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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06
CHAPTER XIx.-Continued.

At this Eppner gave a blast like a
cornet, and, waving his arms fran
tically plunged into a small-sized riot.
I had entrusted him with 5000 shares
of Crown and Diamond to be sold for
the best price possible, and he was
feeding the opposition judiciously.
The price wavered for a moment, but
rallied and reached 66.
At this I signaled to Wallbridge,
and with another below he started
an opposition riot on the other side
of the room from Eppner, and fed
Crown Diamond in Jumps to the howl
ing forces of the Decker combination.
The battle was raging ~furiously.
There was a final rally of the Deck
er forces, and the call closed with
Crown Diamond at So. had sold 12,-
900 shares.
| was pleased at the result. Dodd.
ridge Knapp had i%ntrusted me with
the shares with the remark: Il paid
so for 'em and they're not worth a
tinker's dam. l got an inside look at
the mine when / was in Virginia City.
Feed Decker all he'll take at 60. He's
been fooled on the thing, and / reckon
he'll buy a good lot of them at that"
had sold Doddridge Knapp's en-
tire lot of the stock at an average of
over 65, had netted him a profit of
SIS a share, and had, for a second pur-
pose, served the plan of campaign by
drawing the enemy's to the
dofopca IF Croup diamond opd woaI-
ening, by so much, his power Of op-
Grating elsewhere.
By the time Omega was reached I
had the plans full in hand.
The assault on Crown diamond had
caused a rvo feeling all along the
line, and under rumors of a bear raid
there had been a drop Of several
points.
Omega felt the result of the nerv-
BUSINESS and depression, and opened
at rs.
There was a moments buzz-the
quiet of a crowd expectant of great
events. Then Wallbridge charged
into the throng with a oar. l could
not distinguish his words, but !
knew that he was carrying out my
order to drop 5000 shares ON the
market.
At his cry there was an answering
roar, and the scene upon the floor
turned to a riot. How the market
was going l could only guess. Al
| Wallbridge's onset l saw Lattimel
and Eppner make a dive for him and
then separate, following other shout
ing, screaming madmsn who %piroutted
about the floor and tried to save
themselves from a mobbing. l heard
10 shouted from one direction, but
could not make out whether it set the
price of the stock or not. The dir
Twas too confusing for me to follow
the course of events.
At last Wallbridge staggered up to
the rail, flushed, collarless, and pant
ing for breath, with his hat a hope
less wrecS.
4 sold down to ~71-averaging 73,
iguess--And she's piling in fit to breai
the floor" he gasped.
did Lattimer and Eppner get YOU
stock?" l could not help asking.
They got about 5000 of i. Rosen
helm got the rest"
/ remembered Rosenhem, as thu
agent of Decker, and sighed. But Lat
timer and Eppner were busy. and
had hopes.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

Pennsylvania Railroad Company me-
chanics have lately equaled the in
genuity of the automobile owner who
lacked up his car and used the motor
to run a circular saw. They have
equipped II locomotives in the Pitts
burg yards with hose and pumping
machinery so that they may be used
as fire engines. A system of signals
has been arranged for calling the en-
zines in case of need.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06
Savauery In Civilization.

It is no time to say that man can
not, in civilized society, be guilty Of
cannabilism. l tell you there are
more cannibals in New York than 10
the isles of the Pacific; and II to-day
you were suddenly to take away the
support that comes from eating men
there would be thousands and thou
sands OF empty maws tomorrow IN
hat city.-Henry Ward Beecher.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

or we won't have 'em at ALL" growled
Doddridge Knapp.
"How's that?"
You seem to have forgotten, young
man, that the stock transfer books of
the Omega Company close on Monday
at 2 O'clock" he said as the door
closed behind him.
AS l had never heard this interest
ing piece of information before. l
could not in strictness be said to have
forgotten 1t.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

This years Senior wranglership" at
the University Of Cambridge, England,
gave great honors to a young Russian
lew. The result of the mathematical
tripos" shows that Selig Brodetsky,
whose father had sought an asylum in
England from Russian oppression, had
been bracketed with Mr.. Ibbotson,
scholar of Pembroke, for the coveted
British blue riband of mathematics.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

Tow. was examined again and again
and treated to no avail, and kept get
ting worse. 1 have to praise Doan's
Kidney Pills for my final relief and
cure. Since using them have gained
In strength and flesh and have no sign
of kidney trouble"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

A Gotham ex-multl-millionaire and
king of Wall street, after having won
and lost two fortunes, is now working
on a salary. This fairly illustrates the
ups and downs of speculation, except
that all ex-speculator kings are not
lucky enough to get the salary job.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

The latest explosion on a French
armored cruiser again demonstrates
the tremendous efficiency of the war
ships of France in wrecking them
selves and killing off their own crews.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

Now 1t is announced that locomotor
ataxia is durable. The science of the
twentieth century is evidently going to
be experimenting.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

Count Zeppelin now has half a mil
Hon dollars at his disposal for airship
experiments. The recent destruction
'f his apparatus proved a good adver-
lisement after all.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

A French countess, noted as a hun
ter of big game, has been lost in the
wilds of Africa. 1t is to be hoped
that the lions she started out to find
did not finG her sweet enough to eat.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

A mar in New York has sued his
wife for divorce on the ground that
she gives him either raw or burned
steak, and that this constitutes cruel
and inhuman treatment. Which prac-
:ically indorses the contemptuous view
Of the masculine sex in the recipe
given at a club meeting to make a
husband happy: Feed the brute"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

BY performing a few more deeds OF
heroism during the next six months
Kermit may succeed in making his
own stories from Africa worth one or
two dollars a word.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

To do away with public love-making
a western town has passed an or
1inance requiring young people to be
at home by nine o'clock. Well, It's
getting dark earlier now, and much
can be done before curfeW.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06
New Method Of Shaft slnklno,

A method of shaft sinking has been
tried in France in which cement
slurry is forced through boreholes In
to soft assured strata in order TO form
a wall Of concrete within which stink
Ing can be performed.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

Some correspondence school could
make a hit by %instituting a course in
what letters to burn and what not to
write.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

If Alfred Austin possessed a sense
IT humor he might have a great deal
Df fun reading his own works.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

Something ought to be done to en-
courage the languishing umbrella in
iustry, too.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

The Vienna Academy of Sciences
has spent nearly $4,000 in working ten
ons Of uranium ore for radium.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

He is a wise letter writer who
Knows what not to say.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

i've years ago with
dull b~ackache, which
got so severe in lime
that I could not get
around. The kid
ney secretions be-
came badly disor.
dered, and at times
there was almost a
complete stop OF the
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06
NOTHING LASTS IN THIS WORLD

The Girl-Oh, Jimmy, how / wish
this could go on forever.
Jimmy-Well, I'm afraid it won't
I've an idea dat barb wire fence ahead
of us II stop us.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06

Funny, isn't 1t, that what turns the
leaves red leaves us blue?
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-11-06
KEPT T WORSE.
Five Years Of Awful Kidney Disease

Nat Anderson, Greenwood, s. c..
says: Kidney trouble began about
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
Tho Turret Battery

Early in the nineteenth century, in
1872, Colonel John Stevens conceived
the idea of the construction of an iron
plated vessel Of war with saucer
shaped hull, propelled by screws SO ar
ranged as to give rotary motion to
the structure. The battery was to be
of the heaviest ordnance Of the time
and the plating heavy enough to resist
the shot of similar guns at short range.
The main purpose of the craft was
harbor defense, and the plan of action
was to moor the vessel by chain
leading down through the bottom Of
the ship at Its center and to spin 1t
around this center, firing gun after gun
as 1t came in the line of fire, thus an
ticipating the later Timby turret, which
In turn was the germ of the modern
monitor armOrclad. Such vessel was
actually built half a century later by
the Russian government and was a
good representative of the first Stevens
battery.-C Casters Magazine.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
A TRAGIC EXPERIMENT.
How Husband Tried to Cure His
Wife's Fear of Pvthons.

Concerning pythons. the following is
true story: A young lady in England
for long time resisted her lovers en-
treaties to so out to India with him as
his wife. She had horror of the wild
animals she believed she might ell
counter there, especially serpents. AT
length. however. after lie had issued a
sort of ultimatum. she consented to ac-
company him. She did not. however,
leave her fears behind her and lived in
constant terror of some day meeting
what she so intensely feared Her hus-
band did his best to laugh her fears
away. but without avail. Then he re-
solved to try more drastic means.
A huge python was killed in the
neighborhood of his bungalow With
out telling his wife anything about it.
he ordered the reptile to he brought
into the drawing room and coiled up
as IL asleep on the hearth rug. Then
he went out and called his wife, telling
her to go into the drawing room and
that he would join her III few min
utes. Soon after he heard dreadful
scream. THAT will cure her of her
faar of sernents." he smiled to himself
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
Tho Majesty Of tho Pyramids.

AS the wonder Of the sphinx takes
possession of you gradually, so grad
ually do you learn to feel the majesty
Of the pyramids of Gizeh, unlike the
step pyramid of Sakkara, which even
when one is near it looks like small
mountain, part Of the land on which it
rests. The pyramids Of Gizeh look
what they are-artiicial excrescences,
invented and carried out by man, ex-
pressions of mans greatness. Exqui-
site as they are as features of the
drowsy golden landscape at the setting
Of the sun, think they look most Won
derful at night when they are black
beneath the stars. On many nights
l have sat in the sand at q distance
and looked at them, and always and in
creasingly they have stirred my imag-
nation. Their profound calm, their
classical simplicity, are greatly empha-
sized when no detail can be seen, when
they are but black shapes towering to
the stars. They seem to inspire then
like prayers prayed by one who has
said, "God does not need my prayers,
but need them"-Robert Kitchens in
Century Magazine.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
THE GHOST OF THE FUTURE
Fear of Coming to Want and tn. Ter
ror Of Failure.

Fear of Coming to Want and the Ter
ror Of Failure.
The terror Of failure and the fear of
coming to want keep multitudes OF
people from obtaining the very things
they desire by sapping their vitality
by incapacitating them through worry
anxiety and fear from the effective
creative work necessary to give them
success.
Wherever we go this fear ghost, this
terror specter stands between men and
their goal. No person Is in position to
do good work while haunted by it
There can be no great courage where
there Is no confidence or assurance
and half the battle is in the conviction
that we can do what we undertake.
The mind, always full of doubts
fears. forebodings, Is not in a position
to do effective, creative work, but is
perpetually handicapped by this unfor
tunate attitude.
Nothing will so completely paralyze
the creative power of the mind and
body as dark, gloomy. discouraged
mental attitude. No great creative
work can be done by man who is not
an optimist.
The human mind cannot accomplish
great work unless the banner of hope
goes in advance. A man will follow
this banner when money, friends. repu
tation, everything else has gone.-Suc
cess Magazine.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
A Statesman. Confessions.

For all his caustic wit Thomas B.
Reed Of Maine was as tender Of heart
as large of frame. He was not much
Of hunter. 81 never shot but one
bird in my life" he once confessed.
II spent whole day doing that. 1t
was a sandpiper. chased him for
hours up and down mill stream.
When at last l potted him and held
him up by one of his poor little legs,
never felt more ashamed Of myself
in all my life. hid him in my coattail
pocket for fear somebody would see
how big was and how small the vic
tim, and l never will be guilty again
Of the cowardice of such an unequal
battle.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
CR0MWELL's BODY.
Conflicting Stories as to II. DISPOSE.
ton After Death.

"What became of Cromwell?" The
question Is vexed one. According to
an ancient tradition Cromwells body
was conveyed away Immediately after
his death in obedience to his last or
ders and was buried on Naseby field,
"where he had obtained the greatest
victory and glory" According to an
other account. Mary, Lady Faucon-
berg, Cromwell's daughter, was able
to convey the body away from its
grave In the abbey and to have it bur
led in her husbands house of New
burg. in Yorkshire, where the tomb.
an impenetrable marble one, is still
shown. Another corpse was substitute.
ed for Cromwell's in the abbey, and II
was this nameless corpse which under.
went the indignities put upon it in
January, 1861, when the putative body
was hanged on the gallows at Tyburn
together with Ireton's and Bradshaw's
while the head was set up on a pole
above Westminster hall.
This head, still transfixed by a spike
which was let through the Uranium by
means of a specially drilled hole, is
now in the possession of Horace Will.
kinson of Sevenoaks. 1t is the head
curiously enough, Of some one whose
body has probably been embalmed, fol
the top of the skull has been sawed of
In order. presumably. to admit of the
removal Of the brains. The body to
which this head belonged was buried
under the gallows of Tyburn. unless
which is probable. the Fauconbergs
obtained the body there and carried II
Off.-LOndon Lancet.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
.HINDoo CASTE MARKS.

The Women Of India Wear Thorn On
the Forehead.
The caste marks worn by women In
India are confined to the forehead and
are more uniform than those affected
by the men.
The orthodox mark invariably worn
on religious and ceremonial occasions
is small saffron spot in the center of
the forehead But the more popular
and fashionable mark Is tiny one
made with gluelike substance, usual
~ Jet black In color, which is obtained
by frying sage till it gets charred and
then boiling 1t in water.
Women who have not reached their
twenties are sometimes partial to the
use of small tinsel disks, purchasable
in the bazaar at the rate of about
half a dozen for pie. To attach
these to the skin, the commonest ma
terial used is the gum of the jack fruit,
quantities Of which will be found stick
ing to wall or pillar in the house,
ready for immediate use.
In the more orthodox families 1t ia
considered Objectionable that the fore
head of woman should remain blank
even for moment, and accordingly II
is permanently marked with tattooed
vertical line. The blister takes some
times fortnight to heal, but the Hin
doc woman, who Is nothing II not a
martyr by temperament and training,
suffers the pain uncomplainingly.-
Madras Mail.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
A Convenient Postum.

An old negro preacher gave as his
text, Ode tree is known by his fruit.
an hit des impossible ter shake de
possum down."
After the benediction an old brother
said to him:
81 never knowed befo' dat such a
text wuz In de Bible"
'Well,' admitted the preacher, chit
amt 'xactly sot down dataways. l
th'owed in de possum ter hit de intel
ligence er my congregational Atlanta
Constitution.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
Its Cost.
Returned Empty,

A mean multimillionaire who suf.
fered terribly from seasickness on hia
way back to New York has, 1t is said,
demanded rebate Off his fare, claim
ing special terms as returned
empty.''-Punch's Almanack.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
A Great Man.

"Father," said little Rollo, "what is
q great man?"
"a great man, my son. is one who
manages to gather about him whole
lot of assistants who will take the
blame for his mistakes While he gets
the credit for their good ideas"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
RAISE SORGHUM.

would notify the farmers that
l will be prepared to make their cane
into sorghum at the old stand. Price
this year Is cents per gallon cash.
15-6t-pd. JAY G. MYERS, Deloit.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15

and purposeIy delayed his entry.
When at last he went into the drawing
room he saw his wife lying dead OH
the floor, and coiled around her was
another huge python. the mate to the
one that lay dead on the hearth rug
st. James Gazette.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
The Retort caustic

Miss misunderstanding costs SO
much nowadays. suppose I'll have
to live palmer. Miss Sharptung- Why,
my dear, you couldn't be any palmer
and live.-LoDdon TELEGRAPH.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
So Chilly.

81 feel" said the Boston girl, "that
have been on earth before in some re-
mote period"
''The glacial, maybe" ventured the
reckless man.-Loulsville Courier-Jour.
nal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15

PROGRAMME.
Crawford County Institute
Seventeenth District w. c. Il. u.
to be held at the N. E. Church
Denisen, Iowa
April 24th and 25th, 1908
Friday. April 24th. $50 A.
Appointment of Committees
Greeting Mrs Aaale Merrill
Response Mrs Alma Prentice, Deo
Aggressive n OF Amendment
Campaign. ..................M Mrs T. e. Pearson
Paper. Mrs. w. T. Huckstep Delo
Conservation Service Mrs T. E Thuresson
Noontide Prayer Announcements
Devotions. Mrs W. B Evans Aron
Interests of Benedict Home " Mrs Georgia W. Mcclellan
Ihs sas,e oa Alcohol ;. n a ssVs
solo-seeced Mrs Lou F Martin
Christian Citizenship for Men and Women in Business
Politics and Society. Miss Margaret Wintringer
T. L. Demonstration. Miss Margaret Wintringer
Friday Evenina p. N.
Devotional Illustration with Tabernacle Rev c.
Canata-"The Man Who Spoiled the Music'-Snging
by church Notwithstanding by. Mrs. Grace
Reading-''How Yawcob became an Honorable Member
.............. Mrs j. B. Romans
Ofering-Benediction
Saturday April 25h. $50 A.
............. Cook Delo
Open Parliament for Quiz Drill in Department
and of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Miss Margaret Wintrnger
Map Illustration of the Wet and 'Dry'' Territory
United .............. E. Fellows
Report of Plans Adopted Business Conference
Chemical Demonstrations of the Effects of Alcohol
Rev. j. Jas DePree
The Most Effective Work Union the Prohib
tory Amendment Campaign Mrs Georgia Mcclellan
Parliamentary Drill Rev.
Noontide Prayer. Announcements
Saturday Afternoon p.
Devotions. Nellie Watson,
Why the I4itlefeld should become La $50. -.
How the Church best Enlist its Membership in
Aggressive Warfare Against the saloon?.....
Observation-Disclosures. Rev Harvey Hosteter
the Church be Strongly Cooperative Against
the Saloon?.. Rev. I. r. Thuresson
sooselected Mrs Allie McConnaughey
Why Women Need the Ballot. Why the State Needs
the Women's Ballot Mrs Della Philips Delot
Observation-Disclosures Mrs Addie Merrill,
tombstone, Mrs. Edna Cook
Negative Mrs. Florence Hope, Mrs. B Romans
Emma Gary.
Practical Methods of Teaching Purity to Children
Discussion 49,. Mrs Sears McHenry, Mrs Gertrude
Mrs j. DeEree.
Relation Liquor M. A. Penney
745 N.
Exercises the opera house the auspices of
the Denison Union.
Devotions. Rev.
Physical Drill by L. T. .Eunce Meyers
Blackboard Lecture Miss Margaret Wintrnger,
SongThe New Marching Through Georgia L. T. L. Children
Offering.
Pres Local Union Mrs. Adde Merrill Denison
Pres Seventeenth District Mrs T. b. Pearson, Denson
Sec'y Jennie Crane Battle Creek
Observation-Disclosures
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-15
Paved With Tomb.tone..

"Not the least noteworthy thing
about the beautiful building" writes
DIR. Sundermann from Mayence to the
Wochenschrift, referring to the cathe-
dral of that place, "is the pavement
This is made with stones ON which
there are Hebrew letters. which aroused
our curiosity. Investigation showed
that the stones at one time marked
graves in the Jewish cemetery and had
been taken thence when there was a
scarcity of building material and used
to pave the cathedral. They have re-
manned there ever since, and some OF
the inscriptions are still in fair state
of preservation"
Its Cost.
A Frenchman. meeting an English
soldier with a Waterloo medal. ami
madverted sneeringly on the govern.
ment for bestowing such trihe, which.
he declared. did not cost 3 francs.
''That is true. to be sure" replied tn,
hero. 1T did not cost the English gov.
eminent quite 3 francs. but it cost this
French Napoleon"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-02-28

almost exclusively; They raise i'm
mense quantities at home; but 1t was
cheaper for them to get wheat from
America than to haul 1t over the Trans
Siberian railroad. 1t would be the same
thing now If the Russians were still
in the country with war preparations
on their hands.
The explanation as to the falling OH
OF the cotton trade Is very much the
same no doubt. Anyhow, they are
making no more cotton in Manchuria
now than they were five years ago.
But suppose the falling off in the
Oriental trade is really due to the at
titude of the government toward Stand
ard Oil and the railroads, is that any
reason why the government should
change it's policy? If the laws OF the
government are just to all the people,
they should be enforced. If they are
not just, they should be repealed.
But to us, it looks as If this article
has deeper purpose than to merely
recite facts, the main province of the
Associated Press, and If the Associated
Press continues to send out stuff like
that we think it will be very we'll for
its patrons to begin making some in
vestigatiOns.