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New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
CHAPTER Nu
UNCLE JOHN AND MoNT-SAINT
MICHEL

UNCLE JOHN AND MONT-SAINT-
MICHEL
swell, this l. a great change from tho
Automobile. Peters, or ali the out
yageous, heathenish actions, that cutting
~ automobile I1res was the worst. Every
man Al that hotel OIght 10 be hung IN
ard high-strung and guarterei-make a:i
example OF th. whole outdt ] must say
though, that 7 l1ame Freeman A good deal
myself lie Says he felt anxious. and Vet
he never had THAI chauffeur set up 10
watch. Foolish. VERY foolish. but he'll pay
Fhc penalty, having 10 stay there and wait
Tor The tires from Caon.
Lee. II you could withdraw yourself
somewhat from the window. perhaps !
oould form some faint conception OF what
the country looks lnae 10 tie north. II
sou sno Yvonne want 20 compare mans. 1
should suggest that sou SIT side by side
instoad of holding the map so that il com
Iletely covers my horizon
We'll. Peters and so here Mr are off
5Or Dol. Dol seems 10 be the only Way L.
Sot in or out Of Brittany, and II must
. have been SO always. for IN Matilda's tap
ostry she's got William ana Harold on
their way 10 Dol as beginning 10 rnalina,
ihings hot for the JorG OF Brittany. Very
interesting study, that tapestry Peters. I
wouldn't have
'StOWtlL beg your pardon, but those
arc my feet. and not vstlises, that you are
TOing 20 sleep against ] didn't say any
rlung as hong as you took them as they
lay, but now that you want my left foot
tlanting 10 the right I must protest; Sup
pose you end yourself TIE other way Tor a
change. anyhow.
We'll. Peters, and so we are or for
Er4r. fas.frE
ar Is Michel lIirn? ] must say I'm decp-
iy interested in to-day's expedition. Wasn't
some English Henry shut up on Mont
saint Michel and fed by ravens there or
something like that? Yes. ] know there's
some such legend, and now we're going 10
rec the spot. How do We get from Dol 10
the mont? by Pontorson. eh: And then
diligence the rest. Wei. I must say II
sounds like quite an undertaking. but,
then, n you leave the beaten path, YOU
must always pay tho price. and must say
] enjoy these little JaUnts with a con-
senial party.
Too bad the Klngsleyr couldn't have
continued with us. Nice people. the Kings
leys-very interesting girls. What did YOU
say Oh, yes, Of course, the aunt was in
teresting. too. but-That did you say?
Nonsense, nonsense! But / VIII say one
thins. Peters. and that is that IL pays 40
travel around when Il brings one in con-
tsct with people such as yourself and Miss
Kingsley.
$50 thls IS POutOrsOn, DO We get down
heneg is that the diligence? DO we get up
there? Great Scott. how can We? And IL
looks 20 be shout fun already. Do you
mean that we have got % climb that little
ladder? cont believe YVonne can. /
don't believe she ought 20. even II she can.
Can't we 80 10 Mont-Ssint-Aichel some
other way? Peters. Ia like 20 slay with
my Own hands that wretch that slashed
our automobile. Viii you think of the
difference he is making IN our comfort
these days2
Vel, StoWell. lets see you sldn up there
hrst Looks easy. don't II. Peters? Lee.
,ou s. next. Now. Pets.x- it's your turn.
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there's Mrs. Brewer sitting on the bank
with Mccarthy and the other man. ia
rather be the guests than the owner when
II comes TO an automobile any day.
Well, why don't you holler. Lee? That's
it-mske a trumpet out Of your hands and
just give il 10 them. Gee. but they are
surprised. Holler that we are going TO
Nine. Poulard Aine I suppose that they're
going there. too. anyway: no one ever
goes anywhere else Dear me. but they're
happy to have that automobile. Lucky for
them that they went on Just when they
did. There's Brewer crawling out from
under. Well i can't stay twisted any
longer, so We'll turn our eyes once more
70 the future
What's that ant-hill out at scar II
isn't the sea. though. il Il? It's land: gray
sand, / vow. And so that is Mont-Sant-
Michel? Curious. Used TO be on land, eh,
and then got To be on sea? II appears to
me that We have quite drive before US
Yet. Looks TO me 10 be three or four miles
What do YOU say Peters? or course, I
don't know how big the mont is. so ! have
nothing to judge the distance by; but I
should say three miles at least.
''Stoweu. I've heard that story YOU are
telling ever since j was born; who ever
told you that it was new ought To be shot.
This tendency 10 tell old stories IS a per
feet vice with some people, Peters, and that
brother Cr yours is forever doing IT, I've
heard him tell about calling the cabman a
pig in France and asking him If he was
engaged in Germany until I'm about to
the end of my patience. Great Scott! how
hot the sun is, and no matter how gayly
We lumber along. the mont looks 10 be
equally distant. What is this road we're
on. anyway? Seems 20 be a highway in the
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this was failure. Next time we used a
smaller Baby & a bigger Umbrella.
Pretty soonly we was forced TO quit this
also
why should you?" 1 require Was
no more babies left 10 experiment
WITH"
Babies was never scarce in Ham
mondsport," reply Glenn. But I'm
brellas was expensive. BY the time I
had arrived to II years age / had built
II heavier-than-air flying machines
which was IL successful. L did not
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the American tourists before all, I'll bet.
We'll, so that is the mont close 10. Ap-
pears To just comfortably cover up the
whole island. Curious collection of houses
and staircases topped off by a church
However, my main care at this moment
isn't what we've come TO see. but how in
thunder We're 70 get down 10 see it, Well
the people line up pretty thick. and they
have the additional joy of knowing that
every last one OF us is q tourist That's
one good thing about America. Peters: YOU
can travel there without being a tourist.
You pay stiff price for very little. but
that Titles good. and the game ends with
il.
'EurOpe's entirely different; what turns
on the light over the washstand turns il
on over the bed. and then, with all that
they mark light extra in the bill. There
don't seem TO be any legitimate hotel ccm-
forts here: they're all extra. | vow. / hate
10 take that hardwood bolster out from
under my head nights, for it's the one thing
L get for nothing in every hotel.
We'll. Yvcnne. 1 think you'd better go
down first. You SO next, StoweII. and
then you, Lee. You and L. Peters, will
wait and take our time / vow, I'm not
very keen on this descent. Just hold my
hat VIII YOU: Here. you. down there.
hold this ladder steady. Peters, l.
where's the next step? Peters, you
where's the bottome l vow i
safe at last! Quaint old place-old wall
with gate In il, eh, Fishing rods and
oars all about; when does the tide come
in? Faster than horse can gallOp. ELI?
Well that must be sad for the horse.
Anyhow, didn't ask how fast 1t came in;
i asked when It would come i'm next.
Wei, ask some one. An hour after We
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ALL RIGHT BUT THE NAME

~ Is an army tradition that the soldier
sndil srufnoie az the commissariat. but this
particular complainant seems 10 have had
fair case.
Ahy complaints. eorDOrai?' said the coli
oheL making one morning a personal in-
spection.
Yes sir. Taste that sir said the cor
pOral. promptly
The colonel put the LIQUID to his Iips
Why" ne said. that's the best soup
ever tasted
cook calls u coffee. YOUTHS Companion
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y. I. City, y. Y.
To Editor Tribune who must realize
how deiiciously surprised a Genius
must be when he are not horned in
Ohio.
Hon. Mr.
'Win ny-machines make great
changes in Nature"
This from me 10 Hon. Glenn Hawk
Curtiss who stood on bridge Of his new
airoplane. the Red Headed Flyer a.
looked in direction Of Albany. y. Y.
wondering how he could fly over that
wicked city and remain politically pure.
He make no answer 10 my reply.
VIII fiy-machines make great changes
IN Nature?" ] collide closely 10 his ear
30 ne should hear me said il.
There are one variety OF Nature il
viii never make no change in" he snap
hack airoplainly.
What should that hc-'' I required
with great dirigeability.
Human Nature" he report. Hon.
Curtiss have got cool 4 modest man
ner. Maybe Wright Bros viii sue him
for this also. 1T are impossible 10 rise
MP above the level Of Human Nature. -
he contributed on whether YOU got a
'snOme or a Antinerte motor. whether
v0u trarel on a bi-plane or a mono
Iaane OF one Of them floating sausages
of Zeppelin manafaxure When TWO
sky chauffeurs meets in heaven they
are like two Poets or College Profs or
anybody else what come together on a
higher level-they got aI-tistick tenn
perature a. jalus disposition. Maybe
iiy-ships viii ush in New Era am
disabled 10 tell. But this ] am aware:
when I Won that Loving Cup at Reams.
France, the Grand stand acted very
similar 10 Polo Grounds, y. y. when
Hon. Hans Wagner of Pittsburg has
9Dsi obtained 4 bases Of Of Hon. Clristy
Mat. You could scarossy realize was
champion avigator Of the World. If
Hon. Crowd felt eutinEiastick il was
very quiet about il. Even a crone was
heard from occasional loyal French
mans"
Was not Them Frenchmans hapI,v to
see how Science had advanced, even il
they was defeaIed?"
Science win never advance so far
that folks will enjoy seeing the Home
Team lose" commute this fly person.
Hon. Cur1iss take slieft sip OF but
termilk from that International Loving
Cup.
But them French fiieFs did not hold
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prove they could fly. but I proved they
was all heavier-than-air. My expert
ments was not limited 10 sky-boats.
neither"
Not so?"
Not so. Before l was age one dozen
/ had followed furious Inventions to my
discredit:
1-Nurseless Baby-Carriage. So in
telligent 1T would continue going ahead
long as Infant was quiet but would re-
turn home when he began to cry. At
first demonstratus of this val Machine
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most literal sense OF the word. Dixie. eli d?
Built on purpose for tourists, l suppose
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Workman-Is there a foot rule in this
house?
Housekeeper-Yes; everybody wipes
their feet on this mat before they dare
come Ini Comb cuts
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MIR. Bronx-A seif-evident truth. my 49,
Il an axiom. -, ths fulure
Mrs Bronx-Ten me axfofns IA trrsxa
when you are out late al niSh|
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Il always have the uncomfortable
sensation that IL should write some
thing to make me an immortal, the world
would come 10 an end four weeks after
! did H."
-Meggendorfcr Blatter.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-28

But them French hiers did not hold
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TO FLY OR NOT TO FLY.

no be continued :
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-23
The "Still Small Voice !,

The moral of this story may be that
it is better to heed the warnings of the
still, small voice" before it is driven
to use of the telephone.
A New York lawyer, gazing idly out
OF his window, saw a sight in an Office
across the street that made him rub his
eyes and look again. Yes, there was no
doubt about it. The pretty stenographer
was sitting upon the gentlemans S lap.
The lawyer noticed the name that was
lettered on the window and then searched
in the telephone book. Still keeping his
eye on the scene across the street, he
called the gentleman up. In a few mo-
ments he saw him start violently, and
take down the receiver.
Yes, " said the lawyer, through the
telephone, I should think you would
start.
The victim whisked his arm from its
orlller posltlon ana began to Stanmer
Yes" continued the lawyer severely,
I think you'd better take that arm
lway. And, while you're about it, as
here seem to be plenty of chairs in the
The victim brushed the lady from
MS lap, rather roughly, it is to be
cared. 'Who-who the devil is
his, anyhow - he managed to sputter.
," answered the lawyer in a deep
Impressive voice, am your con-
cience p and then he hung up
Magazine
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-23
Tennessee To Show Corn.

Frank D. Fuller, of Hermitage ),
Tenn, has been appointed Vice Presi-
dent for the State of the National Corn
Association, an organization of growers
who are working for more and better
corn in the United States. Mr.. Fuller
is assistant secretary of the Tennessee
State Fair Association and one Of the
big farmers near Nashville.
1t is the National Corn Association
which is behind the National Corn Ex-
position which is to be held at Omaha
December to IS, and Mr.. Fuller plans
to take an exhibit of Tennessee corn to.
Omaha to compete for prizes against
the corn of other States. A premium
list of 500, 600 has been offered, some
of the trophies being worth 81 600 each.
Tennessee has produced on an average
of % SS bushels of corn per acre for the
last ten years, In Iowa where farmers
have been selecting seed carefully the
average production per acre for ten
years is 93.5 bushels per acre. That
Tennessee can do just as well as Iowa
is the contention of Mr.. Fuller and
others and they will show what is done
on some of the farms where corn is Civ
en- the same care as in Iowa.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-23
number of subscriptions. Absol

number of subscriptions. Absolute
fairness must prevail. No votes can be
purchased in this contest. There are
none to sell at any price to any person.
The only way votes may be had is
through subscriptions.
Girls should remember that votes are
what it takes to win these prizes. One
of the pianos is here and can be seen at
the Union City Bank & Trust Co. We
invite all the girls and their friends, and
in fact everybody, to call and see this
beautiful piano. The mate to it will be
here before the contest closes, so that on
the closing date each winner can take
her piano home. We are giving all
these prizes away as free as water, but
the girls who win them must hustle.
You cannot expect to win $400 piano
or even special $25 prize without a
little effort.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-23
SHERIFF COMPTON,
Henry County officer May Die of
Wound in His Neck

Paris, Tenn., July Is. Sheriff r. H
Compton, of Henry County, was shot
here this morning by a prisoner at
tempting to escape and is now in a pre-
carious condition at the county jail,
where he was taking his assailant when
he received the wound from his own
weapon.
The officer was called to take charge
of Albert Lawson, a negro who was
beating his wife. As the negro showed
no disposition to resist, Mr. Compton
started to the Jail with his prisoner fol-
lowing but a few steps behind. With
out warning and when they had pro-
ceeded but a short way, the negro at
tackled the officer, who is of slight ply
sique, from behind, and, securing the
Sheriff's pistol, he fred one shot and
fled The bullet, entering from in
front, passed between two important
blood vessels on the left side of the
neck and lodged low down in the back /
wound which may be fatal
at any time. The officer fell and a
negro woman who witnessed the shoot
ing, procured a cot, placed him on it
and gave the alarm.
Lawson made his escape, going south,
and when last heard from was in the
neignborhood of Henry, in this county, |
where he was trailed by hounds. The
negro, it is said, was under the influence
If cocaine. He has been employed as
/ street hand by the city here, and is
IN undersized, broad-shouldered, heav-
ly made man of about As years, with
lanting eyes and almost black skin.
'Ir Compton is an officer of many
ears experience, and was elected Sheriff
n August, 1908. Much feeling has
developed against the negro.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-23

batting was very poor as the clan per-
sisted in keeping them up in the air and
good bait for the outfield. Pigue was
slammed pretty fierce and only retaliat-
ed by striking out ten men. -Four err
rors of the blood sapping quality were
made.
Ringing upon the second contest
with the crew from jackson the Blue
Sox packed up and pilgrimated down
into the camp of the foe with purpose to
enjoy three additionals, there making
total Of five played and giving the
cerulean string to the faction virile
enough to pluck three out of the bunch.
The first set-to on program in the alien
port was under the management of Kid
Allan and resulted in win for the To-
Gals, score to 8. The TRADE held on
for ten stanzas with the black board fig
ures standing neck and neck in the
tCtItll MllCll lIlc IIOI1lC Slut ONllCu bIlC
willow. The counting run was made
by Hawes.
The fourth battle royal went to the
enemy by a score of 2 to 3, In the
struggle Mike Connors let slip his first
battle this season, while the clan show
ed up in spots on a sloppy scale. The
course of the fray ran like the rest
Things boiled, The locals took their
runs one by one, the condition of affairs
being again neck and neck when Jack
son took the bat and let in the winning
rush. -Four scattered hits we're made
off CoNnors.
Saturday was anotker gala day TOR
the Blue Sox tribe Pigue spread him
self iel the box and the Jackson force
only escaped complete shut-out at his
hands by couple Of skeptical unpiris-
tical decisions. The concluding count
was 3 and :, the scores falling in the
order:
U. C. B. o 0 / Q 1-3
Jackson. 0 @ 0 0 0 0 2-2
The win gave the locals Bonus of
the five performances, the best three
out of FIVE. Pigue's high-cIass work
melted him twelve scalps and We
hementiy emphasized the work of the
squad by dealing a good number of
safe Slams out to the foe. Eight being
the true figures according to reportori-
cal evidence. Faces pluggers, however,
showed themselves equal to the occasion
and retaliated with nine. 1t was BOOM
ing wock all the way round.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-23
London Gossip

There's some talk, dear boy, about
invaders bombarding London.
When do they propose to lombard
London, old chap2"
If they are at all considerate, they'll
bombard it in August, when everybody,
who is anybody, will be out of town. y
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-23
A Smart Set Child.

Your little girl gives you absolutely
no trouble.
Her time is fully occupied, ex-
planned the smart set mother. She
has to change her dolls gowns four
times a day.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-22

Bills Allowed
By Council

The city council held "A meeting
at the city hall asst evening and al
lowed the following bills:
Union Foundry, castings. .$2,609.85
Reno Con. Co. sewerage
contract ......... 1,03S.94
w. r. Miller, street work. 1916
Nevada Northern r. r.
freight on W pipe. 99.6S
w. E. Myers, sidewalk con-
tract 3,59O.60
Mayor Mcdonald suggested that
the finance committee get together
and take up the matter of another
bond issue, as the city with it's pres
ent finances will not be able to meet
the amounts which will shortly be
due fro public improvements.
The city attorney was instructed
to Immediately take action in the
matter of the unsanitary condition
of the National saloon property. The
board said hat the owners IN the
agents had been given ample time to
attend to this matter and that they
should now be brought to account.
Councilman Nevin stated that by
taking some action in this matter,
the validity of the ordinance cover
ing this case could be tested. The
city attorney informed the board that
he would give 1t his immediate at
tention.
The clerk was instructed to write
to the water company and state that
the water pressure in Ely had been
very much reduced OF late. IL was
the opinion of the board that if the
moss and weeds were removed from
the screens, the water supply would
be greatly increased.
The city attorney vas instructed
to give the ex-marshal and his bonds
men AS hours in which time to make
good his shortage to the city and IT
it was not done by that time, t,
action in the courts.
The city attorney was instructed
to draw up an ordinance regulating
the height which electric wires
shall be strung through the city.
The city engineer was instructed
to draw plans o a hume to be buiit
ON First street. the same to carry
food waters coming down the canyon
to the cutters on Aultman street. 1t
was the opinion of the council that
the alley, through which the waters
used to run, can nc longer be used
for that purpose. as it has lately
been torn up and the sewerage pipe
installed. 1t is the intention of the
board, at a later date, to have a
fume built across Aultman street
from First and carry all excessive
flood waters to hurry creek and in
that way keep them from flooding
AuItman street. Owing to the pres
ent financial condition of the city,
this fiume cannot be built at this
time.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-22
Has
Resumed
Work

Manager f. w. Ralph, OF TIE
Boston-Ely will leave ON this morn
ing's train for Salt Lake, where he
will remain about a week visiting
his wife, who has been in a hos
pital In that city for about six
weeks. He stated yesterday that
Mrs. Ralph was slowly improving
from a serious illness.
In speaking of the Boston-Ely
property, Mr.. Ralph said the new 40
h. p. gasoline hoist had been in
stalled and that work in the shaft
was resumed Tuesday night. The
shaft is now down $40 feet and the
bottom of the shaft is in extremely
interesting territory. Sulphides
were found before work was SUI
spended several weeks ago and the
indications are that large bodies OF
copper ore of a commercial value
will soon be opened up. The Bos-
ton-Ely people have been pioneers in
the lime formation and if the pres
ent indications make good, it viii
mean much to all who have lime
properties in the district, as it vii
prove that copper bearing porphyry
underlies the limestone. Those who
visited the Boston-Ely shaft just be
fore it was closed down, for the pur
pose of installing a large hoist, state
that the next few feet will prove tina
the theory of Managr Ralph, tina
porphyry would be found with depth
was we'll founded.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-22

his old cynical air.
ooh no false Indignation, | pray
YOU he cried. You brought us to
preparation
THE whole world knew that the
ministers of war and the navy when
the question was put to them, replied
that France was not ready. | have
not Inundated France; Delcosse has
done that"
The chamber was in an uproar
when the premier took his seat.
Amid the widest excitement the
vote was taken and when it was an
nounced that the government had
been beaten, 212 to lis, M. Clemen-
ceau stalked out of the chamber fol-
lowed by the other ministers in
token that he intended to resign.
M. Clemenceau went Immediately
to the Elysee Palace and told the
story to President FalIeries, who
seemed stupefied at the incident, but
he accepted the resignation.
There is but mi opinion in Paris
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that an old
parliamentary warhorse like Clemen-
ceau should have committed po-
litical suicide in recalling the
Algecrias spectre when the govern
ment was assured of a majority on
the naval question. The premier's
action drove about fifty members of
the Republican "bloc" into a COM
bination with the right and extreme
left, unhorsing the man whose
ministry had been the longest in the
history of the third Sepublic and
who for three years has been abb
sOlute master of France.
More than sixty members of the
majority, enought to have saved the
day, were absent when the vote was
taken.
The fall of the cabinet was SO un-
expected that the political world is
at sea as to who will be Clemen-
ceau's successor.
The Socialists are overjoyed at
Clemenceau's downfall. M. Joures
the Sosialist leader in the chamber,
said:
with Clemenceau disappears the
most dangerous ma In the re-
public