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TAKE 4 LESSON FROM VENUS. !.
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Not Without Same Points 9
MortF1ifaess

ns,ss van,,s Is q lovely girl; not
o,,a time has she nlattered against
lar male illumined life not one WORD
has sha uttered. Just think, sness
been without her arms for many uuslS
ages and yet she never drops ~ she
brine or rants In hopeless RACES. one
has to stand bunch of gun from f'tl az
bugs down to draymen, ana yee sne
never once comes back ana s. sfliis :, 10
heather layman. When some g low
brow Of brutal mieli starts mefT1iy 70
banning and says her face y worse
than wood and that her hair needs
canning or that he has Waltfess
friend who jerks a coffee 5iggeF eo .a
give her many, many leagues anu peae
her out on dgger. she never even
looks at him, that rank untutorea slh-
5ner. but holds her tongue and spsa w
tai, %, Venus is a winner. sh q, Z %
the lob both day and night. she heass
man knock or fatter and women T. not
Of classic mold get madden man
halter. She suffers long anu auiet.y
with calm and placid manner; y cola
NO n1its to reach a quilt, IN heat, no
hands to fan her She II lesson an E'
herself fruit for daily picking. JUST
spare the world your trouble tales ana
scratch the useless kicking a y, IN
Chicago Tribune. 8'
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RESGUE Ed JUST In TIME
FROM The QUIcksAnD.
MAN STRUGGLES FOR TWO HOURS
IN TREAcHERous SLIME
WHICH ENGuLFED HIM.

White Plains, N. Y.-Gilbert Ste
phens is under the care of physicians
at his home in Silver Lake Park. and
may be weeks in recovering from the
shock Of d long battle with death IN
quieksand recently. Stephens had
taken a short cut homeward and
stun bled into q depression which was
formerly the bed Of q small lake. The
place is widely known as spotted with
dangerous quicksands and Stephens
found himself in the grip of one OF
them. The more he struggled to get
out the deeper he went in. For two
hours he shouted for help, until finally
his voice was silenced by the mud.
which rose about his shoulders and
pressed on his lungs SO that he could
barely breathe. The quicksand
reached his chin and was pulling him
slowly but surely to death by suffoca-
ton William Piscule, town COM
stable. who was out duck shooting,
saw him and went running to his res
cue. Piscule hurriedly picked up an
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MARKED BY A MIRACLE

Extraordinary excitement has been caused
among the peasants In the neighhorhood of
K11timagh, County Mayo, this week, by a
series Of what are described miraculous hap
penings, at the convent there, a Dublin cerre-
spondent OF the st. Louis Globe-DemocTat
writes.
Among the children who are being educatsd
by the good nuns OF KIltimagh is q girl oe
thirteen, who has been an inmate OF the con.
vent school for the last thres or four years.
She is described as extremely docile and afs
fectionate and moro than usually religious. A
few nights ago ona of the nuns awakened
by fearful screams from the dormitory Where
the girl slept and on going to her she was told
that the child had had a terrible dream, In
which she saw Christ on the cross and sob
der driving lance into his side.
The nun comforted her and she went to
Sleep but In the morning she complained that
her arm was sore and on examination 1t was
found to be marked with cross In red and
underneath the cross were the letters 81 Il
s." few days later a crown Of thorns APP
peared below the cross and the letters Il N.
r. l." and these were followed by the appear
ance Of a chance surmounted by a host In
red. The marks have been examined by tha
parish priest, Rev. Father OHara, and by Dr..
Madden of Kiltimagh, who vouch for their be
ing there but decline to express any opinion as
to their cause. It Is said that during the doc
tors examination the stigmata bled freely. The
nuns maintain stoutly that the child had no OPP
portunity OF inaicting the injuries, il injuries
they be, on herself and understand arrange
nents are being made for thorough investiga
tion Of the mystery by q committee OF co
clesjastics and medical men.
Another case illustrating in another way the
credulity which still Is TO be found in some
parts Of Ireland has just come TO light by the
prosecution at Granard OF an Australian who
had been travelling the country extracting
money-not teeth-from country people who
are afflicted with toothache. Thomas Herman
said that the man told him he could cure him
by extracting the nerves of his teeth and that
when he consented to undergo the treatment
the man took an instrument Ike long
needle picked at his teeth awhile and then
laid what looked like little white caterpillar
on his sleeve, saying this was the nerve and
that he would never suffer from toothacha
again.
OF course he did SITTER, and when he went ia
medical man for relief and told his story ha
. learned how ha had laaan awindIad
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Naaei ia Assistance.

# poor old cast-doEn hobo started
to knock the paint of Of back door
the other morning, and when ne tear
fully told the lady who appeared that
he had sick wife at home and
dozen hungry kids, she gave him
couple of homemade biscuits. Daintily
the hobo handled them, and once
more he glanced up Wistfully.
whats the matter. Indignantly
demanded the housewife, aren't you
satisfied with the biscuits 2"
& eyes, dear lady, replied the tramp
full one, but thought perhaps you
would be SO kind as to loan me nut
cracker for few minutes. /"
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ginius back to America Mtdshipman uAaef
wood was one OF two or three officers VINO
were assigned to the Virginlus 70 look a1eet y
while the towing process was on.
The life on board the virginius Is one that
it Is impossible to describe. The Spanlards
had left her In such filthy state that nVlng
on board was into1erable even after pleasing
processes had been tried. After few Gays ~
board that ship the men looked as though
they had been through q siege OF sickness.
Finally when off the Virginia capes the VT
ginius gave every evidence OF being IN s1nk-
ing condition. She foundered quickly ana me.
officers and men on board escaped to the Us
sipee, being obliged to leave their belongings
behind The benefcent United States govern
ment, because Of some red tape reason OF
other, declined to make good to the devoted
sailors the property which they had LOST
through no fault of their own and in direct Line
of duty.
Captain Underwood was for two years In
command OF the United States government sta
ton In the Samoan islands He was consid-
cred one Of the handsomest men In the service
of his country. He was over six feet high.
finely proportioned and a fine physical speci
men generally No war with man went on in
the Samoan islands, but the heat and the food
and the devilishness OF the climate generally
did the work Of The battlefield. II Captain
Underwood had never been given an assign
ment at the Samoan islands 1t is probable
that he would have continued In the active
service until the age limit Of sixty-tWo years
was reached. The dangers of warfare are not
the only ones by any means that navy and
army officers are obliged to meet.
It may do no harm here to recall the story
OF the heroism of Lieut.. James e. Bell OF the
United States army who died because OF his
devotion to duty, died at time when no bull
lets were flying but when an even deadIIer
foe of necessity must be met This story has
been published many times, but 1t has its ever
lasting lesson
Fort Jefferson, on the Tortugas, in August
Of the year 1873 was garrisoned by Battery MI,
First United States artillery. Outside of the
surgeons there was only one officer, Lieuten.
ant Bell, at the post. Capt. l.. L. Langdon had
been granted leave Of absence to so north
TO the bedside Of his dying father On August
Is yellow fever appeared at the post Within
two days four Of the garrison had died Upon
the first announcement of the appearance of
the scourge Lieutenant Bell sent all the women
and children and some OF the married men to
an island three miles away. Within day OF
two he sent to the same place nearly all the
well men OF the garrison, retaining only
enough to nurse the sick. There could have
been no criticism OF Bells course had he gone
with the garrison, leaving the sick to the care
OF the surgeons and the nurses. He stayed and
devoted himself to the sick In the hospital, as
sisted BY the men who had volunteered. The
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deck Just peeping above the water. When the
sea was calm and the sky was clear the sun
beat down on the metal and the men who had
stood the night watches and We're trying to
sleep suffered more severely than do the
people in the crowded back tenements In New
York city on hot July night when death
walks through the streets. An officer who
served on a monitor during the Spanish war
told me that the average temperature for
long period Of time in his cabin was 104 de-
grees.
Recently two young officers not long out
OF the naval academy were forced to resign
from the service because they were constantly
seasck while on service on the battleshfps.
The young fellows stuck it out for several voy-
ages, but when 1t Is remembered that seasick
man as rule is SO sick that he Is perfectly
willing to die, 1t can be understood what these
young fellows suffered during the weeks OF
the voyaging. They resigned from the navy
simply because they could not be of any serv-
Ice They were sick from the moment the Voy-
age began until they were back once more In
port They were competent officers and since
their resignation they have been given land
berths as officers OF heavy artillery In the
United States army.
/ asked an old naval officer recently, a man
who served on the cid frigate Constitution, II
no knew Of any cases Of chronic seastckness
among officers and men during the old days
OF the service He said he knew of only one
case, that OF an officer who developed seasick-
ness after some years of service, but that 1t
was thought that slight injury to his spine
had affected his stomach and that 1t was this
more than the motion Of the vessel which was
the cause of his ailment.
This same veteran officer said that there
Is considerable seasickness today in the navy,
although comparatively few cases that could
be called chronic, and that they were due, he
believed, more to the heat of the modern steel
vessels than to the motion caused by the
waves. In the old days of wooden ships with
sail power only, there was no heat on board
except that given out by the galley and by the
small stove which occasionally was to be found
in the captains cabin The old-time ships in
winter were kept in warm climates as much as
possible or otherwise the men would have
s frozen to death.
The old wooden vessel jamestown, once
commanded by Commodore Perry who opened
the ports of Japan to the commerce of the
United States, is anchored In Hampton Roads
where 1t is used as q marine hospital service
station. A surgeon stationed on the jamestown
once told me that in the old days, when the
vessel was In commission the only way the
captain could warm himself without going tc
the galley was to have roandshot heated IN
the stove then dropped into a bucket Of sand
to be carried aft to his cabin. where 1t gave
out just enough warmth to temper for a few
moments the cold of the quarters.
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special ordnance board, with four volunteer
sailors agreed to stay on board the Puritan
when the explosive was detonated. More than
this, Captain knight had the task Of punching
small holes in the explosive with a lead pencil
to permit the Introduction of fuses. This was
an exceedingly delicate operation and because
OF the fact that the explosive was a new com
bination II was possible that something might
happen during the puncturing lightly as 1t
was performed. After the fuses were inserted
Captain Knight connected electric wires with
them and then went forward to position on
the berth deck with the four enlisted men
who elected to stay on board with him.
The ordnance board officer turned a switch
and the explosion took place. The report was
thunderous. 1T felt like an earthquake" said
Captain knight afterward With his men the
venfuresome captain escaped injury but their
herofsm was just as real as II they had been
blown to atoms, for because Of the fact that
the explosive was a comparatively unknown
quantity, no one could tell definitely what
might happen
Writing OF the Puritan, which is g monitor,
brings to mind the fact that officers and men
serving on vessels OF this type undergo hard
ships OF which the people of the country know
little. The monitor gradually is passing an
active service vessel and 1t is not likely that
anybody connected with the service from adj
mlral down to cooks mate Is sorry for 1t. The
heat in the monitors is something Intense, and
as the waves wash over the low decks Of the
vessels when any kind Of breeze is blowing
the men are confined below with no air except
such as is pumped down to them by way OF
the engine room, and this air Is hot oily and
productive on many occasions of sickness.
called sickness, but which in reality is
pothing Of the kind, although 1t has all the
attendant symptoms of the real article.
The modern battleships are frightfully hot
below decks, especially when they get into
tropical and sub-tropical waters. A civilian
who went to Panama with President Taft said
that In his cabin when dressing for dinner he
was Obliged to stand directly in the draught of
blow pipe to prevent the profuse perspira-
ton from so melting the bosom of his dress
shirt that 1t would be unpresentable wfen he
appeared at the presidents table, The ther-
mometer in the staterooms stood at about liz
degrees
Some years ago an officer who was sta
toned on monitor was found dead in his
berth and the surgeons pronounced his death
to have been caused by apoplexy. heat apo
plexy the officers OF the ship called It. An old
naval of1cer In washington has told me that
the thermometer In the cabin of the officer
who died stood at 40 degrees and that the
death was due solely to heat stroke.
During the Spanish war the monitor Milan
tonomah was on hlockading duty OF the port
OF Havana, Cuba. The Miantonomah Is an old
81 staes nacnitor cased in metal and with the
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Men Doomed to Freeze.

Washington. Men will freeze to
death on the equator millions Of years
hence, according to DIR. Harvey w.
Wiley, who forsook the subject Of
germs In food, In addressing the seeu-
lar league In Washington, and dis
cussed the question, rs man ultimate
" to starve or freezer
Doctor Wiley said he believed the
earth was slowly cooling, and that the
people Of the distant future must
freeze. though he declared that for "a
million years, at least humanity
would not suffer from lack OF food or
fuel. In the frigid days to come, ac-
cording to Doctor Wiley, the winds
will serve as fuel.
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Bulldog Beheads a Spaniel.

Logansport, Ind-When a small toy
spaniel rushed into the street and at
tackled Jack brindIe bulldog
owned by Allen Nelson, 1t looked az
IL the toy dog had lost his head A
moment later he had literally lost his
head, for Jack resented a nip on the
flank by turning on his little assais-
ant.
The little dogs head was grabbed
by the bulldog and when the spaniel
had been decapitated the bulldog ran
after his masters buggy, carrying thu
head as trophy.
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He called in his first lieutenant and said: =
have here orders transferring you Immediately
to Vermont. You have done a noble work here.
There is no reason why you should stay longer
You have been through enough Of this awful
thing. Co.
Bell said: Captain, j don't want the order.
# read it / suppose I shall have to obey simply
because it is an orS$r. You keep II IN your
pocket until the fever is ever and then I'll read
1t and CO.
Langdon shook hands with him.
Bell went on with his work. In a few days
he felt the hot hand Of the scourge On his brow.
He went to his tent, pulled up his little camp
table and wrote an official letter TO the assist
ant adjutant general at headquarters Of the de-
partment Of the gulf Holly Springs, Miss. Il
was q long letter, covering many pages. There
was In Bells heart that day the fear that he
might die and leave undone an act Of duty to
others. He cherished the thought OF tne loyalty
OF the surgeons and the enlisted men who had
SO nobly performed their duties to the sick and
dying. facing the fever and death itself without
dinching. He mentioned In this official COM
munication each doctor and man byname. recon.
mending them for recognition at the hands Of
the department. OF himself he said nothing
his whole thought was that recognition should
be given to others
Lieut.. James r. Bell put down his pel~ went
TO the hospital and In three days was dead
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Are You Weak, All
r u n ID O W r,

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Il Galvanized Iron Corrugated and Erimp
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Nipped Iii the Sud.

Parke Too bad about Differs boy,
wasn't it got him graduated from
college and thought he had a career
before him.
Lane What happened?
Parke Why, he has just eloped
with the lady chauffeur. life.
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Trapped In Quicksand.

armful Of brush and several boards
from fence, which he threw out on
top of the quicksand. This gave him
a footho1d and he reached down TO
Stephens, tying the straps Of his gun
bag beneath the helpless mans shout
ders. Then, after a long struggle, he
dragged the prisoner out and laid him
down, exhausted.
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Capt. Edmund B.

Capt. Edmund 3.
Underwood, United
States navy, retired
from the service re-
Gently after forty
years service In the
line. Just after Cap
tain q n d e r " o Q d
came out of the ma
val academy and
was serving as q
midshipman he was
assigned to the old
ahip | Ossipee, which
went to Cuba to
bring back q vessel
called the Virginius,
W b &c b had b . e n
seized by the Span
iards in Cuba and
Its crew OF AI1eri-
cans put to death.
This country came
near having a war
with Spain over the
Virginius incident.
When the Ossipee
was towing the Vir-
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The greatest glory Of a free-bcrn
people is to transmit that freedom to
their children. Harvard.
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DR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
SSugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take
as candy.
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r als.e.

Clerk This IS an eigft-day clock.
& Murphy ivan! its a 1oi; theirs
only swim days In the wake! Puck.
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PILES CURED I'M q TO IA DAYS
Your druggist will refund money if PAZO ONT
ID EMF fails TO cure any case OF Itching, Blind
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heat was fearful. There was
not a pound of ice on the
island and many OF the deaths
that followed one after anoth-
er were due to the lack Of this
necessity. There were 20
cases Of the fever and for days
and nights continuously the
devoted lieutenant command
er, the surg cons and the
nurses knew no rest. With
their own hands they dug the
graves for the dead and with
their own lips repeated over
them the burial service.
Captain Langden in the far
north heard Of the yellow fe-
yer at Fort jefferson. He in
stantly relinquished his leave
of absence and fastened to
return to his station. Some
months before the outbreak OF
the fever Lieutenant Bell had
put in an application to be de-
tailed as instructor OF military
science at the University OF
Vermont. The application had
been granted, and Captain
Langdon, hurrying southwark
to join his command, carried
in his pocket the order reliev-
Ing Lieutenant Bell from duty
at Fort Jefferson and detailing
him for work in Vermont
Langdon reached his post.
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ar,,r,orfar,t 10 lyRotheYe
Signature Of 4
One Way to Look at II.

One Way to Look at II.
.Ii1ksDo you know, was re-
fused three times before found a
girl who would have me? r.
$8 BiinksI see. Just like Q patent
medicine: Well shaken before taken
Judge.
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Heavy words in meeting will not
make up for short weight In market.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-12-01
THREE PINES

Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Daniel O,
Mountain passed through here to
spend the Thanksgiving holiday with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. oglesby of vii.
derville.
c. E. Chaplin and Emroy Davis are
trapping on the headwater5 of Jack
creek and will 80 from there to- the
country between the headwaters O!
Jump Off Joe and Grave creek.
They are provisioneG for a long
stay.
D. W. Davis of this place caught
large, fine red fox In a trap set for
coyotes.
A special school meeting will be
held in the school house December
z, at o'clock in the afternoon for
the purpose of voting tax to pro-
vide for the payment Of outstanding
warrants of the district.
The school gave an entertain
ment and basket social at the school
house Wednesday evening Nov. 20.
Proceeds to be used In establishing
library.
Mr.. Guy Colby of Merlin Is here
running the planer for the Three
Pines Lumber company.
Numerous consignments OF blast
Ing powder are arriving at this point
to be used in clearing land to be set
with grapes and tree fruits.
Monday morning as Mrs. Geo. Baer
was employed In the household du-
ties at the back part OF their home,
one Of the numerous persons whose
occupation is to solicit ahandout, re-
quested her to give him something
to eat. She stated she had nothing
for him. Then he became abusive
and threatening and stated that he
would fix her. and proceeded to ad-
vance upon her. She secured a 22
calibre rifle ana ordered him off the
place. He continued to advance and
when about IL or Is feet away she
shot at him. He fell to his knees,
then got up and ran rapidly away.
Mr.. Baer and others soon we're on
the scene and made diligent search
for the offender, but without sue
cess.
Mrs. Baer was so overcome by the
exciting incident that she collapsed
entirely, but is recovering now.
Mr.. and Mrs, Raleigh Bowers are
spending Thanksgiving with Mrs.
Bowers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Rolfe and family at the Spring
Valley Orchards