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The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-07
SISTERS JOKE CAUSES DEATH
Kentucky Girl Leaps from Window to
 Escape "Ghost"

Ashland, Ky-Frightened by her sister, who was wrapped in a sheet and playing ghost, Clara Osgood leaped from second-story window at her home near Rockville and was in- stantly killed, her neck being broken by the fall.
 The girls had had an argument over ghosts and Clara stoutly maintained that no apparition could scare her, and offered to bet her sister a new silk petticoat to that effect.
 Waiting until Clara apparently had forgotten the incident the elder sister wrapped a sheet about her and entered Clara's sleeping room late at night, ut tering weird moans. Clara suddenly awoke, and, rushing to the window, in her fright leaped headlong through to the ground below.
 The sister, Annie Osgood, is prostrat- ed with grief and is being watched for fear she will take her life.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-07
Happiness.

Happiness is an inexpensive and therefore a very common form of en- joyment.
 Happiness and pleasure must not be confused. Happiness is a sort of felicitous opiate administered by a charitable Providence to those who cannot afford anything better. Often a person so poor that he has nothing left but health and a moderate in- come will be foolishly, extravagantly, riotously happy. Then why begrudge the rich their pleasure, which would appear to be the only fun that is left for them? Is it not a fair and i'm partial division?
 How ungrateful for any one to sug- gest that pleasure, being always pre- ferred, often carries bonus of con- mon, which is happiness, by reason of which the rich get more than their share, Such people are not entitled to be poor. They should be deprived of their dope. They should be very rich.-Life
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-07
IMPROVES GRAZING LANDS.
Government Will Better Range Condi-
 tions by Increasing Water Supply.

Washington, D. C.-In it's investiga tions for the improvement of grazing lands within the national forests car. ried on during the past year the fo :. est service has found that the ranges on some of the forests can not be fully utilized by stock because of a lack of proper water supply. Plans have been made for bettering these conditions as rapidly as possible.
 Work to improve the water supply on the national forest ranges will be started this year on the Leadville na. tional forest in Colorado and the Tu. macacori national forest in Arizona, and before the coming of another graz. ing season a number of ranges will be improved very materially.
 On the Leadville forest the forest officers will clean out and protect twelve different springs and pipe the water into troughs. The work on the Tumacacori forest in Arizona will be somewhat more extensive, although it will be confined to the improvement of the supply of only half as many springs as on the Colorado forest This method of cleaning out and protecting springs and other watering places will result in much benefit to stockmen grazing on the strips of ranges within the forests. Improvement work along the same general lines will also be begun on other national forests.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-07
Husbands Ghost Stops Wedding.

Declaring that her dead husband had come to her in spirit and warned her against marrying again, Mrs Mary Lincoln of Wilmerding, widow of Charles Lincoln, refused to proceed with her intended marriage to Jo- seph Parker, also of Wilmerding. and the guests were dismissed, says a Pittsburg dispatch to the New York Times.
 A little over year ago her hus- band died. After brief period of mourning she agreed to marry MT. Parker He furnished house and Invitations were issued.
 The other afternoon MT. Parker found her in tears. Her mother said that some time during the pre-. vious night her daughter had come sobbing into her room and declared that she had just been visited by the spirit of her dead husband. He had warned her against marrying again, she said, and when she pro tested the spirit had taken hold of her arms and held her until she prom ised that she would give up the mar riage She asserted that her arms ached from the encounter.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-07
Would Commute Hau,s Sentence

Karlsruhe, Germany-The minister of justice has been examining the evi- dence of Karl Hau of Washington. D. C., who recently was sentenced to death for the murder of his mother-in- law. Frau Molitor, and it is said that he is about to recommend to the grand duke of Baden that the death sentence be commuted to life i'm prisonment. In the meantime, Hau's attorney is continuing his efforts to obtain new trial
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-07
Mrs. Ellen Nagle, 414 4th street, Green

Mrs. Ellen Nagle, 414 4th street, Green Bay, Wis, writes:
 II have often heard Peruna praised and it is more widely known here than any other medicine, but 1 never knew what a splendid medicine it really was until few weeks ago when caught bad cold which settled all over me
 ''The doctor wanted to prescribe, but l told him l was going to try Peruna and sent for bottle and tried it.
 'I felt much better the next morning and within five days had not trace of any lameness or any cough.
 'I consider 1T fhe fnesf cough rem- edy." !.
 PERUNA TABLETs:-Some people pre- fer to take tablets. rather than to take medicine in a fluid form. Such people can obtain Pernna tablets, which repre- sent the solid medicinal ingredients of Peruna.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-07
Russian Murderess to Haro.

St. Petersburg, Russia.-Mlle. Rago- zinnikova, who Monday shot and killed Gen. Maximoffsky, director of the department of prisons of the min istry of interior, was taken to the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, tried by court-martial and sentenced to be executed by hanging.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-07
MRS. E. M. TINNEY

Mrs. E. M. Tinney, story writer, 325 E. Nueva St., San Antonio, Tex, writes:
 .'During 1901 l suffered form nasal catarrh, which various other remedies failed to relieve.
 s'Slx bottles of Peruna, which I took, entirely cured me, the catarrh disappear ng and never returning.
 q therefore cheer ully recommend Peruna to all similarly afflicted"
The Washington times., 1907-11-24
Some Thoughts on Marriage
DIN NCcS iHRAO
By DR.. EMIL REICH.

which no man hss yet tried 90 solve
without suffering acuteIy for H.
The question has often BEN raised
whether the young man should study
t.Ie mother OF the girl he is TO marry,
In regard 70 this. Il Is more import
ant to remark that nearly every one
Of us resembles an uncle u aunt more
distinctly than even his father and
mother. Resemblance OF heredity goes
transversely, sideways. not IN straight
lines.
A study OF the uncles and aunts OF
the girl Is. 70 say the least, extremely
profitable. ana may reveal traits that
are as yet latent and thus unobserv-
aSie IN the girl
In addition to this. tie young man
must never forget that & girl Of TWEEN
is bodily and mentally very much
ripper than a young nan Of twenty
five. Being riPer. older" she is in
all, appearances notwithstanding, much
cooler. much soberer and less roman
tic than the boy of her age. or few
years older than she Is
The Washington times., 1907-11-24

himself. In fact she ought to
TO Be at least FIVE, better still ten or
even fifteen years younger than the
man.
Marriage is not meant for the pleas
ure end comfort - the husband and
wife alone; II Is a holy institution
meant for the future generation.
The question always Is. or should
be, what viii the children be? Is their
health likely 10 be good when one OF
the parents IS disproportlonately old?
Children. people ought never to for
get. are not only our sons and daugh-
ters. they are also our fathers and
mothers. They make Us or remake Us.
The sight of ones healthy and nor
nal children pours new iifo into one.
Finally, a great dIsproportion OF age
between a young husband and elderly
wife is more than likely 10 lead to
complications Of the famous problem
The Washington times., 1907-11-24
A PuTse2 Not Much!

riedly away w,th the pocketbook he
tr3iled bchsssl The driver iualty
stopped sDa ghtered a house in Ogden
street SSzEar then ran to the teie-
phone ana tuad the police what he had
seen. a few uinutes later BicNcleruen
Han and Stewart were at the place.
and they demanded 30 ses the lost
pocketb0olL. The .possessor surrendsE4o
II without question, IT was q worL9ut
purse filed with paper. Jepuer and the
bicyclemen remoupted their wheels and
went their respective vays.-From the
Indianapolis Star
The Washington times., 1907-11-24

4 man in a buggy drew lis horse up
suddenly at Washington and Meridian
street He dropped the lines and sprang
over the wheels 10 the pavement
stooping he picked Up large and
thick pocketbook and climbed back into
his buggy in q hurry One of the eye
witnesses was a man Rho gave hi
name TO the police as Louis genner
Jenner was on a bicycle. and when he
saw the man IN the buggy drive hur-
The Washington times., 1907-11-24
and the
CIdCRin' OF the
guineVS, and
the CIuCRin' of
the hens,
And the
rOOStGT'S
hdIIyIOOyer
as he tiDtOeS
on the fence. ="

now set forth and all Is ready for
the banquet
Now Is the supreme moment All are
assembled in their appointed places.
knives sharp and appetites keen.
Gran'p asks the benediction. the
clock strikes. snd in comes the nob
bird. who. many true patriots deelat
should have been chosen as the
tl0nal fowl, instead ot the high-fyi
but insdfbie eagle. Say! Doesn't
very memory Of II make you hunET
Which 90 you prsfer-Whits meat
brown?
Having reached tne pie course IN q
feast for the gods you sit hack g.
listen 20 graa-rna tell OF Thanksgiving
Days when she vas girl. and gran
Dop tell marvellous stories OF lid
The Washington times., 1907-11-24
Do You Walk?
By IRENE GARDNER.

II OW far can you walk without
- getting exhsustsd7 No mat
ter how hale and hearty YOU
are. It's more than probabIe
that Simeon ROhrsr, eighty years
young. can outwRlk you many times
over. He has Just returned 10 his
Virginia home after making his second
trip 10 PittsburE. The frst time he
went there was before railroads were
built That time no walked. and this
second time, although railroads were
at hand, he passed them BY on foot.
You couldn't do that, not II you're
but one-thlrd that mans age II you
tried II you'd probably end IN being
carried on TO a train on a stretcher.
Because you haven't been brought up
70 walk, you'd find such pedestrian
trip impossible.
There are not many people nova
days who can walk any distance at
AL without feeling used up. Walking
is becoming less necessary each wear,
FOR car lines are continually increas-
ing in number. The children OF this
generation % not walk as much as did
ne children Of the last generation.
Zach future generation viii walk less
than the one that preceded It, until the
tine VIII probably come when people
VII find = impossible to walk, ex-
cept aroVPd their homes OF a block or
tsTo st = time. And who knows but
tbs tiuSp may finally come when people
SAINT walk al Rll2
sns1nger things than that nave hap
Rsned. You know IL is an inevitable
law OF nature that the part cS the
BODY which Is not used in time he
cons useless.
Today all of us who are moderately
well ought to be able to walk many
miles without experiencing any sense
OF exhaustion, but how many OF US
ca do this? Yet IL We would but
walk more we'd md that We should
grumble less about headaches ana in
digestion and blue and bad feelings
generally.
L certainly was not originally intend
ed that We should be moved hither
and yon through the medium of
chained lightning. or IRE and steam.
or BY the tanning OF horses. or the
use of gasoIene. But We have grown
so dependent upon these mediums Of
transportation that we do not think
we can go to any place at a5i unless
assisted by them. Poor, feeble Great
1r-s that we are! How did the folks
ln The good old days. 1900 yetrs ago
et along7
Wen for one thing they lived longer
a8n folks DO nowadays. And they
did il without the use OF patent medI-
ciues massage. Christian Science,
water cures or any other new-fanEled
mediums fer the preservatioa OF life
Undoubtedly the use they made Of
their legs had something 10 do with
their long life.
pa 80 Sly
The Washington times., 1907-11-24
COMPENSATION.

Medicine is bad-but still.
7 have fun when I am I'll.
Uncle comes, and with him brings
Such a lot OF toys and things
Doctors cannot always tell
What will make q Ssllow well
Uncle says And Re thinks TOYS
often cure sick little boys.
50 he brings me 1umping-iacks.
Soldiers, horses, railroad tracks.
N0ah's arks and games and drums
Oh, it's gay when uncle comess
Oscar Ll@wellyp. In st. Nicholas
The Washington times., 1907-11-24
Thoughts Diverted.


Your thoughts were diverted from
this untfmely nnish by tho arrival OF
Eran'ma sud gren'-pop. Gran'na's
ehsekB are pink and she is IN suoh
a furry as she Ests out OF the buggy.
She il dressed IN black. shiny silk.
which makes funny noise as she
moves about No kitchen door Is
barred 20 gran'ma; she enters Il as
II Il was hsr vCry own, and you soon
hear her voice OF command as she
gives different Instruction. As for
kran'-pop. he has bestowed many
mysterious wtnks on you and you fol-
low him breathlessly back OF the
barn, where, after exactinE many
promises OF secrecy, he bestows on
you a big barlow knife, which he
solennly assures you has caused the
death OF many q bear. Gran'-p0p
surely ii an old sport, and when you
grow up you promise that you viii
90 hunting with him
It's almost dinner time now. and
you invade the dining room and SEQ
a great basket OF fruit on the table.
but before your mouth can begin
20 water Il Is whisked OF and the
table Is spread with & festival cloth
- Whitest linen. The best china Is
The Washington times., 1907-11-24

MAN who wants happiness and
success IN life ought. as a rule,
not TO marry a girl older than
himself. In fact she ought to
The Washington times., 1907-11-24


or played hockey or missed MS lessons
or invaded orchards. 4 new light b.
gins 70 dawn on you. and You begin 70
feel that he was about tde same kind
of q y0ungster that you are. An.
blessed be sweet memory Tor recalling
these days OF our youth.
Here is the greatest American poem
sym oolic OF Thanks giving time, written
BY .ames Whitcomb Riley:
When the frost is on the punkln and the
folders IN the shock
And you hear the kyouck and Eobble ot
the struttiU Iurkey-cock,
and the clackia' OF the gulneys, and the
cluckin' OF the hens,
md the ROSTERS hallylooyer a. he dp-
toes on the fence
., it's then's the times fellsr Is A.
feelin al MS best
with the risin' sun TO greet him from q
night OF peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house, bare-headed, 2Ess
goes out to feed the stock.
When the frost IS on the punkin and the
folders In the shock
They's something kindo' harty-liks bout
the afmusfere
When the heat OF summers over and the
coolin' fan is here
OF course We miss the flowers, and the
blossoms on the trees,
And the humble OF tho hummin' birds
and buzzin' OF the bees:
But the airs so appetizin'; and the land
scspe through the haze
or a crisp and sunny morning OF the
airly autumn days
Is pictur' that 10 painter has the
colorin' 20 mock
When the frost is on the punkin and the
folders IN the shock.
The husky. rusty russell OF the tosssls
OF the corn.
And the raspin Of the tangled leaves. a.
golden as the morn;
The stubble IN the furr5es-Eindo' lone
sone-Iike. but stil
A-preachin' sermuns 70 rs OF the barns
they growed 10 MI;
The strawstack In the meddeT, and tha
reaper IN the sheds
The HOSES in theyr stalls selow-ths
clover overhead
.. Il sets my hart a-olickin' Ike the
TOXIN OF a clock,
When the frost Is on the punkin and the
folders IN the she *
Then vour apples al IS rsthsrsd- and
the ones a Teller keeps
Is poured around the celler-noor IN red
and yeller heaps;
And your cider-makin' : over. and Touf
wimmern-folks is through
With their rnince and apple-butter, and
theyr souse and sausage, tool
I don't know how 10 tel it-but ef sich
a thing could be
AZ the Angels wantin' boardiu'. ard
they d call around on me
I'd want TO 'Comu1Odate email tce
whcse-iudurin flock
When the frost is on the punkin and the
folders IN the shock
~ "a X0nS
The Washington times., 1907-11-24
''lWhGn the
frost is on the
punRin, and
the folders
in the shock,
And YOU hear
the RyOuCR
and gObbIe OF
The Struttin'
turReu-COCR."
eConunusd trOm First PaEs)

tConttnusd crUm First PaEe.)
loudess ard stF-utted the most, his
place would know him no more, Be
hold now. be was 70 b bastsd. stuffed.
seasoned t<uEsed. sksWsred! mi. lty
Caesari dost thou lie so loWt''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
Women Investors.
n the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
There are 10000 women who own
stock of the Pennsylvania railroad.
This is the surprising statement made
by Vice President Thayer. About half,
or, to be more exact. Al per cent of all
the shareholders Of the worlds great
est railroad are women.
While it is not to be presumed that
the army of the fair sex owns half of
the 100000 shares of the company,
their portion must still be very large.
That they might, IL they SO desired,
exert a powerful influence in the man
agement of the railroads affairs can
not be doubted. But they are not stock
holders for speculative reasons. They
bought Pennsylvania stock for invest
ment purposes only, and they are WISE
ly content to let the men manage it's
affairs.
What this great aggregation of
women investors want is a sure divi-
dend. Many of them own only few
shares, but the income must be in
many cases real factor in life. In
the broad treatment of railroad ques-
tons generally the enormous number
of women who own securities in them
should be vital point Of considera-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24

seldom such startling differences between
rich and poor as one sees in America and
London. But It is being asked how the
revenue officials propose to collect the
proposed per cent from all these in
comes. The question is causing amuse-
ment, and it is thought by many that
the bill will never be passed.
The Schismatic Church, in the Rue Lee
gendre, which was opened some few
weeks ago by an American citizen Arch
bishop Vilatte, was recently the scene or
a most unexpected incident.
The archbishop was celebrating mass in
the church when he was interrupted by
the entrance of the commissary OF police
for that quarter who was accompanied
by Maitre Blondet 'huissier who
came to restrain upon the church for a
sum of 5000 francs which a lady, named
Madame Natter, says she had given as
far back as 1903 for charity which had
been founded by the archbishop.
This sum, she claims had not been used
for the purpose for which she gave It,,
and she, therefore, demanded the return
of it. NJ Vilatte refused to refund the
money-hence the seizure. M. des Hour,
who also present, declared that nothing
in the church could be touched. as they
all belonged, not to the archbishop per-
sonally but to the Association Cultur-
ellie"
Every well" said NJ. Blondet, then
show me to the private room of NJ vi
latte"
Arrived at the archbishop's apartments,
they found them to be very simply fur
nished, but on opening a drawer CT a
piece of furniture which stood In the
room, they found gold detachable cross,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24

over. thanks to the invention of Dr.
Grehant, member of the Academy Of
Medicine and professor of physiology at
the Museum of Natual History, an ap-
paratus which will make possible the
detection of firedamp in the air of mines,
even when this dangerous gas is only
mixed with the atmosphere In the proper
ton of to 200.
In an interview Dir. Grehant has given
the following information about his re-
markable invention, upon which he has
spent nearly all his time since the awful
disaster at Courrieres at the beginning
of last year. when several hundred miners
lost their lives.
1T consists of a column of metal DOME
while at it's base is a tube connected with
an electric battery. Between the dome
and the column is a graduated tube,
through which the air passes and if it
contains even a very small percentage of
fire damp an electric alarm goes off,
sounding its warning long before the dam
ger point is reached.
Preparations are being made in Rome
for the departure of King Victor Emanuel
for Greece, where he is to visit King
George. He will leave in the early part
of April and work is being rushed in
the dochyards, where the battleships are
being overhauled which are to act as
escort.
The King himself will use the royal
yacht Trinacria, which will be surrounded
by five battIeships and six torpedo boat
destroyers, forming an impenetrable cor
don.
1t is not impossible that the King will
listen to the many petitions and go to
Constantinople to see the Sultan. Should
this visit take place it will naturally have
great political significance. constituting
an assurance of Italian influence in the
Orient.
The King knows that anarchists intend
to attempt to assasinate him during his
voyage, but is absolutely fearless, but his
surroundings try to persuade him from
going to Constantinople, where it will be
next to impossible to guard him properly.
Apropos of the proposed new income
tax some interesting figures on the wealth
of the French nation have just appeared.
On January /, 1906, there were in France
S0S9,525 persons who derived an income
from what is called here "rente'-that
is to say they hold title deeds or bonds
which assure them a yearly income. They
are as follows: 1910 people with 1900
francs, 22.222 with 1000 S,lS3 with 500,
s3,2S1 with 800 francs: 123,l40 with a0
francs, 2661SS with leo francs. 29S,211
with 80 francs, e0i,2i5 with 80 francs,
-,593. 220 with 20 francs.
It will be seen from these statistics
that in France there are not great num-
Der of big renters" but that, on the
contrary nearly all the money is held by
people with small incomes.
1t is for this reason that one sees so
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
Repartee of Moriz RosenthaL

From Here and There" in the March
Bohemian.
Moriz Rosenthal, the famous pianist is
almost as we'll known for his wit as for
his wonderful mastery of the piano. An
interview which a somewhat fnexperi-
enced reporter had with him might be
taken as an example in instance. 1t ran
something like this:
do YOU think true artist should be
bound to tradition, should have no opin-
ion of his own?''
Some have several. suitable to various
climes and times
Should one practice scales?'
cone should not practice scales; one
should play them, perfectly
Whom do you consider a great mod
ern composer"
STRAUSS"
Johann or Richard?"
"Why be particular about such a trifing
detail as a Christian nameY Let us hold
to the main questions"
81 would like your opinion OF Godo-
Wski's arrangements.
II think he has made arrangements for
a winter tour through Germany"
II see: but how does De Pachmann's
left hand impress your
1T is small. white and well kept
SHOULD a composer print his opus num-
ber?"
mo, he should induce a well paying
publisher to print it,"
where is the most intelligent public to
be found?"
AT my concerts. Are you sure there
is nothing else you would like to know"
urged Rosenthal.
"Whom do you regard as the greatest
living composer?
Frederic Chopin
"And the greatest dead composer
my friend Herr ----, of Vienna. He
is one of the teachers ut the Conserva-
forum there. Is that all? Well, good-by.
whenever you would like information about
music, information unadonrned, frank and
free, always come to me-