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Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

The mysterious earthquake recorded
some weeks ago, which could not be
located, has found a startling solution
That mountain should fall, buryine
hundreds and wiping out an entire
population, bears gruesome testimony
to the truth of the instruments which
recorded q disaster as great If not
greater than the one which over.
whelmed San Francisco. Other dis.
asters are dwarfed into insignificance
beside this appalling record of the
work of nature, which all the prudence
and resources of man can neither fore.
see nor prevent.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

When n man has done his work
shall he stop and play? Rev. Dr. Scott
of Worcester, Mass, who has resigned
from his pulpit after 80 years of
service in order to devote himself to
golf, thinks he has earned this play
time, and he doubtless has. The
trouble is that when a man works for
so years without giving any time to
pleasure he commonly does not know
how to play. A due amount of diver
sion at intervals along the road is the
safer and more satisfactory plan. II
would tend to postpone the day when
q man must retire from active work.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

After 'psycopathic" experts at Belle.
vue find that a prominent person is
mot insane, but hysterical," it may
surprise some to learn that the promi.
nent person is not woman. Instead
OF being confined to one sex, Mysteries
attacks both with equal ease when
they have prepared themselves for it,
and 1t is usually worst when it's worst
symptoms are most masculine.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

A medical writer notes with alarm
that insanity is steadily on the in
crease But, then. he does not stop to
reflect that persons who wish to com.
NIT crimes and indulge their passions
with impunity need it in their bust
ness
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14
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In dealing with this
whole matter of indus
trial concentration, we
have the choice of two al
ternatives. We may either
prohibit or regulate com-
binations. To my mind
regulation is the only
choice. Regulation by
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Queer people naturally drift into
the theatrical business, but the
strangest freak of all is the manager
who insists that his chorus girls must
all be able to sing.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

man in New York convicted of
murder was, under a new law, sen.
fenced to prison for mot more than
his natural life" He may consider
himself lucky not to get the sen.
tence Of over hundred years lately
imposed on another prisoner.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

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Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Brazil, distinguished in the merry
comedy, "Charley's Aunt" as the
place where the nuts come from" is
also distinguished as a place where
ideas grow. Thirty Brazilian mer-
chants and professional men are visit
ing this country, in obedience to the
advice which Secretary Root gave to
all the Americas to get acquainted"
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

English experts who have been in
vestigating report that the gold still
to be dug out of the mines in the
Rand district OF South Africa may be
estimated at $5,OO0OOO, 100000. With
that much gold in circulation the
world would have quantity as we'll as
quality.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

The young queen Of Spain does not
look upon bull fights with favor, and
she probably regards professional
fistic encounters in England, her old
home, with equal dislike. There is
not much difference between a bull
fighter and a ring fighter. Both are
brutal.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Now a vessel is to be built to out.
class the Lusitania Perhaps in the flu
ture seagoing vessels of any kind will
be dispensed with entirely and speed.
seekers will be simply hurled across
the ocean through pneumatic tubes at
telegraphic velocity.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Mrs. Russell Sage, having lately
learned that debt Of $4,000, con-
tracted by her father in 1874, had
never been paid, has forwarded a
check for the amount to the heirs of
the creditor. If she had paid interest
on the sum for the 60 years the
check would have been larger. but
probably the heirs are thankful to get
the principal.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14


authority, his
Harden
He a
he
gained particular
when the dismissed the chancellor $780,
materially
a a
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14
MAY SOON LEAD TANMArNY

Thomas F. Foley Tammany leader of the sec
ord district, who vols recently elected sheriff. is
a typical specimen of the born and bLsdz New
Yorker He has been politician ever size he
was 13 years DID, when he went out to support
his widowed mother and two younger children
An unerring memory for faces and names and
sunny smile were his whole stock in trade but
he proved himself to be reckoned
with. He made money in the saloon business.
He was never slow about dipping into his roll
to help family in distress, and he would peel
off a $50 or 800 bill with the remark Don't
hurry about repaying that little loan 1t will do
when your missus is better and your boy is work
ing"
Once q year he made il a practice to take all
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

A wicked conscience is the most
devilish companion that mortals can
harbor, for even in the success of it's
villainy it is tortured with uncertain.
ty, anxiety, dread and plutonic re-
morse
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

The latest thing captured by Raj
suli is the town of Mogador. Some day
this man will capture something
worth having.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14


head look
himself
off
LoydGeorge
cabinet
of
S s
prime
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

A French scientist declares that au
tomobiles are the enemies Of astron
omy, and yet people who have been
struck by them say they saw all sorts
of stars.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

The body is quickly buried and lost
in the dust of centuries, but the spirit
of thought, that moves us every mo-
ment for good or i'll, has immortal
lineage and cannot be destroyed
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

The women's literary clubs of Mich
gan have started a novel contest as to
which club shall add the most chill
dren to the states population next
year. Race suicide will have to take
the count.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

What ought to be done to a man
who asks a woman to drink" is the
question asked by preacher. He
ought, at least. be punished by being
made to drink all the weird mixed
drinks she orders.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

The arch, say the builders, is the
strongest thing known. This may be
the reason these are so many bow.
legged football players.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

They are putting monkeys in Jail
in New Jersey. This looks as though
the law of that state was making
near-human efforts to getting itself
enforced.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

A Wisconsin court has decided that
a cigarette with a tobacco wrapper is
not a cigarette, and does not violate
the ant-cigarette law. This is an easy
road to liberty. The tobacco wrappers
are better than the paper ones, any
WaV
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Japanese schools are teaching Eng.
fish. Now, If some of our popular
novelists could only be sent to Jap.
anese schools.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

1t is probably no moro true that tin
soldiers make fighters of boys than
it is that Teddy bears make GROWERS
Of girls.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Marconi has harnessed that air, but
whether he can drive it as he pleases
remains to be seen. He is, however,
one of the dreamers that Boyle
O'Reilly says live forever.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Several men have been convicted
and sent to prison in New York for
stealing electricity. This naturally
comes under the head Of shocking
criynes.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Rallooning lacks one thrilling phase.
There are no speed ordinances to be
violated
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

They're going to put a clock in the
Eiffel tower. 1t will serve as a SYM
Dol of Paris, which has always been
known as the city for a high old
time
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

VIII the couple who were married
in the Lake Erie lighthouse do
lightho-no, say it yourself
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14
IN THE, I~IMELIGHT
HAS LANDED THIRD TERM

Curtis Guild, Jr., who has been elected Nor the
third time governor of Massachusetts by the phe-
nomenal majority of 100000 and that, too, in
spite of the spread of free trade ideas in his state,
is one of the very few men in public life who scorn
to yield to public opinion when they think 1t is
misdireCted Guild is bulldog in some respects.
This shown when he refused to commute,
the sentence OF Charles l.. Tucker, who was con-
victed circumstantial evidence of numbering
Mabel Page. Many of the best people in the state
petitioned the governor for cemency, but he
couldn't be convinced and Tucker, guilty or in
noeent, hanged.
In like manner Guild refused to mitigate the
punishment of man who had been in solitary
for md in
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

You never hear of a woman over so
insisting on saying merely that she is
OF legal age.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Balloon travel is rapidly becoming
more safe and scientific. We may all
fly yet, even if some of us never get
chance to wear wings.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

The claim that prunes cause bald
ness was started by some doctor who
was trying to make trouble for his
landlady.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Earthly fame, wealth and glory are
rs evanescent as the cardinal rays of
the setting sun that drops into dark
est storms and eternal night
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

An association has been organized
in New York to build airships. But
Notwithstanding it's object, it will not
use inflated capital.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

A Harvard professor says aversion
to work is really illness. Here is
where an indefinite lay-off is going to
be asked
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14
Uhr Effrrt nj Ntgt
prirra hit tt1r Gnltslttttrr
By CHA RLES F. PIDGIN.
Author and Former Chief Labor Statistics Bureau.

F THE high prices that good us why
them up higher? Can have too much of good thing?
Some years prominent agreed that the money
00 had the better off should be- But there something
back of the question: solid basis financial operations
TN and the majority decided that the basis be gold
u to-day, leading fnanciers maintain that the increased
E3 output of gold is answerabe great degree for high
hhaaxGb prices
TO the the subordinate to the effect
probmatca he is concerned
The cost of living has increased greatly and the question sre
nigh prices a benefit to all consumers?"
There kinds of and noupoucers
The producer gets wage salary Let us consider his po-
on If high prices benefit to him. after paying the increased
prices food Clothes heat light he should have large surplus
and the good things life Does Instead he
the surplus vanish and oftentme balance the debtor side
But will be said and salaries have been increased
and comparisons attempted between the increases prices and the
advances and salaries Nothing could be faacious
applied worngman paid by the hour day Questions of
little. What he actually is the vital question.
The real condition workngmn shown by comparing vicious
represent prices
and salaries The only figures worth anything index of conditions
workngmen having increased surplus despite
the high prices
The number having less surplus.
8. The number having surplus.
4. The number in debt.
If official figures honestly aaed this basis and presented with
fixing show that high prices have benefited the worker and the
Smaaaed then the heavens will again. and
all sit and drink and be merry Until then the dealers
DOCTORS will their ncoece bills and the
pawn shops and money sharks will increase in number and wax
And this brings to the nonproduers who not paid by
salaries but by profits They have to pay the increased prices
they have the remedy their hands, What they have to SELL
others pay for without BY nonproducers all who
transport sell what the needs including The
whale has its axar who lead to feeding grounds and the bank
adhe1ens and helpers of the god
capital
Restraints being placed continually the manufacturer who
best FRIEND especially when he eliminates the
gets the At present have between
wholesale dealer merchant
The manufacturer wholesaler and retailer each
only fair profit but three fair profits make price burenome
An increased salary help the but
only both ends and does
his surplus he not benefited.
Probably the majority of nonpoduce benefit by high prices for
they, a rule, live percentage OF profit
and the larger the figures, the greater the If ~
profit Even if the percentage is less than III 1< H.E%:
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

A Russian aristocrat at whom no
bombs are thrown must feel that he
is completely out of the swim.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

A swarm of bees lit on Philadel-
phia policeman. The fact that one
man woke up made a nice little piece
Of news for the local papers.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

The brave, gay, generous and light
hearted bear the strokes of fate with
eQuanimity and indomitable courage.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

educated himself
sentiment could solitary
He Colonial Wars
Society Wars the American
OF wealth and culture Commercial Bulletin
father had President
roosevelt with whom he with him
on his stump OF the brgadier
Spanish
colonel inspector the staff of Fzhugh Lee
postmaster
he orator
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Diogenes was not like a modern
muck-raker or investigator. He did
not go around looking for dishonesty.
He knew it was always there.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

oh, the pity of it! The smart
young man often lacks judgment and
comes to grief.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

they, as a rule, live on percentage of profit,
and the larger the figures, the greater the
profit Even if the percentage is less than in
former years, the increased volume of business
gives larger return.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14
AVERTED GREAT STRIKE

David LloydGeorge, Nj. p, president of the
British board of trade is the hero of the hour in
England having prevented strike that would
have tied up all the railroads in Great Britain.
LloydGeorge and Richard Bell also NJ p,
head of the Amalgamated Society of Railway
Servants, got together and convinced capital and
labor that arbitration was better than fight.
Lloyd-George is A. the son of a school teach
er, educated at national school in Welsh town.
From the obscurity of a provincial law office
Lloyd-George has fought his way, unaided by
wealth or social prestige, to the front rank in
parliament
LloydGeorge is short CT stature, has sharp
features, fresh-coored complexion, small, stub
by. bristling mustache, KEEN vgilant eyes and
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Genius has Tie wisdom of age in Its
youth.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

A rich and truthful saying is an i'm
perishable clinker in the ash heap of
humanity.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Tyranny, barbarity, anarchy and
death are the milestones in the high
way of despotism.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

He who is gluten for praise will
be gudgeon for secret laughter.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Peace has her victories no less than
war-and then there's football.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

Macmillan Harden, known throughout Ger
many as the enemy of the kaiser, is the editor
whose sensational charges of immortality against
tho Round Table" crowd in Emperor Williams
court brought public disgrace to Gen Count Won
Moltke.
Harden turns from immortality in court to
criticism of the monarch without the slightest
hesitation Every week his paper Die Zukunft,
ridicules the emperor. He has done it for years
and his attacks have earned him three terms in
prison fortress.
Harden served the sentences cheerfuy. From
his cell he continued each time to edit his paper
and to present without interruption the idiosyn-
crases of his majesty in dashing sarcastic style
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

an administrative Oflic
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-12-14

G.. A. LIsK, Publisher.
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once upon n time there vas wicked
little mike who lived I'm the neiRhbor's
back yard. lie hated the second girl
because she failed 90 put butter I'm the
porridge she left for him on the window
ledge. "Oleomargnrlno IL good enough
for n NIKE" she said TO herself AS she
opened the window and set the bowl
outside: besides lie Will never know
the difference" But IL IN easier To de-
celve whole boarding house than n
nike. He did know very well, and
while swallowing his porridge he
grumbled NO loud that the second girl
thought n storm was coming up over
the lake.
Now. the NIKE resolved to be avenged
and when the second girl announced
her engagement TO the grccer's boy ne
thought his chance had come. she
shan't have him. he cried with n twist
OF his head that made him look awry
for a week: "she shall marry a tom cat
first and meow to the mooni"
SO no set his wicked little wits to
work to prevent the marriage. lie
slipped softly underground and dug
some scarlet roots with which he had
murdered his grandmother and made n
dark brown stew and put seventy-seven
drops I'm the second girls tea. Then
he stood behind the door and waited
for her eyes to turn green. But she
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-01-24

But the second girl stepped softly
down the cellar stair. and when she
came 10 an obstruction. picked IL up
like n sensible woman. She carried
IL out OF doors and almost tainted away,
'if IL isn't gold" she cried-so loud
that the cook ran out TO see what was
the matter. 1T must be my kind lit
tle friend the mike who put II there"
tho second girl exclaimed. and IL Will
pay for my trousseau and set my hus-
band up In business. Well be as rich
rs checsci"
SO she bought nne silks and laces
and got all ready for the wedding.
by this time the NIKE was sadly put
to IL for n plan. and his face was
screwed up iniD n number OF hard
knots with thi:2ing. At last he ciapped
his hand on his knee and shouted, Il
have q! I'll put n big bee In the groc-
cry boys bonnet and he'll be too proud
TO marry n servant girl"
So he chose n wonderful purple bee.
with wings OF green and yellow. and
the bee stung tho grocer's boy right
over the left ear. 30 he saw everything
very clearly and dreamed dreams that
he had never dreamed before. 1T In
very plain" he said TO himself. that I
am going TO be n multimiiiionaire, a
Pierpont Morgan financial magnate OF
the first water: and equally plain In 10
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that shall have the pretticst wife In
all the four hundred"
So he ran and told the second girl.
and they were married next day by a
priest and the NIKE was invited To tho
weddinR-only he was too mad TO 20,
and moreover he didn't like priests.
And very soon. indeed. the happy pair
were living In n palace and hobnobbing
with all the rich and great. And in less
than twenty years they married their
beautiful daughter TO n real duke. and
bought a seat In the senate and dia-
mond coronet and n rope OF pearls as
big as marbles. And TO tho very end
OF their lives all went merry N a mar
riage bell.
All OF which proves that Il sometimes
pays TO have an enemy.
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LANDED MONSTER STURGEON.


Patrick Kaddon. one OF the oldest fsh-
errnen on tho south shore OF Lake Michi-
gan. has n new fish story. and the ash IL
self rs proof and affidavit OF one OF tbs
most wonderful catches ever made In Laks
Michigan.
Kaddon and somo friends nettsd n mon.
ster sturgeon east OF Hammond. When
they got the rsh ashore IL scaled more
than coo pounds. In the hsh's side. pro-
trudIng from its .yill. was n pair OF largv
tongs, the prongs being embedded In itS
body. The news OF the wonderful catch
travelled up and down the lake shore and
attracted many visitors to tho Kaddon re
sort Among them was Richard Much %
Clark Station. who two years ago was
noted as a lake fisherman. He Identified
tho tongs rs his own.
on June 10. 1904. Much and his sons
were fishing OF the Hammond shore. three
miles out, when they hooked an enormous
sturgeon. when they drew IL 10 the boats
side Much seized .he huge psh through tho
giils with n pair of tongs. Enrased with
pain, the sturgeon dashed the water 90
that the boat was swamped and tho mel
thrown into the lake.
The men hung on tho gunwnle OF ths
overturned boat for four hours. when theY
were seen by the South Chicago life saw
Ing crow and rescued. Much never tlshsi
again.
The sturgeon caught the other day Is
warrior, for II was SCARED In many
places. IL In the largest fish ever pullsj
out OF the lake. an far as Is known here
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smacked her lips and told the cook the
tea was better than King Solomon
served To his wives. and as she drank
IL her cheeks grew so pink and her eyes
30 bright that she looked prettier than
ever.
Thereupon the NIKE behind the door
doubled up with pain, squeezing him
self no tight that his right foot stuck
on the other leg. ''I'll fix her yeti" he
souealed. and once more he kicked his
way into his underground kingdom and
cut out OF the rocks n heavy bar. This
he dragged up TO the light OF dcy and
was surprised to find IL the color OF
sunlight. 'I'll put IL on the cellar
stair and she'll trip up and tumble and
break her pretty nose" he exclaimed.
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No Railroad Passes In Francs.

An excellent feature or French rail-
road management Is described m fol-
lows by Charles Edward Russell In
Soldiers OF the Common Good" In the
March Everybody's:
with tho pass bribery nuisancs
France deals IN summary fashion. Rail
roads have no chance to win the good
will OF French deputies and senators by
surreptitious favors. Every French
senator and deputy has by law an an
nual pass on every railroad. This the
government conpels tho railroads 10
furnish. Then the government deducts
for the pass. 10 francs q month from
the pay OF the senator or deputy. Tho
railroads get nothing. That II the ex-
tent OF that performance. The passes
are provided 60 AFFORD the senators and
deputies opportunity to acquaint them-
selves with conditions IN the country
and every part OF IT,
Tho president OF the republic must
be transported on public business at
the expense OF the railroads. That In
the law, and service entails no kind OF
obligation on the presidents part. Even
II the companies were to furnish him
with n special train OF beautiful cars.
that would mean nothing. because they
are Obliged 20 transport him with their
best devices anyway"