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The Washington herald., 1911-07-02
COPYRIGHT ny JAMES ELTERSoN

n ri ER1 great fun can be had by a boy or
~ III girl on pair of stills When on
N StlIts you arc higher than the other
people OF the earth, and there is a
~ sort OF satisfaction in feeling even
an artificial superiority over the rest
o. your fellow beings.
They are not at all hard to ma;tN A very
good pair to practice on can be made in half
an hour by schOOlbOy who has access to
some common tools. Take two straight
pieces of wood, long enough to reach to the
top OF your shoulders after you arc mounted
and strong enough to bear your weight. A
iCot-pece Is then nailed or screwed to the
upright strips. They should be fastened on
the inner side and should project at right
angles just far enough to form a comfortable
rest for the foot. They should be supported
by braces.
For stills to learn upon, the foot-piece
should be not more than fourteen inches
from the ground. If they are for small
boy they should be even nearer the ground
when you have attained proficiency the
stlits may be five feet from the ground, and
even higher, according to the aspirations Of
the walker. 1t should be borne in mind how.
ever, that great skill is required to walk
upon such pair, and that a fall from them
would not be pleasant
When your stills have been completed the
next thlng 10 be done 1t TO mount them
Fest the ends on the ground, grasping the
handles IN such manner as to bring them
bGhind the shoulders set your left foot in its
pace and spring up, bringing the right foot
to its place while you are in the air. At the
same time hold the uprightS close to your
shoulders, under your arms, and partly encir-
cled by them, with the hands near the hips,
pressing forward
1t will require some practice to learn TO
mount before you can take step. But when
you are once able to balance yourself well on
your stilts, you will find it easy to preserve
your equilibrium as you walk, although not so
easy to stand still.
Your first exercise should be on hard.
smooth ground, but afterwards you may
lengthen your stills and cross brooks and
step over fences
Shltng may seem a childish pastime but
1t Is far from being one. 1t requires a good
deal OF skill to balance yourself and cover
the ground rapidly. 1t brings into play much
the same faculties that skating does.
:, Wnen ! was boy sitting was quite the
lhlng. vi late 1t seems to have gone out of
fashion,. but 1T is sure to come back into
laVor, Tor the cable tells Ills that at Paris,
from which the rest of the world gets it's
ashions, stlltlng has now come into popular
Use, and is now the rage not only for Young
people, but for men and women.
They recently had big silt race there, in
whlch the contestants wore stills fastened
hrmly to the legs, leaving the hands and arms
ree, and carried leaping-poles, with which ,
hey drove themselves along over the ground
he custom came to Paris from the LAndes
ot Gsscony, in France. There stiits are
ibout as common as shoes, on account of the
nature of the soil. The shepherds of that
'ountry go stalking over the broad, marshy
ANDY plains on high stills, which not only !
The Washington herald., 1911-07-02
A GaSuonomic Feat

land the schoolmaster keeps his boys grind.
ing steadily Nt their tasks, but gives. them
permission to nibbe from their lunch baskets
sometimes as they work One day, while the
master was instructng a class in the rule of
Fnying more attention 10 a small tart than to
his lesson. tom Balm" said the master
"'liGten to the lesson, win ye?' Il am listen.
ing; sir" said the boy. Listening, are ye?"
wi one ear an eating pie WI the other!"
The Washington herald., 1911-07-02
Saved By an Um-
breIla
COPYRIGHT BY JAMES BLVBRsou

VVFTHGHT BY JAMES BLVBRSON
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The Washington herald., 1911-07-02
The Bull and the Bear

r.IE often hear of the bulls and the bears
|kIV of the Stock Exchange, the bulls
WI being the people who seek TO enhance
WI the value of stocks, and the bears
- meaning those who are interested in
depressing their value. Between
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-31

liEe o. see a. uln fir arf suuar
vith eteryhaly r ftis wrrla ard D
dout th-l. f-ii.- age o. Best a
raiiroad any moren anyb.ris els Yaa
can't nut no dependence in that mar
Haukir-
"ie was soin 90 tska rre a'anr wIth
hlm. 1ii he iooi we- ael took BI
Meffhy- They t4el -osshsal tsith
Q hc,c ia th sial hs aaa-h fel
man Do CRAWL m, rheys @ scr-an ora
tor tut lis covered rilh iaaea h.r
end you'd ,l'ns the h1ssr rl e-s Com
OF feed f0r fht horses. hut It al-r. -.'.
hnlitr was t1 rlle 7.i.a r uf
hide Dob tterc vr.n army ono co..
around, aaa yoal and BN Ierply
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there any time you care to look.
Rights right, by thunder"
! thanked him, and assured him we
would so after the fugitive William.
We did and we got him.
It happened at q division point west
Of the Missouri We passed the word
along, and a husky officer crawlsd into
the car and thrust his club down
through the top dressing Of the hogs
head with such force that it drew out
Bill Murphy's lustiest yeIp. Then they
got him out, and the passenger de-
partment assessed him one first class
fare from point OF origin to destina-
tion, which was painful for both Bill
and Hankins
The Evidence Aecumulates.
l think it was the fourth, possibly
the hfth day that we had another
visitor in whose eyes shone the light
of vengeance. Il understand Bill Ham
kins has lit out for New Mexico said
he.
Left four or five days ago" "a
I reckon I'm too iate?9 N
Too late for what?" we asked. Il
10 git even Win Hifils n
What's he done to your"
Done to me? Why, two years ago,
when l run for constable in Hickory
Township didn't he help beat me?
Huh? I've bin layin for him ever
since. DO YOU think he's got through
yet?s
Hardly"
Then maybe you can ketch him.
Told you he was loading his household
goods, did he? He's got a butchers
refrigerator in that car--one Of them
big ones. Its settin' close TO the door.
And that amt all; he's takin' Baldy
Blue and Jim Blinks along with him,
and they hide in the Refrigerator.
I reckon, il your company looks in
there, they'll find them two fellers
stealth a ride. Hankins will have to
pay for EN-, won't he? They're goin'
out to work for him, and they ain't got
anything themselves. Hope you'll git
him. And viii you let me know IL
you do2'
We certainly will
"Thatll do me more good than TO
have the burned office. That'H be
handin him some, won't it?p
Again we wired. and somewhere near
the border line of the Texas Pam
handle an officer boarded the car
opened the ice-box, and removed from
cold storage two husky mendicants.
The whole outfit was held up until full
.ares We're produced.
There Was more coming to Hankins.
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/ different When he was a railroad
agent there was no one lowering over
him an the time with a petty air Of
authority. He passed in or out, or
spoke up pretty much as he pleased.
and life was more satisfactory
lie observed that in commercial life
only a few reached exalted places. and
were talked OF and written about. But
there are millions WHO wiggle about
the surface an tine days OF their lives
and never develop beyond the tad
pole stage. This truth had never
dawned ou Johnson before Was that
to be his fate?
lie felt a longing for the railroad.
The old days he had thought grind
and yeNation We're now remembered
with pleasure He had been iured
awey and was going Ia the wrong di-
reeti9n.
ON the following morning the de-
parument manager was an aeloW
"faf you heard the good news2 he
asked of the clerks. Isaac has gum
back from Europe lie VIII gum to
the office aboudt Two o'clock Ven he
gums iu AN Of YOU arise ana Clap your
hands See2 Cnd don't forget. We
glt hlm q hearty welcome.
Isaac did come in and tho sala-
m9nder clerk and aE the rest save one
arose aud claprrd their hands vigor-
ousiy ID was a gleeful spontaneous
uprising hearty. impromptu demon
stratlon OF welcome-per order-and
Isaac acknowledge il with formal
how.
one member Of the force remained !
seated The muscles of his face
twitchcd with disgust and his yo was I
cold and glinty 1t was Johnson.
In hl- railroad career he lad met |
aflil .als of aH degrees. ana they had /
always shown him consideration. ana 1
addressed him ON tine hroa4 equality 4
of the common good Hc had never
been s',1phaut He WAS never
.fugiue .Nitor ANA D. WAS not yet
rcsdr ,ot Hit state of thc vMmpc
1ule.Hus ready 20 iies the aaud teat
.ld.
Nev shortly the manaser came
lraurd Ny didn't you srl un and
su you- hands Wien Isaac sum ia
Back to the o'd job
Something OF tha nre OF '.s came M
u Johnson. when il comes 90 these
tHe artlicni tribute stunts Nr lian-
sti He qaits 1ehasrat iy .saa
iu> Hngcl me our
-Eua Hti-l he '~ exclaimed I
hr narae.r De- roa-o yci g-touislri- nt
Nar.r. iater ioans'n Nas t.es rlii-
fuF he hH su aai Cd pi-s
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pounds al the usual estimated weight
known in our literature as the
"minimum"- and on that basis we
figured it up for him to the lump sum.
1t seems he had the Impression
and it is a common one among the
innocent-that he chartered a car
for the amount named. and was there-
fore entitled 10 load into it whatever
he liked and in any quantity. He or
dered a furniture car and we placed
one of forty two feet for him within a
day or so.
For two days and nights they hauled
their stuff and filed the car and on
the second night, about the cock crow
ing hour the outfit got under way on
its long journey. On the following day
red-faced agriculurist came in to
know if Hankins's car had gone out
We informed him it had.
"Durn hint" said he He didn't
pay me for helpin' him load"
He Went away but in the evening he
came back.
1T makes me mad" said he ITO see
a fs'low tryin to beat everybody
just thought I'd let you know he's
beatin the railroad, tool"
Is hep asked. "Hows that?7
Advertised by His Loving Friends.
He loaded a saw-mill OUTFIT in that
car, and he chucked two thousand
brick in one end and q lot of nigger-
heads. 'Tain't all household goods Of
his'n. either. by a thunderin' sight!
He's took three other families along
with him. And that amt all; he's got
two of his brothers hid in the car
They got bunk back behind the
hayl"
| explained, to the qualification OF
my informant that the car would be
weighed Ell route, and that freight for
all excess weight above amount billed
would be assessed. So, if Hankins
thought he could take the chattels and
inhabitants Of the neighborhood along
in his chartered car" without addi-
tional expense, he would find he was
mistaken.
] thanked him for letting me know
OF the surplus passengers, and sent
message conveying this information
to the connecting line. The car was !
held up the deadheads were found and |
taken out, and full fares collected for
them.
On the following day another party |
came in. Il reckon" said he. Han
kinss car amt got through yet"
Not yet" / replied
"WeH. | ought TO tell Won something
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Wheh De reached his destination at
-ast Dee had 20 pay on the basis of
s,i,7i "eisht ior an the dead freight
-e mad gathered together. which was
-aid ie be many times in excess OF
.ae amount az which he was originally
-iiiea- and AN necause Of The delusion
tnat he had chartered a ear
the railroads may oppress the peo-
they may roo. devastate. ana
outrage But when the humble. down
irldien. and overburdened citizen
stumbies upon an opportunity. or sees
an onenine. what he tries 10 do 20 the
r4i'raad is plenty and then some
ANA 2au may add q little more % that
81 sou .ike. and youn sfiii b. short
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Copyright. The Frank A, Munsey Co.
w A Y r indoor employees Of the
l" railroad come regularly,
w WI one by one. to a time when
we iigure that some day we
gill aud to our income by miniature
agricultural sideline Of chickens H
ive-acre tomato patch. or ten-dere
yium or peach orchard
We never get to The actual point Of
intensive farming. but We carry the
fancy many years. and it smooths the
journey When there is no hone oe
something better ana greater we tire,
and Indulge ia weary retrospect, and
make gloomy forecasts. we can never
De rich spending our days Va the
freight office We figure il an out
The mortgage viii be lifted in 1920
ana by 20Is Me will have enough
ahead 70 buy am automobie Then We
arise and neat our chests and snT
the air OF cofnmercialism. We see men
employed til private enterprises doing
an KINDS of ornafnental stunts Vita
The counuNs currency ana we assilr
ourselves that Ii we had devoled as
much time and effort to any other
Kind Of busiisess as we haYe given tn
railroad we would have ten doub-
lo0ns % one ir the final count
THAT WAS what johnson thonght
johnson If not i myth. H. really eN
lists IN flesh ana blood only his real
name IS Burgess ana hc Is one ot the |
lyest agents err knew Ilag We
shall hide his identity here rs calling !
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sternly that when ii was luncheon
hour signal would be given Ths
luncheon hour came at last, aud
Johnson paused az he passed OUT awk-
wardly fumbed the dial ana punched
the button twenty three"
lis returned hastily almost precip-
itousN for the notices said. Meyer
put orr ana do it we'll" He reg
istered IN. ABother cargo of papers
was dumped on his desk when he
registered out at the end of the day.
lac was blear-eyed ana thick headed
He walked i've squares 10 go home
hy the way OF the old freight depot
and saw lS pull through lie waved
his hand AT the conductor. who re-
turned the haiiing sign with cordml
Halo, Iimi'
Then back 10 the works aud The
commercial liie where the dope he
had read told him there was "a beck
onlue hand 90 the dihgeut and worthy
to come on up higher and uisacr Day
n aud duv Out he piodded He Tel.
that be Wds rising bur like an oN pull
ius bs9yy load up him 10 Wheh
iher was ua summiG
As Anothsr Saw lt.
"Yourc bIanled tool. johnson,
remarked one ot the clerks n a dry.
cNHtssiouioss nauuer for quitting
good job on lle ralroaa for I'd lile S u-
uu,y m th.~ r@c Waat u you IT,
pcct 20 gain|
Johnson made feebio effort 20 de-
fend im meL lc c8Wc lo Hard vita
81. IL.
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Coinn lnto Ruslness.

The manager met him when DE- re-
ported Tor duty 5t manifested "a po-
lite cordiality but was udt enusiVe
Something IN his air impressed Johu-
son that henceforth orders would D.
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"Well. | ought to tell YOU something.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-23
MRS. TAFT TAKEN SICK
CONFINED TO BED BY ATTACK OF
NERVOUS TROUBLE.
Will lie Able to Return to Washinqtop
In Few Days, Says
Physician.

New York, N. Y. - Mrs. William
H. Taft suffered an attack of nervous
trouble in this city similar to that
with which she was seized just two
years ago, and which caused her aban-
donment of social activities for sever
al months thereafter.
The first lady of the land came to
New York with the president after
he had kept an evening speaking en-
gagement in Newark. and they attend.
ed a banquet given in connection with
the conference on reform of the Grim
inal law of procedure in the Hotel AS
tor.
1t was during the dinner that Mrs.
Taft first felt i'll, but she remained
until after the president had finished
his address and went to the home of
his brother, Henry w. Taft.
Sunday Mrs. Taft's condition was
company him to Washington.
The announcement caused alarming
reports of her illness, which the presi-
dent thought would be still more ex-
a%ggerated if he did not keep his ap-
pointment to speak in Harrisburg. Ac-
cordingly. he left as scheduled. and
Mrs. Taft remained in his brothers
house.
Henry w. Taft said Mrs. Taft had
remained in bed all day, but that she
was less seriously i'll than she was
two years ago. He said she had i'm
proved during the day and that there
was nothing at all alarming in her
condition.
Miss Helen Taft, was called from
Bryn Mawr to be with her mother.
The two Taft boys, Charles, who is
in W%atertown, Conn. and Robert, who
is in Harvard, were advised by wire
of their mothers illness, but were not
asked to come to New York. Follow
ing the presidents arrival he was driv-
en- directly to his brothers home.
Soon thereafter it was announced that
Mrs. Taft was much improved. Dr..
Evans says that Mrs. Taft will be
able to return to Washington within a
few days.
When in 1905 Mrs. Taft suffered her
first nervous breakdown it was said
! she was overcome by the ordeal of
witnessing an operation on her son,
Charles, in the eye and ear hospital in
Washington, and by the heat of the
trip down the Potomac. She was re-
moved from the yacht and taken back
to the White House. Her illness
caused her to give up her engage
ments for the remainder of the sum.
mer.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-23
General.

Jacob NJ. Dickinson has resigned as
secretary of war, and Henry l.. Slim
son of New York is his ccess
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant
presented to President Taft a medal
from the international Cancellation
society.
.Adjutant General E. H. Phelps OF
Nebraska has issued orders designat-
ing Semtember q to October 6 as the
dates for holding the annual state en-
campment Of national guards.
Investigation of charges of graft in
connection with the contracts for
sAoes for the army and navy was be-
gun by a subcommittee of the mill
tary affairs committee of the house.
Expectations of manufactures in
March We're at the rate of more thar
one billion dollars a year.
The ports of entry of Mexican Dor
der towns are to be opened wide for
ie legitimate commerce.
The western federation of miSers
has been granted full utilization with
the American federation Of labor.
Fourteen laborers, residents of
Portsmouth, O., who We're charged
with selling their votes at from 81 to
S; each were disfranchised for five
years by Judge Blair.
JuareZ has fallen, and Mexican reb.
els are in complete possession, with
General Navarro a prisoner.
The Nebraska republican house
membership opposed the free list bill.
Pensions of $4,000 a year each for
Frances Folsom Cleveland, widow of
President Cleveland, and Mary Lord
Harrison, widow of President Harri.
son. are provided for in a bill intro.
duced in the senate.
Fire losses in the Black Hills
forests will be greatly reduced this
sumSer because of preventive meas.
ures taken by the Burlington.
The report that between 5000 and
5000 people are starving along the
coast of Labrador, is declared to be a
gross exaggeration.
Foreign diplomats at Mexico City
have taken steps to safeguard res!
dents.
Seven distinguished Americans, nov
dead. are named among the active
members Of the American academy O
arts and letters in a bill creating tina
body, introduced in the house.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-23
WOOL SCHEDULE A PUZZLER.
Ways and Means Committee Debates
Free List or Revenue Taxes.

Washington, D.. c. - Democratic
members of the ways and means COM
mittee of the house undertook the
task of redrafting a bill revising the
wool schedule. The committee de-
bated for three hours without attempt
ing to reach a decision as to whether
the bill should place raw wool on the
free list OF reduce the tariff so per
cent Or more.
The paramount issue in revising the
schedule is To put raw wool
on the free list would cut off at once
32l 600, 200 in revenue, while the entire
wool schedule brings a event of
more than $4,000 900. By cutting the
duty or raw wool to 5 or 6 cents a
pound and making provision for a slid
ing reduction annually of l cent, some
Democrats are figuring that the i'm
portations would increase sufficiently
to cause no disturbance in the gov.
eminent e~Xchequer.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-23
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES
FRESH FROM THE WIRE.
the STORY IN A NUTSHELL
Embracing a Condensation of Events
In Which Readers Generally Are
More or Less Concerned.
Washinqton.


The decalogue and the golden rule
as standards for laws and government
are recommended to congress in a
joint resolution prepared by Repre-
sentative Pepper. OF Iowa, at he re-
quest OF the christian party.
1t was indicated that Secretary
MacVeagh will call for popular bids
on an issue of 50.000, 900 OF Panama
bonds in a few days. They will be
dated June / and if the treasury is
unable to deliver them by that time
they will carry accrued interest. The
interest rate will be ; per cent.
The joint resolution providing for
the election of United States senators
~ direct vote of the people. which
already has passed the house has
been taken up in the senate and will
be kept before it until voted upon.
Senator Borah is in charge of the
resolution.
Facing the question of an early re-
port in the Canadian reciprocity bill,
and with TIE free list bill already be-
fore them. members of the senate
committee on finance are considering
a democratic proposition to couple
the two measures. There is no hope
OF having the two bills reported as
one, but the motion Will be made in
committee.
The house decided to adjourn over
Monday because the order for that
day was the discharge Of committees.
One Of the discharge motions would
result in calling up for action a S40,-
900, 600 service pension bill. The
passaged of this bill is not on the
democratic program for the extra SEES
sion.
Representative Bathrick Of Ohio in
troduced a resolution to protect gov
ernment employees who may be called
UPON to testify before Investigating
committees of congress-. The resolu-
ton sets forth that employees OF the
government fear persecution as a
n~enalty for t%estifying against their
superiors. and provides that no en-
plcye shall be superseded, reduced
in rating or discharged because Of
such eStimOny.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-23
A Question Of Chanoe.

A story is going the rounds OF a
couple Of young people who attended
church recently. When the collection
Vas being taken up the young mar
commenced fishing In his pocket for a
dime. His face expressed his EN-
barrassment as he hoarsely whis-
pered: % guess l haven't a cent, |
changed my pants" The young lady.
who had been examining the unknown
regions of woman's dress for her
purse. turned a pink color and said,
I'm in the same fix"
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-23
To the Childish Mind.

Dorothy Ullman of East Eighty.
fourth street, is a very literal young
person. To her mothers definition OF
the All-Seeing Eye she returned .
question as to the size OF the eye.
Can God see everything?" she con-
tinued.
Yes, dear. He can see everything,
at all tines
That afternoon Dorothy escorted her
mother downtown. Before an Op.
tician's display she stopped. Then,
Mother" she asked. pointing to the
big winking eye in the window: is
Gods eye as big as this ?"-Cleveland
Leader.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-23
EXPLOSION IN CHICAGO.
Drives Twenty-Five Families Into the
Street.

Chicago, Illinois.-An explosion par.
TALLY wrecked a three-story fiat build
ing and drove twenty-five families in
to the street. Windows were shat
tered for blocks around, and a large
section of the thickly populated 1tal-
ian district was terror-stricken. Labor
difficulties are believed to have been
at the bottom of the explosion. In
spite of the heavy property damage
no n was injured.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-23
Had His Troubles.

Michael Dolan, an is it yourself?"
Yes; sure it is"
We'll. We know thOt bletherin' spal.
peen, WILDLY Castigan's second hus.
band?"
THAT I do"
He bet me a bob to a pint of wills.
ky l couldn't swally an egg without,
breakin' the shell NV It,"
AN ye did it,"
Il did"
Then phawts ailin' ye?"
IT'S doom there" laying his hand
on the lower part of his waist-coat.
III l jump about I'll break 1t and
cut ME stomach wild the shell, an II
l kape quiet It'll hatch and III have
a Shanghai rooster scratchin' me in.
side"