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EVENING LEADER
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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 34.
WILL (X)N'Tl.WE To 1h>
Bt'SLVESS \M» THE PEOPLE
Various reports regarding the de- ,
vision of the federal court at St.
Louis say that the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey has been
practically ' dissolved. "Theoreti
cally" might be a more appropriutc
■word but both are a long rocky
stretch for "really."
If you have ever observed closely
at the ringside of politics, corpora
tions and the practical effects of
litigation relating to corporations
you will nave noted that the man
with the corpulent roll gets under
the wire lirst. It would bo hard
for us to believe that honor and
Integrity art* fading from the peo
ple, but it is a sad commentary that
where there is money there is a way
leading to auy brand ot’ chooked
ne.*s you may mention. In fact we
believe that the great majority of
the people are ho sest and honora
ble, but for some peculiar reaso:.
or r when it cornea to the ad
ministration Off law touching big in
terests, their innings are rure. Ol
course we howl reform, ‘ down with
the trust-." and all this sort of things
but the man who-e hat goes high
in the air and who is provider
with the lustiest lungs would prob
ably be the lirst to become voice
lesu and undemonstrative in the
blinding presence of seme cori>ora
tion's cash.
No, dearie, the Standard will not
be dis-olved any more than It pi l
the f 29,000.000 line. It will eon
«nue to do business and the people
for some time to come at the sam}
old stand. If you are game, we
will Jay a few thousand double
eagles which we carry around as
pocket change to Lincoln pennies on
the truth of the prediction.
FEWER AND BETTER CHII/RREN
A college professor the other
day iu a talk ridicules Col Roose
velt's race suicide theory, and he
is o the opinlOjj that the Roose
velt doctrine of bigger families has
had much to io with increasing the
cost or living. This college man
does not necessarily favor race sui
r,de. bur he- believe* m fewer and
better children. He thinks that a
tew properly reared children are
vastly better than a dozen or s
brought up at random
And he h gc-'Mng close to the
* ruth Sensible people never did
take* much 'o<k in the Roosevelt
doctrine l he fa r r,f the matter is
thar Theocj'i ti a f 1 to butt Into
everything v. v.n the realm of hu
man endeavor ami he usually went
off a' hail cock. The* trouble is
rhar the American people were j-i
com ! to r ke him too seriously.
‘nil. \V Mi I |(,l REA.
<;en S t. Krencii, a na’.ve o
New Jer•«■/, who became a fonfed
♦rrate tg)ldi»r that in the I'nit
♦•d State , ;,rin; i* irlng the war
there wer<* 490,000 foreigners
• i 70,000 f.< ; Hi a r, ] j ; p/u jn j,
h i,000 Bntish-Am* rlcaos, 43 000
hrgli-1|, and • 4 o 0 o h<■ p 'or*’; g n
‘r , says the New Yorr A merle n
in the .ante army there ver* 2,0,
irom the honor State* and
178.975 Southern negroes The to-|
tal Federal enlistment during the
I war was, in round numbers. 2.800,- ,
i 000. The total enlistments on the *
Confederate side were 625.000,
_
\ t'RAZY MAN’S lit Molt
S4>nie time ago a man at Ypsilanti
Mildi., Iiecaiued crazed on ilie snl>
ject <» hypnotism, unj was sent on
a Michigan Central train to an asy
lum When the conductor asked
lor the tickets the crazy man began
telling of Ills hypnotic powers.
“I’ll hypnotize you.” he said.
“Fire away,” replied the co.ulue- i
tor.
The man made several pu ses hi*-I
fore the conductor’s face
“Now you are hypnotize.1,” he;
said.
The conductor looked the part as'
best he could.
“You’re a conductor.” the liypno?
list said.
“Thati’s right.” replied the vic
tim
“You’re a good conductor,” went
on tlie hypnotist.
“Right again,” said the conduc-j
tor.
“You don't smoke, drink, or swear'
at pa si ngers. You are honest You
turn ia all tickets and money you
collect from passengers. In fact, i
;■ on do not steal a cent.”
“That’s right,” asserted the con
’uctor
The hypnotist eyed him a mo
ment. then said:
What an awful fix you’d tie in if
I left you in this condition.— Kan
sas City Star.
'
WII \T IMD SIIK MK.W.
Boarder—Madam, lid you put
anything deleterious in this pie?
Boarding House Mistress (with
dignity)—Certainly, Mr Fussy. I
always do use it in my pies. — Bal
timore American.
fiKT THKIIK .11 ST Tin: SAMI',.
A distinguished traveler reports •
.hat Chine, e cockroaches have
wings nad can sing The American
has no wings at all. but (&c.
Cleveland Leader.
A WILD <il KSS.
Teacher—Tommy, when was
Romo built?
. Tommy—In the night
Teacher—Well, you said yestor- j
i lay that Rome wasn't, built in a i
} lay
[HE MAN THAT
CHANGED THE BILL
By A. D. HARRISON.
1 Copyright, 1909. by American Press Asso*
elation.1
I met her on a train. There are
more Impressions made in traveling. I
think, than under any other circum
stances. She was about twenty, with
light, fluffy lialr, baby blue eyes, white
teeth, and there was neither too much
nor too little of her. She sat looking
out of the window with rather a bored
expression on her face, as though she
longed for something with which to
occupy her mind. I longed to occupy
her mind in.v self.
I (nU'nt'nr m «» D .. . ,
-- wrrv. “'iiiyyvHuic »> urn
a candy boy came along. She wanted
a box of sweets and bad only a dol
lar bill to pay for them. It happened
that the boy was out of change and
looked around for help. 1 lifted my
bat politely to the girl, took a dollar in
•■'dvor from my pocket and handed It
to tier, taking in exchange the bill. It
whs new and crisp and so folded as to
show the dollar in a corner. Kven If I
had not seen Its denomination 1 would
hot have thrown a doubt upon the 1
lady’s honesty by unfolding It. I
hoved It in my vest pocket, and she
opened the box. I remained where I
\tas. so that she couldn’t very well
help rewarding me for < hanging tier
bill by offering me a bit of candy. She
did this wit 11 some embarrassment. I
•at on the arm of the sent opposite
while I thanked tier and said some Ir
relevant tilings, such ns the ear wn*
either too hot or too cold, or I hated or
liked traveling, or made some other
meaningless remark, passing on to an
other and another, all the while look
Ing more and more uncomfortable on
my perch, till at last sh* cast her eyes
on the varnnt «*at beside me Coh
Htruing this as an invitation. I sat
down.
When the conductor came along i
noticed be punched a Cleveland lit kef
for her. I was hound for Chicago.
S'he had a suit case p, the car with her.
on which were th»> letters K. V. \v. I
t s-.k particular note of these things,
for I was delighted with her. and.
since | often visited Cleveland. 1
thought I might wish to continue to
fall in her pa h
I *j»enf. several hours very plenvant*
1/ with h*T \t first she seemed
abashed at forn mg nn «« I’liilMauce
In this w (ait she - on forgot all
It bout tine nil I m« c ,t I wn ns
companions hi. in * . vvaa to
me. When we I'M'iod Cleveland I
rffored ha d I i nm of fpo but
fhq Bald her tirotlier v» nji, ho ih i >
meet her, arid I hiiw by a look she gave
tno that sin* would not rare to have
him see her receiving attentions from
a Htrunger. I therefore contented my
self with thanking her for rendering
my trip enjoyable Instead of a bote
atid told her I hoped that If siu* ever
'■Mine to Chicago I might happen to
moot her.
The next Sunday morning—I got
home on Wednesday—I left my bach
elor quarters and strolled to my club
for breakfast, buying a paper by tliu
way. I always rend everything In my
Sunday paper, and on tills occuslon
wound up with the '‘personals." Sud
denly 1 was seized with astonishment
uh 1 read:
The K'-iitleinan who changed a blit for a
lady on a train on the loth can communi
cate with her by addressing K. V. VV.,
box —, Cleveland, O.
1 was not only astonished; I was
disappointed. Since my return my
braifi had been full of love stories of
which I-]. V. \V. was the heroine and I
the hero. And, after all, I had struck
one who was not above calling me to
her through a personal. Then it cuiuc
to me that there must tie some mis
take. Surely I knew n lady when I
saw one, and the girl I had met was
not only a lady, but a very innocent
und rellned one. Why did she make
the identification through the dollar
bill J had changed? Because, of course,
it was the best and only sure means of
Identification.
Tilts dollur hill was all 1 had to re
mind me of the girl who had given It
to me. I liud transferred it from my
pocket to a box of trinkets on my
dresser, folded just as it was when 1
received it. Something. I know not
what—one of those mysterious point
ers of the bruin perhaps tltat come to
us on occasion-prompted me to go to
my room and have a look at the hill.
I lost no time in doing so. tuni when I
unfolded tho crisp bit of paper my
eyes bulged from their sockets in ns
tonishment.
It was a thousand dollar note!
Now I saw it nil. Tlie wording of
iIn* advertisement, instead of Indicat
ing that the girl was familiar with
methods of assignation, showed her in
nocence or she Would not have used
It. It was evident she had Inferred
that I had discovered the denomina
tion of the bill, and she'gnve me the
means of communicating with her to
return it.
I took the midnight train for Cleve
land and tlie next morning went to
the jiostotRee. where 1 learned that
box No. — belonged to a family named
Worthington, laiter in the day 1 call
ed at tlie address, which I had also
received at tlie post office, and sent up
my card, on which I had written,
''The gentleman who changed the bill.”
I soon heard a rustic on tlie stuir
<ase, and E. V. W. came hurrying in,
anxiety on every feature, to know if
her money was safe. I hastened to
reussure her by handing her the note.
She had received it from her father
in New York, who was at tlie moment
engaged in making a cash payment on
n piece of real estate, and had inad
vertently given her the wrong bill.
Within a year I married her.
The Noise Habit.
A persoiial experience first showed
the writer the |>ossihility of a state of
affairs where the habit of noise could
liecome as fixed as the habit of a drug
Waking one night in the quiet of a
country bouse far from other habita
tions, I suddenly heard the starting of
the hot air engine which pumped the
water—chug. chug. chug, ciiug. I lay
listening to its monotonous \ ibrations
and wondering at tlie unusual hour
for pumping until 1 fell asleep. The
next night the sound was repeated
On mentioning tlie matter to my host
he confessed that he could not sleep in
the quiet of the country; that the sud
den change from the roar of a great
city to tlie silence of tlie woods was so
great as to cause lijtn real suffering.
As his only way to rest lie would leave
the house In the middle of the night,
start up the pump and. lying down in
a nearby hammock, find sleep brought
him by the lullaby of tlie hot air en
gine. That man recognized that lie had
the noise hnbit and finally conquered
it.~Ho!lh» Godfrey iu Atlantic.
THE VELVET HID,
By EDMUND CAMPTON.
(Copyright. I'M. by Ameiican Press Asso«
elation.)
"Father," said a mis* of sixteen, “tell
me a story about when you were a
young tunu."
"A glory about when | was a young
man? r.ot mo see There’s one about a
fide In a train I oneo took that might
interest you. I’ll tell you that one.
“I got into the ear ten minutes he.
fore the train started, anti, there being
hut few seats occupied. I put my anu b
<*! beside nu*. hoping that I might sit
lone Hut people kept coming In. and
I reluctantly set the bag on the floor.
Huts offering the seat to any one who
' hose io take it Presently n girl pniin*
hi. looked disconsolately at the now
ucii piled spats, glanced irresolutely
til the sent l»eside me and dropped into
It.
She was about twenty, a blond,
pretty as a peach, handsomely dressed,
with a suspicion of t!u> odor of violets
about her | considered myself n lu< ky
man to have such an attractive cron*
tore so (.lose bc. jde me. I drank In her
beauty out of the corner ef mv eve,
though I reluctantly refrained from
turning my head in her direction.
‘ Ilit* train was a suburban one, and
the journey would be short Tills I re
gret ted for If we laid had a longer ride
I should certainly have made an effort
to scrape an acijnnlnfiincr with the
lady When tin* conductor futiie
through the car for tickets I noticed
that 'he TT * •••* to toe same place
j ah myself. Tills gave mo . orufort. for
h<) tnkon was | w ith her t Ii : • I ‘osolved
to leave no st me uuturmsl in dis -over
who site wa* and secure mi !«,!; t' lec
tion.
“A few ..tiles from the cltv He re are
heights tinder which the trains umixT
pens. We (titered the iiami'l. lie- tin In
being lighted only at the ««t 11.*r « nd
; from that which we occupied leaving
our eed almost in darliiu 1 i> d
to ii temptation in Mini n\ \ :« r a
look at tny nvigliiior. I • , .: My
alio turned hers in my dlt • .it Hie
sunn* moment, she <nrvncd it away
again immediately. and - luehovv o
feeling look |Kisscss!nti of me that I
had made Iter afraid of me.
“Instead of shooting right through
the tiijupol, the train slowed up and
stopped in the ccuicr t>f it. It always
makes me timorous in stop in a tun
nel. I don’t like tunmlH anyway. If
any!Mug should happen to a ’rain In
one of these holes in the earth the
panic of Ilie passengers would he
dreadful. The girl beside me evidently
had the same view in the matter as I.
She wore an overcoat with pockets at
Ilie sides and had been riding with the
hand next to me In her pocket, as
though holding on to something she
was afraid of losing. When we stop
ped she withdrew her hand, looked
about her nervously, evidently forget
ting everything but the situation.
i resell uy »iie train moved on. It had
scarcely started when 1 felt something
plunged into my own overcoat side
pocket, tlic one next the lady. Natural
ly I put my own hand in the same •
place and grasped a hand -a soft hand.
Indeed. I knew It was the hand of the
girl beside me. The hand at once
grasped mine and held it in n grip a
delicate woman could only have pro
duced under some strong einotiou.
“What should I do? It did not occur
to me that the girl had tried to rob
mo. Such n supposition never entered
in.v head. But what was her hand do
ing in uiy pocket, and what object had
she In holding it so tightly? Had she
held If gently 1 should «tiave supposed
she was no better than she should lie
and lia«l taken this means to capture
me. I did nothing—simply wailed for
developments. When the first dim re
turning light entered the car the girl
culled to a man sitting on tlie opposite
side of the aisle in it terrified voice:
“‘I’m being robbed! Protect me!*
“The man rose and stood facing us.
Meanwhile the train ran out of the
tunnel. The girl rose, which impelled
mo to rise also. The man. the girl and
I looked down at my side. The girl
gave :t shriek, took her hand out of my
pocket, thrust It into her own and
dreW out a fat poekotbttok. Then she
sank back into her scut and covered i
her face ’with her hands.
“I explained briefly in an undertone
to 11n* man slip had called upon to pro- 1
teet.lior that slip had mistaken my
pocket for tier own. He resumed his ]
seat, with a smile. Several persons sit- I
ting near asked to he enlightened, and
gradually I ho story spread through the i
car. a wave of titter accompanying it.
‘•When we reached the stntion at i
which (lie girl and I were to leave the |
trairrshe was oblivious to our arrival |
I there. I lifted my hot and asked her
j If that was not her stopping pine**.
She made a dash for the door. I rush
's! after her and with difficulty kept
tier from jumping off the train when it
was still moving rapidly. A carriage
was waiting for her. and I put her in !
It. As she was driven away I said:
44 ‘You succeeded in robbing me, after
nil.’
“She looked at tne with a half dazed, 1
half puzzled expression, but said noth
tne
“Lufer I secured a formal introduc
tion. and after an acquaintance extend
MW over some months she asked me
one day what I meant l»y my remark
when I parted with her after what, she
•ailed ‘that distressing episode.’ I fold
her that the article she had purloined
wfi* not In my pocket, but in my left
breast, it was my heart.”
“I didn’t know women had pockets In
their coats.” said the girl listener.
“They don't, do they, mother?”
"They did then. At least I did. But
T’ll nearer have another. That, experi
ence was enough for me.”
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Schedule In Kffert
JUNK uo, ton#.
Leife 7:20 a. m. for Roanoke
>i'orfolk and all points rva the Shen
idonh division. Pullman Sleeper
Roanoke to New York, via Hagerv
o«n, Pullman Parlor Car Roanoke
o Norfolk.
8:55 a. m. for Itiauoke, Rlch
nouj. Norfolk. Pullman Slenpci. j
• iclug Car to Roanoke. Parlor Car
toaiK-ko to Norfolk.
12:40 p. m. for Roanoke. Lyach
iiirg and Intermediate statu r>a auii
*.hw Shcdando,.n Valley. Phlladelphi:.
md New York. Sleeper to Phl ado'
hia and New York. Cats car Gary
end Roanoke.
9:18 p. ra for Roanoke, Lyoch
• urg, Richmond, Norfolk. I ilim.r,
'Deeper to Norfolk, Koapoke »c
Richmond.
Leave Bluefleld 8:20 p. m for Kei
o/a, Onlumbua and all pol; s W<
and Northwest. Pullman Sleeper fm
OoltmbuB and Cincinnati. Cife
8:10 a rn. Pullnm.i fleeter for
Cotambus. Cafj Lining Car
Leave 8:80 a. m. and 2.05 p. n .
lally for Tazewell, Norton and a I
•ratlcr.s on Cllr'-h Vnll«y division
Arrive from Norton and points :>i
he Clinch Valley dlvtsloa a 12:20 p
' fl. and 7:05 p. rr,.
!#eave 8 00 a. m. for W* eh arrj
ntcrmedlate stations
I/eave 10:45 a nj. f>r William
»on a ><t Intermcd ate stat ons
l*u»va 2:15 p m, for W«|ch and
ntermedlafe atatlons.
For additional lr»for^natlon call on
«gent Norfolk and Western R flway
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‘THE HKD Ml IX/’
Tonight at the Klk's Opera House
►the’first TJerformance 0r the new com
tic opera. 'The Red Mill,” by the
Messrs. Henry Blo.-som and Victor
Herbert* will bo given by Martin &
Kmery -<’o. h capable organization
in a« complete a manner as during
its entire year engagement at the
Knickerbocker Theatre, New York
three months.. Grand 0|h*iu
/huts**, t’hieugo; anj three months
Theatre, Boston,
all last season The company num
bers Isxty members, including the
cute little Ihitch Kiddle* and a
chorus which 'for youth, beauty and
talent lias seldom been upproachei
in a musical offering. The orgaai-*
nation arriv*Kl at a seasonable hour
complete rest for the evening per
formance, while oceans of time is per
m it ted the mechanics to set up "The
Mill** a id have everything in readl
ne-v for a snappy and bright pre
sentation
IMPRISONING AMERICANS
_
arama. .Nov 24.-.—A report reach
ed here today that Zelaya is throw
ing all the Americans he can find
into prison. He is said to entertain
a most hitter hatred for everyone
who hails from the Untied States,
and Is showing this hatred bv Im
pel oning all found.
It is believed that the Costa
are aiding the revolutionists.
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