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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01
FATE OF ERIE
In DOUBT
~---
New Note Issue is Still Pend
ing.
ITALIANS ARE RETURNING
Railroads Plan to Put on
More Men.
hooking Valley Abandons a Number
of Telegraph Offices, DiscardiDg
Thirty Men.

Doubt concerning the ability of
the Erie railroad to finance its
notes maturing April was suf-
ficient to upset the structure
reared by Wall-st., manipulators
of the stock market The concern
over the affairs of the Erie engen-
dered by the further adjournment
OF the directors without announce
ment regarding their plans was
further supplemented by demor-
alzed market not only for the notes
In question but for the bonds OF
the compay, the various issues sell
ing down from two to six points.
In addition to the 81. 100000 dis
count notes coming due next week
the Erie has unfunded debts of a
similar amount, its total require
ments being in the neighborhood of
heard on the fate of the Erie road
~ to the effect that receivership
and a reorganization OF It's capital
account would be greatly to the
interest of the propertv
1t is also felt that the sooner tbs
property and few others IN its class
submit to the pruning knife the
better it win be for the financial
situation. In fact many bankers
are of the opinion that The situa.
,tion can only be clarified aol
measurable confidence in cur9na.
tion credits re-established by such 3
course.
Latest advices regarding the
Erie matter last night were thai
negotiations were still pending fol
the sale of new notes to financ,
the Old.
The money market Is still draw
ling the most discriminating line.
on all classes of original credits
making a strong contrast with tn
accommodating funds available 70
loans on listed collateral. The mar
ket for commercial paper Will
easier as to credits that nave al
open acceptance is actually close
as to the generality OF names. Thi
lOllerS the seeming PARADOX OF low
er rates with a larger and large
volume of unsatisiIed demand,
The metal market reported
ldrop of lSc n pound i'm copper
following the recent series of ad
yances, and this took much of tn
vigor out OF the recent strengt
in the copper shares. The suspen
sion of work by the coal miner
Is not regarded as a serious de
! velopment. It is well understoo
/, that the railroads are supplied Wit
fuel sufficient TO run month q
so in anticipation Of shut dow
The operators claim therefore tina
a partial shut down would be nee
} essary anyway and they are pen
fe1tly willing to take a few week
time in which to thresh out ma
ters pertaining 10 the various di'
uricts. No protracted strike is ant
cipated. Plain Dealer.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01
PENITENT
DRUNKARD
-
Faced the Mayor in Court
This Morning.
MAYOR MAKES REPORT
Large Amount Collected by
His Honor.
City Receives SI5r.5o From the
Office in March Police Assigned
to Their Beats for April.

Mayor, I'm simply all in, down
and ont; I've tried every possible
way 10 XIII my booze habit but all
to no avail and / get so disgusted
with myself that / sometimes think
that life is not worth living
This was the substance OF pitt
ful little speech which Harry T..
Speck made in mayors court this
morning when he was arraigncd
on charge Of ntoXication.
Speck proved himself to be
from much better class than the
usual run OF drunks. lie was we'll
dressed, used excellent language
and from his manners one could
easily judge that he came from an
excellent family Mayor Schcrrf de-
cldrel him one OF the most con
scientiOus and penitent drunks that
has ever faced him Tie is a ma.
.chnist from Lima ana was former
ly an cmplOyc OF one of the local
shops. Spcck was punniless and
Mayor Scherrr dismissed the case
upon his promise TO leave town.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

Mayor ScherIfs report for the
month of March is one Of the best
.Ol his administration. Last month
S206.50 was collected through his
office or this amount there was
$l5l5o in city lines. Si5 in state
fines and so for humane society.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01
Smart, w asn,t He?

81 was named after George Wash.
Ington."
II thought your name was Peter
Paul?"
so II is; but | was christened I'm
1882, just hundred years after
Judge.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

With the return OF possibilities
for work in this country the Italian
laborers, who have for the past
months been visiting their home
countries, are returning Seven
cars as a second section of No. z
were run last night through this
city on the Erie crowded with
Italians, enroute to Chicago, where
they expect to obtain work. The
foreigners are landing in this
country, while their brothers are
cnroute home, making the immi,
CANT traffic very heavy
As the spring work viii be taken
up soon on the various trunk
lines an opportunity for work will
| be given The foreigners.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

order Gold Medal Flour next time.
FELIcITY.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

Polo tomorrow uieht-AshIand VS..
Marion. 1t
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

A number OF telegraph offices
on the Hooking alley road were
closed this morning according TO
schedule sent out by the officials
| OF the company. The schedule
notes the hours, when the offices
ishall be closed and by the action
practically thirty operators are
thrown out OF their positions.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

Gold Medal Flour makes baking easy
THERESA
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

Polo tomorrow night-Ashland VS.
Marion. 1t
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

MAHALA:
Gold Medal Flour saves worry.
HEpZIn Al
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

Polo tomorrow night--Ashland ys.
Marion. 1t
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01
Business and Professional

TITLE ADS. LIKE THESE BRING
PEOPLE TOGETHER WHO WANT no
DO BUSINESS.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

The Hooking Valley telegraph
office at Moral will in the future
be &, day Cillce.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

Polo tomorrow nlght--Ashland ye
Marion. IL
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

Beginning this morning the
II pcking Valley road abolished its
block system on the Toledo diyi-
sion between Walbridge and Car
ey.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-01

tier con
the club
refresh
feature
e clubs
on
in two
Iss Iiilda
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17

slider with especial care, as both the
claims Of the "wets" should. he said,
be extremely lawless precincts. How.
ever, he asked the committee to note
that the percentage Of arrests in these
precincts was very small.
Mrs. Blaine, representing the
Young Women's Christian Temper
ance Union branch, created some
amusement when, in concluding her
remarks, she told the committee that
If they agreed to report favorably the
Sims bill the prohibitionists of Wash
ington would hang pictures of the
committee members in their parlor
and would erect a monument to Rep
resentative Sims of Tennessee in one
of the public squares of the city.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17
4 Discussing the Liquor Question

!. I. /. i 1. 1. !. i 1. !. !. J !. i 4. !. !
+ ARTICLES under this heading !
+ are nearly all contributed in i
+ response to our invitation to i
i. the public to discuss the sub /
i ject with the view of helping i
i. to solve the liquor problem, i
+ rather than keep up an argu- /
i. ment. Some of the writer's are :!
i. willing their names should be i
i. used with their articles, while /
i others prefer that they should !
i. not-not because they are i
i. ashamed of their views, but be- /
i. cause they do not care to be i
i. in the lime light.-Editor.) i
!. + i. !. \ !. + !. !. !. !. + 4 + + + i
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17
THE IDAHO REPUBLICAN

1t is unnecessary to quote further
refutations of these liquor mems
statements--they are all alike false
or maliciously garbled. AS Governor
Hoch writes, the spectacle is one to
provoke both laughter and indigna-
ton.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17

Dealing in the sale of factory
sites and Of railroad property as do,
] wish to say that the last year has
been the most prosperous in the ten
that have been in Kansas City. The
prospect for the coming season is
greater than ever before.
IS. A. Darrough,
Real Estate Agent"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17

The Republican Is going to send
Its best country correspondent to
Seattle and Alaska next year.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17

The Republican is going to send
its best country correspondent to
Seattle and Alaska next year.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17
Percentage Of Arrests.

A. e. Shoemaker, attorney for the
Anti-Saloon League, presented to the
committee for inclusion in the print
ed report of precincts in the city of
Washington. the population Of each,
the number of arrests in each and the
percentage of arrests to population.
In the first precinct, which con-
tains the disorderly section of the
city, with many saloons and speak
easies, he gave the population as
1895 and the number of arrests last
year as 1851, percentage of SIS. In
the second precinct, with popula-
tion of 1854, the arrests last year
numbered 3,712, or 10 per cent; the
third precinct, population 33,225, ar
rests 1901, or 10 per cent; the
fourth precinct, population 33,601,
arrests 4,017, or IL per cent (this is
a Southwest Washington precinct;
seventh precinct, population 22,134
arrests 2,508, or II per cent (the
Georgetown precinct; eighth pre-
cinct, population 1887. arrests o.
236, or 5 per cent, and tenth pre-
cinct, population 32,261, arrests H.
81 or per cent.
These last two precincts Mr.. Shoe
maker asked the committee to con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

NOTE-Untrimmed hats at $2 and $2.50 when you eX- pected to pay $2.50 and s is certainly a find. Not ordi- nary hats, mind you, but beautiful shapes of fine French felt and velvet, such as you will want for dress occasions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
STAG HUNTING WOMEN.
Many Feminine Followers in England
 of Trying Sport.

From the Gentlewoman.
 In spite of the roughness of the country and the long days in the saddle stag hunting Is a sport which seems to have always held an especial fascination for women.
 In Miss Strickland's Life of Queen Elizabeth" we read that the virgin Queen was so enthusiastic a stag hunter that when the French Ambassador came to discuss the question of her union with Monsieur le Due D'Alencon they were kept waiting three whole days, the Queen having started "a large swift stag on the morning previous to that appointed for their audience; she pursued 1t all the day and till the middle of the night, and was so greatly fatigued In consequence that she was compelled to keep her chamber all the next day..
 The number of ladies who hunt with the Devon and Somerset Staghounds during the three autumn months are as the sand on the seashore, innumerable, and every season we see more and more feminine converts to the cross saddle. Whatever the difficulties may be for most women in obtaining good grip when Jumping astride, there is certainly much to be said in favor of 1t on Exmoor. the majority of women seeming to find 1t less tirng than side saddle when doing very long days, and those who let out hirelings welcoming the innovation as one likely to reduce the number of sore backs in their stables.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
HAND KISSING Is
 REVIVED BY GAR Bulgarian Ruler Revives An Old
 Custom CUSTOM WAS IN DISUSE Anyone Who PIeases Him May caress the Rulers Hand-other Kings
 of Europe Have Aban-
 doned Old Practice.
CUSTOM WAS IN DlSUSE

Sofia, October 24-The new Czar of the Bulgars has revived an old custom. Any person he meets who pleases him is gra- ciously permitted to kiss the royal uard. While other kings, particularly King Edward and the Kaiser, shake hands with their guests and friends Ferdinand pushes forward his right hand when greeting a visitor or permitting him to take leave. and the person so honored Is expected to imprint kiss on the back of the hand
 Hand kissing was a feature of St. Pet ersburg court life with Emperors Paul and Alexander Paul insisted that the kiss must be quite audible. A kiss which was not head all over the room meant that the lukewarm courier was some times subjected to a taste of the knout after he had left the imperial presence.
 Paris, October 24.-Ferdinand of Bull gama is a French Bourbon on his moth CTS side; she was a Princess Clementine, daughter of King Louis Philippe His per- sonality has thus romantic interest in French eyes A friend of his, one of the
 
 princes to exile, writes thus to the Figaro O. a visit to Sofia to the palace of Fer- dinand then widower:
 "The palace itself is hardly more than a comfortable bourgeois habitation, its white walls encrcled by a delightful garden In the dining room the string of an cleo trio bell-pull hung from the ceiling to the table. The walters served each dish and then left the room. When the plates were empty the Prince himself rang the bell
 sThe officers of his suite passed him bread and wine and the meal passed as among brother officers. The Prince in- sisted on having things tranquil and would not tolerate the surveillance of servants while he was talking with his friends His conversation was that of a lne-natured, cultivated man. He is big and stout, with good presence. His round face Is heightened by an i'm perial' which has grizzled considerably in recent years.
 His small gray eyes face his interlocu- tor with a searching look-eyes that show irony, curiosity and courage. A Bourbon, dominating nose, set well out from the face above light military moustache. In all an interesting physiognomy, strange and seductive.
 
 minister Stambouloff, whom he supported through thick and thin, proudly and shrewdly. He knew the danger of his at titude and he faced it with smiles He was sure, he thought then. to fall sooner or later under the bullet or dagger of an assassin. But the peasants liked him, and from them he drew his popularity and strength. After that dinner he had to go to the mountains for some days to Rilo Monastery.
 While he waited his carriage we strolled in the darkness of the garden un- der the plane trees The sound of an Offenbach waltz, played by a military band, reached our ears. The Prince smiled: I hear Offenbach tonight he said, perhaps for the last time; who knows what may be waiting for me in a l moment behind those trees? l He called Bulgaria a French islet in l the midst of the Balkans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

would suffice to place an author. The lat ter part has given rise to much discus sion; some unmindfui of the severity of the Italian law have disclaimed hotly against the mother who could leave her child, even to gain her own soul. So poignant is the book at the scene of parting between mother and little son that one Is tempted to lay down the book for moment even though enthralled by the human interest Of the story.
 There Is something besides a terrible drama in the book The poignant sltua- tion does not inspire the heroine with re- volt alone; but having a fervent intelli- gence, a great and apostolic heart, in all those years of introspeetion and sympa- thetic observation of moral evils she ar rives at conception of woman. love and maternity which all honest men and wom- en-even if they cannot free themselves of uneasiness as to the solution of the drama of A Woman at Bay"-must ac- cept as very high and noble.
 Such high grade, strong books as this one do not appear every year CT in a series of years. It is a great boolS in- teresting. thrilling and most delightful. Don't miss "A Woman at Bay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
A MAURITANIA PROBLEM.
Great Liner Faster With Three Screws
 Than Four.

From the New York Press.
 The trouble with the Mauretania didn't amount to a row of pins. How quickly we forget things in these daysl Three months ago this giantess crossed the ocean with one of her propellers out of commission, and no mention was made of the fact yet she made a record voyage. Her speed, with only three screws going, when she was supposed to use four. proved that either she has not sufficient boiler power or her turbines are too large. She made nearly 25 knots an hour, aver age, with 25 per cent of her motive power dead. How is that for high? The Cunar1 authorities have kept this matter quiet, for they want to investigate and under stand it. Of course there was panic"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
Burgers Hats at 1S5.05, 50. .05, $z.05
 Have Distinction
Perfect Tailoring

Every Hat at $595, $695 and $7 95 here is an indi vdual creation-different in some way from all the others Each has the charm of thoughtful planning and actual hand work.
 NEARLY ONE THOUSAND ARE SHOWN.
 The rule in other stores is to produce in large quan titles and make profit Very likely you meet your self coming and going with of their hats
 Our carefully miner made Hats at $5.95 $695 and $95 in black navy, brown, myrtle taup-the whole range of good colorings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

the other day, but panics on steamships of her class amount to nothing these days; nobody jumps overheard.
 Steamship engineers all over the world are wondering. Here is the largest and most powerful vessel ever built, with four turbines and four propellers, making bet ter speed with one-quarter of her power idle than when the full 100 per cent Is working This condition which confronts us is the most interesting in the more re- cent development of marine architecture and engineering. Why have four propel- lers when three are better? Does one propeller operate against another? Why not have two propellers in front and two astern? Why not one in front and one astern? Or two in front and one astern2 Here arises new problems. Why not have a pull in front and push astern? F 4
 The Gawk makes best advertising illustrations in town. Age-Herald build- ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
Hotel Provides Mourning Stationery

From the New York Herald.
 Among new ideas to be introduced in the Plaza by MT. Frederic Sterry. man aging director of the hotel, Is mourning stationery for the use of persons in mourning who are living at the hotel. It will not be found in the public writing rooms, but will be furnished by the maids on each floor, in full or half mourning styles The idea came from one of the leading clubs of London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
S3.05 SIX PettiC0ats
 Worth S5

So many women wanted one last week. but they hadn't come in. Re- ceived big shipment Saturday. Made of simons Taffeta. with deep founee. In black. white. light blue, pink, grey. tanpe. canary, Alice, navy. brown. green and red. Better get two or three.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

Seaboard operates only through morning train via At lanta to Washington, Norfolk, Richmond, New York; hours quickest; elegant Pullmans and diners one night out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

"A Woman at Bay by Sibilla Aleramo.
 e. P. Putnams Sons).
 Maria Pastore Mucchi, writing in Put nams and the Reader Magazine, July number long before this book was pulp lshed in this country, told us that book has fallen like meteor into the midst of the tranquil literary world of Italy--a world peopled by novelists who limit themselves to painting aristocratic or middle-class society peasant life with no further idea than external exactiture. This book, Una Donna," or in English <. Woman at Bay" is just off the Put nam's press, written by a woman, Si- billa Aleramo, evidently a psuedonym. It's success abroad has been sudden and sincere.
 In Italy the novel with a purpose scarcely exists, if one excepts Giovanni Cena's "Gli Ammonitori,' known In it's English form as "The Forewarners,' and Antonio Fogazzaro's popular romance, 'Il Santo." or ''The Saint the first dealing with the life of the working classes in the north of the peninsular, the second with the struggle for the re- form of Catholicism. But now an un- known woman gifted with an unusual in dividualism of will puts herself in acl cord with the most advanced thought of modern women and gives book that goes much further than the question of marriage-a book of art and of life, of re- volt and restoration. The questions that the book puts or rather attempts to, and does in a measure solve, naturally touch women, for it is the whole life of a wom- an presented to the public in the form of a confession. This book has been trans lated into French, German, Russian, Spanish and English and is now being put into Swedish.
 It is the autobiography of young and most unhappy woman who, to escape from the brutalizng yoke ofathe man who holds her to him by an inhuman law, frees herself by the most painful sacrifice that woman heart can be called on to bear. The book is a condemnation of conjugal life. based on the submission of one sex to the other 1t is the proclamation of the right of woman to free human dignity. when crushed under the feet of the stronger sex. The first spart of the book
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

Colonel Greatheart," by IT. c. Bailey
 (Bobbs- Merrill Co)
 Colonel Greathearts is a novel of TO- nance, of love and adventure. In time it dates back to Cromwell and Charles I. There is much Tn this book of the strat- egy of love, of the danger and bright deeds of war, of the clash between men scheming for opposed objects. There are, too. variety, movement, action and quite a bit of color. There Is 8 brief picture, well drawn, of Charles l., that melan- choly poseur. and a more extended and dramatic characterization of Cromwell the zest with which the heroine handles the three men who are in love with her, the shrewdness and courage with which she tricks and retricks her victims are set forth finely and brings to the reader mind some equally well adept heroines in real life in the good old year of 190S- God bless 'em Colonel Stow, himself, is very engaging. his wit does not make him any the less tender, never deserts him at the worst crisis of his fate. He is the informing figure of this lively story. very loyable gentleman of fortune who loved well, fought bravely. kept faith, won honor and a few other things. "Colo- mel Greatheart" will hardly bore any reader. It is a pretty good story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25

"Old Man Coyote" by Clara Kern
 Bayliss, Illustrated by Edward Blais-
 dell, CT Y. Crowell & Co).
 Old Coyote C.ky-o-ty') is one of the most popular characters in the legendary lore of the Pacific coast. As trickster Coyote is to the western Indians what "Brer Rabbit" is to the children of the south. But he is of more importance than that for some oe the Indian tribes regard him as the culture hero or benetactor of man kind, others the creator of man lhe earth. sun and moon.
 Most of the Indians believe that by simply saying '.Y" (God) Coyote can become a sky walker or supernatural being; and by saying Mai (coyote) he can change back into an earth walking man or animal. The 'ludicrous situations into which he falls when masquerading as an earth walker or a common animal afford infinite amuse- ment to Indian children and story tel lers.
 Tn the preparation of the stories in this book dealing with Old Man Coyote, much has been culled from a longer myth in which Coyote plays but an inferior part. In other cases where the whole myth relates to Coyote, omis sions have been made so as to shorten the story or interpretations have been resorted to for the purpose of ren- dering the meaning clearer. But in every instance, the author says that the salient points of the legend and exact language of the transscriber have been preserved as far as compatible with the purposes of the book.
 The book Is a splendid one for a young boy or girl. MT. Blaisdell Is known pleasantly for his unique pie lures; he has done excellent work Tn this book.