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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-04
Modern WOOdmen.

Every member of Camp 1916, M. w
A., is hereby directed to be at the camp
hall at 1870 this evening. Business OF
importance is on hands. BY order OF
THE CONSUL.
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LOWE NOW IN OHIO

W. e. Lowe. of Indianapolis, the tax
ferret, with whom the county COM
missioners contracted to ferret out the
seQuestered taxes of the county, is at
present working in western Ohio
counties. AS yet no sequestered tax
has been turned into the Wayne coun-
ty treasury.
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It's Absolutely
True
CRIED EASILY
Nervous Woman Stopped Coffee
and Quit Other Things.

and Quit Other Things.
No better practical proof that COT
fee is drug can be required than
to note how the nerves become un-
strung in persons who habitually
drink it.
The stomach, too, rebels at being
continually drugged with coffee and
tea-they both contain the drug
caffeine. Ask your doctor.
An la. women tells the old story
thus:
Il had used coffee for six years
and was troubled with headaches,
nervousness and dizziness. In the
morning upon rising used to belch
up sour fluid, regularly.
Often got so nervous and mis-.
cradle l would cry without the least
reason, and l noticed my eyesight
was getting poor.
After using Postum a while.
observed the headaches left me and
soon the belching stopped water
brash from dyspepsia). l feel de-
cidedly different now, and am
convinced that it is because
Postum l can see better now, my
eyes are stronger
"A friend OF mine did not like
Postum but when told her to make
It according to directions on the
package. she liked it all right"
Always boil Postum well and It
viii surprise you.
Y, Limited, Battle Greek, Mich.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-04

MELISSA
The -nly -four I ever had any luck with
Is Gold Medal Flour. LUCINDA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10

books, "The Biography of a Grizzly"
1.-The Trail of the Sandhill Stag" Wild
Animals 1 Have KNOWN Lives of the
Hunted" "Woodmyth and Fable" and,
now, best of all, 1.-The Biography of a
Silver-FoX"
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new USE FOR WIRELESS.
Balloons to Be Equipped With Means
of Communicating With Earth.

New York.April 1o-Experiments with
wireless telephones as a means of COM
municating between balloon in the air
and a station on land are soon to be
The first tests will be made from the
reconstructed balloon Conquerer. which
was one of the American contestants in
the. International race at Berlin, and
made at Springfield, Mass. under the
auspices of the Springfield Aero club. Mr..
Stevens will be the pilot and will be ac-
companied by w. F. Whitehouse of this
city and A. H. Morgan of Cleveland.
wireless telephone stations will be
established at the top of some high build
ing in New York and Boston," said Mr..
Stevens, land we expect to be able to
give detailed account of our trip as we
are sailing through the air. For long
ascensions or balloon races the wireless
telephone outfit should be OF inestimable
value as it will be possible to keep track
of the balloon, and in case of difficulty
assistance may be quickly sent.
For government uses in dirigib1e bal
looms the wireless telephone will also be
Of great sid. In accommodating expedi-
lions 1t would thus be possible to give ac-
curate information of the operations of the
enemy in time of war;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
ed you down town this afternoon. Be.

ed you down town this afternoon. Be-
hold"
Mrs. Bowser beheld.
She beheld an old stand.
She beheld an old chair.
She beheld an old>oil painting with a
broken, furnished frame on it.
She beheld an old blue pitcher with
the nose knocked off.
She beheld what seemed to be sill
yer salver covered with verdgris.
"w-what are they?" she asked, as
she sunk into the nearest chair and
gasped for breath.
''Mementoes of our twenty-second
wedding anniversary, Mrs. Bowser, and
1 am proud and happy to present them
to you. Each and every one Of them
will remind you each and every day of
our blissful married life. You will
come to regard them as priceless"
"But-but-'
"Oh, L will explain them to you. ]
will have to in order to make you I'M
derstand the sentiment and value
When saw them at the dealers
took them for a heap of old rubbish
but ten minutes later 1 knew they
were just what I wanted. Listen, Mrs
Bowser:
'That stand once occupied the place
of honor in the throne-room of Julius
Caesar
Mrs Bowser lost her breath and
heard a dull roaring in her ears.)
Cleopatra sat in that chair wher
she Rugged the asp to her bosom AMI
was stung to death!'
(Mrs. Bowser choked with the lumI
in her throat and wondered If she wa.
going to die right then and there.)
THAT oil paintaing is by Aristotle
He painted it while in prison AMI
awaiting trial for the killing of a CIR
who Tilted him. When he came to tria
it was the picture that saved him. Hi,
judges agreed that a man who coult
paint like that could not be guilty o
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murder. The painting was afterwards
stolen from him and at the end of
twenty years was found in the house
of Charlemange, who had gobbled it.
Whether Charlemange was punished
for his offense against the law is a
matter lost in the lapse of time. All
guide. In fact, it was the beginning
of the old master business. Please re-
! member what have told you. so as to
be able to explain it to your callers"
(Mrs. Bowser gave shiver and lost
her memory in fash)
This old blue pitcher has a curious
history. Cicero first presented 1t to
Nero. After year or two Nero pre-
scented it to Claudius. Then it passed
from Claudius to Alexander the Great
1t was while Alexander had 1t that he
slipped on a banana peel and fell down
and broke the nose off. 1t was then
thrown on the scrap-heap and was not
heard of again for a hundred years. II
then appeared on the banquet table of
Cyrus, King of Persia, and we can
trace it down through various hands
until it finally reached those of Bene-
dict Arnold. He left 1t behind when he
fled from West Point, and it is said
that this was the only sorrow he had.
1t is now in our possession, Mrs. Bow
ser. and will remain here as long as we
live. That silver salver simply belong
ed to William the Conqueror. If you
have anything to say you can have the
f1oor''
Mrs. Bowser had been sitting and ST.
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lently praying for an earthquake or a
cyclone to come, but those things are
not made to order. She had to speak,
and after great effort she said:
.'Who-who told you about these
things?"
Why, the dealer / bought them Of"
And how do you know that he told
you the truth ?''
why, what possible object could he
have in deceiving me? OF course, he
told me the TRUTH
But history doesn't say that Aris-
totle was ever in love, ever in prison,
or ever painted picture?"
suppose it don't? Do you think
history has kept track of everything
that's happened in this world? Mrs.
Bowser, you show disposition to
carp, and I'm astonished."
But how could Cicero present that
old pitcher to Nero when they didn't
live in the same century? There were
no stuffed chairs in Cleopatra's time.
Nero and Claudius were also a hun
dred years apart. 1t was very nice
and thoughtful of YOU
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airs. Bowser," interrupted Mr..
Bowser, as the red came into his face,
ARE you going to criticize these val
liable mementoes
mo; but you see"
Il see that you would have prefer
red a f1fteen-cent pinchbeck breast
pin to what have collected here!' he
shouted.
you know I wouldn't, only"
"Only out of the way, womanl I
might have known how you would act.
Relics of Nero, Claudius and Cleo
patra, goodbye!'
And, picking up the chair he used
as a sledge to break and smash and
splinter until a heap of broken stuff
represented the history Of a thousand
years ago. When he had finished he
broke the last leg off the chair, kicked
the stuffing out, and then stood with
folded arms and said:
Mrs. Bowser, our forty-second
anniversary may come-our hun
dredth-our thousandth, but never
again do I bring memorial into this
house-never! You telephone your
lawyer and I will mine, and We'll have
the divorce arranged for in an hour!''
l-(Copyrighted 1909 by Associated
Literary Press.)
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twenty-five years ago today?"

twenty-five years ago today?"
''N-o-o-o.''
mo? well, love. twenty-five years
ago today I led one of the incest lit
tie women in the world to the altar
That little woman stands before me-"
"Oh, you mean it's our twenty-sec-
ond wedding anniversary"
Exactly"
"And 1 had forgotten all about it.
How nice of you to have kept track
of it,
There's the difference between
husbands and wives. Mrs. Bowser. 1t
is always the husband that keeps
sentiment alive after marriage. have
had this day In mind for long weeks. :"
How good of you'll I am ashamed
that it had quite slipped my mind.
Think of it-twenty-two years ago!"
"And there's never been even an
unkind word passed between US. Our
married life has simply been dream.
L hope and trust we may see another
twenty-second anniversary. Yes, TWEEN
ty-two long years, dear. and no man
has ever had a better little wife. If
any one were to offer me a thousand
dollars I couldn't mention one single
fault on your side.
You really make me blush. know
I have got a lot of faults, and it is
kind of You to overlook them. So you
have got something to surprise me ?"
'sI have. love. 1 have been hunting
about for the last month. 1 wanted to
render the occasion extra memorable"
That's just like you. Shall l try to
guess what it is?"
you might guess for a week and
you couldn't hit it. It's nothing in the
line of jewelry?"
Mop
TT isn't books or any article OF
clothing. It's no use for you to guess"
You haven't gone and got me par
rot 7s' uueried Mrs. BOWSer with her
heart In her mouth, but determined to
make the best of it if he had.
Mr. Bowser flushed up and then
broke into laughter and slapped his leg
and exclaimed:
Hear the little one talk parrot!
Gee whizz, No. dear, I haven't quite
lost my senses yet. Come into the par
lor with me. i wanted to get the things
into the house without your seeing
them, and I couldn't have managed 1t
If you had not been out 1t must have
been the hand Of Providence that guild
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ANA, a New York lawyer and former
counsel to the Italian Consul General,
writes on the Petrosino assassination from
the italian point of view. There are many
other interesting articles in the maya
zine.
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Little, Brown & Co. announce a third
printing Of E. Phillips Oppenheim's lat
est novel The Missioner" which they
state is Mr.. Oppenheim's most popular
novel thus far published in this country.
''The Missioner is of course appearing
on the list of the six best selling novels
in the United States. 1t IS noteworthy
that 1.-The Long Arm of Mannister," Mr..
Oppenheim's previous novel, is now listed
as one of the six best selling novels in
England
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
LOVED The BEAUTIFUL.
Negro Cook Looted Home of Her
Wealthy Mistress.

New York. April 1o.-Sadie Boyd, a
negro cook, is held by the police
charged with the theft OF approximate
ly $4,000 worth of rugs, oil paintings,
silverware, bric-a-brac and works of
art from the home of Mrs. julia
Schmidt in the Bronx, while the latter
was sojourning in Europe last January.
The negress was arrested while at
tempting to escape with her four-year-
old son Sammy, by running down a
fire escape in the rear of the five story
negro tenement house. On searching
her rooms, the police found thousands
of dollars worth of linens, laces, tapes
try, silverware, paintings, etc.
The case is not without it's humorous
features. William D. Quaile, a nephew
of Mrs. Schmidt. who occupied and
watched over the house during his
aunt's absence, but who nevertheless,
failed to note that the house was being
looted until too late, received the fol-
lowing letter from the cook after she
had disappeared. 1t said in part:
II thank you for the opportunity of
stealing this stuff. You have lots of
me. But am not fool enough to let
them catch me. I will send you the
pawn tickets and you can get the stuff
out before Mrs. Schmidt gets back. She
will have fits on account of my boy
scratching her piano. Well, let her die
ana Will SEM ner SOIIle SOutneTn HOW
ers to put on her grave Come on If
you can catch me. From your cook,
SADIE BOYD"
Another letter addressed to Mrs.
Schmidt and mailed the day after her
return from Europe, read as follows:
ITO Mrs. Schmidt: / am very sorry
you are so determined to catch me. I
cannot leave my boy. Thank you for
the chances you gave me to steal this
stuff.
Yours truly, SADIE BOYD.
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ANTIQUE BOWSER.
He Surprises Mrs. Bowser With
Ancient Things.

1t was half-past 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, and Mrs. Bowser, who had
been down town to do little shop
ping, had reached home and was feel
ing for her key to unlock the door,
when it was opened from within by
Mr.. Bowser. Her first thought was
that he had come home i'll, but the
bland smile on his face proved to the
contrary. Her next thought was that
he had traded the place for a chicken
farm, and had come home to pack
the furniture and get right out among
the hens that night, but his words
diSpelled that.
you are surprised, DEAR he
balmily said, "but word will explain
all. I came home early to give you
a bit of surprise
"A surprise?" she queried. Why
Why should your
DO you know what date this is?"
Eyes"
do you remember what happened
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Emerson HoHgh dedicated his new n tSa
Bobbs- Merrill Co, to Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States and firm
the loyalty and admiration of the author"
Between the wielder of the big stick and
much in common. Both have experienced
the life of the real Wild West. Both
have celebrated its attractions and told
its story-Mr. Roosevelt in The Winning
to the West" Both are mighty hunters.
If any amateur has shot bear in more
places on the North American continent
than Theodore Roosevelt, it is Emerson
Hough. Before T. Roosevelt's bear hunt
in Mississippi was organized E. Hough
hunting Long before Mr.. Roosevelt, John
Yellowstone, the same E. Hough had COW
cred its trails: Up and down the Rockies
and more than once he has made, the
trip to Alaska to bring down the bear
that the the ex 5 will go after the
Wild West fakirs with the same enthus-
iasm of humiliation with which he has
pursued the nature fakirs. He thinks our
] fiction and our drama need to be purged
. of the utterly and absurdly unreal stock
character of the Westerner.
The Century Co. is issuing a special
Valentines Day edition of THE Henry
| the name. of the book showing through
q a. h1e etrts;i opening. with TO My
| 1t may not be generally known that the
great actor, Edwin Booth, was distinct
| ly Northern man during the Civil War,
while his brother, John Wilkes Booth,
| the assassin of Lincoln, espoused the
cause of the Confederacy from the first.
Edwin Booth tells the story in a hitherto
| unpublished letter in the April Century,
and of how his first vote for president
| was cast for Abraham Lincoln.
Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, author of "Sun
and Shadow in Spain.' writes to her pub
! fishers, Little, Brown & Company, from
Rome, where she is spending the winter,
can Relief Committee in that city for the
| help of the earthquake sufferers in Sicily,
and that Mr.. Elliott went down to the
| island on the ship Bayern, sent by the
| same committee, where he did good SER
vice. and obtained some splendid photo
graphs. On his return to Rome, Mr..
| Elliott was visited by the King and Queen
Of Italy. who went to his studio to view
| his painting 1.-THE Diana of the Tides"
which Is to be sent to the National Mu-
| scum in Washington, and to examine the
photographs. Mrs Elliott writes that the
| scenes, though terrible, were wonderful
and awe-insp!ring, and that She had
heard of countless thrilling experiences
which she would write about later.
Charities and The Commons became The
| Survey on April and the first issue I'M
| der the new name is inaugurated with a
| notable series of articles both technical
ident of the New York Charity Organiza-
| ton Society. gives the first authoritative
| statement of what the Russell Sage foun-
| dation has accomplished within the two
Hull House. Chicago. tells how our So
| cial Observation-Disclosures, schools and
| the Hke,-may better adapt themselves
on to American conditions. Gino w. sper-
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Doubleday Page & Co. have offered six
prizes ranging from $50 to a years SUBJ
views of z. T. Bensons new novel, ''The
Climber"
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A new Thompson-Seto book has just
been published by, the Century COMPANY ISa ny
Tt is The Biography of Silver FOX ana
Grizzly.
how the fox-world hves-and above all 70
advertise and emphasize the beautlrul
monogamy OF the better-class Fox
And SO the author tells the story from
his cub-hood to his splendid prime OF tnaI
aristocrat of foxes, Domino Reynard, and
of his wild, free, happy life among the
Colour hills. Domino was silver FOX:
'iOniy those wise in the woodlore of the
kind. but a giorified freak of the red
c como Of red foxes, yet nature in
extravagant mood may have showered al
spring, and not only clad him in mar
velous coat but gifted him with speed
and wind and brains ap6ve ms ms R 5aed b be
has of all such power, for this EXQUISITE
robe is SO mellow rich. SO wonderful in
frosting, that It is the most desirable,
the most precious of all furs, worth many
tim Eno 5S T to mann Il Is the proper
of kings, the appanage OF great Imperial
tn f5s daSs az Rome ms Is ndeed he
hunters highest prize, but SO guarded
by the cunning brain and the. wind and
through rare good luck more than hunter
skill that a few of these fur-jewels are
The Illustrations are by Grace Gallatin
Seton, wife of the author, and are
numerous and attractive.
It is frequently said that the drama
tized novel Is out of fashion. Nothing
could be more false. There never has been
ed to fiction for suggestions and foun-
dations. Stage productions OF no less
Merrill Company are now under way. and
playmakers are at work on four others.
1t is well established that Shakespeare
took the plots of AS You Like It. Meas
ure for Measure. A Winters Tale, and
other plays, from novels. Why should
the dramatists of the present hesitate to
do so?
The poems of James whitcomb Riley
are favorites with the composers of
songs. and hundreds of musical settings
have been provided for them. The one
music is probably IA Life Lesson (bet-
ter known as There, Little Girl, Don't
Cry'O.. Among the composers who have
p. A. Schneider, H. B. Vincent, C.. For
syth. C. Sobesk, Mary K. Wood and ].
Jordan.
Doubleday Page & Co. have offered six
prizes ranging from $50 to a years SUBJ
scription to Country Life for the best re-
views of e. T. Benson's new novel, 1.-THE
Climber
Ernest Thompson Seton-who started
out in life as Ernest Evan Seton-Thomp-
son-win be forty-nine August 18th next
He was born in the north of England:
but as he himself says he was really
born and began to think on the plains of
the Assinibotne in 1882 His education
has been curious combination of Toron-
TO College, London Royal Academy
roughing it on the Manitoba plains study
under Henri Mosler in Paris more wild
life this time In the Currumpaw region
of New Mexico. and study again in Paris
with Gerome. Bouguereau, and Ferrier
To this unusual training and environment
is due much of the rare charm of his
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COUNTRY STORE FOR SALE

Usage % o9u5 e properly
around; building
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Oil refining Plant ExpIodes.

Port Richmond, Cal, April 10.-One
of the refining plants of the Standard
Oil company here exploded today,
causing fire that destroyed a part of
the works. Several persons were in
jured and have been taken to hos
pitfalls.
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And yet IL all those who lived in glass
houses refrafned from throwing stones
there would be practically no social con-
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
ROB STEPHEN PEABODT.
U1iiliam RochefeiLer's Butter Dis
corers WagOn!0Gd Of Loot.

William Rockefeners butler, Emil Young, left
fine Rockefeller house at No $50 Fifth avenue.
Yesterday to go on an errand As he turned
into East :Jith street he two men drive
away from an unoccupied house at No. IS
owned by Stephen Peabody, the coal and gas
capitalist. with load OF stuff that looked like
contraband. Young informed a patroiman and
the men were arrested.
They gave their names as Frederick Bower
of No 1916 Third avenue. and Abraham Ma
tbanson. Of No 1S9 Henry street. The latter
said that he was an eXpressman and had been
apoaqed by Bower to do some hauling. The po-
lice say that they found a PAIR Of wire cutters
and a pair of pliers Bower. In the wagon
were q sixty-gallon copper boiler, a trunk con-
tanning t1irtv-one curtains, three bronze chan
deIiers four faucets seventeen gas brackets
fo,r nickel plated water compression cocks, two
brass desk lamps three gas brackets, three
tr.,ss ceiling plates. brass ink stand. four
bronze chandelier arms and twelve other pieces
of brass.
Mr. Peabody identified the property 'elIhs
Tho noIce that the expensive brass desk lamps
were given to him by Commodore Vanderbilt
t4e ,,aIued the wagonload of loot at 5000 An
i,,,.aetigation showed that all the brass ana
bronze fixtures in the house had been removed
The water had been turned off or the buiiding
would have been flooded
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
MANY Bad 50 BILLS.
-Four Alleged Counterfeiters and
Boy Taken IN Ne1o Rochelle.

Four alleged counterfeiters and boy were
arrested in New Rochelle yesterday afternoon
by local detectives. assisted by officers of the
Secret Service from New York. The prisoners
said they were Jose T. Fernandez, called The
Count and said to be a Spanish nobleman: Bat
tisto Massaro, Salvatore Sarcia and his wife.
Maria and their twelve year old son, Louis The
detectives assert that Mrs Sarcia made a con-
fession last night
For several weeks the banks have been receiv
ing many counterfeit So bills. The investiga
ton finally led to Mrs Sarcia, who lives at No.
ia Winyah avenue, where Fernandez and Mas
saro boarded Fernandez had no visible means
Of support but always well dressed and
seemed to be pIentifully supplied with money.
1t was discovered that he had office at No.
IS4 Union avenue. oStensibly to carry on real
estate business Yesterday when the detectives
and Secret Service men broke into the office
MasSaro insisted that he was real estate clerk,
but search of the room, 1t is said revealed
quantity OF silk paper copper plates, green copy
paste ink and other articles used in making bad
money
The others implicated in the scheme were
found at the Sarcia home.