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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-14
The Latest Novelty In Instrumental
Compositions Noteworthy HIT.

delightful Instrumental composition now
going the rounds OF social parties, dancing
schools and hotel orchestras is the quaint
musical number known as rs. r. Henry $
Barn Dance" There are so many Of this
class OF composition upon the market. all Of
which must be confusing TO the gentle
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-14
BRYAN GOING TO MEXICO.

LINCOLN. Neb.. Nov. H,-Mr. and
Mrs. w j. Bryan will leave Sunday for
trip TO Mexico. They will seek rest
and recreation. The itinerary Of the
Trip has not been announced. Mr..
Bryan will deliver a commencement ad-
dress in Philadelphia Dec. g
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-14
NEW t,osRlIAL OPENS.

The new Mount Morlah Hospital, at
Nos 1873 and $40 Second street, Will be
opened tomorrow. Mayor Mcclellan and
other city officials are expected to be
present a the ceremonies, which be-
oin Al o'clock,
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
opportunity is found in Herald ads. Read Them Profit
THE STAMPEDE IS ON
The Allies Are Now Trying to Rush
Into the Taft Band Wagon, So
They Can Name Second Man.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Chicago, June 10.-The republican
national committee is today consider
ing the contests from the eleventh
and twelfth Missouri districts. Hughes
delegates were elected in these dis
tricts, but the Taft contestants claim
that the convention was irregular The
ants today concede to Taft five hun
dred and fifty-one votes, sixty more
than he needs to secure the nominal
ton. He has gained ninety-two on the
contests so far, and it is believed the
committee will seat one hundred more
Taft delegates in the remaining one
hundred and thirty-three contests.
The rush to the Taft band wagon
has begun in earnest and the ants are
now trying to get a part in the nam
ing of the vice presidential nominee
Congressman Sherman of New York
is now regarded as the likely selec-
ton for this honor
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
Rrazos Bridge Went Down.

Hampstead, Texas, June 9.-The
railroad bridge across the Brazos
river collapsed last night about one
o'clock just as the west bound passen-
ger train crossed to safety on the
west side After working through two
overflows and expanding great deal
of money to save this structure it
finally succumbed to the great wash
ing of the water and now the span on
the west side is down and will have
to be replaced. A special Waterman
hurried the news to Hampstead in
time to stop trains from moving in
that directions. Trains will run
either by Navasota or Rosenberg.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
o. H. 3. BELMONT DEAD.
Member of Millionaire Family of New
York Died Today.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
New York, June 10.-Oliver H. P
Belmont, member of the millionaire
family and brother of August Bel
mont, died today at his summer home
at Hampstead He had been sick one
week with peritonitis He was forty
nine years of age and was graduate
of the naval academy. He served on
the Kearsarge. He was elected to
congress from New York in 1900. Bel
mont was first married to Miss Sarah
Whitney, who divorced him, and after
wards married the divorced wife of
X. Vanderbilt. This last mar
riage estranged him from his broth
ers.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
TEXAS BASEBALL LEAGUE.

Results yesterday:
San Antonio 6, Houston o.
Austin 5, Galveston 4.
Fort Worth 3, Waco 8.
Dallas-Shreveport game postponed;
ain.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
Taft Scores Again.
Special to the Herald.


Chicago, June 10.-The republican
committee today unseated the Hughes
men in the eleventh and twelfth Mis-
souri, districts and decided that the
Taft delegates were regular and were
entitled to the seats. The North Car
DINA contests are now being consid-
cred. The Taft at large delegates
were seated. Seven district contests
are pending. The Ohio contestants
from the third, sixth, tenth and thir-
teenth Ohio districts have arrived and
expect a hearing this afternoon.
Their defeat is regarded as certain.
Congressman Burke, Knox's man.
ager, is trying to induce the ants to
fight for basis of representation to
the national convention on the vote
cast for president, and wants to al
low one delegate for each ten thou
sand votes. This would reduce the
south's vote and rob it of the balance
Taft men in the first North Caro-
lima district were seated this after
noon.
A boom for Hitchcock for vice pres
ident has been started, but Hitchcock
has issued a statement denying that
he is candidate for vice president,
national chairman or any other posi-
ton.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
THE kAN RIVER FLOOD
ArmourdaIe and Argentine and West
Side Bottoms at Kansas City
Completely Submerged.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Kansas City, Mo-, June 1O.-The
overlooked Kaw river this morning
completely flooded Armourdale and
Argentine and the west side bottoms
The river is three feet above the
danger mark. The Armour packing
plant and hog yards are inundated,
and thousands of people have been
driven from their homes. The Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad bridge is in
every danger of going. The Mis-
souri, river is still rising and the
worst of the overflow is expected to-
day.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
PoPULISTS REVIVE
Party In Texas and-WiII Put Out !
State Ticket.
Snecial to the Herald

Special to the Herald.
Dallas, Texas, June 10-At a con-
ference of populists held here today
it was decided to reorganize the party
in Texas and put a state ticket in
the field. J. NJ Mallet, the last state
chairman, is again in charge. The
party claims 100000 votes for Watson
and E. w. Kirkpatrick for governor.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
VIII Boost Mitchell.
Special to the Herald.

Georgetown, June I'D. s. Ches-
ser, chairman of the organization
boosting Mitchell for the democratic
vice presidential nomination, has es-
tabllshed headquarters, and will or
ganize the state in an effort to land
the nomination for Mitchell.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
GORE WILL NEVER SEE
Specialists Tell the Oklahoma Senator
That He Cannot Recover His
Eyesight.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Washington, D. c., June 10.-The
specialists treating Senator Gore of
Oklahoma have decided it is impos-
sible to restore his sight. They think
there might have been chance years
ago. but say the time has passed.
ki2taE Gore thought he was able to
idMemguish between his cuff and his
coat, but the specialists say it was a
delusion.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
GREAT FIRE RACED
At New orleans-Two Fires Destroy
edsForty-Five Houses.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
New Orleans, La, June 10.-Forty-
five houses were destroyed by fire
here today. The first of the fires
was in Magazine street and burned
twenty-five houses. The other twen-
ty houses were destroyed in a fire in
Rampant street The loss is estimat-
ed at 100000. One man was serious
ly injured
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
Joseph Letter Married.
Special to the Herald.

Washington, D. c., June 1O.-Jos.
Letter, the Chicago millionaire, was
married to Miss Juliette Williams,
the daughter of Col John Williams.
today. The bride is the reigning
beauty. She wore a directorie gown
of white. The presents represent a
million in value.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
Investigation Beuun,

College Station, Texas, June 10
The investigation of President Har.
rington and the conditions at the Ag
ricultural and Mechanical College has
begun by the board.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
Hitchcock Case.

Special to the Herald
New York, June 10.-The case of
Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian
accused of wronging girls, is expect
ed to go to the jury today. Herman,
Hitchcock's valet, will testify that he
was hidden in the room where the
actor was accused of taking the girls,
and overheard all of the conversation,
and that the girls testimony is false.
and his wife are both eX-
pected to make good witnesses for the
defense. Prosecutor Garvin may be
called as witness for the defense
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
DAY TO RETIRE.
Denies Report That He Is GOING to
Take Vacation.
Special to the Herald.

optCIdI 10 IHt FftTiIH.
Syracuse, N. Y, June lot was an.
nounced at the commencement exer-
cises that Chancellor Day, who as
sailed President Roosevelt, is to be
given eight months vacation to make
a world tour. This rumor is denied
by Day, who says he is going to re-
sign, and gossip says will not return
to the Syracuse University.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

Death, life all were mere distractions lacking the
Importance of the growing whistle you were whit
tling from a Willow
This, was something terribly different. Pat was
more than a thing-he heart which was
boundlessly loving; he an intelligent mind; he
was kindly and gracious spirit; he was incarnate
good humor; he was the soul of fidelity. These,
then were all transient? oh, the unfathomabe
cruelty Of it! Unbelievable as it may sound right
here is where crept in your first doubt about the
God OF your childhood Why should He have both
cred to take PatY What good your dog, your
one dog to Him who had such worlds of possess
sions? You dropped your hand upon the well-loVed
body then--then you sprang frantically to your
feet you needed some warm human sympathy to
help you bear the dreadful which that chance
touch had established
Coming Cook you forgot her usual asperi-
ties and told her. as we'll as you could, for the
dry clutch at your throat, of what had happened;
and she said it was a precious good riddance. Had
she coarsely slapped you upon your two eyes she
could not have shocked you more or deepened more
the blackness of your misery
You sought your mother and told her; and in
turn told that perhaps it was better So The
heartless words "a precious good riddance" shone
Enthusiastically in her relieved eyes.
You were alone then In your sorrow And before
you-always aIone-was the grim and brutal task
of burying The tragedy of all the years to come,
the years when you would suffer, alone and lose,
alone and bury, alone, focused itself in vague
shadow OF premont1on as you dug out resting
place for your past companion And talk of brav-
ery-when it came to lifting that poor companion
but why talk about it all?
Just moment you paused before hiding Pat for
ever and in that moment you heard the Jeering but
sweet, high laughter of your Aunt Leila. The
sound smote you like whip and you covered
above the open grave as if stricken by SO many
lashes. What mischief are you up to now?" she
was calling chaIlengingly But you did not an
swer If you could spare poor unloved Pat the in
suit of a laugh by remaining silent, you were going
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

bidding Society strew- LY BESIDE YOU.
ing :don'ts the patch of experiments like tacks
IN advance bicycle; collectively. They stood for
ali things evil; individually, though They not
30 bad.
Your father pretty harmless except on Sun
days He devoted that holy day of rest to evening
up such scores he had been unable to attend to
on week days after he came home from business.
AT least so it seemed Sunday looms in memory
as day of much blistering. morally and bodily.
He would have known nothing about anything. if
your mother had not told him, at supper time. But
everything came up after the pie-how you had
been kept in at school,; barred out, as the case
might be; what you had done to Jimmy. Baxters
cat; what you had said to Jimmy himself; and what
Jimmys mother had said to you-oh. nothing was
kept sacred Your mothers excuse for all this
breach of faith was that she wanted to make
good boy out of you. First the teacher took
whack at you then your mother; finally your faith
err All for the same thing, too.
No matter how far away from the house you
were when you were bad you always found that the
news of it got home first. Hearing it. your moth
or used to say she surprised" and father
used to say that hes"expected much 1t is
rather queer that you should have happened to be
their son, for they knew so little about you Your
mother was always imagining you to be the pos
sessor OF stack OF virtues, highly impossible to
you; and your father was generally suspecting you
of heap of iniquitous conceptions. equally impos-
sible.
Aunt Leila was the only one who seemed capable
OF arriving at a decent average; you were Just
.boy, to her. which simpiined lot OF things.
When you and scrape tumbIed into the house to-
gether, Aunt Leila was neither surprised nor ex-
pectant; she merely grinned companionably or
laughed outright.
Some people called your Aunt Leila young;
palpabIe ms-statement, for she was married-how
account for Uncle Edmund else? And-even at
that tender age-you knew that matrimony was
very much of a settler. SO far as youth was con-
cerned
Now, in the afair--or rather, continuous per-
formance--of Baxter's cat They all mistaken.
They thought you did not like cats.
Nothing could be further from the truth. You
liked cats. You did, indeed. But you mostly liked
them in motion And you generally spared your
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

self exertion to furnish them with an incentive.
You used scientifically and honestly to feel that
anything which had power to move with the whole
soued abandon of a cat ought to be kept moving;
otherwise were wasted one of natures best gifts to
the cat tribe.
Why should They have expected you to prove
your love by going through life with cat on your
heart? Did they think cat was easily obtain
abIeY They should have known, as you did, that
belongs Invariably to high places. to fence tops
to shed roofs not impossbly to fagpoles, especially
when you were near.
But dog belonged to the good, good earth; he
was always underfoot and reachable. How you
ached for a dog For permanent one. The tran
STORY dog was daily occurrence. He adopted you
on your way home from school and came home with
you. as far as the back door, no farther Then you
were taken to task for the happening and were de-
tailed forth with the dog to lose him. Losing
him generally occupied the whole of the afternoon
- il it were a nice day.
VIII you ever forget the admirable dog that alb
soIuteIy refused to stay lost? that turned up at
nightfall confident of welcome? that in the
yard bright and early the next morning, wagging
his tail nineteen to in rapturous greeting?
the dog that adopted you so hard and fast that
mother, father cook, aunt, uncle, all-were unable
20 disabuse his mind of the legality of the affair?
the dog that was permitted perforce to remain and
become yoursY Never. Pat is unforgetable-a
very Sirius In the consultations of memory
Pat seemed to be his name from the start. You
never had doubt about it. Pat answered to Pat
as to the manner born. He seemed moreover, en-
blazoned with the name Pat from stem to stern.
1t was preposterous to think that he had ever been
called anything else. He arrived on the highway
of your life already named and ticketed as
yours-like that forward young in
the mythology book who sprang full grown
and completely armed from her fathers head
or helmet. or something. You were glad she
was armed and you often wondered whether or
not she was legged, too; but she got around in
the upper world considerably and performed lot
of deeds for you to study, she probably was What
a relief Pat was after myths! He was SO intensely
real.
But he was nothing to look at. No, indeed
His homeness was OF a stern and unimpeachable
character Perhaps that is why They all hated him
so, for grown-ups are always partial to such OF
their animals as are nice Notwithstanding their
children. plain child has to walk awfully
straight path Certainly Pat was no beauty, He
was of dirty white from tip to tip and he had
diabolical black smudge around one eye. Two
black eyes might have been made OF symmetry,
therefore was Pat denied them Nature accorded
to Pat no meanest advantage His one black eye
ance. 1t was as il some hend had fashioned him
in moment of sport and then had chased him
from Hades with an ink bottle.
But he was ali yours-that was his one and suf-
fcient beauty. He stuck to you as no shadow
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

to so remain. hoping that she would go away. She
came nearer in slow amazement; then hurrying-
she knelt beside you why, Pat why Pat why
dear old dog" her shaking voice murmuring.
and the tears which rained upon his dingy coat
were not all yours. For yours, which had not
fallen before, like storm at sight of hers
and at the tribute Of her white hand with its pre-
ty rings pettng and stroking the poor stark body.
why Pat! why, Pat!" In a flash you learned a
great truth, that the merry heart which goes
through the world laughing where it may, is also
the heart which weeps when 1t must and gives In
gift of sympathy to all in need. For second
or so you gave way utterly forgetting that you
man and weeping to finish the greater
part or your agony in her comforting arms, which
had gotten around you somehow you didn't quite
know how or when. AS rule, you couldn't stand
arms.
1t was little touch-a very little touch, that
about the handkerchef-bu you have remembered
it all these years, and always with rush of graft
tude. 1t her nice one, lace-edged and per-
funny, but she put it over Pats dear face that the
earth-oh WELL it was all years and years ago.
A woman who could do that sort of thing must
have little sense, IL she was your aunt, so
you trusted her with big question:
us this-?" You paused for words great
enough to fit the thought; but none would come. So
YOU used the little ones is this the end of him?''
You pointed to the grave, a mound by now, the
tears drowning you. Your gruff speech
was deeply metaphysical-even theological. In
your hazy mind 1umbled the comfortable
words 1.-The resurrection and the life,'' and you
knew they had nothing at all to do with the case
In hand; but oh, ii they only had!
Aunt Leila trump that she was went magically
to the very of your inquiry, to the shrine of
your mystic hopes.
People say mo-; but sonny-boy think there's
a dog-heaven do indeed"
You cheered as magieally. On the strength of
that slim think" you reached out toward life
again and were ready to find 1t sweet
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11


bush a slow and somewhat normal AFFAIR, and
attributed to blight.
Then the fearful afternoon when you caught
him trotting to the lawn with the hambone which
was to form the nucleus of that nights supper
what souI-searng time you trying to trim that
mangled bone back to faint semblance of its
former seemly self; and the horror you endured at
the table during the few tense moments that the
maternal eye studied that bone dsapprovingly; and
the cool thankful perspiration which poured down
your spine when the maternal edict that no
servant could be trusted!
The slippers you had to retrieve! The chewed
pens and pencils you had to burn! The holes you
had to fill up! The footmarks you had to erase!
The meat and milk that you were forced to pilfer!
The milk matter was easy, though; for trife Of
water added to the pitcher fixed that. But obtain
ing meat was harder job. You endured all the
pangs OF father OF family with strike on
the price OF beef up" You used to try sliding
your portion the roast to Pat at dinner time.
der the table; but he exposed the combine by
swapping jaws gratefully together and slobbing
an audible appreciation of your bounty. Then, of
course, the Assembled Don'ts got in nterdct.
And why? Wasn't it your meat, once it your
platter
BuG they begrudged Pat everything, even his
optimism He could not much wag his tail
that somebody did not make unpleasant mention of
neas-the inference being that Pat shook feas
from that amiable stump much as dew is scattered
from a waving branch. Fleas! Who ever heard of
such a thing? Why, if you had been given five
cents each for every flea on Pats whole body you
wouldn't have had money enough to buy a bicycle
a high-grade one, that is And queer way they
had Of transferring the odium to of all that was
reprehensible in your pet. You were made to feel
that every solitary flea plague spot due to
your own stained and mutilated soul; that had you
been fair and unsmrched from your infancy up
Pat would have been healess The absurdty of
this never struck you until it was years too late
At the time you felt that it all more less
probable. Sins and their punishments mys-
teries together. You never quite knew what every
thing was all about Such times as your con-
science was as pure as Easter lily one
would box your head nearly off your shoulders
and loads of times when you staggered and shud-
dered under the knowledge of crime too awful for
words, somebody would give you a penny for being
a good boy. You never got penny and ease of
mind to enjoy 1T; never.
The only one who always understood you was
Pat II you were in sorrow answering sorrow
would leap Immediately to his loving eyes, and he
trotted faithfully beside you with gambol He
was never ready for rabbits until you were. If you
were in fear he heartened you. If you were for
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

were polished off and hailed to church, and when
he finally found you, after painting search and in
the middle of the sermon, his conversation on the
subject was poignant The minister and the con-
gregation all looked at you with remonstrance-as
il you had been the barker
In the way of hiding his crimes from the hard
hearted others, you performed service for Pat
which you would have hated to perform for the
Angel Gabriel. Your clustered sins were few
and fairly coverable compared with the frightful
things Pat could, and did do
VIII you ever forget that morning when you found
him careening happily around the garden with
choice rosebush in his jaws? That beast of a plant
pampered thing, kind of a family pet, and
was all but rocked to sleep every night; it
wretched buds counted every half hour Well, Pat
showed himself a connoisseur. That was the bush
he wanted and other. 1t branched from his
glad head like the horns of deer, and tie more
angushed you became in an attempt to recover it,
the more of game Pat took it to be- The bush was
a sorry thing when you finally did recover it, You
had to manicure it for full fifteen minutes be-
fore you could tell it from pea brush Then you
replanted it; and had to rake the whole bed to
hide your traces. Your particular Nemesis must
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
Copyright 1908 by rhoma. H. Mckee.

wy TAS it your fault?
NA/ Certainly not. It was the fault entirely
wv of that insorutaOle abstraction which
they call Providence.
Providence made you a small boy, to begin with;
and Providence additionally saw to It tnat every
thing which was most undesirable in the way OF
dog should follow you home; yet when this comDlS
nation resulted in its usual disaster, Providence al
ways dscreety stood from under and left you TO get
out of the mess as best you might. by yourself.
Really. to be a small boy is to be but hanger
on by suferance to the ragged edge OF the world
belonging to no rghtful zone of enjoyment and
possessed OF weird disuualications which shut one
out oy each and every kingdom-animal, vegetable
or mineral.
,rhey were very iilogical-you thougnt-aiso
vary numerous For to an abiding Mother and
rather were added variable Nurses and Cooks
fairly constant Aunt, her attendant Uncle, and
whole droves of intermittent Grandparents And
It seemed to be the chief business OF everybody
either to berate you for not being around when
they wanted you to be around, to berate you for
be,ng around when they wanted you not to be. And
the only safe rule to go by to hurry out of the
way the very minute you found yourself wanting to
stay, and vice versa.
Very illogical According to Their Dictum no
sooner did you succeed in outgrowing the shameful