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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-11-21
Ruby.''R.F.D.
By ". F. BRYAN.
Copyright, 1907, by c. H. Sutcliffe.
By W. F. BRYAN.

Across the fields the heat waves
shimmered like an invisible jelly" as
Dabney Forbush put 1t to his sister.
81 wouldn't go to town with the
handsomest man in the postal serv-
ice," he declared laughingly as Ruby
firmly stamped tiny foot on the floor.
'T don't think you're fair to the poor
chap" he went on, more seriously,
Suppose he becomes SO hopelessly in
love that at the end of the season,
when you go back to town, he finds
the Parkvale girls dull and uninterest-
ing. Perhaps he will commit suicide"
81 wish you would keep quiet" said
Ruby hotly. ''I have to go to town to
get some silks for that sofa pillow 1
am making for you. If Mr.. Perkins
Is so kind as to take me in, you should
be grateful to him"
'If it's for that class pillow you're
making for me, III go in after it my
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-11-21
The Meanest Man.

about the meanest man l ever
knew" said an old time Clevelander.
was a man out at the edge of town
that used to pick cherries for when I
was a kid. He objected to the boys
eating any of the cherries, and he used
to crawl around under the trees after
we got through and gather up all the
seeds he could find that we had dropped
while up in the trees Then he would
charge us up with that many cherries" I"
cleveland Plain Dealer
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UNDER THE TREES.
self" offered Dabney 1T viii save
Perkins the trouble of hitching up and
driving back here again. That's no
part of his postal labors."
Ruby stamped her foot again.
Il think you are perfectly horrid, -
she declared. Just as though you
could pick out the right colors"
"a man ought to know his own
class colors," Dabney defended. You
say l never do anything for you, and
then when | offer to take a hot trip
to town and walk all the way back
you call me horrid. Here comes Peter
Perkins now. l guess I'll slide into
the house. Great emotions always up
set me-"
He lodged into one of the low win
dows before Ruby could reach him
with the cushion she had caught up
from one of the chairs, and his mock
ing laugh rang out as the girl gave a
little shake to her ruffied plumage and
started down the shady walk to the
gate.
The ramshackle wagon used In the
rural free delivery service was just
drawing up to the block, and she
climbed light to u place beside the
stalwart young fellow, whose glad
smile showed all too plainly the pleas
ure he felt
1T was awfully good of YOU to come
back this way for me-" she said after
her hand had fingered an instant in his
muscular grip. Dab does make such
martyr of himself when he does any
thing for me, and Mr. Slocum will not
let us have the horses in the harvest
ing season"
Il was only too glad to come back"
said Perkins simply. You can't
blame Slocum about the horses He
needs them all just now. If you come
TO a real farmhouse to spend the sum
mer, you cannot expect a livery outfit
like those places where the biggest
crop they raise is summer boarders."
"It has been such a real summer"
she said smilingly. 81 hate the round
of fashionable hotels. This has been
ideal"
~Parkvale is a pretty nice place." he
L L
ever spent a more pleasant summer
myself"
"You have done a very great deal to-
ward making things pleasant for me-"
said Ruby. Il don't know when
ever saw Dabney so disobliging. If 1t
had not been for you, l don't know
what | should have done"
"We are supposed to be polite" he
reminded. ITS in the regulations"
Ruby wondered if the regulations re.
quired him to hitch up a fresh rig and
drive her back to the farm after her
purchases We're made, as he had done
a score of times.
From the first she had been attract
eG to the handsome young driver OF
the rural delivery. He was SO unlike
the men she knew in town. She shud-
dered at the name of Peter Perkins.
1t did not match his manner or his
appearance, but she had almost for
gotten his name except when her
brother teased her about It. At first
Ruby had simply utilized her inherent
fiirtatious instinct, but later she had
come to realize that she loved the mail
driver, and at times the knowledge
frightened her
Peter broke the silence.
You'll be going back home pretty
soon now, won't your" he asked.
Ruby nodded.
1--WE expect to leave Saturday. Dab
ney must visit an uncle from whom
he has expectations, and mother wants
me to come to her for a few weeks.
She Is In the mountains"
'I'm glad that you're going" he said
abruptly.
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ANTI-SALOON PEOPLE
PREPARE PROGRAM.

OCEAN GROVE. July 1.-THE AntiTSa-
loon League has prepared its program FOR
it's special day here IN Monday. uly 70
1t includes addresses by the Rev. Dr.
Charles L. Mead. president New Jersey
Anti-Saloon League; Thomas II. Reed
Legislative superintendent of the New
York Anti Saloon League; the Rev. DR..
P. A. Goold. of Minneapolis; G.. Rowland
Munroe. Attorney of the New Jersey
league: the Rev. DR.. F. G. I~nglehart, j.
Frank Budke. superintendent Of the New
Jersey league; William II. Anderson. SUI
perintendent of the Maryland A~nti-Saloon
League: Bishop Luther b. Wilson, the
Rev. DR.. Howard II. Russell. superintend-
ent Of the New York Anti-Saloon League
the Rev. S. e. Nicholson, superintendent
of the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League
and the Rev. DR.. P. A. Baker superin'
tendent of the American Anti-Saloor
League.
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TELEGRAPH GIRLS
ROMANCE SPOILED,
She Married a Supposed Millionaire and
Now She's in Divorce Court Both as
Defendant and Plaintiff.

WASHINGTON, July ia beauti-
full romance that stirred many young
hearts in Washington a few months
ago came to an end today when Will
lam Irwin Brooke, scion of an old Mary
land family, but now living in Alexan-
dria, sued his wife. Mae Brooke, for
divorce, charging infidelity.
Last September Miss Mae Parrish,
one Of the p~rettiest girls in Washing
ton, amazed all her young friends by
clipping with William Irwin Brooke.
Mr.. Brooke had been attentive to her,
and as he was reputed to own many
millions, she had been much envied.
The honeymoon lasted eleven days, and
then they separated. 1t was commonly
understood when h young couple re-
turned to Washington after their elope-
ment and went to a modest boarding
house, where they lived in n room,
that this unassuming menage was only
temporary until Mr.. Brooke's ancestral
mansion had been properly refitted fol-
the beautiful young bride.
But the bride did not wait for the
ancestral mansion and soon sued heI
husband for a divorce. alleging cruelty
The>romance seemed all shattered, ane
the fair young bride expressed her.
self freely about her husbands mil
lions. The court awarded her $40 9
week alimony pending the suit, from
which many Of the brides friends begaI
to form their own opinion about thu
bridegroom's reputed millions,
Another and the Anal chapter wa
added to the romance when Mr.. Brook
sned for an absolute divorce. Mrs
Brooke is now living at Falls Church
Mrs. Brooke had been the telephon
onerator At n of the leading hotels
ana 1t was there that her husband mrs
met her.
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HUNT RUFFIANS
WHO ABUSED
LITTLE GIRL
Child in Serious Condition
From the Assault of
Two Young Men.

NEW YORK, July 11-Olgs
Schramek, a pretty little girl of 8 years
living with her parents at Eighty-sec-
ond street and Twelfth avenue, Dykel
Heights, Brooklyn, is in a %precarious
condition today as the result Of a
brutal assault made upon her by two
ruf1ans within a short distance of her
home last evening. The entire Brook
lyn police force is working to run down
the assailants. who are described as
having been well-dressed young men.
Residents of the neighborhood In which
the child lives are aiding the authori-
ties, and frequent threats of summary
action and short shrift in case the men
are captured are heard.
Accompanied by her sister Ella, z
years old. Olga obtained permission to
go into a vacant lot neal her home
yesterday TO pick berries. There Is
quite a growth of brush and weeds In
the lot, n the children thought they
would surprise their father, August
Schramek. president Of a Manhattan
lit~hographing company. on his return
home about $50 O'Clock.
The two little girls carried a basket be-
tween them, and when they entered the
lot and began picking berries a man sprang
sut from behind q bush. seized Olga ana
hurried with her to n secluded spot In a
cIump OF woods nearby. Meantime Ella,
the younger sister, ran away as fast as
she could. When she reached her home
she was b~reathless and excited. but man
aged to tell her mother that a mar had
carried Olga away with him.
Mrs. Echramek, frantic and half hys-
tericai, quickly seized a club and started
with the terrified Ella to the scene OF the
assault. On the way they met Frank Carl
son, a neighbor, who Joined In the pur-
suit. Hnrrying into the woods ahead or
MRS. schramek and little Ella, Carlson
found Olga lying on the ground uncon-
ecious. her clothes almost torn from ner
body and her childish form bruised IN
many places. She was carried back to
her home, where a doctor from the NOT
wegfan Hospital attended her.
Through the night Olga partly regalneo
consciousness and was enabled 10 relate the
narrowing story of her experience. She
said there were two men. one OF whom
waited In the woods, while the other went
out into the lot to attack her. Neither Oh
the men, she said, appeared to be Italians
Olga said the man who first attacked her
was about so years old, had light brown
eyes, wore a soft black hat and had no tie
or collar on. He spoke to her, she says,
when he approached her IN the lot and told
her not to be frightened. Then he rushed
no to her, grabbed her in his arms, and
when she screamed. placed his hand over
her mouth to smother her cries. A second
man was met in the woods. Olga say who
took part In the attack. She then became
fneoneiblQ
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pson,, 70 where they're invited Advertise
IN THE EVENING STAR and they'll come e
you.
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DENTISTS MEET
STATE CONVENTION OPENS
AT ASBURY.
DR.. Walter woolsey, of Elizabeth, to Be
Elected President-Two Candidates
for vice-Presidency.

ASBURY PARK, July 17-New jersey
dentists to the number Of several hundred
poured into this resort last night and thu
morning, that they might put in an ap
pearance at IL o'clock today, when tins
thirty-seventh annual convention Of tn'
New Jersey State Dental Association open
cd in the Auditorium. The session VIII las
until Friday afternoon, when 1t will clos'
with the election OF officers.
For several days exhibitors of dental
goods have been In town. getting their
booths in the Auditorium ready for to-
days opening. The New Jersey dental
exhibit Is the largest In the East and
even the big showings of previous years
have been outdone this summer.
DIR. M. r. Brlckman, of Hackensack,
VINO Is president Of the association, opened
the session at 10 o'clock this morning
After The presentation for membership and
some miscellaneous business, an ADJOURN
ment was taken. At this meeting there
was not much OF Importance except the
delivery of the presidents annual address.
Tomorrow afternoon will be given up
to exhibitors. There will be business
meetings of the conventioners tomorrow
morning and Friday. Tomorrow afternoon
Will be given up to clinics and the meeting
of the clinical conference committee. DR..
w. F. Holbrook. OF Newark. will conduct
a clinic on THE Use of Natural Teeth in
Bridge Work." and DR.. Raymond a.
Albray, of Newark. on Cold Inlay"
A number of essays are to be read by
different dentists tomorrow evening. This
will leave nothing much for the last day
of the convention except the morning cleo
ton, which is usually a tame affair, and
the evening celebration at Hotel Column
bia, which is never a tame affair. On
Friday night the dentists have refresh
ments and hold a smoker each year, hav-
ing plenty of good professional enter
tanners present.
BY vote of the society's executive COM
mittee New Jersey will this year CO.
operate with other States and bar from
the meetings and clinics all practising
dentists in New Jersey who are not mem
bers of the society.
1t may be safely predicted that DIR.
Walter Woolsey of Elizabeth, will be
elected president. He is now vice-presi-
dent, and for many years the viee-presi-
dent has succeeded TO the higher office.
Likewise 1t is a certainty that DR.. Charles
A. Meeker will be reelected to the seere-
taryship. DIR. Meeker. who lives in New
ark, has had this office for thirty-three
consecutive years. and he is the mainstay
OF the organization. II there Is any con-
test 1t will be for the vice-presidency.
Two candidates IA announced them
selves. They are DR.. Frank Gregory of
Newark, and DR.. C. H. Dietz. of Trenton.
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PARDON BOARD MEETS.
Holds Session in Governors Cottage at
Sea Grit.
Especial to the Evening star

SEA GIRT, July 1.-THE Court of
Pardons is in session at the Governors
cottage. The various judges composing
this body arrived on a late morning
train, and after being warmly greeted
at the little white House by Gov
ernor Stokes, sat chatting for a half
hour on the piazza while refreshments
were served, and then retired to a
committee room, where they are still
secluded, with a soldier on guard OUT
side the door and sentries marching
back and forth in front of the cottage.
Attention was given this morning to
the Cordova and the Sheba cases.
There is a long list of petitions; when
the members of the court came out fos
luncheon it vas said they would not
make public any verdict before 8 or 6
o'clock tonight. 1t is not understood
that they have arrived so far at a de-
cision in any case and all information
concerning what has tr%anspired at the
conference was kept secret.
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SHAFTS AMBASSADOR
AT SYCAMORE HILL,

OYSTER BAY, July H.-General Nor
teza, the Persian minister to the United
States, today performed the duties for
which he has been made a special am
bassador by personally notifying Presi-
dent Roosevelt of the accession to the
Persian throne of Mohammed Ali, Shah,
General Morteza was taken to Sycamore
Hill in the government automobile. His
mission occupied but a short time. en-
abling him to leave Oyster Bay on the
noon train.
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NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
Mrs. Lillian Rollister, President of
Ladies of Macoabees of the World.

ATLANTIC CITY. July 1.-THE Ladies'
Of Maccabees of the World in session here
yesterday elected these officers:
Supreme commander. Mrs. Lillian ROLLS
Ter. Of Detroit: supreme lieutenant COM
mander. Mrs. Eva l.. McNett, New York;
supreme record keeper, Miss Bina M. West.
or. Mrs. Nellie C. ". Heppert, Akron, o.;
supreme chaplain. Mrs. Minnie w. Ayde-
lotte. Oakland. Cal supreme sergeant,
Mrs. Louise Nj. Heinrich. Chicago; SUI
prsme mistress at arms, Miss Ella l..
Mark. Council Bluffs, Ia; supreme sem
tinel. Mrs. Melva j. Caswell. Washington
supreme picket. Mrs. Lillian Mason. Jones'
boro, Ark; supreme trustees, Mrs. Helen
NJ. Bradbery. Port Huron; Mrs. Ellen
p. Downer. Chicago, and Mrs. Grace
Meredith. Wabash. Ind. The convention
viii continue in session until Thursday.
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IAN MACIAREN LEFT sass, 500.

LONDON, July 1.-THE will of the
Rev. DIR. John Watson Clan Maclaren).
who died at Mount Pleasant, Ia, May
6 last, leaves an estate valued at $685.
500 to his widow and. family, and in
vests the control of all published and
unpublished works in trustees for the
benefit of the estate.
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CITY ADvERTIsEMENTs


AN RESPECTING TAKES
FOR 1907.
Be IL ordained by the Common Council OF the
City OF Newark as follows:
Section /. That there be assessed. raised py
taxes and collected upon and from all persons
residing. and lands located In the City Of New
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The foregoing ordinance was presented N
Common Council on Friday evening. July y.
1907. was read twice under suspension OF the
rules and duly ordered to a third reading.
JAMES +. CONNOLLY.
City Clerk. e
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CITY ADvERr1sEMENTs.

And also, O further special tax Of
$500 to raise an amount equal TO
amount OF said debt, to create a
Sinking Fund for the redemption
and payment of said ponds..:.. c~~
Ss.75 to pay the interest on $780,
600 School Ronds. issued by au-
t tnosit " G e. az sts ass Of Sf New shs Jersey Jersey.
d approved October 10. 1909, and acts
' amendatory thereof and supple
And also. a further special tax OF
So. 800 to raise an amount equal to
a amount of said debt to create a
Sinking Fund for the. redemption ,m
and payment Of said bonds 1850 %
And also a further special tax OF
seso'Oa school Bonds. issued BY
authority Of an act Of the Lekis-
se-. approved October 10. 1903. and
Elementary thereto ....-.......: 22,75o 90
And also. a further special tag Of
o IS, 500 to raise an amount equal TO
amount Of said. debt to create a
Sinking Fund for the redemption
and payment Of. said bonds.,.. $500 "
And also. a further special tax Of
q s.. $50 to pay the interest on $3.50:
900 Track Elevation Bonds, issued
Legislature Of the state Of New
Jersey, approved March 30. 1904. $3.50 %
And ALSO. n further special tax OF
q 81. 800 to raise an amount equal to
amount Of said debt to create a
Sinking Fund for the redemption $500
ana payment of said bonds....s S.e0O %
And also. n further special tax
a 81. 25 to pay interest on S65,OO0
= School Bonds. issued August /,
1906, by authority OF an act Of the
Legislature of the State Of New
Jersey, approved October 10, 1903.
0 uppismentary thereto'~.~-... s.a7b 90
knS also, a further special tax or
$3.50 to raise an amount equal
to one per certum of the total
amount of said debt to create a
Sinking Fund for the redemption
and payment Of said bonds..... so 90
And also a further special tax OF
1923. 31G to pay onezhalf years in-9
terest on 81, LOT, 500 School, Bonds,
issued May ], 1907, by authority Of
an act o. the Legislature Of the
/. State Of New Jersey. approved
y October 10, 1903. and acts amenda-
tory thereof and supplementary
thereto &,3lO W
And also, a further special tax Of
S11, 655 to raise an amount equal to
a ons per centum Of the total
amount of said debt to- create a
Sinking Fund for the redemption
and payment OF said bonds..,... u,6ao %
And also. o further special tax OF
$9.66s to increase the Sinking Fund
0 provided for the redemption ana
payment of s33E. 900 Market Bonds
issued by authority of an act OF
the Legislature Of the state Of
New Jersey. approved April q.
q vision Of section 10 Of said act. 9.6ss 90
Total section ................. s5ss. ass 90
Total, section 1.........s2, $50, e97 IS
Total, section 2.......... B9S, 48S 90
The foregoing ordinance was presented IN
Common Council on Friday evening. July -.
1907. was read twice under suspension OF the
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For the support OF the Department
of Public Health.
For the support of the Police De-
partiTeut
For the Shade Tree Commission
For pa sing and repaving streets
Capital fund.-. act of Feb, 26. 1903
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Fer maintenance and support OF the
Free Public Library:
One-third mill on ratables,
1905 .ss4. ss7 90
Less n sinking fund and in
terest 5000 90
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. July 17.-By the
collapse of a section Of seats IN the
Chautauqua Auditorium last night.
eight persons were seriously hurt and
forty to nifty others slightly injured.
The seats which gave way were built
OF lumber q 4 height Of nfteen feet.
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NOTICE or INrENrIoN-Board Of street and

NOTICE OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF street ana
Water Commissioners
Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the
Board OF Street and Water Commissioners OF
the city Of Newark. af q meeting held the
eleventh day OF July, 1907. and approved py
the Mayor OF the city OF Newark on tns
twelfth day Of July. 1907, public notice -
hereby given that i e the intention or 'r ~
Board Of Street and Water Commtssioners %
tho city Of Newark. under and by. virtue OF
provisions Of the act entitled AN Act 70 ne
vise and Amend the Chartev OF the ClSy OF
Newark approved March 1lth. lsoi. EMO tne
supplements thereto. and the ecL Sreatlns ny
Board Of Street and Water Commissloners OF
the city az Newark. approved March Stn. lssl
and other public laws Of the state OF New
Jersey. to order and cause the openlng OF
SOUTH SIXTEENTH STREET.
from Avon avenue to Nineteenth avenue. and
from Fourteenth avenue 70 slzteehth avenue;
CUSTER
from Chadwick avenue 20 seymour avenue.
The opening and widening OF
from clinton avenue to Lyons avenue, and
$500 HAWTHORNE AVENUE.
From, unnferdon street to Clinton place. IN
accordance with the maps on file in the office
Of the CHIEF Engineer.
such peraons as may object thereto are re-
uuested to present their objections In writing
to the Clerk Of said Board at the ONCE of
the BOARD Of Street and Water Commissioners.
Citv Hall. Newark. on or before the explra-
flon Of six DAVIS from date Of this notice.
BY direction OF the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners Of the city Of Newark.
NJ r. sHERRERD.
Newark. N, j.. July IL. 1907. 5yis-5t
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shop near the point where tho body was
discovered.
A party of officers went immediately OF
the barber shop and found the barber with
a blOodstaiued knife in his possession ana
spots Of blood on his hands. When the
poliOs entered his place he was sitting in an
attitude Of deep detection.
do yOi know who murdered So and SOP"
inquired one Of the officers. suddenly.
els he dead2" asked the barber.
Eyes" replied the policeman.
Then 7 suppose | killed him." remarked
theNmulattO.
The man was. OF course. put under arrest
and in course Of time came up for trial.
II was apparently a clear case Of murder
without provOcation. Tho barber had a
good lawyer. but he was absolutely with
out evidence in his clients favor. except
that It could bS shown there was IN feeling
between the two men and that the victim
often annoyed the mulattO.
When the prosecution had concluded its
case. which included the confession made
by the prisoner 10 the ohiosrs, his attorney
announced that he would only show thai his
client hRu frequently been annoyed nv the
dead man and would then let the defendant
tell his own story. IL was the first inn
portant trial in which the accused had