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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24

ShlttleSS, miserable CuSS, say
goodnight to the world;
goodnight to the disap-
pointment, the heartache; to
the friends who have cheated
you; to the women who
have loved you; TOTO the
woman who did not love
you. Goodnight, you rotten
old world!" He put the
revolver to his head.
The dog crouched whim-
pering at his feet. Then in
that awful, sinister moment
came a low, timid knock on
the door.
Stuart gave a great start.
Who's there? he sharply
called. Togo sprang up and
ran toward the door, sniff
ing eagerly and looking back
imploringly at his master.
The knock was repeated.
Stuart rose, laid the revolt
yer upon the table, and
going up to the window
peered out through the
gloom. Then with a smoth-
cred exclamation he went
to the door and threw it
open.
A forlorn little boy, about
eight, poorly clad, shivering,
stood there, his hands and
lips blue with the intense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24

STIR" he ordered, until
you've had something
to eat"
Stuart went over to
the cupboard, brought
out a loaf of bread and
a few slices of bacon,
filled the tea-kettle and
soon had a meal in
progress. The boy lay
watching him solemnly.
Here, here, | am
forgetting the tea! Tea
for a starving boy?
No, by George! that
won't do. Milk, hot
milk, is the stuff. " He
hastily heated the milk
and carried a glass
full to the bow who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24

daCe-haIS Inc SgnC erraSeQ him. as IL mad OF late
He lifted his eyes again toward the hills. 1t
sunset, and the red light shot through a cleft in
the mountains, along the treacherous Ophir Trail,
one glare of ice. The effect weird. The icy
path reflected the scarlet rays like mirror 1t
track of fire leading out, away, somewhere, to
some vast unknown bourne. Stuart had curious
fancy as he looked that perhaps his soul would go
that night along that road o. fire and snow
where?
Even he gazed, he tiny speck the
trail 1t moving with great difficulty, coming
slowly along the dangerous path.
Some cursed fool! - he muttered. He deserves
to go over plumb to the bottomless pit" Then he
bolted headlong into the cabin, shut the door
savagely behind him and locked it.
Togo, yellow dog with face and anxious
eyes, lay by the rickety stove He looked up as
Stuart entered, whined and beat upon the floor
with his stubby tail. Getting encouragement,
he sighed and dropped his head again upon his paws.
Stuart strobe to the table, opened drawer, took
out revolver and sat down. The dog suddenly
looked at him. Come here, Togo" he said.
Togo crept to his feet and looked up du1nb1y,
as if pleading for something.
Togo" said the man, you are the only friend
have earth. hate to leave you" He laughed
grimly as he examined the revolver. I'm sick of
it ALL sick of grubbng, of the failure and the lone
someness. The jig is up, Togo. This is Christmas
Eve, old man, and m going to make the Devil
present of my SOUL
He held up the revolver, taking sight along the
barrel. The shadows grew darker in the room, and
Togo noaned as if in fear.
That's all right" said Stuart with a reckless
calm. My hand is perfectly steady. sham make
of it. And now, Billy Stuart, you lowdown,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24

= the door of his
cabin to take his
last look at the world.
In the distance the
rampant of mountains,
cold, white, merciless,
that for SO many fruit
less years had shut him
round; nearer, the
lower peaks with a
sparser sprinkling of
snow and the endless
rows of pines rising
like gaunt sentinels
against the sky; below
in the valley, the sor-
did camp with its ugly
buildings, its shaft
houses, saloons and
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won't do Milk, hot
Xz53 IS! 81 milk, is the stuff" He
hastily heated the milk
and carried a glass
full to the boy, who
swallowed it like one famished.
Thank you," said the child looking I'D with
grateful eyes.
ooh, shut up!" said Stuart, something choking
him. Don't you thank me-" What was there
in the boys gaze that moved him so? What vague
memory was stirring uneasily in his bran-what
ghost that would not down? He turned back to
the stove his eyes sufused. "My Heavenl that
childl-dragging his poor little thin BODY over
the trail-and | saw him and said he ought to go
over" He broke off with shudder, put some
hot toast and bacon a plate and carried them
to the lad Sitting on the edge of the bed he was
about to feed him when the boy raised himself
up
Il can feed myself" he said eagerly.
"Oh, you cam laughed Stuart. Game little
rooster! Come l like that He gave the child
the plate and food. Now, what shall do next?"
he asked he watched him eat
The boy looked up. You'd better eat your
supper" he said gravely.
My support" repeated Stuart obviously. He
got up and went to the empty pan on the
stove my support" He ratified the lids osten-
tatiously ooh, yes. Why I've had nv supper"
he briskly concluded. Had it just before YOU
came
The child regarded him strangely. "You must
a V,
calmly. / know that you giving me your
supper"
Stuart chuckled. 'We1l now what do YOU think
of that?" he asked, addressing an unseen audience
The observing little cuss! Say, what's your
name?"
Bobby Churchill" said the boy, eating raven
ously.
where do you hail from?'
Red Hot Camp, over La Plata"
nat made you leave-run away, chr" asked
Stuart, going nearer the bed.
Yes, said the boy calmly
From your father?"
- mo, l couldn't run away
=. $50 from my father"
! !. !: !: ! ] : !: !:
"Why?"
q s# Because he is dead" said
y - the lad sententiously.
W n ooh, l say stammered
. Il Stuart, Il didn't know
- Here" he made dash for
the milk, "have some more
H1 milk!' As the child was
81 drinking Stuart laid his hand
n&>l timidly his head. Poor
(M kidd he murmured awk-
wardly. But you away
- * = a. from somebody, eh?" he pur-
sued as he took the glass.
81. Eyes," said Bobby from
Dutch Pete
Does he keep the dance
house?"
EN Eyes. | went to live with
rcHz3& him after my father died. He
sssI 4 beat me awful
~ BEAT your cried Stuart
2aE Il Yes just awful till l
81 M couldn't stand it any longer
SE4 See here" He opened his
poor little jacket and shirt.
"a TN Stuart gave look at the
~ 73*| - terrible sight, then dashed the
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1905-11-23

In the four grading districts OF the
city, which were created under the
provisions of the state statutes, there
has been constructed. during the last
year and half. soo.5ss square feet
of concrete sidewalks, or little
more than twenty-five and one-third
miles.
In addition there was built, during
the same period, 1901 linear feet OF
crosswalks, which would lengthen the
distance something like two and
three-fourths miles, making a total
of about twenty-five miles.
These improvements. as we have
already stated, cost the property own
ers in the neighborhood OF 100000,
of which S65,ooo was for thc construc-
ton of sidewalks, $4,000 for cross
walks, $1,000 for grading and 81 900
for engineering and incidental ex-
pcnscs.
The work, as a rule. has been well
done apd it would be hard to find a
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1905-11-23
Natural Resources
of Canon City

Nature has been prodigal III her
gifts to Canon City and the adjacent
country and the people who live here
are not unappreciativc OF the rich
ness of their endowment
Skirting the Southwest border OF
the valley are the Greenhorn moun-
tains whose strata are threaded with
veins of precious metals that invite
the attention of the prcspector and
the miner. To the South and Eas,
are located those splendid semi-bi-
luminous coal measures. the product
of which is famous throughout the
state.
The coal taken from the Royal
Gorge and Nonac shafts in South
Canon, as well as from the mines at
Brookside, Chandler. Heathton, Coal
Greek, Roekvale Radiant and Dia-
mond all OF which are tributary to
Canon City, is not surpassed in quail
ity anywhere in the country.
Extensive beds OF fire clay abound
and building stone OF the finest char
acter may be had for the quarrying.
Lying as it does in an anphitheater
with some twelve or fifteen thousand
acres of the most fertile land in the
world spread out before il Canon
City finds agriculture and its associ-
ated industries one OF the principal
sources OF its wealth
Intelligent cultivation. supplemented
by irrigation. assures most bounti-
full harvest OF nearly every variety
OF fruit and grain known to the TEN
peratc zone.
Alfalfa finds an ideal home and
yields three crops year.
The material resources which form
the basis OF Canon City's prosperity
are sufficient for great industrial
center and IL requires no prophet TO
foresec such result
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1905-11-23
Twenty-Five Miles Of
GrunitOid Sidewalks

Not until about two years ago did
Canon City have any sidewalks to
boast of. UP to that time people
had been content with the sanded
paths which are common in the West,
and which have done duty in that
respect since the time when the
memory of man runneth not to the
contrary" Having outgrown the
period of swaddling clothes and taken
on the airs of an embryo metropolis
an agitation was started by The
Record for permanent up-to-date side
walks which should be in keeping
with the importance of the commun-
ity as the principal town in the upper
Arkansas valley.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1905-11-23

At the time there was, probably,
not more than mile of stone or con-
crete sidewalk within the city dis
trict, outside the business district, and
they had been built by private enter
prise. The sidewalks, or, rather the
upon a program of improvement in
that respect that should place the city
in the foremost rank among COM
munities of its size in the state and
how well it has succeeded in carrying
out its ambition may be judged from
the fact that it has spent approxi-
mately 100000 for that purpose with
in the last eighteen months
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1905-11-23

tax payer who will say that the mon
ey has not been well invested, or that
the walks are not worth every cent
they cost.
With the walks constructed before
the present era OF street improve
ment began, in the residence and busi-
ness portions of the city added to
what has been built since, il is safe
to say that Canon City has more con
crete sidewalks than any other com
munity of equal population west Of
the Missouri river.
The news & observer., 1905-12-19
TO AILING WOMEN
a Little Sound Advice Will Help Many
Sufferer i'm Raleigh.

No woman can be healthy and we'll
If the kidneys are sick. Poisons that
pass off in the urine when the kidneys
are well are retained in the body
when the kidneys are sick.
Kidneys and bladder get in
famed and swollen. crowding the deli
cate female organs nearby and some
times displacing them. This is the
true cause ofmany bearing down pains.
iaineuess. backache. sideache. etc.
| nc t,,isoning also causes headaches.
zzy SMELLS. languor. nervousness and
rheumatic pain.
When suffering so. try Doan's Kid
ney Pills. the remedy that cures sick
kidneys. You will get better as the
kidneys get better. and health will re-
turn when the kidneys are well. Let a
Raleigh woman tell you about Doan's 8
Kidney Pills..
Mrs. NJ. N. Goodwin Of 224 East
Martin street. saws: "My back was
In an awful condition for long time.
1t ached almost constantly and / had
q sort of hot flashing feeling which
run down my limbs. almost as If hot
water was poured down them. Read
iag about Doan's Kidney Pills In our
".ai anars went to the Bobbitt-
Wynne Drug Co.'S store and got a
box. Since using them my back has
rot hurt me and have been better
IN every wav They certainly were
prompt and beneficial in my case"
For sole hv on dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo.
New York. sole AGENTS for the United
States.
Remember the -Doan's-and
take no other.
The news & observer., 1905-12-19
FOR WIFE MURDER
J. R. Mitchell to Hang at
Windsor.
Abram AskeW Calls His Brother. in
Law Out Hotel and Shoots Him
as He is Going
Back.

Especial TO News and Observer.)
Windsor n c.. Dec. 18.-Unless the
Governor interferes Windsor will have
its first hanging in twenty-five years.
Jesse r. Mitchell is in Jail convicted of
murder in the first degree, having
killed his wife. He killed her at night
and put her body in an Clubhouse and
burned the house. Portions of her
body were not burned and there were
certain buckles and buttons of a pc
culiar character which helped
to identify her remains and
to faSten the crime on him.
The execution will take place on the
list unless there is executive inter-
ference. No notice has been published
of any application for executive Glenn
ency. but several letters and petitions
have gone to Governor Glenn asking
q Communication.
on Thursday night Elliott Ruffin, q
colored boy had some words with
Murray Seasons. a young white lad
The matter pasesd off, but as Ruftin
was returning home Seasons, who was
in waiting attacked him with a club
and dealt him a severe blow. He has
been in a stupor ever since. but the
doctor thinks there is a good chance
for his recovery. This is a case OF
too free allowing Of young boys to
run at large at night.
On Saturday night dreadful shoot
ing took place near the Hotel Windsor
Mr. Abram Askew called his brother
in-law Mr.. Whit Blackstone out of the
hotel and after some converse ton
Blackstone turned to go back TO the
hotel when Askew fred and struck
him i'm the back. Several shots We're
fired-one striking Blackstone also III
the hand. Blackstone was carried to
Norfolk yesterday by DR.. Chas. j.
Sawyer to be operated on at the Sarah
Leigh Hospital. Up to this writing
Askew has not been taken. Black
stone has made a statement which
says that no quarrel passed between
them and that Askew asked him about
a lawsuit between them over some
land which Askew claims Blackstone
got from him unlaWfully ana that
after replying to him. he turned to
go back to the hotel when without
warning Askew commenced firing.
Blackstone Walked to the hotel office
and was assisted to a chair and an
nounced that he was shot to death
Later in the rieht some one raised
the window of the hotel and fired in
room where the supposition is the
person firing thought blackstone was
This occurrence seems quite a mys-
terry. Some persons think it was the
oct of thoughtless boys with fire crack
ers.
This is not Wiidsor's usual record.
Generally we are peaceable and law
abiding. I
Improvements go on all the time.
We have more brick stores in proper
ton to space than any town in the
State. Residences, are in demand. but
there are no unoccupied homes.
The handsome new Rectory of the
Episcopal church is completed. Rev.
john G.. Gibbs will be the minister in
charge after January 1st.
The news & observer., 1905-12-19

gallop. 1t was at st. Louis. when
Miss Roosevelt visited the World S
Fair that Nick, as his friends call him,
began to get busy and show people
that he was in the running, as it We're.
Nick wasn't invited over to St Louis
when Miss Roosevelt went there as
guest of some friends, but next day
after she arrived in town he showed
up. He was around to her house, too,
and got a cordial reception.
1T looked, however, as If the
knockers had been out against Nick.
He was left off some of the principal
receptions, but you could count on
him being near at hand. Miss Roose-
welt wanted TO see the Pike, and she
went out with her friend. and they
had dinner at the Alps and then
started on a tour of the Pike. Nick
was righa there at the beginning
She said, Hello, Nick and he said.
Hello, Alice and some of the people
with Miss Roosevelt then began to
sit up and take notice. Nick was, in
slang Johnny on the spot When
Miss Roosevelt went over the Philip
pine exhibit Nick was right along, al
though he had not been invited to
the luncheon that preceded the visit.
She smiled and seemed glad to see
him, and half dozen young fellows
who tried to butt him out of the game
| did not succeed
II remember a group of reporters
| that held Nick up, and one of them
| asked him if he was engaged to Miss
| Roosevelt. He smiled and answered
| softly, suppose you ask herr That
| showed that Nick wasn't losing him.
| self and that it was up to her to de-
| eide that question. Nick Longworth
| is worth about $1G,000,000, and is the
third Nicholas Longworth in Cincin-
natl His family is the leading
| family there, and he's one of the best
! fellows on earth. He camped with
Miss Roosevelt on her tour of the
ORIENT and, if you'll follow his WOO
| ing, you'll observe that he stuck
strictly to his business. and that such
| little things as a trip to the Orient
did not bother him. He has given a
/ magnificent example of a man in love
with a girl, and who is determined to
win her.
The news & observer., 1905-12-19
HEAVY DAMAGE AT GREENSBOR
Many Fine Trees Broken by Sleet and
Telephone and Telegraph Lines
Crippled.

Especial TO News and Observer.)
Greensboro, n. c., Dec. 1S.-Thc
sleet and ice have gone but they left
a path of destruction behind. Beauti-
ful large old elms have been broken
to pieces. their long swinging grace
full limbs cumbering the yards and
sidewalks Saturday and Sunday morn
ings, while the jagged broken stumps
from the trunks spoke sadly Of the
trees deSolation, now and their for
lorn condition next spring when the
leaves will shoot i'm vain to restore the
symmetrical and proud expanse of
foliage and of shade.
In the material world things were
bad. but they might have been worse.
Owing TO danger from falling wires,
the city lights We're cut off by order
of the mayor Saturday night, but the
electric cars ran on schedule time the
whole time, except an hour Saturday
night, when they had to stop to get
the wreckage of telephone poles and
wires from the track. Even the
telephone people prevented q very
great loss by forethought Friday. they
saw what was coming and ordered
extra men here from Sanford, Atlanta
and Birmingham. BY Saturday
morning these thirty-eight new men
added to the twenty already here. got
to work with will. Strengthening out
the local tangle. There were at
least 800 phones out of service and
many poles down. or wires broken,
These men worked all day yesterday
and began again early this morning.
An idea of the damage wrought can
be gained from the statement made
this morning that ii would take them
until Thursday to have all repairs
completed. The fact that the Tele-
phone Company had only this year
completed laying underground cables
throughout the business section, saved
them from heavier loss and the
city from having traffic entirely stop
ped on it's business streets. The
actual damages to the telephone COM
pany will reach $4,000 as it is. The
transportation expense item of its ad-
ditional linemen and assistants will
amount to $1,000.
The damage to the long distance
wires is still more serious, any num-
Der of poles being down between here
and Danville to the north, and High
Point and Winston to the south.
Telegraphic communication was very
badly crippled, but messages could be
sent via Birmingham, Ala, Saturday,
and routed from there to. some points
north.
1t was wonderful now well the
trains made out to run Saturday, as
railroad telegraphic service was en-
tirely out of COMMISSION, and yet
trains came and went without single
accident and with but little more de-
lay in schedule than is usual about
Christmas times. 1t was the sud-
denness, the biggest and quickest
gone sleet ever known here.
The news & observer., 1905-12-19
s.HELLO NICK''-''HELLO ALICE
The Strenuous WOOing of President
Daughter by Representative
LOngwOrth.

From Denver, Colorado, a special
has been sent out that tells of a
strenuous courtship. A Denver at
torney who has long been an intimate
friend of Representative Longworth,
of Ohio says of it:
81 am glad that Nicholas Long
worth has won out in his wooing of
Alice Roosevelt, for I've been watch
ing them, in common with several
thousand others, for a couple of
years. Things began to look serious
of course. between them when they
used to ride around Washington to-
gether. Thcy were out to the races
and could be seen almost any after
noon On spirited horses having a
The news & observer., 1905-12-19
lowering Makes a Sudden
Stroke.
CONTINUED from Page One.)

ceeds Senator Cockrell on the Com
mittee on Military Affairs. There
was only one better assignment pass
ed around, that on appropriations, and
Senator German, the party leader,
drew the prize. Senator Simmons
will surrender one of his less import
ant committees as soon as the new
Democratic Senator from Oregon ar
rives, and Senator Overman will re-
sign from Indian Affairs. The North
Carolina Senators are splendidly pro-
vided for in the committee assign
ments, which is an evidence of the
high standing they have among their
colleagues in the Senate.
The President has sent to the Sem
ate the nomination of Harry Skinner
to be district attorney for the Eastern
District of North Carolina. Mr..
SINNERS term Of office does not eX-
pire until February, but following the
custom of giving a second term to an
official against whom there are no
charges. the Department of Justice
reported in favor of his re-appoint-
ment and the President sent the nomi-
nation to the Senate as soon as he
heard from Mr.. Moody. 1t is a sig
nificant fact that the terms of all
other big Federal office holders in the
State expired before SINNERS, yet
the President passed over them All
the others are two termers, and there
will be sharp contests for appoint
ment in each instance.
Pou and Page.
Representative Pou has been as
signed to the Committee on Revision
Of the Laws. which fact was not an
nounced at the time the House Com
mittee assignments were made pub
lie. This is the third committee as
signment given the Representative
from the Fourth district. The COM
mittee which is considered q good one,
is headed by Mr.. Moon, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Rockwell Hoar, of Massa-
chuSetts, q son of the former Senator,
is also member.
Representative Page was one of the
first members of Congress to urge the
reference of the insurance question to
a special committee, instead of to one
of the standing committees of the
House. Mr.. Page considers national
legislation looking to the regulation
and control of insurance matters well
nigh impossible: an investigation of
insurance evils by a special commit
tee of Congress. Mr.. Page does not
consider out of place, but legislation
affecting these corporations. he
thinks should be enforced by tho
States He takes the view that the
States can hold the insurance COM
mittees to strict accountability.
The annual report of the Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General shows
that the gross postoffice receipts in
North Carolina for the la t'scal year
We're $1,313, 1851, which IS an aver
age of 65 per cent per capita. In
this respect the State takes rank of
forty-nine, indicating that Tar Heels
are very economical in the matter of
letter writing. The people or Ala
bama, Mississippi and South Carolina
only patronize the postofilce as an
in less degree. Ihere are
1867 postoffices in the State and from
The news & observer., 1905-12-19
ON THURSDAY NIGHT.
Suzanne Santie in ...Sowing the Wind 2
at the Academy of Music.

Sydney Grundy's drama, Sowing
the Wind" which win be presented
at the Academy of Music on Thursday
o-ening. December 21st is legitimate.
clean-cut. original and witty and ranks
away up at the top of the long list of
plays by that clever and prolific play
wright.
The play is new and unconventional.
md the crisp. bright lines of the dia.
logue sparkle radiantly. The cnarac-
ters are everyday people who act and
talk in an everyday sort of way-not
commonplace. but Just natural, and SO
unusually natural that it is positively
'efreshing. The play while truly a
love story. has an undercurrent of the
sensational running throughout which
tends to keep the audience under ten
sion. one scene particularlv beina
wholly dramatic. yet is made exceed