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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
Ship Your Cream to Us.

Largest creamery in the northwest.
Milton Dairy Co., St. Paul, MINI.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-06-27
CHAPTER II.

The following week saw Miss Sands
Of Virginia, private secretary to tho
head Of Randolph & Randolph. estab-
lished In = little ONCE between mine
and Bob's. She had not been there a
day before we knew she was q worker.
She spent the hours going over re-
ports and analysing financial state
ments, showing q sagacitY extraordi-
nary in 80 young a person. She OK
planned her knowledge Of figures by
the hand-work she had done for the
Judge. all of whose accounts she had
kept Bob and saw that she was
bent on smothering her memory mi
that antidote for all ills OF heart and
soul-Work. Her office life was SIM
plicity itself. She spoke to no one ex-i
cept Bob, save in connection with SUCH
business matters of the firms as Il
might send her by one OF the clerksi
to attend to. To the otfCrs In the
banking house she was Just an uncon-!
ventional young litP"o"' oman whose'
high social connect. rs tad gained her
| this opportunity e. 5eILing at the sci
crets of finance. from actual expert,
ence. for use in forthcoming novels. II
had got abroad that she was the writer.
of great distinction who, under q nom,
de plume, had recently made quite a
dent in the worlds literary shells
suggestion that l rightly guessed was,
one of Bob's delicate ways Of smooth
ing out her path. had tried In every
way to make things easy for her, but
It was impossible for me to draw her
out In talk, and finally l gave It up.
Had It not been that every time i
passed her once door was compelled
by the fascination which I had hrst
felt. and which. instead of diminishing,
had increased with her reticence. to
look in at the quiet figure with the
downcast eyes. working away at her
desk as though her life depended on
never missing second. ! should not
have known she was in the building.
My wife, at my suggestion, had tried
to induce her to visit ns: in fact. after
let her into Just enough Of Beuiah
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-06-27

ed straight for the little room she oc-
cupied as II It were his one objective !
point Of the day, but once he heard
his own Good morning, Miss Sands"
he seemed to round to, and while in
her presence was the Bob BROMLEY Of
old. He would be in and out all |
day on any and every prete1t al
ways entering with an undisguised !
,agerness, leaving with a slow, dreamy
reluctance. That he never saw her
outside the office, am sure, for she
said goodnight to him when he or
she left for the day. with the Same
don't-coms-with-me dignity that she
exhibited to all the rest of us. I
had not attempted to say q word to,
Bob about his feeling for Beulahl
Sands, nor had he ever brought upi
the subject to me. On the contrary
hO studiously avoided it.
Three months of the six had now
passed, and with each day / thought 4
noted an increasing anxiety in Bob
He had opened q special account for,
Miss Sands on the books Of the house
In his name a. agent, with q credit OF
$50, 900, and we both watched II with
q painful tenseness Of scrutiny. ii
had grown by uneven jerks, until the
balance on October was almost
$400, zee. On some Of the trades Bob
had consulted me, and on others, two
In particular where no closed up after
few days operations with nearly
100000 profit, did not even know,
what the trading was based on until
the stocks had been sold. Then he
said:
Jim, that little lady from Virginia
can give US a big handicap and play
US to a standstill at our own game.
She told me to buy all the Burlington
and Sugar her account would stand,
and did not even ask my opinion. In
both cases I thought the operations
were more the result Of a wakeful
night, and an I-must-doSomething de-
cision than anything else, and tack
led both with q SILVER; but when she
told me to sell them out at a time I
thought they looked like going high
er, and the next day they slumped, I
could not help thinking about the des-
tiny that shapes our ends"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-06-27
Continued next week.
A Political Incident.

Nineteen years ago today the
Republican national convention
was held in Chicago and Benja-
min Harrison was dominated
for the presidency. the honor
came to him on the eighth bal.
lot, On the frs; ballot thirteen
candidates were voted for in
Guiding William Mckinley, who
had two votes on the first and
16 on the seventh ballot. John
Shearmau was the leading cam
didate but his greatest strength
was 249 votes on the second
ballot. Walter A. Gresham.
who was an indiana man. as
we'll as Harrison, had 1923 votes
IN the third ballot. Gen. Rus
sell A. Alger OF Michigan, was
strong candidate from start
" uuiSu d III at OuC SlhC obO"
ed l42 votes. Harrison began
with 80 votes and gradually in
creased until the landslide
which gave him 544 votes and
the nomination on the eighth
ballot. Chauncey Depew COM
mauded 100 votes at the outset
but he pulled out after the third
ballot. Allison. Blaine land In.
gals were also voted for and
Robert #. Lincoln received
three votes. For vice president
Levi P. Morton was named on
be first ballot.
In the subsequent election,
Harrison and Morton were tri-
umphant although Cleveland
and Thurman received the pop
ular vote. Quincy Herald.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-06-27

help run that sixty thousand to higher
figures, but six months is a short time
and a million or two q world of
money"
"She knows that" he said. and the
time is much shorter and the road to
20 much longer than you figure" he
replied. This girl is as high-ten-
stoned as the L string on a Stradi-
varius, and she declares she will have
no charity tips or unusual favors
from us or anyone else. But let US
not talk about that now. or we'll get
discouraged. Let's do as she says
and trust to God for the outcome
Are you willing, Jim, to take her into
the office as a sort OF confidential sec
rotary? II you win, III take charge
of her account, and together we will
do all that two men can for her and
her father
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-06-27

side EonE-strikes, Bob BFownfey I'D
not know he was In the stock business
Formerly every clerk knew when Bob
came or went, for 1t was with q rush,
a shout. a laugh, and bang Of doors
and on the floor of the stock exchange
no man played SO many pranks. orr
allied his orders with 30 much jolly
Ecod-naturo and hilarious boistsrous.i
ness. But from the day the VIrginiaR
girl crossed his path, Bob Brownleyl
was = man who was thinking. think,
ing, thinking all the time. 1t was only,
with an effort that he would keep his,
eyes on whomeVer he was talking with,
long enough to take in what was said, >,
snd II the saying occupied much time
Il would be apparent to the talker that
Bob was on in the clouds. An his
friends and associates remarked thei
change, but / alone. except perhapsI
Kate. had any idea of the cause. Il
knew that two million dollars and the,
coming New Year were huTdling hkeI
kangaroos over Bob's mental rails andl
bitches. though did not know 1t from
anything he told me, for after that
talk on the upper deck of the Tribes
man he had shut up like a clam.
He did not exactly shun me, but
showed me in many ways that he!
had entered into 3 new world, in,
which he desired TO be alone. That
BeuIah Sands plight had reused into
intense activity all the latent romance,
Of my friends nature, did not sur
prise me. foresaw from the first
that Bob would fall head over heels
In love with this beautiful. sorrow
laden girl, and 1t was soon obvious
that the Iongdelayed shaft had plant
ed it's point In the innermost depths
OF his being. His was more than love;
q fervid idolatry now had possession
of his soul, mind and body. Yet its
outward manifestations were the op-
posite Of what one would have looked
for In this gay and optimistic south
erner. II was rather priest-Iike wor-
ship, q calm imperturbabiiity that
nothing seemed to distract or upset,
at least In the presence a the goddess
who was its object. Every morning
he would pass through my once head
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-06-27

Sands story so that she could see
cided to try to bring her to our house
to live. But though the girl was sweet
ly gentle in her appreciation of Kate's
thoughtful attentions, in her simple
way she made us both feel that our
efforts would be for naught, that herr
position must be the same as that of
any other clerk In the office. We both
finally left her to herself Bob ex-
planned to me. some three weeks after
she came to the office, that she re-l
ceived no visitors at her home, hotel
on q quiet uptown street, and that
even he had never bad permission to
call upon her there.
But from the day she came to occu-'
by her desk in our ONCE, Bob was a
changed man, whether for better or
for worse neither Kate nor could de-
eide. His old bounding elasticity waS
gone, and with 1t his rollicking laugh
He was now a man where before he
had been a boy, man with burden.
Even II 1 had not heard Beulah Sands
story, should have guessed that Bob
was staggering under a strange load !
While before, from the close of the
stock exchange until its opening the
next morning, he was, as Kate was
fond of putting 1t. always ready to ell
in for anything from chaperon to,
nurse, always open for any lark we
planned from . Bohemian dinner to-
the opera, now weeks went by without
our seeing him at our house. In the
Office It used to be a saying that out
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-06-27
Then and Now.

With not a little sarcasm and
a whole lot of truth, William ].
Bryan says: I'VE are all repn,
diators now. The dollar Of to-
day is not the dollar of 1896 1t
is at least 30 per cent less in
purchasing power since then,
so that Its face value does not
compare with what it was
then" For this shrinkage, and
the conditions that have caused
it, the republican party is clear
ly and uuescapably responsi.
BILE. II it was fair to call Mr.
Bryan q so cent dollar man, it
is fair to call Mr.. Roosevelt a
20 cent dollar man. Dollars
are worth only what they will
buy IN the commodities the PEG
pie must have to live upon. -
N, beFly Democrat,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
English Trains ON Time.

The public service rendered by the
British railway lines. the convenience
to the traveller and the shipper, is far
in excess of anything to be found In
this country. The British isles are abb
surdly small when compared with our
vast areas. and this of course slmpllfies
the operating problems. There are no
snowdrifts to delay schedules, no sec
tons of crudely built track awaiting
perfection, and the locomotives are
never far from their home shops. Yet
even with allowance for these advan-
tages both freight and passenger traffic
Rre habltually handled with regular
ity and certainty that deserve the high
tst degree of praise. In any large
terminal in England the number of
passenger trains that arrive either ex-
actly on time or minute or two ahead
is far greater than that of trains even
the least overdue. Five minutes is usu-
ally a safe margin for an important
connection. At Finsbury Park, sub
urban station just outside London,
trains pass on an average of one every
two minutes night and day, yet this
tremendous traffic is handled with
clocklike Professionally Morris in At
lantic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
ain AImed at Japanese.

The lower house OF the state legls-
lature % California passed a meas
ure last week known as the anti
alien property holding bill" 1t is
aimed at the Japanese and Chinese
property owners in the state, and is
intended to prevent them FROM acuuir-
ing and owning property for a longer
period than five years. In urging the
passage of the bill Assemblyman Drew
said that since January 1 .one-third Of
the property transfers In Fresno has
been to Japanese.
The bill provides that any alien who
does not become a citizen of the Uni
ted States shall not hold title to lands
in this state for more than five years.
If within that time the alien does not
become citizen the district attorney
shall compel the sale of his lands or
houses. Japanese and Chinese are not
specifically named, but as they can
not become citizens the bill precludes
them from owning property for more
than five years.
The impression is given out that II
the bill reaches the governor he will
sign it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
Thursday.

The senate passed the Aldrich bill
to enable the secretary of the treas
ury to combat a money stringency.
Plots to make raid on the Dutch
island of Celebes, in the Malay archi-
pelago, have been discovered in Cape
Town,
President Roosevelt will appoint
Senator ]. c. S. Blackburn of Ken
lucky member of the Isthmian canal
commission.
Z. H. Hartman told the interstate
commerce commission he ousted Stuy-
vesant Fish from the presidency of the
Illinois Central for misuse of funds.
Three passengers were killed and
many hurt when the Chicago express
on the Grand Trunk railroad plunged
down a 3O-foot embankment, near
Guelph, Ont.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
CONGRESS APPROPRIATIONS.
Increase For 1903 over Current Year
Is S4o,ooo,ooo

Washington, Maj ch 5. : Statements
were made to the senate and house by
Senator Allison and Representative
Tawney, chairman respectively of the
senate and house appropriations com.
mittees, and by Representative Living.
ston, the ranking minority member of
the house committee, regarding the ap,
preparations which have been made
during the session.
The total appropriations aggregate
$919,948,670, of which $756622,674 Is
for the annual expenditures of the gov.
ernment for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1908. The balance of the
grand total is to be used as follows:
s12,449,685 for emergencies and de.
ficiencies or account of the fiscal year
1907 and prior years; $1,000,000 for
miscellaneous objects, such as private
claims and the like, authorized in spec.
ial acts, and $149, 1856, 1920 for perma-
nent annual appropriations to meet the
interest charge on the public debt, the
requirements of the sinking fund, ex.
penses of collecting the revenue from
customs, redemption of national bank
notes and other purposes. The rev.
enues of the government for 1908 are
estimated at $S50,OOO, 900, which, 1t was
stated would leave surplus of $780,.
100000, and not deficit as had been
predicted in some quarters.
During the 59th congress as a whole
1t was stated that $19S 1000, 900 was ap.
propriated in excess of the total for
the 58th congress.
Analysing the increased appropria.
tions for the year 1908, over the cur.
rent fiscal year, the total of which Is
given as $4O,OO0.OOO. the. increases are
distributed in part as follows:
For the army $6,700,O0O, fortifica.
tions $1,SO0,OOO. legislative, executive
and judicials $2,4O0, 900, postal service
$20,0O0,0OO, pensions $5,O0O,OO0
1t wass tated that while the river
and harbor bill carried approximately
S9,000,O00, the expenditure under II
would be but 27,OO0,OOO during 1907.
The appropriation on account of the
Panama canal during the 59th con.
gress was increased over that during
the 5Sth by $69,5OO,O00. During the
same time the postal expenses in.
creased $50000,000.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
jamestown Exposition Stamps.

Postmaster General Cortelyou ap
proved the design for / cent stamp fol
the series commemorative OF the
jamestown exposition. The demon
nations will be 1 cent and cent. The
design for the latter was approved by
him lately. The stamps will be rec
tangular in form, the l cent being
green and the cent carmine. The
cent stamps will bear vignette Of
Captain John Smith. The 2 cent
stamp will bear fine engraving Of
the landing of the first settlers al
jamestown. The stamps will be
placed on sale at postoffices through.
out the United States on April 26, the
day of the opening of the exposition.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
Entire Train Thrown Into Ditch.

Baltimore & Ohio train No. 40 west
bound being 1S minutes late and run.
ming 40 miles an hour, was wrecked
Thursday night near Indian Creek,
seven miles east of Connellsville, Pa.
The entire train, consisting Of a
combination smoking and baggage car,
two day coaches and the private car
of Robert j. Finney, superintendent
of the Pittsburg division of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad, left the rails,
and after running for 200 feet along
the ties was thrown into ditch at
the foot of the mountains, where the
wreckage was completely burned
The engineer, Wylie Irwin of Pitts
burg, was killed and the fireman, T. D.
Frederick of Pittsburg, fatally injured.
The baggagemaster, express messen-
ger, conductor and six passengers were
seriously injured. About 30 Passen.
gers were more or less cut and bruised.
Irwin was held down by the wrecked
engine and burned to death before the
passengers who were powerless to lib
crate him.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
Senator spooner RESIGNS.

Senator Spooner has written let
ter to Governor Davidson OF Wiscon.
sin rendering him his resignation as q
senator of the United States to take
effect May 5 next.
He had found, he said, that to con
tinue in his present position would re
quire sacrifice on his part that ne
could not justify himself in making.
In reply to questions he said he
would resume the practice of the law,
but he declined to say whether il
would be in Wisconsin. He did say,
however, that he would continue to
be citizen of that state as long as he
lives.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
queer Russian Ways.

If you drive through Russian vii
lage about 10 p. III. you will be struck
by the absolute quiet that pervades
the scene. Not creature, man or dog,
is visible moving about. The place has
the air of deserted village. Suppose
by some rare untoward chance you
come upon group of men standing
together. apparently in conversation,
you will notice that they speak in sub
dued tones. and. wait SO long as you
please, you will never hear them
laugh The cause is simply this: These
Russian peasants believe in evil spir-
its: but. unlike the Chinese. they be-
lieYe chat they are attracted, not
frightened. hy sounds And so If some
un.I.lsy fac Gec'ce that the moujik be
out of doors after IL u. IN. he is a pain
July s.leat man. This feeling also ex-
tends to some of the southern towns.
Klev. the holy city of Russia, is a
model in this respect. After 10 p. m.
you may practically have the streets
to yourself. Backwood's Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
Bull Cores Old Man to Death.

Attacked by bull, James Corcoran
an old man of Troy, near Joliet, Ill.
was gcred to death in the barn
yard Of Patrick Rowan, with whom ht
lived. The bull finally was driven Of
with a pitchfork. Mr.. Corcoran, who
was SO years of age, had been living
a life of retirement on Mr.. Rowant
farm. and in the morning started ,tc
take walk over the fields. He opened
the gate into the pasture where the
bull is kept, intending to walk across
1T. The moment he stepped within the
field the animal charged him fiercely
Mr.. Corcoran threw up his hands In
defense, but one Of the animals horns
pierced his breast.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
Tuesday,.

Archie Roosevelt, son of the presi-
dent is quarantined in the White
House, suffering from diphtheria.
Letters written by Harry X. Thaw
since the beginning of his trial will be
used as the basis for an application for
a commission in lunacy to examine
him.
BY an early settlement of the estate
Of the late Albert Wilcox of New
York the Association of Audubon So
cieties has come into 1892 900 and Tus-
kegee Institute into $4,000
President Roosevelt outwitted the
senator's who opposed his forest pres
ervation policy by creating great for
est reserves before the act forbidding
this course becomes law.
Mrs, Mary Baker G, Eddy's counsel
issued a statement declaring the suit
against the managers of the estate of
the Christian Scientists leader was
persecution instigated by others than
her relatives.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
Friday.

Congress s practically ready for ad
journment, only the general deficiency
bill remaining to pass both houses.
Mrs. Mary Rickley, in BayoDne po-
lice court, sentenced her husband, de-
spite his plea for mercy, to 80 days in
Jail.
Mr.. Jerome paved the way for the
introduction of Howard Nesbit as a
witness to impeach the testimony of
his sister.
Pinkerton detectives announced that
William F. Walker, the absconding
bank treasurer, had been seen in
Portland, Ore, by man who knew
him.
William ]. Wilgus, vice president of
the New York Central, held RESPONSE
BILE by the coroner's jury, denied be-
fore the state railroad commission the
blame for the Bronx wreck.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
MRS. EDDr's AFFAIRS
Her Son and Nephew Begin
Suit For an Accounting.

Mrs. Eddy's Financial Affairs-Hum'
mel's Statement Ruled Out - Bin
Aimed at Japanese-Train Thrown
Into Ditch - jamestown Exposition
Stamps.
A bill in equity to obtain an ac'
counting of the financial affairs Of
Mrs Mary Baker Glover Eddy, head
of the Christian Science church,
was filed in the superior court for
Merrimac county at Concord, N. H., by
Mrs. Eddy's son, George w. Glover oi
Deadwood, s. D., and his daughter,
Miss Mary Baker Glover, and George
w. Baker of Bangor, Me-, nephew and
next friend" Of Mrs. Eddy.
The bill is directed against Alfred
Farlow and other trustees OF the Chris
tian Science church In Boston, and
Calvin A. Frye. Mrs. Eddy's secretary;
Lewis c. Strang, her assistant secre.
tary. and Herman s. Herring, first
reader OF the church In Concord.
Besides demanding an accounting Of
all transactions relative to Mrs.
Eddy's affairs, the bill asks for resti.
tuition in case any wrong doing ap'
pears; for an injunction during litiga'
ton against interference with her
property and business, and for re-
ceiver.
In a statement issued last week by
former United States Senator William
Z. Chandler, special counsel In the
action. it is declared that Mr. Glover is
actuated by no spirit of disrespect to
his mother, but believes that the pro-
ceeding is In her real interest. Mr.
Glover says that the action is not d.
rected against the religion Of the
Christian Scientists.
The statement further declares that
Mr.. Glover had long thought that his
mother was growing too feeble In body
and mind to attend to important bust.
ness matters, but that for long time
he was unable to confirm this sus-
picion, because those Immediately
about her seemed unwilling to allow
even her nearest relatives to have an
interview long enough to reveal her
actual condition.
Early in January, however, 1t Is
stated. Mr.. Glover, while on visit to
Concord, was enabled to talk to his
mother for three-duarters of an hour
AS result, after due consideration,
he decided upon the present action
"as an imperative duty too long me-
elected"
The action is returnable at the April
term of the Merrimac county superior
court, which will begin April 2.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-03-06
Farmers, Union Asks Help.

New York, March 5.-The Cen,ral
Federated union has received letter
from j. B. Whiting of Interlaken, N.
Y, vice president of the American
Society Of Equity, which is a union of
farmers formed for the purpose OF
doing away with middlemen or spec
ulators in bringing their produce to
market, asking the c. F. U. and its
affiliated unions to cooperate in es
tablishing distributing stations for re-
ceiving products from the farms to be
sold direct to organized labor The
letter was referred to the executive
committee, which will make report
on it next Sunday.