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The San Francisco call., 1908-08-16

and placing huge wrezths over their
left ears.
She herself had on another new dress
OF lavender banded In black with q
wreath of pale pink over her ear.
Another pretty dressi" / said. for
she likes to be admired
Yes blushingly again, my father
had six brought from China for my
wedding Both of these are to wear
when I am married"
The hair dressing over we started
out on our round OF calls
Adorning the curbstone at every
doorway. in some mysterious manner OF
transportation, beheld Chan Tong. not
festively arrayed, waiting to see his
divinity pass
We went from house to house. call
ing on all Looey Sins friends. and at
each place were given a bowl OF tea
and sweetmeats. Crowds OF other girls
were at every place and the chatter
and crush and gayety reminded me for
all the world of our own highly fash
ionable pink tea"
This year Chinatown contained only
two shrines. which Is very small
number considering the many girls in
the oriental quarter. but Looey Sin
told me that almost half Of the people
were celebrating in Oakland, whittier
they went after the IRE.
VIC NA64lSQ sLQ9 OlucE 4lrlnor TOO, and
1t was in almost every detail the sams
as Looey Sins.
What will you do with all your
pretty ornaments after tonightr' I
asked the little hostess as we made our
hnal call
"Oh. just put them away In boxes
until next year at this time. Then.
with the new ones added, we will have
bigger altar. All those made by the
girls who have married during tho
year will not be there Mine viii not
for next year shall be dressed in black
or purple and stand with the married
women This Is my last girls day
1t has been a happy one, friend"
Her tone was wistfuI as always il
that OF any girl who finds herself
standing with reluctant feet Where
the brook and river meet"
I pressed her hand In mine
Next year, little Looey SIM I said
~ you have been a happy wife for
many moons May you carry another
heart under your own I pray that IN
years to come you may be the mother
or many flne sons and beautiful daugh-
ters who will celebrate as happy a
girls day as we have had togethae
This I wish for you
The soul of the girl stood uD In hsr
eyes and over her vision came the
dawn of her womanhood
Il have prayed that. too. 10 the seven
angels That was my wish" she whis-
pered- Friend, will you also ask that
OF your seven angels that I may be
doubly sureT'
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-16
The Gorgeous Festiva
q. the Seven
Daughters Of Heaven
Exalts the. Demure:
Maids Of Dupont
Street for One Won
aerful Sunday

for the commencement of the gayeties.
At o'clock j presented myself, with
a gift of paper flowers, at her door,
Splendid in lavender silk pantaloons,
yellow Jacket and flower wreathed hair.
the small lady herself greeted me.
She was laden with jewels and her
dainty embroidered slippers were
dotted with glass beads. She was all
smiles and bushes and furry. We
went into the front room of the tene-
ment in which she lives.
Il want you to see the shrine be-
fore my friends come" she said to me,
and l turned to a fascinating sight
On long, wide table built across
one end of the room and spread with
red cloth was the most brilliant the
atrical presentation of the story of
Now Long and his princess.
1t was rallied off from the too eager
hands of spectators and blazed with
hundreds of tiny tapers floating in
scented oil. In the background was an
arched bridge, leading, supposedly.
from heaven to earth. On the side
representing heaven the six sisters
waited for the earth bound one. who
was represented by a gayly dressed
mannixin just ascending the bridge.
On earth, attired in his peasant clothes,
and with calf beside him, the prin-
cess husband stood watching her de-
on wires. was the child of the couple,
stepping from an open shell and
spreading his arms as If in blessing
How beautiful" I exclaimed, and
the large pompons on Looey Sins
head nodded approval.
Stitches Won a Husband
II worked those banners" she said
proudly. pointing to some copies of the
triunlphal banners of China. See how
tiny they are. There are millions of
stitches in them It was because of
those that 1 am to marry Chan Tong.
Look! There in the jars are the beans
that you saw me plant that day. Aren't
they pretty?"
Indeed, they were. Arranged in cir
cles in dozen fiat glass dishes were
the green, sprouting beans and from
among them peeped tiny lighted tapers,
for all the world like small Moses
winking at Pharaoh's daughter from
his fence of bulrushes.
All that cost much money" Looey
Sin said. My aunts and cousins and
all our friends put money together and
sent to China for the pretty things.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-16
By Gertrude Gabbs Erin

Q UNDAY. August ?. was Girls
day in Chinatown, and, for that
matter. all over the world wher-
ever there is a Chinese family
blessed with daughter.
For once. in his high estate. the lit
tie prince Of the Chinese household is
dethroned while his otherwise scarcely
tolerated sister ascends the seat of the
mighty and for the space of "a hours
is sovereign absolute.
Just once in a year-on the seventh
day Of the seventh month, according
to the lunar calendar Of Confucius-is
the little maid speaking factor in
any Chinese gayeties, and then, to an
glicize it correctly. she is the whole
show" and, indeed, she makes the most
OF her rare opportunity. The way she
goes heart and soul into her dictator
ship would put shame into even so as
sertive body as women's suffrage
convention. She is shrill and gentle,
calm and excited, gracious and over
bearing. just as she pleases. and the
mere pantalooned scrap OF humanity in
the household stands about in obedient
awe. ready to do her bidding
This day OF days for the Chinese girl
is called "Isat yet Isat," or the sew
enth of seven and is known as the feast
OF Moo Sin Cthe seven angels).
Four weeks ago when 1 visited my
little friend. Looey Sin. late of the mis-
sion school. she was setting thousands
Of tiny white beans to sprout in a
tub half full of water. Now, in three
months. Looey Sin is to become the
bride of Chan Tong, a handsome Chi
nese youth, also late of the mission
school, and knowing that such a thing
as marriage is attended with all
sorts OF solemn rites by the Chinese /
naturally supposed that the little lady
was invoking the attendance of some
legion Of good angels. at her wedding.
Are those wedding beans, good
friend2" I said, as she placed the tub
on the iron balcony outside the win
dow.
Looey Sin blushed Cshe is an adorable
little maiden of II and speaks mission
English).
NO." she said. gravely, these are
for the feast OF Chut Yare or Moo
Sin that is coming pretty soon. Have
/ never told you of that?"
Heavens Seven Daughters
shook my head and Looey Sin,
smoothing her blouse coquettishly, sat
down on the window sill and proceeded
TO relate:
why, you see" she said with the
big eyed wonder Of child 1T all be-
gan IN fairy tale. Once, thousands
Of years ago. the God of heaven had
seven daughters. all very beautiful. but
ell OF them were pledged never to mar
~. CWhy, I do not know. because to be
married is very nice) But the young
est one was too young to understand
that. She did not see why to marry is
not good
Now in China, on the earth, there
was a poor boy. Now Long. the son OF
q farmer. He was beautiful and very
good. He served his father and mother
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faithfully, but when they died he was
so poor that he had not money to bury
them. So he put on a sign about his
neck and went into the street and let
everybody know that whoever should
pay the funeral expenses of HIS father
and mother could take him for slave
for seven years. Now, a slave in China
, is not like a servant here. The man
who owns a slave can beat and do
what he likes with the serving man.
1t is a hard life"
Here Looey Sin crossed her trousered
knees and became quite sentimental.
The youngest princess of heaven
saw the devotion of the young man to
his people and was quite pleased q
said before that he was Handsomely So
she fell in love with him and came
down to earth and said that she would
hire him to work for her She took
him to a farm near the royal palace
and showed him his place to work.
Then she gave him three punk sticks
and said that when he wanted her he
must burn them and she would come.
When he turned to thank her she was
gone.
For a long time he worked on the
farm and everything was we'll In his
heart he loved the princess, too, and
more than once wanted to burn the
sticks and have her come back. But
he didn't because she was the daughter
Of the God of heaven and he only a
farmer
Now, 1t happened that the emperor
wanted a new cushion for his throne,
and of Course, must have the finest in
the world. So he sent proclamation
about saying that the man who would
weave for him the finest cushion should
be made the greatest prince, of the
kingdom. Now, Long heard this, and
he thought, IF I can become a great
noble the God of heaven may be moved
to give me his daughter for my wife
So he burned his punk sticks and the
princess came He told her the story,
and she blushed very much. But she
went back to heaven and asked her
sisters to help her weave a cushion
with her love story upon it. So they
did, and sure enough the young man s
cushion so pleased the emperor that he
was made q great noble, and the prin-
cess became his wife. Her sisters were
sorry to lose the princess from heaven.
but every seventh day in the seventh
month they came to earth to visit her
and every year they took back to
heaYen a little son of the princess and
Now Long and made a god of him.
The princess. too, went to visit them
each year for one day, all the while
her husband lived. Then, when he
died, she stayed there. She cried so
hard for him after his death that the
God of heaven took him up there to
live, but he allows him to see his wife
only once year. and every year when
a new little son is born there comes a
new star into the sky. That is the
story of the seven sister"
And this is the feast for girls?" I
said.
Yes. it will -be on the day when the
star Now Long meets the star Chic
Noy in heaven. Ny. but we will have
a good time. / have been sewing ban
ners for all year. Last year because
my banners were so fine. Chan Tongs
mother said she would have me for a
wife for her son. I can sew nicely.
VIII you come to the celebration?"
Eagerly / promised.
On Saturday Looey Sins invita-
ton came, setting o'clock as the hour
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
DEPOSIT GUARANTY
AN ISSUE IN NEBRASKA
Lively Tilt Promised Over This
Proposition.

Lincoln, Neb., Sept 1S.-That the
bankers of Nebraska who are opposed
to the incorporation in the Republi
can platform of plank favoring a
state law for the guarantee of bank
deposits are getting pretty busy is dis
closed by the fact that here and there
among the list of delegates elected
are bankers.
In addition, several of those elected
as delegates say their mail has been
burdened by a lot of pamphlets con-
tanning speeches of John Forgan OF
Chicago; Professor Laurence Laugh
lin, of Rockefeller's university, and
Henry w. Yates, of Omaha, all in op
position to this plan.
Whenever the banks have had any
political pull they interferred in the
selection of delegates. Here is Lin
coin they had picked on |. NJ. Ray
mond, bank director for the place
but he was tossed on the dump when
the farmer members of the committee
caught on to the inwardness of the
scheme. The objection TO Raymond
that defeated him was that the banks
We're attempting to secure his selec'
ton in order that he might go as a
delegate representing that special in
terest, and not with open mind to act
as the best interests of either the
party or the people. Senator Brown
is leading the fight for the insertion
of a bank guaranty plank, and the
present prospects are that a very
lively contest will be pulled off over
this,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEws-ouRNA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 95
RUTH BRYAN LEAVITT
WRITES new DRAMA.
Mary Mannering May Be Seen
In The Play.

New York, Sept. 1S.-Ruth Bryan
Leavitt, daughter of VIM J. Bryan
has written for Miss Mary Mannering
a four.act drama in which the actress
will probably appear this season.
Last spring when Miss Mannering
was playing In GLORIOUS Betsy" at
Lincoln, Miss Maud Turner Gordon, a
member of the company, close
friend of Mr.. Bryan's, invited Mrs.
Leavitt to Miss Mannering's dressing
room. Mrs. Leavitt modestly told of
a vaudeville sketch she had written
and said she believed she could write
play which would suit Miss Man.
nering. The actress told her that II
she would try she would give 1t ser.
ious attention.
Miss Mannering last night received
letter from Mrs. Leavitt saying the
manuscript had been completed. She
replied asking that the play be sent
to her at the Lyric theater i'm.
mediately.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25

child were picked up by VIM. Bart
man and taken to the Office OF Or.
Long, who dressed their wounds The
cause Of the accident as near as we
can learn came from the fact that the
team was between two automobiles
one driven by Alex Nelson OF New.
man Grove going west, and one by
Otto Olson of the same place going
east. A short time previous II. G.
Haskins Of this place passed the team
which was somewhat frightened but
finally passed the machine after Mr.
Haskins had stopped. The StarMail
does not feel that It wants to censure
the drivers of the Newman Grove
autos at this time until complete
hearing OF the facts can be had. But
II may not be out of place in speak.
ing generally TO say that owners OF
automobiles cannot be too careful
when meeting horses on the road and
especially when they are in charge of
woman and children. The case
above referred to will undoubtedly
serve as warning to others. Mrs.
Gross was severely hurt and the We
hicle Is a total wreck.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
DRY WEATHER
IS UNIVERSAL.
Vermont Mills Have Practically
Stopped

Northern Nebraska and southerD
South Dakota have more to be thank
full than many people realize. Re-
ports received from al parts OF the
country indicate that extremely dry
weather has had serious effect Inn
many places, while the crops OF this
region are smiling serenely and un-
hurt through 1t all.
A letter from Vermont, received by
a Norfolk man, says that the factories
and mills of that state, run by water
power, have been compelled to al
most shut down, on account OF dry
weather The streams contain scarce
~ any water. In some places one
factory will run two hours, then an
other and so on, in order to give
each mill chance at the water
power.
A man who has just arrived in Mora
folk from Illinois declares that the
corn crop of northern Nebraska Is
much fuller than in either Illinois or
Iowa.
The dust is said to be much thicker
in Illinois, also, than here, and the.
pasture grass there is dead. - \
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
Y. E. 0L|NE DROWNED
IN LAKE AT SPOKANE.
S. ". ughtneT Of LynchFR Returns
From Sad Journey.

S. w. Lightner OF Lynch passed
through Norfolk yesterday enroute
home from Spokane, where he had
been to bring back to Nebraska the
remains OF his brother-in-law, V. E.
Oline, well known in northern Ne
braska, who drowned August 81 in
Liberty Lake, near Spokane. Mr..
Oline was brother OF Mrs. Lightner
of Lynch and of Mrs. H. McClenaghan
of Madison.
The young man had planned to go
fishing with number of friends, who
were unable to go at the appointed
time. Olne then went out on the
lake in boat alone and high winds
are supposed to have capsized the
boat. Not until September was the
waters surface. The remains were
brought back to Monroe, Neb, the
family home, and there the funeral
was held
Oline was thirty-three years of age.
He was unmarried and had been in
the employ of the Commercial Cream
Co., limited. Letters in his room in
dicated that he had been highly sue
cessful in his work for that concern.
Mr.. Lightner could not say enough
in praise of ten young men in Spokane
who had roomed in the same house
with his brother-in-law, and who did
everything possible to tighten the
troublous trip of the Nebraskan. These
comrades had spent most of their time
from the moment Oline was missed
until his body came to the waters sur
face, searching and watching in the
lake. They acted as generously and
kindly as though they were brothers,
said Mr. Lightner.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
Hoskins News.

Peter Kantz and wife left for Dead
wood, S. d.. where they will visit MIR.
Kantzs brother.
Ira Viach, the section foreman,
bought house and four lots north
Of the track, from G. Schroeder
], Weatherholt leaves Tuesday for
Gordon where he goes on a ranch he
recently purchased. His family will
follow later.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs e. Pulls on Thursday morning.
John Crosby, the banker. is i'll with
an attack Of typhoid fever in Bloom.
field hospital. From last reports he
pected. Robert Templin has charge
of the Hoskins bank during Mr.. Cros-
by's illness.
Rev. r. Gruber and family left for
their new home in Minnesota Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Deck gave a
party in honor of their daughter Miss
Lizzie, on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Frank Pulls fell and broke her
leg on Saturday last.
Miss Lizzie Deck left Monday for
Wayne to attend normal
Miss Helene Scheurel left Wednes.
day for University Place where she
will attend the Wesleyan college.
Mrs. Bonnie Reed went to Winside
Saturday.
Fred Milled went to Norfolk Tues.
dow tn uat bic pnu auto
Miss Mick of Wayne has been visit.
ing with Mrs. Garwood.
Mrs. Bockland of Wausa, Neb., is
visiting friends in and about Hos
kins.
Robert Tempin went to Bloomfield
Monday to visit Mr.. Crosby, return
ing Tuesday.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
Mad poa Scare at EIaln.

Elgin Review; Saturday morning a
well developed mad-dog scare struck
town. Two dogs We're acting strange.
one belonging to Will Roberts and
the other to Hina Campbell. The
dogs acted as though they had been
poisoned, and as there had been some
"mad-dog" talk around town, the
owners decided as a matter of safety
to have them killed Marshal c. C.
Roberts, by the order of the Village
trustees, had some bills printed noti-
flying all dog owners to muzzle or
chain up their dogs, under the pen
atty of having them shot. Sunday
while Mrs. j. A. Thompson was away
from home, her three dogs were
poisoned. These dogs were chained
on the back porch, and had no chance
to get the poison except by some one
taking it to them. This strengthened
the belief that the Campbell and
Roberts dogs were also poisoned. Mrs.
Thompson Immediately put out hand
bills offering a reward of $25 for In
formation leading to the arrest of the
parties who did the poisoning. Later,
bills were posted in town, signed by
James ODonpeIl of Columbus, secre-
tary p. d. association, which is said
to be secretary of the private de-
tective association" Offering $50 for
evidence that will warrant the ar
rest of person or persons who poison
ed dogs or put out poison in the vii
lage of Elgin, Nebraska, between the
LIST and 9th of September, 1908. VIM.
II. Campbell has also offered a re-
ward of So for the same purpose. We
were given a tip that some detective
work was going on and that an ar
rest was likely to be made soon. The
poisoning of dogs or putting out Of
the same is not only mean, contem-
plated trick, but it is unlawful, and
the parties who do it are likely to find
themselves in the clutches of the law
with the charges of state case.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
Automobile Accident.

Madison Star-Mail: On Monday
forenoon, while enroute to Madison
with a team of old and very quiet
horses, Mrs. Gross, who resides nine
miles northwest of Madison, met with
a painful accident by being thrown
from her buggy onto the hard ground,
striking on her left cheek bone and
shoulder. A six-year-old daughter was
dragged for some distance in the top
of the buggy and the fact that the
child was not killed is nothing less
than a miracle. Mrs. Gross and her
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25

road district No. II. $l526S.
From OLE roud district No 20 to ncvv
road district No. -, $lS025
From old rond district No. u To new
road district No. II, $lGSSS.
From old road district No IS to urv.
road district No 10, SlSS,Ol
From old rond district No - tu now
road district No 10, S209il
From old road district No p To new
road district No. II, $li5.iS
From old road district No. 30 to new
road district No. II. $l5G.S2
From old road district No 20 to new
road district No. 10, $i29,56,
From old road district No II to new
road district No. 10, $73453
From old road district No rs to newr
road district No. 10, $239,i0
From old road district No. 30 to new
road district No. 16. $l21.96.
On motion the board then adjourned
to October G, 1908, at y. m. -
GEO. E. RICHARDSON,
County Clerk
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
SOUTH DAKOTA THRESHING
Work. is Being Pushed in All Parts OF
the State.

Sioux Falls, S. d., Sept. 21.-SpeciaR
to The News: The work of threshing-
the small grain crop raised in the
state this season is being pushed i'm
all parts of the state. The weather"
has been very favorable for threshine.
operations, there having been but few
rainy days thus far this fall. 1t is;
estimated that fully sixty per cent of
the small grain crop of the state has
been threshed. Owing to wet weather
during the fall last years crop was not
threshed until well into the winter
If the weather averages as favorable
during the next few weeks as during:
the fall thus far, the work of thresh-
ing will be completed in the state i'm
general before the month of October
Is very far advanced.
Excessively hot weather during the,
past two or three weeks, and the alb
sence of rains, has injured late corr.
to some extent, but has ripened the
early-sown, which now has fully ma
tured. If killing frost holds off for al
few days longer practically every acre.
from injury. All the corn in con-
siderable part of the state, particular
ly the southern section, now has ma
tured.
Rain is badly needed to place the
ground in condition for fall blowing
and to improve the pasturage
Grain is being hurried to market i'm
all parts of the state and the elevator
men and the railroads are in numer-
Gus instances having a hard time keep
ing the elevators from becoming con-
gested with grain. At a few points
temporary shortages of cars has COM
PEELED elevators to temporarily stop
purchasing grain, but as yet there has.
been no serious car shortage any.
where in the state.
The railroad companies are doing,
everything within their power to fur
nish empty cars as fast as required AND
thus keep the grain moving. If they
can continue to stand the strain of the,
next few weeks there will be no,
serious shortage of cars in South Da-
kota this season.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
A QUARTET
OF CRIMINALS.
Sheriff Burns OF Knox County
Had Them.
BOUND FOR PENETENTIARY.

Judge WEIGH Went to Center and Sen
fenced Four Self Confessed Thieves
All Half Breed indians From San.
tee Reservation.
Sheriff ]. l.. Burns OF Knox county
passed through Norfolk yesterday
noon with four prisoners who had
been sentenced to terms in the peni,
Tertiary by Judge Welch at Center the
day before. The prisoners began serv.
ing their sentences at Lincoln last
night. They were
Paul Chapman, six years for burg.
larry and larceny.
Alec Ross, two years for horse steal.
Ing.
Herbert Whipple, three years for
horse stealing.
owen Good Teacher, four years for
horse stealing.
The four convicts are all half.breed
Indians from the Santee reservation
They had asked to be allowed to plead
guilty and Judge Welch had gone to
Center to hear the pleas and to pro.
nounce sentence.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-25
D. |. CLUTTER HAS
LEFT NORFOLK.
Was Arrested Recently On a
Serious Charge.

d. L. Clutter, who was arrested
some weeks ago on a serious charge
in connection with his second marri-
age, and who came to Norfolk from
Indiana, left town yesterday, shipping
his household goods to Columbus.