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At the same time, you know, IL is a
sure thing you won't lose the money
You don't bet on the races.
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The Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chicago. send HON
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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-08-27

1t looks as II the railways did not
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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-08-27

Old and young are now members Of
the geography class.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-08-27

Meat is largely water-and water Is
both cheap and abundant.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-08-27

Mrs. windows Soothing Syrup.
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COURSE OF STORM.

COOnSE Or SiOhm.
Map shows path Of cyclone In Min
nesota Aug. Fl, which cost fifteen
lives and property loss Of over So
100000.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
Little Jumbo,
Or The Adventures of an Elephant, as Told by
Himself

The manager had a talk with him,
and as Pete had neither home nor
family ne was engaged as my keeper
! can remember the first words he
said to me. He walked right up and
began patting me, and as l curled my
trunk around his body, he said:
Come, now, me Little Jumbo, but
you and me are going to be the best
of friends and have good times to-
gether. You shall show me how to
eat hay, and 1 shall show you how to
go on a spree, and if any man says
you're a camel with two humps on
your back, he's got to fight me-
/ liked him at once, and know
! shall never find better friend.
could never teach him how to eat hay,
but he showed me how to go on a
spree, and l suffered from it.
One Sunday morning, when we were
to rest for the day, he gave me
whole quart of whisky to drink.
liked the taste and wanted more, but
in about half an hour l began to feel
dizzy. Things went round and round
with me, and I saw two Petes dane
ing before me where 1 knew there
should be but one.
To tell you the truth, my legs gave
out and fell down like any old
drunkard
The manager thought I was sick,
and 1 was drenched with cold water
and filled with medicines, but it was
hours before / could stand up again.
/ had a headache that did not 60
away for three days, and when Pete
saw how l suffered he put his arms
around my trunk and said:
Forgive me, dear. but it shall never
happen again. 1 will do all the drink
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

This made the nylghau worse than
ever, and the leopard decided TO pun
ish him. But he was too cunning to
try IL i'm the daytime and take the risk
of being made the laughing stock of
the jungle. so he lay in wait at night
at a water course where the nylghau
went to drink.
But the nylghau smelled the leopard,
and 1t ran to the water 50 fast that
the spotted cat leaped short and rolled
over in cactus. What" said the cac-
tus. who is this? l guess wen give
him more than he wants."
The cactus knew very well that Il
was the leopard, but it made believe
not TO know, and II filled him with
tiny thorns till he yelled. "Oh, ex-
cuse me, my dear sir" said the cac-
tus then. LAS l live, it's nay dear old
friend the leopard Oh, how sad am
/ that l have done thisi"
Then the cactus giggled ana giggled,
while the leopard crawled home, where
his wife and children had to spend the
rest Of the night picking the thorns out
Of him.
Animal after animal tried to do
something TO the nylghau to take
down its pride. and every one got the
worst of IL. At last one night when
all the beasts sat around the town
pump, gossiping, and the nylghau as
usual stalked past them haughtily, the
turtle said:
Il have a plan. I viii challenge the
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
GRANDPA WALT0N'S
BAD "NED" HORSE.
And How 1t Made marjorie Do /.

And How 1t Made Marjorie Do q
Brave Act in Spite of Herself.
Grandpa Walton's Ned was a bad
horse.
Mamma and the children had been
told not to go near Ned in stable or
pasture; and Fred never rode him to
the brook to water, as he did Jim and
Dick, MIR. Waltons steady farm horses.
One June morning, when Marjorie
was seven years old, and baby Nellie
two, Grandpa, who lived at the village,
drove over to spend the day, and turn
ed Ned into the barn pasture, a. wide
field that stretched from the barn away
down to the brook.
That afternoon, when Fred and Mar
jorie came from school, Fred rushed to
the back field, where grandpa and papa
were building a fence, and Marjorie
took Nellie out into the yard to play
with her until tea time.
Marjorie, not knowing that Ned was
in the field. crawled through between
the bars, helping Nellie after her.
The two children began picking but
tercups that grew in clumps in the
barn pasture.
They were several rods from the bars
when, with angry snorts and flying
heels, Grandpa's Ned came rushing
straight towards them.
Marjorie, with a cry of fright, drop
ped her buttercups and ran to reach
the bars, but before she had gone half
way she stopped and looked back to
where wee baby Nellie stood among
the nodding, yellow flowers, her white
sunbonnet pushed back and the sunny
curls tangling aSound her blue eyes
and round pink cheeks.
Come, Nellie, quick!" cried Mar
jorie "Grandpa's Ned horse is COM
ing!"
Nellie started only to stumble and
fall on the uneven sod, and to lie
there crying and calling Mamma,
mammal"
Marjorie's love for the baby was
stronger even than her terror. She
ran back, caught up Nellie in her
arms, and, with flying steps and I'M
dreamed-of strength, half dragged and
half carried her to d place of safety
just as Grandpa's Ned struck against
the bars with his appraised forefeet.
Mis-. Walton heard the commotion,
and q few moments later Marjorie,
weak and trembling sobbed out the
story on mammals breast.
Mamma held both her treasures
closely as she said: 81 don't see how
you ever carried her, but 'twould have
been easier if you'd only thought to
take Nellie with you when you first
started"
"Oh mammal know it now, but
was so 'fraid. and he made such a
dreadful noise! But when I thought
/ couldn't see Grandpa's Ned hurt our
pretty baby, and there was nobody but
me, so just had to do it,"
When the men came to supper the
story had to be told all over again.
you little 'fraid-catl" cried Fred,
'If you'd just grabbed Nellie's hand
and took her long with you the first
thing, there'd been no danger"
well, 1 think" said Grandpa slow
ly, as he drew Marjorie to his knee
and laid his own cheek against her
hot tear stained one
IT think that we've got a brave lit
tie girl!'
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
CHAPTER TX.

in the course of twelve years I have
had seven different keepers, but I hope
Pete will stay with me for many years
to come. All my keepers except him
have said that 1 was a very hard ele-
plant to get along with, but that is
only one side of the story. have
also found them very hard.
Because am a dwarf, they have
felt at liberty to bang me about as
they would not dare with big ele-
plant. am fond of a joke, but when
keeper puts a lot of cayenne pepper
into an apple and losses it into my
mouth. do you blame me for knocking
him down?
I have had keepers stick iron rods
into me. tear my ears with iron hooks
and stab me with their pocket knives.
] have had them play all sorts of mean
and stupid jokes, and expect me to do
nothing about it.
That has been the reason for the
many changes. After I have found
them out to be mean I have knocked
them about so they no longer dared to
come near me.
The second keeper was a young man
who spoke very kindly to me at first,
and l liked him so well that I ex-
pected us to be great friends after a
bit For a month he was all right
Then he grew careless about my food
and water and he would let me go for
three days at a time without washing
me down.
In travelling over the highway one
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
THE NYLGHAU AND
THE TURTLE.
A Folk Tale of the savages in Central
Africa.

A Folk Tale of the Savages in Central
Africa.
(The nylghau is a big antelope, cele-
brated for its swiftness.)
The nylghau became so vain once
upon a time on account of his speed
that there was no living with him. He
would hardly bow to the other ami
mails Of the jungle, and he expected
them all TO go humbly out of his way.
1t got to he so bad after awhile that
all the animals were determined to
take down the nylghaus pride. The
lion tried first. He dashed his tail one
morning when the nylghau, as usual,
stalked proudly by him and just nod
led his head haughtily instead OF bow
ing. as other animals did when they
met the lion. who was the richest and
bravest and strongest animal in the
jungle and entitled 70 the utmost re-
fpect.
The lion drew himself together for
spring and launched himself in a
mighty yellow ball at the vain ante
lope. But the antelope. although fool
ishly vain, was hot foolish In other
ways. ne turned IKE the Wlnu, jumped
sideways like a fash of lightning,
lowered his head and shoulders lik, a
wink Of an eye, and the lion flew clear
over him and struck heavily against
an old palm. The shock loosened
three Of his great white teeth, nearly
blinded him In one eye, and threw him
into a puddle OF dirty water where
uncle crocodile was sleeping IN his
cake Of mud.
What snarled uncle crocodile, and
bit blindly at the mass that had fall
len on him.
He caught the lions right foot IN his
Jaws. and IL Was only after the lions
wife had beaten him long and pa
uently over tho head with her huge
thlone that he Jet 60 The poor Hon
hinpec sadly home ward, while his wife
Hooldel him and the other anlmals
sfied hard not 70 laugh.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

haste to the garden to get their hands
full to give to the mother pig right
away.
One little pig had a black spot about
the size and shape of Mollie's little
foot right on top of it's back, so Mollie
said she would have that one for hers
and would call it Spot" Dollie called
her Snowfall"
One day Dollie and Mollie went to
feed the mother pig and to have a
scamper with the little ones. They
found SNOWFALL wandering around
alone. They wondered where Spot
was, and searched everywhere for him.
After awhile they heard little squeal.
That surely was Spots squeall But
no Spot was in sight.
They hunted for a long time, but
could not find the little pig, though
they could hear him squeal every lit
tie while.
At last they called their big brother
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

day ! got a nail in my foot 1t was the
keepers business to look at my feet
twice a day, but he did not do so. The
nail festered UP and hurt me until
had to limp. and when the manager
noticed it he said to my keeper:
Don't you know that something is
wrong with Little Jumbo? He surely
has a nail or silver in his foot. If
this is the way you look after him 1
shall get another man."
Il have looked at his feet twice a
day." replied the keeper. IF he has a
nail in his foot it was not there last
night"
The keeper told a bold lie about it.
and it made me so mad that 1 swung
my trunk and knocked him head over
heels. When the nail was found and
they knew that it had been hurting
me for three or four days, they said
1 did right to hit the fellow, and he
was discharged.
1t was funny how came to get
acquainted with Pete. l was standing
in my place in the menagerie tent
one afternoon. and saw him walking
around and noticed that he was drunk.
He was quiet at first, but by and
by he began to yell and whoop, and
when policeman was going to put
him out of the tent he ran for me
and sat down and clasped his arms
around one of my fore legs.
Everybody cried out and hogan
running around, thinking would kill
the man, but l had no idea of hurt
ing him in the least. I kept the po-
liceman away, and after half an hour
Pete went to sleep and slept for the
next two hours.
When he woke up he was sober,
and he was also greatly frightened
TO find himself under an elephant
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
MOLLIE'S WHITE Pig.

Mollie and Dollie were two little
sisters and lived on a farm. One day
their father called his little girls to
go with him to the barnyard. He took
them to Mrs. Grunt's pen and showed
them two little white baby pigs.
"Oh, papal Can't we have them for
ours?" cried Dollie and Mollie at the
same time.
well, I'll tell you what I'll do"
said papa. IF you will give old Mrs.
Grunt a good meal of pig weed every
day l will let you call the little pigs
yours"
They said they would, and ran in
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

ing and the going on a spree. and you
shall stick to water and go to Sum
day-school.
AS 1 told you in the first chapter,
Pete goes on a spree three or four
times a year. He begins in the MORN
ing and keeps it up all day, and if
the police don't arrest him he comes
bed on the hay beside me.
I know that he is helpless, and so
/ am careful not to step on him. Once
when he came in at night the sacred
bull from India, who had somehow
got loose, started to gore him, but 1
gave the bull a rap that knocked him
over, and then drew Pete under my
feet.
Next season shall be on the road
in America, and have a chance to see
you all and be seen by you. Please
remember that do more tricks than
any other elephant, be he large or
small.
l jump through hoops of fire 1 stand
on my head l walk on three legs
climb ladders, and 1 sit in a cart and
drive two Zebras; / drink a bottle of
ginger ale before the audience, ana
ii any one hands me a match l light
his cigar for him.
I know you will be pleased with my
performances. and if any of you boys
and girls will come to me after the
circus is over, and introduce your
selves, I will make my best bow and
reply:
II am glad to meet you, and hope
to see you again, and IL you will step
over there and buy me glass of pink
lemonade, Little Jumbo from Africa
will drink to your very best health"
The End
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

Will. When he heard little Spot
squealing. but could not see him, he
guessed in minute where he was.
He went to a deep old well that had
dried up and looked in, and there was
little Spot running round and round
in the bottom of the well and crying
at the top of his voice.
Brother Will FASTENED for a ladder
and was soon down in the well and
had picked up little piggie, but he
did not seem to know that he was
being rescued.
He squirmed and twisted and wig
gled and kicked to get away, and VIII
had TO hold fast to him while he was
climbing to the top or he would have
slipped out of his arms.
The moment Spot touched the
ground he started straight for his PEN
but they noticed that he was little
lame. He soon recovered from his
lameness, but he got such a shock
when he fell into the well that he
never grew any more, but was always
a little white pig.
The little girls father called Spot
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
BENNY Chapters
OCEAN VOYAGE.
He Ships for Japan and Finds Him.
self Fooled.

Benny was sixteen and adventurous.
He wanted something more than the
calm delights of a Vermont farm. He
though the matter over as he ate his
supper of bread and milk and cold ap-
pie pie and decided he would go to ia
pan.
Being without parents, no one could
really stop him. When he announced
his intention. his Aunt Mile made no
objections. But she stroked his brown
head lovingly and told him to be sure
and choose rightly.
Thus it came about that few morn
ings later he took an old carpet-cov-
cred hand bag that had belonged to
his uncle before the Civil War and
boarded the train for Boston.
In Boston he went to the water
front and stayed a night at a little
hotel. The next morning he was out
early to meet captains. His first inter-
view was with a man who had a lot
of cattle to go to England and wanted
him to go with him.
Just the man l want" he said.
You understand cows and can care
for them nicely
Benny thought it strange that his
first attempt to go to sea should be
met by an offer to do stable work, and
he rejected the proposition with some
surprise.
ship for Japan? Sure!" said a man
to whom he spoke a few minutes later
ship sails tonight. Twelve a month
and rations with a chance to see all
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

nYlghau to a race"
The other animals all laughed rude
~, but the turtle only nodded his head
sagely and said: HE who laughs at
first, often cries at last"
So the turtle challenged the nylghau
to race. the terms being that the
competitors were to run right ahead
III a straight line and keep on running
till one of them gave up. The nylghau
contemporary agreed.
The turtle called together all her rel
atives secretly and posted them along
the race course. one at every mile, till
there We're more than three hundred
turtles hiding along the road.
All the animals of Africa were there
to see the race. The nylghau started
off at an easy canter and looked
around frequently at the turtle, say
ing: Come on, Mistress Turtle; come
on. Don't give up in the first mile"
The turtle said nothing, but as soon
as the nylghau looked ahead again il
cTawled into hole. The nylghau had
Just approached the end of the first
mile, when the turtle that was hiding
there came out into the road ahead
of the antelope and began to crawl as
fast as she could.
Hurry up Hurry up" she cried
to the amazed nylghau. Il can't spend
all day over this race"
The nylghau put on speed and
passed the turtle, who crawled into
hole as soon as the antelope had gone
by. The third turtle soon appeared
in front of the antelope and cried
Hurry! Hurry"
The antelope became puzzled and
then frightened. 1.-THE turtle is beat
ing mel" he thought 81 must run
with all my might"
He ran with all his might till he was
nearly dead. But at every mile he saw
the turtle ahead of him again, and at
last. after he had run two hundred
miles and was all out of breath, he
fell down and cried with his last
strength, 'I give it up"
When the nylghau met the other
animals after that he was polite and
sociable. and he never was proud of
his speed any more. AS for the tur-
tie, the animals wanted to elect her
queen, and they subscribed for beau
tiful chiefs cloak of skins. But the
turtle said
IF l were queen you would soon
get Tired of me, and besides, cloak
of skins is too warm. would rather
live in my own pool"
SO she dived into her pool, and that
is why the turtles children to-day are
plain people instead of being great
chiefs.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
A QUICKLY MADE
ELECTRICAL MACHINE.

Cut a stiff piece of paper into an
oval or a circle of nearly the size of
common tea tray. Fasten to it two
upright handles, one at each end, both
made of paper, and attached by means
of sealing wax.
Now. take any common tin tea tray
that you may be able to borrow in
the house and laz it on top of two
glasses. These will furnish the 'in-
sulation.'
Warm the paper disk thoroughly on
the stove till it is as dry as it can pos
sibly be. Then lay it on the table and
brush it violently with common
clothesbrush. If you spread a piece
of silk or a rubber sheet under it, so
much the better, though it is not nee
essary.
The friction has made the paper cleo
trio. Lift it from the table, lay it on
the tea tray and approach a corner
of it with the knuclxle of your finger or
with a sharp metal point A spark
will leap out from it Immediately.
Now you have an electric battery in
a most simple form. By rubbing the
paper as often as it loses its electric
ity, it is possible to get enough sparks
to load a Leyden jar or any other form
of small electric storage battery.
A very simple Leyden jar can be
made by filing a tumbler half full
with shot and sticking an iron or sill
yer spoon into it. BY letting the
sparks from the tea tray leap continu-
ally to the spoon, the tumbler- jar
finally will accumulate so much cleo
tricity that it will be extremely I'M
comfortable to get a shock from it.
A GOOD CATCH
Here is a "catch that is always
sure to Cause much laughter when
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
THE GAME OF THE
BIRD DEALERS.

The Game of the Bird Dealers is
played as follows: The children stand
in row, leaving two outside. These
two represent the bird dealers. Each
child represents a bird-one being a
crow, another a crane, another a
canary, and so on. One bird dealer
says to the other:
II wish to. buy a bird"
What kind of bird?" asks the
second dealer.
"A bird that can fly fast" says the
first dealer.
VERY WE'LL" answers the other deal
err, take what you wish"
Then" says the first dealer, IT will
take a robin"
AS soon as the word is out of his
mouth, the robin" must leap from the
row and run around 1t to escape. II
he catches the bird he puts II into 4
cage, where it must stay till all the
other birds are caught.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

the simple answer is announced after
everybody has given it up.
If as many women stood before me
AS there are drops in the salty sea,
And l was told that 1 must try,
Without a ship to transport them
drv.
How, oh how, would ever do it?
Please tell ma if you ever knew it,"
After everybody gives 1t up. tell
the party that, if as many women
were there as there are drops in the
sea, YOU would simply put a drop on
each woman's tongue and there would
be no more sea.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

Uncle Sam Finley's pig" after that.
Did you ever hear the song about
Uncle Sam F'inleys pig? This is just
a little of it:
Uncle Sam Finley had a pig. uh-huh!
Uncle Sam Finley had a pig;
1t always was little
And never grew big, uh-huhi"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
ELEANOR WAS A THERMOMETER.

After Eleanor had been going to
school for three weeks, she arrived
at home in great state of joyful ex-
element.
"Oh, mamma, mammal she cried,
I'm going to be a thermometer"
Mamma was bewildered and tried
to find out more. But all that Eleanor
knew was that the teacher had told
her that afternoon that next day she
should be thermometer.
At last mamma had to resign herself
to let It remain a mystery, but later in
the day she met the teacher and found
out that because Eleanor had been so
very, very good, teacher had decided
to make her a monitor.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
Transposed Words.

Transpose Joined and get unfast-
ened
Transpose fruit and get a mass.
Transpose to fade and get to twist
with violence.
Transpose an angel and get an ex-
preston.
Transpose bird and get humble.
Transpose to flutter and get to raise.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
TWO THINK-THINGs.
A Numerical Puzzle.

A Numerical Puzzle.
My whole is composed of IS letters,
and is an oft-quoted proverb.
My 8, 4, 10, 2, 1 is serious.
My Is, Is, II, is kind of fish.
My II, IA, 8, 8 is elevated.
My 16, Is, 3 is to tinge.
My 4, Z, II, s is a public highway.
My Is, 10, IS is to tell.
My 8, II, II, 8 is to despise.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

Mrs. Rash-"Children nowadays
are so mature" Mrs. Dash-"Yes.
they are: my two little boys find fault
with their food exactly like grown
men. Brooklyn Life.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
A SIMPLE SEA TALE.

A small boy, who lived in New York.
Was very much given to talk
So they sent him to sea.
Where for sixteen months he
Said nothing and lived on salt pork.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

Solution to Tangled DOGGY Affair
i'm Last Sundays News.
The statement hidden in last Sum
days picture of the tangled doggy
affair was:
Tray and Rex thought they had got
Some easy game, but it was not.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09
A GOOD "CATCH,

Here is a "catch that is always
sure to cause much laughter when
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-09

The End.