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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10

Almost Shrine, Where Many Of the
Hurrying Crowds Pause to
Do Reverence.

A great signboard partly covers the
little house where Charles Dickens
was born. "Charles Dickens Birth
place." it says, and all the hurrying
world entering old Portsmouth pauses
to look at it. The street, Commercial
road, might be street in any large
city, and the house is no alien editice
in the vista of ugliness. A hundred
years ago the traffic may have been
auieter and the flowers in the front
gardens not quite SO dusty-a century
leads us back such a very long road.
In the spring OF 1912 We picture Mrs.
John Dickens, wife OF the humble
clerk in the navy pay office, bringing
her baby boy-her first son-to the
smah windows for glimpse OF the
London stage coach bound for the
Portsmouth dockyard. Little did the
tired mother think as she held him
there that his life would one day at
feet soiAe OF the passengers on the
coach, the people who walked or rode
in the street, the thousands going
about their business in Portsmouth
and7 all over the country. Whoever
made so many men laugh and weep as
Dickens? What pen has opened the
doors into as many lives? No heart
has every been closer to the facts OF
human life than that of the beard
less boy who shyly winked at his Sam
Weller and sent him forth with laugh
ter that was to blow into a gale. On
Wellers footsteps they come, those
common and yet uncommon types. ne
drew forth from the bone and sinew
of Great Britain. The boy born in
Commercial road was to be the apos-
tie of everyday people, and the multi
ttde OF tradesmen he wrote OF would
make q trades directory.-The
Ladies World.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
ORIGIN OF A POPULAR DOG
Ancestors Of the Scottish Terrier Were
Used by the "Todhunters" OF
the Highlands.

In ancient times each district in the
Highlands had its "todhunter," whose
duty 1t was to see carefully that the
then flourishing firm OF fox, otter and
company did not do a too flourishing
business in lamb or poultry. Some
times these todhuhters were Of "the
laird's men," sometimes they were
farmers and grazers; but always they
were local dignitaries. There was hon.
or and considerable profit in their of
fee, and in time it came to be more
or less hereditary. Their duty was
simple. They waged a war of exter-
mination against the vermin, which,
however, was very different matter
from the good old English sport Of
fox hunting.
In the rough country horse and
hound would have been worse than
useless, and reynard made his den
in such rocky ground that he could
not be dug out. The sole solution was
a dog small enough to follow the fox,
or otter, or badger, or wildcat into his
lair; strong enough to bring him out
dead or alive; and game enough to do
both. A dog developed from this ne
cessity, and that dog was the ancestor
of the present-day Scottish terrier
Outing.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
Wonderful Kano.

In many ways is Kano a wonderful
place to find in central Africa. This
pative city has great Unfolding walls,
twelve miles in circumference, pierced
by thirteen deep gateways with plat
form and guardhouse and massive
doors heavily olamped with iron.
Its written records date back nearly
BOO years. And although incompar-
ably the most important it Is not the
oldest Of these Hausa cities-Kat-
sina, now in the same province. is
probably older.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
FAMOUS LEAPS Of BYARD
Hoof Prints Near Newmarket That
Mark Jumps Of the Legendary
Blind Horse.

Near Newmarket, in Lincolnshire,
England. there are three marks of
horses hoofs, and each mark Is seven
yards distant from the other. Every
man who farms the field is careful to
keep these marks from being grass.
grown or plowed up. For they are the
famous marks Of Byard's leap. which
is recounted In the following story:
There was once q witch of New
market who bewitched the cattle and
crops of her neighbors and did all sorts
of mischief, and at last one farmer
went to wise man and asked him
what 10 do to overcome the witch.
Tie naked dagger around your
waist" said the wise man. fThen
drive your horses into a pond at night
and throw a stone into the pond.
Mount the horse that lifts his head up
first and gallop off to the witcb's hut
and bid her out to ride with YOU"
Byard, a blind horse, was the first
to raise his head when the farmer
threw the stone, so the farmer mount
ed him and galloped to the witch's
but.
"Out and ride with mel Out and
ride with mel"
And out came the witch. She jump,
ed at the horse, and Byard made his
first leap, and got away. She jumped
again, and Byard made his second
leap and got away. At The third leap
she sprang behind the farmer and
wound her skinny arms about his
waist. But the dagger cut her left
arm, and she lost all her power, and
was never able to trouble anybody
again.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
Sprlngtime of Life Is Full Of Contra
dictions, But Is Great Flood
of Energy.

How shall describe Youth. the time
OF contradictions and anomalies? The
fiercest radicalism. the most logged
conseryatisms. irreparable gayety,
hitter melancholy--all of these moods
are equally part Of that showery
springtime Of life. One thing, at
least, It clearly is, great, rich rush
and food OF energy. 1t IL as II the
store of life had been accommodating
through the slow, placid years of child
hood, and suddenly the dam had
broken and the waters rushed out. fu-
yious ana uncontrolled, before set
Ting down into the quieter chan
nels OF middle life. The youth is sud-
denly seized with poignant con-
seriousness of being alive, which is quite
wanting to the naive unquestioning ex-
istence of the child. He finds him
self overpoweringly urged toward self
expression. Just as tie baby, born
into q great, blooming, buzzing confu-
sion,' and attracted by every move
ment, every color every sound, kicks
madly in response in all directions,
and only gradually gets his move
ments co-ordinated with the orderly
and precise movements Of his elders
so the youth suddenly born into a
confusion of ideas and appeals and
traditions responds In the most cha
otto way to this new spiritual world,
and only gradually learns to find his
way about In 1t, and get his thoughts
and feelings into some kind of order
Atlantic Monthly.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
No man ever does as much today as

No man ever does as much today as
he is going t. do tomorrow.
Not all the dishonest men are
caught. which accounts for The fact
that so many think thew can get
away WITH it.
A. S. Jones. Of the Lee Pharmacy,
Chico. Calf, who has handled Foley
& Co.'S medicines for many years,
saws: II consider that F0ley's Honey
and Tar Compound has no equal. and
is the one cough medicine | can rec
ommend as containing M narcuticS or
other harmful properties" The gen
uine in a yellow package, HiJe Drug
Company.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
PLAYED CARDS IN GRAVEYARD
oId-Time Practice Was Until Recent
ly INDUCED In at Least One Place
In the United Kingdom.

There is a churchyard in the Bor-
ough of st. Marylebone. London, IN
which tombstone Is pointed out to
visitors as the one on which Hogarth's
idle apprentice" threw dice. Atten-
ton has Just been called to the fact
that this practice OF gambling on
tombstones has come down to the
present day in at least one graveyard
in the United Kingdom.
A lawsuit just decided has stopped
the practice in the ehurchyard OF
Dungarvan, an Irish village, where
some of the inhabitants were In the
habit of playing cards on the slabs
placed over graves and Of dancing 10
the music of an accordion. The rep
resentative church body was the COM
plainant in the case. sought and
obtained an Injunction against sixteen
persons, restraining them from tres
passing upon the battle-ground and
premises adjacent to the Church OF st.
Mary. The master Of rolls, who heard
the case, held that this privilege was
one Of permission, and not a right, and
that a churchyard was dedicated to
the service of God, and not to the rec
reation of man.
In the days before the Reformation
authorities say, the parish churchyard
was used as public playground.
Games and revels were commonly
held there on Sundays and holidays.
At Wbitsuntide there was q sort OF
church fair, held in graveyards, at
which ale btewed by the church war
dens was served, while dice-throwing,
card-playing and bowls were per-
mitted. Cock-ighting in churchyards
did not cease until the eighteenth
century. There Is story told that a
wealthy man in Hurstbourne Tarrant,
a village OF Hampshire, ordered that
a fiat tombstone, large enough to en-
able the boys to play marbles on it.
should be placed over his grave.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10

Before marriage he escorts her to
church; after marriage she has to drag
hIm there.
Hay fever and asthma make Aug
ust month Of intense suffering tn
many people. Foey's Honey and
Tar Compound gives prompt ease and
relief, and is soothing and healing TO
the inflamed membranes. VIM. NJ.
Merethew, n. Searsport. Me, says'
"A few doses OF Foley's Honey aud
Tar Compound relieved me of severe
attack of asthma and less than bot3
tie caused complete cure" Refuse
substitutes, Hite Drug Company.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
WANTED

To introduce our very complete Fall line OF
beautiful wool shitings, wash fabrics fancy
waistipgs. SILKS. handkerchicfs, petticoats,
etc, Up-to-date n. Y. City Patterns. Finest
line on the market. Dealing direct with the
mills you will lind our prices low. II others
make $1,000 TO 5000 weekly, you can also.
Samples aud full Instructions packed in q
neat sample case, shipped express prepaid.
No money required. Exclu sive territory
Write for particulars. BE first TO apply.
Standard Dress Goods Company. Dept. COZ.
Binghpmtor, n, Y.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
WiIy Will.

Didn't you think that was beauti-
full girl with me today, WHIP"
What girl, my dearest?"
"Why she was with me when you
met us outside the church."
"Was there girl there, dear? i
didn't notice. l was loolGirg at you"
And then she loved him all the
more,
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
Carpets! Carpets!

At Emrey Bros. can be found the
genuine Columbia Carpet, fast colors
with ingram weave and reversible at
the very low price Of 35c.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1912-08-10
A Mean Man.

A popular local belle and her beau
had quarrel
kindly return my lock Of hair"
"All right. Do you mean the dark
lock or the one you gave me when
you were blonde?"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07
When Mark Twain Became a Writer.

In Harper's for February, Albert
Bigelow Paine, the authorized biogra-
pher of Mark Twain. tells of the first
entrance OF the great humorist into
journalism.
1T was the afternoon of a hot, dusty
August day in 1862 when a worn. travel
strained pilgrim drifted laggingly into
the office of the Territorial Enterprise,
then in it's new building on c street,
and, lcosening q heavy roll of blankets
from his shoulders, dropped YEARLY
into a chair. He wore a rusty SLOUGH
hat, no coat, a faded blue flannel shirt.
and a navy revolver. His trousers were
hanging on his boot tops. A tangle Of
reddish brown hair fell on sis should.
ers. and a mass of tawny beard, dingy
with alkali dust dropped half way to
his waist.
Aurora lay $50 miles from Virginia
Cfty-haTd, hilly miles. He had walked
that distance. carrying his heavy load.
Editor Goodman was absent at the mo.
ment. but the other proprietor, Dennis
E.. Mccarthy. signifed that the caller
might state his GRAND. The wanderer
regarded him with a far away look.
and said, absently and with leisurely
reflection:
my %starboard leg seems to be un.
shipped. Id like about 100 yards Of
line: l think l am falling to pieces
Then he added: i want TO see Mr..
Barstow OF Mr.. Goodman. Ny name
Is Clemens. and I've come to write for
the paper
1T was the master of the worlds
widest estate. come to claim hts king.
DOM"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07
1.-THE Germany OF Today"

hugo Munslerberg in the North Ameri-
can Review.
The most striking change which has
come to the new Germany is the unprece-
denied development of its material life.
which seems in direct contrast with Ger
many's claim for pre-eminence in idealis-
tic endeavors. If a German had left Ber-
lin at the beginning of the sos and re-
turned today without having seen the
capital In the meantime, he would hardly
recognize the modest city of the time of
the old emperor. Berlin base become rich
and luxurious, and every city of the en-
plle and almost every small town repeats
this Impression given by the metropolis.
1T has been the change from agrarian
Germany to industrial Germany. In the
beginning of the sos more than 200 COO
Germans went to America as emigrants
every year, as the German soil was not
rich enough to support them. Since that
time the population has grown rapidly.
and yet the emigration has gone down to
a tenth part of that earlier figure because
the induStrialiZed life gives to the G.. $50. 600
a comfortable support: there are no slums
In any German city. The change is a fun
damental one, and this means that 1t has
revolutionized not only the street life and
the shop windows. the hotels and the pri-
yate homes, the places of amusement and
the comfort Of travelling, but that it has
changed the inner attitude OF the German
mind. That Germany which seems old
fashioned to the younger generation con-
sidered the economic life all which had to
do with business and trade and
and industry as something of second rank.
more or less as a necessary evil. The
strongest. best elements of the social or
ganization, the intelligent boys OF we'll
TODD families, became officer and law
years, scholars and physicians, govern
ment employees and land owners, but they
looked down on the calling OF the bust
ness man and on all technical activities.
Today in exactly these social groups the
callings Of the lawyer and Of the officer
LAY somewhat lost in attractiveness, and
the Network OF the banker. Of the bust
ness man, and of the manufacturer, and
above all the technical professions, nave
risen rapidly in the general estimation.
But, Just as in the glorious times of the
Renaissance the life in wealth wa most
tremendously connected with the life in
beauty and with the highest appreciation
Of scholarship and art and literature, this
new turn to commercial strength again
seeks its expression in idealistic endeav-
ors. It Is not true. as the critics hastily
claim. that this new comfort brings with
1t the vices of the parvenu, sensual mate
rialism, and lack OF higher standards; 1t
Is not true that Germany becomes un-
faithful to Its great traditions in the ideal
reaimA because 1t has ceased TO be tho
poor underpaid and vnderfed schoolmaster
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07
Tho Three Little Men.

Three little men started out on a day.
And together the wide world trod.
In Indian file they went marching along,
Three little soldiers. courageous and
strong:
AND as like as three peas in a pod.
Was some lad fa%int-hearted? Right
swiftly was heard
The thud OF their oncoming feet,
He had only to nod. and. with unfiagginx,
Six stanch little shoulders were put to
the wheel.
And a triumph was wrung from defeat.
A dear little girl found her lesson so hard.
That she gave 1t quite up. in a pet!
But she "~right-about faced with a spark,
In her eye.
When these three sturdy fellows came
hurrying by.
And offered the problem to get.
These same willing helpers are tramping
Let TIE weather be stormy or dry.
Three little soldiers. courageous and,
It need. u a nod. and they'll hurr..,
Three brave little msn-Try! Try! Try!
Pauline Frances Camp. In u. Nicholas.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07

of the world. On the contrary, the great
er means of the land allow an expansion
of the JOY in art and music and drama.
institutions for scholarship and research
scale, and the alarmingly Increasing num-
Der of new books which appear yearly in
indicates surely that the new
fashioned sports have not driven out the
old-fashioned German sport OF writing.
He who looks TO the deeper processes In
the national life even discovers the Begin
ming of a great idealistic movement in
the younger generation. In philosophy
and literature. in politics and art and re-
liglon, the mere naturalism and realism
seem to be losing ground and to be Yield
ing to a new romnnticism. In the uni
versities the philosophical lecture rooms
which were for a long time neglected
again attract the scholars of tomorrow.
There has come a kind of reaction against
the mere collecting of facts and gathering
of scientific data. A longing for wide
perspectives and for unified Views of the
world begins a new reign. The eccentrici-
ties OF the realistic drama have given
place to exquisite poetry: the naturalistic
Suggesting which was the pride of 20
years ago has been replaced by Symbols
tic stage effects which speak to the i'm
agint!on. through color and suggestion.
The whole field Of social prob
lens has become the working ground for,
a genuine enthusiastic ethical idealism en-
tirely unknown to the older time which
had not discovered it's social responsible
ties.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07
NEW BRIDE CHARGES HER
HUSBAND WITH STEALING

more than $1,000 in a week Having a
good time" They came to Hot Springs
Saturday
The marriage OF Stevenson and Mrs.
Nellie Philpot, a Kansas City widow.
possessed of a fortune said to be worth
$500, 00G, created a sensation in East st.
Louis. Their courtship lasted just two
weeks.
Besides paying Justice Bell 500, the
bride gave $500 to George Nevins, who
acted as best man, and $25 each to the
five witnesses. She said at hat time
h had $1,000 in securities and $780,
900 in cas-
Stevenson lived at 200 ST. Louis ave-
nue., East st. Louis, and drove a livery
automobile Two weeks before the we'd
ding he came to st. Louis to look for
fares and Mrs. Philpot hailed him at
Sixth and Locust streets.
"she was friendly right from the
start" he said, and climbed up to the
drivers seat beside me instead of get
ting into the %tonneau."
Stevenson and his bride departed
from East ST. Louis the night after
their wedding, taking a Vandalia train
to the east.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07
Tho State and the Fool.
, N1N~r Cs1O-- a., IJ1,1,y- NIv1o1xl.

ASO1>A w. w AAoi ~ Ky
Many still look upon the village drunk
ard, the village idiot. the half-witted
pound girl, with indulgent tolerance. If
the reader wishes to understand what a
menace to society all these are. let him
read r. l.. Dugdale's thin little volume,
THE Jukes."
Even medical inspection as at present
constituted In our public schools is in
adequate to detect and remedy these bor-
derland states. Consider the case of AL
bert. He is a large. strong boy of u. His
physical development is about normal for
his age. He talks fluently. reads well. and
writes a good, flowing business hand In
a good many business houses it would
be rather easy for Albert to get a position
in the ordinary tests hat are applied to
youths. But he could not keep it. He
had beer through the seventh grade in the
ers considered him ready to be promoted
to the eighth grade. He uses large words
n many of them. He talks about nouns
and phrases and that sort Of thing. But
his parents noticed that. at the age Of II.
Albert did not know enough to take care
they sent him to the training school at
Vtneland, where he came very near pass
ing all the tests Of mentality given him
till he came to that of the Einet form
board. This consist in placing certain
A boy OF Albert's age should have done Il
the first time in o IL ss,onds. It tool
him 4S seconds, and he gava himself away
badly by repeatedly. trylag the wal peg
in the oblong hole. the square in the hole
for the cross. and the diamond in the
% no,s for ss,c the t t5s,sns a:.y Other ms,s ts:t m ss0E1
status Of q child. AID. all things consid-
cred, the training school wa obliged to
put down l~7-year-oad Albert ~ Of q men.
tai status Of 9 yeas.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07

not to force him to remain at an UNI
congenial task.
An elder brother, James, had gone
into the printing business, having
learned the trade in London. and to
him Ben was sent as an apprentice.
He was apt at the case" but self
willed and refused obedience to supe-
riors.
James Franklin in 1919 published the
Boston Courant, the third paper pub
llshed in America. After a time it be-
came so virulent in it's attacks on
church and ministers that Franklin was
forbidden to publish it in his name.
Benjamin then undertook to do so, but
soon there was a quarrel between the
brothers and they separated.
Ben now made his way to New York,
but finding no work continued on to
Philadelphia, where he landed with only
1925 in his pocket. Here he obtained
a job with a printer, Sam Keimer. His
highest luxury, at one time, was only a
penny roll, eaten in the streets of Phil
adelphia, demonstrating that poverty is
no inSuperable obstacle to success.
Governor Keith undertook to finance
the youth in setting him up for himself
in the printing business. The governor
sent him to London to purchase the
necessary tools of the trade. He arrived
in London on Christmas eve. 1924. But
he found that the governors credit was
not good. He was a stranger in the
land of his fathers and friendless. AS
Poor Richard Franklin) says: He
that hath a trade hath an estate" and
he made his trade carry him through.
He was two years in London when.
meeting a Philadelphia merchant. he
was induced to return to the Quaker
city.
His new employer soon died and
Franklin, out Of work, went back to
Keimer. After many ups n downs he
finally became established as the fore
most printer Of Philadelphia, in part
nership with Meredith. His firm
brought out the Pennsylvania Gazette,
which came to nave the largest circu-
lation in America. Franklin also
brought out the first two pamphlets
against slavery and published the first
novel in America, Pamela" by Rich
ardson. He soon had a chain Of print
ing presses n became wealthy and
influential.
He always remained attached to his
trade. When honors were heaped thick
and fast upon him he held himself to
be first and foremost a printer. His
last will begins, II. Benjamin Franklin,
Printer. late Minister Plenipotentiary
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07
Marries Him In Haste, and Now
Says He Made Off With
$4,000 Of Her Money.
HE LANGuIsHEs IN PRISON

Hot Springs, Ark. Special: Mrs. Nell
lie Stevenson, who celebrated her mar
riage to a chauffeur in East ST. Louis
February 13 by giving him two 5000
bills and presenting Justice Bell with
500 for performing the ceremony, has
had her husband, Roy Stevenson, a
chauffeur, arrested here on a charge of
embezzling $500.
She told the police that when she
4 asked him for the money she drew from
a st. Louis bank he refused to give it
to her. Stevenson says he gave her all
they had left; that he also returned
diamonds she values at more than
$4,000. He is in Jail, unable to give
bono for $4,000.
Stevenson says he and his wife spent
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07
Auto Tires You Cannot Punetura.

A novel French Invention for render
Ing pneumatic tires punctured in q re-
cent issue of LIE Petit Havre. The ex-
pedient to which the inventor resorts is
to insert between the inner tube and
the outer casing a cloth belt upon
which metal scales are riveted.
This invention mas been put t o very
severe tests not only by taking an au-
tomobile equipped with the device ove
long distances. but by deliberately rum
ming nails anG spikes into the tire. The
tests were entirely successful. the tire
proof.