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signal of the "drover." each knowing his
place in the file. and amble away with
ears thrown back. going ordinarily the
distance of % miles each day. Some Of
the streams were fordable. while others
had to be swum by these primitive ex-
press trains. Camping places became IA
nous along the different routes, at which
points all the droves came to camp.
As commerce thus grew, there came
anon highwaymen who would rob the
droves of their burdens. One of these
robbers became as notorious as Dare
Devil Dick in English annals. His name
was Hare, and Turks Cave, in Cone
cub county, was the place for the de-
posit of his booty. With the years, this
obstruction was removed BY means OF
this traffic not few accumulated con-
siderable fortunes. the traditions of whose
wealth still lnger in the older regions,
with many extravagant stories attending.
These stories emboeied in volume would
give an idea or the ups and downs OF
these early times in Alabama.
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make me tired" At that time Napo-
leon was a thin, yellow skinned, awkward
young fellow, with his fame before him.
Anyway, they were married by tho
mayor OF Paris in his office For a
time Napoleon lov~d Josephine, and
when absent from h. .e wrote most
ardent letters. Josephine wrote to her
Aunt Renaudin, II am bored to DEATH.
Napoleons fame grew apace. He went
to Egypt, where" rs the historian tells
us, "he lived openly with young
woman" Josephine was spending money
in all sorts of functions In aPris. When
her husband returned, and found how
things had gone In his absence, he de-
clared that he wanted a divorce. He had
heard many things against Josephine;
and she had learned much OF his manner
of living. AS neither was innocent, they
! mutually agreed to sponge out the past
and begin all over again. Napoleon now
announced that he wanted to become
Emperor. Josephine promised to aid him
All semed to be going WELL when they
quarrelled again and both became vio-
lent. She charged him with being too
fond of certain women, and thte charge
was just. He made promises. and grew
tired of Josephine. Nevertheless Napo-
leon became Emperor, and she was
crowned Empress. After a while he put
her away.
Josephine was a fairly good actress.
When the announcement was made that
she was to be divorced, she apparently
suffered agonies and appeared to faint,
but as they were carrying her from the
room she whispered to De Bauset, who
held her by the arms, Don't squeeze me
so tight / think that she had become
as weavy of Napoleon as he had of her,
but she was not willing to yield her IL
lustrlous position of Empress to another.
And where is the woman who enjoys be-
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and ships were captured and their crews
sold into slavery, and towns We're burned
and women and little children We're made
homeless
All because of an earl
But after many years the truth came
out Jenkins had the two ears with
which Mother Nature had provided him
His ear had never been cut off at all
Some money hungry doctor had sold him
an ear to show, or perhaps he had robbed
grave.
But the men killed in the war were just
as dead as If they had died in a right
eous cause.
Now. before men or nations get into a
fight wouldn't it be well to be sure that
the Jenkins In the case had really lost
his ear?
And wouldn't 1t be well to decide, if he
really lost an ear, whether the ear was
worth fighting about?
When your neighbor tells you he has
had his ear cut off by another man
of course you understand that only a
figurative ear is meant-just part his
hair and be sure that the ear Is gone
he hasn't really lost an ear at all.
And, when you think you have been
deprived of something that belongs to
you, be sure, first, that you have lost
it and. second, that you did not deserve
to lose it.
1t would be well for nations to act in
the same way. There would be fewer
wars to spread death and desolation over
the earth. More plowshares would be
beaten from swords and the supply OF
pruning hooks would be increased by
those made from spears.
Dr. J. M. PEBBLES of Los Angeles is
planning to make his sixth trip around
the world in the fall of 1915. Dr. Pee
bles returned recently from his fifth
trip.
To most folks of 81 trip around
the world would be something to think
But DIR. PEBBLES believes firmly that he
will make that trip two years from
now when he will be SO.
Here's hoping nothing occurs to dis
appoint him!
When Dr. PEBBLES got back to New
York the other day the newspaper men
wanted to know all about his trip
abroad. In spite of the improved means
of travel, transoceanic voyages of 81
are not yet common.
what is the real secret of your vi
tality?" he was asked.
"Just behaving myself. proper living
and always being up and doing ac-
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| named of these conveniences being fallen
trees across the lesser streams. Nor had
he the means of constructing them, as
he was dependent on the flint implements
which he rudely constructed into hatch
cts and wedges. By means of these he
would fashion his light canoe from the
less heavy woods, like the cedar and
birch. which were easily worked while
In green state. but when dry became
firm and light, and well suited to float
the waters of the streams and bays
While in a green state the trunks of
these trees were followed out with each
end curved up, and the paddles were
made from slabs riven from some tim
bers light and strong. These canoes
served to transport them across the
streams. and afforded the means of fish
ing and hunting. When not in use, craft
like this was secured to trees by means
of muscadine vines. These were the con-
ditions found by the white man when
he came to invade the domain of the
Indian.
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ing displaced by another of her sex even
though she does not love the man to
whom she is tied?
Josephine was an expensive luxury al
ways. She spent three hours daily at her
toilet. with the aid of dame d-atour
and four women of the wardrobe she pro-
ceeded to make up her face. The skin
having been prepared, a filler was intro-
duced into the seams, and on the smooth
surface an ideal complexion, with eye
brows, eyelashes, lips, ears were cons
structed with grease paints, rouge, pow
ders and the genius of the pencil" Her
rouge bill for one year was 500. She had
500 sets of under garments trimmed with
rarest lace. She had 95S pairs of stock
ings, many of which cost s14 pair. In
one year she bought $40 pairs of skeos.
Her gorws cost her about 100000 year.
For her toilet including jewelry, she
spent annually, mind you, annually. $780,
OOOl
F, One day Napoleon sent Duroc his con-
fidential friend, to ascertain the cause OF
tears that he had seen in Josephine's
eyes Josephine, with tears flowing, con-
fessed that she had spent her allowance
and still owed $4,000 Duroc said, The
Emperor feared 1t was twice that sum-"
She answered, mol swear it is not
double that much. but it is s12O,0O0" Tho
husband paid It,
When Josephine left for Malmaison shs
bore off with her s12,O00,OO0 worth of jew
elry. She was given for her use at NAL
maison $4,000 a year; but cashier was
sent along to keep her debts from running
Up to $l2O0O0,O00! She could never under-
stand figures, and never saw how it was
possible for two and two to make fouri
Josephine died in the arms of her son.
Eugene, at Malmaison, surrounded by all
the luxury that wealth could procure.
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Madame de Pompadour, was 10 years
old she married M. lie Normant
d d'Etiolles, a man to whom she gave no
love but to whose money she gave
much thought. Soon after her mar
riage she began to play for high
stakes. She aimed at no less a per-
son than the King. This parsonage
often came near her chateau with his
hunting parties. and as often as he
came he was sure to meet ravishing
creature on horseback or driving. Well,
the King and the wife of d'Etiolles be-
came acquainted.
one result was that the wife and the
husband were soon separated. The old
chateau near the forest of Senart was
deserted, and the wife was living at
Versailles, the perpetual guest of the
King. Her old name was lost, for she
was made the Marquise de Pompadour.
There is hardly another instance in his
tory of such absolute dominance of a
sovereign by a woman. In the hands of
this remarkable woman, the King was a
mere puppet Yet, Louis XIV was no ordi-
nary man. He had abilities of a strong
mental sort, and exercised them as emer-
gencfes arose. But he was usually con-
trolled by his Incidence, his ennui. and
his baser nature. Madame de Pompa-
dour knew all this. She had studied his
character. and where she saw him weak,
she determined to be strong. He was
lacking in energy of will, in this quality
she was greatly his superior; and not
only was she his immoral mistress, out
she became his prime minister in all
matters of state. She was devoid of con-
science, as the horrible history of the
Pare aux Cerfs discoses, and which is
too immoral In its details to write Of
here.
After 20 years of wicked, but brilliant
life as the Kings favorite, the Pompadour
died. The King had grown tired of her
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as primitive craft was always in wait
for these commodities at these ports. The
commodities were brought from the in-
terror on pack horses. or rather ponies.
which commodities consisted of indigo,
rawhides. corn. cattle, tallow, tar, squared
pitch, bears oil, tobacco. tar. squared
timber. myrtle wax. cedar posts and
slabs. salted wild beef. chesnuts. peeans.
shingles, dried salt fish, sassafras, su-
mach, wild cane. slaves. heading hoops
and pelfry.
The production of cotton had begun
long before the invention of the gin by
Eli Whitney. in 1892. The seeds were
first picked from the cotton with the
fingers. which was improved later by
some small machines. the appearance of
which was hailed as a great advance on
previous methods. and an early ehroni-
cler records the fact with much elation
that by means of the method of these
small French machines, as much as 10
pounds of cotton were cleared Of seed
in a day. The commodities already
named were transported to the sea on
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of the Himalayas, all are connected
with you and with me by wires inyisf-
Bile, but strong.
From each human being radiate the
lines of common interests. Whatever
affects you affects me. Whatever you
do for good benefits me. Whatever you
do for evil rebounds on me, on you. on
every one else.
1t is a la wof the universe, a law of
humanity.
You cannot evade the law or live
without its bounds. You cannot set
yourself apart from your fellows.
Whether you will or not, you must live
for them as well as for yourself. You
cannot disconnect the wires.
And more
When the call of our common hu-
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n advance Of the territorial construc-
tion of Alabama this region had been
sought as refuge by adherents of
the British crown. during the stormy
days of the Revolution. while others who
were loyal Americans also came to es-
cape the horrors of war in the Carolinas.
All these filed through the dense forests
which covered the intervening distance
at that early day. Across Georgia, the
most western of the 1s colonies, they
fled, putting the Chattahoochee between
them and the thunder of war, and buried
themselves in the obscurity of the Ala
bama forests. These forests had re-
mained unbroken from the beginning
now pierced here and there by the wide
beaten paths of the Indian. Several of
these paths became, in subsequent years.
highways Of primitive commerce, run
ming from terminal points hundreds of
miles apart.
The Indian knew nothing of roads and
bridges, his nearest approach to the last
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By James A. Edgerton

| Charley is little fellow He is only
| 8 years old. But, young and little as
he is, he knows how to play the game.
The ball was batted Charley's way. His
field" was on a river pier-there isn't
Charleys part of the city-and the ball
| threatened to go overheard.
When the "fly" came Charley's way he
thought only of the game, not of the
danger to himself in following it into
the river for he can't swim.
He jumped into the air and caught the
ball. The next thing was big splash
Charley was in the water with the ball
gripped in his hand. When they fished
him out the ball was still there
The play counted; the batter was out.
If Charley can hold on to the ball in
later life as well as he did when he fell
! into the river he'll be a good citizen.
He'll hold on.
When the ball Of life is batted his way
he won't think of the river; he won't
think of the danger to himself; he won't
stop to reckon the consequences. Hell
take chance, and when he pulls him
self out of the river of circumstances
he won't have to be fished out then
he will be found to be holding on to
| the ball.
In the big game of life an important
| thing is to hold on to the ball. Keer
your eye on it and grab it when il
comes toward you.
Above all. hold on to it,
It's the ball that's caught and held
that counts, not the one that's juggIed
SO that it finally falls to the ground.
If you cultivate the habit of holdine
on and don't stop to look back at the
water into which you may fall you'll
be valuable man.
Suppose you do fall in. You may drown
of course but the chances are that the
spirit which prompted you to hold on
will find way to get you out.
When you get out you'll have the ball
And you'll be hero.
Did you ever hear the story of the
war of Jenkins ear?'
It's an interesting bit of history, buried
In England's story and resurrected every
once in awhile by moralists
The story goes that the Spanish, along
! about the beginning of the eighteenth
century, caught an English csptain
named Jenkins engaged in Illegal trade
jenkins went back to England and told
his fellow countryment that the terrible
dons had cut off his ear.
Fearful crime!
He showed severed ear and Eng
land went wild about it. War was de-
clared. Men were killed and wounded.
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Evidence Against the Fly


| Individual flies have lived in captiv-
ity for 16 weeks. Flies which have
been caught and marked and then
liberated have been found within AZ
hours a mile away from the point of
| liberation. The distance which flies
may travel, therefore, carrying with
them whatever foulness they may be
| possessed of, is almost unlimited, says
| the London Times.
number of Investigators have
shown that the germs with which. as
| has been said. every fly Is probably
loaded, remain active for a material
| length of time; for a longer period
when taken into the insect with Its
food and carried within 1t until re-
elected than when merely attached to
1t externally. A fly which has been fed
on the bacllla of tuberculosis was still
found to contain the bacilla after IA
days Also the bacilla, having been
taken into the fly and subsequently
excreted, remained virulent for Is DAYS
after election. By merely making a
causually caught fly walk over a nu :
tritient culture a really astounding
number of colonies of bacteria may be
developed. A single fly caught at a
refuse can in suburb of London
gave no fewer than 116 colonies of bac-
1900 ScAohicS VI iuuSi, the
germs having all been carried on the
bristles of the insects legs and body
or on It's proboscis. as gathered while
feeding on the refuse in the can.
That flies are every day similarly
collecting germs and subsequently,
walking, not on well guarded cultures
but ON children's bread and butter and
on the eatables in the shops and kitchens
and ON our tables is obvious
Nor or household refuse cans the worst
places which flies visit or In which they
feed and breed. 1t is probable that
a large proportion of the deaths from
typhoid. both in the South African
war and in the American war with
Spain. were due to the instrumentality
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" EOhGE Robinson (not his real
= name). "a years old, prisoner in
his Britannia majesty's prison of
Norwood scrubhs. saw no use in his
continued living, so he hanged himself
in his cell. And that was the end of a
man who, still very young, thought that
ell hope ended for him when the prison
door closed behind him.
When hope dies, all dies.
In the working of the universe, wise,
though often inscrutable. everything has
purpose. Even the pitifuly short and
hard life OF George Robinson will help
sagd
Before he died he wrote a note to a
young woman. In it he said:
The straight game is the best, after all.
You who laugh at preaching. who think
the teachings of the moralists are rot
think over the testimony of the poor bur-
glar convict. For himself he realized
too late that "the straight game is the
best" At the end of a short note to
his sweetheart he preached the lesson to
the world, that others might read and
profit thereby.
He had followed the crooked path. knew
the WEAKNESS of the journey and the dis
appointment that lies at the farther end
From afar he had beheld the straight
road, travelled In honor and respect, with
hard toll perhaps. but still with the strong
arm of consciousness of right to help over
the rough places. He lacked the cour-
age to cross over.
He had played the crooked game and
knew that In 1t the cards are Stacked
against the player, the dice are loaded,
the roulette whee, is weighted.
You can't beat it.
He knew the game was crooked. but
he had not the moral courage to break
away from it. To its very crooked end
he played 1t. for suicide is crooked way
of finishing the game. of casting aside
the worlds burdens and responsibilities.
The message of George Robinson proved
that he had intellect enough to appre-
but had the courage to stick it out to
the end and to serve his term something
might have been made of him.
If you are playing the crooked game
and think you are going to ''get away"
with it think of the convict of Worm
wood scrubbs and his last message to
the world.
There was an amateur BAH game In
one OF the big cities the other day. On
one team was an outfielder named
Charley Rocks.
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NNE of the most immoral women
that ever occupied thorne
was Catherine II, Empress of
Russia. She was born at Stettin, in
Upper Saxony, where her parents were
barely able to make both ends meet,
SO meagre was their income. In her
babyhood Catherine was baptized into
the Lutheran faith; but years after
having been invited to Russia by the
Empress Elizabeth, she accepted the
fornrularies of the Greek church. She
was re-baptized and her name, which
had been Sophia, was changed to Cath
crime Aleniewna. During her visit to
Russia Catherine received the ad-
dresses of Peter. prince who was to
become the next Gear. She was IS, he
was 16. She was clever, but he was
stupid, and his mind was verging on
idiocy Very soon after the betrothal
Peter became Ill with smallpox, which
horribly disfigured his face; but Cath
crime had practiced before a mirror
how she would receive him upon his
convalescence, and hiding her disgust,
she fell on his neck and pretended to
weep. After the interview, she fed to
her room and swooned. She fought a
hand-to-hand conflict with her ambi-
tion But she remembered her former
poverty, and determined to go for
ward with the farce.
In time Peter bacame czar. But he
was always in Cathrine's way. He in
terfered with her 1lrtations and with
her ambitious plans. So, as the his
torians tell us, she had him done to
the DEATH" and herself was at the head
of the empire.
She was singularly susceptible to
manly beauty, and had many lovers.
Her immortality was not indulged in
secret Everybody knew it. When she
grew tired Of lover she would advise
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OF the flies that swarmed about tho
camps; and it is equally likely that
they bear a share in numerous lesser
outbreaks of typhoid of which tho
cause is never known In addition
10 typhoid 1t is also believed that
hies are active carriers of tubercu-
losls, opthalma, anthrax cholera and
other terrible maladies, b>/ides the in
fantile diarrhoea or enteritis which
causes so heavy mortality among the
children in our cities every summer.
The house fly breeds with an almost
appalling rapidity the entire life cycle.
from the laying of the eggs to the ma
turity of the perfect insect; taking
under favorable conditions no more
than from three weeks to a month.
ana few days after the perfect insect
emerges from the pupa 1t is ready to
lay again. ut has been calculated.s
says Mr.. Hewitt, that If the progeny
OF a single pair of flies, assuming that
they all lived, were pressed together
at the end of a summer they would
occupy the space of about quarter
of million cubic feet Without pre-
tending to follow or venturing to dis
pute the calculation what is evident is
that, taking 600 eggs as a reasonable
NUMBER tas II seems to bel for single
ny TO lay, the progeny of a pair, il
all survived. would at the end of three
months amount TO some 54.000,00O.
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Close Shave At That

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
Bix-"So you are now living in tha
suburbs? Do you have to walk to the
train mornings?"
Dix-''No, run"
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Down on Perkins

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
There's a grain of gold in PerkinA
you'll admit that,
'I'll admit that he has a streak OF
yellow
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manty comes in and you are sum-
moned to do something to prove your
human fellowship you cannot answer
"Busyv
II you do you arc recreant to your
self and you fail to fulnll your func-
ton
When central fails all is confu-
sion among the telephone subscribers.
The activity dependent on the teIe-
phone line ceases. Life itself seems 10
matt. SO 1t is when the great heart of
humanity made up of millions of in
dlvidual hearts, falls to respond to tho
call of human brotherhood
Keep yourself in readiness to answer
the call.
Keep your lines of sympathy and in
terest in mankind clear. DO not clog
them with messages of self.
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There was an amateur bali game fn
one OF the big cities the other day. Or
one team was an outfielder named
Charley Rocks.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-11-13
Notice % oredltore,

~ u
In the matter Of the Estate OF
Martha D. Ward, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned Innis w. Ward Ad-
ministrator Of the Estate OF Mar
tina D. Ward late Of the Township
Of Mooreton ,in the County Of
Richland and State Of North Da-
h ia, deceased, to the creditors
oE and all persons having claims
against, said deceased, to exhibit
them with the necessary vouch-
ers, within six (6) months after
the first publication Of this no.
tice, to said Administrator at the
Office Of w. s. Lauder, Schiller
Block in the City Of Wahpeton
in said Richland County, N. y.
Dated October 16 A. d. 1913.
INNS w. WARD,
Administrator.
First publication on the 23rd
day of October A. D. 1913.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-11-13
Declare War on ooIdds

A crusade of education which,
aims that common colds may
become uncommon within the
next generation" has been begun
by prominent New York physic-
ians. Here is a list OF the 'don'ts'
which the doctors say will prevent
the annual visitation of the cold:
Don't sit in a draughty ear.
Don't sleep in hot room.
Don't avoid the fresh air.
Don't stuff yourself at meal
time. Overeating reduces your
resistance.
OF which we would add-when
you take a cold get rid Of it as
quickly as possible. To accom-
plish that you will find Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy most excel
lent. Sold by all dealers. !: