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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18
TaIIest American Soldier.

The distinction of being the tallest
man in the United States army be-
longs to Ernest d. Peck, a first lieu
tenant in the engineer corps. He is
six feet four and a half inches in
height. Lieutenant Peck is a native
of Wisconsin and was graduated from
the Oshkosh high school. Lieutenant
Peck is now on duty at Yellowstone
Park, Wyoming, and has supervised
the building of military road known
as Peek's Pike. He is called Pixies
Peak by his comrades in the service.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18

For over three
years I suffered
with a dropsical
condition with
out being aware
that 1t was due
to kidney trou-
BILE. The early
s t a g e s w e r g
principally back
ache and bear
ing down pain,
but / went along
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18
A Correction,

C.ittik-Yes, he said he under
stood you wrote advertising poetry
Rimsey-The idea! hope you cor
recte his error.
Crittik-Oh, certainly. i told him
1t was wrong to say poetry" that
you merely wrote rhymes"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18
Scotch Weather.

Mrs. Auchterbody = Weel, Sandie,
yon was a fine dry day we had last
month.
Sandie-Deed, aye, 1t just put me
in mind o. ane we had when was
bit laddie, but 1t was, IL onythsng
fully drier.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18

"
LUCAS CoUTY.
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he 10 senior
partner of the Arm OF r. j. CHENEY d Co., doing
business In the City OF Toledo. County and State
aforesaid, and that said nrm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
HALLss CATAKRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn TO before and subscribed In my presence,
this 9Th day OF December, A. D., 1886.
49,. A. W. GLEASON,
I SEAL NorApv Puu, rn
1921 $3.50
Hairs Catarrh Cure fa taken internally and acts
directly the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. Send for testimonials. free.
r. j. CHENEY CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall Family Pills for constipation.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18
KInsmen OF Immortal GEORGE.

Many kindred of George Washing
ton dwell on and about the origina.
Washington plantation in Westmore
land county, Virginia. The present oc
cupant of the plantation is named
George Washington.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18

Take Garfield Tea, the Natural Laxa-
tive, for constipation, Indigestion, liver
and kidney arrangements, and colds. 1t is
made of Herbs. Guaranteed under the
Pure Food Law.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18

Nothing pleases homely woman sc
much as to have a man compliment
her figure.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18

When members of family quarrel
. lot of truth leaks out
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18
sLoATED WITH DRoPsY.
Tho Heart Was Badly Affected When
the Patient Began Using
Doan's Kidney Pills.

Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell, of AIS West
Fourth street, Olympia. Wash, says:
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18

To CURE A COLD I'm ONE DAT
Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Ouinine Tabets. Drug
gists refund money IL IL falls to cure. u. w
GROVES signature Is on each box. Csc,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18

Nothing hurts conceited man like
being ignored.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
Literary Wes0s and Crfffciev,,

Psson and aa Ras h9 aas found out the vanity
Lsl' a PTncesse Mathde invited him one dav at TO
wings Of but cSar6tad not SH % as TewleSs less
Princess coimef showed want OF tact" was the
sSca ssSn' he e PLAYED chess in the Cafe de IA n Re
nzed fact that, after certan Du5 @ II was "a recog
sIs'5 hin, in i4nsgr remembered the moves To per
1ggni9gs 3e device had adopted gass @s Of
his reach He rose 10 TOT him and held Just out
w %ltGThwn t11 still further He advanced again and
into his carriage 0A' staggered at last
MI Grlnoie is not sure that George Sand is
10 be held altogether responsible for this ru,n
Even IN that age of degenerates" he iustIv
says Alfred de Musset was exceptionaly
weak. But this hardly exonerates George
sand and, in any case, whether Arusget with
or without her aid, would have gone TO the had
or not is a question apart from that of her
OWL bewildering nature
Great names sometimes throw q gior,our o,,.r
dubious events. One cannot but ba tn+eres+o7 g,
a biography through which' pass figures like
those of Musset and Chopin, List and sainte-
beuNe' BaIzac and GaUtier. Merimee and F'lau-
bert Then too one is always coming back. in
the case Of George Sand. to that mysterious
charm which we mentioned at the outset Mr.
GTlbble closes with a brief account Of the
funeral at Nohant, in the summer of 1876. and
tens no" one OF the distinguished men there
Dumas fLs paid his tribute 10 the storm tossed
hearr laid at last to rest. He had sat up all
night composing the funeral Grafton which he
had promised to deliver; and when the time
came he broke down and sobbed so that he
could not speak IT." Nevertheless, when the
cold light of truth pitilessly searches out every
chapter in the story of George Sands love af-
fairs there is no glamour left-there is nothing
but bitterness. nothing but dust and ashes
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
M0FFAT, YARD & COMPANY. NEW YORK

Cockneyis1n. left TO itself. will contrNe 10 eAls'
very far into the future
Mr.. Leonard Merrick. the English novelist VINO
has 81 growing reputation (and deserves it, was
a bov in New York when he completed his nrst
story. II remember hawking the MS. round the
Dublishing houses" he says. IT remember now
tired was, and how heavy the rejected parcel
grew In America they have summer weather
in the summer. The sun scorched ana the pave
ment glared. and the perspirauon cropped Oh
nv arm on to the brown paper. was th'nKlns
of how felt with that parcel when wrote ths
massage in The House Of Lynch about Eeith
hawking his picture for sale down the nay
market
Mr. Ne-rick has written many novel since
then and his MSS. have not been rejected II
,ro Quote from the London "Bookman" an ac-
count of his methods in preparing book 1t Is
bacause il is comically illustrative Of the ways
of many fellcw-craftsmen;
The programme provides for regular exercise
and for the domestic virtues; he promises to con
miss the Ms. from his mind when the clock strikes
e in Il, the dsS and BY and by accompshes the rst
line But when the time comes for an adjourn
msa5 sS nas as he had intended 10 be- he
is rejecting that even yef & only sne TSt e ~ e II ae
the book win take twenty years 70 write. So the
PIIy PIIIyy during the months that he is working into
The small hours apd scribbing notes in the dark
memorandum plocA' WHICH he Aeeps hahslhs
from the bedpost-
Professor Vinogradoff, once occupant Of the
chair of history In the University OF Moscow.
but now one of the resident scholars of Eng
land and an acknowledged authority on mediae-
val English history. is about to publish new
book II is entitled English Society In the
Eleventh Century" Readers specially inter-
ested in this subject will remember his earlier
writings on The Growth of the English Manor
and "Villeinage in England"
Would one see Daudet in the country of his
own '"Tartarin'' he must seek the Just published
memoirs of Mistral the Provencal poet. Therein.
the London Tribune" tells us. we get lively
impression of the novelist "plunging again for
brief interlude into tire racy life OF the merid-
ional soil. in notable descent upon Aries.
where we see him dining in little cabaret fire.
quented by 'bargemen In 9 fuu room with door
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

OF beaten clay. but with very white walls the
rafters blackened by smoke. and boldly crunch
ing with his fine strong teeth. leaf by Leaf a
large fiat onion, golden as Christmas loaf to
the accompaniment OF some fermented cheese
and haddock. That gave fine thirst for the
orimming jugs of Gran wine, and in half an
hour match could have been lighted from the
flushed checks OF any OF the party. Issuing
from the tavern into the moonlight they come
full upon the procession Of an Arlesienne we'd
ding. and Daudet throws himself upon the neck
Of the bride and kisses her with a will. Twenty
fellows with raised sticks surround the revelIers
but old bargeman pushes back the crowd.
Can't you see we have been drinking drinking
the health OF the bride?'''
whistler's fine portrait OF Carlyle was NOT 4,
may be imagined. achieved without torment 20
both artist and sitter. Here is William AllinS-
hams account of the matter given in MS
Diary:
Carlyle tells he is sitting TO Whistler If
C. makes signs OF changing his position ".
out in agonized tone. For Gods sake don't
mover g. afterward said that all Ws anxiety
seemed 10 be 10 get the painted 10 IDEAL per-
by asking two three sittings, but managed
get great many. AT last c. fatly rebelled. He
used to define W, the most absurd creature
on the face OF the earth
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
4 LITER4RY COLNcIpENCE.
rom The London Spectator.

From The London Spectator.
Readers of the late ]. Fl. Shorthouses bioS-
raphy viii perhaps remember that after he pub
lished John Ingesant" several instances of
such literary condolences as Mr.. Rider Haggard
mentions in THE Spectator of October 10 were
brought TO his notice. One the selection of
his first heroines name, MAR" though he did
not in the least know that the family at Little
Gidding had included a member of that name,
of whose character he gave exact portrait.
Another was in his selection of Wadham College
fer his hero. not knowing the special circum-
stsnces (afterward brought 10 his GnOwledge)
nnscted with the founding Of Wadnanl, which
made ii the only place 81 that time which could
have produced John Inglesant.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

Hantones from photographs form the illustra-
uons' and while one of these, "a Gondola,"
makes curiously cold and unpoetic frontispiece,
the effect as rule is not incongruous. The
cover pears romantic picture drawn in the
manner Of Mr. Maxfield Parrish. and prettily
printed In colors
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
DISSERTATION.
ne London Saturday Review.

From The London Saturday Review
The proposal 10 run lift UP tire Matterilorn
does fairly surpass any proposal OF vnndalism
we have heard of for years. IL IS enough to
make TyndaIl turn in his grave. The Mateerhorn
is bound up for ever with or the most
moving stories OF mans endurance that have
been told. Carrel, CroZ. Whymper and Tynda1
are among the dramatis pcrsonse OF this von-
derful, fascinating mountain: they are NAMES q
Eoni ifnned m xhf Pa
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
BOOKS And AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to- Come.

Somehow Good" Mr.. William de Morgan's
forthcoming novel, has hero who through an
accident completely loses his memory. In this
unhappy state he loves. woos. and marries his
own wife, of whom, OF course. he has no recol-
lection. This theme naturally involves many
complications.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

Mr.. Rider Haggard's new novel. ''The yellow
God, will not appear in book form for some
months, previous publication as a serial hav-
ing been arranged.
Another new novel which is to see the light
first as serial is Mrs. Everard Cotes's Gin
derella In Canada"
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

Professor J1ounsbury will offer In the next
number of Harper an excellent argument
against the of profanity-an argument
which appeals to mans self-love. He points
out that profanity arises from mems desire to
express strong feeling in strong language.
but that they become cultured they
realize the !neffectiveness Of profanity and
its use. He adds that the growth Of refinement
tends 20 extinguish the habit far more effect
ualIy than the rebukes of moralists and that
II IS safe to say In general that a mans in
tellectuaI development is largely determined
by the exten: of his Indulgence in profanity"
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

The Putnams have brought out under the title
Of - Princess OF the Old World book about
that interesting parsonage, Mile. de Montpen-
ser, LA Grande MademoiseTe." Anne Marie
Louise d'Orleans was that paradoxical being
shrewd fool and in that character furnished
plenty OF material for amusing and dramatic
anecdote. 1t testimony to her lack OF
charm that her cousin. Charles II. could not
bring himself to make effective love to her. al
though she was the greatest heiress in Europe.
and his mother eagerly desirous of the
match. Mademolselles vanity sorely hurt
by his dead silence as ne sat beside her one
evening-and even more by his feeble remark
at parting that Lord Jermyn who spoke better
French than himself would have explained his
sentiments and plans. After that there was not
much hope that the sentimental and indepen-
dent Anne Marie Louise would become Queen of
England.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
& SALL-oUT-oF-PRINT-BooKs" WRITE NE.

can get you any book published on any
subject The most expert book finder u
England call and my 100000 rare books. BAKERS
GREET BOOK SHOP John Brtght 81, Birmingham.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

Is Mars really Inhabited? Astronomical OBJ
servations made during the last summer ap-
parently confirm Professor Percival Lowell In
his theory that it is not barren waste He
says in an article soon to be published in The
Century: That life is there, is founded on no
assumption, but on massed evidence that is con-
elusive. and the reader should realize that op-
position to the idea that we now have proof
of life Mars is not based on reason but on
emotion, however speclously cloaked. All scien-
tifc objections have been met and shown unten-
able as to temperature. snow. etc. but human
prejudice. as with the Copernican system or the
origin Of species, time alone can dispel"
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

Mr.. Andrew Lang has been reading an ac-
count Of friction between a feminine poet and
the editor of daily paper. and thereupon in
dulges IN some characteristic playfuIness:
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

to us in a book which is about TO appear from
the pen of Mr.. j. G. Millais. of the artist
As an accomplished hunter and naturalist the
author has dealt at length with the story OF his
expeditions throughout the island; but he has
not neglected the human interest. He has tried
to picture the daily life of the people and has
given special attention to studies of the Mic
mac Indians. The book. which has been richly
Illustrated will be brought out soon by Long
mans Green Co.
That sclf-satisfed person. Mr.. Bernard Shaw,
would probably dislike with extreme heartiness
to be called "a cockney." That the name might
Justly be applied to him may be gathered from
q coolly reasonable article in THE Contau1po-
rary Review" The element in life" SAYS the
writer. which is at war with Mr. Bernard
Shaw and all his works is simply--and this may
perhaps appear to his admirers the highest of
cornpliments-the barbaric element"
And oy 'barbaric" one does not here mean so
antique practice as that Of scalping people or so
means a certain of instructive feelings COM
hinng vrllity and reverence which are in fact the
inteTtribai conflict which continue in the nation on
health lasts and which finally die out little ana
only little. before the nations extinction. These
Certain unquestio attitude toward those m
things which are inevitable and finally serious in
religion and war. We say express themselves'
In our modern way OF taking, but in reality
fundamental barbaric instincts have little concern
WITH and some distrust for any verbal expression
we can give them The natural antithesis 10 "bar-
barism' thus understood is, in the most civil
phrase, 'modernity'
But if one goes far to meet ones adversary as
to describe ones own cause ''barbarism" one
may perhaps claim the advantage thus earned of
pointing out how open his cause, tco, is TO descrip
ton by the word thar belttles.' For the kind of
'modernity' mean is the modernity of great and
garish cities of life cut off from nature, of rage
for some thing TO US, tocosity about
fathers and their religion. of quite boundless
confidence IN tne power or vernantleS. And this
ney'' attitude toward life. Barbarsm and Cock
na=ss-l then, form a quite clear antthesis. in
which neither side is permitted any moral or Peck
snifian superiority TO the other. the only point T.
observe being that whereas Barbarsul has con-
trved exist in the past Il Is so'certain that
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

n modernized "Sandrord and Merton freed
from pompous moralizngs and dull, If well
meaning digressions has been prepared for the
young Americans of to-day by Mr.. Clifton John
son. All the good lessons Of the book are pre-
served. and the new title. The Story OF Two
Boys" makes 1t still more "up-to-date." But
It is not. of course. the Sanford and Merton"
Of Thomas Day. That eccentric dsciplinarIan
would have more thought Of sparing his
readers these same moralizings than he would
have spared his trembling child visitor. little
Maria Edgeworth, the dreaded daily dose OF
Bishop Berkeley's tar water. That aspect OF the
awkward old philanthropst bearing a partic-
ularly large tumbler and uttering sternly his
regular morning greeting Now, Miss .Iaria,
drink this is the in which Day will always
be remembered by the readers Of the story of
the Edgeworths.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

The lady. Il seems, published a piece of verse
somewhere and the editor, without saying with
your leave by your leave" republlshed It. or
some of it. The 'ady, or her literary agent, then
asked the editor for pecuniary compensation as
the Americans say. He replied that he could give
ten-and-six, but would. far in him lay. see
that the lady received no publicity in future from
his newspaper
This strikes curious affair. I have OBJ
served my own rhymes current in empty inches of
newspapers, and even or pictorial postcards, but it
never occurred TO me 70 trouble any one about it.
y on est tdHtL Perhaps am shamefully regardless
OF the rights OF authors. but poetry after all, is
as the young LADY said such foote.'
The strange people who edit Selections never
cease from asking leave 10 select at pleasure from
my verses used always to say Take anything
you please" and very odd things they did take,
resembling those parts Of the dead sheep pig
which, as Dickens says. 'the animal when alive.
had least cause TO pride himself upon" Now I
tel the Selecors to badger the publishers and leave
alone
But why do they keep making these Anthologies?
Ihere Is no money In writing minor poetry, and II
fishing collections Of the things of thirty or
forty minor poets. If they got a pound apiece,
which we do not II don't, at least. there can be
nothing over for the active selector.
However, / would gladly make bargain with
the provincial Press the lines Of the Editor
the Lady. II all the provincial editors would pub
HSh any rhymes OF mine they liked Cor my whole
epic, in numbers. "to be continued in our next'0,
and II each gave me ten-and-siX, then I would
with enthusiasm permit them to deny any later
publicity In their columns, even that of "a genial
obituary" Provincial publicity Is thing to be
snatched at. and think Of the number of guneas!
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
The Heroine of the Romantic MoUe.
ment IN France.

GEORGE SAND AND HER LOVERS BY Fran
els Gribhle Illustrated. Svo. pp. XIX, $40.
I.harles Scrfbner's Sens ~
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

Continued on Eighth Page
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16

WORDSWORTH AND HIS CIRCLE. BY David
Watson Ranne, NJ. A. With Twenty Illus
trations. SVo pp. XII $50 G. P. Putnam S
New-York tribune., 1907-11-16
New Macmillan Juveniles
A NEW CLASSIC FOR YOUNG AND OLD
MIR. OlEiVant'S
RedcOai Captain
Mrs. virgins nsu book of bird stories
Gray Lady and the Birds

Gray Lady" happening into hillside country SC
,an alliance with band of youngsters to whom each
of the bird following their life in migration and
SO full page illustrations. OF which IL in color.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-08
FOUND WITH
LEGS CUT OFF
!. R. TOLL FATALLY INJURED
NEAR EvERsoN LAST NIGHT
DIED TODAY.

]. R. Toll, of Everson, was fatally
injured by a train on the Adamsville
branch railroad near Eyerson this
morning, death resulting few hours
later. How the accident occurred is not
known. Mr. Toll was found about two
o'clock this morning lying beside the
track, with both legs severed from
the body. He was Brought to the Min
ers' Hospital Immediately, where his
death occurred a few hours later. Toll
was son Of James Toll, Of Klllarm
and was born In Allegany county
Md, In 1877, and was therefore thirty
years of age. He is survived by his
wife aud two children, aged Ave years
and thirteen months Of age. The re-
mains were taken to Killarm this at
teruoon by Undertaken R, G. Jones.
Funeral services will be held at the
fathers residence Oh Saturday after
noon.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-08
MOTHER Died
THIS MORNING
AND YOUNG MAN IN COOK HOS
PITAL CAN'T ATTEND THE
FUNERAL.

Mrs. Blanche Donaldson, wife OF
w. S. Hill, of scottdale, Pa, and sis
Ter Of Mrs. J. C. Broomfield, of this
city, died at her home in scottdale at
2 o'clock this morning, after an Ill
ness of six months. Mrs. Hill leaves
her husband, six sons, three dauga.
ters, four sisters and one brother to
mourn her departure. James 5. Hill.
a patient at Cooks Hospital, this city,
Is her oldest son and will be unable
10 attend. his mothers funeral on ac'
count of having undergone a serious
operation two weeks ago.
The sympathy OF his many friends
20 out to this young man in nls sad
bereavement Mrs; NJ. T. sisIer, Of
Morgautown, Miss Hattie Donaldson.
Of Unontown, Miss Ida Donaldson, of
scottdale, and Mr.. VIM. G. Donaldson,
of Lourel iron works, Monongalia
county, this State, are the sisters and
brother of the departed.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-08

County Superintendent of Free
schools Carter L. FNust has Just com,
pleted his annual report to State sh-
perntendent Miller on the condition
OF the schools in Marion county for
the school year eudiug June 30, 1907.
Several interesting things are report
ed relative to the schools, the teach
ers, etc., which we sum up from the
report for the, information Of West vir'
ginlan readers.
The report shows that Marion coun'
ty has 1852 school buildings containing
25l rooms used for school purposes.
Rooms having apparatus, 147; schools
with Libraries, Sc; volumes in the IL
baries, 12,411; number with improved
ground, 8; number with grounds fenc-
ed, s; total value of school properties
in the county, s557 GIL.
The total number Of pupils enrolled
for the year was 7..4s, and the aver
age daily attendance was $500. That
the rod is still in use is evidenced By
the fact that SAL boys and % girls
we're victims of the birch during the
year. The cases Of tardiness reach
the startling number Of 1922, while
S. cases Of truancy and 20 of suspen'
sion or expulsion arc reported.
The total number of teachers en-
pIoyed was 258. OF these 112 are re-
ported as having taught the same
school two terms, while 81 taught thei'
first term last year. Thirty-three out
Of the 25S are graduates of a Normal
school ans ten Of the State University.
Two were residents of other States,