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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
He Lost Interest In Music

'Wyndley doesn't play the cornet
any more. does he?" No. he thought
he'd better give l. up" bad for his
lungs, eh?" 1T wasn't that. One OF
his neighbors shot two keys of the
instrument while he was playing it."
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14

SYRACUSE. y. y. Dec. 0-The To-
cal managers who had arranged bene-
iit performances FOR last night cancel
ed them and announced that they Will
comply with the order OF the chief or
police 60 keep their houses closed on
Sunday night
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14

According TO the logic Of empty.
headed persons who are perfectly
open because they have nothing 70
tell. people who do not speak OF their
own affairs must have something sus
pictous 10 conceal.-Balzac.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
Live stock Markets.

gCATT1.E-Supply light; market slow;
calves. SSdSE
HOGS-Receipts light: market active:
prime heavies. mediums and heavy York
erS, s4Sn490: light Workers. si6Oa4 20,
pigs. -. 50n4.60: roughs S4H45O
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Supply light.
market steady. prime wethers. s.; culls
and common. N.5oa2O5: lambs. "a 5oG6.3S-
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14

sccu. z1urr-.. Gro ROSTERS. VIC. -roasrlSk
chickens. nearby, f5Q16c.: do do. west
srn. 1oni4c. broilers, nearby. isQ20c.: do.
60 fancy. iSaisc.: do. fair TO good ia
l6c.; do, western. choice TO fancy. lea
lie: do, do, fair 10 good. 13615c.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14

PHILLIPSBUBG. y. j.. Dec. IL
Jonathan Ia Rue. first cousin 10 John
ID. Rockefeller OF the Standard OH
company. Is dead here. lie was eighty
two years old and worked ut his trade.
that Of a carpenter. until q short time
a
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
DR.. CIceInnd Run Down h, Trnin.

STEUBENNlLLE. O.. Dec. DIR.
John : Clccland aged 6fty-seven
years, a physician and oIl operator OF
Pittsburg. was run down and killed
by a Panhandle freight train here
while awaiting for a train Tor Pitts.
burg.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14

NEW YORK. Dec. 10.-Rendered in
sane by worry over the management
OF a 100000 estate left by his IA
Their, Augustus Browning Prentice, for
merly a brilliant young lawyer ofsNew
York, died in Bloomingdale asylum.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Stock ouotntioan.

Money on call strong at u TO 8 per
cent; prime mercantile paper. to s per
cent; exchanges S25l 81. $40; balances. g.
526. 741
CLASSIC nrfreS.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
saturday. Dec. :.

The body of Clara Bloodgood. the
actress who committed suicide by
shooting i'm her room In the Hotel STAFF
ford, Baltimore. was taken 10 New
York by her husband. William Lain
bier. the New York broker He can
assign no reason for the deed.
Reused from the trance I'm which he
has been lying. unconscious and unre-
sponsive TO all efforts permanently TO
wake him. Edward Shea. who lives I'm
Montclair. y. j.. told a reporter for
the New York Evening Mail of three
visits 20 heaven and one 10 he'll which
he said his soul had made.
a terrific and disastrous explosion
occurred in mines Nos. 6 and : Of the
Consolidation Coal company of Mo-
nongah. W. Va. IL is fearcI that the
accident viii turn out TO be the worst
in the history OF mining in this coun-
try. Ia the mine were $50 men. and
sixty-fve bodies have been taken out.
Edward Cohen OF Lynn. president OF
the Massachusetts state branch OF the
American Federation OF Labor. who
was one OF the prominent labor leaders
shot by a lunatic I'm the statchouse,
Boston, died at the General hospital
there. Dennis ID. Driscou. secretary
Of the branch, whose condition is con-
sidered critical. is slightly improved.
Friday. Dec. q.
Baron Kogoro Takahira, minister for
Japan 20 the United States before Wis
count Aoki was Elade ambassador. has
been formally appointed ambassador
TO Washington TO succeed Aol1i. who
has just been recalled.
Miss Alicia Condor, daughter OF a
merchant of Beverley, y j., has been
committed for examination as to her
sanity. having. IL is said. become in
sane on the question OF clothes. Her
mania is 20 order hundreds of gar.
ments, quantities of silks and satins
and diamonds and other jewelry. She
tries TO wear dozen dresses a day.
Thursday, Dee. 3.
Nevada y. Stranahau, collector OF
the port OF New York, has resigned on
account Of III health.
Acting under orders from Mayor
Cutler of Rochester. y. Y, Commits
sioner OF Public Safety Gilman has
ordered the chief OF police to stop all
Sunday theatrical performances.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.

6:55 A. NJ. $40 P. A-From all the South
$40 r. M.-From Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham
Chase City and local stations.
$40 A. M.-Rrom Keysvlle-Local
$50 A. M.-From Baltimore and West Point
lo:85 A. NJ, 5;l5 p. M.-Local from West Point
@. W. WESTBURY, ID. p. A.,
go +. Main ST., Richmond, Va.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
Tuesday, Dec. 10.

George II. Richmond OF New York,
who paid Sl225 for the book known to
bibliOphiles as 'John Millions Family
Bible" has concluded that it is not
genuine.
At Guthrie, Okla. Robert Latham
Owen OF Muskogee and Thomas Prior
Gore OF Lawton we're formally elected
to the United States senate by the
Oklahoma legislature. Both are Demo
Gratis.
AT Boulogne. France, Mrs. William
H. Taft Joined her husband on board
the steamer President Grant. Her trip
out on a harbor tender was most ex-
citing. and the party had an exceed
ingly narrow escape from wreck and
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
Chr0nicIed.

With prospects for a speedy resump-
ton of business, ii was stated that the
Knickerbocker Trust company of New
York viii pay every deposltor In full.
Alice Abeldt, six-year-old girl,
whose mother is in an asylum in
Switzerland and whose father is be-
lieved to be at Emporia. Kan, arrived
at New York on the French liner Tou-
raine in search Of her father. The
child came alone, and as she had 81 In
cash there was no reason for deporting
her
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
Monday. Dec. 8.


The steamship President Grant. with
Secretary Taft and the members of
his party on board. left Boulogne for
New York.
Three persons were burned TO death
and another suffered a leg fracture
during a fire at 24 Lagrange street.
Boston. The dead arc Mrs. Mary Jou-
bert. thirty-eight years Old: Charles
Joubert, nine. and Emile Joubert. i've.
her two children.
Seventy-five thousand railroad men
on sixty-fye railroad lines east or the
Mississippi river and including eastern
Canada are preparing for a strike in
January unless wages are advanced
approximately 10 per cent and uniform
working rules are adopted.
Senator Alfred II. Page. regarded as
one Of Governor Hughes personal
friends, said that the governor would
not accept 4 denomination. He said
that IL the governor continued i'm pub
lie lie after the end of next year it
would be because the Republicans
elected him president of the United
States.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-14
disaster.

UIosINItI.
Senator Tillman has introduced reso-
lutiOns directing the committee on
finance TO investigate the recent pro-
ceedings Of the secretary OF the treas
ury in connection with the financial
crisis and also TO make inquiry con-
corning clearing house certificates.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14

that period 1t figured up about 121a
cents a word. Thus the boomerang
came back TO him-after many days.
1t is said that from his writing and
his platform work he earned at one
time about Si0G00 year
Nye dis'iked being lioniZed. About
fifteen years ago he wrote a play, The
Cadi," which was to be produced in
New York He was in the city on
business connected with the play.
''Nye came into the Office one day"
says Dexter Marshall, who at that
time was managing editor for the
American Press Association. 'and look
ed around in bashful. heSitating man
ner He said that he had to be in
town for the day and he didn't want
to attract attention. Couldn't we hide
him somewhere 4 screen, for
instance: fixed up a corner in the
office and screened it off. Nye sat
down there. with books and papers,
and spent the GaV"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
BILL NYE OF THE BOOMERANG
FAMOUS HUMORlST TO WHOSE GENIUS AND MEMORY
A MONUMENT IS TO BE ERECTED.
Characteristic GImpses of Man Who Made Millions Happy
Enough to Laugh-Dsiked Being Lonized and Garcia
tured as BaIdhead-Popuar Lecturer and
Writer of Rumor That Simply Made
You Laugh or Burst

This may account for the familiar ease
with which he wrote of mules. turnipS
and other farm products.
The world has Il wholly erroneous
impression of Bill Nyc'S personal APP
pearance. This is due chiefly TO Walt
McDougall. the comic artist who il
luStrated Mr.. Nye'S weekly output for
several years. 1t is true that during
the latter period of his life the humOr-
iSt was bald on top of his head. but he
had quite fringe of hair at the sides
and rear. There is Il photograph OF
him taken in 1879. when he was editor
of the Laramie boomerang. which
shows him with Il full set of whiSllcrS,
though 4 fur cap serves to leave the
matter of his upper badness at that
period an open question.
Those McDouglll pictures, though
they enhanced the humor of Nye's
writings, We're not pleasing to Nye him
self. 1t is related that Nyc requested
the managing editor of the American
Press Association. which syndicatcd
his weekly letters during the last seven
years of his life, to get another artist.
McDougall, he said, made him look
Ridiculous. Accordingly the artist &.
G.. Bush was east for the Nye perform
ance, but the newspapers taking the
service forthwith emitted such roar
that it was deemed necessary to return
to Mr.. McDOugall. Mr. BuSh'S pictures
We're good, but they had too much hair
to suit the public, which had been
dicted on badness until badness and
Nye had become brothers.
Let me Illustrate the stuff myself
then" requested Bill Nye.
Now, Mr.. Nye was Il humOriSt but
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
Quoted In All Quarters.

But the Boomerang. though dead
had made its mark. 1t was Il sheet
of modest appearance. making no par
full of Bill Nye Stray copies t!oated
into eastern newspaper offices. \ gen
tleman who was connected editoria!Iy
with Rochester newspaper in the
boomerang DAYS told me recently that
he picked up IA COPY of the boomerang
on his desk one dav lust out of curios-
ity, because it locked so lonesome and
was so far away from home. The
next thing he did was to NM thc
Boomerang on lis regular exchange
it. scissored out to the composius
room The Boomerang was quoted
east and wcSt. north and south. and
it was evident that Il new humorist
had arisen.
Bill I'VE wrote a book ahout his
boomerang rypcrjprcp vhi,a he rusti-
Gated in WISCONSIN Qnars from bio
eastern naprrS bnnar norrtno in Inf
Nye was s!iv. Finally the \ev York
World induced him TO ~n To the me.
tropoliS ana take a Job as Il regular
contributor. Incidentally he was in
great demand as a lecturer. His pIat-
form tOurS with lanes Whitcnmb
Riley are recalled rs events in tha
lyccum world Nve declined to live in
New York city, but took house in tho
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14

rage containing man and woman
fashionably dressed was stopped in
front of Il Chestnut street restaurant.
The coachman got down from his seat
and fastened into the restaurant. and
in Il short time a waiter appeared on
the sidewalk with trayful of edihles.
The food was handed into the car
rage, and the occupants fell TO eating
in full view of paSsersby. The idea
promises TO become popular among
shoppers, who, as a rule. find the pub
lie dining rooms crowded Just about
the time they want their luncheon,
says the Philadelphia Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
Had to Laugh or Burst.

The Nye brand of humOr was some
thing new under the sun. Artemus
Ward, Petroleum V. Nasty and Josh
Billings had won wide recognition, but
each of them relied to some extent
upon distorted spelling to attract at
tention. Nye always spelled correctly
and used good grammar. His eXag-
geration was linguistic rather than or
geographic. He could string hifalutin
adjectives like chain lightning, making
the humbIest, commoncst object in our
everyday life take on Il glamour SO much
out of proportion to its real Importance
that the eXaggeratiOn was ludiCrous
TIE reader simply had to laugh or
burst.
what was the funniest thing YOU
ever wrOtc!" Bill Me- was asked
shortly before he crossed the great
divide
The funniest thing was borrowed
from my platform manager" replied
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14

ed and otherwise erected into the dig
mites of justice OF the peace. police
magistrate. United States commission
er, postmaster and superintendent Of
schools. They called him Judge Nye,
which no doubt helped some.
But being the official Pooh Bah Of
Laramie was not particularly iucra-
tive. Nye worked so hard to make Il
living that his health broke down. The
Boomerang was not financially sue
cesSful. He resigned his multitudinous
offices. lie wrote to the postmaster
general that he would find the key of
the postoifice under the door mat Then
Mr. Nye returned to the vicinity of his
former home in ST. CroiX county. Wis.
10 TCcuperate. That was about the
wear lSS3
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
A Remarkable Discovery.

4 remarkable discovery has been
made at the fishing village of NaZa-
reth, in the Portuguese province OF
Estremadura, says the New York Trib.
une. The recent earthquake tremor
produced great tidal wave, and when
this had receded the shore was found
to be strewn with Il great quantity OF
old arms. valuable coins of all nation
alities. gold buttons, scarfpins and 9th
er iewelry, the whole representing Z
valuable treasure. An inspection show
ed that it had been hidden i'll the cav.
ems underneath an ancient stronghold
once the haunt of buccaneers of the
Spanish main. The excavations are he
ing continued in the expectation that
further treasure remains to be un
earthed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
MeasurabIy Handsome Man.

Nye was by no means a hairless liv-
ing skeleton. though he was tall. nearly
six feet. and slim. After he became
famous he always shaved clean, per-
hapS on the theory that it would look
ridiculous to have his hair on the
WRONG end of his head. He wore
clothes. he confessed, TO cover his body,
and it must be admitted that he did
not waste his time i'll studying the
Partisan fashions. But he dressed
pretty much as the average man dress
es and therefore was i'll no sense Il
comic Sunday supplement at large.
Nye was. in fact, mcasurably hand
some man. Walt McDOuGaiis idea
seems to have been that he must make
Nye's personal appearance as exag-
geratedly funny as We're his writings,
which accounts for the fact that those
who did not know Mr.. Nye by sight
continue to think of him as a cadaver-
Gus scarecr0w with benevolent grin
on its face.
AS youth Nye put in six sorrowful
months trying to read Blackstone,
Coke, Gritty and other favorite au-
thors in a Wisconsin law office He
always maintained that he could read
those authors over and over again and
| find them just as fresh and novel as
at the first reading. Nevertheless he
| managed to be admitted to the bar ut
| Laramie, Wyo, in 1876, where he set
| tied down and made Il feint at prac-
| ticing law. For pastime and income
he sent Il weekly letter of correspond
| ence to the Cheyenne Sun, for which
| he received 81 per column. In one of
| his numerous autObiographical confess
| sionS ne states that his income from
| this source was nearly $50 a year
| This, he said, was so much more than
he made at the law that he determined
| to sink deeper into journalism. So
! he secured regular job on the Lar
] annie Sentinel ut SD Il week. For a
i short time he worked in Denver as a
| reporter on the Tribune, the paper on
which Eugene Field somewhat later
! made his first reputation as a humorist
! Returning TO Laramie. Nye established
| the boomerang, which doomed once
u week. He was also elected, appoint.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
To Preserve Hoods Birthplace,

a meeting convened by the Legion
Ratepayers' association, held at Ley
tonstone, England. has decided to APP
peal for funds with which to secure
Lake House estate. Lake House, in
which the poet Hood was born and
lived till early manhood. stands on the
confines of Wanstead flats. says the
London News. The house and estate
have recently been acquired for build
Ing purposes, but local feeling l.
felt that the house should be preserved
for the sake of its associations, while
the grounds would make charming
pleasure gardens.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
Ar 20
AS 20

but they visited John d. Rockefeller
and in their awe of the living they
forgot the dead.
Last year Philadelphia was the place
of rendezvous, but the study of ancient
history on the spot precludcd the coli
sideratiOn of the monument matter.
SO the project was passed along to
Los Angeles. where the fifth annual
convention is to be held during tbs
week beginning Sept II. Secre-
tary Frank r. Starlight of the associa-
ton, who lives there. proclaims that
the Bill Nye monument fund will lie
brought to final focus and fulfllment
at Il monster entertainment TO be held
in the Auditorium during the week
The Auditorium. by the way. is quite
an appropriate place for such an en-
tertainment. for on Sundays and pray.
er meeting nights it is the edifice IL
which the Rev. Robert Jones Burdette.
pastor of the Temple Baptist church
of Los Angeles, breaches and prays.
Pastor Burdette is also Bob Bur
dette. Now you know him. For near
ly thirty years prior to his reforma-
ton he was II famous press hUmorist
and funny lecturer. He lives ut Pasa-
dena, near by. and will he one of the
Nye monument fund entertainers.
along with a dozen other press humor-
lists who are bold enough to speak their
pieces on the stage. Mr. Burdette is
perpetual parson and pastor emeri-
tus' of the American Press HumoriSts.
The elective officers are Thomas A.
DAILY Of Philadelphia, president; Rob-
ert ID. TOwne, editor of Judge, New
York, vice president, and Mr. Starlight,
who in addition to being secretary is
also treasurer and in his latter capac-
ity is willing to receive and account
for Nye monument contributions from
any source-and no questions asked.
Edgar Wilson Nye was born at Shir-
ley, Me. in 1850. He told with par
dOnable pride how ut the age of two
years he took his parents to Wisconsin
and grew up on "A farm. Though Mr.
Nye from time to time furnished the
world with much photographed in
formation, there is quite u wide gap
between the Maine village and the
Wyoming struggles, but he once re-
marked that when he was fifteen years
old his father died ana he took charge
of the 200 acre Wisconsin farm. 1t is
not TO be doubted that he grew M
with more than a speaking acquaint-
ance with hard work on the farm.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
By ROBERTUS LOVE.

TONE. but not forgotten, is Bill
Nye, most famous of newspa-
Va per humorists. He died eleven
years ago. Now there is going
to be Bill Nyc monument. The all
nouncement comes from the American
Press HumoriSts. an organization Of
poets, photographers and philosophers
who 90 their poetiZing, paragraphing
and philosOphiZing in the daily and
weekly papers. This association is
raising a fund to build Il monument to
the memory of Bill Nyc-Bill Nye of
the Boomerang.
The Boomerang was twins. 1t was
n mule and Il newspaper. both owned
by Bill Nye. Both inhabited Laramie,
Wyo The boomerang newspaper was
named after the mule. The monu-
ment is TO lie erected at Laramie,
we are told because it was in thaC
far western town that BIZ Nye first
discovered that he was hUmOriSt.
Prior to that discovery he had made
the mistake of imagining that he was
a lawyer. The mistake was we'll nigh
fatal, as he confessed himself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
DandeliOn
A SAFE AND SURE SPECIFIC FOR RHEUMATISM.


rheumatism for the most attacks the sews and muscles of the
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
DISCOURAGER OF MATRlMONY
University Professor Says Cost of Liv-
ing Is Too High.

DR.. ]. Allen Smith, head of the de-
partment of political science in Wash
ington university. has advised his
classes against matrimony during the
present era of high prices, says Seat
tie CWashD special dispatch to the New
York World.
Young people may marry in Seat
tie" he warned his classes, but under
the existing conditions of up in air
prices it requires an intervention of
Providence in their favor thereafter to
enable them to make both ends meet.
Until living expenses have decreased
l certainly would not advise any young
man to get married in Seattle"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
Toniqht.

If you would enjoy tomorrow, take
Chamberlains' Stomach and Liver Tab
lets tonight They produce an agree
able, laxative effect, clear the head and
cleanse the stomach. Price. % cents.
Samples free at all druggists. .ijal,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
Lunchinu on the Curb.

Luncheon served in carriages lined
mp along the curbstonc is the latest fad
Introduced in Philadelphia. This in
novatiOu WAS witnessed when Il car
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14

not an artist Nevertheless he was
permitted to execute some crude
sketches. which We're funny while they
lasted, but eventually the McDOugall
pictures replaced all substitutes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
Three-year-oid Project.

Though the definite ACKNOWLEDGEMENT C
the Nyc monument as n COnSummatiOn
to be achieved this year is a matter
of news. the project is three years old.
The matter was discussed in a vague
and irrelevant manner during the sec
ond annual convention of the American
Press Humorists i'll st. Louis in 1904.
But the members We're seeing the
Worlds fair, including the Pike, anC
nothing definite was done. The next
year the humuriSts met in Cleveland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-14
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