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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-12-05

And It was meet that they shsnld
come torcther thus 1t had been the
one certain and logical event which
they had felt inevitably approaching
from long back. And It was fitting,
moreover that they should fight alone
and unwitnessed, armed only with the
weapons of the wilderness, for they
were both Of the far, free lands were
both of the lighters type and had
both wurrcd for the first great prize.
They met fcrociously. Mcnamara
aimed fearful blow, but Glenlster
met him sQuarely, beating him off
clcverly, stepping in and out, his
arms swinging loosely from his Shout
ders like whalebonc withcs tipped with
lead. lie moved lightly, his footing
made doubly secure by reason of his
soft soled mukluks. Recognizing his
opponents greater weight, he under
took merely to stop the headlong
rushes and remain out Of reach as
long rs possible. He struck the poll
tiCian fairly in the mouth so that the
mans head snapped back and his fists
went wild, then, before the arms
could grasp him. the miner had broli-
en- ground and whipped another blow
across, but Mcnamara was boxer
himself, so covered and blocked It..
The politician spat through his mash
ed lips and rushed again, sweeping
his opponent from his feet. Again
GleNisters fist shot forward like Il
lump of granite, but the other came on
head down and the blow finished too
high, landing on the big mans brow.
A sudden darling agony paraly2ed
Roys hand, and he realized that he
had broken the mctaCarp8l bones and
that henceforth it would be useless.
Before he could recover Mcnamara
had passed under his extended arm
and seized him by the middle, then,
thrusting his left leg back of Roy's,
he whircd him from his balance. fling
ing him clear and with reslstlc.s force.
It seemed that n fatal fall must fol
low, but the youth squirmed catlike
in the air. landing with set muscles
which rebounded like rubber. Even
so. the receiver was upon him before
he could rise, reaching Cor the young
mans throat with hls heavy hands.
Roy recognized the fatal "stranGle''
hold and, Selling his enemy's wrists.
cndeavored TO tear them apart, but
his left hand was useless, so with Il
mighty wrench he freed himself, and,
locked in each others arms, the men
strained and swayed about the office
till their neck veins were bursting,
their muscles paralyzed.
Men may tight duels calmly may
shoot or parry or thrust with cold de-
liberation, but when there comes the
jar of body TO body, the sweaty con
tact of skin to skin. the play OF iron
muscles, the painful gasp of eXhsus-
ton then the mind goes Suffering
back into its dark rcccsscs while ov-
cry yenomous passion leaps forth from
its hiding place and joins in the horrid
war.
They tripped across the floor, crash
Ing into the partition. which split,
showering them with glass. They fell
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-12-05
Tho kaiser,s Modest Tutor.

George IIinzpeter the tutor of the Ger
man emperor celebrated his eightieth
birthday recently At Bielfcld, his birth
place. A writer in a Berlin paper says
that although the world knows little
OF the modest man. he more than any
other person is responsible for the de-
velopment Of the qualities In the Ger
man monarch which make him the
versatile man that he Is. ION many
occasions he stood as valuable aid at
the side of his august pupil and be
was with perfect right known to the
inner circle as the crown princes real
priyy councillor pelbruck. the tutor
OF Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm,
later Friedrich Wilhelm ~, disap-
peared completely from the world
when his duties as teacher were fin
ished and lives in history only as the
father of his son. The liberal Curtius
who was tie tutor OF the beloved En-
peror Frederick. retired to his pro
censorship when his pupil had out
grown him. uinZpeter's career eclipses
that of all the others Privy councillor,
member of the upper house. recipient
OF many high orders, are some of the
fruits of his devotion to and populari-
ty with his pupil, the emperor"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-12-05
Some ROYAL lunatics,

There are more royal lunatics than
the world wots of, but at the present
moment the only madman who has
worn crown and who, for the mat
ter of that. still wears It is the king
of Bavaria. who is confined I'm What
Is perhaps the most beautiful castle
In the whole world aud who is sur
rounded with strange, sinister simu-
lacrum of court. Another crowned
head who has long been hopelessly
insane is the empress of Mexico once
the most lovely, the most self willed
and the most fascinating princess in
Europe. Few people are aware that
her imperial majesty. who has now
been insane for exactly forty years.
Is the godmother of Princess Henry
of Battenberg The Empress Charlotte
Is so completely forgotten by the world
which she adorned that more than one
modern historian has mentioned her In
the past tense as dead. AS matter
OF fact, she lives close to Brussels in
the quaint, old fashioned palace of
Bonchaut.-LoRdaa ~. A. r.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-12-05

and happened TO find it," lie turned
to the strangers who had accompanied
him from the ship, crying, Serve those
warrants" and they stepped forward.
The uproar OF the past few minutes
had brought men running from every
direction till, finding no room on the
stairs. they had massed in the street
below while the word few from lip to
lip concerning this closing scene Of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-12-05
earefoo tod at sunday School.

Would that in your social capacity
you could live for the glory of God!
There is a beautiful story told about
the famous Judge Carter Of New Eng
land. When he was a young lawyer
he WAS living in Maine. He and his
wlte al mat time were energeticauy
devoted to Sunday school work. But
try as he would he could not bring into
the Sunday school some OF the poorer
children. Their parents did not have
money enough to buy shoes for theil
children, and they did not want thu
feelings Of the little ones to be hurt
by being the only shoeless children in
the school. SO Judge Carter thought
the matter out He went to his own
boys and girls and said; Children.
would like you to so barefooted "a
Sunday school. 1t is not TO save the
shoes and stockings, but to save the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27

the majority of Iowa republicans VIII
Another quite as noticeable Is the
serving of original notice on this ma
tority that when 1t does name Cum
minis the Republican and Its gang pro-
pose to go over to the democrats in
n body. These are the two main prop
ositions laid down by the talented edi-
tor of the esteemed Republican.
The Republican. possibly, II even
probably. acting under orders, has, in
It's hand However. there is nothing
in it that is essentially alarming. The
corporation crowd raked every slough
and city purlieu last fall to do what
they threaten will be done next year.
1t failed. 1t VIII fail again more COM
pletely. That candidate for the senate
named by the majority of republicans
will be elected by the legislature. II
it is Allison, he will get the votes of
lne progressive sSemblynen III
Cummins, he will receive the votes Of
every honest republican elected to the
legislature. Neither the republicans OF
Iowa nor their representatives are OF
the dishonest stripe with which the Re-
publican Is ready to stigmatize them.
Let it he known that the contest is
on: hat there will be no faltering, but
that primary will make the will of the
majority definite. And let all have
faith that there are not in Iowa
enough republicans of the ward heeler
type of the Cedar Rapids Republican
to defeat a candidate named by a ma
jority of Iowa republicans. At any rate
we shall see.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27

Theodore Roosevelt has written some
doors, bird life, etc. 1t is worth read
ing, but Lazelle Of the Cedar Rapids
Republican and Burrell of the WASH
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27
A sTANDPATTER OR A DEm0cRAT7

Bo1der or less scrupulous than the
rest of the newspaper syndicate, the
Cedar Rapids Republican appears
ready to head a wholesale standpat
desertion to the democratic camp. 1t
has concluded that the only way to
take the state administration out of
the hands of progressive republicans
and beat Cummins, is for standpatters
to assist the democrats to elect a dem
ocratic governor of Iowa and a demo-
crat as United States senator from
miscalled Republican, is as follows:
There are a lot of republican papers
in Iowa that are beginning to say
openly hat the only way to bring har-
mony into Iowa republicanism is to
let the party go dow into defeat. .
For ourselves we have tried to
preach as we'll as to practice the doc
trine of harmony, but the many seem
to prefer to have another fight, a
knock down and a drag out. Well, they
can probably get it. But we believe
llIdI Liz y ld1Il 1CSulI WALL NC q uStil.
ocratic governor and a democratic leg
islature and a democratic United
States senator. 1t will take only fifty
republicans in each of twenty-one
counties to throw those counties into
the democratic column. Either faction
can furnish that number and will fur
nish them if the contest of last year is
to be repeated.
We a at least have the conscious
ness that we have been willing to
meet On some common ground, since
there Is this year and next nothing
between the factions except the offices
and lust for victory and the desire to
grind someone in the dust. If it must
be that way, let 1t be that way.
There are worse things thar a DEM
ocratic victory-one or two of them in
dear old Iowa. Such a victory may not
only bring republicans to their senses,
but 1T might result in cutting down
state extravaganza and the four mill
state levy toward which we have been
drifting steadily.
One noticeable thing to be gathered
from the above remarkable editorial
utterance by an assumedly republican
paper whose owners and editors have
held and are holding lucrative offices
under the republican party, is that the
Republican and its coterie assume that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27

"A bumper corn crop piled on top
Of those bank deposits will leave the
people of Iowa in very comfortable
circumstances. thank you. for another
year or two complacently remarks
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27

eff The Journal speaks by authority
for Eleventh district stadpat repub-
licans, there will be no difficulty in
harmonizing on Funk for congress,
should he desire to CO." says the Cher
okee Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27
Harmful Vacations.

These summer vacations do me a lot
Of good" said a physician. Every
one Of them is worth five dollars in the
Doctors pocket"
How do you mean"
II mean that the average vacation
harms instead Of benefiting. Take the
case of the average clerk. Pale and
thin from an indoor, ~sedentary life, he
rushes for two boiling August weeks to
the seashore. There, under the burning
blazing sun, amid the soft purring Of
innumerable mosquitoes, he bathes,
boats, fishes, walks and flirts all day,
and all the evening he bowls and
dances and firts again. In a word he
conducts himself like a Hercules in
stead of Like the pale, thin, puny clerk
he is.
Whats the result? The clerk re-
turns from his vacation run down in
stead of built up. and I begin pre-
scribing tonics for him"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27
A REFORM SCHOOL NOT A PRISON.

Yesterday at Des Moines a twelve
year-old boy attempted to take his life
when sentenced to the Eldora reform
school. A day or so before this hap
pened a boy en- route to the school UNI
der charge of an officer, leaped from
a train running forty miles an hour
and escaped. These and other instances
are highly suggestive.
Little boys do not attempt suicide or
leap off trains except under some over
towering stimulus. The fear Of these
the one to welcome death and the other
to take chances only accepted by har-
dened criminals under long sentences.
The boys We're afraid, horribly afraid
of an institution conceived, not as a
place of punishment. but as a help to
reform, and conducted, or at least in
tended to be conducted. in a way and
after a manner to offer boys a chance,
not take away their opportunity.
Who is to blame for his wide spread
idea hat the Eldora institution is sim
ply a boys p~enitentiary? Is 1t the in
stitution? Then 1t needs overhauling
with a firm hand. Is 1t the courts?
Then they need to learn the use and
advantage of the boys reformatory
school. Is it the probation officers?
Then the probation officers should be
set digging bitches or distinguishes and
others who NOW something Of children
and the hope that always lives in a
child should be put In their places. The
reform school should not have a repu-
tation that drives children to suicide
rather thar life in the institution.
The fault is mostly in the officers
and the parents. The reform school Is
held up as an infant penitentiary, a
living hell, where boys are consigned
for their sins. 1t isn't and must nor
be. What is it for is to help that
twelve year Did boy grow into use
fulness. Judge Lindsey's plan of send
ing the boy alone with his commitment
papers in his pocket beats all the sher-
ifs and handouts in the world. The
erring boy must be taught that the
is an opportunity, a help n a
hope. To bring him this idea the pro-
baton officer should be a a a big,
square, worldly wise man who knows
much and enough to get down to the
boys level and reason with d boys
reasons. There is d bunch of incom-
petents chasing boys up and down,
holding up the school as a p~enitentiary
annex who should be put out Of bust
ness.
The reform school should be so o n
Quoted and so reputed that a child sent
there for its own good need not fall
into transports of fear. 1t should have
a reputation of helpfulness Something
else; its inmates should not be classed
or looked upon as criminals and the
bucolic gentleman with a pitchfork
should not engage in boy hunts every
nay be an escaped inmate of the re-
form school. The school is not a prison
are bad or homeless little boys
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27
A Story Of Ristori.

tNeW 1Ork SUM-
The ate Nine. Ristori, the famous
actress" said a playwright at the
Players club in New York, had d
great detestation Of boosters.
at a dinner that vas given in her
honor here a 1boastful Italian tenor ex-
cited her displeasure. This tenor. a
count. said:
I'm my fathers p~alazzo. on the Cor
so, in Rome, the dining hall is so lofty
that you can't distinguish the. paint
ings on the ceilings without an opera
glass
Mime. Ristori glared at the boast
full tenor. Then she said:
"How very different from my nome
There the dining room is so low that
nothing but soles can be brought on
the table, and even they have to be
served in a fiat dish
The SOLE" concluded the playwright,
us. you know, the --LATEST fish in the
world-fatter by far than the founder
or plaice."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27

The founder is said to deposit T.
10000 eggs in the course of a year.
Now if Mr.. Burbank could cross the
founder with the common hen, eggs
might be cheap enough to eat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27

ington Press can do better. "Of all
that is good, Iowa, etc"
I've got a little straight said the
man who had called. What have you
got?
Three %affinities and a pair of ar
lists answered the other, raking in
the pot.
Later when the man saw three
queens and two jacks he realized thai
he was playing poker with one who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27
Topics Of the Times
Well, it's Thanksgiving next.

John d. Rockefeller, Jr., Is another
example of the ommon tendency TIC
give up the Bible class when some
thing else is doing.
Mrs. Blizzard is suing for divorce AT
Centerville. She claims Blizzard just
blew in long enough to get married
and then drifted away, and that he
was a frost anyway and all wind.
80
Is the Immunity bath a necessity
to a business mans government, ma
tional, state or municipal?
When the new Oklahoma senator
who confesses to being a mixture OF
Irish and Cherokee Indian blood gets
busy on the floor, even Senator Till
man will find it advisable to keep ST
lence and a quiet pitchfork.
King Alfonso snored to the great
disturbance of the queen. However,
with the assistance Of a e he
has cut it out.
Not much is needed to sprout a
presidential boom nowadays, but it
takes a lot of work to keep one thrifty.
The cocktails that nobody ordered
surely came.
1t cost the Lusitania $4,000 a day to
rum. But it costs the Standard Oil
more than that and look at the profits!
Expenses don't count when the other
fellow pays them. Get der business"
Frank Gotch, the Humboldt wrestler,
is reported to have hired Tommy Ryan
to fit him for pugilism. With Ameri-
can ring history in mind the career
mapped out by the Iowa athlete is not
one hat an ambitious Iowa farmer
would naturally crave but possibly
Gotch had in mind the $35O,00O prop
erty bought the other day by Kid Nc
Coy. While it takes a life time to earn
an Iowa farm, staying by the soil and
a tough draws down $4,000 by a lucky
punch into the anatomy of another
tough, pugilism will have its attrac-
tons.
There is some justice: in knocking the
theory Of the equinox.
The founder is said to deposit T.
900, 900 eggs in the course of a year.
Now if Mr.. Burbank could cross the
with the common hen, eggs
might be cheap enough to eat.
Theodore Roosevelt has written some
pretty good stuff for Scribner's on out
doors, bird life, etc. 1t is worth read
ing, but Lazelle of the Cedar Rapids
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27

long term in prison may a some
thing to do with the matter. but even
II his We're entirely eliminated 1t is
likely that the preference for life i'm
prisonment would continue" but con-
cludes: "rhe theory that life i'm
prisonment Is the most severe possible
punishment does very we'll until it
bumps into facts"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27
South Dakota Land Cheap.

In the New Empire" along the $50
miles of new line just completed by the
Minneapolis & ST. Louis railroad in
Faulk, Potter. Walworth and Nc
Pherson counties. Splendid opportuni-
ties for. the investor and business nan
in the new towns. and for the home
seeker where good land is still cheap.
No matter whether you are a farmer
or not, write me for handsome illus
trated folder, which tells all about the
best openings. Very low excursion
rates every week. Call on our agents.
A. B. Cults, G. p. and T. A., Iowa Cen
trail Railway, Minneapolis, MINI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27
His Mean REVENGE.

Marry you?" sc%ornfully exclaimed
the fair mermaid. Not If you were
the last man in the ocean! You're too
old and ugly!"
With q graceful. sinuous f1irt of her
terminal facilities she dived and dis
appeared, leaving him gasping.
Whereupon the Old Man of the Sea,
burning with rage and modification,
fastened ashore and fastened himself
upon the neck of a hapless sailor Of
the name of Sinbad, who unfortunately
happened along at the moment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-27
lOwA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

IF we are to have the saddle OF
| Jesse James non the historical rel
les OF the state. let us have an OIL
painting of him. representing him In
| the act Of shooting to death some
harmless and innocent victim. to ac-
company it, and copies of a book re-
lating his heroic" and valiant
deeds, to hand out to the children who
visit the historical building" suggests
the Des Moines Tribune. IF we are
to immortalize outlaws and murderers
in Iowa, let us do a good job"
"A bumper corn crop piled or top
Of those bank deposits will leave the
people of Iowa in very comfortable
circumstances. thank III. for another
year or two" ~complacently remarks
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Remarking that Jesse James saddle
has been placed in the historical de-
partment at Des Moines, properly
marked and authenticated. the Daven-
port Times asks: "Why? No one says.
Is the historical society looking for
that kind Of stuff? If so it might dele
gate, a man to stand at the doors of
each penitentiary and collect souven-
IRIS from the clothing Of each convict
as he enters"
Every once in a while some one
vehemently asserts that Iowa farm
lands are too high" notes the Ogden
Reporter. "And before his words have
ceased to echo n hears of another
farm changing hands at an increased
figure. The average value of good
farming land in this part Of the state
is probably not far from $50 an acre
and everything indicates that men now
in middle age will see it changing
hands at from $50 to $3.50 an acre."
predicts the Reporter.
Speaking of Senator Allison's speech
at Dubuque the NorthWood Anchor
says For more than an hour he
stood on frail coated political eggs and
never cracked a she'll"
HAS corn lost its SAVIOR, whiskey
its salt and democrats turned to be
apostles for prohibitions" inquiries the
Charles City Intelligencer. "The pro-
duct from corn seems to have
changed"
eff The Journal speaks by authority
for Eleventh district stadpat repub-
licans, there will be 40 difficulty in
harmonizing on Funk for congress,
should he desire to CO." says the Cher
Times.
MISUNDERSTANDING "tha fact seanoc
to be that horror Of death, particularly
death on the ga1loWs, is still strong in
the human mind, n that even the
prospect of a dreary, remorseful life
time spent behind prison walls looks
attractive by contrast" the
Sioux City Journal thinks it possible
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-26

Looking Forward.
DO you think the time will ever
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-26
TAILORS IN A RIOT.
Refused to Permit a Performances That
Satirized Their Craft.

In 1863 Foote had produced a bur-
lesque. the author of which has never
been discovered, entitled The Tailors;
a Tragedy For Warm Weather" Dow
ton announced the revival of this piece
for his benefit. AS the title implies. it
was satire upon the sartorial craft.
and upon the bills being issued an in
dignation meeting was convened by the
knights of the needle, who vowed to
oppose the performance by might and
main.
Menacing letters were sent to Dow
ton telling him that 1900 tailors
would attend to his piece, and one,
who signed himself death" added
that 10000 men could be found if nee
eSsary. These threats were laughed
at by the actors, but when night came
it was discovered that the craft were
in earnest and that with few eXcep-
tions they had contrived to secure ev
cry seat in the house, while Il mob
without still squeezed for admission.
The moment Dowton appeared upon
the stage there was hideous uproar
and some one threw a pair of shears
at him.
Not Il word would the rioters listen
to, nor would they accept any compro-
mise in the way of changing the piece
Within howled and Kissed without in
Permission hundreds of eXasperated
tailors; outside howled and beloved
thousands of raging tailors, who at
tempted to storm the house. So for
midable did the riot wax that a mag
istrate had to be sent for and special
cOnstables called out, but these were
helpless against overwhelming odds, so
a troop of life guards was ultimately
summoned. who, after making sixteen
prisoners, put the rest TO fiight.-Amer-
lean Tailor and Cutter.