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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06

TRY ADMIRAL COFFEE.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06

fuel.
Although request for an addi-
tional $4,000 has been sent to
Andrew Carnegie, no reply has
been received by the board. The
members are confident, however,
that Mr.. Carnegie will accede to
their request and give enough
more than his original donation to
complete the building. At Its next
meeting the board will make ar
rangements for large purchase
Of books so that when the library
is opened complete lists Of the
books II contains may be furnished
to all patrons.
Addison Balm. superintendent of
the public parks, has been engaged
by the board as superintendent of
the library building and grounds.
Mr.. Bain will attend to the library
in addition to the park system.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06
JUNIOR CLASS
RENDERS PROGRAM
Rhetoricals Enjoyed by High
School Pupils.
The Program Of Literary and Musi.
cal Numbers One Of the Best
Of Present Year.

The junior class of the nigh
school rendered an excellent pro-
gram of rhetoricals In the auditor
ium before the student body of the
school at 2:3G O'Clock this after
noon. A number of patrons were
also present and the program
proved highly interesting and en-
tertaining.
The program opened with a
piano solo by Miss Orka Casio.
Miss Florence Foster gave an essay
entitled ga Comparison of the
Works of Reede and Dickens" !"
"Poe as a Man and as Poet"
was the subject of an oration de-
livered by Mr.. George King. Miss
Ada Havill gave an essay "Eng-
lish Premiers,, after which Miss
Joan Watkins gave q talk on the
subject, "Ihe Celt and the Teu-
tonic" Mrs. w. N. Harder sang
an excellent solo after which Miss
Margaret Whiting gave a descrip-
tion of the ,hat1nps>f1k Waterloo.
"The Peril OF Jaann was the
subject of an oration delivered by
Miss Margaret Hecker. The pro-
gram closed with an grafton by
Mr.. Louis Morrill, on the subject
"Amerisan Fraud In Religious
Journalism. -
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06
CONTRACTOR
GIVEN ORDERS
Must Get Busy Without
Delay.
OPENING OF Tue LIBRARY
Cannot Take Place on the
Date First Selected.
Board Of Trustees Hand Down Ulti.
matum to Contractor Berry-Ad.
Olson Balm New Superintendent.
OPENING OF Tue LIBRARY

Unless Contractor Berry, who has
charge Of the construction OF the
Marion public library building,
ceases his diiatory tactics which
have now so delayed the comple-
ton of the building that It cannot
be opened to the public by the
first of the year, the library board
will take the contract out of his
hands.
This is the substance of the ul-
tin,atum handed to the contractor
by the board and as result. he
will proceed to get busy at once,
It is said.
1T had been planned to hold
the grand opening of the building
on New Years day but the men,
bers of the board are now quite
positive that 1t will be at least two
and possibly three weeks later bs-
fore the building will be opened.
The contract for the interior dec
Grating has been let to Fisher and
company of Columbus and the
stone work about the steps to A,
Sherer. of this city. Both of the
contractors have already commence
ed work.
The fires were lighted in the
furnace OF the building today and
1t is stated that the hot water
heating system is very satisfactory
In every particular. Gas is used fol
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06
DRAWS 80 DAYS
Charles Mackey Taken to the Col
umbus Workhouse.

Charles Mackey, arrested for jump
ing a board bill two years ago, was
taken to the workhouse, Friday, to
serve sentence of 80 days imposed
by Justice Charles H. Conley. He
owes Sill to Mrs. David Sellers, who
resides in West Marion. He was ar
rested several days ago in Gallon.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06
Personals


The meeting to have been held Sum
day at the County Inflrmary by MEM
bers OF the w. G. T.U. has been
postponed until further notice.
Mr.. w. X. Matthews, chief secre-
tary to Mayor Bond. of Columbus,
who has been visiting DR.. E. L.
Brady, of Windsor street, returned
home today.
Mr.. o. d. Freese, formerly man.
ager of the Kirby ten-cent store Of
.nis city, but now of Columbus, was
in the city yesterday, as the guest OF
old friends.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06

Home grown Potatoes, SOC per
bushel. ID. A. Terry, N. State st.
12-5-3tpd
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06
81 COLUMBUS AND RETURN 81

The g. D. & NJ. makes q special
rate of one dollar to Columbus and
return on Sundays. First car leaves
Marion 6 o. M; last car leaves
Columbus, $3.50 p. m. Car every hour.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06

See Ellery's line Of dolls. They
are pretty attractive and the low
est price. 1913 North Main street.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06

"Meet me at Kaler's Candy Shop"
11-12-tf
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06
Adding Meanne,s 10 wrono.

he who invades the strong shows .
courage which does something to re-
deem his violence; but to tread on the
neck OF Q helpless. frisndless fellow
creature - to add meannsss to wrona
william Ellsry Chsnniag. ~
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-06

Music! Lights! Flowers! Satur-.
days Opening Crafts New Drug
Store. West Center Street. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29

Somehow the two men reached the chamber
mo, it too latel" the old man murmured.
and his distress was terrible. Too late"
Maurice moved as it were in a tragic dream
to the elevator shaft The car was coming up.
1t stopped. and Norah emerged.
Il heard the water, and felt it." she ex-
planned. And | screamed out, and some one
opened the trap from the other side. Then |
ran here. Maurice"
Maurice had tainted. He came to with the
feeling of her hand on his face.
Scarcely word was spoken. But NOrah
and her father knew that Maurice had
awakened, not only from swoon, but out of
the long nightmare of his revenge.
There was for the moment at any rate, no
scene of unrestrained affection. Curtis ar
rived, perhaps OPPORTUNITY, perhaps inoppor-
timely; and unrestrained scenes of any kind
could not occur in the presence of Curtis.
Car destloyed, sir. In river" said he
coldlv He was still wearing his goggles. and
through them he gazed at the group with a
calm sublimely indifferent. If ever Curtis
was to be astonished. he should have been
astOnished then; but he gave no sign of aston
ishment. When he was informed of the mishap
that had occurred to Beakbane. he family
smiled. And when Maurice, suddenly remem-
berng the purpOrt of the message in the head
of the statue, told Crampiron about it, and
threw even CrampirOn into an agitation, Curtis
looked at his watch, and blandly remarked
that 1t was ten minutes to midnight Cramp-
IRON hastened up stars. and. by the simple
device of smashing the coherer and scattering
its silver and nickel filings to the four corners
OF the room, rendered impotent the activities
of the man at Berlin.
For three months Crampiron remained con-
cealed in the statue, and his existence there
was never revealed to anyone but Emile Ber-
ger and Millicent. When the hounds of pursuit
had ceased to bay, he unostentatiously went to
live in the beautiful climate of AlgierS, where
his daughter and son in law visit him upon oc-
Casion. Scotland Yard is at loss. But any
official of Dartmoor will still assure the in
quirer that escape is an imposSibility.
I'll L END
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29

of Beakbane in specializing upon Beakbane' S
msdeedsl
He rushed out. Beakbane, evidently made
cautious by the light was coming up. Maurice
jumped down upon him in passion to destroy.
Beakbane sprang aside. Maurice stumbled.
and dropped the kew. With a movement of
surprising feline swftness Beakbane snatched
the key and fled. The man had perhaps seen
his death in the eyes of Maur ce Maurice
pulled himself together and followed at his best
speed His best speed was too good, for he fell
again. 1t was this second fall that Crampiron,
whose ambush Maurice did not notice in his
haste, had heard. Thenceforward he descended
more carefully, and Beakbane gradually in
creased his lead. What Maurice did notice was
that the stairway was now lighted. Arrived
at the bottom, he saw Beakbane in the far dis
tance of the tunnel, and began to run hard.
He gained on him perceptibly but not suf
ticiently and at the beginning of that half mile
of tunnel which lay under the ornamental
water Beakbane was hundred yards ahead.
Ii | don't catch him. Maurice muttered,
breathless, he will knock at the trap, and he
may very probably kill Carfax. Well, | can't
catch him and at this distance | certainly
can't hit him; but can drown him"
He drew his revolver and fired point blank
at one of the glass squares of the roof. The
first shot cracked it the second made a hole;
the third demolished it Water poured down
into the tunnel in stream two feet square.
Maurice stood his ground, and smashed two
more squares Then, with the water already
up to his middle, he fled for safety up the in
clined part of the tunnel. Beakbane was GER
tainly gone to his account.
Maurice remounted to the statue, and met
Crampiron on the stairway.
80 You and Beakbane are in league after
all Il" said Maurice. We'll, you are too late.
He is drowned"
What" cried Crampiron in terror.
Maurice calmly explained.
Come up stairs Come up stairsl" said
Crampiron and clutched at Maurice's arm.
Quick And do something to get out the
other way! You have drowned Norahl | tell
YOU Norah was in the tunnel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29
BIG BETTING COUPS
rom
Continued from page s

for higher stakes could not be resisted. He
began by betting ten louis at time. In day
or two he had won three thousand francs in
this way. 1t was only a step to the next stage
soon he was rsking five hundred and a thou
sand francs at time, and doubling the stakes
if he was not Immediately successful. The end
came when, starting in the morning with bad
luck, he visited every gambling house in Paris
during the day, and returned to his lodgings in
the evening with scarcely enough left to buy
his breakfast the next morning. With true
philosophy, he Immediately returned to his
studies, telling his friends that he had seen
much of side of life with which he had been
unacquainted, but that his work had suffered
as he would never allow it to suffer again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29
For Human Use

If | live, Yet summon up no word
To cheer men on the stony path we tread
Withhold the merry thought they should have
heard.
Sing no brave song to ease the way-am
dead,
You-though YOU walk no more on earth
with us.
Oh gallant soul. 50 eager once to give,
Through countless memories, rich and gen.
erOuS.
OF courage taught, of love and mirth-yet
live A Ids Dunbar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29
Saved by the Last Straw

ID ICHARD BOURCHIER was by birth
N gentleman, but his fondness for the gaming
table brought his fortunes to such low ebb that
he was glad to accept a position as footman to
the Earl of Mulgrave While in service he mar
RED woman who had saved hundred and
fifty pounds. This was quickly lost at cards,
and Bourcher found himself in sore straits
He managed, however, to borrow twenty
pounds from a friend, and Immediately re-
turned to the tables. But under his coat was
a rope which he had purchased in order to hang
himself if his bad luck continued
Better fortune was in store for him on this
occasion, however and the rope was generously
given to another player who was in need of it
but had not the necessary twopence to buy
one. The eX-toOtman won, not merely on
this evening, but for many evenings afterward
Adopting safe tactics, he accumulated a for
tune and in course of time was admitted to
the presence OF the King OF France from whom
he won fifteen thousand pStoes, and to the
circle of the Duke of Orleans, from whom he
took ten thousand, He gained other large
sums, many rich jewels, and a piece of am
bergriS valued at twenty thousand crowns
which may be seen at this day in the museum
at Venice He travelled to Flanders, and Won
twenty-five hundred pounds from the King
and thirty thousand from the Duke of Bavaria
He then returned to England and settled down
as a country gentleman, maintaining a mag
niticent estate with his enormous winnings
He became famous as a breeder of horses, and,
although the Duke of Bavaria never paid all
that he owed. he sent to the monarch splendid
coach and six. He died at the comparatively
early age of torty-tive. highly respected by his
neighborS, rich and poor.
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deeds for four warehouses in Natchez into
the bargain.
In the same place Harry Cleveland, a gam
bier with national reputation, played with
the equally notorious Pettibone, a Tennessee
professional, and lost a hundred thousand
dollars in one night, all of which he paid on the
spot in currency.
Another famous Washington resort was
kept by Joe Hall on Walnut-st. in a house
which later became the office of The Sunday
School Timcs.' \ great sensation was caused
there one evening when another we'll known
professional broke all the records of half a
century by winning fifty consecutive bets.
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Betting in Paris

d OF SSEAt ) luck at the gaming table helped
N him out Of money troubles at one time, and
his beginnings We're Of the smallest. He had
invited Neron and Young medical student to
dine with him a certain evening at the Cate
du ROi When the guests arrived at Rousseau
lodgings. they found him in state OF great
embarrassment. After a moment or two OF
heSitanCv he confessed that he had absolutely
no money, and that his credit at the cafe was
no longer good. His guests were in like plight;
but the Young student was determined that he
would dine with the great man, even II he had
to borrow the money. and at once started out
to effect 4 loan. He succeeded in raising
twenty francs. and the party started for the
restaurant.
On their way they passed a celebrated gam
bling house. and with the consent OF the other
two, Rousseau entered and risked ten francs,
which he promptly lost. ust then another
acquaintance came along, and the three told
him what had been done. lie expressed sym
pathv, but explained that from the proceeds
OF pawning his watch he had only three and
half francs lett.
Better try again, since thirteen and half
francs is OF little among four" said Rous-
seau, and put the remaining ten into his hands.
Within 4 few minutes the chances of roulette
had swelled the thirteen and a half francs to
sixty. Twenty-Five francs were spent on dim
ner and the four returned to the gambling
house with the remaining thirty-five. The
lucky member OF the quartet was instructed
to continue the play for the benefit of all and
in few minutes more he had won eight hun
dred francs. Each member OF the party there
upon tool; two hundred, and began to play for
himself. Rousseau gailY Staked his entire
amount. and quickly ran it up to two thousand
francs. Immediately, his friends laid violent
hands on him. hustled him out OF the place,
and compelled him to settle his long standing
account at the Cafe du R0i, 50 that he might
establish new credit for other rainy days.
Nerun returned to the gambling house next
dav and riSked one hundred francs, winning
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-11
Did Negroes Own Slaves?

No doubt the following which IS
contributed to Tthe Columbus En-
louirer-Sun by Mr.. j. j. Wood,
will doubtless be news to many OF
our readers:
| [ knew free negro man by the
name of Bob Parker that owned
and worked negroes. This!negro
lived in what was known as the
Northern Liberties. He owned
and lived on the premises east OF
the lot where the offices of the city
mills are now located and there is
a two-story house on this negroes
lot lately occupied by Mr.. An
| thony Clegg. Bob ran dray line
here, owning his hands and drays.
He also owned negro women and
children.
A negro woman by the name of
Dilsey Pope, who owned a house
on what is known as First avenue
and Sixteenth street, just in the
rear of the residence Of the late
Col. A. G. McGhee, owned her
husband and hired him out. |
remember her husband offended
her in some way and she sold him
to the late Col. SeabOrn Jones.
Joe Clark, a negro b a L b +,
owned and worked negroes that he
bought.
We have little doubt that some
of the readers of the Advertiser
had personal knowledge of similar
cases. The woman above mentioned
who owned her husband-nOt as
many women own that member OF
the family, but as an absolute
chattel-was an unusual example,
we admit, but we doubt if she was
without imitators. Being a free
women she was within her legal
rights when she owned her hus-
band. If he was d slave and she a
free woman she had a perfect right
to buy him and hold him in slave
ry, and to sell him if she saw prop
er. She also h d the right to
whip him and he would not have
the right to resist. Whether she
ever resorted to this prerogatiye of
the slave owner the writer does
say, but probably she contented
herself with selling him. There
are many things connected with
slavery days that would be new to
the present generation, and free
negroes owning their own kink was
not unheard of.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-11

!. DID YOU KNOW that the Bazaar is CIV
+ ing away or at least trying to give away
: beautiful suite of fnruture? Probably you did
= not and;dthat is one1'reason more why you
: should congratulate yourself that you are
4 reader of this paper We want to "put you
!: next --next to good thing, that is ifyou con-
(. slider an elegant bed..room suite of furniture
= right good thing If you don't believe what
4 we say (every body else does) you go and see
4 R. l. Maffet about it, he started it and is re-
: sponsble for the report. Call at the Bazaar and
y see if he will make good
= OUR GUESS is HE WILL
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-11

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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-23
IS HE FATHER
OF ROCKEFELLER?
Il|inoisan Tells Of Wisconsin
Recluse Said to Admit
Relationship.

Appleton, Wis. Aug. 2O.-H. X. AM
Der. of Freeport. H.. who is visiting
relatives in Appleton, makes the posi-
tive statement in an interview that he
knows John d. Rockefeler's father.
and that the aged man has admitted
to him that his son is the weathiest
man on earth.
John d. Rockefeller's father is
known in Freeport as DR.. Livingston"
said Mr.. Amber, but he admitted to
me about year ago that 1t was not his
name. He is an old man with white
beard. is short and stout. but has many
features and facial expressions like his
famous son.
He is recluse and seldom leaves
his home. His wife is dead, but he has
a housekeeper. He saw me one day
about year ago and talked to me
on the street. A short time afterward,
as l was passing his house, he invited
me in and we became quite friendly.
He said he wanted some one to talk
to and | have visited him a number of
times. He is the man who was written
up in some magazine while back as
Rockefeller's father, and l asked him
about 1t one day. He said he never
read magazines, but added L never
talk of my son to anyone; IL he don't
Want to recognize me, i won't com
plain. He supplies my every need and
l make no complaint"
Mr.. Amber says DIR. Livingston. as
lie is known here, receives s5. 900 wear
from the Standard OIL king through the
German bank of Freeport, and he is
seldom seen down town except when he
goes to cash the check He lives on
the west side in Freeport and is friend
ly with his neighbors but never min
giles with them.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-23

Flandreau, S. D., Aug. 2O.-Year by
year the government Indian schools
throughout the northwest and west are
doing more important work in the up
building of the younger element of In
dians of various tribes, and in fitting
them to become self-supporting.
One of the most important of these
schools is the Riggs institute, a govern
ment Indian school situated near Flan-
dreau. This school draws Indian pupils
from all the states of the middle west.
the northwest and from as far away as
Montana. Many of the reservations of
Wisconsin and Minnesota are represent
ed among it's students.
Riggs institute is located about one
half mile north of Flandreau and is
considered one of the finest schools for
the development and education of the
Indians to be found in all the west
The Big Sioux river flows past the
northern boundary of the school farm.
The Indian name of the river. Walk
pa-ipa-ksan. signifies it's chief charac-
teristic-the Winding River-for at
many points it doubles back almost
upon itself, after watering miles of fer
tile valley. The Great Bend as a great
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-23

ed to attend church. AS to which
church is Il matter of perfect freedom
to the student. A large percentage at
tend the Catholic charch, a number go
to the Episcopal church, and in addition
there are two Indian churches, one OF
which is an Episcopal and the other
Presbyterian.
A large number of the boys and girls
speak the Sioux language. Among the
students also are Chippewas and One
idas. 1t is hard tor visitors who go
through the school and note the evil
dences of refinement and culture to re-
alize that the ancestors of many Of
these young Indian students were mev-
ing spirits in some OF the bloody wars
against the palefaces, and who, for
years. fought desperately to stay the
tide of whites toward the west.
Superintendent Pierce, of the school,
deserves great credit for the progress
the institution and it's students have
made during the time he has had
charge OF it. He is highly respected by
teachers as we'll as by pupils Each
year he sends out u number of the
teachers to the different agencies and
reservations of the west to gather up
the boys and girls of school age and
bring them to the school
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-23
SUBSCRIBE STOCK FOR
NEW ELECTRIC RAii WAN

Brookngs, S. D.. Aug 2O.-The H. j.
I'oltZ company, of Minneapolis, has
been selling stock in the Brookings and
Sioux Falls electric railroad and has
completed it's work, the required
amount having been disposed Of
Shares to the value of $4,000 were
sold, $4,000 being taken here and the
rest being sold to farmers along the
line between here and Flandreau.
Engineers will be on the ground
within the next ten days to make the
final survey and it is expected that by
September Is the work of grading will
have commenced.
Brookings is also entertaining an
other electric railroad proposition. A
company is being organized at Mitchell
and Madison to build line from those
towns through Brookings to Marshall,
MINI.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-23
HIGH SCHOOL GIRL
MAKES BEE HIVES PAY

Deadwood. S. D.. Aug. l9--To demon-
strate that high school graduate can
use her brains for livelihood outside
of offices, Miss Ethel Mattley. II local
girl, has turned her hand to bee rais-
ing, and is making a success. She has
been the means of furnishing herself
and number OF others with a profit
able Industry right in Deadwood that
has never been exploited here.
Miss Mattley started out with the
modest equipment of one hive and no
money. She selected good clover plot
behind one of the hills and waited re-
suits. The bees swarmed and soon
there was enough honey to get another
hive and from this on her industry be.
gan to thrive and others began to emu
late her methods With equal success.
Bee raising is now coming to be some.
thing of a fad as we'll as an industry
here, and most of the honey used ON
local tables is from the hives of local
bee culturists.