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AND SHE WAS sTRoK1NG HIS HAIR


people expected every time they went
up to the top that it would be their
last trip, as they knew that some day
the volcano would open in new place
and swallow them whole, with all the
tourists. Then he gave them a dollar
apiece to pray for him, and wanted to
go back down the mountain and let
Vesuvius run its own fireworks, but the
Chicago lady told dad to brace up and
she would protect him, and so the
guides gave few more pushes, and we
were on top of the volcano, and dad
collapsed and had to be brought to
with smelling salts and whisky that
the woman carried in her pistol pocket.
Gee, but it was worth all the trou-
BILE to get up the mountain, to see the
sight that opened up. The hole in the
mountain filled with boiling stuff was
worth the price of admission, and the
roaring of the boiling stuff, and the
explosions way down cellar, and the
flying stones, the smoke going into the
air for mile, like the burning of an
ices to leak through, and flowing down
the side of the mountain in streams
like hot maple strip, made a scene
that caused us to take off our hats and
thank the good Lord that the thing
hadn't overfowed enough to hurt us.
But could see dad was scared, cause
when wanted him to go around the
edge of the crater with me, and see
the hell-roaring free show from other
points of view, and see where the hot
ashes years ago rolled down and COW
cred Pompeii and Herculaneum. he
baked and said he had seen all he
wanted to, and if he could stay alive
until the next car went down the noun
tain, they could all have his interest
in Vesuvius, and be darned to them,
but he said if wanted to go around
looking for trouble, he would stay
there under a big rock. with the Chi
cago lady. and wait for me to come
back. She said she knew dad was all
tired out. and needed rest and she
would stay with him, and keep him
cheered up; so left them and went off
with one of the dasoes, to slide down
hill on some flowing lava. and pick up
specimens.
Well. sir. I wish I could get along
some way without telling the rest of
this sad story, but if l am going to
be historian I have got to tell the
whole blame thing.
When I left dad and the Chicae0
woman she had produced a lunch from
somewhere about her person, and a
small bottle. and they were eating and
drinking. and dad was laughing more
natural than I had seen him laugh
since we run over the old woman with
the automobile at Nice. and she was
smiling on dad just as though she was
his sweetheart. CAS- I went around the
crater, a couple Of blocks away. I
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feet, and we had to have . pusher and
a putter for dad, a dago to go ahead
and pull him up, and another to put
his shoulder against dads pants and
shove. Geo., but it was a picture to
see dad Ego up old baldhead,'' with
the dagoes perspiring and swearing at
dad for being so heavy, and the Chi
cago woman laughing, and me pushing
her up.
One thing that scared dad was that
every little way there was a shrine,
where the guides left dad lying on the
ground, blocked with piece of cold
lava, so he wouldn't roll down, like you
would block a wagon wheel, and they
would go to the shrine and kneel and
say some prayers.
Dad was afraid they we're going to
charge the prayers in the bill for push
ing him up, but told dad that these
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ENDS OF THE WIRE.
romance-one lasting for more than ten
years, for it has been that long since
Murrell met Miss Slaughter.
The beginning of the romance was at
Glasgow, KY, where the two were intro
duced nearly II years ago. Both were
very young at that time, but became at
tached to each other almost at sight.
Miss Slaughter went to Bowling
Green, where she has been teaching in
the public schools for some years. MUIR
rell enlisted in the army and has seen
service in Cuba, the Philippines and sew
eral western forts.
Murrell and his bride have had hard
time getting married. A few months
age he sent money to Miss Slaughter,
which she was to hold until the two were
married. The money was deposited in
savings bank and the next day the
institution failed: carrying with it every
cent Murrell had saved
Because of duty, Murrell. was unable
ito go to Kentucky after his bride and it
was arranged that they should be mar
ried by telegraph, the girl coming on to
Sheridan alone Immediately after the
ceremony.
Nearly two months ago a day was set
upon which the kilograms were to be
exchanged, but death insthe family Of
Miss Slaughter On the day previous
caused postponement of the affair.
Another day was arranged, and at the
appointed time Rev. Mr.. Faux, in Sheri-
dan, telegraphed as follows:
Mary Slaughter, Bowling Green, KY:
Do you, Mary Slaughter, take James
Murrell to be your welded husband, to
love, cherish Him. and forsaking all 9TH
ers, keep thee only unto him?'
And in record-breaking time came
back the answer:
Bowling Green, KY, to Rev. F. A.
Faux, Sheridan Wyo.-I .do-Mary
Slaughter
Along with Mary's message came one
as follows for James Murrell:
do you, James Murrell, take Mary G..
Slaughter to be your lawful and we1ded
wife, to love and cherish her, forsaking
all others, keep thee only unto her?"
This was signed by Rev. w. r. Perine.
And MurrelPs answer of II do" was
rushed through to Bowling Green.
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YOUNG DOCTOR WINS LOVE OF
~ GIRL HE RESCUED. =: =.
,FATEs ASSIST DAN CUPID.
Man Severely Injured Stopping Mad
dened Horse Of Future Bride
i How an Accident Led to y
a Wedding.

Phlladelphia.-It took Dan Cupid two
years to bring it about. The Fates had
to lend a hand, too. Of course, the run
away horse did his BEST but that wasn't,
enough. 1t needed chance meeting
erected by the merest good luck-before
the sly little god of love could really be-
gin his work. But finally few days
ago pretty Miss Minnie De Ham became
Mrs. Zacharie of the
man who saved her life, and Cupid,
sheathing his bow and arrows, sought
other fields and pastures new.
Bride and bridegroom met in the sum-
mer of 1903, not at all unconventionally.
In fact, if it had been a conventional
meeting nobody knows whether Miss De
Ham might not now be Mrs. Somebody
Else and DR.. Eudlitz the husband of
some pretty French damoiselle. 1T was
only his love for Miss De HAN that
brought him back here to wed the one
girl that ever attracted him-this same
girl whose life he saved.
Their first meeting was at the corner,
ofThirteenth and Chestnut streets. Miss
De Ham was crossing the street. DR..
Eudlitz-he was a dental student at the
University of Pennsylvania then-was
walking downtown. There were cries
OF warning, the Gathering of frenzied
hoofs. the screams of women-then a
runaway horse, dragging shattered de-
livery wagon, dashed around the cor
ner. Miss De HAN stood directly in the
runaway's path.
Look QUIT" shouted some, but no one
made move.
Miss De Ham stood paralyzed with
fear on the crossing, not knowing which
way to run. Dr. Eudlitz was just pass
ing. He heard the cries! he saw the sit
uation. He didn't shout as other men
were doing-he jumped. His jump land
ed him right in front of the terror
stricken animal. A grasp of his two
strong arms and he was hanging to the
horses bride.
In a twinkling he changed the course
of the runaway; Miss De HAN escaped
without scratch, though instant death
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had been staring her in the face but a
moment before. But even the mans
strength could not stop the frightened
horse. On it galloped, the wreck of the
wagon at it's heels and Dr. Eudlitz at it's
head. 1t was block before this COM
bined weight could stop the runaway.
Then DR.. Eudlitz dropped to the ground
in faint
He had not escaped as easily as Miss
De Haah had. He had been bruised and
kicked until his strength was gone and
his body horribly bruised and .lacer-
ated But it was so many minutes be-
fore the girl he had saved could recover
her composure that when she sought
out her rescuer she found that he had
Oeen taken away.
She would never see him again-that
was her first thought. All, but the fates
we're kind! DR.. Eud1itz recovered and
went back to his studies at the univer-
sity. Lucky Cupid! Had it not been
for that dinner invitation he might
never have been able to get the pair
within range of his well-sharpened
darts. DR.. Eudlitz was a guest at a
friends house a month later; so was
Miss De HAN. Instantly the girl re-
membered. Before her stood the man
who had saved her life,
Miss De Ham seized the mans hand
impulsively.
do you know" she said, earnestly.
"that you saved my life?''
IF ! did I am very, very glad" re-
piled Dr. Eudlitz, just as earnestly:
Then and there their acquaintance be-
gan. DR.. Eudlitz was invited to call,
and he accepted the invitation most
gratefully. The rest was easy for that
sly dog. Dan Cupid. What transpired is
not public property, but it is very easy
to be guessed. Last June Dr. EudHtz
was graduated from the university, and
on the very day that he gained his d.
ploma his engagement was announced
his engagement to the girl who owed
her life to him, as she herself has said
over and over again thousand times.
Soon after DR.. Eudlitz left for his Paris
home. - : 4. ID r:
+ There it took but little time to estab
iish practice, and on April he re-
turned to Philadelphia to claim his
sweetheart < ..zs. a. III,
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Pleasant Poisons.

4, Az England is a nation of tea drink
ers some vigorous words on the tea
habit lately spoken by DR.. John. II.
Clarke, London physician, have. at
tracted much attention. III would al
most SEEM" says DR., Clarke, that tho
human animal II determined to assert
his superiority over all the rest OF
creation by the ingenuity he displays
in discovering or S manufacturing
pleasant poisons for himself The
great majority Of mankind are the:
slaves to one sr more poison habits.
OF these habits the tea habit Is one.
Of the most subtle, insinuating and in
furious" 81 .sisI 1915 1885,. /.
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PEllIINS RAlDBl|l0(Y
6NNBR0A|l|Rll(
&y@E $'*'3S|51BDp
The Bad Boy and His Dad Climb We
suvius-A Chicago Lady Joins the
Party and Causes Trouble. ."
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. Former Pub
Usher of Peck's Sun, Author Of
"Peck's Bad Boy" Etc.)

copyright. 1905, by Joseph B. BoWles)
Naples, Italy.-Se1gnor re Grocerino:
guess that will make you stand with
out hitching for little while. Say,
am getting SO full of dead languages,
and foreign palaver, that l shall nave
to have an operation on nay tongue
when l get home before I can speel the
United States language again so you
can make head or tail of it. You see,
l don't stay long enough in country
to acquire it's language, but get few
words into my system, so now my
English is so mixed with French
words, Italian garlic and German
throat trouble that I cannot under
stand myself unless look in a glass
and watch the motions of my lips.
Dad has not picked up word of any
foreign language, and says he should
consider himself a traitor to his coun-
try if he tried to talk anything but
English. He did get so he could order
glass of beer by holding up his fin"
ger and saying "ein," but he found
later that just holding up his finger
"lLuOuC say 1AS Gill WOuAO VI AAG IAC
beer all the same so he cut out the
language entirely and works his finger
until it needs a rest.
When I used to study my geography
at the little red schoolhouse, and look
at the picture of the volcano Vesuvius,
and read about how it would throw
up red-hot lava, and ashes, and rocks
as big as house, and wipe out cities.
it looked so terrible to- me that l was
glad when we got through with the
volcano lesson, and got to Greenland's
icy mountains, where there was no
danger except being frozen to death,
or made sick by eating blubber sliced
off Of whales.
Then I never expected to be right on
the very top of that volcano, throwing
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Lightning Toast9 His Bread

!. Stroudsburg, Pa.---Two swell-known
East Stroudsburg residents had a
thrilling experience during $ an cleo
trical storm. A bolt struck the din
ing-room where Drs. Angle and sGross
were eating, knocking DR.. Cross on
his chair and under the table. when
he picked himself up he discovered
that the bread he. had been eating vas
nicely toasted. l.f55sS. IS.
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Overcome.

Timson-1 never tainted away but
once, and that was just few days ago.
Simson-What was the cause n.
My wife told me that she had trained
herself so she could walk through a
store full of bargain counter sales, With
her purse full of money, and never buy
q thing. Detroit Free Press. s s. 4 $50
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Needed It in His Business

Zones automobile ran away w.sh
his wife and mother in law, an scarsds
,em 50 they have been speeohless es<r
since! = % s# 5
~ 81 My, my! Do you think Jones could
be induced to sell that automobile9y
Atlanta Consti tution.
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ROSTERS Spur Kills Ra hv,

f Eu Claire, Wis.-An 18-months-old
son Of John Smith was attacked BY q
black Minorca rooster, which drove a
sDur ia the back OF the child's head.
The child died two days later.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27

and her pleasant and obliging dispo-
sition she has proven herself well
qualified to fill this responsible posi-
uOn.
The privileges of the library are per
haps not generally understood. The
use of the building is not confined 10
students and members of the faculty.
All persons are allowed the privilege of
using the reference library and reading
room at any time during library hours
Upon payment of an annual fee of : 90
full privilege of drawing books on an
equal footing with the students is also
granted. Transient visitors in town are
charged twenty-five cents per month.
Resident ministers of the Gospel and
their families are permitted to draw
books free of charge
Thus the library stands as a public
benefaction and is not restricted to the
use OF only those directly connected
with the college On the contrary il
answers the purpose OF IA public library
also, even better than many such instr
tutions in the large cities, offering as II
does more and larger privileges to "a large
number of people. Students, faculty
and citizens of Alma may justly be
proud of the Alma College library.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27
Our Schools

The Third Grade took advantage of the
fine weather Friday afternoon and ell
joyed a sleigh ride.
Russell Gaffney of the Third Grade is
enioying a weeks visit i'll Detroit.
The Sixth Grade has been making some
very pretty calendars i'll the design of
lanterns.
Miss Myrtle Mosher has left school.
Byrd Clark has returned to school after
short illness.
Some Sophomores were invited out &c
Maud Sullivan's last Friday night. All
report a very good time.
Grace LaCote is a new pupil in the
Ninth Grade.
The black board sketching class are
drawing some very pretty snow scenes
The Eighth Grade are putting forth
a great effort to win the half holiday.
Mamie Sullivan has been absent on
account OF illness.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27
N0BLE-EICH0RN.
WM. 7. PITT.
From our correspondent

lFrom our correspondent
A very pleasant wedding occurred at
noon, January 18th at the home of Mr..
and Mrs Fred Schultheis of Bethany,
brother OF the bride when Robert Noble
of Flint, and Mrs. Anna Eichorn of
Ithaca, were united i'll holy matrimony.
The wedding march was beautifully
rendered by Miss Laura Schultheis as the
happy couple took their places in the
parlor, accompanied by Miss Nellie
Schultheis as ring bearer. The beautiful
and impressive Episcopal marriage cere
mony was read by {. G.. Zeigler, rector
of Emmanuel church, of ST. Louis.
Congratulations were in order, after
which the hostess invited the company to
the dining room, where the Misses Laura
and Julia Schutheis and Maud McGoun
served bountiful dinner
The afternoon hours were pleasantly
spent with musical selections from the
phonograph and by the neices and
nephews of the bride. The bride and
groom, accompanied by her brother, took
a sleigh ride to ST. Louis TO have their
pictures taken and at five o'clock the
happy couple left, shaking the rice from
their clothing, and refusing TO tell their
destination. The guests from outside
we're Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Schultheis, of
Merrill; Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew SchuitheiS:
Albert Schultheis, Miss l.. G.. Noble and
Mrs. Allen McCandish, of Flint.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27
PASSING OF THE CAR.
Words of Approval for senator Ely aTa
Others for Drain Commissioner BILE

EDITOR OF RECORD:
! see by last weeks paper that Senator
Ely of Alma Senator DOherty OF Clare,
and Senator Curtis of Cheboygan. have
each introduced bill TO limit and restrain
the power of county drain commissioners.
"The present law makes the drain COM
missioner a car, says Senator Doherty.
lie can put drain i'm any district, where
seven persons petition for it, He can tax
the people for what may or may not
benefit them lie is absolute. The people
can say nothing and do nothing, the SUI
pcryisOrs cannot interfere he Is monarch
OF all he surveys and he stops surveying
only when he runs up against county
line. Complaints OF arbitrary action
come from all over the state, and there
is 10 redress or limit So long as the law
remains as it is. We are very glad &c
know that our senators sec the necessity
of changing or abolishing this hold-up
law.
The following figures from the records
at Ithaca show what the drain commits
sioncr has done for the tax payers of
Gratiot county for the past three years.
1902, drain tax, s69, 1910; in 1903, $751;
$50, 90 in 1904, sI4S, ,623,5o. Making the
total for the three years S349,574,2o.
WM 7. PITT.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION COURSE.
Prof Troops Lecture at the Presbyterian
Church Much Enjoyed.

On last Tuesday afternoon and even
ing occurred the opening of the course of
lectures on Shakespeare which Prof. J.
c. Carter Troop, of the University of
Chicago will give this winter. a local
center" having been formed in Alma for
that purpose \ large number attended
the Introductory lecture at p. m. at the
Presbyterian church, men Prof. Troop
gave resume of the origin and history
of the drama. in the evening at :
o'clock he gave "a very interesting lecture
on the character of Falstaff aS presented
i'm king Henry w. and The Merry
Wives OF Windsor. The audience was
large and appreciatiyc.
1he next lecture will be on the play of
Hamlet and will Ice given in two
weeks. The study class will meet at 1
D. m and discuss the topics suggested by
the last lecture Members of the cen
ter may secure books from the reference
library. which Is 10 be consulted at
Rhodes drug store.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27
FACTORY FARMERS MEET.
Encouraging Reports For Next Campaign.
Officers Elected.

There were seven Michigan factories
represented at the annual meeting of the
Beet Sugar Agriculturists' Association
at the Wright House last Thursday
afternoon. Topics of much importance
We're discussed along their branch of the
industry, and their reports are very en-
couraging for the coming campaign
The reduction in the price of beet seed
from 10 TO 10 cents per pound has much
TO do with the increased acreage con.
tracted for so far this year over previous
seasons. The program a. it appeared III
the RECORD two weeks ago was fully
carried out and Farmer Aliens arrange
ment for entertainment and banquet
was of unusual high quality.
j. II. Harrison of Denver, Colorado
was present, i'll the interest of the sugar
beet industry in that state.
The officers who were elected are
President, G. Z. Fenton, Saginaw; vice
president, II. A. Fliegle, Sebewaing +;
secretary, ID. l.. Cutting, Bay City;
treasurer, L. G. Dolson, Owosso.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27
DO|NGS At THE CAPITOL
An important Incident That At
tracted Little Attention.
REPRESENTATIVES BUY BIBLE
Gov. Warner Gives Further Evidence
Of Favor for Practical Economy.

Lansing, January %, 1908.
The important event Of last week was
one that attracted no special notice. and
was especially remarkable because it
excited no remark. Except for being
reminded of it 10y brief paragraphs III
the newspapers people living a block
from the Capitol building, or even en-
ployed within its walls, might not have
known that senator TO represent the
state in the national congress for the
next six years was being elected. Long
ago it was decided by the popular voice
that julius G. Burrows should be chosen
10 succeed himself at the end of his
present term on the 4th of March next,
and when the members of this legisla-
ture were elected il was expected and
intended that they should at the proper
time go through the legal form for his
election. This they have done, giving
him for the second time a unanimous
election 10 the national senate. Mr..
Burrows has already served ten years III
the senate and seventeen years III the
house.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27
writinG and Dictation.

The modern method OF letter writinG
composition through the agency OF the
stenographer is having a peculiar eff
feet upon the popular use OF the Ian
guage. IL must be evident to even the
noncritical observer that carelessness
and difruseness OF expression have be
come feature and fault OF corrc-
spondence, from the reproach Of which
II was quite free in the earlier days
when pen and ink were directly EN-
ployed by the individual 10 the end OF
giving form and conference to his idea
Probably when dictation under the
present system becomes more OF fix
ed habit and institution the human
mind will become so accustomed to IL
that II will operate more rapidly and
as accurately with such assistance as
under the old plan in which the writer
only dictated TO himself. Yet TO hiE
with whom pen and ink have always
been potent solvents of thought tn
change involved In dictation mus
bring with IL serious embarrassment
I'm the matter OF adequately denotint
ones thoughts Ledger.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-01-27
Churches and Societies

Rev Paul Price the singing evangelist.
will begin special meetings at the BAPTIST
church next Sunday. These services
will continue each evening for two weeks
The meeting each night begins prompt
~ at 80 local time Bible reading each
afternoon except Monday and Saturday.
These meetings are for all. Seats are
free
The Womaus Club will meet with
Mrs !. $ Caple, Monday, January 80
Subject will be a summary Of THE Mer-
chant of Venice Mrs Chas. Rhodes
leader
Next Sunday morning the pastor of
the NJ t. church will speak on the sub
ject Jesus in the Midst Sunday even
ing he will give the first of a series of
addresses to young people on, The High
Places of Life.
Alma Art Club will hold their next
regular meeting at the home of Mrs.
Walter Fliet, Wednesday February /.