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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-12-18

would not be dislodged. nor could she
throw off the weight that seemed press
ing down upon her He saw the odd
look in her eyes and the drawn, uncer-
tain smile on her lips, but he attribut-
ed them to wonder and incredulity.
Somehow after AL these years he was
transformed before her very eyes. She
was looking upon a new personality.
He was no longer Montgomery the
brother. but she could not explain how
and when the change crept over her.
What did it all mean? Il am very
glad if it will make you happy, Mon
IT," she said slowly, the gray in her
lips giving way to red once more.
eDoes she known
Il haven't told her in so many
words, Peggy. but-but I'm going to
this evening" he announced lamely.
This evening"
81 can't waltz Monty said as he rose
to 90. I'm glad you're pleased, Peg
~. 7 need your good wishes. And,
Peggy" he continued, with a touch Of
boyish wistfulness, do you think
there's a chance for a fellow? I've had
the very deuce Of a time over that
Englishman."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-12-18

an turned to Subway Smith,
at her right-the latest ad-
her menagerie. what is
|ld Of yOurs." she asked. Il
Ter seen such complex sim
This new plaything has no real
Pr him. lie is breaking it to
what it is made Of. and some
p happen when he discovers
lust"
|on't worry about him, said
easily. "Monty's at least a
|rtsman. He I'D t complain.
happers. TIeIl accept the
3 and pay the PIPER
-. AHn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20

must say. with Portia. that the bond gives
the state no drop of blood, and that your
verdict is not guilty"
Shaking his accusing finger at Assistant
States Attorney Softer. Mr.. Campbell said:
Here Is the state coming before you as
this mans pound of flesh, as the cruel Shy
lock demanded Antonio's. In vain, in the
language OF Portia. we say to them:
The quality Of mercy Is not strained;
II droppeth the blessed rain from heaven
Upon the earth beneath.
The state pays attention. but de-
mands its pound of flesh 1t demands that
upon indictment that fatally varies from
the contract involved, and yet 1t offers that
same contract as part CT the proof. Give
them justice and their bond; give them
their pound of flesh. but give them not one
jot or little of this Christians blood"
was all right for Venice, but that this was
twentyieth century America, and that he
couldn't find any similarity between the
case of Shylock agt. Antonio and the one
on trial. The fact remained. he said, that
Muse had bought the watch, and had
pawned IL two hours later and the trans
action was evidently a fraud.
The jury did not overdue Portia without
due elaboration. They went into the jury
room with the contract, and considered the
matter prayerfully for whole hour. When
they returned they said that their verdict
was guilty. thereby sweeping aside one of
the most notable legal rulings In literature
Judge Wickes suspended sentence at the
request of Mr.. Campbell
A feature of the case was the fact that
one of the states witnesses was ex-Detec-
tive Berney, who worked up the case
against Muse last January. He has since
been dismissed from the force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
sHAKEsPFARE's PRECEDENCE.
Not Regarded as Valid in Modern Court
Of Law.
From the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore News.
Shakespeare's law of contracts might nave
been entirely valid on the Rialto when Por-
tia practiced before the Venetian bar ana
Shylock did a land-office business in call
loans. but modern jury in the criminal
court the other day decided that, while 1t
was pretty good romance. it wasn't backed
by the necessary legal precedents. And
they had the nerve to render this decision
after Lawyer William f. Campbell had
transported them in fancy to the grim
scene before the duke and had enacted for
their benefit Shylocks demand for Justice
and his bond" and Portals beautiful apos-
trophe to the quality of mercy.
The case was that of William +. Muse,
indicted for disposing of goods bought on
the installment plan. Last May Muse
bought watch at A. c. Metcalfe s, No.
pawned it for so. When the watch was
bought Muse signed a contract with Mr..
Metcalfe whereby he agreed TO pay 50 down
and So a month until the watch was paid
for and II was stipulated in the contract
that the title TO the watch should remain
vested in Mr.. Metcalfe until 1t had been
paid for After the testimony was all in
the state claimed that Muse was the hirer
of the watch. that he had secured no title
TO it. and that he consequently had no
right to pawn ii. Lawyer Campbell de-
clared that the Indictment charged that
Muse had purchased the watch, and that
bctNtth inc hlulStuehS anu INC couti at
that was fatal variance, because the con-
tract stipulated that the title to the watch
was not vested in Muse and that, there
fore. he had not purchased it, as
charged in the indictment
Then he began to draw a parallel be-
tween the case at bar and the case OF Shy
lock agt Antonio, quoted in Fifth Shake
speare Reports. page As You gentlemen
all recall that great scene" said Mr. Camp
bell. eloquently. land you cannot fail to re-
member how Portia showed so conclusively
that the terms of contract must be
strictly construed. Did she not say: The
bond gives thee no drop of bloodr Although
1t expressly provided that Shylock was to
have pound of flesh? Now, ask you
to construe this contract as strictly as she
did the contract between Antonio and Shy
lock Here the contract shows on its face
that no title passed to Muse, and when he
In indicted for purchasing this watch you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20

from the track than ever before since tho
road was built. Many millions of cuhiS
rect OF snow and Gle have been cleared
ITO tne track. AT the higher altitude
the snow had become packed to the con-
sistency OF ice. as numerous strata formed
making 1t necessary to chop it out I'm bIocks
perore any trenching could be DONE For
the past two weeks one train has heer
run up the peak daily as far as n was
possible to go. and many tourists have
taken advantage of the opportunity to sec
the huge drifts and the pillow cutting its
way through them.
The first few years the road was In
operation the snow was removed by SHOW
cling. but the past six years pillow espe-
ciaiiy designed for this work has been
used 1t Is made entirely of steel. and
Is attached to the front end of the snow
car by swivel coupling. which holds the
nose of the pillow to the center of the
track on curves as well as on the straight
track The plow is provided with ice
breakers, which are just under its edge
and inside of the 7 rails and the outside
of the rack rail. which act as hanges and
hold the edge OF the pillow tightly against
the rails. thereby insuring an absolutely
clean and safe track. As the snow is usu-
ally too deep to be lifted and thrown to
one side, 1t is first blocked out by trenches
being dug across the track at intervals OF
about six feet. And then by saving the
snow at right angles with the trenches
two feet out from the T rail, leaving a
big block of snow for the pillow to run nm
der. This block is lifted and forced hack
on the snow pillow by the forward motion
of the locomotive. When the snow pIow
Is loaded it is dropped back to a point
where there Is natual opening, or where
one has been formed large enough to per-
NIT the snow blocks to be unloaded. This
is done by undermining the large blocks
and shoyeling Off the loose snow
These blocks Of snow weigh as much as
ten tons, and even more. and when turned
loose in a chute made of smooth surfaced
timbers they go tearing down the side Of
the mountain, gaining in size at every turn
until they assume the proportions of q mas
siye body. The momentum is very great
and to see one of them coming down the
side of the peak one would suppose that ter
rible destruction would result. but the glory
Of the white monsters Is dissipated at the
bottom of the canyon as they fall In the
abyss with muffied thud that can be heard
for some distance from the top.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
Members Of the Glass.

The class includes:
Mercy Ames Adkins, Florence Read
Bailey, Alma Elizabeth Bischoff, Leila May
Brown. Josephine Byron, Alice Concklin
Mary Eleanore Cuddy. Annie Turton Den
ham, Ida Theresa Doyle. Ruth Dumont
Ruby Gillespie Elliott. Marian Gardner,
Louise Golf Hart. Lillian Elsie Heller, Mary
Beatrice Hilieary. Virginia Hollinberger
Grace Houchen. Winifred Mary King, Bes-
sic Ruth Knight, Margaret Mary Lockwood.
Georganna NJ Maynard, Edna Richardson
Merillat. Elsie Michaelson, Alice Olivia
McCauley, Cora McCarty. Grace McLaurine,
Rosemary Mcnamara, Marguerite McPher-
son, Bertha Nordhoff, Violet Offutt, Blanche
Pushaw, Jeanette Elizabeth Rosse, Julia
Isabel Rose, Ruth Bergman Richards, Amy
Simonds, Virginia Bartlett Sullivan Mary
Ella Taylor. Katheryne Loretta Thorn and
Estelle Parthenia Wild.
At the conclusion Of the exercises Com
missioner Mcfarland introduced DR.. C.. w.
Needham, the new member of the board of
education.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
WANTED A NEW CHICKEN.
The Restaurant Man Looking for One
That Shall Be All White Meat.

From the New York Sun.
Luther Burbank is doing great things in
the cultivation of flowers said the con-
ten plative restaurant man. HE Is max
ing purple flowers grow red, and red flow
ers blue. doing all manner of wonderful
things with plants, and all fine and beaut-
full. but what the country really needs is
chicken raiser who can make chickens grow
al: white meat.
las it stands today. in my business we
are always in a quandary 1t is a familiar
fact that the wing part of chicken yields
White, the leg part dark meat. We cut
roast chicken into four portions, of which
two are white meat and two are dark, and
that is the best we can do.
I'VE can do things with some meats. but
you can't make the dark meat of the leg
and second joint of a chicken white meat.
And here comes the trouble:
Nine out of ten of a restaurants custo-
mers. when they order roast chicken. call
for white meat; and to supply these de-
nlaRds with chickens growing as they do is
of course simply impossible. We would like
to do IL, but we can't
I'VE have to give some dark meat, and
that disturbs the people who get it. They
see white meat served to other folks and
they wonder why they can't have 1t. We
explain to them about how chickens are
made, and why we can't always serve ev-
erybody with white meat, but that doesn't
interest them much; they ordered white
meat and that's what they want, and
really all that we can do Is to trust that
they will get white meat the next time they
order.
LAS a matter of fact We serve white meat
as far as We can; but what We want in our
business is a chicken that Is all white
meat; and the man who can produce II
would not only confer a boundless benefit
upon us, but for himself he would become
rich beyond the dreams of avarice, wealthy
beyond the veriest Nightmares of greed
That's what the country needs, chick
en- raiser who can make chickens grow all
white meat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
Butter is Awfully Yellow in Springfield

:
Consumers of butter in this city may have
noticed of late an unwonted golden hue In
the color Of that delectable article. It has
the true yellow praised by the pastoral
poet from the earliest ages. A dealer ac-
counts for this by stating that this year
all over western Massachusetts, and Yer
mont the dandelions have been more plen-
tiful than for many years. The cows in
their herding consume quantity of these,
to the end that their milk is affected, and
consequently the butter. AS the dandelion
crop passes the butter will regain less
brilliant color A less poetic dealer says
that the rich appearance Is probably due to
a greater use Of coloring matter by the
dairymen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
A Bugotu offertory.

From All Nations.
box has reached the Bible House in
London from Bugotu. British Solomon Is
lands. containing specimens of some of the
items contributed by the natives to the col
lection made on Bible Sunday at the Me-
lanesian Mission Church. The contents in
clude some strings of beads, porpoise teeth
and armiets. whici. are recognized coin of
the realm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20

katherine Madden, Molis Magruder. Sink
Ter Penn. *Willam Peace, Oliver Perry.
"Frank Plummer, Bessie Robinson, Franz
Snowden, "Herbert Strothers. Mary Walker,
Percival Webster *Mary A. White. Mary
G. White, Nettie Williams, *Margaret Will
son. minnie Wilson.
Section. F2-Annie Adams, William
Buckner. Mary Dorsey, Blanche Eckels*.
inson, Elaine Tancil Fauntieroy Williams
Promoted to Fourth Year.
Section A-3-Alverta Carter, Mamie
Cheatham, Elizabeth Donoho. Mary Fergu-
son. Maggie Graves. Artensy Harris, Flor
ence Jones*, Dorothy Johnson. Ellen Lee.
Lucy Lewis. Natalie Lewis. Adella Parks.
James Miner, Bessie Reddick. Charles Rob-
inson, Phyllis Scott, Bessie Smith, Caiista
Stewart, Carrie Stovall". Mabel Swami.
Jeanette Wesley, Louise Williams. Marie
Williams Clara Wilson, Laura Wilson.
Section B-3-Martha Beverly, Grace Brown
Robert Brown. Virgie Bryant, Imogene
Charleston. Cordelia Dent, Alice Digs. Es-
tele Dodson. Wilson Evans'. Julia A.
Foley, Pansy Gaskins Willard Hall. No
vella Jarvis, Henrietta Johnson, Lucy II.
Johnson, Mabel Johnson, Olive Jones Rosa
King, Matilda LIE Brant+ Georgia Aarston,
Susie Racks Seyeilon Savoy. Estelie stew
arta, Rosetta Wilkinson, Leonora West.
John Williams, Thomas Wills, Zellaca
Wooding, Ella Sewell.
Section C-3-Ulysses Alexander, Harry A.
Dyson, John Gordon, Harold Haines, Tally
Holmes. Sarah Meriwether". John Pinkett,
Josephine B. Pinyon. Walter Simmons,
Carrie Snowden, Allen Taylor. Clarence
Williams
Section D-3SCaroline Blackville, Mar
garet Carroll. Henry Clay Carrie Dyson
Raymond Hewletts, Sadie Johnson. Mar
garet Lemos, Araminta Price, Elizabeth
Tancil, Catherine Middleton, Eva Wilker-
son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
BORING INTO MOUNTAIN OF ICE.
Difficulties Met in Opening the Road
Up Pixies Peak,
From the Denver News.

The cog road up Pixies Peak is now
open within half-mile OF the summit
The road is usually opened between March
20 and April 10. and this season is the
latest In its history. Unusual difficulties
have been encountered In clearing the
track of snow which was piled thirty feet
high In many places. 1t requires from
two to six weeks every spring to get the
road In condition for running trains, ana
this spring more snow has been removed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
slim flousekeeDers' Paradise ~

The Palais Royal Basement Floor will cont
among the larger Refrigerators, Ice Cream Free
in the list below
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle
The Norwich work house master report
cd to the guardians recently that they had
admitted very old man. who claimed to
be ITO years old. He is Pendleton dyer,
named John Wilmington. and he had been
on tramp for two nights. Before his adnnis-
sion he had slept in the open.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20

The Virginia state corporation commits
sion has made a ruling under which the
Standard Oil Company and the American
Car Company are compelled to pay charter
fees of 5000 and $1,000. respectively
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-20

A thief entered the residence of j. w
Compton at Roanoke, Va, Sunday night
and from a room in which he and his wife
were sleeping stole nearly 500 in money
and gold watch.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-11

Guards southwark for a distance Of
nearly 1000 feet the slightly bending
western edge Of Whitehall and Par
hament street will be lined with i'm
posing public buildings, harmonious in
general effect, though designed nv dr.
lerent architects and erected at dir
Ierent times. The new offices hordnr
on the open space north of ST Nfor
garets Church and Westminster All.
Dey. The value of the land thew stand
On Is enormous, and their cost ia MO
poruonate to their size, the part now
IN course of construction involving ON
outlay Of $3,7JO,OOO, while o. 750 900
VIII be needed for the proposed extern.
sion A third block Of the beantffn,
new Admiralty Office, at the northeast
corner of st. James Park, hidden from
Whitehall by the old Admiralty hnild
ings and the Horse Guards, when com.
pleted at the end of June, 1906 will
have cost $75O,O0O.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-11
HOMELESS MEN IN CHICAGO.
Relief and Aid Society Tells Story G
CitySta Miserakble

Relief and Aid Society TeIls Story OF
City's Miserable.
Fifty thousand widows and fifty
thousand children who are half-or-
phans exist in Chicago, according to
the forty-seventh annual report Of the
Chicago Relief and Aid Society.
twenty-five thousand homeless men
as a permanent factor Of Chicago's
population is another item estimated
in the report. There are 5000 desert
ed women also, who are the mothers
of $4,000 children. Eight thousands
persons In the city are suffering from
tuberculosis.
OF the $4,000 half-orphans between
and IA years of age the report says:
Such children are pressed into ser
vice at an early age and many of them
have been poorly nOurished on account
Of the desperate struggle the mother
has had to keep her family together
They begin their work with poor equip
ment physically. Our aid Is often in
voked where we find delicate young
girls going to their work poorly shod
Scantiiy clothed and underfed. This
Is also the case with school children
We also often find a boy or girl of
school age kept at home to care for
the younger children. 1t is usually
against the real wishes of the parent,
but the father or mother must work."
OF the $4,000 homeless men the re-
MORT HnRlo 1HThnvr
but this average number is always
with us. Many Of them make no Sc
rious effort to improve their condition.
There are others who are honest seek
ers for work, who, having lost cour-
age and health, need and appreciate a
friendly hand"
The tuberculosis figures of the re-
port are significant. Three thousand
and five hundred deaths We're record
ed last year. Only AIS beds are avail
able for tuberculosis patients in Chi
cago. Two-thirds Of the 5000 tuber-
culosis sufferers in the city, or 1888,
are among the poor The report says
concerning them: Exposure under
nutrition and hard work lower the
physical tone and render the body sus-
ceptible to infection. With less than
$50 free beds available and $3.50 pa
tients, 1t is evident that whatever
treatment these people have must be
in their own homes. When the bread
winner is afflicted the burden Is espe-
clally heavy. Fresh air, good shoes,
comfortable clothing and plenty of
wholesome nourishtng food are need
ed. The family is often cramped for
room and one or more persons sleep
with the consumptive." Chicago
Chronicle.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-11
His Faithful Position

1t will be a year yet before I can
cast my first vote" said the vonno
man, but no old party war.horse
could have felt the stress of the late
campaign worse than l did. NV hoss
Is a Socialist, and had to keen in with
him or lose my job. NY father 10 q
Democrat, and if he had known +bot
/ leaned in any other direction no
would have turned me outdoors Nv
best friend, and one who lends mo
money when l am short, is a Rennh.
hcan, and l had to agree with an 10
said or find a new banker. Last ~
all, the girl I'm going to marry Ia -
Prohibitonist, and 1 had to he,iova
with her or take my hat and 90 ana
If my head aches yet and nv tbonshta
are all in a whirl you can't blame
me.
IF the campaign had continued ror
month longer should have pona ~
a madhouse or turned anarchist onS
blown up somebody or something with
a bomb" '-'
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-11
The Russian sa,nnunr

EVERY Russian peasant who is pros
porous enough to enjoy the luxury of
tea mas his samovar. At all inns each
visitor is supplied with one. 1t invari-
"Dly accompanies the traveller and the
plcnlcker, and even the officers start.
ing out upon a campaign find room
Tor a small one in their baggage.
Samovar signifies self boller.p It is
made of brass, lined with tin and
with tube in the center, in which
tne not cinders of charcoal are placed
AFTER having been ignlted. Often a
pipe connects 1t with the chimney,
ana two friends will sit for hours
drinking the boiling hot weak tea
Harper's Bazaar.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-11
L Got to Go to School.


I'd like to hunt the Iniuns. at roam the
boundless plain!
I'd like to be a pirate an plough the
ragin' main!
An capture some big island, in lOrdly
pomp to rule:
But l just can't be nothin', cause. | got
to go to school.
Most all great men, so have read, has
been the ones at got
The least amount O. learnin' by flick
!. erin, pitch-pine knot;
An many DARN boy like me grows up
to be a fool,
An never mounts to nothin', cause he's
got to go to school.
I'd like to be cowboy, an rope the
Texas steer!
I'd like to be a sleuth-houn', er a bloody
buccaneer.
An leave the foe to welter where their
blood had made a pool;
But how kin l git famous? cause got
to go to school.
l don't see how my parents kin make
the mistake
o. keepin' down a boy like me It's got
a name to make
1t amt no wonder boys is bad, an balky
as a mule;
Life amt worth livin' if you've got to
waste your time in school.
Id like to be regarded as "The Terror
of the Plains!
Id like to hear my victims shrek an
clank their prison chains!
I'd like to face the enemy with gaze
serene an cool
An wipe 'em off the earth; but, pshaw!
| got to go to school.
What good is 'rithmetic an things, ex-
ceptin' jest for girls,
Er them there Fauntleroys at wears
their hair in twisted curls?
An if my name is never seen on his'try's
page, why, you'll
Remember, at it's all because l got to
go to school.
Waterman.