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Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
Success Under Difficulties

larger than his and their wharf priv
ileges much better. but he soon out
stripped all others He ran his boat
with the idea Of helping his neigh
bors. He won the public confidence,
he was SO kind to children and so
careful of their welfare that every
householder felt the whole family safe
In Ferryman Vanderbilt's care.
Obliged to get larger boats, he got
work all night. He was never absent
from his post by day and he soon mo-
nopolized the trade. He did things.
In 1913, when It was expected that
the New York harbor would be at
tackled by the British, all the boat.
men except Cornelius put In their
bids to carry provisions to the mill
tary posts all around New York. They
were Offering to do the work at price
for which he said 1t could not be done.
but then the contractor was exempt.
ed from military duty To please his
father Cornelius put in a bid, but he
did not go to hear the award. To his
astonishment the contract was given
to him at higher price. Wondering
why the commissary said: I'VE have
given this contract to you because we
want this business done and we know
you'll do It." Capital is not what
man has. but what man is. Charac-
ter is capital. II gives confidence.
IL is the greatest thing In the world.
In 1918. now twentyfour yeas old,
he owned three Of the finest coasting
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
French Martial Enthusiasm.

Scenes of enthusiasm were wit
messed in Paris one night recently.
when. after twenty years, the military
tattoos were revived by order OF the
minister of war with a view to con-
solidating the new patriotism In
France. At 8: 80 p. m. the band OF the
102nd infantry regiment left the bar
racks and. followed by an ever-increas-
Ing crowd. marched through the
streets. playing the stirring and an
cient marches of the French army. On
the right bank OF the Seine the band
OF the cath infantry carried out the
tattoo with over 5000 people marching
in step to the sound Of the drums and
bugles. All the windows along the
route were crowded with cheering men
and women. who cried Long live the
army" Henceforth there will be two
tattoos in Paris every Saturday. night.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
MlssIno the Point.

Representative Rucker of Colorado
apropos of tariff argument about
sugar, said to a Washington CORE
sponcent: "Oh, well. those men don't
see my point. They miss 1t as badly
as the old lady missed her sons.
Mother a young man said. look
Ing up from the Bulletin, would you
believe that 1t takes 5000 elephants
a year to make our piano keys and
billiard balls?'
Make our piano keys and billiard
bulls! cried the old lady. Well.
always understood elephants were in
telligent creatures. but l never knew
before that they'd been trained to
make piano keys and billiard balls"
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
A Sad Handicap,

Sad case of the fellow on the
fourth f1oor!''
What's that?'
He plays the cornet for his own
amusement. but he got SO hard up late
ly that he had to pawn the instru-
ment"
"Well?"
Now he can't borrow a dollar in
the entire building because everybody
is afraid he'll get the blamed tooter
out of pawn"
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
Cornelius Vanderbilt, From soatman
to Railway King.

May l., 1910. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
having imbibed strong liking for the
sea, asked his mother to lend him
500 TO buy boat. The mother said:
MY son. on the 25th of this month
you will be sixteen years old II by
that time you will plow, harrow and
plant with corn the eight-acre lot I
patch of ground on Staten Island
where the Vanderbilt family lived was
not large enough to support a family
and Cornelius found work among the
boatman in New York harbor. But
he wanted to have his own boat and
TO get the necessary money to start
on his own hook he plowed and har-
rowed that rough and stony field, and
that 500 laid the foundation OF his
famous fortune
There were other boatmen in that
harbor who wanted to be rich, but
they were not willing to pay the price.
While the other boatmen wasted their
money in drink and their time in silly
pleasures. Cornelius stayed on the Job,
slept with one eve open, looking out
for the main chance, He gave the
first $500 he earned to his poor par
ents. While other boatmen were
treating their customers to liquor to
get trade. Cornelius built up repu.
tation for integrity among that crowd
of poor people.
Ths boats of his competitors were
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02

steamship Vanderbilt" to the govern
ment. to be used for the capture Of
Confederate privateers. He founded
and endowed Vanderbilt University at
Nashville, Tenn. He gave church
to DR. Deems. He died January. 1877.
eighty-three years old. the richest man
of his day in America. his fortune be-
ing estimated at upwards of 100000.
000.-Madison C. Peters.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
When Your Ewes Need Care

Try Murine Eye Remedy. No Smarting-Feels
Fine--Acts Quickly. Try 1t for Red, Weak.
Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Illus.
trated Book in each Package. Murine is
compounded by our Oculsts-not "Patent Med
lcine,-but used in successful Physicians Prac-
tice for many years. Now dedicated to tho Pub
ic and sold BY Druggists at 2Sc and 6Oc per Bottle
Murine Eye Saive In Aseptic Tubes, 25c and 6Oc.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
Cause Of the Row,

Mrs. Brown had a dreadful quar-
rel with her husband last night?"
That so?"
Yes. She bid eight on hand that
was good for ten, not thinking Mr..
Brown would overbid her. but he did.
1t almost broke up the party"
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
ARRWN
At MISK

occasion which arises, tends to show that tnelF
Mahomedanism is of comparatively recent intro
duction In many Of their shrines will be founo
carefully rounded stones. very similar to those
so common in down-country Hindu temples and
which point to a religious connection that has not
long been severed. They wild, but. as might
be expected not fanatical. Their affections are
easily won If they are treated we'll and with sym
pathy Marvelously hardy. yet disinclined to any
great physical exercise. they prefer to spend their
time half asleep watching their camels and sheep
Craze For their wives they pay sums wh1ch
plunge them debt for years, and. indeed.
sometimes until they have daughters OF their own
to dispose OF In the matrimonial market In ac-
cordance with Mahomedan usage. plurality OF
wives is permissible but few have the necessary
amount of means to first purchase and afterwards
maintain more than one wife. They are brave
and before Great Britain took over the country,
which was only in 1896. they were much addlcted
to raiding Each tribe has its own feuds, and
these have been in existence for generations
They pride themselves the possession OF es-
pecially fine sword-bades. which are the fruits OF
successful forays into Persia. The blades are
very curved, and the hits of their swords are SO
small that a European cannot grasp them In
stature they are rule short, with small
frames, but very wiry. To the English eye. per-
haps the most striking characteristic is their Gus
tom Of wearing their hair long. In the old days.
when a man titled his field it was necessary to
do under a guard. but with Engfsh rule THIS
has passed away.
one gets from the center OF Baluchistan and
from its capital. Quetta, the less land Is cult-
waited and the more marked becomes the nomadic
propensity until the frontier itself tribes are
met with who spend their time almost entirely
in attacking their neghbors defending them
selves in turn from attack. In fact, their state
is exactly what the state of the whole OF Ba-
luchistan was.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
Great Savlnu,

Aunt Dinah-Whatfoah you wears
brack, Deagun Ebony? You am not
n widower.
Deacon Ebony-I' Is economical.
honey. One brush do me foah hat
brush, hair brush. clothes brush. shos
brush and flesh brush
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
Easily.

Howell-He has a pros porous look.
Powell-Yes, you could tell at
glance that he was a single man.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02

Coated tongue, vertigo, constipation are
all relieved by Garfield Tea.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02

There are two kinds of ambition;
one scars and the other crawls.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02

and barren in the extreme 1t little culti
vat1on and is inhabited by nomads who support life
by pasturing their ocks OF sheep, goats and cames.
in which consist their only wealth. Chagai is sub
divided into three districts. which named Nushki.
Chagai and the Western Sinjaran country The
population of Nushki is mixed of Brahu1 and
Baluch The indigenous Inhabitants of Nushki are
Baluch; but some three four generations ago
branch of the Mengal tribe migrated from
kalat and settled in Nushk which they made their
headquarters. From thence they spread northward.
eventually covering the larger portion that stu
pendous sand waste which is known the Registan
(the country of Reg sand) where they sunk wells
some OF which close three hundred feet deep.
No white has ever penetrated into the true
Registrar, and SO little is known about it; but this
we do know, that here to be found sandhils
larger than any others the world The word sand.
hill does not convey proper meaning as these are
not hills. but mountains. and the belief which now
obtains is that below the Registrar lies range OF
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
z0De or TRAVELLING WZKx DESERT

HE province of Baluchistan Is divtd-
ed for administrative purposes into
what Is termed Political Agencies.
OF these there are five, named, re-
spectively. Kalat, Quetta-Pishi
Zhob, Loralaf Sibi ard Chagai. The
Chagai Agency has an area of some
twenty thousand square miles, and
lies on the map in the corner which
is bounded on the north by Afghanis-
tan and on the west by Persia. For
tho most mart tho country ia wild
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1912-01-25
DELINQUENT TAX LIST FOR 1911

Notice is hereby gwen, that in
pursuance of Section 20 OF Ordl-
nance No. z ofthe Town Of Wran.
CELL, Alaska, duly passed and ap-
proved on the 4th day of August,
1904, providing for the puhlica:
ton OF the Delinquent Tax List OF
the said Town, the following taxes
having become delinquent the same
are now published as follows;-
F. Carstine, Blk. :: Lot 9, -
VIM. Tamaree, Blk. :.
lot 5, SOS
Clarence Thwing, Blk. 5
lot q, I.5o
}, 10, I.5o
VIM. Fletcher, Water
.ront improvement. 2.25
NJ; c. Marshall, Water:
ront Improvement. SIS
a, Lemieux
Waterfront improvements l.5o
Dated at Wrangell, Alaska, this
9TH day of January, 1912.
L. c. PATENAUDE,
treasurer and ex.officio tax collect
or of the Town of Wrangell, Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1912-01-25
London's Muffin Man,

The muffin man had no monopoly Of
che street bell when William ~. was
king. as John Ashton records in
sketch of that time. The dustman also
rang bell aud yelled. and the post
mans bell was most popular institu-
ton There were no pillar boxes in
those days. and the sound of the bell
brought people who lived far from a
postotfice to their doors to give the
postman their letters to post. In "Pick
wick" however. we have evidence that
even then the muffin man was chief
among hand bell ringers. For when
the town crier of Eatanswill proclaim
ed silence on the hustings by "a con-
certo on the bell'' d gentleman In the
crowd called Mutfinsr'-London Mail.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1912-01-25
History.


History is made by one set of men
and written by another The charac.
ter of the written history depends upon
the politics of the historian. Most
histories are written many years after
the history was made. In these cir
cumstances no one can step forward
aud dispute the historian. History is
studied at school aud forgotten at
home.
We are told to judge the future By
the past. and after We read the his
tories we are as badly muddled as
ever.
Some statesman make history. but
most Of them make speeches.-Judge's
Library.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1912-01-25
PATRIOTISM.

Let our object be our country.
our whole country and nothing but
our country. And. by the blessing
Of God. may that country itself be-
come a vast and splendid monu-
ment. not Of oppression and terror.
but Of wisdom. Of peace and Of
liberty, upon which the world may
gaze with admiration forever
Daniel Webster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
Mexican Culver Of Tuesday Was More
Serious Than Was First Report
cd According to Later
News.
NEW VOLCANO FORMED
Great HlIi Only Fifty Miles From
Mexico City Has Become the
Terror Of the Com
munity.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servlce.]
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22.--Late re-
ports from the state of Mexico receiv-
ed today place the number of dead
as a result OF Tuesdays earthquake
at probably more than 1000. Every
building in the city of AcaIubay was
demolished. More than 100 persons
We're worshipping in church when
the structure crashed down on the
congregation and all were buried alive
In the wreckage. Half OF the bodies
have not yet been recovered. Other
towns in the northern part of the
state are reported to have, been de-
s.royed and hundreds killed or In
jured
A great hill in the center of the
stricken district is said to have turn
ed into a volcano, and yesterday was
smoking and throwing up great
masses of rock which is crashing into
the village at the foot OF the hill.
Scientists here today declared that
the district is new earthquake cen
ter which will constantly menace
Mexico City, as it is less than fifty
miles away on an air line. Slight
|. shocks have been felt at intervals
since the big quake Tuesday and the
district is being rapidly depopulated
The people are leaving by hundreds
1 abandoning all Of their possession
4 and leaving the bodies of the dead un
4 buried.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
EVIDENTALLY DIDN'T
MARRY FOR LOVE
Woman Believed Her New
Husband Was Wealthy In
stead Of Chauffeur.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Nov. %. Charging that
she was tricked into marrying man
whom she believed to be Edward b.
Kirkman, son OF wealthy Marshall M.
Kirkman, formerly vice president OF
the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road. Mrs. Aimee w. Givins-Boehm
today sought to bring about the ar
rest of Edward Boehm, chauffeur
The woman said she eloped and mar
ried the man she thought was Kirk
man: later found there was no sucf
nerson and is now without husband
and $500 which she says he took
away with him.
According to the woman she me'
the man whom she married In .
cafe. Two nights later they went te
Crown Point and were married at two
a m. When her husband disappeared
the day after the wedding. she called
up the home OF the wealthy Kirkman'
and learned that there was no sucf
person as Edward B. Kirkman. One
Of the family identified photograph
of the bridegroom as Edward Boehm
formerly employed as chauffeur b!
| the Kirkman family.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
HE HAS GIVEN
AWAY s1S3,235, 600
Andrew Carnegie Cannot Be
Accused Of Being Stingy
With His Wealth.

United Press Leased Wire Service i
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-The total
benefactions of Andrew Carnegie,
whose latest is a proposition to pen
sion ex-presidents s250o0 per year,
today were estimated to be s1sS,235,-
900, as follows:
Hero funds, s7,s5o,ooo; Carnegie
teaching fund, s21. 100000; Carnegie
institute. Washington, s22,ooo,ooo; col
leges in United States and Canada,
s20,O0O,O00; colleges in England, s6,-
100000; trust for Scottish universt
ties, 1O,o00,oo0; Dumferline trust, ST..
100000; Carnegie institute at Pitts,
burgh, s22,0oo,o0O; relief fund for
steel workers, s4,OoO,oo0; gifts for
church organizations, $4,o00,0o0; Pan
American building, sT50,0o0; Hague
Peace Tribunal building, s1,5oO,oon;
peace endowment. s1o,ooo,o0o; librar
les, s5o,sos,o 600
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
SERVIAN SKIRTS
ARE THE LATEST
Rout of the Turks Makes
New Style Of Gown for
Ladies.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, Nov. 22--The Turk 's
greatly lessened influence in Europe
will be reflected in the styles of wo.
mems clothes during the next six
months The harem skirt is doomed
In it's place will come the ServIail
skirt 1t viii be full at the top and
drawn closely in around the bottom
as the arab draws his voluminous
sheet-like robe about him.
Tha. was decreed at the opening
session today of the National Cloak
Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Asso
citation at the Hotel LaSalle. 1t will
be verified tomorrow when the new
styles are displayed on living model:
in the hotel parlors.
The Balkan allies have gained ,
pronounced victory In all women7
styles for the near future. There VIII
be the Bulgarian cloak, the Montene
grin walking suit and Grecian bloom
ers.
At the election of officers, It wal
predicted today that II. P. Rowland o
Chicago will succeed Alexander Print
Of Cleveland, as president.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
ONE EYED man
Sgyy The SPLASH
g : says That Attorney Gibson and
1. =. sxabo Went Over oppo-
/ site Sides Of tho
Boat.
TOGETHER OR APART
Every state Witness Testified That
the Couple Were Pitched out
Hanging to Each
Other.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service
GOSHEN, N. Y. Nov. 22 Certain
that they had bitten great holes In the
states case against their client, the at
torneys for Burton w. Gibson prepared
today to continue their presentation of
evidence. It was hoped that the nom
medical evidence might be completed
flor an adjournment tonight, thus
clearing the way for the stories the
doctors will tell.
Every state witness has sworn that
Gibson and Mrs. Szabo went into the
water together SO that Gibson's arms
were seemingly around the woman
and that he apparently upset the
boat. Every defense witness has tes-
titled that the couple were at least
four feet apart and Tom Garrison, a
cne-eyed guide at the lake, swore
that they went over from opposite
sides Of the frail craft.
Charles Goldheir, Of counsel for the
defense, said today that he had wit
nesses in reserve who would show
that Mrs. szabo frequently referred to
tker mother as living In New York.
The defense today placed their
medical experts on the stand to testi
4 fy that the condition OF the woman's
body did not of necessity indicate
death by choking. It was believed
4 that the defense would rest this after
i noon. Court then would adjourn oyel
I to Monday when the summing III
4 would take place.
4 DR. Arthur S. Moore, Of the Mid
4 dletown state hospital, who said h,
i had performed 525 autopsies in tht
eleven years of his practice, showed
to the jury pieces of fresh beef upoI
!, which he had experimental yesterda.
and today to back his expert opinion
that formalin, used to harden ant
preserve tissues, as in em!balming
! caused a reduction and contraction o
tissues. Such action, he said, coult
!. have produced the apparent evidence
of strangulation in the throat of th'
dead woman.
John w. Minturn, star witness
4 against Gibson, admitted that he coul'
not swear that the lawyers ham
reached the woman's throat when h
said he saw them in the boat accord
ing to William G. Osgoodby, of PomI
ton Plains, N. j., who said that he wa
on a train with Minturn the night Q
! the inquest when Minturn made tn
statement.
DIR. CatteIl said that the contracte
condition of the tissues of Mrs
Szabo's throat could not have bee
. produced by strangulation without e1
terror marks being found. There wer
limo such marks on the neck of th
3 dead woman, he said.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
SUFFRAGETTE,s BODY
FOUND in THE RIVER

After cursory inspection by state
officials. 1t was announced that there
were no marks Of violence and that
death was due to drowning. The giri
had been dead about t@entysfour
hours.
A note found among the girls ef.
fects read:
4 can't get the water off my
mind
Miss Garvin had been Respondent
for several days. according to her
step-mother. She left Thursday even
ing for suffragette meeting at
brown university, but she never
reached the railroad station which Is
only a FIVE minute walk from her
homo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
Firsty, Secondly and Thirdly, He is
Declared to be Suffering From
Leaks In His Think
Tank.
TAKEN TO OSHKOSH
Commissioner Suggests That a Fine
Place to Put Him Would
Be the state
Hospital

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
MILWAUKEE,, Nov. %. The five
alienists who examined into the men
tai condition OF John Schrank who
pleaded guilty to an attempt to Kill
Colonel Roosevelt here, today official
,ly reported to Judge Backus IN the
municipal court that Schrank is In
sane. That this would be the verdict
OF the commission OF experts was nn-
ofiicially reported several days ago.
Schrank was committed to the
state hospital for the criminal insane
at Oshkosh. He probably will be
taken there tomorrow.
Following is the report OF the com
mission of alienists as presented to
Judge Backus: I'VE, your commission.
find:
First That John Schrank Is SUR
ering from insane Illusions, grandiose
in character and Of the systematized
variety.
Second our opinion he is in
sane at the present time.
"Third-On account of the close re-
lation between his illusions and the
act with which he stands charged, we
| believe him to be unable to confer IN
telligently with counsel or to conduct
his defense. h
(Signed)
s'W. II. BECKER, Chairman.
! ..Richard D. Dewey D. Harrington
4 Frank studley, William F. Wegge,
4 commissioners"
Schrank was brought into court at
4 10 n. M He was not in rons and
stood quietly between two deputies,
apparently unaffected by the verdict
4 of the alienists. He made no com
! ment. Neatly dressed and apparent
4 ly none the worse for his long I'M
prisonment, his face was an express.
4 ionless mask as he strode from the
courtroom back to his cell in the
county jail.
! The report of the commission was
4 presented by DR.. Becker, chairman oil
the commission, and read by the
| court, who at once issued the com.
! mitment order. The court did no,
i allude In any way to the leak which
4 permitted the decision of the alienists
1 to become known several days ago.
1 According to the prisoners own
story he trailed the ex-president from
New York through the south, later te
{ Indiana and Chicago and then fos'ow.
ed the candidate to Milwaukee, where
the premeditated act was accom-
plished
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
TO THRASH
NERVY PHOTOGRAPH zR

ed warmly. "and III thrash you II you
do that again"
The photographer apologized pro-
fusely but the governor was not much
mollified-eonsidering that the photo
grapher still had the plate, notwith-
standing the remorse he professed.
This happened In the president
elects own yard, where he evidently
felt his wishes ought to be respected.
There were two photographers there
at the time, bat one of them did as he
was requested, and got an approving
smile but no picture-as reward
for it.
Later, the president-elect and his
daughters took long bike ride
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
Food Too High.

limited Press Leased Wire Service I
CHICAGO. Nov. 90. Anthony Prize,
a laborer, aged 35. who found the
battle for food to supply his wife and
five small children, too hard, killed
himself by inhaling gas and imperiled
the lives of his whole family early to-
day. When police arrived in answer
to the call by neighbors they found all
the family unconscious. Pulmoters
revived all except Prize himself
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
sane Christmas.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, NOV. 22. Resolutions
condemning the Christmas custom or
'bartering' gifts today placed the
sane Christmas association" of Chi
cago on record as advocating the abol-
ishing Of the present day exchange OF
presents. The association was form
ed by women who are pledged not to
give costly Christmas gifts to anyone.