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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25
Old Hickory.

The following story is told OF how
General Andrew Jackson got his title
Of old Hickory" Captain William
Allen, who was a near neighbor OF
the General. messed with him during
the Creek War. During the cam
paign the soldiers were moving rapid
ly TO surprise the Indians and were
without tents. A cold March wind
came on, mingled with sloet. which
lasted for several days. General
Jackson got a severe cold. but did not
complain as he tried to sleep fin
muddy bottom among his half-frozeu
soldiers Captain Allen and his
brother John cut down q stout hic-
kory tree, peeled off the bark and
made q covering for the General. who
Yves with difficulty persuaded 90 crawl
under &C. The next morning % drunk
on citizen entered the camp and, see
ing the tent, kicked 10 over AS jack
son crawled from the ruins, the topper
cried "Hello. old Hickory Come
out of your bark. and jine us SIN
drink. ~ Detroit News.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25
NEWSY GLEANINGs.

Only one member of Taft's Cabinet
is smoothshaven
Cars for women only were ru- on
trains in the Hudson tunnels.
An unusual number of suicides by
gas, shooting and hanging were re-
ported.
On the new Greensboro Bridges
Sunday opening 10000 persons
crossed.
Behring'S were ordered to begin to
settle the location of the Hudson
River Bridge.
Automobiles appeared at Albany,
N. T., to protest against prohibition
OF chains on tires.
The attitude of England in regard
% the Servian mobilization excited
the greatest establishment in Vienna.
Cash receipts on the new Queens
boro Bridge on the first day of its use
were $SS.S3- The bridge cost S2O,-
100000.
Jennie, the oldest elephant in cap
tiylty, gave a dinner in celebration
of her 213th birthday at Bronx Park.
New York City.
Anti-foreign demonstrations in
China were caused by the purchase by
American missionaries of a site near
Confucius' tomb.
Alphonse Torso, five years old, was
run down and killed by trolley car
in New York City when sent upon his
first street errand.
Ulrich Egg asked permission of the
New York Supreme Court to change
his name to Eek, alleging that he and
his wife were weary of their friends
jokes.
The noted French bulldog, Mares
chel Ney H., owned by Lincoln Bart
lett, of Chicago, and valued at S1O,-
600, has died. The dog swallowed
some corks thrown to it by children
while playing.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25
S1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
SNOW FORTY FEET DEEP.
Took 600 Soldiers TO Clear the Way
i'm the English Blizzard of 1886.

The mogul engines which were
stalled in lasts winters blizzard out
West do not appear to be worthy sue
cessors of a certain Hercules engine
which cut a noble figure in the Eng
fish. blizzard of 1896.
To appreciate the role played by
the Hercules some idea must be given
of the effect of the storm on other
methods of travel. Fourteen mail
coaches were abandoned on as many
roads. Another was dug out of drifts
five times between Exeter and Lon
don
Another was buried so deep that II
took 800 men, principally sappers
and miners, several hours to make q
passage to the coach and rescue the
mails and passengers, while near
Chatham the snow lay to a depth OF
thirty or forty feet, the military being
turned out to the number of COO to
clear the way.
In London the drifts were ten feet
deep and hundreds of men and carts
were employed hauling snow out to
the fields in the suburbs. The mar
kets were in a bad way. One day
only four stall holders were able TO
reach n main market. Greens which
few days before the storm were
being sold for Sd. a bunch at mar
ket, now fetched from 10d. to Is,
turnips, carrots and celery becoming
equally dear; while Id. handsful of
parsley realized Is. Cd, and the happy
possessor of n bunch which he had
previously purchased for Cd, realized
for his prize no less a sum than 81
Is. Sd.
Amid all this confusion the pioneer
railways covered themselves with
glory by running trains almost with
out interruption. There was a deep
cutting on one line where Che snow
had drifted badly and, according to
the Queen, great numbers of people
turned out to see how the Hercules
engine would get along. They inn
agined, of course, that she would DO
stopped, but to their establishment the
engine dashed right into the drift,
clearing her way through apparent
ly without the slightest difficulty, the
snow at the same time flying over the
top of the engine chimney, like foam
from the broken wav9u of violent
sea, and notwithstanding obs sructios
the train came down from Greenhead
(twenty miles) in one hour and a
quarter"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25
IN THE FIREPLACE.

When autumn the maplet
from prison free
Ana or the neadowclovcr lays a frosted flagree,
my heaThst9ne wide and smooth the teecwood bOugh
bossel.
are tossed.
Then when the early a ed dsulcn stair
a
of rain
n pume
through
he
loy dusk bleakne
n SUNNI ola
Across their own,
N orange ruff ndz
And brilliant coniagrations of the Indian
In ernset dales and honow where spun
And featheed foXailgrasses flash like n
With sudden burst of flying
Against the piDared the
A loosened adrp with
seek strand Of gems-behold in two
The sylva pictures vanish in "a my llur of
Harriet Whitney Dubn N Companion
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

Happily, the frost all over Russia
was attended by an ample snowfall"
reported Consul John Grout, from
Odessa. "The snow effectually pro-
tected all the crops which had sufIi-
GENTLY developed to be in condition
to pass with safety over the winter,
which condition, however, had not
been fully attained by some of the
crops in the north and in the south.
east. The plants here were in many
instances too young and too tender,
and unusually favorable circumstances
were required to carry them through
the usual rigors of a Russian win
ter. The snow cover which, except
ing in the extreme south and south
east. extends all over Russia, did this
effectually."
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

housework but n false god chat wom-
en- raised and worshipcd. ofttimes to
the Punishment OF their own souls
and the destruction of the peace and
happiness OF their loved ones. God
forbid that she should ever again
endanger tho stability OF their home
by any such worship OF idols. The
true ideal is home-making, not house
keeping, Gencyioyc had learned. and
the motto TO he kept ever I'm mind,
wise neglect. Good Health.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

Medium -"Tho spirit Of your
great-grandfather, who was hangoC.
wishes to speak TO you.
Believer W-w-what does he
want?"
Medium-"He wants to tell YOU
that ho was just as crazy as the
fellows nowadays who don't Get
hanged"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

DR.. e. S. Bailey, of Chicago, an
nounced at a medical convention in
New Orleans that he had discovered
in radio-thor, made from pitchblende,
a substitution for radium, cheaper
and better in its effects.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

Europeans are beginning to real
lie the hygienic value OF high build
ings, with elevators which lift people
into the dustfree, sunlit. higher re-
gions.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

A scientific periodical calls atten-
ton to the fact that not only water
color but oil paintings of the last
half century seem doomed to fade,
entirely, and that typewritten docu-
ments will ultimately be blank paper.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

Some love affairs would socm to in
dictate, TO the Boston Post. that Cupid
ought to drop his bow and arrow
and get a gun
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

The first rotary converter in Amori-
sa, as well as the largest, was built
by the General Electric Company.
These machines are used to change
alternating currents into direct cur
rent for street railway service.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

The American Geographical Socie-
ty has made a collection representing
the finest grades of wall maps, aliases
and other appliances used in teaching
geography in European schools. The
collection has been on, exhibition in
New York for some time, and now it
is being loaned. in whole or in part,
to normal and training schools and
other educational centres throughout
the country as Ions rs there is a de-
mand for it. This collection was
made with the expectation that it
would be useful to teachers of the
subject or those preparing to teach
It.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25

A novel competition is to be de-
cided by Halley's comet, which is ex-
pected soon to come in sight for few
months of its seventy-Gye-year cir
cult around the sun. a wealthy En-
ropean amateur astronomer offered
prize for the best computation OF
this comets orbit, submitted before
the close of 1909, and n competing
ephemeris for this year and next in
dicates very different route from
that expected. showing the perihelion
passage in the middle of June in
stead Of the middle of April, 1910.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-05-25
ThR Old Fashioned Night Shirt.

SSS;<SSSS<<S
90 No gentleman will anything pajamaNlcn fashions 90
90 At the practice of wearing "A
w the >
90 OF newport that this unhappy custom originated. "A
o 10 w
"a There freedom he nigh =
shirt, seemed 90
TO man mora Ietotu
* 90
Men do fin
% Every by himself have the privilege a.
or making himself
a tajamas do
when 90
= being dressed for the evening 90
" The old fashioned night 90
reducing ow
% bishop, ACQUIRED I'm "A
prize fighter *
6A And is there las been the a
peence OF standing the
fire. o Who
not recall 90
Al subhmity he has reached 90
2t3e99
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-29
Mrs. Headlee's Good Work.

Mrs. Headlee, our Los Angeles rep
resentative. writes:
''The difficulty of prospective tour
lists in securing passage on the regu-
lar steamers has been observed here
ever since my return from the Islands
in the middle of July. Several small
parties of four or more, as well as in
dividuals, have been unable to get pas
sage. The days are each and
every one bearing fruitful results; for
each brings inquiries, each brings the
statement that many are going to the
Islands, either this season or within a
short time. Many say, MY next trip
will be TO Hawaii
S'The city IS full Of visitors. Never
before at this season have there been
so many tourists here. Hotels and
boarding houses are about all full and
viii hardly be able to accommodate the
increased travel after the first of the
year.
IS Last week I gave lecture
on Hawaii at Masonic Temple to a
very appreciative audience. Next week
/ shall give the same before the Out
West Club. and have several similar
engagements before state. social and
literary clubs. Have applied for a
place on the program Of the teach
ers' institute to be held in December
Last week the National Women s Mis-,
sionary Convention was in session
Through my personal invitation and
the distribution of the beautiful new
booklets, a large number came up tc
hear my talks on the Islands.
I urge all persons proposing going tt
Hawaii the necessity Of securing &c
Communications early
Our mail this week contains the usual
large number of inquiries from persons
who want to come TO Hawaii as tour
lists or settlers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-29
Floral Parade Posters.

I have advices from Seattle that our
Floral Parade poster has been received
there. and was well distributed through
the Exposition buildings, but only a
day or two before the fair closed
They were, however, well distributed
throughout the city. As other posters
were shipped from Germany at the
same time that these were, it is as
sured that our agent in San Francisco,
j. Walter Scott, has by this time made
good start in distributing them
throughout the country west of the
Rocky Mountains. Advices from Harry
Mist are to the effect that Europe has
already been well covered, while ship
ments of the folders were made over
a month ago to Mr.. Wood in the
Orient.
] sent out form letter this week
to about one hundred business firms in
the city, offering to supply them with
the little blue leafet, ''For Your In
formation for enclosing in their cor
resp0ndence, and already have had a
number of requests for it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-29
Harriman's Lines Will Help.

That the great transcontlnental rail-
ways are becoming interested in Ha-
waii as a possibility for a traffic de-
veloper is evidenced from the follow
ing letter from James Horsburgh Jr.,
general passenger agent for the South
ern Pacific system, at San Francisco:
st'Some of the Hartman lines want
to do some publicity work for Homo
lulu and the Hawaiian Islands, and
have asked me to secure for them some
good photographs. We have nothing
suitable, and | am going to ask that
you send me by first steamer such as
you would like to have used
] would advise you that the Pleasan-
ton Hotel management is carrying ON a
splendid advertising campaign which
can not help but profit the hotel and
also generally benefit the Islands by
spreading the name of Hawaii. I OBJ
served during the past summer then
folders in almost every hotel and rail
way rack that / noted from Seattle
to San Francisco. Besides this they
have an extremely efficient system OF
distribution ON all the transpacifc
steamships and throughout the Orient
I have also been asked by the man
agement of this hotel for addresses OF
prospective visitors to Hawaii in order
that they may further spread their lit
erature. Inasmuch as l believe in ad
vertsing Hawaii by every legitimate
means in our power, | shall take pleas
ure in offering any assistance to any
of the local hotels that | can.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-29

rotary, and heretofore myself, as rail
way agent, for special train tour en-
bracing about a thirtyday trip. For
their 1910 or 1911 tour [ would like
to interest them in Honolulu, and will
thank you to advise me as to hotel ae-
commodations, cost of some side trips
to see isle of Hawaii, the volcanoes
Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea; and some
other information that would be at
tractive TO a party of American bank
ers. viii add that the Texas Bank
ers' Association is composed of over
1000 members, and the trip is usually
made in June and july. -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-29
No Head Man Yet.
Itinerary for Maui.

Mr.. Mclean reported that the Inter
Island Steam Navigation Company had
arranged Maui itinerary for patrons
of its line so that passengers may take
the side trip to Maui, Coupon tickets
viii be sold to make the itinerary easily
handled hv nafrnns
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-01
FROM THE CORN BELT.
A View of the Weeks vioissitudes,
from the Spet.

Kansas City, Mo, August 25.-P Posi-
bly,, people who last week were calcu-
Iating that all the crops were made,
and that deductions from the govern
ments August estimates could stand
until the end of The harvest, have had
something of a shock. An example
of what 4 few days of dry weather
and hot winds can do to the croT
prospects of the interior has been
furnished this week.
The corn counties OF the nortE ern
half of Kansas have had series oil
days in which the temperature Was
100 degrees, accompanied by sou n
winds that seemed fairly to blister
the growing crops. Although there
has been a fair start for the corn.
the effect of the dry spell has been
undoubtedly serious, and MY sec
tions of the corn belt will have a ma
terial shortening of the crop, espe-
cially in the fields thai were late
planted. The north vest counties
where is the great corr center OF the
state in abundant ears, have sui
fered severely, and it will be neces,
sary to revise the crop estimates of a
month ago.
Nothing is, in fact, more uncertain
than the prairie corn cop; estimates
made in early summer are seldom
borne out The middle and southern
countries have Jared better, as the
corn was more mature. Put it cannot
he told for fortnight, ar until the
crop is made just What has been
the effect of this weeBs events. All
that is evident from, the reports al
ready confir,nsi is that definite dam
age and Impairment have resulted.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-01
.RICEEMAH Off TO
NORTH COUNTRY
LOOKING AFTER INTERESTS OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES rs
NEW DEPUTIES.
WANTS TO TAKE ALL RESPONSE
5ILITY FOR CRITICISM IN
STONE MATTER.
Madison. August Is

Madison, August rs.
Game Warden George w. 2ickeman
left yesterday for northern portions
of the state o confer with his depu-
ties, canvas the situation to discover
the needs of the department to the end
that its work may be made more eff
fective for the preservation and pro-
lection Of fish and game. Warden
Rickeman realizes the importance and
magnitude of the task If he accom-
plishes his plans to make his de-
partment effective for the purposes
contemplated in its creation and de-
clares that he will leave nothing un-
done to realize his ambition.
Before leaving yesterday Warden
Rickeman referred to the matter of
his rejected claim for the payment Of
services rendered by Former Chief
Warden J. w. Stone. 81 want IL take
whatever responsibility there rlay be
| for criticism In this matter upon my
self" he said. "Mr. Stone did not seek
to be retained in the department, but
consented to remain for short time
to help me in the work until | could
familiarize myself WIKI it. asked
him to do this believing that it was
for the good of the department to do
SO and owe to him great obligation
for the assistance rendered"
Warden Rickeman has the new
game laws compiled and published
and Chief Deputy Sudgen and the Of
fee force is busy mailing copies to
those who have called for them and
otherwise distributing them. The new
license forms have been distributed
and the season of activity, when the
sportsmen of the state, and would-be
sportsmen will want to pay the fee
and be ready for the slaughter OF
beasts and birds and men.
Meanwhile Warden Rickeman will
appoint 25 special deputy wardens for
service during the shooting season to
erve where violators most 90 con-
,regate. For the present these special
deputies win remain incognito.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-01
lone CURED EVERY
WEEK AT WALES
GRATIFYING RECORD OF TREAT.
MENT AT STATE TU5ERCU-
LoSlS SANlTARIuM.
Madison. August Is.

Madison, August %.
President A. d. Conover of the state
board of control of penal and charita
BILE institutions, last night said that at
the tuberculosis sanitarium at Wales
there is being turned out one cured
patient each week. This record, Mr..
Conoger said, they expected to keep
up during the warmer months. He
also disclosed that the board will
build additional room at the santa
rum as the accommodations now are
wholly inadequate. The present ca.
pacity of the Institution is 80 and it
is filled to the limit continually.
Most of the members of the board
are in Seattle attending the national
prisr.. congress. Upon their return,
the Investigation of charges in con
aection with the death of John Smith
at the state reformatory at Green Bay
will be taken up. It had been thought
that this investigation was closed, but
the board is DESTROYS of making fur
Their and more complete inquiry.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-01
FOREIGN

The Gloucester fishing schooner
Orinoco capsized off Llunenburg, Nova
Scotia, and eleven men, all Nova SEQ
tisns, were drowned.
The Russian admiralty has decid-
ed to order a submarine of the Hol-
land model The boat win be built at
the Nevsky works under American
supervision
Mayor Ozalsi of Toxic has offered
10000 cherry trees as a gift to Presi-
dent Taft to plant in the new park on
the banks of the Potomac river at
Washington, D. c.
A railway disaster occurred when
two trains came into collision thirty
miles north Of Santiago, Chile. Many
persons were killed or injured. Both
trains were destroyed completely.
The monetary oss will reach $3.50. 900
Four persons were burned to death
and half dozen buildings were des-
troyed by fire which broke out in the
center of Karlskrona. Sweden. Tb
Sodra Sverige bank and the sma
lahus banks are among the premises
destroyed. The fire was due to the ex-
plosion of a kerosene lamp.
Announcement of an amicable settle
ment of all pending questions which
have served to disturb the friendly re-
lations between japan and China
will be made officially within short
time Arrangement of the differences
relating to the Antung- Kukden rail
way probably will be contained in
note to the powers
When King Alfonso arrived at San
Sebastian from Madrid he was wear
ing side whiskers and had had his
hair cut short. The king thought this
gave him the appearance Of an admir-.
al in the British navy, but Queen Vic.
toria and former Empress Eugenie
remarked that he looked more like an
English butler :.nd urged him to
shave off his whiskers. His majesty
did so. for when he returned to Ma
drid he was whiskerless once more
and looked younger than ever.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-01
Sentiment in Life Of Frohman.

01tAittNbA III AilC OI TFUFffFldH
Charles Frohman denies that he
is a business man The denial was
brought out by numerous articles
written in which he has been re-
ferred to as IAN exemplary man of
business"
Nonsense" says the famous play
wright. He continued: IF I were a
good business man should be rich
man by now; but am not rich,
and the last place I want to visit
is the office where the business side
of my affairs is transacted. | do
not like figures. and when see a
column of them I only look at the
bottom line. like plays, players,
theaters, and stages. I enjoy reading
plays and bvy'rg plays, and | enjoy
producing them. but have bought
more plays than I can ever produce.
and so proved myself more of a
sentimentaffst than a business man. .