honor an pro
tectln' the rights O. other people,"
Mrs. Hillyer"-Lydia drew herself
up to her full height, her startled eyes
bearing down on the caller-"do you
mean to say that George Buckley has
not had a letter from me since he was
wounded?'
81 certainly do. Miss Lydia"
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The Progressive Farmer, published
at Raleigh. N. c.. announces that 1t
has purchased the subscription list
and good will Of the Cotton Plant,
lately published at Greenville, this
state. The Cotton Plant has been in
existence for about twenty years.
During the height of the Alliance
movement 1t was the organ of that
organization.
Sam F. Hurst, town marshal Of
Mayesville, was killed at 1920 yes
terday morning by J.. Ed Anderson. the
railroad agent at that place. Hurst
made threats against Anderson during
the evening, and waited on the plat
form until he started home. Hurst Is
said to have provoked the difficulty
and advanced on Anderson with pis-
tol. Anderson shot him six times with
a Colts automatic pistol, every bull
Hurst's pistol was found lying by his
body.
Lancaster special Of Sept. q to
the News and Courier: There was
considerable excitement in town Sat
urday night caused by the firing of
some fifteen or twenty pistol shots
about the Southern depot. 1t seems
that a crowd Of men from the cotton
mills were after two citizens Of Rock
Hill, Messrs. c. w. McNeely and Lew
Is Fennell, who had been alleged to
be seekers Of mill labor, one Of whom
(Mr. McNeely), as already noted IN
this correspondence, was tried ana ac-
quilted here last week Of enticing la
Dor. He and Fennell were in the de-
hl1t thnv
bravely came out and faced the crowd
Nobody was hurt except Mr.. James
Hilton, a farmer of this vicinity, who
was severely beaten by members OF
the crowd, who probably mistook him
for one Of the Rock Hill men.
- Columbia correspondence Of the
News and Courier: Bennett Is again
inside prison walls. The liberty he
had been awarded was sacrificed by
his coming into South Carolina, and
while here either accidentally or pur-
posely killing his wife. He was
brought here tonight by Sergt. Rob-
erts Of Savannah, where he was ar
rested and where he has been held
pending the contention as to his ex-
tradition. Gov. Hayward had Ben
nett brought to South Carolina to
stand trial for killing his wife and not
for having violated the condition OF
his pardon to keep out of the state
Bennett had very little to say. When
he arrived at the penitentiary he told
the guards that he seemed to have
hard luck. He was in rather low spir-
it's, but came to Columbia with Sergt
Roberts without any trouble. When
arrested he is reported to have said
he would rather die than to return to
prison, but he has not talked about II
since the requisition has been ordered
Solicitor Davis Is here, and will to-
morrow talk with Governor Hayward
regarding the case.
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ing sure results from his energy end
enterprise Is apparent.

ing sure results from his energy end
enterprise Is apparent.
No state in the Union for its size
has finer railroad facilities, the may
is network of railroad lines, con-
verging at the center Of the triangle.
Through the state runs the three
main North-to- South trunk lines, with
fast passenger and refrigerator SER
vice, each with many branch lines.
reaching into all the counties. One Of
the trunk lines has more Of its mile
age in this state than in any other Of
the states 1t traverses. The navigation
of the inland waterways is now thor
ough, a line with connections with
steamships for New York, Philadelphia
and Boston, having just been opened
to the very centre Of the state, making
rich river bottom lands available for
such settlers as are furnished by Hol-
land, for instance. The telegraph and
the telephone connect practically every
town and hamlet with the outside
world, and the farms can and do sn-
cure the latter service.
Educational advantages in South
Carolina are unsurpassed. In the
country the state maintains superior
type Of free schools under the direc-
ton Of the state superintendent Of
education. All the towns and cities
have modern and up-to-date free pub
lie schools and high schools, carrying
the education Of the children to the
college stage. The state maintains
and heartily supports a literary hight
er institution of learning, with rec-
ord Of a century. and college for the
literary and Industrial training Of It's
women that possesses a widespread
reputation. There are in different
portions Of the state four other high
class colleges and universities for the
education of men and seven for the
education Of women. Surely South
Carolina's educational atmosphere
equals her matchless climate, and
makes her leader in the cause Of
education.
With this brief resume of South
Carolina's advantages, have no hesl-
fancy Of offering the accompanying
list Of available lands to those In
search Of homes and prosperity, and
in inviting communication to this de-
partment.
Assuring all that there is no place
under the American flag where the
stranger will find more cordial well
come, and more congenial reception
than in South Carolina, can only add
that this department OF tn state gov
ernment stands ever rea.y to throw
about the newcomer the fostering care
Of the state for his welfare.
E. ]. WATSON, Commissioner.
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coo,r;sh,. 1905, by HARPER a BROTHERS

try1n' to keep yore pure nearteu uausn
ter from doin' what's right, an to per-
suade 'er to do what she'll regret. Thar
hain't but one man on the topside o
Gods green globe today that she ort
to marry, an that man is George Buck
ley. An what have you got agin him
now, I'd like to know? After SEEM all
that pitiful account in the papers OF the
wrong done his old father, you cayn't
shake that in the pore, wounded boys
face. You cayn't say he's a coward,
as they say about the lordly governor
O. this state. You cayn't say he's q
bankrupt an a spendthrift, like they
say about Telfare. Nur you cayn't ac-
cuse George Buckley O. resortin' to low
political tricks to advance his inter
ests, an"
Madam" the major broke in, raising
his thin hand protestingly, 'T must beg
you
Don't beg me, Major Cranston," hur'
rled on the woman. her eyes flashing,
her bosom heaving excitedly, as she
leaned forward, her elbows on her
knees. "I've come here to talk, an
will be heard. l want Lydia to hear
more thar do you, fer believe she'll
act She's been blinded, that gal has,
or she's unnatural woman, one or
tother, fer no woman made on the
right plan would let things go Jest like
they are a-goin' an never cheep q
word agin 1t. Lydia Cranston"-she
turned to the staring, wondering girl
-"did you hear about certain letter
George Buckley wrote my husband
Jest before he thought he was goin'
to be shot by them robbers2"
81 heard he wrote something, some
instructions to Mr.. Hillyer," replied the
girl in an unsteady voice, something
about what the men had demanded,
but that's all father told me. I haven't
been out Of the house since we got
back from Atlanta"
"Well, le' me tell you some'n'," went
on Mrs. Hillyer. "Thar hain't a wo.
man today in all America-an' I'm no
exception--that knows, actually knows,
she's loved enough by a man to be In
his last thoughts when he's expectin'
every second to meet horrible death.
I've got that letter in my hand. I did
intend to read it to you, but won't
fer it's too sacred. But I'll tell you
that the pore boy was bothered by jest
one thought in that awful moment, an
that was that the woman he loved an
wanted to care fer was to be left to
marry a worthless man. He begged
Mr.. Hillyer to ak 'er not to do 1t. Ef
George had "a died that I'D "a been
his message from the grave. | wonder
if'-
Lydia Cranston had risen to her feet
and stood bending toward the impas-
stoned speaker. her great. beautiful
eyes distended.
"Did-did he write that, Mrs. Hill
yer?" she cried "Oh, did he?
"Not only that" replied Mrs. Hill
yer. "but he has laid thar in my house
ever since. pinin' fer word, mes
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CHAPTER XXXIV.

@1HE next morning at breakfast,
iii while Hillyer sat slipping his
IL coffee his wife stood near his
chair.
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SodavilIe Mine Optioned

Upon group of gold bearing prop
critics recently located by w. r.
Smith out of Sodaville. Nevada, an
option was yesterday executed in ia
vor of H. H. Mayne of this city, the
latter to inaugurate active develop
ment at once. Mr. Mayne, who COM
pleted his examination of the group
and returned to town on Friday, was
not little astonished at results dis
closed in the furnaces, these showing
as much as 1922 per cent copper and
IL ounces silver. with 50 gold per ton,
while the quartz taken from another
puncture revealed as much as $50 s.
gold, with 10 ounces silver. There
were other samplings which told of
the presence of copper. gold and sill
yer. and the intention of Mr.. Mayne is
to inaugurate active development as
soon as camp can be established. The
group. which consists of four loca-
tions, Is about a mile north of the Con-
tact copper group. which is now being
opened up by Mr. Smith with encour-
aging reSults.-Tribune
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hugginq Societies

Out in Missouri they have intro
duced hugging societies to swell the
church treasury, and the following
scale of prices may interest the read
ers Of The Silver State.
Gilrs under sixteen, Is cents for a
hug of two minutes. or 10 cents for a
shorter hug. From sixteen to twenty.
60 cents. From twenty to twenty-five.
IS cents. School ma ANS. 40 cents. An
other mans wife. 81: widows. accord
ing to looks. SO to $40. Old maids. 3
cents apiece or two for a nickel. and
no limit of time. Editors pay in ad-
vertising. but are not allowed to par
ticipate until everybody else has got
through. and even then they are not
allowed to hug anyone but old maids
and school ma'ams. Preachers are
not charged
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Santa Fe Strike

Topeka. Kas. - General Manager
Dudge of the Santa Fe said today in
egard TO the proposed strike of the
machinists along the Santa Fe system.
THE grievance of the machinists
has nothing to do with their wages.
They admit we are paying them as
much money as any other road. The
trouble is based on the action of the
company In regard to the employment
# its men.
1T is generally understood when the
Santa Re employs a man no questions
are aked as to whether he belongs to
union or not. The machinists have
asked us hereafter when men were
employed that union men be given the
preference. This we refused to do.
IF the machinists go out, and I
think they will, we shall fill their
places at once regardless of whethe'
they are union men or not."-Journal.
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Fuel Famine

Des Moines, Iowa.-Des Moines ana
the entire state of Iowa are confront
ed with coal famine as result or
the lockout which closed every mine In
the state and that section of Missouri
included in the territory embraced by
the affected district.
But little coal is for sale in the state.
Local dealers today placed double rush
OF ders to Kansas City. Omaha and ST.
Joseph and other neighborlng cities,
but 1t is possible to secure coal only
in limited quantities from those points.
Unless the situation Is eased within
the next three weeks manufactures
will be compelled to shut down.
Leading operators say they will be
prepared to supply the demand for a
long while yet and that they have no
thought of compromising. Miners say
the situation must remain as It Is for
at least sixty days. at the end or
which time negotiations for an ad-
justment will either be made or the
strike will be continued with the help
of the National United Mine Workers
OF America.
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Stole Arms for Holdup

A self-confessed burglar, giving the
name of Clark, is detained in the
county jail for the robbery of the
Schrnide hardware store. Clark was
taken at Verdi by Constable Wilson.
His accomplice in the crime is one
Whitney, who left Verdi for Loyalton,
and later went to the coast.
Clark weakened after his arrest and
told a straight story to the officer
The prisoner told where he had cached
some weapons and a search revealed
a rife of the type taken by the Fol-
som escapes several months ago. He
claims to have traded a shotgun taken
from the hardware store for the rifle
while in Verdi.
The description given of Whitney
corresponds to one of the robbers OF
the Oregon Express when Messenger
ONeil was killed. The officers of
this city are inclined to believe he is
the same.
Chief Leper advanced the theory
that big holdup was the motive fol-
taking the firearms, as nothing else
of value in the store was taken. His
theory has been vindicated. - Reno
Journal
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Enthusiastic Republicans

The meeting of the republican coun-
ty central committee at the court
house last evening was one of the most
enthusiastic held in this city for many
years and the court room was crowded
with members of the party. Chairman
II. S. Meacham called the meeting to
order and announced that the gather.
Ing was for the purpose of suggesting
names for delegates TO the state con
vention to be held In this city on the
18th inst, and IL at once developed
that there was a keen rivalry for the
honor. as five times as many nomnia-
tons were made as delegates appor-
toned to Storey county. When the
nominations closed the members of
the central committee held a meeting
and selected the following delegates
VIM. Dunn, Geo. Hawkes.. w. G..
Marsh. Wyman Evans. John Hanna.
Robert Gracry. Geo. Henning, VIM.
Sutherland. J. ID. r.. Corbett, r. A..
Bulmer. Tom Huddy. T. p. williams
and f. l.. Clark. Virginia Chronicle