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Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07

On Woodstock Hill, August ad, by Rev. C. F. Waters, Earl C Rogers to Miss Nellie C. Myers, both ef Putnam.
Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
Births
Marriages s

In West pten, Aug. ,, daughter lo Mir. and Mrs. Roy Aldrich.
, 1908-03-28

in this Island, of Which the retail shop keep
ers make a goodly number, and here we see
that in such an important matter hat will
affect them not one is on the Committee,
do you think that is right Mr.. Editor? We
retailers cannot expect the mechanic
to care for our interest; because-well
you know We cannot expect the mighty
merchant to care for our interest either
because we brush shoulders with him in his
smaller interests, and it would without doubt
be out of the question to expect the
princely Landlord of estates to look out
for our interest when he is already traf1i tx,
Ing IN our only line for q livelihood and
while we have no fear that Government
will look out for us, nevertheless we should
have been accredited a place on the Com
mlttee, SO that our side of the question could
have been heard, and if it is too late for Gov
eminent to give us a place on the Committee
then we must rely on you Mr.. Editor to al
low us space to express our views later on.
Thanking you for your courtesy in allowing
lis space for the present.
We are, dear Sir
yours faithfully
RETAILERS.
, 1908-03-28
TIL "
Mutual INSURANCE GO.
HDANMARK"
Fire Insurance Department.

TN6 I7SlI dNEC Upal I'0FNI.
D UlLDINGe of stone, household
- furniture and non-infammable
goods therein will be accepted at y
per mile p. annum.
Risks for other buildings-wooden
houses included-as well as for fur
nlture or goods therein, will, under
ordinary circumstances, also be ac-
cepted at very low rates.
All calculations will be given by
School Principal F. P. LUND in
Chrlstlansted or by the Undersigned
LUDV. ANDERSEN.
agent for st. Thomas and st. Croir.
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RESUME PLACE IN THE WORLD.
European Tongues, Once Almost For
gotten, Experience Revival.

This century is witnessing a revival
of neglected languages. A writer says:
There are no less than nine almost
forgotten tongues which since the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century have
retaken their places, politically and
in literature, among the languages of
modern Europe. The nine are Greek,
Roumanian, Bulgarian, Servian, Mag
var, Czech, Finnish, Norsk and Elem
ish. This list does not include Gaelic,
which is now experiencing resuscita-
ton In some parts of Ireland at the
hands of the Gaelic league, nor Polish,
which achieved political and literary
revival in Galicia. The nine lam
guages first named are now used by
100000 of people-a fact which does
not suggest much likelihood of the
approach of universal language.
AT the beginning of the nineteenth
century the statesmen of Europe. al
most without exception, held that the
extinction of the smaller languages.
which had already ceased to hold a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
sPRANG FROM NAUTICAL SLANG
Seafarine Phrases at Bottom of Much
Popular Speech.

Talking of slang, says the Dundee,
Scotland Advertiser, has anyone made
a list of the nautical slang embedded
In English popular speech? Most peo-
pie who speak of person carrying
on" would be surprised to learn that
they are using a nautical metaphor.
To carry on is literally to carry a
great deal of sail, generally too much
for the weather conditions; that is, to
behave in more or less sensational
and foolish manner. To say that one
is taken aback' is metaphor from
the management of a square-rigged
ship, which is taken aback" when,
through carelessness or i'll luck, the
wind gets round to the wrong side of
the sails-an awkward and perhaps
dangerous accident. TO give anything
"a wide BERTH is sailors slang; it
means literally to give a thing-prob-
ably a rock or other danger-a wide
bed to lie In. We speak of sound
ing a person with reference to some
proposal. The metaphor Is that of a
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navigator finding his way cautiously

navigator finding his way cautiously
by trying the depths, say, in approach
ing an unfamiliar shore Landmark
is not at all nautical-looking word,
but it is strictly mark on land-a
tower, building or other prominent OBJ
ject which serves to guide the marin
er clear of rocks and shoals into
port. To sail close to the wind is to
keep directly on ones course when
lacking is almost necessary, and so to
run risk of being taken aback. To
keep ones weather eye open is to
keep a sharp lookout on the weather
side of the ship Chat is, to windward,
where the weather comes FROM for
the signs which mark the approach of
squalls. To take the wind out of an
other boats sails is to overhaul her
presumably in racing) and pass to
windward, thus cutting off her wind
for the time being.
Finally, we have one or two ship
building metaphors. We speak of hav-
ing piece of work ION the stocks"
stocks being the frame of timbers
which supports a ship while she is
building. If she is well built of the
best materials she is "A1"-the high
est grade in Lloyd's classification.
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RHEUMATISM PRESCRIPTION

The increased use Of whiskey for
rheumatism is causing considerable
discussion among the medical frater-
nifty. 1t is an almost infallible cure
when mixed with certain other ingre-
dents and taken properly. The fol-
lowing formula is effective: "To one
half pint Of good whiskey add one
ounce of Toris Compound and one
ounce of Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound.
Take in tablespoonful doses before
each meal and before retiring"
Toris compound is a product of the
laboratories of the Globe Pharma-
ceutical Co., Chicago, but it as well as
the other ingredients can be had from
any good druggist.
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Solomon Inventor of Bathtub.

With Chronicles as its authority, the
Plumbers Trade Journal says that the
bathroom was an invention of King
Solomon, who put it in use thousand
years before the Christian era 1t was
sinful to enter the sanctuary unless
the body was perfectly clean, and for
the accommodation of priests a bath
tub was erected at the entrance to the
temple. 1t was said of Solomon:
HE had molten sea of ten cubits
from brim to brim round in compass
and five cubits the height thereof, and
line of 80 cubits did compass it round
about" According to the measure
ments the Solomon tub was As feet in
circumference at the top and 61a feet
deep. 1t rested on carved figures of
oxen and was of solid brass cast in
one piece, decorated with a floral de-
sign. Connected with it there were
ten small sinks, which were used for
washing the offering.
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stopped. 1t was the mothers life or
the fathers. The boy had to choose.
He let the pistol do the choosing.
1t barked once. On came the ia
Their, closing in. Again the weapon
spit forth bullet. Eiler dropped,
mortally wounded. The mother
swooned in her sons arms. But her
life had been saved.
They hurried the father away to a
hospital, where the surgeons said he
was MORALLY wounded The boy was
arrested and held without bail. Had
he allowed his mother to be beaten to
death he would not have been put in
cell; he had his choice to make,
and only a moment to make it in.
What would the everyday son do in
such case?
Has he right to shoot down his
father to save his mother? Should
he not be impartial? Would it not be
better to fight than to shoot? Is son
justified in killing his father to save
his mothers life?
Other sons have been called upon
to decide, just as Theodore Eiler has
had to decide, and in the twinkling of
an eye, too. And occasionally even a
daughter has been forced to make the
same decision in moments time.
Only two weeks ago 15-year-old
Frank Peterson, out at Greenport, L..
l., had to face the same dilemma. If
he didn't shoot his father, then his
mothers life would pay the forfeit.
Frank didn't hesitate. He fired,
brought his father down with a seri-
Gus wound in the head and saved
his mothers life. Then he ran for the
doctor to come to his father, Frank
Peterson, Sr.
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Hat as BADGE of Slavery.

With the ancient Greeks the hat
was simply an appurtenance of the
traveller. The free citizen preferred
to go bareheaded and only put on his
broad-brimmed petasus for protection
against the sun when on long jour
ney. The uncovered head was part
of his dignity, for the slaves and work
men wore always a kind of pointed
skull cap.
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Boys First Shot Fatal.

The Petersons are well-to-do and
live in a pretty home at 4S Bridge
street, Greenport. Frank is the eldest
OF seven children. But the father, ap-
parently, has little love for his family.
and more than once his wife has felt
the effect of his blows, so the son
said when the shooting was over.
1t was Sunday. The husband had
been browbeating the wife. Suddenly
he turned and with clenched fists
started for her. She screamed for
the boy.
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NV Iuo boy as he DOWoQ HIS
head in his hands, sitting
there in his cell. Il had to
do it to save my mothers
life Is he dead?"
The police already have all the evil
dence they want against Theodore
the revolver with which he put the
bullets into the body of his father,
John Eiler, at their home, 80 Lit
Teton avenue, Newark. They have
the boys confession; they have his
word for it that his married sister
gave him the pistol to shoot his ia
mother.
John Eiler did attack his wife just
once too often. The moment he came
home on that fatal evening he began
abusing his helpmeet for 25 years
mother of his six children. He ragged
up and down the room. The patient
wife was silent When she didn't re-
ply to the mans rawlings Eiler picked
up an iron matchsafe and flung it at
her with unerring aim. 1t struck her
full in the forehead; she sank to the
floor with cry of agony.
The boy upstairs heard the cry.
Then he heard his father shout out:
I'm going to get my gun and finish
you right now!"
In the boys pocket was the pistol.
He remembered the injunction of his
older sister, Mrs. Frederick Prestler,
who had gone out for the evening, as
she gave it to him: Keep this al
ways by you, for you will need it to
protect your mother. Don't be afraid
to use it if father attacks her again in
one of his jealous RACES"
Three steps at a time the lad
dashed downstairs. AS he ran into
the room his mother fell upon him.
Theodore, Theodore!" she screamed,
save me. save me-"
She flung her arms around him. He
put one arm around her and faced his
father, who came charging on at the
two of them.
I'll kill you BOTH" yelled the man.
Shoot, shoot, if you must; save
our lives!" screamed Mrs. Eiler.
For an ancwer Theodore leveled the
pistol at his father more quickly than
it takes to tell it. The man never
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place in courts or general literature,
was desirable on political grounds. In
Europe, French, English, German,
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian,
Turkish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish
were the only languages recognized as
European, either in an official or liter
airy sense. The last five were almost
unknown outside of their own lands,
and even then they were nearly with
out literary use. French was the uni
versal language of diplomacy and of
the educated classes everywhere in
conversation.
In Hungary and in Poland, even be-
fore the loss of independence, Latin
was the official language of public
business and law and German or
French that of conversation for the
educated classes. The national
tongues in both those countries had
position not unlike that of Irish in Ire
land during the eighteenth century.
Conditions were similar with the old
national languages of the various
states of the Austrian dominions, of
the Christian races in Turkey, and
even of Belgium and Norway"
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1lfs victim and ran for the door.
Twice again the boy fired. This time
he hit his father twice IN the back of
the head. The man fell in his tracks.
A policeman heard the shots and
came running up.
i've killed my father" said Con-
stantin, coolly. Il want you to ar
rest me. 1 had to do it to save my
mothers life."
The mother implored the police not
to arrest her son, but law is law, and
he had to go to the station house.
The son, knowing the choice he had
made, was perfectly cool.
II knew I would have to XIII my
father some day." he said. HE has
always been saying he would kill my
mother, and I am glad it Is over now"
In Beaverton, Miss, it was only q
little boy who stood between his moth
er and his Infatuated father. Frank
Mullins was whipping one of his chill
dren numerically, when the mother
interefered.
Curse you!" cried the husband and
father. 'Ill kill you if you don't let
me alone"
The mother stepped between the
child and her Infatuated husband. He
struck her and knocked her down,
kicking her face as he did it. Their
ten-year-old boy saw it all from across
the yard, and, running into the house,
got rifle and leveled 1t from behind
the woodpile and shot his father dead
But he saved his mothers life.
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See Future Profitable Industry.

The bureau of science, Manila, has
published bulletin by Warren D.
Smith, chief of the division of geology
and mines, and members of that staff,
on the mineral resources of the islands
and their product in 1907. 1t is be-
lieved that a sure, profitable and
steady mining industry may in time
be built up in the colony, but this re-
port shows that little more than a be-
ginning has yet been made.
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BY loving whatever is lovable in
from them to us; and life will become
a pleasure instead of pain.-Dean
Stanley.
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G0sMSA

Eyes, am going to quit baseball"
said Willie Keller, with grin, when
interviewed on the subject the other
day. But it won't be until the wrin-
kles choke me to death" Bill thinks
this talk about the brawny heroes of
the diamond quitting the game the one
best joke. you never heard of one Of
them quitting until they cut the uni
form off of him, did you? Well, that's
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Just in Time to Save Mother.

The boy wriggled away from his
fathers clutches-the man was too
busy holding his wife by her hair-and
ran into the bedroom, where he knew
his father kept loaded revolver I'M
der the pillow. Constantin got back
into the dining-room just in time to
see his father about to slash his moth
er across the throat with his stiletto.
He fired twice, as quickly as he
could. Both bullets hit the would-be
murderer in the left side. He dropped
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Ordered Son to Kill Father.

Frederick Cramer, his wife and
their children lived at Page, South Da.
kota Husband and wife had domestic
differences and it was agreed that he
should have the first floor of their
home and she and her sons the second
| floor.
One night Cramer came home in an
ugly mood and tried to break into the
| second floor of the house. Mrs. Ora
mer barricaded the downstairs door,
but her husband broke it down.
'I'll settle you!" he cried, pluEging
| up the stairs. Mrs Cramer ran and
got her loaded revolver. She leveled
i it down the stairs, but her hand trem-
| bled so that she could not aim.
Take this and shoot him." she said
! to her oldest son, Arthur, a boy Of
16, handing him the pistol. I'm too
| nervous to hold it."
The boy obeyed only~too we'll One
| shot was fatal.
Il only did what my mother told
me- he said, land that was to save
| her life from my father"
Ezekiel Gregory, an old farmer, of
Davidson, N. c., didn't like the hours
of his son, David He told him that
he ought to rise earlier. He killed his
| father with an ak and escaped
John and James Randall, IA and Is
years old, of Marshall, N c., found
their mother murdered, as they be-
lieved, by their father They hurried
for their rifles, and one of the boys
wanted to kill him then and there
when they found him.
| NO" said the other, "let's keep him
| guarded here until we can get the po-
lice"
J So while one held his loaded rife
against his fathers temple the other
| telegraphed for constable. Hour aft
er hour they kept their grim vigil, and
when the constable came they turned
over their prisoner-their father-to
| the tender mercies of the. law.
Randall had driven his wife from
their home. She sought refuge with
| friends, and he came for her. Reluc-
family she went back with him. Later
Mrs. Randall was found by her sons
dead in the road, with her hehd
| crushed in. So they hunted down their
| father and, after finding him, kept
guard until he was safe in Jail.
Not one son in million is called
| upon to do as these sons and daugll-
tiers have had to do. Few have to
make such choice. But when the call
| is made what shall it be-
Father or mother New York
| World
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Use Aliens Foot.Ease
Cures tired aching sweating feet 25c Trial packag
free. A 3. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
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umnortant 70 Mothers.

CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
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Forced His Way Into House.


Wasser hung around the home and
more than once he tried to get in He
was arrested, but each time got free
on some plea Or another. This made
him holder STILL On the fatal morn
ing he knocked at the door of the fiat
and demanded admission.
IF you don't let me in I'll kill you
and all the brats!" he yelled.
There was no answer. He broke
down the door. Mrs. Wasser stood
facing him. There was fire in her eye
and decision in her voice.
I'll never take you back, George
Wasser," she said, firmly.
This was her death warrant.
Well sneered Wasser, you'll
never telephone for the police again"
Mrs. Wasser started to run. Was
ser pulled revolver out of his
pocket Before his wife had taken
two steps he fired. The bullet struck
the poor woman in the breast. She
fell to the floor with her clothing
ablaze, so close was the range. Mrs.
Langlotz and little Annie were in a
rear room. They rushed out just in
time to see their mother fall Re-
Numbering the revolver her mother
kept in the bureau drawer, Annie ran
and got it. Quick as flash she
handed it to Mrs. Langlotz. Just then
Wasser was raising his weapon to
shoot again at his helpless wife.
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Nothing prospers like q frenzied
fnancier-for a time.
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That once fellow wins a girls
hand he Is under her thumb?
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Daughters Aim Deadly.

AiTn DCdOly.
His daughter fired first. The bullet
grazed his face. Wasser returned the
shot, but he missed, though they were
but II feet apart. Then the daughter
fired again and both emptied their re-
volvers. Every shot of Wasser's
missed, but the daughters last shot
found its mark. 1t made an ugly
hole in the mans forehead and he
sank to the floor with a groan. Then
the young widow dropped her revolver
and fell in faint after the duel with
her father.
The police came in; the two
wounded persons were taken to the
hospital. The wife died in the after
noon at three o'clock; the husband an
hour later. The daughter was ar
rested, only to be freed next day.
'She wasn't murderess," said one
of the coroner's jury. "She was a
heroine!"
And for all that, facing her fathers
loaded revolver, firing shot for shot,
the young widow hadn't been able to
save her dear mothers life. But she
had made her choice between the two,
and she did the best she could
Constantin Pellegrino, barely II
years old, had hardly as much time to
make up his mind whether he should
see his mother stabbed to death or
kill his father.
The family lived at No. 1913 East
Twenty-third street, Brooklyn. The
father, Anselmo, came home one eve-
ming crazed with drink. He attacked
his wife and began to drag her
around by her hair. The boy sprang
to his mothers aid and the father
knocked him to the floor.
'Now I'm going to kill you BOTH"
yelled Pellegrino, drawing a knife.
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"stop!" yelled Frank. as his mother
cousorad IN tho f100r $3.50.

Stop" yelled Frank, as his mother
covered to the floor.
On came the father. The boy, with
out another word, drew a revolver
from his pocket, and as his father
struck out at his mother, fired one
shot 1t hit the frenzied man in the
jaw, ranged upward and lodged be-
hind the right eye. Peterson dropped
1--we shot N.Y. father .becauseshe was
going to strike my MOTHER" said
Frank, running into the house of DR..
A. G. Lopez. go to him, quick!"
Then the boy went to the home of
the chief of the chief of police and
gave himself up. He was put in the
village jail The mother and the chill
dren corroborated Frank in all he
said. The father was hurried to a
hospital.
Mrs. Madeline Langlotz had even
a harder task set before her than these
boys. She saw her father, George
Wasser, shoot her mother down in
their fiat at 205S Third avenue,
where Mrs. Langlotz, a widow, was
living with her mother The daugh-
ter had to make her choice only too
quickly.
He was a beast" she declared, We
hemently. I'm glad shot him. He
shot my mother, the best woman that
ever lived. When l saw her fall 1
fired at the man the best l knew how
and I'm glad one of the bullets hit
him-my father!"
The Wassers, husband and wife, had
separated. When Mrs. Langlotz' hus-
band died she went back to live with
her mother and her little sisters.
Three years ago the man came into
the little home and attacked little An
ME, one of his daughters. He was ar
rested, but nothing came of the case.
This made him bold
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, Els, l shot my father; I
hoped to kill him." sobbed
the boy as he bowed his
head in his hands, sitting
there in his cell. Il had to
do Ii to save my nnthpr'S
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The Jenny Wrens meet Tuesdays
after school at the parsonage They
are making articles for their booth at
tie fair.
A review of Pilgrims Progress in
picture, with lantern and slides will
be given at the church this Friday
evening at o'clock. Admission
free with freewill offering, church
benefit.
Choir rehearsal Saturday at 80 p.
m. Rehearsal of special music for
Thanksgiving Sunday morning and
evening"
On Thanksgiving day, the 26th,
there will be services at the Episcopal
church at 10 a. m. Sermon by Rev
F. j. Long and special music.
The tri-monthly union meeting of
the B. Y p u. and the Y p S. C..
E. last Sunday evening at the church
was the largest yet held the vestry
being full and the meeting was very
interesting