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New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
sUPERsTITIoNs OF NORWAY COUNTRY
FOLK

80 drenched is Norway with old legends and
laIIy stories and a pervasive intimacy with the
Norwegian character. especially as expressed in
norwegian art, without some comprehension Of
the spirit world. For the world of the sailors
and fishers of the white Northland the world
or the peasants and the simple country folk is
lnhaolted by savage, wicked elves and spirits;
everything is controlled by its own demon who
must be propitiated if life is to go smoothly
Even the weather is controlled by various de-
mons ana the canny Firms with their pretensions
Of magical power have reaped a rich harvest
from the superstitious Norwegians. many OF
Wnom still buy fair weather from the Can
tlhn by the sackful. Whoever has known a
Norwegian fisherman has heard of the Draug
that demon of the who rides in half boat
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03

waist, with massive bulwarks and forecastle,
and poop three and four decks high. she pos
sessed picturesque appearance, but little Of
sensible naval architecture. The stem was
clumsy, broad and blunt, and smashed heavily
through the waves to the great detriment OF
speed; this and the towering stern presented
such a surface 10 the wind that the difficulties
eight men at the wheel not unusual The
method in this apparent madness of marine con-
struction the landubbers instinct, still
strong IN men of the sea of those days to re-
duce all naval manuuvres to the stand up and
knock down tactics of the land fight on com
mon platform-JOhn c. Fitzpatrick in Scrib-
ners.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
WAS LINCOLN HoMELY?

"As I was sayin'. was up TO Bloomington
that night. Nobody that didn't hear that speech
eI-ey knows what Abraham Lincoln could do
Lots of 'en will tell you he was homely Seems
10 me sometimes that's about all some folks
around here has to tell about Abraham Lincoln
sYes I knowed him they say. He the
bomeliest man in Sangamon County. Well,
now don't you make mistake. The folks
that don't tell you nuthin' but that never
buowed Mr. Lincoln. Mebbe they'd seen him,
but they never knowed him. He want homely.
There's no denyin' he was long and lean, and
he didn't always stand straight and he wasn't
Dertikeler about his clothes but that night up TO
Bloomington in ten minutes after he struck that
I ever see"-Ida NJ. Tarbell, in The American
Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
ENelIsA HANsoM cAR pIsAPREARINe.

Consul Albert Halstead, OF Birminsham, EngIands
renorts that company in that city. which has been
engaged in the manufacture OF hanson cabs. has
decided to go out of business because Of the I'M
mense falling of in the demand for these vehicles
The consul adds;
THE cause of the decided reduction IN the de-
rDand for hanson cabs is said 10 be the Develop
ment OF underground railways in London and the
Increased use OF mOtOrbOats and mOtOrcabS- To
this might be added the extension of the Sreetcar
systems throughout the Kingdom Then also the
demand for private cabs. which formerly large.
has disappeared. automobiles taking their place
Even the most casual observation in Blrmingham
shows a decided falling on in the number Of han
cabs offered for hire. This evidence OF the
disappearance OF the hanson cab is Of much in
terest to Birmingham. because that vehicle was IN
vented seventy years ago by a Birmingham archl-
tect, Joseph AlOyslus Hansom-Harpers Weekly
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
THE AWAKENING.

Iound Love years ago, a dinpled spri4e
W nose outspread wings of gossamer had shared
"A niue struggling rainbow, that had dared
r 70 play 100 close to Love. in its young flight
mere poised upon a sunbeam wanton hrjght
.le Deht 10 KISS flower. with body barred
ana SO caught him, trembling unprepared
ana laughing held him fast with all my might
To-day he walked beside me on the road
child 0iN-S" S"uAS
w WIN llps a-quiver and dull eyes of pain
ms ms little hand held mine. yet all things showed
i1 41e IoLged Tor freedom. and his old life wild
lear COO. how can I set him free again2
Frederick Truesdeu in Putnam's
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03

During the man9uvres the Kaiser rose one
morning at daybreak in order to get a general
ilapress.on Of the disposition of his troops So
=, his olnobile, followed by his entire STAFF
iI automobiles, he made for distant hill that
commanded an extensive view. There was 4
village on the hill and the Gathering of the
ca-s on the Cobhes brought most of the inha bi-
+sufs to their windows. The one T1ersoD who
slept through the din was deaf old chemist,
whose fat rooted residence was perched right
on the summit. The roof was the very place
for the Kaiser. So he called halt and one of
his staff sent To claim admission The
officer knocked and knocked but in vain. AT
the third onslaught. however, steps were heard
descending the stairs, and the voice of the old
chemist demanded. What silly fool is that?'
The stan contained its laughter for the Kaiser
had heard: but without showing any sign OF
annoyance his majesty uttered one word, "Wil-
bem,' Wilhelm who?" demanded the chem
III wilhelm Won Hohenzollern. ne thun-
5ered. The shivering chemist, covered with
confusion, flung open the door, doubtless eX-
pecting the German equivalent TO Siberia, but
me Emperor strCde past him without Civ
ing him look. When he leaving, how
ever he called the man to him. placed in his
hand the largest coin which bears the imperial
likeness There he said. Accept this por-
trait Of a silly foolr'-Fritz Morris, in Van
Norden's Magazine.
.troPY OF VERSES WROTE BY SIR HENRY
KNOTCHBULL. BART, 1760.r
20. share these nowers!" thus Della wrote.
And pinned upon tree,
with her own hands. the dainty note
Addressed to You and me.
The trees were glad that her pass
The turf embalmed her trace,
The brook flowed slow and smOOthed a glass
To catch her feeting face.
Next day the letters fair were flown;
Who stole them? Dryads, say?
By chilling A1ster were they blown,
BY Zephyr lured away2
But no. the truth was simply this:
Young Strephon. wandering by,
Saw from the stem. with sudden bliss,
Fair Delia's ensign fly.
And oh" he cried. "be mine the page
That Del.a's hand hath prest,
Forgive. We Gods, his harmless rage
Whom she hath robbed of rest.
The slender lines her crowquill traced
To warn rude hands away
Shall ne'er in bleak exposure taste
The chance Of night and day;
But with the bud she once let fall,
The ribbon that she wore,
Shall add 10 Cupid's chapel wall
One sanity relic more,"
-Unpublished poem by James Russell Lowell
in The Atlantic Monthly.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
In fbe VoJen,ber MoeaSfnes.
AmazinG Story of Emperor Willie m-Comets and That
NIystery-sonae Points Duck E1unters

thai, MN an expression of profound curiosity on
Standing at the back of the furnace ran ali the
my nay round a 1t and came out in front! There
80; az ~ Stood, hurting their mute interroga-
,.S ie a. Ihe CRAFTY reticent volcano that might
it the next moment hurl forth an in
in Everybody's " lilla-H IIaIU'
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
NOVEMBER.

Winds come TO freedom, blow gayly, blow
merrily,
Toss the crisp leaves, and sing lightly, sing
airily;
With a rush and a sWoop
Boughs rise and boughs droop'
While the rain, waiting long
Adds its voice to the song.
Norma Bright Carson. in / Lppincotts.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03

selection, and so fully established that not only
VIII they abstain from preying of their
own tribe but will rally to rescue one whose life
!S - threatened The fact that there are eXcep-
t tlohaI cases does not dsprove the law among
!TG TIasts any more than among men-Ernest
thompson Seton, in The Century.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
REFoRE AN AMERIcAN ELECTION.

Loyal hearts, the century through,
Back 10 you our blessings turn;
Veins within us filled by you
Yet with righteous ardor burn,
Down the years hot truth has run
Purest in YOUR earthen mould
Bunker Hill and Lexington
Leave us models from Of old.
We who till the fervent West
How We would have loved the land
Feel the fire of your unrest
BY the breath OF danger famed.
Not diminished, farmer sires,
Runs our yet-indgnant blood
Walked to sympathetic fires
And more watChfui hardwood
'Tis a stealthier alien we
Fight upon our fathers soil
And his flaming livery
Is the red-and-gold of spoil
Hearts triumphant. Minute-men,
Listen in your yielding graves!
Farmers. rise to fight again
Where the aliens banner waves!
Arthur Upson, in The New England Magazine
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
CARS Run BY MAN POWER.

Street railways with cars operated by manual
uover are in use at Mornbasa. in East Africa Tho
light. narrow gauge tracks are laid through the
street and the for hire. ike cabs. or ara
the private property OF officials and wealthy resi-
dents. They are little fOur-wheeled cars, win one
or two cross seats. and each is propelled by Two
natives Spur tracks run into private Srcuhos.
So that persons can take the cars 20 their dooFA-
Philadelphia Record
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03

good deal about the manner in which they were
entiCed 10 the beds and finally trapped Not
long since a meeting of the Natural History So
Ciety Major John NJ Gould, OF Portland, in some
delightful "reminiscences of the early days Of the
organization said that man reported al one or
the meetings having flock of pigeons so
large that il cast a shadow the landscape. The
ouetine dealer. when this was mentioned 10 him.
that but he remembered that when boy OF hear
ing his mother declare that she had seen so many
together that they hid the sul-keRnebec Jour-
nal
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
THE SPANISH GALLEON.

Primarily the galleon was but a peaceful
merchant ship. hut by the irony OF tate she
became. almost from her inception, centre OF
the fiercest fighting. Square rigged and high
of stem and stern, broad Of bow and low OF
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
THE ARTIST OF THE wHIsKBRooM

THE ARTIST OF THE WHISKBROOM
This innate uncomfortable craving Of the
negro for rhythm Is nowhere better cNemplihed
than in a coiored BARRIERS manipulation of an
ordinary democratic whiskbroom You may
think that you have been Whisked in New EoTk,
sistsnts merely brush your trousers from the
knee down. with few conventional cold move
ments and perfunctory pass at your collar.
Their whiskng is at best calculating soul
less business proposition But in Charleston all
this is changed. To be sure, your negro begins
brushing you with a sordid end--the tip-in
view; but the moment he begins prelude with
his Whisk on your coat lapels. his work, like
that of the artist. becomes the labor of love,
He loses sight OF it's commercial possibilities In
its technical resources. In his hands II IS
manipulated until II becomes vehicle of
preston and takes it's place among the instru-
ments of percussion
If you show even a moderate interest in the
skill with which the colored apprentice drums
the dust out of your clothing. the proprietor
will leave his customer with his face buried be-
meath sea of suds. snatch the whisk away
from the boy with a "Cio way. chile and
Collarbone will be approached with CapriCciosO
movement that will soon shape Itself into an
allegro non tTOppO as he reaches your shoulders.
In the Varegated rhythms that follow in quick
succession you unconsCiously formulate well re-
Inembered airs. AS he reached my ribs, for an
instant he agitatO, and I thought ! traced
Schumann's delightful TN neer complaint
ONLY for n moment. for he had shifted to elabo-
rate double syncopations This time the tempo
was unmistakable:-'T don't care If yO' nevah
come back but doubtless realizing the map
propriateness of the selection, he drifted grace
fully into delirous and exquisite bit Of rag
time. drumming as he whsted in a faint pia-
nissno Every 1T bit helps" softly kissing the
melody after the manner OF a groom when he
uses the currycomb on a horse.-C. II White,
in Harpers.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
.Flicgende Batter.

and who IS a warning of swift and awful death.
Jonas Lie, in The Craftsman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-03
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-03
BENEDICT lO BUILD
BUSINESS BLOCK
Dry Goods Merchant Buys Prop
critics at IL and Is West
Main Street
PAYS s12,s5o FOR BOTH
BOTH
Property Has Main Street Frontage of
Forty Feet and Depth of 1870 Feet
Benedict & 1rintnalI Will Move to
New Building When II Is Completed
Work to Be Done Next Summer.

A real estate transaction, which
means another addition to the business
section, was closed late Monday after
noon when F. r. Benedict, of the firm
of Benedict & 'Brintnall, purchased the
properties at 13 and Is West Main
street, now occupied by G. F. Schoen-
hut and the McCarten Plumbing Conn
pany. The two properties have Main
street frontage Of forty feet and a
depth Of 100 feet. The price for the
two properties was s12,S50.
Next summer Mr.. Benedict will build
mess block, at a cost or about $4,000.
When completed the Arm of Benedict &
Brintnall will move from its present
location into it.
The east half of the property was
owned by c. E. Hatcher, of this city.
who sold for $4,000. The west half be-
longed to j. A. Rohr and children, of
Los Angeles, Cal 1t sold for $3.50.
The property was formerly owned by a
State Center man, who willed it to his
son, the present owner, and his child
rem. Both lots are covered with an
tiquated wooden buildings.
It is Mr.. Benedict's plan to remove
the present buildings, when he gets
ready to build, and to put up in their
place structure so erected as to adj
nit the most light possible. The firm
will occupy all of the first floor, base
ment and the rear 100 feet of the Sec
ond floor. The front thirty feet Of the
second story will be built for offices.
The firm holds long lease on the store
room it now occupies, which must be
disposed Of before it can move. Both
Of the buildings on the property bought
are also leased by their present ten
ants.
Since the Hatcher and Rohr proper
ties have been on the market, there
has been some competition among
prospective buyers who saw in them an
advantageous location for business
block. At the time Mr.. Benedict had
his negotiations under way no less
than three others were figuring on the
properties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-03
Russell Lukehart, Aged 5, Prod
ded With Sharp Stick to Keep
Him From "Piling Up
ABscEss OF CHEEK DEVELOPS
And Surgical Operation, to Drain the
Abseess, Becomes Necessary = TO-
Year-old Ray Winters the Cattle
manv-Acoident Was Not Considered
Serious at tho Time.

It Is not uncommon for small boys
to play carnival" following the far
ing banners and attractive "bally-hos"
Of the red tents, or to play circus" di-
rectly after the biggest show on
earth" has been to town, but playing
cattle" is a new one to most parts
Of town. Over on Leverton street,
however, where the youngsters are
frequenters Of the stock yards. and
witness the loading and unloading,
cattle" playing seems to be favorite
pastime.
It was not until Saturday, however,
that this game proved disastrous, and
5-year-old Russell Lukehart, son of
Columbus Lukehslrt, 917 Leverton, now
lies in bed with an abscess on the
cheek, and either this afternoon or to-
morrow morning will have to undergo
an operation to remove pus and drain
the abscess.
Last Saturday afternoon several boys
of the neighborhood were at play. Ray
Winters, 10 years old. was the cattle
man." and had herded UP large num-
Der of his playmates, who were the
steers" The cattle were. on that par
ticular afternoon, very prone to lie
down. Winters, fearing they would
pile up and smother, emulated the
real stockman, and began prodding the
fanciful cattle with a sharp stick. He
accidentally struck the little Lukehart
boy in the mouth, and a below, like
any other steer might make, nearly
frightened all of the other cattle to
death, and caused general stampede
to their homes.
The Lukehart lad found his way
home, crying with pain, but with his
mothers comforting words he soon for
got his troubles. There was little
thought of the accident at the time, but
a day or two later the left cheek be-
gan to swell and pain the boy great
deal. Wednesday a doctor was called,
and after an examination another was
called in consultation. 1t was decided
that an abscess was developing, and
that an operation would be necessary
to relieve the pus. The abscess is d.
rectly opposite the last molars on the
left jay, and upon the operation the
injury will be explored. 1t is thought
that possibly a particle OF the stick
may have became lodged in the cheek
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-03
MARRIED..
Heecher-Haymond.

"A very pretty wedding took place
Wednesday evening at the home OF
Mrs. Margaret Raymond, 7O4 East
Main street, when her daughter, Min
ME. was united in marriage to Mr..
Ernest Beecher, of Union. The cere-
mony was performer by Rev. Merle N.
Smith, Of the Methodist church, and
about thirty guests we're present. The
bride was prettily and tastefully dress
ed in white persian lawn and was UNI
attended. The rooms were decorated in
pink and white, carnations being the
flowers used. A niece Of the bride,
Miss Ruth Kaufman, played the we'd
ding march, and the bridal couple took
their places between two lovely ferns.
The ring service was used. A three
course luncheon was served, Miss Ma
bel Crabtree and Frances McManus as
sisting. The newly welded couple left
on the midnight train for their home in
Union. Both are well known in Mar
shalltown. The bride has been in the
employ Of E. r. Lay of the New Eng
land store for several years, and the
groom is well-to-do farmer near
Union.
Mr.. w. G. Glenning, Of Craik,, Can,
an uncle of the bride, was the only out
of-town guest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-03
KoehIer-NichoI.

A very pretty home wedding was
celebrated at the home of the bride
and groom, near Green Mountain, on
New Years evening, at which time
Mr.. Charles M. Koehler and Miss Fern
A. Nichol were united in the holy
bonds of wedlock, Rev. L. NJ. Day, of
Loring, officiating. The bride and
groom had furnished and prepared
their own home, on the Koehler farm
south of Conrad, and here were gath
cred both their parents, relatives and
many friends to witness the ceremony.
Promptly at SIS the wedding march
sounded. played by Miss Gladys Nichol,
sister Of the bride, when the bride and
groom entered the parlor and took
their positions under an arch and bell
beautifully decorated in green and
white. The bride wore a becoming
gown of white crepe de chine, trimmed
in lace, and carried brides roses.
After the ceremony and congratula-
lions, bountiful two-course supper
was served by Mesdames H. A. Cole
and James Brown, assisted by Misses
Ada Apologize, Emma Beichley, Dora
link. Maude Snyder, Esther Robinson
and Nellie Stewart. About ninety sat
down to the feast.
The bride Is a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs John Nichol, of Green Mountain,
and is beautiful young lady of many
endearing qualities. The groom is a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-03
1.-THE PITT
Massive Production at the odeon To-
morrow Evening.

Massive Production at the odeon To-
morrow Evening.
William A. Brady's great production
of 1.-THE Pit" in which that manager
is starring Wright Huntington, will
be seen here at the Odeon tomorrow
evening.
The dramatized version, which has
been made by Charming Pollock. re-
quires an exceptionally large number
of people for it's presentation, and will
be a veritab1e scenic tour de force.
two carloads of scenery being used In
the six great scenes that constitute the
play.
Z, "The PITT promises to hold it's place
in stage history as the great object
lesson against speculation, or gamb-
ling, just as Drink" is sermon
against drunkenness and Uncle Toms
Cabin crusade against slavery.
There are men of cold, calculating and
phlegmatic temperament who can
gamble and drink and use opium for
years, and yet appear to be little in
fiuenced. But not SO with another
.class-men of keen Imagination, ideal
istic and poetic temperament, of high
strung and nervous organism. When
one of this class comes under the spell
Of potent stimulant, whether it APP
peals primarily to the physicians APP
petites or to the mental faculties and
imaginative world the results are much
the same The man becomes the vic
tim Of the spell, the slave of the illu-
sion. 1t is all one whether it be hash
oesh absinthe, whisky, lust for pow
er, the donlining of sensual appetites
or the mania for gambling and specula-
ton. In time the baneful spell fills the
mental world as darkness fills the win
dowless cell land henceforth, for time
at least, the man, be he ever SO great
a genius, is the slave Of the Illusion
After the fascination of the wheat pit
has thrown its spell over Curtis Jad-
wins brain, the man becomes trans
formed. We hear no more Of the Sun
day school ;the wife is neglected.; all
those things which he before most en-
joyed become for him stale, fiat, I'M
profitable. The mania for gambling
drives out we'll nigh all else. He be-
comes as much a slave of the pit for
time as man ever becomes of drink
of opium or of the hallucinations of
well defined insanity. And seldom in
deed has the essential evil of stock
gambling been more wildly portrayed
than in this play.
During the days when the mania for
During the dys when the mnia for
speculation is holding the great bull'
in its deadly grasp, his whole nervous
nature is so overweight that it verges
more and more towards complete COL
lanse. while his beautiful but neg
lected wife is drifting towards the
most perilous quicksands upon which a
wife can wreck her life. The artist
has returned; he has become a con-
slant visitor at Jadwin's house; he
notes the neglect and unhappiness Of
Mrs. Jadwin; he makes love to her,
and all but persuades her to fly with
him. At the critical moment, how
ever, just as she is on the verge of de-
sserting her husbands home Curtis
Jadwin is overtaken by complete ruin.
Seats are enow on sale. Prices 25c,
soc 75c and 81.