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the compound interest at 4 per cent that
we now pay to Wall street.
The democratic faith has never toler-
ated bonded debt of the United States.
The bonds of issues of today are not
founded on legitimate business but on
the bonded debt. Commerce is enfeebled
and corrupted in it's sources by the sup
port of the bonded debt Hence the
monopolies we call trusts.
Hamilton created the first bonded debt
and his purpose was, to use it to change
the form, or the substance, of govern
ment. He wanted foundation for a
class. to overthrow democracy
Mr.. Jefferson and his democratic sue
cessors paid the debt and saved the liber-
ties of the people.
Andrew Jackson paid the debt for the
war of 1872, closed the United States
bank, its ally, and saved democratic in
situations.
We had a small debt left over from the
Mexican war, and the democrats. Pierce
and Buchanan in the Presidency, paid
that and with the payment came the low
tariff of 1857. Under the low tariff, the
south leaped into a prosperity far In ex-
cess, relatively, Of the north. Look at the
census of 1860.
The trusts of today will grow and
flourish over liberty as long as they can
use the public debt to their advantage.
The moment commerce Is left to depend
on industry alone, natural law will regu-
late it and railroad rates will adjust
themselves, until then we must fight as
best we may. j. W. DuBOSE.
MONTGOMERY, June q
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Strictly Germ Proof.

BY Arthur Guiterman in Woman's Home
Companion.
The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactc
Pup
Were playing in the garden when the
Bunny gamboled up;
They looked upon the Creature with a
loathing undisguised-
1t wasn't Disinfected and 1t wasn't Ster-
ilzed.
They said it was a Microbe and a Hotbed
of Disease.
They steamed it in vapor of a thousand
odd degrees;
They froze it in freezer that was cold
as Banished Hope.
And washed it in permanganate with car
bolated soap.
In suphretted hydrogen they STEPPED its
wggly ears;
They trimmed its frisky whiskers with
pair of hard-boiled shears.
They donned their rubber mittens and
they took 1t by the hand
And 'lected it member of the Fumigated
Band.
There's not a Micrococcus in the garden
where they play;
They swim in pure iodoform a dozen
times day;
And each imbibes his ratlons from a Hy-
drolactic Cup.
The Bunny and the Baby and the Prophy-
Tactic Pup
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left the place he patted bud on the back
and smiled
'Dud. he said. I'm mighty glad you
did IT. / don't need what / lost. I'll get
some more
Then he sauntered out with his coat
collar turned up. whistling u tune. Next
day he redeemed his iewelry. as did most
of the other fellows.
"rony Delany was the owner o. a thriv
ing cigar store when he sat in the game
and received his first cards y hen he got
up he had no more cigar store than a
rabbit. bud Pomeroy owned the store.
He also owned Tony's watch and cuff but
tons and gold knife studded with dia-
monds, which the handsome boy valued at
$500.
NAT Goodwin was showing in town
then, I think. At any rate he was in
Denver and he heard of the game. Every
body in town heard that the game was
going on and dozens of people dropped in
to look on.
Goodwin was a spectator about three
minutes Then his palm got to itching for
cards and he sat in.
1T took him about three hours to lose
$500 cash and his watch and sleeve but
tons
Then he wanted to play on his perso-
nal checks, but the bunch didn't know
how good they were. Actors didn't look
like millionaires to prosperous gamblers
in those days and Mats checks were re-
fused, so he had to drop out. He didn't
care, though, and left apparently salts
fed with the fun he had.
pat Sheedy, II | recollect correctly
dropped $500 in cash in about three hours
That was all he had, so he. too. made
his polite getaway. AS for myself, | lost
all | had. but 1t wasn't much. ami II
didn't take me long.
when the game was over Pomeroy,
with half a dozen watches. $4,000 I'm cash
and sleeve and collar buttons a-plenty,
arose and put on his hat Turning to the
busted gang. he said earnestly:
Boys. I've been pretty lucky. I didn't
mean to he. and cant say I'm glad was
I'd like to hand you back all this pawn
shop junk but l know you wouldn't take
H. zen be here, though. any time you
want 1t
bud meant every word he said He
knew that to offer any one Of the boys
his jewelry would be nothing less than an
insult. There was one thing he could do
however. and he did It. He spent 500 or
about that. for drinks for the crowd
Then he staggered ont of the place aud
went to his room to get some much
needed rest
When bud had left turned to Delany.
Tony said. how on earth did he
do It? Was 1t luck?
Luck No. replied Tony. 1T was his
nerve. All through the game I'll bet he
didn't hold better than threes more than
half dozen times
at turned out so. bud admitted next
day that he had made his big haul on his
ability TO bluff'
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From the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail.
IIvHT EAL PIE said Mr.. Samuel
wv Weller, soliloquizing, as he
arranged upon the grass the
eatables at Mr. Pickwick's picnic; VERY
good thing is veal pie, when you know the
lady as made it, and is quite sure 1t
an't Kittens and after all, though.
where's the odds, when they're so like
veal the very piemen themselves don't
know the difference%'
So 1t seems that there is nothing new
under the sun. 1.-THE Pickwick Papers
were written in 1886, which, If the arith-
metic is to be believed, was 10 years ago.
But without Armour and without Swift
but not, 1t seems, without beef trust
conditions In London in that year were
about what they are in Chicago today.
Il lodged In the same house with
pie man once, sir" Sam Weller went on
What a number o. cats you keep, Mr.
Brooks says |. when I'd got Intimate
with him. All, says he, I do-a good
many says he. You must be fond o.
cats says |. Other people is says he
a-winkin at me; they amt in season till
the winter though, says he. Not In
season.. says |. No says he; fruits Is in,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-24
GREATEST POKER GAME
Was Forty Hours Long, and Pomeroy
Won $4,000.

Denver Cor. New York Sun.
w r. Milburn known from coast 10
coast became reminiscent today and re-
called the famous forty-hour poker game,
known all over Colorado as bud Pome-
rows game. because in 1t Pomeroy clean
ed out fourteen men, including the late
Senator e. O. Wolcott, of everything they
had with them but their clothing.
"That game" said Milburn, was
played In Cliff Bells gambling house at
sixteenth and Laramie streets twenty-one
years ago. 1t began one morning at IL
o. clock and lasted forty hours.
"About ten of the players sat II out.
while three or four dropped in and lost
all they had and quit Among those who
dinned in and got cleaned were Nat Good
win, the actor; Pat Sheedy and myself
.rThose in the long play, as far as | can
remember, were Senator e. 0. Wolcott,
then state senator from Georgetown; Jim
Sampson, a Denver gambler; Chariey
samson who was a gambler In Denver
for thirty years, and played poker ten
Years on Mississippi river boats before
coming to Denver; Jim Moon, another
gambler who was shot fifteen years ago
hero in Denver; Johnnie Murphy, sporty
Young fellow who made Denver MS nome
John Sherman, who was killed IN Dean-
wood in 'sS; Tony Delany, known at the
time as 'Denvers handsome boy ana
DudIev Pomeroy, professional gambler
u-bo died of consumption last DecehlDer
U4nile on his way to Colorado from I'm
cinnau. 49, .to
"yvhat made the game famous was the
fact that bud Pomeroy cleaned every SIN
gle man who sat in 1t. He did i WITHOUT
slipping a coz backward. too
"At that time Senator Woicott WAS not
IL xUaE
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WHY CALLED "HlGH BALLS"
Views of Those on Both Sides of the
Bar.

We'll, you see it was this way" said
the gentleman behind the bar in the
cafe of an uptown hotel, according to
the Washington Star, 'the high ball
just naturally evolved with the advent
OF the long glass, the settler squirter,
cracked ice and mans idea for good.
long drink in the summer time. So it
was called the high ball."
The tall, slender gentleman with the
sharp nose objected to the definition
of the gentleman behind the bar
1.-THE high ball." he commended, with
dignity that becomes perfect knowl-
edge of a subject, had it's outcome
from the natural association of the
great national game of baseball Some
players want low ball and some want
a high ball More wanted a high ball
tnan low ball; so, wnen they adj
journed for thirst quencher after the
game, the men who wanted the high
ball were in the majority, and bar
keeps got into the habit of serving
Item long drinks. That's how the
name originated"
There was a general dissent from
the definition given by the tall, slender
gentleman, but since he had paid for
three rounds without a kick, they let
it go at passive dissent
All of the other gentlemen on the
rail side of the bar had different defini-
tons as to the true origin Of the great
summer drink. The only two points
upon which there was a unanimity of
opinion were that high" stood for a
long drink and that "ball'' was another
word for whisky, whether 1t was
Scotch, Irish or American, blended or
straight.
The short. stout gentleman with the
fshy eyes then opened up.
you are all wrong" said the short
stout gentleman, with great positive
ness. 1.-THE high ball is a married
mans drink. and it was originated and
named by married men. Bachelors took
to 1t because it tasted good. You don't
spell it rightly. anyway. It isn't high
ball. but high bawl.' It originated
this way
when married men go home half.
seas over there is always an indignant
female high up at the top of the stair.
case who lets out high bawl that
makes the unfortunate married man
often turn about face and adjourn to
the places where tonics are dispensed
He tells the barkeep about the high
bawl at home, and he asks the barkeep
If he knows anything good to take for
1t. Cert says the barkeep, who in
most cases has high bawler at home
himself, cert; take good, long drink
and then you won't hear the high
bawl when you get back That's how
the name of the great national high
ball arose."
Although the definition did not set
tie the absorbing question under dis
cussion, 1t did settle 1t that the short
stout gentleman had to pay for the
next two rounds to square himself with
the married men present. and who In
dignantly denied that the had ever
been greeted on their return home yery
late by high bawl, low bawl. shrill
bawl. or anything bordering on bawls
ar all
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QUAINT OLD MONTEREY.
Old Jules Simoneau Most Interesting
of Towns Relies.
DRENNEN'S

From The Strange Case of Robert Louis
Stevenson and Jules Simoneau" In the
July Century.
All roads in California lead the tourist
to the quaint town of Monterey, the "od
Pacific capital" with It's picturesque
missions. its early Spanish theatre. its
many monuments of bygone age and a
vanished people. For the life of Monte
rey Is all In retrospect; it's shops deal in
antiquities, its Expresses are centuries
old, and the chimes that ring out from
the mission tower are voices of the past
faint echoes of that far-off time when
they called the Indians to San Carlos
| mission to hear the glad tdlngs Father
Junipero Sierra had come across the seas
to tell.
But among all the relics of the past,
TO me the most interesting was Jules
Simoneau. friend of Stevenson in the
early days, who welcomed that prince
or Vagabonds" to his little Bohemian
restaurant and to his big French heart
with such generous hospitality and such
genuine love that Mrs Stevenson writ
ing to him afterward from Scotland.
when stevenson was too i'll to write him
SELL said His heart yearns to be in
some sort of communication with his
dear Smoneau.' as he always calls vo,,
even though 1t is at second hand and
through my pen. Your friendship ana
kindness to Mr. Stevenson are among
the very few things he can remenbe,.
with unalloyed pleasure connected Win
his stay In California. He cannot snealx
of it now without tears in his eyes
In New York periodlcal. a writer
mentioning Simoneau In connectior with
Stevenson, evidently unaware of the in
timacy of which | am about IN yiva
proofs says: Something very like 4
friendship ripened between them" "A
to Stevenson's own estimate of tho roIa-
tionshp, we have only 70 turn Ia tho tot-
tiers he wrote Smoneau Throupb those
he, being dead, may vet sneak of his lows
and gratitude Some one has said. "A
/ man Is better read bv the letters be re-
i ceves than those he writes" After sea
ing Simoneau | felt II was indeed a nri,i-
1ege to be able to read this deliebtf,,I
character through the Medium of steve,
sons letters; but truly thew cast tbeir
light both ways and reveal as much tho
tender heart of the master as the GOOD
ness of the old man
Aside from the evidence they rive ~
Stevenson happy faculty for mal,ins,
friends and even lovers among oil classas
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Evolution.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
The elderly stranger. revisiting his ma
tive town after an absence OF thirty-five
years, was trying to find out what had
become OF the companions of his boyhood.
is Jack Olin still aliye?'' he asked.
II don't know anybody of that name,"
said the landlord of the hotel
Dead and gone. perhaps, or moved
away He lost hand In a Fourth of
July celebration the year before | left
here His father owned the stone quarry
just east of town.
ooh, yes to be sure; he's still alive.
lie owns the bank and two or three blocks
of buildings. and he's the Mayor of the
town-but his name is j. Henry o. Lynn
now"
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POPULAR POETS
A Nautical Extravaganza.


Wallace Irwin, in Smiths Magazine.
stood one day by the breezy bay
A-watching the ships go by.
When tired tar said with shake of
his head:
Il wisht | could tell lie.
i've seen some sights as would jigger yer
lights.
And they've jiggered me own, in sooth,
But | amt wuth darn at spinnin' yarn
What wanders away from the truth.
I'VE were out in the gig. the Rigagajg.
Just a mile and half to sea.
When Captain Shook, with trouble look.
He came and he says to me:
-" o Bos'n Smith, make haste forthwith
And hemstitch the fo'ard sail;
ACCORDION pleat the dory sheet.
For there's going to be a gale
II strafghtway did as the captng bid
No sooner the job was through
When the north wind, whoof bounced
over the roof
An, murderin' lights, she bIewl
"She blew the tars right off the spars,
And the spars right off the mast.
Sails and pals and anchors and nails
Flew by on the wings o. the blast
1.-THE galley shook as she blew our cook
Straight out o. the portfolio glib,
While pots and pans, kettles and cans
Went clattern' after him.
"she blew the fire from our gallant stove
And the coal from our gallant bin,
She whistled apace past the capting's face
And blew the heard off his chini
" o WHEEL me deadr the capting said,
(And the words blew off his MOUTH:
We're lost, fear, if the wind don't veer
And blow a while from the south
"And WHEEL me dead, no sooner he'd said
Them words that blew from his mouth,
Than the wind switched round with hur-
ricane sound,
And blew straight in from the south.
I'VE opened our eyes with wild surprise,
And never a word to say
In changin' her tack the wind blew back
The things that she'd blew away.
"She blew the tars back onto the spars,
And the spars back onto the mast
Back flew the pals. the sails, and tho
nails.
w ulcH lnlo tHe snip STUCK last.
And fore we could look she blew the
cook
Straight into the galley coop,
Back dropped the pans, kettles and cans,
Without even spillin' the soup.
"She blew the fire back into the stove
Where 1t burnt in its proper place
And all OF us cheered as she blew the
beard
Back on the capting's face.
There's more o. me tale" said the sailor
hale,
GAS would jigger yer lights, in sooth
But l amt with darn at spinnin yarn
What wanders away from the truth"
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A "Mexican" Citv.

w. d. Howells. in Harper's Magazine.
The American who means to stop in
Chester for the day, which may so prof.
tably and pleasantly extend itself to a
week. cannot do better than instruct him
self more particularly in the history Of
which / still find myself so ignorant. for
all my show Of learning. / would have
him distrust this act at every point, and
correct it from better authorities Els
pecially would have him mlstrust story
told in Chester of the American who
discovered a national origin In the guide
books mention Of one Of the Mercian
kings who extended his rule so far from
the midland counties. The traveller read
the word American. and pronounced 1t as
the English believe we all do. MY dear"
he said to his wife. this town was settled
by the 'Murricans."
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Sysonby.

BY W. J. hampton.
, Beaten,
Beaten is Sysonby;
Hot-footest of the bunch
OF bobtails waiting the falling
or the flag to take his bunch.
King of the bobtail Founders,
Victor that led them all Z
Under the wire, Sysonby
Lies beaten in his stall
Beaten at last Is Sysonby-
Beaten by a breath
At the finish by the pale horse
Whose conquering jockey is Death.
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VEAL PIE IN THE YEAR 1886

cats is out Why. what do you mean?
says l. Mean? says he, that I'll never
be party to the combination of the
butchers, to keep up the prices O. meat
says he
Mr.. Weller" says he. squeezing my
hand very hard, and vispering in my ears,
don't mention this ere again, but it's
the seasonin' as does it. They're all
made O. them noble animals says he,
a-pointin' to a very nice little tabby kit
ten. and | seasons 'em for beef steak,
veal or kidney, 'cordin to the demand;
veal beefsteak, or a beefsteak a kid
ney, or any one on EN- mutton. at a
minutes notice, just the market
changes, and appetites vary
1t Is evident however, that Dickens
day the kitten-vea1 business was managed
in a different manner from that which
may prevail at present The London beef
trust-Dickens calls 1t the combination"
which sounds surprisingly modern-is not
accused of substituting kittens for veal,
or making ported ham of "pigskin or
rope, strands and other rubbish" the
substitution is practiced by a private
dealer in order to beat the combina-
ton.
This actually appears to take little
of the curse off it. And after all, as Mr.
Weller remarked, the tabby eat is gem
tie and attractive creature-and "appe-
tites vary"
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DOM Well In Georgia.

Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
We're dom well in Georgia
AS well as well can be;
The rivers sing in music
On their way to meet the sea.
An the winds they join in chorus
AS they wave the blossoms free.
An the stars that light the midnight sing
OF mornin'!
II.
We're dom well in Georgia:
Old Troubles moved away
To where the dreary shadows
An the lonesome people stay:
From the valleys to the hilltops
We are hollerin' hooray,
An the stars that light the midnight sing
of mornin'
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Scientific Slaughter Houses.

From Public Opinion.
Paris, with her genius for organiza ton,
probably leads the world in her scientifi-
cally conducted slaughter-houses. Almost
perfect precautions for public safety are
taken by means Of the rigorous inspection
of the meat by the police. There are
two immense municipal abattoirs, and the
charge for Strengthening, known as the
..slaughterhouse tax is two francs per
hundred Kilograms. or about $4.22 per ton
which the city sets aside to defray the
cost of maintaining and repairing the
abattoirs. In round numbers the city
receives 10000 year.
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Love Soma.

BY Frank L. Stanton.
Sweetheart, there is no splendor
In all Gods splendid skies
Bright as the love-light tender
That dwells in your dear eyes.
Sweetheart. there are no blisses
Like those thy lips distill,
OF all the worlds sweet kisses,
Thy kiss is sweetest still,
Sweetheart, no white dove dying
Had eer as soft a breast
AS this sweet hand that's lying
Clasped in my own-at rest.
Sweetheart, there is no glory
That clusters round my life
Bright as this bright. sweet story;
MY sweetheart and my wife"
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Easy.
From Life.

From Life.
did you sell horses to those two GUS
TONERS Yesterday" we ask Of our friend
the horse dealer.
Yes"
Make anything"
''On of Jones-yes.'
Jones? Why Jones was the one that
said he knew all about horses
II know He was easy. The other fell
low didn't know a thing about them and
brought around three or four experts be-
fore he would buy
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The Busy Lover.

From the Philadelphia Press
"Gayman has so many girls now he
has had to buy typewriter to keep up
his correspondence"
II suppose he can write half a dozen
letters now in the time II took him to
write one before2'
yes. he writes one letter and mani.
folds IT.
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Where are you going this

summer? I am going to win
ono Of the Birmingham Led
gers free vacation trips to
Yellowstone National Park,
and take my vacation there
at The Ledger's expense.
Full particulars on page Is
of toaays Age.Herald.
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The best haIf-tone cuts are made by
the Gawk Engraving company. Age
Herald Building.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-20

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IS, S,, ~ 800, I,assa.,s. IL, Il. Y,
1 !. - III, ~ ~ y 4 .,nrnad 49,
4 = ..:a.,,s,. =, NJ. 5,,s,..,
l s 49, z = ilA
Gay Lopgh y up from the uniser
Fly 70 spend the GhtS5alAs hs''a9aSs
AZ ms nome on quincy street
MISS VIVA Butcher went g Nor
santoEp YESTERDAY afternoon 70 attend
the EnasleyTrait Wedding which was
celeora'ea ast evening.
MISS hirah Ross Of Addison. Pa
arrived here last eyen:ns tol US Of
several days at the homs Of Mr.. and
Mrs. samlei A. Dean, on Walnut ave
nne and Third street.
Judge U. s. Kendall returned last
evening from a weeks soiourn at Ken
dali, Md.
Miss Nina Newberger, who had been
the guest OF her sister, Mrs VIII Con-
away on chicago street LETT to-day
for her home in Weston.
Miss Bess Gallaher isyat home at
ter an extended visit to friends q.
Wheeling and acknowledgements
Gazette
Mrs Howard showalter came down
last night from Mannlngton to spend
the holidays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs j. 2. Sands. MT showaiteN ac'
companted her hare and to-day lets
for business trip, in the west.
George Fitch, who Is attending the
University OF Virginia at Charlottes'
vile, Va, came home last night to
spend the holidays.
John Sands, who had spent the past
ten days hare. leaves on Saturday 70 :
is home In Wheeling 10 spend the hol.
idays.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-20
NEW ENTERPRISE.
Peter Psros viii open Shoe Shining

Peter Peros Will Open Shoe Shining
Parlor for Ladies' and Gentlemen.
Fairmont is at last getting another
enterprise that It has long needed Ia
the wax Of shoe shining parlors for Ia.
dies and gentlemen. Peter poros, WHO
Is a member of a Greek syndicate tina;
has shoe shining establishments in all
the principal cities of the eastern part
Of the United States, is going to open
a parlor in this city on Madison street
next to BIilingslea's drug store. Mr..
Rillingslea is erecting the building,
which he has leased for three years.