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Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
SIGHT THREE BALLOONS

PETOSKEY, Mich, Oct. 20.-Three
unidentified balloons which are
thought to be contestants in the inter-
national race out of st. Louis were
sighted here at p. m. Two were go
ing east and one was heading for the
north.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
SUICIDE LEAVES LETTER
ASKING AID FOR FAMILY

DENVER, Oct. 20.-"Be sure am
dead. Then bury me in the cheapest
pine box you can find and dress me in
my old clothes. My wife and babies
need every cent they have"
This was the pathetic note left by
William H. Bailey SO years old. a
cigarmaker. who arrived here eight
days ago from Grand Haven, Mich,
suffering from tuberculosis, and who
fired a bullet into his brain at local
hotel yesterday. Sixty-seven cents,
found in his pockets, APPARENTLY COM
prised Bailey's entire capital.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
WOMAN SOCIALIST TO RUN
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE

WATERBURY, Conn.,, Oct. 2O.-Mrs.
Ella Reeve Bloor today issued her let
ter of acceptance of the nomination for
secretary OF state on the Socialist ticket.
She does SO, she says, believing that
she fulfIls a duty as a member of the
party and In recognition of her respOn-
sibiIIty as an advocate of the cause of
equal political rights for women.
She points out that there arc $4,000
self-supporting women working under
the laws of the state which govern their
work and in the making Of which they
have no voice. She says that one of the
acts Of tho party Is to overthrow wage
slavery.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
FORMER HEAD w. U. DIES

NEW YORK, Oct. 2O.-Thomas
Thompson Eckert, former president of
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany, died today at West End, Long
Branch. Mr. Eckert was born at St.
Clairsville, Ohio, April %, 1926.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22

of the San Francisco Call. Mark
Twain penetrated the Sierras in
search of gold, but being inapt as a
prospector, he sailed for Hawaii as
correspondent of the Sacramento
Union, arriving just in time to re-
port the sensational burning of the
clipper Hornet, which was his first
real SCOOP"
After a six month stay he re-
turned to California and Joined the
Quaker City excursion to the Holy
Land as representative of Alta Cali
fornia. On this, one of the first
personally conducted world tours,
Mark Twain obtained the material
which found it's way into "Innocents
Abroad'-his first real introduction
to the world of literature. Another
fateful influence upon his life was
furnished by the Quaker City excur-
sion through his meeting Miss
Olivia l.. Langdon Of Elmira, N. Y.
In 1870 they were married, and
throughout one of the most ideal
marital relationships recorded in
history four children were born to
them. Langdon, a son, came in 1870
and died in 1872. Susan Olivia,
born in the latter year, lived to be
24-long enough to develop extraor-
binary mental powers and strength
of character. Two other daughters,
Clara and Jean, were born In 1874
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22

and 1880 respectively. Jean died Of
epilepsy in her bath, December "a,
1909. Clara is the wife of Ossip
Gabrilowitsch, the Russian pianist.
AT the outset of his career as
man OF family Mark Twain acquired
an interest in the Buffalo Express,
but soon retired to the more re-
munerative field of free lance liter
AIRY efforts.
= Henceforth Mark Twain added
steadily to his international literary
fame. His important works and
their date of appearance follow:
''Roughing It," in 1871; "Gilded
Age" in 1873; tom Sawyer" in
1876; Sketches" in 1877; Tramp
Abroad" in 1880; Prince and Pau
per-" in 1888; Life on the Missis-
sippi," in 1888; "Huckleberry Finn"
I'm 1885; Library of Humor,' in
1888; "a Yankee in King Arthur's
Court" in 1889.
He founded the publishing firm of
Charles L. Webster & Co. in 1884,
which was a disastrous undertake.
ing. Through the business depres-
sion of 1894 the firm failed, and
Mark Twain. at the time rated q
wealthy man, assumed it's debts,
though it swept away his fortune
and left an Indebtedness Of 500, 900,
which he paid IN full.
In the midst Of his struggle to re-
coup his fortunes came the death Of
his wife in 1905. This loss was per-
haps the most serious blow of his
life. He was heartbroken and al
most Frustrated, but laid aside his
grief long enough to pay her this
tribute:
Her character and disposition
were Of the sort that not only In
yites worship but commands it,"
Since the death of his wife and
the marriage Of his daughter Clara,
Mark Twain had shown the remark.
able mental poise and fortitude that
seldom comes to man as a sustain.
ing force.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22
READY-MADE
BRIDE rs OF
THE NEW ERA

The ready-made bride, or rather
the bride Of the ready made trous.
seau, is a fact of the new era,
along with the suffraget, the air.
ship, and other marvels. And 1t
would seem that she not only ex-
lists, but she is prevalent.
"Why should a bride want to get
her trousseau ready-made" was
asked by an old fashioned woman
who heard this statement.
"Hasty marriages" answered
one.
Because men are so hard to
get that once they make up their
minds it is unsafe to wait to have
it made" was the flippant answer
of another.
TITS because 1t is more fun to
shop than to sew" said another.
women are so busy today that
they do not have time to even sup
erintend sewing, much less sew
themselves" said another Con
slider the business girls and the
actresses, for instance. Many
brides come from their ranks, and
surely there are none who are
more particular or apt to have q
pretty trousseau."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22

The father was a lineal descend
ant of Gregory Clement, one of the
three judges who condemned to
death Charles l. Clement, excepted
from the general amnesty following
the restoration, lost his head in con-
sequence.
Jane Lambton's forbears strove
with Daniel Boone on the 'dark and
bloody ground"--the scene of her
birth 20 years after the building OF
the first log cabin within the pres
ent confines of that commonwealth.
Even in the state famous as hot
house of feminine beauty Jane
Lambton became known as one of
the most beautiful and brilliant
bellies of her time in the Bluegrass
state.
Clements parents, victims of the
wanderlust. left their small prop
erty in Lexington for a new home
at Jametown on the Cumberland
river in Tennessee. Next they trav-
eled to Missouri. passing st. Louis,
then city of 10000 souls, for what
seemed to them a land of brighter
promise. They settled at Florida,
hamlet, described by the author in
later years as the settlement that
just divides the desert from the
sown'
1t was there that the future Mark
Twain was born, and here it was
also that he first encountered that
capricious Fate, which at the age of
three years foretold the anomalies
of his career.
His father. an absent minded soul
wary of the scant opportunities
afforded by his surroundings
Grated from Florida without
thought of the little human baggage
who laughed and cooed in the de-
| lightful occupation of mud pie bak-
ing in the sun bathed garden obliv-
ious to the disappearance of the
| household cavalcade across the sky
line. Two or three hours later a
relative found the complacent
youngster overlook the parents or
the wagon road to Hannibal, and
reminded them in no uncertain
terms of the consequences of such
| Val W ~ hlioNS but
incident was the turning point in
| little Samuel's life-the influence
that set in motion that remorseless
pendulum of Fate?
| The father served for some years
as magistrate in. Hannibal was
elected county Judge, but died in
1S47 without assuming office. His
death marked the end of the youth S
systematic education, which had
previously been Indifferent owing to
his uncertain health.
A brothers print shop became his
high school. At intervals, shortly
after he was - years old. he edited
the little newspaper to the amaze
ment of the subscribers and the dis.
comfiture of the elder brother,
whose responsibility as publisher
bore the brunt of hostile complaints
against the personal journalism
of the juvenile.
Time and again in leisure hours
the boy was fished out of the river
almost drowned, but the fond
mother, out of her utter confidence
in his future, would remark each
time, at is no matter. One who is
born to be hanged is surely safe In
the water
THE WANDERLUST.
Stricken with a sudden fit of in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22

herited wanderlust, young Clemens
disappeared from Hannibal in 1858.
| By this time he was accounted fit
itinerant typesetter. BY dint of hard
work and the saving of money for
| travelling expenses, he saw the
worlds fair at New York and Wis
tied all the eastern cities, but was
finally compelled. by financial
stress, to seek cover near home.
AT Keokuk he apprenticed him
self to Captain Bixby to learn the
infinite mysteries of steamboat
plotting. Those were the days when
the wheelmen of Mississippi river
packets were accounted princes.
Their dress was at once the joy and
perplexity of the river towns. They
carried guns and fought their way
by a singular code of honor up and
down the mystic river, famed for its
capricious habit of changing beds
over night. In TON Sawyer"
"Huckleberry Finn" "Puddin' Head
Wilson" and Life on the Missis-
sipp," which came from his pen In
later years, every incident of this
NdHiSHiuS SStatc 10 uWcit upoH NV
ingly.
In the midst Of this phase Of his
career the civil war was declared,
and, born of slave holding parents,
the youth piloted his boat through
the blocka1es to the north and
joined the confederate army. This
army experience lasted two weeks,
| when he resigned, assigning the
cause to 'incapacity by fatigue
| through persistent retreating."
Returning to Hannibal, he joined
his brother, Orion, who had ac-
cepted the appointment as first sec
rotary of the new territory of Ne
vada. Samuel accepted the private
secretaryship, which his brother ex-
planned was "a good job, with moth
ing to do and no salary"
At Virginia City young Clemens
amused himself by writing letters
to the Virginia City Territorial En-
terprise, and was finally engaged as
legislative correspondent at Carson
City. To these letters he first
signed the name Mark Twain"
which he adopted from the old Mis-
sissippi river term for a two fathom
sounding.
"DESPERATE" DUELLisT.
One of his barbed literary shafts
struck a vital spot in the emotions
of Editor Laird of the Virginia City
Union. The latter proposed a duel
as a salve to his honor. Colts re-
volvers being the only available
weapons. Twain sought out the pro-
posed dueling grounds for practice,
expanding an enormous amount of
ammunition and hitting everything
but the mark. At the appointed
hour of the meeting Mark was tax.
ing a last practice shot when luck.
less bird collided with random
bullet. Laird, from afar off, saw
the decapitated bird in it's fall to
the ground, and lost no time making
the apologies necessary to the aban
donment of the duel.
The authorities, however, were
not satisfied, and determined tc
make an example of those who
broke the law forbidding the accept
ance of duel challenge. AS a re
suit, Mark Twain and the conspira
tors were hustled across the border
into California.
| firing of his berth as city editor
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22
CHECK IT WITH YOUR HAT"
CROWDS "SKIDOO" OFF BOARDS

NEW YORK, April 21.-"Cut it
out" Fade away" Roll your
hoop" and "Skidoo" are all in the
discard. The very niftiest thing
in the slang of incredulity or dis
approval is Jaw, check 1t with
your hat"
The expression is catch line
use by Mabel Barrison In "Lulu's
Husbands" farce by Thompson
presented for the first
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22
MARK TWAIN

world to become the master of
wholesome humor, Mark Twain re-
tanned to the last his delicate dis
tinctions of light and shade, giving
to the world its dearest smiles and
drawing from 1t its most willing,
sympathetic tears. For withal his
humor the public eye has seen no
happy life punctuated with deeper
sorrows. He had known every trav-
all of the soul. and few there are
whose spirit of sound humor would
have survived so many onslaughts
of a whimsical and cruel fate.
"cREATLY ExAGGERATED."
1t was the same man who gave
this message to an anxious world
'Rumors of my death are largely
exaggerated" who subsequently de-
scribed his health as mot ruggedly
well but not i'll enough to excite an
undertaken" and who on return
from Bermuda. two days prior to
the sudden death of his favorite
daughter Jean, the day before last
Christmas, confirmed the belief of
the newspaper reporters who met
him at the gangplank, with this dis
couraging statement:
my active work in this life and
for the world is done. ] shall write
no more books nor attempt new
work"
The accompanying smile was one
of amiable sadness. His cheeks were
hollow and furrowed. and his gait
was shuffling and uncertain, as If
tired almost unto death.
The next day, II hours before hel
untimely death. his daughter Jean
made public this statement at the
instance of her father:
II hear the newspapers say | an
dying. The charge is not true.
would do no such thing at my time
of life. l am behaving as well as
can. Merry Christmas to every
body"
How merry was his Christmas is
known throughout a sympathiZine
universe The hand of fate. always
inscrutable, dealt its cruelest blow
to the kindest. gentlest of men.
The hour hand had travelled but
once around the clock before the
daughter-his confidant, compan
ion and amanuensis-was found
dead in her bath at their country
home. "Stormfield," Redding, Conn
Her last act had been the prepare
ton Of mammoth Christmas tree
BEGUN IN 1895.
In 1885 while there were less thar
a million white inhabitants in the
great empire west of the Missis
sippi, Samuel Langhorne Clemens
was born. 1t was November 80. ant
the scene of his nativity was &
humble cabin at Florida. Mo-, which
at that time marked the extreme
fringe of frontier settlement His
parents were John Marshall Glenn
ems of Virginia and his good wife
who was Jane Lambton of Ken
lucky.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22
Competition Is the Life of Our Succe:

you see how much you pay the clothing dealer for
your clothes
We have all our own clothing made in shops employ
ing white labor Our store is open for business We
suit, made to order, Friday and Saturday. We can
show up to the public and not get under cover TO
show profit when sell you suit for $25.0O we
just about get out even on you. Why? Because we
are building up reputation.
Here s what we pay to build suits
GOODS, $500 A YARD, 31l YARDS. $1,000
MAKING COAT ................. 70O
MAKING PANTS .................. ESQ
MAKING VEST .................... 200
i Tk1h1M1NGS ............. I0U
total, .,.$ 24O0
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22

time last week. Both the slang
and the show are declared hits.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-22
COME ON, BOYS.

We do not want 200 per cent profit on what sell.
We are satisfied to make small margin of 10 per
cent We do not pay $4,000 to $15OO00 month rent
and stick it onto customers For example, here is
what the wholesale house charges the clothing mer-
chant for a fair made suit, ready made, not custom
made like sell you, but hand me-down off the
shelf. Say for suit you pay $500 for cost the
cothier about $780, less cash discount of per cent,
and if his credit is good he gets something like this to
pay for it. Say he buys his goods now to be shipped
at once the wholesale cothier in New York or in the
other large cities give him
JULY Is PER CENT, 10 DAYS. =
JULY II PER CENT 30 DAYS. IA
JULY 1-6 PER CENT, go DAYS. i
JULY Ii PER CENT 80 DAYS.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-08
u BEEF BARoNs TO BE INDICTED
Federal Grand Jury In Chicago Wlll
Hand In True Bills Within Two
DAYS.

Chicago. Sept s. indictments against
no fewer than twelve beef baronss will
be returned hy the federal grand jury
within two days They will be charged
with violation Of the sherman antitrust
laws in organizing a combination in re-
straint Of trade
The crisis in the so.ealled beef trust"
investigation came late Tuesday, fol.
lowing President Taft's departure from
Chicago. There was much scurrying AZ
the federal building following the re-
port. Justice lands held long con.
ference with Special Assistant District
Attorney Wilkerson. District Attorney
Sims also was among the arrivals, cut.
ting short his vacation at Saginaw Bay,
Mich.
With the 4tilting Of the lid as to the
grand iury's plans came another we'll
founded report, that three bills against
packers had been voted.
The National Packing company, the
Sl5,000000 corporation which the gov
eminent charges is operating in violation
Of the antitrust law, IS to bear the
brunt Of the grand jury's attack. OH
GERS Of the concern, the majority Of
whom are connected with other stock
yards concerns, are said to be among
those under fire. -Four more witnesses
are to be heard in tie inquiry They
are eastern men.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-08
pApAL LEGArE FAINTED.
Cardinal vannutelli Collapsed While Re-
ceiving Visitors.

Montreal. Sept. s.-Cardinal Vannu-
tell. the aged representative Of Pope
Plus X at the eucharistie congress, last
night tainted in the midst Of brilliant
reception given in his honor by the Ca
madam government.
There were four thousand persons IN
the great drawing room OF the Windsor
hotel when Sir Charles Murphy, the sec
rotary Of state, caused the announcement
to be made that the prelate was unable
to continue the reception. Half an hour
later, however, the legate said that he
was quite himself again aud wished TO
return to the drawing room. But DR..
Guerin, mayor OF the city, advised him
to abandon the reception, and he was
taken TO the episcopal palace.
Cardinal Yannutell had received per-
haps 1900 persons when he collapsed.
He had intended to attend night sery-
ice at Notre Dame, and the structure
was packed to capacity about 10000
persons and five thousand more were
gathered outside, when word came that
the cardinal would be unable to be
present.
Mgr. Bruchesi also intimated that 1t
might be necessary to cancel several Of
the minor engagements Of the legate, for
it was evident his strength. was being
taxed Yesterday morning he preached
in the city prison, and in the afternoon
he attended the provincial government
reception, at which he paid warm trib-
ute to non -Catholics Of Canada. All Of
this taxed his strength greatly, as he is
IA years old.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-08
.BALLINGER
CONDEMNED?
Tangled Meeting Of the Com
mittee
SENTIMENT OF MAJORITY
Against the Secretary--Samuel Mccall
Left to Avoid voting-Held That
the Full Committee Should
Be Present.

Minneapolis, Sept, Sat an executive
meeting Of the Ballnger Pinchot inyesti.
cation committee yesterday Senator
Duncan &. Fletcher OF Florida, Demo.
crat. introduced resolution holding that
Secretary Of the Interior Ballinger was
an unfaithful public officer and should
be removed Representative Madison,
the Republican insurgent from Kansas,
offered resolution holding that the
charges which have been made by Clifford
Pinchot and Louis CLAWS, former chief
Of field division Of the general land
Office, were sustained. Representative
James, Democrat Of Kentucky, offered
an amendment to Mr. Madisons substi.
tute resolution, providing for the re-
moval Of Mr.. Ballinger from office, and
Mr.. Madison accepted the amendment.
The vote came upon the substitute Of
Mr. Madison, as amended by the motion
Of Mr.. James, and the roll was called.
Those voting for the substitute we're;
Fletcher, W. i. Purcell Of North Dakota,
Democrat; Representative James w.
Graham Of Illinois, Democrat; Repre-
sentative Madison, Republican. and Rep
resentative James.
When the vote was being taken, Sen.
ator George Sutherland Of Utah, Repub.
lican. and Representative Samuel W
Mccall Of Massachusetts,, Republican,
left the eommittee.room, insisting that
the full committee should be present.
The Democratic members replied that
they had been months considering the
evidence, that a quorum was present aud
had a right to transact business. Sen.
ator Nelson, chairman Of the committee.
took the vote, voting present himself,
and then made the ruling that no quo
rum was present
Mr.. James made the point of order
that no member had raised the point Of
no quorum. The committee then took
recess until Friday at ten o'clock, at
which time reports in keeping with the
resolution Of Senator Fletcher and the
amendment thereto offered BY Mr.. Madi.
son will be submitted.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-08
How to Hang Pictures.

"Pictures should be hung about on the
general eye level, and this rule must be
remembered and adapted to the eye level
Of child when hanging pictures in a
child's room or nursery" says Lucy Alb
bot Throop in Woman's Home Compan-
ion for September. eThe pictures viii
not be noticed at all if hung too high.
Pictures should be grouped according to
the simple rule OF balance. Taking a
central vertical axis on a wall pictures
of equal size and general similarity Of
tone and color value will balance at
equal distances from the center If one
has one fairly large picture TO balance
with several smaller ones, the heavy one
is to be nearer the center, and this viii
keep the feeling Of balance If you
watch children on a see-saw, it viii ex-
plain this. If heavy boy is on one
end. he moves nearer the center, and
several smaller boys may be needed to
make the balance perfect A large pic
ture is usually most effective when
placed alone in a space with its center
coinciding with the center Of the space.
Two large pictures, one on each side Of
mantclpiece, for instance, give a feel
ing Of restfulness and dignity by their
perfect balance Pictures should be
grouped in such way that they have
relation to each other, are balanced on
center and in this way are made to
tell as a whole. Il Is 4 useful rule to
nectcd when they are idivided BY space
exceeding the width Of length Of the OBJ
iects themselves. For instance. two pic
lures each one BY two feet when hang
ing one above the other must not be
more than one foot apart. and not more
than two feet apart when side by side.
Pictures should be hung from two
hooks and there should never be a tri-
angle formed BY the wire and the top
of the picture.frame. The construction
lines of the room are straight and the
picture wires should also be straight It
is better not to have the support OF
small pictures show. as it makes too
great complexity OF wires. lacks or
small picture nails may be used, accord
ing to the size and weight Of the pic
ture,'
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-08

In an announcement Of an important
series Of articles upon the subject by
that pre-eminent authority, Miss Ida NJ.
Tarbell, and which are to begin shortly
in the American Magazine, the editor
Of that periodical says in its September
issue:--
"The popular judgment Of the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill grows more severe
with each passing month"; Instead Of
quoting the tariff question, it has made
It more FESTIVE. Instead of reassuring
business, il has dealt Il one Of the heavi-
est blows in years. All OF which is log
ical enough. II is bogus revision, and
every man Of sense knows that we will
get no permanent settlement of this
matter until a genuine. searching, in
formed revision has been made lie
knows that BY Sinking its duty the Taft
administration has lost the country years
Of time Here is the real basis Of the
anti-Taft sentiment--the good reason
for insurgency"