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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-29

sound of the walls, the falling of the
rafters. Suddenly the roof fell in, and
the burning carcass of the dwelling
hurled great plume of sparks into
the air, amid a cloud of smoke.
The country, all white, lit up by the
fire, shone like a cloth of silver tinted
with red.
A bell far off began to toll.
The old Savage stood before her
ruined dwelling, armed with her gun,
her sons gun, for fear lest one of
those men might escape.
When she saw that it was ended, she
threw her weapon into the brazier. A
loud report rang back
People were coming-the peasants,
the Prussians.
They found the woman seated on
the trunk of a tree, calm and salts
fed.
A German officer, but speaking
French like a son of France, demand
ed:
where are your soldiers?"
She reached her bony arm towards
the red heap of fire, which was slowly
dying, and answered with a strong
voice:
"There!"
They crowded around her. The
Prussians asked:
How did it take fire?"
1T was l who set it on fire."
They did not believe her. They
thought that the sudden disaster had
made her crazy. While all pressed
round and listened, she told the story
from one end to the other, from the
arrival of the letter to the last cry of
the men who were burned with her
house, and never omitted a detail.
When she had finished, she drew
two pieces of paper from her pocket,
and, to distinguish them by the last
glimmers of the fire, she again adjust
ed her spectacles; then she said,
showing one: THAT is the death of
Victor" Showing the other, she
added, indicating the red ruins with a
bend of the head: Here are their
names, so that you can write home. "
She quietly handed a sheet of paper
to the officer who held her by the
shoulders, and she continued:
you must write how it happened,
and you must say to their mothers
that it was | who did that-Victorine
Simon, la Savage! Do not forget"
The officer shouted some orders in
German. They seized her, threw her
against the. walls of her house still
hot. Then twelve men drew quickly
up, before her, at twenty PAGES. She
did not move. She had understood;
she waited.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-29

told their names. That was not suf-
ficient; she had them written for her
on paper, with the addresses of their
families, and resting her spectacles on
her great nose, she considered that
strange handwriting, then folded the
sheet and put it in her pocket, on the
top of the letter which told her the
death of her son.
When the meal was ended, she said
to the men:
81 am going to work for you
And she began to carry up hay in
the loft where they slept.
They were astonished at her taking
all this trouble. She explained to them
that they thus would not be so cold;
and they helped her. They heaped
the stacks of hay as high as the straw
roof; and in that manner they made a
sort Of great chamber, with four walls
of fodder, warm and perfumed, where
they should sleep splendidly.
At dinner one of them was worried
to see that La Mere Savage still ate
nothing. She told him that she had
pains in her stomach. Then she kind
led fire to warm herself, and the
four Germans assembled to their lodg-
ing place by the ladder which served
them every night for that purpose.
AS soon as they had closed the trap
door the old woman removed the lad
der, then opened the outside door
noiselessly and went back to look for
more bundles of straw, with which she
filled her kitchen. She went barefoot
in the snow so softly that no sound
was heard. From time to time she
listened to the sonorous and unequal
snorings of the four soldiers who were
fast asleep.
When she judged her preparations
to be sufficient, she threw one of the
bundles into the fireplace, and when it
was alight she scattered it over all the
others. Then she went outside again
and looked.
In few seconds the whole interior
of the cottage was illumined with a
violent brightness and became a
dreadful brazier, a gigantic fiery fur
mace, whose brilliance sopted out of
the narrow window and threw a gilt
tering beam upon the snow.
Then a great cry issued from the
summit Of the house; it was a clamor
Of human shriekings, heartrending
calls of anguish and of fear. Finally,
the trap having fallen in, a whirlpool
of fire shot up into the loft, pierced
the straw roof, rose to the sky like the
immense flames of a torch; and all
the cottage flared.
Nothing more was heard therein but
the cracking of the fire, the cracking
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-29
PREPARE FOR EMERGENCY.

Right in your busiest season when
you have the least time to spare you
are most likely to take diarrhoea and
lose several days time, unless you
have Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand and
take dose on the first appearance
of the disease. For sale by all deal
ers. Benson, Smith e Co., agents for
Hawaii
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-29

The town had been prettily deco
rated by a non-political committee,
who were supported by citizens. The
Nationalist adopted passively
friendly attitude, did not participate
in the official reception and did not
interfere.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-29

An amateur aviator in Chicago,
falling a distance of sixty feet in
his machine, leaped and fell into a
haystack and escaped without a
scratch.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
An Excusable Mistake.

The irascible old gentleman had
ordered a chicken, but when he got
it he wasn't satisfied. Some people
never are.
Waiter he yelled, "bring a
charge of dynamite and hatchet
and an extra double steam power
coke hammer! This chickens got
to be carved even if it is made of
Dreadnought steel"
The waiter was desolate. every
sorry, sir" he said, "but that al
ways was a peculiar bird. 1t even
objected to be killed, though we al
ways do everything with the great
est of kindness. But this bird, sir.
actually flew away, and we had to
shoot it, sir-yes, shoot it. 1t flew
on to the top of house and"-
"Say no more," said the old gen.
tleman. 81 see it all now. You shot
at it and brought down the wealth
ercock by mistake John, my
friend, all is forgiven Tit Bits.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
A CHOICE OF PERILS.
The Bridge Worker Preferred to Taks
Chances on Skyscrapers.

A huge steel bridge spanning
western river was nearing compile
tion when structural iron worker
suddenly lost his balance, hung al
most suspended for an instant and
then plunged downward fifty feet to
the water.
When several of his companions
fshed his body out Of the river
there wasn't spark of life left.
"Give me a skyscraper every
time," said the foreman. ''These
railway jobs don't look good to NE.
A bridge worker is only human,
even if he does get used to work
ing up in the air.
"I'll wrestle with a beam hang
ing sixteen stories over the street
and not turn a hair, but this is my
last Job building a bridge.
'Pete, there, who just fell down
and was drowned, was like all the
rest of us. When we're up in the
air on a skyscraper job we never
look down, and if we do there isn't
much to make us dizzy.
"But take this job. We're only
fifty feet up in the air, but look
what's below us--nothing but wa
ter, not even a beam to grasp if
we fall.
'If any Of us happen to glance
down at the running water we get
dizzy. Getting dizzy is the begin
ming Then what balance we did
have slips away, and down We 90,
plunk into the water.
''Up on skyscraper the only way
| look is toward the center of the
building. Even if am hanging on
the edge of Il six inch riyet | never
let my eyes glance downward.
con a bridge it doesn't make
much difference which way an iron
worker falls. If he falls in, toward
the center of the bridge, there's
nOtnlnS 10 save the lall, ana llc
same condition prevails if he falls
over the edge.
'If he falls down while working
on the business building the chances
are ten to one that he will fall in
toward the center, and he has
rood chance of catching cross
beam while going down.
II fell forty feet that way my
self several years ago, and all | got
was a severe bruising. | was at
work the next day.
"But this river job doesn't look
good to me- I'll pass up the next
one, and so will the boys."-Chi-
cagO Tribune.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
CRICKET IN ENGLAND.
A Game In Which They Don't Try &c
Bully the Umpire.

There are some PECULIAR r.
about cricket when viewed from az
American standpoint. The associ&
ton or league corresponds very wei
to our National or American league.
A club of eleven men may be all
professionals, or, as is usually the
case, some may be amateurs y
professional is player who is paid,
and on the score his name appears
without prefix, just Brown" But
if he is an amateur and plays with
out pay his name is on the score
card 81. NJ. Brown, Esq" He is
then called gentleman player
The game usually lasts two days,
The side that is in stays in until
ten men are out. The pitcher or
bowler tries to hit the wicket, three
little posts that stand like our
baseball home plate, and if he does
the batter is out. The batter, or, in
English, the batsman, defends the
"wicket" and when he hits the ball
far enough runs to the other wicket,
which is located at the pitchers
box.
If he knocks fly and it is caught
he is out. or if fielder gets the
ball and hits the wicket while he is
running he is out. Two batsmen
are up at time, and d man may
make a lot of runs. | saw Woolley,
the pride Of Kent, score fftysix
runs, and players often exceed the
hundred mark. If the game is not
finished in three days it is declared
off.
The crowd was quiet and lady
like. Occasionally they would APP
plaud or say "Well bowled, sir" but
they did not tell the umpire he was
rotten, and they never urged the
visiting club to warm up another
pitcher. Not a word was said by
the players, not pop bottle was
thrown, nobody was benched, and
there was never a thought of such
a thing. The English are better
sportsmen than we are, and they
applaud a good play by visitor. A
man who tried to rattle the bowler
by screaming that his arm was glass
would be arrested and probably
hung.-W. Y. Morgan's Travel Let
ter in Hutchinson News.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
The Prime of Ace.

81 understand that Lemuel Hol-
and has come back to Dandy to
end his days. said former resi-
dent Of the village to Peter Hobbs,
the stage driver. "How old is he %
Hes only eighty-nine," said Mr..
Hobbs, "and guess you've made a
mistake about his ending his days
here. He came here so he could
get the new library started and the
bank organized right up to date
end to see to the drinking fountain
that's to be put up on the green.
''He calculates to spend year or
two with us, but he told me tic
other day t he'd always promised
his son out in Californy t he'd pass
the latter part of his life out there,
and he's planning to go before he
fails any, SOS to have the full en-
joyment of the trip acrost country
Youths Companion.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10

Lhe City Treasurer by virtue authority him vested viii
offer for sale the highest bidder parcel of land
tanned the shall
which the penalty
due and unpaid and said shall be held in the Pose
Mobridge South Dakota beginning 10 o'clock the 6
day OF December 1911 adournng such sale from day until
OF said property shall have
A. w. RowLEE, City Treasurer.
Dated this 7th day Of November 1911
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
They Knew Him.

At a certain country church the
rector always awaited the arrival
Of a local magnate and family be-
fore beginning the morning serv-
ice. One Sunday morning, the rec
tor being absent, the officiating
clergyman, who was not aware of
this custom, commenced the serv-
ice in the usual way with one OF
the passages from Scripture.
In clear, distinct voice, he read
"When the wicked NAM
But he was Immediately stopped
by the parish clerk, who shouted,
"Stop, stop; he hasn't come yet"
The squire arriving at that mo-
ment, the clerk again cried out:
Gall right, parson; here he is.
Go New York Mail.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
PLAQUE Stones,

Here and there in Great Britain
may be seen the remains of old
stone crosses that are known as
plague stones" In the olden time,
when epidemics ragged, the market
people would place near the stone
their wares and retire to distance,
while those from the afflicted towns
would come out and put on the
stone money to the value of what
they wished to take. Sometimes
this money was dropped into the
cavity in the stone tkat the rain
water generally lying there might
clean it. On returning, the market
folk took the money that was left
for them; hence the name of these
old monuments--"plague stones"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
Wind as a DESTROYER.

The ravages wrought upon sea
bluffs during great storms are often
due to the wind as much as to the
ocean waves. Sand and salt spray
driven for hours before a violent
wind act like a gigantic sand blast,
eating away with surprising rapid
ity the layers of gravel and sand
of which many projecting head
lands are composed. The surfaces
of bodies exposed to such wind
are soon pitted. AT a great gale in
1899 single night sufficed to con-
vert the window panes of the life
saving station at Truro into ground
glass.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice is hereby given that
sealed bids will be received up t.
- O'clO k 10 n on November, 13
1911, at the Office of the City
Auditor of the City Of Mobridgr.
or the installati n Of y Lew, r
system for SAID City of MobriLe
in acco' dance with the plans and
specifications on file in the office
of the City Aunitor
A certified check of 5000
must accompany each bid The
City reserves the righf to rejec, any
or all bids
By order of the City Council.
Datel October 24th. 1911.
(Seal) P. P. .otoltzman.
Mayor
Attest, NJ. T. Woods.
City Auditor.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10

Here is one case where the hus-
band had the last word and pos
sibly scored a point. 1t was during
a little spat. His wife had been
talking for ten minutes without
let up, and the end came only when
she asserted vehemently, "There; l
hope I've made myself plain!"
"Made yourself plain. my dear"
he replied. "Why, bless your heart,
! didn't know you had anything to
do with it. l thought YOU were
&, sorn that way" = Philadelphia
Times.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10

Jud" LaMOure, of Pembina,
North Dakota, whose name has
been Gle sely identified with the po-
ltical history Ct that state for
many ,ea"s, is said to be lying
critically i'll at his summer home
at Nisswa, a short distance north
of Brainerd, MINI. His coalition
has deem rendered alarming by the
loss of his wife, whose death oc-
CURED about Q month ago.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
Powerful.

'Have you any hair tonic P"
asked the stranger in the barber's
chair.
eyes, sir" was the reply of the
modest tonsorial artist, "but / hope,
sir, you will not ask me to apply it
on your head. If ! did give you an
application you would accuse me Of
extortion, for l should be forced to
give you at least three hair cuts
aSd charge you for same before you
would be presentable enough to
leave the shop, sir."-Chicago
News,
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
Bitterly Disappointed.

"Did you have a good time at
Mrs. Gaddaway's last night?"
"Not very. I was disappointed"
"How? ?"
"Well, several people wanted Mrs
Mickleworth to sing"
"And she refused?"
"No: after holding out for quite
awhile she consented Chicago
Record Herald.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-11-10
Notice OF Lot Sale for the NonPayment OF Special
Assessment for WatermainS

NOTICE. Th't the city council of the City of Mobdge
South Dakota the power them vested did the
July 1870 by ordinance regularly PASSED. levy special
the along
city, that said special penalty and
thereon due and owing, follows
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
No More Dandruff,
Bowditch, Webster G Co. Sell the
Remedy That is Guaranteed to Kill
all Dandruff Germs.

or course you and every intelligent
reader of the Journal knows that dand-
ruff is caused by germ.
DR.. Sagerbund, the great French ply
stefan. proved this beyond doubt.
In order to rid your scalp of filthy dand4
ruff you must kill the germ. There is a
hair dressing called Partisan Sage. which
is now sold in every town in America.
that is guaranteed to eradicate dandrun
stop falling hair, splitting hair and
scalp itch in two weeks. or money back.
If YOU have dandruf. get large so cent
bottle today and rid yourself of it. Re
member that if dandruG germs are not
destroyed in time, the hair will surely
fall out and badness will follow
Here's proof of valat Partisan sage has
done; it will do more. 1t is the finest
hair grower and hair dressing in the
world, and people who use it regularly
will never grow bald. Mrs John Stoner,
Evansville, Ind, writes on June ., 1910:
Il used Partisan Sage and found it
very successful; it removes dandrum and
gives the hair life l only used two bot
ties. / know it is cure for dandruH >
Large bottles 50 cents at BoHuitch.
Webster & Co.'S and druggists every
where The girl with the Auburn hair
is on every carton.
Sold and guaranteed in Watervlle by
The Dorr Drng Store, and in Gardiner by
Jackson Bros
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
North Augusta Grange Celebration.

In accordance with preparations
which had been in progress for some
time the members of North Augusta
Grange brought to a successful con :
elusion Tuesday the matter of a
Fourth of July celebration, which call
ed out large attendance and kept
most of the people in that section Of
the city at home for the day, and in
eidentally gave them d good time The
principal event of the morning was a
baseball game between teams from
Sidney and Belgrade. which furnished
lots of sport and in which Sidney was
a winner with score of Is to :. The
conclusion of the game was followed
by dinner in the Grange hall dining
room
According to agreement the winner
of the morning game of ball was to
play the North Augusta team in the
afternoon. and this game proved one of
the features of the day. 1t was very
close but Sidney won out with a score
'of to >. In the other sports of the
afternoon the creased pig was caught
by Ray Nesbit of Sidney, the 100 yard
dash was won by G. &. Fuller of Sid
ney, and the half-mile run by John
Burgess. At the close of the day sup
per was served. and the celebration
closed with dancing in the evening to
music by the Grange Orchestra, and a
fine display of fireworks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
BABYs CHEEKS WERE SORE

Very often a stubborn eruption will
break cut on hahy'c face and the
mother IS At her Wits' end 10 know
how to eue IL Mrs G. s Hoffman.
of Minot. y. u. SAYS "since our
babys birth She has had a had break
ing out on her checks. but after USING
Comfort Powder it is entirely healed
Every tabF ought to have Comfort
Powder - that IT world be free tom
chatting. irti;a;ions and rashe4 Coti-
fort Powder soothes and heals the
skin and keeps il firm and well The
genuine bears + :. sykes. name. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
SCRAPS.

Roller skating is becoming a popular
amusement in Roumania
Pneumatic boxing gloves have been
invented by a Phlladelphian.
The German empire has twenty in
situations Tor the care of cripples.
Hartford Conn. uses more electric
ity per capita than any other city.
London's alien population is increas-
ing at a rate of more than twelve
thousand year.
All classes of fireworks are more
commonly used in Mexico than in the
United States
There are 24S paupers to every ten
thousand of the population of Great
Britain and Ireland.
BY the first of next year India will
be making its own railroad rails in
stead of importing them.
A colIapsible boat, invented by a
trenchman, can be folded to carry in
an ordinary suit case.
The governor Of Porto Rico is going
to introduce the growing of cotton in
the western part of the island
A British automobile concern has
built a truck and trailer especially for
the transportation eft aeropIanes.
To keep a diners fingers clean there
has been invented silver clip to hold
and squeeze slice Of lemon.
For polishing places on metal work
mot easily reached an emery cord has
been devised, strong thread being
coated with finely powdered emery.
solutions Of starch will remove ink
Istains from fabrics, each application
being allowed to dry until il can he
brushed off before another is applied.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
Tho Foot Races.

One of the best events of the att
ranoon was the 1GO-yard dash in which
tho nartieipants were l. - Duffy
of Augusta, Paul Clcutiel- istoii
and I1tn rooney of BrocRP peiAast.
Dnffv is a local boy and was cheeRd
loudly by the spectators when ne Won
the dash. trimming cloutier by about
three feet Dufy's time was l0t2 soc
onds As Duffy struck the tape, CIou-
tier yelled: well I'll be here again
in August" and Mir. Duffy prompti|
announced his willingness to accept
any challenge which Cloutier might
make.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
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'.BIRLE.S STUDIES.
JEHoVAH's SUFFERING SERVANT

Isaiah So: 10; .53:f -12-JuIy Q.
Jehovah hath Laid on him the iniquity
of us all. "
In this study we have a Divinely drawn
portrait of the experiences which God
fore ordained should come upon the one
whom lie has promised shall ultimately
be the great Messiah of glory. who will
exalt the nation of Israel and through it
pour blessings upon all the families of
the earth Thus il is written, "In thy
seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed" Much of the prophecy of this
study has already been fulfilled, but not
all of 1.-THE glorious features are yet to
come. and we believe are nigh, even at
the door.
These prophecies were written nearly
700 years before our Christian Era. They
had their most striking fulillment in the
personal experiences of Jesus. However,
it should not be forgotten that faith
full handful, little flock" the followers
of Jesus, have walked in His steps dur
ing the 10 centuries of this Age they
have followed Him through evil report
and good report they have suffered with
Him, and the reproaches of those VINO
reproached Him have fallen upon them;
and when the hour OF glorious revelation,
the Kingdom power, shall come. these
will he with their Redeemer and share
His throne and glory, and, as His Bride,
share His name. "Ihis is the name
whereby she shall be called, Our right
eousness of Jehovah."-Jer. 23:6; 1916
The lsy to. the understanding of the
long delay in.the establishment. of Mes
siahs Kingdom is found in the fact that
the Church is a very part of Him, mem
bers of Ills body. Had it not been the
Divine intention to gather an elect few
from Israel and from all nations to be
the Bride of Messiah. and "a sharer in
His Kingdom there would have been no
need of the long delay between the suf-
ferings of Jesus and the outpouring of
the glorious blessings which His death
secures
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
Automobile Race.

For the. closing feature Manager
Hanks had Edgar Marden present with
his 5o-horsepower Euick and an
nounced that the young local ehaheor
would attempt to break the track rec
ord and Mardcn did break the record
of Maine going three miles in 1 MN
utos and IS seconds. William KING ana
Herbert Heath were in the machine
with Marden.