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The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-12-02

S the first to remark what es-
 E sayists have pointed out ever
 sine that friendship i'm proves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joys and dividing of cur griefs This was the sort of friendship that animated Jimsy Smith. His regard began in love for Emma Harris. but when he found that this love was not reQuited he did not for that reascn withdraw his interest in her. Accepting the cold reality with his usual philosophy, be thrust deep down in his heart the passion that never could be eradicatCd. and his sterling, unfinching honesty trans formed it in time into q fraternal af- lection as self sacrificing as it was loyal. which he extended to the man Emma had chosen for her life partner. With his keen perception he had soon seen that that man was morally weak. irresolute of purpose, incompetent in business and that his love for his wife was not of that kind which counted sacrifice for Ter as a privilege and for bearance. indulgence and unfailiug consideration for her gentler and purer nature as q duty But it was not for him to judge or to condemn. That Emma was satisfied was suffi cient No ether consideration natter ed a particle. And he esteemed him. self happy in being admitted to the little household on terms of the in timacy of an elder brother In all the world there was TO one else he cared for or who cared for him.
 When Mrs. Brooks and he re-entered the apartment and she turned to him and told him that it was good to see him back she meant it.
 Tt is good to ne to Le back again" he admitted, If only for few hours."
 Why 2 few hours, Jimsy:"
 Williams expects me to take the midnight train for Boston. There is some legal taugle about our dock lease there."
 "Oh, see Did Joe tell you about our good fortune? Of course you can see the change" and she made ges- ture that took in the whole room.
 You mean the raise in salary and back payT'
 Yes Wasn't it splendid of Captain Williams:"
 Tt certainly has agreed with you," he responded evasively. Never saw you look so well"
 Did the captain tell you about it:"
 No: he never mentioned it."
 "T-hy not?
 "Captain Williams has a habit of Keeping who.e let to himself"
 Tt came as a complete surprise-at least to me"
 Seems to have done your mother shine up 10 that Harlem flat"
 Tn ali the years I've known you. Jimsy. you've never spoken of your mother or father. suppose you don't care to-"
 An expression of pain fitted over his face.
 No: it ain't pleasant" he confessed.
 Mrs Brooks was sincerly sorry for her rather thoughtiess reinarE-
 Forgive me, Jimsy. wish I hadn't said that. Could I help to make it more pleasant? I'd like to-" she said sympathetically.
 He gazed at her with a queer look and for few moments did not speak. He appeared to be debating something in his mind.
 My mother, as near as have been able to find out. hiEed out into Colo rado when 1t was a territory. There wasn't much law and. l guess, DO con- ventionalitics. Everybody kind O drifted along the best or the worst they could. the majority voting the straight ticket for the worst. A shake
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-12-02
CHAPTER X.

sE JULY is credited with being
 s the first to remark what es- E sayists have pointed out ever
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
GOSSIP IN WASHINGTON ALSO
CONFIRMS REPORT IN SEATTLE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The decis-
ion of President-elect Taft to refrain
from making public the names of men
he has selected to be members of his
cabinet, with the exception of Senator
Knox and Frank Hitchcock, has the
effect of melting much gossip
Senator Knox. on his return from Au-
gusta, Ga, rather grimly limited that
any candidate who has personally or
through his friends betrayed the con-
fidence of the president-elect may find
after all that he was not on the list;
and this intimation may have some
effect in restraining cabinet talk by
people who are really advised.
George w. Wickersham, the New
York lawyer and legal partner of Hen
ry Taft, the president-elect's brother,
has been mentioned in connection with
the attorney generalship. But it
should be remembered that Senator
Knox is a potent influence with the
president-efr ct. and that he has a feel
ing of the highest regard and admiral
ton for the abilities Of Solicitor GEN
eral Hoyt, with whom he was in init
mate relations during his own occu-
pancy of the office of attorney gen
eral.
urge Hoyt's selection, if it developed
that Wickersham's appointment was
found to be inexpedient from the very
fact of his business connection with
the president-elect's brother
The fact being conceded that the Pa
cific coast is to be represented in the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
MANY SPECULATE
ON MRS. TAFT'S
SOCIAL CABINET
NEW LEADERS OF SOCIETY TO
GRACE WHITE HOUSE
Washlngton's 400, as Well as Poll
ticians Interested in "SIate" of
Next Hostess of Executive
Mansion

WASHINGTON, d. c. Jan. 10.-While
politicians are specializing as to the
personnel Of Mr.. Taft's cabinet and the
multitude of official changes that are
bound to take place in the early months
Of the new administration, the subject
that most interests the women in
Washington is who will be the social
leaders or what women will be closest
to Mrs. Taft in the direction of society
events when she takes up her abode in
the White House.
Many women high in the social scale
In Washington and those whose hus-
bands now occupy important govern
ment positions are mentioned in this
connection.
Mrs. Taft is well acquainted with life
at the capital and claims among her
closest friends scores of women whose
positions have long been established in
Washington.
One Of these is Mrs. Philander c.
Knox, wife of the distinguished Penn
sylvanian who will be Mr.. Taft's secre-
tary Of state. Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Knox
are the warmest of friends, and no
woman occupies a higher place in the
social life at the capital than Mrs.
Knox.
Another woman who is likely to
reign in the charmed circle is the bril-
liant and beautiful wife Of Gen. Corbin.
Still another is Mrs. Truman H. New
berry, wife of the wealthy secretary of
the navy.
Each of these women will be socially
prominent during the Taft regime.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
FRENCH WARMLY WELCOME
NEW VENEZUELAN ENVOY
Jose de Paul Arrives in Paris and Is
Greatly Pleased at Resump=
ton of DipIor attic
Relations

PARIS, Jan. 10.-Jose Del. Paul, spe-
cial envoy of Venezuela, arrived here
this evening from Bordeaux and was
warmly greeted by a score of Venezue-
lans.
M. Paul considers the re-establish-
ment of the Venezuelan consulate at
the French capital the most importatnt
sequel of the resumption of diplomatic
relations.
He declared Castro's downfall was
the result of a conflict between the
country's ambition to carry on peace
full internal and foreign policies and
the policies of Castro, which were rap
idly jeopardizing Venezuelan indepen-
dence.
What was the real cause Of Castro's
fall?" M. Paul was asked.
cit was brought about" replied the
envoy, "by the necessity of averting a
revolution.
cit must be remembered that Holland
practically abrogated the protocol Of
1894 whereby she had undertaken to
prohibit traffic in arms and prevent
filibustering expeditions and revolu-
tionary outbreaks. Having thus abro-
gated the treaty, the presence of Hol-
lands warships would have rendered us
impotent to stop filibustering.'
"Castro's present standing in VeneZu-
ela," M. Paul said, "is that of a man
opposed to his country's aspirations.
Venezuelans are weary of one mans
domination
M. Paul expects to open negotiations
with the French government within a
few days.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11

new cabinet, causes great weight to
be given to the report that Richard
A. Ballinger is to be the lucky man,
and his name has been connected with
the secretaryship of the interior, though
it is well known that the Pacific coast
people would prefer that the naval
portfolio come to their section because
of the important navy yard interests.
Because of the feeling that there
should be a Hebrew in the cabinet, Sec
rotary Straus' friends believe he will
be retained as secretary of labor.
The president-elect is said to have
said that he does not propose to con-
slider any mans religion or creed in
constructing his cabinet; that he in
tended to look rather to the desirable
1ty of a man.
This has gone far toward strength
ening the candidacy of Charles Nagel
of st. Louis for the Secretarysh1p of
commerce and labor.
Political considerations are strongly
urged in his case, it being asserted that
such an appointment would go far to-
ward landing Missouri safely in the
column of Republican states in the
future.
The discovery that Secretary Wilson
has already succeeded in establishing
a record of longevity of service as a
cabinet officer, has weakened what ap-
peared to be the stronghold he seemed
to have on his present position.
Clifford Pinchot, chief forester, is
the only person named in regard to
the agricultural portfolio in the event
that Secretary Wilson is to leave.
Having been selected as secretary
of war when William H. Taft was the
certain choice of the people for presi-
dent, and presumably by his advice,
General Luke E. Wright seems almost
certain to retain his position in the new
cabinet, though it is understood that
his incumbency will not be long.
Postmaster General Meyer would like
to be President Taft's secretary of
the treasury, but the friends of Gov
ernor Herrick of Ohio have presented
his claims with such ability as to
make him formidable candidate for
that position. Other names advanced
in connection with the treasury are
those of James b. Forgan and John J.
Mitchell, Chicago bankers, and John w.
Barr, president of trust company in
Louisville.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
R0BBER SLABS MAN WHOSE
ROOM He HAD BROKEN INTO

Peter Jensen, a horseman, probably
was cut fatally in a fight with a rob-
Der at o'clock this morning in a room
at 2451a East First street.
Jensen was drinking earlier in the
evening with a number of men in a
Main street saloon, and becoming it is
said. too much under the influence Of
liquor to go to his room on Santa Fe
avenue; secured a room at the forego-
ing house and without undressing went
to sleep on the bed.
He was awakened by some one try
ing to go through his clothing, and
getting to his feet struck the man. He
was stabbed in return. He struck an
other blow knocking the man down,
but the supposed robber escaped and
Jensen fell from the loss of blood. The
wound made by the knife of the rob
Der is in the abdomen. He was taken
to the receiving hospital.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
CALIFORNIAN FIRST FOUND
PLANETS BEYOND NEPTUNE
Professor See OF Mare Island Says He
Proved Existence of Worlds Har-
ward Pedagogue Still Is
Seeking

VALLEJO, Jan. 10.-In regard to the
recent report issued from the observa-
tory at Harvard college, Prof. Picker
ing is searching for a new planet To-
Gated beyond Neptune, Prof. 7. ]. ].
See, the officer in charge of the naval
observatory at Mare Island navy yard,
today made the following statement:
ION July IA, 1908, succeeded i'll
proving conclusively by a difficult
course of mathematical reasoning, in
regard to the mode of formation of the
solar system, that one or more planets
revolve beyond Neptune.
my investigation has since been
made before a learned society, but not
published.
ION January 1, 1909, I sent com
munication on the subject to the as
tronomich nachrichten in Kiel, Ger
many. On January 80 I will make q
more detailed public announcement to
the Astronomical Society of the Pa
cific. This public announcement was
to have been made on January 9, but
had to be delayed owing to a misun-
derstanding as to the meeting.
"The results of my Investigations
also have been communicated to the
leading astronomers of Europe and TO
sevral astronomers on this coast, in
Guiding Prof. Burkhalter, president of
the Astronomical Society of the Pa
cif1c."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE
WILL DISPLACE SENATOR
Congressman from North Yakima
Expected to Be Elected as
Successor to Levi
Ankeny

OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 1O.-The
Washington. legislature which con-
venes tomorrow, will probably elect
Congressman Wesley l.. Jones, of
North Yakima, to succeed Levi An
keny in the United States senate, in
accordance with the Republican par
TVS choice as expressed in the prima-
rieS.
The Republicans control the legisla-
ture- The procedure in Washington
differs from that in Oregon.
In Washington the people express
their choice for the senatorship in the
PARTY primaries.
In Oregon the people express their
choice in the party primaries and the
candidates thus nominated are voted
upon at the succeeding general cleo
ton.
Proposed legislation for this session
of the legislature includes local op-
ton bills, an anti-race track crusade
and other reform measures.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
EL0PES AND MARRIES
HIS M0THER-IN-LAW
Virginia Mans Bride Is His Chill
dren'o Grandmother as Well
as Their Step
mother

ROANOKE, Va, Jan. 10.-D. w. Will
iiams, business man of Floyd county,
has the distinction Of having married
his mother-in-law. His bride occupies
the dual relation of grandmother and
stepmother to his two children, a
bright little boy and girl. Despite the
time-worn mother-in-law joke, the
bridegroom says he is very happy
Williams first married Miss Mary
Sours, but after several years the
young wife died. He courted his moth
er-in-law, who was a widow, and they
applied to the clerk of the courts, who
issued a marriage license. Later he
concluded it was illegal to issue a IL
cense for man to marry his mother
in-law and revoked it.
The couple, not to be outdone, eloped
to Tennessee, where they were recent
Iy married
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
NATIONAL CAPITAL
BECOMES CENTER OF
GENERAL INTEREST
MANY BIG EVENTS EXPECTED
THIS WEEK
President and Congress May Furnish
Lively News-Hains Trial to End
Today-Labor Leaders
to Confer

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 1O.-The
national capital is the news field
wherein interest will center during the
week.
The sensitiveness of the existing re-
lations between the president and con-
gress and the likelihood of further oc-
currences tending to accentuate the
situation will focus wide attention upon
the sessions Of both house and senate.
Senator Tillman's speech on Monday
replying to the charges brought against
him in the presidents special message
is likely to widen the breach between
the chief executive and the legislative
branch of the government.
The executive committee of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor on Monday
at Washington will discuss the recent
sentences of Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison, and some specific policy
will be formulated with regard to this
and subsequent court decisions in con-
tempt cases.
Missouri will inaugurate a Republi-
can governor at Jefferson City Monday
in the person of Herbert S. Hadley who
as attorney general of that state earned
considerable fame as an investigator
of the trusts
Hams Trial Near End
The case of Thornton J. Hams,
charged as a principal with his brother,
Capt. Peter c. Hams, jr., in the muir
der of William e. Annis, will likely be
given to the jury Monday at Flushing,
L. /.
At San Francisco on the same day
Patrick Calhoun, president of the
United Railroads, will be placed on
trial on an indictment charging him
with bribing members of the board of
supervisors during the administration
of Eugene E. Schmitz as mayor.
The Balkan situation again is assum-
ing prominence, while the sensational
change in governmental affairs in
China may also be relied upon to bring
further developments.
On Wednesday the Cuban congress
will meet in Havana to pass on the
credentials of senators and representa-
tives. On January 20 the congress will
reassemble to proclaim the election of
q president and vice president, and
Thursday will enter upon a continu-
Gus session with the inauguration of
President Gomez.
The Attell-Weeks fight for the
featherweight championship at Gold
field, New, Thursday is an important
sporting event.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
Bio Fire in Oakland

OAKLAND, Jan. 1O.-Fire of I'M
known origin, though the authorities
suspect incendiarism, damaged the
Due du Lac apartment house to the
extent of $4,000 early this morning,
causing the half hundred inmates of
the house to flee to the streets clad in
their night clothes only. The blaze
started in a store room on the lower
floor and worked its way up a light
well to the upper apartments.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
SAYS RESOLUTION is NOT
TO PROBE SECRET SERVICE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1O.-Represen-
tative Tawney of Minnesota said today
that the resolution introduced in the
Use providing for the appointment of
a special committee of five to investi-
gate the inspection methods of the
government does not contemplate, as
has been stated, an inquiry concern
inG the operations of the secret serv-
re.
His desire is to arrive at the facts
concerning the appointment OF special
agents and inspectors aside from the
secret service bureau.
Mr.. Tawney points out the fact that
while in 1896 only 166 of such employees
We're carried on the roll at a cost of
$1,300,000, by 1907 the number had
grown to 5000 and the expense to the
government 100000.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
NIGHT Riders Removed

JACKSON, Tenn, Jan. 1O.-The six
night riders sentenced to death at
Union City yesterday and two others
sentenced to twenty years in the state
penitentiary, have been placed in Jail
here and will be held in close confine-
ment to await the action of the SUI
preme court, which will meet in this
city next April.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
Holds Lid Tightly Down

ROANOKE, Va, Jan. 1O.-Mayor
Hutchinson ordered the police to en-
force every ordinance today. No cigars,
cigarettes, tobacco. fruit, CONNECTIONS,
toilet articles or other merchandise
were sold
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
One Killed in EXPLOSION

PANAMA, Jan. 1O.-A premature ex-
plosion occurred today at Cucaracha on
the line of the Panama canal. One man
was killed instantly and eight badly
hurt
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
TAFT TO HONOR
WESTERN JURIST
tContinued from Page onel

it will be all but formally made public
before he leaves Washington for Pan
anna, January 81.
Judge Ballinger is a native Of Iowa,
but has practiced law and resided in
Seattle for many years. He is the au-
thor of several books on property law.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
Too Long in Officer
-~I'J TT ~EIl~~a
DAUGHTER of Revolution Dies

DEER ISLE, Me-, Jan. 10.-Mrs. Sa-
some Sellers, 10S, a real daughter Of
the Revolution and said to be the
oldest person in New England, is dead
at her home here.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
REPUBLICANS MUST
ELECT DEMOCRAT TO
REPRESENT OREGON
NOVEL SITUATION CONFRONTS
STATE LEGISLATURE
Present Governor of Webfooters Is
Certain of Toga-Opponents in
Minority, but Control
Vote

SALEM, Ore, Jan. 10.-The probable
election of a Democrat to the United
States senate by the Republicans
pledged to such a course will be the
chief feature of the Oregon Iegisla-
ture, which convenes in this city to-
morrow.
There is but one candidate for Unit
ed States senator, George E. Cham
berlain, the present governor Of Ore
gon, who was selected as the choice Of
the people last June, defeating the
republican party choice, H. M. Cake,
the victor over United States Senator
Fulton in the primaries.
While the people do not actually
elect the senator, they indicate their
preference, and in the last election
they elected a sufficient number Of
members Of the legislature to carry out
their desire.
Those pledged to elect Chamberlain
are designated as Statement No. 1 men,
and those opposing him as "antis."
The ''antis" will control both
branches of the legislature, notwith-
standing the fact that they are in
the minority. Jay Bowerman, "anti,"
will be elected president of the senate,
and c. N. Macarthur, "anti," speaker.
Senator Fulton's friends have been
WOIhluS LOT months 10 ma some plan
to accomplish the defeat of Chamber
lain, Democrat, and bring about the
election Of some Republican.
1t is the general belief, however, that
the opposition to Chamberlain will
suffer defeat after a warm political
fight.
Measures of Importance
In addition to this event, which is
attracting national attention because it
involves new method of selecting
United States senator's there are a
number of projected measures of i'm
portance, three at least being Of wide
interest.
OF these two affect the grain ship
ping interests, one being to remove the
compulsory pilotage system for the
mouth of the Columbia river, which
affects only foreign vessels and the
other designed to reduce the fee or
blood money" which masters of sail
ing vessels must pay to sailor boarding
house proprietors for shipping seamen.
The third measure of Importance re-
lates to the segregation Of the criminal
insane.
An attempt will also be made to
change the banking laws of Oregon to
conform to the banking laws Of Okla
homa and to the laws advocated in the
national platform of the Democratic
party in the recent campaign.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-11
METHODS USED
BY ROOSEVELT
MUCH OPPOSED
SENATORS DEFEND TILLMAN
AGAINST ATTACK
CHARGES PREFERRED IN CUES
TIONABLE MANNER
Scion Guilty of Indiscretion, but Not
of Crime, Even if Accusation
is ProVed-Gossip
Plentiful
CHARGES PREFERRED IN CUES.
TIONABLE MANNER
lBy Associated Press. ]

w ASHINGTON. Jan. 1O.-No sub
wv ject has been discussed at the
The Forrest City times., 1909-08-20
PULLMAN MAY 0u|T
Rumor Says That Picturesque
 Senator Will Resign Seat.
10 III at His South Carolina Aor. n. General Nervous Debility-His Stormy Career in Upper
 House of Congress.

Washington.-The shrill voice o; Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman o, South Carolina may never be heard in the senate cham er again Senator Tillman is i'll at his home. a farm near Trenton. s. c The rumor that he contemplates resigning his seat is revived, but MT. Tilman is following the same course he did last summer and refuses to confirm or deny the rumor.
 Senator Tillman has not fully recov- cred from the attack of partial paraly. sis which seized him last summer. He tried to cure this by an extended tour of several months in Europe. The health resorts of the continent helped hlm greatly and he returned to the united States much stronger than he was when he left N nile the paralysis has not returned. general debility rom nervousness has made his life unhappy in the last few months.
 The going of Tillman will take from the senate one of its most picturesque characters. "Pitchfork Ben" as he is called, is feared of all other senators Tor the sharpness of his tongue and the keeness of his wit No man in the United States senate is an abler rough
The Forrest City times., 1909-08-20
CRYING NEED. AS HE SEES IT,.
companion ot lrritated Oivines Came to the Front with Order to
 the Waiter.

Joaquin Miller is to establish a colony of poets in Fruityale. Cal. MT. Miller. discussing this colony recently, said
 We poets will. Of course. argue and Nquabble That will be delight fui Arguments and squabbles over Matthew Arnold. Swinburne. Tenny- son and Keats are pleasant and sen sible things, you kpw. They are not like political or religious argu- ments, which in their bitter rancor al ways make me think of three Maine diYines
 While three Maine divines were supping together. two of them be. gan to argue about the comparative religious merit of the royal houses Of Stuart and Orange. The argument became heated. The diyines grew ex- cited and angry
 William III was a great rascal. reared the first. as he struck the table with his fist. "A great rascal, and spit upon his memoryi'
 The second divine, turning very red, shouted:
 No, it's James II that was the rascal. l spit upon his memory
 At this point the third divine rang the bell. and said gently to the waiter:
 Spittoons for two, please