The Monmouth Inquirer (Freehold, N.J.)
June 18, 1908

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■*1 ESTABLISHED 1818 AS THE “STAR.” FREEHOLD N. i., THURSDAY, JUNE 18th, 1908. VOL. LXXXVIil. NO. 25. FREEHOLD. The family of A. C. Hartshorue have returned to Freehold. Hugh Mulligan has moved his fam ily from Brook lyn to 52 Jac ksou street. Mrs. L. 8. Packard is the guest of her sister, Miss Imlay in New York City. St. Peter’s Church Sunday- school ■will go on an excursion to Belmar in July. Lieut. Peter Vredenburgh is home from Santiago, Cuba, on a sick fur lough. L. Deed meyer’8 cigar store and pool room is being repainted by contractor E. D. Clayton. The residence occupied by Mr. Youug'sou Hudson street, is being repainted. Miss Lydia Sparling, of Erie, Pa., is the guest of Mies Jennie Emmons of Murray street. Harry Caines formerly in D. V. Perrine store, has accepted a position in the Asbury Park Journal office. Mrs. Julia C. Cleveland, of Phil adelphia, has been the guest of her brother, Judge J. Clarence Conover. Harry Hackman who has been visit ing Daniel Prest at the Railroad Ho tel, has returned to his home at Long Branch. William F. Barkalow has purchased a touring oar. Dr. A. R. White aud Levy Bros have also purchased tour ing autos. Miss Virginia Brouse, of Brooklyn, and Miss Mary Newell, of Bordentown, are visiting Miss Hattie Packard ou Broad street. Miss Elizabeth Lawrence will spend several months with Mrs, William M. iVins >“ Trial whs set for July 27 th. FIRES. Ou Monday afternoon of last week the home of Frank Colfer, near the railroad tracks at Howell was bunted. The tire started about ^o’clock when Mr. Colfer was at work on the Frank White farm, near Adelphia, and knew uothiug of the Are until his re turn. A sectiou gang on the Penn sylvania railroad succeeded in saving a few articles of furniture. The fur niture was insured, but. there was no insurance ou the house. The origin I of the Are is a mystery. Mrs. Colfer was seriously burned in January while carry!ug a lighted lamp, and since her return from the Loug' Brauoh Hospital has been staying witli Mrs. Ely Banks in Freehold. A barn about 18x2(1 oil the farm of Huirv E. Jones, between Jackson’s^ Mills and Francis Mills, was burned about 7 o’clock Monday evening of last week. Little of the contents were saved. HenryJ. Mount’s agen cy of Freehold had the iusuranoe. Five barns ou the Redmond farm, near Jamesburg, were burned about 5 o’clock June 5th. The live stock was rescued but some of the farming machinery was burned. FREEHOLD DRIVING CLUB. MATINEE, SATURDAY, JUNE 20TH, 1908 LIST OP ENTRIES. FRKH FOR ALL. Julia Barou, b m, Theo. Pope IIo.IIo, b g. IJ. p. Smith Frank Wilkes, b g, G. M. F. Randolph Dewey, blk g, A. C. Fisher 2.25 TROT OR PACK. Robert L-, b g, Theo. Pope Lady Kstelle, ch ru, G. M. F. Randolph Lady Bananza, r m, Dennis Buckley I 2.30 TROT OR PACK. Dick, ch g, Emil Geizel Drummer Boy, b g. G. M. F. Randolph Robert C., bg, A. C. Fisher 3-00 TROT OR PACK. Look Again, ch m, Dr. Wm. E. Truer Fitzsimmons, s g. C. D. Carson AnyOldClass.bg. Theo. Pope New Thresher. We desire to call the attention of our farmer readers to what we consid er one of the greatest achievements and unquestionably the most valuable invention in threshers that,has ever been made. We refer to "The Batter worth Universal Thresher" manufac tured at Trenton, N. J. This machine will thoroughly thresh, separate, and clean, wheat, rye and oats, and bind the straw straight and uninj'ured aeit comes from thothresher. One machine doesall. June 11, 10 t. High School Bids At a meeting of the Board of Educa tion to reeeive bids for the new High School building on Hudson street the fotiowing bids were received: Fred Brower, Freehold 20,741 37 J. R. Miller, Spring Lake... 21,000 00 J. R. Taylor ft Co.. Asbury Park. 22,275 00 Hdrace K- Moore, Spring Lake. 19,000 00 Andrew Bowne, Keyport....... 23,700 00 Henderson Bros., Perth Amboy. 21,4*4 °o The above bids do not include the pressed brick, which will be furnished by the Board of Education. Exercises by Millstone School. The annual closing exercises of the public schools of Millstone township took place ou Friday, May 29. The children with their parents and friends assembled at the Perrlneviile Presby teriau Church. The building was well tilled, and the Mannlapm orohestra, under the leadership of the Hon. Peter Forman, rendered exoelient music as usual. The children spoke their pieces in good style. The un avoidable absence of Professor En right and Rev. H. K. Fulton were drawbacks to the entertainment, which made the work of Professor Fountain, the supervising principal, mbre arduous, but he acquitted him self in his usual impressive way. The following is the program as taken by individuals: Bill’s in trouble.Perrine McKuight Gone with a handsomer man.Hannan Sager The Froggies...Edwin Forindn When...r..Russel Keltman Entering in.Lillian Elf Marne's entrance into society.MaryGruden Meditation.Viola Ely A reverie. ..Hazel Patterson Bobolink .Nola Reed Address. Professor Fountain Red Bank Suffer a $70,000 Lost. Entailing a loss that is estimated at $70,000, the oarriage works of John W. Mouut and Bro., corner Maple avenue and White street, Red Bank, were burned Friday night, together with au adjoining residence owned by Jacob Degenring aud occupied by John Johnson. The manufacturing end of the carriage plant, a six-story frame structure ou White street, was destroyed, but by heroic effort the Sremeii in a two hour’s stubborn fight saved the briok store and show rooms fronting on Maple avenue. More than 150 carriages and wagons were burned, together with several automobiles and automobile bodies and a great quantity of paints and oils. Expensive modern machinery and tools were also destroyed. The fire started in the coloring room of the paint shop. It was dis covered abotit 10 o’clock by some boys. At that time Night Watchman John Walling was in the office. He had made a round trip through the fact or v but a few minutes before and igin of tile fire is consequently a uiys terv. By the time the firemen airived with their apparatus the paint room was a seething furnace. The burn ing paints and oils seut forth dense smoke that, was repeatedly pierced by beautiful flames of variegated colors. Against this terrible fire whose heat made the whole buildiug crack and soap, tile firemen bent their labor, 'llte frame part of the building was covered with corrugated iron, which to some extent kept the fire confined aud added to the risk of the firemen. A barrel of oil burst soon after the firemen got into action aud the ex plosion, throwing balls of fire in every direction, endangered many lives. It was not until midnight that the effect- of the water poured into the flames began to tell, but shortly alter it was announced that the fire was under control. The carriage works were in a closely settled neighbor hood aud the possibilities of tlie dam age had the lire occurred under less, favorable weather conditions appall-1 ed residents of that vicinity. As it was, the tire was one of the most dis astrous that .Red Bank lias ever ex perienced. Jr 0- U A- M- War is Ended. The complications into which the na tional aud state bodies of tne Junior Order of United American Mechanics have in recent i ears become Involved were temporarily set at rest. Monday by an opiuiou handed down in the court of errors aud appeals. By the terms of the decision the na tional council must cease its operations in New Jersey, in accordance with the order of the supreme court.Thecage at issue grew out of the secession of the New Jersey, Pennsylvania aud other state councils from the uational bodv. This breag in the ranks was followed by an attempt on the part of the out siders to interfere in the management and organization of local councils in different cities in New Jersey aud then a suit was brought to restrain them. The supreme court upheld the con tention that the national council with out jurisdiction in the state and there upon issued the sought-for restraining order. It was then up to the national body to appeal from the decisiou. This they did, but they waited from August, 1906, to January, 1908. to file the papers. Meantime, in 1907, the legislature paged a law requiring that appeals to be takeu from one court to auothermust be moved within a year instead of three years, as formerly, and that matters then in litigation should be moved within six mouths. The national council’s appeal was therefore six months late. Theappellantsclaimed the privi lege of carrying their cage to the higher court, under the terms of the old regulations, alleging that the legisla ture had no power to interfere with the practice of the courts. But the court, in its decision yesterday takes another view. FROM NEAR-BY TOWNS F A RMINOD ALB. i A. Witherton, of Brooklyn, is spend tag one week here, i^r. and Mrs. John Wbitigar, of N*-w Brunswick, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Allen Merchant. Geo. Hampton, of Asbury Park, •Pent Sunday with Win. Applegate *ud family. Mrs. Margaret Demme is spend ing a few weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Aaron Hampton, of Asbury Park. Miss Edna Lackey, who has been making an extended visit at her sis ter's Mrs. Frank VanNote returned home at Asbury Park last Wednes day. Geo, Pucker and family, of traund. Brook, are visiting Mrs. Packer'»par> •nts, Mr. and Mrs. Grandiu Xan^ Vote. Richard Hafeman spent Tbesday at Freehold. Mr, and Mrs. Louis Crouse, of Free hold, spent Sunday with their daugh ter, Mrs. Dr. W. Havens. John R. Allaire is adding two coats of paint to his residence. John Britton, of Morristown, spent last Thursday here. Miss Minnie Stewart, of Hoboken, is visiting Miss Katheryne Jones. Henry Merriner is suffering with the rheumatism. Cris Heiser is on the sick list. Harry VanNote, of Oakhurst, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and I Mrs. Grandin VanNote. Grandiu Layton, who has been on ■the sick list for some time, Is slowly Convalescing. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Farry, of Asbury Park, spent Sunday with. Mr. Far- j hy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Far P Raymond Joslin spent Sunday at Lower Squankum. E. Shropshire was a visitor at Ar dens. The Children’s service was held in the M. E. Church last Sunday even- i tag. air. ana Mrs. frank Allaire was a visitor at West Farms on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Burdge, of Manasquau, spent Sunday with Mr. Burdge’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Burdge. Mrs. J. H. Cottrell was a visitor in New York City on Tuesday. Eiss Gussie Johnston, of Trenton. I spent Sudany with her mother, Mrs. Mary Johustou. Mrs. Chas. Straugh, of Mount Hol ly, was the guest of Chas. Boud and family last week. parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fitz gerald. Ernest Boud was the guest of Dr. Chas. Palmer of Holmdel last Fri aay. Cecil Burdge was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Burdge. of Oak Gleu, on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Robbiuson are spending a few months at Thousand Islands. PKRRfNKVII/LK. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Dey, of Al entowu, visited friends at this place. W. A. VanSchoick was a visitor at Hightstown recently. Miss Matilda Mount has beeu visit ug her giandpareuts, Mr. and Mrs, iddisou Mount. Samuel Storer has the Quest straw, berries of this neighborhood. It :akes only thirteen to Qll a quart box. Julia Findley, of Hightstown visit id friends at this place. Joseph Jackson and Joseph Per due, of Ocean Grove, are visiting the atter’s brother, F. R. Perrine. Mrs. Biilingham, of Trenton, is ■pending the week with Mrs. Berlin bambert Mrs. G. W. Robbins, of Hightstown s spending t lie week witii her mother, Mrs. A. R. Vaughn. The foxes are getting to be quite a buisauce to the people of the neigh borhood, especially in the chicken ^ards and coops. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Conover spent Hunday, with his brother, Tunis, at Freehold. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Davison visit sd Hightstown recently. W. R. Davison spent Sunday at Mlentown. CKKAM RID&K. Tlie old school house, which was Bold at public sale, was purchased by H. W. Buckalew, and will be moved and fixed for a machine house. Dr. George W. Shaffer started on Monday for Maryland to visit his mother aud sister. R. T. Woodward was in Mount Holly Rev. Frank Bossert was entertained at tea by Mrs. C. R. Meirs. Mr. and Mrs. Rohert Black and Misses Jennie and Mamie Black were guests at the wedding which was held at the “Ten Pines." The con tracting parties were from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Sattorthwait entertained at tea on Friday evening: the following: Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cox, Mrs. E. S. Cox, Mrs.,C. R. Meirs, Miss M, S. Mejrs, Harry Richard Cox aud William Sextan. John M. Davis was a caller in town Nathan McCoy is the first one in this vicinity to start gathering hay. Mr., and Mrs. Thomas Meirs were in Princeton attending the ball game. MATRI NIAL. THROCKMOftT0fM}UBOI9. Miss Eva Laughlttn DuBois,, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. DuBois, of 40 McDlan street, Free hold, aud Willard Porter Throckmor ton, son of Mrs. SaMe Ella and the late Hon. Win. S.>Throokmorton, were married in ttisf. Freehold Pres byieriau chureh, Wednesday eveuiug, June 10th, 19CS, at 8,80 o'clock. The church was decorated with stnilax and laurel bloom, the white flowers forming the upper part of three arch es, oue over each of the two ceuter aisles and a larger one in front of the altar, from the center of which sus pended a bell of daisies under whioli tile bride and groom stood during the ceremony. Banks of green foliage of the smilax formed the lower portion f the arches. At 9 o’clock a recep tion was held at the home of the •bride’s parents. The residence was prettily trimmed with smilax and flowers. The presents were numer ous and pretty, consisting of gold and silverware, cut glass, &c. Prof. Stillwell’s orchestra furnished the music aud W. F. Day and Bros., of Newark, were the caterers. The bride and groom left in an auto mobile that night for Matawau, where they took a train at 12:05 for a two weeks’ wedding trip to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Canada. Upon their return they will make their home with the brides parents. The groom’s gift to the bride was a crown pin of gold set with pearls and dia- j moods. To his best man he gave gold cuffs buttons and to bis ushers j jade stick pins. The bride’s gift to her maid of honor was a orescent of gold designed with forget-me-nots and set with pearls, and the brides maids were presented with the like tokens in miniatute, Mr. Throck morton is a law student, studying under his uncle, Aoton C. Harts- j borne and he is also a clerk for the 1 Monmouth County Tax Board. About 150 guests were present from Newark, Jersey City, New York, i Brooklyn, East Orange, Washington j D. C. Englishtowu, Freehold and j other niannR. Miss Helen Moore Perrine of Jersey City, was uiaid of honor. The brides maids were Miss Matilda Perrine Truex of Freehold, Miss Jessie Virginia Pax ton James burg, and Miss Dorothy Ruff of Wasiiingon, D. C. Harold Harts-1 borne Thiockinorton, a brother of the I groom, was best man and the ushers■ were John Ellis Throckmorton, auoth er brother; Raymond E. Perrine and Stanley Moore Perrine, Jersey City;1 Warren K. DuBois, Wiiliau Bibb Hartshorue, Joseph 8. Conover and Cfeorge M. F. Randolph of Freehold and Dr. Edward L. Wharton of East Orange. The bride wore a dress of white satin, triupued with princess lace and chiffon. 4 tulle veil caught turns was a tan riifirage sttit-MllWiat 1 to match. The maid of honor's gown was of white orgaudie over white taffeta, elaborately trimmed with lace and insertion, and she carreed a bou quet of killaruey roses. The three bridesmaids were gowned iu white satiu striped chiffon over pink taffeta aud they carried bouquets of killaruey roses. The wedding march from Lohengrin was played by Harold Mc Dermott, an intimate friend of the groom, as the bridal party entered the oliurch, the eight ushers walking dowu the left aisle to the front of the church. The bridesmaids came through tee door at the Bide of the organ and met the ushers, the latter separating and allowiug the brides maids to p .88 on down the aisle, the ushers following them iu turn again to the frontof the church where they met the maid of honor aud the bride witli her father. The ushers theu led the way to the altar, where the atteu dauts separated and formed semicir cles at each side of the altar, while the groom witli his best man came through a uoor at the right of the pulpit aud uiei the bride iu front 01 the arcli under which they stood while the cere mony was tieiug perfoimed. Tile Episcopal ring ceremony was used, ttie pastor, Rev. Arthur W. Remington officiating. After the ceremony the bridal party left the church to the strains of a wedding march from MeuUeissohn. KSTKLLK—VAJXNOTK. Uiss Loretta Estelle, daughter of Mr. and Urs. John R. Estelle, and Preston VanNote, son of Ur. uud Mrs. Z. P. VanNote, were married in the first Fresbyteiiau church As bury Park, Saturday, June 13th, at 12 M. They are both residents of Point Pleasant. MOONKS—KARUX. Officer Bert Mooney and Miss Nel lie Farrv, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Farry, of Bradley Beach, were united in marriage by Dr. Steadman Applegate at the parsou age of the Second U. E. Church, Asbury Park. They are liviugat 1119 Monroe avenue. Asbury Park. Mr. and Urs. Perriue R. Cook of the Meadow View Farm, Farmingdale, have issued invitations to the mar riage of their daughter, Olive Almira, to William Sparling Emmons, sou of Mr. and Urs. Conrad R. Emmons of Freehold, on Saturday, June 20, at 4 o’ clock, at the home of the bride’s parents. Uiss (iertrude Estelle Lenbart, dauguter of Mr. and Mrs. Heury Leu hart, of Long Branch and Kdwiird Aurnack, of Eatoutown, will be mar ried on Juue 24th. The ceremony will be performed at the home of the uritre elect at 8 P. M. Rev. Dr. F. A. De Maris will officiate.

Advertise in the Inquirer Cent a Word Column. It brings great results. OBITUARY. EDWARD SOUTHARD, died at his late regidenee. Unionvtlle, on Sunday, June 14th, 1908, aged 57 tears. Mr. Southard complained of dizziness of his head while assisting lu dressing a calf at his brothers. William farm and died soon after. Dr. McMillan was called and decided that a blood-vessel in his head had burst. He was the eon of the late David Southard and was born and always resided near Uuionville. The funeral will take place to-day Thurs day) at 1 o’clock at the house. Inter ment will be in Bethesda cemetery. NEWS NOTES. B. K. Atno, proprietor of the Ox ford House, at Oxford, is seeking the owner of a carrier pigeon which alighted on his property on May 39. It is a brown aud white bird and on a ring about one of its legs is the num ber 8227. “Mrs. Pinkham, of the Lydia E, Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn, Mass., together with her sou, Arthur W. Pinkham and the yonnger mem bers of her family, sailed for Naples on may 20 for a three months tour throughout Europe and a much need ed vacation.” Poor Peter Poland—Peter B. Poland of Bradley Beach, to be exact. After an absence of two long years re turned Saturday to his favorite haunts and was immediately pounc ed upon by Constable Theodore Hu lick and oarried away to the county jail at Freehold. Charles Hines, Jr., 18 years old. of Baldwin street, Montclair, is reported to be in a hospital at Easton, Pa., having met with an accident near that place in whioh one of bis legs was so badly crushed that it was necessary to amputate it. The story i« that Hines, was stealing a ride on a freight train, fell off, and one of his legs was caught beneath the wheels. Stephen Garrison, son of Charles Garrison, of the West Point Pleasant hotel, who shot himself in the head is still &t the Monmonth Memorial hos pital, at Long Branoh. He is con scious and hag been since the shoot ing. The hospital physicans believe he will recover. The bullet is still in his head. Garrison shot himself while despondent, owing to the sep aration of himself and wife. He is 35 years old. The board of education for Knowl ton township, Warren oounty, Jias en gaged the following teachers for the suhools next year; Jndsou Linaberry, of Haiuesburg, principal of the Co lumbia diaded school, and Miss Eth eLlfeWitt. Mt. Pleasant; Miss Maggie Hugh Creig, of New York, who is stopping at the Culyer’s Lake, Sussex couuty, home of Mr. and Mrs. Brice E. Riker, caught a large hass the other day, which, on examination was found to he edible. This hit of uews will be received with a great deal of rejoicing by fishertueu, who make trips to this lake. For several years the bass iu these waters have been afflicted with a mysteriousdisease, aud since that time every fish captured has had to be thrown away as uuflt for food. Fire Friday morning destroyed the Franklin Laundry and dwelling and the colored Methodist Episcopal Church at Spring Lake, involving a loss of $3,000, partially covered by in surance. The origin of the fire is un known. The laundry and church oc cupy adjoining sites on the banks of Wreck Pond. The heat from file blazing laundry soon fired the church. Within half an hour both structures were goue. The church was an old 1 one, having been built iu 1886. Johu Crowley, 13 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Crowley, of Cleve land street, Belleville, who was hurt by a Lackawanna train on the Hack ensack meadows, is in a serious condi tion at St. Joseph’s hospital in Pater son, where lie lias been confined since tiie accident. Two operations have been performed on the leg, and it is believed that the amputation of the right arm will be necessary inorderto save his life. The boy was hit by the train as he was walking along the tracks with a companion. He sus tained compound fractures of the right arm and left leg, besides other injuries. A colored man who said he is John Smith, of Westtield, standing six feet tour inches in his bare feet, walked in to (Jioek’s saloon at Plainfield and ia sisted on sitting on a table. When pus ed off two or three times he swung up to the bar and announced that no white man would be allowed to have a drink over it. The proprietor sent for the police Patrolman Messier re sponded and after gettiugSmith to the street, was joined by Patrolman No lan. ;The prisoner smashed Messier’s helmet and Patrolman Nolan had to club him. When arraigned before Judge Runyon he begged for mercy. He got sixty days. It is now admitted that the First National Bank of Manasquan, which went into the hands of a receiver fol lowing the suicide of its president, Morgan Delauoey Magee, is wholly insolvent. The bauk will not be re opened, aud it is believed a new insti tution will be started in Manasquau within a month. Henry C. Winsor, president of the Asbury Park and Ocean (Jrove Bauk, has applied for a charter for the of founding of a national bank in the town aud his ap plication will probablv be granted. Loans rnsde to the New Jersey ft West Virginia Bridge Co., of Mana squan, are responsible for the bank’s failure.

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r,mi PACES. Pmmirnt^ |nquirtr F'phhhOLD. NEW JERSEY. ^THURSDAY, JUNE 18. 1908^ «AXCV APPLEGATE Editor and Proprietor. Published at the INQUIRER BUILDING, 20 W. MAIN STREET, Opposite First National Bank. TELEPHONE CALL SO. Advertising Rates on application. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year.. *1-SS Six Months. Inree Months.85 Invariably in advance Single Copies, 8 Cents. Sea Girt Cottage Improved. The executive cottage at Sea Girt will present an entirely different ap pearance this vear, improvements costing nearly $5,000 having just been completed. An addition has been put up in the rear of the building, facing the rail road station, that gives the place an attractiveness that has not previous ly characterized the governor’s offi cial encampment headquarters. Owing to the fact that Governor Fort’s family is quite extensive, it was necessary to enlarge the cottage. And the enlargement has been most artistically arranged under the per sonal supervision of State Archi tect Poole. The addition comprises a new chamber for the governor and an extra bed chamber with private bath on the second floor and this ex tension is supported by heavy white oolumns; of ionic design, leading an imposing aspect. Under the extension there will be a private veranda, inolosed with a cop per screening, and which may be need by the executive in entertaining friends at private dinners. This fea ture also aids in the general appear ance of the place, giving the cottage an air of comfort it has always need ad. New paint and paper throughout the cottage, and some minor altera tionson the first floor that will facil itate the reception of visitors and the general transaction of matters of the State, are other features of the im provements. A new coat of paint is now being put on the outside, where the great white columns will show off to good advantage. INSANE NEGRO ESCAPES No trace has yet been found of Thomas Moddlen, the insane Free hold negro who escaped from the offi cers near Hightstown Friday after noon wbileen route to the state hos pital for the insane at Trenton in an automobile. Moddlen is about 40 years old and of flue physique, and for 18 years past has been employed I by W. A. Thompson, contracting JL mason. Recently his mind became tiobal ..j-iflfesd, but he was not violent and re oi-tiTt. witfg a revolver In hW posses-: won, he fortified himself in his bed /oom and refused to let any one enter, His family became alarmed and de serted their home at 8 o’clock Thurs dsy morning. Constable William D. j Hulse paid several .visits to the Mod dleu home Thursday in an effort to capture the crazed man; but ail the doors wer:- bolted and lie engaged him in conversation from a second story window. He induced him to eome down town that nighton pre text of getting hie wife to return home aud then locked liim up. Friday Jail 'vardeu Cashion aud sheriff’s clerk. C. B. Barkalow, start ed to take Moddlen to Trenton in an automobile. Mr. Barkalow sat on the front seat witli the driver while Mr. Cashion occupied the rear seat with Moddlen. As the latter was passive and quiet no handcuffs or straps were placed upon him. As the party was neiriug Hightstown Moddlen attempted to jump from tile auto. Mr. Cashion grappled witli him and a fierce struggle- ensued. Ttie machine was halted and Mr. Barkalow was about to come to Mr. Casiiiou’s rescue when Mr. Casiii n was bitten on the wrist and compell ed to loose his hold. Moddlen then I jumped from the machine aud ran 1 tbrougli the woods. Posses were out all night searching for him. Later—Moddlen came to the Coun ty Jail Monday and gave himself up. He' said he came to apologize to Mr. Cashion for bitiug him. He wastak eu to the State Hospital at Trenton on Tuesday. Moddlen last summer joined a col ored Masonic lodge in Jersey City and he imagines that Masons here are after him for having given the secrets away. He lias written several insulting letters to young white wo men in Freehold and he also imag ines that lie is wanted for that. Take care of the stomach and the health will take care of itself. If people only realized the soundness of that statement the majority luiuht live to a trood old age like Moses, “the eye undimiued, the natural force un abated.” It is in the stomach that the blood is made. It is from the stom ach that nourishment is dispensed to nerve and muscle. If the stomach is ‘weak” it eau't do its w hole work for each pifrt of the body. If it is diseased the disease will taiut the nourishment which is .distributed, and so spread disease throughout the body. It was the realization of the importance of the stomach as the very center of health and the common source of dis ease, which led Dr. Pierce to prepare his “dolden Medical Discovery.” “Diseases which orginate in the stom ach must be cured through the stom ach.” The soundness of tbia theory is proved every day by cures of dis eased organs, heart, liver, lunas, blood by the use of the “Disoovery” which is solely and singly a medicine for the blood and organs of digestion and nutrition. Not a secret or “patent medicine”, because ingredients are printed on the label; contains no alcohol, is purely vegetable. 1 The Cruelty of Thoughtlessness. Most of the cruelty of the world Is thoughtless cruelty. Very few people would Intentionally add to another’s load or make bis burden in life heavier or his path rougher. Most Of the great heart wounds are inflicted by thought less thrusts, flung out often in a mo ment of anger, when perhaps we were too proud to apologize or to try to heal the grievous wounds we had made. Can anything be more cruel than to discourage a soul who is struggling to do the best he can, to throw stumbling blocks in the path of those who are trying to get on In the world against great odds? i No life is Just the same after you have once touched it Will you leave j a ray of hope or one of despair, a flash of light or a somber cloud across some I dark life each day? Will you by thoughtless cruelty deepen the shadow which hangs over the life, or will you by kindness dispel It altogether? No matter how you feel or what is dis turbing your peace of mind, never al low yourself to send out a discourag ing, a cruel or an unkind word or thought.—Success Magazine. A Lott Dims. A man one day called upon the first John Jacob Astor with a business proposition which demanded an in vestment of $100,000 on his part. While listening to the plan he kept groping and feeling about on the floor for something he seemed to have dropped. When the plan had been explained he said readily: “All right I'll furnish the money.” At that instant a man entered to tell him that one of his buildings had burned down. “That happens nearly every day,” he said, with the utmost unconcern, and went on feeling about with great tare for that something on the carpet. Finally the visitor was curious enough to Inquire what he had dropped. “I dropped a dime here a moment ago,” he replied, “and I can’t find it. If a man’s buildings burn down they are gone, and be can't help It, but a man who deliberately throws away 10 cents because he won’t take the trou ble to look for it is not to be forgiven.” The more you think over it the more yon will see the good sense in that piece of philosophy. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of C _ Fsver and Wat Clethaa. General Baden-Powei! In bis book, "Scouting For Boys,” writes of the dangers that come from wet garments and of the beat way to dry one’s clothes: “You will often get wet through on service, and you will see recruits remaining In their wet clothes until they get dry again. No old scout would do so, as that is the way to catch fever and gfet 11). When you are wet take the first opportunity of getting your wet clothes off and dry ing them, even though you may not have other clothes to put on, as hap pened to me many a time. "I have sat naked nhder a wagon while my one suit of clothes was dry ing over a Are. The way to dry clothes over a Are is to make one of hot ashes and then build a small beehive shaped cage of sticks over the fire and hang your clothes over the cage, and they will very quickly dry; also In hot weather It Is dangerous to sit in your clothes when they have got wet from perspiration. “On the west coast of Africa I al ways carried a spare shirt hanging down my back, with the sleeves tied around my neck. So soon as 1 baited I would take off the wet shirt 1 was wearing and put on the dry, which had been hanging out In the sun on my back. By this means I never got fever when almost every one else went down with It.” _ Sacred Birds of the Aztecs. Imagine a bird the size of a pigeon, Its back, bead, wings and breast dazzling metallic green with golden sheen, its entire lower parts vivid scarlet, a soft, recurved crest curling over the bill and ferny, curved plumes, lapping over the wings, while two or three slender greed feathers a yard or more In length extend over and be yond the glossy black and white tall. Such Is the Quetzal, or resplendent Trogon, sacred bird of the Montezu mas, national emblem of Guatemala and the handsomest and most striking of all the gorgeous Trogon family. Al though found in nearly every republic of Central America, this superb crea ture is confined entirely to the heavy oak forests of the higher mountains. In these localities his shrill scream may be heard at any time, yet It is a difficult matter to even catch a glimpse of his brilliant form as he flits from tree to and far more difficult is I the task of securing specimens. Ap parently fully aware of their beauty and value, these royal birds are ex ceedingly shy and suspicions, keeping entirely to the topmost branches of the tallest trees, frequently far out of shotgun range. This statement is no exaggeration, for the trees often at :a!n a height of MOO feet.—Outing Mag PEfUlSYLYANIA RAILROAD FrgmFreehokl TO ASBURY PARK AND RETURN, ACCOUNT G. A. R. Encampment, Dept, of N. J. Tickets sold at above rate June 24 to 26, good for return passage until June 29, inclusive. PROPORTIONATE RATES FROM OTHER POINFS j. R. WOOD, GEO. W. BOYD, Passenger Traffic Manager. General Passenger Agent, Philadelphia, Pa. SALE BILLS WITH liCUTS^ I A.T THE |Inquirer Offiee. 118 W. Main Street The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive yon in this. 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F. D. BENNETT, Next to 1st Nat’1 Bank, Freehold, New Jersey. BDI^D Probably not, but why rtin the risk of seriously injuring your eyes by the use of incorrectly fitted glasses when you can have your eyes skillfully ex amined by 5TILE5&C0 Philadelphia Eye Speefallat NEXT VISIT WII^L BE WEDNESDAY JUNE 18th, 1908 Free examination at the American Hotel. EOURS. 10 a. m to 4. p. 1L IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY To Samuel M. Soloman: By virtue of an order of the Court of Chancery of New jersey, made on the day of the date hereof, in a certain cause wherein Annie M, Solomon is petitioner and you, Samuel M. Solo mon, are defendant, you are required to appear and plead, demur or answer to the petitioner’s petition on or before the TENTH DAY ,OF AUGUST, NEXT, or in default thereof, such de cree will be taken against you as the Chancel lor shall think equitable and just. The object of said suit is to obtain a decree of divorce dissolving the marriage between you and the said petitioner. Dated June 9th, 1908. MABIE A MA1DMENT. SolYs pet r._ _ Fine Job Printing at the Mon mouth Inquirer Office.' ♦WKWM'WtWt'I'WW* ■lET me kill those DEADLY DISEASE GERMS BEFORE THEY KILL YOU I Will Give a Course of Treatment Absolutely Free to Any Sufferer from Chronic or Other Diseases I PUT OXYGEN INTO YOUR STOMACH To Purify the Blood and Destroy the Oerms of Disease That Prey Upon Life. I Put Artificial Nerve Force Into the Nerves and Brain to Ohre Strength and Power I HAVE CURED WHERE OTHERS FAILED A Letter Dropped in the Mail Box To-day Brings You This Wonderful Free Course of Treatment To-morrow. It is Truly Astonishing How Quickly and Surely This Remarkable Treatment Will Overcome Deep Seated Kidney, Liver, Stomach and Lung Trouble and Other Dangerous Diseases. Let Me Give You the Proof Free My experience In the treatment of chronic diseases has been extensive and varied. I have been in general practice since 1880, a II. S. Pension Examiner for a number of years; Health Officer and member of Municipal Board of Health and President of County Medical Society. Mv treatment is not a patent medicine, nor a cure-all. but it is a treatment that will be prescribed especially for your par ticular case after a careful diagnosis of your condition. True, It will contain oxygen to kill dead ly germs that infest your blood and tis sues. It gives vitality to the red blood corpuscles, and ails you with vim and vigor, but it is death to bacteria and dis ease germs. My treatment will contain artificial nerve force, which is the nearest approach to natural, living nerve force that ever has been discovered. It is truly marvel ous how this artificial nerve force takes the place of the natural nerve force, and gives you wonderful strength and power. My treatment will also contain special remedies carefully prescribed to suit your particular condition. In my varied experience in treating chronic diseases I have had every oppor tunity to study various methods and kinds of treatment, and I can honestly and con scientiously tell you that I have never seen any treatment which I believe com pares with the treatment which I am in position to offer you. I know this is a strong statement, bnt I do not feel that It is one word stronger than the absolute truth. Mrs. N. W. Bowden, of Newborn, N. C.. Bays: "One year ago J was In a dying condition. Three doctors had given me up to die. I tried Force of Life, and to-day 'I am a well woman. I thank God for the day that treatment was Bent to me." 'a* is also a letter from Mrs. Hannah Peters, of Harrisburg, Pa. You may read it for yourself. Mrs. Peters says: “I thank our Heavenly Father for guiding me to you, and for the good health you have restored to me. I would have been In my grave had It not been for you. Your treatment has certainly cured me completely.” Then take the case of M. B. Hyatt. Here was a man who had gone from doctor to doctor; finally he decided to try Force of Life. United States Com missioner Ridgeway, who spent over three months Investigating Force of Life treat ment, says In regard to Mr. Hyatt that his case showed an instance of remark able recovery—“Raised, as It were, from the grave.” 1 do not ask you to scud me one cent of money; merely write me giving your name and address, and stating the leading symptoms of yonr trouble, and your case will be diagnosed and I will prescribe for you a special course of treatment. I will send you this course of treatment without one cent of pay. There are absolutely* no conditions attached to this offer. If yonr j letter Is received to-day, your treatment will be sent to-morrow. It will cost a great deal of money to give these free courses of treatment, hut I want to prove to the sick and afflicted in every city and locality in this country that at lait I have a treatment which Is abso lutely sure and certain In its effects. No matter what your diadh'se; no matter what treatment you have Wed, I want you to write to me. If I think that I cannot cure you, I will frankly tell you so, bat do net hesitate because your case has been pronounced incurable. If you arlsh to try my free course of treatment, I advise you to alt down and write me to-day. Address yonr letter to O. B. COUTANT. M. D., Suite Syracuse, N. Y.

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PAGE 3. Ifimntimitl) Inquirer FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY. THURSDAY, JUNE 18. 1008. MAXCY APPLEGATE Editor »nd Proprietor. Published at tiie INQUIRER BUILDING, 20 W. MAIN STREET, Opposite First National Bank. TELEPHONE CALL 30. Advertising Rates on application. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year.. Six Months.SJr 1 nree Months.00 Invariably in advance Single Copies, 3 Cents. A Proxy Father-in-law By C. B. LEWIS. Copyright, 1908, by Associated Lit- erary Press. .................a It was reported of the Hon. John Sharpe that he had but two fads where other schemers and speculators and owners of railroad lines had a dozen. One of his fads was the P. and G. rail- j road, In which he owned a controlling' Interest. He knew every foot of its roadbed and kept himself posted on all details. His other fad was that his daughter Edith, having finished her school days, should interest herself in the P. and G. even as he had. If she had been cut out for an old maid or a business wo man she might have obeyed orders lit erally, but as it was she had to assume an interest she did not feel. The Hon. John lived in Chicago, and his pet line was farther west When tired of making money and fighting other lines on the Stock Exchange or by some sly coup, he would order the general superintendent or other official into Chicago to report details and plan improvements. If it wasn’t the general superintend ent then it was one off a division or a civil engineer and bridge builder. He had them at his house that his daugh ter might hear and secure experience, and when they had departed he would go/Over the matter again with hjer to mhke sure that she understood. When the civil engineer engaged in buifpng the bridge over Centiped Lwas called in he and Miss Edith The Hon. John was in high ir d^jpehad geculda far tha^fje bridge could be built for $25,000 less than the estimated expense. He stretched his courtesy to invite the engineer to dinner and to ask Miss Edith to play the piano after ward. Then two or three things happened that he didn’t take cognizance of, al though he was rated a keen and ob servant man. From that night Miss Edith began to take more interest in railroad matters, especially in the department of bridge building, and Mr. Havens, the engineer, sent in report® that seemed to necessi tate his visiting Chicago much oftener than before. As punctually as the clock the Hon. John Sharpe took a trip over his line in his own private car every three months. Miss Edith had accompanied him twice before her sudden great in terest had come to the surface, and her enthusiasm over the third ap proaching trip so pleased him that he patted her golden hair and feelingly observed: “You are your own rather s aaugnter, j after all. You will come back better posted on the railroad business than any other girl in America.” “It must take a very brainy man to construct such a bridge as I have heard you and Mr. Havens talking about,” she demurely suggested. “It does, my dear—a very brainy man.” “And one pretty certain to rise in the world?” “Um—y-e-s.” The Hon. John had risen in the world, and he took care to let the world know it But he was rather opposed to- any one else rising, especially any body employed on the P. and G. road. “Yes, Mr. Havens may rise in his profession,” he reluctantly admitted, “but you must remember the social gulf now existing between us. I or you and I are the owners of the P. and G. road. Mr. Havens is an em ployee.” Ten days previous to the start on the third trip the Hon. John discovered something that threw him into a fer vid flutter. It was not that his daugh ter In her enthusiasm to learn more about railroad bridge building was writ ing to the engineer for further informa tion about the cantalever principle or that he in reply was telling about the tensile strength of steel and the strain put upon it under certain conditions. It was that a feeder to his line was about to pass into other hands unless he could secure enough proxies to pre vent this at the election to be held in Denver. He took off his coat and started in, and he came home one night with beaming face to say to the daughter: "My dear girl, always remember that the first principle of railroading la to get possession of the road.” "But if yon can’t get enough of the stock?" she asked. “Then get the proxies. Buy, borrow

V j or beg. but get them. It Is with prox ies that I shall get control of the M. and W. I need only a thousand more votes, nnd they are In Denver waiting for me.” The Hon. John was rubbing his hands when his car left Chicago. He enjoyed coups, and he was on his way to make one. He felt just a little sym pathy for the already routed enemy. Defeat would come with a dull thud, whereas he rather preferred something of a battle first. “Proxies, my dear,” he said to his daughter as he took a bundle of them from his pocket and thumbed them over—“proxies are the powder and ball to desolate the ranks of the enemy. Blessed be proxies!” At Santa Fe business detained him half a day. He had scarcely left the i car when Mr. Havens made his ap pearance and was received with a smile and a blush. The talk between him and Miss Edith began about the bridge oyer the Centiped, but gradually came down to less scientific and more interesting things. He referred to a hint she had given him in her last letter and assured her that he had acted on It, and he solic ited her permission to ask her father a certain momentous question before the day had expired. That afternoon when the train had pulled out Miss Edith fluttered around for a bit and then timidly asked: “Father, what will happen if you fail to get that thousand proxies you are counting on?” "Why—why, I’d be knocked into a cocked hat, daughter. But I can't fall. I know just where they are. I shall receive a wire at the next stop. I am glad to see you so Interested in the matter. Proxies are the powder and ball, and I’m sure of the proxies.” Half an hour later the Hon. John was stamping up and down the car and roaring at the top of his voice. He had received the expected wire and had been informed that the party on whom he depended had sold the stock at a sharp advance. This was the biggest setback he had received In five years. It meant a staggering blow to the P. and G. v\ hile he stamped and roared his daughter kept very quiet. When he had got through smashing the English language be sat down hard and wiped his forehead and looked at the young lady with despairing eyes. “Father, I don't think we are beaten yet,” she said in reply. “But we are, daughter. Those prox ies are certainly in the hands of that infernal M. and W. gang, and they have got me tight To think that I left It in the hands of Chilvers to betray me! Why, I deserve to be sent to an idiot asylum!” “But the game may not be lost after all. You know you have been trying to make a railroad woman of me for a year past.” “But that miserable Chilvers sold out his stock on me!” shouted the father as he brought his flat down with a great ba’g. _—__ (a*^65?assajpbuT'ffiaE>ra’part of the rail road~Ti titan ess. If Chilvers sold his stock some one bought it, and some one has the right to vote it in the meeting tomorrow." “But the M. and W. gang have got It, of course!” "Perhaps. It’s a part of the railroad business to find out. You didn’t want me to stop at grades, sidetracks, switchbacks and bridge building, did you? My dear father, remember that the first principle of railroading is to get possession of the road, the next to keep track of stock and proxies.” “Girl, you know something,” he said after a long look into her face. “Well, suppose the M. and W. gang didn’t get that stock?” He gasped for breath and turned pale. “Suppose that a gentleman interested in our road got it?” The Hon. John sat with his mouth 6pen. “Suppose that a gentleman, a real nice gentleman, a gentleman Interested In—In—you, got the stock with the Idea of helping us out?” “By thunder, but I’d break his ribs hugging him! Out with it, girl! Don’t keep your old dad on the hooks this way.” “Well, then, Mr. Havens Is In the Pullman ahead. He had to come up to Senta Fe to hurry the last of the bridge stuff down. As he knew how much you wanted control of that feed er and as he knew how interested I was In the railroad business he—he”— But the Hon. John had sent the porter for Mr. Havens, and Edith skip ped away to her stateroom. An hour later there was a knock on her door. "Say, young lady, you think you’re smart, don’t you?” said the father as she appeared. “I’m your daughter, you know.” “Urn—y-e-s! Well, I’ve told Havens that that bridge over the Centlped has got to be finished before there Is any further nonsense. After that he will be superintendent of the P. and G., and If you learn any more about the rail road business it will be from him. You are a little too apt for me.” Enough to Keep Him Waiting, “I hate to have my husband find a horseshoe.” “Why?” “He always brings It home, nails It up and then waits around for tuck to Btrike him.” “Well?” “And there never was such a man for finding horseshoes.” Cleveland Plain Dealer. He Went. Mr. Liugerlong—I had a queer adven ture this afternoon. Miss de Muir (with a swift glance at the clock)—You mean yesterday afternoon, 1 presume. —Exchange. i The girl leaned forward after scan ning the road In both directions and touched the chauffeur’s arm. The great crimson car came to a panting, .deliberate standstill. The girl did not wait for the chauf feur to help her, but sprang lightly to the road and vanished Into the wood land on the right. The chauffeur turn ed the car as If his thoughts were con centrated on the necessity of making the smallest possible turn in time of safety, in order to be prepared in time of emergency. And then the great crim son car shot back in the direction from whence It had come. Safely screened by the underbrush, the girl found a clearing In the wood land and sat down on a moss grown log. Deftly she unwound the swath lngs of chiffon from her hat, baring a face delicate and sensitive as the anemones opening at her feet. She drew off her gloves and felt of the velvety moss on the old log, then stooped to gather flowers. Finally, with the blossoms forgotten in her lap, she leaned forward, her elbows on her knees, her chin propped in the palms of her hands, watching the woodland life around her. Chipmunks and squirrels scampered along the edge of the clearing. Where the sun shone upon a tangle of fern and Jack in the pulpit two robins perched pertly on dry twigs and dis cussed the troubles of May moving day. From the shadows of the wood beyond came the persistent hammering of a woodpecker. Beyond the screen or unaerorusn au tomobiles and smart turnouts spun on toward the race track, where the world of fashion was foregathering. An hour passed, and then at the distant wall of a peculiar siren whistle the girl sprang to her feet, dropped her lapful of flow ers and ran to the roadside. Bearing down upon her was a crlm Bon car, twin of the one which had dropped her so unceremoniously an hour earlier. But the resemblance stopped with the car. The chauffeur In the first car had worn a spick span uniform In tan color from the tips of his highly polish ed boots to the crown of his heavy red cap. The man In this car wore a dis reputable looking storm coat of Eng lish cloth, a shabby visor cap and a pair of goggles which had certainly seen more prosperous days. He was scorching along at a fine pace. But the girl calmly stepped to the edge of the road and waved a de taining hand—a bare hand at that. Thn- TOachlne -glowed 'dbwTir mia the man made preparations to descend, as became one hailed by a maiden In dis tress. But again the girl raised a de taining hand. “My car met with an accident. I thought perhaps—I am very anxious to reach Dalton this afternoon. Perhaps you were going that way. Would you give me a lift?” She looked up eagerly Into his star tled face. Then the man coughed dis creetly, swallowed a smile and sprang from the machine. “I was—or thought I was—going to the races, but I am sure It will be much more pleasant at—er—was it Dal ton you said?” The man’s accent was English. The admiration in his eyes was the sort that knows no nationality. The girl flushed beneath it and sprang into the car before the astonished man could assist her. For a few minutes the car ran on in silence. Then the girl spoke abruptly. “Let us take this crossroad. Then a mile farther we will strike the old Dalton turnpike. There we will not meet”— “I understand,” he Interrupted grave ly. And the great car swerved Into the crossroad, running through a stretch of woodland. Again the girl seemed plunged In thought. But at last the man remark ed a bit lamely: “Perfect day, Isn’t It?” The girl looked up at him shyly. Her eyes were soft and luminous. "Oh, I have had the most beautiful hour there In the woods. I’ve never seen anything half so wonderful as those little creatures doing Just as they pleased. Just as soon as the birds tired of one tree or bush or fern they flew off to another. They did not mind me nor each other. Just think of being like that all your life!” The man looked at her curiously, as If she were a new specimen of the genus feminine and entirely worthy of deep study. “It Is all so different from what I’ve been used to. I wake up knowing that Marie will be right there with my chocolate. And then will come cards and mall and flowers and Aunt Mar garet. Of course Aunt Margaret Is a dear, but ten years of doing things right under Aunt Margaret’s eyes are Very tiresome. Don’t you think so?” "I am quite sure It must be a terrible bore,” replied the man gravely. “And then seeing the same people everywhere you go and^ being quite sure that you will see "no one that Aunt Margaret has not seen first” The man bit his lip at this naive con fession. "Do you know,” said the girl, waxing confidential as the car lazed along over the tree hung road, “I’ve always dreamed of having a man come to my rescue Just like this—a man I had never known—a man quite different from' any of the men f Save ever met”— She paused, and the man at her side studied her with grave eyes. "Now. there was Bessie Stewart— she married Jack Coghlan. They’d gone to kindergarten and dancing school together. And then she’d gone to all his college ‘proms’ and the same cotillons. Why. It was Just like marry ing some one who had lived In your own family always. “And now they're bored to death with each other. They had a honey moon at Monte Carlo, where they had been the year before on the Borden Jones yacht, and they came buck to the same old round of teas and dinners and dances. There was no romance in that.” The man shook his head. “But Harriet, one of our parlor maids, married a miner way out west. She met him by answering an adver tlsement in a matrimonial paper. He came east after her, and she wrote Mnrie that they were awfully happy. He had never lienten her once.” The man flung back his head and laughed, and the girl laughed with him. Then suddenly she clutched his sleeve. "You’ve passed the Dalton turnpike, and 1 must be at Stoneywold for lunch.” “We are not going to Dalton,” said the man calmly. “I’ve been out this way before. Just two miles beyond we will cross the state line.” "But why? Oh, I must go on to Stoneywold.” The man Ignored the remark. "And across the state line, I under stand, there Is no need of a license.” “Oh!” said the girl very softly, and the great car stopped beneath the arch of freshly leaved trees. He flung aside his heavy driving gloves and took the delicate, sensitive face of the girl between his two bands. "Will you, dearest?” Her eyes stopped dancing and turned wondrous tender. “Oh, I hoped you’d understand, but I did not dream”— "Will you, dearest?” persisted the man. She lowered her long lashes over the eyes Into which he tried so hard to gaze. Later she murmured from the shelter of his arms: “But I want to tell you the truth, Lester. I never loved you till Just this minute. AnckI had made up my mind that if you did not understand I would Just”— He threw on the power. "Let us get across the line quick be fore you change your mind again.” Hiram Manning, Justice of the peace In the —th district, plucked at his beard and regarded the couple doubt fully. "I’d like t’ oblige you, but this ain’t no Gretna Green, an’—well, I don’t mind tellln' you that the girl looks un der age.” “But I am not,” protested the girl. "I am twenty.” “Not castin’ no reflections, ma’am, but I’d like some proof”— 1 man looked at each otifer^fhen life girl’s troubled glance traveled to the table, and a smile brightened her face, “Isn’t that proof enough that my family are willing?” She held the paper toward the Jus tice with the face of a girl peering straight from the printed page. The Justice looked from the picture to the girl, and his face alternately flushed and paled. “Gosh all hemlocks, you’re Banker Claflln’s girl, and he—he’s”— "Yes,” said the girl, her eyes danc ing. “He is Lord Gramaton. But, In deed, he’s very nlcd In spite of the fact,” she added as Justice of the Peace Manning continued to stare In credulously at the man’s slim figure in Its disreputable motoring apparel. “You wait a bit. I’ll be right back,” said the Justice, with sudden accession of spirit, and he started for the door. The girl and man sprang after him. “You are not going to telephone—to town—to those wretched reporters. Please, please, let us be married quite alone, with Just some of your family for witnesses,” cried the girl. “Yes,” added the man nervously. “We’ve Just run away from all that sort of thing—piffle, don’t you know. Please let us get away quietly. Don’t telephone, I beg of you.” "Telephone nothin’,” exclaimed the Justice heartily. "I’m Just goln’ to put on m.v Sunday suit. Never expect to marry a millionaire’s girl and a lord again In my time.” Captivating a Queen. ft wns by his graceful execution of ft dance that young Hatton first capti vated the heart of Queen Elizabeth, says Edward Scott in his book on “Dancing In All Ages.” He had been brought up to the law and entered court, ns his enemy, Sir John Perrot, used to say, ‘‘by the gaillarde,” as his first appearance there was on the occa sion of a mask ball, and her majesty wns so struck by his good looks and activity that she made him one of her band of pensioners, who were consid ered the handsomest men In England. It is said “that the favors which the virgin monarch extended to her new favorite excited the jealousy of the whole court, especially that of the Earl nf Leicester, who, thinking to depre ciate the accomplishments of the young lawyer, offered to Introduce to Elizabeth’s notice a professional dancer whose Baltatory performances were considered far more wonderful than Hatton’s. To this suggestion, however, the royal lady, with more vehemence than elegance, exclaimed: “Pish! I will not see your man. It la his trade.” An Inspiration. Little Willie—Suy, pa, what Is an In spiration? Pa—An Inspiration, my son. Is the sudden recollection of some sue who will probably stand for a touch.— Kansas City Newsbook. AEOW2© WHITE, LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Stoves Heaters l AND OIL STOVES. Full line of COOKING UTENSILS COOK STOVES AND RANGES. Wadsworth’s Pure Linseed Oil Paints riN work ^jstd plumbtno Repairia d l i pro m ptly. Garden Hose and Plumbers supplies. ALONZO WHITE, South Street. Freehold COME people drink Imported Beer and Ale or Stout just as a fad; certainly not on ac count of price, for BafllaetSmie9s costs no m$>re ajid yields to none in quality/ Brewed In America Bottled at the Brewery NEWARK, N. J., U. S. A. Cawgcrs. Aaron e. johnston COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW j SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER. Solicitor, Master and Special Master iu Chan j eery. 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Bad Symptoms. The woman who has periodical head aches, backache, sees imaginary dark spots or specks floating or dancing before her eyes, baygnawing distress or heavy full feeling tfiJtomach, faint spells, drag ging-downAeellng In lower abdominal or pelvic region, easily startled or excited, lrregulrfror painful periods, with or with out [civic catarrh, is suffering from weakn*ses amkflerangements that should have e:my auention. Not all of above symptoms aye likely to be present in any case at qne/ime. NegloCt./l or badly treated and such cases/ofj/n run into maladies which de man/ tXe surgeon’s knife if they do not res tuna tally. ~o medicine extant has such a long ^merOtiS record nf cures In such a Ur. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrlm j>o mcdicihe has such a strong i |pt In r-.cn unit oi earn m Its The very best Ingredle^Sl known to medical science for the cure of woman’s peculiar ailments enter Into its composition. No alcohol, harmful, or habit-forming drug is to be found in the list of its Ingredients printed on each bottle-wrapper and attested under oath. In any condition of the female system, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription can do only good—never harm. Its whole effect is to strengthen. Invigorate and regulate the whole female system and especially the pelvic organs. When these are de ranged in function or affected by disease, the stomach and other organs of digestion become sympathetically deranged, the nerves are weakened, and a long list of bad, unpleasant symptoms follow. Too much must not be expected of this "Fa vorite Prescription.” It will not perform miracles: will not cure tumors—no med icine will. It will often prevent them, if taken in time, and thus the operating table and the surgeon’s knife may be avoided. Women suffering from diseases of long standing, are Invited to consult Doctor Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce’s Medical Adviser (1000 pages) is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps for paper-coVered, or 31 stamps for cioth-bound copy. Address as above. Bubbles didn't care whether it was appropriate or not; she wanted it, and she was saving up her money to get it. Every morning when she went to the store she found the girls talking of their summer hats. “What kind are you going to have?” they would ask her, and Bubbles would laugh—the gay bubbling laugh that had given her her nickname—and would say, “Wait and see, girls; wait and see.” “Oh, piffle!” one of them said on a certain June morning. “I don’t believe you’re going to get a hat” “Wait and see; wait and see,” said Bubbles provokingly. And then after the str**0'* TTp wanted jvu iu«e uim Lor uuuseic. See? But Dr. Lindsay’s got some of the boys started, and It looks like a pardon, Betty; it certainly does.” She sank on her knees beside the bed. “Qh, that is too good to be true.” “And that ain’t all, Betty. I had some shares in a gold mine; thought it was a dead one, but Lindsay he’s been looking into it, and mebbe—well, just 1 mebbe I can take you and Lindsay on a wedding trip over to Germany. Lind say says the springs over there would do wonders for me, and Lindsay needs a change, and—well, Betty, I’d been dead by this time if It hadn’t been for your coming.” He looked up to meet the shining eyes of young Dr. Lindsay. “Say, Lindsay, ain’t there something In the good book somewheres about the least of these? I want to find that verse. I’m going to learn it. I cer tainly am. Ah, there Is so much for me to learn and so little time!” A Persian Romance. A Persian plaque in the South Ken sington museum, London, bears by means of clever relief and brilliant color a romantic tale, part legend and part history. Nobody knows the pro portion of each. At all events it is declared to be an incident in the life of Baharam V. of the Sassanlan dynasty. Baharam, ac cording to legend and plaque, was a wonderful archer. During one of his hunting expeditions, on which his fa vorite wife had accompanied him, he shot a sleeping antelope with such pre cision as to graze the animal’s ear. The antelope awoke and, believing him self annoyed by a fly, put his hind hoof to his ear to strike oft the fly. A second arrow sent by the royal hand fixed the antelope’s hoof to his horn. The king’s wife merely said, "Prac tice makes perfect,” which touched the pride of her royal spouse. Indeed, as the penalty for her plain speaking she was sent out into the mountains to perish, but instead found shelter in a village. Here she lodged in an upper room ascended by twenty steps and, having bought a calf, car ried it up and down every day. The king, passing by four years later, was amazed at seeing a young woman car rylng a cbw up a flight of twenty steps. The lady again took occasion to remark, “Practice makes perfect,” whereupon she unveiled, was recogniz ed and restored to favor. The Bible’s Good Use of Words. The Bible as a standard for the cor rect use of words has been urged upon readers by Professor Lounsbury of Yale, writing in Harper’s Magazine. “M[ake up your mind,” says Professor Lounsbury, ‘‘that the Bible is a guide to bo followed grammatically as much as it is morally. The language of our version belongs to the sixteenth ecu tury. It therefore naturally contnin expressions which, though proper a -jjrc mot Ju jwrd with common '’iisaffe "or "Aj jf /ytsHT was originally tran^^rod. which wa generally the relative pronoun reti ring to persons. Hence we say. *v Father which art in heaven.’ Mor than this, the subtle distinction foun in the employment of shall and w 1 had not then become established in tli language But these do not affect tin correctness of its procedure in regnru to expressions still met with every where. In such cases accept its au-‘ thority without question and conform your practice with it.” SHERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue oi a writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out 01 the Court of Chancery of the istate 01 New Jersey will be exposed to sale at public vendue, on MONDAY, THF SIXTH DAY OF JULY, 1908, between the hours of 12 o’clock and 5 o’clock, (at 2 o'clock) in the afternoon of said day, at tht Court House, Freehold, in the township of Free hold, countv of Monmouth, New Jex^ev. All that certain lot of land and premises, here inafter particularly described, situate, lying ami being in the township of Atlantic, in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, and being lot No. 6 of Map and survey of the woodland of John W. Couover, deceased, made Dec. 14th, 1870, and being a part of the premises conveyed to said Daniel r. Schanck by deed from Thomas C. Ely and wife, dated March 24, A. D., 1873, and recorded in Monmouth Co. Clerk’s Office in Book 248 of Deeds, folio 324, Ac, Beginning at a stake in the intersection of the road leading from Ba,rrentown to Hillsdale, with the road from Hillsdale to Clover Hill, and running thence as the needle pointed Decem ber 14, 1870, (1) south seventy-four degrees and fifty-five minutes east along the late mentioned road, five chains, and four links to the north west corner of Patrick CunnifTs lot (being lot No. 7 of said survey); thence (2) south twenty two degrees and fifteen minutes, east along said CunnifTs lots one chain and eighty-four links to the northwest corner of lot No. 5; theuce (3) south sixty-seven degrees snd forty five minutes west four chains along lot No. 5, to the north-west corner thereof in the first be fore mentioned road; thence (4) aloug said road, north twenty-two degrees and fifteen minutes west four chains and ninety links to the place of beginning, containing one acre and thirty five hundredths of an acre* strict measure. Seized as the property of Bridget Fitzpatrick et als, taken in execution at the suit of John Fitzpatrick, and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. Dated June 1st, 1908. Marion Jones, Sol’rs. ($9-°°) rfrfl But Imported TEAS COFFEES^ At HALF Price FiksstTias, ldo., 27c., 33c. Beat, 37c. »lb. Finest Coffees, lie., 13c., 18c. Best, 23c. a ID, The supplying of Farmers, ©range*, Institutions. Clergymen and Large Consumers a Specialty, NO GOODS SOLD AT RETAIL, For full particulars, address Consumer* Importing Tea Company p, Q.Box290,

sey, will be exposed to sale at public venuuc, on MONDAY. THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF JUNE, 1908, between the hours of ia o’clock ami 5 o’clock at (2o’clock) in the afternoon of said day, at the Court House, Freehold, in the townhip of Freehold, county of Monmouth, New Jersey. All that tract or lot of land and premises sit uate in the Township of Ocean, in the County of Monmouth aud State of New Jersey, bound ed and described as follows, at Long Branch. Begiuniug at a point on the eastwardly side of Grant Avenue at the distance of One hun dred and seventy (170) feet, four (4) iuches northwardly from the northwardly side of Main Street (North Broadway); thence extending northwardly along the eastwardly side of said Grant avenue fifty (50) feet; thence eastwardly at right angles with said Graut Avenue three hundred aud twenty-four (324) leet, nine (9) in ches to the westwardly side of Ocean Avenue; thence extending north eighty eight (88) de grees fifty-three (53) minutes east, (erroneously given in the mortgage sought to be foreclosed herein as northwardly eighty-eight (88) degrees and fifty-three (53) minutes west) crossing said Ocean Aveuue three hundred and fifty-four (354) teet five (5) inches, more or less, to the low water mark in the Ocean; thence along the same South fourteen (14) degrees, fifteeu (15) minutes west forty (40) feet eleven (n) inches; thence south eighty-two (82) degrees tnirty two' 32) minutes west, recrossing said Ocean Avenue, three hundred aud fifty-nine (359) feet six (6) iuches to the Westerly side of said Ocean Avenue, and thence westwardly on a line at right angles to said Grant Avenue, three hun dred and seventeen (317) feet two (2) inches to the first mentioned point and place of begin ning. Bounded northwardly by ground grant ed to Maria Browne, southwardly by ground granted to James H. Watson, eastwardly by the Ocean and westwardly by Grant Avenue afore said. The covenant of warianty hereinafter mentioned not to extend, however, to such part §f said lot as is included within the bed of said Ocean Avenue or beyond high water mark in the Ocean. Being the same land aud premises conveyed to the said John Robert Ferrier by FUlmund H. Wright (unmarried) by deed bearing date April ’,rd, 1900, which deed is to be recorded simul taneously herewith. Seized as the property of John Robert Ferrier, et al, taken in execution at the suit of State Mutual Building and Loan Association, of New Jersey and to be sold by C, ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. Harvey F. Carr, Sol’r. Dated May 22nd, 1908. ($11.70) SHERIFF’S SALE.—Bv virtue of a .3 writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out of he Court of Chancery, of the State of New Jer sey, will be exposed to sale at public vendiie, on TUESDAY THE 30th DAY OF JUNE, (908, between the hours of 12 o’clock md 5 o’clock, (at 2 o’clock) in the afternoon >f said day, at the Globe Hotel, Red Bank, in the township of Shrewsbury, county of Mon mouth, New Jersey. All that tract or parcel of land and premises. Hereinafter particularly described, situate, lying md being in the Township of Shrewsbury, in ihe County of Monmouth, and State of New Jersey, at Red Bank, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a poiut in the westerly side of Riverside Avenue, at the intersection of said Avenue with Allen Place; thence (1) westerly, ilong the northerly side of Allen Place, one umdred and forty-five (145 ft.) fect to a stake; hence (2) north, ten degrees west, one hundred 100 ft.) feet to a stake; thence (3) easterly, and parallel with the first mentioned course, Seventy eet and six inches (70 ft. 6 in.) more or less, to he westerly side of said Riverside Avenue; hence (4) southerly, along the westerly side of aid Avenue, one hundred and twenty-four feet md five inches (124ft. .sin.) more or less, to he point or place of beginning. Being intended to be a part of the same prem ises ^conveyed to said Robert W. Gleason by John T. Allen, et al., Executors *c„ by deed la ted December 31st, 1894 and recorded in Book ,53 of Deeds, pages 295 Ac., and being also in ended to be the same premises conveyed to aid party of the first part by said Robert W. ileason and wife by deed bearing even date lerewith. This mortgage being given to secure 1 part of the purchase money in said deed uentioned. Seized as the property of Edward F. McGuire. •t als, taken in execution at the suit of Samoa* 1. Combs, et als, and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. William A. Stevens, Sol’r. Dated May 27, 1908. ($9 ^HEKIFF’S SALE.—Artue writ °f fi- fa. to me directed -gK. he. Monmouth Pleas Court wi o salt- at public venduc.on p|jt{r?Hptf£«*. .Freehold, in ownship of Freehold; county of Monmouth, 'Jew Jersey. All the defendant’s right title, and interest in md to all that certain tract or parcel of land md premises hereinafter particularly,describ ed, situate, lyiug and being in the township of >cean, in the County of Monmouth and state of New Jersey, at North Long Branch. Begin ling a* a poiut on the north side of White street, 1 street running East and West through a tract jf land formerly the property of Benjamin White, deceased; said point being distant three iiuudred amt five feet seven inches westerly irom the point where the northerly line of said white street intersects the westerly line of Rail road avenue and running thence northwardly ilong the |East line of lots No. 30 and 31 as laid down on the map by which said lots were •iold, one hundred and fifty feet; thence (2) eastwardly and parallel with the north side of the aforesaid street fifty feet. Thence (3) southwardly and parallel with the first men tioned course, one hundred and fifty feet: thence (4) westwardly along the line of the aloresaid street fifty ffeet to the place of begin ning. Being the same premises described in a quit claim deed Irom John Barber, to the fore said James H. Lane, dated October ist, A. D., t888, not yet recorded. Seized as the property of James Lane taken in execution at the suit of Hoyt and Francis, and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. John W. Slocum, Att’y. Dated June 9, 1908. ($8.10) Monmouth county circuit COURT. Notice is hereby given that a writ of attach ment was issued out of the Monmouth Couuty Circuit Court against the rights and credits, i moneys and effects, goods and chattels, lauds and tenements of Viucent Cirrito and Anna Cirrito absent debtors, at the suit of the E. H. Ogden Lumber Company, body corporate, for the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, returnable j on the twenty-fourth day of April, 1908. and that the same was duly executed and returned on the sixteenth day of April, 1908, by the Sheriff of the County of Monmouth. Dated May 7, 190&. MCDERMOTT ENRIGHT, Attorneys of Plaintiff, 259 Washington Street, ($5 60) 5t Jersey City, N. J. Notice of settlement of ACCOUNT. Estate of Collen B. Meirs, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the accounts of the subscribers, Executors of the estate of said deceased will be audited and stated by the Surrogate and reported for Settlement to the Orphans Court of the County of Monmouth, on THURSDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, A. D., 1908. J THOMAS MEIRS. LOUISA MEIRS. Dated May irth, 1908. NEW JERSEY CENTRAL. Time Table in eflect May 25,'1908. LEAVE FREEHOLD Fo-New York, Newark, Elliabeth *c„ via all rail route at 7. to, 7,40, 9.00, 11.50 A. M., a. 15,4.30 7.00 P. M. Sundays 7.45 A. M. 4.20, 9.00 P. M. For Long Branch, Ocean Grove *c. at 9.00, 11,50, A.M. 2.15, 4.20,‘6.00 P. M. days 7. 45 A, M. 4.30, 9.00 P. M. LEAVE FARMINGDALE For New York via Red Bank 7.40, 11.09 A. M. 3.57, 7.02, P. M. Sundays, 8.27 P. M. For Vineland, Bridgeton, 7.13 A. M. 3.29 P. M. For Toms River and Barnegat, 7.13, 11.34 A. M. 3.29 6.22 P. M. Sundays 8.53 A. M. Through tickets to all points at lowest ratea may be had on application to the ticket agent at the station. W. C. HOPE, Gen 1 Pans. Agt. W. G. Besler, V .P and Gen'l. Mg’r. eXSC«l®®®®S(^ Don’t forget that The Inquirer prints Sale Bill? with cuts at the low est possible priees. We age very heavy heavy paper that will lagt where posted.

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Cent-fl-U)orli IPcpartmcnt Jttoueg to i Money to loan.—s. c. Cowart, Freehold, N. J. hprW-tf. j miscellaneous. CASH paid for chickens Geo. R. Perrine. —-—-a-| FOR the best meats come to ax South St. Geo. R. Perrine. WANTED.—Live Calves and poul try. Carson Bros. FOR Best Smoked Meats and Lard go to Carson Bros. EVERYTHING fresh and prices right. Geo. R. Perrine. COLD BOILED Hame at Carson Bros. ______ CHOICE Meats. Prices reasona ble. Louis Crouse NO waiting at Nate Brown's barber shop. Accommodated by three experien* ed barbers. Next to Post Office. HARD AT PLANKS. Fight on Injunctions In Convention. TAFT VIEWS IN LEAD. Secretary Also Wins Contested Southern Votes. TWO BIG SECOND PUCE BOOMS Fairbanks and Cummins Out distance Competitors. Chicago, Jnge 17.—For the time be n of nominations has ary importance in the legate* to the ltepub nyenfien, -Interest be ad ay in the platform to be adopted by the convention. Another matter of importance that overshad ows for the time being the names to be placed on the ticket is the tight that will in all likelihood lie made by the allies against the placing of the south ern Taft delegates on the permanent roll of the convention. The committee on credentials has approved the action of the national committee in seating the Taft delegates from several states, and the opposition is expected to carry the war to the floor of the convention. The main light on the platform is on the plank, favored by the administra tion and its candidate, Secretary Taft, advocating a curb on the power of the federal courts to issue writs of injunc tion summarily without delilierate con sideration. This is the plank whose adoption Is vehemently urged by the labor union men, headed by President Samuel Gompers of the American Fed eration of Labor. It is no less strenu ously opposed by the National Associ ation of Manufacturers and other busi ness organizations. The matter of the plank is “up to” a subcommittee of the committee on resolutions ap pointed by the chairman of the full bbmmittee, Senator Hopkins of Illi nois. Taft Men’s Claim. Tbe Taft forces say they have the advantage in the struggle over the in junction plank of the platform. They assert that the appointment of a sub committee of thirteen to consider the various controverted planks was a dis tinct success for them and pointed With .much satisfaction to the fact that Chairman Hopkins had appointed on this committee nine men who favor the injunction plank and four who are opposed to it. The Taft managers predict a favora ble result in the full committee and in the convention, but admit their light will be desperate. The opposition, still under the lead ership of Speaker Cannon, who directs his forces from his quarters at the Union League club, claims 30 votes to 22 on the full committee and expresses confidence that when the platform goes to the convention the objectionable plank will lie missing. A poll of the subcommittee showed that It stands 9 to 4 in favor of the in junction plank, Messrs. Hopkins, Long, Adams, Ellis, Crawford. Kellogg. Wn” ner, Ballinger and Groner being for and Messrs. Crane, Payne, MaizeII and Clark against. Samuel Gompers and other labor ad vocates were heard by the subcommit tee today. Fight on Other Plank*. Besides the opposition to the injunc tion plank, atoh saying his name would not he presented to the Denver convention. Governor Johnson declar ed that under no circumstances would he be a candidate for a third term as governor. He will not even accept the nomination if it is tendered him. David B. Hill sailed from New York for his first trip across the Atlantic ocean, declaring that the Democratic party was dead. He made some point ed remarks about William J. Bryan, in which he accused him of having ruin ed the party. He referred to Secretary Taft as “the candidate of political patronage.” The Oregon Democratic state con vention passed resolutions indorsing William J. Bryan for the presidential nomination. The Ken'ucky, Virginia and Utah Democratic conventions indorsed Mr. Bryan’s candidacy.

The British retail FOREIGN trade organizations NOTES have given notice of a OF INTEREST further general rise in the price of meat, the advance being attributed to the shortage of cattle in Great Britain and the scarcity in America. A most specific denial was given by the Berlin foreign office of the report that Germany expressed to the St. Pe tersburg government her disapproval of a formal alliance being consummat ed between Great. Britain, Russia and France as a result of the meeting be tween King Edward and Bmperor Nicholas. A prize of $4,000 has been offered by M. Armengaud for the first aeroplanist who remains in the air for thirty min utes. The Gould-De Sagan wedding will not, it was announced, taka place in France. i This woman saya Lydia E. Ptnkham’s Vegetable Compound saved her Ufa. Bead her letter. Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, of Manning, Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: I can truly say that Lydia E. Pink ham’a Vegetable Compound saved my life, and 1 cannot express ay gratitude to you in words. For years I suffered with ths worst forms of female com plaints, continually doctoring and spending lots of money for medloine without help. I wrote you for advice, followed it as directed, and took Lydia E. Pinkham’* Vegetable Compound and it has restored me to perfect health. Had it not been for you I should have been in my grave to-day. I wish every suffering woman would try it.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMCN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, Griodic pains, backache, that bear j-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tton.dtalne8a.or nervous prostration, why don’t you try it Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. Bhe has guided thousands to ealth. Address. Lvnn. Mass. SH BRIFF’8 SALE.—By virtue of a writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jer sey, will be exposed to sale at public vendue on WEDNESDAY, THE 22nd DAY OF JULY, 1908, between the hours of 12 o’clock, and 5 o’clock (at 2 o'clock) in the afternoon of said day, at the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Of fice, (P. O. Building), Ocean Grove, in the Township of Neptune, County of Monmouth. New Jersey. Two certain indentures of lease, made by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church to the said Aaron Reed, viz: One bearing date, the first day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and sev enty four, for lot number Nine Hundred and Sixty Nine, on the map of lots on camp ground of the said Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Associa tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church; said lease being recorded in the office of the clerk of the County of Monmouth in Book 266 of Deeds, page 354; the other said lease bearing date, the first day of April iu the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, for lot number Niue Hundred and Seventy, on the map of lots on camp ground aforesaid, and which said last named lease is recorded iu the clerk’s office aforesaid in Book 270 of Deeds, page 338, and all the messuage, etc., with the appurtenances, and also all the estate, right, tuXeT term years yet to mand whatsoever of the said pwrty oT the first part hereto, of, iu, to and out dr the same. Seized as the property oV Aaro'n Reed, et als, taken in execution af tfi£' suit of Franklin Osborn, administrator, etc., of Cornelius Os born, deceased,, and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. HalstkadH. Wainright, Sol’r. Dated June 16th, 190S. ($7-*c) 4X*XsX»X5)®SX2X2XsXSl(SX£)@SXSX5)(fXsX2Xs^X*)®(*)(9 Don’t forget that The Inquirer prints S«le Bills with curs at the low est possible prices. We print on heavy heavy paper that w.ll stay where posted. SHERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out at the Court of Chancery of the 9tate of New Jer ley, will be exposed to sale at public vendue, oa MONDAY, THE 20th DAY OF JULY, 1908, between the hours of 12 o'clock and 5 o'clock, (at 2 o’clock) in the afternoon of Mid d*y, at the Court House, Freehold, in the town ship of Freehold, county of Monmouth, New Jeraey. All that certain tract or parcel of land and premises, hereinafter particularly described, situate, lying and being in the Township of Middletown, in the Connty of Monmouth and Mtate of New jersey and the buildings thereon erected. Bounded on the west by lands of Andrew I. Wtiaait^ northeast by the cenlei of the public road leading from Phillips Mill to New MO0 lhouth and on the south by the northerly line of the first tract described in a deed from j. Burton Hallenbake and wife and others, dated March 1, 1888, and recorded in Book 498 of Deeds pages 306 fkc. The tract conveyed, containing three fourths of an acre. The said Sim Ruthven Hallenbake, claiming title to the equal undivided one third part of said premises as one of the heirs at law of Obadiah Hallenbake, deceased and to the equal undivided two thirds thereof, by virtue of a deed from J. Burton Hallenbake and others dated March 1, 1888, and recorded in Book 498 of Deeds, pages 306 ac. Seized as the property of Martha S. Ryder and Lewis Ryder, taken in execution at the suit of Richard B. Brown, et ala, executors, Ac.* and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. Dated June nth, 1908. Oiorgk W. Brown, Sol’r. ($7.20). SHERIFF’S SALE.—Bv virtue of at writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of the state of New Jersey will be exposed to sale at public vendue ON MONDAY, THE loth DAY OF JULY, 1908k between the hours of 12 o’clock and 5 o’clock (at 2 o'clock), in the afternoon of said day at the Court House, Freehold, in the township of Free hold, countv of Monmouth, New Jersey. All the following described tracts or parcels of land and premises, situate, lying and being iit the township of Marlboro, in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, Beginning at a locust tree, standing in the corner of Kuliff R. Schenck's laud and known by the name of Garren Laurie's corner; thence north twenty-five degrees west, thirteen chains and thirty-four links; thence south seventy-one degrees and thirty minutes west, ten chains and twenty-three links to John Walter's lands or line; thence north twenty-five degrees west down the division line between said Walter’s land and this tract, iorty-two chains and twen ty-five links to the road leading from Freehold to Middletown Point; thence north fifty deareea and thirty minutes east, seven chains ind forty five links; thence north, twenty-seven devreJ. east three chains eighty-three links toCorUelta! Honce s corner; thence south, twenty-five de grees east, thirty-two chains and fifty.five !ink: to a hickory bush; thence north sixtv-eiwht gi? grees nnd ten minutes east six chains and five links, thence north seventy-four d. Jf.ty‘ east, one chain and eighty-se-er^ links-Whence north seventy four degrees and ’orty minute,..* seven chains and sixty-eight links)theSce Jmth seventy-six degrees and thirty minmS, two chains and forty-nine llnL; thenV?„o4n sixty-five degree, and thirty misu'ti 'eM “h?ee chains and twenty-eight finks; thence nolfn sixty-nine degrees east three chain* and e°ght links to the corner of lands now belonvio J.i. David Honce and William vTn Cl.°f S twenty-one degrees west two chains and ty links to another corner of said .Jd VanCleefs land; thence north sixtv-oue degrees and thirty minutes east, twelve chains andfifrt? two links to Garret Hendrickson s lin! ihen« south twenty-lour degrees and fifty minures. east, nineteen chains and thirty.four links to i belonging to the heirs of Rulif nchanck. deceased; thence south sixty deirJ's and thirty minutes west, nineteen chains an£ aixty-four links to another corner of said h!fr« land; thence south twentv-two degrees and thirty minutes east, four chains and three links to a stone; thence south thirty-three decree* and thirty minutes west eleven chStw 8 a"d thirty-one links to Rulif R. Schanck's corner near an ash tree: thence south seventy-five degrees and forty-five minutes west, nine again! and sixteen links along said Rulif r Schanck's line to the place of beginning. Containing on! hundred and thirty one acres and ninety one hundredths of an acre, as the needle jmimed. quire. 3°’ SUrveyed by J°hu Patterson, Also all that certain ocher piece or parcel of XSJUriS! c TownshiP’ County and State ...“55in,ni"K al s‘ake in Tunis V. Conover’s [roI!‘ Freehold to Keyport or Mon mouth County Turnpike; thence along said rond or turnpike southerly to the line of said Conover g land; thence along the ime nonh beginning0 degrecs and six “”»utes west to the ssme ‘I™ ln,cls of 'and conveved to Conover by funis V. Conover and Re becca C., his wile, by deed dated April ist, iH6x S'"1 I'FCMdert Ap?' "th' ,863. in the Clerk s of at page Cou,ll>’ Boo1: >67 of Deeds ‘be property of John L. Conover et aw, taken in execution at the suit ot Richard V. Linda bury, and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff LiKDAtuiRT, Dt'prE Faulks, sol’rs. Dated June 17th, 1908. (*18.00), PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Bulletin. JUNE ON THE GREAT LAKES. Restful, delightful, interesting, and instructive, there is no trip like that on the Great Lakes, those inland seas which form the border line between the United States and Canada. And June is one of the most charming months in the year in which to take the trip. For comfort the fine passenger steamships of the Anchor Line have no superiors. As well appointed as the palatial ocean greyhounds which plow the Atlantic, their schedule allows sufficient time at all stopping places to enable the traveler to see something of the great lake cities and to view in daylight the most distinctive sights of the lakes, and the scenery which frames them: The trip through the Detroit river, and through Lake St. Clair, with its great ship canal in the middle of the lake, thence through Lake Huron, the locking of the steamer through the great locks at the 800, and the passage of the Portage entry, lake and canal, across the upper end of Michigan are novel and interesting features. The voyage frofh Buffalo to Duluth covers over eleven hundred miles in the five days’ journey. Leaving Buffalo, the steamships Juniata and Tionesta, make stops at Erie, Cleveland, Detroit. Mackinac Island, the 800, Marquette, Houghton and Hancock and Duluth. The 1908 season opens on June 16, when the steamer Tionesta will make her first sailing from Buffalo. The Anchor Line is the Great Lake Annex of the Penn sylvania Railroad, and the service measures up to the high standard set by the “Standard Railroad of America.” An illustrated folder, giving sailing dates of steamers, rates of fare, and other information is in course of preparation, and may be obtained when ready from any Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket Agent, who is also prepared to book passen gers who may desire to take this trip through the Great Lakes and back.

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REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. Principles Which Convene tion Will Approve. rr PARTY RECORD EXTOLLED Held Up to Country’s View as Worthy of Admiration and Continuance. Present Administration Called an Epoch In American History—Decla ration In Favor of Tariff Revision by Special Session of Congress Immedi ately After Inauguration of Incoming President—Curb on Power of Issuing Injunctions by Federal Courts Fa vored. Chicago, June 17.— Despite denials that any authentic draft of the Repub lican national platform has been pub lished, it is generally believed that the printed reports of the document are ap proximately correct. Some changes have been made by the committee on resolutions, and oth ers will In all likelihood be made be fore the platform is laid before the convention for approval, especially in ,Tiew of the fight that is being made against some of Its provisions, but in the main the printed versions of the platform embody the views of the com mittee on resolutions and the other leaders of the party, worded In the language In which they will be finally approved. The platform as It has been printed reads In part as follows: Once more the Republican party, in na tional convention assembled, submits its cause to the people. This great historic organization, that destroyed slavery, pre served the Union, restored credit, expand ed the national domain, established a sound financial system, developed the in dustries and resources of the country, and gave to the nation her seat of honor in the councils of the world, now meets the new problems of government with the same courage and capacity with which it solved the old. In this the greatest era of American advancement the Republican party has reached its highest service under the lead ership of Theodore Roosevelt. The great accomplishments of President Roosevelt have been, first and foremost, a brave and impartial enforcement of the law; the prosecution of illegal trusts and monopolies, the exposure and punishment of evildoers in the public service, the more effective regulation 0{ tl)e rates and serv ice of the great transportation lines; the complete overthrow 8^preference, rebates, and discriminations, the arbitration of la bor disputes, the amelioration of the con dition of wageworkers everywhere, the! conservation of the natural resources of the country, the forward step in the im provement of the inland waterways, and always the earnest support and defense of every wholesome safeguard which has mada mare.-^eciirq,. Ihe guarantees of Hfar liberty, and prosperity. Roosevelt’s Place In History. These are the achievements that will make for Theodore Roosevelt his place in history. But more than all else, the great things he has done will be an inspiration to those who have yet greater things to do. We declare our unfaltering adherence to the policies 'thus inaugurated, and pledge their continuance under a Repub lican administration of the government. Under the guidance of Republican prin ciples the American people have become the richest nation in the world. Our wealth today exceeds that of England and all her colonies, and that of France and Germany combined. Nothing so clearly demonstrates the sound basis upon which our commercial, industrial, and agricultural interests are founded, and the necessity of promoting their continued welfare through the oper ation of Republican poliqlas, as the re cent safe passage of the American people through a financial disturbance, which, if appearing in the midst of Democratic rule, or the menace of it. might have equaled the familiar Democratic panics of the pa at. Only the obstruction and filibustering of a Democratic minority in the last house of congress prevented the enactment of a number of measures of great public bene fit. the consideration of which can only be intrusted to another Republican major ity. But many wholesome and progressive laws were enacted, and we especially com mend the passage of the emergency cur rency bill, the appointment of the national monetary commission, the employers’ and government liability laws, the measures for the greater efficiency of the army and navy, the wiOows’ pension bill, the model child labor law for the District of Columbia, designed for emulation by the states; the new statutes for the safety of railroad engineers and firemen, and many Sther acts conserving the public welfare. ror revision ot i arm. The Republican party declares unequiv ocally for a revision of the tariff by a special session of congress immediately following the inauguration of the next president, and commends the steps already taken to this end in the work assigned to the appropriate committees of the two houses which are now investigating the operation and effect of existing schedules In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a rea sonable profit to American industries; and the benefits that follow are best secured by the establishment of maximum and minimum rates to be administered by the president under limitations fixed in the law. the maximum to be available to meet discriminations by foreign countries against American goods entering their markets and the minimum to represent the normal measure of protection at home; the aim and purpose of the Re publican policy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that security against foreign competition to which American manufacturers, farmers, and producers are entitled, but also to main tain the high standard of living of the wage earners of this country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective fystem. Between the United States and the Phil ippines we believe in a free interchange of products, with such limitation as to sugar end tobacco as will avoid injury to domes tic interests. We approve the emergency measures adopted by the government during the re cent financial disturbance, and especially commend the passage by the last session of congress of the temporary enactment designed to protect the country from a repetition of sueh stringency only until there can be established a permanent cur rency system that will avoid ail emergen cleg. The Republican party la committed to the development of .sucfa a permanent system, responding to our greater needs, j and in line in all respects with the most progressive nations of the world; and the appointment of the monetary commission j by the present congress, which will impar- j tially investigate all proposed methods, in- 1 sures the early realization of this purpose, i In line with the purpose here declared i to secure by every wise means greater safety and stability in the banking and j currency system, we favor the establish ment of postal savings banks fpr the peo- pie, upon principles embodied in the meas ure now pending In congress and set for a vote on Dec. 14 next. Anti-trust and Railroad Laws. *The Republican party passed the Sher man anti-trust law over Democratic op position, and enforced it after Democratic rejection. It has been a wholesome in strument for good in the hands of a wi3e and fearless administration. But experi ence has shown that its effectiveness can be strengthened, and its real object better obtained, by such amendments as will give to the federal government greater super vision and control oVer, and secure greater publicity in the management of, that class of interstate corporations having power and opportunity to effect monopolies, and at the same time will not interfere with tfae operation of such associations among business men. farmers, and wage earners as result in a positive benefit to the pub lic. We approve the enactment of the rail road rate law and the vigorous enforce- ment by the present administration of the j statutes against rebates and discrimina- tions, as the result of which the advan- I tages formerly possessed by the large shippers over the small shippers have sub- j atantlally disappeared. In thip connection j we commend the appropriation of $350,000 by the present congress in order to enable the interstate commerce commission thor oughly to investigate and to give pub licity to the accounts of interstate rail- roads. We. believe, however, that the in- terstate commerce law should be furthei amended so as to give railroads the right. to make and publish traffic agreements subject to the approval of the commission, but maintaining always the principle of competition between naturally competing 1 lines and avoiding the common control of j such lines by any means whatsoever, and j especially favor the enactment of such I legislation as will prevent by federal re- I striction the future overissue of stocks j and bonds by interstate carriers. Party'* Labor Record. The same wise policy which has induced the Republican party to maintain protec tion to American labor; to establish an eight hour day in the construction of al public work; to increase the list of em ployees who shall have preferred claims for wages under the bankruptcy laws; to adopt an adequate child labor statute for the District of Columbia; to direct an in vestigation into the conditions of work ing women and children, and later of em ployees of telephone and telegraph com panies engaged in interstate business; to appropriate $150,000 at the recent session of congress in order to secure a thorough inquiry into the causes of catastrophes and loss of life in the mines, and to amend and strengthen the law prohibiting the Importation of contract labor, will be pur sued In every legitimate direction vijfthin federal authority to lighten the burdens and Increase the opportunity for happi ness and advancement of all who toll. The Republican party recognizes the spe cial needs of wageworkers generally, for their well being means the well being of all. But more Important than all other considerations is that of good citizenship, and we especially stand for the needs of every American, whatever his occupation. J In his capacity as a self respecting citizen, j The Anti-injunction Plank. We declare for such amendments of the statutes of procedure In the federal courts with respect to the use of the writ of in junction as will, on the one hand, prevent the ternary issue of such orders without nrnrA^v-vnsidya tlon. and. on the other, "will resePt e* “ithe power of the courts to enforce their process, to the end that justice may be done at all times and to all parties. Natural Resources and Waterways. We indorse the movement Inaugurated by the president for the co-operative con servation of natural resources; wo fa^or the preservation of the White mountain and Appalachian forests; we approve all measures to prevent the waste of timber, and commend the work now going on for the reclamation of arid lands. No obliga tion of the future is more insistent, and none will result In greater blessings to posterity. In line with this splendid un dertaking is the further duty, equally im perative, to enter upon a systematic im- provement upon a large and comprehen sive plan, Just to all portions of the coun try, of the waterways, harbors, and great lakes, whose natural adaptability to the increasing traffic of the land is one of the great^t gifts of a benign Providence. Army and Navy. The Sixtieth congress passed many com mendable acts increasing the efficiency of the army and navy; making the militia of the states an integral part of the na tional establishment; authorizing joint maneuvers of the army and militia; for tifying new naval bases and completing the construction of coaling stations; instl tutlng a female nurse corps for naval hospitals and ships, and adding two new battleships, ten torpedo boat destroyers, three steam colliers, and eight subma rines to the strength of the navy. Al though at peace with all the world, a nr secure in the consciousness that the American people do not desire and will not provoke a war with any other coun try. we nevertheless declare our unalter able devotion to a policy that will keep this republic ready at all times to defend her traditional doctrines, protect her citi zens at home and abroad, and assure her j appropriate part in promoting permanent i tranquillity among the nations. Another Republican policy which must be ever maintained is that of generous provision for those who have fought the country’s battles and for the widows and orphans of those who have fallen. We commend the increase in the .widow’s pen sion made by the last congress, and de clare for a liberal administration of all pension laws, to the end that the people’s gratitude may grow deeper as the memo- j rles of heroic sacrifice grow more sacred with the passing years. Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippines and Panama. The American government, in Repub lican hands, has freed Cuba, given peace and protection to Porto Rico and the Phil ippines, under our flag, and begun the construction of the Panama canal. The present conditions in Cuba vindicate the wisdom of maintaining between that re public and this Imperishable bonds of mu tual interest, and the hope is now ex pressed that the Cuban people will soon again be ready to assume complete sover eignty over their land. Democratic Party Criticised. Beyond platform declarations, there are fundamental differences between the Re publican party and its chief opponent which make the one worthy and the other unworthy of public trust. Insprinciple. the difference between De mocracy and Republicanism is that one stands for vacillation and timidity in gov ernment, the other for strength and pur pose; one stands for obstruction, the oth er for construction; one promises, the oth er performs; one finds fault, the other finds wrork. The present tendencies of the two par ties are even more marked by inherent differences. The trend of Democracy ts toward socialism, while the Republican party stands for a wise and regulated Individualism. FOURTH OF JULY IN TEXAS. Cowboys, Girls and Comanchss Trip Light Fantastic Too. The hottest and funniest place on (he grounds, says a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, describ ing a Fourth of July celebration in Texas, “was the dancing pavilion. A canvas cover tfas stretched just over ■liead. When some tall cowboy, in the excess of his patriotism, put an extra inch on his spring, his but scraped the cover. The floor, which was of rough boards in the morning, was polished before noon by a thousand shuffles. In a corner the orchestra, with a strangely solemn face and dowucast eyes, sat on the spring seat of a farm wagon and drew from a violin such strains as might put action into a cork leg. But the star of the pavilion com bination was the caller. He was a mild mannered gentleman nnmed Granger, whose flexibility of voice was equaled by his originality of expres sion. Sometimes he chanted, some times he declaimed, and sometimes he let his voice follow the music. He was a master of ceremonies, too, who had learned his profession. The cowboys would sidle up and say: “Mister, can’t we have a little dance? We came sixty miles for this thing.” "Don’t you know anybody here?” Granger would ask. “Not a livin’ soui ’cept just the boys,” they would affirm, with more or less emphasis. tieegon meoDe i Ken nx you, me master would say reflectively. Then he would cross over to where the buxom daughters of the grain farmers were shocked up along the side of the platform. Pretty soon he would re turn, and, with a “Come this way.” he would lead the cowboys, one at a time, across the platform. The farmer’s daughter would bow prettily and the i cowboy elaborately, with a twitch at his big white hat Then a new couple would join those on the floor. Occa sionally a cowboy would Intrust his hat to a friend, but this seldom hap pened. The girls didn’t mind, and hats were worn as a rule. When the set was slow In filling the master called out persuasively* "Two more couple and we’U have a little dance. Hurry up now and throw yourself around on this stretch like a quarter horse. Let’s have a race.” But It was not often the dances needed encouragement to fill. More frequently the master was obliged to argue; “Stan’ back and give us a little room, people; we’ve got a wildcat spring here.” The crowd In the eagerness to see the dancing gave scant room for the measures. “Hoe down on her,” said the master. The violin started, and so did the shuffling. “Circle to the left and gents trail home. Let the ladies’ row in front.” So he called, and, dropping his voice an octave, he sang: “Everybody dance; corners swing Good style; pretty little partner; -.That’w the thing.”... Shuffle-shuffle go the feet, and the figure is finished. Off starts the caller again: “First couple right; ladles swing put: Gents swing in, swing out and prome nade. Do, do, gents, slow; Do, ce, ladles, don’t you know!” Then comes more Intricate work. The cowboys can’t begin to get in all of their fancy steps. The pace Is hot. The skirts of the grain growers’ daugh- j ters swish through the air as the mas- ter calls: "balance tne next; tnree nanas rouna; Ladies swing out; gents swing in; Three hands out and go it ag’in; Gents swing out and go it ag’in; Seven hands up and ladies swing out; Four and balance; now partners; prom enade all.” The master permits thirty seconds’ breathing spell, during which the cow boys try to get rid of some of their surplus perspiration, while the girls ply their fans and look moist and happy. The caller gathers himself for a pro longed effort. “Second couple to right,” j he calls, and then he goes It, without a break for five minutes, like this: “Ladies swing out; gents swing in; Three hands up and go it ag’in; Balance again; iadies to center; Fall in the corner; promenade home; Six to two and two come down; Ladles in center and seven hands round. Fall In the corners. Now partners all. Go south. Wheat’s all dead, j And you’ve got corn bread, I guess.” “Not in the Wichita valley the wheat ain’t dead, by a jugful!” one of the dancers shouted, but without minding Interruptions, the caller goes right along with his funmaking: “Fall and balance; swing and run; Four to two and two come down; Lady in center and five hands round; Ladies swing out and gents swing in; Five up and go It ag’in. Swing out; run away with the swing; Hold and balance; all balance; Now, partners, run away with the hall. Everybody dance, everybody dance.’’ And the next time it iS' something with variations on this kind of a fig ure: “Four hands up; half round the world; Gents turn a summerset; ladies jest so; Ladies round the gents; gents don't go; Round up fours; everybody swing; Swing the corners like swinging ths wing; Swing, ladies, seaside fashion; Pretty little partner; round up fours.” And thus it wept on with endless variety in the language and measures, but the same shuffling, the same bux om girls and the same frolicsome cow boys, until the sun went down behind the Comanches’ tepees. Old men look ed on and said, “Them’s the same dances they used to dance in south Texas wrhen 1 was a boy.” Occasional ly a cowboy, overcome by the inspira tion of the moment, let out a wild “whoop.” As for the Indians, they stood about the outer edge of the pa vilion and looked on impassively. An Indian always enjoys seeing the pale faces dance, but you never could tell It from the expressionless cast of his countenance. Jack Langdon’s Celebration. A Story of Russia, Grand Dukes, Bombs and Fireworks. By GERALD BREN AN. “1 don’t care If he ts a grand duke, he has spoiled my Fourth of July!” And Jack Langdon shook his small brown fist after the retreating carriage of his excellency the governor of O. Jack Langdon’s father was one of the growing number of Americans who have taken up business In Rus ,sla. He owned the Iron works of V. and was respected both by foreigners and natives throughout the province governed by the Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch. Relying on this re spect and the favor with which the authorities regarded him, Mr. Lang don had ventured to waylay the grand duke on one of his morning drives for the purpose of asking certain privi leges. The reply of the governor was polite, but none the less decided. He said: “You ask, my dear M. langdon, that your son be permitted to celebrate your national holiday, the Fourth of July, by the letting off of certain ex plosives. I regret to have to inform you that such methods of jubilation, while common in America, could not be allowed in Russia. Firecrackers and bombs are too closely related." “But, surely, protested Mr. L.ang don, “a tiny demonstration in honor of .the birth of a friendly nation”— The grand duke raised his hand deprecatingly. “I 'cannot help it,” he said, “but such is the law. Your son will have to fore go his cannon crackers, I fear, this Fourth of July." And then, signaling to his outriders, the governor drove on, leaving Mr Langdon rather annoyed and little Jack very angry indeed. “I think it’s a shame,” soliloquized Jack, stalking moodily away, '“and if ever I get to be president of the United States I’ll remember this to Russia.” Despite his father’s remonstrances Jack refused to be consoled. It was his first Fourth away from home, and he yearned with a mighty yearning*for the “bang-bang” of the patriotically exploded cracker. And the more he thought it over the more he hated the Russian government in general and the province of V. in particular. Brooding over his rebuff. Jack saun tered along the roadway until he en countered the familiar telecque driven by'Uncle Tetronchka, a neighboring peasant, with whom he had picked up some sort of acquaintance. To Jack’s surprise, Uncle Petronchka did not seem so friendly as usual. In fact, the old farmer acknowledged the boy’s sairrte only by' a grnft tncVVortitlen ot his head and shook his mare’s rein to urge her to a faster pace. “Hello!” exclaimed Jack. “What can be the matter with Uncle Petronchka? This is not fair day at V., so he can not have taken too much vodka. I have done nothing to offend,him, and I can’t understand why he should act like this. Hello. Uncle Petronchka! What has happened to make you so grumpy?” But Petronchka, answering only by a grunt, whipped up his shaggy mare, and the telecque disappeared round a comer. Jack's curiosity was aroused, and for the nonce he forgot all about the EACH CARRIED UPON iBS BACK A HEAVY TACK. guv t’i lKH M I t'l u» al to his peti tion. At this point the road took a sort of long loop so as to touch at a cer tain neighboring village, so that It was possible for Jack by cut ting sharply across country to come out ahead of Petronchka’s lumbering farm wagon two versts farther on. Across coun try went Jack, skimming the borders of the forest and en countering no liv ing being until he once more leaped into the bal'd, white road way on the op posite side of the loop. “This is a great joke on Uncle i’etronchka: ne criea. now me oiu fellow will cross himself and wonder to see me here before him:” Then it occurred to Jack to give the telfcque driver a surprise, and, step ping into A little wood of .pine and bi&h, he crouched down in the grass to await Petronchka’s coming. Rpt the first wayfarers to pass along th* quiet road came from the opposite diction—that in which Moscow lay. Petering out of his hiding place. Jack I^igdon saw that these travelers were three in number, that they journeyed afoot and that each carried upon his bafck a heavy pack. •‘This is the grove, Auton.” said one oil them as they came near the place where Jack lay. “I remember the trees. I/et us set down our packs and wait for the peasant.” i'Let them down lightly.” cautioned another as he deposited his burden with extraordinary care on the soft, gfussy bank. “Inything like a jar might send us all to the blessed land above”— “Where there are no czars and no governor generals,” added the third, with a little laugh. Then all three set down their packs and sat cautiously beside them. "The peasant is late.” said the last speaker arter a pause. "I hope, Mi chael Dlmltrovltch, that you have not scared him away.” “On the contrary,” said the man ad dressed, “I think I have scared him hither. I told him frankly that unless he came the band would cut his throat as he slept.” “You did not let him suspect what the packs contain. I hope?” asked the one called Auton. “Certainly not He thinks we are simply smuggling rare Swiss clocks into V. The packs loaded into his teiecque, he will return to the farm house. Tomorrow be has a license to haul a load of vegetables from the market garden of this Yankee mill owner, Langdon, into this city. He will carry the packs under his vegeta bles and deposit them unsuspected in the care of our good friend Feodor Michaelog^tch. the tavern keeper.' Once in Feodor’s bands the rest is easy.” Michael Dlmltrovltch slapped his knee Joyously. “Aha!” he said. "It is easy indeed— down the cellar stairs of Feodor’s inn and thence through the mine to the palace vaults. Ho, ho! It will be a sad day for the grand duke, the Fourth of July. Those three little boxes of dyna mite will blow the record chamber into atoms. All the incriminating docu ments will be destroyed—those docu ments which the grand duke has spent so many years gathering together. Per haps even his excellency himself and a few of his officers may— But let us hope for the best!” The other two nihilists laughed In chorus as their companion boasted of the coining destruction of the grand duke’s record room, wherein so many manuscripts dangerous to the existence of their brotherhood were stored. As for Jack Luugdon, young as he was, he could not help but understand the na ture of the plot which had unraveled itself before him. and he shuddered Involuntarily as he glanced at the three 'heavy packs, which he now knew to contain dynamite. All his bitter re sentment against the grand duke was now forgotten, and. burrowing deeper into the deep grass, be waited develop ments, while pondering with all his might over some means of preventing the threatened outrage. Presently along the road came the rumble of Uncle I’etronclika’s telecque. Jack saw the three conspirators lift up their packs and go to meet the old peasant. The perilous boxes were load ed into the wag on, he saw mon ey change hands, and then Uncle Petronchka drote off toward .hisL tarm^whiljfi the three men passed the little wood once more, walking at a quick pace to ward the north. Hardly were they out of sight than Jack sprang to his feet and set off along the road in the wake of Uncle Petronch ka. Late that night a score of police surrounded the farmhouse of the old farmer, drag ged him out of PETRONCHKA WAS HOR RIFIED TO PERCEIVE THEREIN THE GRAND DUKE. Dea ana captured the packs or dyna mite. Dragged by torchlight to the steps of a carriage near by, Petronchka was horrified to perceive therein the Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovltch seated beside his little acquaintance, Jack Langdon.. When he learned that what he thought were packages of smuggled clocks really contained dead ly explosives, Petronchka broke down utterly and told the whole story, giv ing descriptions of the three conspira tors, which afterward led to their cap ture, and completely verifying the ac count conveyed to the grand duke by little Jack Langdon. Jack had saddled his own pony and ridden at full gallop Into V., where he found the governor at a brilliant banquet The news of a nihilistic con spiracy, however, secured him an audi ence, with the result that Petronch ka's house was surrounded, the dyna mite captured and the state records saved. “And now, my little hero,” said the governor when all was over, “what rewards can I confer upon you for your great service to Russia?” Jack thought a moment and then an swered, “First. I should like poor old Petronchka to get off, and. second, 1 want leave to explode firecrackers on the Fourth of July.” With an amused smile, the grand duke wrote the following order and handed it to the petitioner; For the reason that Ivan Ivanovitch Langdon has placed the empire under an obligation it is hereby ordained— First.—That the prisoner, Petronchka, be remanded indefinitely in the custody of the said Ivan Ivanovitch. Second.—That the said Ivan Ivanovitch be permitted on the 4th day of July next ensuing to explode firecrackers and squibs in such quantities as he thinks fit in honor of his native country; and. Third.—That the municipality of V. be ordered to supply the said Ivan Ivano vitch with one ton of the very best fire crackers which its merchants can Im port across the frontier at the expense of the government. Given under my hand and seal. ALEXIS ALEXANDROVITCH, Governor. —Chicago Inter Ocean. r _ AN ISLAND OF QUIET. Yet Going Downtown In Madeira Is as Exciting Event. Madeira Is populated, yet Is one of the quietest as well as one of the most beautiful places In the world. Al though the roads are paved with round beach stoaes, there is nothing to re mind one cf the fact, because, as Da vid G. Fairchild, agricultural explorer of the department of agriculture, ex plains in the Rational Geographic Magazine, there are no horses or Jolt ing wbeel3. All vehicles in Madeira are on run ners. If you go calling it Is In a bul lock sledge with canopy top and com- fortable seats. If you move a bank safe or a steam boiler It Is carried on a “stone boat,” or sledge of poles, and you may have to get forty oxen to pull it. If you are In a villa on the hillside and want to get downtown you take a running car and slide down over the cobblestones. Two strong men. each holding a guide rope, pull your car over a bag of grease to grease the runners and then give you a running shove and Jump each on a runner behind as the car shoots down at a breakneck pace over the cobblestones. The men yell, hens and dogs scam per, foot passengers cling close to the wall of the narrow street, the runners get hot and fill the air with odor of burning wood as you shoot round sharp corners, down the busy thoroughfare, past, gorgeous masses of flowering creepers which hang over the walls of the private villas that border your road. But, oh, the change when you get to the bottom! You are obliged either to walk or take a earro, drawn by slow moving bullocks, squeaking and slip ping over the stones. ORIGIN OF THE HORSE. The Modern Animal a Cross Between Two Ancient Breeds. t In Wissen fur Alle Professor Koenig discusses In some detail the origin of the horse of today. He finds that the horse of neolithic times was not spe cifically distinct from the horse of the present. While there is no doubt that the horse of that period was used by man for food, there seems to be no con clusive evidence as to whether it was domesticated or not. His own opinion, however, is that it was probably do mesticated. The horse of that time was closely allied to the tarpan or semlwlld horse that lived in southern Russia up to a century ago. This was a “hog maned," short legged, large headed beast. It seems probable that the domesticated horses of the Germans of Caesar’s time were derived from this breed. The Egyptians had horses as early as 1900 B. C. These were long maned, more like the Arab horses, and came from Assyria. Where the Assyrians obtained them is unknown, but it was probably from southern Asia, wtoere this long maned breed has been Avei opedkn all probability as the reijfl of vjtontinned domesticationJj/fPhe 1^,-nt.vn horse Is ATl-oBS two breeds, with a further mixture of the Arab horse. This Arab horse, too, was itself a descendant of the earlier long maned horse. The origin of the long maned horse is a matter of doubt, but Professor Koe nig thinks it may have been from an extinct Indian species. Women Who Marry at Thirty-five. A German doctor lays it down as a well established fact based on close observation that women who do not marry until thirty-five or thereabout invariably achieve matrimonial suc cess. W’hy women of this particular age should make more successful mar riages than those who fall victims to love’s young dream is fairly obvious. When a young woman marries be tween thirty and forty she either does so for companionship, choosing her mate accordingly, or from need, in which case she also chooses with a certain amount of care. She has no wild dreams of unalloyed bliss.—Lon don Lady’s Pictorial. A Freak of the Lightning. A curious case of lightning destruc tion took place some years ago at Gat china, an imperial summer residence not far from St. Petersburg, where stood a stone column fifty feet high, held together by iron angles. When rain fell more or less water penetrated the stones in the interior of the monu ment. One day it was struck by light ning, and Instantly the column disap peared from view, killing a lone sen try on guard. The only explanation is that the heat of the lightning instant ly generated steam on coming in con tact with some of the water and the terrific explosion followed, v The Change of a Comma. “Whenever she asks me to do any thing,” soliloquized Mr. Meeker pen sively, "I always go and do it, like a fool.” “Yes,” said Mrs. Meeker, who hap pened along in time to overhear him. j “Whenever I ask you to do anything you always go and do it like a fool.”—; Chicago Tribune. The Baby Helped. Jones—Yes; our household now rep- resents the United Kingdom. Smith— i How’s that? Jones—Why, you see, I; am English, my wife is Irish, the l nurse is Scotch, and the baby wails.—. London Express. Changed. "f “Do you believe that man an&^vo-, man should have equal rights?” I “Well, I used to, but since I’ve been' married I don’t dare to say so."— Cleveland Leader. Men make houses, -but women make1 homes.—Danish Proverb.

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1908. py fo&ir tKAN»UR Marri/ Efir jfc£&<a®K©^ des sech a day ez dis dat Mr. Lion lost his wool,” remarlied^^te!^^^^^tt^^^^lmy, Mr. Man tuck a notion dat de time done come fer him fer ter have a hog-killin’, an’ he got ’im a big barrel, an’ fill it half full er water fum de big springs. Den he piled up 'bout a cord er wood, an’ ez he piled, he put rocks ’twix’ de logs, an’ den he sot de wood after at bofe een’s an’ in de middle. ’Twan’t long ’fo’ dey had de hogs killt, an’ eve’ything ready fer ter scrape de ha’r off. Den be tuck de red-hot rocks what he put in de fire, an’ flung um in de barrel whar de water wuz, an’ ’twan’t long, mon, ’fo’ dat water wuz ready fer ter bile. Den dey tuck de hogs, one at a time, an’ soused um in de water, an’ time dey tuck um out, he ha’r wuz ready fer ter drap out by de roots. Deh dey’d scrape un wid sticks an’ chips, an’ dey aint leave a ha’r on um. _ “He say, ‘Hello, frien’s! howdy an’ welcome! I ’m des fixin’ fer ter take a warm baff like Mr. Man gi’ his hogs; wont you j’ine me?’ Dey say dey aint in no hurry, but dey holp Brer Rabbit put de hot rocks in de barrel an’ dey watch de water bubble, an’ bimeby, when eve’ything wuz ready, who should walk up but ol’ Mr. Lion? “Mr. Lion backed in, an’ de water wuz so hot, he try fer ter git out, an’ he slipped in plum ter his shoulder-blades. You kin b’lieve me er not, but dat creetur wuz scall’d so dat he holler’d an' skeer’d eve’ybody fur miles aroun’. ‘W,7ell, bimeby, dey had all de hogs killt an* cleaned, an’ hauled off, an’ when eve’ything wuz still ez a sewn’ hen, ol' Brer Rabbit stuck his head out fum behine a bush whar he been settin’ at. He stuck hi®/head out, he did, an’ look all ’roun’, an’ den he went whar de fier wuz an’ try fer ter warm hisse’f. lie aint been dar long ’fo’ here come Brer Wolf an’ Brer Fox, an den he got busy. 1" He had a mane fum his head plum ter de een* er his tail, an* in some places it wuz so long it drug on de groun’—dat what make all de creeturs ’fear’d un ’im. He growl an’ az um what dey doin’, an’ when Brer Rabbit tell ’im, he. say dat’s what he long been needin’. How does you git in? Des back right in,’ sez ol’ Brer Rabbit, sezee, an’ wid dat. 11 An' when he come out, all de wool drap’t out, 'cep’ de bunch you see Sn his neck, an’ de leetle fft you’ll fin’ on de een’ er his tail—an* dat’d ’a’ come off ef de tail hadn’t ’a’ slipped thoo de bung-hole mt de barrel.v With that, Uncle Remus closed his eyes, but not so tightly that he couldn’t watch the little boy. For a moment the child said nothing, and then, I must tell that tale to mother before 1 forget it l” So saying, he ran out of the cabin as fast as his feet could carry him, leaving Uncle Remus rcjthaking with laughter. ___

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