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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11

my days. I'm kinder rot on you, you
zee, and l don't want nobody else"
During the next month things went
along as usual, and there was no fur
ther reference to matrimony. Then
Abel was sent for, and as he reached
the widows house she said:
"Abel, my sister. over at Tompkins-
Vile. Is sick and has sent for me. I'm
goin' over and may be gone three or
four days"
"Well, III run things the best | can
while you're gone" he replied.
"What want you to look out for In
particular is that old speckled hen.
You know I've had her for the last
ten years, and I've learned to think a
good deal of her. she hain't well tall
Jest now. and i hate TO go away and
leave her. She's got signs of the pip.
and II should come back and find her
dead 1t would almost break my heart.
Abel, l want you to be kind to her.
want you to sympathize with her.
want you to doctor and nurse her"
''I'll do 1t, Aunt Martha. I'll jest put
In all my time nursin' her up. I'll be
jest as kind to her as i would be to a
baby"
That's good OF you. She's only a
critter but when one gifts use TO crit
ter he can even love an old speckled
hen. she amt laid an egg for these
five years past but she's got a hold OH
my affections for the eggs she used TO
Il. oh 10 Ir1 Il
with double yolks, and one time she
fit and licked chicken hawk"
you go right on, wilder, and leave
1t all to me-" said the farmer "Ill do
jest as much for that old hen as
would for a brother. / hain't sot w
night for the last twenty years, but
If she's taken bad / shan't close my
eyes till you git back"
The widow departed, and half an
hour later Abel was carrying the old
hen home under his arm. The three
days went past. and the widow re-
turned. She had only entered her
house when the farmer appeared with
the hen In basket. He had her
wrapped In red wooden cloths. She
smelled Of camphor and various lini
ments. Her toes had been trimmed
and creased, and he had applied salve
to her comb. With proud deliberate
ness he removed wrap after wrap and
finally reached the last end and set the
hen down on the floor with:
There she is, Aunt Martha, and jest
as good as she was five years ago. I've
worked over her for three days, and
I'm tellin' you there hain't a hen il
the hull county can come up to her"
How splendid Of you, Abel-hov
splendidr' gasped the widow, and as
if to corroborate her words the her
raised her head, swelled out her breas
and tried to give utterance to a crow.
See that-hear that, widder?' asked
Abel.
Yes, l do, and, oh, Abel"-
Us your heart teched, widder?"
1T is, and-and"-
"And you'll be miner
That was In March, and they wer,
married in May, and the old specklet
hen was alive at last accounts anC
making efforts to return TO her duty.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11

Week by week tie 'tarv Of gold
continues. This week snoft shows
the gold holdings of the Bank of
France to be $94, 100000 above what
they were a year ago gad 100000
above the highest fslo e~er reached
by them prior to 1905 ~ ne sod inn.
ported by Paris from ne III 10 the
oath of September, l..-..,o5 francs
went into the Bank O. - nee Yet in
the face of this movement all recent
bank balances show the, continued fall
ing of in commercial discounts and in
bank advances or loans on securities
So far the gold arrivals have certainly
not lessened the apparent demand for
gold. The Bank of France and the
other banks. in measure are seem.
ingly boarding gold aitst future
needs. Some say thai his is the les.
son they have learned from the none.
tary crisis.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
The Old
Speckled Hen.

Copyright. 1905. by T. C. Mcclure.

The Thompsons and the Browns
farmers, had been neighbors for ten
years, when In the same year Abel
Thompson was left widower and
Of people said It would be only natural
for the two TO marry after year or
so, but what the principals In the
case thought of IL did not come out
for over two years. The farmer
and the widow saw each other every
day during this time She continued
to run her farm by the help of a hired
man, but he was more or less interest
ed. They sat together of evenings and
talked OF everything but what other
people were talking about.
1t was one evening in winter after
the farmer had imbibed quart of
cider and eaten three or four apples
and realized the loneliness of his own
home that he hitched around on his
chair for awhile and then said:
"Widder, there was windmill man
along today. He wants to put up a
mill for me In the spring"
'Yes, windmill men come long about
once In so often" she replied.
"He pears to have a purity good
mill"
"Yes?
"And the price is purity reasonable"
"Yes?"
1--WE wasn't talkin' about windmills
all the time" continued Abel as he
motioned for another glass of cider.
I'VE was talkin' about other things"
"They are great folks to CAB. I've
known 'em TO hang around all day and
do nothin' but talk"
"That windmill man said folks was
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
PhiIadeIphia.

Philadelphia is the home OF the
Declaration of Indepf ndence; the
birthplace of the Constitution OF the
United States; the city which brought
forth the Bill OF Rights; the city which
gave us the American flag: the home
of William Bradford's "Kalendarium
Pennsylvaniense; or, Americas Mes
senger;" the home of "Buttonwood
church," home of Ben Franklin and
his Poor Richard Almanac" home of
the first American Junto. club for
mutual improvement (basis OF the
American Philosophical society (;
home OF the original Tammany soci-
ETY.; meeting place of the First CONT
mental Congress; seat of the United
States government; first hot air bal
loon ascension In America! first gas
light in America; first United States
custom house.-N. Y. Press.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11

THERE MUST BE TIMES WHEN YOU'D LIKE
TO HAVE NAN AROUND"
wonderin' why l didn't git married
agin."
what impudence?'
"He said folks was a-sayin' that 1t
was my duty to-"
"Humphv'
"And he said folks was wonderin'
why you didn't git married agin."
"Just as II 1t was anybody's bust
nessv' snapped Aunt Martha.
HE said folks said 1t was yor.
duty"
"Well, If folks will ate il 10 their
own business I'll attep1 to my duty.
I'll tell 'em so If they come talkin' to
me. 1 hope you didn't encourage him
to keep on gabbin'!'
Moo. hadn't much to say, though
after he'd gone l did considerable
thinkin'. I'm lonely man, Aunt Mar
| tha"
You orter git a fiddle and learn to
play on It."
"Shoi / hain't talkin' about fiddles.
I'm a-sayin' that II had wife around
the house things would be different.
Just another swaller of that cider.
please. I'm thinkin' you've got the
best cider In the neighborhood. Yes,
Aunt Martha, things would be differ
emit"
well, why don't you go and git mar
ried them"
Gosh hang 1t, will That's what l
come over here this evenin' for. Aunt
long time. l know you are a mighty
good woman, and you know I'm a
purity good man. Our farms jine, and
can run two farms as well as one.
You must be lonesome too. There
must be times when you'd like to have
q man around the house to manage
things. You've got twenty-eight hogs,
and II the cholera breaks out among
'em what on earth you goin' to do?
was a-thinkin' to myself last night
abel, stop right there" said the
widow. kindly, but emphatically. II
know you to be a good man, but
hain't In love with you. You haven't
teched my heart yet. Until you do
don't want to talk about marriage.
You jest go right along bein' good and
feelln' lonesome, and II / find my love
bein' aroused I'll tell you So"
That's only fair" said the sutton as
he rose up to go. II hain't one to drive
a woman into marriage as one drives
hogs. I'll keep right on and take your
word for 1t, and II you find you can't
love me I'll stay single all the rest of
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
Lincoln Farmers Club.

The Lincoln Farmers Club will
meet the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Garnet Brownridge FRIDAY, Feb. -.
at 10:30 O'Clock a. IN.
Song-Club.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Welcome Address-G. Brownridge.
Response M. r. Castel.
Music.
Dinner.
Music.
Roll call with quotations.
Instrumental Music-Mr. and Mrs.
Wood and Mrs. Wright
Topic-''Soil Fertility" or keeping
up the Fertility of the Soil. 4"
Discussion led by Mr. d. Burdick
followed by Messrs Wilson. Willoug h.
by. Yeiter and others.
Select Re ading-Mrs. Wright.
Vocal Solc-Miss Pearl Mitchell.
Secretary's report and busine meet
ing.
Topic Feeding and Care of the
Poultry with Regard to Winter Lay
ers. - ~
Discussion led by Mrs. GARNER, fol
lowed bv Mesdames Wilson, woodin
Zufelt and others.
Recitation-Miss Ruth Bush.
Vocal Solo-Thelma Livingston
Question box-Mr p. w. Britten.
Closing Song-Club
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11

II seems strange that NO attempt
has been made In any country to found
factory system without calling upon
mere children to pay the biggest sac
riflce in life and limb. IL was the
same in England at the beginning
toddlers OF eight years of age were
sent into the mills during the first 35
years of the nineteenth century. II
was the same In the northern states
Of America II IL the same to-day In
the southern states. II 10 the same
In Japan-the worlds latest recruit to
the factory system. And 50 II is the
same In India-London Cooperative
News.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
ELM HALL

The NJ. e. quarterly meeting was
held at the M. E. church here Sunday
forenoon. District Superintendent Rev
French of Lansing, was in attendance
He was entertained during his stay by
Rev. A. r. North of Riverdale,
Floyd Oliver and wife of Mesick, are
spending week with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Oliver.
Just think, only two more days tc
attend Delbert Hicks great money saw
ing, pre-inventory sale.
The Free Methodists have purchased {
new stove for the church and will burr
coal hereafter.
Will Rings, our rural carrier, boast.
that he has the corner in obliging patron,
as he found fairly good roads everyday
during last weeks snow. The patrons
are equally pleased with the service.
VIM. Pratt was reported some better
Monday.
Chas Num-, James Toy and Ton
Morton were'in Ithaca on business, Fri
day.
Mrs. u. J. Dyer is very ill, but i
thought to have improved slightly dur
ing the past week.
Mrs. Seneca Sly is on the sick list
DR.. Gardner of Riverdale is caring 70
her.
The Free Methodist quarterly meet
ing begins Friday evening, Februar.
26th, and continues over Sunday.
George Allen of Breckenridge, was il
town Tuesday.
Mr.. Fox Of Lansing spent day her
this week.
Keep in mind the Valentine social Il
Blair's hall. Saturday night.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
Dolls Become Idols.

lady missionary recently left
Croydon for Qua hoe. on the west
coast of Africa. taking with her q
large assortment of dolls 20 give to ma
tive girls.
On arrival, however. the missionary
already there decided that the intend
ed gifts should not be distributed. be
cause it is explained. the instinct OF
worship would in all probability exalt
the dolls to the position of idols" so
they are all being sent back to Eng
land.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11

The oldest structure in the world
originally built for a railroad station
is the now disused L. & n. depot In
Lexington 1t was begun in 1888.
From the northwest corner of this
building the first passenger railway
car west of the Alleghenies started on
its daily run to Frankfort. 1t has
been used for almost three-quarters
of century, and stands as a land
mark to remind the present genera
ton of the old order OF things in Lex
ington and central Kentucky.-Lexing.
ton (Ky) Herald.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
Don't Be Deceived by Noise.

Because half dozen grasshoppers
under fern make the field ring with
their importWate chink. while thou.
sands OF great cattle. reposed beneath
the shadow OF the British oak. chew
the cud and are silent, pray do not
imagine that those who make the
noise are the only inhabitants OF the
field: that of course they are many IA
number; or that. after all, they are
other than the little shriveled. meager.
hopping. though loud and troublesome
insects of the hour.-Edmund Burha
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11

Continued from page one.

Continued from page one.
together. That this is no idle theory
is shown by the fact that within six
months of the completion of the Los
Alamitos factory there had sprung up
about it town of 500 people with
comfortable homes; the completion of
the factory of the Southern California
company next June will doubtless heir
greatly to build up the environs of
Santa Ana.
F. p. Case. the last five years gen.
eral manager of the st. Louis. Mich.
Sugar Co.. has resigned his position
and has interested himself with the
new company at Santa Ana and will
shortly remove TO that state and make
it his permanent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Farmer.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
les worth ProperIy understood.

The Hartford Courant celebrated re-
Gently the one hundred and forty.
fourth anniversary of its foundation.
The oldest journal in continuous pub
LEGATION in America, with becoming
modesty, made no splurge on its BIRTH
day. only briefly referring to the mat
ter in an editorial paragraph. I'VE are
used to birthday anniversaries says
the Courant, they chase each other
along so fast that We sometimes lose
the count. This one, we are pleased
to remark finds us in our usual health
and still enjoying the perpetual youth
that comes of being produced anew
each morning"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
Electricity and Railroads.

There are now in the United States
almost 10000 miles of electrical rail.
roads, not including the former steam
railroads which are using this power
at the terminals. There are plenty
of men living who remember when
there were not so many miles Of
steam railroads in the country. The
trolley, which was at first a purely
urban institution. has become a COM
petitor with steam. and 1t seems GER
tain that few generations hence cleo
tricity will be the great motive pow
er on all railroads unless some inven-
ton of a superior quality Is brought
out to supplant both.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
Almos. incredible Brutality.

Frances Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty TO Animals has taken action
against a cinematograph company for
an act OF unprecedented brutality to a
horse In a series of pictures called
THE Lovers Revenge" a carriage
drawn by horse was Seen to rush
over the edge of cliff and be dashed
to pieces. The pictures had not been
faxed. An old blind horse harnsssed
to a carriage was really driven over
the edge of the cliffs near Boulogne to
obtain them.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11

1ienne. will be the attraction at
: Theater for two performances
The Real Essay night, February
-surday matinee. February
Ae Boys and Betty" was
lor Miss Cahill by George "
mr. IVY who supplied the books and
bhnd Silvio Helm who composed
rrc,,sr music. and Ii is said that not
she has been star has she had
NO Vehicle so much to her liking this
/binion being shared by every critic
An New York city. The scenes of the
new play being laid in Paris and
n the story is a consistent one that
might be PLAYED without any music at
! all and still prove an attractive
evening entertainment. The character
of Betty is that of generous. whole
souled, witty woman who mothers a
lot of aspiring artists. She Is married
TO q WORTHLESS scamp who finally adds
desertion to his other iniquities.
Further, he commits bigamy and then
everything ends happily as il should
in musical comedy. Miss Cahill
~ % nA oAtoAohe SOhRehJ III hoh SUI
port being Eugene Cowles, Edgar
Atchison Elv. Harriet Burt. Sam B.
HARDY. Anna Mooney. James Carson,
J Wallace McCutcheon and Macy Har.
lam. There is big chorus of pretty
girls.
Mail order sale for seats is now open.
Among the other star attactions
shortly to appear at Powers are Franz
Daniels In Hook of Holland, >
Wednesday. February IA; "A Girl al
d the Helm Friday and Saturday,
February 10 and 20; The Servant ~
- the House." the week of February
a2nd, openine with q matinee OF
Washington's birthday and Louis
James in "Peter.0ynt, March I.
and 3.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
The Gettysburg Address,
Remarks at the Dedication of the National Cemetery Gettysburg
November 49, 1868

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to
- created
We dedicate
- for those who i've
fitting and should
dedicate
ground. have
far above add The world will little
ember
- living o
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
MISS MARIE CAHILL.
Will Appear Al Powers February IL and 18Th
Saturday Matinee. =,

~tisN Marie Cshill. the popular
1ienne. will be the attraction at
: Theater for two performances
The Real Esfsy night, February
-.urday matinee. February
La Junta tribune., 1909-11-27

to have crop Of peaches when he
takes this precaution, and never had
. peach from q single tree that he
neglected TO lay down and cover for
tAa Ripie. ssAssa.
Mr. Berry says he will be ready
early next spring to lide by the
proposition that he made some Of
our business men during the progress
OF the Farmers Fall Festival. and
that Is to grow anything that grows
hereabouts and make special ef-
fort TO win some Of the prizes at
the state fair next year. or any other
fair. including the fall festival. II
the business men Of La Junta are
willing to Join him In the effort. and
liquidate the expense involved. he
will put In his experience and make
strenuous endeayor to win all OF
the first prizes. He is quite conf
dent Of his ability to do SO.
La Junta tribune., 1909-11-27

tour through Kansas looking for con-
tracts for his ditching machine. Be-
fore leaving the state he landed \
contract at Holly to put In the trench
O. fos . new sewer system about To
be Installed there. At st. John. Kan.
he landed another contract. the total
for the two points amounting to over
$1,000. Mr.. DoWner says that every.
one Is prospecting In Kansas and that
all have money to burn is evidenced
by the fact that nearly every resident
owns an automobile. Towns. one
half the size Of La Junta, usually
have between 200 and 800 automo-
bilcs. La Junta has not acquired the
habit as yet. the limit In this town
being In the neighborhood Of thirty.
La Junta tribune., 1909-11-27

time. Msssrs. RESELL. S. H. Kilgore
and Spaas. secured for school pur-
poses. without cost. the whole Of
block -. where Lincoln school nov
stands. otAse sntsrpstsins citissAs
b 1851. formed . syndicate OF ten,
who gobbIed up the then unsoid por-
ton Of the town site. several hun.
drod lots. ct . cost OF 325. 900.
II must not b supposed that 70
large . cash sum ~ this was avail.
able In those early days. The buyers
managed TO raise $500 each. making
. total Of 5000. The rest OF the
purchase money was derived from
sales. and the shrewd spectators
managed TO realize from their invest.
ment the Dutchman's proverbial ten
per cent-that il. IS. 900 taken out for
each $500 put In.
At IN earlier date lin 1850 the
railroad company acquired by gift. for
. Company Hospital. the tract Of
eight scses now known as the Hos
pital grounds. east OF the original
town site: also. at . cost OF $500. the
tract Of about nine acres lying north
La Junta tribune., 1909-11-27

Of the Hospital grounds. 4 part Of
which was afterward plated, l be-
lieve, ~ an addition to the town.
Some interesting comparisons might
- aaAs between ~ ou1n1DOO0nD'
sctions and some Of more recent date.
but these recollection" have already
becouD perhaps unduly voluminous.
T. r. WOODRUFF.
La Junta. November -. 1903.
La Junta tribune., 1909-11-27
Insured Peach Crop for Next Year.

Z. N. Berry. Of the Garden Of Eden.
three miles west. was In town yes
terday. and says he has just COM
pleted the work OF laying down and
covering 5s6 peach trees. which he
thinks Is surer and better insurance
for = peach crop for next year than
all Of the smudse pots and orchard
hesoers that were invented. He will
have no cause to worry about the
brand Of weather that exists here
abouts until next spring when the
trees are In bloom and all danger Of
frost 10 past. He has never failed
La Junta tribune., 1909-11-27
Rufus Phillips New Buick.

X. S. Anderson. OF the La Junts
Automobile and Machine Company An
W. L. Andrews. went to Pueblo Wed
nesday on the noon train. returning
home the same day In the new Buick
automobile recently purchased by X
Phillips.
La Junta tribune., 1909-11-27
pownse Lands More Contracts.

g. n. Downer returned home last
Monday morning from prospecting
Morris tribune., 1909-09-04
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS

The establishment of the postal savings
bank is likely to be one of the things which will
receive most attention at the next session of
congress. The president favors it and will urge
it in his message. The Republican platform
declares for it,
In view of the result the pledge of tariff re-
vision, that fact may not be entitled to much
weight, but the opposition will not be strong
as it was against downward revision.
Whatever of opposition there is will come
from the bankers. Some of them are opposed
because they think the government is interfer-
ing with their business.
1t is assuming good deal to try to instruct
another man about his business, but it is by no
means clear that it will interfere with their
business permanently. 1t may slight
temporary diversion of funds which would or
dinarily go to the regular banks, but in the long
run the temptation of a higher interest rate
the government proposing to pay not over per
cent-will bring into the regular banks about
all they have been receiving heretofore; and
before long they will probably have new de-
positors whom they would never have had if
there had been postal savings bank. For,
the chief benefit to be derived from the postal
bank will be the stimulus it will give to the
saving habit 1t is expected that many thous-
ands who now have no bank accounts of any
kind will become depositors with the govern
ment because of the greater convenience to
small depostors as we'll as because of the great
err confidence in the government. 1t will be as
attractive to the small depositor government
insurance of deposits and attended with in
initely less risk to the government.
The money received in the postal banks
will be loaned to the regular banks, national
and state, so that the objection of withdrawal
of money from use into government hoard is
not serious.
The bankers, however, object to paying 212
per cent for money which might come to them
without cost The postal banks will not get
much that would go into the regular banks in
the form of checking accounts, and if the banks
get the postal saving deposits for 21a per cent,
the rate at which it has been proposed to lend
it, they will get it cheaper than the usual rate
paid by them for time deposits
But aside from any benefits or losses to the
commercial and savings banks, the great argu-
ment for the postal bank is the convenience to
the public in the receipt of deposits where there
are no banks and the stimulus that it is expect
ed will be given to the saving habit. 1t will
tend to greater thrift and less careless and ex-
travagant expenditure on the part of people OF
small means and raising of the average of
individual wealth. And anything that will do
that must be attended with more serious OBJ
jections than have been raised against the pos
tai savings bank in order to justify it's rejec-
tion.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Morris tribune., 1909-09-04

The national land lotteries have grown to
the proportion of public scandal. Enough
spent by the people who registered for the
recent drawings in the West to more than buy
the reservations outright. Not only is the
financial loss to the people great, but it is need
less and extravagant. More than this, gamb-
ling spirit is promoted, and often the land goes
to those who are undeserving, or have prac-
teal knowledge of farming. Furthermore, many
innocent people travel great distances with the
expectation of getting land and all they do get
is chance at some land. In spite of the scan
dalous nature of this procedure, the govern
ment is planning to rattle off the Cheyenne
and Standing Rock reservations in the Dakotas
in this discredited manner