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Hannah that he had assented to a statement
that he Francis) had had to pay 500 to
Mr. Dietrich, or that he had told Hannah
that Fisher had paid $500 to Dietrich.
Mr.. Francis testified that he had had
CONVEX SatiOn with District Attorney Sum-
mers relative to testifying before the grand
jury in the case against Dietrich. Mr..
Batty then asked for the particulars of
that conversation, but before he could re-
ply Mr.. Hoar interposed with an inquiry
as to the purpose of the examination.
I'VE want" Mr.. Batty replied, ito show
the pressure that the district attorney put
upon witnesses in these cases, that he told
the witness that If he did not testify he
was himself liable to prosecution and i'm
prisonment."
Mr.. Hoar suggested that such line of
inquiry would broaden the inquiry to an
undesirable extent, and after conversation
with Senator Dietrich the attorney tenn
porarily withdrew the question.
Inspector Gregory Testifes.
Hardy Gregory a post Office inspector,
testified to conversations he had had last
December with Fisher and Francis relative
to moneys paid 20 Dietrich on account of
the back room partitioned off from the post
office. Fishers statements he said was
that the original lease was to be knocked
In the head because of the reduction of the
rent from S1,sO0 TO 81. 800: that Dietrich had
said that he tFisherl and the citizens of the
place should take the fixtures of the G. A.
X. post on his hands but that Fisher had
said that he would not ask the people to
90 TINS. but would do himself After this
Dietnch had told Fisher that when he went
10 washington lie would recommend Fish
efs appointment as postmaster although II
was understood that the appointment was
IN no way dependent upon the payment for
the furniture ~
Inc witness also said that Fisher and
FRANCIS told him about the rental of the
MT hat -kn
by Gregory did not differ materially from
their statements to the committee He said
that FRANCIS had told him that Fisher in
returning the rent money for the room ha
SAID that Dietrich had refunded the money
Saying that there had been some comment
about the transaction and that he did NOT
want to continue the arrangement.
During Grand Jury Investigation.
These conversations had, Gregory said
| occurred at Omaha at the time the grand
jury investigation into the Dietrich case
was in progress
Senator Dietrich ELECTED the fact from
| the witness that a voucher which he car
| ried to Hastings was for payment of GER
tain fixtures, and also for the payment of
the transfer of the post office The bids
for the removal of the post Office came
through the former postmaster, Mr.. Hahn,
MIR. Dietrich endeavored at this time to
bring out from the witness that If there
was an extortionate price attaching to the
removal of the Office 1t was regular. hay-
ing had the sanction or the Post ONCE De-
partment
Senator Hoar suggested that this was
wholly matter with the Post odacs De-
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All patterns mailed direct to subscribers from New
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Detailed to Geographic Board.

Capt. Charles w. Kuts Corps OF NnsS.
neers, stationed at the War Department
on geographic names. vice Cant, Wiif6nS
Y. Judson.' Corps Of Eagineera rAtto&0G
Captain Judson has been ordered 70 -
Fassgaaupg to act as military attaoAo NJ
aa RUSSIAN army IN the he&4;
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
NAVAL euNNERY RECORDS.

1t appears from a tabulated state
nent of the results Of the annual
target practice issued by the navy de-
partment that the gunners Of our fleet
have attained a very high degree OF
accuracy. This is particularly true
with regard to guns Of five-inch cali
Der and upward. The north Atlantic
md the Asiatic battleship squadrons
nave distinguished themselves by rec
,rds of 1927 per cent and 1884 per
cent, respectively. The cruisers have
not done so well as the battleships.
The explanation is simple enough.
rhe larger vessel constitutes a stead
Ter gun platform in a seaway. and, its
runs being placed higher, a more per-
'ect range is secured. This conclu-
zion Is emphasized by the fact that the
gun practice of the torpedo fiotillas
was very unequal.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
WHEN VISITING is PLEASURE

After all is said and done, visiting
friends must always be the most deli
cate of pleasures. OF all forms of
social enjoyment, a well-chosen house
party is perhaps the most complete
and satisfactory. 1t is only during
such short vacations (and on board
ship that the CALLING harness of ev-
ery-day routine drops completely from
ones weary shoulders; it is there
only that we escape entirely from the
myriad little cares and worries that
lie in wait for us outside. On look
Ing back, many of us will be surprised
to find how most of our truest friend
ships date from the occasion offered
by a visit. One may go on meeting
people for a decade at formal enter
tainments, and at the end of that time
know less Of their real selves than is
revealed by one short weekend
passed together under a congenial
roof-especially if it be home where
the welcome is sincere and the liberty
Is complete, and where the host and
aostess have taken the trouble to
sleep from time to time in their guest
chambers. From Eliot Gregory's
Visiting in a Country House" in the
August Century.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
WOMEN ON THE GOLF LINKS.

Golf is a grand old game, of course,
but it's widespread popularity in this
country, its marvellous growth here in
the last few years. is largely due to
the interest that is taken in 1T by
young women. If it were not for their
presence in goodly numbers on the
links no such public favor AS golf has
met with would have been recorded.
It is a repetition of the old story OF
the opera season; the presence OF
pretty women in the boxes makes us
all pretend to love music and crowds
the Metropolitan. The young Ameri-
tan girl who plays golf not only fills
IN the picture prettily, but plays a
rafting good game-as is evidenced
in the scores made in the women's
metropolitan championship games on
the Apawamis grounds, which were
concluded in fine style recently.-New
York Herald.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10

John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster, Aaron Burr and John
q. Calhoun were among the guests who
have been dined and wined in this
house. Perhaps the most distin-
guished guest in the old house during
its occupancy by Gov. Eustis was La
fayette, who spent there the night OF
June 16, 1925, before attending the
ceremony of the laying Of the corner
stone of Bunker Hill monument on the
following day. Lafayette was given a
banquet by Gov. Eustis at his house in
Roxbury, and all Roxbury turned out
to welcome him to the town.
The old williams house in Rox-
bury is of very ancient origin, and 1t
has been occupied by generation after
generation of the Williams family.
1t was built about the year 1850,
and it was for many years the home
of Stephen Williams, who was one of
the many tanners who have lived in
Roxbury The house was sold to
Samuel Walker about eighty years
ago, and he spent a large sum of
money In identifying the then extern
sive grounds. He was one of the most
noted horticulturists of his day. He
died in the old house in December,
1860.
The house of the Apostle" Eliot
stood Immediately in the rear OF the
| building now occupied by the Peoples
Natioral bank Eliot owned here a
| small estate of two and one-half acres
| of ground and a house OF two stories
with a gambrel roof. He did the most
remarkable work among the Indians
Of any man that ever came to New
England. He accomplished, after
twelve years OF hard labor, the great
| task of translatng the Bible into the
Indian tongue, and Cotton Mather de-
clared that Eliot writ the whole with
but one pen" This was the first
Bible printed on this continent, and
copies of it are so rare that they are
worth thousands of dollars.
Many thousands of visitors to Rox
bury on the 18th of June. on the oc
casion of the dedication Of the beauti
full monument to Gen. Joseph Warren
noticed the deliberately decorated old
house on Warren street, short dis
| lance from Dudley. This is the Mead
house, known to many as the old Tur
ner house, and it is said to be the old
est house in Roxbury, having been
built in 1858.
The homestead Of Gen. Joseph War
rem was in by-gone days one of the
| ypoct attra ctiva placac in ROyhury II
contained originally seven acres, ant
it came into the possession OF the
grandfather of Gen. Warren as Ions
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
MAKE ONLY TO SPEND.

We make more than others, but WI
spend both carelessly and for adNS1
tage. The American mechanics home
is frightened by pictures; well-made
furniture, carpets and tableware are
for his use; he has books on the
shelf; has a parlor organ, or even
piano; he goes to the play once in
a while, and expects few holidays in
the summer, when he can visit some
crowded seashore. The American pro-
fessional man lives in his own house
or comfortable apartments, and
dresses and lives nearly up to his in
come, no matter what it is. He is
never averse to receiving large fees,
but he is averse to storing them away
in vaults. And this easy getting and
free spending give to us larger view
of life than can obtain among people
who are forever counting the pennies
and trying to minimize expenditures.
Such people will have few OF the
wholesome pleasures that we enjoy
end their lives will lack range. apd
variety. The individual who wSks
for $40 a week and saves SO OF it is
your true type of money-maker, but
he is not an American.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
ToADs, $40 EACH.

The wonderful insect-killing capac-
lily of the toad is known in a general
way to the enlightened few, says
Country Life in America. An i'm
ported colony of toads may be the
salvation of a flower garden. We
now have some interesting figures,
which show that every toad in the
garden may be worth $40 or more.
Many gardeners give their children
a cent apiece for every cutworm de-
stroyed, considering this a low esti-
mate of the damage caused by these
insects. From May 1st to August 1st,
a toad may destroy 2,160 cutworms,
which it would cost $21.60 to destroy
by hand. English gardeners are said
to pay as much as $25 per hundred
for toads for colonizing purposes.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
The Williams House.

ago as 1857. The house in which Gen.
Warren was born was built in 1920,
ant the stone house now standing on
the site of the old house was built in
1916. The entire estate could not be
sold for 81 900 in the year 1888, and
people thought it was a case Of enor
mously inflated value when it was
sold for $4,000 at auction.
Roxbury has many other old houses
rich in historical associations and a
,ull record of them would fill many
pages of this paper. No suburb OF
nor more interesting landmarks.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
AcuuirinQ a Specimen.

Mrs. Franklin had always spoken
her mind, and she intended TO do 1t
as long as the gift of speech was
spared her. Her children and grand.
children knew her habit, and found
it not always cheering.
I'D like to have you tell me what
induced Edith to fall in love with that
young man | saw last night for the
first time" said the old lady to one OF
her daughters.
81 think she was attracted to him
at first because he's such an athletic
fellow and such splendid swimmer,
the mother of Edith ventured feebly
after moments casting about in heI
mind for a satisfactory answer.
"Humph!" snorted Mrs. Franklin
Which does she propose to keep him
in after she's married him-a gymna
SUM or an aquarium"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
HOW TO REACH A DECISION.

II indecision runs in the blood you
inherit, arouse yourself and strangle
this insidious foe to your achievement
before it saps your energy and ruins
your life chance. Do not wait until
tomorrow, but begin to-day. Compel
yourself to develop the opposite quail
ity by the constant practice of firm
decision. No matter how simple the
thing you are called upon to decide,
be it the choice Of hat or the color
OF style of a garment do not vacil-
late. Throw all the light possible on
whatever you have in hand for de-
cision; weigh and consider it from
every point Of view; call your COM
mon sense and best judgment to Sour
aid before reaching conclusion, and
then, when you have once made your
decision, let it be final. Let there be
no going back, no reconsidering, and
no opening the matter up for further
discussion. Be firm and positive. De-
clare the polls closed.-Orison SWEET
Marden in Success.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
Home of Gen. Warren.

names of Dudley, Curtis, Williams and
Griggs are also associated with the
entire history of the town. They are
names that stand for all that is best
in the growth of RoXbury, and no town
in America can show finer honor
roll" than can this old town.
or all the names associated with
the history of Roxbury none stand
forth with greater prominence than
that of Eliot, the great apostle to the
Indians. Born at Nasing, England
twenty miles from London, he came to
Roxbury in the year 1882 and became
pastor of the church there. The story
of his ministry of more than half a
| century is one of the most interesting
| in the religious history of our country
That Roxbury was not a town Of
very rapid growth is known from the
| fact that at the close of the war of
| the revolution, more than 125 years
after the above description was writ
| ten, Roxbury had but 213 dwelling
houses, 1877 barns, 100 corn houses,
| three churches and five schools. Many
of the people of the town must have
been engaged in tanning, for we are
| told that there were at this time eight
cen tan houses and slaughter houses.
| There was a chocolate mill in the
town at this time. In the year 1870
the town had 2,226 inhabitants.
1t is in part Of the "fayre houses
Of the early days of RoXbury that this
| Il. Ill G~,t L,
in the town could not have been very
'fayre" to look upon, judged by our
modern standard of beauty. They
were like all the houses of that time
in New England-of but one story,
with very steep roofs, and they were
built of clay and mud or Of roughly
hewn logs. They had huge stone
chimneys in the center, and the fire
| places were of great size. Most OF
the houses had but one room, with
perhaps loft above used as sleep
ing room by some members OF the
family. Some of the windows were OF
oiled paper instead of glass, and the
first windows were of small, diamond
shaped panes Of glass.
1t goes without saying that the fur
nishings of these first RoXbury homes
were very simple and primitive. None
of the first houses built in Roxbury
are now standing, although there are
some of ancient origin. One Of these
lis the old Gov. Shirley house, on Shir
ley street. This old house is sup
posed to have been built about the
year 174S, most Of the material OF
which it is composed having been
brought from England at very heavy
cost by Gov. Shirley, who was govern
or of Massachusetts from the year
I1741 to 1856.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
Entirely Too Strenuous.

Alfred Henry Lewis, author of THE
Boss" and THE President" says that
some politicians remind him of a dog
about which resident of Tennessee
told him.
"This dog" according to his owner,
was an industrious creature" says Mr..
Lewis, land spent much of his time
digging for groundhogs. Once the dog
started to dig there was no stopping
him, and he threw the dirt as IL his
life depended on the record he was
making.
After he had spent three or fors
hours digging for a grounding it was
necessary for his owner to get a
spade and spend two hours digging
out the dog."-New York Times.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
MYTH TIE WORLD'S
H. BEST WRITERS\
3@enaMGa-A1
LIFE, DEATH AND LOVE.

A woman lay with closed eyes and
quiet breath waiting to welcome am
angel whose presence seemed to overl
shadow the white-curtained room. A
man knelt beside the bed, the wom-
ans hand pressed close in his against
his cheek, while his lips moved as IL
in prayer.
In the room were Life, Death and
Love.
What have you given herr" ques-
toned Death of Life.
II brought her my best gifts" an
swered Life; youth, health, beauty,
JOY and Love-"
HAS Love brought her good gifts?"
again asked Death.
Said Love with wistful eyes, Il
brought her brave, briggs hours, SUM-
shine and laughter, happiness and
glory in living, and then heavy cross.
The sunshine she shed all about her,
even with the fading of Lies glory
the cross hidden deep in her soul cast
cut self and made new radiance and
beauty there"
LET her come to me-" said Death.
Life had much to give, but peace and
rest are not for Life to bestow. Love
would give all. but must reckon with
the human heart. / will crown and
glorify and bless her"
Life fed from the quiet room with
sigh and one whispered, tender
word; but Love fingered, brave even
in the full presence of Death.
What of him." said Love, pointing
to the kneeling figure.
He made the CROSSE" Death asked.
EYES," said Love, weeping.
1--WE must teach him. said Death
what he could not learn from life
L. M. S., in The Outlook.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
JEW THAT SHAKESPEARE DREW.

Most people appear to think that
Shylock must either be a demon or
a savior. He is, in truth, mixture
Of both-the mantle Jew! Once
more the poet shows the impartiality
Of the Judge in dealing with Shylock.
He presents in him the vices as well
as the virtues of his race. Domestic
ity is one Of the Hebraic virtues. The
love of his daughter commends him
to our sympathies-anon his vengeful
and cruel nature commands our cen
sure. 1t is, therefore, ridiculous to
present Shylock as merely sympa-
thetic character. OF course, the cul-
mination Of suffering creates SYM
pathy with any man, and, while laugh
ing at his pretensions, we weep at
his griefs. There can be no doubt
that at the time Shakespeare wrote
THE Merchant of Venice" the Jews
were not regarded with high favor,
and Shylock's first speech shows he
is informed by the spirit Of revenge.
do not deny that Shylock had just
cause to be angry, and it has been
said that revenge is primitive form
of justice. But just when we begin
to think that Shylock is becoming
the martyr-hero of the play, and that
all our sympathies are meant for him,
Shakespeare, the altruist, enters upon
the scene and gives us the immortal
speech on the quality of mercy, which,
bursting the walls of the narrow
court, breaches to humanity the eter.
nal message of Christian forgiveness.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree in The
Fortnightly Review.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
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The exact date of the founding OF
the town of Roxbury, Mass, is a mat
ter of some doubt, but 1t Is certain
that it was founded as early as the
10th Of July in the year 1880, for the
Town Book shows that one Griffin
Craft was born there on that day. No
doubt he was the first child born in
the town. The founders of the town
were many of them from London,
while a few were from the west OF
England.
From the time of its founding down
to the present day there have been
Crafts, Parkers, Heaths, Seavers,
Welds and Paysons in Roxbury. The
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
WHAT THE cooN's EYES SAID.

We give below in negro dialect ar
extract from Mrs. Sutherland's drama
entitled "Po' White Trash" 1t rep
resents a negro in the act of killing
a coon. He has brought the poor
beast to bay and now has him at his
mercy. Just before firing the fatal
shot he catches the coon's eye and Is
stopped momentarily by the pathetic
appeal which he reads there. The ne
gro is giving an account to the doc
tor and We will let him tell it in his
own way:
AN then, Doctor, saw that coon's
eyes-I saw that coon's eyes. Doc
tor, II never saw a coon's eyes
befo'. l reckon reckon-there
wouldn't be so much hurtin' done in
this world eff jes' befo' yo' hurried yo'
saw the things eyes! An I looked at
him-an' he looked at mean his
eyes said, BE you goin' to kill me?'
Thar worn't no fresno sky-no
nothin'-jes' ony that coon's eyes. It's
on'y towards kill what cant fight they
says. It's on'y devils kill fo' fun they
says. Everythin' tibet he'd ever been
'fraid-an' I've been 'fraid!-looked
out o. that coon's eyes. Everythin'
tibet ever been hurt-and, Coda
mighty! I've been hurt! looked out O.
that coon's eyes. BE yo' goin' to kill
me?' they SEE. BE yo' goin' to kill
me?' An Hinged my guns fairs she'd
flew, an | SEE, No, yo' mean, scared,
hunted critter, yo.'"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
Trade With South America.

One Of the most notable features OF
the trade of the United States with
South America is its comparative fix.
ity. During the last thirty years
there has been an increase of only
s per cent. in trade, and the sales of
1890 were about the same as those OF
1902. Compared with the trade OF
1873, Americas 1902 trade with the
world outside of South America has
more than doubled. To the 100000 0O
people in South America the yearly
sales amount to less than $40, 900
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
COMPARING Methods.

"Your methods" began the pleas
ant editor to the leading lady In the
stock company, playing weeks en-
gagement in his town, ARE some.
what similar to my own. We both
depend largely on paste to make
hit New Orleans Picayune.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
MONKEYS ADVANTAGE.

It's hand and its wonderful intelll.
gence give the monkey advantage over
all other lower animals. 1t cannot we'll
endure cold and temperate climates,
and this fact, it is suggested, has pre-
vented the close association with man
that would have made the monkey
the most useful of domestic animals.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10

The size of a mans hand deter.
mines the width of a brick, just as
the height of an average man deter.
mines the number of hands" to
which we shall breed horses. We
could probably produce them Of nine.
teen hands commonly, only the ami
mails would always need a mounting
stool or ladder for the riders use
Spectator.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
Most Important Movement.

"Of all the movements in the coun'
try since | was an undergraduate y
said John Morley, at Oxford, that
which has raised women in all the
chances of life to something like an
equality with men strikes me as the
most important and the most far
reaching"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10

Will somebody who knows kindly
help the worried editor of the Hart.
ford Post? why is it," he asks. that
O man who has slumbered lightly all
night will go into a deep sleep just
about ten minutes before it's time for
him to get up?"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
Tobacco Ash as Fertilizer.

1t has been calculated that 5000
tons Of Tobacco ash is annually wasted
in England. 1t would make an inval'
liable fertilizer for poor soil, consid-
ering that rs per cent consists of cal.
cium and potassium salts, and Is per
cent of magnesium and sodium salts.
including nearly per cent of the es.
aential constituents to all plants
phosphoric acid.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
Uncle Allen.

THE Lord loves a cheerful giver.
all right" remarked Uncle Allen
Sparks; "but you can't make me be-
lieve the Lord hates man for hav-
ing courage enough to say no once in
awhile when a dead beat tries to work
him for another little loan"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1904-09-10
Merely Matter Of Location.

In the north, where the ruffed grouse
is known as the partridge, the bob
white is called the quail; in the south.
where the ruffed grouse is known as
the pheasant, the quail is called the
partridge.