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Heroes in a Lighthouse

newly made widow saw that the light did not
revolve as 1t should and SO was liable to be mis-,
taken by passing ships for another light.
Once more she mounted into the tower to
make the machinery work, but her efforts We're
useless. The machinery was out OF order and she
did not know how to fix it. Then she descended
and sent the two oldest children up into the
tower-one was ten and the other seyen-and all
that night, alone in the little lamp room, up at
the top of the lighthouse from 800 p. m. until
seven the next morning, the two children kept
the machinery in notion while the mother below
with the two smaller children, prepared the body
of the father for burial
The Figaros correspondent, who Is the tax col
1ector of the district, adds: II have still to pay
the $10.83 Of the keepers wages due from April
/ to April Is, the day OF his death. The govern
ment has been asked for grant for this coura-
geous family, but when will it come? For the
present they are without food and almost without
! home to sleep II. !" kssffsss
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train. A special inspection train is
costly.
The inspection cars have long been
In use, but the steam cars are giving
place to the gasoline car. The accom-.
panying picture shows the steam in,
spection car Dot used by Atchison, To.
peka & Santa Fe officials for many
years. The car was built in Chicago
and was often operated over the main
line and later taken to the New Mex.
leo division and used there four years
in inspection trips. It was operated
by a steam engine of it's own. j. N
,;Steen was the engineer, fireman, con.
ductor and brakeman Of this train, for
1t was always operated under special
train orders. Steen is now in charge
of the Santa Fe pumping plant at
this place. He operated the car for
three years. Some years ago the Dot
met a work train between La Joya
and Alamillo, N. M, and that was the
end Of it. No one was injured in the
wreck. The Santa Fe had several cars
like the Dot. 49,.
The other picture shows the new
style of inspection car used by Santa
Fe officials. 1t is a gasoline driven
4-cylinder engine that will drive the
car twenty miles an hour
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The Paris Figaro prints letter from CORE
spondent in Belle ne little island south Of the
coast OF Britanny, which relates the following
story:
On April Is last at 10000 a. m. the lighthouse
keeper Of Kerdonis, on the southeast point of
Belle lie, a mile and quarter from any habita-
ton. became suddenly Ill as he was cleaning the
lamp. Thinking that 1t was only passing all
ment. he continued to work till midday, when he
became so Ill that he had to take to his bed. The
only other persons in the lighthouse were his
wife and four young children. Unable to leave
her husband and four little children alone, the
wife could not seek assistance.
The keeper grew worse. At 700 p. m. his
death agony began It was then time to light the
lamp. The wife, leaving her children beside her
dying husband mounted into the tower to light
the lamp OF the lighthouse When she came down
her husband was breathing his last.
ss4f While she was weeping one Of the children
cried. Mother. the lamp II not turning" The
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Cemetery Entrance and Donor.

to begin the improvement work This
was four years ago and the permanent
Improvement work of the cemetery
has been going on ever since and Will
continue forever The property has
been decided to board of trustees of
which Mr.. Whiting is president and
also general superintendent Of the
cemetery. This board has been incor-
porated for 1000 years and it is bound
to maintain the cemetery forever. No
grave can ever be neglected, as under
the terms Of the charter the board is
compelled to set aside certain part
of its revenue to go into a perpetual
care fund, the interest on this fund
being sufficient to care for the prop.
erty.
The college and the Christian asso-
Citations receive two-thirds of the en-
tire sum obtained from the sale of
lots in the cemetery, and they can
use the money for any purpose they
decide. No ono except the actual wo.k-
ers in the cemetery receive a salary
and no dividends except to the col.
lege and Christian associations are
declared. The college receives about
one half of the total amount received
from the sale of lots. The Young
Women's Christian association re-
ceives the next largest share and the
Y. M. c. A. the next division. All the
rest Of the money from the sale Of
IL
ing graves and caring for lots goes
into the perpetual care fund of the
cemetery
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AN ODD ENDOWMENT
PhiIanthropist Gives Kansas
College a Cemetery
In Time This Unique Gift Is Ex-
pected to Net More Than One
Million Dollars to Bene-
ficiaries.

Topeka, Kan.-Nearly all colleges
have large endowments of money, Sc
curlt1es and real estate given by
friends and by people interested in
the cause Of education The funds are
all invested in bonds, stocks and real
estate, which do exceptionally we'll II
they return more than five or six per
cent. on the investment. Many re-
ligious organizations have similar en-
dowments. But Washburn college of
Topeka and the Topeka Young Mems
and Young Women's Christian as
soctations have one of the most novel
endowments in the country 1t is a
the only college in the United States
which numbers among it's chief as
sets a share in the profits of ce1ue.
terry. Many churches have cemeteries,
but the Topeka Y. w. C. A. and Y M.
G. A. are believed to be the only non
sectarian religious organizations with
an endowment Of this kind. I
A. B. Whiting, a Topeka merchant,
decided, to leave a permanent endow.
ment to the two Topeka institutions
He selected $4,000 as the beginning
of his endowment and then began
casting about for some plan of invest
ment which would actually net the
greatest income to the three institu-
tions to which he desired to contrib.
uate. He investigated all kinds OF
business ventures, bond and stock
returns and real estate investments
and finally decided upon a cemetery
as the best possible investment for
the college and Christian associations.
His investment of the modest endow-
ment is expected to return to the COL
lege and the two young peoples asso-
Citations considerably more than mil
lion dollars before the sources Oh
revenue from the sale of lots in the
cemetery are cut off.
Mr. Whiting bought the Mount Hope
cemetery grounds, 160 acres, one and
one-half miles west of Topeka. The
land alone cost $4,000 and left $4,000
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r' puonoans IN the surging party crowd said word
Ihe instant that the offensive words were spoken,
Souh onarp Williams turned like flash to the
speakers desk and demanded attention - =
The house has it's privileges" he thundered:
Its dignity has been outraged" -~t
Mr. Hepburn sat down; likewise Mr. Cooper
me Republicans stole back to their seats Mr..
Willialns crossed the aisle to the Democratic
domain A Republican family quarrel had been
settled by an emissary of the enemy
Speaker Cannon and Leader Williams, party
enemies, had been personal friends for years
They called each other Joe and John and not
lnIrequently they are seen walking through the
corridor, each with about others
shoulder. Mr.. Williams did not hesitate while
upon the moor and holding the thought that the
minoritys rights had been invaded, to make a
Target OF the speaker for such shafts as he could
form and sharpen out of the material of words
Mr.. Williams has told Mr. Cannon many a time
that as speaker he an abuser Of power.
Mr.. Williams smiled approval when Mr. De Ar
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MRS. Russell Sage.
for advice as to the disposal of this
fortune, yet within the first two
months of her widowhood she receiv-
ed letters from more than 1000 diff
ferent men, instructing her how to
give away her money so as to do the
most good
The letters that really affected Mrs.
Sage at this time were pathetic ap-
peals for help from individuals. Many
of these were to all appearances gen.
uine, the appeals of poor and igno.
rant persons, suffering in want and
hardship, and pathetically confident.
that the kind-hearted woman who had
more money than she knew what to
do with would give them the Httle
that would make them happy. Some
Of these letters distressed Mrs. Sage
greatly; but they came not only from
every state In the Union, but from
foreign countries. Had she respond
ed to them she would have dIss1pated
her entire fortune in small checks 10
individuals all over the world. So
finally Mrs. Sage gave up her mail.
Now letter which is manifestly from
a personal friend is given her. but
nothing else reaches her eye.
1t Is not only impossible to reach
Mrs. Sage by letter-it has become
one OF the impossible things to see
her. Mrs. Sage formerly was one OF
the most approachable Of women
Not trace Of snobbery or purge
pride is to be found in her make-un
A plain, old-fashioned village woman
she started her career, and that she
remains to this day. She never cared
anything about fine clothes or society.
and her friends were chosen by pref
erence from among the people who
are doing the work OF the world
With professional women she was par
ticularly friendly. That period Of her
own life between 1847, when she was
graduated, and 1869, when she mar.
ried Mr.. Sage. was spent In teaching
school whenever her health would
permit, and she never felt above any.
one who earned his or her living. ANY
one who had ever been introduced "a
Mrs. Sage could see her as easily as
her own home as Il she had been the
wife OF clerk instead Of a multi.
millionaire.
Some one wrote book once on
Prisoners OF Poverty. Mrs. Sage is a
Prisoner OF Wealth. Behind this hui.
man rampant she sits, afraid that
some one may reach to torment her
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.PR|SONER0F VEAL I'll
Her Fortune a Burden to Mrs.
Russell Sage.
eeggars Force Her into Retirement
and Change Her From Sweet,
Kindly Woman to Ono of
Suspicion.

New York.-One of the most pathet-
lc figures in the world today is Mrs.
Russell Sage, upon whom the fortune
left her by her husband imposes a
fearful burden. There is scarcely a
day that she does not weep. one of
her intimate friends tells us. She
sits and cries at the 1ntolerable bur-
den of having $65,O00,00O on her
shoulders, at the task Of distributing
that huge fortune in the way that will
do the most good. She is 80 years
old and has New England con-
science. She wants to do just the
right thing with it all. and it requires
an amount of thought and study and
imposes a feeling of responsibility
that Is hard on an old woman who
only wants quiet corner to spend
her few remaining years in.
Mrs. Sage has aged very much
since her husbands death. She has
grown thin, pale, bent and wrinkled.
Aside from the natural grief over Mr..
Sage's death, Mrs. Sage was plunged
almost instantly into a storm of ap-
peals which amounted to a persecu-
tion. Her mail for some years before
Mr.. Sage's death had amounted to be-
tween 40 and so letters a day. It
leaped instantly to 900 day, and the
entire surplus was appeals for money.
Within two months after Mr.. Sage's
death 1000 letters were carted away
from her house unopened. Two secre-
taries work night and day almost to
handle Mrs. Sage's private mail. If
she attempted to read 10 per cent OF
it personally she would be able to do
nothing else
At first she tried conscientiously to
look it over herself. She was aston
ished and disgusted at some of it.
Before Mr.. Sage's body was cold in
its coffin she received letter from
New York man whom she never had
seen asking her to send him check
for 81 900 by return mail, and he was
kind enough to inclose a stamped en-
velope for reply. She never asked
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4 + / e ~ E sE m ss z e.
its use their attacks on it were not
noticed; after about that period Of
time, however, a section cut from a
floor joist disclosed the heart prac-
tically destroyed.
They work in the dark, building tun-
nels Of mud on the outside OF the
bark, and vertical shafts Of mud from
the ground to the under side Of TIM
Der stored III piles They will de-
stroy almost anything but steel and
concrete. The ridgepoles, three or
four inches in diameter, in palm
shacks have been destroyed in two
months.
The illustration from the Bulletin
of the Pan-American Union show the
nest OF the .cupim" on growing
Z zee. @
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THE. MOTOR CAR OF THE RAIL
Vehicles for Railroad Officials That
Now Take the Place Of spe-
ciaI Trains.

=
ElDorado, Okla.-As the motor car
fs becoming the chief vehicle of travel.
pleasure and business, so the motor
car Is becoming one of the most use
full articles on the railroad lines. Thir-
ty years ago no one knew of the pos
sibilities Of gasoline as power pro
ducer
It Is only recently that the gasoline
motor car has come into use on the
railroads. The engineers and operat-
ing officials often are required to make
trips over the line on inspection.
Sometimes they can have private cal
attached to regular train, but this
sort of inspection is often unsatisfac
tory on account of the speed of the
The Appeal., 1911-07-22
Doa Saves Boy From Cow.

Rushville, Ind.-A shepherd dog
that has been for several years the
companion of John McKibben's son
saved the life of the boy by holding a
cow that had attacked him until Nc
Kibben went to the rescue. The COW
had knocked the boy down several
times and was stamping him with it's
front feet when the dog interfered,
grabbing the COW by the nose and
holding it.
The Appeal., 1911-07-22
DESTRUCTIVE PEST IN BRAZIL
Ant Found in Large Numbers Which
Attacks and Destroys the
Native Woods.

Rio Janerio, Brazil.-The "cupim"
is Brazilian ant that Is particularly
destructive of lumber. They are
found in the forests of Brazil in great
numbers. They attack the native
woods, hard and soft, as soon as it
has been felled, working from the out
side directly toward the heart, and
burrowing longitudinally, they honey
comb and destroy in manner SINH
lar to the toredo. .. .... f..
Pine lumber was imported from the
United States for railway construc-
ton and until nearly two years after
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the I7nversity Of Virginia, and the UNIVERSITY OF
Heidelberg, Germany.
Leaving out of consideration the Republican
leader Senator Serene E. Payne, and the Demo
cratic leader, John Sharp Williams, there were
nrobahlv more verbal duels between Champ Clark
~ Missouri and General Charles H. Grosvenor OF
Ohio and between John Dalzell of Pennsylvania
and any Democrat on the other side OF the aisle
who was willing to try issues with the somewhat
waspish Pennsylvania Grosvenor and Clark
were as good at retort as any other members OF
the house. They had encounter after encounter
and IT. would be difficult thing, to decide which
Of the two came out Of the trays the better.
Grosvenor in his retorts was apt to- be cutting.
while Clark was more likely to be broadly
humorous.
The Appeal., 1911-07-22
Ebert Hubbard Loses Locks

East Aurora, N. Y.-On a bet OF
$500 with William Marion Reedy OF st.
Louis, Ebert Hubbard invaded the vii.
lage barber shop and let the local hair
destroyer apply the horse clippers,
Fra Elbertus emerged minus the flow.
Ing locks he has worn for years The
$500 was paid to him Immediately.
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he had agreed to use
his efforts to exempt
the express companies
from being classed as
common carriers. In
fact Mr.. Hepburn had
1mpeached the verac-
1ty Of Mr.. Cooper in
language as unparlia-
mentary as it was i'm
polite. Everybody ex-
pected to see a fight,
but not one of the Ra-
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mond of Missouri in denouncing what
he called "the miserably inadequate
committee representation of the mi
nority,'' shook his fist at the speaker
and let loose from his tongue such ex-
pressions as gross injustice" and ma
licious unfairness." But this is all a
part of the fire of politics and it
doesn't seem even to scorch the bonds
of friendship.
John Sharp Williams of Yazoo,
Miss, now senator, makes his educa-
tion tell in his speeches, and yet he
manages it without committing the
offense of pedantry. He is probably
the "most-graduated" man in either
house of congress. After going through
several primary schools, the Mississip-
ian completed full course at the
Kentucky Military institute, the Uni
versity of the South, Sewanee, Tenn:
The Appeal., 1911-07-22

THIN the last few years
progression has been the
text of presidential SER
mons and to a large degree
the text of congressional
speeches, for most of the
members Of both great
political parties have de-
clared fealty to the cause
Of advanced legislation. al
though 1t is perfectly true
that q few Of them have
preferred reaction to pro-
gression as a text. and
that some Of these who
have spoken on behalf Of
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Fully Covered.
Il want to get insured.
"Yes-fire or life?"
"BotL-I've got a wooden leg.
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everywhere as ii The SOLDERING influ
tnce OF the Sabbath had invaded ever
this exclusive domain of the unholy
Irich The uniformed attendants, hay
ing nothing To do yawned lazily III
the deserted balls Some even in
dnleod III surcp'itions maps in cor
n@s confident that they would moi
BE- disturbed Callers We're SO raie
that when some one did enter from
tile street. he was looked upon With
suspicion
III was shortly after seven O'Clock
thc day Following Mrs Jeffries re.
ception when a man came in By tho
approaching one of the hall boys, in.
CURED for Mr. Robert Underwood
The boy gave his intellocutor an
iinpuaont stare There was some,hing
about the callers dress ard nlann,f
which told him instinctiNeiv thai ID
was not dealing With a visitor whom
he must treat respectfully No one
divines mans OF @oiMan's social
status quicker or more uneriingly
than a servant The attendant SAN
at once that the man did not belong
to the class which paid social visits
TO tenants in tho Astruria He was
rather saedy looking his collar was
not immaculate ms boots We're thick
aud clumsy his clothes cheap and i'll
fitting
Ia. d,ais lfAd IN v "A
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Ellen Terry's Joke.

Nheu Ellen Terry was presented
stu Founders gold medal at the
NV theater New York, recently an
ba,nr conferred in recognition of her
f4t services to dramatic art she
Mas called upon to make speech of
iceTiance. II so happened that the
.@ress was exceedingly hoarse and
b" was therefore forced TO cut her
remarks short SO she told this story !
friend of mine once bought par,
get and gave much money for it with
l.e understanding that IL could speak
t'iiently but when he reached home
with II he found to his dismay that
'hs bird was dumb So he took it
back This parrot cannot say word.
be said Indignantly TO the bird fancier
u can't talk at ALL Talk, the deal
z exclaimed Come to think of it. |
know Y can't, but its devil to
think
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IHIRD DEGR[:[,
.WCHARLLS KLEIN y
ARTHUR HORNBLOW y
ILLUSTRATIONS By RAJ WALTERS


graph oftie' \ special featstre Vas
'lie garden court. containing oSsl ~
900 square feet n open space. and
fastefully laid out With palms and
flowers Here fountains splaShed ana
an orchestra PLAYED while lse patrons
lounsed on comfortable ia,tan lairs
or goSslped with their iriNnas N OF.
ne sixteenth hooH MAS the onol root
garden an 'Nqiiisfte bower 81 palms
and roses artiiciallz pointed hy a
famous Fl,nch altsi With rs r,,4
.erche restaurant It's picturesque
izlsailns ana lis sNpsrh AioN Of all
Manhattan island
The NsirrRia was tic last Motd N
expensive apartment Motel htlding
Nrcllltects declared that II ,slS as lar
as modern laNshncss and pxti.isa
sa'ie" could 80 It's interior arr3ns,
nl"ntS Mers nj kevrins with IDS ~
ternal srlt ndor It's apartments Mege
OF nohe dimensions ,chlA decorated.
aud equipped With eSniv deA mo-. new
aNd old that modcin S,isn,. and
builders Ingenuity could suggest Thai
the rents Mere on i scale with the
grandeur oil til. establishment goes
without SAVING oulN long purses
could stand the strain II Mas a IL.
vorite headquarters Tor M.stvrners
Who had struck ii licli wealthy
bachelors. and successful ACTORS and
opera singers Who loved ll, lmel'sht
on and off the stage
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PRAIRIE DOGS.

w iis,,all, u.r;4o ~. o,,., ~ l,+
v,i Il. as''as w'lee s.,, our own aas.; nul
rx.a,,n,ns,;" W." q p Moue1 n on mus lo''
o,,% M, VI n az ,Ia ,aliie logs Mille .iils
H.. a-.e q. rnJ n i,h ,o,, i..nehlnah, ni
No. ,rs,,, III, n IN Tn III III Writes as ioi
.oraao H. 49, ~. ' u ,,ousias -, ,o1'
gsrtisenart 4 .pa,, nave i ,e So.' az,
mi, ,i,,aa "a h i.. on Na's' nov
8eey ,rasI,,.a ni' :. Is eooni n:.Ne
80 49, 'e sMehas Years WIN - fra,lle
,4.,,I. go n'''iN ~ caiie'i eS'e'
nsaa :, ,,;. ,,n l'".i,'se Nol lo',e si'le"
NAME, nix r. 4 80. llel'ai.i ~ ~
81. H. - ilaa nlaae y a studS Tor wears
.l,aca a., ~ s,,''a ~, p i'.1 tes ave IT, our
~ .nd - ne i'oss We're eating
III ~ n u ,o'n i9l me- ! Vas az my
tbe .nan N ,sa 70 90 ! cohia only get
l,,ts ,,,; IA ne mere o. hougn on
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tons. Again they be.
came scanty, were
very thick and attend
ed by burning and
scalding. Soon a drop
steal condition be-
came manifest and l
began to MnrrY NV
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-03-02

ser and ankles We're bloated and |
Was in "a bad way when ] began with
Iloan's Kidney Pills used four
boxes and was entirely cured"
Remember the name Doan's
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
hox Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. \ Y.