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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
,II,PreSs Opinions.
THE PENSION LIsT.

For the last sixteen years the Uni
ted States has CARRIED nearly "A mil
hon names on it's military pension
roll. The number varies. from year
to year, but the range for the period
named has been from maximum of
999, ,446 i'm 1909 to a minimum of
951 ,6S7 in 190S. Scores of thousands
of pensioners have died within those
sixteen years, but the Est of 1908 has
only IA 325 fewer names than the
list OF 1893 The maintenance OF tile
high figures Is due In part to the
pansion list of the war with Spain
and other quarrels of recent years,
but each year brings it's list of new
names OF veterans of the civil war
The year 1908 saw the addition Of
1895 names on the civil war ac-
count. Presumably this addition will
cease some time, but 1t Is notable
that thousands of new names are en-
tered yearly, although more than
forty years have passed since the
war ended. Total payments on the
sufh Nhl tNtttd POJJVVtVvV,-
900.
The appropriation for the coming
year Is in round figures $161 100000.
The number OF benefcfaries cannot
of course. be given. The decrease in
the roll OF last year was 54,366, but
the addition of nearly 10000 new
names left the net decrease at about
1900. In 1905, the payments av-
eraged $136 96 a pensioner. In 1907
the average was $145 go and in 1908
1t reached s167 80. That millions Of
dollars are paid ever year to claim
ants whose names have no proper
place on the rolls is matter of COM
mon belief. That the entire system
has be.ome vast scheme of man.
ipulation for political purposes is
also generally believed. New groups
of benehciaries are added from time
to time, rates are increased and eff
forts TO limit appropriations or to
economfce in administration are de-
feated. New York Sun.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

Attention Is called to the difference
between the big air-ship of Count
Zeppelin and the aeroplane of the
Dayton Wrights. The former Is con
structed on the old lines of the Mont
golfer balloon to which are attach
ed mechanical attachments to direct
its course. II Is a machine lighter
than air. But the Wright machine is
heavier than aid and 1t flies as a
bird flies. These differences are re-
garded as of much Importance.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets 100, rises 4:28: moon rises
7I0 p. m: SIG p. m.. full moon in
constellation Scorpio; total eclipse Of
the moon. visible to South America
and Africa and In part of North Amer.
lea. Europe and Asia; In New York
moon rises eclipsed; totality begins
1888 p N and eDds $50 p. M; moon
leaves peuumbra ll:21 p. M; Chicago,
] hour earliee Denver. hours; San
Francisco, hours; 9 so p M. Jupiter's
outer satellite No ? close on planets
west; the rest ueur on east: II ;06 a. m.,
moon at greatest libralion east; suns
declinafion - degrees lTts minutes.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
MAY CHANGE SOME
OF THE TEXT BOOKS
School Board Considers Per-
picking Problem.
Some Of the Books Now In Use
are not 90 Very
Satisfactory.

An effort to change the text books
used in the city schools will soon be
made by the local board of education.
IA special meeting of the committee
OH text books OF the board was held
at the High school building, Mon
day evening, and the matter was
thoroughly gone over. A report will
be made TO the board soon and the
changes which are anticipated will be
carefully considered.
lit will be remembered that last
year the board STRUGGLED over the
matter OF change and succeeded In
making few changes In the High
school Tourse. These minor changes
have been found to have been good
m0Ves In the betterment of the High
school curriculum especially, and the
board members feel that II ia dine
that radical changes should be made
IN the graded schools, 1t is very
probable that the readers in the
schools Will be changed az there are
countless complaints made aleatn
them. Baidwin's readers are now \
used. Another arithmetic. will be
adopted also If any changes are
made. Whites arithmetic is now in
use In the local scsools vi Qff -
1T fails Within the Jurisdiction Of
the board to make the changes az
ihis time and the board members
nope TO have number OF new
books in use at the beginning OF the
next school year. The matter prom
lses to be given attention early in
.he summer.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
COUNTRY AND CITY BLOOD.
(John Burroughs.

The city rapidly uses up men;
families run out, man becomes sophts-
tlcated and feeble. A fresh stream of
humanity is always settiag from
the country into the city; stream
not so fresh flows back again into
the country, stream for the most
part of faded and pale humanity. 1t
Is aTterial blood when II flows in,
and venous blood. when II comes
back.
A nation always begins TO rot first
In Its great cities, is indeed perhaps
always rotting there. and is saved
by the antiseptic virtues of fresh
supplies of country blood.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
PLANS A TINY BUSINESS
BLOCK in NEW YORK

New York, June 3.-Plans for a
building six feet eleven inches wide
were yesterday filed with the bureau
OF buildings. Manhattan. 2
The structure is to be erect cd at
DELANEY and Chrystle streets, and is
ITO be two stories nigh and 100 feet
long. Ii is to be located on site
made narrow by the creation OF the
williamsburg bridge plaza.
The building ds designed to have
ground floor stores and IS to cost
$40 900.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
INDIAN MISSIONARY
GETS A NICE AUTOMOBILE

Catskih, N. Y, June 3-Hereafter
DR.. Ida Scudder, representative at
Vellore, India, of the Woman's For
eign Missionary society OF the Re-
formed church of this city, will make
her rounds in a brand new, up-to-date
automobile.
At the meeting OF the society yes
terday 1t was announced that Dr.
scudder had been thrown from the
ram shackle vehicle provided for her
and severely injured. Two members
Immediately purchased an automobile
which will be shipped to the Indian
mission worker.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
THE PEACH BAIsKET HAT.

The peach basket hat has proved
that Ut subserves useful purpose
A young woman In New York,
thrown through a glass window shield
OF a taxicab, was ..rotected by her
yoluminous headgear from being cut
by flying splinters. The milliners
may make the episode an excuse
tor bringing the hats of next season
stAll further below tine shoulders. -
Phtladelphia Ledger.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

Madgeburg, Germany, has bought
from an inventor a sand-strewing
wagon built on the lines of water
wagon, to be used for strewing frozen
streets with a coating of sand. The
scheme is unusually effective on as
phalt streets, where horses have a
hard time to maintain a footing in
cold weather.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
POLICE LOOK FOR ONE
ONE OR MORE DIFFICULTIES

Chicago, June 3-Proceedings in the
Clemenson murder case were suspend
ed otday until the police receive re-
port OF the coroner chemist who Is
the dead woman's internal
organs. Today the police. renewed
their efforts to find one or both OF
Clemenson's alleged "afinities". .u
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

Why doesn't some plutocratic orator
analyze the high tariffs-those ris
ing above $50 per ce9t-and show
their logic, fairness, justice and
When it comes to
concrete facts like 165 per cent tariffs
on common woolen blankets there is
a marvellous stiffness about 1t.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
HEY. WILLIE.

Oh, Mr.. Weather Man, we want
scme hot weather from the tap mark
ed 80 in the shade; we want 1t for
the crops, we want 1t for our sum
mer resort business, we want It for
the sake of baseball games; but,
most of all. we want 1t for the effect
we believe it would have on the law
makers at Washington. Concord
Monitor.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
THE coIoNELfs GAME.

Since Colonel Roosevelt has killed
a riparri 1t is barely possible a
gyasticutis, jabberwocls or dodo may
be scared out OF the bushes--or there
may be some remarks from some
body about mature taking. MANS
field News.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
K0MMEN Sic WIEDER


bankers of Group No. of the Ohio
association Of bankers together with
a number of men who have won
prominence in the financial circles OF
the state and nation, and to them she
extends cordial welcome.
There Is an old saw which runs.
MS money that makes the mare CO."
and in this age of commercialism this
is especially true. The bankers are
the men who have their fingers
more firmly upon the financial pulse
OF the country than any others and
1t rests, to a marked degree with
them whether business shall progress
or there shall be a stagnation. While
the people look in large measure to
the bankers to better the local finan-
cial conditions, they should remember
that double duty devolves upon the
banker and that while he is, in a
measure the guardian and dispenser
OF prosperity, he must also practice
conservatism in order that he may
safeguard the interests or those who
place confidence in his integrity and
business ability and thereby retain
his place as a benefactor.
2 The bankers Of the district which
is represented at today's meeting
have won an enviable reputation for
conservatism In banking. II is re-
markable that during the panic, out
OF which the people are Just begin
ming to see their way, that the banks
OF this section OF the country have
stood up SO we'll. In no section OF
che state has this careful banking
been more noticeable than In the
counties represented at todays con-
vention. 1t is with pardonable pride
that Marion people point to the fact
that no city in the state has been
more free from banking complica-
ton than Marion. During the height
OF the panic. Marion bankers were IN
better condition to handle the situa-
tion than any other surrounding
towns and cities. The result was that
the financial stringency which 30
seriously crippled the industries OF
other cities was not nearly so keen
ly felt in Marion.
To the visitors we wish to say that
Marion as they see her today is not
different from the Marion that was
yesterday and will be again tomorrow.
No special effort has been made to
put ON a good appearance for their
coming. Their inspection of the var
ious sections OF the city cannot but
have impressed each with the fact
that Marion is prosperous citv. one
which IS making a decided. steady
growth, not boom town which will
retrograde when the boom collaspes.
Among the faces OF the visitors to-
day are many familiar ones to Ma 4
rion business circles. To all OF these
Marion again extends a cordial well
come. To any new faces she extends
first greeting and to all she says,
Come Again"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

A woman in California got a di-
vorce because her husband was an
inveterate baseball fan. His neg
lect as a fan to support the family
caused her love TO cool. --Findlay
Republican.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
SUGGESTIONS TO MACK

We hope that Editor Mack will in
gite Senator Culbertson to contrib
ute'an article TO the new Democratic
magazine on the atrocity OF voting
for duty on raw material like iron
ore, and Senator Bailey to write an
accompanying article ON the neces-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

If 1t be true that the only place
where the eclipse OF the sun will be
visible this summer is at the North
Pole then. indeed will Walter Well
man get scoop on all his competi-
tive story-teliers.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

Before the Russian war the street
railway system OF Toxic was less
than one mile In length. Now the
mileage Is 100 miles, with a revenue
last year of s775.00O.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

Wonder If Grandma Eve wasn't
cleaning house when Grandad Adam
made the desperate rush for the APP
pie tnee?-iDayton Journal
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

We don't care how high protection
II 70 American laborers. What VIC are
opposed TO 10 paying extortionate
rates to American robbers.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
VIRGINIA. JUSTICE.

"A Virginia jrsti;e has ruled that
no woman has the right to make her
husband come home before 1O:3O at
night .-Bellefontaine Index.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

The platforms of both the great
parties appear to be of the patent re-
verslble variety.-O. s. Journal.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
NATURlAL sUPPOsITIoN.

NNhA'S'e-AN N1SA N|.9A AO-Ns
Senators tell us the sugar trust has
been stealing for twenty years. How
time does fly-'we thought the trust
was older than that. Cleveland
Leader.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

slty of taxing importations OF iron
ore "for revenue purposes. New
York Tribune.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
g MM,.c~,

xhis signature Is on every boz OF the rs,ui>s
Laxative Bromo- -Quinine rssiss. ! !
We rsmedy thss cures . cold In eas das
LUcRErIA:
5ust learned that Gold Medal Flour Is
Try the MIRROR want column.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

The game OF politics is usually
base enough--especially in Illinois.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03

PROFESSOR CORNELL WHO rs MENTIONED FOR POST
OF MINISTER TO CHINA
Professor jeremiah W. jerks Cornell
the minister China
in
and rendered valuable
funcionaries
of
age
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-11
CASSVILLE.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
Miss Mary McCarved, of Chicago,
is visiting Miss G. E. Hartford.
G. j. Scharfenstein is on a western
trip during which he will take in the
Seattle Exposition and also register
at the three pig land openings.
Mrs. Sophia Craig, of Guthrie,
Okla, and daughter Mrs. Hyatt, of
Mason City, Ia, are visiting with
relatives in Cassville.
Harold Grimm, of Dubuque,
visited last week with his aunt Mrs.
Walter Kleinpell.
Samuel Groom is home from the
west for his summer vacation. He
has been taxing a course in the N.
d. university summer school. During
the school year he taught at Landon,
n. d.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-11
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the Interstate Light & Power Com
pany's electric line will start shortly
Rights of way have been procured
throughout this territory and a crew
Of sixty men are engaged in building
the power plant at Galena. The fact
that the project should no longer be
considered a dream but an assured
permanency is evidenced by the fact
that several officers of the company
have moved their families to Galena.
One hundred min will shortly be re-
quired for the construction work.
Mrs, Fl. E. Moss, of Kansas City,
Kas., is visiting with Mrs. VIM,
Grundell.
From August 10 to 90 the Free
Methodists will hold their camp meet
ing in this city.
E. Dana had business last week in
Chicago.
Henry Doscher is on two weeks
trip through South Dakota and other
western states.
The marriage of Miss Luella Jones,
of this city and T. J. Bridges, OF
Mineral Point, took place at the M.
E. Parsonage on the evening of Aug
4, Rev Bauchop officiating. Bride
and groom are both we'll known in
the vicinity. Miss Jones the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Jones, has
been in the employ of the A.. w.
Kemler firm for three years and Mr..
Bridges has been working in local
blacksmith shop.
Chas. Geiger, who was operated on
upon several months ago in the Cum
ningham hospital, died at his home
here Wednesday afternoon. MIR.
Geiger was until three years ago q
Bloomington resident. He was 81
year of age and is survived by a wife
and other relatives. Interment took
place in Bloomington Friday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-11
POTOSI.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
Mrs. Ida Walters and two sons
Homer and Henry took a trip to Du-
buque, Iowa, last Thursday.
Mrs. Frank OFT will entertain the
Ladies Aid Society at her home in the
country tomorrow afternoon.
Rev and Mrs. r. Il. HeGdon are
spending this two weeks vacation at
the home of relatives in Fennimore.
Mr.. Dickinson transacted business
in Chicago, ILL.,, few days.
Mr.. and Mrs N. Adams of Gettys-
burg, South Dakota. arrived last Sun
day afternoon for few weeks visit
with relatives here.
Misses Sabena and Irena Hutch. of
Dubuque, Iowa, visited week at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. K. Stockert
here.
Mrs. Albert Richter and sister Mrs.
Arch Hurst and two children, Carol
and Helen visited few days with
their sister Mrs. Farley in Dubuque,
Iowa.
Mrs. Ernor and two children
Trehane and Tirza are visiting with
relatives in Platteville.
Miss Louise Raundecker left for an
extended visit with her parents in
Masbach, ILL.,, last Saturday.
Eddie Wilmott took a trip to Du-
buque last Friday.
Miss Lillian Korber took. "a trip to
Platteville Sunday.
G. J. Ragatz transacted business in
Dubuque Thursday.
Mr.. J. Reinecke took trip to Du-
buque Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Witter, of
Shirrels, Iowa, visited with relatives
here last Monday.
Misses Josephine Geisen, Esther
Schumacher and Malvin Won Goons
and Luty took a trip to Dubuque,
last Friday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-11

Surgical science is getting to be a
great thing these days. You would
never believe, to see Sue Granger of
Betzville lick a two-cent postage
stamp, that she was born tongue-tied.
She was, though, until she was two
years old, and then a surgeon came
down from the city and loosened up
her tongue, and when he was done she
had the best quantity and quality of
all-'round tongue in the village. She
has such a sizeable tongue that when
she is writing letter it lops out like
a dogs on a hot day, and it was only
last week that she bit it badly whilst
writing to that blonde-headed young
fellow that comes up from the city
to see her on Sundays.
1 never shall forget that day last
winter when she was walking down
Main street eating a hunk of yellow
taffy and choked on it. Just as she
choked she had to cough and her
tongue flew out and the end hit an
iron lamp post, and the frost in the
lamp post glued the tip of her tongue
to it so tight that it seemed as if
nothing short of warm weather and q
thaw would ever get it loose again.
Of course we're not what you might
call curious-minded in BetZville, but it
amt human nature to see a girl stand
ing right in front of the grocery on
our most prominent corner with the
end Of her tongue against lamp
post and her hands waving in the air,
and not take a little interest. So
mostly all the population gathered
there in two minutes, being surprised
to see a young lady of our best social
circles rolling her eyes wildly and
connected close up with a lamp-post
like she and it was a sort of new
style Siamese twins. We walked all
around Sue and talked it over, but we
couldn't make any sense out Of it, and
we was just. about to decide it was
some new suffra gette notion that had
just come to town when Uncle Ash
dod Clute thought he might as well
ask Sue. So he did. She rolled her
eyes at him kind Of grateful.
"Uth a with a with nth uth!" she
said.
Uncle Ashdod is . pretty wise old
man, and he guessed what was the
matter right away, and as we seen it
might be inconvenient for Sue to
stand there that way until warm
weather turned up, on account of that
Iamp-post being a favorite hitching-
post, and some horses being biters
and liable to bite Sue on the tongue, so
we set to work and formed a commit
tee to get her loose.
But it wasn't any use. Sue Granger
had the most flexible tongue l ever
saw, and when the fellows had pulled
her back to the window of the gro
Gerry store they saw the tongue wasn't
going to come loose at either end, so
they let go, and the tongue contracted
like a rubber band and yanked Sue
across the sidewalk and slammed her
I'D against the lamp-post. All she said
was "Uth!" but we could see she did
not like it. And she wasn't going to
have it tried again, either, for she
wrapped her arms around that lamp
post and Rugged it tight.
Then the committee didn't know
what to do! We walked around and
around that lamp-post and studied the
situation, and then we saw that when
Sue had slammed up against it two or
three more lengths of her tongue had
struck the iron post and glued them
selves onto it tight. Well, it was
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-11
PLATTEVILLE.
,nondence TO the Herald.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
Congressman A. W. Kopp will
speak at the Fenuimore Big Days Fri
day of this week and at Cuba City g
Harvest picnic August Is.
Guerdon Wilkinson, employed at
Hoaquiam, Wash, is making vaca-
tion visit at homo.
Mrs. Eastman and daughter Ruth
left Wednesday for Chicago for a
visit.
1t is said the construction work on
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-11
Accustomed 20 Il,

EYES," said Rivetts, 81 went to a
five-o'clock tea with my wife yester-
day" "Gracious!" exclaimed Chum.
ley, didn't it nearly drive you crazy?"
ooh. no, I didn't mind 1t. / own q
boiler shop, you know."-Catholic
Standard and Times.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-07
"Brown Of Harvard"

The college fraternity is meant to
be merely organized friendship. Stu
dent friendship affords one of the
most charming memories of ones col
lege days, and may easily be life long
in duration and infinitely precious in
quality. The fraternity is based on
this fact, and has the added charm OF
permanent organization, and of the
privacy. usually miscalled secrecy,
which is so attractive, especially to
the young The paraphernalia of a
secret society. is in itself winning
Its ritual is constant pleasure, its
sworn brotherhood has the flavor oil
mystery and of friendship in one. Its
interests become absorbing, its per.
petuation takes the first place In
ones thoughts. 1t is convenient
nucleus for college politics, and a
center of social qualification. The
fraternity has first place in the ambi
ton and in the attention of a large
proportion of students
Brown of Harvard which the
Shuberts present at the Gennett the
alter on Friday, January s. with James
Young in the title role is sort OF q
travelling representation Of the frater
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-07
CENTER HARD FILL
Coach-vait Has Selected His
Basketball Team With Ex-
ceptionof' This Place.
ANTIOCH IS HERE JAN. IS

with the exception Of his center,
Coach Vail OF the Earlham basket
ball team has practically determined
who will participate in the Earlham
line up Friday, january 10 in the game
at the Coliseum with Antioch. Gen.
ter position is bothering him more
than 1t ever has because the candidates
apparently are taking less interest
than last year and therefore are not
giving their best efforts. According to
tho dope, Hotchkiss, Conrad and
Reese look good for the forward posi-
lions, while guards will be selected
from Pitts, Tibbetts, H. Furnas and
Cornell. There are several men try
ing for the center position including
Ovesman, on last years team, and
Morrison, recruit. These two have
the hunch on the field at present.
Notes.
Th0Reserves will probably play the
N.H. & team soon.
Earlham IL now practicing on its
own gymnasium floor. but 1t is prob
ablo that they will practice in the
r. M. CA, gym SO AZ to become &C
qupainted with q larger moor.
Bccausoof the rivalry between Earl
ham and Antioch, the management OF
the basket ball team expects large
crowd atsthe Coliseum at the opening
game.
The4rack team il preparing for the
spring work by training In the college
gymnasium. Tho team placed in the
field this year will be one OF the
strongest ever representing Earlham.
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