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Rising Elocutfonfst.

Mildred said the proud mother, "let
the lady hear you recite that beautiful
poem you began to learn this morning."
The little girl complied:
"'Haff a lee, gaff a lee,
Gaff a lee gonnard!
All in the vallidet
Rode the Sick Sunderdp
'That's all 1 member Of it, mamma"
she said.
How remarkable for one so youngw
purred the caller. think what she'll be
when she is a few years older!''
All, yes!
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vtcious-Looking Creatures.

Some women interested in charities
recently visited home for discharged
female prisoners. They were shown
to room where two women were sew
ing. Dear mel" one of the visitors
whispered, what vicious-lookiag crea-
lures! Pray, who are they?" This
is the sitting room," blandly answered
the superintendent, "and these are my
" life and daughter"
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-~~@~-

ing house bazed with flags and thrilled with the music
of bugle and drum The blessing of the volunteers the
for their safety and the sad sad series of SOL
diers funerals all these up to the mans memory
In the old pew.
Suddenly out of this dreamland he is called by the
stir Of the congregation is conscious that he has
missed the good pastors perhaps God Him.
self has preached to him out of fes grim struggle-n
the vision Of Of his deep experiences and the
discovery that they still potent to the will
and confirm the faith with their rich and tender
ores.-Youths Companion.
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BARNARD Amenities.

"Why do you turn in your toes when
you walk?" asked the hen.
do you suppose want to be mistaken
for one of your chicks?" disdainfully re-
sponded the pigeon.
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In the Nick of Time.

,Coleridge was enumerating the stencil
es of Cologne.
He had counted up to seventy-one, and
stopped in despair.
"That seems to be all !" he muttered.
sand I've just got to have another one y
At this moment an automobile whizzed
by.
"Ah!'' he exclaimed. "There it isl"
Shifting the strange odor with satisfac-
ton in spite of its disagreeable quality,
he proceeded to write his immortal poem.
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qualities that usually indicate character and prin-
cple. But this proves nothing except Mr.. Hip
pies success at simulation-a success which is
not unique but which, the other hand, 1t would be
contemplate to consider universal.
Speculations to neighbors, rivals and
enemies sincerity win always be Of the interesting
occupations Of mankind. Yet 1t is courageous man
who makes rigid rules who is prepared to condemn
affirm general principles. Mr. Nipple refraned from
the Sunday newspaper-he proves a hypocrite but
that makes the Sunday newspaper neither better
worse Unfortunate indeed would it be TO weaken
capacity for belief In ones kind because knave had
measure Of success--Chicase Peat
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Remained to Be Seen.

Inquiring Friend-Was your uncle in
his right mind when he died?
Poor Relation-We can't tell about
that, of course, until we hear his will
read.-Chicago Tribune.
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NEW PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE.
Complications Caused by the wom-
an Who Works,

tered in the past. Here, says the New
York Sun, is case in point:
A young man and his betrothed were
schoolmates and became engaged dur
ing their last year in the high school,
The understanding was that they
should wait until he was able to marry.
He left home and plunged into bust
ness life. 1t was hard shedding for
some years, but recently he pushed his
salary up to the $1,000 mark, and was
ready to marry.
Meanwhile his Rosalind had not seen
fit to sit down and wait for seven
years for him to get ready to marry
her. She had gone into business her
self, and as she had both brains and
good family connections she is now
confidential secretary to a house which
pays her $500 year.
The man must ask her to cut her
income in two if she marries him. He
does not blame her at all for going to
work, but he does feel that his posi-
ton is not an inspiring one to contem-
plate, for he must either ask her to cut
her income in two to marry him, or
else let her go on working for a salary
after the wedding.
Cupid and Pecunia have not yet set
tied their differences in this case. In
similar cases they have settled it in
variety of ways.
A very few years ago one of the big
dry goods stores employed a woman as
buyer for one important department.
She went to Europe four times a year,
with all her expenses paid and a big
salary. In one of her trips she became
acquainted with the purser of the ves-
sci, and they made a love match of it.
The business woman was delighted
to give up her fine position and big sal
airy to marry the man she loved and
go to live with him in a tiny place they
purchased out on Long Island. She
was charmed with her little home, and
raised chickens and flowers galore;
and when the baby came their happi-
ness would have been complete but for
her one great trouble.
This was that her husband was away
from her nearly all the time. She wor-
.ried so about it that finally he gave
up his place as purser on a liner and
tried to get a job ashore.
Like a good many other men who
leave their own line of work, he did
not succeed. Finally she said:
Nov, see here, Johnny; you can't
get job, and if you did you wouldn't
earn more than One-third of what 1
can. If you are to go to sea 1 might
about as we'll have no husband at all.
"Now, if you'll stay down here in
the country and look after the baby and
the chickens and the roses, I'll go back
into my old place again! it's always
waiting for me-"
1t was fixed up in that way, and the
household is now running on that plan.
The man is the housekeeper anu the
woman is the breadwinner.
In one of the largest and oldest clip
ping bureaus in the world the propri-
etor's wife has entire charge of the
reading department. 1t began in 1898,
when a foreman left him suddenly and
she came down to help him out. She
liked the work and retained it perma-
nently.
"You couldn't drive her away" says
her husband, "and it suits me all right,
for she brings an intelligence and de-
votion to the business that couldn't
hire"
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M1LE-A-M1NUrE RA1LRoAD1Ne.

LII the signs point to an eventual electric.
cation Of the transportation business of the
country, at least except in the case of very
long hauls through thinly populated re-
gions. Will this Transformation bring with
it the practical impossibility Of mile-a-min-
ute travel? There seems considerable justi-
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Says President Palma.

Say, Diaz, what's the secret?
Tell me why
You get along so smoothly!
Why don't I?
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HIPPLE's HYPOCRISY.

HE damage effected by the late Mr.. Nipple is
not confined to his depositors. The ex-
posure Of hypocrite always endangers the
faith in human nature of the grudging and
the weak. Mr.. Nipple was able to deceive
his creditors by parading his religion, by
practicing with convincing ostentation the
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THE FAMILY PEW.

ONE Of the most vivid of the emotions which
thronged upon the summer pilgrim to the
old home were those which awaited him in
the family pew Of the old meeting house.
AS he took his seat there, and heard the
familiar note of the organ and the clear
thin voices of the choir the years melted
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AVERAGE vocABULARIEs.

E 300 old spellings are to be tabooed in the
Presidents first order, how many will the
second order include and how much Of the
language will there be left in its received
form for old-fashioned people to console
themselves with? An uneducated mans vo-
cabularY contains altogether. according to
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
WEST VIRGINIA


NEwBuRG, w. Va, Sept. 16.-Five
negroes who were sitting on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad tracks near this
place shooting craps, were run down and
killed by train.
WHEELING-John D. Maxwell, aged
OF years, one of the oldest residents of
Ohio county, is dead. He was born at
the headwaters -of Wheeling creek and
he knew personally Col. Zane, Lewis
Wetzel and other noted Indian fighters.
Mr. Maxwell received his early educa7
ton at the West Alexander academy.
CLARKSBURC--13eca of long
standing family feud Thomas Harmon, a
saloonist shot and instantly killed Mrs.
Fred Pickett, formerly of Oil City Pa,
while intoxicated.
Harmon went to Pickett's home and in
quired for Alfred Tompkins, a contractor
of I ittsburg, who was there, and was met
at the front door by Mrs Pickett. He
drew his revolver and fired, the bullet
penetrating the womans heart.
Tompkins placed him under arrest and
delivered him to the authorities. Mr..
Pickett is manager of the Bijou theater
and his wife was ticket agent.
ELKINS-water and sewer bonds of
the city of Elkins to the amount Of s40.-
900 were awarded to A. ]. Hood e. Co.
of Detroit, Mich, by the city council.
The proceeds will be expended on addi-
tional pumps, reservoirs, etc, and on
an extension of the sewerage system.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
INDIANA

LAPORTE, Ind, Sept. 16.-The first
schoolsin the United States to teach boys
according to the Ruskin idea will be
opened in this city tomorrow by DR..
Edward Rumley. son of the late mil
lonafre traction engine manufacturer,
with q fair enrolment of students. The
faculty will be composed of r. 0.
Brownson of Whnmore, Iowa; Mrs. May
Welso OF Chicago: Prof. A. B. Reynolds,
late of the faculty of Notre Dame. and
PAof O'Hara of Minneapolis.
EvANSVILLE-The glassblowers en-
pIoyed at the Hoosier Bottle works here
went on strike today for higher wages.
The plant employs nearly 800 men and
had been operated only six days after a
shutdown of several months.
Over 175 iron molders went on strike
here today because of an order issued
at the five stove boundaries preventing
the drinking of beer on the premises
during the noon hour.
NEW ALBANY-Mrs. c. H. Dallow
and two children, Mrs Charlotte Num-
and three children and Mrs. Frank Bar
ker, all of this city, sailed from New
York on the steamer Baltic for England
where they will spend several months
with relatives.
Misses Emma and Annabelle Draper
East Fifth street, who had been visit
ing relatives in Spencer county, KY.
have returned home accompanied by
Enoch Downs, who will spend a week
In this CITY,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
GREETS SWEETHEART,
THEN KILLS HIMSELF

i BARDSTOwN, KY, Sept. 16.-Os- I
\ borne Hite son Of George Hite, shot 4
+ himself through the head with a I
1. revolver and died a few moments I
i later. Young Hite shot himself on 4
! the porch Of his uncles home. The !
p uncle is Edward III. Hite, and both I
4. families live a few miles from Bards- 4
!. town. TIite was 25 years of age. 4
i 1t is thought at Bardstown that 4
4. the young mans infatuation for his !
4. cousin, the daughter of Edward III. \
4 Hite, led him to kill himself. He had I
4 been employed at louisville, and 4
4. few days ago wrote to his uncle a !
/. somewhat incoherent letter, asking \
i. his forgiveness for what he was 4
4. about to do y
i Young Hite walked up to his un~ 4
i. cle's house, where both Mr.. Hite and I
i. his cousin sweetheart were. He 4
1. shook hands with his uncle, and upon !
i attempting to greet Miss Hite, she 4
1. drew back, 1t is said, and the young !
i man drew his revolver and shot him I
i. self
i The young people lived near each !
4 other, and were supposedly sweet 4
i. hearts for some time. A short time I
j. ago they attempted to run off, with 4
i. the idea of getting married, but the ::
i plan was frustrated by the girls !
I. parents. All of the people concerned :.
4 are we'll to do, and the affair has !
+ created a great eenation here. !
+ + 1. i. 4. + + 4. + + 4 4 i + 4 + Z i \
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
RHODE ISLAND


NEWPORT, r. l.. Sept. 16.-J. Edward
Addicks saved his stock. in the Casino
from going under the hammer at sheriff 8
sale by only few minutes. The stock,
the par value of which Is $500 a share,
had been ordered sold under an execu-
tion of the supreme court on verdict
against Addicks for debt.
Just as the sale was about to begin
Mr.. Addicks attorney stepped forward
with check for $3.50, which covered all
expenses as we'll as the amount of the
verdict. There had been such demand
for the stock that as high as $500 share
had been offered the sheriff for 1t.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Eppitts body was
found near the naval torpedo station.
Eppitt had been in the habit Of bathing
every morning in the harbor. and 1t Is
believed that while in the water he was
taken i'll and died, as the body. which
was afioat gave no evidence Of drowning.
Eppitt was about 35 years old, married,
and was employed by the city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
KANSAS

LAWRENCE, Kas., Sept. 1e.-The body
of Lucius H. Perkins, the Lawrence law
yer who died June I last after a fall from
the roof of his house, was exhumed here
today by order of the United States cir
cult court, and the stomach will be ex-
amined for traces of poison. Perkins
held a policy for 100000 in the Mutual
Insurance company of New York. The
company declined to pay the premium. al
leging that Perkins had poisoned him
self.
PITTSBURG, Kas., Sept 16.-At Grove
burg, new mining camp in the northern
part of this county late last night two
persons were killed and two fatally
wounded, the result of a grudge held by
the Italian miners of the district against
mine boss. Charles Gardner, the mine
boss, and his sister, Mrs. George Rexford,
were waylaid on lonely road while re-
turning home by number of Italians
and shot and probably fatally wounded.
Gardner returned the fire and shot and
killed two Italians.
TOPEKA, Sept. 16.-Mark Tulley state
treasurer, received a check for $65, 6S6.70 as
the states share of the IL per cent divi-
dend of the First National bank. This is
the Devln bank. which failed while more
than half million dollars of the states
cash was on deposit. The receiver has
paid 81 per cent of the money due, and
this is all that the depositors will receive.
There is still S9S,530.05 due the state.
Pressure is being brought to bear on
Governor Hoch to prevent him from call
| ing a special session of the legislature to
act on the 2-cent fare question. Attorney
| General r. s. jackson thinks he can Sc
| cure the 2-cent fare without special ses-
| sion. He suggests that a case before the
| railroad commissioners be brought on the
| plea of the 'reasonableness' of the rate.
If the railroads refuse the case would be
carried to the supreme court.
SALINA-Ray Kear. a senior in the
Salina high school, suffered broken col
larbone here in practice game of foot
ball.
CARLTON-The farmers of this section
are very busy, but not too busy to help
neighbor in need. The other day they
turned out and plowed all the wheat
ground for H. Wall, who has been i'll.
There were fifty-three teams and they
put all his wheat ground In good condition
in one day.s This section has never been
so prosperous as now.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
YOUNG BOY DECLINES
RESPONSIBLE POSITION

+ MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Sept. 16.- i
!. Gavin McKerrow, the 14-year-oid =
!. son of President McKerrow of the i
1. state board of agriculture, has just +
!. refused an offer to become the man. j.
j ager of large Wyoming ranch at =
!. 500 month. He was offered the !
i. place after his elder brother, WILL i
+ had declined 1t. i
j. The offer was made by E. M. Glib +
!. son of Omaha, lti-millionaire +
4. and the owner of a big sheep ranch +
!. at Douglas, Wyo., on which he has i
!. GO, 900 sheep The ranch of which he +
i. has control is eighty-five miles wide !
4. by $50 miles long. He wanted young +
I. Gavin McKerrow to take charge OF 1
i. his home ranch and the care of his i
I. pure bred flocks Of sheep. Mr.. Glib I
i. son has become a personal friend of 4
i. the McKerrow family through per- I
i sonal dealings with its head. and first !
i. became interested In the McKerrow I
i boys several years ago when they 4
1. began showing sheep for their father. 4
i When he made the proposition few !
!. days ago Mrs McKerrow protested. 1
+ why, Mr.. Gibson" she said, you !.
i wouldn't take my 14-year-old boy and /
/. send him way out to Wyoming, I
!. would your" 4
!. why not?' retorted Mr.. Gibson, i
I. who is a down east Yankee. said to I
i bear a marked resemblance to Sena- i
l. tor Stephenson. II left home when !
j was IA and tramped to Boston. !.
!. Your boy can ride on a railroad !
!. train" i
+ But I couldn't thlrk of letting 4
!. my boy go out there" said the !
!. mother. II want him to do some 1
! thing besides feed sheep all his life" !
I. "Who wants him to feed sheep?" !
1. came the answer. II want him to 4
j. show the men whom / put under 4
4 him how the sheep ought to be fed" 1
i But Mr.. and Mrs McKerrow pre- i
!. ferred to keep their youngest son at i
!. home, and young Gavin is riding !
!. about the state fair grounds and :;
I. showing sheep in the judging ring i
+ this week as though 1t were the most !
4. natural thing In the world to turn j
T. down 500 positions of authority. Mr.. i
f Gibson, his wouldbe employer, Is said !
500 have tramped into Boston, and to i
i have found work In a butcher shop i
i which he sold out for $65,0OO before i
!. he was 30 years old. Then he came i
I. west, where he says he would have i
!. made some money had he kept to i
+ sheep all the time and not dabbled 4.
+ In fancy cattle. Inasmuch as his I
+ wealth Is estimated at the millions, !.
!. he evidently has not suffered ma 4
1. terially by his dabb,ing. 4
i 4 4 + i + l. + 4 i 4 4 j. + 4 4 i + I
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
SOUTH DAKOTA

BONESTEEL. s. D., Sept 16-The
Gregory county fair, which is to be
pulled off at this place September II to
20, will be the largest and best of any
that ever was held in this county. The
racing program is strong drawing fea-
ture. as almost $1,000 has been hung up
in purses, and some of the best horses
now on the Nebraska circuit have been
entered for the eleven events that are
included on the racing program.
HURON-The attendance at the state
fair continues to increase. The second
days gate receipts were nearly $4,000
greater than that of former years. while
the grandstand receipts were multiplied
by three.
While in the city Hon. Robert s. Per-
sons, treasurer's auditor of the depart
ment of the interior, Washington. d. c.,
stated that for nearly two months he, in
company with Mr.. Garfield, had been
visiting the government reclamation
projects of government lands In various
parts of the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
CONNECTICUT

BRADFORD, Conn, Sept. ia hear
ing on the confirmation of Capt. Albert
Pope as temporary receiver of the Pope
Manufacturing company in Connecticut
was assigned for today before Judge
Case of the superior court. The apprais-
ers, John r. Hills and Frederick c. Bill
ings, filed their inventory of the lands,
buildings, plant, machinery. tools and
patterns, showing gross value of
81, ,061 200.
In making the inventory the receivers,
acting under the advice of counsel, have
made no accounting of the book accounts,
bills receivable, stock on hand or in pro-
cess of manufacture material, ETC.. 1T be-
ing held that as the concern is foreign
corporation those items should be taken
as office assets to be inventoried in the
estate of the company located In the
state of New Jersey.
HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 1s.-Augusta
Evans committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid. Miss Evans was to have
become the bride of Arthur Smylie. In
vltations had been sent out, but on the
aovice of a physician were recalled. The
girl brooded over her Ill health and had
been especially morose since her we'd
ding was postponed
MERIDIAN-Rising from his seat al
services in the German Lutheran
church in Bristol John A. Page OF
Waterbury shouted wildly and threw a
prayer book at the altar Ushers tried
to eject him. but he fought them off and
the men of the congregation. Womer
ran screaming into the street. Page was
under a heap of struggling men wher
policemen arrived. Physicians who ex-
amined him at the city jail pronounce
him insane
THOMASTON-The brass mill of the
Plume & Atwood Manufacturing com
pany closed and will reopen in week
The depression in the brass and copper
industry at present has affected the loca
concern. =
| AVON-Mrs. Herbert Olcott. who i
visiting her mother, Mrs. c. C. Wheeler
| is i'll.
Lucius North of this place and Mrs
Emma Hamm, widow of Edward Hamn
of Simsbury, were married at the hom
of Mrs. Hamm's father. Roderick Smitf
of Meadow Plain.
-CANAAN-The c. N. e. railroad is in
lstalling railroad scales short distance
west of the railroad station.
J. Henry Roraback and family who
have been touring through Vermont ant
Massachusetts, in an automobile, re-
turned home.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.--Street disorders
today growing out of the strike of 50OC
furriers resulted in the arrest of score
of strikers. The strikers congregated In
the furrier district and complaints were
made that non-union men were being IN
timidated. The police were compelled to
make several arrests before the crowds
could be dispersed. The furriers went on
strike today as a result of lockout OF
1000 furriers on Saturday.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.--Ex-Judge e. H.
Gary, chairman of the board of the United
States Steel corporation, who has just
returned from abroad, in speaking of
the movement for the Improvement Of the
steel rail, said that the commission of
experts would probably report In two or
three weeks. "The time has gone past"
said Judge Gary. 'for the great corpora
tions to ignore the public and the public
interest. The public be damned policy
will not go in these days There has
been great change of late years in the
attitude of corporations toward the pub
lie and their employees"
ROCHESTER-Rober Foreman pleaded
not guilty to stabbing Eugene Mcdonald,
45 years old, advertising solicitor for a
local paper. Foreman was held pending
who is barely alive with knife wound
through his right lung. Foreman is said
to have been engaged to marry niece
of Mrs. Stephen Miller of this city. and
because the girl broke off the engagement
he went to Mrs. Miller's home to kill her.
He met Mcdonald instead, and plunged
a knife into his side.
sALBANY-Edgar A. Newell, mer-
chant of Ogdensburg. was appointed by
Governor Hughes member of the reor-
ganized state prison commission In place
of Richard L. Hand of Elizabethtown
who declined the appointment.
NIAGARA FALLS-Aged George Moul
of Wilson committed suicide. He slashed
his throat with razor and then jumped
into the Tuscarora river. His age was
~ years. I'll health is supposed to have
been the impelling motive for the act.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17
IOWA

ELDORA, Sept. 16,-The state con-
cluded its evidence in the famous Bly,
denburgh case and the defense will be-
gin second effort to prove the accused
mans innocence. The, same evidence as
that introduced during the first trial was
employed by the state in an effort to
prove that Blydenburgh poisoned his
wife with rough on rats"
IOWA CITY-A ecache of gold, contain
ing $1,000 and thirty-six gold rings, was
discovered in the cellar of the residence
of Charles Gebhardt. His wife died dur
ing the past winter and Mr. NGebhardi
had devoted much time since then to g
quest of the fortune which she was pop
ularly supposed to have secluded. Aftel
months of digging he finally unearthet
in the cellar the treasure trove.'
! BURLINGTON-Burl home-com
ing week was inaugurated. A large
crowd of visitors, including many old
time residents, thronged the streets and
homes of the city and enjoyed the pro-
gram of old settlers day.
A parade was held, including represen-
tations of old-time log cabins, Indians
on foot and on ponies, prairie schooners,
trappers and huntsmen and early settlers
in carriages. The streets and business
blocks are decorated.