Montour American FRANK C. ANOLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Nov. 11, l«>9 OLD MAN KILLED OK HIS BIRTH On the anniversary of liis 65th birth day, J. Rankin Edwards, a prosperous farmer of near Muucy, was shot down in cold blood and instanlty killed by Ellis Deeter, whom he had many times befriended, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Edwards witnessed the cruel slaving of her husband. Mr. Edwards, his wife, and Sharon Castle, a brother-in-law, were sitting in the kitchen of the Edwards' home stead around the stove. At 7 o'clock 'Deeter came into the house very|much \»uder the influence of liquor. He had been hunting during the day and car ried a shot gun. Deeter placed the shot gun across the hot stove and then drawing a revolver Said that he had taken it away from bis sister-in-law, a woman also named Deeter, who acts as his housekeeper. He handled tlio pistol so carelessly that he was warned by those present that he might do harm with the weap on, but not heeding the warning con tinued to flourish it in a boastful man- Mr. Becoming more boastful as the fami ly remonstrated with him he started to tell about a fight that had occurred at his home a few days ago, and said th&t he could have easily shot one of tlie persons participating in the affair. Mr. Edwards remarked that the person Deeter spoke of could have shot him before he could have placed his shot gun to his shoulder, or words to that •affect. Deeter immediately picked up his •Shotgun, put it to his shoulder and ex «laimed: "He could, could he?" Then Deeter fired point blank at Ed wards who was sitting in a chair not over two or three feet away. Mrs. Ed wards rushed to the side of her fallen husband, but death was instantaneous, the charge entering the right s do of his neck, severing the spinal cord and Windpipe. "Well, I'll go out and kill myself now," said Deteer as lie walked away, but he evidently changed his mind.; Edwards was slain about 7 o'clock, and it was more than au hour after that the news of the killing reached Muuc.y. The messenger who took the shock ing tidings to the down-river town 2k.utod that after Deeter hail committed Vie terrible deed the murderer left the Edwards farm and went hack to his fcomo, which is located about a half mile from the scene of the murder. Deeter was arrested by Constable Smith and taken to the Williamsport jail at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Janet's Way of Growing Young. As a matter of fact, .lanet was horn exactly two years before her brother Fred; therefore In the natural course •of things when he was ten she was twelve and gloried In It. Wben Fred was known to be fourteen she still con Teased to sixteen. When Fred boasted •eighteen years she timidly acknowl edged herself Just over nineteen. When Fred came home froni college and had ■a party in honor of his twenty-first birthday Jatiet said fo her friends: "What a boyish fellow Fred is; Who would think he Is only a year younger tban I?" When Fred declared himself twenty-five and old enough to get mar ried Janet said to a gentleman friend: "Do you know.l feel very jealous of Fred getting married But. then. I suppose twins always are more at tached to one another." And two years later at Fred's wedding she said, with ■a girlish simper to the guests: "Dear old Fred! To see him married today, and to think when he was only five years old they brought him to see me. his baby sister; I wonder if he thinks of it now?" Thought He Was Mad. The late Count de Lesseps was trav eling on one occasion in a French rail way train in a compartment with two commercial travelers. "I beg your pardon, sir." said one of them, fancying that he belonged to their fraternity—"are you not a trav eler?" "Certainly I am," said the count. "We thought so! What is your line?" "Isthmuses." "Wh-wh-what," asked the puzzled commercial—"what are they?" "I am introducing ship canals," said Do Lesseps gravely. The commercial travelers feared that they had fallen in with a lunatic and were making preparations to escape when the couut handed them his card and put them at their ease. A Fishing Story. Angling lias some very marvelous "incidents" among its many records. I Hampshire has its true tale of a duck j which became entangled in a trout line and, breaking off the gut, trailed the fly behind her and actually hooked I a fair sized fish. The struggle be tween the two must have been as ex traordiuary as that of the Dumfries j gander which became similarly at tached to a line and hook baited with dead frog. In this case a voracious pike was hooked, and a veritable tng of war en sued, iu which the astonished bird performed sundry somersaults on the surface of the water until victory at last, rewarded the feathered angler, j which towed to shore one of the 1 largest fish ever caught in that par : ticuiar loch. And that the tale is trne makes It all the more interesting. Time Wasted. Boston Lady—Did you learn anything j *t the Woman's club? New York Lady ; —Absolutely nothing. Wish I hadn't ! gone. I had seen all the gowns be- 1 fore.—New York Life. NOW SAY THEY CARRY HARRISBURG, Nov. 10. The State department where returns are received was compelled to change its forecast of yesterday,and it is now believed by Chief Clerk Thorn that all of the amendments will pass except the seventh. Philadelphia county will give at least :54,000 for the amendments and Allegheny, which will give B,(KM) or 51,000, will certainly overcome the ad verse majorities in the other counties, and this result cannot be affected by Armstrong, which is yet, to return about 5)00 majority against the amend ments and Berks, which is also ad verse. Following are the majorities against the various amendments in the sixty three counties that have made official returns: First, 30,244; second, 25,413; third, 24,5(72; fourth, 32,760; fifth, 22,- 680; sixth, 25,173; seventh, 751,302; eighth,2s,7so; ninth, 2(1,801; tenth, 2<>,- 717; schedule, 34,478. All the amenud nients but the seventh will carry. MARJORIE GOULD. An American Beauty Who May Soon Become a Duchess. An American girl whose great beauty and fortune have recently turned the heads of sotne of Europe's highest no bility Is Marjorie Could, the eldest daughter of George Jay Gould. She is now iu her eighteenth year and was introduced to society in January last. Miss Gould bears a strong resem blance to her mother, who, as Edith Kingdon, was one of the most popular members iu Augustin Daly's stock company. She Is dark of type, with large brown eyes and clean cut fea tures. Most of her life has been spent at Georgian Court, the Gould estate a' I.akewood, N. J. There she learned to ride and developed a fondness for va rious forms of athletics. She plays a good game of tennis anil almost daily is on the courts with her brother Jay, MARJORIE oonr.D. the world's champion at court tenuis. The girl has a strong inclination for acting and has appeared iu oue act plays with her mother lu the private i theater at Georgian Court. ! Miss Gould limls the outdoor life ur Lakewood even more attractive than the round of social duties iu the city. She has several automobiles and drives them herself, usually at high speed. I Among Miss Gould's most persistent j wooers is the Grand Duke Alexander | Georgievitch Domanowski, the hand j some young cousin of the czar of Uus j sia. The Duke of Alba, one of Eu i rope's richest noblemen, has also shown her much attention, and it was recent | Iv rumored that the.v were engaged. POLE FINDER CONFESSES. j Professor Phelps of Yale. Drawn by a Sawhorse, Reaches World's Top. ; Professor William Lyon Phelps of , Yale says that he is the only original j discoverer of the north pole. He de j scribes It in the following letter: | At latitude S7 1 made ray final dash. I consisting of a few parenthetical remarks |on the weather I hitched the span. the I sawhorse and the pony, to a new buck boa.-0 wagon, cutting oft the tongue, so that 1 might be the first to announce my discoviry. Ten miles had swiftly flown by, len the pony, thinking that the sawhorse was a seahorse, tried to eat him. The pony naturally resented tills. I and the team, already frightened by the . narrowness of the meridian lines and by I the spectacle of a large fountain penguin, i became unmanageable. The two faithful Eskimos wore thrown out and were immediately devoured by polar bears, who. seeing their long beards, i took them for arctic hairs, esteemed a great delicacy by these animals. I was pitched high in the air and landed on the small of my back, thus discovering not only the pole, hut ihe wliiflletree. At tins moment my right ascension was about ten seconds, my declination, so far as any future attempts are concerned, was ttnal and absolute. Yours very truly, WILLIAM I.YON i'HELI'S Luck of an Inventor's Wife. •Mrs. Thomas A. Edison recovered a diamond ring worth $l,lOO which she gave up as lost Six years ago. The young man who found it at that time had kept it ever since, believing it to be without value. He was rewarded with a check and the promise of a job. something he was in want of. Uobert F. McCarthy of 7,1 Mount Ver non avenue. Orange, found the ring I when he was a student in St. John's school six years ago. lie was chest- ' nutting in Llewellyn park. West Or- j ange. N. .1., not far from the Edison ; home, and lie picked it up from arnoug | the leaves by the roadside. Insurance Policy Slot Machines. Peanuts and accident insurance poli i cies can now be obtained from sioi [ machines. There is enough money to ! be made from vending them to induce men associated with the Standard Oil rompany to organize a million dollar concern to manufacture and place the slot machines. It is expected that this company will in time control all slot machines that have anything to sell? One Difference. Examiner—Now. children.- what is the difference between "pro" and "con?" Bright Coy—Please, sir, they're spelt different.—London Punch. SUES MONTtluii COJOR 51700 Claiming that the county of Montour was neglectful in not keeping one of its bridges, located in Anthony town ship, in good repair, by which his traction engine went through it and was damaged and himself injured, 11. 13. Mordan, of Millville, through his attorneys William and Neil Chrisman, of Bloomsburg, on Saturday brought suit against the local commissioners, claiming SI7OO damages. The suit was brought in this county. The engine was valued at SI4OO. "Mr. Mordan details his expenses in the following manner: Money, time ami labor expended up on repairs of the traction engine, ex tracting it from the bed of tlio creek, transporting it to and from tho shop for repairs, including all expenses by reason of the damage, $700; damage to the business and loss of profits in busi ness by reason of delay, $500; injuries to the plaintiff's person, consisting of a sprained back, finger hurt, suffering and loss of time, SSOO, total SI7OO. Mr. Mordan alleges that,on the '.'Nth day of July last while crossing a bridge over Chillisquaque creek, in Anthony township, on the public road leading from tlio cross road school house to Hidlay school house, and known as the Mouselike, Diehl or Carey bridge, the traction engine went through the bridge, I 2 feet, to the bed of the creek,carrying its owner along, injuring him and damaging the engine. LARGE SHIPMENTS. j There could be no more significant I object lesson showing the failure of I crops in this section than the enor mous and unprecedented filiipnients'of cabbage and potatoes that are being made daily into Danville. George W. Eggert, station agent of the D .L. & W. Railroad, who is in a position to know whereof lie* speaks, Tuesday stated that the like lias never been known before. Cars con taining cabbage 'and potatoes, mostly the latter, shipped from distant points maybe said j to arrivoJJfatJPDanville daily and as fast as they can be un loaded the contents are sold and de livered to the cellars. It is estimated that some twenty-five*'carloads]! have already arrived and that an equal number have been engagedjby"local dealers and will arrivejit later'date.-. In limited quantities cabbage and ixitatoes were shipped to Danville other seasons. The increased number required this year is due to the drought conditions prevailing during the summer. The twenty-five car-load - eil with produce already brought into Danville to supply the general defic iency, if placed in a line, would make a rather imposing railway train, to say nothingjof'wlmt is to'follow. In former times, before the railroads afforded such facilities for shipping, when crops were short the farmer found some compensation in lm li price.-. Conditions, however, have wholly changed and there is now a general equalization of prices. The potatoes shipped here by local dealers are" sold audj delivered at <>.» cents. Withernam thousand bushels of potatoi - unloaded <in the town at the above figure the fanner of the vicinity who started out asking SI.OO a bushel and upward, sees his hope of high prices vanish and there i-. nothing left for hint to do but to accept the situ ation. LEGAL ADVICE. THo Lawyer's Duty In Giving Counsel to His Client. In the realm of advice a lawyer may choose between counseling his client how to uphold the rights secured to bint by the justice of his cause or how to obtain benefits from the application of technicalities and the nse of the weaknesses of the particular statute or precedents uuder consideration whereby he may attaiu advantages in consistent with fair play between man and man. Every time a lawyer encourages such an application of the law as, resulting in injustice, casts disrepute upon the law or its administration he is plainly promoting discord either in the present or the future. Every time a lawyer counsels con troversy for the establishment of a right as recognized by existing law or for the promulgation of new law beneficial to the majority of society he is exercising his true function, and the charge which he lays upon his in dividual client and through him upon industry and progress in the mass, if reasonable in amount, i-s well earned and should be cheerfully paid. When, however, a lawyer gives the other kind of advice the expense, per haps cheerfully borne by the client who profits personally therefrom, must be finally laid IIIMJII society as a whole, which is thereby paying for its own injury and naturally resents the charge.—Donald U. Klchberg in At lantic. The Easiest Way. Dickson—Dobbins formerly opposed "iy views, but now he agrees with me in everything. Wickson-Ilow do yon account for it? Dickson—Don't know. I'm not surr whether I convince him or only make him tired. The first and worst of ail frauds is to cheat oneself. His Last Place. "But" said the merchant to the ap plicant, "you don't furnish any refer ence from your last place." "You needn't worry about that" re plied the man with the close cropped bead and strange pallor; "I wouldn't bo here now if it hadn't been for my good behavior in my last place."— Catholic Standard and Times. 100 LATE FOR BUILDING MACADAM It would seem that all idea of doing any work on the reconstruction of the extension of East Market street this fall has been abandoned by council. The change of plans and the effort to I secure State aid to pave the street be tween Cook's court and the hospital j macadam has entailed so much delay that it would be inexpedient togo on with the work, even if macadam be the form of road adopted. Borongh Engineer G. F. Keefer yes terday stated that it is ill-advised to build macadam late in the Reason, even if the work is finished before frost. A macadam should be built early enough to permit the roadbed to become solid and compact under traffic before freez ing begins. The engineer designated a piece of macadam near Danville that has never proven a success because the work was carried along until freezing actually began. i Mr. Keefer heartily approves the . action taken by council at its last [ meeting when it decided to pave the I extension of East Market along with a i portion of the street proper, under the | act of May 1. 1905, provided such pro | eedure is possible. j Macadam, he says, is not to be con i sidered in connection with paving | when the latter is at all possible. Un j der such traffic as roads are exposed to j at present when automobiles ontnum- I her other vehicles the life of macadam |is scarcely more than two years—or a : least at, the expiration of that time re j pairs are necessary. Paving is well | nigh indestructible and can be relied (on for years. That its additional cost |is more than counterbalanced by its j durability is a fact easilv demonstrat j ed. FRANCES LITTLE. Another Story by the Author of"The Lady of the Decoration." To those who have read that clever little book "The Lady of the Decora i lion" it will be welcome news that its j author, Frances Little, has come for ward with auother story that also has j many appealing qualities. "Little Sis -1 ter Snow" is the title, and it is a vol j limn that promises to add much to the writer's fame. Frances Little is iii reality Mrs. Fan nie < J. Mncauley, the former name be tng her nom de plume, and those who have road "The Lady of the Decora tion' need not be told that she is a native and resident of Kentucky. The heroine of that book, who is in faroff Japan and at times wretchedly home sick, is always longing to return to j the Blue Grass State, and even the mention of her native and dearly be v FRANCES LITTLE. loved country brings a pang. Prob ably if it had not been for Susie Datum she would have given up. Mrs. Mncauley is a niece of that fa mous writer Alice Megan Rice, the au thor of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." It is rather a remarkable fact that two members of the same family shoul' l branch out as authors and write such witty and interesting books. Mrs. Rice has also written "Lovey Mary" and other stories, and her success in the literary world induced Mrs. Ma cauley to trv her hand at authorship. The accompanying photo of Mrs. Ma cauley is the first one she has had taken in many years, and it was only recently that she finally consented to give her renders a chance to see the author of "The Lady of the Decora tion." An Indignant Beggar. Flashing a roll of bills in the face of a haughty individual who had refused | to give bini alms and who had added , further insults to this injury by heap-1 ing ridicule upon him, a very typical' beggar at t'oyoacan pulled off a stunt! that brought down jeers upon the un- j charitable young man. This beggar l would have passed muster anywhere j for one of the finished type and could i safely have walked unarmed at mid- j night through a wilderness infested with thieves without his poverty once t being questioned. There was not a j whole thread in the warp and woof of his shirt that extended from seam to seam, and only an expert sartorial art ist could have detected which open ings were those originally made lu the garment for putting it on and off. Just what portion of those rags was solid and strong enough to retain the roll of bills is a marvelous enigma.— Mexican Herald. Painful Cleanliness. From a Vienna paper: "Comfortable pension for English visitors: good kitchen with continental eatables, or plain rosbeef with pottats for same price* nice sleeping rooms with open windows; painful cleanil ness; numerous extraordinary refer ences."—St. James' (Jazette. Would Be Nice. "I tell you that the world shall yet give me what I deserve!" he ranted. "That will be nice," replied his wife, trying to view her back in the mirror. "I look well in black."—Houston p™>t. $90,000 Fire at Bloomsburg Fire, discovered at five minutes be fore 0 o'clock yesterday morning, com-, pletely gutted the big F. P. Pursel de-! partment store,comer of Marker, Square ; and Main streets,Bloomsburg. The en- 1 tire stock, which Mr. Pursel values at SBO,OOO, is a complete loss. The build ing worth $25,000, has nothing usable left but the walls, and they are dam- i aged. The loss on it will be from §l2,- | 000 to $15,000. The property is covered j by $57,000 insurance on stock and S2O,- ! 000 on building. It is Mr. Pursel's in-' tention to resume business at once in I the Suppleo-Mather building, corner! Market and Sixth streets. The store I itself will be re-built as soon as possi ble. STOCK A TOTAL LOSS. Four grim-looking, smoke-blackened walls, are all that is left of what was a fine, well equipped, 3-story depart ment, store. The entire inside is gutted from basement to roof. 1 Not a thing was saved. The floors, I furnishings, heating apparatus, com j plete stock, to the cent's worth, roof, and in fact everything that was on the ; inside of the fine store is a loss. In j fact its doubtful if there is a load of ! good fire wood left. FIREMEN HANDICAPPED. 1 Robert Young, an employe of the | Wirt Pen company,discovered the fire, and smoke was then issuing from the j cellar door and from under the eaves, j which would indicate that the fire had then gained considerable headway. An alarm was turned in, but the system ] failing to work properly, there was a | slight delay before the first company ' arrived on the scene. With four companies at the fire it ! was found that the pressure in the ; water mains was not high enough to j do the best execution and the fire eng- I ine was brought into play. I The firemen were handicapped by | the immense quantities of smoke that | had accumulated inside the building, i When a door was opened it was impos- I sible to get more than a few yards in side the builidng, and then the men i were driven back again to the open | air. As a consequence the streams were j played on the fire promisculoiisly from | the outside. j In less than an hour it was apparent I that the entire interior was doomed ; j flames and smoke had turned the whole | building into a fiery furnace. It lick ed it - way to the third floor, and there j where the fine furniture was stored it . worked with terrible fury. Gathering additional stiougth from this new fuel j the fire just at 8:!i0 o'clock burst j through the roof. Big red hungry look i iug tongues of flame burst high into I the air, and in a few minutes nfter i wards that jiortioii of the roof fell through, ami a few seconds after that tin' attic or garret floor gave way, and fell with a crash. The other portion of I the roof fell in, and after that the flames, fought by the firemen, who were doing a valiant work, gradually , died down. A COMPLETE LOSS. By 11 :.'io the fire was well under con trol. At this time a glimpse of the in terior of the building could lie had • Easy Money. How the street urchin spots an "easy mark" and gets the coin was shown recently at Third and Chestnut streets. An excellently dressed young man I with a setter dog which he held t»y a I strap was standing on the corner. One of the newsboys stood beside | the dog and when its master was not j looking reached down and gave its tall j a sharp pull. With a yelp of pain the dog turned quickly and jumped for its | tormentor, but uilssed him by several l inches. ! The fact that the dog did not bite I hiui was no obstacle to the boy, who j grabbed his left arm with his right hand and began to scream furiously, j "It bit uie; it hit me. Take me to a I hospital." j The owner of the dog became alartn 'ed iini! run to the boy. "Here, son." I be said. "take this tire dollar bill and 'jeep i,uiet. It'll be all right," and he hurried awa.v. "Ka.-v money." said the newsboy as lie joined lus companions.—Philadel phia rimes. Bloodshed Averted, j Opie Bead, the novelist, once told of i his experiences as a journalist in Ken- , tucky mauy years ago. j "There was a good deal of news," In- j i said, "such as shootings and knifings, i but this news was not .I'garded as lin- j ! portant and little attention was paid i [ to it. I remember once, when a local ' feud broke out afresh, when members of the opiioshig sides met at the coun ty seat. There were hot words, a j blow was struck, and weapous were drawn, when the sheriff Interfered. He loudly announced that he would not tolerate any violence, ordered the parties to separate, and when his or ders were not obeyed ho began shoot ing. 1 forget whether he killed eight or nine, but I know that in describing the incident in my paper I commend ed the sheriff for his prompt action and bravery and added the paragraph 'There is no doubt but for the prompt action of the sheriff there would have j been bloodshed.' " Tl»e Woes of a Rent Payer. Warren Foster, a newspaper man of Ogden. Utah, left a letter at his death asking that his body be cremated or Jed to the coyotes. "1 have paid rent all my life," he wrote, "and mean to quit when I die. In no event am I to be buried in a cemetery where rent al is charred. I want no landlord calling me up from rest to pav his rent." and what, was once one of the fines I store, rooms in this section, was a mass lof cjiarred ruins,the goods being buin j<" 1 or so badly damaged by water that 1 all are practically useless. In the cellar the water was 3 feet j deep. There was but one big steel ! girder running through the length of i the centre of the building, on the first i i ceiling. This is thought to have saved j the upper floors from going down, al- j though it was dangerous togo into the place for an investigation. As to! whether or not the walls are safe for j rebuilding, no one can tell, nntil an j expert has made an examination. TAKES LOSS PHILOSOPHICALLY Frank P. Puisel, the proprietor of the store, was on the ground shortly after the tire started. Ho took his loss stoically, smoked a cigar and smiled. He was at a loss to understand just | where the fire started, and how. He j cannot make himself believe that it ' I was in the heating plant, as was ro j ported, as it had just been remodeled j about two years ago and ought to have j j been in first class condition. CARRIED FINE STOCK. More heavily stocked than at any < time in the history of the store the fire ; came at an extremely bad time. All of i the Christmas shipments, with the ex- i ception of one lot of ladies' and misses' I notions, which were at the station and ! were to have been taken to the store this morning, all Christmas goods had I been bought and in the store. Of these there were more than SIO,OOO worth. Only Wednesday $1)00 worth wholesale of fine china liad been unpacked and marked in the basement. A lot of toys, games, etc., amounting to SI,OOO had also just been received and stored in the basement. Other stock in the base ment was crockery and some general lines of merchandise, in storage ready to be unpacked as needed, j On the first floor on the west side . was a complete stock of women's mns i lin and dress goods and was worth | easily from $25,000 to £10,000; on the I \ east side of this floor was the biggroc- | 1 ery stock and shoe stock. In the centre I of the floor was the office and safe. I There was very little money in the | ; safe, and the books and records were j all inside. Whether these are damaged |or not is not known, as the safe has i j not yet been opened. As it is of mod- j cm make it is not expected that there \ | will be any damage there. Stocked on the second floor was $lO,- 000 worth of fine furs and ladies' , cloaks, suits and skirts. All of the j winter and Christmas stocks were in and on display. Displayed on the third floor was $lO, 000 worth of fine furniture and bed ! dings. In the attic was stored, knock- ' jed-down from 400 to 600 rockers, din ! tug chairs and a number of tables Mr. Pursel entered the store »".l years 1 ago as a clerk in tbe employ of I. \V. j MoKelvey. Fifteen years ago, when ; the property went into the hands of a receiver Mr. Pursel with S. 11. Hart man bought the stock and continued I the business for two years when tin former became the sole owner. In r.NVi the property was rebuilt. I Athens Baved by Poetry. When B. C. 4U4, after a heroic strug- | gle, Athens, the "City of the Violet ; Crown," was captured by Lysauder I there were cot wanting clamorous I voices to urge that the city whose lust ! for empire had brought such woes ou Greece ought to be laid level with the j ground. The Spartan general at tirst lent a I willing ear to his powerful allies, but ! while the council was still debating ! this momentous issue a plaintive voice wus heard from the city walls chant- I ing those noble lines from the "Elec- j tra" of Euripides, that most human : ! of the poets of Greece, in which the i j heroine contrasts her fallen lot with ) i the splendid exploits of her father. | who had dismantled the towers of , Troy. Ly sauder bent his head and pon | dered ou fortune's cruel reverses. Tri- \ ' umphant as Agamemnon, who could \ tell but that be might be reserved for a fate as cruel? The lesson of mod- ; ! eration was accepted. Athens was i ! saved. 1 Milton has immortalized this dramat ic event in oue of his best known son j nets; I The repeated air | Of sari Electras poet had the power i To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. When Valor Balks. [ A couple of Kansas men were talk- ; tng of fearlessness the other day. "All this talk." said one of them, "reminds I mo of a peace ollicer 1 knew a number of years ago in western Kansas. This j officer was entirely fearless—in fact, | the kind of chap who would have charged hades with a single bucket oT ■ water. To look down into the barrel j of a gun in tbe other fellow's hand ! was as placidly accepted an affair for ! him as to light his pipe. lie was sent I for one day. " 'What's the matter?' he asked. " 'Cowboy in that room,' said a citi- j zen, designating the place. 'He's wild I and dangerous. He's locked himself in, ' and we're afraid he'll break out and j do us harm.' "So this officer opened the door of I tbe room and looked in. Thivcowboy had a six shooter in one hatul and a j stick of dynamite in the other and ! calmly remarked that ho would turn them both loose in case the officer ! came into the room. The officer con- j sldered tbe thing for a minute. Then he backed away and as he did so re- i marked: " 'Let him sleep it off. They is times when a man who ain't afraid is a blind fool.' " —Kansas City Journal. 808 TAFT, POLLS WATCHER. Hi* First Election Work In New York's Mayoralty Campaign. Among tbe watchers who wore ou July at the polls iu New York city during the receut election was Itobert A. Tuft, eldest son of the president, who. with a party of college men, in cluding Elihu Uoot, Jr., and about 200 others, had bis lirst experience in prac tical politics. Before G o'clock on elec tion morning these husky young peace promoters and fraud preventers made an automobile tour of the east side polling places, and they stuck to the job of foiling floaters until the voting day was over. During the afternoon the energetic Bob had the distinction of leading :i relief expedition which quelled a lively political ruction in the Nineteenth election district. A Tammany watcher challenged the right of an aged man to cast his vote, and B. G. Lewis, a col lege watcher and-an old Cornell half back, announced that he would see to it that the old citizen was not defraud ed of his vote. At this some oue hit A |k -liSlifllfL BOBERT A. TAFT. Lewis on the head with a blackjack. He had been accustomed to hard knocks on the gridiron, and he turned and with a quick succession of blows felled two of his assailants. The crowd seemed to be hostile to Lewis, and he telephoned to headquarters for help. In response Bob Taft and a half dozen of his stalwart companions hurried to the rescue. When the relief arrived at the polls the street in front of'the place was filled with jeering, threatening men. but the mob cooled down at sight of the determined appearance of the col lege boys. Nothing further happened, but It was a trying moment. "It was a great experience, and I feel that I know quite a little about New l*ork elections in the polling places," said the president's son. "We had a busy day, but we did not at any time feel that there was any dan ger." Mr. O'Donnell and the Hour. An excellent bull was perpstrat'-<> . the house of commons one morning at half past 1 o'clock. Mr. O'Donnell was the author. lie rose suddenly to his feet and cut into the debate with. "At this late hour of the morning, Mr. Speaker"— "Early hour you mean." from government benches. "Well. Mr. Speaker." he continued, "at this early hour of the following day." Hawk and Weasel In Death Duel. A hawk and weasel were after tl.t same hen iu Elston Trowbridge's farm yard at Fairfield. N. J., when the hawk got the weasel by mistake. The wen gel clung to the hawk, and they fought in midair until they dropped and killed each other on the ground. 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