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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
SYNOPSIS.

Mr.. Solomon Pratt began comical mar
ration of story, Introducing well-to-do
Nathan Scudder OF his town, and Edward
Van Brunt and Martin Hartley, two rich
New Workers seeking rest. Because of
latter pairs lavish expenditure of money,
Pratt's first impression was connected
with lunatics. Van Brunt, IL was learned,
was the successful suitor for the hand
of Miss Agnes Page, who gave Hartley
up. Adventure at Fourth OF July cele-
bration at Eastwich. Hartley rescued a
horses feet and the urchin proved to be
one of. Miss Pages charges, whom she
had taken to the country for an outing:
Out sailing later, Van Brunt, Pratt and
Hopper were wrecked in a squat. Pratt
landed safely and a search for the other
two revealed an island upon which they
were found. Van Brunt rented II from
Scudder and called II Ozone island. In
charge OF a company of New York poor
children Miss Talford and Miss Page Wis
tied ozone island. In another storm Van
Brint and Hartley narrowly escaped be-
Ing wrecked, having aboard chickens,
pigs, etc, with which they were to start
q farm. Eureka Sparrow, a country girl,
was engaged as a cook and Van Brunt
and Hartley paid a visit to her father,
who for years had been claiming con-
sumption as an excuse for not working.
Upon another island visit by Miss Page,
Eureka diagnosed Hartley's case as one
of love for Agnes. At a lawn fete. Van
raining a quilt for the church's benefit.
Hartley invented a plan to make WASH
fngton Sparrow work. In putting the plan
into effect Hartley incurs wrath OF Miss
Page, for whom the sick man" sent.
Agnes then appealed to Van Brunt.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Teacher crazed In school.

st. Joseph.-Wnile hearing recita-
tions of one of her classes in the
Wheeling, Mo-, public school, Miss
Lizzie Dauncher, % years old, a strik-
ingly handsome girl, suddenly became
insane. Pupils called assistance and
the young oma was taken into GUS
tody. She was brought to st.
Joseph and placed in State Hos
pital, No. 2. Miss Dauncner, it is said,
became worried because of the back
wardness of some of her pupils, and
this, with overworK, is said to have
caused her mind to fail.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04

invalid's room. He said he thought
they was kind Of appropriate. Washy
didn't mind. He said they vas lovely
and made him think of his future
state" 'Cording to my notion the
cook stove would have been better for
that.
Martin and his chum was pretty cool
to each other for a while, but they
soon got over 1t. Hartley was differ
ent, though, from what he'd been
afore. He was more reckless and his
don't care" manner was back again;
only, now that his health was so good,
1t showed in other ways.
The two of 'em took to raising the
very Old Boy. They must be up to
something all the time. The island
want big enough to hold 'em and they
was crowded over into the village, so
to speak. They got mixed up with
some of the men boarders at the hotel
and twas "Whoop!" and "Hooray!"
all the time.
They and the boarders got horses
out of the livery stable and had races
right through the main street; going
1t licketty-cut and ~scandalizing the
neighbors and soaring old women into
conniption fits. Deacon Patterson had
a new horse and the deacon happened
to be setting in his buggy in front of
the Boston dry goods and variety store
when the racers went by. The racket
scared the critter and he bolted, and
there was the deacon going down the
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04

was getting heavier and there was
half burned telegram envelopes In the
stove ashes more'n ono But no.
body ever mentioned getting a tele-
gram.
There was SO much reading matter
round the place now that Eureka was
In her glory. She read when she got
breakfast, with a book propped up on
the kitchen table. She read when she
busted, holding the dust cloth In one
hand and a magazine In t'other. She
read when she ate. She went upstairs
at night reading; and I wouldn't won
der II she read in her sleep.
Washy had been pretty decent, for
him, for the first week after he landed
In his new quarters. But his decency
didn't last long. He begun to fuss and
find fault and groan and growl. Miss
Page sent him nice things to eat-and
he always ate 'em every speck him
self-and medicine, which he took
about a spoonful of and then said
want helping him none and give 1t
up. He yelled for Eureka every few
minutes and she'd have to drop her
work and run and wait on him. He
was a pesky outrage and everybody
hated him, including Van, who said
that he was a common nuisance and IL
'twa'n't for his promise to Agnes he'd
abate him with a shotgun.
One day Eureka comes out on the
porch where the Heavenlies was set
ting, and says she:
"Mr. Van Brunt, would you and Mr..
Hartley be willing for me to cure pa"
Cure him?" asks Van, surprised.
Cure him? Yes, indeed. Or kill him,
either" he adds, under his breath.
Hartley didn't say nothing. He
never spoke to old man Sparrow now
nor of him, fairs that went.
"All right" Eureka says. THANK
you"
whats the cook got up her sleeve
concerning the afflicted ~parent?" asks
Van OF me.
Il don't know" says l. And l didn't.
That afternoon Eureka got me to
help her lug the haircloth lounge from
the front parlor out to the spare shed,
the one we didn't use. Twas a little
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04

road in the middle of the race, hol-
lering "Whoa!" to beat the cars, with
his hat Off and his hair a-fying. Lots
of the sewing circle women saw him
and twas town talk for weeks. The
deacon was going to have the Twins
took up and sent to jail, but he didn't.
He prayed for 'em in meeting instead.
Van Brunt got another letter from
Agnes pretty quick after the race.
She'd heard about it and she give
him fits. Why was 1t necessary for
him--she didn't mention Martin-to
shock the community and public opin-
ion? She wanted to know that and
other things similar. He read a little
Of the letter to Hartley and that's how
I heard 1t. I'd have heard more, prob
ably, only Hartley got up and walked
of. And he vas blue as a milestone
for the rest Of the day.
l guess the Talford girl want quite
81 shocked. Anyhow me and Van nc .
her up in the village one afternoon and
she wanted to know all about the
race.
u should like to have seen that old
Mr.. Patterson" says she. He is al
ways SO very solemn and pompous.
1t must have been killingly funny"
Van told her the yarn, trimming 1t
up fine as usual, and they laughed and
had lots of fun over 1t. He went
around with her shopping all the aft
ernoon and l was forgot altogether. l
didn't mind. l don't banker for
famousness. and the way the small
boys followed Van Brunt around and
pointed at him and snickered was too
popular altogether. ! callate he'd been
preached up to them young ones as a
horrible example till they enyled him
most as much as IL he was a pirate.
Ozone island was chock full Of
secrets and whisperings by this time.
Van kept UP his little side talk and
backyard confabs with Scudder; and
Hartley seemed to have caught the
disease. see him and Nate looking
mysterious at each other and meet
ing together in u Of the way places
time and time again. And the mai,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
OVER THE FENCE
Neighbor Says Something.

The front yard fence is a famous
council place on pleasant days. Maybe
to chat with some one along the street,
OF for friendly gossip with next door
neighbor. Sometimes it is only small
talk but other times neighbor has
something really good to offer.
An old resident OF Baird, Texas, got
some mighty good advice this way
once.
He says:
Drinking coffee left me nearly dead
with dyspepsia, kidney disease and
bowel trouble, with constant pains In
my stomach. back and side. and so
weak l could scarcely walk.
"One day / was chatting with one of
my neighbors about my trouble and
told her l believed coffee hurt me.
Neighbor said she knew lots of people
to whom coffee vas poison and she
pleaded with me to quit it and give
Postum a trial. 1 did not take her
advice right away but tried a change
of climate, which did not do me any
good. Then l dropped coffee and took
up Postum.
My Improvement began Immediate
ly and l got better every day / used
Postum.
my bowels became regular in two
weeks, all my pains were gone. Now /
am well and strong and can eat any
thing I want to without distress. All
of this Is due to my having quit cot
fee, and to the use of Postum regu-
larry.
MY son who was troubled with indi-
gestion thought that II Postum helped
me so. 1t might help him. 1t did, too.
and he is now well and strong again.
1--WE like Postum as well as we ever
liked the coffee and use it altogether
in my family in place of coffee and all
keep we'll" There's a Reason" Read
"The Road TO WellyiIls." In Pigs.
Ever read the above lcttert A new
one appears from tane 10 tlmes They
are genaine, truss sad fuu ef human
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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04

ten by six building that Marcellus had
for a Toulouse, and the shingles was
falling off and the roof and sides full
lounge down in there.
What on earth?" says 1.
I'm going to tell you," says she.
"Mr. Hartley said 1 could have the
lounge
Then she told what her plan was.
Twas a mighty good one, and l
promised to help along. l laughed
over 1t till supper time.
That evening we was all in the din
ing room. The weather had changed
lately and the nights was chilly and
windy. 'Twa'nt pleasant enough for
the Twins to be or the porch, and
Washy had come down from his room
and was all hunched up in front of the
stove in the kitchen. Eureka was
just finishing the dishes. All of a sud
den l heard her say:
PA, l don't s'pose you feel well
enough to go to work."
/ could hear her dads feet come
down off the stove hearth with a
thump. He started to speak, and then,
remembering himself. he coughed. as
hollow as an empty biler.
Il asked" Eureka goes on. because
| SAY Mr.. Brown yesterday and he
said you could have that job at the
hotel any time you wanted It,"
Hotel job!" hollers Washy. "How
long do you callate I'd last Juggling
bricks and digging? Amt you salts
fled to see me slipping into the grave
day by day, without wanting to shove
me under all at once?"
mo. l knew you want At to work.
but pa, I've been hoping to find a way
to cure you some day. and now I've
learned the way. And I'm going to
try It,"
Washy coughed again. I was listen
ing with all my ears, and / see the
Twins doing the same.
Cure? Humph!" shifts the old man.
I'm past curing, darter, Don't you
worry about me. Let me die, that's
al; let me die. Only / hope 'twon't
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Farmland Held for Murder.

Cape Girardeau.-Ben Degenhard
was arrested at Wittenberg, a few
miles north of here, charged with the
murder Of his employer, Fritz Zehrl,
a farmer of Jacob, Ill. The tragedy
occurred during an alteration re-
garding work on the farm. Degenhard
is said to have struck Zehrl with a
piece of board, killing him. Degen-
hard then went to Wittenberg, where
he had been reared. An Illinois Off
Ger arrested his there and took him
back.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
UNkIND FAKE.


Marian, a little three-year-old, IL
very stubborn. One day, when she
was f%retful, her mother, wishing to
Engage her mind, attracted her atten-
ton to a COW in a vacant lot and asked
what 1t was.
Marian replied, "hoss" (horse) and
stubbornly refused to give in. Her
mother, wishing to get a correct an
swer without scolding, asked: What
eats grass besides a horse?" More
hoss," was the quick response.-De-
lineator.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Homemade Namea.

THAT little girl" remarked the
druggist to the doctor, was just in
for ten cents worth Of t%incture Of ben.
zine. But I've had it before and gave
her benzoin."
THAT was easy" answered the doc.
tor. "This morning on a diphtheria
case the woman wanted to know If I
administered antitoxin with an cpl.
demic syringe"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Charity Secretary to Resign.

Jefferson City.-At a meeting Of the
state board of charities and correc-
lions, held here, it developed that the
resignation of Frank Bowman of Lex
ington, who has been secretary of the
board the past four years and a half,
would be rendered to Gov. Hadley in
feet July /. Mr.. Bowman has been in
i'll health for the past six months.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
2 Struck by Train; 1 Dies.

Sedalia.-Paul r. Newell, 10 years
old, whose home was at Bridgeport,
Lawrence county, ILL.,, was hit by a
Missouri Pacific east bound passenger
train eight miles east of Sedalia and
instantly killed. A companion Of
Newell, Hugo Lewis, about the same
age and from the same town, was also
struck by the train. but escaped with
slight injuries.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Dies Getting Through Fence.

Montgomery.-B. f. Garrett. who
fought in the Confederate army under
General Price. was found dead on his
farm in this county. The body was
hanging to a wire fence. and it is
thought he died of apoplexy while try
ing TO get through the fence. Garrett
lost a leg while in tho army. and.
after being wounded. was a week in
a corn field, living on green ,.rn. He
recently wrote a history of war times
N Missouri and his own 51perjepces
He il survived BY = family,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Dentists After LEGISLATION.

Kansas City.-The Missouri Dental
ton. There was a heated debate in
the convention Of the association in
the Casino Hall as to the best means
Of obtaining 1t. Doctor B. l.. Thorpe,
president, suggested that funds be
raised to pay the expenses of a COM
mittee to appear before the. next ses-
sion of the Missouri legislature.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Her Blue Kitchen.

You are always talking about your
lovely little blue Kitchen" they said,
but we see you dining out every
night. Do you never cook in it,"
Not enough to get tired of it." she
said. land that's the reason / like
It so."
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Glass Water Pipes.

Glass water pipes which have q
covering of asphalt to prevent fracture
are in use in some parts Of Germany.
They give thorough protection against
moisture In the ground, against the ae-
tons OF ccids and a,kalis and they can.
not be penetrated by gaseA
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04

tablets, salts, etc, away.
II there is anything about
your ailment that you don't
understand, or IL you want
any medical advice, write
to the doctor, and he will
answer you fully. There In
no charge for this service.
The address Is DIR. w. B.
Caldwell. 201 Caldwell bldg.
Monticello, Ill.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Erichtful.

First-Panic at the Fuller last
night.
Second-Leading lady have a stage
fright?
First-No. Was.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
AN INDIGESTION
REMEDY FREE

Many people who are otherwise
healthy suffer from indigestion, or
dyspepsia. When you consider that
the stomach and allied digestive or
gans are the most important organs
of the body, 1t would seem that a dis
order there Ia to be taken very eeri-
ously.
Dyspeptics cannot eat the things
they like; food sours In the stomach,
then chronic constipation begins, CT,
as is often the case, you have been
constipated all along, and the stools
are forced and irregular.
But there is no use letting indigestion
go until II becomes chronic and under
mines your health. 1t is good advice to
gist and get a bottle OF DR.. Caidwelfs
Syrup Pepsin, the wonderful cure for
stomach, liver and bowel troubles. THAI
is what g. Fowler. of Carson City, Mich-
the same and are cured are Ida A. For
tune. OF Grand Junction, Tenn, r. +.
Thompson, of Shenandoah, Ia, who ac-
tually considers that IL saved his life:
the druggist, and. taken according to di-
re~ctions, 1t ~tll probably be all you need
1t Is a liquid. acts gently, never gripes.
and besides the ia2atlys effect, , contains tdns
the stomach, and that Is what is espe-
cially needed In Indigestion.
All sufferers from Indigestion who have
never used DR.; c%aIdweifs Syrup Pepsin
the doctor. 1t will be sent direct to your
home without any charge. In this way
thousands have proven to their own sat
the very remedy they needed to cure In
digestion. When once you use this grand
remedy you will throw violent cathartics,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Young Farmer stabs His Father.

Cape Observation-Disclosures Willmath.
a young farmer, of Morehause, a few
miles south Of here, while intoxicated,
stabbed his father, William Willmath,
and probably fatally wounded him.
The young mar went home and began
breaking up the furniture and his
father interfered.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-04
Youth Killed frying to Board TraI,

Neyada.-R. c. Cox, 10 years old.
fell beneath an NJ. X. & 7. train in
this city and was killed. He was
en- route to his home 1t Clinton and
tried to board the train. which was
moving.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-28
sHAFTseURY VALLEY

F. NJ Pierce was in Bennington re.
Gently
Frank Mattison and wife OF Ben
nington were in town Saturday.
George Bouplon was in Hoosick
Falls Saturday.
Ed. Cone and wife spent Sunday at
James Bouplon's.
w. w Shaw OF Hoosick Falls spent
Sunday with Frank Pierce.
Mrs. Rose Bennett is spending a
few days at George Bouplons.
f. w. Fuller was in Bennington
and Hoosick Falls Tuesday.
viii Peacock of Troy has been
spending few days at Charles Pea
cocks.
Mrs. David Granger who has been
sick at Hoosick Falls returned home
yesterday.
Louis Milington and family and
Mrs. Foster of South SALISBURY were
in town recently.
Mrs. Edward Bouplon and daugh.
ter, Helen and Mrs. Frank Pierce
were the guests of Mrs. J. F. Stan
ley recently.
Mrs. John Peters fell recently on
the ice and was injured quite badly
but was very fortunate there was nc
bones broken.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-28
A POSITIVE CURE
FOR INDIGESTION

II you have indigestion, your food
ferments in the stomach and bowels.
II does more it decays, and the nut
ritious matter which should go to
make new blood decays with it, and
this leads to an impoverished condi-
ton of the blood, to nervousness, bill
iousness, constipation, sick headache
bad breath which disgusts your friends
and other disagreeable and unpleas-
ant conditions.
And all this trouble is caused by
the food that doesn't digest, but fer
ments and oftimes rots in the
stomach.
And fermentation is caused by the
stomach not being strong enough
and energetic enough to thoroughly
mix the food with the digestive
juices.
MONA is responsible for tens of
thousands of cures In fact, It is
such a positive cure for indigestion
and all stomach troubles that It is
guaranteed by w. l.. Gokay to cure or
money back. The price of a large
box OF Mio-na tablets is so cents, and
they are sure to promptly relieve the
worst case of indigestion or gastritis.
Try them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-28
FRANK 3. HOWE, EditOr sDd Publisher
Deer and Apple Trees.

In another column are published
two communications bearing upon
the apple industry in Vermont which
in recent issue OF the
Rural New Yorker. The communica-
tions are written by residents Of
Connecticut and Vermont. The
Nutmeg state man, has set out
an orchard apple trees and feels
that he has made an investment that
will bring him an increasing income
as long as he lives. AT the same
time he says that much better APP
pies can be raised in Vermont than
in Connecticut and 1t is a mystery to
him why the farmers of the Green
Mountain state do not take advantage
of their opportunities. The Vermont
correspondent explains the bash
fulness" OF his neighbors in neglect
ing to branch out in the apple bust
ness by the statement that It is inn
possible to grow orchards in this
state because the young trees are de-
stroyed by deer.
The most pronounced friend OF the
Vermont deer will hardly undertake
to deny that these animals will de-
stroy young shrubbery whenever they
can find it during the winter months,
but at the same time we are OF the
opinion that Mr. Halliday is putting
little more weight into his argu'
ment than the circumstances will
warrant. II the deer were the only
drawback to the growing OF orchards
in Vermont the problem could soon
be solved The farmers have always
had majority in the Legislature and
law TO permit the land owners to
protect their orchards could have
been easily enacted. The real rea
son for the indisposition of Vermont
farmers to take up the apple-growing
business is that they are SLOW
Their fathers and their grandfathers
planted a few apple trees, just
enough to supply the wants of the
family, and the present generation
seems to lack the disposition to dc
any different.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-28
THE NoIsELEss GUN
A Silencer Attachable to Any Rifle
Latest Invention

I'm this age of antilogy we have
grown used to the horseless carriage,
the wireless telegraph, the fireless
cooker and other contradictions OF fun
damental principle, but the noiseless
run comes with a shock believing its
action, upsetting as it does the ira
ditions of a thousand years or more,
destroying to a large degree the roar
of cannon, the crack of small arms,
the malicious purr of the machine
gun. and the other attendant explosive
sounds which go to make up the noise
of battle, and producing new condit-
ions and problems in warfare which
are revolutionary to the extreme;
writes Captain Earl d. Church In the
February number of the National
Guard Magazine And all OF this is
brought about not by the discovery OF
new powder which would require an
entire construction of arms to meet
its reactions, nor by the invention OF
new gun, waived vented and gas
chambered, as might be possible both
OF which would render obsolete every
arm of whatsoever calibre now in eX-
istence with a calamatous loss to the
world running into the billions of dol
lars in the necessary rearmament;-
on the contrary, the most radical re-
suits are obtained by the invention by
Hiram Percy Maxim of Silencer so
constructed that it can be affixed with
the principles governing the action OF
such gun
The Silencer is simple device for
screwing on the muzzle with a series
of vortex chambers into which the gas
is diverted and in whirlng motion in
plain perpendicular to the original
line of fight behind the bullet. The
motion gradually diminishes until com
plete inertia results, reducing by ac-
tual test the sound of guns dis
charge by 81 per cent Captain
Church's account in the National
Guard Magazine is the first authentic
account of the invention published by
express permission of the inventor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-28
Rvdale,s catarrh Remedy.

was invented by a physician and chem
list of Atlanta, Ca. and was used In
private practice for many years with
most marvellous success. The Rydale
Remedy Co, have secured control Of
this great remedy and are now plac-
ing IL on sale. Every bottle is guar
anteed by us.--Shurtleff Pharmacy.