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The Eddy current., 1899-04-22

On account OF the scarcity OF raw
material for the paper mills OF Hol-
land they now use the stalks OF the pD-
tato plant, which can be bought OF the
farmers for 80 cents per ton.
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Yes. see him What IS there 20
peculiar about hlm?" "fe Is the con.
trarlcst man alive. lie has started a
Wen Worry All We Want To cluo."
Boston Journal
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IN THE BACKWOODS OF BRAZIL.
Cuvaba, the Thriving Metropolis of a Little
Known Country.

The scenery OF the San Lorenzo and
Cuyaba river IL very tropical. There
are many palms. There are cotton
trees which have balls Of cotton on
them ~ big ~ oranges. Others have
blossoms OF silky hber which hangs
down In great cones OF white. This
stun ls used by the people for making
pillows
Cuyaba has about 10000 people. II
II surprisingly good city for its loca-
tlon and very much up-to-date. II has
The Eddy current., 1899-04-22

Tho fncst shops In Chinese city
are tho., devoted to .he sale Of COLI
nns. Every Chinaman likes 10 pro-
vide Tor a swell time AZ his funeral.
The Eddy current., 1899-04-22

Prof. Herkomer. the famous artist,
who Is an enthusiastic supporter OF
the national festival OF Wales, has had
The Eddy current., 1899-04-22

now papers. hospl-
tails and schools. ~
has watcrworks, a
street car line and
a cathedral In rs
college Frenc n,
English and pOrtu-
Eurso are taught,
and In its orphan
asylum there are
800 boys. The town
was founded m
1722. being laid out
In Portuguese style
with n very pretty
plaza and lark. II
As situated about
two miles from tho
river. and you can
ride 20 70 on one of
the tame COWS or
you may 80 on a
street car drawn
by mules.
The country sur
rounding Cuyaba Is
rich agrlculturally.
and ! am told there
is much gold In the
hills about tho
The Eddy current., 1899-04-22

several prominent physi.
eianp and took their treat
msng faithfully, bat was
unable 10 get the slight
ssi relief. In fact, my con.
dition seemed 10 grow
worse, the disease spread
over my entire body aud
from November 70 March
! suffered agony. l tried
many patent mcdltinea,
but nono relieved me.
UpOn the advice Of q
friend 1 decided 10 try
The Eddy current., 1899-04-22
Laugh Out, Oh,
Murn1urii1o Spring. 7"

II Is tie time to laugh the
years fresh prime. Sensible
people noIU do the same that
Nature does aim TO Be ppri-
fled, and for the samer reasons.
They ynSethatmarveiops blood
purifier. Hood 5 SarsapanIla,
that never diSappoinfS.
Its work and worth are known world
wide as household medicine.
cataFrh Disagreeabie catarrhal drop.
pings IN ny throat made me nervous and
diEfy. Ny liver was torpid. Hoods sar-
saparllla corrected both troubles NY
health is very good MRs, ELvfnA ].
sNitEY, 202 Main 81, Auburn, Maine.
EnIptlona -"f spent hundreds 6f doll
lars to cure eruptlons on my right leg With
out permanent good slH bottles of Hoods
sarsaparllla completely cured me. I am
very grateful" HEnNAN BAnfLErT, t62
Nlnth Ave-, New York city.
Asthma was troubled with asthma
for many years. being worse spring and fall
No medicine avalcd until I took Hoods
sarsaparlia which completely cured me.
Many others heard of my cure and they use
Hoods g. l.. Rnoprs, Etna, Ohio.
Hod3 SGa1GboNM
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3. h. 3, Before allowing me 20 take ~, how.
ever, my guardian, who was = chemist, ana.
lyzed tho remedy, and pronounced u free Of
potash on mercury. feft 80 much better after
laking two boltl6s, that continued the REM
Hdy. and IN two months was cured com pletsiys
The cure Was peEusnent, tor have never siHes
had q touch of Rheumatism though many
times exposed 70 damp nnd cold weather
ELHANoR ~ TiFPELL,
siii Powsiion Avenue, philAdelphia.
Don't suffer longer with Rheumatism.
Throw aside your oils and liniments, az
they can not reach your trouble. Don't
experiment with doctors-thoir potash
and mercury will add TO your disable
lty and completely destroy your digos-
lion
The Eddy current., 1899-04-22
KodJ SGadab0NM
We've :lJ1.IZIU

Hood', riln cure iiver lls the aon rriia,ins ana
ea.l ealhar,ie % tass with lleed, sar,aparlllal
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-23
PROGRESS.

With time. comes, progress and ad-
vancement i'm all lines of successfully
conducted enterprises. Success comes
to those only who have goods with
superior merit. and a reputation. In
the manufacture OF laundry starch for
the last quarter Of q century ]. G.
Hubinger has been the peer of all
others and today is; placing on the
market the finest laundry starch ever
offered the public under our new and
original method. Il
Ask your grocer for a coupon book
which will enable you to get the first
two large 104cent packages Of his new
starch, RED GROSS, TRADE MARK
brand, also two, of the children's
Shakespeare pictures painted in twelve
beautiful colors as natural as life, or
the Twentieth Century Girl Calendar.
all absolutelys free!
All grocers; are authorized to give
ten large packages OF RED CROSS
STARCH, with: twenty of the Shakes
peare pictures or, ten. Of the Twentieth
Century Girl Calendars, to the first five
purchasers ofthe Endless Starch Chain
Book. This is; n of the grandest Of
fers eve made to Introduce the RED
CROSS laundry starch. ]. G. Hubinger's
latest invention.
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EVOLUTION OF Wallpaper,

It Took Time to Introduce It sd Bring
It to Its Present Perfectlons
From the Paper Trade: Willis va
rious kinds Of printed fabrics were
known to the people Of most remote
antiquity it was not till the eighteenth
century that wallpaper anywhere near
its present form came into common
use in Europe, though it appears to
have been used much earlier In China.
A few rare examples whict may be as
early as the sixteenth century exist IN
England, but these are mutations, gen.
orally in Clock" Of tie old Florentine
and Genoese cut velrets, and hence the
style of the desiea in no way shows
the date of the wallpaper, the same
traditional patterns being reproduced
with little Of no change for many
years. 1t vas not till the end of the
last century that the machinery to
make paper in long strips was invent
ed. Up to that time wallpapers were
printed on small square pieces Of hand
made paper and were very expensive.
On this account wallpaper was slow In
superseding the older mural decora-
tions, such as tapestry. stamped
leather and paper CLOTH. A. work
printed in London in 1744 throws some
light on the use of wallpapers Of that
time: "The method of printing wall
papers of the better sort Is, probably
the same now that 1t has even been.
Wooden blocks, with the design cut. in
relief, one for each color, are applied,
by hand, after being dipped. In. an
elastic cloth sieve charged with. wet:
tempera pigment, great care being
taken to lay each block exactly on the,
right place, so that the various colors
may register or get together. In Or
der to suit the productions of the pa
per mills these blocks are made in
England t%wenty-one inches wide, and
in France eighteen inches wide. The
length of the block is limited to what
the workman can easily lift with n
hand-two feet being about the limit.
as the blocks are necessarily thick and
in many cases made heavier by being
inlaid with copper, especially the thin
outlines, which, if made Of wood,
would not stand the wear and tear of
printing. In flock and gold or silver
printing the design is first printed in
strong size, the flock (flnely cut wool
of the required COLOR OF metallic pow
der is then sprinkled by hand over the
paper; it adheres only to the wet size,
and is easily shaken off the ground or
unsized part. If the pattern is re-
quired to stand out in some relief the
process is repeated several times and
the whole paper then rolled to COM
press the flock. Cheaper sorts of paper
are printed by machinery, the design
being cut on the surface of wooden
rollers, under which the paper passes.
The chief drawback to this process is
that all the colors are applied rapidly,
one after the other, without allowing
each to dry separately, as is done in
hand printing. A somewhat blurred
appearance is usually the result"
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The DRUlDS OF MODERN WALES

stone, ~symbolizing the whole earth,
and representing, the top slab Of the
cromlech. Here. robed in his gar
ments of spotless white; stood the ven
cradle figure of "Hwfa Mon" the Arch
druid. wearing the b%reastplate Of gold
and the wreath of oak leaves: sur
rounding him were his fellow Druids,
bards and ovates, clad in their respec-
tive robes of white, blue and green, and
in the background. was the grove sa-
cred to the Druids OF old. There were
pennillion sung, as there have been
since the days of the fourth century,
and the presentation Of "Hirlais Horn
was made, and another quaint feature
was the offering to "Hwfa Mon" Of the
horn filled with mead" by one of the
lady ovates. The presence of the
Breton delegates suggested a pretty
ceremony. The halves of two swords,
a Welsh and a Breton sword, we're held
aloft by the Archdruid, the parts
placed together, and tied at the han
dies with white, blue and green rib
bons by me of the ladies. This was
called the ceremony Of the united
sword" and raj suggestive Of the
time when the various Gaelf peoples
were one. The name Of the Archdruid
is the Rev. ]. Williams, and he is
Welsh Congregational minister at
Llangollen. In these tourney Of song
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and he offered a prize to the bards and
who should swim over the
Conway. The harpers found them
selves unable to play, as their instru-
lments were wet, but the minstrels had
mo trouble with their voices. Upon
the annexation Of Wales to England,
Edward I. deemed 1t wise to sanction
1.-THE Eisteddfod, by the famous statute
OF Rhuddlan. During the times OF
Henry VII, Henry VIII. and Queen
Elizabeth, the festival was held with
the royal permission.
Taffy was a Welshman,
Ta6y was a thief,
was the sneering couplet of the En-
,Elishman once upon a time. but he
knows better now, realizing that the
Welsh have done a great work in the
way of furthering native talent and
fostering the latent genius of their
country, and the Eisteddfod has been
the means of bringing before the pub
lie almost all the literary men, must
clans and poets Of the little country.
The Welsh declare that the Eisteddfod
has been held since the time Of the
Druids, and seek to preserve some Of
the ancient forms, as the sacred stone,
but whatever may have been the his
tory Of. it, from very ancient times it
has been held annually, and only twice
out of Wales, once at Liverpool and
once in London. The first part of the
Eisteddfod. is the Gorsedd held by
bards under the presidency Of the chief
Druid. The word Druid. as here used.
has . loose construction, and means
any minister Of religion admitted to
the Gorsedd. These ministers are, as
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"God impart thy strength;
And in that strength reason;
And in reason knowledge;
And in knowledge justice;
And in justice the love Of it;
And in that love the love of every
thing;
And in the love of everything the love
Of God.
O, Jesus, repress injustice"
The festival lasts four days, and
from all the villages, golfers, quarry
men and laborers, with their sweet
hearts decked in gayest attire, betake
themselves to the '%steddfod. The bust
ness of the Gorsedd is the licensing or
approving of the various grades OF
bards, and the choral competition is
the most interesting. Then there Is
the GROWING of the bard and the
quaint custom of "!chairing" the bard.
There are also competitions in paint
ing and art needlework. The Eistedd-
fodam are held alternately in the north
and south of Wales, and this year 1t
was held in Cathay's Park, at Cardiff.
There was an innovation this year,
delegates coming from Brittany, wear
ing the picturesque Breton costume,
and other Celtic representatives, in
the delegates from Scotland, wearing
the Highland dress. Thousands Of
persons witnessed the ceremonies of
the Gorsedd on the first morning.
There was the outer circle Of red
Radyr stones, twelve in number. in
honor Of the apostles, as some think.
each draped in the Gorseddic colors,
white. blue and green. In the center
was placed the "Maen Log or sacred
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and poetry, the fact is never Lost sight
of that each ceremony is for the pur-
pose of keeping alive the interest in
the Gaelic language and perpetuating
the memory Of the ancient Welsh GUS
toms. The Catholic priest and the An
glican pastor are for the time being
eager learners in the school of the
Celt. The Welsh language is not a
simple patois abandoned to the in
ferior classes. The same right is
claimed for it as for the English, and
perhaps the fact that It is maintained
so we'll in the midst Of the English
speaking masses is due to the Eistedd-
fod. The ancient rites of the Druids
are by the people. although the Druid
ism Of to-day is Christianity, but they
love to guard the archaic formula and
ceremonial, and to unite Welshmen Of
every creed to one arden cult Of the old
Celtic fatherland.
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tn. Missionary. 1itt,. Joker.

"A native Maori chieftain. the des-
cendant Of cannibal kings, .is now. conn
pleting his medical educatiop I'M Chi
cago. Cannibalism ended! in, hia tribe,
he says, when Bishop selwyns oonNartad
his grandfather; but he tells, some
stories Of it which have. q distinctly
humorous flavor. For instances. Il Is
said that once a chief captured q mis-
sionary who was anything but q tooth-
some morsel, as he was old and thin.
and looked al II his flesh would be
tough. The missionary warned the
chief that he would not make a good
dinner, and pulling up, his trousers.
cut 9 slice of the calf. At his 1ee and
offered 1t to the chief. The chief tast-
ed it. said he didn't like It, and passed
it to a subchief. The sub tasted It,
made a wry face, and passed it on.
The next man who took . bite Of IL
spat it out. The missionary was re-
leased. After he had gone it was dis
covered that he wore a cork leg.
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1ncre.,e Of Population.

q Some interesting statistics in regard
to the increase of population have just
been compiled by Sir Robert Clifton, a
distinguished English expert on this
subject. He shows that England now
has possessions on all five continents,
and that a quarter Of the population
Of the entire earth is subject to her
suzerainty. The extent of territory
owned by England amounts to 13,000,-
600 square miles, and on this immense
tract is a population of 42,000,0 900.
During the last twenty-seven years the
English realm has increased by 1884,
600 square miles, and within the same
period 25,00O,0 900 have been added to
the population. .
Since 1871 the population of the
United Kingdom-England, Scotland
and Ireland-has increased from 49,
600, 900 to 40 1000, 200. At the beginning
of this century England, Scotland and
Ireland had a population of 1900, 900,
and France Of $4,000, 900, and yet today
the proportion of. population in both
countries is almost alike. Russia has
increased her population by 60, 200, 900
since 1870, the result being that she
has now a total population of $780,
100000. Germany had a population of
10000, 900 at the beginning of this en-
fury; now she had between 50 $1,000, 900
and 60,000, 900 Of whom almost a quar-
ter is the result of increase of births
owe deaths. Germany, too, is making
vast strides as a colonial power, and
her population in those distant pos
sessions already amounts to. a. con-
siderable number.
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Peculiar Features Of the %fiSteddf0d, the Great Welsh National
Festival, Recently Held at Cardiff. "

a general thing, non-conformists, al
though sometimes even a bishop of
the Church of England has been
known to assist. The Gorsedd is held
within a circle of stone, in the light of
day and in the open air. No Gorsedd
can be held at night, or under a roof.
In modern Welsh the word means
Judgment" but in medieval Welsh
it signifies a 'tumulus" or chill" 1t
is probable that the judgments Of the
Druids were given from a hill, which
may account for the double signifca-
ton. Gorsedd was the court and Els
teddfod the sitting which had been
determined upon a year and a day pre-
viously. The opening ceremonies are
very imposing. Three times the pre-
siding Druid asks els there peace?'
while he and some assistants hold an
"unsheathed sword. AS soon as be has
received an affirmative answer three
times he sheathes the sword and the
court is declared open. A prayer is Of
fered to the Deity in the v%ernacular:
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-23
Is A HARD JOB,
TRACING, clReOLAToR or sPU-
PsoUs COIN.
After. s'shoSsr Of the Queer Begin
ing and Ending in Cincinnati-Russs
h-n~ 81

New Orleans Times-Democrat: "The
tracing of counterfeits back to the
Shower is curious aud exciting work.
said an ex-government employee, One
day back in the seventies a bank clerk
in Cincinnati detected q queer twanty-
dollar bill in the deposit Of a smalS re-
tall grocer. He sent for me anu I
started to work. I found that the
grocer had received the bill from a shoe
dealer, who had it from a dentist, who
had it from somebody else, and so on
until I finally traced it to- an invalid
woman who had used it to pay her.
physician. When questioned she said!
the money had been sent to her by her
brother, who lived in New Orleans. I
looked up her brothers pedigree and
was certain + had my He had a
bad record, was the proprietor Of a
dive, and was just the sort of: person
likely to be a confederate of counter
feiters. I came hare with the hand
Guns in my pocket, but as things turn
ed out I was a little premature. The
man proved to my complete satisfac-
tion that he had received the money
as rent for a small house he owned in
Pittsburg, Pa. That was discourage
ing, but I couldn't. give up after going
SO FAR, and took the next train for
Pittsburg. The tenant of the house
turned out to be a travelling oculist,
who spent most Of his time on the
road. He was then away in the west,
but I saw him on his return and he at
once recognized the bill. 1t had been
given him by a patient in Cincinnati.
the very point from which l started.
The patient was a boss; carpenter. I
got his address from" the oculist and
made a bee line for the city I had a
premonition that something very
strange was going to- happen, and I
wasn't disappointed. The carpenter
was an honest old fellow and told me
without hesitation that he, had received
the bill from Mr.. - for repairing his
barn. MI. - was the small grocer in
whose bank deposit the counterfeit had
turned up. l few for his store as fast
as a cab could carry me and found it
closed. He had skipped. Afterward
it was shown beyond question that he
was the regular agent OF: a gang. His
shop was a mere blind. That the bill
which he gave the carpenter should get
back again into his own till after trav-
cling all around the continent was ole
Of those. miracles of chance for which
therenis1 no explanation"
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What the Isthmian games were to
the ancient Greek, Eisteddfod is to the
modern Welshman, an event which
brings the people together, ignoring all
differences of opinion as to policies
and religion, %conquering all sectional
feeling, and cementing the bonds
which bind Welshmen together in a
common brotherhood. This institu-
ton, peculiar TO Wales, is of very an
Gent origin. The present name, how
ever, which means a session" or sit
ting" was probably not used before
the twelfth century. In the fourth
century, upon the departure of the Ro-
mans, Owain at Maxen Wledig, was
elected to the chief sovereignty among
the Britons, and it vas about this time
that the motto, "The truth against the
world" was adopted, and the laws of
the Gorsedd codified. The first one
held, of any note, took place in the
sixth century. The Prince Of North
Wales wished to prove that vocal
music was superior to instrumental,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-23
ETHICS FOR TYPEWRITER GIRL.
Religion. Journal Holds Right fer He,

Religious journal Holds Right for Her
to Help Her Employer. Lie.
The New York Christian. Advocate.
the eastern organ Of the Methodist
Episcopal church, has created a sensa-
ton in Religious circles here by advice
it recently gave to an inquirer. Sup
pose,"" wrote the applicant, for informa-
ton. .'that a young woman employed
as a.. st~enographer has to, write what
she knows to be fiat contradictions of
truth, what she knows is. meant to de-
ceives and the object Of the deception
is to take pecuniary advantage of 9th.
ers. Also that sometimes profane
language and language OF. questionable
character on other moral. grounds Ia
dictated, should she write: it or mod
estly decline to do SOP To this query
the Advocate makes answer: 1--WE
know an instance of a young woman
who declined to write profane Ian
guage and lost her situation in conse-
quence- We highly approve her
course. She may be a. machine in a
certain sense, but If she processes to be
a Christian o. a modest woman she
ought not to write anything which no
one having any respect for Christian
ity or modesty would utter in the pres
ence of a modest woman But ON the
question of fiat contradictions of truth
in the way Of business statements, 1t is
quite possible that q stenngrapher may
be. altogether too sensitive. How does
she, know what view her employer may
take of what seems, to be q fiat con-
tradiction of TRUTH Es he to explain
tn her all his business a3airs and make
known to her all. elements involved in
every transaction I'm which profit and
loss are concerned? With regard to
his business dealings she is but a ma
chine, and her ears are not polluted by
statements Of fact or otherwise. Her
mind should be sufficiently under con-
troll not to reason about anything that
! he dictates, except to direct attention
to verbal or other mistakes in COM
position. But. mo stenographer, male
r female, should write things. which,
passing through their ears into their
minds. and. to the machine through
their fingers. eoald not but defle. Tie
stenoeraphenr need not make an issuas
II q man happens to use profane Ian
let haf furnish the copy With.
out the puotane language. Then, II
an issue ID made It will be by the maa..s
insisting upon 1t, and II he does In
sist upon It she will do we'll to, take
her depaxtlrs, trusting in the Power
that makes for righteousness.''N
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origin Of the Elevator.
Ga221xSll5nD

The. elevator originated in Central
Europe The earliest mention of; the
elevator"iB made i'm a letter of Napole.
on I, addressed to his wife, the Arch
duchess Marie Louisa. He writes to
her that when in Schoenbrunn, then
the summer residence of the Austrian
emperor neaF Vienna, he used the
'chaise 'volante" (hylng chair in that
castle, whichl had been constructed for
Empress Maria Theresa. 1t consisted
Of a SMALL square room, sumptuous!y
furnished with hangings of red silk,
suspended by strong ropes with count.
er Weights s that it could be pulled
up or let down with great ease, In 8
shaft built. for the purpose about 1760
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b Rasy Pue;

The nasy Pug.
The heights. to which our great men
climb
Aue not ASHAMED by sudden fight;
For they whife others waste their
time.
Are training daily for the fight
Philadelphia North-Amerlcan.,
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he-unfsthomable.

"Do yous never" said the soulful
Washington girl, "let your mind wan.
der to great, unsolyable questions? Do
you not grope Through darkness in an
effort to find light on vast, mysterious
things"
81 should, say So" answered the
young man from Philadelphia. give
laid awake nights trying to figure out
how our club came to win that lag
game."AWashington Star. =