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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-09
Sign for Ball Park.

MONROE, La, Feb. S.-A contract
has been signed by the officials of the
Detroit Americans with the local base
ball club officials securing the training
rights in this city for five years. The
Detroits will arrive here February %.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-09
Box Seats on Sale.

Box seats for the aviation show
are on sale at the La VieIle cigar
store on South Main street. lleKets
are selling for 81 each. There are
only limited number Of these seats
and persons desiring boxes are adj
vised to get busy
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-09
SALT LAKE ROUTE RESUMES
THROUGH SERVICE,

Beginning February all through
trains will lcave on schedule time.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-09
SALT LAKE ROUTE RESUMES
THROUGH SERVICE.

Line open through February 7. All
through scheduled trains depart on time
February Q, See agent, l69 South Main
for reservations.
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Tribune Want Ads.
n al Main 5000. Independent 800
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Bell Main 5000 independent 800
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09

There was a small shelter offered by the
overhanging break of forecastlc ! have de-
scribcd and ththcr | repaired, dceming It
now inevitable that | must pass through the
long night on board the wreck.
The wind moaned through the forcshrouds,
and the solitary yard which remained crossed
crcaked harshly as it chafcd to and fro free
from the restraint of its gear.
| crouched down under the little aperture
forward OF the windlass, and it was not long
before | was sensible of a feeling of drows
ness stealing over me.
In fact, anxiety and the want of food had
wearied me to a far greater degree than
reclining under the foreCastlc deck for more
than half an hour ere ! was in as deep a
sleep as ever ! enjoyed ashore.
MeIl, II tins amt queer start, too! lie
amt dead, is he?'
| opened my eyes with an air Of bewildcr.
ment on finding myself Cramped between the
windlass and the heel of the bowsprit, and
instantly discovered that ,my limbs, to use a
current expression, were stiff a poker.
1t was broad daylight, and deep, rumbng
voice Immediately behind me was uttering
the words | have just recountcd.
| turned my head to glance over my shoul-
der, still being little better than half awake
and behcld a couple of burly boatmen, in
jerseys and sealskn caps, with scarves round
their throats and sea boots up to their knees
Morning sir" said one of them, with a
nod and an air of sang froid which, consider
ing the circumstances under which they dis
covered me, was little short OF staggering.
"And what sort of a party might you be as
takes fancy to sleeping out aboard derelct
vessels?"
| crawlcd from my retreat and rose to my
feet. The sun was just risen, in crimson
ball, over the glittering sea in the east, and
alongside the wreck was one of the famous
Deal galley puts, quietly humping against
the vessels quarter as she swayed upon the
gentle undulations-for the water was up
again-with a third man sprawling in the
stern sheets.
IL was left upon this wreck yesterday"
said J., turning to the men who stood watch
ing me in silence. "My boat drifted away
with the boatman in her"
voyage.
"Well, sir" said the one who had pre-
viousy spoken, when | had made an end of
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my story, looks to me to be a very lucky
thing for you that, when we launched off
Deal Beach on a cruise this morning we
should have took it into our heads to come
and have look round aboard this vessel. |
allow it's unnecessary to ask whether you
wants us to put you ashorc?'
ooh, quite II superiluous question:" | re-
piled, making toward the side
There amt anything here worth carry
ing away, is there, sir?' asked the other
man.
Nothing at ALL" I answered, and clam
bered over the rail into the galley punt.
After wandering about the decks little
while, the two fellows released the boat,
pushed off from the wreck, and, hostng their
sail, stretched away for Ramsgate Pier, where
we landed two hours later.
The very first man to accost me on step
ping ashore was my friend the boatman, to
whom | owed my unpleasant little expert
enCc.
He, was very sorry, he said, he was sure
1t all came Of his falling aseep-for which
he couldn't that anybody to blame,
and when he awoke he found himself aAoat
out upon the ocean, with nothing in sight
except few distant vessels, and no means of
knowing where he was or how the land bore
He had drifted till nightfall, he told me,
when he fell in with Margatc cutter, stand
ing in toward the North Foreand. She tow
cd him in right under the land, whence he
was easily able to make Ramsgate. He hadJ
wondered whether ! all right was truly
thankful to sec that ! was, and would have
come out to look for reaching the
harbor but it was too late then, and he pro-
tested that he was just going to start now.
One of the Deal boatmcn laughed, satiri-
cally. looked at the man again. He was
scarcely sober
Il assure you, sir, I'm very sorry" he was
beginning, but | cut him short.
a might have been drowned, ! believe,
had | depended upon you TO come and rescue
me. shall not pay You a halfpenny, you
may be sure OF that" with which | moved
away.
At this, all three of the Deal men laughed
in concert.
"We, sir" remarked one of them, touch
ing his hat, in acknowledgment of the piece
of money gave him, II wouldn't mind bet
ting my head that it'll be a precious long
time afore you forget the Goodn Sands"
at will" said /, "a very long while, in
deed" ~
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way in the direction in which knew the
boat lay.
Judge, then, my astonishment when, on
reaching tbe ton of the little ACTIVITY and
scanning the line of surf, which had now
flowed up to the base of it, found that the
Lovely Duck was gone
l say astonshment, but dismay would be
Where was the boat? Had she bumped
hole through herself and sunk? II so, where
was the waterman! :.
T eagerly swept the sea around. Away in
the eastward, where the tide now set IN "a
swift stream, l could perceive small black
object bobbing up and down on the little
waves which the current created, and gaZ-
ing intently, at last made up my mind that
il could be nothing else than my boat. l
now clearly saw how it was.
carrying her away with strength OF flow
which was momentarily increasing. The only
reasonable assumption which presented itself
to my mind was that the boatman had fallen
asleep, and that the little craft, unheeded by
him, had Hoated off in the manner l have de-
Bcribed.
The tide was rising with a swiftness which
/ should not have credited; the breakers were
already foaming close to my feet and found
that il remained where / was standing much
longer, / should be cut off altogether
My best chance lay in getting upon the
wreck once again, and now what had been
before an object of curiosity, grew unspeak-
ably melancholy when l regarded it as my
only refuge from the rising Of the water.
To increase my apprehension, found that
the wind was rising. Large, wool-like clouds
sailed slowly up out of the west, shadowing
The pale green face of the ocean with deep
Fiolet patches as they went gliding athwart
It. The surf, breaking upon the edge of the
strand, gathered a note of kissing and seeth-
ing as the breeze gave the little waves in
creased play.
Meanwhile Nthe boat in the eastward con-
tinued to drift away, growing smaller and
smaller yet. until presently it became diff
cult to determine at all the mere sPeck she
nIade on the great breast of the ocean.
Well there was nothing to do but sit down
and wait The afternoon wore slowly past
the water rose gradually till the foam was
BHlashing against the black cleaning sides of
the wreck. Then moment after moment it
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crept, inch by inch, up her bends, with the
tide beginning to eddy past, gently at first
as it ran shallow, but anon gathering force
with the deepening OF it, until the current
sobbed and gurglcd as it flowed by, and the
wreck trembled in her soft bed to the vibra-
tiOns Of its rush.
As the day advanced the heavens grew
overcast. About four o'clock it came on TO
rain, and simultaneously the wind breezed
up in sudden little squall, which in five
minutes had raised q sea that dashed over the
derelict in showers of spray, and drove me
for shelter to the elevation of the topgallant
forecastle.
The ocean had grown into terrible gloomy
surface compared with the bright, sparkling
expanse of the morning. The horizon was
shrouded with mist and rain. so that nothing
save the lghtship / have before mentioned
was visible, and she at too great a distance
to admit of my hoping that | might be OBJ
served by those on board.
The sun went down shortly after six o'clock,
and then indeed the melancholy, to say moth.
ing Of the danger, OF my situation visited
me with keenness OF perception | had not
before been conscious of.
The tide was by this time receding again;
the rain had ceased, and though the sky still
hung sullen and heavy, there was not weight
enough in the wind to cause me any great
uneasiness.
But the terrible loneliness and solitude Of
that wreck! How am to convey the idea
of it? Robinson Crusoe's desert island must
have been paradise of cheerfulness COM
pared with that abandoned hull. The utter
desolation, the fearful sense of isolation, the
oppressive silence broken alone by the splash
ing and glrrgling of water alongside?
The dusk came on out of the east where
the sea ran gray and bald and presently the
lghtshps lantern began to twinkle out upon
the gathering gloom. If there was moon
at all the clouds obscured it, and the night
came down very dark
When the blackness had fairly settled
around and the sands once again stretched
bare, circled by palid, Elusive line OF froth,
a startling idea took possession OF my mind,
the dreary, weird expanse-suppose the ghosts
of the countless dead who lay. beneath that
surface should assemble and run wild over
the lonesome strand.
But such a train of thought would not do,
and with a little shudder | aroused myself
and turned away from contemplating the
bleak, darksome scene.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
Bobby's Lesson About Columbus

That's what they all said when he showed
them"
"Well, they were just correct"
"But they couldn't do it until he showed
thenr Bobby"
"rhey didn't understand him. They didn't
know lie was playing fens. Ma, was Column
bus a great man.
Eyes, dear"
"What did he do?"
"He discovered America"
"Oh, but that was an accident! He didn't
mean to-"
"He proved he was right when he thought
the world was like ball
81 proved | was right about the asking or
Ordering Was that grea+?"
"WelI, what else did Columbus do?"
az tod you about the egg"
"Vas that great? That was cheating"
Not exactly"
"If I'd a done it, it would have been"
at wasn't exactly fair, III admit, Bobby"
,"'N0. Anybody could have done it, if he
played fair"
"You see, Bobby, he only wanted to ex.
plain his point by kind Of joke. He wanted
them tC see the point"
WASN'T it the point that was broken? Or
it might have been the butt. That would have
been easier to stand on without breaking"
''He wanted to fix his meaning in their
minds"
Ma, what had the egg TO do with the dis
covering America"
''Why, he wanted them to understand that
it would be easy enough to sail around the
earth. after he showed them how; that they
could all do it. if they only knew how. He
was going to show them. They didn't be-
lieve it was possible, because they didn't know
hoy. Now, I've taught you enough for one
night" -. ..
"Pvc been, telling, you things you didn't
know. l told you what Columbus was didn't
Eyes, Dago."
"No; try again. He was"
"a bad egg Amt that il, MAJ"
"No, he was discoverer."
"Oh knew that before! Do you know.
ma. | don't think much of Columbus?"
nNVhy not, Bobby
HE didn't do anything. The discovery caSne
"He proved himself right didn't he, Bob
'"Yes. any one can do that. can. always.
If he'd only been a pirate, nowt"
"WGll, if he had been, Bobby, he wouldn't
have discovered America. and wheTe would we
have benz
1--WE would have lived somewhere else,
Tm tired of America awfully tired"
Bohby's yawn at that moment showed that
his assertion was true.
'Where would YOU rather be, Bobby"
q don't know, ma. There's more to see at
tbc North Pole amt there? You can go
cu: more, every Gay and do shedding, and
everything"
al don't think you'd like it at the North
Pole. | think know where you'd rather be-
Where, ma"
"In bed"
And bed it was.
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it would have been bad for Columbus to bring
il in"
"Well, Wen say it was good one. then"
"Did they have one all ready to bring in!
Whcre did they get it?'
Sent to the kitchen for it, suppose, Bob
by"
"Was it hard-boiled or soft-boiled, or just
two minutes"
"Do You want-to hear about Columbus or
the ear!"
"Didnt you say you would tell me about
the egg!"
"Yes, the egg and Columbus-not the egg
alone"
did Columbus eat the egg!"
"No, dear"
'"rhen, why can't you tell me about them
separately"
NOW, Bobby, are you going to tell this
story, or am y"
al don't know it, ma. Not all Of it yet.
can tell you the first part"
"Do you want to hear the last part?
eyes, please, ma"
'1'hsn listen, and don't interrupt me-"
"All right; 1 won't-not after this time"
"Well as l was saying, he ordered them to
bring in an egg"
''You said, ma, that he asked them to bring
IN an egg NOW you say ne oruSIeu IhSih'
That's not important Bobby; but if he or
dered it, they wouldn't bring it; and If he
asked it--that is, if he said please-they
would. That's what you tell me-,
Bobby, shall stop this story"
"No, ma; go ON. l didn't interrupt. 1
thought you wanted il right"
"Weli, then, he asked them"
"Anl sad pleasep
"Ycs-in Spanish"
"And they brought it in?"
"Yes''
"Ghen he must have said please"
- eyes. Thank fortune, the eggs in! Now
l can 20 on"
"You ,can anyway, ma"
''You. will have the story in your own way.
Shall l tell You the rest?''
,"Ali light. When they brought in the egg.
he asked them to make it stand on end"
Couldn't they do it?'
mo. They all tried"
"Then it wasn't hard-boiled, else they could
He let them try long While; then they
"Did Columbus give. 'em the answer''.
'Hc showed them how"
"HoW did he do it? Did he boil it,"
'No, he mashed in one end"
"Thele, mai | told you it was important
to know il it was good one. If he broke a
bad one, they'd have been down on him; but
breaking in the end wouldn't make it stand"
What! not on broken end. Bobby"
No! You couldn't make a whole egg
stand that way. They, were TO make an egg
stand on end :, He didn't say broken one.
THAT was TENS"
"Weil, that's what he meant. He meant
that he could show them how to do it,"
"Why, any one of them could have made it
stana that way"
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09

0 Will you give me your attention
while tell, in solemn tones
Of the fate of Little Watkins in his latest
row with Jones?
Jones came late 20 bed on Monday (Which
was wrong, you can't deny),
And was rritated somewhat by lovely apple
PIE.
But as Watkins slept the nearest, he was
naturally licked.
Yet he didn't seem TO like it, for he made
great todo,
And declared he hadn't done it (which ! may
remark was true)
Then continued. in his slumbers, with his enc
my to cope.
him with soap.
But 80 very little wisdom had resulted from
his dream,
That he meditated vengeance by an antiquat-
So next morning he continued all his griev-
ances to hug,
Till he crept to Jones study with a lexicon
and jug.
With a speed that spoke Of practice-had he
played the trick bcfore!-
He arranged them on the summit OF the part
ly open door;
And. when both were truly Dalanceu, WHICH
was not an easy feat,
He Withdrew to watch in silence till his ven
geance was complete.
Scarce a moment had he waited, when mas
teTs step drew near;
little Watkins? Yes | though SO! What
may you be doing here"
And he shook with apprehension, and replied,
with inward groans,
"If you please, sir, pray excuse me, was
waiting here for Jones'
waiting here for Jones, sir, were you? Why
wherever can he be?
You may find him in his study; you had bet
ter go and. see.
To receive friends in the passage he most
properly declines
Not word. sir Go this instant or you write
a hundred dimes"
Oh, alas Cor Little Watkinst He suspected
what it meant;
But the master gared relentless, 30 he shut
his eyes and went!
The result defies description Only this l
have to tell
That the trap was set correctly, and il an
swered very wal!
Listen. Watkins" said the master. with a
Cwinklc in his eye,
As our hero vainly struggled on his banker
chief to dry,
Y approve of fun in reason" (here ne choked
a little chOke).
But always, throw cold water on too practi.
cal joke"
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~ side of the railroad, step up on the
track and stand still between the
rails At first he thought it was man, but
when the rays of the headlight fell on the
object, he saw that it was bear The train
was moving very fast, and the engineer blew
the whistle loudly, but the bear held his place
calmly until almost run down, and then step
ped off. This rash bear must have enjoyed
its experience, for three times during the fol-
lowing week it repeated the performance.
But when it came out for the fifth time it
bad grown careless, and the cow-catcher
knocked it up in the air. Then the train was
stopped and the trainmen searched for the
bear. But Bruin had crawled away somehow
into laurel swamp, and IS there yet, prob
ably, but whether dead or alive no one knows.
An amusing story of Schumann is told by
Vienna critic. The composer once accompanied
his wife, who was even then a celebrated
pianist, to the palace, when she went to play
before the King of Holland, and was gratiied
by the monarch's compliments Of her Ner-
Torrance. The composer was somewhat Sur
prised, however, when the KING turned to him
and courteousiy inquired: "Are you also mu-
sical?' They say Schumann was so indignant
that he never spoke for an hour.
Rubenstein was another musician who fire.
auently had his temper aroused, not without
very much annoyed by requests for compli-
mentary tickets to his performances IL is
told OF him that, just before one OF his recitals
IN London, he was accosted by an old lady
In the entrance hall. ooh, Mr.. Rubenstein,
am SO glad to. see you! i have tried in vain
to purchase ticket. Have you seat you
could let me have?" Madam" said the
great pianist, there is but one seat at my
disposal, and that you are welcome to, if you
think fit to take IT," "Oh, yes! thousand
thanksl Where is it?" was the excited re-
coldly
minister had travelled sHne distance to
preach at small town, and at the conclusion
OF the morning service waited for someone
to invite him to dinner, but the congregation
gradually Dispersed and left him standing
alone. Finally he stepped up to gentleman
and SAID: Brother, viii you go home to din
ner with ME today" "Where do you hve?"
asked the gentleman about eighteen miles
from here, was the unexpected reply. "No,
but you must dine with me" answered the
gentleman, win a flushed face; which invita-
ton the clergyman leravely accepted.
A Georgia school teacher, having instructed
q pupn TO purchase grammar. the next day
received the following note from the chiid's
mother: Il do not desire for lula shall in
gage IN grammar as 4 prefer her ingage in
y0isetul studies and can learn her how to
spoke and write properly myself have
went through two grammars and can't say as
they did me no good. / pvefer her ingnge in
german and drawing and vbkal music on the
piano"
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
Vengeance Prevented

C7ILL you listen TOR a moment to my
I" simple little lay
w OF tragica adventure which occur
IV ed the other day?
. Will you give me your attention
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
Some Short Stories

.HE engineer on a Western New York
I train picked up queer passenger
recently. One evening he saw some
thing come from the bushes at one
~ side of the railroad, step up on the
track and stand still hptwppn the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-24
AGE IN COTTON FACTORIES
Death Of Oldest Weaver in Lowell Re-
veais Bright Side Of Operatives'
Lives.

A news dispatch tells Of the death
in Lowell Of the oldest weaver in that
city, woman who was seventy one
years of age and was in comfortable
circumstances. but who still preferred
to work, in spite OF her age. We call
this to the attention of the friends
of the poor mill girl" In spite OF
what they tel! about employment in
cotton factory. 1t seems iha II is quite
possible for "A woman to ollow the
trade of weaver until she has passed
three score years and ten, it Is posi-
BILE for her to lay by money enough
10 place her in comfortable circum-
stances, and II is possible that the
associations In busy. busting weave
shops, with their noise and lint and
all the other unpleasant features, may
be more endurable TO a woman VINO
has cultivated the habit OF Industry
over a long period Of years than the
loneliness she would feel in a comfor-
table home with only such tasks to
take up her time and her attention as
those necessary TO light housekeeping.
The picture of industry. thrift and IN
doubted faithfulness that is shown in
this brief news item from Lowell can
be duplicated in nearly every one OF
the textile centers of New England.
but 1t is the picture that is not SO ire
quently held up TO the view OF the In
terested as the reverse of IL. Nobody
who has the welfare of the operatives
and that means of the industry itself
at heart would desire that the disa-
greeable features be covered so that
the world would think there was moth
ing In them that should be improved.
but it is gratifying ard in the interest
OF truth besides to let modicum OF
brightness reflect upon the canvas on
occasions Fall River Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-24
A FINE SHOW.

The audience laughed and laughed
again last night when the Mahel
Paige Company We're seen in that fun
.niest of comedies Billy. which they
presented to full house last night
at the Heron thcatcr.
The stage had been transformed to
resemble Il steamship all ON board
being en- route to Havana Among
the passengers was a l"autiIul girl,
none other than Miss Paige herself,
accompanied by her mother, a very
nervous lady who had ideas of her
own, especially in regard to th"
company her daughter should keep.
After the ship was well on its jour
ney. Billy Hargrave showed up in the
person of handsome Ed Lawrence
He was in love with the fair daush-
ter, but was anxious that she did not
find out that he was the pOsscSsor
of four false teeth. While proposing
to her. the tomb stones jumped out
of his mouth, his heart taking their
place. lie made a wild search for
the missing m0lars, but all to no
avail. tie kept the house in a roar
OF laughter in his attempts to talk
without his teeth he wanted to
think the thip or do something else
as rash If his teeth were not found.
These were located at last, and the
curtain went down with everybody
happy, and the audience delighted.
all declaring II To be- the best show of
the season
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-24

From the Tampa Times we note
that theatre-goers of Tampa were not
disappointed with the production Of
the May Stewart Company in that
city. owing to the fact that the
troupe left for New York without
showing, going there to disband.