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ZANE OF THE MOST UH important inVestiga-
 lions made by the In

Ce1SldlS AOllllllClNC NOi1i iiA sion is that of the express companies of the United States. This investigation IS now under way. The com- mission has before 1t much material which 1t is at pres ent studying and arranging. It is thought that the outcome will be a complete change ln the express business of the country. Quite recently there was held in Washington a convention relative to the much talked about and writ ten about parcels post. Ih1s was attended by distinguesh- ed men from various parts Of the country. Some of them have made a thorough study of the express situation. It Is somewhat remarkab ble that the resolution was passed by the convention favoring the complete absorption or con- trol of the express companies by the government. Assum- ing that half the things com plained against the express companies are sustained. 1t will not be strange if the de- s.lnand for government owner ship will be urgent after the Interstate Commerce Com missions report has been pub lished. In the States of Iowa,
 
 Minnesota and California rail way commissioners have re- gently made investigations in- to the operations of these com panies. Business interests throughout the country are urging an examination rela- tive to the express companies, insisting that their rates are exorbitant and that their prac- tices are unfair. Last Fall, two hundred and eight com mercial organizations petition ed the Interstate Commerce Commission to make the in quiry which IS now under way. This commission, let 1t be understood, has full authority over express rates, regulations and practices. It is claimed by those who have thoroughly studied the subject that there Is no reason whatever for the existence for express compa nies independent of railroad companies, and 1t IS a well known fact that the railroad companies themselves are ex tensive stock owners, If they do not actually control the majority of the stock of the express companies, and tha they are using these compa nies to enormously increas' their profits with the resul of enormously expressing tn, millions who have to resort tc them as common carriers The profits in the case o some of the companies it i known are as high as 200 pc cent to 800 per cent Ther is no reason why the Unite' States should not carry ex press packages under the par cels post system for the bene fit of all the people of tn country.
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law, but we hope-and know-that
you viii like the new people-they will
surely give you the best of the ability. .
Mr.. North puffed his cigar a mo-
ment. leaned back with reminiscent
look in his eyes.
when the North Bros. were strug-
Cling for recognition" he continued,
there were four people who formed
the nucleus of what has grown into a
very popular company. These we're
Sport North. and Miss Russell. his
wife, Miss Goodwin, my wife and 1.
In those days all were featured equal
". One night Sport would be the
star and the next night I would shine.
Likewise with our wives. One night
Miss Russell played the big part and
the next night Miss Goodwin
This continued to be the case until
the North Bros. began to branch out
and were managing several shows.
I'm all the days of the struggle for
success there was not a bit of Jealousy
And there is none today All four of
US will try to please the public. whose
servants we are. For one I hope you
will be as good to US as you We're to
nv brothers. cOnDany
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Weddings Approved.

An old-fashioned man who wished to
hire a team for the afternoon saw a
nice pair Of bays which he thought he
would like to drive
Cant let you have them" said the
liveryman. They are wedding horses.
whats that?" asked the innocent
pleasure seeker
Horses that won't shy at old shoes
and showers of rice. Some horses seem
prejudiced against matrimony. Anyhow
they lose their temper If they happen tc
be hit by any of the goOd-luck en-
blems that are fired after a bridal cou-
pie. and run away if they get half a
chance. Every livery stable however
keeps two or more horses which ia Ike
a more cheerful view of the welded
state Those bays are that kind They
are slated to head a wedding process
sion for tonight. and are resting up
for the job.'-1FeW York Tines.
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zllHEyX

raised but started the machine and
drove down the street.
why didn't Cousin Mary come with
you?" asked the girl Hereupon the
boy cousin" exclaim I'm afraid
there's a mistake. The girl I was
waiting for didn't have any girl cousin,
and she hadn't been writing to me, but
you looked a great deal like her. I
thought at first that it was really she
and she was just jollying."
Explanations and return to the
theater followed.
The young woman who had made
the mistake had been corresponding
with two cousins, a boy. and a girl,
whom she had never seen. She was
an actress and had arrived in Louis
Vile where the cousins lived just in
time for the performance. So there
was no chance for the cousins to meet
before the play. However this en-
Urgency had been provided for. The
boy cousin had written her:
IF you do not get into Louisville in
time to meet US before the play. we
will wait in an auto at the stage en-
trance"
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"All summer long the iceman has
been cheating US out Of five pounds OF
ice per day, and you haven't said a
word about it. On the contrary, you
have taken a secret satisfaction in see
ing me robbed. Is there q husband in
America who would stand these
things as 1 have?"
Il have seen every piece of ice
weighed, Mr.. Bowser, and we have got
all we paid for. Very often the man
has thrown in an extra chunk"
But that last ton of coal. 1 don't
believe there was over 1900 pounds /
am sure we We're cheated"
well, you went to the yard for it.
Why didn't you see it weighed ~
And when I am bitter. by an infer
nal old rackabone cat, Mrs. Bowser-
bitten in my own house-bitten by
your cat--bitten by a eat undoubtedly
mad. what do you do? DO you rush
to the telephone and ask the doctor to
come at once? ,"
do yOu?"
"And 1 won't stand it won't stand
it." he shouted Mrs. Bowser this is
the dead-line. I shall not contest your
divorce, and the alimony shall be ar
ranged for.
And he rushed from the house, and
Mrs. Bowser read for an hour and then
went to bed. She knew her Bowser.
He must have his spells or bust
Copyright 1911, by Associated Liter
arV Press
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"Oh. YOU don't! suppose must go
around the house peering into every
chair and passing my hand over it be
fore 1 sit down BY the great horn
spoon that beast dies tomorrow. She
curled up there on purpose to get in
bite on me. and I may he raving mad
in a week.
I shouldn't fear. A cat-bite doesn't
drive anybody mad"
No you wouldn't fear It's not you
that has been bitten to the bone. and
so you don't care. Where is the I'M
grateful wretch? She snail not live
another hour"
He rushed down to the kitchen and
out into the back yard, but the cat was
not to be seen. When he returned to
the sitting room Mrs. Bowser asked:
''Well. let US go down and see the
motion pictures and forget all about
it"
GO nothing! Go nowhere" he
shouted do you think I have no
feelings? Am I a block of wood?
came home here this evening glad that
1 had a home to come to. I looked
forward to a pleasant three or four
hours. I addressed you tenderly and
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THE BOWsER CAT.
She Spells Happy Evening for the
Family.

Mr. Bowser had come home balmy.
He had called Mrs. BOwser dear and
praised the dinner. He mad observed
that the pitied the man who had no
pleasant home to return to after the
labors of the day. He had smilingly
limited that after he had finished his
cigar they would take a stroll down to
the moving picture show. Mrs. Bowser
was happy. the cook was happy, and If
there had been a cricket on the hearth
he would have burst into song and
kicked up his heels.
Then the blow fell
Mr. Bowser felt so balmy that he
decided to sit down and cross his legs.
He walked over to the easy chair al
ways reserved for him and fell back
ward with a grunt. An instant later
there was a yeowl to chill the blood
and as the sitter leaped to his feet the
family cat skurried across the room
and made a dive from window
The contented feline mad curled up
in the chair for a nap previous to go
ing out and striving with the night
world. and Mr. Bowser had not noticed
her when he sat down.
"What-what is it," asked Mrs.
Bowser as he danced around.
The cati' he shouted. "the miser-
able. contemplate. Internal, villainous
cat,'
but didn't you see hero
NO, No. Do you suppose I'd have
sat down on her If I had seen her?
COnfound her, she's bitten me, Yes.
sir, bitten me. and who is to say that I
won't go mad"
IT'S probably just slight dig of
claw 1 hardly see how you could have
sat down without observing her
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4 m sorry the cat was there"
~ s. and Cain was probably sorry
after he killed Abel The cook should
have come up here and looked into the
chairs That should have been your
first duty when we came up from din
ner. Did either one of you do it? No!
You left me to be bitten and clawed,
begin to rave you will probably smile
at my sufferings."
LAS I said. l am sorry. but
"And there are other things I wish
to mention" continued Mr. Bowser.
"Why has the gas bill jumped up all of
sudden? Who has been burning gas
In the daytime to spite me2''
THE bill is 90 cents less than last
month" said Mrs. Bowser Even if it
was higher. you alone would be to
blame for it Last weell you lighted
the gas in the storeroom to look for
something and left it burning for three
days"
And about the coal. Mrs Bowser.
Do you realize that we are burning just
as much in the range as during the
winter? 1t is being burned or sold or
given aWay-you can tell which,
I'VE are not burning hal what We
did in the winter"
And the grocery bills. Mrs. Bowser
the grocery and butcher bills. They
are going up by leaps and bounds. The
cook is either throwing meat and gro
ceries into the alley or you are feeding
a dozen families at my expense. I have
sa id nothing about it before, but / tell
you it must be stopped at once"
THE bills for meat and groceries are
much less than last winter" quietly re
piled Mrs. BOwser.
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Mr.. Bowser walked to and fro. and
tried to think of something else, and
directly it came to him. and he said:
The other day I founu a table knife
in the grass in the back yard. That
shows how this house is run Waste
and destruction on every hand BY
jinks, when 1 think of it, I-I-''
1T makes your blood boil of course,
and yet it was you who carried the
knife out there to cut a piece off the
clothes line,Y
Mr.. Bowser started to jump up and
down and roar. but he remembered
that he had used the knife out there,
and therefore suppressed the roar and
substituted
when I wanted to pat on a clean
shirt this morning I could find none.
suppose they have ali been sold to the
ragman 2'
L heard You banging around. You
have six shirts in the bottom drawer of
the dresser. You were looking in an
old trunk in the storeroom"
That was another on Mr.. Bowser,
but it didn't down him. He waited a
minute to catch his breath and then
said:
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trance

It happened that another young man
had an engagement with one of the
girls of the company at that same
hour. And the cousins were late. And
there it was.
When the theater was reached the
real cousins were waiting So all was
we'll that ended well.
This is the story told on Miss Patti
Mckinley, who Will be the new in
ganue with the North Brothers this
season. She is expected to arrive here
Monday from Lake Brady Park o.,
where she has been playing this sum
mer.
Miss Mckinley has been with North
Bros. ever since she was five years old.
This is with the exception when she
played Juveniles in the Game Keep
err with the Smith OBrien company.
and the time she spent in getting an
education at convent at Indianapolis,
Ind.
Miss Mckinley is not married.
She is a typical girl Of Kentucky,
raven black hair and dark eyes, so
Harry North says, and was born near
Louisville Ky. At the convent she
made a speciality of music. both vocal
and instrumental. However she pre-
ferred the drama to musical comedy.
Nevertheless she often makes use of
her musical talent and training, sing
ing on the stage and playing her own
accom- paniments.
Her father. Charles Mckinley, is
said to be a distant relative of the late
President Mckinley.
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NO ONE JEALOUS.
Harry North Discusses Merits of Two
Stock Companies.

Harry North, manager of the North
Bros Stock company, and also broth
er of sport" North. manager of the
company here last season, is in a pc
culiar situation. Miss Virginia Good
win. the leading lady of the new com
pany is really Mrs. Harry North. Miss
Genevieve Russell, the leading lady of
the company here last season is the
wife of sport" North.
Now. it is only natural that a theat-
rical manager should think that his
leading lady and company is the best
there are. But. again. he it remem-
bered that Harry North is the brother
of sport" North and thus brother-in-
law of Miss Russell. And there he is.
However, he passes a very artistic
and graceful opinion on the respective
merits of the TWO leading ladies and
companies. He does not claim that
Miss Goodwin or her company is sur
pcriOr to the L. L. and company of his
brother, but is as confident that Harry
North's company will be as pleasing as
that of sport North's company, as
an actress is confident that she will
have good luck if she finds a diamond
ring.
This is the way he puts it:
Il only hope that Topeka people will
be as pleased with US as they were
with North Bros. in the past. I know
it's going to be hard for any one to
fill Miss RusselTs place. She is the
best ever, even if she is my sister-in-
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lovingly. I almost suggested that we
raise the cooks wages. With q glad
song in my heart sit down. Then
what happens?"
you sit down on the cat" answered
Mrs. BoWser.
81 do do. That ola yalIer-eved
son of a gun was there in waiting for
me He saw me. He knew was go
ing to sit down He knew his revenge
was al hand. And now I'm a bitten
man. Go to the picture show? Go
riding on the cars? Go anywhere?
Nc Thrice no."
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Attack Like Tigers.

In fighting to keep the blood pure the
white corpuscles attack disease germs Ike
tigers. But often germs multiply so fast
the little fighters are overcome. Then
see pimples, boils, eczema, saltrheum and
sores multiply and strength and appetite
fail This condition dema nds Electric Bit
ters to regulate stomach. liver and kid
neys and TO expel poisons from the blood
They are the best blood purifier" writes
c T. Budahn, Of Tracy, Calf, Il have
ever found" They make rich. red blood
strong nerves and build up your health
Try them Soc at Campbell Drug Co.
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vaudeville at the Novelty.

The opening bill at the Novelty
commencing Monday matinee prom
ises TO be a good one and the slogan
for this theater Will express the 1eel-
mes OF those who witness the show
next week which is Fine Dope" Five
big acts booked by the Orpheum Cir
cult win he given every week. Three
shows daily viii be the program. 2 80,
7.45 and 9:15. The prices VIII be 10,
20 and 80 cents for all night and holi-
day performances. Other matlnees
viii remain at 10 cents. The bill for
the opening week Will be as follows:
Made the Perfect Woman and Ply
steal Culture Girl will be the feature
act This act has been causing a SEN
sation at the Electric Park. Kansas
city. the past week Goodwin and Ell
lott in the Comedy Talking ana Music
al Act THE Music Publisher" Cor
pcral Wigging the Worlds Greatest
Com edy Juggler; Eldridge and Barlow.
Comedy Rural Sketch, in The Law"
Carl DeMarest, the Dancing Niolinist
and the Moving Pictures
North Brothers, in selecting a play
for the opening at the Majestic, knew
that something up to and if possible a
little beyond the usual high standard
OF these managers would be necessary.
OF the hundreds of plays available
none seemed to fill all the requisites
quite so well as 'fWildhre." There are
reasons One is that the ladies give
IN number) will have to wear some
handsome gowns. Another is that the
play is not only good from an acting
standpoint but is also very exciting.
especially the race at the second act
between Wildfire and Jackdaw. Next,
there are at least ten good parts and
not only the leading lady Miss Good
win, but also the other members of the
cast will have a chance. Harry North
will have a part right in his init ."
Donovan the trainer Of "Wildfire,"
with just the kind of slang that Harry
knows how to use.
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Poets may be baffled in their search
for rhymes, but it takes a great dea
to BATTLE the doggerel rhymester
Charles II offered ren ard for :
rhyme to "porringer." The reward
was claimed at once with the follow
ing marriage announceme lent:
The Duke Of York a daughter had.
He gave the Prince Of Orange her
So now your majesty will see
I've found a rhyme to porringer.
London Chronicle
Everybody reads the state Journal
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"ONLY A COUSIN OF NINE"
Mistake Made by Miss Mckinley, New
Ingenue With North Bros.

"Onlv a cousin Of mine
A few years ago, girl, scarcely in
her teens. ran into the street from the
stage entrance of a Louisville, KY,
theater She jumped into an auto
that was standing near by and ex-
claimed to the young man sitting in
the front sect thereof:
why how DO you do Cousin Jack
So you are the cousin to whom I have
been writing and have never seen
Well how are you ?" Then she gave
the Y. NJ. a cousinly embrace and kiss.
The autoist was somewhat embar-
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-07-27
Potato Growers oraanize.

Olatheh-There is now in process
of organization here an all-inclusive
association of the potato growers of
the Olathe district and the end sought
for by this unity of interests are
among the most important advances
in progress ever made in the agricul-
tural development of this section. The
paramount endeayor of the association
will be to secure a uniformly good
quality of potatoes for shipment from
this point to label these potatoes with
an Olathe trade mark and thus de-
velop the reputation and popularity
of the product to the point of which
its quality entities it; to place a mark
of Identification upon the potatoes
packed by each grower and thus locate
the source of any faulty stuff, and also
to obtain the scientific marketing of
our product and protect the grower
against the manipulation of dishonest
buyers.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-07-27

Plenty of rain throughout the coun
try is prophesied by the Weather Blu
reau.
President Simon of Hayti appears
doomed to follow President Diaz of
Mexico, and give way to a revolution
airy government, according to advices
reaching Washington.
More than two billion dollars in re,
deemed bonds, representing the major
part of the governments Civil Wa
debt is being fed to the furnaces in
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving.
The House bill. amending the tariff
law to permit the return free of duty
of domestic animals temporarily ex-
ported. including pet dogs, was favor
ably reported to the Senate by the
committee on finance
The most bitter fight waged by an
administration in many years will
come to close when the Canadian
reciprocity bill, an issue before two
sessions of Congress, will be passed
by the Senate by decisive vote.
The woman credited with havins
first expressed the idea of a general
memorial day, Mrs. Sue Landol
! Vaughn, is dead at the home of the
Eastern Star, Masonic order in
Washington, on which she was depend
ent.
To begin in the autumn of 1914,
when the big canal opens. Postmaster
! -. ,h
tablishment of a fast ocean mail serv.
ice between the principal ports on the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Pana-
ma and Colon.
The Standard Oil Company and the
/ tobacco trust and other big corpora
/ tions are going to be split up into a
number of separate and distinct parts,
/ without connection or monopoly pow
| er This was the prediction In an ad-
dress by Attorney General Wicker
/ sham.
| On account of long drouth, Senator
Warren has introduced bill granting
persons who have made homestead en-
tries in Wyoming. Colorado Idaho
] NAhut Aibh@ahd anu bAh'l N'oA'i u
states. leave of absence from the date
Of the approval Of the proposed act
until April 10, 1912.
There is no dodging the fact that
Congress is anxious to avoid the con.
sideration of all legislation at this
session except what it simply must
take up. Statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona, reapportionment, direct
elections OF senators, Panama Canal
tolls, Panama Exposition matters
army legislation. conservation legsla
ton, the control of corporations. thess
are some OF the things which are clam.
oring for attention and which seem
destined to go over.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-07-27
Minor Mention.

The citizens of Florence now have
in their possession an aeroplane.
The Colorado Telephone Company is
erecting an exchange building at
Holly.
1t is said the crops this year will be
the largest in the history of Lincoln
county.
More than 1l5 tons of fruit have al
ready been shipped from the Palsade
section
The Farmers Union of Weld county
is to build flour mill, probably at
Milliken.
Knute Johnson OF Cripple Creek per
ished in the recent forest fire at Por-
cupine, ont.
The capital stock of the Denver Ma
tional Bank is to be increased from
s75O,OOO to Sl,OOO,O00.
Fire in the Slope mine at Frederick
destroyed the entire surface workings,
entailng a loss of $4,000.
In fall from willow tree, Frank
Newbury. aged ) years, OF Steamboat
Springs, bit his tongue in two.
The State Agricultural College will
exhibit choice live stock at the Weld
County fair in September.
over two hundred men and children
are engaged in gathering the straw
berry crop at Steamboat Springs.
Indications are that every well
equipped school in the state will be
supplied with a talking machine.
r. L. Ashburn of Montrose, until re-
Gently principal of the Olathe school,
Is undergoing fast of thirty days,
Determined to have only the most
up-to-date equipment for its schools,
Erie has ordered sanitary fountains.
A cyclone hit Amherts, east of Hol-
yoke, destroying two buildings, a heavy
rain with hail, no one seriously hurt
James NJ. Cameron and Judge
James E. Dey, two pioneers of the
| Grand valley are dead at Grand June
ton
The question of establishing a home
/ for fallen women and orphan children
at Grand Junction is being agitated by
the churches.
Mrs. r. NJ. Warden of Dallas, Tex,
lost a purse on the c. & S. train near
| Trinidad, which contained diamond
worth $4,000 and slOO in money.
The tenth annual celebration of the
Gunnison County Stock Growers AS
sociation, held in Gunnison, was a
great success.
Between eighty and ninety women
will be graduated from the Colorado
Teachers college at Greeley, at the
| close of the summer session.