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The Carlisle independent., 1909-06-10
NOT HIS, BUT WHOSE WAS IT.?
Question of Street Car Ethics That Has Proved Great Puzzle to
 Lucinda.

Sitting opposite to me in the car went down town in this morning." said Lucinda, was a man. No, noth- ing remarkable about that, but something happened presently that made him of interest to me.
 "On the same side with me but two or three seats down sat woman who at the next crossing got up to leave the car and as she left her seat and started for the door the man sitting opposite spoke to her:
 Madam, is that yours?'
 "He pointed at something in the seat that the woman had just left; and she looked around and looked at it and said: No, that .sn't mine, and passed on.
 What it was that he had thus pointed out I couldn't see because there was somebody sitting between me and it; but in a minute the man sitting opposite got up and came over and got it and then went back with it and sat down again in his seat; and then I saw what it was. It was small pasteboard box. He looked it over a little and then in a minute he opened it and looked into it. and as he held it I could see into it as he opened it, and there were in it a few candies. Somebody who had brought this box into the car had eaten out of it all the candies they wanted and then had just left the box on the seat.
 Then of course wondered what the man who had found it would do about it; whether he'd keep it or leave it or what he'd do; and in minute he laid it down on the seat beside him. didn't feel certain that he was going to leave it there for good; and when we came along to where l wa5 going to get off he sat forward little. get ting ready to get up-he was going to get out there too-and I thought I'd wait and let him go first so that could see.
 When the car had stopped and we were both standing up and I was hold ing back for him he held back politely for me and I had to go first; but I managed to look around enough as went to see him pick up the box. He held it in his hand as he passed out of the car, but when he had stepped off he dropped it in his pocket.
 Now of course what he should have done was either to leave it in the car or hand it over to the conductor to be taken to the lost and found depart ment It wasn't his; but there it was. | left in the car by somebody who ap- parently had got through with it. It wasn't his. but it wasn't anybody's- and he took it. What would you have | done about it?"
The Carlisle independent., 1909-06-10

at the light and one hand idly drum ming on the desk before him, of the pair who were in the garden-discuss- ing books, he told himself with an odd, bitter smile
 There had been a time when Ark wright was wont to joke among their friends about the congeniality of his wife's and Cartons tastes, and to pro- test that he was growing jealous, but that was long ago, before his eyes were opened to the truth.
 He wondered how long the-it had gone on before he had found it out. how long he had been that most pitt able of human beings, the man who is being fooled.
 There was no bitterness in his heart towards her. only deep pity and a keen regret that he had persuaded her to marry man she did not love.
 She had told him this quite frankly before their marriage, but it had not made him afraid. In time, he was con fident, he would be able to win her heart; such love as his must beget an answering love, he reasoned in his folly.
 In spite of his pain, Arkwright found something ludicrous in the knowledge that Carlton had succeeded where he had failed, he who in the outside world was called a successful man while Carlton-well, there was nothing against Carlton. but then there was nothing to him either, Arkwright thought.
 As yet neither of the pair suspected that he knew. He had gone on as usual letting them, if they took the trouble to think about the matter. be. lieve him still the fool
 He had a vague feeling that this pretense of being blind was not the straightforward course (and Ark wright above all things had always prided himself on being straightfor- ward), and yet. after all, what could he do? What was there to do?
 Perhaps some time in the near flu ture death would solve the difficulty. Arkwright hoped so and, since he seemed to be a fifth wheel, that he would be the one to go, which was un- selfish of him, when one considers that he was well and strong and did not want to die.
 He did not blame Edith-such re- sentiment as he felt was all for Carl ton-but it hurt him to have to think of her as hypocrite. Why need she have urged me to go to the garden to- night? Why need she always go through the pretense of asking me to accompany them everywhere" he nut
The Carlisle independent., 1909-06-10
The Fifth Wheel By INA BREVORT ROBERTS
Copyright. by J. B. Lippincott Co)

Dinner was drawing to a leisurely close. A little breeze, welcome after the heat of the day, came in through the lace curtains and swayed the flow CTS on the table, around which sat Arkwright and his wife and their guest, Oliver Carlton.
 There were not many evenings now adays when Oliver was not in what had grown to be called MT. Carlton's place" In town he was always dropping in on some pretext or other late in the afternoon, and they had fallen into the habit of expecting him to remain to dinner
 Here at their summer home other guests came and went, but Carlton stayed on, occasionally going up to town for a few days, but always re- turning sooner than he had intended. ly to be wondered at The Arkwrights were charming couple; young and rich, besides having delightful way of making their guests welcome.
 As for Carlton, that young man talked business with Arkwright. dis cussed books with his wife, and was in many ways a pleasant person to have about.
 Mrs. Arkwright rose with the gentle grace natural to her and moved to- wards the door, her husband and Carl ton following. These two never lin gered at the table after she left it.
 In the hall Arkwright left the others, turning his steps in the direction of the library. His wife's' eyes followed him.
 Wont you come out to the garden with us?" she asked; it is cooler there"
 .Yes, do come" urged Carlton: tits much too warm to stay in the house.
 Arkwright shook his head: he had letters to write, he gave as excuse Carlton and Mrs Arkwright passed out tokthe cool Hardness of the gar den, while the master of the house went into the libary, not to write but to sit and think, with eyes staring
The Carlisle independent., 1909-06-10

France, even once, much less to te turn for the ingathering of the spir- itual harvest. It is impossible to know in any detail what are the re- suits of all this work. The majority of the French people seem to believe that religion is the enemy of repub- licanism and that republican form of government cannot exist where re- ligion is tolerated. And, in the minds of the majority of Frenchmen, the word religion" is synonymous with Catholic"
 But all this time the McAll Mission has suffered under no such disability It is not church, but Peoples Mis- sion, and being by definition friend of the people it is therefore friend of the republic. q like to come here be- cause there is no religion here"- meaning no ritual or ceremonial-is frequently said in a mission hall. No penalty, social or legal is visited upon the man who enters a hall of the Me All Mission, or walks with one of it's missionaries. or calls one of them to officiate at a funeral. To those who know it, tEe mission is a friend. an agency for their instruction and for the moralization and the safe and in- nocent recreation of their children.
The Carlisle independent., 1909-06-10
Reoan to Be Worried.

Little George, who was four years old, had been told many Bible stories. Among them was the story of the flood and the building of the ark by Noah.
 One day a storm threatened The clouds grew darker, the wind arose, and suddenly the rain began to fall.
 "Auntie," said George. do you think it is going to storm?" Yes, I think it will" was the reply.
 Do you think it will be a hard storm?" asked the little fellow.
 Yes, I think it will be a hard storm" the aunt replied.
 Well, don't you think some of us had better begin building an ark?" L. asked.-Los Angeles Herald.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03
GOOD LAW WITHOUT JUSTICE.

Really that man Balnger is the most aw-abiding man
record. ~
He seems to find legal for not doing more good
things than anybody else in Washington and that is going
some.
Here is case in point
Under the Roosevelt regime the United States forestry
department among other things supervised the cutting of
timber Indian lands Now the Indian lands are strictly
legally under the charge of the secretary of the interior
While the forest reserve experts under the secretary
of agriculture
But tree tree whether it belong to an Indian tribe
or white mans government So under Roosevelt there
being forestry experts in the interior department and
plenty OF them in the agriculture department. it was deem
ed proper to take good the Indian trees as of
the white mans.
So when contractors bought standing timber of the
Indians the United States forestry experts got the Job
and watched the logging They that ''slashngs''
were burned to prevent forest frestey that young
trees not ruined and especially that the logs taken
out were honestly scaled.
In season. reservation, hundred and sew
eny million feet of lumber cut and scaled under the
experts eyes, and the umbermen had pay the contract
price for foot and to leave the forest clean and free
from fire danger and they had to cut their timber without
waste.
Then came Bainger into the cabinet While he does
not deny that the policing of about hundred millions
OF dollars worth of property-for the standing timber
Indian lands are equal to thatwas good thing still the
letter of the law did not authorize such procedure
So he orders the lands turned back to his department
Really that that he ordered the forestry depart
ments wachmen off the lands for that is the only result
of his act.)
And these storehouses wealth are to be turned
over to the waste and loot and graft of the lumber
tractors the Indians to be despoied and worst of ALL
forest fires will be burning millions of dollars worth
of lumber and denuding the hills
Even if don't object to seeing Indians robbed there
is in bringing down needless floods upon the
farms of white men, and that will be the result of the
wholesale forest destruction that Banger has opened the
door to-
Really. to state in the kndest possible terms Bainger
is woefuy long law and desperately short justice
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03
WAN HO.

Special Correspondence to The Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. s.-who
is she?
Rescued few days ago from a
darkened chamber in a sinister UNI
foreground opium den in the laby-
rinth of San Francisco's famous
Chinatown, little nine year old Wah
Ho, whose every feature offers con-
vincing proof of Caucasian birth, is
being sheltered at the Chinese
Presbyterian mission here, pending
a decision by the Juvenile court as
to her custody.
Whose child is she?
What are her antecedents, her
country, her language?
These are some Of the perplexing
questions which, so far, the COM
bined efforts of the local police de-
partment and the officers from the
juvenile court have been unable to
answer.
Held captive for seven years, UNI
IA the language, customs and reli-
gion of her own race have been OBJ
liberated from her mind, and her
own identity swallowed up in orien-
talism, the girl herself is unable to
throw any light upon the mystery.
To Miss Donaldine Cameron of
the Presbyterian mission here and
Probation Officer Luke Livingston
belong the credit for the little
girls rescue.
Informed that a white girl was
being held in Chinatown by Chin
csc family in Spafford alley, togeth-
err they went to the number given.
Into an ill-smelling basement the
pair descended. Repeated knocks
upon a barred door which they
| later found lead to a caYernOus
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03
HOP GROWERS ARE
REJOICING

Hop raisers in Washington and
Oregon are rejoicing over the
good prices of hops. Buyers are
scrambling to buy new hops in the
fields at 20 and 81 cents, whereas
hops have sold as low as six cents
per pound.
1t is confidently expected that
the 1909 crop will sell before jan
uary 1 for 80 cents. Offers of IA
cents are reported to have been
made for 1908 hops that would not
have sold for seven cents a year
ago today.
The short crop in Europe ac-
counts for the increased price OF
hops.
1t is true that many growers be-
came disguised last year and tore
hops out of the ground. Some
have planted prune trees, which
they thought a more stable crop;
others have gone into the chicken
business. Those who have per-
sisted will pull out on top, pro-
vided they sell when good fig
ure is reached and do not hold out
for unreasonable prices, like the
growers are feverishly impelled to
do so many times.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03

IIf England there are ia widows
to every "a widowers. In Italy the
relative numbers are 1876 and so;
in France, 139 and 10; in Germany,
1875 and so; in Austria, l21 and a.
Simplicity" he said, just for
the purpose of breaking the long
silence, lis the surest sign of great
ness"
Dear me, what an egotist you
are" she pleasantly replied.
Teacher-What do we learn,
Jimmy, from the story of Samson
and Delilah?
Jimmy-You don't ever want to
let a woman cut your hair.
81 would like nightly to enjoy
riches"
Then why don't you try to mar.
ry 'em?"
GAS l said, / want to enjoy EN-. "
He that holds fast the golden
mean,
And lives coAtentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the
poor,
Nor plaques that haunt the rich
mans door, Horace,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03
PLEDGE THEIR SKIN TO
SAVE REPORTERS ARM

PORTLAND, Ore, August 3.-1n
the hope of saving the right arm
and perhaps the life of o. E. Good
win, member of the editorial staff
of the Morning Oregonian, II en-
ployes of the morning newspaper
have volunteered to have strips of
skin, nine inches long and IL
inches wide, stripped from their
bodies and grated on the arm OF
their fellow worker.
When a call was made for volun-
teers a day or so ago nearly every
member of the staff responded.
Twelve were selected and tOmor-
row will probably have the strips
of skin removed. Physicians say
the grating is the only possible
way Of saving the reporters arm.
Goodwin was detailed to work on
a story at Arleta about two weeks
ago, and while nosing about the
suburb was severely bitten on the
right arm by mosquitoes. After
finishing his work at midnight, he
went to Rowe & Martins drug
store on Washington street, to
have the bites and swellings ad-
ministered to. BY mistake the
clerk bathed the arm in a solution
of almost pure carbolfc acid. in
stead of a one per cent solution.
Then he swathed the arm in ban
dages.
From the wrist to the elbow the
skin on Goodwin's arm was liter
ally cooked off. 1t will be neces-
sary to graft enough skin from the
bodies of others to cover a patch
IL inches long and nine inches in
width.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03
DOWN WITH THE WAR"

Some years ago Spain and France decided that they
must have share in the partition of Africa
France carved out ''sphere of influence in Algeria
and Spain took similar in Morocco Then the ngoes
and mperiasts and those who spell destiny with big
big sd" felt better Sensible people wondered why; but
the expansioniss felt better Thinkers pointed out the
fact that the population of France is not increasing and
that there plenty of vacant land in the republic and that
Spain is really thnly settled region with to spare
for all Spanards if they only allowed to itbut
the Desnists said that these people purbnd drve
ers who could not that real greatness in nation
sists domneering other lands rather than making
the most of our own.
Over in England they call those who want to make the
most of England Little Englanders" Probably the term
Little Spainers" was not used but it might have been
Anyhow SPAIN empire greater than other the
world and broken in bits such empires always
by their very size, started out to domneer
Morocco-the swarthy Spaniard took up the white
burden of ruling and exploiting the not much swarthier
Moor.
And the other day the inevitable happened. The race
domneered will later rebe--as did in
1775 The Moroccans have rebeled. Their mulahs are
preaching holy From the the turbaned
hordes to expe the hated invaders The poor Spanish
peasant boys forced to stand up and shoot the
poor trbesmen of Africa with whom they would enjoy
themselves far better they could have the chance to sit
about the evening camp and smoke and exchange stories
1t is always SO in these wars Of conquest
Away in Spain it became necessary to mobilize the
troops for campaign against the Moroccans More work
ing boys had to be taken from their tasks and sent with
repeating rifles and machine guns to kill more fezcrowned
desert boys on the sands of Africa
Somehow and from somewhere the truth has found its
way into the minds of the people of all lands that
they fools to act food for powder in quarres in
which they have interest So the people whose relatives
ordered to Africa almost mobbed the officers The
soldiers of several companies and battaons mutined
portentious thing is taking place The behind the
blinded by the false praises of false glory beginning
to think The people and the soldiers joined In the cry
Down with the war!'
Is this to be the new slogan replacing all other
criesi III the soldiers Of the world will just think will
study the questions ISSUE and refuse to pull trigger
draw sword until quarrel is in which they common
men have something stake, the slogan will drown
All others
Down with the War!''
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03

apartment, aroused a toothless old
woman, who attempted to bar their
way.
They forced their way through
the door, and, working along the
dark passage, they came upon an
interior room. 1t was small and
dark. There was no sunlight and
no ventilation. A Pickering gas
light threw fantastic shadows on
the blackened walls. 1t was a typ
ical Chinese den. In the farthest
corner of the room another Chinese
woman was discovered vainly try
| ing to conceal the child behind her
skirts.
Nah Juy. Sin, and the foster mother
of the child. She showed the officer
a paper that purported to give her a
right to the child. 1t was a docu-
ment signed by the officers Of a
home-finding society, but the name
of the person to whom the child
had originally been given had been
erased. She declared the child is
the offspring of her husband and
his former wife, white woman
who died in New York, and that at
her death he gave the child to it's
present foster mother. whom he
married. Her tale, however, did
not conform to the document she
Exhibited, and the child was remov-
ed to the detention home.
Secluded for years in basement
where no sunlight can enter, when
removed to the street the child
lowered her eyes with her hands
and cried out in pain. Not word
of English can the girl speak, and
to an interpreter she declares that
never before in all her life has she
heard the strange language.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03
FAIR CROWDS LARGE
(Rx unifed pre.s. !,

I SEATTLE, Aug. 3.-The last
day OF July brought the attendaf1ce
OF the A-Y-P exposition to nearly
two million Tor the first two
months. Transcontfnental travel
with the exposition as the objec-
tive point Will probably reach It's
height about the end of August,
although everything points toward
a heavy travel until late in the
autumn. The total receipts Of the
Pay Streak attractions since June
l Is $4,000, or witch $500. 900
was June business.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03

Listen, Eph. What l. nOe
fob false hair factory an gal she sells
"Ah a difference" \
Shuah dey puffs her wares, de
puffs Eyah, eyah
1--WE o called Pairgs al
Feet Amt Always Mates" u !
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03

MRS. Unison, your boy swears
terribly"
THANK goodness-now he can
take job as caddy without dan
ger of learning bad language"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03

See the hero! katch him dare
Perils of the upper air..
Death and danger seem but play,
AS he wings his wondrons way.
But he lands! Alas, aiAek!
kissing maiden now attack.
So again he seeks the Shy,
Glad that maidens cannot fly.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03

We are told that actions speak
louder than words, but 1t depends
q good deal on who is doing the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-03

What has become OF the pest
who last fall was taking straw
votes?" 5
Il think he is occupied now with
blowing a fish horn on hay rides
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1909-10-06
OLD ANNE ROYAL.
She Was Once One of the Quaint Char
actsrs Of Washington.

She Was Once One of the Quaint Char
actsrs Of Washington.
Old, queer, sharp tongued Anne Roy
all, traveller. editress and interviewer,
was for many years familiar figure
In the streets Of Washington, trotting
indomitably about her business. very
poor. very persistent, often trouble
some, often rebuffed, but with quail
ties OF honesty and courage to be re-
spected.
There is given In the story of her
life by Sarah Harvey Porter delight
full glimpse Of her visit to ex-President
Madison and his wife. The contrast
between the gracious mature beauty
Of charming Dolly Madison. elegant in
her rustling black silk, and the funny
little limping, shabby figure In anti
uuated skirts and ridiculous wadded
bonnet. could scarcely have been en-
HANGED.
As usual, old Anne Royal had tramp
ed to save carriage hire; as usual, her
errand, probably none too welcome to
her hosts. was to secure an interview
and use descriptive background. But
Dolly Madison saw In the absurd, IN
quisitiye. despatched person before
her neither the reporter nor the guy
only an aged and weary woman who
was her guest. She hurried to bring
her a glass of water, then quite sim
ply stopped and retied her loosened
shoe laces and wiped the Virginia mud
from the tired old feet.
1t is small wonder that Mrs. Royals
clothes were queer. She was scarcely
of bent of mind frivolously to pursue
the fashions had she had the time and
money. but she had neither. Her pa
per. the Huntress, of which she was
owner. editor and chief reporter, once
published conspicuously on the edi-
torial page notice which Is perhaps
unique in journalism:
mo paper will be issued from this
office this week. We really must take
one week once in ten years to tx up
our wardrobe. which is getting shabby.
Our next issue will welcome congress"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1909-10-06
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to be mentioned on the label. Hence you can
use it safely.