Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 10, 1909, Page 11

/ CHAPTER XIX (Continued.) feast a king'’s banquet would not be dn i, not for @ minute. I met at the clambake Mr, Frank Stevens, whom I had known intimately in Sacramen- %0 a3 president of the California. Stage company, while I was the conduector on m Sacramento Valley rall and es we had not seen each other for 4 quarter of @ century, youd bet- ter b&levn our coming together so unexpectedly created quite an excite- ment, for since his return to his na- ! tive state he had become @ power in | - the land by reasonof his great wealth ®nd his warm, open-hearted geniality. The successor of Mr Stevens as preeident ot the stage company was James Heyworth, and It was dur- ing Mr. that an agent known as_“Blase” short cighteen hundred dollars in his with the fellow, d something over three hundred pounds. When the de. ficlency was discovered there was a meeting of the directors called, and after reviewing the case and discuss- dng the good qualities of “Blaze,” end the benefit he had been to the company is keeping off opposition and other ways it was decided to let him oft for mine hundred dollars, and Mr. Heyworth _was delegated to visit him at his office in Nevada and inform him of this declsion. He did so, and ‘when they met and ex greet- ings, said Mr. Heywor " ‘Blaze, we have examined the books and find You are short eighteen hundred dollars in your accounts.” “1 know it” sald “Blagze,” “and It was by betting .on the wrong card, but I kept on, hoping to hit the right one and make good the loss.” company and decided smount.” “Is that so?" said “Blaze.” “Yes, that's 80,” sald Mr. Heyworth. “Then give me your hand” sald “Blaze,” and with moistened eyes and quivering lips he stamms “then, to show my gratitude for their kind. mese, 1 will throw off the other half.” And thus ended his officlal carrer. to throw off LONG AGO AND An E:p'mneo of Eighty Years of Life. Y (BY GEORGE TISDALE BROMLEY.j%, FLATER ON. while after this "Blaze” was running a liquor saloon near the ho- tel at Grass Valley, Artem! Ward, the humorist, gax tainment in the town, and the morn- ing after the show, as he was about getting on board _stage he was :‘O:wtgd by “Blase" with the ques- n: this Mr, Ward?" “T have settled biil,” =aid a it Just my ‘Oh, that was you hotel bill” said “Blaz “This is a bill for two and @ balf for drinks. haven't had any,” said Mr. Ward, “I can't help that” eald '“Blaze.” “That’s my saloon next door, and the drinks were there for you, and if you dldn't drink them it was't my fauit. You will, therefore, pay this bill be- fore getting on the stage. And the famous humorist, after gazing with feelings of awe n the ponderous proportions of the bill collector, paid it without a murmur. While on the stage the passengers related so many _aneocdotes about “Blaze” that Mr. Ward became quite interested in him and related the foregoing true aneodote in his his- tory. His comical way of telling it would _invariably ng down the house, My dear readers, please ex- cuse this digression, for I consciously led into it. At the close of the gay and festive scene at the clambake, I returned to Providence and took passage on_the steamer with my friend, the purser, for New York, where we arrived in due time, and the following day I re- ceived a note form the Lambe’ club, expressing a wish to honor me with a dinner, and asking me to name the night when it would be convenient to have it glyen, I named the night, with proper thanks for the distin- guished honbr, and when the time came thers were assembled In the dining room of the club the brightest lights in the theatrical profession, as well as other bright lights, not of the professton, and as long as I live the pleasure of that eventful evening wHl remain @ precious memory, for the A FARMER'S TALK TO FARMERS Everything in Life Comparative—7ow to Compare Our Lots—No Man, Woman or Child is Left without a Blessing of Some Sort—Keep the Eye Right and the Mind Right and Life’s Affairs will Seem to be Better Balanced. - = EREY XWritten Specially for The Bulletin.) Pretty nearly everything in this life s comparative. There is almost noth- ing in it that is absolute. No one of us all is absolutely happy or absolute- ‘wretched. Some of us are compara. ively happy, and some of us are com- rnuv-ly uncomfortable. But there n't & single man Jack or woman Jen- ny of us who hasn't comforts which others we know of must do without. Nor is there one of us so well fixed but we know of others who are, in #ome one respect at least, better off. If we want to find excuse for com- plaint in other peoples’ superior ad- wantages we can always find it; if we want to find cause for congratulation in other peoples’ greater misery we ‘won't have far or long to look. It's all a matter of comparison. Or very mnearly all 1 don't mean to say that a felfow with a jumping toothache can be whol- iy happy. But if he will compare his boring, twisting, snarling demon with the legion of fiends in Helnrich ‘War- burton’s jaw—a legion which attached every tooth at once and set them all throbbing with such an aggregation of agony as to drive him temporarily in- sane, why, then, I fancy he will thank his stars that only one tooth is kicking. He might be about fourteen times ‘worse off. The richest man on earth, able to own his own railroads, and his Oown ocean liner, and his own dirigible balloon, and a garage full of automo- biles, and a county full of blooded horses, and two or three legislatures, and a dozen judges—even he hasn't ®ot the magnificent digestion and the capacity for deep, renewing sleep which belong to some of his poorest rers, umglnc ballast on one of his rallroads. They envy him his wealth and luxuries; he envies them their ro- bust health. One trouble with us farmers, as well as with other folks, Is that we aren’t fair in making our comparisons. We're t00 much inclined to compare our- selves with those who are fuckier than we, and never with those who are worse off. A man would be no better than a flabby gasteropod who should mlways take everything as it comes for & blessing and never seek to better fimself. Similarly & man is no better than a snarleyow or & jabberwock who never sees anything but his own 8. 0od pay fe misfortunes and lack: gt ot our work, a8 a ru e don't get fair ces for our ts, as a rule. Our equitable share of the money the con- sumers pay for goods we furnish would very much iarger than our actual e Is. Start oft with this admis- slon; make It stronger, If you cheese; 'l not disputs with you, ~Comparing ‘wages with those pald for similar- hard work, similarly skilled or un- lled, tn the oities and large manu- We farmers. don't le. travagant luxuries, attalnadle only by the rich. Their flelds furnished them with corn and wheat and fye, which their own mills ground intp flour and meal. Their cattle and shesp and swine supplied them with meat. hides, tanned in their own tannery, gave them the leather for boots and shoes and harness, eto. They had no vegotables other than coming from their own gardens, no fruits oth- er than those they could on their own trees. Their “maple orchard” was the source of such sugar and syr- up as they used. The wool from thelr sheep, carded and rove and dyed ‘and made un and For summer wear they grew thelr own mmm-mrma and heckled and spun and wove it into coarse lin- butternut bark. TO: sometimes from sweet fern leaves, and a coffee made from roasted rys or oorn was desired by others. If they wanted an orthodox Thankegiving din- ner, they must raise their own tur- keys and pick their own oranberries from their own bogs. farmers, having small families diversity of labor to draw up- on, in m same way, but’ with something less of comfort and variety. Many a farm house which Other and less woven by, Was | Then, inte winter clothing mm treat. hill worthy of the name rich only C county, I pleasure of they were. Talk of “seven-hilled _city!"—Rome—mwhy, _§ wasn't in it with my seventeen-hilled native town, and every one of them was utilized by “the boy with the ‘While at Morgan Park I attended church soclal and during the evening’s exercises, which wers on a sort of go-as-you-please basis, with no regu- lar programme, I was called ’:sm to address the adlence. I compl! with the request and at the close of my re- marks I recited “When the Cows Come Home,” which, wiht my speech, met with the hearty approval of the audience. At the ciose of the enter- talnment I wae warmly congratulated upon my contribution to its succees, and thus was I aessured of the good taste and sound judgment of the peo- ple of Morgan Park. My native mod- osty, which is proverbial, prevents me from dilating upon this very pleasing event. After a_ delightful visit of thres ‘weeks at Morgan Park it oocurred to me that it was about time for me to know something as to the value of my excursion ticket in making my way home, and with this object in view I went to Chicago, where I had to nego- thate with three different railroad offi- ces. I was quite successful with the first, as the gentlemanly manager in. fomed me that as far as their road wa concerned my excursion ticket shoul be honored. T left his office quite en- oouraged, and then remembered that T ‘had a message to deliver to Mr. Bissell of the Santa Fe rallroad from a lady in San Francisco, and decided to get that off my mind before visiting the other two offices. On arrving at th Santa Fe office I ired for My, Bis. sell, and was told he was in_hi office but was very busy, so would I please be seated. I said pressed for time, and as I dM not the gentleman, but had a message for him from a ’gy In San sco, T would not detaim him for a The gentleman took my name to Mr. Bissell, and soon returned with this startling announcement: “Mr. Bromley, Mr. Blssell wishes you to_come right into his office.” T went in and the first salutation that met me was, “Uncle George, why did you say you didn't know me? The ‘meeting was a surprise and a Jelight, for I known ‘well 1a San Francisoo and had often met him at the home of in John Leale, whose wife had sent the message, and ugh San sco, ¢ity ¢ront to the Cliff house and from Fort Point to the Mission with a swift- ness that fairly made my head swim. lulmmlm-‘d“r. to get ‘west on an isa ‘month overdue.” “Oh, never mind your excursion - et” said Mr. Bissell, and calling to one of his clerks, he sald to him, “Fill out a pass for Mr. Bromley to San Francisco.” Then, sald he, “Do you want to stop over anywhere on the way?” After recovering a little from the overwhélming surprise I sald I would MHke to stop over a few days at Los Angeles. “All right” said he, “make it a stop- over pass” and nued, ‘T will give you a letter to the Pullman car man- today has its modern six-hole range, had then no better facilities for warm- ing and cooking than the crane and pots in an open fire-place. Where day improved oll lamps give and mellow Mght, they used feebly burning, sickly ing, grease dropping tallow dips. Were you a boy on a farm fifty years ago? Then you remember that e banana was an un- known joy to you; that you thought yourself lucky if you got an orange or two, hollday times: that had to &0 after the cows barefoot use the old folks couldn’t afford to have you wearing out shoes in the rocky pas- tures, and 80 on and on. 1 know farmhouses today where the bills for what would have been con- sidered extravagant luxuries fifty years ago are bigger every year the to- tal living ergm es of larger families in the same houses at that time. We farmers get more money than our fathers and grandfathers did. And we spend more. ‘'We get more for what we spend. If we save it's our fault and not the fault of the times. ‘We do less work than our fathers and grandfathers—ang less than our moth- ers and grandmothers, for that matter. We can live easier and better than they, if we choose. When | compare what | am able to earn with the incomes of Morgan or Rockefeller—when compars my house with the palaces of Newport and Tuxedo—when I compare my plain country fare with the feasts to which some rich men sit down every ’:;oney IOT more and harder wq n you in & mess meetin y onday to howl and denounce any execrate and scold and protest—if you'll agrec to meet with me again pn Tuesday to acelaim and laud and bank God for the go0d luck ‘we've e measure of hag ana success we've As a a:nl..dvnfift n": o wall off other ‘classes, If you'll pardon he use ot ‘that tinAmerican vword, swhich I use simply because thers peems o be no other quite clear. Nev- ertheless, as a cluss we are vastly better off than we were, and we are rilflnl every decade. If we get noth- ing but unhappiness in comparing our present condition with the luxuries of successful city men, we can get con- siderable comfort in comparing what we have now with what our forbears Bad half a century ago. E:orlak we are underpald. We get boy I’l!gt"d near a con‘nrn:m;’lty ers. ‘were farm lv- a village thelr own In a were prospe wrent in those s, too. and fertile flields, huge barn: wpon herds of stock. They were bet- ter off, as a whole, than most, of thelr eighbors. day— when I compare my steady old farm- horses, “shacking” elong at six miles an _hour, with Dives’ ittering aul mobile flashing by at i miles in & cloud of dust—why, then, I am apt to “get a_grouch on,” and develop a very uncomfortable feeling of discontent and envy. But, on the other hand, when I compare the comforts and luxuries that are now a daily portion with the bareness and privation which were the rule on this same farm fifty years ago I'm inclined to take a very different view of things. Of course, | haven’t all | want. I you want more; he (or she) wants more; we all, every moth- er's son and daughter of ts, want more and always shall want more, till the crack o' doom. If we spend our lives comparing what we haven't got with what somebody élse has, we're to have a mighty mean time of What's the use? HEnough discontent to spur us on to proj is desirable but it's often possible to have too much of a good thing. Why not try to “even things up?” It might do to gyumble because others are better off than we are on, say, Mondays ‘Wednesdays ang Fridays, and to hur- rah on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturdays because we are better off than our granddads. “And what'll we do on Sundays?” Oh, dear hearts, do wh!chev&m!ml please—Dbetter yet, do what you ink the sood Lord would rather have you do, fey just one day 4“. ‘week. ample only | the ager. You will have to pay for your berth. but he will ses that you are well cared for.” I bade of gratitude 3 good-by. I mnever knew the contents of that letter but it was wae rather | not, know minute, | the Ty ‘won, and on the evening of the Fourth our party were the guests at a splen- @id banquet given by the Los les. olub and presided over by the mayor it 1 have always noticed, up- s of this kind, that it is & hice thing for the entertained to per- mit the entertainers to win the game, ] i i 188 ) £ £ £ vz = E.g" Governor Gage and the park commis: sioners were making their annual tour as they pay the bills more cheerfully | the and everything at the banquet goes as ey marriage bell, and the At half past eleven the mayor sug- gested that we have one more Song and retire. “TWhat?” said I, sitting at his right hand, “do_you think we have come to Los_ Angeles to sleep?” “Oh, well, then,” said he, “we'll keep on;” and.we did keep on untll three a. m., and then retired to our Pullman to enjoy a much-needed rest and re- cover from the night's jolly entertain- ment. In the moraing, when we woke, we found ourselves in Santa Monica without our knowledge or consent. However, .we had a high old time in Santa Monice, and in due time reach- ed home. CHATER XX. To Honolulu with the Frawleys—Mr. Huntington’s Kindness — Yosemite and Mount Tamalpais—The Fields’ Camp and a Fourth of July Poem— The Sloat Monument. One day after @ delightful high and low jinks at the Bohemlan club, I was sitting in the Green Room and having a ohat with Timothy Danlel Frawley, the theatrical manager. It was about four in the morning, and under the circumstances, conversations at denly Mr. Frawley _said: George, come with us to Honolul 1 answered: “T should like to go, but it 15 mot possible.” “Why,” said he, “you can go as my guest, and it won't cost you any- thing” “Oh, in that case, I ean go as well 1 answered; end then we talked of something else. The next day I met Mr. Frawley, and knowing that men often say things at four o'clock in which they forget or re- gret the day following, 1 said: “Now, Mr. Frawley, if that proposi- tion of yours is at all embarrassing, don't think of it, for I have not set my heart upon it seriously.” * “What are you talking about?” said e. “About my going to Honolulu with %" “Why,” said he, “I have told all my company that you are going with us and they are tickled to death.” “That settles it,” said I; and I went to Honolulu with the Frawley compa- ny, and e glorious time we from start to finish. Miss Blanche Bates, Miss Wrenn and Frank Worthing were in the company, and 1 was billed as “an understudy for e thinking part” Miss Wrenn and I, being of the same age, with bhe figures reversed— eighteen and elghty-one—we wera much together. The lovely little lady expressed a desire for my photograph and inscribed with an original poetical sentiment, which she would take pride in showing her friends. And this is what happened one day while at the Sans Souci hotel, Waikiki, Mr. George Lycurgas, the proprietor, gave me the chair that Robert Louls Stevenson oc- cupled while writing his delightful South Sea stories, and while seated in that chair on the veranda which over- looks the tharbor and the Pacific Ocean, feeling the inspiration of the chair and the outlook, I produced the & gem: “My Gear Miss Wrenn, 1 don’t know when T've feit so proud As in being allowed To present you with this memento—-* I had written as far as “memento” of | without a hitch, but was zled for anager, assigned to a whole section while ev- ery other section of the car contained . h, R was grand! s me that I was never so homesick in all my lifs, and I wouldn't have gone to Los Angeles even to have been made the mayor of the city. I rang up the porter and had him change the destination of my wrien, T tet in language of sident Zachary Taylor in his message to the senate, “at peace with all the world and the rest of ‘mankind,’ After leaving Barstow no event oc- curred of sufficient importance to_ be given space in these memoirs, but upon my arrival at San ), the train being two hours bt.(hl concluded that, rather than disturb the Pamily at that late hour, I would stop over at the ‘Bohemian club; and my ess, gTa- clous me! such a welcome as I met upon my arrival bean honor to the ruler of the land. Some fifteen or twenty Brhemiats were gathered in the Red Room rehearsing for a coming high jinks. T entered the Red Room unannounced, and as those present had not the remotest idea that I was within thoussnds of miles of their meeting place, my sudden ce created a surprise that ‘was something won. derful, and th just came tumb- ling over one a: in tendering me their heart; ons upon my return, and it is superfluous to say that there was no further rehearsing that evening. Bright and early the following morning I was at the door of my home, where and another affectionate Pevne Ut CESIAT e ever been mine, except when speaking of Los Angeles and not Kol there Feminds me of the e when I.4id go, and it 'Wwas one of the time that will live @8 long as memory lasts. The baseball nine of the Bo- club recelved an invitation nomm:'»“:g:l:u‘-olx.:um @s gues! g a game ummunfifm Now, the Bo- hemfans had never known :z on know & and the @ word to rhyme with it. [owever, T ‘walted For the inspiration to come again, and it came as follows: “For when this you see You'll remember me No matter whers you've went to.” ‘The little iady was so pleased with the ploture and poetry that she show- ed ft to all her friends in Honolulu, and the le wanted me to remain there recelve the appointment of Poet Laureate for the Islands, but re- membering the thousands who were waiting to welcome me at home, I de- clined the honor with profuse thanks, One serfous drawback to the en- Joyment of a y in a Honolulu thea. ter is that when one is overpowered by a betwsen-the-acts thirst he has to hire a hack to take him where he can quench it and get back before the cur- tain rises. For w three-act play the hack hire is seventy-five cents, which, with the price of the thirst-quencher the theater ‘makes However, evi especially the hackmen, and were but three perforances & week. the outlay appeared to be cheerfully submitted to, and every one supremely in the Hawallan Islands, I visited the grave of Jules Tavernier, the Bohemfan club artist who_dfed in Honolulu several years ago. I placed & wreath of native flowers on the tombstone, and also had photographs taken of the grave. Tavernier was ono of the early members of the club. After an absenoce of five weeks, we arrived in San Francisco again, all weli and without having hed a single jar t0 mar the perfect enjoyment of the most delightful party that ever sailed out from port, and I shall ever, remem- ber T. Danlel Frawley most gratefully for hl: rfl:@mnflm me to be one o company. In 1808 the cornerstone of the Sloat monument was laid at Monterey, and Mr. Raphael Weill invited me to ac- company him to witness the ceremo- nies. We arrived the day before the celebration end at the Del Monte hotel. It was one of the live- Hest evenings I ever spent. There ‘were sport and galety enmough in the town the next day, but it did not com- pare with the night. The ceremonies ‘which attended the laying of the ley, he asked me when I was to return to the city. I * K fol n a8 a whole evening is a pronounced suc- |} cess, and dining-room help, enjoyed them- selves together, I took part in all tk:n square dances and always had a par! ner. The round dances I found made me dizzy, but my time di not go to waste, for I made a point of accom- panylng the governor or some other of the distinguished guests in search of refreshm¢ nd renewing our as- uished considera- m«u ‘Those lov.;; lightful evenings epent on form of & Chinses Jaundry. e following year Tamalplas for the first time, although 1 came to California in 1851, and Tamalpais is In sight of Where T am wrl these memoirs. It was at the fnvitation of Mr. H. K. Field that I made the trip; otherwise I do not think I should ever have thought of it. During my long life I have seen a good many crooked things, from a politician up, but never anything quite 50 crooked as the raflroad that con- veys visitors to the summit of Mount Tamalpais. Frequently, on the way up, the passenger is in doubt whether he is going or coming back, but you “get there, all the same” and after refreshments in the neat and well- kept tavern, you can gaze out upon one of the finest views to be seen on this side of the continent. It stratches from Mount Diablo to the Pacific Ocean, teking in all the cities, towns and villages within a_hundred miles. No one visiting San Francisco or its vicinity should forego the pleasure of this trip. The most enjoyable and satisfactory Fourth of July observance I have ever taken part in wae on the banks of the Russian river (n the year 1900, at a camp owned and ed by Mr. Henry, K. Fleld, his family and inti- mate friends. The camp was perfect in all its appointments, and furnished with all the comforts of a home, and the company most merry and light-hearted_of eny that has ever camped on that river. The night be- fore the Fourth, Charles K. Field and Richara Hotall were expected to join the gay and festive throng, and as they were two of the joliest mem- Ders of the Bohemian club, it was pro- posed to receive them with all the honors not in use for previous arriv- als. A procession was formed and headed by am improvised band fur- nished with _instruments gathered from the ocook's kitchen, the pantry and the dining table. The newcomers were met at the edge of the grove. Darkness bad already fallen, and the @m light gave the assembly an im- 1 visited Mount |y pressiveness which it would not have possessed otherwise. With the excep- tion of “music by the band,” silence relgned_while the solemn procession marched into camp, where the order of “E. Clumpus Vitus” was duly con- terred by myself, as the “Dandy Grand Sachem” of the camp. After taking the solemn obligation never to Teveal anything they did not know them- selves, they were declared full-fiedged members of the “Right Royal Russian River Roysterers,” and then the fun commenced. The following day being the Fourth, the ladies of the camp de- cided to present to Mr. Field a testi- montal of their high regard and esteem of his untiring efforts in their behalf, and with that object in view they had visited a tin shop and purchased a tin gallon measure, contracting to have two extra handles added, thus forming the loving-cup that was to be present- ed. The recipient suspected mnothing of the surprise that was in swre for him until the company had assembled in the dining tent, when the cup was produced wrapped in a gunny sack, Ing L reading of & poem and durh written for the occasion, was solemnly unveiled and duly presented amidst applause and three cheers for H. K. Fleld. Another very delghtful -Fourth of July was spent at Byron Springs with the L. R. Meads. This is one of my pleasures that I feel should be_recorded. When the Aloha Press association visited San Francisco and was enter- tained by the Press club, of which I am an honorary and, I hope, honored member, I made many warm friend- ships among the members, and have kept up a lively correspondence since with one of the charming women who accompanied the association on its trip. Indeed, during all these interesting years my life has been full of enjoy- ment, and it falls -to the lot of but few to have drawn around them the enduring friendships such as 1 have been blessed with, and I prize them far above worldly riches. For 'tis a grand thing to have the good opinion of our fellow-men. 1 don’t remember of ever having any desire to accumulate riches, nor do I remember. of there ever having been a prospect of it, ex- cept when I bought stock in the Julia mine. 1 have also found that to be an at- tentive listener is oftentimes more de- sirable in company than to be a good talker, even if one is consclous of be- ing a'better talker than the one who has the floor. I think one reason why I have always got along s0 easily in company is that when conversation is lively I lsten; when it drags, then I come in. It is something of a study, of course, to know just when to “chip in.” 1 have left many good things un- said rather than interrupt the one who was talking. In general conversation it is the one who says but little that commands attention when he does epeak; that is, if he has anything sensible to say. Another pleasing event I feel that ought to be recorded in these memoirs, as it was an important factor in con- tributing to the happy and serene life it was my fortune to enjoy. I one day received a letter from Mr. H. E. Huntington, vice president 'of the Southern Pacific Rallroad company, requesting me to call at his office. I did so, and after a very cordial greeting he explained the object of his ending for me by reading a letter he had recelved from Mr. Coliis P. Hi Instructing o on the pay roll, an derstand that I was to on this side of the continent, may have had some bearing on, by Mr. Hays. He came to San Franelsco, en- tered upon his omcial dutles, removed Mr, Hitchcock from an:agency which he "had filled honorably and accept- ably for many ‘years, shut down on my salary, resigned his position and re- turned to New York. Thus ended his career as president. y convalescence was slow, but I finally regovered my health and was, if any- thing, better than befors the accident. . CHATER XXI. Some Tributes of Friendship. (3 (With a Photograph of I. H. Bromley.) Some eight and forty years have gone Since you—just home from sea— Sat, dandll on oné summer morn, An infant on your knee; And as the youngster danced with joy And babbled, babylike, They said, “In this uneasy boy Behold your brother Ike!” And now that almost fifty years Have left on both their trace b ou, @8 it now appears, That dimpled baby's face. The ceaseless flow of time and tide Has touched us both alike— Turn over on the other side— Behold your brother Ike! New Haven, August, 1881 . (These are some of the poems that ‘were written In the autogreph album given me by the Bohemian club mem- bers on my seventy-fifth birthday ‘were recelved at the same time from Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Bill"” Nys, Ii Hung Chang, Charles W. Wynham, H, C. Barnabee, Daniel C. Gimen and many others.) ~ Oldest Bohemian now alfve, Hearty and hale and seventy-five, Master output of Nature's forge— Diplomat, sallor, Uncle George! Actor, wit and man of parts— All--round winner of human hearts, Boger to please and slow to scourge— Boss Bohemlan! Uncle George! ~George Chismore. To few beneath the azure dome Such wealth of years 19 meted, As marks your pathway from that ‘home first your smiles were greeted. And fewer still—your spirit sweet, Your kindly ways, your gentle wit, Your genial beam when friends you greet— Have had since days were numbered; This troop of friends, joy in their train, Proclaims you have not lived invain: From farthest West to Maine's wild shore Your peerless worth they're singing; For you, as ne'er rang before, The Bells of Love are rin; —W. G. Staftord. You've made “the winter of our dis- t n “glorious summer” now these meny years; Your genial smiles, merrimen Have filled our hearts and left scant room for tears. It Mfe's best lived which blesses all ‘manlkind, And grateful love demembered, real Wealth brings— © Prince of all that's gentle, g8od and Kind! j You well may “scorn to change your state with kinge!” —Henry M. Bosworth. hath the quartering chimes Tung in thine ears; The mellow music frets thee not— but cheers; 0, live an hundred yéarst A Golden and a Sliver Jubilee Enshrine thy happy years, so happlly— Sacred to thine, and thee! Seem your wit and Years that are fairer Ffor fair Folly's sake; Youthful are they, with Wisdom thelr wake: When they end—comes heart- break! in As_all thy sorrows we would freely ehare— And all thy bundens ws would giadly bear— With love—and love to spare— 0, live forever! Iive that we may ive; And give us of thy store, that we may Ive; This is imperative! For in thy Book of Life—thy Golden Age— What memories rubric each umsullied _ Loved Sire! loved Wit! loved Sage' —Charles Warren Stoddard. ‘Weshington, D. C. Say what I think of you in rhyme? 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The tonic action of these pills ng_on the vital organs is imme- heyare Nature’s own remedy For Run-down Conditions Sbld Everywhere in Boxes, 10c. and 25c. OR. fing’s Restoration Method What It Does for Toothless People By means of this wonderful method we are able to give back to a patient the full set of teeth he or she starte ed In with In the beginning. All we require 1s two or more teeth in each jaw to work from, and we shall not resort to plates or ordinary bridge- work in the process of the work. Your mouth will be free from i~ cumbrances. Before we accomplish this result we put the gums and the natural teeth in a healthy condition, tight- ening the teéth which may be looss and curing pyorrhea if the patient is affiicted with that dreadful dis- ease. All of the teeth we supply are practical teeth; each set in its own socket following nature’s plan, #o fhat " the strain is equally divided: One is able to bite on these teeth diate,thorough and lasting. THOMAS JEFFERSON KING, D. D. 8, Originator ot Dr. King’s Restor- ation Method for the natural restoration of teeth — originator of the King Safe System of Painless Dentistry and Inventor of the “Natural” Gum” Set of Teeth, Bte, Etc. All rights re- served. a of constant delight to the one ‘who| wears them. A PAINLESS PROCESS An {mpression has gone forth that there is some surgical operation connected with this method of restoring missing teeth. Some people have written in to know if we bore down into the bone and put the teeth in on pegs ! Others have an idea we set the r.ew teeth into the sockets where the natural teeth wers originally. It is quite natural that some @nthinking people would ask such ques- tions, and in order that they may be fully answered we Wil state that there is no boring, no cutting, no implantation about this method, nothe ing about the work that is painful whils it is being done or afterward. Patients leave the office with these teeth in placs and at once begin chewing meat, eating candy, toast, or anything else with the saume come= fort they would enjoy if every tooth in their bead had grown thers. If we couldn’t promise this and make good on the promise, the Re- storation Method wonld not be & success. It would be no better tham ordinary bridgework or partial plates. WE ARE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS All Forms of Dentistry Treated by Experts. ‘While the Restoration Method is our great specialt~ we are general dental practitioners as well. From the simplest nmn& to the most in- tricate piece of porcelain work, our experts are at the service of the pablic. Naturally we would do such work well, much better than it could be done in & one-man office, for the operators employed here are all men of the very highest skill. They need to be to do the Restoration wor Bunglers would not be tolerated in our office for a day, neither woul dental students. 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