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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-05-13
A Brilliant Musical Event.
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appreciative audience. And just
here permit us to say TO the student
body of the Normal, you can carry
into the larger work field no more
desirable nor useful accomplishment
than that of being able to read
clearly, impressively and with proper
emphasis.
And what Of the playing of Dr.
Schemmel and Miss Andrews? And
again we stand on the threshold
hesitating as to the next step. We
can not describe the glory OF sunrise
nor 3aint me purity of the lily To
be appreciated these things ust be
seen. and to be appreciated fully
these gifted pianists must be heard
While we listened this thought
came to US, twenty fingers with r
single touch, and four hands that
move as one. We have all heard OF
a stiffness that could be felt. and
those Of us who were privileged to
listen to the dying notes of the
Symphonic Pathetique" know now
Just what that means,
In brief. the concert was a crown
ing success, and it was good to have
been there.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-05-13
The Old Vets at Mobile.
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west the parade countermarched at
Cedar street beyond the Barton AGA
DENY. where two thousand schooi
children were congregated, and with
waving pennants and cheers, greet
cd the old boys. who returned theh
cheers with a will. 1t was estimat-
cd that fifteen thousand took part
in rhe procession. 1t required one
hour and fifteen minutes to pass
given point.
The march completed, the parade
was dismissed and the old fellows
hogan 70 look out for the first train
70 take them back to home and low
ed ones Many left that afternoon.
The great parade ended, the TWEEN
tieth annual reunion of the veterans
passed into history. Although the
wears have come and gone and have
made their mark upon the heroes
VIII fought under Lee and Jackson
Yeauregard and others, yet these
wonderful old fellows are full OF
life and vigor, and their parade is
still imposing in numbers and
s5ouhding in enthusiasm.
What strikes the observer most
forcibly is the upright carriage oil
those men. all of whom have passed
the meridian, and are going down
the further slope of life. They are
all fast passing away, soon there
will be none left for those reunions
but their names and fame will abide
ever in the hearts Of the people OF
this Southland they served so wei
so long and with such high purpose
Now, Mr.. Editor, am done. On
next annual Of the U. c. ", will be
held Little Rock. Ark. This wiz
be its twenty-first birth day, and m!
humble prayer is that l may be spar
ed to meet with them Trusting
have not taken up too much spac
with this poor effort, ] am
Yours truly
The Old Reb."
S. w Paulett
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-05-13

Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure
any case Of bladder trouble not pc
yond the reach Of medicine No
medicine can do more. For SAFE Dy
all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31

are expected to swell the total of the
nations foreign commerce to nearly
So. 400, 100000.
The breaking of commercial records
will not apply to exports. The imports
will reach the highest figure for any
year in the history of the United States
but the sum of the exports will proba-
bly, fall $4,000, 900 short of that of 1907.
Notwithstanding this decline and their
increase in the imports of the country
the balance will still be close to $780,
000,000 in favor of the exports side of
the account. The greater quantity of
material imported is due to the develop
ment of manufacturing industries which
import crude materials, or import ar
ticles partly manufactured in order to
complete the manufacture in this coun-
try. The slower development of the ex-
port trade is due mainly to the fact
that the United States is exporting a
smaller quantity of breadstuffs and 9TH
er food products each year and is more
nearly consuming its total output of
such articles.
The full years figures for exports are
expected to be 81, $40, 100000 and the i'm
ports $1,550, 000, 900, this is an increase
of 80 per cent in imports over the year
1900 and an increase in exports of %
per cent over that year. The importa-
ton of crude materials and materials
for further manufacture more than
doubled in that time. On the export
side the value of the outgoing foodstuff
for 1910 is but $340, 600, 900 compared with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
BLAMED HIS WIFE.
Wichita Young Man Killed Self
and Left Accusing Note.
Decided After a Quarrel to Take
CarbOlic Acid.
LAST SAW PICTURES.
Placed Them Where Dying Gaze
Could Fall Upon Them.
Other Items of General Interest
to Kansas Readers.
LAST SAW PICTURES.

Wichita Kan, Dec. 31-After writ
ing a note in which he charged his
wife with being his murderer and inti-
mating that she had proved false to
him, Jason Lee Monasmith, formerly
of Wichita. took carbolic acid at his
home in Kansas City and died soon
after. Monasmith's parents live on a
farm near the Burton car works and
they have ordered the body of their
son sent here for burial.
Monasmith had been having some
trouble with his wife, who had told
him that she could not live with him
any longer. Placing her pictures
where his dying gaze could fall upon
them, he lay down upon bed and
drank the poison. His wife found him
just as he was breathing his last
Following is the text of the letter
which Monasmith left beside the pic
lures of his wife before he drank the
acid:
ed you and still love you God alone
knows [ have waited for you all
morning watched and YOU have not
come What l suffered the last twelve
hours of my life is beyond human
imagination Blanche just try to real
lie what you have done. Paint the
true picture and then study it and you
will see yourself murderess. Can
your conscience let you live ana look
anyone in the face? Think OF what
most on my knees to you and you
sneered and would not answer me
even through a locked door
VIII Haunt You like Curse
eBlanche, 1 will be before you al
wavs. You will not be able to cast OH
the memory like you have cast me OIL
for l have a feeling that cannot pc
false that it will haunt you to your
dying day like q curse. You nave peeh
love, life and everything else to me.
Now you are my murderer Tne deatL
choose will be painful, but 1t Will
seem easv after what I have suffered
in the last twelve hours. L prayed
YES. I prayed right down on my
knees, prayed to God to give you To
me, but you did not come and now
will go on my happy journey without
seeing you. And while you are with
a man who cannot love like L 90
will lay me down on my lonesome pea
and while you are Will
surely die and let you be haPpy II
YOU are so sure that you can be.
love you still with my last breath.
Goodbye. (Signed) LEE.
Loved Him No Longer.
When asked concerning the quarrel
with her husband. Mrs. - Monasmlth
said they had had some trouble tues
dav afternoon and she left to work at
a roaming house where she was en-
pIoyed and did not return night before
last. and she thought it was this that
made him Respondent.
what did you quarrel about Z? she
was asked.
eft was a trifling thing. I told him
I didn't love him any more and didn't
want to live with him."
''Why didn't you want to live with
him 90
HE was ILL., He had catarrh very
badly and it was unpleasant to be
around"
'Tn his letter he refers to some 9TH
err MANI"
YES; but there is no other man. He
was Jealous and imagined there was
because [ said I didn't love him any
more" she replied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
RELATIVES MEET STRANGELY.
Half Sisters Live in Same Town and
Neither Are Aware of 1T.

Pratt, Kan, Dec. 31--One of the
reculiar things that happen in life
occurred in Pratt when Mrs. Albert
Carlson and Mrs. JASPER Brewer dis
covered that they were half sisters.
Mrs Carlson is the wife of Fireman
Carlson on the Rock Island and has
been living in Pratt for the last year
or more. while Mrs. Brewer has been
here all the time and hadn't seen her
sister for twenty years.
Mr.. Brewer happened to be in the
express Office when a man by the name
0f carlson called for q package and
he asked a few questions which re-
yealed the fact that they had married
sisters. OF course the reunion was a
pleasant event and the girls have
enjoyed the renewal of their g1rlhood
acquaintance Immensely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
TRUST ON THE RUN.
Bath Tub Combine Seeks a Compro-
mise With Uncle Sam.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Attorneys for
the individuals indicted as members of
the so-called ''bath tub trust for al
legged violation of the Sherman act,
came to the department of justice to-
day in the interest of their clients.
These, in the event of their conviction
and of the courts acceptance of the
declared policy of Attorney General
Wickersham- to t4stand for no more
fines" are threatened with jail SEN
fences.
The trio of lawyers was headed by
Rush Taggart of New York and includ-
ed William L. Carpenter and Leo But
eel of Detroit. After an hours con-
ference with w. S. Kenyon. Mr.. Wick
ersham's assistant and special trust
BUSTER to whom the attorney general
has delegated the whole matter with
power to act, the lawyers refused to
say a word as to the purpose or re-
suit of the conference
1t was said at the department that
they had been given no reason to be-
lieve that the attorney general would
consent to the acceptance of a plea of
guilty and the imposition of fines
rather than Imprisonment. They were
given to understand, it was said, that
Jail sentences will be insisted upon
and were informed that their clients
will be expected in the United States
circuit court at Detroit on January 4,
TO give $4,OOO bail each.
The offer of compromise said to
have been rendered was that the
Standard Sanitary Manufa curing COM
pany and other defendants in the civil
action should appear before the United
States circuit court at Baltimore and
consent to the permanent injunction
the government asks, if the govern
ment would be satisfied with fines and
no Jail sentences in the criminal ac-
ton. 1t was pointed out that an effec-
tual dissolution of the offensive COM
bination the government charges
would be effected if the injunction
were agreed to.
The department of justice. however
thinks the combination is as good as
dissolved This week it learned that
four concerns in the com bine sent out
notices to the trade that they were
no longer parties to the alleged price
fixing agreemen
The recent declaration of Attorney
General Wickersham following the
window glass trust case in Pittsburg
that he would insist on prison SEN
fences in all future convictions in anti
trust cases, was the answer to the
second proposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
SISTERS MEET AFTER Is YEARS.
Each Believed Other tc BE Dead But
Letter Brought Reunion.

Ottawa, Kan, Dec. 31-Mr. and
Mrs. F. D. Allen of North Ottawa
have returned from Algonac, Mich.
where they had been on a visit which
resulted in the meeting of sisters who
had not seen each other in twenty
five years. each believing the other
to be dead.
Thirty years ago, VIXEN Mrs. Allen
was about four years cid and her sis
ter Louise about one year old they
were separated Their name was
Douglas and they lived in East China.
Mich Both parents died within a
few months and the little girls were
taken by neighboring families The
present Mrs. Allen was taken to De-
catur, ILL.,, and reared there. The per-
sons who had her in charge told her
that all of her near relatives were
dead, and it was not until after her
marriage to Mr.. Allen, that she got a
clew to the fact that sister was still
alive. A few months ago the woman
who had adopted her, who is hope
lessly sick, wrote to her and informed
her of her birthplace Mrs. Allen at
once wrote to parties at East China,
and learned that the sister was not
only alive but that she lived in AL
gonac. She was married to a man by
the name of Howard. Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen went to Michigan a few weeks
ago and there was a meeting between
the long separated sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen removed to OF
tawa a few months ago Mr.. Allen is
a travelling man; his headquarters
are at St Louis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
G. r. Naf.
Head of Law Dept, U. S. Lane
Office. Los Angeles

Head of Law Dept, U. S. Land
Office. Los Angeles.
In the last five years I have writ
zen no shorthand. but as a matter of
interest I tried again to write it and
l can still take dictation faster and
read my notes better than the stem
ographer assigned to me by the gov
eminent The simplicity of your sys-
TEN enabled me to retain it to such
an extent that I could write it with
legibility.
Il spent five or six months studying
the Graham system and tried several
oIner systems. Then, seeing the sim
plicity of Dougherty's Shorthand. I
began course by mail L could write
Doughertys Shorthand better after
studying 1t three weeks than I could
months. L finished the course in about
six weeks. under Mr.. Dougherty's per-
sonal instruction, and feel confident
that my progress was due to the mer-
its of this SYSTEM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
Dougherty's Shorthand

It is like longhand in the
way its lines run-its forms
are distinctive, and not liable
be confused-their combina-
lions are facile, and make
A natural, continuous
stroke.
The great simplicity of
this system,
Plus its completeness of
outline, make it superior
to all other Shorthand
systems in the two quail
ties of
Speed in writing-and
Legibility in transcribing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
Miss Bertha Norwood,

With the Woman's Home Compan-
ion, Chicago.
81 have held my present position
with the largest publishing firm in the
West for four years. have never re-
GREETED taking up Dougherty's Short
hand and the more I learn of other
systems the more convinced am that
! chose wisely.
Before / made my final decision I
went to a number of prominent stem
ographers and business men in To-
peka- Among the stenographers was
Mr.. Nettles, one of the best court re-
porterS in the country. He used the
Pitman himself, but he advised me by
all means to take up Dougherty's
System in preference to any other.
His enthusiastic endorsement added
to the high praise of the work of their
stenographers by all business men
who had pupils of Mr.. Dougherty's in
their employ, decided me-" (Tlle above
was written to a Pitman teacher I'M
der whom Miss Norwood spent sew
eral months before changing to
Dougherty's Shorthand.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
ELACk PAID HEX A PENSION.
Now Poor Abilene Widow Is Being
Sued for Money.

Abilene, Kan. Dec. 21.-The re-
ceiver of the Abilene State bank has
sued Mrs. Mary Dalhmamer for $46S
pension money paid her by the de-
faulting cashier, John Flack She is
a poor widow, and Flack. who looked
after her affairs. lost her pension pa
pers. For four years he paid her pen
sion regularly with the banks money.
Effort is being made to reinstate her
pension.
The Abilene Baseball association has
just paid to the bank by special assess
ment 1900 which Flack took with
him. Depositors have been ordered to
file sworn staten ents of claims, but no
certificates under the guaranty law
have been issued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
FOREIGN TRADE BIG.
indications That New Record Will
Be Set in 1910.

Washington, Dec. 3f.-The foreign
commerce of the United States for 1910,
including both exports and imports
promises to set a new record in the his
tory of the nation. The eleven months
ending with November for which the
bureau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor has secured COM
plete figures have brought the. grand
total of exports and imports to the
enormous sum of IS, 063, 1884, $50.
Only the banner year OF 1901 compares
with this figure. The total commerce
for the first eleven months of that year
was S3o47, 234, e45. The trade figures for
December the closing month of this wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31

The former professor is going on the
lecture platform. discussing chiefly
1.-THE Greater English Poets and
Nineteenth Century English Poets
He will take the platform early in Jan
uary. Next March he will deliver at
the University of North Carolina Sc
ries of lectures on Poetry and Life. -
DR.. van Dyke is in great demand for
occasional sermons also.
On Christmas day DR.. van Dyke
gave novel entertainment by read
ing an original Christmas story in the
Brick Presbyterian church, New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31

is easiest to learn.
easiest to write rapidly,
and as easily readable as
longhand, no matter
how long after it is writ
.ten-without depending
upon memory or con-
text.
It is an accurate record Of
all sounds-vowels as
well as consonants.
Tt has no awkward, time
losing shifts of position
above and below the
line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
WARREN TO JAIL JANUARY Fl.
Crowd VIII Escort Editor of Appeal
to Reason.

Girard, Kan, Dec. 31.-Fred D. War
rem. editor of the Appeal to Reason,
goes to Jail at Fort Scott on January
q to serve six months sentence by the
federal court. Eugene v. Debs has ar
rived here to take his place. This
weeks paper says:
THE day Warren leaves Girard for
Fort Scott to surrender himself to the
sheriff the Appeal will close down and
its employees, acting as his personal
escort, will march with their comrade
beloved to the prison doors. Other
comrades from surrounding points,
many hundreds, perhaps thousands, will
be there to attest their personal loyalty
and pledge their fidelity and devotion to
the cause
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
POET VAN DYKES DUTY
''To Do Each Days Task as 1t comes
Up" He Declares.

DR.. Henry van Dyke, preacher and
poet, has become poet and preacher,
for he has resigned both his passionate
and his professorship in Princeton uni
versity, and announces in reply to a
query as to whether he has any def
mite plans for the future that he mere
ly expects Ito do each days duty as it
comes up" That seems to be the
poets way of looking at life rather
than the preachers. says one of DIR.
van Dykes old friends
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
w. l.. Harvey.

Formerly Assistant Reporter, Kan
sas Supreme Court. Now County At
toraey in Idaho.
In three months study I acquired,
owing to the simplicity of your sys-
tenn, a very creditable working knowl-
edge of stenography. The simplicity
and working efficiency of your Short
and hard to forget
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
Cold Pieces for New Years.

Boston, Dec. 31.-Thirty-five hun
dred men, employed as motormen,
conductors. elevated t~ainmen. start
ers, station masters and inspectors by
the Boston Elevated Railway company
will receive gold pieces as New Year
presents. The company will distribute
about $4,000, in which more than so
per cent OF the car service employees
will share. Approximately $500 men
will receive $25 each and 1000 men
$40 each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
Miss Lillian Yount,

ct had been a writer of a STANDARD
system for about six years;
then I entered Dougherty's night
for about to three lr months, and on leav
ing the school wrote one hundred
words per minute on new magazine
matter. I have corresponded with
other Dougherty writers In shorthand
and have had no difficulty in making
myself understood or reading what
was written to me-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
Let These
Stenographers and Employers
Tell You

How Dougherty's Shorthand compares
under the test of practical use-in all
kinds of stenographic work
How it helps to shorthand success
because it joins
To extreme simplicity making it
easy to learn and easy to write
Absolute accuracy making it easy
to read, and to read rapidly-no matter
how technical or unfamiliar the matter,
and no matter how long after it is
written.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
T.. MI. Denning.

CHIEF Clerk, Mexican Northern Ry.,
Escalon, Mexico.
II learned Dougherty's Shorthand
during spare moments outside of bust
ness. If it had not been for its sim
plicity I should not have learned short
hand, as the difficulties presented by
most systems are insurmountable to
one who tries to learn at odd times
have been promoted and have more
than doubled my salary. 1 found
Dougherty's Shorthand very easy to
take Spanish with. have taken and
easily Transcribed letters dictated in
Spanish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
Miss Aurelia Henrie,

VIII the American Radiator Com,
pany, Kansas City.
Il have been with this company two
years in charge of the advertising de-
partment. I have used my Shorthand
and typewriting to splendid ADVANTAGE
ever since left school. and could have
done no better than I did by taking
the one shortest and best Shorthand
system in existence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
xx-m,Id Re Nurderer returns.

Lawrence, KAN, Dec 31-William
wermsen, a young white man who
shot Maggie Mack, negro girl, was
found by officers at the girls home.
Anxiety over her condition is said to
caused him to return. Wermsen and
the girl had quarreled and Wermsen
shot her. the bullet entering her right
arm. Wermsen is now out on parole
for petty larceny. He insists that the
shooting was accidental.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
c.. FL. Evans.

after a careful examination of
other systems and short course in
one, I decided upon Dougherty's Short
hand. After less than two months
study 1 was able successfully to fill
a difficult position requiring both
speed and accuracy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31

present. Plates will be laid for $50
persons at sitting. Dean E. H Web
ster of the State Agricultural college
Will be the principal speaker. Ad-
dresses will also be made by Judge
Sam Kimble of Manhattan. Bale P.
Waggener and Forest Warren of Atch-
ison and Professor j. H. Clement,
superintendent of the Blue Rapids
schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
17isb Frv at Blue Rapids.

Marysville, Kan, Dec. 31.-The
RIue Rapids Fish Fry association will
hold its annual fish fry in the base
mert of the opera house this evening
and it is expected between five hun
bred and six hundred persons Will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
James r. Wick.
Formerly Court Reporter in Topeka

"a Pitman Writer.)
Dougherty's Shorthand meets all
the requirements and is undoubtedly
equal to any of the older and longer
established systems. The fact that
there are SO few word signs and spe-
cial contractions is an item of special
advantage. Under the old systems the
student must remember hundreds of
special outlines, contractions and word
raphers will admit the advisability of
putting the strain upon the hand
rather than upon the brain. I most
heartily recommend the Dougherty
System as equal to any emergency"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
George p. Beck.

Head of the Foreign Department
of the American Express Company.
New York City, used Dougherty's
Shorthand as a direct stepping-stone
to his present high position.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-31
Chas. S. Elliott,
Secretary Capitol Building and
Loan Association.

'.As an employer of stenographers
using Dougfuerty's Shorthand I have
been wonderfully impressed with the
facility with which it is mastered and
the satisfactory manner in which its
users are able to transcribe their
notes, / have found it equal to any
emergency. 1t has proven practical
in every operation and 1 most heartily
recommend II"