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The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
'Tis the Kellys Who Are Proud Now

according to the letter-and as there are only a few thousand left. it be- hooves Kelly to remit his one dollar without delay.
 The letter in part Is as follows:
 MT. Kelly-Dear Sir: We have just received from our agent in Dublin a rare old engraving of the coat of arms of the Kelly family. We are now pro- ducing this for framing and printing a pamphlet. describing 1t and giving the lireal descent of the first Kelly from Heremon, first king of Ireland. and through long line Of Irish monarchs. Only enough will be printed to fill ad- vance orders. The price is only one dollar Send cash with order"
 Have you noticed Kelly since he got the word from Philadelphia? He holds his head higher than usual and he will hardly bow to the Gradys and the Reillys.
 Whats come over Kelly?" is the question his neighbors are asking. When a Kelly meets a Kelly they shake hands cordially and the conver- sation Is about their ancestral coat oi arms.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23

CHICAGO.-Several hundred Chicago N Kellys have received letters re gently informing them that they are descendants of ancient Irish kings. and for the modest sum of one dollar they will be sent the famous Kelly coat of arms.
 The letters are sent out by Phila- delphia concern that makes a business of looking up family trees" and the Kellys all over the United States are receiving the glad news.
 The discovery" that Kelly was once king of Ireland was made by a representative of the Philadelphia con cern after years of research in the H. braries of Dublin. Cork and Belfast" The ancestral coat of arms is some thing that every Kelly should have
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
Chicagoan to Start an Electric Farm

Think what it means to Chicago diners If the Insull plan bears fruit. Bill of fares will feature electric rad ishes, incandescent onions, which may be odorless; pies from 10000 candle power pumpkins; kilo-watt potatoes and alternating current cabbages.
 In the wake of this eating may come electrical sprees. The somber citizen after dining on an electrified potato salad may glow like a lightning bug and warble few bars of ''I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" Each green pea may contain an electric shock and the result of eating single portion may be shocking. If this comes to pass just blame MT. Insull.
 There are three kinds of farming, as you probably don't know. unless you have had a fling at it. The first grade is the common or garden variety as practised by our forbears. Then there is the up-to-date. rotation-in-crops. ap- plied-chemistry brand.
 And another. Then there is the ad- vanced school as practised. by German scientists. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and the aforesaid MT. Insult This last is guaranteed to grow rad. ishes with the scarlet coat Of a British grenadier and the rotundity of brew. cry wagon driver.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
BATTLE WITH LION
FIGHTS VIcIoUsLY WHEN KEEP.
 FRS TRIED TO MOVE HIM.
Secretary Objected to Being Sold, But Finally Succumbed and Was Dragged Into Trans
 ferring Cage.

New York.-The lion Secretary. A Cape buffalo and two bisons of the Central park menagerie were shipped to William Bartels of Newark recent ly, for consideration, which included two eelands, two tapirs and a pair of ostriches.
 It was one of the busiest afternoons Headkeeper Snyder and his assistants ever put in, but finally all the animals, in their respective shipping cages. were loaded on wagons and carted away.
 Everything went smoothly until the attempt was made to inveigle Secre- tary, who was born in the lion house about seven years ago, into his ship ping cage. Secretary did not want to go, and 1t took an hour and a quarter of pushing. pulling and fighting to overcome the spirit of one of the meanest lions in the menagerie.
 With all the doors and windows barred, and hundreds of persons sur rounding the lion house, the work of getting Secretary from his cage was begun. Rose and Bismarck, the mother and father of Secretary, in adjoining cages, lashed themselves into a fury while their big offspring was hurling himself against the bars of his cage in an endeavor to get at the keepers. The lion did not care to march into the trap. He would put his head in the opeL door of the shifting cage, snuff once or twice, and with a great roar would lurch against the bars and rush to the rear of his cage.
 After half an hour of prodding had shown that the Animal could not be transferred that way into the cage, "Bill' Snyder decided to try a moose. By this time the lion had worn itself out, and was lying in corner as do- cile as cat.
 The moose was slipped over Score. tary's head, and then, while three men pulled and three men pushed, and "Btll" did the bossing, in went the lion, like lump of lead, to the fur. thermost part of the transferring cage. The beast was so exhausted it could not move.
 This lion. named Secretary because he seemed to have an interest in everything transpiring in every other cage in the lion house, has been the first always to announce the daily "a, ttons and the last to subside when anything unusual had happened to mar the serenity of his surroundings, "B1ll' said he was sorry to part with him, but there would soon have to be some room made for the three cubs. He weighs in the neighborhood of 400 pounds, and was considered one of the best specimens in the Central park col. lection. His value is said to be about $1,700.
 The two eelands were received at the zoo earlier in the afternoon. They are the only ones in the Central park collection. In the last ten days two of these animals have been received by the New York Geological society, cort ing from the duke of Devonshire.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23

ID ALTIMORE, Md.-That there is a ID large and ever-increasing number of women smokers in Baltimore was the opinion expressed by several prom inent physicians and women them selves.
 Most of the physicians were unhesi- tating in their disapproval of the habit Dr. William H. Pearce said:
 T consider it bad for anyone to smoke, but it is worse for women than for men. It lowers the moral tone eventually and has absolutely noth- ing to recommend 1t in any way"
 When asked if many of his women patients were smokers he declared that he did not know
 Its not the kind of habit to de-
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23

NEW YORK-Mrs. Nathan Jasper. IN wife of contractor. saved her hus- band from possible death at the hands of burglar recently by throwing a cup of vinegar into the burglars eyes and blinding him.
 The man went to Jasper and told him he was starving. His appearance bore out his story. Jasper gave him money for food. and told him he would put him to work. When the Jaspers were getting ready for bed they found the man in a closet of their apart ment, unconscious. The closet had a spring lock on the outside and the man had been shut in. He was almost suffocated. Mrs. Jasper got some vine gar, which her husband used as re- storative. and succeeded In bringing the man to his senses.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
DEATH IN HOT SAND
TELLS OF DEATH
 STRUGGLE ON THE DESERT.
Find Dead RattIesnake in Well Con tairing Salty Water-One Man Dies and Others Are Res
 cued by Auto.

Berkeley, Cal.-His condition border Ing on nervous collapse and hardly able to tell the story of his terrible experience, G. Herbert Masters, young mining engineer, who was a member of a Borax lake expedition in which Charles Stracher Davidson, a graduate of the University of Califor. mia Mining college, lost his life in the intense heat recently, has returned to his home in this city. He left five others of the party at Randsburg after the burial of Davidson in a rude desert grave on the shore of the lake, where suffered terribly, but reached camp after twenty-four hours of torture in the broiling sun.
 We arrived at Randsburg and start ed on our trip across Borax lake," said Masters. "The lake is a mud de- posit covered by a heavy crust. Our objective point was an old camp on the opposite shore, where we believed we would find prospectors. When we began drawing our line Davidson was prostrated with the heat, which was terrific. A little later he collapsed. Then he broke from us, and, running about fifty feet, fell on his face. One of the boys went back to him. He died shortly afterward
 One by one we followed course toward the opposite shore. When arrived I discovered that there was no water. After several hours we found an old well, but the water was sul- phurous and salty and at the bottom was a dead rattlesnake. Two of the original party of seven had gone to Randsburg for batteries when we started on the trip across the lake and that left four of us huddled together Thomas A. Graves, a mining expert of Clean, N. Y; David Bunkers, Nor man Stein and myself.
 Tn the morning before sunrise we took roundabout trail skirting the lake. When halfway across we met an automobile party and were carried the rest of the way in the machine.
 That afternoon we went on the seething mud lake again and got the body of Davidson. The boys made a rough pine box and we gave George the most decent burial we could give. His grave is out there in the sun, near the place where he died. The others of the party are used up. but they will recover. It was a terrible experience and I am through with the desert"
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
SAYS GHOST ATE A BISCUIT
Former Medium Tells Strange Stories of His Experiences at Seance
 of Spiritualists.

London-Ghost stories of highly interesting nature to believers and skeptics alike were related at a meet ing of the City Temple Debating soci ety.
 The stories were told by George Spriggs, at one time a spiritualistic medium, and now the president of the Psycho-Therapeutic society. Every story, he said, was well authenticated His own conviction was that spirit communion is not only possibility, but an actual and realized fact"
 On one occasion, he said seancA was held round a table at the resi- dence of Rees Lewis of Cardiff. All the "sltters," including Father Butch CT, a priest, and Rev. David Jones, kept their hands on the top of the ta- ble Tn about five minutes raps were heard, and on looking under the table there were found small punches of grapes, a branch from an apple tree. one from a pear tree, punches ot wheat and barley and some peas. One of the reverend gentlemen exclaimed:
 This Is as near a miracle as posst ble"
 Describing some of his experiences in Melbourne, MT. Spriggs said that at one seance a spirit form, dressed in white gown and red girdle, drank half a tumbler of water and ate a biscuit.
 Weighing machines were used to ascertain the distinguishing features between the medium and the material ized forms, ''and," said MT. Spriggs, ''l found that as a result of the seance I had lost about three pounds in weight" The first spirit form who stepped on the scales turned the beam at 100 pounds. but subsided so rapidly in weight as to prevent a successive record being taken. Indeed, failing to turn the scale at 80 pounds, he hur- riedly retreated. Returning again, his weight was registered at 104 pounds, then 1O2 pounds. and then under 100 pounds
 Doctor Mueller, who was present distinctly felt the pulsation of the forms, the medium being shown sit ting on his chair immediately after wards. Doctor Motherwell also found the beating of the heart to be quite natural.
 One of the "sitters" contrived to smear his hands with printers ink be- fore grasping that of the materialized form. When the medium was exam ined. however, the skeptic was griev- ously disappointed to find no traces whatever of the ink which he had i'm pressed upon the hand of the form.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
GIRL AND FIANcE KILLED
Power Plant Superintendent Electro cuted and His Sweetheart Dies
 Trying to Save Him.

Trinidad, Col.-The dead bodies o, Roy Keller, superintendent of the Delagua power plant, and Miss Eliza beth Bennett, sixteen years old. to whom Keller is said to have been be trothed, were found upon the floor oi the power plant.
 It is supposed that Miss Bennett ac companied Keller to the plant while he made some repairs.
 While at work live wire is believed to have electrocuted him and the girl is believed to have met similar fate in attempting to render him assist qnce.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23

the other men. And when she thought of the stiffness and the foppery an'l the hypocrisy of 1t all she wrote out a telegram to her dear friend, Mrs. Lee, down in the country, and said she was coming to visit her. and would be there on the evening train next day.
 MT. Worth Franklin was an archi- tect just getting foothold. He had ambition, earnestness and persever- ance, but nothing in bank and no old aunts to leave him a legacy. A citl- zen down at Glendale wanted a modest little skyscraper. and some one told him of MT. Franklin, and he wrote to him to come down. The architect tele- graphed in reply, and so it was cleo tricity as well as steam that landed him and the widow at the village de- pot together. They did not occupy the same car coming down, and as both were bundled up for stormy weather they did not recognize each other when they got of
 And the weather, which had been threatening all day to play high jinks, broke with a blizzard and things be- gan to howl. There was no carriage from Mrs. Lees; no man who wanted a skyscraperl The other passengers struck out for their homes and were lost to sight. and the architect and the widow found themselves in a box. At least the depot agent looked at them and grinned and said:
 NO hacks for the hotel tonight. No hacks for anywhere. Telephone has gone dead, it's going to snow all night. and you will have to sit here by the stove till morning."
 The agent was working for $45 per month, with no chance to make any thing on the outside, and had lost $5 at poker the night before, and he took pleasure in making the announce ment
 It was when the widow exclaimed "Oh, dear, but what shall dol" that the architect recognized her voice and reintroduced himself. She was glad to zee him and shook hands heartily. She
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
Throws Vinegar in a Burglars Eyes

As soon as the man became con scious he attacked Jasper. The con tractor was no match for him. and was being choked into unconscious ness when Mrs. Jasper hurled the vinegar into the mans face. Rowling with pain, he freed Jasper. Mrs. Jas per sprang at him, and she and her husband managed to hold him until a policeman came and took him to jail
 Jasper says the man he had be- friended was a former empioye whom he had discharged on account of his habits. He says the man stole his jewelry before hiding in the closet.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
A MAN OF ACTION
By DONALD ALLEN
Copyright. 1910. by Associated Literary Press.)

The afternoon tea was over. and the widow Chalmers sat down to think There had been present MT. Charles Montague. He loved to be called Charlie He spoke with drawl. He was always bored He hadn't ambi tion enough to throw one of his nu merous creditors downstairs.
 And there was Philip Manchester He had studio used for smoking alone, and he was waiting for his aunt to die and leave him hundred thous- and dollars. He was a languisher.
 And Capt. Noble had put his hand on his heart and started to propose to her, and was stopped only by a second cup of tea He belonged to the Horse Marines, or some other military body, and was extremely proud of his droop- ing mustache.
 Also. there was Reggy Pendergast. the society pet. He wrote sonnets and stole poems. He cultivated lisp and a blush. He always held some ones poodle dog in his lap when he sat down, and the ladies spoke admiringly of his eccentricity.
 And there was But what was the rse? There was only one gentleman present worth remembering. and he had vexed her a little by his attitude. He had scarcely paid her a compli- ment. He hadn't come and dawdled and departed, but had remained less than half an hour. He hadn't chummed with the dawdlers. He had betrayed no eccentricity. She couldn't remem- Der who had brought him. but she had liked his face and the little he said. Franklin was the name he had given Worth Franklin.
 There were a dozen. chaps who would have given a dollar or two to be assured that the widow Chalmers remembered them after their depart ure from one of her teas. She was on the right side of thirty. handsome, and rich, and not at all understood by society. Society picked out this one and that one for her to marry, dies tea man. He was talked of small talk He had eccentricities and a drawl. She was given credit for a fat bank account. good looks and T good figure, but her nature was sup posed to be frivolous. She could sign a check, but was not supposed ever to have heard of the tariff or cold stor- age.
 And the widow recalled the face of Worth Franklin and somehow felt glad that he had called in and lowered over
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23

felt right away that something would be doing
 "Fill up this stove," he commanded. as he turned to the agent.
 He was grudging'y obeyed. but at the same time asked if he thought he was running that railroad.
 And now what's the matter with your telephone? An. I see. A boy ten years old could fix it in five minutes. There's a livery stable In town of course. Whats the number?"
 Its 432, but you won't get no hack The man is drunk and his driver has quit
 Ring! Ring! Ring! No answer.
 But you won't go out in thls storm?" said the widow as the archi- tect turned up his coat collar.
 Back in half an hour" he replied as he passed out
 Yesi the owner of the only public stables in the town was asleep in his own barn. He was locked in. but the door was pried open. He woke up and objected and was flung into stall. A horse was led out. harnessed to a cut ter, and the drunken man objected again. This time he was pitched into the snow. In forty minutes MT. Frank lin drove up to the depot. It was snow ing and blowing. and it was the horse who found the way.
 And now for Mrs. Lee S."
 "But-but don't know the way. An know is that it's about mile away"
 The agent had gone across the road to stand up to declare that the rich were growing richer and the poor poor CT. and that the life blood was being ground out of him, when some one entered and grabbed him by the arm and demanded to know where Mrs. Lee lived.
 Never heard of her." he replied as he saw that 1t was the architect.
 Then you'd better get posted at once. Come oni"
 And MT Franklin ran him across the street and into the depot and up to Mrs. Chalmers, and said:
 Tell the lady where Mrs. Lee lives. and tell her quick"
 "'Bout mile up the road, on the right hand side. Big trees in front"
 Thanks. I can find it."
 Bet you can't, not in this storm, and if you get froze to death"
 But the widow and the architect were already passing out into the storm. It was furious. The horse must be left to take his own gait. He took it and brought up at the livery stable. The drunken owner awoke and objected. but the equine was turn ed around, the gad applied. This time he started for somewhere. He was half way there. and he was going along with his eyes shut when he stumbled and fell.
 And now we are surely lost!" cried the widow.
 MT. Franklin jumped out and had the old nag on his four legs In two Twenty rods farther on an abandoned wagon was found across the road, and the old horse crashed 1 into 1t and sat down. MT. Franklin rolled it aside into the ditch, assisted | he horse to stand. and in ten min ltes more he was making the doorbell | at the Lee mansion ring all kinds of ! joyous sounds When the door was opened he stood there with a snow in his arms. and having sur rendered her to friends he called a good night and returned to the horse. | Next day, while he was talking with | the man who wanted the modest sky i scraper. note was handed him. It 1 asked the man of action if he would. kindly call somewhere and receive somebody's thanks.
 He called and he was thanked, and | f such little romances don't lead to love and engagements | what does become of them?
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
Practical View.

You have heard. I presume" said the student who was taking an astro- nomical course. that we've found oxygen on Mars?"
 What good will that do us?" grunt- ed the agricultural college student. What we need on this planet is more nitrogen, and we need it darned bad!"
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
A rinue of suapIeIon.

That speaker always starts of. D said Farmer Corntossel, "by tellin' what the country needs"
 Naturally and properly"
 'T s'pose so. Only I notice that when a man goes out of his way to tell me what I ueed it's always somethin' in hIs particular line O goods"
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
nare.hlp. or rIu,ocracz.

His Pastor-AIy dear sir. don't you think you ought to try to come more in contact with your fellow men?
 MT. Muntoburn-My dear doctor. so many people touch me every day of my life that have been compelled to em- ploy secretary at good salary to act as a buffer.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
Sounds Riqht.

Mrs. Bacon-How is your sister get ting along, taking boarders?
 Mrs. Egbert-Oh. fine. She hasn't heard a complaint from one of her boarders yet.
 "Oh, didn't know she was getting as hard of hearing as that!e
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
Those Questions.

Wadsworth Cat the telephone)- Hello, Is this main 3967?
 Voice at the Other End-Yes, who are you?
 Wadsworth-Is Hammersley there? Voice at the other End-Yes. Do you want to talk to him?
 Wadsworth-No. I want to kiss him
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
One nf lii. Nrisuses.

Tommy" asked the teacher. "men- ton some of the uses of pepper"
 Pepper" said Tommy. after a peri cd of profound reflection, lis a good thing not to put On red hot stove"
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
Raa-Time Worms.

fellow.
 Miss Wollop-What's he doing now?
 MT. Dollop-Teaching silkworms to sing cocoon songs.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
Tryinu a Bluff.

See here. John. While unpackIns your last summers suit found a blond hair on the coat"
 Well. weren't you a blonde last summer"
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-23
unnr.me,Iitnted sarca.m.

Eminent Musician-Among my pro- fessional friends I-
 Reporter (gasping) Professional friendsl Are they living?
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