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The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
HER OCCUPATION.
She Made the Bank Clerk Realize II
Was Of Some lnnportanes.

Although she had been standing
in line nearly en- hour to start a new
account in a Brooklyn savings bank,
she was not at all subdued by the
formality Of the proceedings and
had. frequently informed those
standing near her just what she
thought of the delay.
When at length she reached the
window she answered the questions
that the clerk asked in a loud, self
reliant voice. She told her age in
tones that could be heard four desks
beyond, she was quite willing that
every one should know her full
name, her husbands name, her
mothers name, her fathers name
and Just where each one of them
lived. .sls IS
'Have YOU any occupation Z"
asked the clerk carelessly.
81 have" she replied firmly. u
keep house"
"Well, that's nothing" he an
swered blithely, writing "None" in
the space on the line.
Nothing" gasped the new de-
positor. "You call that nothing?
And me with thirteen in the family
and two of the boys working nights,
so that there's four extra meals a
day besides the regular ones, and
two girls at the counting age, with
extra white skirts and petticoats
every week, till I'm ironing along
until 5 o'clock Thursdays!
"You, sitting here on that little
chair, doing nothing but a little bit
of talking and writing from Q until
8 o'clock-you say my occupation is
'nothingp See here, young man,
YOU put down my occupation as
housekeeper for thirteen or III 60
and put my money in some other
bank! Nothingp Say, if you call
what l do nothing YOU must have
to keep separate page for the do
ings of other folks"
''But it's a mere Formally"
gasped the clerk when she paused
for breath and gave him chance.
"You can make it as formal as
you want to-" she responded with
dignity, ''but I'm not going to stand
here and see such a lie as that moth
ing put down on any legal book.
No, sir! You write the truth down
there, Housekeeper for thirteen in
the familyp New York Herald.
The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
Recorders Court.

Geo. W. Smith, Jr., perjury; not
guilty.
John Helms, assault and battery;
$40 and costs.
Martha Cherry, assault and battery;
30 days.
Dock Vow, ordinance IS; $3.50.
Tom Tomdson, ordinance rs, 50.
Bus Alsobrooks, larceny; 3 months
Walter Balware larceny; 3 months.
S. NJ. Bradley, disorderly conduct;
50 and costs.
Ed Fl. Benton, concealed weapons;
$40 and costs.
W. A. Helms, ordinance rs: 81
and costs.
JEFF Pope, ordinance IS; 81 and
costs.
Lee Motion and Will Wood, beat
ing train; 30 days each.
Gilmore Massey, false pretense;
costs.
Ben Nelson, assault and battery;
So and costs.
Bud Pore, drunk $40 and costs.
Ed Mellow, assault; costs.
The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
The Example of Paganini.

A story is told of how Paganini
once came into the concert room,
took the violin and touched the
strings. First one string broke, and
a smile went around the room; then
another string broke, and there was
more audible expression of mock
cry. When a third string broke
many people laughed outright at his
discontinue. But Paganini stood
forth with his violin as though
nothing had happened and played
on the one string, and the people
ceased to smile, but listened spell
bound. Some of those who had de-
rided him began to weep, and some
even prayed. Many man had fall
en- helpless by the wayside when
some great catastrophe turned the
current of his life aside. The brave
man pushes forward with one re-
naming talent and plucks victory
from defeat.
The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
Tho Other Half.

A man owes 4 cents. He pays 2
cents one day, cent the next, one
half cent the next, and SO on, one
half each day of the debt. Now, al
though on the fourth day he only
owes one-quarter of cent, if he
should be endued with the gift of
Immortality and he should continue
to pay the debt at the same ratio,
he could never pay all of it. There
would always remain that half of
the former days payment, provided
he had counters small enough to
make the payments.
The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
Fire From Friction.

The Australian bushman uses a
method Of his own to procure a
light. First he selects two pieces of
light wood, each about foot long,
from the cork tree or black fig tree.
One, fiat piece, he lays on the
ground amid pile of dry leaves.
Upon this strip of wood he kneels
in order to hold down the ends.
Then he rolls the other pointed
stick between the palms Of his
hands so that it bores hole into
the fiat strip of wood. This makes
fine wood dust, which catches on
fire, sending its spark among the
dry leaves. BY blowing upon the
tiny light the bushman soon has a
fire, which he feeds with more
leaves.
The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
Plantation that Once Sold for a
Bale of Cotton Worth Thousands
of Dollars.

Fort Mill Times.
For the first time in several years
Mr.. D. NJ. Culp of Fort Mill paid
visit to the Pleasant Valley section of
Lancaster county Monday. He re-
turned home enthusiastic over the
crop prospects in that neighborhocd.
Especially did he note the abundant
yield which is promised on the plan
tation Of Mrs. Mary Bales. This
plantation, according to Mr.. Culp,
was traded to the late J. P. Bales,
husband Of Mrs. Mary Bales, few
years after the civil war by Parks
Hunter for one bale of cotton, worth
about accents the pound. Mr.. Hun
ter wished to open saloon in Pine
vile and lacking the necessary cap
ital TO start the business, traded the
place for bale of cotton. The plan
tation comprises several hundred
acres and is now worth thousands oil
dollars.
The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
A Card.

| wish to say TO my friends who
gave me their support in the recent
primary that | appreciate more than
| can tell their votes and all they
did for me, and take this method OF
expressing my appreciation, as / can
not see all in person, to express my
thanks. Two years from now will
be in the race again for register Of
deeds in the Democratic primary.
With good feelings to all, | am,
Respectfully, N. c. LoNG.
The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
A Righteous Judgment About TO
Be Delivered.

Not since lSyb has there been such
deep seated political activity through
out the country as at present. But
that year was quite different from
the present. Then the country was
in the throes Of hard times and busi-
ness depression Of an unprecedented
nature, and the only concern OF peo-
pie was how to remedy the situation
and get the country once more on
its feet. Today, following decade
Of prosperity, the public mind is in
a state Of revolution and indignant
protest against the ideas Of moral
perversion that has been found to
exist in our public and private life.
The situation is thus summed up by
the New York World.
1.-The size Of the Democratic vic
tory that will be announced on the
morning of November 9th next will
be staggering. 1t will include an
overwhelming majority in the House
of Representatives and gain of
many United States Senators. Ohio,
the Presidents own State, will be
lost to the Republicans. New York,
the State Of the ex-President, will be
sweepingly Democratic. Maiorities
will be so large that people will tire
of computing them.
'Not through Democratic virtues
and abilities but in spite Of Demo-
cratic blunders and weaknesses are
those things to come about; not be-
cause there are more Democrats than
Republicans but because there are
more American progressiyes than
stand-patters; not as a rebuke to this
man or that man in PARTICULAR but
as a condemnation of many men; not
as a rejection of one policy but as a
reputation Of many policies; not as
an evidence of momentary indigna-
ton but as voieing the demands Of
a great and free people for light, for
truth, for justice, for economy, for
peace
"What are these bitter Republican
quarrels but attempts in advance to
escape the judgment which all know
is at hand? There is a mad rush for
safety. Responsible men are posing
as irresponsibles. Old offenders mas
querade as innocents. Sacrifices are
offered up in the hope that the pop
ular wrath may be appeased. There
is talk even of third term in the
White House for the vociferous and
lawless person under whom Cannon
and Aldrich and Payne and Sherman
and Dalzell got their strangle grip
on party and country.
In spite of all this there will be
no mistake about that which is take
place in November. 1t is to be more
a Republican defeat than Demo-
cratic victory; more a popular upris-
ing against plutocracy and privilege
than party revival; more matur-
ed verdict on Rooseveltism than
upon Republicanism; more rebuke
of Taft as proxy than of Taft as
President; more an expression Of
hope in Democracy than Of faith in
Democracy.
Turn on the light"
The Journal is not one of those
who are silly enough to think that
much lasting good can come from a
mere change in parties. When the
people turn over the government to
a few politicians and the men back
of them who want to use the govern
ment for their own ends, we will
always have bad government, no mat
ter which party it happens to be.
Hence, as the World says, the coun-
try is not so much determined on a
Democratic victory as it is on Re-
o..l1.aor JafaaS
The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
CoIored Preachers Take SoTe Sem
sibIe Funeral Remarks.

Rev. Richard Allen, a Baptist
preacher of Monroe, and Rev. L. j.
Melton, pastor Of the Presbyterian
church here, made some sensible and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13
BISMARCK THE FOUNDER OF
THE GREAT GERMAN EMPIRE
IX.-THE GERMAN ADVANCE.

forced the Austrian garrison out Of Hol-
stein
Military Supremacy.
Austria appealed 10 the ghostly diet
OF the confederation, sitting at Frank
fort, to use the ronfederated army
trian motion was carried by the diet,
an action which proved to be its last,
for the next day Prussia wrecked the
confederation by declaring ar against
three Of its states, Hanover, Hesse and
Saxony. There was no formal declara-
ton of war against Austria, the Prus-
slams simply notifying the Austrian
commanders to get ready for a fight
Bismarck already had concluded a
secret treaty with Italy. On June II,
the Austrian emperor published a mani
festo of war, the next day the Prussian
king issued an address to his people,
and two days later Italy declared war
against Bavaria and Austria Thus was
begun the Seven Weeks War which was
decided at Sadowa when the Prussian
army utterly defeated the Austrians.
Prussia was prepared; Austria was not
Prussia was organized; Austria was
not
Austria Renounces Claims
AustFia renowned its claim in Hol-
stein. acknowledged the final disso-
luton of the German confederation and
bound itself TO a modification of the
meaning Of the word Germany, by
which Austria was excluded. 1t also
recognized the creation of the North
German confederation. Prussia. there
upon announced that il had annexed
Schleswig- Holstein the free city OF
Frankfort the kingdom of Hanover, the
electorate OF Hesse, and the duchy of
Nassau to the dOminiOns Of the Prusian
kingdom. Saxony. the two Mecklen-
bergs. the three Hanse-towns Olden-
berg. Brunswick and the Thurninsian
states Joined with Prussia In the North
German confederation. Added TO all this
the southern states of Bavaria, Baden
and Wurttemberg, although not in the
northern confederation, agreed to place
their whole military force at the dis
pOsal of Prussia in case Of war, Prussia
In turn, guaranteeing their sovereignty.
The success OF the Prussian program
greatly alarmed Napoleon III. then
dreaming dreams OF a greater French
empire. Napoleon attempted to get
control of the grand duchy OF Luxem-
bourg. and thereby incurred the enmity
Of the Germans. In this act Napoleon
did more to cause the South Germans
TO consent to the Prussian leadership
than Bismarck ever could have done.
In 1870 the Spanish Cortes invited an
obscure prince Of the house of Hohenzo1-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13
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Copyright, 1910 BY o..s. Matthew. Adams. Daakza.e@-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13
Dorothy Dir ASKS, SIX $500. e.sAn.. o'.

A CCORDING to a despatch from
~ Chicago, printed in the news
- papers, science has at last come
to the support of romance, and genu-
inc bona fide case is reported of man
who died of a broken heart, thus justi-
fying the theme of full many three
volumed novel.
AS the story goes, Miss Victoria Had
don was beloved and wooed by two men.
She married one and invited the other TO
De the best man at her wedding. AS
soon as the marriage ceremony was over
the rejected sutton remarked You may
never see me again" Then he went
home and actually laid down and died
in a few moments-lferallyo Of a broken
heart, so the physician declared who
was called in.
Family Tale Comes True.
Naturally a cold and iconclastic pub
lie will bob up with the horrid explana-
ton that the man probably had a weak
heart and that any excitement would
have been fatal to him, and that he
might just as easily have been carried
off by the agitation over a tailor's bill
as over a blighted affection.
But perish all such suggestions.
When fairy tale comes true let's
make the most of 1t. When a miracle
happens let's rejoice in it and marvel
over it. Let's flout SHAKESPEARE and all
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13

on and on until they are laid in their
coffins-dead of a broken heart.
There are other women who die of
unrequited affection. They are those
who have centered their all on one
throw and lost. and when that is gone,
all is gone. Life has no interest TO
them, existence no object, pleasure no
SAVIOR without the love they crave, and
so they pine away and die as a flower
does when you shut 1t away from the
sun.
The explanation of why men sell
dom die of a broken heart and women
often do is easy enough. Men do not
die of blighted love because Il man is
thrown out into the world where he
has a thousand things to distract his
attention, a thousand demands are
made upon him. and he has no leisure
in which he nurse his sorrow and
magnify his grief. The average woman
has little else to do than to cultivate
her emotions. and so she is the pre-
destined victim of a mOrbidness that
easily results In heartbreak.
One Authentic Case.
Men do not often die of broken
hearts because affection is not the
paramount thing in a mans life as 1t
is in a woman's- If a man loves and
is beloved, it is well. If not, he can
do very nicely without ii. thank you;
put WOIlah universe IS DOuhOed Dy
the affection she gives and receives,
and if she misses the one great thing,
all the balance is dust and ashes.
Hence she can break her heart and
die Of longing for the unattainable.
But in an unsentimental world it is
n cheering and romantic thing to hear
of one man who has a doctors certifi
cate that he actually died OF a broken
heart. and I doubt not that in years, to
come his grave Will become a shrine,
even as that a Abelard and Heloise,
to which women will make pious pill
grimages with wreaths of flowers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13

who have persisted in duels while de-
Tending some fair ones name or in a
desperate attempt to rid themselves of
a too fascinating rival. Men have been
also known to kill themselves upon the
grave of some well beloved woman
whose passing left a world too desc
late to them to be endured.
1, myself. know such case, where a
man married to a woman singularly
homely and unattractive to others, loved
her with such devotion that when she
died he shot himself through the heart,
and was found lying beside her on the
bier, mis- blood turning in crimson the
whiteness of her shroud.
Wives With Broken Hearts.
1t is to be observed, however. that the
men who die for the love of woman
die swiftly, in the first mad paroxysm
of grief, and that II they give them
selves a little leisure in which to think
the matter over they are sure not only
to survive, but to get completely over it,
Love with a man may be an acute dis
order. but it is seldom a chronic COM
plant.
That there are thousands of women
who have died of broken hearts no one
questions. There are mothers whose
hearts have been buried in little graves
and with whom the functions of life
went on automatically just for a little
while until their bodies were mercifully
released from suffering, and there are
other mothers who have died of the
heart wounds that ungrateful children
have given them just as surely as if
they had had a dagger stabbed in their
sides.
There are wives all about US who are
dying of broken hearts, who are starry
ing for love, for sympathy, for tender
ness from their husbands just as truly
as they could starve for bread.
You can see them grow a little thinner
a little whittier, little more hollow-eyed
and wfstful every day and IL will go
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13
By Mabel
Herbert
Urner
the id5sF HONEYMOON

That number don't answer.
He was not there. She turned from
the phone with quivering lips He
knew that she would have a desolate
evening here all alone; he need not
have made her anxious and wretched.
too The least he could do was 10 call
her up again and say something kind
something to make her more COM
Portable.
How quickly he used always to ring
again when Central cout them off. Even
if they were just about to say goodby,
he would ring her up again with a
laugh. Il havn't anything more to say,
but I'm not going TO let Central cut
Us off like that It's worth calling up
again just to hear you say goodby"
But that, she told herself bitterly, was
before they were married. And now
How different il was now. How diff
ferent everything was
Shall I cream the potatoes, mann"
Anna had come to the door. We've
had EN- baked so much"
Yes" abstractedly. And then she
called her back ~Oh. Anna, Mr.. Curtis
won't be here for dinner-and I don't
want much of anything. Just something
cold will do
But the roast is already on. ma'am."
"Oh, all right doesn't matter
And then again she wandered rest
lessly about the room She had been
in all day helping Anna rehang the bed
room curtains (they had been put up
too short). And now must she spend
the long evening alone2 And was this
only the beginning?
She had already faced so many dds
ilusionments- She was trying tot be-
come reconciled to his irritability to
the dying out of all romance and senti-
ment-and now must she too accept
neglect? Did the future hold for her
countless lonely evenings2
She had chung to the belief that when
once they were really settled in their
own home they would be very happy.
Through all the Disappointment of their
honeymoon she had held fast to the
pictured thoughts of the pleasant com
paniOnable evenings in their cosy sit
ting room. when he would read while
she sewed in a low chair beside him.
And now was she 10 spend most OF
those evenings alone?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13

the generations of unbelievers who have
declared that men have died and worms
nave eaten them, but NOT for love-" and
lets Pin our faith to this one authentic
case OF man who had persisted from a.
broken heart instead of an overloaded
stomach
This case will not surprise women
because women have always believed
That 1t was posi- BILE for men to pine
away and die because of disappoint-
ment in love. Every woman who has
ever said, in a sad, sweet voice. to a
man that she could never be his but
that she would be a sister to him.
has implicitly believed that the blow
would Kill him, and has never doubted
that he would do as he said when he
told her that life without her was not
worth living and that an end would
soon come to his miserable existence
1t is true that the man-strangely
enough-does survive; in fact, appears
TO make complete and speedy re-
covery. But to her dying day the wo-
mon cherishes the guilty. though de-
ightful feeling that he carries a Sc
cret, hidden, mortal wound in his breast
and that that is what kills him at last,
no matter what the doctors say about
tuberculosis or cirrhosis of the liver.
But plenty of men have died for love,
Is witness all the gallant gentlemen
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13

HE telephone rang Shr1lly.
Helen dropped the dainty under
garment into which she was run
ming fresh ribbon and ran to answer
1t.
Hello
for several seconds. And then Warren's
voice impatient. hurried.
That you. Helen? Why. can't get
home for dinner-Vance Walker is in
town and wants me 10 dine with him.
Don't worry If I'm late"
A silence. She did not speak. He had
dined down town twice that week-and
she was struggling with a sense of
neglect and hurt pride.
"'Eh-what's that?" ne called sharply.
II didn't say anything"
We'll. why don't you say something ?
You know mighty well that your silence
can be darned uncomfortable. If man
can't dine out occasionally without be-
ing made to feel that he's brute by
Here they were cut off. and Helen
heard only the 5uzzing of wires. She
waited and shook the receiver several
times.
Hello" in CentraPs sharp voice.
why did you cut me off. Central?"
What number were you calling?"
party called
We'll. If 1 get them I'll ring you
Helen reluctantly hung up the re-
ceiver. but still fingered by the phone
Surely he would call her again-he
would not let II go like that.
But the bell did not ring.
Could he have thought it was she
who had cut off? If he thought that
he would be furious RestlessIy she
walked up and down, hoping every mo-
ment the phone would ring-but it
didn't.
Should she call up his office? He
might have been telephoning from
there. Then she realized IL was after
five-he was never there so late Still.
she would try. She took down the re-
ceiver.
1850 Rector"
\ long wait.
Trying to get Rector $780," shrined
Central
Another long wait
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13

lern TO take the Spanish throne This
was construed by the French as blow
to their dignity, and as in derogation
OF their interests.
Bismarck As An Editor.
Napoleon sent his ambassador to Ems
to see king William The king granted
him a courteous interview, but Bismarck
edited the newspaper account OF the
meeting so that it appeared that the
Prussian king had insu1ted the French
amba ssador- The telegram with its Bis
MARKHAM elisions and emendations went
out to the world. and in a day all
France was on fire with furious hatred
for the Prussians- Bismarck was ready
for a war with France He had been
detail of the war plan had been finally
determined for more than two years
France was not ready, but France de-
cIared war.
Prusxia's Defeat oS France
The terrible efficiency Of the Prussian
military machine again was demon
strated and within a few months France
lay PROSTATE under the heel Of the
Prussian invader. The absolute suprem-
acy of Prussia in German affairs was
not questioned in any quarter after the
victory over France. and IL was but a
mere matter OF formality TO unite the
several states into an empire. The
king Of Bavaria proposed TO the other
German princes that the German states
form with Prussia a new German en-
pire, under a constitution, the president
ship OF the confederation TO be a heredi-
tary right Of the king OF Prussia. On
January Is, 1871, king William I of
Prussia IN the mirrored gallery OF the
palace of Versailles formally assumed
the imperial dignity with the title
"DeutScher Kaiser" Bismarck had ce-
mented the German states into a Ger
man nation and had founded a new
German empire based upon the solid
foundation OF the German nationality,
and not upon the ghestIy Inheritance Of
the Roman Caesars Next article
Tariff as a Factor
Monday: The Tariff as a Factor and
the German Tariff Policy.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13
Don't Draw Too Tight

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