Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1908 — Uncle Joe’s Cigars. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Uncle Joe’s Cigars.

Speaker Gannon la famed as a smoker of cigars, and he knows all the good brands, too, and chews them np and grinds them In his teeth and puffs them away to wreaths of fragrant base. But sometimes he likes a vicious little stogie, one of the West Virginia cabbage patch kind. When Uncle Joe offers a fellow statesman a cigar, It Is always accepted. Nobody would turn down a cigar from the speaker, but some of the “boys” are getting a little cautious on the stogie days. The other day Uncle Joe met to the corridor of the bouse of representatives Billy Sulzer of New York. He dlred Into bis pockets and produced a smoke. “Have one on me, Sulzer,” said the speaker. Sulzer eyed the gift askance. It was a stogie day. He waved the weed aside. “Thanks, Mr. Speaker," said the Tammany statesman, "but I onljn smoke for pleasure.”—Boston Herald. Schumann-Hsink a Citizen. Mme. Schumann-Helnk, the noted operatic contralto, who recently filed an application for naturalization papers to the Essex county court, Newark. N. J., will become a fall fledged American citlaen on June 8. On that date she will go before the court for final examination and receive her papers. For three yean Mme. SchumannHelnk has been undergoing the process

of legal Americanization. She took out the first naturalization papers in Cincinnati, Feb. 10, 1906. Her full name is Ernestine Schu-mann-Helnk Rapp. Her residence la North Caldwell, N. J., where she purchased a large estate and has built an attractive home. She was born in Lieben, Austria. June 15, 1861, and came here from Hamburg in October, 1898. She has seven children and one stepson. “Why do I want to become an American?” she said in reply to a question. “Because it's the land of opportunity for women and children. It has brought me good luck and fortune from the first day I set foot on Its soil.”

MME. SCHUMANN-HEINK.