Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-04-27
in a way that scarcely could be called

III way tNaI scarcely could be called
dattering.
One night a German servant girl
committed suicide in an exceptionally
thorough manner. A condensed version
OF MI. Blythe's report of the suicide
would run something like this:
Katie Schmaltz. a domestic m
ployed at the house of Mrs. Blank,
about III O'Clock last night did thu fol.
lowing things:
ca Drank one pint laudanum.
(b) Drank one vial aconite.
ICY Hit herself with a lighted keTo-
sene lamp and set fire to herself.
(d) Tied a rope arou her neck and
dow.
(e) Hung there until the flarses
burned the rope.
~ When the rope was burned
through fell to the sidewalk and was
killed.
The police have a theory that the
servant committed suicide.
Those were the good old days. lust
for that they made Old DIR. Blythe man.
aging editor of the paper in time. Hav-
ing acquired the managing editor habit,
he came to New York and managing
edited the Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Then he went to Washington in 1900
as a CHIEF correspondent for a New
York paper. soon became chairman of
the standing committee OF correspond
ents. president of the Gridiron club and
In dull moments would take President
Roosevelt. the cabinet and the British
ambassador out to lunch.
Just before this ne presided at a dim
ner which the newspaper men who were.
at Portsmouth for h Japanese-Rus-
sian peace conference gave in hoaor Of
the visiting princes, admirals. grand
dukes and things who had Just svttled
the a Today In darkest Russia and
In 4haA nvn4~n - I~~@N -~--
grand dukes are still trying to figure
out h happened. A m in
Producing them by their first names
politely but by their first names! It
was some dinner.
Readers Of the Who's who-And
Why page of the Saturday Evening
Post know what Old DR.. Blythe has
been doing during the las few years.
He has a ranch now out in Montana,
and when he isn't writing for the maya
zines or turning out another book he
puts h lid on h unsuccessful model
typewriter. presides at a dinner or two
and then hikes to the ranch to spend u,
month. Far out in h center of the
ranch. miles from human ~habitation, he
sets himself down in a bossy dell and
with the everlasting hills all about him
to throw back the echoes. he takes out
the slip horn and plays and plays and
plays.
IA SOAlSi0uCSl llI0 RdII VI IuG WC0h y
entertainment except to remark that
while he was owe in New York recent
ly getting out new anecdotes he ran
across some corkerS
Always Agin' the Government.
1t seems there were two Irishmen.
What are your politics?" one Irish
man h other. Instantly the
other Irishman answered., I'm always
agfn' tn government"
The name Of one OF the Irishmen was
Pat and the other was named Mike.
Both Of the men nae large families and
supported them by working at their re-
spective trades, hricklayer and steam
fitting.
The Hall Of Fame.
When John w. Gates travels he al
a does 1t in n luxurious fashion.
The late p. T. Barnum is said to have
had a fondness for animals.
Big "Bill' Edwards. the street clean
ing commissioner of New York, once
played football on either the Harvards
or the YaleS.
A striking example OF the self-made
man was Abraham Lincoln. once presi-
dent of the United States. Lincoln be-
gan life AS a rail-splitter and never
went to college.