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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1906-11-30
Observation-Disclosures

Sin ie6r biibI9ss 8eiIpieI bon Der
Weisbeit zines Manbarinen eraGbIen
9tneiiide 8lGtter. Gin blinber Mufis
fer, bic 8uitarre auf benz @iideu, bate
ii9 nit ieinem lansen Stab Bis an
ben fei4ten SIub setaftet, Der bic
&reisftobt I'M SaIbbpssn umgibt, unb
uubte nidt, tpie sr bas ienIeitise llfsr
erreihen fOllte. @a fam elm p%anbsrus
Der SelbGnOlsr bes @eses ba6er urO
rief ibm gu: n&omm' i'd TRACE Did
iiber ben SluB. halte Du msinen @sIOs
fad" Der 4Iinbe IeBte fi9 auf ben
Riden bss Warnss unb bieIt bic
i9psre SaI9e NIT benz &upfsrs'!o,
6as Der SGnOler fir ben @ertuuf ieis
nes Seles einsenommens batte. als re
bas dnbere nfer erret9t bdtten, tppllte
Der sutmitbise Mauu nit benz Dante
aud iein gslb in gmpfans nebmen.
ga dbsr ertlGrte Der 8linbs, es fsi fem
@elb. Gr erbOb au9 glsi9 elm grobss
@ef4rei uno tlagts Simmel unb @rbe
ietn Qeib, bub man i'm, ben armer,
blinben Mann, berauben noble. 8ers
sebIi9 peripabrte Ii9 Der OelbdnOler
boseeen. Die Wsnse ersriff fir ben
8Iinben purtei unb priigeIts ben dnbes
rem bur9. Die Gtreitenben liefsn nun
gum Monbdrin; bd tnieten beibs Ries
Der lnb isber b~stbeuerte, es fet fem
@elb. Der Manbarin hDrte fie rubiJ
an, that eintgs Srdsen unO Idste bann
plDbli9: rDo molten mir ben Mais
isrsptt enti9eiben laffsn!- gr befubl.
Elm grobss @sfGb NIT Ddffgt 5d brins
gen, lieB ben Snbult bss @eIbiudes
biusin19iittsn unb bic Miin3en orOente
lid bur6einoubsrriibren. Damn trbob
er Ii1, beuete Ti9 iiber bas @sfGb uno
f9oute nd9bsntli9 binein. .9as Selb
eebSrt BEN SelbGnbIer, unb Du, bliI'
Der MuIitsr, erbGltt buNoert 8ambuss
biebs,4 Iasts er tur5. ollie itdunten.
.@ebt Der, Iogte er. .Auf BEN MIf'
fer THptmmt bas Ssl. Went Ser
Mann i'm Selbdnnsl bos @elb singe,
nonmen BAT, muB Sas @elb aud b.
Spuren Isines @eidGftes trugen." auf
benz @aIIer i6tpammen pirtli9 grpBs
Oelflede. Das 8plt prizes ldut bic
Deisbeit bes Mduodrinen ltnb Draus
Zen ertlang bds geT9rei beg biinoen
MuIiters, Dem Der GtodmeiIter trdftia
bic @eiten uuS ben Riidsn Itri4.
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E"HNr.
.Ra. alter Sunge," msints fem
6rsanD Yiauneai9nriot, Der i'm be-
segaste, nati0 nun lOlps ia pp6l los,
asbea. 8eneibsasipertbes WeniGens
iin0!@
sa4 mas. inurrte GSbImeber .ba
1T mas gu beneiben BEL meiner gidt."
Run, num-" blinSsIte pfannens
t4miot, olo f9ltmm pirb's tpobI nihi
iein. SojeBt BEL bieIem @etter IN
Wiesboben, Moino unb ba berum foll
Is fpDbl nidt 10 libel fein. aomm'
oarauf bin MAIDEN mir no6mals stnen
Sribfdoppsn.4
Us mar 3ebn Minuten no9 ,p6lf,
als SOblmeber na6 Der llbr FAB.
Sonnertpettsr, nun pirb es aber
Belt gr trunt eilig feiH @los aus unb
i4idte ben piccplo mad elmer 0rpf6te.
@s febIten nod iiebsn Mlinuten Big
aum abganse bes 3uees. Seine Ssrou
tuiirbs alfO idon nit Teinsr perIonens
tarte duf ben 8abniteig gesanasn Tsin,
fpie er ibr geIagt bate,
rOu tommft ubsr ipirtIi9 i'm Iebte1
IudenbIid,1 REF iie ibm sntscaen. 81.
Saaffnsr ssgannen IGon bic Sbiirea
gu i9lieBen. Sat BIZ
rI9 sepiB," iusts sr baItig, ,alIes
III betorgt, lei muir qdra beru6tdt."
rSd, bait bu uber aud ni9t bsrati-
len .
SD Derbitte mir aber nun ale Tru.
.aen. Denn bu erTt bamii anfGnaT, sill
ou ippbl big 5runtfurt ni6t fertia
oamit.
6rau SGbImsber I6biss, ieste fi9
in cine @ds unO begann i6r Bud aufs
auianeiben. sic tdnnte bies Stadium
nerDOier 8ullrigteit BEL ibrem Manne.
lnb nabm es ni6t tpeiter libel. Ru@
Elm bear Sagen Ru6e lpar sr pieOer
gang unbers.
Gs mar abenbs, als lie in 0tes=
baoen dntdmen. Der &OnTuI pintte
elmer 0rOidte unb beoeutete ietnsr
Tran ein3afteigen. Damn CAB er benz
bic abreIIe bes Sotels.
.@plIen mir nt9t lieber gleid bic
mitnsbmen," fragte frau
SDhImeher bertpunbert.
Die aOffer9" Serr S6blmeber ariIf
nit beiOen 6Gnben mad benz 8daens
Seine &niee 5ittsrten un6 er
mar treiOepeiB %getpor6en.
8Ortlps itdrrte er feline Srau an.
Oh biit bod nift fortge9dnqen. e6e
per 0ienitmaln bic Softer ge6olt bats
IT, fragte lie ianft.
SD CLAUDE bpG, liebes ainb. I,9
. itotterte er, i'd bate aanj
oergeIfen iG CLAUDE, biesmaI mar
mar id tptrtIi9 bds &arntdsl."
Damn trat er Iangidm inter bic Gas
terne unb I6lug Oas &ursbu6 auf. @r
suis9en, mann Der nG9Ite 3Mg
iuriid ging.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1906-11-30

usber arbeiter am pdnamosRd.
nal fagt Mogoon, Der bisberioe @Ou-
oernenr Der pondmotanal Z Bone uno
Sssentpdrtige prOpiIoriide 8pupers
Ilsur dif 8ubd: Sc feien iebt aipiIdeu
1000 unS 5000 gbineTen am 8aa Be-
t4afttst, ieintr gtnii6t mad feline
ipuni6enspertten @rbeiter. man
ititus Ii6 duf iie nidt 70 ~berIaIIen,
lpte dif Roger. Spbulb Elm Gbineie
serli9 GeIo Derbisnt babe, sr0Ffns e. eis
lten Sdoen anb Die Heoieruna berliere
ettlen Irbsiter. Die guten GrfoIge,
ioelfe in einigen Sbsilen Der GrSe nit
Aults srSieIt niirben, Teien isSialih
fem umftanbe 3usnI6reiben, bah Sieie
8ults unter Gontrattoren itanben, fpels
DC cine itrenee SsrrTfdft listen. Va
rtss ieoD@ notesn 9eibeiosnIhaft hes
Deute, tDnnten bic Ser. Gtdatsn Tidl
auf eIn Ioldes SDfiem niht s%inldTIen.
8srn nan oser Suits in anbersr
Nsile bsiadftiss miiiIs man ita iubis
plcusIl aif fie perlafIen anb pies gete
rlcht an, bd Der 3uli 10 nenia pie
mO9lt4 Grteite, auEer er tuerbe basu
as3lpuuesn. Die G1nsIen leisn en!
ltieDen tein 9Ortbcil fir Bic Der.
Stodten Der tpeHinbtT6e Rsosr ba=
sessn babe sinsn ssniIIen Mestb ols
Arbsiter, neil sr isbt tpiTIe, mas man
pom ibm %usrlunse; er belize aud siems
lt4s SnttlIietH5 unb ri uufer einem
M9tiaen NaHne fsiner Roiis Elm
ipsttbpCIIsr RonuIdrbstter.
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mas 10000 stimmen SermBsen,

Die Rem gcrt @OrIO" felt bic
tieffinnise 8etrddtuns an, Odb in
it6sr 9rGIiDeutsnpabI bon 1875
bis 1896, nit Qusnabme bon 1892, bic
feline G6pantang BON 10000 Stims
men BON einem Ydrtsitidet gum dnbes
rem bic G%rpGblung Der seI8Iagensn
RdHbibdten CUR GoIgs gsbabt BADEN
ipiirbe. Sn 1892 bGttsu ba3u $4,000
Stimmen geHigt.
8ei Der WabI bon S1bes tntfieIen
185 GIettoralIfimmen auf Sabes, 1874
Guf Silben. canals bate, bon Siios
Carolina. 6Iorib1 unb oouiliana abs
'seben, bersn GlettpralItimmsn fir
Sapes gea6blt tpurben, Elm @s9iel bon
638 Sttmmen bic brei G%lettpraIltims
men Rebabo's auf Silbtn's Settle
bringen tTnnsn, Elm Medlel BON 14O3
Gtimmsn bate ibm bic I.9s Stimmen
G%alifornten's sebrd9t, uno nit 1859
Skinner mebr pGren ibm Bic 80
gIsstordITtimmen Obio's sugefaIIen.
Ess @lsttprdIbotum in 1880 Tdnb
214 fir Sarfielb uRb 1855 fir 6an.
cod. SGtte nun 2sbterer bic upters
ffiibuna Saumanp's in Rsfp BORT ae.
babt, elm plus ppm 10,517 @timmsn
bate s,nilgt, 70 fbor Ct espGblt. Dens
feIben Grfpla bate cine MuiOritat fit
ibn In ben Staten Connecticut, Snbi+
ana, Mdtne unh Oregon osbabt, NIT
suiammen 81 gIettpraIFimmen. Dds
81 brau9te es bios zines @e6Iels BON
1929 in Connecticut, bon 1922 in Sns
biund, BON 4435 in Woine unb 1886 in
Oregon.
Sn 1884. no GlsptIan6 NIT 219
GleltproIitimmen essen 1872 fir
@lnine seuGbIt tporb, CAB ebenfalls
4etp Yort ben Musi9Ioa NIT einem
Nsbr BON 1149 Gtimmen fir glepsa
lamb. Wdren nur 575 Sttmmen su
Blaine ibersesanssn, 10 tpurbe gIep.,
lamb sd1ldgen. Sn Connecticut Ct.
belt GlepelaIb nur 1916 Skinner
rlshr. ais Blaine. In Rem Serfeb 435S
NIB In Meits@irgtnien 1921. Nui
1923 Stimmen msbr fir Blaine in bic
Ten bret Stuaten nit 10 @IettoraIItim
men unb bic Gntideioung fiel an6ers
Die 10 GlettoroIftimmea BON Snbiant
hdtten cine Sdnsntune BON 326.
Gtimmen fir 8Iuins ssbru6t.
Sn 1888 CAB ipisbsr Nep gort bel
Ausfdldg. Dds glettpraIbotum Tan
233 fir 9drrifon eeaen 1863 fiji
sGleDelunb. CUR l Stimme iiber bi
1Glfte bon Sa%rriion's MaioritGt i
bitfem Stoute bruudte su glepsIdnl
ob5uf Hnenten, aITp 6502, un6 Sarri
ION mar ssitIoaen. SIIinpis aa
Ddrrifpn % gleltpralitimmen unb en-
biuna Is. Der llsbertritt BON H. 9,
Stimmen i'm eriten unb bon ITS IN
Sipeiten Stuote, aufammen 1925
@timmen, bate bic Sa9e aeGnbert.
Hod Der eleihen Sbeorie mar
@iepeIdnb in1S92 eeT@lagen, no bonbi
Dffferen3 Der GlettorGlIimmsn arc
mar. 277 fir Die Demotraten qede
145 fir bic RspnbIit1ner. Tar Elm
umfdneutime Dpn 1880 @timme
N ben 5 Gtaaten Sn6iaau, Sllinoi
finb GaliFprrisn bGtte Der @ahe 81
eutsegenseiebte MsnOuns gegeGsn.
NL.ra.N
Mt4inleb hattt in 1896 95 GIetto
ruIftimmsR mebr ais 8rban. q
bate blDS bet lletergarg bpm suFum
men 1921 GtiMmeR III Sen 81 Siao
ten gdIifprniea, Snbiana, 0rcsot
aentudh 9el6pare anb WeI @frai
MEN geniiet nit elmer Mebrbst DO
AS GIestpralitimmen, uuo Brian fas
I'M .MeiBsn Saus4 !
Wl1n Iieht burats, bah bic gntInei
bune bet MnbI Oft an einsm Soa,
bdnat unb bdB cine Wobl in Ser SIX
Orie onbers ausfiebt. ais IN her prp
xis. Sa, nlb aud ME Helm bic Brain
titdi III, BE ber MlinnritGt ibrsn MiI
lep orfbrdrqt
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iib,rgegungen unb man Edit ss fir
gang felbTrebsnO. baB Der Mdrn, peIs
der gctpiIisulos genus III, feline &inbsr
elmer GIementarerSisbuug gu %berauben,
BON @sieBe sebiibreRb bafiir bsIrafi
inirh
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eyln mooernen sheater.

DIRECTOR gum guSIitum bas pGbs
r.nD Der loEgsn gouis mad benz britten
gtte u~neeouIbig tDirb): .Gebulber
sic nur nod etnigs Minutsn, meme
StrrfdoFtsH. DIR Gtrr gsrToffsr
mug ieben MuaenbIid NIT Dem umses
uybeitsten piertsn gfit eintrsffm@
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WALL,
S0AK WOOD SAL
~eeseniiber Der wiabIe,
hermann =: mo.

0icS III Der ~sIe9autete GIDEON IN Ser.
moun unb Finpet man bort audi bic beIten
@eirGnfe unb @i9arren,
9eIonoerS quite Dbistps. Iueini9er
aocnt III Sermann Iir ben beriibmteH uno
shten Bourbon nno giDe Whietp ben Ser,
Difiline so. preis OerieIbe pie III
Der DiitiHern
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Nus tinsm SsIs6eri5t. r4lBer Blue
menguirlanSen biloeten Der PrS9tigs
ten S6mud oss ReItourationsidales
bic aufgefellten buftissn Gpnnen, dls
Symbol Ses I6luufen @rdYes uniersr
~unipelsn0en peibIiden SugenO!-
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sdredliAg s6merisn aeItnOer

Sdlredlihy Shmersen eeIinSert
1nr9 ihrsdlide 9hmersen ae.
peiuiat lpiDlse her @slte nn~eerbau.
en- gpsiien. nabm Is. @. @rap on
uDu auln, WnF., Or. Siua's Diem
aife Ribs, init tem 8eiultate, = ME
er idreibt, Dab i'd turirt wuroe. .
ltue 4iaaen uno SeOnrmeunUrbpun
Gen msrOen aebOben bnrh Ibrem lin
osrnben Sinblpnnn beiDnbere gi0en
Idoiten. rs Gents 10 Balter Bros.
Gpptbele.
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.LbdmbsrIdin's Rufen meoisi
hilft Ole llatur.

MleSjsinen, be bic Nntur helten.
limb immer on mirtinmItsn. @hnm-
oerlain's Snifen Nlc0sn hnnoelt
so1f oleiem Blame. sic bait ben
oahcu surGd, lbN nen NuswGri int
aitft bic Rntnr, ons Saitcm in elugp
aeiunben 3uftnu0 MISREPRESENTATION
lie lit iiher einen ernByn Ghett Der
ullifrten @elt lbrer unidaebaren
sipeAihoiten rueoen berlbtnt. Gou-
q be hnben ibren hnhen @ert be,
lenet Sir tDlrtf rpseen iebe Nuln.
IL, on6 cine Grtal,una in riar Gun.
epsbt5apOGnQ uueraebt. HnH Der,
.fn,iI het Bidl'er Nrn&.
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PtttBburs. auus., ben %. WarS, 1904.
SD brau1e felt einieer Belt Sbre
Black, Draught 9teh.uub 1eHGesIsTebi.
ain bel meinem Biehfiaub. Sd babe aIle
Sorten @tsbfntttr %pebranht. unb eefuns
ben. pab ba1 Shriae baS Bette far mels
men Btps6 ". 3. >. oaifnH.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Baby Snake Wins Battle.

A baby RATHER which was hungry
and a mouse which had no desire to
be a victim fought it out yesterday in
a cage in the window of a fish store
at 1865 Fulton street, Brooklyn, says
the New York World. Mother Snake
and eight little brothers and sisters
watched the baby fight it's first bat
tie for a meal.
Fifty men and women crowded
about the window during the Is min
utes that the mouse held out. The
baby RATHER chased him from one o r
ner of the box to another, striking,
coiling and uncoiling, while Mother
Snake looked on with pride.
Mr.. Mouse had several bad falls in
trying to get out of the box, and
finally fell and lay still. Baby Rather
surveyed it's victim and prepared for
a meal But Mother Snake, being
frugal, took the meal away from her
son, deposited it in a corner and kept
all the family tantilazed for an hour.
Then they fed.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
SPIRIT GAVE HIM RHEUMATISM
CoIored Pastor Blames Murderer's
Ghost for His Affection.

To being haunted by the spirit of
Isaac Winder, the negro murderer, who
was hanged at Towson last March, and
whose spiritual adviser he was at the
time, Rev. j. B. Amis, pastor of st.
Matthews Colored Baptist church,
ascribes his failing health. The clergy
man called on Marshal Farnan to OBJ
tain a permit for a Sunday school
parade. While in the marshal's Office
he asked permission to examine a
number of photographs of criminals
and the scenes Of their crimes which
adorned the walls. This was granted,
and as Amis caught sight of a picture
of Winder he literally exploded.
"Fo' de lan's sakes, doan' femme
look at dish year picture! It's dat Ike
Winder, an he's de cause ub nah rheu-
matiz. Dat yer Ike Winder done ha'nt
me ever since dey hung him at Tow
son. Lemme git outer hyah!" and the
pastor hobbled on his crutches to the
other side of the room.
dish yer rheumatic done caused by
Winder," he explained. HE done come
TO me at night an run his col hands
over NAH face, an l hears him breath
in hard, jes' as he did dat day at Tow
son. One night he come and run his
hands over nah face, en- it feel jes'
like spidah webs, only co'ser, an den
he eel down and pull every stitch ub
bed clos often me. How did I know
twas Ike Winder? Huh! / amt bin
studyin' de Scriptures TO- nothin'."-
Baltimore Correspondent of the Phila-
delph:a Record.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
His Enemy Eiahts Fair.

According to officials of the Carne-
gle hero fund, the most remarkable
cas- that has been investigated by the
commission was that of Rufus K.
Combs of Midway, KY, who was
granted a silver medal and $500 in
cash by the commission recently.
Combs saved the life of his bitter en-
envy and political rival, Richard God
son, a lawyer and inventor.
Godson had entered a vault to test
a gas making apparatus and was over
come by the fumes.
Friends and relatives were afraid to
enter the vault. When he declared
his intention of going in Combs was
pulled back and told that Godson was
dead, and that he would surely lose
his own life if he attempted to recover
the body.
There may be some life in him."
declared Combs as he pulled away and
entered the vault. He carried his en-
envy to the door of the vault and then
fell unconscious. Both men recov-
cred and are now the stanchest of
friends.
Asked why he had risked his life
for his most bitter enemy, Combs re-
Piled: Because / love a fighter who
fights fair, and Godson always did
that.'-Eychange.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Bees Initiated by Wasps.

The average countryman would
laugh at you if you were to tell him
that you had seen the wasps this sum-
mer playing the part Of the exemplary
bee and gathering honey from the
flowers in the garden. But the coun-
tryman would be wrong and you would
be right, for of late, for some mys-
terious reason, the wasps have been
busy among the tall flaming spikes of
the red hot pokers (Tritoma uvaria).
What the bees think Of it one can
not say, but they are not to be seen
mingling with the wasps. The latter,
when they feel inclined toward honey,
usually make an attack upon the near
est beehive, and very often come off
second best, unless they attack in
force. But now that the wasp has
shown an inclination to gather honey
first hand from flowers, surely the
scientist can, step in and teach it to
store it for the needs of man in the
comb, which it can already make as
perfectly as the bee, although of a
different material. The chief diff
Guilty, perhaps, would be to prevent
the wasp, like the child in the straw
berry bed, from eating all he gathers
on the spot.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
All Honor to the Annie.

The apple is a splendid fruit, al
though particular specimens of it are
bum. The different varieties have a
pronounced individuality. The per-
sonal equation is prominent. The diff
ference between the Porter and the
Baldwin-each a genealogical star of
the first magnitude-is as marked as
the difference between a Connecticut
bank clerk and a Kentucky colonel.
The man who invented or discovered
the Baldwin conferred on humanity
a boon and he did more to tickle the
palate than has ever been realized.
OF many uses is the apple capable.
Whether it is eaten raw or converted
into sauce or made the basic element
of pie or subjected to other forms of
artistic treatment by the American
housewife it serves a useful and i'm
portant purpose.
History has never done adequate
justice to the apple. Poets have never
adequately celebrated in song the vir-
tues Of the fruit. Political econom-
lists have never fully recognized the
full part that the apple plays in the
affairs of men. But apple day Is here
at last.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Automobile in the Bible.

Someone has found a hint, as some
one always does when there is a new
invention or discovery, of the automo-
bile in the Bible. 1t is in the vision OF
NAHUM, the Elkoshite, concerning the
burden of Nineveh. In the account
given by this seer of the military mus
ter and array of the Modes and Bah
ylonians against the doomed city OF
Nineveh, the mistress of witchcrafts,
when the people in the midst Of her
were women" the Elkoshite has this
remarkable verse: "The chariots shall
rage in the streets, they shall jostle
one against another in the broad ways,
they shall run like lightnings." A vari-
ant Of the word '.jostle," which the
original Hebrew will, it is said, equally
well or better bear, is pass swiftly.
without particular purpose. to and
fro" a rendering which brings the cars
OF the Hebrew prophet into, perhaps,
still closer connection with the motor
ears Of the present day.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23

+ Il Is alleged that the defendants,
Through the Standard on company
and the other corporations, are en-
gagged in producing, purchasing and
transporting petroleum. instho various
producing districts I'm the United
States. principally situated in New
York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio. Indiana,
Illinois, Kansas, Indian Territory, Ok
lahoma, Louisiana, Texas. Colorado
and California; that they own and con-
troll nearly. all Of the pipe lines in
said states, and other pipe lines ex-
tending from Kansas to the ~seaboard;
also pipe lines In Texas and In Cal
ifornia; that they WI q large num-
Der Of tank cars and steamships en-
gagged in transporting oil; and that the
said defendants have, through the in
~strumentality of the Standard Oil COM
pany Of New Jersey "a holding corpor-
atom, eliminated competition between
all of the separate corporations and
monopolized the commerce In oil in
the United States.
Control the Pipe Lines.
It Is alleged that the Standard Oil
company has had control of the carry
ing business by pipe lines in and from
all the oil producing regions of the
United States except Texas, Louisiana
and California; that they charged ex-
cessive and unreasonable rates, and
rates which were discriminatory in
favor of the Standard Oil company;
equal facilities for receiving and de-
livering Oil of independent shippers
and refiners; that they have refused
to transport oil belonging to others
than the defendants and their a~ssocia-
ted companies, and since the month of
August, 1906, have refused to transport
oil of others except in such large guam
titles as to completely prevent indie
pendent producers and refiners of oil
from using their service, and that they
have forced 16 Independent refiners
now doing business in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and producing their crude
oil through the Standard Oil COM
pany's pipe lines, to sell all of their
export oil to the Standard Oil COM
pany. thereby eliminating their com
petition. This contract was procured
through threats of the Standard Oil
company to reduce the amount of
crude oil which it would sell to the
Independent refiners.'
Enjoy Preferential Rates.
It is alleged that one of the prin-
cipal instrumentalities through which
the defendants have been enabled to
leum and it's products throughout the
United States has been a system of
preferential rates, and rates discrimi-
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
woodcocks Roost with Hens.

Francis Marks of 1881 East Thirty
seventh street, Flatbush, in visiting
his hennery Friday night, observed
what he supposed was a small chicken
nesting on the perch between two
large white hens, says the New York
World. Calling to his wife, he asked
her if she had been adding to her
flock. Mrs. Marks said she had not.
We'll, there is a stranger in the
hennery," Mr.. Marks said. Come out
and see it."
Procuring a candle he and his wife
went out to see the little invader. Elk.
amining it closely it was found that it
had a long beak similar to that of a
snipe. 1t was mottled on the wings,
and about the size of a thrush.
The bird was taken into the house
and placed in a cage. Food was fur
nished, of which it ate ravenously. Mr..
Marks subsequently learned that the
bird was a woodcock, but where it
came from or how it got into his hen
house is a mystery. Yesterday morn
ing when he went to feed his new pet
he found it lying dead on the bottom
of the cage.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
INDIAN OCEAN IS UNKNOWN.
eusx Canal and Steamers Leaya I'm
traversed Wastes in This Sea.

PerciIance OF no area OF our great.
oceans do we at the present day know
less than OF the Indian ocean within
the tropics, says the Geographical
Journal. Fifty years ago, In the days
before the great China and Indian clip
pers 1t was, save for a small area to
the north OF Madagascar, alive with
white wings anxious to take advantage
Of every slant Of wind or the smallest
current. Its minutest characteristics
were then the subject Of anxious study,
whereas o its greater part is to
most navigators an unknown sea.
With the opening of the Suez canal
there was a profound alteration Of
trade, and the most important routes
now start not from Mauritius or the
cape but from the Red sea. Hundreds
OF steamers, laughing at winds and
currents, pass annually from Alden to
Bombay and Colombo on the one hand
and to East African ports, Madagascar,
Nauritius and Seychelles on the other.
From Colombo, again, there are regu-
lar lines to Calcutta, Singapore, West
Australia. Mauritius and South Africa.
But except on the lines from the
Red sea to Colombo and from the lat
ter to the far east and to Australia
there is a relative absence Of compe-
tition, a want Of that necessity for
accurate knowledge of the winds, cur
rents and topography which is only
called forth nv a kapn dociro for cav.
ing time Dr. mileage. The routes
across her surface are also wide apart
and her islands are commercially unim-
portant. Great areas are seldom or
never crossed by ships; in our six
months cruise on his majesty's ship
Sealark we never saw except in port a
single steamer, and only one solitary
brig, a small trader from Mauritius to
the Chagos.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Prison Of the Tree Toad.

Mrs. Rebekah Baker, the widow OF
a civil wal veteran, keeps several
large sea shells as ornaments on the
front piazza of her home on Foster
avenue, Sayville, L. /. The shells are
close at the feet of the old oma
when she sits in her armchair on the
piazza, as she does the greater part OF
each day. Z
Mrs. Baker and a neighbor were
chatting together on the piazza. Pres
emily the neighbor remarked:
Listen! There's a tree toad"
"No," said Mrs. Baker, I've heard
that noise all summer; it's inside n
of those shells. It must be a cricket"
The caller turned up one of the big
shells which had been lying opening
downward on the piazza all summer
and out hoped a tree toad. 1t was
mere skin and bones, but alive. It
evidently had been imprisoned in the
shell for the three months the shells
had lain in one place on the piazza.