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The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20

and bent His az was near him, but
the blade was rusted and the handle
broken of short.
The Wrinkles lifted him tenderly in
their arms, and carried him back to
the yellow castle again, Dorothy she'd
ding few tears by the way at the sad
plight of her old friend, and the Lion
looking sober and sorry. When they
reached the castle Dorothy said to the
Winkies:
Are any of your people tinsmiths?"
"Oh, yes; some of us are very good
tinsmiths," they told her.
Then bring them to me-" she said.
And when the tinsmiths came. bring
kets, she inquired:
Can you straighten out those dents
in the Tin Woodman, and bend him
back into shape again, and solder him
together where he is broken?"
The tinsmiths looked the Woodman
over carefully and then answered that
they thought they could mend him so
he would be as good as ever. So they
set to work in one of the big yellow
rooms of the castle and worked for
three days and four nights, hammer
ing and twisting and bending and sold
ering and polishing and pounding at
the legs and body and head of the Tin
Woodman, until at last he was
Strengthened out into his old form,
and his joints worked as well as ever
To be sure, there were several patches
on him, but the tinsmiths did a good
job, and as the Woodman was not a
vain man he did not mind the patches
at all.
When, at last, he walked into Doro-
thy's room and thanked her for rescu-
ing him, he was so pleased that he
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20

wept tears of joy, and Dorothy had to
wipe every tear carefully from his
face with her apron, so his joints
would not be rusted. At the same
time her own tears fell thick and fast
at the joy of meeting her old friend
again, and these tears did not need
to be wiped away. AS for the Lion, he
wiped his eyes so often With the tip
of his tail that it became quite wet,
and he was obliged to go out into the
courtyard and hold it in the sun till
it dried
IF we only had the Scarecrow with
us again." said the Tin Woodman,
when Dorothy had finished telling him
everything that had happened. Il
should be quite happy"
I'VE must try to find him." said the
girl.
So she called the Wrinkles to help
her, and they walked all that day and
part of the next until they came to the
tall tree in the branches of which the
Winged Monkeys had tossed the Scare
crows clothes.
1t was a very tall tree, and the
trunk was SO smooth that no one could
climb it; but the Woodman said at
once:
I'll chop it down, and then we can
get the Scarecrow's clothes.'
Now while the tinsmiths had been
at work mending the Woodman him
self another of the Wrinkles, who was
a goldsmith. had made an ax-handle
of solid gold and fitted it to the Wood
mans ak, instead of the old broken
handle. Others polished the blade
until all the rust was removed and it
glistened like FURNISHED silver.
AS soon as he had spoken, the Tin
Woodman began to chop, and in a
short time the tree fell over with a
crash, when the Scarecrow's clothes
fell out Of the branches and rolled OF
on the ground.
Dorothy picked them up and had
the Wrinkles carry them back to the
castle, where they were stuffed with
nice, clean straw; and, behold, here
was the Scarecrow. as good as ever,
thanking them over and over again
for saving him.
Now they were reunited, Dorothy
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

A report on suicide figures for 1908
has just been issued, showing a ratio
Of 21.s per 100000 of population, sur
passing the previous high record of
20.7 in 1904.
C. ]. Tevis and ]. Campbell Corey
of Cincinnati and George Howard, a
professional balloonist, landed at Der
by. ten miles west of Buffalo, after
thrilling trip of 500 miles, which car
ried them back across Lake Erie.
1t was said at the Lambs Club in
New York that Sir Thomas Upton has
come to an understanding with the
New York Yacht Club regarding the
conditions under which another race
for the Americas cup may be sailed
in 1911.
Prominent scientists of New York
City have organized the Radium In
stitute of America, which is to be de-
voted to the treatment of disease by
radium under philanthropie auspices.
Their plan contemplates the estab-
lishment Of clinic and research
laboratory.
The Standard Oil Company, on the
18th inst, declared a quarterly divi-
dend of $40 share. which is un-
changed from the same quarter year
ago. This dividend brings the total
of dividends for the year to $40 per
share, the same amount paid for sew
eral years past.
Lord Minto. viceroy of India. and
Lady Minto, narrowly escaped death
a few days since. when two bombs
were thrown at their carriage at All
medabad. British India. The bombs
fell in the sand and failed to explode
The throwers made their escape.
One of the most famous murder
trials ever held in Paris has just end
cd in the acquittal of Margherita
Steinheil, who was accused Of mur.
dering her husband. Adolphe Stein
he'll. u noted painter. and her step
mother. Nine.
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Albert c. Loring, president Of the
Pillsbury Flour Mills Company of Min
neapolis, has taken out 100000 life
ficiary.
Pres. B. L. Winchell, of the Rock
Island system, who has recently re-
turned from trip in Europe, says
that the service of American railroads
is immeasurably superior to that of
the roads abroad, especially in regard
to the passenger service.
The leading citizens of Cody, Wyo.,
gave a banquet to Col. William F.
Cody buffalo Bid on his return a
few days since from a successful sea-
son with his Wild West show. He ex-
poets to spend the winter at Cody and
on his ranches in that vicinity.
The business at the Denver postof-
flee is larger than the size of the city
would seem to warrant, as it ranks
twenty-first in amount of business and
only twenty-fifth in population. Such
cities as Louisville and New Orleans
stand below Denver in the list show
ing the postofflce receipts.
Cairo was in the grasp of firm au-
thority on Sunday, the 14th inst, and
experienced the quietest Sunday that
has been it's lot in years. No saloons
evade the orders of Governor Dineen
in this regard met with quick detec-
ton, several arrests being made by
the militia.
Finding that the soldiers were get
ting drunk on pay day, two ministers
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, led raid
upon a liquor joint and seized twenty
cases of beer and two jugs of whisky.
The ministers are the Rev. +. H..
Brown of the Baptist church. and the
Rev. L. l.. Cunningham of the Chris
tian church.
Hearst's Homestake Mining Com
pany has brought suit in the Federal
against the Lead Miners Union for
$4,000 damages. No injunction is
asked. The company alleges threats
of bodily harm on the part of the
miners and intimidation of non-union
men, and charges the union with re-
ducing the efficiency of Its employees.
The detail of militia from Sheridan
which had been on duty at Basin,
Wyo., for several weeks, guarding the
cattlemen charged with the murder of
Allemand, Emge and Lazier, were or
dered home on the 18th inst, accom-
panyIng Brink, Saban, Alexander,
Eaton and Dixon, the five convicted
men, as far as Sheridan on their way
to the penitentiary at Rawlins
The Cincinnati grand jury brought
an indictment against Charles l..
Warmer, local treasurer of the Big
Four railroad, on charges of larceny
and embezzlement. While $634,0O0 is
known to have been stolen from the
railroad the startling fact was devel-
oped that the company's cash books
prior to 1905 have disappeared and
that it will never be possible to tell
the full amount of the defalcation.
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

President Taft returned to the
White House on Wednesday. the 10th
instant, after an absence of a trifle
more than three months in the West
and South, having made successful
trip of $1,000 miles.
Lieut.. Col. William E. Wilder, in
spector general, will go to Denver for
duty as inspector general, Department
of the Colorado, relieving Maj. Charles
G. Morton, who will remove to Wash
lngton for duty in the office of the in
spector general of the army.
W. Cameron Forbes, vice COVER
nor general of the PHILIPPINES, has
been named by the President to sue
coed the present governor general,
James Smith, whose resignation has
been accepted to take effect, Novem-
ber II. at the expiration of his leave
OF absence.
The employers liability law of 1906
has been declared constitutional in
territories of the United States and
District of Columbia by the Supreme
Court of the United States. More
than year ago this law was declared
unconstitutional when applied to the
states
To protect power sites, Secretary
Ballinger has withdrawn from entry
2.5S4 acres of land lying along the
Gunnison river in Colorado and New
Mexico, and 712 acres on Green river
and its tributaries in Wyoming This
land now being in the public domain,
will probably be affected by legisla.
ton to be enacted during the next
Congress.
The Department of Agriculture has
published bulletin entitled The
prickly Pear as Farm Crop" This
bulletin gives the results of expert
ments with prickly pears and gives
directions for their cultivation. Any
one who is interested may obtain d
copy of this bulletin by addressing
the Department of Agriculture, Wash
irgton, D. c., and asking for Bureau
of Plant Industry Bulletin No. 124,
THE Pr!ckly Pear as a Farm Crop"
The coroner's jury exonerated play
ers Of both teams Of responsibility for
the death of young Arthur Christian,
who succumbed to injuries received in
the football match between the Uni.
versity Of Virginia and Georgetown
university at Washington.
There has been an increase of
nearly 3OO.0OO,OOO bushels, or fully
one-sixth. in the production of wheat
recently harvested in six countries in
the northern hemisphere. which in
1908 produced practically two-thirds
OF the worlds
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
Want Twenty-Five Dollar Rate,

Denver. Governor Shafroth will
head committee which was selected
by the rate convention Tuesday to ask
$25 tourist rate Of the Western Pas
senger Association. The members Of
the committee are John F. Shafroth
and ]. o. A. Carper of Denver, Alva
Adams of Pueblo, Horace De Long Of
Grand Junction, B. D. Sanborn of
Greeley, Murdo Mackenzie of Trinidad
and Irving Howbert of Colorado
Springs. The resolution adopted asks
not only a $25 tourist rate from Chi
cago to Denver and return, but q one
way homeseekers' rate Of SIT.
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TEL.
EGRAPH COMPANY ACQUIRES
WESTERN UNION.
INCLUDES MANY LINES
GREAT COMBINE Is MADE POS
sIBLE BY SALE OF THE
GOULD STOCK.

Boston.-A long stride toward the
complete control by one corporation
OF all wire communication in the
United States was made Tuesday in
the acquisition by the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company of the
control of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company. In order to make the
absorption complete, the incorpora-
ton of a new $1,000. 100000 company,
it is said, will be necessary to include
the $592,475, 400 of bonds and stocks
OF the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, known as the Bell
Company, and the outstanding $780,
100000 of bonds and stock of the
Western Union Company.
The acquisition of the Western
Union stock by the Bell Company has
been in progress for about six months,
and only a sufficient amount to insure
control, said to be 81 per cent, was
taken over.
The officers of the telephone COM
pany believe that the merger will save
the Bell Company s75,OOO.OOO in new
construction, while it will also enable
graphing and telephoning.
Some of the associated corporations
engaged in the telephone business,
the majority of whose stock rests in
the treasury of the parent concern
are: New York Telephone Company,
$5O,OOO,OOO; New England Telephone
and Telegraph Company, $31,7O0,000;
Bell Telephone Company of Pennsyl-
vania, $31, 10000: New York and New
Jersey Telephone Company. s25,4OO,-
600; Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany, $21, 100000; Cumberland Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company. $751;
100000; Chicago Telephone Co.. $17,-
100000; Western Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, $16,OO0,00O; Bell Tel
ephone Company of Canada, $12,5O0,-
900.
The telephone system annually
transmits 5,95G,S00,0V messages. while
the Western Union handles 6S,053,-
900. The telephone system has
S,0S9,S79 miles of wire, and the West
ern Union 1,3S2,5O9. The total prop
erty value of the telegraph company
is $545, 500, and that Of the West
ern Union $124,OS6,92O.
President S. N Vail of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, said Tuesday:
From the very commencement OF
the telephone business it has been
thought that close co-operation-the
making of one business the auxiliary
to the other business-would give ad-
ditional public service, as well as re-
suit in equal economies, both to the
public and the companies"
There has been litigation between
the two companies for twenty-five
years.
The Western Union, one Of the pet
properties of the late Jay Gould, has
been in the Gould family for a gener-
alton and it was by the sale Of the
Gould stock that the merger was &C.
complished.
While the report has been current
that the Mackay companies, controll-
ing the Postal Telegraph Co. ultimately
will be included in the plan of reor-
ganization, no confirmation of this
could be obtained. Officers of the
Postal were emphatic that the COM
pany would remain independent
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
Made the Eulogy a Farce

"'Our dear brother whom we mourn
to-day, was a man of rare character
and ability. He had a mental cana.
city of a'-referring to his notes
Daniel Webster, the tact of a'-aeatn
consulting his a-'Henrv
Clay, the pertinacity of a'-another
reference-'Ulysses S. Grant. We can
only mourn him with profound and
sorrowful regret now that he has
gone to meet his'-another reference
to his notes-'God. Judge
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20

ever after, and spent the time in feast
ing and dancing.
IF our friends, the Scarecrow and
the Tin Woodman, were only with US"
said the Lion, 81 should be quite
happy"
Don't you suppose we could rescue
them?" asked the girl, anxiously.
I'VE can try" answered the Lion.
So they called the yellow Wrinkles
and asked them If they would help to
rescue their friends, and the Wrinkles
said that they would be delighted to
do all in their power for Dorothy. who
had set them free from bondage. So
she chose a number of the Wrinkles
who looked as II they knew the most,
and they all started away. They trav-
eled that day and part of the next un-
til they came to the rocky plain where
the Tin Woodman lay. all battered
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
(To BE CoNTINUED1
Copy American Laws.

England has been very slow to take
up the matter Of helping the children
by means of legislation, but new laws
will change all that. A boy under 16
may not buy cigarettes, cigarette pa
pers nor tobacco and a Juvenile court
is provided for. The work along these
lines in the United States has evil
IDENTITY proved an incentive, and the
women of America are responsible for
these laws in this country.
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20

Alice Paul, who is a member Of q
New Jersey Quaker family, and Anne
liza Brown, the window smashing suf-
fragettes, were sentenced in London
each to one month at hard labor. Both
are members of the Pankhurst organi-
zation.
Major Mearns and ]. Alden Loring,
the naturalist, recently arrived at Mai
robi with splendid collections of pho
tographs, birds and mammals. Both
men are in excellent health. In bis
climb of Mount Kenya, Loring
reached an altitude of 16,50O feet.
1t is reported in New York that the
formation Of giant copper combine
to force down the cost of producing
the metal and boost the price of the
finished product will be begun within
a few days. The return of Daniel
Guggenheim from Europe has set the
machinery in motion.
Edward M. Meyers of Red Bank, N.
j., has been fined 500 by Judge Cross
in the United States Court at Trenton,
for the illegal use of the United States
mails. Meyers sent defamatory postal
cards to the members of Kansas jury
which convicted Socialist editor for
the same offense.
A growth in the campaign TO elm
mate Bible reading and hymn singing
from the public schools was reported
at the Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis in New York City. In
thirtyfive cities there are no Bible
readings, and in eight only the old
testament and other psalms are read.
Mother Earth may have the expert
ence next May, of passing through the
gaseous tail of comet, according to
an interview by Assistant Prof. Henry
N. Russell, Phi. D., of the astronomical
department of Princeton university.
He hastened to explain, however, that
no bad physical effects were to be an
ticipated.
The will of the late Mrs. Franziska
Speyer, widow of George Speyer, a
partner in the banking house of
Speyer L. Co., of New York, London
and Frankfort on the Main, be-
queaths between $s,OOO,OOO and S1O,-
100000 TO charity. The gifts include
s1.000,00O for research into the sub
iect of cancer and lupus.
The fraternal insurance which was
being carried by the order of Home
Guardians of Mitchell. has been rein
sured by the Loyal Americans Of the
Republic. The Home Guardians is the
South Dakota company which brought
the action against the Yeomen and
other Iowa companies to shut them
out of the state.
Having invaded many other fields Of
mans activities, young women of
prominent families in New York City
have incorporated what is to be known
as the Woman's Athletic Club.
gymnasium and grounds will be OBJ
tained and the members will endeavOr
to foster athletic achievements among
women generally. The members 50
far are mostly college women.
Two boys who gave their names as
George Williams, aged IS. and Frank
Brown, aged 16, were arrested on the
10th inst. on the charge of attempting
to rob an express train on the New
York Central, between Lyons and Sy
racuse. On entering the car they
were instantly covered by guns in the
hands of detectives, who had been en-
gagged on account of recent car robber-
les.
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20

meIted Dy bucket OF Walter, and DOT-
othy at once unlocked the gate of his
prison and set him free. They went
in together to the castle. where Doro-
thy's first act was to call all the Win
kies together and tell them that they
were no longer slaves.
There was great rejoicing among the
yellow Wrinkles, for they had been
made to work hard during many years
for the Wicked Witch, who had always
treated them with great cruelty. They
kept this day as holiday, then and
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
Bishop Potter's Illustration Of the
inadvisability Of Relying Too
Much on Notes.

InadvisabiIity Of Relying Too
Much on Notes.
The late Rev. Henry Goldman Potter
greatly objected to the use of notes.
At one time he was addressing num-
ber Of young theologians on the i'm
portance of not being too closely con-
fined to a manuscript. By way OF H.
lustration he told the following anec-
dote about clergyman who was
called upon to officiate at funeral.
when the minister arrived at the
town where the deceased had lived
he had Just time to make few in
quiries about his traits and achieve
ments, the results of which he noted
on a memorandum. His eulogy at
the service, as reported, was about
as follows:
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
A Reliable Forecast.

This is fine weather." remarked
the county constable.
ut is always fine weather when the
automobiles are around" remarked
the rural Justice. as he proceeded to
count the returns.
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
For Any Man.

For Any Man.
There is no particular reason why
Mary Garden shouldn't marry if she
wants to-"
mo, indeed. That woman is a fine
meal ticket"
The Glenwood post., 1909-11-20
CHAP XIII. -
81
The ReScD,

The Cowardly
Lion was much
pleased to hear
that the Wicked
Witch had been
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-26
Operations of Reliance Trucks

]. b. Van Solver, the big furniture
maker of Camden, N. j., gives some in
teresting facts relative to the operation
of the motor trucks which he has In
stalled with notable success.
He operates a truck daily between
Camden and Atlantic City, a distance
of sixty miles, and says that he can
handle the merchandise to be delivered
in Atlantic City more quickly than he
can by train, with less handling and at
less expense. The difference in cost
represents a saving of SO 1-3 per cent.
1t avoids expensive packing of his
goods and carries them direct from his
factory to customers. where, before. 1t
was necessary to carry them to the
railroad station, send them by freight,
with carriage at the other end.
The trucks make the 120-mile run
from Camden to Atlantic City and re-
turn each day, carrying load in both
directions The trucks are three and
a half ton Reliance trucks
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-26
$6O,OOO,OOO IS
TOTAL INVESTED
IN GOOD ROADS
EFFORTS TOWARD PRESERVA.
TlON AND DUST PREVENTION
Engineers Are Searching for Materials
Which viii Withstand Motor Traf-
fic and Keeping Cost Within
Reasonable Limits

The annual report of the office of
public roads, Department of Agricul-
ture, for the year ending June 30, was
issued few days ago by Logan Waller
Page, director, and contains many in
terestng features concerning that i'm
portant branch of the service during
that period. In speaking of the work
of the year Director Page has this to
say:
''It is probable that no subject is
engaging the attention of state legisla-
tors at the present time in a greater
degree than road Improvement. More
than half the states have adopted the
principle of state aid and supervision
over all or part of the roads, while the
remaining states are seriously consid-
ering sweeping reforms in their road
laws. This has brought about steady
progress in road building. The eX-
penditures from state treasures have
reached a total of nearly $50, 100000
annually, practically all of which has
been devoted to the building of hard
roads, while many counties have issued
bonds in large amounts for this pur-
pose. Back of all this activity is a
powerful and growing public sentiment,
which Is making road Improvement
one of the foremost economic ques-
tions of the day. These conditions are
responsible for a greatly increased de-
mand upon the office of public roads
for information and assistance in
every branch of the work. The ex-
perimental work of the office has within
the last few years assumed an inn
portance second only to that of the
general object lesson work. The prob
lem now before highway engineers is
to save from the destructive action of
the automobile the macadam roads al
ready built at great cost and to devise
a method of construction which will
successfully withstand the destructive
effects of such traffic in the future.
"The efforts of this Office, as we'll rs
of highway engineers generally in this
country and In Europe, have been di-
rected. first, toward obtaining a pre-
servative and binder which may be
applied to the surface of roads already
constructed, rendering them dustlessI
and forming bond of sufficient
strength to withstand motor traffic.
second. toward ascertaining the most
suitable binder or binders to be incor-
porated with the other materials, so as
to produce a dustless road powerfully
bonded and, finally, toward discover
ing a means of keeping the cost wlthlnI
reasonable limits.
mo road problems are at the pres
ent time attracting more general at
tention than those of dust prevention
and read preservation. Letters are re-
celved daily asking for advice relative
TO the characteristics and use of theI