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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08
Buying BY Moonlight.

II made . queer trip one night not
long ago" said the agent of a ceme-
terry company. Il went out to the
cemetery after dark with . prospect.
i've customer. 20 she could see how
the burial lot under consideration
looked BY moonlight. The lady was
Of . romantic turn Of mind. She had
taken 4 fancy to 4 plot ON little
knoll overlooking a lake. but before
closing the deal she insisted upon see.
Ing the effect Of the moonbeams on
the water and surrounding landscape
I had sold many lots under peculiar
circumstances. but that poetic phase
Of our business was something new.
The lady seemed to derive considera.
bic satisfaction from 1t. Anyway, shs
bought the lot"
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08
PoRTER's SHINING pARLoR.

Strictly flrst-class. A nice place TO-
ladies' to have their shoes dressed O,
Walt while you have your dressed
We carry full line of shoe laces, al
styles. II you are wearing tan shoes
and wish to change them to black call
on US. We guarantee all work. We
call for shoes that are within a rea.
sonable distance. Open 1880 to 8 p.
N. Phone Main 5639.
WILL TAYLOR. Prop,
oil Eighteenth street.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08
Nausea.

A free patient came into one Of the
New York hospitals the other morn.
ing. She had been there before.
well. how are you today" inquired
the physician who saw her. II ANT
suffering no pain. DOCTOR" she re-
piled; but l have such . feeling Of
Nassau all the time."-Judge.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08
Tea % q libation.

Tho CT lnese have a curious way Of
WorShiping the statue Of Buddha,
with their favorite beverage. Into
great bowl Of sweetened tea. q statue
Of the god IL placed; women bring
their offerings. then taking up some
OF the tea with ladle. pour It over
the defenseless head Of the placid
god. From the same ladleful the,
help themselves giving . zip to sacl
Of their little oces.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08
A Broken Family,

r thought your married life was 10
happy" said the gossipy woman, and
now you say the courts have sepa-
rated you from your husband" YES"
answered the woman who ~as weep.
Ing. John has been drawn on the
iury again"
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08

New York's HumanltarIanism
New York city has more asylums,
homes, hospitals and organizations for
the relief Of human snffering than any
ether city In ths world.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08

Worked At Loom Eighty Ysars.
Joseph Jerome, who has died at
iddermlnster In his ninety.third year,
tas the oldest carpet weaver In Eng.
aud, having worked at the loom for
nore than 80 years. He witnessed
he transition OF the old hand to the
.team-power loom.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08
Clothes,

Oncs In . while some man gets his
poxitioA IN secisty 10 firmly estab
lished that he can wear shabby
clothes and still be envisd. No wom.
an has ever achieved that distinction.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-11-08
insufficient Schools and Churches.

insufficient Schools and Churches.
No large American city has public
,choolhouses enough to hold all Its
hildren Of school age, II the paro,
HAL and private schools were to go
,ut OF business. No large center OF
population has room IN its churche!
Tor nearly all Of its adult population
The Noisy City.
It was deeply significant that al.
though Rome raised a statue to Quiet
she placed It outside tho walls.-W
Romaine Patterson In THE Nemesis
Ut Nations"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

middle>~and this time the circuit is closed by
the lower cross wire being brought in contact
sounds.
"But come down the cellar with me and see
for, yourself how the thing. works; then you
will understand it better"
With which, Ray led the way to the cellar
where 1 had the pleasure of inspecting his
contrivance in all its details.
you notice., he pursued, ."that / can
raise or lower the ends of the long wires by
the use of this thumb-screw and lever at
tachment. That is arranged to adjust the
weather. when l want good deal of fire,
give the screw a few turns and raise the
wires enough, so that the alarm won't sound
until the, pipe gets. pretty hot. Then, in
more moderate weather, drop them again
"You have arranged very ingenious de-
vice, Ray" said l admiringly. "and I
should suppose it would save you many
'Yes," he replied, as we mounted 20 the
thing; but, as grandma says, I shouldn't
have dreamed OF its doing duty in the way it
did last night. And now that you understand
about the. alarm. | will tell you the story.
Last evening L left the furnace, just as
At. about two o'clock this morning I was
wakened up all of sudden by the alarm
bell. came out of bed and down on to the
floor with a thump, and putting on some
clothing [ ran down stairs.
'"There was no need of my being IN such
tremendous hurry-or at least, l didn't sup
pose there was; but, being wakened up
so suddenly. l was sort Of startled, you
know, and did it all before l had time to
think twice. Meanwhile l noticed that the
alarm didn't act quite as it usually does
After the first ring it stopped, and then
pretty soon it started up, and, after sound
ing for few seconds, it stopped again.
"When l got to the cellar, all was STILL
and. what puzzled me a little, nothing what
ever seemed to be wrong with the fur
mace. 1t was rather windy night, if you
wind whistiing around in % The Chimney rMSs bad sas
made the draft uneven, and that the fire had
fared up just enough to sound the alarm and
then had coool down again. So, thinking
everything grsn al right 1,.I.nt raised ,s the parallel
sounding SO easily again, and went back to
bed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15
r AVS AL A RW Q .

ri never should have thought any more
about the matter, if it hadn't been for dis
covery 1 made this morning. When l went
into the parlors found them about as cold
as if there hadn't been fire in the house for
week; and when I looked for the reason,
saw that one of the windows in the back par
lor was wide open"
Had you left it in that way last even
ing" 1 asked.
'We might possibly have thought we had.
If l had not happened to discover some foot
prints outside in the snow, just under the
window"
'FWhat?' exclaimed. "You don't think
some one-a burglar-had been In the house,
do your :.
hAnd if it hadn't been for that alarm con-
trivance of his,' put in grandma, I'VE might
have had everything stolen right out OF the
house..
'But don't understand it at all" said I.
sfYour contrivance wasn't arranged for bur-
glar alarm, was it, Ray?"
''It certainly was not intended for that"
answered the boy smiling at my mystifed
air, "and 1 shouldn't want to warrant it to
protect us against another burglar; but : it
served the purpose that time as well as any
one could ask. And here is the secret of it.
You see, this house is old and rathr shaky
Now there happens to be loose board in the
wires are fastened to, and when the circuit is
almost cosed-that is, when the parallel
wires are within, wen say, thirty y-second
of an inch of the lower cross wire-the least
jar will sometimes bring them together and
set the bell to ringing. For it is touch and
go with an electric current, you know. So
the weight of person walking across the
parior floor no matter how softly he treads,
if he steps on that loose board, is enough to
start"
"Ohol 1 begin to see," interposed; "and
it was in that way that your undesirable
visitor of last night unwittingly made known
his presence"
Exactly; and when he heard the bell
ring and the noise I made jumping out of
bed. he thought the disturbance was all on
his account"
"And concluded he had better leave the
premises at once"
(Which he did in such hurry that he for
got or neglected to close the window behind
him."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

"To save myself trouble of that sort, 1 put
on an electric alarm. Probably l shouldn'
have thought of doing it, though, If there
hadn't been battery, and bell and some
wires already in place.
'They were left by my uncle, who used to
hatch chickens In an incubator, down cellar.
He had the alarm connected 80 as to ring
whenever the eggs were getting too cool or
too warm.
''Well, about all had to do was to change
the position of the two ends of the wires
where the circuit is opened and closed-that
is passed them under the end of strip of
deal that [ had nailed to one of the beams
that held up the flooring Of the room over
that part Of the cellar which is the front
parlor.
''By this means l could bring them down
to within few inches of the furnace smoke
pipe, where l connected them with the most
important part Of the apparatus.
"You know the philosophy books say that
if you take thin strip of steel and thin
strip of brass and fasten them together, laid
one upon the other. they will curl up like a
shaving when they are heated, and win come
back to their old shape when cooled off
again.
81 got very thin strip of each Of those
metals, about three inches long by half an
inch wide, and fastened them together with
little copper rivet at each end. Then /
put two small brads through the middle and
drove them into bit of whitewood SO that
it was fast to the strips and standing up per-
pendicular to them.
Next bored two small holes in the wood,
about a quarter of an inch distant from each
other and at right angles to the length Of the
metal strips Through. each of the holes
put a bit of copper wire an inch long, and
then I fastened the whole thing to the smoke
pipe by stout iron wires.
'1The strips / laid lengthwise of the pipe,
and, as | forgot to say, the steel one was
underneath. The two wires that came from
the battery, and through the bell, fixed
parallel to each other, and about three
quarters of an inch apart, in such a way
that the piece of whitewood stood IN an up
right position between them near their ends,
which of course were uncovered.
"Now. when the fire is low, the pipe is
cool and the metal strips rest flat upon it.
In that position the upper of the two Cross
wires just touches the two long wires, and
rings.
s'And when the pipe grows hot the strips
sort Of warp up-that is, they rise in the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15
Cbe Star (Ubieb Uey Saw in TIE Cast


which he is TO enter and plunder before the
end of the week.
In 1880 it looks down upon great fleet
filled with armed men in mail, chanting
pious songs in the harbor Of Panama-the
fleet of Pizarro preparing to sail for Peru.
On the Christmas Eve of 1929 and for
ten Christmas Ewes thereafter the Star looks
on or an a1 American S Odyssey i is the Odyssey
sole survivors of the expedition of Pam
philo de Narvaez, wandering along the north
ern coast of Mexico, through Texas, to the
Rocky Mountains and thence to Mexico,
trying to find way to take them back to
Spain They spend one Christmas Eve in
being worshipped as demigods by a tribe OF
Indians. They spend many others in work
ing as slaves.
Twelve years later the Star shines on
Chickasaw Country. Il is the second Christ.
mas Eve away from his wife, the beautiful
Dona Isabella, and he is never to see her
again. The Star looks down upon him in
1541, near the mississippi, with his great
but the dauntless heart of him brave and
unfearing. Christmas Eve, 1912, finds no
such person as fernando de Soto, Captain
General of Cuba. Adelantado Of Florida, on
earth.
In 1886 three strange men see the Star
through German prison bars, and surely it
must shine to them with a mystical mean
ing. For the three prisoners are the Three
Holy Kings of Germany, being the tailor
Johann Bockold of Leyden and his COM
panions, who are in prison for being the
leaders of the Anabaptists and proclaimers
of a new Zion. In the first month of the
New Year their bodies, dressed in mockery
like Kings, with crowns on their heads,
shall be exhibited in iron cages high on the
dome of Munster Cathedral. where they are
to hang for many generations.
In 1867 the Star sees gathering in Ant
werp. 1t is a terrible gathering that con-
ceives thought of inhuman wackedness
and ferocity. Yet out of this Christmas
meeting shall great freedom be born. For
it is that Of the Spanish rulers in the Meth
erlands. and at il. is adopted the decree of
the mduisition that condemns all the in
habitants of the Netherlands, with but few
exceptions, to death. And the War of Lib
Grafton follows. 1t is the first to break the
cruel and deadening power of Spain.
In the New World the Star looks on the
colonists of jamestown stealing out on
Christmas Eve in 1907 to get corn from the
Indians by strategy. Two years later,
Christmas Eve sees them suffering grievously
~ Ammo mo Donini 1920: and the Pilgrim
Fathers rest from their labor of building
the settlement which thev have begun that
morning.
Christmas Eve, 1916 and 1876, sees war
in the New World. In the first year the
New Englanders, instead of gathering around
sociable fireplaces, are abroad, driving be-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

fore them the remnants of the Wampanoag
Indians, whcm they have defeated In a great
battle near Narragansett Bay; and in 1876
the French are taking Cayenne in Guiana
after stubborn seige.
In 1856 the Star shines on grim and
moody faces in the town of New York.
Sir Edmond Andross, the first Royal Gov
ernor and Vice-Regent of New England, has
just arrived and is making roaring Christ
mas Eve Of it.
Two years afterward the Star CLEANS ON
his royal master, james III, spending his
Christmas Eye in the French Court, a fugi-
In the next year. the Star shines on an
other man who lorded it for while.
Through the grated window Of a Boston
prison it looked on Captain Kidd. with
sixteen pounds Of chains on him" waiting
for the trial that is to hang him.
Sitting with few companions by camp
fire In the primeval wilderness of Pennsyl-
vania, a young surveyor looks up at IT In
1853. He is, George Washington, nine days
where he has been to carry a. message to
the Commander of the French that will
end finally in the French and Indian War.
Indians are prowling on his path that night
But he looks as serenely at the Star of Beth
lehem as if he were gazing at it from MS
home in Virginia.
Fourteen years later two other young sur
veyors pass similar Christmas Eve in the
wilderness. .Iney are not TO DecOine 80
famous personally as that other surveyor,
but their names are destined to be linked
forever with a great cause. They are Mason
and Dixon, sitting under the Star at the
end of their trail. They have reached
warpath and the Indians have forced them
to stop thirty-six miles from their OBJ
jective point. But they have practically run
their line and they finish it on December 26
Christmas Eve. 1773, and there, are bands
and flying banners in New York. Young
and DID, mechanics and roysterers and cit-
zens of substance, are marching together
Singing "God Save the King" they head
straight for the wharves where two tea
ships are lying. Some of the chests go over
board, still to the accompaniment. of the
loyal tune. The others are left on the ships
but the vessels are forced to return home
without unloading
Lieutenant John Pau! Jones in his new
uniform and clothed in his three-day-old dig
nifty as member Of the Corps of Naval Offi--
GERS appointed by Congress, swaggers around
proudly on Christmas Eve IN Philadelphia
Ammo Domini 1776 sees $4,000 men cross
ing the ice-covered Delaware.
And in 1777 the Star shines on Valley
Forge where men sit around pitiable fires
in rags-penniless, hungry, freezing and un
Christmas Eve, 1888: George Washington
has surrendered his commission the day be-
fore. For the first time in seven years, he
looks up to the Star without heavy care.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

lady, IF I'd had any idea what was happen.
ing last night should have been scared
almost out of my wits; but didn't know a
word Of it until Ray come and told me just
before breakfast"
Neither did / know very much about it
myself till this morning." said Ray.
chat l never thought one of Rays contriy-
ances-hes always tinkering at some queer
notion, Mr.. Martin, but l never suspected
he'd make anything that would do us quite
such a good turn as that did. Tell him all
about it, Ray. l think he'd be glad to hear
it. Wouldn't you. MIR. Martin"
deed. Let's hear your story, Kay
''All right" replied the boy; but first |
must explain about the alarm, and how it
house, l have full charge of the furnace.
and sometimes-especally in mild weather.
it needs a good deal of looking after, and has
to be handled pretty carefully; Either the
or else it burns. too freely, and overheats the
house. When I began to. take care OF it L
often had to run down cellar twenty times a
day, just to open and close drafts. fldn,t
like that very we'll SO / rugged wire attach
ment to the damper that l could work from
beside my bench here"
"Ah, yes-a very convenient arrange
ment," I remarked, looking at what had
somewhat the appearance OF bellpun al
fixed to- the woodwork of the wall on one
side of the ROOM
ayes, it is first-rate thing, as far as it
goes; but soon found that it didn't go. far
enough Sometimes, when the fire got low,
would pull up this handle and open the
draft, and then, being interested in a job I
was working at, would forget my fire en-
tirely, until by-and-by, grandma would come
and tell me that the THERMOMETERS. had gone
uD TO eightey degrees, and | would suddenly
discover that the fire was blazing away like
a blast-furnace.
'sThen again in moderate weather, when
we didn't need much heat, often forgot to
look at the fire for a long time, and so it
entirely and give me all the bother Of build
ing new one.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

cent court have agreed with the Bishop that
on Christmas Day Charlemagne is to be
crowned Augustus, Emperor of the West
and Protector of Rome. The Holy Roman
Empire has begun.
Again the Star shines on an Emperor of
the Roman Empire. It. is the year 1916.
High in an Alpine pass Henry ~ of Ger
many is creeping ON hands and knees along
the edge of vast slippery precipice of ice
to which he clngs desperately. He is on his
way to do penance in Canossa before Pope
Gregory VII.
Excommunicated, his subjects declared
by Rome to be absolyed from their allegiance,
Henry Nv has only one knight to bear him
and his wife and infant son company in the
pilgrimage. The Star shines on the Empress
and her child as they being drawn along
on rude sled, wrapped in the skins of
oxen.
Travelling thus. friendless and in poverty,
toling with, no help from all his empire,
does. the Emperor look upon his child and
think of another Christmas Eve when a
Herod reaching out for it? He has twice
bitter reason for thinking of it in humble
ness of spirit; for the Pope Gregory before
whom he must bow was the monk Hide
brand, and is the son of a carpenter.
mas Ewes in the lives Of Emperor and Pope.
1t looks down on the Church of Santa
Maria Maggiore in Rome where Gregory is
celebrating mass. And 1t sees soldiers under
the Roman baron Cencius break in and
seize him and carry him off to prison.
In LOS, it looks on Henry Nv, broken
fugitive. He has just escaped from a prison
into which he was thrown by his own son.
On this Christmas Eve, his last one on earth,
he is trying to sell his boots to buy food
In 1893, Richard the Lion Hearted sees
it shining into his prison in Germany.
where he sits waiting for the arrival Of the
enormous ransom demanded by Henry VII
of Germany.
Richard has seen the Star shine many
times on his tent in Arabia. He and Sal
adm, those two strange enemies who are al
most loving friends, have looked at it from
their rival camps. If it has wooed either
of them to softer thoughts, the hot fields
before Antioch, Acre and Jerusalem show
no evidence of it.
Shining for the first time on Christmas
in the New World, in 1892, it sees Coum-
bus and his crew turn toward it from their
small craft as they roll in the great blue
surges of the tropical ocean off the coast
of Haiti. 1t may be that there is too much
Christmas Eve cheer aboard the Santa Ma
ria For before the Star has set. she is a
hopeless wreck on the rocks of the beauti-
full island.
The Star is to see many cruel things in
the New World after that. Its serene
beam shines on Montezuma in 1919, pris-
oner in the bloody hands of Cortez. 1t
shines on Cortez again with his men in the
next Christmas Eve, lying before Texcuco,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

n IND 10, the star which they saw. in
al the East went before them," whis-
SzS its pure white light in the hush
"But mankind" said the old
man, sadly, "has not followed. In all the
Christmas Ewes since it looked on the shep-
herds in that field Of Bethlehem, it has
looked on men doing evil somewhere to their
fellows. Its light has been dimmed by the
lights from campfires of armies and from
flames of burning cities. l am old; and it
is weary waiting for the fulfllment of the
promise"
''The Star is beautiful and splendid" said
the boy with shining eyes.
"Undimmed l shine," said the Star.
are but day. sees mankind look toward
me every year with new intelligence and
love. Ages have passed and other ages still
must be, before the Word shall be fulfilled.
But, every Christmas Eve shine. upon a
world that has moved forward step by step"
Greater grew the radiance of the Star,
until the, world sank away, and still and
pure it shone over Jerusalem. Whose calm
and faithful eyes are these that look to-
ward it from cell? Stephen lies there,
to DEATH
Again, it shines upon the Holy City, sur
rounded now by a Roman army under Titus.
Before another Christmas Eve, Jerusalem
SNAIL De no more. Inc Temple OF the Most
High shall be razed and Titus leave moth
ing on Mount Moriah save little heap of
ruins.
And again there is Christmas Eve.
Six hundred years have passed. The
Christmas world has fallen far away from
the Sermon on the Mount. Hatred and in
tolerance have distorted the cause of
Christ into cause for shedding of blood
from Bethlehem to the far isles of Great
Britain.
But steadily the world has moved. On
this Christmas Eve, 623 years after Christ,
a fierce troop of zealots falls on a caravan
moving over the. Arabian Desert on the
way to Mecca. The troop is led by Moham-
med. And with that attack there has be-
gun the Holy War that is to carry the ban
ner OF Islam oyer almost the whole known
world.
When it recedes, Christianity is purified.
Its defenders have learned from the clear
and simple faith of the Prophets followers
to see their own God clearly again.
Christmas Eve, 500 A. d., and Rome is
celebrating the Holy Night with wonderful
splendor. Princess and warriors and priests
throng its streets Greatest Prince of them
all, before whom even the mighty Charlie
magne bows, is the Bishop of Rome, Leo
III. This is Christmas Eve destined to
do more than any other Christmas Eve in
many centuries that have been or that are
to come, to change the history of the world
For tonight Charlemagne and his magnif-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15

Copyright by James Elverson
Els, sir" said Ray, "it stirred me
up considerable, | can tell you'll"
Rays manner quite bore out his
words. and his grandmother was
even more excited than he.
nGnodnasslv exclaimed the old
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-06-07
BUFORD.

June 6.-Mr. Joe Thomson, of Hef-
lin, visited Mr.. Sam Rhoades Monday
night.
Mr.. Will Smith went to Livermore
Saturday on business.
Mrs. Clifton Hoover, of Clear Run,
visited Mrs. r. P. Kirk Monday.
Mr.. L. d. Magyar went to Hartford
Monday.
Mrs. B. G. Coffee is very sick with
lung trouble at her brothers, William
Nicholson.
Mr.. Lee Hardy is thought to be a
little better.
Mrs. John Blair is up again. M
Mr.. Luther King, of Clear Run, was
in our town Saturday.
Mr.. Everett Ellis, of Alexander, Wis
tied here Saturday night.
Our school taught by Miss Forest
Calhoun will close Friday. She will
teach our winter school.
Miss Cora Thomson, of Heflin, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Sam Rhoades.
Messrs. A. T. and Horace Bell
went to Hartford Monday.
Mr.. Dick Yewell,o of Walton's Creek,
was in our town Monday and Tues
day.