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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06
AUTOMOBILES FOR COWBOYS
Motor Cars Do Not Stampede Cattle,
Says Colonel Crowley.

Ransom and Nellsford cattle ranches
Of Midland and Crane counties, in Tex
as, have placed orders for ten automo-
biles, according to a Galveston dis
patch. These autos will be specially
made to endure the rough uses they
win be subject to in the semiannuaE
roundup Of cattle.
Colonel Crowley, secretary Of the
Cattle. Raisers' association, In describ-
ing the tests said: Cowboys a drive
through a bunch Of a thousand head
of cattle in autos without even disturb
ing a steer. Some of the steers may
stop grazing and stare in wonderment
at the machine, but you cannot STAN
pede them with an auto. A man on
horseback can stampede a bunch OF
steers quicker than lightning"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06
ESENTlMEN
Incidents In Which Coming Events
Cast Their Shadows Before.

N6St tuCi 0Na1G~S
Coming vents cast their shadows be
fore them. The writer is led to be-
lieye this because several Incidents in
the lives of his parents corroborate
the theory that presentiments OF good
and evil do come to persons unawares.
| will mention two of them.
In the summer OF 1877 my father
late at night was returning to his farm
from the little town of Nation. He
had stayed unusually late. When he
reached the farm all was quiet. Re
moving the harness from his horse. he
proceeded to the carriage house and
hung 1t in its place.
He came out and closed the door. As
he did so he heard the harness fail. Ii
was very dark. He went back into the
house and found the harness still hang
Ing In its place. The same occurrence
took place again. lie went back again
and found il in its place.
When The third time he heard the
sound of falling harness he did not
go back.
Several weeks later his barn burned,
and IL happened that the same har-
ness was in the barn loft, a valuable
set. He attempted Ia save IL. The
staircase burned behind him. and he
was compelled TO jump for his life
from q window. His previous expert
ence came to him wildly. He saved
the harness. but Mt the risk of his life.
Another vivid incident / recall was
my mother sitting by the fire with a
sick baby. The nurse was present,
too, and both were wide awake. Her
father appeared to her and advised her
MS to the baby's treatment and other
family matters. lie vanished as quick
ly as he had come. The next day she
! heard Of his death-Londou Tlt-Bits,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06

On June 2 the candidates all released
their delegates, but the delegates re-
fused to be released. The morning OF
June 3, however, ii was apparent that
something had happened overnight
Governor Yates took the platform,
withdrew his name and asked his
friends to vote for Deneen. Three
minor candidates followed suit. There
was nothing more to it. The Chicago
man won by nearly 1000 votes.
In office Governor Deneen has made
enough enemies to down twenty ordi-
narily men, but the fates-or was it
his own ~grit?-pulled him through. He
had been In Springfield scarcely a year
before the fight on him started. The
first form II took was a legislative In
v~estigation of state institutions. His
enemies averred that he had entered
into a deal with former Governor
Yates to keep in the old appointees,
and this has never been denied. At
any rate. the appointees were kept.
and right there the trouble started.
The report ON the state institutions
was HNululbSlH duNcISts anu 81 ~
suit the governor undertook their re
organization. There was an overhaul
ing and housekeeping. since which
time there has beer little complaint.
His Greatest Fight.
The greatest fight made by Governor
Deneen was for a state primary law.
This he forced through, only to have
It declared unconstitutional by the su-
preme court. He Immediately called
the legislature in extra session n
had a new primary law enacted, and
under this his second nomination took
place. That contest was even more
sensational than the two weeks con
vention of four years previous. The
opposition candidate for the nomina-
ton was the same Richard Yates
whose withdrawal had nominated De
neen I'm 1904. 1t was charged that a
part of the deal at that time was that
Deneen should support Yates for Unit
Ell States senator In place OF Shelby
NJ. Cullom. If there was any such I'M
d~erstanding circumstances were so
changed that the governor found 1t
impossible to carry out the agreement
and remained neutral in the contest.
AS a result, Yates charged him with
being an iceberg and generally made
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06

Ignorance nearly always makes
fools OF u.s." said a lecturer. II re
member a man, ignorant Of etiquette.
who once sat beside me at Il public
dinner. l noticed that this man, as
soon as he was seated, took up one
by one the knives at the right Of his
plate and began to try their edges on
his thumb. A waiter behind him
leaned forward and said In a hurt
tone:
"'The knives are all sharp. sir
"'The point IS said my neighbor,
T'm looking for a blunt one. Last
time / attended a banquet here l cut
my mouth"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06

things 80 .5ssz 81 obituary ier
berg Woe htre melted, but
boiled ins sa cae. The fight ragged
in ever ii TIE state, Deneen
speai.. G5fa times Ia each
aud Y.te Evnn the Demo-
Gratis ye et sat9 the melee.
and III Cti was eald both M
chimes Hogael together or the gov.
ernor.s dow fail rcaaen con and
provcl tlilt even TX On lee
berg he ror'a erisd up TIE most for
midabis ~ facles THAT set IN bis path.
One - ai4si irporsaat measures
that tle ecE nor has carried through
is a S20.ca0. ec) e,'p cenal from Lake
Michigan 70 the ails igsippi river. This
enterp c y ~ moment not only to
Chicago al I~liaels, baf to the com
MERGE of tie entire coua@g. The peo-
pie have approved the project, and tt
now only ro1sains to carry out the do
tails. There Is ~ ir1mcnse patronage
connected with tie affair. and the pros.
pect that the governor might have the
giving out Of Tie rams has caused
additional teeth eHo . ng among the
politicians. There has already been so
much Of This crashing going on dur
ing the last four years that with an
other term of Deneen there is danger
that most Of the political teeth ID All
nois will be worn out.
1t requires a big man to set an en-
tire state by the ears, and that II
what Charles Samuel Deneen has done
for the third state in the Union. 1t Is
no longer a question of Republicans
and Democrats In Illinois, but OF De
neen ard anti-Deneen. The senatorial
doadlock IS a direct result Of the feud
II Is confidently stated that Deneen
himsci9 might have been senator, but
that ip would not permit the use of
his name. That III itself is no small
tribute to tie strength of the mai in
viaW Of the fact that the state ma
chine CT his party and the federal in.
1uencc IRE both against him.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06
ROOT TAKEN FOR PUGILIsT.
Met In Bath Robe and Sandals at Hot
Springs and Greeted as "Bili."

@'@ 49,
Senator Elect Elihu Root evident
ly does not look much like a man in
need Of rest. He was mistaken the
other day at Hot Springs, Ark, for
Bill Papke, a western pugilist, who is
stopping at the same hotel. Mr.. Root
was walking to the big bathroom. as is
customary, clad only in Turkish robe
and sandals. He met Jake Pollux.
travelling salesman.
"Say, Bill" said the travelling man,
II thought I'd meet you in the bath. !
wanted to talk " some matters with
you"
The ~ex-secretary of state looked puz-
zled. Then Pollux saw his mistake
and apologized.
Mr.. Root later asked If Papke's bath
robe was the same color as his own.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06

points. He now has four more years
as governor and is still fighting.
The quality Of Deneen is shown by a
chance remark dropped while he was
prosecuting crooks, boodlers, bank
wreckers and ballot box suffers In
Chicago. 1t is good enough to frame:
my friends will not ask me to do
what Is not right. IL they do they are
not my friends"
The convention that first nominated
Deneen for governor will be remem
bered In Illinois as IN of the big po-
litical events in a state of big politics.
lIt met on May IL and finally adjourn
ed on June 8. there being q recess In
the meantime from May 90 to May 81
10 allow the delegates to go home and
change their collars and, If possible,
change their minds. The festival was
presided over by Uncle Joe Cannon.
who broke all the gavels that could be
procured and wound up by trying to
hammer something out with a croquet
mallet. There were seven candidates,
zhe three leaders being Deneen, Rich
ard Yates. Jr.. the then governor, and
Colonel Frank o. Lowden, who was
supported by the federal brigade"
There were 1902 delegates, 752 being
necessary to 81 choice. Seventy-nine
ballots were taken In all. The highest
ever got by Yates was 507; by Low
den, 031. Yates was generally in the
sead, with Deneen second and Lowden
ahird. The others were among those
present" The balloting started on
May 10, and It was Friday at that.
For the original unlucky day it had
Tom Lawson's Friday. the 18th
looking like the favored Of fortune,
The dread Of the 13-Friday comSjna-
tion may be only a superstition, but I;
would be hard to convince an Illinois
Republican politician Of that fact,
with him It is not a high browed the
ory, but a CHASTITY condition. lie
knows. Did he not so through the
1904 c%onyentionf
Z Ten Hours of Balloting.
On that fatal Friday, May 10, the
delegates balloted for ten solid hours
Nothing doing. The band played 1--WE
Won't Go Home TIL Morning" and
lt was nearly that time when they die
20 home. On Saturday nine ballots
were taken without result. The band
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06
London's Bridges.

Few people are aware of the extent
to which the city of London is bridged
over. In all, it seems, there are no
fewer than seventy-five bridges. OF
these nineteen are railway bridges,
three are bridges over roads (such as
Holborn viaduct. and fftt three are
bridges which connect private prem
ises.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06
Mean.

Maud (before the laughing hyena's
eage)-How provoking! Here we've
been twenty minutes, and the hyena
hasn't laughed once. Ella-Strange.
and he's been eylng your new hat too!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06
Placing Him.

"May | ask you what your profess
sion isf-
Certainly. / cure people of the blues
by hypnotic power"
"Oh, | see. You're what you might
eall a cheerupodlst."
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-06
Charles s. Deneen
Resolute Governor of Illinois, Who Has Aroused an Entire
State-Chief Figure In Two Sensational Conventions.
Conservative Reformer, a No Mans
Man and a Fighter.
Man and a Fighter.

turned on almost Persuaded" but
the delegates did not see 1t that way.
There vas adjournment over sun
day, but nobody was converted or ex-
perlenced a change OF heart. On Mon
day five Intellectual ballots were had,
and the band pounded out Hold the
Fort" Tuesday saw nine ballots. and
the band discoursed ;'In the Sweet
BY and BY" Wednesday saw an at
tempt on the part Of the federal
brigade" to get up a stampede for
Lowden, but the delegates suddenly
became stand patters and refused to
break loose for any bunch OF Office
holders. The band played Onward,
Christian Soldiers" Thursday there
were ten ballots, and the slide from.
bone mar let loose with please Go
Way and Let Me Sleep" This struck
q responsive chord in the bosoms Of
the delegates, and they adjourned
The next day. May 90. saw only one
ballot. Two Fridays were too much
for the convention. The band was an
in and had not enough wind or
strength left to play anything. AID.
journment was taken for eleven days.
Nominated by Nearly 1000 Votes.
When the convention reassembled on
Tuesday, May 81, there was no change,
and the same cheerful state of inertia
greeted the first day of the new month
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
Rosie Meyer Catches
 Her Third Burglar

New York, Aug. 6-Rosie Meyer, housekeeper for Mrs. Fannie Michael, PIP Seventh street, captured her third burglar within two months yesterday, and received from Magistrate Cornell, in Essex Market Court, the compliment tary comment:
 You ought to be wearing a Police Ieutenant'S badge.''
 Rosie who weighs about 175 pounds, answered the doorbell. and a man who gave his name as Joseph Sell and said he lived lin Avenue B., explained that he was looking for a. furnished room. Rosie sent him up on the second floor, where Mrs. Michael was. After a few minutes the man and Mrs. Michael came downstairs, and Mrs. Michael went out, leaving the man in the hall way.
 Presently Rosie missed the man, and, as she had not heard the hall door close, she started to investigate. She went upstairs, and there, she told the Mrs. Michaels room with a big bag in his hand. Rosie grabbed the man, and before he realized it he was flat on his beck, with one of Rosie's knees only about 125 pounds. and there was nothing for him to do but lie still Rosie let forth a few of her best screams, and Policeman Nalloy of the took the captive. Malloy told the Magistrate that. when he arrived Sell was puffing away at a cigarette which Rosie had given him permission to smoke while waiting for the policeman to come. The bag which Rosie said he was trying to decamp with contain ed s75 worth of wearing apparel be- longing to MT. and Mrs. Michael.
 About two months ago Rosie discov- cred that thieves were carrying off the lead pipe in the Seventh street house. She took a day off, played sleuth, and captured a man in the act of walking away with several sections of the pipe. This display of detective ability on the young woman's part did not prove to be a sufficient warning to the lead Pipe purloiners. however, and four weeks ago Rosie was compelled to re- peat the performance.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
CHICAGO WANTS BINGHAM
FORMER NEW YORK COMIIS- SIONER BEING URGED AS HEAD OF POLICE DE-
 PERTINENT

Chicago, Aug. 6.-Rather than dis please his wife and some of his closest political friends, Bernard J. Mullaney, secretary to Mayor Busse has decided he would rather continue in his pres ent position at s5, GOO a year than be a Chief of Police with SS,OOO pay.
 Now that MT. Mullaney is off the slate there are a. dozen candidates to succeed ex-Chief Shippy.
 Although he has not entered the race eX-Police Commissioner Bingham of New York, who was recently removed by Mayor Mcclellan, is being urged for the place. His strongest packer is Walter 1T. Wilson, City Controller, who wired some good words for Gen. Bingham from New England during the day
 Capt. stephen B. Wood of the Twen- ty-Second Street Tenderloin District, is also being pushed He has made a reputation in controlling vice in the great south side, red light neighbor- hood, and his appointment would be acceptable to most of the powers in the political world. Wood took up the work left off by Inspector McCann, now under fire for alleged graft in the west side district.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
Will Drop Initial,
 On Lincoln Coin

Washington, Aug. 6.-Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh has decided to stop the minting of the new Lincoln cents. New dies will be prepared as soon as possible, substituting for the initials of the designer the single init ial '.B" in an obscure part of the de- sign None of the cents issued so far will be called in, but the minting will be stopped because a sufficient supply is on. hand. The initials V. D. B. are those of the designer, V. D. Brenner of New York, and the single initial will be, it is considered, sufficient recognition of his work.
 This decision created much surprise, as the Treasury Department announce ed that the new coins would be in cir culation for the present at least, and that the use of the initials on them was in line with a custom that had prevailed for years. This prominence, however, awakened widespread cr1t1- cism, and yesterdays action followed further consideration of the matter.
 MT MacVeagh said yesterday that he did not know that the initials would appear in embossed form on the pen- nies, and that he was surprised when he saw them. It has been customary to allow designers to cut initials into the design somewhere, but they have usually been so small as to require magnifying glass to discover them.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06

Messrs. Leverty will go further, and will give with every package they sell their personal guarantee to refund the money if Pleasant Specific does not permanently benefit A reliable med icine at half price, with the guarantee that your money will be cheerfully re- funded if you are not entirely satis- fled.
 Anyone who Is suffering from liver trouble, constipation, sick headache indigestion, bad taste in the mouth, biliousness, specks before the eyes, melancholy, or tired feelings, should take advantage of this offer. Messrs. Leverty do not know how long they will be able to sell Ames PIeasa mt Specific at half price, for the sale has been something phenomenal,and hun dreds of the most obstinate cases in Bridgeport have been cured.
 As the dose is diminished after the first few days a bottle that you can obtain now for 25 cents will last a month.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06

If you are all run down Fo1ey's Kid ney Remedy will help you. It strength ems the kidneys so they will eliminate the impurities from the blood that de- press the nerves, and cause exhaus- tion, backache, rheumatism, and urin- ary irregularities, which sap the vital ity. DO not delay Take Foley's Kid ney Remedy at once. F. B. Brill local agent. *155
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
SOME AUTOISTS STUNG
Must Pay for Licenses Now and Again
 & at End of Year.

Automobilists whose car registra- tlors happen to expire between now anC the end of the month must ante up their full fee now. and then, if the new auto law is signed by the Cover nor, who got it yesterday, they will have to ante up again at the end of the wear, as all such licenses will be made to date from January l. If the registrations happen to expire after September l, renewals will be allowed at a pro rata amount. It will not do for the aGtoiSt whose registrat ton ex- pires now to take the risk of running the rest of the month without renewal. for. according to the officials in the State Secretary'S office, a record is kept of the expiration time of each registration and if it isn't renewed po- lice authorities may be told to run in the offender and his number may be given to somebody else.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
FALLS INTO SOUND

New Haven, Aug. 6.-Shooting help lessly through the air because his para chute failed to open, George Drew, a balloonist who has been giving exhi- bitions at Savfn Rock, dropped 800 feet into Long Island Sound yesterday af- ternoon. The fact that the wind was in the right direction to take his bal loon out to sea was the only thing that saved his life, as he would have been killed instantly had he struck the land.
 He was picked up by an oyster fish erman a few minutes later uncon- scious. He had revived last night, and it was said at the hospital that he would suffer no permanent iu,effects.
 Drew is g years old and came here from New York city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
WE'RE TARIFF INCREASES PUR-
 CHASED?

The Carded Wool Manufacturers are greatly dissatisfied with the wool schedule of the Payne-Aldrich-Taft tariff bill, and have asked President Taft to withhold his approval of the measure until satisfied that corrupt means have not been used to influence Congressmen. They, say that the tariff duties on combing wool. grown almost exclusively abroad are so low as to give it's users a great advantage over the Carded Wool Manufacturers whose product goes mostly to the poorer classes. while that of the conbing wool manufacturers goes to the veal thy. They also say that they use do- mestic wool. It thus appears that the tariff discriminates not only against homegrown wool, but also against the poorer classes.
 2 In a published letter to President Taft, H. J. Hamill who is president of the Carded Wool Manufacturers, states that after the Republican Par ty had pledged itself at the last cleo tion as in favor of revision of the tariff on the basis of foreign and domestic cost differences it had refus- ed to change the wool schedule. He adds: F
 Such a betrayal of the people ,na- turally excites the suspicion of inn proper influences and motives, and in searching for such influences and mo- tives the first thing to attract atten- tioE is the fact that there has not been published any statement of the names of the contributors or the amounts of the contributions to the Congressional campaign fund of 1908. This suggests the question: Were con tributfons made to this fund by those who prof1ted by Schedule K (thc wool seheduleo with fthe understanding that this schedule should not be chang ed by the tariff revision to which the party was pledged?
 During last years campaign, at tention was called to the fact that contributions to the Republican Con- gressional Committee were not to be made public and that legislation by Congress might thus be practically purchased. MT. HamiIl rather more than hints that it was so purchased.
 Would not many increases in duties be explained by publication of the contributions to the Congressional committees campaign fund? Some of them are otherwise inexplicable. The people might be pleased, or otherwise, to learn that the coming increase in the cost of living was purchased by contributions to Republican campaign funds, and that they themselves un- consciously carried the purpose of the deal into effect by their vote.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
CUT THIS COUPON OUT It Is Redeemable at
 T,auartv'S

J. A. Leverty & Bro.. the popular druggists, ask you to present the fol- lowing coupon at either of their three stores, 1855 Main street, sos Park ave- nue, or North avenue and Main street. and they will let you have a regular fifty cent package of Ames Pleasant Specific for constipation and dyspep- sia, containing a full months treat ment at half price.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06

For indigestion and all stomach trou- b1e take F'oley's Orino Laxative as it stimulates the stomach and liver and regulates the bowels and will positive ly cure habitual constipation. F. B. Brill, local agent. *135
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06

WANT ADS. GENT A WORD.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06

Neither carry script nor raiment, Neither shoes nor slaves; Walk unburdened through the deserts Through the waves.