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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1909-05-15
THE swoRpFIsn.
Overload of the Sea and the osinttsst
Feeder That S~ins.

See0eT o~tF1a.
The swordfish is the cvcrl''rd of the
sea. Neither the whale. the .Jiark nor
any other giant of the dec can con-
Quer him In private ti..iI r public
brnwl Nevertheless he /, ,ceful In
the main and seeks the pie life,
amusing himself often Win sorldwtde
travel and always with ,'.i ,1.e gusta.
tory joys. He is the dali iiest feeder
that swims, always Kills hi, own game
and thereby lnsures it, freshness.
wherefore his flesh is delight to the
palate OF mankind md wherefore,
again. men go forth to kill him for
market and thereby Mt tines fail upon
adventures that make tie bunting of
tigers and the shooting o. grizzlies pale
into pastimes for the weary wenkllng.
Fer the bold swordtish Is still hunted
In mode as primitive us that the Eski-
mo uses to kill the stupid whnle, and
often the sting of the harpoon changes
this luxurious ocean gastronome into
a raging water devil. quick to perceive
his advantage, charging with the speed
of bullet and the accuracy of a
swordsman up against the lone fisher
man In the dory who tries to bring
him to gafr. Then must the fisherman
measure with exactness the lunge Of
the monster. avoid 1t by marvel Of
nice sidestcpping in u plunging dory.
or he will be spitted like lark.-Wil-
liam Inglis In Harper's Weekly.
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A PARTISAN RusE.
Tho Dressmaker's Lure That Ensnared
the Americana.

Grace Margaret Gould tells In the
September Woman's Home Companion
some of the ways the Partisan dress
making establishments sell their goods
to American women. Here Is one rusr
that she saw worked in one Of the big
gest establishments In Paris:
There was sudden and evident
commotion among the employees.
1.-THE princess! The princess! She
has arrived!' they cried.
American eyes began to bulge.
Out from magnificent equ.i'nge
stepped regally gowned grand lady.
attended by footmen and maid and re-
ceired by the whole bowling estab-
lishment. to the neglect Of all other
customers. She was in gracious
mood this day and easy to be pleased.
praising their past efforts and select
ing several OF their new creations with
out regard to cost. After She had
made her departure amid like cere-
monies there was no need Of the sales.
woman bothering her head over sng-
gestions Every American woman
present wanted gown copied from
the one the princess had bought. and
she got 1t after much pleading and Mt
a price far beyond the limit she had
set.
And the point of this fable IL this:
The princess wis no princess. hut an
employee of the house.
Every French gown has two prices
an American price and French prize
1t is needless to say which IL tn.
greater price.
Along about April the cry gocs up,
"The Americans are comIng!' and then
the prices go up too.
Along about November when the
Americans have left. you might almost
say they are giving away gowns. only
the Frenchman never does give away
anything Then it is that the French
woman in general and the French
actress in particular selects her ward
robe
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SERVICE IN THE CABINET.
The Custom Of Our Presidents In the
Republie's Early Days.

o0PuOuG9 6aTty 09yts
II President John Adams had been a
man Of different temperament the GUS
tom might have been established In
the early years Of the government Of
the United States of retaining the cab
met Of one administration for service
with its successor where that success
sor succeeded to the political ideus of
its predecessor. President Adams
sought at first to retain through his
administration the members Of the
cabinet Of President Washington. III
deed. at that early period the status
of cabinet officer was not exactly
that Of the present time, and in the
course of President Adams rows with
the members Of his official household
he resorted to the strange step Of re-
moving his secretary Of state, limo
thy Pickering, and James McHenry.
his secretary Of war.
President Jefferson of course took
new cabinet President Madison con-
tinued in his administration number
Of the cabinet officers Of President
Jefferson, and President Monroe held
some of his predecessors. John Quincy
Adams also continued to meet about
his council board some of the advisers
Of James Monroe. but Andrew Jackson
tirely new set Of official counselors.
He maintained also another set Of ad-
vfsers, unoficial. who became known
as the Kitchen cabinet"
For some time the gentlemen who
had acted respectively as secretary of
the treasury. secretary Of war, secre-
tary Of the navy, postmaster general
and attorney general in the cabinet Of
President Jackson retained their seats
under President Van Buren,, but
changes only awaited the passage Of
time.
President William Henry Harrison's
cabinet was brand new. and John Ty-
Ter sought to keep 1t together after
Harrison's death, but in less than six
months all had resigned except Dan
lei Webster, the secretary Of state.
Presidents Polk. Taylor, Fillmore.
Pierce. Buchanan and Lincoln each
formed a new cabinet.
President Johnson's difficulties with
certain members Of the cabinet that
existed at the death Of President Lin
coin are well known. Since that pc
Rod. when for the second time n ,....er-
lean history the question of a cabinet
officers right to retain seat which
the president wishes to have vacated
came up for angry controversy cabi-
nets by mutual but tacit understand
ing end with the administrations
Boston Globe.
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The Bad Spot.

An Irishman one day was told to put
up a signboard on which were the
words. To Motorists-This Hill Is
Dangerous"
Away went Mike with the signlIoard
and placed 1t Mt the bottom Of Il very
steep hill. A few days later his en-
ployer went to see how the beard WAS
put up and. finding it ut the bottom Of
the hill. sought and found Mike
"You blooming fool he cried. why
didn't you put that sign In the right
plare?"
"Shure and amt it?" asked Mike
Dent all the accidents happen ut the
bottom?" Harper's Weekly
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A Drink Of Water.

A glass of cold water slowly slipped
win produce a greater acceleration OF
the pulse for time than will glass
Of wine or spirits taken at draft. In
this connection 1t may not be out Of
place to mention that slipping cold wa
ter will often allay the craving for al
cohoI in those who have been in the
habit of taking too much Of 1t and
may be endeavoring to reform, the
effect being probably due to the stimu-
liant action of the slipping.
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COMEDY IN CRIME.
The London Urehin With the Bun
Down His Back.


It has been a matter SO customary to
look upon crime as tragedy and crimi-
nails as tragedians that to aver that
comedy is more frequently to be found
In crime than tragedy seems at first
view paradoxical. Yet such is the case.
A little London urchin ran into n
bakers shop and. placing n halfpenny
on the counter. asked nervously and
timorously. mister. ave you a alt
penny buster DUMP
Eyes. my little man. Here is one
quite hot"
Thanks, mister. Would you mind
a-shovin' it down my backT'
"Down your back. my little man!
why down your backT
Zoos. sir. I'm only little IN. and
II those chaps outside know I've a
buster they'll take 1t. and l am so 'un-
Ny, am"
"Dear me. how wrong Of them!
Come round here. my little chap. There
there. 1t is down your back"
The boy ran of. In an instant an
other entered-a bigger boy.
IT say. mister. ms little boy just
been in 'ere?"
"Yes."
"And did 'e buy a 'alfpenny buster?"
"Yes."
"And did e arsk you to shove 1t
down is back. as us big fellows would
take it?"
YES"
yah! Where's your watch and
chain? Els got 'em. 'E's just round
the corner
Out rushed the baker. In n trice the
big boy collared the till and bolted.
The shopmnn never saw the comic
side of it all.-London Strand Maya
xine
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crezy to Expect It.

HardupIe-Say. old fellow. lend me II
hundred. will you? Riggs-A hundred
what? iar,luppe-A hundred dollars
l. RicS--oh. stop your joking
Harduppr earnestly,-Joking? was
uercr more serious in my life. I'm
broke. Riy,s-My dear man. you're
not broke: you're cracked! - Catholic
Standard aud Times.
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Hewitt didn't know that you lived
on The first floor. I understood your
wife to say that you lived OH the Sec
ord, floor .Jewett-If you knew my
wife you would know that she always
stretches story.-Exchange.
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Describing the Climate.

as your climate changeabn?" asked
The stranger.
Not very" answered Farmer Corn
rossel. at keeps shiftin' around a
little tiil 1t strikes kind Of weather
uohody likes: then 1t sticks Wash
ingron Star.
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An impairment Question.

A young man hurriedly entered a
restaurant and sat down at the table
nearest the kitchen. With shufaing
feet the waitress advanced.
.Have you frog legs" the young
In anxiously inquired.
'No. indeed. Rheumatism makes mo
Bwalk like this" the waitress indignant.
ly replfed.--Judge's Library.
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Evasive.

The Professor-And how did Phocion
sh:mefully evade his dutyf The Fresh
man (who doesn't knoweI have been
taught. sir. never to speak III Of the
dead,-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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why don't you try to get him to
.traishten up?"
lies his own worst enemy"
..Well?"
Its pretty hard to patch up that
.ird Of quarrel. "-Louisville Courier
Journal
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Trotter twho has been abroad)-so
Maud md Oh, .lie finally married.
Miss Homer-Yes. Trotter-f suppose
they are happy Miss Homer-Un.
dorbted'y: they each married some
one eIse.-Chicago News.
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When the clerk informed the Gus
tcmer that the handkerchief weFe
- 10 each the latter remarked:
.'No, Stree! That's too much monsv
to blow in!~-Judee's Library.
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Hell am sire Cupid had nothing to
do with Ma alphabet She What
gives son '',it Impression? He-If he
bad hren doip: it he would have placed
y and | much nearer each other.-St.
Louis Republic.
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Unlimited money to loan on fsrur
security. Low interest. For par'ir-
ulars apply to F. E. Sheridan. ttf)
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What do we live for If not to maze
life less dimcult to each othefeGeorss
Eliot.
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The beginning Of excellence IL to be
lvee from error-Quintilian.
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R. H. Taylor. dentist, Meeker.
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Read THE HEzALD for the news.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
UNITED STATES In Peril, Mr.. HILL Tells Mr.. TAFT
Head ofGreat Northern Railway, in White House Call, Ssvs
High Cost of Living is Real Menace, and Urges
National House Cleaning.

Washington, D. c. - President
Taft's program for railroad and trust
reform leg aslation at the next session
of Congress was the lodestone that
drew anotmsr railroad man to the
White Houss He was none other
than Mr.. james j. Hill, of st. Paul.
Mimi, president of the Great North
e1nn-Eailway. He remained with the
President6ng enough to say a good
many things, and when he came out
demonstrated that he was the only
and original aartful dodger" in cap
tivity. When he was asked by the
newspaper men what he thought OF
the Presidents Legislative ideas and
what suggestions he had made to i'm
prove upon them he seemed inspired
to deliver a lecture, which began in
this wise:
81 am a student of history. History
| shows that the high cost Of living Is
the beginning of every national de-
cline. This country is in grave dan
ger of entering upon a period OF
decadence through extravaganza, pub
lie and private. Prosperity is not a
cure; it is only a help"
How much longer Mr.. Hill would
have continued to delight his hearers
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
WEDDING PARTY FATALITIES
Three Men, One the Groom, Killed
---Bride Seriously Injured.
Chauffeur Stopped to Light Cigarette
Machine Crashed Through
Railway Bridge.

Cuthbert, Ga.-Three were killed
and two more MORALLY hurt here,
when an automobile was hurled from
a thirty-foot bridge and shattered to
splinters on the railroad tracks be-
low.
The dead are: Curtis Williams, of
Fort Gaines, Ca; James Shepard, of
Edison, Ca; Horace Shepard, of Edi-
son, Ga.
The injured are: Miss Helene Mat
tox, aged twenty, Coleman, Ga, and
Miss Mary Mattox, aged sixteen, of
Coleman, Ga. The accident occurred
two miles west of this place, as the
party was returning from Cuthbert
to Coleman.
With the purpose of being married,
James Shepard and Miss Helene Mat
tox, accompanied by Horace Shepard,
a brother of the bridegroom, and Miss
Mary Mattox, a sister of the bride
to-be, secured an automobile at Fort
Gaines, and were quickly driven to
Cuthbert by Curtis Williams.
Upon reaching this point all the
ministers refused to marry the couple
on account of their youth, neither of
them having yet passed their TWEEN
tieth birthday. After being unable
to secure the services of :. minister,
the party hastily left town.
Speeding along at a rate of thirty
miles an hour, the chauffeur, Will
Jams, attempting to light a cigarette,
lost control of his machine, crossing a
~thirty-foot bridge over the Central
Railway and the party was dashed to
the railroad tracks below, the ma
chine falling upon Shepard and Will
Jams. Williams neck was broken and
death resulted instantly. The two
Shepards were frightfully injured and
death resulted in a few moments.
Miss Helen Mattox was severely
bruised and her face and arms were
badly lacerated. She also received in
ternal injuries. Miss Mary Mattox
was terribly injured. They were re-
moved to a neighboring farmhouse,
The bodies of the three men were
brought here on a hand car. Will
Jams vas twenty-three years of age
and married.
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New style of Bonncer.

He began 1t without introduction
ecause he was from San Francisco,
and they don't stand on cold formal
ity out there. Said he: "You fellows
here in New York have such a soft
and ladylike way of doing unpleasant
things@such a cultured way, l might
say. What 1 say just a few minutes
ago In this very place got my goat
that Is to say, surprised me beyond
measure. Fellow asleep in a chair at
one of the tables. He was well
dressed and all that, but asleep Just
the same. Too much Of the wurry-
o Well, sir, instead of coming
along and pulling his chair out from
under him, or whacking the soles of
his feet with a bungstarter, what do
you suppose the bouncer-guess you
call him bouncer; a fellow in a din
ner coat and patent feathers = the
bouncer did? He sent a waiter over
to a closet. The waiter came bach
with a little chaser glass half filled
with ammonia on a tray. He JUS
held that ammonia under the fellows
nose until something was doing
When the guy woke up the bouncel
whispered something in his ear rea
politely and then the man who'd go
the ammonia jolt helped himself our
of the place.
Il call that over-cultured."-New
York Sun.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26

clothing to the masses. A grave dam
ger faces the Nation. History shows
that the decline begins when the cost
of living becomes a burden to the
masses, but not to the rich"
Just as Mr.. Hill was about to es-
cape from his questioners he bumped
squarely into a kindred spirit in the
person of Senator Jonathan Bourne,
of Oregon. Mr.. Bourne, as it hap
pens, is chairman of the working SUBJ
committee of the Senate's new Com
mittee on Public Expenditures, of
which Senator Hale, of Maine, is the
head. The business of this commit
tee is to tighten the strings of Uncle
Sans purse, and it purposes to do it.
1t was fully thirty minutes before
| these two economists finished their
| little chat in the White House recep-
ton room. When it was over Sena-
tor Bourne remarked that it would
| never do to give away il advance
what his subcommittee was going to
/ report, but he was perfectly certain
the purchasing power of a Govern
ment dollar could be increased from
five to ten per cent. by the simplifica-
ton of administrative methods, cen
tralization and the elimination of un-
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
MINERS OUT OF
| THE JAWS OF DEATH
Rescued After a Weeks En-
! tombment at Cherry, III.
HAD BUILT A SAFETY WALL
Bodies of the Dead Lay About in
Heaps Where the Weaker Ones
Had Succumbed to Gas and Hum
ger Combined.

Cherry, Ill.-Out of black inferno
In the bowels of the EARTH, where for
seven days they had fought against
choking vapors, darkness and starva-
ton, with nothing but native courage
and companionship to sustain them
against an almost hopeless situation,
more than twenty of the 375 men
who were entombed in the st. Paul
mine a week before we're rescued
alive. Nearly 100 bodies were recov
cred.
All around the men recalled to life,
as 1t were, lay heaps of the weaker
who had succumbed. 1t was a case
Of the survival of the fttest under
conditions possibly as bitter as the
human soul can endure.
Hysteria and humor were inter-
mingled in the scenes incident to the
ie~liverance of the men, who had sat
during the slow passing hours and
days with death at their elbow, into
fresh air and into the arms of their
frantic families.
In spite of their long burial and
the accepted belief that a short time
under such conditions seems an age,
some of the men thought that i. had
been only t~wenty-four. hours since the
hre started.
Cut off by the flames in one of the
tunnels the men had rushed in terror
to the shaft, where escape was impos-
sible, and then back to a chamber at
the further end. Assembled here un-
der the leadership of George Eddy,
one of the mine examiners, who was
below when the fire started, the en-
trapped men, painting with excitement
and fear, took counsel
Soon after they had arrived at the
chamber some rocks and dirt fell into
the passage, partly blocking it. This
fortuitous happening helped them tt
carry out an idea they already had
The men under Eddy's direction be-
gan to add to the obstruction.
When the entrance had been closed
the men sat down to wait for deliver
ance or death. The hours passed and
they knew it must be night. They
were aware that many of their com
nanions lay dead inst hevnnd the har
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
Paul, Minn.-The United States

- a M1nn.-Tn0 UnlLeQ STATE
6 cult Court for the Eastern Dis
riot of Missouri declared the Stand
ard Oil Company of New jersey an
Illegal combination operating in re-
strafnt of trade, and ordered its dis
solution. The opinion was written
by~Ipdge Walter H. SanborR.Co Of st.
(dl. and concurred BY Judges
Willis vandeEantef, William c. Hook
and Elmer B. Adams, with a special
tconcurring opinion by Judge Hook.
IN The opinion of the Court was filed
simultaneously in st. Louis, Mo-, and
ySt. Paul, MINI.
J In this decision the Government of
the United States wins a sweeping
victory, and, according to Frank B.
Kellogg, of this city, who was the
Governments special prosecuting
hoficer, 1t has won every point for
which it commended.
The case will be appealed direct to
TIE United States Supreme Court, as
tie Judges who signed the decree
arp in effect the Judges of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, al
1900 1-;++i-r f~~ tho mr.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
No Dress Question.

A Washington diplomat was laugh
ing the other day over a letter from
Ernest Lyon, the American Consul to
Liberia.
Lyon" said the diplomat, chad
been making a tripfromM onrovia into
the interior. He described in his let
ter the very primitive people he met
with on his jo%urneyings. He got off
rather a neat thing about women.
The young woman of these re-
gions, he wrote, suggests the prophet
to you-she has so little on her in her
own country Washington Star.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
A Neat Summing Up.

Charles G. Gates, the successful
inancier, summed up neatly, at the
Calumet Club in Chicago, the failure
Of a Chicago broker.
HE failed" said Mr.. Gates, "be-
cause his motto was
IF a man is worth doing at all
he is worth doing we'll Washing.
ton Star.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
ra LAW Asn aa nRUsr.


CcrI0rassors age psrscps, are
Ia. cornbi a. or ct esve OF gp9se
s, tho IN sesessasnt ot trade .
ss nas.n ) as the combination
81 adiY ss.
fFl,e ryreose " tins Asiy Was 10
ks9 s8a 1909 ~ transportation
sgd the sqeas Of sssfSniss ia }4stet
SKATE acA sHaexgsationsi cczsfnfgeN
onea 70 aNsx eonagekssioa
Maat & fneDt shonia no.
9gant, beesase A.seriors TO pa0-
lie wvslAf9, Fne iadfvsde 81 shoald
a,tt ~ allowed 80 secure and
eoIa wfoaefat 1seans.
T3sa ,aseefu1 Iect IL the same
gvhtthe sbs monopoly comes as
a gifA f-oaM q ernment or is
sue ges.sl. ag Individual wrong
5as t,or IN arguments of re-
6ste4d e1i ) of product, economy
pe ION and the like have
sist.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
Two Hurt In Automobile.

Mexico Cs. Hector Casasus, son
of Joaquin ~sasus, formerly Ambas-
sador to the United States, had his
collar bone broken when an automo-
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-26
NEW STRENGTH FOR WOMEN's
BAD BACKS.

Women who suffer with backache,
hearino dow- --fr -aas and that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-17
LEGAL NOTICES.

Under and by virtue Of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage, exe- cuted by Mrs. Mary E. Sefgel and joined therein by her husband, Abe Seigel, and bearing date of the fourth day of August, 1906, and on record in the office of the judge of probate, Jefferson county, Ala baIna. in volume AT, page 23l, which said mortgage is past due and default has been made in the payment thereof, and interest thereon. Mrs. Annie M. Burkhalter payee in said mortgage.
 I will proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash in front of the courthouse door in said county on the 7th day of September, 1909, during the legal hours of sale the following described real estate conveyed in said mortgage. to-wit:
 Lots Nos. q2), d3), QD and Q5) twelve. thirteen, fourteen and fifteen in Cren- ahay's subdivision of block (231) two hun- dred and thirty-one; saiJ lots forming a rectrangle fronting north on the south side of Seventh 7th) avenue, south, or Avenue G, and extending back along the east line of Twenty (22d) street, in southernly direction one hundred feet to a private alley. lying and being situated in the city of Birmingham, Jef- ferson county. Alabama.
 Said sAle will be made for the pur- pose of paying the debt secured by said mortgage together with all cost and ex- penses, including an attorneys fee for foreclosing.
 MRS. ANNIE M SHARP, Formerly
 MRS. ANNIE M. BURKHALTER.
 M. M J. GREGG, Attorney.
 August 16 1909. s-1s-St
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-17
MERCHANT ROBBED
 OF HIS MONEY

Chicago. August 16.-Thomas D Stewart a former commercial merchant of Pittsburg and now the head of a detective agency in that city. reported to the police here tonight the loss Of money and 1ewelry to the value of $500.
 MT. Stewart came to Chicago Sat urday night and registered at a down. town hotel. He had with him man who gave the name of Frank H. Far rell. Farrell had induced the detec- tive to come here in order to lead him to the man whom he said was respon- sible for the dynamiting of the Pennsyl- vania railroad bridge near Pittsburg several months ago and for whom $5000 reward is out. The detective and his informant took the same room at the hotel, Stewart told the police and in the morning Farrell was gone and so was the jewelry and the money.