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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-12

Strong drew back and made q little
bow. Diana Knocked him with "A
curtesy, and strolled away up the path
through the rhododendrons.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-12

The girl who wears her heart IN
her sleeve isn't apt to wear 4 diamond
on her finger.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-12
Tuesday. May, II.
1903.

Consensus of opinion. backed
by the result of straw voting con-
tests conducted by several lead
ing newspapers of the country,
gives the Democratic nomination
for the presidency to Bryan.
1t is a difficult matter to con-
ceive of the Denver convention
naming any other than Bryan.
The Times has recognized,
ALMOST ALONE OF THE
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-12

hustle and eth preserve ones
dignity Is rare accomplishment
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-12

The late Robert Z. Frazer did
not pan out well as a politician.
Descending and pretense were
not in his line.
He did his own thinking. He
never prayed to any man: Give
us this day our daily opinion.
If he had used words to con-
ceal thoughts instead OF to con-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
Literary Treasures Lost.

Perhaps the largest and most valu-
able of literary treasures the world
has lost was the Alexandrian library.
The collection, the most remarkable
of the ancient world, is said to have
contained in its most fourishing
period 100000, or, according to others,
100000 manuscripts. It's royal founder
collected from all nations their ehoie-
est compositions. We are told that
one of his successors went so far as
to refuse to supply the Athenians with
wheat until they had given him the
original manuscripts Of Aeschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides. When
julius Caesar laid siege to the city
the greater portion of this library was
destroyed by fire. 1t was later re-
placed by the collection presented to
Queen Cleopatra by Marc Antony.
But it was not destined to endure
long. When Emperor Theodosius the
Great in 391 A. d. ordered the destruc4
tion of all heather temples within the
Roman empire, the Christians, led by
Archbishop Theophilus, did not spare
that of Jupiter, in which were kept
the literary treasures. From this gen.
eral destruction about 1000 manu-
scripts escaped, only to be buried in
$40 A. d. by the Saracens under the
Caliph Omar.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07

century that the building now does.
With the passing of the age of chiVal
ry, the old fortress fell into ruins and
Frederick w. of Prussia, wishing to
preserve the ancestral home of his
family, restored it upon a model of
castle of the latter part of the four
teenth century.
If the visitor should not be satisfied
with this brief statement, which may
be found in almost any school history,
he will not have to go for more infor.
nation to a guide book. He can read
it on the walls and at the same time
acquire large collection OF German
verses
The simplest statement is not in
trusted to plain prose, but everything
is told in rhyme. No other castle in
the world is said to have quite so
much poetry on it. Rhymes on the
gate, walls, stairways, tablets, es-
cutcheons, scrolls and in festoons set
forth the genealogy of the Hohenzol-
lern family from the earliest time to
the present.
That castle may have too much
poetry about it Hechingen firmly be.
lieves. 1t thinks, moreover, that If
there had been less of it, or if what
there was had been of better quality,
the kaiserin might not have got tired
and might have deigned to return.
Her majesty came here once" said
a Hechingen man who seemed to know
all about Hohenzollern. "At first she
was enthusiastic over the castle, its
superb situation and it's architectural
beauty, and she started in to study the
building.
"The inscriptions over the gate
caught her eye and she read them.
She continued to read as she walked
on. She read verse after verse, until
finally when she had finished with the
genealogical hall she asked to be
shown to the royal apartments
"There were more rhymes there.
She went into the library and there
were more there. Then she went
away. They say that the verses got
on her nerves and that she could not
stand them. She has never been back
since"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
The Trade Rat Mine
Copyright, by shortstory Pub. Co.,
By Eustace v. Bray

the creature did not come, and he
stretched himself in his bunk
Early in the morning he was up, in
Vestigating the rat-hole, which ex-
tended deep into the ground beyond
the cabin wall. There was a little
fresh gravel around the mouth of the
hole that convinced Robb of the source
from which the gold had come, and
he went outside and with nervous
speed dug straight down into the bur-
row, which he widened and deepened
as he worked About three feet from
the surface he came upon as promis
ing bed of gravel as a placer miner
ever saw. Fortune had surrendered to
him at last!
AS he dug into the deep deposit,
which he knew meant wealth, his
hands trembled and he worked in
frenzy of exultant hope. Suddenly
there was an upheaval among the rat
Ting gravel, a flash of something
brown, the CLEAN of a bright black
eye and the whisk of a tail. Robb
was just then thrusting down his
shovel with frantic strength, and, I'M
able to check it, the sharp blade
struck the trade rat on the head,
stretching it at his feet.
Horace Robb paused, even in that
supreme moment of gold-hunger, to
raise tenderly the little creature that
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
ANEGLECTEDCASTLE.
WHY is kAISER'S OLD FAMILY
HOME UNvlslTEo?
Too Much Poetry There for Kaiserin,
Says Public Report-DisIike for
Second Place Said to Be Real
Cause for Staying Away.

Hechingen, Germany.-"Why doesn't
the kaiser or the kaiserin ever come
to the castle of Hohenzollern?" is a
question that they are asking these
days, not only in the ancient provinces
OF Hohenzollern, but throughout south.
western Germany.
This magnificent pile is situated on
wooded spur of the Swabian Alb,
just above Hechingen For this rea-
son, although the castle dominates the
landscape of almost the whole of Ho-
henzollern, Hechingen takes an espe.
clal interest in the structure and
would say it if it were not lese ma
jeste that it is hurt at the kaiser's
neglect.
THE old kaiser, Wilhelm l., came
often to the CASTLE" said one of the
citizens, land seemed to take consider
able pride in it. Many of the royal
family or members of the Prussian
court used to come and there was
some representative of the house on
the hill most of the time. The pres
ent ruler in his younger days used to
visit us himself.
But after the completion of Neu-
Schwanstein, planned by King Ludwig
OF Bavaria, he lost his interest in Ho-
henzollern. 1t was as restoration of
medieval stronghold dwarfed by
Its superb Bavarian rival.
ION account of similarity in situa-
ton and construction, the two were
often compared-and our kaiser, you
know, is not man who likes to have
second place. So HohenZollern in
course of time came to shift pretty
much for itself"
AS a matter of history and legend it
seems that on the eminence on which
the castle is so admirably situated
there was always Hohenzollern.
There was stronghold there in the
ninth century.
Destroyed and rebuilt through vary
ing fortunes of war it covered much
the same ground in the fourteenth
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07

had piloted him to wealth. He car,
ried it to the creek and vainly en-.
deavored to restore the life that had
gone. When his days work was sus.
pended, he took time from his hours
of slumber to carefully remove the
skin from his departed comrade.
In five days he had PANIED out 81
pounds of coarse nuggets, carrying
the gravel down to the creek and
washing it there, and the end of the
treasure was not in sight. Still, it
was only pocket, of course, and the
end came in time, but not until it
had yielded enough to support a man
of moderate desires all the days of his
life.
Some men would have fingered at
the scene of such success, search
ing for another golden pocket, but
only half Of Horace Robb's ambition
was achieved-the gold was but the
means to an end. And so, as fast as
his sturdy limbs could carry him, he
fastened to the outer world.
When he reached Sacramento he
found delayed letter from her. Anx-
iously he skinned the passages in
which she dwelt upon her long period
of patient waiting, and he turned
white when he reached the announce
ment of her marriage with another.
And this is why the discoverer of the
Trade Rat Mine" returned to that
lonely cabin on wild affiuent of the
Feather river, and why the great trade
rat, under its dome of glass, is now,
in the old mans frozen winter--as it
was in his lusty springtime-his sole
companion there.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
Modern chesterffeIdism

Teacher-f you are kind and polite
TO your playmates, what will be the
result?
Scholar-Theyn think they can
light me!
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07

about $4,000 year. Only four years
ago he often made that in day. He
would spend it on horse. or pic
ture. But fate has swept away the
floor of his riches and he must now
toll a year for what was before a
paltry dripping of his huge operations.
Mr.. Sully's new office is a well
equipped Office as Offices go, but Woe
fully shabby and dull compared with
the splendid, bustling suite he occu-
pied in the days of his great pros
perity.
In those years (1903-19O4) SuIly was
not regarded as conservative. In
fact, he was heralded as the greatest
plunger the cotton exchange had ever
known. He bought and sold by the
tens of thousands of bales. He die
tated prices by squeezes and mutations,
by fitting his holdings this way and
that to suit the within of his specula-
tions.
But all that is changed. He has be-
come an ultra conservative. AS an ex-
ample he must give no radical opin-
ions. And he says that he is through
with speculation forever.
II will convince the people," he says,
"that l am conservative. l have at
tached myself to one of the most con-
sentative houses in America"
Mr.. Sully no longer lives in a man
sion on Fifth avenue, but maintains
modest villa in Pelham Manor. He is
no longer member of any exchange
His last big plunge, when he en-
deaVored to become a Soap King"
-$250,000.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07

tetary of state, is about to retire
This step, it is asserted, is an out
come of representations made to the
Vatican by American and English
prelates, but particularly Cardinal
Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland, who
objected to the secretary's severe
measures against modernism.
According to the Avanti Cardinal
Vannutelli received these complaints
in London at the eucharistic congress
and transmitted them to the pope.
Cardinal Merry del Val will probably
be succeeded by Cardinal Rampol1a,
who formerly held this Office. Ram
pollas return to power would mean a
policy of dignified Cancellation with re-
gard to France and an attitude Of
greater reserve toward Italy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
First Aid to Farmers

A farmer in Ohio wrote to the de-
partment of agriculture that he had
struggled for 20 years on an 80-acre
farm heavily mortgaged, but had been
unable to reduce his debt or rise above
poverty that made the bringing up of
his family humiliation He asked
If there was any hope for him upon
the farm, or If he might as well give
up the fight. The department request
ed that he make detailed report of
his farm and its soils, and upon this
it based a plan of farming which he
was recommended to follow to the let.
ter. There was profit the first year
of $4,000, and the department believes
that ultimately the despised 80 acres
can be made to yield $4,000 a year
World To-day.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
His BUSY Dav,

Gen. Winfield Scott, on August 20.
ls47. gained five victories in a day
while marching to the City of Mexico
Toledo NeWs-Bee.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
Protests Of American Cardinals Against
Modernism Said to Be Cause.

Rome.-According to the Avanti
Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal Sec
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
Ex-coTToN KING NOW A CLERK.
Dan SuIly Now Employed on Salary Of
$4,000 a Year.

New York.-Daniel ]. Sully, who, it
seems only yesterday, was the Liver
more of the cotton market, has
gone to work on salary. No longer
the millionaire employer. the man
who made hundreds of brokers jump
and squirm as he squeezed or expand
ed cotton to his fancy, has descended
from his high eminence to the post of
factotum in the cotton concern of
Hayden, Stone & Co.
The whilom King Sully is now
cotton expert at salary estimated at
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-07
Trouble in the Air.

What are you making that noise
for?" queried the robin.
''Noise!" screeched the jay, darting
at the other bird with hostile intent.
That's singing, you mean. jealous up.
start!'
The robin took refuge in instant
flight, and thus another rash and fool
hardy exponent of the higher criticism
was driven ANONYMOUSLY from the
Chicago Tribune.
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
POSTMASTER GENERALS RE.
PORT SHOWS LARGEST DE-
FIclT EVER INCURRED.
URGES POSTAL BANK
SAYS SPECIAL PARCELS POST
WOULD De OF GREAT ADvAN.
TAGE TO FARMERS.

Tor the fiscal year ended June 30, 19cS,
Postmaster General Meyer gives the
total receipts for the year as $191 ,47s.-
e63, and expenditures as $20s, ,351 1856.
therebJ showing a deficit of $16.S7a.-
222. the largest in the history OF the
department, with an additional loss
from fire, burglary, etc, Of $37,056.
The deficit Of 1909. 1t is estimated.
again will exceed $16.000,000. The ne
cessity for good roads is pointed out
in connection with the rural free deliv-
cry service. It is suggested that
should Congress grant the department
authority to utilize rural routes still
further by the establishment Of lin
tied parcel post, confined entirely to
rural delivery routes. 1t would then be
possible to earn additional revenue
amounting to millions OF dol
lars and at the same time benefit
the farmer by enabling him to have
merchandise delivered when ordered
by telephone or postal card, which 9TH
erwise would not be purchased.
"Ths special parcel post" says the
postmaster general, will enable the
farmers to have small parcels deliv-
cred at their gates, to live better and
to obtain easily the necessities OF life."
Permission Is requested to establish
experlmentally limited parcel post
in not to exceed four counties, in Or
der to demonstrate the practicability
of the plan.
The postmaster general again urges
legislation permitting the establish
ment Of postal savings banks or depos-
tories in connection with postoffices.
Experiments with stampvending ma
chimes says the postmaster general,
are still being conducted, with every
prospect that the defects which devel-
oped Ill the preliminary tests will be
overcome.
Recommendation is again made that
the leave of absence with pay allowed
by law to employees of the postal ser
vice be increased from fifteen to thirty
days whenever the postal revenues
warrant it.
The recent establishment of the
2-cent an ounce rate Of letter postage
between the United States and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland will, 1t is stated, have the ef-
feet of bringing about greater postal
receipts.
The regulations covering Sample"
copies are treated at length in the re-
port, the postmaster general conclud-
ing with the statement that the pub
fishers, with rare exceptions, have in
dorsed the position of the department
and commended 1t for the course it
pursued.
The attention of Congress is invited
to the previous recommendation for
. reduction in the rate and an increase
in the weight limit for fourth-class
matter "in order to remove an unjust
discrimination to our own people"
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
cap.ain Rankin. Death.

Union City. Tenn-In the grand jury
investigation into the Reelfoot Lake
night rider outrages, one man gave in
detail the death scene of Captain Ran
kin. When he had been pulled up once
by the rope the night riders let him
down and told him they would give
him five minutes in which to pray. He
told them he did not need five minutes
prayer for himself, as he had been
praying for twenty years. They re-
newed their effort but he again de-
clined. saying he would give the five
minutes to them, as they needed it and
he did not. They again pulled him up
by the rope and shot him.
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
GIRL GOOD LAWYER
PRETTY YOUNG FREMch WOMAN
Wins IMPORTANT CASE.
Mile. MiropoIsby 10 Only n Ysars on
-esIievss In Marriage, But
Doesn't Want Il to Inter
fsre with Career.

Paris.-The youngest woman lawyer
In the world has just been defending .
woman accused Of trying to kill her.
self and her baby by inhaling the
fumes OF q charcoal stove. Mile.
Helene Miropolsky is only Fl and was
sworn in as q lawyer before the court
Of appeals in this city last October.
Her appearance as counsel for the de-
tense in q criminal trial attracted a
large number Of old lawyers to the
courtroom, though the case itself was
nothing out of the ordinary. Her
client had been abandoned by the ia
ther OF her child; finding herself on
the verge Of starvation she had tried
to end her miseries. The baby had
died, but she had been saved.
"Portia come to life!" cried an old
iurist as he watched the beautiful girl
and listened to the eloquence OF her
soft voice pleading for mercy for the
unfortunate sister on whom inexorable
Justice had laid her heavy hand. And
so moving was her plea that the jury
acquitted her client.
Mile. Miropolsky was born in Paris
of parents who were Poles by birth
Both father and mother are doctors Of
medicine, SO 1t is only fair to say that
some OF the young woman's talent is
inherited. She has nothing about her
that suggests the new woman"
Handsome. graceful, elegant in cos
tune. she looks like a young woman
of the fashionable world-until she
dons her gown and cap; then indeed
she seems what the old lawyer called
her-"Portia come to life"
Before she was II she had taken
ber degree OF b. A., and 1t should be
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
Leayitt Coming to Denver.

Paris.-The Societe de Beaux Arts
is arranging an elaborate collection to
be sent to America in 1909 for exhibit
tion in the principal cities. w. H.
Leavitt, William ]. Bryan's son-in-law,
has been asked to take charge as the
American representative Of the soci-
ETY.. Mr.. Leavitt, who is engaged in
the completion Of a large painting,
"The Last Supper" has not yet ac-
cepted. Mr.. Leavitt intends to resume
residence with his wife at Denver as
soon N he finishes this painting.
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
TEN MILLION DOLLAR FUND WILL
sooM De TURNED OVER
TO TRUSTEES.
ESTATE IS INCREASING
PRACTICALLY ALL LAWSUITS
HAVE BEEN WON BY EXEC
uroRs OR SETTLED.

Denver.-Executors OF the will of
Winfield Scott Stratton are making ev-
cry endeavor TO close up the affairs Of
the estate by Jan. 1st in order to turn
It over to the trustees. who will then
carry out the origina, tenets of the
Will, which are the building of home
for aged and INDECENT men. From the
statements made by Tyson 8. Dimes,
one OF the executors, 1t is understood
the estate. when turned over to the
trustees, will approximate 100000 900,
considerably more than the value when
Stratton died. Included in the estate
Il some Of the choicest Denver realty.
When Stratton died he left practi.
cally his entire estate to be used as a
trust fund for the erection and mainte-
nance Of q home at Colorado Springs
for the aged and INDECENT. After le-
gal battle the son was given $3.50. 900.
Other legacies amounted to 100000.
An Inheritance tax of $18s,OO0 was paid
the state. 1t was estimated that the
Stratton estate was worth about ST.
100000 when Stratton died. Iegacies
court costs, taxes and legal fees
brought the value down to about So
100000. BY the statements Of Execu-
tor Dimes 1t is learned that the estate
has increased about 100000 in value
in something like five years.
At present there are suits pending
against the estate and these will. ac-
cording to report, be settled in a short
time. One OF these suits is for $500
and the other for 100000. There have
been filed against the estate suits ag-
gregating in value $24.O00,000. All of
these contests have been either won or
have been settled by the executors.
Efforts are now being made to sell
the mining property or the estate To-
Gated in the Cripple Creek district.
These mines will not be disposed OF un-
less . fair price can be obtained for
them.
The trustees who will have charge Of
the construction and management of
the home are d. H. Rice, Colorado
Springs; Tyson s. Dimes and Moses
Hallett Of Denver. Mr.. Hallett IL in
charge Of the Clayton estate. the prop
erty Of which was left for the building
Of boys home in Denver.
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
Had Its Advantage.

Jefferson d. Thompson, the chair
man of the Vanderbilt cup commission.
was criticizing at a dinner in New
York a new motor car of rather dubi-
QUE type.
Even the advantages claimed for
this car" said Mr.. Thompson, appear
dubious to me. Take that vaunted
feature, for instance. Of excessive light
ness
Mr.. Thompson smiled.
"A young lady," he said, "once
showed me proudly very cheap. very
light car that she had just bought.
lawfully light, isn't it?' said 1.
EYES, said she, isn't it splendid!
Whenever 1t breaks down We can al
ways push 1t home.'"
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
Death Of Captain BOYD.

Greeley. Colo.-Capt David Boyd, an
original Union colonist and one of
the best known of the early Greeley
settlers, died at the Boulder sanitar.
ium on the 2sth ult., after an illness
Of several months. Captain Boyd was
one Of the earliest irrigationists Of this
community and his history Of Greeley
and Union colony, published in 1888.
10 one Of the most authentic written ON
the settlement Of Greeley and the de-
velopment Of agriculture in the Poudre
valley. He also wrote for many maga-
Hines and periodicals. was an intimate
friend Of N. c. Meeker, founder Of
Greeley. represented Weld county in
the legislature in the early nineties,
was superintendent OF schools Of Weld
county and held many positions of hon
or and trust.
He was graduate Of theUniversity
Of Michigan. and twelve years ago.
thirty-five years after his graduation,
returned to his alma mater to take a
post graduate course.
Captain Boyd was born in Scotland
and came to this country at the age
Of nineteen. He served in the Union
army during the Civil war and was a
member Of the G. A. r.
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
BREAKS A COLD PROMPTLY

The following formula is . never
falling remedy for colds:
One ounce Of Compound Syrup Of
sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris Com
pound and one-half pint of good
whiskey, mix and shake thoroughly
each time and use In doses OF table
spoonful every four hours.
This II followed up will cure an
acute cold in "a hours. The ingre-
dents can be gotten at any drug store.
The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
Root Sure for Senate.

Albany, N. Y.-That Secretary OF
State Elihu Root will be elected by the
Legislature January Goth next, as
United States senator to succeed
Thomas C. Platt, was practically con-
ceded by politicians here Sunday, fol-
lowing the announcement from Hot
Springs, Virginia, that Timothy L..
Woodruff, chairman Of the Republi-
can state committee, had withdrawn
from the race in favor of Mr.. Root.