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he thought of her, the lilacs smiled at him again
The hlacs were COlOring now, and the trees grow
ing with red buds Madam Saddle would never
bother to hunt for arbutus. He feared that she
had no love for COWS and hens and bluebirds Even
Mr.. DOmniCk who drew such wOndrous sounds
from his flute cOuldn tell what real live thrush
looked like. Once he took few pennies from
his uncles parting gift and purchased a bunch of
hlacs from Irish carter in the street All day long
he nursed the mutitudes of purple stars, and when
the time for Catapy to ring the bell for dinner
they stood up straight and hopeful in the Parian
bouquet holder.
Look, grandma, how fine they are,' he cried
you forget, Joshua"
Forget what, grandma:
Am | no longer your Julia? You're the only
beau | have now tying napkin about his neck
You We hundred beaus" he said stoutlv.
"Shl" she whispered, they're coming" And
as those long separated occupants OF No. IS minced
into the room with sweep of silk and bOmbazine-
they mostly faded gentee ladies, with occasion
ally crusty old bachelor-he watched their eyes
when they should light upon the flowers; but to
his chagrn they talked only of the weather and the
soup, and what hurt him most of all was Madam
Saddles sudden plant that the laylocks smct SO
sickY, and would they mind taking them away.
He never entirely fOrgave her that atlront, and
the next time the good-hearted unsusp specting
creature asked him to visit her parrot he away
to the part of the hall where the shadow dragon
lived And sometime afterward, when his grand
mother took him to see her as Cinderella, although
almost frantic with JOY at the WOndrOus sight, his
old grief rose up to his tongue, and he whispered:
Don't you think her violet wreath's sicluer than
lilacs? Yes child came the answer. And he
didn't speak again but smiled as he patted his
Julia hand never so gently.
And while the boy dwet on Bond-st. there foated
up Broadway one jublant morning clash of trum-
pets and drums. The old house gave a start and
ratified its window-panes. Below the boy who sat
perched the wide sill of his own little window
the three meal boarders hung out of their private
domains-thus Julia referred to the ladies and
gentlemen who lunched as we'll dined and break
tasted with her. Across de Forest alley the tailor
flung adrft flag. Some one on the street shouted:
The soldiersl They're coming! Rum And then
the music divinely sweet seeming to pulsate
the whole OF that sleepy street with the rhythmic
swell of the " Blue Danube"
The boy climbed to the very edge of the sill. His
face flushed, and his lips quivered. Oh, how
great il to fight for ones cOuntry-to wear
a coat that Knocked the sky, and golden buttons that
caught up the YOU put out your right foot
proudly and tossed your CoCkade to the brecze
Some day he would march by Bond
St, and black Catalpy should shout for
him and throw her turban in the air
| Yes and the old ladies at the windows
below would put their handlerchefs
to their eyes and cry: 81 Look There
he goes, the warrior bravel You knew
him a little boy on Bond-st, :" He
huzzaing himself now, and would
n have kept
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golden tendrils about his eager, wistful face and
Vre4thIng the worn front OF the old house with smiles
And the cfllld's uIrooted soul shOne from the
windows OF his eyes startled and half afraid For
t-eacherous moment he wanted to pursue his bat
tered vehicle Joltng away toward the river The
seemed Gagged and sitting HIS mind, fled with
pictures Of the plumy purple and white-tipped
liac-trees he had passed while on his Journey, re-
helled II the narrow grayness OF the street.
Then Voice came back to hIIn-a voice he
remembered that he would never hear again. You
must take care OF your grandma Julia, boy, and
with hTaver effort al self-control he cenched his
hands, and gripping one end OF h1s small brass
studded horsehair trunk he stumbled up the solled
marble steps and changed the tarnIshed knocker.
There was answer, and he raped again his heart
IN his throat. Then the door swung back and he
gazed II the 1iutteTing figure IN the doorway with
puzzled unutterable longing At first he thought
She looked Ike his dead ma1nny's doll smirklng
behind the diamond panes of the spider cabinet
il the cool hallway OF the home he had lett; but
with Z child unerring observation he noted that
her pink cheeks deeply marked with wrinkles;
and IL sorrow for her that 50 beautiful should
show such heavy traces Of time, there came over
him great wave OF tenderness engulhng al hls own
Richard She SAID tears filing her dark eyes,
INV own little country laddie,
Should he call her grandma! An lntmuVe
sense told HIM that She hated to be old And ponder
ing there ii the sunlight, the protective IN
s-luc-. which q part OF ms lie through long
contact with q manned pet rabbit and the wngless
fes an iruitator OF Nero IN the habit OF letting
wander across las desk al school he stl1led the word
and 1r q voice that almost lover flew TO her
welcoming arms, CRYING Jula- Nanny ; Jula.
That i3ond-st house which has slipped away on
the c-all u the vanished armies OF old Gotham
dO-n5ele= Was . four-story affair with an attc
beyond Tie boy. who had spent all his life IN
low hiproo.ed cottage IN the farIncountry skirtlng
EI.zabctntoWn wondered as he followed his grand
mother uJ the steep staIrcaseS how many leagues
the TOP story was from Heaven. y ou are 10
sleep II the yfarlor," She had whispered paqslng
on the third landing ior breath. 1t has one little
t.indow Ike old gentleman's cooked hat, Just
tie size Ior a boy Ike you" He laughed she could
smile 50 archly-" And if you're very quiet nights
sometimes you'll hear Mr Doninick play hlS tlute.
i play a drum confided the boy. Do you
think he d listen 10 me play"
The Others might, the smile died away; - and
that would never do.
= Who are the others" he asked Indignantly.
They live IN these rooms along the halls.
Why, Julia
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haired wearing the wonderful coral breastpin at
her throat never quite gained his affections. All
her kind words at table and affectionate cheek
l1inches when she asked him into her chamber to
see Sarah the parrot went for naught when he
thought of old Miss Snoxell. The former friend,
whose garden surrounded his home in the country,
was a part of simpler, sweeter existence. When
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they keep a roof over
her head" "
The boy remembered
that his uncle had told
him before starting on
his visit that it wasn't
polite TO ask too many
questions; 50 he pondered
over her reply all day,
and that first night, when
tucked up in his queer
trundle-bed all alone
with the stars, he Won
dered if the Others "
were just above his head
holding down the roof.
Perhaps Madam Sad
die was there, the lady
with the golden curls.
She was the best of them
all, his grandmother had
conhded to him in the
course of the day. 4" \
seven dollar a weeker,
and rents the big second
story-front where Mrs. de
Forest had her parlor.
You know this house
was built by the de
Forests long, long before
the war. Black Catalpy
used to be their slave. "
Before Abraham Lin
coin was born?"
" Yes, away - way
back" She smoothed
her diaphanous rut1les,
which seemed 50 fairy
like. The boy didn' I
know that all New York
was wearing carleton
a friend of Mr.. Lincoln 5, y
| never thought as much
1gh-dear Mr.. Clayl how
or boyl your gran had
ack to Saddle. She 5 not a
ldn't keep her if she was
y're too fussy. She was
gs at the Bowery theater
fore the park. | never
), though. You've heard,
-ndfather was a colonel
e helped capture Vera
tt at Cerro Gordo. All,
white horse. He doeSn I
Oh ves-Saddie. Well
le ofttimes gives us tickets
how you'll like the play!
d see the princess who
nd the wood elves that
the pumpkin coach"
t night he gazed at them
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nave kept on
but for a soft
touch on his
arm.
His grand
mother was
leaning over
him They're
the Mexican
volunteers
boy she fall
tered in a
strained low
voice. Your
grandsire died
or them"
That after
noon she was
more than US
ually kind to
him and gave
him a fat
cookie when
he SAID he was
hungry, for
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the scent OF Il
~ lacs which brings
Z them back 50
vIvIdly-she IN
'.e- glossy spot silk, car
r--- The beaded reti-
c1le and he q slight
r---keln-breeched figure,
oI.--lng 10 her worn
-a-ucuts. or strutung
proudly bv her side,
SINGING out 10 the pass
Ing world that he owned
his 1randslre's : cane and
would keep the bears
eav from his grandma
I-Ia How many years
ago he parted from them,
And vet today he can
s-.lI hear the beat OF their
footsteps as they saunto
along Bond-st. on one OF
thelr afternoon walks
and are finally caught
uu bv the tide OF Broad
way. \ multitude OF
lf-tle voices arise. filling
The house OF memory
with something akin 10
sweet and plalnuve mu-
SIC and Tor q few brief
moments he treads the
street OF spungtime to =
dwelling that Is no more
What & slender will
@ -wlsp Of q lad he was
who jumped out OF a
creaking hackney coach
before 10. 3 Bond-st.
that April day 50 long
ago, The sunlight slip
ped through the gaunt
a.laltuS-tree, the Pride
Of China, tWining It's
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ST, and black Catalpy should shout for
him and throw her turban in the air
Yes, and the old ladies at the windows
below would put their handkerchiefs
to their eyes and cry: Look There
he goes, the warrior brave You knew
him as little boy on Bond-st," He
was huzzaing himself now, and would
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
A Little Boy in Bond Street

ERHAPS it IS
the scent OF Il
laCs which brings
them back so
EIYIdly-S she IN
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then. " Your granny "
she sighed irrelevantly.
Of him as Mr.. Clay, t
gallantly he could bowl
a good time once. But
real FrenchwOman. | V
a genuine frog-eater-t
born in Brooklyn. She
some say she dates
take part in their quar-.
of course, that your
in the Mexican War.
Cruz, and fought with
Scott, he was a dandy o
know I've come to til
the woman has a heart.
for the play. Ny. ladd
Wen go to Cinderella
wears a rose-leaf gown
dance on their heads, al
In the BOYS dreams /
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-01-04
TWO
IN COLD
BLOOD

REDDING, Cal, Jan. 4. The
bodies of Tom and John Price,
murdered yesterday near Center.
vile, were brought to Redding this
morning. The inquest will occur
this morning. The inquest will oc-
cur this afternoon. A second bull
let hole was found in John Prices
head this morning, made while the
victim lay PROSTATE. The murder
er robbed both victims after killing
them, and rifled their cabin. He
took blanket with when he cov-
cred the mead of Tom Price whose
body he buried. A hundred men
are searching for the murderer.
They are confident it is Steve Shu-
make, half caste Mexican, who
was run out of camp by John Price.
The Off GERS believe he will be cap
tured by night. Shumake was seen
in the vicinity.
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THE ORIGINAL.

Foley & Co., Chicago, originated
Honey and Tar as a throat and
lung remedy, and on account of the
great merit and popularity Of Fol-
ey's Honey and Tar many imita-
lions are offered for the genuine.
These worthless limitations have
similar osunding names. Beware OF
them. The genuine Foley's Honey
and Tar Is in a yellow package.
Ask for it and refuse any substi-
tute. 1t is the best remedy for
coughs and colds.
Chas. McNab, 400 Riverside.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-01-04
MADE BANK
CLEAN WALK

Chief of Police Waller this morn
ing notified the Hypotheek bank
that unless this institution, worth
many thousands, cleaned its side
walk at once, the officials would be
arrested.
Ne bank has ruled the city long
enough, was the drift of the chiefs
conversation over the telephone.
When Mr.. Wheatley answered
the call of the chief his instructions
were: "You people think you don't
have to clean your sidewalk. All
the walks adjoining your place
have been cleaned and if you don't
put a man to work at once l will
have to make out a warrant for
your arrest. You know the law, and
should clean the walk You have
been notified and unless it is clear
ed at once you will be arrested. D."
Ten minutes after the call was
received by the bank a man was
cleaning the walk.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-01-04

The Northern Pacific has ordered
nearly 1000 cars and Is locomotives
for delivery this year. ..,.
Worley's booster signs help Spo-
kane. ***
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Wright re-
turned yesterday from two weeks
trip to San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
Ladies' play billiards and pool
every day and evening at Pfster
billiard parlor. $50
Harry Hayward, manager Of the
Auditorium theater has purchas.
ed a one fourth interest in the
Ridgeway theater at Colfax.
The office of the secretary of the
board of education was moved to.
day to the fourth floor of the Spo.
kane & Eastern Trust Co.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Centenary Presbyterian church will
meet Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the parsonage, O14O7 Mill street
Can you get NUTRITO, the goth
Century cereal coffee, at your groc.
er's? If not call us up and we will
tell you of some who carry it. j.
E. Whatley & Co., wholesale ag-
entS TeleOrOne 3119 .**
Theodore Patterson, a mining
man of Danville, Wash, is stopping
at the Ridpath. He is on a bust
ness trip to the Pend d'Oreille coun-
try in Idaho.
The annual meeting of the First
Evangelical church was held Jan.
l. A vote of thanks was extended
to the friends of the congregation
who assisted in building the new
edifice.
l will not be responsible for any
debts incurred by my wife, Mrs
Jennie M. Metzke, after the date
of the publication of this notice
G. H. Metzke. *+*-6
The British Benevolent society
will give a musical smoker jan
uary 25, in honor of Bobby Burns
birthday. 1t will be for members
and their men friends.
Fred Hilbert and Miss Lydia
Hutchinson, both of Danville, Wn.,
were married yesterday afternoon
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ter in hand.
Though the people protested
against the measure, calling it a
doodle BILL" which it was, the leg
islature passed it. The next step
was to have the then Gov. Win
field T. Durbin sign it. Woods was
no friend of Durbin. Charlie"
Fairbanks was, and he, too, was
well known to Morgan. Woods
went to Washington and saw Fair
banks. Later an autograph letter
came from Fairbanks to Woods. 1t
was on Fairbanks official senate
letterhead. Woods declares that
the letter said practically this: 81
have communicated with Governor
Durbin about the Joss bill, and he
will sign It,"
But Durbin didn't sign the bill.
With his veto he sent out a ringing
message upon the evils of lobbying.
Woods says that since then Durbin
has denied to him that Fairbanks
ever spoke to him about the Joss
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bill, or he to Fairbanks.

bill, or he to Fairbanks.
Made Morgan Sore.
The Fairbanks letter was copied
and a duplicate reached New York.
Later certain of Fairbanks friends
heard that Mr.. Morgan's Southern
railway stock was a good buy" 1t
slumped. SOME POLITICIANS
STILL HOLD THE STOCK;
OTHERS TOOK THE LOSS. 1t is
said of Morgan that he never for
gets.
Fairbanks political state machine
for years has been in the hands
of Greasy Joe" Healing, United
States district attorney for Indiana.
Delevan Smith, Fairbanks cou-
sin, is typewriter manufacturer
who has been quite successful in
getting his machine installed in
government offices.
The vice president is said to be
vvery wealthy. He is said, in a
business way, to be identified with
the e. H. Hartman financial party.
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BY Marlen E. Pew,

Special Correspondence The Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 4. - The
story of the present day general
scheme of national law making
whether in the interest Of the Re
public or of a favored few. proper
ly begins with the presiding officer
of the United States senate, AS
such, Vice President Charles War
rem Fairbanks is mere figurehead
with nominal duties, bat he is in
teresting as a product OF the sys-
TEN that dominates the upper house
of congress, especially as he is
credited with an ambition to sue
coed President Roosevelt
Fairbanks appears to he a good
man in his present position. Wall
street would call him safe man. -
Experience ripened by long service
and association with financial in
terests, a liberal dabbling in vari-
GUS degrees of politics and seven
years in the senate from Indiana
have contributed qualities to the
vice presidents natural disposition
to be a safe man" He is silent
and watchful, and moves toward
his destiny in a smooth, well regu-
lated, self-possessed manner that
has won no small measure of adj
miration.
From Farm to Wall Street.
Fairbanks was born on the farm
Ill right, but his father was we'll
TODD. Some 80 odd years ago Fair
banks began the practice of law.
He prospered and MARI ed advan-
lageously. The foundation of Fai.
banks fortune was laid when he
was appointed, through the influ-
ence Of his father in law, assistant
10 an attorney in a railroad receiv.
srship.
1t wasn't very long before Fair
banks was the receiver. He became
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Mr.. RAT CAUGHT, KILLED AND
DEv0URED BY THIS PLANT
A NATURAL RAT CATCHER
WHICH DOES THE BUSINESS
FOR BENEFIT OF SCIENCE AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN
SYLVANIA.

"Quaff, oh quaff this kind ne
penthe, and forget this lost Len
ore!"
When some poor rat, mouse, fly
or other small animal or insect
quaffs the nepenthes at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, they are
certain to forget everything il they
possess such thing as memory.
These nepenthes are not of the
kind Poe referred to in the lines
quoted.
They are in fact one of the most
wonderful species of plant life in
the world. One cannot associate
them In his mind with the flower
or vegetable, yet distinctively are
they Of the plants. But imagine a
plant that can kill and devour a rat
with insatiate greed! And that is
what the nepenthe does, and the
university supplies these voracious
plants with the rats and other liv-
hg things necessary for their diet.
The first thing a nepenthe does
when 1t wants to eat, say rat, for
Instance, Is to invite the rodent to
come have a drink" 1t opens up
pitcher shaped bulb inside OF
which is an odorous liquid. In goes
Ar. Rats nose. He gets the liquid
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Was Il charlie Himself?

Fairbanks has always been fiat
tered by the popular impression of
him-a "self-made" man of the rail-
splitting type. A photo engraving
in a friendly newspaper, for in
stance. showed a country lad in
baggy jeans, hard at work in a
sugar bush. Indianapolis was great
ly touched.
A copy of the paper, according
to the story now told, reached old
acquaintance, among them an
aged woman, who exclaimed:
why, that isn't Charlie Fair
banks. That's the picture of farm
hand who worked on the place
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COPPER
FALLING

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Sold out
by big holders, weakened by sharp
decline in copper in London, Ana
conda today broke 20 points to 251,
rallied to 261 then fell back to 255.
Lawson predicted the break. Anal
gamated followed Anaconda, open
ing nearly a point lower and shrink
ing to LOG 1-S and then rallied over
a point, and then back to LOG IL.
Tho London weakness is acute.
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WOMAN CREATES
A SCENE
(Scripps News Association.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. A.
A handsomely attired woman about
SO years old, entered the executive
Offices this afternoon and asked for
Loeb. A messenger took the secre,
tary a card bearing the name OF
Mrs. MINOR Morris. She said she
wanted to see the president and
discuss the reinstatement of her
husband who had been discharged
from one of the departments. She
refused to leave, grew excited and
finally was carried from the build
ing screaming.
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also pretty thorough master of
the art of financing railroad prop
critics, and, of course, his business
carried him to Wall street.
FAIRBANKS BECAME VERY
MUCH ATTACHED TO WALL
STREET. He became a heavy bor-
rover in the money market and in
vested freely. During President
Harrison's time Fairbanks fnan-
cial interests were so large that
he had to employ a man at a sal
airy of $4,000 year to renew his
notes as they fell due and assist
generally.
Into National Politics.
Fairbanks began his campaign
for the senate by seeking election
as delegate at large from Indiana to
the republican convention of 1896.
1t has been publicly alleged that
the election tellers, "purposely or
accidentally jagged the figures"
and announced that Fairbanks had
received 1872 votes to S7S for Judge
Hiram Brownlee. Whether this Is
true or not Fairbanks went to the
convention. was named temporary
chairman, and his national political
career dates from that incident.
1T COST FAIRBANKS IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD OF $4,000 be-
fore the legislature sent him to the
senate. County newspapers that
were having uphill fights financial
ly suddenly took on new life. Fair
banks became known as a philan-
thropist, especially in the country
districts. Strange to say, his gen.
crosby was not always appreciated,
and there Is record of several thou
sand dollars of his money being re-
turned to its source.
During Senator Fairbanks term
in the senate he introduced not a
single general bill, he made no
speech nor gave a public interview
which would connect his name with
any general policy. A prize is offer
ed in Washington to anyone who
will discover any general govern
mental policy that Fairbanks has
ever voiced.
This is characteristic of the man
One who has been in close associa'
ton with the vice president for
lyears said: He would not admit
THAT it is pleasant day without
consulting his cuff
Mr.. Fairbanks first official act
after he became vice president was
to appoint his son, Robert, his sec
rotary. Roberts name remained
on the governments pay roll until
last October, the Newspaper Enter
prise Association exposed Washing
ton nepotism and then the young
mans name was removed.
Favored 1t, But
Four years ago indiana was up in
arms against a proposed legisla
tive measure known as the Joss
railroad consolidation bill" j
Pierpont Morgan's interests were
much involved and Floyd Woods. an
Indianapolis lobbyist, had the mat