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New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
TWO VIEWS OF A HORNBlLL.

TWO VIEWS OF HORNBILL.
One of the strangest captives at the London
Zoo is the hornbi bulky, numbering bird
wearing quaint white trousers and bony
helmet. Two views Of this odd creature are
given here in order to show the shape of the
crest, which is not heavy as it looks owing
reach length of four feet. Their strange
aspect is in keeping with their bizarre family
arrangements, for during the breeding season
a hollow tree, closing the entrance with plas-
ter. He serves meals to her through small
space which he leaves open for this purpose.
The wife remains in this kind of protective
captivity until her young nearly fully
grown. The Sphere
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-11-12
HE HUNTS DOWN
HIS PA IN PARIS

| at Newport and In Florida, and yachts
and gold mines, and she could be the
queen of them all If she would only
say the word, and she was just going
to say the word, or something. and
had his fat, pudgy hand in both of
hers, and was looking into his eyes
with her own liquid eyes, and seemed
ready to fall into his arms, when ! got
up behind him and lighted giant fire
cracker and put 1t under his chair and
just as the fuse WAS sputtering, said:
PA, ma wants you at the hotel" and
the fireworks went off, the woman
threw fit and Pa raised up out of the
smoke and looked at me and said:
Now. where In blazes did you come
from just at this time?" and the head
waiter took the woman into a private
room to bring her out of her fit, the
walters opened the windows to let the
smoke out, and the crowd stampeded,
and the police came in TO pull the
place and find the anarchists who
threw the bomb. and Pa took me by
the hand and we walked up the side
walk to a corner. and when we get out
of sight of the crowd Pa said: Hen
merry, you ma amt here, is she?" in
pitiful tone. and said no she wasn't
along with me this trip. and Pa said:
"Hennery. you make me weary" and
we walked along to the hotel, Pa ask
ing me so many questions about home
that It was like a catekism.
When we got to the hotel and went
to Pas room and I told him what !
had been doing since he abandoned
me, he said he was proud Of me, and
now he had plenty of work and adven-
ture for me to keep him in.
He said he had tried several air
ships, by having someone else go up
up in them, and that he was afraid to
go up in one himself, and he seemed
glad that | had been ballooning
around home. and he said he could
use me to good advantage.
l asked him about the woman he
was talking to about marriage. and he
said that was all CUFF, that she had
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SEEMED A TRIFLE PERSONAL.
CIergyman's Particular Reason for
Omitting the Fifth Verse.

A clergyman In an interior town
married woman from whom he re-
ceived a dowry of $4,000 and pros
pect of more. Shortly afterwards,
while occupying the pulpit. he gave
out hymn. read the first verse and
proceeded to read the fifth. com!
mencing:
Forever let my grateful heart"
then he hesitated and exclaimed:
1.-The choir will omit the fifth verse;"
Some of the congregation read the
verse for themselves and smiled aE
they read:
Forever let my grateful heart
His boundless grace adore,
Which gives ten thousand blessings now
And bids me hope for more.
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husband who had invented a new air
ship, and he was trying to get title
to 1t for use in America, for war pur-
poses, and that the only way to get
on the right side of these French wom-
en- was to talk about marriage and
money, because for money any of
them would leave their husbands on
15 minutes notice. He said he had ar
ranged for a trial of the airship the
next day, from place out in the coun-
try, and that l could go up with the
inventor of the ship and see how it
worked and report, SO we went to bed
and l slept better than l had since
shipped on the cattle ship.
In the morning while we were ta-
king baths and preparing for break
fast, found that Pa had been flying
pretty high on government money,
and he End all kinds of gold and paper
ncney fr3 bonds. and he made people
thin! ~ owned most of America.
"a ask9i me how the people at
home looked upon his absence, and If
they advanced any theories as to the
cause of his being abroad, and / told
him that everybody from the presi-
dent down to Rockefeller knew about
what he was out looking after, and
that when l left Bob Evans at Fort
ress Monroe. he told me to tell Pa
to send mess of airships to him so
he would meet them when he got to
San Francisco. as be wanted to
paralyze the Japs If they got busy
around the fleet, which pleased Pa, and
he said: Just tell the people to wait,
and l will produce airships that can
fight battles in the clouds. but it will
take time"
Then we went out III the country
about a dozen miles, and met the in
! ventor and his vic, and the inventor
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filled a big balloon that looked like
weiner sausage, with gas that he
made over fire out in a field. and the
inventor and / got on bamboo frame
under the balloon. and he turned on
the gasoline that runs the wheel for
tseering, and they cut her loose and
we went up about so feet and sailed
around the country half a mile eth
er way and watched Pa and the wife
of the inventor as they sat under
tree and talked politics.
We came back after a while and Pa
was proud of me for having SO much
nerve, and told him the government
at home was complaining because Pa
didn't go up in the airships, cause
they said he couldn't buy airships in
telligently unless he tried them out.
and that If he didn't look out they
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The greatest relief I ever expert
enced was getting off Of that cattle
ship, which / did somewhere in
France, because the ship had become
SO foul smelling that one had to stay
on deck to breathe. and there was
no more fun to have, cause the Off
GERS and crew got on TO me. and
everyone expected to be blown up or
electrocuted If they got near to me, and
the last three days they wouldn't let
me eat in the cabin or sleep in my
hammock. SO / had to go down with
the cattle and eat hot bran mash. and
sleep in the hay. Gee, but when you
eat hot bran mash for few days
you never want to look at breakfast
food again as long as you live.
traded my electric battery to
deck hand for suit case. and so /
looked like a tourist, because ] went
to a hotel and got square meal. and
had q porter paste some hotel ads.
on my suit case, and | took train for
Paris, looking for Pa, cause ! knew
he wouldn't be far away from the
builyvards.
left my baggage at hotel where
we stopped when we we're In Paris
before, and the man who spoke shat
tered English told me Pa was room
ing there. but he was not around
much, because he was being enter
tanned by the American residents. and
had some great scheme that took him
away on secret expeditions often, and
they thought he was either an an
archist or CRATER. and since the as
sassination OF the king and crown
prince of Portugal the police had over
hauled his baggage in his room sever
al times, but couldn't find anything
discriminating, SO i had my baggage
sent to Pas room, and went out to
find Pa, and pick up something that
would throw suspicion on him II he
showed any inclination to go back on
me when l found him.
1t was getting along toward dark
when walked down a bullyvard
where Pa used to go when we were
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in Paris before, and as came to a
cafe where there was a sign, English
spoken, saw a crowd out on the
sidewalk surrounding tables, eating
and drinking, and there was one big
table with about dozen men and
women, Americans, Frenchmen and
other foreigners. listening to an ell
derly man Dragging about America.
and l saw 1t was Pa, but he was
so changed that but for his bald head
and chin whiskers / would not have
known him.
He had on French clothes, one of
those French silk hats that had a fiat
brim and bell crown. and he had a
moustache that was pointed at the
ends and was waXe1 so it would put
your eyes out.
Pa was telling Them that all tie
men in America were millionaires anc
unmarried, and that all of them can't
abroad to spend money and marry for
eign ladies, to take them back to
America and make queens of them,
and he looked at French woman
across the table with goo-goo eyes,
and she said to the man next to her:
isn't he dear, and what wonder
he is not married before" and Pa
smiled at her and put his hand on his
watch chain, on which there hung
gold nuggets as big as walnuts, and
he fixed big diamond in his scarf,
SO the electric light would hit it
plenty.
They ate and drank and the party
began to break up. when Pa and the
beautiful woman were alone at the
table, and they hunched up closer to-
gether, and Pa was talking sweet to
her. and telling her that all wives in
America had special trains on rail.
roads. and palaces in New York, and
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Mrs. Lenora Bodenhamer, r. f. d. 1,
Box 80, Kernersville, N. c., writes:
81 suffered with stomach trouble and
indigestion for some time, and nothing
that ate agreed with me. was very
nervous and experienced a continual
feeling of uneasfness and fear took
medicine from the doctor, but it did me
no good.
II found in one of your Peruna books
description of my symptoms. 1 then
wrote to DIR. Hartman for advice. He
said 1 had catarrh of the stomach. /
took Peruna and Manalin and followed
his directions and can now say that I
feel as well as / ever did.
81 hope that all who are afflicted with
the same symptoms will take Peruna,
as it has certainly cured me-"
The above is only one of hundreds
who have written similar letters to DIR.
Hartman. Just one such case as this.
entities Peruna to the candid consider
alton of every one similarly afflicted. If
this be true of the testimony of one per-
son what ought to be the testimony of
hundreds, yes thousands, of honest, sim
cere people. We have in our files q
great m my other testimonials.
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Uncle zeb's Preference.

Uncle Zebulon was on visit to his
nephew in the big city and the two
had gone to a restaurant for dinner.
They had given their order and were
waiting for 1t to be filled when the
younger man, who had been glancing
at a paper that lay on the table, said:
said:
by the way, uncle, did you ever
have cerebro-spinal meningitis?"
NO" replied Uncle zebulon, after
few moments mental struggle with
the question. 'and 1 don't want any.
I'd ruther have fried liver and bacon
any day"
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Took His Stock to Camp.

A French Territorial, who had re-
ceived notice to join his regiment for
nine days service, made sensational
entry into barracks the other day at
Privas. Unable to leave his live stock
to shift for itself. he decided to bring
everything with him. and so arrived in
his cart. drawn by mule. and con-
tanning his goat, two rabbits. several
fowls and 12 chickens. 1t is not stated
what the colonel has decided to do.
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some years. and that he underesti
mated the strength OF his opponent.
For Congressman-at-larg the sue
cessful candidate is Ed r. Taylor of
Glenwood Springs. He is well known
all over Colorado. but somehow or 9TH
er, though he has often been rendered
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Poor Old bird.

Pop Cooking up from the paper)-
see there's new baby hippopotamus
at the zoo. What are you laughing
at, Johnnie? 4s
Johnnie (who is almost as bright
as he looks)-I was JUS laughin' to
think of the stork carryin' hipperpot'
amus!-Exchange.
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the Smoke.
would send some expert out to take
his place and spend the money, and as
we were landed on the ground | dared
Pa to get on the frame and go up with
us for little spin, and he was afraid
the woman would think he was COW
ard If he didn't. SO he got up and
straddled the ridge pole Of the bam-
boo frame, and said he would take
whirl at 1t If it killed him. The bal
loon thing couldn't quite lift all of us.
so | got off and give her lift, and
up she went with the inventor steer
ing, and Pa hanging on for dear life
and saying: Now lay me down to
Sleep"
l have seen some scared men in my
life, but when the machine got up
about as high as house, so Pa could
not get off, and the woman waved a
handkerchief at Pa, he swallowed his
Adams apple and said: Let her go
Gallagher" and Gallagher, the French
man, let her go.
Well, you'd died to see the thing
wobble and see Pa cling on with his
feet and hands. For about quarter
of mile she went queer, like duck
that has been wing-tipped, and then
she began to descend.
First she passed over lot of cows
that women were milking. and the
cows stampeded one way and the
women the other way, and the wom-
en- were scared more than the cows,
cause when they got out from under
the ship they prayed, but the cows
didn't.
Then the ship struck az field where
about 40 women were piling onions on
the ground, and it just scattered wom-
en- and onions all over the field, and
of all the yelling you ever heard that
was the worst.
Pa yelled to them that If he ever
got off that hay rack alive he would
pay the damages, and they thought he
was swearing at them. Then the
worst thing possible happened. The
airship went up over tree, and Pa
was scared and he grabbed limb and
let go of the bamboo. and there he
was in the top Of thornapple tree.
The balloon went over all right, and
the inventor steered it away to where
it started from, and the woman and 1
watched Pa. The thorns were about
two inches long and more than a hun.
dred of them got into Pa and he yelled
all kinds OF murder, and then the wom-
en- who owned the cows and onions
the ship had wrecked surrounded the
tree with hoes and rakes and pitch
forks, and they made such frantic
noise that Pa did not dare to come
down out of the tree. So Pa told us
to take the train back to Paris and
send the American consul and the no.
lice and hook and ladder company
to get him down and protect him.
l told Pa l didn't want to go off and
leave him to be killed by strange WON
en-, and maybe eaten by wolves before
morning, but he said: Don't talk
back to me, you go and send that pa
troll wagon and the hook and ladder
truck, and be quick about it Or wont
do thing to you when l catch You
So we went and put the airship in
barn and went back to town and
turned in a police and fire alarm to
rescue Pa. The chief said there was
no use in going out there in the coun
try before morning, because the WON
en- couldn't get up the thornapple tree
and Pa couldn't get down. So wen
to bed and dreamed about Pa all night
and had perfectly lovely time.
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Good Thing to Know.

Those who traverse the alkali plains
OF the west and inhabit the sand blown
regions of Texas, find daily need for a
reliable eye salve. They never drug the
eye, but simply appl.. externally. the
staple, DR.. Mitchell's Eye Salve. 1t is
well to know that Mitchell's Eye Salve
IL on sale here also. Price rs cents.
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The CONGRESS SSMEn-ElECT
FROM COLORADO

Warren A. Haggott. There Is .sus-
picion that Congressman Haggott was
asleep at the switch in this campaign.
Not much was heard OF him and It "a
said he relied a little too mich on the
enormous Republican major..:ss that
have been rolled up in the second for
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resentative in the lower house of con-
gress.
Some of Judge Atterson w. Ruck-
er's best friends advised him not to
make the run against Bonynge with
any Idea of being elected. Two years
ago Bonynge had been returned by
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-11-12

Perhaps the greatest surprise the
election produced in Colorado was the
for Congress and the success Of their
Democratic opponents. For the first
time since the days OF Pence and
Bell. the Republican party has no rep
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the honor. 1t was not until the hour
struck and opportunity was knocking
at the door that Ed Taylor accepted
the nomination for Congress. He has
figured largely in state politics, has
been an ornament to the Senate, and
in the higher walk of Congressman-at-
large, to which he has been called, or
rather elected, he will do credit to the
state.
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more. than 1900 plurality. every
county in his district is considered
safely Republican, and the task of a
Democrat trying to break into Con
gress semed an insurmountable one.
especially as against Bonynge. the
trained Congressman with good rec
ord.
In the second congressional district,
John A. Martin is elected to succeed
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THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. AUGUST 80. 1908

wrote your address and three words of
the message. Then he reused and
had only time to snatch the paper and
conceal it in my dress before his sharp
eyes were again upon me. / would
send it anyway. l knew your intuitive
wit would make something of ii. / in
trusted it to the stewardess. Fortu-
nately they had left me my money.
told her 1t was a cypher and she swore
to give it to the wireless operator in his
little rookery on the upper deck. That
was in the morning. In the afternoon
l again had a chance to write a few
words when / was again stopped by de
Loup's eye. / again went to my cabin
and, calling the stewardesS, sent it to
the same address. | had one more
chance to write. But when it came to
telling you where to find mel suddenly
remembered that ] did not know. /
sent the dispatch anyway. / had no
more chance to write. | believe that de
Loup already suspected. l now think
he knew it all the time and was ark
ious that / lure you on, for that same
day he told me that our destination
was near New Orleans. I still hoped
for chance TO get you word, but all
the time I telepathed those two words
to you with all the intensity of my be-
ing"
Woman like. she had omitted that
part we were most anxious to hear, the
cause of the death of the wolf.
"Oh, yes" she continued. But the
blow that struck him I had reserved
for myself when all else had failed. We
were on the launch going up the narrow
harbOr on the island. / was alone on
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had no thought of de Loup and had
long since hoped that he had passed
out of our lives, when was summoned
by a false letter on board the Magellan
i'm New York harbor. Once there / was
seized and locked in a cabin. We were
under way and l knew not where we
were going. ] raved and cried and at
last steward came and peeped in al
the door. AT sight of me he fed. By
degrees | learned that l was supposed
to be insane and on the way to a san
itarium in the south in charge of my
brother. AT last. peeping through the
blind of my port, saw familiar figure
pass along the promenade deck. 1t was
de Loup. Then I ceased to rave and
set my wits to work. De Loup came al
last and / was allowed my liberty, but
always under his watchful eye. He
did not seek to force his attentions
upon me, but he did not take his eyes
off me when l was on deck. The pas
sengers, influenced by his story of in
sanity, Stunned me. Only my steward
ess believed in me. How to get word
to you was my whole waking thought
There was the wireless. but my every
move was watched, no writing ma
terials were allowed within my reach
The stewardess, could l trust her? ]
would try.
I'VE were sitting in the ladies' cabin
was watching the waves dashing over
her bows. De Loup sat watching me-
Writing materials were on the desk at
my elbow, but 1 dared not even look
at them for fear of arousing his sus-
picioh6 Then suddenly / looked up. He
was doing. l snatched a pen and
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we sink it?" / shouted.
Have no fears of re launch, mes
sieurs. She is dead. VOLTA" and Bloc
with grin of satisfaction held I'D q
spark plug.
We had left that terrible island be-
hind like a bad dream. We were again
out on the blue waters of the gulf,
Clarke and / aft with Thaida, now fully
recovered and wrapped warm in our
oilskins. weak and pale but radiantly
happy, Bloc the faithful at the wheel
And then. little by little, came the
mutual explanations.
NO" said Clarke. in answer to my
question, Il had no plan. Without
Thaida's Intervention I believe we
should have been lost, although 1 had
not given up hope. AS soon as / read
the hieroglyDhics on the door of the
counts stronghold / was sure of what
| had for some time suspected, that
the count was a follower of that
strange cultus that has ffourished
sporadically since the seventeenth
century, that of Diabolism or Lucifer-
nianism. AS far as gaining an entry
into the castle was then concerned my
course was easy. as you saw. Once
inside / trusted to quick wit and to the
opportune mistake upon which you can
always count on a rascal of de LOup's
kind making to carry us through. The
trap doors upon which he so cunningly
placed us took me completely by sur
prise. And now Thaida, let us have your
story. That should be the most inter-
esting of all How did you get into
the power of the wolf?''
1T was by ruse." she began. 81
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the after deck watching the snakes
that coiled and twisted in the branches
that almost swept the sides of the boat.
They had no horror for me, for as you
know, / have a strange power over all
animal life. Suddenly a peculiar little
green snake fell from a tree limb onto
the deck almost at my feet From its
triangular head / knew it to be deadly
poisonous. Here was my weapon.
snatched it up and concealed il in my
dress I might be able to turn it upon
the count. If not I should force it to
bite myself When / dressed for the
ceremony / placed it at my throat.
was about to reach for ii when il
struck"
And the sheet of flame and the
lights?" I interposed, unable longer to
restrain my curiosity on these points.
ooh, that's all simple enough" an
swered Clarke. Mere buffoonery.
saw through it at thestime. The count
was no mean electrician He had his
own plant. AS for the sheet of flame
have you never seen high frequency
current pass between two poles? Two
million volts of violet rays from such
an apparatus have been sent through
the human body with no effect but
slight tingling and the visible stream
of fire.
We were silent. For the first time
the horror of our night on the island
seemed to come to us. Had we
spilled blood? What had been the ef-
feet of our fire in that terrible cavern
We knew not For many reasons we
did not care to return to the city. We
felt no guilt, but there might be ques-
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The Man With the Master Mind

We picked up the now fainting Thai
da, dashed through the aura of flame
and down the corridor, now in utter
darkness. The door barred for a mo-
ment our progress, but CIarke's fingers
soon found the bolt.
THE outer guard he whispered.
1T is hard, but we must kill him." We
had not encountered him in the corri-
dor. We threw open the door and stood
with weapons ready. 1t was daylight
and the sun was already high in the
east / looked at my watch. 1t was 9
o'clock We had been in that terrible
place full ten hours. yet it seemed not
more than as many minutes. The
guard was nowhere to be seen. Had we
escaped him in the corridor or had he
made his way around the walls through
the treacherous jungle? We knew not.
Our launch was there. Bloc was true
to his trust We leaped aboard and
laid the form of Thaida upon the cush-
Toned seats. The engine was going and
her nose outward. and Bloc gave her
her head and away we went. Just
then we heard roar of anger and the
giant outer guard dashed out OF the
entrance of the castle. i could not see
if he had weapon, but l fired once. 1
missed. for he flew back, the door closed
and we saw him no more.
THE launch. the launch, They'll
follow US in the launch. Why didn't