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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-09-14
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Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
Queer Speculation.

The sermon of a British vicar charging great immortality in the pottery towns in Staffordshire has caused discussion of life in the potteries. A curious feature is speculation on the lives of others. The business of the insurance com. panies there is largely directed to persuading people to insure the lives of others as a. speculation. Wives are urged to insure their husbands, and sons and daughters to take out a policy on their parents lives. For a penny a week a girl insures her father for f5. No medical examination is re- quired, and it is simply a gamble on death. This was amusingly shown by recent case. A doctor in one of the pottery towns was reported to be dying of cancer. The rumor was false, and the doc tor, completely recovered of his illness, was surprised to learn that his charwoma2 had staked twopence a week an his death.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
Time Tells
 The Story.

There is a big difference be- tween the cost of making a first class sewing machine, embodying the best materials and workman ship, and one which is made in the cheapest manner. The buyer of the cheap machine soon pays the difference of price in the constant cost for repairs, to say nothing of it's annoying inefficiency.
 Singer Sewing Machines do good work during a lifetime.
 SOLD ON INSTRUMENTS.
 Old Machines taken in exchange
 Liberal Discount for Cash.
 Oils, Needles, Attachments and Repairs for all makes of machines. The Singer Manufacturing Go. "The Sewing Machine Makers of the World.' FRANK w. LYNN. Mgr.
 121 Hazel St., Newport, Ark.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
SIGNS OF EARLY SPRING.
Some Seen by Prof. Won Joggleby from His Study Window
 Backyard Scenes.

"I know when spring is at hand" said Prof. yon Joggleby according to the New York Sun, 1by the things l see in the range of backwards in view from my study window.
 "In the sheltered corner of some of these yards, where it is pro tected from the cold winds and where it gets not only the direcr, but from the sheltering fences, the reflected rays of the adyanc- ing seasons warmer sun, the grass begins to grow green while yet there may be in other parts of the yard patches of snow and ice. The eager grass responds to the first call of spring.
 "And so do the dwellers in the houses to which these yards are at tached. On that same day in some of these yards there were people out raking up the winters debris; !; the scraps and pieces of paper, and the twigs and the sticks, left on the ground after the melting away of it's winter covering. They had sensed the approach of spring and they were cleaning up; and on the first occasion, anyway, they were moved no doubt not so much by desire for neatness and trim ness in their several yards as by an inward prompting to get back to them once more; to mother earth.
 ct doesn't matter to me what the ground hog may say, or how many other indications may point, I always know when spring is at hand by these two signs, by the coming green of the tufts of grass in the sheltered corners of my back yard, and by the appear ance of my neighbors at work cleaning up."
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
 THE CATCHING OF CRABS.
Some Facts About the Chesapeake Soft-Shell and His Captors-
 A Summer Industry.

The Chesapeake soft-shell crab is delicacy and luxury in every market between the A tlantic and Denver; and he grows more and more popular as season follows season.
 The season of the soft-shell crab is from the early days of May to the late days of September, and it's chief or best cultivated and most patronized habitat is the shallow and warm hooks, sounds and inlets of Chesapeake bay. Here it swarms like ants in a hill, like bees in a posy garden, like prairie dogs in a rodent town. Jersey waters produce some crabs; but the Chesapeake crabbers supply the market; and they make money by doing it.
 The grabbing fleet numbers per haps 1,500 boats = little crafts they are, usually with tiny cabin; |; manned by two or more men. Not less than 800 of these boats sail from the little village of Crisfield, Md, alone.
 The crabs are caught by trailing along the bottom of the shallow waters, through the sea grass and sea weed, a light cage of iron, a sort of skeleton and coop, called by the crabbers a drag. It is drawn up frequently; empty but seldom. The take is from 200 crabs a day at the opening of the season to LOGO crabs day in mid season, to each boat worked by two men.
 The crabs are graded by size, crated and shipped to market.
 Hard-shell crabs are taken to the "crab yard," where they are detained imprisoned in frames, and examined daily to see if they have shed their hard shells. Such as have are taken out and packed for transportation to market. The captive may shed his shell in a day or two or he may wear it for a month.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
Magnificent Distances.

The diocese of Kiawatin, in Ru- pert's Land, is one of magnificent distances. Bishop Lofthouse once walked 200 miles to fetch a doctor for his wife. Many of the Indians walk 25 miles to church, and the bishop has baptized scores of ba- bies which had been carried 150 miles on their mothers backs over hard-frozen snow. At night the family sleep, wrapped in the deer skins, on branches laid upon the snow. .-----
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
INTERESTING CHILDREN.
Youngsters of Oriental Ministers at Washington Never Heard of Christ
 mas Before Coming Here.

There are in the foreign colony in Washington quite a number of children who never heard Of Christmas until they came to the land of the free, says the Wash ington Times. Among them are the two sons and the daughter of the Chinese minister, the young sters of the Korean legation, and OSman Sureya and Ali Haidas, the black-eyed little sons of Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister. When Wu Ting Fang was Chinese minis ter he adopted the American Christmas to the extent that his young son was allowed to go to the white house each Christmas morning with bouquet almost as large as himself designed as a token for the first lady of the land. In the Chinese colony are several children who have been enjoying an American Christmas for some years past. These for tunate youngsters are the chil- dren of Yung Kwai, the secretary interpreter, whose wife is New England woman.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
NOT THE ORIGINAL BOAT.
She'll Seen by Visitors at Columbia Not the One in Which Her
 Crew Won at Henley.

Columbia students and gradu- ates will be disappointed to learn that the old shell hung in the uni versity trophy room on Morning side Heights is not the original boat in which the Columbia crew won the Visitors Challenge cup at Henley in 1878. The shell, says the New York Sun, occupies the most prominent position in the room and has been pointed out to every visitor as the only American boat manned by college crew to win at Henley.
 The first doubt as to the authen- tlcity of the boat was expressed several months ago by Francis Sedgwick Bangs, trustee of the university, who has always been prominent in Columbia's rowing interests. Subsequent investiga- tiOns have shown that on the day before the Henley crew sailed for America Capt. Goodwin sold the two shells which Columbia had taken to England to Cambridge university, where they were used till very few years ago, when they were broken up.
 There is some consolation for the Columbia men in the fact that the oars used by her crew in this race, which are also on view in the trophy room, are the real ones brought back by the crew and sub sequently presented to the uni yersity.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
The Summer Season.

When one reflects upon the delightful weather which pre- vailed so generally in October, says Four-Tfack News, and the even more perfect weather in No yember, it naturally calls forth the query, why do we call the sum mer season from July to Sep fember 1?" It is absurd. June and September-even October and often November gives us more delightful weather than July and August. I, for one, vote unani- mously for a longer summer sea son, for a fuller period in which to enjoy the beauties of nature for nature is so varied in heI moods, and so lavish with hel .,eharms that she deserves more oi 4,ur attention, and the more atten tion we bestow the more we learT to admire her every phase anC fancy, and the more we admire the better off we are, for every in
 fuence which nature exerts is fol
 the good.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
NEW USE OF PHONOGRAPH.
British Cabinet Minister Dictates to the Machine and the Records"
 Are Sent to His Clerks.

Since his accession to cab. met rank MT. Graham Murray has made a still greater use of the photograph for the conduct of his correspondence as secretary of state for Scotland than he did during the period when he acted as lord advocate in the same de. partment, says the London Graphic. Some five or six dozen ."records" are now constantly in use, and to these the minister die. tates the replies to his numerous letters, together with a mass of other detail work connected with the office over which he presides. These are then forwarded to Lon. don, if he happens to be in Scot land, and the contents are taken down by his secretaries in White hall. This done, the "records" are scraped off and the cylinders are once more ready for use. Bykeep- ing a photograph both in London and Scotland the secretary of state, alone among his colleagues in Mr. BalfOur's reconstructed cabinet, is able to give viva-voce instructions to his department at a distance of some hundreds of miles.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
"NATURE NEVER GIVES UP"
A Phrase That Is Full of Meaning for the Sick in Either Body
 or Mind.

A phrase from recent magazine article is so suggestive and so full of encouragement that it seems worth while to make 1t the text for one of our small sermons, says Woman's Home Companion. The phrase is: Nature never gives up." You may with profit say this over carefully and thoughtfully and let its full meaning come to you: "Nature never gives up." Nature is on the side of health, and sanity, and consequent happl- ness. Hard as your case may be, i the great Mother is fighting the battle with you. Has disease got into your bones? Nature has mar shaIed her forces to combat it,, and with marvellous strategy has set engines to work which are en- deavoring to circumvent the en' emy. Nature is working in con- junction with the physician and yourself. That is a thought which ought to cheer you. You have been imprudent, possibly have done and left undone. You have taken such ill.care of your God given body that your friends have set you down as hopeless or worse. You have told yourself that there is no hope for you. Ma, ture has not given you up. She wants you to live and work and be healthy and happy and in the event of your neglect of yourself, she is still fighting for you. She has no moral idea in doing this. She just does it. Perhaps you de serve to be given up. Many of us do, it sometimes seems. But Ma ture is blind to that. Of course, she is not all-powerful. She can be overcome. She fails often. But you will do we'll to remember that in every case while there is a spark of life left, she is trying. Let that thought brace you. Buck up, and give Nature some help.
 I should like to think that we could carry the analogy into the moral world as we'll. Do you not believe that there are forces as yet unvalued which are fighting the fight for good in the souls of men? Bad man or woman may be-there is exterior pressure to make him or her better. There is law; there is education; there are all the societies and institutions whose object is to help the down fallen and the unfortunate. But are there not other forces, too? Does not the great Mother of Souls fight continually for the spiritual health and sanity of all people? The thought is comfort ing, stimulating, encouraging. It is the business of every individual to add all his personal strength to all encounters with evil, physic- al or spiritual. He can do so more heartily and with better faith for success if he remembers that ma ture never gives up."
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
Before AuG After.

During eourtship a girl thinks marriage is a haven of rest in which she wjr Me free from all worry and car~. After marriage she has another think ccming.- Chicago Daily News.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
Money and Happiness.

Money doesn't always bring happiness, but the average man is willing to take his chances along with the money.-Chicago Daily News.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-18
LIVERYMEN FARMERS DRAYMEN

And all users of axle grease that want the best grease on the market and that recognize a good thing when shown it's merits, we recommend our Golden and Cas- tor Oil brands of Axle Grease. It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes and 8 pound tin buckets. For sale by all up-to-date merchants. Ask for it and take no substitute. It is guaranteed to have no equal for quality on the market.
 WATERS-PlERCE
 OIL COMPANY.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
BIG DEAL IN HARLEM LOTS.
Negotiations On for the Sale OF a q 500.
900 Parcel on Washington Heights.

The valuable Donnelly tract, consist
ing of nearly three blocks, and worth up
ward of 81, SOC, 900, promises to be the first
large vacant land holding on Washington
Heights sold this year. Negotiations for
it's purchase by Henry Morgenthau, Of
the Central Realty Bond and Trust Com
pany, and Max Marx have virtually been
closed. although it Is understood that the
actual contract OF sale has not yet been
signed.
1t is said on good authority that an oral
agreement az to terms has been re ached.
The property belongs to Charles T Barney,
who has held 1t about ten years. 1t con-
slsts Of ITO lots in the blocks bounded by
Broadway, Amsterdam avenue and 13Sd
and 138th streets. The deal is especially
interesting because the extraordinary va
cant land speculation along the line Of the
subway which developed several weeks
ago has until now shown little tendency
to spread to Washington Heights. 1t has
affected principally the comparatively cheap
land in the Dyckman and upper Lenox
avenue districts and in Ths Bronx. The
Donnelly tract, especially the Broadway
and Amsterdam avenue fronts. Ia regarded
as suitable for improvement with good
grade of apartment houses. The bulk
OF the recent trading has been in tenement
and fiat house sites. Yesterdays deal
ings in the latter class Of realty compr Used
about $50 lots.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
s43,56O TO THE REV. f. JUDSON.
BeQuest to the Pastor Of the Bapt LIST Me-
mortal Church OF Christ OF This City.

CooPERsTowN. n Y, Oct. 20.-By the will
OF Miss Dolphine Antisdell of Roseboo m,
this county, the Rev. Edward Judson
pastor Of the Baptist Memorial Church Of
Christ in New York city, receives property
amounting to S43,5eO. When Mr.. Judson
presented the will for probate here, he being
named as executor. Albert Antisdell of
Chicago superintendent OF the Western
division of the Wells Fargo Express Com
pany. was present to contest the will. Judge
Lynn j. Arnold Of this village Ia his counsel
The litigation involves about $4,000.
Miss Antisdell, maiden lady Of SO years,
died in August, leaving to relatives 81 900
only. One relative was an aunt. Several
cousins were cut off without cent the
contestant being one Of them. Miss Ants
dell has always been deeply interested in
Baptist Church affairs. This is evident
from her requests. For besides the large
amount for Mr.. Judson she left 5000 to
Miss Antoinette Judson Of New York, 5000
to the American Baptist Missionary Union
of Boston, 81, 800 to the American Baptist
Publication Society Of Philadelphia, 1900
to the Woman's Baptist Missionary Society
of Boston, and $1,000 to the Baptist Educa-
tiona Society of New York
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
RUSH FOR MCARREN'S BET.
But II Was Taken" Already 900
Even Bet on EsigHinS.

But II Was Taken" AlF0ady-S1, 900
Even Bet on EsigSins.
The announcement In THE Sum yesterday
morning that Senator McCarren was anx-
ious to place $4,000 against $4,000 on the
prospect Of Parker carrying the State
interested the Brooklyn statesmen. Mr..
Woodruff said that il was too bad that SEN
ator McCarren should keep the money out
Of Brooklyn and that some Of the Brook
lyn spectators stood ready to accommodate
the Senator on the terms he proposed.
When Senator MoCarren was told about
Mr.. Woodruff's statement, he remarked:
1.-THE bet offered has been'already taken,
and if had the cash would bet million
on Judge Parker's chances"
Who took the bet ia a State Senator's
secret. Charles H. Marshall, a broker at
2 Wall street, tried to get it and couldn't
He saws he has 81, 100 to bet at even money
that Roosevelt carries New York by 10000;
$4,000 to bet against SO, 500 that Roosevelt
will be elected, and 5000 to bet against
1000 that Roosevelt will carry New York
He has $14, 900 to cover any proposition that
Senator McCarren desires to make, he
says.
In the Broad street curb market yesterday
the odds remained at to l on Roosevelt,
but there was a much larger quantity Of
Parker money offering, and in some cases
the Roosevelt men were holding off for 10
to3. Batcheller d Adee bet a 900 to SIC, 900
on Parker, the Roosevelt end being taken
by Wasserman Bros. Werner q Broun
and Allen, McGraw 4 Co. Bunnell 4 Bu-
chanan wagered 5000 that Parker would
be elected against $4,000 put up by various
other brokers.
A bet of 81 900 even that Higgins would
be the successful candidate was made by
Bunnell 4 Buchanan with j. l.. Mccormack.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
YOUNG DURYEA COUPLE HAPPY.
Court Sets Aside Marriage Annulme nt
Which Dridesroom's Mother Obtained.

Supreme Court Justice Wilmot NJ Smith
in Brooklyn yesterday set aside the an
nulment Of the marriage Of Harold Duryea
and Elizabeth Grennan, which was granted
to the mother Of young Duryea about a
year ago.
Young Duryea married against his
mothers will and Mrs. Duryea forbid her
son, who was not yet Fl years old, to live
with his young wife, who is several years
his junior and the daughter of laborer,
Duryea refused to be separated from his
wife and the mother secured an annulment.
The young couple chose to live together,
however, despite the ruling OF the courts:
and Mrs, Duryea, Sr,, invoked the aid OF
the police courts. She was beaten by the
Young people, who moved about from place
to place and refused positively to be sepa-
rated.
Yesterday they were once more permitted
TO go to their home at 90 Cumberland street.
this time with the sanction OF the courts.
Young Duryea is a clerk earning a modest
salary He and his wife were in court
yesterday when the decision was handed
down and left smiling, after thanking
Justice Smith.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
BRYAN-S ANSWER TO WATSON.
Tells Why He supports Parker In Preference
to the POpulist Ticket.

LINCOLN, Eeb., Oct. 2o-W. j. Bryan, in
the Comm oner, takes issue with Tom Watson
on the proposition that Bryan ought to
join the Populist party. or at least oppose
Parker. He says:
mfr. Bryan gave this subject careful
consideration before he took a position and
believes that he can better aid economic
reform by supporting Judge Parker than
he could by helping to elect Mr.. Roosevelt
whether he gave the assistance directly
by voting for the Republican nominee or
indirectly by voting for the Populist nomi-
nee. Wherever Judge Parker is open to
criticism, President Roosevelt is worse.
while Judge Psrker's election does not
promise all that Mr. Bryan would desire.
it does promise several things of value
1t promises relief from the race issue, and
this will permit the Democrats of the South
to turn their thoughts again to economic
questions. 1t will also rid the country
OF imperialism and insure n return to the
sacred doctrine of self-government, and it
will notify the world that the nation has
returned to its former ideal and will seek
to influence other nations by example
rather than by force"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
sHAKE-UP IN CITY POST OFFICE.
Changes in the Personnel and In Methods
OF Handling Mall Contemplated.

WASHINGTON, Oct. ga scare hing in
vestigatiou OF the New York Post Office
will be begun within the next month or two.
F. Norton Goddard OF New York was in
Washington yesterday and had a long
talk with the President and also with the
Postmaster General His visit was the
means of revealing the fact that the Presi-
dent has been considering the necessity
of bringing about radical reforms In the
postal service In New York.
The details of the plan Of investigation
have not yet been worked out. and no
official announcement has yet been made
It is known. however, that the proposition
is to bring about not only necessary changes
in the personnel of the Post Office force in
New York, but to accomplish radical re-
forms in the methods Of handling mail,
and In general to improve the system along
approved lines,
There are many who believe that the
postal service In New York is far from be-
ing a credit to the greatest city on the con-
tinent, or to a country where the trans
mission Of the mails forms greater business
enterprise than anywhere else in the world.
The investigation of the New York Office
last year was merely incidental to the run
ming down Of postal frauds in the Depart
ment at Washington, ard was not calcu-
lated. it is believed, to expose all the de-
,ects OF the service in New York.
The decision to caus thor ugh examina-
ton into the affairs OF the Eey York Office
having been arrived at, the only question
is as TO methods and the exact time OF be-
ginning the inquiry. Nothing will be done
Tor three or four weeks, but 1t Is probable
that the investigation will be begun either
late in November or early in the following
month.
Postmaster General Wynne is deeply in
terested in the proposed inquiry, for he
tas held the opinion for some time that the
incidental investigation which was con-
Quoted last year exposed defects in the
service at New York which could not be
corrected without moro thorough inquiry
| into the conditions.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
200 WOMEN IN FIRE PANIC.
Blaze in Williamsburg Factory Hemmed
Them In on Upper F10Ors-None Hurt.

Blaze In Williamsburg Factory Hemmed
Them In on Upper 1Oors-None Hurt.
Fire in the basement of the feather fac
tory Of W. H. Robinson at 1877 to iA North
Tenth street, williamsburg. yesterday af-
ternoon, caused a panic among more than
200 young women employed in the building,
a large six story brick structure. Besides
the basement, Robinson occupied the first
floor while the firm OF Kattenbach Stevens,
silk ribbon manufacturers, had the second
and third floors and a picture frame manu-
facturer the upper part,
There were seventy girls working in the
basement when the fire started, and II
spr cad 30 rapidly that they barely had
time to get out. Frank Nasti OF 2Se North
Fifth street was In the basement and was
hemmed In by the flames. He was badly
burned and was removed to the Eastern
District Hospital, where his condition was
pronounced critical
So rapidly did the fire spread tnat when
the $50 employees in the silk mlii, zOo OF
whom were girls, realized their danger,
eacane by the stairway was cut of. A
pahic ens,ed and rush was made for the
are escapes These were quickly CROWDED
and GIRLS fought to reach windows and be
rescued by flremen.
Ladders were placed against two story
brick building occupied by Robinson as an
ofice and from the roof of this building
the firemen caught many OF the women as
thew Jumped from the fire escapes None
of the women was injured, but doz
tainted after being rescued.
The damage by fire was plac ed at $4,000