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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-10-13

Ais Ffl, glanced absent mindedly up
he street and painted large white B.
Having performed this feat, he paused
10 examine his work, assuming the
critical attitude that proclaims an
areist Then he glanced knowingly
As the ghrong below, as much as to
Say: Don't you wish you knew what
was coming ?"
Big muttered some one in the
group, and the Others regarded him
WITH something like surprise.
''F-A-f-E-" painted the artist
Failure" interrupted the clever
me
MILLING"
The brush paused once or twice be-
eOre this word was completed, but it
suggested nothing to the prophet, who
1eEapssd into silence. The artist re-
gouched one or two of the letters and
shen renewed his work with a sudden
surst of energy lest the spectators
should anticipate his climax.
MILLING COMPANIES ASSIGNS"
Leslie gazed at the words as though
fascinated by them and the scene be-
tloTe her faded.
The Milling Companies! That was
ter fathers company-the one of
which he was vice president! She
fk47l aT at Tho facaS about bor hut
#olfd Indifference was the only express
zion observable. Surely this could not
&c the great Milling Companies;
Every body would be shocked if that
we're so. But the pool did not ooze
sEen a bubble o. excitement, and the
noisy streams rushed by without the
slightest cessation.
II did not seem possible, and yet it
must he. They would not dare to pub
Ssh such thing about a famous COM
lany like that unless it were true,
This was, perhaps, the reason of her
Gathers silence and irritation of the
previous evening. He had been anx
Uug and in trouble, and she had wor-
sied him with idle questions and pos
sibiy frustrated some plan by her blind
SbstiHacy. And he had kept silence
sather than urge her against her will!
AL her doubts and fears faded away
She turned without another thought,
and flew rather than walked to Mr.
Harfanis Office in the Consolidated
Building
Dad, dear!" she exclaimed, as the
door OF the private room closed be.
Aind her. Twelve just heard about
1hG-she company. Why didn't you
seIl me? | didn't understand or
wouldn't have bothered yop last night
Please, please forgive me- Here, give
NE pen-
S&a seized one as she spoke, took
uhe proxy from her purse and rapidly
signed her name.
Opposite the seal? There! hope
SIS not too late Now kiss me and
gay youIi never speak to me again as
1ou did last night"
And then, as her father kissed her,
MISS Harlan, most lnconslderately,
auEst into tears.
Meanwhile the artist of Newspaper
VOW was further enightening his ST.
cent apathetic audience as to the Mill
ING Companies assignment, by elab-
oEately printing, in generous capitals,
'RUMORS OF INSIDE WRECKING."
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Continued

ssOoyp,sbt. la4., by frederick A. Stokes a Cob
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CHAPTER XXXIII.

Miss Harlan glanced casually at the
card in her hand and then looked W
tnquiringly at the butler.
Are you sure the gentleman asked
for me, Perkins,"
quite sure, miss"
Leslie read the card again.
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TO STORM THE SHOPS,
Strikers plan to take the factories Of
the Confederated Machine Com
panies by ASSAULT!

panies by ASSAULT!
The managers of the company saw
the statement and notified the police;
the strikers read it and silently ap-
plauded Kennard saw it and instant
~ started for the factory.
The scene about the little flag sta
ton when he arrived surprised and
shocked him. The grass was worn
away; papers, boxes and rubbish Of
all kinds-the litter of weeks-lay
scattered on the ground; the once neat
approaches were trampled into mud
and mire, and the deserted buildings
looked dreary and menacing. Near the
station, under the light of t1arins
oil torch, wild-eyed orator was al
ready addressing great throng with
gusty eloqueRce and evident purpose.
What are you waiting fSr?" he
howled THE public won't take nc
notice of you unless you do something!
This sitting tight just suits the mill
lionaires! Why, since you amt
worked, they've made enough money
in Wall street. by whoopin up the
price of material, to build another fac
tory. and If | was you I'd make EN-
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night? Was it possible her holding
of stock in the Machine Companies
lad become known, or that her inter
view with her father at his Office had
been overheard? If so, what could she
say to stop further inquiry? However,
there was no use puZzling over such
questions until they arose. The man
might be merely a belated society re-
porter. But that was scarcely prob
able. Society news was not likely to
require a night call, and it was GER
.ainly not business of the utmost i'm
uortance." Could anything have hap
pened to her father? Leslie hurried
downstairs.
How'd do, Miss Harlan? Glad to
meet you at last"
Leslie drew back instinctively from
the outstretched hand and McMannis
laughed uneasily as he noticed the
movement.
Suppose you think I'm sort of
fresh?'' he queried, half-apologetically,
but know your pa so well, it seems
as though | knew you, too. However,
no harm done, | guess?"
Miss Harlan bowed gravely, and mo-
tioning the visitor to a chair, looked
at him inquiringly.
"Thanls, don't know but l will sit
down Been on my feet nearly all
day. Not that l mind, seeing how |
got em all dead to rights this time
There wasn't a man Jack of 'em had
word about it in their last edition,
and got the whole thing in. It's a
clean beat all the way through. Even
when they got there, they were dead
slow. | found Kennard's body my
self"
He started at Leslie's cry.
What! You don't mean to say you
haven't heard Well, this is luck,
be continued 81 mean of course it's
awfully sad and all that, but | sup
posed they'd get here before me. 1t
was in our nine o'clock. See here!"
McMannis pulled crumpled news
paper from his pocket, smoothed 1t
out and held it up with conscious
pride. Stretched across the front page
in red letters six inches high was the
word
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ASSASSINATION! /! !"

Leslie gazed at the fiaring letters
in fascinated horror. She could see the
word anG appreciate its meaning, but
Geyond that her thought stopped. For
moment her brain was numbed and
her nerves alone responded to the
voice speaking close beside her. Then
suddenly consciousness of everything
that had happened and was happen
ing returned to her A deadly loath-
ing of this whisky-smelling creature
crept over her, but she fought it down
sufficiently to whisper:
Mr.. Kennard-John Kennard-is
dead? ?"
mo, he amt dead yet. Guess You
didn't read the second line of our head
ing"
McMannis started to unfold his
hideous sheet again, but Leslie mo-
toned him to stop.
"All right. | was going to show you
that it reads:
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
True Manhood.

1t is not always the coat that tells
Nor the collar your friend may
wear,
It is not only the shine of his shoe.
Nor the finished touch OF his hair.
It is not all in a silken hat,
Nor the fitting neat of his gloves;
1t is not merely his cultured air,
Nor the circle in which he moves.
1t is not his temper. his pride, nor
smile,
Nor yet his worshipful mien;
It is not even the name he bears
In the world that is shallow and
mean.
All, no! after all, tits the man him
self,
As he stands with his God alone;
'Tis the heart that beats beneath the
coat,
The life that points to the throne,
The eye that cheers with its kindly
glance,
IT'S the arm round a brother cast;
The hand that points to a hope be-
yond.
IT'S a love that endures to the last.
Selected.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18

Clark, DE-. Louis A. Banks, and other
eminent religious educators.
The button badge of the Lincoln
Legion will carry the former Presi-
dents face set in the folds of the
National flag. The work of increas-
ing the membership of the Lincoln
Legion is going on most RAPIDLY IN
that West from which Lincoln STEP
ped to be ruler of the Union in the
darkest hours of it's history.-Se-
lected.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18
Abraham Lincoln and Liquor.

American boys who look up to
Abraham Lincoln as one of their
highest types of manhood do not
generally know that, as far back as
sixty-three or sixty-four years ago,
he was one of the strongest advocates
of temperance in the West.
Many close friends of Lincoln in
Sprinfeld, ILL.,, some of whom still
live, knew that he never touched
liquor, and opposed it's use by others.
But not all of them knew, until years
fer his death, that he was a promi-
nent leader in temperance crusades.
President Lincoln, long before he
even dreamed of being President,
contributed a large amount of en-
ergy and enthusiasm to winning boys
and men from the drink habit. He
conducted temperance meetings at
Springfield and other points near by,
cooperating with the Washington
movement of the early days, and at
the same time offering to boys and
girls, fathers and mothers, temper
ance pledge devised by himself, which
read:
"Whereas, the use of Intoxicating
liquors as a beverage is productive
of pauperism degradation and crime ;
and, believing it is our duty to dis
courage that which produces more
evil than good, we therefore pledge
ourselves to abstain from the use of
Intoxicating liquors as a beverage"
Men and women who still live af-
ter having stoned that pledge prior
to 1850 and through the influence of
Mr.. Lincoln, have lately testified that
they have never broken it. Leonard
Sweet, the famous lawyer. and, be-
fore his death, the intimate friend
of Lincoln, said:
"Some time before his death Mr..
Lincoln told me that he had never
tasted liquor in his life"
1t is also a historical fact that
once when with the noted orator
Stephen Douglas, Lincoln, on being
offered a glass of liquor, refused with
| the remark:
'I have never touched liquor, and
| am too old to begin now."
| As an outgrowth of Lincoln's eff
forts to keep all men free from Ii
quor, there has recently been organ
lied in various towns and cities in the
United States. what is called the
Lincoln Legion devoted wholly tc
temperance work. Dr. Howard H
Russell, of New York, is the origina.
tor of the movement, and he has
secured the cooperation of BishoI
! Fallows, of Chicago, DR.. Francis
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18
FRIENDLY QUAILS.
How Farmer Glover Fed a Flock Day
After Day for Six Weeks.

One cold morning Farmer Glover
stood in the rear of the barn, fork
in hand, looking out over the fields.
Snowstorms had followed snowstorm,
until the stone walls we're SO covered
that the farm seemed like great
field, with here and there a small
grove to break the monotony. The
cattle had been fed and each animal
was munching contentedly at it's pile
of hay in the sunshine, scattering
chaff over the snowy barnyard.
Suddenly, from the light woods
near the barn, came a startled "Bob-
whitew Immediately there was an
answering call from the woods across
the fields, and then another and an
other. and soon flock of about twen-
ty quail alighted cautiously on the
ground, two or three rods from where
Mr.. Glover stood and BEGAN picking
up the seeds from the hav which the
cattle had strewn over the snow. They
scratched about like a flock of hens,
and apparently quite as much at
home, and chippered away while they
worked, after the fashion Of tree
sparrows in the weeds down bv the
brook.
Farmer Glover was careful not to
frighten his woodland guests, and
the next morning he put out wheat
for them and threw handfuls of chaff
in the hay which the cattle had left.
| The flock returned again and again,
until feeding the quails has become
as much a part of the days routine
| as looking after the hens and turkeys.
One cold morning after they had eat
en-, the kind-hearted farmer found
the whole flock huddled together un-
der the hay apparently enjoying the
warmth. Strange to say, they never
came for their food when it SHOWS
or rains When they have breakfast
ed, unless frightened, they usually
walk away to their favorite haunts
in the grove across the fields. They
never alight on the trees, but occa-
sionally perch on the rail fence
Once or twice. when no one was in
sight, they came near the house.
For six weeks the ouails have en-
| joyed Farmer Glover's bounty. Whe1
spring opens their kind-hearted pro.
tector will meet them only in the
fields and woods; but whenever bob
whites musical call comes over the
summer meadows it will bring pleas
ant memories of those winter break
fasts in the snowy barnyard.-Fron
Nature and Science, in St. Nicholas
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18

"Our deepest sorrows affect the
temper less hurtfully than do our
minor disappointments."
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18

The farmer who is not satisfied with
the prices he is obtaining for his pro-
ducts; who desires an agreeable change
of climate, or who is anxious to obtain
a home Mt low cost, should buy farm
in the vicinity of some busy manufactur-
ing center of the South, where farming
products are the highest, the prices OF
land the lowest. and climate and sur
roundings the most agreeable.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18
LET IT BE A CORRECT ONE

For limited time only, t, TRUE WEIGHT
CO., which has f years made all the scales
f. hip cafaIneIa hnnsn ~.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18

Tickets will be sold on all lLana, onn
Saturday and for Sunday foreman at than
trains, good returning not Ia:c 1n with
Monday following date OF SaiS; G5;nnev n
the exception that tickets to ~ TbllId bn soId
Rock and Blowing Rock VIII ~ O' GOOD
for Friday and Saturday, tTalns'T I:r ines
returning up to and including l l'''
Tickets will be withdraw drawn 10Th 10Th.
sale after Sunday, September I'
For information aDDIN Nr7T1C IT,
G. FL. GAL Itlo,
Travelling PASSENGER AscVC n c.
FL. A. MORSON,
City Passenger Agen7Ti &c \ c.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-07-18
WEEKEND RATES VIA oEA-
BOARD.

The Seaboard announces the lGi
lowing weekend rates from Ralelgn.
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NAVAL BATTLE RUMORED.


Manila, May 25.-There is an uncon-
firmed rumor here that the Russian
and Japanese fleets have met south of
Formosa and that the Japanese were
defeated.
The Russian feet was sighted May
20 on the east coast Of Batan island.
The feet was sailing northeast.
Nagaski, May 25.-The captain Of the
steamer Oscar II reports that May 10,
at 9 o'clock a. M, he was stopped in
the Batan straits by Russian warship.
In the vicinity he saw fourteen con-
verified cruisers and six torpedo boat
destroyers
The Batan straits are about 200
miles north Of Luzon and an almost
equal distance south and east of For
mosa, on the south Of the small Batan
island.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-06-01
CARACAS REPORTS CONFIRMED
CRbIegrsm to Mr.. LOOmis substan-
tIates Report Asphalt COmpany'a
Title Was Declared Forfeited.

Washington, May 25.-Acting Secre-
tary Loomis has received q cablegraul
from DR.. Hutchinson, the American
charge at Caracas, in answer to
dispatch sent by him Tuesday inquir-
ing into the decision Of the courts
there in the asphalt case. The reply
simply confirms the press reports that
the court at the instance Of the gov
eminent has decided the Hamilton
concession, under which the New
York & Bermuda company originally
held title to La Fellcidad asphalt lake.
to have been forfeited by reason OF
uon-fulhllment of the terms of the
concession and had ordered the APP
pointment Of experts to appraise the
damage sustained by the government
through the company's failure TO meet
IFS obligations. Press advices suisse
Quent to this decision announce the
company's appeal to the highest tribu-
nal In Venezuela.
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IMMIcRArIoE DISCUSSED.
HaMdIInw Of she Thsunnnds Of For-
eiEsers ceHsIdereS ~ s"ath-rp
Industrial PaFIianent.

Washington, May GA discussion
Of immigration and an address BY Gus
tav H. schwab Of New York, on For
eIgn Commerce and Ocean Transpor-
tation," were the features Of Wednes-
days session Of the Southern Indus
trial Parliment. The immigration fues-
ton was discussed by Senator sum
mons OF North Carolina, and Commits
sioner General Frank P. Sargent, OF
the immigration bureau. Permanent
organization was effected by the cleo
ton Of Gov. Robert Glenn Of North
Carolina as president and other officers
including a vice-president for each OF
the states represented
Commissioner Sargent recited the
difficulties invoked by the handling
Of the countless thousands OF foreign
ers annually coming to the United
States. No one, he said, would deny
the absolute necessity Of rigidly en-
forcing the immigration laws.
Mr.. Sargent declared that 80 per cent
of all the immigration to America
came into the state Of New York, the
great bulk Of the aliens remaining
in New York city. "All they know is"
he continued, that there is an old
castle garden, battery in New York
city, and a great New York which to
=
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-06-01

Kansas City. Mo-, May 25;-Street
cars were delayed. tracks undermined
and rendered impossible, Easements
flooded, several houses struck by light
ming and public utilities generally suf-
Tered by a thunder storm accompanied
by an unusually heavy rain between
$3.50 and 1920 O'Clock Wednesday night
In that length Of time the rainfall
amounted to 1.67 inches.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-06-01

How often do we hear women say: ~
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-06-01
PHILADELPHIA WAKING Up.


Philadelphia, May 27.-"The situa-
ton is growing brighter every minute"
said Mayor Weaver late Friday. He
would not give figures nor go into other
details, but contented himself with
saying he had received assurance from
many councilmen who had voted for
the lease last week that they would
support him in his veto. Leaders OF
the republican organization which Is
advocating the lease continue to re-
main silent. There are. however, signs.
that some of the councilment are break
ing away under tremendous pressure
Of their constituents and will probably
go along with the mayor, The all-ab-
sorbing point Of interest is whether
the mayor will succeed In getting
enough to defeat the bill when 1t shall
come up next Thursday for passage
over his veto. The organization still
stands on Its statement that 1t will
pass the ordinance In spite Of his dis
approval.
Amid tremendous cheering and the
waving Of flags several thousand per-
sons who were packed into the Acade-
my Of Music to hear prominent Phila-
delphians express their protest against
the gas lease the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
was adopted:
Resolved. That we, citizens Of
Philadelphia. without regard to party
or politics, do hereby, before God and
man, pledge our life. liberty and sa-
cred honor to the complete overthrow
Of despotic methods in municipal af-
fairs and the restoration Of the Amer
lean principles for which our fathers
fought and which shall ever be our
glory while We remain worthy to be
called their children"
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cannon. o.. mani. Faila.

anton, o., May 25-The Canton state
bank, with individual deposits Of more
than 100000, closed its doors Wednes-
day. The directors state that the
bank will not be able to resume busi-
ness. The failure was brought about
by heavy loans to W. L. Davis, vice
president Of the bank. by the cashier,
Corwin B. Bachtell, without the con-
sent Of the other directors Of the
bank. The city of Canton has $4,000
on deposit in the bank.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-06-01

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Kansas Railway Commissioners JuDket.
Topeka, Kan, May 25.-The mem
bers Of the board Of railway COM
missioners will start in a few days
for Texas. Arkansas and Missouri to
make comparison of the railroad
rates in those states with those of
Kansas. This duty is required by the
statute. Another trip will be made
iater in the summer to Nebraska, Iowa
and Minnesota.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-06-01

Berlin Correspondent Has Trouble.
Tsingtau, May 25.-The steamer &C.
Gle, belonging to Baron Kriegelstein,
arrived here Wednesday night from
Hong Kong, having had trouble with
the Hong Kong harbor officials. The
Cecile was formerly the coasting
steamship Wuchang, and was pur-
chased by Baron Kriegelstein, corre-
spondent of the Lokal Anzeiger, of
Berlin, who placed her under French
colors and sailed with the intention Of
witnessing the expected battle be-
tween the Russian and Japanese fleets.
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PIeale Ald to chIshEo strIkerr,

Salt Lake City. Utah, May 25.-Res-
olutions pledging aid to the striking
teamstes Of Chicago were passed by
the Western Federation Of Miners in
national convention here Wednesday.
The resolutions set forth that the Chi
cago teauisters are waging heroic
struggle on behalf Of the Garment
Workers Of that city against the cap
italist class, and pledge moral and
financial aid In their struggle.