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PHYSICAL WONDER WHO IS TO BE IMMORTALIZED BY
QUTZON B0RDLÜ6L
Oreateit Fighting Subfeot For Sculpturing‘Thi* Age Hat Pro­
duced, Say* the Sculptor— Noted Pugilist a “Han of
Battle” Who Always Fought Fair— Winner of Throe
World Championships and an Authority on
Geography— His Home Life Happy,
PLUMING » STEAM FITTINC
A ll kinds of Reservoir and Cistern work in con­
nection with water systems installed in first
class style and a ll work done guaranteed.
Dynam ite and powder work on all kinds of Rock Excavations
H. A. Stuart, Moro, Oregon.
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Wed. why not?
FhhBAs carved some figures net half
as pretty an Fits. Mlchaol Angel«»
taste ran largely to angels Mr Bor
glum. It will ba romem bared. crested
s t « » AT
Is for the drerch of S t John
the Divine, bat destroyed them with
hie hammer when some ef the church
people denied that female angels e x ist
Borglum creations being femólas.
C orner 7th end Stark ttre e te .
It Is n e * and I I room , are provided with Now this sculptor has set about doing
a truly masculine statue. non angelic,
running water and long distance tele­
and he will trust Me fame to his figure
phone*
European plan. Katea
•1 'Mr day and upward
ef Fita.
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F re e b u t to and fro m tra in s
R ates by th e d ay
Hotel Oregon
Highest priced room $3
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Wright-Dickinson Hotel Co.
Chas. Wright, President.
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H E fa c t th a t P it * la sittin g —or
s t a n d in g -fo r hl« statue In vlr
gin m arb le should not m ake
M ichael Angelo tu rn over In his
tom b and th ro w fits.
A ccording to
Sculptor G ntzon Borglum , F ltz Is a fit
■ abject fo r the sculptor's supremest
a rt
M r. B orglo m proposes fo rth w ith
to perpetuate F its as a type o f the fin­
est fighting m an o f the present age, so
th a t w hen thia co un try shall have been
relegated to th e mustiases o f ancient
days o a r successors o f the fiftie th cen
tu ry stay ri*lt th e museum o f an tlq u l
Mas la which the B orglum m arb le shall
aspóse, to gaas to a w e upon the “risa
ate" features and form o f "R obert
Fttastmaaons, P u g ilis t L ato Nineteenth
and Early T w e n tie th C en tu ry."
" I regard M r. Fltsalm m ona." says
M r. Borglum , “ a * superior to th e fight
lng tense to any liv in g m an the great
M t ‘fle h tln * ’ r a M a r f fo r a a o n ln f o * tb s «
o f the an cien t g la d ia to r o f w hom the
schoolboys o f the past generation w ere
w o nt to declaim . F its alm ost m ay say
th a t he haa m et in the arena every
shape o f m an or beast th a t the broad
em pire o f A m erica can fu rn ish and has
never y e t low ered his arms.
Followed Fighting Seriously.
F its haa follow ed his profession se­
riously
F o r him prlxe fighting hag
been a baalnesa
H e did not en ter
th a t line o f Industry aa a m ere d lver-
tlsem ent. to pass aw a y the tim e, nor
y e t to gain the laurels o f championship
m erely fo r the sake o f the laurels.
F its discovered th a t be was, as M r.
B orglu m rem arks, " b u ilt fo r b a ttle ."
I t w as b u t n a tu ra l, then, th a t he de­
vote his Ilfs to b a ttle so long as his
b a ttlin g powers endured, and th at la
exactly w h at thia man did
IJ k e (JeneraI G ran t, however, F lta
did not know h . was s great fighter at
first
H e learned the blackam lthlng
tra d e and becam e an adept a t shoeing
h s r sss. T h a t w as his ch ie f d u ty to
the sm ithy, and It la said th a t be Is
■ till proud o f M s prowess as a borse-
ahoer
B y the w a y , w h ile w e are
«b ou t It w e m a y as w ell m ention th a t
F its is th e cham pion horaesboer o f the
world, so for as m akin g ho r sse h ose
goes
H a won the championship to
P itts b u rg a te w years ago by «asking
thirty-six k s sessh oss to th irty -fiv e mto-
H onager.
H o te l
H otel M oro
Sunday D in n e r 35 cents.
Opposite Post O ffice
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wAars M i pooplo »top
The Umatilla House
T h e
Hteam Hast.
D e lle n ,
Electric Lights
Electric Call Bella.
H O T E L R A T E S TO S U IT Y O U .
A ll O R & N T ra in * Stop at Front Door
R a ilw ay T ic k e t Office in the Lobby.
T . N . C R O F T O N ,. P r o p r ie to r .
me
T a lk in g to Him self
A Scotchm an, w h en w k e d w h y he alway«
ta lk ed to h im self, rep lied :
“ In th e first p lace, beoauae I lik e to talk to
an I n te llig e n t m an.
“In th e eeoond p lace, b ecau se I alw ays lik e to
h ea r an in t e llig e n t m an ta lk .”
Wa ta lk o u t lo a d for th e S co tch m a n 's reasons.
W ou ld rath er ta lk o tx P -r-i-n -t-i-n -g than
o n a n y o th er enbject.
, W e d o n ’t eay a word ab out prioea— It goes
w ith o u t sa y in g th a t prioea are r ig h t
A n d o a r w ork— if it’e n o t righ t, eend it hack.
T ry o s. W e P r in t a n y th in g .
Observer Printing Office
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KOBERT
F IT Z S IM M O N S .
■M th at this man has been caricatured
Incessantly and th a t not one real pic­
tu re typical o f the m an has been d raw n
so fa r as I kn ow .”
W herefore Sculptor Borglum
will
supply this y a w n in g deficiency.
T h e sculptor calls attention to F its ’«
grea t neck, w h ich he can alm ost draw
dow n between his shoulders. It Is so
abort.
Long necks are not an asset
In the fighting game. I>>ng arm« are
preferred Statues of ancient gladla
tors w ith long nocks disgust Gutson
Borglum .
“Built For Battle.”
“Then, too," goes oa the enraptured
sculptor, "Fltsalmmona* body Is built
for battle His shoulders are tar apart,
and his cheat Is tremendous. His
arms, too, show that be Is a man of
battle. Taken In Its entirety, the form
of this gladiator mutely spells "fight.” "
With which statement various other
gladiators of the age will agree with
oat farther comment—Jim Corbett for
Instance, and Tom Sharkey and George
Gardner, to mention only a trio of the
victims of the Fits mitts to later years.
Rves Jim Jeffries will not dissent, far,
though he whipped Fits twice, he has
declared that Fits gave him the worst
basting he ever received to the ring.
Jeffries, by the way. te G*e only mas
who ever whipped Fltsalmmona up to
three years ago, when the Borglum
<i«4Ltm had laachad the age of for­
ty-two aud had fought SS4 battles to a
ring career of twenty-seven yean.
AU saggsatloo of levity aside. this
■SOS FttsstmsMMM la s physical won­
der. sad nobody will aerioasly object
to h|a parpotastlea to marble. la the
essential respects Bob Fltsslmmono la
the moat remerkabU pngfltat that ever
Hved. Theta are pugilists sad pagfl-
MtO. IAke poets, they arise, aspire, ex­
pire sad become has-beeos. But here
to oae who has reached the ripe old
age of forty-lve (for a prtae fighter)
ibbar Stampe Furnished.
J lor Typewriter«, Typewriter
a p p lie s. Ribbons, Xtn.
F iv e C e n ts
Authority on Geography.
Though F its, like all pugilists and all
pagllistlc w riters, employs the ring
slang w hen he talks pugilism , he can
w rite good English. H is book. "Phys­
ical C u ltu re and Self D efense,’* Is said
to have been printed Just aa he wrote
It and it w ill pass m uster In a ladles'
sem inary. A t his home he has a large
lib rary room on the first floor stocked
w ith standard authors
H a haa fu ll
seta o f V icto r Hugo, Bal sac, K ip lin g
and other w o rld ’s champions In lite r­
ature. and he reads them too. B ut hie
M v o rlte reading relates to geography
apd tr a v e l One of his friends, a fel
lyw of the Royal Geographical society,
declares th a t F its Is an au tho rity on
geographical m atters
Most persons perhaps would not look
for a m oral to adorn a ta le o f a pu­
gilist. b a t there Is one to tbe case of
Flteslmmons. H o w did be keep him
self In sucb fine physics! condition ss
to w to the heavyw eig ht championship,
though him self a m ere m id d lew eig h t
w hen he was several years beyond the
age ■« which nsoet pugilists lose th eir
fighting power? I^t F lta hlm eelf an
firem an w as here, he could ran the eto
gtoe, but he haa gone w ith Tlm m oo K
There la no oue here who can run aa
engine •*
Many Mera Wamoa Hava T hem , Bat
" I can.’* spoke up N ettle.
"Bam
Faw Knaw Tha Raal Causa.
taught me how to run an engine. It*«
down grade fo r tbe first fo rty inUsa. D u ll, th u m p in g headaches;
W s can run by gravity most of tha Hick, prostrating h«rancho«;
By
BfiYAM.
way, sad by then steam w ill be np. D ixzy, w h irlin g , b lin d heatteohea;
T h e Ores are banked."
F o tn t to disorders o f th e kid n e ys,
Ooerrishtod. IMS. by M- M. Ouantosha«.
W eethall turned to her eagerly.
Tall
of uric polaona In th e blood’
" T o n th to k you can?" he asked.
N arcotics m a y ease th e pain
i N ettle perched on the baggage track
*T have run the old eugtoe," she an­
and regarded w ith dum b am assment swered confidently. **1 am going te B u t w o n ’t cure th e cause.
th e bearded person who eat on tbe ob­ m a rry Bam soma day w b aa ha gets a D o a n *. K id n e y P1IU cure t h . K id n a y s ;
servation car side tracked on the tin y m ala line ran, and be aoM an engi­ » w v a u r t e potonas, purify the blood,
sw itch th a t sufficed fo r tbe needs o f neer's w ife should know something Hao lab headache, baokache, urinary Ills
T o u r porter can fire
M rs J M u elle r, 438 E o M 4th st, Albo-
L o st M in e station. T h e h a lf worn cars about e ngin es
fo r me."
® r ’ ■•y®-’ “ I t Is n o t often one finds
th a t comprised the rolling stock o f this
W esthall turned to her eagerly.
a rem edy so good as D oans' K id n e y
hundred m ile branch o f the G. and S
"Bee th a t the line la clear," he aald.
W . w ere shabby to the extrem e, and 'I n e tra in cannot have le ft the Junc­ P ills, and I feel It almost a d u ty to tell
not even the P ullm ans th a t N ettle saw tion
I f It haa n o t order tt to rem ain m y experience w ith this med id n e . I hod
beeu suffering w ith k id n e y oompladnt
when she rode down to the Junction there."
Nicholas hurried in to tbe telegraph w h ich brought on backache, pain in
w ith Bam w ere to be compared to thia
palace on wheels. M ore Im po rtant was In strum ent, and presently Its clicks an­ th e loins,headache and dizziness. Th era
the fact th at the Iteerded person was nounced th at the track eras clear. N e t­ was m uch an no yan ce also from Irre g u ­
tbe president of the system, the man tle climbed Into the cab and took her la r ity o f th e k id n e y secretions. Th o u g h
whose word waa law to the thousands seat on the engineer's side. The negro I used several rem e d ka tr y in g to get re­
of employe«« o f the road and Its varl- porter came a fte r her and under her lie f, D oans’ K id n e y P ill« procured a t a
instructions began to m ake up the fire.
oua feeders.
d ru g store, w ere tb e best. I n fa ct,there
I t was tbe first tim e th at any official By the tim e the rest of the bunting
was re a lly no com parison. T h e y did a ll
of the m ain office had ever been over pa rty arrived w ith the In ju red man the
else bad failed to do, and 1 c h eerfu lly
tbe line, and N ettie wondered th at this priva te car bad been backed up to tha
quiet looking m an should be tbe bead station platform , and an old fre ig h t g iv e th e m m y endorsem ent.*’
of the great system Nhe had ei(>ected car had been adde<l to give balance to
F o r «ale by a ll dealer«.
P rice 50
to see a six footer w ith a shiny silk the train
Foater M ilb u rn Co., B u ffa lo ,
Toung W esthall waa scarcely put oeuts.
hat and a frock coat such as she had
N e w Y o rk , sole agent« for tbe U n ite d
m in pictures. She was a little dis­ aboard when the signal waa given,
appointed In the subdued suit of and, th ro w ing over the th ro ttle. N ettle Htates.
B ut his lordliest renow n rests upon
the fa c t th a t he has won and held
three world's championships as a pu­
gilist. thus breaking the record. Th e
m iddlew eight cham pionship be won so
m any years ago th a t he has forgotten
the d a ta T b e h e avy w eig h t champion­
ship fe ll to him ten years ago a t C a r
son C ity , N ev., w hen he knocked out
Jim C orbett In the fo urteenth round
by obeying the then M rs. F ltx ’s orders
to “soak *hn to tbe slats,’* de live rin g
the w o rld fam ed solar plexus plunk
th a t m ads C orbett a has-been. Then,
to his fo rty first Z t e r. thia aged g la d ia ­
tor w o n th e lig h t h e a v y w e ig h t eham-
ptonahlp o f tb e w o rld by d efeating
George G ard n er
When you reflect that Fits la not a
t a a v y w ^ t at all and never was.
lacking enough pounds to be. his per-
formaneps take on a new significance.
He has gob-» out of his class repeated­
ly sad wplfoped bigger men to a stood
still, or. tfigbar. to a lay down. That
Is a part of the reason why Rite is a
fighting Wond«r. W h en he defeated
Corbett he weighed to at IMte pound«
«gainst hM opponent's 1ST pounds.
was lastly ’« "Wg awn."
tbe promisee where big
tlal to Sat fighting, hut
IB* Corbett, Jeffries
galllvan. Perhaps the
of the personal ap­
pearance n ( Fits, though It Is a V1fl*
fantastic. to furnished by a man Who
SOW him walking Up the «treat eae
"Fits teptp Ilk« ■ triangle standing
ea Its apes *
Another thing. F its alw ays fought
fa ir. There was no fake about Fits.
H e says hlm eelf th at It was a good
thing th at prise fighting was knocked
out In New York state, becssse many
managers were crooked and fighters
put up fake exhibitions. W hen F its
was train in g a t Carson C ity fo r his
championship fight w ith Corbett a
man from the C orbett quarters went
over to Fltx's place shortly before tbe
date fo r the battle.
’Here. F its; this man has been w ith
Corbett a good deal
Huppoee you
have him tell you how C orbett fights."
Before the C orbett frien d could pro
tset F its spoke up:
*
T don’t w a n t to bear ^blm.
It
wouldn’t be fa ir." A
L ik e Sullivan. Corbett and others of
the “profeeh," F its has essayed the
role of actor. Ills present w ife. No. 2.
who was Miss Ju lia M ay G ifford, was
mustcal comedy singer before her
m arriage. Both the Fitzsim m onses ap­
peared In "A F ig h t F o r Love," w here
Is Bob made a horseshoe, shod a horse,
walloped the villain and brought down
tbe house. R ut It Is In his home life
th a t F its shines most roeplendently.
A year or so ago he bought a farm
IT D unellen, N. J., w ith a house
som ew hat like an ancient castle and a
easy lodge a t the gate. Th ere be ln-
■tolled his books and hla boxing para­
ph ernalia and settled down to grow
old g racefu lly. Th ere are several small
Fltsea to m ake home lnteroettsg. Ills
children call him "papa" to hla face
and " F its " to his friends.
T b e fa m ilia r picture o f Fitzsim mons
oo th e sporting pages shows him w ith
huge freckles all over his body. H e
used te be noted as tbe only man on
earth w ith freckles oa top o f tbe head,
another cham pionship distinction. But
of late years F its In some mysterious
■Banner has got rid of his freckles, so
that the B orglu m m arble which 8,000
years hence w ill preserve him to ad­
m irin g posterity w ill be of pare and
spotless w h ite, lik e bis ring record.
■ a i Uiawaks F re e f Heuse of Drainpipe.
Colonel Henry B. 0 . K itchener. Lord
K U c h e M ris eldest brother, who resign­
ed from the B ritish a rm y several year»
off» te become a banana planter In Js-
ica. Is now In England purchasing
te rla l fo r the construction of an
earth qu ake proof bouse on the "K ltc h -
model. «aye the Cement Age.
I Kitchener's residence to the
doss not fight with kls fcutaiibe of Kingston was badly dsm-
bars de »nt M>
by th e earth qu ake
H e has da-
muscularity , If (»«?< Mdad to bu ild s house w ith w alls eom-
leaky and lean «toy pad* faaad o f rows o f drainpipes placed on
qualities desired Fits*« and end filled w ith cement, w ith la y ­
legs are feaand thus he wag
er» of cement between, w ith a casing
to he whfft A*e fighters roll
oq th a outside and th in wood
He daalarae that thia temktes
THUMPING HEADACHES
Hain Line to
Matrimony.
W. r.
tweeds and the |>eaked cap.
But If tbe clothing waa disappointing
the face came up to all her expects
ns. A p o w erfu lly molded face It
s. and every line betokened the
pow er and the Indom itable w ill th a t he
had made the G. and 8. W . ooe of the
most Im po rtant lines In the country.
For a week th r car had stood on the
aiding, w h ile tbe men o f the p arty b o ot­
ed and fished, and John W aethall sat
on the obeervatlon platform smoking
and planning fresh trium phs, a ltd N e t­
tle had fallen Into the habit of sittin g
oa the station platfo rm and w atching
the strong, contem plating face I t re­
minded her of tbe engine th a t panted
lastly at the fa r end of the car, big and
strong and pow erful.
W est ha 11 had brought his son and
some of the letter's friends out west
fo r a hunting trip. H e, too. fe lt the
id of re e t and he found It In the
quiet of thia tin y term inal.
Once
Not a Fake Fighter.
Moro, Oregon.
y
protrudtog from the broad «boulder»
and protecting tbe m ighty chest ftfi)
o f long power. Legs long and lim ber,
arms long and sinewy, neck short and
thick, chest big and bellows-ltee—
there’s yo u r Ideal pugtllat, fit fo r P a­
rian searble’s Im m o rta lity . That'S Rob­
ert
Fitzsim m ons,
trip le
champion,
world heater, finest and fittest fighter
that ever stepped into the squared cir­
cle.
Tbe F its head is em ail and m ain ly
habrlaea T h ia baldness once prom pted
s Stags eomedlan to crack a Joke a t
i '¿hi expanse o f th e fighter, w ho w as te
the audience.
" P its Is as strong as Samson," sold
the comedian.
“ Don’t believe IL ’’ refilled the doubt­
ing actor.
“ W all. I f F its can bring dow n the
bouse w ith o u t any h a ir on his head.
Just thtok w h a t he could do If be had
h a ir Ilka Bamson’g.”
F its was orig inally a Cornlabm ad, ac­
cording to birth, hut he Is now a lto ­
gether an Am erican. H e blacksmltbed
to N ew Zealand and whipped every­
body In A ustralia before he came to
the U nited States, which he adopted
as his perm anent country. H a began
his fighting csreaF to C ornw all, where
he dropped every man he w ent up
a g a in s t
H e still drops his "h’s” In
B ritish manner, but be haa picked up
more th an »nough Am erican alang to
m ake up fo r that. H e haa conquered
three contloenta, held three champlon-
ahlpa, and now be takes high a rt Into
his camp.
mm
Quick and Cheap!
1908
"Moot pugilists are down and out at
thirty. I t ’s the old story o f wine, wo­
man and song.
A fighter can’t go
round tanking up In aaloons and dis­
sipating and be fit fo r fight. I ’m all
right because I ’ve alw ays lived a good
fa m ily Ilfs
T h ere’s nothing like a
good fam ily life fo r keeping a man
to condition, and I advlae all young
men to get m arried as soon as they
can.
When you have a home and
some kids It’ll keep you out of an aw ­
fu l lot of trouble."
Near net H otel to B usiness Center, Banka and Depot.
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FUKJ9KKD FWDAYX
“ t o p c a s asrr t o c b tbousobad b b a d t ."
m ine had made tbe branch a necessity,
bu t it had played out. Now a dally
tra in was run over the line to save the
c h a rte r
agalnat
freshly
discovered
m etal
N ettle wus the daughter of F ra n k
Nichols, who had been conductor of
th e lim ited before be lost hla arm.
The company bad made him station
m aster at Lost M ine, and here N ettle
had lived her brief life, finding her
pleasures In tbe woods and In hnxika
rath er than In tbe companionship o f
people
Ham H ild re th , the engineer of
the road, took her down to the Junction
sometimes and bad taught her how to
run the engine They were to be m ar
ried some day when Ham could save
up enough money, bat there waa small
chance to eave oa the m eager pay re­
ceived aa engineer on the branch. It
he was ever tran sferred te tbe m ain
line, things would he d iffe re n t
do she sat and watched the president
puffl
Ig ar the presi­
^
dent
lehed give Bam
an «
line and make
theli
e.
E v e r since
the i
• had bean tr y ­
ing
je to ask him.
but
preach him.
A
I «roared them
both
ime running to-
w an
«t sight of him
M r.
bo the roadbed
and
hie face grown
w h it
"Jl
tha newcomer
as h
«kteg « s ta n c e .
"H la
dlarharged aa
he i
gh tha th ic k e t
and
isttered. H ave
the t
aa soon as they
ret 1
sg perhaps hla
life-
mast have at-
kendi
sthta."
Winner MThro« Championships.
•He
moved the tra in slow ly out on the m ain
track.
B em euiljer the
ta ke no other.
nam e— D oan«- and
Fo r tbe first five or six inllee the
track dropped sharply down the aide
The New York Tribune Farmer.
of tbe m ountain, and she used little
■team to the cylinders. Hhe knew the
Horses, cattle, sheep and sw ine,
road as w ell as tha path from her
home to the station, and she swung »re owned probably by four-fifths
the lig ht tra in about tbe sharp curves of the readers of The Obaerver, and
w ith the skill of a veteran.
Once the first drop waa crossed the »11, farmers and the man with but
grade waa lighter, and Nettle tnrreaeed one horse or cow, in country or v il­
tha speed
Hteam waa coming up feat lage, would be greatly b en efited by
now, and aa aha watched tha gauge reading from week to week the fine
she realised th at when they should
articles on the care and treatm ent
need It there would be steam to plenty.
of live stock, by Dr C D S m ead , the
They swung down past ths foothllla,
out upon tha platu. and aha th rew open world fam ous veterinary writer, in
tha lever Tb e old freig ht engine th at the New York Tribune Farmer. Dr
the sole motor power of the Sm ead’s article« appeal to practical
branch line was not capable of better men, and no liv esto ck writer in the
than th irty miles on tbe level, so she United States gives more inform a­
fait a th rill of e x h ila ratio n aa tha crack tion of every day actual value, pro­
engine of tbe line skim m ed over the longing tbe usefulness, and saving
rails re«i>oikalv« to her slightest touch
Die live« of valuable animals. These
<m the throttle. Bbe waa alm ost sorry
when a t last the Junction came to articles, with the other departm ents,
sight, bat aa they creased tha bridge poultry, horticulture, dairy, science
W esthall came oat oa the fro n t p la t­ w achanios, etc, keep the Pf. Y. Trib­
form and passed a note to the porter.
une Farmer in the lead of the A gri­
W ith a glow of pride N ettle read the cultural press of the United States.
order to run on to P rem vtlle and real­ Sul»acril>e now, s t The Observer
ised th at she had the rig h t of sray over
Book Store, Moro, Or. See the clu b
the main line the main Una which
rale« in another place today.
meant ao much to her.
"D on’t stop at the Junction.” the or
The Companion a« a X-Moii Gift.
dor ran. "You have a clear track and
can handle the engine "
N obody is too young, nobody too
The main line was strauge to her, but
she knew that there were but ooe or old, to enjoy reading The Y ou th ’s
For that reason it
two small »own« before 1‘rere rtlle. C om panion.
where there wa» a hospital, and aha make» one of the most appropriate
did not slacken speed un til they came of C hristm as gifts.
One of th e few
to sight of the yard. Then she slowly whose actual worth far outw eighs
plcke<l her way over the switches and the cost.
Welcome as the paper
Into the station, where an am bulance
m ay be to the casual reader on the
as already w aiting.
N ettle climbed out of tbe cab aa the train, at the office in the public li­
brary, it is, after a ll, the paper of
stretcher waa lifted from the preel
The regularity and fre­
dent’s car. W esthall stopped a moment the home.
on hla w ay across the platform .
quency of its visits, the oordial sin ­
You can ge’ your trooeeeau ready,” cerity of its tone, m ake for it soon
he said “I f your teacher la as good the place of a fam iliar friend in the
ao engineer a . you. be la .la ta d for a h
OU8e.
L ik e a
f •
house.
passenger run I w ill have the special
. l WMV. f L r b J l »
.
run you back to the Junction, where !
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° * e. } ra ilB aru ‘
the branch train la w aiting fo r you."
! M * * , ’* * w h ,c fl n r ® ty p ifie d ID the
W h ile the dusk dosed down on the ,d e a * h o n »«. * n d are the eourees of
mountain and the old freig ht engine A nations h ealth and true proeperi-
was slowly clim bing the grade N ettle ' ty .
Is there another Christmas
patted Ham a hand aa It grasped tbe present costing BO little that equals
l it ?
throttle
" I can’t ride w ith you on ths main
Op receipt of S i.75 the year'y
Mas." sbs aald regretfully
"W a shall
Hiibecription price, the publishers
miss old 376.’’
»end to the new subscriber all the
“B ut the main Una leads to m atri­
rem aining issue« for 1907 and the
mony,’’ ha reminded as he kissed her
W axed Meerschaum.
More than a century and a h alf
ago
there Hved In I*eeth, H un gary, a shoe-
m aker by the name of K arol Kowatea
Among hla m any patrons was Connt
Andraasy, who was once the recipient
of a huge lum p of meerschaum
He
handed It to Kow atea, the shoemaker,
ordering him to experim ent on the new
m aterial and If poeelhle fashion from
it a pipe
K ow ates cut tw o pieces
from the block and smoked one him
salf.
Tb e hands e f the shoemaker
were w axy, and the meerschaum be­
came waxed here and there w h ile Ko-
watee smoked
He found a fte r im m
Uttle tim e th a t w herever the pipe had
been waxed a spot of pale brown ap­
peared like a stain, « till experim ent­
ing, be waxed the entire pipe, which
now, a fte r habitual smoking, grew to
S raoet beautiful even brown
In c i­
dentally tha pipe smoked sweeter than
Before
Meerschaum then sprang Into
popularity
Oe« a Fees Fee H U CaW.
Heveral years ago, when the Clover
L e af railroad was b u ilt as a narrow
gauge line. Ell M arvin of F ra n k fo rt
Was ooe of the prom inent officials, w ith
headquarters at F ra n k fo rt
One day
fa rm er w alked Into M a rv in ’s office,
■xplslnlng th at he waa a stock dealer.
and naked for a stockman's pass
"W h y should you have a pass?" ask
ad M a rv in
calendar in full color for 1908. Full
i illustrated announcem ent of the
,,ew volum e for 1908, with sam ple
¡copies to a n y address, free,
Intending subscribers can get tb e
, benefit of olubhing rates, by sub-
scribing at The Observer office,
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Otwerver Book Htors.
T o in s u re p ilb lin a tio u , a rtin le e fo r
The O k -tr w r most reach the o ffic e before
noon WcdneaJay. The mall come* daily.
If VOU want to keep poeUwl nu all
th a t is d o le « in H b e rw a n sottttty, y<>« w a n t
t*be < Msmreer.
Terms 81.00 par vesr
T h e OtMwrver to prepared to tu rn ou t
an y <*l«m o f uptodato Job p rim in g .
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rietlefactlou guaranteed.
A Blue Mark her« will aoow aran
Inquiry, when entered upon oor calendar,
giving ibe date of iba paper es the date at.
which your current «ubecrtptlon expiree.
"I’m going to ship a calf from Frank-
tert to Kokomo," the man replied, “and
| | te the custom. I understand, to give
he aald slowly, the shipper a peas that he may travel
did There te with stock "
1 mllee Is."
M m ." eaid the
inglneer of the
We will not he responsible fog lb*
neglect of subserihere to notify as of
ohansee in their address. Nag will tha
notification of a Poet n>seter that the sub­
scriber has “ Removed’’ settle the MU uf
" W h a t Is the freig h t on the calf?" a delinquent.
M a rv in naked
Dtfflouliy in having y»wrObserver
" F o rty cents," said the otockman.
“W a lt" said M arvtn, “the paeeengar changed may ha avoided by sending tha
tore to Kokomo Is 70 cento. Wa*n Just desired alteration to thia office. Always
give tbe aastor e f the office from whlsto
tanas a gaas te tha calf, sad pan osb you want k changed, aa wen as «ha das te
wbteb H la to te sent.