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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-01-13

FOR RENT.
Room formerly occupied by j. A.
Strickland in City Hall block. Apply
to Jos. or VIII. Hutchinson,
2wks.-1. Manchester. Iowa
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-01-13

HOUSE FOR RENT.
Situated on Fayette street, sMapshes.
ter. Iowa. Inquire of
4Stf. Thrill & Pierce.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-01-13

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good Q
ing at
their utt,
ing train 4
these people
usually in a
but the surpris.
covery ruffled tn
of temperament. a.
dark-horse kind we
several hours. The.
their darkened home.
purposely interrupted S
Icing reminincent of the
perience. told their sad
particulars call at R. A. Del
store.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-29
SAVED FROM
DEATH UNDER
STREET CAR

Former Police Sergeant Dan
Costello was again in the lime
light as a hero last evening when
he dragged Fred Adams, pro-
prietor of the Columbia cafe,
1405 Pacific, from certain death
beneath a Spanaway car.
Costello is the man who cap
tured William Watts, assailnt of
M. Bloom, recently.
Adms in attempting to catch
the car missed his grip and was
being dragged along in imminent
danger, when Costello snatched
him to safety.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-29
EX-TACOMA MAN
To BUILD NEW
RAILROAD

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 29.-It
was reported in railroad Circles
today that T. ]. Wyche. DIVISION
engineer of the Western Pacific,
will succeed Virgil Bogue. for
merly of Tacoma, as chief engi-
,neer of the road on Jan. 1.
Bogue has announced his Ia
tention of going to New York. 1t
Is said that he will accept an Of
fer to build a proposed new MD
die west road.
Bogue is the father of Mrs.
Carlos Baron, nee Virgilia Bogue,
queen of the recent Portola fes.
tival.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-29
N. P. ISSUES. NEW
TIME CARD

The Northern Pacific has issued
a new time card for its lines be-
tween here and ortland owing to
the advent of the Hartman
trains. The only change In the
time at Tacoma will be In train
COL. Instead of leaving here at
1918 q. I'M. as heretofore, after
January 1t will depart at 1:55
a. m.
Train No. sos coming this way
will leave ortland at o'clock
instead of s:15 a. m. as formerly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-29
CAPTURED FOR
robbery OF
STORE

Wanted for over a year as an
accomplice in a local robbery
Arthur Wallahan was captured in
Seattle last night and brought
here.
Wallahan is charged with hold
ing a suitcase while his pal,
Bryant, now doing time in WalIa
Walla for the crime, broke the
plate glass window at Chapman B.
1926 Pacific avenue, and remov,l
the booty.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-29
WOULD FLY FROM
PORTLAND To Los
ANGELES IN 4 HRS

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 20
"If the Los Angeles people see at
to back their request with suffi-
Client money to warrant the build
. ers putting double shifts to work
on my machine, I will leave Port
land on January 7 in my airship
and Ia hours later will alight IN
Los Angeles"
This was the statement made
today by e. P. Preble, who has
just returned from San Francisco.
where he has been to secure en-
gines needed in the CONSTRUCTION
of his machine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-29
SON OF MILLIONAIRE
STOCKMAN SAYS WIFE
IS CRUEL

HELENA, Mont, Dec. 29.-Al-
leging extreme cruelty on the
part of his wife, John T. Murphy,
Jr., son of John T. Murphy, the
millionaire stockman, banker and
land magnate of this city, has in
stituted a suit for divorce. In
addition to asking for the Gus
tody OF his children, Murphy
seeks alimony also.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-29
COURTS KNOWLEDGE
Of SHOES SENDS
MAN To JAIL

Convicted of stealing pair Of
shoes from IDA Shainsky, second
hand dealer, John Mcdonald, a
logger, was fined $50 by Police
Judge Arnston yesterday. The
courts knowledge of shoemakiug
enabled him to detect Mcdonald
in a fabrication regarding the
mend of the footgear.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-29

Fur turbans in the latest styles
can be made from your discarded
muffs and neckpieces.
Hats reblocked, dyed and clean
ed. Prices reasonable. Plumes
dyed, cleaned, curled and remade
at the Modern Millinery, 522
Provident Bldg, Pacific ave.
Phone Main 1898, ats
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
50 MuSlinS S1.79

Beautiful new garm e ents;
skirts, gowns, drawers and
corset covers; cleverly made
and trimmed with embroidery
and lace; regular values to SO
at $1.79.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
Sale of New Wash Fabrics

71Ac COTTON FOULARDs-Delightful new
spring fabrics; many in side band
effects; yard ...............-...... O&
15c YD. WIDE PERCALES-Fancy figured
designs; in a variety of attractive n
colors; yard Observation-Disclosures. ~
I21zc FANCY FLANNELETTES-Han
Persian & floral designs; for kimonos% /
or wrappers .......................G2 ~
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21
S1.50 MuSlinS 89c

Skirts of iongcloth or nain-
sook. finished with knee
founces. Gowns, French.
Mother Hubbard or high
neck styles; very special
at soc.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-21

S5c WHITE wAIsTINGs-Richly mercer
lied; smart novelties; yard 10o
tomorrow IN
Dslswsrs spsa 1epnyr s's snrham lnnnoa OC
15c FANCY BATISTE & LAWNS-Dainty
new designs; a host Of charming 10
color enects ..-.....-'.....'...... ...AVN
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
FRIDAY, DECEMBER II, 1909.
A Fiftee n-year-old Chauffeur.

A boy fifteen year old was arrested
oe Monday for operating an automobile
at thirty-five miles an hour through the
streets of Flushing. 1t was his own
automobile. His proud father is said
to have occupied seat in it, and the
child had license from the public au-
thorities to operate it. The situation
summed up the automobile evil. 1t IL
lustrated the willingness of parents to
provide their immature children with
these expensive and dangerous vehicles,
the readiness of men of presumably
good sense to risk their own necks riding
behind youthful and irresponsible chauf-
feurs and the reckless attitude of the
public authorities who license fools,
drunkards and children to drive huge
and dangerous engines through crowded
streets.
The folly of fools is protected by the
Declaration of independence. The pur
suit of it is for them the pursuit of
happiness, and it is, accordingly, one of
their inaienable rights. Doting parents
can no more be restrained from indul-
gence of the children they have spoiled
than they can be deprived of life or lib
erty. Men can no more be prevented
from riding behind incompetent and
dangerous chauffeurs, so long as incom-
petent and dangerous chauffeurs receive
licenses, than they can be robbed of any
of their other constitutional rights.
There is thus only one way to APP
proach the abuse of automobiles, and
that is through a reasonable attitude of
the state toward the licensing of chauf
feurs. We should say that the state
might begin by declining to grant IL
censes to babes in arms, and from that
simple minimum it might gradually
stiffen its requirements, until imbeciles,
epileptics, drunkards, drug fiends, deaf
men, blind men and all other kinds of
deficients were barred from the privil-
eye of driving ten-ton engines through
crowded thoroughfares. 1t is a very
careful state in spots, for the same pub
lie authorities who licensed the Flushing
boy to operate his thirty-fve-mile-an-
hour plaything require that a steam
roller, which in the hands of speed
maniac might make three miles an hour,
shall be operated only by an engineer
of experience and be preceded when
travelling through the public streets by
man with a red flag. - New York Tli-
bune
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17

One of the best chalk talks in history
was given in New York the other day
by seven year old boy who was having
fun by marking with piece of chalk on
the sidewalk, practice which in itself
is not altogether commendable But
when an automobile came along and
knocked down and seriously injured
person, and sped on without stopping
to ascertain the damage done, the little
fellow chalked down on the sidewalk
the number of the machine and his act
led to the arrest of the reckless chauf-
feur. The boy ought to have a medal.
Rutland News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
The lrrepressibIe Issue.

No day passes that the automobile does
not by defying public sentiment and
outraging the general sense of decency
demand its own better regulation.
Now faithful switchman of thirty-five
years experience is killed at his post at
40 a. m. by chauffeur who has been
making night of it, Now a boy of
fifteen, armed for suicide or slaughter
with high-power auto by foolish
father, is caught running at dangerous
speed Now foreign Consul General
is run down in binding rain by some
coward who escapes.
Moderate users of the automobile who
respect the rights of others, chauffeurs
who are skilled and sober, need new leg
islation as much as does the man who
walks or the playing child. They need
it for protection not only from the road
hogs but from the indiscriminate anger
of the public, which is now unable to
discriminate between those who use
autos and those who abuse them.
The World has no desire to say what
the State should require of auto drivers.
On that point it wond be glad to hear
from it's readers. But there are some
things which every one knows should
not be permitted Children should no
more be armed with autos than with
rifles. No man who has driven an auto
while drunk should ever drive one again.
No one should be licensed to drive upon
paying 81 without any proof of compe-
tence. The State should never, as last
years foolish bill proposed, release for
$40 year So, 900 automobile from loc-
a.taxation while a poor mans SIS, 900
house in the suburbs is taxed more than
800; nor should it relax by one iota the
prohibition of speed on the road, nor
interfere with. local power to safeguard
traffic.
The automobile is the storm-center of
an irrepressible issue. 1t is almost the
chief cause, in the metropolis at least,
of that "class consciousness" and class
bitterness which are so lamentable in
republic. The problems it has raised
will never be settled until they are set
tied right. New York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
OUR MlLLl0NAlRES.
American Money Kings From Ger
man Pc ri of View.

American Money Kings From Ger
man Pc NJ of View.
In satirical article entitled The
Natural History of American Million
aires a writeV 10 the Berliner Tage-
blatt says: "Iney all came to New
York, Chicago or Philadelphia with
one shirt and with one cent in the
pocket of the only other garment. All
served as bootblacks errand boys or
even in more humble positions and in
the second week had saved enough
to buy n waistcOat After one month
they appeared before their respective
employers clad in new clothes and
told them with imposing self conf
dence that the Organization of their
business was defective and required
reorganization \ year later the boy
has become a partner. in two years he
has outstripped the former boss in
wealth, and year later he has grown
smart enough to kill of the benefactor
Of other days. All American million
and drink almost nothing, cease their
work at midnight and allow only those
to live whom they think are good
enough to invite Every dollar king
POUNDS university, an opera, a mu
scum or picture gallery. Life be-
comes a burden to them when there
are no more competitors in their
branch worthy OF destruction. Then
they lie down and die Of ennui."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
BROKE 1T GENTLY.
The Reason the Brakeman Quit Rail
reading For Awhile.

Danny Wilmarth was brakeman
one day while his train was on side
track at a town in Ohio another train
that was doing some switching on the
same track suddenly bumped into the
caboose on the rear platform of whic.
Danny was standing, and he was Sc
verely bruised He was taken to &
local hospital. where it was found thai
his injuries were so serious as to ne
ressitate his remaining several weeks
for treatment At the end of Il month
he surprised his mother at her hons
in Pittsburg by walking into the house
on crutches
"Why. Danny" she exclaimed, what
IS the matter? What has happened t..
youF"
"Why, | wrote and told you, mother"
he answered with grin.
mo, son, you didn't All you wrote
was that you were going to quit rail
reading for awhile, that you had found
something else TO do and that it was
an indoor Job You didn't say a word
about getting hurt or anything of that
kind"
Il surely did, mother told you
what happened to me-"
you surely didn't"
How did | say | came to be staying
in that town.
You said you happened to be caught
there between trains
'Well, I was"-Youth's Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
KILLED BY AUTO.
Switchman Victim at Post in
Heart of Brooklyn Shopping
District.


Hurled fifteen feet by recklessly
speeding automobile, whose chauffeur
was imbued only with a desire to escape
the consequences of his act, John Lyons,
faithful trolley swtchmon, who had
been in the employ of the same com
pany for thirty-five years, was fatally
hurt at his post at De Kalb avenue and
Fulton street, in the center of the
Brooklyn shopping district. He died
an hour later in the Brooklyn Hospital.
After an exhaustive search, which
took in practically all the garages in
Brooklyn, the police arrested Charles
Denike. The men are chautfeurs en-
ployed by W. W. Rudd, of Ormond
place and Putnam avenue, who keeps
garage there, which is the Brooklyn
headquarters of the New York TaXicab
Company. Denike, the police say, ac-
knowledged running over Lyons and
gave the name of his companion.
AFRAID TO TURN BACK.
Coughin by the two men, they had
been eating at a restaurant and were on
their way to another restaurant to get
some cigarettes. When they knocked
down Lyons they became frightened
and were afraid to turn back, so they
kept on to the garage, Strengthened out
the dents in the bonnet of the machine
caused by the impact of the switchman' s
body, painted over the few scratches
that had been made and then took out
another machine and went back to get
the cigarettes.
In the course of the search for the
men, Detectives Murray, Rhoddy and
Manning, of the Brooklyn Central Of
| flee, saw a taxi standing at Classon ave
nue. and Lefferts place. They We're
told that the men who had left it there
would be back after a while. Their
suspicious aroused they waited until
Denike came up and then bluntly ac-
cused him of being responsible for Lyons
death. He confessed Immediately, they
say. The two men are locked up in the
Adams street police station charged with
homicide.
When Lyons was struck down the
driver was pursued in vain for five
miles by a policeman. The death of
Lyons and the escape of his slayer un-
der these circumstances affords an en-
phatic example of the need, urged by
The World, of law that shall enable
the police to quickly identify auuomo-
bles whose drivers flee the moment
they have struck down a victim.
Fifty persons have been killed in
Manhattan alone since Jan. l, last, and
in nearly every instance the chauffeur
put on speed in an endeavor to escape.
In many cases they succeeded in get
ting away without person being able
to identify even their machines.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17

that of peck of dust the volume of this Under suitable
conditions they speeds which approach
stances the velocity of light"
In the above Prof Thomson admits that electricity
puscuar for if the negative electricity corpuscuar positive
electricity if there is any such thing, be, and the
must also be true of Magnetism Heat and Light
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
FOR SALE.

Beautiful upright piano only used few
months, same as new. One of the best
old reliable makes. Must be sold to real
ize on mortgage, a bona fide bargain,
price $135. originally cost $500. En-
quire of Richard Bearor. Shoreham, VT.
or call on A. ID. Vittum, Middlebury.
VT, and see piano. 5lt1p
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
No Blackjack. or Kidney Pains

II you have pains in the back, urinary,
bladder or kidney trouble, dizziness ana lack
OF energy, try Mothers Gray's Australian
Leaf. the pleasant herb cure. AS a regulator
1t has no equal. At druggists. or by mail, SOC
Ask today. Sample Free. Address The
Mother Gray Co.. Leroy, Y. 4s
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17

The New Jersey supreme court has
decided several questions, raised by au-
tomobile owners, says an exchange. 1t
states legally what everyone knew
physically, that the auto is dangerous
machine. Taxing the cars which come
in from other states is really form of
license and therefore constitutional.
No one has any inherent right to use the
roads for automobile travelling, there
fore license is a privilege under re-
strictions. Any man driving a motor
car into New Jersey is obliged to agree
to submit himself to the state courts,
no matter what the law is or where he
came from. With its long and narrow
shape and lying between two great
cities New Jersey has been like a trough
for the auto hog Rutland News
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17

A new automobile law will go into eff
feet in Massachusetts the beginning of
next year. This law is said to be more
carefully drawn than that any other
state. All machines are to be under con-
troll of a state commission to which the
police report The fees are 81 for each
operators or chauffeur 5 license, 50 for
registering motor cycle and s. to $25
for automobiles according to horse pow
er. These fees do mot take the place of
ordinary taxation, and their revenue is
applied to road-making. Nonresident
automobilists have ten days of courtesy
privilege; summer people get special
rates. The question of speed is settled
by requiring automobiles to be driven
carefully at all times; but a rate of
more than twenty miles or above Is
in towns or above eight at curves is
prima-facie evidence of unreasonable
speed. municipalities are furnished
by the commission and must be ilumin-
ated at night. Automobiles of more
than 10 horsepower must have two
brakes, each sufficient When stand
ing all automobiles must be locked or
have their brakes set, so that meddlers
cannot start them. No one under
eighteen may be licensed to run motor
vehicle. The papers must be carried
by the chauffeur or operator at all times.
They bear his signature, which police
officers may require him to write He
must stop his motor for frightened
horses or for persons alighting from
street cars. Three convictions revoke
a license, but the commission may sus-
pend or revoke licenses at discression.
To race on the highway, or to run an
automobile recklessly, or to attempt to
escape after njuring a person means
maximum fine of 5000 and six months
in jail A man who is twice caught
running an automobile while under the
influence of liquor may be sent to Jail
for not less than one year nor more
than two, even if no accident comes of
his indulgence. Brattleboro Reformer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17

"Doan's Ointment cured me of eczema
that had annoyed me long time. The
cure was permanent. Hon. S. w. Mat
thews, Commissioner Labor Statistics,
Augusta, Me.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17

In single column of the New York
World of recent date appeared six seri-
Gus automobile accidents.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-02
TAFT WILL GET MORE
PAY Than ROOSEVELT

salary is fixed at $4,000, and if his
travel expenses are no greater than
those of his predecessor, he will be
better paid than Roosevelt by $4,000.
The probabilities are, however, that
President Taft will consume more
money in travel than any president
in times past; he is given to travel,
and will spend much time on the road.
1t is not likely, however, that he will
spend $685. 900 in travel in any one year,
so that in any event he will receive
greater compensation than Roosevelt,
no matter how you look at it.
In the next regular session of Con-
gress another attempt will be made
to vote the President $685. annually
for travelling expenses and if this
should go through, Taft would be any
where from $4,000 to $4,000 better OF
than his immediate predecessor, in the
matter of compensation.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-02

Especial Correspondence of The Starr
President William H. Taft will re-
ceive greater compensation than any
other President of the United States.
His salary will be much in excess of
that paid to President Roosevelt dur
ing his last year in the White House,
thought nominalty it would appear
that both were entitled to $4,000. AS
a matter of fact, President Roosevelt
had a fiat salary of $4,000 and in
addition to that there was $4,000 at
his disposal for travelling expenses.
But he was entitled to only so much
of the $25, 900 as was actually required
for travel, and out of that amount
he used approximately $4,000, so that
his salary with travel allowance, only
aggregated $4,000.
President Taft, on the other hand,
gets no allowance for travel, but his
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-02
THE MAN BEHIND THE HAT.

The man behind the gun, we know,
Deserves his need of praise,
AS does the man behind the hoe,
Who seeks his crops to raise.
We laud the man behind the plow-
Be very sure of that!
But with our pity should endow
The man behind the hat.
The man behind the racing car
Is far and widely known;
The mighty power is felt afar
OF him behind the throne.
But who can speak the bitter woe
OF him who oft has sat
And tried to see picture show
The man behind the hat!
The heroine, a maiden sweet,
The gallant hero met,
Who led her to garden seat,
Behind a pink aigrette.
Beneath an ostrich plume Of green
The happy lovers sat-
To him behind the hat!
A buckle with it's silver sheen
Shone star-like overhead,
And fluffy masses of maline
Adorned the garden bed,
The villain from behind a quill
Crept softly like a cat
Oh, how the tragedy did thrill
The man behind the hat
The heroine sank fainting down
BY wings of Alice blue;
The hero leapt over bough Of brown
And stabbed the villain through.
The bleeding corpse then welterin
lay
Upon a leghorn fat
And this was how appeared the play
To the corporal behind the hat.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-02
HOW TO CURE A COLD

BE as careful as you can you will
occasionally take cold, and when you
do, get medicine of known reliability,
one that has an established reputation
and that is certain to effect a quick
cure. Such a medicine is Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy. 1t has gained
a world wide reputation and that is
crtain to effect a quick cure. Such a
medicine is Chamberlain's Cough Re.
medy. 1t has gained a world wide
equation by its remarkable cures or
this most common ailment. For sale
by all dealers, Benson, Smith & Co.,
agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-02
TWO CORPORALS
IN DISTRESS

Marine Battalion, Naval Station, Ho-
nolulu, T. H., March 81, 1909.
EDITOR STAR:-The following
piece of poetry was composed by two
Corporals of the U. S. Marine Corps
after trying to see a moving picture
show while seated directly behind
three or four ladies who seemed to
have attended the show for the pur-
pose of demonstrating what big
Merry Widow hats a woman could
balance upon her head.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-02
PRESIDENT ELIOT
AND HIS HONORS
Parliament of Russia Passes Army
Budget of Quarter Billion
Dollars.
MAINLAND FERTILIZER TRUST.
Governor General Smith Will Probably
Be Succeeded by Commissioner
Forbes in Philippines.
MAINLAND FERTILIZER TRUST

WASHINGTON, April Ut is re-
ported that President Eliot of Harvard
has declined the English mission.
President Eliot has been decorated
with the Order of the Rising Sun by
the Emperor of Japan.