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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
PETER PAN IN TREE

the night by pirates" in the form of
tramps, he can just ring up his father
and give the alarm.
AS Peter Pan was talking he rose
to his feet and waved excitedly out OF
the south window. Nothing could be
seen except a small boy in the dis
lance, who waved in reply.
HE is one of the lost boys Of my
band" Peter explained. No doubt
he is tracking the irates or going to
the lagoon"
The lost boys" It must be ex-
planned, are, according to j. M. Barrie,
who discovered them, babies who fell
out of their mothers perambulators
when they were a week old and es-
capped to the Never-Never Land.
Master Godfrey has several lost
boys" in his band, and many fierce
fight have they had, led by Peter, with
the pirates on the steps of the little
house.
And, occasionally kind hearted red
skins. who are their friends Tin realty
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
SYNOPSIS.

The story opens with a scene at box
party. Miss Henrietta Winstantley, sis
ter of Bishop Winstanley overheard
Banker Ankony propose to Barbara Hem
ingray, whose brother Dan was in his
employ. Dan was one of the towns pop
ular young men. He showed some nerv-
BUSINESS when Attorney Tom Twining told
him Barbara refused Ankony. Ankony
the following day, summoning Twining,
accused Dan of looting the bank. Twin
Ing refused to prosecute. Barbara per-
suaded Ankony to postpone starting
prosecution. Twining learned of the en-
gagement of Ankony and Barbara. He
Congratulated both. He visited Miss
Hemingway and found her almost In
tears He told her he had loved her, but
feared prematurely announcing his af-
lection. BY actions alone she told him
she reciprocated. Mrs. Arson Dimes,
wealthy widow, proposed a marriage by
proxy with Bishop Winstanley. The lat
ter consulted with Twining. The bishop
had been paying attentions to Miss
Streeter. Dan consulted Twining, say
Ing his sister was determined to marry
Ankony, declaring she actually loved the
banker, though he could not help believ-
ing she was making a sacrifice to save
him from jail. Miss Winstanley, find
ing a pressed rose in the bishops book.
scented love affair Mrs. Dimes sailed
for America. Miss Winstanley informed
Cwining that Mrs. Dimes was intent upon
stopping the marriage of Barbara and
Ankony.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
Possibly Dad Had Recalled Few In.
cidents OF His Own Col
Ieae Days.

A student at the University of Penn.
sylvania had been going fast pace
with the boys of his class and fra
ternity and had had frequent inter
views with father concerning debts
and other financial troubles occa-
stoned by the drain his pleasures had
made on lis source of supply.
Several times the governor" had
been compelled to get various articles
of value back from the boys uncle.
and the relation of provider and spend
er was strained.
One day the student wired father
that his watch had fallen into deep
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
Yield for 1909 Less Than Any Since
1893, Declares Expert of Depart
ment Of Agriculture.

Washington. The cotton crop Of
the year 1909 is going to be the small
est since 1898. according to state
ment of w. d. Hunter of Dallas, Tex,
expert OF the department Of agri-
culture.
1T is due, said he. In addressing
the house committee ON agriculture
recently, ito the weevil in Louisiana
and in portions of Arkansas and Mis-.
sissippi, and to the extreme dry
weather in Texas"
The boil weevil, he declared. un,
doubtedly would cause a remarkable
redistribution of the production Of
cotton. first in large areas. What
were large centers of production for
merly, he said. were going to show &
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11

they are Geoffrey's uncies and aunts),
visit the band, bringing cake and pro-
visions with them.
Peter and his boys know every inch
OF the country round about. Opposite
the house il a strawberry plantation.
and In the summer-but 1t is unwise
to go into all their adventures.
At this time of the year, when the
branches are bare, visitors can see
Peters house in the tree quite clearly.
But in the summer 1t disappears, for
the green leaves entirely cover 1t. and
the birds build their nests all around
it,
Every morning, when Peter is sleep
ing in the house during the summer
months, he is awakened by the sing
ing Of the birds, and sometimes they
fly in at the window and eat his break
fast
Every year at springtime Peter
PANS cousin Wendy, whose real name
is Miss Ethel Blessley, aged ten, comes
to the little house and does his spring
cleaning for him.
She scrubs the floor, cleans the win
dows, puts up clean curtains, darns
his socks, and makes him generally
comfortable for the year.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
Cotton Crop the Smallest

reduction, and, more than that, there
would be a redistribution OF the small
est plantations.
In the large INSTRUMENTATION
areas" Mr.. Hunter continued. the
production is going to fall of. Ac-
cording to all we know about fight
Ing the boil weevil, cotton cannot be
planted properly in such situations
as these back lands with poor drain.
age. But the soil and other conditions
in certain parts of almost every plan
tation In the south will permit the
planter to continue to raise cotton
profitably despite the boil weevil Re
cent experiments with new kind OF
poison-powdered arsenate of lead
seem to indicate that even where the
weevil is most numerous certain de.
gree of control may be obtained"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
After Killing One Animal Hunter Re
turns to Find Cub Preempted
Store CT Sweets.

Cross Fork. Pa.-When Edward Gil
lespie came upon a big bear that was
so busy robbing wild bees store
house of honey that it was an easy
thing to pop him over, he thought ne
had about the biggest streak OF luck
of any hunter along Kettle creek.
This luck seemed to hold good when
he had examined the long hole In the
bee tree from which the prize bear
had been feeding, for the store had
all the evidence of abundance.
Gillespie had all he could do to tote
his big bear out to an old road. from
which point he fetched him with a
wagon. He calculated that the bear
meat and hide would net him at least
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11

NHICAGO.-Two plans to circum-
vent A. Montgomery Ward, the
watch dog of the lake 'front.'"
and obtain a downtown site for
the Field museum have just been
brought forward. One is the pro-
ceeding brought by the South park
commissioners to condemn Wards
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
Father Was "Wise" to Game

water in the Schuylkill river and he
wanted "at once" $25 to hire a diver
to recover it.. The answer came as
follows:
Nothing on the $25. Cheaper to
soak the watch where it is"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
RpQpOeXD IzE roe mr. EzEzD NQJe1ED7E { q

easement and permit the erection Of
the museum on the site originally
planned in Grant park. The other,
and more spectacular scheme, was
sprung in the legislature at Spring
field when Representative Shanahan
and Senator Billings introduced bills
ceding 1000 feet by $50 feet of sub
merged land, lying 200 feet east of
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
The Triumphant FeminIne.

Woman's superiority over man il
proved by the fact that she can be a
heroine even to the maid who pins on
her switches and adjusts her rat.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
Every One.

Every woman believes that IL abe
should die right after her husband
has scolded her the coroner would
find her heart covered with black and
blue spots.-Atchison Globe.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11

Grant park, to constitute an island site
for the big institution. The island
would lie directly east Of the foot OF
Congress street and would be con.
nected with the park by two orna-
mental bridges. This plan the mu-
scum supporters hold in reserve in
case Ward wins in the Condemnation
proceedings.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11
Fruit Diet NeuU London Fad

VIII, for our Creator made man a
fruit.eating creature. The adoption of
this reform will ameliorate the condi-
ton of both individuals and nations,
will lessen poverty, crime and physi-
cal deterioration and will tend to
bring the people back to the land and
to a more natural and hygienic life"
Mr.. Sidney H. Beard is the founder
and president of the new society, and
handbooks and recipes for the prepar-
alton of fruit in various dishes are
dealt out.
When a man meets his wife down
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11

The beauty of some women ID
enough to give man painters collie.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-02-11

When a man meets his wife down
town the event is equivalent to meet
ing hold-up man on his way home
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-03
PILES CURED AT HOME BY
new ABSORB ION METHOD

If you suffer from bleeding, itching,
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your address, and I will tell you how
absorption treatment; and will also
send some of this home treatment free
for trial, with references from your
own locality if requested. Immediate
relief and permanent cure assured.
Send no money, but tell others of this
offer. Write today to Mrs. M Sum
mers. Box $50. South Bend, Ind
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-03

in obedience to their wise foresight,
and sagaciouS management the land
lately desolated by the ruthless hand
of war would soon 'bud and blossom
as the rose" All honor to our men
of enterprise, and confusion to pes
simists and croakers
1t was with a leaden heart that
Jimmy Jackson looked upon the
booming improvements, and read the
praises Of those who had despoiIed
him in the names of business, prog
ress and patriotism.
A few days before the day of the
great sale arrived, some one brought
him map of the projected city. 1t
was a triumph of the photographic
art, and showed all the details of the
locality. There were the broad river,
and the future steamboat wharf, and
the high knoll where the stand-pipe
of the waterworks was to be planted.
There were the ravines, and the
creeks, and even the spring that had
supplied water to the Jacksons for
more than fifty years. 1t was de-
lineated SO clearly that to old Jim
my's vision the water seemed to be
trickling across the paper. He had
never realized until now, when it was
too late, too late! how beautiful and
how precious those objects and locali-
ties were.
A considerable number of lots
seemed to have been already disposed
of at private sale, for the owners
names were printed upon them. 1t
was terrible shock to the old man
when he found the name of Sam
lots in the wooded plateau. He now
saw clearly through the whole
scheme, and wrung his hands in fu-
tile rage and modification. He sent
Snapmup word to come and see him,
but the successful manipulation kept
away
The day of the great sale brought
hundreds of people and a band of
music In carriages, on horseback,
and on foot the spectators traversed
the fields and woodlands inspecting
the lots.
Old Jimmy Jackson watched the
people from his porch, and heard the
hum of their voices, and brooded
over the wrong that he had suffered.
And at length when the gray-haired
auctloneer assembled his wagon, and
began to talk Wittily and elOQuently
about the magnificent business blocks
that in year or so would adorn the
spot where the assembled people
were standing, and to eulogize the
men who had been so wise as to
foresee that Providence had from
the beginning of the world reserved
those lovely bluffs and smiling val
leys as the site of a splendid CITY,
the old man left the house and walk
ed as one fascinated to the scene.
AS he drew near, the speaker was
saying that amongst those whom his
tory would remember as instrument
tai in securing the site for the God
appointed land company, was Sam
Snapmup. And while this favored
individual was smilingly enjoying
the speech, old Jimmy suddenly con-
fronted him.
Sam Snapmup, you've ruined me.
You said you wanted the land for
yourself. What d you mean by
treatin' me this way?"
His voice trembled and he was al
Continued on Page 19)
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Snapmup in the oily tone that never
failed of magnetic effect, 81 would
like to help you out of your troubles
if | could. I'd like the best in the
world to own your track as an outlet
to the big road, but besides that I'd
like to do you favor. Your Ian
ought rely to be wuth more'n what
| named for it. Mebbe I'll see you
again, an make you better Offer
And the two men went each about
his errand
After nightfall of the same day
Snapmup was closeted with three
strangers at the village hotel.
"Well, what luck, Mr.. Snapmup?
Have you seen old Jackson?"
This was the question that greeted
the visitor as he entered the room
where three Well-dressed strangers
sat smoking together.
Eyes, I seen i'm this evenin'," he
answered, "an' I'll git i'm, but we
must offer mOre'n a thousand"
GLOW much do you think will fetch
him?'
II think fifteen hundred in cash
will do the job
"Well, you push the thing tomor-
row, and try and close it up. Delays
are dangerous. Take the deed in your
own name, as agreed, and come here
at once after you get it, and deed the
tract to us according to our under
standing'
Cali right" returned snapmup,
'Ill do it fust thing in the
mornin'.''
Then in a few minutes a paper
81
Snapmup was to purchase Jackson's
land in his own name, but was to
hold it in trust for the three strange
gentlemen, and was to convey it to
them at once. And for this service,
he was, upon delivery of the deed, to
receive one hundred dollars in cash,
and afterward a deed back of two
acres of the Jackson land to be Sc
lected by himself.
Snapmup next morning called at
old Jimmy's house, and after a
plausible talk in which he represent
ed how the old man with a thousand
dollars surplus, after paying off his
debt, could purchase a smaller place
in the neighborhood at low figures,
succeeded in persuading old Jackson
to sell, and the deed was promptly
executed, and the money paid down.
The old man insisted, however, upon
the right to occupy the house to the
end of the year, and gather and en-
joy the crops.
Throughout the transaction the
victim never for moment suspected
his neighbor of having any other mo-
tive for purchasing the place than the
desire to enlarge his own farm, and
secure a better outlet to the public
road. Being without guile himself
he was incapable of anticipating and
guarding against crooked methods.
Up to the time of this land transac-
ton his neighborhood had known
nothing of land spectators. He was
not man of the world, nor news
paper reader, and did not dream that
a school of competitive system sharks
had entered the still waters where
his uneventful life was being passed.
A month afterward old Jimmy
Jackson learned casually that one or
two other persons near by had sold
out, and gradually the strange fact
became known that almost every foot
of the river front, covering more than
three square miles, had mysteriously
changed owners about the same time
that he had parted with his tract.
And in every case it was some neigh
Dor who had bought out one or more
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-03

courthouse town to learn if the deed
records would throw any light upon
the matter, and to his horror he
found it all too true. There of record
was his deed to Snapmup, and Snap
mup's deed to the land-sharks, and
their deed to the BoOmburgh Land
and improvement Company.
1t was a fact, the recorder told the
anxious inquirer, that the surveyors
would be at his place very soon, sur
veylng and marking the town lots.
Jackson held his tongue, but his
heart stood still, and his face blanch-
ed. He saw that he had been over
reached by his next door neighbor, in
the most villainous manner He felt
those excruciating pangs which follow
in the wake of lost opportunity He
thought of his worn-out and faithful
wife, and his children, brought up in
ignorance for want of money, of their
struggles with poverty, and of his
grandchildren who might have been
spared the same awful fate, and he
Writhed under that unspeakable an
guish which only the loss of prop
erty can bring to loving husband
and father. Wealth, and all the good
things it would have brought to his
dear ones, had been filched from him
and had gone into the hands of cold
blooded spectators.
His lawyer told him that the
courts could afford him no remedy
that our own Christian Government
system offered premiums to the cum
ming; that the handspring of civilized
progress rested in the deadly con-
tests of the wolves for the possession
Of the lambs.
But it's as bad as stealin'," Jack
son protested. "Snapmup deceived
me. He took advantage of me- Amt
Their no protection fer an honest
MANI"
But the man of law firmly said no
by a shake Of the head.
SO old Jimmy mounted his old
plough nag and logged homeward,
borne down by the burden Of hope
less disappointment. With dry lips,
and husky voice, he told his family
what he had discovered, and gloom
settled upon all those humble house
holds.
From that day the old mans appe-
tite failed him, and he grew weaker
and weaker from day to day in body
and mind. His garden and crops
were neglected, and he wandered
feebly about as if always in search
of something he had lost
On the tract which he had sold
there was beautiful wooded plateau
just in front of his house, and here it
was determined by the land company
that the center of the town should be
located. Old Jimmy looked out of
his house at an early hour one morn
ing, and found the surveyors at work
laying off the streets. Then came a
large force Of hands with axes, and
picks, and scrapers, and began cut
ting down the trees, and grading.
And this work continued from week
to week. And the land company es-
tablished a newspaper, to be publish
ed temporarily in the adjoining vii
lage.
1t was called the Boomburgh Ga
zette, and was afame with praises of
the new city town-site, and announc-
ed an auction sale of lots at an early
day, and asserted that the place
would have ten thousand inh abitants
within twelve months, and that a
thousand mechanics and laborers
were wanted at once to grade streets
and build houses, and that lot pur-
chasers should have special advan-
tages if they would build at once, and
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-03

ME JACKSON WAS living, WIFI SUCn pa
thence and content as a poor man can
command, upon his one hundred-acre
farm, absorbed in the spring progress
of his=eorn, and cotton, and vegeta-
bles.~ The place was only available
for farming, owing to it's interior To-
cation, though a partially navigable
river bordered one side of the tract.
Land being outlawed in the financial
system of the Government, the cash
value of this farm was not more than
twelve hundred dollars. But it's own
er had no wish to part from it. 1t
had Gonfa to him from his father, and
for R95rtya years he had owned the
homely old house, and titled the mel
low fields. His three or four children
he had bred to farm labor, being too
poor to educate and lift them up to
easier and more elegant paths in life.
They married, and built humble
homes on the little home place, and
old Jimmy, and his wife, and sons,
and daughters, and grandchildren,
toiled, and produced, and consumed
in common.
The only thing that ever moved
him to think for a moment of sell
ing, was mortgage-debt he had been
fighting for years. 1t had been pain
fully reduced to five hundred dollars,
and there, as he said in homely
phrase, cit stuck and wouldn't go no
furder down." 1t had come by his
falling into the hands Of the supply
merchant, whose enormous profits,
and the occasional crop failures, had
consumed, from year to year, more
than the fruits of his overstrained
muscles.
One of old Jimmy's nearest and
Oldest neighbOrs was
Samuel Snapmup.
He was one of those remarkable
men who attract Doodle as if by mag
netism. Or like % track-bug, that car
ries away some particle of everything
it touches. There was never neigh
borhood which did not possess one or
more of these creatures, that, like
potato bugs, suck and fatten on the
juices of their neighbors.
One day, in an apparently acct
dental way, Snapmup overlook the
old man as they were both going to
the postoffice, and "bantered" him
for trade.
"What 'en l got that you want,
Sam" said old Jimmy.
II wantito buy your place"
ooh, you're jest jokin' You don't
need my land. You've got more'n
you kin tend to now"
eyes, but need your'n fer an out
let to the big road, an to straighten
out my track. I'm not jokin' If
you want to sell, and will take fair
price, I'm your man"
''What'll you gil me?" asked the
old man, whose curiosity was becom-
ing aroused by the first intimation of
Snapmup's wish to buy the place.
"I'Il give you one thousand dol
lars in cash. It'll git you out O. debt
at once"
eyes, an leave me noth'n tall to
go on" answered Jackson. "No, I'm
gitt'n too old to shift about. What
kin I do with five hundred dollars?
An what'll the chil'un do?"
He looked with his honest eyes at
his neighbor who was keenly regard
ing him with the ''foxy" expression
which is habitual with most "sharp
men" The old man rubbed his
stubby beard with rasping sound,
and went on:
mo, no. Eff CANT git more'n
that I'll stick to the OIL place, and
try an work out. I won't live many
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-03

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EN'LEMEN, you've killed
me! You've killed mel"
Such were the startling
words of the old man as
he fell TO the ground in
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