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The Adair County news., 1905-08-16
The Hereafter of Nan.

No more beautiful expression on the
hereafter Of man and the hope of fu-
ture life has ever come under cur notice
than the following from W. ]. Bryan:
''If the Father deigns to touch with
Divine power the cold and pulseless
heart of buried acorn and make it
burst forth from it's prison walls, will
he leave neglected the soul of man who
was made in the image of his Creator.
If he stoops to give to the rosebush,
whose withered blossoms float upon the
autumn breeze, the sweet assurance of
another spring-time, will he withhold
the words of hope from the souls of
men when the frOsts of winter come?
If matter, mute and inanimate, is
changed by the force of nature into a
multitude of forms that never die, will
the spirit of man suffer annihilation af-
ter it has paid brief visit, like royal
guest, to this tenement of clay?''
The Adair County news., 1905-08-16
Always Take Time.

Take time to breathe a morn
ing prayer, asking God to keep
you from evil and use you for his
glory during the day.
Take time to be pleasant. A
bright smile or a pleasant word
falls like a sunbeam upon the
hearts of those around us.
Take time to be polite. A gen.
tie Il thank you," IF you
please, Excuse me-" etc., even
to an inferior, is no compromise
of dignity, and you know
THE politeness is to say
The kindest things in the kind
est way"
Take time to be patient with
children. Patience and kindness
will open a way for good influence
over most any child.
Take time to be thoughtful
about the aged. Respect gray
hairs even if they crown the head
of a beggar.
The Adair County news., 1905-08-16
Rural Luxurles.

The rural town is fast becom-
ing a city in it's general appoint
ments accommodations, manners
and style, and it is the means of
disseminating the latest ideas and
conveniences among surrounding
farmers. Through investments
and improvements, says an ex-
change very truly, the country is
getting nearer to the city, near
er to the myriad advantages Of
comfort which human ingenuity
is devising. The present is an
era of luxury. Every urban
home has the inquestiture of a
palace in a former period; in fact,
it offers, with the common excep-
tion of size and yard area, more
and better faculties for easy llv-
ing. Every country home is
comparatively as well furnished.
Almost all the comfort which is
found in the city home can be
installed and enjoyed in the most
isolated farmhouses laying in an
ut-of-the-way locality. =
The Adair County news., 1905-08-16
Faced Death Ten Times.

Samuel Greason has been acquitted
at Reading, Pa, of the charge of muir
der, and is free man. 1t is more than
mere charge of which he is freed.
For three years he has been under con-
viction and sentenced to hang. The
verdict of the court pronouncing him
innocent and setting him free, comes to
him as the announcement of a new
life.
Ten times the gallows was built and
the moose made ready. Ten times the
death warrant was read to him as he
cringed in his cell and cried out that he
was innocent.
Each time Doubt stretched out his
hand and the execution was delayed.
And now the court has found that the
poor devil is indeed innocent.
From the black shadow of the gallows,
with its terrifying glooms and goblins,
Greason suddenly sees the bright sun
shine of new life. From the damp
prison, with its horror and hopelessness.
he steps and breathes the rich air of
freedom.
But he owes it all to the rarest chance.
No other man in Pennsylvania ever be-
fore had his time of execution set ten
times and lived This man has suffer
ed the terrors of a thousand deaths.
And at last his accuser confesses her
prejury, and he is free.
1t has takes three years and the most
determined work on the part of few
earnest men and women to prove this
mans innocence. He was poor, ignor-
ant and friendless, and of such the
courts, unfortunately, m k quick
work.
How many poor devils like Greason
have gone innocent to the gallows no
body knows and few seem to bare.
The man with money, standi g and
friends is presumed to be innocent un-
til proven guilty. But the poor and
friendless, once accused, is presumed to
be guilty unless he proves his inno-
cence.
The jails and penitentiaries of the
country are filled with the ignorant and
helpless, while rich bank wreckers and
trust buccaneers walk free and in
solent.
It is a small matter to fix upon a
poor man even the extreme crime of
murder, but it is all but impossible to
convict an absconding cashier or even
get him brought to trial.
Something is radically wrong.
Something is rotten, nearer than
Denmark.
The Adair County news., 1905-08-16
Poultry Notes.

Have a place for everything in
your poultry house, and every
thing in its place.
Now is the time that your
fowls needlpounded grass, grav-
ell and such things for grit.
Give your fowls a warm meal
mornings which will keep them
warm and make them lay.
1t is a dead sure thing that no
one man or class of men can
monopolize the poultry business.
One secretsof success in the
poultry business is at all times
to have the pens and houses
clean and dry.
Have straw or chaff on your
poultryssfoors to keep the feet Of
the birds warm and prevent
their takinglcold.
Cabbage, turnips, beans, pota-
toes and almost any refuse vege-
tables, boiled and mixed with
meal are good for fowls.
An aid to making fowls lay in
cold weather is to heat their
grain before feeding, but do not
get it too hot, as fowls have been
killed that way.
After cleaning your poultry
house thoroughly and using
crude kerosene oil in all the crew
ices and on perches, then litter
the floor with straw and chaff.
A good dose of pure Persian
insect powder is about the only
thing that will kill insects.
It is a poor policy to see all
your best birds, even if you can
obtain good price, for while you
obtain more ready money, you
are not improving your stock,
and your birds will deteriorate
each year as long as yon practice
selling all of the best.
The Adair County news., 1905-08-16

and women whose names adorn the
Blue Book of society, who are well
known figures in Newport, New York
and Paris, and who had to use all their
fineness and influence to keep their high
ly respected names from being trailed
in the mire. That there will come an
aftermath of divorce and scandal few
who are cognizant of the facts can
doubt.
Of the 568 prisoners taken more than
400 are still in jail They consist of
clubmen, lawyers, business men whose
names are known throughout the city,
sports and highfyers, young scions of
society from the Germantown section,
and, in some instances their sisters and
cousins and their aunts.
All of to-day there has been strug-
gle to obtain bail and to cover up scan
dals. Absolutely no mercy was shown.
Rich and poor, old offenders and young,
were scooped up in the same net and
carried away to Jail. The police were
frank in their brutality. They realize
that they were killing their own graft,
and the incidental slaughter of half a
hundred fine old Quaker regulations
were meat and drink to them.
1t was curious sight to see men of
wealth and influence in the city walking
up to the Magistrates Court to proffer
bail for relatives or friends caught in
the raid. In not single instance did
the men or women prisoners of good
repute give their real names. AS is al
ways the case in raid, the women got
by far the hardest treatment. A man
of prominence would be called to the
bar only to give fictitious name and
fade away with $40 fine.
In every instance the woman, no mat
ter of what family or reputation, was
looked upon as an inmate" and fined
$500. In nine cases out of ten there
was no bail Forthcoming, and the better
ones were led weeping back to their
cells. Many of them were Of good
families, many were married, many
were visitors to the city.
The Adair County news., 1905-08-16
A Great Work.

The people of Kentucky generally do
not realize what a great work is being
done in 1.-The Mountains" under the
direction of DR.. E. A. Guarrant, of
Wilmore, this State. He began his
mission service in that section by put
ting one missionary there seven years
ago with salary of $3.50 year. He
has now seventy men in the field with
salaries amounting to $4,000 a year.
The remarkable feature about the work
is that not dollar of the money that
carries on this great work is solicited,
but comes as voluntary contributions
from all parts of the United States,
and you might say from the entire
world. DR.. Guarrant, himself attributes
in a great measure the wonderful sue
cess of this work to the press which has
urged it's support and from time to
time called attention to it's accomplish
ments. The movement now is to es-
tablish an orphanage in the mountains
on account of the fueds killing more
men than in any other part of the State.
1t is proposed to buy farm for SIS, 900
and put the orphan boys on it and teach
them to make living. DR.. Guarrant
is confident that the money will come
and it certainly ought to come. The
people of Kentucky should least of all
not close their pocketbooks against the
calls and demands from the mountains.
The Adair County news., 1905-08-16

1t is said that the concience
fund of the United States now
amounts to $40O, 600. This re-
presents just that many pounds
or pints of remorse.
The Adair County news., 1905-08-16

When a fellow runs for office,
it's generally considered a mild
sort of mud bath.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

weight champioa. ana keyt nimSale %
- good condition rs . pen artist. On
the night before an election $4,000
would b. psf in Billy's hands In bet4
with no security but a memorandum.
The Hoffman house used to be demo.
cratic headuarters. All that business
has gone uptown. Tho. prize fighters
now gather about the Metropole and
other Joints in Loigacre square,
wherv they get out and smirk when the
Seeing New York wagons go past
Campaign headquarters no longer seek
sporty hotels. Even Tom Plat has left
the Fifth Avenue hotel to live In one
a mile farther up the avenue.
The new Hoffman house will cost
only 100000: but then 1t is but 50
feet wide. There is a new wing to be
Joined with It on one side, and q sim.
liar one is to be constructed later upon
the other. II the hotel management
had tried to move uptown and get into
the hotter competition 1t would have
been a matter of millions.
A theatrical manager has Just bought
a plot of u feet on Broadway for q
new theater. Just at the corner Of Thir-
ty.ninth street. 1t cost him cool mil.
lion; say little over five millions per
acre. always like to get these things
into acres because acres are something
l knew about when moved, hoed and
plowed them as boy.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

relatives, but neglected to state that he
had been taken by force and that he
had been given no opportunity to ex-
plain his predicament to his dancee.
She could not understand the painful
situation created by his absence. He
had promised to send carriage for
the wedding party, and none having
come, rather than delay the ceremony.
she, in all her wedding finery, had walked
tc the scene of the nuptial ceremony,
only to find it a place of desolation for
her. The minister did his best to COM
fort her, but his words were unavail-
ing, and, sorrowfully, with the we'd
ding f1nery painfully incongruous on
North Bennington streete. she, still a
maid, with her sister and friend,
tramped back to her boarding place.
Public Sides with Old Man.
The next day Bennington and
North Bennington awoke to the mari
tai tragedy which was being enacted
in their midst and the citizens wit
messed the efforts Of Octogenarian
Huling to attain his hearts fondest
desire. First amused, then angered,
the residents eventually took sides
with the old gentleman and appiauded
his determination to maintain his
rights.
The charge Of intoxication was SIT
tied without difficulty, there being no
evidence to substantiate the allega-
ton, but an application was immedi-
atoly made for the appointment of q
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

liam Waldorf Astor may never have .
title. He has made too many breaks"
His son Waldorf, educated in England,
can hardly fail. II he lives. to achieve
that goal. He is an English citizen,
though born In the United States. w.
w. Astor's fortune Is above 5000. O00..
900. 1t is about twice as great as John
Jacob Astor's. William Waldorf's
grandfather was just a trifie more far.
sighted than John Jacobs in land in.
vestments. The principal Of compound
interest has done the rest. And it 10
still working.
The mere difference between viii.
liam Waldorf's income and JOHN ia.
cob's Is 100000 year. He cannot
possibly spend it. It accumulates.
w. H. Vanderbilt called himself.
Just before his death, in an apoplectic
fit Of anger. the richest man in the
world. He had $1S0.oO0,000. No Van.
derbilt since has had 80 much. for w.
H. divided his wealth among large
family. 1.-THE duke of Westminster"
said Mr.. Vanderbilt, has nominally q
larger fortune. but his income is less. %
In one way Mr.. Vanderbilt was
right: the duke was in the $500, 900. 900
class. But when the then duke came
to die, his personal estate. aside from
landed property which he could not
sell but must pass on to his heir. was
only 100000. That was practically
his whole savings from his ducal in.
come, which had not greatly increased.
The duke of Westminster's landed es.
tate is in the heart of London. as AS.
TORS is in the heart of New York. Tbs
American rate Of land income is high.
or than the English rate and New York
is growing twice as fast as London. The
value of land growing with 1t.
The duke Of Waldorf, II there ever
is such person-he should be the
duke of Manhattan-will be the
wealthiest nobleman in England.
OWEN LANGDON.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14
Marks Of a Grilse.

Some of Recreation's sporting contem-
poraries have published letters of cor
respondents who desire to know the
marks by which grilse may be dis
tinguished from a salmon. To an old
fisherman the problem presents no DIFF
ficulty. The grilse has a deeply cleft
tail, while that of the salmon, even
when the fish is small, is more nearly
square. In the case of an aged fish, the
tail is actually convex. Again. the
scales of the grilse are detached with
great facility; you cannot handle o
grilse without the scales becoming de-
tached in quantities. while with an
adult salmon the scales are compare
lively firmly attached. Then there ID
an indescribable something about the
shape of the grilse that distinguishes
1t at once to an experienced eye. It is
slighter, with smaller, sharper head.
The body is less flexible. Size is no
guide to the grilse, as on some rivers
grilse are fully as heavy as the small
salmon, though this is contrary to the
general rule in Canadian streams.
Perley, in Recreation.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

Mr.. Huling's Arst WIN died about tea
years ago and shortly afterward his oae
child, . son, Frank, passed away. HIS
only relatives arc three or four niecAs
and nephews, and It vas among them. It
was confidently felt, that his wealth
would be divided, ~ there has been .
sort OF tradition In the Huling family
not to devote any large sums to public
benefactions. Under the Vermont laws
the surviving member Of married
couple receives from the estate $1,000
and one-half the remainder absolutely.
This means, Of course, $4,000 more than
one-half. Consequently Columbus Hull
ing's nephews and nieces will receive
less than one-half what they would IL
he had remained in single blessedness,
and If his wealth is correctly placed at
5000, 900 this indicates q loss Of over
100000 to them.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

ming expenses he must put aside
the proceeds Of $50 two-dollar seats for
every evening and matinee perform.
ance in an eight months season for
that.
Where does the money come in:
Because the people OF New York are
amusement crazy. The two-dollar seat.
even the $3.50 or three-dollar seat. for
a special attraction does not scare
them. A box at $25 is compliment
that men of moderate means but large
income feel to be due to their "posi-
tion," which position may be. to tell
the truth. precarious. Tho theater that
costs so much is big one. After de-
Quoting the $50 good seats for the fixed
charges there are still plenty left which
sell at high prices. The ten. twent'
thirt'" houses-houses where good
seats are all sold at prices Of so cents
or less-entertain enormous numbers.
On the other hand. some OF the most
successful theatrical runs have been
held in tiny houses. candida" ran 10
good money two years ago in a house
that holds less than 500 persons. Fixed
charges were small for merely part
of a big office and studio building,
Ben Greet's successful stage perform.
ances have been held in an open hall.
Take the opera as an Illustration of
the passion for amusement. Herr Con-
rid says that New York will soon have
five-months' season of continuous
opera, with performances every even
ing and Sunday sacred concert" 1t
is to have this year an extra perform
ance every week.
What does 1t mean? Merely trifle
of $4,000 added to New Yorks already
huge weekly expenditure at this ono
place of amusement. or course. no
theater will take in more than small
fraction Of what the opera makes
while 1t is going full blast. but there
| is a good bit of time at both ends of
the opera season when the theaters
have it all their own way with money
thrown at them; and the worse the
show the better the people like 1t.
Like dry goods man. theater can
do better business on costly land
where the people are.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

again, this time at Fairbanks" he add
co. when l left he had some proper
ties that were paying handsomely and
the indications are that he will quit
81 ,OOO, 900 to the good.
"Some years ago Bill cleaned up
SS45, 5000 in Alaska, but like many 9TH
ers who made fortunes quickly, he let
the money slip through his fingers.
"In about one year after he became
an accredited millionaire, saltwater
Bill was tramp. Wine, women and
cards brought his downfall.
But he was game, and went back to
work again, and for the second time
Dame Fortune smiled IN his direction.
He is on easy street now and will
doubtless leave the Eorth before long
with a gripful Of dust"
Many Butte men remember "Swift-
water Bill" as the man who gained
notoriety in this country through his
reported marriage to all of the four
la More sisters.
The La More sisters at one time APP
peared at the Casino in this city, and
rumor had it that "Swiftwater Bill''
married all four.
He persistently denied the rumor.
but the story was spread broadcast
throughout the United States.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

ised bride and secured the document
which told the world that the commu-
nifty placed no restrictions on the
marital union of the man and woman.
Then the wedding day was set. Great
secrecy was observed; the town Off
cial who issued the document was
sworn to silence, and the minister was
urged to divulge to no one that the
ceremony was to take place. The
day came, and then the old gentle
mans manner and air of Importance,
coupled with his announced intention
of clothing himself in his best attire.
as the afternoon wore on, aroused the
deepest suspicious of his housekeeper-
the aged widowed sister-in-law. He
skillfully evaded her sharp questioning,
but she was not satisfied with his re-
plies, and posthaste sent message for
one Of the interested relatives. An
examination Of the town clerks records
disclosed the whole situation; the truth
was laid bare. Apparently the old man
and his fiancee had outwitted the en-
tire array of relatives-the license was
issued, the minister engaged, and the
groom-elect only awaited the coming OF
The would-be bride, for the final part
Of the amorous chapter.
How best to prevent the dreaded
event was the question uppermost in
the minds of the distracted relatives.
They had before them only two or three
hours Mt the utmost. and whatever was
to be done must be done quickly. Right
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14


and redrew part of the dc.
sign. The old maxim is never to throw
away a drawing. Gibson obeys it.
The pen strokes are literally huge. each
several inches long. and of great
width at times. Examine one with a
microscope il you get a chance. The
line is clean and sharp. 1t was swift
ly done. No man could draw a single
one of those strokes without long prac-
tice, and without the steady nerves that
come with sane living.
With a rather well-known illustra-
tor. man Of real genius. came one
day to so simple an obstacle as a
flight of stairs. started to go up
two steps at time and at run. My
companion, some years younger and
a perfect man physically. laid his hand
on my arm reprovingly: mot that
way" he said. Zone step at a time
and slowly" The hand stroke must
be steady, unhurried. In wash
drawing man may mess up picture
into some kind of shape with shaky
hands. IL he knows the game. That is
one reason why artists like the pen
Just as they used to like to draw on
wood direct for the engraver.
The successful pen artist Is q good
specimen physically. Gibson could
pose for one Of his own tall young
men. only he'd need wig. Fred Rem;
ington used to be a Yale football play.
er. Frost is golfer. The bohemian
idea don't answer these days. Any
more than 1t does with the newspaper
men Of the front rank.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-14

Hearst days. The richest clergyman in
the world is the famous Dean Hoffman.
head of the General Theological sem.
mary in Chelsea. 1t rs supposed that
he has been part owner Of the hotel
that won fame because Of its supposed
wickedness.
"Ex-wicked" the Hoffman house now.
When it was new the manager had the
bright idea of putting upon the wall
Of the cafe two famous Bouguereau
paintings Of wine. the other Of female
lcveliness. Press agent work was easy.
Women used to go in the early morn
ing when trade was light to look at
the pictures. The management vel
coined them with smiles.
For years the Hoffman house was the
resort of sporting men. Billy" the
most famous chucker-out in New York.
ycisned there. He was an ex.light'