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young man departed. "Hee. heeI'' 1 Four fat beeveS were slaughtered by i order of Martin Werner. cut in quarters and carted to the edge of the barbecue trench about midnight Several cords of wood were dumped near by. with plenty of kindling Old Uncle Ike ar rived shortly after the beef quarters were delivered on the ground With him was tall young darky, a stran- ger in town.
 Dis boy nah fust assistant" ex- plained Uncle Ike to his employer. "Ah gwine larn him how to barbecue ''
 For several hours the two men worked. preparing the meat and the l fire. The trench was half filled with cordwood and kindlng Iron rods were laid across the trench. and upon these were placed the quarters nf beef
 Dat trifiin uliud boy done lit out. . said Uncle Ike to Werner who came down early to see if everything was going well
 He declared that everyt hing was in readiness and he did not need further help. The crowd began arriving about 9 o'clock One old farmer expressed surprise that the meat was not Rl4 ready cooking. He declared that it should have been started at midnight Takes twelve hours ;o barbecue meat right" he insisted But the towns people told him that Uncle Ike knew perfectly we'll what he was doing
 About 10 o'clock the Evansville Brass band marched into the grove playing i Yankee Doodle" Cadet Haynes ID full uniform marched in front as drum major When ne reached the ropes he made peculiar motion with his stick 1 Uncle ike at once lighted the fires un- derneath the beef. applying the match at half q dozen points Then he picked up q pail and started for the spring as if to get water,
 Suddenly there was ripping, pop ping sound. Old soldiers in the crowd were reminded of the skirmishes dur ing the sixties It was like an uneven vOlley fire of muSketry or the crac- kling discharge of a Gatling gun Now and then the popping was punctuated by a roar like that of small cannon Great clouds of ashes and odoriferous smoke arose from the barbecue trench From time to time one of the beef quarters appeared tn split open. splut- l2ring wildly: then 1t flew into the air. the fragments falling into the scat tered dirt from the trench. A piece of beef with al splinterpd fragment of bone attached fell at the feet of man near the ropes He picked 1t up and shifted at it.
 'Whew" he calculated
 Dat low down ni@gah boy mus a-done sumpin' to dem heefs when l tole him to poah de vinegar on 'em." said Uncle Ike
 An hour later while the investiga don was still going on. the band struck 1p "A Hot Time Tn the Old Town" md began marching back to the court house The crowd fell in It was fine marching music. Besides. the people were hungry
 
 ''Now. gentlemen. - said Cadet Haynes 1t the band meeting after midnight
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THE LOADED
 BARBECUE.
By ROBERTUS LOVE

CCopyright, 1909, by American Press Asso- ciation.l ~ADET HENRY J HAYNES 4 came home about the middle of June on his first furlough
 from West Point
 In his spiek and span uniform and as future leader of great armies he was Burnsvflle's pride. The brass band met him at the station and es- corted him home, playing Hail to the Chief"
 Haven't you fellows any band pa- wilton yet2' the cadet inquired
 Don't see one, do you?" was Band Leader Tom Turner's way of replying
 No, but l want to see one"
 'Well have to see about $150 first to build it, said Turner.
 That evening the cadet attended a meeting of the band at the courthouse, called to consider ways and means for the purchase of new bass drum. He proposed that a Fourth of July picnic under the auspices of the band be held. with a big dinner at 9 cents head, the proceeds to go toward building band pavilion.
 The suggestion was adopted. Fur ner was appointed to engage the use of Verners grove for the day It was very attractive spot to the public on a hot day, but it's owner was the meanest man in the county. For twen- ty years he had been called "Stingy" Werner in ordinary conversation. He kept his grove under lock and key, in- closed by high fence and padlocked gates.
 "Goin to charge money for the din ner, heyT' he said to Turner.
 Yes; it's for the band pavilion"
 Huh see. Then you can afford to pay me $50 for the grove. That's my tigger"
 Turner reported to the band, and il was determined to hold the picnic in the courthouse yard, which could be had free. Ii was not desirable loca- ton. but it would do. Advertisements of the coming celebration and the din- ner were placed in all the newspapers of the county.
 Three days later Tom Turner called the band together in great anxiety Every man knew the reason They had seen ''Stingy'' Verner's picnic post CTS. The owner of the grove was go- ing to hold an opposition picnic. Col orpd posters four feet long were ad- vertising throughout the county: Big Old Fashioned Barbecue Dinner In Beautiful Verner's Grove. Evansville. on the Glorious Fourth Barbecued Meat-All You Can Eat-15 Cents"
 That knocks us clean out" said Turner People around here have been wanting barbecue for the last twenty years We might as well quit. boys
 Not on your life!" spoke up Cadet
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mONsON.

c Nelson Skinner has sold his farm ko- Robert Shumway MT Skinner will make his home with Mir and Mrs. Rpy Adams.
 Tie work on the sfaffold lowsr ronh l,as been empolarilH susp' nd q until after hayinp tune. and alter the road is completed the trees will he spray ed to exterminate the elm beetle
 Several from here went to New York "Wednesday to s.e Mrs Geolec Flynt and son, Henry, and Miss Hattie Cushman aud Miss Ma,Rrett Oushman sail for Europe The General Grant was their boat
 Ms. Ida A. Leach and Herbert M Noble were married Wednesday even irg at z. 3o at rhe Methodist pa'son. age Rev James M. Gage performed the ceremony After a trip MT. and Mrs. Noble will live on MT. Nohlo's farm on the Wilbraham read and will be at home after September 1.
 Henry Franklin Dewing of Cumber- land, Md has been chosen principal of Monson academy to succeed James F. Butterwortb. Mr Dewing is a native of Revere. He is a Harvard graduate in the class of 1904, and for the past five years has had very sue cessful career as principal of the Alleghany county academy, having built up that school in many ways Mir. DewiDg is married and has two children, his wife being 8 Radcliffe graduate. He is an energetic and en- thusiastic woI ker, and a prosperous under his leadership
 Dr. Silas Herring Ellery, Al, of Greenwich Village, who died at the Springfield hospital early Wednesday last week, after an illness of many weeks, was born in New York city September Is, 1868 He was the son of William A. Ellery, direct d's cendant of William Ellery one of the signers of the Decla, ation of Iude- pendence, and a grandson of the late Silas 0. Herring, the pioneer safe inventor and manufacturer of New York city. He was a graduate of the Chicago veterinary college in the class of 1894, and had an extensive practice during the last 15 years in Palmer, Brimfeld and Greenwich Will lage. He was located in Palmer for about nine years. In 1902 he mar ried Miss Jane Pinney of Brimfield, graduate of the Hitchcock academy and a teacher in that place for five years. In 1903 he bought the Brim- field hotel, which he conducted for about four years. After selling this property he became proprietor of the Riverside hotel of Greenwich Village, where he had lived for the past year and half. He was ever a genial and considerate friend. and acquired many warm friends during the years of his hotel life and veterinary prao- tice Dr. Ellery for several years followed the grand circuit races, hay ing owned some very fine track horses. He is survived by his widow, Jane Pinney; two daughters, Carolyn Marie and Gertrude Ohanniug, and two sisters, Lillian Herring Lemieux of Montreal. Can, and Gertrude Bainbridge Hughes of East Orange, N. J. The funeral was held at Wash burns undertaking rooms at 8 o'clock Thursday evening and burial was in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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a cyst GuInOr or four years growth, which three of the best physicians de- cIared l had. They said that only an opera tion could help me. lam very gladthatIfollowed a friends advice and took Lydia B. Pinkham's S Vege- table Compound, for it has made me
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WHY so WEAK !?
Kidney Troubles May be Sapping Your Life Away. Stafford Springs People Have Learned This Fact.

Kidney Troubles May be Sapping Your
 Life Away. Stafford Springs People
 Have Learned This Fact.
 When a healthy man or woman be. gins to run down without apparent cause, becomes weak, languid, de- pressed. suffers backcahe, headache, dizzy spells and urinary disorers, look to the kidneys for the cause of it all. Keep the kidneys well and they will keep you we'll Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys and keep them we'll. Here is Stafford Springs testi mony to prove it.
 Mrs Henry Allore, living on West Main street, Stafford Springs, Conn. says: t'I suffered so severely from kidney disease that my whole system was affected and in run down con- dition. was bothered mostly with weak and aching back, especially in the morning, when I would be so lame could scarcely get about. I had frequent headaches and was often so dizzy I could not stand My father used Doan's Kidney Pills with such good results that decided to give this remedy trial, and procured box from Eaton's drug store. never knew a medicine to act so quickly. had been using it but a short time when the pains ceased and grew stronger. took the contents of just one box and by that time was without a symptom of kidney disease. Doan's Kidney Pills cured me and l gladly testify in their favor. <"
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The Press., 1909-07-07

SERIES OF NEW ing daylight fire
 works" at Yer ner's grove they almost lost hope Tom Turner brought in one of the new posters which he had torn from the side of barn. To his ustoniShment Cadet Haynes proceeded to paste the poster on the courthouse wall This caused the trombone to growI that Haynes must be 'a-stnndin in with Werner"
 Don't you worry" replied the cadet These posters will help to draw a crowd, and we'll get that crowd"
 The band men could not exactly see the point. but they let the poster stay on the wall and decided to take their chances. The cadet urged them to pre- pare rousLng big dinner.
 '"The whole county will be here," he said with enthusiasm. 'I am banking on our having to feed at least 5000, and you must have plenty of grub"
 Long rustic tables to seat thousand courthouse yard. hundred young men and women volunteered to act as walters.
 Martin Werner had made similar preparations in his grove. To the pub lie the most interesting part of Yer ner's arrangements was long trench dug in the middle of the grove two feet deep and three feet wide This was for the barbecuing of the beef. Uncle Ike Jackson. an ancient negro with a reputation as skillfuI barbe- cuist reaching back to the days before the civil war. was engaged to supGrin- tend the cooking of the beef Old Ike knew his business thoroughly. and he would accept no suggestions when 1t came to barbecuing.
 Cadet Haynes called On the old ns-
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81OO Reward. S1OO.

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Nautical Learninu.

Little Mermaid-I have read of the origin of the papa shad, but can't find how the mamma shad was created. Mamma Mermaid-She was fashioned from rib of the papa shad. Little Mermaid-Gee whiz! I'll bet he never missed it!-Boston Herald.
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gro the evening of the Sd of July. In

times past Uncle Ike had done many favOrs for young M ars e Hinry.'' and ne boy had rewa&d- ed him well. The two had q con6- dential talk last ing an hour.
 "EIee. hee. hee!'' laughed the old man as Henry emerged from his cabin Then he doubled himself up in a paroxysm of glee
 Three things Uncle Ike dearly loved a joke and Cadet Henry J. Haynes.
 "Ah sho' will, Marse HinryA hs sho' willw he ooIIoS7 o,,k oc hho
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Aronson's Clothing Store. vOT ALWAYS PAv T,ESS HEPE

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H a y n e s "GO right ahead with your picnic. I've been doing a lit tie thinking about this opposition picnic. and 1 have a plan that will ma ke old Stingy's barbecue look like a two-foF cigar in in a box of per fectos.
 K no wing the boys resourceful- ness. the band men believed that he might manage to do something to help them out. but " h e n t W o days later there appeared a new series of posters. still m ore fam. boyant. announc. Ing daylight fire.
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Misfnrtunea.

It's an old French saying that "mis- fortunes are in morals what bitters are In medicine. Each is at first disagree able. but as the bitters act as corrobo- rant to the stomach, so diversity chas. tens and ameliorates the disposition"
The Press., 1909-07-07

Woman and the Jewish TaImud.
 The Jewish Talmud has these sen tences about women: "A good wife is heavens noblest gift. housewife never allows herself to be disturbed from her work. Even while convers- ing she is busily spinning. An old, ex- perienced woman in household is an ornament to it like a pearl. He who lives in an unmarried state knows no joys. none of the blessings of home, and is without support. The man who stands at the deathbed of his wifa feels like those who saw the temple of Jerusalem reduced to ashes, for the wife is the temple in which each man finds repose and quiet, where he rests after the labors of the day and where he can give expression to his feelings, joyful and nournful. God has given to woman more ability of judging cor rectly than man."
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Hives, eczema, itch CT salt rheum sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch of your clothing. Doan's Ointment cures the most obstinate cases Why suffer- All druggists sell it.
The Press., 1909-07-07

Can't look well, eat we'll or feel we'll with impure blood feeding your body. Keep the blood pure with Burdock Blood Bitters. Eat simply, take exercise, keep clean and you will have long If
The Press., 1909-07-07
An Odd coineidenoa.

"Do you know that nature and schOl- arship both agree on one thingY'
 'eWhat Is that?"
 ''1n the saH both begin to turn the leaves. Baltimore American
 Don't use harsh physics. The reaction weakens the bowels, leads to chronic con- stipation. Get Doan's Regulets. They operate easily, tone the stomach, cure constipation.
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Woman and the Jewish TaImud,

Cures catarrh or money back. Just breathe it in. Complete outfit, including inhaler $1. Extra bottles 50c. Druggists.
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l uluSl tdht ttIF 4 o'clock trai! for West Ioin' this ID rn ing Furlough's III, But before l 2. I have il few lii tie bills to ore sent. V ern q ! hired an adver tising sharp over a t MoundsI,ur" to do his adver Using. and that's why he ditln | suspect anything when the day light posters wert put up Those posters cost me $2O. I tipped Uncle Ike a Aver Then there's a little bill for six dozen giant fire era c k CTS the d ylig ht fire
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.TUMOR OF .FOURYEARS
 GROWTH
Removed by Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound

Lindley, Ind. .-" Lydia B. Pink hams Vegetable Compound removed
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Now. gentlemen. said Cadet Haynes at the band meeting after midnight
Arizona republican., 1909-02-17
ABAPTIsT ELDER Restored to Health by Vinol

T was run down and weak from in- digestion and general debility, also suf- fered from vertigo. I saw cod liver preparation called vinol advertised and decided to give it a trial, and the re- suits were most gratifying. After talk ing two bottles I regained. my strength and am now feeling unusually well" Henry Cunningham, Elder Bap- list Church, Kingston, N. c.
 Vinol Is not pa.ce.lt medicine-but preparation composed of the medicinal elements 5f cods' flyers, combined with tonic iron and wine. Vinol creates he2rty appetite, tones up the organs Of digestion and makes rich, red blood. In this natural manner, Vinol creates strength for the rundown, over worked and debilitated, and for deli cate children and old people. For chronic coughs, colds and bronchitis Vinol Is unexcelled.
 All such persons in this vicinity are asked to try Vinol on our offer to re- fund their money If 1t fails to give sat- lsfaction.
 A. L. soEHMER, DRUGGIST,
 PHOENIX ARIZONA.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-17

greatest of all amusement rendez- vous has been as clean as the pro- verbal whistle.
 For the last six years the "hoot- chie-cootchie" has been trying to find a resting place on Coney Island. It was there once, but other managers and l drove it from the land of side shows to the Metropolitan Opera House With the help of Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss the bare-legged dancer made her initial bow to Broad way in the foremost American palace of amusements, where, before an au- dience made up of the social four hum dred and the moneyed five thousand, she appeared for one consecutive night as Salome. Since that widely adver- tised performance this most indecent of all Terpsichorean exhibitions has gone through the country like wildfire. Vaudeville has been literally demoral- ized by it, and a dozen young women of indifferent ability-several of them had never been heard of before-have jumped into such fame that they have for number of months commanded salaries equal to those received by our finest dramatic and musical artists. The Morale of the American Theater
 Is on the Decline.
 I am not a moralist, and I do not wish to be considered one. I believe that cleanliness of mind breeds the best mentality; that cleanliness of body is necessary to bring about a persons or nations maximum eff IL ;., literature and are to a great de- gree responsible for all mental and physical uplift, and that cleanliness in all sorts of theatrical representations not only has preponderant influence on the morals of a nation, but also is the necessary element which makes for financial success. Writing from a managerial standpoint, may as well boil this all down and start by saying that I am for cleanliness in amuse- ments because I am convinced that it pays best in the long run.
 Only a decade ago the American stage was as clear from indecency as Coney Island is today, but during the last several seasons the pernicious weed of immortality has been planted Tn II and mas grown 10 Such propor- tions that it is high time American playwrights. American managers and American playgoers were asked to stop minute and become acquainted with what is going on.
 Coney Island was not reformed from without, but from within. She washed herself as soon as she noticed the financially good effects of a vigorous dose of soap and water. The present rapidly growing evil practices in the atricals must be killed in the same way. if they are to be killed at all To point what will be my argument and to demonstrate how close is the relationship between the side-show and the theater, I beg leave to pre- sent a timely and interesting brace of
Arizona republican., 1909-02-17
BETTER ACCOMMODA- TONS FOR HEALTH
 SEEKERS.

Beautiful location, large lawn, broad porches; inside. balcony, or tent sleep ing rooms. Modern plumbing and first class table, with plenty of rich milk and cream. Phone Sub. 125 for full particulars.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-17
There Are Only Two Reasons for
 Portraying Evil.

oyiHS
 In speaking of theatrical success from a financial standpoint l am, think. taking full cognizance of its artistic side. Even the painting of muck-heap may Joe artistic, but the man who made 1t can not have done so with the one idea of pleasing his sense of art. He must have done it be- cause of a biased sense of smell or for financial gain. else why did ha 10 it? Similarly the man or the woman who portrays on the stage the things that shouldn't be. does so for one of two reasons: either he or she is wrong within (we can't give out anything we don't possess). or he or she needs the money. Is it worth while? I think not Judged even from so low plane as that of box office receipts, I am positive that all the perennial successes of the stage have been free from the cancer of immortality and therefore I am equally positive that decency, in the long run, is not only better for the public morals and the playwright's reputation, but also fer the players, the playwright's and the managers pocket books.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-17
TRY THIS FOR
 YOUR COUGH

Mix two ounces of Glycerine with a half-ounce of Virgin oil of Pine pure and half pint of straight Whisky. Shake well, and take in doses of a teaspoonful every four hours. This mixture possesses the healing, healthful properties of the Pines, and will break a cold in twenty four hours and cure any cough that is curable. In having this formula put up, be sure that your druggist uses the genuine Nir- gin Oil of Pine compound pure, pre- pared and guaranteed only by the Leach Chemical Co.,, Cincinnati, O.
Arizona republican., 1909-02-17
AFTER SALOME DANCE
 WHAT COMES NEXT 2
A Protest Against Amusements Which Originate in the TenderIoin.
By Frederic Thompson.

The regeneration of Coney Island has been kindly ascribed to ple by friends and the public. When my partner, Dundy, and I started to build Luna Park, Coney Island was re- ferred to as a cesspool of depravity and immortality. That was six years ago, and for the last four years this
Arizona republican., 1909-02-17

WANTED
 flor Government Positions

36,00o POSITIONS are to be filled this year. Examinations for diff ferent positions will be held soon. I can fit you to pass the eXami- nations for any of the following positions Will furnish all text books free.
 Departmental Branch-Railway Mail Clerk (male); Railway Mail Weigher (male); Railway Mail Porter (male).
 Custom House Branch-Sampler : (male); Assistant Weigher (male); Messenger (male).
 Post Office Branch-Clerk (male or female); Clerk Carrier (male).
 Full particulars regarding the above or any other Civil Service Courses. Call on T. c. s. repre- sentative at DavidsOn's Cash Store and ask for free descriptive circu- lar, Feb. 12 to 18th.