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The Washington times., 1905-10-01

Z MAKE bold to say, first of all, said
Clara Morris in the Brooklyn
Eagle. that one can learn more of
the structural weakness and char
acteristic peculisrities of lies by tell
ing one and taking the consequences
than by reading a whole library about
them; and never do you more appreciate
the strength, the sweetness and light
Of truth than when you are fibbing like
well, when you are fibbing. For look
you. a lie Is a curious thing: give it
life and YOU can't kill it. 1t is malicious
and often dangerous, and its vitality is
wonderful, yet il Is so weakened and
without backbone that it can't stand
alone. If YOU don't believe the asser-
tion, try the experiment yourself. The
most brilliant, polished, perfect lie ever
constructed will wabble and totter to
its ignominious fall, unless you prompt
ly back ii up with a goodly bodyguard
of its own kind: and l. the truthful
crank, am telling you this because
have been there; because l got there,
one July day, when l went Eorth on
horseback.
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"I've Licked Him Twice"

oh, please, mister" begged the other
lad: Say. boss. please give me de udder
one! I'm stronger'n him is. I've licked
him twice-he'll tell yer so hisself Let
me lead the other one, won't yer, boss2
And the boss threw the halter to him,
remarkins; That horse would climb
over or round a swaddlin' young one
layin' in the middle of the road, so the
kids feet are n no danger of gettin'
tramped on"
There was room now to pass. and 1
was drawing the reins up with that
preparatory gesture known to all
horses, when this rough. chuckle-headed
man turned his grim face toward me,
ad said:
Well, l see you can ride
Had he said I was fair. with calm,
good sense, 1 should have turned cold
unbelieving. unseeing eyes front" Had
he called me fine artist, deaf and rigid
L should have passed him by; but he had
first admired my horse, and then he, a
circus man, had said. ''WeH, you car
ride" and there 1 sat with tiny prickles
in the soles of my feet and the palms OF
my hands; with the color burning highe,
and higher on my face. and very diml,
l began 10 realize that this was a morse
of the thing some women give their souls
for. since ii was surely fiattery; when
interrupting my thought. the tent mar
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

Don't trouble" / said. primly, with
the very tips of my lips, and again he
gave that half unwilling salute Turning
he looked back and instantly the light
OF recognition sprang into his eyes.
That's a blanqed fine horse,' he ex-
claimed. emphatically.
To have saved my own life / could not
have checked the smile that sprang to
my lips, for you see incense is not less
sweet because the hand that lights it is
a bit grimy. Presently he asked:
Does this corkscrew of a lane take
me to the river?"
mo. not directly 1t comes out on the
avenue, which you must crcoss to reach
another lane, running directly down to
the water"
Then, as two bare-footed boys came
racing alongside, painting with the joy
or being so near real circus horses. |
added; These lads will show the way to
you. I'm sure
Yes drawled, but all the while his
eyes were fastened upon Creole-.'yes.
every kid that pads the hoof is dead
stuck on the circus. The poor little
devils are dotty-get crazy. don't YOU
know. Say. have yer ever walked that
horse agin a trot-he's a wonder
walker?''
Yes, I've walked him against po-
hceman's mount at trot and once against
girl friends horse, but there was
nothing. official about thestrials."
Just then the man threw over the
halter OF one of the horses to the big
gest boy, who triumphantly marched
ahead.
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pretty
h75 Lafo0akna7 ka~Az5 suZkvez1zkec

My child is honest and good. When
his wife gives him a divorce they
will be married"
But this is just what Mrs. Street
declines to do.
Patiently laboring with her hands
for the support of the six little chill
dren left to her care, she awaits
with unchanging love the return Of
the wanderer ''I was his happy
wife, and loved him when all men
respected him and were proud TO
claim him as their friend When
now that, through his own madness,
he is alone and poor, would l not
love him the more?" she says TO
those who urge her to get divorce.
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night he takes blue pencil and az
sassinates every bright and readable
idea that the smart reporters have
brought in during the day.
The editor is all epithet. while the
reporter is all proof. The editor caln
man a chicken thief and gets sued for.
libel, while the reporter. kodak in hand.
interviews him while picking of the
feathers IN his back yard, and the next
day the thief takes a whole ADVERTISE
ment TO shut up the newspaper.
NO., continued Eli, 81 hope I am a
newspaper man, and l dread the time
when | shall get old and stupid and
nave 10 XIII my own bright things which
made the people glad, sold neWspa ns-s
and made Americans know me-
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hope is crushed, arse the words In
letters Of fire. LAS Ye Sow"
-Four months has seen his de-
scent from the presidency of big
company, an income of $4,000 a
year, and q social altitude that in
sured respect and consideration in
all places. 10 the position of the out
cast, willing 10 work if he can get
work, eager to demonstrate his abil-
ity to earn $3.50 per day as motor
man on q surface car And the strain
and stress OF these four months, fol-
lowing the illness which struck him
down in the very moment of the
public exposure Of his disgrace, have
aged and broken him.
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The Wife and the StenoqrapheY

His manner to Miss Miller. pater-
naliy sympathetic, gradually ex-
panded until at last he suggested
that nothing would be easier than
that she should enter his service as
stencgrapher, and he introd aced her
TO his chief of staff as the daughter
Oh one OF his Oldest New Jersey
friends As matter OF fact he had
never met DR.. Miller. When a few
weeks later Mr.. Street became presi-
dent of the new steamship COMPANY
In which George w. Perkins is said
to have large interest it vas seen
that the blue-eyed stenograbher
went with him
But now the plain prints she he'd
worn had been exchanged for elabo-
rate costumes and picture hats. In
the Office of the Street STEAMSHIP
Company she Ias known as Mr.
streets private secretary" Her con-
hdential relations with her emplover
forced respectful silence on the
once stan. In Word. she had he
come one of type of women TO be
found in thousand offices in New
ork-a woman at whom clerks fur
uVeiy shrug their shoulders and
oihce boys grin; a woman who
wields a mysterious influence with
the head of the star and whom ii is
decidedly dangerous to offend. ever
ready as she is TO exercise her power
or securing the dismissal of anyone
VINO has become obnoxious to her.
MISS Miller and her mother had
exchanged their modest home for AN
expensive suite of apartments in tba
Gresham, at 140th street and Jenov
avenue, wherein Mr.. Street was y
constant visitor. His home al High
wood now knew him only once a
week. His wife-a niece of Henry
Gassaway Davis-never suspectine
the truth. believed that the new vast
business interests in which he was
now immersed were responsible for
his absence. and patiently waited
When she tried to talk with him ON
the telephone. asking him to try TO
take dinner at home, the cold even
tones OF Miss Miller, the private sec
retary, answered her. Impossible:
Mr.. Street is completely tied up by
business" And thus matters stood
during the whole of last winter.
1t is at this period that the direc-
tors OF the Street Steamship Com
pany enter into the story. for Mr..
Street had begun to neglect the busi-
ness of the concern. There were
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Hot EUen q Motorman.

For the middle-aged man now re-
ceiving a brief negative after in
vestigation TO his application for
"a place as motorman or conduc-
tor" is James Street, who only four
months ago, president of the Street
Steamship Company, leading mem
ber of the Produce Exchange, pro-
tege of the International Harvester
Trust, controlled by the Morgan in
terests, had amazed the business
world and set the seat on a scandal
which had outraged the sentiments
Of his thousand friends by desert
Ing his wife, his children, mis- home
at Englewood, n. j., for the sake
Of the typewriter girl who, with
her baby blue eyes. her Gretchen
hair, and her Dresden china pretti-
ness, had usurped possession of his
heart and mind, who-loyal even in
the ruin or her young life-now
awaited him TO hear again the story
Of his failure TO ''get work"
This. in brief. is the story of
James Street, lodger In a little room
On the second floor OF No. 451 Jersey
avenue, three minutes walk from
and almost in sight or the Barrow
street fiat-a story of a man cast
adrift- from every association Of
other days that might have helped
lim in his need, tramping from Of
ice to Office in search of employ
nent, only TO see, with the revela-
ion OF his name and his former
occupation. the story of his life.
Known to all men, starting up to bar
he way. And in his mind also, as
The Washington times., 1905-10-01
WORLDS LARGEST CHURCH

The largest church in the world is
St- refer az Rome. 1t occupies the
part OF the city. and is built in the
form OF Latin cross. The total
length or the interior is 6I2n feeI
transept 446H feet, height OF nave
To- feet, diameter of cupola 1sS
Ieet, height OF dome from paver7erf 70
top or cross AS feet. The great he'll
without the hammer or clapper. Weighs
ter tons The foundation of the b1fId-
ing was laid in 1850 A u. Forty-tbrsa
Popes lived and died during the time
Gated in 1875. but not entirely finiSbas
until 1889 The cost WAS about s7e-
100000, and IL costs heavily. 10 keen l.
In order New Orleans Times -Dsmo-
The Washington times., 1905-10-01
The First Lie.

And I the truthful crank, with incredi-
BILE nerve. calmly lied my lie, and an
swered Yes"
Why? oh, don't ask me why, l didn' {
know then-I don't know nowi Without
reason, without motive Of any kind.
Instantly the mans manner took on
severnal degrees of familiarity -Ah, l
knew it-and was dead sure onter yer
game when yer give us that song and
dance at the tent up there." and before
1 had caught his outrageous meaning,
he asked briskly: Say, what's yer line
of play in this biz?'
Amazed to find how soon that first lie
cried for the support of another, 1 an
swered briefly, with downcast eyes,
L'haute ecole."
''Huh-uhI' he grunted. 'I thought so
Il didn't 'spose yer was any pad rider. "
His eyes roved over the fine up-stand-
ing animal. with dlicately sensitive ears.
pricking forward at the tiniest sound
with stately elastic walk, perfectly free
from the irritating, jiggley movement
common to most horses when walking.
and he said:
Well, he's about the limit! Say, did
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<e&zS{Seeks in Vain for
GW0rk as a LabOrer

many days on which he disappeared,
and with him went the private secre-
tary.
The beginning of the end was seen
when in the spring of this year the
girl fell ILL., For nearly a month did
Mr.. Street absent himself from his
duties. 1t was then that Streets
love, infatuation, passion for the
girl reached its climax The physi-
clans who tended her, among them
DR.. Torey, of the Clarissa apart
ment house, Seventh avenue and
140th street, told how by night and
day he paced the Eoor as one dis
traught, raving that he was about
to lose the light of his life And
once he tried TO dash his head
against wall With her recovery
the couple went to Pine Hill, in the
Catskills, there at last to be found
by G. F. Gregory, the present presi-
dent of the Street Steamship Com
search for Street and force his resig-
nation. Mrs. Street, whose eyes had at
last been opened to the truth, insisted
with a proud loyalty worthy of the
stock from which she sprang, that
her husband was the best and kind
est of men, that the girl had "hypno-
i'm an he
TO his home.
Mr.. Gregory, while keenly in sym
pathy with the deserted wife, was
concerned not so much with the
domestic storm as with the fact that
Streets persistent neglect had caus-
ed the collapse of several big trans
actions. His business was to de-
mand Streets resignation as presi-
dent, and at Pine Hill, according to
his own story told at the time. he
found him masquerading In the
character of Miss Miller's physician.
The secret of the power brought
to bear to force Streets resignation
is known only to the directorate of
the company, but when Mr.. Gregory
returned to>New York the resigna-
ton was in his pocket, and Mr..
Gregory stepped into the vacant
place.
From that moment the premoni-
ton Of doom was on Street. He was
deaf to the pleadings of the deserted
wife. deaf to the friends who now
crowded around him entreating him
for the sake of his children. of his
future, of all that a man holds dear
in the world, to give up the girl who
had wrecked his life, and together
with her mother, who. strangely
enough, while fully cognizant of the
connection between her daughter
and Street, had remained In charge
OF the Hat all through the months
that they lived at the Gresham. the
two, girl and man, resolving to SET
at naught the conventional laws of
society, returned to New York. And
II was in this stage of the play of
human emotion that Street was
stricken down with appendicitis and
for many weeks lay in the Polytechnic
hospital. Even here Edna Miller
was by his side; the hapless wife
was turned from the hospital doors
te
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end. And it is then that the man,
once her employer. now her humble,
devoted servant, humbly obeys her
ligttest wish, and only at midnight
creeps back to his lodgings in Jer-
sey avenue. Sharing with each 9TH
er. starving with each other if they
must, they are content to bear an
equal part of the fate that has fallen
on them.
u loved him once; / love him al
ways, for life or DEATH" is the one
response of Edna Miller to all ap-
peals.
My daughter will yet be his wife, -
says Mrs. Miller to her friends.
Their relations are those of father
and daughter or brother and sister.
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ling manner
You remember James Street, presi-
dent Of steamship company, with
an income of $4,000 a year, who
abandoned his wife and six children
because of his infatuation for doll
faced little girl seventeen years old.
And how, within a few months, this
conduct turned all his business as
sociates against him, deprived him
of his position and his income, and
and that was only the beginning
of his reaping.
In the long line of care-worn, sad
faced men-each bearing in his face
the story of failure in life-who
wait day after day al the offices OF
the New York city railroad, hope
lessly seeking places as gripmen or
car conductors. there stood, 2 few
days ago, a man in whose bent figure
and sorrcwful eyes lay the story Of
much suffering.
Something in the aspect OF the
man-perhaps the pale ghost Of an
authority and command which were
of other times and other places
drew many curious eyes toward him
as he stood nervously tapping his
foot against the floor and shifting
his hat from one hand to the other.
With his gaze anxiously fixed on the
door of the Office of Superintendent
Swan, he waited for the summons
TO enter.
Four miles away in a little fat
in Jersey City a girl, scarcely more
than a child, her once beautiful
face drawn and haggard, her eyes
dimmed with the tears of many days
and nights, watched and waited for
his return with the words that
meant livelihood, though ever so
poor a one, or an increase in the
privations which for sake of her
love of the man now timidly enter
ing the superintendent's Office. she
had endured for many months.
One or two Biblical texts adorn
the walls of these rooms on the
third floor at No. 260 Barrow street.
Perhaps in the heart of the girl or
OF the set squat woman with the
square jaw and resoIute mouth-her
mother-who faces her, there arose
the thought of another text i'm
printad in the minds Of all who have
lived to suffer-"As Ye Sow"
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a
Eli Perkins when he became a
journalist.
Never" said Eli, .'but 1 do hope af-
ter twenty years more experience to be-
come newspaper man."
We'll, what is the difference?" asked
the sophomore.
Just this, my son. said Eli "a cal
low reporter calls himself a journalist
AS George Welshons says. in his first
tadpole stage. when his head is swelled,
he is journalist. If he finally shows
great brain and industry. and escapes
the foolkiller. he may become a reporter
After years of study and toll, and when
his brains are stuffed with wisdom, wit
and discretion enough to kill his own
editorials and make up a sixteen-page
Sunday edition, then L say he's a news
paper man"
Then this is as high in the profession
as he can get?'
Yes, he is now at the pinnacle BY
and by. when he gets lazy and stiff
and old and stupid. they reduce him
TO the position of editor.
AN editor is a deceased newspaper
man with buniOns on his BRAIN chill
5lains on his heart. corns on his ears
and warts and dyspepsia on his liver.
The business of the editor is TO sIeep
uptown all day and at night he prowls
around newspaper Office. and 1T mid
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

James Street, President Of a
Steamship Company, With
an Income OF $4,000 d
Year, has Utterly Ruined
Himself Through His Mad
Infatuation for His Seven
teen-Year-Old Typewriter
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Defiant in His LoUe.

When the newspapers were ring
ing with the story of his disgrace
even as he lay on the hospital bed
ne remained obdurste and defiant
and declaring that his love for Edna
Miller was only as the love Of a
father for a dear child; and in the
next breath he would announce his
Intention of marrying her whenevar
his wife should grant him freedom
with a divorce.
My wife annoys me with her per-
sistence in maintaining an impos-
sible position" he said. 81 shall
never return to her."
And TO that resolution he has
blind,y held. Coming out into the
world he stood alone. ruined alike in
pocket and in reputation-alone.
save FOR the girl, who, in defiance of
immemorial precedent in such cases.
remains true to him.
But the Nemesis of Retributjon
which has pursued him to his ruin
hunts him still. The rest of his story
is the story of gradual sliding
down the scale of life; of a black rec
ord of poverty and want; OF weary,
never-ending search for work. The
morning in which he starts out on
his weary quest and the return at
night with broken heart and tear
dimmed eyes from his quest sees
him at the home of Edna Miller.
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go back to your wife and we wiz
employ you"
But the thought of a return to the
woman now seeking shelter with a
relative at Englewood is obnoxious
to Street He has not yet digested
his bitter lesson
I'VE are innocent, but the world
judge otherwise" he answers.
Edna and 1 have borne much; we
will continue to suffer until the law
can make us man and wife"
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SiaUe to the DoH-Faced Girl

Nearly every moment of Streets
spare time is spent in the society
of Edna Miller. for his belief is that
1t is his duty to protect her to the
The Washington times., 1905-10-01
Salute, Half Flunky.

The man turned his head, saw the
situation and giving to me salute half
nunky, half-military and wholly per
iunctory. he tried vainly to throw his
three big horses into single file
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

said, with an air of dead sureness:
you've been under the canvas guess
you're one of US, amt yer?'
The Washington times., 1905-10-01
WHAT A JOURNALIST IS

A FTER his lecture before the
~ journalistic class at Cornwall
n University, a sophomore asked
Eli Perkins when he became a
The Washington times., 1905-10-01

CCORDING as he SOW
ed. James Street is
now reaping. Never
was a Bible truth ex-
emplified in a more
thorough and start
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-02
PARALYSIS CURED
Case Seemed Hopeless but Yielded 70
DR.. Williams Pink Pills.

Mr. kenney has actually escaped from
the paralytic's fate towhich he seemed
short time ago hopeleSslv doomed The
surprising report has been fully verified
and some important details secured in
personal interview with the recent suf.
ferer.
".rlle doctor, said Mr.. Kenney, "told
me that If l wanted to live any length
of time would have to give up work AL
together, and he told my friends that
the paralysis which had begun would in
time involve my whole body"
just how We're you afflicted at this
tlme?' Mr.. kenney was asked.
We'll. had first hot, and then cold
and clammy feelings, and at times my
body felt as if needles Were being stuck
into it. These sensations We're followed
by terrible pains, and again Iwould have
no feeling at all, but a numbness would
come over me, and Iwould not be able to
move. The agonizing fortunes came
from headaches and pain i'll the spine.
" Night after night could not get my
natural sleepald my system was wrecked
by the strain OF torturing PANS and the
effect of the opates was forced to take
Ito induce sleep. AS l look back OH the
terrible suffering l endured during This
period lofsen wonder how retained my
reason through it all.
Bat relief came quickly when /
was induced To try DIR. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. The very first box
seemed to helpme, aud seven boxes made
me entirely Well. There can be 10 doubt
about the thoroughness of my cure. for I
have worked steadily ever since and that
is nearly four years. -
Mr.. kenney is at present employed by
the Merrimac Hat Company and resides
at l0l Aubin street, Amesbnry, Mass.
The remedy which he used with such
satisfactory results, is sold by all drug
gists, OF direct by the Dr. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N Y.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-02
FORCED TO SURRENDER.
Murderer Laduc Finally surrenders to
the Officers

Peoria ILL.,, Nov. 2.-William Laduc,
a farmer who lives near Chenoa. who
shot and instantly killed Mayor Chas.
Nichols. president of the Chenoa State
bank, and Hugh S. Jones, Il wealthy
farmer, then entered the bank vault
and stood off Il posse of citizens and
deputy sheriffs for number of hours,
finally surrendered to the officers
Latluc and Nichols We're brothers-in-
law. A short time ago Laduc's wife
left him and he blamed Nichols for his
wifes action. He entered the bank
and after passing a few words with
Nichols shot him through the heart.
Jones attempted 10 seek refuge in the
bank vault. hut laduc followed and
put three bullets into his body. He
then partially closed the door and am
'nounced that he would kill amy man
who dared to come within range.
Sheriff Edwards and four deputies
We're summoned from Bloomir gton. Va
,rious ruses We're used in an effort TO
capture Ladllc, but he repeatedly fired
at the crowd, wounding two men
slightly. Finally mattress was OBJ
tanned and by holding IL in front of
them the deputies succeeded in closing
the vault door. La,iuc held out for sew
eral hours more, when he surrendered.
He was taken TO Bloomington by
Sheriff Edwards.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-02
JOHN o. TO NEWslEs.
He Teleeraphs Cleveland Newsboys II
Would Like to Be with Them.

Cleveland, o.. Nov. 2.Ileaded by
the Salvation and Josephine Mission
bands and a squad of sixteen police
men. 1000 newsboys marched from the
public square Sunday to the Euclid
Avenue Baptist church, the religious
home of John ID. Rockefeller. where
they held a rally Shortly after the
exercises began the following telegram,
dated New York and signed by the oil
Eaton.
II wish / could be With YOU at the
newsboys NEE ting. l send most hearty
regards and love to every boy"
Later the following wire was sent
TO Mr.. Rockefeller: Same here. Sorry
you couldn't come. Ise here next time.
-Newsboys of Cleveland"