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Citizen.
roved His Theory, but Died.
acme of realism was reached,
L by accident, iu a criminal trial
|ber of years ago at Lebanon, O.
hien bad a personal encounter.
If them after vainly trying to
his pistol from his hip pocket
to flee. A moment later he fell,
h the small of the bat * One
|er of his pistol was found to
lieen fired. His assailant was
fur murder. The defense con
I that the man had shot himself
trying to draw his pistol, which
[come [kef, entangled in the lining of
and that the prisoner’s shot
l taken effect. The prosecution
[fled [e that such inflicted. a wound could
been self The defend
lounsel, Clement L. Vallandig
indertook to demonstrate to the
list how the dead man’s pistol
lug Ie in the pocket and just how
it was to inflict such a wound.
Ily Iyer there was a loud report, and
sank to the floor. The ball
Itered the back almost in the
fcl spot where the dead man had
pot. The defendant was aequit
pir. Vallandighain died. — Ex
Iminster Abbey's Poets’ Corner.
png from King Henry’s chapel.
Is wealth of fancy’s ‘-fairy frost
I to the poets’ corner in West
F abbey, we are attracted by a
jnightier Ih) the than that of carven
presence of those “serene
I s of immortal things” who have
|d ll price. our literature This “glorious with gifts be¬
ers ;’ company
r Uriter as ^ey have been termed,
in Great Thoughts, h£?ve
fame in the glow of which that
tsmen and warriors wanes and
p touched to death by diviner
[Drawn of together, as it were, by
p ’ Spenser Chaucer, “our first war
; a calls “black ob
‘ rast ' has foiled to
tarnish their
! record. We move entranced
iht memorials of Drayton, Ben
i*'*’ ■•;]tenser, <,ra Shakespeare, Addison Beau
v ’ and many
-
-•eluding the impassioned peas
f*' Rabert Robert Bums, and the great
‘ -onyson.—London ' Browning and Al
Standard.
Eaco uraeement. j
Ve a splitting headache,” sighs
dful J'oung thing. i
T tri 0 magnetic heal
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my arm about j
ner. Nom t be I
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the iiging I
any more?” I
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yon.-' '' n seem able to j
■?.' v<? ids arm when
' chidingly and
you have any I
1 let hod you would I
n ’rylng.”—Chicago
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• *ian about four I
every }
tTgarten,” said i
*e I made
and "ive a penny to !
,len we parted,
bother requested me I
Q °re moi to him.
ial ,I<1 not present i
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Dickens’ Characters.
Dickens bestowed many of his ficti¬
tious names on real flesh and blood
personages, says an admirer of the fa¬
mous novelist. Indeed he and David
Copperfleld were not far apart, so far
as salient features were concerned.
Tracy Tupman was the happy counter¬
feit of a man named Winters, who nt
the present day would be pounded or
arrestwl for what is known In slang as
“mashing." Paul Dombey was an in¬
valid nephew of the author, his right
name being Harry Burnett. Dora Qop
perfleld was a Miss Beadwell, with
whom Dickens was In love at the early
age of eighteen. Mrs. Bardell, who
gave Pickwick the worst time in his
life, was a scheming boarding house
widow named Ann Ellis. Tommy Trad
dles was Colonel Froom Talfourd, for¬
merly superintendent of Indian affairs
in Canada. Miss Moweher was a Miss
Wilkes, Mrs. Skewton a Mrs. Camp¬
bell; the abominable Squeers was Wil¬
liam Shaw; the lovely Cbeeryble broth¬
ers were cotton spinners and merchants
of Manchester; the fat boy was a true
to life character, and so was Captain
Cuttle, one of the most attractive of all.
Didn’t Impress Him.
Shortly after his rise to the bench
Judge Coleman had occasion to pro¬
nounce a life sentence upon a notori¬
ous offender. In the course of his re¬
marks the judge spoke with so much
feeling and eloquence that many of
the listeners were deeply affected. The
prisoner, on the other hand, seemed to
' be quite indifferent, looking at tl/e ceil¬
ing and apparently giving no attention
whatever to what was being said.
After he had been remanded to jail
one of the young lawyers had gone
into the cell, curious to know how the
criminal had felt when his honor was
passing sentence upon him.
“What do you mean?” asked the con¬
victed one.
“I mean when the judge was telling
you you must go to prison for life.”
“You mean when he was talking to
me?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, I never paid no attention to
Dick Coleman, He ain’t no public
speaker nohow!”—Argonaut
The Fate of the Fancy Set.
James, aged seven, had been pro¬
moted. In recognition of this great
event his father purchased for him the
following things that James insisted
were necessary:
A box of one dozen pencils, assorted
leads; one ink and one pencil eraser,
one pencil box with a marvelous roll
top, three copybooks for home work,
two penholders and a patent strap that
was a marvel of Ingenuity, but some¬
how or other didn’t seem to hold the
books very firmly.
The father examined the outfit a few
days after and found that it con¬
tained—
One much chewed lead pencil fur¬
nished by ■ the city, a scribbling pad
with a few sheets on it. a tin fountain
pen that did not work and : ever could
have worked and a skate strap to hold
the things together.
The father asked no questions. He
instinctively knew what had become
of the fancy implements of education.
—New York Press.
Her Answer.
An Atchison girl had a proposal of
marriage and asked a week to think
it over. She went to all of her mar¬
ried sisters. One, who used to be a
belle, had three children, did all her
own work and hadn’t been to the
theater or out riding since she was
married. Another, whose husband was
a promising young man at the time
she was married, was supporting him.
A third didn’t dare say her life Mas
her own M r hen her husband M - as around,
and a fourth was divorced. After vis¬
iting them and hearing their woes the
heroine of this little tale M'ent home,
got pen, ink and paper and wrote an
answer to the young man. You may
think it urns refusing him, but it
wasn’t. She said she could be ready
in a month.—Atchison Globe.
Faith, Hope and Charity.
A London weekly offered 2 guineas
for a definition of faith, hope and
charity. The winner is ns follon-s:
Faith, blind trust in a first page; hope,
What investors are fed upon; char
tty, what some of them are likely to
be brought to.
That is certainly not bad, but this j
one is perhaps even better: Faith, j
the gift that saves mankind: hope, the j
gift that cheers mankind; charity, the !
gift that makes man kind. j
The Dear Friends. I
“Fred didn't blow his brains out be- I
cause you jilted him the other night,”
said girl friend No. 1. “He came over j
and proposed to me.” |
“Did he?” replied girl friend No. 2. !
“Then he must have got rid of them i
In some other way.”
:
H iridcight.
“I made enough money in Wall I
street last week to buy a house and
lot.” ;
“Did you buy it?” i
“We” no; but I wish I had.”—New I
York Herald.
Why She Did It.
“Why Is it,” they asked, “that you j
let your husband have bis own way
in everything?”
“Because,” she replied, “I like to
have some one to blame when things j
go wrong.”
Proof.
“I guess their honeymoon is about
over.”
“What makes you think so?”
“He’s quit coming home for his noon
lunch.”—Detroit Free Press. I
Zeal without knowledge is like expe¬
dition to a man in the dark.—Xewtoa.
What They Make Judges Out Of.
Justice David Brewer of the United
States supreme court, during au ad¬
dress before the students of law at
the University of Pennsylvania, told
them one of the experiences of his
judicial career at his own expense.
“It happened I was sitting at one
time on a number of cases In which
a good friend of mine was interested
as counsel, and it also happened that
in many of them my decisions were
rendered against my friend’s clients.
One day after the completion of such
a case we sat together talking, when a
very bashful young man from the
rural districts came in to see me bear¬
ing a card of introduction to obtain
my advice upon the choice of a pro¬
fession. ‘What do you think you want
to do?’ 1 asked him. ‘1 kind of thought
I’d better study law,’ he replied, ‘not
that I want to very much, but because
I guess I’d like to be a judge. They
make judges out of lawyers, don’t
they?’ he asked, somewhat hesitat¬
ingly. ‘Once ih awhile,’ my legal friend
replied before I could answer. ’Once
in awhile they do, but not often. » tt
Philadelphia Press.
H« Wasn’t Fooled.
A once famous publisher was a man
well acquainted with general litera¬
ture, and it was often said of him that
he never failed to name the author of
any given passage. A would be wit,
thinking to have a little fun at this
gentleman’s expense, told his friends
at a dinner party before the said pub¬
lisher’s arrival that he had himself
written some verses in imitation of
Southey and that he Intended to puz¬
zle old F. with the question of their
authorship.
Accordingly later In the evening the
wag quoted his lines, and, turning to
Mr. F., he said: “I am snre they are
Southey’s from their style, but I can¬
not remember where they occur. Of
course you can tell us.”
“I cannot say I remember them,” re¬
plied Mr. F., “but there are only two
periods In Southey’s life when he
could have written them.”
“When were those?” asked the joker,
with a wink at his friends.
“Either in his infancy or his dotage,”
was the quiet reply.
Spanish Railroad Trains.
The Spanish train averages possibly
twenty miles an hour—to allow,one to
make time exposures of the scenery
perhaps. It makes frequent and long
waits. At every station the guards
run up and down, shouting the name
of the town and the number of min¬
utes for each stop. At every station
also the two military guards who ac¬
company each train descend and walk
around the cars, looking to see that
no robbers are cencealed. As there
is at least one stop an hour these
guards get some exercise before the
day is over. They say this custom was
adopted to drive away any brigands
who might be concealed in or under
the train and that it has been success¬
ful. These military guards are very
fine looking men and wear an impress¬
ive uniform. We saw more than one
black < eyed senorita look approvingly
after them as they passed by.—Outing
Magazine.
Getting at the Truth.
At twenty-three he thought fate was
making a special effort to keep him
down.
At thirty-five he thought he might
have done great things if his wife had
not been such a handicap.
At forty he believed he would have
been a great man if his children had
not made it necessary for him to cling
to the sure things.
At fifty he was positive that there
was a conspiracy against him on the
part of his fellow men.
At sixty he felt that if he could have
been thirty-five again nothing could
have stopped him.
At seventy he began to believe that
he had failed because of n lack of
courage and inability to make the most
of bis opportunities.
At eighty be was almost sure of It—
Chicago Iiecord-Herald.
Savages.
In the NeM r Hebrides are many is¬
lands whose interiors have never been
visited by' Europeans, for the simple !
reason that to attempt to do so would
be to court certain death at the hands
of the treacherous apd vindictive na-.
tives. A little to the north of Assam.
too, almost within sight of the tea
gardens and the pretty bungalows of
the planters, is the country of the I
Padamites, wherein no white man has
dared to set his foot for at least 500 j
years past.
Punishment and Crime,
“She seems to he having a pretty j
good time now that she and her bus- 1
band are separated,” whispered the !
three girls in the corner as she en- j
tered the room.
“I don’t blame her,” said one. “lie
beat her, didn't, he?” i
They looked her over again.
“Well, I don’t blame him for beating
her,” the third declared, "if sie dressed
tike that. That red is awful.”—Ex- j
change.
Cause For Regret.
“I licked the stuffin’ out o’ Dick !
Smith this mornin’.”
“You bad boy! Aren’t you sorry for
it?”
“Yessum—awful sorry. I jest found
out that he’s goin’ ter have a birthday
party tomorroM'.”— Cleveland Leader.
In the Toils.
“Were you ever sent up in a balloon,
Sam ?”
“No, sab. I’s been sent up several
times, but nevfr in a balloon, sab!”—
Yonkers Statesman.
Beware the geese when the fox
preaches.—Spanish Proverb.
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