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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

quent. I was in a terrible condition,
but Doan's Kidney Pills cured me and
I have enjoyed fine health since"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a boz.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Tlfc-
Gladys-Father will be so pleased
20 hear that you are a poet.
Afgeruon-Ah! Like you, he adores
poetry!
"No, it isn't that. The last one
sf my lovers he tried to lick was a
fnttbau player"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Mrs. Winsfow's Soothing Syrupfor Children
teething, softens thegums, reducesinflammac
tion, allays pain, cures wind collie, Csc a bottle
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

It costs more to satisfy vice than
to feed a family.-Balzac.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Piles Cured in 6 to IL Days.
Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or P%rotruding
Piles in G to IA days or money refunded. SOC.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

TaylOr's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullen is Natures great reme-
dy-cures Coughs, Colds, Group and Con-
sumption. and all throat and lung troubles.
At druggists, Csc, SOC. INT S1.C0 per bottle.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Only One "Brnsno QEiniEe"
That Is Laxative Elono Quinine. Look
Ier the signature of 4. w. Grove. Used the
World Gwer to Cure a ole in One Day. CSC.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

xF7S Vityis'D an nee N ervous Diseases per-
sszane,Yfly cured by DR.. Hines Great Nerve
Aestorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free.
E3r. h r. Kline, Id. ,93l Arch St. Phila., Pa.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

To your son give good name and q
trade-Spanish.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Fame is but the perfume Of heroic
deeds.-Socrates.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Don't bulge if you sit at ease
So. 51-'O7.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Itch cured in 80 minutes by Woolfords
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

A petn'ent person advertises his
own Proficiency.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Example is better than precept.-
johnson.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26

Castles in the air cost a vast deal
to keep u~p.-Lytton.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-26
4 TERRIBLE CONDITION.
Tortured by Sharp Twinges, Shooting
Pains and Dizziness.

Hiram Center. SIS South Oak
street. Lake City, Mimi, says: Il
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03

her lip.
Now. Thankful you haven't been a-getting
put out with Cynthy Day?"
Thankfuls mothers careworn face showed
new burrows of anxiety. 1t was evident that
Increase. who had reached home before her,
had reported the difficulty at school. Cotton
MatheF had n maintained amt dned reserve on
at him. 1t was not Cotton Mather's way to
tell
"Seems as if you'd ought to know better,
when her father holds that mortgage, and
and we liable to be turned out Of doors any
minute! She's spoiled child, Cynthy Day
is, if ever there wasSone,. and her .father'li
do anything that she puts him up TO-"
tress. 1t was an altogether bewldering
thought to her that the friendship between
Cynthia Day and herself had any material
value. That she, should have added to the
family troubles-she who was continually rack
ing her small brain for ways to relieve them
seemed too much to bear.
Maybe you'd better go down and ask her
forgiveness, It seems hard, but my spirits
all broke" said Thankful's mother. wiping her
81 told her l was sorry, but it didn't do any
good. Cynthy stays mad" said Thankful,
doefully. 1--WE never liked tell tales, either
Of us don't know what made me say it.
81 expect nothing but what we shall be
turned out doors in this dead of winter wealth
er, and"
moren that. Perhaps the Lord will put it
into Jeremiah's heart to help u.s." interposed
grandma, in her tremulous, soft old voice.
Jeremiah He's one that calls folks shift
less, because they're poor and unfortunate;
and he and Eli never was like brothers: they
couldn't seem to get along together" sigh-d
Mrs. Judd.
Jeremiah used to think good deal of the
children" said grandma; especially of Thank
full, that was named for his wife. And since
Joe Liscom brought word that he was pros
pering out in Texas, ! have thought"
Thankful did not wait to hear anything
more She felt that she could not bear the
reproachful look in her mothers eyes, and,
unable longer to keep back her tears, ran up
to her own little, cold room. If she had to
cry she always did it there.
Cotton Mathers small, shocky head was
thrust in at the door before she had time to
shut it.
II think you're going to get mean valen-
tine tomorrow. Don't you let on that you
care. That's what 1 told. you for. wouldn't
let on that l cared if got an old bachelder
with red nose and holey stockings like Ike
Brickett did"
| CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03

before, or he never could have made me so
bad," she said to herself, with a logic that
was at least convincing to her own mind.
Cotton Mather, finding himself observed.
and laid his head upon it, and behind this
bulwark he continued his artistic effort
hes making the nose bigger and bigger,
always been making fun of me at home And
I've always told her all my secrets, and taken
her slegh-riding, and invited her to supper
every time we, had cream pie: And we've
to like any other girl SO WE'LL"
Perhaps cynthia had never before felt the
coldness OF the world and the hollowness of
friendship SO keenly.
right before the whole schooEwhen I didn't
do it, either. But l know of something as
mean as that that can do to her''
Cotton Mather's work of art had given
Cynthia an idea.
iii send her a mean valentine-the very
meanest one that l can make up'
Comic valentines were generally known az
mean" valentines in East Cherrvfeld- where
st. Valentine was still honored without sign
OF OF waning popularity. and it was considered
the greatest OF atfronts to send one CYNTHIA
exulted in the feeling that she had thought
of an adequate revenge.
won't have common-bought one. I can
make an appropriate one, and it shall be aw.
tul! she SAID to herself. James Alpheus
will draw it for me- (James Alpheus, her
fourteen year-old brother, was already renown.
ed as blackboard artist. He could draw an
engine so that one could almost hear it whis
tie, and tiger, rampant, that would strike
terror to the stoutest heart) "And / will
write the verse. | will write the worst poetry
that ever was written!" =
1t is quite possible that CYNTHIA did NOT
realize the greatness of this undertaking. al
though in her anger she felt capable Of al
most anything
The teacher requested Cynthia Day and
Thankful Judd to remain after school was
dismissed, feeling himself under Obligation w
investigate the matter.
''No, / never peeked. was going To but
| didn't" said Cynthia, stoutly, in answer
to the schoolmaster's inquiries.
81 saw her put her finger into the 'rithme-
tic she had under her arm and look into Il
and thought she was peeking. Oh, Pm very iy'
"Yoq may go now" said the teacher to both
the girls; but he did not propose to reinstate
Cynthia at the head of the class.
"He ought to put you back. Oh, CYNTHIA
Pm SO sorry, I don't know what made enc me-
do it. / didn't seem to think it was youi~
Thankful Judd's face looked tearfuily and
appealngly out from the depths of her old
fashioned pumpkin" hood. but. Cynthia pass.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03

disadvantage of the children's toes and ell
bows. and even in calculating the appetites
OF hungry boys and girls. since there was sell
If anybody 'fn had t tod AtSn Cynthia Day that
L ihankful Judd would tell of her-would be
tel-tale, anyway-she wouldn't have believed
1t. This was what she confded, half tearfully
and wholly reckless of the enormity of whis.
foot.
The two boys who had stood between Gym
tina, and Thankful both failed to answer cor
rectly, and the latter went triumphantly up to
the head. But she seemed i'll at ease even In
her triumph; she cast deprecating gances
towards the foot of the class, and once she
wiped her eyes, furtively, with the corner Of
her g1ngham apron.
Cynthia gave her head an angry toss as she
went. by her to her seat, when the class was
dismissed
II wouldn't care if I were you," Sarah
Abby Jones whispered to her. consongly.
get the five dollars that Squire Perkins offered
as a prize to. the one who stayed longest at
the head of the arithmetic class
Ti nIhat ~ vas as it. wasn't it? And it made her
telling all the meaner, said Cynthia.
She remembered that Thankful had talked
to her great deal about that five dollars. She
| had said she meant to try to save it towards
paying her tuition at the Hebron Academy.
Thankful wanted more than anything in
the world to go to the, Hebron Academy She
meant to learn enough to be teacher just
as soon as possible, and then what great things
she was going to do for the family!
| She had even planned to send Cotton Mather
to college, and had confded to Cynthia that
she expected him to be minister, and to
have D. d. written after his name.
| Cynthia always tried TO be sympathetic, but
Cotton Mather as a doctor of divinity was
figure which her imagination quite failed to
grasp. As penalty for various misdemeanors,
Cotton Mather, at the present time, had been
made to sit among, the girls in the back row,
and it happened that he sat beside Cynthia
And as she sat down, Cynthia, looking direct
| ly at him, drew down her forehead and wrin-
| kled up her nose and curled her lip, and TO
Cotton Mather's straightforward mind there
was no doubt whatever that she was making
up face at him.
Il am quite sure that no girl who reads this
would ever think of STOPPING to do so petty
| East Cherryheld where manners were very
primitive, it was a recognized form of re-
| venge.
Cotton Mather was of calm temperament: I:
he observed her dispassionately to see lust
how she did it, not without feeling of re-
spect for her abilities. The spelling book Of
fered no attraction to him, however, and it
was dull in the back seat, and as Cynthia
Days looks had aroused certain interest in
him, he proceeded to draw her upon his slate.
His sense of proportion was somewhat lack
ing and his perspective decidedly faulty but
there was no mistaking the plaid dress, al
though Its lines were wavering; or the drop
earrings although they were almost as large
as the wearer's head; OF the curls. although
they seemed to be affected by a very high
wind. Cynthia looked over at it. and her
anger increased.
Gle must have made me ever so many times
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03

nouncement in a voice shrill with excitement.
The girl at the head of the cass-it was a
class which stood, "toeing the mark, IN the
shabby, little one-room school house at East
Cherryfeld-grew very red in the face
'I neverp she exclaimed so there, now,
Thankful Judd. l never!"
She was tall girl, with tight, crisp curls;
and she wore earrings in her ears and plaid
Woolen dress.
There were murmurs and even open ex-
CARNATIONS all over the school-room. Disci-
pline, judged by the standard of city schools,
was somewhat lax in East Cherryfed, but
there was wholesome horror of cheating.
Cynthia Day looked down with contemp-
tuous scowl at the girl who had told OF her
O smaller girl in a calico dress, faded with
many washings and patched with different
The girl had a pale face, with a very high
forehead, over which the hair grew in point
and she looked oddly old and grave for her
She seemed somewhat dsmayed at what she
had done. There was no color in her face,
but she trembled and her lip quivered
"You did, anyhow" she said, half under
her breath, as she met Cynthia Days angry
gaze.
The chorus of exclamations seemed now prct-
didn'ts."
The teacher was a young man who had just
taken the place of another who had left on
account of serious difficulties with the large
boys.
He had determined upon the use of prompt
and decisive measures to secure order.
Cynthia Day, go to the foot!" he ordered.
II never saw figure of the answer-not
single one!" protested Cynthia.
But she went, nevertheless, constrained by
a commanding gesture, from the head to the
foot of the long class.
Oh, what fall was there! There were
boys in the class-big ones, too-but Cynthia
had kept the head for two weeks, and with
Thankful Judd trying her very best to get
there.
Thankful was such an ambitious little thing,
and the Judds were all good mathematicians,
Increase Judd, not quite twelve, who was al;
ways at the foot of the class in grammar, and
was perfect Ounce in spelling had won two
prizes offered by the county newspaper for the
solution of mathematical puzzles; and Cotton
Mather Judd, who still wore aprons, and
lisped and "toed in," was not only master of
the multiplication table, but could with diff
Guilty be overthrown in compound fractions.
Arithmetic was not so easy for Cynthia
Day She had to work very Hard over her
problems and it was proud moment when
She got above Thankful Judd
The rivalry had not destroyed their friend,
ship, which was of long standing and had
never suffered the least strain from the fact
that Cynthia's father kept the store and thu
postoffce and was very well-to-do. while the
Judds, with all their mathematical ability,
seemed to find difficulty in reckoning when
new shoes and jackets were due, to the great
Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03
Copyright by James Elverson

Copyright by James Elverson
,7HE peeked! She peeked! Cynthy
: Day peeked in the back of her 'rlth-
y metic!" ;.
aS1 A small hand was waved franti-
sS1 ally in the air, near the head of the
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-30
BRYAN VISITS ROOSEVELT
He Talks Finance-Adds Details Of
Plans for Government Insurance
of Bank Deposits

President Roosevelt and w. ]. Bry-
an were in consultation for half an
hour Saturday.
Il was not invited to call" Mr.. Bry-
an said on leaving, but / called up on
the telephone and asked if the presi-
dent would receive callers. On being
informed he would l came simply to
pay my respects to the president"
Mr. Bryan was not willing to discuss
the details of the interview, but was
free to add details to the financial
plan which he proposed a few days
ago In reviewing every measure of
relief which had come to his notice,
Mr.. Bryan said that nothing seemed
to be intended to meet the situation
as effectively, and at the same time
as simply, as to have the government
insure depositors in national banks
against loss by reason of the failure
Of the banks. 1t was not intended, he
said to have the government collect
fund for this purpose, to be kept
on hand. Whenever a national bank
should be required to pay its depos-
itors it would be the duty of the gov
eminent to make an assessment on
all national banks to meet the amount
of loss by reason of the failure. This
assessment, Mr.. Bryan said, would be
Infinitely small.
Opposition to this plan, Mr.. Bryan
conceded, might be made by state
banks, which would be left out of the
plan. The answer to this, he said, was
that the states should individually take
up the same scheme and stand as
guarantee against loss to depositors
in state banks.
Mr. Bryan said as yet no plan had
been made to have his relief measure
presented to congress. However, he
felt very encouraged over the pros
poets of its ultimate success.
Being asked as to his position on
the tariff, Mr.. Bryan said. it was evil
dent that nothing could be hoped for
in the way of tariff revision during
this, republican, congress.
II am in favor of removing the
tariff on news print paper and wood
pulp, an article controlled by trust,
Just as / am in favor of removing the
tariff on all other trust controlled arti-
cles," he said.
Mr. Bryan remarked that he had a
very pleasant chat with the president.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-30
Strange Murder
Case in Oakland

The police of Oakland, Cal, have
unearthed a most diabelical crime, and
have taken into custody M. A. Will
kins. stationary engineer and will
charge him with the muIder of his
wife, whose remains were found buried
in quicklime underneath a shed il the
yard of the wilkins home in Elm
hurst, a suburb of Oak land.
Mrs. Wilkins had not been seen
around her home by the neighbors for
several days. 1t was known that she
was soon TO give birth 10 child, aud
inquiries regarding her whereabouts
yb neighbors elected the response from
Wilkins that she had gone to the home
of her parents in the east.
A friend of the dead woman, Mrs. J.
M. Anderson of San Francisco, had
been staying with the Wilkins house
hold during the past few days, and now
asserts that Wilkins had endeavored to
induce her to leave her husband and go
away with him. Her suspicious be-
came aroused. and last Monday night
in dream she saw the body of her
former friend lying on the ground, with
the arms crossed over the breast She
told the officers of the strange incident,
and on their going to the wilkins home
found the body in trench under an
old carpet in the shed, lying as de-
scribed by Mrs. Anderson. Wilkins has
told many stories about the crime.
Mrs. Anderson told the officers that
she was awakened from the dream by
Wilkins, who was standing over her
with knife in his hand. When she
asked what he meant, he replied that
she had been talking wildly in her
sleep. He put away the knife and ask
ed her to take drink of wafer. She
slipped some of the water, but did not
swallow it, suspecting it had been
poisoned. This proved to be the fact.
wilkins is 30 years old and has always
borne a good reputatino. He came to
Oaklnad with his wife from York, Pa.
and claims to have son in Cincinnati.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-30
A Double Tragedy.

New York, Nov. PA double trag-
edy, wife murder and suicide, was dis
covered by firemen who had been
called out to subdue a blaze in the
home of Nick Smith, wealthy manu-
facturer of New Rochelle. When the
firemen burst into the house, after
the flames had been controlled they
found Smith and his young wife dead.
each with a bullet wound in the body.
Mrs. Smith had been shot in the
breast and apparently instantly killed.
The bullet which killed the husband
entered his head behind the left ear.
On the floor beside Smiths body was
found revolver, with which it is be-
lieved the shooting was done. That
Smith had killed his wife, fired the
house in hopes that it would hide his
crime. and then killed himself, was
plainly proved in note which was
found in the room.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

New York bankers are looking for
ward to a resumption of cash payments
within short time.
1t is said organized labor will con-
test the election of Mr.. Cannon as
speakr of the 60th congress.
The duma of Russia has decreed that
the title Of autocrat, which has been
borne by the emperor of Russia for
centuries, is no longer tenable within
the Russian state aud is incom patibe
with the regime inauguratt d by the
manifesto Issued by the emperor ON
October 30, 1905.
The Chicago Tribute says that the
Hartman and Hill railroad interests
have arrived at an agreement which
will insure harmony between them for
the future.
Guided by the advice of an aged
woman, who claims to be a seeress, two
small boys dug up. $4,000 in a vacant
lot on corner of Green and Powell
streets, San Francisco, where once stood
the Chappelle lodging house.
William Goodrich, superintendent of
the Scully lease on the Sandstorm mine
at Golatield, was caught recently in
CAVERN in the working shaft. He is
under 20 feet of rock and sand. There
Is little hope of finding him alive.
The official report of the season 8
catch of seal skins shows the catch to
be the lowest on record, a total of 1897
for the season.
The strike of $50 union employees of
the Louisville railway company has
been called off by vote taken by the
men The men made no conditions,
acknowledging themselves defeated.
The coal operators of Des Moines,
Iowa, have argeed on payment of all
mine payrolls in cash, and the 5000 or
Hmore miners who went out on strike
Will return TO work.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-30
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Matt l.. Piles of the state board OF
control is at Medical Lake, where he
will act as superintendent of the state
institution for feeble minded until a
permanent appointment is made in
place OF Jesse R. H. Pritchard, who is
about to retire.
When the waterways congress con-
venes at Washington, d. c., December
4, and 6. there will be in attendance
from the state of Washington two vet
eran open river workers, DR.. N. G. Bla
lock and Professor w. b. Lyman of
Whitman college.
The third annual show of the Kitti
tas Poultry association will be held in
Ellensburg from December II to De-
cember 81.
Henry Potter, aged 10, of Aberdeen,
Wash, shot himself in the head recent
ly because of love for Marguerite Nc
Carthy. a 16-year-old girl employed as
an assistant nurse in st. Joseph's has
pital Potter died without regainine
consciousness.
Mrs Annie Cowley, wife of M. M.
Cowley, retired banker. wealthy prop
erty owner and pioneer merchant OF
the Inland Empire, died suddenly at
Spokane Sunday as the result of a
hemorrhage of the brain.
Charlie Matsui, a young Japanese,
was found guilty of the murder of a
fellow countryman, Frank Narasaki,
last September at North Yakima.
W. r. Gowdy, one of the most prom
inent young men of Hoquiam, was
killed by being accidentally shot while
attempting to remove his gun from a
boat The full charge of shot entered
the right armpit, severing an artery
According to a ruling by Judge
Smell OF Tacoma. a corporation car
not bring an action against an indi
vidual, force him into court against
his will put him 10 expense in defend
ing the action, and then ask for &
dismissal of the case unless the de
endant is remunerated.
At Tacoma building material is nov
enough cheaper that rating of fully
20 per cent in the cost of construction
can be made over that of three
months ago.
The financial situation in Colfax re
mains about the same. Business con
tinues to be good, and the only thing
necessary to put it on normal basis
again is for the wheat to begin NOV
ing
The Big Bend Transit company
which is building an electric line from
Miles to Spokane, along the SPOKANE
river, and which has several mile
graded at Miles, will resume worl
about December l.