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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-30
WOMAN DRESSED
LIKE GIRL OF a
WORE KNEE SKIRTS, KEPT HAIR
"BOBBED" AND PLAYED WITH
CHILDREN.
HAS TWICE BEEN MARRIED
Strange Fancy AIienates Her from
Husband and Father-Arrested
on Charge Of
SwindIing.

Philadelphia Acknowledging that
she had lived a quarter of a century,
but not looking more than IA years
old in the childish costume which she
wears, Mrs. Elizabeth Stone the other
day was held under $500 bail for
further hearing ny Magistrate Rau,
charged with obtaining goods valued
at 1926 from Fluck Brothers, drug
gists, on Ridge avenue, on bogus or
ders signed with the name of Dr.
Irving Gilbert
Her strange pleasure in wearing
clothes suitable for child of II or
IA years has not only caused the
woman to be refused recognition by
her father, but has caused her separa-
ton from her husband, who has re-
fused to live with her because of her
fancy for short dresses. According
to the story she tells, she has been
married twice, having divorced her
first husband
With her skirts to her knees and
her hair "bobbed" in childish fashion,
Mrs. Stone created lot of surprise in
ponce headquarters, where those VINO
saw her took her for child until
they learned that she was 25 years
old.
Mrs. Stone, or Lizzie" as she was
called by the children who played
with her in the neighborhood of TWEEN
ty-third and Sharswood streets, called
at the home of Mrs. Mary Krushyk,
on Sharswood street, about three
weeks ago, and asked If she could not
have shelter for the night. Her ia
Their, she said, had been called to
Baltimore to attend a sick brother,
and she was afraid to stay alone in
the house until his return.
Lizzie" had been known to Mrs.
Krushyks children about year
previously, when she had endeavored
to persuade them to go on the stage
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-30
Ours and Theirs.

"a play on names unconsciously per
petrated by my youngest son was
very funny" said a Flatbush man the
other day 1--WE live next door to
family named Feitenour. and the other
night while my family was busy read
ing in the library we heard racket
on the back porch. My son went out
to investigate, and on his return my
wife, always inquisitive, asked what
had caused the noise.
"'Nothin' but couple of cats Jim
told her, and then l heard her ask:
Did you see whose they were?'
"'Yes; one was ours and the other
was Feitenour's.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-30

upon the seashore. Beneath the giant
spread of the baobab all was black
ness.
Something moved in bush little
way down the cleft. A crouching
figure appeared, dimly outlined in the
starlight. The figure crept stealthily
across into the denser night of the bao-
bah. The darkness closed about it like
a shroud.
A binding fash of light pierced the
blackness. The figure halted and
crouched lower, though the flash had
gone again in fraction of a second.
A dull rumbling mingled with the
ceaseless boom of the surf.
A second flash lighted the cleft with
its dazzling coruscation. This time the
creeping figure did not halt.
Again and again the forked light
ming streaked across the sky, every
stroke more vivid than the one before.
The rumble of the distant thunder
deepened to heavy rolling which
dominated the dull roar of the break
ers. The storm was coming with the
on-rush of a tornado. Yet the leaves
hung motionless in the still air, and
there was no sound other than the
thunder and the booming of the surf
The lightning flared, one stroke upon
the other, with a brlliancy that lit
up the caves interior brighter than at
midday.
In the white glare the girl saw Win
thrope, crouched beneath her upswung
door; and his face was as the face of
a beast.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-30
Guess Where She Is From.

The head of the house had been i'll
for many months, and had lost his APP
petite entirely.
II can't seem to fix anything that
he'll enjoy and he hardly eats any,
thing" the mistress was saying to the
old country.
That's always the way" returned
the girl. They're all the same, them
invalids All they want is nothing at
ALL and then when you bring it to
them they don't eat it,"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-30


|WzS@ a moment Of eternity she
lay on her bed staring into
the blank darkness. The storm burst
with a crashing uproar that brought
her to her feet with a Shrek. Her
giant tree creaked and strained under
the impact of the terrific hurricane
blasts that came bowling through the
cleft like g rout of shrieking fiends.
The peals of thunder merged into one
continuous roar. beneath which the
solid lodges of rocks Jared and quiv-
cred. The sky was a pail of black
clouds, meshed with q dazzling net
work of forked lightning.
The girl stood motionless, stunned
by the uproar, appalled, by the binding
glare of the thunderbolts; yet even
more fearful of the figure which every
Hash showed her still lurking beneath
the door. A gust-borne Dough struck
with numbing force against her us
raised arm. But she took no heed. She
was unaware Of the swirl of rain and
sticks and leaves that was driving in
through the open entrance.
On a sudden the door shook free
from its props and whirled violently
around on its balance-bar. There was
shrek that pierced above the shrill.
ing of the cyclone-a single human
shrek.
The girl sprang across the cave
The heavy door swished up before her
and down again, its lower edge all but
grazing her face. For a moment IL
stopped in a vertical position and
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-30

hung quivering, like beast about to
leap upon its prey. Too excited to
comprehend the danger Of the act, the
girl sprang forward and shot one of
the thick bars into its socket.
A fierce gust leaped against the out
er face of the door and thrust in upon
it, striving to burst it bodily from its
bearings. The top and the free side
of the bottom bowed in. But the
branches were still green and tough,
the bamboo like whalebone and the
shrunken creepers held the frame to-
gether as though the joints were
dashed with wire rope. Failing to
smash in the elastic structure or to
snap the crossbar it were as if the
blast flung itself alternately against
the top and bottom in fierce attempt
to again whirl the frame about The
white glare streaming in through the
interstices showed the girl her oppor
tunity. She grasped another bar and
shot it into it's socket as the lower
part of the door gave back with the
shifting of the pressure to the top. 1t
was then simple matter to slide the
remaining bars into the deep-sunk
holes. Within half q minute she had
made the door fast from the first bar
to the sixth.
A heavy spray was beating in upon
her through the chinks of the frame
work. She drew back and sought
shelter in a niche at the side. Mar
row as was the slit above the top of
the door, it let in a torrent of water,
which spouted clear across and
against the far wall of the cave. 1t
gushed down upon her bed and was
already flooding the cave floor.
She piled higher the cocoanuts
stored in her niche, and perched her
self upon the heap to keep above the
water. But eevn in her sheltered cor
ner the eddying wind showered her
with spray. She waded across for her
skn-covered sunshade, and returned
to huddle beneath it, in the still mis-
cry and terror of hunted animal that
has crept wounded into a hole.
During the first hurricane there had
been companions to whom she could
look for help and comfort, and she
had been to degree unaware of the
greatness of the danger. But in the
few short weeks since she had caught
more than one glimpse of Primeval
Nature-she of the bloody fang, blind.
remorseless, insensate, destroying,
ever destroying.
True, this was on solid land while
before there had been the peril of the
sea. But now the girl was alone Out
side the straining walls of her refuge,
the hurricane yelled and shrieked and
roared-a headless, formless monster
furious to burst in upon her, to over
throw her stanch old tree giant, that
in his fall his shattered trunk might
crush and mangle her. Or at any in
slant thunder-bolt might rend open
the great tower of living wood, and
hurl her blackened body into the pool
on the cave floor.
Once she fancied that she heard
Blake shouting outside the door; but
when she screamed a shrill response,
the blast Knocked her with echoing
shrieks, and she dared not venture to
free the door. If IL were Blake. he
did not shout again. After a time she
"egan to think that the sound had
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-30
CHILDREN SHOWED 1T
Effect of Their Warm Drink In tho
Morning.

A year ago l was wreck from
coffee drinking and was on the point
of giving up my position in the school
room because of nervousness.
Il was telling a friend about it and
she said, We drink nothing at meal
time but Postum, and it is such
comfort to have something we can
enjoy drinking with the children
81 was astonished that she would
allow The children to drink any kind OF
coffee. but she said Postum was the
most healthful drink in the world for
children as well as for older ones, and
that the condition of both the children
and adults showed that to be fact.
MY first trial was failure. The
cook boiled it four or five minutes and
it tasted so fat that | was in despair
but determined to give it one more
trial. This time we followed the direc.
tions and boiled it fifteen minutes aft
er the boiling began. 1t was decided
success and was completely won by
its rich delicious favour In short
time noticed a decided Improvement
in my condition and kept growing bet
ter month after month, until now am
perfectly healthy, and do my work
in the school room with ease and pleas
ure | would not return to the nerve
destroying regular coffee for any
money"
Read the famous little Health Clas-
sic =" The Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
There's Reason"
Ever read the above lettcrs a new
one appears from tirtc 90 time. They
are genuine, true. and full of human
interest.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-10-30
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Hurricane Blast.

MH OR a moment that seemed
E. a moment of eternity she
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18
TELLS OF GREAT STATESMEN
Aged Member Of British Parliament
Writes Interestingly Of Glad.
stone and Disraell.

In his eighty-third year Sir Francis
8. Powell, Bart, has decided to leave
the house Of commons, the London
Daily Mail says. Wigan, where he
was born in 1927, which he represent
ed as a conservative first in 1857-59,
and again from 1885 to the present
day, heard the rumor with sincere re-
great and proposed to send deputa.
tion to London to ask its veteran
townsman to reconsider his decision.
But Sir Francis is firm, asking his
friends not to send deputation. Dig
nified and businesslike in debate and
a perfect master of several subjects,
he has been for generation type of
the hard-working private member.
'The man who stays too long in
parliament makes mistake" he
said, in an interview. "Palmerston,
my first premier, and Gladstone both
stayed too long. Gladstone quite lost
his balance toward the end. Even
Lord Morley cannot defend all Glad
stone did in later years.
THE house once had a good laugh
at Gladstone. He was speaking with
contempt Of Disraeli's followers and
stopped for a word to describe them.
Satellites suggested Disraeli quietly.
1t was obviously the word Gladstone
wanted, and the house roared with
pleasure, while Gladstone was plainly
upset.
Il remember another occasion when
Disraeli took the sting out Of an at
tack by Gladstone. The latter had
been speaking in his romping way,
throwing his arms about and declaim-
ing vigorously. Disraeli rose from the
other side Of the table and said with
apparent seriousness: while the
right honorable gentleman was speak
ing l was glad to feel that there was
big piece of furniture between u.s.
In black and white that is nothing, but
Disraeli's manner delighted the house.
Parliamentary life so years ago
was more tempestuous than it is now.
was in the house in Speaker Peers
time when two men began to fight.
One Of their men very rudely came
and sat on our bench and it was re-
sented. Then the speaker was sent
for and peace was restored"
Sir Francis Powell's chief claim to
remembrance will be the interest he
has taken in sanitation and education.
He will retain his seat until the close
of the present parliament.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18
Shocking Extravaaanee.

my gracious!" said Uncle Hiram.
after he had returned from the city:
Its perfectly scandalous the way
them people up there waste money
There's my son Amos. He married a
city girl, you know. l warned him
against 1t, but 1t want any use. He
thought he knew better than me or
his ma. A girl that's brought up in
a big place where she don't get no
idee Of doin' her own work amt no
bind Of wife for any man to have. 1t
made me sick to see the way they
waste money. And l don't see how
Amos manages to keep It up. s'pose
I'll have 'em on my hands one of
these days. No young man can earn
enough to stand the expense they
have. Why, was with 'em only lit.
tie over Q week and they had beef.
steak three times."-Chicago Record.
Herald.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18
\ Gentleman Of Varied Experience.


Prof. F. w. Dolley is probably one
of the most versatile fellows in this
section. He has been living at the
mouth of Russell Gulch for two win
ters. He has been placer mining all
summer, and was also able to put in
a crop of potatoes, rutabagos, tur-
nips and carrots. The three latter
turned out we'll but the potatoes bare
ly matured. He sold some of his crop,
the balance is retained fer his per-
sonal use.
Mr.. Dolley has led life of varied
experience. Has travelled considerably
over the world and understands var
ious languages. He went to sea
while a boy, as a stowaway The call
of the wild has held him in thrall,
and after several years as drummer
on the road for a New York sta
tionery house, his strenuous activity
caused a break down. Being sent to
Colorado by his firm he was benefit
ed almost Immediately and decided
to remain, locating in Central, where
he is we'll known for the success he
met in entertaining the people of this
town with his roller-skating rink.
Since then he has engaged in plac-
er mining in this section, meeting
with varying success. 1t is said of
him that he knows just where to
look for gold by instinct. He must
have met with success or he would
not so persistently pursue the illu-
sive stuff with such persistence. He
is engaged in an enterprise now that
he says is certain to return him
something handsome in the way of
reward. If it turns out as anticipat-
ed, the public will hear of it, as he
believes, with Barnum, that publicity
is good thing.
The other evening he entertained
a number of friends with a sleight-of-
hand performance. This was the out
come of a conversation on spiritua-
lism. He is a firm believer in that
faith and is something of medium.
The writer saw him accomplish his
sleight-of-hand tricks the mediumistic
part was deferred.
He was able also, with the aid of
a turn-down light, to make an ordin-
ary cane stand upright in any place
on the floor. Questions of sensible
character were answered. by the
cane reclining this or that way. The
skeptic may be able to do the same
while the stick is in control of the
medium.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18
Mimiery In Fishes.

In a lecture on fish photography at
the Royal Photographic society's exhi-
bition. DR.. Francis Ward said that the
power which certain fish possessed to
change their color in harmony with
their environment resided in their
eye. He placed a pike in such posi-
ton that its head was in a dark cham
ber while the rest of its body lay in
bright sunshine. Although it's resting
place was perfectly white the pike re-
maineo black in color. But when he
reversed its position and caused
its head to be in the sun
light. its color changed to a
very much lighter hue within the
space of a few minutes. 1t was evi-
dent that in fish. which possessed pro-
tective powers Of this kind to great.
er extent than birds or any other
creatures. the light acted upon the op-
tic nerve. thus causing the pigment
cells all over the skin to contract or
-elaX.-London Globe.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18
THOSE COMING
AND GOING

Frank Poole, who was injured last
week in the West Nottaway mine,
went to Denver Saturday morning, ac
companied by his wife.
John Richards was a passenger to
Denver Saturday morning.
Dave Thompson was a visitor to
Denver the latter part of the week.
NJ. F. Keleher, who had been
spending several days in Denver last
week, breathing the invigorating and
enlivening atmosphere of the city,
returned home Saturday evening.
Chas. Cox and wife, were arrivals
home Saturday evening after a brief
visit in Denver.
w. H. Mcfarland, of the Parole
mine, who had been spending a
couple Of weeks in Ohio on business.
returned home Saturday. The change
of weather and altitude made him
sick and he had to remain in bed
a couple of days after reaching here.
John Wells, who went to Denver
two or three weeks ago to recuperate
from the effects Of his typhoid fever.
returned to the city Saturday. The
altitude, environment or something in
the Capital city worked decided i'm
provement in Mr.. Wells condition.
Walter Flagler and mother, Mrs.
Job, were arrivals from the valley
Saturday.
L. j. Williams and wife returned
Saturday from visit to Golden and
Denver.
Thomas Williams and wife were ar
rivals Saturday from Golden.
P. R. Alsdorf was business visi-
tor to the state metropolis Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Ripley left Mon
day for Denver.
Herb. Bowden made a business trip
to Denver Monday afternoon.
w. e Withrow was in Denver Mon
day
Perry Klien left Monday. afternoon
for San Diego, Cal He expects to re-
LQalu III SdlAOEHld ScNcIdl uiohlhS''
He is making the trip for the ben.
efit Of his health.
VIM. Quiller was among the pas
sengers to Denver yesterday morn
ing.
A. L. Anderson made a business
trip to Denver yesterday
Gene Clark and H. H. kruse were
up from Denver yesterday on bank
business.
Mrs. Robt. Johnson left yesterday
for Arvada to attend funeral.
L. r. Tatum and wife were up from
Denver yesterday looking after the
Sleepy Hollow mine.
A. Baleria and Joe Reivi were pas.
sengers to the valley this morning.
Neil Mckay left for Denver this
morning on business.
NJ. F. Lansdale left for Denver
Monday afternoon to be absent for
q couple Of days.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18
Idea for Panama Canal.

II is now nearly 400 years since the
first proposal was made for the Pa.
mama canal. A canal was suggested
as early as 1920 by Angel Saavedra,
but for a long time all such sugges.
tions met with determined opposition
from Spain, who made It a capital Of.
fense to seek or make known any i'm.
provement on the existing route from
Porto Bello to Panama. More recent.
~ Louis Napoleon. when a prisoner
At Ham. spent much time considering
the practicability Of such a scheme
It was not, however. until the Call.
fornia gold rush Of 1s49 that any &c.
curate knowledge Of the Typographical
conditions was obtained. and even
then 90 more years elapsed before the
actual site was chosen by an interna.
tional commission and the work be-
gun.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

Sol Bacharach, while entering his
depository-the First National bank
this week to entrust an accumulation
of money with the keeping of that in
stitution, lost five dollar gold piece.
He scraped around in the snowbut
was unable to recover the lost coin.
Should anyone find the five dollars it
would be an act Of honesty If they
would return it to Mr.. Bacharach.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18
His Claim 10 Distinction,

William Travers Jerome. district at.
torney of New York, went down to
Georgia to address the Georgia Bar
association.
Col. Peter Meldrim was showing Je-
rome around.
"You see that mani" said the
colonel. pointing out . distinguished
person who sat on the hotel porch.
II do."
well, sub, that 10 . man in whom
our state takes great pride. He 10
Judge -, sub. the only man in 0sor.
Ga who can strut sitting down."
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

At the December term of the dis.
trict court, the suit filed by the Sun
and Moon Mining and Milling COM
pany against the Argo NJ. d. T. &
T. Co. (Newhouse tunneD is set for
trial. The former named company is
asking for damages to the amount of
$6,325.74 and interest from March 1st.
1909, at the rate Of eight per cent.
There is an apparent conflict in re-
ference to the ownership Of veins and
the suit is brought to determine this.
Idaho Springs Siftings.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

Matteo Andratti, we'll known Aus
trian citizen living at Gregory point,
died Monday of typhoid fever The
funeral was held yesterday morning
from the Catholic church. Deceased
was single and leaves no relatives in
this country. He was member of tie
Columbus lodge.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

p. w. Cook. half-brother Of M. F.
Lansdale. now at the mouth Of Rus
sell Gulch, paid that section visit.
His interests are identified with the
Canon Coal company Of Denver.
Mrs. Frank w. Zern went to Den.
yer last week, returning Thursday.
During her stay in the mountains her
health has been much improved.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. B. Brown, born on the Sth
Of this month, died Tuesday. The
baby had been sick since the time
of birth The funeral was held yes
terday afternoon from the house.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

St. Paul doesn't want 'Armour's
packing plant located too close to
that village for fear of polluting the
aesthetic temperaments of the ma
tives. The legislature probably fur
nishes all the carrion the saint can
stand for.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

The Owl club dance on Thanks
giving eve. will be bong swong"
affair. Bong swong" is a classical
term of Igorote coinage and means a
high state of perfection which neither
grand, sublime, or brilliant has suf-
ficient force to properly express.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

J. L. Brennan delayed too long in
removing his right hand from the
course of a falling rock in the 1400
stope of the Cook mine last week
and as a result of his tardiness is
carrying his pointer finger in a linen
casing at a present arms"
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

Toby Zanella met with partial good
luck this week in that he found half
a watch. He wants the loser to either
come and claim the half he found or
leave the half that wasn't lost. AS it
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

George Maloney, prominent citi-
zen, is so tickled because the stork
visited his house Tuesday and left
a little daughter he hardly knows
how to act.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

You will not find more complete
the Hawley Mdse. company carries.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

Philipp Hassell, while performing
some stunts at the gymnasium Tues
day hurt his shoulder.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

The mule is good emblem for
the democratic party because 1t can
stand so much abuse.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

A baby girl was born Monday to
Mr.. and Mrs. A. LenZ.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

rock fell on the right hand of
L. Mattivi, working in the Sleepy Hol
low mine, this week and mashed the
little finger.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

Saw filing done properly. Apply to
c. H. Straughn, Phone, Central 30.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

Onyx enameled ware, something
new and cheap, at Hawley's.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18

The Elks are preparing the pro.
gram for their annual memorial SER
vices to be held in the opera house
on the first Sunday in December. An
orator from Denver will deliver the
general eulogy. The lodge has been
fortunate during the past year In that
1t hasn't lost single member. How
ever, memorial day is dedicated as a
day when the memories of all deceas.
ed brothers shall be recalled by the
Elk lodges throughout the country.
The entire program will be ready for
publication in the Observer next weel
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-18
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
ABOUT THE CITY

Place your orders for Groceries at
once with the Hawley Mdse. Co.