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The Columbus journal., 1908-06-03

ed in the last bill she would have
asked me If l couldn't be little more
expedient. Thus usage dulls the
senses.
On the other hand. do you suppose
that if l were sued for a thousand dol
lars l would pay the complainant In
good green money? No, thousand
times. no. would purposely buy the
smallest blank check that could find,
and in my most minute chirography,
and with an autograph that was bare
ly good. l would sign 1t, and thus I
would feel that l was getting of
cheap.
In some things most of us are in
te1sely mean, and among the expendi-
lures that offend mems souls are those
paid into railroad company's grasp
ing NAV. hold myself no better
than the rest. and. If possible, l al
ways travel in company with another.
and before We start out / give him
money to cover the expenses, and he
buys the tickets and feel that have
| not spent SO much.
But in buying stationery, and books,
and pictures. never think Of intrust-
ing the business to another. Let me
pick out my own paper, find my own
book; be my own judge of the picture,
and, when they are ready to deliver,
let me pay the bill myself in coin of
the realm.
Your plumber should always re-
ceive a check, but the man who en-
tertains you should get good gold,
even if it is only 50 cents worth.
One objection i have to royalties is
that they always come in the form of
q check-when they come at all. One
time, though, my publisher varied it:
instead Of sending q check he sent
bill. You see, had given At least
ten copies Of the book At Christmas
time. and, Of course. the balance was
In his favor. Do you know. I really
enjoyed the thing for q change
BY the way. that receiving of roya.-
ties. even il they are paid in check
form. is a good game You sell your
stories for SO much, and then, when
they are all printed. you are induced
to make q book of them. Well. you
have already been paid for them, SO
that you stand to gain. whatever hap
pens. 1t may be only ten dollars
that will come to you. but it may be
$4,000. and the Joy of looking
forward to royalty day is one
that cannot be expressed in words.
You do not hear much about the
sale Of your book; your friends say
nothing about 1t. but perhaps they
are keeping its phenomenal success 4
secret from ycI. You live In the
country. and you never see the Book
man, SO you do not know xhat the
six best sellers are. but you have
your suspicious. At last the fate
full day arrives, the familiar envelope
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A lawsuit had been tried on the
veranda of the crossroads store. and
when ii had been settled Limuel Juck'
lin. who had watched the proceedings.
took the homemade chair, vacated by
the justice. leaned back against the
wall and rermkaed: Rather bad, this
thing of goin' to law. And amt it a
peculiar state of society that educates
men to stimulate quarrels? We may
say that they amt trained for that
purpose. but unless there are misun-
derstandin's the lawyers work is cut
of, and he's got little too much Of
Old Adam in him not to look out for
his own interest"
You take a wrong view of the mat
ter" replied young lawyer.
That is just about what I expected
you to say. But grantin' to the lawyer
all he can claim for himself. 1t must
after all be allowed that the bickerin's
and shortsightedness of the human
family give him the most of his excuse
for Twin A perfect state of civiliza-
ton would argue perfect honesty. and
IL such were the case the lawyers
would be powerful scarce. There Is
no denyin' of the fact that some Of the
greatest men have been lawyers and
that the most of our presidents have
practiced law. And SO have some of
the immortal geniuses been soldiers,
but il man had been just and peace
able there never would have been
any need for the soldier"
According to your view, then" said
the lawyer. there is no real need for
anybody that"
That doesn't build up." Limuel
broke in, winking at his former
friends Every man ought to produce
somethin' II he don't he's livin' on
somebody that does. The only real
occupation is the one that makes the
world better Understand, now, !
have nothin' against anybody's calm.
I'm just expressin' my opinion and 1t
must be taken for what it is worth.
But the lawyer shows us one thing II
nothin' more-hOw keen a mans mind
may be whetted. l recollect once that
a fellow sued me. We had snapped
horses"
And you had got the better of him.
eh?" said the lawyer.
well. that's the way 1t looked to
him. The horse l let him have died
that night. He asked me II the horse
was sound and l said never had
heard any complaint. and I hadn't. He
had never been under the care of q
doctor SO far as knew. His appetite
was good and he'd bat his eye when
you motioned at him. might have
seen him fall down-have seen men
fall. but l didn't think that they were
goin' to die. I told him a child could
drive him. A child did drive him out
OF the garden that day. Well, we
snapped, and. as say. his horse was
taken sick in the night and died be-
fore day. He came back to me and
swore that l had swopped him horse
that I know'd was goin' to die. l told
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him that II he'd show me horse that
want goin' to die I'd give him my
farm. felt that he had the worst OF
1t and I would have evened it up the
best way l could. but before l got
through havin' fun with him he got
mad and went away and hired q law.
yer to prove that I was . liar and al
together the worst man in the COM
munity.
Il never got such a sc0rin' In my
life l felt sorry for my wife and chill
dren. didn't think that anybody
would ever speak to me again. and l
told the lawyer that would make 1t a
personal matter between me and him.
1 expected the justice to decide dead
against me. but he didn't. He had
been q horse trader himself.
well. after the thing was over with
I took the horse I got from the Teller
and went over to his house about ten
miles away and turned the nag loose
in his lot. did 1t not because was
sorry for him. but because l was
afraid Of myself-afraid that couldn't
sleep. and I was workin' hard and
needed rest. Well, sir. that night
the nag that I'd turned into the lot
ups and dies. and tie Teller swore that
I had hauled him there after he was
dead, and hanged IL he didn't sue me
again. He got the same lawyer and
he made me out a worse man than. /
was before. Made 1t appear that had
poisoned the horse and dragged him
over there. Then l swore that the
whole county couldn't hold me back
from takin' 1t out of his hide.
so the first chance I got l went to
town to see the lawyer. I went over
to the courthouse and he was maxim
a speech, and I wish I may die dead If
the teller he was q skinnin' this time
want the very man that had sued me.
I never hearn anything like it. Tip
toed and called him all sorts of a
scoundrel; said that he had defrauded
me, as honest a man as lived in the
state. l couldn't stand that, walked
on out and after while he came
along and held out his hand and called
uIc OuCIc Alu, Ju0S d6 IL woS NE
mothers brother. Then he clapped
me on the shoulder and you could
have heard him laugh more than q
mile. He said he was q comm out to
go ishin' with me.
well, let him OF, and after we
had got to be right good friends. I
asked him how he happened to be en-
gagged against my enemy. and this Is
what he said: oh, wasn't. Some
Of the boys told me you we're comm
into the house and I knew that you
were troublesome when you set your
head to 1t, SO as court wasn't in ses-
sion I started In to maxim speech
against the fellow SO you could hear
me- and he capped me on the shoul-
der and you could have hearn him
laugh more than two miles this time.
Get lawyer with fun in him and
he's all right. Once had some bust
ness on hand-the settlement of my
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handled money at all. He was q
millionaire, too, but he did all his
business with checks, and seldom had
more than $50 on his person. and he
was miserable and dyspepttc.
I understood the feeling OF the
moneyed millionaire better than that
of the checked one. The first man
was not a miser: he was simply s
grown-up child. with a child's delight
in actually seeing the money that he
had earned by the sweat of his brow,
most of 1t at q dollar day. Don't
stop to figure out how many days he
had worked, or / won't w2ic
Now. of course, there are persons
OF Imagination who 60 through life
using checks and feeling rich. but it
takes a good deal OF imagination to do
SO. and for me the pretty green ten
dollar bill means ten times as much
as the check for ten dollars
OF course, checks have their uses,
and l use them myself. When ! a
bill for some :prosaic thing. like re-
pairs to the coal chute, comes In. l
send out a check in payment. but II
I am buying a book that I have long
coveted, you may be sure that hand
out real money for it. The book rep
resents something tangible, and I
will not insult the book dealer by send.
ing him a cold. unfeeling check.
II 1 wanted to bring happiness to a
widow, whose husband had died leav-
ing her destitute, do you think that I
would send her a check for a thou
sand dollars? II you do. you don't
know me.
II were going to do the thing at all
would so to her house with one
thousand crisp dollar bills. and I would
receive her thanks for each one. But
IT is queer thing about gratitude.
Her thanks for the first bill would be
heartfelt. but by the time I had reached
the first hundred she would have
grown tired of thanking me. and 4
verify believe that before I had hand
The Columbus journal., 1908-06-03
Saloon Town Reformed.

We've got q town on our road the
boys call He'll II you want q real
hard thing to try out the Y. NJ. C.. A.
on. put 1t there" This was the remark
made ten years ago by a railroad pres
ident to an international Y. N. C. A.
secretary, who had urged that this
organization could better the condi-
tons Of living and the service on the
road. THAT suits u.s. said the sec.
rotary. The company put up $500
for an equipment. and the citizens
$4,000. At the end Of a month saloon
men protested that the new organiza-
ton was running their business. One
of them. who had the biggest paying
corner saloon in town. said his month
~ receipts had fallen on from over
5000 to 500, and he or the associa.
ton had to quit. Now a handsome
Episcopal church occupies his corner.
A brakeman who came back to the
town after an absence Of two years,
hunted for his former associates in
their accustomed seats In the saloon
and found them in the Y. NJ. C. A.
building.
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, ONCE knew

ONCE knew 4
millionaire W b D
always carried his
m on ey around
with him in bills,
There were some
one dollar bills,
m ore ten-dOllar
bills. and many
hundred and thou
sand dollar bills.
He always car
ried them in a
suit case with an
ordinary lock and
key, and he told
me that he was
happy just be-
cause he had the
actual money.
His brot b e r
b ardly ev e r
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sion. 1t was at first marvel why the
two men seemed to have the same
thought at the same moment, and be-
gan to make tracks simultaneously
from different parts of the senate
chamber-One being Democrat and
the other q Republican-toward that
committee room.
1t turned out that they had prear-
ranged signals. The "Old Romans"
signal was to pull out that famous red
bandanna handkerchief and to blow
his nose with clarion lOudness.
The Columbus journal., 1908-06-03
cruade Against the Fly.

As the national crusade against the
house fly is now in progress. supplant-
ing temporarily the international issue
against mosquitoes and rats. Prof.
Underwood of Massachusetts, declares
that one fly killed this month may pre-
vent the existence Of $4,000. 900 by
midsummer. Such is the prolific ma
ture Of the common fly. Such, too.
is the ignorance Of the past that when
a Roman emperor was found killing
flies as habit he was not hailed as
a benefactor, but was finally dethroned
as too trivial to be tolerable as q
Roman despot. Still it appears in the
light Of history as whole that this
is good time to invest as much as
ten cents in a first installment of 1y
paper.
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Useful Life NEARING End.

China's government has granted two
years leave Of absence to Sir Robert
Hart, after repeated application for
permission to get lone more sight Of
home and friends before the final
alden must be said" as he wrote re-
Gently to friend. Sir Robert Hart
is g. and few men have received such
worldwide homage. He has been dec
grated by Belgium. Austria. Italy, Hol-
land. Prussia. Portugal and England.
while China. of course. has loaded him
with her peculiar favors in the form
of buttons and feathers. Speaking
Of his much-desired leave of absence,
Sir Robert Hart wrote: The months
and years are slipping away and both
youth and middle age are things Of
the past"
The Columbus journal., 1908-06-03
Bible Money Terms.

The money mentioned in the Bible
would possess the following equiva-
Tents to-day: A shekel Of silver. %
cents; shekel Of gold. SO: q talent
Of silver, $4,000; q talent Of gold, $50.
900: q piece Of silver or penny. II
cents; q gerah. 3 cents; q farthing. 1
cent; q mite, less than farthing.
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seRMoNETTE.

Elisha, IN the amounting o.
Jehu, carried out the commits
sion which had been given 70
Elijah over 20 years before.
Thus are we reminded that
Gods plans extend beyond the
life-span Of any one man, and
we also find illustration Of the
!. words Of Jesus: n sent you to
reap that wherein ye bestowed
no labor; other men laborsd.
and ye are entered into
their labors." Paul was con-
scious Of how the Divine tran
seconded the human when he
wrote to the believers It Cor
inth: II have planted, ApoIIos
watered; but God gave the In
crease. So then neither 10 no
that piantsth any thing, neither
he that watereth; but God that
aiveth the Increase"
God reveals HE plans only 20
those Of his servants who In
faith and patience can wait Gods
time Of fuifiIiment.
The wicked house Of Ahab,
and that Wickedest Of wicked
women, Jezebel, the wife Of
Ahab, must have been = griev-
ous trial to the prophet Elisha.
Il must have taken . vast
amount Of the grace Of God and
Of faith to have waited through
those long years for the COM
ing Of the righteous juds-
ment Of God upon such wicked
ness. How often perhaps DUR
ing those years the impatient
impulse must have seized
Elisha to 90 to Jehu and tell
him Of Gods plan for him, %
that Il would hasten his efforts
to seize the kingdom. But ~
often would come the con-
scIousness that man must wait
the fuliness Of Gods time, and
that to attempt to force the
hand Of God, ~ one might cay,
would be to invite not only fall
ure, but shame and dlshonor.
No, the prophet must patiently
bide Gods time. He must wait
through the years and slowly
but surely zee the wlekedness
Of the house OF Ahab come TO
its full fruition. Persecution,
trial, famine and the pestiIenee
OF war must be endured. With
the Psalmist, Elisha could cay:
n had tainted, unless ! had be-
lieved 70 zee the goodness Of
the Lord In the land Of the Iiv-
Ing" But at last-there 10 a.
ways an at last with the Lord
the time comes when God
speaks and the prophet acts.
Then 10 that fulfilled concerning
which God had spoken % many,
many years before, and the war
rior Jehu who 20 uneonsciously
had been growing and develop
ing through the years to fit into
Gods plans, suddenly flashes
forth - the avensins hand Of
Gods judgment upon the
wicked.
Jehu showed commendable
zeal in behalf Of moral and re-
ligious reform in Israel, but in
his personal life and conduct no
fell short Of the measure Of
Gods desire for him, AZ does
many another modern day re-
former. It 10 recorded Of Jehu
that notwithstanding his cour-
ageous and energetic crusade
against the great evils that were
cursing the land Of Israel, he
''took no heed to walk in the
law Of the Lord God Of Israel,
with all his heart" II 10 a
great thing to be identified with
a great reform, but how sad At
the last to be shut out from
fellowship with the God whom
position and ability has en-
abled one to serve.
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Letter lono Ahoat.

A correspondent writes: While sail
ing OF Felixstowe on August bank
holiday last year I addressed a post
card to myself. stamped it and placed
it in bottle which I threw, in the
sea. ! had quite forgotten about II.
but the other morning received the
card through the post, bearing the
Tromsoe Norway postmark and the
sender's name and address. The bot
tie had been floating about nearly
eight m0nths.-London Chronicle.
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brothers estate-and ] went to old
Tom Cantwell and asked him how
much he would charge me. and he al
mosttook my breath with the amount
he named. knew he was man Of q
good deal of ability-liked fun. and
says to him like this: Tell you what
arrangement to make. colonel. I've
got q mighty fine chicken out 1T my
house and II you can fetch out one 10
whip him I'll engage you and pay your
price, but II my chicken whips yourn.
why you do the work for nothin'.' He
was a man Of ability and he agreed.
All, me. there amt such lawyers about
here these days. I recollect once
he"
But did the tight come or" some
one inquired.
"Oh, that tight! Yes. held tallow
candles for 1t one night, and you'd
have thought 1t was . snowin', the
air was SO full Of feathers. My wife
kept on a calm out: Limuel. what
are you q dom there In the smoke
house. and 1 always answered: I'm
diggin' up q rat Go on to bed. I've
most got him now
Il don't know how long they 1T
other ROSTERS we're CROWN all around
the neighborhood when they got
through. But my chicken crowed last.
and the colonel gave me his hand with
feathers q stickin' to it. and says. says
he: Lin. you've got me and I'll take
care of your business
BEST settlement ever made. He
took care of the business right up to
the handle. and when he had got
through he lowed, he did. that he could
find q bird that could whip mine for
the estate he'd put up his law
books and his house and lot against 1t.
but 1t looked too much like gamblin'.
so backed down. oh. he would have
done 1t. Ablest lawyer in the county.
It's q pity all lawsuits couldn't be set
tied somewhat In that way-as fairly.
I mean.
Il was just thinkin'." he added aft.
er q few moments Of silence. how
much trouble the old world has been
put to tryin' to govern man. Every
year or 50 the legislatures meet and
make laws and unmake them, always
experimental with man. The trouble
with him is he don't know what he
wants and don't know what to do with
1t after he gets 1t. And the lawyer IL
the outgrowth of his restlessness and
his ignorance"
Think there will ever come Q time
wien there are no lawyers?" the young
advocate inquired, and the old man
scratched his head.
'Oh. yes. that time will come. but
it will be the time when there isn't
anything. The lawyer has come to stay
as long as the rest of US do. He's .
smart man and good Teller for the
most part, and is nearly always willin'
to forgive you when he has done you
a wrong, and 1 want to remark right
here that this argues the EXTREMIST Of
liberality."
(COnvrirht nv Onie Ready
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of your publisher comes to you by
mail, and as you open it a check flut-
tiers out. You remember the stories
of du Maurier and "Trilby," and how
his publishers sent him several thou
sands over and above the contract
agreement
To be sure. It is only check, and
not money. but, after all, any bank
will convert a check into money il
you are known, and your book has
doubtless made you known through
the wide world.
You pick up the check and close
your eyes until you are holding 1t
right in front of them. THE Second
National bank of New York. Pay to
the order of yourself $47.50. Harp,
Serb. & Co."
1t isn't quite what you thought it
would be. The book is not one of
the six-yet. Still, after the first dis
appointment is over, you reflect that
it is all clear gain, and you 60 to
the bank and have it converted into
new dollar bills, and then you 60 down
town to the bookstore and you buy
thirty odd books that you have wanted
for years.
No, you don't You know very well
you don't, for the same mail that
brought the check brought its antith-
esis in the form of q bill from the
gentleman who raised the price Of
beef on you, and the other gentleman
who charged you eight dollars a ton
for coal. and like good little man
you sit down and you write out two
checks which take up AZ of the dollars
But take my advice and get the bet
ter of fortune by taking the five-fifty
that is left-and your wife-and going
into town for small jamboree. Re
member that a jamboree. small though
1t be. remains in the memory long
after the memory Of a paid bill has
left you.
Pay the bills, but save enough out
Of the cost of your clothes for q little
jamboree. Clothes warm the body.
but jamborees warm the cookies of
the heart, and q man who neglects the
cookies Of the heart to put Jaeger
underwear on his lusty limbs has
failed in his duty toward himself
and his better half
CCopyriEht, by James Pott 4 Coz
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Anniversary Of Porcelain.

The two hundredth anniversary Of
the discovery of the secret for making
hard or kaolinic p0rcelain-the Ores
den" and Nielsen" all the world
admires-will be celebrated In Ores
den in January next by a grand exhi-
bition showing the historic develop
ment of porcelain making in Saxony.
as well as France, England, Prussia
and Denmark.
The Columbus journal., 1908-06-03

Dreadful" moaned the opera sing
er. who had been. robbed Of $1,000.
why it takes me nearly ten minutes
Of hard work to earn that much"
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Copyright, by Opie Ready
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-06-19

Panama, June 19.-POlitlcs In Cen
tral America Is not matter Of cam
paign speeches, partisan "ltera.
ure," press agents and rallies of the
populace. 1t is a grim struggle to the
death, in which one candidate lands
in the executive mansion aud the
other on the gallows Despite the
steadying influence OF Uncle Sam,
the new republic of Panama is now
experiencing a campaign of the Gus
tomary I.atin-American variety,
which promises to develop many
bloody tragedies before the election
farce is staged during the first week
in July. Every effort Is being made
by the United States authorities to
preserve some semblance OF fairness
in the election, but their endeavors
are not highly appreciated by either
the politicians or the voters. who
prefer to settle their political dis
puies in the customary manner.
Nor is Panama the only Central
American nation which is disrupted
by internal disputes. The republic Of
san Salvador is facing a revolution
and President Fibuera is in hourly
/ fear of assassination. In Guatemala
/ a ycritable reign OF terror has been
/ inaugurated by President Cabrera,
who is proceeding on the theory
/ that dead men tell no tales" and
is killing off his political enemies
/ by the wholesale. II half of the
stories that drift to Panama, relat.
ing instances Of cruelty and devllish
I brutality. are true. the history of the
Dark Ages and of the inquisitlon is
being reproduced in unhappy Gante
mala. Not a day passes. according
To trustworthy refugees who have
fled TO Panama to escape the wrath
Of the bloodthirsty and despotic Ca
brera, that some one or more OF the
Hl'u ShoI''N'h VI putting dSdluSl
Cabrera mysteriously disappear. The
dungeons beneath the president,
castle moat swallow them up and
they are known no more. Accordina
to one well-authenticated tale, eigh
physicians, members Of a politica
society composed exclusively Of med
ical men, were put to death at on,
time.
That Cabrera has so for succeeded
in escaping with his life, despite tn,
many plots against him. Is a triltut,
to his cunning. Those acquainte,
with the situation, however. declar,
that unless he flees f ON the coun
try he will sooner or later serve a
a demonstration of the truth tha
"he who lives by the sword shal
die by the sword"