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SEEING THINGS AT NIGHT.
why Objects Assume Fantastic and Alarm.
ing Appearance.
From the British M1dicnl jon,

From the British MedicGl Journol.
Every one must at times have asked him
self why familiar obi ects in a dim light tend
to assume fantastic and oftenalmes alarming
appearances
The explain alton is TO be found in the special
conditions of night vision. The pupils are
widely dilated and. as in the Photographic
lens with q large diaphragm, the apparatus
OF accommodation can only focus for one
plane. As the faculty of estimating dis
tances ia in great measure lost in the OBJ
scurity we cannot focus with precision, and
a blurred uncertain outline 10 thrown upon
the retina.
Then. too. colors viewed in fading light
lose their distinguishing hue in fixed
sequence until a point 10 reached at which
everything becomes OF one uniform gray
tint.
It follows that the images which are trans
mitted to the visual centres are profoundly
modified In color and outline, and as they
enter the eye through the widely dilated
pupil at an altogether unusual angle the
movement Of locomotion gives them peculiar
mobility.
Now, one relies on experience for the inter-
probation OF sensorial impressions. and when
these present themselves suddenly In an
unusual form they create a feeling of ipse-
curity which finds expression In mental per-
turbation and more or les svlolent motor i'm
pulsion. In fact the subject nnds himself
in the position OF horse which sees a RAPIDLY
advancing automobiiexfor the first time and
does not know what to make Of It.
Imagination aiding. these blurred, mobile
and uncertain images are susceptible of the
most phant asmagorio Interpretation, and
in persons who are not accustomed to control
sensorial impressions by the exercise Of the
intelligence the impressions are accepted as
realities and acted upon accordingly.
Gamekepers and others who are accus-
toned to night work make allowance for
phenomena OF this class and correct the
visual deficiency by the aid OF other senses
such as hearing, which are mot dependent
on light.
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A, who was high score, Is Of still tine big
gest winner. Both the others are plus. so D has
to pay Il ALL With three players the multiplication
! is by three, not four.
B. J. c, says: a bets that the trump sequence
Is worth only $50 In three hand. bets II is 100
One hundred and ninety Is correct, as the mar
risge can be shown FIRST for 20 and the sequence
nlled out afterward.
Y. NJ. T.. says: II there are three cards In the
widow and ! want the king OF clubs or tho ace Of
hearts to nl my hand, what are the chances of
getting one OF them!
About two and a half to one against II. provided
you have not the duplicate OF either of those cards
in your hand.
II. II, L. says! 4 bids 800 and melds ass; In the
play he gets 1870 more but i Is discovered that he
has not leld out for the widow What Is the pen
SIiGS. b bets he Is set BACK the amount OF his
The rule Is that player who has too many cards
in his hand loses his entire count for cards. This
would leave nothing but the 325 he made on his
melds; but as that Is enough to cover his bid he
cannot be set back. All he scores is this s,5. HIS
$50 Is lost.
breaks openers he must show the cards face up
and declare that he Is splitting
The opener OF every Jack pot must place his dis.
card under the chips In the pool without showing
II or making any remarks about II, and he must
do this whether he splits or not. II he has split
the discard is there to show IT, II he has split
his play IL the same as when he does and nothing
In the manner OF his discard betrays his hand.
Again: u no one comes in against openers must
all hve cards be shown!
Yes: because the player who takes the pot has
paid no moro for those hve cards than any other
player at the table.
A. L. B. says: Must the dealer announce how
many cards he takess
Yes. II any player does not hear him he can
Is, L. says; Playing showdown, the show to be
| -. ft,rA lara rht n
Of kings and an ace, dlscardlns two cards.
Psf PEfs 50 'Ia that as kings Vim 80. draws ssres
Just e s,S ses nv SsSs Ss hfys
eafds ae ana makes ss hand foul 'o''
B Is applying tho rules Of draw poker 10 show
down. In showdown was beaten 40 socn As
he could not draw enough to beat As kings. AZ
might indulge tn was amply post raortern-
draw. Opener drew two cards only. but on drop
gps ogs could i not ;d chow more than small pair
pot once opened. even u wrongly. must be
played for w II legitimsteiy opened II any one
comes In against tho false opener, 90 the pot s not
| void.
$. B. asks: II q player ge!s only. four cards and
as many as he discards. leaving his ba nd fours
| No. Hls hand 10 dead II he has missdn u.
Al ia.. % cali. }. wso ssys -rafso alnss 4 ava
mo GOOD have have shres &c SsIssns @ ssows ,,d. mail AL
ssnd on the a table @ ana snas had psr With
| his three. 10 he not entitled to the pott
He would be n shoro were any pot. but ss has
taken II down II 10 too late 70 talk about II. II
had followed the rules Of the game which require
the hand 70 be laid tho table face up, he would
| have won the pot On the showdown as the cards
speak for themselves. Thousands OF pots are lost
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An Idyl OF North Jersey.

. r.,,.,, .v. n, va. in m,dd,, Nav.
rrh. ",,sus~ ivt.. .e son ~ the dove
uh.n vo,ny r,n.a f.ncies an the poeta cay.
Az iiubtIy turning 10 the Thought OF love
f1,h.y don,t Tan Row the ladies'. fane,es stray
nrt Laws me proposition m aboye,:
Tn. ,,obt ~ ,oveiorn sad selene.s torch,
Late khoieo' soush' n"a' ih'" v" p'''"
,rv.s nos a c,a ssse semple's portico,
For mi. m tall deals not with classic times
Their u,lce had all been soueezod out long ago
vain, them NO more than rickeyed lines
The ricLev ,on., ,Tis aest-some deem H. so
A, ,s,,..o pr,ise our own day In our rhymes
s.,.n.s zoldsn rlov now syeetly nils
North Jersey Vaies eS' once inc SaHan nhi@
nu, All TN. ancient fable "a /, NAV
N, fortunstn Epdymion's a long nan
o,y hero was as wide awake as day
f.. hr,obt eved sslf. and-ah the lucky cbap,--
A r.iden t,irer than the moon maids raw
Sat closc 10 hIm-not quite upon his lap
And vet 40 close seIene. past a doubt.
Wronus,de the leafy lattice wore a pout.
Well ,bcn. no, moutons: that is. our Kids
"A little raw. Forgive the nun pedsntlc.
True Poesy l,fts on Conventions Ids
And harness makes our Pegasus quite frantto:
To turn , rhyme we'd say ca rv.a. .tids
And not apologize But how romantic
With moonshine man and maid the situation
Wherein we've set the scene OF our narration,
Now ,o,,y, Let rs Green a little higher,
WIN cuyosity consuued by burning
And eayesdrop On the youth. who speaks with 1re
G,onbrto note our psreuthetic learning
.rs. I.v -, lo,. nsues .v,rv man +, I.r
An ohserv,tion ot our own Discerning,
what sa,h This victim, Of that necromancer,
.,rhIs ,.r,y .y.,,ns I n,us, have your ,nswer,-
The sun., 1908-05-24
Pennsylvania Nature story.
From he PhiIudelphid Record.

Six weeks ago workman In the Penn
syivanis repair shops In Allegheny left two
dozen eggs In an abandoned tool box In the
roundhouse. Steam pipes 60 through the
box. All over the eggs heavy layer Of coal
SCOT settled
Three weeks ago fourteen sooty chicks
arrived. 1t was found that the steam pipes
kept the temperature Of the box at i0s de-
grees A second hatch Of twenty chicks ap-
peared. sooty but healthy. Another hatch
10 being prepared.
Born among the changing noises Of the
roundhouse. every chick 30 far discovered is
deaf.
The sun., 1908-05-24

The complete rorm h. sri on ~ never cou.d
g-r ~: aou llEh..r rcnt,Iinns W.ilch v, ftnw ck
NJ NJ : s TO bo lnrn IN - oa-, nse Antao,vSS'
co Er,t by Card n Ntis alu puhpshed py the
scrinnsIs, lie pssm 10 tnlaid Inc WonaerfpI
Old Man ana Is anonymous
The sun., 1908-05-24

will say that have always heard that Gen.
wInheld scott vegAn one OF his reports 10 this War
Depsftmcnt from Mexico with ihe statement that
he had lust taken "a hasty plate OF SOUP" hope
ID, v. a. n will verify anu pu1iish
H. IL, SArTZeTfEID
The sun., 1908-05-24

than tie place we live In. This doubted. but she
srxs. means e only three times as large wsich sns
said It did mean. thought. and think yet that
three times larger means four times as large, AS
right no''" i'''~' '''N j.c.
The two expressions are In use as exact cQulva
Tents, and consenting usage does not readily Yield
to the chops Of argute reasoning. Three times as
large" never needs any explanation. Three times
larger" will pass unehallcnged In daily speech until
II encounters the assault OF oglcian then Its
defence 10 that has been Englisa idlon for Just a.
long as the other phrasing. Even should 1t be cut
out from common speech the dificulties OF three
times larger" would by no means cease; let It be
granted that from any given date three times larger
should mean four times rs large and " Is easy TO
fancy the enraged comment OF some amateur OF
the multiplication table wildly wanting to know
who authorized the doctrine that three times one
could ever be four. little more than year ago
a correspondent exposed the fallscy OF as much
again. the same idea raiaed to the second instead
OF the third power Fortunate IL Is that our idioms
arc ins tlnct with such vitality as ns them to endure.
Please tell me the author OF "conslstency's
Jewell" Ny Investigations thus far have LED me to
was born" O. II. b..
so far az can be told the author must remain
unknown. Yet deAnite and positive determine
ton of ts 90 has been made. and thereby hangs
tale. u was attributed to the anonymous author
OF Jolly Robyn -Roughhead" In "Murtaghs Col
lection Of Ballads (l75D," And such 10 the ldent-
ncatou solemnIy recorded In Of the most recent
and certainly the most encyclopedias OF the authorl
ties on quotations. But one may search Ailbone
In vain for Murtsgh. and for the very good and
sunncient reason that he was nelsbbor OF Mrs,
'Arris. He and his ballad collection u75i "A de.
Ilvhtfui precision nrst came 10 life In 1887 when
newspaper tn this country invented him TO stand
sponsor for the level consistency In the pseudo
Robyn .Roughhead. This Is the context then
IA bricated. r.' .-.
Trsh, tushl my lassie. such thoughts rcsigne,
CoIrsdsons ar, cruele: u
Fling pictures spit in frames a. one. ~i
CONSTITUENCIES Jewell. t,'' -'' 'r'
For he, and me coare clothes ere best,
Rude folks In homelye rslment drcst. Ns
VII 10 o and GO ,dn an ''obin.
will say that have always heard that Gen.
wipheid scott vegAn one OF his reports 10 ths War
Department from Mexico with The statement that
he had lust taken "A hasty plate OF SOUP" fhope
ID, v. q, n will verify anu puiish.
.. !. =. SArTEeFIELD,
The eonpIcle rcrn h. sri on .. aster son:d
| go w,:Aout ligh..' ccrt,iiuns "hrh ", ftnw cE
M r = 8 TO bC lnrN IN ~ a oA-t nsc Antio,vSk'
| co Hr ID by psrtl IA NthS ara puaIshtd ps the
| .crinnsIs, TLe potm 10 tntlitu 1he Wons erfuI
Wv FeHA " - NAaoAxRr H.,iLanp.
The sun., 1908-05-24
The Iron Heel

wW be Asurel Of parifd rtadg Of the interesting knl
The sun., 1908-05-24

*, Meii says The bidder turned the nrss card
and did not like Il. so he put Il In his hand. This
card was turned over so that the other players
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POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT.
Law Office Of Walter S. Coen.
ottumwa, Iowa, May %, 1908.


To the Republican Wapello
Since writing
that MT Whmore also candidate for Republican
the Of the First of this city
three candidates
l. L
he Mr. Whmore believer the
dacy Of the
believer the principles
Republican
B. Allison United
published believer the principles neither
the but relieo Smoky
in William
to the United States senate Whmore
men
has
this
question will
ate will definitely
Republican should
endorsed
choice be Mr. Cummins Mr. Allison Until
for MI Allison and shall cast my ballot for him on that day
any one to be IN favor neither Mr. cun Mr. Allison
member that Mr. Governor Cummns
unless he has change of heart
he that he has affiliated faction
intend
his
this duty Republican
when this
Senator to Township Trustee truly l
WALTER coEN
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Friday from Kansas City, where she
took treatment for cancer.
Miss Schenck. Of Burlington, spent
a few days last week with her friend
Miss Ethel Proctor.
Elmer Myers spent Saturday and
Sunday with his parents at this place.
Edyth Rothenstein and Vivian
Brown spent Sunday with Merle Sloan
Goldie Ralston spent Sunday with
Fac Goodlander.
Lawrence Tompson and wife have
gone to housekeeping in the Smith
property.
Mrs. Frank Fridley and son Glenn,
of Floris, spent last Thursday with
Mrs. j. P. CASTOR.
The relatives OF Mrs. l. E. Kneedler
have been called to her bedside as her
condition is considered critical
Miss Nellie Truitt is spending a few
days in Bloomfield this week.
Willie Fouts spent Sunday with
Glenn Downing.
Miss Irene Grant and Ethel Pie
nard were guests Of Miss Gladys
Tompson last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McVey and baby
spent Sunday at the parental Mcvey
home
Mrs. Henry Ireland and children OF
Excelsior are visiting at the parental
Ireland home.
Mrs. John Grant left Friday for
Rose Hill to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Nellie Hutch, whose little daughter is
sick.
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.BR. BANCROFT
CAVE ADDRESS
TOLD OF MISSION WORK IN KAN
sAS CITY WHERE HE ERECT
ED A TABERNACLE.

DR.. T. D. Bancroft of Kansas City,
Kas., gave short address at the First
Methodist Episcopal church last even
ing. DR.. Bancroft was in Fprd's
theater at Washington at the time
President Abraham Lincoln was shot.
He passed through the state of Iowa
on foot with John Brown and sixty
others in 1856. DR.. Bancroft is
lecturer of note and one of his prins
cipal subjects is "The Assassination Of
Abraham Lincoln" He also has done
considerable church work and erected
the Bancroft tabernacle 81. Kansas
City where he conducted Sunday
school for eight years with over
thousand scholars.
MI. Bancroft stated that he would
like to give a lecture on the assasi-
nation of Abraham Lincoln before he
left the city. but had been unable to
secure desirable place as yet He
has several governors which were
made for Abraham Lincoln and invited
all that cared to view them to call
where he is stopping on West Sec
ond street.
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Auditor CAROLS Record

Eldora, May 25.-Auditor Carroll in
| MS speech at Eldora Friday night
said:
My opponent, Mr.. Garst, is reported
to have said in recent speech at
Iowa City, that it is unfortunate thar
nave given out figures concerning
the condition of the financial affairs
or the state and to take them into con.
strued by some newspapers. The I'M
fortunate thing about the matter is
tnat IL became necessary for me to
give out the figures in order to cor
rect the false statements that had
oeen given publicity for the purpose
OF concea1ing the real condition of the
states finances. l am glad that not
only Mr.. Garst. but others, have fin
ally admitted the correctness Of both
the figures and the statements made
py me. l do not regard it as being
either unfortunate or improper to tell
the people the truth about the affairs
OF the state and ia take them into con-
ndence concerning thr states bust
ness A public Official is or ought to
be public servant and should be
ready at all times to give an account
OF his stewardship. I have no apology
70 OHer fOr telling the exact facts con-
corning the condition of the states
finances.
You have been kind enough to nom
mate and elect me three times to the
office I now occupy. You expected
me to attend to your business for you
and have tried to do it. Your at
tent1on has been turned largely to
other matters. You have been think
ing of antipass laws and two cent
iare laws and have overlooked other
important matters. The anti-pass and
two cent fare laws were proper meas
ures. | was in favor of both of them
but do you know that the people of
Iowa paid almost twenty per cent
more for insurance last year than was
paid for passenger TRANSPORTATION
within the state. The one cost near-
~ twenty-one millions of dollars and
the other only about seventeen mil
lions. You have been willing to sit
up nights thinking about two cent
fare and perhaps never spent an hour
thinking about insurance.
When 1 came into this office / found
much needed legislation regarding in.
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RAINS HINDER
CORN PLANTING
NEVERTHELESS MANY FARMERS
BELIEVE MIDDLE OF JUNE
is SOON ENOUGH.

The heavy rains OF the past several
weeks, nearly every night, has set
corn planting back several weeks and
some of the lowlands possibly have
been ruined for this seasons crop
Some farmers nevertheless believe
that the middle of June is time
enough for corn planting in this sec
ton. Usually corn is ripe in the fall
two or three weeks before killing
frost takes place. Some Of the corn
planted earlier In the season has rot
ted in the ground while some of it 8
up but Is stunted.
Possibly meadow land is the most
favored, much to the delight Of graz
ing stock. Grass has been growing
profusely.
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POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT.
133-- -1-7
Law Office of Walter S. Coen.

Otumwa, 49,
To the Republican Voters Wapero County:
Primary Tuesday submitted
has been impossible for either extensive
newspaper
have lived in this county all
Jori
supported
five have been engaged
prior to that worked in the
am not Daniel Webster have attained perfection bet
than citizen While
much experience the tried
reasonably
should be
duties OF the odce honestly and the best ability combining
eHorts locality
ute but VIII ndeavo enforce the
influential
state Of Iowa in this
pubicans of this
you
ballot truly coEM
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PEOPLES PULPIT
t++S.ssx.Ssi%%{,l.s.sS-&4a.,
Mystic, Ia, May 20, 1908.
OttumWa Courier

Mystic, Ia, May 20, 1908.
| Ottumwa Courier
| l notice in the issue of the Courier
of the 10Th inst that it is claimed by
some person, that has not got sufti-
| cient courage or respect for the truth
to sign his name to his communica-
ton, that there is disposition on the
part of the Mystic local union, u M.
w. of A. to disregard the Des Moines
agreement. The writer of this article
places the brand of unfairness on the
observations he has made, and the po-
sition he has taken by the frequent
reference made to the position the
operators took when they said, with
out so much as a reference to what
the miners of the Mystic thought or
what was their position. The facts in
the case are that there are no differ
ences between the miners executive
board that has anything to do with
the present lockout inaugurated by
the operators. The matters on which
the operators and miners met last
Friday and the matters they intended
| to meet on again this Friday were not
matters that the operators could close
the mines down over. except they
w IL III FlOldIlOu VI Tie present agree
ment In reply to the statement that
the union refused the advice Of the
district officers and continued to col.
lect a IS fine, the most can be said in
relation to this statement is that its
author was either ignorant of the
subject matter handled, or intention.
ally told what he knew to be false.
hood
L. U. No. 634 u. M. W. of A.
By H. G. Street, Sec'y
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surance, but l did not deem 1t neces-
sary to appeal to the public in order
to get it enacted. l asked the legis-
lature to enact law regulating re-
insurance so that the company with
which you carry a policy could not be
sold out from under you without the
consent Of the auditor of state and in
some instances of the attorney gen
eral and the governor, and the law
was enacted. / asked for a law regu-
lating the investment of companies
and it was enacted. l asked for IL
standard fire policy and we now have
it. asked for law that would pre-
vent the sale of any more so-called
gold bond policies in Iowa and THAT
law was passed. I asked for a law
that would require all fees for exam
nations to be turned into the state
treasury SO that the graft from that
source would be cut out and the legis-
lature gave us such law. asked
for a law putting bank examiners up
on salary and requiring all bank
fees to be turned into the treasury
and that kind of statute was enact
ed. | asked for 6 law that would
drive out of the state a lot of So
called heae building associations or
investment companies that were rob-
bling our people and we now have such
law. l presume could have ap-
pealed to you from the stump and 9TH
erwise as to the necessity for the
enactment Of these laws and could
have gained some notoriety thereby,
but could not see wherein that
would benefit you or the concerns af-
fected.
have tried to conduct the audi
tors Office in business-like manner
and without making much noise about
1t. You must be the judges as to how
well have succeeded. If you nom
mate and elect me to the Office Of
governor shall try equally as hard
to serve you well. l assure you that
shall not only try to give you a
business administration, but as econ
omical an administration as is con-
sistent with the welfare Of the state
and its institutions. If you approve
of my conduct in office and believe
that can serve you properly as gov
ernor, l shall be glad to have you
remember me at the primaries the
second of June.
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BLACK HAWK.

Black Hawk.-Rev. Ed Hastings fill
ed his regular appointment at Pleasant
Hill Sunday evening
C. Swain visited Sunday at the
home Of John Swain.
=. Mr.. and Mrs. Lovick Kingsinger and
daughter, Miss Oliver. and Garlic Ire
yer, William, Frank and Howard Rudd
and Miss Birdie and Florence Bean
and Alice Barns visited last Sunday
at the home of William Brown
Miss Lulu Elder. who has been stay
ing with Mrs. Nora Brown spent
Friday evening at home.
Riley Elder of this place, was bus
mess caller at Bunch last Saturday
Joshua Bridban called at this place
last THURSDAY evening.
Milton Grogan, of Pella, attended
church at Pleasant Hill Sunday even
ing.
Miss Belle Elder was shopping in
Udell last Friday.
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MoULToN HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI
ENJOY ANNUAL BANQUET

Moulton.-The alumni annual ban
ouet to the graduating class Of the
Moulton high school surpassed any
event held in Moulton. The event,
which everyone interested in school
works looks to, was held in the Y M.
c. A., hall Tuesday evening. The hall
was tastefully decorated in the Senior
colors, purple and white, while the
walls glistened with the many pen
nants of the different classes that had
preceded into the alumni forces. The
program was also most excellent one.
President j. w. Wood of 1885, opened
with an address of welcome, which
was followed by response from Miss
Georgia Rogers, president of the senior
class. Music in the meantime was
furnished by the Y. NJ c. A., orches-
ira. The principle address was that
Of Prof. Morn. of Grinnell college An
Interesting talk Of thirty ninntas xas