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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13
Information About the Sultan.

The Sultan is not averse to mar
riages from his harem, and has him
self chosen haahands for edalisques.
These women, knowing SO we'll the
palace and tbs npper-class guardians
of the seraglia, can be of great use
to ambitious or rapacious husbands.
Another bit of information: Abdul
Hamid has no tasSs except for roses
and French novels. 1t is mistake
to think he knows no French. He
learned it with tutors and in the year
he spent as lad in Paris. in the
shadow of the Louis lie Grand Lycee.
But he finds it to his interest to for
get 1t. What would have become Of
him through the last thirty years If
he mad been compelled to answer am
bassadors straight off without the all
VI an interpreter who had had his
lesson Beforehand London, Truth.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13
THE PINCH HITTER.
A Wonderful Part of the Up to Date
Baseball Nine Is He.

II have followed baseball for some
years. remarked the man, "and the
more games I see the more l wonder
at the mental and nervous makeup OF
| the man who is sent to the bat in
| pinches.
''The pinch hitter, to my mind, is
the most wonderful player of them
all. There are men who can go
through game after game, hitting fair
ly well all the time, but the chances
are that they will not make a hit
when it is most needed
ION the other hand there are play
ers who can sit On a bench all the
afternoon until the very last inning
and then when sent in at critical
juncture to bat for some weaker man
are able to land on the ball when
hit means a run.
Hitting is so difficult an art, with
all the present Gay restrictions in
favor of the pitcher, that I admire
greatly the man who can hit at all.
But the fellow who is almost GER
tain to get a hit when it is needed
in a pinch is marvellous to me, es-
pecially when you realize that he has
been sitting around idle all the at
ternoon and the other fellows have
had a chance to size up the oppos-
ing pitcher by facing him several
times.
"And, c'lriously enough, when
pinch hitter gets a regular place on
team and plays the regulation
length of time day after day he isn't
likely to pan out at all As hitter.
He is very apt to fall away down be-
fore three weeks have passed.
New York Sun.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13
STAKES FOR OLD TIME BOXERS.
Although the Purses Were Small the
Bets Were Large.

The old time champions of the
prize ring had to fight hard and under
90 punishment before they earned the
money. 5
Just over sixty years ago William
Thompson of Nottingham, best known
to fame in the sporting world as Ben
digo, fought Ben Caunt, at Newport
PagneH, in Buckinghamshiree for two
hours for G200 a side and the cham
pionship belt. 1t was for a similar
purse that Tom Savers fought his
memorable fight with the Upton
Slasher fifty years ago, while Tom
Spring-one of the bravest, most hon.
est and courteous men who ever STEP
ped into ring-in 1894 fought Jack
Langham, who ultimately died worth
100000 for 500 guineas a side at Chi
chester. Tom Spring won and he and
Jack afterward became the best of
friends
John GullyQ who became MOP. for
Pontefract in the '30s, might have
become a champion, but he retired
from che ring after his fight with
Bob Gregson in 1903 The fight last
ed for thirty-six rounds and at the
finish neither man had strength
enough to hold up his hands either
to give blow or to guard. But Gully
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13
ADVANTAGES OF ONE DEAF EAR.
Mr.. GazzIeback Finds His Affiiction
Useful in the Photograph
ParIorS.

II have discovered" said ldr. Gaz-
zlesack, "a new use for my deaf ear;
you know have one good ear and
one that is not so good
For entertainment l visit occasion
ally the penny in the slot photograph
find the brass band music shifting
my ears too blaringly for real enjoy
ment. But the ether day by accident
dropping the ear-piece from my good
ear while l was listening to one of
those vigorous performances / was
at once greatly gratified by the soft
ened effect of the music as heard
through my deaf ear only.
"You know the poet says: that
distance lends enchantment to the
view. Well, here we Fad in effect
distance lending enchantment to the
sound. With both ear-pieces up the
band had seemed at my elbow, with
all the horns turned square on me;
listening with my deaf ear only, the
sound was mellowed and it came to
me now softly and pleasantly as the
music of a bsad heard playing some
where off in a park.
So, now you know with which ear
I listen today when I drop a cent in
the slot of one of the brass band
machines. and l am reminded for the
don't know how manyth times that
seeming afflictions may often turn to
our advantage. New York Sun.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13
Street Lighting in Europe.

In recent article by Or. Louts
Bell in the Electrical World, atten.
ton is called to the lighting sys-
tens of Europe as compared with
to DR.. Bell, European streets are far
better lighted than our own, but not
because electricity is cheaper abroad
than here; for London pays over
800 per arc PSF year, Paris s166
and Berlin nearly s120. The differ
enee seems to be that in this coun-
try we attempt to light all of the
streets fairly veil, while abroad par
tlcular attention is paid to the more
prominc7t rfreets.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13

n1lnaged to get in little tap on Greg
sons face, such as would knock q
fly off, and that gave him the vic
tory.
Gully then retired to carry On his
business as a publican and made sc
much money by successful turf sfAcu
lation that he was able to become the
owner of racehorses which thrice won
the Derby for him.
From 5000 to $500 side seems
to have been the usual stakes in the
days of Tom Spring, Savers and
Crib. 1t was for the larger amount
that Jem Ward fought Tom Cannon,
grand-uncle of Mornington Cannon, the
Jockey, in 1925. The fight lasted for
ten rounds, and at the finish OF the
ninth both men leaned against each
other, too exhausted to move. Ward,
however, managed to pull himself to-
gether a little in the tenth round
and won.
Although the stakes were small in
bets were large. The Duke of Cum
berland is said to have lost 10000
when Slack beat Jack Broughton in
1850, while when John Jackson
known as Gentleman Jack-beat Ber-
rims in a fight for $50 guineas side
IN 1889, he won 100000 for one OF
the hackers. Ballock by name, 6 1000
for himself. as well as over $500 in
gate money.
The famous Capt Barclay, the faith
q of scientific training and hero Of
the great 1000 miles in 1000 hours
match, who trained Tom Crib when
he was matched to fight Molineaux,
the black, at the beginning of last cen
fury, stood to lose 10000 in the
case NJ Cribs defeat. But Crib
won after twenty minutes fighting,
ultimately became coal merchant
and publican, and died sixty years age
at the age OF 67.-From Tit-BitS
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13
NEWS IN LAVENDER.
"ScIinters" Of "GIeason's PictoriaP'
Which Still Have Point.

Somebody with an investigating ma
ture recently got down from his
fathers garnet a bound volume OF
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room
Companion, published in Boston, 1854
and thumbing the yellow pages over
each weekly issue refreshing COM
pendulum of short facts and editorial
humor under the standing title OF
"Splinters." Here are some Of them.
Little Cordelia Howard has made
a most decided hit at the National
Theatre in this city as Little Eva
The engineers of the Erie Railroad
have struck on account Of regula-
ton whose mandate is that every en-
gineer whose train runs off the track
shall be dismissed.
Miss Julia Deans engagement in
this city has been highly successful,
though to us she lacks refinement
and study.
A Rochester paper states that the
Rev. Miss Antoinette l.. Brown is not
married.
We have had a remarkably open fall
and a beautiful Indian summer in the
State of Massachusetts.
Kasosky, the celebrated bootmakec
Of Paris, works only for people who
ride in carriages. His boots cannot
be walked in.
The Governor of Arkansas says the
State Treasury IS short-a very pre-
valent complaint. TO-
1t is now almost as much an evil
dence of foppery to hare 4 close
shorn face az it used to be to wear
naustache.
AS many as eight dead horses are
carried out of Boston daily to feed
Mr.. Wards hogs. Who eats the pork?
Ninety tons Of poultry came to New
York for Thanksgiving. Great place,
New York.
Mr.. Joseph Brelsford was acciden-
tally killed at Coney Island, N. Y.
lately; he broke his spine playing
leapfrog. ~
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13

Many people like to see horse
race. Time was when more people
would go to see Maud S. frot than
would attend baseball game. Speed
and records were matters of general
conversation. as baseball scores are
now, AYERS the New York World. This
general public interest diminished be-
cause, instead of being a sport, rae
ing became a gambling game. There
was like interest taken in the rae
ing results as the visitors to Monte
Carlo show in the printed records,
of the days roulette plays.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13
THE SAMOvAR IN RUSSIA.
A Household Utensil In Universal
Use In the Empire-tiow It Is
Made

Consul James w. Ragsdale, OF St.
Petersburg, in a report to the Bureau
of Manufactures. says concerning the
manufacture and use of samovars n
Russia:
One OF the great industries OF Rus.
sia is the manufacture of household
utensils from brass, nickel, copper and
copper alloys. Kettles. pots, pans,
bowls Of every conceivable kind and
shape are made and sold by the
thousand. The most interesting
ufensil, and the one of most frequent
use In the Russian home. is what
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13

There is no important seaport be-
tween Portland, Maine, and Portland.
Ore, that has not one or more
through railway passenger trains from
Chicago daily.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13

A dairyman's daughter N Illinois
was drowned in a tank Of milk in
tended for the market. Did the TO-
cal papers say she found a watery
grave?' inquiries the Louisville Com
journal
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13

"A heap O sadness in dis world"
said Uncle Eben, in the WASHINGTON
Star, is due to folks disposition to
talk about de roses dat done faded.
'sted o settin' busy plantin' crops
fob mex season"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13

South Carolina dealers in bird hats
have been fiaed, doubtless 10 the cost
of customers, notes the Philadelphia
Ledger, who will observe the fine
tackled on to the regular price.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13

In just what way the flying ma.
chine will prove itself useful We can.
not say, admits the Chicago Record
Herald, but more certainly than the
old automobile it has a record on
which to base high hopes. With that
record and the enthusiasm and the
competition that are inspired by It
rapid progress must come as mat
ter of course.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-13

Every monthly magazine carries as
many as two continued stories in it:
When a man takes six, suggests the
Oil City Derrick. il means that his
wife is carrying twelve continued
stories in her head in addition to do
ing The cooking and trying to find
out how much the new hat cost worn
by the woman next door
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09
MIAMI

Miss Lizzie Saufley Of Marshall
is enjoying a visit with her mother
and father Mr., and MRS. Wood
Saufley. Her sister Mrs. Dick
Latimer of the county came in on
Tuesday to mako the family re-
union complete.
Loveless Ulrey has taken the
position at the Wheeler hotel that
Freddie Jennings formerly hald.
A Miami woman recently set q
trap in her summer Kitchen near a
hole OF a mischieyous rodent. Inn
agine her surprise when she visit
ed 1t to find instead OF his ratship
entrapped a snake 40 inches long.
He was OF a strange species, and
wise heads were consulted as to
what name to give him but failed,
His colors were red white and black
arranged in irregular spots. As q
circus and menagerie was billed for
Tuesday In q few feet from where
he toolu his abode 1t was thought
by many that he was an "adyance
AGENT
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09
Look Here Boys

1t has been most truly stated
"Distance lends enchantment,n mi
the city looks we'll from the old
farm, Perhaps you do not see tho n
! and thistles, but they grow in the
city thicker than on the farm Home
discipline may be hard to bear b IT
in 1t r gems of all %uccesse Par
ents are midway in the temple o.
life, and certainly must know more
than standing on the threshold. 1t
is always safe to listen to the voice
OF wisdom and affection. You may
not be permitted to control all
things at home but please remem-
Der before seeking the lsrge lib + ~
Of the city that you can control
nothing there. You may wear SO e
clothes, but you must be the se--
want of all. Liberty and ease are
the fruit of toll. The boy th.t
knows more than his parents goes
to the wall in the city. Success d.
ponds upon industry, obedience,
economy ana purity. Brown hcn's
clean tongues and hearts are in de-
mand in the city. A country loafe:
becomes a city loafer and neither
country or city has use for either.
The earthquake EVE breaks the
ground so as to heave gold at their
feet. Boys who present notle and
manly lives for recommendation
may win anywhere. In the oi Y
you must begin way down, bu. IL
you submit to the inevitable and
make each day tell how much rath-
er than how little good work you
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

1t sounds pleasant to hear tn
sweet strains OF the baud as rha
boys are taking up thsi- prac' ice
again. Miami has several gifted
young men musicians who should
not let their talents be hidden. A
few years ago we hal a splendid
band which gave concerts every
Saturday afternoon and the shal1,
the lame and the blind" all made
efforts to get down on the streets
to hear it. Wd need more mueic
in our hum' drum days OF life.
something to SMOOTH out the
wrinkles of dull care and strife, and
nothing better is known to do this
than music. Let US encourage the
young lei at least in word OF
praise which costs nothing.
The crops are looking fine con-
sidering the time the farmers have
had between showers to work.
Jesse Wheeler. and wife and
children who have been making
quite a stay here returned to their
home Saturday week at Excelsior
Springs.
The glowing July days have come
The hottest of the year,
| The lazy man becomes a "bum"
And Graves more lager beer.
The working man mops his brow
of sweat
And declared with all his might
This is the most sultry weather ye-
And longs for the cooling night.
But after a few hours of rest
He's up with the lark in the morn
He tolls and labors his very best
Upon his wheat and corn.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09
Died at Age of 90


Mrs. Martha Williams, grand
mother OF F. w. York and Ms.
Geo. B. Lasley, OF Blue Lick, died
at her home in st. Louis las week.
The st. Louis Republic says:
Mrs. Martha Brent Williams, sc
years old, the descendant OF anoes-
tors of rare longevity, died at the
home OF her daughter, Mrs, A, A,
York, No. 1882 North Broadway.
"My mother was hale and hearty
and would have lived to be much
older, had it not bee1 a fall in
April" said Mrs. York, last night.
amy grandmother was 80 when
she died and I remembe- my great
grandfather, who was 100. l 10
not want to live to be that o,d, :t':'
100 long"
Mrs. Williams was born in Hen
derson County, Kentucky and came
to Missouri about fifty years ago.
settling with her husband in Lin
coin County, where he died in is 6
She could tell OF the settling 9th >
State and the West generally, and
spoke OF the times when the IN
dams were masters OF the forests
During the Civil War she lived
at Mississippi Bluffs and her daugh
ter remembers the hard times that
prevailed, the soldiers floodir g 'he
country and beating the bushes,
wounded men returning North on
foot to their homes AMI the fe1r
of the women even to look o1t OF
the house after dark.
Mrs. Williams was the me h r O.
nine children, of whom Mrs. York,
Benjamin Franklin Williams anil
Andrew Jackson Williams are the
only survivors. UP to a year ago,
Mrs. Williams worked about the
house like one much younger and
frequently walked from Broadway
over to her sons home on Grand
VENUE
She fell, April 8, and sustained g
scalp wound, which did not heal
Later she was taken with a para
lytic stroke, from which she Gied.
The funeral viii take place at the
old Baptist Church at 9Iew Salem
Lincoln County, and the body vi.
be buried beside that o. h,. hus
band, Noah D. william.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09
City Council

Met July 5th, 1909, all present.
In regard to the tile in front of
Frank Latimer's referred back to
committee.
A. M. Keller permitted to tap
sewer on Brunswick until new dis
trict is established.
On motion order to buy drinking
fountains recinded.
An ordinance providing for the
levy OF taxes on all property in
the city OF Marshall at s)c on the
500 valuation.
1t is ordered to furnish 100 feet
OF 1 inch pipe to any person wish
ing to tap water main while it is
$50 feet or more from water to the
nearest point of property lire.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

Little Johnny had been absent for
an hour. When he returned his
mother said to him: .Where have
you been my little pet2n I have
been playing postman.n her pet re-
piled, sand I gave every n in this
block a real letter. "But where
did you get the real letters, Dearfn
she asked amused. msoh / got 'em
out OF your dresser drawer. They'r
the ones you had tied up In a blue
ribbon.n
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

"Dad," said the country you
who had just graduated from III
district school, ~ have long che1i'h
ed a desire to go on the stage, and
have at last decided, with your pc"
mission, to-" "My boy" int: rup-
ted the old granger, "all the worlds
a stage. You hitch the mules to the
big red plow and transfe" thH ou'-
fit to the ten-acre lot behin1 the
barn, where you can enact the sta"
role in that beautiful drama ontitl-
ed Down on the Farm"
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

The Howard County Advertiser
reports that some Moberly ply
sicians were holding a consultation
beside the cot OF a man suppose
to have appendicitis conce:l
about his person. ~ believe" sri'
one OF them, "that we should wait
and let him get stronger before cut
ting into him." Before the othe:
prospective operator could rep'y
the patient turned his head and re-
marked feebly "What do you take
me fora cheese?"
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

A Missouri editor wrote to anum
Der OF farmers asking them to send
him the news OF their several neigh
borhoods. Here is one reply, "We
have two school marms, the hog
cholera, about fifty bushels of po-
~tatoes and a did fool who married
a cross eyed girl because she had a
mule and forty acres OF land, which
same being yours truly
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

A country editor recently visit
ed a lunatic asylum and was mis-
taken by a lunatic for a fellow suf-
ferer just arrived. The lunatic ask
ed the editor what made him crazy
and to humor the poor fellow, said
Trying to make money out of the
newspaper business.n Gratis" said
the lunatic "you're not crazy, you
are just a damn iool.n-Ex. y
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09
BLACKWATER
, Accident to Lady

On Thursday evening, about 6p.
m. while driving with her little
daughter, Vesta, Mrs. Maggie Har-
vey, widow OF the late Reuben Har-
yey, met with an accident which
came near being fatal. From some
unknown cause the horse became
frightened and a away, overturn
ing the buggy, and catching Mrs.
Harvey underneath. She escaped
with a disloacted shoulder, and was
taken to the home OF Sam Cash.
near where the accident happened
The little girl was nnhurt. Mrs. Har
vey was able to go home Friday
afternoon after treatment by DR..
Tom Hall and other doctors,-News
Logan Dickey, of Pueblo and Miss
Iona Shackelford' were quietly mar
ried at the home OF the bride, near
Nelson, Wednesday. afternoon, June
Esd, Rev. E. T.. Raney officiating.
--In the tent meeting just clos
ed at Arrow Rock, some eighty
conversions + counted, nearly
half Of whom joined the Christian
church. The remainder scattered
among the various churches of the
town.---Mrs. Kate Mackler left
"wednesday for Oklahoma to bring
her sister back with her. Sam
Whitlow, who lives there, accom-
panied her on the journey. Sam
will make a short stay IN oklahoma
then go to Kentucky, and later res
turn here. He may become a c!ti-
gen OF Blackwate r.-News.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

Clyde Times A man appeared be
fore a police Judge in Kansas City
using a crutch and a cane and with
his head all bandaged up. "Are
you the man the house fell ona,
TsNo, sir,n replied his wife for him
81 caught him Ilirting.n
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09
Press Clippings.

A man who sometimes goes fish
ing on Sunday said to a minister:
"would you eat some of the fish
caught on Sunday?" The minister
replied; II expect / would be like
the man whose boy stole some chick
ens-he wouldn't eat any OF the
meat but would take a little of the
gravy
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

A request: A parent, who evil
IDENTIFY disapproved of corporal pun
ishment, wrote the teacher. Dear
Miss: DOME hit u Johnnie, We
never do at home except in sell
defence.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

day economical SIS worth and put a
board across the top of the wagon
box to sit on. Now the farmer
buys an automobile which costs
nor than his farm vas worth al
the time he thought he could not
afford the luxury of a SIS spring
seat. Times and other things have
changed.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

can do you will be on the line of
motion and in time may rise, but
think not the way is strewed with
heartease and roses; ah, there is
many a bitter pang and sharp thorn
that will pierce you, but il you dare
to grapple with them you may even
win in the great city.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

Memphis Reveille: In the early
days a farmer could buy a new
WAGON with or without spring seat
the price of the seat being S., cn@
many who bought wagons in tia
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

A Kansas newspaper moved rs
office the other day. eve found
everything heavy" was an editor
ial paragraph the next week Eek
cept the cash drawer"
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

FOR SALE-Two No. .. Saw
Mills, In g God condition, cheap
at Blue Lick. Write or call
JAS. CULBERTsoN,
$40 RID. I Marshall, Mo-