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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

he carried it back and inserted It
under the frogs blanket.
''The next day Tom Wilson hunted
up Eben Brown. !
"Ive found bullfrog," he said.
that think can beat that Wanted pct
of yours. So, unless you've lost con-
fidence in his abilities, you might give
me chance to win back my cherished
prize bulldog
"Eben was sure nothing in the coun-
ty could jump in the same class with
his protege that he agreed to an
other match. That afternoon he car
ried his frog down to Tom Wilson's
place. Tom had his frog on hand. It
was only an ordinary frog from all ap-
pearances. Tom poked it with stick.
The frog made jump. It was fair
jump for a full grown frog, but moth
ing extraordinary. Eben looked SYM
pathetically at Tom.
"Eben put his jumping frog on the
ground and waited to see it give three
joyous leaps. Instead of jumping the
frog gave a little culver and then
rolled over on his side. Eben tried to
stir him up with stick, but the frog
was beyond stirring. In his anxiety
about his pet Eben forgot it was a sort
of loaded frog. He pulled of hir rub
Der gloves and picked the frog up.
The instant he got the frog of the
ground the good man received an cleo
trio shock that nearly sent him down.
""That poor creature died by cleo
trocution,' he said sadly, when he hais
recovered, but can't understand how
that battery happened to be charged
so heavily
''He slipped on his rubber gloves
and took the blanket of the frog.
Then he saw that the battery had
been overcharged. Looking up he saw
broad grin on Tom Wilson's face.
And the rest of the crowd seemed to
thinkEben was served right for trying
to run in an electric motor frog. Eben
realized in an instant what had hap.
>pened. He was almost heartbroken.
1.-The wickedness of Tom Wilson in
electrocuting my cherished pet said
Chen sadly, has bowed my head with
honest grief and robbed me 81 bulldog
bullfrog and reputation"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

gave it to Marina and that finished
her."
FINISHED herr"
Yes, she kind of read it in two
pieces. First she drew up and looked
hke-like you when you think you've
caught me in something awful-strong,
savage and horrible. And when she
read the second part, then she looked
like look when I'm going to catch it."
,"And them" Lady Chartris' voice
is intense with excited curiosity.
well, then Edwin came up and
caught her just as she was going to
fall on the floor of the railroad
station.
and they brought her here"
rs that everything?"
'Ain't it enough? How should l
know anything more?'
"Oh!": exclaims Lady Chartris, in ex,
IRENE disappointment. A moment
after she adds, suavely: "You will
have no lessons to-day, Maud"
"Bully!" calculates her offspring in
wild delight; but sets up stifed howl
as her mother continues: "You can
spend the day in bed"
For what? Handing Marina paper
that anybody would give herr"
For running away from your new
governess on the Quai Toilette. Miss
Marston reported it,. To bed at once!"
= The face of TIE eavesdropping
Barnes becomes gloomy. Here is a
witness whose evidence he wants and
isn't going to get. He promptly enters
Lady Chartris' parlor and says: "Hi,
Maudie, run downstairs and I'll follow
you and We'll buy some marrons
glaces together"
Maud is halfway down the first
fight before the last of Barnes sen.
tence is out of his mouth.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

ambiguous Americanisms! What has
she got?"
How do l know?' pouts Maud, az
gressively. "She was too groggy to
speak,"
1T can't be paralysis!" shudders the
groom, trying in vain to revive Ma
rina.
mot bit," answers Barnes, after
hasty examination.
DO you think we dare put her on
the train?" queries Edwin, anxiously.
LAS friend, would say we must
get her away, but" The American
pauses.
Mercy! You have some news from
Ajaccio?'' Enid breaks in, trembling.
mo more news, only it is wise to be
moving on. But" Burton feels the
tluttering pulse of the bride, ''but as
doctor, my opinion is she must remain
here for few hours at least. I'll get
a carriage. Here, Tompson," he says
to the maid who had followed him
from the crowd in the depot, help your
mistress with the grips!"
The two gentlemen support Marina
outside the station, and Maud follow
ing, says: Take her to the Grand.
our hotel. Mas got lovely rooms there"
Yes, it's only short distance" re-
marks Barnes, "and we can make your
wife comfortable at once" =
:, The whole party soon reach the
Grand hotel on the Rue Noailles. Here
they are received with mixed exclama-
tions of surprise and delight and then
concern by Lady Chartris: Marina
was.swell, you say, only few minutes
ago and tainted at the railroad station.
What produced it," cries the English
matron, after the young Corsican lady
has been taken to a bedroom and a
well-recommended physician sent for,
Enid staying by the patient until his
arrival. ~, / -.
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!. : ..'Eben said he didn't want TO take
off: the blanket The poor, animal
might take cold, sher objected. Tt
makes a handicap, but I'd rather lose
the bet than expose that trusting
creature to the chilly air.
"Tom thought this gave him q bet
ter chance of winning, so he didn't in
sist. He placed his frog on the ground,
stirred him I'D with a stick, and the
frog made his Jump. 1t was a good
long one, too, and Tom smiled in a
superior, confident way as Eben set
his champion on the ground. But the
minute the electric frog touched the
ground he sprang up higher than a
mans head. He did this again, and
then a third time. Then he sat still.
blinking in a contented, complacent
manner. Tom had to acknowledge
that he had lost, and that the prize
bulldog belonged to Eben. Tom felt
rather suspicious about the perform
ance, though.
That frog is certainly wonder
full jumper he said in tones of re-
luctant admiration, but what makes
that queer expression on his face
when he is going through with his ex-
hibition?'
That is look Of bland pleasure
at the thought of the credit he 10
bringing to his worthy owner replied
Eben.
"A couple Of days later Tom Wilson
called over to the house of Uncle
Sammy Evans. Uncle Sammy wasn't
feeling we'll and was taking electric
treatment, using a medical battery
The current was pretty strong and the
look on Uncle Sammy's face wasn't
one of pure delight. After the current
had been shut off Tom said:
"'Do you know what the expression
on your face just now reminded me
| OFF,
"'Of a good man in Distress an
sWered Uncle Sammy promptly.
Not exactly replied Tom. 1T Was
the Identical expression as that on the
face of Eben Browns bullfrog when
he was doing his high-jumping act
"Somehow Uncle Sammy didn't
seem over and above pleased at the
comparison. But the more Tom Viii.
son thought of the similarity of ex-
pressions the more positive he was
that electricity was in some way re-
spOnsible for the wonderful LEAPS CT
the frog
THAT evening, while Eben Brown
was down at the store, Tom started
his investigation. He slipped i1:o
Eben's barn and found the buliirog
doing in his insulated hut. Tom took
off the frogs blanket. There he eaw
the little battery. He understood the
mystery of the high jumps in min
ute. And when he thought of the loss
of his prize bulldog he was an angry
individual
"No electric motor bullfrog is 60
ing to be allowed to gold-brick mo
with impunity,' Tom said to Uncle
Sammy, who had accompanied him.
If it's electricity that Eben Brown
and his frog are looking for, I'll guar
antee to give them all that is coming
to them
"Tom took the battery down to his
house. There he charged it to about
ten times its original strength. Then
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

missionary stationed at Ballundu, Al
RIGA, tells an amusing story Of how
Santa Claus terrified the black chill
dren at her mission station, where he
first appeared to them 4 year or two
ago.
They had celebrated Christmas at
>Bailundu before, but they never had
Santa Claus, so Mr.. Slower dressed
himself up as the benevolent saint.
HE had been padded and powdered
and packed until his own mother
would not have known him." said
Mrs. Slower. presently we gave
the signal and the door flew open and
in walked Santa Claus. But dear me,
what consternation!
"He was greeted with shrieks and
groans and cries Of:
LET me QUIT
LIT is the evil one!'
1T is the day Of judgment!'
"The small fry, catching the in
lection of terror from the elder black
people, fed to the bedrooms, fell down
upon their faces, crept under chairs
and tables-anywhere to hide them
selves.
"Poor Santa Claus never had such
a greeting before. AS soon as he
realized the panic he had caused, he
tore of his tall hat and white cotton
beard. and from the bags on his back
began to throw gifts right and left,
and tn tell who ho waa
treasured once more, they were
soon all laughing and chatting, MUNICH
ing the great red breads dough
nuts), tasting their fruits or nibbling
at the sweets in the familiar little
bags.
"One man wondered which end up
he was to hold the fork Santa Claus
had given him. Another Immediately
tried on his new shirt. The girls ar
ranged their bright-hued handker-
chiefs into hobby turbans, while 9TH
ers tried to find some place about
their scanty clothing where they could
stow away the bunch of bread, paper
| of needles and cake of soap given to
them.
Each one tried to talk louder than
his neighbor, so they examined the
! costume of good old Santa Claus, who
had frightened them almost to death.
One man said he thought Elijah had
returned, another that it was John
the Baptist. Yet another thought it
was Satan himself. and all my sins
! rose up before me- while a fourth
confessed: My only thought was to
hide myself"
A christmas Feast That Nearly
Caused 6loodshed.
Rev. Frank Patton, son of the ia.
nous South Sea missionary, John G.
Patton, tells Of a thrilling Christmas
which he spent in 1899 1T Lenakel. on
the island of Tanna, in the South Pa,
cif1c.
He had mission station there, and
his native converts were no strangers
to Christmas observance; but they
invited a large number of their heath
en- friends to come to their Yuletide
feast. y These heathens knew moth
ingtabout Christmas, and were quite
unaware that it is supposed to be a
period OF peace on earth and good
will toward men,.
Over 1000 natives were gathered for
the. great feast. The crew { of q
"blackbirding schooner" eager to get
Kanaka labor by fair means or foul
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

for the Queensland sugar plantations,
heard OF the gathering and dropped
anchor off the island on Christmas
morning. The captain, however, see
ing the number Of natives, hesitated
to modest them.
Telling the story, Mr.. Patton said:
my first anxiety was the labor
schooner, but soon new peril threat
ened. Some of the heathens had not
met since war had ragged between
them. At first they simply glared at
each other, and then old hatreds broke
out and hot words were spoken.
Again and again I started some
contest that would scatter the excited
groups, but they soon came together
again. Then l went from group to
group and tried to spread a better
feeling. Our Christmas gathering was
nearly turned into a scene of blood.
shed in our very garden, but fortu.
nately all passed of most happily"
Among the Head Hunters Of Formosa.
Through the center of the beautiful
island of Formosa there runs, like a
backbone, a great range of forest-clad
mountains. The original inhabitants
of Formosa, wild, savage, ferocious
race Of men, live upon these noun
tains. Christmas was first carried
to these people by a brave missionary
named George Leslie MacKay.
MacKay had spent several years on
the coast and in the interior, but he
hesitated long before he took his life
in his hand by seeking out the bar
barians of the mountains, to whom
no white man had ever ventured.
The favorite pastime of these saw
ages was to cut off the heads of their
enemies and decorate their huts with
them. They had been INDUCING in
this sport when MacKay drifted into
one Of their villages and spent Christ
mas day with one of their chiefs.
THE chiefs home consisted of one
large room 30 feet long," said MacKay.
"A fire blazed at either end. The
men, dressed in coarse linen sacks
with holes cut for the arms, and a
broad belt of braided rattan, in which
was stuck a long, crooked, sharp-point.
ed knife, stood around one fire; while
the women, with much the same dress,
save that in addition they had many
rings of brass around their arms and
limbs, and innumerable ornaments OH
their bodies, squatted around thu,
other fire.
$50, on that Christmas night, l ga,
there with these rude people, thu,
room lighted by the fires and by can
dies made from the heart of the I'll
tree. The men smoked their bambo.
pipes, while the women were busy
threadmaking on curious little ma
chimes Of their own; and all, men and
women, were laughing and talkins
merrily and making a great noise. Il
was certainly merry Christmas, and
strange one to me.
After a time, with the help Of the
native converts, who had accompanied
me on this dangerous trip, I sang
some Christmas hymns to these saw.
age mountaineers, who had never
seen a white man before; and I spent
Christmas evening trying to explain to
them the old, old story that has been
told SO often in 50 many lands since
the first Christmas morning"
!. The savages took great pleasure in
the singing of the Christmas hymns,
and MacKay and his friends came to
no harm by their bold expedition,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Takes His Vacation Alone.

her worries, and there are the children
with their noisy play and their noisy
quarrels. So for SO continuous weeks
and on my brief tortnight's vacation
need a change from all that, CON-
plete change. Therefore go OF alone
TO- the mountains. / fish all day, and
IN the evening, dressed in my evening
suit, talk with beautiful young swo-
men IN the hotel corridors. want
change, + get It, and ! return home q
new man. But with the wife and kids.
along, I'd return home the same man.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

willing to bet this frog against your
prize bulldog that my pet can make
not one, but three jumps, every one of
them longer than that of any other
frog in the county,
IF it had been question of one
jump Tom might have hesitated, but
when Eben asserted his protege could
make three record Jumps Tom thought
he had a sure thing. So he hunted
up q big bullfr0g and brought him
around in front Of the tavern, where
Eben and the rest Of the boys were
standing. 49, zz> 49, s..y.
IF you're ready to lose your pet
said Tom confident like. take OF his
blankets. put him on the ground, and
let him show what he can do?'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Hard Worker Brings Arguments to
Support His Position.

. Am justified. or not" said mar
ried man, lin going off alone on my
vacation? I think l am, the wife agrees
with me; but confess the neighbors
shrug. their shoulders: The case stands
like this: I work hard all the year, ten
full hours q day; and when 4 come
home at night, there's the wife with
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

s WHITE men push out,
year by year, into the re-
hottest corners of the
earth, they carry Christ
mas with them as a gift to
the savages with whom
they come in contact. The
American troops have
done this in the past two
or three years in some
of the hitherto untraveled
islands of the Philippines.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

Burton H. Barnes, wealthy American
touring Corsica, rescues the young Eng
fish lieutenant, Edward Gerard Anstruth-
er, and his Corsican bride. Marina,
daughter of the faolis, from the muir
derous vendetta, understanding that his
reward is to be the hand of the girl he
loves, Enid Anstruther, sister of the Eng
| lish lieutenant. The four fly from Ajac-
! clio TO Marseilles on board the French
steamer Constantine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

where the Spaniards had never dared
to venture.
Strange, indeed, are some of the
experiences which fall to the lot Of
these Adventures when they first
play Santa Claus to barbarian race
that has never heard the glad old
story of Yule,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

Mhero Santa Claus cauead Z arror.
.frs Bsrtha stosss. - ~ VI !!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03
WATER IN CENTRAL SECURITIES
Savannah Morning News.)

In the interest of fair dealing we
notice and article in the Atlanta Jour
nal in which it is charged that the
third incomes of the Central of Geor-
gia Railway are pure water and ought
never to have been issued. We take
it for granted that the Journal doesn't
want to state what isn't a fact and
that it really desires to do what is
just. If that is the spirit that con-
trolls it, it ought to get the facts be
fore making statements that are like
ly to ieopardize the interests of very
worthy people. We do not refer to
those who bought the third incomes
when they were selling at a very low
price, but to those who received them
for securities which they held and
who have them now. Among these
people are some who are largely de-
pendent upon the little income they
bonds. The dividend they received
| last year encouraged them to face the
future little morehopefully. because
they believed dividends would be per-
manent and regular.
The third incomes were given to all
| the holders of the stock of the old
| company who would accept it. The
holders of about 100000 of the
| stock took the third incomes, as the
| bonds seemed to them to be prefer
able to the stock. The other $1,000
| 600 of the stock is now the capital
| stock of the company. When it is re-
membered that these third incomes
represent dollar for dollar the stock
of the old Central Railway Co, that
was thought to be as good as the
| notes of the Bank of England, and
which sold little while before the
road went into the hands of a receiver
as high at $13S per share, it will
hardly be admitted, by those who
know, that the third incomes are
pure water. If all the Journals talk
about watered stock is like it's article
/ relative to the third incomes it is
greatly in eed of information before
it undertakes to reform the pub
lie.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03
HERNERS ROBBED OF FAME.


n made history, e North write its
Champ Clarks explanation a certain
American fall obscury, while
vents participants magnhed
~ the first
eres performance beside the ride of
neers of the British and
them turning point Revolutionary
ey child through Longfeows has heard
de while battle at
nan and that fought the American side
80 the saddle their homes at the
breakfast
bed The saddle for days, fought
triumphant through the wds their
Yet Revere probably battle the hero and the
- M unknown.
Nancy Hart would dot
the without number would have
household word and her heroic
the heritage child How people outside Georgia
anything of Georgia tell
Thing about her life
are reminded of such facts as these by the the
centennial Hudson
= - Fulton the Yet
time was
power practicable
long before Fulton began his work Up in Trenton they
far concerned will again be forgotten
the Cermont few before claimed
man and
a
would interesting history
forgotten
only recently that the
surgery in
a dof
great
to preserve ecordsa
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03
OUR DUMB ANIMALS.

'Tis thought by some that at the final
day
AT Gods tribunal, when mans
wrongs are told,
The silence of the dumb shall fall
away
And they shall tell their sufferings
ages old
But, whether this be true or but n
dream,
Oh, let thy voice to-day aar them
Be champion of those whose onIy
speech
Is the imploring language of the
eyes.
Haste on the day when every heart
shall be
By PHYS voice 10 deeds of mercy
stirred.
Till kindness law shall rule human
ity,
And cruelty shall be an unknown
word.
Alice Jean Cleator in Ohio Farmer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03
CENTRAL GEORGIA
RAILWAY
Schedules ,June9
departure
yav Passenger Station. liar me.
Arrivals.
From Savannah, Augusta,

From Savannah, Augusta,
Atlanta and Macon. ....... FLO 40 p m
From Lockhart, Dothan, AL
bany, Troy and Mont cry. Flo 40 m
From Lockhart, Dothan, AL
bany, Troy and Mont'ery. n So D m
From Atlanta and Macon No OF m
From Augusta, Savannah, At
lanta and Macon .. Ks 32 a m
From Columbus and interme-
date points. .............. t1159 m
From Columbus, Newman and
intermediate points .... I'll 20 D m
From Birmingham, Columbus
via Fort Valley. ...........%5 80 a m
From Birmingham, Columbus
via Fort Valley ,......... no 40 m
From Albany and intermediate
points. ................ "A 40 a m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

The Savannah papers insist so
strenuously and so persistently that
their city is not going to be damag-
ed seriously by prohibition, but is
going speedily forward to increasing
prosperity, that one is forced to the
conclusion that Savannah is still
very much afraid that the public took
its original spokesman seriously.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

The opinion in Savannah is that if
the Atlanta Journal does not know
anymore about the status of the Sc
curities of other railroads than it has
shown itself to know of those of the
Central of Georgia it had better re-
tire from its assumed position as
chief official endorser and agitator for
the Smith administration.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

Speaker Cannon says he will not
allow tariff revision at the next ses-
sion of Congress. Hearst's papers de-
nounce Joe as "a type of the most sin
lister tools of special interests" Every
body thought Joe was an innocent
bucolic granger who loved hard
cider and a bandana handkerchief.
Hearst has shattered another idol.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

"a York, Penn, couple at their we'd
ding knelt on a pillow stuffed with
their love letters, while others were
scattered around for picturesque eff
feet. 1t can at least be said that this
was a far better use than introducing
them in breach of promise suit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

Small Edgar-"You'd better not go
boating with my sister, Mr. Slowboy."
Mr.. Slowboy Sisters admirer) -
And why not, EDGAR"
Small Edgar-"I heard her tell
Cousin Jennie this morning that she
was going to chuck you overheard
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

Sect. Taft is getting more rampant
as the desire for the presidency grows
upon him. He is now ardently adyo-
eating imprisonme@ rather than
fines for Eielators of the antitrust
laws. Taft tries hard to plant his
feet in Roosevelt's tracks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

A New England doctor has died as
a result of experimenting on himself.
No record is kept of those outside of
the profession who die as a result of
being experimental on by doctors.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

Hearst announces that the Indepen-
dence League will put full ticket in
the field in New York. The League is
evidently going to do it's best to pre-
vent the old-line Democracy from
winning in that or any other State
where the League has foothold
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

Teacher-'We were giving The diff
ferent senses for a purpose. Albert,
can you tell me why we were given
eyes?"
Little Albert-"Yes, md'am--to
shut when we go to sleep.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-03

Ex-Gov. Durbin, of Indiana, now
claims that an effort was made to
bride him and others in 1901 to sur
render Taylor to Kentucky Durbin
kept his story too long. No one will
believe him, now. 1t is just six years
too late to find credence.