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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-21

THEpresidents of the Ohio banks which
have recently failed give Mrs. Chadwick
as the cause of the trouble. This is be-
coming monotouons and is calculated to
excite suspicion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-21

If you have friend and he smokes make
him a present of box Of Captain Billy
Cigars. None better Packed in Fancy
Xmas Boxes. 81 per box.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-21

A full line of Pipes and Smokers Articles
of every description at B. B. Smiths, 50s
King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-21

A box Of b. b. Smiths genuine Plantation
Cigars viii make q suitable Xmas present.
Packed in fancy boxes Of 25 cigars each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-21
Fewer Gallons; Wear Longer.

Fewer gallons; takes less of DeyOe / ead
and Zinc than mixed paints. Wears longer:
twice as long az lead and oil.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-21
The First National Bank,

alexandria, Va, Dec. IL, 1904.
We are now entering on the third
charter of this bank, and wish TO express
to our many friends the great pleasure
ue have had in the many business trans
actions during the past forty years, and
We hope the same good feeling and con-
6deuce that we have enjoyed ia t1s
past may be extended to us in the future.
We can assure our many patrons and
citizens that every effort will be made to
help them in all their business franssc-
lions and extend to them all the courtesy
that bank has in its power.
CHARLES X. HooFF.
doom 9ot President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-21

See the line of Umbrellas at B. B. Smiths
from SOC to -. Every umbrella guaranteed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14
OUR FEMININE FRIENDS.

A woman sat in street car in a
Canadian town one day, when the car
stopped at a crossing and another
woman got in and sat beside the first
woman, saying: "Well, we'll, Mrs.
Fiewclose, wherever have you been
all SUMNER
ooh, we were at the lake."
$50 were we-at Grand Bend"
1--WE were at Port Stanley" said
the woman who had opened the ora
torical contest.
"Have nice timer"
'Well, not exactly. There's SO
many Irish there" she added with a
weary look, but without so much as
glance about the car.
Same way at the Bend-Irish,
Irish everywhere"
A stout woman, under a green hat
that turned up behind, sat in the seat
| Immediately in front of the elocutlon-
lists. The stout woman turned and
sized them up, but by this time they
were dead to the world.
AS the car ratified on they talked
of everything and most everybody
and finally fetched up at the summer
resorts with Irish for dessert.
By this time there was Irish stew
in the front seat. >
The stout person under the pea
green hat turned and shone on them.
Ladies'" she began, "L'ave me give
yez bit NV advice-the mkt time We
get a holiday yaz better spend it in
hell-there'll be no Irish Thereby
Warman, in Lippincott's.
New York papers speak guardedly
of the embarrassing position in which
fashionable woman found herself
recently. She was invited to a swell
wedding, but did not think either of
her spring hats was good enough for
the occasion. So she visited her mil
liners and had an exceedingly costly
affair sent home on trial. She wore
it at the wedding and the next day
drove to the milliner's and returned
it, saying it did not suit. 1t happened
that the hatmaker, who quite under
tried several times of late. did you
not wear this hat at the Blank we'd
ding yesterday" she asked blUntly
Taken by surprise, the society woman
owned up, but asked: "How did you
know" ooh, it was quite easy
see several grains of rice in the folds
of the lace"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14

graphs minute and finishes and
frames 'em at that? You charge a
nickle for the pictures and two-thirds
of the nickel is profit. How much
for the machines? Well, the little
wonder I have my eye on is rather
more expensive, but you can get a
pretty good picture machine for $25.
Say, what business has man to be
poor?"
fear that my rejoinder may have
betrayed a pessimistic spirit, for my
friend the fakir took an earnest, even
a reproachful tone.
F'Say, the world is full of money!"
he declared. Cali you have to do is
to reach out and pull it in! I could
name you more'n million little things
that anybody could sell. Take a bag
full of aluminium novelties out into
the country, and see how they'd go
off! Rubber faces, these contraptions
that you squeeze and make 'em stick
out their tongues, will be good, even
in the cities, for year to come. Say.
you could get up a stand in front of
your own steps, and I'd show you how
to mix a temperance drink that costs
three-qUarters of cent a glass and
sells for five-and it does sell, you
hear me! Chances! Why, say,
every other man, woman and child in
this country is just waiting to be ask
ed to give somebody ten cents!''
Thus far my friend the fakir-or
"streetman,' as he prefers to call him
self. Does the gentle reader demand
q glossary? I shall assume that his
slang will be self-explanatory- to
persons who cannot quite sympathize
with Lowell's view that the vulgar
speech is poetry in the egg"
A word, however, touching the
fakir's commercial Importance. The
gentle reader is not aware, perhaps,
that his kind is numerous enough to
maintain a weekly Organ" a thirty
two-page periodical that looks dis
tinctly prosperous; and that some
scores or firms which stand very we'll
with the commercial agencies exist
for the sole purpose of supplying him.
These are facts; and it is equally true
that the fakir, as l have found him, is
a man who pays his bills and takes fife
blithely and is willing to contribute to
the joy of it. You did not get bar
gain when you joined the temporary
crowd at the street corner and handed
him your dime? All, but there are
men who have taken more and given
you less, and reasoned the transac-
ton with no jokei
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14
A VISION OF THANKSGIVING.

"Pies of pumpkin, apple, mince,
Jams and jellies, peaches, ounce,
Purple grapes and apples red,
Cakes and nuts and gingerbread;
That's Thanksgiving.
Turkey! Oh, a great big fellow
Fruits are ripe and rich and mellow,
Everything that's nice to eat,
More than l can now repeat,
That's Thanksgiving.
Lots and lots of jolly fun,
Games to play and races run,
All as happy as can be,
For this happiness, you see,
That's Thanksgiving.
eve must thank the One who gave
All the good things that we have;
That is why we keep the day,
Set aside our mammas say,
That's Thanksgiving.
Men and Women.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14
Star-DuSt.

Mr.. Pettus, the "Nestor" of the sen
ate, is fond of telling stories of darby
humor, and among the best he relates
is the following:
There's an odd little negro of 8
years living in Alabama, who is given
to the putting of funny questions to
parents. One night he suddenly
awakened from sound Sleep Turn.
ing to his father, who CHANGED to be
awake, the little fellow asked:
lis it night, pappy?"
eyes, my chile" responded the
father kindly; look outer de windel
and yo' will see de stars. Better &C
to sleep ag'in, honey, it's IL o'clock"
The little darby gazed refectively
through the window. Twelve o'clock
pappy? Den de stars is changin
from yesterday to ter-morrer, ain't
y?'-November Lippincott's.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14
PASSING OF FITzsIMMoNs.
From a Great PugiIist He Has Become
Matinee Idol.


st. Paul Globe.-The announcement
that Robert Fitzsimmons has abandon
ed himself to the pursuit of beauty is
a painful one for his friends, but not
unexpected. For ever since the
worlds heavyweight champion adopt
ed the stage as a profession there has
been dropped more than one hint that
Mr.. Fitzsimmons was displaying far
more concern for his complexion than
for his muscle; that the cold cream
jug instead Of the punching bag was
occupying the place of honor in his
boudoir; that the directness of a So
lar plexus blow had been abandoned in
favor of the delsartion curve. The
news therefore that he had signed a
contract with a beauty doctor who has
guaranteed for a specified sum to re-
move his freckles, make his nose
shapely and his hair curl naturally is
but the inevitable result of that pre-
liminary primping.
No one will deny that Mr.. Fitzsir1-
mons is making a mistake. Re- 1u-
gilists are few and there are 1-ly,
many matinee idols. In taking Faver-
sham as a model and assuming the
role of fatal fascinator Mr.. Fitzsim-
mons deliberately places himself in
class in which he does not belong and
invites comparison that must be obi
Gus. For one has only to glance at
Mr.. Fitzsimmons' picture to be con-
vinced that the role of matinee idol is
not for him. This is not to insinuate
that the beauty doctor is not SO all
powerful as the Sunday supplements
make her to appear. On the con-
trary! But undoubtedly one must
begin very young in order to accom-
plish the best results, and the black
smith-pUgilist actor is something on
the sandy side of 35 at least. And
only the best results would answer in
his case.
Mr.. Fitzsimmons is not the first
pugilist who has sunk to the level of
the st~ge. The beginning of the end
of the others has been their dramatic
debut, and it is in no unkind spirit of
prophecy that we predict the same OBJ
scure finish for this giant of the fistic
arena who has essayed the role of
matinee idol. He, like those others,
is seemingly lacking in that pride which
prevents a man who has occupied high
position from descending to an in
ferior one. The adopting of the
stage by so many pugilists must be ac-
cepted as sign of the atrophy of a
once honorable profession.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14
Russian Officers Are Dissipated.

1t is with great reluctance that L
discuss here certain other character
istics of the Russian officer. AS a
rule, it is most unfair to any army to
brand it with the doings of an ele
ment from which none is entirely free.
But it is impossible, in this instance,
to ignore the tendency to dissipation
among the officers of the Russian
army, for it undoubtedly has ma
terial effect upon the efficiency of the
organization and the conduct OF the
war I have seen something of many
armies, both in peace and war, but
never before saw one wherein the
trait of conviviality, to put it mildly,
struck such a predominating note.
know comparatively nothing about
conditions of army life in European
Russia, but anyone who has seen Port
Arthur. Vladivostok, or Hardin will
hardly wonder at the scenes to be
witnessed now in Manchuria. When
General Kuropatkin visited the far
east two years ago, on a tour OF In
spection, his report is said to have
va
this and kindred subjects, and is
thought to have been the first schism
of the breach between him and Ad-
miral AleXieff.
Hardin is the place where this evil
is most in evidence. This is the real
Russian base in the present war, be
ing situated in the center of Man
churia and at the junction of the Man
chruian and Siberian railways. Here
are the flour-miils and packing-house
which are expected to supply the army
with much of it's food, and all troops
and supplies destined for either
Vladivostok or Manchuria must pass
this way. Naturally, the town is
filled with troops, and particularly
with officers on their way to various
localities in the theater of operations.
The town is filled with wine gardens
and safe chantants, many of which
never close their doors except when
the police are called to suppress an
incipient riot among the jewellers
The passion for gambling, always SO
pronounced among Russians, here
runs higher than ever, the reckless
| spirit invariably fostered by war
suprring it to unusual excuses. The
man who is to stake his life tomorrow
| is not apt to consider the value of his
troubles tonight.-From Conditions in
the Russian Army, by Thomas F. Mil
! lard, in Scribner's
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14
WHO OR WHAT?

Are you trailer, or are you trolley?
Are you tagged to a leader through
wisdom and folly?
Are you Somebody Else, or You?
Do you vote by the symbol and swal-
low it straight .
Do you pray by the book; do you pay
by the rate?
Do you tie your cravat by the calen-
dar's date?
Do you follow cue?
Are you a writer, or that which is
worded?
Are you shepherd, or one of the
herded?
Which are you-a What or a Who?
1t sounds well to call yourself zone of
the flock,''
But a sheep is a sheep, after all. AT
the block
You're nothing but mutton, or possibly
stock.
Would you flavor a stew?
Are you a icing and boss of your
Soul,
Or are you a mummy to carry a scroll ?
Are you Somebody Else or You?
When you finally pass to the heavenly
wicket,
Where Peter the Scrutinous stands at
his picket
Are you going to give him a blank for
a ticket?
Do you think it will do?
e. V. Cook in st. Louis Globe-Dem-
Ocrat
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14
A WARNING.

Effect of Politics in the Management
of the Public Schools
From the Boston Herald-At last the
long campaign Of partisans to secure
control of the Boston school system, in
order that it may be conducted for
what it can be made to yield for their
glory has attained one of it's chief OBJ
jects, the ousting of Edwin P. Seaver
from the Office of superintendent of
schools. For nearly "a years he has
been the executive head of our city
educational system, and during this
whole period he has subordinated
every eXtrinsic consideration to the
work of promoting the excellence of the
public schools as a means of education
of the youth of the city. The main
reason why he is refused reelection
by the present school committee is be-
cause he consistently and persistently
declines to subordinate the educational
efficiency of the schools to other inter-
ests in them which a majority of the
school committee, as now constituted,
appears to regard as of higher impor-
lance.
The action of the majority of the
school board does not honor the city,
but rather derogates from its renown.
It will be commonly taken, and not uI1-
reasonably, as importing a degradation
of the city's rank in the matter of it's
educational prestige. We have said
before that Boston no longer has the
primacy which once was everywhere
recognized. This is not Superintend-
ent Seaver's fault; it is the fault Of
those who have undertaken to be an
obstacle to and a prevention of his in
telligent plans. How can Boston fail
to fall behind when it's school board is
controlled, and, we may property say,
is constituted, by one of its artful poi
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14

itical members, who would narrow the
field of selection Of teachers to persons
having their home in the city? For that
reason does this city pay the highest
salaries in the state if not to enable
it's schools to secure the best instruc-
tors, wherever they may live or wher-
ever they were educated.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14
THE VERSATILE FAK|R
FINDS A BONANZA I'M CAMPAIGN
BUTTONS.
AND UNBOSOMS HIMSELF

His Present Enterprise in Boston and
His CuriousIy Varied Career-The
Inner Workings of Strange Craft
and Its Canons-The Humbug, Self
Portrayed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-14

"Uh-huh," he nodded "Say, do you
realize that you can bury an eight-foot
python for $40, and staving big ALI
gator for $3.50 Yes, I know they
amt animals, but they're snakes-or
is an alligator a fish? Well, anyhow,
you can get leopards or lions, or cats,
or pumas for $40 apiece, and mon
keys for $3.50 Up, and you might be
able to turn a trick, some kind of
gift scheme, with chameleons, seeing
they don't cost but So hundred. The
trouble is with animals, you got to
have somebody who understands the
care of 'em, and there's feed to buy,
and it would be a good deal OF chore
to have to move 'em very often. A
man would want to start with wagon
cages. At that rate he might end
with a menagerie and circus on his
hands. and I wouldn't want to go into
the circus business unless [ could
make deal to have all the rainy days
come on Sundays. Guess ON the
whole it'll be safer to get some ma
chimes to work for me.
eyes, that's what; machines" in an
swer to my look of inquiry. "A pen
ny-in-the-slot punching machine costs
only $23. 1t doesn't take up much
ground, it doesn't eat anything, and it
earns money fast Burt what I was
thinking of, especially, was picture
layout. Say, did you know there's a
slot machine that takes six photo
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-03-11
TIE HEARST COLLAPSE.

'sThough Mr.. Hearst has a seat in
Congress, :" says the Louisville Courier
Journal, "his constituents know him
not; have rarely, if eyer, looked upon
his face, or heard his voice; and though
4 candidate for President, he is equally
a stranger to his colleagues in the House
Of Representatives, where he is sit
ting, but silent member. These are
salient, relevant, significant facts.
zone who is 80 aspiring ought to be
isss reserved. Ambition should be
made of sterner stuff Even the Yellow
Md and the Sissy Earl had more git-up-
d-git than has this puissant-we had
almost said 'prurient'--friend nf the
people-this ami des peuple--this mil
licnaire socialist-this rich-and dumb
Statesman, Hero and Philanthropist,
Who proposes to save the country from
Plutocracy and Teddy by buying the
one and ut-sensationalizmg the other.
Il IL here that we balk, here that our
trouble comes IN.
"He Is a totally unknown quantity
His father was rough diamond. Ills
mother Is one OF the salt Of the earth.
The horrible stories told about his own
life may be freely discounted thousand
per cent. We could readily close eye
and ear, and refuse to believe a whit
about his personal aDtecedents and his
private character. Bot he is stranger
among men; he has eschewed the
eompanionship OF his peers; he has lived
such hermit life, as far as the us1al
Aauuts Of men are concerned, that he
has no male acquaintances-at least
some recognized 10 any organized society
either political or acknowledgements his
employees. That such man should be
pnt forward as candidate for President
Of She United States seems little short
Of insanity"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-03-11

Brewer. near Enterprise tuo years ago,
was continued on account OF the illness
of J. G. VOORHEES,, attorney for the de-
PENDANTS.
Will Isber, OF Mt. Pleasant, vas grant
ed naturalization papers.
In the Court -, esterday Will Wiki,
colored. was sentenced to two years IN
the penitentiary for assault to commit
m urcler in the first degree and malicious
stabblng. Wiki siashed negro canned
Anderson 10 Cole mbia during the holt
DAYS. He submitted his case this NOR
ming and asked for the mercy of the
court.
Lon Bine, young white boy. was
sentenced to oDe year in the penitentlary
| for houss-breaki and larceny. lie
was charged with breaking into the
store of Sid Williams at Sandy Hook,
ard submitted and plead guilty 90 petit
| larceny
The case OF the State vs. Il. K. Butler
was continued.
Dave Patton. colored. plead guilty to
a charge of assault and battery, and
was fined 50 and costs.
| The indictment against Tom Patton,
colored, charged with an assault to
commit murder 10 ths first degree and
malicious shooting, was mol pressed by
the State
Court adjourned at 10 O'Clock for the
day.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-03-11
SOUND SENSE

souud. sensible talk this Is, from the
I;aIlatin News:
THE Hoo. Benton McMIIlin IL
candidate for United States Senator
N sueceed Hon. Vim. 3. Bate. VINO Is
sI.o q candidate to snceeed himself
Tha y,empers OF the General Assembly
AZ 1905 will eIecr the United States
SENATOR. The members Of that '1eie
col Assembly will DC elected this fall
.nd froun the various counties OF the
state come announcements daily Oh
their candidacy. liz - no.leed that
these candidates almost invariably an
no1ncs "a the paramount principle OF
their nlatform their sspousal OF either
Rste,s or McMiuIn's candidacy for the
limited States Senate. and there nave
been instances wnere men have an
aounced their candidacy as In the IN
,srest of one or the other Of the sen2-
torial candidates
"Aud here we are IN these times CT
progress throughout the entire SOUTH
IN these times when SO much may De
dome toward the material advancement
Of the State of Tennessee by the next
General Assembly, with men appesunk
10 the masses to be sent to the Legis-
lature to represent the interests Oh q
man VINO wants an Office. The intel
ests of the people and the enactment Oh
needed Legislation is of no Importance
but the filing of a single once Is
everything, Our educational system
our tax rate. our charitable institu-
HONS and legislation OF benefit to the
masses IS nothing. as compared Win
tue political fortunes of the politicai
friend of the candIdateI Is this to be
the Issue and Is the next General AS
ssmply to he composed Of IN who go
there as representatives OF Bate ana
McMIIlin and not as representatives
of the people? Shall we make the IN
terests of the masses subordinate to the
interests OF men who ask for Officer
"Does this situation Dode good OF
iii TO the people of TenDessee7 Is the
political future OF Mr. McMi'lin OF
Mr.. Bate of more importance than the
interest of the people who pay the
taxes, grow the farm products, en-
pioy the labor, educate the children,
and defray the expenses OF State and
county government Inc people know
both of these men as good Democrats
faithful and honest men in the DIS
charge OF the responsible duties to
which they have been called time aftel
time by people who honored them
and It is not strange that each should
have strong friends IN the contest now
pending; put the people OF Tennessee
owe greater allegiance to the stats
and welfare OF it's people than they
can posi- bly, owe to either OF THESE
gentlemen or to any other man.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-03-11
ANOTHER COX
VERDICT
Jury Finds Joe Merritt Guilty
of Murder i'm First Degree,
With Mitigating Cir.
cumstances.
Ike Smith the Other Defendant, Ac-
quilted.

The jury Wednesday 10 the case OF
the State against Joe Merritt, alias
"Joe Greasy and Isaac Smith, charged
with the murder of Will, alias bud"
Ellis, at Mt. Pleasant last September,
returned verdict that morning of mur
der in the first degree. with mitigating
circumstances, as to Merritt, and acquit-
tai as to Smith The attorneys for
Merritt asked for a new trial, and pend
ing argument of that, Judge Holding
withheld sentence.
Salmon & Turner and r. E. Haynes
represented the defendants, and Attor-
ney General Garner was assisted by
Brown & Owen.
Thu case of the State IS c. E. Hank
ersou. former saloon keeper of Mt.
Pleasant, for alleged fraudulent breach
OF trust, was continued on account OF
the Illness of the defendants lawyer, Mr..
}. G. VOORHEES,. Mr.. VOORHEES,, though
able to visit the court room, has not
yet recovered sufficient strength to re
sumo his law practice.
Hankerson was indicted on COM
plant OF Walter Griffith, who al
leges that the former sold him stock
of liquors, ETC.. at Mt. Pleasant, and
made falfe statements as to his ipdebt-
edness Griffith having to pay several
bills upon which the stock had been
bound. and all without his knowledge
when he bought the stock.
The Indictment against j. A. Cur
bingham, charged with malicious
threats, was quasbed by Judge Holding.
Attorney General Garner appealed the
case to the Supreme Court. Cunning
ham, it is said, threatened to bring suit
against Mr.. Horace Rainey, unless TIN,
latter refunded tn him alleged excessive
tolls which he (Rsiney) had collected
from HIM. Rainey then had Cunning
ham indicted for an alleged attempt to
extort money from him. Judge Hold
ing did not think any crime had been
committed and so dismissed the indict-
ment.
The case OF the State against John
and Will Stephenson, colorpd, charged
with the murder Of white man named