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The Press., 1897-04-08
SELECTING PICTURES.
In Choosing Paintings Get at the Inter
 fiOn nf fha Artist.

In Choosing Paintings Get at the Inten-,
 tiOn of the Artist.
 ''The value of picture depends upon what there is in it for its possessor, ]" writes William Martin Johnson in The Ladies' Home Journal, on the "Selec- tion and Framing of Pictures. "A painting by an amateur may be more precious in your eyes than one of Ra- phael's cartoons. Therefore sell your cartoon to the highest bidder, and when you outgrow the little painting buy back the cartoon if you have learned to see it's beauty.
 ''No one can tell you how to under stand art without your seeing it, study ing it, living with it, any more than any one can tell you how to tell good cloth from bad. You must first have had experience with cloth. Learn a language before you try to converse. But do not go so far as to imagine that you must learn drawing and painting before you can appreciate pictures. The less you know about technique the more capable you will be of looking at painting with an appropriated eye. Get at the artists intention. Does he express an idea to you? Is he interesting in the way he tells his story? Does he convince you of a truth? If the picture is that of head, does it impress you as having the char aoteristics of an individual? Does it look like human being? Suppose a landscape is under discussion-do the trees sway, the clouds float? Is there any atmosphere in the painting? These are the tests of a painter 8 facility with lan- guage. But more than this is required -it is the intellectually behind the brush. Herein lies the difference be- tween sublime art and the common T1IaCo ''
The Press., 1897-04-08
DEVOID OF ANIMAL LIFE.
4 Ceaseless Struggle Between Fire ana
 Water In Antarctica.

4 Ceaseless Struggle Between Fire and
 Water In Antarctica.
 ''The Antarctic is a continental land unique in the world" writes General A. w. Greedy in an interesting article on "What May Be Found at the South Pole'' in The Ladies' Home Journal. ''Its desolate shores, rarely approach able under most favorable conditions, are laved by an ocean the richest on the globe in it's marine life, animal and vegetable. Seals and whales in incredi- ble numbers abound in it's waters, and countless sea birds cover with nests and eees the few favored land spots which are free from snow during the brief, comfortless summer. It is a continent where abounds no land animal life, either mammals, birds, insects, spiders pr reptiles. No mammal exists within 800 miles of it's borders. It is also de- void of land vegetation (except the low est forms of cellular tissue, lichens, which have been found in two places only), having neither ferns, Towering plants, shrubs nor trees
 "Here, however, nature displays her forces on a scale elsewhere unknown. Over the millions of square miles of this austral continent ceaselessly continues 8 titanic struggle between the opposing ancient clements of fire and water. In vain the volcanoes pour forth streams of molten lava and shoot upward pillars of fire. Welcoming the lava as protect ing, nonconducting covering of it's lower strata of flowing glaciers, the conti- mental ice cap resistlessly advances, cer- tain that in time, when the processes of erosion have lowered the elevation of the volcanic craters, it's countless tiny snowflakes will quench the apparently unextinguishable fires that now shake from end to end the continent of An artica D
The Press., 1897-04-08
The Otaheite Orange.

Among the many charming plants of recent introduction the Otaheite orange is most unique. With its dark, glossy, green foliage alone, it is a plant of un- usual beauty, but when, in addition, it loads itself with true, fragrant orange blossoms, followed by a profusion of bright, miniature oranges, it constitutes beautiful specimen indeed. It is a dwarf orange, and a plant not more than six inches high will bloom and fruit in three inch pot. have one not more than 10 months old as thrifty as an oak, blooming and fruiting ill five Inch pot, and likely to remain in it's present quarters for some time to come, as it is far from being root bound. It blooms most freely during winter, and for this reason should be we'll and sym metrically grown during the summer preceding. The blossoms are pure,
 pearIy white the outside tinged with soft pink, the color of the buds when grown in full sunlight It is no unusual sight to see a plant bearing 8 load of ripenod fruit, supplemented by a suc- cession of lovely pink buds and creamy blossoms of the most delicious fragrance.
 Procure young plant in the spring, fresh from a reliable florist. Mine never acknowledged it had been transplanted.
 It was given the semishade position de- scribed above, showered twice a day. and scale never troubled it. Blossoms came speedily and all through the win ter it has had place close to the glass i'll an east bay window, with daily showerings, and it continues as beauti- fuI and thrifty as ever. A moist atmos- phere is a necessity. y.-Vick's Magazine.
The Press., 1897-04-08
Appearances

A man can be a man without his clothes, but society reckons a man part ly by his outside fixings
 A business may be a business with out any advertising to it, but the inn mutable law of custom, before which men and nations rise or fall, has written in letters of unquenchable fire that men must advertise and that by their adver- tising so shall they be judged.
 Until those words of fire can be quenched no man has right to practice or to preach an individual doctrine op- posed to the rule of custom.
 will admit that the advertisement never brought a reply or never created curiosity, and yet am willing to stake my reputation upon the assertion that if the value of advertising was limited to the appearance of advertising that ad- vertising would be necessary to proper conduct of successful business
 The man who advertises stands before the public in the full, legitimate and dignifed prominence of one who is proud of his business, has right to be proud of it, is doing lot of it and wants to uO AOI0 O1 1G, dnu uo IS Iuo k1nu OI man that everybody wants to do business with, for just so long as the moth will be attracted by the candlelight, so long will trade swarm around the advertis- ing light of business ess-Hardware
 When Mrs. Rawton lived in Paw paw, she wouldn't wear a gown unless it was made in Chicago ''
 ''Yes, and now that she lives in Chi cago she won't wear any gown made outside of Paris. ''-Chicago Record.
The Press., 1897-04-08


 The accidents that astonish railroad men are those that happen without hurt ing anybody. Such a mishap occurred to the Lake Shore fier from Cleveland coming into Chicago one Saturday morning. A steel tire slipped from one of the driving wheels of the engine with the train going at full speed. This was extraordinary, but that it should slip off the wheel over the connecting rod and fall clear of the track instead of wrecking the train was simply mirac- ulous
 The driving wheel revolves, say, four times every second covering that same second 80 feet of the rail. Fracture the tire with its deep inner fange, made to keep it on the rail, and try, with that big connecting rod rising and falling two feet every quarter of second and the broken tire rolling 80 feet every sec ond, to make the tire fall off the wheel and over the connecting rod so it shall drop clear of the wheel, the rod, the rail and the train.
 This could not happen once in 10, 900, 900 times Yet on the Lake Shore f1ier coming into Chicago it did that very thing, and the passengers, instead of being smashed up in wreck, mar yelled over the remarkable occurrence. = Chicago Tribune.
The Press., 1897-04-08

OAAN 1A1CAA L3 lOA NkA
 tain Mercury

Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Con-
 tain Mercury,
 AS mercury will surely destroy the sense ot smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces Such articles should never ba used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can positively derive from them. Halls Catarrr Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney Co.,, To ledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken in. ternally acting directly upon the blood and mu. cous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and is made in Toledo, Ohio by F. J. Cheney & Go. Testimonials free.
 FE-Sold by Druggists price 75c per bottle.
The Press., 1897-04-08
THE "FAlR CHlLDRENo AT THE GRAF
 TON GALLERIES.

Aye, they grew older, queens and earls And duchcsscs and kings. They lost their innocence and curls And put off childish things. They lived and died. For some the lot In goodly ground was cast, While others marred with plan and plot The record of the past. Young Master Lambton's arms and legs That crimson suit outgrtw. Port and experience changed the charms Of iovial Jacky Crewe. The baby Johnson's thunder woke To below round the arts, And Gainsborough's s Georgiana broke A score of hapless hearts.
The Press., 1897-04-08
THE ROSE OF STARS.

When love, our great immortal Put on mortality And down from Eden's portal Brought this sweet world to be- At the sublime archangel
 He laughed with yelled eyes. For he bore within his bosom The seed of paradise. He hid it in his bosom,
 And there such warmth it found It brake in bud and blossom, And the rose fell on the ground. As the green light on the prairie, As the red light on the sea, Through fragrant belts of summer Came this sweet world to be. And the grave archangel, seeing, Spread his mighty vans for flight, But glow hung round him fleeing Like the rose of an arctic night, And sadly moving heayenward By Venus and by Mars, He heard the joyful planets Hail earth, the rose of stars.
 -G. E. Woodbury in Century
The Press., 1897-04-08
Try CraiD-O, Try Grain-O,

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you package | of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that akes the place of coffee. The children may drink 1t with out injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains
 and the most delicl te stomach receives it with
 out distress. A the price of coffee. 15c. and 25 | cts. per package. Sold by all grocers.
The Press., 1897-04-08

Mrs. A. Inveen, residing at 72O Henry St., Alton, Ill.,, suffered with sciatic rheumatism for over eight months. She doctored for it nearly the whole of this time, using various remedies recommend ed by friends, and was treated by the physicians, but received no relief She then used one and half bottles of Cham berlain's Pain Balm, which effected Q complete cure. This is published at her request, as she wants others similarly af- flicted to know what cured her. The % and 30 cent sizes for sale by w. W. La throp, Stafford Springs; c. l.. Philips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-04-08

Americans are the most inventive peo- pie on earth. To them have been issued nearly 10000 patents, or more than one- third of all the patents issued in the world. No discovery of modern years has been of greater benefit to mankind than Cham beIlains Collie, Cholera and Diarrhpa Remedy, or has done more to relieve pain and suffering. J. w. Vaugn, of Oakton, Ky, says: II have used Chamberlqin's Collie, Cholera and Diarrh9a Remedy in my family for several years, and find it to be the best medicine 1 ever used for cramps in the stomach and bowels. For sale by w. w. Lathrop, Stafford Springs G. l.. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-04-08
The Wedding Ring.

The associations called up by we'd ding ring are very touching, and it is the last thing that even the poorest wife will part with. If it ever was consider ed badge of servitude, it now is much more suggestive of queenship and sov- ereignty. An old Latin writer thus de- Bcribes the ring: It is circular, because the mutual love and hearty affection of matrimony should be forever, their continuity remaining as unbroken as the circlet itself. It is an old-and ex- ploded-notion that the ring is placed upon the fourth finger because a small artery connects with the heart. The real reason probably is that the left hand is not used as much as the right, and the fourth finger less than the other fingers.
The Press., 1897-04-08
Cured His Headache,

''Talking about cures reminds me there's nothing like a shock to cure a headache," commented the man from southern Missouri. 1T was once driving home on my mule over the steep path on a divide and was suffering with head ache that well nigh drove me crazy. I had been working hard, and my head thumped and thumped like as if it might split any minute. wasn't con- scious of anything in particular except that buzzing, throbbing head of mine, when the path led to secluded place where the water had washed out piece of ground.
 Suddenly two men sprang out. One of them grabbed the mule, and the other presented six shooter at my head It was done so quick that I gazed at them stupidlike.
 |" Fork out that $6 you got for stock!' said one of the men.
 ''I had brought some stuff into town and had six big dollars on my person. As money was scarce, it flashed through my mind that it meant to lose them, and, quicker'n can take to tell it, l heavy whip and then slashed to the left. struck them both, and the mule sprang forward.
 ''They didn't follow, and I was mighty glad of it. When I had gone 8 piece, it suddenly occurred to me that the headache had all disappeared. Not trace of it. I struck my forehead; head was clear as bell; shock had driven the headache all away. struck the other fellows over the head; perhaps trans mitted the pain to them. A more feasi- ble theory probably is that sudden shock will drive away headache. ''- Detroit Free Press.
The Press., 1897-04-08

A certain minister, who is not always so careful as he ought to be In making his teaching and his practice correspond, was lately telling some friends a story of ad- venture. It was a pretty "tal" story, and the minister's 10-year-old little girl was observed to h, listening to it very in- tently. When he finished she fastened her wide-open eyes upon her fathers face, and said very gravely: "Is that true, or are you preaching now, papa ?'-H0Use- hold Words
The Press., 1897-04-08
y BETTER THAN EVER"

MuG Sasp5 maulfest great ingenuity not only ill building their nests, but in placing them ill localities where they will not be injured by rain or predaoious animals.
The Press., 1897-04-08

Two years ago R. J. Warren, drug gist at Pleasant Brook, N. Y., bought a small supply of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He sums up tbe result as fol- lows: At that time the goods were un- known in this section to-day Chamber lain's Cough Remedy is a household word" It is the same in hundreds of communities. Wherever the good quail ties of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy be- come known the people will have nothing else. For sale by W.W Lathrop, Stafford Springs; G. l.. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-04-08

King George of Greece draws an income of $260,000 annually, including $20,0O0 from Great Britain, France and Russia.
The Press., 1897-04-08
Pictures of Rousseau and Hume.

"The portraits of Rousseau and Hume are historic. Both were executed in 1766, the year of that absurd misunder- standing between the self tormentor and his guide, philosopher and friend, over which so much eighteenth century ink was spilled. They must have been paint ed shortly after the arrival of the pair in England in January, and that of Rousseau was apparently interrupted by the quarrel, since it is asserted that he refused to continue the sittings, and the portrait, in which he wears the American dress he had recently adopt ed, is supposed to have been finished from such furtive glimpses of him as could be obtained ill public. That of Hume exhibits the historian in his charge d'affaires period, when, as the apostle of deism, he divided with whist the admiration of the Parisians Aus tin Dobson's Eighteenth Century Vi- gnettes <"
 GREAT TRIUMPH.-Instant relief and a permanent cure by the great remedy, Otto's Cure for Lung and throat diseases. Why will you irIitate your throat and lungs with hacking cough when B. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, W. P. Fuller Somers, Odell & Jones, Staffordville, sole agents, will furnish you free sample bottle of this guaranteed remedy? Its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you. Sample free, Large bottles soc and 25c.
 He itelIing hairbreadth adventureJ And in the bright moonlight we could see the dark muzzles of the wolves.
 She (breathlessly )-Oh, how glad you must have been that they had the mug sles onl-Pearson's Weekly.
The Press., 1897-04-08

DID You EVER try Electric Bitters as n remedy for your troubles? If not, get bottle now and get relief. This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Female Com plaints, exerting wonderful direct influ- ence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipation. Headache, Painting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and Strength are guaranteed by it's use. Fifty cents and $1.00 at E. K, Taft's Dug Store. 8
The Press., 1897-04-08

The latest result of pharmaceutical science and the best modern appliances are availed of in compromising Ayers Sarsaparilla. Hence, though half-a- cen tury in existence as a medicine, 1t is fully abreast of the age in all that goes to make it the standard blood-purifel.
The Press., 1897-04-08

Medical-They say now that bicycle cures consumption. "Yes, can't expect three meals day until get mine paid for"
The Press., 1897-04-08

King George of Greece is the son Of the present King of Denmark, Christian TX, and brother of the Princess of Wales and the dowager empress of Russia.
The Press., 1897-04-08

BUoKLEN's ARNIoA SALvE.-The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped hands. chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25c per box. Sold by E. K. Taft
The Press., 1897-04-08

She-And what would you be now if 1t weren't for my money He-A bachelor.
The Press., 1897-04-08

A FULL Line of Rubber Goods, A such as Syringes, Hot Water Bottles, Rubber Bath Mittens, Hand Brushes and Tooth Brushes. Rubber Cloth, New Bottle FiEtnRs. AT IRA Ln'S.
The Press., 1897-04-08

The Rev. w. H. Weaver, pastor of the U. B. Church, Dillsburg, Pa., recognizes the value of Chamberain's Cough Reme- dy, and does not hesitate to tell others about 1t. "I have used Chamberlains Cough Remedy he says, land find 1t an hoarseness." So does everyone who gives it trial. Sold by w. w. Lathrop, Staff ford Springs; c. L. Phillips, South Gov. entry.
The Press., 1897-04-08

The King of Greece has palace at Athens, built by Otho, at a cost of $2,000- 900, and a summer residence at Corfu.
The Press., 1897-04-08

F F Eou are GsONSU MPTlvE or have Indigestion, Painful ills Debility of any kind PARKER'S GINGER TONIC Many who were hopg- lese and discouraged have regained health by its
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-02

s...rer ifsssr-. asd srcn Il ssas the fflscsip.
:fss.. -owney. Railway Stall 1tos. cN nea
b. she Postmaster IT isfsary. y
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p-z-eY ~ sight kne- him by rrpota,io.,l -
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else IN The United Gtates. for 'e~ 49,
hare been so famous ATflc.~s a.see
s9~ney have appeared from tirse 20 rms
ina nearly every newspaper N thf -
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never or interviewed. He always oc-
efsned 20 talk for publication, and aestr
txcu told any reporter his yievfs upon ane
oliver question
Practically al his life was spenS IN the
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rses ,s-ou = nile Of mali sacks AMI eoze
frou, station TO station But whenever
r. train would stop at n station Owhes
would Dc q the door bef1~e cry or the
CLERKS and stand NJ it until the train *as
started again upon its journey nc Would
sfand and watch the operations OF ioao-
ing end unloading the mail just az II &c
we're superinrending the operation Al
though O~.cy never gave his ADVICE or
cbsded the men he certainly knew
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-02

within 81 miles of ocean transportation
Now 10 reach the proposed terminus of
the road At Qu-snciIe a rail- Journey of
"a miles and : stage journey Of 20 miles
are necessary. The mineral wealth OF
Cariboo and the adjacent country is enor-
nous. Cariboo has already yielded &e.-
ona osofrom its placers and great hydraulic
propositions await exploitation In addi-
ton very numerous deposits of auriferous
quartz have been found although the
prospecting has only been OF q desultory
nature. as there seemed 10 he no object
In looking for mines that could no. be de-
veioped for lack of transportation faeiii-
ties.
There Is large area of arabic land in
the many river valleys here the oficial
estimate being 6oao.coo acres. with as
much more land available for pasture.
Most OF the land is tiliabIe without irri-
CATION
While the subsidy granted by the legis-
lature is only for portion of the whole
lire contemplated by the British Pacific
charter. the promoters of the project hope
that when once the line has been opened
TO Carihoo, its extension 10 the Rocky
mountains there TO connect with line
from the East and form part of new
transcontinental railway. will follow as
matter of course ard in very short time.
The financial men who are behind the
project are abundantly able to carry any
thing through that they undertake.
A strong effort will be made this spring
to induce the Ottawa ministry TO under
take to bonus the above mentioned rail-
ways in the sum of ss.ooo a mile. IL this
is done. British Columbia viii witness
very busy summer, and the province will
receive an impetus that viii be felt IN
every line OF business.