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palatable to sort of form it into a club.
OF course Marion was made president
and she was awfully nice about help
ing me to find out my chief fault too.
Only this is what worries me: 1 sup
pose because she was president no one
thought Of her finding out one of her
own faults and starting to uproot it.
She hasn't very many, I admit. She
is very pretty and graceful and clever,
butt was almost home when it dawned
on me-she does make you feel uncom-
Portable at times, because she always
knows it all
There isn't a single subject you can
mention but what she is able to give
you points on it-and correct your mis-
takes Usually she IS perfectly right,
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Billy Moffat and John owen were
playing ball, and the pursuit of it led
them into the tall weeds that grew
around the water tanks like forest;
and as the weeds were tall and the
boys short. they lost their ball and
themselves. When they came out into
daylight at last they were very indig-
nant
aTm going to speak to the mayor
about it," said Billy.
The fathers of John and Billy had
been great friends of the mayor, but
that very morning Billy's father,
John g father and the mayor had fall
en- out over city affairs, and matters
were very strained indeed when Billy's
father. quite as indignant as his son,
had gone to the house for some papers
and finding it unusually cool and
quiet. had stretched out on couch in
the billiard room and fallen asleep.
So ne never heard Billy ringing up
the mayors Office.
as the mayor there ?" asked Billy
Eyes. what do you Want2" said a
voice at the other end.
"dr Moffat and Mr.. owen are
coming down to see him" replied
Billy with dignity Then he hung up
the receiver, while the mayor squared
himself around grimly, prepared for
another irritating encounter with his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

One autumn there was a great
drOuth all around PennyviIIe and the
roads got terribly dusty, so that every
thing was covered with clouds Of dirt
whenever a wagon or drove of cattle
passed through the town. This made
the good wives of Pennyville exceed
ingly angry, and they declared that
their husbands must do something to
remedy it.
The husbands went to the mayor and
told him. do not trouble yourselves
to mention it" said the mayor. My
own wife has been complaining so
much about the dust that falls on h er
furniture that 1 have already thought
out a way to settle it. 1t is lucky for
you that I am your mayor
"Hurraht" cried all the people and
ran home to tell their wives that the
mayor knew how to stop the dust and
that they might put their linen out to
Bleach which they had not been able
to do in many weeks.
Bright and early the next morning
and then the men assembled at the
town hall, where the mayor met them
and handed out brOOms to each one
Like all great plans, said the
mayor mine is very simple. What
can be easier than to sweep the dust
from the roads into the fields where it
viii not be disturbed by wagons and
things?"
Wonderful" cried everybody and
began to sweep with might and main
Huge clouds Of dust arose imn edfately
and all over Pennyville came the sound
of coughing. Men and women and
children and dogs and even the cows
comm enced to cough, as if they would
never stop; and in the midst of it came
the women, screaming that all the
linen was ruined.
sweep away! Sweep away!" cried
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
The Sled Decision.

Uncle John was 9 funny man. When
you saw his blue eyes twinkling you
knew something was going to happen,
but you could never guess what
One January day he came from the
city with such a sled as had never been
seen in the vicinity; and his nephews.
Tom, VIII, Sam, Henry and Bob caught
their breath and wondered who would
get it,
Uncle John looked mysterious and
said they must wait; the sled belonged
to the boy who deserved 1t most.
Next morning Uncle John said they
might take the sled out on the hill; only
they must be generous and let each
have his turn.
Tom went down first and he declared
with glowing face that the sled was
out-of sight VIII went down and re-
turned with a similar report.
By that time there were a dozen en-
vious village boys on the hill. and
among them was ragged Tim Jones
who had never owned anything better
than a barrel stave fastened to a string.
Tim did not say much, and he did not
mingle much with the other boys.
He gazed with open-mouth de1ight
when Sam sped down, and edged a little
nearer and chuckled as Henry few over
the snow like a bird.
Then the sled was brought up and
delivered to Bob. and Bob went straight
to Tim and said:
you can have my turn, Tim. III
have plenty Of chances. See If you can't
go farther than any Of the boys"
s'Me2'' Tim blurted out the word me
chanically. as Il he hardly understood
what he was saying.
yes, you. Now scooti"
And Tim did scoot, and sure enough.
he did go farther than any Of the boys
by at least twenty feet
That night Uncle Johns eyes had an
other spell of tWinkIing
I've been studying about that sled
business" he said land I find it be-
longs to Bob. But I feel sure he win
lend it to you occasionally"
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no. the whole dinner was so hopelessly
soggy. And guess what there was for
dessert2 An underdone apple pudding
whose gluey white substance stuck our
jaws at every chewl
AFTER dinner. I just couldn't help it,
had to lie down. With all that stuff
in my stomach just couldn't stand up.
BY and by I went to sleep, and I had a
perfectly awful nightmare, and when
walked up I felt little amussy." but
most of that tired feeling had sort of
worn away. have always had q good
digestion-could eat nails-thank the
Lord
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Some Lenten Tidbita.

Speaking of Lenten lunches reminds
me. Have you ever tried the economy
OF using halibut instead Of crab meat
for deviled crabs?
It works to perfection If you have
your fish highly seasoned and well
minced. The addition Of a little oyster
crab chopped in each individual dish
will make detection absolutely inpossi-
Bile.
It is wonderful, by the way. what a
number of attractive dishes can be
compounded with fish and oyster crabs
One Of the best Is any white fish cooked
very dry and then baked in little in
dividual copper saucepans, after a
thick sauce has been poured over it.
compounded mainly of cheese and
sherry mixed together in a yellow
sauce. Two or three little oyster crabs
are placed in each dish, and they add
greatly to the delicate flavor. OF course.
like all cheese dishes, this must be
eaten piping hot.
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fully late John hadn't had any lunch
but that didn't make any difference. He
just had to sit down and read the food
advertisements in the back Of the mag
azine until the real stuff was good and
ready.
well. first there was a soup. thin
Nnd watery, and it was cold. I suppose
1t had been left on the back of the
stove while the roast was getting done
but anyway, they might just as well
have taken time to warm it, for the
roast wasn't done anyway. 1t was all
greasy on the outside and raw inside,
and I saw John keep pouring red pep
per sauce over it to give it some flavor.
q wanted to tell him that red pep
per sauce was awfulIy bad for the lin
ing Of his stomach, but didn't dare to,
he looked so mad.)
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too; but. oh. dear. it doesn't make you
feel NIGEL
If you show her a gown you have paid
an extravagant price for. because you
We're told it was an advance style, she
has an old one in her closet the identical
same thing which she bought in Paris
the season before last.
You show her the new hat you have
trimmed (Which everybody seems to
think is very pretty, and she looks at
it with her head on one side and says,
Yes, my dear, very neatly sewed, but
you ought to bend it this way, and wear
It this way on your head and she
leaves your poor little hat transformed.
It may have more style. but you prefer
1t your own way. so you spend the next
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of dieting too,
SO her temper
was improved.)
And to think
those too young
idiots never
knew it was
their stomachs
that was the
matteri con
Guided the old
lady mournfully.
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'For vegetables we had sweet pota-
toes and white potatoes and macarOni.
and. honestly. I felt ike a chicken that
has it's crop full of cornmush and can't
get enough water in its bill to wash
the mess down. You've seen them
stretching their bills may be? Oh, if
we could only have had a single green
vegetable a blade of grass even. but,
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70di 0H0ht to bend q tAaa s0dy. .

you SO. but she just can't help noticing
these novelties at the Smart houses
where she is invited.
I wonder if any one could just drop
a hint to Marion so she would come out
perfect in time for Easter?
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hour patting and pulling It back into
shape again.
If you give a little lunch party she
takes the opportunity to enlighten
everybody about the latest wrinkles in
table decorations for such occasions and
the most up to date dishes. OF course
she doesn't want to make you feel badly
because you haven't them, and she tells
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and they took
b erb tie a o r
chang ed tn e
cook. Nowadays
no one seems to
have any plain
common sense
81 We b cen
stopping at my
daughter : in
laws. for in
stance for the
last month, and
I never saw q
couple quarrel
like those two.
/ never could
make out why
until I'd been
there awhile
The first night
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a RRowN cLoTH eoMN.

The gown illustrated is OF chestnut
brown broadcIoth The skirt is plain
save for a panel formed with ribbon
velvet. fastened at the ends with tiny
gilt buttons. A like trimming adorns
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shoulder,

shoulder.
And then he called UP the city gar
dener, and in an hour all the weeds
we're cut and the ball was triumphant
~ rescued.
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Dorcas-The operation was successful,
but the patient couldn't survive the shock
Mrs DEMONSTRATIONS How careless to
LET a poor man in his condition find out
what the operation cost-Puck-
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old Mrs. Good Sense to me.
@In my day she went on, there was
no such thing as fncompatibnity Of
temper. Folks didn't take themselves
so seriously. When two people came
TO the point where they either had to
fy to pieces or fly at each other they
usually discovered they had dyspepsia,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

the Improvement club We were all to
correct ourselves of one particular fault
and come out quite perfect at Easter.
It seemed to make the idea more
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stata JournaI. l0o q Week.
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IA tie
Clyde

AID cooking is the cause Of
more divorces for incom-
pahbility of disposition than
Won ever heard Of" remarked
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Reveals the Domestic Hfe-
Ilcliy Due 10 Bad Cooking.
Tells Of an Organization For
The Correction Of tie Faults Of
the Members and Suggests
Some Appealing lenten Tldblts
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Physician, Heal
Thyself.

Now that Lent
is here I Won
der if I couldn't
drop a hint to
Marion Know
it all She start
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WE PUsLIsH 4 FINE LINE or BOOKS FoR
SUPPLEMENTAL AND TEACHERS USE
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

A heavy frost damaged fruit and
vegetables in Northern New York and
Vermont.
The Trigg shipyard property at Rich
mond. Va. has been bought by the
Southern Railway for track and ware
house extensions.
Ernest Denicke. sol of a capitalist
of San Francisco. was arrested. charged
with m~ansiaughter. said TO have been
committed at the time ot the fire.
Several minority stockholders of the
Equitable Life are to fight in court
Ryan's plan for naturalization.
Confronted With the alternative of
having its books oyerhauled and its
actual earnings exposed. August Bel
mOnt's subway company yielded and
sent its check for S431.429 for the pay
ment due on the New York City's sub
way bonds.
1t is reported that nearly ninety
per cent. of the steel consumers of San
Francisco will be extended unlimited
credit in rebuilding.
The Home Fire and Maine Insur-
aDce Company. of California. has lev
led n 200 per cent. assessment oil its
stockholders.
Two trolley cars loaded with C.. A.
Il. men collided ar Lafayette. Ind.
killing Charles Roudebush. a motor
man. and slightly injurin7 about sixty
old soldiers.
While bathing in a pond near his
home at Sherrand. ILL.,. Rev. Frank
Hoover. a prominent Iinister, was
drowned.
Charles E. Hughes Gas retained by
the Acknowledgement of New York to
fight the Consolidated Gas Company in
its attempt to defeat the eigilty-cent
gas law.
The brickmakers' strike at Coey-
MANS, NJ Y. was settled. the employ
ers %cOnceding all demands except rec
IGNITION of the union.
Edward S. Fowler was nominated as
appraiser of merchandise at the port
o. New York.
Five yeggmen blew cpen a safe at
Salisbury. Md. and when they were
captured one was found to have a
piece of the safe door in his lung.
Family troubles caused Thomas Har-
ris to shoot fatally George McWhorter.
A wealthy grain merchant, of Chilli
cothe. Ill.
The big ferryboat Baltimore was IN
collision in the North River. New York.
but just managed to reach her slip and
land her passengers before she sank.
More gifts of stock by coal conpan-
les TO employees of the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad were brought out at the ,ses-
sion of the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission in Philadelphia. The railroad
announced that it woulu investigate all
such gratuities.
Rules regulating the height or new
buildings were adonted in San Fran
cisco.
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Fa,.1 Eiot in 81. reter.burr.

ST. Observation-Disclosures quick on
tie Governments refusal, of all am
nesty the Terrorists have entered on a
campaign of violence. Eleven persons.
including five children. were killed and
100 injured by the explosion of six
bombs in SebaStopOl when the garrison
was being reviewed in celebration of
the anniversary of the Emperorfs eoro-
nation. In Tifiis Governor-General Ii
moseler and Chief of Police Martinoff
both We're injured by an Internal ma-
chine. While one man of the guard of
Cossacks surrounding them was blown
to pieces. Here in the capital q Ter
~rorist, only eighteen years old. NOR
tally wounded NJ. Shatalof, the war
den of the city prison, where about 500
political prisoners are confined.
1t appears that the Government is
rushing blindlY into civil war. The
peasants and workmen the country
over arc iufuriated at the EmEeror's
open defiance of The lower house of
Parliament. and it is the widespread
belief that unless the Government re-
treats from its hostile position that
bloody strife must come.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
FOREIGN.

General Morales. the former Presi-
dent Of SantO Domingo. arrived at st.
Thomas from Porto Rice.
There was a Strong fee \. in st.
Petersburg that the only chance for
peace between the government and
the parliament lay in the resignation
Of the GOremykin Cabinet.
The Manolita. flying the American
flag. was boarded by 2iffians. but es-
capped and reported the outrage to the
Spanish authorities.
Three GObelin tapestries were sold
at the Hotel Duorot. Paris, for $1,000,
$500 and 1920. respec veiy.
AS a result OF the DISASTROUS foods
in China. causing the loss OF thou
sands OF lives and destroying tile rice
crop, famine is feared.
Constitutional Democrats will intro
duce in the Dnma a bill establishing
religious freedom in Russia.
Mulattoes in Martinique are rejoic-
ing N their political victory. display
ing a shackled white lamb.
William NJ. Croft. of PHILADELPHIA,
was killed' by the over: urnins of an
automobile ear Charities, France. and
four other persons were injured.
More fighting occurred in Macedonia
between Turks and Servians and WALL
achianS and Greeks; the Rumanian
government has ordered the expulsion
Of a number of Greeks.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

About ninety-6ve per cent. of the
Filininos are enthusiastically at work
putting down the last traces of dis
order and disafectiOn.
Albert judd. representing the Ha-
waiian Planters Associations. has ar
rived at Manila TO negotiate with the
Philippine Commission with the view
to inducing Filipino families to work
ON the Hawaiian sugar plantations.
Exporters report a shortage of the
Philippine hemp crop amounting TO
100000 bales. valued at S2.O0O.O00.
Drought and a typhoon i'll September
caused the slump.
Aroused by the fact that one-third OF
the deaths in Porto Rico are annually
caused by tuberculosis and that in the
congested cities of the island Ii PEI
centage frequently reaches OEe-half OF
the mortality. an "Anti-Tuberculosis
League of Porto Rico" has been
formed. tFfe
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Facts Leading 10 Indictment
in Toms River Poison MyS ery

September %, 19O5.-Mrs. Carrie
Brouwer, wife of DIR. Frank 7. Brou-
wer, dies at her home in Toms River.
DR.. W. III. Cate, of Lakewood, signs
certificate of death, by Bright's dis
ease.
September 80, 1905.-FuneraI. In
surance company begins investigation.
Mrs. BrOuwer's brother, 7. j.. Hyer,
states he does not believe cause OF
death to have been correctly stated.
December 3, 1905.-Dr. Cate mysteri-
)usly disappears. Had wandered away
similarly in 1908 Diving a period of al
legged mental alteration. r
December 18th, 19O0.-Mrs. Eliza
beth Heyer, sister of the dead woman,
declares she has learned that DIR. Cate
/ signed the certificate OF death by posi-
tive direction of DR.. Brouwer. Also,
that Cate and. the husband had quar-
relied about certain medicine Brouwer
was giving wife.
December 20, 19O5.-Body of Mrs.
Brouwer ordered disinterred by Judge
Hendrickson. of New Jersey Supreme
Court. Detectives guard grave.
December %, 1905.-Mrs. Brouwer's
body disinterred in presence of physi-
clans and chemist, DR.. F. A. Centh, to
whom parts are delivered for analysis.
December 24. 1905.-Dr. Cate turns
up in Springfield, Mass. Declares he
remembers nothing. Sent to Sanitar.
ium in Goshen. y. Y.
May 18th, 1906.-Annourced that the
chemist has informed the Ocean Coun-
iy Grand Jury that arsenic was found
in the body. Powdered glass was also
discovered. Public sentiment had
forced a r%eopening OF the case.
May %, 19G6.-Indictment against
DR.. Brouwer. the husband, is found by
the Grand Jury, and his arrest ordered.
| Nurses had testified that medicines
mixed by Brouwer had strange effects.
DR.. Cate returned to. be a witness.
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T.. BR0BNER INDICTED
FOR POISONING WIFE
New Jersey Physician Pleads Not
Guilty and is Sent TO Jail.
suRsEs DAMAelAe TESTIMONY
Sick Norman seized with convuI-
sions on Taking Medicine From
Her Husband-- Died From Ar
sepie and Ground Glass

Toms River, n. jim the presence OF
mis- aged mother and two small chill
lren DR.. Frank b. Brouwer, a we'll
known physician and prominent citizen
IF this LACE, was arrested here charged
with numbering his wife, Carrie Brou-
wer, last September by administering
to her ground glass and arsenic. Brou-
wer was locked up in the county Jail,
aud his trial is set for the first Tues
lay in September.
The Grand Jury, alter, considering
all the evidence in the case, had re-
turned the day before al Indictment
charging murder in b TtrSt degree.
County Prosecutor Brown made a bur-
ried' trip to Red Bank where Supreme
Court Justice Hendrickson was trying
1 murder case, and laid the facts be-
fore the Court. Justice HendrickSon
arrived in this village-next morning.
He went at one to the Court House,
where a large crowd had assembled.
Hardly had he been seated when the
Grand Jury handed up the Indictment.
rhe Justice read it aloud and then or
dered Sheriff Jenefys to- arrest Brou-
Wer.
The arrest has caused a great sensa-
lion IN the quiet village where the
doctor and his wife were known by
everybody.
The Grand Jury came into court at
alfdi made a. presehtmeht. and
LsoGh afters Dr. BrouWer entered in the
custody of the Sheriff. by
his counsel, II. w. Carmichael. The
prisoner was very pale and nervous.
While the indictment was being read
to hini he Kept biting his lips, but at
the conclusion of the reading he plead
ed not guilty in a firm tone. He was
then taken to Jail.
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EQUITABLE TO BE MUTUALIzED.
Thomas +. Ryan's Stock to be Trans
ferred to Policyholders.

Thomas +. Ryan's Stock to be Trans
ferred to Policyholders.
New York City.-On the initiative Of
Grover Cleveland and Paul Morton and
with the harmonious assent OF Thomas
+. Ryan. decisive steps have been
taken for lAe naturalization of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society un-
der the terms specified by the New
York State Insurance laws. q
The charter of the Equitable Life
will be radically amended to provide
for the election by direct vote of the
rclicyholders of tw~enty-eight members
OF the Board of Directors, or a major
ity of four i'll the total board member
ship of ffty-two. The remaining TWEEN
ty-f0ur minority members of the board
are to be elected, as at present, by the
stockholders.
Provision is to be made for the re-
tirement of the society's stock, the con-
trolling interest in which was bought
from James FL. Hyde for $500, 900 by
Thomas F. REan.~apd~ by him was
trusted In the hands of Grover Cleve-
land. Judge Morgan J.. O'Brien and
George Westinghouse.
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~ ~ 10.
WAsHlN> TON.

The President has appointed Rev.
Washington K. GladdeL, cOIOred, as
chaplain of the "wen.y-courth Infan-
try, a coIored regiment i: the Philip
pines.
The coal land laws are 20 be made
applicable to Alaska i n bill now be-
fore the Senate. Public Land Commit
tee passes.
The House Foreign Affairs Commit
fee has authorized a favorable report
on the bill creating Unite States
Court in China.
Acknowledgement Moody is ready to
prosecute the Standard Oil Company
for the violation Of both the ElkinS and
Sherman laws.
The State Department has asked
Japan to participate in the jamestown
Exposition.
The House Library Committee has
voted favOrably on a bill for a 100000
memorial TO Columbus in Washington.