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The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-11-04
Poor Report.

Lance, Mich, Nov. 1. 1905.
Hon Board of Supervisors of Baraga County:
Gentlemen: The following is q correct list Of
poor orders drawn by me for Lance Township
during the month Of October, A. ID. 1905.
j. George, on j. B. Smith, old age. ........$ 4 90
jos Bushey, on p Brennan, old age $50. 8 90
John Bird, ditto sickness =. 90
p. Mark sman, Sr., @. Hebard q Son. =. 8 90
DR.. John Zellen, prof. services tor Bertha
LucIous .s.s..t .....'s..s.... ....... 70 w
Zellen's Pharmacy for medicines and other
supphes. ...........--.''... ...''... ~ on
$40 aS
PHILIP voETsoH. Superintendent
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oossip.

Dell-Is Misc surleigh satisfied with
her choice of . husbandf f
Ethel-Well, she's satisfled II wasn't
. case Of choice. !-Detroit Free Press
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boundaries through unproductive
mountain ranges we shall arbierate,
and feel virtuOus. For gold mines and
good pasture land, mixed up with a
little honor to give respecta biity to
the business, we shall fight it out, as
previously. War being thus inevitable.
the human man will rejoice that by
one of those brilliant discoveries, so
simple when they are explained, war in
the future is going to be rendered
equally satisfactory to victor and to
VanQulshed. In by-eIectiOnS, as a wit
ty writer has pointed out, there are
no defeats! only victories and moral
victories The idea. seems to have
caught on. War in the future is evil
IDENTIFY going to be conducted on the
same understanding. Once upon
time, from a far-Off land certain
ing his government that the enemy
had shown no inclination whatever to
prevent his running away. The whole
country rejoiced. why they never
even tried to stop him - citizens, meet
ing other citizens in the street. told
each other. "Ah, they've had enough
Of him, I bet they are only too glad to
get rid of him. Why, they say he ran
for miles without seeing a trace of the
zoe" The enemy's general, on the
other hand, also wrote home congrat-
uiating his government. In this way
the same battle can be maficked over
by both parties. Contentment is the
great secret of happiness. Everything
happens for the best. if only you look
at 1t the right way. That is going to
be the argument. The general of the
future will telegraph to headquarters
that he is pleased to be able to inform
his majesty that the enemy, having
broken down all opposition, has sue
ceeded in crossing the frontier and is
now well on his way to his majesty's
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BOILED HIS WATCH.
Another story of Sir John Burdon-san-
derson's Absent AIindedness.

London, Dec. 16.-Sir John Burdon-
Sanderson, the scientific baronet who
gave the comic papers most of their
jokes on absent-minded persons, is
dead. His official life began as a medi-
cal officer of health in London in the
late fifties. Since then almost every
honor and position by which eminence
in scientific research is recognized in
Great Britain has fallen to his lot.
On one occasion Lady Sanderson left
him one evening to conduct some
guests to the dining-room. When she
came down the hall she found him
helping them into their great coats,
shaking hands and saying goodbye.
Left one morning to boil his own egg
for breakfast, with instructions TO give
it three minutes, he was found staring
intently with the egg in his hand, while
his watch was rRerrily boiling away in
the saucepan. On another occasion he
went for a walk with gentleman who
was staying in his house. On arriving
back home Sir John turned to his guest
as they reached the gate, and holding
out his hand said:
'It has been the greatest pleasure to
me to meet you. wish I could ask
you to spend a few days with me, but
the house is full, as we have some peo-
pie staying with us
The late Sir Henry Acland delighted
to tell one story of Sir Johns absent
mindedness. While a guest at his
house, the famous scientist one day
asked Miss Acland II he might have
his lunch earlier than usual, as he had
an important eau to make. The lunch
was served, and Sir John left the
house. Ten minutes later he returned,
rang the bell, and asked the astonished
servant to bring up lunch It was duly
served, and Miss Acland had the sat-
isfaction of seeing her guest make a
second hearty meal. At the university,
where he was known among irreverent
under-g graduates as the Burder," he
Z n serl7t h 71e re-4T7
f1ng one chalky buster after the other
into his pocket and eventually using
his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to clean the
blackboard
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A HOME FOR ARTISTS.
A House of Retreat for Aged and In
firm Artists to Be Opened.

copyright, 1905, by Central News and
Press Exchanged
Paris, Dec. 16.-Last April a house
of retreat for aged and infirm coined
ians was opened at POnt aux Danes,
thanks to the efforts of NJ. Coquelin,
the elder. Now the painters are to
have their house of refuge.
NJ. Tony Robert Fleury, of the So
ciety of French Artists, announces that
this body received a large legacy sew
eral years ago, but that owing to diff
culties with the assistance publique,
the will not having been clearly drawn
up by the legatee, the money could not
be utilized then, though it is not doubt
ed that a satisfactory understanding
will be arrived at soon. Meanwhile
Nine. Jules Comte, who. better known
as Nine. Armand Hayem, has come to
the aid of the society by offering it
magnificent building at Montlignon,
not far from Ermont. It is situated in
the middle of park, and can give ac-
commOdatiOn to twenty artists. For
ten years the house has been occupied
by the old and inffrm men of the can
ton. But these will be pensiOned off,
and their places occupied by oil paint
ers, sculptors, engravers and architects.
Little studios will be arranged in the
building, so that the pensioners can
follow their old occupation at will. NJ.
Fleury is confident that Nine. Comics
generous example will be followed, and
that aged artists, like aged actors, need
have no fear as to their future.
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capital. 81 am Turing him on" he
viii add, "as fast as can. At our
present rate Of progress, I am in hopes
of bringing him home by the 10TH
Lest foolish civilian sort of people
should wonder where about lies the
cause of rejoicing, the military man
will condescend to explain. The enemy
is being enticed farther and farther
from his base. The defeated general
who is not really defeated, who is only
artful. and who appears to be running
the contrary, he is running home
bringing-as he explains-the enemy
with him. If I remember rightly-it
is long since I played it-there is a
parlor game entitled, "Puss in the
Corner" You beckon another player
to you with your finger. "Puss, puss.
you cry. ThereUpon he has to leave
his chair-his base" as the military
man would term it-and try to get to
you without anything happening to
him. War in the future is going to be
"Puss in the Corner" on a bigger
scale. You lure your enemy away from
his base. If all goes well-if he does
not see the trap that is being laid for
him-why then, almost before he
knows it, he finds himself in your cap
ital That finishes the game. You
find out what it is he really wants.
(provided it is something within rea-
son, and you happen to have it handy,
you give 1t to him. He goes home
growing; and you, on your side, laugh
when you think how cleverly you sue
ceeded in Turing him away from his
base. There is a bright side to all
things. The gentleman charged with
the defense of a fortress viii meet the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
A BEE-KEEPER's ADVENTURE.
Took a Hive of Honey-Makers With
Him on a Train.

Berlin, Dec. 16.-An honest West
phalian bee-keeper boarded the train
one day last week at Papenburg with
a hive full of prize bees, to travel to
Meppen, where he intended to exhibit
his stock at an agricultural show. I'm
derneath the seat he placed the hive,
steadying it with his legs. Probably
owing to the warmth thus generated,
the bees after some time awoke, and
a, number of them craWled up his legs.
Passengers in the same compart-
ment who had already eyed the far
mer's movements to rid himself of his
assailants with suspicion became thor
oughly alarmed when the four-winged
insects began to flag about. One of
the travellers pulled the alarm signal,
with the result that the bee master
was transferred with his hive to an
empty compartment. Here the embar-
raised passenger quickly Invested him
self of his neither garments and
vigorously shook them out of the
window to drive the unwelcorle
intruders out. To his horror,
however, the garment, which also con-
tanned his money, became entangIed
in a telegraph wire and was torn out
of his hands. Ordered to leave the
carriage at the next hating place, the
blushing farmer was found huddled up
in a corner, which he refused to leave
until an official kindly lent him his
great coat. After giving up his watch
and his new umbrella as security, he
started numerically chaffed by the
spectators on a search for the lost gar
ment, and, thoroughly disguised, took
the next train home.
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millions rise from the ruins Of their
ancient civilization to take part in the
future Of humanity than that half the
population of the globe should remain
bound in savagery for the pleasure and
profit of his own particular species.
He even goes so far as to think that
the white man may have something
to learn. The world has belonged to
him now for some thousands Of years.
Has he done all with it that could
have been done2 Are his ideals the
last word? Not what the Yellow-man
has absorbed from Europe it is that
interests my friend. He is watching
the birth Of a new Force; an influence
as vet unknown. He clings to the
fond belief that new ideas, new form
uIae to replace the old worn shibbo-
Ieths may during these thousands of
years have been developing in those
keen brains that behind the impressive
yellow mask have been working so
long in silence and in mystery.
JEROME K. JEROME.
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snlu1e.lers' Tricks.

Zurich, Dec. 16.-The little town of
Annemassee. a French Customs station
close to the Swiss frontier, was the
scene last week of a remarkable dis
covery of smuggIers' ingenuity. Some
children We're playing near the railway
station with bricks that had fallen
from a truck labelled 'tAix-les-Baines,
when one of them broke. It was found
to be hollow, and filed with tobacco.
Investigation quickly followed, and dis
closed 500 pounds of tobacco hidden
in the load of bricks. This discovery
led to the holding up of another truck
load, which had already got as far as
Annecy, on its way to Aix-les-B aines
Here another surprise awaited the
authorities Mixed with real bricks. a
number of hollow ones were found
from which 200 pounds of yellow phos-
phorus and SO pounds of snuff, both
heavily taxed goods. were extracted.
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the laughter of the mob against it. The
present trouble in the east would never
have occurred but for the white mans
enthusiasm for bearing other peoples
burdens. What we call the yellow
danger is the fear that the yellow man
may before long request us, SO far as
he is concerned, to put his particular
burden down. It may occur to him
that, seeing it is his property, he
would just as soon carry 1t himself.
A London policeman told me a, story
the other day that struck him as an
example of Cockney humOr under lying
circumstances. But it may also serve
as a fable. From a lonely street in the
neighborhood of Covent Garden, early
one morning, the constable heard cries
of stop theft shouted in a childish
treble. He arrived on the scene just
in time to collar a young hooligan
who, having snatched a basket of fruit
from a small lad-a green grocer'S eB-
rand boy. as it turned out-was with
it making tracks. The green grocer's
boy between painting and tears, deliv-
garded him with an expression of
amazed indignation. What dyer
mean, stealing it?" exclaimed Mr.
Hooligan, why, 1 was carrying it fer
yer!'' The white man has got into the
way Of carrying" other peoples bur-
dens; and now 1t looks as if the yellow
man were going to object to our car
rying his any further. Maybe he is
going to get nasty and insiet on car
rying it himself We call this the yell
low danger" A friend of mine-he is
a man who in the streets walks into
lamppOsts and pologizes-seeS rising
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other gentleman who has captured It
and shake hands with him amid the
ruins. 80, here you are at last" he
viii exclaim. why didn't you come
before? We have been waiting for
you" And he will send of dispatches
felicitating his chief on having got that
fortress off his hands. together with
all the worry and expense it has been
to them. When prisoners are taken
you will console yourself with the re-
hexion that the cost of feeding them
for the future will have to be borne by
the enemy. Captured cannon YOU viii
watch being trailed away with a sigh
Of relief "Confound heavy thingsi'
you viii say to yourself. THANK good
ness, I've got rid Of them Let him
have the fun Of dragging them about
these CHASTITY roads. See how he likes
the job" War is a ridiculous method
of settling disputes. Anything that
can tend to make its ridiculous aspect
more apparent is to be welcomed.
The new school of military dispatch
writer's may succeed in turning even
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the burglar refers airily to the little
Job he has on hand. You would
think he had found work in the coun-
try 1 should not be surprised to- learn
that he says a prayer before starting.
teiegraphs home to anxious wife the
next morning that his task has been
crowned with blessing. Until the far
OF date Of Universal Brotherhood war
VIII continue, matters considered un-
important by both parties will=with
9 mighty flourish of trumpets-be re-
1arred to arbitra ton. / was talking of
a famous dnancier once a while ago
with man who had been his secre<
tary. Amongst other anecdotes. he
told me of certain agreement about
which dispute had arisen. The fnan-
cier took the paper into his own hands
ana made a few swift calculations.
Let it CO." he concluded. st is onlv
q thousand pounds at the outside. Nav
az we'll be honest" About fishing
rights in out of the way seas, and
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from the east the dawn of a new day
in the worlds history. The yellow
danger is to him a golden hope. He
sees a race long stagnant, stretching its
giant limbs with the first vague move
ments of returning life. He is a poor
sort of patriot; he calls himself, I sup
pose, a white man, yet he shameIessly
confesses he would rather see Asia's
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The appearance Of Jerome K. Jerome
tonight at the Park Congregational
church is of especial interest to all low
ers Of good English. It has been said,
how truly each must decide for him
self. that rothing is so rare in America
as good English. The cultivation Of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17

English language is an art as exacting
as the art of singing or the art of paint
ing, but that it is q very generally
neglected art nearly everyone viii con
cede. Mr.. Jerome is a master of Eng
lish and he has put the noble tongue to
some excellent uses OF expression.-St.
Paul Dispatch. Dec. s.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
MISSISSIPPI STATS
HAPPININ GS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
SECTIONS.
AN EPITOME OF TIE NEWS
Culled From the Important Happen
ings Throughout the State During
the Past Week and Reviewed In
Brief.
Fraternal Insurance.

State insurance Commissioner w
o. Gale has issued a statement show
ing the volume of business done BY
fraternal insurance orders in Missls-
sippi during the year 1904.
For white organizations the amount
of business in force at the beginning
of the year was 33,O25 certificates
amounting to $4s,4S7,Os2 During the
year 11,524 certificates were issued
amounting to $9,S95,l56 and 5,4S9 GER
tifcates, amounting to $4,316,133, ceas-
ed to be in force. The assessments col
lected for the year were $7O0,SS6, the
losses incurred $666,936.95, and the
losses paid 1854, ,574.72.
The colored fraternal organizations
at the end of the year had business III
force amounting to $7,141,917. The
number of certificates issued during
the year was 22,177, amounting to $2,-
522,741, the number ceased to be in
force during the year, 1920, amount
ing to $S71, sol, and the assessments
collected 1926, 1926. The losses incur
red were $264, ,544, and the losses paid
$264, ,453.15.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
Club Women Adjourn.

The Mississippi Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, after a most successful
session in its history, finished its work
at Jackson and adjourned.
Mrs. R. E. Jones, of Crystal Springs
was reelected president fo the Fed
GRAFTON in spite of an earnest appeal
to the delegates to accord this honor
to some other club woman. AS one of
the ladies expressed it, "she protest
ed most manfully," but objections
were Of no avail, and Mrs. Jones will
serve another year in the office. The
ladies were evidently much pleased
with their officers, and there was also
commendable absence Of that vaulting
ambition which o'erleaps itself. Mrs.
R. J. Harding of this city, was re-
elected recording secretary, and Miss
Blanche Alexander, Of Kosciusko, who
was elected at the last meeting for two
years, has another annual period to
serve.
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Represents Millions.

Two agents of the syndicate who
propose to build lumber manufac-
turing plant adjacent to jackson and
railroad up the Pearl river valley
north-eastward from the city are now
engaged in closing the final details for
the mammoth enterprise, which repre-
sents an investment of several million
dollars. This railroad and manufac-
turing plant for the capital city was
secured for Jackson almost entirely
through the efforts of J. c. Clair, in
dustrial commissioner of the Illinois
Central road. 1t means the erection
Of a plant that will employ between
800 and l 1000 workmen on the grounds
and at the timber tracts owned by the
syndicate. Hundreds of cottages are
to be built adjacent to the plant and
it will require sixty-fve freight cars
to haul to this city the machinery
alone to be used by the concern.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
More improvements.

Captain J. 7. Jones, the man who
has made Gulfport, had decided tc
spend an immense amount of money
additional ON the harbor at that place
Although it was impossible to learn
what the exact amount was to be, it is
reported that when completed the i'm
provements now projected will cost
close to a million dollars. Work is to
commence at once, and will be com
pleted within the next two years.
When the present plans of Captain
Jones are carried out the capacity of
the harbor for berthing vessels will
be quadrupled, and it will be possible
to harbor several hundred ships at one
time,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04

The programme for the seventeenth
annual conference of the State Bank
ers Association, to be held at Vicks-
burg May 10 and IL, has been COM
pleted. The welcome address will be
delivered by Hon. B. W. Griffith, as
Mayor of the city, and on behalf of
the local bankers by Hon. Joseph
Hirsch. The response will be made by
Hon. John Sharp Williams, while a
number Of addresses will be made by
Association members. There viii be
140 banks represented, large increase
over last year. There will be num-
Der of social features during the Con-
vention, and steamboat excursion
on the second day.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
Policeman Kills Man.

Charles Johnson, was shot and killed
by Policeman Reder, in the Elite club
at Greenville. johnson had been in
the habit Of forcing an entrance into
the club rooms and sleeping there. At
about 2 O'Clock the police were notified
that two men were in the club rooms.
Officer Reeder went to investigate, and
looking through the winow saw tow
men lying on a table. He ordered them
to throw up their hands, but instead of
doing so johnson put out the light, at
the same time reaching for a weapon
The officer fired killing him instantly
His companion was arrested while try
ing to escape through a window.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
in the Bureau Of Sewers.

William H. Michales, superintend
ent of the bureau of sewers of New
York, said the other day:
1--WE hear some strange things in
this Office sometimes. Some of the
stories our inspectors bring to us are
hardly credible.
For instance, In the matter OF
ignorance of the most elementary
kind of sanitation:
An inspector went one day to in.
spect an old house in the country.
There was good deal of smell about
the old place. The inspector walked
about srifflng.
Dear me, he said, what an un-
pleasant odor. Can 1t be the drains?'
"The owner Of the house shook his
head positively.
1t can't be the drains, he said,
because there amt none. Salt
Lake Tribune.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
Ohio Troops Coming.

The governor has granted permis-
sion to the First Infantry, Ohio Ma
tional Guards, to invade the state of
Mississippi fully armed and equipped
and to hold their annual encampment
at Vicksburg. He also writes the
governor Of the state of Ohio, who is
expected to accompany his state troops
to the Hill City, to stop at Jackson
and be the guest of the mansion. Gov.
Vardaman will attend the encampment
at Vicksburg and show the states
visitors every possible courtesy.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
Deal Involving 100000.

A deal was consummated at Gulf
port between the L. N. Dantzler Lum-
Der Company, of Moss Point, and w.
S. Griffin and brother, by which the
L. N. Dantzler Lumber Company Sc
cures large tract Of valuable timber
lands in Perry county, the considera-
ton being about 100000.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
New Railway Branch.

The branch of the Southern Rail-
road from Okolona west to Vardaman,
in Calhoun county, is soon to be ex-
tended about ten miles to new town
to be called Calhoun City The build
ers Of this place hope to eventually
move the county seat from Pittsboro
to this railroad terminal.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
First Shipment of Peas.

The first shipment of English
Peas has been made from Wesson by
Mr.. Dunno by express to Chicago.
Peas will soon be followed by beans.
The tomato crop is reported to be fine.
Cucumbers were injured by the cold
last week.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
Pardon Granted.

Gov. Vardaman has issued pardon
to Mr.. ]. N. Mize, an attorney at law
of Biloxi, who was not long since
fined $1O0 for contempt in Judge
Woods court. Judge Woods and 9TH
ers asked that the governor pardon the
offense, and that was done.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
Increased Formulation,

Washington-A police census Of the
District of Columbia, just completed,
shows a population Of 322 2,445, being
an increase Of 1927 over the FEEDER
al census in 1900. Of this population
227, ,607 is white.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
GIFTS to Southern Colleges.

Chicago DIR. D. Z. Pearsons, Of this
city has announced gifts to five south
ern colleges. The amounts donated
range from $4,000 to $4,000. The do
nations are for colleges in North Caro-
lima, Georgia, Tennessee and West
Virginia.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04
Patrol Il Necessary.

London. Three British cruisers ac-
cording to the Daily Telegraph s cor
respondent at Singapore, are patroll-
ing outside the harbor there, as thick
weather renders the straits invisible
from the roads.