Ligonier Banner., Volume 44, Number 13, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 June 1909 — Page 2

the Clew of the Liquor Bottles _» Edited by William J. Bacon . A True Story of the Secret Service, as Told by Capt. Dickson

OME yeurs ’.x;)‘ bofore | e caine coninected with (he Linited Blales secrel pery. lte in the vast, | was en- | aged by a member of tha | %;ﬁa i‘:’i{j:uy .v\;;-:;'fi‘g LGS *:"Q:};a panies to do some wpecial ?:f ; \3« wark for them ™ began ii ‘:.: Capt IHekson My hesd ’L:.;' Guariers werg in Denver 3 > Biond my work on the Be s, ‘ was decidedly interssting Cpe adeepslure In particn lar e e prond af iy seryice for cur company, although It was largely & tunitern of ek TRat brough! about feie o 5 t 5 thst fnatance. | s n firta teliover 1B LK tof it piavs an ppoftant pael in every man's e, and i 2 Brured 10 Et inrge vxtent in wmy gvn aflzsire |am free Yo ooq fon “A daring pyureny vobhery bal 00l enn Pitee iR "Lr Westers fart of the Bl near the T AaH iine Ly thive sriiy The mespenger Bad boan mur | ’ vl arel the smeseppiors throashont the train robiwat of kil their mone The bold sy el #eeured s imethiy ¥ vy shimey ;WE“.;}} Jronm. Ihe exnrehs e % wale god ftally §5 000 from | tha ot LT R Ty Lk mithine bt sior however jJeaving valuabhb SRR o iEadinle ged watches wWilh thair owpers Amd ienorine the parcels } ':‘r.v'ij—'\" CRY E»?.;\ALT« pinßinnoe | ghaowed fha! The EaneE WwWas 00l of expetrionced . thiaves fA 1144 ney is tiie hardest thisg 18 the workd o e i 7 | I was notHisd of tha robhery an the | BBy § flhe ’x'-‘:f"-ri Ay 21 Clgy vl Al iloueh 1 Basienesd ta the b s A i gdispateh ag L 1343 X anpianent S aire I waa v /‘;'_) Y fas Hatire T aiioriod it the { i RN e i &5 3 e atiotr Here 1 had arcanpedt | W e Bireen gt B i t :* I expociod 1o find | b ¥ i PR 5 R ri e Yo A i ‘0 fa s i 154 1 ! ¢ i P& = 3 5 1 Biave }_a'.',"f»\?‘}‘ 8 bijleve inl A cxrert 3w o flaitNing Al effurts Lo Chalg "= B ’ | 4 R W . 1l e I.y 1 G ; iR -;‘tw".‘.w‘u, R direel osusapd thea f it the oriminal and osi § ¢ of myredd erimginal PO Cus Hal , -EEA* hia Feirs ek iE ?Hf‘ ": tieing everytd ¥ and he witl detect 188 Gelnt Ta g point IR & man's apresrauce and shan Lis as if Lo ware afivisg \#i'?;z th pßinsiw “A change of dress will work sob ders Inoa AN 8 apbßßrßn I a AN Can Welr Other tlo hes (hiun those b ds aecustoned o and wodar them casily and naturally, he can piors ef feciunlly disgnise hlmsell by this means Ihan He ean with all Ihe wigs and paints and (whiskers in @ exist Lnee - S Coniine acsrose he continental db vide, I bad suffered 8 silieht attack of Indigestion 1 sent the porter after n flask of whisky, asking for a certain brand. He returped in 8 few minntes with one of the diminutive litia bot ties cuastomarily gold on sleeing cars ut a-quarter a bottle. It was not the kind I had ordéred. bt the porter explained that this was the only brand of 3:«;!;«1:“ the company 80l and 1 had tao he cotifent with The label of the botile slated that it was pat up expressly for the compans “On. reaching my destination I im‘mediately assumed the character of a miner apd set abont my {oguiry’ There wis little information to be gathered bevond what was contained in the GXPress company & report of the robbery, of which | Bad & earboncony Satisfled that time gpent here would be wasted, I sel aut for the scene of the robbery: riding a wiry Hitle pony and leading another on which was packed my omtlit of grud and cooking implements and miner s tools “The place was 8 desolate spol. The road ‘ran through & broad sikall val ley which had not. at that time, been brought under eultivation by irrization. I was easy to pick up the trail of bandifs and follow 1t across the valley in a southwesterly direciion to the foot-hills of the Rockies, where the trail disappeared. the rocky ground ieaving no trace of hool-prints. i “From this point on it was to be a mattor of luck and guesswork. I belfeved my men had made for Telluride, Ouray, Silverton or some other mining camp, but I was not rash enough to venture a guess as to which it might be at that stage of the game. These camps, with their rough, shifting population, oftered capital retreats for criminals, and from past experiences I' knew that my three rogues would, in all probability, remain in one of these camps until the excliement from lum,. robbery had subsided, and then make for clvilization to spend their money. ' o “For three days I drifted at random through the mountains, following trails and paths, for there were no roads, endeavoring to pick up some cléw or find the place where my party had spent the first night after the robbery. The hold-up had ocecurred about noon, and, by hard riding, the three high- - waymen could penetrate some ten or twenty miles into the fastness of the mounatins before it. became too dark to travel further, .It was out of the - question- for any one to advance through that region after dark. I hoped to find the place of their camp, and felt sure I would do so by persevering. o S

Rivers That Make Damascus

Situated In Desert, Town Would Be Uninhabitable Were it Not for These Two Streams.

The situation of Damascus is re markable—she stands isolated on an oasls of the vast desert which everywhere hems her in. You may see from Damascus the sunset firs touch with purple the low western hills 25 miles away. These hills mark the

bled on the axhes of & campfire, and been tied This was whai [ had | searched for, asd 1 feit sure that 1| ‘wosld bere find something o vaise | I camped a short distance from the place 50 | would not disturb it leaving | iy exsmination wntl the gsext mory | ing. when | would Bave a good light | it then being too dReR (0 sitemyt wnch Athing - " “That sight, by the Upnt of o] camiptre. 1 resd agein the report of the rohitiory ﬁ*ﬁ%hﬁ’ the train }g;g;gh; : ?&"‘g‘{&f thﬁ"’f&ﬁﬁf 1 wan the account of the plesplag (ar porier who peiates]. with evhlent Rrief, Uit be had beeq relicved of BID In silver, #4 that the bandits Bad rified he Hguor caliuet of the baflvt, taking | with them all of the whigey and « foo | Battles of the ;ngg Bironger WA . - T . “Early pext morgilng 1 examined the deseried csmp of the Bighwarnen Fhere wis nolhing Bot & burced out pile of ashes and eharred siicks and 8| few eitipty bottien The Bolties pave | the clew for whigh § sesched The Kighwaytien had certaloly wade “heir |

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camp here o Eaeh botile bore the labei of the sl eping car company, and some of them wore i_?L",v disiguiinye flasks of which 1 had drunk one on the tvip from Denver There was not & scrap of paper anvwhere ¢lse 0 be found. : “Elated with nmiy sgeecess, | made a survey of the coantry and discovered a half-obscure traill leading farther into the mountains. 1 teok up this trail and followed it as best 1 couid until pightfall,. Often I lost 1t and sometimes lospent an bhour or niore casting about to pick it up again, as | have seen hounds baflled on the trall of a fox. Abouil three oclock that afternoon 1 found something that made my -eyes sparkle. Shattered into a thousand pleces was the remains of one of the small whisky bottles on a large flat rock beside the trail where it had doubtless been ecast in a playful m2od induced by its contents. Among the fragments 1 found the label of the car company. - . “It was the dry season, and this was in my favor, for no rains came to obliterate the trail. For five days I followed the bandits across the hills and through the valleyg, verifying my route from time to time by fragments of broken whisky bottles along the way, and at the places where they had camped for a night. The buffet-car must have been well stocked, for I found many bottles in this journey. “The trail eventually came to a well beaten road, which, from my map, 1 learned was the stage and mail route from Montrose, the nearest rallroad point to Ouray, then a rather insignificant mining settlement. I lost no time in getting to Ouray, for it was impossible to trail my men along this road and I was sure they had headed for the mining camp. “Two days were spent at Ouray without finding a trace of the three

beginning of the great desert—beyond them there is nothing but a rolling waste and the long roads to Palmyra and Bagdad. The permanence and prosperity of Damascus are due to the presence of two rivers, which have converted this spot of the dreary, desolate and uninhabited desert into a smiling and well watered plain. The Pharpar approaches only within seven

talply. so | ook the trall to Telluride, » mining camp farther ob in the moun tains. Telluride was thed & camp of 00 or 1000 sucls, snd there waa & Bt of a mining boom on which dally Brought new prospectors (o syell it citizdnehip, fatuous sculs brought thers by the greed of gold--a lgre that never falls to atirect vietlins in swurma For theee days | sesrched in valn ithrough the ssioons snd dance halls and otber plsces where the rough miners congregated without fnding » trace of tay three rogues. That! infal libie sinth sense of mite was doing s best to keep me longer I Telin ride, alihuopugh my judpment told me tG move on to Siverton, b in b end oy inteltion won the fieht and 1 remained o e eveding 1 was drinkicg with & raw boned miner. The whisky was ahodinabie . The distillery whore |1 wak made would pever have recog siged s prodiuct 1o fIB present form. P romplained of he .ws@r gquaiily of whisky and asked my sequaistiancs i thery were nod ggte hetter st ® 16 b found in the camp Ha said there whk ol A 5 ANV af the Bare bul ihat e had been Riven &5 alasing ¥y 00l drigk by g miner Whoss Bains he oo tonesd jie sald U had Beeh s 8 HiTe bottle which held just searh o Yease me, but {1 wag the Sost Hanor he had drisnk pince he lell KentocNy wany veurs before. He jieked Bis Bps in gleasast memory of the 490 k “ I il gave shysiil sxEy, oo Keon was my ploasure sl this chiance rvensrk. 1o imouired aloul the gen

ercus owner of the good Jiguor, with & show -of {ndifference | was far from feoting He was 4 Inte mrrival, it seemed, and lived in & shanty far up on the mountdinside with two com pantens, “The three were making a rather poor atteinpt to wWork a claim they had preempled. . “Gettng away from my loguacious minerfriend, 1 ciimbed the steep trall ta the cabin and set aboul an investl gation of it with great e¢aation. The men were at home, and from the sounds issuing from & closed doors I glhessed they were having a rare old time that evening. I approached to the very door and listened with my ecar to the planks to sonnds of revelry within The men were gambiing and drinking, and 1 could hear the clink of coins and the rattie of bottles and the ribald jests with which they made their bets and gloated over their winnlngs and cursed their luck when they lost. 1 heard sutficient to make me sure that my much-sought bandits were in the cabin, although there was no direet wmention of the express robbery,

Pittsburg Man Is ‘““Loaded”

Perfect Fiend to Quote Statistics, According to Writer in ‘ Harper's. . The Pittsburger can carry more figures of large denomination on his person without your suspecting their existence than any other citizen of the United States. He Is a reservoir of decimals and statistics. He must have ample justification, however, before he turns the spigot, but when he does there 1s a torrent no man can stem. : ' If provoked and inclined to extend himself, in a fiveeminute talk he can fill you so full of miscellaneous indus-

miles of Damascus, but by means of canals and aqueducts sends its lifegiving waters to the gardens of the city. The Abana is the stream from which the city's main supply of water is obtained. Minerva like, it springs full born from the base of a perpendicular rock at Ain Fijih, in the heart of the Anti-Lebanons, and runs a course of ten miles in a gorge, a large river 20 to 30 feet wide and four feet deep, its waters always fresh and ice cold, casting out branches everywhere, permeating every nook and

"It would have bees the renkest fally to bave attempied thelr arrest tackie such & 0 once I 8 my salad dayn. a 8 this soar will testify " asnd he pointed to An ußly wounsd sl the hack af his neck partislly covered by his fowicg gray jocks “Hut that s an sither story. | devided to call on the United Biates depuly marshal s mas af tgerish bravery, for ssshiance Therse was a 0 chink or c¢rack in the door through which | eould gain & peek 81 the interior of the cabin so i dropped down oo my bands and Enees and crawied arcund 1o the back of the calin whers 1 thought there asight be & window Thers was & win. dow, byt it was ciosed with 8 hoary shuiler, and | conld oot Bad soy pednt o peen theougk: but 1 414 85d some thing on ihe way around, My bhand ioushed sanething robnd xod smosth, and | elotched # joveluntanily 11 waa aue of the Hithe whisky Sasks After i bad Jofr the cabin | stzick B maich ang examined The labei of the r@r fOpipEnY was sl os U " The depuly marshal was found at aone of 18« dascs hails and he soon sumisoned & relialde pokge. We sar rindded the cabis, Doee which sl s sued the sounds of revelry. The men were slationsd sl .(‘\'-"_!‘}“ pent abast i, Then the roarehal andd | rappes on e G 0 In respanse 1D 0N sUmMInOLS e of the miners R;Wﬁg/:’wi Qt‘ff‘i“;sﬁ‘;i the Boor and threw the door wide e We tripped Bim ap BG4 rushed sver Bim lnfo the caliin The men werg W drunk to make any reaist anee. And we cajiured Ihem withaut

& shot being fred They wera hav fug 4 b stud-poker zame, plaved with rold. pleces and eurrency jugtend of chips. There was some $B.OOO or $lO, 000 upon the tabié. Rrewn about the floor, were many whisky and wine bot tles. - In a box benvath ove of the bunks was a solitary pint bottie of whisky, the Jast remnant of the con. tents of the buffet ecar's liguor store. It was, as 1 said, & clean case of laek . ' e : (Coprright, 1905 by W. . Chapman.) Wopsright In Great Britain) " Played on Ancient Instruments, At & concert which took place In the large hall of the Royal museum at Stuttgart, recently, &t which the king and queen of Wartemberg were present, no instruments were used save spinets, clavicembolas and pianos of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, The inost interesting of these were the one which was once owned by Johann Sebastian Bach. and - another on which Queen Louise of Prussia learned to play. -

tries—natural gas, steel rails, tinplate, petroleum, steel pipes and sheet metal, fire Dbricks, tumblers, tableware, coke, pickles, and all that sort of thing—that you will begin to feel like a combination delicatessen and hardware store. . :

1 have not begun to enumerate the different data I have collected on this subject, as 1 have no desire to make the reader feel small or to lose confidence in himself. As I have pointed out before, the Pittsburger, or the man ‘who i under the influence of Pittsburg, must be provoked before he unburdens.—C. H. White, in Harper's.

corner of the city, until, as one has said: “Literally, there is scarce a street, bazaar, khan, courtyard or dwelling house which has not its mar ble or stone fountain constantly filled with running water supplied directly by the Abana itself.” Thus, the Abana, not fruitlessly wasting her waters on that thirsty land, saves them in her narrow gorge till she can fling them well out on the desert, and expends all her life at once in the creation of a single city.—Biblical World.

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4 E Ry R S %5 \l .NS s 3 e ‘ WbPITR S g g " 5% 8, eAP i aere o G it "‘fr-‘s. g ;N-?& 3 :Q‘; R & } *“ 2 il o \‘W,_ L TR R ¢ 5 R O ek o ~’ : 2 B e "‘W«%“ﬂ iy 3 . .. i LY R \ . P S " 1 b a 1 TN b ™/ 4 » Tl C : o 5 3 T p i ¥ e Y -9 1 s,"A& s i - 2 FLEDORC) MICLEL LOCK, LOON N VLT It s predicted and hoped in oMcial clvcien that the MVanama canal wnill be compisted and dong business by ot Inter than January 15, 1915 The only lem of anesrtainty as o the eanal bt iR rTesdy for voasels Ihen is the length of time it will require to com piete the hig locks T 3 @ are o bhe 1 OGO ot g 11 fent wide and hnil? in dupleate to provide for the passing of viiels patne in o oareaitn Hire b W2B BOLUE 1D oppostls G s . : By this method s series of locks and huge dams many foet above sen level :”.Ql'v_" tn be econstracted the DUT TR boelog to slevate the larpest ooean o ing vessels a height of 85 feet above gona tovel at one end of the. canal and permitting thefm te drop throngh the sectionsd of the canal, protected and lowered by the locks (o sen jevel at the opposite end ! the canal The canal as it is being constructed has a width at the hittom of 250 feet for 25 per cent. of iis length, Fifty per cent of the length the width is 500 to KOO feet, and for the remainder, 1 000 et The lvwks are 1 ractically thie game as those {n use in the "Soon” canal, the latter being almost as large as those being constructed in the Panauma canal fudesd. the “Soo” canal has been constructed to carry vessels fully as large s any that wiil utilize the Panama canal

The total cost of the Panama canal, | when completed, including interest nai moneys as they are bsing exzmn«ﬁ@d:§ cost of sanitation and government of | the zone and $5OOOOOOO paid to| France by the United Btates govern- | ment Is estimated at $375,000.000 wheén finally completed = Prosident Taft belleves, and presents facts and : figures to substantiate his belief, that | a sea level canal would have cost ap- | proximately $477.000,000 and then would not have been so safe nor ~ex’l»of ditious in the carrying of vessels as the lock plan, : z One of the greatest diffculties to | have been confronted in the construc | tion of a sea level canal, were the ! annual freshets of the Changres river and the streams pouring into 1L It is | estimated that even with the most | elaborate and expensive dam !nctl‘mmé that it would have been possible to | construct, st the period of high water ! the canal current would have bheen at | least three. miles an hour. The only | route of a sea level canal that was completed and submitted mr»upprovai! made the turns and curvatures in the canal much more frequent than those in thé Suez canal. By the experience of vessels in the Suez canal it Is es | timated that in 8 current of this ve | locity in the Panama canal of a lea’g level character, the danger to the ves | sels would have been such that com- | merce would have been délayed a con- | siderable portion of the vear. In addl § tion to this would have been the dim. | culty of the larger vessels passing | each other while in motion. Being un- | able to pass without one of them stop- | ping and tying up would have been a constant cause of delay of serious consequence in the rapid bandling of | traffic. : | Ceusiderable of the recent criticism | of the lock canal as it i% being pushed | to completion arose as the resuit of the sliding after an excessively beuy! rain fall of a part of the bauk of the Gatun dam. The whole mass that I“d} in this way was not more than 200 feet across, and nothing more than an | ordinary slide. SBSimilar slides occur trequently in the construction of railroad banks and similar operations where the banks are not properly balanced, and do not have the pmpct} slope.

SIBERIA RAPIDLY FILLING UP

Immigration Is Making a N*w Nation in That Rich and Fertile Country. A writer in the Yokohama, Japan, Advertiser, in an article relating to Russian migration, says: “A great new nation is forming in Siberia. One of the greatest migrations in history has been proceeding s 0 quietly that the world generally has not noticed the movement, During the past 12 months over 500,000 Russians have gone to Siberia, or equal to half the number of immigrants the United States received during that period from the whole world. “Prince Vassiltchikoff, minister of agriculture, has furnished the duma with the following figures of the emigration across the Ural mountains: For several years before 1906 it was 60,000 annually; in 1906 it was 180, 000; in 1907 it was 400,000; in the first three months of this year it was 420, 000, comprising 70,000 families. ;

. The material takeg ont of e ovcs eation contsins B great deal of cisv which as iz well known I 8 slippery 1o the positive statement of Pres dont T 2 s well as of the foremonst euglosers engsged 16 {he work that tutore l’?}'p!ﬂ"n&ﬂh nature can be frevided ‘against i The many public improvements up deriaken By the Panania government B6d the ostabilshment of gew indis tries. of which note B coosiantly de ek made recder of significancs the fact that in the dishursement of moneys for 1009, public works and pubite Insirestion, (aken conlsintiy e appaerlionsd the highest propor tion of budget expenditure For th forimer pearly $2.960 000 are approprd Bied snd nearly s militon and & quar ter for the jatter . - L Avenrding to information furnishe by the consgl gencenl of the Unite States st Panama, a specisl feature o the present admintitration of pationa Affairn I 8 the determination 1o fm prove the harhors and nighways o the repabiic and to operaté strect ox Hnes for city trafe, ~ The appointment has been made o R chle! engineer from the Unite ‘ Blates who is to report concerning that section of the republlc tying be tween the canal zone and the Cost Rican boundary, and betwesn the Pz wifie oodan aad the Caribbean sen Al ready A complite system of water works snd sewerage has been tnstalle in Panama and Colon, paving done an roads canstructed. Schoolbouses an I‘ publiec buildings bave besn srecipd o Bre in process of construction in th E principal towns, and the governmen s rrm:::-vmzm’: with the residents g-; tmproving speeind localities, e The steamship company operatin between David and Panawa has fiv . Ateamers on the line, which i 3 provin a paying !Mvedtment Goid mining ¢ the vieinity of the Panama consslat has given good resuits and the Sant Ago Aistrict has proven of value

IS A PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS Austrian Wise Men at a Loss to Ac count for Memory Displayed : . by ldiot Boy. An extraordinary case of memory in-a tenyearold boy was presented At the las{ meeling of the Vienna Psychological. and Neurologieal soct ety, the New York Sun ssys . Without a momentz hesitation he counld tell the day of the week of any date mentioned, also the nams, day and the date of the movable feasts in any year. Heé answered imihediately and accurately such questions as “"What day was June, 14, 1508%" “When {5 Ash Wednesday, 1917 “How long {a the carnival in 19247 “When ix Easter, 1925% His answers were given without hesitation and were invariably correet : _ Curiousty enough. 2%23 rargs of mem ory was bounded sharply by the years 1060 and 2000 A. D. Before the first namad Fear or after the last he knew nothing of the calendar at alt The boy & the son of an army of ficer, now dead. Asked how he could give so promptly the day of the week of any date in a thousand years he re plied by giving one of, the existing formulas for such mattiers, which he appeared to have learned out of an almanacs : : ~ The director of the asylum where the boy 18 an Tomate sald it was easily ascertained that he made no use at all of such formulas. These formu las would not aid him in giving dates of the movable feasts, and, moreover, they apply equally to the years before and after 2000 A. D. : It would appear that the boy's knowledge must be based in some way upon memorized material = Breaking the Soil, “Do you never indulge in the pleas ure of getting out and turning up the fresh earth?” : ; “It's no pleasure to me,” answered the novice at golf. “Every time I gc to the club I get nothing but harsh looks for my activities in that direction.™

“The accounts of Siberia brought home by -the soldiers returning from the Russo-Jdpanese war {mpressed the poverty-stricken moujiks with glowing ideas of Siberia’s wealth, “The emigrants seldom go singly or even in familles, but gather in col onies for the exodus.” - Prolific Pheasants. It is reported that the whole of Van couver island is now well stocked with pheasants which have long been thoroughly acclimatized and bred freely. The history of pheasant acclimatization in Vancouver is simplicity itself. In 1883 C. W. R. Thompson of Victoria imported 25 birds from China, kept them in captivity till young had been hatched out and set all at liberty as soon as the chicks were strong enough. In 1886 Mr. Musgrave imported 11 more birds and turned them out, and from these 36 pheasants the whole of Vancouver and many ot the adjacent islands have besr stocked.~—Baily's Magazine,

Levi P. Morton Dean of Living. Ex-Vice-Presidents.. Has Just Ceiebrated Eighty Fifth Birth day, and 1 SUil Hale ang Hearty —Actumuliated Fortune in Banking Business New Yors ~BStiil {resh angd ':':;'. rol It mind apd scubd in body Levi P Morton, the oidest . ivigg ¥ive presl dent of the United Niater recentiy owl ehrated Bis eigsiy BUL biribday anse Yerpary: fies. fea M: EE‘;.:'.,‘;,,.,:,';:Q‘ are Bow HYINE ony Whree othef Ses Wht have beld the position of Siow president of the United Slales—Adiat E. Sitevensalh TEeslore Hioziweved snd Chatien W Fairbanks Nt oniy is My Morton by &y ibe ~,‘,A;,', O Gis sUTVIVIRE e._,.,_.,,'_,;—. oul,. Wil ohe €iceplion, e Bas aifeady ;;"‘;.; ol 8 Ereaier age than any thir forpied Yoo presigent e oaiy . v.‘:"."‘.,,ﬁ"; was John Adsma, (ke Srst vies Presi dest of ihe Lnited Xinles win died I 1526 Bl the age o S 0 vears : White Mr Sievensdin tas ea hed the s & T‘i: 1w HeT 1w BLTViIY ing coticagies of Mro Mortun T Ere Bl TRmpaßTalivey Foung | noen oM Hixgereil itz : ’\3‘.“ Fairbasiks & years oid Of his bredscesiarn *ho bLare joined Ihg stient . Aty aniy Joha Adizcs ived W e olgey than Mr Morton s ok v_ Frhazsas Jeferect dind at the age of §2 nibal. Hamily sl the age of 81 &p Anron Hurr atl the ags £ -5 atter hoids the secord o soe tespest however, &i ok the O« ' vice preatdents .’ ke survived the' ens af his terin of e F Yeßes, -8 ionger peritad than s :::_.’ pave 10 3y e ahisa he % iv ¥ 2 A faovi o Méartior ¥ Noow. B PiAnGwr and the descendant of 5 (= o ciap Erymen Him lasmuily woas ! sdend ig l ° af":w - & » - L i » ’ L) e ‘ : ¢ 3 gy [ S o -/ R o \.! : " ey . 'i{!&“‘““- Bl r '-\j . h“i_, E , e .y , P i - \; ..} b, ~> ia \l 5 \‘; ".;>5 " o P 3 . O . o . ] - SRy - S ' . AR \_/ I . ] NS - Levi P, Moctcn M America by Rev. George Morton, . one of the colispicgoos métnbers of the Pligrim culony of '} netand Ha was the financinl agent of the Pégrims and ralsed and sanserved the fonds which fitted put the expedition on. the May flower, althougl he was not a passen ger on the nitial - yoyuige- e ar rived in America o 162 tevli. P Morton may -Save ipharited his taste for finance fram that treagurer oOf the Pigerim band i L When at the age of 18 " ha paw no hope of realizing his gmbl ton'to go to Dartmouth « tege ‘2,!“\'! P Morton entered o country. store at. Enfleld, Mass where he wolked un 11l be has enough money . to start 8 modest éxtahlishment of his gown,. at Hanover, N. H., In 1548, at the age ol 75 he came to Boston and becams .a partner in 8 small dry goodsd housge Five years later he wont to New York, whare he foined a dry goods firm. hRe fatind o few yenrs before the civilwar, but immedistely slarteq i ::-.t»?».i:d-.:v buginess, sppreciating: (hat ‘ the rebel lion would mean a great ‘demand for financiers to bandle the governthent loans Mr. Morton fo ipded the hanking house of Morton, Bliss & CUo. in New York, and Morton, Hiose & Co in London. and dealt largely in gov ernment bonds, Just before theé close of the war, when he had accurhulated a fortune, Mr. Morton gave a-dinner to the creditors of his former dry goods frm. Every one f{dund under his plate a check for the amount gtill owing him with interest - Mr. Morton's first essay in polities was in 15878, when he was eclected to congress from a New York-distriet He might have beén president if his loyalty to the wishbes of Senator Rosecoe Conkling had not made him refuse the nomination for vice-president on the ticket headed by James A. Garfleld in 1880, President Garfield made him minister to Frahce in 1881, and Mr. Morton made a fine record. He was elected vice-president in 1883 on the ticket with President Harrison, but was not nominated with the president in 1892, In 1594 be ‘was made governor of New York. Since his retirement from the governorship .in 1896 Mr. Morton devoted himself to the direction of his large financial interests and to extensive travels abroad. While in this counrty he spends most of his time in New York or Washington. e et Kitchen Repartee. “What's the matter, old chap?™ queried the chowder. “You look troubled.” 2y : - : “Yes,” replied the oyster, “I'm in an awful stew.” PRI e “And I believe I'm going to have a chill,” said the chowder. “I feel so clammy.” - - A ' . Just the Color, L ~ Jokesmith—That's a sarcastic ed: itor on that comic paper. I _submit ted some jokes written on gray paper. Poet—Did he make any comment? Jokesmith—Yes, he said they were 80 old they were turning gray. e - Bink—They say that smoke-color effects in young men’s suits this season ovigimated tn Pacls. = = < m«r&gwm I thought they

~ OPPORTUMITY. C Mersas Farm lasd, small farme sayy payiments free lows Mot in ss el Amerscan tows, the Bred 1o be buit In 1 Hepalde of Merco Free English & hoise o Your children CTHE COMING WINTER RESORT of the AMERICAN CUNTINENT 2 i that Pertion of the BEPURLIC OF MEXILOD, 5 the RLATE OF SINALOA snd Extend g Sonth frves the Uity of (plamn @ Masatian, erver whweh daiost Ihe BroximCed the lajasewe Udirent exrivises B ‘.tr;L:,_—-"? ng nDuaiaw Both Ralircad and Ocean Transporty . a 10, : ,_!i";!}' Bamfsll Ihitv five 16 forty jnches, % gxiom¥ g auiu % vt & ¥ &1l es Siagk e tw = P iy o M ¥ v B 5 i ‘: L 1 I s ¢ £ " q S 8 £ Pean sy o 1: = 2 Tt and L 3 T o . %iag 8 simre ABt e xas F ans ls iz B WMAs “ ¥abr - . Cver 700 Colonists . Have alre .~ s Tor themy Heh s g { P ihete ate pirugeanil ok o aby of 1 3 wig a rooae 13 S i t i L it " ol » b 3 * ¥ v £ 4h 3 i - > » !.‘.7,2 fr‘ 15N % : r T : ansal & - # ‘ 5 in &y - Yours for & bowwe in 8 3«!».; % --' 3 LY Rasas #oy Yo V. . ) g VArzona . Deeiis Form Charactler. Christian desds make pod Chris Uans of e all - Fiorida Times-Unioa l’ Any Disease ar i!‘.j.ir; to S Py SA LVE. ik i . i . ) Ruiing Passion ) ,Vr.;!"‘- : 3 g ** “HBure § oo ckiln bis prive Hat & meale o pr : - SKIN ROUGH AS BARK. Baty Béy Had intense itching Mumoe , =—Brratohed Tiii Bicsd Ran. « . Found aCure in Cuticura, | Psiiinnin . “*Oigr pon, 190 Yoars o)1 was sMistad ®ith g raxt Afler Bo saflewred wilh . —y 13 « ks 1 2 k Lim E e r but f 2 gt worss. The Y rats together and ¥ a large : &2 | E hoand we Bag Pt tearing the flesh open 1l the ;‘ | e .";".‘ ‘,na E .;;' o kagd and rough Hke the bark of a i 33 E 3 D oaad U *a (anl. W, . Yukon Okla, Aug. 28 Passer ireg 8 Übssa Uirp, Boie Pross, Boston o _BEYOND DOUBT. TP N ‘;\ j : - L/ ¢ g3l q‘h "1 s Piptse you mistake wme Jor a footi?™ | - 4 " Mistake you' My dear boy, 1 Enow you . i wali? HE KNEW HOW TO PICK THEM. Tammary Man's Doubie-Barreled Come pliment Did Away with Thought - B of Hostiiities. _ The orchesira was ;:;:—}‘lfit ioudly iln ohip of the restaurasts in Deénver, Col. ‘during the Demoeraiic national con vertion, and the dineérs were lalking loudiy - ¥ they might hear. and be heard .AL one table satl a beautiful woman and her escort and at the néxt tabile a 8 number of Tammany men s Buddenly L FChORIrYR stopped, bing! und 8 Tammany muan's volce rang oul- - "By George, that's a good jorking woman! 'd like to meet her” The man at the next table, who was .“':'f. She ,Y.rfi"v CRliie Over, :"-3';»“11 the Taynmapy man on the shoulder and said frigidiy: “Sir, that lady is my tife ™ : : Shake.” sald the Tammany man, “1 am glad to meet you. You certaiply are a good picker™ And hostilities were averted.—Saturday Evening Post. ' ' MAKING SUNSHINE It 18 Often Found in Pure Food. " .The limpropér selection of food drives many a healthy person into the depths of despairing iliness. Indeed, much sickness comes from wrong food and just so surely a&s that is the case right food will make the sun shine once more, An old veteran of Newburyport, Mass., says: “In October, I was taken sick and went to bed, losing 47 pounds in about 60 days. 1 had doctor after doctor, food hurt me and I had to live almost entirely on magnesia and soda. All solid food distressed me so that water would run out of my mouth in little sfreams. . : " “I had terrible night sweats, and my doctor finally said I had consumption and must die. My good wife gave up all ‘hope. We were at Old Orchard, Me., at that time and my wife saw Grape-Nuts in a grocery there. She bought some and persuaded me to By it : -~ - “I had no faith in it, but took it to pléase her. To my surprise it did not distress me as all other food had done and before I had taken the fifth package I was well on the mend. The pains left my head, my mind became clearer and I gained weight rapidly. ;“I went back to my work again and now after six weeks' use of the food I am better and stronger than ever before in my life. Grape-Nuts surely saved my life and made me a strong. hearty man, 15 pounds heavier than before 1 was taken ill. 2 S “Both ‘my good wife and I are willing to make affidavit to the truth ot e o cie - .-Read “The Road to Wellville,” in