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Sheridan Road News-Letter (1889), 7 Nov 1903, p. 4

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Paw-bod ems-tau!“ mm 0! mt”- land Pill. m" by M Sheridan Road Publishing Co. ‘ , ”I”: - , . Revs-[Ann Wat. 31‘, is!“ A”. Enacted a the Phat-once It Ballad Put amour! dun mm. 7 All correspondence and“ comp municulflms fbr publication {n the News~Letter must be addressed dired to the paper, or no (titanium will be paid to (hem. ’ ' Adv-"Vida. mod nub We. no!” "‘All thing's come to him who willbnt wait.” , ~ * We send this, week sample copies of the SHERIDAN ROAD NEWS-LETTER to non-subsnbets on the North Shore who are here by invited to show their public. spirit by sending in. their sub- scriptions promptly. the broken engagement of Miss Fessenden and Lieut. Phillips, when‘ 'boiled down’ proves to be that he had known; herfio'nyly two weeks and felt that the wedding mv'itatious were ratp‘er prematui'e. Well, if it Was oily Ciro. weeks, he was not'""‘qftgr hula mu'c‘ghxa blame as at first appeared; ' THE “BLIOHT.” “The feeble» of foes ’93: not «.16 to despise. The tiniest speck can give pain to the eyes. ” The Snnm‘nw Rom ansch- TEE does not ‘déspise’ anybody, not even those who ‘despise' it. On the century, if they need' ad- vioeâ€"mlqng with any. other yieet the NEWS Lm‘mn stands ready to advise. It has taken this‘ltund’ because it has been accused of -‘having nothing in it.’ A conical locum luminance. It has ‘sttuok a boom!’ At last something! haa‘replly ‘hap. pened,’-â€"aomething besides ‘Mrs. Brown wgnt to town last Week, or ‘Mrs. Jane Janos from ‘Janesvflle visited our townllut week.’ SATURDAY.~ NOV. 7. 1903 The ‘deep and dark mystery of TERMS h... PB! ml ' $1.50 IF PAID IN ADVANCE Telephone No I. “it“ M (INCOIDOIATIDJ Shield our “Enchimhavo de- clared that they are ‘tieh of Mg!- ingao lunch of the Btom' tad no going to stop their paper he. clue of our frequent mention of the ‘doingn' of the Bram. W. like the Brown! «6‘ we’ro‘ eager ”d iuxiou to put in an,“ thing we can get hold of about then. But people who envy the Brown. und are “nick of honing ghoul them," will be glad to see ‘um at [at the sloopy old town of Highland Park has had a sensation. Something has happened that iaé‘reel inter~reetâ€"ing.” It may we to remind people that things do happen, and‘when they aee a simple announcement like, “Lieat. Burt Phillipe has gone away for an indefinite period." it may mean something. He may have ‘gone where the wood-bine twineth’ or he may have felt that he had‘ ”gone far enough’ in one direction: land now must hegouer in another if he Would not be ‘a goner' mat- rimomlly, ' ' - ~He went-in haste, leaving- «his luggage and a specimen of his “metre” with telephonea. Hie military title is now spelled lefL tenant. If he has gone to the fi‘ffotheresLOneKandlnnndahe ie not ‘Auother’e‘ any more than he W will send as a notice of it, Tare will print it. . We want‘tbe'news.’ We want‘a live paper.’ We don't care how “live’ it is. We are‘willing to make it ‘a live coal' onan enemy's head, or a ‘live coal on a friend’s hearthatone; but with all our willingness we can’t manufacture out’ some of thogo 'military tel: alows nnd put them in vilias,and tell them to be an villainous as they like. Anything of that sort ‘helpe to make “a live paper. " It makes up for a lot of items like ‘Old man Fake went to Califor- nia,’ and ‘Old Lady Limp went to Florida’ and ‘a bouncing boy bounced in on the Fleehnytyu’. We are glad of all these things; We don’t want any item to escape an, ‘be it ever .0 humbhf but we rely on “The Elight,” who won't take our paper. “banana there’s nothing in it," to go to ._If the people of Lake'00., want a “live paper," let them wake up and do something. Let them go up to Fort Sheridan and ‘yank won-k and do at my towing to put in it, tbgn we Ibdl 'find out. “who's who” in “thin hero" town, and who they think they are and what it. memo. to be ‘who' find who do tho lot. of thing! “I“ g-w-hmdno. ‘CWho Now if you thhk this in going to be ‘0 live papa" try a sub- sari ption . The pioprietore of this paper are willing to “knowledge that they have not done the wovk of ten luau 1nd o boy on it. on well on they ought to hove done it; but now that “the Elight" have shown a disposition to turn in Ind helpj no with live item oi real news that has some snap and go to it, â€"why the “id are willing to White extra keep,” and show what this town can produce in the way of ‘a live paper," that people won’t be “sick” of, because it has too much in it about other 'peoo pie and not enough about them. uPUPPprDVB." . When a, young. fella}: mu mutt ”a girl,in a ‘fihany-go-‘lucky” wayw withoutnny regard whatever for ultimate magnum, he- ought at lent to back out of his happy ,gotlucky utterances in as manly a way as possible. ”He might not * to call the girl’s mothox; up 3nd tell her over the telephone that he does not love her daughter enough to marry her. What aelf- respecting mother could refuse to “break the engagement.” ’ under the air- cumstancos? And Whn't woman even of the moét meagre ‘ menu} equipment, would pay why she had b‘roken it. Could she be expect; ed to proclaim herself so eager for the marriage of her daughter that she took no pains to discover whether or not it was a “tease of puppy-love," before sending out the invitations to the weddingâ€"- invitations so manifestly pm- mature as to necessitate .a man’s 'recanting by telephone? Cer- fdinly‘not!” ' The mother has am the only course possible. She‘ declines to my why, - ‘ She is to be qomnded for her course in this crisis, whatever my ho said of he: hppy-gm lucky protection 0! 1:6! daughter inthepat. The daughter in the innocent mine: had 'doneneo only the deepest companion, ant it 1. the young and who has shown him-ell hfioiont in manly “tributes; If he_ felt thst he were to be untried min“ his will, he might at lent hue resorted to some other means to estimate him. self than waiting until tie wedding invitations were out and. then heg- giug oil over the telephone‘ “Augustus Medle’f behuved much better whgu the oldest Mill Peck-um attempted to marry him whether or no. He in a weak younghlnnn who ‘Loved Anbthot.’ He wuperpot- nally weeping over the thought,“ ‘Another' find when the eldest Miss Pechsnifl insisted that he should go with her and select the furniture for their future home, Augustus Modle was a prey'to the gloomiest forebodings. But it was in vein that he entrested. “Oh my Goodness, Miss Peck: sniff, why' won’t you let ml Isioue?” _‘ She wouldn't. Sits: wanted to marry ‘ him and this the pines 0! ‘Aaother’. in his young affections. He became desperate and determined to free himself from the iiiiportuuste Miss Pecksnifi. ' , But .e'veu in his desperation ho cihl not resort to anything so pubâ€" lic and unfeeiin'g as 1; cold sud heartless telephone He wrote Miss Pecksnifi 1 letter. It was a much more gentiemsnly method than by telephone; y'st he did? declare himself with less amp 3-- sh bananas there was aotelephons in his day. His lotto} "is given for' thp benefitxof‘tbose ‘who‘gre in $119 'pgedicamemvéf a horse that ,is led 'td water and won’t drink. For the benefit of those who by chance may not have read Martin Ohuezlewit. the letter ie given in full: ‘ ' Clipper Schooner Cupid. Wednesday night. ' Ever injured Kins Peckunifl: in this reaches you. the undersignod will Minot. I» ”Mr-'01! Witty to Van Diemen‘s land. Sand nod in par- suit. 1 will never be taken cum. The hardenâ€"~30 tom por registerâ€"- forgive if in my attraction I allude to tho Ihjpr-on my mindâ€"hm been truly {ll-«dial. Frequently, when you have“ nought to soothe my brow with khan -â€"hu gel! dun-um Mod m mu. annontlyâ€"énondibleu It my teemâ€"hu- I sky-Mound ~tho Id... 1 Ion Another. 8h. 1' anathema. ‘Ivorything sppun to be numbed: “OE Gnvuend,

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