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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
for a good dinner, for the spoons were
heavy and had brought a good price.

for a good dinner, for the spoons were
heavy and had brought a good price.
She cooked the dinner and waited for
Dick. But he did not come. The food
grew cold. and she sat down at the
window. watching. Then the evening
grew into night. and still she watched.
When Dick came in she was asleep
on the couch. Her face was white as
he bent over her, aud there were tears
on her cheeks. He knelt beside her.
"Oh. Peggy he murmured.
She sat up aud stared at him drear.
lily. Il thought didn't know where
you were" she whispered.
II know" He dared not tell her OF
that day-of how he had gone TO the
river and had stood on the bridge and
had wondered why life should not end;
of how, In the window of the second
hand shop on his way back, he had
seen the silver spoons, their wedding
spoons. heavy and solid and chased.
The vision had come to him of Peggy
In her white gown and veil-of her
face as he had kissed her at the altar
and all at ono the manhood had
waKed In him. and he had gone back
to his old employer and had asked
for work, humbly acknowledging his
faults. telling of his wife. and they had
taken him back.
Il know now why / failed" he said
as he finished telling her what he
could. Il wouldn't give the best in
me. But now I'm going to work hard
for you-and-the kid, Peggy"
A week later, when Aunt Judith came
out the real state Of affairs, Peggy
confessed about the spoons. Il hated
to seiI them she said, but / just had
to, Aunt Judith"
And that very afternoon Aunt Jul
dith hunted up the secondhand shop
and bought them back. and when Dick
came home they were shining on the
table.
And now" said Aunt Judith as she
slipped her tea and watched Dick eat
the beefsteak and omelet which she
had purchased and had cooked with
her own expert hands-"and now l
want to make a proposition. | want
you to come back with me to Hillsdaie
and take care of the store for me and
live in my big house. Peggy can run
things at home. and you can run the
business. Richard, and I'll go and
travel. as | have wanted to do for
years. knowing that when come back
everything will be in order"
AS she beamed on them Dick rose
and put his arm about Peggy.
Its awfully good of you. Aunt Ju-
dith,' he said huskily. land we will
be glad to go to Hillsdale. and, please
God. I'll make a success of myself
and we will keep the silver spoons for
the kid. and we will try TO make u
lives as bright and shining as they are
won't we. Peggy, dearT
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
Old Mems Memories.

The late Sarah Orne .Jewett lived a
great part Of her life in South Ber-
wick, and the quaint Maine characters
of her native town interested her pro-
foundly.
Miss Jewett ut the Mayfower club
in Boston onee illustrated aptly the I'M
reliable quality cf cid peoples mem
cries.
"A young minister" she said. born
In South Berwick. was called In his
maturity tosone of the churches of the
town. Everybody welcomed him. He
had been away nearly thirty years.
and the oldest Inhabitants welcome
was the warmest of all.
THE oldest inhabitant, leaning on
his stick. said in a high. tremulous
voice TO the young man:
"'And you're Master Johnny Gree
nough. Little Johnny Greenough. How
time do fly. Why. 1t seems only yes
terday ] traipsed In to the courthouse
TO see your poor old grandfather hang
ed.
Everybody looked shocked. So
there was a bio on the Greenough
family 'scutcheon. ehf But the young
man said calmly:
My good old friend, your memory
is partly right and partly wrong. My
grandfather was murdered. not hang
ed. 1t was two brothers Of the name
of Alden who paid the penalty Of his
murder
well. that's what ! said crowed
the octogenarian. That's just what I
said. amt IL T"-Exchange.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27

William had become engaged TO q
very respectable girl of very re-
spectacle fan&ly" indeed. and he care
fully kept from her the fact that a
Of his brothers had once been a board
err at his majesty's expense in the
county jail. But. alas. a little bird
carried the item one day to the young
lady's Mortified ears, and when next
she met Williams his hear. sank to his
feet, for he inssinctively knew that she
knew.
Il have heard. said the lady stifiy.
THAT your brother has been In PRISON.
Yes. yes. ] am sorry to say he has.
Mary. But be wasn't In for anything
common. not like getting drunk or
lighting a policeman or sneaking
things. No. John forged q check, he
didr'-London Tit-Bits.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
Fractions Of Time Important.

1t Is not common to find a person
who can correctly estimate the lapse
OF a single second. But, as an Eng
lish writer remarks, in these days of
speeding automobiles, the exact time
when each of two colliding vehicles
must have occupied particular spots
may be a matter of great Importance.
In a recent experiment a car took
nearly two seconds to stop after
brakes were applied, and in that time
1t moved 19 feet. So even fractions
OF a second are important. One can
train oneself to estimate even tenths
OF a second. Try ii with a watch, and
1t will be found that it is just pos.
sible to count ten in the lapse of a
single second. But one must count
very fast to do it.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
Poets, Willis.

Famous poets make interesting
Wills. Browning's was written In his
own beautiful hand. with the initials
of all the Nouns substantive in capt.
tails, after the olden use; and the at
testing witnesses were "A. Tennyson"
and IF. T. Palgraye." Matthew Ar
nold's, also referred to, was
Bile for its breyity. A bakers dozen of
words were deemed enough: Il leave
everything of which | die possessed tn
my wife Frances Lucy" This, how
ever, because no executor was ap-
pointed, had to be set aside for letters
OF administration; but the result was
the same. These two famors Wills
form. with Shakespeare's, Il e most
notable trio perhaps aver handled by
probate In England.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27

YES" admitted the editor. Dun
can was a valuable man during the
campaign. When sober. we'd send
him to the gatherings of the opposi-
ton; when drunk, we'd have him es-
innate the crowds at our W meet
ings."-Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
New Form of Arc Lamp.
A new form of arc lamp has Just
been devised, says the Scientific Amer.
lean, in which carbon disks are used
instead of carbon rods, These disks
are constantly rotated, and the arc
takes place between the peripheries of
the disks. Owing to the continuous
rotation, the disks are consumed uni
formly. The lamps are small as
compared to the ordinary type. The
size of a ten-ampere lamp is but 20
inches over all. 1t is claimed for this
lamp that 1t will burn so per cent.
longer than the rod type.
Law of Attraction.
The attractions OF men to women
and women to men are full OF the
most p%erplexing inconsistencies and
contradictions imaginable. II is, for
instance, a physical law that magnet
ism is not simple attraction of one
thing for another, but the difference
of two opposing forces of attraction
and repulsion, of which the former is
the greater. The anne law holds in
relation to the attraction of men and
women for each other, in which, as a
rule. the masculine is the superior
force.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27

1t would be difficult to tell the ex-
act month, year o. decade when q
minor poet ceased to be a minor poet
ana became known to the literary pub
LEGATIONS as "a poet" Minor poets do
not 60 through any change analogues
to that made by the caterpillar when
she becomes a butterfly. II some one
should ask whether minor poets do ac-
tually leave the ranks OF the fratres
minores and enter the ranks OF the
major poets, It would probably be diff
cult to give an apodictic and categor-
ical reply.
But there would seem to be no par
ticular a why . minor poet
should not be found one day among
poets. Possibly he himself might
not know where he was until after
some time had elapsed.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
Law of Attraction.
Crows Prey on Lambs.

At a meeting of the Hexham,
Northumberland (Eng.) Farmers Pro
lection association Mr.. Thomas
Vaughan, q farmer, drew attention to
the serious tanner in which crows
were now attacking and killing lambs.
The birds picked out the Eyes of
lambs and devoured their entrails. He
had found several live lambs with
their eyes plucked out. AS far as his
experience went crows we're now
greater pests than foxes or any ver-
min. To every lamb killed by a fox
ten were killed by crows. 1t was
agreed to solicit the assistance of
landowners in reducing the pest.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
A Hardwood Floor Of any Color
You may Choose for $3.50

Floors which are in too
poor condition to be Inn
provedwith varnish alone
can be made to initiate a
genuine hardwood floor
with this new patented
Graining System.
This process does not
require the services ~ a
professional wood tn-
isher.
The Graining Tool
takes the place of skill
and can be successfully
used by the inexperi-
enced man or woman,
thus making it possible
tor any one at a very
slight expense to enjoy
the luxuryof a new hard
wood floor.
This Granting Com
pound when protected
BY one or two coats of
Chi Namel produces a
surface that will out-wear
any ordinary vanished
floor, many times over.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-27
Hlqh Voltage Don't XIII.

While in the power house of the
North Georgia Elec trio Company, at
Buford, Ga, recently, Capt. G. w. Buff.
ford, a member of the city council.
received so, 900 volts of electricity and
still lives. He came in contact with a
wire carrying $4,000 volts accidentally
touching it with his left arm, and the
current passed through his body. II
melted the nails out of his shoes and
badly mutilated his face where he
wore gold trimmed glasses. Capt. Buff.
ford was almost stripped naked by
the current. The physicians do not
understand how he escaped instant
death.
Attacked by Mother Owl.
An extraordinary incident has oc-
CURED at Hatford. Cheshire, England.
A young owl was discovered helpless
in a garden, having apparently fallen
from a nest hidden among the ivy of
an old wall. The owiet was replaced,
but later a second youngster was
found and both were placed in a COM
Portable box. Quietly passing the box
a few nights after the gentleman who
made the discovery was suddenly at.
tackled by the parent bird, who flew
straight from the nest in his face.
striking him under the eye with her
claw, and scratching his cheeks and
nose. She then Immediately returned
to the nest.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-25

Two young ladies boarded a crowded
street car and were obliged to stand.
One Of them to steady herself took
hold of what she supposed was her
friends hand. They had stood thus
for some time when on looking down
she discovered that she was holding q
mans hand. Greatly embarrassed. she
exclaimed, "Oh. I've got the wrong
hand!"
Whereupon the man, with q smile,
stretched forth his other hand, saying,
"Here Is the other one. madam."-LA-
dies Home Journal.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-25
CAUGHT The BISHOP.

one Surprise That Was the Forsrun-
nsr Of Another.
That was a good old comedy bishoS
who n nne day entered a large lev.
eler's establishment in Regent street,
London, to make an extensive purchase
Of valuable presents. He selected
them with great care as regards their
artistic value. but quite regardless Of
cost. The proprietor and his assist.
ants buzzed round his lordship. The
selected valnables were packed In sep.
arate parcels Mt his suggestion, neatly
tied and scaled. and he had just taken
. seat in the private office of the pro.
prietor and was feeling in his pocket
for his check book when two men, who
had been peering in at the glass door
leading to the street, walked up the
shop and stood behind the bishop.
They were plainly dressed, sharp look.
ing men and thus bluntly addressed
the jeweler:
what has this man been ordering? p
The bishop looked up. saw the men,
turned pale. clutehed the sides Of the
chair. dropped his glasses and locked
~ II 10 would bolt Before he could
stir, however, the handcuffs were on
his wrists.
"Bishop, indeedw said one Of the
mon. He was 4 colonel yesterday
Here. bishop come along to Vine
street. Bishop indeed! Ha. ha'
wen, thatss I good 'unw And, turn.
ing to IL astonished jeweler, he con.
tinusd: "Just cspped him in time. siri
lucky for you. Oh. by the way. you
might get one Of your assistants to
bring re1nd these parcels he has se
leeted. We must enter them ut the
police station. We have . cab at the
door. We have been tracking thu
bishop al the morning."
without Z word the bishop fol
lowed tAe detectives into . cab. and
oil three got IN 10 the assistant came
cut with the valuables-
Here" said one u the detectives
through the window. place those in
here-they will be safer-and you get
on the top with the driver"
Il was not far TO Vine street: but, n
uual, the traAic wal congostsd In Or
1oga CIRCUS, and the cab had 10 halt
occasionally. It was however. sosn u
IL poe1ce station. Tho ASSISTANT jump.
"a or the drivers vi and opened thu
door.
TAs cab was AerGstran4 Ma,
oA
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-25
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, ST.,
Makes Model Homes Gifts
In War on Disease.
FOR SANITARY TENEMENTs
HEALTHFUL RESIDENCES IN NEW
YORK ARE TO BE PROVIDED TO
SHELTER THOSE WHO HAVE TU-
eERcULosls.

New York, Feb. 25.-Mrs. William
X. Vanderbilt sr. has given $4,000
for the building of sanitary tenement
houses for persons afflicted with tu
berculosis, according to an announce
ment made.
Mrs. Vanderbilt bought the ground
for the buildings last week and con
struction will be started in a few
weeks. Four tenements will be built
The site secured is between Avenues
A and B on Seventy-seventh and Sew
enty-eighth streets and comprises
eighteen building lots.
Part Of Relief Work.
Information of Mrs. Vanderbilt's
gift came from DIR. Henry L. Shively
head of the tuberculosis clinic of the
Presbyterian hospital. DR.. Shively
has been In charge of the relief work
among tuberculosis sufferers carried
on by Mrs. Vanderbilt.
The houses Will be built according
to suggestions made by DR.. Shively.
and the plans have been drawn by
John Atterbury Smith. the architect
Each building will be six stories high
and they will have roof gardens and
balconies and other features helpful
to consumptives.
The property acquired for the tene.
ments is bounded on one side by a
public school and on the other by the
John Jay Park, which assures plenty
of air for the tenants.
DR.. Shively said that it was hoped
to complete the buildings in six
months.
THE primary object in erecting
them," he said, "is to demonstrate
that sanitary and healthful tenements
can be put up and a profitable invest.
ment made of them. The rents for
apartments in the tenements will be
As low as the cheap homes. on the
East Side. but we believe that they
will pay Just the anne
$50 many persons suffering from tu.
berculosis are in need of the surround.
ings that the sanitary tenements will
provide that I believe they will be
filled two days after they are opened.
There will be no dark and stuffy
halls. Every apartment will open d.
rectly on an outside staircase leading
to a court"
DIR. Shively said that apartments in
the buildings would be rented through
the tuberculosis clinic of the Presby.
terrain Hospital.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-25
Latter Will Make an Address
This Afternoon While the
Former viii Speak Tomor-
row Afternoon.
SOLONS IMPRESSED BY
OPTION ELECTIONS
Result in Howard and Grant
Counties Made Some of
Liberal Legislators Sit Up
And Take Notice.
Palladium Bureau,
indianapolis, Feb. Is.


Senator Beveridge is to address the
senate and house in joint session this
afternoon and w. J. Bryan is to speak
TO the two houses tomorrow afternoon
while he is in the city to~deliver a lee
ture in the evening.
The results of the local option cleo.
tons in the five counties on Tuesday,
all going dry. fell with a dull thud on
the legislature where the Tomlinson
bill to repeal the county option law is
pending. The liberals had expected
Howard and Grant counties at least to
60 wet, but when these two joined
the dry column by large majorities it
made some of the senators sit up and
look around. And the fact that Adams
county. one of the two counties repre-
scented by Senator Steve Fleming went
dry, was taken as a jolt for Fleming.
The election results have made the
final result of the repeal fight more
doubtful than ever.
Mccarty Still Out.
liberals had lined up Senator McCarty,
democrat, with his party, and that he
would vote to repeal the law. but yes
terday he gave out a statement that
showed that he is still in favor of re.
tanning the law n will remain firm
in that position. He said:
This is not a party matter. There
are as many democrats as republicans
opposed to the repeal of this law. The
hrewe..1es and saloon men have no
right to commit the democratic party
to their cause. l do not propose to be
a mere puppet of a party machine to
stand here and there according to COM
mand-against conscience, right and
the moral forces of this state.
Calls It Good Law.
There is nothing in the democratic
platform to require III to repeal q good
temperance law on the statute books
in order for Vi to carry out the declar-
atoms embodied In u platform"
In the house yesterday the Gieger
bill was passed authorizing the board
OF trustees of the state prison at Mich
igan City to make contracts for pris-
on labor for ten years from the time
the present contracts expire in 1910.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-25
4 CONCIERGE:
-

Tyrant Rule Of the Autoorat sf the
Partisan Flat House.
The concierge" is considered to be
the bane OF the Partisan nat dweller's
existence. His. functions r supposed
to be the following: .
The nrst and most important Is to
collect the rent on quarter day; after
that he must see hat the tenants do
not surreptitiously remove. The latter
precaution seems to be somewhat un-
necessary. as rents In Paris are always
paid In advance.
He should also bring up your letters
at least twice a day, but as the con.
cierge Is generally q stout, middle aged
woman who has a decided objection to
climbing stairs the latter regulation re.
mains somewhat of a dead letter.
In Paris the front door Of most
houses is generally closed at 10 O'Clock.
After that time admittance can only be
obtained by ringing a bell. The con.
cierge is obliged to open the door, and
she does this, rs 500 IS she is awake,
by pulling a rope which hangs by heE
bedside.
II she 10 q sound sleeper and you are
accustomed to come home late at night
the best thing to do Is to look for IN.
other nat, as the concierge will put you
down as q bad tenant" and make
things a. unpleasant for you as posi-
bic.
II you never stop out late at night
receive very few friends and fee he,
he0vily at Christmas, the concierge
win consider you rs 4 good tenant
until you give notice to leave. when
her interest In you suddenly vanishes.
As thers IL nothing more to be ex,
pected from you and the incoming ten.
ant is Obliged to give a substantial tip
called . "denier a Dfeu." she is anx
ious TO speed the parting guest" n
much ~ possible.
The concierge does sometimes make
. ANAL effort to extract something mors
from Jon by attempting to make YOU
pay 4 franc for every nail knocked II
the walls OF your Nat, but this has beer
decided to be Illegal and may be safelJ
resisted.
But the Parisian concierge Il really
unpopular because she represents {
lAndlord--London Mail.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-25
PRESENTlMENTS.

incidents In Which Coming Events
Cast Their Shadows Before.
Coming events cast their shadows be-
fore them. The writer is led to be-
lieve this because several incidents in
the lives Of his parents corroborate
the theory that presentiments Of good
and evil do come to persons unawares.
I will mention two of them.
In the summer Of 1877 my father
late at night was returning to his farm
from the little town Of Nation. He
had stayed unusually late. When he
reached the farm all was quiet. Re
moving the harness from his horse, he
proceeded to the carriage house and
hung it in its place.
He came out and closed the door. As
he did SO he heard the harness fall. II
was very dark. He went back into the
house and found the harness still hang
ing in it's place. The same occurrence
took place again. He went back again
and found it in its place.
When the third time he heard the
sound Of falling harness he did not
70 back.
Several weeks later his barn burned,
and 1t happened that the same har.
ness was in the barn loft, q valuable
set. He attempted to save It. The
staircase burned behind him. and he
was compelled to jump for his life
from . window. His previous expert.
nee came to him wildly. He saved
the harness, but at the risk Of his life.
Another vivid incident I recall was
my mother sitting by the fire with q
sick baby. The nurse was present,
too, and both were wide awake. Her
father appeared to her and advised her
a. to the baby's treatment and other
family matters. He vanished as quick.
" as he had come. The next day she
heard Of his death.-London Tft-Bits.
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flaming scarlet trimmings, the Fill
pinos make a striking appearance.