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The Honolulu times. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1902-1911, 1909-07-01

LII preparing LOT lIle tTldl, Ncll-
tiot and Marianne Mentiot did the
rest of their work without NOV
ing their lips. The night came.
Mentiot fastened the shutters and
the door and went to bed in the
little room which was lighted by
dormer-window. Marianne Men
tiot also lay down. The night
passed. The morning arrived.
Mentiot remained sunk in the
clothing even to the ears, and said
not a word. Marianne Mentiot
did the same.
From time to time, Mentiot
opened halfway an eye for seeing
if his wife still slept, and shut
very quickly. Marianne Mentiot
did the same; but neither the one
nor the other budged nor said
word. Ten o'clock struck; doors
and shutters remained fastened.
The neighbors were astonished.
Why does Mentiot and Marianne
Mentiot remain imprisoned so in
their house? They must be ill
At noon the neighbors became
more and more alarmed. Louis
Petrus decided finally to knock at
the shutters, then at the door;
pan pan pan No response.
Then he brought a chair,
mounted upon it. and looked into
the little room, through the
lucarne. At first he could see
nothing. Then his eyes becoming
used to the obscurity, he ended
by seeing very clearly Mentiot
and Marianne lying in their bed,
sunk in the bedclotfes to the ears.
'Dieu! that they are pale!
cried he in descending from the
chair. Without doubt they are
dead. They must have eaten of
bad mushrooms. 1t must be so,
for Marianne Mentiot went the
other day to seek them in the
Biles. Quickly! quickly! break
open the door and one of us run
call monsieur lie cure!
The door was soon opened. 1t
sufhced to spring the lock. One
entered without noise as if one
had fear of awakening those they
thought were dead. One lifted a
little the clothing. Not a move
ment. One shook; one called: not
of response. Monsieur lie Cure
was absent. His gouvernante ran
and made dispense the crowd.
She looked at Marianne Mentiot,
she shook her, she called, not of
response.
1T is SINGULAR said she; the
bodies are still warm. Go seek
The Honolulu times. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1902-1911, 1909-07-01

all at once Mentiot sat up, scared,
upon his bed, and cried in a voice
of thunder:
"'And me, thieves, what is that
l shall! put on?'
Thou cried Marianne in sit
ting up on her side, quicker than
powder, thou wilt take the rust
off the pot, thou!
Then the clerc and his wife,
terrified as if they had seen a
spectre to their heels, precipitated
themselves out of the house, and
are running still.
THE poor Mentiot was obliged
to scour the pot, and he gained so
the good pot-au-feu that Marianne
herself served for the duchess.
He pretended that, in his life, he
had never eaten of so good: this
was nothing astonishing since he
had we'll earned it by his work.
From that time no person has
heard him say that the women
have the tongue too long.
81 have Finished" said Louise
Lemaire; and he put his cap upon
his head, not without some trout
Bile, for he had the hair the most
contrary of mankind.
Bravo! bravo! we'll told
cousin Lemaire I" cried in one
voice the assembly.
~ ~ II
OUR NFXT-DOOP NETcu
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04
Buffalo Ia Merry

Buffalo, Sept. 4.-Buffalo will fairly
split its sides a-laughing during the
coming week, If the presence in the
city of some of the fore-nost funny
men of h land can accomplish such
a result. The American Association
OF Press Hunorists will begin a ses-
sion tomorrow that will last seven
days. with one day devoted 20 ,blsi-
ness and six days to be spent in play
Ing those joyous pranks for which tina
newspaper wits are famous.
The association includes in it's menu
bership about all the funny and near
funny fellows of the fourth estate.
Frank I. Seabright of Los Angeles Is
president, Sam Kiser of tie Chicago
Record-Herald vice president. and
Judd Mortimer Lewis. the sweet sing
er OF the Houston Posi-. keeper of the
cash box. His duties, he admits, arc
not enormous.
John ID. Rockefeller. WHOM the
newspaper hlmorists credit with hav-
ing got on something resembling a
joke at some time in the dim and dis
tant past. is an honorary member.
So are Mark Twain. James Whitcomb
Riley and Hon. David r. Francis.
The active members include John
Kendrick Bangs. Robert Burdette,
Newton Newkirk of the Boston Post.
Franklin p. Adams of the New York
Mail. Edward Zimmerman. Edmund
Vance Cook and Charles Mattel
LOOMS.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04
PRESIDENT or ROCK
ISLAND K STATEMENT

*
For the past few days boswell has
been visited by a party OF six promin-
ent business men, officials and invest
ors from Haskell, Okla, including Eel
tx M Todd, G. ID. Long, John E. Rob
ertson, J.. ". Hudson. Joe McCrary ami
II. s. Wilson. In their party who were
members of the Haskell committee
that called on President WineheIl of
the Rock Island railroad not long a.
go, and from them is learned of an in
teresting statement made by Presi-
lent Winchell to them at the time of
their visit. He said that although
the Jock Island would make no extern
sion work within the next few months
that within Is months his company
would begin work on the road from
Graham, Texas, west to Lubbock and
thence to Roswell. New Mexico. This
statement coming when teams are GO
ing 10 work on the short road west
from Graham supposed to lbe going to
the coa fields OF that locality. comes
with much force.
the gentleman mentioned above
came to Roswell in a Maxwell tour
ing car and reports pretty hard pull
ing in the sands east of Roswell.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04
WANTED:-A beli-boy.-AppIy q
ono to Giikeson Hotel.
Appeal to Church Members.

Editor Record Mrs. NJ. E. Simp-
son, who lives 22 miles northeast of
the city, is seriously i'll and has been
confined to her bed for two weeks.
She is a widow among strangers and
needs some good Christians to visi;
and try to cheer her up. DIR. Parsons
is her attending physician and says
she will have to undergo a serious OPP
GRAFTON before she can BY
her request a telegram has been sent
TO her brother, DIR. Denman. of Luf-
kin, to assist in the operation.
Please publish this in the Record
lSigned) Mrs. Augusta Grassland.
nurse.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04
DISTRICT COURT WAS
IN SESSION TO-DAY.

Judge Wm. II. Pope convened a
short session of district court TODAY
10 clear mp the docket and hear the
habeas corpus case of Ben Anderson
who with Boyd Smith. are in Jail
charged with fAurglarizing the Joyce
Pruit warehouse at Hagerman in
June. Smith, il is understood. will
make q plea of insanity to escape
prosecution in this case. The court
also heard evidence in the case of the
estate of the alte Festlis Keen who
died without known heirs.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04
italian War Vessel

Providence. r. l.. Sept. 4.-During
the mex five days Providence will
play the part of host to the officers
and crew of the Italian warsaip Eft
ruria and many social events will be
held in honor of the visitors. The
Etruria was formerly commanded by
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

the Duke Of the Abruzzi. Her =
n commander is Count de Casilino.
Other mobiles among. the officers in
clude the Marquis di Serrano, Count
Zayagli and Count Deciani. Many
Newporters are expected to pay their
respects to the distinguished Italians
during their stay here.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04
Mrs. kIasner Under Arrest.

Word has come of the arrest OF
Mrs. l.. c. Klasner in Lincoln county
on The charge of conspiring with two
MeXica1s to steal some calves belang-
ing to various ranching outfits west
of here. Mrs. K%lasner is well known
in Roswell and has many friends here
who hope hat the charge will prove
10 be without foundation in fact.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

Rockvale Lump is the best burning
! coal in the market but il will not ig-
mite without matches and kindling.-
Sweet, the Coal Man.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

Owing to Monday being Labor Day
the RECORD will not be issued. the en-
tire force taking a dav off from labor
lag.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

You all know Ingersoll gives you
the most for your money. He always
did, and this year you get m,re with
your school books.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

f. w. Flato. of Kansas City. who
has been here a few days. eel TO his
ranch III the Pecos today.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

The county Commissioners did not
canvass the vote of the recent cleo
ton today. as anticipated. They will
meet tn first of the week.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

for outing and mountain trips.-rel
ephone 1S2.-R. B.. Jones. prop. 743m.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

WANTED:-A beIl-boy.-Apply at
once to Gilkeson Hotel.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-04

FOR SALE:-One new range. used
only 3 months. Cheap. 104 y. Mo.
15St2
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

become perfected. while Douglas was in
a state of utter collapse his voice gone.
land to listen to him moved ones pity.E
Lincoln had said of slavery: This
is the issue which willscontinue in this
country when these poor tongues of
Judge Douglas and myself shall be si-
lent 1t is the eternal struggle between
these two principles. right and wrong,
thruout the world" 5HA AntbI it was
prophecy Douglas won the Senator
ship, but he lost the Presidency. which
Lincoln, farseeing, got for himself,
without knowing for what stakes he
was playing. u
Douglas delivered a total of 130
speeches in this campaign, and expend-
ed for his campaign tour $4,000. Lin
coin expended only $1,000. and the re-
suit was a popular vote for Lincoln of
over 1000 votes. But the unfair appor-
tionment of the State, as before alluded
to. gave Douglas a majority of eight in
the Legislature.
Lincoln was bitterly disappointed at
the result, for he knew that he was
practically counted OUT in the redis-
tricting of the State. He said to a
friend that he felt over it as the little
boy did who stubbed his toe, 1T hurt
too much to laugh, and he was too big
to cry"
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
Electric Engines More Economical.

1t is found that the running mainten-
ance of the electric locomotive is much
less than that of the steam engine. The
first consideration is that 1t does not re-
quire a round-house inspection at the
end of each day. An, electric locomo-
tive is inspected on a thousand mile
basis, which means an average of once
in 10 days, and the actual time of
overhauling is much less. a very large
item of economy is in the truing up of
the tires. The electric locornotive only
wears away 1872 of an inch. in 10000
miles, where the same, wear comes on a
steam locomotives tires in 5000 or
5000 miles. This is because.sof the ac-
ton of the steam engine making two
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
British Forestry.

Great Britain has thoroly walked up
to the need of preserving her forests,
or rather reforesting the country.
Great Britain is practically deforest-
ed, and she must begin at the begin
ming. The plan which has been studied
out and which will be adopted is the
most far-reaching and complete of any
nation up to this date, and is expected
to make England self-supporting in the
production of timber. Altogether, 49,
600, 900 acres will be planted at the rate
of 10000 acres year for 60 years, to
cost in the end s15.000,000. After the
40th year, the forest will become self
supporting, and after sc years theiforest
will have a value of s2,S10,000,00
which will be s535,000,000 in excess of
the cost of production, and will yield
a net annual revenue of sS7,500,000, or
1913 per acre from land which is now
almost valueless. 1t is expected that
Great Britain will be able to make much
more out of her forests, even, than Ger
many. where forestry has become a
great science.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The MccalI's Ferry Power Plant.

A great undertaking is being execut-
ed at McCall's Ferry. on the Susque-
hanna, to utilize the immense power of
that stream. The Susquehanna is $50
miles long. and drains an area of nearly
10000 square miles. A dam is being
erected 5000 feet long and from 60 to
100 feet high. 1t is expected that it
will develop fully 0.000-horsepower.
This will make the plant the largest of
any in the United States with the ex-
ception of those at Niagara, and the
project represents an investment of
about s10,000,000. Within a radius of
rs miles are number of important
manufacturing centers, including Bal
timOre, Washington. Harrisburg, York,
Lancaster and Philadelphia. Besides
the power transmitted to factories and
shops, it will also furnish current for
State and interurban railroads, and, al
tho coal is very cheap in that section,
it is believed that power can be fur
nished in this way very much cheaper
than by coal.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
GIVEN AWAY.

900 of these Treatments are being offered
Free If You want one, write today. You
may try for yourself the method of this great
why il has cured. where others failed
Deafness Specialist Sprouc wants TO help
all who suffer from these fierce Head Noises
He knows what intense misery those sounds
of escaping stcam-th hat bell ringing in the
car-that singing of crickets or insects-tho
hummins-thc pufling-the buzzing-the dis
tant roaring-that dull heavy throbbng-
means. He therefore offers treatment,
FREE, 10 all who write mt once. His
treatment has cured thousands upon thou
sands. In place Of those roaring noises, there
is a perfect quiefness. in which every natural
sound is heard quickly and distinctly.
Just sit down and write a post card or let
ter request asking for a -Free-for
Head Noises Sign your name and address,
and send il off NOW. The treatment will come
ing. Don't dclay-Send Now. Write Deaf
ness Specialist SprOuie, Trade Building,
Boston. Mass.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
Briquets for Locomotives.

The Geological Survey has been max
ing an extensive test of briqueting re-
fuse coal for use in locomotives, in tie
torpedo boat service and otherwise.
Machines have been established for
making briquets and the conclusions
arrived at are that the briquets stand
exposure to weather and handling. that
they make preferable fuel for locomo-
tives and torpedo boat service, increaT-
ing boiler capacity and decreasing
smoke. The main objection is that
they require increased bunker capacity.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
Radium as a Cancer Cure.

There is rising in the minds of medi-
cal men a strong hope that radium is
a cure for the dread disease of cancer.
The Paris Radium Institute, to which
Madame Curie is attached. reports that
64 out of 68 cases of surface cancer
have been cured by radium. with hum
dreds of cures effected of cutaneous
affections, including tumors, birth
marks. scars, eczema, etc. The insti-
tuition now possesses Is grains of ra-
dunn, valued at $S5,000.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

A Second Steel City.

The United States Steel Corporation,
has completed plans for another steel.
city like Gary, Ind, to be built this
year on the st. Louis River, within
three miles of Superior. Wis. The cor.
poration has purchased 1900 acres of
land on the Wisconsin side of the river.
and will at once proceed to set up a,
plant costing s14.500,000 for manu-:
featuring steel according to the latest
ideas and the most economic methods.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

approaching Deafness. The whistle OF The
locomotive does not indicate any palmer the
approach of the train than Head Noises in
dicate the approach of Deafness
Icu may only have the Noises in the head
you are in danger all the same You need
immediate treatment
Deafness Specialist Sproule has studied and
perfected method of treatment which has
done wonders for many. many people troubled
with Head Noises This treatment has. in
thousands of cases, stopped the sounds and
left the head clear as q bell
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
THE WATER TUBE BOILER.

In these days of high steam and
economic consumption of coal, water
tube boilers are having great vogue.
and every improvement upon them is
watched and welcomed. A new type
has now been produced in England.
The boiler consists of central drum
pressed out of single steel plate, and
external coils of mild steel arranged to
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
(Continued from first page)

he spoke those eyes were magic lam
terms of playing lights. They were like
deem wells of fire. He had few ges-
lures He stopped low when he was
driging a point home and rose suddenly
70 the full six feet four of hight when
the climax was reached, and the effect
was wonderful. The power of his all
compelling eyes seemed TO draw the
people to him at such moments, and
his homely SMILES, his pertinent
stories, caught and held the hearts of
them 1t is remarkable to relate that
no matter how high rancor climbed.
nor how intolerant of his opinions his
audiences were. Lincoln never met with
anything but the utmost courtesy from
his opponents. While they did not ac-
cept his doctrines, they did him the
honor to believe that Lincoln believed
in them.
1t should always be remembered that
this struggle between Lincoln and
Douglas was one of political and moral
principles. Personally they were good
friends. and had always been so.
Crucial Questions.
The debates opened in Ottawa. Ill,
Aug p. 1858. While Lincoln was i'm
measurablY the superior of Douglas in
all but superficial ways, his Ottawa ef-
fort while magnificent. did not meas
0re up To llle Ol DOuSi islS gu
perficially speaking. Lincoln had not
struck his gait. and he yielded the plat
form 8 minutes short of his time, leaV-
ing unanswered the seven questions
that Douglas had propounded. The OF
tawa debate stands to-day drawn bat
tie between the oratorical Sladiators
Partisans of both We're almost equally
divided, and at the end the enthusiastic
friends of Lincoln lifted him from the
platform, much TO his dismay and un-
Ger his protest. and carried him off on
their shoulders. The Freeport debates
came just a week later. and the crowds
were dense. Douglas arrived the night
before, and was greeted with torch
light procession. Lincoln, however, had
all of his own and Douglass crowd to
meet him when he arrived the next
morning, and they yelled themselves
hoarse at sight of him. Lincoln an
swered the seven questions asked at
the Ottawa meeting, and propounded
four questions to Douglas. These four
questions were fashioned to draw from
Douglas an explicit statement as to how
he reconciled mis- opinion of the Dred
Scott decision, which he favored, with
his belief in squatter sovereignty, which
the Dred Scott decision had practically
killed. The two opinions were irrecon-
cilable, and Lincoln knew it.
Lincoln's effort to force Douglas to q
statement of principle on these two
opposing points, both of which the
Little Giant had indorsed, alarmed
his friends. and they begged him to
withdraw them. His friends declared
that if Douglas answered the questions
in the affirmative, which they thought
he was bound to do. he would be re-
elected to the United States Senate, and
they might as well stop the campaign
right there. Lincoln said: IF he an
swers in the affirmative he will never
be President. l am after
larger game The battle of 1850 is
worth a hundred of this
Douglas did answer in the affirma-
tive, and mortally offended the South
by again declaring for squatter sover
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
The CoreIess Apple,

Somebody makes a pertinent inquiry,
as to what has become of the coreless :
apple which was such a sensation few
years ago. 1t has apparently followed.
the thornless blackberry into the limb9
of forgotten things. iE
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

Sec Strauss wants the new Ambrose
channel to New York Harbor lighted |.
by acetylene gas buoys, which will cost,
sSe,000, and has asked Congress to au.ss
thoriZe this. 81
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
HEAD NOISES?
3 90
IRE a | m ents
F R ( {

Your Head Noises
can be cured. You do
lot need to suffer with
those wearing-annoy-
ing sounds in your
head. You have
thought at times they
would drive you crazy.
If they did not stop.
Perhaps your hear
ing is already failing.
Even If it is still good.
you have the added
burden of knowing
hat these Head Noises
are only the signals of
oHVa-Aa - l. f,,ar no., ftaA-e.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

Weak and unhealthy kidneys nre re-
sponsibIe for more sickness and suffer-
ing than any other disease, therefore,
when through neglect or other causes,
kidney trouble is permitted to continue,
serious results are sure TO follow.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

eighty, the while he professed allegiance
to the Dred Scott decision. He was
elected to the Senate, but he did not
reach the Presidency, and Lincoln's
prophecy came true.
Greatest of Forensic Struggles.
Interest in the great debates grew
with the weeks. One contemporary
writer has said of them that they were
comparable to nothing in American his
tory but the forensic struggle between
Webster and Hayne; that before them
there had been nothing like it, and
after Lincoln and Douglas there has
been nothing to measure up to them.
At the outset Lincoln met Douglass
metaphor with stories, apropos and
pointed like needles, but yet stories.
while Douglas, like mercury. evaded
Lincoln's logic and almost inverted his
propositions with plausible paraphrase.
Douglas was master of expedients and
of strategy in debate, and he had posi-
tive genius in restatement of the
thought and logic of others so as to
make it mean the antipode of what it
originally meant While there was
generally the utmost courtesy between
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

Once more the English railroads havd'
concluded year without killing q;
single person. D.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

them, even Lincoln's stoicism some
times blistered under Douglass CALLING
fire. 1t must be confessed that the
amenities of debate. were sorely strained
at times, and acrimonious filings often
marred the closing ones. One Of these
breaks came at Charleston, Sept. IS.
Douglas had declared at Freeport that
Lincoln had denounced the Mexican
War to be unjust and infamous, and
would not support it. (This was while
Lincoln was a member of Congress.)
In Charleston Lincoln turned to the
crowd on the platform, and, leading
from it Hon. Orlando b. Ficklin, four
times a member of Congress from llli-
nois as a Democrat, said:
II do not mean to do anything with
Mr. Ficklin. except to present his face
and tell you that he personally knows
it to be a lie. He was a member of
Congress at the only time l was in Con-
gress, and knows that whenever there
was an attempt to procure a vote of
mine which would indorse the origin
and Justice of the war l refused to give
such Endorsement and voted against it;
but 1 never voted against the supplies
for the Army, and he knows as well as
Judge Douglas that whenever a dollar
was asked by way of compensation,
otherwise for the benefit of the soldiers,
gave all the votes that Ficklin or
Douglas did. and perhaps more"
Mr.. Ficklin thereupon promptly cor
roborated Mr.. Lincoln's statement, and
Douglas -teeh the lie direct.
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
Armenian Dairymaids.

This photograph, which was taken
near Marsovan. Armenia. shows two of
the dairymaids OF that country making
The National tribune., 1909-04-08
Swamp-ROOt is Pleasant to
Take.

IT
certificate ,
have
Of ,
The National tribune., 1909-04-08

expose large surfaces to the hot gases
and at the same time allow of cleaning
Each coil makes three turns, the ends
being expanded into holes in the CEN
trail drum, an arrangement which al
lows perfectly free expansion and
contraction without any possibility of
leakage. Any coil can be removed and
replaced without interfering with other
coils.