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The Washington times., 1908-09-01

James Lucas. charged with the theft
Of s12 from ]. NJ. Stevens on August p.
was fined $50 and sent TO tail for six
months by Police Justice. Cation this
morning.
The Washington times., 1908-09-01

A meeting of the City Democratic
committee will be held at the Opera
House Cafe This evening at T:30 o'clock.
Plans will be discussed for the Organi-
cation OF a Bryan and Kern Club
The Washington times., 1908-09-01

The Old Dominion, Belle Pre- and
AleXs ndria Glass Works. which have
been shu- down during the summer. re-
opsned this morning with full number
Of men, The Virginia Glass Works in
L.
The Washington times., 1908-09-01

Eleanor 3. WIsner. daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Wisner, died at the
home OF her parents. $50 Franklin street,
yesterday. Her funeral vas held this
afternoon. The Rev. W. r Watson
conducted the funeral services.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
eootbIacks In livery.

There is a new Office building in
Wall street that is piling luxury on
luxury in the way of fittings and gen.
eral accessories to the point where it
bids fair to be close rival to the mar.
BILE and plush palaces of hotels up
town. The latest outbreak in this
direction is the uniforming of the
official bOotblack of the building in a
pages livery, blue trousers with a
gold piping on tho seams, pages
short tunic with ever so many round
gilt buttons down the front and a
dark blue straight visored cap with
the name of the company that owns
the structure in gold letters on the
front. OF course, this bootblack
page is an Italian, and he looks ex-
t:emely hot and uncomfortable in his
padded coat
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

possession of a beef contract g.
army. | don't know whether tha l'
eminent got afraid that he might ~ ~
an influence with the heavenly now
or not, but at any rate he got the ~.
tract. And the next meetin' aftarv,o1
when old Brother Haskill had norsa,
forth the usual dose of lament becan.a
the war hadn't come to a close Nh.
Lige he suddenly gets up and witbnn.
striktn the usual attitude of nro,,.-
6norts out: Lord, before anv actioa !.
taken, | think it might be better to nss
your own Judgment in this matter y,
course. We would all like 10 SEQ ~.
war close-when you feel that il ouah.
. closa-but-'"
The blasphemous old beast s.,,
the evangelist.
Well, yes, Limuel admitted ah,.
t didn't sound so then. And the M
lasted till old Lige he was rich. al
afterward | heard him say how tbarL
full he was for what the Lord had
done for him
After time the preacher said. ar.
does not appear, then, Brother I'M,
lin, that you believe in the effeetiva
ness of prayer
On. bless your life, yes. Bur N.
greatest good it can do man 10 n
make him feel his dependence on ,ba
divine will-his humbleness The ma,
that prays for something he needs !,
simply selfish. l know an old ferov
that was kneelin beside a log I,
the woods prayin' to beat the"
"Limuel," his wife broke in,
To beat the Salvation Army band
and everybody that saw him was
struck with his piety. But happensd
to be lyin off on the other side of tina
log. watchin' for a wild turkey. and
hearn what the prayer was about. And
it was simply begin petition that
he wanted the Lord to grant-wantes
10 make money on a certain venture
that he had set on foot. Tryin' to sat
UP a bucket shop in the new Jerusa
lem That sort of prayer amt half a,
honorable as cussin' But don't under.
stand me to say that prayer never
does any good, for it does 1t makes
a man better able TO stand misfortune
II doctors his mind and fortifes Il
against sufferin'. | know that prayer
rightly employed is a good thing on
the farm. The most religious man |
ever saw raised the best crops Prayed
twice a daylight and morning"
Yes. sir. Prayed night and morn
in. but between prayers he worked
harder than any man in the neghbor
hood His prayer was for strength 80
he could labor | tell you that there
is many an amen in good digestion and
many a hymn in muscle. Yes, sir,
and want to say to you that war will
cease not when the world becomes
more merciful, but when every nation
is so well prepared that no other NJ
ton can afford to attack it, The big
battleship is the plea for peace"
Copyright. by Opie Ready
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

hurry along though the poor sailor
has difficulty in keeping himself in the
saddle.
Il have a little" answers Barnes.
You think Enid might be with Ma
rina?"
Yes, if Cipriano Danella has her.
He apparently wants a chance at my
life if Salieeu misses it. He may have
taken Enid to some out of the way
place, SO that striving to find her |
may die in his vendetta"
So he and Edwin walk their horses
up to the junction of the Morosagla
road.
Did you find that flower here" he
asks Edwin.
Yes, pretty well toward the middle
of the path
Though the moon has just risen they
can find no more cyclamen blossoms
and here a sudden complication con
fronts them. Another road. leading to-
ward the northwest and running to
Novela, Belgodere and the lie Rouse.
also leaves the Bastia road at the same
point
1T is just IS probable that Marina s
course was directed toward the north
west as toward the east In fact, it IS
a toss'up which way your wife went 8"
remarks Barnes, Now. there is only
one way To settle it, if this cyclamen
flower means anything, That is for
YOU TO investigate one road and | the
other"
So II is arranged that Barnes takes
the road toward the lie Rouse. and
Edwin follows the path leading to the
east toward Morosaglia
III find no more of these flowers
going toward the northwest, III return
here and follow you" remarks Burton.
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is the storehouse of the past, but the
little chan that cant talk yet is the III
ture, and you may know all that has
been said and not foreshadoW what ne
is goin' to say. There amt nothln
that is more of constant experiment
than wisdom is. 1t keeps man on the
dodge The man that writ the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire could
sit amid the ruins and look back a
thousand years, but he couldn't look
forward as far as his eyelash.
The Lord is opposed to war SAID
the minister, and in His own good
time will bring it to an end.
Yes, in His time, but not in ours
It was said that the Lord was sorry
that He made man, and it amt on rec
ord that He was ever glad again"
.Limuel Jucklin," said the old man
wife YOU ought to be ashamed OF
yourself to talk that way and in the
presence of preacher too
Sister" remarked the preacher,
smiling kindly, che might as well say
it as to think it, for what man thinks
he thinks in the presence of the LORD.
There" said the old lady, what do
you think of that?'
L think it's all right, Susan, be
cause | don't see how he could have
said anything else But gettin' back
to the subject of war After we nave
printed an extra million or so of tracts
and bowed particularly hard over the
work of our furrin missions, We always
like TO think and believe that the
world has been made kinder. that even
war itself is more humane. that meN
are killed in a softer and gentler way
than before. And then We read of
barbed wire intrenChments full OF
spikes and secret mines ready to blow
a whole division Of an army into the
clouds But after all. war is war, and
when mans killed, no matter
whether it's with one of these nice
little bullets or a snOrtin minnie ball
he's dead, and SO far as he is CON
cerned the whole earth has been split
asunder | recolleet that while our
civil war was a goin' on the folks over
here at Ebeneezer meetin house used
to assemble and pray for it to end Old
Lige Anderson was the principal
prayer and sometimes it seemed that
he would command the Lord. He never
came into the house of prayer that he
didn't have some special information
for Providence. Yes, he was goin to
hold the Lord personally accountable
if the war didn't end putty soon. The
folks that had been conservative with
Providence after a while turned radi-
cal and | remember that We were all
nightly astonished one night when
Lige he suddenly Topped
The preacher looked up in astonish-
ment, and the old man explained:
ITO flop, you know. means to make
a quick break for the other side Yes,
Lige he Topped And the cause of hia
sudden turning was this: He come into
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CHAPTER xVI.-Continued.

SO they spring off their horses and
dear old Monsieur Static. recognizing
the American, Is about TO offer them
rooms when they both suddenly ques-
ton him and learn to their concern
that - lady has arrived from the in
terror this day at his hotel
She is drawn by two horses driven
by an old Corsican with a beard sew
eral weeks old says Barnes.
1T doesn't matter how she was
driven; no lady has arrived here, gen
tlemen"
Then Marina must have gone to in
Quire at the steamer Offices as to when
III arrive" cries Edwin.
Mon Dieu," calculates Monsieur
State his eyes lighting up. you are
the young English naval officer whose
wedding to Mademoiselle Paoli created
such an excitement in the island two
weeks ago. Believe me, Monsieur,
your wife is not in Bastia, or should
have heard of It, Everybody here hon
ors the name of Paoli-and your sweet
spouse is very much loved for her own
dear self"
Despite Monsieur States assertions,
the two young men stride out of his
hotel. and though desperately fatigued,
make inquiries at the Offices of the
Fraissinet and the Florio Ruballinio
companies, but no lady asking for ar
irving boats has been there. at all
events, none answering Marinas de
scription.
I'VE may have passed her on the
road" remarks Barnes sympathetical-
ly, his anguish making him feel for his
companion. Wen give her two hours
to come in and overtake us--two hours
of rest" the poor fellow stretches his
limbs YEARLY. I'm flesh and blood.
Anstruther You didn't climb noun
tains all yesterday, as did
But Edwin, being unaccustomcd 10
horseback exercise, though why
enough upon the ships deck, is stir
and sore. Compelled from very Ia
tigue, the young men contrive TO limp
back to the Hotel de France, where
they are very we'll taken care of. and
two hours sleep measurably revivcs
them Barnes has had shave and
would look almost debonah when he
comes down to breakfast At boon. but
the cavities which hold his eyes alb
normally frightened by anxiety Eive
the lie to any appearance of lightness.
Anstruther is even more worried
than beforehand now as The day
draws on. wi bout his Vile appearing.
a look of fear comes into the young
mans face that Is horrible
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understands the value of tags. She
| buys them by the dozen at her sta
TONERS s. She goes around in her gush
ing, compelling way. and says "Oh
I'm 90 glad you've come Whom dc
you suppose I have captured for to
night? Albrecht Musikheim. the won
dertul pianist from the Dresden con
seryatory. He has played but once
in this country. and then it was more
of a rehearsal than anything else:
| at that impossible Mrs. Bushels
who would eXtinguish Etna if she
came near IT. have asked him to
play that adorable thing of Greig' $
that he composed for King Oscar. You
have never heard pianoplaying until
tonight"
And then when the audience is as.
sembled and quiet she leads Herr
Musikheim in-on stilts-and all in
the room are Immediately swayed by
his magnetism, and prepared to accent
MN before he touches the piano. Even
You who heard him last remember
that You thought he was remarkable.
although you forgot to say so.
lie knows that his tag is ON for TO.
night, and he plays better for the
knowledge, And you know that the
piece he is playing is famous. and
by Greig at that and you Immediately
predict his success in this country.
But let me tell you. it will take plen-
~ OF tags and good deal of ability
100. Tor some of these newspaner
critles are really discerning. saw
some Of them are really discerning
and one or two claim that thew can
dispense with tags. l wonder!
Years ago the magazines did mot
tag their articles unless they were
by men who had been tagged for
Years men like Anthony Trollope and
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
what was the result? Why. peonIo
had no opinion of American literature
Dut read English books in preference
10 those written by Americans. Then
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
Yes. Why Not?

Not long ago a well-known play
wright decided that he would like to
have a theater of his own in which
to produce his own plays. He didn't
have money enough TO build it, but he
had a wealthy friend in Wall street
AS soon as the idea set in on him,
the playwright visited Wall street and
laid the scheme before his friend. The
Wall street man put his feet on his
mahogany desk and listened attentive
ly. He admitted that ha had few
hundred thousand dollars lying around
loose, vet wasn't particularly enthusi.
astic on the theater project. Why
write playse' he demanded. at last
Write checks
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
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LII m

A travelling evangelist who had halt
ed for the night at old Linn Jucklin's
house had said that he hoped to see
the time when there would be no more
war, when the old man remarked:
Yes, and l reckon King David
hoped to see the same blessed day. In
this life there are two sets of prayers
that don't appear to have had much
effect-prayer for rain and prayer for
war to cease. But there never was but
one time when there wasn't no war
nowhere on earth and that was when
rain wasn't needed. | refer TO the
time of the food when Noah held his
peace congress in the ark
but the time of universal peace will
come insisted the preacher.
Yes agreed the old man, when
all of the kinks have been straight
ened out of human nature. It's a
mighty hard matter to correct thing
that has started off wrong, and man
seemed to have set out with his worst
foot foremost. He got hungry and he
fought for somethin' to eat. He fell in
love and he fought for woman, and
then KEEP on fightin' because he'd got
his hand in. And ever since | can
recolect they have been holdin' peace
congresses every once in while; and
war is sure to follow One nation has
always got somethin that the other
one wants Craftsmanship shows a
nation what it needs and then the sol
der goes out to get it. The statesman
that has avoided war is nearly always
put down as a failure If he goes into
war and gets the worst of it, then the
people know that he wasn't states
man after all"
But | am inclined to believe said
the evangelist, that with the passing
of the war between Russia and Japan
the great wars will have come to an
end"
Yes, a big war always has been the
last one When they got the machine
gun the wise men said that the end of
war had come, and it looked that way
till another war came along and assert
ed itself. and then it was observed
that the machine gun didn't cut any
very big capers. Man has always
shown sense enough to outwit the ma
chine he invents. Whenever they find
that to stand off FIVE miles is effective,
they'll stand off five and half and go
a little closer when they want to be
desperate The Japs have taught the
world that war hadn't quite reached
the top notch Every age has thought
that it had the best of everything, but
compared with the time to come every
age has been a dark age. Ever since
time began the sun has been comm
up, and no man has lived in the noon
of the world. He thought he did, but
his clock was wrong. Unfortunately
about all he can study with any degree
of accuracy is the past, and you may
know all the past and yet be a poor
guesser as to the future. The college
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they presume is up to a Ger.
tain standard, for they have
some faith in the Judgment of their
hostess, whom We will call Mrs. Bush
Ell; but it happens that she does not
understand human nature, and she
carelessly neglects to place a label
on the young man who sits down to
play, and what is the result? Why.
he is rewarded with half-hearted an
plause. And he himself neglects TO
say that the piece hs IS playing is a
well-known thing OF Greigs, and the
audience is doubly handicapped. They
see he plays Well but they do not
wish to be led away by false enthu.
siasm.
Yet, as it happens, this young man
is great pianist, and not only that
but man who in Dresden is beloved
by the ladies-a second Paderewski
Imagine the chagrin of some of his
auditors when they hear him the next
evening al Mrs. Lionhunters. She
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
Battell LOOMS

some magazine started the fashion
tagging; literary journals sprang W
to puff those tagged, and it acted ~
direct stimulus on the writers, anu
also enabled the readers to express ~
telligent opinions.
To-day, if we read an essay "
Howells we know it is good; We lea
that we are right in liking 1t, anu w
say so. But If the same essay Wei'
signed X. X. Smith, while we mlsn'
be pleased at 1t, we would not
around saying. "Oh. have you reaa 'a'
essay OF a man named Smith ID NV
Aroma" because 1t is rather riaVr
lous TO enthuse over an unknown ma-
Now and then the ordinary run y
mortals enjoys the huge farce tnas
enacted when number OF art ciia'
dispute as to whether a newly ",
covered picture Is by one oil tne Wv
Dutch masters or not. the p"'a,
has swallowed its tag, and they ae
at sea. There are two SIDES " .
question, and equally eminent c''A
take opposing sides. =.
Is 1t an old but hideous daup
some strolling Harlem slgn-pan'.
or is it one of the best examples
tant by Ruysdael? The question - ~
an easy one, and experts nave
called in If it Is by an him.
and crude sign-painter 1t ha'u, n
possesses only such value as ciiHs
an antique of any sort, but 4
one Of the best examples eA'a. ,ss
the great Ruysdael there are 'V !,
millionaires who are willing " =
thousands for it. A..
1t is a pretty question, ana - LIS
nishes employment for the eAp ..s
But 1t shows the necessity loi ne
and | dare say that somewhere :" ,tp
vast unknown Ruysdael and INC ,,as
Grant painter are splitting theh Iats
over the discussion. Only II II X.
humiliating-to Ruysdael-tha'
picture is not it's own tag ~,
Copyright. by James Pott
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
Gazing at MIN, Barnes .nutters: Are
you good for another rider
"Yr--wltrre3

Gazing at nlln, Barnes .nutters: "A re
you good for another ride?"
"Yes-wlcre?"
I'VE must take the back track says
the Ameri ean. We rode TOO rapidly
this morning, thinking Marina was
Just ahead of us, for o critical investi-
cation"
Get under way" answers the lieu
tenant, and the two ride out Of Bastia,
making inquiries at every village and
learning nothing.
In fact. the peasants. as they get
nearer Ponte-alla Lecchia. are too
much excited over the election Of the
morrow to talk about much else.
"Voting-day is to be enlivened by a
race riot of the Lucchcse," says one
whom Barnes is questioning ON the
highway just where the Morosaglia
road leaves it leading to the Tuscan
sea.
Edwin has dismounted and is SLOUGH
ing morosely about the road to ease
his tortured legs.
why don't they wipe out these mu-
tinous Lucchese?" says the officer in
quarterback tones as they get on their
horses again.
Then the native Corsicans would
have to work These Eucchese come
ever here from Italy and do the man
nal labor for them. But | can find no
trace of your loved enc or of mine, .
-,
they ride along the road, their in
quiries growing more close and per
sistent till they reach Corte.
Together. disconsolately, the poor
fellows force themselves to try to eat.
The election excitement is growing
higher, a brass band comes past, at its
head placard, Vote for Saliceti!
and Barnes CRASHES his teeth
But turning from this, he rather
curiously says suddenly: "Anstruther,
you've got a flower in your button
hole"
"Oh, yes, was so miserable ] hardly
knew what | was doing. | picked up
this crimson thing in the road when
you were talking to the peasant who
was telling you of the Lucchese riots
down at OrezZa."
There was no tree bearing the flow
er where you picked it up?" asks the
American suddenly.
NO, ! think not. | don't believe
there was a shrub of any kind within
hundred feet of it, Why do you
ask? for the others tone is excited.
Why, because that's the cyclamen
flower, one of the kind of which Ma
rina bore whole branches in her car
rage Was there a branch attached
to it,
Il think there was. Hang it. | re
member. | pulled it off. what are
YOU driving att
We'll could that flower have beer
dropped at the entrance of the Moro
saglia road with design by your wife
out of her carriage"
The English seaman gasps for breath
but tired as he is and stiff as he is ht
staggers up and says hurriedly
Comet" and the two, through the
night again, for it has grown very
dark, ride down to Ponte-alla- Lecchia
BY heaven, | wish We lrad hope Of
my sister also" says Edwin as they
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

EIY is it that the
i nj p or t a n c e of
tags is so often
UNDERMINED? How
are we to know
whether a thing
is good or not II
we don't know
who did it? How
are We to know
whether a man is
to be treated
with distinguished
consideration and
respect if he has
no tag?
Let us put it In
concrete form.
Let us suppose a
room full of men
and women as.
sembled for a
musicale. They
have come to be
music which
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-16
Our
Place
in the
Universe
By SIR OLIVER LODGE.

planet in the solar system.
Men been here long do pretend how long
take it that the earth through long labor of
the of the human We know less about
the human than know about the history of the planet
Thus then the chances that visit planet
shall find the labor of the
after activity The duration of the existence of akin
episode the life planet; if the
inhabited only years. may
conured that there chance only 200 in favor of
planet chosen random being similarly inhabited There deal
be said this argument;
but it is not to be wholly overlooked
In system however, there planets of all
thousand times bigger than the ehnamey Jupiter others
the of which occasionally falls the earth
separate The has had
the surface 1t blazing gas and is likely
inbd Jupiter enough inhabited but
clear whether they have reached the period of the human
One reached period which something recognzaby
higher than the human existing upon it,
As to how life originates these planets is ignorant
present 1t entire mystery would not have you build
that. do not think will always mystery
heogan shaken his should discover something
about the life realize that this
of evolution process which negatives excludes the
divine activity 1t is venture revelation to the
of divine activity 1t is the way the Deity works.
The attempt that evolution ungudtha it the result
of absolute chnces What pointed not unguided random
change, but guided change The other could not be done in Tina
What have realize in regard place in the universe
intelligent helpful and active parts of the cosmc scheme
Che agents of the of the helpful ideas
operation another Cooperation
aing sense-co-operation with the Divinity hinsef
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-16
Railroad Asse ssments

Beginning April Goth and continuing
until April 25th, the State Board OF
Equalization will sit to assess the val
uation of all railroad, telephone, tele-
graph, express, sleeping and other car
line properties in Colorado. The board
last year assessed against these COM
panies $52,977 ,527, of which the rail-
road assessment amounted to $4S,570,.
S19; telephone companies, $2,716,S51; /;
telegraph companies, $753,921; express
companies, $344,303; Pullman com.
pany. $312.4S3; private car lines, $279,-
$50.
The total taxes paid by these com.
panies during 1907 for 1905 and as.
sessed in 1906 was $1,492, ,491.O4. It Is
claimed there will be no reduction in
the assessments this year, but on the
contrary there may be slight increase
due to the numerous improvements
completed during 1907. The report of
the board for 1907 shows the railroad
mileage in Colorado December 81,
1906, was: Standard gauge, 5,5S4.82
miles; narrow gauge. 1,7O5.4; total.
7,290.22 miles.