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END ANNUAL SESSION. Twenty-rive Executives Conclude .Meeting?Dunne Alain Speaker. Colorado Springs, Aug. 29.?Governors from 25 States who have been attending the Conference of Gover nors, wnich closed a three day session at noon today, devoted the last lew hours of their stay to studying l the convict system of road bulding. Following the closing of the conference at noon, the State executives were taken on an automobile tour ovor several miles of highway mountain road constructed by convicts. Tomorrow the governors will leave for Denver. The feature of the session of the Conference for Governors today was an address by Gov. Edward F. Dunne of Illinois, who spoke on the growth of public control of utilities. His address was an extensive treatise on ttie development 01 tne pian in uie various States of tne Union, more patricularly since 1905, when the movement began to show itself in definite form. "The tendency is plainly in the direction of the control of public utilities," he said. "The inovement is advancing by leaps and bounds and I believe that within a few years there will not be a State which has not a public utility commission empowered by law to control the service of the corporations of the State. If the control shall fail, as I believe it will not, then the only alternative left is publfc ownership and operation of utilities." "I would send every United States soldier into Mexico to protect Amer- j ican women, if necessary," declared | Gov. 0. B. Colquitt, of Texas, in a speech at a banquet in connection with the conference here last night. "I know that I am treading on. dangerous ground, but the United States should cot stand idly by while j Americans are being murdered and i outraged in the rebellious republic." Gov. Colquitt sprang the sensation Df the evening with his utterances on the Mexican situation, which were in marked contrast to the statements of Secretary Franklin K. Lane of the interior department, praising President Wilson and his cabinet for their work. rortvc ftP THP TrtT?\lTM>. IllJUAilO vx xuju Interest in the "Big TVind'' Grows1 With Increased Population. v The weather bureau at Washington has been collecting statistics and facts about cyclones and tornadoes for many years, and the experts have succeeded in securing considerable valuable data about the big | winds; but, after all, the freaks of the storm are the things that give itj ? special interest, and if all these were properly classified some remarkable; u -p,,-r.i-1 ieVi F.verv I reading wouiu uc iuiuw^u. visitation of a tornado adds to this valuable storehouse of queer freaks. It is not uncommon for the whirling wind to cut a house in half, demolishing one side and leaving the other undisturbed. This happened in aa Iowa tornado, and the part that was left intact was so little disturb+viot thp clock on the mantel con <U VUMV VMW , tinued ticking as if nothing had happened. In the Texas town of Sherman," which was visited by a tornado in 1896, two houses were picked up and carried into the air, where they exploded. Every one in them was I severely injured except a baby, which did not receive so much as a scratch. A man milkin-g a cow in a shed saw7 the cow and shed carried up in the air, but he was not so much ! as touched. Not a drop of the milk m his pail was spilled or disturbed. In the St. Louis tornado ot ine same year, a carpet in the parlor of one house was pulled up by the twister and carried away a few hundred yards without so mucn as a rent be.ng torn in it. The tacks had been pulled up as neatly as if extracted by a careful carpet layer. In another house the bed clothing and mattress was lifted from the bed, and the bedstead was left intact. A resident was "arripd through the roof of another house with the bed and dropped a quarter of a mile away without injury. The mattress saved him in the fall, and he picked himself up in a vacant lot to dress, without knowing exactly what had happened to him. The "twisters" have been known *.o pull nails out of shingles and hen go on to pick up a chimney bodlv and carry it through the air. In Kansas one picked up a buggy and landed it in the branches of a tree. \t another time it ripped the harness completely off a horse and left horse, buggy, and man uninjured. In Louisville in 1908 a tornado carried the roof off a house and pulled a child from the mother's arms and carried it safely to another house six blocks away. But these are merely among the harmless freaks of the big wind. [ I T.:ere are others more heartrending. : It has dismembered human beings, ; and twisted the hair of women into j and twisted the haid of women into ; ropes. In Kansas it drove a piece of j scantling six inches "mgh the body of a hog. At another time it blew in the door of a farmer's house and carried the owner away on the door, to drop him in the branches of a tree. The tornado did not rnurt him, but he broke his neck falling from the tree to the ground. Xo one has succeeded in measuring the full force of a tornado, but it is known to travel at the rate of 200 miles or more an hour. Tornadoes are exciting more general attention than formerly because of the greater number of towns and villages located in the tornado belt. Each successive one is more dangerous than its predecessors, because it is apt to find more human material to destroy. Formerly it migh:: travel half the length of a continent without finding anything in its path to destroy except grass, trees, and occasionally the crops of a solitary farmer. Today, if it followed the same route, it might pass over a dozen villages and towns. The only thing that can possibly break the force of a tornado is a range of mountains. It may create wild havoc among the trees and bowlders of a mountain, but it cannot carry the mountain itself away. It will uproot giant forest trees, suck the ^ + s-v *% 4-V*av ti'aI 1 c* or? otrno m c _ W dlci IJl U1JU lliC ncug auu ouvu.n^j ] twist and demolish iron bridges, and carry up 'houses, but the mountains are proof against the mighty force of the wind. Until we know how to control the tornado or find some means of baffling it, its menacing danger must always be a source of considerable uneasiness in the great plain sections ' of the' country. But, like earthquakes, the tornado and cyclone do not come every year, and sometimes they defer their visit for a decade or so, for -which we may be thankful.?Harpers Weekly. wen i?escr?cu Acuunct A lady in talking to some of her friends one day told of a well-merited rebuke which a workman administered to her once. She said: "On several occasions I had missed little things after workmen hr.d been in the house. I had no proof that the fViarn nr r?AnTCO T JULldl 11(3.11 LdACIi liiouji (axxva) vsjl vw ia* ? made no accusations. One day a carpenter came to the house to jnake some repairs and it chanced that some work in my room was necessary. He and his helper came into the room, and after they had looked around I thought they had left. Mindful of my former losses, I said to the maid in a low tone: 'Mary, see that the bureau drawers are locked before you leave the room.' "Just as I spoke I looked up into | A V T nnr.r I tne mirror, ana 10 xuy uunui ? aa? that the carpenter and his assistant had not left the room at all, but were standing only a short distance from me. From the look on his face I saw that he understood, but I was scarcely prepared for what followed. "Taking his watch from one pocket and his pocketbook from another, he turned to his assistant and said with a significant air, as he handed them over to the younger man: "'John, take these things back to the stop at once. It seems that things ain't safe in this house.' -- ' A 3 -i-'U _ '"Needless to say" continued me lady, "I apologized to him and also needless to say the bureau drawers were not locked up. I concluded that it wasn't necessary, and it wasn't."? Philadelphia Ledger. >~o Authority. "I got into an argument one day with my wife on the propriety of using a certain word in a sentence. My wife maintained there was no right in favor of my usage, and I held that' there was. So, to end the matter, I took the Century dictionary and looked it up. " ' A Vi ' T eoirf 'horo ^ id With lUSt AUy JL OCiXV^., "V* v/ ^ | the usage employed,' and I read the 1 justifying quotation aloud. "But my wife was still dubious 'Whose quotation is that?' she wished to know. "Again I studied the printed page. 'Why, it says "Howells,"" I responded. " 'Oh,' answered my wife, with a triumphant scorn, 'he's no authority.'" Always Took Precaution. Qono+rkT Varrloman at a liiTVChPnn at the New Willard, said of a certain trust's defense: "The defense is worse than the offense. It takes me hack to Bath Beach. "A young lady at Bath Beach had occasion to complain about one of the bathhouse attendants, an old fellow who, in the hurry of cleaning up, would sometimes burst in upon her in the bath-house without knocking. ; "One morning after this had happened for the sixth or seventh time, the young lady took the old fellow to task. " 'See here, Peters,' she said, 'there's no lock on my bath house, as you know, and I must insist on your knocking before you enter. It hasn't happened yet, but it might very well J happen, that you'd come in on me undressed.' "Peters, with a chuckle, hastened to reassure the young lady on this point. " '>'0 fear of that, miss,' he said 'No fear of that. There's a knot hole in the door what I always look through before I venture in.'" Kiplinr's Queer Conduct. At a tea the other day, a woman heard the following remarks made about her favorite author. She turned to listen, amazed by the eccentricities of conduct narrated. "Yes, you know," the hostess was saying, "Kipling came in ana oenavea so strangely! At luncheon he suddenly sprang up and wouldn't let the waitress come near the table. Every time that she tried to come near he would jump at her. "He made a dive for the cake which was on the lower shelf of the sideboard, and took it into the parlor to eat it. He got the crumbs all over the sofa and the beautiful rug. "When he had finished the cake he simply sat and glared at us." The visitor finally could not control herself, and asked: "Excuse me, but are you speaking of Mr. Rudyard Kipling?" "Mr. Rudyard Kipling?" echoed the hostess. "Oh, no; Kipling is our dog!"?New York Sun. Office Declined. English as she is "spoke'' will ever have its pitfalls for foreigners, though some are not so deep as the following: A Frenchman was forced to go to a friend for advice. ??/ "?? ^ vnn tall mo" "ho QCjlrPfl "vat. \y CLL1 J KJ U itxi ixiV) . heem is?vat you call a pole bear? Vot is a pole bear?" "A polar bear, you mean." "Yes, yes, vat is heem." "Oh, he is a bear that lives on the ice and eats fish." "Mon Dieu! And one do that! Nevaire! Nevaire!" "You do it? What do you mean?'' "Veil, an man in de house vere I leeve, he die, and dey say to me vill I pe pole bear for heem. Live in de ice and eat fish! Not even for a dead man! Nevaire! Nevaire!"?Chicago Record-Herald. Impossible. Pennsylvania Hungry and Jersey Slim were waiting for a southbound freight when a builder drove up with n wa?nn and offered them Si apiece if they would help him unload a car of lumber. The hoboes thought the matter over, and, as $2 meant forty beers, they accepted the offer. The builder climbed inside the car and pushed out a plank. The hoboes lifted it up, one at each en-d, but found that they were face to face. Then they reversed themselves and picked up the plank, only to find that they were back to back. Pennscylvania Hungry twisted his neck and surveyed the situation in disgust. Tossing the plank down, he exclaimed: "Aw, how can two men carry one plank?" And when the builder sought his help they were on their way out of the yards.?Cincinnati Enquirer.. Something rnusnal. "You newspaper fellows are ordi narily iiarcl pressea ior iunas, are | you not?" asked the genial stranger, j according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Our natural pride forbade us to agree with this outsider's conclusion. So we said: "Why?er?not necessarily. What makes you thirlk so?" "I'll tell you. I am acquainted with a member of your profession? and a fine chap he is, too. The other day I wanted to talk to him, so I j called him up on the 'phone and asked ?him if he would lunch with me. He accepted, and at the appointed hour we sat at the "cable. I opened the conversation thus: "'Well, what's the news? Anything unusual in your line?' ""Yes, answered the reporter, 'this!'" During the trial of a case, an attorney was making a strong plea for his client when an ass began to bray outside the court room, the window . of whiclh opened on a pasture, according to the Philadelphia Ledger. "Wait a moment," said the judge calmly. "One at a time, if you please." The lawyer presently had a good chance to retort. When the judge was charging the jury the ass again began to bray, this time at a greater distance from the court room window. "I beg your lorship's pardon,'' said the attorney. "May I ask you to repeat your last words? 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HHWfflniHi'M III 1111IIIIWII 1? ??g I rry Savings - $5 mmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmBmmmmmmmmmmmmm t Always Has The M Wnfp WC7ZQB 1 r TWE LCSPUNl^ rieht 1909. by C. c. Zimmerman Co ?U ney is safe in ou 't have to worrj Kpfiinr! mir resources of s< financial men your money ailing if you have a savings account1 zings deposits. Lodge, So. 20, L 0. 0. F. come.' Lodge, No. 20, I. 0. 0. F., Prof, y Friday night at 8 o'clock Dnd Hall. Visiting brethren lly invited to attend. Caoteec Jas. L. Aull, Noble Grand. catee erson, meote t jcretary. o'clock y Camp, No. 542, W. 0. W., Sign ry second and fourth Mon- SIgne in Klettner's hall, at 8 meets < 8 o'cloc I. 0. Burton, C. C. T. P. Ji psen, / erk. * I Lacot Lodge, >To. 87, A. F. JL lapa, S. odge, No. 87, A. F. M., meet* nesday Monday night at 7.30 o'clock hall. V c Hall. Visiting brethren T TCTtvi nvited. ?* ?nxi. T. T. Johnson, CI irhardt, W. M. Secretary. Xewbe ? ? Newb )dmen of the World# meets Jamp, No. 437, W. 0. W., o'clock py first and third Wedneeig at 7.45 o'clock. Visiting T. P. Jo re corially welcome. D. D. Darby, ick, Clerk. Will* C. C. Willo meets e Tribe, So. 24, l. u. x. m. | uaj uigi Tribe, No. 24, Improved Or- school J ien, meets every Thursday o'clock In Klettner's Hall. W. G. Peterson, A- & ^ r, Sachem. ef of Records. Palm( .ha Tribe, I. 0. B. M. TVoodcr; Tribe, No. 75, I. 0. R. M., hall, r, S. C., meets ?very first and fourth 1 ay night at 8o'clock in MaVisiting brethren are wel4 L Rank VMAftll 0,000 loney" J i SF rbank. rabout nk are / >me ot in the where a good with our I r G. H. Domlnick, J. S. Wheeler, Sachem. Chief of Records. hee Counefl, >o, 4, D. of P. L 0. B. M. chee Council, No. 4, D. of P* wfhTT nth at Tuesday nieht ai I p. m., in Klettner's Hall. et Chapter, Jf?. 18, B. A. 3L t Chapter, No. 18, R. A. M., 3very second Monday night at :k in Masonic Kail Van Smith, ohnson, E. H. P. iScotfl Tribe, I. 0? 31* a trifcd, No. 79, I. 0. R. M., C., meeting every otner weanight at 8 o'clock in Summ? brethren are welcome. T. C. Dobbins, Folk, Sachem, lief of Records. rry Commandery, Jfo. 6, E. T. erry Commandery, No. 6, K T., >very third Monday night at 9 in Masonic Hall. Fred. H. Dominlck, hnson, E. C. Recorder. )tf Camp, So. 694, W. 0. W. w Camp, No. 694, W. 0. ivery second and fourth Tuestits in each month at West End aouse. T. B. Kibler, Council Commander. To Trl r a* uj Clerk. ;tto Camp, No. 694, Boys of aft, meets at Odd Fellow's 2St End, every second and {Vednesday night, at 8 o'clock. G. W. Harrison, Commander. :