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twenty-fou~ years in the law. where
his position enabled him to see the
financing Of railroads from the in
side, he was enabled to get together
several million dollars The official
Fairbanks biography, by the way. is
a book Oft 252 pages. but does not
mention the word railroad, Neither
does it say that as an attorney he
caused half a dozen striking railway
TO be sent to Jail in 1879
for interfering with the operation of
a railroad in the hands of a receiver.
1t does say he helped the cigarmak-
ers union in the senate.
In 1888, when he had become rich
Fairbanks began to take a hand in
big politics, by lining up with
Judge Gresham, who failed to get
the republican presidential nomina-
ton.
Fairbanks made his great political
strike in 1896. when he tied up to
Mckinley and Hanna. He also resist
ed the demand for free silver. He
delivered Indiana to Mckinley, and
the latter and powerful interests
were largely responsible for Fair
banks election to the senate in
1897. There was a widespread --
preston that Hanna would try to
land the presidency for Fairbanks
after Mckinley got through with it
in 1904.
Fairbanks has been candidate
for president ever since the death of
President Mckinley. AS the Roose-
welt whirlwind made no opening in
1904 he took second place. During
the campaign he made a tremendous
and unnecessary tour of republican
states in the west. which was regar-
ded as groundwork for getting dele
gates favorable to him elected to the
1908 convention
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WIND WRECKS BUILDING.
Walls of the Natitorium Blown
Down Sunday Afternoon.

The walls of the single story sec
tion of the natitorium were wrecked
Sunday afternoon by the strong
wind which blew from the south all
day. The erection of the walls was
finished Saturday afternoon and
everything was ready for the car
penters to begin putting up the raf-
ters Monday morning. Although the
frame was we'll braced 1t was not
able to withstand the pressure OF the
wind, and the west wall was blown
entirely loose from the foundation
and piled up in the street. The accl-
dent will cause delay of two or
three days in the construction work
on the building.
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BIRTHDAY OF VICE-PREsIDENT
Charles w. Fairbanks Receives Con-
gratulations from Friends.

gratulatiOns from Friends.
Washington, May 11.-Charles
Warren Fairbanks, vice president of
the United States and aspirant to the
presidency, was the recipient of con-
gratulations from his senatorial
friends and his many Hoosier ad-
mirers today, the occasion being his
65th birthday. The vice president
was born on farm near Unionville,
o., on May IL, 1852, but removed to
Indiana when young man, begin
ming the practice of law in Indian
apolis. 1t was there that he began
his career as dealer in little rail-
roads, marketing the securities in
New York, which caused him to be
called ''the tin peddler of Wall
street.
Early in his legal career Fair
banks became an oficer of several
railroads and is said to have receiv-
ed a single fee of $150,000. During
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PLAYERS ARRESTED At MOBILE
New Orleans and Local League Men
and Umpires Give Bond.

Mobile, Ala, May livery
member of the New Orleans and Mo
bile teams and the two umpires
were arrested yesterday before the
first ball was pitched in the game,
the charge being playing Sunday
baseball. Bonds were Immediately
made in the sum of $100 each. Ex-
animation will be waived and the
matter placed before the grand jury
now in session
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INCINERATES CHILDREN.
Man Accused of Locking Offspring
Up and Firing House.

Montgomery, Ala, May 11.-Fiye
children of James Kennedy, we'll
known negro of this city, were burn
ed to death last night and two 9TH
ers so badly burned that they are
not expected to live. Kennedy's wife
alleges that her husband locked the
children in the place and then set it
afire. The man and woman had been
living apart and the question of the
possession of the children was
fought out in the courts. The fire de-
partment arrived in time to rescue
two of the children alive, but SO bad
ly burned that they will die. Kenne-
dy escaped.
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Hosiery Makers Meet.

Philadelphia, May 1l.-SeVeTaI
hundred delegates, representing con-
Germs with many millions of dollars
invested in the manufacture of hos
iery and knit goods, are here today
in attendance at the convention OF
the National Association of Hosiery
Manufacturers. An elaborate exhibit
tion of the latest styles of hosiery is
a feature of the convention.
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Yves. Virginia Maccahees.

Weston, W. Va, May IL
Knights of the Maccabees of the
World, West Virginia branch, con-
vened here this afternoon in annual
session, with all the lodges in the
state represented. Competitive drills
of the uniform rank and contests in
degree work will be held tomorrow
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RESULT OF THE ELECTION.
Old Members of the School Board
Were Elected Saturday.

In the election of school trustees
for the Independent district of Wax
ahachie Saturday the old members
of the board were reelected. They
were c. w, Gibson. j. j. McQuatters
and j. L. Cannon. 1t IS estimated
that about seventy-five scattering
votes were cast for other candidates
than those whose names were print
ed on the ticket. The vote by wards
was as follows:
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Consider Ethical Problems.

Colorado Springs, Colo, May IL.
educators and other
prominent men are here to partici-
pate in the religious and ethical con-
ference which will open this even
ing at Colorado College and contin-
ue through the week Among the
problems to be discussed are the
drink evil. gambling, divorce, social
morality and charitable work.
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New York. May 11-"Back to
Broadway" is the slogan of the
Thespians who hold cards in the Ae-
tors National Protective Union of
America, which opens its convention
iH New York today.
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SManger to Speak.

st. Louis, Mo-, May 11.-Secretary
of State John e. Swanger will de-
liver an address before the twenty
first annual convention of the Mis-
souri, Funeral Directors Association
which was opened here today. The
association is one of the largest and
oldest of its kind in the country.
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third of the aggregate appropriation
made for the session. Both unqueS-
tionably will arouse much discussion
in the senate and it is probable that
the greater part of the time for the
next two weeks will be given to their
consideration
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RUIN TOBACCO BEDS.
Marauders Also Threaten an Indiana
Planter With Death.

Aurora, Ind, May 11.--Early yes
terday morning a band of marauders
supposedly from Kentucky, ruined
the tobacco beds of Henry
Keyser, five miles below here. They
dug a grave, put In an old sword, a
box of matches and note warning
Keyser that il he attempted to raise
any more tobacco he would occupy
the grave.
The farmers are alert and expect
more trouble,
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See Williams, at McDuffie Grocery
company before you buy that bill
you have been talking about. 81
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Empire Rugs.
W.B MOSES & SONS, F St, Cor 18th.

never called for. why we keep them
anyway. 1t is not often that an article
of value is lost on sleeper by passen-
ger which is not recovered. I might say.
however that frequently people say they
lose that which they do not lose. and
money and valuable jewelry. I knew of
a man. a merchant from the south. who
had been to New York to buy goods.
He fell in with the wicked fellows and
was buncoed for several hundred. He
didn't know how to make good with
his business partner, and concluded to
tell the yarn that he had been robbed
when he attempted to make the sleeping
car company foot the loss we put our
men to work and proved that the fellow
had borrowed $40 from New York hotel
to pay his railroad fare home.
Women are more forgetful than men
while travelling. They leave powder puffs.
combs, night robes. gloves. button hooks,
Men seldom forget anything other than
tooth brushes and slippers. Children for
get their toys and nurses leave lunch
baskets and baby wraps. A Grand Army
man. who had bought a composition leg
to take the place of an old-fashioned
wooden one. started of with one strap
pei on and the other wrapped up nicely.
When he went to bed he took off the
wooden leg and laid it alongside of him
In the berth. When he got up in the
morning he put on the new leg and was
so lost in admiration and contemplation
that he got off the car and left his old
and tried friend-the wooden leg-in the
berth. Later on he wrote us to send him
the wooden leg; that he couldn't wear
the other. We had a parrot here which
was so profane that the superintendent
said he'd resign If the owner didn't claim
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he would begin to balk and stop dead in
his tracks the right ear would fly back
and stay there.
And just before he intended to start
again the left ear would fly back and join
the right ear.
Then as the old sorrel went joyously on
his way once more both ears would stand
out straight, and all would be we'll.
The old sorrel always made these sig
nails, rain or shine.
Another peculiar fact was this. that
once the old sorrel's nose was pointed for
home he never stopped, but went like the
wind-when it isn't blowing very hard
Well off goes Will Hodge to Herman
Shulz to inquire about a horse, and Her.
man bitches up the old sorrel
While hitching Herman starts in to ex-
plain what clever old beast the sorrel
is. and by the time they get started out
of the barn in the buggy Hodge has an
idea that he is riding behind Sysonby's
stepbrother.
When they got about half a mile back
went the sorrel's right ear and Herman
said quickly: Whoa. whoa boy. Whoa
OF course. the old sorrel intended to
whoa anyway, but Hodges didn't know
that.
Then Herman would point at the scenery
with the whip and describe it, all the
time watching the old sorrers left ear for
the starting signal
Presently back went the left ear. and
then Herman would stop describing the
scenery and with loud .Geddap.' the
old sorrel would start off once more
At the end of another half mile back
would 70 the sorrels right ear and Her
man would yell Whoa" and then saw:
--ere on the right l would like to point
out to you the Methodist Orphan Asylum
and over there is Chase & Pendletcn.s
celebrated sash factory. Over there on
the left" But just then the sorrers
left ear would fly back. and Herman
would have to say "Ged dap" right In the
midst of his description of the scenery.
This was kept up about four times. and
then all of a sudden Hodge let out a
roar.
For the love of a kind heaven." yelled
Will don't you know that 1 came out
here to see this horse go and not listen to
your lectures on this bum scenery. Why,
man. l have lived in Rochester all my life
and l know all about the sash factories
and the orphan asylums. and / am on
familiar terms with every bit of scenery
you can shake a whip at. so now 1 will
thank you kindly to point the reins of
this horse and make him commence"
"Ach. oxcoos. oxcoos,' said Herman.
You wish to see him travel, is it? So,
l show YOU
Then Herman turned the old ,sorrel
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we wrote the man and asked him for
more details. We also telegraphed the
station agent. who replied that he knew
the drummer and had even examined the
articles and made him Identify them pc
fore delivering and taking his receipt.
We never heard anything further from
the fellow who filed the claim by letter,
but l am convinced he was one OF the
men who heard the porter yell out that
some one had left his watch and money IN
the BERTH
About the queerest find was that Of
baby fast asleep in a basin in the
Mushroom. its head protected from the
ma rble rim by a half-dOzen towels. The
conductor who found it was a single
man and didn't know very much about
babies He was also a nervous man
and didn't say word to the porter or
the baby had been put on board at a
certain station by a person who had
stepped on and off the car during the
few minutes that the train stopped there.
He frequently had to stop at that sta
ton end knew several persons there.
Perhaps the mother had deliberately
waited for his train and made him a
present of the baby. That conductor
thought of a scheme to get rid of that
baby and finally managed to leave 1t on
the sleeper when the other conductor
took charge at Atlanta or New Orleans.
to turn it in. That baby was finally sent
to an orphanage
Nothing Is Ever Sold.
ANY and every old thing can be found
on the shelves in the lost property rooms.
We never have an old boss sale like
the express companies and the Post Office
Department, but we keep the things un-
til they are called for, and If they are
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NEXT WEEK:
John Henry on Titled Foreigners.
Everything From a Baby
to a. Hatpin Left on Trains

TCST take a commercial dictionary
- and everything you find named
in it can be found among the
articles which passengers leave
in the sleepers, said the lost
property man in the Union station
Yes. even babies have been 1ound
among the left and deserted articles
handed in by the conductors. l think
can safely saw that about the only Things
which have failed to reach this companys
museum are TASKS with whisky in them
and boxes of cigars Somehow or some
how else these articles have never oeen
turned in to wait claimants. l suppose
people are more careful of these commool-
ties than of other personal property. &c
casionally a Bible is turned in. but not
often. | suppose people don't carry them
nowadays, and SO don't leave theHl
aboard the cars, or else the porters Keep
them for .'spiritu'' consolation. being qe-
prived of the spirituous kind by the rules.
.'All our conductors and porters are re-
quired to turn in all the property tney
find during a trip and, of course, II thes
found TASKS of whisky and cigars they
would not fail to turn them In. They give
the name of the car the date of the trip.
the points of starting and destination,
and the name of the article they find
Then the articles are sent here 10 the
museum and examined, ticketed, invento-
ried and numbered When patron
writes and says he left an article on
one of our cars we write back and ask
him to give the exact date, the route, the
place at which he boarded. and the sta
ton at which he left the car. We also
insist on full description of the article
and the additional detail or data he may
be able to give. This is all necessary In
order to prevent fraud and to protect the
real owners, as there are occasions when
fraud is attempted.
Il remember on one occasion a passen-
ger-a drummer-left his berth in a
sleeping car and dressed rapidly In order
to get off at a small station down on the
Southern. 1t appears that the drummer
had been celebrating the night before.
and was in somewhat of dazed state
that morning In his haste he neglected
to take his watch and money from be-
meath his pillow in the berth. 1t happened
that a thoroughly new and green porter
was on the car, and when he made up
the berth he found the watch and money.
He didn't keep quiet and turn the find
over to the conductor. but yelled out that
some one had gone off and left his watch
their berths looked out and sized up the
situation.
Clever Effort to Swindle.
"A few stations beyond the conductor of
the sleeper received a telegram from the
drummer stating his loss and requesting.
that the watch and money be left with
the station agent at the next meal sta
ton. This was done. the conductor taking
q receipt from the station agent.
The day after we received a letter
from man which said he had left his
gold watch. gold-linked chain and money
In berth No. 5 ON such and such day.
and that he had left the train at
o'clock In the morning at a certain sta
tion. The matter was looked up; the con-
ductor and porter Intercepted, and then
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The Sacrifice.
CAMUEL GOMPERS. the labor leader.
- said in Chicago al one of the dinners

CAMCEL GOMPERS, the labor leader,
- said in Chicago al one of the dinners
of convention week:
Labor and capital must make mutual
advances. concessions. sacrifices. If they
would reach an ideal state of harmony.
But too many mems ideas of advances.
concessions and sacrifices remind me OF
young John Sparks of keokuk.
Sparks was counting a pretty girl. but
her father was unfriendly. The thing to
do-and he and the girl debated it often
enough-was to bring the father round.
well. one night Sparks turned up at
the house jubilant.
1--we got 1t. Marie, he shouted. I've
struck a splendid idea for ingratiating
myself with your old man. 1t will bring
him round. never fear. Trust me. he'll
consent now to our marriage within
month";
"Oh. what are you going to do?' the
young girl asked.
"'You see.' said Sparks. your father is
an inveterate smoker of Havana cigars.
He's a Havana tobacco connoisseur.
Well I'm going to
box Of Havanas. But look out said the
young girl; they are frightfully expen-
sive.'
mo. no; I am not going to give him
any Havana cigars said Sparks. Better
than that. / am going to establish a per-
feet communion of taste and a close SYM
pathy between us by beginning to smoke
his Havana cigars myself"
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they resigned from the cornfield and
went. The first day they went out behind
the house and drawed straws for her.
Tom got the lucky one, and he were
mighty nigh tickeld to death. thinkin'
how he'd got ahead of Pete at the very
start Pete didn't say nothin. He never
would strive against Tom. but in the end
he always come out ahead. Tom lit into
studyin' and courtin' like a house aflre
Pete sat down and waited. They were
in the same class. and Tom stood head
all the time. He was so smart he was
plumb aggravatin' The teacher could
tell him nothin' unless he had to up and
show he knowed it already.
Meanwhile Pete stuck to the foot as
If he'd been born thar. He couldn't spell.
nor read nor cipher. All he could do
was to look at the little teacher with his
big dull eyes and wait for her to help
MIN. She had to set by him all the time
he was workin his sums. shown him
how. He'd know his 'rithmetic II she did
but If she didn't he couldn't draw the
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Herman Would Yell Whoa!

when Elsie rushed in with a cry of joy.
Il got it, she said Il have united der
meaning of dot R. S. v. P. 1t means
Real Silver Wedding Presents"
1 was ust about to drink a glass of
water. so l changed my mind and nearly
choked to death.
. Peach tried to say something, which
resulted in gurgle in her throat; the
Swede servant girl rushed out in the
kitchen and broke a couple of dishes,
while Uncle Peter who was dining with
us. fell off his chair on the cat, which had
never done him any harm.
Elsie's Interpretation of that wedding
present is going to set Herman Shulz back
several dollars, or I'm not a foot high.
The same Herman is character, by
tie way. Bunch.
He's a horse trader by profession ana u
con thrower by nature
1 must tell you, Bunch, about Herman
when he lived and flourished in Rochester.
n. Y.
A friend of ours named Will Hodge
also lived in Rochester at that time. and
VIII went to Herman to buy a horse.
Herman had at this time an old sorrel
horse which would never travel over half.
a mile without baking.
AT some remote period of its life the
sorrel had been docked, but Herman de-
cided he could sell the horse quicker IL
1t had long tail, so he glued on a tail
which he kept in the barn for this pur-
pose.
One of the peculiar features about this
old sorrel was the fact that just before
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ton to put you in the wrong by behavin'
her own self right she kin come aggra-
vatin'ly nigh bein' angel in her ways.
And that gal had a natural talent for the
part she played-never so much as flung
her eyes on Bill. Sometimes he'd prowl
round the aidge of her outer darkness like
a sick bulldog. but she'd know the minute
his eyes rested on her, and then she'd
take on a hallowed look as il she were
f1xin' to take the veil or go as a foreign
missionary. I've seen a right smart f1irt-
in in my day, but I've knowed jest that
one woman which could do it 'thout word
or look. 1t was what you mought call
an inspired pantomime of feminine fas-
cinations, and it about driv Bill crazy.
He'd git on his boss and ride up and
down before Sorrels house like all pos
sessed, but he never had the courage to
light and come in. And it seemed that
Babe aimed to make a clean sweep Of
him. because she never so much as come
to the winder when he'd go r'arin' by,
whoopin' like wild Injun, and actin
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like the coward he was before God and
all women.
* *
Everybody in the valley was GRIMM
on the sly and waitin' to see what he'd
do next, when the Stallin's. BOYS kicked
up romantic dust further down the
road. and we all forgot Babe and Bits
affair, for the time watchin' the race be-
tween them brothers for Sally Fender
gass. the young woman we hired that
year to teach the summer school down
thar in Brasstown.
Both of 'em were too old to 90 to
school. but when they seen what a sweet.
slim. skeert-lookin. thing the teacher was
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JOHN HENQT
IL w
ON TIE
HORSE
RAIDER.
By Geo. V. Hobart, Hugh Ntzhugh,

teeth and shake the pronouns out OF IT,
Elsie was amazed
She kept looking at the invitation ana
saving to herself: "R. s. V. P. Not is II!
l know der pride's parents, but don
know r. S. V. p
All that day Elsie wandered through
the house muttering to heself. 'R. s. '.
P. Vot is it? Is it some secret between
der pride und groom? r. S. V. P. 1t
ain'd my initials. because dey begin init
E. S. Vot is dot r. S. V. P? Vot is it ?
Vot is it,
That evening We were all at dinner
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began to RAIN the glue melted and when
VIII saw his horses tail drop on ne
nearly fell out of the wagon
An hour later Herman was sitting In
his barn door, when he saw man run
ming toward him who looked something
like Hodge. and something like a vigil
lance committee.
The man had a buggy whip in one hand
and horses tail in the other. and he
was travelling hell bent for election
Herman took one peep at him. then he
fell sideways out of the barn window and
hid for three days in his cellar.
1 don't think Will and Herman ever
meet. because both of them are still alive
and uninjured.
Yours for the Germans.
JOHN.
Copyright. 1905 by G. ". Dillingham; Coz
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never said word of love to me. It's
scandalous to asst a gal to marry him
where he hain't tried to make her love
him. Either he don't keer whether she
do or not, or he've got the impudence to
think she do 'thout him courtin' her to it,
Lord. son, don't you believe that the
dullest woman you ever saw hain't got
more delicate primrose paths to her gar
den of a mind than the wisest man that
ever lived. And we have to respect their
little poetry notions Of life because they
air finer than our'n. and they keeps us
from turnin' back to beasts.
"'What answer did you give him.
honey? I asst her.
81 lowed to him that a man didn't
git wife jest for the astin'. but he had
to win her against her will
'Whatd he say to that?'
'Nothn'-jest set thar and looked at