HOW CHINAMEN
ARE SMUGGLED
fc\V YORK—A quiet look
ing a enough to Dr
Jin Ftwy Moy who tp^
tvuW uitk tie American
wile, fcte American frock
root. l:t almost Americas
daughter tel li.Oto worth
of American »th fialir Jewels be
fore tbe 1< <Serml i oouutostooer in Jer
sey f'itf *.b« other fir With his
Slick short uur. bis smile Slid its
|e ar' St Kbyte he fif wot look 1» the
least the u agent of s (rest secret
hot!} whose sms stretch mysterious
ly from ths Oriewt both wsys around
the !.Ui0» at the world, whose mew
rob. lie. bribe sod kill to ret their
batons eowtrsbswd uudisrorered
scrcss owr border, whose stinking stov
ers inwi iu-ai{ does with doused
tigfcts from two oresas on cmr coasts,
s Of ;t'ks which here, la the felt
ed * stes of America, holds hundreds
of tt-ea IB tr«fit« often little light
er than that of the southern negroes
beta
the war
Yet such are the companies which
bUH' the trade in arming led Chi
nese laborers And It to the crime of
cower -*** to moggie Chinese to bor
ers s tb which n federal ruf Jury
had charged the harmless looking Dr.
Moy
lr-rtt Coepisv at Work.
The mt of passage from China to
the * • ft coast of Mexico is someth.ng
like SIM. even at the loses! steerage
rates, and ts roach Jamaica costs
mb"- ' ts-* more. Adding ths $4j0 or
f5oo tor the pcrtlows Journey la the
scif-Tcrr and the still more perilous
land 'g , It costs about Kll to bring
a Cr. .iwsn into the eastern states
Now if any owe of these men who
risk Vfr yellow necks to land here
bad ‘ ad anything tike 1634 saved up
at i oas* is rams, he could have lived
la iwiary all the days of bis life, and
all fcis children and grandchildren
with him Then, why do these men
want to raw to America*
The answer to simple Not one of
the xaugrania had saved anything to
schooner Frolic was then at sea,
searching for a place to land forty
two Chinamen with pigtails. Cutters
cruised off shore from Montauk to
Marhias, and every coasting schooner
and ocean steamer along the coast
from Norfolk to Halifax kept a sharp
lockout for the smuggler.
For a week the newspapers were
full of rumors how IS Chinamen were
seen coming from Lynn to Boston,
when there had been no Chinaman in
Lynn before; how the Frolic was sup
posed to have run into the Merrimac
river and unloaded there, and many
other such.
Discovered by Fireman.
It was near daylight one morning
a week later when a fireman in some
coal pockets In Providence started
down the pier to get a monkey wrench
he ! ad left. He was walking over a
pile of rags, when something soft turn
ed under hit foot and he fell. The
rags were warm and a flat face turn
ed and looked at him as he picked him
self up. He separated the heap into
•wo s'art-1 and speechless Chinamen
and a pair of empty fertilizer bags.
The Chinamen could not tell him
what he desired to know about their
business on the pier. In fact, they
could not tell him anything. As he
raised his voice still louder he was
hailed from a fishing schooner which
had been taking on provisions near
the pier.
What s the matter?" was the ques
tion
"Here's two blamed, etc.. Chinks on
our pier."
"Well, you leave ’em alone. They're
all right."
The fireman did not altogether agree
and went and told the watchman. The
watchman telephoned the police, and
the police woke up the treasury men.
The two Chinamen were arrested, and
a few minutes later a revenue yawl
slipped alongside the anchored schoon
er. and the men In the government
boat read the schooner's name In gilt
letters on her slender stem. She was
THE CHINAMEN WERE THROWN
OVERBOARD AND LEFT TO
DROWN.
I
■peak at 1t China The whole bv^y
rta s* for sarb of Ikra b paid by a
maitatjr. organized partly in,
< tin* tal ; arr!y in tk* fitted State*,
wbieb rousts os ruUertteg the a bole
swm. a lib as ample allosaare tor ac
rtfrtt*. lesiiis and lad debts and a
(eMnxa profit besides. from bis earn
lac* after be la safely landed So say
tbr sees of the sot ertameet's Chinese
laattrattus baraau TMetr explana
tion saay espials also Ur Moy a frock
coal, bta p sri pii. k s It.teJ« In dia
locate*—and. K may be, Lis American
a He as wafL
Tke organization of these compan
ies end tfce exact form of peonage In
whirl. they hold their victims are not
tbmecklr understood, though It la cer
tain that butb the companies and an
organised peonage do. In fart, exist.
The Immigration officers expect to
kso« store on thoea points before
they are through with Dr Uoy and
the tbrae AmeCcana who were Indict
ed with him at Boston
Bet. of the ways that are dark and
tricks that are not always ram In
running the blockade the government
men are sell aware The smuggled
(1 mamas la n tragic figure enough at
Uaars. bat be oftener appears ia an
eaceedlngty comic light to the men
who are set to trip him at our na
Ducal threshold It would seem at
•rat that It boo Id be an easy thing
to slip a man across a national boun
dary of naariy ten thousand miles in
extent As a matter of ten. it in a
very difficult thing, as Is sees by the
ohrtBktag Chinese colonies of a hun
dred American cities A great many
mete Chinamen die or go home to
Cfciu every year than manage to slip
past the guards.
Jab by Ns Means an Easy One.
Thw simplest way. evidently, to im
part a group of coolies la to load
them os a vessel and land them at
•osne unexpected spat tram which
they can be guirkJy transferred to
sons crowded "Chinaicwrn" in a city
where they will he indistinguishable
tram the older inhabitants. It is not
really so simple as K looks In the
trn place, the government keeps an
eye os the trt tsparifle steamers and
aarares itself of the destination of
any considerable bands which travel
by * j. a Agate, a schooner loud of
cv.tei.iaea m net likely to set sail from
any neighboring port without some
•he being aware of it who may be
come informer
H was only a few years ago that
the government officers In Boston re
c*iied an txdlgced postal card from
Newteundland saying that forty-two
Cl r-wars waiting at Placentia.
a Buis a»hteg viiteg* on the -N>»
losnd.and reel, to he taken to "the
gtsh” A governu.m: man was sent
hurrying to Newfoundland. He reach
#d placestla and foand that the China
men fcgd sailed ia the schooner Frolic,
of ifarblebeml St daybreak that morn
teg
He telegraphed back to Boston, and
the Story waa give* »® t** nesspa
petA Oterltg headlines told in every
pert of the A Man tic coast how the
MAROONED STARVING, THE
CHINAMEw THREW THEM
SELVES ON THE GROUND AND
SCREAMED FOR HELP.
the Frolic. She had sailed up Nar
r***tf«t in broad daylight the day be
fore and come to anchor off the coal
pocket at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
AM day she lay at anchor, not far
from the channel. In full view from
the harbor and the shore. No one
had taken the trouble to read her
name and she was passed for a visit
ng fisherman.
Twenty-Four Safely Landed.
Sixteen more Chinamen were found
hidden In the hold. The remaining 24
had already made their escape. The
state of her hold, where 42 Chinamen
had lived for eight days, was a shock
even to the hardened customs men. A
fishing craft cf less than 100 tons does
not have much room below decks,
and at her best the mixed odor of fish
and bilge water makes it an undesir
able place in which to lounge away
an afternoon. The Chinamen slept on
the floor, packed solid like spoons in
a box. with hardly an inch of room to
turn in. For four days of her voy
age the schooner had worked her
way through fog. in waters that were
frequented both by fishermen and
st-amers. Any moment a vessel might
! come upon her. and the captain did not
i w ish to have his passengers seen upon
I hi.-* decks. So during those four days
I the Chinese had stayed shut up in the
hold, with only such light at.d air as
found their way down the hatchway.
Except for the fog. which kept her
a week at sea. and the smell of the
passengers, which drove the crew
nearly to mutiny, she had an easy pas
■ «%ge after that, and was not interrupt
l ed till the government men captured
her off the Providenoe coal pocket.
The captain and two of his accom
plices were tried and sent to prison.
The captain testified that their profits,
j if the trip had proved successful, would
have been $15,000 over all expenses,
; including $250 apiece to the crew.
Every one of the 18 Chinamen swore
i in court that he had lived for many
i years in America, that he had qualified
| to return under the law, but that the
: papers to prove it had been lost in the
big fire" in San Francisco.
On the Pacific coast the "running"
l of Chinamen by sea Is oftener tried
j and oftener detected. The slender.
I swift schooners that ply in the “island
| trade" among the scattered groups of
the South Seas are excellently ntied
for the work. A few years ago one
of these craft, suspected of having
Chinamen on board, was chased down
the coast from Puget sound by a rev
enue cutter. The cutter was gaining,
but night came on before she could get
within gunshot.
Coolies Tossed Overboard?
She kept up the search even after
the schooner had been lost in the
darkness, and presently, at moonrise,
sawr the fugitive vessel again stand
ing off shore. The cutter overhauled
her. The captain was in great rage
at being held up on the high seas.
When the revenue men insisted that
they would search her, he protested
still more violently. They went through
her from stem to stern and found noth
ing whatever that should not be on a
homew’anl bound trader.
A week later two dead Chinamen
were washed ashore 30 miles up the
coast. The federal agents in Van
couver learned that a band of 15 cool
ies had been seen making their way
lo the waterfront early in the morning
the day the schooner sailed. Consider
ed as evidence, the two facts make
slender proof, but the sailors along the
coast believe that the Chinamen were
thrown over from the schooner and
left to drown as negroes were thrown
over from slave ships in the old days
when every vessel that carried "black
ivory" was counted as a pirate by the
law of nations.
Roth Canada and Mexico admit
Chinamen, though the former imposes
a tax of $500 a head on all who re
main in the country for more than
three months. Of late years, up to the
beginning of the present trouble. Mex
ico has furnished a more popular base
of operations for the smugglers. It
was a month or more ago that a gov
ernment launch boarded a schooner
which had sailed with Chinamen from
Lower California. No Chinamen were
on board, though certain sights and
some not uncertain smells made the
officers believe that they had been
there not long before. Again the story
was widely circulated that the China
men had been thrown overboard.
Again, it was only two weeks ago
that a launch with a party of fisher
men—a playwright, an aviator and
a steamship man—saw a scrap of
canvas waved violently on a little
barren island off from San Diego bay.
They put in for it, and found ten Chi
nese. Six threw themselves forward
on the ground and screamed an appeal
for help. Another had gone mad. and
was shrieking, writhing and throwing
stones into the sea.
Ten Days Without Food or Water.
There were sharp rocks all around
the islet, and in the heavy sea the
launch dared not try to land among
them. Frank Pixley, the playwright
of the crew, tried them with what
little Chinese he knew, and gathered
that they had been wrecked there
ten days before, and had been without
food and practically without water
ever since. What the vessel was or
what had become of ’ er crew he
could not understand. The men in
the launch threw their water cask
; among the breakers, where It floated
l to the beach, and filled a bag with
! the remains of their luncheon and
I tossed that on the rocks. The gov
eminent launch came next day and
took the Chinese off.
Thinks Collars Should Go.
If the anarchists only appreciated
the really vulnerable point, what a
cur’ous revolution they might work!
If they knew what was real^ good
for their cause, what would vastly
augment their power, they would save
time and breath in declaiming about
equality, or in clamoring for collectiv
ism, or in prating about an equal
distribution of goods—they would
simply abolish the collar. That is
the true line of demarcation, the real
barrier between the classes and the
masses. Never trouble to cut off a
man's head when to cut off his collar
would be so much more effective.
Your-culotte would be as nothing to
your sans-collier. For when we once
begin to abolish distinctions, those
outward and visible signs—then the
inward strengths and graces will
sooner or later go as well. And what
is so obviously and helplessly demo
cratic as the collarless man? The
collar gone, everything seems to be
forgotten and disregarded, and to be
collarless Is to be truly equalized,
simplified, leveled.—Harper's Weekly.
The Real Reporter.
When the chief reporter of the Pop
pleton Post bought an aeroplane, the
proprietor summoned the editor to
discuss his successor.
"For. of course,” observed the pro
prietor, "we shall soon have a va
cancy."
“How about Jones?" suggested the
editor.
“Jones?” queried the proprietor,
doubtfully. “I thought he was rather
a failure.”
“On the contrary, he’s one of our
most promising recruits,” replied the
editor. “Yes, Jones is a genius, sir!
You remember the Smalham railway
smash? Well, Jones found the broken
rail that caused the disaster three
hours before the express was due. He
sat down by the line, wrote up the
account while he waited, and sent us
his report the very minute after the
wreck took placet”
Tale of the Supreme Court
1
George F. Parker Tells How President
Cleveland Offered the Chief Jus
ticeship to John G. Carlisle,
Before Naming Fuller.
It has always been the popular pre
sumption that since the time when
John Marshall was appointed chief
Justice of the United States (that is
the legal title for the office of chief
justice of the Supreme court) only one
person has ever declined the offer of
the chief justiceship—Senator Roscoe
Conkling of New York. It was widely
published at the time of the incident
that President Grant had offered the
post of chief Justice to Senator Conk
ling. The letter in which the offer
was made was preserved as one of the
choicest of the papers which came
into the possession of Senator Conk
ling’s literary executors.
But the popular belief that Senator
{'onkling is the only man who ever re
fused to become chief Justice of the
United States is erroneous, and I
have for my authority for this state
ment Mr. Gedrge F. Parker, the biog
rapher of Grover Cleveland, a close
friend of Mr. Cleveland’s for nearly 30
years, and one of the few friends ad
mitted Into perfect intimacy with Mr.
Cleveland. Mr. Parker not only tells
here, for the first time in print, who
the other man was who refused the
chief Justiceship, but also how it came
about that Melville W. Fuller became
chief justice of the United States.
“After the death of Chief Justice
Morrison R. Waite in the latter part
of Mr. Cleveland’s first administra
tion," said Mr. Parker, “Mr. Cleveland,
after giving much thought to the nom
ination of his successor, decided to
name John G. Carlisle for the post,
provided Mr. Carlisle revealed a wil
lingness to accept the honor. Mr. Car
lisle, at that time, was speaker of the
house of representatives and Mr.
Cleveland had come to entertain a
very high regard for him as a parlia
mentarian, a legislator and a lawyer.
“Having arrived at this decision by
taking counsel wholly with himself.
Mr. Cleveland took the first oppor
tunity to place before the speaker of
the house his desire to place him on
the Supreme court bench, and in the
highest place on that bench. Mr. Car
lisle greatly appreciated the tentative
offer, but he decided that it was not
expedient for him to accept it; very
likely he had in view a political ca
reer of a different kind, one with a
vista that reached to the White house
itself. But this much is certain—had
he been willing to accept the office
he—and not Melville W. Fuller—would
have become the country’s chief jus
tice in 188S.
“Nor, I presume, is it generally
known that after Mr. Carlisle declined
the chief justiceship, the president for
Last Days of
Knowledge That He Had Hereditary
Disease of Eyes Checked Evarts*
Career in Senate and Drove
Him From Public Life.
No man, since the days of the Civil
war. ever entered the United States
senate with greater prestige than did
William M. Evarts. For years he had
been recognized as the leader of the
American bar; he is to be numbered
among the few great lawyers who are
assured of permanent recognition of
his career.
He had been the spokesman for the
nomination of William H. Seward for
the presidency of I860. During the
Civil war he bad been sent on a dip
lomatic mission to England by Pres
ident Lincoln. As President Johnson s
senior counsel, he did much to secure
Johnson’s acquittal in the great im
peachment trial. He had beeen attor
ney general in Johnson's cabinet, and
secretary of Btate under Hayes. He
had served as the leading counsel for
the Republicans before the electoral
commission appointed to decide the
Hayes-Tilden presidential election.
He had been chief counsel for his
country before the famous Geneva
court of arbitration, and the cause for
which he pleaded had triumphed.
But Mr. Evarts had not been in
his seat in the senate long before his
colleagues began wonderlngly to whis
per among themselves, saying: “Has
this great man found himself in an
unfamiliar place? Are his abilities ex
clusively those of a great lawyer, or
diplomat? He seems to be lapsing in
to a spirit of indifference.”
After Senator Evarts retired from
the senate, in 1891, he gradually be
Traveling Educators.
United Brethren have started a nav
el plan of traveling institutes. Begin
ning in Illinois at the opening of the
current month, three instructors are
traveling eastward at the rate of two
towns a week, teaching classes gath
ered in advance of their coming. The
instructors are the Rev. E. C. Petry,
an expert on Sunday school work;
Prof. M. A. Honltne, whose specialty is
Christian Endeavor and young peo
ple’s work, and W. L*. Bunger, secre
tary of the Brotherhood, an organiza
tion of mature men. While Insti
tutes are held in the same towns at
the same time, classes are separate.
The old way of official meetings was
overcrowded and unsatisfactory. The
new way holds classes when official
meetings are not on. About 45 insti
tutes are planned.
Words of Comfort.
“My doctor says I must sleep ont
of doors,” said the man who Is not
strong. “Well." replied the friend
who makes painful efforts to cheer
up. “it is all right so long as your
landlord doesn't say It."
Large Sums Squandered
In a Millionaire’s Home the Servant*’
Hire Is a Small Fortune
Yearly.
It Is s curious fact that while the
knowledge that the very wealthy are
squandering princely sums on their
daily living, makes a certain propor
tion of the unsuccessful and needy will
nigh mad with envy, they are never
theless curious as to those very ex
penditures, and like to hear details
concerning the upkeep of their great
establishments. In a millionaire’s
home costly as all the departments in
snch a mansion must be, still, the
kitchen is the one where there is the
greatest constant outlay.
There is the housekeeper at $75 a
month, who has complete charge of
the mansion. She engages the chef
at $100 to $150 a month. He hires his
assistants, a first kitchen maid at $30
a month, a second kitchen maid at $25
a month to cook the food for the serv
ants, a third at $25 a month, who
cleans vegetables, washes cooking
dishes, and other helpers.
Then as the buffer between kitchen
and upstairs, is the handy man. He
fetches the coal, dusts, washes win
dows and cleans the paint.
Then there is the butler, $75; sec
ond butler, $40 to $50; footman, $30;
maids from $20 to $30; ladies' maid,
$30; seamstress, $30; cleaning woman,
who has charge of the servants’ rooms,
$25; chauffeur at $40, and his assist
ants. For the children, a nurse at $30,
and governess at $40. The sums paid
the servants alone is $12,240 yearly,
and counting in the cost of food in ad
dition the cost of servants may well
come to $15,000 a year. And this ex
pense is in a house carefully managed
and sharply looked after.—From the
Housekeeper.
Charity.
Too often is the mantle of charity
louder than a Navajo blanket—PucJt 1
some time seriously thought of ap
pointing to that great office the late
James C. Carter of New York, then
regarded as the leader of the Ameri
can bar, in whose office Associate
Justice Charles E. Hughes received
his first experience in active legal
practice. But finally, after he had
also seriously thought of calling Ed
ward J. Phelps home from the court
of St. James to take the post, he
turned to Melville W. Fuller or Chi
cago.
"What definitely determined Mr.
Cleveland to select Mr. Fuller for
chief justice were certain representa
tions made to him by members of the
Supreme court. They said to him that
a man, to be successful as chief jus
tice of the United States, should have,
in addition to great legal learning and
a high judicial capacity, great execu
tive ability. Under Chief Justice
Waite, they delicately intimated, great
lawyer though he was, the business of
the Supreme court had lagged, so that
it was about three years behind the
docket. *
“Mr. Fuller had been recommended
to President Cleveland not only as a
very able lawyer, but also as a busi
ness man of unusual capacity. Had he
chosen a business life instead of the
law, his sponsors declared—and prob
ably correctly—he would have gained
distinguished success as an executive.
It was this qualification, and this
chiefly, that led Mr. Cleveland, aftei
his talks with members of the Su
preme court, to appoint Melville E. j
Fuller chief justice; and it gave him
no small degree of satisfaction after
wards when he learned from members
of the Supreme court that under Chief
Justice Fuller the executive arrange
ment of the Supreme court’s business
had been so adequately perfected as
to enable the court no longer to lag in
the disposition of cases.”
(Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edward*. All
Rights Reserved.)
Detective Undone.
Like all London women who hold
enormoqs receptions. Mrs. Asquith
has been troubled by the uninvited
guest. The latter is usually of the
feminine sex. Not long since, Mrs.
Asquith determined to unmask one of
these unwelcome visitors, and she
went up to a quiet looking lady whose
isolated position suggested that she
did not know anybody there—a fact
that told against her. With icy polite
ness she asked the lady's card of in
vitation. It was calmly produced and
handed over, and the woman rose
without a word and walked indignant
ly out of the house before the morti
fied hostess realized that the sup
posed uninvited guest was a peeress.
Peeresses are scarce and valuable in
the Liberal party. Mrs. Asquith w
never play the role of private detec
tive again.
Story of Vic<
How the Nomination for That Place
Was Offered to Governor Boies
of Iowa by William C. Whit
ney and Declined.
/
The only Democratic governor the
state of Iowa has ever had since the
organization of the Republican party
was Horace Boies, now in his eighty
fourth year. Mr. Boies was elected
governor in 1890 and re-elected two
years later; and two years after he
had left the gubernatorial chair he
was second in the balloting for presi
dent by the Democratic national con
vention which gave Mr. Bryan his
first presidential nomination.
In recognition of the Initial tri
umph of Mr. Boies over Iowa's Repub
lican host. Governor Boies, through
his friends, the late Mose3 M. Ham
and Jennls J. Richardson of Daven
port, Iowa, was urged and consented
to take part in what was expected
to be the largest political banquet
ever held up to that time. It was
fixed for the evening of December 23,
1890, in New York city, and was
looked upon as the beginning of the
Democratic national campaign of
1892.
5 Presidency
t
“You should have seen Governor
Boles when he arrived In New York,”
said to me a member of the Demo
cratic national committee of that
year. He was in much distress of
mind, and he revealed the reason
when he asked us if it would be
proper for him to appear at the din
ner in a business suit. He didn’t
own such a thing as a dress suit.
"He was much relieved when we
told him that there would not be the
slightest objection to his business
suit. Then he asked if he might read
his speech. He said he had tried to
commit it to memory, but it was of
no use. And finally, the governor ap
peared to be very happy when we
told him: ‘Why, of course, you can
read your speech.’
"It proved to be a great speech.
The subject was ‘Farmers and the
Tariff,' and it attracted so much at
tention that William C. WTiitney and
the others who were directing the
machinery for the nomination of
Cleveland two years hence were not
surprised when they lesrned that it
had resulted in a fine presidential
boomlet for Governor Boies. That
boomlet would not down. It was the
only thing of consequence that an
noyed Mr. Cleveland's friends.
“Of course, the Iowa Democracy,
elated by its gubernatorial victory
and almost carried off its feet by the
expectation that an Iowa Democrat
would be nominated for the presi
dency, sent to Chicago in the summer
of 1S92 a magnificent host, m-obably
ten thousand persons in all, and they
made much political noise, but the
noise did not avail.
"After Mr. Cleveland’s nomination
on the first ballot, some of those who
had directed the campaign met in
William C. Whitney’s room. Mr. Whit
ney said that under the circumstances
it would be expedient to say to- the
Iowa delegation that if Governor
Boies would accept the nomination
for vice president it would be made,
probably by acclamation, emphasiz
ing the last two words.
“Thereupon, a courteously and gen
erously worded communication, pre
pared by Mr. Whitney, was sent to
the Iowa delegation. Only a few mo
ments were required for the reply.
Mr. Whitney received it. He was told
that Governor Boies under no circum
stances would consent to take second
place upon the national ticket.
"None of those who were present
can forget the queer, almost be
wildered. expression which came to
Mr. Whitney’s face. But time pressed.
There must be a second choice for
the vice presidential nomination. So
we turned to Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois and speedily learned that
tbere would be no rejecting of the
offer on the part of Adlai or his
friends. And because he was a sort
of Hobson’s choice Adlai Stevenson
became vice president of the United
States.
(Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Keep thy shop and thy shop will
keep thee.
Great Lawyer
t---I
ffan to disappear from the places which ■
had long known him. Finally, it be- i
came known that he was confined to ■
his house. He lived in a roomy, old-1
fashioned dwelling, which faced Stuy
vesant Square in New York, and lay
in the shadow of St. George's church.
Gradually! he was cbnfihed_to~ his
room, and at last to his bed. Then
his friends knew what he had known :
when he was in the senate, that he
was a victim of an hereditary disease
of the eyes, a malignant physical taint
which was in the Roger Sherman
blood, from which, also. Mr. Evart's
cousin, the late Senator George F.
Hoar of Massachusetts, suffered. And
It was this affliction, secretly, brave
ly borne, that had caused him to seem
like another man when senator.
Never was an invalid more patient
than this heroic figure when he was
brought to bed. In the summer, with
the window open, he could hear the
murmur of the city, and the children,
as they played in the square. The
fragrance of the blossoms he perceived
and greatly enjoyed, so that he could,
with mental vision, picture forth the
coming of the spring and early sum
mer. But friends reported that, after
all. he was finding his greatest conso
lation in the unobscured mental vis- \
ion which was left him. By means of
It he could picture forth the men and
incidents of the historic events with
which he had been associated. And,
thus consoled, thus occupied, with the
varied and fascinating mental like
nesses of men and historic scenes, the
great American at last passed into
perfect §leep.
(Copyright. 1911, by E. J. Edwards. AI!
Rights Reserved.)
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“What do you think of her figure?”
“It looks to me like a frame-up.”
Garfield Tea will regulate the liver, giv
ing freedom from sick-headache and bilious
attacks. It overcomes constipation.
Some men are anxious to get money
because they think it will enable them
to get more.
A man can lead any woman to talk,
but he can’t always make her say
what he wants to hear.
Give Defiance Starch a fair trial—
try it for both hot and cold starching,
and if you don’t think you do better
work, in less time and at smaller cost,
return it and your grocer will give
you back your money.
New Fishing Industry.
Albicore fishing in Nova Scotian wa
ters has become interesting, but for
financial reasons. These fish frequent
ly weigh over 500 pounds and are
known as horse mackerel. A number
were shipped to Boston last season.
The average price there is three and
one-half cents per pound. Formerly
these fish were considered a nuisance
to the fishermen.
Baseball Anecdote.
“Curious espisode, this. Seems a
young fellow got excited at the ball
game and hugged the young lady next
to him, a perfect stranger. She had
him arrested, but he told the judge
that any man might do the same
thing, and his claim was upheld by
expert testimony.”
“And what wras the sequel?”
"Well, the sequel is rather interest
ing. The next day there were 5,000
girls at the ball game.”
Head on Crooked.
Little Paul had always been taught
by his mother that God had made him
and that he ought to be thankful that
he had been made so perfect; eyes,
ears, feet, hands and all complete.
His mother had bought a new cook
stove and Paulie was examining it.
He lifted the reservoir lid and looked
in. There was his picture, as natural
as life, in the water, but he was sore
ly troubled, while looking at it. When
asked, by his mother, what the trouble
was, he said:
“Dod might o’ made me persect, but
he put my head on trooked.”
The Passing of the Wife.
We have known for some time that
the wife would have to go. We have
held off as long as possible the in
evitable moment, but it might just
as well be over with at once.
The wife was a very desirable ar
ticle while she lasted. She mended
the hose and did the housework when
necessary and sat up patiently and
waited for hubby’s return. A useful
person certainly—one to love, to hon
or and obey.
Now the suffragette age is upon us
and the wife is rapidly becoming ex
tinct, says Life.
In a few more years she will be ex
hibited in museums.
Adieu, madam! We respect your
memory!
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The manager of an extensive cream
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the performance of his business du
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a distressing sense of fullness in the
region of the stomach, causing a most
painful and disquieting palpitation of
the heart, and what is worse, it mud
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“I finally concluded that something
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of coffee, short off, and began to drink
Postum. The cook didn't make it
right at first. She didn't boil it long
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and quit using it and went back to cof
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"Then my wife took the matter in
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on the box, faithfully, she had me
drinking Postum for several days be
for I knew it.
"When I happened to remark that
I was feeling much better than I had
for a long time, she told me that I
had been drinking Postum, and that
accounted for it. Now we have no
coffee on our table.
“My digestion has been restored,
and with this improvement has come
relief from the oppressive sense of
fullness and palpitation of the heart
that used to bother me so. I note such
a gain in mental strength and acute
ness that I can attend to my office
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out making the mistakes that were so
annoying to me while I was using
coffee.
“Postum is the greatest table drink
of the times, in my humble estima
tion.” Name given by Postum Co.
Battle Creek, Mich.
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