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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
The Lure of the Arctics.

Polar life brings strange revelations.
A man who Is model Of amiability
at home is a savage In those high lat
itudes, where Mother Nature and hu-
manity seem bent on revealing their
crudest characteristics. When a man
goes to the arctics first he dislikes 1t.
If he Is caught there one winter he
vows to himself that he will never re-
peat the adventure. Yet when he gets
back home he discovers that the
white silence" has compelling fas-
cination. | have never known man
who could resist the chance to go
again, even at financial loss. After
twenty years of experience, If another
opportunity came to me, 1t Is doubtful
whether any consideration would pre-
vent my taking up the work again.
Once the charm of those long months
of daylight, the mysterious deathly ST.
lence of those long nights, the white
glare Of that brilliant moonlight across
trackless wastes of snow and ice, has
been felt man Is unable to resist the
siren call of the north that has be-
come more to him than family, home.
friends or money. Gladly he takes his
life In his hands and fares forth again
into those frozen seas.-Captain Ed
win Coffin Of Ziegler Polar Expedition
In National Magazine. 't
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
Bear Aqua.

Speaking of buck fever" said a
survey official, reminds me Of bear
ague.' Never heard of 1t, chr Well,
frst encountered 1t In Wrangel mar
rows, Alaska, number of years ago,
We were on the old surveying steamer
Patterson.
"Just as we rounded a point Of land
not more than 200 yards distant a big
black bear was seen on the beach
looking at us. Eight men took up
rifles at once and were about to shoot
when told them to wait and fire all
at once In a volley when I gave the
order. They all took careful beads on
the beast. Ready, fret shouted.
There was rattle Of musketry as
the eight pieces were discharged, and
every one looked to see the animals
death throes. There was the bear run
ming up the hill as lively as jack rab-
bit. Not a shot had hit him. Bear
ague, that's all. Every mans hand
was trembling so he couldn't hit a
house. Buck fever's nowhere along
side of it."-San Francisco Call.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
Hard Up.


You're not hard up when your purse is
flat
And your trousers frayed like an old
door mat;
You're not hard up when your bills fall
due
And you haven't dollar to see YOU
through;
You're not hard up til you see the
day
That you haven't cheerful word to
say.
You're not hard up when your coin is
And you whistle tune as you journey
on;
You may walk the streets while others
ride
And your pockets have naught but your
hands inside;
That's not being broke, you may de.
pend,
For you're not hard up while You have
friend.
But you are hard up and in sorry
way
If you haven't a cheerful word to
say;
If nothing on earth appeals to you,
And If you can't see charm in the skies
of blue,
And you are hard up if you've reached
the end,
And can say in truth that you have no
friend. Z
In dollors and cents don't count your
wealth;
But sum it up in good friends and
health.
In the little tots that call you dad,
Who, when you're coming, are, Oh,
so glad;
you haven't soul to love or care,
You are hard up, though q millionaire.
Edgar A. Guest.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
Her Vocal Selection.

A wedding was recently held which
was of the fashionable kind. and
there were oil sorts of preparations
and frills. Among the features" was
a song by baritone singer Of con-
siderable local renown, and just what
he was to MARBLE was a matter of con-
siderable discussion.
A little sister six years old Of the
bride took much interest in the pro-
gram. "Sis," she said, 81 want to sing
at your wedding"
mo, dear; you can't sing" was the
rejoinder.
But | can, and want to-" she
pleaded.
What would You singT' her father
asked her.
Heaven. Look With Pityr" was
her rejoinder, and her father hasn't
got over 1t yet.-Kansas City Journal.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
The Patient Man,

Mr. Henpeck had hesitated a long
while about doing this bold thing, but
he felt that now was the time or
never. Dear" he said, in a very
timid voice, ~ wish you wouldn't call
me Leo any more"
''Why not?" demanded his wife ex-
plosively. LEO is your given name"
Il know. my dear. but it makes my
friends laugh when you call me that.
was thinking you might call me
Job just for pet name."-Catholic
Standard and Times.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
Ladies First!

Scratch southerner and you find
a knightly SOUL might be said to be
one of the morals Of the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald story below. The second
moral is reasonably obvious:
"What is the reason" began the ir-
ritated traveller from the north, that
the trains in this part of the country
are always behind time? l have new
CIR seen one yet that ran according to
its schedule"
"That. suh," replied the dignified
Georgian, lis a mattah that Is easily
explained. 1t Is due to southern
chivalry. subj"
Southern chivalry! Where does
that come in?"
you see, sub. the trains are always
late in this country because they walt
for the ladies'. God bless themw
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
CIRCUIT COURT

The following cases have lately
been started in the circuit court
Divorce-Jennie McKan VS.. Milton
Mckan; Mary Fischer VS.. John
Fischer; Florence Case VS.. Frank
Case; Minnie o. Good VS.. Frederick
l.. Good; Frizay Pitt VS.. Warren L.
Pitt; Sarah V. Mann VS.. George E.
Mann. Foreolosure-Warren l.,
Scribner VS.. Robert Cohoon and
Cora Cohoon; bill to bar dover, Pat
rick Crosby VS.. Margaret Crosby.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
Great Temperance Address.


Ex-Gov. Hanly of Indiana, addressed
temperance meeting in the Auditor.
ium at Saginaw, Monday evening, de.
livering a talk which it is to be regret.
ted cannot be heard by every voter in
Michigan. The subject of his address
was THE Irrepressible Conflict" and
his appeal was for all to enlist under the
temperance banner and forever Danish
the saloon. He spoke of the local option
work in his own state, ninety-two coun
ties having gone dry, putting 1890 sa.
looms out of business.
Speaking upon the Christian church
OF today, he said it was founded upon
sacrifice, conservation and atonement.
Although many men were sacrificed in
the cause, the cause survived. No great
cause ever did die. It's defenders NAV
be killed, but the cause itself will sur.
vive. We may lose battle now and
then, but this is war, and we will not
lose the war. There will be another AID.
pomattox in little while, a new burst
of freedom. I believe in the Christian
church, but it lacks some things TODAY.
1t lacks the great power of conviction,
it lacks conservation. it lacks devotion.
There lare the many negative persons
in its ranks, too many fair weather
Christians, tin soldiers who are willing
to appear in parade, but unwilling to
bear arms. A negative church cannot
achieve great good, but it must be a
brilliant church. The need for such was
never greater. The liquor issue now lies
at its feet. The domain to be fought
for is this republic, its manhood, WON.
anhood, childhood and institutions.
Governor Hanly referred in strong
terms to the organized liquor traffic and
its officers. No constitutional law but
they trample on ii, no religion but gain,
no love but gold, and no pity. The
Christian church must meet it or run,
and it can't run away. We need brave
men for the fight here in Michigan, not
in heaven. We need more statesmen
than politicians.
Coy Hanly took up several of the
arguments made by the saloons and
answered them. AS to the value of the
saloon property that was involved, stat.
ed that there were some things in this
country worth more than property, such
as public health, peace and morals. The
statement that prohibition does not pro.
hibit and that more liquor is sold in dry
counties than wet ones, he answered bv
saying: 'If prohibition did not prohibit
the saloonists would not fight IL. but
would vote for dry counties, as it would
be to their benefit" The speaker also
showed that no laws are enforced alto.
gether, but that was no reason why
they should be repealed. Prohibition
prohibits as well as regulation regu-
lates. have been in 80 states this year
and the wettest dry county was drier
than the dryest wet county" In reply
To the statement that prohibition would
increase taxes he said that i'm fact the
saloonists paid little revenue into the
public treasury, and for every 81 900 Ii
cense tee they took 5000 from the pub
lie.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
One Beauty Of Classical MUSIC.

OTG IN9UIT OF JTassIOaT WIWSTT'
Miss Gush DO you like classical
music, MIR. Suurdropp?
Mr.. SOurdrOpp Yes
Miss Gush oh. | am so glad! DO
you not find in IL great inspiration,
sublime thought and true beauty!
Mr.. Sourdropp-Not exactly. like
it because no blithering idiot can beat
time to IL with his foot.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
Matrimony Made Easy.

"Can a fellow marry comfortably on
a salary of $500 a year?' asked the
young man.
"Sure. he can" replied the sage of
Sageville-' that il. provided he has
saved his last years salary and can
get his employer to pay the next years
In advance. "-Ck.cago News. r
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
Not Games Of Chance.

The vicar-Is II true, Samuel. that
your father allows games of chance
to be played mt your house? The Boy
There amt no chance about It, EUR
they all cheats!-Londo Opinion.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-03
cirormstantial Evidence.

DE yillers has quit scorching."
machine MI in!"
"Nope: he's denl."
"Oh. that dop prove anything
Narper's Week,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
Next Four Years in Flying.

Col. B. Baden Powell, In the National Review.
During this year of grace, 1909. 1 ex-
pect to see new records created with aero
plane machines and new devices brough,
forward for their improvement. We may
have flights of three or four hours dura-
ton, journeys of over hundred mi es
through the air: the channel will very
likely be crossed, and I certainly hope
that Enxlishmen will not be behind In
producing good appliances.
The year after should show further de-
velopments especially as regards the
number Of machines. Abroad there may
be scores Of them. Fifty machines Of the
Wright type are even now supposed to be
in course of construction. Exciting races
will undoubtedly take place. and cross
country journeys will often he performed
Military machines will certainly be to tie
fore and will be attractive features al
field days and reviews. Experience and
development are sure to result in The pro-
duction of more practical appliances. able
to stem the gales and to start from any
piece OF ground.
About the third year from now most
people in England will have seen a flyer
in the air and a great many Of the more
adventurous ones will have made flight.
Aerial racing will have become an estab-
lisned sport and cross-country journeys
will be common. There would probably be
thirty or forty machines in England, and
they would then be much commoner than
balloons are today. Cross-channel trips
would certainly become the object Of TIE
ambition of each novice in turn.
At this rate in four years time we may
be able to say that flying is common. IL
may perhaps still be looked upon as a
somewhat venturesome practice. and
among the general community may not be
exactly an everyday experience. but most
well-to-do people Will have made trip.
and many viii own machines and make
almost daily runs II will be quite the
thing 10 take your friends for fly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
Enthusiasm
and Fat

These two. like oil and water mix poorly
This does not imply fat men and women never
get enthusiastic They do down deep inside.
But what does t; amount to: Their fat doesn't
get excited They can't transmute their entlu-
siasn into energetic action, SO they might as
well keep calm.
Thus IL is that fat people generate much
steam for LIES Work. only find tae load too
much for tine horsepower aud a result thou
sands Of both get Just far aud no far
fhcr. 'Mucn they care. says the uninitiated
slim one. But they do They keenly
for financial. mental. social business. fall hunt
ing. straight front AMI comfort reasons and
that is why Marmola Prescription Tablets have
leen so. heartily welcomed by the overweight
classes. The is not far seek. Mar
mola Prescription Tablets take or about a pound
day in most cases. without interfering IN any
way with the takers table tendencies or his love
of To soma, possibly. their absolute
economy appeals. Thus. one large ease. costing
seventy-five cents At any drug store of the
makers. The Marmola Company. Detroit. Mich.
direct. is said In itself alone TO contain enough
tablets 10 make decided change in any one.
Bur these merely surface reasons. Mar
mola checks the formation OF fat by curing The
fat forming tendency. The fat Just slips away
it We're. without a sign of a wrinkle. Thus
the work these tablets do is not Injurious II n
natural. That is the real reason these tablets
are SO much appreciated. They are safe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21

regard to the continuance Of the unhappy
war with our fellow subjects of Amer
lea. he will withdraw his son from such
service. And the young Lord Pitt had
to resign and return home
I'VE can Imagine what courage, what a
sense OF duty, what a bitter sacrifice it
must have been for a former minister
publicly to expose his son and heir to the
humiliation OF refusing to face the enc
mics of his king and country 1 have
myself known a father who submitted TO
the same trial. During our own unhappy
Boer war friend Of mine, whose whole
NE and fortune belonged to the South
African colony, who had given help. ad-
Vice and large slice Of his own estate
to the Capetown colony. whose own
brothers were serving in the Boer forces,
round that his two sons were serving with
the British army. My friend suffered i'm
silence. He had not the passionate in
dignation which nerved Chatham to sac
rifice his son.
Before the war became declared Chat
ham in 1774 had written to the sheriff in
London: What infatuation and cruelty to
accelerate the sad moment of war! Every
step In America of our government
seems calculated to drive the Americans
into open resistance. vainly hoping to
crush the spirit of liberty in that vas,
continent at one successful blow: but mil
lions must perish there before the seeds
Of freedom will cease to grow and spread
| In SO favorable a soil: and in the mean
| under the ruins Of her own foolish and in
human system of destruction. / fear the
bond between us and America will be cut
off forever
x X
| Has that bond been cut off forever
| Your presence here today gives the an.
swer-No! But it has taken nearly a
century and half to rejoin the links in
| ha rhoin hot ind
Saxon race. But time does justice at last
to the honest and the true-for all that
| they disappear In neglect and ingratitude
There is pathetic monument of Chatham
still standing In its DETACHMENT and de-
cay which seems to me an emblem of hi.
| heroic soul.
There stands still in Charleston the
classical monument erected to William
| Pitt by the commons of South Carolina
| In 1859. The inscription records that il
was raised in grateful memory of his
| services to America and they add that
time shall sooner destroy the marble
statue of the hero than it shall erase from
I their minds their just sense of his pa
| triotic virtues
1.-The statue stands still erect, but 1t is
defaced and mutilated, for a British feet
| bombarding Charleston struck it with
cannon balls and carried away the out
| stretched arms Of the figure. What an
emblem of a great life! One hundred and
lOTty years ago the commons OF an
| American state expressed in marble their
grateful memory of an English states
man. His own countrymen in a spirit Of
infatuated tyranny mutilate that figure
just as they opposed and maligned him in
his life. But now at last Americans and
Englishmen join hands in two continents
to rehearse the memory Of the patriotism
and the virtues of their two national he
| roes-Washington and Chatham-as the
two creators of their respective states
and certainly the two greatest men of
their nation and their age"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
Lamp-Posts as Motor Bus Stations.

From the New York Herald's Paris Edition.
An innovation. destined to help the
users of autobuses, has just been intro
duced by the Paris municipal authorities.
Up to the present the points at which
these speedy and generally speaking
crowded vehicles stop has been indicated
by a small plate attached to the lamp
posts along the various thoroughfares.
Their very existence was ignored by
the majority of people, and they were
certainly difficult to see under the best
of circumstances. Now. ..owever. there
may be noticed all over the city lamp
posts which are painted in black and
white. These are the points at which
the autobuses will stop. and they stand
out. and are as clearly perceptible as
big spherical buoy In a narrow channel.
1t may be argued against the new sign
posts tAat they are not exactly elegant
locking, but as they are undoubtedly
useful their ugliness will soon be par
doned.
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they take on the majesty and beauty OF
eternal peace. Those hours are but as
instants in the long tale of the years that
went before Return In your tenderness,
turn again in your despair to the records
of those happier days and reconstruct
from them the truer likeness of your be-
loved See him gay and glad. full of life
and purpose. of work and play. OF jest
and earnest, such as he vertically was
and do not wrong him by the presentment
of his suffering it's mortal surcease
Make him your own again by putting
this out of your thoughts and inviting
into them the semblance Of him when his
life was the habit OF your own and he
was most himself in some fortunate, JOY
Gus moment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
NOVEL SPELLING CARD.
Useful in Kindergarten to Amuse
and Instruct Younpsters.

An educational device of real merit de-
signed especially to interest and instruct
the younger children. is shown In the IL
lustration below, the invention of a Mary
land man. 1t comprises a number OF Sec
tons of cards pivoted at one end. In
scribed on each section is some letter of
the alphabet and an object, the letters
and portions Of objects being SO arranged
that when some OF the sections have
been brought together to spell the name
of the object the latter will appear COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
To Those Who Know.
William Dean Howells, in Harpcr's Baza

William Dean HOwelIs, in Harpcrs Bazar.
1 would have the mourners grieve all
their sorrow out and not stay from dwell
ing on their loss. Without fully realizing
this they cannot begin to retrieve IT,.
Keep before you" would conjure
them, 'the vision OF the face. the form
you shall see no more on earth. and let it
pass only Of itself, hoping, longing for
its return when 1t fades away. But do
not frame this image from the memories
Of the dead in their hours Of sickness
or even In the hours after pain, when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
Portage to Potowmack.

From every part of these lands water
carriage is now had to Fort Pitt, by an
easy communication; and from Fort Pitt
up the Monongahela to Redstone vessels
or convenient burthen may and do pass
continually, from whence, by means of
Cheat river and other navigable branches
of the Monongahela. it is thought that
the portage to Potowmack may and will
be reduced within the compass of few
miles, to the great ease and convenience
of the settlers in transporting the produce
Of their lands to market. .
"And it may not be amiss further to
observe that If the scheme for establish.
ing a new government on the Ohio, in
the manner talked Of. should ever be eff
fected these must be among the most
valuable lands in it. not only OH account
Of the goodness of the soil and the other
adv aEtages> above enumerated, but from
their contiguity to the seat of govern
,nent which more than probable will be
fixed at the mouth of the Great Kan
hawa.t
This advertisement is signed by George
Washington.
The Journal and Advertiser is made up
in four pages. 10 by II inches. and printed
i'll six and eight point type, with an occa-
sioEal display line il 14-point type, all the
type being OF one style.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
THE STAR, WASHINGTON D. G, a. T.

street, where he makes musical. hori-
zontal. repeating and plain clocks In the
neatest manner and newest fashion and
at the lowest prices
Mr.. Richard Bennett Hall OF prince
Georges county. near Queen Ann" lost
a negro named Prince some time in De-
cember. 1772. and offers 40 pounds and
reward and reasonable charges" for his
capture.
George Washington's Land Deal.
There are other quaint advertisements
In this old paper. the longest and most
notable of which is dated at Mount YER
non. in Virginia. July Is. 1773," in which
it is stated that 1.-The subscriber having
obtained patents for upward of 10000
acres of land on the Ohio and Great Kan
hawa proposes to divide the same
into any sized tcnements that may be de-
sired. and lease them upon moderate
terms, allowing a reasonable number of
years rent free; provided. within the
space of two years from next October
three acres for every fifty contained in
each lot, and proportionatcly for a lesser
quantity. shall be cleared. fenced and
titled; and that by or before the time linn
tied for the commencement OF the first
rent five acres for every 100, and proper
tionately, as above shall be enclosed and
laid down in good grass for meadow; and
moreover. that at least 80 good fruit trees
for every like quantity of land shall be
planted on the premises.
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plete upon the reverse side Of the sections
thus assembled. The sections are inter-
changeable. so that they can BE- manipa-
lated in a great many positions. This
novel spelling card should be found es-
pecially desirable for use in kindergar-
tens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21

man can live in excellent style in
Japan for $50 a month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
PROGRESS OF THE DAY.
India has fifty different languages.

The coal output in japan in increasing
at marvellous rate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21

The German army numbers over $780,
600 men,
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Reward for Return of Servant.

=; rnard Reilly offers 10 pounds re-
Na.d Tor tile return u AN irish servant
i:.Au named owen Mccarthy. about 45
ears Old. . feet inches high, OF a
swarthy complexion. has long black hair.
a.cA IS growing a little gray. and a
remarkable scar under the right eye
He was soldier in some part of
America about the time OF Braddock's de-
feat, and can Sive a good description of
the country"
David Evans. clock ard watch maker
from Philadelphia, Informs his friends
and the public that he has opened shop,
at the sign OF the arcE-dial and watch,
next door 70 Messieurs Shields and Mat
tisoE. hatters, and adjoining Mr. Fran
els Sanderson's. coppersmith. in Gay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21

1t is said that electric locomotives can
pull heavier trains at a greater speed than
steam locomotives rated at the same
pnwer