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Arizona republican., 1909-05-28

Good sports" he said, smiling at their locked 6n- gers.
 An hour ago they would have thought him vulgar intruder Now they shook his hand warmly
 Presently the chief officer appeared, almost dragging the old captain with him The latter seemed to have no eyes for anything but the doomed ship It was like child to him, and he had no other Ahl we all have dear ships that go down
 The vessel shivered again. and heeled slightly They looked anxioyly at another thinking that she would sink before the powder exploded and then sud- denly, there great crash Boards baes the whole musc-saloon flew into the air. The bows seemed to dissolve and the stern took great lurch the water The waves swept it for few moments but when they passed it oated upright and its human freight was left cnging to the ras-exsept the captain The chief officer rubbed his drenched sleeve his face
 " He'd have wished to go with her." he said huskily
 "Yes," said the bounder man. "Yes l can under
Arizona republican., 1909-05-28
g. Auen N>ver

yourself that liked; but liked your woman's graces too. You are smiling very beautifully now"
 If pleases you, she said, will smile to the end am glad that my looks please you Will it make this this moment of your life happier to know that I admire you? I do"
 He nodded
 Thank you, dear woman. I was very tempted some times to ask you to give yourself but-you sec also, have liked others and not enough too was not sure If liked yoa enough; but liked you more than any of the rest-Inuch more Sometimes pictured you at my breakfast-table in a cool morning gown, your white fingers busy with the cups But was forty and more; and you forty and less The married break fast-table IS not always harmonious and little old to adjust ourselves double harness; and so- well, didn't think much iof the risk of quarrels We might have had few hot words, now and ther-but they don't matter It the cold words that feared To love you-and knew that l should love you very
Arizona republican., 1909-05-28

sure Love holds the keys of Heaven I wrote that once in a book-a book! Now you have written it on my life This is the time that I have liged these few minutes
 My dearl My dearl It is so hard"
 No, mol We have found each other; and perhaps if we had lived the ordinary fe-we should have This is best"
 They cung to each other tightly. They did not st: even when the ship gave long shver and another. Then the chief officer hurried forward
 Get aft" he cried Get aft There's lot of powder in the hold The captains going fire it and try c blow her up. It will break her in two but he thinks that the will float off and if the water tight compartments hold shall reach the breakers before ground He laughed in the careless way of sailormen. Eli come to your wedding yet he said God bless you"
 She casped her hands over his arm
 Oh!" she cried, if this is the end, it worth living forl Life is better than thought and braver They have all been so brave. will despise any one again Not even a bounder man!
 The bounder man held out his hand to them when they reached him
Arizona republican., 1909-05-28

stand that" And they did not think strange that he should understand.
 The fragment of the ship swept unseadiy toward the shore, rocking and rolling violently that those it could scarcely cling to the rails First they hung the water; then they faced the sky-a clear blue sky with white cloud here and there. At every roll they sank lower in the water.
 The compartments have broken in" the chief officer pronounced She's filling"
 Still we get run for money" the bounder man consoed him
 As the stump of ship filled and sank farther, it rolled less and they came into which carried them straight toward the shore, and till they could distinguish each of the jagged teeth of rock stick ing tp through the seehing foam and others underneath them
 The water reached the deck and began to wet their feet They fifty yards from the rocks where the sea broke, and perhaps hundred and fifty from the shore.
 suppose may well jump over and take our luck the bounder suggested Out it's ten to one on those rocks Hanged if isn'ti"
 They stared at the black juttng up between
Arizona republican., 1909-05-28
AND exzEp AT THE SHORE AS IF THEY FEARED TO
 LOOK AT EACH OTHER.

much-and then to slip back! To be loved by you-if you eoAldand then to be loved by you longerl To turn into the ordinary married pair live separate lives-and a chain between"
 They gazed out over the water again Another boat dashed safely ashore They fanced that they heard shout from the beach.
 He and his children in that" the man said "Ycu would have been saved Oh you brave good woman! You worth taking the risk for"
 But you did not mean to take it" She brushed her eyes.
 q told myself so; butt used to fancy that some night when the moon shore-some night when the end of the voyage and the parting from you were than I could bear-and you looked at me with your beautiful s:nle-I could with that smile of yours, Marian"
 She turned to him, and smiled; and he took both her hands and kissed them
 I did not to, eithet," she confessed; but thought that perhaps-near the end of the voyage, you say-if you took my hand-I could never reason with the touch of your hand on mine. I-oh, yes! should have taken the risk think, if you had asked me"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
An UnsociaI Pedant.

"At Trinity, Cambridge, the great
DR.. Whewell was the incarnation of
masterful unsociability," says Mr..
Tollemache in his "reminiscences. "a
Trinity friend told me in the fifties
that Whewell's evening parties went
by the name of perpendicular be-
cause the undergraduates were expect
ed to remain standing all the time,
though he himself sat down whenever
he chose. 1t is also related that, being
shortsighted, he inspected each man
In turn at unpleasantly close quarters,
and It was high crime for any one
to speak until he was spoken to. On
one occasion under the trying scrutiny
an unwary freshman remarked that
the weather was fine. Sir replied the
pedant, are you not aware that If you
have any communication to make to
the master Of your college you should
make 1t through your tutor""
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
A FABLE OF NIGERIA.
The Crafty Spider and the Way He
Paid His Debts.

The Crafty Spider and the Way .Hs
Paid His Debts.
| The following fable Of the spider Is
one of the folk tales Of northern Nj
geria:
| A spider, 1t seems, had occasion to
borrow sum of money. A journey
round to the generously disposed
brought him 2,O0O cowries each from
the cat, the dog, the hyena, the leopard
and the lion. When pay day came
round, the spider remained at home to
receive the visits Of his creditors in a
certain prearranged order. First came
the cat to claim repayment of his loan.
'Hushv' said the spider II hear a
noise outside. 1t is dog come to see
me. You must hide under this Gala.
bash for safety" The cat was scarce
IL hidden when the dog, coming in,
made similar request for his money.
Says Master Spider, There is a cat
under that calabash. Take him and
consider the debt paid" No sooner
said than done. Just then a snuffling
and scraping were heard at the door.
The third creditor, the hyena, had ar
rived. Don't be alarmed, my dear
dog, but hide here till he has left"
And the spider hustled him under the
calabash. Il smell dog" said the
hyena, routing about Under that
calabash." the spider replied. Eat him
up, and your debt is paid" The dog
paid the penalty of his simplicity, and
all was quiet once more. The hyena
was preparing to leave, when he heard
an ominous sound that sent him
crouching against the wall 1t was the
pattering of the leopard's feet at the
door. "Quick! Under this calabash!"
cries his host, and the hyena curls up
in the fatal cache, only to meet a like
fate from his more courageous enemy.
"My debt is repaid" said the leopard,
and ran against the lion coming in. A
terrible fight ensued, for the leopard
and the lion are equal in strength, so
the natives say. When blood and dust
make havoc in the house and both an
1mals are eXhausting their strength
the spider is busy at the fire. Selling
pot Of boiling grease, he pours it
over the clawing mass. Leopard and
lion roll apart in their death agony,
and the spider has only to straighten
and clean up before resuming once
more the humdrum life Of fly catching.
No wonder he is known as "Mai-
wayo," the crafty one.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
AUTOMATIC FOOTBALL.
Actions Of One Player After a Kick In
the Head

HSs'o"s OF One FIayer After Kick In
the Head.
Speaking Of queer things in foot
ball." said an old player, II recall a
game that was played at Annapolis
some years ago between Columbia and
the Naval academy teams.
Zone Of the men on the Columbia
team, the quarterback and very
prominent player of the year, started
the game in good condition, but after
part of the first half he was kicked In
the head in one scrimmage. 1t took
some time to get him around, but he
suddenly arose and gave signal. The
two teams lined up and play went
right on.
''Thfs man went through the game,
and no one noticed that anything was
wrong with him. When the game was
over and the Columbia team was on
the way back to New York in the train
this player, who had appeared to be in
brown study, suddenly turned to the
man next to him and asked, who won
the game-what was the scorer and
number of other questions that made
it seem as if. he hadn't been anywhere
near the field Of play.
"The players were greatly surprised
and thought perhaps the kick in the
head had hurt the man so that his
mind was affected. Later they learned
that he was unable to tell what hap
pened from the moment he got the
kick in the head until the time he re-
covered consciousness, so to speak, on
the train.
Ellis playing Of quarterback and his
giving Of signals had been entirely au-
tomato, or, rather, subconscious That
case was referred to frequently in the
psychology courses at Columbia, you
may we'll imagine. New York Sun.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
Studying the Crowd.

"Therc doesn't seem to be any diff
ference between a crowded train in
the morning and crowded train at
night does there?" queried subway
traveller Of his companion. "But
could distinguish one from the other
even if I had no idea of the hours"
"Ask the guard?"
mo. All you need to do is to meas
ure the buzz Of conversation. In the
morning, when the crowd is fresh and
on the way to business. the converse
ton is at least ten times in volume
what it is at night, when the crowd is
tired and on the way home. Often
times Mt night I've been in crowded
car for ten minutes without hearing a
sound save the rattlA Of newspapers
and an occasional cough. That same
crowd in the morning would be full
Of dialogue, punctuated here and there
with laughter.
"It's just wee study in human ma
ture, that's all."-New York Globe.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
A HUMAN GIBRALTAR.
The Story That Is Told of the English
Colonel Burnaby,

Colonel Burnaby.
In the biography Of Colonel Fred
Burnaby there is characteristic
story, told by his friend Lord Binning,
of that soldier Of herculean frame and
reckless courage:
We were engaged in football
match on the green inside Windsor
cavalry barracks, and the verandas
were crowded with onlookers as the
coat and tall hat, with cigar in his
mouth, came out of the officers quar-
tiers and proceeded slowly across a
corner of the ground, apparently OBJ
livious of the fact that match was in
progress at the time. At this moment
our fullback, gigantic Yorkshireman
named Bates, who must have weighed
nearer fifteen than fourteen stone,
charging impetuously for the ball,
dashed full into Burnaby. The impact
was terrific, but while the Yorkshire
man, hurled backward by the shock as
though he had collided with a noun
tain, lay gasping on the ground. neither
Burnaby's hat nor the angle of his
cigar was in the smallest degree dis
turbed. In fact he scarcely seemed
to realize that collision had taken
place. When he did so he removed his
cigar from his mouth and. with his
pleasant smile. said. "Dear me, I do
hope am not interfering with the
game" The shout of delight which
went up from the verandas was a
thing to remember
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
A Horrible Hold-Up.

"About ten years ago my brother was
held up in his work, health and hap
piness by what was believed to be hope
less Consumption" writes w: r. Lips
comb, of Washington, N. G. HE took
all kinds Of remedies and treatment
from several doctors, but found no help
till he used DR.. Kings New Discovery
and was wholly cured by six bottles.
He is we'll man today" It's quick to
relieve and the surest cure for weak or
sore lungs, Hemorrhages, Coughs and
Colds. Bronchitis, La Grippe, Asthma
and all Bronchial affections. SOC and
sl.O0. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by
all dealers.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
THE PLOT OF A PLAY.
How sardou Came to Write lies
Pattes de Mouche,n

FatteS 6e Mcuche."
Sardou sat working ut scenic adap-
tation Of Voltaire's "Candide," and 1t
hung fire not because there was no
prospect of dinner, but because his
pipe was empty and he had not a
penny wherewith to buy tobacco. Sud-
denly on opening drawer of his table
he uttered cry Of joy at the sight of
five or six tickets of a wine company
which gave its customers a voucher
for 20 centimes for every bottle pur-
chased. A quarter of an hour after
ward he was the happy possessor Of
silver franc piece and some sous be-
sides.
Picking up scrap Of paper off the
sanded floor of the tobacco shop, he
was about to light his weed when the
words "NIarie Laurent caught his
eye. The "unconsidered trifle" turned
out to be the fragment Of letter from
the well known actress to her son
Charles. Sardou put his find in his
pocket, but on his way home his
plot weaving faculties. stimulated by
the fumes Of the tobacco. at once re-
asserted themselves.
"This is the innocent letter Of q
mother to her boy" he said to himself.
"Supposing, however, it had been the
letter Of woman to her lover and,
falling by similar accident into the
hands Of the woman's husband, wish
ing to light his cigar
The suggestion led to his play LES
icle
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
Bismarck and Music,

Bismarck's utterances regarding mu-
sic are compiled in book by Keudell,
"Furst und Furstin Bismarck. Erin-
nerungen aus den Jahren, 1848-1S72 %
Kendeu once saw the man of blood
and iron shed tears during a perform.
ance Of Beethoven's Sonata Appasso-
nata. His favorite composers wszs
Beethoven and Schubert. The only
thing he Gid not like in their worA
was the variations. These, he said,
do not speak to the heart" Concern
ing the sonata just referred to he re-
marked: ''This is like the singing and
sobbing Of whole human life. If
heard this music often should al.
ways be brave"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
REAL LITERARY LABo:..

Example Of Charles Dudley Warner'
Infinite Psinstakins.
The extra ordinary pains and patience
with which Charles Dudley Warner
did his literary work are shown in an
account given by writer in the New
Amstel magazine of the strenuous way
in which Mr.. Warner produced an
obituary notice some years ago.
Professor Edward L. Youmans was
close personal friend of Mr.. Warner.
and on that account when Mrs. You
mans died the editor of a daily paper
asked Mr.. Warner to write a sort of
personal appreciation of her. This he
consented to do.
He was left alone from 10 a. m. until
half past -, when he went to lunch
Returning at 2 o'clock, he worked
without interruption until O'clock
when he turned over to the editor
what he had written.
Yet the work was not complete. Mr.
Warner read the first proof and in sue
cession thrGc revised sheets.
Each lille lie udue CQdQSe AFTER
change in phraseology, seeking out the
one right word, while even in the
nicely of paragraphing he seemed to
make clearer what he desired to ex-
press. Nor did the close revision end
with the marking of the last proof.
After the paper had gone to press
and the first sheets had been brought
up to the composing room for an o. X.
Mr.. Warner looked wistfully at the
editor and observed:
"Would you object to lifting the
form? see a sentence in the last
paragraph that might be somewhat
changed. She was too good, you know,
to have a slovenly tribute paid to her"
Even the printers refused to get an
cry over the delay. and forthwith the
form was sent up and changes went on
for an hour. At last, though pub!ica-
ton was delayed fully two hours. the
editor, but not Mr.. Warner. had tie
supreme satisfaction Of knowing that
the work was as nearly perfect as l,,i-
man art could make it. and the edition
was sent out
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
Agency for the Celebrated
Corrugated Steel Gull

VnrfC which when Capabiity and Durability
~ ~ consideration cheaper or thing
The have designed and sell THE BEST GRANARY.
is of the construction the Cuver
with 1000 bushels RAIN RAT
FIRE and almost BURGLAR PROOF anywhere
they cost but little than wooden building the the
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29

Pine, Oak, Poplar, Dimension, Surfaced Planned and
Matched Lumber in all varieties we-stock yard
Shingles, Lath, Flooring,
Siding, and in. Plank,
Bridge Lumber and Heavy Dr.
mension for Bnrns Specially
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
Ma Meant Well Anyway.

negroes call to pickaninny, "Come
back, Exy, Exy"
Excuse me-" said the young woman,
"but isn't that queer name for q
baby, aunty?"
"Dat amt her full name," explained
the old woman, with pride; "dat's jess
de pet name I call fer short. Dat
chile got mighty grand name. Hel
ma picked It out in a medicine book
Yessum, de chile's full name IL Ecze.
ma" -Ladies' Home Journal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
Tho Way He Felt About Il.

While several young ladies were dis
cussing novel plans for church ba-
zaar new member Of the committee
proposed to have the pastors photo
graph reproduced on pillow tops and
Chance them of. All the girls voiced
their approval at once, but when the
plan was suggested to the parson he
objected.
II really cannot consent" said he
i've been sat on enough as It Isl
Ladies' Home Journal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29

DEFORE you build that Granary or Barn, l
would like to show you my materials and quote
you prices. umbe is cheaper now than it will
be another year. The TRUST is tightening its
grip. lam NOT IN THE TRUST.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
The Basis.

Hell wonder II We can get along an
right She Certainly. We can buy the
auto with the money father left M,
and you win surely make enough 70
pay tor running II, don't you tAink1L
Puck.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29

Ths naoes one spssfs Il baR a.
- y. ~. - - aaleia1e talnl =
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29
9eeeneihand,

Cant I g out into the back yard
and play IN the garden, ,mamma7
ACeTtainly not, child. You must stay
4 81 md study your nature book" -
llfA
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-29

q 1eaqz11 wiebost mowtsdes = 49,
- - lk-f6Isy. = 4 q 81 I. 81
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-04-08
COSGROVE LAID
TO LONG REST
Crowds Attending Funeral Tax AC.
CommodatlOns of Olympia.
Exercises We're Conducted in House
Chamber of Capitol According to
Ritual of the Methodist Episcopal
Church-Long Procession Follows
Body 10 Cemetery.

Olympia, April Yesterday after.
noon in driving rain storm, all that
was mortal of the late s. G. Cosgrove,
governor Of Washington, was laid to
rest at Masonic cemetery, near this
city, following funeral exercises which
were attended by hundreds of promi-
nent citizens representative of all parts
of the Northwest.
From early morning, when the re-
mains were taken to the capitol to lie
in state, until the last volley over the
grave at the cemetery, the throngs of
sorrowing friends overtaxed the accom-
modations that had been provided. Not
one-quarter of those who assembled
could gain entrance to the house cham
Der, where the services took place, and
it required nearly all the express wa
gons in the city to transport the floral
tributes to the cemetery.
The funeral sermon, an eloquent ad-
dress, was delivered by Rev. G. E.
Todd, of the First M. E. church, of
Olympia.
Brief services were held at the
grave, with military honors, taps and
the firing of salute.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-04-08
Thursday, April l.

Washington, April General de.
bate on the tariff was continued in the
house of representatives today and to-
night. The Payne bill came in for its
usual condemnation as pretext anc
sham. Gaines, of West Virginia, and
Mccall, of Massachusetts, both mem
bers of the ways and means committee,
defended the measure, although the
Massachusetts member wanted some
thing specific in it regarding the course
to be pursued toward the Philippines.
The anticipated action regarding the
fixing of time for closing the debate
was not taken, in view of the complex
situation in which the Republican lead
ers found themselves.
The method of preparation, consider
alton and probable passage of the bill
was the basis of a speech by De Ar
mond, of Missouri. Good judgment,
fairness and patriotism should be made
the basis of the formation of tariff
law, he said, not mere partisanship.
The Payne bill, he declared, should
have been considerd by the ways and
means committee and not by the Re-
publican members alone. The whole
question now in the minds of those
who have presumed to take charge of
affairs in the house, he asserted, was
not how to improve the bill, but how
to get the bill through with the least
change by the dangerous common
ers," the members of the house.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-04-08
ONE GREAT TRUST.
Hartman Would Put Every Railroad
Under One Head.

Hartman Would Put Every Railroad
Under One Head.
Denver, March 31.-If E. H. Harri-
man could have his way, he would
bring all the railroads in America into
one giant combination, under one head,
and begin Immediately the expenditure
of $3.50, 900, 900 or $500, 900, 900 in i'm
proving the weaker roads, both physi-
cally and financially. In this way he
says he believes he could do the great
est good to the government, the people
of the United States generally. to the
shippers individually and finally to the
owners of railroad stock.
Mr.. Hartman spent two hours in
Denver today as the guest of the cham
Der of commerce, then departed on his
eastward journey.
IF we could, we would throw our
cloak over the weaker lines throughout
the country and begin Immediately the
expenditure of between $3.50, 600, 900
and $500, 900, 900 to improve them,"
said Mr.. Hartman in an informal talk
at the chamber of commerce. "It
ought to be done Immediately and I
think I can qualify as an expert on
these matters. This should be done
openly and under some sort of govern.
ment supervision. But we would all be
put in prison if we tried it"