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The Detroit times., 1909-05-31
FOREIGNERS MAKE
BETTER SCHOOLS
Schools of 35 Cities Improve and of
Is Go Backward - Only One.
Tenth Go Through High School.
SI2,50O PUPILS IN SCHOOL .
DIDN'T PASS IN IeO7-Os

In IS American cities there are
,907, 900 school children
OF these 3l2.500 don't pass, in
either 1907 or 1908. and are taking
their grade over again.
II costs $13.Tl9.0O0 TO keep these
rcpeaters in school
Can these children who don't pass
be blamed?
IL looks as II the blame rested on
the school systems.
IL costs $SS.9G6,7l7 To run these 90
school systems
Yet they spend 10 per cent OF this
money to-do over again work which
they ought TO have done In the first
place.
Any business enterprise, run on
this basis, would be wrong and a
failure.
The Detroit times., 1909-05-31

k'why. that brand Is highest honor.
Than its traces never yet
|Upon old armorial Indictments was
prouder blazon set.
land thy unborn generations, as they
tread our rocky strand.
3Shall tell with pride the story OF their
fathers branded hand
/ The verses are carved upon the four
Isides Of the base OF the monument.
/ -Whittier's THE Branded Hand"
MUSHROOM. Mich, May 31.-Al-
most forgotten is he now--Jonathan
|walker. the Man With the Branded
Hand Only a gray and crumbling
monument, 80 years old, in GENE
berry here, stands 20 remind the world
k of what he did.
I He stirred the whole nation a half
'rentury ago, did Walker. Whittier
|wrote n famous poem about him.
Northern aboliticnists raised money
10 get him out OF southern prison.
|Malker, working single-handed. was
fhelping Negro slaves escape from
lFjorida across the British West Indies.
| For this he was branded in the right
hand by a United States marshal, IS.
hs'r-slave stealer.
The Detroit times., 1909-05-31

Holland has new law forbiding the
adulteration OF butter, under penalty
Of imprisonment, which may reach
one year.
The Detroit times., 1909-05-31

In his fight for the senate. Lorimer
laid low. collecting votes and Ming
them away. while Hopkins and others
were vainly trying to break the three
months deadlock. When Lorimer got
enough he let his name appear.
The Detroit times., 1909-05-31

CALL DETROIT TAxICAB CO.,
Main bs2o. City $500. Park -
The Detroit times., 1909-05-31

Commercial credI, Co. Collections
The Detroit times., 1909-05-31

Alexander. Umbrellas. as Ms.p.>
The Detroit times., 1909-05-31

The verses are carved upon the four
sides OF the base OF the monument.
Il --Whittier's The Branded Hand"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-09-14

--a'. 4ss -rty,g -a- p.-l- unity
..- ,a. as.l.L- %. Gle d.t.,--l; Gun
t-. al al. count ve-g u-.- .- tzsJ-
o. 5l- t.s-e.leat
The aaits slave ,r.lc' A -e5
lza, d.-.-., .a London WY here
. none aha. IS, practically zone
New Yo.s. G--a, Wa-e Way. Chi.
csgo.- ae--y---e9ld Street LJ1ls-
...-- G-.ea street. Deuye-s Make:
street. o. t-a B4-1a-y C14s. O: Sa-
Fs-r..-e7 would 10, De c0adolet
t.-- .- L1-iD- They are no.. The-a
4r- rlue-pl. veIkuowa los heat.
90. .--.. a-e-a after The play o- dur.
.1s .,s p- s-e.s q hundred o. so bad
sou-l may be- rNp-c,ed % De seen.
ard 20 some eat-u, solicitor are met
VIII % Bloom. bury. Pccad.lly and
Ha.Euart-. streets The poor Great.
u-s- once taI- real 'rade j. known
are 10. allowed 20 I've ,oag in any
,a. locality
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-09-14
He~S This'

,'a On one Hundred Dollars Re
~arc fOr any csss o. Csiarrh tha,
can NJ BE- cured BY Halls Ca.3rra
Cure
2 CHENEY & CO. To edo. o
We the undersigned. have gnoSn
T. J Cheney for the last - yeas
a.y- him perfectly Lonora5l,
.n al business transactions and 2.
uarc.t.ly able 70 carFy o.. any oo.i-
cations made 5y his firm
Wslding Kiunan 4 Marvin.
wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o
Han, Catarrh Cure is taken inter
ua!ly acsing directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system
Tes,imOn ais cent free Price - cents
per No,tie. Sold by an druggists
TAKE Halls Family Fills for con.
s'ipai'1u dEs
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-09-14

a1yrtllE IKE q concerted movement
among the farmers % destroy the eJ.-
,a- stalks -a-.y e-O1g. 90 D. o. u-cl
value T4ls ta- is g. exception. Iu
.Le entire cotton 5-E .ae oo.,01 is
maturing - rapidly tha' il all be
possible .o- the farmers 20 make :
general movement 20 destroy The
s.aiks. ]. j. o CON psrsiisely sm4l!
value. .1 10 :ar a. the general e:tec;
is cOae---d. .9- t-s farmers %
carry out This policy but T. 8; Is post.
Die % induce 60 many farmers 20 en-
'.- into the moyeme1, tts. o Dr4cti-
cally becomes universal 90 may
N-ey.ls can be destroyed that il viii
5e easier o make a crop next year
We therefore recommend that pub
liz meetings De called In every c5u-.
- and parish In the cotton s:a:es In.
tested w.;a the Veey.l and : strong
public pressure De brough, 20 bear
for The universe! destruction % the
cotton stalks before The lO.a O. Oc.o
Der. Or earlier Z possible i i 10,
Necessary here 20 go TITO details fog
cutting and destroying Ere-y far.
ner knows hos tha, Is done. A. soon
as the stalks are destroyed. deep ,aIl.
break the .and, ;heE lttle late. burn
all the rubbish and grass surround.
.ng the Held l. tha, way almos; the
entire crop % veev!ls vii be destroy.
ID I, should be understood that the
yeevils that cone out the following
season and do damage are those that
mature late n the season and Il there
i no cotton lett standing /, gi.l be 50
io1g before winter ths, the seev!is
must de Th.s advice for des, royiug
The stalks should apply also 20 dis.
'auce Of az leas, fif,y miles 10 advance
Of the present .H'estation Of the wee
Vi! 80 tha, 8, any large number
should leave the Infested territory
and migrate IN the ,1l a. usual. We
sAa, catch them IN the'T -eE amp
iEg ground
!, sss supposed by some Ia. th-
,A,y hCt weather would 50 materially
-,tuce The number Q. geevlls that
soue !a,e crops would be made This
tas %; been the case 20 a.. lpDre.
cable sEtelt. tbs season D T. been
a. exec d.rg'y uut4rorahls oae -:
tl~ cotton planter vR-essiy. lsa'ar
., cr.'lca! period = The crop snd
unusual drOu az another A.. more
hal -o-ua. .nf--iAr!1n Of the wee
E. 4l TIE time up 10 this dIe *
...f % q 'ew limited area. our dem.
ors "a. pl work has proven thar a
good crop o. cotton can be made even
under tl-sr adverse cuncltiCns. bsi o.
To- ul!a.r for one farmer 70 wlnter
ot.r vteyiis % destroy HIS neighbOr's
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-09-14

crop We trust taa: the farmer AL.
10, only destroy his own stalks 5l;
Use hl. Influence 20 secure the de.
s,-gc,.5a o. his re.zhbors We urge
,tz; ,a.s advice De aiken .n Texas
Oklahoma Louisiana, Arkansas and
Mississippi! The plan u worth & thor
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-09-14

U,e A-dnor-.,e Wan. Ads for tha,
rundown business
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-09-14

SPECIAL Agea; in CAarsg
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
They Began to Have the Exclusive
 Use of the Mullins Front FarIor."

him to keep other young men away. happy. Night after night in the Null ins front ps.lor they made love and blissfully agreed that life was well. worth living. or, at least, that it would have been if other people had kindly minded their own business, for by this time the lovers had found out that they were the talk of the whole neigh borhood.
 It was shortly after Maude had celebrated her twenty-seventh birth day that Tom went to her one morning with trouble on his mind
 Darling" he said, your father came to me to-day. I suppose you know why?"
 Its too bad" she replied, that people can't quit bothering them selves about us."
 After all, we've known each other long time. You know I love you with all my heart"
 Yes, dear. And you know I have aever cared for anyone but you"
 We have been very, very happy"
 Very, very happy"
 Why should we put it off any longer? can give you good home our parents are waiting to give us their blessing, and-and-"
 And" she said when he tried to think of the proper word, "why should we go on giving our friends cause to worry"
 This is the way the situation pre-. sents itself to me. darling" he as. sented, taking her in his arms and kissing her the six thousand, seven hundred and eighty-fourth time.
 So they were married and lived un. happily ever after.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
Sparrows Kill Turkeys.

English sparrows kill turkeys In Rhode Island, according to Dr. Philip B. Hadley. They convey the black head" disease, whose fatal prevalence among turkeys is threatening the ruin of turkey farming in the state. Dr. Hadley says that poultry, generally game birds, and some wild song birds, have the amoeba or coccidium, which causes the disease, and so why he lays all the blame to the English sparrow does not quite appear, unless because the little pest has earned so bad a name on other accounts The British grouse are troubled in a way similar to the turkey. And the seri- ousness of the case is illustrated by Dr. Hadley in the statement that whereas 30 years ago Block island alone used to send out more than 40,- 900 pounds year, the turkeys now raised there can only be counted by dozens.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
SPECIAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that spe. cial meeting of the stockholders of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Rail- way Company will be held at the principal office of said Company, in Room 70e. Ms Louis, in the State of Missouri, on the 2d day of February, 1910, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to consider and act upon the following propositions
 taC To purchase and acquire all or any part of the railroads and other property, as- sets and franchises of all or any of the fol- lowing named railroad companies Arkan- kansas Midland Railroad Company, Arkan- sas Southwestern Railway Company, The Brinkley. Helena and Indian Bay Railroad Company. Coal Belt Railway Company, Farmerville Southern Railroad Company, Garland Western Railway Company, Gurdon Ft. Smith Railroad, Gurdon and Fort smith Northern Railway Company, Herrin Railway, Herrin and Johnston City Railway Company, Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway, Little Rock and Hot Springs West ern Railroad Company. The Little ,ts, Rock s Junction Railway. Mississippi River, Ham, burg, and Western Railway Company, Natchez X Western Railway Company, New Orleans & Northwestern Railroad Con- pany. Pine Bluff and Western Railroad Company, Springfield Southwestern Railway Company. St. Louis. Watkins and Gulf Rail- way Company, and Wabash Southern Rail- way Company. c
 (b)f To increase the capital stock of this Company by the amount of $60.000000, such increase of the capital stock to consist of 100000 shares of the par value of $100 each so that the total authorized capital stock shall be $190,000,000
 (c) To consent to, concur in, approve and authorize an increase of the bonded in- debtedness of St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company, by the amount of $25,000,000, by the Issue of Gold Bonds of the Company, limited in the aggregate to the principal amount of $25 100000 at any one time outstanding, and to be secured by a mortgage and deed of trust on and of the whole or part of the railroads and other property and franchises of the Company, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and to consent to, concur In and authorize the execution and delivery of such mortgage and deed of trust, and to consider and act upon the form and terms of such bonds and of such mortgage and deed of trust, and the sale of all or any of said Gold Bonds to The Missouri Pacific Railway Company.
 (d) To ratify the proceedings of the about the matters aforesaid, including the authorization of said bonds and mortgage and deed of trust, and the use to be made of said bonds and to consider and act upon such other business as may properly be transacted at the meeting.
 The stock transfer books of the Company VIII be closed at 8 ?; o,a "A. on on Friday. , tn. the closed tM pI nntiI ii io A % on Thursday, the sd day of February, 1910.
 Dated New York. November IT, 1909. By order of the Board of Directors. GEORGE J. GOULD, A. H. cAL1F, Presldent.
 Secretary.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
Longevity of Birds.
aid.

The Duchess of Bedford, in Brit. ish Birds,' gives some remarkable instances of longevity among birds in her own collection. A Barbary dove which has been in the duchess's pos session for 15 years was left her by an old woman who also owned 1t for 15 years and who always said 1t was an old bird when 1t was given to her. A Chinese goose has been in the pos. session of the family for 67 years A pintail drake which the duchess bought 20 years ago, when 1t was an adult bird, still survives. One bird was taken from the nest in 1852 and died in 1900. ''It was chained by the leg to a small hutch," says the
 hess. "and lived 48 years under
 miserable conditions
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
Set Sensible Fashion.

Queen Alexandra of England is cred ited with having been the means of emancipating English and American children from many foolish and un. comfortable fashions. At the time of her marriage to the heir of the English throne children in fashionable families were rarely seen outside of their nurs- cries, but when the young Danish prin- cess began to keep her children about her and to have her picture taken holding them in her arms the fashion changed and devoted motherhood be- came the hallmark of American and English smartness She also had her sons clothed in comfortable sailor suits and her two daughters the pres ent queen of Norway and the Princess Victoria, were allowed to wear the loose woolen jerseys which are now
 h worn by schoolgirls.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
THROWN OUT AS SUGGESTION
Young Man Had Exhaustsd Many Possibilities, But There Was
 One Thing Left.

T don't know what the worlds com. ing to-" growled the young man seat ed in the corner of the compartment He somehow thought it looked big to be continually finding fault with things generally. Talk about individual rights, where are they?"
 The other passengers were appar- enly content to listen, so the youth continued:
 If I walk on the footpath, I get damned between couple of perambu- lators; if l attempt to cross the street, some idiot of a cyclist is bound to i'm peril his worthless neck and my limbs by arranging a collision; If travel by tram or bus, I can't choose my com pany; if 1 took to swimming to and from the office, some idiot in a boat would brain me with an oar; if could fy-but what's the good of talking? I wonder if there's one single, solitary thing I could do without fear of mo- lestation?"
 Yes replied burly navvy oppo- site; you might die, young 'un,"- Sunday Magazine of Los Angeles Her aid
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
HIS WIFE LAUGHED 1

There's TO place like home" eS ploded Uncle Henry. after she We safely out of ear shot, ">~d, by gra cious, I'm glad of it. what ! mean? Every flreside the cradle oi liberty as the feller says. Then along comes your wife and rocks the cradle.
 and take 1t from me. this home sweet home gig isn't going to cash any pol icy slip I ever saw Not until they do something to give women a sense of humor.
 Now. get this right. They can ap- preciate joke You hear me. Some of the best laughers in the wide, wide world right now are wearir g high-heeled shoes and imported hair.
 Yes, siree, they can appreciate a joke. If they can see it they can. That's it. There you have it, son. If they can see it! That's the trouble. They seldom see it.
 Listen here. Did you see her laugh as she went out? Eh? Well, sir I just told her a joke, regular kind of a funny joke. Is she laughing at my joke, son? She is not Then what the blazes is she laughing at? You don't know. I don't know, she don't know. Can you beat it? Answer: No. you cannot beat it.
 Its a good joke too. Heard it 0f h1 ho was up in Maine this summer and just as he was getting over to Rattlesnake creek he heard a terrible swimming going on there. He went down to the shore and there on the other side of Rattlesnake creek was big turtle crawling away.
 He says the turtle had two rings on his tail and one button on the end, and his shell was mottled yellow and red. He says the two rings probably were for the turtle to go ahead, be- cause that's what the turtle was do ing. And when he saw the button on the end of the tail he knew he'd seen the turtles finish.
 That's some story. Eh? But listen here. I got to thinking about that story and I up and asks him how he makes it out that turtle could have rings and a button on his tail. Rat tlesnakes are the only critters that , .,, u. so;d tb,t w. asy, because when he first saw the turtle on the other side. of Rattlesnake creek he knew in an instant it was cross
 Do you get that? guess that's bad By gum. it cost me dollar six ty to find out about that cross, but | was worth it. I took a cigar myself because I was coming right home ant I didn't want any argument. Here smoke that when you get outside Wife objects to the smell around th' house.
 Well, sir, says, says I. Home fo
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
P ARADISE LOST AGAIN
Copyright, locs. by W. G. Chapman.)
By s. E. RISER

Copyright, 1909. by w. G. Chapman)
 Once there was a boy of ordinary intelligence and attainments, and his name vas Thonas El.s sfully he played with a rosy-cheeked maiden, Mandy by name It made the neighbors glad to see Tommy and Maudy romping care-free together, and Tommy's moth CT did not think Maudy's mother was a slovenly housekeeper. Furthermore, it is a fact that Maudy's mother did not feel that the parents of Tommy were socially impossible. It was agreed that the children were exactly suited to each other; they seemed to agree in their tastes, and they were supremely happy together.
 As they grew up the affection each had for the other failed to diminish. Everybody who knew them took it for granted that they would as soon as they were old enough get married. When Tom was 20 and Maude was IS they began to have the exclusive use of the Mullins front parlor-Mullins being Maudes last name-on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday even ings regularly, and on Monday, Wednes- day and Friday evenings when they were not otherwise engaged. And. oh, how happy they were! Certainly they had lovers quarrels occasionally but these were always quickly made up, with the usual delightful informal ities that attend the adjustment of such differences.
 When Tom was 25 and Maude g he had eyes for no other girl, and she re- garded him as the one man in the world who was absolutely without a fault. By this time people who knew them began to wonder when they were going to get married. Mrs. Fergus said that she should think, seeing
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
FORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY MAN
Invent Varnish That Win Sa-isfy Piano Manufacturers, and Ati!u-
 ence le Yours.

The piano manufacturer was talk ing. "A fortune of million dollars, at least" he said awaits the man who can invent a varnish which will re- spond to changes of temperature in exactly the same rate at which wood responds.
 Everybody who ever has made or owned a highly polished article ot furniture knows that the surface Is liable to break into small cracks--be- come finely cracked-and thus its beauty is lost. This cracking is caused by the fact that sudden changes of temperature affect varnish
 especially fine plano varnish-al- most instantly, while the wood be- meath contracts or expands at diff. terent rate. This splinters tho var nish, and thus far no manufacturer has been able to get the best of the
 situation. We are waiting for this en- irely possible elastic varnish, which when it shall come, will be more well come to the manufacturers of fine fur niture than the flying machine is to he world at large. A plano. delicate
 IS it is, could be stored in an ice house without detriment to. its pol
 shed surface. provided the tempera- ure was kept even, but changes, es- pecially if sudden, are fatal to the beauty of the case"
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30

mine; where in the sacred precincts of my own vine and fig tree says. I'll hand that one over the plate to my soft-voiced spouse says l, and 1t will tie her up,' I says, into shak. ing and complicated tangle of blithe. some merriment,' says l. Likewise. such being the case. l freely opined that my paths would be in sunny places and sweet peace would brood over me, to the third and fourth gen eration thereof. Selah!
 50 I came home, and. take 1t from me, gave it out to her in plain words. No hidden subtleties, you un' derstand but full of corroborative de- tail and. believe me, son. with the bright light of truth and virtue flash. ing from my clear blue eyes.
 You never heard me when l was right in top form, maybe? We'll, son the way I told her that story was right. See what I mean? The turtle wouldn't have had any comeback if he had heard it himself
 And did she laugh? Did she give that imitation of complicated and tangled merriment? Not sort. Nothing of the kind. Nix. She looked me square in the face and she said Well, what about it? says she. Go ahead and tell the joke. says she. Say, that got me mad wouldn't have minded if she had been kidding | me, but she wasn't. I was sore all | my ri U n. dignation and began to hand things | out all in a bunch. I cOmbed things | over pretty general one way and an | other until, I'll. give you my word, couldn't think of anything more tc say that dared to. women being un necessarily touchy at times.
 "'You're the limit I says. as 6 kind of windup. I don't believe you ever saw a joke in your life.' I says and you wouldn't laugh if you did, says.
 "'Henry,' she says just as serious
 don't know but one real funny joke and I've known that a long time. she says. and every once in awhile
 augh myself sick over it. she says | it du dWluily iuuuy Johc, Shc say . and enc is enough for any woman, she says. that's respectable, she says | "'Well, for the love of mackerei put me wise says l. 'No Henry. he says, you wouldn't like it a. all And besides, she says, I don't wan to hurt your feelings she says. Apc hen, take it from me. she laid hel head back and laughed like she'd hay, mysteries.
 Honest, can you beat it? As mar 10 man and without reference to an, present, previous, or contemplated condition of servitude, what do yo, know about that? That gets me, al
 right. There's a woman who onl,
 1nows one joke and misses a chanc, to tell 1t. I don't know, son, some
 imes I give it up. These women ar, | queer lot
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30

they'd been courting ever since tho Ct were babies, it was about fine tnes went to housekeeping, and Mrs. Gum midge declared she couldn't see any sense in people putting it off and Uff year after year when they'd got their minds made up
 By the time Tom had reached Gne age of 27 and Maude was 25 a good many of their acquaintances were pc. ginning to regard the affair as Il scandalous one.
 Why in the world, people asked. didn't they get married? Tom was able to support a wife, and it was shame, if he didn't intend to have her, for
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
Christianity In Japan.

In the Protestant Episcopal mission n Tokyo, Japan. are two boarding schools for girls, which have some go students. The principals and teach CTS are Japanese. with the exception of two foreign missionary teachers Tn st. Paul's college for boys and young men are six hundred students. and there would be many more if they could be accommodated.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
FOR,TAX ASSES SOR

We are authorized to announce c. R, Blake as candidate for Tax Assessor of Nevada County, subj ect to the action of the demo- cratic primaries.
 We are authorized to announce Martin Full Ter, of Parker township as a candidate for Tax Assessor of Nevada county. subj ect to the ac- tion of the Democratic party.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-30
FOR STATE SENATE.

We ard authorized to announce Mir. Luke F. Monroe as a candidate tor the ArkansaSS enate from the Twentieth district. composed of Hempstead and Nevada counties. subject to the action of the Democratic primary.