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1ed's Turkey
A THANKSGIVING Story by
Epes Winthrop
SarGent.

copyright. 1908, by NJ. M. Cunningham
"~ O you think it's a square
dealF" demanded Teddy.
There's Tom Bolan. He
works in his blacksmith shop
oil day and gets his face as black as
IN end man. Then he goes home and
washes up, and he's all right. What
difference does it make If l daub on
zinc instead of dirt!"
1T isn't all that, Ted said Sally.
Somehow you seem different"
"Just because you saw me-" he
laughed bitterly. 'Bih Brattle told
me l was the limit, but 1 didn't sup
pose l was bad enough to queer my
luck with you"
II can't explain" said Sally impa-
tiently. But somehow when l saw
you last summer with all the people
laughing Mt you IL couldn't be proud
Of you any more. l just felt ashamed
to sit there and remember that I was
engngad to you"
And you waited all this time to tell
me-" he said scornfully. let me live
on in that FOOLS paradise all this time?
Why. l could have gone with the
Fordhams this winter If l | had wanted
to, but l told Blakeley that I'd come
OF to quarters just so I could be e a
you"
"I'm sorry, Ted" she said DULY. II
like you still when l see you, but
then every little while your face gets
~ ~,1s{o ~-sA1, H. ,,ol ~~~-Or 49,
and l want to cry"
"Brattlc was right" he said bitterly.
"Let circus folk marry circus folk.
They look deeper down than makeup"
II suppose l ought to-" said Sally.
"But l just can't, Ted"
"All right he said brusQuely. try
ing to keep back the tears that would
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bOWSER COAT FAn'l.
Thinks He Can Make Fortune
Selling the Milk to InvsIids.
RESENTS WiFE'S RiDIcuLE.
Brings Home Three Animals to Start
With, but They Prove to Be Be!!ig-
erent-A!imcny Question Talked Of
Again.
copyright, 1905, by T. C. McClure.l

SSois
copyright, 1908, by T. c. McClure.l
When Mr.. Bowser came home in the
middle of the afternoon the other day
and when following close after him
came a boy and three goats. Mrs. Bow
ser would have been Il very stupid wo-
man indeed not to realize that there
was something up. The goats We're
placed in the back yard. each one be-
ing tied to the fence at Il different spot,
and when Mr.. Bowser finally entered
the house she was ready to ask:
"Well, have you broken loose again. "
Madam, 1 fail to understand you,''
he stiffiy replied. Gam l supposed to
be some sort of wild animal that is
breaking loose now and then?"
But you have brought home three
goats?"
"Yes, three goats"
"And perhaps you will explain why?
If you had brought three elephants or
g~iraffes. l could understand that you
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~ W HUI
an attempt was made to compel T.. II.
Hartman to answer certain questions
about the operation of the railroads he
controls. He was appointed Il MEM
Der Of the United States court for the
southern district of New York by Pres
ident Roosevelt in 1906 and is reputcd
an expert in admiralty and bankruptcy
law. This makes him especially quail
fed for presiding in a case like that
against Mr.. Morse, in which nan diff
cult questions have arisen pertaining
to what constitute illegal and irregular
acts in banking. The case has directed
attention ne to the peculiar methods
of high finance" as practiced In times
not long gone by in New York. Judge
IIough was born in Philadelphia in
1858 ana was graduated in 1879 from
Dartmouth college.
Miss TriXic F~'riganza, who Is en-
ga-cd in a crusade in behalf Of the ey-
tension of the rights of her SEX. has
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IA AAhD
rise to his eyes. Il don't want the
old ring back. l amt got any one
else to give it to. So long"
He climbed into the tiny road cart,
cracked the whip, and the four ponies
trOtted off.
1t was only four miles to Carston-
vile, where the Blakeley %hippodromc,
menagerie and circus lay in winter
quarters, but every revolution Of the
little wheels seemed to put Sally-and
happiness-miles behind.
Ted Stevens was a circus clown
not a very good one, but good enough
for the II ring wagon show he tray
eled with. Last spring he had come
down a few weeks before the opening
to rehearse some bits Of comedy, and
he had met Sally Myerly.
~She had never seen much Of show
folk, and she was attracted by his
fun as well az by the wholesomeness
Of his manner In the three weeks
they SAY. each other Ted bad o her
heatt. Then the show had gone south
" opCA. IL was lulNl0NlllILlNI UClOISs
the slow moving outfit had come back
to Carstonville to show, and th9t after
noon TED had done his best because
Sally was watching from the reserved
seats. He had been rather disappoint-
ed at her lukewarm appreciation, but
was until he had come back with the
show to go into winter quarters.
He had taken the meager salary Of
fered to help care for the stock instead
OF playing at the vaudeville theaters
through the winter, and it was with
a happy heart that he took the pony
four-in-hand out for exercise and had
driven over to the Myerly farm.
He had received an enthusiastic wei
come from ten-ycar-old Dick. but Sally
had been cold, and at last she con
fessed that the sight of him in the
ring had killed her love. Her ideas
of romance We're CLEANED from cheap
fiction. wherein English lords in dis.
guise were more apt to be heroes than
circus clowns. The sight of Ted in
his motley had killed her ideals, and
she wanted her freedom.
For the next couple of weeks he
held to his work, trying in occupation
to find forgetfulness. He had been
rather clever with dogs once. and he
got permission to try his hand at TIVE
OF the ponies, just to occupy his mind
but in the long nights, when the 81
lence was broken only by an OCCASION
al cry from the stock barn. he had
plenty of time to think. for sleep cam,
late to his tired eyes.
The day before Thanksgiving Thorn
as Myerly drew up ut the sheds ant
climbed down from his seat. Ted saw
him and went out to meet him.
"Sally wants to know If you won
bring them ponies over" he said
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trlNc 4 dinner on
his flagship to the officers Of the Ameri-
car hattleship fleet, which was one Of
the chief events in the long programme
Of welcoming vents designed by the
Japanese to show their good will to-
ward Americans. He is the Inventor Of
the ljuin fuse. which is used by the
Japanese In the manufacture of tor
pedoes. and during the Russian wal
general staff.
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Linen Hair Receiver.

A pretty hair receiver to give a gin
for Christmas is of heavy white on
ecru linen. The edge is padded and
scallopel and is fastened over with tive
buttons and buttonholcs. The design is
worked in the solid satin stitch. \. re-
settle Of ribbon with loop and ends fin
iSheS the receiver
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Nine DAYS ThanksQiyina,

In the time of Grecian prosperity
and power that nation celebrated Il
feast very much resembling that Of
the Jews and supposedly borrowed
from the latter. 1t was called the
feast of Demeter or the Eeusinian
mysteries. Dcmeter being the goddess
Of the cornhelds, hy whose especial
favor only good harvests might be
expected. The celebration continued
during niner days, and offerings to the
goddess were made. consisting of ohla-
sions of wine, honey and unIk.
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the leading role in a play running at a
leading New York thcater, entitled
The American Idea" a piece which
has proved one of the musical hits of
the season. She has taken up woman
suffrage ideas with enthusiasm and
when not engaged in the work Of her
profession may generally be found
making speeches advocating giving
women the ballot or organizing her
stein, daughter of Oscar Hammcrstein,
the impresario. she IS planning a mon
Ster demonstration at the New York
city hall in behalf Of woman suffrage.
She says:
"We beg all women who have the in
terest of their sex at heart to join
| with IS and aid In making the demon
stration ut the city hall historic. The
days Of milk and water oratory and
lamblike lobbying are over. We must
show II power and give the men n
fight"
Miss Friganza is not exactly a stern
visaged and serious minded woman
such as the public is apt to picture as
the leader Of a woman suffrage DEM
onstration. 1t is hard to fancy her
'giving the men a fight" The theater
going public thinks of her as a dashing,
gay and handsome woman like the
sportivc widow In "Thc Prince of Pill
SEN" a part which was thought to fit
her precisely. 1t was Digby Bell who
once described her thus:
"'TriNie F%riganza. brightest and
prctticst. promoted her from the
chorus in The Tar and the Tartar
for being bright and pretty and fined
her the next day for being fresh and
making unauthorized additions to her
costume"
Vice Admiral Baron Ijuin. who was
honorcu With the command of the
Japanese squadron assigned to wei
corue Rear Admiral Spcrry's fleet to
the watcrS of tho mita1o'S CTDDirr
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WHITE SILK APRON.

edge of the pillow and is threaded with
ribbon matching the embroidery. y
narrow hcmStitchcl fine cambria ruii.e
completes an exceedingly pretty cover.
which in the shops would bring a Very
high price. Yet. made at home. possibly
the handkerchief would he the only
outlay
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visited America not
long ago. He was
then in command
of II squadron
which represented
Japan in the naval
demonstration held
at Hampton Roads
in connection with
the Jamestown eX-
position.
\ d N i liuin
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Easy Enough.

Growells-1 certainly do have the
worst luck.
Howclls-Well. you can change ell
that.
Growells-How:
Howells-Make the best Of it.-Cath-
Ollie Standard and Times.
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were going to set up a geological gar.
den in the back yard, but l fail to see
where the goats come in. No boy will
pay over Il cent admission fee to come
in and see three goats"
Mr.. Bowser flushed up, and his ears
gave Il twitch, but he hung on to him
self and said:
eff sou had read the news Of the
day instead Of so many love stories,
you would have been better posted.
Just now, as you might have ascer-
tanned, the whole world is going crazy
On the subject of goats milk. The
doctors arc finding it a panacea for
almost every i'll. The milk is being
given to thousands Of invalids, and
goat butter has been found the best
thing in the world for people that
want to build up and take on flesh"
"But we have nc children to drink
the milk, and neither of us want to
take on 0 flesh," protested Mrs.
Bowser.
He smiled in a superior way, and,
taking a pencil and paper. he sat down
and said:
"Mrs. Bowser, can't you see a bust
ness opening when it is held up to your
eyes? We don't want the milk and
butter from those goats, but we want
the money it will bring from others.
Can't you understand"
"Oh, then. you are going to open a
goat dairyT
"Um! l am going to sell goats milk
and butter. In a sense it is the same
as If l opened a drug store to sell a
patent medicine warranted to be of the
greatest benefit to mankind. I shouh.
not call it a goat dairy"
Would Be RidicuIed.
"But the public will. 1t won't be
there three days before they will Ds
calling you Goat Bowser' That will.
be nice. won't IT."
"Sce here, woman" he shouted.
"don't you go too far in this thing! II
any one calls me Goat Bowser' it vii!
be because you have set them up to dc
It, and I want you to understand right
here and now that l shall exact a terri
BILE revenge"
"You know l Won't do any such
thing. but let that go. You have the
goats. Now for the profits. Let me
see your figures
Mr.. Bowser had to walk the length
Of the room six times and back before
he could overcome his emotion suti-
GENTLY to sit down again and say:
Il buy three goats at SIS each. That's
S45 capital laid out. You can under
stand that, suppose"
"perfectly."
1T costs nothing to keep a goat.
There is grass in the back yard. and
the cook can throw our crumbs and
bones and whatever is left from the
table. Each goat gives eight quarts of
milk per day. making tw%enty-four
quarts in ALL"
But they don't. Mr.. Bowser; they
don't. No goat e gave that much
milk. If you get three quarts per day
| from each one YOU will be doing we'll
| Why. it's only a few COWS that give
eight quarts"
Eight quarts apiece from every
goat. Mrs. Rowser. You must under
stand that these are no the common
goats that go around eating scrap iron
and garbage pals. One of them is a
Corsican. coming from the same town
Napoleon did: another Is a Swiss from
William Tells wi farm. and the third
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Hone For Him.

But" said the lawyer, your case
seems hopeless. don't see what l can
do for you. You admit that YOU heat
your wife"
YES" replied the defendant. "2ut
my wife's testimony will discount that,
She'd never admit that she was heat
en-. "-Philalelphia Press.
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In the Bright
LimeIight.
Judge Charles N. Houeh. Who Presltos In
the Morse Iriai-Trixie Friganza
as q Suffragatte-Ad.
miraI iiuin.

TEDERAL Judge
4 lie S ".
lIough, who pre-
sides in the court
where Charles v.
Morse. the former
ice trust magnate,
is being tried, has
been conspicuous re-
Gently in connection
with q number Of
cases of unusual inn
pOrtance. One such
proceeding was that
instituted by the in
terState commerce
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November.

The melancholy days have come.
The lowers fade away.
The cricloets upward turn their toes,
And early dies the day.
The mourning turkeys now are led
To death. and. worse perhaps.
h partridges. with mufled drums.
Are sadly sounding taps.
-Ir3-e
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Vice Admiral Baron ljuin. who was
Japanese squadron assigned to wei
ome Rear Admiral Spcrry's fleet to
the waters of the mikado'S empire,
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ton committees from Osman temple.
accompanied by bands. met all the in
coming trains and gave the visitors
royal welcome. Throughout the COM
ing week the lavish program of enter
tainments arranged by the local
Shriners, assisted by the mobiles OF
Minneapolis ard Duluth will continue
without intermission. The merchants
of the Twin Cities have aided by car
rying out a decorative scheme such as
has never before been witnessed in
this city.
The program will begin tomorrow,
when services will be held for the bene
fit of the visitors in all the churches
of st. Paul and Minneapolis
For Monday there have been ar
ranged steamboat excursions I'D the
Mississippi river to Fort Smelling
where the visitors will be entertained
at the officers club. In the evenins,
there will be grand ceremonial ses-
sionof Osman temple at the ST. Paul
auditorium. This great ampitheater
salts 10000 persons and has a stage
of $1,000 square feet. 1t IS so arranged
acoustically that the faintest voice can
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, be heard in every corner of the audi
forum. This immense stage will b.
the scene of three sections. the finest
| that Oscar temple has ever arranged
Theater parties will be arranged fol-
the ladies on this evening The open
ing session of the Imperial council will
be held Tuesday For this the ST.
Paul auditorium will be entirely trans
formed. Side trips have been arranged
TO rthe ladies on this day, including
launch trips up and down the Missis-
sIppi and Minnesota rivers.
Tuesday evening there will be the
Shriners grand electrical parade in
which all Arab patrols, bands and other
visiting parade features will partici-
pate. The streets of st. Paul will be
gorgeOusly Illuminated on the "Way
of Light" The night parade Is eX-
pected to surpass anything that has
been yet attempted and there will be
probably between $4,000 and 10000 OF
the Shriners in line, each wearing the
fez and the full dress uniform of the
in charge of imperial officers, represent
atives and potentates from all parts OF
| North America.
The visiting patrols will give exhi-
bition drills in ST. Paul ball park or
| Wednesday. 1t is expected that there
Will be over 20 contestants and in adj
dition drills by visiting ladies' pa
trolls. On this forenoon there will also
be steamboat excursions up the Mis-
sissippi to the Minnesota Soldiers
home and the romantic Minnehaha
falls, made famous by Longfellow's
beautiful poem. On Wednesday there
will be international automobile races
at the state fair grounds which have
an area of 247 acres. The track is one
of the fastest in the country and the
most noted International drivers will
take part. The Arab patrols, bands etc.
will parade on Nicollet avenue, the
most beautiful street in Minneapolis
The parade will be followed with 6
banquet and reception at the Mime
| sofa state capitol
Thursday will be Minneapolis day
| The officers and members of Imperial
council will be the guests of Zuraf
temple. There will be a ride about the
city and trip to Lake Minnetonka. On
the evening of this day Noble Gebhard
Bohn will tender a reception to thu
mobiles and the visiting ladies. One
hundred of ST. Paurs Young women
gowned in white, will serve refresh
ments. A grand reception will be
served at the state capitol in Minneapo-
lis on Friday. The capitol covers six
acres and cost $4500,0O0. The entire
building will be thrown open to the
visitors
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Union Square riot" and Fourth OF
July and New Year celebrations, but
the socalled Orange uprising remains
at the head of the list. 1t would be
useless to Grag forth such narrowing
recOllecJions from the limbo of forget
fulness except TO point a moral and
adorn a tale.
There was published in New York
at that time a daily newspaper, now
happily gone to it's long rest which
justified its existence by serving as the
organ and mOuthp:ece of the Tweed
ring. II some Of its methods it deserved
the title of the original yellow" jour-
nal OF New York. Whenever the ring
was hard pressed by outraged public
newspaper organ Immediately dug up
some sensation that would distract
public attention.
1t was upon one of these occasions,
according to veracious testimony that
the managing editor Of the Tweed
sheet called to his desk his star" re-
porter
Give US q sensation, he demanded,
II don't care what it is about, but a
sensation we must have"
With the added incentive of per
column for all that was published in
addition to his salary. the brilliant
representative of the Fourth Estate
Matched in his teeming brain the plot
which had its elimination in the Or
ange riot, one OF the blodiest in Ameri-
ca in history. The Orangemen were
not the cause. but only the excuse, for
the uprising.
Since that time. other New York
newspapers have illustrated the power
of the press in melting the mob spirit
and setting the populace on a wild
clamOr for blood. Only last summer one
newspaper suco eeded in producing
among the feminine population of the
city a universal fit of hysteria by it's
exaggerated and highly colored reports
of attacks upon women. Many inno
cent men were attacked by mobs and
incipient riots resulted. The cleverly
fostered sex-hysteria reached threaten
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ing proportions before fresh sensations
served to divert the sleuth hounds OF
the press to other fields.
Yet the Orange riot remains as the
biggest news story ever manufactured
to order by an American newspaper.
What is a 2o..:
Mr.. Ambrose Bierce, one of Will
liam Randolph Hearst's young men
rrOfessedly a literary critic, seeks to
cast aspersions on the memory Of the
late John Hay by insinuating that he
was not a poet Mr.. Bierce, although
a caustic and icOnOclastic commentator,
is usually just in his conclusions, but
there are many who will disagree with
his decision in regard to Hays poetic
ability.
Did Mr.. Bierce ever read the follow
ing lines:
For ever in thine eyes, o Liberty,
Shines that high light whereby the
world is saved,
And, though they slay us, We will trust
in thee
If this is not poetry, Mr.. Bierce,
what is it?
Of course the critic might urge that
the great statesman was mistaken as
to the quality of the light that shines
in the eyes of Liberty; that, in fact,
the lady is blind; that she is amyth,
ard that, if she really existed, few of
us would trust her with five cents.
much less our valuable lives. But that
has nothing to do with the quality of
poetry.
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SHR|NERSCQNCLAvE
BEGINS TOMORROW
GREAT GATHERING OF TURBANS
AND FLASHING UNIFORMS
IN ST. PAUL.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 11.-Clad in
of barbaric Splendor. with clanking
swords and glittering insignia, the
day taken possession of the Twin Cities
and will begin their annual corclave
tomorrow. From all over the country
and Canada. and even from Mexico,
crossing their imaginary desert wastes
in special trains of palatial splendor
the Mobiles have come to rear their
shrine at the oasis of st. Paul Recep-
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We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (causey by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton
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and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to it's
normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by Catarrh. which is
nothing but an inf1amed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

BY local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional rem
edies Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube
is inflamed you have a rumbling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
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THREE. UNFINISHED. ROOMS
Nice shade. 317 E. Cherry street.
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: NEWS, VIEWS AN DGOSSIP OF .
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, July 11-Tomorrow
VIII be the thirty-seventh anniversary
of the last big riot that the metropolis
has known. There have been minor
disturbances since that time, like the
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Julv Clearance Sale on Oxfords

CSC for all SIZE grades Oxfords
$1.23 for all $1.50 grades Oxfords
81 AS for all 200 grades Oxfords
SIS for all $3.50 grades Oxfords.
50 10 for all $500 grades OXfords.
s2.65 for all $3.50 grades Oxfords.
81 95 for all $500 grades OXfOrds.
So .65 for all $500 grades Ladies Oxfords.
81 % for all $500 and $500 Mems Hanan Oxfords.
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July Clearance on Household Staples
4 yard Bleached Sheeting j
4 yard c.. Muslin unbleached. I
\ L. l. Muslin, unbleached
\ fol lie onsdae Bleached Muslin 4
I dress Bingham 1
4 yard A. G. Zepher Gnghams, 15c grade. 4
4 French Zepher Gnghams, 15c grade. 4
\ Ginghams.