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The Washington times., 1908-05-13
GIRL RISKS LIFE
TO SAVE EMPLOYER

CHICAGO. May ia girl cashier
risked her life yesterday in an effort
10 save her employer from a mad man
When Gerhardt Brunen, twenty-siX
years old, entered the private office OF
Frank Scnmitz. president OF Frank
Schmitz & Sons. manufacturers OF
banana crates. $50 Orleans street. and
demanded SO al the point OF gun.
Miss Lillian Han. nineteen years old,
ran to the telephone BOOTH AS she .ift-
ed the receiver Brunen pointed his re-
volver at her and told her to get away
from the telephone. She then ran into
rear room and gave the alarm TO
other employees. Brunch. in the mean
time. fred at SchmitZ and missed. The
shooting threw the employees into a
panic The man fed. but later was
captured By the police.
The Washington times., 1908-05-13
ADVERTISING IN AUSTRIA.

The American advertisers enterprise
seems to have spread 10 Austria. where
the railroads are taking up ali sorts
of schemes 10 boom travel The newest
device Is that adopted by the Southern
~etIvax which has had some magnifi-
cent pictures prepared OF the scenery
in the Dolomites and at AbbaZiar ana
other points along the Austrian Riviera;
DR.. Richard Muenal, chief inspector OF
the railway, is now giving Illustrated
iartures in Vienna. Berlin, and other
cities. with a view TO attracting tour
lists
The Washington times., 1908-05-13
Y. Nj. c. A. ENTERTAINS.

A musicale for the entertainment Of
officers and men at Fort Myer, Va, was
given in the Y NJ. G a. hall at that
garrison last night by the NOrdiCa Man
NJ c. A, Quartet of Washington as
sisted the club
The Washington times., 1908-05-13

Skaters Floral Work for Weddings
evidences taste and originality. 18th &
ADV.
The Washington times., 1908-05-13

coaI-soc Of Winter Prioes-Lincoln
28s. r J. & NJ. c. Grace. 4th & F n T.
ADV.
The Washington times., 1908-05-13
Your Bank Balances Will Earn

interest for you IN banking dept OF Union
Trust Co.. 18th and II SITS, Put your sur
plus money TO work. Deposits subject 10
check Government supervision-AdV-
The Washington times., 1908-05-13
F. S. KEYS GRANDSON
LECTURES ON AUTHOR

A grandson OF Francis Scott Key,
Francis Scott Key-smith, lectured on
the life of the author OF The Star
Spangled Banner" at the meeting Of the
Columbia Historical Society, at the
Shoreham. last night. Mr.. Smith traced
the history of his grandfather from the
time the latter was mere stripping I'M
I'll he wrote the national anthem which
made him famous. He said Francis Scott
Key was early recognized as a states
man. and was once chosen as interme-
diary between Kentucky and the Fed
eral Government.
Mr. Smith recited 1.-The Star-Spangled
Ranuer" When he came 10 the line
land the Star-Spangled Banner forever
shall wave" the lights in the hall We're
extinguished and a spot light was
thrown on a large silk flag on the wall.
Mrs Mary Stevens Beall read a desCTip-
ton OF Francis Scott Key taken from
an old diary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-08-27

the Trinity Lutheran church, met at a
basket social, where they were paired
off to eat from the same basket. The
moment that their eyes met each
knew that the other was "the only
one"
Il want to call on you" young Sing
ley said earnestly that night after he
had seen Miss Weaver home and as
he was leaving her at the gate. Blush.
ingly the girl named time When he
might come.
This was the beginning. Before
many calls had been made the two
were betrothed A little more time
went on. Then one day Singley made
his appearance with marriage Ii
cense and a gold ring. The two went
out, ostensibly for buggy ride, and
before they returned the words had
been spoken and the vows made
which were to make them one for
ever.
will you tell your people tonight p"
asked the groom. The bride shivered
20, can't" she said,
'Why?" questioned the young hus-
band eagerly.
Because papa would spank me-, re-
piled the newly made wife.
And SO the telling was postponed
time and time again, while Singley
continued to call at the house as he
had done previous to the wedding
One Sunday morning, however, the
daughter felt that she could bear lead
ing a double life no longer. So while
her mother and father and herself
were seated in the parlor she unbur-
dened her soul.
There was a moments awful silence
Then the mother gathered her child
into her arms and wept over her. The
father, unable to be stern in the face
of so much emotion, came over and
awkwardly patted the two on the back.
"Singley's nice boy he said husk-
lily. That night Singley came and
there was a happy family reunion, and
now to Mrs. Singley her spankings
are but a memory which is gradually
fading away.
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HUSBANDS THE BEST.
Proof That They Compare Most Fa-
Vorably with the Rest.

DR.. C. F. Aked, in a sermon on
"Chivalry," said:
I'm America We find less than in
any other country in the world the
man making slave of the woman
thinking that the whole of life centers
about himself. The American hus-
band is the ideal husband of the world,
and the husbands of the old world
may well sit at his feet"
Later, at dinner, DR.. Aked con-
tinued his praise of the American
husband.
THE old world husband" he said,
lis too apt to resemble John Henry
Vigors of Liverpool.
''Vigors complained one night at
supper that the tea was weak, the
meat tough, the potatoes soggy. and
so forth.
His wife at last burst into tears.
John Vigors,' she cried. I have
cooked faithfully for you for II years.
My one thought has been to please
you. There's not man in Liverpool
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my money is nothing to me unless
yon will share it with me- she told
Ray Macdonald. IF you are going to
Ike proud and stuck up about it, and
let it come between us, the money will
make me wretched. / love YOU"
Then she looked at him with a tear
dimmed eye.
Il love you. have always loved
YOU" said Macdonald. Il will marry
you in spite of your money"
They were married ct midnight and
slipped, away to California, where they
are now honeymooning at Los Angeles
Within a few weeks they expect to
make an auto trip across the continent,
visiting Mr. MacDonalds parents in
Canada, for this sweet hearted heiress
is just as proud of her husbands fam
lily as if they were millionaires, too.
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Love and MOONLIGHT.

But by no means least amusing are
the sweet young things who, under the
spell of the sea, have found their af-
finities. 1t makes the old young, and
the young very, very old-the sea
and, unless one is girl proof, love
proof or married, there is no telling
what may happen between port and
port. There was once Benedict who
was wont to fervently exclaim: ooh,
there's no place like homeland thank
God there isn't" but it is perfectly
safe to say that he didn't fall in love
with her on the billowy ocean, where
only afinities meet. Why, the very
letters, III. A. P. A. g." which appear
ON the house flags and menu cards of
the Hamburg-American line, have
been interpreted to mean: Here Are
Pretty American Girls" And any
American girl will tell you that the
man who can't be induced to propose
when the moon is shining DER the sill
very sea is too much of stick to be
worth bothering about. If you don't
believe me, ask any good-looking girl
who has crossed. and then ask any
Gan.-Bohemian.
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~ nee in while love can't Find a
way" but gropes about blindly
for a time in the darkness and
then changes his mind. OF course
this is not the real kind Of love, but
that spurious passion which mistakes
itself.
When young man wants to marry
a woman old enough to be his grand
mother Cupid regards the affair as
mere joke and feels justified in inter
fering to stop the match. Frank
Beckman of Cincinnati O., is only Il
years old, but he got q romantic
streak and decided that he wanted to
marry Mrs Hagenback, a widow of
65.
At least that is what the widow
thought. She put on her wedding
gown and repaired to st. Paul's Cath
Ollie church, where the ceremony was
to be performed The wedding guests
were there and the bride was smiling
happily.
But the smile changed from natural
ness into set, mechanical grin. The
finery, plainly showed signs of uneasi-
ness.
DO you think he is coming?" ques-
toned her friends She was game.
Certainly" she answered serenely,
Frank would not disappoint me. He
is the soul of honor and l am sure
that he loves ME"
But the bridegroom came not. Mes
sengers were dispatched to seek him,
but they could not find him. They
limited that his heart had failed him
at the last moment, perhaps. But Mrs.
Hagenback was full of confidence. She
could not believe that Frank would
jilt her at the last moment, and she
waited.
At last the wedding had to be put
off sine die, for lack of bridegroom,
but the aged bride expressed her be-
lief that Frank was kidnapped and hid.
den be- his relatives, who objected tc
the marriage. She declares thai
when he gets out of the tolls he will
flee to her side and that the marriage
will take place yet.
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OPEN DEALING IN PAINT.

Buying paint used to be like the
proverbial buying of pig in a
poke Mixtures in which chalk,
ground rock, etc., predominated were
marked and sold as Pure White
Lead the deception not being APP
parent until the paint and the paint
ing were paid for. This deception is
still practiced, but We have learned to
expose it easily.
National Lead Company, the larg-
est makers of genuine Pure White
Lead, realizing the injustice that was
being done to both property owners
and honest paint manufacturers, set
about to make paint buying safe.
They first adopted a trade mark, the
now famous "Dutch-Boy Painter" and
put this trademark, as a guaranty of
purity, on every package of their
White Lead They then set about
familiarizing the public with the
blow-pipe test by which the purity
and genuineness of White Lead may
be determined, and furnished blow
pipe free to every one who would
write them for it. This action was in
itself guaranty of the purity, of Ma
tional Lead Company's White Lead
AS the result of this open dealing
the paint buyer to-day has only him
self TO blame if he is defrauded For
test outfit and valuable booklet on
painting, address National Lead Com
pany. Woodbridge Bldg. New York.
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LYDIA E. PINKHAM

Nature and wOman'S work COM
bined have produced the grandest
remedy for woman's ills that the
world has ever known.
In the good old-fashioned days of
our grandmothers they relied upon
the roots and herbs of the field to
cure disease and mitigate suffering.
The Indians on our Western
Plains to-day can produce roots and
herbs for every ailment, and cure
diseases that battle the most skilled
physicians who have spent years i'll
the study of drugs.
From the roots and herbs of the
field Lydia e. Pinlham more than
thirty years ago gave to the women
of the world q remedy for their pc
culiar ills, more potent and etfica-
ciouS than any combination ofdrugS.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is now recognized as the
standard remedy for woman's ills.
Mrs. Bertha Muff, of 515 NC. ST.,
Louisiana, Mo-, writes:
Complete restoration to health
means so much to me that for the sake
of other suffering women / am willing
to make my troubles public.
"For twelve years l had been suffer
ing with the worst forms of female ills.
During that time had eleven different
physicians without help. No tongue
can tell what suffered, and at times l
could hardly walk. About two years
ago wrote Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
1 followed it, and can truly say that
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Mrs. Pinkham's advice re-
stored health and strength. 1t is
worth mountains of gold to suffering
women"
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound did for Mrs. Mutf,
twill do for other suffering women.
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TT has been said that the way to a
4 mans heart lies through his stom-
ach. This has been proved to be
true as many times as it has been de-
clared. Man is a hungry animal, and
what appeals to his palate is almost
sure to open the gateway to his heart.
When man is accused of this fact
he usually smilingly acknowledges
that it is true.
II know that it is true" said one
man the other day. Il would rather
marry a good cook than the most
beautiful woman in the world. would
rather marry a good cook than the
clevereSt woman in the world.
would rather marry good cook than
-than-O, I'd rather marry a good
cook than anybody else that l know
Of"
Most men in naming the qualifica-
tions of their ideal woman include af-
lection, an equable temper and ia
cility for-good cooking
Cupid, hiding in the pie crust of a
delectable mince concoction that was
better than mother used to make,
brought about pretty romance in
Boston week or two since.
When Col. John H. Bartlett, Grand
Army man, formerly on the staff of
National Commander Tanner, went to
the pie social in the Hub he had no
idea that he was going up against
his fate. And when he was served
with piece of New England mince
pie that tasted like ambrosia, he
begged for an introduction to the
maker of the pie. The colonel was
taken to Mrs. Susie J. Reese, who had
baked the pie. He merely desired to
pay his compliments to a fine cook,
but he remained to whisper tender
words
"a woman who can make pies like
that is my real affinity" declared the
gallant colonel. "One could not help
loving her..
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instigated by an older man to use
some money that did not belong to
me. This was in little town in In
diana. My family paid, and / migrated
to Mexico. l have been here five
years, and there is no man who can
truthfully say I've ever done wrong
full deed. My life in this country is an
open book, but somehow the story of
my early disgrace followed me. 1
thought you ought to know this. and 1
do not hope that after telling it you
will want to keep me-
He said this in the most simple
and natural way, and looking him full
in the face made up my mind that
here was man who was on the level.
and who had, indeed. reformed his
life. told him he could stay with
me, and that l believed him to be an
honest man.
He remained with me till closed
out my business in Mexico, a period of
ten years. and every year put up his
salary till at the close it was SO. 900.
l trusted him with as much as $780,
900 at a time, and he never was short
a penny in his accounts
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CUPID PLAYS
MERRY FRANKS
ON CAPTIVES

for their trip and the members of the
company were waiting at the stage
entrance, where the cabman had been
instructed to drive.
The man on the cab had unfurled a
great red banner, Just Married" and
like band of Indians the actresses
attacked the coach, hurting huge fist
fuls of rice, -four, shoes, ETC., while the
bride and groom in the cab sQuealed
their protests.
When the supply of things to throw
was exhausted the cab was allowed to
drive away, but the driver was in
structed to keep going round and
round the common. Three times the
cab passed along fremont street,
where a big crowd had gathered,
laughing and cheering. The wheels
had been tied with white ribbon and
about a dozen pairs of shoes we're
trailing along behind, fastened by rib
bons.
On the third trip around the cab
slowed up because the horse was tired,
and the bridegroom leaped out, ran to
the animals head, and held it while
the bride made her escape. They ran
into hotel for shelter, pursued by a
laughing crowd. They were on duty
at the theater that night, where a we'd
ding gift was presented.
After the play was out. there was a
merry reception held. The bride was
asked to explain just how she felt as
she was being driven around and
around the common. She said:
20, in the first place / was mad
just plain mad. Angry couldn't quite
express it. 1t seemed to me that I
was being made a perfect fool of and |
am not sure but that was. Even then
though / had company" She cast a
laughing glance at her husband. He
smiled back at her. Then she con-
tinued
Then l became possessed with a
fever to outwit all of you. / asked Ed
to see what he could do. He said,
quite dramatically didn't think it
was in him to tell the TRUTH will
get out of this or die in the attempt
Just as l started to yell Don't die!'
he jumped out and stopped the horse.
My, but | was proud of him."
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HIS ONE MISTAKE NOT FATAL.
Young Man Lived Down His Past and
Became Valuable Citizen.

Now, l hold that society often errs
in not giving man who has commit
ted even serious offense against its
laws chance to redeem himself.
said Capt B. B. Ferry of San Fran
cisco. to a Baltimore American re-
porter.
I was in business down in Mexico
some years ago and needed an expert
bookkeeper and manager. Several ap-
plicants offered, but l was especially
attracted to one, splendid-looking
young fellow of so, who was absolute
master of his profession. He had a
face and manner that inspired conf
dence. and l engaged him at once.
Within an hour he sought a private
audience
I have come TO tell you, said he,
that before the day is over people
may come to you to tell you that am
a bad man, and that l am sailing I'M
der false name. The last is true.
My name isn't Brown, but Robinson.
Years ago. when hardly of age. I was
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lily
Pretty 1S-year-old Marjory J..
Savin of Washington and Edwin Pill
son, aged - years, son of millionaire
railroad man, were secretly married in
Washington the other day, the first in
timation of the wedding being given
when the youthful bride walked up to
her father-in-law and dangled before
his astonished eyes her marriage GER
tificate.
I'm one of the family now" she an
naunced calmly, with dimpling cheeks.
"Ahd you'll have to support me some
how because I'm ma-a-r-ried now
Benjamin F. Pilson, clear headed
man of affairs, started wildly forward
in his chair and seized the paper from
the laughing girl. He read it carefully.
Then he looked up. His eyes were
twinkling.
well, you've sprung a surprise on
the old man this time,' he said, genial
ly. Then he arose and placed both
hands on the slender shoulders; then
he bent down and kissed his newly
made daughter on her forehead
'You are extremely welcome" he
said sincerely.
For several years young Pilson and
Miss Savin had been sweethearts. Not
long ago Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Alexander,
the uncle and aunt with whom the
young girl lived, decided to go for
six months jaunt to Europe. They
took their niece with them. Before
she left this country, however, she
and Pilson had plighted their troth
and agreed to marry at the earliest
possible opportunity.
After several weeks stay in Europe
Miss Savin persuaded her lenient rel
atives to allow her to return to
America. When she arrived in Wash
ington the Prisons, with whom she al
ways had been friendly, asked her to
remain with them until Mr.. and Mrs.
Alexander could come home Gladly
she accepted the invitation. None of
the family suspected what was on
foot.
But they are mae rried now and
everybody seems happy.
1.-THE kids will live with us" said
Millionaire Pilson, until we can de-
eide on business career for the boy.
Do 1 care? 1 should say not. They're
happy-so am L"
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All Is Vanity.

Vanity is so anchored in the heart
of man that a soldier, camp-follower,
a cook, a porter, makes his boasts and
is Tor having his admirers; even
philosophers wish for them. Those
who write against it, yet desire the
glory of having written we'll; those
who read. desire the glory OF having
read: | who write this way have this
desire, and perhaps those who G.u
read it.-Pascal
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Largest Rock crusher in Operation

Largest Rock Crusher in Operation.
The largest rock crusher in the
world was recently thrown into opera
ton in a cement mill at South Pitts
burg, Tenn, and it brushes all the
rock used by a 4,000-barrel plant.
The machine has an hourly capacity
of 800 tons and SO per cent. of the
product is in pieces four inches or
less and 80 per cent. in pieces two
inches or less. The crusher is 10 feet
in height and weighs 425,0OO pounds.
The hopper is 20 feet in diameter.
The operation of this machine alone
requires 20 horse power.
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has better cooked food than you. And
this is all the thanks / get-growlings
and complaints, growlings and COM
plants. day after day. Why can't you
praise me once in a while?'
"vigors looked at her in astonish-
ment.
"'You are the most unreasonable
woman 1 ever saw he said coldly.
Many and many time I've sat down
to a meal and never said word about
it from start to finish. Wasn't that
enough of a compliment for you?
Don't you know perfectly well that if
there had been the least little bit of q
thing to find fault with, I'd have
found it?''
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m ERHAPS the strangest wedding
trip of the summer was journey
three times around Boston Com
mon in a cab. This was taken by
two theatrical people, Miss Pearl Car
yace Cook, who plays Cupid in "A
Knight for Day." and Edward Beck,
the stage manager in the same COM
pany. The eXigencies of stage life
compelled them to cut their honey
moon short and abbreviate the we'd
ding trip.
The young couple were married at
four o'clock in the afternoon and they
meant to go away on the train, but
were delayed. They got in the cab
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IN Butte, Mont, they love money
well, but they love love better.
Miss Montana Largely was born
in Butte. Her father was an assOci-
ate Of Senator Clark in the early days
of the big copper camp. He became
one of the financial kings of the north
west, and his daughter, named after
her native state, was a beauty and a
social favorite in Butte.
During her school days Miss Mon
tana gave her heart to Ray MacDon-
aid, young Scotchman from Canada.
Ray was poor, but that did not make
any difference to Montana. She loved
him.
When her father was killed in his
bank Miss Largey was sent east to be
educated. Her mother hoped and be-
lieved that she would outgrow the girl
ish attachment for the poor boy. At
school in the big eastern college the
Butte girl was as popular socially as
any other rich and winsome girl She
ers. Some of these were rich and
famous, but they could not touch her
heart. Always she remembered the
youth back in Butte who was clerking
in a cab Office at $50 month.
This summer, when she went back
to- Montana, her fathers estate was
divided, and Miss Largey received as
her share just $27 less than a million.
BY saving her income for a day or
two she had more than million. She
was one of the richest 19-year-old girls
in the west.
She waited for her lover to speak,
but he would not. Apparently her
money stood between them, and it
seemed that he never would propose
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T a j S scripture
brings us into the
throne Dom of
grace, in which
are the crown
jewels, which we
may not only view,
but possess. They
are seven in num-
Der, and each one
of us may have
them all.
Access to Gods
Power.
A throne means
power. Back of it
stands the army