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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
FEAST OF THE DOLLS.
one Of the Many Odd Customs Ia ODD
Little Japan.

one OF tnc many Ouu Customs ID Ouo
Little Japan.
In that land of feasts and festivala
--Japan--the most popular one with
the children is the feast of dolls, which
takes place in the month of February.
1t perhaps answers to our st. Valen-
tines festivities.
The fun lasts for three days, and II
little Miss Japan's father and mother,
and grandfather and grandmother, have
laid up in store for this occasion, dolls
by the hundreds are brought forth to
celebrate the feast, and many of the
dolls are years and years old-hun-
t.feds of years even, for every old doll
that enters a Japanese home Is treasur-
ed and kept for this great day.
The best room in the house is chosen.
Here shelves covered with rich silken
hangings, gay in colors, are arranged.
perhaps five or six shelves, extending
the length of one side Of the room.
The principal dolls are the emperor
and empress of Japan. or two dolls
dressed to represent these august per-
sonages in their court attire. Every
thing centers about them; dolls to
represent maids of honor, courtiers and
statesmen, each in appropriate dress,
are ranged next in order.
Everything which their imperial mai
estes can possibly need in the way
Of household furniture is represented
in miniature; silver cups. bowls and
rice buckets, on lacquered trays, are
placed before the emperor and empress,
and each day the little child for whom
this festival is prepared fills the dishes
with the different kinds of food used
in Japanese household-rice, fruits,
nuts and cake, or sweet wine.
Besides the table service, everything
which an imperial doll can be expected
to need Is -lacquered palanquins,
funny, hood-shaped bullock carts, fire
boxes, charcoal baskets and tongs. Nor
is the toilet table and its accessories
| forgotten-there are combs, brushes
mirrors, utensils, for blackening the
teeth, for reddening the lips and whit
ening the face.
At the end Of the feast the dolls are
packed away for another year, except
two or three, which are left out fol
daily use.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
ohrlstlan Endeayor Teplcs.

Our Model-Weekly Prayers, Mon.
day. May 16. Resisting Temptation
Matt. 4: Ill; May II, I'm Obedience
John 5: 1898; May 10. ''In Patience,
/ Peter 2: 1925; May 10, I'm Humili'
ty," John 13: 3-16; May 20, "In Serv'
ice," Luke %: 24-30; May 81, I'm Self
Sacrifice" Phil. Q: Eli; Sunday. MAY
%, "CHRIsT OUR MODEL" Matt. 10:
"a, 25; John 10: 1918. "a union meet
ing 9Th the Juniors suggested, to b.
led by the Junior superintendent
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
rxpsrimsnt. with broad 11r,s.

In order fully to test the relativt
merits Of broad and narrow tires, an
agricultural college in Missourihas been
making some experiments with the
two 1t has been demonstrated that ON
reasonably good roads broad tires have
an advantage of from 16 to 46 per cent
over narrow tires. In no case except
where the mud was soft and very deep
did the narrow tires prove more salts
factory. According to these tests, the
narrow tire IL desirable only when
roads are in state almost impossible
condition of things which is fast dis
appearing from thickly settled and
well-managed districts. The expert
ments were made with the same wagon,
the wheels being exchanged by merely
slipping them from the spindles. The
widths Of the tires were respectively
one and half and six inches. The
loaded wagon weighed $50 pounds
more with the wide tires than with the
narrow ones, making the weight OF the
yehicle yhen equipped with the wide
Tires 2.25O pounds. On clean, smooth
road of macadam the wide tires re-
quired from 16 to 35 per less pow
er than the narrow ones. On gravel
roads the broad tires had As per cent
advantage; on loose gravel and dirt
roads, as well as on roads entirely OF
compacted soil, the gain was something
like ~ per cent. On a piece Of road
where there was solid foundation. but
very deep, thick mud above, the board
tires were at a disadvantage, mais,ly
because they cut in and picked up q
| tremendous weight of mud with every
revolution. On road that was drying
UP and had a somewhat firm surface
the broad tires showed 81 per cent ad-
vantage over the narrow ones. The
latter cut into the mud in some places
from six to seven inches. but the wide
tires rolled safely over without making
deep grooves, merely packing the half
dry mud as they passed over 1t. The
entire experiment goes to show that
narrow tires have really no points OF
advantage. save OF exceptional times
and under exceptional conditions. On
what would be considered road In a
tolerable condition the broad tires had
every point In their favor, and demon
strated their superiority so clearly that
no room was left for doubt or cues
ton.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
IT is NOT NICOTINE.
PROFESSOR MALLET coRREcTS
CIGARETTE CRITICS
MISTAKES.
Communication In the .sscIentlnc Amerl
can" ON y Matter Of Popular Misar
prehenslon stained handkerchief Test
Is No Test At All.

]. w. Mallet, professor of chs mistry
In the University of Virginia. In a COM
munication to the current number Of
the Scientific American. says with ref
erence to cigarettes Of American man
ufacture:
Ignorance Of easily ascertainable
scientific facts is, however, common
enough, as is often illustrated by the
brown, oily material formed in the
smoking Of tobacco being pointed out
as nicotine, though In reality this Is
merely the tar produced by the action
of heat on the woody fiber Of ths Leaf
Nicotine when pure Is q colorless
huid Of somewhat oily consistence and
strong. peculiar, penetrating odor, but
1t darkens on exposure to air and light.
becoming first yellow and then brown.
so that It looks, in this darkened con-
dition, something like the tarry matter
which soils smokers fingers or .
handkerchief through which tobacco
smoke Is exhaled, OF is often noticed
as deposited in the stem Of pipe,
This tarry deposit has nothing es-
sential in common with nicotine, and
contains but traces Of this alkaloid,
when any at all.
A part, but only small part (about
one-seventh In the experiments OF
Melsens), of the real nicotine Of to-
bacco, is volatilized without decompo-
sition; the remainder is burned and
destroyed in the process Of smoking"
The simple facts are, that such cigar
cites as have examined, representing
large part of those in general use
throughout the United States, are
made from pure, light-yellow tobacco
of the high grade produced on certain
special soils, prominently In certain OF
the southern counties OF Virginia and
the adjacent portion of North Carolina,
with wrappers OF the best quality OF
harmless vegetable fiber paper, and are
entirely free from the adulterants
which It has been asserted are present,
with no evidence In favor OF such as
sertion, and in absolute contradiction
OF the scientific evidence actually avail
able.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

Pink Pills for Faie People. andI decided to
try them.
Emma had no faith in proprietary
medicines but tried the pills, and after
taking dozen doses, she began to improve.
1t was about the first of April when she
began, and by the middle of May, after
taking about eight boxes, she was entirely
cured"
while i'll, she lost twenty-eight pounds,
but now weighs more than ever before.
Her nerves are strong and she is in per-
feet health. We are all confident that DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People cured
her, and cheerfully recommend them in
all similar cases. MRS. e. A. RYBoLT."
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
third day of September, 1897.
CALEB BAKER, Notary Public.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
will cure all diseases arising from q poor
and watery condition of the blood, will
build up q run down system and are spe-
cific for paralysis, locomotor ataxia and
other diseases long regarded as incurable.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

1t Is defeat that turns bons into Mint;
1t Is defeat that turns gristle into mus
Gle; 1t Is defeat that makes men in
vincible; It Is defeat that has made
those heroic natures that are now in
the ascendancy, and that has given the
sweet law of liberty for the bitter law
of oppression. Do not, therefore, be
afraid of defeat. You are never so near
victory as when defeated In . good
cause.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
A SCHOOL GIRLS BATTLE.


Miss Emma Ry bolt, a prepossessing school
girl of Milford, Ind, is of more than usual
Intelligence, and is ambitious to rise in the
literary world.
I'm the fall of 1885," said Mrs. Rybolt,
emma was taken i'll. She YVES close
student and her work began to tell on her.
She grew weak pale and nervous, and COM
planned of pains in her back, chest and
limbs A few weeks passed and she grew
worse The doctor said she was victim of
nervous prostration, and should have been
taken from school weeks earlier. She
gradually grew worse, her nerves were 90
tense that the least noise irritated her, and
she had fever and a continual twitching
in her muscles. The symptoms were much
like St Vitus' dance
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
For self-Preserxation.

1.-THE bicycle is making US quicker
and more active" he asserted dogmati-
cally. But all people do not ride"
protested his companion. Very true, :"
he admitted, land. the people who do
not ride are learning to be the quickest
and most active of all. 1t is neces-
sary."-Chicagn Post
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
ALDEN HOMESTEAD.

The famous Alden homestead, built
by John Alden of Doxbury, Mass, has
passed recently into the hands of an
other branch of the family. The pres
ent owner intends to repair the place
and fill it with historic relics, to which
all Americans will journey in time.
The most famous fireplace in Ameri-
ca is in the old house and before the
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

Winkle--"I wonder what becomes OF
all the boys who leave the country and
enter the great struggle OF life In the
city," Kinkle-"They make big for
tunes, and then lie back in their easy
chairs and advise country boys to
stick to the farm."-New York Week
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
Hard.

Critic-"There Is too much Ne IN
your play" Playwright Gin surprise)--
"Too much life! Why, what do you
mean?" Critie-"You should make
about half the characters die u The
Arst cot. PUCK.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

Pryns-"So you're New Yorker too.
What borough" Greene-"Well.
burrow in a Manhattan Office building
by day and Brooklyn boarding house
after nightfall. "-Brooklyn Life.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
washing clothes In Japan.

Washing is done in Japan by get
ting into boat and letting the gar
ments to be washed drag after the
boat by long string.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

You can't temper a criticism of your
partners whist-playing enough 70 keep IL
from hurting.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
pon't robacco Sol, ana smoke your LIfe Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full OF life nerve and yigor take Motto
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC. or d.. Cure guaran-
tecd Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

The steamship Britannia has crossed the
Atlantic 500 times. having travelled i,5oO,-
900 miles in her "a years service.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

". WIN forfeit q 900 If any of our pub
lished testimonials are proven to be not
genuine. THs PIso Co.. Warren, Pa
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

English is spoken by 1875 ZOO, 600 persons,
while Chinese is spoken by 400,000,000.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

One inch of rain falling upon one square
mile is equivalent to 1750O,OOO gallons of
water
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
SPURGEON's CHURCH.
HISTORY OF LoNDoN,s FAM
Gus TABERNACLE.

1t Was Recently Destroyed by Fire
Was Built in 1891 and Gained Fame
Through the Eioquence of Rev. Charles
Haddon Sturgeon.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

for whom it was built. The building
was situated at Newington Butts, near
the Elephant and Castle, on the Sur
rey side of the River Thamas. 1t was
opened in 1861 and grew steadily under
the influence of Mr.. Spurgeon and his
brother, Rev. Thomas Sturgeon, who
replaced the famous preacher after the
latter's death in 1892.
The tabernacle was upward of 140
feet long, so feet wide and 60 feet
high, and was approached at the east
ern end by fight of steps which ex-
tended across the entire width of the
building. The principal entrance was
ornamented with six lofty Corinthian
columns. In the audience hall proper
was room for 5000 persons. There was
also a lecture hall with capacity of
900, schoolroom for 1000 children,
six classrooms and other spaces for re-
ligious work. Besides all these 1t had
thirty mission halls and schools and
several almshouses.
This remarkable group of religious
utilities grew up around the personal
ity of Sturgeon, who was one of the
most remarkable men of this latter end
Of the century. Sturgeon preached his
first London sermon in New Park
Street Chapel, Southwark,in December,
1853. He was then only 10 years old,
and his fame had spread all over the
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
Beauty Z. Blood Dean.

/. Clean blood means a clean skin No
beauty withoutit. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day,
Danish pimples, bells, blotches, black heads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c, Csc, sec.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

Spring onions are good for you, but dread
full for the'man who sits next to you.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

No-To-B BAG for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed bacco habit cure, makes weak
men trong, blood pure. Soc, ST. All druggists
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19
(London Lottery

PURGEON'S taber-
nacle was destroy
ed by fire the other
afternoon.
Surgeons taber-
nacle correctly
called the Metro
politan alternately
got its name from
the c Ell e b r a t e d
preacher, Charles
Haddon Spurgeon,
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-19

Up-to-date war correspondents never fail
to make use of the word 'simbroglio.''
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-17

After fierce struggle with her bru-
tai assailant, a young girl at Watch
Hill saved her honor and lost her life
by springing away from her pursuer
into the sea.
Morally, If not I'm the view OF the law,
the mans crime was murder. But even
IL 1t should be adjudged to be murder
In legal sense, he will not be put to
death for Ii. Capital punishment has
been abolished in Rhode Island.
IL must be admitted, however, that
whatever conclusions any one may
have reached in opposition to the in
fiction OF the death penalty. mere i'm
prisonment does seem an Inadequate
punishment for such a crime as this.
The legislature of Rhode Island, at
all events, has not abolished the right
of self-defence. In order to protect her.
self against his assault the woman
could lawfully have slain the man.
Would that II had been within her
power to do so! IL does not seem just
that he should be breathing the air and
seeing the sunshine while she lies dead
in her coffin.
Since the law deals more lightly with
him than his victim might have done
the law should see to II that he serves
the state as prisoner until the day OF
his death
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-17
PIGEON WITH A CHICKEN BABY.
Its Motherly SoIicitude Because the
Infant Would Not Fly.

d. Morris Haines of Burlington, NJ,
has a pigeon which recently showed a
maternal instinct, but not having any
eggs of her own. was supplied with a
hens egg. Mr.. Haines was curious to
see what she would do with 1t. The old
pigeon was tickled to death. She took
the egg. carefully covered it, and inn
mediately began the process Of incuba-
ton. At the end of three weeks the in
evitable happened. and little chicken
hoped out of the shell. The old pigeon
surveyed the result of the job in amaze
ment. She had expected little blue
SQUAD, and lol a little yellow chick ap-
peared. She seemed puzzled for while
but finally went about her maternal
duties.
Everything was all right as long as
the chick remained in the nest, but as
soon as 1t got out on the ground there
was trouble. Occasionally the mother,
remembering that she was a pigeon,
would get up and fly, thinking the
youngster would follow her; but he re-
mained on the ground as hard and fast
as though he was anchored there. The
only thing he could do was TO stand
still, watch his mother fly and yell for
her in his own peculiar way. Then he
tried to initiate her, but up to now his
best effort has ben six-inch jump a
flap of the wings and a squawk. The
little mother is persevering, but she is
nearly discouraged.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-17
A LONG ISLAND I0NoRAMUs.
Some One Should Present Him
With q Geography.

Mr.. Evans, an artist, had recently
returned from Jamaica, West Indies.
and had in his New York studio some
paintings Of Jamaica scenery.
One day a man who had been look
ing through the studio stopped before
q certain picture and asked:
what does this representa-"
THAT" said Mr.. Evans, lis a scene
In Jamaica"
''Jamaica?" echoed the visitor.
"That's strange. don't remember
ever seeing anything like that in JaA
maica."
You have been there, then, have
your" the artist inquired.
"Oh, yes! live there"
"Well, you surely must be acquaint-
ed with this place. then. 1t is street
scene in the principal town OF the
island"
The man from jamaica looked at Mr..
Evans for a moment as IL he thought
he must be daft. Then he said:
II live I'm Jamaica, and there isn't
street in the town that bears the re-
motest resemblance to that picture"
The mention of Jamica as a town
cleared away the mist.
II see." said Mr.. Evans. "you live In
Jamaica, Long Island. don't your
Yes" replied the suburbanite. "Is
there another jamaica anywhere?"--
Cleveland Leader.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-17
SOLDIER COMFORTS.
Camps Of 'o8 Are Great Improvement
on Those of '6I.

"Bill," said a soldier from Camp Al
ger 60 his comrade on street car in
Washington one day this week, "that
was a mighty mean breakfast we had
In camp this morning. 1t makes me ale
most sick to think Of It,"
''Yes," said Bill, "it was bad. We've
had roast beef every day this week,
and / am getting mighty tired OF it,"
So the discontepted volunteers COM
mentcd on the camp fire. The quoted
language is literally true. 1t goes to
show that this government may stretch
the limit of the paternal and. yet not
give entire satisfaction. Old soldiers of
'61 who visit the camps of 9S are amaz-
ed at the difference i'm the treatment OF
the volunteers. c. G. Bell of Boonville,
spent day or two at Camp Alger with
the Missouri troops. He is a man of
close observation. He ate with the
bows. examined their clothing and their
blankets and went through the tents
with the eyes OF a critic. When he came
back to Washington he said: I'VE had
no such. treatment as this in the Civil
War. These soldiers have uniforms
more comfortable I'm cut and of better
material. We wore those old long
tailed coats. The soldiers OF today
don't know what shoddy means. Their
hard tack is better than ours was. IL
Is cooked better and OF better flour.
They get fresh meat. In our time the
refrigerator process had not developed.
The cured meats were not nearly as
well prepared then as they are now.
Then I notice that these soldiers have
more and better utensils TO cook with
than we had. In every respect they are
better off than we were st. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-17
The Electric MIitten.

In these days OF body culture in every
form 1t Is almost impossible to keep up
with all of the new devices for this
purpose. A man I'm the west and a
woman in the east have both hit upon
the idea OF massage with mitten
which has been charged with electric
ity. One has a battery stored away on
the back of the hand, while the other
has a magnetic plate, with three little
electric wires running up the back of
the hand. like the stitching OF n glove.
Every one knows i'm this age that
massage. if properly applied. is very
beneficial from general standpoint,
while for diseases arising from poor
circulation of the blood IL is perhaps
the only remedy. Adding electricity TO
massage gives n double force and starts
the blood much more readily. There
are many more ills arising from Door
circulation than is Imagined by those who
have not made the blood n study. The
fact In that " the circulation OF the
blood is perfect Il is almost impossible
90 be III. While systematic exercise will
effect this. II is not always possible. ca.
pecially after one becomes an invalid
These mittens are used by ones own
self or by nurse. Used on the face
they clear the pores. and consequently
the complexion. Used on the head the
scalp In exhilarated and the hair soft
ened and a new growth OF hair Induced
Used on the body. all aches and pains
disappear as IL by magic.