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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30

school and very soon would come a challenge to
try it over again."
The HIiteracy of the teachers in some OF the
rural schools of bygone days was something as
amusing as it was startling 1 well remember
a teacher who would give this rebuke to the
careless pupil who came into the house leaving
the door ajar on chilly morning:
you go back an shev that there door shet-"
This same teacher had way Of saying, II
would of went if / had of knOwed." And the
slouching pupil would be commanded to "set
up more erecter." Pupils who Numbered when
trying to solve problems in fractions fractions
or partial payments on the blackboard would
be informed that that hain't way to work
it out" and when they were unusually dense
in their comprehension Of mathematics they
would be given the discouraging information
that they never would be no good at fggers."
There would be literary exercises" in the
school on Friday afternoons and when the num-
Der Of volunteer performers seemed to have
been exhausted this teacher would ask:
"Now hain't nary hother one of you got no
piece to speak2"
Thus appealed 20. some boy who had been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30

to say t. remember one committeeman whs
always counseHed US not to soar up too high IN
our ambitions. but 70 be content TO keep within
our proper speer." OF course We were told By
others that the Presidency OF the United States
was within our grasp, and even the teachers
who thrashed US numerically for slight causes
we're referred to as our kind teachers
The rod was not spared in the early schools
in our country. Most Of the teachers were In
sympathy with one who announced to his pUpIz
on the opening day Of the school that he believed
in corporal whaling" and that they would feed
the rod IL they did not walk chalk"
The brutality Of some Of the teachers occa-
stoned many fight between them and the older
boys and the teacher was sometimes barred
OUT for an entire day. Sometimes the teacher
would be man OF kindly and gentle spirit. but
the committeeman" were apt to regard mus
cular viGor as an imperative requisite when en-
gaging teacher. and women were rarely en-
ployed to teach the winter terms OF the school
when the big boys were in attendance.
Perhaps the old custom Of passing the water
still obtains in some Of our district schools, but
it is doubtful if many Of the pupils drink from
a gourd as they did in the days OF long ago. For
some reason the water pain was never filed at
the noon or recess internaissions, but some one
would be sure 10 become dry during the study
hours and TWO Of the boys would eagerly seek
t1e privilege OF fetching a pail Of water" with
winch 10 asSuase the supposed burning thirst Of
the entire school The we'll might not be two
hundred yards distant, but somehow il took
The boys hall hour to get the pail Of water.
II visitors We're present it was regarded as cOur-
tesy 10 serve them first when the water was
passed and 1t was not UT common for even
visitor to take q sip or two of water from the
fulI dipper or gOurd and then pour the rest Of
the water back into the pail The teacher was
always served after the visitors and recall one
instance Of a teacher who took a few sips OF
water from a fun tin dipper OF huge size. poured
the rest OF the water back into the pail and then
gave the uulucky wight who was passing the
water resOunding Whack over the head with
the dipper. saying as he did so:
That's for whispering before you begun to
pass the water"
Out Of the little country schooIhouse has
grown an educational system in our country
second TO none in any other part Of the world
and the "deestrct skUle' played an honorable
and useful part in the education OF the youth Of
the land.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30

prevent the Panhard-Levassor from being forced
elong at her extreme speed. Yet Count Robert
de Vogue. who steered her to victory, is au-
thority for the statement that she was strained
by the effort, and he was not too greatly sur
prised by her sudden collapse In a choppy sea on
the following day.
Excessive fragility Of hull in short, appears
TO be the main defect Of these craft as they are
constructed at present on this side of the At
lantic. It Is evident, also. that more satisfac-
tory system Of fabrication Is indispensable in
some Of the models. Heated bearings and crank
heads have thrown many out Of the races 1t
has been proved, In fact. that the fabrication
Is not trustworthy on a rolling or choppy sea
The Mercedes boat. for example, had 70 give up
on Tuesday and on Thursday owing to mis-
haps Of this description. Not much incon-
venience Is caused by such breakdown in a
race where at the furthest point the boat Is not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30

faint-hearted all afternoon would suddenly mus
ter up sufficient courage to rush forward to
the platform. where he would duck his head
and. If Of humorous turn of mind, would de
claim
The thunder roared. the lightning flashed.
AND broke gran ma'am's teakettle all to smash
Sometimes an orator in embryo would give
"Rienzi to the Romans or "Spartacus TO the
Gladiators' with much wild gesticulation and
frequent stamping of the feet. but the voices Of
some of these youthful bOmbasts were heard in
the halls of Congress in after years
The little girls and the smaller boys were al
most sure to declaim MARY had a little lamb
or Twinkle. twinkle little STAR 1 recall how /,
a little chap of eight summers was overwhelmed
with modification because of the way nv tongue
tripped me up when had made my bow to the
school and number of visitors with the "Iittle
star" piece. Nervousness or painful seIf-con-
seriousness led me into saying:
Twinkle twinkle little star
How you wonder what are!
Sometimes there would be poetical dialogues
in which those taking part desired to be flowers
and birds and angels. The teacher sometimes
favored the school with recitation or a "select
reading" and it would have been a great breach
of good manners not TO have asked the visitors to
say few WORDS while any OF the directors
or committeeman" who CHANGED to be present
felt it their duty 70 respond to this Invitation.
They usually began by remarking that they
didn't know as they had anything 10 say but
1t sometimes took them quarter Of an hour
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30
ETENED UP.

Won BIumer-While I was watching the ticker
some stock bought went UP twenty points IN
an hour.
DimpletOn-SO you made big money?
Won Blumer-NO. I came out about even. Ny
wife was at her dressnakers at the same time
-Qife.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30

any rate. is put beyond question by its voyage
across the Atlantic c. B.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30
MOTOR BOAT RACES.

Continued from nth page
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30

Twinkle, twinkle. little star.
How you wonder what / are!
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18

the last refuge Of the scoundrel,' so
is the cry Of harmony The last shelter
of the rascal. The impostor upon
piety, whose faseality is cloaked in
hypocrisy, lisps. Of harmony. The
bank wrecker sings of harmony, The
prating, petu1ette and pestiferous petit
logger who begs his friends to keep
the Jail doors closed by advancing his
shortages, is long on harmony and
he sings about it with as good English
as he can command with occasional
"cause-ual Incorporation. F" The gam
bier, the crook, the confidence man,
are long on harmony. Harmony in
the hands of the opportunist would
blend vice and virtue, fraternize saint
and sinner, and confuse the calendar
of crime with the commands of Christ.
But the opposing forces of virtue
and vice are in constant and continu-
Gus contest. No play upon words is
long to hide the hideous contrast I'M
der any cloak. BY the immutable law
of nature, constant conflict is essential
to life.
All men who believe in right living,
in right doing, in good government,
that political life should not involve
pollution nor comnercialism corruption,
should harmonize-and let the other
fellows organize harmony Of their
own Yet the idiosyncracies of men
are sometimes beyond understanding.
There are those who frown upon art
less effort at jobbery, but would have
honest men doff their hats to success
full fraud; who would fling fierce flash
es at the ffty-cent fop but devote
delirious Difference to a dapper dollar
debauchee These freaks and fancies
cannot be avoided. they must be fore
borne.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18
An Iowa Idea of Justice.

The following clipped from an Iowa
paper gives it's idea of easy ways of
dealing with bank wreckers:
When banker like w. E. Brown
of Storm Lake ruins hundred of homes,
taking the dollar from widows and
orphans and returning twenty cents
in it's stead and the Judge is visibly
affected because he cannot impose a
lighter sentence than FIVE years after
the prisoners has been found guilty
of crimes that could send him to the
pen for 300 years; when jury will
acquit a man who has been guilty of
such banking methods as those OF
Ed. C. Brown of Sheldon; when even
a Pocahontas jury will find man who
deliberately shoots another man in
the breast, guilty of assault to do
great bodily injury and permits the
would-be-murderer to get off with a
Jail sentence, it is high time to begin
to question the use of courts as now
constituted. -Pocahontas Sun.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18
Difference in District Attorneys.

District Attorney Kittell of Brown
county sis accused by La Toilette men
of protecting grafters," the organ of
graft says.
Being accused of that offence it is
necessary to say it is done by La
Toilette men.
Mr.. Kittell may and may not have
done what earns him the accusation.
That question is being investigated and
will no doubt be wisely settled.
But the accusation is of course made
by ''La Toilette men," They are the
only ones who appear to make eny act
i've opposition to graft, or to object to
a district attorney who is: protecting
grafters.
1t is not likely that any stalwart,
Republican or Democrat, in Brown
county accuses Mr.. Kittell of protect
ing grafters.
Take it in Milwaukee, and if District
Attorney McGovern was busy protect
ing grafters as he is prosecuting them,
he would number all of the stalwart
politicians, Republican and Democrat,
among his friends and supporters.
The Morning CRATER, and all of the
Evening Grafters, would sing his prais-
es from rosy morn to dewy eve.
All there is to say about Mr.. Kittell
is that if he has protected grafters in
Brown county instead Of prosecuting
them, he has been in mighty bad bust
ness, and deserves not only all. that he
will get, but all that he might get
Milwaukee Free Press.
And there are other district attor-
neys who need attention from the stand
point of protecting graft, gambling
and other evils of the day.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18
Trying to Quit Office.

The following tells the story Of a
good man trying to quit, office. 1t is a
rare condition in these times and is
offered as an. example to the many who
are bothered more with the hanging
on than quitting process:
A special dispatch to the Minneapolis
Tribune last Saturday, read:
Captain SewelI A. Peterson Of Com
pany A. Tenth separate battery, Wis
consin National Guards, formerly state
treasurer Wisconsin has just rounded
out Is years Of service in the Wiscon-
sin National Guards and is the recipient
Of a service medal from the state. He
recently sent in his resignation as cap
tain and had it returned with the follow
ing Endorsements:
Milwaukee, Wis. Respectfully for
warded and disapproved, for the reason
that [ do not believe that the Wisconsin
National Guard can afford to lose so
valuable an officer at this time. = This
was signed by Maj. John J. Lynch,
Second Endorsement:
Respectfully returned to. Capt. S.
A. Peterson, invited attention to the
first. Endorsement, which is approved.
His services to the guard are of such a
nature that they cannot well be dis
pensed with at this time. By command
of the governor, by Adjt-Gen. c. R.
Boardman
Capt. Peterson has brought the com
pany up to high place. In the AZ
companies it now ranks about third. 1t
has five distinguished marksmen, and
out of fifteen to- go to Seagrit, N. j., it
sent four men.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18
THE 500 LINE TIME TABLE.

East. Ladysmith. West.
11:20P p. M ~. Limited =. AT A. vi.
2:16 P. Nj. Accommodation II :1S A. NJ.
Sis A. NJ Freight. :. 3:22 P. M.
P. H. Nelson, Agent.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18
Thanksgiving.

The President has selected the last
aav of November as Thanksgiving
day. On that day the American people
can well give thanks for many things.
They can be thankful that they have
at the head Of the government that
sterling and strenuous character
Theodore Roosevelt-tf1e man who, af-
ter all criticism possible to the bright
est of the opposition, stands, as the
personifcatiot1 of all that is best in
American life and q sight of terror
to all wrong doors. He alone is; presi-
dent and the American people are ''de-
lighted
The people can be thankful that we
are at peace with the worfd-a peace
that has no sore spots.
The people can be thankful that
under the banter of Rooseveltism, the
trusts and combines are being taught
that there is God in Israel.
The people may be thankful that
under Rooseveftism fraction of pris-
on service and good behavior, with a
frugal admixture of piety, is not suffi-
cient grounds for pardoning bank
wreckers and other plutocratic crin1i-
mails.
The people may be thankful that
the vox poputi in the recent elections
declared for ali that is good and against
all that is bad in politics.
And the people may be thankful
that the Almighty has Smiled upon all
this with a year Of 6ounteous har-
vests.
Remember Thanksgiving, and after
ward remember what you had to give
thanks for.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18
H,77-4 r ca WORD 1.,.l Q :.

Harmony is a pleasant word. It is
a word of great potentially. Har-
nony! This watchword of nature, of
happiness, the expression of that con-
dition which permits Of healthy growth.
Harmony! The linkpft1 between earn
est effort and Roncst success. Har-
mony-at once euphoneous, potential,
charming the word chat pfeases the
ear, enthuses the naind, enchants the
heart, pulsates the valves that quicken
circulation and changes dull lethargy
into activity, Indifference into earnest
ness, converts the animal into man.
Harmony-the gift of Heaven-the
gretest legacy to iran - the funda-
mental credential TO success.
Harmony!
How we love the word! How it in
spires US! The recording angel who
shed the stolie6 tear that blotted out
forever the recsrd of dhe crri1fg daugh-
ter was moved by that harmony which
was made sacred in the garden Of
Eden. All good men love harmony.
The grand old poet, you remember,
old in history but young in years, poor
On health but rich in mind, declared
that 'all discord is harmony which
thou cans't not ee"---and he was right.
All good men love it, hope for it,
But, as in the language of Samuel
Johnson, ''pretense to patriotism is
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18
TOO FAR FROM THE BoWERY.
New Yorker Would Not Build House
in Canadian Woods.


He was such typical New Yorker
that he seemed strangely out of place
III the queer little lumber village way
up in the Canadian woods where his
duties as lumber Inspector called
him. And his talk, which was ever OF
the ponies" and the race track,
seemed even more homogeneous in a
place where the white men talked Of
shorts" and "outs, 1.-TWO by twelves"
and "silos" and all the rest of the
jargon of a lumber mill. One day the
superintendent of the plant, who had
taken q great fancy to the young New
Yorker, and who apparently loved to
listen to the inspectors stories of how
he won three hundred on Roseben7
and other profitable operations against
the ring, told him he ought to invest
some of his winnings in a piece of
land near the mill, build a cottage and
bring his family UP there for the sum.
mer. The New Yorker looked at him
in silence FOR minute Then he eject
ed long stream Of tobacco juice and
calculated slowly, What, build
house heret Say, when | build a cot
tage it'll be at Coney, and it won't be
far from the track That's as straight
q tip as you'll ever get"
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18

Massachusetts, republicans adopted
stand pattism last year and were badly
defeated. This year they got right and
won handsomely. Stand-pattism and
stalwartism are twins, and both repud-
lated by vox populi.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18

The proposition that the U. S. treas
urv should come to the rescue of Wall
street has become tiresome to those
who believe that gamblers should take
care of themselves. But it is to be adj
mitted that even gamblers of some
kinds should be handled with meth
cd.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18

The recent elections should plainly
Indicate to every one that stalWartism
in all it's forms is losing proposition
before the plain people, and that Roose-
veltism stand supreme in che American
mind.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-18

The St. Paul Dispatch pictures the
kickers on the Panama canal as being
covered by the steam shovels, and asks
if it isn't about time to quit barking.
Bankers are usually slow at taking a
hint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
Deaths in the District.

The following deaths were reported to the
health office during the past twentyfour
hours:
George Acton, 81 years, Emergency Hos
pital.
VIM. H. Blagburn 73 years, 913 north
west.
John w. Brooke, 55 years. 9O7 23d north
west.
Levi Brooks, 81 years, 9991k Florida ave-
nue. northwest
Dorothy 4. Bundy, IL days, 1121 4th north
west.
Fanny c. Chase. % years, Government
Hospital for the Insane
Caroline E. Clarke, 81 years, 2o0I / north
west.
Daniel D. Cole "a years. Chesapeake and
Ohio canal.
Thomas Culhane, 80 years, 921 New Jer-
sey avenue northwest.
Jane Duvall. 81 years, George Washington
University Hospital.
Mary w. Glenn, 40 years, Homeopathic
Hospital.
Francis Hartigan. % years, Eastern
branch.
William A. Hartman, SO years, All New
York avenue northwest.
Eliza Jackson, 93 years. S2S 9th northwest.
Mary A. Johnson, days, 1921 18th north
west.
Robert Johnson GO years. Chesapeake and
Ohio canal.
Edmund Lynch, "a years, sos H northeast.
Milford Thomas, 81 days, 60 o northwest.
Olivia n. Wilson, 81 years. 415 18th north
east.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
Hotel Arrivals.

Shoreham-James Hutchinson, New York !;
Thomas A. Curran. New York; Guy Van
Meter New York; J. T. Newton, U. S. N:
Harold G. Mitchell, GAINESVILLE. Tenn.
Arlington-D. D. Dudley, Louisville: E.
Stone Chicago; Felipe Silva. Cienfuegos,
Cuba.
Riggs-James w. King. Parkersburg. w.
Va: c. c. Hackett, San Francisco; Mrs.
R. L. Cook. Cleveland: H. B. Milford. Chi
cago; William R. Bradshaw. New York; ].
Parkersburg, w. Va.
Wash; L. L. Lewis, Richmond; D. F. Con-
nor. Philadelphia; Miss f. NJ. Quick. AS
bury Park, N. j.; Mrs. Barker. New York;
Miss Maxwell, New York; Mrs. ]. X. Lang
man, Niagara Falls, Ont: A. Dunlap, L.
S N; Mrs. F. D. Avery, New York:
New Willard-Mrs. P. r. Ward. Fort
Moore, Va; H. NJ. Dalton, Hopkinsville,
XIV: Joseph r. Holmes, England; Frank a.
Reed. Detroit; DR.. c. R. Chapman, Spring
field. Mass: Mr.. and Mrs. Morton X. Yonts,
louisville; Judge T. p. Paynter, Frankfort
XIV; James r. Schulz, Philadelphia; i. d.
York. Portsmouth, Ohio; Charles Sykes,
Huddersfield England; DIR. Henry Tucker
Philadelphia; L. A. Eads. Fort Smith; L. q.
Walker, Youngstown, Ohio; G. w. Carey,
ST. Louis; Charles McMillin, Wilmington,
NC.
Raleigh-H G. Morris, New York; c. H.
Remy Demopolis, Ala: H. c. Smart Par
kersburg, w Va; A. r. Thompson, Ha-
yana; A Neuville. St. Louis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
Tales of Drummers and Merchants.

1t need not brighten off any one from read
ing Charles n. Crewdsons new series or
Tales of the Road TO say that they carry
a moral beyond the mere amusement In
herent In a good tale well told. The life
and relations of the business man and the
commercial traveller are viewed from the
inside by one who knows them both Bust
ness is the genius of American life. and II
NAV be O. revelation to both the buyer and
the seller to see themselves graphically de-
picted as others see them. The note of hon
esty runs all through the sketches, and their
moral is the square DEAL" which is hap
PLY being more and more widely adopted
in American business dealings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
TRAINS MUCH DELAYED
SCENES OF DEVASTATION FOLLOW
EARTHQUAKE.

NoCERA. Italy. September o.-Signor Fer
raris. the minister of public works. arrived
here today by special train and continued
his journey toward Monteleone. Trains
coming from Calabria are much delayed.
The Naples express was Ave hours be-
hind time. The railway lines in Caiabria
are much damaged. making It necessary
for trains to proceed slowly after an in
spection of the route. Travellers arriv-
Ing here from Calabria are profoundly Inn
pressed with the disaster
The depot at Parghelia is completely de-
stroyed. The travellers recount seeing VII
lagos reduced to ruins and men and women
half clothed weeping and seeking to find
and bury the bodies of their relatives.
All the depots from San Giovanni TO Santa
Eufemia are invaded by the popuiace de-
manding succor. The spectacle is terrify-
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
Arrest of Five Leaders.

A cable from London says: The Tokyo
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at
tributes the disorders in the japanese cap
ital to the arrest of five leaders of public
opinion. He says that representatives from
the whole Of Japan met Wednesday night
and resolved to organize national move
ment from Hokkaido to Formosa. and 10
memorabilia the throne Of government
against the ratification of the treaty OF
Portsmouth The correspondent says that
he anticipates the issue of an imperial man
ifesto to the people. He describes the riot
ers as composed mainly of fana tics hired
by agftators He believes that the object
of the mobs Is to deprive the city of light
and then to hberate the prisoners in the
jails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09

colored broadcloth with hat to match. Mr..
Walter Brownley was best man, but the
bride was unattended Immediately after
the ceremony the couple left for Atlantic
City on their honeymoon
gay party of young folks. guests Of
Mr. ana Mrs. F. H. Moss of Edgmont. Mark
ham, Va, gave a delightful informal dance
Tuesday evening, at the Moss residence.
The spacious parlors and hall were beautf-
fully decorated in early golden rod and
mountain greens the tall mantels piled
high with greens and the wide. open fire
place banked with masses of the golden
rod forming a charming background for
the merry company, while garlands of the
green were artistically interviewer among
the balustrades of the low. broad stairway.
terminating in huge punches of the bright
yellow fall flower. After refreshments were
served the guests danced until late hour,
closing with the ever-popular Virginia reel.
Among those present We're Misses Mary and
Elizabeth Brooke of Norfolk, Va; Marie
Pretty. Sophie Goode and Annie Fitzhugh
of this city: Jean and Margaret Moss and
Mary Noel of Markham. Va: Messrs Jas.
Brooke of Norfolk, Whit and Lake Trip
lett. Kinsbrough Moss. William Strother.
Giles Boiling and Edward Marshall Of