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TELLER SUCCESSFUL
OVER NEW ORLEANS

Atlanta, September 15-The baseball
season closed today with a victory for
the home team over New Orleans. Bunch
ed hits in the third inning gave Atlanta a
lead that was not overcome.
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other towns of the Southern league, have
wondered why this result had happened.
These fans argued that individually sew
eral teams in the league were stronger
than the Barons. So persistent have these
discussions become, that appeals have
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Watch the boxes Monday
and see that Higdon votes are
counted.
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Why the BarOnS Fly the Pennant
Why None VIII Dare to Rob Them

Something the Many That Produced nm WnneWhy There Will Be M
Contest Over Awarding the BannerSomng the Players and Their Ac
oompishnents the Future lust Little
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4 is vet too early to discuss next sea-
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26

within our own recollection, more
than one of Russia's great ones has
laid down his life, the victim to Nj
hilistic hatred, the "Great White GAR
Of autocratic. power and strength, or
the Little Father" of implied love,
guidance and protection, both names
and names only, falling before the
cruel dynamite bomb and laying down
his scepter under the cal of death,
even as the loWliest peasant of his
mighty Empire.
Peter the Great, founded the great
city of st Petersburg, but the best
thing he did for his Empire, was to
open its doors to western civilization,
his ideas and plans living after him to
fulflment through his people, whom
he had Infused with his magnetic
spirit. Catherine II, while intellect
ual, comprehensive in her plans, strong
in their execution, and a wonderful
diplomat adding much to Russias
territory, was utterly devoid Ct con-
science. She was succeeded by her
son, Paul, who advanced the country
to the rank of first-class power, and
under Alexander l, Russia held the
balance Of dominion in Europe.
Alexander / was followed by his
son, Nicholas I, stern despot, with
an inordinate faith in Russian PROV
ess His over-confidence brought on
the Crimean war, in which Russia was
arrayed against Great Britain, France,
Italy and Turkey, and which resulted
in the success Of the allied armies.
AIayon5or TT Ihn1.a tod % 600 O00
serfs in 1861, but was assassinated by
the Nihilists twenty years later, the
present Gar, Nicholas III, coming to
the throne November 1. 1894, and who
can predict his successor. Who has the
temerity to suggest that he shall have
a successor TO the absolute power, the
autocratic dominion over his millions
of people!
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26
HOUSE OF ROMANOFF.
How the Family of the Present Gear
Got Its Power.

The recent turmoil in Russian af.
fairs brings to mind that Russian SUI
premacy, like that of many other
countries in the past, has been found
ed on the sand. The history of its
rise and fall is that of other dynas-
ties, and once more we are brought
face to face with the fact that "the
worm will turn" for history is fast
repeating itself.
Chief Ruric was the first Russian
ruler of any Importance. He founded
in S62 what afterwards became the
Russian Empire. Its chiefs were call.
ed Grand Dukes until 100, when the
title Of Car was adopted. A little
more than two hundred years later,
the Tartan invasion of the dreaded
Gengis Kahn laid Russia almost in
waste, but Ivan the Great, conquering
these Mongols, again restored Russian
integrity.
The Russian rulers, up to the time
Of Peter the Great, generally died vic.
lent deaths, and in our own days, and
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26
ROMANCE OF A COAT.
An Old Clothes Dealer Whose Kindly
Act Melted Him Twenty-Five
Dollars.

The world is full of romance. There
are persons who deny this, but there
are persons who deny God and gravi.
tation. Romance is not confined to
novels and the hearts of girls. 1t
crops out often in strange places and
sometimes in austere natures. But it
is not often that romance is found
in the pocket of a cast-off coat. How
ever, this story proves it. The story
comes from New York. A dealer in
old clothes, asserting his collection OF
"has-been" raiment found in the pocket
of a coat that had seen better days, a
letter. 1t was sealed and addressed to
lady in an aristocratic part of the
city far removed from the section OF
the city in which the old clothes man
lived and worked. He laid the letter
aside, thinking that some day when
the spirit moved him and times were
prosperous he would stamp and post
it.
Perhaps it was several days later
when he had occasion to call for q
bundle of disowned apparel in a part
of the town near the home OF the ad-
dressee of the letter. He took the
missive with him, called at the house,
was brushed aside by the man at the
door, but lady emerging at that mo-
ment, he handed the letter to her.
She tore it open in great haste and as
she read it bushes redeemed her face
and a happy smile spread over her
lips. She folded the letter, put it In
her purse and handed the "old clo'
man" S. note. He felt that he had
not only done a good deed but had
been rewarded.
A week passed and dapper, we'll
groomed man entered his shop. He
said he was the original owner of the
coat from which the letter had been
recovered. He said that in the letter
he had proposed marriage to the girl
he loved and thought he mailed it.
Receiving no reply he believed that he
had been rejected and left the city.
He had recently received an adorable
reply from the young lady with an ex-
PLANTATION as to how the letter had
been delivered and-the wedding day
had been set. All this he thought was
due to the "old clo' man" To the man
who had rendered him such good ser
vice he handed 500 note.
The moral OF this romance Is edo q
kindly act when you can" Another
moral might be drawn from the incl
dent, and this is: When you write an
offer Of marriage to the girl you love
be sure she gets the letter.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26

small stretcher bedstead in the middle
of an empty room. His face had evil
IDENTIFY once been comely, thou. h now
disfgured by scars. His eyes were
closed, so if there was anything re-
pulsive about their appearance | didn't
see it.
you are able to wear shoes then,
Bob?"
cay, but you may notice they're
made Of cloth and three sizes too big
for me. had neat foot once, Jack,
and still wear a shoe when | can.
don't lie here like a mummy all day.
1 sit by the kitchen fire."
"How do you get up and down
stairs?"
Would you believe it, Jack, she
carries me. | dare say you thought
her a rough one. to look at, but she's
just the woman to suit me. She's as
strong in the back as brewers horse.
If I'd had the pick of the county of
Middlesex, / couldn't have married a
kinder hearted woman. And she mar
ried me for love. 1t was after the &C
cident, you understand. Some said she
married me for my pension, but | know
OtJLtl, JdSh. lCii 10 dpOuO 'Oh 14S
mans Land, Jack, to pass away the
time"
l hesitated, for I know about as
much about Van Dieman's Land as
90 of the moon.
"Ah. l see how it is, jack" said the
cripple. you're ashamed and no
wonder. l like you the better for it.
But you needn't mind now. You've
served out your seven years and as l
always said you was young and led
away by Bill Hawkins. And, Jack"
he added, confidentially, we've always
kept up the notion in the family that it
was poaching. 1t sounds more re-
spectacle than, than-you know what.
But l say, Jack" pursued the Grip
pie, transportation can't be as bad as
it's represented. 1t has softened your
voice, made you talk better and given
you quite q touch of quality. You were
roughish young blade when bid you
goodbye at Milbank penitentiary. Dc
you recollect how Bill Hawkins jeere6
YOU because I gave you mothers lit
tie clasp Bible?"
Here was pretty position for a re
lspectable young fellow to occupy. Fol
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26
Statues of Bismarck.

Bismarck has come to be about the
most bestatued figure in nineteenth
century hero worship. The monuments
erected in Germany to the man Of
blood and iron" are not less alarming
in number than they are doubtlessly
low in any real art quality. Up to the
present the number unhappily COM
pleted is 204, and there are still 80 to
be inflicted on an already much-Bis-
marcked people. The Kingdom OF Sax
ony leads with 81 monuments. Ger
mans dwelling in the wild continents
are also in the race. One Bismarck
statue confronts, in an attitude of be-
coming defiance, the savages of the
South Seas. in the Bismarck Archi-
pelago. GU
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26

sleeper and he called out: kitty, Kit
ty. Kitty, l say, you amt come back
without him." l stood perfectly still
and held my breath. After considering
n moment, | took a half-hearted step
towards the door, when the man in bed
cried out in an excited voice: That's
a mans step! My Jack, is it you?
All! | see, you wanted to surprise me.
Il is you, Jack, amt it?" He said
these last words in such beseeching
tone. that | could not help answering;
cit is"
Then where's Kitty"
81 hope to see her presently"
said
Gone to the cooll-shop to get some
thing in honor of your arrival, Jack.
wonder what it will be. Maybe an eel
ME with baked 'taters, or a plate of
savory beef, or a dish of billed tripe
and inions; ah-h."
"You seem to like good eating"
yentured to say.
"Why, Jack, my boy, it's one OF the
few pleasures | have left. Thank God
NV appetite's always good. And when
A mans lost the use of his limbs and
can't see out of his eyes, he makes the
hest use of his stomach. I'd ask you
40 light a candle, Jack, but I'm half
ashamed for you to see what battered
hulk I've become. Twelve years ago
when you emigrated, you understand
me. Jack Che said this in shy way)
I was as handsome and well growed
man as you'd wish TO see, wasn't l.
!ack?'
"You were"
"And now I'm a useless cripple"
"How did it happen"
"What! you never got Kitty's letter
directed TO Hobart Town, Van Die
mans Land? And hasn't Kitty told
YOU. coming along in the cab?"
"Not a word"
"Ah. poor girl, she didn't like II
grieye you. Well, the powder mill il
which | was working blew up-the.
yNostly do every five years-and blew
me along with it; blew me up good
looking. active chap, Jack, and droppe'
me down miserable blind cripple.
AS he said these last words his voic
failed him and he shed tears.
= And how do you manage to live!
We'll Jack, the firm behaved YER
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26

handsomely. They allowed me tea
shillings a week and Kitty takes care
of empty houses. We contrive to
scratch along, somehow. But come,
Jack, you've never offered your brother
your hand yet. Let NE shake your
hand, even il you didn't care to light a
candle"
l stepped forward and gave him my
hand.
'Lawk, Jack, why your hands al
most like a gentleman's hand! 1t
amt so soft as a dressmaker's or a
haberdasher's; it's about equal to q
master-builder."
"You seem to know all about hands,"
I observed.
"Ah," he answered with a sigh, "that
comes of want Of eyes. When I had
my sight took no note of such things,
but now I've a delicate touch. / wish
Kitty would come back with that sup
per. I'm getting throat hungry"
Are you afraid of thieves here?" l
asked.
"Why?"
Because you lock up your kitchen
and back door. Can you tell me where
the back door key hangs?"
ut don't hang anywhere" replied
the cripple. tits in Kittys pocket"
"And the kitchen door key?"
"In her pocket. They're all in her
pocket"
Here was another disappointment.
must wait until Kitty's return and face
her boldly. was interrupted in my
reflections by my companion, who said:
Come, Jack, strike a light and take
look at your poor brother Bob. You'll
find the matches in one of my shoes
and the candlestick is under my bed"
l lighted the candle and saw man,
about forty years Of age, lying on a
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26

&t was darlish night with a stiff
Peze blowing as | picked my way
rough those quiet streets that lie
tween Islington and Dalston. Just
came to the corner of street a
song puff of wind whipped off my
NV shiny hat as neat as need be and
opped it in an area. This was GER
My a. nuisance, but not without
nedy. | rang at the area bell, once,
ice. thrice, but got no answer. |
,unded the lions head knocker, once,
ice, thrice, and got no answer. Then
ooked up at the windows and saw a
~ announcing This House to Let"
d noticed that the shutters were all
shtly closed.
IL was too dark to read the name of
e agent and was about to knock
the next door to learn where /
luld procure the key, when, to my
|tonishment, the door, as l happened
lean against 1t, moved slightly in
ards. gave gentle push and
alk9d boldly in. l CROPPED my way
own the kitchen stairs. tried the
tchen door; it was locked and the
" was gone. I felt about and found
le back door leading to the area; it
as locked and the key gone. My best
an seemed to be to pick the lock of
10 back door, il l could find an old
Ill or bit Of wire. So I crept up
airs to the back parlor and CROPPED
y hand along the mantel and window
ames, but with no success. had
oticed under the kitchen door the
immering OF the light of fire, and
'cided that the house must be in
ibited. The next moment | stumbled
,ainst wooden stretcher or bedstead.
put out my hand cautiously and laid
on mans head. My tumble
,ainst the bedstead had disturbed the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26

As unto the bow the cord 10
So unto the man IL woman:
Though she bends him, she obeys him.
Though she draws him, vet she follows,
Useless each without the ther.-Hiawaths
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-26

When you buy Wing Piano, you buy atwhole-
4 sale. You pay the actual cost Of making II with
only our wholesale profit added. When you buy
piano, as many still do-at retail-you pay the
retail dealers store rent and other expenses.
You pay his profit and the commission or salary
OF the agents or statesmen he employs-all these
on top Of what the dealer himself has 10 pay to
the manufacturer. The retail profit on a piano
! is from SIS to 5000. Isn't this worth saving2
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-06

US, the owTs" She pressed the girls
hand affectionately. But you'll let me
say something just once and forgive me
because were the same foolish age
you know. It's only this: The mex,
young man you suppress, take him of
in corner. Lead him away from the
crowd where he won't have to stand
and let them look at him afterward
That's all. my dear, and you mustn't
mind"
I'm not sorry!' said Miss Betty hot
~. Pm not sorry"
mo, no." said Mrs. Tanberry sooth
ingly. ut was better this time to dc
just what you did. I'd have done ii
| myself, to make quite sure he would
keep away-because like hilA."
"I'm not sorry!' said Miss Betty
again.
I'm not sorry!" she repeated and
reiterated to herself after Mrs. Tan
berry had gone to bed. She had sunk
into chair in the library with a book
and I'm not sorry!' she whispered as
the open unread page blurred before
her; I'm not sorry!' He had needed
his lesson, but she had to bear the rec
| objection of how white his face went
| when he received it. Her affront had
put about him a strange loneliness
the lone figure with the stilled crowd
staring. it had made Il picture from
which her minds eye had been unable
| to escape, danced she never so hard
and late. Unconsciously Robert Ca
reeves daughter had avenged the other
lonely figure which had stood in lonely
humiliation before the staring eyes.
"Tm not sorry." All, did they think
1t was in her to hurt any living thing
in the world? The book dropped from
her lap, and she bowed her head upon
her hands. I'm not sorry! = and
tears upon the small lace gauntlets!
She saw them and with an incoherent
exclamation, half self plying, half i'm
patient, ran out to the stars above her
garden.
She was there for perhaps half an
hour, and just before she returned to
the house she did singular thing.
Standing where all was clear to the
sky, where she had stood after her talk
with the incroyable when he had bid
her look to the stars, she raised her
arms to them again, her face, pale with
a great tenderness, uplifted.
"You, you, your she whispered. 81
love your
And yet it was to nothing definite,
to no man nor outline of man, to no
phantom nor dream lover, that she
spoke; neither to him she had af.
fronted nor to him who had hidden her
look to the stars. Nor was 1t to the
stars themselves.
She returned slowly and thoughtful.
ly to the house, wondering what she
had meant.
| IN, bo oov. in,,od
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-06
CHANGED WORLDS HISTORY
Story of the Beard of Moslem Chief
Which Figured in Ancient /;
Warfare.

The most striking case in history
of the Importance of trif1es is fur
nished by the story of Musa, the lead
er of the Moslem host which won
fSom Christendom in three and a
half years dominions which it took
the soldiers of the cross 20 genera
tions to win back He had a red
beard. This was a trif1e.
Musa, though very great general.
was very vain man, and he dyed
his beard black. This was another
trife. One of his captains chaffed
him on the subject, and Musa forth-
with had him stripped and scourged.
For this. at the very height of his
conquering career. Musa was recalled
by the caliph ana disgraced. This
made it impossible for him to COM
mand the Moslem army at the battle
of Tours, on the issue of which, as all
historians agree, the destinies of Eu.
rope and perhaps of the whole human
race depended.
1t is almost certain that if the gen.
ius IF Musa had replaced the moons
petence OF the half dozen tribal lead
ers whose discussions made victory
impossible, the forces of Islam would
have joiued hands from the west to
the east and inclosed Europe in their
grasp.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-06
THE NEW FOOTBALL GAME.
Adopting New Set Of Rules Might
Have Tendency to Refine and
Harmonic It.

The press generally has favorably
commented upon DR.. Rhees' remark that
those who play football will have to
play it as gentlemen or the game will
have to go. Perhaps, says "Vest
Pocket Condolences" in Four-Track
News, every man has different idea of
what constitutes gentleman, but in po-
lite daily intercourse the man who COLI
lided with another without apologizing
would not be considered entitled to the
appellation.
Ergo, when football players, as gem
tlemen, butt into one another they must
stop, bow, apologize and remark:
"After YOU
If one player jumps on another
players chest, and breaks few ribs,
he must quickly step off and remark:
II beg your pardon!"
If, when about to kick off, the kicker
should observe one of his opponents in
danger of being hit by the ball, the least
he could do, if he would claim to be
gentleman would be to stop long enough
to call "fore!"
But if the game were played in this
gentlemanly way, it is barely possible
1t would lose some of it's exciting inter-
est and popularity.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-06
Philadelphia Nomenclature.

A young woman from Philadelphia
was visiting in this city recently
When asked what she would like tor
breakfast, she replied: "a few half
smokes and a plate of fitch are delight
full. We have them once week at
home" Her hostess was puzzled by,
the unexpected answer. "Half-smokes.
and fitch" she had never heard of, hut
from the tone Of her guest they evil.
IDENTIFY were palatable dishes. 80, yes,
I forgot that you use different names;
for half-smokes and fitch here" said
the young woman, when asked to be
explicit. 81 think you call them franks
furters and bacon here."-N. Y. Post,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-06
MUSIC IM SOUTH AMERICA.
Indians Dwell There Who Are Adopts
on Reef flutes and Pan
dean Pipes.

In the remains of the vast Indian
nation shattered by Pizarro, the en-
p1re OF the lncas, every man and boy,
almost from the age where he can
walk, is an adept on the simple reed
flutes and Pandean pipes says Har-
per's Magazine. They are a musical
race; there are songs and airs for each
season, for the planting, for the har-
vest, for the valorous deeds of the
vanished caciques, for their gods of
old to whom new significance has
been imposed by pious church, and
the long drawn chants by means of
which, at their yearly gatherings, they
pass down the history of their race.
AS there is no written language, there
Is no written music; it is handed down
from generation to generation by the
ear alone.
Their national instruments are but
three in number: the lute-a reed
about 18 inches in length, with six
holes, and square slit at the end for
a mouthpiece, played after the man
ner of clarionet; the Pandean pipes
"a series of seven reed tubes that, in
the large ones, are four feet in length,
and in the smaller ones scarcely as
many inches; and the drum. The last
Is the universal instrument of all peo-
pies; there are few races so low in the
scale of human society as not to pos
sess 1t. The Pandean pipes are in a
double row. and at the time of prep
-. q
tribal wars. the outer series is filled
with canassa, the native liquor, and
the player receives the benefit of the
intoxicating fumes without the delay
incidental to drinking from the bottle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-06
OPPORTUNITIES

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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-06
FEED YOUR HOGS
A Sure Worm Expelier and Disinfectant
and You will Not Be Troubled With
Sickness Among Them.

Sickness Among Them.
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Two thorough applications Of Liquid Koal,
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ong horses cattle or hogs. Apply ten days APP
part. not longer; as the length OF time between
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Use Liquid Koal one part Koal to twenty
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Liquid Koal is always soldIon.a guarantee to
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Wausa, Neb.. Dec. 10, 1902,
Have used Liquia Koal for nearly year and
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1 Laurel, Neb., Dec. IS, 1902
National Medical Co.
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S good germ destroyer. recommend it very
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| For Sale by GEO d. GossMAN.