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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04

Indeed, with a good supply of tafies still remaining, what did any girl want with other food?
 Sarah went out to the park but she didn't return in a hurry. The bad boys left her early in the afternoon. and she had to find her way back home alone. Twilight had come by the time she trudged up the steps leading to home. She had been cry- ing part of the way. and 1t was dirty. unhappy. tear-stained little face that was raised. to mamma & few moments later. And 1t was 8 penitent, i'll little girl who confessed to mother at bedtime that night:
 q s'pose, after all, mamma, you know best what's good for me-"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04
long-queued Chinaman bolted

A long-queued Chinaman bolted round the corner. almost knocking them over. Raymond looked behind. expecting to see some one in pursuit. but the only person he noticed was an idle-looking fellow in a peaked cap. who was gravely rubbing his nose.
 The shops of cardland were busy, too. number of women were e. shopping. And. indeed, there seemed to be as many man in the shops as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04

and that he was back in the room enee had just begun to arrive.
 Those Cardland people arc the strangest ever." he Enusaa. apm Eo- Ing to have 2 iaatern slide made af tham." And ha did.
 Polly Evans friends can make an many Cardland people as they ehooaa without the least difNcuIty. A eraas deal of amusement may be had ln this way, too. Why Cont you try stg
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04

OR watchdog like rober turning policeman
 G Yet exactly happened fox in Scotland He young caught steal fat hen and he was pretty fellow decided spare the animals life and to him, if possible
 The fox responded this kindness and in gratitude to his installed himself watchdog As he keen and wed than he good watchman indeed kennel has Wouldn't you like have him fOE q pet3
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04
Baby's Playroom

w sasyr every on. xoaia |.
 claim. e they entered the nursery.
 Truly. it did seem c queer place. tor C was nothing more than . great big boz. Yet Baby seemed perfectly happy. In- deed, it was Baby's wish that he hs d. lowed to stay in the box.
 You see. during the summsF Baby longed to be out of doors all the ttsps. But mother was 60 afraid hs wouiA wander and get lost that she thought ek some plan whereby he could hs oaS among the trees and still be safe. xhAs is how Baby carae to have the nuse bex for playhouse.
 Very comfy he found t, too. Out tn the orchard it was placed, and Daby was carefully lifted into it Dolly ltlkea e
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04

Melting Lead on Card
 Turn up the sides of an ordinary card so as to make a tray and place a piece of lead in the center. On holding this over a lamp the lead will melt before the card catches fire.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04

TN vain the British sloop Nancy"
 struggled against the tempest. The \ waves at last engulfed her. and he's sailors. departing from her. struggled desperately with the angry sea.
 But the small boats could no more hope to weather the storm than could the sloop. Within a few moments these. too, were capsized. and tho men were pitched into he water. All of them perished. with the exception of 6 sailor bos named Bob.
 Bob clung to a mass of wreckage until the morning came and the storm was dissipated. When 1t was light enough to look about him he discov cred. to his great surprise. that Frisky. a little dog which was the pet of the sailors shared his refuge. Furthermore. he espied a box near him. Opening this. he found good supply of bars of chocolate.
 DISGUISED AS A NATIVE
 ''I shan't starve for little time, at least." said he.
 However. one can't dye very luxuri- ously upon chocolate. so Bob was glad. indeed, when his raft fioated into a cove where the water was quiet. and he was finally able 70 chamber out upon a shelving beach.
 F'risky followed close behind, as Bob. with the box of chocolate under his arm, started on a tour of exploration. All at once he saw something which caused him to dodge hastily behind a palm nearby.
 ''savages!'' he muttered. Instead of obtaining food, as I thought would, I'm more likely to Le used as food my self, especially as heard the bosn say that cannibals live on the islands here abouts. Wonder what I can dol"
 At last he hit upon a plan. Taking some or the chocolate, which. under the hot rays of a tropical sun, was in a melting condition. he sneared 1t over his face. After hexhad carefully rubbed for while. you would have thought he was a native himself. He also stuck upon his head @ few palm leaves, in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
Written When WASHINGTON Died.


The melancholy account of the
death Of Gen. Washington was brought
by vessel from Baltimore which ar
rived off Dover. Gen. Washington was,
we believe, in his sixty-eighth year. In
voluntarily resigning the magistracy
which he has filled with such
distinguished honor he enjoyed the
unequaled satisfaction of leaving to
the state he had contributed to estab-
fish the fruits of his wisdom and the
example of his virtues. It is some con-
ISOLATION amid the violence of ambition
and criminal thirst of power of which
so many instances occur around us to
find character whom it is honorable
to admire and virtuous to initiate. A
conqueror for freedom of his country,
a legislator for its security, magis-
trate for its happiness. His glorfes
were never sullied by those excuses
into which the highest qualities are
apt to degenerate. With the greatest
virtues he was exempt from the cor
responding vices. He was a man in
whom the elements We're so mixed
that nature might have stood up to
all the world and owned him as her
work" His fame, bounded by no coun-
try. will be confined to no age.-Lon-
don Courier of Jan. "a. 1900.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
CHEAP OPEN AIR CURE PLANNED
IN WAR ON WHITE PLAGUE.
Wealthy New Yorker Designs Build.
ing Which Will Greatly Lessen
the Cost Of the
Treatment.

1t costs too much to provide build
ings for the giving of the open air
treatment to consumptives according
to the way the buildings at present are
designed and built, and a wealthy
New Yorker, Mr.. Henry B. Auchin-
Gloss, who has made somewhat of a
study of the tuberculosis problem, has
a plan which he believes will greatly
reduce this cost and at the same
time provide as suitable quarters for
the consumptlves as are now supplied
at the greater outlay. And this plan
will come up at the forthcoming In
ternational Congress of tuberculosis
which convenes at Washington next
summer, and will be discussed, and
perhaps adopted. Briefly Mr.. Auchin-
Gloss advocates open camps, in suit
able localities, grouped around CEN
trail buildings. In the Adirondacks In
a picturesque spot on an island in
Lake Placid, Mr.. Auchincloss has built
an experimental camp for the double
purpose of testing his idea and of pro-
v1d1ng for his own folks a comfort
able forest abode more in keeping
with woodland ways than most of the
Adirondack camps" of these times,
with their costly fittings and general
air of elegance. After fair trial Mr..
Auchincloss is firmly convinced that
for persons needing the open air treat
ment camps such as his would be bet
ter in mild climates or for six months
of the year in the Adirondacks than
any building with massive walls. Mr.
Auchincloss found that his expert
mental camp proved successful in af-
fording complete shelter in stormy
weather, the inmates having been en-
tirely comfortable, enjoying the out
door life in perfection. The cost was
less than 5000 head and this could
be materially reduced
Mr.. Auchincloss' camp was planned
on three sides of a hollow square
fronting camp fire, with a regular
chimney and fireplace in the covered
portion directly opposite the camp fire.
The main roof is raised two feet above
the roofs covering the sleeping rooms,
allowing free passage of smoke when
the wind blows from the camp fire.
This raised roof covers only the open
space in the middle of the building,
the roofs of the sleeping rooms being
tight. Excepting for a semicircle i'm
mediately around the camp fire as the
center of the arc, no rain penetrates
even in the stormiest weather with
the wind blowing directly into the
camp. Mr.. Auchincloss calls it a
house with one side left off. The di.
mansions are 39x52 feet, multiples of
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
TOMBS AT HEBRON

Within the Haram at its southern
end is the mosque, originally built az
a church by the Crusaders between
1167-S7, though containing materials
belonging to an older church of JUS
tinian which stood there. The pres
ent building is 70 feet long by 90
feet wide, and is divided by means of
four handsome columns into a nave
and two aisles running north and
south. The walls of the mosque are
covered to the height of six feet With
beautiful marble slabs, and in the
middle of the southern wall is very
handsome marble mihrab, or prayer
niche. To the right of this is the ex-
quisitely carved pulpit. Colored win
dows let in a subdued light, and the
floor is strewn with costly carpets.
The most prominent objects In the
mosque are the great shrines of the
patriarchs and their wives. Those of
Abraham and Sarah occupy little oct
agonal chapels in the double porch be-
fore the mosque door. The tomb of
Sarah is magniticently decorated. The
coverings are of beautiful colored
silks, worked most artistically with
gold embroidery; the Arabic writing is
the finest known. Towards the north
ern end of the Haram are the shrines
of Jacob and Leah, also covered with
costly embroidered silks worked with
artistic patterns in gold. These
shrines lie in pairs at regular dis
tances apart across the area of the
Haram, and are supposed by the Mos
lens to stand each exactly over the
corresponding body in the cave below:
but no authority has been permitted
to descend into the cave for
many centuries. Col. Condor. who
visited this spot in company with
the English princes, describes how.
by means of light lowered
through the opening, he was able
to discern chamber II feet
square and Is feet high. In the south.
east corner was closed door leading
he was informed, to another part of
the cave, and the floor was thickly
strewn with papers, supplications to
the patriarchs, cast there by pious
Moslems.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
PROPOSAL TO CONVERT ERIE WA.
TERWAY INTO STATE ROAD.
Matter Being Seriously Considered In
New York State odd Canal
Boats May Give Way
to Automobile.

From canal to state road is GER
tainly long and radical step, and
yet that is exactly what is being con-
templated in New York state, where
the Erie canal is giving so much trou.
BILE and proving so great an expense.
Frederick c. Stevens, superintendent
of the state department of public
works, in speaking of the matter,
says: II have looked carefully into
the project of converting the Erie
canal into great Translate highway,
and have discussed the plan with leg
1slators, good road advocates and en-
gineers. l believe the plan is an ex-
cellent one, and believe it should be
brought to the attention of our law
makers, road-makers and the public
which is interested in obtaining good
and continuous highway facilities
In the opinion of those familiar with
the project and those directly in
charge the movement to provide
the state of New York with good
fOduS WOulQ De advanced almost in
credibly by the completion of great
Translate road. New York, with all
its wealth and population, has no state
road in it's most populous regions,
such, for example, as the Kings high
way of Long Island. The familiar ad-
guments for good roads, their impor-
lance in developing the country and
binding remote sections more closely
together apply with particular force to
this enterprise. The Erie canal doubt
less has been the greatest single fac.
tor in developing New York state. The
biographies describe it's opening as
an epoch making event. The same
line Of communication when made
available for vehicular traffic Of every
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
TRACK[[sS TROLLEY
NEW IDEA ABROAD IN RAPID
TRANSIT LINE.
Transportation Facilities to BE Placed
at Every suburbanite's Door
Before long-Already Tried
in New England.

New York.-Most people do not con.
ceive of the much discussed "trackless
trolley" as a vehicle which will also
run on tracks. But there's new idea
abroad. Vehicles that run through the
streets of any town, gathering in pas
sengers from their homes and Offices,
and then dash away at express speed
over the tracks Of the railway to the
next city on the line. there to resume
the course of the familiar street car,
thus taking people direct from their
homes to business destinations with
out delay or the trouble of trans
ferrfng from trolley to steam train
and back again, are an innovation pre-
dicted in the development of Ameri-
can railroading in the near future.
This, however. is only one of the
many interesting changes In railway
operation that are to occur soon, &C.
cordfng to Earl Mayo, who writes
about number of the more important
in a recent article in Appleton's Mag
azine:
Taking the railway to the people"
is really the phrase to describe the ex-
pansion of transportation facilities in
the next half century, according to
Mr.. Mayo. The process is already
we'll advanced in New England.
Charles S. Mellen, president of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, is the pioneer in this new
era of intensive railroading," in the
opinion of Mr.. Mayo.
The two mechanical factors of pri-
mary Importance in effecting the
changes referred to are given as elec-
trfcity and the Trail. The impor-
lance of the former comes from the
fact that cars can run either singly
or In trains so that much more fire.
quent operation over more varied
routes becomes possible. With the
demonstration that Trails can be laid
in city streets without interfering with
the use of the roadway by wagons, it
becomes possible to operate the same
cars in public thoroughfares, and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
HOW THEY SEPARATED THE
AMERICAN FROM HIS MONEY.
Excite His Curiosity in the Testing Of
Patent Pocket Case and Then
Walk Away with Notes He
Placed Inside.

A few months ago an American en-
tered a cafe in Paris. He had not
been long seated there before two
Englishmen-so judged the American
Joined him at the table. A few
trivial remarks on places of interest
in the French capital served them as
an Introduction.
The American invited them to
share bottle of wine with him, and
talk became more intimate. They
were travellers tor a firm of Vienna
leather goods manufacturers, the Eng
lishmen explained, and one drew from
his coat a handsome leather pocket
case.
This is most ingenious inven-
tion,' he said, opening the case and
passing it to the American. 1T ap-
, pears quite simple to open, but unless
you knew the secret I'll wager you
could not open the case in halt an
hour"
The American laughed His coun-
try he knew was as full of cute
devices as it was of "cute" men, and
OF the latter he felt himself to be one.
Give it a test" suggested one Of
the Englishmen.
Put a few notes in it," remarked
the other, land give the thing a
chance"
The American drew from pocket
the case, then handed it to one of the
Englishmen, who closed it up and re-
turned the case.
For a few minutes the man from
across the Atlantic turned the case
over in his hands, felt the crisp crack
ling of the notes. that he had placed
inside, and sought to find a secret
spring that would lay bare the con-
tents. Five minutes passed. The
American, now red in the face, tugged
> and squeezed the case in vain.
The Englishmen added to his annoy
ance by loud and continuous laughter.
Another five minutes passed. Still
the case resisted the attack.
"Hullo!' suddenly exclaimed one of
the Englishmen to his comrade, at the
same time slancing at his watch, 1--WE
must be moving. Well return in a
couple OF hours and see how you are
getting along" he added laughing.
Then, with a wave of their hands, the
two quilted the cafe
Left to himself, the American
marveled little at the somewhat ex.
traordinary behavior of his two &C.
quaintances. They must be wonder.
fully eccentric people, he thought
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19

where high speed is necessary, over
private rights of way.
The combination of the two makes
it certain that in the future the sn-
burbanite will be able to take q car
near his home in the country town
that will convey him to his Office in
the city, reducing very considerably
the time of the journey as made at
present and also lessening the ex.
pense.
In thinly inhabited districts where
steam roads would find it Improbable
to operate, the railway will be taken
to the people through the medium Of
electric feeders" such as the elabor-
ate system of lines proposed by Mr..
Mellen in western Massachusetts, at 4
cost of $10,000,000. Such lines can be
run profitably only as part of a COM
prehensive and strong transportation
system where they will benefit the
system as a whole by the growth of
traffic they create.
Many improvements are pointed out
as certain to come in the near future.
They are all part of what the writer
denominates intensive railroading''-
the application to the transportation
field of the same principles used by
the farmer who practices intensive az
riculture. They have in view the
same object, that is the securing of a
larger crop of traffic by the careful
and scientific cultivation Of restrict
ed era. They are all working toward
what Mr.. Mayo describes as IAN ideal
that will be realized only when trans
portation facilities are placed prac.
tically at every mans door,"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19

feet of the ground and will be sur.
rounded by platform % by 81 feet
in size. This platform will be Dor.
dered by artistic marble benches ia.
cling the statue and leaving ample
room for fountains. The site for the
statue has already been selected, and
it will be placed in the center of Sheri.
dan circle at Massachusetts avenue
and Twenty third street.
The statue, a miniature of which
now stands in one of the branches of
the war department, depicts the gen.
eral in the act of refining in his horse
and returning salute of his men. The
statue will be of heroic size. When
completed the figure will face south.
east and will have an approach of six
low steps, so that free passage may
be maintained along the line of Mas.
sachusetts avenue.
The sculptor is already at work on
his large model, so that the finish of
the statue may be ready for erection
early next autumn.
Gutzon Borglum, the designer, is the
sculptor of the mares of Diomedes,"
owned by the Metropolitan museum,
and of numerous other works in vari-
Gus parts Of the United States.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
PLACE IN PALESTINE JEALOuSLY
GUARDED By THE ARABS,
No Christian or Jew Ever Allowed Ex-
cept on Rarest Occasions to
Enter the Sacred Pre-.
cincts of Cave,

No spot in all Palestine Is so jeal-
ously guarded as the Haram or
sacred area built above the cave
where, according to tradition, lie
buried the bodies of Abraham and
Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and
Leah. This Haram is inclosed with
a double wall, an outer one of Arab
workmanship, dating from the four
:teenth century, and an inner very mas
.sive one, with many buttresses, which
competent authorities ascribe to the
days of the Herods. No Christian or
Jew IS, except by very special per-
mission, allowed within these walls.
The most the "unbelievers" may or.
dinarily do is to ascend from the
street to the seventh step on one of
the staircases between the walls At
spot near the stair is stone with a
hole in it, down which, it is said, a
long Bedouin lance can be thrust it's
whole length without reaching any OBJ.
struction. This, the Jews believe,
reaches to the sacred cave itself, and
in it's neishborhood they assemble
every Friday to mourn and pray, as
they do before the wall of that other
Haram-the temple area-in Jerusa-
lem. 1t is, too, custom with many
to push into the interstices of the
stone written prayers addressed to the
Father Of the Faithful. Although the
ordinary traveller cannot obtain en-
trance, q special firman from the sui
tan has occasionally been granted TO
allow several personages of high rank
to tread the sacred inclosure Thus
King Edward VII, when prince of
Wales, visited it in 1862, and his sons,
Prince Albert and Prince George, now
prince OF Wales, enjoyed the same
privilege 20 years later. In 1869
Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia
also was permitted to cross the jeal-
ously guarded threshold.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
WOMAN'S LOVE.

"Iou've been SO good to me-" she said
you've simply been perfection.
and when you ask me now to wed,
How can I make objection?
That you are al! {. man should be
Can scarcely be disputed,
And you are just this man for me,
We're so exactly suited!
Your tastes are just the same as mine,
I'm slre we'd never quarrel;
You're destined il the world to shine
You're learned, rich and moral;
I'd be so proud to be the wife
OF one so great and noted,
And you, ! know, would all your life
Be loving and devoted.
Nov, there's that wicked Charley Dash
He's also come to WOO me:
He's gay and careless, wild and rash.
And Acknowledgement to me:
He swears he'll love me all my days
Then gives me cause to doubt him,
And thinks with all his wicked ways.
l cannot live without him!
I'm sure he'd fill my life with woe.
And prove a poor defender,
While you would e'er be good know.
And generous, true and tender:
So when you tell your love to me,
Why, there's no cause to parley,
Except that.-how absurd!-you see.
I-that isl love Charlsy!'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
FOR CONSERVATIVES

IL feet. the length of an ordinary
board being taken for economical con-
struction.
There are three rooms on each side,
1878 each, and an open space in the
center 26x26. Ordinary matched
boards, battened, are used for sides
and flooring. The roofs are of the
best cedar shingles. Each room has
one window, opening into the outer
air. The corner rooms have two win
dows. The closed fronts and doors
have this advantage, Mr. Auchincloss
says: BY covering the outside of the
window with mosquito screens and
having the sashes open inward the
rooms can be cleared of the insects
early in the evening by a smudge
built in a tinsmith's furnace or in a
tin pail.
The door being left open, the mos
quitoes are driven out. Then the door
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19
THE LAUGH CURE.

When your wife resumes her nagging,
Laugh;
When the stock you've bought is sagging,
Laugh;
When you've lost your new umbrella.
Or somebody starts to tell
Story you have heard hundred times
before,
Do not fail to cling to gladness,
Give the ha-ha to your sadness,
Throw your head back and emit a
cheerful roar
Laugh. brother, laugh!
When the hackman tries to beat you,
Laugh;
When tho short-change artists cheat you.
Laugh;
If thief should pick your pockets,
Or your feet should, like two rockets,
Leave the earth and cause your head
to dent the ground;
Do not show the least resentment
Or give up to discontentment,
But look cheerfuls and emit q merry
sound
Laugh. brother, laugh!
"a. e. Kiser. in Chicago Record Herald,