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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-19

AS to the big Negro scare" Uncle Henry
doesn't hit the~nai on the head. Not at all.
Nobody was afraid of the negro. as long
as the whites were united But when the
whites divide, the negro is the balance Of
power.
At last, that is the possibility.
And this possibility was used by designing
politicians to intimldate the whites and to
keep them from dividing. The Democratic
leaders had everything their own way, and
wanted to keep it so.
Through the Democratic leaders, the North
ern and Eastern Capitalists were ruling and
robb1ng the South. Most Of those rich Yam
KEGS are Republicans Thus the novelty of
the thing was that the Republican Capitalists
were using the Democratic Party to rob the
people of the South! In other words. corrunt
Democratic leaders were helping the Republi.
can corporations to rob the Democratic mass
es.
We could not stop this, while the negroes
were voting, because the whites were afraid to
divide
And we were obliged to divide the whites,
because all of them can't see alike.
Even some of the sufferers from the spolia-
that it is all right
~ we Hdd 10 put the negro out, IN order
to give the whites freedom of action.
This was best for the negro, himself. AS
worker, as a producer, as citizen whose
true welfare is inseparably connected with the
section which will always be his home-the
South-it is best for him that he should not
embarrass the reformers in their struggle for
his rights as we'll as ours.
Let him step aside. Too many negroes
could be deceived, Or bought, or corrupted
The white men who did these things were as
bad as the negroes who allowed themselves
corrupted, but that didn't mend matters.
We had to put the negro out, in order to
make room for the growth of political indie,
pendence.
Now that the "nigger scare" is. buried out
of sight and beyond the hope of resurrection,
we mean to show those Yankee Corporations
thing or two
Henceforth, Republican Capitalists, like J.
P. Morgan, will find it harder to use Demo
Gratis to rob the Democrats.
We mean to march right on, until these
predatory corporations and their swar1ns of
corporation lawyers and their herd of corpor-
alton judges are put to flight.
The South and the West are suffering, alike:
THEY MUST BE POLITICALLY COM
BINED TO destroy the horrible system OF
Hamiltonian class-law that fetters us, while
the Capitalists of the North and East rob us.
Won + You DO This WHch2
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02
Unavoidable.

In the early years Of his ministry
Bishop Bascomb, Of the Southern Meth
odist Church, was severely handicap
ped, says the author of "Women of the
Confederacy," by the fact that he was
handsome and graceful. He was con-
sidered "tOO much of a dand, =" and
for a long time was sent on mountain
circuits to bring him down to The level
of old-fashioned Methodism.
As last resort when he continued
to appear "dandified," one Of his
mountain members persuaded the min
lister to wear suit Of homespun, that
he might be more in harmony with his
listeners. The next morning he went
early to service to see the success Of
his scheme.
When Mr.. Bascomb appeared, as trig
In homespun as he had been in broad
cloth, the mountaineer's chagrin was in
tense.
'Well, I declared" he exclaimed.
Go it your own way, Brother Bas-
comb. give 1t up. It amt your
clothes that's so pretty; it's jist you"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02


Chicago Is an Indian word, meaning
wild onion or skunk weed. Chesapeake
Is also Indian and Is variously inter-
preted as highly sailed water, great
waters or country on a great river.
Chautauqua is also an Indian word
and has had several interpretations, as
foggy place, a bag tied in the middle
(referring to the shpe Of the lake,, a
place where child was washed away,
where the fish are taken out, place Of
easy death or, finally, place where one
was lost. Des Moines L. usually sup
posed to refer only to the Trappist
monks, and 1t Is also connected. with
an Indian word meaning the road Nj
agara Is an Indian word, signifying
across the strait or at the neck. Shen-
andoah is Indian and means the sprucy
stream or river flowing alongside Of
high hills. Massachusetts means near
the great hills or the hill shaped like
an arrowhead or, again, the blue hills
Mississippi means great water or gath
ering In Of all the waters or an almost
endless river spread out.-Leslie's
Weekly.
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P1.ytain~. Of Ancient Childrea.

The most primitive toy is the doll.
It dates back to prehistoric times and
is found In every part Of the world.
This one would naturally expect to
find. A child, seeing It's mother nurs-
ing other younger children, would imi-
tate the example with an improvised
doll. Toy weapons, again, are older
than history. Many Of the other toya
at present In use date from the EARL.
ct times Of which we have any rec
ord. In the tombs Of the ancient Exyp.
tians, along with painted dolls having
movable limbs, have been found mar.
bles, leather covered bells, elastic balls
and marionettes moved by strings An.
cient Greek tombs furnish clay dolls,
toy horses and wooden carts and ship9
In the Louvre there are some Greco
Roman dolls Of terra Gotta with NOV.
able joints fastened by wires. Greek
babies had rattleA Greek boys played
with whipping tops. So did the boys
In ancient Rome.
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CHAPTER III.

Victor Lablanche, the Partisan project
of police, was man who united within
himself qualities not often found con-
joined in the same individual, for while
he was a sagacious and even brilliant
theorist, he possessed at the same time a
thorough practical knowledge of his bust
ness. In the course of his long career on
the police he had risen, by ability alone,
from a comparatively obscure to his
present prominent position. When called
upon to unravel a mysterious crime, he
generally adopted a certain theory, and
pursued it with the persistency of a
bloodhound. 1t was the arrival of this
officer that little group of people in
two hundred of the Inhabitants of Vile
neuve who were assembled outside the
chateau impatiently awaited.
A sudden hush fell upon the gathering
on the lawn as, about an hour after day.
break, dark-colored, unpretentious road
cart turned into the avenue. M. Victor
Lablanche had at once responded in per-
son to the call made upon him. The
reeking TANKS and foam-covered sides of
the animal In the shafts sufficiently at
tested the speed at which the distance
between the village and the metropolis
had been traversed.
M. Chabot, cool and collected as ever.
was the first to receive the project. He
conducted him into the reception room.
The mayor and NJ. Delorme, the Justice
of the peace, were slipping their coffee in
the dining room. Fearful that he might
In some way compromise her, Van Lith
had signed to Harriet not to come near
him, and she now sat, in silent, fearless
grief, with her arm about Emily's waist.
in the window seat of the library.
Five minutes after the arrival Of the
coachman at his lodgings in the Rue de
Reverdy, DR.. Paul Mason was on the
road to the chateau. He had gazed for a
moment on the face of his old friend.
"She must have died instantly" he re-
marked, as he turned sadly away.
NJ. lie project was now at liberty to ask
any question he chose. He did not care
to ask any questions at present. He
would go into the room where the mayor
was, and hear what he had to say.
Have you examined the prisoner r.
was the first question he propounded to
that functionary.
II have attempted to; but he refuses
to make any statement, saying he prefers
to wait until he is brought before the
tribunal. He has the right to waive the
preliminary examination before the jus
tice, Of course, but he is hardly wise In
this instance. A plain explanation Of
how he came tn he in the cha teau n that
time Of night might 60 far toward &C
quitting him-that Is" he added, If Il
b capabls Of explanation."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02
OUTSIDE THE TENc1.

4 Garden Makes Many Friends tor
tie Gardener.
'The violet Is modest flower, amt
it?'' The lady kneeling on the grass
started and rose, and dividing the
freshly gathered bunch Of violets In
her hand, offered half to the small girl,
clinging like a limpet to the fence.
whose longing eyes begged for them.
"And hope teacher will be pleased. /"
she said.
'Why-ee!" marveled the child.
How'd you know wanted 'em for
teacher?"
"Oh, I just guessed" said the lady.
laughing.
but 1t was easy" she told friend
afterward; ut often Is Teachers In
fluence on the infant mind and vocab-
ulary is specially in evidence since the
day of nature study and school gar
dens came in; and then, there always
have been the poets, and speaking
pieces in school. Only the other day
little freckle-nosed boy was fascin-
ated by my long row Of crimson tulips.
He hung on the gate long while In
fascinated silence, and then:
"'Gee! Them are flowersv he broke
out, adding pensively, Spring brings
all things beautiful
Spring certainly does, and the vio-
let really is a modest flower; but the
trail of teacher was not difficult to fol-
low. Another little chap was interest
ed in the same gay tulips from diff
ferent standpoint.
"'All them grew up out'n teenty
seed he informed me, Importantly,
over the fence.
"'Most flowers do agreed, but not
these. These came out of a bulb
"'Nope. They got ter come out'n a
seed. Teacher said So he insisted.
There was one stray tulip out Of line,
and with a scoop Of my trowel I lifted
1t, bulb and all.
"Take that to teacher, and she'll
explain told him.
HE did, and she did; for next day
he sang out as he passed:
"fYou was right, but teacher was,
too! You kin raise tulips outer seeds,
only you don't
1.-THE children pass my garden in
troops-thece are two schools not far
away. Keen eyes watch and praise my
succession of bloom, and shy little Wis
itors have learned that when they ask
for flowers for nature study or the
drawing class, will not begrudge my
best; and punches OF my simpler, more
abundant blossoms 60 often, clutched
in eager hands, carrying-I hope she
knows-a double message Of friendly
greeting to teacher A garden Is a
great maker Of friends-even outside
the fence. Youths Companion.
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THEN CAME THE SHARK.
Hard Luck Of . Fisherman Who Had
Caught Thirty-Three Wealk6sh.

Hard Luck Of q Fisherman Who Had
Caught Thirty-Three Wealkash.
Weakfish have been plentiful of late
in the waters hereabou,s and fishermen
have had fine sport catching them, but
hard luck came the other day to one
angler in Gravesend Bay after he had
caught thirty-three, says the New York
Sun.
He was fishing from a small boat,
and as fast as he drew the weakfish in
he would string them through the gills
on line which he kept hanging over
the side Of the boat down in about six
feet of water, where the water was
cool and the fish would keep well. 1t
was certainly good fishing, but just
after he had let the thirty-third weak
the line fast inboard and started fish
ing again he felt the boat settle on that
side over which the bunch was hang
ing.
Something in the water was pulling
on the bunch of weakfish down below.
The fisherman grabbed the line and
began hauling in promptly, but what
with the weight of the fish and that
strong added pull on the other end the
line parted in his hands, and the next
moment he got glimpse of f1ve-foot
shark making of with his bunch Of
weakflsh.
The shark had seized upon one Of
the lower fishes In the bunch and now,
as it began, with the line broken, to
move away, weakflsh began to appear
on the surface in the sharks wake,
fishes that worked loose as the shark
swan, and slipped up and OF the free
end of the line. As, with the bunch
decreasing and so much less weight In
it to haul, the shark made faster prog
ress, the fishes came up farther and
farther apart, but still you could trace
the sharks course out to sea, with one
of the flsherman's weakflsh In Its teeth,
by that irregular line Of weakflsh slip
ping OF the cord and coming to the
surface as it fed.
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0(0
Fa11utift4

"Rodney's Ride"
In that soft midland where the breezes
The North and the South on the genial
air,
Through the County Of Kent on Affairs
of State
Rode Caesar Rodney, the Delegate.
Burly and big and bold and bluff,
In his three-cornered hat and his coat Of
snuff,
A foe to King George and the English
state
Was Caesar Rodney, the Delegate.
Into Dover Village he rode apace,
And his kinsfolk knew, from his anxious
face,
1t was matter grave that had brought
him there,
To the counties three, upon the Delaware.
Money and men we must have" he
said,
Cor the Congress fails and our cause is
dead;
Give us both, and the king shall not work
his will
We are Men since the blood of Bunker
Hillw
Comes a rider swift on a painting bay;
"Hollo, Rodney, no! you must save the
day,
For the Congress halts at q deed so
great,
And your vote alone may decide its fate y
Answered Rodney then: Il will ride with
speed
1t is Liberty's stress, it is Freedoms
need.
When stands it," Tonight; not a mo-
ment spare,
But ride like the wind from the Della
ware"
"Ho, saddle the black! I've but half q
day,
And the Congress sits eighty miles away,
But I'll be in time, If God grants me
grace,
To shake my fist in King Georges face."
He Is up; he is of And the black horse
flies
On the northward road ere the God
speed !" dies.
1t is a gallop and spur, as the leagues
they clear,
And the clustering milestones move a.
1t is two Of the clock and the feet hoofs
fling
The Fieldsboro' dust with a clang and
cling.
1t Is three; and he gallops with slack
rein where
The road winds down to the Delaware.
-Four; and he spurs into Newcastle town.
From his painting steed he gets him
down
"a fresh one, quick not moment wait !"
And of speeds Rodney, tho Delegate.
1t is five; and the beams Of the western
sun
Tinge the spires Of Wilmington gold and
dun;
Six; and the dust of the Chester street
Flies back in cloud from his courser's
feet.
1t is seven the horseboat, broad of beam,
At the Schuylkill ferry crawls over the
And at seven-6fteen by the Rittenhouse
clock
He filings his rein to the tavern Jock.
The Congress is met the debates begun,
And Liberty lags for the vote of one
When into the hall, not a moment late,
Walks Caesar Rodney, the Delegate.
Not moment late, and that halliday
ride
Forwards the world with mighty stride;
For the Act was passed ere the mid
night stroke
Der the Quaker City its echoes woke.
At Tyranny's feet was the gauntlet flung;
I'VE are free!" all the bells through the
colonies rung.
And the sons of the free may recall with
pride
The day Of Delegate Rodney's ride.
.Elbrige s. Brooks.
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The Roupell Mystery
q r a n v / l 1 e

horror of it. the facts which. with it's ut
terance, instantaneously arose in the
mind of Van Lith and arrayed themselves
remorselessly against him, deprived him
for the moment of the power of reply.
In the dead silence that ensued NJ. Cha
bot turned and dispatched the coachman
ON his errand, adding in an imperative
tone:
After you have called up the doctor,
stop at Monsieur Revell's, the mayor, ex-
plain briefly what has happened, then
go to Monsieur Delorme's, the justice of
the peace. Tell him, too. Remember,
madame's life may depend on the quick
ness of your movements"
NJ. Chabot, whom one would never
have suspected of being cast in an heroic
mold. was undoubtedly the coolest person
in the room.
Van Lith, fully conscious of the awful
peril in which he stood, again essayed
to speak. NJ. Chabot interrupted him.
He did it politely; but there was no
mstaking his frmness. The servants
thought it admirable-and his knowledge
of law, ali ! was it not prodigious?
Monsieur Van Lith, you may be per-
fectly innocent man. If so, it will be
easy enough for you to explain everything
presently to the mayor, whom l have
sent for. In the meantime, the fact of
your appearance here at such an hour as
this, under circumstances which lay you
open to grave suspicion, make it my duty,
as citizen, to forbid your departure.
Monsieur Chabot!" calculated Har-
riet. What do you mean? You surely
don't believe that Charles-that Mon
sieur Van Lith has done this horrible
thing?"
The Frenchman shrugged his high
white teeth as he smiled-just a little,
in deprecating manner.
"Mam'selle must not blame me. am
simply doing my duty"
20, this must not be-" exclaimed the
girl, now almost unnerved with appre-
hension. Il can explain ALL can clear
But her wrist was seized In Van
Lith's grasp.
"Mam'sel can explain ?'- began Cha
bot, pricking up his little ears like fox
terrier.
"Mam'selle will explain nothing" re-
turned Van Lith, meaningly regarding
the Partisan.
Then perhaps monsieur CAM?
when the proper time comes, yes To
you, you sneaking cur, not one syllable"
The Frenchman's face took on a ghast-
ly color. He stammered out few unin-
telligible words, as one who in the heat
of terrible passion pauses to find the
most singing epithet. But an exclama-
ton from Emily Weldon checked both
men instantly. She had been bending over
the PROSTATE form of the injured woman
Now she looked up, the calm of a great
despair in her face, the first tears she
had shed glistening in her fine eyes.
20, Harriet" she cried, 'she is dead.
1 shall never hear her voice again."
The girls grief was something terrible
to witness. Harriet stole softly to her
sisters side, and, putting her arms about
her, strove to comfort her.
Let us leave them," said Van Lith
to NJ. Chabot, who stood awed and hum
bled in the presence of such affection.
And side by side the two men, the
Frenchman and the American, the ac-
cuser and the accused. went out from
the chamber. leaving the living and de-
spairing alone with their sacred dead.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02

Although flremen's mascots and pets
are not uncommon, the men at the
central station In Manchester, N. H..
have one that 10 unusual. It IL large
tiger cat which has 50 overcome the
usual feline aversions a. to ride to the
dres on the apparatus with apparent
enjoyment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02
The Call.

"You know" said Mrs. Subbubs,
''that Mrs. Newcome moved in across
the way last Monday, 50 called to
day"
swell, WE'LL" remarked her hus-
band, ''how like poker this social
game is."
"You do you meant"
"Why, in poker you also call when
you want to see what the other per
sons got."-Philadelphi Press
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02

The greatest pity In the world q
when two friends who have been use-
ful and agreeable 70 each Other Quax-
~
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02

The building located at the greatest
height In Europe Is the climbers hut
on the Matterhon, nearly 1880 feet
above tn sea
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02

When people are In trouble about al
their friends do for them u to ~,
"It's too bad /"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-02

0ftsn Z man impoees o. hins''A
Nhon ~ taxes hls mempgy.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-29
GRAN BAZAR De ROPA HECHh
Y SASTRERIA
r. M O N II e s

En- este antique acreditado estableci
miento, sc reciben constantemente buenos J
elegantes Casim;res franceses ingleses come
tambi6n toda clase de articuos para ca
balleros: Camisas Cuellos, Punos, Corba
tas, Calzoncillos, Camisetas, Panuelos, ii
rantes, Ligas, Cinturones, Medias etc etc
Tamb6n cuenta dicho establecimiento con
eegante surtido de sombreros de todas clases
de la muy acreditada fabrica Sues de j.
Cabrer, de Ponce ma infndad de artfcu
los, desde ell Sombrero de rs ctvs hasta ell
mas fno Clak Cintas para sombreros, las
hay para todos los gustos Sc venden al po
mayor al detail. Vista hace f6.
FORTALRzA, 90. SAN Juan 2. r
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-29

,Salio de Coruf1a Ell 20 del corrisnte
para este puerto, Mayaguez, Ponce,
SAINT iago de Cuba, Habana, Cienfue-
gos y New Orleans.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-29
Servicio de cabotaie-

RAMOS neyando San Juana
v y
San Juana
E.os vapss los de cal
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-29

Esta a la carga en- Barcelona para
salir Ell y del corriente mes por Ell
M Mediterraneo y Canarias, con desti-
no a este puerto siguiendo directo
a Santiago de Cuba, Habana, Matan =
zas y New Orleans.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-11-29

Admitiendose carga pasajes de t., 2. y ;.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-06-07
new CLUE N
TH0RNE MYSTERY
Story Of Little Girl Might
Mean That Fargoan Was
Victim of Foul Play.

Fargo, N. D., June 7.-When Deputy
Sheriff Bingham was serving the pa
pers to witnesses in the case of the
state against four young men, who
are charged with having committed the
crime of highway robbery on John
Heinrichs he ran across curious cir
cumstance.
He had just finished serving the
summons on person when q little
girl who was standing near. said that
several weeks ago while she was play
ing on the hill above the Red river
she noticed man coming along, and
the next minute another man jumped
from clump of bushes and knocked
him down.
The little girl said that she saw the
man going through the pockets of the
one who had been knocked down, and
after that saw him kick the man sew
eral times. 1t was then that she be-
came frightened and ran away.
Strange to say that although she told
the story to her parents, no notice of
the matter was brought to the atten-
ton of he police department
About two weeks ago the body of
Gust NJ. Thorne, a machinist of the
Northern Pacific shops in this city was
found in the river by some boys near
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-06-07
NJ. NORMAN.

the bridge north of the county hos
pital, and to this day it is mystery
how the body came to be in the water.
1t is barely possible that the body
that was found might have been that
of the man the little girl saw getting
robbed, and that Thorne was the man.
There is no question as to the identity
of ThOrne.
In the center of the forehead of the
corpse was a bad bruise, but the skull
was not fractured. 1t would have been
possible to render a man insensible
from blow and still not fracture the
skull.
The fact that the four young men
charged with the robbery of Mr.. Helm
richs were shown to have attempted
to throw him into the river would
lead people to believe that such q
thing might have happened to Thorne.
He had no reason in the world so far
as can be learned to commit suicide,
and how he came to get into the river
will always more than likely remain
a mystery.