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money back into his pockets. Seems
90 me-" he unused, 81 amt got 'nuff
pockets to hold all nah wealth"
The big negro jumped at the little
enc. "You hear what | saidr lie de.
handed. as the town bully. an |
wanter know whar you git all dat
money"
Quick as a flash the little negro up
per cut the big one. catching him on
the point of the jaw and knocking
him down. In moment the big negro
revived enough to look up from the
floor and ask humbly, "Niggah, who Is
you anyhow
why" replied the little one, blow
ing his knuckles. us tn pusson you
thought you wuz when you come in."-
Saturday Evening Post.
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So much to dol So little donei
All, yesternight saw the sun
Sink beamless down the vaulted gray,
The CHASTITY ghost of yesterday!
So little donei So much to do!
Each morning breaks on conflicts new.
But, eager, brave, I'll join the fray
And fight the battle of today.
So much to do! So little done!
But when it's o'er-the victory Won
Oh, then, my soul, this strife and sor-
row .-.s r
viii end in that great, glad tomorrow!
James r. Gilmore.
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Knew Where He Belonged.

One stormy morning during a cruise
an officer Of the battleship Missouri
was making his tour of inspection.
While crossing the forecastle he en-
countered coal passer leaning on the
rail in the throes of NAL de mer. With
gruff voice he demanded, Here,
here, my man, where do you belongr
The seasick mans hand went to his
cap In an attempt to salute. "Cleve-
land, o., SIR" he replied.
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Happiness.

If thou workest at that which is be-
fore thee, following right reason Sc
riously, vigorously, calmly, without al
lowing anything else to distract thee,
but keeping thy divine part pure, If
thou should be bound to give it back
Immediately; If thou holdest to this,
expecting nothing. fearing nothing,
but satisfied with thy present activity
according to nature, and with heroic
truth in every word and sound which
thou interest, thou wilt live happy.
And there is no man who is able to
prevent this.-Marcus Aurelius.
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The HeIp He Wanted,

Tim and Clancy were walking
through the wilds of New Jersey,
bound for New York, when Tim spied
a wildcat crouched in the branches of
a tree near the road. Clutching his
companion by the arm and pointing
excitedly to the beast, he said
CLANCY, do yez see thot foine NAL
tese cat? olive a fri'nd on Yasey
street as wud give $40 fur ut. Stand
yez under now, an Oil go up an
shake her dune. All Yell have to do
is to how'd her."
Clancy did as he was told, and Tim
went up and shook and shook till the
cat did absolutely tumble. Clancy
grabbed her When there came a mo-
ment's lull in the cyclone of fur and
Clancy and dust and grass the won
dering Tim. looking on from above.
called down:
"Shall OF come dune. Clancy, an
help how'd her."
Come dune! Come dunep gasped
Clancy. "Come dune an help let her
goP'
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Clever Thievery.

A group of stevedores in New York
were lunching in sheltered nook Of a
wharf One of them went across the
street for a plug of chewing tobacco,
and in his absence another substituted
for his tin of pale coffee and milk his
own tin of milkless black coffee. When
the first stevedore, plug In hand, re-
turned he could hardly believe his
eyes.
well" he said, "Pve heard of clever
thieves, but to swipe the milk out of
fellers coffee beats the bandp
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Modified.

A good old deacon in Connecticut
was very pious and very fond OF
clans. When once upon time he at
tended a Rhode Island clambake ne
overtaxed his capacity and was sorely
distressed. But his faith in prayer
was unabated. Leaving the party ana
going down on his knees behind tree,
he was heard to supplieate: Forgive
me, o Lord, this great sin Of gluttony
Restore my health, and | Will never
eat any more clans" Then, after Ju-
dicious pause: Every few. If any.
Amen"
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The Grip of Gold.

Gold. gold, gold, gold!
Bright and yellow. hard and cold
Molten. craven. hammered and rolled;
Heavy to get and light to hold;
Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold,
Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled;
Spurned by the young, but Rugged by
the old
To the very verge of the churchyard
mold;
Price of many a crime untold.
Gold. gold, gold. gold
Good or bad a thousandfoId!
Thomas Hood.
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No Malice.

A New York policeman, an Irishman,
shortly after his appointment to the
force found himself compelled to ar
rest an old friend who had been dining
bit freely. Resistance to the arrest
met with a clubbing.
"Shure. this amt no way to treat
IN old fri'nd," said the unfortunate
one.
"It amt that hate ye, Cassidy"
said the officer, but simply that I
have tn authority Harper's Weekly.
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The Wonkars.

The other peoples business man per-
sisted In trying to extract information
from prosperous looking elderly man
sext him in the Pullman smoker.
How many people work in your
officer" he asked.
"Oh," said the elderly man, getting
up and throwing away his cigar, 81
should say. at rough guess, about
two-thirds OF them. "-Everybody's.
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Merely an Echo.

He who floats with the current, who
does not guide himself according to
higher principles, who has no ideal, no
convictions-such a man is mere ar
ticle Of the worlds furniture-an echo,
not a voice.-Amiel's Journal.
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He Got Out.

OF the culprits hailed before police
magistrate In New York one Monday
morning there was one, an Irishman,
who had caused no end Of trouble to
the police the Saturday night pre-
ceding.
The magistrate regarded the prison
er with mingled curiosity and indigna-
ton $50 you're the man that gave
the officers so much troubleT' his hon
or asked. II understand that it took
seven policemen to lock you up"
"Yis, your honor" responded the
Celt, with a broad grin, 'but 1t would
take only wan to let me out."-Har-
per's Weekly.
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The Divinity Of Man.

The divinity of man Is indeed won
derful and glorious in the rare and
mighty soul. but how much more so
Is 1t in the humble and common one,
and how far greater a thing is It to
discern and reverence 1t there flames
Russell Lowell.
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Awkward.

Old Mr.. Flaherty was general IA
vorite In the little town where he
lived. The doctor was away nearly all
one summer and did not hear of the
old mans death. Soon after his return
the doctor met Miss Flaherty and In
quired about the family. ending with,
"And how is your father standing the
intense heatP
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
MOTOR TROUBLE
CHECKS FLIGHTS
PLAGUE OF AUT0M0BILISTS
WORRIES AVIAT0RS
WRIGHT MACHINE FORCED TO
MAKE DESCENT
Five Instruction Voyages Are Made
at College Park, Last One
of Which Is Longest
Yet
tBy Associated Press.l

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Oct. "a
Motor troubles" the plague of the
automobilist, today proved also to be
plague of aviators.
While the government aeroplane was
flying 25 feet above the earth will
Lieut.. Frank P. Lahm operating the
levers, the chugging of the motor
ceased. 1t was a new sensation fol
Lahm, but his instructor, Wilbur
Wright, brought the machine safely tc
earth.
1t was found that a careless private
had failed to replenish the gasoline
supply after yesterdays flights.
Five instruction flights were made
today Lieut.. Humphreys having three
to his credit.
In the last fight when Mr.. Wright
was accompanied by Lieut.. Lahm, the
machine remained alOft nineteen min
utes and five seconds, being the long
est flight that had been made at Col
lege Park.
Lieut.. Benjamin Foulers soon Will
begin taking instruction from Mr.
Wright. He gave Mr.. Wright the gov
ernments check today for $2o,OOO as
part payment for the machine pur-
chased from the Wright brothers Tor
the signal corps.
Another $4,000, making the total con-
tract price of $4,000, will be paid when
receiving instructions, are pronounced
accomplished aviators.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
MAKE PROTEST
AT RATE RAISE
MANY DELEGATES CONVENE AT
CINCINNATI
DECLARE RAILROADS PLAN TO
INCREASE PRICES
Representatives of Various Trade Or
ganizations Hold Meeting to
Combat Project of East
ern Lines
LEY Associated Press. ]

CINCINNATI, Oct. 19.-Representa-
tives of trade organizations from st.
Louis, Pittsburg, Chicago, Indianapo-
lis. Columbus, Cleveland. Toledo, Gin
clnnati, Richmond, Evansville, Terre
Haute and other western cities met
here today to make a protest against
what they declare is a campaign on
the part of the railroads for a general
advance in freight rates.
The meeting follows a preliminary
conference held "a week ago in this
city and attended by representatives
of trade organizations of several cities.
The object is to combat the argu-
ments for higher freight rates as made
in a pamphlet issued recently by the
chairman of the Trunk Line associa-
ton.
This pamphlet, in short, makes the
argument that the purchasing power
of railway earnings is less now than
IN 1897 and that therefore freight rates
should be advanced at least 10 per
cent.
The trade organizations aver that
the carriers sworn statements TO the
interstate commerce commission prove
conclusively that there is no need for
reduction in wages and that the
true basis of comparison of railroad
operations is net financial results.
On this basis it is declared that the
carriers sworn statements show the
following:
Net income for railroads in the
United States for 1907 was $449, 461 1888;
for 1897 it was $81, 257, ,5O6 Excess 1907
over 1897 is 1858, ,2O3. 682, an increase of
453 per cent.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
PRESBYTERIANS PROVIDE
FOR CLERGY'S PENSIONS
Chicago Ministers Arrange for Pay
for Superannuated Preachers of
Their Denomination

CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-Pensions for sup
erannuated preachers are provided for
in plans laid before the Chicago Pres
byterian Ministers association at the
regular meeting yesterday.
The proposition has the Endorsement
of thousands of ministers in many
states and such well known citizens as
the late Grover Cleveland, w. j. Bryan
and former President Roosevelt. 1t
provides for: An annuity of $500, be-
ginning at 70 years of age, for minis
ters who have served the church for
at least thirty years.
An annuity of $100, beginning at the
age of 70 for ministers who have served
the church less than 80 years with $40
additional for each year of service.
A disability annuity of 500, with $40
additional for each year Of service in
the Presbyterian ministry for five
years, the total not to exceed $500.
In case of the death of minister,
an annuity to the widow of three
fifths of what would be due and pay
able to the minister.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
CLAIMS JAPANESE EASILY
COULD CONQUER ISLANDS
Question of Safety of Thursday Isle
from Invasion Discussed by
Australian Parliament

VICTORIA, B. c., Oct. 19.-The ques-
ton Of the safety of Thursday island
north of Australia, from invasion by
Japanese was under discussion at Mel
bourne in the Australian parliament
shortly before the steamer Mariana
sailed, and Senator Pearce, late min
lister for defense, said:
cat any time the Japanese of Thurs
day island could overwhelm the gar
rison and capture the Notifications
That's the first thing which would be
done in the event of an invasion"
The senator was speaking to impress
the government that a mistake had
been made in not making provision for
new guns at Thursday island. He
said there were thirty men in the gar
rison, and ten times as many japanese
residents, many of whom were military
officers, and it would be easy for them
to capture the defenses.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
SEEKS TO ANNUL
DECREE OF DIVORCE
Mrs. Grace Guggenhelm's Case Aided
by Former Judge, Who
Says He Was Misled
at Trial

CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-The case where
in Grace B. Guggenheim seeks to have
her divorce from William Guggenheim,
granted by Judge e. F. Dunno in Chi
ciago eight years ago, annulled, came
before Judge Honore today.
Mr.. Dunno, now private citizen
filed the petition as a friend of the
court, declaring that he had been In
formed that he had been misled in
granting the divorce.
Judge Honore declared he would give
due consideration to the statement that
Mrs. Guggenheim seeks pecuniary
benefit in appearing in the case.
It is alleged that when the divorce
was being sought Mrs. Guggenheim
testified that she was bona tlde resi-
dent of Illinois, where as she now
claims she was not a resident of Hi
nois, and therefore the Illinois courts
did not have jurisdiction.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
TAFT WILL SEE
RANCH ROUNDUP
PASSES FIRST DAY ON BIG
GOLF LINKS
PRESIDENT ENJOYS LIBERTIES
OF TEXAS FARM
Secretary Dickinson Goes Duck Hunt
lng-Motor Boats and Autos
Are Provided for the
Party
LBv Associated Press. !

GREGORY, Tex, Oct. 19.-President
Taft arose late today and under leaden
skies went out to the golf links his
brother has had laid out on his ranch
at this place.
The house where he is stopping with
his brother, c. p. Taft, is three miles
from Gregory. This town, however, as
we'll as the larger towns of Taft and
Sinton, are all on the ranch, which
comprises 125,0OO acres.
c. P. Taft has neighboring ranch
of some $4,000 acres. 1t is his inten-
ton ultimately to put the whole place
into cotton.
With the president, in addition to
Mr. and Mrs. c. P. Taft and Miss
Louise Taft, are Secretary of War
Dickinson, Captain A. w. Butt, DR..
J. ]. Richardson and Col. Cecil A.
Lyon, Republican national committee
man.
The other members of the party are
stopping here at the Green hotel, new
ly built, where the executive offices
temporarily are located.
Get Up EARLY
Secretary Dickinson and Capt. Butt
were up early and went hunting ducks.
The president is to be allowed to do
exactly as he pleases and he is enjoying
the experience.
Tomorrow there will be roundup
Of the cattle and sheep on the ranch
for branding purposes, and the pres1-
dent will witness the unusual scenes.
He has spirited saddle horse at
his disporal and a brand new saddle
made especially for him.
There are five automobiles on the
ranch and several motor boats. When
the president arrived here last night
and was conducted by his brother to
one of the machines, he said:
Automobiles, eh, we'll, they tell me
all you rich farmers have them these
days.
The president will go to Corpus
Christi on Friday to address the In
land Waterways association. Until
that time he is going to play golf ana
enjoy himself.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
WIDOW OF MINISTER TO
AUSTRIA PASSES AWAY
Woman Who Used OId-F Fashioned
Equipages and Gowns Dies at
Age of 81 Years

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The death is
announced of Mrs. Eleanor jay, widow
of John Jay, minister to Austria and
mother of Col. William Jay. She was
81 years old. Descended from dis
tinguished ancestor Mrs, Jay occupied
a pre-eminent position in society.
OF recent years Mrs. Jay in spite of
her age was one of the most familiar
figures on Fifth avenue Her carriage
was an old-fashioned vehicle made in
England, it's body shaped like boat:
Mrs. Jay dressed in the fashion of
the Victorian days, wearing either a
broad -brimmed hat or poke bonnet,
Her coachman and footman also wore
old-fashioned livery. No matter how
Indictment the weather she drove daily
from her home in Stuyvesant square
through Central park.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS
VERDIT AGAINST BANKER
Tribunal in Oregon Finds Flnancier OF
Portland GuiIty-Reduces
Sentence

SALEM, Ore, Oct. 19.-The supreme
court handed down an opinion today
affirming the lower court in the case
of j. Thorburn Ross, convicted of Vlo-
lating the state banking law.
Ross was president of the Title Trust
and Guarantee company bank Of Port
land, and the failure of the bank sew
era1 years ago revealed a state of af-
fairs which was taken cognizance of
by the district attorney of Multnomah
county, with the result that Ross was
convicted on various counts and SEN
fenced to an aggregate term of 500
years in the penitentiary.
Today's decision reverses the extreme
sentence, but affirms a sentence of five
years. which Ross now must serve.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
AGED PRIEST FOUND DEAD
AT COLLEGE IN CHICAGO
Pastor Ordained in 1889 Is Asphyxg
lated in Room as Result of
Accident

CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-Rev. Adrian
Van. Hulst, aged SO, one of the oldest
priests in the United States, was found
dead in his room at st. Ignatius col
lege here today of accidental asphyXi-
alton.
Father Van Hulst was ordained a
priest in 1889, and sixty years ago was
a professor of mathematics in ST.
Louis university.
He had been engaged in charitable
work in Chicago for thirty years.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
KIDNAPPED GIRL RETURNED
MYSTERI0USLY TO PARENTS
Policeman Finds Child Wandering
Near Home with Her Head
Wrapped in Long Towel

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Jennie Lopez,
the 414-year-old girl who was believed
to have been kidnapped while at play
in front of her nome in East Thirty
ninth street September . last, was
mysteriously returned to the vicinity
of her home before daylight today.
A policeman found the child alone
in the darkened street, two blocks from
the tenement occupied by her parents
A long towel was wrapped several
times about the childs head, either to
tity.
Since the girl was stolen her father
who is a prosperous fruit dealer, had
received numerous letters demanding
large sums of money and threatening
to injure or kill the child if the ran
som was not paid.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
PATTERN COMPANY BUYS
EVERYB0DY'S MAGAZINE
Rutterick Publishing Concern Secures
Stock of the Ridgeways and
Will Increase Capital

NEW YORK, Oct 19.-The stock of
the Ridgeway company publishers of
Everybody's Magazine, will be taken
over by the Butterick Publishing COM
pany, and the capital of the latter con-
cern will be increased from $12,OOOOOO
to $15,0O0,000.
Approval of this proposed increase
In capital stock was voted today by
the stockholders Of the Butterick com
pany
The Ridgeway stockholders will re-
ceive Butterick stock on the basis of
three shares of Butterick for one of
RidgeWay.
Herman ]. Ridgeway, it was an
nounced, would remain in charge of
Everybody's, which eventually may
be printed in the Butterick plant.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
OIL PIPE LINE RAPIDLY
is BEING CONSTRUCTED
Bio Force of Men at Work Putting in
Conduit Through Petroleum
Fields

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Oct. 19.-Rapid
progress is being made on the con-
struction work of the Producers Trans
portation Pipe line which is to cover
Coalinga, Kern river, McKittrick and
the Maricopa oil fields.
From McKittrick north ten miles of
trenches have been dug and several
miles of pipe laid.
From Dudley in Talare county south
q big force of men is at work and a
third gang is Npushing the line through
the Palomi pass from the coast.
1t is expected the oil will be flowing
through the lines by January I. Big
storage tanks are being built at central
points along the line.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
SAYS LOVES BALLOON
RECORD DAS EXCEEDED
ST. Louis Claims John Wise Made
Longer Journey, 60 Miles
an Hour

ST. LOUIS, oct. 19.-The controversy
over the long distance balloon speed
record which resulted last night in the
unearthing of the fact that Prof. 7. 8
c. Lowe. head of the Lowe observatory
covered 500 miles in nine hours II
April, 1861, took a new turn today
when it was claimed here that JohI
E. Wise had surpassed this speed two
years earlier.
Wise's voyage, according to loca
records. started from st. Louis anc
ended at Henderson, N. Y. He sailed
over this stretch of territory, 1850 miles
in an air line, in nineteen hours. max
ing fraction over sixty miles an
hour.
Professor loves rate was 55 5-E
miles an hour.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
INTERNATIONAL BANKING
CONCERN OPENS BRANCH
Corporation Establishes Institute at
Hankow-Is an American Aggre-
cation to Develop Trade

PEKING, oct. 19.-The International
Banking corporation opened branch
bank at Hankow today.
The International Banking corpora
ton is an American concern, and was
the first American house to enter the
banking field in Peking, where it
opened an office last June. It's purpose
is to develop the trade of this country
in the far east.
The Hankow branch is the
eighteenth opened, others being located
at Honkkong, Canton and Shanghai.
China, and in Japan, British India,
the Philippines and South America. Its
home office is in New York city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
AUTO DEALER AND FRIEND
KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Well Known San Diegan and Doctor
Meet Death Under Machine
on Curve

SAN DIEGO, oct. 19.-While return
ing from Pomona early this morning,
Clarence e. Hunt, a well-known local
automobile man, and DR.. Edward
Grove of this ely, met death when the
automobile in which they were riding
turned turtle on the Mussey grade.
Details are meager but it is sup
posed the machine went over the grade
embankment at a sharp turn in the
road as it was found at daylight, up
side down, with Hunt smashed to death
beneath, and DR.. Grove unconscious
by it's side. DR.. Grove died a short
time later.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
SEES HIS WIFE SWEPT BY
WAVE FROM SHIP AND DIE
Woman Drowned While Husband Is
PowerIess to Aid Her-other
Narrow Escapes

VICTORIA, B. c., Oct 19.-Swept
away by great sea which washed the
decks of the Canadian-Australian lin
er Mariana which arrived here at noon,
Mrs. T. Sampson of Brisbone, was
drowned before her husbands eyes
during a gale when the liner was an
hour out from Sydney.
Ia Many others had narrow escapes.
Steward Noble was swept against the
rail, clinging to two little girls rescued
by him, Fireman Anderson suffered
fractures of both legs, and from is to
20 passengers and seamen were swept
in a maelstrom of broken deck fittings
but only one life was lost.
Mrs. Sampson was swept against the
rail with such force that it broke and
she was carried into the sea. Life
buoys were thrown and boat made
ready for lowering. but it would have
been madness to lower it even had the
unfortunate woman been sighted after
the vessel was hove to, as the warning
cries were heard on the bridge.
Mrs. Sampson was % years old. Her
husband is engaged in the fruit busi-
ness at Brisbane.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
FOUR TREATY PORTS IN
CHINA WILL BE OPENED
Government Announces Harbors in
Chen Tao Will Be Free
to Vessels

PEKING, Oct 19.-The government
announced today that the four treaty
ports in Chen Tao would be opened
November 2.
The treaty ports in Chen Tao were
provided for in the agreement reached
between Japan and China, and signed
at Peking on September last and
which was destined to settle the Chen
Tao boundary dispute between the two
countries.
Japan recognized the Tumen river as
the boundary between Korea and
Manchuria and promised to withdraw
all her officers from the Chen Tao
district.
On the other hand China agreed to
open to foreign trade the towns of
Lun Chin Chun Chut Sueha Tacto
Kou and Peik Osi in Chen Tao.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20
Strikers Return to Work

ORANGE, N. J., oct. 19,-After be
ing out on a strike since January Is
last. 1900 employees of r. V. Conett &
Co. with hat factories here and
at Newark, went back to work today.
other factories are still holding out
against the strikers. According to the
agreement between the Conett COM
pany and the union, the use of the
union label, which was the basis of the
dispute, is to be optional as ordered
nv the customers