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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13

get these steel runners under my
feet and I'll show you how your Uncle
BY used to be the beau ideal on
skates"
Then ! arose like the dawn on the
battlefield OF Waterloo and prepared
TO scintillate. by some queer freak
OF unstableness, | lost control OF my
pedal extremities, my feet slipped out
from under me and came down with
a jar that broke the crystal In my
watch.
Gee" said !, somewhat flustered, Il
guess ! must have stepped on a
twig!"
Can ! help you up, dear?" asked
my wife in her sweetest manner
striving not to laugh
"Oh, never mind me, old honey
bum" said gaily, floundering about
on the ice. "Ill be as light as fawn
in a minute"
And | was, too! One of my feet
got to going north and the other in.
sisted on fleeing in an opposite direc,
tion. For a moment | thought | was
going TO split like a pine stick, but I
managed to fall down again and save
myself BY this time quite a crowd
had gathered and ! knew they wanted
10 see me cut some fancy figures.
did!
The first one started with a kickoff
that would have done honor TO Yale
For the Joyous space OF a second I
sped buoyantly through the rarefied
atmosphere. Then with a blood-curd-
ling yell lit on the southeast corner
OF my hat. 1t was new hat, tool
Darn these skates" said 1, explain.
atory like, they haven't been sharp,
ened since 1882"
81 had them sharpened last week for
you, corrected my wife, soberly.
"All right" said I, starting all over
again. I'm get the hang of them in
a minute"
II was less time than that. made
a wide sweeping surge to one side,
hit a soft place in the ice, fell for six
minutes. broke my eyeglasses, lost
my loose change, upset my fountain
pen, cut hole in my left shoe and
quit That Is, quit skating-Pm fall.
ing yet!
My wife says she will do the skating
for the family hereafter. That keeps
me of the ice and on the water wagon,
all right. Ho hum, gay life!
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13
Protecting Watches and CLOCKS.

A Paris paper devoted to scien-
tihc subjecu announces the discov-
cry of pra tieal method OF shield
ing watches and clocks from all
magnetic inf uences. It is said to be
the work o' matchmaker named
Leroy.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13
Folding Rread Pans.

The original claims made for the
baking pan here illustrated are that
It presents the least amount of oven
bearing surface possible and at the
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13

II you think you are in hard luck,
think of the humans who live on the
east side OF New York.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13

places That let's
me out went
skating yester-
day!
Once | could
glid e gracefully
over the crystal
ice like a snowy
bird on pinions of
down. Now | am
all right on the
down, but my pin.
ions are rusty.
All, well do | re.
member, when a
lad. how | skated
for W ard $ and
backwards, cut
the figure eight,
wrote my name In
the ice and left
my mark for the
admiring popu.
lace to wonder
at! Yesterday |
left my mark as
OF yore. II was
the kind OF a
mark made by a
rutabaga when il
strikes you unex.
pectedly on the
proboscis-and the
peo pl e couldn't
wonder for laugh
ing.
Its easy" said
| to my wife sail.
ing about like a
top. Wait until
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13

II must make boy parrot feel aw-
fully mad to be called Polly.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13
VISITS. Y! SIT. VIII Il.
Uncle BY Goes skating.

I'm not wicked any more. The Bible
says. The wicked stand In slippery
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13

The miller's lie is grind.
Life to the butcher is killing.
The baker finds life very kneady.
The candlestick maker makes light
(of life).
The shoemaker spends much of his
life saving soles
The editors life is made up of
scratching for living.
The blacksmith has the best time
OF all. His life is full OF sparks-and
the one in our town is going to get
married June /.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13

A girl In Indiana played post ONCE at
party the other night and yelled and
rieked and howled and ran behind the
door and scratched the young mans face
Ia seven places upset a lamp. kicked over
tie piano stool and when he hnally kissed
her on the tip of the ear she tainted dead
away and said she could never look any
body IN the face again. They led the
bashful. modest. gentle, sobbing creature
home and the reXt day she ran away
With a married lightning rod peddler
who lad IA hair liz and ten children
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-13
. . .
Foxy Lad.

A Brookfleld (Mn) editor says: "a
Brookheld boy one night imblbed until
he'd had his MI and then he started
homewaTd but he couldn't climb the hill
so down he dropped and went to sleep
ght there upon the grass and In 'his
cams sone very funny dOings came 10
pass. He dreamed that twenty cannibals
had captured him and he was tied up 10
n sapllng while they fixed him up for
tea. Then came the chieftain with a
ear, wen drink his blood" he spake
e'er the CORY jab was made the boy
wide awake. "Ah. ha, old chief"
murmured then between his sleepy
AXIS, II knew I'd get away before you
Ok me for the drlnkRn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
TO PRESERVE
BEAUTY OF
NIAGARA
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 20.
With the ratification of three
treaties between the United States
and Great Britain regarding Can
adam relations, which is expected
shortly by the United States sem
ate, the work of Elihu Root as
secretary of state will be conclud-
ed.
Two questions are settled out
right in one of the treaties, which
has to do with the water boun-
daries between the United States
and Canada. These are the use
of the waters of the Niagara Falls
and the diversion of the waters of
Lake Michigan for the Chicago
drainage canal.
In the case of Niagara Ameri-
can companies are limited to the
use of 10000 cubic feet per sec
ond and Canadian companies to
$4,000 feet per second.
These are the amounts now
used and this means the preser-
walton of the natural beuty of the
falls.
Secretary Roots achievements
are regarded here as remarkable.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
JURY FINDS THAT
SEELEY Committed
CRIME OF MURDER
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Jan. 20.-That Will
lam L. Seeley, whose body was
found in the bath room of his
home, at 3O7 Eighteenth avenue
north, last Sunday, between those
of his wife and daughter, murder
ed his wife, Mrs. Kate M. Seeley,
and his daughter, Miss Marena
Seeley, and then took his own life,
was the conclusion of the coron-
er's jury.
The will, which was found in
Seeley's desk in the office of At
torney w. w. Wiltshire, and which
it was thought might cast some
light on the tragedy, was produc-
ed at the inquest.
The will proved to have been
executed on July "a, 1896, in OF
tawa, ILL.,, and by it's own terms
all Seeley's property was be-
Queathed to his wife.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
Fanatic Creates
a Wild Scene In
the State Senate

and all in it will be blown up"
For a time the widest scene
prevailed in the body of the
house. The sergeant-at-arms rush
ed to the gallery with his assist
ants, grabbed the intruder and he
was hastily taken to the sergeant's
room and quickly serached for
bombs. None was found but he
will be held until disposition can
be made of him. Mr.. Minis is
an aged man and has spoken wild
ly before of some scheme whereby
George Cotterill of King county
could be elected senator. Several
days ago Mr.. Cotterill sent the
man out of town.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20

CONTRACTS LET

Commissioner McGregor yester-
day awarded over 100000 in
street improvement contracts.
The paving of South I street from
Division south with connections to
K street went to the Barber AS
phalt company for $92,710. D..
A. Williams & Co. got the job of
paving South from Division
south for $107,273.
The completion of these streets
will put four streets through from
Division to the outlet onto the
prairies as I, ], X and G will
then all be improved.
The Coast Contracting company
got the job Of grading in district
658 for $4,000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
To Guard Interests
of Nations Children

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 20.
The guardianship of the rights
and interests of the children of
America is the subject to be dis
cussed in it's various phases at a
conference of the presidents
children commission" to be held
at the White House next Monday
and Tuesday, the program for
which was announced today.
Prominent men and women
from all parts of the United States
have signified their intention of
participating in the conference
which will be continued at a pub
lie meeting after the White House
meeting Is adjourned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
POWER PLANT ENGINEER
TO BE SELECTED TONIGHT

The city council will tonight
probably select an engineer to
build the Nisqually power plant.
Three names are before the
council, the fire and water COM
mittee having sifted the matter
down to j. H. Cunningham, e. w.
Cummings and Frank G. Kelsey.
Cunningham and Cummings have
already done all the preliminary
work, they being on the board of
experts which made the investiga-
tions and recommended the MIS-
qually plant of the city. Cum
mings is from Seattle and Cum
bingham from Portland.
Kelsey is from Portland and he
was rather favored by the fire and
water committee at its meeting
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20

1t has been ascertained that
there are 100000 orphans or ne
elected children in the United
States and the circumstances that
surround their lives will be TAX
en- up.
The proposed establishment of
a national children's bureau to
collect and disseminate informa-
ton regarding child caring and
the needs of the child in the Unit
ed States will be one of the sub
jects discussed.
A bill for such an institution Is
now before congress and 1t is
thought that the commission will
recommend its adoption.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
EXPRESS CONCERNS
MAKING 4 PROFIT
OF 200 PERCENT

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-In dis
cussing the evidence brought out
at the hearing of shippers COM
plants against Wells-Fargo e
Co., which is pending before In
terstate Commissioner Franklin
X. Lane, Attorney ]. L. Brown,
representing teh shippers, said to-
day that the earnings of the ex-
press companies showed profits
of 200 per cent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-The
next time plays come up in your
parlor talk, you'll be fully equip
ped with the latest information
about Eddie Foy II you read this:
His new play is "Mr. Hamlet Of
Broadway" Foy was never fun
nier. The story of the play itself
Is funny.
Joey Wheeze is q circus clown.
The circus goes broke In a town
in the Odirondacks. Joey, who Is
Toy, takes the circus bear, who is
drained, and starts back to New
York through the wods on foot,
He has great dffliculty in prevent
ing hunters from bagging his bear.
His gun fights with hunters are
very funny.
At q resort hotel he arrives
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20

last night, but Hawley and Ran
kin declared they would present
a minority report to the council
tonight, submitting the three
names, and the council can then
thrash the matter out and ballot
until the man wanted is secured.
Some of the councilmen favor
Cunningham or Cummings be-
cause they have already done the
preliminary work and would be
able to save the city some money
and a month or two of time.
Kelsey asks $4,000 year and
Cummings asks the same. Cum
ningham, however, asks but $4,-
200.
The contest appears to be be-
tween Cunningham and Kelsey.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
STUDENTS ARE DISMISSED
FOR STEALING,

BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. TO-
Three students of the Berkeley
high school, one of them a son Of
Congressman Duncan McKinlay,
were expelled and a fourth student
suspended last night on suspicion
of being the thieves who for two
years have robbed their fellow
students.
The suspension was followed to-
day by q police Investigation and
1t is believed the district attor-
ney will take up the matter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
THE TACOMA TINES

possible Gle
ied with exchange other the
than the day following the purchase
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
BOYS BODY FOUND.

(By United Press Leased Wfre.)
HOQUIAM, Jan. 20.-The body
Of James Burrows, 19-yoar-old
son of o. p. Burrows, q well
known timber man Of Grays Har-
Dor, who was accidentally drown
ed together with Harry Sanborn
and Loren Cogdill, two high school
boys, January g., WAS recovered
yesterday by . party of searchers
and brought to this city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20

just when the guests are dismay-
ed because the man who was to
have played Hamlet in q show at
the hotel has disappeared. They
inveigle Foy into playing the part.
He goes at 1t boldly but In a dis
couraged manner because the pay
is very small. He Is respondent
after his first appearance, but the
prospect grows brighter immedi-
ately when many of the guests
who hate to see Hamlet murdered
In the Foy fashion pay him large
sums of money not to play the
part. Other guests, who have
less fine sensibilities. pay Foy still
more to play.
The result is that he and his
bear get back to Broadway very
much richer than when they start
ed out.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
THREATENS TO BLOW UP
PLACE IF JONES is ELECTED
SENATOR - SEARCHED FOR
BOMBS.
(Times Special Service.)

(Times Special Service.)
OLYMPIA, Jan. 20.--The great
est excitement prevailed in the
senate yesterday five minutes be-
fore the vote was being taken for
United States senator. Ruel Minis
of Chatauqua, Vashon island, lean
ed from the railing in the gallery
and frantically yelled:
'If you elect Wesley Jones
United States senator this place
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-20
VICE-PRESIDENT
TO Get RAJ Sc

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 10.
The senate yesterday voted in
favor of increasing the vice presi-
dents salary to $4,000 annually,
but refused to make an appropri-
alton for his horses and carriages
Evening star., 1909-06-06
DOCUMENTARY ON OUR UNDER =CF1APLAINED NAVY

hard to understand Is that the govern
ment should have yielded to it tamely
instead of making an honest effort to
remove its cause. If officers objected
TO the chaplains because the latter were
incompetent, the thing to do was not to
deprive the men of all religious services,
but to insist upon obtaining chaplans
competent to do the work. Weak sub
mission to this difficulty and an attitude
of Indifference are equally inexcusabe.
We have suggested that there ought to
be either a chaplain or a Y. NJ c. y.
secretary on board every ship. Why has
fore that young men trained in Y. NJ. c.
A. work would make the ideal companions
and helpers for the navy boys? The
government has already recognized the
value of their work in Panama, where
they have met with marked success. May
not the solution to the problem in the
navy be found in the employment of
these athletic. wholesouled Young men
who have SO signally proved their worth :?
The bureau of navigation is just now
putting forth its advertising for boys to
enlist in the places of those whose terms
have expired. The delights of life on
very attractive to the average boy; the
educati value OF enlistment in dis
cipline and travel Is made prominent Il
is even described as a substitute for a
college course. The boys who rounded
the globe are spoken of as having had a
wonderful experience" and being far
wiser and bigger mentally than when
they left home" All of which is very
easy to believe. but we wonder what the
effect on their moral natures has been.
What has it meant to them to spend
Evening star., 1909-06-06

Navy Department that there ought to be
corresponding increase in the number
of those who minister to the spiritual
life of the men,
There are twenty-four chapains still.
Just as there were sXty-five years ago,
though we now have fifty-six ships which
could and ought to carry chaplains and
total enlistment of $4,000 men.
Nearly S137. 100000 was expended last
year for ships and guns and the general
navy expense, of which S5o,Oo0 about
one-twenty-thrd of 1 per cent. went
for religious work among the men. Each
of these twentyfour ill-paid workers is
expected tn minister 10 parish three
times as great numerically as that of his
brother clergyman on the land. under
conditions which obviously make pastoral
visitation far more difficult. Is II reason
able to suppose, under the conditions.
that the religious life OF the men in the
navy is cared for as it ought to be?
| addressed the question to the officials
q Washington and received the assur-
ance that "the department does not con-
slider tine number of chaplains insufficient
to meet all requirements" This is COM
forting perhaps, hut not conclusive. One
has TO put over against II this quotation
from an annual report of ex-Secretary
Bonaparte:
Il do not think II right that several
hundred of our citizens on the largest
vessels should live for months isolated
from all religious observances."
And this statement, also. from boy
who crcled the globe with the fleet and
reports that during all that time-more
than a year-no single religious service
was held upon our ship"
This may suggest no insufficiency to the
Evening star., 1909-06-06
The Courage to Part With Things.

We are frequently admonished to hold
on to what we have do not leave any
article in the car" is the injunction Of
some brakemen at the end Of the journey.
Some of US acquire passion for hoard
ing. and If we live long in one place ac-
cumulate a lot of things which may be
of no earthly good to u.s. but which we
are not courageous enough to throw
away Some rooms impress you, on enter
ing them with being cluttered: too many
knickknacks and gew-gaws. 1t might be
a blessing to that family to have to move:
then perhaps they would discriminate be-
tween the real and the spurious artistic
adornments.
If we all went through our personal be-
longings we should probably find a good
many things that were better off in the
waste basket than on shelves. Take the
problem of old letters. What's the use
of saving so many? Some people even go
so far as to preserve every scrap of a
note that comes into their possession.
They could produce the letter that John
Jones wrote them in 1873 with regard
TO the state of the weather in West Po-
dunk. Certain letters that have to do
with great events and crises II is desirable
to keep, and a man will think long be-
fore he throws away the tender missives
he received in college or boarding school
Evening star., 1909-06-06
SUNDAY MORNING TALK

death-namely. the effort to take our place
once again and do our work in the world
which still holds for us joy. If we Will
only shake ourselves free of the fetters
that would bind us to the past.
Another guiding principle is considera-
tion to whether in the place of the
things we are loath to part with we can
substitute something better. You do not
want. for example, a creed out OF which
the real life has gone. which the discover
les of scholarship have rendered obsolete
which your own religious experience has
already outrun. You do not want any
text book, or even story book, the reading
of which will prevent you from reading
better one. You do not want. my
wealthy but parsmonious friend, the
hundred dollars which some American
orphan. just bereft of its parents and
hungry and naked. needs more than you
do at this moment.
Our business is with the present Let
us always remember that. We would
better throw away a good many things
when we are through with them-lest
they litter up the place where we live
and. even worse than that. lest they
fetter our lives in the pursuit of the
things that are most worth while. The
really brave man is he who can let some
things go when they have served their
uses and have ceased to yield anything
to the development of character.
THE PARSON.
Evening star., 1909-06-06

official mind. but 1t Indicates to the lay
man a very decided lack somewhere
either In the number Of chaplains or
their quality or both. So far as the re-
ligious life OF that boy Is concerned. he
might better have been in a poorhouse
or in jail. There he would have had the
| advantage of frequent visits from the
local pastors and the opportunity to at
tend service at least once month. One
wonders how few the numbers would
have to be to be judged insufficient by
the department which is satisfied with a
service affording its enlisted men fewer
convicts and paupers on the land. Nor
Is 1t valid excuse to plead that 1.-The
practice is to allow the personnel of the
fleets to attend divine service whenever
held 1t is not to be supposed that
young boys will make long hard trips
to attend divine service, nor should they
be under such necessity. 1t would seem
indisputable that every battleship ought
to have on board either a chaplain or
Y. NJ. c. A. secretary to conduct worship
regularly and to give help and advice
and religious service to the men.
We are aware that the situation pre-
sents difficulties of the prejudice which
exists against the chaplains on the part
quate means Of obtaining information
about applicants for chaplaincies and
the navy has consequently been too often
made the dumping ground for unsatis-
factory material. This has resulted in a
desire on the part of many prominent
officers to have as few chaplains as pos
siblf in the navy. and especially not
to have them on shipboard. 1t is easy
to understand this prejudice. What is
Evening star., 1909-06-06

from his father and mother. Into them
went the very life blood of the ones who
gave him his being, and the counsel and
love crystalliZed into written language are
worth more to him than an inheritance
of riches.
One or two guiding principles may help
us to discriminate concerning what we
would better keep and what we would
better destroy or pass on to some one
else. In the first place, 1t does not pay to
hold on to the things that hinder US from
growing. That to which we cling may
have served good uses in it's time, but 1t
no longer helps us to be better or happier.
Even sacred mementoes may sometimes
be so violently cherished by us that they
act as a drain upon our nervous energies
and our moral force. 1 have heard
recently OF a grieving mother who every
day takes out a little shoe worn once by
a fair laddie who no longer makes music
in that home. but who has gone to the
fairer life. where their angels do al
ways behold the face of the Father
which is in heaven" This mother sheds
copious tears each day as she looks at
this little memento of the one who was
her pride and joy: but meantime she is
nervous hStless, out of touch with life.
living with her memories and not with
her hopes. So the little shoe-dear as it
is-becomes a drag on her-even a chain,
to keep her back from the real consola-
ton that comes to US in the presence OF