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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-15

Where is Joe Eagan, the New Eng
land lightweight? foes disappear
ance right after his defeat at the
hands of Gilbert Gallant has caused
his friends some anxiety.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-15
PRISONER BURNED

Los Angeles, CAL. Jan. 14.-With his
clothes in flames, James Lewis, a pri-
soner in the Los Angeles city Jail,
was rescued fro mdeath by fellow
prisoners. Lewis was engaged in
cleaning clothes with gasoline when
an explosion occurred Screaming
with pain, he attracted the attention
of others, and the flames were beaten
out, but not before lie had been badly
burned. He was taken tc the recelv-
ing hospital for treatment.
Guess those kids in the little red
school house in Euclid township did
MT enjoy themselves Christmas. Act.
ing as their Santa Claus was none
other than the great Napoleon Lajoie,
and the ever graceful Larry was
some Kris Kingle, too.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-15

1t is said that Jim Driscoll, the for.
mer feathrweight champion Of Eng.
land, cleaned up abou $4,000 on the
English race tracks during the past
summer.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-15

kid" Mccoy is in Nice, France,
where he hopes to arrange a clash
with Georges Carpenter. mctoy was
a wonder in his day, but it's a fat
chance he has at the age of Al to de-
feat the rench champ.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-15
few MORE SEATS
FOR ROBIN HOOD

All the regularly plated seats in
the Auditorium have been sold and
still there is a heavy demand. In
order to accommodate the public as
we'll as possible, Manager Vesperman
has decided to reserve a number of
gallery seats which he has picked as
good. These will be placed on sale
Saturday morning at $1.25 each at
Finney's dry store.
Every seat on this plat is good and
the manager asks those desiring to
purchase them to go to the Audi
torium and see for themselves. While
this may not be as good as many
would like, yet it will help out for
these who were too late.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
.BELLED BUZZARD
FIFTY YEARS AGO
A SOUTH GEORGIA RESIDENT
CAUGHT THE BIRD BY BATTING
HIM WITH LIVER.

The Pavo paper, The Progress,
makes this contribution to the stories
now being printed about the bellyd
buzzard
Georgias Eternal Mystery is the
way the newspapers speak of the bell
ed buzzard.'
Mystery or no mystery, it is an in
teresting topic. Some claim there is
but one buzzard-some say there are
a hundred. Some say he is a sign Of
bad luck. But read on. Here is a tale
about a buzzard belled in Pavo:
Eyes, l helped bell the buzzard,
states Uncle Zeke Alderman. Way
back nearly fifty years ago, when
was a small boy, crowd of half doz-
en- of US boys-there was old Jote
Wooten, one of my brothers, myself
and some other boys-who put the bell
on the buzzard.
I'VE caught him by putting piece
of liver on a string with fish hook.
We caught the buzzard and tied on a
bell, with a strong string. We put the
string around his neck, under his
wings and over his back, We did 2
good job of it, so the bell would stay.
Like as not, the belled buzzard
they are talking about is the one We
put the bell on he concluded.
Some say the belled buzzard is an
ill omen-but Mr.. Alderman has wax ed
fat, and doesn't worry about belling
the buzzard"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
TWO WIVES; one HUBBY
TEARS and DIVORCE
FOLLOW OF COURSE

Denver, Colo, Feb. 25.-Mrs. Ella
Matthews Pe5ry is made correspondent
il a divorce action brought here
against John d. Peery by Mrs. Nora
Peery." Mrs. Nora Peery asserts that
she is the common law wife of Peery
and demands that the marriage to Mrs,
Ella Matthews Peery be declared lille
gal.
She asserts that her husband has
been guilty of infdelity by reason of
his relations with his legal wife, Mrs.
Ella Matthews Peery, Mrs. Nora Peery
IL her complaint asserts that she en-
tered into a common law marriage
with Peery in September, 1907, and
that there has been born to them a
son.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
CIGARETTES INSTEAD
Of LULLABIES PUT
CHILD, 8, TO SLEEP
AELLS AND KICKS WHEN IN
SMOKING" ORDER DEPRIVES HIM
OF COFFIN

Boston, Mass, Feb. 24,-"No smoking
allowed in here, said the stern dailif
of the Waltham police court when g.
year-old Charlie Purdy toddled in the
room, blowing cigarette smoke through
his nose
Charles refused to give up the coffin
nail, and when they took it away from
him, fell back on the argument of in
fancy-a loud, nerve-racking yell, ac-
companied by wild kicks.
This premature vice of little Char
lie was the thing that brought him into
court His grandfather, Hugh Purdy,
was arraigned on a charge of giving
cigarettes to a minor and with as
sault.
Mrs. Amanda Graves, Purdy's sister
in-law, testified against him. She said
the baby was in the habit of picking
up cigarette butts about the house. The
only way the grandfather could get the
baby to sleep vas to let him shoot a
snipe and smoke it. While the baby
lay back and puffed on the cigarette,
grandfather sang him Yiddish lula
bies.
Mrs. Graves said she was trying to
take the child from his grandfather
when the old man struck her. Others
testified that Charles was a regular
cigarette fiend and pointed out the
stains between his fingers. Purdy was
fined S.. which his daughter paid.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
TOO LONG AN old MAID;
NO man IN sight now
GOES SUICIDE ROUTE

Philadelphia, Feb. 24.-Miss Letitia
Rider, AZ years old, took her life today
by inhaling Illuminating gas after hav-
ing brooded for months over girlhood
vow never to marry, which she had
kept too well.
Getting on in years, she was alone in
the world Since last May she had
lived the life Of a recluse in her room
She seldom spoke to her neighmors
and when she did she told them of her
mistaken notions of life when she was
a girl
When the woman did not answer a
neighbours knock today he investigated
and found her dead in bed She had
stuffed the cracks of windows and door
with cloth and turned on the gas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
RAISED THE BOSS

The Looman Lumber Com
pany, Of Waupun, Wis, has the
custom of raising any employees
lay when said employees family
is increased. The company likes
t, do it.
But" President Looman said
yesterday, employees must be
reasonable"
John Howard, four years ago
got his weekly envelope fattened
on the arrival of his first baby,
Next year, twins; double raise
in pay
Next, twins again. Il can
stand this as yong as you can,
John" smiled Mr.. Loomon.
Triplets have now arrived.
Mr.. Loomon simultaneously an
nounces he's quit, and Johns
pay envelope stands pat.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
sAVoRY DISHES.

Take three pounds of soup meat
and cook for four hours very gently.
Remove the scum as it rises. In a
sauce pan boil pint of split peas.
To the meat add after two hours
cooking, two potatoes, an onion, a car
rot and a pepper. Take out the meat
and add the peas, put through sieve.
Serve round the meat.
Irish RissoIes.-Put sufficient cooked
beef through the meat chopper to
measure cupful; add few chopped
chives or a small onion, a cup of
milk. Season we'll and form in small
balls; saute in butter until brown.
Rice Omelet.-This is a most salts
flying dish for supper; Beat three
eggs well and add cup of cold cooked
rice, two tablespoonfuls of cold water
and few dashes of salt. Have the
omelet pan hot, and we'll buttered,
pour in the omelet and lift carefully
at the sides to allow the center to
run out and cook. When it is creamy
spread with currant jelly and fold.
Serve at once.
Cocoanut Souffle.-To two cupfuls
of shredded cocoanut add six table
spoonfuls of -four, one pint of milk.
four eggs and half cup of sugar, a
teaspoon of baking powder and half
a teaspoon of lemon extract. Beat
the eggs until light, add the sugar
then the flour sifted with the baking
powder, then the lemon, milk, and a
cupful of the cocoanut. Mix carefully
and turn into buttered baking dish.
AS soon as 1t begins to set sprinkle
over the top the other cup Of cocoanut
mixed with two tablespoonful of
sugar, Serve from the dish in which
it is baked.
Soft Johnny cake.-Take a half a
cup of Indian meal, two teaspoonfuls
of sugar, a teaspoonful of SALT. two
tablespoonfuls of butter and pint of
sweet milk. Put milk in a dish to
heat, add the meal and stir until
cooked and thick Do not allow it to
become lumpy. Take from the fire,
add sugar, salt and butter and one
well beaten egg. Turn into a creased
pan and bake for Is to 20 minutes.
Grandmothers Ginger Cookies
Take a cupful each of brown sugar,
molasses, shortening, teaspoonful Of
soda, a tablespoonful of ginger, ia
blespoonful of cinnamon, teaspoon
of baking powder and -four to roll.
Ne<GG N3~7<t.eN-.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
A FISH STORY

Down beneath the FESTIVE pillows, toss =
ing wildly overhead,
Where the mermaids lay their pillows,
making up the ocean-bed,
There resided once a Goldfish of un
questioned pedigree:
He was deemed rather odd fish in
marine society.
But bis most eccentric feature was a
resolution grim
That no sweet aquatic creature should
succeed in wedding him.
But, alas for vows emphatic! His were
tumbled upside down,
When the Neptune operate Company
arrived in town;
Unawares Dan Cupid picked him, and
before a week had passed,
He succumbed, an easy victim, to the
Starfish of the cast!
She invaded all his slumbers Though
he hardly slept at ALL
And they swan eleven numbers at the
Monthly Goldfish Ball!
Married life was all plain sailing till
his patrimony sank
In a most disastrous failing of the local
Goldfish Bank,
Then the tickle Prima Donna, seeing
that her luckless swain
Was a sure financial goner, found she
couldn't stand the strain.
So the wife of his affections, ere the
summer days grew dark,
Fitted Ceaving no directions) with a
fascinating Shark.
Now upon a counter, waiting for some
customers demand
Past all loving, past all hating, labelled
as the Ocean Brand
And beyond all fishly striving in his
airless, timed retreat
Caring not continental, that at last
he's good to eat
Stands with sundry other odd fish 49,
never more the deep to roamJ
One poor dessicated Goldfish, with 4
desecrated home! Life
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
GAINING GROUND IN
GEORGIA CAPITAL

Atlanta, Feb. 25.--It begins to Look
as if Atlanta will beat Georgia in rec
ognizing the political rights of women.
The petition of the women for repre-
sentation on various municipal boards
and committees, while it had good
deal of fun poked at it at first as too
great an innovation in the South, has
been taken up now in all seriousness,
and already a number of councilmen
are committed to the idea, TWO out of
three of the leading Atlanta DALI y
have already endorsed it conditionally
The women have ascked, it will be
recalled, for a minority representation
on the schools, parks, library, health
hospital, sanitation and charities
boards and committees.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
GOOD CHANCE FOR GRAFT
With Three PAID Men
TO RUN WHOLE COUNTY
Will Draw $1,000 Each and
Do No Other Work"

Atlanta, Feb. 25-Fulton county
may have a form of commission gov
eminent instead of supervising board
and heads of departments if a present
plan is worked out. Several members
CT the present county board are said
to favor it.
A bill will be presented to the leg
islature providing for the change in
the event the people of Fulton are
willing to try it. 1t will provide for
three active commissioners who will
receive a salary of $4,000 a year each
and who shall do nothing but handle
the counties affairs.
Under the present county board sys
tenn men are elected who make their
living in other business or profession,
and who exercise simply a supervising
function while subordinate heads of
departments are employed to actually
do the work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
PLANK ACCEPTS TERMS
WITH CONNIE MACK

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 25.-Edd e
Plank, the veteran pitcher Of the Phila-
delphia American league team, today
accepted Manager Mack's terms. He
agreed to join the squad, which will
lave here March for Jacksonville,
Fla, the Athletics spring training
camp.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26

1t knocks all the romance out of life
for a young girl when she reaches the
age where she is trying to look senti-
mental for her mommer to ask her
before company, if she hadn't better
take something for that indigestion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26

One reason the President is so pop
ular is that in a way, the "i' is small
10 wilson
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
'HMKzTNA
6ABLNEH
CCUsToM yourself 70 master

A CCUSTOM yourself to master
AAs - and overcome things of diff
hcuity; for if you observe-the left hand
Tor want of practice is ignificant-and
not adapted to general business; yet it
holds the bride better than the right
from constant use -Pliny,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
WORTHY OF DIXIE ENCLE.

Stetson was his name, and the production
of great dramas was his business. His
great talent was success, and his weakness
was that he always liked TO ''show off,
when he was rehearsing play. He was
in the habit of sitting far back in the dark
ened theater; and, whenever stranger came
in to see the rehearsal work, he put himself
in the foreground by jumping to his feet
and bawling out the actors aud actresses.
When he was putting on big produc-
ton of "The Holy City, three friends of
his entered the theater one afternoon to see
the dress rehearsal. AS soon as they had
sat down, Stetson began to fdget in his
seat. He was consumed by the old fever
for prominence. He wanted the visitors to
see that he was the boss of everything.
There were twelve men on the stage,
which was unusually large.
''Who are those men on the stage? he
called out to his stage manager in a thun-
derous voice.
'That is one of the big scenes of thu
play said the manager humbly. "Those
men are the twelve disciples. -
ssOh, well,'' shouted Stetson imper-
iously, ego and get twelve more. That's
big stage, and we want to fill it up
The Popular Magazine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
THE SPIRIT OF OPTIMISM
By Grant Kylet

gather the roses of pleasure,
The thistles oftroubles and tears,
And fill to the brim hearts measure
Ofhopes all entangled with fears.
I pick out the jewels of gladness-
The days that were sunny and bright
And find they are better than sadness
To tighten the gloom of the night.
know that yesterdays sorrow
Is soothed by a touch of today;
That tears are the smiles of tomorrow:
That work is prophetic play.
e. balance the burdens I'm bearing
With others from which am free.
And feel that the yoke am wearing
Is light as the foam of the sea.
learn that the secret of living
Is doing the best that can,
And offer prayer of thanksgiving
To God for His goodness to man.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
An Argument in Favor of
Teaching the Children Help
full trades-A Case in
Point
By F. J. b.

MuCn mas Deon written and said
both for and against vocational
training for young people-both
boys and girls and it is the writ
er's opinion that such training should
be given.
At Gary, Ind, that wonder city
built to order, they have solved
this problem in most satisfactory
way. All students attending school
are given practical work in the
manual training classes. To take
case IN point: In the writer's
home town there was a boy who
was mechanical genius. With
the aid of pile of scrap iron and a
forge, he constructed All engine that
would run. 1t was not anything
beautiful, but still a workable en-
CINE. This boy hated school and
would absent himself at every OPP
portunity. His father was doctor
and wanted his son to follow in his
steps. In some way he finally
graduated from high school and
went to college; after a few years
he came back a full-fedged M. D.,
and started to practice with his
father; but always when he would
pass piece of machinery or an en-
CINE, he would give it a longing
look and run his hand lovingly oyer
its shimering parts. At the end of
two years. young Bob, as he was
called, suddenly disappeared.
In His Element
Eight years ago the writer was
passenger on the steamer North
land. between Buffalo, N. Y. and
Duluth. During the trip up the
lakes with a party of friends, l
made visit to the engine room, and
who should I find clad in an old
greasy suit of overalls but my old
friend. Bob. talked withhim for a
short time, and he told me that he
was then oiling, but was taking
correspondence course in marine
engineering and expected to go up
for license as engineer before
navigation opened up the following
spring. He had found his element.
the work at which he could be hap
py, and was contented.
To give boy four years at high
school and fill his brain with French,
Latin and German and then put
him on the seat of grocer's deliv-
cry cart or at work in shop is
just about as sensible as it would be
to cut off your own nose in order
to spite your face. Give him those
four years schooling by all means,
but instead Of teaching him some
thing he will never have any use
for, devote that part of his time to
learning trade, and let him have a
voice in what that trade shall be;
for it is his life work and he knows
best what he is fitted to do.
Visit any institution of this kind
and talk with the men; go to the
cheap lodging houses and talk to
the men you find there; ask them
why they failed, and sixty per
cent will say because I had no trade.
Ask them what would be the first
thing they would do If they could
live their lives over again
and their answer will be, learn
a trade"
Give the boys, and for that mat
ter, the girls, a chance and we will
need fewer penal institutions.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
TRUSTING ELIMINATES
A Former Thief Proves Trust
worthy in Guarding Valuable
rty.-Kindness
Wins.

When [ turned partly away from
bees, and began studying the Holy
Scriptures, was something like the
man whose delight is in the law of
the Lord. and in his law doth he
mediate both day and night" Now
please friends. do not think 1 am
boasting, for God knows l am only
telling you this story just as l would
try to help you about raising null
berries and chickens. You know
how much l am still given to hobbies;
and when I first began testing the
promises of God" is it anything
strange that l should become not
only enthusiastic, but even what the
world might consider reckless?
In my enthusiasm l went into our
county Jail, read the Bible, and pray
ed with poor soul who was on his
way to the penitentiary; and when
he was honestly converted, as l had
faith to believe he was, | was per-
mitted to take him out of Jail and set
him to work. was a jeweler at that
time; and when one of the clerks
who slept in the store was sick or
called away l asked my new-found
friend to take his place and keep
watch of the valuable goods. He
assented, but rather soberly, |
thought; but in the evening, after |
had closed up and was getting ready
to 60 home, he came up and stood
by the show case. Pretty soon he
began drumming on the glass, and
finally commenced somewhat as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Root, do all these watches
and things stay right here in this
show case over night?''
At that time safes were not so
much in vogue as they are now, and
had little money to buy one, even
if they were. After a little he COM
menced again:
I suppose some of these watches
are worth thirty or forty dollars,
are they not?''
Yes, Fred, more than that. You
are not afraid of so much response
bility, are your"
Mr.. Root, do you realize what
you are doing? You have, in your
wonderful kindness of heart, taken
me out of the Jail, and now you
propose to put me, hardened sin
ner and thief, in charge of all this
valuable property. Just few
weeks ago | would have julned at
the chance to take everything here
and 60 off in the night where you
could never find me-"
Then he broke down and cried
cried as | have never before nor
since seen strong man cry; and,
dear friends, am crying now. so 1
can hardly see the letters on the
typewriter, as memory brings back
again that scene. After he had
Gained down little | said:
Fred, you are not afraid your
old temptations will come back when
you are here alone in the night time,
are you?'
He replied through his tears, No,
Mr.. Root, no! God bless you. no.
/ am only too glad of the chance to
show you that l will give my last
drop of blood to protect you or
yours"
And he kept his promise until the
day of his death.-A. l. Root, in
Bee Culture.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
Uncle Sans
Burden

and falls the obligation of maintaining order the
household and extending the necessary protection Like
kindly disposed and emeanne elder brother seeking
ercise his appointed duties in the gentle manner be-
careful not to wound the senstveness the
the limits of patience Good naturally and with the
OF the big boy fully confident of his strength
have endured the be and insults hurled those
quarters which, installing attitude of broery
ton for of fear consequences dared drive
in the prod deep enough the big brother rea
zaton OF the fact that to brother his
undoing, harsher methods must be applied.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
THE DREAMS AHEAD

What would we do in this world of ours
Were it not for the dreams ahead?
For thorns are mixed with the blooming flowers
No matter which way we tread.
And each of us has his golden goal,
Stretching far into the years:
And ever he climbs with hopeful soul,
With alternate smiles and tears.
That dream ahead is what holds him up
Through the storms of ceaseless fight,
When lips are pressed to the NORWOOD cup
And clouds shut out the light.
To some its a dream of high estate;
To some it's a dream of wealth;
To some its a dream of truce with Fate
In constant search for health.
To some its dream of home and wife;
To some its crown above:
The dreams ahead are what make each life
The Dreams and faith. and love.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30

A Winner 'My dog took first prize at
the cat show
''How was that!''
''He took the cat. Columbus Univer-
sity Jester.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
A Fable in Ornitholosy

When Uncle Bob died he left a Young
Willie Bobolink legacy. Not vast for
tune, you must understand, but only what
you and l would call comfortable Nest
egg. Young Willie, being unaware of
the many Shares which this world harbors,
set out for the city with manifest intentions
of utilizing that legacy by going on a
Lark. He was sure he would be a Kill
deer, or in other words. a dear-killer.
The Lark did not terminate just as he had
expected, for he discovered that he was
taking too many Swallows, and he in reali-
ty was on Bat. Things went from bad
to worse and he was soon shooting Snipes
from out the gutter, with an eagle eye ever
on the alert to see who he could be Robin.
He met up with Mr.. Stool Pigeon, who
introduced him to his friend Mr.. Fly-mug.
But, alas! at the present he is very,
very Bluejay. Moral:-Don't sow wild
oats or the birds will get the oats.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30
Post Impressions.
AS Presented From the View Point of Marco Polo

AS we are the most powerful of nations,
so are the tasks that are apportioned to
us proportionate in their magnitude.
Toward this hemisphere and it's hecter-
geneous population, we stand in the po-
SitiOn Of the bio hrOther Of tho family
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30

Let the Work be
Thorough
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30

The Work Cut
Out