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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-19
Wall PAPER and PainSe.

We have a large force Of painters
and paperhangers and can give all work
prompt attention, Our prices are the
lowest. Geo. W, Ebert g. Co., al Main,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-19

THE ART OF PRINTING
Would be lost in Salt Lake if the Cen
tury were not in business. 55.57 Post.
ofice place.
Evening star., 1912-01-07

most before she had fairly drawn up the little dinghy
her own market boat, always ready at hand in port
lying out at The gingham apron, rolled round
her waist and the red something she utterly forgot,
scullng away like a man-o' '-warsnan.
Shrewdly she took observation of the weather, as
she pulled for dear life. The storm at coming
nearer; shoreward miles away, only mist, and
the everlasting black pail of smoke. The sky under
a canopy of murk.
"''ris like Barnegat burning" she said. COR maybe
they re having a clambake on the beach big one,
warrant And me praying for the strong arms O Ships
Bottom this mnute!'
The sloop she was leaving rode high and forlorn
empty of fish and crew, heading the breeze with scrap
of mainsail set, the boys had left her-the
they had done of times before. But poor she
was, the stripes of Brother Jonathan uttered at the
gaff and the Blue Peter at the fore That little sign
of pride comforted Mother Carey.
4I.ads as loyal as that would never rob fshpound!"
she said, and could have bitten her tongue. But
out now-and she checked defiant, bitter cry she
twisted round to where she going. 1t changed
70 cry of surprise.
"Heaven us! The fighting. It's never
Tom Archie Heaven be thanked!'
She the the raft, first up, then down;
without stopping rowing she watched then still tuggng
at the One she spring up, stare, crouching at
Evening star., 1912-01-07

the shore mist then wave her back nadly The other
sprang also tearing at his clothes the torn sail flap
ping over them, the fighting ceased And she noted
that the mist shoreward rent.
Mad with terror they are, or cannot swim-or
OF them she said, stopping rowing minute. zone
tells to 60 back, for Gods sakethe other calls me
lis plain what they doing. It's the fright that's
in them and they near drowned
She was settling sternly to her oars, when the
air-from shoreward! swooping wind rocked the
boat lcking over her like wet sheet, scrabbng to
dead against the storm wind! What in Heavens
"Its the batteships SHELF! The fleet had crawled up
in the mist, and was firing at the floating target!
GODS mercy on u.s." she gasped 4NIy brains cob
webbed 1is the battlcshps practice Jem spoke
Of And yons the mark @ destruction they're firing
poor swamped men it,
The markers from the fcet-that's what the men
swamped in their launch and taking to the float
ing target because there other place go The
mystery was solved.
For moment she sat- beating her knees, babbling
to the winds She heard the mems cries. coming sfri
and dssparing like the cries of the seaguls, far off,
then silence, menacng than cries Even the birds
deserted that craft of death, the mark of rendng de-
struction The mist shoreward opened and closed on
the firing battleship The gunners were taking advan-
tage of the momentary clearing to fire at the mark
She knew that, and Why
Likely the lads can't swim, like most sailors and
it's lettering here that booming them to DEATH"
Fear made her plainly the things she hardly under
stood. @Of course The warshp me- too far to
know how many in the boat And sitting here like
fool, making them take for the target tender-if
they can see at all!' That's what made the men
the raft fight-crazy telling her to go come for
any sake! To stop drawing the battleship's fire.
She was less than cables length away when the
truth flashed like whirlwind tossing on the oily,
omnous waters out of range of the practising warshps
unless she pulled in To 60 back now would only make
the ships think them all safe @Lfes cheap" breathed
Mother Carey.
glance showed her the two target tenders ready to
jump, but stopping, seemingly petrfed with uprased
anxously scanning the sky. praying for mercy!
An they'll get mel" said Mother Carey and gripped
Evening star., 1912-01-07

Lilc OdIS III IleI SCTOIlS
hands.
Suddenly she stopped
with downward, dubious
glance, then quickly un-
rolled the checked ging-
ham apron. "Tush!"
said Mother Carey, col
oring through her coat
of tan. "1is no time
for proprieties! Suppose
it was my own boys?"
The thought nerved
her. Strongly rowing,
momentarily fearing
another of those scream
ing shells from shore,
praying for the mist to
hold, at least till she get
close enough to make
the ships stop firing,
she thought of what
Casco said-"Do or
Doom!" Never would
the law of the sea come
in grimmer form!
She thought of Tom
and Archie, SO strangely
long away. "Pray they
may not go near the
fishpound-one in the
fam'ly's quite enough!'
Though the firing would
keep the fishermen
away, and Ships Bot
tom too. The thought
shamed her. Better
that they all die Of
hunger and never take
another fish, than that
boys of hers should
touch a fin of what did
not belong to them!
Fish pirates? Perish
the thought"
HURRY with the
- boat! Name O.
wonder, it's a woman!"
1t was the man on the
raft shouting, an officer
looking lad. His COM
panion, half kneeling,
was a seaman, yam
mering with fear, his
bruised face turned up
ward.
From the top of a
roller Mother Carey saw
Continued on page I6
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last
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ELMVILLE.

January 10, l9l2.
W. o. Setty and family and j. M.
Setty and wife spent Sunday after
noon with Levi Setty and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Williams visit
ed G. II. Williams and family Sunday.
J. NJ. Hammond and sister and
Minous Hammond and wife and baby
spent Sunday with S. r. Wylie and
wife.
Porter Beakman visited w. o. Setty
and family Thursday night and at
tended church at Louden.
]. L. McElwee made a business trip
to Hillsboro Monday.
Alves Countryman and wife spent
Sunday with Owen Countryman and
family.
Mrs. Margaret Hammond spent the
past week visiting her son, David.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kelly spent
Thursday afternoon with w. A. Gall
and family.
G. W. Simmons and family called on
j. L. McElwee and wife last Monday
night.
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Willie Mclaughlin and wife spent
Sunday with Albert Gossett and wife
at Danville.
Guy Custer and wife visited Ed.
Smith and family Wednesday.
Aunt Nancy Cochran is visiting
Marion Whitley and family.
Willie Turner and wife and Miss
Ruth Foust spent Sunday with Ira
Gossett and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bennington,
Newt. Bennington and wife and baby,
of Taylorsville, and VIM. Bennington
and wife, Of Sorg, took dinner with
John Bennington and family Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Perry Moberly and
Birch Moberly and family visited
Perry Emery and family Sunday.
Hoyt Leininger, who is going to
school at Lynchburg, spent Saturday
night and Sunday at home.
Erwin Shaffer and family, Charley
Newton and family, Misses Gertrude
Puckett and Sylvia Young, Hugh
Stockwell, John and Willie Hastings
and Willie Shaffer spent Wednesday
evening with M. M. Workman and
family. A most enjoyable evening
was spent.
Miss Stella Hauk spent Sunday with
Mary and Gertrude Whitley.
Willie Roberts and family, of Hol.
lowtown, spent Sunday with DIR.
Pratt and family.
Owen Roush and son, Wendell, OF
Danville, attended church here Sun
day night.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-01-18
RAINSBORO.
January l5, 1912.

Aci A"A-'
Miss Ethel Fettro, Of Chicago, Is
visiting here, the guest of Mrs. g. e.
Garman.
The school at Snake Corner is closed
temporarily, owing to the teacher,
Mae w. Spargur, having an attack OF
measles.
George Shanks, of Samantha, was
the guest OF his son, here one day last
week.
n, X. Barrett, of Hillsboro, is busi-
ness visitor in this commun ty today
Monday
Mrs. Margaret Mackerly who has
been an invalid for many months has
been much worse the past few days
and is now thought TO be sinking
rapidly.
The officers in the Home Telephone
Company gave the operator, Miss
Anna Keelor, a very pleasant surprise
last Saturday in the shape OF material
for a handsome dress as slight token
of their appreciation Of the excellent
service she is giving the patrons.
Owing to the extreme bad weather
and the numerous cases OF measles In
the community, Rev. Shriver, who
was holding revival services at the
NJ. e. Church, was compelled to close
the meetings for the present.
Willie Ferguson, of Dayton, was the
guest of his parents here last week
Seldom has our community been
visited with such an epidemic OF
measles as we are having at present.
Few families are escaping and I'm sew
eral homes the entire family are VIC
tins of the disease
Mrs. John Hulitt, Of Hillsboro, and
Beecher Thomas and wife, of Green
field, were called here this morning
by the serious illness Of their mother,
Mrs Margaret Mackerly.
Master Harold Davis has been con.
fined to his home the past week on ac-
count of illness.
The mercury made the lowest record
here last Satu day morning that has
been reported for several years going
to "a below zero at Barrett's Mill and
SO below at Beavers Mill.
Bill Stuckey was hauling lumber
last Saturday with a yoke of oxen be-
longing to K. P. Easter when the oxen
became frightened and ran away near
Snake Corner with some very laugh
able results. From the description
given by eye witnesses the escapade
outrivalled any moving picture show
ever given In this section.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-01-18
2I,9OO MILES
Of Matches Used in the United
States Each Day In Year,.
Interesting Statistics.

1t takes l, 100 miles Of matches to
light New Yorks evening lamp. Chi
cago burns up about half that In get
ting ready for supper. The whole
United States consumes 2l,900 miles
OF matches every day. Every man,
woman and child Of the population of
this country uses between eight and
nine matches a day every day In the
year
These statistics give but fiickering
and pale picture of the gigantic size Of
the match industry. Ifall the annual
consumption Of matches In the United
States were laid end TO end, touching
one another, they would form girdle
that would encircle the globe about
3l7 times.
Matchwood is cut into splints and is
thoroughly dried. Then either a con
tinuous band or veneer as thick as a
match is turned of the rotating log by
steadily advancing knife and cut
lengthwise into ribbons as broad as
match is long, or the timber, after
trimming, is sawn into rectangular
pieces, which are made to yield splints
of equal length. Tnen the matches
are dipped, ami when dried are ready
for use.
The toothpick Is as big an article OF
American manufacture as the ratch.
Factory shipments of toothpicks In
carload lots are not unusual. A car
load contains about 10000, 900, 600 Of
toothpicks. No one ever had the dar-
ing to figure out how many toothpicks
are consumed In New York or In the
country at large.
The number would run into such
unfamiliar numerals, perhaps, as
vigintillions.
Toothpick machines produce their
product with incalculable rapidity.
They are never counted, mechanically
or otherwise. They are packed In
boxes of known capacity, and the
number Is estimated In that way.
There are toothpicks OF all shapes
there is an infinite variety that Is
known only to the trade.
A penny thousand is very fair
wholesale price for toothpicks. The
best grade sells ordinarily at the mills
put up In boxes, at the rate of 7 or 8
cents thousand. These are the kind
that come 1900 to the box and retail
at rs cents. Giro eville Union. Herald.
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PRICETOWN.
January Is, 1912,

January 10, l9l2.
Erwin Shaffer and family visited
Mrs. Marian Allen at Harwood Sun
day.
Mrs. Efiie Puckett and daughter,
Miss Gertrude, spent Sunday with p.
f. Certier and family.
Willie Workman and wife and
daughter, Miss Edith, and son, Glenn,
of Wrinkle, we're guests Of M. M.
Workman and family Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Gossett and
Mrs. Addie Foust were guests of Or
land Gossett and family at Winkle
Thursday.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-01-18

"That Burbank man is a wonder, ("
said Maude.
"I don't like man who tries to be
so smart" replied Mayme. "The first
thing we know, he'll be undertaking
to invent a kissless mistletoe. w Wash
ington Star.
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Howell-Does he take things philo-
sophically
Powell-Yes, but he doesn't part
with them Observation-Disclosures
Home Companion.
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She-I can't cook, but we could hire
somebody to do that.
He-And l can't make money, but
we could hire somebody TO do that.
Puck
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-01-18

For SALE-Sleigh In good condi-
tion and sleigh bells.
DIR /. w. CAREY.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-01-18

FOR RENT-Good house on e. Pleas
ant street. Call on Or. r. M. Thomas.
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Don't fail to read G p. Tener's ad.
on page 5. 1t will be worth while TO
you.
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Peoples
Column
FOR SALE.

Farm and Town property always
for sale. Money loaned on Real Es-
tate. WADE TURNER,
Merchants Bank Bldg.
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28
SMOKING BY THE SMALL BOY
How the Question Was Smoothly and
Easily Settled by One Wise
Father.

"The question Of smoking came up
early in our family. Lawrence has al.
ways been greatly attracted by what
he considers manly accomplishments
If he had been brought up I'm Puri.
tan atmosphere. he would have sown
an abundant crop of wild oats-so
great to him Is the glamour of the
forbidden thing. II it savors OF fash.
ion or luxury. 1t becomes almost ir.
resistible.
"lIc was only fourteen when we no.
ticed a suggestion of cigarette smoke
about him.
"'Ilave you been smoking, my
boy?' his father asked In tone un.
suggestive of rebuke. Lawrence ad-
mitted that he had. 4 should be sorry
If 1t stopped your growth or injured
your heart, so that you could not go
In for athletics at college, his father
went on in a casual tone. 1 would
rather you did not, if you do care
very much about it. / will give each
of you boys 800 ii you will not smoke
until you are twenty-one. Think it
over for Il few days. Ii you decide
that you prefer to smoke. and II, after
you have had a talk with the doctor,
you are not afraid of what it may do
to you, your mother will find place
for you TO smoke
"a few words from our doctor treat.
ing the matter from n scientific point
of view, helped Lawrence to decide
that he would take the 500. The
other boys decided as he did; this
ended it."-Woman's Home Com.
panion.
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28
NICKNAMES ON THE OCEAN
Tradition Governs Them Among
American and English Sailors
and They Never Alter.

In the American and English navies.
as well as in the merchant marines,
are found nicknames that have been
I'm use since before men dreamed that
there was land on the other side OF
the western ocean. Tradition, most
infexible of all rules. governs them,
and they never alter, whether the ship
clears from the Golden Gate or from
London Docks. Some of the nick.
names are of obvious origin; others
seem to gain force by their apparent
lack of reason
For instance, why should all men
named Wright be called SINNER
Clark is invariably "Nobby"; Green is
Jimmy: and White is a knock
cr." "Spud" Murphy explains ITSELF
as does Dusty" Miller. Lofty" and
shorty" do not need to present cards
to their mates when they sign on,
and II is not worth while for the
brunette sailor to resent IL when a
friendly chap halls him as "Nigger"--
he cant whip the entire crew. one
after the other.
The rigid forms of the quarterback
do not hold during the watch below,
and the captain is the Skipper" and
the first lieutenant Is Familiarity
Jimmy the one" On fighting ships
the gunnery lieutenant is "Gunncry
jack or more briefly Guns; the
torpedo licr'nnant, "Torpedo Jack" or
"Sparks,' and the navigating officer,
"rho Navy"
Even a landlubber would know that
"Tommy Pipes" was the boatswain.
Chips" the carpenter, Jimmy Bungs"
the cooper, and sails" the sailmak.
cr.-Thc Sunday Magazine.
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28
Ooefish.

A fisherman from Montauk Point
was telling his friends of catching a
huge dogfish that had most abnor-
NAL skull. The angler operated on his
ugly and worthless catch, and found
In the skull all that was left of a
once strong rubber band. Evidently
when that big dogfish was little some
angler who had rigged up for cod or
other bottom fish had caught the dog
around its gills and turned 1t loose.
expecting the tortured thing to die
That recalled the story OF how some
fishermen not SO gentle and humane
rs the ruling angler treat the poor
but pestiferous dogfishes when they
are caught. Generally there Is an
empty beer bottle handy, and this is
tightly corked and tied to the tail of
the fish. which Is thrown back into
the sea. 1t goes to the bottom, of
course, but the steady pull of that air.
filled bottle finally proves too much
for its strength. and it comes wig
Cling up, tail first, only to go down
again and repeat the performance un-
til the wretchcd thing dies. F're-
lucntly, when there is no beer bottle
to be had, a piece of wood will do just
as well, or just as i'll.
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28
Characters Commercial Value.

Character has commercial value
and sometimes men are honest ac-
cording to law solely because it is
polite, or polite. according to social
requirements because it pays. But the
honesty and courtesy of such men
are not virtues. They are handmade.
ems Of covotousness. They contribute
nothing to self-respect. They have
no moral content, and serve only to
aid In bolstering up vicious char
acteristic. However. 1t Is tribute
to the kingliness OF character that.
either for Its market value or be.
cause OF its inherent worth, men
clothe themselves in its appearance
when they do not seek the substance.
From "The Sixth Sense" by
Charles II. Brent.
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28
Hoping for the Worst.

"Jimpson doesn't like you"
II hadn't suspected that. What
makes you think he doesn't like me?"
II heard him wishing the other day
hat you would buy an aeroplane."
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28

For SALE;-The two buildings oc-
cupicd by the Chief Office and +. h.
Newhouse's jewelry store. Inquire OF
+. II. Newhouse.
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28
VARIETIES,

300 bulKng of the Earlies yellow }
800 bu. Pride of the North yellow
1000 bu. Improved. Leaning (fellow)
200 bu. Iowa Gold Mine (Yellow)
5000 bu. Champion White Pearl.
loOG bu. Iowa Silver Mine. -
1000 bu. Wisconsin White Dent.
1000 bu. White Cap Yellow Dent.
Prices with sack 5000 per bushel.
Ton bushel lots sl.9O per bushel; go
bushel lots $3.50 per bushel, +. o. b,
Waterloo, Nebr,
Cash with order. We cannot open
accounts.
Waterloo, Nebr.
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28
Seed Corn.

| will not have seed corn on display
as advertised The supply OF seed
corn will be limited this spring, and II
You have to buy you can get seed corn
from the firm mentioned below. II
YOU order please mention my name.
Wick T.. Springer.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-28
ST. MARY'S RNER
MAY Be DREBGED
CONGRESSMAN 8RANTLEY AT
WORK IN INTEREST OF CAM.
DEN COUNTY STREAM. s,s

The following from the Southeast
Georgian, published at st. Marys.
will be of interest IN this city:
Capt. L. Johnson and Capt. Richs
ardson returned Wednesday from
Washington and are quite hopeful that
the board of engineers will recum-
mend an appropriation to dredge the
shoals in st. Marys river, as the re-
suit of the interview they had WITH
Congressman Brantley Monday mora.
ing.
The engineers did not make ann
promises, of course. nor give out any
statement outlining their views, but
the various questions put to the st.
Marys committee were significant OF
interest in the matter, and our COM
mittee was able to give them later
information than that on which their
previous unfavorable action was
based.
1t is the hope of the committee that
the board of engineers will adopt the
recommendations of Colonel Kingman
for an appropriation of $4,000 70
dredge the shoals as far uu the river
as Kings Ferry, but failing that, the
hope is still stronger that dredging
up to st. Marys, which is a matter OF
less than a thousand feet, WIZ ne
approved.
At the meeting on Monday Capt.
Johnson was the first speaker anA
gave the full statistics in reply to
a stream of questions from the mem
bers.
Capt. Richardson, with his lifetime
experience of the river and the work
ing of the shoals, followed with de-
tailed elucidation of the situation
which it is believed gave the engf-
neers new insight in the work that 10
requisite and the Importance and ne
cessity of 1t.
Mr.. Brantley also addressed the
board on the subject and is working
very actively among the congressmeR
in behalf of this interest. He took
Messrs. johnson and Richardson to
see Senator Bacon who gave his fuA
support and remarked "If we don't
get it one way we will another"
Captain Johnson says that Brant-
ley looms up large in washington ana
has great influence in congress, ana
much is to be hoped for from his ao-
tivity in behalf of this appropriation.
They also had the honor of meet
ing President Taft, Mr.. BrantLey TAX
ing them to the white house for tho
purpose. 1t was during business
hours, so the meeting was brief, but
the presidents happy laugh and
warm handshake did them good.
They found the charm of his person
atty quite irresistible.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-28
ALBERT WOLTER TO DIE
FOR MURDER OF GIRL

Albany, Jan. 27.-Albert w. VOL
ter, slayer of 15-year- -old Ruth Wheel-
er, is to die in the electric chair in
Sing Sing prison early next Monday
morning. Governor Dix has refused
to interfere to save Wolter, whose
attorneys have been bending every
effort for almost two years to avoid
the death sentence for their client.
Wolter murdered Ruth Wheeler, Is
years old, in his apartment in New
York city on March "a, 1910, after
she lad been lured there by an ad
vertisement for a stenographer. He
then tried to destroy the body by
burning it in a fireplace, and the part
ly incinerated corpse was found. The
evidence showed the girl had been
strangled. Wolter was placed on
trial on March 1S, 1910, and four days
later he was convicted Of murder in
the first degree. On April 27 he was
sentenced to die on June 4, 1910. An
appeal which never was prosecuted,
and other delays, rave put off the ex-
ecution, but in December last the
court of appeal decided that he "was
fairly tried and justly convicted and
that he should die.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-28
SHERIFF HELD ON
!. MURDER CHARGE
SUFFERING REMoRsE, MAN CON-
,FEssEs TO CRIME COMMITTED
NINETEEN YEARS AGO.

Eureka, Cal, Jan. 27.-Suffering re-
morse for a r'urder committed, ne
says, nineteen years ago in Kentucky,
j. w Gray, who came here a week
ago from Texas, surrendered yester-
day to the local police. BY a strange
chance a man was found here who
had knowledge of the tragedy and he
identified Gray. Word was sent to
Kentucky officials today.
According to Gray, he was deputy
sheriff at Sand Hill, near Mammoth
Cave, in Kentucky, in 1893. He says
he was sent to arrest a man named
Ross Simmons. A fight followed.
Simmons, Gray says, passed a knife
to his sister, who stabbed Gray sew
ieral times in the back. Thereupon
Gray drew his revolver and shot Sim
mons. He fed from Kentucky and
wandered over the country.
& Gray is now about 40 years old. He
carries letters and kilograms which
show that he has been in touch with
relatives in Kentucky recently.