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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14
Electricity and Plant Life.

The theory has been advanced and
backed up by experiments which are
at least interesting, that pointed
leaves standing up at the top of grow
ing plants attract electricity from the
atmosphere and that such electric
forces aid materially in the growth of
plants SO equipped by nature. One in
vestigator, X. E. Dimick of Almena.
Wis, reports that vegetables which
were well cultivated have shown a
smaller growth than the normal when
they had pointed wires stuck up
among them to act like lightning rods
in drawing off the electricity which
Mr.. Dimick believes to be attracted
by points and needful to plant life.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14
Woman S Secret Of
All Easy Work
By c. W. NORTON, New York

neeaking rush. try keeping schedule will do for YOU
notebook and head opposite with the day and date Be-
going plan write down the work of the next day. In the
evening up what has been accomplished
take long keep this simple schedule but it is surprising
quickly you learn system from it. Busy far to plan
duties for certain hours.
plan much day. for then the opposite page
disappointment which unw efforts needless dsccu
agement What left undone be carried to the next
days planning page jog against procrastnation
Reading notebook object lesson the hess house
works by fits and gets nothing accomplished has time
leisure being nuisance herself and burden her
family.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14
why Woman Should
| Have Preference
By Eugene Comment. St. Louis. Mo.

ability for endure maternity without injury
The young woman not actually, is potentially mother
motherhood risk of life risk of health
certainty agony and sn ask to make the occasional
sacrifice, not Of life not of health but of comfort
sharp jolt which moments easantnes to mean
life that young girl the life of her unborn child as well
her expeant mother and cruel torture to the who
is of the sex the French term it.
But though she be- she is forever snfer
for the long hours @ bringing child into the world
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

Measles, which is causing anxiety to
The authorities and pain to the stu.
dents of Osborne college, is an ailment
that has been sadly misjudged. says
the London Chronicle. For centuries
it is mentioned in Arabian writings
as early as the tenth century-it was
regarded (and treated) as a variety of
smallpox, and when that fallacy was
discovered, it was generally confc 1nd.
ed with scarlet fever. No race of the
earth is immune from measles.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

Now an educator offers the theory
that the exceptionally bright pupil is
just as abnormal as the d1ll-witted and
that 1t is as much a mistake to hustle
the normal to keep up with the alb
normally gifted as to expect the de
ficient to pace with the normal. In
plain words, there is too great a ten
dency to teach children in mass and
not according to individual needs.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

A suggestion is made that moving
pictures Of All educational kind should
be supplied to the schools by munich
palities. No doubt this suggestion will
in time be an accomplished fact, for
the moving picture is destined to more
practical uses than mere amusement.
AS things seen are mightier than
things heard, so lessons of geography,
history and general fact will be. more
impressive on the youthful brain by
the actual representation than by the
printed or spoken word. Che schools
of the future will doubtless be supplied
with moving-picture machines as a
matter of course.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

Men ought to give women
the preference where seats
ing is the question because
every woman may be or is a
mother. As few soldiers
serve their time in the army
without some physical dis
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14
cHEckREiN ON PUBLICITY.
C. A. LIsK, Publisher.

Some after-dinner speakers like TO
prate % the waning influence OF the
press as they enjoy enlarging upon
the diminishing authority of the pull
PITS. The facts rise up. In the one
case as In the other, and give the lie
% them. Every morning the vast ma
tority OF literary men reads the news
paper as an open letter to the race.
This multitude of readers might pay
no heed whatever to the editorials.
says the Philadelphia Ledger 1t
might merely scan the news" Yet
what is found in the news columns
each day is plentiful to make and UNI
make regulations. The token in
proof is that a man held up to ridi'
cule or blame by the mere impassive,
impersonal recital of his own action,
even when he cannot deny the deed,
Indignantly resents the publicity. The
mere plain statement of abuses in
the newspaper has often been suffi-
cient to correct them. 1t has been
said that the beginning OF every re-
form is to ask questions. 1t has re-
peatedly been the useful function OF
every worthy journal to lead the
public to ask questions and to de-
mand an answer. That is what Is
meant by public opinion, and the pow
er of irresistible public opinion is the
power of fearless, conscientious jour-
nalism. The certainty that the truth
will be made known has called halt
upon the promotion of many a reck-
less and INSCRIPTIONS enterprise.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

A remarkable cure Of lockjaw in its
worst form and almost in the last
stages has been made in Brooklyn
One by one modern science is attack.
ing the most dreaded scourges of the
human system, and the result of the
fight is reasonable hope which further
experiment will doubtless develop
into certainty. These are the real
and vital victories of the world.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

When asked how she ac-
complished so much work
so easily the mother of a
large family replied, 81
work by schedule"
That 10 the secret of all
easy work. If you live in
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

The proposal to celebrate the cen.
tenary of the high hat has been post
poned indefinitely for two sufficient
reasons. One is that the date of origin
is shrouded in obscurity and the other
that so few thought 1t anything to cele-
brate.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

Watch the passing automobiles. Sit
ting comfortably in the machines are
elderly men and women, and in their
faces is new happiness. They are en-
joying themselves; the fresh air gives
them vitality and the swift motion
stirs their blood. A clergyman past
seventy, who administers the affairs
of a large congregation, at his side
has telephone through which he
makes pastoral calls and in front of
him a typewriter on which he does his
sermons. We have been associating
these contrivances with youth, but
the ancients have taken hold and are
showing us that life after sixty is not
a matter of folded hands and easy
chairs. 1t is delightful to welcome the
change. To have the middle-aged and
she old enjoy themselves is 10 lift the
whole human race. To extend the age
of efficiency is to add UNNECESSARILY
to the worlds production.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

The two or three papers in the
United States that use the thru"
spelling will cheerfully adopt such
beautiful words, we conjecture, as
'1af,Y "cof," nat" "nee," "pranst,"
end "nicnac."
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14
I have Just returned from

VT
n trip to France. I locked
into the labor question in a
number of countries in Eu-
rope, but was greatly i'm
pressed with the pension
system of France. The fol-
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

A Chicago university professor
proves that the mother-in-law Joke ir
5000 years old. But as joke the Chi
cago university professor can't claim
any such distinction
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

In few countries are the
native girls happier up to
the age Of about ten than
in Zululand: in still fewer
countries do they have a
harder existence after that.
According to their tradition,
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14
Feed for SoWs.

Feed the SOW after narrowing upon
foods calculated to produce large
Low Of rich milF
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14

Love may laugh at the locksmith,
but it will refuse to Smile over lock
of the wrong woman's hair.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-06-14
For a Sleek Horse.

II you want a sleek, horse give him
some oil meal once in while In his
feed.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
HISTORIC SPOT IS UNMARKED
Location of Nations First White
House, in Philadelphia, Known.
but That is All.

Excepting for a few months, Wash
ington lived in Philadelphia during
his entire administrations as presi-
dent of the United States, and John
Adams did likewise during his term
There was no White House, but a
brick house. and, as quite generally
known. it stood on The south side of
Market street between Fifth and
Sixth streets. The house itself long
since disappeared. and 1t seems
strange that Philadelphia has never
taken the trouble to make in a suit
able way the spot where the nations
executive mansion stood when occcu-
pied by the Father of His Country
When Washington came to Phila-
delphia to attend the continental con-
gress before taking command of the
army he lived in the SWEETEST board
ing house in the city. II was kept by
Mrs. TTiste. at the southwest corner
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
CHAPTER xvlII.-tontlnusd.

~AlI7 You can prove she's no
erUud?"
my pockets are full of proofs, .
Robert exclaimed. looking significant.
~ at Gregory.
Dear Franz" murmured Mrs. Greg
CRY with sweet smile of reminis,
eence.
Abbott" Mr.. Gregory gasped. as he
Began to realize the compromise that
was offered, you have always been
my frtend-and you have been inter
sisted in my charities. you know how
important my secretary is to my work.
Il is true that / did wrong, years ago
very wrong--it is true that bitter
w-what shall say ?-antagonized the
Interests at Springfield. But that was
song ago. Am | to be punished now"
Mr.. Gregory" said Abbott, clearly
and forcibly, 81 have nothing to do
Efth any punishment, | have nothing
10 do with demanding the release of
your secretary. | am a mere agent
VI the interests, sent to you to demand
mat your secretary be dismissed In
ME morning; and If you cannot see
four way TO promise me now that you
VIII dismiss her. my Office is ended.
~ you can promise to send her away.
gave you my word the transactions
shall be forever hushed up, so far as
I'VE are concerned. If you cannot prom.
lse, all will be revealed at once"
In just ten minutes" said Robert
Clinton. consulting his watch.
Grace stood looking at Gregory as If
Nrned to stone. She had listened in
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17

to call upon him to ayenge an insult
He could only buster, who brought
this thing here?" He flung the note
upon the table.
"A messenger" Grace's look did
not waver
THE impudence!" he exclaimed
The affront!"
However" said Grace. 81 presume
1t is final that / am dismissed?"
But his unseemly haste in sending
this note-it's infamous. that's what |
cau 1t. infamousi"
And you mean to take Fran In my
place. do you not?"
you see." Gregory explained, "Bou
Clinton came back to town this even
ing from Springfield. you understand
and Abbott came with him-er-and
Mrs. Gregory was In the room so they
could not speak exactly openly, and
Abbott made the condition. can
hardly explain so delicate an affair OF
of business-but you see, Bob is evi
IDENTIFY very much in love with you,
and he has T. In h;s power to de
man6-"
Grace calmly waited for the other
to lapse into uncertain silence, then
said, This note tells me definitely
that / am offered another position, but
you tell me nothing. 1t was | who
sent Mr.. Clinton to Springfield to look
into the private record of that Fran. "
you see," Gregory explained. "he
was afraid might think it presumptu-
Gus OF him to do that, it was like
doubling my word so he came to me
however, he is back and there is moth
ing to reveal, absolutely nothing to
| reveal"
70 he sure that the girl is no i'm
postor?"
HE knows she isn't His pockets
are full of proofs. know you sent
Rob on my account. Grace, but alas!
Fran is reality-she can't be dis
| missed"
at seems can be. But of course
am nothing
Grace, you are everything"
She laughed Everything! At the
word OF an Abbott Ashton, disgraced
schoolteacher. you make me less than
nothing"
| He cried out impetuously, Shall
tell you why We must part?"
| Grace returned with somber look.
so Fran is to have my place!"
Gregory interposed passionately, at
is because / love you"
so Fran is to be your secretary"
E. she persisted.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
MAN MADE A DARING LEAP
Pittsburgh iron Worker Has a Close
Call From Death When He
Jumps From Bridge.

Altoona, Pa.-Believing that the
Twelfth street bridge crossing the
Pennsylvania tracks was on fire and
that he was going to be burned up
unless he escaped, w. j. Beale, an
iron worker of Pittsburgh, plunged
from the bridge to the tracks below
and directly in front of an express
train that was pulling out of the Penn
sylvania station. The mans escape
from death was miraculous.
He sustained only sprained ankle,
as the engineer of the train shut of
the power as soon as he saw the man
leaping through the air, and the en-
CINE pushed the man off the tracks
on account of the slow speed at
which it was going. Beale was ar
rested for trespassing on the railroad
property, but was later released and
sent home.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17

OF Fifth and Market streets. But
while more fashionable, the house has
been far less famous than the bore
modest one. two blocks farther west,
at the southwest corner of Seventh
and Market streets. 1t was in the lat
ter that Jefferson boarded, and or
the second floor, corner room. in
which he wrote the Declaration of In
dependence
According to John Adams, who
could have qualified as chief gossip
at any quilting party. Philadelphia
was then away ahead OF Boston and
New York as a fashionable center.
The great patriot told his impressions
in those voluminous letters to bis
wife. He was quite awed by the 10
cal Philadelphia Ledger.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
SYNOPSIS.

Fran arrives at Hamilton Gregory's
acme In Littleburg, but finds him absent
conducting the choir at camp meeting
She repairs thither In search OF him
laughs during the service and Is asked to
leave. Abbott Ashton, superintendent OF
schools. escorts Fran from the tent he
deeply interested In charity work, and
pillar of the church. Ashton becomes
greatly interested in Fran and while tax
ting leave of her. holds her hand ana 10
seen by Sapphire Clinton, sister of Rob
ert Clinton. chairman Of the school board
Efonsstells Gregory she wants nome
with him. Grace Noir, Gregory's private
secretary takes violent dislike to Fran
land advises her to go away at once
Fran hints at a twenty-year-old secret
and Gregory In agitation asks Grace TO
of how Gregory married young girl az
Springfield while attending college and
<hat marriage. Gregory had married his
present wife three years before the death
Of Fran's mother. Fran takes liking 70
Mrs. Gregory Gregory explains that
Fran fs the daughter Of a very dear friend
who is dead Fran agrees to the story.
Mrs. Gregory insists on her making her
home with them and takes her to her
arms. Fran declares the secretary must
SO. Grace begins nagghg tactics In an
effort to drive Fran from the Gregory
home. Abbott, while taking walk alone
at midnight. finds Fran on a bridge tell
ing her fortune by cards. She tells Abb
Dott that she is the famous lion tanner.
Fran Nonparetl. She tired OF circus lie
and sought a home. Grace tells of see
ing Fran come home after midnight with
p man. She guesses part OF the story
and surprises the rest from Abbott. She
decides to ask Bob Clinton to go to
springfield to investigate Fran's story.
Eran eHists Abbott In her battle against
Grace. Fran offers her services to Greg
CRY as secretary during the temporary
absence of Grace. The latter, hearing of
Fran's purpose. returns and interrupts
touching scene between father and
daughter. Grace tells Gregory she in
eends to marry Clinton and quit his serv-
lee- He declares that he cannot continue
ais work without her Carried away by
passion, he takes her i'm his arms. Fran
&eiks In on them. and declares that
Grace must leave the house at once. To
®ory's CONSERVATION he learns of
Cfnton's mission to Springfield. Clinton
eeturns from Springfield and. at Fran's re-
guest Ashton urgest him not to disclose
what he has learned On Abbott's assur-
once that Grace will leave Gregory at once
Clinton agrees to keep silent Driven in
20 corner by the threat OF exposure
Gregory is forced to dismiss Grace.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
TURKEY TRoT FOE TO BEAUTY
Russian Princess Warns American
Girls Against the Wild New
Dance.

New York.-Princess Lowenstein,
the wife of Russian nobleman and
soldier who fell in the Philippines at
the time Aguinaldo was captured,
warns the American girls against tur-
key trotting as a foe to beauty.
These wild new dances" the
princess said, which your girls are
doing day in and day out are showing
their effects. The dancers get to
look like old, haggard women. The
American girl is noted for her looks,
and justly, too; but she certainly will
lose all her freshness and sweetness
If she persists in keeping up this
everlasting bacchanalian dancing"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
LOSES HEAVILY IN BATTLE
Sr'slsn camel Corps Has Many klI,.d
an0 Wounded Fighting SAVAGE
Dcrvishes.

Lolsol.--Mr. Richard Convr,,.
Corfield recently fell victim Of o. N
tack Of the Dervishes in somali, H. at
It was against these barbarons 1n u
that he had organized the Ca- leu
corps. Although only about tb ,I-ei
years old he had performed ra,'
able service for his country in Gu u
OF its most dangerous outposts aus
the least being that of the formo,,O o'
OF the Camel ConstabuIary corna
lou men under three British officers
from 1901 to 1909 he served in south
Africa and in Somaliland until 1871
wnen ne went to Northern nigeria
from which he returned to SomalilanS
last year to organize the Camel co,n0
The Dervishes feared it nightly ana
made their fierce attack with the 49, d.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
STICKS HEAD IN FLY WHEEL
Broken In Health, Hat Factory En-
ploye Kills Himself in Most
Peculiar Way.

New York.-Broken in health ana
tired of life at the age Of sixty-tnree
years. Wallace D. Richardson, stOck
man in a Blocker street hat factory
stuck his head into a five-foot ny
wheel making 200 revolutions a min
ute. His body, with the head badly
crushed, was found near the fly wheei
shortly afterward. Letters on his per
son told that he intended to seek
death to end his troubles.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Enemy Trlumphs.

1
Old Mrs. Jefferson would long age
have struck blow against Grace Noil
had she not recognized the fact thai
when one like Grace wears the helmet
of beauty and breastplate of youth. the
darts of the very angles of justice
who are neither beautiful nor young
are turned aside. Helplessly Mrs. JET
ferson had watched and waited and
now. behold! there was no more Drag
on. Fran had said she would do it.
nothing could have exceeded the con
fidence of the old lady to the new sec
Rotary.
Mrs. Gregory's sense of relief was
not so profound as her mothers, be
cause she could not think of Grace's
absence except as a reprieve. Surely
she would return-but the present was
to be placidly enjoyed Grace was
gone. Mrs. Gregory's smile once more
reminded Fran of the others half-for,
gotten youth. When board has lain
too long on the ground, one finds. Oh
its removed. that the grass is withered
all the same, the grass feels the sun.
shine.
Fran thanked herself that Grace was
no longer silhouetted against the hori-
zon and Gregory, remarking this atti-
tude of self-congratulation was thrown
more than ever out of sympathy with
his daughter. Fran was indefatigable
In her duties as secretary, but her
father felt that 1t was not the same.
She could turn out an immense
amount of work because she was
strong and playing for high stakes
but she did not have Grace's method.
ical ways-one never knew how Fran
would do anything. only that she would
dc it. Grace was all method, but more
than that she was as Gregory phrased
1t to .himself-she was all Grace.
Gregory missed her every minute O:
the day. and the harder Fran tried to
fill her place, the more he resented it.
Fran was separated from his sympa-
thies by the chasm in his own soul
The time came when Gregory felt
that he must see Grace again and be
alone with her. AT first, he had
thought they must not meet apart
from the world; but by the end of
the week, he was wondering what ex.
cuse he could offer to induce her to
meet him-not at Miss Sapphiras
where she now boarded, not at the
grocery where Bob was always hover.
ing about-but somewhere remote.
somewhere safe, where they might
talk about-but he had no idea of the
conversation that might ensue; there
was nothing definite in anything save
his fixed thought of being with her
AS to any harm, there could be none.
He had so long~regarded Grace as the
best woman in the world, that even
after the day of kisses, his mind con
tinued in its inertia of faith-even the
gravitation> of material facts was un.
able to check its sublime course.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-17
ANNUAL COST OF ILLNESS
Physician Asserts That Is Is $780,
100000 a Year in the United
States.

New York.-Some surprising state
ments were made at the meeting OF
the American Public Health assocla-
ton, held at Colorado Spring, by Dr. J.
B. Andrews, of this city. Doctor An
drews, who is secretary of the Amerl-
can Association for Labor Legislation
said that the annual loss in business
through illness amounted to s75O,OOO''
600, and that fully one-fourth OF tbs
loss could be prevented.