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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-27


troubles. For relief taey turn to the many
alcoholic stimulants, malt extracts and
other compounds, " so widely advertised
to cure the ailments of women. These
produce a false stimulation, and the suf-
ferer finds herself compelled to take more
and more as time passes, and soon becomes
an unwilling slave to strong drink. What
a weakly woman needs Is Dr. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription, which contains not n
grain of opium or a single drop of alcohol
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the general health Suffering women who
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do so by mail, addressing him at Buffalo,
N. Y. He makes no charge whatever for
advice.
Mrs Rena Hensei, of Massillon, Stark Co.,
Ohio, writes: II had been troubled with chronic
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with different physicians none of whom seemed
to help me 1 saw one Of your advertisements,
and thought would try your medicines. did
so and with good results Took two bottles of
Or. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery and one
of his Favorite Prescription and can say l
am cured Of my troubles, thanks to Dr. Pierce
and his medicines. They do world Of good to
those who give them a good trial"
If you want book that tells about all
womans diseases, and how to treat them
at home, send 81 one-cent stamps to DR..
Pierce to pay postage, and he will mail
you a free copy of his great thousand
page illustrated Common Sense Medical
Adviser For a heavier, handsome cloth
binding 81 stamps. 1t is the grandest
medical book for popular reading ever
written
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-27
ANNOUNCER

EVENING CLASSES will
pc organized in all departments
of the MARIETTA COM
MERCIAL COLLEGE Oct.
9, 10, u and 18th, at $50 P.
NJ. STANDARD Time.)
Thorough instruction in all
the Commercial Branches.
T Terms very reasonable. Best
facilities.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-27

az JR. W. M. HART, ORHrIsr. Dast
Putnam St, between Front and Second,
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-27

TITS funny" remarked Weary Will
lle, "how desc army fellers git titles
wct don't fit. l onct saw a sham bat
tie, an some chaps wot wuz dashln'
round crazy-like wuz called order
lies.
Dat don't foil yer ez much ez der
fe..ers watts called aids" chimed
Wornout Walker 81 asked one of
dem fer little assistance onct, an he
just give NE de laugh. Philadelphia
I,ecord
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-27

OF more despised none ere collld dream
Than one lOho LoUers come behOeen-
And the "come-betioeens" are me little
black heads playing tag NTH the dimples
In your face. Cranberry Tone lOiu take
them apdy. Price 70 cents, three for 50.
Yours for business, WIN s. Richardson,
Rate Druggist
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-27

morphine habit \
she is rapidly
going down
the steep hill
that leads to
death. There
are thousands II
Of other wom- ",
en- rush ing s.
down the same "
incline, but =
they do not X
know II. They
find themselves 81
fering from nervou
ness, headache, d
spondency, irritab
ity, and a dozen 9th
symptoms of fema
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
WHERE KIPLINc GETS HINTS.
Thorough Way in Which He Explored a
Locomotive Shop.

Thorough Way in Which He Explored a
Locomotive Shop.
"kipling's methods of absorbing de-
tail are very curious and interesting"
said Mr.. Lyman D. Bentley to a New
Orleans Times-Democrat man. Some
years ago, while he was visiting the
locomotive shops at New Haven, he
met a skilled workman named Cressy
and Immediately proceeded to pump
him about engine building. Cressy did
not fully appreciate the honor that was
paid him, but he was fiattered by the
novelist's interest, and the two went
all over a big eight-wheel express fiier
that was standing in the yard. Kip
ling said he had lots of books on the
subject, but they didn't tell him the
things he wished to know. What he
wanted was a real engineer or build
ers idea of the machine, and he was
particularly eager to learn the col
loquial names of the parts. He took
no notes, but about a month later he
was in New Haven again and hunted
up the mechanic. Look. here, sCres-
sy,' he said, producing a rough sketch
on a card of n of the valves of the
brake gear, I wish you'd tell me again
just how this thing works. Cressy
explained, and Kipling laughed de-
lightedly. I've got it now!' he ex-
claimed. I mention the incident be-
cause it seems to throw some light on
his astonishing command of technicali-
ties" -
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
WESTERN MEN
Make the Best Sailors in the Best Navy

MAKE the Best sailors In the Best Navy
The American.
sThe brilliant record men in the navy
in the recent war has set the authori-
ties to thinking, with the result that
a brisk effort is to be made to turn
some hundreds of the western farmers
into sailors for Uncle Sam. The Hart
ford, the famous old m~an-of-war now
serving as a recruiting ship, is now
at Mare, Cal, and as soon as possible
will be fitted up for a long cruise. Re-
cruiting officers are to be sem out all
through the western states, setting
forth in terms as alluring as may be
the unparalleled felicity of three
years On the briny deep with Dewey
as your lord, with the chances that
more of the sturdy young son of the
plains will come forward than can at
present be accommodated. Captain
Henry Hawley, who has been assigned
to the Hartford, speaks enthusiastical-
ly of the abilities Of the boys he is
to get. 1--WE intend to make the cruise
of the Hartford as attractive as pos
sib1e. and we will do everything to
make the service of the landsmen
pleasing. We will have a good band
of music on board; will stop at the
most interesting ports en- route, and
in other ways do what we can to in
duce the western boys to adopt the
service as their profession. We tried
this scheme once before, and with very
gratifying results. I have been in
formed by commanders who have had
recruits on board from Kansas, Ne
braska, Missouri, Illinois and other
western states that they made the most
temperate and intelligent lot of sail
ors ever shipped by them. They ara
w~ell-behaved, quiet and orderly, and
what they lack in seafaring knowledge
they make up in zeal and industry.
When we only had to supply IL, 900
men for our ships we found it difficult
to get good sailors, but now that the
force has been increased to 1880 our
troubles have grown in proportion. I
have a hankering for western men,
and hope to corral a lot of them be-
fore / am through"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
WIDOWS MITE.
Curious Custom Observed I'm an old
London Churchyard.

London Churchyard.
There is still observed in an out-of-
the-way London c"hurchyard one of
those ancient customs, the observance
OF which gave SO much delight to
Charles Dickens, n whose descrip-
ton of which has done so much to
endear to all who read the right little,
tight little island. Twenty-one ladies,
either past the age of self-support or
unable by eason of disease to make a
living for themselves, have gathered
Tor centuries in this same churchyard,
on the same day, to receive the same
gifts from the beneficence of the same
lady, now, of course, long since dead.
Prlory Church of st. Bartholomew the
Great is well worth a visit from the
tourist IN search of that which Is an
cient. Hidden away behind the great
postofhce building of st. Martin's-le-
Grand, next door to the old hospital
That bears its patrons name, and
within a few yards of the quaint court
yard where the bluecoat boys, hatless
and in yellow stockings, play their
games. Founded in 1923, it still re-
talns its heavy Norman pillars and
rounded arches, which have been care
fully restored where the stone has
crumbled through centuries of decay.
Its narrow churchyard is bordered o.
two sides by houses which have exag-
gerated their architectural tendency to
o~Verhang. The gravestones are so old
That most of the inscriptions are worn
on, n they are only to be reached by
climbing a sort of portable stage coach
LADDER from the pathway. Here gather
on the appointed morning the twenty
old ladies, for, as a rule, they are
old, and very old. The distribution of
s~lxpences, hotcross buns, shawis and
~two-sh1lling pieces takes place in ac-
cordance with legendary custom after
morning service. 1t is not quite GER
tain to a few centuries when the thing
was nrst started, but it has been go
Ing on now for several hundred a
Inc onlookers, as a rule, are a few
fresh-complexioned nurses in pretty
bonnets and cloaks, and half a dozen
residents of Little Britain. After Rev.
Sir Borradaile Savory. the present rec
tor OF st. Bart h - -ucted morn
ing prayers, tie t,.t-y-one aged
anne mount the stage coach ladder
and make their way to the particular
gravestone on which the twenty-one
new sixpences lie, and each old lady,
having picked up her sixpence, is then
presented with the form, the bun and
the crochet shawl.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
Tame Butterfly for Pets.

Women have had all kinds of pets
from time immemorial, but perhaps
the strangest of all fancies in this di-
rection is the latest news which comes
to us from Paris that two ladies have
succeeded in tanning dozens of butter
flies. These little insects eat from
their mistress hands, alight on them
and show no fear of any kind. They
are certainly pretty pets, and we'll be-
come the airy, futtering sweetness of
the typical woman's nature. The
summer girl during the dull days of
the week, from Monday morning until
Saturday noon, may in this new fad
find a means of diversion, tanning her
butterflies in preparation to a series
of fetching poses with which to cap
tivate susceptible man upon his ar
rival at the summer hotel for Sunday.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
Hob
Magazines for Their Manufacture to BE

Magazines for Their Manufacture to Be
Built Along the Hudson.
New York Evening Post: Factories
and magazines for the manufacture
and storage of high explosives are
soon to be built by the navy DEPART
ment. The plans call for an expendi-
ture of more than $1,000, 900, which
has been appropriated by congress.
During the war the need of a maya
zine at a convenient distributing point
was felt severely; that at Fort La
fayette was overtaxed, and at best only!
capable of supplying 1000 rounds a
day, most Of which was for the guns
of the secondary batteries. The larg-
est of he new magazines will be built
on the Palisades near Edgewater and
almost opposite Grants tomb. 1t will
have a frontage of several hundred
feet on the river and will be built to
the edge of the cliff. The site selected
IS away from factories with tall chin
neys, which are considered dangerous.
Plans and specifications will soon be
submitted to the secretary of the navy.
Several large buildings are to be erect
ed. They will be used for storing am
munition and as a laboratory for test
ing materials for guns and torpedoes.
There will also be a building used
solely for experimental work, and Q
large plant for the manufacture of all
kinds of powder. Most of the build
ings will be made of corrugated iron.
Several piers extending into the water
about 100 feet will be built. The river
is to be dredged to a depth sufficient
to permit the largest battle ships to
be naoored to the piers, where ammuni-
ton can be taken direct from the
storehouses and placed in the maya
zines of the vessel. This will do away
with the delay of handling the
charged shells and the explosives
many times and the dangers surround
ing reshipment. When the plant is
completed it will have, it is planned,
q capacity sufficient to supply high ex-
plosives to the entire navy, and great
enough to assemble nearly all the
fixed ammunition and charged shells
needed. It will cost, it is expected,
about $500, 900, and work may be begun
within a few months. Another plant
may be erected near the naval proving
grounds at Indian Head. Neither will
be dangerous to the property Of the
neighborhood.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
The Sundew,

The sundew is one of the most Gu
rious plants in natures great collec-
ton of queer things. If an unlucky
fly lights on one of its leaves that leaf
closes right up, wrapping tightly
around Mr.. Fly and staying closed for
days until he is all eaten up. A bit
of meat or some of the white of an
egg dropped on the leaves will make
them do the same thing. But the
queerest thing of all is that these
leaves will pay no attention t a peb-
BILE or a chip of wood that may be
dropped on them, and will not close
up at all. If a moment later a little
worm should drop on one of these
same leaves it would curl shut at once.
Now, how does this plant know what
is good to eat and what is not?
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
She Asked Him to go Always


She was a dear old lady, and she
was spending the summer in a quaint
old seaport town of New England, says
the New York Times. One morning
every one had gone out, leaving her
alone in the house. 1t was not long
after that she heard a noise in an ad-
joining room, and, going to investigate,
she saw a man ransacking a bureau
drawer. What most women would have
done, if they had not been frightened
into immovability or into giving a
scream at the awful realization that
there was q burglar in the house, would
have been to hurry away n hide un-
til the dreadful man was gone. But
that was not what this woman did.
She stepped Immediately up to him and
said: II am all alone in this house
and l want you to go right away" The
strAngest part of the story seems to
be that the man did go. He had al
ready taken some things, and those
he kept, but he did not wait to look
for others. 1t was not conscience that
drove him away, as he kept what he
had, and it could hardly have been
fear. 1t is a standing conundrum in
that family why that burglar went
away, and no good reason seems to
be found unless it was p~oliteness, and
he did not like to refuse a lady's re-
quest.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has, in a decision rendered in the mat
ter OF the estate OF Cope, held uncon-
stitutional the Pennsylvania direct in
heritance-tax law of April IL, 1897.
The act in question imposed a tax of
2 per cent on all personal property of
a decedent passing by will or by the
intestate laws of the state after de-
Quoting the debts of the decedent and
the costs of administration, but ex-
empted from the payment of the tax
personal property to the amount of
$4,000. The court held that this ex-
emption created an inequality in the
burden of the tax.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
EMERsoN's w-IcKEDNEss.
Julia Ward Howe Warned Him About
the Devil.

Julia Ward Howe Warned Him About
the Devil.
In her benighted New York girl
hood JulfaNWard Howe was taught to
regard Ralph Waldo Emerson as a
wicked man and she would have de-
clined his acquaintance if he had not
been introduced to her In a way which
made that impossible, says the Boston
Transcript. But having once been in
PRODUCED, in the urs of a trip be-
tween Boston and New York some If
ty-nine years ago, and then having had
her hard judgment of this wicked man
softened a little by seeing him carry
Ing a poor child on his shoulders, she
consented to make him the object OF q
little missionary work. So she said to
him earnestly: "You seem to forget.
Mr.. Emerson, that the devil is going
around all the time, seeking whom ne
may devour!" ooh, no, Miss Ward"
he said, II don't think / forget it, but
don't you think the angel ought to be
stronger than the demon?" This ques-
ton seems to have been in the nature
of a 'sticker" to the young lady from
New York and she discontinued her
missionary work for that trip.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
Use for Volcano Dust.

Volcano dust carried by the wind
from the Puy mountains in Auvergne
enriches the soil of Limagne with
phosphoric acid and potash. Accord
ing to Mr.. Nivois, inspector general of
mines in France, it is owing to this
natural fertilizer that the soil is so
rich. A field at Gerzat, Clarmont-
Ferrand, has yielded a fine crop of
hemp eighteen years running without
any other manure.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
Hollands Young Ouesn.

Queen Wilhelmina of the Neither
lands dislikes to be called "the little
queen" She thinks the phrase reflects
upon her kingdom, and she is S feet
11h inches in height. The queen of
Spain is 5 feet 5 rs inches; the enc
press of Russia, s feet 2k inches; the
empress of Germany and Queen Vic
toria, still smaller. Aside from her
height, the young Dutch queen is also
of the best build. Her 21h-inch waist
measure and 42-inch bust gives an ad-
mirable proportion. Her powers of
endurance were well tested on coro-
nation day, when for six long hours
she wore the ceremonial mantle of red
velvet trimmed with ermine, a weight
of net less than thirty pounds, and
showed no marked symptoms of IA
tigue.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

A pretty long bow was drawn the
other day by the superintendent of
education in a great city, when he told
Rev. DR.. Huntington that among the
children of school age in his jurisdic-
tion there were one hundred thousand
who did not know of the existence of
such a book as the Bible. But it is
probably no exaggeration to say that,
taking the country through, there are
millions who know very little of the
Book of books beyond its name. Col
lege presidents testify that a large per
cent of college students are lamentably
ignorant of the Scriptures. Sunday
school instruction does not go far, and
the only safeguard against the hea-
thenization of a part of our population
seems to lie in a reviving sense of
parental responsibilities re-enthron-
ing of religion in the family.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
A MODERN
Spoiled by a Prosaic Workman with No
Eye for Romance.

6pOIleO Dy q RrOS8tC workman Win NO
Eye for Romance.
They were waiting for the 5:45 p. m.
New York train-ive Italian boot
blacks in a group on the platform OF
Mamaroneck station, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. Why there
and in such numbers with only him
self-taking the season by the fore
lock for summer board-the passing
stranger could only wonder idly as
he watched them seated In a dirty but
attentive semicircle, each on his black
ing kit, before the eldest Of them, q
well grown, handsome lad of about Is.
He was seated fiat upon the station
platform, braced against the warm red
brick Of the station wall, a picturesque
figure, picturesquely occupied. He had
cut a branch from a tree and had fash
Toned 1t, dexterously enough, into that
first OF all musical instruments, a
shepherds pipe. And he was playing
on it, as the shepherd in "Tannhau-
ser" plays when he sings about the
lovely May. 1t was May 1, too, as it
happened, and a beautiful May /, as
this last n a Spring in the air;
On the trees about the station the first
ilmy ~shadowing of green; fltering
through it the golden haze of the de-
Ginning sun, and there, against the
warm red background of the station
wall the comely lad, dreamily at ease,
with the tattered flap of his soft hat
flung back and his black-fringed eye
lids pensively downcast, as he played
his shepherds pipe-but did the real
shepherds pipes sound like that, the
passing stranger wondered, on old Hy-
mettus' heights? Say, boy" said a
prosaic Irish workman, coming along,
putting with haste, and covered with
the lime and plaster of his days job,
"a little of that music goes a long way.
Shut up"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

What is rag time, and where did it
originate? is a question frequently
heard. The sudden popularity of coon
songs" which took a firm hold upon
popular favor a few years ago., and de-
spite all predictions to the contrary,
have held it eve since, led to a varia-
ton in music known as rag time"
Since then rag time" has been an
expansionist. Inere is rag time mu-
sic; there are rag time" songs; there
has been a rag time" opera. There
are professors of, rag time" Gin
structors of rag time" and specialists
in rag time" but precisely what it is,
no two musical authorities agree, ex-
cept on the point that it is something
very popular just nov One teacher of
rag tiRe" here tells me that rag
time takes it's initiative step from
Spanish music-or, rather, from Mex
leo, where it is known under the heads
and names of Habanra, DANA and
Seguidilla, being nothing but consecu-
tive music, either in the treble or bass,
followed by regular time in one hand.
In common time the quarter note of
the bass precedes the melody.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
AS Represented.

Hardacre-Zeke answered an adver-
tisement whar they said they'd send
him a church organ for a dollar.
Crawfoot-What did he get? Hard
acre-A sample copy of the New Light
marked: This is the best church or
gan published"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

Francisque Sarcey, perhaps the
greatest dramatic critic of Paris, is
dead. He had been closely associated
with dramatic work since 1899, and his
labors were always characterized by
sincere earnes ess. There were but
few men in France who had a more
capricious and fantastic mind, and
none whose pen exceeded his in hon.
esty.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

After the wal is over Aguinaldo
might make something by publishing
a book entitled "Proclamations l Have
Issued" giving a full description of
the n in which he was enaDAed
to do his writing on the run.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
She Had the Last Word.

Mr.. Hornbill-Do you know, darl-
Ing, 1 could pick you out of a crowd Of
women just by your style? Mrs. Horn
bill don't wonder, and me with this
same old dress for the last two years!
Brooklyn Life.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
An English PecnIiarifv.

Isn't San Tomas an English town."
asked Van Braam. "Of course not"
replied Dinwiddie. Its a Philippine
town. What made you ask if it were
English?" II noticed that the h had
been dropped."-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03
What He Was Looking For.

Lady-So you are looking for a
square meal, Ell? Tramp-No'm; I'm
looking for a round one. LADY,
never heard of such a thing. Pray
what is a round meal? Tramp-One
dat hasn't any end to it, mum.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

Brother John Wanamaker has again
taken his pen in hand to express his
opinion of Boss Quay, and it is appar-
ent that his ardor on the subject has
not cooled.-Boston Herald.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

Wal clouds are again rising on the
Chinese horizon. There are enough
spheres of influence" to keep the ball
rolling.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

New York has a number of "conjure
women" They conjure, perjure and
injure with equal skill.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

On life's highway everybody is not
only willing but anxious to take the
rich mans dust.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

There is something wrong some
where when the night latch fails to
yield to a buttonhook at 2 a. m.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

of expansion that they are liable to
burst at any time.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

The servant girl problem has much
to do with the hire education of
women.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

A grain of theoretical wisdom may
turn out to be a pound of practical
folly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-03

A sensible girl has no more use for
a fresh young man than for one that is
stale.