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seasoned and philosophical religious man
like Mgr. Lavelle is going to stand in the
way, all conditions being proper and
right, of d wholesome marriage between
a couple of wholesome young folks.
Then the boy and his wife hoped into
the buzz buggy and went to the parental
roof. The young fellow was prepared to
get Old Hob and then some more from
paw But he was willing to take
chance on that. All he wanted to do was
TO give paw a peek at that Yonkers girl
The old boy was in his library wonder
ing where the youngster was, when the
latter walked in with his bride on his
arm. Business of quick introduction.
Business also of young man ducking, as
if he expected the old boy to toss an
armful of books at him. Business.
similarly. of the old man looking the
Yonkers girl over shrewdly. with his hands
thrust deep in his pockets and all like
that Finally the old man grinned.
We'll guv' 'nOr?" the boy said then. not
knowing just how to interpret the grin.
The old boy sat down at his desk pulled
a check book from drawer and scrlb-
bled check on the leading bank of New
York for $4,000.
Here you are, son. said the guv'nor.
handing the boy the check. you take
that little wife of yours off on a wedding
trip around the world; and don't come
back till you've blown the amount of that
check in There's lots more where that
comes from. When you get back, I'll
find out whether you two want to live in
a house by yourselves or not If you do,
why, I'll see that you get the house. But
if you make up your minds that you'd as
lief live here with the old man around
the place after Office hours. why, that
'ud suit me better. On your way. now.
the pair of you, and have the time of
your lives You're both all right and
I'm for you with every dollar I've got as
long as I'm on top of the ground"
Then he lifted the little wife in his
arms handed her an oldfashioned buss,
set her down, and things were all right,
thanks.
1t sure looks as if folks are going to
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Miss Peekaboo's wedding that would sim

MISS feekdDOO = wedding lldl NOulu SiiIl-
ply knock em all silly.
mo, nothing of that sort. Spoons are
so common nowadays. And as for dia-
mond necklace. who would be so vulgar?
silver mirror is raWther nice. But, no!
/ have always made 1t a rule to send
something unique. Dear. dear! If only
could communicate with my own silver
smith in the Roo dez Fourfush in Paree.
he would know right away what to make
up especially for me. Yes, and he nevah
uses the designs for any one else.
why, there's a very clevah little thing.
Let me see one. I declayah, it strikes
me that perhaps you are up-to-date and
exclusive, awftah ALL" (See her as she
trains the lorgnette on the little creation
of silveT.)
Put up a dozen in silk box, with the
initials A. F.. p They stand for Amourice
F'illetant Peekaboo. you know. of the old
Huguenot Peekaboos. Her great-great-
grandfather was killed in the battle OF
Filet de Sole-somebody shot him in the
back with q macaroOn gun. Oh, dread
fully aristocratic. And I just know they
would like these little things And more
slush-and more.
And what d. ye think she'd sent EN-?
You couldn't guess in forty thousand
years.
Well, it did knock 'em all silly. And L
guess the Peekaboo family is wondering
whether or not the lorgnetted lady is a
member of Theodore's Anti-Race Suicide
Club: for the dozen little delicious Gre
ations she'd sent 'em were twelve silver
food puShers-for use by two-year-old
children who can't connect between the
oatmeal porridge and the mouth without
assistance.
of dope. l fain would think Of another.
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get reasonable around here and else
where after "A while
Q OCIETY, even that more or less in
- vertebrate part of il that's been
dubbed the Four Hundred. knows how
to take its little revenges, all right.
Remember how, only short while ago.
Ethel Barrymore was the one stage
fgurante who was received every
where in New York's most kazuzz and
niftyr;no circles? Yes they were lioniz
ing Ethel in New York society only a
little while ago. But Ethel, in a moment
OF incauion or something, got some re-
marks out of her system with reference
to the "fiightiness'' and the ''mediocrity"
and so on of New York's Four Hundred.
Twas a sore bad break for the clever
little girl to make. But she made II.
indubita ably, and after it was made there
was no chance for her to withdraw the
knocks" although she did claim that
she was misQuoted.
Her claiming did no good, however.
Society now has dropped Miss Barry
more. Her fling. it appears, in the gllded
salons and things is all over. Even the
Four Hundred people, calloused as many
of them have become to criticism, don't
like to get the goad from people who
are, to certain extent. the benehciaries
of their largesse. And SO Miss Ethel
now is back strictly in the domain or
her idoized profession. Society has
taken up, instead, Miss Billie Burke. the
young actress who achieved such
triumph here at the outset OF the season
in Love Watches" Miss Burke used
to live in Washington. Perhaps she
learned the charm of silence and things
down there. Anyhow, she won't be in
fol social
She is not going to make the Barrymore
mistake Wherefore she'll stick in
society for a long, long time 40 come.
mayhap CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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scan'alous conduct shocked the smugger
members OF the expedition. After alls
said and done. though, is there any sense
going a-steamering on the rolling deep if
a feller is TO be barred from having any
fun?
Here's Washingtonian who went down
to New Orleans from New York last fall,
when the steamer was jammed with rae
ing folk bound for the opening of the rae
ing season in the Crescent city. Must
have been some orful doings on that
cruise too. to hear him narrate the log.
When the steamer reached New Or
leans" says this Washingtonian, who
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standing the profundities of the Hammer
stein makeup.
Did I write those letters?'' said Mr..
Hammerstein, repeating the question put
to him. Certainly l wrote them. Wrote
all of 'em. Pretty good letters. don
you think? Have you any criticisms to
make of those letters, considering 'em
strictly as love letters. if L do say so as
them to be just as dandy Il little love
letterist as there is anywhere. Why
shouldn't / have written those love letters,
eh? l am a man of temperament. of i'm
pulse. That being the case. l wrote those
letters. and at the time OF writing them
l believed every line and every word of
them That's all. You can say, un-
uualifedly, that I wrote the letters, and
you can either let it go at that or You
can go ahead and spin the story out. But
YOU needn't toss out the impression that
l crawfished when asked about those
heart interest documents, because that
would be a msstatement / don't craw-
fish / stand pat. All right. Good
afternoon"
It was refreshing, really. No denials.
No fannings of the atmosphere and wall
ings that the publication of the letters
would roo-in him, or anything of that
kind. Just a plain, out-and-out acknowl-
edgment that he'd written 'em, which eff
fectually took the wind out of the sails or
the Young woman who confidently expect
ed that the letters ought to be able to
wiring one hundred thousand bucks. or
some compromise sum. from the anguish
ed and a-skeeart soul of the impresarlo.
After all, why hasn't Oscar got the
right end Of it, and why shouldn't a man
write love letters If so be as how he
wants to, and why should he curdle and
shrivel and scroonch all up II the reclp-
lent Of the love lette ., at a later and
more coolsome time, 4ecides that she'll
just publish them. Pc ,ers. so there now,
Jack Dalton?
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hearings on the subject. and the present
outlook is that no anti-skyscraper ordi-
nance will be approved. Nevertheless, the
projectors of skyscrapers are not taxing
any chances. They are filing the plans OF
their skyscrapers before they stand a
chance to be shut out by any possible
anti-skyscraper measure. so that the COM
ing year probably will see the greatest
number of skyscrapers go up since the
era of the cloud-piercers set in.
:: *
TT must be given to that O. Hammer
i stein, impresario. Oscar not only i'm
presarios up to the handle, but he can
philosophize I'D to the hilt and beyond If
necessary.
A little while ago a young woman
singer in whom Mr.. Hammerstein took
quite an unusual interest a few years ago
became miffed with the impresario be-
cause he couldn't possibly attach her
to his operatic organization as a star.
Thus peeved, the young woman entered
suit against Oscar for trif1lng little
matter of. 100000. On top of that. she
gave to the newspapers stack OF letters
which the impresario had written to her
at the period when his interest In her
was at its zenith. SO TO speak.
To say that these letters were perfervid
is merely piff1ing with the question. They
were as chlie con carne mlsSiVeS as ever
dibbled from the pen of an Abelard or a
Petrarch. 1t seemed curious to think
that so hustling, energetic and more or
less blase business man as Oscar Ham
merstein could have written such bunch
of letters to anybody within so short a
space of time as three years, when most
of them were penned.
With this in mind. the newspaper folk
rushed to Oscar to ask him about those
letters They were prepared either to be
wholly famed or to have to give ear to a
heated series of denials that the alleged
author had ever even heard of the letters,
much less written them.
But they reckoned without fully under
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the other day. when the SiXticth anniVer-
sary of the clutching of the sccpter by
Emperor Franz Joseph was celebrate ed
by a mass at ST. Patrck's Church. most
of these light -witted. larse-headed peo-
pie turned out.
One of them was standing around on
one log. looking as wise a cream
puff and ornamental as Il clothes
prop. when a young man from The Star,
who. being temporarily detailed from the
neurotic atmosphere OF the Police Court
To this aggregation of Eold-laced celebrt-
ties, was not as familiar with their old
world names as lie might have been,
stepped up to him.
will you kindly tell me how 10 spell
the name of your ambassador" he said
as polite basket of chips. Il am not
certain | have it right
Did the animated pinhead tell him.
Was he polite? Did he act like mcm-
her of the human race? No, Never,
lie did not.!, He looked the reporter
over from head 10 foot with one of those
she swept him with her scornful lamps
clances and then he deliberately turned
away and spoke over his shoulder.
.'Rully.' said he, or words to that ef-
feet, tbs al wonder these newspapers
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stances. The mother had spent twenty
years as continuous back and forth pas
senger on the Atlantic liners. The two
women were from a little land-locked VIII
lage in Iowa.
The circumstances of these two cases
occasioned a good deal of comment and
speculation. The cases were unusual,
however. only in the fact that two per-
sons of the same family had successfully
been seized by the sea voyasing passion
and that both women had died at sea.
There are plently of persons of means and
leisure who spend If not all at least the
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why, / lust sit up and lauGh about It. tt
was eastern puIlin' down the shades be-
fore turnin in.
Happened on a sleepin' car in broad
daylight. | was blowin out q Pittsburs
10 spend the holidays in New York with
the push. / had cleaned up three tidy
Jobs in Burg and had nothin' but rocks.
So | gets me a doZe bunk in the roller at
Burg and starts FIR the big town without
ever idee in me bean that I'd De on an
other lob till after the holidays.
Didn't even take d sidelong peek at
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GATHER round me, children. Get your
~ old uncle his slumber socks and his
velvet cap, and pull up the old armchair.
Now that Uncle Pooley is out of Jail
again he will tell you the story of the
lorgnetted lady and the silver-plated
Northumberland it is true story.
For the lorgnetted lady was hot
tamale of the most elegant variety. She
was one of those who ran to the esthetic,
don't You know. and cultivated the odd
She wanted to be Il sulphide, a Bohemian,
and took great delight in talking about
artists. All she knew of art was that a
man named Whistler was a good stool
TO ring in during any conversation on
ing rooms and salons (note to proof
reader: One 90 please. Somebody had
told her once that :, hiStler lived in the
second story of a certain gin mill on +,
street: and she always dragged this sole
bit of biographical knowledge into the
light, with wise look into the lorgnette,
whenever she wished to make a hit.
Truly great man, he was she'd
sigh Who would think when walking
by that humble home of his on r street
Oh, don't YOU know he lived right down
there in that very, er. ah, well to say
the least it's not a fashionable neighbor-
hood thought EVERYBODY knew
about Whistler" And lot more out of
the same package, when to tell the truth
if she had seen a Whistler picture she
wouldn't have known IT from a smudge
of color in Il frying pan.
Lady Wiseguy wandered into the jew
elry store, trailing her directoire in the
dust and VowinS to send something 10
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LOT h a s b e e n
printed about the
whopping cruise
those automobile
fellows had who
chartered a steam
er to take them
down to Savannah
for the automobile
races. 1t appears
that there were u
good many clips in
the party whose
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OF long ago a well
to do WON d II
whose passion for
the sea had induced
her to become q
permanent passen-
ger on one of the
big Atlantic liners
died on board that
steamer. . d d | y
enough, her mother
had died in exactly
Similar circum-
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1 L. IL Il - d 4ON VI
talk about SKY
scrapers here these
days. y munlclpal
commission is con-
sidering whether
an ordinance shall
be promulgated
limiting the height
of buildings. OF
course the ordi-
nance in contem-
plation would abol-
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IR friend. the re-
tired second story
man. was chuck
ling softly to him
S @ | f. Naturally
we inquired why.
And so he told us.
Il get to GurSliu'
every time l think
of what Il snap
that was he told
us. Even when [
wake up nights,
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suds In a pitcher when she's home and
who wastes those melting glances on a
lot of softy. softly guys like me just to egg
'em on to eating a dollars worth of grub
that is no good and which is enough to
poison one.
And all the good the whole business did
me was to send me hot foot to a pepsin
works where l bought eighteen barrels of
digestion tablOids.
A prominent MEMBER of the House Of
Representatives was commenting the
other day on the recent order issued by
President Roosevelt placing some 1900
fourth-class postmasters in the east under
the protection OF the civil service UNI
brella.
why" said he '"tis most amusing
that some folks seem to think we have
been terribly outraged by that order
Fact is. we're all tickled to death. There
are. of course. some members of Congress
whose election to and retention in the
House can be aScribed directly to the
power of their patronage-fed machines.
Take away that patronage and it may
be that they won't have the ghost of Il
show on their own merits
But most of us. certainly those of
us to whom trouble has come in punches
out of all proportion to the Importance
of the Subject-aS a result of SquabbleS
and heart burnings and dissensions over
fourth-class postmaStership patronage
are tickled to death that the civil service
has gobbled 'em all up Don't let anybody
tell you differently. 1t won't be straight
talk
=
ISN'T it great the way enlightenment and
1 progress has settled in our midst
Who wears red flannel underwear now
adays. except grandpa and those mis-
guided folk who consider it a cure fol-
rheumatism"
Once upon a time men climbed into red
flannel underwear with the same re-
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HERE seems TO be

HERE seems TO be
an excessive pro-
portion of pinheads
in the diplomatic
corps, not amCnG
the headlinerS. be
ii said. but in the
ranks of the ump-
teenth secretaries
and tlre second as
siStant naval at
taches. and all that
sort of thing. Just
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over here don't employ persons who can
spell
am reliably Informed that the
only thing that saved the aforesaid pin
head from having his aristocratic nose
bent into the form of a figure eight was
the fact that the incident occurred in
church.
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signed regularity with which they took
sarsaparilla in the spring and went 10
the mountains or the seashere in the sum
mer. They scratched and fidgeted and
swore and perspired and were horribly
uncomfortable, but they knew If they
didn't wear red flannel they'd catch up
with pneumonia or bolts or foot and
mouth disease or something else that
would make EN- sicken and die and look
natural.
OF course red flannel has its uses. 1t is
an excellent thing with which to flag a
train when there's a COW on the track
and no hellup near and II has medicinal
and astringent qualities that are much
appreciated by goats. But material
for the protection of the body during the
winter months ii has had its day.
Nowadays a great many men have come
around to the belief that the lighteSt
kind of stuff is the best thing for winter
and summer wear in this climate. and
most of them wear it cut off at the elbows
and the knees. Consequently. influenza
which once dwelt in our midst from late
fall till early spring. is backed in a cor
ner. groggy and ready to take the count
The same people who used to sew them
selves in red flannel every winter also
treated tuberculosis of the lungs by keep
ing the patient in an alright room
heated to the ninety-five mark with a
wood stove burning white oak White
oak was supposed to purify the air and
make IL III loT Il SICK peTSou u
If the patient ever got near an open win
dow the family used to throw up Its
hands and open negotiations with fash
ionable undertaken.
Is for the uplift
x
1t was to be expected that the wild
things that some members of the House
of Representatives were reported in the
newspapers as having said about Speaker
Cannon and the rules of the House should
become wonderfully tame as the day Of
the convening of Congress approaches.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
NEW YORK, December 4,
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n NE and the waitress lady!

4vA | wanted but a bite to eat, mere
trif1e of sustenance. just enough to plug
a pin hole of hunger that lurked beneath
my sylph-like waist, so into a lunch
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get reasonable around here and els,
where after "A while.
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IVES, and otherl>manifestations of the
fact that PEI we are rapidly ap-
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09

WOULD CHECK ANARCHY
President Roosevelt Sends Special
Message to Congress Urging
Laws Against Anarchy.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Washington, D. c., April 9.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, in a special message
sent to congress today, recommended
some stringent legislation looking to
the suppression of anarchy, particu-
larly in the dissemination of an
archistic literature. The president
holds that the statutes gives the pres
ident power to prohibit the use of the
mails for the advocacy of murder, ar
son, and treason, and says he will
act. But he insists that there should
be further legislation along this line.
He said no paper published in this
country or in foreign countries should
be permitted circulation in the mails
if it propagates anarchistic opinions.
Attorney General Bonaparte's letter,
reviewing the existing statutes with
reference to the use of the mails, ac-
companies the presidents message.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
Conductor BarefieId Home.

Conductor and Mrs Sam Barefield
arrived home this morning from Hot
Springs, where they spent the past
month recreating. Mr. Barefield went
after rest and to recuperate his health,
and returns home in perfect health.
He says he never felt better in his
life, and this will be good news to
his host of friends
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
SASSY TO THE GOVERNOR
Hughes Sent Special Message to Leg
islature Urging Passage of the
Anti-GambIing. Bill.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Albany, N. Y, April 9.-Governor
Hughes today sent a special message
to the legislature urging upon that
body the necessity of passing the anti
race track gambling bill. Senator
Grady, in answer to the message,
made bitter attack on the governor,
saying he was becoming common
scold. Senator McCarren charged
the message with being an insult to
the senate, and urged the senate to
send it back to the governor with the
advice to attend to his own business.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
NEGROES WERE WHIPPED
For Attempting Assault on Small
Girl-Mob Did Not Lynch Them.
The Girl Escaped.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Memphis, Tenn, April 9.-George
Jones and Hugh Bransfield, negroes,
attempted to assault Fannie Hamilton,
a fourteen-year-old girl at Dyrsburg,
but the girl made her escape. The
negroes were captured later by citi-
zens, but were not lynched. They
were stripped and given severe beat
ing. Bransfield threatened to have
his friends burn the town.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
Whitmans Making Good.

The Whitman Comedians continue
to make good at the Temple opera
house, and good crowds are greeting
them nightly. The company will APP
pear every night this week, and Satur-
day matinee.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
CUBAN POLITICS WARM
Conservatives and Gomez Factions
Combine-Liberals Refuse to
Unite With Factions.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Havana, Cuba, April 9.-The con-
seryatives and the Gomez faction of
the liberal marty haze united n ute1n
Cuban candidates for the principal
governorships to which Magoon ap-
pointed American officers recently,
pending a settlement of the dispute
which is rending the island. Zayas
wing of the liberals refuse to compro-
mise. Magoon insists on retaining the
Americans in office unless all parties
combine
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
ST. LOUIS BANK CLOSED.
Olive Street Bank, Capital 100000
Closed BY Bank Examiner.
Snecial to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
St Louis, Mo-, April 9.-The Olive
Street Bank, with capital stock of
100000, was closed today by the state
bank examiner The examiner says
he will make statement concerning
the bank later.
nGse has,..s Aennsits amount to $780,
600. Bad loans are said to be respon-
sible for the closing.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
Youth Pleaded Guilty.

Special to the Herald.
Anderson, Ind, April 9-Grover
Blake, the youth who recently murder
ed his mother for the purpose of rob-
berry, today entered plea of guilty to
first degree murder Sentence was
deferred by the court Young Blake
killed his mother by hitting her in the
head with hammer He wanted
spending money.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
EIGHT HUNDRED STOLEN
Pacific Express Company Office at
Plano, Texas, Was Robbed-No
Clue to the Robbers.

Special to the Herald.
Dallas, Texas, April Eight hun
bred dollars in money, en- route from
the treasury department at Washing
ton to the Farmers and Merchants
National Bank at Plano, was stolen
from the safe of the Pacific Express
company office at Plano.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-09
THE KENTUCKY LOTTERY
Entered a Plea of Guilty on Charge
of Violating Federal Law, and
Will Pay Fine and Quit.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Covington, KY, April 9.-The Ken.
lucky Lottery, after entering plea
of guilty to the indictment charging
it with violating the federal laws, in
the federal court here today, was fined
s25,700. The lottery also agreed to
go out of business forever.
Seven men were indicted and fined
in connection with the lottery.