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The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31
Insist on eettIno it.

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Defiance Starch. This is because they
have a stock on hand of other brands
containing only IL OF in a package.
which they won't be able to sell first.
because Defiance contains 16 OF. for
the same money.
Do you want 16 OF. instead Of IL OF.
for same money? Then buy Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

When a man tells you that he II
welded to his art, In most cases hi
is widower.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

The Boston baseball players call
Mr.. Jack Chesbro's famous specially
the expectoration ball.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31
sal.er,. Home Builder Corr.

salzer's Home Builder Corr.
So named because 80 acres produced so
heavily, that its proceeds built a lovely
home. See Salzer's catalog:. Yielded in
Ind. l57 bu., Ohio l6O bu., Tenn. 1893 bu.,
and in Mich. 22O bu per acre. You can
beat this record in 1905
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

man who has been married six
times may still seek the seventh
heaven of happiness.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

Is tea generally SO bad?
1t is ra her uncertain gen
orally, there is no difficulty in
getting it good.
Ii svsry package of sehil,lnts B.s T.Ass hsse
~ How To Aake Good Tea.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

Salt" said the small boy "is what
makes potatoes taste bad when you
don't put 1t in"
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

An Ohio poet devotes an hour daily
to writing poetry and the rest of the
day to saving wood for living.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

The proposition to have the Gar
take the field has been amended to
proviee that he shall take to the tall
timber, ~.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31
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A few weeks more and you'll b,
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The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

Whether tea is the most
important thing in the world
or not we want it right and
we want it steady.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31

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Bolivar looked at him with faraway
look in his eyes, as much as to saw.
Seems to me 1 have met you some
where before, but new king has been
crowned and he took his old keeper
by the back of his coat and threw him
toward the monkey cage. The mon
keys gave the keeper the laugh, and
Bolivar put his trunk lovingly on pas
shoulder, and seemed to say: "OId
man. You are it, from this time out"
Pa looked proud, and the old keeper
looked sick. The people in the show
are going to present pa with a loving
cup, and l guess he can run the
menagerie part of the show.
When the freaks heard of pas brav-
cry, the fat woman and the bearded
lady wanted to hug pa, but pa waved
them away, and said he liked the eIe-
plant business best.
May IL used to think that if T
could belong to circus, and go away
with it when it left the town | live in
that 1t would be pretty near going to
heaven. [ used to hope for the time
when L would get nerve enough tn
run away, and go with a circus. and
wear a dirty shirt. and be around
tent and wash off the legs of spotted
morse with CASTLE soap, and when neo-
pie gathered about me to watch tbe
to look tough and taII
them in a hoarse voice way down NV
throat, sort of husky from sleepinp in
the wet straw with the spotted horso
that< they must go on about their
business, and not disturb the horse.
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week; and Travelled a thousand miles,
and it seems as though there is moth
| ing doing but putting up and taking
| down tents, and going to and from
| the cars and you can't be tough,
cause there is always some boss
around to tell you to look pleasant if
you are cross, and to tell you to
change your shirt or get out of the
show, and if you swear at anything
you are called down.
Pa and put in a good deal of time
during the afternoon and evening per-
formances, in the dressing room, near
the door leading to the main tent
That is the nearest to being in an
insane asylum of any place was ever
in. The performers get ready for
their several acts, in punches or fami-
lies, all in one spot. and they act seri-
Gus and jaw each other. and each
bunch acts as though their act was
all there was to the show, and if it was
would have to lay up for the season,
when in fact each one is only cog
in the great wheel, and if one cog
should slip, the wheel would turn just
the same. What bunch is
called to go in the ring, they all look
at each other as though it was the
parting of the ways, and they clasp
hands and go out of the dressing room
the same. When bunch is
they get in the ring they look around
to see If all eyes are upon them. and
bow to people who are looking at
something going on i'm another ring,
and who don't see them. and then
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his shirt sleeve and showed game, be-
cause he kept mauling Bolivar with
the hook. Bolivar broke up a: mill
linery store by throwing tomatoes at
| the women in the windows, and he
went into a yard where a woman was
washing and squirted the bluing wa
pa, and then he chewed the, clothes
on the line, and drove the family over
| ter all over the woman, and all over
| the fence.
You'd a died to see those milliners
] climb over a high board fence head
first, and Boliver actually seemed to
laugh. Bolivar run one of his tusks
| through a barrel of gasoline an( it
run out on the street car track, and an
electric spark set it on fire, and the
fire department turned out but the
| engines had to all go around Bolivar,
| cause he wouldn't bulge an inch but
! seemed to say: Let 'er rip, boys;
| this is the Fourth of July"
The circus men began to come with
ropes and club, to tie Bolivar and
throw him. but he escaped into side
street and watched the engines put
out fire, and he swung around with
his trunk and his tusks and wouldn't
let any one come near him but pa with
the hook, and he seemed to, enjoy the
UllL guess lndt gave MIN
courage to keep on doing things.
Z The principal proprietor of the show
came along, and when he saw pa with
watermelon and bluing water all over
him, and perspiration rolling down his
face, he said to pa: why don't you
take your elephant back to the lot,
cause the afternoon performance is
about to begin" and that made pa
mad, and he said: you go on with
your afternoon performance, and 1
will have Bolivar there all right" and
then everybody laughed, but pa knew
what he was about
Pa dropped his hook and went to a
hose cart and took a Babcock extin-
gulshed and strapped it on his back,
and went up to Bolivar, who was tip
ping over some dummies in front of
a clothing store, and pa said: Boil.
var. you lay down" but Bolivar threw
a seven dollar suit of clothes at pa
and beloved, as much assto defy pa
ia turned the cock of the extinguish-
er, and pointed the nozzle at Bolivar's
head, and began to squirt the medi-
Gated water all over him. For a mo-
ment Bolivar. acted as though he
couldn't take a joke, and was going to
start off again, but pa kept squirting,
and when the chemical water began to
and trumpeted in token of
surrender, and kneeled down in front
of pa, and finally got down so pa could
get on his back, and pa took the hook
and hooked it in the flap of Bolivar's
ear. where is tender spot, and he told
Bolivar to get up and go back to the |
tent, and Bolivar was as meek as a |
lamb, and he got up, with pa on his |
back, and the fire extinguisher on pas |
pack, and marched. back to the tent, |
the hole he had made coming
put Thousands of people followed,
ma cheered pa, and when they got in |
ne tent pa said to the principal owner
II the show. who had made fun of
nm: Here's your elephant, and
whenever any of your old animals get
IN the warpath, and you want em
'ounded up, don't forget my number,
cause L can knock the spots out of any
Inimal except a giraffe The crowd
'heered pa again and he got down off
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Swinging Thro' the West
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hrst hundred miles makes YOU think
OF the sahara, while the scenery for
the last hundred will cause YOU to for
get an that has gone before It IS a
pedutlIul stream flowing through a
Iand not to be despised
In my next scribble I will sneak of
Portland and the Lewis and Clark Fx-
i position. Suffice it now to say that
Lnls is the widest open" town on Sun
DAY L have seen. Chicago is no longer
at the front in my estimate. Yester-
uay shops, stores, bars, gambling
places, theatres, etc., were in full
swing. In the evening hour / passed
through this confusion up to Grace
Methodist Church where Bishop
Thoburn preached. The house was
full and a message never to be forgot
ten came to thespeople. 1t was all most
refreshing in the midst of these con
ditions.
The Bishop is a man of medium
size, with close cut hair and beard.
now growing grey and his form is
erect and the ring of youth in his voice
though it had ben forty-six years since
he went to India. To me the man was
as much as the message. Twenty-eight
times has he crossed the ocean over
mountains, across deserts, among the
worst classes has he gone these wears
preaching Jesus. After a long life
spent in that land where philosophers
were old when Jesus was here among
men, his message is one of sublime
confidence How thrilling to have him
tell OF the first five years and the five
converts baptized, of his return home
with the motherless babe: then his ex-
perlence two years ago when he bap-
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ana pa put the hook in Bolivar's hide
ana gave jerk, and told him to hush
up that noise, but Bolivar Just reared
ana pitched and walked right through
the size OF the menagerie tent, and
seemed to say to the other animals.
come on, boys; there is going to be
something doing" and the animals all
set up howl in their own langua ge.
as though they were saying: "Whoop-
or up, ola man. and don't let them
monkey with YOU"
Boliver went out in the street and
moved wide swath, with pa, after
MN; hooking him all the time, but he
pald no attention to pa. He put his
mead under the side of street car
loaded with negroes that had come TO
see the show, dressed in their Sunday
clothes, and tipped the car over on
the side, and the negroes crawIed
through the windows and went IN
town yelling murder while Bolivar
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May Eve had the worst time at
Akron last week and pa proved him
self hero, though he was swatted
good by the rogue elephant before he
got his second wind and went for the
animal.
We have a male elephant that is al
most human, cause he gets on a tear
about once a month: like a regular
ugly husband You can't tell when his
mind is in condition for running
amuck, but suddenly he will whoop
like drunken man, strike his poor
patient wife over the back with his
trunk and grab her tail and try to pull
it out by the roots, and jump up and
crack his heels together like a drunk
Ell shoe maker, and below as though
he was saying he was a bad man from
Bitter creek.
Well, at Akron, the keeper of this
elephant, Bolivar, had to so and see
a girl that he met when the show was
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they go through, their performance
with everybody looking somewhere
else.
When the act is. over the audience
seems glad, and clap hands because
they are polite, and it don't cost any
thing to clap hands, and the perform
ers turn some more flip flaps and go
running out to the dressing room, and
take a peep back into the big tent as
though expecting an encore, but the
audience has forgotten them and is
looking for the next mess of perform
erS, and the ones who have Just been
in go and lie down on straw and won
der if they can hit the treasurer for
an advance on their salaries, so they
can go to beer garden and forget
it all.
An average audience never gets it's
moneys worth unless some one is hurt
doing some daring act. Pa suggested
that they have some one pretended TO
be hurt in every act, and have them
picked up and carried out on stretch
ers with doctors wearing red crosses
on their arms, in attendance, giving
medicine and restoratives. The show
tried 1T at Bucyrus, O., and had seven
men and two women injured so they
had to be carried out, and the au-
dience went wild, and almost mobbed
the dressing room, to see the doctors
operate on the injured. 1t was such
a great success that next week we are
going to put in an automobile ambu
lance and have an operating table i'm
the dressing room with gauze screen
SO the audiences can see us cut off
legs IKE they do in a hospital. Maybe
we shall put in a dissecting room if
the people seem to demand #.
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went in front of a grocery store where
there was pile of watermelons, and
began to throw them at the people in
the street. and the negroes thought an
elephant was not SO bad, so they came
back and had a feast.
Pa tried to head off Bolivar at the
grocery, but Bolivar took half a wa
termelon and put the red side on top
OF pas head, and squashed it down
to the seeds and juice and pulp run
down pas shirt and neck, and he
looked as though murder had been
committed, but pa wiped his face on
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here last year. and settle a case of
preach OF promise before a Justice of
the peace, and the boss told pa ia
look after the elephant for an hour or
SO. so pa took pole with a hook in
1T and sat down on a bale of hay to
watch Bolivar. 1t was one of those
not days. and Bolivar stood dropping
'and perspiring, and wishing the show
was in Alaska, and pa was kind of
sleepy. like everybody in the show.
When suddenly that elephant whooped.
ana swatted Jeanette. his wife, a
couple OF times, and she cried pitiful.
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the elephant, took off 4 his fire, extin-
guisher, and handed Bolivar a piece of
rag Scarpet59and said: Eat it, you old
catamaran, or rlLs kill you, and
Bolivar was so scared of pa he eat
the carpet, which shows the power of
brain. over avordupois, pa says.
The regular keeper of Bolivar heard
he was on the rampage, and he came
back on the run TO conquer him, after
pa had got him back in the tent, but
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1 had thought if I should run away
and go with a circus, some day, when
l got far enough away from ma, that
| would up and swear, and be tough,
and when 1 came home in the fall, and
the neighbor boys would come around
me, 1 would chew tobacco and tell
them of the joys of circus life. Well,
4maybeaI will some day, but at present
/ am sleepy all the time.
We have showed six times the last
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FOR
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
SALT LAKE SCHEDULE CHANGE
New "Los Angeles Limited" pinino
Car Is Handsomest Rolling Hotel
in the West

Ihe time schedule of the Los Angeles
limited over the Salt Lake. Union pa
enc and Northwestern railroads has
peeh changed, and according to tha
new schedule the limited viii leave
Los Angeles at o'clock in the after
noon, instead of 2:45, and will arrive
IN chicago at As a. m.
Inc westbound train will leave Chi
caSo at 10 O'Clock p. m, and will ar
rive IN Los Angeles at 4:45 D. m. on
the thlrd day, instead of 12:45
one or the new dining cars was
coupled TO train No. ., which left Los
angeles at 1880 last evening, and will
ne carried as far as Salt Lake CITY.
"A great many people visited it yester-
day afternoon while it stood ON the
track Just east of the Salt Lake sta
lloIl' ana the general remark was.
isn't it a beauty?"
Inc officials say that this car is q
sample of what the remainder of tbe
traln VIII be, and if this is true the
tralh VIII be unsurpassed by anv train
running from the east to the coast
ne car has model kitchen in one
eild ana refrigerator, and i'm the
other end is the dining room with
seats Tor thirty people. 1t is beauti-
lullY hnished and carpeted and is
equipped so that it can be lighted with
electricity and heated with steam
On the outside of the car is painted
IN handsome silt letters almost n foot
hlgh; Los Angeles Limited" This
VIII undoubtedly prove a great adver-
tisement for Los Angeles. for this is
the only train in the world that is
named after its destination.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
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Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
RICE FELL FROM HER POCKET
Young Bride Could Not Hide EN-
barrassment, but She
Explained

KANSAS CITY. Dec 1O.-"Oh. dear
exclaimed a young woman i'm front Of
The desk at the Hotel Baltimore yes
terdGy.
This exclamation came simultaneously
with shower of rice and several
streamers of white ribbon which fell
from her pocket.
IT'S my first break: some of the girls
put it there she explained.
The young woman was Mrs. Law
renee Banks She was formerly Miss
Pearl Burdge of Topeka and was mar
ried Wednesday evening at Topeka to
Lawrence Banks. Santa Fe agent in
st. Louis. Mir. and Mrs. Banks left for
St Louis last evening.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13

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Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
PLUMBER FALLS
-FOUR STORIES
MAN DESCRIBES SENSATION
OF PLUNGE
Young Workman Has Remarkable Es-
cape From Death-Suffers Severe
Scalp Wound, but Retains
Consciousness

on n cot I'm the receiving hospital suf-
fering with four-iuch laceration IN
the scalp and swelling the size OF a
small citron. lies William Bristow. q
plumber employed by Thomas Haverty.
Bristow is the victim of a fall from the
height of four stories In the elevator
shaft I'm the new siX-story hotel build
ing at Fifth and Los Angeles streets
yesterday morning.
That the man was not instantly
dashed to death is beyond the compre-
hensiou of the police surgeons who are
attending him. Not only is Bristow
still living. but is entirely conscious
and discusses his remarkable escape
from death with much enthusiasm
Bristow is not more than eighteen
years old. but has the constitution of
an athlete. Since "a mere boy the
young plumber has fought his own way
I'm the world. and, in his efforts, has
been the victim of a score of accidents
I'm which his escape from almost in
stant death has always been the strong
fpntIIrC
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
"MERRY-MERRY" ORGANIZE
Is Safely Launched in
New York
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK. Dec. 1O.-The first chap
ter Of the new chorus girls union.
started by Annelle Martin of the Marie
Cahill company, was organized today
at meeting at the residence of Miss
Cahill. Miss Cahill consented to act as
honorary president of the first chapter.
Miss Martin declined to hold any offices.
as she wanted to put all her time on
organizing work. The following officers
were selected:
President, Olga May; vice president,
Lucille Munro; secretary Theresa Bar
ron; treasurer. Virginia Steinhard:
walking delegate. Lucille Mcdonald.
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved. That the primary object
Of this society will be to accomplish the
payment to chorus girls Of at least a
living income during the rehearsal
period of any production"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
NOTED AID OF CUPID DEAD
Chicago Clergyman Who Had Married
More Than Fifteen Thousand
Couples
nl In Thn IInrnld


CHICAGO, Dec. 10-Rev. John u.
Torgensen, who has just died in this
CITY, is believed to have married more
couples than any other minister In
the country. More than $4,000 mar
riage ceremonies were performed by
him. Born i'm Norway, his parents
brought him to this country six years
later AS a boy he attended the high
school at Neenah, Wis, and was grad
uated from Lawrence university. Ap-
pleton, Wis. After a theological course
in the Illinois state university nc at
tended the Douglas university OF Chi
cag6 for two years.
lie was made colporteur for the Chi
cagO Bible society later and in eighteen
months he Is said to have visited all
most 10000 families. beginning the ex-
tended Acquaintance which made him
known as an intimate friend of resi-
dents OF almost every state. In 1859
he begin his ministry I'm church at
North Peoria and Indiana streets. with
I'm n short distance of the house in
which he died. In 1877 he organized
the Independent Evangelical Lutheran
Bethania church. Of which he remained
minister until his death.
His liberal views attracted to him
scores Of couples about whose marital
intentions restrictions had been imposed
by other pastors or churches. and for
years his church was the scene Of many
marriages weekly
Six months ago he performed the mar
riage ceremony for the last Of a family
of seven children. each Of whom had
been married and whose parents had
been married by him. Several of the
children came from distant points of
the country to have the ceremony per-
formed by the aged minister. lie fol-
lowed the further history Of those he
had married whenever possible. and
found that the percentage of separa-
tipug was 1IUnetu1ty small
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
MOUSE BREAKS UP MEETING
Visit of Tiny Rodent Results in Wreck
ing the Furniture of Two
Rooms

POTTSNILLE. Pa. Dec. 10 a
mouse broke up Womens missionary
meeting in a prominent residence here
today. Help was summoned in the
shape of half a dozen dogs.
The women stood on chairs and on
the piano while the CANNES chased the
mouse and by the time the latter was
caught and properly cared for the fur
niture in two rooms had been wrecked,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-13
HELD ON A BATTERY CHARGE
John n. SiIverthorn Is Accused Of
Severely Beating Neigh.

John ii. Silverthon of 429 Soutb
hope street was arraigned before
Judge Rose In the police court yes
teruay AFTERNOON on a charge of bat
terS committed upon neighbor Wal
ter j. Parker living at 3O4 Soutb Tfona
street. Silverthorn pleaded not euiltv
and hearing Of his case was set for
today at 2 o'clock. -0'
several weeks ago Sllevrthorn was
orassed from his house and given a
severe beating by men whom he Is
hald 70 have offended. II Is not known
Mhether he was seeking revenge on
Parker or If Parker was one Of the
men VINO set upon him. This point
VII probably come out in the prose-