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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-10

on to-day consists of the date It was
put into service, 1884. the present year,
1914, and the names of President
Judge George Kunkel. Jury Commits
sioners Dapp and Taylor and Marion
Nerbeke. clerk to the board.
History IS unusually shy Of infor-
nation as 10 earlier years of the old
wheel. Other than the fact that ii is
the first that ever did duty in the
county, very little is definitely known
of it, That it did serve to hold the
names of some $4,000 jurors, many of
whom have become prominent in the
social, civic and business life Of the
city and county, goes without saving.
Furthermore. ii served in Civil War
days for conscript duty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-10
TRAINS CRASH 100 FEET IN AIR
Two Persons Killed and Score Injured
in Collision on Elevated
9PeclaI % Ihe IeIeeraPh

1TttIlI 10 Ht ItItEFuFN
New York. Dec. 10.-Two persons
were killed and more than a score
injured in a collision between crowded
elevated railroad trains on upper
Eeighth avenue last night.
Fire followed and four cars We're
burned. Most OF the passengers es-
capped over the ties along the highest
part of the IL" structure, nearly 100
feet above the street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-10
GENERAL woTHERsPooN

Washington, d. c., Dec. I'm his
annual report, Major General Wother-
spoon, the new chief of staff of the
United States Army. says that the
present or proposed garrisons on the
Panama canal are not large enough to
hold 1t against an attack, even long
enough to permit reinforcements to be
sent from the United States. He also
says that Hawaii and the PHILIPPINES
are not adequately garrisoned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-10
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE

I1y TIsaOt IuTtu ITe33
- Chicago. Ill, Dec. 10. = Board of
Trade closing::
Wheat-zDecember. LIS: May. 1.2Oss.
Corn-December, 62&; May, 68M
oats-Deeember, 46I May, 515s.
Pork-January. 1890; May, 1897.
Lard---January, 9.67; May. 9.92.
Ribs-January, 9.72; NAV. 1902.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-10

knabe, formerly with the J. II. Kur-
zenknabe Company, 1011 North Third
street; secretary. William T. Rodgers;
treasurer, William NJ Lott; general
manager. George P. Sheafter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-10
Your System
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good health and strength. Success
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and ailing. Enjoyment is not
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and serious sicknesses usually
begin in deranged conditions of the
stomach, liver, kidneys or bowels.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-10
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Evening star., 1914-05-31

clared that he would never tell it again.
The Grand Moguls and High Lords
and Mayors and others took great
credit to themselves when they seemed
to have forced Bill Higgins to tell the
story; but the truth was that none of
them nor all of them could have moved
Bill Higgins when he had made up
his mind. They did not deserve the
credit they got. Mrs Bill Higgins de-
served it.
The pale little woman, confined to
her bed or to a rolling chair, did not
get much out of life except the pleas
ure of admiring her long, lanky hus-
band, and she admired him from the
ground up. He was her one great man,
her one celebrity, and the greatest joy
of her pale days was to have Bill Hig
gins come home after one of the events
that were the great events of all River
bank, and tell her, in his modest way
and half reluctantly, that he guessed,
since she asked him, that his story had
gone about the best of anything that
night. 1t was the eager light in her
eyes when she asked "How did your
story go tonight, Bill?" that kept Bill
telling it.
So when we went around to get Bill
to tell his story at the banquet of the
Chamber of Commerce that year we
Evening star., 1914-05-31

ity; but when every of the group has printed
copy of the story framed and hung above his desk the
laughter the end of the story when delivered at
a dinner, is likely to be just little forced.
So l shall not tell Bill Higgins story 1t was-and
is sti-a story about mule his grandmother owned
when Bill boy back in Ohio in the days before the
There old woman who used to cross the
Ohio River in sif, always bringing two baskets of
eggs trade at the general store and when Bill Higgins
told the story he would describe his dear old grand
mother, with her placid, kindly features and the two
little curs that hung down front of her ears, and how
she used to ride into town old-fashioned pllon
behind Bill on the old black mule Everybody loved
her. Bill loved her. The merchants loved her. The
whole town loved her. Even her mule loved her; but
he did not love bonnet she bought day when
she in town. Bill described the bonnet and tears
would down faces when he enumerated the
various sorts of plants and vegetables the local mner
had been able to crowd onto that bonnet.
Bill Higgins would get his grandmother to the store
in town and get the bonnet her head and then he
would the Ohio River (verbay) and describe the
old egg woman and how she rowed the skif the
river and what hot tempered old creature she
Then he would land the old the Ohio side of
the river and her up the steep levee with basket
of eggs each armand every time her foot would slip
would gasp for the safety of the eggs. He would
leave her painting before the general store with the two
baskets of eggs the edge of the plank walk while he
inside and brought out his grandmother and then
he would have all four of them where the excitement
began.
Bill himself would be standing foot trying to
pull splinter of his of hop-hopplng around
the plank walk foot with the other foot
hand The old woman from across the Ohio would be
wiping her face with big red bandana, and gaspng
to get her breath The mule would be tied to the rail
in front of the store And the grandmoher-bless her
kindly heartl-would walk of the store, unhitch
the mule from the rail- and try to draw him up to the
edge of the walk she could mount.
pIGHT there was where always began to laugh.
~ Bill Higgins would describe the effect of the hat
the mulehs first staggering SURPRISE his fond emotion
as he recognized and couple of thistle heads
finally his fright the ensemble really struck home.
Then Bill Higgins would tell how shocked and surprised
his grandmother when the mule began to back,
dragging her after him by the reins, and how every lift
of the mules head would lift his grandmother off her
feet, the mule sort of derrick, and when
dying of laughter Bill Higgins would tell how
the mule with little side leap leaped on the plank
walk and putting his fore feet in basket of eggs sat
down in the other basket
"And my grandmother, Bill Higgins would say
soon as we calm enough to let him proceed Nmy
grandmother just raised her hands and said My! My.
Rastus What do you think you area cook hen?'"
That was, of course, point enough for any story but
when would have quoted down enough Bill Higgins
would smile and spring the snapper
Evening star., 1914-05-31

just laid back and howled
The quaint seriousness with which Bill Higgins told
the story worth the price of admission itself.
He long and lank, and bashfu that the only e
male he able to marry delicate little woman,
so fral that she became invalid within three years
after they were married He married her because he
afraid of her-and he certainly afraid of all
other women. His bashfuness pretense When
Bill Higgins said he hated tell his story crowd he
meant it. and like all other sorytelers he enjoyed telling
pangs of bashfulness hardly worth the troes of
pleasure he got out of it.
In the first place, Bill Higgins quite convinced
himself that he belonged in the gatherings where he
told the story. He machnist by trade and in
trying to invent perpetual motion machine he had dis
covered something that econonlized power and he
began manufacturing the ywheel, or bearing, what
ever it was and began make money,-not much, but
enough,-and so he got into the Chamber of Commerce
He told his story first campfire of the veterans of his
regiment and after that he simply had to tell it every
where but he hated it. He the sort of to pick
the chair nearest the corner and eat in silence and
then eface himself The glory of being the towns best
storyteller with the towns best story tell forced
upon him.
Nov don't make any mistake! Bill Higgins enjoyed
telling that story. He enjoyed the hearty laughter
which the best sort of applause But after he had
told the story ten twelve times year for ten
twelve years he began how empty the honor was
and to feel much he dreaded the ordeal than
he enjoyed the applause He said out and that he
would tell the story again. He swore it. He de-
Evening star., 1914-05-31

"And the old woman from across the
Ohio," he would say, "just stopped
wiping her face, and she stopped pant
ing, and she stood very calm and very
cool but with wicked glitter in her
eye. Excuse me, Man, she said to
my grandmother, as far as you are con-
cerned you may consider that animal a
cook, and as far as you are concerned you
may consider him a hen; but as for me.
if anybody cares to ask me, consider
him "a"
Of course I'm not going to tell Bill
Higgins story, and what the old woman
from across the Ohio said she considered
the mule is really the whole story; for the
point of story is its entirety. And am
not giving the story away, because you
can't guess what the old woman con-
sidered the mule. If it had been any
thing you could guess, it would not have
been so tremendously funny. At first
the answer of the old woman sort of
dazed you, and then you saw its relation
to the mule sitting in the eggs and you
shrieked with laughter, and before you
were through shrieking over that you
saw its relation to Bill Higgins grand
mothers hat, and you went off again
into more shrieks, and before you could
quite gasp your breath back you would
see how the answer included young Bill
Higgins hopping on one foot, and you
Evening star., 1914-05-31

evening cIothes-the only man
present, except Banker Schultz,
that sported them. He bowed up
the table and down the table.
"Mr. Chairman and Gentle
Continued on page I9
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02
Pure RICH BLOOD
PREVENTS DISEASE
Bad Blood Causes Most Ailments
Hoods Sarsaparilla Corrects It.

Bad d,-that is, blood that is
impure or impoverished, thin and
paie,-is responsible for more all
ments than anything else.
1t affects every organ and func-
ton. In some cases it causes ca
tarrh; in others, dyspepsia; in 9TH
ers, rheumatism; and in still others,
weak, tired, languid feelings and
worse troubles.
It is responsible for rundown
conditions, and is the most common
cause Of disease.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is the great
est purifier and enricher Of the
blood the world has ever known. 1t
has been wonderfully successful in
removing scrofula and other hu-
mors, and in building up the whole
system. Ask your druggist for
Hoods today. Take it-give it to
all the family so as to avoid illness.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02

Under date of Belfast March 25th, the
Boston Globe printed an alleged interview
with ex-Mayor Hanson in regard to his
delegation to the Democratic State con-
vention, in which it is said of the ex-
Mayor:
This spring he was candidate for re-
election for Mayor, but was not Endorsed
by the local Democratic organization.
which nominated Robert F. Dunton. Mr..
Dunton was elected, defeating Mr.. Han.
son by Is votes. The Republicans had
no nominee and Mr.. Hanson claimed that
his defeat was due to Republican votes.
He was on the official ballot as Citizens
candidate.
Like everything else that appears IN
the out-of town papers concerning the
ex-Mayor this is a gross misrepresenta-
ton. A Democratic caucus was called
to nominate candidate for mayor, was
largely attended. and Hon. Robert F..
Dunton was nominated by exclamation.
Hanson then called Citizens caucus and
nominated himself for mayor, thus bolt
ing the nomination of the party to which
he processes allegiance.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02

in their party, and in Aroostook county
there is widespread dissatisfaction among
Progressives because the leaders refused
to confer with Republicans over posi-
bility of uniting forces in the coming
State campaign. Democratic free trade
has hit the Aroostook potato growers
hard, and Northern Maine Progressive
who served in the last Maine legislature,
and who is we'll known throughout the
State, says: "They are coming to real
ize more and more that Progressive
ticket in Maine is play directly into the
hands of the Democrats and are anxious
to combine with Republican voters for
protection. Progressives in almost every
town have visited have expressed the
opinion that in turning down the Repub-
lican overtures the leaders had thought
more of their own interests and of their
own political futures than they had of
the future of the people of the State
and particularly of Aroostook county, as
a WHOLE"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02
THE NEWS OF THE ORANGES.

State Master Stetson of the Maine State
Grange is again about after a severe illness
with erysipelas which confined him to his
home in Greene for nearly eight weeks Mr..
Stetson expresses his delight with the work.
ings of the parcel post, saying that the Grange
as an organization will stand behind the de-
partment in all its extensions of the service
Union Harvest Grange of Center Montvie
has adopted the following resolutions of
respect:
1t having pleased an all-wise Providence to
remove from our Grange circle Bro. Daniel
Groves; therefore, be it
Resolved, That in the death of our brother
we extend our heartfelt sympathy to his wife
and children.
Resolved, That our charter be draped in
mourning for thirty days and that we place on
our records these resolutions, and that copy
be sent to the local papers for publication.
when the twilight shadows deepen,
And the night draws on apace;
Nearer seems that last sweet greeting,
When ia closed life's weary race.
In the silence, hushed we listen,
For the voices heard no more;
Knowing we shall meet our loved ones
On that blissful heavenly shore"
J. ]. CLEMENT, Committee
ANNIE L. CLEMENT, on
HULDAH RAMSAY, Resolutions.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02

"Twenty years ago the big city news
papers regarded a hanging as the most
important news of their day." is the
opening sentence of an editorial in the,
Saturday Evening Post. That is true OF
at least 40 years ago. The New York
Herald had correspondent in Richmond,
Virginia, in the late COS who covered
that and two or three adjoining States
and the greater part of his work was re-
portipg executions of colored men, which
were very frequent in the years immedl-
ately following the Civil War. And in
great majority of cases the last words OF
the condemned as they stood on the scat
fold expressed the conviction that they
were going straight to Heaven. The
Chicago Times-this was in the days of
w. F. Storey, then noted editor, now
forgotten-wast the yellow journal of that
period and much given to startling head
lines, and on one occasion it headed re-
port of a negro execution: "Jerked to
Jesus" Joe" Elliott, who reported
horse races for the New York Herald for
fifty years, and enjoyed the distinction
of having race horse named for him,
was also called upon to report execu-
tons. .Now-a-days, as the Post says,
elm your metropolitan paper you see only
brief mention of hanging-if you see
apy mention at all.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02
The Churches.

A special Palm Sunday Sermon will be
preached at the Universalist church next
Sunday.
The Episcopal Mission will hold services next
Sunday at $50 p. m. in the North church
vestry.
The Mems Forum will meet as usual at the
Universallst church next Sunday at noon All
men are cordially invited
The Seaside Spiritualist Society holds regular
Sunday services at their place of meeting on
High street at 2 and p. m.
The morning service at the First Parish
Church (Unitarian) is held at 1O.45 a. M, Sun
dav. The Sunday school meets at 11.45.
The regular services at the universalist
church next Sunday will be as follows
nreachinp service at 1915 o'clock; Sunday
school at noon.
The Christian Scientists hold services in
their hall, 127 Main street, Sunday morning at
II o'clock and Wednesday evening at 7.SO
o'clock. to which all are welcome.
The services for the week at the Meth
odist church will be as follows: Ihis'
Thursday, evening, the prayer meeting; Sum
dav. at 1890. morning worship; Sunday school
at l2m; evening service at Z. p. m.
The services at the Baptist church will be as
follows: Prayer meeting this. Thursday, even
ING: morning service Sunday at 1O.45 a. M;
Sunday school at IL o'clock. All who do not
attend Sunday school at any other church are
cordially invited. Christian Endeavor at b3O;
evening service at 7.SO.
Next Sunday is Palm Sunday and marks the
Machining of HOLY Week Services will be
held each evening in the North Congregational
vestrv with the exception of Thursday and
saturday. On Thursday there will be an OBJ
seryance of the Holy Sacrament and Commun-
ion. which will be held in the auditorium.
There will be no services on Saturday night.
The services will last but one half hour from
| $50 to 8. and the public as well as all men,
hers of the parish is cordially invited to attend
The usual Palm Sunday services and music
will be given next Sunday.
The services for the week at the North
church are as follows This, Thursday. even.
ing, at 7.3O, prayer meeting; Sunday, at lo.45'
| morning worship and sermon, voices from
the Unseen" followed by Sunday School; al
$50, Christian Endeavor; at 73O. illustrated
lecture, "The Church and the Nations Fight
for Health" Beginning Monday, April 6th
brief services will be held in the vestry at 1.5t
every evening, with the exception Of Thurs.
day and Saturday. On Thursday evening At
7.8O Communion will be held in tae Churcn
auditorium. All those whose worship does moi
take them elsewhere, are cordially invited &c
unite in these services.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02

In report of the organization OF
Rockland's new city government it is
said: politics was thrown aside in the
election of public library trustees, in Or
der that Ex-Gov. William T. Cobb might
continue to serve as a member of the
board" Politics was never carried into
the election of trustees for the Belfast
Free Library until the advent of Mayor
Hanson and his one-man city govern
ment. Hon. Joseph Williamson, Dem
ocrat, was retained as chairman of the
board of trustees under Republican city
until his death.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02

The war of the Wilson Administration
on the railroads has resulted in an ad-
vance in passenger and freight rates,
thereby contributing to the high cost OF
living.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02
State of Ohio, City OF Toledo, a..
Lucas County,

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner of the firm Of F. J: Cheney 20. oolng
State aforesaid. and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured
nv the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed IN my
TSea1, A, w. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. Send for testimonials,
'lee' EJCHENEY 4 CO., Toldo o. :
Sold by all Druggists, 76c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02

Two Congr essmen from Massachusetts
"a Republican and Democrat-had
controversy in the House recently as te
whether it is true that ''the South Is in
saddle" the Democrat maintaining that
it is not sin any wrongful sense" The
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Transcript says:
The issue thus raised is interesting
and important. It is not, however, at
first an issue of right and wrong; it is
primarily a question of fact. And the
simple fact is that the control of the
House lies in the hands of twenty-five
chairmen of committees. all but one of
whom come from the South. The one
exception is from Tammany Hall. This
simple fact is exhibited for the first time
graphically-one might with precision
say geographically the new political
map Just issued by the National Voters
League.
A bulletin which accompanies the map
analyses some of the "jokers' which
were inserted in the rules, revised when
the Cannon fight was won. 1t shows that
the rule aiming to give the House some
measure of control over its committees
was so ''safeguarded" and hedged about
with limitations that today: Each
standing committee is supremely law
unto itself as it was during the best days
of Cannonism. The result is combina-
ton of understandable forces which make
up the Organization This map and
bulletin further tell US, not only that the
control over the House is centralized in
the South, where once it belonged to
New England, but that the whole scheme
of representation can be so manipulated
as practically to disfranchise whole Sec
lions of the country which are theoreti-
cally supposed to be on equal terms with
the rest of the nation in the national
Legislature.
Truth, Boston's bright weekly, under
the caption of ''The South is in the Sad
die" voices the situation in verse, from
which we quote as follows:
The South is in the SADDLE and the North is the
The rebel yell of Dixie has become barrel
whoop.
They are squandring Yankee dollars from Vir-
ginia to the sea,
Digging holes in Alabama, building roads in
Tennessee;
Old New York is paying taxes, Illinois is pay
ing tolls
While Ohio pays the piper for the looters on
the rolls.
Yes! the South is in the saddle and its paw is
in the purse
It's looting East and West and North and loot
ing at the source.
And the Northern Democrat
Meekly holds the bag and bat
While shouting Southerns scorn him
AS yellow Northern rat.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02
A report of the Progressive State con

A report of the Progressive State con-
vention says of the nomineef for Governor
H. P. Gardner, that he "was formerly
active in Republican politics. He was
defeated for the executive council in 1909
by Col. Harry F. Ross of Bangor and
was one of the first to embrace the new
party in Maine" A disappointed office.
seeker, as are all, or nearly all, OF the
leaders of the new party.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02

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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02

1t ia predicted that the straddle of the
Progressive State convention on prohibl-
ton will mean the loss Of several thour-
and votes to the Bull Moose ticket in
September. The Progressives of Oxford
county are in revolt because OF bossism
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02
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