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The Washington herald., 1910-10-28
Chicken a Ia Gordonsvine.

From tie Kansas City star
G0rdonsville. Va. IS noted for several
things, chief among them being the tooth
some fried chicken offered to the passen-
gers on the trains by the colOred
"aundes" Of the vicinity. Having heard
of .Gohdonsville chicken we wherted
our appetites and were fully prepared.
The chicken was fully up TO the advance
notices, all right but just a. We were
polishing of a wishbone a fellow-pss-
senger remarked. Those daTkies go UP
and down the track for miles, picking
UP those bones and putting the batter
back on them"
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English Proper Names.

-ome English proper names have pecu-
Lar prouunciations. There is no set rule.
Cholmondelay is pronounced 0humley,
BeauchamP Is Beecham, and TarbOltOn
Is Wombat, Majoribanks IS Marchbanks
and Methuen Is pronounced Ipswich
You have 10 learn these things through
personal observation. There is no set
rule.
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which hts fellows were grooming, should
have tasted something OF the joys OF life
among the inevitable sorrows to which
all are exposed. The same spirit that re-
joices at his prosperity would have saved
him and the others the sad tragedy Of
their lives. II IT could
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Dying Out.

From the Boston Transcript
Figg-Poets are born. not made
Fogg-Yes. and there seems to be grave
danger of race suicide.
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The population OF the Philippines has
. per cent since we took them
over, That shows that. as marksmen. the
United states army Is not so dusty after
all
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He Knew Her.

Better give up that young man,
daughter. You aren't really interested
in him"
But. papa. I have decided TO marry
him"
Yes; but you haven't changed your
mind two or three times"
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28

The Wisconsin Republicans nominated
a candidate for attorney general after
his death. Republicans in other parts of
the country may realize after the cleo
ton that their candidates were dead ones.
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Poor Ellen Terry has had 20 pay dear
for marrying an American citizen. For
the first time in al! her many visits 10
this country she had 10 submit TO the
searching process which is the inalien-
able privilege Of all American women.
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The colonel rode over 100 miles OF
abandoned farms In New York the other
day. Pretty close canvass when he tries
10 get out that vote.
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It IS proposed now 10 leave chorus girls
out OF comic opera. II that be done. one
style Of entertainment viii soon be on its
last legs.
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Such is the popularity OF British law
that although DR.. Crippen is to file an
appeal, II viii hardly interfere with his
hanging, which is set for cur election
day.
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Growing Chicago,

No ocean bathing there as yet
OF which 10 proudly boast.
But maybe later on she'll get
A suburb on the coast.
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Some OF the people who have been
complaining that Col. Roosevelt dictated
the nomination OF Stimson are now
Boosting that Mayor Gaynor dictated the
nomination Of Dix.
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There are some happy boys in Palma
Mass The authorities there have for
hidden the people 10 battle because Of the
scarcity Of water
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We pity the man who, at this season
OF the year, can look a young, fattening
turkey straight in the eye without sober
thoughts about the hypocrisy OF human
kind.
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The amazing promptness with which
Woodrow Wilson said Yes" 20 all OF the
Records 'put-him-in-a-hole" questions
exceeds that of a most willing bride
groom
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28

The difference between a good trust and
a bad trust is that one OF them-We do not
know which-contributes to the New
York Republican campaign fund
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28

A Brooklyn centenarian says: When a
man reaches the age Of ninety. he may
do as lie pleases." The trouble is that
then he cannot
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28

A speech OF the Hon. ". 3. Mckinley,
not a part OF. the Congressional Record,
is being franked through the mails. head
ed Congressional Campaign-Spike A.
This is another argument in favor OF the
Postmaster Generals contention that the
ranking privilege should be abolished.
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II was psychological moment in the
history Of Prussia. and had Friedrich
Wilhelm been less wise or had he hest
tated. Prussia might have been trans
formed into A republic thar very night.
But the King, as a loyal Prussian his
torian puts 1t. "in that critical moment
was guided by the spirit OF his sainted
mother, the immortal Queen Louise"
(who was driven into an early grave bv
the sufferings and indiEnities heaped
upon her and her small children at the
hands Of Napoleon for he replied to his
impulsive brother:
Not SO. The people have a perfect
right 10 demand to see their King" and
forthwith stepped from his sick room
upon a balcony where he could be seen
plainly by all. Wilhelm, fearing an at
tack went with him and tried 20 pro
tect him with his bulky person.
Then something did happen that might
have given the prince a semblance of
right TO interfere. One of the mob.
more inhamed than the rest, shouted to
the King:
Hut alb vor der majestaet des voIkas So
Chats Off before the majesty of the
people.")
No such thing ever had been heard Of
in a monarchical state. and as the cry
Immediately was taken UP by many
others. things, 7 must confess. looked
rather gloomy for the King of Prussia.
But again his common sense saved the
day; for the King. stepping forward so
that all could see him, doffed his milf
tary cap. saying in a loud voice. plainly
/ heard in the stiffness that at once befeII
the multitude: "Meincs Volkes Wunsch
list SEMEN Koenig Befehl" C'The PEG
pies wish IS a command 10 its King.)
OF course, that settled IT, What Ger
man could withstand such words? An
aiiing man risen from a sick bed 10 do
their bidding. completely acknowledging
his subjects mastery, And when the
King added Now, my good people 20
home. I say that you shall have a con-
stitution,' wild cheers for his majesty
went up, and all was over.
That night Prinz Wilhelm had to leave
the city in disguise The only demand
made by the citizens was that he be pun
ished for his threat 20 use cannon against
the mob. And he left in hurry, too;
for he knew that his life was not worth
a farthing if he remained or fell into
the hands of the men he had so greatly
angered Nor did he return TO Berlin
until his brother. the King, was on his
deathbed. twelve years later
Part of all this may be history, but
there are episodes in this letter that
never before have been published. and
they are absolutely true. FLANEUR.
Copyright. 1910. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicatej
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When in Convention.

Are you boss at your house?"
well, 1 have a wife and daughter.
They generally run things according TO
the two-thirds rule"
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He was mean man who gave Bar
NUNS bearded" lady safety razor for
wedding present
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Asking No Fnvnrs .

What population did the census give
your town.
Didn't give her any. We had the pop
ulatlon before the census was started"
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When women have those pockets in
their skirts will il be au fait for husbands
10 get up IN the middle OF the night and
go through EN-?
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II seems extremely doubtful whether
the withers Of the G. o. p, elephant can
stand many more applications OF the big
stick.
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The New York Independent asks: After
Cannonism-what?" Well, for one thing.
the insurgents.
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Count de Beaufort. OF Chicago. rises 10
remark that those persons who assert
that ne does not exist are mistaken.
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Ballooning over the Atlantic seems 10
be harmless pastime compared with a
trip over the wilds OF Quebec.
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28

The trouble with so many Of these avia-
tors is that they do things on the Install
ment plan.
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Pity the poor farmer One died I'm Mis-
souri, last week who had an income or
100000 a year from his lands
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28

From the Detroit Free Press.
What became Of that peach Of a hired
girl you had?"
wife canned her"
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28

Everybody seems 20 be glad that Ethel
Leneve was acquitted, but We do hope
that she Will not go on the stage
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28
As We Always Have.

Some say there are germs in kisses"
Would you prohibit kissing2"
NO; l guess We can get along with
local option
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II football II is not easy TO tell q
touchdown from mash down.
The Washington herald., 1910-10-28

When it comes down to quick action IN
deciding guilt or innocence, our old
Judge Lynch has not very much on an
English lord chief justice.
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Age of discretion.

Prem Smart Set.
The age OF discretion is reached when
one has learned to be indiscreet-dls-
creetly.
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Americans Meet.

you don't talk dialect" exclaimed the
city man.
and YOU don't talk tough slang" re-
sponded the farmer, equally surprised.
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Socialism will come as a result OF
social evolution" said Herr Friedrich
Bremen, Of Frankfort, Germany, AZ the
Raleigh last night The age Of manu-
featuring succeeded the age OF hand
crafts. the age OF capitalistic production
that Of manufacturing by & natural pro-
cess. Socialism VIII come the same way.
Capitalstic production has an irressti-
bic tendency to concentrate all wealth
and the control or all industries IN a few
hands. This is taking place now TIE
workers-'the proletariat, as they are
known In socialist Merchandising d.
prived Of the products of their toll. be
come restless and class conscious The
kneN OF capitalist private property
sounds The expropr .ators are exprOpri-
ated, That the public. collectively shall
take over possession and management of
the instruments by which wealth is pro
duced and distributed. Marx considered
inevitable as fate Tie work of The ADJ
vocate OF socialism was merely 10 pre-
pare the way 50 the great revolution
might he frictieniess
socialism is growing tremendously I'm
Germany and all other countries. and 81
IS making Roadway in the United states
concluded Herr Bremen. socialism has
become quietly. almost impercepuby, a
force with which the moralists and states
men of America. as well as those OF
Europe. must seriously reckon.
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The Lacemakcrs of Bruses

From Harpers Magazine.
In the rear of the shop stood three
. aged women whose skin seemed to have
shrunken and dried yellow on their bones.
Their long black hood cloaks hung IN
full splendid folds, concealing the great
emaciated frames beneath. Years or
slavery had bent the shoulders and bowed
the head, and the bony. wrinkled hands
were twisted with rheumatism.
The shopkeeper-a- shrewd, calculating
sphinx-like spinster of 40 years or more
stood counting small change, while the
three elderly derelicts stood in frlght-
ened group, staring wistfully. A little
girl of y held the hand of the most help-
less of the three, whose dim, deep-set
eyes seemed to discern the counter and
the shrew behind it with difficulty
The clinking of money as 1t dropped
Into feeble, outstretched hands brought
the tension of the group to breaking
point, and vented itself in hopeless
wall such as a child might make when
II breaks its toy AS the money was
counted the dim eyes filed with tears
and they muttered unintelligibly In an
Instant the little f1axen-haired girl step
ped defantly out from the others, her
face flushed crimson and her diminutive
BODY trembling with indignation.
''It's a shame" she cried, shaking
Tiny, admonishing forednser at the shop-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-24
STERNBERG CASE
GROWS IMPORTANT

st. Petersburg, July 23.-(Special)-The
arrest of Baron Won Ungern-Sternberg
promises to develop into an affair rival
ling in dramatic interest the famous
Dreyfus affair. That a number of men,
bers of the duma will be involved seems
certain and it may be officials of the
war department may pc drawn into the
net.
Won Ungern-Sternberg is a Russian
subject and Is correspondent of an
Australian newspaper.
The formal accusation against him is
that of communicating to Austria a re-
port of a secret sitting of the duma
dealing with the new distribution of the
Russian army. A printed copy of the
report was found among the papers seized
at his house. AS he is. a Russian subject
and an ex-officer, this charge is I'M
doubtedly serious. A notebook was also
found containing entries of small sums
received from various members of the
Austro-H Hungarian embassy, where he was
employed as a translator.
One of the sums was $50 roubles (a15)
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keeper Last week it was 40 centimes
short and now it is 50.'
"If YOU don't like what l give, don't
come back" sneered the shopkeeper.
When they reached the street we
stopped the child and dropped so confines
into her hand to make up the deficit.
asked her the age of the most feeble OF
the party.
Grandma is 81"
How long has she been making laceY
"Since she was years old-she makes
two patterns"
Has she always done two?"
Eyes"
"How much does she make a day.?
"She used to make 60 centimes day
and sometimes more, but now the store
keeper only gives her so and sometimes
49,.
With 10. y and Is cents a day it is little
wonder that one-fourth of the popula-
ton of Bruges are paupers.
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Its Painful y I

The last of the Labrador ducks was
about to die.
ut isn't the thing of dying, in itself.
gasped the duck, that grinds me! It's
the fact that while my race hereby be-
comes extinct, the gaunt, ungainly,
worthless shitepoke will live on"
Uncheered even by the reflection that
the carrion crow survived the dodo' the
hapless bird breathed Its last.
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received from Count Spannocchi. 1t is
inferred that an attempt will be made to
trace the disclosure of the secret report to
M Miliukoff. The witness replied that
her husband was personally well ac-
quainted with Count Spannocchi and had
occasionally borrowed money from him
and other members of the embassy staff
He considered the facts of having sec
ret report in his possession and his
pecuniary transactions so little COM
promising that he left the one on his ta-
BILE and inscribed details of the others
in his notebook.
Some journals declare that he acted
as a secret service agent for Austria and
that Count Spannocchi would have to
leave his post. Baron Won Ungern-Stern-
bergs friends wonder how a secret SER
vice agent could lack money.
I understand that the Czarinas health
shows great improvement. While her
majestry is still extremely nervous, the
attacks which 1t was feared for a time
would result In complete loss of reason
have ceased, and the royal physicians
now hold out the hope, that with COM
plete rest, the health of her majesty may
be restored. The Car is in better health
and spirits than he has been for years.
a stay of several weeks off Balticport,
where his majesty will review the as
sembled warships. The STANDARD will
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-24
Literary Lights And Shadows
BY S. MAYS BALL

Once Aboard the Lugger; the History OF
| George and His Mary" by A. s. nj.
| Hutchinson Mitchell Kennerley, ESQ.,
This book has its title from that DASH
/ ing sentiment, "Onee aboard the lugger
and the girl is mine." The author says
the selection of the title was not labor
llous. 'Once aboard the lugger and the
girl is NINE" he says is label That
might be applied to all novels. In all
novels the man is pursuing and when the
girl is caught put aboard the lugger, as
1t were, the novel is complete.
A rather wooden-headed Englishman,
named George for short. student of
medicine, in which he did not distin-
guish himself, stood one day on street
In london gazing into space. A way
Englishmen have. George had failed to
pass his medical examinations. Suddenly
a cab horse stumbled by anchored
George. So suddenly did the horse stop
that pretty Mary was thrown from the
cab into Georges arms, right on the
street The cab went on, while the
birds sang, the band played Annie
Laurie
It was love with George and Mary right
off Real down right l-u-v. as they spell
and call it west of the Mississippi river
Mary was a governess; George had no
money: hadn't even passed his school
examinations, bad boyl But would he
pass now? Watch him. says George,
chest thrown out, eyes to front.
This is the beginning of a delightfully."-
told love story. George had an uncle
who loved cats, a clustering, abbreviator
of words old duck. Georges mother left
the uncle money to educate her son. All
of 1t had not been spent on the education.
Love now on tap, George, with dead-sure
belief that he would pass examinations
this time. demanded $3.50 with which to
purchase a practice on the coast of Eng
land. Nothing doing. said uncle. How to
force the unkie's hands loose was the
question with George.
He stole uncle's pet prize cat. The Rose
of Sharon, and was there-heaven to
plav? Well, rather. George became a
wanderer with Rose Rewards, detec-
tives. an enterprising, helpful press. all
were on the job. While George and the
prize cat hid themselves, the former wait
ing for the reward to go to 800 pounds
that he might come across with The
Rose of Sharon, get his Mary, the money
reward, b,,y his medical practice, live
happy ever after.
The story is told very charmingly. Like
all English writers, assuming A. s. NJ
Hutchinson to be one, this author de-
lights us with the finesse of his art, the
letting us catch a few things without the
proverbiai Scotch surgical operation In
our heads. A great relief that If Amer
lean writer's would only understand 1t.
"Once Aboard the Lugger" is first rate.
1t is humorous, witty. charming, most
pleasing. Better try 1t. =
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1.-The Water Goats and Other Troubles, -
by Ellis Parker Butler. Doubleday,
Page & Coz
The gentleman who perpetrated
"Gnats Is Gnats," beg pardon, Pigs Is
Pigs" turns loose on us THE Water
Goats and other Troubles
The other troubles are there, all right
enough.
This scribe must be deficient in the
sense of q certain type of humor. Mr..
Buffers, for instance. 1t is difficult for
him to howl with glee over the fact that
a grating, ignorant board of aldermen,
instructed by landscape gardener to buy
a gondola for the newly completed city
park lake, misunderstanding the instruc-
lions, not Eknowing anyhow. buy water
goats, thinking Donnegoras-goats, some
thing of the kind, is meant. The goats
didn't care to be tied in the lake. What
properly brought Up goats would?
There are two other short skits. Mr..
Billings Pocket doesn't completely in
suit your intelligence. The other is Our
First Burglar" not SO bad. But 'The
Water Goats!''
Give us liberty or give us-humor
Maybe you'll like 1.-The Water Goats"
It is understood to be quite the proper
thing to fall out your chair with laugh
teT ON6I hl. 3SutiSi StOAiSS' 4sO Aoii
herenbouts yet, nary a tremble.
studies in Wives" by Mrs. Belloc
sLowndes. (Mitchell Kenneriey, ESQ.,
| II you read this authors 1.-The Utter
most Farthing'' you'll be prepared to
care for her new collection Of short
stories. If you haven't read the novel
no matter. You'll like the short stories
anyhow. You can't lose with Mrs. Belloe
lLowndes-not SO far.
| These six stories of wife-study deal
with husband-study as WE'LL --Couldn'
we'll help it, y know.
For instance, in Mr.. Jarvices Wife,
neither Mr. Jarvice nor his spouse ap-
pears directly in the story. All the
same the story, which perhaps is the best
lin the collection, is concerned entirely
with the actions and the character OF
a young man who is suddenly entangled
in unexpected and horrifying conse-
uuences of an error of conduct of which
he had been guilty years before. But
although Mr.. Jarvice's wife does not ap-
pear among the actors of the tragedy
and receives only brief and casual men.
ton, her personality shines out clearly
brilliantly so to say. Mrs. Lowndes has
that delightful gift of exploiting things
and people and events, withoUt forcing
them on us, without knocking us In the
head with an ak. Thanks be to her ant
| all her kind-too few, alas!
Studies In Wives is very pleasing.
1.-THE Pursuit." by Frank Savile. Nittle
| Brown & Coz
This is a merry-go-round of pursuits
attacks, imprisonments and finally-bui
| hold!
The story deals with romance Of
northern Africa. The details of the plo
hinges on the attempts of an English
lord to kidnap and then make profit b,
his small son, whose mother, the daugh
ter of an American millionaire. has OBJ
! tanned divorce.
| A cousin Of the wicked, bad, bad, bat
English husband, who later himself turn,
out to be the hottest villain on the Afri
can sands. essays at first to Illustrate
the abduction plans. This brings the
cousin in contact with the child's mil
lionaire grandfather and with the youpg