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he was tryin' to blow soap bubbles up in the air.
Well It seems that mother has been worryin' a
lot over keepin Langdon amused Think of it, in
a town ike this " He detests business" says she,
and he doesn't care for theaters, going to clubs
or reading, or society. But his poor dear father
didn't care for any Of those things either except
business. And Langdon hasn't any head for that.
All he takes interest in is his machine
Singer or Remington" says l
Why, his auto of course. He's perfectly de-
voted to that. says she; - but the police are so
dreadfuly particular Oh, they make such lots of
trouble for Langdon, and get him into such stupid
scrapes. Don't they, Pembroke,'
Pembroke didn't blink al that He mods twice
e Il just keeps me worried all the time" she goes
on. 1t isn't that | mind paying the absurd fines,
of course; but-well, YOU understand No one
knows What those horrd officers will do next they're
50 unreasonable. Just think that is the poor boys
only pleasurel So | thought that if we could only
get Langdon interested in something of athletic
nature-he's a splendid boxer, you know-oh.
splendid
That's different" SAYS You might send
him down few times and
Oh, but | want YOU meet him first. says she,
and arouse his enthusiasm. He would never 60 II
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bein' anything nearer years ago, but still anx
ious TO try again. But it didn't look like thered
be any weddn bells for him until Langdon either
got his neck broke put away for life. Penny
wa Mt soured though He talked real nice about
it. He said ne could see how much thought
of Langdon. and it showed what good stuff she
made Of her stickin' TO the boy until he'd settled
something, or something had settled him.
Course, he thought it about time she had
let up and was treated white for awhile Accordin'
to the hints he dropped | suspicious that Penn
broke would have ranked her Al in the queen
class and gathers that the size OF her bank account
don't cut any ice in this deal him havin more or
less of a surplus himself guess he'd been patient
waiter but he'd set his hopes hard on engagin' the
bridal state room for a spring trip to Europe.
1t all comes back, though, TO what could be done
with Langdon, and that where the form sheet
wa 1t any help There's million 50 left in trust
for him; but he don't get it until he's twenty five.
Meantime, it was question of how you're goin' to
handle youngster that's inherited the instincts of
truck driver and the income of bank president
Its pity too says Pembroke. " He hasn't
any vicious habits, he's rather bright, and if he
could be started right he would make quite man,
even now He needs to be Gagged up somewhere long
enough to have of the bully knocked out of him.
I'm hoping you do little along that line
Too big a contract" says |. All l want IS
to make his buzz a little, just come
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first though. But he's dear boy, isn't he,
PeTnbrOke:
This was Pernbroke,,s cue Tor fair. It's up 70 him
- do the boost act But all he produces IS double
barreed blink from behind the glasses. He's one
Of these chubby chaps, Pembroke is especially
around the belt. He has pink cheeks, and nice
whistle forehead that almost meets the back Of his
collar Bur he knows when TO let things slide with
. link
guess some ones been givin' you the wrong
steer. SAYS L. Il amt started any kindergarten
class yet The Y. ", c A. does that sort Of"
Oh dear, but Langdon isn't a child, you know"
says the lady. He's a great big fellow, almost
-aenty-two. Yes, really. And | know you'll get
r. be awfully fond Of him. Won't he, Penbroke!"
We-e-e-ell-" says Pembroke.
oh. he's bound 20. says she. "Of course,
Langion doesn't always make friends easily He
50 apt 10 be misunderstood. Why, they treated
hmm perfectly horrid at prep school, and even worse
college. A lot Of the fellows, and, actually,
some If the professors, were 50 rude TO him that
Langdon said he just wouldn't stay another dayi /
Old him | didn't blame him bit So he came
home. But its awfuly dull for young like
Langdon here IN New York, you know"
Crippled, or blind, or something, IS he'" says /.
Who Langdon! Why, he's perfect-absolutely
perfect" SAYS she.
Oh. that accounts for It" says /, and Pembroke
went through some motions with his cheeks like
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By S E w ELL FORD

J HUH" says he I've heard freight engines
coughin' up grade make a noise a good
deal like that
Say, a rule l amt anxious to take
on new people and it's gettin' so lately that
we turn away two or three a week; but it didn't
take me long to make up my mind that | could
find time for session with Langdon if he wanted it,
Your NAV says you do little boxin'?" says
/, smooth and soothin'
What of it," says he
Well, says |, " down to my studio we iuqgle
the kid pillows once in awhile ourselves, when we
amt dom the wand drill, playin' bean bag"
HUH says he once more
For parlor COnversationalist Langdon was a
frost and he has manners that would turn a subway
guard green. But nav jumps in with enough
buttered talk for both, and pretty soon she tells
me that Langdon's perfectly delighted and will be
down next day
Meand Mr. Gallagher'll be on the spot" says L
g Good evenin' ma am"
At that Pembroke jumps up, makes a quick
break away, and trails along too so we does a
promenade together down West End-ave
Charming young fellow, eh'" says Pembroke
Surei says l. But he hides il we'll
You think Langdon!needs exercised" says he
Never saw anyone that needed it much worse"
says |
Just my notion" SAYS he In fact. am so
interested in seeing that Langdon gets it that | am
quite willing TO pay something extra for"
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@a the more kinds l meet the slower ~
/ am about sizn folks up on a first =
~ view. l used TO think there was
only two classes, them that was nv
kind and them that wa mt; but I've got over that
don't try to grade EN- up any more; for they're
built 50 many different plans II would take card
index the size OF fiat buildin TO keep EN- all on
file All ] can make out IS that there's some good
points about the worst of EN-. and some of the
best has their streak of yellow.
Anyway, I'm glad | amt called TO write
tag for LangdOn First news | had OF him was
what l took for inside information BEN as il was
handed me by his nav. When | gets the note
askin me call up IN the 7o's between five and six
/ don't know whether it's bid 10 a tea fest or a
balt for an auction The stationery was real swell
though and the wTitin' was this up and down
kind that goes with the gilt crest What | could
puzzle out Of the name. though, wa Mt familiar
So about tive-thlrty I'm Standin' outside the
glass doors pushin the bell. 4 butler with boiled
egg ewes looks over real frosty from behind the
lace curtains: but the minute | says I'm Shorty
McCabe he takes of the tramp chain and saws
Yes, ST. This way, sir" I'm towed in over the
Persian hall runner to the back parlor where there's
lady and gent sttin opposite sides of the coal
CRATE with a tea tray between EN-
III be drini1in that stuff yet, if | amt careful
thinks |.
But didn't even have TO duck The lady was
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q Az, the longer knocks around, and
the more kinds | meet, the slower
u / am about sizin' folks up on a first
II view. l used TO think there was
only two classes, them that was nv
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80 AA%A ~
says |. " I'm almost willin'
20 do the payin' myself "
That plcases Pembroke
50 much he has TO stop
right IN his tracks and
shake hands Funny. amt
II, how YOU can get 10 be
such good friends with
anyone 80 suddcn9 We
walks thirty blocks, chm
min like brothers. and
when we stops on the
corner OF AID I've got the
whole story Of NAV and
Langdon. with some Of
Pembroke hist ~ thrown
IN
1t was Just a plain case
of mother bcin used as a
doormat bv her dear. dar-
ling boy She was more
or less broke in 10 II, for
It seems that the late de
parted had been a good
deal of a rough houser in
his day. havin been about
as gentle in his ways as
a Leventh-avc bartcu-
der cntertainin' the Gas
House Gang He hadn't
much more'n quit the
game. though. before
Langdon got big enough
10 carry out the pro-
gram, and he'd been AT
II ever since.
As near as lcould figure,
Pembroke was a boy
hood friend of NAV 5.
He'd missed his chance of
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s. ANXIOUS 10 get 70 talklD
that She forgot 70 shove
the cups al me. and the
gent didn't act like II was
his say II was hard 10
tell. the way She has the
lights fixed. whether she
vas TWENTY-FIVE or fifty
Anyway. She hadn I got
past the klttenish stage
Some of EN- never does
she don 'tOverdo the thing
but Just gushes natural
usin her eyes, and eve
brows. and the end OF her
nose and the TIP of her
chm when She spoke. as
well as THROWN in a few
shoulder lifts once in
awhile
Its 50 good OF you
t. come up, professor
says She. ISM Il, Penn
br0ke
Pembroke - he's the
gent on the other side of
the tray-starts TO say
that il was. but She don I
give HIM a chance She
blazes right ahead, tellin
how She 5 heard OF me and
my studio through friends.
and the minute she hears
she knows that nothing
would suit Langdon bet
ter Langdon ) my son.
YOU know. says she
Honest, says l.
Te-he SAYS she
How sweet Of YOU
Hardly anyone believes It
a. first. though But he
Pembroke,
This was perubrOke's CT
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
Child Turning Purple

Mary Eighotz. three years old. OF
New York. is turning purple. The
doctor says she is suffering with a dis
ease known as purpura hemorrhagica.
The child's mother first noticed the
changing color three weeks ago. While
bathing the girl she detected small
purple spots on various parts of the
body Alarmed. she applied home
remedies, but the spots continued to
spread. The child's body presents the
appearance OF being tattooed. Almost
the entire body is covered, with the
exception of the face, which thus far
has not been affected. While most Of
the time the blotches are of a mellow
purple, they occasionally change to a
deep plum color or dull red. Some
blotches are as large as penny. 9th.
ers are no larger than a pinhead. The
disease is probably caused by a rheu.
matte germ.
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
Contained Whisky, Money, Burglar
Tools and Other Things.

Philadelphia wooden leg
for long time enabled John Woods
to laugh cell locks to scorn and ac-
quire a record as jailbreaker was
told in the city hall police court by
Special Policeman Spencer. The leg
did not figure as factor in the prose-
cution, Woods being held on the
charge of stealing n ring belonging to
John Gaynor of 2S13 Agate street.
Spencer said that Woods was jew
eler by trade His wooden leg served
him until recently. when the police
found 1t was not only n means of 10.
comotion. but storehouse for lock
picks. false keys. liquor and money.
Twice Woods had sawed his way
out of cells in the Trenton avenue po-
lice station in a way that mystifled
the turnkeys and house sergeants,
said Spencer. Once Woods, apparent
ly sober. was placed in a cell. An hour
later he was uproariously drunk. He
was taken out of his cell and search
ed. all but his wooden leg, and then
locked up again. Within another hour
he was again detected cutting the lock
from his cell door with Qie saw.
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
Does it pay to advertiser

Does 1t pay to advertise!
The more than 5000, 900, 900 that finds
its way to- the Chicago .mail-ardei
} houses each year is garnered by
campaign of advertising. You, Mr.
Local Merchant. claim, and rightly
that you can sell the same goods for
the same, or less money, than the
mail-order houses offer, but at the
same time you complain because the
mail-order man gets the business.
Why do they get it? Because they
advertise.
They not only advertise, but they
advertise in your field, and they ad-
vertise in your field because you do
not. They select towns, or special
lines where they do not have to meet
the competition that is offered by To-
cal adver Using, and they make aGver-
tising pay.
We want the people to trade at
home; We want them to build up the
home community; we want to see the
dollars kept in circulation here tIat
one and eli of the local people may
prosper. We do not want to see the
fortunes of the city mail-order man
built at the expense of the local COM
munity, but we know absolutely the
value of publicity, and we know the
mail-order houses will capture the dol
lars If the local merchants will not
fight fire with fire; will not show the
public what they can buy and at what
price.
Let us go back to this northern
Wisconsin town and see what oppor-
tunities the merchants there were sac
rificing. 1t was mill town, and in
no way an agricultural community.
There were not 20 farms within a ra-
dius of as many miles. The induStry
was lumber. and the money to run the
mills came from the city. The nearly
1000 employees were paid in city
money, and with little effort on the
part of the merchants in that town
this money might have been KEEP. in
the town. 1t might have been made
to build 4 permanent prosperity. But
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
ROAD TO SUCCESS
PUBLICITY IS THE MAiL-oRDER
MANS GREAT WEAPON.
MERCHANTS MUST ADVERTISE
"Fight Fire with Fire" and the Dol.
lars Now Going cityward viii
Stay In tho Home Community.

The merchant who would wage sue
cessiul warfare against mail-order
competition should study mail-order
methods. The same tactics that takes
the dollar out of the community will
keep it at home
And what are mail-order methods?
The keynote of it. all may be found
In the one word-publicity. The mall
order mouse advertises. 1t does not
advertise better goods at less money
than the home merchant gives, but it
advertises persistently. 1t puts it's
proposition before the public constant
ly. 1t recognizes no dull season in its
campaign for publicity. 1t never lets
up.
At a gathering in Iowa some time
ago a mail-order man explained some
of the system followed in the cam
paign Of publicity. According to this
explanation the mail-order house seeks
the line of least resistance in it's
search for business. Whenever they
can find town in which the fner-
chants are not active advertisers they
flood that community with their liter
ature. When they find town in
which the furniture dealer, for exam
pie, is afraid to use printers ink they
pay particular attention to the subject
Of furniture. They are searching for
the weakest link in the chain OF home
defenses.
Something of this is explained by
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11

found that 1t could not be operated
with as small force as had been esti.
mated. "A mich larger fofce nad 10 be
engaged and as a, result the expense
increased ',F' tta
Then the machinery gave out" and
finally graft was discovered. Politics
had crept into the plant and politicians
used it as an easy berth for their
friends.
One case was discovered in which a
politician sold the garbage collectors
old horses and wagons at exorbitant
prices in consideration for getting
them the positions. The collectors in
turn went outside the city, collected
garbage at so much barrel, pocketed
the fee and brought the stuff into the
city to be burned at the city plant at
city expense.
An investigation also showed that
the coal bills at the plant were enor-
nous and inquiry developed that the
city was footing the fuel bills of a
neighborhood that was using city coal
to heat the homes. Finally the ma
chinery gave out and the plant was
closed. Just now the city is buryinS
its garbage.
The proposition of the Rockford ply
sician, who was formerly health COM
missioner there, seems to be a good
way out of the dilemma and it is prob
able that his offer will be accepted.
The council has written to a number
of eastern cities and most of them
favor reduction over incineration. DR..
Bading, the health commissioner. is
opposed to reduction and for that rea-
son the council has sent out number
of letters to eastern cities to secure
information as to the best methods.
DIR. Boyd says that the possibilities
from garbage are much more than
most people believe. He says that fer
tiliZer and grease alone make garbage
profitable to handle. but under the new
government law the manufacture of
denatured alcohol will greatly reduce
the "ost of the disposal of refuse.
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11

the conditions the writer saw in a
mill town in northern Wisconsin. The
local paper carried practically no local
advertising when the size O. the town
was considered. and the stores of the
town were but small affairs. In talk
ing to one of the merchants he COM
planned that more than $4,000 was
sent from that community to the Chi
cago mail-order houses each month.
THAT is easily twice the amount that
is spent in all the stores in this town
put together each month" he explain
ed. Merchandising don't pay in such
a place as this"
A few hours later the writer was
talking with the publisher of the local
paper, and the conversation turned to
local advertising. or rather the lack
of it.
Il was very much tempted to accept
n proposition which received from
one of the Chicago mail-order houses
few days ago said the publisher.
II still have the proposition here on
my desk. hey offer me cash con-
tract at my regular display rates for
/ 800 inches. to be used during the
year, and in addition to the cash ad-
vertising they offer me a small COM
mission on all the new business Sc
cured in this county during the life
OF the contract They say their bust
ness in this county during the last II
months was approximately $4,000 per
month. aud l would secure q small
percentage on all business done over
this amount during the next IL
months"
Have you shown that proposition
to the merchants of this town." I
asked
II have. & It didn't move them"
he replied. "They simply say 1t don't
pay to advertise. | would jump at
the offer II It were not for the fact
that cannot bring myself to the point
of doins that which | know will help
to kill this community" -.
There was an illustration OF mail
order methods. The wide.awake maii-
order man proposed to reap golden
harves. from the field the very.much.
asleep local merchant would not cul.
rtate
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
~~Nr.~~vtr-~N~~~N,~.
UNCLE SAM HUNTS FOR HEROES,
Naval Department Has Medals for
Many Modest Sailors.

Washington.-Uncle Sam is to run
opposition to Andrew Carnegie in
hero medal distributing. Beneficiar-
les are to be those who fought with
the American navy or marines in the
Spanish-American war. 1t is not re-
quired that heroes" Uncle Sam is
hunting for saved the lives of any
one. II veteran can prove he was
especially active in the war he will
get a medal.
The navy is looking for every man
who helped whip the Spaniards, as It
has several hundred medals on its
hands of which it wishes to dispose" ="
the instructions received here read.
Heroes who risked their lives in the
service of their country are being ad-
vertised for, but still the most of them
have failed TO answer the honor roll
call"
By Legislative resolution on March
3. 1901, the secretary of the navy was
authorized to issue bronze medals
commemorative of naval engagements
in the waters of the West Indies and
on the shores of Cuba in the Spanish
American war. A board of awards
submitted a list of engagements, but
the secretary has enlarged the list so
as to include all officers and men who
We're under fire.
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
ALCOHOL OF GARBAGE.

and its plant is nearly a wreck. DR..
Boyd has offered to do the work at 20
cents ton. a saving of $l.19 ton,
and at the end of ten years to turn the
plant over to the city free of charge.
He says that experiments that he has
carried on in Chicago convince him
that even at his low figures he can
make good profit.
A number of cities in the country
are now investigating DIR. Boyds sys-
TEN, among them Milwaukee, Lancas-
ter, Pa, and Long Branch, n. J.
Milwaukee has had no end of trou-
BILE. The authorities originally esti-
mated that its city plant would cost
100000, but it cost over 100000 be-
fore ii was finished.
Then it was discovered that the
plant had been built on a quicksand
foundation and that it was In danger
of sliding into the river. Then it was
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
WON BY VOICE OF A GIRL.
New York Man Weds Lowell (Mass.)
Telephone Operator.

Lowell, Mass.-Falling in love with
her voice, which he heard over the
wire, and then with the girl herself,
Donald w. Wardwell of New York
city has carried off Florence NJ In
gals, pretty telephone operator of
this city.
The wedding took place at the res
idence of Rev. A. st. John Chambre.
pastor of ST. Anne's Episcopal church.
Few of their friends knew of il, but
the news quickly spread, and when
then took train for Boston en- route
for New York 100 young women were
at the station to give them sendoff.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Thomas ingalls, of West Fourth street.
Her father is dead. She has q
brother teaching in the Philip
pine islands. She herself is a
graduate of the Lowell high school,
class Of 1903. She has been in the
local telephone exchange for three
years.
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
FIGURES ON UNKNOWN ARMY"
Commissioner Of Pensions Says Num-
bcr viii Not Exceed 5000.

Washington unknown army
has been the subject of much contro-
versy in discussing the forces en-
gagged in the civil war;" said Commits
sioner of Pensions Warner the other
day in speaking of the pension roll,
but never until the McCumber serv-
ice pension bill became a law was
there means for determining any.
thing about its extent. The unknown
army has come to be so called largely
because its members did not apply for
pensions. This they did not do on
account of the various reasons of
delicacy, pride or Indifference, but
most of these causes have been re-
moved by the passage of the service
law.
80 far there have been about $780,
000 applications under the new law.
but of these only little over one per
cent. are In the shape of the original
applications. or, In other words. appll.
cations of the hitherto unknown pos.
sible pension claimants. Certainly
the entire number will not exceed
5000"
The records of the pension Office
show that 1851 Of the civil war pen.
sioners died In February, but there
are still 652,4SS Of them left on the
pension rolls.
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
His Wooden Leg a Storeroom.

The wooden leg supplied the key
to the mystery. 1t had been followed
out and in this cavity were found a
canteen of whisky. a roll of money. u
set of fine saws and several keys.
After that, Spencer said. Woods
was never locked in cell until his
false leg had been unstrapped and
searched. The famous leg said
Spencer, who seemed to have its his.
tory at his tongues end, had also
figured as weapon in assaulting
many policeman"
Woods only smiled when Magistrate
Kochersperger held him on the lar.
ceny charge.
Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
To Work Sapphire Mines.

Preparations are being made to
work the sapphire mines at Yogo
gulch extensively. Yogo dixie, which
Is in Montana, is four miles long ard
1t is estimated that the workable rock
will approximate 100000 cubic
yards. While the stones found there
are comparatively small. they are un-
usually brilliant. without flaws and of
beautiful tints. Their shape Is gen.
orally OF such character that the
culls, or smaller ones. are well suited
for bearings of watches. and for this
purpose they need little cutting.